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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28
THE WELSH GATHERINGS.

Beginning last Tuesday evening
and ending Thursday evening, the
Welsh ''Gymanfa" was held in Judson
The attendance was nearly 1000, in
Guiding many from all parts of this
anG adjoining states. The general
meetings were held in grove, and
the business meetings in the Jerusa.
lem church.
Yesterday the state Christian En-.
deavor convention of the Welsh Cal
whistle Methodist church met in Jud-
son, and was largely attended.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28
WASECA ASSEMBLY.
A Highly Interesting Program Pre-
pared,

A Highly Interesting program Pre-
pared
The announcement of the Waseca
ChautauQua Assembly has been issu-
ed, and shows very interesting pro-
gram. This is the eleventh year, and
the Assembly will take place from
July 9th to 18th. There will be de-
partments il music, kindergarten, G.
L. S. c., sociology, elocution, Sunday
school, Epworth League training
school, crayon work and drawing, all
under first class directors. Rev. J. f.
Stout has charge of the Epworth
League training school
On the lecture platform will appear
this brilliant array of talent: f. R.
Robertson, lectures on Japan, China
and India; Rev. Sam Jones, July 18th;
DR.. A. w. Lamar, three lectures on
the South: Prof. r. L. Cumnock,
two reading entertainments; j. S.
Burdett, two reading entertainments /;
Prof. Geo. D. Heron, six lectures on
sociology during the week beginning
July 10Th: DR.. ]. f. Perry, lectures on
travel: DR.. E. NJ. Mills, of Elmira, n
Y, two lectures; Mrs. Marguerite
Craig Knowles, Miss HELEN Killiam
and Miss Edith Lewis, public readers;
Miss Pearl Benhow, Mrs. Frank La
bore and others, soloists.
DR.. t. Dewitt Talmage will lecture
July 24th. Prof. w. III. Dana and A.
j. Marks will also lecture
The Fourth Regiment Band, of
Sioux City, will be present during the
entire Assembly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28
STOCKING LAKE CRYSTAL.

Game and fish warden Mendenhall
returned Thursday from trip five
miles south of Winnebago City, on
the Blue Earth river. He confscated
net there, belonging to a Winnie
bago City man.
Mr.. Mendenhall, before shipping
the net to st. Paul, will use it with
some Lake Crystal parties to catch
black bass in the Blue Earth river to
put into Lake Crystal. This work
will be done in few days, and in
this way it is hoped to stock Lake
Crystal with bass.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28

-Chas. Young, aged % years, died
in a hospital in Boston, Mass, in
April He was an employee of the
FREE PRESS five years ago, and was
in the city again two years ago. He
was an unusually bright and active
boy, and his early death was very I'M
expected and sincerely to be regret
ted. The announcement of the death
was receivedsby Mrs. S. III. Grannis in
letter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28
CE1ENT WORKS OPERATING.
p. ii. Carney Secures Years Lease
of the Plant.

The cement works have started up
under the management of P. H. Car
ney, who has lease of the plant for
year, dating from May. He has the
plant rental free on condition of keep
ing it in operation and holding the
market for the cement The old stock
was reduced to 900 barrels of cement
when Mr.. Carney took possession, and
this is being rapidly sold, but will be
replaced during the year as rapidly as
necessary.
Thirty-five men are at work tunnel
ing for cement rock, which will en-
sure only the best material being used
Some of the kilns are being burned,
and grinding will begin next Monday
or Tuesday. Manager Carney is sue
ceeding in producing superior article
and we believe the year will be pros
porous alike for him and the works.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28
Southwark HO!

Farmers who are seeking to better
themselves should 60 south! The
Queen and Crescent Route offers a
million acres of farms at $500 and
$500 an acre ION easy terms: and
monthly half-rate excursions to go
and see for yourself. No billiards.
No cold waves. Fine schools and
churches. Hospitable people. Send
for books and information. W. G..
RINEARsoN, G. P. A., Cincinnati, O.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28
DELINQUENT TAXES PAID.

