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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-10
Outside of Nels getting his eyebrows
and hair well scorched no material
damage was done.
UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND JAILED.
Fred. Briske, Who Hoped with May
Hall, Arrested and jailed.

Sheriff Schueller brot up Fred.
Briske from Walnut Grove on Tues
day of last week, the prisoner being
held for running away with the Hall
girl couple Of months ago. Briske
had the gall to return and play the
penitent. but the father of the girl
would not stand for the outrage.
The Walnut Grove Tribune gives
the particulars of the examination:
"A complaint was lodged against
Fred Briske last week by William
Hall, the father of the girl. This
complaint was made before Justice
Weeks and constable C. N. McDo-
maid brought the man from Tracy
and put him in custody in the village
jail.
'The case was called up before
justice Weeks the 18th for hearing,
but was adjourned on the plea of the
defendant that he needed time to
obtain counsel and to summon wit
nesses. The matter was again brot
up before justice Weeks on Monday
July lst, at 8 a. M, with county at
torney Owens for the state and SEN
ator Frank Clague for the defense.
''The girl in question, Daisy May
Hall, is under 16 years of age, and
the complaint against Briske was
that he had unlawfully taken away a
female under Is years of age. The
defendant is about Is years old, is
married and has two children. His
wife was present at the hearing.
VIM. Hall, the father of the girl.
was examined, as was also Mrs. Sire
ator, confidential friend of May
Hall. Ben Brlske, brother of tn
defendant testified that he had with
out success urged the clipping couple
to return, but they were bent on
seeing the matter through. The
girl seemed to be an impulsiye,. gid
dy thing and did not appear to rea-
lize how foolishly she had acted,
The father on the other hand seemed
to be in dead earnest and be very
much affected by the conduct of his
daughter.
Justice Weeks conducted the
hearing in an orderly and dignifed
manner, and at the same time took
down the proceedings Of the same.
When the evidence was all in-at g
O'Clock in the afternoon Senator
Clague, as counsel for the defend,
ant moved that the defendant be
dismissed on the ground that the
complaint did not PIT in negative
specification stating that Fred
Briske and Daisy May Hall were not
man and wife
''This motion was over-ruled by
Justice Weeks, who bound him over
at the penal sum of $4,000 for his
appearance before the grand jury
THE defendant could not furnish
sufficient bail so he was committed
to be kept in custody in the county
Jail.
Those who have followed this
sad affair and attended the hearing
before the justice, feel satisfied with
the outcome.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-10

Morgan Messenger: While burn
ing off a mantle on one of the gas
lights in Nels Jenson's store last
Thursday, the blase caught in the
trimmings in one of the display
windows and for moment raised
havoc, burning the entire trimmings
in the window. Nels Rams proved
himself to be hero by fighting with
the blaze and soon extinguished it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-10
BURGLARS SENTENCED.

Attorney Stuart of Window won
out in his whirlwind prosecution of
the Bingham Lake robbers, one of
them pleading guilty and getting
his sentence shortened year on
that account. Judge Brown gave
the other man, Whyte, the highest
sentence allowed by statute for the
crime-ten years Chester, the other
man, getting nine years. County
Attorney Stuart has earned repu-
tatlon as an unusually shrewd detec-
tive as well as an invincible prose-
cutting attorney. We quote an Incl
dent showing this fact as related in
the Window Reporter:
Zone of the strongest points in
the case made by Mr.. Stuart was his
relation of two pieces of paper.
During the introduction of evidence
on the part of the state Mr.. Stuart
introduced in evidence without OBJ
lection a piece of paper found in the
grip. At the time no one saw the
materiality of it, beyond showing
what was in the grip. When the
prisoner was searched at St. James
a cake of soap was found on his
person, wrapped in a piece of paper.
The soap and paper were introduced
in evidence and on cross examina-
ton the prisoner admitted that the
soap and paper were his and taken
from him by the officer at St. James.
In his argument Mr.. Stuart laid the
two pieces Of paper before the jury,
showing that one piece was torn
from the other, and the pieces fitted
together with perfect nicely, thus
clinching the chain of evidence con-
Meeting the prisoner with the grip
beyond even a possible doubt, estab-
fishing his guilt.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-10

