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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-21

Joe Walter and Lucy Lacy, of
Stafford county have been granted a
license to marry. The wedding will
cur Wednesday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-21

Thee has been a change in the
firm of c. Samuels Co., Il. S. Born
selling his interest in the business to
Messrs. Wilczek and Meyer. Henry
is as yet undecided where he will
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-21

Ed. Howard and wife, Frank
Lorimer and wife, Mrs. David
Howell, Mr.. and Mrs. George Heller
Jacob Trester and Albert Foster
were party enroute on the Santa
Fe to the Exposition Tuesday morn
inc
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-21

L. J. Bailey and wife have returned
from St. LOUIS and are in the hotel
business again in Clafin.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-21

Mrs, ]. B. Little returned from a
visit with her parents in Macksville
Tuesday morning.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-21

Henry Miller aged 35. of Dorrance,
Kansas, and Katie Miller, aged 25,
of Ellinwood procured a license and
were married by the Probate Judge
Monday.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

for light on this point Even the re-
ports of the Russian leases are SO
guarded that scarcely anything has
been added to the store of knowledge
concerning development Of modern ma
val warfare.
The Baltic sea fleet and personnel are
very dear to the car. who proudly re-
views it more frequently than is usual
with monarchs in such matters The
sailors are fine-looking fellows, broad
shouldered, and as general thing
bearded; they are the equal of any 9th
err nation in seamanship and are az
brave as the Cossacks on land. These
men may find fighting at home, how
ever, as it may not be eXpedient to join
the Red Sea squadron in view of the
threatening cloud of war gathering
nearer home.
Dispatches from important capitals
of Europe indicate unrest among the
great powers hitherto holding aloof
from the epoch making clashes in the
east, and hereditary hatred between
the Briton and Muscovite seems to find
excuse for quarrel over the English
expedition into Thibet and the charge
that Japan has received more than pas
sive friendship ever since hostilities
commenced. There is greater activity
in war preparations in England, Ger
many, Denmark and Sweden than at
any other time since 1880, while even
Spain is hurriedly recuperating her
military nower nrac,mahlv IN ooco,,nt
of the current rumor of England's in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A Very Old Woman.

Alter very short illness, Mrs. Pure
neart WakeleV is dead of pneumonia
al her home in Sharon, LeSueur county.
ana ny her death undoubtedly the old.
est woman of Minnesota has been re-
moved from The scene of her remarka.
BILE life.
Mrs. Wale1y was III years of age
Despite the fact that she was married
three times and became the mother of
fourteen children, who all lived to the
age OF twenty or more, and many of
whom married and bee ame fathers or
mothers, yet all of Mrs Wakeley's hus-
bands, relatives and descendants died
ano passed away before she did, and at
her death had not a relative to survive
her.
At Johnstown, Pa, where all their
numerous descendants lived, and where
1orty- three members of the family. be-
ing all of them with the exception Of
Mrs. Wakeley and one son, were over
taken by the flood of May 81, 1889.
With this son Mrs. Wakeley came to
ne oueur county, and bought a large
farm IN Sharon township. Six years
later they rented the farm and moved
to Galveston, Texas, where the son
lost his life in the storm and tidal
wave that befell that city. Yet Mrs.
"akeley escaped that terrible disaster
and went back and again resided on
the farm, where she resided until the
time OF her death, dying intcstate.
In default Of all heirs at law, her
property, which amounts to about $l0,-
900, will eschest to the state.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