County Auditor Gunders has footed
up the amount of delinquent taxes
paid from March 1st to June 1st, and
finds it to be SS,078.9o. Last year
these receipts only amounted to 49,
1876. This shows that the farmers
are in good condition and are liquidat-
ing past debts.
The June settlement will not be
ready for nearly week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28

We are requested to ask all citizens
who notice any Russian thistles in the
city and have not time to pull them
up, to report the fact at the city hall,
so that the street force may destroy
the pest. The street force killed a
good many last year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28

For SALE-CHEAP-A scholarship
emitting the holder to pursue the
Shorthand Course in the ,Mankato
Business college. Inquire of III. L.
SCHMITT, 215 Y. M. /. building, city.
30tf
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28
BIDS OPENED.

Bids were opened Thursday at
Architect PASS office for the con-
structiOn of a four-room brick school
building at Elysian, three rooms to be
finished. The bids were as follows:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28

"A Fourth of July celebration is
being arranged for at Rapidan Mills,
to be held in Knutson's grove.
"A marriage license was granted
today to Chas. II. Loomis and Mrs.
Ella A. Norton, both of Sterling.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28

Mr.. Mahlke secured the contract.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-28

The tent starts out with every pros
pect of success.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
NATURES FREAKS.
The Devils Pump In California and Nc
Sweeney's Gun in Ireland.

The Devils Pump in California and Nc
Sweeney's Gun in Ireland.
One of the greatest combinations OF
natural ard artificial curiosities on the
coast of California is called the DEVILS
Pump. The pholas, or shell miners,
species of Inollusk which eXcavate i'm
mense caverns in the very hardest
stone, have tunneled the entire coast
in the vicinity of the pump. Water
rushes into these caverns with each
succeeding tide flow, and in this partic-
ular case finds vent through cylindrl-
cal opening some distance from the
waters edge. It is estimated that this
hole, which connects with the sea cav
ern, is seventy-fve to one hundred feet
in depth. Every time the tide rushes
into the cavern beneath, the pump"
throws water to the height Of full one
hundred feet above the mouth Of the
opening. The Indians formerly called
it by name which signifed fairy
water gnn." but the irreverent white
men have given 1t the title Of the "Dev.
IFS Pump and by that name 1t will be
probably known to future generations.
There is similar curiosity near Horn
Head, county Donegal, Ireland, where
a hole in the rocks is called "McSween-
ey's Gun" Like the California oddity,
it is on the seacoast,; and has connec.
tions with submarine cavern. When
the north wind blows and the sea is at
"half flood" the wind and waves enter
the cavern and send up immense col.
umns Of water through the "gun."
Travellers who have visited Horn Head
and vicinity say that each charge of
water sent from the "gun" is accompa-
MED by an explosion that can be heard
for miles.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
A DECIDED. CHANGE.
The Sultan Earnestly Striving to Restore


The Sultan Earnestly Striving to Restors
Order.
co TSTANTINoPLF, Nov. 20.-As init.
mated in these dispatches the attitude
of the porte or of the sultan has under
gone decided change since the other
fleets began tojoin the British fleet in
naval demonstration.in Salonica bay.
There is no doubt the pressure brought
to bear upon the sultan has been
strong enough TO make him take per.
sonal charge of the work of reform in
Armenia, and it is hoped there will be
no further bloodshed except in putting
down the Instructions which have
broken out against the Ts<lsi-h rule in
different parts Jsf-Asfa-.Minor. IT.
hoped the American clergy will lie
able to induce their co-religionists to
lay down their arms especially as. tie
sentiment of the:wheie Of Europeis
now in favorof. the sultan, whose evil
dent desire to meat the views of the
powers is appreciated, and who has
undoubtedly tided~, over the most
difficult crisis in the East -:-There is
no longer talk of armed Intervention of
the powers in the Turkish empire, and
if any display -of,forces.. is necessary
upon the part of Europe, it might. be
in the direction of supporting the
authority of the sultan ,-as. Great. Brit
ain, Russia and France are extremely
desireus that order shall promptly be
restored throughout Asia Minor.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
GOING BACKWARD.

