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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06

The striking coal miners seem
to be gaining. There is not much
hope for q settlement until the
mine owners come to an agree.
ment on a uniform method OF
operating their mines. Some of
the. miners are charged with using
unfair methods in weighing coal,
and some with taking advantage
of laborers by compelling them to
take pay IN goods from company
stores. Such owners can afford TO
pay, higher nominal wages than
those who gave honest weights
and paid cash wages. The opera.
tors seem able to make uniform
agreement on methods of weighing
and paying, and when that IS done
it seems certain that Engagement
on wages will very soon follow.
The strike has been a very orderly
one up to the present time.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06

Minneapolis Journal: Mayor
Campbell of Ell Paso, Texas, cites
the decline of silver and it's effect
upon wages in Mexico as matt or Of
special interest to the wage.earners
who in the last election voted for
16 to 1. Silver within the past
year has declined 10 per cent, and
the average workingman of Mexi.
co gets 10 per cent less wages than
he did a year ago. A year ago the
Mexican dollar was worth So cents.
Today it is worth 48 cents. There
is no telling what 1t may be worth
tomorrow. There is no record
that wages in Mexico haye ad-
vanced 10 per cent. On the con-
trary, wages are always the last
prices to rise when money becomes
cheap, and people who year ago
bought goods whose original value
was based upon the gold standard
at certain prices find themselves
obliged today to pay 10 per cent
more, without having the 10 per
cent more to pay.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
IMMENSE PASSENGER TRAIN.
One Northern Pacific Engine Brings
In Seventeen Cars Well
Filled.

Wednesday, Pioneer Press. One
Of the largest passenger trains that
ever pulled into the union depot was
the Northern Paciflc's overland yes
terday. 1t contained eleven sleepers,
Il dining car, two coaches, a bag
gage car. a mail car and an express
car, seventeen altogether. In the
train were two special cars contain
ing parties OF Philadelphia excursion
lists in charge of Mrs. Rebecca B.
Nicholson and DR.. F. B. Hazel. The
Northern Pacific stated that this
train was the largest it verbrought
in. considering the weight Of the cars,
every one Of which was filled. The
Philadelphia party went out on No.
6 of the Minneapolis & st. Louis.
The Northern Pacific No. took
out four extra Pullman sleepers yes
terday filled with regular travel.
Passenger business in both directions
is immense.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06

AS it is becomming quite fash
iona blen nowadays to have news
paper votingEcontests with suit.
able awards to the winning con.
testants, the Mirror will try to in.
terest the board Of managers snd
board Of pardons in voting con-
test for the most popular convict,
the prizes to be, first, an uncon-
ditlonal pardon; second prize, a
Communication of sentence or re-.
lease on parole. If such arrange
ments could be perfected we
would guarantee that the Mirror
would reach a circulation of
SO, 900 in the first issue contain
ing coupons.-Prison Mirror.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
From the st. Paul Dispatch.
AGAINST FULLERTON.
A Decision Regarding a SeiZ-
ure of Game.

John F. Smith recovered judg.
ment Of 1925 against Game Warden
Fullerton. in an action which seems
to dispose of the provision Of the
game law which requires that all
packages OF game shipped must be
marked with a label showing their
In the open season, Smith shot
grouse and caught bass and shipped
them to st. Paul to his own address,
hut did not mark the packages as
The game warden seized
the fish and game. and Smith
an action against him, and
has recovered judgment.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
AGED Survivor Of . Massacre.

, q Mime. Juanita Candeleria, who is the
only survivor Of the massacre Of the Alamo
by Santa Annals army IN 1885, has just
passed her one hundred and thirteenth
birthday and is bright and spry In mind
and body. She lives q quiet life In her
humble home In the Mexican quarter Of
the city Of San Antonio, Tex, and L. sup
ported by the donations of tourists who
visit her every year. This remarkable old
lady seems to have taken q new lease Of
life since the Cuban war began, and she
watches the progress Of the Cubans' strug-
gle for liberty with deep interest. In
spite Of her Spanish nativity her sympa-
thies are all with Cuba.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
RARE LIKENESS OF MR.. AND MRS.
HENRY CLAY. =

In McClure's Magazine for
September'will be reproduced a
superb life.cast of the face of Henry
Clay, made by John H. I. Browers
in 1895, when Clay was forty.eight
years old. It,is probably the most
real and vivid likeness of Clay in
existence, and!has never been pub.
fished. In theEsame number of
McClure's will be reproduced the
only portrait ever painted of Mrs.
Henry Clay. It also has never
been published. Notes by Mr..
Charles Henry Hart will relate the
history Of the portraits and the
circumstances under which they
were produced.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.
llinckley Fire Helped Pine
County's Development.

