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The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18
HE is NOT A RINGLING.
Claim of An Intoxicated Individual at
San Jose, Cal.

From Wednesdays Daily.
From the glitter and tinsel of the
| circus ring to drunkard's cell in the
basement of the city hall is the story
told by a stranger who was arrested by
Detective Pickering this morning in a
state of itnoxication. The stranger tells
the story, pretty well and to add to the
effect he declares that his name is Tom
Ringling, one of the world famous show
men who have frequently exhibited in
this city.
"Yes, sir, am Tom Ringing the
inebriate declared in his cell today, "and
| know all about the show business
I'm one of the Ringing Brothers of
Baraboo and, say, you ought to see our
show.
'We started out in 1887 from Baraboo
and now we've got the greatest circus
in the world.
way. If l told you who l am it would
surprise you. My name is Ringling.
left the show some time ago and I have
been on tear, but l want to know
what | am in here for"
Chief of Police Carroll had laugh
at the pretensions of the prisoner and
asked him a. number of questions to put
his knowledge of the Ringling family
affairs to the test. To some of the in
quiries the prisoner gave ready answers,
but he failed to establish his identity to
the satisfaction of the chief.
Ringling, as he styles himself, was
found tightly wedged in the bottom of
an empty watering trough by Detec
tive Pickering. He was dead drunk
and was stuck so tight between the
sides of the trough that the officer had
difficulty in removing him. In the pro-
cess Ringling's clothes were torn in a
number of places, but even in this di-
shevele dcondition it was apparent that
he had been well dressed and fairly
good looking man before the debauch
started.
1t is believed that the prisoner float
ed down to San Jose from San Francisco
while on drunk and that his preten-
sions to the proprietorship of the
''Worlds Greatest Show" results from
imbibing poor brand of North Market
street corn juice.
The above was taken from The San
Jose Evening News. The party referred
to cannot be one of the Ringing Broth
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18
Twin Cucumbers.

From Fridays Daily.
Clarence Matteson brought down town
today specimen from the garden at his
home at 3l7 Van Brunt street to rival
the Siamese twins Two cucumbers
were grown together into one.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18

DIED
Harold William Heese.
rom Wednesdays Daily.

Herold William, the infant child of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Heese, residing at
1920 North Fourth street, died yester-
day noon and the funeral toop place at
9 a. m. today from the German Luther
an church.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18
The Rainfall Light.

Park Superintendent Blake states
that the rainfall for the recent rains
was but .32 of an inch. At many
places the rain was much heavier.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18
Warrant for Weimar.

This afternoon warrant was issued
for the arrest of John Weimar on the
complaint of his wife, Mrs. Flora
Weimar, charging him with assault in
the third degree.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18

Mrs. Thomas Lukvn arrived today
from England, where she and her hus-
band went the forepart of the summer.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18
WILL BE BIG WHEAT YIELD.
What Grain Man Found on Tour of
Inspection.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Charles f. Lewis, who left the Spen-
Ger party yesterday, returned to Min
neapolis this morning. Messrs. Spen-
Ger, Pringle and Slaughter went west
from Winnipeg and are in the northwest
territories today sizing up the wheat
crop there, says The Minneapolis Jour-
nal.
The northwest outlook in general, Mr..
Lewis says, is fully as good as repre-
sented by the reports coming into Min
neapolis from the fields and there are
many in the northwest who are talking
200 600 900 bushels wheat for Minneso-
ia. North and South Dakota. Mr.. Lewis
is very optimistic, but having seen the
crop at the best is inclined to be lit
tie conservative as to the high figures
so generally heard, believing that there
is still chance for developments that
might pull them down slightly. That the
northwest has raised a bountiful crop
does not, however, permit of argument.
The wheat is there and only remains to
be gathered in Other crops are looking
good, flax especially So The total out
run of grain OF all kinds will run to
enormous figures and great prosperity
should follow.
A feature of Importance this year is
the unusually large proportion of maca-
roni wheat Last year the farmers who
suffered so severely from rust, turned
to macaroni wheat as being more rust
resistant than either fife. of blue stem
spring wheat. and fearing damage again
thew went more into the macaroni. The
result is a greatly increased production
of it. which, Mr. Lewis believes, may
operate against future increase in acre.
age next year for, with macaroni NOV
ING freely to market, prices are likely to
suffer.
In the Canadian northwest the talk is
of lOOOOOOOO bushels of wheat. This
is the view of railroad and elevator
men, some of whom have travelled
miles in railroad handcar fashion, and
automobile through districts fur
ther removed. Mr.. Lewis says the coun-
try above the line will produce S0,OOO,-
900 bushels beyond doubt and with con-
tinued good harvest weather the higher
estimate may be reached.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18

