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The Lamar register., 1903-07-15
PROWERS COUNTY FAIR.
AUGUST 20. ~ and 2S.
The Executive Committee of the Association
Offers Purses and Premiums Aggre.
eating over $2,5oo.oo.

The premiums for the agricultur
al and stock departments have been
liberally Increased this year and it
is expected that there will be a much
finer display in these lines than ever
before. The executive committee
haye taken hold of the matter right
and are offering inducements that
will make it an object to owners of
fine stock to bring them to the fair
grounds for display. The charge
for stalls for such exhibits has been
discontinued and many of the prem
iums doubled, making it much more
profitable. The stockmen will ap-
preciate this change and the number
of exhibits will be greatly increased.
In the agricultural line all who
have extra fine crops will by exam
ining the premium list see that it is
to their advantage to try for the
premiums in their line. The farm.
ers are all expecting fine crops this
year and the displays in this line
will be of the finest.
The second day of the fair will
also be the day of the Woodmen's
annual log rolling for this district.
There are over thirty camps of the
order in the district and the attend
ance will be large from all over the
state. Liberal prizes will be offered
for the best team drills and special
program of sports will be given to
entertain the visitors. The crowd
on this day will be record breaker
for this section of the state.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15

fail, two to three times as much in
the way of crop as the average soil
in the humid region.
They do not know that fertility is
an essential feature of-arid soil-not
an accident. sF,E
They do not know that the very
process Of irrigation perpetually re-
news the fertility of the soil.
They do not know that sunshine
itself is a big factor in making
values in crops, and that by taking
advantage of the constant sun, the
Colorado farmer increases his crop.
But all these things are true, and
when the government begins to tell
it in its emphatic way, there will be
movement toward the irrigated
lands which will be really the best
fruit of the reclamation project.
Hundreds of thousands of people
will be settled upon the government
irrigated lands, and just as many
more will be settled upoh the lands
which private capital will water.
For here is another point upon
which there is much misapprehen-
sion: the government is not going to
shut out private enterprise in irriga
ton, but its work will stimulate pri-
vate work.
Government irrigated land will
not be cheap land. The policy as
determined by Chief photographer
Newell, with the wisdom which has
characterized most of his steps in es
tsblishing the reclamation depart
ment, will be for the government to
tackle the hard problems, the big
propositions which private capital
will not essay for many years to
come. And everyone which has been
discussed will entail large expense
per acre in watering. The Gunni-
son tunnel in Western Colorado,
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15
Real Value Of Land

While our government hesitates
about spending few million dollars
in reservoirs to make millions of acres
0f worthless land valuable, the fol.
owing. taken from the Kansas City
Journal will show what foreign gover-
nments are willing to spend to add
q few thousand of acers to their avail,
able farm lands: "While United
States is scheming to build vast res
'ervoirs in the mountains of the desert
region to be used as water source
for the irrigation of large areas of
farm land, the government of Hol-
land is engaged in the no less inter
,esting work of reclaiming from the
asaa great tracks of land which will
be nsed fol- agricultural purposes.
The Dutch enterprise is almost wor
thy Of comparison with our building
of tho Panama canal, at least 80 far
as cost is concerned. It involves the
draining of the Zuider sea, through q
,step-by step process that eventually
will make dry land of the whole of it.
"First, dixie will be built across
the mouth of the sea, distance of
"a miles at a cost of $18,00O,000.
After this dixie has been completed
and the inflow of sea water is under
control, corner of the imprisoned
sea will be surrounded by dikes and
the water pumped out from an area
of about $1,000 acres. This step in
the work is figured at cost of IS, ,OOO,-
600, and it is to be followed by the
diking of another area OF the sea to
the extent of 249, 900 acres, and then
the remainder of the sea area is to be
pumped out, adding 5000 acres to
the total. The cost of the enterprise
complete is fixed at $7S, 100000,
"The work is to be performed by
the government and it will be finan-
ced by the issue of bonds bearing
2.6 per cent interest. The land re-
claimed is to be held by the govern
ment and rented to farmers at rate
sufficient to pay interest and main
tenance, which is figured at about "
an acre per year"
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VIII Mako Higher Prices.

