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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
Descended From Columbus,

Don Christobel Colon de Toledo de la
Corda y Ganta, duke of Veragua, mar
quis of Jamaica and admiral and adelan-
tado mayor Of the Indies, is his name, and
he is thirteenth in direct descent from the
great discoverer Of America. In spite of
both name and descent, however, Don
Christobel Colon de Toledo, ETC., etc, etc.,
is good deal of man. For this reason
quite as much as because he is descended
from Columbus the Duke of Veragua
comes to us as chief Of the representa-
tives of Spain at the Columbian fair His
ancient blood is indeed no great things
in Spanish eyes, for the real yellow old
grandees of Spain trace their blood back
centuries before Columbus was born.
In appearance the Duke of Veragua re-
sembles somewhat our own Chauncey
Depew. He does not take tooratory and
| railroading, however, but to agriculture
and live stock breeding. els q Liberal
in politics and at one time was royal
commissioner Of agriculture. He is
chiefly admired among his fellow coun-
trymen because he breeds the champion
animals for the public bull fights at
Madrid. The Vcragua bulls are the
| most ferocious and famous of all those
! that appear IN the ring in Spain-among
| the most savage that ever killed their
man or horse before the eyes of a delight.
ed audience. A thousand dollars is not
/ uncommon price for the Duke Of Vera
/ qua to receive for one of these animals.
He is a good fnancier, and partly from
ancestral estates, partly from live stock
breeding and other business operations
not beneath the notice of a noble duke
he has managed to accumulate an annual
! income as large as the salary of the presi
/ dent of the United States.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
HERMAN STUMP.

among laboring foreigners. And these
three questions are connected in most
intimate manner just now, for immigra-
tion has already set in heavily for 1893,
the cholera is certainly reviving in east
ern Europe, and if it gets here it will, as
Sam Wilkinson said of the Beecher scan
dal and a certain religious book, ''knock
the Worlds fair higher than Gilderoy's
kite"
There is touch of the comical in the
way public opinion suddenly shifted on
this question. Since 1874 the immigrants
have never been less than 100, 600 year,
and only in the '::hard tines Of 1863
did they fall below 100000 year. Then
the number suddenly went up beyond
precedent since Isl,sel left Egypt, reach
ing 7S9, ,992 in 1882. The labor organiza-
tons cried aloud and were laughed at
In the decade Of $4,000 the newcomers
were far more than twice as many as in
any previous decade and almost doubled
the number OF foreign born in the coun-
try. Cheap laborers' by the hundred
thousand came from Italy, Russia, Po-
land and elsewhere. Still the labor organ
izations were scarcely listened to. All
at once the cholera threatened. An ele-
CANT + -tealner loaded with the elite of the
-Four Hundred" had to suffer a miser-
able quarantine, and, 10, as Samuel Com
pers said, "A shrek from swelldom to
shut out every dcmd immigrant, don't
yer know"
The net result has been a law which
on its face is ironclad, trick proof and
perjury tight. Previous laws secured
by the labor organizations were rather
stringent, bit this one, which went into
effect at the close of the last congress, is
simply a "corizer." by it the intruding
Immigrant must under oath tell all about
his race, name, age, sex and condition;
where he came from, whittier he is going
and what he is going to do when he gets
there; whether he has money, and, if so,
how much; whether he has ever been in
a prison, hospital Or quarantine; whether
he is st polyganist Or thinks of becoming
one; whether he is vaccinated or pock-
marked, skilled or unskilled or under
contract; whether he is a thief, pauper,
a fugitive, a cripple, an idiot or habit
ual drunkard or is conscious of inclina-
tiors to become either of such.
OF course this is only a summary, but
it il really no exaggeration. In addition
to all this, niTa c,srfrse.iieaced surgeons Of
the marine hospital service, appointed Dys
the president, have gone to the principal
foreign ports with almost despotic pow
ers Of inspection of immigrant vessels.
These are: Surgeon George Purviance of
Philadelphia, assigned to Liverpool;
Passed Assistant Surgeon W.. Pettis Of
Buffalo to Southampton; Assistant Sur
geon M. j. Rosenan to Antwerp; Passed
Assistant Surgeon j. II. White Of Savan-
nah to Hamburg; Passed Assistant Sur
geon R. NJ. Woodward, now located at
Cairo, to Rotterdam; Assistant Sur
geon e. r. Houghton of Vineyard
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
Here She is Again.

