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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02

Mercer obtlined permission from the de-
partment of the interior to locate the
agency where he thought best he chose
the point because of its pictureSqueness
and established the line of the agency
limit where the portages had been made
Meantime. however, a canal had been
Oh edged through it, allowing the free
passage of canoes, empty or loaded and
accommodating a light draft gasoline
launch that is now attached to the agen-
cy. At later period when the water
in the lake is restored to its normal
he1ght--it is now very low-further
dredging will be done on the canal so
that small steamers may pass through
The agency limit begins at that place
and extends northerly from shore to
shore Of the point, covering altogether
436 acres. The first work in what was
then the virgin forest was begun on the
first of last August Capt. Mercer and
his family, with the Indian police and
some of his wards moved over on the 1st
Of December by boat. The next day the
lake freze over and was impossible for
steam craft until spring. The new To-
cation is just two miles from the old
location and two miles via the canal to
Walker. The distance from the old
agency to Walker, or in fact, from
the new one, because they are equidis-a
tant from the town. is seven miles by the
route around the point. There are four
teen buildings on the tract now. the
most important being the school house,
the captains house and the store. Two
fine docks have been built. There are
thirty Indian houses up some of them
two stories high and all built by the In
dams themselves, with little help. They
are supplied with lumber and other ma
serials and are then expected to put up
the building.
No timber is to be cut on the new To-
cation, the captains object being to make
park of it. The underbrush will all
be trimmed out, but the trees will re-
main If any timber is wanted for
building purposes it will be procured else
where. as Will the firewood. The cap
tain has utilized the saw mill the ma
chinery of which laid on the bank Of the
lake at the old agency for ten years, and
is having all the lumber needed by the
Indians sawed by them. The capacity
of the mill he has built is about 5000 feet
a day. Mrs Mercer is interesting her
friends in a project which will result
in building a church on the new loca-
ton. She has received and is receiving
many subscriptions for this purpose and
expects in a. few days to begin the struc-
ture. There is a large group of build
dence that present fine appearance
cottages, another the hospital, the Jail,
the captains office, etc -
Ere long all the Indians who have
made their homes at the old agency will
have removed to the new loca ton. They
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
Saltwater News.

Washington county Republicans met at
the court house yesterday and nominated
county ticket to be placed before the
voters of this county. Senator E. l.. Hos
pes was chosen chairman of the cenven--
ton, and FL. o. Spneat was elected secre-
tary While the committee on credentials
was framing its report, Congressman F.
=. stevens was introduced and made a
fe" remarks on the issues of the day
Inc trst nomination in order was that
OF county auditor. and Charles H.
Browne, the pres ntincumbent, was the
only nominee, J. EP.4 Masterinan having
WlthdraWn. MR. Brown was elected by
acclamation The only candidates for the
Office of register OF deeds were Charles
A. hammers and Charles V Heistrom
Mr. hammers was chosen on the first
formal ballot by vote of 81 to 49, A.
* Doe was selected as the candidate for
clerk of the courtfby a unanimous vote
Frank S. Mexican. was placed in nominal
ton FOR county superintendent of schools,
and there being no other nomination
MI. Mexican was chosen by reclamation
Orr1s Il. Lee and S. Blair McBeath were
the Opposing candidates for county attor-
ney, and Mr.. McBeath was successful
on the first formal ballot, receiving %
votes to q for Mr.. Zee Joseph M Old
ham was the only candidate for county
ton. For coroner Es OBJ. Freligh was
chosen. sharp fight presented itself
for sheriff, there being no less than four.
candidates in the field Four ballots were
necessary, and on the final ballot Oscar
Ostrom was chosen as the candidate On
the first formal ballot for treasurer, Fred
S. Foster received the nomination by a
vote of ~ to So for 0. B. Soule The leg
islatiVe nominees We're TIL Hillary.
tp11 II hnpFa b.
Aug. F. NeGbauer from the southern
end of the county. j. NJ. Schaffer was
nominated TO succeed Andrew Olsen as a
member Of the board of county commits
sioners. c. ssAs.s tsrandtsrand was rep9nni-
mated, as was@also Aug. T. Noltfmier
The St Croix boom started up again
yesterday, and work will be resumed
with a full crew tomorrow A large
number of drives have come in and the
hoom company feApects to have logs
enough to keep the crew busy until the
close of the season.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02

