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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-27
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-27

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strength after an early E@rxc1 % seass-
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crate purchases Transactions. El.aot
Shspn< MT at silver.
TIE steamer Traye viii take out tenor
TOW -. so ounces % silver.
The Geld Reserve
God reserve. 80. % ~.
Money and Exchange.
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last loan. ii9 Per c@nS.. closed. fL~kf- PER
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-27

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First avenue.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02

A we'll selected text is half OF the ser
mon. Given good text and preacher
who is in earnest, and the result is sure
to be good. The text of this article is a
plain Simple statement that proves itself
in the readers own mind without argu-
ment. The text is "Good health is bet
ter than great riches"
Without health nothing really matters
very much. A hacking cough takes all
the beauty out of landscape or sunset.
Erysipelas or eczema will spoil the enjoy
ment of sprightly conversation, OF beau-
tifu1 concert, of a wonderful painting:
The biggest bank account in the world
won't pay man for his health, but a
very small amount of money will make
him healthy and keep him healthy.
Most all bodily troubles start in the
digestive or respiratory organs. 1t is
here that improper living first makes an
opening for disease. The development
differs as constitutions and temperaments
differ. The causes are almost identical.
To get at the root of the matter is simple
enough if you start right.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
is a medicine for the whole body. It
works through the digestive organs on
all the others.
1t cures the first thing it comes to and
after that, the next. 1t puts health in
place of disease in the stomach, and from
the vantage ground thus gained, it
reaches every fiber of the body and drives
disease before it - Indigestion, ivef
troubles, kidney complaint, biliousness,
skin and scalp diseases, salt-rheum, letter,
eczema, and all the troubles caused by
impure blood.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02

don't know how many times. Mr..
Robidou has the revolver. 1t was full
when I started to shoot. After I did
the shooting I jumped into my buggy
and drove to Morgan where I gave
myself up"
care you in the habit of carrying a
gun with you around the country"
was asked.
s"Well, I always carried a gun with
me when I called on Kuehn; he was a
bad man, and always wanted to fight,
wanted to lick me"
"Well, then you put the revolver in
to your pocket when you left your
house just for this purpose?" was ask
ed.
eyes, just put it in to defend my
SELF" was the reply.
Metag was decidedly composed at
this time, his language seemingly in
tending to convey the impression of
self defense, without expressing any
regret over his actions.
Aside from the two principals there
were four spectators to the murder.
They we're all young boys, Henry Me-
tag, a sixteen year old son of the MUIR
derer, and George and Walter Dietz-
man and Ernest Pless. They were all
brought to this city at noon Monday
in order to prevent any of Metag's
friends from changing their testimony,
and as soon as they arrived here un.
der the care of Deputy Sheriff Simp-
son they made statements to report
or for The GAZETTE. Henry Metag
made the following:
II went over in the morning and
told Mr.. Kuehn that we wanted to
thresh the next afternoon or Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Kuehn said No, that
there wouldn't be any threshing done
until after the plowing.' told him !
didn't think he could do that, and went
back home. After dinner father and
I went over to Kuehn's place and
father told Mr.. Kuehn that he wanted
to thresh, Mr.. Kuehn said No, not un-
til after the plowing was done They
disputed over what the contract said
for awhile, some of which I didn't
hear because l went over to the pump,
but after while [ heard father tell Mr..
Kuehn that he (Kuehn) could quit the
land as he (Metag) was in possession,
according to the terms Of the contract.
Mr.. Kuehn said: you are not the man
that can put me off, and father said
he could. Kuehn said If you come
down off there the buggy Til fix
you Father jumped from the op-
! posite side of the buggy and walked
around behind the buggy and to with
in two feet of Kuehn. Kuehn put his
left hand in his pocket and drew back
the other as if to strike. Father pull
ed the gun and shot, and it so excited
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02

