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Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

the rebate exceeds tie tariff paia: !:
If there is any truth ID the latter
stat tement it would act as bonus
to Manitoba wheat. The Repre-.
sentative, in com nting on#this
matter, and also on the fact that
the profits and financial state.
me,lts Of the Minneapolis -four
mills are computed in pounds
sterling inst tead of American dol
lars (at least they we're SO pub
lished IN the city papets); and
also to the fact that our repre-
sentative in England, Mr.. Bay:
ard, had been commanded to
come and stay 9 day at Wind sor
Castle, and for that reason could
not preside at the Thanksgiving
dinner arranged for by the
Americans ia London, and ex-
claims t'God save the queen It
may be scoffed at and held up to
scorn, but the fact nevertheless
remains true that English influ-
ences are insidiously penetrating
our financial as we'll as social con-
ditions, and will finally lead, if
not checked, to the bringing
about of a change in social affairs
Tho establishing of an aristoc-
racy, and, as a consequence, a
tenantry. England owns our
railroads to great extent; Eng
lish investors have bought up
the leading industries Of the
country; their loan companies
have the N ortgages on our farms;
and, taken altogether, we are get
ting to be quite dependent on the
mother country for prosperity.
If she should squeeze US every
thing would become panicky at
once. God save the queen.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
A HEALTHY TRUST.

The case of Lewis G. Bran
kamp, of Cincinnati, against the
American Wire Nail company,
the Indiana Wire Fence com pany
and a dozen other individuals
and corporations throughout the
country, alleged to compose the
wire trust, came up before U. S.
Judge Baker yesterday. The
plaintiff is 9 manufacturer of
wire nails of Cincinnati. who
alleges he entered into Contract
with an Anderson, Ind, firm for
~ wire nail machines. He 81:
leges that the wire nail trust, by
money and threats, caused the
Anderson company to violate the
contract, and prevented him
from securing machines else:
where, thus running his bust.
ness. He alleges, that one pur:
Rose st the trust is to freeze out
in this way manufacfupefs Wh4l9}
will not come into the combine.
The trust, he claims, was orga-
nized early lin 1895, and asserts
that since that time it has forced
up the price of wire nails, over
800 per cent above a fair profit,
netting sQme $7,ooo,00o to the
persons In the trust.
The defendants admitted that
the allegations of the bill are
true, but asserted lack Of juris.
diction on the part of the court,
which the latter oyerruled. - :
In an informal opinion Judge
Baker hit hard at the trust. He
said: The trust described is an
HHn]aWEfp'l WE FIJI q fcfom ~ hiRation and con
spiracy to raise the price Of
goods and to interfere with the
manufacture OF wire nail machin.
cry, and is indirect violation.
.Qf eR aet Of Congress Of good.
morals and OF the public n veal" Y W!sl'' !"
s...l The act spoken Of was the act
Of July %, 1892, regulating inter.
state commerce. 5s:.:5@z :7.s5=.:s .:s n
. After scoring the the trust i IS +, st !,
length the court directed that q
TEN porary injunc ction issue until
the case can be heard On its
merits. Minneapolis Times. # IS
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

Is the Argus editor. getting
scared chat Crosby's man will
5e' mat postofice away from
III - Read the following from
Ast weeks Argus, and then re-
nect, how good and how pleas
ant it is for brethren to dwell to-
gether in harmony:
David M. Clough got more
votes last election than any man
who ever ran for governor in
! Minnesota, and yet the Republi~
can Gazette said previous to the
nomination that ''he was the
weakest candidate the Repub-
licans could put up And after
nomination the same paper said
"lots of Repu blicans would vote
for John Lind,' thereby aiding
Lind's cause. Still the record
shows Dave got an immense vote
1ust the same. 1t was these
stabbers like the Gazette that
cut Clough's majority, and then,
after doing all the damage it
could, pulled into line and helped
him ION the outside) out.
Step aside, Bro. Crosby, and
| let Bro. Birch have his oats. He
has earned them by blackguard
ing the Popoerats during the
campaign, You knew before,
hand the coins that Bro. Birch
always pays his friends in. after
he has no more use for them. So
take your medicine like q little
man, lest Bro. Birch should keep
on with hts regular kicking fits
and knock down stalls, manager,
ct al, spill the oats on the ground,
and kick in the ribs of his friends
in the bargain. The TRIBUNE re-
ciprocates with heartfelt sym
pathy. Such is politics.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

