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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-09-05
SUFFERED FOR YEARS.
With Kidney Trouble.-A Case That
Bafiied the Best Doctors.
WINDSOR, ONT. Jan. 13. 1900.

WINDSOR, ONT, Jan. 13, 1900.
| make the following statement for
the benefit OF people in advanced years:
| have used DR.. g. ID. Warmers Com
pound of Seven Cures with the best
possible results, l am sixty-five years
old and have suffered more or less with
my kidneys for over three years. At
ter taking eight bottles OF your Seven
Cures feel like a new man. / can
truthfully recommend it as one of the
greatest remedies of the age.
Yours respectfully,
b. STICKLE.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-09-05

Norris Silver, North Stratford, N. II.
81 purchased bottle OF One Minute
Cough Cure when suffering with a
cough doctors told me was incurable.
One bottle relieved me, the second and
third almost cured. Today am well
man." w. /. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-09-05

Mr.. G. A. Stillman, a merchant of
Tampico, H., writes; "Foley's Kid
ney Cure is meeting with wonderful
success. 1t has cured some cases here
that physicians pronounced incurable.
today am able to testify to its merits:
My face TODAY is living picture OF
health, and Foley Kidney Cure has
made it SUCH" w. ]. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-09-05

Sid Darling, 1912 Howard st. Port
Huron, Mich, writes: II have tried
many pills and laxatives but DeWitt's
Little Early Risers are far the best pill
I have ever used" They never grippe.
w. /. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-09-05

To steady your nerves improve your
digestion and beautify your complexion
drink YALE COFFEE. Underwood
Bros.
The Nome nugget., 1901-07-30
SUNSET CREEK SAID
 10 BE QUITE RICH
Many Claims Are Being Opened Up and the Prospects Are Very
 Promising.

Sunset creek. on the east side of Grantley harbor, is coming to the front as gold producer. Several hundred dollars in dust was brought into Teller last Saturday from No. , above by Billy Somers and Joe Griffin. This Is the statement made by P. Corrigan, who reached Nome on Sunday. There are about 30 claims on the creek. No. 3 above was the first claim to be. opened up: now there are several others which will soon he producing pay, in- cluding Nos. and 20 below, and good prospects have been found on a num- Der of others.
 Dick McArthur left Sunday night, taking with him supplies to open up 10 and 20, on which he has lay from the owners COrrigan X Crowley. On No. 3 Somers has a ditch 1000 feet long. There is no litigation on any of the claims, strange to say. and should & jumper appear short work would be made of him.
 Dees, Ring and Igloo creeks in the same vicinity are prospecting well.
The Nome nugget., 1901-07-30
JOHN p. CLUM
 WRITES A LETTER
Concerning a Late Stampede to Har- lem Creek and the Manhattan
 Road House.

The "sour dough" banquet, given in New York. at the Manhattan hotel. on April II, by d number of Nome men. brought many witty answers to the numerous invitations which were sent out. Following i. the reply sent by John P. Clum, himself veteran from tiersman, now special agent of the postot1ice department for Alaska. Mr. Clum writes in a vein that will be ap- preciated by every old-timer:
 Number Nl2 Abuv on North Fork uv l'Ouomack Creek. April II, 1901. Hon urable II. ~. WoOlley. Manhattan Rode hOuS. N. G.: deer Mister Woolley Windy Jim jest come in over the ice with the male and brHut me yure letter tCllin all about the stampede to Harlem creek an Manhettan Rode hou>. would mu>h up the b X 0 trail at once only am Npeclin Jack Mc((uc,ten in frum Circle an t.ngclStad is cumin over rum GolOvin Ba.
 | hey hecrcd q good Lit about that Harlem Creek country uv late. all once when ole Chance Dcpew wuz haulin trate out from that section 1 cum across there on the trail from Cape Cod mines to the Hackensack diggin, an tie for nation round the forks uv Madisun AVlneW and 12 street suited me power ful well. l felt sure then that there must be plenty uv pay dirt in that Har- lem Creek country an it's a cinch that the boysll strike it rich there.
 thank you fer stakin claim fer me an l wud be there on the l1th to du my assessment wurk if l he'd heered uv the stampede leetle sooner. hey got to stars for Nome as a guyed fer a party on April l9. We will go over the Pass by way uv ''The Picturs' s''-so yu see I'm powerful bizy gittin muck lucks kyaks an sich things ready fer the trip.
 You kin jest turn my claim over to some hungry sour doughAan' tell him to work it out clean before he quits but he best not try to dry wash it-he Il feel better satisfied if he sluices few bucketsful. If you could find Hank Summers he'd show you how to du the Slulce act fine.
 My party is goin' to start for Nome Friday nite. from the congregational Gospel hous in this camp, an if any of the push want to go with us-an' got a grub steak-they can get permission from me to go.
 du hope that when the hoys scatter out rum yure rode hOus that every mothers sun uv 'em Fl have his poke full. So long.
The Nome nugget., 1901-07-30