Fred. kuehn, farmer, 80 years ola
and unmarried, residing in the town.
ship of Sherman, about II miles east
of the city of Redwood Falls was muir
dered in cold blood on his farm at
2:3O o'clock Sunday afternoon by Gus
tave Metag, another farmer residing
in the same township.
The weapon used was a 81 calibre
revolver of the Forehand Arms Co.
manufacture of Worcester, Mass. 1t
was centre fire six shooter revolver,
of the self-cocking type, and before
Metag ceased pulling the trigger four
cartridges had been sent from the
chamber, and three of them had found
their way into and through Kuehn's
body. The other bullet probably
whistled through space without in
jury to any one.
Immediately following the horrible
tragedy Metag jumped back into his
buggy, and drove to Morgan, where
he sought the village constable, i'm
parted his story, and after being plac-
ed under arrest was brought to Red
wood Falls and lodged in the county
Jail.
According to all the details OF the
horrible affair the murder can be sized
up as one of the most cold-blooded
affairs that ever occurred in the south
western section of the State. It was
premeditated to the extent of prepara,
ton with revolver and double barrel
shot gun, and with not the slightest
provocation known to civil annals the
revolver was pulled from the hip pock.
ct of the murderer, and the shots were
FREQ when the murderer stood within
two feet of the victim.
The tragedy occurred on the farm
of Kuehn in Sherman township. The
exact place was within twenty feet o.
the shanty residence of the murdered
man. It stands on the bank of a gul
lev or creek that finds it's outlet with
the Grow Creek that passes through
that section. The shanty was sur
rounded on the north by trees and it,
very location would imply the scene
of an easy murder and escape if th'
crime had been perpetrated after darl
or when there was no one but the muir
dered and the murderer present. Th'
shanty is the poorest excuse for hu
man abode that is located in Redwood
county: made of cheap boards, ant
with old styled hinge swinging door
and but dismal holes through whicl
the light sends in it's rays.
The crime was the result of farm
contract. Metag owned large trac
of land about a mile and a half from
the house where the crime was com
mitted,, and last spring concluded tha
he, with his wife and six children
could farm more land, and according
ly entered into contract with Kuehl
whereby the latter was to farm hi
tract of 12O acres upon shares. Th
question of thresbing was doubtful
one in the contract, and last week Me
tag concluded that he wanted to thresl
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02

day morning, and after County At
torney Clague had been notified and
DR.. Finn subpoenaed, and other pre-
lin1inary arrangements made returned
to the scene of the murder. A post
mortem examination was held, and
this revealed the fact that one bullet
had struck the temple over the left
eye, the bullet, instead of entering the
telapb, glancing off and disappearing.
Another bullet struck two inches above
the left nipple, passing through the
base of the heart, glancing to the right
and lodging above the right thigh.
Another bullet entered the right breast
at about the nipple but was not found.
The fourth bullet did not lodge in the
person of the murdered man. The one
bullet found was placed in custody of
Sheriff Pease. The theory is that the
first bullet struck the temple and daz-
ed the murdered man, causing him to
fall backward, and as he was falling
backwards the second bullet passed
through the base Of the heart, and as
he went down further the other bullet
struck at about the right nipple ana
the fourth passed over the body.
County Attorney Clague arrived
from Lamberton at about the same
time that the post mortem was COM
menced and he Immediately commenc-
ed rigid examination. After more
or less preliminsries he decided to
hold an inquest and this was held late
in the afternoon with Coroner Gibson
officiating. The inquest brought forth
no new matter, and the verdict of the
jury was that Kuehn came to his death
by bullet wounds from revolver then
and there in the hands of Gustave Me-
tag.
Metag was seen in the county jail
by a reporter for The GAZETTE fifteen
minutes after he was lodged there by
the Morgan village marshal. He was
asked for his version of the story and
he only concealed minor facts.
IL wanted to thresh the grain on the
land on Tuesday," he commenced,
"and 1 sent my boy over to Kuehn's
this Sunday morning to tell him that
the machine would probably pull in
there Monday night to commence
threshimg Tuesday morning. My boy
came back from Kuehn's place and
told me that Kuehn said the thresh-
ing wasn't to be done until after the
blowing was done. After dinner l
hitched up and drove over to Kuehn's.
I told him that [ wanted the thresh-
ing done, and he said that he didn't
want it done until after the blowing
was done. Some words followed un-
til Kuehn told me that if I would get
out of the buggy he would thrash me-
I jumped out, and as I did so Kuehn
pulled back his arm as though he was
going to strike me, and | pulled the
gun out of my pocket and shot
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-02

