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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
PROSPECTIVE COAL STRIKE.

Again U1e american people are
confronted by one the great
dangers of private monopoly of a
public necessity. The coal trust
and the coal miners union are
clashing on the wage scale and
the prospects at present are that
another great coal strike will
begin April /. The workmen in
sist that on account of the rise in
the cost of living they are en-
titled to a higher scale of wages.
The coal trust is in a position
where it would gain by'a strike,
even if in the end it will have to
grant the request of the workers.
1t has a large surplus of coal on
hand, which it will be able to dis
pose of at a much higher rate
than the present one in case of a
strike, and the scarcity of coal
will enable them to charge more
for what's mined after the strike.
And the raise in price will be per-
manent, as was the case after the
last strike. The workers will
lose an immense sum in wages
but may make up a part of that
in the future. The other party,
the public, has nothing to say in
ordering or preventingthe strike,
but it will eventually have to pay
the whole cost and then some
extra for the operators. Is this
justice? Is it right that the
great wealth deposited by nature
for the use of man should be
monopolized by a few, and that
the consumer should be a help
less victim in the strife between
two monopolies?
During the last coal strike there
was a great deal of talk about
government ownership of coal
mines, and it even went so far
that the New York state demo.
cratic convention adopted a plank
to that effect. The talk subsidized
when the strike was settled, but
should another strike be inaugu-
rated it is certain that the talk
will be renewed with greater
vigor than ever and lead to some
decisive action. The people can
not much longer submit to being
taxed SO heavily for an absolute
necessity of life. They cannot
afford to pay treble damages for
all losses caused by the strife be-
tween a ruthless monopoly and
organized labor. they will have
to resort to a strike too-the
most effective strike, at the ballot
box.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

To be considered for a state Office
and often for a minor county Office,
the question of nationality first comes
up. The Swedish Americans, Nor
wegian Americans, German Ameri-
cans, Irish Americans, etc., must be
provided for and by that time the
supply of offices has run out and the
American American gets left.-Breck-
enridge Telegram.
Whom do you mean by Ameri.
can Americans? Are only those
Americans whose ancestors
came over in the Mayhower?
Where can you draw the line?
Anyone born in America is an
American, just as truly so if his
parents came over on the Cam
pania as if his great great grand
father came over the ocean in a
small shell of a sailing vessel. If
an American is of German, Irish
or of whatever extraction he has
a right to be proud of the better
characteristics of his race and is
a fool if he is ashamed of his an
cestry. The above expressed re-
greet that the "American Ameri-
can has not secured as much
political recognition as their num-
bers entitle them to is exactly
on par with the nationality racket
used with other classes of citi-
zens.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

ken dollars for Teller like Boney,
when we hev thowsends of jest ez
wurthless fellers rite hear in Amerika
tibet kan be bawt for less than half the
valew of the smawlest ralerode ynr
father ever stoal. Why, we hev seve-
rel fellers rite hear in Willmar' tibet ar
jest ez wurthless ez Boney and ez thay
never he'd emmy kreddit thay hev no
big detts to pay. Boney may be a
kownt, but from what hev hurd of
him he il a reggeler nokownt TELLER.
l don't begrudj Anna a kostly play
thing, but I think tibet ez awl her mon
ny waz stoal in this kountry it awt in
awl fareness to be spent hear"
George roat back and: sed I waz rite,
but he sed, ''Yu no Anna waz awlwaze
sot in her waze. We hev doods enuff
hear tibet emmy doktor will garantee ez
being jest ez frea from branes ez b.
ney IL, but Anna SEE she must hev
sumone with ancestors. Thet il the
trubbel with owr Ameriken doods.
Thay kan ekshibbit thare phoolishness
in ez NANNY waze ez the mOast aristo-
krattik European dood, but thay hev
no ancestors to speek of. A man hoos
immediate ancestors stoal ralerodes
and tellygraf lines or other bricky-
brack izzent in it with man hoos an
sestors a Thousand yeers ago put on
biz fern dress SCOT and went owt and
robbd sum merchants passing throo
biz kow pastewr. I think my father
waz a bigger and moar. sucksessfull
robber than emmy of, Boney's ansest-
ors, but ez he diddent ware an fern
dress SCOT and livd q thowsand- yeers
ago hiz deeds refekt no glory on US.
So Anna IL deturmind to buy five mill
yum dollers' wurth of ancestry in or
der to be in the hite OF ~stile. II it
wood stop with the FIVE millyun 1 wood
not zeal so bad abowt it. But I am
.afrade tibet Boney will do up her hoal
fortewn and boiler for moar. >Iftimes
waz ez thay ewsd to be I kood maik it
up by hooking sum. moar ,ralerodes,
but the way Morgan, Rockefeller,
Hartman and Rogers ar going it
am afrade thare wont be mulch of tibet
stuff lying arownd loos for me. in the
neer fewtewr.' .>.=
Time hez proovd tibet George and
me wsz rite il owr prognostikayshuns.
:Boney wazzent mulch e., q husband,
taken ez a hoal, but when she fownd
she he'd to shair him with sum. other.
wimmen she struck. She sed tibet .
five millyun doller husband waz too
kostly to loan owt to the nay burs, and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