Russia, and most of the ships compris-
Ing it were built at the ST. Petersburg
and kronstadt yards.
The Russian navy may be said to be
the offspring of Great Britain's naval
establishment, since it was at Deptford
on the Thames Peter the Great watched
the progress of ship building and after
regular apprenticeship to master the
trade, he engaged large body of
skilled artisans to work in Russia on
the building up of a defensive fleet to
check the aggression of Sweden.
The present fleet was expected to
Join Admiral Wrenius in the Red sea-
and is composed of the ships named
below:
Battleship Sissoi Veliki (Sissoi the
Great has $3.50 tons displacement,
four 12-inch rifles, IL six-inch and 81
smaller guns, six torpedo tubes
ArmOred cruiser Admiral Nokimoff
1924 tons, eight eight-inch rifles, ten
six-inch, ii smaller guns and three tor
pedo tubes.
Admiral Korinoff, $500 tons, four
eight-inch rifles, ID six-inch, IS small
er guns and six torpedo tubes.
Vladimir Monomach, 1888 tons, five
six-inch rifles, six four-inch, 26 smaller
guns and three torpedo tubes.
Armored cruiser Pamyat Azoya, 6,734
tons, four eight-inch rifles, II six-inch,
so smaller guns and three torpedo
tubes.
ArmOred cruiser Admiral NOkimOff
1874 tons, eight eight-inch rifles, ten
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

BATTLESHIP sISsOI VELlKI AND
six Inch, IA smaller guns and three tor
peslo tubes.
The coast defense vessels, Sebyavin
and General Aproxin, are the sister
ships, with details as follows: Dis
placement, 4,126 tons, four nine-inch
rifles.
The following five battleships are al
SO sisters and the same description an
swers for each: Bordino, Alexander
ILL.,, Knyaz Potemkin, Knyaz Suvaroff,
Slava and Orel, displace 9,244 tons and
are armed with four 12-inch rifles, ~
six-inch, % smaller guns and three
torpedo tubes.
The last group is distinctively Rus
sian in composition, though the YES
sells are notifications of the British
warship "Trafalgar," with the free
board forward 16 inches higher than
on the last named ship. Possessing the
great speed of 10 knots, they can steam
5000 miles without recoaling, and have
all devices known at the time Of build
ing for protection, developed in the
evolution of naval construction. This
is noticeable in the position of the tor
pedo tubes placed well below the water
liae to avoid the danger of explosion
from chance shot before the torpe-
do~s are fired-a lesson dearly learned
by the Chinese at Yalu river in 1895,
ard the Spanish at Santiago.
The exits and passages from fire and
engine rooms are much larger than
those in vessels of ANY other nation,
while each pair of boilers is isolated
from the others by bulkheads which
further contribute to the feeling Of &C.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
Chased by Wolves.

10 be chased across the ice dis
lance of five miles with pack Of mad
wolves in hot pursuit, and burning his
clothing to keep the animals off, was
the adventure which Otto Bremner ex-
perienced
Bremner is employed at the Schroed-
err lumber camp in Cook county and
while going to Tafte, postoffice down
the shore, for supplies, he noticed a
pack Of wolves short distance out on
the ice feeding on the carcass of deer
they had run down. He tried to sneak
by without being noticed, but their
sharp eyes viewed him, and they were
soon in full chase. He had pack up
on his shoulders, and reaching for a
garment therein, set it afre, and ran
with flame streaming behind him.
When one garment was consumed he
lighted another, and finally the pack
sack itself itself was used as torch
and before he reached Tafte he strip
ped off his macintosh and consigned
it to the flames.
The wolves were in hot pursuit. but
kept at a considerable distance from
the blaze. Bremner was completely
exhausted from ibis race for life, but
barring few burns upon his hands
and face, he was little the worse for
adventure.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

curity on the part of the crews work.
ing at their stations.
The other vessels are good specimens
OF their various classes, with the ex-
ception Of the Pamyat AZova and the
Vladimar Monomach, which have prac-
tically been rebuilt since 1900. II
combined with the squadron now in
the Red sea, comprising the battleship
Oslabia, cruisers Aurora and Dimitri
Donskoi, besides the flotilla Of modern
torpedo boats accompanying the large
ships, formidable force may threaten
the Japanese feet at Corea, and per-
haps reverse the tale of victory.
The lack OF authentic information
about the damage sustained by the az
lacking Japanese feet at Port Arthur. IS
proof of thorough preparation the is
landers made for strategic movements
1t is uncomfortable to believe, as the
meager news would indicate, that the
destruction was entirely one-sided-
that another Manila" or Santiago is
recorded, and the world waits eagerly
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16