The great and prosperous state of
California is on the eve of returning to
first principles in the matter OF freight
traffic, by again adopting the. mule
team and prairie schooner, in place Of
the iron horse and steel rail. Fresno
merchants are contracting with team
sters to haul their freight from Stock
ton to that place at So per ton less
than the rates charged by the South
ern Pacific. At these rates the freight
ers make fair wages for themselves
and their teams, and will do the prin-
cipal traffic between Stockton and
Fresno this winter. 1t begins to look
like the much boasted advancement of
the present age was mistake, when
the primitive methods of moving
freight are found to be cheaper than
by rail. But this is probably only the
case in localities where railroad has
a monopoly of the carrying trade, as
the Southern Pacific has between the
points mentioned above. Mule teams
and prairie schooners would not be in
it in competition with an open river
and transportation line that carries
freight at a reasonable profit, as does
the home company that operates be-
tween The Dalles and Portland.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23

CONGRESSIONAL TIMBER.

If the Republicans OF the second
district want a man in congress who is
in full accord with his party on ma.
tional questions, and in every way
competent to fill the Office, they should
nominate Mr.. John Michel, OF The
Dalles Mr.. Michel has labored long
for his party as an editorial writer, is
protectionist Of the Mckinley school,
sound on the money question, a gen.
tleman and scholar, and would fit the
office OF Congressman better than any
man We know of in the Republican
party Of Eastern Oregon.-Hood River
Glacier.
The Glacier is right. If the next
representative in congress from this
district must be a Republican, MIR.
Michell would certainly be acceptable
to Eastern Oregon, and would be an
able representative of the entire state.
He has for many years been identified
with the interests of Eastern Oregon,
and in the halls of our national legis-
lature would be an able champion of
the demands for an open river to the
sea,
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
JOHN JUMPED OFF.
But He Didn't Have the Knack Of Alieht-
ing from Electric Cars.

buE he O1Qnt lave the hnack OF AllRht-
ing from Electric Cars.
Cinnamon are great imitators. On a
Ninth street electric car coming down.
town. says the Washington Post, was
seated one Of these child-like and bland
celestials, with pensive far-away look
on his face, but the sad expression
would give way occasionally as the no.
torman turned on more electricity and
an expansive grin wander over his fea-
lures as the car leaped forward as
though conscious Of the admiration of
pedestrians, and the laundryman re-
marked to the passenger on his left:
"We just zippee light long"
Between II and streets one Of the
passengers stepped out on the foot.
board, and as the conductor made a
motion to catch hold of the bell cord
the man shook his head Taking hold
Of the side bar he swung out with his
dropped off lightly, and walked away.
Down between G and II streets the
Chinaman stepped out on the footboard
and again the conductor put his hand
to the bell cord.
Don't ling! Don't lingl" said the
grinning celestial. ~ jumpee off Just
likee other man"
Taking an extra reef in his blouse
with both hands, he hoped off at
right angle to the car, landed first on
both feet and then on hls left shoulder
and ear, and as the car bowled along
in the darkness the passengers could
hear in high falsetto wall from the
gutter:
'Allee samee dam foolee."
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
HARD FIGHTERS IN LAW.
The Kind of Modern Lawyers Who sac.
ceed Best.

The Kind of Modern Lawyers Who Sac.
ceed Best.
''Clients love hard fighter, and the
on-lookers are impressed with his zeal, y
says Richard D. Doyle in an article on
Law and Lawyers" in the Southern
Magazine. I'm my own experience /
have had cases where I advised my
clients not to sue because was sure
they had no chal .ce, and although they
followed my advice instead of employ.
ing other counsel, they refused to pay
a reasonable fee and in one case left
me to pay the court costs. And I have
seldom advised a client to compromise
or submit to arbitration that did not
displease him. 1t requires moral cour-
age to advise one against his inclina-
tions,. but 1t is sometimes a lawyers
sacred duty. Whatever may be said as
to its morality or true wisdom, yet 1
must say regard this aggressive and
partisan spirit more conducive to mod
ern success than profound Judgment,
for have seen lawyers succeed chiefly
ny reason Of 1t In whom the logical fac
ulty was not at all conspicuous. In
speaking Of success, it viii be observed
that do not mean the eminence of
such men as Erskine, Writ, Webster,
William Pinckney, Rufus Choate and
Charles OConnor, but such success as
is attained by the leading members of
the bar in every town or city of the
United States, who have a good prac-
tice, sometimes very lucrative, though
they are unknown to fame and for
gotten outside their neighborhood
when they are gone"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
TO PROTECT AMERICANS.
The Minneapolis Ordered to Join the
Marblehead and San Francisco,

