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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
MAIL SACK IS STOLEN; RlFLEp.

Duluth.-A Great Northern mail
sack was stolen from a truck in the
Union depot and it's contents strewn
over the ground under the Fifth ave-
nue. Viaduct.
The mail pouch was taken from the
Grand Forks train that arrived in Du-
luth at 6:33 p. m. The mail was for
st. Paul and after the sack was taken
from the mail car it was left on the
truck, as it was the intention of the
officials to place the sack on the mail
car of the 11:10 st. Paul train.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
LAUNCH SINKS; FOUR DROWN.
Sunday School Picnic In MARYLAND
Ends In Disaster,

Baltimore. Md.-Two bodies are ~.
ing at the Canton police station and
two others at the bottom of the Pat.
apsco river as the result of the wreck
of gasoline launch The drowned
were:
Mrs. Katherine E. Brown. aged 60.
Marie Halves, aged years.
Willard Leach, aged IL years.
Frank Pryor. aged 10 years.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago. Aug 6.-Cattle-Market
strong; steers. $5.6o@7.65; COWS, $3.50
@6: bulls. $3.40@4.85; calves, $3@S;
stockers and feeders, 1915. SIS.
Hogs-Market strong to 15c high
er: choice heavy, $8.O5@S15; butch
ers. $7.90@8.10: light mixed. $765@
$50; choice light, $7.S5@SO5; pack
ing. $7.40@775; pigs. $5.50@7.S5; bulk
of sales. $7.65. .7.95.
Sheep-Market steady: sheep. $40
S; lambs. $6.25@775: yearllngs. $50
$40.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
MARKET REPORT.
Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis. Ang. 6.--Wheat No
] northern. $l27A; No. northern,
$1.25A: Sept. $099M; Dec, $685.;
durum. No. I. $l05 Oats-No. 3
white. s3Sc Barley. new. $54c. Corn
Mo. 3. $6l%c. Flax-No. /, $1.37H.
Duluth. Aug. 6.--No nothern.
$1.22k: Sept. $1.oo%; Dec. s0.98N.
South St. Paul. Aug. Seattle
Steers. $4.5O@5.50; COWS. $3.25@4.25.
Hogs. $7.5O@7.60. Muttons. $3.50:
lambs, $500.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

Paris Pattern No. 2737, All Seams
Allowed.-This dainty little frock for
the very small child should be devel-
oped in sheer white batiste or hahn
sock. The full body portion is gath
cred and attached to the round yoke
and princess panel-cut in one piece
OF the material, and the full sleeves,
which may be long or short, according
to taste, are gathered into narrow
wristbands or armbands. The dress
fastens at the center-back with very
small pearl buttons, and the lower
edge is finished with simple hem.
The pattern is in four sizes-one-half
to five years. For child of three
years the dress requires "a yards of
material ~ inches wide, two yards
36 inches wide or 13s yards AZ inches
wide.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number Of pattern.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Three trunks shipped by members
of the "Black Hand" who stole two
children in St. Louis, were traced to
were not in them as had been feared.
Several persons were hurt at Battle
Creek, Mich, when storm blew down
a circus tent and caused a panic as
the animals set up roar.
King Gustave OF Sweden summoned
members of parliament to Stockholm
when the country was threatened with
civil war as result of strike in
yolving 100000 persons.
For the first time in Is years MUIR
derer was beheaded in public in
Paris, large crowd witnessing the
fall Of the knife
Laws governing Sunday closing,
which have been in effect in Connec-
ticut since 1922, were repealed by the
state Legislature.
The Alabama house passed a reso-
luton for election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people.
The deposed shah of Persia has
been offered a pension of $4,000 a
year if he will reveal the hiding place
of the crown jewels and leave the
country
The strike of Italian quarrymen at
Marblehead, Wis, came to an end
after the Italian consul at Milwaukee
had addressed the men and urged
them to return to work.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania in
harmonious convention nominated
candidates for the supreme court,
state treasurer and auditor general.
Vessels of the United States navy
In all parts of the world observed the
one hundred and nineteenth anniver-
sary of the navy organization on Au-
gust 4.
While searching for Will Hendrix,
an escaped murderer under life SEN
tence, James Russell and Joseph
Boren, deputy sheriffs of Oklahoma
City, shot and wounded each other in
the darkness by mistake.
T. j. Halstead, a business man, and
Mrs. Watson, known also as Bessie
Brown of Sioux City, a., are dead
In Denver as the result of jealousy.
The man shot the woman while she
was at the telephone, after which he
shot himself
S. V. Mcdonald, farmer, temporarily
insane, shot and killed his wife's
brother at Checkasha, Okla, and the
latters wife. He then shot himself
after attempting to shoot his wife.
Noah r. Marker, the absconding as.
sistant cashier of the First National
bank, returned to his home in Tipton
Ind, was arrested, taken to Muncie
and released on a $4,000 bond. He
said he had been fishing in Missouri
and returned to spend his birthday
with his family.
It is announced that Argentina
will cease diplomatic relations with
Bolivia pending a settlement of diff
ficulties with that country.
The fifth annual session of the Ma
tional Grand Lodge, International Or
der Of Good Templars, was opened al
Camp Cleghorn. Waupaca, Wis.
Hay dealers and shippers of Michi.
gan convened at the Agricultural col
lege at Lansing, Mich.
Roy Griswold. who was arrested al
Georgetown, COL, on suspicion that he
was the slayer of Peter Waeltz al
Belleville, ILL.,, proved an alibi and was
released.
Following the report that the re-
bells had surrendered in Barcelona and
the Moors had retreated from Melilla
official announcements given out al
Madrid said the situation in Spain
was improving. It Is said 400 were
slain and 1000 wounded in the BARGE
Iona battle.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
GIRL HURT DURING A RUNAWAY,
Miss Kate syrne Injured Near c,on.
tarf-Auto Scares Team.