but the Indian he dispatched in an op-
poslte direction to buy provisions Now,
as every Westerner knows, the Indian
greatest passion is for fire water; fail
Ing that, painkiller will do; failing both
he is to be consoled with any sweet con-
coctlon Of potato Feelings and apple cores
that may be tabled jam" This Isdian
came back with six large kegs of rasp-
berry jam as full provision for the trip.
Io pack horses for a mountaineering
expedition is a fine art. So much. and
only SO much, must be balanced delicate
ly on each side of the broncho and Sc
curely fastened there; otherwise the
broneho may object to overweight by a
vigorous buck" But the man who could
pick out his own Indians and buy his
own provisions could also pack mountain
horses; so the kegs of jam were swung
upon a much-endurlng broncho. The
amateur packer thought he had. finished
with that horse; but the bulldog flies,
and bluebottles, and mosquitoes, and
gnatS, and all the tribes of winged YER
min that swarm to the smell of jam,
had only begun on the patient animal
The packers were busy with their other
horses till the abused hroncho called
attention to himself by an angry snort.
What the onlookers saw was broncho
dyed in royal purple, MISUNDERSTANDING
with all MS might, and at each ''buek''
plore barrel hoops burst and more jam
gushed over the maddened beast. By
this time the other bronchos had pricked
up their ears. Village urchins came cut
to boot from fence tops, and the whole
jam-splattered cavalcade was presently
in a wild stampede down the Bow Val
fey. The amateur packers had been at.
work from daybreak, and it was now af-
ternoon.
However set in their ways the gaides
may be, one is safer in their hands than
in ones own.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
KILLED HNANiAI0 HDEEG
ENGINEER W.. f. CARROLL LOSES
HIS LIFE, HIS FIREMAN
INJURED
COLLISION WITH a FREIGHT
The Train Hands ON the Second One
Saw the Passenger Approach
and Saved Themselves
by Jumping.

MANhATo, Mimi, Sept. 1.-(SpecialD-
ENGINEER William F. Carroll, of this city
died today from injuries received in a
wreck ON. the NORTHWESTERN road this
morning He was ffty-three years old
Gnu haa Wife4andt ten children The
fireman, &C. Q. giscee, was scalded and
otherwise injured, bft will recover.
l. a. Frederick, the baggageman on
the wrecked train, is at the hospital,
badly injured
1. t. Hughes was conductor on the pas
senger and lives at Sleepy Eye. His head
and back were injured.
me train was the local ST. Peter
and New Ulm passenger.
carroll lived until 10 o'clock this fore
noon
Frederick, the baggageman, was scald-
ed on the legs, His ear was partially
wrecked, and it is surprising that his in
Jurles were not more serious. Cisco, the
fireman, is severely shaken up, but will
recover.
Engineers and fremen of the freight
jumped when they saw the passenger APP
Pfoachdng and escaped injury.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02

surface He was badly cut and bruised
of course, and it was some time before we
could bring him to his senses, but count
that man lucky that he got off with his
life and at least one party of. amateurs
learned their lesson"
Are such mishaps of FREQUENT occur
renee in the Rockies?"
More frequent than is admitted" said
the guide. They're among the incidents
that don't add to the climbers -reputa ton;
SO he keeps quiet about them
It's a wonder none of these risky
climbers with the true daring of the anna
teur have essayed Mount Assiniboine.''
remarked, thinking of that helmet
shaped peaks reputation as one of the
highest and most invicible in the whole
range of the Rocky mountain system
north and south
They've tried it. all of them" deeIar-
ed the guide. AT least. members Of
nearly all the mountain-elinabing parties
that have visited here have insisted on
being taken south to Mt. Assiniboine.
They all go up to the snow line and
around the towering white peak; but they
are quite content to come home without
attempting 1t. In the first place. they
can't get near the summit proper for
impossible Aorges. Ia the second. if they
did get near it. they could only go up
the way a fly goes up wall Where
lhGIS , SHOW II crashes down the noun
tain side in aValanefes that roar like
artillery. and would drive any man off;
and where there's no snow, only black
patches, it means the grounds eco steep
Tor snow to stick; so bows a man going
to hang on? No, mark my word twill
be some time before Mt. Assiniboine
is scaled, and there'H be no few lives
lost before it is done"
DIDN'T NEED A GUIDE
No account of Rocky Mountain guides
would be complete without record of the
man who refused to be guided by theno
lie hailed from the graduating class
honor group-of Yale Having heard the
charges for long expeditions, pack
horses. tents, cook provisions and guide
from So to IS a day, according to the
number of the party, he deemed the
price SO excrbitant he went Independent
ly to the Stoney Islands and ensagef
his own men. He himself Went to- the
Calgary rancling country for horses
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02

