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Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

1 No one can question that there is to
 be a vigorous onslaught on the civil l service reforners after General Gros- venor-s keynote speech on the floor of
 the House the other day He did not mince words in handling the subject. As to the paragraph in the Presidents
 message concerning the service, tie
 General said: T am compelled to diff
 fer with the President when he says
 that the system has the approval of
 the people, I have tried with great fidelity too keep in touch with the tone
 and sentiment of the people of this country, and I believe that if you will cross the Allegheny Mountains and submit the question of the civil service law and regulations as now admins tered Yes and the same proposition No that % out of every 100 would vote against it. I know that it is said that the Republican who differs with this bureau is running q tilt against the Republican party; but I caution gentlemen that since the extension of the civil service rules and operations by the edict of Grover Cleveland the First, after the people of this country had ordered him out of office, there has been no Republican declaration in fav- or of the upholding of the system. The great State that I have the honor to be a resident of has denounced It in the bitterest kind of language in the resolutions adopted at their Toledo convention So, to, with all the other States whose platforms l have read that were enacted in the year 1897; and so, to, by nearly q hundred thous- and the popular vote of Maryland de nounced the whole scheme. All hail Maryland. Advance column of the people,
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

An energetic attempt is being made in Congress to get through the nation al bankruptcy bill It is a good bill for the poor man. It should become a
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
COLD WEATHER.

Mercury Drops Below Zero at St.
 Paul.
 St. Paul. Dec. 16.--The mercury in St Paul fell from g above zero yes terday to ten below this morning and likewise q quick change has been re ported all over the northwest.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
TIME EXTENDED.
For the Construction of the Gila Val
 ley and Globe Railway.

Washington. Dec 1.-The House to- day extended for two years the time for the construction over the San Car los. Arizona, reservation of the Gila Valley. Globe and Northern Railway. and resumed the consideration of the legislative appropriation bill. The Klondyke relief bill was sent to con ference and MeSSrS Cannon. NOrthWay and Sayers of Texas, named as con fpl.apS
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

It is said that the new postmaster at Noga1es is not from OhiO-
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
THE YUKON SUFFERERS.

An Appropriation Made for Their Re
 lief by Congress.
 Washington. Dec 16.-The House to- day passed a bill appropriating S175,- 900 for the relief of the people ill the Yukon country. The Senate also pas sed joint resolution appropriating S250000 for the relief of the Yukon miners. It will be necessary before either becomes q law for Congress to get together on a common basis.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
DEFAULTED.

Sheriff of Mendocino County has Skip
 ped out.
 Ukia. Cal. Dec 17.-District Attor- ney Sturtevant today notified c. r. Smith, chairman of the Board of Sup ervisOrs of Mendocino county, that the sheriff and tax collector. T. R. Johnson had abscOnded with public funds to the amount of S6,00O.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
POSTOFFICE ROBBED.

Chino, Cal. Dec. 1.-The p0sI01-.e was robbed last night of over S12OO in stamps and money taken. No clue.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

A somewhat new departure has beeI
 made by the establishment of tn,
 American School of Metaphysics il
 New York City. Heretofore a neces
 sariIy limited course of metaphysics
 has been provided for in all our great
 universities but till now there has been
 no college entirely devoted to that great subject. At present the course
 of study includes philosophy, symbol ogy, ethics, metaphysico--physio | curative science, metaphysical healing. | The terms for courses of instruction are high. ranging from S125 to $500. The school is really the outgrowth of
 the modern theosophy. Christian sci | ence and the kindred isms and diver gent and convergent ideas. If this school would take up the rational study of the human mind accounting for it's conceptions and misconceptions, it's tendency to pursue imaginary
 strange gods and it's failure to se-
 cure the dffinite which it often asserts
 it has within it's grasp it would ac-
 compIish q great work in the direction of metaphysics
 Democratic opposition to the annex alton of Hawaii, which has become so pronounced since the reassembIing of Congress, is now fully explained According to the reports, the democrat ic party has been sold by it's leaders in Congress to the sugar trust. which all the world knows is willing to spend an enormous amount to prevent the an- nexation of Hawaii The sugar trust has agreed to furnish corruption fund | which the democratic leaders believe l to be large enough to enable them to | elect a democratic majority of the | House next year and a democratic | President in 1900 if the democratic l leaders can succeed in preventing the | of Hawaii. either through the ratification of the treaty or by direct legislation That is why the Senators. with two excep- tions, are all working against the rat ification of the treaty, and why the democrats of theHouse will this week. n caucus, declare against annexation But this disgraceful deal cannot be ,arried out, because the democrats ,annot prevent the annexation of Hawaii
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

