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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
THE ILLINOIS
Launching of the Largest and
Most Powerful Battleship of
the Navy
Scheduled to Occur at Newport
News Tuesday--Some Strik-
ing Differences
Between the New Ship and Those
Now in Use---Very High
Freeboard,
Enabling Her to Fight Her Guns
From a Great Elevation
| Above Water.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-Next Tuesday
ct IL o'clock, there will glide off the
ways at the yard of the Newport News
Ship Building company, the biggest,
most powerful, and probably the most
generally effective battleship in the
United States navy. This will be the
Illinois, which is expected by the naval
designers to be worthy god.child Of
the state whose name she bears. Larger
by a Thousand tons than the Oregon;
larger than the Iowa, now the biggest
battleship in service, the Illinois is still
% designed that she will be able to
,snter any harbor open to the smaller
battleships, while in the matter Of
speed she will rank with any of them.
The most striking difference between
the Illinois and the battleships now in
service, is the high free board Of the
former, enabling her to fight her guns
from great elevation above the water
in seas 80 heavy that the guns Of the
lower vessels would be submerged aud
useless. Splendid sea, going powers
are also expected to result from this il.
creased free board. BY which is meant
the height of the hui above the water
line.
The dimensions Of the Illinois are as
follows: Length on load water line.
1855 test; beam extreme, 70 feet ~
inches; draught on normal displace.
ment OF 1885 tons, 81 feet inches;
maximum displacement, all ammuni-
tion and stores on board, IL, 1876 tons;
maximum indicated horsepower (esti-
mated) 10000; probable speed, 1917
knots. Normal coal supply 800 tons;
coal supply, loose storage. /. 300 tons;
full bunker capacity, /, 400 to /, 500 tons;
complement Of officers, 40; seamen,
marines, ETC., 449.
The main battery will consist of four
1S-inch breech loading rifles in HIGH.
born balanced turrets, oval in shape,
and placed in the center line OF the
weasel, and fourteen 8.inch rapid.fi fire
guns. The secondary battery will con-
sist Of sixteen 6-pounder rapid fire
guns, four 1-pounder rapid.fire guns,
two Colt guns and two field guns. She
will carry four torpedo tubes. The
lS.inch guns have an arc Of fire OF 1876
degrees ON each side OF the center line,
and the 6.inch an arc of 80 degrees on
cha hroadside. with the advantage Of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
DEATHS AT CHICKAMAUGA.

Total Since April 10 Js Four Hundred
and Twenty-six.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-General Boyn.
ton, commanding at Chickamauga
Park, has sent the following dispatch
to Washington: Replying to request
of secretary OF war, surgeons at camp
report total number Of deaths in camp
from arrival of regulars, April Is, to
date 425 volunteers and regular. Of
this number IA were deaths from acct.
dents. These figures also include
deaths in the Chattanooga hospitals. !"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06

those on the upper deck OF direct fire
ahead and astern. Any injury to, or
near either of these 6-inch guns, will
be confined to its own compartment,
as one-half inch steel splinter bulk.
head separates each of these guns from
its neighbor.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
silent Ree.rdinR Their wealth.

Silent Regarding Their Wealth.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 3.-The steamer
Leelanaw has arrived from st. Mich.
aels with nearly l50 passengers, many
of whom are miners. It is impossible
to estimate the amount of gold and
drafts brought down by the passen.
gers as most Of them refuse point blank
to state their wealth.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
Liabiliti.. Of . Million.

DOVER. N. H.. Oct An. A. and
Joseph Sawyer. wooden manufacture.
ers, have assigned. Liabilities are es.
timated at $1,000. 900. Ex-Governor
Charles II. Sawyer is president Of the
corporation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
work For Garcia.

NEW YORK. Oct. GA dispatch to
The Herald from Santiago de Cuba
says: It is learned on good authority
that General Calixto Garcia has ac-
cepted position with the American
administration here as was predicted.
General Garcia is to receive 5000 "a
month and all expenses. II will att
as commissioner to 60 tnr uxh the
country negotiations with the Cunan
army with view to its disbanu n :.
He will start in few days and WI. b
gone on his trip three OF four week.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
Porto Rioaa Evaouation.

