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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09

In response to your request as to the
crop conditions Of the northwest, |
beg to advise you that in the past three
weeks I have been over the entire
northwestern states contiguous to this
state, and find that the oldest inhabi-
tant . has not with possible exception
of some drowned conditions in few
Of the Red river valley ccounties), seen
compare with this 1905 crop Sust being
"gathered in.
In Minnesota the condition of wheat,
oats, barley, fax and corn is most ex-
cellent, and the corn particularly will
yield an enormous crop, but when 1T
comes to favorable conditions, tho
states Of South Dakota and North Da-
world. Years ago when the Dakotas
were the "mecca" of homesteaders, /
can distinctly remember the stories of
the great fertility Of the soil, and i'm
mense crop returns on the very limited
area of land in crops, and the stories
told beggared descriptions, and every
body then believed them, and all kinds
vice and the trash Of the earth was
poured into the Dakotas-men who
never intended to work-women who
merely wanted to "prove up' and bor-
row, and after a few years the dryer
period came and drove out those who
were SO loosely margined, yet the stories
Of the great returns were heard the
world round. ....... -.-.
Now we are certainly realizing those
stories, for last week it was my priv
ilege to see wheat threshed in Brown
and Sphinx counties Of South Dakota, in
Cass and Stutsman, and Barnes of North
Dakota, measuring the amount of thirty
to thirtyive bushels in the halfbushel
The yields mentioned were in nearly
every case where the farmer was at all
thrifty, universal, and the result Of the
crop is already felt in easy conditions
money in the banks piling up, and the
farmers are buying the lands adjoining
Our office at Aberdeen last week had
an experience which one would laugh al
if it had happened few years ago.
man who had bought land Of us few
years ago, in Brown county, South Da
kota, and who at that time went into
debt, aggregating number Of thous
ands of dollars, came to us at the re
quest of relative in Illinois and made
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
TRAMPLED UPON BY HORSE
Mrs. Frank Schroeder of Albany Has
Serious Injuries.

ST. CLOUD, MINN.-Mrs. Frank
Schroeder Of Albany, while helping her
husband hitch team to a pillow, was
knocked down and seriously hurt. The
horses trampled upon her, causing
fracture Of the skull and breaking her
leg and arm.
John solinger Of Albany died at his
home today, aged 40:
Pedestrians on the St. German street
bridge saw the body Of young WON
an floating down the river. The eyes
Of the foater were bare. The police
were notified, but the body was sucked
in an undertow before it could be re
covered.
In 1862 Joseph Weedeck, son of Anna
Zeynar, late Of Sank Center, and broth
er Of Frank Weedeck Of st. Cloud, en-,
listed in the union army. Since then
his relatives have never heard Of him
and the probate court has declared him
officially deceased and Judge Hansen
today made decree Of determination
of descent Of Joseph Weedeck' s share
in his mother estate to the brother
Frank Weedeck.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
Evidences OF Great
Agricultural Resources
S. w. Otuen Says They Are Being Lntegenty Developed
Residents of the Country Are Now Enjoy
ing Comfort and Euen Luxury.

