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The daily Alaskan., 1909-12-18
WILL
 BE WEDNESDAY
(By Alaska News 5ureau.)

(By Alaska NeWS 5uToau'J
 BRUSSELS, Belgium. Dec. 18-King Leopold will be buried next Wednes- day and Prince Albert will take the oath of king the following day.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-12-18
FEED M S5 PER

C8y Alaska News 5ureau0 SEATTLE Dec. 1S-The Wicker sham banquet at the Arctic club will be $5 a plate
The daily Alaskan., 1909-12-18

Mother, Brother, Sister, Wife, Sweetheart, the Children and out of town friends receive our first con- sideration and are all remembered And now that we have a little time for self thought is it not well to give our own needs little attention? Come in and look our stock over and you will be reminded of many things that you can not very well get along without and especially when you can get them from up-tO-date stock and at reasonable prices.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31

found Smith washing his hands, and
asked him: "When will pa be up?"
and he had replied 'He will be here
very shortly" She then got the bis
cults out of the stove and got break
fast ready. Smith went out to the
hotbed that Ledbeter had made the
day before. When the breakfast was
ready, Mrs. Ledbeter went to the barn
to call her husband and walk back
with him, as he had not arrived. She
looked and could not see him, and
called, and be did not answer, and she
went to the west side and called again,
and when there was no answer, she
went toward the pasture and began to
call and to cry. The jury should con
slider the picture of the previous Sun
day that was in her mind. She went
hastily toward the pasture, and Smith
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31
SCORES OF PEOPLE ARE INJURED IN
WRECK ON THE MIL WAUKEE ROAD

lights in his part of the car. While
thus engaged he found a hand sticking
up and calling for assistance pulled the
man back through the car. 1t was
Mr.. Bradshaw who had been thrown
out through the window and was prac-
tically pinned down by the car. When
grabbed onto his seat and the next
instant found himself swinging in the
air. His injuries were slight.
Escaped Without Scratch.
c. H. Hopper, travelling salesman
from Minneapolis, who was in the rear
car and escaped without a scratch
stated that having been through one
or two wrecks he instantly realized
what had hoppened and hung on to
his seat for dear life. The baggage
car went off the track first then the
smoker and finally the rear coach.
There was some sixty passenger in
the two ears consequently neither were
crowded. The first thing noticed was
the pounding upon the ties, then there
was hard jump and things thrown
topsy turvy. One lady in this car
was quite severely injured but on the
whole those in the smoker Jared the
worst.
H. j. Riser was one of the first men
out of the smoker, crawling out of a
broken window
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31

headed her off and said the horses
were not there, but ready in the barn.
More than fifteen minutes must have
elapsed during all OF this time. Any
sane woman under such circumstances
would have called the neighbors, as
she did, as she had every reason to be-
lieve that her husband had wandered
away, and wanted the neighbors to head
him oil from the river. The foot
prints had beeG made there for the
occasion, and everything to her mind
pointed to his Disappearance.
The state objected to the counsel
arguing the case, and the court d.
rected MIN to confine himself to what
he sought to prove.
Mr.. Laurisch, continuing, said that
Mrs. Ledbeter left the neighbors to
Continued On Page Four.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31

COMPLETE LIST Or THE INJURED.

