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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-09-06
GULF ROAD REORGANIZED.

A New York special of Aug. 31st
says that the plan of readjustment
of securities of the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad, formu-
lated by the New York committee.
of which Ernest Thalman is chair
man, is made public. The plan pro
vides for the formation of a new
company, issuing So, 900, 600 prior
lien mortgage i percent. gold bonds,
So, 900, 900 adjustment mortgage
gold 4 per cent. bonds, interest non
cumulative until 1905; $4,000, 600
4 per cent. non cumulative stock
and $50, 900, 900 common stock.
To the present bondholders there
will be given so per cent. in new
first mortgage bonds. The treasury
will retain $500, 600 Of them, and the
balance is being underwritten at
par The present bondholders will
also receive 4 per cent. in new adj
justment bonds, and 30 per cent. in
new preferred stock, as we'll as $25
cash for the April coupon.
The present stockholders, for an
assessment of SIS a share, will re-
ceive par in new common stock,
$3.50 in adjustment tours and $3.50
in preferred stock.
The treasury will receive $1,025,
900 adjustment bonds, 81, 1878, 900
preferred stock, and $4,000, 600
common stock. The underwriting
syndicate receives $4,000 adjust
ment bonds.
This plan provides cash resource
of Sc, $50, 900 from the sale of prior
lien bonds and from the stockhold-
ers, all of which has been under
written by a syndicate.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-09-06
NO BIDS RECEIVED,
The Flour City Bank Will Own the
Delhi Mill Property.


solvent estate of Ella l. and 0. w,
Mcmillan, doing business as o. w.
Mcmillan & Co., did not receive a
single bid for the property known
as the Delhi mill property, and once
owned by the above firm, when the
hour arrived for closing against
bids on Thursday midnight of last
week.
The property offered atassignee's
sale took in the tract on which the
Delhi mill dam is situated, together
with the permanent right to erect
and maintain a mill dam of any size
and heighth across the Redwood
river at any place on the tract in
question; also two acres of land ly-
ing north of the dam, a strip lying
between the mill site and Western
addition to Redwood Falls, and still
another strip of about ten acres
known as Mill Lot No. l, as well as
lot one of block six in the Western
addition to this city.
Quite a number of intended bid
ders had looked up the matter of
bidding on the property in question,
but owing to the fact that the taxes
on the several pieces amounted to
nearly $3.50, and that there was a
mortgage on portion of the land
offered for sale, they refused to put
in any bid, the general supposition
being that the property was not
worth any more than the accrued
taxes and penalty and the very
doubtful mortgage.
Mr.. Burmeister was seen regard
ing the matter Friday and he stated
that he presumed the property
would 90 to the Flour City National
Bank of Minneapolis, the holder of
the mortgage, which concern, of
course, would soon have to pay the
taxes and penalty on the same. He
believed then, that the property
could be purchased cheaper than at
the assignee's sale.
The old dam across the Redwood
river on the property will not stand
the racket of the ice going out
another spring. It is full of holes,
while many Of the timbers have
broken away from the bolts that hold
them together, and many who have
inspected the dam recently are of
the opinion that big raise in the
water of the river, let alone the ice,
will be sufficient to carry off the
dam. The huge brick, chimney at
the mill site is standing intact, and
would be good piece of property if
it could be utilized. -.
The general opinion of men inter-
ested in milling or water power is
that Mr.. .Burmeister should own
the Delhi mill property, as well as
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-09-06
THE INDIAN MONUMENT.
Contract for the Shaft Closed
Early Last Week.

