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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
NO D0ILIES FOR THE MEN
The New Stores Ad Man Says to Give
Something New.

The New Ulm Review in its en-
deavor to give useful information to
its readers, invited F. P. Zschunke &
Co. of the New Store, to have their
say to the extent Of a few hundred
words to help the people in the diff
cult task of selecting Christmas-pres-
ents.
For many seasons it has become a
growing custom to give the men some
thing useful instead of doilies and
other pretty things, which please only
for the moment and are thrown aside
the day after Christmas. The conse-
quence is that good clothing stores
now fully provide for the enormous
sale of suitable articles to be put in a
man S or boys Christmas stocking.
Cities three times the size Of New
Ulm cannot show in any one store
such bright array of holiday gifts
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
Writes Book of Verse.

''The Booklet of Golden leaves is
the title of a poetical work from the
facile pen of Attorney Leroy G.. Davis
of Sleepy Eye, whose fame as a bard
and song writer is steadily spreading.
Socialism furnishes the theme for his
poem and it is we'll spoken of by the
reviewers. One of them says: "Fact,
fancy and sentiment are so charmingly
interviewer that the earnest student of
social evils and the tickle butterfly of
social pleasures will find equal delight
and absorbing interest in every line of
this brilliant poem. The book is
handsomely bound in cloth and retails
for $1.00.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
Cot Glass,
Chafn,g Dishes,
Fancy Cups and
Saueers,
Statues and PLAQUES.
Football Men win Travel.

"A football game has been arranged
between the universities OF Minnesota
and California to be played at San
Francisco on New Years day. Cali
fornia anniversary is considered the
champion eleven Of the Pacific Coast
and the game will therefore determ inc
to whom the football laurels for the
season OF 1903 of a right belong $. The
game will be one of the big drawing
cards of the Tournament Of Roses, the
Mardi Gras festival of the coast, and
will be witnessed by thousands Of
people. It is the first time that Minne-
sofa has ever been allenged by Cali
fornia and the team will leave for San
Francisco on the night Of December
10th. Earl Current of this city, will
play fullback for Minnesota.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
FOUND NINE TRUE BILLS
Grand Jury Lavish in the Way Of
Indictments.
Charles Kimball Held on Four
Separate Counts.
Sullivan, Schleuder and Baltrusch
Also Indicted.

Unusual devotion to duty was exhib-
tied last week by the Brown county
grand jury. After being in session
five days, Foreman G.. W. Cunning
ham and his eighteen associates found
a total of nine indictments. True bills
we're returned against six persons and,
in addition, several cases were inves-
tigated by the jurors where it was i'm
possible to secure sufficient evidence
to indict. "
The first offender to be hailed be-
fore the court was John Sullivan, the
Duluth youth who was captured at
Springfield. An indictment charging
him with horse stealing was found
Wednesday and he was arraigned the
same day. Judge Weber appointed
Attorney Jos. A, -Eckstein to defend
the prisoner, who interposed plea of
not guilty. The crime he is accused
of is serious one and, if convicted,
the maximum sentence is five years.
Assault in the first degree is what
Charles Kimball, the Sleepy Eye bar
Der, must answer to-, and he is held on
four separate counts. When Charles
was indulging in his exciting bit of
gun play he little realized that every
time he unlimbered his artillery he
was committing q distinct offense, but
such was indeed the case. Every shot
told against him and he is indicted
for firing at Mrs. Carrie Toomey, A.
A. Larabee, John LANCE and Marshal
Michael Frantz. Each offense is
punishable by ten years in the peni-
Tertiary but it is not likely that he
will receive the fully forty years.
When arraigned he pleaded not guilty
but his lawyer, Attorney L. G.. Davis
of Sleepy Eye, reserved the right to
alter the plea.
Something of a surprise was sprung
by the grand jurors late Friday after
noon when they indicted Herman
Schleuder, recently appointed dog
catcher, for grand larceny in the
second degree. Early in the week
Schleuder is said to have visited r.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
COOP FOR CHILDREN.

The pleasant 10 take and harmless. One
Minute Cough Cure gives immediate
RELIEF in all Cases of Cough, Group and
LaGrippe because it does not pass inn
mediately into the stomach, but takes
effect at the seat Of the trouble. 1t draws
out the Inflammation. heals and soothes
and cures permanently by enabling the
lungs to contribute pure life giving and
DEMONSTRATING oxygen to the blood and
tissues. DR.. Armstrong of Della, Tex,
prescribes it daily and says there is no
better congh remedy made. Sold by
all druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
SAY PAY is TOO SMALL
Rnral Mail Carriers Want Increase
in Salary.