do not come up to the requirements
stated above the better it will be for
the farmer 4:*#
.1s One thing is certain, and that is that
the farmers will never reach q very
profitable stage Of dairying as long
as they try to produce dairy COW
that will please the cattle buyer and
the butcher. They must look to other
teachers to learn how to raise profit
able dairy COWS. -
If stock buyer or butcher buys
COW from farmer to make money
on it then the farmer raises and milks
that cow to lose money. There is not
profit in the dairy COW for both the
buyer and the seller, and as rule it
is the farmer who raises the COW that
is the loser.
Select sires whose dam has a high
butter record, give good care to your
dairy COWS, test and Gull out all that
do not reach q standard of profit, no
matter what the butcher or cattle buy
er advises.
The only dual purpose COW is the
one that leaves profit to the cattle
buyer and the butcher at the farmers
expense, as has been thoroly proven
in the last fifteen years..
Intelligent breeding and care will
double the butter product of the
creameries, with the same number of
COWS. Is this not worth striving for?
I think it is.
HAMLIN V. POORE.
Orchard Home Farm, Feb. 5, 1906.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

The man who pushes his bust
ness, advertises judiciously and
backs up his advertisements with
the goods does not stand on the
street corners and howl for sa-
looms to bring business. He is
too busy in attending to his
customers to indulge in any such
antics.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
c. A,bakIund
The Photographer
WILLMAR

was injured in a saloon fight in Min
neapolis last Saturday night. j.
G. Peterson, former manager of the
mill here, but now of Estevan, Cana
da, was a guest of the Monson broth
ers a few days recently The Leba-
non Y. P. S. will debate the question
of municipal ownership Feb 27.....
Mrs. Ida Curry and Mrs. Oscar Lar
son of Willmar Sundayed with Mr..
and Mrs. B. Bredberg.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

Some saloon men are threaten
ing to leave Willmar because the
climate is too dry. Such losses
are more than Offset by the num-
Der of people who locate here be-
cause Willmar is clean town.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

The editor has been credited
with having political aspirations
for the coming general election.
Suffice it to say that political
preferment figures the least in
his plans for the future.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

The entire tax rate-school,
city, county and state-in Will
mar is only four mills higher
than the school tax in some vii
lagos in the state. Have we any
reason to complain of high taxes
in comparison with such places.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

Thru Tourist Car Service to California
via Chicago Great Western Railway.
Cars leave Minneapolis and St Paul
on four days of the Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
For full information apply to j. P.
Elmer, G. P. A. St. Paul, MINI. 1889
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
To Whom It NAV Concern.

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned will not be responsible
for any debts or bills charged to the
undersigned and contracted by any
person who has not the written
authority to charge said undersigned
with the same.
5l2p ERICK NICHOLSON.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
Real Estate Transfers.
TOWN OF ARCTANDER.