The contract for the erection of
the monument to those Indians who
are known to have been friendly to
the whites during the crucial period
of American history, was signed at
Morton last week, according to the
Enterprise: and the fine shaft which
has already been described in the
columns of this paper, will be COM
pleted and standing in it's position
about 100 feet from the monument
erected by the State to perpetuate
the names of the whites who fell in
battle at Birch Coulee, at Morton,
by Dec. LIST of this year. The con-
tract gives.Honner & Hoskins about
three months in which to complete
the erection of the 50 feet high col
umn.
The signing was done by c. D.
Gilfillan, President of the Minnesota
Valley Historical society, on part of
that society, and by Fred. Homer,
of Homer & Hoskins, on the part Of
the North Redwood Granite Works,
where the stone will be dressed al
ready for setting up at Morton.
The cost of the monument, when
completed, will be little less than
$1,000, and of the amount President
Giltillan made an advance payment
of $500 when the contract was
signed.
Mr.. Fink of Morton has already
secured from Homer & Hoskins the
contract to lay the foundation for
the shaft, and rock and material
have salready been hauled on the
ground for that purpose, and Mr..
Fink will have his work completed
long. before the work of erecting the
monument is commenced.
The State in no way assists in the
construction of the monument, ex-
cept to allow the Minnesota Valley
Historical society to erect the shaft
on the States land on the Morton
hill. The society will have to pay
for the monument, and the society S
purse is mostly the purse of Mr..
Gilfillan, who is taking considerable
interest in marking historic spots in
this section.
The monument will be dedicated
as soon as it is completed, and it is
probable that many of the notable
men of the State will be present to
address the throng that will assem-
BILE in Morton on that day. Besides,
many of the Indians who lived along
the Minnesota river during the
massacre, and who are now living
on land in Paxton township, and at
the Upper Sioux Agency in Yellow
Medicine county, will probably be
present to discuss as to who among
them, living or dead, are entitled to
have their names engraved upon
the polished die.
And here is where some trouble
is likely to arise, for up to the pres
ent time Mr.. Gilfllan knows of but
one Indian, John Good Day, whose
name surely has a right on the pro-
posed shaft. Others contend that
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-09-06

Good Thunder has as good right
to have his name engraved on the
die, but Mr.. Gil6llan is not sure of
this, and the future will have to be
the Judge of the good Indian of the
past whose name has right to be
chiseled on the monument.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-09-06

The Lanpher hat is stylish, butnever
extreme, good for two seasons and al
ways looks well.
New honey both comb and extracted,
and about Is swarms of bees for sale by
A. B. Truesdell. SIT.
It takes severe matrimonial frost to
kill the orange blossoms used in max
ing Rocky Mountain Tea. IS cents.
Hitchcock & Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

think otherwise. They are ehock full
of and loaded down with tact-with the
copper on To illustrate:
My wife went over TO New York a
few weeks ago, to attend the bedside of
seriously i'll relative, who was not
expected to live. This morning 1 was
sitting in my office. wondering why
didn't get letter from her by the first
mail. when a tousle-headed messenger
boy joggled open the door
'Where'll l find de office o. Mr.. p
he asked, mentioning my name.
Right here, son. said l. You're
talking to him.
Well said the kid. measuring me
up, with the probable expectation that
Id do a stage back fall, I've got a
death message fer you. an they tole
me at tn Office that it was important
Nice. mild. tactful way of putting
it, wasn't it? He just left it up to me
to wonder. while / was ripping the en-
velope open, whether the message an
nounced the death of our aged relative
or the decease-o of my wife. 1t happened
TO be TIE former, but l am inclined to
believe that that boy would have been
just a bit better pleased had it been
the latter"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
HOW The ELECTRIC LIGHT WAS INVENTED
Thomas Edison
Vacuum
CarbOn-Worldwi wide Search For the Proper

Thomas A. Edison made the first
modern incandescent lamp out of a
vacuum pump and piece of cotton
thread. The idea of the bamboo fill
ment was given to him by palm leaf
fan. Here is his story of the inven-
ton which created new industry and
revolutionized the lighting effects of
the world:
The subject of electric lighting oc-
cupied my attention at intervals from
very early period of my life says
Mr.. Edison. LAS early as 1864 1 COM
menced to experiment in this field. But
no material advance had been made in
the production of incandescent lamps
for more than quarter of a century
previous to my taking up the subject.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