Rural mail carriers from all over
Minnesota are complaining that the
present salary is too small and if an
increase does not come soon it is said
that it is only question of time when
half of the rural carriers will give up
their routes. e.
''The salary for the rural mail car
rier is too SMALL" said Postmaster A..
r. McGill. eff there was not in the
minds of most of the carriers hope of
an increase in the near future a great
number would resign Immediately.
The rural carriers in Minnesota get
$500 year. There are about 700 rural
carriers in this state. ..
''Their routes are at least twenty
five miles and not more than thirty
miles long. To cover this distance the
men in some cases have to keep two
horses at cost of about 800 a piece.
When the carrier has to keep a suit
ale wagon the average cost amounts
almost $500 which leaves only about
1888 for living expenses.
"There is no doubt about it the
salary ought to be at least 5000 a year
in order that the men can do the work
better. Anything lower than this will
not support a carrier. There is at
present bill before congress to in
crease salaries of rural carriers to
$3.50, but this is too little" -. 49,.
Mr.. McGill said that in the few rural
routes that are operated FROM the st.
Paul station it is hard work to keep
the present incumbents from throwing
up their jobs. The only thing, that
keeps them at the work is the hope of
higher wages in the future.
The city carrier gets 5000 the first
year and if he has to maintain a horse,
$500 more. After two years ofservice
he receives $1,000 year.
"While the duties of the rural
carriers are not any more arduous
than those of the city carrier it takes
man with a high grade of qualif-
cation to perform Them" said Mr..
McGill. ssThe rural carriers are in
fact a travelling fourth-class postoffce.
They sell stamps, make out money
orders and register letters. There is
no reason why the carrier in the coun-
try should get less than the city
carrier -
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
TWO REGULATION ALLEYS.
New Ulm Bowlers Are to Be Well
Supplied.
n a... = IN ---------. .s s.ssSsse
Frank Burg Will Erect Addition to.
His Building.
I. B. Brick OF Owatonna, Leases
From c. III. Hornburg,

New: Ulm bowlers will not suffer
from the want of regulation alleys il
the future. Last week Frank Burg,
Jr., reached decision to erect an adj
dition to his building and T. B. Brick
of Owatonna, secured lease of the
Hornburg building at Minnesota and
Second North streets in which to in.
stall three new alleys. Both places
will be in readiness by January LIST
and the rivalry between the two prom
Uses to be keen.
Mr.: Burg has had the improvements
mentioned in mind for sometime. On
the present alleys the bowlers of this
city were able to defeat all corners but
when opposed to outside bowlers on
regulation alleys they could not COM
pete with their opponents. To over
come this handicap Mr.. Burg decided
to enlarge his building and on Friday
evening awarded contract for the
work to Tape & Co. @@ss +
AS the alleys are but three feet short
it will be no great task to make them
regulation. An addition of thirteen
feet in length will be erected and the
alleys run back. They will be length
ened the three feet and the balance of
the space left for the use of the bowl
ers. AS they are only six inches too
narrow it will not be necessary to
widen the building at this time, al
though it may be done next summer.
The contractors commenced work
Saturday and it is expected that they
will finish in about ten days. -.
T. B. Brick of Owatonna, was in
New Ulm last Wednesday and Thurs
day and made arrangements to open
another set Of alleys here. He has
been in the same business in Ovation
ma but regarded the New Ulm opening
as more promising. He has two al
leys at Owatonna but will close them
up and bring them here and will also
buy a third alley Thursday Mr..
Brick leased G. H. Hornburg's build
ing on North Minnesota street and it
will give him all the space he requires.
The building 120 feet in length. Of
this seventy-four feet is needed for the
alleys and twenty-four feet for run
way, leaving plenty of room for the
cigar and confectionery business which
he purposes opening. To the Review
Mr.. Brick stated that he would begin
tearing out his alleys at Owatonna
next week and will open here before
January lst if possible. :
He is said to be planning upon the
organization of another league and
will set apart at least one day in each
week when ladies will have the use Of
the alleys.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
-.KopoL DYSPEPSIA CURE

Dig.sts al! classes of food, tones and
the stomach and digestive
organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Stomach Troubles, and makes rich red
blood, health . and strength. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure rebuilds wornout tissues,
purlfies strengthens and sweetens the
Gov. G. w. Atkinson, of w
Va. says: II have used number of
bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and
have found it to be very effective and,
indeed prowfnl remedy for stomach
ailments. recommend it to my friends. !"
Sold by all druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
THE LONE STAR STATE.