The Scientific American gives this
receipt which the whole world ought
to know: At the first indication of
diptheria in the throat of the child
make the room close, take tin cup
and put in a quantity of tar and tur-
pentine, equal parts. Then hold the
cup over fire so as to fill the room
with the fumes. The little patient
on inhaling the fumes, will cough up
and spit out all the membraneous
matter and the diphtheria will pass
out. The fumes Of the tar and tur-
pentine loosens the matter in the
throat and thus affords the relief
that has baff1ed the skill of physi-
clans.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
AS THE BOY UNDERSTOOD.
Probably to His Mind Conflict Of Az
thority Was Vital.

In one of the Atlanta Sunday schools
recently the lesson for the day had tc
do with Mammon and the corrupting
influences of great riches.
Toward the close Of the exercises,
says Harper's Magazine, the superin.
tendent called upon the infant class
to repeat the golden text, which had
special reference to mans inability to
serve his Creator and the money god
at one and the same time. The class
failed to respond as it should, when
the superintendent, noticing his own
young hopeful in the ranks, who had
that very morning been drilled thor
oughly on the text, called to him. The
response was immediate, though a
Slight departure from the original, for
IN a voice that was distinctly heard in
all parts of the room there came the
following modification:
"Ye cannot serve God and mammal"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16

benevolent, religious and educationa
institutions in the country.
This enormous annual loss MO ~
sustaining and maintaining nv loo,,
OF national foresight and of conooio,,s
conceive supervision that fosters tbe
stosSeSt and most serious public in.
jury by the unjust distribution of IN.
comes among the different sooia,
ciasses-the average income for ex,
ample, of professional criminals hoinr
more than three times that Of honest
factory wage earners; the AVERAGE n
come OF prostitutes three times that
ol pubic school teachers, and tho
average income of saloonkeeners moro
IMAM oO per cent. greater than that If
college teachers" "
III ADDITION to his own researcboo
Fro1. Bushnell cites CT different nri
nate and government publications AZ
authorities for the figures he givos
and the conclusions reached. He cboI'
,ehses anyone to disprove a Statement
ne mas made regarding the subject ~
lne cost OF pauperism, vice and crime
VI the causes producing the startling
array OF facts he displays.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16

accurate estimate, but the annual ma.
tlonal loss from that source must be at
ieast twice that from professional
crime. This class consists of an
ohgarchy composed of three classes
Saloonkeepers, gamblers and Others
VINO engage in business that degrades.
contractors, capitalists, bankers and
others who can make money by get
ung franchises and other property of
the community cheaper by bribery
'han by paying the community; poll.
tlclans who are willing to seek and AZ.
cept office with the aid and indorse.
ment of the classes already mentioned
These three classes combine and get
control of the party machine, nomi.
nate and elect men who will agree 70
help them rob the city and state for
the benefit of themselves, and who
VIII agree, also, not to enforce the
laws IN regard to the various bust.
nesses that degrade community"
Strike Weapon ineffective,
After reviewing the labor conditions
OF the country and their resultant
strikes and lockouts, costing in 1909
Dr. Bushnell says, $4,000, 900 in loss
u wages and profits, he continues:
Heroic, though often misguided, as
AVE been the industrial struggles of
ne labor unions for better wages and
wing conditions, they are beginning
be less successful with the methods
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
SETTING THE BRIDE AT EASE.
"W'dder's" Sympathy Went Out 10
Fellow Passenger.