It does not require analyses Of soil,
critical studies Of the methods of farm
ing practiced therein, nor the grow
ing crops of certain season to deter
to proft-making and home building ag-
rlcultural pursuits In truth, there are
other evidences better calculated to fit
one for the rendering of an intelligent
verdict. The qualities necessary to the
enduring success of farming in any re-
termined in the chemists laboratory,
by the conclusions of theorists, nor the
observations Of tourists. The things
that tell the story must be more sub
stantial.
Exhibit purely agricultural region
that has been settled a quarter of q
century or more. and if during that
time there has been a steady and uni
form improvement in the character of
farms and farm buildings, in the i'm
provement of highways, in multiplica-
ton Of schoolhouses and churches, and
other factors are seen that give posi-
tive assurance of steady rising
then the beholder can make no mistake
in passing Judgment upon the fertility
of the soil or methods of the farming
that made such results possible. For
out of soil and method have come all
the changes noted. There are no other
resources WHICH cOulu nave produced
them
IF In addition to the foregoing evi,
denees, billions of dollars have been ex-
! pended in the meantime to provide
transportation facilities for an i'm
mense tonnage Of incoming supplies and
outgoing products, and it has been
found necessaGy to build many local
marts of trade where the ready ex-
change of supplies and products are IA
cilitated, and if those marts, like the
country around them, have steadily i'm
proved in character Of business places,
homes, public buildings, places Of amuse;
ment, and well ordered and shaded
streets, then the evidence is all in, and
the verdict must be that the region OBJ
served possesses all the requirements
Of the agricultural ideal, for without
g. close approach to that Ideal such re-
suits would be impossible in a country
whose sole resource Is the fertility
of it's soil and the intelligence and in
dustry of it's husbandmen.
The Hypothetical picture hurriedly
sketched in the foregoing is realized il
The north half of Minnesota today. Tn,
period Of it's development from barbar
ism to civilization, from the wild pas
ture to the native buffalo to the cult
waited field. and the stall of the bloode(
OK has not averaged much longer thar
quarter Of century. Yet in that time
what changes have been wrought! From
the idugout and sod cabin on the bleal
prairies to the fine farm residencei
and stately barns, tenderly embraced By
groves that warm winters blasts ant
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09

cool summers heat, measures dis
tance in evolution too great to be COW
cred in so few years in a country not
designed by nature to be the permanent
home of sturdy and cultured race of
tillers of the soil.
The market towns are object lessons
quite as significant as the farms and
railroads. The &c original S crude eiheap
was done and the doors lived; the ma
tive prairie streets, unworked and at
times bottomless, have faded away like
the "baseless fabric of dream, and
now substantial buildings Of all kinds,
fine, well-shaded and lawn-bordered
streets have taken their place as II by
an enchanter's wand. The solid and
permanent character of the towns testl-
fly to the enduring character OF the
farming country around them; both are
there to stay.
Nor is this all the story the towns
tell. Go into their depots of supplies,
see what the people on the surrounding
farms must buy, for the town people
cannot use them all, and be forced to
conclude that the occupants OF the
farms are well clothed and tastefully
adorned, that their homes are well built
and more than comfortably furnished;
that their tables are not strangers to
CnluI duu LILY Slooo, e'o WY ~
substantial and delicate foods; and in
many Of the homes music from melo-
deon or piano refnes while 1t charms.
All these are impossible to any but a
good agricultural region!
Not all homes are so equipped as YET,
but enough Of them are to make the
carrying in neighboring towns, with
safety and profit, Of large stocks OF
all things that go to make homes com
Portable or luxurious. Not all homes
are so equipped because some OF them
are too new as yet to have attained
that station, but they are getting
there; and others are not because their
occupants have not, for some reason,
realized the possibilities Of the soil
they till. But it takes exceptions to
prove rules; and the sule here holds
| true enough to uphold the theory run
ming thru this estimate Of the agrlcul,
tural resources of the north half OF
| Minnesota, a part of the state less
known and understood than the south
ern half.
The north part of the state Is
sparsely settled, relatively, ana Ihere
are abundant and easily obtained oP
portunities to build permanent and wei
supplied homes in few years. Those
there now have proved the quality OF
their pudding by eating it; they have
thrived upon but cannot exhaust It,
and want others to come that they may
also partake of it and thrive as have
their Predecessors. IS. M. Owen,
Publisher and Editor of Farm, Stock
| and Home.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
Northwest Crop Conditions
AS Seen BY John G. Lund Who Has Just Returned from
Three Weeks Inspection 7our-He Says
"Bumper Crop EUeryuuhere."

