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The new enterprise., 1902-04-03

One Of the most unique qunrrics In
the world exists near the town OF
Kemmerer Wyo., at an elevation OF
$500 feet above sea Level. This quarry
Is worked by hand no blasting being
permitted owing to the fragile nature
Of its output The latter consists
solely Of fossils, mostly those OF a
few varieties Of fish. N operation the
shalc is split into slabs, broken with
eledge hammers and thrown over the
bank by hand. When the slabs con
taining the specimens are cut and
taken out they are very moist and
have to be dried out to about one
third Of their original weight. After
the drying has proceeded far enough
10 permit OF the easy manipulation
Of the material, the fossils are care
fully cleaned by means Of special tools
devised for the purpose, Many OF
these fish fossils are exceedingly
beautiful, every bone being plainly
shown in the outline, They rank as
the finest specimens OF fossil fishes
! yet discovered.
The new enterprise., 1902-04-03

The properties Of the metal titanium
are many and various. II gives hard
ness and toughness 10 steel and a fine
lustre to silver while, added to car
bon used for arc lamps, It increases
the brilliancy OF the light Titanium
is also added TO the fertilizers used ON
tobacco plantations, and It Is said TO
improve the favor Of the leaf. The
oxide increases the brilliancy Of IN
candescent gas mnntles; its strong af-
finity for nicogen promises cheap
means of preparing ammonia direct
from the atmosphere, while with car
bon it yields Il product hard enough
to scratch diamonds.
The new enterprise., 1902-04-03

According TO the report OF the Cape
OF Good Hope Department Of Agri-
culture arrangements are being made
to grow large quantities Of sugar beets
in South Africa. The report says
AS TO South Africa, there are ina
mense tracts OF land in this colony
suitable for the cultivation Of sugar
bcets, and we do not hesitate 20 as
sure those who go the right way about
1t chat there IS success before them
and a good market for all the sugar
they can produce" Another matter
that is booming agricultural conditions
In South Africa is the growing and
producing Of prunes, apricots and
paper-shell almonds. Formerly all
these commodities Were imported. bun
they are now being grown at home
Large jam factories and fmit-drylng
establishments are springing up.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
Collar Buttons as Medicine.

Justice Shlras has IL collar button
story which he tells with a great deal
of gusto, says the Chicago Record.
Herald. A man in Pittsburg, where
he used to live, had wife who was
complaining of dyspepsia, and she
heard of certain remedy that was
put in capsules. Her husband bought
a dozen at the drug store and brought
them home in a pill box. At the same
time he bought a dog n collar buttons
made of q metallic composition that
looked very much like pearl, and the
druggist gave him pill box similar
to that in which the capsules were pat
up to carry them in. He took both
boxes home, handed them to his wife
and the same day she began to take
the medicine. After she had taken
twelve doses she was entirely cured,
and advertised the wonderful remedy
all over the neighborhood. About
this time her husband lost his collar
button, and, opening his pill box,
found it empty. A brief investigation
showed that the capsules in the other
pill box were still there, and that his
wife had swallowed twelve compost
ton collar buttons, two a day for six
days, and been entirely cured of dys-
DeDsia
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
Many Election Contests Threatened.

II all the threatened contests grow
ing out of the election of town rep
resentatives materialize the legisa-
ture is likely to be kept reasonably
busy in trying to find out who is it..
The Democratic representative elect
of Athens has been notified that his
Repub lican opponent will contest his
right to a seat, while nearly a score
of similar cases are reported from
various sections of the state. The
petition of the high-license local-op-
ton Republicans, together with that
of the Democrats, for recount of
the votes for county officers in Wind
ham county. it is said, cannot be
granted, the law STIMULATING that the
votes cast shall be kept in posses
sion of the town clerk for three years,
subject only to a recount by legis-
lative committee. Whether such q
committee will be named remains for
the legislature to say. In several of
the towns the high-license and Glenn
ent supporters will continue their or
ganization with a purpose OF con-
trolling local politics until the license
issue is settled.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
Department OF Commerce.

