Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-28
Yarns by a Knight of the Grip
Special for WILLMAR TRIBUNE.

Special for WILLMAR TRIBUNE,
j. J. Hill delights in immigration
conventions. How would it do to en-
courage the farmers and shippers al
ready in the Red River Valley and the
Dakotas by giving them living freight
rates? The rate for the same haul,
northwest of the Twin Cities. is two
and one-half times the rate east of the
cities, and more than double the Iowa
rate. An elective railway commission,
with power to fix maximum rates.
solved the problem in Iowa which in
Minnesota was overuled by the Su-
preme Court Courts are directly or
Indirectly the creatures of the people,
but too often the servant becomes the
master. In Iowa the Supreme Court
sustained the law; in Minnesota it was
declared unconstitutional. Courts are
not always infallible. The highest
court condemned the Prince of Peace
to an ignominious death. Jeffries
lived in history as a monster. The
Drcd Scott decision was reversed
after the blood of a quarter of million
treemen had been shed, and the over
throw of the recent income tax law by
our own federal court is still fresh in
the minds of the people.
IT Farmer Hines completes his road,
which he will doubtless do if he lives,
1t means from three to five cents on
every bushel of wheat along his line.
No better evidence of the Importance
OF this enterprise can be offered than
the report that the G. N. has already
hired stool pigeon farmers to pre-empt
other routes where farmers lines are
contemplated. 1t is the old story of
dividing the enemy.
The congressional fight in the Fifth
is warming up since the arrival of
Loren Fletcher upon the ground.
Minneapolis papers, which have here
tofore given considerable attention to
Charlie TONNES silver views, and to
Senator Nelson's Clough letter, are
now turning to save their own Uncle
Loren. = Frank Davis will, it is be-
lieved, make it quite interesting for
Mr.. Fletcher at the primaries, and
that is not all, for if the present in
cumbent is renominated, there is a
plan on foot to unite the Labor party,
| the free silver Republicans, and the
the Democrats on S. M. Owen. This
| done, and Congressman Fletcher will
have the fight of his life on his hands.
Did you ever see a big log jam:
| Well, it is one Of the jam-dest things
you ever saw. The writer was privi'
legged to see such a sight a few days
ago at Little Falls, on the Mississippi
River. Upon the night of the 10Th thu
inhabitants were startled by roaring
crashing sound, as though cyclone
were coming down the river, or thu
roar of distant artillery. It was {
battle royal between eighty million
feet of logs and the force and energ,
Of pent up water. The logs eventual,
won. The next morning thousand
went up the river to see the sight. Tn.
ice and logs had moved together unit
the river became a solid mass; log
had piled upon each other until the,
struck the bottom of the river bed
backing the water up until the Low
lands were flooded, drowning shee]
and hogs-the back water forcing NOR
logs and ice on top, piling them up il
places twenty feet above the river line
twisting, wedging, grinding, breaking
i'm places immense logs, two fee
in diameter, were twisted into slivers
others were rolled and pounded unit
their blunt end were frizzled like celer,
tips. The river finally recedes, leav
ing solid mass of logs for three O
four miles, and every log floating
down from the north but adds anothe
wedge to this interminable mass. I
will require the work of a THOUSAND
men for weeks, to dislodge, extricat
and float this mass of eighty million
feet, and woe be to the men that wor]
if the jam breaks suddenly and with
out warning.
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