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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
FOUR ARE DEAD
DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE DOES I'M.
MENSE DAMAGE AROUND
ULEN, MINI.
STORM COVERS LARGE AREA

Woman Meets Death at Voss Postoffice
and Three Persons Are Killed and
Fourth Fatally Injured Near UIen.
Scores of Buildings in Ruins and
Hundreds of Head of Live Stock
Perish-More Casualties Are Feared.
Ulen, Mimi, June ia cyclone
formed five miles west of this place.
between and o'clock Monday after
noon, carrying death and desolation
in it's path. The area covered by the
twister was one-half mile wide and
probably twenty miles long. 1t took
southeasterly course. demolishing
fifteen or more farm buildings.
At Voss postoffice Mrs. Berg was
killed when her home was smashed.
Four miles north of Ulen three mem
bers of the family of Andrew Horim
were instantly killed, and one other
was so badly injured that he may die.
Hundreds of head of stock were
killed, and everything was swept as
clean as if a fire had run over the
stricken territory.
1t is believed that other casualties
will be reported.
Detroit, Mimi, June 11.-Monday
afternoon severe storm of wind and
rain visited the northwestern portion
of this county, doing a great amount
of damage in towns of Atlanta and
Walworth. In the latter the large Swe-
dish church was blown down and de-
molished, and in the same vicinity nine
or ten farm buildings were badly in
iured or destroyed. A few miles north
west in Clay county, the village of
Ulen was visited by a more severe
storm-reported almost cyclone; do
ing great damage to buildings and kill
ing one person, and injuring eight or
ten more. Ulen is about thirty five
miles northwest on Winnipeg branch
of the Northern Pacific.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
CAUSING SERIOUS DELAYS.
Wreck of the international Railroad
BridQe at the 500.

Wreck of the international Railroad
Bridge at the 500.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, June 9-The
wrecking of the International railroad
bridge by the steel trusts schooner
Madeira will lay up the business of the
railroads crossing the 500 here for a
month, according to estimates made
The marine interests will also be a
heavy loser, for the congestion of traf-
fic through the single Canadian lock
is already resulting in serious delays.
Some vessels were held back fully ten
hours waiting for their turn to be
locked through. A conference is being
held by Major Bixby, United States en-
gineer in charge of government work
in this district, and representative of
the American Bridge company, to de-
termine the best method for repairing
the wreck. They did not think this
could be done in less than month.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
STRIKERS ARE REPLACED.
Great Northern Brings in Two Car
leads of Eastern Men,

st. Paul, June 11.-All possible steps
are being taken by Great Northern Of
ficials to arrest the spread of the strike
which started in the boilershops
week ago. New men have arrived at
ST. Paul in a special car from points
on the Erie railroad and were at once
put to work. Later another carload
came in and it is declared that enough
men will be secured to replace every
one of the striking boilermakers and
helpers.
A crowd of strikers gathered on the
Jackson street bridge when the second
carload of men arrived and saluted
them with cries of "scabs," but NO acts
of violence were attempted. There was
an extra force of policemen on hand.
Every entrance to the shops is
guarded by two officers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
DIVIDING THE RANSOM.
HuIgarians Dispose of Money Received
for Miss Stones Release.

Salonica, Roumelia, June 1.-THE
Strouma "a newspaper published at
Kostendit, Bulgaria) says it has trans
pired that a secret congress of dele
gates from Kostendit, Dubnitza and
elsewhere, met in Sofia at the end of
March and arranged for the DISPOSE
lion of the money received as ransom
for Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American
missionary, and her companion, Nine.
Tsilka. Karapeoff, alias Tschinerpoff,
the leader of the brigands which cap
tured the missionaries, was among the
delegates, who decided to send bands
into Macedonia on secret mission.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
Notice For Pub1lca ton.

Land Office at ST CLOUD MINI. May 20.
1892
Notice is hereby gwen that the following
named settler Las filed notice of is inten-
ton TO make final proof in support of his
claim. and that said proof VIII lie made
before Clerk Of District Court ut Long
Prairie, Mimi. on July Sth 1902. viz: SQUIRE
W-BREEs. II. e. No. 1870 for the nw14 of
seq. secton2, township III. range 80.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous rcSiGe1 &c upon. and
cultivation Of. said land. IL:
w. II. CALLAHAN, of IIDnl. Prairie. Mimi.
EDwRRD WATTS, Of Grey Eagle. Mimi.
IUTH Err BKEES, of Grey Eagic, MINI.
INMAN BREEs, of Grey Eagle. Mimi.
A.. -. TAYLOR, Register.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
Father and TWO Sons Drown.

