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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
A SENSIBLE LETTER.
a Western Canadian Settler Writes
to an Illinois Friend.

In writing to Mr.. t. Hawkyard, of
Rockford, ILL.,, MIR. G. Simpkins, of Le-
due, Alberta, Western Canada, (and to
WHICH points especially low rates are be-
ing quoted over all lines Of railway,
says:
Dear Sir-Rec'd your letter the 18th
inst We have had no snow till after
Christmas, and the cattle have been
able to live out, and are all in good con-
dition. 1t is showing now. That is
what we want-have about inches
now. The old settlers say when we
have lots of snow it means good crop
the coming season. 1t never drifts here.
The weather is calm and bright. We
do not have to dress any heavier than in
Illinois, and the horses never SILVER
with the cold when we take them from
The warm stable, as they do in Illinois.
1t has not frozen in the stable this
winter.
The most of the stock runs out, but
there is no need of it, for timber is plen-
tiful and there is no expense to build
log houses and they are very warm.
Two men can put up a house 16x24 in
two days. There are good rails for
fences. We live ten miles from the coal
district. the price being so cents up to
$500. The land is very rich, loamy soil,
from inches to several feet in depth;
the hills have the deepest. 1t is roll
+rvy -
all kinds. Sheep do we'll, and there
are plenty of small lakes where the
cattle can get good water. The cattle
got out of grass last year, about the
middle of April, and run at large; I'M
less in charge of a herdsman, we have
to fence against them. Wheat goes
from IS to 60 bushels per acre, oats 80
and 80, very often hundred. AS to pota-
toes, a neighbor planted bushels and
dug 226 bushels, and no bugs. Roots Of
all kinds do we'll. There are lots of
Strawberries and lots of red raspberries,
black and red currants, and gooseber-
ries, where the fire has not burnt them.
Cattle are scarce. l have been trying
to buy some for 8 months and have got
only three two-year-old, and paid $50
each.
Hogs are scarce, but can be got. They
sell for cents dressed, and cost more
for stockers. Wheat, 50 cents per bushel;
oats, rs cents; eggs, 80 cents dozen;
butter, Is and 20 cents; poultry was 10
md II cents dressed. Sheep are scarce.
If you come, bring your farm tools,
but bring no seeders; we use drills.
Bring cows, but do not bring horses
unless you are an experienced hand
in shipping them, for so many of
them are hurt in shipping. There
will be plenty of work for binder.
Two good horses will break, but three
lighter are better. The horses you
get here can work without grain, but
are better with it. It will be hard to
tell what prices horses will be, for the
immigration will be very large the
coming spring. They could not be
had last spring at one time. They claim
the best time to break is June, but my
experience is to break in the spring
and work it. You can break till the
middle of July.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
SMOKING MEAT.

meat. The illustration explains itself.
All that is required is a few joints of
stove-pipe and an elbow, barrel with
loose cover into which the pipe is
fitted and 'eonnected with the smoke
house as shown. A few inches of ashes
In the bottom of the barrel, followed
out to receive the fire, and the outfit is
complete. It is almost impossible to
smoke meat with the fire directlv IN
der it without heating it more or less,
and these partial bookings and sweat
ings impart an unsavory taste. An
other advantage in this method is that
all danger of fire is avoided.-E. P.
Snyder, in Ohio Farmer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
Concentrating the Manure.

d Very few farmers have enough stable
manure to fertilize all their lands as
they would like. The best thing for
such farmers to do is to apply this
stable manure mainly to the crops on:
which they expect to put the most of
their. labor. 1t does not pay, to plant.
cultivate and hoe portland. Every adj
dition of manure makes the labor more
effective, and therefore more profit
able. With mineral fertilizers it is
different. These are usually applied to
grain crops, for which dressings of $50
TO $50 pounds per acre ara usually suf-
fctent for the crop, besides leaving
some to be taken by the clover after
it. These mineral fertilizers SO soon,
become insoluble in the soil that It does.
not pay to apply them in large amounts
"A small quantity each year, efficient
to make the crop i is applied to, is.
much better. Prairie Farmer. 5..s .5s,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
Keeping the Udders Clean,

Unless great care is observed much
dirt will get into the milk at milking
time. One of the easiest ways to keep
the COWS clean I have found is to cut
the hair off the udder and around it
with a small pair of BARRIERS clippers.
1t is much pleasanter to milk to have
this hair out Of the way, and it also
removes the greatest harbor for dirt
and filth. Then if any dirt becomes
attached to the udder or teats it is q
very easy matter to wash it off and
dry it without having lot of dirty
water remain to drip into. the pail,
which is the case when the hair is thick
and long.-National Stockman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
Glover and Timothy Hay.

