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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
THE TROUBLE AT HOMESTEAD.

The clash that has for some time
been expected between capital and
labor at Homestead, near Pittsburg,
came yesterday, and the encounter
was most bloody one. AS usual the
blame rests upon both sides. The
feeling among the workmen employed
there has been very sensitive in regard
to wages for some time back and the
Carnegie Co. are quite severely criti
cised for opening the matter atresh at
this particular time. Undoubtedly
the criticisms made are all the more
severe because of the position which
Andrew Carnegie has taken in nu-
merous articles in leading magazines
during the past two or three years.
Of course, the feeling is madeall the
more bitter, by the report, which is
not denied by members of the firm,
that their profits are nearly S30O0,000
per year, and the feeling has gone out
whether right or wrong, thai labor
has been shaved to help swell these
profits.
On the other hand the strikers are
not without blame. OF course they
had right to decline to work for the
wages offered them, and Mr.. Carnegie
cannot nor has he any right to at
tempt to force them to do so, even
though he might desire to. But while
they have perfect right to decline
to work for the price he offers, they
have no right to attempt to run his
business by taking possession of his
property as they did and debating
what should and what should not be
done. Both sides have rights that
the other side should respect, and it
is to be regretted that cooler judg-
ment did not prevail and so have pre-
vented the bloOdShed which followed.
According to all reports only about
250 men out of $500 men employed
were affected by the new scale of
wages, but all chose to go unless
these few were allowed their old wag-
es, and the change with these few
was SO slight that the action Of both
sides seems foolish. Under the old
scale the men were paid according to
billets, with the provision that should
prices go.below S25 per ton their wa
ges should not be reduced, but should
the price rise to $50, they should have
an addition of 20 per cent. The com.
pany wished to reduce the basis to
1923 per ton, but finally offered to COM
promise at S24, but this was refused
and hence the bloodshed and rioting.
Such outbreaks as This one are not
encouraging to happy settlement of
the difficulties that exist, or
have been made to exist, between cap
ital and labor, and do not lend conf
dence for the future. While many
had feared, yet all had hoped that we
had reached a point where such diff
culties could be settled without re-
sorting to force, but in this case, at
least it seems that reason has been
thrown to the winds, but whatever
the outcome may be, this much is as
sured, that if our free institutions are
to stand, those who have their money
invested in industrial enterprises will
have the say as to it's management,
while those employed will have an
equal freedom to accept or decline
the employment offered, as they see
fit.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
THE SILVER QUESTION AGAIN.

SINCE the passage of the free silver
bill by the Senate last week, some of
the Democratic papers have expressed
great deal of satisfaction over the
result, and have expressed hopes that
the bill may be passed by the House,
so that President Harrison may be
forced to act upon the matter. They
pretend to believe that no matter
what disposition he would make with
the bill, it would injure the Repub-
lican party. Should the bill ever
reach President Harrison, only one
disposition will be made of it. 1t will
be vetoed. AS to harm coming from
this, in way to affect the Republican
party in the campaign, such talk is
nonsense. Such treatment would not
affect the party in the least, except,
possibly, to add votes to it. The po-
sition of the Republicans upon the
silver question has been well known
for months in the past, and the ma
tional convention, at Minneapolis.
added emphasis to it by declaring for
1.-THE use of both gold and silver as
standard money, with such restric-
tions and under such provisions, to be
determined by legislation, as will Sc
cure the maintenance Of the parity
of value of the two metals, so that
the purchasing and debt-paying pow
er of the dollar, whether of silver,
gold or paper, shall at all times be
equal" This is clear, concise state
ment of the Republican position.
There is nothing in it that SmackS in
the least of opposition to silver. 1t
puts the lie to certain Democratic
statements that the Republicans
favor gold alone. 1t is statement
that will lear of no miScOnStructiOn
for it declares in favor of the use of
both gold and silver and says that the
purchasing and debt-paying power of
the dollar, whether of silver gold or
paper, shall at all times be equal"
This means opposition to any legisla-
tion that would disturb their value.
as free coinage bill would do, and
the veto of the Stewart bill would
simply be in the interest of honest
money.
The fact of the matter is the Stew
art bill will prove far more dangerous
to the Democratic party than to Re.
publicans, for it will be practical re-
pudiation of their financial plank
made at Chicago. To.be sure there
are Republicans who voted for the bill
in the Senate, and there are probably
a few in the House who will also vote
for it, but so overwhelming is the SEN
timent of the party in favor of honest
money, that the few who have wan
dered away from it's time-honored
policy, have little influence in its
councils.
With the Democrats the scase is
somewhat different. Those among
its representatives who stand by hon
est money are less in proportion than
the Republicans who go to free coin
age. If the free coinage bill is defeat
ed in the House, it will be because of
Republican votes. The repudiating
of their platform utterances by their
representatives, may strengthen the
Democrats in the south and west
where their followers have been
threatening to go into the Peoples
party because of the silver question,
but in the north and east it will only
serve to destroy public confidence in
their ability to preserve our sound
financial system intact.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