st. Peter, Mimi, Aug. l6.-Early
threshing returns indicate that the
wheat crop of Nicollet county will aver
age at least twenty bushels to the acre.
Threshing is well under way and many
of the fields are yielding better than
twenty bushels. The crop is regarded
as the best produced here in years.
w. H. Rounsville received twenty
three bushels to the acre from field of
seventy five acres, and the yield on j.
HodsOn's farm was twenty one bushels.
In Cleveland township from thirty-f five
acres, and HI. j. Schultz and August
Michael have twenty three bushel yields.
All of the grain marketed thus far
has graded No. | and there will be COM
paratively little No. g 1t is thought that
oats will go about fifty bushels to the
acre.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18

The above was taken from The San
Jose Evening News. The party referred
to cannot be one of the Ringing Broth
ers as they are not drinking men. The
fellow is clearly an imposter. He is
not thoroughly acquainted with the his
tory of the Ringling Brothers circus.
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18
=NoRA CAsAsUs, WIFE OF THE NEW MEXICAN AMBAssAD

Joaquin Casus Mexican ambassador to Washington will
all
he
six
The Mankato free press., 1905-08-18
MISS ANNA HocH SPONSOR OF THE BATTLEsHlp KANSAS.


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prob
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
III.-The Passing of the Indian Type.
Editorial Correspondence

A hundred years ago the Indian held undis-
puted sway over our great Western empire. He
was lord of all that he surveyed Hunting, fight
ing fshing he was undisturbed, and there is to-
day no habitable portion of the earth about which
so little is known as was known about the trans
Mississippi country in 1900. Even the Rocky
Mountains Mr.. Roosevelt tells us in "The Win
nin~ of the West" were not known to exist as
district range until Lewis and Clark made their
exnloriation in 1904.
But the red man and his happy hunting grounds
are gone; only in our books of history and ro-
nance do we know them now, and in the wall of
the tribal troubadour as he sings of his peoples
ancient glory. At the St. Louis Exposition last
year l saw no more pathetic figure than that of
the stolid Indian, a stranger and object of
curiosity in land which but yesterday knew no
habtation save his hunting tent
Blankets, Tomahawks and Feathers Gone.
The great Indian realm of 1834-54 comprising
all Of Nebraska, and Oklahoma, nearly all of
Kansas, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and
nearly half of the Dakotas. has now shrunk to the
comparatively narrow confines of Indian Terri
tOrv and even here the white man outnumbers
him six to In travelling through the Terri
tories one sees more people riding in automobiles
than wearing blankets, and in Muskagee, the very
heart of the Indians present domain, l saw but
one tulI-bood Indian in my stay of several hours.
Had l walked up in the town without knowing
my whereabouts l might easily have believed it to
be Greensboro or Columbia, except possibly for an
indian store-and even here three-fourths of the
clerks white.
NoT does this (to most people) surprising state
ment indicate how complete is the disappearance
ol the Indian of Fenimore Cooper and the dime
novel Mr.. Wm O. Beall, who has been out here
LUZ long time, speaking of this matter, says:
Most people in the East think of an Indian as
REQ req man wrapped in a bright-colored blanket,
Wearing war-bonnet of CAV feathers and carry
boss bs 'Gm9hawk and scalping knife. have
se See IN Indian Territory ten years. and have not
ors sren What IS known as a blanket Indian. There
;e approximately about 900 citizens in the five
b,-ilzeo tribes in the territory. About 5000 of
nese ese are absolutely white, by reason of inter
aIP1aSe' while nearly $4,000 are negroes, who
Tr5oIne The slaves, descendants of slaves. of the
actIam, 1ians, leaving about $4,000 people who are
'O'lE OF Indian blood Approximately one
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
Weekly y-$l a Year.