however, does not think a man must ntarNe to death at this season of the year, even if he is out of his usual pro vender. A man, he says, can subsist for many days on the grasses. shrubs and the like, which he may find by looking for them on the tundra.
 On the way down he met the govern ment survey party, which came in this spring, back of Cape York. All were well.
 Recorder Charles F. Gay, of Arctic district. is sluicing on No. l7 Futile creek, with encouraging results. Mo- Anderson creek is also being worked by A. Peterson. Two claims on Crosby creek, tributary of Mastodon. are also being developed by Frank Wilkins and Coleman Griffith, they having got from ten cents to fifty cents to the pan. Other creeks which show good pros poets are Mastodon, Republican, Ander- son and Selma, the latter being es- pecially promising.
 ''In six weeks" says Mr. Anderson. "everybody will know what these creeks cOntain.'
 Mother Woods is in the district. She has store at the mouth of the kugu- ruk river.
The Nome nugget., 1901-07-30
Work Is !n Full Blast On
 Severd! Creeks.
GOOD PAY IS FOUND
An Old River Channel Said to Have Been Located and Good Find RepOrted-A Quartz Ledge Has
 Been Located Which Assays We'll.

Golden Gate. July 25.-Work is in full blast on Nos. ,, 3 and i above on Iron creek. and on the left fork. The creek seems to be good all the way through. On pope's claim. No. 6 be- low, the ground is very good. gold being found flJm the surface down. Nos. , and , above are also looking good. No. , i, owned by Sl,covich X McLennan. Frank Ilawley has lay on the claim.
 A great amount of work iS hcing done as well on Slate creek. especially on Nc. 3 below. A quartz ledge has also been struck near here by Morris Val. which looks as though it might be the mother lode which has fed the creeks in this section. The outcrop shows up better than anything so far found in this country. Val is all old prospector from Calaveras county. Cal.
 John w. Gnye. on d bench opposite No. 3 Iron creek, has a pretty good find. Yesterday he banned out S5, coarse gold,
 An old river channel crossing the divide from the Golden Gate district to the KOugarok prospects well, and the men who are located there seem to be of the opinion that they have made d good find. even if it is little high up. Benson is working on No. 1. Benson creek, or Lulu. as some call it, it being just opposite No. 6, Pope's claim, and he is greatly encouraged by his pros poets. No. 9 on Iron has started work, and some coarse gold has been found on both Nos. and the fraction called g, owned by KuntZe. who found coarse gold at five feet and is not at bedrock yet. He is greatly elated over his find, , of course. It is said that some selling has been going on. though it cannot be said to be authenticated.
 There are plenty of fish in the, Pill grim river, both salmon and grayling coming up the river and going into Salmon lake, which is about six or seven miles above here.
 People are working all over the dis trict, ald there is not a day that you cannot hear of someone making d find or getting good prospects. It looks as though the Golden Gate is strictly in it.
 The fine weather has lessened the water in the creeks, and men can work with more satisfaction than heretofore. Quartz prospects are as good or better than any place in the country, and some good quartz men ought surely to be on the ground. as the showing for ground-iloor work is good, to say the least.
The Nome nugget., 1901-07-30
Just in From the Outside.

