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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02
EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL.

The great Boston author. whose won
derful tales have thrilled the natives OF
the Atlantic coast from Moos athermopol-
aeologistiamas. Me, to Humpville N. J.,
was seized with a magnificent idea.
Il will write a story of wild Western
life he said. land I will spread the To-
cal color so thicldy that it's intense real
ism will be patent to the dullest intellect
in Chicago
So he wrote the story
Bruce and Harkaway Asterisk came
home from their trapping expedition
about 6 o'clock in the evening of murk
and dismal day in November. Carefully
cleaning their moccasfns on the handsome
astrachan mat in front of the low door
of the small log hut in Dayton's addition
to the original site of ST. Paul, they en-.
tered, and walked briskly forward to the
blazing logs in the big fireplace. Bruce
and Harkaway Asterisk were aged eight
and ten years, respectively This was
in 1898. An old, white-haired man their
father. moved his rocking chair aside
few inches in order that the benumbered
youths could warm their chilled fin
gers.
Where have you BEEN my lads?'' he
inquired, laying aside his glasses and a
new geological work on Wyoming's Verte,
brate Fossils, containing full and graph
ic account of the megalneusarus rex. tho
aceratherium tridactylum, the hyrac-
otherium venticolum, the brontosamus
excelsus, the titanotherium, robustum, to,
gether with some details and incidental
remarks on the scapula, coracoid and hu.
merus of a gigantic dinosaur of the Juras
sic age.
I'VE have been setting our traps for
beaver and otter in the river between
Fort Smelling and Minneapolis" replied
Bruce, saluting his father reverentiaIIy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02

and tossing his fur cap on to the upright
Dewey piano. Harkaway Slowly removed
his macintosh and hung IL carefully on a
pair of elk horns surrounding a bust of
Mark Hanna.
Are the otter and beaver quite plenti-
fu1 in that vicinity?" inquired the old
gentleman
They are SIR" replied Bruce, quite
plentiful, thank you. We have already
cached $50 skins and shall soon begin
shipping them to New York"
You find it quite profitable sport, I be.
lieve," said an old lady. the mother of
the two lads, as she snuffed the candle
and held cambria needle before the
flame for the purpose of threading it."
Indeed we do, mother dear" replied
Harkaway. But tomorrow we are goinS
to hunt buffalo up Anoka way. There
was a large herd of them stampeded in
that direction yesterday and We under,
stand they have been surrounded by Old
Pease, who is now holding them at bay
until our arrival. We anticipate some
royal sport-better than got"
And what my sons, do you intend to
de with the money acc-jmu ated from the
sale of your hides and furs?" said the
old man thoughtfully.
I'VE intend" answered Bruce, ''to
found a family in America which shall
lous riches. Eventually the posterity of
the Asterisk family VII! be enabled to
shake the dust of America from their
sandals and HE away to England and
the continent, from which safe coign of
vantage they can give the common PEG,
people of the United States the merry
ha, ha, and refuse to pay taxes
He returned from the West last week
no low irIU tn toll
about his trip.
Things are middIing quiet now out in
WinnemucCa, New. l didn't really see
anything wild and woolly, but the peo-
pie told me stories about some incidents
that We're rather hair raising"
WAS there much disorder in the
streets while you were there?" inquired
a man in a crash suit.
Perfectly quiet Just like Sunday
NEST of the time I was there
How SOP
Men were all in the saloons and the
streets deserted. All except the Indians.
They were playing poker on a red blan-
ket near the town pump.
ANY shooting?'
II didn't see any shooting, but the land
commissioner said they shot man the
day before I arrived.
What for? Horse stealing9'"'
No, he said 'nither' for neither It
was the first job of embalming the new
undertaken had had in Winnemucca.
They chased an assistant passenger agent
clear out beyond the town limits for say
ing root for route They are the most
sensitive people l ever mingled with out
there. A young chap from Ogden came
down Main street walking with a lady.
He had on a bicycle suit Pestiferous
PlUmmer didn't do a thing but yell out:
Oh, give yer girl back her stockings.
They both turned 2s red as Holsters.
Dead Cinch Charley said: I'll bet bron-
cho against a button she slneUed pow
der
How So? inquired Pestiferous Plum
mer
Why, didn't you see her blush?'
NO, since the troops came into town
matters are a trifle dull in Winnemucca. y
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02