There has been and still remains
a curious Misrepresentation as to the
reason why private enterprises for
the reclamation of vast tracts of irri-
gable land have failed to pay, and
why it is that the government has
stepped in with its limitless resourc'
es to take up a work which obvious
ly might be done by private capital.
The principal value which the gov
ernment irrigation work will be to
the aid region will be in the way Of
advertising. People will believe a
government report, where the state
ments of a land selling concern fell
upon unblieving minds. And to set
tie the right kind of people upon
the millions and millions of acres
which are to be reclaimed the gov
ernment will have to emphacize the
advantages of irrigation farming in
a way that has never been done be-
fore.
People in the East, and in fact
most people outside the farming dis
tricts even in Colorado, regard irrigs-
ton as a means of wrestling crops
from an unwilling desert by bring
ing water upon it.
They do not know that the irrigat
ed soil produces every year without
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should Serve without Pay.

By frittering away their time and
delaying the passage of the appro.
priation bill until after the session
had expired, the members of the
late Assembly have made themselves
responsible for the extra session
recently called by the Governor to
repass the bill.
Inasmuch, therefore, as this extra
session is chargeable to their failure
to properly perform their duties, it
would seem entirely proper and con-
sistent for the members to refuse to
accept pay for their services during
the special session.
Such a course would indicate a
most commendable desire on their
part to make reparation to the pso-
pie for their ine1cusable delay in
handling this important bill, and it
would also serve as a most effective
incentive to haste in bringing the
special session to a close.
There is no better way to take the
edge off the adverse criticism caused
by their failure than to donate their
services to the state while engaged
in correcting their mlstake.-Colors.
do Springs Telegraph.
The above sounds very pretty, but
what would we think of them if they
did it. A state that will support T.
NJ. Patterson ought to pay for it.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15
County Notes
(From the Holly ChieftainI

lrrOm INC molly CnieItAinI
Robbie, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
F. MCPHERSON, had the misfortune to
fall from q bicycle and break the
large bone of his forearm Saturday.
DR.. Wilson dressed the injury but it
is giving the boy much pain. He
broke his other arm over year ago
and has not yet recovered the full use
= Of it.
A boy from Rocky Ford, whose
name we did not learn, had his horse
fall on him while riding on the race
track Saturday morning, and it is
thought that his injury is quite SER
ious and may prove fatal. He was
taken to Syracuse Saturday night,
where he has a brother living.
From the Granada Times.l
Miss Lula Roberts and cousin ar
rived here. this morning, for an ex-
tended visit.
The contracts for the new school
house have been signed and all is in
readiness for work to begin.
F. E. Irwin, of Lamar, has been
here this week, surveying more tracts
on the KY ranch. There have been
large sales of this excellent land, and
it will be soon all sold at the present
rate.
@. g. Smeltz left for Denyer this
morning. He expects to be operated
on, tomorrow morning, at st. An.
thongs hospital for appendicitis.
The Times and all his many other
friends wish him safely through the
ordeal.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15
To Beet Growers.

am handling the line OF Beet Tools
sold heretofore by the American Beet
Sugar Co. Any one needing Drills or
Cultivators or Repairs for them, should
notify me at once.
G. G. HUDDLEsroN.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15

For SALE.-Colorado native plum trees
in any quantity, price 2 to 5 cents.
Order early, NJ. J. McMILLIN,
Carlton, Colo.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15

For bargains in farm lands go to
Q. b. Thoman.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15

The Lamar Seed Co. has just receiv-
ed car OF artificial ice. Send in your
erders.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15

We carry one of the most complete
lines OF Rugs ever shown in the CITY,
Buffers.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15

G. B. Thoman has the best line Of
fire insurance. He writes farm risks.
The Lamar register., 1903-07-15

Try our $3.50 Width House Shoes for
men and women-Butler's.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
"It's an iii Wind" Etc.