At the session of the Senate this
year the bill for the creation of d De-
Dartment of Commerce, with repre-
sentative in the Presidents Cabinet,
was passed, but no action upon it
was taken by the House Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
TO which it had been referred after it's
passage by the upper branch. 1t is
believed, however, that at the session
next winter the bill will be passed by
the House, and ia anticipation of it's
consideration by that body informa-
ton for it's use bearing upon the mat
ter has been compiled in several Gov
ernment departments at Washing
ton. This information, it is said, will
show that the interests of the country
will be best served by combining in
one new department bureaus and di-
visions now placed in branches of the
service whose OH cts ale not entirely
in the same line.
The failure of the bill to pass the
House at the last session is h ttribut-
ed largely to friction among some of
the bureaus which it ia proposed to
put into the new department, and
also to the impression that the pro-
ject was in the interest of certain men
who had been suggested for the po-
stion OF Secretary. 1t is now pro-
pose to show that he creation of
this department is Of too great i'm
portance to be hindered by the men,
ton of any one for this position. The
benefit such a department would be
to the General Government is to be
shown and assurance given that by
the enactment OF the proposed meas
use it is not designed merely to make
place for somebody.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
Interesting and Picturesque.

Tom l.. Johnson, who has come to
the front as the dictator of the Dem
ocratic organization in Ohio, is de-
scribed by the New York Evening
Post as zone Of he most interesting
and picturesque figures developed in
our politics in number of years. A
poor boy, he made himself very rich
by awaiting himself of all the advant-
ages allowed by our laws, and then
denounced the very laws by which he
had so greatly profited. Thus he en-
joyed the undue protection granted
the manufactures of steel and de-
clared his conviction that free trade
is the best policy for this nation. He
dealt instreet railroads charging FIVE
cent fares, making vast sums by some
of these operations, as in Brooklyn a
few years ago, and then came out as
champion of three-cent fares. He i'm
proved every opportunity offered to
such man by our present system. OF
taxation, and at the same time was
the earnest supporter of Henry George
and a vigorous advocate of the single
tax. In short, be comes about as
near as possible to standing on the
platform that the methods which en-
ebled him to acquire great wealth
are wrong and ought to be abolished"
Besides great wealth acquired in this
way which be condemns, Mr.. johnson
has also obtained great power in the
Democratic party. This was shown
the other day in the state convention
when by his direction it made a new
record in regard to Bryan and Brya
ism. Instead of ignoring the man
and his principles, it gave the most
cordial endorsement to Mr.. Bryan
and the Kansas City platform-a per-
Torrance that will very likely wreck
the leadership of this very interesting
and pictures que figure in Ohio
notifies.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
Potato Rot.

The continued wet weather follow
ing the blight, is leading to serious
rotting of potatoes. The Vermont
experiment station is receiving SO
many inquiries as to the matter, that
the following statements seem time
iy:-
The late blight or trust" which has
been so prevalent this year, is caused
by fungus, kind of mildew, which
is carried through the winter in the
seed potato and, so far as known,
only in this way. Where such infected
potatoes are planted the fungus de-
velops in the potato shoots and final
ly in the leaves, providing weather
conditions are at all favorable. The
germs or spores are produced in enor-
nous numbers on these blighting
leaves and by these the Infection is
spread to neighboring plants. Many
of the spores fall to the ground also,
and invading the tubers, cause rot.
Spraying with bordeaux mixture kills
these spores, and so prevents both
the blight of the leaves and the rot
of the tubers. The plants at the Ex-
pertinent station farm, which have
been sprayed, are as green and
healthy now (Sept. g. as they were
month ago, whereas the rows in the
field left unsprayed, are dead. Many
farmers throughout the state have
had equally good results from spray
ing. Where the plants were sprayed
little rot is developing, but in the I'M
protected fields where the tops have
blighted, rot is serious. The question
is being asked whether it is better to
dig at once in these fields. The Ex-
pertinent station officers advise
prompt digging. They have not de-
cided this by experiment however, so
are now carrying on some to settle
the matter. A half dozen fields
have been selected on different
soils, where the vines are blight
ed. One-fourth of the rows in each
field were dug on August % one
fourth on Sept. 6; one-fourth will
be dug Sept. 19 and the last fourth
on Sept. 80. The conditions as to
total yield, amount of rot and keep
ing qualities will then be compared.
Some other interesting experiments,
upon potatoes, are also under way,
the results of which will be published
later. One of these is to determine
whether, when the vines make a very
rank growth, it is better to cut them
back. Another seeks to find out
whether spraying the soil will tend
to check the rot.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
Notes.