and blankets he has largely given up, as I have
said but his other childish tastes yet remain He
lets the trader charge him so cents for five
cent plug of tobacco; he spends or wastes his
money fast as he gets it; he works as little as
he can, and his favorite Bible motto would be,
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"
Where the Indians have built good houses they
are often used only one week in six, and I saw
more than one neat cottage which had been de-
serted for shed or a tent Up in the Ponca
tribe, Guthrie told me, the Government
built neatly-painted two-room dwellings,
but alas! in cases the Indians continued to
use the sheds for their families and turned over
the cottages to their ponies.
The Call of the Wild
But you cannot transform race in a day. The
negro's inheritance from his aeons of African
barbarism is still more powerful factor in
shaping his character than is his environment
among the most highly civilized people on earth
But the Indian has lacked the advantage of this
immediate contact with the white man. Suppose
all the families had been scattered over the coun-
try each family under the tutelage of some white
family, how much greater mioht have been the
Indians progress! As it is, what wonder that
"the call of the wild" is still too strong for the
red man? We have all felt it-this desire to shake
off all conventionality and the appurtenances of
civilization and go back to the wild, free life of
the earths first men. You remember how in the
story of 'EBob Son Of Battle" Bob, the highbred
dog, taken to Aalaska by his owners. clung to
them for time. But night after night the un-
tanned dogs of the forest called to him. called him
to the freedom of the far-reachng woods, called
him to the wild, unhampered life of his ancestors
and he yielded So it was with the Illinois
Methodist negro missionary, highly educated,
who went over to Christianize our African tribe
a few years ago. But he, too, yielded to the lure
of the wild, and last spring we had the story of
how he reverted to savagery and become the chief
OF a barbarous tribe.
In spite of schools and churches therefore, we
still have to reckon with the call of the wild, the
Inheritance of ages of savagery, the reversion of
type. Thus railroad told of young
Indian who went to college, acquired excellent
education, and won high rank among his fellows.
But when sickness came he shook off his cloak of
culture, wrapped his head in a blanket, grunted
like an Indian of the plains, and gave no aid to
his physicians Of three Indian girls who went
from one family to the Carlisle Indian School in
PENNSYLVANIA two conducted themselves much
like college-bred white women; the third came
back home forgot her books, put on her Indian
clothes again and choose the primitive life of the
squaw.
Indians and Negroes
have been very much interested in trying to
arrive at a. comparison between the Indian and the
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third of the $4,000 are full-bloods who would
come within the common Eastern designation of
an Indian. The others do not look at all like
Indians"
Dissolving Tribal Relations.
Next year is to see yet another act in this clos
ing drama of the red race. On March 4, 1906,
the tribal relations of the Cherokees, Chickasaws
Greeks. Choctaws and Seminoles are to be dis
solved, and the Indian will be formally absorbed
into that civilization against which he has waged
desperate but unavailing struggle
This means first that the tribal governments
are to be broken up. and second, that each man,
woman and child is to receive his or her share
of the public domain, and will hereafter stand be-
fore the Government not as a ward, but as citi-
For time, however, certain restrictions
will be imposed-such, for example, as that which
forbids the Indian to sell his homestead of forty
acres This allotment has been the work of the
Dawes Commission established in 1893 and which
has had the colossal task of passing the claims
of 250,O0O applicants for portion of the Indians
bounty. Only $4,000 of these-including Indians
of all degrees of blood-have been allowed, and
the Commission will formally complete its labors
July 1st.
Coddling and Killing Indians.
We hear now and then that the Indian is not
now decreasing in numbers, but it looks to
if he is bound to fail rapidly as soon as the arti
fetal support he has had from the Government is
withdrawn This indeed has been a poor prepara-
tion for the hard struggle of everyday life. Take
the Osages for example the richest of the Indian
tribes. Now every individual, young DID, re-
ceives an animity of $4 a month from Washing
tion and as this is than they need, it is
no wonder that it encourages both idleness and
prodiga1ity What will they do when this pension
ceases and each man must depend on his
sources for support?
Half the time we have been killing Indians and
the other half we have been coddling them. The
Pilgrim fathers, told, fell first on their
knees, then the aborigines, but of late-as
President Roosevelt himself has intimated-the
Indians have needed to be saved from Eastern
philanthrophy as well from unscrupulous and
criminally- disposed white men.
The trouble is that most of the philanthrophy
has been of the long-range variety and the phil
anthropists have usually measured up to Edward
Everett Hale's difnition-"a man with long hair
who doesn't know what he's talking about" Near
at home there hasn't been much philanthropy
either of the genuine sort or DR.. Hales. These
traders have known exactly what they are saying
and doing and they have shared literally IN the
Indians spoils-just unscrupulous toy seller
might cheat the eyebrows off of pampered child
of wealth.
Sidelights on Indian Character.
For the Indians may be just aptly termed
child race as the negro. Tomahawks. feathers,
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27