the first payment on a quarter-section
Of land, SO that he could write to lii
nois and have his relative come on to
Dakota and make home, and it was
learned that the Dakotan had paid all
his debts and had accumulated the cash
with which to do this in but few
years The turning a Loose Of off three rec
northwest from their own crop has and
will produce results that are but natur-
al-increase in the price OF farm lands
of at least 50 on every acre.
Ny Journey took me into Kansas and
Nebraska, and there the conditions were
even more favorable; the yield of wheat
is from twenty five to forty bushels an
acre, and everything booming beyond
compare. Lands have advanced In price
in most localities from $40 to $40 an
acre, and lands, that formerly sold at
from 500 to $50 are now being held at
| as high as $75, and the deuce of it is,
the owners are as independent, at the
best, as tehog on ice,' and they tell
you "take it or leave it alone,u and .
/ they prefer that you leave 1t alone.
Added to these local conditions OF Won
derful crops and great prosperity, comes
the browning one Of such corn crop
| in the corn states that no one ever saw
the like, and the inquiry for farm land
and investment is almost beyond our
ability to take even ordinary care Of
We are experiencing such demand
for our agents and men to call on al
most every locality in the United States
that trains don't run fast enough to
make the necessary calls, and every
train leading west and northwest is
crowded to the doors with anxious
homeseekers and investors. The farm
ers are all anxious to make investments
and the hard times Of few days ago
in Iowa and other spots are changed,
and the banks of Iowa, which were
"united' against the landmen, have
changed their tune, and are now look
ing for paper.
This condition is certain to result in
still more advance in farm land and a
consequent lower interest rate, Hi
nois and Iowa's crop of corn, whether
good or bad, has resultant action on
FITNESS and the crop is a good one,
beyond what they have ever in their
history realized, and you can "bet your
life' on the results
i Verify the pendulum swings to and
fro. j. G.. Lund.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
RASMUSSEN LEAVES REVERE
Former Boiler Inspector Figures In a
Mysterious Disappearance.

REVERE, MINI. Emil Rasmussen,
boiler Inspector for Redwood and
Brown counties, under the last. Van
SAINT administration, has mysteriously
Disappeared. He was competent and
filed the position for two years very
satisfactorily. He was a hearty sup
porter Of Dunn in the last campaign
Johnson's election was his Waterloo
for democrat was appointed to sue.
coed him. Since losing this office Ras
mussen had fallen upon financial rocks
and, bereft Of his local political power
he became discouraged.
He disappeared about month ago
since which time nothing has, beer
heard Of him. It is generally believed
he quietly left Revere and will begi1
anew in another locality.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
DOCTORS INDICTED
Two with Vaudeville Attachments II
Trouble at MarshalltoWn.

MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA. - The
grand jury has returned indictments
against two travelling doctors who came
here week ago and created a stir by
their unique methods of advertising.
They styled themselves Phenomenal
Kraus'' and sHThe Great Anselme. y
and professed to make miraculous cures.
They carried a big troupe of vaude-
vile artists and have reaped a harvest
by sales of medicines and treatment Of
chronic diseases.
The plant of the old Rhoades-C Car
mean Buggy company, which failed two
". G. Allen Of Fostoria, Ohio, and will
be put in operation in month. He
will employ over hundred men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
CAUGHT IN BURNING HOUSE
Woman and Two Girls Of Iowa City
Almost Lose Lives.

IOWA CITY, IOWA.-Fire, which
destroyed the home of Mrs. Andrew
Shields, an aged pioneer, early today,
almost cost her and her two grand
daughters, Mabel and Florence Tully,
their lives. The house was ablaze and
one Of the little girls awakened. Her
screams aroused the other two occu.
pants Of the house and the trio fought
a way to the open air with. the greatest
difficulty. The woman is still in danger
William Elliott, aged SO, died here
today. He was treasurer OF Cedar
county, Iowa, >.years ago, and when
thieves looted the treasury he made the
loss good as far as possible, altho II
ruined him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
PLAN TRIP AROUND WORLD
Miss Comfy and Woman Companio
About to Set Out,

ELK POINT, s. D.-Miss Lovella
Comfy has been visiting her mother
and early home here for a few days.
preparatory to novel trip around the
world. She leaves Chicago on Friday,
Sandwich islands and Asia.
Miss Anna Pinch, representing New
York newspaper, accompanies her, Miss
Comfy having been the automobile edi-
tor of the Chicago Post the past two
years. They will write for various
newspapers their experiences, the novel
sights encountered and any entertain
ing features, a'visit to Tibit, commonly
on earth, being included in their itin-
erary.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
.Locaho / the Thing
LOOK AT THIS MAP r : ::::ss.