scarcity Of wheat for milling
purpose, and thar it will take.
years, even with big wheat crops:
to raise the stock of that cereal to
anampel margin.
The production Of wheat per
capita in the world has been.
growing less and less for over a
dozen years, and wheat ought to.
have been rising in price all the
time. But on account Of the
gold standard and speculations
in the market it has been kept
down to the level with hog feed.
Our wheat raisers have been beg
CARED, and England with cheap
bread and wage slaves have
driven free labor off the globe.
The restoration of wheat prices,
however it may be brought
about, is at once the restoration
Of normal Industrial conditions
all over the world, but especially
here in the northwest. -
We do not wish to see the East
Indians die of famine, bnt if in
the course of nature and pro-
vidence, that is the only way to
break the corner of gold spec.
ulation and wheat speculation
and give our people a chance to
live, SO be it.
Nevertheless, the outlook for
our section of country is better
now then it has been for years.
Let everybody wake up and
make the most of it. Make hay
while the sun shines.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

Seventy five nations of the
world own their telegraph sys-
tens. The exceptions are the
United States. Cuba, Honduras,
Cyprus and Hawaii, where the
telegraph lines are owned by
monopolists. Union Record. St.
Louis, Mo.
Isn't that a pretty crowd for
Uncle Sam to train with?" Ask
which of the great nations is the
least progressive and truth is
compelled to answer:-the United
States, says The Representative.
There is no country on earth
more com pletely in the control
of an aristocracy of sharpers
than this. And the people are
satisfied aud vote to continue the
conditions. g.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

Eddy spent $609.65 in. the
recent campaign and LON men
$487.81, according TO affidavits
filed. Eddy, according to this,
only spent s121.84 moro than
Lommen, Which is indeed Won
derful when one considers the
tlashy ithograph, electrotypeand
personal letter campaign that our
congressman inaugurated. Bat
perhaps those pasteboards that
are issued annually to congress-
men, and the numbers Of which
the conductors on trains are so
careful to note, had something to
do with the cutting down of ex-
penses.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

- =
It's all very easy for ignorant
party blatnerskltess TO howl about
silver 81 eFla|nk{s INKS and and the le folly st sill:
yer yy le*gtslaltt s, But ]ustsas soon
as the none question is APP
preached By practical men even
Of the sound money variety, it is.
seen tQ b}!aadiHle4]ll }!' fife "a question. 9 A
few days ago q convention was
held in Indianap lis BY sound
money bus usiness men and ex-
perts to s. ulate the I'M pend !,
ing p etary rel torm Here is
what the Mlinneap polls journal
says
great differe ence Of opinion
as tothe move ad visable at this
tim time, g strong qp tiQa to the
retirement of green IS, a
strong feeling ii favor Of retir-.
ing greenbac Is, 9 decided oppos
sition to the B 81 ltia q ore plan g.
and general fear 81 the attitude
Iof the masses toward any move
lookin Tie su Sit ion of
.nationa1 bank notes y green
,backs these 8ere som tAe
mpresslons IIof the tempe 81 the
ssco1lfe M 1iapap rs which
alker ',1rop way With
him ,. oln ale q II lltIa the
general Ituatl loll lhe l said The
more tlli non 81 llestion IS sex..
'aIl1Ined rom Iree lions the
more lleeQ Aata
tan1 ,plan ntsal,e rsmoYe|
e & s :; ;Ill : 81; ga ,lrs
4 ma stao.' b:
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08


