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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-17
NewUlrnRevieW
Wednesday, May II, 1905.
Disagreement.

Now, again, and for the second
time, twelve men have failed to agree
as to the guilt or innocence OF DR.. O..
r. Koch and it is doubtful if in the
entire state twelve men can be selected
who will fairly try the case and come
to any other conclusion. There is not
evidence sufficient, even remotely con-
nected, that can be presented in a
manner convincing enough to remove
the reasonable doubt, intact the doubt
is so manifest in the case that it is
almost conclusive itself without addi-
tional proof of innocence.
1t may be said that the logical pre-
sentation of the case by the able and
forceful Gen. Childs had more to do
with disagreement than the actual testi-
mony introduced. There is no dis
counting the fact that Mr.. Childs is a
criminal lawyer of more than ordinary
ability, and he made the most of a
case that had much the appearance of
having been greatly bolstered up.
TO all appearances the case was tried
with the greatest fairness and the
court throughout the trial gave evil
dence of the most dlgnifed reserve,
dealing out justly to each side its de-
cisions. No reflections can be cast
upon it, and the failure to acquit
comes from a discernment of the jury
that evidently presupposes a guilt not
proven by the testimony.
Twenty-four men have tried DR..
Koch and Of the twenty-four sixteen
have voted for acquittal and eight for
conviction-iust one-third and still
there is doubt. So pronounced are the
views of all men on this case that it is
doubtful if jury of twelve men will
ever be found who will be able to
agree unless different evidence is in
troduced or the same evidence is less
skillfully handled.
Mankato has reason to be proud of
her beautiful court house and its eff
cient and courteous management. The
large draft made upon the patience
and good will of the officers during
the trial was enough to tax the good
nature of the most enduring but it was
very noticeable that no exhibition was
given that could be construed to mean
discourtesy. Sheriff Williams was
very obliging and extremely careful
of the comfort and wants of his guests,
and Judge Cray manifested patience
that was remarkable considering what
severe strain he was constantly en-
dnrinp
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
The Republican Club Banquet.

The arrangements for the organiza-
tion of county Republican Club and
the holding of the first annual banquet
have nearly all been completed. AS al
ready announced the banquet is to be
held at the armory in this city Thurs
day evening, Dec 49, at o'cock. The
organization of the Club will precede
the banquet.
Mr.. w. H. Bigelow, chairman of the
county committee, will preside at the
banquet, introducing Hon. F. H. Wat
son, who will deliver the address of well
come, and Hon. Grant Fellows, who
will act as toastmaster. Few men in
the state have more friends in Shiawas-
see county than Mr.. Fellows and a
large number of them will take advan-
tage of this opportunity to hear and
greet him. In addition to the other
speakers already announced, an accept.
ance has been received from Cong,
VIM. Alden Smith. Mr.. Smith has a
national reputation as fluent and con-
vincing speaker and his presence will
add much to the enjoyment of the
evening.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
are to serve the banquel-which means
that splendid menu will be provided
and good service given.
The Acme Quartete-the most pop
ular musical organization in the county
will give several selections during the
evening. Tubb's orchestra will furnish
Instrumental music for the evening.
The demand for tickets has been large
and the indications all are that every
one of the $40 seats will be taken early.
Tickets can be procured of the members
Of the county committee or at Collins &,
Co. s drug store at $l.00 each. IL you
want to be present secure your ticket
at once. ~
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
The New-York Tribune Farmer.

The Tribune Farmer has no superior
anywhere in this wide world as a pub
lication for farmers and their families.
1t does not, to be sure, tell how to ex-
tract green cheese from the moon, but
every thing worth knowing about the
theory or pactice of farming is treated
by men recognized as experts in their
various lines. But The Tribune Farm
er does more than supply such valuable
information. 1t keeps the farmer in
touch with all the latest improvements
by text and pictures, and pays special
attention to the work being done at
agricultural colleges all over the
country. Besides all this it has fea-
lures to interest the women folk. The
price is 81 a year. For a free sample
copy send postal card to The New
York Tribune New York.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Victim of LIQUOR.

