davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-04-07

<9>1. Cooks Duchess Tablsts aresucc- STU ~
~ eAused monthly by overio La, p. ice,
EH 3Si. by mail, Si.0s. ss0d -eisj Tor
~ fsamRle and particulars. a.
The Duchess Tablet Co., Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-04-07
Long Walk for Wine.

A German pedestrian, @. Eisenhaus,
has won novel wager. Dragging be-
hind him a barrel which weighed 1S5
pound. he walked from Strasbarg to
Rome o get some Roman wine lie set
out without a pfennig, and earned his
way by selling photographs and sou.
venir postal cards.
The Imperial press., 1904-12-03

winter as in summer. They grow and fatten all the time. They harvest the crops and feed themselves at the same time. One man keeps fifty mIlch cows on twenty acres That is exceptional. But three tO five head of hogs tO the acre and two heal of cattle is not an uncom- mon thing. The hog business while not as attractive to the average man as the cattle business, is in this country the better business of the two. It can be started up with less money and built up more rapidly. Think of two filters Of pigs year and land that will grow and feed and fatten three to five hogs to the acre
 DAIRY BUSINESS
 People from Southern Illinois, South ern Wisconsin and other dairy countries are at once enthusiastic over the pOss- bilities of the dairy business. l saw several small packages being handled into the express car at Imperial and npon asking what they contained was told that it was butter. Investigation led to the information that each of these little packages would bring $l4.30 at wholesale in Los Angeles and that it cost $l. 10 each to deliver them. Said the enthusiastic dairyman: "lf you can show me anything else of equal value that can be produced at less cost and taken to market for less money will go into the business of produc- ing it.
 TOWNS IN THE VALLEY
 Imperial is already we'll defined and comparatively we'll known little city, growing with wonderful rapidity. But Calexico, on the Mexican line. about sixteen miles south of Imperial, it seems to me, gives promise of being an inn portant city-a railroad and commercial center.
 Calexico resembles in many respects the city of Fl Paso, Tex, only there are no sand dunes-nothing but pro- ducing farms in every direction as far as the eye can see It is the gateway through which much of the traffic of two great nations must pass, with it's attendant railroad and custom house facilities
 The town of Mexicali, adjoining Cal exico on the south, just across the line in Lower California, is to Calexico what Jaurez on the south side of the Rio Grande in Mexico is to Fl Paso-the
The Imperial press., 1904-12-03
AN EDITORS VIEW
A Description of Imperial Valley With its Present Development and Future
 Possibilities

J. r. Bumgartner has written an in- teresting story of the Imperial Valley which has been styled "Thc Growingest Country on Gods Good Earth" He says in part:
 "The marvel of the Imperial Valley s the foresight of men. Two or three years ago, there lay the valley; white, dry, fruitlrss, unpromising-save 70 the eye of the statesman in development 6 iterprise-the man who looks into the future and can see more than the outer semblance of things. The politician, you know, tn the civic realm, is he who by manipulation takes advantage of present conditions and passing circum- stances for his immediate advantage i; the statesman looks ahead and takes into consideration not merely the wei fare of himself but all men for all time. do not believe any man or men who ever inaugurated any really great development enterprise were simply selfish at all. Such men are the true economic statesmen. They comprehend the tens of millions of men that now are to be in this country, and the food they must have and the clothing and the housing for them. They see the crowded, crushed and cruel conditions of life in our great cities and seek to solve the social and industrial problems that arise therefrom by providing an outlet for the tIde of humanity that surges and secthes and suffers in mines.
 in factories and city slums.
 In the Imperial Valley there is sus- tenance and the conditions for comfort able homes for millions of people. There are difficulties to be overcome and problems to solve, to be sure. But the soil is there and the water. Bring them together-which has been done and forage and fruit and vine and grain will grow AS if by magic.
The Imperial press., 1904-12-03

