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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

-Babyland for September has a
charming trontispiece. Blowing Bub-
bles." Through the Farmyard Gate
tells a pretty story about the Wise
Pigeons. Then there is story about
Ethel, and something about Babykins,
who does such droll things, and dainty
story in verse, besides pretty pictures
and rhymes-enough to interest and
please baby and mamma until the next
Babyland comes. The price is fifty cents
a year, five cents copy. D. Lothrop
Company, Publishers, Boston.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
Guaranteed Cures.

Weauthorize our advertised druggist
to sell Or. Kings New Discovery for
consumption, coughs and cold. upon
this condition. If you are afflicted with
a cough, cold or any lung, throat or
chest trouble, and will use this remedy
as directed, giving it a fair trial. and ex-
perience no benefit, Won may return the
bottle and have your money refunded.
We could not make this offer did we not
know that DR.. Kings New Discovery
could be relied on. It never disapoints
Trial bottles free at M. Al. Sheidrup's
drug store. Large size SOC. aud 81 90.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

SHOULD the present administration
fail to reform the tariff, the republican
party would 60 into the next campaign
with the war cry: "Dasn't touch it. !"
list. Paul Globe.
From which it is to be inferred that
the Globe forces reform" which would
paralyze the country rather than force
such "war cry" Well-the alternative
exists? Reform the tariff. and the repub-
lican party will then have pert little
story TO tell of the bull that had more
sand than sense, with an application too
apparent to need diagram to explain
it. 1t is one of those cases where the
party will be damned if it does and
damned il it don't"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
SAUK CENTRE HERALD,
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER Z, 1898.
FARMING FoR A LYING.

Secretary Morton reminds the croakers
that only ubout 3 per cent. OF all the
merchants escape failure, whereas hardly
3 per cent. OF the farmers fail. The sta
tistics really show that agriculture is
safer than banking. manufacturing or
railroading, taking all things into ac-
count. There is no farmer of good sense
and good health anywhere IN the west,
Mr.. Morton declares, who cannot make
a good living for himself and family, and
that is as we'll as the majority OF men
are doing in any other purs,nit. The
man who owns farm and sticks to 1T is
certain to profit by IL in the future.
There is practically no more land to be
added to the orea of cultivation. The
supply of agricultural products has
reached its limit in the United States,
and must now remain stationary, while
the demand will 60 on increasing every
year. This implies gradual improve
ment in prices, and a steady appreciation
of the value of farming lands.-lScien
tific American.
Undoubtedly Secretary Morton ex-
presses great truth in that part OF the
above excerpt which declare the farmer
to be the most independent man on
earth, providing always that he is not
enslaved to the most of all task masters
debt. He is assured oil a comfortable
living, and something more. He is freed
from such special burdens as are imposed
BY financial striugency. His products
may be low in the cash market, but
their ability to sustain life comfortably.
ifnot elegantly, never depreciate. But
when the honorable Secretary says there
is practically no more land to be added
to the area of cultivation, and therefore
the supply Of agricultural products has
reached its limit in the United States, he
talks like a man whose observation has
been limited to the area circumscribed
by the horizonal lines of the Atlantic
ocean and the Allegany mountains,
rather than one whose field of observa-
ton has been the broad prairies OF
Nebraska, whose tens OF thousands OF
acres of untitled prairie await the touch
of labor to count them into vast grana-
ries which shall double the present pro-
ducts Of that state. Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Washington, Oregon. Kansas
in fact nearly every state west OF the
Mississippi river abounds in virgin soil
as fertile as that which is already pour
ing golden streams into the gorged chan
nels of food supply. Agriculture is hver-
done, and the tendency is still toward
farther adding TO the congested centers
of supply, because farming demands less
capital than most ventures promising
equally satisfactory returns, however
that promise may be verified.
migrant railroad companies, land
syndicates, spectators, steamship COM
panies and nearly every alien farmer
even, have been persistently stimulating
agricultural immigration for years, a
cooperating force greater in influence
and results than have ever been brought
to bear along any other line of bust
ness. The results have been the natural
ones of our production and depreciation
in prices. 1t is time the farmer awoke
to realization of this tact.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
LATEST MARKET PRICES.
st. Paul Union Stock Yards.