New England makes nearly so pCI
cent of the boots and shoes made in
this country.
Japanese na tional fl ags are alleged
to be practically Understandable just
now in London.
New Britain, Conn, was the first
city in the Nutmeg State to put wires
under the ground.
Owing to the fall of the Campanile
the pigeons of Venice have fl own away
no one knows whittier.
Some 1000 discoveries of illicit
stills were made in Ireland during the
year ending March, 1901.
The wheat crop of Minnesota is
variouslv estimated at from S,000,-
900 to 100000 bushels.
Practically all the exports of Africa
are natural products while her i'm
ports are exclusively manufactured
products.
Cheap soft goods made in Belgium
and Switzerland are rapidly ousting
Manchester, England, fabrics from
the Mozambique market.
Three hundred and fifteen shoals in
various parts of the world were de.
clared dangerous to navigation last
year by British admiralty surveyors
No matter how heavy the rain it is
most disrespectful, according to Jap
anese etiquette, for anybody to raise
an umbrella in the presence of a mem
of the imperial household.
Holophane glass is pressed glass
resembling cut glass, having vertica
prisms on the inside for diffusing the
light and horizontal prisms on the
outside for directing the light.
In Guatemala the Indian popula
ton tries to double it's chances for the
efficacy of prayer by worshipping al
a Christian altar with images of its
heather deities hidden behind it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
lcicIes for Fuel.
(From the New York Sun }

"'This talk of fuel famine just be
cause the coal miners are on a strike
makesme tired" said hegray- haired
old Traveller as he met the Loungel
in Herald Square.
"Not the slightest danger of it.
all the coal miners in the world were
to quit work and stay quit there
wouldn't be any fuel famine. Ever
since the world began man has want
ed fire at times, and when he's wanted
it he has got it, one way or another
And yet 4 don't suppose there's
ever been time since man began to
talk that there hasn't been more or
less prediction of a fuel famine
When | was a kid up in Maine my old
grandmother used to worry for fear
some time or other the pine forests
would give out and there wouldn't
be any pitch knots to burn, and many
statisticians have figured how long
the worlds coal supply will last.
"When got a little older, along in
the SOS, started overland for Cali
fornia and all along the Santa Fe
trail through Kansas, where there
wasn't splinter of wood, except in
our wagons and gunstocks, we cooked
our meals over buffalo chips.
"Out in California we burned red
wood. Wouldn't do it now, though,
for it's too much like burning money.
Coming back years after, found
'em burning corn on the cob in Neb-
raska, corn stalks and straw in lii
nois ard Iowa-cheaper than soft
coal, which can be had for the haul
ing, as it crops out at the surface in
many places.
"On the Mississippi I've seen 'em
get up racing steam on the packets
with bacon and rum. In Indiana and
Ohio natural gas does the trick. Oil
in Pennsylvania and many other
states is a common fuel.
Down south, in Tennessee, they
burn peanut shucks and cleanings, in
Texas and Arkansas cotton hulls and
ground cane.
Sin Quito when you want to. cook
something you take it outdoors and
leave it under a glass and the sun
does the rest.
"But the funniest fire | ever saw
was way down in Patagonia near the
Straits of Magellan. You wouldn't
believe it-and didn't, till | saw it.
"They burn icicles and snowdrifts.
"You see, the winds over the great
central barrens blow tor hundreds of
miles over a thin growth of scrub.
This. by the pressure of the wind, be-
comes packed into wisps and bundles
and balls, all mixed up with dirt and
snow and ice. The natives gather
these and burn 'em. Smokes good
deal, but you can cook by it and it
keeps away the mosquitoes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
New ENGLAND Farms.