Roughton. Mich, June 11.-William
WIS. ne. q cd thirty-siy, and his two
AZ. ted thirteen, and
,is q seS. 49,, eleven, We're drowned.
in ~ river at Ontonagon. The boys
wee naked. but the father was fully
dressed. It is supposed the children
weEi into deep water while bathing
ard shelr father tried to rescue them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
caused a loss Of $12s,ooo.

Philadelphia, June II THE Germans
town Junction Elevator and Ware
house company's building, 1888 North
broad street, and the grain warehouse
Q L. j. Miller & Sons, 1881 North
Brcad street, together with half doz-
e. dwelling houses in the neighbor-
hood. were destroyed by fire during
the day. The loss is estimated at
e4o5 coo
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
Prominent Farmers Killed.

Paducah, KY, June 9.-An Illinois
Central passenger train struck buggy
containing Mason Cole, aged sixty,
and Nelson Parker, aged eighty-seven,
prominent farmers at Penrustburg, be.
low here. and killed both men.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
BODY Of Fifth Victim Found.

Saratoga, N. Y, June 1.-THE body
of Miss Mary F. Charrington, the fifth
victim Of the fire which destroyed the
Arcade and other buildings, was taken
from the ruins during the day.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
TOWN NEARLY DESTROYED.
Twenty-four Residences Burned at
Michel, B. c.

Helena, Mon, June 1.-THE town of
Michel, B. c., across the Canadian
frontier, has been completely de-
stroyed by fire. Fire started in the
residence section shortly after 1
o'clock The wind blew hurricane,
and in less than four hours twenty
four houses were in ashes. About fifty
families are homeless, and many had
narrow escapes from death.
The property loss will be upwards of
5000 900.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
IXTHEBLAME
cHlcAGo's HOSPITAL cATAsTRo.
PIE BEING INVESTIGATED
BY AUTHORITIES.
INSTITUTION HAD NO LICENSE

President and Others Connected With
the Sanitarium Under Arrest and
Will Be Held Until After the In
quest-Three of the Thirty-four In
jured Are Expected to Die, Making a
Total of Thirteen Deaths.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-12
THREE BLOWN TO PIECES.
Accident Occurs in the Aurora Mine at
lronwood, Micn.

Ironwood, Mich, Julie 11.-Three
men were killed by an explosion in
Aurora mine of the Oliver Mining COM
pany The men were at work in a
drift when in some unaccountable man
ner some dynamite near 6: hand ex-
ploded The men were blown to
pieces. TwoNof the victims were iden-
tified by their shoes and third by
shreds of clothing.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
Farmers Sons in a Judging Ring.

In communication to the Farmers
Review Manager Skinner of the Inter-
national Live Stock Exposition says:
A most highly interesting and instruc-
tive innovation this year at the Inter-
national Live Stock Exposition will be
the admission of farmers sons into
the students judging contest. The
donors of the premiums for this years
contest, Messrs. Spoor, Clay and San
ders. have specially specified that the
contest be left open to all farmers
sons, regardless of their belonging to
any agricultural college. This will
give the colleges an opportunity to
prove up their teachings, and boys
who are not able to take the time for
schooling will have an opportunity to
become part of this educational
feast. 1t will hardly be expected that
any recognized, first-class school will,
under these circumstances, fail to en-
ter the lists, as the schools would bet
ter look to their laurels in such con-
test. Fathers whose boys have not at
tended this exposition should not al
low anything to prevent the boys from
coming this year to watch this event,
so as to prepare themselves for subse-
Quent contests, as undoubtedly at fu-
ture expositions this feature will re-
main a fixture. In addition to its be-
ing pleasure to send the boys, faith
ers should consider it bounden duty
to give them the benefit of this weeks
livestock education, and the man who
farms and is not student striving to
improve and put his place on a better
footing each year will not be a sue.
cess. Remember the date, November
29 to December 6.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
The Question of Size.