Feb.-Fingal Helgeson to Norwa1 Helge-
son, neA OF swA. sec. ! Z: VIE of neA, nwA
neA, sec. 80, town of Norway Lake, $4,000.
TOWN OF BURBANK.
Feb-GudmundA A. Odland to Carl A. knut-
son, VIZ of nwA, Sec and e1@ of ne14, Sec.
6, 1868 a.. $500.
VILLAGE OF KANDIYOHI.
Feb. 6.-Angell l.. Herbst to Carl E. Kroo-
ma, lots to 10, bl. 6, $3.50.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

THE TRIBUNE completes it's
eleventh volume with this num-
Der.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

Picture frames and Framing
to order to suit the most fastidious
tastes. Carefully selected to match
pictures. G. A. Baklund's
43tf. Photo Studio.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
Wooden SujtInRs,

[ have on hard a lot of wooden suit
ings, both light and heavy, all good
quality, that I wish to dispose of.
Will sell very cheap in order to clear
out the whole stock. Call at nv home
in New London, one block north of
depot. AxEL WALQU1sT. soap
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14

It's testimonial the
foreign letter
lay BY permission, the letter.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
One Way Cofonist Rates via Chicago
Great Western Railway

To points in Arkansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. For
full information apply to J. P. Elmer,
G. P. A., St. Paul, MINI. 485
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
"Dead Gu1ch Scotty" Outdone
Swedish Farmers, Alarmed at the Threats of Some Arrant
Braggart Appeal to Judge Nordin to Put Stop to
dangerous Characters Career in America.

the most amusing things that Judge
received through
Dalarne, Sweden 1t
America ) character
honest farmers his follows
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
UnIoue-PoIIte Vaudeville.

A unique and highly interesting act is
presented by the ''Rialto Comedy Four
at the Unique theater this week. They
give a short sketch in which there Is some
real humor cleverly handled and along en-
tirely new lines. The team Is unusually
versatile, introducing several good song
selections and dancing numbers in their
part of the program.
Ted e. Box, an ;old=sty1e English come
dian with new ideals, Is a clever enter
tanner and we'll received, while May Neil
son made a hit with her Irish songs and
stories. She has an excellent voice and
shows good taste in her selections Gill
Than and Brocee present a skit called
THE Comedian and the Dancing Girl, ,
in which they give several good singing
and dancing specialties. Frank Bur,
gives musical speciality that Is high
class and original, and Harold Beckro ant
Herman La Fleur2sing: their customary
illustrated song L -
a series Of moving pictures showing thu
adventures OF an, American farmer II
Paris Is ne of the best parts Of a show
that iszcIean and original turnout
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
The Seed Trains.

The good-seed trains that the rail-
roads Of the northwest will send out
this year will leave Minneapolis in
midwinter and not at the opening Of
spring. Elsewhere in r he Journa
appears the first announcement. Trains
will start out on the 22d and Goth. Jan
uary is the month in which the farmer
has perhaps less to do than in any other,
and there is little doubt that the lee
lures will be largely attended, and the
doctrine Of good seed brought home
again to many thousands.
The fact that the railroads are at it
again shows pretty conclusively that
they found it beneficial last year.
There is not only the work in the states
of Minnesota, North and South Dakota
to judge by, but the seed trains Of
Iowa and their benefits are to be con-
sidered. The effect of the visit of a
corps Of lecturers to town is to tone
up the spirit Of the community. Good
farming is the subject dwelt upon. Not
merely to be a farmer, to make the
land work to it's utmost and consider
that all has been done, but to conserve
the strength and productivity Of the
soil from year to year, to understand
the land and its needs, and the theory
and practice of the combination of
good land and good seed, that, with
favorable weather, make the bountifu
harvest. Even the farmer who dees
not need specific instruction as to how
or how to select good seed corn, goes
away from lecture benefited by the
general spirit of the work and deter
mined to be q better farmer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
City News
EFFORT TOCHECK DISEASE
CITY METEOROLOGICAL DEPART
MENT is RAPIDLY GROWING
INTO ONE OF coUNTRY's BEST.