Down in Texas at Yoakum, is big
dry goods firm of which Mr.. j. M. Halter
Is the head. Mr.. Halter on one Of his
trips East to buy goods said to q friend
who was with him in the. palace car,
stHere, take one of these Little Early
Rlsers upon retiring and you will be up
early in the morning feeling good.''
For the "dark brown" taste, headache
and that logy feeling DeWitt's Little
Early Rlsers are the best pills to use.
Sold by all druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
ONE. HUNDRED DoLIzARs A Box

is the value II. A. Tlsdale, Summerton,
s. G. places on .DeWitt's Witch Hazel
salve. He says: II had the piles for
20 years. l tried many doctors and
medicines, but all failed except De.
Wits Witch Hazel Salve, It cured
me. It is a combination OF the healing
properties of Witch Hazel with anti
septlcs and emollients; relieves and
permanently cures blind, bleeding, itch
ing and protruding piles. sores, cu,s,
bruises, eczema salt rhrum and all skin
diseases. Sold by all druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
Gen. .Bobleter Selected,

Gen. Bobleter has been advised that
he has been selected by the command
er-in-chief to represent the Minnesota
National Guard at a convention Of
the Interstate National Guard Associ-
alton, which will be held at ST. Aug
Justine, Fla, January Is, 1904.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-16
JOHN DROPPED HIS ROLL
Farm Laborer Tells Police That He
Was Robbed.
John Sturm Came to New Ulm and
Parted With Wealth.
He Was Paid $194 But Every Cent
of Money Vanished.

agerie, John Sturm, a farm laborer,
is mourning the loss of some $3.50.
John came to New Ulm last Wednes-
day and within twenty -four hours was
separated from his roll. He told his
story to the police but as yet no arrests
have been made and there is no clue
to the identity of the persons who got
his money. j
Sturm has been employed on the
farm of Fred Stolz, a farmer living
near Nicollet,~ and appears to have
behaved himself for some time, for
when paid off last Tuesday he rece: we'd
the sum of 1874. Taking this amount
of money, John quilted the Stolz place
and came to New Ulm. He was not
long in finding congenial company
and relates that two men were parti-
cularly attentive to him. -.
The trio became boon companions
and Sturm says that on Wednesday
they spent most of the day in a local
saloon. He says that he drank only
a few glasses of beer and was not
drunk, but follows this up with the
statement that after a time he lost con-
troll of his faculties and has but an in
distinct recollection OF what followed.
He remembers that his two companions
bundled him into carriage and when
he returned from the drive his simo-
Icons had vanished. - =,
Thursday Sturm hunted up Chief
Klause and unburd Tened himself of his
woes. In giving the chief an account
of the affair he stated that information
had been given him of one way in
which he was robbed. While asleep
in saloon, he says, the bartender
frequently called up the crowd in the
place to drink and when it came time
to iquidate would stop over Sturm's
unconscious form and extract the
necessary change from his pockets.
This continued for some time and
Sturm asserts his belief that the two
men got what was left of his money
when he was alone with them in the
buggy. When he recovered from the
spree he had no money in his pockets
but later remembered having deposited
$40 with bartender for safe keeping.
, Subsequently this amount was re-
turned to him but the $3.50 has disap-
peared completely. The saloon man
denies the charge that he took money
from Sturm's pockets while the latter
lay in a stupor and Chief Klause is.
reluctant to believe that his pockets
were picked by the two men. !; It is not
impossible that the cash was lost &C
cidentally or that it was removed by
one of the women in the resort at the
end of the drive.
Sturm is about 40 years of age and
stranger here. His decription an
swers to that of man who formerly
worked near Mankato, and if he is the
same person, the experience is no new
one to him. Since arriving in New
Ulm he has been intoxicated nearly all
of the time and can tell no connected
story.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