From the Derry, N. h., News we
take the following:
1t is fact we'll known, that New
England stands prominent in con-
tour of her rugged features as in ex-
ceedingly rich, fertile, grand and
beautiful section of our country.
Its smiling fields and stately homes,
it's grandeur and picturesqueness at
tract the eye and please the taste of
many a one who has wandered far
and wide midst the profusion of ma
lures diversified scenes, inducing
them to purchase here, at last, spot
to be rendered eloquent by the word
of home"
Through all parts of this great Sec
ton of our country are rich and
beautiful farms, yet think that part
called southern New Hampshire is
especially blest and favored in this
respect, at least | was SO impressed
while looking over the large and pro-
ductive farm owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. Laraway of Londonderry. The
yield shows the fertility of the soil
Such farms annually bear their
harvest of income, richly repaying
the toiler for his labor. The produce
is taken to Lawrence every week.
Mrs. Laraway has herself, this year,
raised from setting heus $50 chickens.
Many bOarders find this genial spot
during the summer months, getting
that recuperation and rest nature
demands. MIR. Drew Of n 4shua Wis
tied this farm last week and offered
the sum of $4,000 for it as it stood
with all products and stock. The
offer was rejected as not enough.
The farm is we'll stocked and great
is the promise of the yield Of the har-
vest. | simply have taken this farm
to show up my claim of southern
New Hampshire.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
HOOD FHRM
GQrget Cure

In garget the udder becomes infamed,
hot, red and painful, and the milk seems
thick, stringy, bloody or watery.
A tablespoonful of Hood Farm Garget
Cure mixed with damp feed two or three
times day will cure any ordinary case.
Zone of my cows had bloody garget and
l fed her Hood Farm Garget Cure, night
and morning for six days, after which the
milk was all right" A. E. LOOMS North
Wolcott, vt.
Prices 81 and $3.50.
Hood Farm SalVe - especially pre-
pared to be used in connection with our
Garget Cure. Also excellent for cracked
teats, sores, bruises. ST.. Call for treatise on
garget and its causes. Prepared by C. 1.
Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. For sale by STAY
TON & SANDERS, Morrisville, vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17

The summer has been almost phe-
nominal for GOODNESS in the North.
But the South has had an uncommon
ly hot season even for that latitude.
Texas which is not usually of extra
tropical warmth, Ihas been swelter-
ing with the mercury at 104 in the
shade, and the Lone Star state is
wondering if it has not been moved
by mistake down into Central Amer
lea.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
MARRIAGES.

BASSETT-T Cambridge, Sept. o
by Rev. Henry G. Howard Homer L. Ewin
OF WaterviIle to Grace e. Bassett Cam
bridge.
SILVER-LAMBERT.- Hyde Park, Sept
8, by Rev. O. M. Boutwell,. Charles l.. Silye
of Craftsbury and Emma l.. Lambert 4
Hanover, N. 81.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17
NOTICE.

To Whom This May Concern -
Notice is hereby given that all outstanding
orders against the Town OF Belvidere will be
paid on presentation at the Town Treasurer's
Office in said town on or before Oct. 18th, A.
D. 1902. and after said day such orders shall
cease to draw interest,
Dated at Belvidere, this 9th day of Septem-
Der, A. d. 1902.
j. O. THOMAS, Town Treasurer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17

For forty years DR.. Fowler's Extract OF
Wild Strawberry has been curing summer
complaint, dysentery, diarrhoea, bloody fux,
pain in the stomach, and it has never yet
failed to do every thing claimed for it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17

Don't let the little ones suffer from eczema
or other torturng skin diseases. No need for
it, Doan's Ointment cures. Don't harm the
most delicate skin, At any drug store SO
cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-17

Impossible to forsee an accident. Not i'm
possible to be prepared for it. DR.. Thomas
Eclectric Oh. Monarch over pain.
The Mankato free press., 1902-06-30

shanty and commenced cutting logs
and hauled them directly to the rear
of where o. W. Schmidt's harness
shop stands and rolled them up in the
shape of log house. think the
shanty was 12x14 feet. We were four
days at it. When it was finished Louis
Mareau, who owned the team. and
myself went back to st. Paul. All
the feed we had for the horses was
browse. Either we led them into a
thicket or cut down young cottonwood
trees, which appeared to be just bud
ding out, and they ate them ravenous-
ly and seemed to do pretty well on
this kind of feed.
"The day we commenced to chop
we had been at work about two hours
when looking up we saw an Indian
and a squaw with pappoose. When
they came up to us they wanted some
thing to eat and seemed to, be
friendly.
"On leaving st. Paul we made for
an old mans place about six miles
this side of Fort Smelling. The next
day we came to Tom Holmes trading
post, where Shakopee now stands
There we stayed over night. The next
day we came to another trading post,
run by Nelson Roberts, that was about
on the present site of Belle Plaine.
The next camp for the night was near
The Mankato free press., 1902-06-30
NEW BUILDINGS In 1850.
The Editor of the rlankato Independent Gives
List of Buildings then Built or in Course
of Construction in nankato.
Lincoln on Compromise -- Meeting of Citizens
''Resolve to Remove the Winnebago Indians.'

