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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-08-01
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Mike Nugent OF Willard, was in town
on Wednesday.
Miss Della McCoIlum is visiting
Perham friends.
You will save money by buying your
shoes at The Boston.
All sailor hats 60 at from 25c to 75c
at Cothlow's next week.
The iron has arrived for the bridge
the Sank river just southeast of town.
The new bridge and improved grade
at the Hoboken creek nears COM
pletion.
Street hats will be sold during the
coming week at Cothlow & Co.'S at SOC
to S1.OO
For the first time in nearly three
years the Farmers elevator is empty of
wheat.
Chas. E. Nelson will leave for Ken
mare within the next week. His sons
have farms there.
Do not fail to call upon P. Lamb in
his new quarters, when in want of in
surance or farm loan.
Mrs. G. M. McCollum sprained her
ankle so severely on Wednesday that
she is laid up for time.
A person driving in from Lyman
Prairie on Monday counted nine wreck
ed windmills between there and this
city.
The grove on the Rice place in Ash
ley occupied by Frank Spooner, was
badly damaged by the wind on Sun
day.
Over twenty trees were blown down
in the Henry Lyman grove in the
south part of Raymond on Sunday
night.
Ralston's Breakfast Food ls per-
feet early-mcrning food that cooks in
five minutes-a brain food and muscle
maker, at Tobey's.
z The cement side walk on the west
side of Main-st to the park is COM
pleted, S. Pendergast having complet-
ed the piece across the Perkins lot.
r. Fairchild, who lives on the Mel
rose road, four milds southeast of the
city, says that he will have aSgood
average crop of wheat, and his other
crops are all goods.
An attempt was made to blow open
the safe of J. B. Johnson at Osakis on
Friday night. The burglars failed to
force the safe, and got only nine dol
lars from a till in the bank.
John Buss of West Union, recently
sold a quarter section of farming land
in tn at town, and has purchased of NJ
F. Woodbury. the farm formally owned
by Ed. Smith of .his city. 1t adjoins
his place.
Up to the present time no definite Of
fer has been made for the Farmers
elevator. That it will be sold upon
the bass authorized may confidently
be expected, but who will finally get
the property is a question.
Mrs. M. L. Wilkins has purchased
the ten-acre lot just west of her pro-
perty IN Hoboken of Byron F. Carr
for $500. 1t is covered with very
thick growth of underbrush, and will
soon be grubbed out.
Henry Barnett went out to his Ash
ley farm on Monday and he said his
grain appeared to be ruined. He
worked all day setting up scattered
shocks, and at night an inspection of
his grain showed that it had improved
greatly in appearance.
G. G. Herberger, one of the most
successful farmers of West Port, and
an early settler of that town, has sold
his handsome and we'll improved farm
of over 400 acres for $4,000. It was
not large price, but Mr.. Herberger
is anxious to retire from active farm
ing.
Garden and lawn
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
GREAT SURPLUS
IN THE TREASURY

WASHINGTON. June 26-With the
present week the fiscal year OF the Gov
eminent closes and Uncle Sam will close
II set of books showing the most pros
porous period in his history. The Treas
ury statement to be issued next week.
when all the figures are in. will show
that during the fiscal year. which ends
on Saturday night the receipts OF the
Government have exceeded the eXpendi-
lures by about $1,000 600. This showing
two years after a foreign war and while
the expensive results of that war We're
sim in evidence, Is believed to be un-
equalcd in the financial history Of any
nation.
The Treasury balance sheet win show
receipts Of about t5S7,01O,OOl and eNpendi-
lures of $50 OO0, 900. The repeal of certain
portions of the war revenue act will cost
the Government about AoO00,oo0 annual
ly, So mat next year tue surplus will not
bee over S35, 600 600
While the Treasury is already sloating
over it's successful record for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1891, the Administra-
ton Us prepared to shout stlll more over
The marvellous development of the foreign
trade OF the United States. The figures
VIII show a balance Of trade iu favor Of
the United States of about $50 UOJ 900 or
about Sll5OO000O more than for the pre-.
vious year No matter how the balance
may bee lquiiated, this little matter Of
two-thirds of billion of dollars viii be
ON the right side OF Uncle Sans ledger
Saturday afternoon,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
GIVES A MILLION
TO HARVARD