The four great markets Minneapolis
this territory get the prices butter
they County people 1885, had
shows
We have large Of clay lands with clay subso this
selling Fifty miles
built
the county
meadows that
Miller,
A
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
is the only other beneficiary of the

is the only other beneficiary Of the
Crosby estate.
Frank P. Hixon, the administrator,
SAYS Crosby is insane and that an eff
fort will be made to have him confined
in the state asylum at Mendoza.
While on the county fair grounds at
West Salem yesterday afternoon, pr.
F. G. suitor was robbed Of a wallet
containing 5000 and valuable papers,
Secretary Lucius G. Colman. Of the
board Of police and fire commissioners
announces that the charges against
Chief of Police II. II. Byrne, conveyed
in an anonymous letter which was cir
recognized nor investigated by the
commission.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
JORDAN BANKS MERGE
Peoples State Bank Absorbs the First
State

JORDAN, MINI. : The People s
State bank and the First State bank
have consolidated. The capital stock
Of each was $4,000. The capital stock
of the consolidated bank will be $685.
900, and it will be known as the Peo-
pie s State Bank Of Jordan, Theo. Wei
land, president; George S. Schmitt, vice
The jordan school has been placed on
the states list of accredited high
schools. Mr.. Brockway Of Balaton is
superintendent.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09

not long deny the plueky girl with so
worthy a purpose, and eventually she
won the day and came into Cass Lake
on the train in ample time to make
her fling on the land.
1t is said that no contest can now
lie against her claim. Sheer pluck has
won Miss McGarry farm. How many
would fail if placed in the same emer-
gency which confronted her!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
CROSBY IN A sANAToRIUM
Mystery in Disappearance Of La Crosse
Man Partly Cleared Away.

LA CROSSE, WIS The mystery Of
the disappearance of Homer Crosby,
the wealthy government contractor, has
been partly solved. Crosby has been
found 81 a sanatorium at Geneva, Wis,
where application has been made for
examination as to his sanity by his
sister, Minnie Crosby Of this city, who
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
Fan Shooting. 1905.

The passenger department. OF the
Northern Pacific railway has issued an
attractive booklet on Fall Shooting in
the Northwest, giving reports from
and North Dakota. and a digest of the
game laws Of these states, together with
other useful information. Sent free on
request made to G.. +. Mcneil, city
passenger agent, 10 sNicollet block. Min
neapolis, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
sTEARNs COUNTY FAIR
Many Fast Horses Entered for Races
at Sank Center,

sAUK CENTER, MINI. --stearns
county fair will be held here Sept. IL,
l3 and IA. A large string of fast
horses has been entered.
Mrs. j. P. Nelson entertained twelve
young ladies as a farewell for several
young people who left for their schools.
A dainty luncheon was served.
The Sank Center school will provide
normal department this year, and
graduates from it will receive state
Teachers certificate without examina-
ton.
An impromptu party was given at
the city hall in honor Of Fred Jacob,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold and Mr.. and Mrs.
Phillips.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
Fastest Auto-Boat in the West

Fastest Auto-Boat in the West.
Any one interested in auto-boats will
be taken for a trial ride in the White
at Minnetonka-the fastest ever seen
in the west-by making arrangements
at the Minneapolis office of the Globe
Iron Works Co., $40 Bird ave So, Min
neapolis. N. w. TEL, Main 3404.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
GAIN FOR WILLMAR
Federal Enumeration Held to Have Over
looked 1923 Persons in One Ward.

WILLMAR, MINN.-Thru the eff
forts Of the Willmar Commercial club
recount was made of the third ward
Of this city and the figures, as given
by the special enumerators, show an
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
Are You Looking for a Farm!