= COMPLETE LIST Or THE INJURED +
; right and severely
= CoraC Coffin, Minneapolis hip knees hurt. +
+" George Black NIanko left hands and
g Mankato face
: William A. Benson Mankato, right broken +
J. Miss Eva Benson, Mankao left shoulder
\ Louis Rosen Mankao back wrencned and neck badly
+ NJ j. Nerbovig, Mankato, left limb, cut severely. +
Richard Peterson Mankato, hands,
+ Dawson Mankato back wrcnched and left wrist broken +
s O. Amdalsud Mankato, slightly =
+ o. Ese, Mankato neck badly =
+ o. Hanger, st. Paul. crushed. +
j. F. Staber, Mankao
i F. c. Davis Manlato chest cut badly. +
+ j. Kla, Mankato, elbow dslocated +
+ Mrs. Eric Coleman, Minneapolis left foot +
+ A. Coleman, Minneapolis, left side injured badly. +
shou hurt.
J. a. Mankato, +
+ NJ F. Johnson Rapidan, crushed. +
J. A B. Miller, Mankato chest badly in condition =
g. Robe Mankato state dairy and food Inspector head cut +
+ hurt
Courtney, andig broken.
j. P AIalzahm Mankato, back wrenched badly. +
c. Esse Hayward right leg sprained.
+ j. NJ Myron, st. Paul. hands badly +
+ Miss Helen A Briggs Minneapolis, nuredb +
+ H. j. Riser, Mankato right hand hurt badly. Z
Charles A Wyatt, Manakto back dis
{. located. +
+ George Clifford, Napeton, headcu badly. E
+ O. Johnson, Minneapolis
F. p Farrell Bloomington, Ill, calf of right off and +
+ body scratched bruised
s. Smith, Minneapolis, badly.
j. j. E. Ebert, and boneb
W. L. Bradshaw, collar bone broken, also right hip
j. badly =
Janosko Chlwick, c., bad shape back wened
+ B. Wheeler, NIankao right leg broken. +
D. l. Huth St. Paul, left and wrist hurt +
+ badly !.
s broken. +
Martin Johnson, through
+ badly +
+ Tom Clancy st. hurt
+ John Anderson ST. Paul, fireman. slightly injured. +
P j. Murphy ST Paul. conductor back wnced and hurt badly +
: :
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31

Continued From Page Two.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31
Mankato Men Seated Together.


Most of those seriously injured
were occupants of the smoking car.
Four Mankato men who were sitting
together, were Messrs. Charles
Wyatt travelling salesman for the L..
Patterson mercantile company, G. j.
Robel a state dairy and food inspec-
tor, H. j. Riser, salesman for Janey,
Simple & Co., and George E. Black,
salesman for Tone Bros. These men
were with one exception the most SER
iously injured of the occupants of the
car. l.. W. Bradshaw of Mankato.
also had a thrilling experience and in
the shake up had his collar bone brok-
en-, arm cut and left shoulder blade
injured. When the accident occurred
County Surveyor Brooks was one of
the first to realize the seriousness of
the situation and noticing that the
cushions in the front end of the car
had taken fire from the kerosene lamp
called to gentleman in that end of
the car to extinguish the fire and i'm
mediately put to work putting out the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31

Mrs. Ledbeter left the window and
went to get the breakfast ready and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-31

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

In the strict letter Of the law, the
tobacco trust can take a farmers
crop at starvation prices without be-
ing liable to Indictment for robbery.
But in the forum Of conscience it is
none the less robbery because the law
does not make it a crime.
The trust is taking the crop this
year for a song. The biggest tobacco
market in Eastern North Carolina is
at Wilson, and the prices paid there
are as high as on any other market.
The trust fixes the price in New York
and the same price is paid on all the
markets. On Friday $4,000 pounds
were sold on hat market, and here
is a concrete case, sent by our Wilson
correspondent, showing how one farm
er was robbed:
Mr.. Ruffin Hawley, Of Spring Hill
township, says that last Wednesday
he marketed $50 pounds and that
it brought only from four to seven
and three-quarterS cents per pound:
that the same grades last yea brought
from six and a half to sixteen cents.
He says he's discouraged but can't
help himself"
1t is true hat Mr.. Ruffin Haw1ey
cannot help himself, but the day is
not far distant when North Carolina
will have a law strong enough to help
Mr.. Hawley and all other citizens who
are the victims of monopoly. Hasten
the dag
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
TWO TO SIX CENTS,

The tobacco farmers are not very
we'll pleased. A Daily correspondent
Of the Snow Hill Observation-Disclosures
says:
1t is the opinion Of some of our
that it would be a good idea
to hold their tobacco for awhile. Per-
haps some farmer will say: Z must
sell to pay my debts out at the pres
ent prices, ranging from two to six
cents, how can you meet them. so
would it not be best to wait and let
the manufacture Use the old supply,
and then they will be willing to pay
US more for the new"
But this crop is already made. The
trust programme is to grab most OF
the crop at starvation prices, and
then to put up the price on the shank
of the crop and the farmer
to raise a big crop by holding out the
bait of a better price after they have
bought the bulk Of the crop at a
song.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

upon their tasks. The Western doc
tors talked about the rapid, weak and
irregular hearts of those whose fin
gers we're stained from too much
smoking. 1t became customary to re-
fuse employment to persons bearing
this badge of servitude to nicotine.
Then, we are told, the habit began
to be universally d~iscarded.'
Every now and then you find a man
who smokes. cigarettes whose mind IS
clear and whose morals are o re-
proach. but h is setting a Dad exam
pie to boys who are apt to be ruined
by the habit.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