fst the next morning. There are doz-
ems OF clerks. employees and others
having a more or less slender connec-
ton with the money market who have
made from a few hundred to several
thousands in the general scramble.
The Boom.
The boom was not unheralded. There
We're many who predicted it. 1t is a
matter of some discussion as to just
when and how it started There are
those who say that it commenced when
the late Mr.. Flower cabled from Europe
TO his friends to Buy, buy" at the
beginning of the Spanish war Others
assert that it began with the declara-
ton of peace, and still others date it
from the time when James r. Keene
gave out his celebrated prosperity
interview last December.
The truth of the matter is that these
men and others foresaw the rise in
values, but the cause of the boom, like
that of every one that amounts to any
thing, lay, not with any one man,
but with the remarkable and wide
spread business prosperity Of the whole
country
Heavy crops, selling at good prices,
had put money in the pockets of the
farmers. The transportation of these
corps had increased the earnings and
raised the dividends of railroads, big
advance sales and the securing of large
foreign contracts assured a period of
prosperity for our mills and manufac-
tories. Money was plenty, profits We're
large: the natural result was a rise in
the prices of ali securities.
S2OO,0o0,OO0 Increase In Values.
The great grain-carrying railways.
which had been paying and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
TO TRIM A HEDGE.
A Crooked Knife and Inexhaustibls
Supply of Bad Words.
(BurlingtOn IIawkeye.

>
! | saw an honest farmer trimming an
Usage hedge over in Henry County. II
is very peculiar operation, and ]
/ listened to ii with a great deal of in
terest. | say listened. because the in
teresting feature of trimming a hedge
consists not so much in what he says.
/ The honest farmer had a crooked knife
on the end of hoe handle. He stuck
this into the hedge and gave it a jerk.
Then he said:
''Ah!"
Then he jerked again and down came
the hedge switch. Then he said:
"Ah-h,"
Then he took hold of the withered
switch and drew it from the hedge.
Then he put his thumb in his mouth
and stood on one foot and said:
"Ah-h-h-Hi"
Then he once more unto the breach.
dear friends. made another prod with
the hook and said, loudly:
Gee whiZ,"
Then he jerked at wicked-looking
branch with his hook and roared:
Great snakesi'
Then he pulled out a crooked branch
SO full of thorns that it made your
back ache to look at it, and when he
stumbled over it and it wrapped itself
around his legs. he stood still for a
second, then dropped his hook. lifted
his hands to heaven. and screamed:
oh. bloody murder"
The next rake he made he brought a
whole ton of a hedge plant with five
or six branches right down on his
back. Then he threw his hedge hook
clear across a ten-acre field. opened his
mouth thrice in a voiceless gasp,
spread his arms out and fell down fiat
on his face, dug his toes into the turf.
drummed on the turf in agony with his
clenched fists, and walled like storm
OF wrath:
obi dad essentially, Take him Off
Somebody take him OFF,"
When he got up he said seemed in
terested in hedge-trimming. and he
would teach me how to do it myself
/ said no, l wouldn't try to learn: /
would like to know how. but was too
awfully lazy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

! showed good dividend possibilities. In
the advance he cleared s5,000,000 or
more, besides putting millions into the
pockets of his friends. John ID. Rookie
Teller saw ii. He had been buying
railroad stocks for two or three wears,
while prices We're at rock bottom. The
increase must have netted him Sl0,0O0,-
600 or more. James r. Keene saw it.
He bought Changers" and advised his
friends 10 do likewise. When the boom
came Changers" felt it first, and
Keene cleared $6,OO0.GO0 in six weeks.
The Vanderbilt holdings profited to the
extent OF some $5,000,000 by the ad-
vance, while ]. Pierpont Morgan must
have been made 81, 000, 900 richer by it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
MATCHING BROODS OF NEW M|LL|ONA|RES
Wall Money During
Last Months Than
Millions For Promoters. Brokers and Spectators.

1t is seldom that one gets too much
of a good thing when the good thing is
business, and business means money.
But Wall street has come near to that
situation within the past four months.
1t has experienced such remarkab bic
season, a boom that went SO far be-
yond all predictions that now it is stated
with profit-taking, is ready to stop for
a time and to devote itself to spending
some of the money that IL has been
making during the past months.
1t has been impossible for the Wall
street man to tell from day to day
whether his typewriter or his messen-
ger might not blossom out as capital
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

bamboo from the same place. How
ever. kept up my search for different
qualities of bamboo which might prove
better. and also for the best of other
material. | sent one man up the Am
azon. Afterward another was sent to
Uruguay and Paraguay, and up the
river De La Platte. Later, two more
men were sent up the Amazon to near
its headwaters. Two were sent to the
West Indian islands: TO the coast of
South America, to British Guinea, up
the Magdalena river and to the head
waters of the Hunda. Another man
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
Do You Suffer From Pilesp