A couple recently married had Just
entered the train that was to bear
them to the mountains on their honey.
moon, when they became aware of the
close scrutiny of them by female pas
senger who had evidently Spotted" a
bride and groom. The young wife on
opening her handbag, let fall some
rice on the floor, and the woman
smiled. The other passengers regard.
ed the couple with interest. Seeing
that the bride was every moment be.
coming more flushed and uncomfort.
able by reason of their scrutiny, the
woman in the goodness Of her heart
leaned across the carriage.
Never mind, my dear!" she said
I'm a wilder now, but by this time
next week III be in the same fix nv.
self"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
Social Rank,

AT country dance in a southern
town, when the fiddlers had resinej
their bows and taken their places on
the platform, the floor manager rose.
Got yo' partners for a cotillion," he
shouted, imperiously.
All you ladies an gemmen dat
wears shoes an stockings take yo'
places in de middle OBJ de room Al
you ladies an gemmen dat wears
shoes an no stockings take you places
immeJltly benin dem. An you hare.
rooted crowd jest jig it roun' in do
corners. youths Communion
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16

run down from $50 to 125 pounds.
was having terrible pain in the kid.
neys, and the secretions passed almost
inYoluntarily. Ny left leg swelled I'm.
I'll it was "a inches around and the
doctor tapped it night and morning
until l could no longer stand it, and
then he advised amputation. Irefused,
and began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
The swelling subsidized gradually, the
urine became natural and all my pains
and aches disappeared. | have been
well now for nine years since using
Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
No, Not as a Rule.

george p Angel, Boston's brilliant
and powerful defender of animals from
cruelty, was talking about natnre
taking. "'u'
MY friend, Will Long is no nature
iaker' ne said, but admit that many
VI our myriad nature writer's are
tnese mems idea of lie seems too
closely to resemble that of little bow
know. e 'oy
The boys teacher said from ber
desk one afternoon:
1 want every pupil who has never
told lie to hold up his hand"
There was doubtful pause. Two
or three hands were raised. Then NV
little friend piped out:
It out?" nluS
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
NO RELIEF FROM ECZEMA
TUT over TWO Years-Patent Medi.
cInes, oaack Cures and Doctors
FaII-Cuticura Succeeds.

1 was very badly afflicted with ecze.
ma Tor more than two years. The
parts affected We're my limbs below
the Knees. l tried all the physicians
IN the town and some in the surround.
ing towns. and 1 also tried all the pat.
ent remedies that heard of besides
all the cures advised by old women
ana Quacks, and found no relief what.
ever until l commenced using the On.
t,cura Soap Cuticura Ointment, and
Cuticura Resoltent. In the Cuticura
remedies l found immediate relief
and was soon sound and well. c. Y
beltz, Iippecanoe, Ind, Nov. Is, 'O5"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
The Size of Hin,

fes'' snarled the eminent Octo.
pus VINO had just had returned to him
VIVA, "nat Shakespeare sarcastically called
TRASH This is my purse, and the
contents $l,143.09, are intact; but il
- tnree days, seven hours and nine.
Teen minutes since l lost it. Where
is my interest, young man; where is
my rest?''-Puck -
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
No Doubt About II.

Kind Father-My dear, if you want
a good husband, you just marry Mr.
Goodboy. | am quite sure that he is
really devoted to you.
The Girl am truly glad to hear
you say SO, papa. But are you quite,
quite sure?
Kind Father-Positive, my love, pos.
tive. I've been borrowing money of
him for six months, and he still keeps
coming here, so it's all right, it's all
right. He loves you!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
Catarrh and Headache

Mrs. 4. E. Goforth, PIG Holly street,
Kansas City, writes: After using a
sample bottle and two 25c bottles of
hunts lightning Oil. | am almost well
OF Catarrh. 1t stops my headaches.
1t is the best medicine ever saw and
| just can't keep house without it."
She is right.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16

