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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
A FISH TRUST.
Syndicate Organized to Control the
. Lake Catch.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-All the fish caught
in the great lakes and sold throughout
the United States or elsewhere are to
be handled by an English syndicate.
This syndicate, which has capital of
$5,000,0OO, has secured control OF the
business of the 20 corporations and
firms doing business on Lakes Winni-
peg, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie
and Ontario and the hundreds of small
err bodies of water in the west and
northwest. Its business will be handled
as Systematically as that of the COR
poration now controlling the sugar re-
fning industry, and it's control of the
market will be even more absolute.
The combination will distribute
about 15O,OOO,OO0 pounds of fish annual
~ at the outset, but it claims that this
quantity will be greatly increased after
the concern has systematized it's bust
ness. The London company will con-
troll all operations of the concern, but
headquarters will necessarily be estab-
lished in the United States. Cold stor-
age plants will be established in New
York, Buffalo. Erie, Cleveland, San
dusky, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Mil
waukee, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Pitts
burgh, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth,
Kansas City, St. Louis and Denver. In
addition, there will be the necessary
freezing plants at all stations on the
great lakes bordering on the United
States, as we'll as on Lake Winnipeg,
Canada. BY controlling the output and
preventing waste, the combination
claims it can sell fish in larger terri
tory than they are sold now, and can
sell them cheaper than anybody else.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Ripe Old Age.

Bazille Suprenet, aged 100 years,
died ut st. Gabriels convent, in Little
Falls. He was a Canadian Frenchman
and was born near Montreal IN March,
l7S8. He was hale and hearty until
three days before his death, and often
expressed the belief that he would live
20 years longer. He said that his father
lived TO. be IS years of age and his
mother 81. He had no relatives living
that he knew anything about. His
only son was a carpenter and went to
New York in 1s41, and he has not
heard from him since.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
A SPECIAL SESSION.

Michigan Legislature to Meet at Lam
@ : sing Soon.
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 1.-The Evening
News announces that Gov. Pingree has
decided to call special session of the
legislature before January II, the ses-
sion to begin February 1. Persons close
to the governor intimate that the call
will include action upon bills to repeal
the charter of the Michigan Central rail-
way, and to provide for greater taxation
of all quasi-public corporations, in
Guiding railways, telephone and tele-
graph lines, etc., and other measures
calculated to carry out the governors
reform ideas.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Good Deeds.

As a result of the generosity of L.
Elsinger & Company, of the Golden
Rule Department store, over $50 pres
ents were distributed to friendless
little children, the inmates of several
orphans homes in st. Paul A large
tally-ho with Seibert's band and a gen
uine Santa Claus, and loaded down
with presents, made the rounds of the
charitable institutions, and gladdened
the hearts of many of the little souls
who otherwise would probably have
spent an uneventful Christmas.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Poultry Exhibition.

In the rooms of the st. Paul Com
merclal club, members of the State
POULTRY association and other interest,"
ed persons met and completed ar
engagements for the annual show of the
association. which will be held in St.
Paul Feb. 7 to 1s inclusive.
FIVE silver cups, valued at $3.50, will
De competed for, and in addition to
this, cash prizes aggregating over 81, 900
will be given. TO assure the payment
OF the prizes, the Commercial club,
chamber of commerce. and the Job
bers' union will jointly subscribe 5000
as guarantee fund. Special prizes
will also be donated by business men
of the city.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
CHINESE MURDERER,
Two Hundred Detectives Required In
Order to Capture Him.