third of the $4,000 are full-bloods who would
come within the common Eastern designation of
an Indian. The others do not look at all like
Indians"
Arizona republican., 1905-07-20
InSuIted by the Chief of
 Police of Moscow
IN ZfMSTVO CONGRESS
The Documents of the Assembly Are Carried off but the Delegates Pro- ceed With g. Discussion of Plans for a Representative Government.

Moscow. July l9-The zemstvo con- gress which opened at midday in the residence of Prince Dolgorukom was attended by 225 delegates. Count Hey den leader of the deputation represent ing the congress recently received by the emperor. presided.
 M COlovine. president of the organ izing committee. had barely started a staten ent dealing with the obstacles placed in the way of the congress, an nouncing that Governor General Ko- seloff had promised that there would be no recourse to extreme measures, when the chief of police with num- erous commissaries and officials en- tered tee room.
 The chief announced that the prefect had prohibited the meeting of the con- gress and ordered the seizure of the documents. Count Heyden protested against the proceedings but the chief of police began taking the names of the delegates. The cries were raised of write down the whole of Russia" Many persons present who were not delegates to the congress requested that their names also be taken. The police then departed in order to draw up summOnses, and the meeting was resumed.
 The scheme of a national assembly on the basis outlined by the committee presided over by M. BouIigan, minis ter of the interior. was minutely and critically discussed and denounced as totally inadequate to remove Russia s internal grievances because, including a property qualification and an cleo -toraI system by classes, it prevented the assembly from truly Interpreting the will of the nation, while the eX- clusion of numerous categories of citi- zens from the franchise was a contra diction of the principles of equity and a reasonable state policy.
 At the same time it was recognized that the proposed assembly would comprise a considerable portion of the social forces Of the empire and serve as the center of a social movement which would tend to secure political liberty and regular national represen- tation. Therefore. it was considered desirable that in the event of the car rying out of the Bouligan or a similar project, the delegates of the zemstvOs and municipalities should participate in the assembly to the greatest pos sibIe extent with the object of form ing a compact group and to obtain guarantees of individual and public liberties.
 r. Numerous resolutions embodying the foregoing criticisms were adopted unanimously, as were also resolutions complaining of excessive administra- tive and police control of elections and insisting that publicity be given to the proceedings of the proposed as sembly, which should be in direct re lations with the emperor. without in reference from the council of the em- pire.
Arizona republican., 1905-07-20
NEW STATE SECRETARY
nr. Root Formally Inducted Into His
 High Office.

Washington, July 19.-Elihu Root of New York was formally inducted into office as secretary of state today and devoted practically all morning and at- ternoon to the consideration of the Venezuelan s:tua ton.
 With Solicitor Penfield, Minister Russell of Venezuela and Wm. J. Cal houn who was recently designated by President Roosevelt to investigate the case of the asphalt claims and conces- sions. the secretary went over the documents and papers on file in the department. with a view of formulating definite instructions to the special commissioner.
 Commissioner Calhoun will have to gather additional information in Wash ington and New York before he is fully equipped to perform the mission for which he has been selected.
Arizona republican., 1905-07-20