Will Osgood received another car
load of lumber, last Thursday.
The old settlers picnic was a very
pleasant affair from first to last.
Mrs. Young is with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Church.
Miss Leone Beebe went to Lake
Crystal Saturday to remain until after
the Fourth.
Ed Norten is getting ready to make
some improvements on his place on
Main street.
]. T. Williams came up from Man
kato to spend the Fourth with
friends.
Mr.. Bruce is able to ride out and
manages to move around little, by
the aid Of crutches.
John Osgood is nursing the neu-
ralgia and wishes he could find some
one else to take it off his hands, or
face, rather.
Mrs. Barrett who spent the winter
with her broter, Mr.. II. B. Church,
started for Wisconsin last week to
|
| The young ladies of the Christian
S. S. will give strawberry and ice
cream festival in the church Friday
evening of this week. There will also
be short literary and musical pro-
gram.
Mrs. Bishop, an old resident of this
place, and her eldest son, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Chapman, nee Clark, and little
son, and Mrs. Cram also attended the
picnic on Mr.. Evans lawn.
Miss Anna Duffield will start
Thursday evening for Sheldon, OAK,
with the Misses Genevieve and Ma
mic Church. The children will 90
from Sheldon to Lower Brule, where
their mother is teaching in the Indi-
an school.
Rev S. J. Phillips, of DeKalb, Mo-,
will preach in the Christian church
next Sunday morning at the usual
hour. The Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor will meet at D..
m. Topic for the evening, "The
| Christians Guide" Everyone is cor
daily invited to attend.
Miss Ida Gilbert, who was called
suddenly to the deathbed of her sis
ter, at Wells, a few weeks since, has
returned. Miss Esther Gilbert will
be remembered by many here as well
as in Mankato, she having spent some
weeks in this place and afterwards
was in the hospital IN MankatO, where
very difficult surgical operation was
performed on her.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

THE opinion seems to be general
that the Peoples party nominated its
weakest man in the person of Gen.
Weaver, at Omaha. and the possibili-
ty OF it's carrying the electoral vote of
single state, is too remote to
speculate on.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

THE Democratic situation now
seems to be one of promises. Palmer
has promised the vote of Illinois,
Dickinson that of Michigan, Villas
that CT Wisconsin and Boies that of
Iowa to the Democratic ticket. But
the people Will probably prefer to
have their own way about it and re-
fuse to be delivered.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

THE Democratic State Convention
will meet in the Exposition building
at Minneapolis, on Wednesday, Aug.
Sd. The convention will consist of
900 delegates.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

THERE is no question. butsthe per-
son who wrote the Peoples party
platform had been close student of
Caesars Column" hence the picture
painted in both are much alike.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
Chicago & Northwestern.