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Sept. 6, 1893
HOGS-10c higher; quality fair for bulk.
Range of prices, S4.971a05,20
CATTLE-Steady, quiet; but little was
offered; fair demand for butcher CATTLE
Prime steers, S3.OO03.5O; good steers, $4,000
400; prime cows, $250l2.75; good cows, $1,000
ESQ; common to fair cows, Sl.001S2.O); light
veal calves. $)OJDL0): heavy caves, $i.50 ~ 50;
stockers. Sl.50 1a.0a; fsalers. 500.
SHEEP-Dull. Little demand. Quality not
very good.
Muttons, S5.0o0375; lambs, $3.50 0l5J;
stockers and feeders. S1.5002OJ.
Receipts: Hogs. 500; cattle, 400; calves, 81;
sheep, 800.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.
Burned a Railroad Bridge.

CALEDONIA, Mimi, Sept. q. Sixty
feet OF railroad bridge on the narrow
gauge four miles east of town burned
during the night. delaying trains sew
eral hours. The fire is supposed to be
OF an incendiary origin. A notice on a
telegraph pole near the fire read: elk
your crossings or more bridges will
go. S." So far there is no clue.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
Big Crop of Corn.

TOPEKA, Sept. 6.-The reports coming
to the agricultural department of bull
letins to be issued in few days show
that the total yield of corn this year
will exceed 200, 900, 900 bushels the larg-
est in the history of the state except in
1889.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

THE United States treasurer now
holds bonds to secure national bank
circulating notes to the aggregate of
$204.101 200. which is an increase in
August of $2,523.35o and for the
year ending August 81 of about $40.
900, 900. If the senate bill pending be-
comes law. the national banks could
increase their circulating notes by about
$40, 900. The country is thus get
ting very substantial increase in cir
culation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

Sank Centre is very fortunate, in hav-
ing the public schools committed to the
care of so efficient a superintendent as
o. I. Woodley. He is a rare man for the
position; as an organizer, dlsciplarian,
a nd scholar he leaves little to be desired
in the administration of the office.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

Curriers' European Hotel. Chicago
formerly the st. CharIes). Is and II
South Clark Street. Established 25years.
Strictly frst-class. Central location.
Hot and cold bathsfree. Good elevator.
Rates $1.00 per day. No advance during
the Fair.
CuRRIER & JUMP, Proprietors.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
Real Estate Transfers.

Folio wing are the transfers for west
ern Stearns county recently accorded in
the office of the register of deeds:
w H Hubbard and wife to Alex
M Chisholm e1a and 3 b SO
Paynesville......,... .............. $500
Edward N Osborne ct al to The
Osborne Mcmillan Elevator
Co pit swA swA 26-123-34..... $500
George Winter and wife to JOS
Kraker ct al se4 and ne4 sw
"a 24-124-33..... SO
The st P M & MRy Co to Chas.
Kruger seA swA 23.122-32... 400
Reuben A White and wife to
Charles H Pease ct al pit swA
neA 1916 34...................... 100
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
Rome works Shut Down.

BROOKLYN Sept. 6.-The big rope
works known as fuckers mills have
shut down, throwing 800 persons out
OF work. This industry is controlled
by the National Cordage company.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
some Facts to be Remembered

Near the close of President Pierce's adj
ministration the Democratic party
passed the bill which was known as the
tariff of 1857, which lowered all the du-
ties on imports, just what the Democrats
of to-day would call tariff reform. Six
months after its passage panic swept
over the country, prostrating every form
OF business, and as in all financial and
industrial arrangements, the working
men were the first to feel its effects.
Here is an extract from Stones's ellis
tory of New York City" describing the
misery ofNew York wage earners at
that time:
The manufacturers stopped work
throughout the country, thus throwing
thousands out of employment and reduc-
ing them to a state of utter desti tut1on.
A terrible state of suffering ensued,
Crowds OF the unemployed workmen
gathered in the city hall spare, clamoriug
tor bread and threatening to procure it
at all hazards, while as many more. as
needy bnt less demonstrative, persisted
silently of cold and starvation"
Ifsuch was the result of Democratic
tariff tinkering in 1857, is it not reason
able to expect the same conditions to
prevail when the threatened Democratic
tariff of 1893 shall become operative?
Our free trade friends everlastingly re-
iterate that 'hackneyed phrase, "The
markets of the world" 1t sounded very
well in the ears of guileless workingmen,
coming from the lips of willy, cunning
politicians in their political harangues
last fall; but they never told their dnpes
where, or in what section of the globe
those markets were to be found. Is
there any country in Europe so far be-
hind the age as to be incapable OF manu-
featuring sufficient articles to supply the
wants ofits own people. and have sur
plus left which it would be only too eager
to dispose of in the markets of the
world? Reciprocity has given the United
States the only markets we need expect
wherein to dispose of our surplus prod
ucts. if the prosperity destroyers do not
nullify reciprocity as we'll as protection,
The tariff reformers" blame the pur-
chasing clause of the so-called Sherm an
bill for our woes. Perhaps they will
come to realization of their mistake
when that law shall be erased from the
statutes.-[New York Advertiser.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

