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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
FEAR OF ANARCHISTS.

Since the enperor's return from the
orient, the measures taken to provide
for his safety have been much more
strictly and Complementary carried
out. The Stadu Schloss at Potsdam,
which is now occupied by his majesty,
was formerly open to the public, so far
as the outer courts We're concerned.
Now there are double sentries at every
door, special permits are required to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28

Just out-San Malo, best 5 cent CT
gar. Try them. 37-tf.
Emil Schmahl shipped two car loads
of hogs to St. Paul Monday.
The St. Veronica Guild meets With
Mrs. Fred. L. Warner to- morrow af-
ternoon.
j. R. Lankard and wife returned
from St. Paul and Minneapolis Mon
day afternoon.
The family of VIM. Marks, the bak-
or at the Palace restaurant, are now
occupying the residence of Mrs. J. w.
Crump, on Chestnut street.
Frederick Kult, right-of-way agent
of the Northwestern Telephone Ex-
change Co. of Minneapolis; was in the
city last Monday. Mr.. Kult was see
ing various owners of land on the
south side of Redwood county, through
which his company is seeking right
of-way. He states that his company
will have line from St. Paul and
Minneapolis to Tracy in short time,
and that it expects to reach Watertown
by this fall. It is probable that the
Sibley county line will be extended
along the St. Louis to and through
Redwood Falls.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28

Mrs. M. Offerman left for her future
home in Faribanlt yesterday.
Geo. NJ. Russell of Minneapolis. a
special agent of the pension depart
ment, was in the city Monday and
Tuesday.
The city council will award the con-
tract for sprinkling the streets at the
regular meeting to be held next Tues
day evening, May Sd.
The County Convention of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
Redwood county is called for May 18th
and 18th, 1898, at Redwood Falls,
MINI.
Sylvester Davis came down from
Runneby, Benton county, last week,
to set up defense in the case of the
Redwood County Bank against him
self,a action to recover on the Gleason
note.
G. S. Ives, president of the Odd
Fellows Home, has issued an an
nouncement that the requisite amount
OF $25,OOO has now nearly all been So
cured, and the Home will probably be
built this summer, says the St. Peter
Herald.
Two or three of the lower grades of
the public school will have appropri-
ate exercises for Arbor Day tomorrow.
There will be some floral decorations
in the departments. No trees will be
planted, however, owing to the school
grounds having enough of the latter.
Inc war has humorous side, any
way, as illustrated in Redwood Falls
Sunday night. 1t was about 6: 80
o'clock when the GAZETTE posted the
last bulleton of the evening. A big
crowd Immediately gathered, and soon
the office was filled with refugees from
the storm. The crowd held down the
boards until about 10 o'clock. One of
the crowd was John Wieborg, the tail
or, who is drilled to perfection in Ger
man military tactics, but who is now
a patriotic American. He told of his
ability, and the crowd invited him to
drill them on the streets, the storm
having passed over. Wieborg got
out the crowd, and put in more or less
hard work. A druggist happened
around toward the end of the drill
with big fire cracker in his pocket,
The cracker fuse was coaied up, and
then the cracker was placed under Mr..
Wieborg. In two seconds there was
an explosion and remarkable deploy-
ing. The crowd contended that VIE
borg would not make good captain as
he would not stand fire.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28