Mexican suburb. But it is already town of considerable size and import ance.
 It is the programme of the Southern Pacific railway company to build one line from CalsIico through Lower Cali fornia to point near the Colorado river where 1t will join the present overland line. This new line from Old Beach through tbe Imperial Valley via Braw- ley, Imperial, Heber and Calexico, will then be made the main through over land line to the east. A second line is projected from Calexico to the head of the Gulf of California where tide water will be reached. A third line will be built from Calexico to Ensenada on the Pacihc coast, which city is the capital of Lower California. The programme will probably also include another line into the city of San Diego by the most direct route.
 COLORADO DELTA
 On the Colorado delta south of the international boundary line in Lower California there are 6O0,0O0 acres of choice farm land, some of the very best in the world. One-half of this area will be irrigated from the Imperial canal system, and the other half is com posed of the most fertile, moist land, need ing no irrigation, to be found III the world.
 This fertile plain in our sister repub- lie contains more irrigable acres than there are acres irrigated today in the entire extent of Southern California be- tween the mountains and the sea, and has more moist land than there Is in the state of California south of San Francisco.
 Already there are several hundred people living at Calexico, and dozen or more buildings are in course of eTec- ton. At the auction sale of town lots held while 1 was in Calexico some $25 900 worth of property was purchas- I'd, not over half of which went into the hands of speculators, the other half having been purchased by those who expect to engage in business in the l town. Business lots sold at from $50 ! to $500, and residence lots at from S20 to f2OO, about one-third of list prices. 1 There can be little doubt that at these prices the speculators will reap a rich harvest, as they did at Imperial, and as they will at Heber, where the next excursion and sale of lots will take place.
 FOUNDATION FOR AN EMPIRE
 Looking over this great Valley, mil- ! lions of acres on both sides of the line and all really one body of land, one is staggered by the possibilities of empire l building. Where there are farms O i I6O to 300 acres in the middle west, here there will be farms of from twenty to eighty acres. The producing capacity of the Imperial Valley lands IS three and four times as great as that of Kan sas and Iowa and Missouri, and the cost of production is less. Oh, that the millions of men, women and children ! who slave and freeze and smother in the slums of the great cities of the world could be brought unto this heritage that God in His wisdom has provided
The Imperial press., 1904-12-03
CROPS AND INDUSTRIES

This is Il cattle and hog country. It will some day-not very long hence-be the great meat-house of Southern Cali fornia. The principal crops are alfalfa, kahir corn, barley and sorghum and to get the best profit out of them you must have stock to eat them. You can grow
 meat of the finest quality and in the greatest quantities every day in the year. That is to say, hogs and cattle do as we'll in summer as in winter, in
The Holly chieftain., 1904-12-16
No Monopoly Oh Mistake,.

"Yes, we make mistakes in our
columns" trutbfully remarks the
Usage City Public. Opiuion. "and
whole lot of them in the run of
a year; we have no monopoly on
the business, however. The min
lister, the lawyer, the public speak
er. meyer appears before IN audi
.ence bnt what he makes mistakes
in grammar or rhetoric, au l if
large per cent of them had TO
write their public utterances on
blackboard we fear they might do
violence to correct spelling. Nfer-
chants make mistakes; book keep
ers, doctors, farmers and every
phase of humanity. We write
ours on blackboard each week
and hold it up to public gaze,
while they do not. II we should
publish the mistakes Of every man
in this town. we would never live
to take in the next Wsrl I's Fair.
no matter where or when il be
held"
The Holly chieftain., 1904-12-16
Cantaloupe Meeting.