Five new stations for the collection
of diphtheria cultures and sputa boxes
were designated today by DIR. p. M.
Hall, commissioner of health, at the
following stores: J. O. Peterson, Wash
ington and Fifteeneth avenues s.; Tup-
per G Chamberlain, Tenth street and
Eight avenue s; Gormley & Moran,
2401 Central avenue; Robertson Drug
company, 1921 Washington avenue N,
nue. N. This gives the health depart
ment eighteen. stations for the
collection of cultures and will assist
greatly in expediting the work of the
psychological department.
This department is growing rapidly
in Importance and will soon be estab-
lished on proper basis. When the
new quarters Of the health depart
ment are ready for occupancy, Mime
apolis will have one of the most com.
plete and modern meteorological labor
atories in the country for its size. At
present the archaeological work is con-
fined largely to the diagnosis of diph-
iberia and tuberculosis and the analy-
sis Of water, but it is hoped to extend
the scope of the department when the
new laboratory is completed.
DR.. Hall is much pleased with the
manner IN which the physicians of the
city are assisting in the work Of re-
stricting the spread of tuberculosis.
They are prompt to report cases and
secure sputa and to keep the depart
ment informed Of the progress Of dis
ease. The work is done in the most
| quiet manner possible and there is no
| publicity at any stage.
The examination Of tuberculosis spu-
| tum began two years ago this month.
| In the first year, 800 sputum tests
were made. In 1904 there were $50
examinations made and during the past
year the number has grown to 66S.
These figures speak well for the. inter
est the physicians are taking in the
| work
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
Meat in Foreign Countries.

The bulletin of the agricultural de-
partment dealing with 'meat in for
eign countries'' calls attention. to the
fact that there has been no general
revision Of tariffs since the early nineties
and ventures the prediction that 1906
will prove to be notable tariff year
in Europe. The most recent tariff
changes have been made by Switzer-
land, Russia, Germany and Austro-H Hun
gary. Few of these tariffs shave yet
gone into effect, but 50 far as meats are
concerned they all carry considerable
advances over the rates they supersede.
At the present time all the principal
European countries, except Spain and
France, admit the meat products of the
United States on equal terms with other
countries. Cuba gives us a preferen-
tial tariff!
But alleged sanitary arrangements
cut a large figure in the meat export
ing business. These work both for and
against the United States. Great
Britain, for. example, has totally pro-
hibited the importation Of live cattle
from Argentina, our great South Ameri-
can competitor, while she admits them
from this country without special re.
strietions Germany on the other hand
prohibits the importation Of canned
beef, live cattle and fresh beef. These
I prohibitions hit this country the hard
est. ~ @ss
IT, ,+r 1I>x
cages in trade with countries which are
using their tariffs to break down ours
the beef industry Of the. United States
is making substantial progress, great
er progress than that Of any other coun
try. Canada, our only competitor from
North America, has made no important
increases III the export of cattle, beet
or beef products, in the past. five years
Australia has fallen off owing to tax
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
Street Grading.

A member of an eastern firm of sta
tisticians who has been in the city
looking up some municipal matters is
quoted in the Tribune as eriticizing the
method of making assessments in ad-
vance for public improvements. It is
a pity the Tribune did not give the
gentleman S name, since he made some
very apt criticisms of the present Mime.
apolis charter. One of the most inequit-
able things in it is making the people
of a ward pay for all the grading of
streets within that particular artificial
entity when the streets are for the
general use of the public. The outly-
ing wards have higher tax rate than
the inside wards because they are com
PEELED to use the maximum amount for
the ward funds. Even then the ward
funds are pitifully small for the work
to be done.
The opening and grading of streets
should be made a combined charge
against the abutting property and a
general grading fund raised by a spe
cial levy on the whole city and spent
z ,uuQcf tne ulTeCGlOu OIL GQe ClIy GuSl-
neer. In nine cases out Of ten the
abutting property should bear con-
siderable part Of the burden. The adj
justment should be left to commissions
ers who would award the percentages to
be paid by the abutting property and
the city.
The. ward funds are now administered
by the aldermen thru the street com
missioners. It is an expensive system
the wages of superintendent being en-
tirely out Of proportion to the tota
amount expended. The funds them
selves are inadequate; the aldermen
serve first the loudest-talking constitu
ents, and hurry their crews about
from one point to another in the
hope Of keeping them all quiet ant
sweet against election day. The conse
4 quence is that the streets in the resi-
dence wards are a patchwork.
These are interesting financial topics
but their discussion is purely academic
SO long as we cannot have new char
ter, and we probably cannot have tina
until the public-service corporations arr
willing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
Tuesday Evening,

destructive droughts; Argentina has
been obliged to fall back on the refrig-1
Grated beef business Of the La Plata;
Russia, which might become a competi-
tor for the eastern European trade, has
very poor class of cattle, and the
peasants have no capital with which to
fatten them for the market. The re-
cent tariff arrangement made between
Germany and Russia may in a few
years improve the aspect of the Russian
export business. but it will be long be-
fore Russia will be competitor Of this
country. At the present time Russia s
exports of beef, including poultry, are
only about one-fftieth Of those Of the
United States.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09