There seems to be rule governing
form which confines its greatest per-
fection within certain sizes. Under
size in the Bantam deprives it of the
highest form. AS oversize in the
Brahma detracts from its grace OF con-
tour this same influence works against
an effort to advance the size of the
White Wyandotte beyond the limit OF
the rule governing the individual
form. Bad shape has come with these
mistaken efforts, and this should be
a warning against continuance. 1t
is well to guide them in size within
that limit line which gives assurance
Of a maintenance of the best breed
characteristics, but not to go beyond.
Hold to their beautiful form by all
means; that is their real attractive
ness and value. Do not try to gain
size, which cannot prove OF value as
against the loss of form.
We have the greater size in our
Asiatic fowls. A large Wyandotte
cannot excel larger Brahma as a
meat fowl, while as Wyandotte OF
proper proportions it may meet with
greater favor. The White Wyandotte,
as it should be, has as much size as is
consistent with it's position as gen.
eral utility fowl. The grace of form
and exhibition qualities can be main
tanned within these conditions as to
size. Both the Brahma and the White
Wyandotte can be improved within
the limits of the rule which controls
form as against size, and both may be
injured in an effort to go beyond these
limits-Bulletin Department Of Agri'
culture.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
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A Csnnibal Hen.

The latter part of June / set two
Bantam hens of a mongrel type on
pheasant eggs, placing them III Col.
ony coops. writes correspondent oi
Farm Poultry. During the lncuDatloit
of these eggs the weather was eAceee'
ingly warm. Each day took the mems
off, lifting them gently so that 20 eggs
secreted between wing and Dody
would fall and break; placing them III
their cages l allowed them all the
fresh water and whole corn tney want
ed. Each Saturday l busted them win
a good lice killer. All went well until
the 21st day, pheasant eggs TAKING
"a days to hatch. On said day Wnen
| lifted the door to let OFF the hens
one of them was sitting on her eggs,
her comb very pale, and in appear
ance a sick and dilapidated bird, me
eggs were chilled, how long ! conia
not tell. The other hen seemed quite
well and contented, excepting her
comb, which was slightly pale.
With no other sitting hen on mana
and quite a distance to the nearest
neighbor, l for awhile felt perplexed'
but not for long. l was not for giving
up the chilled eggs experience mas
taught me not toy. The well hen had
seventeen eggs under her. Realizing
she had only three more days to SIT.
and the weather being warm, coupled
the eggs into one sitting, isolated the
sick bird, put iron into her drinking
water and fed her nothing but bolied
rice, rolled oats and onion tops; and
for grit, egg shells. In three days
that hen showed her former v'gor,
and her comb became more normal
in color.
By this time my chicks were due
from under the other hen, and there
fore examined the eggs that morning
finding many of them Clipped. At noon
noticed half a shell just outside the
roof. Upon raising the hen gently,
found no chick The cage being be-
fore the coop made escape Impossible.
Now l was puzzled. Where was that
chick? l pondered for awhile, then
thought best to watch the hen more
closely. Suddenly she shifted back
little and deliberately picked at one
Of the chicks that had only one wing
emerged from the shell. To my sur-
prise she ate the chick. A cannibal.
thought 1; but there was no time to
waste. That hen would eat them as
fast as they hatched. The GONZALES
cent hen was still clucking, SO l rest
ed my hopes on her, placed the eggs
under her, and bless her, she hatched
and reared them, is rearing them to
this day. She makes good mother
in every respect.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
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Silage Facts.

Bulletin 80, N. II. Experiment Sta
tion.-Our results and those of other
stations invariably agree that the best
silage is obtained from corn that has
nearly reached maturity, with ears
fully formed and well filled. At this
stage of growth. also, a corn plant
has reached its maximum of food pro-
duction. Varieties of corn should be
selected which yield the largest crops
produce large plants. but are yet i'm
mature at cutting time. This prac-
tice is already followed by many
farmers, but should be by all. For
New Hampshire, standard variety
is the Leaning dent corn, while In
those portions of the state with too
short season for that variety to
reach proper stage, the Sanford
flint corn can be advantageously used.
The sugar in the green fodder is
practically. all destroyed in the silo,
and since it is most abundant in the
corn plant in the early stages Of ear
development, it is an additional argu-
ment for postponing cutting until the
grain is full size and the sugars
change largely to starch. The amount
of seed per acre affects the yield OF
green fodder, and also its compost
ton. A medium stand is essential
for the best results in both quantity
and quality. The practice Of using
half bushel of seed per acre is good.
In favorable season, with plenty of
fertilizer, more seed could be profit
ably used, but the tendency to in
feriority in quality. especially in de-
creasing the protein and increasing
the sugar and fiber, renders it, as a
rule, inadvisable.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
Gain in Feeding SiIage