The R. H. Humber Company. located in the kimball building. has just re- ce'ved barrels of good American money from tAe outside. and witn iu came orders ,opay tne hi-1cSt price for gold dust. Dent iail to see them b fore selling your dust elsewhere.
The Nome nugget., 1901-07-30
In Arctic District.

Charley Anderson reached Nome Friday from Arctic district, after a hardship of seven days to Teller. Dur ing port of the time he and his com panion. Dick Mohrmann. were on eX- tremely short rations. MT. Anderson,
The Nome nugget., 1901-07-30

Regular lunch at the Hotel Golden Gate, lo cents: regular dinner, $l.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18
LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES.
Report of COMMITTEES Rules Brings
the Question Up.

Report of Committee on Rules Brings
the Question Up.
Legislative expenses were the occa-
sion of the first series of debates of the
house since the beginning of the
session.
The discussion was precipitated by a
report of the committee on rules,
through Chairman Dunn, which added
three committee clerks to the house
quota. After objections by Mr.. Jacob
son and others, the report went through
on this feature.
There was another clash over the
procedure in regard to appropriation
bills. Under the rules as they were
last session and for several sessions,
appropriation bills are referred to half
a dozen committees, having charge of
the particular subject or institution in
volved. If that committee reports the
bill favorably, it is again referred to
the big committee on appropriations
and must run its gauntlet before ap.
pearing again in the house. The COM
mittee on rules proposed to do away
with the second referen ce, and have
only the committee deal with a bill,
but the house was afraid of excessive
appropriations and rejected the pro.
posed change.
After considerable more discussion
the report of the committee on rules
was adopted without further changes
The house adjourned shortly before
10 till Monday evening at O'Clock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18
WHAT'S HIS BACKINGY

Speaking of the advent of Thos.
Lowry into the senatorial field, in the
contest for the short term, and as to
what call there was for his candidacy,
the Pioneer Press among other things
says :
"But all the same, no member has SO
far acknowledged that he is for
Lowry. And the reason is plain. For
there are serious objections to his
candidacy on public grounds Per-
sonally and socially he is man of
more than usually engaging and popu
lar manners He is liberal and large
hearted. He is loyal and ardent Re-
publican, easily the foremost in Min
neapolis in active local influence, and
has always been a generous contribu-
tor to Republican campaign funds
And he could well afford to crafty his
patriotic inclinations in this easy but
expensive way For by mis- business
sagacity, boldness and energy he has
built up a large fortune. He took
hold of the street railway systems of
ST. Paul and Minneapolis while they
were still in the primitive mule stage
and has developed them into one of
the best equipped and profitable
electric rail way systems in the coun-
try. But he has made his money out
Of these, no t from their annual reve-
nues, but by the sale of stocks and
bonds on basis of fictitious capital
ization amounting to many times the
amount of money actually invested.
He is also president of the 500 road,
and spends most of his time in New
York financing the affairs of these en-
terprises He is thus the representa-
tive of corporate monopolies whose in
terests are often in conflict with the
public demand for such legislative
regulations as shall require them to
contri butte their fair share Of the pub
| lie revenues and shall protect the pub
lie from oppressive or unjust rates
The election to the senate of a man so
closely identified with corporate inter
ests, already too powerful in their in
huence on national legislation, would
not be looked upon with favor by the
Republicans of Minnesota. 1t will
put the Republican party in an indie
feasible position before the people of
, the state.
"But Mr.. Lowry is rich. He is re-
puted to be liberal in the expenditure
of money for accomplishing objects
which he has at heart Hence a good
many people are predicting that for
this reason he will be elected. Except
to say that such view of the case is
an insult to the legislature and people
of Minnesota and is not complimentary
to Mr.. Lowry, we shall pass over that
phase of the question for the present.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18
PETTIGREw's END.