The end of the water question is not yet, apparently.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
A NEW RAILROAD.

Will be Built from Yuma to King
 man.
 Los ANGELES, Dso. 15.-Oaptsin Ali phonso Smith has just returned from the City of Mexico where he secured concessions for steamship line to run from Salinas Cruz to San Jorge, Sonora and 6 railway from San Jorgs to Yuma and thence to Kingman. Engineers gre laying out the route for ehe road.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
Christmas Is Coming !!

And everybody who sees our beautiful display of holiday attractions is glad of it. Our desirable goods and low prices make Christmas shopping q real pleasure. Come in and bring your friends. Happy faces add still another attraction to the enter taiment. Appropriate gifts for old and young
 Keefer S Pharmacy.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

The Board of Supervisors is adver- Using for bids for county contracts for 1858 to De opened January 10. In the case of the printing the specif- cations are so vague that it is not probable that any two printers will bid on the same thing and there would re- suit delay, wrangling and injustice. The Board should specify distinctly what it wants printers to bid on.
 The message ends with the signifi- cant sentence that it is commanding duty to keep the appropriations with in the receipts of the government and thus avoid a deficit This is the real secret of the '-deficit'-not insufficient revenues but excessive appropriations And it is by restraining the expenses of the government within the limit of probable revenues, instead of reaching out over land and sea for new fields of expenditure, that the deficit is to be avoided The President has thus giv- en to the Congress, on all domestic af- fairs at least, a good chart by which to steer.-PhiI. Times.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

The wholesale hog market this week quotes s3.15 to S3.35 per 1OOfb for car loads. Cattle went in lots at from $42 to S4-SO per 1OOfb and sheep at $3.9O to S4-3O per 1OOfb- The demand beef, pork and mutton keeps close up to the supply.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
CLEAR ON CUBA

Hoods= D.rI- are the best after-dinner AAOO~a . II HA1o pills, aid digestion. 25c.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16

President Mckinley sets forth iE
 clear language the reasons why any
 recognition of the belligerent rights of Cuba should not now be accorded On l this point the country will we think. agree with him, as also upon the wise
 and conservative policy which he out
 lines in according to Spain ample time
 to demonstrate the excellence of her reforms Especially will his view be accepted when he asserts thatif in the future righteous peace. just alike to the Cubans and Spain, as well as equitable to all our interests, cannot be attained the exigency of further and other ac- tion by the United States will remain to be taken To an Executive who is actuated by this judicial as well as patriotic spirit, the people can well af- ford to leave the settlement of vexa- tious and intricate questiOn.-Wash- ingtOn Post
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-16
Hoods sassan ps1'iia

Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. s1.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

They were somewhat conservative in
their gold stories, and while they tell
of riches gained there, they say that
no phenomenal strikes have been
made. This party estimated that
about IT'S men would return on the
Portland, which is now being looked
for every day, and that while they
will bring down much gold, the
amount will not be as large as has
been estimated, nor will there be any
great finds among them. They esti-
mate the amount will not average
oyer 1000 to each man, and that
many will bring practically nothing.
They state that there are about
$500 people at Dawson City and that
this winter about 600 claims will be
worked in that vicinity.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03
IT is claimed that a new e,

