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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24
.FIL|PIN0S ARE VERY APT
Natives Quickly Learn to Chea
and Overcharge.
Have Sliding Scale of Prices For
All Occidentals.
Destructive Effects of Typhoon in
Manila HarbOr.

Continuing the series of letters which
have appeared in the Review, the reader
is taken to Hong Kong, China, and from
thence to the city of Manila, where a
number Of the pecullarities of the ma
tives are noted. The letters are as fol-
lows:
STEAM SHIP s.ZAFIRo," JUNE 10, 1904
We were in Hong Kong but from
p. M, Friday, until 10 a. NJ, Saturday,
and while there we were in hustle all
the time.
We had such time to get our tickets
exchanged, for the Office didn't open un-
til 9 a. M, and there were forty of us
teachers there, all anxious to be waited
upon; then all our baggage to be moved
from the ''China" to our new boat, the
'.Zafro." We did not get around the
city at all. Hong Kong is very pretty
city. You know it is built on an island
lying across a narrow strait from the
mainland of Asia. 1t is owned by the
English, very strongly fortified, and the
great commercial centre of all the ORR
entail and Occidental steam ship lines.
The buildings are all large and built ac-
cordlng to English styles of architecture.
This ID Sunday again and just month
since l left San Francisco. Tomorrow
we reach Manila and the time at sea
will be just thirty-two days, including
the day skipped by crossing the Inter-
national Date Line.
The s.Zafro" is so crowded that twen-
| ty of us cannot get berths to sleep in.
We will sleep out on the deck but it is
so warm that it will not make much
difference. A very pleasant voyage this
has been. No storms, very little rough
weather, and we have run on schedule
time all the way. / am one of the very
fortunate ones in always feeling we'll,
and presume 70 one has enjoyed it
more than I.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24
BIG WHEAT CROP
Farmers Anticipate Good Yield OF
Cereal.
Early Threshing Reports Are En-
coura ging.
Grain is Grading Well and Will
Improve.

Crop reports from this county are
by turns optimistic and pessimistic,
but returns from the early threshing
seem to point to more than an average
yield. Although there have been a
few instances near Springfield and one
at this place where the yield was light
and the grade rather low, the majority
of the fields in this vicinity and around
Sleepy Eye are panning out nicely.
AS rule the grain has weight and a
healthy color, and that grown on high
land will easily grade No. 1.
Machines are. at work throughout
the county and thus far the lowest
yield reported is IL bushels to the
acre. Near this city, however, the
range has been from II to Is and in
one instance it went to 80 bushels. The
local millers estimate the average
yield at 20 bushels, and declare that
the figures are conserve alive.
Notwithstanding the high price paid
not a great deal of the grain has been
received at the mills. What has been
taken in usually grades No. 2, but it
is believed that it's quality will i'm
prove after the sweating process has
been gone through with. New wheat
will not be in shape for milling for
two or three weeks yet, and it may
take even longer, as the grain is more
damp than usual. During the past
year there was considerable moisture
and the mill men say that wheat should
be given plenty of time to dry out this
fall.
One reason cited for the failure of
the farmers to sell the cereal is the
very general faith in the rising market
and the belief that the wheat price has
still to reach its highest point. This
will undoubtedly influence many, but
the principal cause of the delay is
doubtless due to the fact that the
growers are buster than usual. 1t has
been gathered from general sources
that the different small grain crops
referring to rye, barley, oats and
wheat -have ripened so nearly at the
same time this year that the farmers
will not care to spare time to haul to
market until their work is farther
advanced.
Seemingly, the crop prospect in
Brown county is excellent and it is
said that the farmers of Blue Earth
county are equally fortunate. There
they claim to have the best wheat in
fifteen years and yields of 80 bushels
to the acre are by no means uncommon.
It is probably true that in isolated
instances late visitations of rust have
reduced the grade, but this condition
is not general.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

We trust that the democrats will put
man on their ticket with vote-getting
qualities sufficient to cause the retire
ment of Judge Lewis. Whatever quail
ifications he possesses are all sunk in
the connection he had with the Texas
oil frauds and this is enough to con-
denim him in the eyes of all fair-mind-
ed men, especially for the high Office
of supreme judge.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