ingly acted pom by congress,
and there IS, in fact, but little
p1:r ability q. such ton being
taken ken by the Repub blic can con.
gress.
s@5 5 live are to limit.our banking
l'7l ldeas e ls' to @ the primary one Of retir-
N ing the ggreenbacks, it will prob
ably be imprac acticable to pass
such an act, whether it would be,
N N the long run, desirable or not.
,Ihe very great and unreason-
able prejudice which exists in
the country against even the
present national banks that have
stood us SO we'll through. the
strain Of the past four years,
shows conelusive]y that any
movement to retire the govern
ment currency and substitute a
banking corporation issue Of cur
rency will not meet with the
general approval of the people at
the present time, and congress
will not venture to take such
action. In fact, the Republican
party desires a longer lease of
power than they would appre.
hend would come from this
method of solving the currency
question. y
So there they are. What are
they going to do? We can tell
them. They will have to go back
to silver. They will have to dc
just what the Pops have preached
for the last half dozen years
they will have to re -monetize sill
YER as standard money and coir
it either in unlimited quantities
or in a sufficient amount to dc
our business. And they will dc
it, too, if they know what is fol
their own interests, and we think
they do.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

Anti.C C,nnyict Labor association was.
formed here By repre- presentatives. q the
interegts affected ~ prison labor COM
;petition. The meeting was attended.
By representatives Of 26 firms manu1ae.
turing chairs, and letters were read.
from houses III other lines OF businees|
Favorable to the abolition Of convict|
labor. RESOLUTIONS were adopted point-ll
ing out the .truinous effect Of employ
ing convicta in competition with free
labor ct the different penal institu.'
firns - .s<:5s#s zs% 81 4zr4s
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

$50 fustrlted was it the TR1B-
uNE) by defeat, that this week it
announces in black type, in a
double column space, the the
':'Villmaf Tribune" will be sent
from now until Jan. i. 1895, for
$l.O0." - Brace up, brothers, and
don't take defeat SO hard.-Litch-
field Review and copied in Will
mar Gazette.
It may be professional cour-
tesy to so hold up rhe shortcom-
ings of a copy of paper pub:
lished under the advantage of
the editor and one compositor
both in bed with hickness, but it
does not appear in that light to
US. There's no politics in it
whatever, but simply a touch of
typb9!oid fever, which laid out the
editor and put the Office boy in
command. Defeat hasn't wpx-
ried US any after the first shock,
and we fully believe the cause we
fought ter will finally triumph,
We have not deserted one Of the
princi iples we have advocated and
will advocate. but we will con.
duct the TRIBUNE ind dependent Of
party until the minds Of people
will be ripe for q 3. raYplt against
abuses that are now cursing our
land ou. fellows got Il all this
time, and unless you want to
stand convicted before the Amer
5iing9p people as having obtained
mething unda lse prete
you will h;lVe some et1ing else to
do but to hold up for rid icule the
ofsl IN a disabled
printing omce v by not ll s ettle,
for Instance i i ou are inter.
.natio onal bin et,lll listss or gold stan.
sdardi dites pure and siinp
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
DIR. JAMESON RELEASED.

Leader Of the south African Invsdersss
-sT Pardoned. s5+. |
LONDON, Dec. 9.-Dr. Leander 81
Jameson has been pardoned from Hol-l1
loway Jail in compliance with the order
of the home secretary, Sir Matthew
White Ridley. DR.. Jameson under-l
went a serious operation in the jail on
Nov. and the release was ordered on
medical grounds. He was sentenced to,
ID months imprisonment on July 2SI
last on a charge Of violating the neu.,
trality laws in invading the territory OF!
the South African Republic.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08


the erican armer pros
tected against Cana q ian Wheat2
The reat il com y IslnliieWs q s. I'M
port wheatzf from ianit oba grind
,ltand exp xpor the our and q
:speelAl rrang gemen s. It'll the
'.reasnr d et IL ~ reI
BAT hich nntls 4 tile money
tbe ,aill III III taril lnd siis
IL hlsp spefes bout ',:s s. eason
q itIi,E, l!I
|ipg haI d h
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
ARSENIC IN FLOUR
WHOLESALE POISONING IN MIL
WAukEE BY BAKERS BREAD.
Believed Arsenic Was Placed in Flour
for the Purpose Of Running Bakers
Trade-Over 600 Victims, But No Fatal
: Results Thus Far.