The school board has ordered q
new sidewalk constructed in front OF
the school house
Mrs. E. B. Hale is seriously i'll
with inflammation of the kidneys this
week.
George Schmidt is now employed in
the local postoffice. Miss Rowe will
probably cease acting as deputy this
week.
Secretary F. E. Ring of the Mime
sofa Valley Mutual Hail & Cyclone
Association left for Mankato Monday
to confer with his brother regarding
new agencies for the company.
The family of M. Dominick, one OF
the new cigar mandatory firm came
up from St. Paul last week, and with
Mr.. Dominick, are now occupying the
Gasman residence on Wyoming street
D. E. Laird ceased .all connection
with the postoffice in this city last
Saturday afternoon, after gently init
mating that the postmaster was fall
sifier in asserting that he, Mr.. Laird
hah anything to do with criminal neg
ligence of not sending out mail on
time. The postmaster, by the way,
was severely censured by letter from
the postoffice department, received on
Saturday, for neglecting to lock the
sack containing important United
States mail matter. week ago last
Thursday.
Springfield Advance: j. F. Wendt
relates to us an experience that he
had, the lesson of which is, "Don't
feed tramps." Last August tramp
stopped at Mr.. Eendt's and asked for
something to eat, which was given
him. A while after the tramp left Mr..
Wendt's people missed his sons bicy-
Gle, which had been standing in the
yard. 1t was tracked into the road
and everything pointed to the tramp's
having stolen it. Lately, by good
smart work by Mr.. Wendt, tracing up
where the bicycle had been taken, it
was found that as the roads we're mud
dy when the tramp stole the bicycle,
it soon became loaded down with mud,
one wheel became broken, and the
thief carried the damaged machine in
to Redwood Falls, where he went to
G. O. Morgan, bicycle repairer, to
have it mended. He made an excuse
of having no money, and borrowed
$3.50 on the wheel. Of course he
then skipped out. and Mr.. Wendt was
very lucky to recover the wheel, as he
has just done.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28
BIG GLACIERS.
What Northern Alaska Produces
REGULARLY.

To THE ED1roR:-In my former let
tiers relating to Alaska and it's climate
and possibilities, 1 nave considered
only the southern part of the territory.
as by reason of climatic conditions
and ready means of transportation
the southern district can much more
readily be reached and it's resources
developed and utilized. The dividing
line, your readers will remember, is
the coast range of mountains. and will
see by glance at the map that while
Alaska is reached at Norton Sound in
latitude 81 40, to get to the Yukon or
any point inland it is, by the coast
line, still 100 miles to Dutch Harbor
and 800 miles beyond the mouth of
the Yukon, the great highway of the
country. This river admits of trans
portation only for about four months,
sometimes but little over three months,
in the year. This one means of COM
munication then is available for only
a very short season and entirely mad
equate for the needs and purposes of
a general population. Last fall navi-
cation closed early in October, while
at st. Michaels, 70 miles above the
mouth Of the Yukon, all must be in
quarters in October prepared for the
long Arctic winter.
The records of the U. S. Geologic
survey show the following winter tenn
peratures of the Upper Yukon, Gen.
trail Alaska, for the winter of 1889 80:
The severest cold registered, all below
zero, being in November 81, December
AZ, January SO, February IS, March
As and April 26, with not day above
the freezing point between Nov. 4, '89,
and April 81, 80. There are official
records showing that at other points
20 to 80 degrees below has been occa-
sionally reached. The above record is
for the vicinity of Circle City, the CEN
ter of the gold mining interests on the
United States side of the international
line.
A writer commenting on the great
difference in temperature between the
southern coast and the high attitudes
of the interior of the country, says,
"The difference between the genial
temperature along the coast and on
the elevated plateaus of the interior
are about as marked, figuratively, as
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28

Ex-senator Peterson of New Ulm
has lost again in his case against the
Western Union Telegraph Co., asking
for damages for sending the "Slippery
Sam, Your Name is Pants'' message
from New Ulm to St. Paul. The case
has been tried three times and each
time Mr.. Peterson has secured a YER
dict, but the verdicts we're too large
each time and the Supreme Court has
reversed the verdict in each case, and
sent the same back for a new trial.
The court holds that the transmits
sion does not warrant anything more
than nominal dangers. Senator Pet
erson has consequently had to pay the
cost of the case for three different
times, including Supreme Court costs,
all making no small item.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
BY AIKEN l. SCHMAHL.
THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1898.
Chicago E. Northwestern Railway.