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Then she skirted the long line Of
freight, and logging cars until she
Grasping the pilot, she Swung herself
upon it. No one had seen her and
in a few moments the train was under
way. Soon the engine was bounding
from side to side as it rushed along
over the sleepers, but the plucky girl
held the tighter to the rods and braces
near her perilous seat. Her fearsome
s the Wild G ride I BOUGHT h s a delight in
it's danger and risk and sent the blood
coursing merrily thru her veins.
When Wilkinson station was reached
Miss McGarry was discovered and q
second attempt made to keep her of
the train. But the railroad men coulG
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
Great Opportunities to Secure Homes
At the following times and places | will
hold sales of school and other state land:

TERMS OF SALE.
These lands will be sold at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder. Fifteen per
cent of the purchase price must be paid at
the time of sale. The balance may run
for 40 years at a per cent annual inter-
est, If desired The title to all state land
is perfect. Valuable illustrated book on
Minnesota lands free; also list of lands
offered.
SAMUEL G. IVERSON,
State Auditor and Land Commissioner.
Aug. 1, 1905. st. Paul. MINI
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09

increase Of 1913 over the census as taken
by the state enumerator. This makes
the population of this ward alone 1909
instead Of 976, as at first reported.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09

We publish herewith cut of pho
tograph of a box of strawberries
raised by L. A. Boswell, two miles south
of Bruno, Pine county, MINI. This
photograph shows an ordinary sized
strawberries. The quality Of the Der
strawberry box containing thirteen
ries is shown by the fact that Mr.: Bus.
well has contract with the Mime
sofa club, st. Paul, to keep them sup
piled with berries during the season
for which he receives So case, nearly
double the market price.
Pine county has shown its adaptable
ty to large variety. Of crops, but per
haps there has been no greater success
than in the raising Of berries. Rasp.
berries, Strawberries and blackberries
grow in profusion and are invariably of
the highest quality.
MI. BusW ell, formerly Of Condo, s.
in South Dakota, he gave up moving, b
of improvements on the farm, and two
now has large plots of Strawberries, ra
farm 600 cords of maple, oak and birc
we'll say nothing would induce them to
Send postal for illustrated book a
T Qrlr1ers Land
The new enterprise., 1905-05-25
CATHERINE THE GREAT,
An odd Woman Was This Empresa
of the Russians.

A recent writer says of Catherine the
Great, empress Of Russia from the
year 1862 to 1906
"She rose at 6 and lit her own fire.
Her table was ideally simple. From
the reproach Of overeating aud over.
drinking she was free. Though she
could not sing a note, she and Prince
Dashkof, who could sing no better, oc.
casionally performed in a concert. A
sudden burst of the most exalted and
ridiculous discordant tones was the
consequence, one secondng the other
with scientific shrugs and al the sol.
emn, self complacent airs and grimaces
Of musicians. From this perhaps she
passed to a cat concert and initiated
the purring Of cat in the most droll
and ndicrOus manner, always taking
care to add appropriate, half comic.
half sentimental words, which she in-
vented for the occasion, or else, splitting
like cat IN a passion, with her back
up, she suddenly boxed the first person
In her way making up her hand into
paw tlAN nv W lAiS NhAlh -NbNNlAs
When playing whist one night Gather.
Inc could not get her page to answer
the bell, after she had rung twice.
again without effect, she left the room,
looking daggers, and did not reappear
FOR considerable time. The company
supposed that the unfortunate page
was destined to Siberia or at least the
knout, As a matter of fact Catherine
on entering the antechamber found the
page like his betters, busy at whist.
when the bell rang he happened to
have so interesting a hand that be
could not make up his mind to quit it,
Now, what did the empress do? She
dispatched the page on her erfand and
then quietly sat down to bold his cards
until he should return"
The new enterprise., 1905-05-25

During an official massacre at the
village Of Koukl'sh the Turkish COM
mandant-a fat maior-slept and smoks
ed In the shade Of tree near the scene
Of carnage, The trumpet sounded for
the assault, and the soldiers proceeded
to rob, kill, burn and violate. The
trumpet next sounded the retreat, but
the troop refused to obey, and the fat
major continued TO sleep and smoke.
When spoken to about the excesses OF
his men, he replied; "What can one
do? They are so badly brought upF'--
Paris Macedoine.