cAAnRIDGE Oass), June 2a-freHi-
dent Eliot announced az the Harvard
alumni dinner tonight that }, a. Nor
gan had given more than |lo05.vlJ for the
erection ~ three u ths five buildings
planned for the Harvard Medical schoo.
Iu Boston The gIft is faT the prasNcu-
zion OF applied bo.og cal research"
wg months ago henry ana lrar
FrrHnH0n took "a tract or twenty acres
~ Hul. paying 10000 f.r d. IHH iurF
AGREED no hold iu trust inT tDg anRer-
Eify,
l8n friday pr Warren received "a
cable from Nr Morgan BOO which ne said.
fhffcrruE 90 our conversation ana
plans submitted. ! am prepared 60 erect
fhn central pui.diHfa and tN0 FI4e phNIir
toms hH msmurll 90 juuiuH spencer
A0rrap, q native ~ NaHaalhuHets ana
f1f many stara merchant oi lsasipn
4au rAH Hnnguues lhla'
lfraldrut Ell0t ralirl uttsrugu 10 800
phrase "plans aYumlit,a YHill he $40
Included apsfinCsiIarH, aHd sNd ihai
fheas called fpf 90 0uilay ~ n.ofa ihan
fian.OH 1te nes hQrKan rnNl.nHs ir
Huntington sfrhua h4 toe Nll Hfiad'
: huspiiai
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
HUNDREDS DIE
IN RAGING FLOOD

rUrriUp. SIS VS. iHn. e.H ono
rrrfrf utD H.I t.popn property
rtta Boon vIu.I owe tt cloud burst
and .r..H. ufl.H .t.pi the E.hnorn Walls
I.t. fUm thD bead of 'hr hfHrch down
Goo aug river Th rainfall began early
H, morning Uf june lnl. being ur1r-
tuain pI0udhhurt the streams u inr
81. randy that thrro wac mo chance f1r
iHr r.apIa to leave their houses and Nee
COR safety. Along the Norfolk Hud West.
arm f4Ilrond. from DaNcy Co. Ennis dis
tame, uf 81 miles the region Is practically
In ruins The mines have suffered heaN-
lis but since most OF the miners were
nd work when the worst % the Hood
came the lis, OF those lost is made up
almost entirely % women and children
In many Of the little mining towns
there ls not left q house 90 marx tho
site OF the town. The details Of the
wreck have not been told as every tele-
graph line Is down and the railroad mas
been put out OF business for several days
at least In most places, according TO
the reports at hand. the waters rose and
fell again within three hours and the de-
strtctlon within that time was measured
only by what laid in the path OF the
Hood.
As usual there were scenes which are
hard to tell. Many OF the miners Of the
region are colorcd, and II is said that at
some places where liquor was obtained
there were many instances OF robbing
the dead, and the shooting OF the mis-
crcants when caught. There was much
suffering, but the Governor called out
the troops and asked for relief which
came readily, and the wants of the poor
were relieved as speedily as possible.
II is thought that the losses will be
covered and the bodies found within the
wee
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
Hamburg Bremen Fire Insurance Go

The undersigned having been an
pointed agents of the above company
are prepared to Insure risks against
fire on Stone and Brick Buildings and
on Merchandise stored therein on the
most favorable terms. For particulars
apply at the office of
f. A. SCHAEFER & CO., Agts
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09

WBtassa, l2f lbs .,,,,.,.., Thomas ]
Tlllle Mac, ne lbs .,...,,,,, Pissott 2
Rejected, los lbs ,,.,.,,,,,,, Burns 3
Time 1909 Good start Won I'm q
gallon hy two lengths, Lille Mac had
sp,rd for half a mile Rejected ran as
n he had had enough racing Tor the
time being.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
NEW TRACK RECORDS MADE AT
WELL.ATTENDED HILO RACES

II, ui. race meeting ht tionlu'u rnrs
uHo. was biz success and rHaa
Il ODD uu without % single unpleasant
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09

Niue 2'49T2, 2:4o E'40'2. ITnNVTHVVHT
took the first heat handily. In the sec
ond Imperateur, which sadly lacked
training. quit decIsIvely and enabled
the Admiral to score. a similar coudr-
ton Of affairs obtained in the third
heat and Dewey took first money, Inn
pornteur made wonderfully GooT
showing considering the work he has
had. Graham drove Dewey I'm place of
Burns In the two final heats. winner,
d. q. A., owned by W. Vnnnatta.
No. Fiye-eighths mile handicap;
nurse sion
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
Lalrst sugar Preos

t1W luEE June @-SuEar- Raw
Ia.F aT rruuluE. 5 ol6ai centrifugal
M t.t H..a" moiasHes sugar 3 $40,
h,HHtI. HtaaF crushed, tV1e pos Tered,
ta#a #HlHlrl. t6ac,
hIW UE june ~ The American
hHFar no Company today hdYapH'
~ sll a frHnri fHHars ernit,
81 sHt.iat#f 10 " = cent q pound
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
oFFER 40 HFTUND TIVE MoNEv