There are about 3,4S8 hilh in an
acre of corn. Valuing the corn at
from $40 to $12 an acre, you will
find feeding six hills day, 1t will
cost you 214 cents a day to feed a
cow or a horse. The cow or horse
is doing its own grinding and shuck
ing the feed, costing you 21a cents
per day per animal. We remember
ono year after our cows had gone
through terrible drought, they
caught the pink-eye from neigh
boris cattle, which he had bought at
the stock yards. They fell OF IN
flesh and milk Frost had killed Cur
field corn and we were at loss to
know what to do. This was the lat.
ter part Of October, and we began to
feed ensilage and from that day We
increased our milk, the cows gained
in flesh, the hair looked silky and
glossy and the milk was of a ricb
June color.-L. A. Speis.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
How Sour Soils Are Made.

The black prairie soils are invari
ably rich in nitrogen and potash, be.
cause they are largely composed of the
charcoal of decayed vegetation. The
accumulation produced has been pre-
vented from total decomposition by
the water lying heavily in the soils
and excluding the air. The drifting
sans ana clay silt, and the earth in
which the plants were rooted supply
sufsient mineral matter to make them
into healthy soils, which settle grad
ually to fairly firm mass, except in
some parts where the water lay stag
nant too heavily the year round. The
last condition allowed only a growth
OF water plants like sphagnums, and
resulted in what are termed bogus
Soils" too deficient in mineral matter
to properly support farm crops. AS
portion of each years vegetation be-
came entirely decomposed, and the
charcoal bodies. or carbon structures,
were burned out and passed off into
the air as carbon gas. humus was de-
posted through the mass, thus max
ing food for plants to be taken up by
them in absorbing the soil waters.-
I. c. Wallace.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
Rose.sonb Black Minorcas.

1t is worthy of note that the lat.
est acquisition to the Minorca class
is the Rose-comb Black Minorca. The
only objection that has ever been
raised against the varieties OF the
Mediterranean class is their suscep-
tibility to frostbite of the comD. Their
combs are SO large that continued
cold or exposure is sure to result in
this complaint. To obviate this one
defect, if it may so be termed, in this
valuable class Of birds, has actuated
breeders in making bird that pos
sesses the other qualifications, but
with low rose combs. phere are two
varieties Of Rose-comb Leghorns-the
Black and the White, and the Rose
comb Black Minorca. The latter is
not standard variety as yet, but in
dications point to their admission as
such in the near future. Many good
specimens have been bred and ex-
hibited at the recent shows, and sue
cess in making this new fowl seems
assured.-G Bulletin.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
eaIl.::eedinq Show Pics,

Feeds and Feeding: Stephens de.
scribes how, toward the close of the
feeding period. English pigs fed for
exhibitions are induced to put on the
last possible ounce of fat. Equal
quantities of bean, corn, barley and
wheat meals are used, and three parts
Of this mixture added to one of mid.
dlings, with the addition of a little lin.
seed meal. This material is moist
ened with milk to form a dough and
made into balls the size Of an egg.
After the pigs have eaten all they will
of the ordinary feed they are given a
dessert Of these balls dipped in milk.
The pigs soon learn to sit on their
launches and are fed the dainty NOR.
sells one after another in turn, each
pig after eating the thinner food
given kim in the trough, consuming
about gallon more of these hall mix.
lures.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
Bran and Barley as Swine Feed.