Senator buchanan has just sold his
wool from his large flock Of sheep, and
received 1s cents q ponnd, about two
thirds Of last years price. Buck says
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
Minneapolis Grain.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 6, 1893
WHEAT-September opening, 5734c; highest
$3.50; lowest, 57a4c; closing, $3.50; December
opening, 6234c; highest, &c; lowest, 6234c
closing, 6S5sc. On Track-No hard, 62116c; No.
Northern, 6019c; No.2 Northern, 5S1ac.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
CLOSING PRICES

December. 691Sc.
september, a7a4c; October, ss94c; De-
cember, 3S1a0385sc.
OATS September, s3ssc; October. 24c; De-
cember, 251S02514c.
PORK-Septembe $3.50; October, S1445.
LARD-September Ss.1G; October, $7S21h
SHORT RIBS-Septenber, 500; October,
s7.671s
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

reported during the week: Kittson
county, 20 to % bushels. grade No. 1
hard and No. / northern; Polk county,
5 to 16 bushels and some exception
al fields as high as % bushels to the
acre; Becker county, ten bushels; Grant
county. 4 to 10 bushels, grade No. /
northern; Big Stone county. IL bushels;
Wright county, s to IL bushels; Stevens
county, 8 to Is bushels; Wabasha co un.
ty, 5 to II bushels; LYON county, is to
1S bushels, No. 1 hard, Farihault coun-
ty, 10 to 13 bushels. Corn is being cut
and ripening fast. The bulk OF the crop
will be recured during the week, proyid-
ing no killing frosts occur. Plums are
ripe and abundant. Apples are light.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

Hoods Pills cure constipation. they
are the best aiter-dinner pill and family
cathartic.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO UNION STOCK YARr

CHICAGO UNION STOCK YARDS. l.
Sept. 8. 1898.
CATTLE-Firm.
HOGS-Market steady. Heavy, S5.6OD5.7 20:
mixed and medium, S5.1505.S; light, $500
sos.
SHEEP-Strong.
Receipts: Cattle, $500; hogs. $4,000; sheep,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07
After breakfast

To purify, vitalize and enrich the blood,
and give nerve, bodily and digestive
strength, take Hoods SarsaparilIa
Continue the medicine after every meal
for month or two and you will feel
like new man" The merit Of
Hoods Sarsaparilla is proven by its
thousands of wonderful cures. Why
dent you try it?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-09-07

CHICAGO Sept. 6, 1S1l
OPENING PRICES.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 639sc; December, ESQ.,
CORN-September SIC; October, 3Sc
OATS-September 2o14c; October 1880.
PORK-No trading.
LARD-S September, S7.9216; October. S7.75.
SHORT September, $S.S71a; October,
z 27Ik
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-12-28

For the second time we have
devoted considerable space to the
pine stumpage case-the famous
section SO, township 40, range 26.
Auditor Biermann's address to the
public contained SO many mis-
statements and was so misleading
that a reply was necessary. We
have answered him fully and ex-
plicitly. The map and explana-
tory note on the first page tells the
whole story. Every school section
IN the reservation was sold at pub
lie sale, prior to the private sale of
3642-26 to G. A. Smith e Co.,
and this section SO was worth
more than the other four and was
better situated. This section SO
was the only piece of pine belong
ing to the State in Mile Laos
county that could not be sold at
public sale, and we reiterate, it
was the best school section in Mile
Laos county, and the scale of
logs will prove our assertion.
Why, G. A. Smith e Co. bought
the pine on sec. 16, town ~, range
81, at public sale on Dec. 7th,
1891, as is shown by the records Of
the Auditors office, and there is
not to exceed 1900, 900 feet of pine
on the said section Leland said
section 16 is in the Mile Laos In
dian reservation. In answering
Mr.. Biermann we have answered
the Minneapolis Ln1be1wam, the
Times, the Globe and all his apollo
gists and defenders.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-12-28
Continued from First Page.)
AUDITOR HERMANN ANSWERED,