Clontarf, Minn.-Miss Kate Byrne
was seriously 1njuhed in a runaway
accident 10 miles west of here. Her
team became frightened at an auto.
mobile and she was thrown out. She
chung to the lines and was dragged a
long distance before losing conscious.
ness. Her head was cut and bruised
and it was several hours before she
was revived.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
Methods Of the Willy Chinese.

Complaints have recently been rife
In China as to the failure of the au-
thorities to provide proper protection
to passengers on tho Shanghai-Nan-
King railway. 1T appears" says the
Railway Magazine of London, that
when some irresponsible Chinese
meets with an accident through tres
passing on the line or not exercising
proper caution at grade crossing.
it is customary for his acknowledges
to stop the next train, lombard it
with stones and extort compensation
from the unlucky travellers. The wilv
Celestial who worships his ancestors
is not above making a pecuniary
profit out of his dead, and it is said
that in more than one case a corpse
has been placed on the rails so that
it might be run over and compensa-
ton claimed from the railway au-
thorities for the alleged fatality" :;
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
Hotel Alarm Clock.

The prize nuisance of hotel lite Is
the fresh young travelling man" who
gets up at half after six every morn
ing, and, rapping upon the door of a
fellow drummer, begins a long and
loud conversation in a raucous voice
which carries through the corridor
and all the rooms opening off the cor
ridor. This hotel alarm clock is young.
alert, active, full of life and business
and wants the world to know it. He
rushes from his friends room to his
own and back again, talking I'll the
time and rendering the early morning
nap impossible for his neighbour
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

Moorhead.-The cornerstone of the
new Presbyterian church was laid
here with appropriate ceremonies.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

Paris Pattern No. 1862, All Seams AL.
lowed.-Closing at the left side of the
front under the wide panel effect and
made up in Nile green Persian lawn,
this Is a dainty little model. The
first three tucks either side of the
front are stitched their entire length,
while the others are stitched to nearly
the bust line. The caps to the new
fashioned sleeves are also tucked and
trimmed with insertions of embroi-
derry, similar embroidery trimming the
cuffs. The pattern is in seven sizes
80 to ~ inches bust measure. For
36 bust the waist requires 81 yards of
material 20 inches wide, Az yards
AZ inches wide, four yards q inches
wide, 3h yards sc inches wide, or 2%
yards AZ inches wide; 21s yards of in
sertiOn.
TO procure this pattern send 10 cent,
to Pattern Department." of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be-
sure to give size and number of pattern.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
COSTS HIGH TO
run TIE STATE
TREASURER DlNEHART COM.
PUTES THE EXPENSE OF
GOVERNMENT MACHINE.
TAKES $21.54 EVERY MINUTE
Disbursements Last Year $12717,019..
Is, Leaving on Hand $2,773,250.75.
Legislature is an Expensive
Luxury.