'Tt's an i'll wind that blows nobody
any good" This old saying can be APP
piled to the Miller case which has been
agitating the country somewhat for a
few months past. It's had the effect of
bringing the proper authorities to a
realization of the necessity of institut-
ing reforms in the government print
ing office. The fact has been disclosed
that a new building which has been
erected at cost of $2,500,000 to accom-
modate this concern is found to be too
small and that demand is to be pre-
scented to congress for more room costing
another $2,5OO,OOO and more. 1t has
come to light that the reason why there
is not room enough, or the principal rea-
son, is because there are no typesetting
machines in the office, because the union
has kept out these and other modern
appliances, making it kind of a Chinese
of what is supposed to be the most prog
ressive nation on earth in industrial
methods. 1t is to be hoped that the de-
mand for more room will be pushed and
that congress will improve the opportuni-
ty to institute searching investigation
and cause the establishment to be
thoroughly modernized, brought up to a
reasonable standard of efficiency and
reorganization on the "open shop" prin-
ciple if it cannot be abolished altogether
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
Graft in Chicago.

Is Carter Harrison's presidential boom
on the ragged edge of adversely or is the
chief executive of Chicago making an
honest endeavor to reform the "windy
city," This is the question that will
naturally arises in the minds of those
people who viii interest themselves in
the recent declaration of Mayor Harrison
to the effect that Chicago official life is
permeated with graft. The statement
that Chicago is in the hands of grafters
is no surprise to those who keep in
touch with the trend of events. There is
no doubt of Chicago being in the "maw'
of the fellows who wax fat off of official
plumber, but it is all the more startling
that the mayor himself will say so. 1t
is an old saying, however, that 'frank
confession is good for the soul,' and it is
quite likely that Mr.. Harrison wished to
rid his mind Of something disagreeable
and at the same time call public notice
to himself as one who is in favor of re-
form, hoping that such move would
place him right before the Democrats OF
the country who are just now casting
about in the hope of finding Moses who
will lead them forth to the promised
land, or to express it more definitely,
one who can secure an election to the
presidency and then "dole" out to them
the offices which they so long for. Cart
er Harrison has been mayor of Chicago
several terms. Has it taken him all this,
time to become well acquainted with all
the crooks and turns that lead to
the graft center? Hardly. No doubt he
was aware of the spoils system that was
in vogue in that city long before he as
sumed the duties of his office. Upon
taking the oath of office he should have
made an endeavor to root out the evil.
Instead of putting his best foot fore
most" he allowed the gang" to secure
control of the various public departments
and the result has been that grating is
more pronounced in that city than under
any previous administration. There are
people who do not hesitate to say that
Chicago is the most mismanaged city in
the country. Not only is there official
corruption but laws are violated with
impunity. Mayor Harrison has been
kept in office by the lowest elements of
society who are ably supported by that
so-called liberal element that looks light
ly upon statutes that should be enforced.
Official corruption is but the outgrowth
of that easy-going policy which the
American people have elbowed to become
so strong. "What is everybody's
business is nobody's business" and the
person who makes stir about the vio-
lation of laws is Kissed off the boards as
a disturber and a crank. The people
have themselves to blame for the state
of affairs which exists in Chicago as well
as in many of the larger cities of the
country. The people must drive out the
grafters if they would have public bust
NOS. cd ~, fbo co11ara
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
VERNON CENTER NEWS.