WNoNA q ST. PEER.
Going East Depart Arrive
CHICAGO Night EXP. s4:3O am. 500 am.
New Ulm d lacrosse Pas 1920 am. 1lOOa.m.
Lacrosse, Milwaukee d
Chicago Day Express 1850 Pm. APO pm.
Going West
Watertown, Aberdeen,
Redwood Falls, Tracy
Huron g. Pierre Day
Passenger los am. 1:35 am.
Tracy Accommodation S:45 am. $50 am
redwood Falls, Tracy &
Huron Express 1920 pm. $50 pm.
La Crosse and New Ulm
Day Passenger $40 pm. 1910 pm.
sDaiy, except Monday.
fSleeper, Mankato to Chicago.
tSleeper, Chicago to Mankato.
il oGber trains daily, except Sunday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
First ins. July s-last July %.


OTATE OF NJ INNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth.-ss In Probate Court. Special
Term, July 9Th, 1892.
In the matter of the estate of Horace Kinny,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition OF Walter
Kinny, administrator de bons non OF the es-
tate of said Horace Kinny deceased, represent
ing, among other things, that he has fully ad-
ministered said estate and praying that a
time and place be fixed for examining aud
allowing the final account OF his administration,
and for the assignment OF the residue of said
estate to the parties entitled thereto by law.
1t is ordered that said account be examined
and petition heard bythis court, on Saturday,
the 3Oth day of July, A. D.. 1892, at 10 o'clock
a. M, at the Probate office in the City of Man.
kato, in said county.
And IL is further ordered, that notice thereof
be given to all persons interested by publishing
this order once in each week, for three success
siye weeks prior to said day of hearing in the
Mankato Free Press, a weekly newspaper print
ed and published at Mankato in said county
Dated at the City of Mankato, the 9Th day
OF July, A. D. 1892.
By the Court,
Seal. W. B. TORREY,
Judge of Probate.
WIN. THOMAS,
Attorney for Administrator,
Mankato, Mimi
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

a fine Odd Fellows lodge that owns a
fine hall. and 1 see the Mill Co. are
putting their mill in splendid condi-
tion and their flour cannot be beat,
so my wife says, and l say so too.
ONE WHO WAS THERE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

The largest assortment Of music
that can be found in the southern
part of the State, at Musser's, postof-
fee block. 43tf
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
Minneapolis q st. Louis Railway /.
CANNON VALLEY

Depart Arrivs
No. 70 d "a Wetervile and
Faribaulr Accommod. TOO am. 5:45 pm.
NO. II 81 %, St. Paul. Min
uaapolis and Redwing Pas
pm. 1922 pm.
daily, except Sunday.
No. % connects at Waterville with through
trains for DesMoines; also with free chair car to
Denver via Kansas City and Topeka. No. 81
connects with through trains having through
sleepers for Chicago, st. Louis and Kansas City.
Information regarding rates, routes etc., cheer
Tally furnished upon application to
+. F. POWERS, Agent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

-Mankato Mercantile Co. will sell
during this week, straw hats at one
half price. tfd&w
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

The eighty acres adjoining J. w.
Fields in Sec. q. Mcpherson is for
sale at bargain. Inquire at the Oil
Mill. 4t2w
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
STAGE SCEIEDULE
Between Mankato. st. Clair and Minnesota Lake

Leave Mankato daily at 100 a. m.
Arrive at st. Clair daily at 1O:45 a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 900 a. m. Monday.
Arrive at St. Clair at 2:15 p. m.
Leave st. Clair daily at 2:45 p. m.
Arrive at Mankato daily at 6:15 p. m.
Leave st. Clair Tuesday at HOO a. m.
Arrive at Minnesota Lake at 7:15 D N
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
THE RAILROADS.

Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha.
GOING WEST. Departs
No. Kansas City i Omaha Ex.......1l:1O pm
No. Kansas City, and Sioux City
OExprbBsl... am.
No. s 50. P, MIMI d Mankato ar S;45 pm.
Nc. Is fillmore Accom- nndation lao an.
NO. II 2:25 Pm.
GOING EASY.
No. Kansas City 81 Ornahs. Express 400 am
No. ST. Paul, Minneapolis and Chi.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1927 pm.
No. g st. P, Minneap. d Mankato 1905 am.
No. is fillmore Accommodation HOS am.
No. 1e 1910 pm.
Nos. L, g 3 and 4 daily.
Nos. 8, 6. 10, II &: 10 daily exc. Sunday.
No. 16 daily except Monday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
FOB SALE.