The State of Minnesota spends $751;
81 minute. 1t spends $1,292.52 every
hour and $31,O2O.45 every day. The
total is $943,539.0s every month.
These figures are shown in the pre-
liminary report of the financial condi-
ton of the state as prepared by State
Treasurer Clarence C. Dinehart for the
fiscal year ending July 81, 1909. That
is the average amount expended dur
ing the past year, not counting the
money loaned by the state from the
permanent trust funds.
Starting with a balance of cash on
hand Aug. l. 1908, the state treasurer
took in during the year $12,521 $3.50 02.
The total expenditures amounted to
$12,717 ,O1S.25, leaving on hand at pres
ent $2,773,25O.41.
Legislature Came High.
The state legislature for 1909 cost
$29O,752.75.
The permanent trust funds of the
state, which are invested in securities,
state and local, bearing 3, 31a and 4
per cent interest, amount to $685.
29S.91, of which there are loans to:
minnesota municipal cor
porations .............$7,S14, 29s.91
New capitol certificates. 1900, 100000
University campus certifi-
CdIcS 0V,UUO.UU
Bonds OF other states. go. 6,109, 100000
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11


from the crowd and place them in a
carriage.
The state of Missouri has offered q
reward of $500 for the arrest and con.
viction of the men who lynched
George Johnson, white, slayer of John
w. Moore, farmer at Platte City.
Marysville, Tex, was destroyed by
fire and several men had narrow es.
capes for their lives.
Twenty thousand buildings were de.
stroyed and thousands of persons
faced starvation in a fire at Osaka.
Japan.
Human beings of Milwaukee may be
called upon to give up part of their
skin to be grated on the leg of a
kangaroo.
John Haker, a farmer living ten
miles from Lansing, Mich, died from
a bullet wound inflicted by his di.
vorced wife in quarrel.
DR.. LUX Wing, Chinese vice-consul
in New York, was slain by Wong Bow
Chueng, who claimed the official had
mistreated him.
Two messmates ramed Foster and
Williams had boxing bout on the
battleskip Vermont at Provincetown,
Mass, and Foster received injuries
which caused his death.
After spending two days as the
guest of the president of France, EN-.
peror Nicholas of Russia departed for
Coves where he will visit the king of
England.
The Goldfield Consolidated Mines
Company of Nevada has absorbed the
Mohawk, Laguna, Red Top, Jumbo
and Goldfield Mining Companies, all
representing capitalization of &c.,
000, 1900.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

Total .$16,273,29S.9
Aoubt two-thirds of the permanent
trust funds are invested within the
state. The state board of investment
has loaned to school districts and.
other local municipal corporations
during the fiscal year $1,229,45499.
Various items of treasury receipts
are AZ follows.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16
Defeat Mail Orders by Mail Orders.

Mr.. Merchant: Did you. ever
stop to- consider how many of
your possible customers. buy of
mail order houses because. you
don't have just exactly what they
want, and the mail order house
does or at least they think it
does?
Did you ever stop to consider
that if you made your store alb
solutely up.to-date and complete
In it's stock, there would be
good many more buying in your
store, and a good many less buy.
ing of the catalogue houses?
Did you ever stop to consider
that by frequently sizing up your
stock and placing orders as. you
need, sending them by mail to
your jobber instead of buying
once a season from a salesman,
that you'd gain customers and
4 trade?
And it you are a dry goods
merchant watch the styles, Get.
the small notions of dress that
are the rage" in the nearest
city. Don't wait till every wo,
man has purchased elsewhere,
; then lay in a stock. and complain
because you can't sell it. Buy
: while the style is new. The
y mails can serve you there.
9 Do you now see how your mail
Z orders for your customers will
: kill off mail orders by your GUS
toners?
II The presidential electors of
4 Louisiana met at Baton Rouge,
q Monday, and went through the
form of casting the States nine
i votes for w. j. Bryan and John
:, w. Kern. d. |. Norwood OF
West Feliciana represented the
= Sixth district. $50 soon do men
\ forget" that it, is related, that
- when the time came to vote for
o yice-president, some one asked,
70 Who was the candidate any
Ia way?" J. Walker. Ross was
1 chosen messenger to carry the
- electoral vote to Washington
and put it in the hands of Vice
;s President Fairbanks.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16
COMMON SENSE