Professor and Mrs. Brown spent Satur-
day and Sunday at st. Clair, as the
guests of Mrs. Browns parents.
From the smile on Henry Krause's face
it seems very apparent that he would
rather live at .'home" than at Bottineau
Mrs. A. f. Quimby leaves next week
for her old home at Fond du Lac, Wis,
where she expects to visit for some tome.
Billy, and Martin Farmer have been
taking lay-of this week, and are get
ting things in shapt for the winter on
their farms northeast of the village.
Chuck Burrows came in Saturday and
renewed acquaintance with his family
over Sunday. He says road work is
o. X. but he don't like to have the
grip"
Rev. Stebbins will return Monday from
Redwood Falls, where he attended con-
ference. His many friends hope to know
that he will remain with them the COM
ing year.
County Superintendent Freeman pro-
nounces the Vernon schools in better
condition this year than ever before and
the attendance warrants his statement,
as this village has at present the largest
attendance in its history, which proves
that people appreciate the new and i'm
proved facilities, as well as the faculty.
Calamity howlers and hard time
knockers in any community are certain
ly detriment to any town. So far,
Vernon has practically escaped them and
for the benefit of some who would like
to exclaim, Hard times" it is suggested:
IF you can't boast don't knock, as we
haven't seen anyone starving in or
around Vernon and know that the far
mers feel well satisfied with the years
work on the whole.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
An Example to Follow.

Welcome has built during the last
three or four years about twelve miles
of gravel roads in the country tributary
to the town, and Mr.. Payne, of that place
told The Advance reporter that the
improvement had been worth thousands
of dollars to the business of the town
during the past wet season.-Sh erburne
Advance.
Welcome is a small village and her
business men are entitled to great
deal of credit for their enterprise. The
money they have expended during the
past few years bore good fruit during
the wet season this year. If the Man
kato business men expect to have good
roadways leading into the city they must
exert themselves toward that end. The
good roads will not come without some
effort on the part of the people of this
city. Welcome has set an excellent ex-
ample to follow.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
The Second District.

The Fairmont News, discussing the
gubernaterial situation up-to-date has
this to say:
In all this talking about candidate
for governor, it is well for the second
congressional district to remember that
it owes none of the proposed candidates
anything and can take such part in the
fight as it pleases, untrammeled by any
former political obligations. Van SAINT
has had two terms in which to show his
gratitude to the district that gave him
the largest majority and has given it
one $500 position, which was some
thing the district did not want. This
leaves us entirely unhampered in that
direction. and as the other candidates
never had a chance to do anything for
the second, of course there is no obliga-
ton there. This being so the district is
in position to get together, stick to-
gether and swing the next convention in
any reasonable direction it wishes. 1t
has an opportunity to convince the poll
ticians of other districts that it is still
on the map of Minnesota, fact that
could not be learned by scanning the list
of public officials, either elective or APP
pointive. Let us first consider the
good of the state, but at the same time
see that the strongest Republican district
in the state is recognized
If the Republicans of the second dis
trict act with any degree of unanimity
they should be able to WELD consider
able influence in the Republican state
convention next year. No district In
Minnesota is entitled to more consider
alton at the hands of the party than the
second which stood nobly by the ticket
when other districts were broken in
to numerically by the Democrats. 1t
was the solid second district with its
handsome Republican majority that
placed Van SAINT in the gubernatorial
chair in 1900 Had it not been for the
second districts steadfast Republican
hosts Gov. John Lind would have sue
ceeded himself. The Free Press agrees
with The Fairmont News-the politicians
should be given to understand that the
second district is still on the map-with
emphasis on the statement
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
Candidate Eddy's Platform.