The great fires of 1924 were fol-
lowed by the rapid development of
of Pine county. Senator Hodge, OF
Pine City, IL reported In Il st. Paul
paper az saying: III it wasn't for
the awful loss III life, the fires could
be considered the greatest blessing
that ever fell tn our lot. The coun-
ty has gone ahead more In the last
three years since the fire than 1t
would have progressed ordinarily IN
ten years. An immense amount OF
land was cleared effectively by the
flames that would have long re-
manned utterly useless. covered with
trees and underbrush. The remains
"f the burnt vegetation had. besides.
a slim plating OBJECT upon the soil.
We are getting d great many b.
hemians into our county from, older
communities. and we have. l should
say. almost three times the popula-
ton now that we had ia "a. Pine
City itself is improving decidedly.
The fire that We had there last
spring, and that destroyed the bus
mess part Of the town. seems to
have brought about the erection OF
a better class Of buildings-goOd.
brick stores, u credit to any town.
"rhe same change, think, ia TAX
ing place throughout the north
part Of the state, once a
purely numbering district. Land is
being cleared, farms are being estab-
lished and extended, and more
permanent and remunerative indus
try is taking the place Of the one
that is disappearing. Wecan grow
splendid crops ON all the cleared
land up our way, excellent wheat,
for instance, and vegetables.
Pine City this year they
have planted mostly wheat, and
they ere going to harvest a first
class CROP"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06

On Tuesday wheat was worth
1928 cents bushel in Minneapolis.
A year ago it was worth S. cents
a bushel in the same market.
That is an increase of over so per
cent in price. Silver was worth
nearly 20 per cent more per ounce
a year ago than it is now. There
is no POLITICALLY campaign in prog.
'ress IN this::state at present, and
it Is therefore a good time for the
people ito .learn that there was
neither truth nor logic in the free
silveri:e claimilast year that sill.
yer and wheat necessarily rose and
fell i'll price together. We never
could see the force of the argu.
ment that the Popocrats made
about the sympathy between sill.
yer and wheat prices, but .they
were so impressed with its value,
that it was one of the stock argu.
ments for free coinage at Is to 1.
The price tendency of their com.
modities for the past year should
convince anyone that at least one
leading claim of the silverites was
entirly false. Last year an ounce
Of silver. would buy nearly a
bushel and a quarter of wheat;
this year a bushel of wheat will
buy nearly an ounce and half of
silver, One free silver argument
would seem to be entirly dis
proven. ,..
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
South or East; Which2

When a trip is contemplated 1t is
always we'll to prepare in advance,
in order to avoid little inconven-
fences, which are often annoying.
The two fast trains leaving Mime
apolis and st. Paul daily via Wis
consin Central lines for Milwaukee
and Chicago make close connections
with trains east and south. Being
elegantly equipped with sleeping
cars, parlor cars and day coaches.
they are fully appreciated by the
travelling public. Your nearest
ticket agent will give you complete
Information and furnish you folder
of the Wisconsin Central lines. r
... .-. JAS. G. POND,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
LQA6u Rom.

This here's jest the time to be
Loafin whar' the wind blows free,
Nigh some cool old country ranch
Whar' the boys wade in the branch;
Whar' you smell the summer rain
As it sprinkles some old lane;
Whar' the bees make honeycomh
An th=y cali the cattle home.
Talk erbout the dusty town,
What's it all to loafln rounp
Teather's blazin. so it's best
Jest to slip away an rest.
Take day of in the dells,
Drink from old time country wells
In the cool grass at your feet
Slice the watermelons sweet.
Git away from human words
An Jest listen to the birds. 49,
Talk erbout the dusty town, ..,e
Life's lot happier loafln rouni
-Atlscta Constitution
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
KICK ON THE PosroFFlCE.
A Travelling Salesman'S Mail
Was Given to Another
Tuesday,.