The recent erection of cooperage and
wood alcohol plants is partly account
able for the increase that is shown in
the cutting of hardwood, and the pulp
mills yearly require more and more
spruce. Balsam and poplar also are
used as pulpwOOd, the pulpmills using
much more balsam than do the saw
mills. In the manufacture of woodpulp
and paper New York retains suprem-
acy, being far in the lead Of any other
state in the magnitude of these indus
tries
We are wont to look upon the Adj
rOEdacks as great pleasure ground,
rather than an industrial center, but its
streams are not wholly given over to
angler and paddler: on many bank
buzzes huge sawmill or pulpmill; and
the villages are not wholly of the sort
affected by summer holiday maker.
A lumber company town is generally
a collection of temporary dwellings
sheltering the families of men that
work in the mills and the households
of the head men of the company. Few
loggers, or ''hicks" dwell here, they
live in camps more convenient to the
work in the woods.
It is interesting to tramp through
the woods and watch the busy life 60
ing on therein. No winter day is too
cold for these hardy woodsmen, and,
we'll prepared for the rigors of below
zero weather, they labor away Justify.
The camps keep pretty close to racial
lines; here there is a community of
north Italy men, big, blue-eyed red
haired, Industrious fellows, quite the
opposite of the gang that tolls list
lessly on the section work and at un-
skilled labor about the mill. the short,
dark countrymen from southern Italy;
a camp of Irish-Canadians, these men
also big and stalwart and able to work;
swedes and Germans, too, labor in the
woods and exhibit their typical charac-
teristics, and lastly, but much to the
fore. are the French-Canadian woods
men.
Most of the loggers live in the tradi-
tional logging camps, hunks against
wall, long table down the center, box
stove giving out tropic heat The cook
is usually a man, though sometimes a
sub-contractor has his wife at camp to
to the cooking and board the men. AS
a rule, any one Of these woodsmen can
turn his attention from telling tree
to stirring up biscuit or frying salt
pork: and l have noticed among the
chicks" not little pride in the wom-
anly accomplishments that make up
s.,,eening house." I know two woods
men that are as sensitive about their
culinary productions as any feminine
kitchen worker have ever encounter
ed: one of them refused to prepare
meal for party of guests at the camp
women whom he had overheard crit1-
else bis pancakes, and sent them out
into the woods breakfastless.
Few of the French-Canadians, I be-
ueve. live in the large camps. but. hav-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

Ing wives and children with them, arc
proud proprietors of individual shan
ties. These shanties, however, are al
p'c>t as overcrowded as the sheds, for
the families are sizeable and the dwell
Ing one-roomed. l visited one the 9TH
er day that was oyerhowing With
youngsters; made acquaintance With
@he shy mother and the shyer children.
lhese French-Canadian inhabite. ITS of
the WOODS are half-wild folk. and heir
children untamed creatures that chlfe
against restraints other children take
as matter of course When put into
schoolrOOms they are like Gagged ami
m.>ls.
The furnishing of the sharties of tbs
Frerch-Canadian sQuatter is of the
barest, and while this sort of thing
does very we'll for week or two CT va
cationing in midsummer it is not al
together desirable during the long.
cold winter. The men look comfort
ably dressed in their thick "macki-
naws," but the children are very thin
~ clad l saw couple of boys playing
In the snow with their legs bare, and
was told by the logscaler that he had
seen many of the children going about
in their bare feet this winter. The
women and children look sick!y, but
the men are robust-appearing fellows.
And picturesque in the extreme, as
are all the woodsmen l have seen.
They choose bright colors for their
garb, deck their horses in gay red tas-
sells, and their own color is as rudy as
their ornament. Some Of the woods
men wear plaid from head to foot;
"mackinaw' trousers of red and brown
plaid. and "mackinaw" Jackets OF red
and black. With their caps. tufted
mittens and high ''hick" shoes they
certainly are arrayed in any but a
commonplace manner; certainly would
attract attention on State street in
Chicago, or Fifth avenue in New York,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