Leads most intelligent people to use only
me0dines OF known composition. There
fore t Is that DR.. Pierce's medicines, the
makees\9 q which print every ingredient
entering RAo Them upon the bottle wrap
pers and attest its correctness under oath,
are daily grRHing in favor. The COM
position OF Dsl Pierce's medicines Is open
to everybody,NDr. Pierce being DESTROYS
Of having the search light OF inYestiga:
ton turned fully upon his formula, being
Confident that the 6etter the com p0s!tIon
q these medicines Is known the more
will their great clratlye merits be recog-
nice. Being wholly made Of The active
medicinal principles extracted efrom ma
tive forest roots, by exact processes
original with DR.. Pierce, and without the
use of drop Of alcohol, triple-refned and
chemically pure glycerine being used in
stead in extracting and preserving the
curative virtues residing in the roots
employed, these medicines are entirely
free from the objection of doing harm
by creating an appetite for either al
coholic beverages or habit forming
drugs. Examine the formula on their
bottle wrappers-the same as sworn to by
DR.. Pierce, and you will find that his
"Golden Medical Discovery" the great,
blood-purifer, stomach tonic and bowel
regulator-the medicine which, while not
recommended to cure consumption in Its
advanced stages (no medicine will do that,
yet does cure all those catarrhal condf
tions of head and throat, weak stomach
torpid liver and bronchial troubles, weak
lungs and hang-on-coughs, which, II neg
lected or badly treated lead up to ant
finally terminate in consumption.
Take the TGolden Medical Discovery
IN time and 1t Is not likely to diSappoint
you If only you give it a thorough ant
fair trial. Don't expect miracles. Il
won't do supernatural things. You mus
exercise your patience and persevere in its
use for a reasonable length of time to ge
its full benefits, The Ingredients of which
DR.. Pierce's medicines are composed haW
the unqualified endorsement Of scores O
medical leaders better than any amoun
of lay, or non-professional. testimonials
They are not given away to be expert
mented with but are sold by all dealers II
medicines at reasonable prices.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16
Packing House Convention

All roads into Baton Rouge
will give a one and one-third fare,
Jan. Is, good to return Jan. 20,
on the occasion of the packing
house convention Jan. 19.
The exercises will include ad-
dresses by Col. Chas. Schiller,
Commissioner of Agriculture
and immigration, DR.. W. r, Dod-
son, director of the State Expert;
ment station, DR.. w. H. Dalrym-
pie of the Louisiana State Uni;
versity; w. L. Foster, of Shreye-
port, a large planter and success;
full cattle raiser. The object OF
the convention will be to interest
the farmers in the PROPOSE
ton to erect q packing house
plant in Baton Rouge, and to in
sure the raising of hogs and cat,
tie to furnish the meat supply
for the packing house. Many
farmers from both Louisiar a and
4 Mississippi have signifed their
intention of attending the con
yo,,f;nr
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16
Rich and Poor.

do not covet the rich mans hoard
For the rich man sits at his groaning board,
And fears to eat of the pie and cake,
II Lest the blame things give him the stomach
ache:
While sit down to plain repast
And eat and eat while the victuals last.
!. llfeed my face. with pound of steak,
And lot of greens and chunk of cake,
And piece of pie and wad of cheese
- A cold boiled hsmand can of peas,
And having eaten ABUNDANT store,
shake myself and eat some more
The rich man lies on downy bed
But sleep won't come to his worried head,
He harks to the slow hours dragging hence
80 While can sleep on barb wire fence.
Walt Mason.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16