Hon. f. Y. Fitzpatrick, Congressman
from Ketucky, writes from the National
Hotel, Washington, D. c., as follows:
cat the solicitation Of friend used
your Peruna and can cheerfu2ly recon-
mend your remedy to anyone suffering
with catarah or who needs a good tonic.n
IF. Y. Fitzpatrick.
Peruna is the remedy for catarrh. Al.
most everybody knows that by heresay
and thousands know it by experience.
What can be cured in the beginning in q
week or two by using Peruna, il allowed
to become chronic, may require months
of faithful treatment. You had better
take Peruna now for by and by you may
be obliged to take Ii for some time In
order to get well. Now the warm, dry
weather viii assist in your cure. You
are not liable to catch fresh cold and
delay your cure.
Hundreds of men of dignity and promi-
nence from all over the United States
endorse Peruna.
No other remedy receives such COM
vincing testimonials. Send for free book
of testimonials.
II you do not receive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving q
full statement OF your case and he viii
be pleased to give You his valuable ad-
cice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President q
The Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. O.
will fish all day and get small basket
full which they divide among themselves
In contrast to the Japs them are bet
ter looking and more intelligent than
the women. When began making
purchases it seemed that [ couldn't buy
anything without getting beat, at least
100 per cent (that is, soaked.) [ was
not on to the Oriental way of bargain
ing.
They ask just three times as much as
they expect to get. For example, 8
dozen of us went into a Chinese store
near our hotel. We all needed socks:
they asked So for half dozen. The
first of the boys who bought paid $3.50,
the next $l.s0; the next 81, the next
90c, the next 75c, and the last &C.,.
The current expression used every
time we bought an article was, "soaked
again" We haven't fully ripened yet
but we are beginning to catch on.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

Brown county may take courage-it
is among the very few counties in the
state where the wheat crop is worth
100 cents on the dollar. The majority
of the wheat so far threshed is above
the average in quality and quantity.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

Hon. S. D. Peterson of New Ulm
last Friday filed for denomination as
representative of Brown county. Mr..
Peterson's long service in legislative
halls has made him an Invaluable rep
resentative for his home county. Few
men in the state can engineer a bill
through the legislature with better sue
cess than he, and few men know better
how to defeat vicious proposition.
1t is a fact that is borne out by the
journals of the house for the past
three sessions that Mr.. Peterson voted
for the best interests of the people of
the state on every proposition that
came before the house, and frequently,
by his skillful work, has been able to
couple some excellent home legisla-
ton with his tie-up of votes on the i'm
portant questions. Brown county can
we'll afford to return him to the house
as often as he desires to Redwood
Gazette.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

There is real pathos in the gather
ing of the G. A. r. in annual encamp-
ment Time does not pause to honor
their achievements and those we would
have always with US must march with
ceaseless silent tread down to the
shores of that marrow stream which
limits the ambitions of us all and, en-
shrouded only in the memory of noble
deeds, pass on to lasting reward; so
moves the great army of the civil war:
pausing now for time to shake your
hand and then to pass on, living only
in the bronze tablets that mark their
deeds of heroism and in the memory
of those who knew and loved them.
Such is the sentiment of the Boston
reunion.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24
New Primary Ruling.

The assistant attorney general has
ruled on what is to determine who
shall vote at the primaries. He comes
to the conclusion that it is support OF
the state and congressional tickets at
the 1902 election that really counts in
determining political utilization this
year. It is not enough, however, to
vote merely for a candidate for COVER
nor. A democrat who voted for Van
SAINT two years ago cannot claim to be
a republican this year if he voted for
democrats for the other state offices,
and he is not legally republican
even if he declares his purpose to afdl-
late with the republican party at the
coming election.
The law does not recognize new par
ty principles of voter who has
changed since last election. If he
voted the democratic ticket last time,
and intends to vote the republican
ticket this fall, then he is not entitled
to vote in either primary.
This ruling would appear arbitrary
and unfair. If it is the purpose of the
primary law to place the selection of
candidates in the hands of the people,
this ruling will neutralize it. Many
people voted for neither governor nor
congressman two years ago and this
year there will be more. 1t must fol-
low, then, that until they have voted
for the head of the ticket they are
barred from participating in the
choice of candidate to represent
their views. 1t is the ruling of par
tisan rather than an unbiased judge.
The primary law is broader than this
and is calculated for better purpose.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

just arrived safe and we'll. / am
well satisfied with my first impressions
of the place.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

The city council has done wise
thing in revising the rates for electric
light. 1t has now placed the plant on
basis where it is in the power of the
superintendent to make some substan-
tial showing. The patronage the city
has in the way of lights should make
it possible to assess the street lights
at very low basis though it may new
er be that the individual consumers
should be made to pay for the street
lighting, as the advantage is of equal
benefit to all.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24

Brown county is entitled to the best
fair it has ever had this year. Few
sections of the state have been blessed
with the bountiful harvest guaranteed
to this county, and the fair manage
ment is making an honest effort to
provide attractions worthy the time
and money it will cost people to see
them. Let as all figure on giving the
agricultural association the support
it needs and deserves.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-24
Nic0Ilet County Fair.