a melancholy tremor in his low voice
that appeals to ones sympathies; and the
accents are not those of the man Of ire
mendous action that he has been for a
quarter of a century. Every morning
Mr.. Dwyer is helped from the cottage
across the dew-wet green to the stables
where a paltry score of horses of doubt
full cIass-au that remains of an interna-
tionaly famous and invincible stable
are exercised under his orders; and he
watches them with the same fidelity and
the same Jealous hope in his heart as
when he prepared the world beaters Han
over or LOnsstreet for the handicap and
plunged a hundred thousand dollars at
short ODDS on his record breakers.
WAITING FOR LUCK'S TURN.
Every afternoon Mr.. Dwyer sits in his
armchair close to the judges stand. in the
midst of the riotOus thousands, trying to
enter with the enthusiasm OF old in the
sport which is his one passion, to succeed
in his one hope. And when the races are
done kindly hands help the former SOW
creign Of the stable back to the little cot
taee, where he can sit on the wide veran-
da and receive a few old friends and
watch the closing shadows over the level
sweep which will hold him in its spell to
the last.
, ~ W II NilSIiteI L. DVNer ore
hope still, but not as once he hoped. He
Is not anxious to lay up millions for some
one who shall come after him to enjoy.
He is living but for one thing on earth
TO get even with the world again, and
there let his great career close. For Mr.
Dwyer, with all the millions that have
passed through his hands-and reputable
authority states it is to be no less than
ten millions of dOllars-is now on the
short side of the great game to the tune
Of many thousands; and though those
who are his creditors never press him
confident that if he wins out he Will nav
to his last cent-fOr more honest sports
man never ltved-the one potent desire
that keeps Mike" Dwyer In the tide Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02
REPRESENTED BY BEANS.
Mr.. Graham, of saltwater, Has a
Pretty Convincing Argument.

VI a
Pretty Convincing Argument.
To the Editor of the Globe:
There are people in the world who never
feel sure Of anything till they get 1t into
their throat and cannot get it up or down;
so in order to convince some of your
readers, who you would think ought not
to require it, 1 will give you an illustra-
ton with which l have convinced several
people, who readily acknowledged that
they were satisfied as to when the TWEEN
tieth century commenced What an aw-
full thing it would be to have our people
disputing with each other all through the
last year of the century as to whether
they are in the nineteenth or twentieth
century. 1 must say that nearly all the
communications, mathematical calcula-
tons, etc, that 1 have seen in the papers
are somewhat puzzling, at least they do
not seem to convince. OF course there
are some people that you cannot con-
vince with any kind of argument or IL
lustration. For instance, I know a man
who has been arguing for years that six
dozen dozen is the same quantity as half
a dozen dozen. Now, if these people who
contend that the first day of the twentieth
century is the 1st Of January, 1900, will
just pause for a moment. and admit that
there is a bare possibility that they may
be mistaken, and try the following plan
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02
TIN MILLIONS won
AND ANOTHER TEN MILLIONS
SUNK IN THE WAR OF
R0OkEIAI<ERS
STORY OF MICHAEL F. DWYER

The Greatest Turf PIunger in His
tOry-StiH at the Races Hoping
for Gain-Wants to Quit Even
with the Game lie Has Played
So Long and at Times So Sue
cessfuIIy.
On the veranda of a little cottage over
looking Gravesend race track there sits
thin, troubled, weary man of history.
The armchair is not large, yet it quite
swallows him up, so attenuated is the
crcuching shape in ill-fitting snuff-col-
o1ed tweed, and the bronze. of the gaunt
face is suffused with a deathly pallor,
says the New York Herald The races
OF the day are done, the vast bowling
mob has crammed crestfaIlen or tri-
umphant into the waiting trains. whirI
ing cityward. Over the rich sweep of
green, whose broken horizon is lined with
mushroom-like stables, there are men
gathering the wreckage of the days riot,
and where an hour before the 10000 jam
med to the track side and shook the earth
with cheers, there is only the peace of
the closing twilight hazed with a cool
mist rolling up from the sea. The soil
tary views il all from the cottage step,
and it soothes him, for he is very sick
man. The thin, brown hands are clasped
before him, and sunken eyes, that have a
recoiIing, half-hunted look in their depths,
survey the distance in silence, for he is
man of the past. 1t is Michael F. Dwyer,
the greatest pIunger in the history of the
flIrf of the na66nOk and lyiDo
batter of the bookmakers
Though not yet ffty-three. the great
turfman is broken in nerve, in health, in
hope and fortune. 1t is not till he speaks
that one realizes his condition. There is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02

why give me my 1,9OOth dollar" My
dear sir" says the other, there is moth
ing more due from me in order to COM
plete the payment of my Indebtedness to
you. When l laid down the / .S99th dol
lar to you, that completed the 1890 that
L owed you" Well. Mr. Graham, why
not? If the completion of 1889 years is
the completion of 1,9CO years, or nineteen
centuries, why is not the payment of 1899
dollars the completion of the payment of
1900 dollars?
William Marlloe
White Bear, July l.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02
TO Detroit, Mich, and Return