his own weight Then what might be ex-
pected happens, and people form eXag-
gerated ideas of the danger of mountain
climbing. That was the way enc accident
occurred last season. There We're five or
six men in the party, and weuld you be-
lieve it, every man had, to my positive
knowledge, been doing amateur climbing
since 1890? We had many very salts
factory ascent nothing to boast about
others had done the same thing-and
leaving the peak began to glissa6e down
slippery slopes of ice at a great rate.
Eoped together and braced with our
alpen-stocks imagine party of six men
sliding down 3ong, even slope with the
velocity of toboggan. The nip of frost
above glacier field is apt to put daring
in mans blood; hut as the ice ended
in scooped cut depression of deep snow,
We were presently fioundeTing instead Of
Siding Some one suggested veering off
the field, nearer the edge where the snow
was hard packed: but the margin of the
ice eurled out in a great snow c0rnice
and We We're doubtful. Suddenly there
was the crash of something splintering
and a cloud of poWdery snow Fuffed up
above the gorge.
CROSSING ON SNOW BRIDGES.
A bit Of the snow cornice had broken off
and struck against the lodge as it fell to
the depths. So we crossed the central de-
preston and were making fairly good
progress amid field, the snow becoming
harder as we descended. when two great
transverse cracks, zig-za gging about fif-
teen feet apart, were noticed The cracks
might not have arrested attention had it
not been for the condition of the snow
between. 1t was saggy, dark and rotten
looking. We could hear the trickle of
water below, making a river channel
through the solid ice. I advised going
higher up the crevasse to a better cross
ing, but one of the party who should
have known better deliberately unroped
himself to go forward and try the snow
bridge. Some of the others yet on firm
footing threw him a rope. calling. You're
more likely to need that than we are,
and fortunately he Hoped the line under
his arms just as he stepped on the ere
vase.
People never know how an accident
/ happens. I saw this man go confidently
at.least half the way over; then w and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
MURDERER MUST BE HANGED.
Jenkins Was Convicted Through the
oHfession of His Father

BISMARCK, N. D.. Sept. Especial y
After hearing arguments of Attorney
Steyell for relatives of Ira o. Jenkins,
under sentence of death in Burleigh coun-
ty Jail, for murder, who asked commit
tation of his sentence to life imprison-
ment, and of States Attorney Allen, who
opposed granting the petition, Gov. Fan
cher today denied the petition, saying
that the evidence in the case did not war
rant his interference and that he could
not do his duty as governor of the state
and commute the sentence Jenkins was
convicted of the murder of Gust Stark,
a companion, at coal mine north of Bis
marck. Both he and his father were
suspected, but the latter made con-
fession, saying that his son killed Stark,
and the two had agreed to cover up the
crime. Jenkins is to hang Sept. A. and
Sheriff Bogue is max ing preparations for
the execution. This; will be the second
hanging in Burleigh county in the two
years of Sheriff Bogues term
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02

will be much better circumstanced there
and will certainly prefer it to the sterile
district from which they have come.
Capt. Mercer has accomplished great
work in a short time. He went to Wash
ington several times in the interest of
the project, and, as has been seen, con-
WINGED the proper authorities that the
move was a necessary and wise one sure
to inure to the credit Of the government
and the betterment of the Indians.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
For a Bad Headache.