Congressman Eddy delivered an ad-
dress at the fair at Cokato yesterday
and he announced his candidacy for the
governorship of Minnesota. In brief his
platform is as follows:
/ do not believe in a tariff on commod-
tiles controlled by trusts.
A tariff that aids monopoly does not
benefit the government or contribute to
the welfare of the people.
The protective system as whole pro-
tects the American workingman.
The principle of reciprocity is as sim
pie as trading jackknives, for it is only
a trading of tariff privileges.
When reciprocity is more valuable
than protection, we want reciprocity |;
when protection is more valuable, we
do not want reciprocity.
The constitution should be so amend
ed as to give congress control of trusts.
There must be uniform law in all
states before satisfactory results can be
obtained
The next republican convention should
indorse Moses E. Clapp for United States
senator.
The next state convention must in
dorse Van SAINTS merger attitude.
The merger may be in the courts, but
the principle is in politics and will con-
tinue in politics until the people triumph
or corporate power rests secure as
ruling power in the land.
If Mr.. Hill has discovered way to
avoid the principle of competition in the
railroad world he can find way to do it
in all other lines of business.
The elimination of competition means
the triumph of socialism.
The next governor of Minnesota must
be ready to act as Van SAINT acted if
similar conditions arise.
Every dollars worth of property
should pay an equal amount of taxation,
dollars worth of diamonds as much as
dollars worth of dirt or farm stock.
The swamp lands of Northern Mime
sofa should be drained by the state and
sold to actual settlers at fair price.
Rigid economy should be practiced in
state expenditures, but not an economy
that impairs efficiency.
An intelligent citizenship is better
than full treasury
All state supplies should be furnished
by Minnesota business concerns.
The next state convention should de-
clare for Van SAINTS merger attitude,
better taxation, drainage of swamp
lands, election of Clapp, and liberal APP
preparations for state institutions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
Politics and Religion.

In case the people of Minnesota should
see fit to elect men with brains to the
next legislature we may see the obnox-
ious primary election law given its
death blow. A law which compels a
voter to proclaim in public how he in
tends to vote, as the primary election
law does, is an imposition on the public
and an insult to the intelligence of a
free people-Anoka Free Press.
There are some people who want to
handle their politics as they do their
religion-in a secretive manner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
RECEIPTS AT POST0FFICES.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Receipts in Minnesota postoffices for
the fiscal year ending June 80 last ag-
gregated $685., 1872. as compared with
50, 4S2,962 in 1902. This is gain of over
$350,OOO.
In North Dakota the receipts were
1908, $4,000; 1902, $253,97S. South Da-
kota: 1908, 1854, O43; 1902, $3ll 1856.
Receipts at various cities in Minneso-
ia were as follows: Duluth, $l65,974;
Albert Lea, $l7,S23; Austin, $l4,557
Brainerd, $l4,55l; Faribault, $4,000;
Fergus Falls, $24,333; Minneapolis, ST.
O23, 1875; Mankato, S3l $40; South St
Paul, $l4,3OS; Red Wing, $l7,363;
Rochester, $l4,566; Winona, $5l,075;
Saltwater, S2O,549; st. Paul, $626,545.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
MANkATo FREE PRss.

statement startle you? At the opening
of the next legislature they will assem-
BILE for the first time in new capitol
worthy of their great state. 1t seems
to me that it would be particularly APP
propriate that the first occupant of the
new edifice should be an Eddy and ma
tive-born Minnesotan, and as the natives
seemed rather backward about offering
themselves, concluded it was my duty
to attend to the matter"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
CROWDED CONDITION.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
The North Mankato school board held
a regular meeting Saturday night. Only
routine business was transacted, but the
crowded condition of the building was
talked over. There are 1877 pupils enroll
ed, and fewer of these are from outside
of the village than usual. The classes are
larger than they ought to be. 1t will be
necessary to have another teacher next
year, in addition to the number now en-
ployed. 1t may be found necessary to
build four-room annex to the building
the coming fall or winter
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09
GOES INTO MINING BUSINESS
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
F. A. Kneeland has resigned as cash
Ter of the Walker State bank and about
the middle of the month will return to
Mankato where he will make his home
The Walker Pilot speaks very highly of
Mr.. Kneeland as a citizen and bank
cashier Mr.. Kneeland has not been in
the best of health of late owing to the
close confinement he has been subjected
to in the banking business. He will
take the financial management of cop
per mining company which has property
at Ell Paso, Texas.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-09

wages. The results show that there has
been striking similarity between the
advance in wages and the increased cost
of living, and that neither has gone
forward as much as popularity supposed.
The current report that commodities
have advanced 81 per cent is shown to
be wide of the mark. 1t will be nearer
Is or IL per cent.