$14.65 to Detroit, Mich, and Return
Via the Milwaukee-(The Official Route).
Tickets on sale July 3. and g. Join
the special Christian Endeavor party
leaving Minneapolis at 400 p m. and st.
Paul at 4:30 p. M, July 4th via 'sThe
Milwaukee" For particulars, apply to
City Ticket Office, S2S Nicollet avenue,
Minneapolis
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02
SUNDAY, JULY 2ND.

Foresters' Grand Picnic at New Uim.
The Minneapolis & St Louis sells ex-
eursion tickets at $3.50 for round trip
Special train to leave St Paul. 1880 a. M /:
returning leave New Ulm, p. m.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
Lime Springs Correspondence.

Lime Springs Correspondence.
Miss Elsie McCulloch is home from
Albert Lea for two weeks vacation.
A. r. Nash started for Colfax this
morning where he will attend the
Grand Lodge meeting of the Iowa
Legion of Honor.
Mrs. John Linderman and Miss
Nettie McNally visited friends in
Cresco Thursday.
Miss Anna Kief of Albert Lea
College is spending her vacation with
Miss Minnie Gates.
Miss Belle Nash is home from Albert
Lea for two weeks vacation.
Charley Smith is able to be about
again after weeks sickness.
w. r. Thomas have moved into
house vacated by o. J.. Rendell.
Miss Pearl Kicks of Cresco was visit
ing friends here last week.
John Shea's team got unmanage-
able one day last week and made
things lively for little while.
Our town people have to go to
Cresco and Chester to get their coal.
Miss Mile Clark visited friends
and relatives in Cresco last week
A. g. McCulloch went down to
Cresco Thursday to see his mother
who is very low.
A. r. Nash has a deaf and dumb
negro clerk who does nothing but
sell silverware.
The ID. NJ l. G. will hold social
meeting at the home of Miss Mae
Irwin.
Lime Springs was visited by a
regular old South Dakota blizzard
Friday evening.
j. f, COSTA returned home after a
few days visit with friends and rela-
tives in Austin and Rose Creek last
week.
The ladies of the Cemetery Associ-
alton will give an entertainment at
the opera house Saturday evening,
April 1, entitled, America"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
Attempt to Commit Murder.


Last week Tuesday Torkel Olson,
who had been working for Peter
Olson Bake, was in town and be-
came intoxicated He returned about
midnight, and before going into the
house, secured rifle from shed
near by. He was admitted to thes
house by Mr.. Bake, who did not
notice the gun, OH account of the
darkness. Olson went up to his room,
shortly after going into an adjoining
room, where Ed. Bake was sleeping,
who awoke and raised up on his
elbow. Olson came up to the bedside,
and discharged the gun at Bake,
without saying anything. The ball
merely grazed the flesh on Bakke's
wrist, who jumped up and threw
Olson to the floor, holding him until
help came, when Olson was bound
and kept till morning. The next morn
ing they decided simply to pay Olson
what was due him, and discharge
him.
The sheriff went to Ossian Friday
and secured Olson He waived ex.
animation before Justice Gibson and
was bound over to the grand jury.
DEBORAH Public Opinion.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
THEIR Eyes ON GEN. OTIS
War Department Shows Intense In
terest in the News from
Army at Manila.
EVIDENT PURPOSE OF PRESENT MOVE.
Campaign Being Pushed So as to
Crush AguinaldO Utterly Before
the Rainy Season Besins-Inter-
probation of Gen. OTIS Dispatches
Studying the Map.