An elderly woman giving her name
as Mrs. Bartlett was brought to the
central station yesterday afternoon
from the Union depot. She appeared
to be partially demented, and was
enrOute tD East Grand Forks, where
she has a nephew named Henry Bell
1t was to keep her in safety until the
time came for the departure OF the
train that she was sent to the sta
ton. On the woman's person was
$12O in cash, and valuable papers
aggregating S40O more.-St. Paul
Globe.
Nearly every week we read in some
of our exchanges of Il woman of the
above description and think it is the
same one who worked the same
racket in Little Falls last year.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
kindergarten Social.

Go to the social at A. Tanners to-
night given for the benefit Of the
Kindergarten. Help an institution
that helps our city in a way that no
other institution can. The school
now enters upon the spring term
with an endowment of eight scholar
ships, given by citizens who have no
little ones, yet recognize the great
good brought to young children by
such a course of instruction, "Loy-
atty to the chiltlrnn's cause means
loyalty to the cause of mankind" "
Entertainment you will get, and
things good to eat, for any price you
choose to pay.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

"appalling." When the English acquired
Canada, they estimated the French there
at less than $4,000. There and in the
United States they now number about
100000. No other race in modern
times has been so prolific.
It is not, however, the increase but the
character Of the immigration which has
excited the labor leaders and alarmed
the health authorities. England, Ireland
and Germany seemed for time to have
gotten rid of their surplus population
and ceased to send us any, and just at
this time Italy, Hungary and Russia be-
gan to pour forth their swarms. In 1870
there were i'll this country but 4 ,G44 per-
sons Of Russian birth; in 1890 there were
1872, ,644. In the same time Hungarians
increased from 3,137 to C2, ,435, Poles from
14,436 to 147.440, Italians from 17.l57 to
1S2,5S0 and Canadians Chiefly French)
from 4o3,454 to G90,93S. On the other
hand, the Irish scarcely increased at all,
and the Welsh and English increased
comparatively little. From 1870 to 1880
there was an actual decrease of Irish,
and from 1890 to 1890 their increase was
but 1G,93S, or less than / per cent In
fact, the vastly improved conditions Of
life in Ireland have reduced emigration
to a minimum.
Of all the recent immigrants the Poles
seem the least amenaEle to sanitary dis
cipline Or indeed to regulations of any
kind. Reared undor a despotism, the
Polish laborer habitually looks upon gov
ernment as the natural enemy of the
poor man, and his whole life has been a
long schooling in evasion and various
1..ses to heat the officials. Even the
census enunerators had to have police
protection in some quarters Of New York
city, for when one entered and began to
ask for names. ETC., the Pole, sometimes
the man of other race, at once concluded
it was for draft or tax. From a san
itary standpoint the greatest improve
ment has been among the Irish. Forty
years ago, it is said, every third Irish
man landing at New York was pocl1-
marked. Now pitted face is rare
among them. Sullivan, in his "New Ire
land" says that, of the great emigration
of 1S49-5O, Is per cent died on the ocean
Or soon after landing. The cholera of
1882 was brought to Quebec by Irish i'm
migrants, that Of 1919 to New Orleans
by Germans and that cf 1866 to New
York by Frenclmen.
It may surprise some readers to learn
! that despite the immense immigration
the original Americans (meaning those
whose ancestors on both sides were here
July 4, 1776) arc still in large majoriCy.
For this we arc much indebted to the
south, in which over 90 per cent Of the
people are original Americans.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
Pit, Him IN the Pound.