IT is claimed that a new explosive
has been discovered in Chicago that
will revolutionize modern naval war
fare. The methods of modern war
fare are being revolutionized so fire.
quently these days, that it is hard
work to keep track of all that is going
on. This new explosive, which has
been discovered by two Chicago men,
is called "mirex." 1t is put into a
small brass tube and when few feet
under water will explode. 1t is
claimed that it has force enough to
lift the largest man-of-war out of the
water and destroy it. The cause of it's
explosion is said to be the pressure Of
the water, and it can be regulated so
as to explode at any depth by simply
the amount of the explosive that is
put into the tube. 1t is claimed the
projectile can be thrown in the
neighborhood Of twenty miles by a
cannon, though whether it really has
been done is not stated. 1t is getting
to such point now that the nations
hardly dare go to war for fear of the
terrible slaughter that modern war
engines will inflict. Perhaps in this
respect inventive genius along this
line is serving humanity good turn.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03
The appointment of Geo. w. Ne.

THE appointment of Geo. w. Neff,
of Lake Crystal, on the state board of
equalization is the unkindest cut that
Gov. Clough could possibly have i'm
posed upon Blue Earth county. The
Taxpayers of this county were entitled
to very different treatment at the
hands of the governor. and if he could
put his ear to the ground and listen
to the condemnatory criticisms passed
by the citizens down this way he
would even now Withdraw the ap-
pointment. A county having nearly
ten millions of assessed valuation is
entitled to representation on the
board of equalization by man who
has, at least, some slight qualifications
to perform the duties of the position.
Besides, the people here object to
being represented by Populist.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

The Chiiago Inter Ocean says there
is some talk in Ohio of pulling off
the Chapman ticket and endorsing
CoXey." The coal operator at the
head of the Democratic ticket has
not been success and the slump from
him is likely to be immense. But the
endorsement of Coxey, would be a
fitting end of silver Democracy there.
The scheme now on there by The sill
verites is to trade all the gubernator-
ial votes possible for legislative votes.
1t is claimed that ratio of 6 to l
will be made. But it is not likely to
benefit them to any great extent.
The Republicans are in for good ma
jority all around.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

One of the best methods ever de-
vised for advertising the advantages
of different localities of the state is
the offer by the State Fair manage
ment of premiums for county ex-
hibits. This premium list has grown
from $500 to 81, 200, the amount offered
this year. Any county which wishes
to show its advantages will enter this
competition, for in no other way can
the superiority of a locality be so
practically demonstrated. 1t is an
illustration of the trite saying, THE
proof of the pudding is eating it,"
The resident of locality can write
until his arm aches, or declaim until
he is hoarse, of the advantages of his
locality, without producing one tithe
of the effect which will follow dis
play Of what his region has actually
produced. Seeing is believing.
Every county which wants to invite
business and good people to come to
them will have an exhibit at the
State Fair. A letter to E. w. Randall,
Secretary, at Hamline, will give you
all the information how to proceed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03
POSTMASTERS NAMED.
Congressman McCIeary Settles Con-
tests In Five Towns.
Will Close Up This Falls Postal
Business This Week.

Congressman McCleary has decided
upon five more recommendations for
appointment as postmasters as fol-
lows:
Jasper-Selah S. King, editor of the
Jasper Journal, to succeed W. H.
Storts, whose term expires Nov. 16.
Minnesota Lake-Nicholas J.
Fisch, to succeed his brother,
Matthias S. Fisch, whose term ex-
pires Oct. 81.
Easton-Wm. Quimby, to succeed
VIM. Sippel. whose term expires Nov.
l6.
Granada, Martin County-Chas. L.
Boudrye, to succeed Louis 81. Becker,
whose term expires Dec. Is.
Kanaranzi, Rock County,. G..
Meester, to succeed Albert Burns,
resigned.
Congressman McCleary has receiv-
ed notice that an original pension of
So month has been granted to Hal
yer Ralverson, of Odin, Watonwan
county, and that an increase of pen
sion from $40 to $12 month has been
allowed Zadoc Day, of Window.
Mr.. McCleary is collecting photo
graphs of the school buildings Of the
cities and villages of the Second dis
trict to exhibit to his friends in the
east as an indication of the kind
of people who live in the west and
who comprise his constituents. ST
do not believe" said he, "that an
other congressional district in the
country can make as good showing
of large and handsome school build
ings. Here is a picture Of the new
$4,000 school building recently erect
ed at Minnesota Lake, which has a
population of about 500. 1t is a finer
building than many cities have"
The Congressman will leave tomor-
row over the Milwaukee road to visit
the southern tier of counties and will
60 as far west as Luverne. He hopes
to close all postoffice matters this
week where the terms of the present
incumbents expire before Dec. 1st.
He will then have rest from this
kind of work until winter. He will
return to Mankato the latter part of
the week, and Monday will continue
to be a general reception day.
Numerous callers sent up their cards
today.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