had given me a dollar. Sinkers, deduct
ing the price Of two coffees and six sand
witches from the bill, counted out SO 30 for
me.
That change kept me running for q
month. and after my first pay day I
hunted I'D Dave to pay him back. I
found him in the evening He was sitting
alone on the eating house porch. his feet
up against the rail, looking at the noun
tains in the sunset.
Never mind" he said. as held out q
s2o-bin and tried to speak my little piece.
He did not move except to wave back my
hand.
"Oh, but can't let you do that" I pro-
tested.
Put up your money, Tommie." He
called me Tommie.
NO" he repeated, putting by my hand;
his face set hard, and when Dawes face
did set 1t set stony. Put up your money;
you don't owe me anything. I stole It :"
It was a queer deal out on the West End
in those days. 1t was a case Of wide
open from the river to the Rockies.
Everybody on the line, from the directors
to the car thinks. were giving the COM
pany the worst of It. The section hands
hooked the ties for the maintenance, the
painters drank the alcohol for the shell
lac, the purchasing agent had more fast
horses than we had locomotives, and
what made 1t discouraging for the con-
ductors, the auditors stole what little
money the boys did turn In.
A hard place to begin railroading, the
old line was then; but that's where had
to tackle the game, and in all the hard
crowd 1 mixed with Dave Hawk was the
only man on the division. There were
others there who fixed the thing up by
comparing notes on their collections and
turning in percentages to make their re-
ports look right; but Dave was not con-
spirator-never made a conhdant OF any
man in his stealing or his spending. and
despised their figuring. He did as he
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27
TEX

Irishman with a bottle Of rank whisky
gave me a stinger and 1 wanted to live
again. 1 curled up on the seat and in flve
minutes I was roasting, oh, such hea-
enly roast; and doing. Lord! what a
heavenly doze, before that Baker heater.
All night the forward truck beat and
pounded under me; all night woke and
slept in the steaming, sinking air of the
hot car And whenever l opened my
eyes / saw always the same thing, top
ping tall conductor looming In the aisle,
his green-hooded lamp. like semaphore.
under his arm. And above, IN the gloom,
a bush of black beard and pair OF deep
set, shining eyes back under peaked
cap. Dave often comes back as 1 saw
him, waking and dreaming, that night in
the smoker of No. L
1t was breaking day when he bent over
me.
Were getting into the Bend" he said
gruf1y. "Got any money for breakfast?''
IT haven't a cent on Gods earth" He
put his hand in his pocket and pulling out
a handful of loose bills showed one into
my fingers. III take it from you and
gladly I said. sitting up. But I'm not a
beggar nor tramp"
loft track?"
Yes I'm going to enlist"
His teeth flashed. That's worse than
railroading, amt it?''
Something came into my head like q
rocket.
'If could get started railroading-"
''Get started easy enough"
That's how happened to show him my
Victoria. He gave me card to the train
master, and next day / went to brakins
for Allbers. who. by the way, was the
biggest liar 1 ever knew.
But the morning L got into Medicine
Bend that first time on No. 1 had an
other scare. I went into the lunch room
for coffee and sandwiches and threw my
bill at the boy. He opened it, looked al
1t and looked at me.
Well" 1 growled, for I~yas impudent
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

the heads Of our passenger conductor
began to drop they began setting up
freight men. Rocksby had resigned a
year earlier and Haverly, his successor.
an ex-dispatcher. and as big knave as
there was on the payroll. let the men out
right and left with the sole idea Of saw
ing his own scalp. BY the time I was up
to a passenger train the old force was
pretty much cleared out except Dave.
Every day almost we looked to see him
go. Everybody loved him because he was
a master railroad man, and everybody ex-
cept Dave himself was apprehensive
about his future. He moved on Just the
same, calm and cold as Ice water. taking
the same old chances. reckless OF every
thing and everybody. I never knew till
afterward. but tho truth was HavsrIy.
with all his blufr talk. was Just enough
afraid Of Dave Hawk to want to let him
alone. The matter. though. focused one
day I'D in the old ONCE in an unexpected
way.
Haverly's own seat got 80 hot that. be-
deviled by his fear Of losing II. and afraid
to discharge Dave who now sailed up and
down the line reckless as any pirate OF
the Spanish Main, he covered. called
Dave INTO the little room az tho WlcKl-
up and asked him TO resign In AL the
storm that ragged on the division the
old conductor alone had remained calm
Every day It was somebody's head on,
every night a new alarm Dave alone ig-
nored It all. He was through Il all the
shining mark, the daredevil target. yet
he bore a charmed life and survived
every last associate Then Haverly ask
ed him to resign Dave. bitter angry.
faced him with black words In bis throat
TITS come to q showdown" muttsred
the superintendent ureasily. after . min
ute's talking. ''Do you want 70 rsstgnr'
Dave eyed the mountains coldly. No"
You'll have to"
Have tor Hawk whirlsd DARK A.
storm Have tor Who says BoT'
The superintendent shifted the paper
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