The Minneapolis Ordered to Join the
Marblehead and San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The United
States steamer Minneapolis has been
ordered to join the European squadron
Immediately, doubtless on account of
the Turkish situation. Captain Wad-
leigh's orders are to report to Admiral
Selfridge upon reaching Gibraltar,
but unless the admiral issues other or
ders, by that time the ship will make
Smyrna, her destination. This point
is believed to be as near asa swarship
can get to the American mission sta
tions believed blythe missionary boards
in this country to be endangered by
the general uprising of the Mussul-
mans in Asia Minor.
While the state department anthori-
ties felt that due precautions had been
taken in ordering two vessels, the San
Francisco and Marblehead. to this
coast. point was yielded to make the
safety of the missionaries additionally
secure, and after advising with Minis
ter Terrell, the orders to the Mime
apolis were forwarded. She is now at
Norfolk in perfect condition, but needs
additional stores and coal to begin her
voyage to Smyrna. She will carry
1900 tons of coal, of which 500 will be
taken on at Norfolk and the remainder
from lighters in Hampton Roads. If
all goes well, she is expected to sail
about the 25th inst. AS she will not
be driven to make record run, but will
proceed at an economical rate of speed,
namely Is knots, she will probably
make the run of 5000 miles in about
tvo waeka
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
WHAP WILL WE Dor

The Dalles has never shown a dis
position to profit by the misfortune of
other cities, and we trust never will,
but when an opportunity is offered
whereby The Dalles can profit, it
should not be backward in grasping
the opportunity. 1t is not certain that
the Salem Woolen Mills, recently de-
stroyed by fire, will be rebuilt in that
city, hence field is opened for the
establishing of like industry in an
other and more favored locality. In
looking over the state for a suitable
location for such an industry, capital
lists cannot find a more favored loca-
tion than The Dalles. 1t possesses
every natural advantage for manu-
featuring town, and especially for the
manufacture of woolen goods. 1t is so
situated and has transportation facil-
tiles that make it the greatest wool
market in the northwest, therefore it
becomes the distributing point for
wool-producing country for hundreds
of miles in every direction. This
alone would give the manufacturer To-
Gated here the advantage of a wide
scope in selecting his raw material,
having the greater portion of the wool
produced in Eastern Oregon to select
from, an advantage he could not have
at any other point in the state. So
soon as the locks are completed termi.
nal freight rates both east and west
will be extended to The Dalles, thus
no competing point will have any adj
vantage over it in the matter OF trans
portation. Abundant and cheap power
can be secured, and land for building
purposes can be had at reasonable
prices. Taken all in all it offers more
natural advantages for manufacturing
industries than any other city in the
state
The mills at Salem had monthly
of $26O0 a month, and. pro-
duced over 100000 worth of manu-
cloths annually. What would
such an industry mean to The Dalles?
1t would mean steady employment for
from so to 80 operatives who would
spend good portion of their earnings
with our merchants, gardeners and
farmers; it would cause the building
Of large number of tenement houses;
It would mean general prosperity.
But to secure such an industry will re-
1uire energy on the part of property
owners here, those who will derive di-
.ect benefit. Salem subscribed a bo-
aus of $4,000 to secure the wooden
mills, what will The Dalles do to in
luce mills to be located here?
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
CEASE DoUBE1NG.