The Nicollet County Agricultural
society will hold its thirty fourth an
nual fair on September 9th, It'll and
9Th, and will introduce new feature
this season by having the fair at the
driving park during the day and a
carnival on the streets of st. Peter at
night. A fine racing program has
been prepared, there will be foot
ball game and other sports and var.
led assortment of amusements. The
premium list has just been issued and
anyone wishing a copy should write
Secretary &. E. Miller, st. Peter.
California Prune Waters are good
investment. They give quick returns
with no after trouble. 100 for 25 cents,
Ask your Druggist.
Natures true fruit Cathartic. Cali.
fornia Prune Waters are pleasant as
candy and just as harmless. 100 for %
cents. Ask your Druggist.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
GENERAL + i'NIER ma
SUE T, PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT
FOR FIREPRooF STEAMERS.
Lewis Nixon Recommends Partitions
to Restrict Flames.

Lewis Nixon, the we'll known naval
constructor, has suggested means by
which vessels can be protected against
the rapid spread of flames. He rec
onlmends metal bu1ilheads or <parti-
tions t., restrict flames, and says:
Such bulkheads,. OF light, durable
plating filled in with asbestos boards,
should be fitted, SO that they could be
swung or dropped across certain parts
of the structure in case of fire. They
could be so arranged that they need
not obstruct passage except when
necessary. All the machinery space
should be cased in by metal TO the
top deck. OF course this is done in
all new vessels except those of the
himsest construction.
''Fireproof wood VIII eventually be
used or some form of artificial board
that is non-inf1am mable and decks
should be supported by metal franz
ing. Staff and pressed steel should be
used for ornamenJation.
There are several tireproof paints
and their use should be obligatory
and all hanginSs should be treated by
some freprOof wash.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
An Ungrateful Son.

MOUNDSV1LLE. June 1S.-Mrs.
George Glover, of the East End, COM
planned to the city auth critics this
morning of the conduct of her 16-
year-old son, John. The boy, accord
ing to his mothers story, is in the
habit of within gliding his earnings
from his parents until he has accumu-
lated a sum, and then suddenly dis
appears and is gone for several
weeks. returning home when he is
penni1ess. Mrs. Glover says her son
disappeared again yesterday with
about $50 in his possession and I'M
less he is focrib1y returned to his
home he will loaf about Benwood,
VIII ceiling and Bellaire until he has
spent all the money. The police Off
GERS OF these three cities have been
notified and Glover will probably be
arrested and returned to his home
where he will be given the opportu-
nifty of behaving himself or going to
the reform school.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
THE Y. M. c.. A.

Farm ont is just beginning to real
lze what live, up-to-date organiza-
ton, composed of her most vigorous
and energetic young men, means. The
Young Mems Christian Association
is fast becoming one of our most pop
ular Institutions It has many strong
points. 1t has had excellent public
religious meetings, fine addresses on
citizenship. has been a leader in the
better class of sports and in short, it
is reaching out in various directions,
making itself felt in everything it
undertakes. Last evenings meeting,
being the occasion of the first ami
versary Of the organization empha-
sized anew the Importance and worth
of such an association. The ladies'
auxiliary adds greatly to the organi-
cation and the combined efforts of
the young men and women can bring
to pass many things for the better
,nent Of the community. Much of the
success of the whole work this year
untiring zeal of Secretary Willis
Hawley He is whole-soued work
err and is alert to every interest of
the Association. We congratulate
him upon the good results achieved
and we feel that our citizens ought
ganization iraught with SO great pos
ssibility for good as the Young Mems
Christian Association
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER TO
THE EXTENT OF ONE Hun.
DRED THOUSAND DOL
LARS WILL BE THE
CHARGE.
THE SUIT is CONTINGENT on A
RETRAcTfON OF THE PRES
lDENT OF CRITICISMS
MADE BY HIM.

WASHINGTON,J June 1S.-General
James N. Tyner, once Assistant At
torney General for the Postofice De-
partment viii institute suit against
Theodore Roosevelt President Of the
United States. if the latter should ig-
more his letter of June 18th, asking
Tor a retraction of the Presidents
criticisms of his conduct: The allie
CATION will be defamation of charac-
ter. and damages will probably be set
at 100000. The law is now being
carefully Investigated by General Ty-
ner's attorneys, and unless there is
word from the White House soon the
case will be final.
1t is pointed out by General Tyner
and his friends that he was acquit-
ted upon May %; that he waited IN
til June II for some word to come
from the Executive mansion recalling
the accusations made by the Presi-
dent in his memorandum upon the
Bristow report and that none came.
Finally. the General wrote a letter to
President Roosevelt, and after wait
ing sufficient time for it to reach
him, gave copy to the papers A
week has passed now without re-
ply.
Just what the President has de-
termined to do in the matter is not
known. He has held several confer
ences with the Attorney General and
with officials of the PostOhce Depart
ment in the past week, but the re-
suits OF these deliberations have not
been made public.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
A THOUSAND MILES
Is the Distance Boy Claims to Have
Walked