Mrs. Annie Murphy reeeive yester-
day from a young socie iety gent tleuan
a beautiful bog quet 1ted1y
lent some little cheer to the dark
some room and solitary confinement
which has been her lot for nearly
four months.-Journal Press.
Such an action as is credited TO a
young society gentleman, makes
the average person tired, and the
Journal Press should have published
his name, SO that he might be looked
after by the proper officer.
Supt. Seal, Of Little Falls, lectured
at the Normal School last evening
under the auspices OF the literary
society. His subject was "Orators
and Oratory." The lecture was q
good one and very much appreciated
by the schOol.-St. Cloud Times.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21


In addition to these signers it is
understood that the BOvey-De
Laittre Company will sign. The
agreement has not yet been presented
to the Carpenter-Shevlin Company.
The committee is now endeavoring
to find suitable men to put in charge
OF the work, and will secure sigma
lures to the agreement from Others
in the district of Brainerd, Sauk
Rapids, Anoka and Saltwater.
In other districts the plan of uni
form inspection is gaining ground
rapidly. At u meeting held in the
Duluth Chamber 6f Commerce, Fri
day last, owners of more than two
thirds of the cut in the Duluth dis
trict signed a similar agreement, and
the matter is being agitated in the
central Wisconsin district, by means
OF circulars sent to all Of the lumber
men.-Journal,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
LITTLE FALLS MORRISON CO, adlNNl fR
Editor Kroshus, of the Starbuck

. r
Editor Kroshus, of the Starbuck
Journal, published. in Il recent issue
OF his paper, piece OF poetry. It
was not exactly Of the spring style
but was an effusion Of how Starbuck
young ladies enjoyed kissing. HE
made mistake in giving the names
Of various nlaidens OF his place, and
on Monday week the irate females
swooped down upon him with hlocd
in their eyes, courage in their hearts
strength in their arms and rawhides
in their hands, and but for a timely
interference the editor, devil, and en-
tire office force would have received
a terrible chastisement.-Sa Centre
"a
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago,
who evidently has some Welsh blood in
him, has proposed a new way to destroy
slums and sweater shops. He would
have brilliant electric lights placed in
every dirty alley. Next he would tear
down every high board fence which
shuts off filthy, disease breeding, tene-
ments and yards from the public eye
and lay bare all the foulness and pollu-
tion. Then city governments would
have to take cognizance of the matter
or there would be a change of admins
tration.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

II you went to the post-otfice and
bought a postage stamp for a letter
and asked the clerk tosput it on, and
he refused, what would you do?
"Why, I'd put it on myself, wouldn't
you" No, I'd put it on the letter"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

The Irish begin to be indignant that
the monkeys and monsters in geological
gardens always receive some Hibernian
name. Says one gentleman from the
green isle: II tell you, brothers, it is an
infamous degradation to call sea lions
and balloons and chimpanzees and hip
Epopotami after our brothers and sisters
in the dear old country, s The irish
gentleman is right. Let all the animals
berechristened and let the biggest mon
key be named Ward McAllister.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

Swinburne has not done himself much
glory in the yersemaking line recently.
But the poem he,was inspired to write
about the Chicago exposition is equal to
his best. Not in years has he given the
world anything SO good as the ode be-
ginning, ''sunset smiles on sunrise; east
and west are one. - - s
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

The Little Falls Daily Transcript
has entered it's second year with
every assurance OF a long and useful
life before it. There is not a daily
which reaches this office that is read
more completely and regularly than
the Transcript. If there is any i'm
portant news in or around the Falls
the Transcript gets it.-Staples
World.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

County superintendent Seal, OF
Morrison county, will deliver a lecture
tomorrow evening, before the
Literary Society OF the Normal
School, in Assembly Hall, upon the
subject: "Oratory and Orators" !"
Admission free. Everybody invited.
st. Cloud Times.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
Uniform Inspection.