Glover unless cut before it reaches
the poisoning stage will have when
dried from seven to ten per cent. of al
bumin ODDS, which makes it very nu-
tritious ration. Timothy, when in it's
best estate, which is little before it
has blossomed, has only four to five per
cent. of albumin oids. If it stands until
dead ripe most of these are changed to
woody fiber, which is very hard to d.
gest. The second growth of clover is
much richer than the first. It is hard
to cure it without discoloring from ex-
cessive fermentation. If secured in
good order it should be saved for young
stock and for poultry, to be fed to each
in small amounts with other feed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
Big Profit in RaDe

Perhaps no single crop. outside of the
usual grain crops, has given so much
satisfaction as that of rape, and espe-
cially is this so where it is grown for
the, feeding of sheep. F1ockmasters
who have sown a few acres of rape dur
ing the past year report the most sat-
isfactory results from it's feeding; and
we look for q much larger acreage to
be sown this year. We would advise
anyone who has afew sheep 10 feed
to SOW least one or two acres of rape,
and note carefully the results Of such
feeding this year. = rairie Farmer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

cut shows a better plan. One stout
stake is set firmly in perpendicular po-
sition, where it has strength to support
any weight. tits braced from each side
by shorter stakes, which are spiked to
the upright. These support the rails,
the whole being firmly held in place by
a binding of plain fence wire that is
now so Inexpensive. Such fence can
not settle, be pressed over to either
side, nor pulled apart. It has to 'stay
where you put ."-Orange Judd Farm
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
HOw'a ThiSF

HOw's ThisF
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
3. j. Cheney. & Co., Props, Toledo, @.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tons and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West 4 Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price Use. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the BEST
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
IMPROVED RAIL FENCE.
1t cannot Settle, Be Pressed Over to
Either Side, Nor Pulled Apart
Very Easily.

The plan of setting stakes X-fashion,
and of laying the rails in the angle be-
tween them, is unwise, for the reason
that the rail is not properly supported.
If the ground is soft the stakes are
pressed downward constantly, The
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

The merchant, who sent up toy balloons
with his "ad.' painted on them, knew how
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up
children's Coughs and Colds-Mrs. NJ. G.
Blunt, Sprague, WASH, March 8, '94.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

Lawsakes; 1t cured my aches. > ST. ia.
cobs Oil makes no mistakes. 1@% =
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

Fortify Feeble Lungs Against Winter
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

:, 1t is pity amateur actors can't SCI
themselves as others see them-Atchiso]
Globe ~-~'01
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
Music Hall Horror

p, Arno-That baritone sings as if his
wlndPlpe needed job of plumbing. Is it
Pye Porgan-I think he's using his medi.
clne-chest tones.-Chicago Tribune.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
A Good Sign.

When the queen regent completed the
RATIFICATION Of the treaty it was good sign
for Spain.-Cleveland Leader.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

"A bad player and bad piano make bad
combinat Naturalization Globe.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
Salzer's Seed COrul

Doesyour seed corn test, Bro. Farmer? SAL
zer's does-it's northern grown, early and
good for 80 to $50 bu. per acre! Send this
prices to Sa]zer Seed Co., La Crosse Wis. XXI
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

See there. A bad sprain cured; and St
Jacobs Oil cured it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

The bad language Of the eyes is the same
the world over.-Town Topics. ~ =.7|'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

Some poets are always amusing, but not
necessarily funny.-Chicago Daily News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

y, inc only thing some people do is to grow
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

II man is as timid as hare, he ought
to die game.-Chicago Daily News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

He struck it. st. Jacobs Oil struck his
Rheumatism. It was stricken out.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

Feeze and fret? Why? st. Jacobs Oil
cures Neuralgia. Soothes it down. ~ III.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

In the morning we'll. St. Jacobs Oil cures
soreness and stiffness
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
JudiciOus Flattery.

The Chinese call their dowager empress
the most beautiful woman in the world.
They know better. than not to.-Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12

Told you so. In one night cured. St. ia.
cobs Oil masters Lumbago.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
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FAi|Rl\&;G|I!AR y! |!|N
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EAT-SMOK1NG DEVICE.
New Method Which Assures Even
Curing and Does Away with
All Danger of Fire.