Washington, March 27-Intense in
terest was exhibited at the war depart
ment in the news that began to come
from Gen. Otis at Manila early in the
day. 1t was apparent that Gen. Otis
had begun to put into operation the
plan of campaign which he had been so
carefully preparing for the last month
or more, and it was confidently expected
that this blow would destroy the last
vestige of the rebel organization,
though it was realized that this could
not be effected without severe loss on
the part of our forces. Gen. Otis deemed
this course military necessity, because
with the approach of the rainy and un-
healthy season, now within month, the
position of the American troops on the
outer lines would become untenable.
Study the Maps.
Immediately upon receipt of the
cablegram announcing the beginning of
the advance by Gen. McArthur's di.
vision, and the plan for the movement
of the remaining sections of the Amer
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
ing nercely ana occaslonaily cropping in

Ing nercelS ana occas1onaffy cropping IN
the grass and firing by volley.
The natives stood until the Americans
were within 200 yards of their position and
then broke and ran for the woods About
30 of them were killed in the outskirts and
70 on the roads.
The Montana and Kansas troops met the
hottest resistance in a strip from which
the rebels have greatly worried the Amer
leans recently during the night time.
Ninety minutes after the start-at six
o'clock-the whole front for distance of
three miles to the north had been clear.
Gen. Hale's brigade had simultaneously
swept in northwesterly direction, rout-
ing the enemy and burning the town of San
Francisco Del Monte and a number of scat
tered huts.
The line was then opposite Novaliches.
the artillery advancing along good road
from La Iona to Novaliches, the wagons
carrying pontoons, telegraph supplies ana
ammunition following. The infantry moved
in splendid order.
Smoke from the burning huts marked the
line of the American advance. Ambulances
and horse filters, led by Chinese, brought
in the wounded, among whom were Few
Filipinos.
The Americans who were wounded en-
dured their injuries bravely, one group
which had been brought into the hospital
singing Comrades"
The Pennsylvania troops took nine pris-
oners, among them great naked captain
of the Macabebee tribe and one Japanese.
All the prisoners were greatly termed eA-
Meeting to be executed Immediately.
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like GAAEE BEFORE NIND|
Philippine Insurgents Driven Back
by the Dash and Courage of
American Troops.
EFFORT TO CORNER AND CRUSH REBELS.
Sixteen Americans Killed and Many
Wounded-Loss of the Filipinos Is
/ Heavy - The Campaign Is to BE
! Pushed Now by Gen. Otis to n Rapid
& Finish.

Washington, March 27.-Gen. Otis de-
scription of the battle is contained in
the following cablegram, received at
the war department Saturday morn
ing:
Manila, March 25.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Macarthur with two brigades
commenced advance on Novaliches north
west of Caloocan in center of the nsurgent
lines at daybreak this morning, advancing
rapidly and successfully, suffering little
From Novaliches Macarthur will swing to
the left and strike north of Polo; Wheaton's
brigade confronting Caloocan will press
forward at the proper time Halls brigade
on the old line north of Pastg Is Demon
strating west of the pumping station. Enc
my 1900 strong on the lines. am endeay-
oring to take fraction in reverse
(Signed) oI1o.
An Explanation.
Washington, March Eft was stated
at the war department that the express
sion of Gen. Otis, Am endeavoring to
take fraction in reverse" means that
while ostensibly making feint at the
front he intends to swing to the rear
and attack the enemy on the left. The
dispatches of Gen. Otis are forwarded
to President Mckinley as soon as re-
ceived at the war department.
In computing the time at Manila
when the fighting began it is said that
the battle has been in progress more
than "a hours.
War department officials do not at
tempt to conceal their belief that the
fighting has been very severe, and that
the American losses are no doubt quite
heavy.
The American Losses.
Manila, March 27.-The American loss
is now conservatively estimated at 16
killed and 1870 wounded.
The loss of the enemy was heavier
than during any previous engagement.
Transport Grant Sails.
Washington, March 27.-The follow
ing came to the war department Sat
urday:
Manila, March 25.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Transport Grant leaves for
Nagasaki and San Francisco this after
noon.
(SigneD "oTIS."
A BeIated Dispatch.
Washington, March 27.-The follow
ing belated dispatch reached the war
department Saturday morning:
Manila, March 25-Adjutant General,
ing; no Indications of excitement. Fight
Ing far beyond city limits. Firing cannot
be heard; old battle lines surrounding city
maintained and city cannot be safely I'M
covered
(signed, "oTIs."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
THE BUSY MANS CORNER.