The best use any man can make Of
part of his estate is to help some
charity or educational Institution. The
Methodist Protestants will be helped
in their purpose of establishing a col
lege by the devise of 500 by the
late John Calvin Roberts. John CAL
vim is a good name and was borne
by a good man, but it is rare to find
a name borne by a Methodist.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
THE COFFIN TACKS HAETT.

IT is encouraging to read that an
evangelist preaching in Durham has
spoken out bravely about the curse of
the cigarette. 1t has been responsible
for the degeneracy of more boys than
any other invention of the devil and
the trust is seeking to destroy more
boys by appealing to their owe of
baseball to buy boxes of coffn-tacks.
No man in America has had a better
opportunity to observe the effects Of
cigarettes on boys thar Judge Ben B..
Linsay, who presides over the Juvenile
Court in Denver. He is no crank or
extremist, and his original and mild
dealing with youthful criminals has
given him a national reputation and
many judges have followed his exam
pie with good results. He recently
said
Il have been in the Juveniles Court
nearly ten years, and in that time I
have had to deal with thousands and
thousands of boys who have disgraced
themselves and their parents, and who
hav brought sorrow and misery into
their lives; and [ do not know of any
one habit that is more responsible for
the troubles of these boys than the
vile cigarette habit"
That declaration comes from a iu-
dicial officer who has studied the mat
ter in a way that makes him more
competent to speak than any man in
America. But there are other than ju-
dicial and moral influences at work
against these coffin lacks. The bust
ness world sees the injury and guards
against it. The New York Times a
few days ago said:
The States of Iowa, Michigan, Min
nesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
Indiana and Illinois have recently for
hidden the manufacture or sale, or
both, of cigarettes. The reasons in
VOlved in this Western prohibition of
cigarette smoking-for that is what is
aimed at-spring from physiological
and business considerations. So far
as the Times has ascertained, moral
reasons and preachments did not
Weigh. AS in the case of the
which require total abstinence from
intoxicants of their employees, the Yves
tern business men noted tina the bovs
and young men who were addicted to
the smoking of cigarettes were ineff-
Gent. nelr nervous energies were
TO be continually rynning
loose anu could not be concentrated
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

1t is said that Raleigh is the only
capital city in the United States that
hasn't a Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciatOn. Surely tbs ought not so to
be. No institution is more needed, and
the good people Of our good city
should bestir themselves and see what
can be done along this line. There
are more pool-rooms in Raleigh than
ever in the. city's history, but there
seems to be no real desire for a Y.
M. c. A. Men of Raleigh, how about
it?
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

The Manchester Union thinks that
the New Hampshire schooAnarm who
came to Texas and annexed a home, a
husband and three sets of twins met
a traveIe from her native State. The
Houston Post makes this comment:
mot on your life. The little Yankee
schoOlmarms who come to Texas do
not have to depend upon any such
uncertainty as that"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
The Winston-Salem Republican

The Winston-Salem Republican has
it's gall with it, and says: 1T is with
tobacco like every other product. The
price is governed to~a very great ex-
tent by the law of supply and de-
mand." The only law that governs
the price of tobacco is the size of the
greed Of the trust magnates in New
York. The Republican is the only
paper in America thai thinks supply
and demand has anything TO Go with
the price Of tobacco.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

Isn't it time to cab a halt? We
recently noted that a New York doc
tor had induced hundreds to abandon
all underwear as a means to health.
Now comes DR.. Kellogg, of Battle
Creek, Mich. and advises a return OF
fig leaves as a substitute of clothes.
That is going "a leetle too far" unless
a Paradise can be supplied for all the
Adams and Ewes.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