In the memorial services in the
United States senate today, Senator
Pettigrew, who had agreed to speak
on the invitation of Senator Nelson,
withdrew his acceptance and refused
to take part in the services. To a
correspondent he said that while he
had been invited to speak and had in
tended to do so, he had come to the
conclusion that he ought not to do so.
He said he had been a great admirer
of Senator Davis, and that they had
been good friends for years notwith-
standing their late political differ
ences He further said that he felt
that he might say something that
would be best left unsaid, so he with
drew his name. The correspondent
says that in other quarters it is limited
that Pettigrew withdrew his name from
the list not so much for the resaons he
has given as from the fact that he is
now persona non grata to practically
every member of the senate and that
he felt his eulogy would tend rather
to mar the proceedings today than to
add to their impressiveness and
solemnity His latest charge that
President Mckinley appointed son of
Justice Harlan of the supreme court,
to the position of attorney general of
Porto Rico, hoping thereby to influence
Justice Harlan's opinion favorably to
the administration in the Porto
Rican cases now pending before the
supreme court, is one that has robbed
Pettigrew Of what little respect there
remained for him among any of the
and his charge is bitterly re-
scented in all quarters. The Washing
ton correspondent remarks that the
prevailing sentiment is in favor of ig
noring both the charge and Pettigrew,
and Harlan will be confirmed with
very little opposition.
Pettigrew has sunken pretty low in
public estimation, and on the 4th of
March next he will retire without re-
greet expressed from any quarter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18

The Alexandria Post News com
meuting on the progress of the sena-
torial contest remarks:
Zone thing can be said for the Hon.
r. G.. Evans, he is waging clean,
manly campaign for senatorial honors.
His supporters, too, have not hesitated
to come right out in the open and say
they were for him, making it impos-
sible for them to play fast and loose
game and showing their adherence tc
a frank, honest contest. Such q cam
paign as that is of itself worth thous-
ands of votes to the party, and appeals
most strongly to the rank and file.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18
WILL ASK $4,000.

Minnesota Beet sugar Company Wants
an Appropriation.
The adverse tone of Governor Lind's
message will not deter the Minnesota
Beet Sugar company from having bill
introduced for the appropriation of
$4,000 as state aid, the grant to take
the form OF bounty. President Gus.
tat Theden says that if this measure is
defeated another will be introduced
giving the courts jurisdiction so that
suit to recover may be begun. This
course will be necessary in view of the
fact that astate is non-suable by virtue
of it's soveIeignty. 1t will not be asked
by Mr.. Thsden that the bounty be con.
tinued another year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18

33, 49, AS against the Populist vote
of 80, 900 there was 1000. 600 votes in
1899, and $50, 900 in 1896, but this is
accounted for by the fact that the
Populistic views of Bryan tended to
absorb much of its strength, and also
to the fact that thousands of Populists
noted that Bryan and other leaders
were using the organization simply as
a stepping stone to further their per-
sonal ambitions, and as the causes
which called the party into life had
largely disappeared, they returned to
the Republican party.
The total vote of the minor parties
was 391, TIA out of total of ID, 600, 600
votes cast. When issues are clear cut,
the voters do not appear to have much
time for side parties.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18
SHOULD CALL A CAUCUS.

Concerning a caucus and the fact
that the Republicans ought to settle
the senatorship contest in caucus by
themselves before going into the legis-
lature to vote on the matter the Min
neapolis Times, a very fair indepen-
dent paper. though with Democratic
leanings says:
"The Times cares little about the
party divisions per Sc and can imagine
a state of affairs in which party lines
might be submerged, to the advantage
of the state, in the selection of the
United States senator. No such con-
ditions now exist. Without speaking
in the least in detriment of his COM
petitors, no one-Democrat, Republi-
can or Populist, can say aught against
Robert G. Evans or bring scintilla
of evidence against his fitness for the
place to which he aspires. So far as
other candidates not now in the field
are concerned, the man who is a
candidate only to coterie and not
openly announced before the people, is
not, nor should he be, considerable
quantity. We are not impugning the
right of any one of good moral charac-
ter and average intelligence to become
candidate for so honorable posi-
ton, but until that right is exercised
in the usual way such covert candi-
dates must content themselves with
hope
"Mr. Evans is an open, above
board, strongly supported candidate
for the position. He has gripped his
friends with hooks of steel and it is to
his credit, and to that of his friends,
that the golden magnet is absolutely
absent from this campaign. The CON-
miUtees to whom the duty of calling a
caucus will be, or has been, intrusted,
should sink all favoritism absol utely
and do the right thing. That right
thing is to call the caucus at the earli
est feasible moment and thus end
state of things which contains within
itself elements of strife and dissension,
to say nothing of bribery and corrup-
ton. Mr.. Evans is not afraid of the
caucus, he earnestly desires one. He
has the right as Republican to de-
mand one.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18
THE VOTE OF MINOR PARTIES.