Continued on last page.)
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ARKANSAS BALL LEAGUE.
Indications are Favorable For the
 Proposed Organization

H. H. Edwards. of Little Rock, writes as follows to the Sporting News:
 We are trying to organize base ball league for Arkansas. The cities of Fort smith, Pine Bluff, Hot Springs and Little Rock are at pres ent working TO bring about sneh m organization. A league of thesecities will, I think, be formed. The fans have always pHtroni.ed base ball well in these plares, and with linn tied list l think leagne would sue eeed
 "The league, if it is organized, will commence it's season July l and play eighty games, twenty games in each city. We cannot play Sunday hail.
 "The salary limit will be from $3O to $50 d month per player. Players who would like to play with any of the clubs shonld address the manager of the base ball club of the cities uamed. ,"
 A special from Hot Springs to the same paper says;
 A well attended meeting of local baseball enthusiasts was held here Tuesday night for the purpose of discussing plan for the organising of a State lcague. 1t was decided that fund of $2,0o0 10 be raised in Hot Springs, Little Rock, Fort Smith and Pine Bluff would be sufficient to start the players out. A committee which will begin it's work today was appointed to solicit sub- scripttons It is the design of the management to seeureregularle league players where they can be found out of employment Games are to be played alternately in each of the cities mentioned lasting q week, and are to continue throughout July, August and September.
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 vite the wealthy proprietor of a promi- nent New York newspaper to share the hospitality of the executive mansion and thereby gain the support of that organ ill favor of second term, he declined, saying that the man had made himself rich by methods which good people could not approve and now he did not propose to make him respectable Here ceiyed in one of the elegant rooms of the executive mansion and spent an entire afternoon with q poor Irish woman, from whose lips l obtained this incl dent myself, who had ill her grlhood days lived as 8 servant in his family and whose husband, q Union soldier, lay wounded in a Baltimore hospital Mean while the corridors and anterooma swarmed with senators, congressman and officials generally impatient to see him and disgusted to learn that he was spending the day. as one malcontent expressed it, listening to the neighbor- hood gossip cf some old granny just ar. rived from Illinois
 No one element that entered into the construction cf Mr. Lincoln's character was so plain and vel defined to those who knew him Intimately as his predis- position to melancholy In proportion as it was constitutional and ingrained it was mysterious and inexplicable This predisposition to apparent dejection and gloom, to which he was hopeless vic. tim, hung over and enyeloped him like B cloud Occasionally it would lift, es- pecially when in conversation with oth- CTS, but the moment he was left to him self and the pressure from other sources ceased it again descended and settled over him. .'On Jan 5, 1859, the day Stephen A. Douglas was reelected Unit cd States senator by the legislature of Illinois, y said Major H. C. Whitney,. s'I was alone with Mir Lincoln from early ip the afternoon till bedtime. Of course he had known ever since the gen eral election in November that he had been defeated for senator and that Doug las had won the tempting prize but feel warranted in saying that no man in the state was so gloomy and dispirited, and no one 50 surely and heartily deem cd his life an abject and lamentable fail uro as he then considered his to have been. l never saw a man so thoroughly depressed, So completely steeped in the bitter waters of hopeless despair The surroundings even were eloquent of fiat, proSaic failure. l found him in the dingy back room which answered for his law office and brooding over his griefs and discom6tures, while the streets out side were filled with the friends and ad. herents of Douglas, some of them noisy and bihnlous and all exultant with vio-
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A Change In Condition.