A travelling salesman named M.
Robinson. representing the firm Of
Reinach. Ullman & Co., Of Chicago,
registered u strong kick against the
management of the Little Falls
postof1ice for a mistake that was
made Tuesday morning. Tho mis-
take wa~ made in giving q letter
addressed to M. Robinson to w. H.
Robinson, Of this city. and the man
to whom the letter was addressed
said that while he considered the
mistake due to the incOmpetency OF
the delivery clerk, he could have ex-
cused tho error, II the postmaster
had shown the proper interest tn re-
cover the letter and return 1t to its
rjghtful owner. ...&a4s
Mr.. Robinson came here Monday
night to see Barley Burton, he
claims, and as Mr.. Burton was out
of town, he could do no business and
was ready to leave. He expected q
letter from his firm with money for
ira Yelling expenses, and could not
leave until he received it. He says
he inquired at the pOstOffice as soon
as the general delivery opened in the
morning, and Inquired again shortly
after, but ON both occasions was
told there was no mail there. He
then telegraphed his firm to learn
il they had sent the money and re-
ceived a telegram In reply stating
that the money had been sent to him
at Little Falls. He showed the
telegram to the postmaster. he says,
and a letter with the firms mono
gram on it. He says that when the
letter was shown Mr.. MedYed's
daughter, who ia now acting as de-
livery clerk. she recognized it as
similar to one she had given to w. H.
Robinson q short time before. The
letter contained an express money
order for $75. ana Mr.. Robinson
claims that it was the post masters
duty to return it to him at once, but
instead OF so doing did not get the
letter for him until about $3.50 in the
evening. and then only after he
threatened to ask the aid Of the
police in getting it for him. Mr..
Robinson claims that his loss was at
least $25 through this mistake.
Mr.. M. Robinson, as soon as he
learned that his letter and money
order were in the possession Q!
another, went to the banks and no.
tilted them not to cash the order.
He also stated that he had been ill.,
formed that w. III. Robinson at
tempted to have the order cashed
In several business houses during
the day. -,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06

The St. Paul board Of assess
ment raised the Gas company's
assessment nearly $1,000, 900 high
er than it ever had been, and the
company has raised the price Of
gas Is cents a 1000.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
Big Logging Contract.

ST. HlLAIRE, MINI, Aug. Sit is
said that the st. Hilaire Lumber
company has let a contract for the
cutting Of 3OO, 0Oo. 900 feet Of logs on
Red lake. A logging railway eight
teen miles long is to be built.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06

Senator German is receiving
many congratulations on the abiJi-
ty shown by he Maryland Demo.
cra,s in lodging the Is to 1 issue.
He only wants gold and silver
coined without discrimination.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-08-06
The government mint at San
Francisco has received about
$4,000 of Klondyke gold dust
since the miners began returning.

Leading life insurance compan'
les have refused to take risks on
the lives of men going to Klon'
dyke. Another advantage that
places possesses; no life insurance
agents.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16

dinarily characterized by a hopeless dull
ness and an almost total failure to under
stand what was going on about him. At
times he had brief fits of great violence
The physicians finally noted that these
fits came on usually when he was lying
down on one side of his head or when his
hat pressed on a certain part of his head.
The old scar where the splinter of bone
had been removed was examined and it
was seen that new bone had formed and
grown to an abnormal thickness. This
thickening would naturally press on the
brain inside the skull and was apparently
the cause of Dreher's insanity.
The asylum physicians reported to Gov
ernor Stephens that Dreher would possi-
bly, be restored to sanity by the opera ton
of trephining. The governor ordered the
operation to be performed.
The trephine is an instrument consisting
of handle and steel cylinder ending in
extremely sharp teeth and a central pin.
This cylinder is made to revolye by an
electric current and will cut out circular
piece of bone as quickly as the surgeon
wishes.
A large trephine was applied to Dreher's s
thickened skull. The piece removed was
an inch thick and showed that an enor-
nous and almost fatal pressure had been
exerted on his brain.
The surgeons stated that Dreher's reason
had returned. He was therefore subject
to his original sentence.
The surgeons notified Chief Deputy
Sheriff Huebler of the success of the opera
tion. Captain Huebler was to have had
charge of the execution and proceeded with
his preparations for that interesting cere-
mony, but typhoid fever cheated the gal,
lows of it's victim.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
A Workman and His Work.