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Oct. 5.-The
American commissioners to arrange for
the evacuation Of Porto Rico have been
eminently successful in their dealings
with the Spanish commissioners. and
it is believed that within three weeks
at the farthest, the last Of the Spanish
troops will have sailed for home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
Senator It San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. OCT. 5.-The Uni
ted States transport steamer Senator
arrived today from Manila via Homo
lulu. She left Manila SO days ago for
San Francisco. but was compelled to
stop at Honolulu for repaira The trip
from Honolulu to this city occupied
over nine Gays.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
D.nie. the Order.

WAsHIN aroN, Oct. 5.-It 10 stated at
the war department that no orders
have been issued to Colonel William
Jennings Bryan to return at once to
his regiment.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
Hob.on secures Ten Guns.

PLAYA DEL ESTE. Cuba. Got. A.
Naval Constructor Hobson has re.
turned here from the wreck OF the
Almirante Oquendo, bringing with him
~ Of her guns.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
Bids For Monitors.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The lowest
bidders for building the four monitors,
in the order named, were as follows:
Nixon Of Elizabeth N. j., $825, 900;
Newport News, $3.50, 900; Bath (Me.)
Iron Works, $500, 900. and Union Iron
Works, San Francisco, 1915, 200.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06
Rear Admiral sicard Retires.

Rear Admiral sicard Retirea.
WASHINGTON, Dot. 3.-Rear Admiral
Montgomery Sicard, president Of the
board charged with the promotion Of
officers commended for gallantry dur
ing the late war, was retired during
the day, having reached the age Of 50
years.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
GOOD ROAD SCHEMES.
An Ohio Legislator Has Some Ideas
Which Certainly Are Worthy
of Confederation.

An Ohio state senator with hobby
for good roads, Senator Dodge, has in
troduced bill to abolish the contract
prison labor and to provide for the en-
ployment of convict labor in preparing
road material in such a manner as not
to compete with free labor. His plan is
to have the state purchase necessary
plants for the manufacture Of suitable
paving brick and suitable steel rails
and macadam for public roads, and use
the necessary convict labor primarily in
manufacturing the material for road
improvement. The product of the pris-
on labor is to be used only for public
road improvement and sold to the au-
thorities at cost. The stone quarries
owned by the state are to be worked in
preparing macada1n. The same pro-
visions extend to the intermediate pen
itentiary and the workhouse. Ten per
cent. of the inmates of all the penal in
stitutions are to be put to work prepar-
ing road material, and $4,000 is appro-
priated to carry out the plan.
1t would seem that when the convict
labor of state is at work improving
the surface of the planet for the general
public good, no branch of labor is in
jured.
Why shouldn't the convicts of Mime
sofa build us a set of magnificent pub
lis highways along the lines of traffic
Minneapolis Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
Good Points of kOhlra hi

One of the vegetables which every
farmer should grow is kohlrabi, which
in growth and flavor is intermediate be-
tween the turnip or rutabaga and a
cabbage. It is hard, like the turnip,
but, like the cabbage, all it's valuable
part is above ground. 1t is vegetable
that comes to us from Germany, where
it is grown to large size, and is mainly
used for cattle feeding. But to be fit
for table use it should be sown late in
the. spring, when the ground is warm,
and the young growth will be very rap
i'd. Then it will be sweet and tender
and wholly different from the coarse
kohlrabi sown early, and which has
taken the whole season to grow in. All
roots for table use are best gathered
while young and after growing rapid
ly. Most of the roots grow either tough
or dry, or both, late in spring.-Amer-
lean Cultivator.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
STATE AID FOR ROADS.
New York Has Just Pointed Out the
Probable Ultimate Solution Of
the Good Roads Problem.