According to the Lumberman, the
plan of uniform inspection is fast ap-
preaching execution in the Mime
apolis district. An agreement has
recently been circulated among the
manufacturers and wholesale dealers
in white pine and Nol wa. lumber,
providing for the new, system Of
grading and inspection and for q
division of the expense pro rata with
the amount handled by each firm. 1t
has already been signed by the fol-
lowing:
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

We honor North Carolina above near
" every other state in this Union. She
4isa great and good state. The railroad
commissioners of North Carolina have
issued an order that baggage smashing
on the roads Of that state shall be stopped
henceforth, So far as we can discover
these gentlemen are the first railroad
commissioners or railroad officials Of
any kind to take measures to prevent
sexpressmen and brakemen from playing
baseball with passengers trunks.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

The Daily Transcript has safely
passed through the first and hardest
year of it's existence. 1t is an excel
lent little daily and deserves the
hearty support Of the people Of Little
Falls. Success to the Daily Trans
cript.- -ROyaltOn nBanner.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
MILE LACs PINE
The Committee to Investigate the X.
legged Illegal Sale of Pine
Ready to Report.

The Pioneer Press of today con-
tains the following with regard to
the report Of the committee ap-
pointed to investigate the alleged
illegal sale OF pine:
The special committee of the house
which was appointed to investigate
the alleged irregular sale by the state
auditor OF a section of pine land in
Mile Lacs county to C. A. Smith &
Co. of Minneapolis, is now ready to
report, and will probably present it's
findings to the house today The
committee consists of Messrs. Dunn,
chairman. Zelch, Fleming, r. Cole
and German, it is understood there
will be two reports, the minority lc-
port being signed by Mr.. German,
and the majority by the other four
members.
The majority report, it is under
stood, will state that the sale of
section 36. town ~, range 26, was
entirely irregular. That the state
auditor did not comply with the
provisions of the law governing
private sales of school timber land
in any particular, and that the pine
on the section IN question was sold
by private sale to G. a. Smith & Co.
for ~ per thousand feet, less than it's
actual value, entailing Il loss to the
school fund Of the state OF $1I 900.
1t will also be staaed in this report
| that the land was withheld from
public sale, and was privately sold
in an alleged irregular and illegal
manner to the lumber firm in question
on an old appraisal, which showed
that there was Ouly 100000 feet of
good pine on the section, while, as a
matter OF fact, there We're $500 900
feet OF virgin pine on the section.
Further that at the time this section
should have been sold at public
sale there were several responsible
lumbermen who swOre before the
committee that they were prepared
to bid $4 per thousand for the pine
in the section in question. Also
that the state appraiser was not
sent out to appraise this section of
pine land until April, 1892, almost
three months after the pine had been
sold to c. A. Smith & Co.
1t is underst TODD that this majority
report will recommend that G. A.
Smith & Co., be required to pay 81
per thousand feet for the timber they
have already cut On the section in
question and that the remaining
uncut timber be sold to the highest
bidder, and that the governor be re-
quested to take such action in the
matter as will best protect the in
terests OF the state.
Mr.. Gorman's minority report will
probably state that the majority re-
port is partisan and based on one
sided testimony; that it does the
state auditor an injustice, as his
books will show, that the land was
marked appraised and for sale and
that the sale was made to &. A.
Smith & Co. in good faith as the
auditor believed the timber on the
section was in danger from damage
by fire, and that he was protecting
the interests of the state in selling it
;ls he did. Also that the price paid,
So per thousand, was the price which
has usually been paid for such pine
land for many years.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
Game Laws.

Book agents may be killed from
August 1st to October. 1st; spring
poets from March 1stT TO j uly 1st;
scandal mongers from January 1st
to December 31st, Inclusive; umbrella
borrowers from February lstto May
1st and from August 1st to November
lst. Open season all the year on Life
INSURANCE agentsl-EX. - -
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

The poolroom bill passed BY the
New FORK legislature has been 81 ned
by the governor. The act makes the
sale Of pools on races unlawful except
on the trucks, and uas evidently
backed BY one set Of gamblers to
"down another sci.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
NoGanls. s

Quite numEei. of tin horn
gamblers who tlocketl i'll hers. ex-
pecting to get q good stake out OF
the lumber men, have lett for greenel
pastures. When gamhling was
prohibited in town, their occupation
was gone. Grand Rapids Magnet.
Good for Grand Rapids. There
are cities in the Immediate vicinity
that would profit by an experiment
OF the same kind.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
10 Brainarli Tribune has !.