We counted yesterday (July 1, 1852
from the roof of our Office no less than
thirty-two new buildings erected
this season, or in process of erection.
This does not, by any means, COM
prise the whole number now going up,
but were all that were visible from
our point of observation. These build
ings are all of a good class-all or
nearly all of them being two or two
and half stories high.
T. D. Warren, Esq, is erecting a
dwelling which will, when finished,
be the best in the county. 1t will cost
about $5. 600.
Judge Branson is erecting on the
corner of Main and Fourth streets a
dwelling. the cost of which will be
about So, 900.
N. Woleben is now putting the fin
ishing touches on dwelling on Broad
way between Walnut and Hickor.
streets, which cost about 81, 500.
J. Pfaff is finishing up new build
ing designed for a hotel, which w
should Judge will cost at least $S, 600
1t is located on Front street, be
tween Sycamore and Plum streets.
Stephen Lamm is erecting, imme
The Mankato free press., 1902-06-30

sent by the Rolling Stone colony from
Minnesota City near Winona to ex-
plore the country to the mouth of the
Blue Earth to ascertain if practical
BILE route for highway between the
two points could be found. Norecong
and his associates had gotten entan-
gled in the swamps and lakes of the
big forest between GAINESVILLE and
Markato and had had hard time of it.
He learned at Mankato, however, that
a road had been cut through the woods
southwark across the LeSueur to the
Decoria prairie by detachment of
United States dragons in October,
1914, while on their way from Ft.
Atchinson, Iowa, to the upper Mime
sofa to punish the Indians for killing
some white men who had lost their
way while taking some cattle to Ft.
Smelling. This company of dragons
in command of Capt. Sumner and &C
companied by Henry M. Rice, after
wards of st. Paul, then sutler at Ft.
Atchinson, had made two expeditions
to the Sioux country, one in October,
1914, and the other in June. 1916,
and in going and coming mad passed
each time over this road, and had
camped on the present site of Man
kato. Col. Robertson volunteered to
accompany Mr.. Norecong to investi-
gate this Dragon road, as it was
then called, and see if a highway
route might not be found by circling
around to the east along the prairie
south of the LIE Sueur. Accordingly on
, the morning Of July 10th. having
packed their camp equ page on an
army mule, which had been through
f, the Mexican war, they started and a
rough time they had of it for the next
two weeks tramping, through the will
f, derness, before they finally struck the
Mississippi river above the present
location of Hastings. They found q
The Mankato free press., 1902-06-30
Public neeting.

Minutes Of meeting to take into
consideration the removal of the Win
nebago Indians, held at city hall,
Mankato, Monday evening, Feb. 90,
1859.
The meeting was called to order by
B. Moreland, and the following Off
GERS elected. President, J. Travis
Rosser; secretary, G. A. Chapman;
vice presidents, E. R. Parry and Jas.
| Shoemaker.
| 1t was moved and carried that a
committee of five be appointed to
draft a set of resolutions and to report
on next Thursday evening. Moved
and carried that the committee be ap-
Iointed by the chair. The former
motion was then reconsidered, and on
motion, a committee of five was
appointed to report set of resolutions
this evening. The chair appointed
Messrs. Moreland, Hensley, Hawley,
F. K johnson and McMahan. The
committee reported a set of resolu-
tions, which after discussion were
recommitted with instructions to draft
a suitable preamble and report at the
next meeting. Mr.. Baker offered the
following resolution:
Resolved, That in view Of the an
ticipated permanent location of the
Winnebago Indians in Blue Earth
county and with an earnest desire that
we may have a united effort of all the
settlers of Blue Earth county against
the proposed iniquitous imposition,
therefore, we recommend that meetings
be held in all the towns throughout
the county, to give full expires sion of
the views of our people upon the sub
ject.
The resolution was amended, on
motion, by inserting after "Blue
Earth" the words "and adjoining
counties" and was then adopted as
amended.
On motion Mr.. Baker was added
to the committee on resolutions.
The meeting then adjourned to Thurs
day evening, March Sd at the city
hall.
c. A. CHAPMAN, Sec.