THE coal operators and the miners
have failed to arrive at an agreement
and the operators have decided to
open their mines at all hazards.
They will post notices to the effect
that all men who wish to may return
to their work, and after a
reasonable time those who
do not will not be allowed
to, and new men will be employed.
This means trouble and violence.
There ought to be way by which
the matter could be satisfactorily set
tied without violence and bloodshed,
which it seems certain it will drift to.
The miners, it seems to US, made a
mistake that they did not accept the
offer of the operators and return to
work while the differences between
them was being arbitrated. 1t would
have been a much better way out of
the difficulty,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03
4 SPOT THE CRIME HAS NOT
REACHED.

Burt w. Day writing in the Rem
vile Star-F'a1maer Of trip taken
across the country from Hutchinson
to Renville, says:
Twenty years ago the drive would
have been vast stretch of prairie,
broken only by an occasional sod
SHACK" and the rickety frame-house
which the settler called home, and
which sheltered family strangers to
most of the comforts of civilized life.
Near the house a straw covered barn
and struggling grove and a few
acres of tough prairie sod rotting in
the sun, and only poverty and dreari-
ness greeting the eye.
Note the change in twenty years.
The other day 1 saw almost none
but large, neatly painted houses;
many with tasty bay windows,
and luXurant flower gardens in
front, vast barns, granaries con-
tanning a portion of lase years crop,
which the owner did not market be-
cause he did not particularly need the
money, and miles and miles OF fences.
The structures used for homes twenty
years ago would not pass for barn or
chicken-hOuse today. On every farm
the home premises are protected on
the north and west by dense groves,
often containing several varieties of
trees-soft maple, boxelder, cotton
wood, ash and willow, with now and
then an orchard of plum and crab
apple trees, bearing fruit. Some OF
the native trees are over thirty feet
high and from six to ten inches in
diameter. The surroundings indicate
comfort and contentment, and are
such as make happy families and
children growing up to love the old
home.
Here is a graphic picture Of a
change that has taken place in the
last twenty years, and one that has
been for the better. 1t does not in
the least bear out the charge of the
calamity shouting Popocrat that the
farmer is being ground down, but
shows him in position of comfort.
And it should be strictly borne in
mind that this change has taken
place since the "great crime OF '73,
and under the hated gold standard.
A march from poverty to comfort and
affluence, from point where it is a
struggle for life, to where at the close
of the most severe depression the
country has ever seen, many of the
barns contain "a portion of last years
CROP" because the owners did not
need the money from it, and all in
twenty years is matter worthy Of
note. And yet it is only such a pic
ture as can be seen in almost any por-
tion of Southern Minnesota. Evil
IDENTIFY the terrible effects Of the crime
of .'73, which the Popocrats tell US
blighted everything and ground the
farmers into poverty, has had way
of slipping cogs every little while and
allowing progress to be made.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

THE LIE Sueur Sentinel says that
indications point to strong and
growing disposition to do away with
civil service rules on the part of the
party 10 power" The Sentinel editor
ought to look over President McKin-
ley's recent order in this respect. 1t
shows no such Indication, and while
it met with growls on the part of
spoilsmeu it received the strong COM
mendation of leading reformers with
out regard to party, and also of Carl
Shurz, president of the National
Civil Service Reform League.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