LOCAL TINE CARD, REDWOOD FALLS.
Subject to change.
DEPARTURES OF TRAINS.
No. 90, daily except Sunday 1880 p. m.
For Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona,
and east: also for Tracy. Marshall, Water
town, Huron and Pierre. Parlor car, KasOta
to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Sleeper, Man.
katO to Chicago.
No. Ga daily except Sunday 49,. .4:45 p, m.
Connects at Sleepy Eye with trains east and
west between Kasota and Tracy.
ARRIVAL OF TRAINS
No 81, daily except Sunday .....9 90 a. m
From local points.
No, So, daily except Sunday $50. .4:15 p m.
From Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona
and all points east and west.
Chicago. Winona, MINI.
w. S. BRAMMER. Agent, Redwood Falls, Mimi
MINNEAPOLIS & St. Louis Railway.
Time of arrival and departure of mail and
express trains from Redwood,
EAST.
No. 10, daily except Sunday, 1142 a. M,
for Miereapolis and St. Paul, connecting with
through trains for Chicago and the east, ST,
Louis, Hot Springs and the south. Des
Moines, Omaha and points west Through
dining and sleeping cars.
No. IA, daily except Sunday. As D. m.
For Hanley Falls and Watertown.
FREIGHT TRAINS.
East 5:25 p. m, Mondays, Wednesdays and
West 700 a, m, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays
GEO. S. RICHARDSON. Agent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28

WHEAT. No. 2. April 2S.. .. .03 cents
No. 3, 20 cents
No 4. rs cents
Flax. ..82 cents
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-28

Sewing Machines.

We have been appointed exclusive agents
wood Falls for the we'll known HOUSEHOLD SEWING
MACHINE The machine all right The price all right
The times., 1898-11-20
Truth in Dark places.

To the Editor Of The Times:
The investigating committee has char
acteristic views of what is relevant TO its
inquiries when it decides that the question
whether Gen. shafter wanted TO turn
over mis- command and his responsibiiities
to Gen. Breckinridge is not relevant!
Not relevant to ask whether an unfit man
was put into the place which belonged TO
Gen. Miles and secretly telegraphed to
that he was not to be superseded eFe'
by the active head of the army? Not
competent to inquire whether the war
Department was run for the honor oI
the country or to satisfy the personal
grudees and political ambitions OF the
Secretary of War? What is the commit
tee really for? From the questions
thrown in now and then, apparently TO
break the force of an uninterrupted state
ment, one would suppose that the main
object was to save the War Department
in general and Secretary Aiger in par
ticular.
The Hartford (Conn.l Times touches one
of the chief obstacles in this investiga-
ton. II says:
Tie difficulty of obtaining anything like Just
result through the present investigation into the
management OF the War Department is shown
by the remark, to the writer, of an eminent army
officer to this effect: I'VE belong u the army
we are bound TO defend the army and the War
Department.
This officer knows enough of the misrnanage-
ment of the War Department, its ineticiency, its
blunders its outrageous injustice in its treatment
OF some of the best officers of the army, and its
shameful appointments for personal and political
reasons to Justify the defeat of any AdminiStra-
tion which makes itself responsible for the peTss-
tent support OF suchsa department. He has not
been called before the commission. 1t is doubtful
h.th ther he will he Rut IL he ShOrll be called
it is a very easy thing to ask questions that can
be safely answered. and he would evidently not
volunteer information that would reflect the
War Department With lew exceptions this
seems. to have been the form OF investigation 50
far. What has simply not been told would often
put very different face On what has been told.
Possibly Congressional investigation might
get at the inner history Of the outrageous treat
ment OF two Of the best major generals of the
army--t.en. Miles and Gen j. c. Breckinridge.
Thus lar the explanation seems combination OF
petty jealousy and malignant spite The removal
OF Gen. BEeckinridge from the command Of the
First Army Cops, by order Of Alger that has
a curious mystery about it, is said to be due to
the generals article in the North American Re
view. But there is nothing in that article that
could do more than furnish poor occasion fcI
the contemplate act Of clothed with 4
little brief authority. The removal of a man who
was at the front in Santiago, and who prevented
Shafter from ordering retreat the verge Of
victory, and giving his place to the chairman o
the Republican State Committee Of the State o
Delaware-this is piece OF management
perfectly characteristic OF the present Admins
ration- JNo. TRUMBULL-
The times., 1898-11-20
The Chiuch bug.