The wife of friend of mine is the
possessor of a thin gold watch chain.
1t is something after the pattern of a
cable. Each link is finely finished, and
the workmanship is that of an artist.
In examining it closely one would even
think that the person who made it was
in love with his work. 1t is mechan
ical masterpiece. My friend made it a
gift to his wife about 15 years ago, and
it is not only highly priced by her on
that account, but also because of its de-
sign and finish. A week or two ago one
of the links broke.
81 will get that fixed for you all
right" said my friend. 81 know just
the man to take it to- He is not jew
eler, but a machinist by trade, and I
would rather give job like this to him
than to a jeweler. He has mechanical
genius which runs to work OF this
kind. -
My friend took the chain to the gen
ius He has a small, mean looking
shop in an ancient, dilapidated building
in an unlikely street down town. He
examined the chain carefully and ap-
peared to become reflective over it. Then
his face lit up with a smile as he said:
Il remember this chain very we'll. l
made it 10 years ago." - Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
The Passing of the Cayuse.

Fossil collections gathered in old lake
beds of eastern Oregon demonstrate that
the broad plains between the Rocky and
Cascade mountains were the original
habitat of the prehistoric horse, fleet
little animal no larger than fox which
in the long ago scampered over the
lonely land. After the lapse of ages the
modern horse is now to degenerate upon
the stamping ground of his ancestors.
The cayuse has become so valueless by
the invasion of the electric car and the
bicycle and the disappearance of the
stagecoach and the wagon train that
the halter has been taken from his neck
and he has been turned loose to struggle
with nature for his own subsistence.
Over this section many thousand head
of wild horses now roam as untram-
meled as in prehistoric days, and during
the past winter these perished in large
numbers.
1t is a case of the survival of the fit
test. The cayuse, like the red man, may
read his doom in the setting sun, but
the we'll bred horse can still look civi
lization in the face and demand shelter
and oats in abundance. = Spokane
Spokesman Review.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
LITTLE GRACE WILLIAMS.

of Grace is now living in Joliet, Ills, and
is petty thief, having served several short
Jail sentences. The maternal grea t-grand-
mother served three terms in Joliet peni-
tentiary for shoplifting and larceny. With
Grace, therefore, it is clear case of hered-
itary deprav witty.
DIR. Beers superintendent of the state
home, first discovered the child's peculiar
affiiction about eight months ago, when
wealthy Denver woman, who was visiting
the home, attracted by Grace's beauty and
winning ways, expressed a desire to adopt
her. Grace seemed delighted with the
proposition, and, climbing upon the lady's
lap, put her arms about her neck and ask
ed if she could be her little girl.
The touching scene brought tears to the
eyes of the good doctor, but when Grace
got down from the visitors lap and start
ed to leave the room she noticed that the
child held one hand under her apron in
suspicious manner, and, calling her back,
asked her what she was endeayoring to
conceal.
Grace stoutly protested her innocence of
wrongdoing; but, pulling the apron aside,
the doctor discovered the woman S pocket
book tightly clinched in the little hand.
The kind visitors surprise was great, for
the pocketbook, which contained large
amount of money. was in an inside pocket
of her jacket and could have been removed
without discovery only by an adept.
Next day the child S room was thorough
ly searched. Cunningly concealed in the
mattress of the bed large number Of arti-
cles which had mysteriously disappeared
were discovered.
A month later wealthy woman of
Manitou, in spite of the Doctors story of
the child's affliction, adopted Grace. She
did not believe that crime could be beredi
tary and would not be convinced that this
sweet child could not be trained to become
a good woman.
All went well for few days, and Grace
won the hearts of the entire family, but
one evening her benefaotress gavo large
party, and as a result of what occurred
she is now firm believer in the heredity
of crime. While the party was at it's height
Grace managed to slip unobserved into the
cloakroom and steal all the pocketbooks
and handkerchiefs from the visitors wraps.
Profting by the doctors story, the woman
soon discovered them in the girls favorite
hiding place, the mattress of her bed.
Next day Grace was returned to the home.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
A PLACE FOR FIFTY.
A Statesman Who Found a Use For the
Earnings of His Pen.