Pour boiling water into a basin, add
little eau de cologne. toilet vinegar,
lavender water, or even common vinegar,
and battle the back of the neck just be-
low the hair, using the water as hot as
you can bear it. A cloth wrung out OF
the same and laid across the forehead
also does good. Some people also drink
a cup of hot strong tea with a slice Of
lemon in it, but no milk or sugar.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
Copper in wfnona- County.

WINONA, Mimi, Sept 1-(Special. y
A vein of copper, said to be of wonder
full richness, has been discovered in the
town of Pleasant Hill, in this county A
mineral right to mine on the property has
has been filed with the register of deeds.
Mons Anderson, a rich merchant of La
Crosse, and heavily interested in West
ern copper mines, will assist in develop
ing the mine.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
Charles Majors New Bear stories.

The latest work of the author Of when
cure dby the Ladies Home Juornal AS
would be expected. 1t has To do with ad-
venture-the experience OF some frontier
children. There is childish romance
woven into the stories. and they viii have
keen interest for boys as well as for
their elders. Under the heading of blue
River eBar Stories Mr. Majors serial.
will begin in the October Journal. = =
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
BLOOD Poisson

5 the worst disease or earth got the easiest TO
have piTnpies. spots on the skin cores in the MOTH
ulcers, falling hair bone pains cStarrh and don't
knew 1t is BLOOD POISON. Call and get
enc month. Sold By F. M. Parker. 364 W1easha
street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
Killed ON the Track

WINONA, Mimi. Sept. Especial. D
Near Minnesota City last night a Milwau-
zee train ran over and instantly killed
tramp. From letters found on his person
the mans name was Mike McCurven and
his home Rock Island. He was evidently
stealing ride, and had been. knocked off
the train.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
Escaped Convict Recaptured.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept. 1.-tspe-
cial 1.-The Sioux Falls penitentiary au-
thorities were notified late this AFTERNOON
that Jack Keifer. the Stanley county con-
penitentiary yesterday afternoon, had
been recaptured at Hills, Mimi
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
smallpox Breaks out.

wINoNA, MINI. Asept 1-(special.)-
Smallpox has been discovered in St.
Charles and Utica. towns in this county.
In addition to a Farmer named Scherner-
horn, whose home has been quarantined.
four members of a threshing crew are
said to be suffering with the disease.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
LAID WITH DUE HoNoRs.
HinckIey Fire Is Common GRATED by
Stately Monument Erected Today.

HINCKLEY, Sept Especial Hun
dreds of people were present to witness
the dedication of the Hinckley fire mon
ument. Much credit is due the commits
sioners for their great services in MAX
ing such a demonstration possible. The
memorial address was made by Senator
McKusick, of Pine City
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-07-28
The Cost of Making War.


The report of the auditor for the
war department, covering the fiscal
year 1900, has been submitted to
the secretary of the treasury. The
amount involved in accounts settled
in the quartermaster's division dur
ing the year was $S7, ,249; tor
the fiscal year 1899. the same class
OF accounts represented a total OF
SIS, 669, AT, while 1898 shows a
total OF only $30,025,510, A new
branch OF this department called in
to existence by the Spanish-Ameri-
can war and its results is the army
transport service.
The amount disbursed through the
paymaster's accounts during the
year was $48, 700,560. The ord
nance accounts settled aggregate
$13, 500, 514 the medical accounts
$2,756,059 and those for the nation
al soldiers homes $4,002,08S.
The amount paid on all military
claims covering both the Spanish
and Civil war was 81, 259, 4OS, as
against $4SO,02s for 1899. During
the year the amounts allowed to the
several states on account of the rails
ing of the volunteer army in the war
with Spain aggregated So, 433, o93.
The amounts claimed by the states
on this account aggregated So, 276,-
412, leaving a balance pending or
disallowed of 50, 043, 1923.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-07-28
rne Zinc Field Railroads.