LIE WILL OE MINOG fAhIIERo.
Previous to election last November
there was an idea prevalent that Debs
would poll large vote. Both of the
old party managers took the matter
into consideration, and felt that the
strength he was liable to exhibit
among the laboring men was likely to
be large enough to upset all calcula-
tions. But the result shows that Debs
did not exhibit the strength it was
supposed he would among laboring
men in large centers, while consider
ably larger than heretofore polled by
the Social Democrats, it is much less
than expected. because of the promi-
nence of Debs as labor leader. His
vote was "a, 552. This shows that
while Socialism or any other ism will
attract in certain quarters, it does
not make progress among the large
mass of voters, who can not see any
good coming out of such an off shoot.
In the matter of side party votes
the Prohibition party polled sO7. 1858
votes for Woolley. against 146, 600 in
1896. But this in not high water
mark as the Prohibition vote reached
300, S51 in 1892 and 249, SOC in 1888.
Wharton Barker, representing the
mid-road Populists only polled so, 1888,
while the Social Labor party only had
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-18

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
There are a great many people in
this country, probably the great
majority, who have been laboring
under the Misrepresentation that a
presidential election took place on the
9th of November last, and that Mr..
Mckinley was reelected upon that
date. As a matter of fact the presi-
Dental election has just taken
place, and Mr.. McKinley's successor
was just chosen. The election last
November was simply, in reality, a
preliminary election, and the real
presidential election took place on
Monday last, when the various presi-
Dental electors of the forty-fve states
met at the capitols of their re-
spective states and balloyed for presi-
dent and vice president of the United
States. These men voted for
Messrs. Mckinley and Bryan for presi-
dent according to their politics and for
Messrs. Roosevelt and Stevenson for
vice president. But had the provision
of the constitution governing this cleo
tion worked as its trainers had intended
there would doubtless be very heated
contest on and the nation instead of
being peaceful and quiet as it is to-
day, would be in the midst Of red
hot political struggle. That provision
provided that of the two names ballot
ed for president the one receiving the
highest number was to be president
and the second vice president. But
this provision only operated in three
elections. In 1900 Thos Jefferson and
Aaron Burr each received the same
number of votes and the election was
thrown into the house of representa-
tives where SO ballots were taken be-
fore it was decided and Jefferson
elected. The dangers likely to arise
from this provision were clearly ap-
parent, and before 1904 the constitu-
ton was amended so that the electors
vote direct for candidate for presi-
dent and vice president.
While the presidential electors are
not obliged to vote for any particular
man, no pledges having been exacted
from them, yet it is remarkable fact
that in the more than century trial
of this scheme, there has not been a
man chosen elector who has violated
his trust. Commenting upon this re-
markable fact, DR.. Albert Shaw, in the
Review of Reviews says: 1.-The
power of unwritten law has perhaps
never been more signally illustrated
than in the character which the cleo
toral college has assumed as the per-
feet instrument of a system of govern
ment by parties. 1t is often said that
the presidential electors have become
mere dummies, that the body has be-
come a wholly superhuous piece of
machinery, and that it is therefore
without dignity or Importance. And
thus many persons advocate the direct
election of the president by the peo-
pie of the whole country. The prob
lens involved, however, are not quite
so simple as some of those advocates of
a changed method are wont to suppose
and no change is likely to be made. .
While the work of the electoral
college has dropped to merely a formal
function, yet it is an Office of dignity
and honor.
The electors from this state are
VIM. E. Lee, John L. Gessell, Edwin
Dunn, J. G. Donovan, o. X. Naeseth,
Carl Wirth, John S. Dodge, George A.
Whitney, Ell. w. Stone.