Recent Illustrated articles on this
subject generally provide for locating
the fire directly under the meat in the
smoke house. The accompanying
sketch illustrates far bet ter me- hod, as
the smoke is cooled before reaching the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
Flowing in January

Is what the farmer in the southwest is doing.
while you are trying to keep your family and
your stock from freezing.
If you are interested in securing home in country
where work is done the around write for
free copy of the handsomely illustrated pamphlets,
Hones IN the Southaoest GtiHpses Of the Soatthaoest
and others They describe the country along the St. l.
S-W Railway in Arkansas and Texas, and will help.
you find better place to locate Address
L. s-W. Ry., 7os Equitable Building, St. Louis, No,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13
WRIGHT YIELDS HIS HONOR

c PEAKER HOWARD E WRIGHT has
- gone over to Burns He has yielded his
- honor and his manhood, has brazenly be-
tfayed the trust of his constituents and be-
come part and parcel OF the uncean gang
trailing. purchased and branded at the heels OF the
Mexican. There is not another man in the Assembly
who could have had less excuse for such as
that taken by Wright He knew that the people who
sent him there did not want him to support Burns.
They had declared Representative voters, including
ministers bankers, merchants, members of the pro-
fessons had made known that they would regard the
election OF Burns a calamity and disgrace. Yet
Wright listened to the tempter ignored the counsel
OF friends to whom he under obligations and
stamped himself migrate and political pervert.
Such avenues to reputation open to him he
has deliberately closed Such admirers as he had he
has nsulted grossly. Such hope held out promise
to him he has dashed to earth. He has sacrificed
reputation, Inundated all who had confidence in him,
violated promises and acquired oboquy which will
last until he shall drop from the public life for which
he has shown himself to be unworthy and unfit
Wright has issued an Explanation which but makes
his weakness and treachery more apparent. By
coupling himself with other of the Burns tools he
thinks to avert the storm OF Indignation but his rea
sonng is as bad as his act. He cannot hide under
the bedraggled er1nine of the Supreme Court even if
they paid to sosh and swagger inglorious and be-
smrched through the pool OF politics made more
foul by the presence of Burns and his creatures
When a member OF the Supreme Court is elected
was Mcfarland, a railroad man, and visits the
capital to urge the support of Burns the fact is evil
dent that this corporation regards the Mexican
its property as with the best of grounds, it
reckons Mcfarland with its other assets Instead Of
clearing his skirts, Wright has directed attention
to the niquity OF those among whom, with faulty
akin to madness. he has cast his lot Yet Wright is
not dead to the impulses of remorse as not to
derstand that he has taken plunge into deep OF dis
grace out OF which he ascend The mre
OF the pit is him, and is indelbe His conscience
must torture him. for when he called the
ID NJ. Burns" he hung his head with all the AFFECT
of cornered thief, and blushed the scarlet hue
OF shame His voice trembed, his hand shook, and
we'll may they have done That instant he
leaving his high estate that instant he taking his
place in a rabble OF outcasts, whose methods
criminal, whose object is gain, and whom respecta-
bility loathes as virulent form OF evil
To record the truth concerning Wright is painful
duty but as he shall reflect the ruin he has wrought
he will have acknowledge that he alone is to blame
There be no shifting OF responsibility evadng
of penalty
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13
ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT

T is impossible to commend on any conceivable
| ground the attitude OF the Democratic press and
small portion of the Democratic party in the SEN
atoral contest pending at Sacramento Under
the utelage of the principal organ of the party in this
city sentiment OF glee has been fostered the
candidacy OF Dan Burns. In short, the Democracy is
rejoicing at the beautiful predcament in which the
Republican party is placed and it is fair to assume
from the expressions of its organs that if the
track gambler and political boss is finally foisted
upon it there will be general jubation among the
Democratic leaders
This sentiment is founded entirely upon political
feeling 1t has higher inspiration than the thought
that if the Republicans elect Dan Burns Senator it
will result in sweeping Democratic victory in this
city year and in the State in 1000. The latter
campaign will involve not only the Presidency, but
Senatorship, and the Democracy hopes that if Burns
is chosen they will carry the State for the Democratic
candidate for President and elect Senator to sue
coed Senator Perkins.
While this may be denomnated politics, it cannot
be commended on grounds OF morality or decency A
Democratic newspaper connlvng at the election OF
Dan Burns is engaged in quite as dsreputabe bust
ness a Republican paper similarly employed Over
and beyond the political character of United States
Senators there exists the welfare of the State and its
people When California sinks so low as to send for
political boss racetrack gambler and corruption
st the commonwealth will have reached a state Of
development which cannot fail to result in its un-
doing
For political party to hope for such condition
is little less than criminal. And for Democratic news
papers or Democratic legislators to connve and abet
the realization OF such event betrays condition
OF degeneracy that is simply appalling.
What the Democracy and its organs should do IS
to aid the respectable Republican newspapers in de
feating the gigantic conspiracy which contemplates
the election of Dan Burns to the United States Sen
ate This conspiracy has been organized by the rail-
road, and is being carried out by the worst elements
in the Republican party. Unless it be defeated
the State is going to be rretrievaby damaged. The
evil effects of its consummaton will be felt by Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike, and the disgrace cannot
fail inaict injury upon the interests OF all the
people
Unless the Democratic party and its organs desire
to everlasting nfamy, they will abandon their
secret attempts to aid the candidacy of Burns and go
in with decent Republicans to encompass his defeat.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13
A BOARD OF THIEVES.