fore very long I should fall Off, anyway.
After 1 crawled down he stood looking
at me, and with nothing better on 1 stood
looking at him.
"If you get up there again I'll break
your neck" he promised, holding up his
lantern.
/ was quiet; the nerve was out of me.
Where are you going?" he asked
shorty.
Medicine Ben"
Get into the smoker, you damn fool"
How It galvanized me. For twenty-four
hours hadn't eaten. 1 was just out Of a
hospital bed and six weeks of mountain
fever, but I braced at his words like a
Sioux buck. 1 hurried back ahead of him
to the smoking car, drenched wet and
tough, 1 know. l looked so tough that the
brakeman grabbed me the minute
opened the front door and tried to kick
me out.
1 turned. snarling then, crazy as a wolf
all in second and somehow backed the
brakeman against the water cooler with
his windpipe twisted in my bony fingers
like a corkscrew. The train was moving
out. 1 had been cuffed and kicked until 1
would rather kill somebody than not; this
seemed a fair chance for a homicide.
When the poor fellows wind went off-he
wasn't much of a scrapper, 1 fancy-he
whipped around in the aisle like a dying
rooster. AS he struggled in my grip there
behind him in the doorway stood Dave,
lantern in hand. looking on with a new
face. This time he was smiling-Dave' s
smile meant just the parting of his lips
over a row of glistening teeth, perfectly
even teeth, and under his black mustache
whittier than any ivory. 1t appeared to
amuse him to me killing the brake
man. The instant 1 saw Dave 1 let go
and he watched the crestfallen trainmar
pull himself together
Guess you'll let him alone now. won't
you?" said Dave pleasantly to my ratified
assailant. sit down. he growled harsh
ly at me, stringing his lantern on his
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27
A Nm .E.zAS BENDING OYER NJ
L44N7ERN IN HAND
ITLZ4S THE PORTER

pleased and cared for no one; no superior
had any terror for Dave He had a wife
somewhere back east OF the river. they
said, that had sold him out-that's why
he was in the mountains-and he lived
among the free -and-easy men a lonely
life. II anybody ever got close to him 1
think maybe I did, though I was still
only q freight conductor when the light
ming struck the division.
It came with a clean sweep through the
general offices at the river. Everybody in
the auditing department, the executive
heads down to general manager and a
whole raft Of East End conductors. 1t
was a shake-out from top to bottom, and
the bloods on our division went white
and siclkly very fast
OF course It was somebody's gain When
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

the words on the reverse. For valor.-
and looked again at me-
''Where'd you get this7' he asked, in
dicating the Victoria
''In the Soudan, SIR"
Dave Hawk kept right on looking out
the window. Neither my conductor nor
the operator seemed to know just what
the row was. Nobody spoke.
What are you doing hereT' Rocksby
went on.
ct came out to learn the cattle bust
ness" His brows went up easy like.
'Then I went bad with mountain fever"
end he looked decent at me.
''You say you had your head out the
cupola and saw the white signal?' he
asked, sort Of puzzled.
81 saw the white signal" Rocksby
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

weight on the desk unccmfortably.
Why should I reslgn?' demanded the
old conductor. angrily. ''Resignf' He
rose from his chair. you know I'm a
thief. You're n thief yourself You
helped make me one. I've carried more
men for you than for anybody else on the
whole division. I don't resign for any
body. Discharge me. damn you I don't
ask any odds OF you"
Haverly met 1t sullenly, yet he didn't
dare do anything He knew Dave could
ruin him any day he chose to open his
mouth. What he did not know was that
Dave Hawk was nodded in a class OF men
different from his own. Every dishonor
was safe IN the hands OF Dave Hawk
There was no change after except that,
darker, moodier, lonelier than ever, Dave