The strongest impetus which the
good roads movement has received in
many years past was the passage by
the New York assembly of the Higbie-
Armstrong good roads bill.
It is significant of the rapid growth
of public sentiment in favor of state
aid to highway construction that the
opposition to the measure could mus
ter only 80 votes. Under this bill the
state appropriation for this year to ex-
pend for highway improvement will be
$4,000, which, it is estimated, will
amount to one cent per $1,000 of as
sessed valuation, or 2H cents on the
average $4,000 farm.
The size of each years appropriation
is fixed by the legislature, and as the
good results of the law become more
discernible and more generally recog-
nized it is not improbable that public
sentiment will demand in a few years
much larger appropriation. Under
the provisions by which county is au-
thorized to apply for portion of the
good roads appropriation the law be-
comes home rule measure. If the APP
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
BERRY SEEDLINGS.
Some Facts Which illustrate. the
Wonderful workings Of Nature In
Her Relations to Man.

Each little strawberry seed contains
the elements to produce plant that
will bear fruit peculiar to itself, when
it is grown without restrictions. The
artist in preparing his paint for GER
tain color, puts together little of one
shade and little of some other and
mixes them together, each new addi-
ton changes the color. So in like man
ner, the Great Artist employs the in
sects to mix together the pollen from
the blossoms of the various qualities
of the strawberry and to deposit it in
the receptacles or seed tubes of other
blossoms. The mixing of each addi-
ton changes the quality of the prod
uct from that seed.
Watch the busy bee as he flies from
blossom to blossom till he has visited
hundreds of flowers. Some of these
plants produce fruit that is very acid,
some fruit which is very sweet, some
of a medium quality, and so IN through
all the various flavors and from all CT
these he has made collection and a
deposit to this mixture. The deposit
may not have been Intentional on the
part of the bee, but it has been done.
The next bee may visit other varieties,
and some of the same, each adding to
the variety collected, and it is not
strange that each seed should produce
product peculiar to itself.
If we take staminate variety and re-
move it from all the other varieties and
exclude it from insects SO there shall
be no mixture from the other varieties
when in bloom, the product of that seed
should be like it's parent. For an eS-
ample, we will take the Sharpless
plant. The combination, the makeup,
of that seed from which the first Sharp
less plant grew gave it it's distinct char
acter; every root and fiber in that plant
is distinct from all other plants, al
though that may not be visible to the
eye. We know it by its blossom, color,
or shade of its leaf, manner of growth
of plant, the general shape of its fruit
color and flavor of same, and it's tex
ture. Remove the plant to any part of
the world, and its general character
istics will be the same and the seed
from this Sharpless plant will pro-
duce plants and fruit like itself, if we
carry out the principle from which we
started.-S. H. Warren, in American
Gardening.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20


Grounds)
preparation should be increased to
Si,O0O,OOO in any year the average tax
OH each $4,000 farm would be only 50
cents, which seems trifing expendi-
ture considering the immeasurabie
benefits that accrue to agriculturis1s
through good highways to the mar
kets. ~
With such notable example of what
the state can do in the way of encour-
aging the construction of good high
ways afforded by her neighbor, New
Jersey, the wonder is that New York
did not inaugurate the state aid sys-
tenn long ago. Under the New Jersey
law the state bears onc-third the eX-
pense, the size of the appropriation be-
ing determined by the legislature. Un-
der the stimulus of state aid nearly
every county in the state is now build
ing macadam roads, while there are
already SO many miles of stone roads
in the state that it can be travelled in
every direction without leaving them
Nineteen of the 81 counties of the state
have this year made application for
their shares Of the appropriation.
The action of the New York legisla-
ture is gratifying recognition of the
fact that state aid is the ultimate So
luton of the good roads problem
Chicago Times-Herald.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
THINNING OUT FRUIT.
Almost Sure to Bear Good
Crops Every Season.