q esteemed evening contemporary, speaking OF
\ the late Board of Education and its achieve
ments, refers to it as board OF thieves" 1t
declares that no other combination of English words
will adequately describe that choice aggregation OF
political rascals 1t cites some OF the acts OF the
bers to prove that they higher in the scale OF
infamy than any other set OF men who in the his
tory OF San Francisco, attempted to govern the
schools.
1t may seem little harsh to indorse this designa-
ton yet it cannot be denied that while these School
Directors did not actually steal and thus lay them
selves liable to the against petty and grand
larceny they nevertheless thieves compared
with whom Jack Shepard and Dick Turpn were gen
tlemen.
The late Board of Education did not pick the
pockets OF the RICH nor fleece corporations nor stand
up taxpayers rob the mercantile community.
What they did was TO steal money designed to pro-
vide the children OF the city with the OF OBJ
tanning education. In other words, they stole
from the young and helpless class who not
able to resent their infamous conduct or set foot
measures for their punishment On the whole, we
think history will Justly describe the late Board OF
Education as board of thieves"
We imagine that the future searcher OF public
records who, perhaps, century hence, may sit down
to compose municipal history of San Francisco,
Will marvel greatly at one thing. when ne comes to
study the record left behind by this board of thieves
he will wonder why measures taken for
their punishment If he delves deep enough into
the subject he may indite scathing sentences
upon puslanimous grand uries indifferent and neg
lectful District Attorneys busy and compacent
courts and lethargic and ongsufering people
But in any event the late Board OF Education will
go laundering down the ages the most infamous
aggregation of political rasca who ever disgraced
civilized community No apology will ever be made
for them. 1t will be impossible to apologize for men
who robbed the children of great city and who re-
tired from office with the curses of mothers upon
their heads and the maledictions of entire press
covering them with obloquy.
We had imagined that the tough old board of
1881 would never have counterpart in history.
The board Of thieves" however, has by contrast
given them heavenly protection.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13
ANOTHER STORM COMING.
Weather Officials Say the Prospects
Are Excellent for More Rain.

Professor Harmon of the Weather Blu
reau said late last evening that the con-
ditions were becoming more and more
favorable for another storm. The pres
sure has begun to fall all along the
coast, the weather is foggy and the wind
easterly and all of these are good fore
runners of a storm.
II do not know Just how much of this
storm we will get" said Professor Ham
mon, ''or just when it will strike us, put
from local signs it should rain again frl-
day night. The barometer rose some on
Wednesday, but it has been on the down
grade ever since. The weather condltlons
have been behaving beautifully and we
must admit that the backbone OF the
drought has been effectually broken. Inc
sure sign that the last rain fully per
formed it's duty and the ground got pretty
thoroughly filled with water. The pecu-
liarity of all the clearings since January
lies in the fact that they have not been
followed by north wind and cold weather,
and under those conditions it is easier for
rain to return again. Besides the moist
ure in the ground has not been drunk up
almost Immediately by the cold WINDS;
The evidence presented to US is for still
more rain.
mot a particle of this State escaped the
benefit Of the last precipitation, ana ali
the rain necessary to assure bright crop
prospects fell everywhere except, per-
haps, in the Upper San Joaquin Valley.
The seasonal rainfall for this city is now
SIS inches, about twice as much as last
season"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13

the gas company not only abandoned the suit and re
placed Mr.. Dunbar's gas meter with better one, but
they paid his legal expenses, and doubtless showed
other evidences of sincere desire have the trouble
forgotten Unfortunately for the company, however,
the is OF kind to be forgotten. The dis
covery that gas meter may have reverse action
which enables it to pass from 10000 feet to 10000
feet at jump makes the case one of international
interest 1t will be read here with as much attention
as in Scotland itself
1t is not likely that any meter in San Francisco is
nimbe to register $4,000 feet of gas when only
1890 feet had been consuned-t is only canny
Scots meter can do that-but all the there
reasons for believing some of the meters in the
city have capacity for the reverse action in a
restrained way.
Companies whose officials persist in eXtorting S.
deposits from their patrons not likely to have
been negectul of the advantages of such meters 1t
is even possible that of the why they
boldly violate the law and illegally demand the deposit
because they have such meters, and wish to
their pay in advance in kick comes on account
OF the results OF the reverse action.