main because Ben Tillman has
contemplated and wanted to buy
a little over 1000 acres"
I'm conclusion, Mr.. President,
[ court the most searching in
vestigation, Nay, I demand it,
I declare most emphatically |
have never sought tie conceal my
effort to buy land. | spoke to
the attorney general about it.
[ explained to the agent of the
secret service the whole trans
action when gave him the cir.
cular and the letters which had
been sent me concerning it.
The question of motive will at
last control, and it cannot be
shown that | have any other rea-
son to conceal anything, | in
vite comparison of my private
life and my public life as a man
and a senator, with Theodore
Roosevelt or any other man and
feel absolutely sure of the ground
upon which | stand. "
Although he lost no opportu-
nifty of a blow at the President,
perhaps his most. significant re-
marks were:
st has been expected, and de-
! sired" he said, that having
made my own defense, | should
turn my batteries on my assal,
ant. / do not feel that my
strength is sufficient for the
double task. My physicians have
warned me against overtaxing
myself.
1.-THE President lives in a glass
house, with even a glass floor in
it, and should remembers the old
adage.- He has exertsd all the
power of the government to de,
stroy me, but l feel that. / stand
unsoathed, because if all other
arguments fail to convince men,
: the character for rectltude
truthfulness and honesty which
r I have builded in the sixty
years of my life al last would be
nv bulwark.. Men who have
! always been clean and honorable
, do not suddenly become liars and
q hypocrites at sixty one without
/. any necessity.
!, Later on in this session it i:
! my purpose to devote some tim'
4 to bringing Theodore Roosevelt
" face to face with his true sci
q and let the people of the Unlte'
II States see what character o
" man they have been so boWe'
. down to. For the present
~ content my, elf with applying
# to him this quotation from Sper
: GERS 'Faery Queen He range
n throughout the whole worle
" neither is there any that can n
strain him. Of late he has grow
,e especially presumptuous an
q. lpestilent, barking at and bltln
N all alike, whether they be blam
ct worthy or innocent. Eone :
~. free from his attacks. He spare
rs neither the learned wit nor tt
gentle poet, but rends and tea
10 without regard of person, reas'
)S- or time.
. Mrs. Maud Ballington Boot
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16
Tillmaf Uses His Pitchfork.

Senator Iillmanl replied to the
charges made against him by the
president of having exerted his
official influence as senator for
his personal benefit to secure the
passage of resolution and toll
have the department of Justice
bring a suit against the railroads
OF the northwest in order that he |
might be able to purchase land
held by the South Oregon Land |
company and granted to the
State of Oregon in 1868 for the
construction of a military road.
I'm my public work here"
said Senator Tillman, II have
not hesitated to criticise Presi-
dent Roosevelt and I have doubt
less given him good cause toseek.
revenge.
Nov the President charges
i that I lied to the senate when, 1
said | had not undertaken to pur-
lie base any land. Everything
hinges on the word undertaken,
and my line of it, | had looked in
\ to the land there and had con-
templated buying some of it af-
ter due consideration, but was
prevented from doing so, by the
crooked schemes which I found
were going on, and that the
manipulators were endeavoring
to use my name. So | got up
. in the senate and openly de-
nounced the perpetrators. Ibid
not say I had not considered the
i purchase of land, for had done
both; what | did say was that |
had not undertaken the purchase
of the land, and hence my resolu-
tion introduced in the senate
was not the outcome of disap.
pointment in the matter. 1t was
the outcome of The circulars
Il which [ found dishonest land
s; dealers were sending around an
nouncing that I was interested in
the deals.
I'm my conversation with the
!. attorney general in regard to thu
resolution which | introduced
and which he himself prepared
latter we had talked over thu
whole land situation, [ distinctl.
remember telling him that m.
Interest in the matter had beel
first aroused by my desire t
purchase some of the timbe
land and that my coming to hin
i was due to the fact that | ha
discovered upon investigator
Il that I could not buy it throug
any agency whatever; that
could not buy it even by lawsuit
i because 1 was advised by yer
able lawyers in the west that i
attacking these land grants n
II one would have any standing i
Ii court except the granter, tn
government itself. What wron
ii did I do, and just what law did
III break? According to the repol
Of the attorney general in al
H IsWer to the resolution which
introduced, in. the senate an
II which was passed, Hartman
III the Presidents dear friend, sti
II holds in defiance of law upward
II of two millions of acres OF tt
X best lands of Oregon and Ca
II fornia and refuses to sell the
III at any price. I could not an
never expected for myself al
4 all my family and secretal
butnine quarter sections, la
acres, at a cost of $4,000. W
HI the President undertake to 81
. THAT [ have lost my right
.-; buy land because am senate
I have not attempted to desc
Il ANYBODY: I have not told al
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16

The East Feliciana Police Jury
has made a formal request to the
government for the establish
ment of an experiment farm in
the parish.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16

Clinton is to have a Tag Week
beginning Jan. IS, for the bener
fit of the Confederate Monument
fund of hatplace.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16

Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth,
head of the Voluntary Prison
League, will visit Baton Rouge
and lecture, Saturday, Jan. %.
The following day she spends at
Angola. She will observe the
progress of her prison work
started one year ago.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-16

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