for the Purpose Of Running . Baker'a
Trade-Over 600 Victims, But No Fatal
Results Thus Far.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 5.-An attempt at
wholesale poisoning, in large measure
successful, was reported to the health
department during the day when in
formation was given of the sudden and
serious illness Of about 100 families,
numbering between 500 and 600 per-
sons, living in the northwestern part of
the city. The cause Of the sickness
was traced to bread sold at a bakery
owned by Otto Figlesthaler, which has
very large trade. An analysis of the
bread showed that it contained arsenic.
The 600 persons poisoned are living,
but a large number of cases are con.
eiderea serioua. if not critical.
The first intimatiOn that the health
department had Of the poisoning was
the notification by DR.: F. R. Weber
that q family named Herzberg had
been taken i'll and that the
symptom. Were Those of Poisoning.
Later DR.. Robert Shearer notified Sec
retary knott of the department Of an
other case at 6l8 Clark street. From 8
O'Clock in tho morning until at night
the telephone bell in the Office of the
commissioner Of health was kept ring
ing, and at the close of Office hours
more than 100 families had been re-
ported as suffering from symptoms of
acute poisoning. DR.. Kempster stated
that he had been notified of the condi-
tion Of affairs and had ordered com.
plete investigation.
MIS-. Figlesthaler, the wife of the
baker, stataa that she thought that
someone had deliberately
@.'. Put IQison Into the Flour
from which the bread was made. It
has been the custom Of the baker to
keep the -four in the cellar. from which
there are two flights Of stairs that lead
directly to the garret. 1t is claimed BY
the lady who lives above the bakery
that she heard someone moving about
IN the garrett early in the night before
the bread was made, but as she thought
that it was some one of the Figlesthaler
family, she said nothing about it until
she fopna ont the next morning that
pene Of the family had been near the
garret the night before. The peliee
are convinced that arsenic was placed
in the bread with intent to cause the
death Or serious illness of Figlesthaler's
Customers, 8 with t the object Of running
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
GOVERNMENT RAILROADS.

The New Orleans Picayune of
a recent date contains the follow
ing facts and figures relative to
the working of the railroad sys-
tenn in Australia and other coun.
tries where the government owns
the railroads: ~
In Australia you can ride a
distance of. 900 miles across the
country for $3.50 first class,
while workingmen can ride six
miles for 2 cents, twelve miles
for 4 cents, thirty miles for 10
cents, and railroad men receive
from 25 to 80 per cent more
wages for eight hours Of labor
than they are. paid in this coun-
try for ten hours. In Victoria,
where these rates prevail. the
net income from the roads is
sufficient to pay all the federal
taxes. In Hungary, where the
roads are state owned, you can
ride six miles for l cent, and
since the roads We're bought by
the government the men s wages
have doubled. Belgium tells the
same story fares and freight
rates cut down one-half and
wages doubled: Yet the roads
pay a ayearly revenue to the gov:
ernment Of S4,00o,ooo. In Ger
many you can ride four miles for
! cent on the government owned
lines, Yet. wages are oyer 125
Rer Eser cent higher than they we're
when the the tcQ|r tc'Q|rF Q|rFkoraattions owned
them them, Al and during 4 pqrin the last ten
yeaFs the net Rr{99ts have in
creased 4 PER per Gent: Last year
the roads paid the German gov.
erument q net proft of $25, ,ooo,:
900. People who'favor the gov.
eeFFFnFm}eA|t eeFF FnFm}!e 81 ownership of railroads
claim that if orr government
owned the railroads we coald 60
to San Francisco from Boston for
$40. Hero is the proof: The
United States pays the railroads
not quite $275 to transport a
loaded postal car from Boston
to San francisco, a passenger
car will carry fifty passengers,
which, at S10 each, would be $500,
or clear profit. of 1925 per car,
aud this, too, after paying s. per
cent cent on watereq sttock, WHICH is
fully 100 per cent Oh the cost of
the road These quoted figures
are taken from q reliable source.
~.W9aSeea laS e HeFiaf||EA| 4Fiiaf||EA|: =.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
S~SsG>s-~>"-- : : - :
No PRESENT. DANGER.

