Willmar tribune., 1895-12-24
Edited by the Shears.

We understand that the agent for
the Great Northern at DeGratf was
discharged because he refused to get
up night after night to do several
hours of extra work without extra
! compensation for Murdock Cor
in Benson Monitor
This is how Editor kroshus Of the
Pope Co. Journal gets one onto the
the landlord Of his hotel: The Glen
wood Hotel has commenced the publi-
cation of the Daily and Sunday Buck
wheat Pan Cake. The Pan Cake is
being we'll received and enough cop
les to one address till a long felt
want. The maple brand of ink is used
and the sheet presents handsome ap-
pearance. Nothing but baking pow
er advertisements inserted"
There are 23S lawyers in congress.
II farmers. - editors. - manufac-
turers. railroad manager. , steam
! boat owners. II teachers and college
professors. % bankers. 20 merchants.
l householder. 3 clergymen. who say
they are ''engaged in business. s
doctors. architect. / music teacher.
| owner of Oil wells. ) miners. , insur-
ance agents. l theatre manager.
manufacturer of ice. 3civil engineers.
9 lumbermen. owners of stone our
| ries. real estate agents. l pharmacist
and l steamship captain.-Ex.
| \ Grafton man who recently re-
turned from a trip to Norway. says
the Jamestown Capitol is an ardent
advocate Of railroad competition.
Speaking of the benefits of competition
he says: ''When | was abroad. saw
a carload of hams received in Chris
tiana. Norway. which has been ship
ped from Omaha. was curious to
know what the carrying charge was,
and | looked up the consignee and saw
the bill of lading. That carload of
hams had been sent from Nebraska to
the sea board by rail. distance of
1.5OO miles and thence 1000 miles
across the Atlantic and through the
North Sea at the cost Of ~ cents per
hundred pounds: and our rate from
Grafton to Minneapolis. n distance Of
300 miles. is IS cents per hundred
pounds. Benson Monitor
St. Cloud Times: After having dis
charged his duties as superintendent,
Of the st. Cloud and Fergus Falls di-
vision of the Great Northern since
there was such a thing as a division
on this now mammoth system. !. B.
Rice to-day stepped out to assume q
less ardous and more pleasant task
with the same company His success
sor is Mr.. F. H. Britton. of Havre
Mont. superintendent Of the Montana
point. 1t is perhaps not generally
known but Mr.. Rice is one Of the very
Oldest if not the Oldest man IN the ser
vice Of the Great Northern. Mr.. Rice
furthermore was the conductor of til,
first train that was ever run in tn,
state of Minnesota. That was on th
old Minnesota & Pacific which ral
from st. Paul to St. Anthony. It wa
> on the second day of June, 1862 Mr.
Rice has entered the service the pre-
r vious day as a conductor and fror
that day to this he has been constan
" in the harness and he is far fror
. being ready to quit at the preser
time.
L. c. Long. Of Magnolia, writes t
the Representative as follows: 1t
going the rounds of the hireling sheet
=, that I said the Peoples Party was a
dead as an Egyptian mu1nmie. an
Bro. Wall, of DeGraff. sends mo
clipping from the Benson Times. whic
says that l have deserted the People
Party. (The Republican Gazette. {
Willmar. also quotes an item Of sim
lar purport. Now. when it was to
late knew that in my answer to til
criticism that was not doing my dut
as state organizer. 1 had made a ba
break. In the sense in which I NEAR
it. it would not be:Out of the way. Bl
I ought to have known that the WI
lures who suck the putrid mario
Il from the gristly bones of political Co
: ruption, left by the jackals of pluto
cratic greed and tyranny, would on]
quote so much as would serve the
~ own diabolical purpose. They do nj
quote the next sentence. wherein sal
~ But it is only the lull before Il