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Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Col. Alexander Wilkin

One of the patriotic Minnesotans
whom it is proposed to honor with a
monument at the capitol is Col. Alex
ander Wilkin, who was killed during
the Civil was while commanding the
Ninth Minnesota infantry. Since he
is the man after whom our neighbor-
ing county of Wilkin is named the
following sketch is of INTEREST,"
Alexander Wilkins life was devoted
to the service of his country and
state. In 1s47 he served as captain
in our army in the war with Mexico;
he came to st. Paul from New York
State in 1s49; he served as United
States marshal in the Territory from
1851 to 1858; be visited the allied arm
les during the Crimean war in 1854,
and studied military movements and
the art of war; when the Rebellion
broke out in 1851 he recruited Com
pany A of the First Minnesota regi-
ment, of whicn he became captain.
For conspicuous bravery at Bull Run,
July 21, 1861, he was later commits
stoned in the regular army; Sept. 10,
1861, he was commissioned as major
of the Second Minnesota volunteer in
fantry; March 21, 1852, he was pro-
noted to lieutenant colonel of the
same regiment, and Aug. "a, 1868, was
appointed colonel of the Ninth Min
nesota. He was strict disciplinarian,
an exemplary officer, and one of the
bravest of the brave. He was the
highest officer in rank from Minnesota
killed during the war of the REBELLION.
The legislature of 1858 bestowed his
name upon one of our Western coun-
ties.
Col. Wilkin, who commanded the
Second brigade, First division, Six
teenth army corps, at the battle of
Tupelo, Miss, July IA, 1864, was killed
while upon his horse directing his
troops in resisting the desperate
charges of the enemy. The previous
month, following the retreat of the
Gen. Sturgis' expedition from Brice's
crossroads, near Ountown, Miss. he
won the high regard of his command
and thanks of his superiors, by the
manner in which he conducted in re-
treat the force of more than 1000
soldiers whom he gathered together.
When the infantry were abandoned
by the commanding general and staff,
the cavalry and practically all mount
ed officers, Col. Wilkin remained with
the men, skilfully managed the re-
treat, and brought in to Memphis
some 1900 worn out soldiers, who
were believed to have been killed or
ca aptured.
A German tailor who died at Bres-
lau in 1887 had such keen sight that
he was able to see two Of Jupiter's
four moons with the naked eye.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Conundrums.

When is an artist dangerous per-
son? When his designs are bad.
What motive led to the laying down
Of railways? The locomotive.
Define matchless misery. Having a
cigar and nothing to light it with.
What bridge has no human being
ever crossed? The bridge Of his own
nose
What English words have all the
vowels and In their proper order?
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Card of Thanks.

We desire to extend heartfelt thanks
for the sympathy aud kindness shown
us by friends and neighbors in the
recent death of husband and father.
MRS. JOSEPH Ross AND FAMILY.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Revolts At Cold Steel.

"Your only hope," said three doctors
to Mrs. M. E. Fisher, Detroit Mich.
suffering from severe rectal trouble,
lies in an operation," stthen I used
DR.. Kings New Life Pills." she writes
"till wholly cured" They prevent
appendicitis, cure constipation, head
ache. 25c. at j. r. Krneger.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
What it Costs In Minnesota.

The Society of Equity has compiled
an interesting bit of data showing the
cost of production of wheat in the
Red River Valley of Minnesota, apro-
life wheat section.
The cost of production of wheat on
64o-acre farm is computed as follows
Cost of 640-acre farm at $40 per
acre amounts to $25, 800. The cost of
plows, cultivators, drills, binders,
mowers, rakes, corn planter, wagons,
harness, buggy and horses brings up
the total cost of farm implements and
animals to $29, ,616, The cost of seed,
labor, harvesting, interest and taxes
and repairs in general are computed
at $8,067.
All manufacturers figure to make at
least 20 per cent profit on their busi-
ness, and that amount added to the
absolute cost of production makes
the total cost of production on a 640-
acre wheat farm yielding 121s bushels
to the acre, s,1OO bushels, $9,6S0.ss.
$1.19 Per Bushel Fair Basis.
These figures show that the produ
Ger should receive $1.191S per bushel
in order to receive fair compensation
on his investment, business trials and
risks.
The figures shown were carefully
prepared by the best wheat experts
in the country, who declare that the
wheat producing farmer should receive
a minimum price of s1.25 per bushel
for his wheat.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Notice of Caucus.