The "doubting brethren" up the
country still seem loath Co believe The
Dalles is really in earnest in saying it
favors the opening.of the upper river.
They view this city from narrow
minded standpoint, and apparently be-
lieve that because this city will lose a
small amount of trade from the upper
country whenever the products of
Sherman, Gillian. Morrow and .Uma-
tilla counties can pass down the river
uninterrupted, that solely for selfish
reasons, any improvement Of the river
above here would meet with opposi-
tion. In this they do the business
men Of The Dalles an injustice. The
people here do not hope to build up
their city by the misfortunes of any
other locality, or by hampering the
trade of any section of the state; but
by broadening the opportunities of
others, and thereby increasing their
own facilities.
The Dalles is to Eastern Oregon
what Portland is to the entire. state.
Whatever increases the producing
power OF the people of any part OF
Oregon Is benefit to Portland. The
same is true with reference to The
Dalles and the entire Inland Empire.
Any opportunity that makes it possi-
BILE for farmer in Umatilla, Morrow,
Gillian, Sherman or Crook county to |
produce two dollars where now be only |
produces one, will ultimately result |
benefcially to The Dalles. for tdis is
the outlet for the entire upper coun-
Try, and can only become great city
through the prosperity of the country
'urrounding it. If those who are to
oe directly benefited by the opening
If the river will cease doubling, and
york in unison with The Dalles they
nay hope to see something accom-
,lished.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
LAW AND THE TREASURY.

There will be deficit of probably
$50, ,0OO. 900 in the national treasury on
the 1st of January, the end of the year
since the new tariff law went into full
effect.
With the usual partisan dishonesty
Republican organs call the Wilson
law "tariff for deficit" They calmly
ignore the fact that the income tax,
an important feature of the bill, which
it was estimated would yield S30,000,-
600, as it undoubtedly would have done,
was nulli6ed by the supreme court.
The court, therefore, by reversing its
own decision and the rulings of former
years, is responsible for the deficit.
The law as passed would have yielded
just revenue enough.
How shall the deficiency be met?
Congressman Cannon, who expects to
be chairman of the committee of APP,
thinks there will be no
revenue legislation, but that the
will be met by authorizing
the secretary of the treasury to issue
short-time treasury warrants. This is
q power with which the treasury should
be permanently equipped to guard
against any serious deficit. But mas
much as the government is sure to
need continuously larger revenue
no prospect of economy existing-con-
yress ought to enact new taxes.
The simplest and easiest way wonld
De to increase the internal tax on beer
II barrel. This would yield just the
additional revenue required. But this
9 too direct and easy to suit the Re
,ublicans. There is not enough poll
les in it. And so some OF their very |
mart leaders propose to pass bill re.
toring the duties on wool and lumber,
nd on woolens as we'll, and challenge
presidential veto. President Cleve-
and could be depended on to veto
uch bill in about two minutes, and
is party could not ask for better is
ue. Between restored taxes on the
lothing and shelter of the people and
n increased tax on the beer of the
rewers there can be no doubt as to
he popular choice.
Every such proposition of the Nc
in1eyites is a qualification they
aised the tariff taxes in 1890 avowedly
, stop the surplus. They now propose
, restore them to cure the deficit. 1t
trick of politics that won't work
ew York World.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-11-23
CANDLES AS PERQulslTEs.
One Of the Queer oficial Observances In
Paris.

One Of the Queer ofhcial Observances In
Paris.
A Paris official recently received his
annual present Of ten pounds of can.
dies. The man thus favored Is the po.
lice commissary of the district of Saint
Germain PAuxerrois and he receives his
box Of candles from the chamber Of no.
taries.
The origin of this observance dates a
long way back. 1t arose out of a dis.
pute between the police commissary OF
the Chatelet and the corporation OF
notaries.
The DUTY of the former was to hold a
lighted candle at the door Of the cham
Der as the legal gentlemen were enter
ing it, and on one occasion the commits.
sary, with the spirit which animates
many men IN Office, even in our own
great country, complained that it was
unfair for the expense Of the candles to
fall upon him, contending that he ought
rather to receive an indemnity for his
services
he gained his point, and from that
time forward the commissary was given
three hundred pounds Of wax candles
annually. In the course Of time the
three hundred pounds of wax melted
away and dwindled, till in the present
day the ancient custom has come down
to the gift Of ten-pound box Of com.
posite candles.