The United States Department of
Observation-Disclosures of Entomology
has just issued a most important work,
devoted to The Chinch Bug: Its Prob
able Origin and Diffusion, Its Habits,
(which are bad and immoraD, and Its
Development. Natural Checks and Re-
medal and Preventive Measures" We
are delighted to welcome this book,
which is undoubtedly destined to bring
joy to the hearthstone of the American
farmer, as well as to demonstrate the
startling advance which the science of
entomology has made of late, and not
a little because of the intelligent study
and attention devoted to it by our ex-
cellent and efficient ministry of agricul-
ture.
We heartily agree with the Govern
ment entomologist, and with Secretary
Wilson, in their presentment of the
chinch bug. that the Blissus leucopte-
rus Say is an affiiction to our native
agricultural interest well worth all the
efforts now being devoted to its extinc-
tion. We are in accord with Mr.. L. o.
Howard s. statement that few insects
and certainly no other species of the
natural order to which it belongs, have
caused such pecuniary losses as has the
chinch bug" The Importance of the
subject under consideration is illus
rated III the language cf the very able
The times., 1898-11-20

tile is perfectly harmless and tame. his
teeth have all been drawn, and he is
only kept as a watch snake. Entering
TIE drawing-room, and about to SIT
down on a chair. one might catch
glimpse of a rattlesnake slipping quiet
ly off the seat, or a moccasin hanging
in carefully arranged loops from the
mantel The hostess herself would be
petting small snake coiled up in her
lap, and the chief ornament of the room
would be big boa-constrictor wrapped
round the stem of a tropical tree i'm
ported from South America especially
for his use. The afternoon would be
interesting, but little too full of
thrills. -
The serpent, il trained to guard the
house, might be useful, especially in
the case of burglars. These gentry are
used to dogs, and know how to deal
with them, but almost any bold, bad
man, clambering in a window and step
ping on round, slippery. writhing
body that rose up and tied itself round
his leg, would be likely to emit howl
that would rouse the policeman on the
next beat. But taking the whole snake
problem together. it looks as if the pet
snake would cause more trouble and
expense and agony than he is really
worth
The times., 1898-11-20
A New Fad.

The Snake Show is a new and unex
pected sensation in New York. It is
said that it rivals the Horse Show in
popularity, and that the ophidian is
getting quite as much attention as if he
We're personally agreeable to the major
ity of mankind. 1t is further said that
gentle ladies attend this show and per-
NIT snakes to be coiled about their
necks by the showmen, and admire the
iridescent colorings and wreathing coils
of his snaky highness as if he were
bird of paradise. There is no accounting
for the yagaries of woman. If anyone
had ventured to prophesy in New York
twenty years ago that the ladies of the
metropolitan four hundred would in 1898
be deeply Interested in and fascinated
oy a snake show, the prophet would lave
had to leave town if he wanted his
neighbors to consider him a truthful
man for the rest Of his life. Truth is
considerably stranger than fiction, and
it may be that in this sudden popular
ity OF the snake We are TO discover how
it was that the serpent charmed Eve.
There is one development resulting
from the Snake Show, however. which
is seriC us,y important II is rumcred that
at least one wealthy family in New
York keeps snakes as pets, and that
well-known artist makes a huge black
snake his constant companion. If this
fad is to be forced on the American pub
lie by the leaders of society in Gotham
the American public is going to rebel
Some time ago it was the fashion to
wear little lizards chained to a breast
pin, and that fashion was regarded with
aversion by some people. But if lovely
woman is likely to appear with a snake
coiled gracefully about her neck, or
peeping from her pockets, or thrusting
its head out of her chatelaine bag. not
only snakeless women, but men are
likely to protest. That fashion is too
pervasive. II is too likely to spread
to people who do not approve of it.
Fancy, moreover, a visit to a house
where the pets are all of the serpentine
species. Coming into the hall. to five
o'clock tea. for instance, one would be
met by big python gliding gracefully
down the stairs. and the hostess
would thoughtfully explain that the rsr-
The times., 1898-11-20
THE LAND OF PLENTY.
Relation of the American Farm to
the American Mill.