The Brainerd Tribune has the
following: Some merchants say,
E"Oh mygoods advertise my business,
and / don't need to advertise i'll a
newspaper. It's all true enough,
they do, when once the customer is
in your store. but that is all. The
goods can't go out and collar a
customer and drag him into the
store. This is Just what an advertise.
ment in Il newspaper does, tiguta,.
! lively speaking. The newspaper
advertisement fetchas yourcustomers
into your stare-ypur goods do The
rest. zta3 8:z 4sa$
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
AN / NJ CRISIS
THE AUTHORITIES PREPARING FOR a
CONFLICT WITH CHOLERA.

Our Entire Quarantine Service Strength
ened and Improvei-The New Immigra-
tion Law to Be nigid!y Enforced--How
Imported Citizens I:u., the Gantlet
The question of the hour is cholera.
The question for the year is the Chicago
Worlds fair. And the great question
not only for this year, but for ten years
past. and many to cone, is the enormous
immigration pouring in upon us, due
greatly to peculiar conditions in Europe,
but much more to the cheapening Of
rates and the labors Of various agents
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
A railroad company that refuses to

a railroad company that refuses to
take freight from connecting road is
subject under the interstate commerce
law to q fine cf $4,000. Engineers who
refuse to haul tie cars Of roads where
there is trouble with the employees lay
the company for which they work liable
to this 6ne.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

Winnipeg paper says that 10
dogs We're shot i'll the city pound
during March. A similar campaign
in Duluth would be blessing.-Du-
luth Herald. Ditto in Little Falls.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21

Mr.. Frank Lyons, county attorney
OF Morrison county, and one of the
editors of the Democrat, was in the
village last Saturday on legal bust
ness. He made the Sentinel Office a
pleasant cnll-Sauk Rapids Sentinel
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-21
The Minnesota Lumber King.


Millionaires in Minnesota are
thicker than mosquitoes in New
Jersey, and you can't thow a stone
Oh the streets of st. Paul or Mime
apolis without hitting Il Croesus. says
Frank G. Carpenter in a letter to the
Chicago Herald. The wonderful
development Of the country is rolling
the dollars into this hopper OF the
great NOrshWest, and there are
lumber millionaires, milling kings
and real estate magnates and rail
road gold bugs galore. This is the
greatest lumber center of the Union.
and J. Newton Mind, the editor OF
the Lumberman here. tells me that
Minneapolis will sell more lumber
than any city in the country in 1898
Some of the richest timber dealers in
the world live here, and Weyerhaeuser
the lumber king, makes this his home
No man in the world represents SO
much lumber all over the country,
and he buys by the millions. The
other day he paid over So, ,O0O, 900 fol
SOC, 100000 feet Of standing pine in
Northern Minnesota, and the
syndicate Of which he is the head
will. l am told, within four years.
control all the white pine Of Wis
consin and Minnesota. 1t has a
capital of $50, 100000 1t has great
sawmills which tnrn out hundreds OF
millions of feet of lumber annually
and whose product is worth close to
$40 100000 year. It buys new
lumber regions right along, and it is
looking out for new fields in the
South and Northwest
This syndicate includes a small
number Of rich men, but Frederick
Weycrhaeuser is the richest and brain
lest OF them. He is a German and
began life in a brewery. He came t.
this country without a cent and he
worked for 81 day. After lea aving
the brewery he piled slabs in a saw
mill for time. at $1.25 day, and
gradually worked his way up in lum-
ber until he is worth millions. Heis
as plain to-day at fifty as he was
| when he worked in his first saw mill,
and he labors just as hard. He is
wrapped up in his business, and goes
at times from lumber camp to lum-
Der camp, taking pot luck with his
men and having a thorough knowl-
edge OF every~detail of his business.
He is Il nfan of great ability, full OF
common sense, and his four sons who
are all in the lumber business, take
after him. The boys have been
well educated, and his youngest
son is. now in Yale college.
! Hc gives great deal in charity, and
/ his oldest daughter, who lately mar
r:cd a Dutch reformed preacher Of
Syracuse, spent a year some time be-
fore her marriage in going about
! among the lower classes Of New
York city doing charitable work.