The method employed in some i'm
portant fruit growing districts to Sc
cure a crop of fruit, such as peaches,
apples, plums, pears, ETC., with uni
formity every year providing the
flowers are not rendered sterile by
freezing) is to Systematically thin out
the young fruit after danger from frost
in. the spring, and before the fruit gets
large enough to become tax on the
tree. Fruit is seldom produced on the
same spur every year; therefore, in
thinning, they remove all of the fruits
from one spur without injuring it, SO
it may produce fruit buds for the next
year, allowing the next spur to bear
of course, discriminating between
promising and poor fruit. Various con-
trivances have been invented for this
work, but they have proved impracti.
cable, for they do not discriminate be-
tween the good and poor fruit, and, be-
sides, often injure or break off spurs.
So thinning has to he done by hand,
and, aside from the great advantage Of
insuring crop for the following year,
it pays the same season on account Of
a far larger proportion of the fruit be-
ing of superior quality and of higher
market value.-Prairie Farmer.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
WOLVES ON ICE.
BY CHARLES KELSEY GAINES.
AH, NO!' said our veteran guide,
stretching his tired limbs in the
Copyright, 1898

III, NO!' Sa1Q our veteran GUIDE,
" stretching his tired limbs in the
full glow of campfire from which the
rest of us shrunll back little. ''There
are no wolves now in the Adirondack
woods; at least I don't know of any.
Everybody hates wolf, and the ugly
brutes have all been killed off, guess.
The only game laws for them are such
as offer a reward for their scalps.
Then there used to be wolves in
these parts" queried.
He pushed fallen brand back into
the fire with his boot heel.
"Oh, yes! l can remember when
there were drovcs of them-and by
that you may know without looking
I'm not particularly young. Yes, 1
know thing or two about wolves and
let me tell you, right here, they're the
ugliest thing that carries howl inside
q hide when once they get on your
trail. Catamounts are bad enough, but
they don't run in packs. I've known
q bear to take lot of lead to settle
him, but you only have to tackle one,
or maybe two, at time. Quite right
you are-there used to be wolves about
here, and I'm not the one to forget
it."
He paused, after the manner of old
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
THREE LITTLE WORDS.


= Baby Is deadw three little words
Flashed DER the wires one day,
Copied somewhere by unknown hands
And thoughtlessly sent on their way.
But stopped to think Of the stified sobs
And silent trickling tear.
Wrung from mothers desolate heart,
i Ger her dimpled darling's bier.
Somewhere little cherub form
Is stilled tonight forever;
Nestled away In its cradle shroud
To wake again, o. never!
Tiny dimpled hands are folded
Gently DER the little breast:
Baby's soul has flown forever
To It's home amongst the blest.
Little arms SO cold andllifeless
Never more will cling in bliss
Round the mothers neck so softly.
Rosy lips upturned to kiss.
Little feet that tripped so lightly.
Romped and played the whole day long
Drifted from life's rugged pathway,
Lifted from life's countless throng.
All the little playthings gathered
Here and there where'er they lay;
Tiny dresses, bows and ribbons
Fold with aching heart away.
Heaven has taken back it's angel,
Plucked the rosebud which it gave;
But has left blighted garden
In the mothers heart grave
y. v. Barbee, in Atlanta Constitution.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20