TIE cantaloupe meeting held III
the sample room Of the El Capt..
tan hotel last Saturday was pre-
sided over by G. w. Fenlasop,
with w. b. Ebbert us secretary
The session lasted from 10 o'cloc k
in the morning until 4:30 in the
afternoon, with intermission for
dinner, and nearly every associa.
tion in the valley from Holly to
Fowler was represented.
Some excellent addresses were
made during the day. among the
speakers being Messrs Wiley and
Ferguson, Of Holly;J. B johnson,
Voorhes aud Ebbert, of Newdale:
j. w. Longacre. of Fairmount,
w. b. Goblin and G. W. Fenla son,
of Rocky Ford.
After thorough discussion of
the matters in question, the meet
ing unanimously adopted resolu-
ton to the effect that the canta.
loupe growers federate under n
plan in which a majority vote
shall decide Ill organization mat
! tcrs.
\ motion was adopted that five
4, business men from different parts
of the valley be selected by w. B.
! Goblin, himself to be one of the
number, 10 be- present at the next
meeting aud help formulate a
practical working plan.
T. The next meeting will be held
i'll this city on Monday, January
2, 1905, at 10 o'clock a. M, and
I, every one present pledged himself
to use his influence TO have bis
association send thiea delegate:
to this meeting to form wo kin.
pllu, il n fc leration comprising
all the cantaloupe growers Of ,he
valley.
1t is especially urged npon each
The Holly chieftain., 1904-12-16

The Ladies' Aid society will hold
a Bazaar and Rummage sale at
the Fairview school house Satur.
day December 18th, beginning at
2 o'clock p. M. They will sell at
auction, one dresser. one center
table. one clock, one new water
CAP. two lamps, lot Of dishes.
two quilts and oih,r notions
Of The aid work, Refresh.
ments will be served in the even
Ing. Mrs. Emma Wright, Presi-
dent.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-12-16

association that it instruct it's del
egates along such line 8 as ii deems
to be for the best interests of the
cantaloupe business. Rocky Ford
Daily Gazette.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18


ought to respect and to cherish them
It Is properly
value of national to collective and individual happ
habtual mmovae
political and prosperity watching its preservation with
suspicion
ALLEVIATE portion of country from
the eneebe the sacred ties which link together the various
Citizens by birth choice country that country has
national capacity always the just pride
appeatons derived from local
political principles You have rumphed together
faith nations
harmony with ALL Religion and morality enon this conduct and can II
enjoin it? will be worthy
enlightened and at distant period great nation to give the
and novel example of people always guided by an
allied justice and benevoence
AS important of strength and security cherish public credit
preserving avoiding
frequently
avoiding likewise accumulatons debt only by hun
discharge unavoidable occasioned
throwing poey the burden which ourselves ought
to bear
political right Of make and
But constitution which
exists till changed explicit authentic of the whole people
obligatory Of the the
establish the citizen to
obey the established government
interests in country as of as
ly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian
Intentional nevertheless sensible
that have
which they tend shall also with me the hope that country
them with indulgence after
life dedicated its service with upright zeal the faults of
pent abilities will be consigned oblivion myself must be the
mansions OF rest
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

supervision of his private secretary,
Elmer Dover.
One Office is 1t the capitol in his
committee room. There the strictly
legislative business is carried on. Sen
ator Hanna has not been in this COM
mittee room since 1t was assigned to
him. 1t is too far from the senate
chamber to be convenient for him to
drop in, and such people as he sees at
the capitol he takes into the Marble
room back of the senate chamber,
where he can sit at his ease on one OF
the divans and talk to his hearts con-
tent.
Another office is at the Arlington ho-
tel, on the same floor with the Sena-
tors apartments. Here is where Do
yer reigns and here is where the most
important personal and political bust
ness is attended to.
In the Mclean building. just across
the way, is still another office, which
is devoted to miscellaneous work and
where three or four clerks are en-
ployed.
Senator Hanna has more different
kinds of business to attend to than
almost any other man in public life.
He does not let go his grip on his af-
fairs in Cleveland while he is in Wash
ington, but keeps close watch on ev
erything. His enterprises there are
complicated and extensive, including
ships and opera houses. His position
as chairman of the national commit
tee is sufficient to keep one man of Or
binary capacity busy and besides all
this he does as much work and as hard
work as any Of his fellow senator's in
purely legislative business.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
fashionasfe old I stree. spent a great |