In July last at Newchang, in China,
200 government detectives were sent to
arrest in that town q notorious muir
derer, who, under the name of Kang,
resided some years ago in Picking, where
he lived in good style. Being of a quar-
relsome and reckless disposition he,
during that time, knitted 40 men, and
such was his skill that none of his vic
Tins ever recovered, death, as a rule,
being instantaneous. Members of his
sect were pressed into the government
service and sent to scour the country
disguised as cake vendors, and dis
patches were forwarded to all the dis
trict officials to the effect that should
it be proved that Kang had been in their
town or district without capture being
effected, the consequence to themselves
would be unpleasant, and a special band
of Picking detectives was also sent on
his track. In spite of all Kang would
probably have eluded them had not the
detectives come across a friend of his
whom they prevailed upon to act as a
decoy. This man, Lien, in whom Kang
had the utmost confidence, being, in
fact, his own special comrade, invited
Kang to dinner, and as the latter entered
the door, bowling the usual salutation,
he was seized from behind, thrown on
his face, and ironed. With the usual
Chinese brutality, the detectives further
secured him by fixing iron rings
through each shoulder, and then car
ried their prisoner by rail to Picking.
His sufferings must have been extreme,
and yet in; a spirit of bravado at a tenn
porary halt he RECALLED the crowd by
singing a comic song.-London An
sWers
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
A Midnight Scare.

The steel tower and tank of the
Marshall water works collapsed one
night and the entire structure, 10 feet
high, fell in one heap. The collapse
was due. no doubt, to the formation of
ice from water trickling through a
hole ca4sed by the tank being pierced
by a rifle ball. Three people, sleeping
close by. narrowly, escaped, the head
of one being bruised by falling ice.
The crash was attended by consider
able noise, and many people awoke,
thinking an explosion had occurred.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
SURPRISE IN NEBRASKA.
Gov. HOlcOmb Places n POpulist on
the Supreme Bench.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 1.-Gov. Holcomb
late Friday night ended the agony con-
nected with the canvass for the district
judgeship vacancy caused by the cleo
ton Of Judge Sullivan to the supreme
bench, and thereby caused political
surprise. He appointed I. N. Alberts,
of Columbus, populist. Judge sulli-
van is a democrat, though elected by
the allied silver forces, and it was gen.
orally supposed the governor would ap-
point one of that political faith. There
were many candidates, about equally
divided between the two parties.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
NoWS In Brief.

There were 400 homes erected in
Minneapolis during 1897, at an average
cost Of $500.
Joseph Krinzer, sentenced to prison,
while on his way to the depot in Min
peapolis, attempted suicide by throw
ing himself in front of street car. He
was rescued.
James Ferguson, a Hennepin county
prisoner serving reformatory sem
tence, died at the prison of consump-
ton.
Funds are being raised for monu-
ment to the late Rev. G. c. Salter at
Duluth.
Joseph Koenig, of Mankato, COM
mitted suicide by taking strychnine.
Judge Lochran has granted an order
restraining the sheriff of st. Louis
county from interfering in the trans
fer of the Duluth water works to the
city, n .%T@ ....E.
Nora E. Nooley has been commits
stoned postmaster at Champlin.
M. Graham's department store at
Fast Grand Forks was destroyed by
fire. &c.,. ...-..
George NJ. Gilmore, one of the old
est residents of Faribault, was found
dead in bed, having been suffocated by
coal gas escaping from the furnace.
Harry Allen, living near Cokato, eel
ebrated Christmas by pounding his
wife. and was fined S25 or 80 days in
jail.
Henry Derks, indicted for assault up
on a 1o-year-old girl, was found guilty
at Marshall OF attempted assault and
sentenced to ter;: G. IS months.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Three Tons of Irvine Daily,

The state prison binder Irvine fac
tory is now turning out 5000 pounds of
Irvine per day. On a ten-hour run the
factory has a capacity of $4,000 pounds
of pure MANILA and $4,000 pounds of
sisal. A great deal of raw material
has been purchased and the factory
will remain in steady operation. Many
orders for Irvine for next seasons de-
livery have already been booked.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Bismarck's Health.

Friedrichsruhe, Jan. 3.-Prince Bis
marck's condition is in no way worse.
He took his midday bath as usual. New
Years day he passed in the company
of Count Herbert Bismarck, Count and
Countess William Bismarck, Countess
Won Arnim and Count and Countess Won
Rentzau. He did not retire until half.
past one Sunday morning.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
oGENERAL STRIKE AvERTED.
Cotton Mill Operators in New ENG.
land Accept Reduction.