They are not only picturesque as to
their costumes, but also at their WORK,
We watched with much interest the
loggers send the big trees crashing
down, and appreciated the saying the
whole forest trembles when a lumber
man sets foot in it," Then we clam
bered through the snow over the rough
new road to see the loggers load the
huge logs on the great sleds and mar
yelled at the ease with which the men,
by means of their peveys, raised them
into place. The drivers also, seemed
of strength and no mean skill; guiding
the heavily-loaded sleds down the
humpy road, now holding back their
horses. now encouraging them. after
a needed rest, to the first mighty effort
to move the load.
At the skidway we observed the
working Of the logloader, and did not
envy the men that toiled about tae
queer machine; neither tbs man in
side, who must keep nine levers at
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
freed the Bear.

A large black bear was tracked to his
lair in a tree between Minneapolis and
St. Paul.
A large number of people noting the
large tracks in the snow joined in the
chase, which proved exciting, as it was
conducted entirely without the aid of
firearms.
A local museum was moving a part
of the menagerie, consisting of four
wolves, two coyotes, two bears, etc,
rom their quarters in Minneapolis to
the museum at Harriet island in st.
Paul. On the way over one of the two
bears got loose and made immediate
tracks for the woods.
The keepers followed on the run and
finally brought bruin to bay, when he
took refuge in tree. He was at last
coaxed down by libations of honey and
other sweets.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
numbering Operations
IN the Adirondack
r1ooern Methods Do Not Entirely
Denude the Country of All
Its Forest Coverind.

"A LII about stands the virgin
EN forest, thick woods that
0MNNN nave thus far escaped the
SA& "Oodman's axe But the
n lumber company has recent
~ en'ered in, and presently,
10Y seven years from now, the charac-
VI the country will be much
changed.
where now uprise fine spruce and
oalsam' hemiocll and white pine. birch
anu maple, there will be left standing
oa!s such TIMBER as is not merchant
ao1e' slope and plain will be bereft of
.neir present noble growth. And vet
II is an agreeable surprise to one To
walk over a tract where the lumbar
company has passed through. and note
io" much OF the forest aspect remains.
went the other day from camD tn
camp with the forester, travelled m
lnto the woods quite a distance. and
tnough the company had cut almost al,
Tue lumber 1t intended to lay low in
lhe region we were travelling over
'ne pace old not seem devastated by
any manner of means; there was moi
'he utterly barren look have noticed
4u numbered regions Of northern Wis.,
cOnsin
Inc superintendent told me lumber
companies do not always deserve the
oad name given them, that they do not
always destroy watershed, despoil
region, TO the extent reputed; and, al
though the trees were thinned out very
considerably in the tract under discus
sion. yet there certainly were enough
lett standing 10 give some woodland
virtue to the surrounding country.
Not so very long ago, New York was
noted for its wonderful forests. occu-
pea first Place in the lumber industry;
1t now ranks twelfth. The annual re-
port OF the forest. fish and game COM
mission OF the state Of New York,
transmitted to the legislature January
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

work; nor the man who grabs the
great hook and fastens it to a huge
log, which then sways tbreateningly
above his head until it decides to turn
itself towards the man on the log train.
It poises above the load and men on
the car, held only by that treacherous
hook and slender cable, and the man
that is piling must be quick as flash
to avoid being hit and to place the log
so the load will be we'll built. The
log-scaler, too, seemed to have no en-
viable position, running back and forth
on the load measuring, and ever on the
alert to avoid being struck by the de-
scending monster. Logging certainly
is work requiring muscle, nerve and
agility.
KATHERINE, POPE.
Solved the Problem.
Miss Strongmi ld-Pardon me, but if
am not mistaken you are one of the
poor, underpaid working girls whom
our Emancipation society tried to bene-
flor at least, you were two years ago.
Fair Stranger-That is true
Then our society has evidently not
been without influence, for you look
very prosperous now"
II have everything want, and never
was so happy in my life"
''Thank Heaven! You must have
solved the woman problem"
II have"
"Glorious! Tell me how you man.
aged?"
~ married nice young man."-N. 7.
Weekly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16


chief of Kronstadt, a better record is
expected than that of the feet at Port
Arthur under Admiral Stark.
Admiral Marakoff is widely known
through his marine inventions, having
made many mechanical improvements
in naval service, His most important
achievement was ii the construction
OF the famous ice-breaking steamship
"Ermah,' whose principle Of operation
was borrowed from a smaller type of
vessel long in use on the great lakes
So successful was the Russian ship
that navigation in the harbor of Kron-
stadt is open all the year round, a win
ter condition impossible before the Err
max was built.
The Baltic fleet is second in impor-
lance in the four great fleets owned by
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
Relief Of settlers.