Ex-senator Matt S. Quay is reported seri.
ously i'll at Philadelphia.
Speaker Reed has left Jekyl island for a
trip to the Florida resorts.
A dispatch from Vienna says that
Munkacsy. the painter, is improving.
kid" Mccoy won his fight with jos
Choynski at San Francisco in 20 rounds.
There is growing demand for horses al
Cincinnati and the prices are advancing.
Prof R. w. Wood of Madison, Wis. has
succeeded in Photographic sound waves.
Marquette has been chosen as the site
for the new Northern Michigan Normal
school.
G. w. Leitner. the linguist, who spoke 50
languages, Is dead at Bonn, Germany,
aged So.
Pate Burton was hanged at Houston,
Tex, for the murder of Henry Meyer, his
wife and baby.
The International convention of the 7.
M. G. A. will be held at Grand Rapids.
Mich, May rs to Is.
The report that Ambassador Cambon IL
to be transferred to Italy is not confirmed
by news from Paris.
County Judge o. D. Cannon shot dead on
the streets of Franklin, Tex. w. A. Gray,
prominent attorney.
Germany is reported as DESTROYS of an
amicable settlement Of the Samoan diff.
Guilty and will stand by the treaty.
The pope has announced his intention to
establish at Rome university modelled
after those at Frebourg and Washington
The body of a murdered man was found in
a refrigerator car which had arrived at the
stock yards. Chicago. from Newberry, S. C.
Gov. Pingree has signed the bill which
authorizes the city of Detroit to purchase
and operate the street railways Of the city.
w. II. Branson, secretary and treasurer
Of nnrhan, Cotton Manufacturing
company, was scalded to death at Durham
N. C.
Jesse Tooman has been convicted Of the
murder of ]. P. Kreichbaum at Blooming
ton, Neb., and sentenced to life imprison.
ment.
tiers of Lady Curzon, have arrived at Bonn
bay on their way to visit their sister al
Simla.
Hon. Francis H. Pierpont, the first gov.
ernor of West Virginia, is dead at the resi-.
dence of his daughter at Pittsburgh, Pa.
aged SIS.
The executive committee of the Garment
Workers union at Philadelphia has or.
dered strike Of the 5000 garment makeri
of the city.
A dispatch from Kimberley, in Griqui
land, West South Africa, announces the
death of the famous missionary, Rev. join
Mackenzie.
For the last few weeks about dozen
elders of the Mormon church at Salt Lake
City, Utah, have been PROSECUTING in Wash.
ington and Randolph counties, Ill.
The court of cessation at Paris has re-
jected the application of Nine. Dreyfus fol
the exclusion from the revision inquiry OF
three judges and has fined her 100 francs.
Citizens of the United States residing al
Che Foo, China, have made an appeal te
the charitable in America and elsewhere
on behalf of the sufferers from the ap.
palling yellow river floods of this year.
The Western League of Baseball Clubs
will open their season April 81 with St
Paul at Kansas City, Minneapolis at Mil
waukee, Buffalo at Indianapolis and Co
lumbus at Detroit. The season closes Sep
fember IL.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
Opening of ship Canal.

Port Arthur, Tex, March 81. = The
formal opening of the Port Arthur ship
canal took place here Saturday. Ovel
5000 visitors from all parts of the coun.
try were present, and the ceremonie.
were participated in by Cows. Sayers, o.
Texas; Jones, of Arkansas, and Stan
ley, of Kansas; practically all the mem
bers of the Texas legislature; a largi
number of members of the Kansas leg
islature, delegation of foreign cap
italists, and several train loads of ex
cursionists,
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Very Cheap Tickets.

Are on sale daily at all ticket offices
of the Chicago Great Western Ry to
points in Oregon, Washington, British
Columbia, Idaho and Montana. A
good opportunity to travel cheaply.
Consult any agent, Chicago Great
Western Ry for rates, time tables etc
or address, F. H. Lord, General Pass.
and Ticket Agent, 113 Adams ST.,
Chicago. apr Is
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
waynen made an unsuccessful attempt

waynen made an unsuccessful attempt
to hold up the Angels Camp stage near
Alta Calveras county. Messengers
Jackson and Mcconnell, of Wells Fargo
& Co.'s Express company, were in the
coach, and when the order to halt was
given, they began shooting. A bullet
from Jackson's rifle probably fatally
wounded one of the bandits, who was
identified as Bob Murphy, a woodchop-
per. His companion will probably be
captured.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
Utterly Unit as a Ration.
Cambridge Wins.

Putney, England, March 81. = The
fifty-siXth annual boat race between
crews representing the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge was rowed Sat
urday over the usual course. from Put
ney to Mortlake, distance of about
four and quarter miles, and was won
by Cambridge, for the first time in ten
years, in 81 minutes seconds.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-28
The Farm journal.

By direction and order of the PLAIN
DEALER, many of its patrons will re-
ceive copy of the Farm Journal for
examination. If they are pleased with
it and would like to enjoy its visits
regularly for FIVE YEARS, that with
the PLAIN DEALER one year. may be
obtained for $1.25. To those who have
paid one year in advance for this pa
per, the Farm Journal will be sent
five years for % cents.