The North Wilkesboro Hustler saws
plans are on foot to have automobiles
make regular trips over the turnpike
from that place to Jefferson. carving
the mail, express and passengers.
This would be a good step, and would
be better than converting that mag
nifiCent turnpake into a railroad.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

Seldom ave such honors in death
been paid to a good man as New Bern
paid at the funeral of the late DR..
Charles Duffy. He had long minis
tered unto many of its people. AS
doctor, friend, citizen he had high
place in his town and State, and his
death is widely lamented.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
TUESDAY,
August "a. 1909.
MORNING TONIC.
George Eliot

George EliOt.)
l have been a great deal happier
since l ave given up thinking about
what is easy and pleasant. and being
discontented because l couldn't have
my own will. Our life is determined
for us, and it makes the mind very
free when we give up wishing and
only think of bearing what is laid upon
US, and doing what is given US to do.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
Another Fine Crop.
(Spring Hope Leader.

Spr1nR Hope LFader.J
Claude Finch was telling the editor
this week of a fine corn field he saw
last week at the home of /. B. Bone.
who lives in COOperS township, and
on a rural route from Nashville. Mr..
Bone has five acres in c~Orn~and he
says that the yield will be 125 bar
rels. Mr.. Finch says it is the finest
field Of corr he ever saw. 25 barrels
of corn, or even half that many, to
the acre means better days for Nash
county farmers.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
ISN'T SWEARING THE LEAST OF
IT'S SINS?

The Society for the Prevention al
Profanity may have an interest in the
forthcoming suit of the Ware-Kramer
Tobacco Company against the tobacco
trust. The Columbia State says;
"Another instance of the marvellous
@precocity of one of the infant indus
tries of this country has just been ex-
hibited. The American Tobacco Com
pany. a simple child of h interests,
has learned to swear. According to
MI. Ware. of the Ware-Kramer To
bacco Company, Mr.. Briggs, president
of the Wells-Whitehead Tobacco
Company, now a part of the trust, told
him: 1--WE will crush h out OF you
and your new company. If you go TO
China, Japan or anywhere else in the
world we will follow even to the gates
Of hand we will crush h out OF
your company. We will do this by
fair means or foul" We hope this will
be brought to the attention of Serene
E. Payne and Nelson w. Aldrich."
When the truly pious magnates, who
swallow competition only after devout-
ly saying: 20, Lord, make us truly
thankful for what we are about to re-
ceive'' read of the alleged ''cuss
words" Of an officer Of a subsidiary
company, they will be deeply shocked,
grieved and mortified.
But, isn't swearing the least of the
crimes Of the trust? Will not h re
cording angel be more apt to blot out
the few Oaths han the deliberate and
cold-b1ooded putting down the price Of
tobacco to starvation prices? Some
years ago there lived in South Caro-
lima a Warm-hearted n estimable
gentleman who had served his country
bravely as a Confederate colonel. He
had but one fault-he would "cuss'
and upon OCCASION he swore more
roundly han the army in Flanders.
His preacher-for he was a church
member-urged him to quit his one
bad habit, for he was good to the poor,
a good neighbor, and had every other
virtue highly developed. But the
habit had him in a wise and he would
shock the eve by his profanity. It
happened that a mild-mannered and
cOld-blooded citizen of the town be-
lOnged to the same church with the
colonel. He paid his church dues reg
uld ~, ne was always VI Ills SSdl, III
he regarded himself as a model Chris
ton Notwithstanding the fact hat he
had devoured widows houses and
practised usury and never gave way TO
a generous emotion if he ever had
n The occasionally profanity of the
colonel grated upon him and he didn't
like the colonel any better because of
all his popularity. So, after protesting
to the pastor thai the colonel was
bringing the church into disrepute by
his occasional swearing, the cold
blood man finally as an ultimatum
said to the preacher: L can fellowship
this profane church member no longer.
Unless you turn Colonel x out of the
church I will withdraw my member
ship in the church,"
The preacher had the saving grace
of loving a noble soul, with a %grievious
fault, and Of hating the of
the usurious member, and he replied:
II Will not turn the colonel out Of the
church for his one occasional fault.
He is a better man When he is swear
ing than you are when you are sing
ing the dOxOlOgy."
Swearing is the least of the sins OF
tobacco trust magnates.
~~-c So
1t is said tina RALEIGH is the Onlv
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

h Wilson Times, which has long
preached the true hog and honliny
doctrine. sees that it's teaching is
bearing fruit. 1t says: The idea of
farmers working for the American
Tobacco Company and for the wheat
and corn grower of Kansas, when he
can work for himself and dictate the
prices he shall receive for his cotton
and tobacco"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
The Crime OF IdfcitcsS.