Prof. w. A. Henry says: Bran car
ries much protein and mineral matter,
but its fibrous choppy character rem
ders it unfit for the digestive appara-
tus of the young pig. which has but a
limited capacity. Middlings rather
than bran should be fed to young pigs,
but as they increase in size some bran
may be fed to advantage, especially
where it is desirable to add volume to
the feed. Bran may be fed with good
results to breeding stock and to a
limited extent to fattening swine, the
amount in the latter case being re-
stricted, lest the volume Of the feed
be too much increased. Harris rec
ommends that bran be supplied to
pigs in separate trough, where they
can eat it at will.
Judging from the European stand
ard barley leads the cereals in the
quality Of pork produced. In quantity
of product returned from feeding a
given weight Of grain it yields to
corn. Because consumers are grow
ing more critical, the pig feeder should
study the uses of barley in the feed
ing pen that he may profit by using
it whenever opportunity offers. Bar
ley flourishes in the western states.
and in conjunction with alfalfa may
prove instrumental in turning many
sections into profitable centers of
pork production. This becomes all
the more certainty because consum-
ers are learning to appreciate the
higher grades of pork.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
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Farm Economies.

There was great failure in New
York not long ago which involved mil
lions of dollars. Investigation showed
that the failure was due very largely
to the neglect OF small economies, the
saving of few cents here and Of
few dollars there The waste had
gone on for quarter of a century and
had resulted in bankruptcy. How many
1arms have been lost because Of the
reckless way their owners had Of do
ing business? The best thinkers on
this subject have been for years ad-
Vising every farmer to keep books and
by that means looking after the big
and the little things. The little in
comes and the little outgoes are al
most lost sight of, and even the big
things and transactions are too sell
dom properly accounted for. We do
not wish to advise the farmer to put
his family on shorter fare than at the
present time, but we do wish to urge
that he know where his money is 60
ing to and where the money is coming
from that Is to meet his future obliga-
tions. We do wish him to know
whether his various farm operations
are all bringing him profit. 1t not
infrequently happens that certain
crop will be grown on the farm for
years without ever paying profit. 1t
would be economy to know fully the
truth about such a crop and cease to
grow 1t. To cease to lose money in
that way is one of the most necessary
farm economies. 1t might be well to
inquire (on some farms) II the money
that is being put into that embryonic
trotting horse Is not mostly wasted.
Has account been taken of all the
little expenses incurred in his devel-
: oping? To save these expenses Gn-
Cured on "gamble") is a worthy
1arm economy. 1t is economy to put
the farm tools in out of the sun and
rain and cover them with preparations
that will protect them from the damp
ness that everywhere exists. Not the
least of the economies on the farm is
the saving of time. The shortest way
to do this is to have place for every
thing on the farm and to see that
everything is kept where it belongs.
Ihis will save both time and effort.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
Chick.Rea or Gram

A shelling pea, practically unknown
in this country, is the chick-pea (Cicer
arietinum), the garbanzos of Spanish
cookery, or the gram Of India. 1t is
largely cultivated in southern Europe
in Spanish America and many parts
of the East, especially British India,
whence it Is exported. 1t is stiff,
upright plant, covered with hairs and
bearing inflated pods containing a few
curiously shaped seeds; the two lobes
distinctly marked and the germinal
point very prominent. These peas are
eaten boiled, but more commonly
roasted. This roasted pea seems to
have been much in use in Roman
times, the phrase fricti ciceris emptor,
buyer Of roasted chick-peas." mean.
ing In conversation poor fellow.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-19
Prepare Winter Feed.

We give this advice especially to
farmers living in the corn belt and
to others that have the habit of feed
ing their fowls corn only during the
winter. Prepare other feed for the
fowls, making the corn but part of
the ration. 1t should not be more
than third of the whole ration This
is for two reasons. One of them is
that the constant feeding of corn burns
out the digestive apparatus of the
fowls when that feeding is continued
for six or more months at a time.
The other reason is that it makes too
much fat and too few eggs. About
next March the men that feed corn all
the time will find many of their birds
dying. The droppings will be green
and the owners of the birds will say
that their focks have touch of
cholera. The real trouble will be in
digestion. This can all be avoided
by the feeding of some soft food and
some green food. 1t is not too late
now for supply of green material to
be laid in. 1t is good use to which
to put the carrots, as fowls delight
to have carrots to pick at during the
winter. Here and there in the fields
are cabbage heads that are too i'm.
perfect to go to the market or into
the vegetable cellar for use, but they
should be taken care of to serve for
green food for the poultry in winter.
Provide variety of food for the
fowls. Once a day give them mess
of soft food. This will relieve the
strain on their digestive organs.