A caucus will be held in the school
house of District No. %, Township of
Morris at 200 p. m. Saturday,
March 9Th, for the purpose of putting
in nomination ticket of town officers
to be voted for March 9th.
R. J. HALL,
Chairman Of town board.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
A BIG PLAN.
To Connect Lake of the Woods,
Traverse and Superior.

r. J. Mershon of Chicago has a
scheme for a combined system of
drainage. water power and deep wat
erways for Minnesota and the North
west which he thinks would prove a
godsend to the state.
Mr.. Mershon, who is a member of
the Western Association of Engineers,
was in st. Paul last week for the pur-
pose of telling the drainage COM
mittee of the house and senate what
he has in mind. In brief, the scheme
is to connect by means of canals and
the deepening of waterways, Lake of
the Woods with Thief River Falls,
Traverse Lake, Big Stone Lake, Gran
ite Falls and Sauk Rapids; to widen
the channel from the Twin Cities to
Sauk Rapids; to get the government
to furnish the rest of the waterway
from Sauk Rapids to Duluth and Su-
perior.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Some of the Charges.

Among the assertions made by Mr..
Tebbets in this circnlar are the follow
ing:
For years 30 per cent or more of the
reported receipts have gone under the
item of "salaries and expenses not
including in that any outlay for the
children in the home or for help there
employed.
For years Mr.. Savage has received
$4,000 and Mrs. Savage $500 as salaries,
all expenses, including street car and
railroad fares, four telephones and
postage.
The matron in charge of the child
rem, who has received but a meager
salary, supplements the small means
allowed her from her own purse that
the children might not suffer.
During all these years children have
been taken with few questions and
little ceremony and with almost no
effort to bring wrongdoers to Justice
or secure from them the care of their
offspring.
These diseased, fatherless babies
have been placed in respectable homes
and adopted by foster parents who
were ignorant of the risk to life and
contagion that these diseases entailed
though for the time the disease was
seemingly cured.
Scores of children have been placed
in families, without adoption, linden
ture or contract, who, though nomin-
ally under the society's care, have
been wholly lost sight of.
While railroads have given passes
freely for the society's employees, for
taking the children to and fro, these
passes have been used for other pur-
poses and obtained for persons not
employed by the society.
Though professedly Christian in
stitution yet for more than a dozen
years no child dying in the home re-
ceived Christian burial.
Talks of Investigations.
In January the Twin City investi-
eating bureau sent to St. Paul and
Minneapolis business men a bulletin
as follows:
"We are making thorough inves-
tigation of the management of the
Jean Martin Brown, or what is some
times called the Savage Home for
children, located at st. Anthony Park.
Facts at hand lead US to believe that
unless some present employees of the
home are dismissed and some salaries
of other employees reduced contribu-
tions to this institution should be Civ
en- with much hesitancy."
M. Ed Sanderson, manager of the
Twin City Investigating bureau, said:
81 do not know what the circular
sent out by Mr.. Tebbets contains, but
for more than two years I have been
aware of some of the conditions that
exist at the home. However, have
been hoping and indirectly trying to
bring about improved conditions. For
the sake of the cause in which the
society is laboring, hesitate to offer
any comment Or criticism that would
permanently jeopardize the society,""
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Drain Immense Area.

This, he says, would mean the drainr
age of immense areas of swamp lands,
the furnishing of over 100000 horse
power and shorter and better traffic
routes. When asked by the Pionee
Press to make a statementas to the
proposed plans he dictated the fol-
lowing:
"This is system of drainage, water
power and deep waterways from Du-
luth Superior to the Twin Cities and
to Big Stone Lake, making an inland
harbor of Big Stone Lake as the head
of navigation of the Great Lakes. This
system would be short cut to the
Atlantic coast at New York city, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia and also to New
Orleans. It is nearer by this route to
New Orleans than to follow the course
of the Mississippi River to that point,
even if the river is improved to any
depth. st. Paul and Minneapolis are
nearer to New York city, Boston and
Philadelphia by at least 500 miles than
by any other route to the seaboard.
The city of New Orleans is $500 miles
farther from European markets than
5ae harbor of New York.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
SIPS PER BUSHEL.
Lowest Selling Price to Give
Profit on Wheat.