George Epple, forty years of age,
stone cutter, employed until a short time
ago at Rollin Ponds monument works
died Sunday monning at his home in
the second story of house on Lyons
street. He started down stairs late Sat-
urday night and sometime later his wife
found him lying unconscious at the foot
OF the stairs. He was carried upstairs
and died at 2 o'clock in the morning,
not regaining consciousness.
Coroner Loring was summoned ana.
after an investigation decided that Ep-
pie died from heart disease caused by
alcoholic poisoning. Epple has not been
working lately and drank a great deal
and as DR.. Wilson found no marks of
violence or injury, the cause of death
was probably too much liquor.
The funeral was held Tuesday after
noon from the jennings Foster Co.'S.
rooms. Rev. G Spathelf, officiating.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Possibly Ten Per Cent More.

The Detroit Trust Co. completed the
work Tuesday of writing the checks fol
the third dividend to the M. l.. Stewart
d Co. creditors and the checks were
mailed on Wednesday by Referee in
Bankruptcy Joslyn. AS previously
stated this dividend was ten per cent,
making the total payment to date 45per
cent.
In personal letter Mr.. Ralph Stone,
Secretary of the Trust Co., says: 'The
assets remaining in our hands are prin-
clpally slow ones, i. g., it may take
some time to collect them. They con-
sist principally of the Owosso Carriage
Co. stock and Indebtedness, and of land
contracts and mortgages which are not
yet due. | estimate that we will realize
enough from them to make 10 per cent
additional; perhaps little more, per-
haps little less, making total realized
by creditors of about 55 per cent
The creditors generally realize that
the Detroit Trust Co. has been unusually
successful so far in closing up the affairs
of the bank and that the dividends have
been paid far more promptly than is
generally the case.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Church Dedication.

Bishop William Horn, of Cleveland,
one of the three bishops in this country
of the Evangelical association, dedicated
the new church here Sunday. The ex-
ercises commenced Saturday evening
with preaching in English by the
bishop. He also preached Sunday after
noon and evening. Rev. f. G. Berger,
of Flint, presiding elder, and the pas
tor, Rev. A. r. Fischer, took part in
the dedicatory services. The church
is practically free from debt. The new
building cost about $4,000 and the
largest subscription was 5000. The
building is of brick with stone trim
mings, the inside work being oak. The
seating capacity is about $50.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
New Theatre.

The Vaudeville Association has fitted
up the Gould store, 221 N. Washington
street, and will open family theatre,
giving performance at p. m. and one
at 9:30 p. m. every night, except Sun
day. and matinees Wednesdays and
Saturdays at 2:30 p. m. The associa-
tion is financially responsible, has been
in the business for years, gets the best
of vaudeville talent and being ina cir
cult is able to do so so as to put on a
first class entertainment at very
small price. The opening performance
will be matinee Monday afternoon at
2:30. The admission Will be but ten
cents.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Michigan Electric Lines Bought.

The completion of deal in New York
City early this week gives the Mills
Moore syndicate control Of the city
electric lines in Kalamazoo, Battle
Greek and Lansing and a num-
Der of suburban lines, including
the Lansing 81 st. Johns, Lansing &
jackson, Jackson & Battle Creek, Battle
Creek q Kalamazoo and Lansing q
Pine Lake. 1t is the intention of the
owners under the title Michigan United
Railway Co. to extend its lines connect
ing many points in Central Michigan
and Owosso is included by an extension
of the Lansing 8e Pine Lake line
through Perry and Morrice and Shia.
wassee township or bv Laingsburg, 60
ing from here to Flint.
The company has unlimited financial
backing, and the roads operated by them
are all successful and we'll managed.
The trackage controlled is about 15f
miles, which will be increased before
next fall to 200 and possibly $50.
This purchase makes it almost a Ger.
tainty that Owosso will be connected
both north aud south as well as east and
west by suburban lines in short time.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
New Court House Occupied.

The county officers are now occupy
ing rooms in the new court house. The
building is not completely furnished but
sufficiently so that business can be trans
acted. A long list is being made of the
first ones to do this, that and the other
in the new building and this with the
last things done in the old building will
be kept as part of their history by var
ious persons.
The first marriage in the new court
house was performed Wednesday after
noon by Rey. G. H. Hanks, Richard E.
Scruggs and Miss Marguerite E. Nc
Kane being made man and wife. Roy
Northway and Miss Florence Lindsey
acting as witnesses, the ceremony being
performed in the clerks Office.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Sugar Beets Paid The Debt.