Our advantage in respect to cheapness
in food comes. of course, from the fact
that we produce it, instead of having to
import 1t. as is done by every industrial
country in Europe. Even with the re-
moval of the duties on articles of food
the European consumer has to pay a
higher cost as compared with the prices
in the country of production, due to
ocean freights. insurance. commissions
and profits. Nor is our pre-eminence in
this respect likely to come to an end.
Henceforth. no matter what improve
ments are made in agricultural science
abroad. our own farmers may be expect
ed to match them. and to do even better.
To Offset the prospective opening to tillage
of new regions. as Siberia, we have idle
lands waiting to come into cultivation as
fast as the irrigation systems in the far
West are extended Nor is it in the new
States alone that an increase in our agri-
cultural production is to be expected. In
Massachusetts. where agriculture has
been practiced longer than elsewhere in
this country, the State censuses for fifty
years past have shown a steady advance
in the total estimated value of crops, in
spite of the gradually declining prices
of agricultural products.
BY reason of improved methods the av-
erage yield per acre of all crops has in
creased largely, so that the farmers
profits have increased. Doubtless similar
conditions exist in most of the other
States. Then, too, the American farmer
Is able readily to adjust himself 10
changing conditions, as may be seen in
.'the cotton belt" Five cent cotton
Is reported to be yielding profit, instead
OF bringing the planters TO ruin, as once
was predicted freely. which is due to the
fact that the planters have improved
their business methods.
Cheap wholesale food enables our work
ing classes TO be better fed than In any
other country, which can hardly fail to
result in the better physical and mental
condition of those who are entrusted with
every grade of productive labor. II is
only reasonable that under such favora-
bic conditions the productive power of
the laborer should be enhanced, enabling
him TO earn higher wages than workers
in the same industries abroad, which in
turn, enables him the better to supply his
table IL we now consider how largely
the extension of our export trade, in the
line OF manufactures. depends upon put
ting the cost of production as low or
lower than in competing countries, its
connection with an advanced condition of
agriculture-in giving us lower priced
food, better fed workers and more eff
Client labor-is not SO remote as It may
have seemed at first thought.-Iron Age.
The times., 1898-11-20

introduction to the monograph: "But
for the extreme susceptibility of the
very young to destruction by drenching
rains and to the less though not insig-
nificant destructiveness during rainy
seasons of the parasitic fungus, Sporo-
trichium globuliferum Speg., on both
the adults and the young. the practice
of raising grain year after year on the
same areas, as followed in the United
States, would be altogether unprofita-
bie."
Without attempting to review the
careful work of the Department at
length, we may say that it is calculated
to impress the reader, whether scientific
or lay, with the idea that our official
entomologist has mastered his subject
in such way as to encourage the be-
lief that he would. be able. with proper
facilities, to exterminate from our ma
tional domain not only the chinchbug
but almost even the cinch or goldbug.
This. however, is perhaps not favor
able time for entering upon such a task
and we do not suggest the effort just
now
But it does seem, when so much in
chronological directions is being done
and accomplished for the rural dis
tricts, that little something might be
tried for the relief of urban populations
like that of Washington, where there is
widespread suffering. and loss of sleep
II not of money. due to the ravages of
an insect pest closely allied to the Bills,
sus leucopteruS Say. We refer, of
course. to that familiar member of the
odorifera, the Cubiculus bedbuggus
Dam. Like his relative, Blissus. he is
widespread, but unlike the latter he is
not gramnivorous but destructively
carnivorous. In TIE usual habitat of
the Cubiculus bedbuggus Dam he is
not, except accidentally, exposed to the
drenching showers which tend to check
multiplication in the case of his bucolic
congener: nor, as. far as We are ad-
vised, has any fungus like the Sporo-
trichium globuliferum Speg. been found
TO act as a restriction upon his remark
able power of increase Yet il is to be
hoped that some such remedy exists
and Will be applied in time. Whereas,
the Blissus leucopterus Say causes
financial disaster. the Cubiculus bed
buggus Dam is largely responsible for
many common diseases. such as insom-
mia and blasphemia.
Cubiculus is thoroughly understood
by the world of science Old books. in
deed. are full of him, and hardly any
entomologist is without his Bording-
haus. which is very encyclopaedia of
the subject 1t is consequently a fair
proposition that the technical bureau
OF the Government. distinguished for its
researches among the Blissuses, might
we'll undertake campaign in the teem-
ing Washington field against the Cubi-
culusses. The suggestion that it do so
without any Sampsonian or Sagastan
delay is respectfully offered to our off,
cial Mahatmas and Zogis OF the noble
Buggist cult.