fashionable old stree. spent 4 great
deal of money in undermining it and
built ball room in the rear which was
the finest thing OF the kind in Wash
ington and which still remains about
the best thing OF the kind about the
capital. He gave entertainments to
which he invited all official Washing
ton and everybody else who was worth
while and upon which he lavished
money without stint. There had never
been anything like it here before.
1t was at one of these entertainments
that Mrs. James Brown Potter, then a
society leader, made a national sensa-
ton by reciting "'Ostler Joe"-a
poem which would not attract any
great amount of attention nowadays,
but which was thought then to be de-
cidedly risque.
TO the first Cleveland administration
through Whitney belongs the distinc-
ton of starting Washington on the ca
reer OF social extravaganza which has
been growing more pronounced ever
since
There is a great deal moro money
here now than there was then. The
western millionaire has invaded the
town with his ostentation and gar.
ishness, but there has never been any.
tainments which Whitney used to give
1t was he who inaugurated the cabinet
dinner as it now exists.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
AS A PLANTER.
tatiOn and Marketed His
Crop of Tobacco,

AS Virginia planter Washington's
chief crop was tobacco. This tobacco
was shipped to the London market
under his own name, loaded upon YES
sells which sailed up the Potomac to
Mount Vernon, or other landings
convenient to it. An agent in Lon
don disposed of the shipments.
Twice year Washington would
forward lists of needful articles for
farm and household to this agent, re-
questing that the things be purchased
and shipped to Mount Vernon. Wear
ing apparel in this way was ordered
for every member of his family, the
names and measurements Of each per-
son being given.
In addition to the general bill for
these purchases made by the agent,
the latter was required to forward re-
ceipted bills from those persons OF
whom he bought goods. In this way
check was kept upon the purchases
made. In those days as a planter
Washington was his own bookkeeper
and the care with which his books
were kept is an example of the THOR
oughness that made the man.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

The heights are still in the MINDLESS air
And the meadows all aglow
With aster-blooms and goldenrods,
While the river winds below.
quiet haze Ger the valley broods,
And the leaning hills enfod
The guarded gates of the stored camp,
AS there in the days of old.
Peace reigns to-day where the campflres
burned
And the winter smoke upcurled,
While the loyal sons of freedom held
The fate CT the vast New World.
The woodpecker beats his sharp tattoo
The jay with a SCI nm upsprings.
And far in his note of quick alarm
The sentiners challenge rings!
In shadows that drift across the kii,s
Or trail in the tangled grass,
The ghostly files of an army march
To-day. as the shadows pass.
Along the lines of the old redoubt,
BY valley and meadows wide,
Where the winter fires to ashes turned,
The sha6owy legions glide.
Their foot prints blush with a crimson stain,
They reel through hunger and cold,
While faces pale with fever ard pain
Glow yet with hope untold.
Brave hearts and true CT the olden time,
Dim shades Of tie long ago!
Who kept the vigil o. Freedom well
At Valley Forge in TIE snow!
Youths Companion.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

take W lLio6ihS
that he had anything to do with the
inauguration of the system unaer
which the navy has grown during the
past 20 years.
The real father of the new navy was
William E. Chandler, who was secre-
tary of the navy under Arthur, who
was afterwards United States senator
for II years and who is now at the
head of the Spanish treaty claims COM
mission. Secretary Chandler created
a commission of experts who travelled
through Europe acquiring information
upon which to base report for COM
plete reorganization of the navy on
modern principles. He took their re-
port and put it into practical effect, by
securing from congress the necessary
appropriations and laying the keels for
modern men of war.
| Under Chambers regime the Boston,
the Chicago, the Atlanta and the Dol
phin were constructed and those ships
are still in commission and doing ef-
fective service. They formed the nu-
Cleus of the navy as it exists to-day.
1t was Chandler who sounded the
doom of the old-fashioned wooden YES
sells which up to 1880 had constituted
the American navy and which had be-
come mockery and mark.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
News Notes.