1t is perhaps fact that many grain
growers do not really know what it
costs to raise bushel of wheat. Ev-
cry successful business man knows to
fraction of cent what his goods cost
and how much it costs to sell them.
He figures his insurance and taxes,
fair salary for his services, all these
items are properly figured as the cost
of his goods; to this he adds any
where from 20 to 100 per cent as a
profit to compensate him for his busi-
ness risk and as a just return on his
capital invested.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27
Short Route to Atlantic.

ga deep water way to the lakes
from st. Paul and Minneapolis is the
solution of the deep waterway ques-
tion to all points of seaboard for the
Northwest. Chicago has always ad-
mitted and understood that deep
waterway to the seaboard by way of
the Great Lakes and New York city is
of vast more Importance to them than
a deep waterway to the Gulf; though
Chicago people are anxious to have
both. The same facts are equally
true for st. Paul and Duluth and the
whole Red River Valley. It is per-
fectly feasible to connect the Lake of
the Woods, Red Lake, Otter Tail Lake
and all minor lakes on the Western
plateau of Minnesota with Traverse
and Big Stone Lakes and to even turn
the waters of those lakes into Lake
Superior by gravitation flow, if neces-
sary.
"The construction of great reser-
voir in the upper stretches of the
Minnesota River of over 100 miles in
length is perfectly feasible for the
storing of all the flood waters of the
state and developing of great hydro
electric power.
"The Minnesota valley is a rock
lined, narrow channel of an ancient
river that was from 80 to 100 feet in
depth, at one time draining an an
cient inland sea over 100000 square
miles in area. which is greater than
the area of all the Great Lakes now
combined. On the plateau of Mime
sofa there are about 5000 meandered
lakes, representing a water surface of
over 1900 square miles, besides vast
marshes and swamp lands. This sys-
tenn, as outlined, would intercept all
the water courses originating from
these lakes and humid lands, and
would be absolute proof against any
flood in the Red River Valley or the
Minnesota, besides making the Min
nesota River navigable to New Ulm
or above, without any dredging or ar
tificial work."
Asked what he meant by the short
ening of the route to New Orleans,
Mr.. Mershon said boats could go from
the Twin Cities to Duluth over the
new route, thence to Chicago, thence
through the drainage canal, the Illi-
nois River and to the Gulf.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27

Facetious1y "a 1 o u ", abstemiousfy
"a e i ~.
Why is poor singer like counter
feiter? He is an utterer of bad notes.
Morris tribune., 1909-02-27

A German tailor who died at Bres-
lau in 1887 had such keen sight that
he was able to see two Of Jupiter's
four moons with the naked eye.
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situated at the rear of the furnace.
near the entrance of the basement,
and in passing to and fro at my task,
I noticed several wine-cases piled IN
a dark corner of the basement. took
advantage of the first opportunity 10
examine them and, while the lids
were securely nailed down, found,
by lifting them, that they were as
heavy as chunks of lead.
"That night burglarized the bank
er's basement, while two of my COM
panions kept watch outside to see that
l was not disturbed. In the chanl-
pagne-cases I found the molds and
other accessories of the counterfeiters,
and a large quantity of metal and
newly manufactured coins.
Before we left the bankers resi-
dence, the gardener was a prisoner
and before the night was over we
had nabbed Mason and farley and
Cashier Powell. The gardener turned
states evidence and gave the whole
thing away The three society men
held out firmly to the last. They were
convicted only after considerable diff
ficulty. Except for the assistance OF
the gardener in securing evidence. we
should never have been able to have
made out, against them, anything
more than a strong circumstantlal
case. We recovered about $4,000
from the culprits, and in the banks
vault was more than $4,000 of the
counterfeit money. The night watch.
man at the bank was also implicated
and convicted.
"The gardener, who had many
| aliases, was an old offender. He had
worked at one time in the Frisco
mint and was regarded as skillfu!
workman. After leaving the mint, he
had put out gold coin of the
twenty-dollar denomination. but had
been caught and had served prison
term for it. He had drifted east, after
serving his term, and had figured out
the plan which he had there put in op-
Grafton. He had manufactured the
coins, using the big furnace at the
bankers residence for that purpose,
and had secured the three society
men, all of whom were heavily In debt
and therefore ready victims, to palm
off the money. Their method was to
take good money from the bank vault
and replace it with the bad, which
they worked off at the factory in the
} weekly pay roll. The cashier at the
bank had secured the place for the
counterfeiter at the bankers resi-
/ dence, but this had not been with any
particular design further than it was
place that was especially suited tt
, the necessities of the counterfeiter."
Copyright 1908, by w. G. Chapncs.a-a
Copyright in Great Britstn.l
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of Importance. In the stable STUN
bled on an empty champagne case,
which was of the same brand as one
1 had noticed in the vault of the
bank. 1t might mean something or
nothing, but I had long ago learned
to take particular notice of small
things, and many is the valuable cleW
that this habit has given me.
"Since the return of Saunders and
McGrath, they had been working on
the clew of the anonymous letter, and
the information it contained about the
mysterious boxes which had been seen
to arrive at the bank at night. They
had located the author, discharged
messenger, who bore a grudge against
the teller to whose instance he attrib-
uted his discharge. From the mes
senger they learned that the boxes had
been delivered at the back entrance
of the bank late at night. They had
been brought to it in one horse
express wagon, but the wagon had not
displayed a license number and the
driver, although muf1ed in great
coat, had evidently not been a regu-
lar expressman, so the messenger in
formed them. He gave fairly accu-
rate description Of the wagon, which
had been of peculiar construction.
II had seen just such vehicle at
| the bankers residence, a sort of de-
livery wagon which seemed to be EN-
ployed in hauling feed for the extern
sive stable of the banker, as it had
been filled with sacks of oats and
bales of hay when I saw it.
"The next morning I reported sick
at the bank, but my service with the
banker was not at an end. l had shifted
my position from janitor at the bank
to assistant gardener and general fac
totum at the presidents residence
Armed with a note from the banker tt
the gardener, put in my appearance
at his residence. The gardener dldn'
seem to like my appearance He re
garded me with cold suspicion. while
he read the note from his employer
and, it seemed to me, he rather reluc
family accepted me as his assistant.
verify believe he would have driver
me away on some pretext, If 1t hat
not been for the explicit terms of tn
note the banker had written at my die
tation.
"The gardener was tough looking
customer. There was an atmosphere
of suspicion about him which put m
on my guard and caused me to watcl
him with caution. He was a smOOt
individual, however, and l had serve
in my new capacity for three day
without discovering anything wort
mentioning, when he set me at tn
task of wheeling out the ashes fror
the big bin in the cellar. The bin wa
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-02-03