From its appearance one would mo-
believe that there is much in the home
ly sugar beet to inspire the divine muse
but someone with gifted imagination
has been moved to cough up the follow
ing poetic lines to the Windsor Opt
mist
"a farmer sat in pensive mood,
His countenance was bluel
He knew in six and thirty days
The mortgage would be due.
Just how to raise the needed dough
To pay the hated debt,
Was past his comprehension, though,
And so he stewed and fret.
"But while the farmer roared and
fumed
There were elements at work
That needed not the lapse of time,
Nor did their duty shirk.
His sugar beets were growing fast
In spite of drouth and wet,
And when it came the harvest time
They paid the farmers debt"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Company H's Good Record.

From the Adjutant Generals report,
we take the following;
1--WE respectfully recommend that a
strong order be sent out from head
quarters concerning swearing Since
we have of necessity been severe in this
matter it would be unfair did we not re.
fer to shining exception. That ex-
ception is Company III Of the Sd Infan.
try from Owosso. The chaplains messed
with this company, who were not aware
of their coming. Not filthy word or
expression was heard on the company
streets or in the mess tent. There may
be other companies having as creditable
a record. Next year we purpose finding
them out If possible, and giving them
due credit in our report"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
New Books in Ladies Library.
Cute Hill Property Sold.

The Cute hill property, including the
large tract of grove and the building
which was formerly brewery, but in
recent years has been known as the
Owosso Sanitarium and Arbeiter Hall
has been sold by Mrs. Margaret Cute to
the Free Methodist society of Michigan.
The building will be used as head
quarters and the grounds in summer will
be occupied as camping place for
the thousands who attend the annual
Free Methodist camp meeting which will
be held here. The meeting begins June
29 and lasts twelve days.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Christmas cantata.

Sunday evening at the . Bap-
tist church the Christmas cantata,
"The Manger Throne, will be rendered
by chorus of thirty voices and the fol-
lowing soloists; Miss Annie Osburn,
Mrs. c. Rentschler, Miss Hattie Hunt,
Mrs. F. Fl. Gould, Miss Minnie Sullivan,
A. j Stevens, Glenn Reynolds, Harry
1ngerson and DIR. j. o. Parker. Ser
vices will begin at 7:15 and the rendi-
tion of the cantata will require thirty
minutes
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Annual Elections.

ORIENTAL ENCAMPMENT ODD FELLOWS
G. P.-John G.. Doane.
II. P.-Augustus Abels.
Senior Warden-Wilson Brooks
Rec. Scribe-Joh Van Hoten.
Fin. Scribe-O. T. Graham.
Treasurer. J. Bowers.
Junior Warden-C. H. Sidman.
Representative to Grand Encamp-
ment-C. A. Doane.
Alternate-O, 7. Graham.
d. D.-J. H. Van Hoten.
OWOSSO TOWNSHIP GRANGE.
Owosso Township Grange elected the
following officers Tuesday:
Master-R c. Shepherd.
Overseer-F. M. Shepherd.
Lecturer-Mrs. E. o. Place.
Steward-C. Freeman.
Assistant Steward-L. s. Goodale.
Chaplain-A. Robertson.
/. l.. A. Steward-Miss Alice Doty.
Gate Keeper-M. L. Peterson.
Flora-Mrs. G. Freeman.
Pomona-Mrs. J. Freeman.
Ceres-Mrs. G. B. Cook.
RATHBoNE SISTERS.
Past Chief-Mrs Edna Chapman.
Most Excellent Chief-Mrs Emma
Moore.
Excellent Senior-Mrs. Myra Walsh.
Excellent Junior-Mrs. G. H. Cossitt.
Manager-Mrs. Luella Dwight.
M. Of r. 81 C.-Mrs. Ella Grove.
NJ of F.-Mrs. Mary Burke.
Protector Of Temple-Mrs Elizabeth
Foster.
Guard of the Outer Temple-Mrs
Carrie Reineke.
Pianist-Mrs. Elizabeth Gage.
Trustee for three years-Mrs. Carrie
Reineke.
Delegates to Grand Lodge-Mrs. Car
rie Reineke, Mrs. Sadie Brown.
Alternates-Mrs Ella Grove, Mrs
Virginia Storrer.
Installing Ohicer--Mrs. Nellie Rob-
bins.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Work Commenced.

Work was actually commenced Wed.
nesday at Saranac on the grading for
the Grand Rapids-Ionia and the Ionia
-Belding electric railway. The work
of erecting the power house at Saranac
will be pushed as rapidly as possible
this winter. The contractor who has
this work also has the contract to build
the line from Ionia to Owosso and on to
Pontiac
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Superintendent Resigns.