TT YOU only knew what thousands of
neople have learned you would suffer
no longer. Surgery has been the only
RADICAL help for hemorrhoids (protrud-
ing niles,, and that often fails. The dis
coyery that the common buckeye is a
snecific for these troubles makes it easv
To do what operations have frequently
tailed to do. Tabier's Buckeye Pile
ointment positively cures every form
of piles-blind. bleeding, itching and
protruding. The remedy that has cured
thousands will not fail in your case
price. in bottles. so cents; in tubes, IS
cents.
Sold by z. C. NJ. I. Drug Department.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

per cert, advanced to and s.
The prices of all these stocks moved
up rapidly. as soon as the increase in
the earnings Of the roads was reported.
Stocks went up from 20 TO 80 points
all along the line. This great rise in
values meant an enormous increase in
the wealth of stockholders affected by
the advance. 1t amounted TO nearly
500, 600 900 in the standard securities
dealt in on the exchanges
The men who saw this movement
coming and had millions 10 invest have
realized enormous profits. Ex-Gov-
ernor Flower was one of them. He
bought stocks that were low, but which
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

of the Flower stocks for several weeks.
believing that they were certain to take
a tumble. Whether these expectations
would have been realized if Mr.. Flower
had not died so suddenly. it is difficult
to say. With his death. at any. rate.
there came a brief but decided break
in Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Chicago
Gas. Federal Steel and the other stocks
identified with Mr.. Flowers name. In
the two hours during which the ex-
change was open on that Saturday
morning the Flower stocks dropped off
from 10 to so points each. This was
Keene's opportunity. He promptly sold
out. clearing up 100000 for his morn
ing's work.
Altogether Wall street is entitled to
rest, having made for the interests
identified with its name more than
s10O.00O,000 from the most phenomenal
season on record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

burner. These lamps were publicly eX-
hibited during the holiday season OF
1879 and 1880 in lighting up the streets
and some buildings in MenlO park, in
Guiding my laboratory and office and
two or three houses. On New Years
| eve, 1879, about 5000 people visited
Menlo park and inspected the lamps
l equipped and lighted up a steam
ship. the Columbia, with about seven
| ty-f1ve to 100 lamps containing pape,
I carbons. which continued TO light the
ship Satisfactorily for several months
Exhibitions of these We're made on the
Columbia at Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso
San Francisco and Portland. Ore.
| understand that some of them were
| lighted during the voyage around Cape
Horn and We're kept lighted from San
Francisco to Portland on the regular
trips for several months.
But While this was to a certain eX-
tent triumph, we had not really pro-
duced commercial article. We had
successful lamp built on the right
principle. but it was not economic 1t
was fragile and costly. In fact our
carbons were apparently not made of
the right substance. Somewhere in the
world we thought there must exist a
substance which could be turned into
carbon which would be cheap and last
ing. We made ailments of everything
we could get hold of, with the idea of
getting carbon that would give life
under commercial conditions and also
which we could manufacture ourselves:
that is to say, not one from which we
would make a thousand lamps and
find 300 or 400 of them spoiled and use
less, but an incandescent conductor
which in making 1000 lamps would be
so perfect that only a small percentage
would be bad. think we used as
many as thirty or forty different exc
genous growths. but soon gave them up
as hopeless.
Fan Solved the Problem.
'One hot day, when discouragements
seemed heaDed upon us more than
usual, l noticed an old palm leaf fan
lying on table. | picked il up and
on examining it, 1 found that the outer
rim was made of bamboo, apparently
cut from the outer edge of a very long
strip. / gave this to one of my assist
ants and told him to cut it up and get
out all the blanks he could from it and
carbonize them and put them in lamps,
and turn on the current to ascertain
their availability. We were surprised
to find that these lamps were several
times better than any we had sue
ceeded in making. BY a microscopic
examination and by other EXPERIMENTS
we ascertained the reason why, and L
felt so convinced that we had got on
the right track that after a short while
dispatched a man to China and
Japan to make an investigation and
send me samples of all the different
qualities of bamboo that he might find
there. He sent me about forty differ
ent varieties of bamboo. in such guam
titles as to enable me to make num-
Der of lamps of good quality. He then
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