moved it from the shelf, cut the cord
which fastened the mouth of it while
the attention of the inquisitive cashier
and teller was directed elsewhere.
Having shaken the mouth Of the
sack open and frayed the ends OF the
cord so that my ruse would not be
detected. l purposely stumbled and
fell as crossed the vault. The coins
poured out upon the steel floor OF the
big vault in a bright yellow stream,
rolling hither and yon, while sat de-
jectedly in the midst of the golden
flood and rubbed my knee and cursed.
"The two bank officials showed live
ly concern at my stupid accident, and
both set about gathering up the coins.
I assisted them as much as possible,
but my pulse was beating too fast for
my help to amount to much. My ruse
had fully served my purpose. The
ring of the coins upon the steel floor
Of the vault had not been true. They
had rung dull and heavy, and l knew
them at once for their real false char
acter. The verification of this fact
came when I fingered them deity, as
I restored them to the sack whence
| they had come. There was no mistak.
] ing the feeling of them. They were
| greasy and slick; that Shiny touch
which discloses the spurious coin in
the dark as we'll as in the light. Every
one I touched had that slippery, soap
stone surface which counterfeiters
cannot overcome except by the use
of metal of the same fineness as that
of the genuine coin.
GAS I replaced the sacks, after clean
ing the shelf, l was careful to weigh
each of them in my hand. There were
Is sacks, each containing Thousand
dollars in half eagles, which were ligh
in weight.
IT now felt sure of my ground, bu
it was still necessary that we secure
proof against the teller. / had no
suspected the cashier, until his evi
dent trepidation when / spilled tn
sack of gold
"The mystery was now more corn
pick and interesting than ever. Whil
I had discovered the big reserve .
the counterfeiters l had no evidenc
against any ons. and was still afrai
to make arrests. l wanted the maker
of the coin and their machinery, all
wanted them badly, for this was tn
biggest case that I had thus far l.
NV career been engaged upon.
"That night l did some tall think
ing. and also made secret trip to tn
bankers residence, which | CAREFUL
examined from the outside, goin
over the extensive grounds about tn
house and the outbuildings at the in
minent peril of being shot for a bu
glar. Here discovered only one thin
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-02-03

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Editorial Verdict.

From a serious-minded jester the
editor received this note, together
with consignment of humor that was
heavy enough to go by freight:
Dear Sir: l read all these jokes to
my wife, and she laughed heartily.
Now, l have it on good authority that
when mans wife will laugh at his
jokes they are bound to be very good
or she is. Yours, etc."
The editor slipped them into the re-
turn envelope with the letter. after
writing on the margin: "She is"
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Il was once stationed
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international expos
ition, to watch for cul-
prits that were ex-
pected to put out the
customary counterfeit.
For the first month or
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