wars at the same time and all tn,
time against innocent humanity. l
all these casualties We're every yea,
condensed into one day, or even irto E
week, we would soon put a st6D tC
them, but because they are diffused
IN time and space we stupidity and
crimlnally allow them to go on.
The vast majority of these acct
dehts occur among the working
classes, and European statistics show
that among these classes 80 per cent
OF all accidents cause the families of
the injured to be thrown upon public
charity. Soldiers suffer because thew
are professional destroyers. but the
members of this great industrial army
are struck down every year in this
country because they are producers
Ihls IS the price they have to nav for
the privilege of earning their bread
and serving civilization.
Crime and Vice.
With the growing industrial disor.
der is associated a startling recent in.
crease IN crime and vice. Suicides
nave increased in the 10 years from
1880 TO 1903 more than five times as
last as the population. Murders and
homlcldes in the 20 years between
1919 and 1904 have increased more
nan three times as fast as the nonu.
alton. Even making allowance for the
greater tulness of recent records,
learly 5000 suicides and 900 murders
occurring in 1904, and 10000 in 1906
not good record. Their growth
las Deen almost steady, showing il is
ot the resultant of accidental causes
ut OF some sinister evil in the nation
mich is steadily working increasing
'rong. {
"Ot professional criminals, such as {
urglars, foOtpads, gamblers and other I
ROCKS, there are now known and es- c
mated to be some 100000 in the r
getting an average income l
lch of perhaps $500 a year, and d
luslng an additional national expense +
T ponce protection, to say nothing of \
IRA expense for locks, safes, alarms Il
c. OF $2,OOO,OOO more, making p
tai annual loss to the nation from g
IS source, more than counterbalanc- m
g the value of all our annual OK. Oh
rts OF manufactures, or nearly equal al
the annual running expenses of all tn
r churches, benevolent institutions
bic schools, institutions of higher
ncatlon and home missions of every So
3D. ~,
Political Grafters. W,
or unprofessional crime in busi. co
IS and politics, in the form Of de
aft it is impossible to make an raj
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
Awful Warnino.

ra-fes' my son; the Egyptians
were the most intellectual people IN
ene lace OF the earth at one time. but
nnally the nation decayed. '0'
decay, pa? u 'nen 70
,, ra-smoking too many EGYPTIAN
cigarettes, my son. p'i'i
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16

says: Il had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time l was mus
tered out of the army,
but in all my life l
never suffered as in
1897. Headaches, dir
illness and sleepless-
ness, first, and then
dropSy. l was weak
and helpless, having
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
Lucky, Then.

Mrs. Benham-I got il for -
cents yard.
hehham-lsn't 10 an unlucky mum.
Mrs Benham-Not when It is
marked down from IA.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
Hun1anity's lnaratjtud.

Lie gives US SO many beaitifu,
1 wonderful joys and rewards, IT'S
sur ,t. we cannot more bravely bear
the little ills and burdens.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE,
How Veteran Was Saved the Ampu.
tation of a Limb.

B. Frank Doremus, veteran, OF
Roosevelt Ave, Indianapolis, Ind,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16

OF the strike than in former years
Last year the unions met with un,
usual defeat in the case of many of
their larger strikes. This is due TO
three cauSes-growing organization of
the employers in opposition to the
unions, the use of the injunction and
union liability rulings by the courts,
and the diSapprOval of open violence
and industrial disorder by the public.
ny these means some foolshly think
the unions are now finished. But the
end is not yet. Defeated by financial
,, means. they are turning rapidly into
pOlltlcs, mainly toward the radical
party, where their numbers ultimately
must cause their voice to be needed
and their righteous demands to be
granted"
Churches Criticised.
After proving by statistics that re-
lglouS conditions in the country are
not so good as formerly DR.. Bushnell
said:
Tine reason of the present failure
OF the churches is twofold-their
methods are Anticipated and their
spirit is commercialized The world
has become collective and longs for
true cOmradeship, while the churches
nave remained individualistic and
nave become timid and calculating.
The world needs not prayers and
proflts so much as justice and devoted
service. The tragic lack of security and
he community of life characteristic of
'ur times is reflected not only in the
OF the churches but in the -.
growing intidelity in the homes of the
and. Fifty years ago, taking the
country as a whole, there was not an
Verage of one divorce in so mar
lagos. To-day there is an average of {,
ne divorce in about every ten mar. =
lagos During the ten years from l,
09o to 1905 the number of absolute v
lVorces granted more than quad o.
lpled in Manhattan and the Bronx, in y
ew York city, and nearly or more y!
ian doubled in Chicago, Philadel. -
ia, Boston, Detroit and Omaha, az d
'eSating in those six cities alone 90 g,
ore than $4,000. Cleveland, O., has ~
lie divorce in every five marriages. ~
Id there arc many Otbor coo+;o, E al
e country in as bad condition. W.
Situation Summed Up. ~
TO sum it all up, the wealth repre-. az,
nted in twO-thirds of our total an. ~
al loss from abnormal conditions 60
'uld pay off all our federal. state
unity, municipal and public school
Dts, the running expenses of all our
lroads, the annual income of all the 70
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-28
BANKS PREPARING
QUART ERLY PORT
Our State Banks will Make
Good Showing.
WILL SHOW MUCH LARGER BUSINESS
The Banks of Americas Operating
Under State Laws Show Fine
Volume of Business and
viii Publish State.
mentS Soon.
WILL SHOW MUCH LARGER BUSINESS