Statesman Who Found Use For the
Earnings of His Pen.
81 recall a pleasant incident in the
life of the late Representative Harter of
Ohio" said an Ohio man the other day.
81 was at his apartments one evening
at the hotel where he lived during his
first term III congress and was i'll the re-
ception room with several friends while
he was working in his office at the far
end of the suit of rooms. Presently he
came out among US laughing and hold
ing in his hand a check.
oh, he said to- US, L am literary,
as we'll as you are, and here's check
for $50 l have just got from a maga-
zine for an article that | wasn't expect
ing to get anything for.
81 told him I was not that literary,
for l couldn't sell one article for $50,
and we laughed and chatted awhile
about it, Mr. Harter. insisting that he
wasn't writer for money, but for the
sake of presenting his views to the
world
I don't know what to do with the
check, he said and turned to his wife,
DO you need it?' he asked her.
''She told him she did not, though
most women would have had use for it
quick enough, and he stood irresolute
for a moment with the check in his
hand, then be smiled radiantly.
"'I know somebody who does want
it, he said, nodding at his wife as If
she never would see it again. L received
a letter from the pastor of little Lu-
theran church-Mr. H. was a Jealous
Lutheran-away out i'll Missouri, who
is having very hard time to get along
and keep body and soul together, ask
ing me if | couldn't do something. l
can send him this check. And he danced
away with it as joyously as a schoolboy
with a plaything, and in minute or
two the check, duly indorsed and ac-
companied by letter, was waiting for
the postman to start it on its mission OF
charity, and / have often wondered
what the business manager of that mag
azine thought when he found that check
to the order of M. d. Harter coming
back to New York from a little country
bank in Missouri. ''-Washington Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
fad NO FAITH IN PHYSIC.
Queen Elizabeth Might Have Lived Longer
Had She Taken Medicine.

queen Elizabeth Might Have Lived Longer
Had She Taken Medicine.
Of the efficacy of physic Queen Eliza
beth had always been skeptical. Now,
10 or IL physicians came to the palace,
each promising, with all manner of
asseveration, - ''her perfect and easy
recovery" if she would follow a simple
course of treatment. But they spoke in
vain. Nor could the protests of council
ors, dlvines and waiting women induce
aer to accept medical assistance. Her
melancholy was settled and irremov-
able, and she had no wish to prolong
it by lengthening out her life She only
broke silence to murmur, 81 am not
;lck, / feel no pain and yet I pine
away" She was asked whether she had
any secret cause of grief. She replied
that she knew of nothing in the world
worthy of troubling her. At length by
force Git is said) she was lifted from the
cushions and put to bed. Her condition
underwent no change. Gradually those
about her realized that ''she might live
If she would use means, but that she
would not be persuaded, and princes, as
/ they tearfully acknowledged, cannot be
3oerced. Nevertheless, until the third
week they looked forward to a renewal
Of her old vivacity and the dispersal Of
her lethargy But during the week it
was perceived that the ground she had
lost could only be recovered by miracle.
On Wednesday, March %, her coun-
4 cilors entered her bedchamber to receive
her last instructions. She had none to
give. The archbishop and bishops offered
up prayer at her bedside and she derived
some comfort from their ministrations
In the evening she sank into quiet
sleep, such as she had sought without
avail for nearly month. She never
woke again. About o'clock in the
morning of March "a she departed this
life, mildly like a lamb, easily like
ripe apple from the tree" When she
was examined after death, her ply
sicians reported that she had a body
of firm and perfect constitution, likely
to have lived many years. Death was,
in fact, prepared to the last to bargain
with her for few more years of life,
but his terms implied an enfee element
of those faculties on whose unrestricted
exercise her queenly fame seemed to her
to depend. By refusing to be party to
the truce she invited her overthrow.
but she never acknowledged herself
vanquished. She made no WILL she be-
slowed no gift on any of the faithful at
tendants who wept beside her deathbed,
and she declined to guide her council in
the choice of a successor. r.-Cornhill
! Magazine.