head Of The saltwater almost nine
miles from home-much further than
we had meant to go. 1t was a wild
place shut in by high banks and thick
woods, with noisy fall, breaking
through narrow gorge half choked
with ice and rocks, right in our path
to bar further progress. This brought
us to standstill-and me, at least, to
my senses.
'Lorena, we must hurry straight
home,' cried.
''But Lorena insisted on getting out
and stamping her feet to warm them
n little. Then she ran away to get a
nearer look at the fall, and raced after
her in alarm, for The place was dan
gerous. She ran clear to the bank, but
there slipped and fell. Just as I
reached her, sound issued from the
forest that made my boyish heart
slump down into my boots. had
heard the cry of wolves before.
II caught Lorena up in my arms and
staggered toward the sled.
What makes you so rough, brother
Nat?' she complained, beginning to cry.
"'We must hurry-or mother won't
like it, answered, briefly: and as
spoke, again came the howl of the
wolves, louder than before, distinct
even above the noise of the trembling
waters. Lorena heard it and clutched
me; she would scarcely let go when I
dumped her into the box; but pulled
myself away. slowed the sled around,
and began to push it homeward at top
speed. AS I rounded the first bend I
looked back. 1 saw dark, gaunt form
leap down on the ice at the very place
! where Lorena had Stumbled had no
ticed sort OF track there. Then came
another and another, and still others.
The whole pack was after us.
"A boy and baby! We were de-
fenseless. I knew weI it was race
for life-Lorena's life and mine. The
child began screaming, which only
made the hungry beasts more eager.
l bent hard to my work, and chiseled
the ice with sharp, thrusting strokes.
Suppose a skate should loosen
"The wolf pack rounded the bend be-
hind us like hounds in full cry.
BE still, Lorena,-I gasped in her
ear-'you're just calm them on'-and
she choked back her sobs.
''Thus far had kept my distance
that and no more-but could keep the
pace? The sky was heavily clouded
and the wilma was rising fortunately
at my back. Night was coming on
fast; but feared the light would last
quite long enough to show the end.
Suddenly, with Jolt and clamor
of the Earring sled runners, we struck
stretch of rough ice hubby ice, as
boys call it. Here it was impossible to
go so fast and the fierce pack rapidly
gained on US. strained with desperat e
effort, but my muscles felt leaden, and
my throat and lungs seemed burnt out
by the painting gulps of frosty air
swallowed. At last the foremost wolf
came so close that my right skate as it
lifted, struck him full in the muzzle,
the keen edge gashing it so deeply that
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20
Wholly mt State Expense.

A highway improvement bill before
the New York legislature provides that
the state shall bear all the expense of
building highways across each county,
appropriates 100000 year for the
purpose, and limits the cost to $4,000
per mile. This measure is advocated
by many on the ground that the al
vantage of good roads to the cities
and market towns is so great that the
counties and towns should not be asked
to bear any share of the expense.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-05-20

the iron was stained with blood-as l
noticed afterward. The swapping Jaws
of another grazed my left ankle; but
Just as all was lost we shot out upon
smooth ice again, and at the same mo-
ment strong gust from behind
swept me forward with it's sudden i'm
pulse. cast back one terrified glance,
and saw the white teeth and red, loll-
ing tongues several rods in the rear,
and for some minutes I steadily drew
away from th:m. Then, as a turn of
the river deprived me of my advant-
age from the wind, was barely able
to hold what had won.
1T was now growing very dark;
could barely make out my tracks be-
tween the blacker shadows of the river
banks. l was weary beyond the pos
sibility of any further squirting, and
Lorena, l think. was scarcely con-
scious; but in the distance thought
l caught glimpse of the village lights
on the hill.
''Then, all at once, I felt the ice
yielding and cracking under our
weight-but only for moment-we did
not quite break through, and again 1
felt the solid floor of the frozen river be-
meath my feet. Behind us rose a loud
splashing and chorus of yelps, shout
ing that the pursuing wolf pack had
not been SO lucky. A minute later we
swung around sharp bend into the
light of u big fire on the bank. The
men who had been grouped about it
stalwart fellows in lumbermen's dress
were running toward us with guns
and axes. We passed between them
and slowly came to stop; we were
saved.
"These men, found, had been at
work on the river during the after
noon cutting ice. The wide opening
they had left had quickly frozen over,
but this new ice was still very thin.
Our speed had barely carried us over,
but when the huddled wolf pack burst
upon its surface, already cracked by
our passage, the brutes went through
in a mass. Of course most if not all
of them got out; but they must have
had a tough night Of it, for the ther-
mometer went below zero. ONLY two
Or three detected looking specimens
came in sight round the bend. Their
coats were so stiff with ice that they
could hardly crawl and none of them
ventured near the fire. The men could
have shot them without much trouble;
but we were safe-that was the main
thing-and the weather was too cold to
go chasing vermin.
The old guide rose to his feet.
thine to turn in,' he said as we
still sat motionless. "You needn't
worry: there are no wolves here now"