Many settlers in Minnesota and the
Dakotas are interested in bill which
passed the senate legalizing land proofs
and entries made outside the limits of
United States land districts.
1tappears that, subsequent to the
act of 1902 many settlers proceeded to
file entries and complete proof in ac-
cordance with what they supposed to
be the law. The errors were due to
the failure of the local officials to CON-
ply with the orders of the general land
office AS result many settlers were
subjected to hardships which the meas
ure passed proposed to remedy.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
DEN NJ ARK,

"Rismollen,' grist mill at Kris
tlnehaun. which has been in opera
ton since 1929, will soon be used for
some other purpose
n vegetarian congress will be held
in Copenhagen in the first part of
July next.
The Danish business world is great
~ interested in the war in the East,
and arrangements have been made bv
which the king receives all telerrams
from seat of war the moment they
reach Denmark. The king who re-
cel'es numerous private kilograms
on the same subject from his daught-
err Dagmar, dowager empress Of Rus
STA.
rumor was spread to the effect
that the left reform party was di-
vlded on the proposition of the gov
ernment to emphasize most empha-
tlcally that Denmark wants to re-.
main neutral; but the latest adviccs
state that the. party formally endors-
ed the course of the government at a
regular caucus.
The foleting has passed a bill pro-
vlding for having land parcels set
aside for farm laborers.
The minister of war has bouoht
some land at Saltholmen for the con-
struction of breastworks to protect
some guns which he is to place there.
There are 5000 Danes in Stockholm
and they are generally prosperous. In
TACT, they are admitted to be more
wldeawake than many of the z-:@.:tt;:::.s.
1t is not generally known that Prof.
t1nsen, the famous inventor of the
red light chamber for the cure of H.
7us, Tor years has been suffering
from complications of diseases
which he calls "chronic salt poison
ing"
The police of Copenhagen will soon
Introduce the practice of taking i'm
pressions of the tips of the thumbs of
criminals as means of identifying
them. T." - ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
Stolen JeWelry.

Bold thieves secured about $500
worth jewelry from Hudson's store on
Nicollet ave, Minneapolis. The thieves
cut a hole about foot square in the
plate glass window and took eleven
diamond rings and seventeen watches.
The work was evidently done by ex-
perienced men and a diamond was
used to cut the glass. The hole shows
that the men who made it knew their
business, for the edges were smooth.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16
As Explained.

"Why is it," asked the human interro-
cation mark, that coroners do not hold
an inquest over the body of every per-
son who dies?"
ct is only necessary where person
is accidentally killed or dies without
medical advice" replied the man who
knows things. when man shufles
off this mortal coil after being attended
by physician everybody knows why he
died, and there is no need of an in
quest" -Cincinnati Enquirer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-16

tention in the event of the war spread
ing, to seize several Spanish seaports.
Almost all of the armament for these
ships has been obtained from Krupp
Of Germany and Canet of France, but
it will be only short time before all
that pertains to man-of-war will be
manufactured on Russian soil. The
ship-builders of the world are now as
tonished at the strides apparent in
Russian manufacture, particularly
when it was recently announced that
five $500 ton battleships and large
number of cruisers were projected for
building at Russian shipyards, thereby
keeping abreast of Great Britain and
America in sea power. This is re-
markable for a power which but ten
years ago had but one battleship in
commission outside of the Black sea:
but still it is in keeping with the de-
termination to keep in front and strive
to realize the dream of Peter the Great
southern and eastern gateways to the
sea. NICHOLAS J. QUIRk- j