E. nj. Whiting, who has been employ
ed by the Owosso Carriage Co. for near
ly nine years, has resigned the position
of superintendent, which he has held
for four years, having worked his way
up from shipping clerk, and will engage
in other business. He has been a valu-
able man for the company and has been
popular with the employees. He came
to Owosso from Flint where he worked
for the w. A. Patterson Co.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
Michigan Central stock Yards, Detroit

Cattle dull and slow st Detroit Live stoor
Market Thurs lay. Dec, II. 1905; 9nsnty g con: ~
kandv hutchers. 1915 a a.25: common. 500 q
Sa 30: canners' COWS. si.50 02. .25; stockers ano
Il eders. quiet st $3.50 % s.iO.
Milcn COWS. active at $500 q 5000; calves
activeat $500 q SOO
lambs. S7 rs 1 $3.50. mixed, $3.50 % sooo
culls $3.50 a. $3.50.
Hoes higher; quality, com; prime mediums, ).
s5O0 IN s5 10: Workers, ~ 90 % S4.s5; pigs. VI 90
06eI 20: roughs 1000 4.6O stays one-tniro On
ReceiptswCsttle7oO calves, $50, sheep. 1900;
hogs 1900.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
"a - IT q Fri a.
Bear, the n The Kind You Have Always Bougf
Signature "a G<AzIN.>

Holiday excursion via M. G. for Xmas
and New Years, sold Dec. 23. "a, 20, 30
and 31st, 1905, also Jan. 1st, 1906.
Good to return Jan. 3D., 1906. One and
third fare,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22

Court will probably be held in the
new court house today and If so Judge
Smith will preside.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22

WANTED-Bright, honest young
man from Owosso to prepare for paying
position in Government Mail Service
Box One, Cedar Rapids, la,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-13
RUSSIANS LIVING HIGH.
Aristocrats Of St. Petersburg Spend
Much Time Over Pleasures
Of the Table.

War or no war, the aristocratic Rus.
sian pursues his pleasures with an
abandonment that speaks of unlimited
resources or unlimited recklessness.
says the Pail Mall Gazette. The pleas
ures Of the table are protracted to an
inOrdinate degree. A lunch, in which
the courses are plentifully watered
with champagne, will spread itself
through the afternoon. You may bare
ly escape at five o'clock, though you be-
gin to cut at one. The host never sits
down; plying his guests with a success
sion of good things, liquid and solid.
Even the afternoon tea in middle-class
circles is a very formidable undertake
ing. 1t includes dishes of various sorts.
in which meat will certainly figure,
and Russian tea, served in a glass with
lemon: is but the pale comparison to
sparkling champagne. The appearance
of the streets tells of wealth, too. No
finer equipages exist anywhere than
those which, @horsed with coal-black
steeds, dash at full speed, in lofty dis
regard for the mere foot passenger,
down the central strip of wood pave
ment in the principal prospects," as
the wider streets are derominated,
Holding the reins in his two hands,
with arms outstretched. the driver.
medieval In dress, has the summary
methods of a Roman charioteer. In
deed, there is something of imperial
Rome in, this second capital Of tho
car -~:S "-if
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-13

horny matter is starch, yet this same
horny matter is so rich in protein that
it may be accepted as rule that tbs
greater the proportion of horny matter
the greater the proportion of protein
in the corn kernel. The size of ths
germ also indicates the comparative
amount of protein.
Any man that expects to do much in
the breeding of corn or even in the
growing Of corn must make study
of the plant and its seed. He must
educate himself to be abe to tell the
value of different kinds of corn. This
making mechanical analysis the real
sort of an education Is not the work
of a day or week, but it requires
much study, much thought and much
comparison of different varieties of
corn and of different ears of the same
variety.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-13

eat except themselves, and estimate
that there were million Cairo fieas
In the flask, enough to set up house.
keeping in your palace, with enough to
stock the palace of your crown prince
when he Is married, and this is that
you may remember the visit of Peck's
Bad Boy and his dad.
The emperor was mad at first, but
he laughed, and when we got out of
the palace dad leaned against lamp
post and scratched his back, and said
to me, "Hennery, you never ought to
have did it," and I said, what could
a poor boy do when called upon sud-
denly to do something to entertain roy
alty?"
"Well," says dad, II don't care for
myself, but this thing is apt to bring
on international complications" and
said, eyes, 1t will bring Persia into IL,
cause they will have to use Persian
insect powder to get rid of them" and
then we went to our hotel and fought
feas all night, and thought of the
sleepless night the royal family were
having
Well, 30 long, old Pummernickel.
Yours truly,
HENNERY.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-13