When Mayor Jones told the interna-
tional convention of Bricklayers and
Stonemasons yesterday about the putting
on of the lid in Minneapolis, his remarks
were greeted with prolonged applause.
The demonstration of approval was high
ly significant. This isn't the first time
organizations of workingmen have i'm
proved the opportunity to let the mayor
know that they are in sympathy with his
Sunday closing policy, In fact, no class
Of business men have been more frank
and fearless in their expression of APP
prevail of the Sunday closing policy. So
far as the workingman is concerned, it
issssteo late to plead for open Sunday
saloon on his account. Evidently he
doesn't want it. There are those who
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
ADJUSTMENTS
Metropolitan Texas steer

StSoii s0Is-' - - cNa8 SISSFss'sstfs
A good old play is far better than. a
mediocre new one, as Tim Murphy has
learned, Tor he has wisely gone back to
the vehicle OF his early success. "A Texas
Steer. The play is Just as funny now as
Is was when 1t was written. we'll, never
mind how many years ago. The role Of
Maverick Brander, the Texas cattle king,
who was elected to congress-, willy nilly,
fits Mr.. Murphy like a glove, and he Is
the typical representative from the rural
districts, good natured, hot tempered, a
bit suspicious, but easily Influenced, and
with a sense of humor that enables him
to appreciate fully his experiences in
Washington He is amazed and mad
when he returns from Mexico and learns
Of his election. He accepts the honor
only at the point of the pistol and It Is In
much the same spirit that he goes to
Washington, where his feeling of rebellion
and resentment is soon lost In a quiet
enjoyment Of the privileges of con-
gresham and the hope that he may soon
join the greatest club on earth, the
United States senate" ra5
MIR. Murphy Is aided by a splendid
company. Miss Dorothy Sherrod is a
charming Bossy, breezy and independent
IN Texas. Where she surprises her faith
er by purchasing the voters in his dis
triot at SIS each just because she wants
to see something of Washington life But
Texas and Washington are very very diff
ferent and the knowledge of her igno-
| rance of social conventions makes hel
proud and sensitive. When she realizes
that her fance, Captain Bright, IL
ashamed Of her she breaks her engage.
| ment, but she is too honestly frank not
| to send for him and confess her mistake
| when she learns thru a visit of three o.
her fathers constituents what one car
suffer thru well-meaning. but ignoran
Texans William L. Gibson was a very
| manly lover and his feeling in regard t.
Bossy's yellow gown with it's red ant
blue trimmings was within the under
standing Of everybody
Adolph Jackson was capital as Colone
Brassy Gall, the member Of the s"thirt
house." always resourceful and Away
gentlemanly, very gentlemanly. j. r
Armstrong, Douglas Jones and James F
Maher, who form the committee sent t.
Washington to investigate Brander's ca
reer, are typical Texans in manner, tenn
per and appetite. The Mrs Brander O
! Mrs. Aubrey Powell cleverly showed tn
| transformation Of the hospitable countr
woman into the ambitious mother unde
the influence of a year in Washington
The other parts are equally we'll taker
SO that altogether the performance Q
"A Texas Steer's is quite as enjoyabl
now as 1t was when Mr.. Murphy first in
troduced Maverick Brander to an appre
ciative public. Il. r. s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-09
PROPOSED ALASKA EXPOSITION

Godfrey Chealander, the author Of the
proposition to hold an Alaskan exposi-
ton In Seattle in 1907 to celebrate the
fort1eth anniversary of Alaska's annexa-
ton, was born in Sweden thirty seven
years ago and came to this country
when II years of age. He has travelled
widely in Alaska, knows the resources Of
this vast and rich province and has
taken an active part in the building Of
the far northwest -