Cotton M1II OPERATORS IN Ne" EHS.
land Accept Reduction.
Boston, Jan. 3.-There will be no gen.
eral strike of the cotton mill operatives
in New England this month. This
prophecy is based on the general SEN
timent of the operatives to accept the
reduction in wages, the last straw held
out by those favoring a strike having
been broken by the action of the Fall
River mule spinners in voting to accept
the cut-down. However, there is a
strong undercurrent which may assert
itself within a few weeks, in which
event a strike in February cannot be
overted. 4.va#. #s&# N# Up ;" 81
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Salmon Industry Growing.

Vancouver, B. G., Jan. 3.-Omcial re-
turns give the British Columbian
salmon pack for the last year as 1907
S3S cases. This is larger than that of
any previous year, while the Fraser
river pack is 1000 cases more than the
pack of 1898, the best previous year.
Sixty-four canneries were operated last
year. - .'. .s =
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Mother and Babe Burned.

Ames, Ia, Jan. 3.-Mrs. James Miller
and her 10 months old baby were burned
Saturday morning. The baby died a
few hours later and the mother cannot
live. The father and husband lighted
the fire with kerosene and the flames
caught the clothing Of the mother and
baby.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06

= When man talks a great deal about
Others making money, it is usually
sign that he is making money himself,
-Atchison Globe.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-07

D. L. Conkling is now on the local
staff of the Bulletin.
Jas. TTeglOan is opening tailor
shop for himself on Hotel street.
The circus people will inaugurate
a tug-of-war tournament next week.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-07
lnquisitiOn!

the
forcby peo-
willing
agones born of pain, most equaIing
who purchase shoes all small i'll
n country
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-07

A limited number of Eggs for set
ting, from thoroughbred Light Brahma
fowls. These Eggs are from MOkuleia
Ranch. formerly owned by Gaspar
Sylvia. observation-disclosures
& co.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-07
$agSs NEITHER GuaLETIH.
'"WA13.e S0Hsse
DIAMOND HEAD,
May !, 1898.
Weather, clear; wind, light n. Z.
BY REQUEST.-OUR SPECIAL SALE
OF TOWELS WILL BE CONTIN-

BY REQUEST-OUR SPECIAL SALE
OF TOWELS WILL BE CONTIN-
UED FOR ONE WEEK MORE.
Some OF the lots advertised last
week were sold out, but we have added
new bargains, which are real hum
mers:
ACTUALITIES, NOT ROMANCES.
BARGAIN NO. I've still offer
Honeycomb towels for So cents doz-
en-.
BARGAIN NO. Our $1.15 a dozen
Honeycomb Towels are worth $1.75 a
dozen.
BARGAIN NO. Cotton Damask
Towels, good size, for $1.25, worth
$500 a dozen.
BARGAIN NO. bath Towels for
$3.50 a dozen, nothing to equal it.
BARGAIN NO. Bath Towels,
large size, extra good quality, $40 a
dozen.
s BARGAIN NO. 6-SoId out.
BARGAIN NO. 7-SOld out.
BARGAIN NO S-A new lot, extra
size. cotton Damask Towels, fine quail
ty. SLIGO a dozen, worth $500.
BARGAIN NO. "a new lot, pure
linen Towels, colored borders, large
size, and extra quality for $3.50 doz-
en-.
tBARGAIN NO. 1O-New lot, pure
linen all white Towels, extra size, ex-
ira fine quality, 1915 dozen, worth
$500. This is record beater.
POSITIVELY, LAST WEEK -
Housek eepers take notice!
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-07

Quest. If your children cry
for sweet SEMOLA would you
give them dry bread?
Ans. Not while SEMOLA is
to be had at all grOCerS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
Will Come Again.