90 HEAD of graded ewes from one to five
%Cyears old, one buck one wear old, full
blood Shropshire. Will sell cheap as / am going
out of sheep raising. Farm one mile east OF
Mankato near Agency road. z. O. address,
Mankato, E. B. Cooper. No As
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.

Arrive Depart
Passenger S:45 am. Passenger j6:4O pm.
No. % Mixed7:O0 pm. Accommod. 7:3O am.
NO. 25........ 1876 p. m. No. 26...... 1925 pm.
Daily, except Sunday.
Making direct connections to all points east
and south,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

The one-half price on all summer
goods at the Mankato Mercantile
Co.'S. store. tfd&W
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

For sale on easy terms! One hun
dred and sixty acres of choice farm
ing lands, two miles from the saul
paugh House" on the Eagle Lake
road. Also several city lots, by the
Citizens National Bank. Enquire a t
the Bank.
1mtd&w JNO. f. MEAGHER. Pres't.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

WIN. THOMAS,
Attorney for Administrator,
Mankato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-08

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Oman
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-25
CROP STATISTICS.

The following tables present in convenient form the acreage
and yield of the different crops for 1890 and 189l-the figures for
both years being placed side by side on the page to facilitate
ready comparison.
In explanation it may be stated that the figures given for all
crops of 1890 are the official returns made by the assessors of
1891, and the acreage for 1891 is from the same source. These
figures are reliable, except that in a few counties the assessors are
said by the county auditors to have imperfecly done their work,
be. This defect, however, vitiates the returns for the entire State
to but a very small degree-certainly not more than from 2 to 4
per cent
The average yield and total amount raised in 1891 are the es-
Inmates CT the crop correspondents OF the Commissioners Office
usually ten to twenty in each county. In computing the averages
of the estimates Of these correspondents, all palpably erroneous;
estimates were eliminated. Some correspondents estimated the
wheat crop of a county at IS to 40 bushels per acre, or corn at rs
bushels. All such unduly large figures were rejected, and the av-
erage computed for the remainder. No figures for any crops, ex-
cept potatoes, have been rejected because of being smaller than
seemed reasonable. Hence, the estimated yields ought to be con-
sidered reasonably conservative; still in some of the smaller coun-
ties they may be too high, which is probably more than balanced
by estimates too low in some of the larger counties. The esti-
any other crop, and are very accurate. In averaging potatoes. es-
Inmates like 70 bushels per acre, as we'll as 500 bushels, were usu-
ally rejected, unless offset by each other in the same county.
The total acreage given for milet, Hungarian and other tame
ported for that year by several counties. The number of tons
given, though, is believed to be quite accurate.
The number of bushels of grain given in these tables is in
tended to cover the total amount grown, and no allowance is made
ter. It is impossible to say what this loss will amount to, as it is
acondition never before experienced; but it may reduce the num-
Der Of bushels to some extent. Last fall it was impossible to OBJ
tain men or machines enough to thresh the crop. which was I'M
neighborlng states-as far east as Ohio-but when winter came
on, there were still thousands of acres of grain %unthreshed, and,
although threshing has been pushed on by some during the win
ter, much of it will remain in stack till spring. Owing to the dry
atmosphere OF this climate, it is not thought the grain will be
damaged to any great extent, but there will be some loss by birds,
gophers and other animals: =
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-25