Many thousands have been restored
40 health and happiness By the me ~
lhamhtrlaiu's Cough Remedy, n Rf-
Hlrltl With any throat or lung truur
bio give n "a trial Tor Il ~ certain %
prove beneficial, Coughs thbf have re-.
Sisted All other treatment FOR years,
have Nlalied o. thls remedy and per-
fFpi health been historic cases mat
ssHWt4 hopeless, that The climate OF
famous health resorts had fallel a.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09

benefit have been permanently cured
by lbs use, Bear IN mind that every
bottle Is warranted, and N u does not
prove beneficial, the money VIII be re-
funded 10 you, For sale ny all dealers
and druggists, Benson, smith a Coz
Ltd general agents H. J.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09

fT-TTT16f EdVafd' Downs F.rst D.,
faniry. ana private were klllei %
Filipino insurgents iu lhr island =
haMar
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-09
General Insurance Co. for Sea.
River and Land Transport,
of Dresden.

Having established an agency at Ho-
nolulu and the Hawaiian Islands. the
undersigned general agents are author
lied to take risks against the dangers
or the sea at the most reasonable rates
and on the most favorable terms.
f. A. SCHAEFER & CO.,
Agents for the Hawaiian Islands
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-05

going into supper, when I saw a tall.
uark stranger standing in the door
looking about the room. Finally his
eye caught F1etcher's and 1 remember
how Fletcher led his partner to seat
and walking up to the stranger spoke
to him in low tones.
After a few moments conversation
Fletcher continued the dance When
1t was over, he walked up to Eleanor.
who was surrounded by a little court
of admirers and drawing her to one
side he said:
81 am sorry, but news has just
reached me of some important work at
the bank that must be attended to at
once. Would you mind very much go
Ing home now, or will you prefer going
later with some friends
I'VE did not know at the time what
he said to her, but we saw the sweet
light in her eyes as she answered him
and presently hooded and cloaked she
left the dance with Fletcher.
''The tall, dark stranger sat on the
box with the cabby, and as it was a
long way out to the Metcalf home from
the country club, it must have taken
them a full hour to reach it What
they said, what they talked about on the
way no one of US will ever know. But
when they reached the door, Fletcher
handed her great bunch of roses and
babe her goodnight.
1.-THE next day the papers were filled
with the story of the defalcation OF
Theodore Fletcher, the receiver of the
Mrcantile Bank. He had been the
peoples IDOL the papers said, and he
had fallen from the pedestal On which
he had stood and which Id been
erected by the people, Edward Met
calf was brought en- the stand at the
trial and testified against Fletcher. AT
the club he said, L told you So and
his most scathing remarks were di-
rected toward Fletcher's action at the
dance. Just to think he said bitter
ly, of a thief having the nerve to take
my sister home as if nothing had hap
pened, and daring to ride home with
her with an officer on the cab
We were all too excited to say
much, and yet we all admired, secret
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-05
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
SOME SHORT STORIES FOR THE
VETERANS.
Charleston, South Carolina, to BE the
Seat of Great Government works
Admiral Endicott Speaks of the Pro-
posed Naval Station.
LACRELED.

LACRELED.
Back from the strenuous wars he
comes to me.
He is my SON, grown brown, with
strange SCARED hands;
The months of blood and death in
alien lands
Are in his face; his boyish will to be
Is fourfold won. / glow and weep to
see
The trodden meadow blackened
with the bands
OF beared marching men whom he
commands.
With being rearranged he comes to
I, small beside him, try to utter pray
ers;
I, honored, for the laurels that he
wearsl
God knows, God knows, God knows l
stand with empty hands,
And lonesome heart no need of praises
warns
I crush the laurel branch. Oh, God
l miss
The soft-mouthed baby 1 can never
kiss!
-Zona Gale, in Bookmar.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-05