Another fat year like this of 1898
may not come again for the Iowa far
mer for several years. His old enemies
floods, droughts, hog cholera, rust,
smut, chinch bug, army worm, grass
hopper, early frosts, political distur-
Dances, low prices and all the rest
are not dead, but for this year have
been providentially held in allegiance.
The first thing to do with the surplus
of the year is to get out of debt, and
right under the household motto "God
Bless Our Home" which hangs i'm the
parlor, place another-"Pay AS You
Co." If out of debt and with a little
money to spare, don't forget the boys
and girls; give them an educational
chance you have heretofore been COM
PEELED to deny them because of the
hard times. You will want to buy an
other so, we know, worse than any
thing else, but suppose you don't, and
instead, resolve to work better what
land you already have. Paint the
house and barn; plant an orchard; buy
two or three registered heifers; work
that so which lies right under the one
that you now have. The bad years
will surely come again-hard times,
poor crops, scarce money, and 1t is
good sense and agricultural wisdom to
fortify and prepare for them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
Next Years CrODs.

Systematic rotation is essential to
best results. A good one is, LIST year
corn, End oats, 3rd barley, with clover
seeding, 4th clover hay and seed, 9Th
corn again. Try less meadow and
more cornfodder, for this means in
creased acreage. Worn and weedy
pastures renoyate with disc, grass seed,
and manure, and try feeding off past
ure by sections next year, thus giving
the grass chance to grow. Go slow
on wheat. Plan to feed on the farm
the cereal product of the farm. Stick
to the diary, cream checks will be at
par in 100. Look after old Biddy,
she'll pay the grocery bill, and furnish
the money for your wife to take trip
east in the fall to see her folks. Don't
worry about more land, for you have
probably got more now than you can
handle profitably. There's another so
right under yours which you can work
if you will. Don't figure on '9S crops
for next year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
Deere and Bessemer.

If we were asked to name the two
men who have done the most to help
the farmers of this country, we should
name John Deere, of Moline, ILL.,, and
Sir Henry Bessemer of England. The
pillow lies at the very foundation of all
agricultural operations, and John
Deere, when he discovered the process
of hardening steel, revolutionized
blowing, and not only blowing, but all
other operations where steel tools come
in contact with earth. Bessemer
made possible the cheap steel, thereby
lowering freight charges so that the
western farmer is enabled to compete
with the whole world. These two in
ventions advanced agriculture 100
years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
To Improve Louisiana Roaau.

The new constitution of Louisiana al :
lows the police juries ''to set aside at
least mill per annum Of the taxes
levied by them, and to impose a per
capita tax of not more than 81 per an
mum upon each ablebodied male inhab-
liant and to levy an annual license of
not less than 20 cents nor more than 81
per annum upon each vehicle, includ-
ing bicycles, kept and used for locomo.
ton" for the purpose of constructing,
maintaining and repairing the public
roads and bridges Of their parishes. T"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
Iowa and MARYLAND.

A farm of 500 acres situated away
of in the northwest corner of this state
sold last week for $72 an acre, or $1,000.
An Iowa farmer visiting in Maryland
lately was offered farms within eight
miles of the city of Washington for So
per acre, or less than the improve
ments upon them cost. Why is this?
Just difference IN soil, that's all. The
Iowa farm is like young man, well
endowed, with the future all before
him; the Maryland farm like the old,
decrepit pauper, who can be temper
arily forced into activity by a stimu-
liant only to leave him in worse shape
than before. Iowa's ODDLY heritage is
her matchless soil and still some men
most shamefully abuse this priceless
legacy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02