the severest winter months the cold is not felt so keenly as a much
higher temperature in the damper regions east and south. There
is but little snow, but what comes usually lasts most of the win
ter: The country is entirely free from that most disagreeable and
mud and slush, SO common in most parts of the world. A little
time spent in North Dakota is usually sufficient to convince the
most skepical of it's climatic advantages.
SOCIETY, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC.
The people of North Dakota are not rough, ignorant frontiers
men, nor are they unfamiliar with the best usages and advantages
that fall to the lot of the most favored portions of other states or
countries. In the homes on the prairies, in the busy stores shops
and offices OF the towns, may be found college graduates and we'll
read men and women. There are muHitudes of homes supplied
with all the conveniences and luxures one could wish-homes
which are sure evidences of culture and refinement, as well as un-
usual prosperity.
The state maintains, at public expense, a State University,
two Normal Schools, an Agricultural College, and a School for the
Deaf and Dumb-all in active operation; while an Industrial
School, Scientific School, School of Forestry, College for the
Blind, and Reform School, are located and will be put in opera
ton lin due time. Besides these public educational institutions,
nearly a dozen private or UNCONVENTIONAL colleges, normal schools
and academies are maintained in different parts of the state. The
State has also provided a Soldiers Home, Hospital for the Insane
and Penitentiary. ~
The public schools of the State up to the time of statehood
we're maintained entirely by direct taxation. One-eighteenth of
the land of the State is set apart for the maintenance of a perma-
nent school fund. This land aggregates about two and a half mil
lion acres, and is forbidden by the Constitution to be sold at less
than ten dollars per acre. About thirty thousand acres were sold
the past season, at an average of more than $3.50 per acre, which
realized about S6OOOOO toward a permanent school fund, Of which
$4,000 was paid in cash, and the rest is to be paid in INSTALL
ments and draws 6 per cent interest. Additional sales will be
made from year to year, and soon the interest on this fund will
almost, if not entirely, sustain the public schools, thus relieving
years.
The leading religious denominations are represented in every
locality, and neat, tasteful church buildings adorn every village
and town.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-25
FARM HANDS WANTED.

int o m many farm has not been done h Autumn rains have placed the
ground in good condniona nd every acre thatc an be prepared WILDE
painted in the spri"s' an there re a great
demand for farm hands.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-25
FORTUNES IN A SINGLE YEAR.

Many Farmers Who had Only 80 to 100 Acres in Crop Realized a Larger
Profit from their Produce Last Season than the Total Valuation Of
their Farms, Teams and Machinery and Those Having
Larger Averages Made Fortunes n a Single Year.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-25
SCARCITY OF FARM HELP

d of grain was large and sufficient help could not be {
thresh all of the crops to advantage.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-25

THE LEADING AGRICULTURAL STATE

The Annual Report for 1891 Of the Commissioner Of Agri-
cultu e for the State Shows the Following Large
Yield of all Crops:
NORTH DAKOTA CROPS IN 1891:
64,7I3 1913 Bushels Wheat on 1855, 500 Acres
17871,528 " Oats " 42O,124 "
5,27O685 " Barley " 143,368 "
1,241,O18 " Flax " 1O6,613 "
3,495,2U1 " Potatoes 1856 "
Will N Average Yield Per Acre for the State of 225s Bushels of Wheat
1924 Bushels of Oats, se.7e Bushels Of Barley, 11e4 Bushels
of Flax, 1881 Bushels of Potatoes.
North Dakota is Almost Exclusively a. Agricultural State and Consider
ing the Fact that it is a New State and the Population Limited in
Number, it Being 1919 by the U. S. Census of 1890, the
Magnificent Crops of the Past Season Were Pro-
duced by a Comparatively Small Num-
Der of Farmers.
walton in 1901, the Farmers of North Dakota Secured
$50,00O,0 900 FOR THEI WHEAT CROP ALONE
The Wheat Crop Last Season Provided the Sum If $275 fol Every Man,
Woman and Child in the State.
SCARCITY OF FARM HELP.
n yield of grain was large and sufficient hepc ould moth obtained to harvest and
thresh all of II crop to anti
Upwardso 1900 farm hands and 27 steam threMng machines from adjoining
states, with crews o ften men to a maeh"e, were AXE by he railroads into
yet thu supply of hell was not sumciental although wasesof
$2 to So o IN as ugh as g. a Law were paid.