heat grew more and more intense. ElV cry ambulance was kept busy and by noon the hospitals were crowded With sufferers.
 At o'clock in the afternoon came the long prayed for relief when ter rife thunderstorm and a deluge of rain burst over Brooklyn and the lower part of Manhattan and sections of New Jersey. In Brooklyn two men were struck by lightning and seriously hurt and in Jersey City one man was killed. While the storm lasted only a few minutes and left the upper part of the city untouched, relief was al most instantaneous and from then on. the mercury fell steadily, and cool breeze springing up, sundOwn gave as surance of comfortable night.
 Even the seashOre resorts in the vicinity of New York did not escape the heat, and many prOstrations oc- cured among tEe thousands that fiocked to Coney Island ana other beaches on the Long Island shore.
 Among the distressing incidents of day was the killing of her infant in Brooklyn by a young woman who was suddenly driven insane by the heat. She stabbed the child to death and then made q vain attempt on her own life.
 Leonard Sanders. a cOlored man from New Haven went mad in the public park in cast One Hundred and Thir- tieth street and leaped into the river from the Harlem bridge. He was Ies- cued by boatmen after Q fierce struggle in which he upsel the boat and nearly drowned his rescuers.
 Several deaths reported were those of. persons who had fallen while asleep from fire escapes where they were en- deavOIing to escape the stifling at mosphere of the crowded tenements. With I5O bodies in the cold storage room at the city morgue, the refriger- ating system was found to be out of order today, and it was necessary to resort to the use of tons of ice, in which the bodies were packed, and fifty bodies were hurriedly shipped to
 Among the results of the heat was the sudden closing of the Herald Square theater where "The Rollicking GhT' was being performed. For the first time the New York City Railroad company issued a general order per hitting all motOrmen and conductors to remove their coats while on duty during the heated term. Almost all the men availed themselves of the pri- vilege.
 In order to save all who might fall into the hands of the police after court hours. the torment of a night in she station house. the police magistrates made arrangements to accept bail for prisoners at any hour during the night during the heated term.
 Suffering among animals during the day was intense, hundreds of horses. many of which died. being prostrated. An extraordinary mortality among cats and dogs. of which hundreds of bodies were picked up in the streets, was reported by the police.
 Throughout New York state severe thunderstorms with rain and high winds served to moderate the heat. In Albany Q heavy storm in the afternoon caused a fall in the temperature from g. to 70 within five minutes. There was no case of prostratiOn.
 Six deaths due to the heat and thir- ty prostrations were reported in Con necticut In Boston one death was re- ported, due to the heat.
Arizona republican., 1905-07-20
WRECKED THE WRONG TRAIN.
Passengers on the Southern Pacific
 Had a Narrow Escape.

New Orleans. July 19.-TwO hun dred lives were saved from probable death this morning at Landry. La. when an attempt was made to wreck the fast mail train from the Pacific coast on the Southern Pacific. The passenger train was delayed and 9 freight train put on its time. The freight dashed through the open switch, smashing twelve cars and the locomotive, killing William Wheeler, the engineer, and injuring two other trainmen.
 The train wreckers according to the statements of the Southern Pacific of ficials, broke open the switch, turned it for the siding, pulled down the switch light and placed it in the cen ter of the main track. Had the pas senger train been running on it's reg ular time it would have passed this point at a speed of fifty miles an hour. and would have been demolished The train came into New Orleans with more than 200 passengers, who knew nothing of their escape from death.
Arizona republican., 1905-07-20
A CRIME BRED CRIME
An Attempt to ASsassinate the Vice
 Governor of inland.

HelsingfOrs, Finland, July 19.-Late this afternoon, two hours after Karl Leonard HohenthaI had been sentenc- ed to Imprisonment for life at hard labor for the assassination of PTocur- ator General Soisalon Soininen on February 6, last an attempt was made to assassinate Vice Governor Deurtch as he was leaving the senate. The vice governor had walked across the square when suddenly as he neared the police masters office, a man on the curb threw bomb from q dis tance of fifty paces. The bomb fell short, but the vice governor was blown off his feet by the terrific force of the explosion which shattered windows in the neighborhood for a distance Of hundreds of yards
 Vice Governor Deurtch was hastily assisted to the police station. He was burned and otherwise injured about the legs and bled prOfusely, but his wounds are declared not to be ia tai. The bomb thrower was pursued by naval cadets but escaped.