are to be of like size and value to those
received or difference in value to be
paid in cash in accordance with above
schedule of values.
This agreement to be in force during
the months of May and June, 1893.
Should any log owner refuse to make
exchanges under this agreement, the
log committee is hereby empowered to
enforce the provisions of this agree
ment.
Perhaps it will be claimed that the
schedule of prices quoted in the above
article we're simply adopted for the
convenience of lumbermen, and are not
the selling prices. We wrote to two of
the best known lumber firms in Mime
apolis, the heads of these firms stand
high in social and business circles, and
they are large operators in pine logs
one of them is the owner Of a large saw
mill in Minneapolis. Here are their
replies:
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. %, 1898.
r. G. DUNN: We sold our logs last
spring to N. P. Clark & Co, for 1878
per NJ. It took about fourteen to the
thousand. think $l0.50 is a fair price
for logs that would 60 six to the thou
sand. do not know what use you are
going to make of this information, but
don't quote me. Think you deserve
credit for bringing about an investiga-
ton. It is something that should have
been looked into years ago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-12-28
A CORRECT DIAGNOSTS
Lamphere Catches on to the
MOdus Operandi Of Swindling
the State by Under Esti-
mating Pine Sf1mnara

Modus Operandi Of Swindling
the State by Under Esti-
mating Pine Stumpage.
1t it said by the apologizers for
the Mile Laos pine stumpage sale
that the State would not have lost
any sum by reason of the sale hay
ing been made on a basis of 7O0,-
900 feet, as the purchasers would
have been compelled to pay for all
they cut, which would have been
watched by the surveyor generals
force. That sounds all II ght, but
it IS we'll known that in practice
the returns are made to agree
rather closely with the first esti-
mate, the scalers obligingly treat
ing that as a guide. It should not
be forgotten either that it was af-
ter the Legislative investigation
was begun that the State land
commissioner sent an appraiser to
the land who looked it over care
fully and reported that there was
$500, 1000 feet of timber on the Sec
ton, four-ffths of which he
thought was not frst-class, but on
this point he is disputed. It is
not at all likely that the State
ever would have known that there
was more than 100000 feet of tim
Der on the section, had no protest
and no investigation occurred. but
the purchasers would have pock-
eted the proceeds of 4, 800, 900 feet.
very innocently too, we are asked
to believe by the MINNEAPOLIS
newspapers!
The chief value of the investi-
CATION, the trial and Judgment,
is that it puts a stop to this par,
ticular way Of acquiring wealth
rapidly by a few persons within
the charmed circle, at the expense
of the whole body of citizenship of
the State.
It may be true that the prece-
dent was established many years
ago and that the same kind of
deals have been made and executed
right along, but if so it is right to
assume that this exposed deal is a
fair sample and the aggregate of
the robberies is simply enormous
perhaps thousand times ten
thousand OF $10,000,O00, or ten
thousand times ten thousand or
$100,000,000. It gives the people
Of the State a little inkling as to
how millionaire lumbermen are
made, and it is worth good deal
to them to find it out. They will
be able now to apply the neces-
sary remedy to save the remaining
timber belonging to the State or u
to sell it at it's full value.-Mooq-
head Neaus.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-12-28