Report Of Army Engineers Reassurlng to
FL: Citizens Of Chippewa Falls, --,.
CHIPPEWA Falls, Wis, Pee. 4-The
river began to fall at 4 o'clock a, M,
pnd at O'Clock it had fallen to a. feet
3 inches, at 12 o'clock it registered 2s
feet inches, showing that the fallis
definite: The danger is over aud the
strain is released, The people are
again turning their attention to bust
p4ess and the interest is practically at
an end, :.-: s5= s = .s.: -. es: Pm #
The river is falling at the rate Of a
foot per day. and there is no reason
whatever for apprehension, 8 said
Colonel w. a. Jones. y. s. A., to tb Z
Associated Press representative, a.1ftar
he had put in Q busy day invest ieatinr
the situation along the Chippewa
river. He continued TIE sitnatinn
Of the river at Eau Claire and at CHR.
peWa Falls 10 practically the same. and
the stage Of water at Eau Olaira s
really the stage Of the river, as the
Hood here is simply caused 81. the
backwater Az the stage of the river m
goes down this water win floW awav.
llll under the ice. and the food here viii
sbe Hoon over. The gorge
sxtsnds About Eikhteen 1Iil,..
and made up largely az anchor ice.
.which is 9 sort Of slush packed cloaalv $
! but not 90 hard @ ord mary ice. under;
5ths tho water Is running 81 cramnads
Quartets, and aa the water fails mora'
The ice vii 1r0n xr,, i ;,,t xl .ss
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
The friends of W.

The friends OF W. ,,,,.
UNE should not f. A''
circulation, a "'' W ~ ~
sott,;noa oil I'D be prompt in
20: old accounts due us
49,: It be but u small amount
:, ,us your hearty co-operatlon'
riends. and we will make Will
mar TRIBUNE newspaper that
YOU all will be proud off. See
that your neighbors keep it.
Every family in Kandiyohl CO.
ought to have it.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
WHEAT PRICES.

Horace Townsend writes from
London to the Philadelphia Led
ger on the breadstuffs situation:
"Already a half:penny has been
added to the price of the four
pound loaf, and the cost of this
staple commodity will. we are
told, increase by leaps and
hounds before Christmas. Moth.
ing short Of a great war, of
course, will ever make bread so
dear as it normally was in the
first half of the century. but it
will a1mostcertai9ly reach apoint
which will entail q great deal of
suffering upon the poorer classes.
The extraordinarily low prices
which have ruled for the last few
years have gone, not to return
f9F foFF Q Rq9arlsslldeFable period, The
rise in the price of wheat, as I
pointed out the other day by
cable, is by no means due to
speculative operations, but is
founded upon the natural work;
ing of the @aeW eV IF IF supply and de-
mand. If the millions of India
are not TO perish of vation,
there must be very considerable
imports of wheat Into that coun-
try, and yet the usual sources Of
supply are f;tiling in q remark.
able degree. Those farmers
who have kept a watchful eye on
the markets, and have kept back
their ll! produce RI Cd as leug as possible,
are new about to reap their re-
ward -. - .=.- ! 49,. s...., r.
Thus it seems that natural
conditions, to-wit: the world re-
FnowHned H't9d ffamines nine off o@ff India, have
aRpeareedl req again, and IS a factor in
Y wheat prices, and that this. cir
mstance, however dep}drable
it may be. to the population Of
India, will. in a. Il, easura -, ol,
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08