LIZ rum IL. n. w. ADuitSth.l
only could this enormous amount of
macadam be laid, but enough money be
left over to make the necessary repairs.
Hard roads constructed in this manner
would come slowly, but they would
come in time, and it might prove that
when the people began to realize what
they gained from them they would find
it worth while to issue bonds in order
to hasten the improvements.
The practice of erecting wooden
bridges, culverts and drainways Mr..
Price finds as wasteful as present meth
DDS of road repair On the basis of the
expenditures of the last eight years the
outlay for the next 40 years would be
80, S47, 900, and this for repairs alone,
and yet with this sum he says he can
build stone, concrete or sewer pipe
drains and steel bridges where necessary
on all the roads in each county named"
To illustrate this, masonry can be
constructed at cost Of from 50 to IS
per cubic yard, concrete for about the
same. Sewer pipe can be laid in place
for from go cents to $1.75 per lineal
foot, according to the bore of the pipe.
A three foot culvert with three foot
walls will contain SO of cubic
yard per running foot; a four foot Gull
vert, three Oct high, 81 Of a cubic
yard; five foot culvert, four feet
high, .92 of a cubic yard, without
wings; a five foot culvert, with five
foot side walls, 1.15 cubic yards. Then
let culvert be "a feet long, 8 feet high,
with span of B feet. 1t will cost, at
SO per yard, $165.6 containing 276
cubic yards of masonry. The same span
placed with lumber cannot be construct
ed for less than 500, and frequently
costs as much as the stone structure.
The wooden structure lasts from five to
ten years, while the concrete or masonry
lasts forever.
The erection of permanent structures
will Sin the course of time close this
leak in the road funds of the state. 1t
is source of expense that in the period
OF 20 or 80 years may be entirely OBJ
liberated if the proper course be pur-
sued. This would give you more money
to put stone upon your roads. We had
better start at the foundation and come
up rather than build from the top down
to the foundation. And your founda-
tions are not complete without perma-
nent substructures.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
Cheap Money and Farm Lands.

Whenever it comes that the lender
of money is hunting for a borrower it
means cheap money, and when in
terest rates get down to five per cent
the owner of money is looking to-
wards farm land as an investment.
This situation prevails throughout the
west today and we look for quite an
active demand in the near future for
farms on the basis of $40 to $50 per
acre, for such farms properly managed
will return more than 6 per cent on
their cost, for a series of years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02

EnGt"<er Price of California Presents
Some Startling Figures-CuIverts Should
BE Built of Masonry and Bridges of
steel-Leaks Which Can BE stopped.
Some months ago the people of Sacra-
mento county, Cal, voted TO issue bonds
for road construction purposes, but
owing to q possible defect in the law,
the matter is in the courts for adjudica-
ton. Not long after San Mateo county
voted on the same question and decisive
ly rejected it. 1t is said that this result
indicates "that the people generally are
not willing to bond their credit for the
purpose of constructing good roads"
and that if improvements are to be
made in the highways, some other
method Of providing means for it must
be found.
In an exhaustive address on the sub
ject, Engineer J. r. Price of the state
highway commission, recently consider
ed the matter in detail and showed
what could be accomplished if the mon
ey that is annually spent in worthless
repairs should be devoted to building
permanent roads. In this respect, Cali
fornia may be taken as q sample of
nearly every state, the same considera-
tions applying to all.
Mr.. Price found that every county
spends from $50, 1000 to $4,000 in re-
pairs each year; that for II years prior
to 1895, the total was ST., 959. 1874,
or yearly average of Sl,623, 7O1, but
as there are other expenditures not in
cluded in these figures, he considers the
annual outlay to be $4,000, 600, and
there are no improvements in the roads
to show for it.
If this outlay is continued for 40
years, the amount expended would
reach $50, 900, 900, and this sum would
pay for the construction Of 16, 900 miles
of good macadam, costing $4,000
mile. There are in the state about A.
900 miles of roads, and to macadamize
one-quarter of them, or II, 900 miles,
would satisfy the commercial needs of
the state, hence within 40 years not
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02

An Iowa man, now a resident of
Arizona, tells us that it is far easier to
keep warm in cold country than cool
in a hot one and he is about right.
These Arizona fellows for three months
in the year take n cot out under the
stars and kick and sweat and fan all
night and call it a nights rest, while
we put on storm windows, throw in
the coal and take solid comfort detying
the blizzard.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
Road Notes.

Good roads mean as much as good
crops to the farmer.
Without roads no community can
hope to "get there"
A broad tired wagon doesn hurt any
road.
Motor carriages require good roads,
and good roads are good.
The authorities of even the smaller
towns Of France are mounting their
officials on cycles.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02

Nothing better indicates the present
agricultural prosperity of the state
than the fact that the deposits in the
state and savings banks alone have
increased during the past Is months
$16,0OO,O0O. If to this is added a re-
lative increase in the deposits of the
National banks, it becomes fact of
great significance, for very large per
cent of the deposits in all Iowa banks
is the money of the farmers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02
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