And falling James. there L I very
dependable young woman at the head
OF this household. Haven't I person
ally conducted the family all over
Europe % 81 81
James is q base hireling," said the
caller, blandly. 'And as for the cap
able young woman: do I or do I
not recollect q dark night on the Ger
man frontier when she was glad
enough to call on a sleepy fellow pill
grim to help her wrestle with q par
ticularly thick headed customs oficer?"
III you do, 1t is not especially kind
Of You to remind her OF It,
He looked up quickly, and the mas
terful soul Of the man, for which the
clean-cut. square-set jaw and the ath-
letic figure were the outward present.
ments. put on mask of Difference and
humility. = 49,; i! i. $@2 sz..s.* 49,. =
''You are hard with me, Elinor-al-
ways tlinty and adamantine, and that
sort. Have you no soft side at all?"
She laughed.
"The sentimental young woman
"OAt WV oOA10 I1Auc dSU, Uluu sue
One can't be an anachronism."
Il suppose not. Yet I'm always try
ing to make myself believe other
things about you. Don't you like to
be cared for like other women?"
II don't know: sometimes I think
I should. But I have had to be the
man of the house since father died."
Il know" he said. "And it is the
petty anxieties that have made you
put the woman to the wall I'm here
this morning to save you some of
them;, to take the mans part in your
outsetting, or as much Of it as can.
When are YOU going to give me the
right to come between you and all the
little worries, Elinor?" 3
y She turned from him with a faint
gesture Of cold impatience.
"You are forgetting your PROMISE"
she said quite dispassionately 1--WE
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-13
NO lNExHAUSTlBLE SOIL,
Experience Of Farmers in Eastern
States a Warning and Lessor
for Western Agriculturists.

The experience in the eastern states
should have taught our western farm
ers that there is no such thing as an
inexhaustible soil. But one of the
plainest things in the whole history of
our agriculture is that many farmers
emigrated from New England and
New York and carried with them the
idea that it was possible to find soil
that had in it an inexhaustible supply
of fertility The writer remembers
meeting a blacksmith in small New
England city, who was planning to
move to Iowa. He was enthusiasts
over his contemplated change of loca-
ton and lost no opportunity of de-
scribing to his neighbors the wonder
full fertility of that soil. Why" said
he, you can get 100 acres of land al
most for nothing and in that land ia
fertility so great that it cannot be
used up in all time" He went west.
stayed few years and returned to the
eastern city not over prosperous. He
had evidently spent the few years in
the west trying to raise crops on land
that had been sold to him as having
in it an inexhaustible supply of fer
tility. Doubtless it was land that had
been already reduced in value by
years of cropping by some previous
soil robber. K - -. -. -
All over the west we find men till
ing land that has never had IN it a
pound of barnyard manure, pound of
fertilizer Of any kind and that has
never been subjected to = rotation Of
crops, unless it be rotation, as an
Illinois farmer facetiously. remarked,
OF wheat and wheat strbble." In the
opinion Of the Farmers Review, every
man that has been farming on the old
lines should abandon the practice at
once. Wheat grown after itself for 4
long period Of time will bring poverty
to the land and the land owner. We
have no inexhaustible soil any mora
than we have an inexhaustible bank.
When a certain amount Of plant food
is taken out, that plant food is gone
and the aggregate Of the plant food
in the soil is decreased by just that
amount. II q man is too poor to buy
fertilizer he can at least rotate hin
crops ana help matters IN that way.
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-13
Listening to the Fishes.

For listening to the noise made b.
fishes in the depths of the seas, a Nor
wegian inventor has devised a telephone
to be lowered overheard from fishing
boats. With this he claims fisherman
can detect the presence Of fish, their
numbers and even their kind. Herrings,
or smaller fish, when, they come in large
numbers, make a piping, whistling
sound, while cod make roaring noise.
When they come close to the submarine
telephone the movements Of the indi-
vidual Ash can be distinguished. The
instrument consists of a, microphcna
In Z hermetically-sealed steel box. It.
is connected by electric wires with =
telephone in the vessel above. Every
sound in the water below is intensified
by the microphone and conducted by
the electric wires to the telephone
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