PARkERSBURG, W. Va, June II.
Willie Lucas, a boy about thirteen
years of age. appeared at police head
quarters about eleven O'Clock this
morning and stated that he was try
ing to find his older brother, who
promised to meet him here. The boy
told a remarkable story of his ad-
ventures during the past year, claim
ing that he had walked several thou
sands OF miles in. the course of his
travels.
He claims that his home originally
was in Randolph county, but that he
left there about "a year ago and start
ed toward Pennsylvania. BY alter
Ina,ely walking, riding on trains and
steamboats, he finally reached the vi
entity OF Uniontown and Washington,
Pa. He remained there for some time
but finally began to work his way
toward ParkeTsburg, as he had a
brother who vas working near this
city.
The boy is a plucky looking little
chap and although his body is not
large he evidently possesses the nerve
and ambition 10 get along despite his
youth. He Will remain in the city
today and Will probably be given
Transportation TO where his brother
Lives by the authorities.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
SENATOR coRNWELL.

IN THURSDAYS issue we stated that
we had been informed that the Dem
ocrats were going to run for Congress
R in the Second district against Aston
Dayton, State Senator John Corn
well, of Hampshire county. In adj
dition to this statement We briefly
commented on the fact that Mr..
8Cornwe1l, like Mr.. Dayton, is opposed
Ito the Tax Commission bills. We
deeply regret now that we made any
reference to the Hampshire gentle
4 man, his rumored candidacy for Con
Z gress, or to his position on the leading
question Of. the day in West Virginia
the question of tax reform. Mr..
4 Cornwen (not CromwelD happened to
8besin our city that day, and seeing
what the West Virginian had said,
and feeling that it had not done him
Justice in regard to his tax views, he
wrote them out at some length and
handed them to a local paper for pub
Iication. And then and there he
made one of the greatest mistakes Of
4 his life, as the aforesaid local paper,
B by mangling and mutilating what he
said made him appear not only RI
3dicu1ous but an ignoramus il the
eyes of the reading public, and man
wholly unfit to occupy seat either
4 in Con gress or the State Senate
ss We regret most sincerely that
what we said provoked reply from
& the gen leman, resulting as it did so
disastrously. In the hope. of reliev-
y ing him of some Of the embarrass-
sment and humiliation from which We
3 feel he must be suffering, we will say
that Mr.. Cornwell is a man of fairly
y good parts and did not deserve the
% treatment he received, as above indi-
+ Gated. He is, of course, misguided
man, politically, being mossback
Democrat. but he can't help that, as
he was brought up where naught else
but mossba ckism abounds. We may
add that he stands we'll as a State
s Senator-represents his district with
Il credit. The bitter experience he had
E in Fairmont may be of great benefit
to him, however, as it will doubtless
teach him, if he should ever again
feel the necessity of airing his views
on any subject, to seek newspaper
that is printed in modern language
through which to do SO.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
An Early Scrap,

The people along Castor avenue,
in the vicinity of Seventh street.
We're aroused at ar early hour yes
terday morning by screams and some
thing that sounded like blows. Upon
looking out two white figures We're
seen around the Hill home. 1t prov
ed to be a man and woman fighting.
1t seemed that the man wanted TO go
home, but the maiden fair did not so
desire. and she held fast. They
fought for some time and when they
got through neither of them had on
clothes enough to make an Atlantic
City bathing suit. After they had
fought for some time well known
man was seen TO come out and take
them into the house. For a few min
utes all was quiet, but directly the
window glass was heard to rattle
down and more screams were heard.
1t is not known whether the man
ever got away or not.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
Company Will Go to Manassas

PARKERSBURG, w. Va, June IS.
At the call of Adjutant General S. B.
Baker of the West Virginia National
Guard, a meeting was held at the
Jackson Hotel by officers of the
guard, at which a decision was reach
ed as TO what companies of the
guard will go to Manassas, Va, Sep
TENDER >, to take part in the six
days maneuvres of the United States
and State troops. The following COM
panies will so from West Virginia:
Companies G. H. X and l.. of the
First regiment, from KjngwoOd, Fair
mont, Clarksburg and MorSantown.
Respectively: and G, II. F.. L, OF the
Second, the first TWO from Hunting
ton and the last Two from ParkerS-
burg.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-18
Hogrove's Lease on Life Is Short.

Unless the pardon board recon-
mends clemency. John Holgrove. the
colored murderer from Grafton. is
doomed to die from the scaffold in
the prison annex on the evening of
July Sth. The court of appeals re-
Gently refused Holgrove new trial,
and his only hope now is through the
governor, who is usually governed
by the recommendation of the pardon
board. AS the time set for the exc
cution is not far distant, HolSrove'S
case will probably be taken up by
the pardon board at an early date.
There appears to be feeling among
those familiar with Holsrove's case
that he will escape the gallows.