The three banks of Americas operat-
ing under the State laws are preparing
their quarterly statements, showing
their condition at the close of March
%, and Will soon forward them to the
State Treasurer and publish copies in
the Times Recorder.
Under the act of December is, 1894,
the State banks are required to make
-four statements during year, within
ten days from the time notice is given
to them by the State Treasurer. The
law also requires the publication of the
statement in the local papers at the ex-
pense of the banks.
AS usual the Americas state banks,
the Planters, Bank of Southwestern
Georgia, and Bank of Commerce, will
make statements showing a very graft
flying business condition. Their vol
ume of business increases every year,
their assets are piling up, and they are
in as healthful a state as the banks of
any city in Georgia.
Public confidence in these financial
institutions has steadily been strength
ened by their able management. They
include in their officers and directories
some of the most stable and influential
men CT business in Americas. Through
out the State Americas is recognized
as having banks that are on parity
with those Of any other city of its size
in the South. They have been great
factor in the building up of the mer-
camille interests of the city and we'll
deserve the growing patronage that is
accorded them from city and county
alike.
While the Americas National Bank
does not make reports to the state
treasurer, as do the other three local
banks, it makes quarterly reports to
the National treasury department, and
which are also published in the Times
Recorder.
This bank is now closing its first
year, and its next published report
will show highly gratifying condition
of business, rejecting much credit up
on its officers and directors.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-28
WOULD WELCOME THE CLANSMAN
No Trouble In Getting Into Columbus,
4 Seems.

Unlike Americas, Columbus has no
fear of ''The Clansman," and the city
authorities will decline to prohibit the
presentation of the play there, although
the protest against it is backed by the
ministers. The negro ministers of the
city petitioned Mayor Chappell to take
such steps as would be necessary to
have the date cancelled, but the mayor
declined to do SO, saying that the rela-
lions between the two races in Colum-
bus were peaceable and satisfactory.
and that to prohibit 1.-THE Clansman"
from playing would be equivalent to
an admission that the relations between
the whites and blacks were strained.
To prohibit the production of the play
would, therefore, be a misrepresenta-
ton of the situation to that extent, in
his opinion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-28
and same old dose.

and same old dose.
Tom West, like the balance; same
plea and same medicine.
Major Whitehead, cards and craps,
pick and shovel or $45.
Henry Killebrew, caught an ace; go t
caught, same as others.
Cleye White, very black; shook the
bones, will roll stones or pay $45.
George Jones, shook the bones, As
plunks or the convict's bunk.
Whit Harvey played stud poker;
usual dose for a joker.
David Floyd game enjoyed; on the
road will be employed, or pay.
Rail Lloyd, played like Floyd, eight
months or the unalloyed.
Jim Austin got in a game, got the
limit Just the same.
A round bunch eff fifteen crap shoot
ers and SINNERS; all country coons and
all assessed the same eight months or
fine of $45.
Simon Ager, cheating and swindllng,
given straight shot of one year in the
changing.
Wiley Schley, blind tigering; straight
shot of year in stripes.
Missile Rodgers and Lille Harvey
were landed all right for vagrancy.
Sentence has not yet been passed upon
this boquet of blossoms.
Two white men were tried for adul-
to six months or fine of $25, his wife
pleading mercy for him.
In the Jordan case the jury was still
out last night making mistrial.