Weare in receipt Of a private COM
mum kNtian in reference to the zine
xfssgBkansas, setsing forth to a
Aeertain extent their present condition,
but more particularly their future
richly promising prospects. The
highly desired railroads it seems are
pointing that way Following is
the communication;
"The much talked of railroad, for
the great, undeveloped zinc field of
North Arkansas, is actually taking
on tangible shape Work is in pro-
gress upon the Eureka Springs Ex-
tension. Contracts have been made
for fifty miles of road, which will
bring it to Harrison, county seat Of
Boone. As SO far determined, only
one tunnel will have to be cut; name
", within three miles of Eureka
Springs. This tunnel is being cut as
rapidly as the latest electrical
appliances for such enterprise can do
the work The contracts are sup
posed to be made by corporation,
independent of any and all of the
established systems, but it is gen
orally conceded that the Frisco
is back of the enterprise While this
road is not contracted for any far
ther than Harrison, there are good
reasons to belive that it will connect
somewhere near Harrison with the
North Arkansas Central railroad,
which is now in the course OF con-
struetion with view of giving
Marion County a southern outlet to
the Iron Mountain. The work Of
grading this last mentioned road is
going on in Marion County between
Yellville and Buffalo City. This will
not only connect this county with
jThS rssIiountam system, but also
give railroad transportation to
White River for which Congress at
its last session appropriated 81 ,600,-
900 to put in locks and dams, in
order to make it navigable all the
year around. Work on the first set
of locks has begun just north OF Bat
esville, Ark. The North Arkansas
Central is also independent of any OF
the old systems and is promoted by
| Mr.. Winner, of Kansas City. The
people of Marion County have raised
| $4,000 in cash for this last men
toned rcad.-CoPper Zinc d Lead
Review.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-07-28
A WOman'S Opinion Of Men

Mrs.--of Texas, at a literary
reunion in certain town in that
state, toas ted the gentlemen as fol-
lows:
God biessem. They halve our
Joys, they double our sorrow, they
treble our expenses, they excite our
magnanimity, they increase our self
respect, they awake our enthusiasm,
they arouse our affections, they con-
troll our property and out maneuvre
us in every thing. This would be a
very dreary world without'em in
fact, | may say without EN- it
would not be much of world, any
how. We love 'em; and the dear
beings can't help it; we control EN-
and the precions fellows don't know
it; AS husbands they are always
convenient, though not always on
hand; as beaux they are by no
means matchless; they are agreeable
visitors and are indispensable at
at oyster saloons. They are splen-
did escorts for some other fellow S
wife or sister, and as friends they
are far better than women. AS
our fathers they are inexpressibly
grand. A man may be a failure
in business, a wrek in constitu.
ton, not enough to boast of as a
beauty, nothing as wit, less than
nothing as a legislator for woman's
rights, and even not very brilliant
as a member of the press, but if he is
our father we overlook his short
comings and cover his picadiloe:
with the divine mantle OF charity,
Then as our husbands, how W.
love to parade them as paragon
In the sublime language of the is
spired poet.
Well lie for them.
Wen cry for them.
And if we could we'd fly for them
We'd do anything but die TO
them.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-07-28
Good Reading Makes Good Boys.

We wish we could impress the
many fathers and mothers on the
farms who will read these notes with
the importance of providing plenty
of good, clean, healthful, instructive
reading matter for their boys and
girls. There are so many bad books
and papers, so many which, if not
bad, are worthless, giving false ideas
of life and living, cheap, shoddy
literary trash and fiction, that this
sort should be watched and kept out
OF the farm home. Good literature
is so very abundant and cheap,
literature which will help the boys
and girls to grow up into not only
bright but good men and women,
that it becomes a duty of the very
first importance for country fathers
and mothers to see that the bad
books and papers are kept out OF the
home and the good books and papers
supplied. If we wanted to make q
bad boy in the easiest possible wav,
we wonld furnish him bad books to
read.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-07-28
Seventeenth Century Girls.

Girls living in the seventeenth cen
fury had to govern themselves by
the following act in 1910, by the
English parliament; "All women OF
whatsoever age, rank, professiono or
degree, virgins, maids or widows,
that shall from and after the passage
of this act, impose upon or to trap
into matrimony any of his majesty's
male subjects by scents, paints,
cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth,
false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays,
high heeled shoes or bolstered hips,
shall incur the penalty of the law
now in force against witchcratt'
sorcery, and suchlike misdemeanor'
and that the marriage, upon COM
plant sha Il stand null and void"