Tuesday, a negro dressed in 8 nice suit of light gray clothes arrived in Pine Bluff and established himself as a fortune teller, and be- gan to tell the fortunes of members of his race, at so much per fortune. On yesterday he was seen on the streets riding bicycle and holding an umbrella over his head 10 pre- vent the heat from elfecting him. During the day he called at the clothing establishment of Isaac Dreyfus and gave an order for a handsome suit of clothes and from there he repaired to the book store of Mr. s. A. Rosenberg, where he began negotiations for | $700 piano. Later in the day the police learned that he had not taken out a license for fortune telling, ard placed him under arrest. He was fined $20. Today he is wearing a ball and chain attached to one of his legs and is working on the streets to pay his fine. He gives his name as "Dr. A. J. Brown.
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The Annual Reunion ex-Confed- crate Veterans will be held at Nash vile, Tenn. June 22d to a4th. For :a.is occasion the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern railway will on June 20 and 2l sell tickets at rate Of SIG 00 for round trip. Final re turn limit ten iaysfrom date of sale. This limit, however, may be extend- ed. an additional ten days if tickets are deposited with joint agents at terminal lines at Nashville on or be- fore June 26th. H. B. MIzEIa-, Agt.
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AN EXCITING CHASE.
officers Persue and Capture a Negro
 Thief.

Officers Persue and Capture a Negro
 Thief.
 An exciting chase between a ne gro thief ard policeman occurred on Main street. Second avenue and Pine street this morning.
 About 10 o'clock Jim Walker, a negro, and a companion, entered the dry goods establishment of M Schwartz X Bro. and asked to be shown some goods. Mr Schwartz was showing one of the negroes the goods he had ask 10 see when Jim Walker took seat in another pal t of the store. A few minutes later Mr. Michael Schwartz came in and noticed thatWa,ker had stolen a coat which he had attempted to secrete by folding it under his own coat which he carried across his arm. When the discovery was made the engro ran from the store leaving the two coats behind An alarm was given and Officer Roarity was soon in pursuit. The negro ran like deer, with the officer follow ing a close second. The thief ran down Piue and up the alley between Second and Third to Walnut, and hid under a bridge. The officer soon found him and placed him under arrest.
 The thief has only recently been released from the penitentiary, hay ing been pardoned for grand lar ceny by Gov Clarke, at the solieita tion of Chancellor Robinson, whom the negro at one time worked for. He will now serve long term on the County farm.
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 fJoint Author of tHerndon's Life of Lincoln. = Copyright, ls96, by American Press Assoeia'
 tiou.l ,r,r
 Ut is absurd, wrote John Hay, Ito call him q modest man. No great man was ever modest 1t was his intellectual arrogance and uneonscisas assumption of superiority that men like Chase and Sumner never could forgive. . The com monly accepted belief regarding his so called kind and forgiying nature Is a great popular misconception. Beneath an exterior. of apparent indifference and want of force lived 8 man of the deep est subtlety and most consummate WIS dom. His conscience ruled his heart He was always just before he was gen eroua There never lived 8 man who could say "No' with readier facility and abide by his saying with more firm ness. His good natured manner risled the common mind it covered as firm 9 character Gs. nature ever clad with hu- man flesh. He Nas strong man, wrote Harriet Beecher Stowe, but his strength was If peculiar quality, not sa much aggressive as pas e, and among passive things twas tau strength not so much cf q stone buttress as of q wiro cable. It was strength swaying to every influence, yielding on this side and that to popular needs, yet tenacious ly and inAezibly bound to carry its own great end '
 In the face of all kinds of opposition and adverse criticism he was always cool and self possessed When informed that Horace Greeley was ridieuling his ad- ministra5i4 and indulging in open abuse Of him, he said it reminded him of big man in Springfield named flaw ley, whose lttlc wife, a woman of fiery and ungavzHlaBle temper, was in the habit cf bearing him over the head with out rCsis4 auce. When remousuated with by friends, he only laughed and said: 'Let her alone. It ltalt hurt me and it does hel. a power of good !" When a friend cndeayored to induce him to in-
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One night this week q married man of thls city who is a popular county official was initiated into the mysteries of the rank of Esquire in Pythianism When he got home, after the session of the lodge, his wife noticed that he walked little lame and that several bruised spots were on various portions of his anatomy. The gentleman said he got the bruises while being initiate and now his wife is inquiring of her lady friends whose husbands belong to the order, If their husbands were served ill the same way when they were initiated.
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Pine Blufr at the Centennial.