Id1eness means trouble for any. one.
It's the anne with a laz- liver 1t
causes constipation, hea sefre. 1aun-
dice. sa11ow c~omplextion. binDles and
blotches- loss of appetite. nausea. bat
DR.. Kings New Life Pts soon Danish
liver troubles and build ND your
health. csc. at all druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

The preaching Of the Tex evanSel-
list in Durham is bearing theSfight
kind Of fruit. The Durham Sun says:
NJ Muikey's sermon on restitution,
has resulted in the payment. Of one
debt of long standing, SO far reported
in this city If it has the same effect
on some others, the could
mention, it will be a God-send to this
community"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

Will not the Greenville, Kinston. and
other papers in tobacco towns Print
daily the amount of tobacco sold and
the various prices which the trust paid
for it? 1t would be interesting and
helpful.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
ALL 0 $1.7O

There has never been offered in
North Carolina SO much good readlng
for % little money as we are Offering
under the following propositions: For
$40 we will send the following for
one year:
The Weekly News and Observer, an
eigllt-page weekly. newspaper.
The COmlnOner, an able weekly
Journal. published by William Jcn-
nings Bryan.
The Farmer and Mechanic, sixteen
page North Carolina home and farm
weekly journal.
Thus for One Dollar and Seventy
Cents you a get all these papers
one year.
V. c. MOORE, Manager.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

There is progress II every section
of North Carolina. Ground has been
broken to build "a street cor line in
Concord. 1t IS a good and a growing
town.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

It is now said that pellagra does not
come from mouldy corn meal, but
from other causes. The physicians
are studying it. Preventable medi-
cine is the doctrine Of this e
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24
$50, 900 FROM A ROBESON FARM.
Over $4,000 Cash Already Received
from This Years CrGpS-$1O, 900
More Expected.

Who says there is no money in
farming? How about a farm OF
$50 acres from which the net
proceeds this year have already
amounted to more thar $4,000 with
every prospect that $4,000 more will
be realized this year? That's what a
Robson county farmer does his
year He has been doing this kind of
farming for several years-only he is
improving all the time.
Here are the figures showing what
he has sold this year and the net pro-
ceedS, that is the amount he received
after freight and commission house
charges were paid:
Three car loads peaS ........ 1913
Five car loads beans ........ 1900
T~wenty-seVen car loads Irish
potatoes $50
Three car loads early corn ... 600
Forty car loads cantaloupes.. 1850
Thirty-eight car loads water
melons 1850
Total from $50 acres .....$z3.213
Now OF this same land he will grow
a second crop Of corn, peas, etc.
Besides this, he has 100 acres Of
cotton from which he expects to get
100 bales, n another rs acres from
which he expects so bales Of cotton,
WHICH, viii DI1nS at present prices
$500. He will get, he thinks, 100
tons of hay also, which will be worth
$1,000. Added~to all this, the cotton
seed from the $50 bales Will bring
81, 900.
We have them:
From truck crops .$23,213
From cotton crops 1900
From cotton seed 1000
From hay 1900
IOtdi =. ..$33,2l3
And this does not take into account
his oat crop and a large crop Of field
corn planted after truck.
He is a fine citizen who stays at
home and attends strictly to his own
business He lives only Is miles from
but Monday was the first
time he had been there in three
months. We found he was in town.
SO we got hold Of him and had him tell
us about his farm for the entertain
and benefit Of the Index read
erS.
But we could never prevail upOn
him 70 allow his name to be publish
with this article. We begged him
and followed him out on the street
he started to leave, but he pos
itively forbade US to give his name.