Great Northern surveyors are. work,
ing on the, Pelican Rapids line, which
was abandoned long ago afterN consid-
cradle work had been done.
1t is learned that the Wright & Da--
Wis interests of Michigan are to, return
to Minnesota to operate more. extens-
lively than ever in the pine, timber i'm
dustry-
The sash and door factory OF L. G.
Berg, St. Anthony Park, was damaged
by a fire which originated in the boiler
room. The factory is located at 227o
Hampden avenue. The loss is placed
at $500.
An explosion of gas at Rice street
and University aveIsae, st. Paul. tears
up the pavement.
The last ten of bunch OF TWEEN
ty-five complaints against saloon
keepers and druggists were filed in
Mankato. They are charged with
selling adultesated or bogus blaekher-
nv brandy or port wine. Most OF
them have paid fines OF $25 apiece.
An exhibit of the handiwork of in
mates of the state insane hospitals and
other state institutions is being planned
by the state board of control for the
/ Louisiana purchase exposition.
r. w. Dering believes he is the pio
! neer of Itasca county pioneers. Four
/ teen years ago he shot two caribou Of
he present townsite of Little Fork.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

Aet'er. ever he cares to
use it, which is not too often.
Bede used to be a democrat in the
first Cleveland administration. Now
he is a republican Of equal intensity.
1t was lucky for him politically that
he changed parties, for he would proba-
bly, never have been elected to con-
gress as a democrat in the Duluth dis
trict, and as a republican there seems
no reason why he should not repre-
sent the district in the house for years
to come.
One of. Bede's recent predecessors
from the Duluth district was Charles
A. Towne, who was elected to congress
as republican, made his reputation
by delivering a free silver speech,
Topped to Bryan in the 1896 campaign
remained one of Bryan's staunchest
supporters until after the election of
1900, and who is now a Tammany dem
ocrat in New York. Thus the Duluth
district has had liberal experience
with representatives of varying polit-
ical views.
Bede is known as the "birch bark"
statesman on account of the peculiar
way in which he entered federal poll
tics. At the beginning of Cleveland's
administration he applied for the posi-
ton of United States marshal and
wrote his petition on birch bark. The
| president saw it in looking over the
papers. was struck by its oddity, wrote
out to Minnesota, discovered that Bede
was all right and appointed him or
] hand. LOUIS A. COOLIDGE
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
Rough, House

1t was a Strenuous life fort uni
versity sophomores, at the "U" when,
they attempted to hold; their class par
ty in the armory despite the frantic.
efforts of a mob, of $50. freshmen TO,
break up the party. The battle that
resulted from the attempt lasted over
an hour and proved one of the hottest
ever held at the institution.
Blood and water flowed freely. Snow
balls and chairs, filed the air and
clothing was torn in shreds. Hats,
caps and collars went to ruin and it is,
believed that in at least two. cases,
bones were. broken.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
Close Call.

Dan Patch, record 1864, the 100000
champion pacing stallion owned by M.
W. Savage, had a narrow escape from
death by fire in Mr.. Savage's stable at
1900 Portland avenue, Minneapolis
Blinded by the dense smoke and
showered with water from the hose di-
rected by the firemen the king of the
track was led from his stall by Judge
G. Il. Elliott. Mr.. Savage and Charles
Plummer, the caretaker.
The famous horse did not seem to
be injured in the least by his exposure
to fire and water and altho excited
and nervous after the ordeal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18

put together. This
comes partly from
his position as
chairman of the
republican nation
al committee and
partly from his
business connec-
tons.
In order to carry
on his correspond
ence he keeps
three Offices run
ming here in Wash
ington and a sep
arate rec Of
clerks in each, all
under the general
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
Republican Convention.

Robert Jamison, chairman of the re-
publican state central committee, has
issued the formal call for the state
convention to be held at Minneapolis,
March II, for the purpose of electing
four MISUNDERSTANDING and four altern-
ates to the national convention. in
Chicago, June 81. The call requires
county conventions to elect delegates
to the state convention Tuesday,
March Is.