1y, the tact and delicacy which F1etch-
er had shown in the manner in which
he had taken his arrest.
Fletcher was sentenced to two
years hard labor; Edward Metcalf re-
manned in town, staggering and threat
ening what he would do to Fletcher on
his release, and Eleanor went abroad
with her parents.
1.-The world soon forgets these things
and after a few months it was talked
of no more.
''One day last String 1 had occasion
to visit the penn Hentiary at Kewanee.
While there 1 thought of Theodore
Fletcher and asking to see him, 1 was
shown into his cell. l found him read
ing Les Miserables in the original
French; his hands were white and his
nails were polished to a nicely that
any society belle might envy.
He greeted me with the same old
ChesST6eldian manner with Just a
touch of frigidity, l fancied, and ii
stung nee to notice that he did not
once speak of Eleanor-although ]
should have felt it sacrilege for him
to have mentioned her name; Eleanor
whom he had soiled with the gossip
of having been her sweetheart.
sang froid, left him, and as 1 went
down the narrow corridor that led to
the entrance, / met a woman coming
swiftly down the hall towards me.
She turned her face from me as l
passed her, but 1 saw that it was
Eleanor Metcalf; Eleanor Metcalf,
whom every one believed to be in Eu-
rope; Eleanor Metcalf, the cold, the
proud the pure
Il was stunned for a moment. and
even when 1 reached the fresh outer
air and sunshine, was still bewildered
and thought that I must have been
dreaming. Yet 1 could not mistake
that regal figure, that proud poise OF
the head, those beautiful eyes,
After stiff drink or two 1 tried to
forget, and from that day to this !
have never mentioned the subject be-
fore.
1T seems strange that this topic
should have come up today, for the
morning paper tells of the suicide OF
young Edward Metcalf
Three months ago Theodore Fletch-
| er was released from prison; two
weeks afterward Eleanor Metcalf mar.
| rSed him and they went west to live;
can't you fellows deduct a logical con.
clusion from what 1 have told you?
You knew the Metcalf pride, of
which Eleanor possessed more than ii
usual mean pride in her family, low
for her parents and her high ideals o.
a child's duty. You all knew too Et
Metcalf, his weakness. his perfidy-anl
! you all knew Fletcher"
I paused long enough in my nara
tive to notice the little fiutter of ex
element and understanding from eacl
OF my friends at the table.
Charlie Yates held up his glass.
Here's to Fletcher. boys"
| given
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-05
OFF THE DESERT
AFTER IS YEAR IN DEATH VALLEY
HE GOES AWAY

valley. One after another he has
watched them sicken and die. or go
mad with the misery that death only
can relieve His task 1t has been TO
keep the sand and alkali and the
scorching winds that sweep the desert
from destroying their wooden mead
stones. Grim, stolid, undaunted, ne
has stuck to his post, with the demon
lurking ever near ready to slay. HIS
health is not what 1t was when he VEN
tured first into the valley, though he
is still strong, and burly of face and
figure. II the awfulness of his en-
vironment weighs upon his spirits he
does not betray his emotion. Lee mas
a sQuaw wife and several half-breed
children. His Indian companion re-
mains with him only a part of the
year. Lees fate is prophes1ed by more
than one who wonders at his reckless
ness. 1t was predicted last year by an
old and experienced desert ranger
named Bennett of Ash Meadows, New,
who lost his life within a quarter OF
a mile of Benefits wells in Death VAL
ley. Bennett was crossing to the HOT
Springs. and the terrific heat robbed
him of his reason. Jumping from the
wagon he tore off his clothing and
though there were water barrels and
shovels in his outfit Mont Lee saw
Bennett die. He SCOTS at the sugges-
ton that he, too, will some day sue
cumb in the same way. Death Val
ley," he repeats, will never down me-.
There is little danger of sunstroke In
the valley. The air is too dry for that.
No mist wells the suns glare, and
moisture is unknown. The heat cracks
the lips, pinches the face until the
blood starts, swells the tongue, sucks
the moisture from the body-and then
comes madness, and upon the heels
of madness treads the spectre, Death.
Mont Lee has brother, Sam, who as
sists him in his work. They have
helped to hunt and bury scores OF
bodies since they went into the val
ley 1t is the custom of miners In the
desert to establish the grave of an
unfortunate wayfarer by piece OF
scantling at the head and foot of each
nameless grave. Sandstorms tear away
the humble monuments and the next
passerby replaces them. On Lees way
back to civilization recently he re-
paired the graves of the five soldiers
who lost their lives in the Fremont
expedition. 1t is now planned to pro-
vide Death Valley with sheet iron
milestones, with engraved directions.
that will be heat and wind proof guild
ing to alkali water pools. Frequently
at these vermin-infested pools Mint
Lee has been compelled to strain his
drinking water through a towel. Yet
he is going back.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-05