THE Orange Judd syndicate of agri-
cultural papers which has been max
ing a careful inquiry into the food
shortage of Europe, finds the situa-
sion quite serious. Not only is the
wheat supply short, but also that of
rye, which is the bread grain of the
masses. The potato crop is also
short. They estimate the shortage
as follows: Wheat, 300,0OO,O0O BUSH
els: rye, 1926, 100000 bushels; potatoes,
1000, 100000 bushels, making a total
of 1926, 100000 bushels shortage in
The food supply.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

A GREAT many Of would-be Klon-
dykers who started out to the land of
promise from Skaguay, are said to be
coming back, while others are camp
ed on the trail with the intention Of
staying there until spring. Many
who had started out to go are now
working in the mines along the coast,
doing better doubtless than than they
ever would had they gone to Klon-
dyke. The trail on the overland
route is said to be lined with dead
horses and foot sore men. From the
present outlook the far gold region oil
Alaska is good place to keep away
from for the coming winter at least.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03
DEMAND DOES GOVERN.

A year ago the silver leaders would
not admit that SUCH a thing as de-
mand had anything to do in the price
of wheat. In fact they solemnly de-
clared that such a thing as dollar
wheat would never again be seen un-
less silver was coined free. Under
the gold standard it could never
come. And yet in less than year it
did come. Ex-Congressman ToWne in
trying to smooth the matter over,
talks about the gold price of silver
declining, and that the increase in
the price of wheat is because Of its in
creased demand from abroad and that
the gold standard has nothing what
ever to do with it. Well, who said it
had? And it has also been pretty
fully demonstrated that silver has no
control over it's price. Mr.. Towne
points to the great demand for our
wheat abroad, and alludes, to the
statement that the total shortage is
$4,000, 900 bushels, and of this the
United States will be looked to to
supply 200, 100000 bushels, while it
will not have over 125 100000 bushels
to meet the requirements. Then he
asks: SIS it any wonder the price of
wheat goes up?" At this one point,
Mr.. Towne is getting back to Repub-
lican ground. Somehow or other he
and his silver associates are making
themselves imagine that the Republi-
cans attribute the rise entirely to
the gold standard when such is not
the case at all. But that is not the
only cause for returning prosperity in
this country. Under the effects Of
the Dingley law confidence in manu-
featuring circles is returning, mills
are opening and the army of busy
laborers is everywhere increasing.
The returning tide received a great
impetus in the demand for wheat,
but the returning tide is not a tenn
porarY matter as Mr.. Towne would
have people believe, but the scom-
meneement of long period Of pros
perity. The farmers are happy. sThere
is better feeling everywhere. But
If the silver leaders wish to continue
to bump their heads against the wall
of depreciating silver, why of course
it is their privilege.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

IT is now claimed that the holder
of the mortgage that Mrs. Lease has
been charged with lodging the pay
ment of for some time back, is a poor
washerwoman, and that the amount
represented the surplus earnings over
her tub. So the story of a grinding
syndicate disappears in thin air. But
how about Mary's sympathy for the
dOwntrOdden?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03

Mr.. BRYAN is still talking to his
old fashioned crowds-measured by
the acres, Instead of by thousands
F'daTnlOnt Sentinel,
And the crowds seem to take just
as little stock in him as they did last
year, being mostly drawn out Of curios-
ity to see what kind of man he is
that can talk calamity in the face of
the returning prosperity and dollar
wheat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-03
STOLE GERLACn'S RAZORS.

The village marshal of Good
Thunder brought Gust johnson to the
city Monday and lodged him in
the county Jail to serve out sentence
of thirty days. Johnson was arrested
and tried before Justice o. H. Austin
on the charge Of stealing two razors
belonging to John H. Gerlach on Sat-
urday, Johnson was sentenced to pay
a fine of 500 and costs or serve thirty
days in jail, an ID took the latter alter
native.