Pine Bluff at the Centennial
 Mir. R: A. Edwards, representing the Southern Emmigration Compa- nv, of Memphis, Tennessee, is a Pine Bluff visitor today. This com pany publishes the Southern Emmi- grant and The Homeseeker, journals devoted to the interest of the South and West.
 The company represented by Mir. Edwards is engaged in getting up a special edition of The Homeseeker for the Cotton Belt railroad, to ad- yertIse the different towns along the route of that road at the Nashville Centennial. In addition to the regu- lar circulation of l2.000 which The Homeseeker has. 10000 numbers of the journal will be printed and sent to tie Cotton Belt headquarters at the Centennial for free distribution.
 Pine Bluff should have q write nn In this number of The Homeseeker. and Mi Edwards ia here for. that purpose. He should he given every encouragement by our business men. on whom he will call tomorrow. He has visited the towns north of here and has met with great success. Here Is T chance to advertise our town in an advantageous manner, and that. too, at nominal cost. Let our peo- pie take advantage of it.
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Third International Convent on Epworth Leagues. Toronto. Canada iuiy i5 10 iS. For this occasion the cotton Belt Route vii! sell tickets Pine Bluff to Toronto and return at one fare (Ss0.o5 Tickets on sale July II. s2 and is. Return limit August D. Extension of limit untn september F may be secured by de- pos'1lng ticket with terminal line in Toronto on or before July D.
 ! ". FARLEY. agent
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Epworth League Meeting.

Tomorrow evening at S:30 o'clock the Epworth League of the First Methodist church will hold busi- ness meeting, which will be followed ny a musical and literary program. The public is cordially invited to be present, aad pleasant evening is assured
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Cantrell Springs Water.

On June the 1st will begin to de liver Cantrell Springs water through out the city. Parties desiring to use this water should notify mo al once or lea9e orders at the GRAPHIC office. The price will be 10 cents gallon, delivered. B. R. HARDY. dtf
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Al the present time there are six teen prisoners in the County Jail, Four of this number are charged with murder in the first degree and one with rape. They are tu le tried at the next term of the Circuit Court.
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Owing to the fact that there will be 10 delinquent tax sale this year, County Clerk Flanders has made up the school apportionments a month earlier. and Sheriff Triplett will turn over the school funds to the Treas urer earlier. This will enable teach CTS to get their salaries without dis counting their school warrants. The colsiderate action of these officers is commendable. and the teachers, doubtless, will be grateful.
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The annual meeting of tre A. I. U will he held next week. Gov. Jones is president cx-oiilcio of the board, and the following is a list of the members: ]. B. MeDonoueh, Fort smith; C. c. Hamby. Prescott; W. H. Langford, Pine Bluff; W. \. Yates, Fayetteville; T. A. Ifutrall, Marianne; V. Y. Cook, Elmo. <. E. Mnrrs, Fayetteville, SecretArN.
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MARRIED.

CHEsrNur-HowE-In Pine Bluff June 3. 1897, Mir. I. c, Chestnut and Mrs. Sadies Howe. Rev. A. 0. Evans officiating. The ceremony was per at the Methodist parsonage on Main street.
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Miss Reba pewoody, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. " l.. Dcwoody, arrived h, me this afternoon from Bowling Green, Ky, via Nashville Centennial, where she has been attending Potter College, and at which college she has the honor of being the only graduate from this State.