T. Will Lose Command of the Texas.
WASHINGTON, Dec. at is known at
the navy department that Captain
Glass will be retired from command of
the Texas, and it is said this will oc.|
cur s'in the natural order Of events. u
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
OFFICE IN G1LGER BLOCK.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 18e

The Crookston Journal is spec
ulating on a site for a govern
ment building, an appropriation
for same to be secured by Con-
gresham Eddy, if possible, this
winter.
Willmar tribune., 1896-12-08
A BARN THAT GREW.
1t Was Still Enlarging When the Smart
Man Disappeared

" 0VNN sV'7t ORCVs
1t Was Still Enlarging When the Smart
Man Disappeared.
Say, stranger, how high mought
that building be2' asked countri-
ded looking individual as he stood
at Broadway and Ann street, gazing
up at the towering structure there,
The man of whom he asked the
question evidently thought he would
have some fun with the farmer. He
looked at the latter a moment and
then said: "Oh, that little house
there. Oh, that's about 800 feet
high. But that's nothing to several
buildings that are going to be put
up farther up the street. -
"shu, you don't say sor' exclaim-
ed the farmer. How high mought
some of them buildings going to
bei"
"six to eight hundred feet, not
counting the towers replied the
smart man
"shu, you don't say so!" ejaculat-
ed the farmer.
But, say, stranger: how's the
people to get up to the top of them7"
"Oh, that's easy enough" said
the smart man, thinking of the fun
he was having. They've going to
have pneumatic tubes in them. You
got into box, and they shoot you.
up to the roof in two seconds
"Shu, you don't say sol'' once,
more remarked the farmer. "Your
houses don't cover much ground,
stranger, do they9 Now, out in no :,
part of the country we go in for
more land than high building, NJ
brother started in to build O how
once. and that barn cove ,.od ,bo,,+
as much land as all the p,uildinps in
your town put togethe', -
"Oh, say, old fellow" ren1ied the
funny person: you're TALKING
through your hzt No man could
bulls as big . barn as that"
That's all right, said the farmer
but my brothers barn wasn't no
ordinary barn, b'gosh. It wasn't 50
big at the start but, you see. it took
a~gro"lng, and before it stopped it
covered his whole farm-a whole
section. sir, about one square mile. :"
1T took a-growing, did it?'' re-
marked the puzzled person who had
been having the fun "say, mister,
what are you driving at anyhow9
WHO ever heard of a barn growing7"
We'll, there's not many people,
III admit, stranger, - proceeded the
farmer. 1T was the first time that
! ever heard of one; but, as said
before, my brothers barn wasn't
no ordinary barn, You see. he built
It Of green hemlook, and as he was
ln q hurry to get it built before hs -
vest. he couldn't wait for the " -
to dry out. Now, that wood W - % e,,11
of sap when my brother ,1a,nad I I
that barn up, and when IT, s s.@ppoa ~ :.
began to get warm the @ 40 "1~"nsa oa.s.
to run, and that set +ho o3 p,ood 49, -
growing. Well, sir ,,a sne 1890 woou - =.
anything grow lii =; = yoa hafore meiei saw
th;s nie Ia, aa,k ams apo' 1t your big houses III
m;th' ,aa5 'Jha' 'tha w )" AZ, they can't compare
o,.o,nad - ray my brothers barn
S1OWOusL pa 1ry@,,,1I4 - L.. 1-.1 IS. :
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-11
Celery Oil.

This is n new industry which Ger
many Is endeayoring to foster. Dis
tillers OF essential oils have expert
mented with the distilling of celery
during the past season, producing o
few pounds. 1t is distilled from the
green leaves, possesses the powerful
aromatic oaor and taste of the plant,
and may arouse considerable interest
among manufacturers of concentrated
soups and preserved meats and vege-
tables. 1t requires 100 pounds green
leaves to make one pound OF oil. If it
proves feasible to disti!l celery for
tlavorlng purposes, why not utilize
other herbs in the same manner for
like purposes?