ST.. PAUL'Noeos: There are MANY
other causes of the paralysis and
distress, but the facts of the situa-
ton cannot be denied. Some rem
edy IS needed. If Gov. Pennoyer's
remedy is not the correct one.
what is? If the situation does not
soon improve the note of discon-
tent with the existing president
and congress throughout the coun-
try will be so loud and shrill that
it will compel the legislators to
pause and address themselves to
business legislation instead of the
attempted manufacture of political
buncombe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-12-28

a.. = $ I
been State auditor it would not have
made the slightest difference-the in
vestigationj would have been pushed
just as persistently. The UNION was
the only Republican newspaper in the
State that opposed o. P. Whitcomb
the last time that he was a candidate
for State Auditor. We believed then
that Mr.. Whitcomb disposed of pine
stumpage on school lands illegally
right here in Mile Laos county.
We supported Capt. Mahlon Black the
Democratic nominee for the posi-
t1on, and a majority of the Repub-
lican voters of Mile Laos county
voted for Mr.. Black. During the ses-
sion OF the last legislature and since,
we have received letters from at least
a dozen individuals informing US of
questionable transactions reflect
ing upon Mr.. Biermann. No attention
was paid to those letters. We deserve
no credit for Investigating the sale of
section So, township AZ, range 26. The
matter was brought to our attention in
such way that we were forced to de-
mand an Investigation. The investi-
cation OF that particular transaction
Will save the State school fund between
eleven and twelve thousand dollars.
and indirectly hundreds of thousands
OF dollars. We have no quarrel with
G. A. Smith q Co., or with any other
lumber firm. Some of the newspapers
and some of the interested parties and
their attorneys are trying to make it
appear that politics are at the bottom
OF the matter, and that it is Bob Dunn's
light Such contemplate insinuations
are not worthy of notice. The State
OF Minnesota and not Bob Dunn is the
Interested party. Politics we're never
mentioned in connection with this case
save by the friends and apologists of
Auditor Biermann and G. A. Smith &
90. We have simply done our duty in
pushing the investigation and in doing
so, we have made bitter enemies out of
men that have always heretofore been
our friends, but we have no apologies
or excuses to offer. AS far as the
writer is concerned the case is now
closed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-12-28
MAJOR BALDWIN EXPLAINS.

MAJOR BALDWIN EXPLAINS.
The UNION has given Hon. NJ.
r. Baldwin due credit for his Ia
bors in behalf of the Mile Laos
settlers, and has said that he was
entitled to the hearty thanks of
the settlers and should be held in
grateful remembrance by them.
We also mentioned Senator WASH
burn and Hon. L. Fletcher. For
the information of Mr.. Baldwin
we will state that Mr.. Fletcher has
always been friendly to the Mile
Laos settlers, and did good work
work in the behalf years ago-in
fact it was Mr.. Fletcher that drove
the entering wedge. For time
Mr.. Baldwin was mislead by
parties hostile to the settlers, but
when a satisfactory explanation
was furnished him by the editor of
the UNION he again put his
shoulder to the wheel and cham
pioned the cause of the settlers,
and the writer, at least, appre-
ciates his services. We are not a
hide-bound partisan, and it will be
an exceedingly cold day when the
UNION throws any rocks at Major
Baldwin. The following letter is
gladly given place in our
columns:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, !
Washington, D. c., Dec. "a, '93. :
r. G. DUNN: Your w ashington
correspondent says in your issue
of the 21st inst. that "Senator
Washburn in the senate, and
Loren Fletcher in the house, sue
ceeded in getting through a bill
which will prevent the settlers on
the Mile Laos lands from being
turned out of their homes.'' Too
much praise cannot be awarded
Senator Washburn for his efforts
in the settlers behalf, though 1 be-
lieve the settlers are under greater
obligations to R. G. Dunn, of the
Princeton Union, than to any Sen
ator or member of congress. In
my work at the Interior Depart
ment, before the committee, and
in getting unanimous consent for
consideration and passage of the
bill but did my duty and ask
neither praise or commentator.
. Only in the interest of fair play,
ask through the columns of your
paper what had that. royal good
fellow, Loren Fletcher, to do with
the bill from the time / introduced
it until it became law?
/ acknowledge to you, Mr.. Dunn,
that my best information and adj
vice regarding the measure came
from you, and I hope the settlers
acknowledge and appreciate your
valuable service in their interests.
Truly Yours,
M. R. BALDWIN.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-12-28

MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, Dec. "a, 1893
4. 9. DUNN: In answer to your in
curry will state that the prices quoted
from "Basis for Log Exchange are all
right-they are the selling price of
logs here: [ have paid during the sea-
son of 1898 $3.50 for logs that took
nearly ten to the thousand, and paid as
high as that for the same class of logs
in 1892. The present schedule rates
are about right, He refers to the table
published above.-ED. I have been I'M
able to buy for less. Yours truly,