the cross section of the carbon burner
The extreme fragility of carbon in
small masses would be consumed on
the passage of the electric current
through them, deferred inventors from
experimenting with them. My discov-
cry for the first time informed the
world of properties not before known
or supposed to be inherent i'm carbon
that is, the property of stability in a
high vacuum.
How Menlo Park Was Lighted.
Following the discovery made with
the carbonized cotton thread | imme-
diately commenced to use carbon in
other forms. and prior to Jan. 1.
1880. had made several hundred lamps.
employing carbonized paper in the form
of a. horseshoe as the incandescent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
A Tactful Disclosure.
(Washington Post,

'One of the beautiful traits in the
makeup of Washington messenger
boys said a railroad man who lives
in Washington, is their tactfulness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
The Seasons Greatest Coup.

Curiously enough. while there was d
strong and active 'bulr' market from
November to May, the greatest single
speculative coup was the result of a
bear" raid. AS might have been ex-
pected, it was headed by James R.
Keene, and it occurred on the exciting
day that followed the death of ex-Gov-
ernor Flower.
Keene had persistently gone short"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

The great grain-carrying railways
which had been paying 4 and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-26
Railroad Notes

Mr.. a. ]. Gregory of the D. & r. G..
has returned from Denver.
IAN Aboard goes east over the West
ern and d. K r. G. today.
Twenty miles of cross-sectioning has
been completed on the line now being sur
veyed by the o. r. 81 N between Baker
city ana the Seven Devils.
The fearful snowstorrhs in Wyoming
have not at all abated. The Casper line Of
the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
is now in the tolls. The snow plows are
unable to move.
Within the last few weeks Isaac Blake
OF New York has purchased from the
Short Line seventy-five miles of steel
rails. and has closed contracts for rolling
stock for his road on the Snake river
between Huntington and Billiards. Land,
ing.
Butte Inter-Mountain: Superintendent
Dunn of the motive department Of the
oregon Short Line, was in town yester-
day. He left for Anaconda last night.
The Short Line will run a special to
Ogden tomorrow evening for the cOnven-
fence of the Salt Lake Opera company.
which will perform there at the opera
house on that evening. The special will
leave the city at 8 p. m, and a large
number of the friends of the players will
accompany them. The fare is 81 for the
round trip. An opera special Will be run
to Logan by the Short Line on Thursday
leaving Salt Lake at p. m. Fare for the
round trip $3.50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-26

Western lines are not at all pleased
with the prospects of the tourist season
for 1899. and they base their fears on the
fact that cheap excursions to the coast.
as already advertised. are altogether too
numerous and are too far apart to be of
any advantage to the roads. Two i'm
p1rtant conventions are to be held in
california during the summer. which
means, practically, a great reduction in
rates 10 the coast Tor the entire season
DurlhS july. the National l.ducatiOna,
association viii convene at Los Angeles
ana at the END OF May the Baptist Ma
tlonal societies anniversaries are TO he
held at San Francisco
for these gatherings the roads have
considered ana will adopt one standard
thlrty-day rate for the round trip. which
Ifom thlcago, for instance, is 81 so
against the ordinary tourist rate of abouf
sliS. wa Portland arbitraries are 10 be
added. over the Shasta route. of 81. 80 one
way, or 80 round trip and the same rates
VIII apply from Portland to San Fran
cisco by boat, including meals and berth
Stop-oVers VIII be allowed, going. at any
point west OF the Missouri river but the
passenger must reach San Francisco NOT
!ater than the opening day of either con-
On the return trip the passengers are
aIoWed stop-overs at all points in Cali
LorIla ana oregon, on the Santa Fe Pa
enc, west or Albuquerque on the o. r.
" \. line, and west of ST. Paul Chevenue
CoIorauo ana Utah common points. The
concessions being so extremely liberal
1t IS feared, Will have tendency TO de.
crease the usual tourist traffic for the
year.