Mont Lee, most marvellous OF men,
has crept back from his horror-strick-
en- haunts in Death Valley to Gods
country. Over the Mojave Desert to
the California coast he has come for
the first breath of pure cool air that
has reached his lungs in fifteen years,
says the San Francisco Examiner.
Mont Lee is the only man whom the
terrors and privations of Death VAL
ley cannot make afraid. He Is the
only man who can dwell in the shadow
of the Funeral Mountains and not go
mad under the frightful strain to
which mind and body are there sub
jected. He is the only man, among
all the hundreds who have dared the
deadly dangers of that desert furnace,
that fate has spared; the only one
who can dwell from year to year in
the hottest spot on earth, where the
Thermometer climbs to 140 degrees in
the shade and the cruel heat waves
beat necessarily upon their human vic
tim until, praying with parched lips
for water, he sinks dying to the sun
baked earth, a spectacle to haunt for
ever the memory-a crazed and glib
bering thing that is more mummy than
man, the life choked out of him by
that demon of the desert sands, Thirst.
From Death Valley, hotbed of human
suffering, grave of human despair,
comes the man whom the demon of
thirst has thus far tortured in vain
For the first time in fifteen years of
physical torment he gazes upon green
trees and fertile fields AMI sees Nature
smiling benignly upon her children,
while yonder, by the frowning Funeral
Mountains, she shows mood so merci-
less that men, languishing upon her
burning bosom, wither into shapes that
none can recognize, and perish, ours
ing her to the last. But Mont Lee
has not come to Gods country to stay.
He is going back. In few days the
desert will claim him. Mont Lee has
declared that Death Valley will never
down him, and he has daily fought
death for fifteen dreary, desperate,
lonely years. The reason why Mont
Lee dwells on desert sands under a
sky from which not so much as one
enough. He earns a living there. The
sum would not seem one to tempt
$75 monthly and expenses-but it is
sufficient to lure Mont Lee and hold
him there, year after year. For fif-
teen years Mont Lee has had charge
of the Pacific Coast Borax Company's
claim in Death Valley. For the past
five years he has lived at the mouth
of Furnace Creek, near the Greeland
ranch, 200 feet below the sea level on
aIkali ground. He has outlived every
man who has worked with him in the
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The Fletcher Affair.

BY EDNA S. BRAINERD.
Copyright. 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
We were sitting at table over cur
coffee and cigars when Bob fremont
asked, What ever became of Theodore
Fletcher"
Haven't you heard?"
"Heard?" echoed fremont, why,
no; you must remember that l have
been sweltering in the interior of
Cuba for the past three years and that
1 have heard nothing, and with the
exception of you fellows whom 1 met
by chance this morning, l know moth
ing of the doings of the old crowds
whatever"
Tell fremont the story, Henry,
said Charlie Yates turning to me.
1 watched the brandy burning on
the spoon in my cup and as l felt IN
just the mood, l told the story. You
remember Eleanor Metcalf? Well,
after you left her popularity increased,
although it really seemed that She
would never lose her heart to any one
of the numerous hangers-on who
courted her and fiattered her and tried
to win her love and her fathers mill
lions
tAs you already know, Theodore
Fletcher came to town to settle up the
sooner arrived than he was sought by
all the clubs and societies and was re-
ceived into the most exclusive of
homes-in fact, he became a sort of
Chesterfield to all the girls and women
in our set, gained the respect and adj
miration of the older business men and
was the most popular man in town.
Eleanor Metcalf had received
college education, and two years
abroad had given her a travelled air;
there wasn't man in town who would
not have thrown himself at her feet,
even had she been seamstress or gov
erness instead of the spoiled child OF
fortune that she was. She was really
SO dainty, so pure, so beautiful was
in love with her myself, and some
times think l can never love any other
woman on earth.
''Well, someone took Theodore to
call on her one evening, and the mis-
chief was done. He fell head over
heels in love with her and she with
him. OF course. all the other fellows
pulled out of the race, and we watched
the society columns each morning to
see the announcement of Eleanor's en-
gagement to Fletcher.
after Fletcher had been one of us
for perhaps seven or eight months
there was hop at the country club.
and while each one of us made bold to
engage the company of the proud Ell
eanor. each was in turn sweetly told
by her that she was awfully sorry,
but she could not accept-she was go
ing with Mr.. Fletcher
About this time Edward Metcalf,
the only son, and in whom old Met
calf's hopes were conferred. was ex-
PEELED from Yale and coming home
was placed in the bank under the SUI
pervision of Fletcher. Strange to say,
he never liked Fletcher and was more
than once heard to say at the club
things that were insinuating and de-
rogatory to Fletcher's character.