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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
CHICAGO Live Stock,

Chicago, Dec. g. Cattle Marke
slow, weak; beeves, $4.50@7.50; west
ern steers, $4.25@6.40; stockers AM
feeders, $3.3O@5.75; cows and heifera
$2.25@6.3O; calves, $70O@9.0O.
Hogs-Market 5@10c higher thai
yesterdays average; light, $3.50.
100; mixed, ,$;.90@7.35; heavy, 500
OBS; rough, $6.90@7O5; good t
choice heavy, $7.05@7.35; pigs, 1914.
@70O. Pa sSs5
eep-Strong; native, $2.25@4.30.
western, $2.75@4.25; yearlingb, $40
@5.25; lambs, native, $4.25@6.7O.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
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. PERSONAL

DR.. Frederick A. Cook, the Brook
1yn explorer, confesses in an article
which will be published in New
York magazine that he does not know
whether he reached the north pole.
Cook, who has been in hiding longer
than a year, has Informed the editors
of the magazine that he will return to
the United States with his wife and
children December 20, to pass Christ
mas here.
With simple ceremony, General
Diaz took the oath of Office as presi-
dent Of the republic Of Mexico for
the eighth time. In view Of the dis
turbances through which the country
has recently passed, the Inauguration
was not markell by the season of
festas, which has accompanied It In
former years, but was conducted
with the same formal dignity and i'm
pressiveness.
Jem Mace, the greatest pugilist Of
his day and regarded by many as the
best fighter that ever lived, is dead
at Jarrow on Tyne, England, at the
age of seventy-nine. Until the end
he was the idol of the English sport
Ing public.
Juan Mestas, Mexican miner,
dreamed that the Frederick coal mine
at Trinidad, Col, blew up. He told the
story to his fellow workers, and in
less than an hour $50 men had de-
serted.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul,
the lumber king, has promised to erect
for Augustana college at Rock Island,
ILL.,, s150,000 auditorium and musical
conservatory building.
Thomas Mclaughlin, contractor,
Is dead in Rochester, N. Y, as the re-
suit Of fall while walking in his
sleep. His body was found on the
sidewalk in front of his apartments.
He had fallen from the window of his
room.
Brig. Gen. James Cakes, who was re-
tired In 1879, after thirty years of
active service in the Mexican and
Civil wars, as well as the Indian up
risings in the southwest, was over
come in the street at Washington and
died twenty minutes later.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
Aircraft in War,

One is certainly more impressed
than one was by the Importance of
airmanship for the purposes of war.
The airships really have proved this
beyond the least doubt. Airships
promise to be great in the art of OBJ
servation, and every one can realize
the value of that in campaign.-Lon-
don Saturday Review.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
Rails Are Laid to Mortified.

Notwithstanding on the North
field terminal of the Dan Patch elec-
trio line is<now complete and the rails
are laid continuously from Minneapo-
lis to Mortified. Work trains have
been run for some months and it is
hoped that this week will see the first
passenger car on the longest electric
line in Minnesota. All that remains
Is to have the roadbed inspected by
the state railroad commission, and
then the Minneapolis, st. Paul, Ro.
chester & Dubuque railway will be IN
active operation. 81.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
Horrors Of Collision at g..

10 add to the horrors of steamship
collision at night, it often happens
tnat the water reaches the dynamos,
putting the lighting system out of
commission and making it impossible
cor the terrified passengers to find
their way about. In order to prevent
such an occurrence one of the lake
steamboats, has recently installed an
emergency electric lighting system,
connected with storage battery
which ts placed on one of the upper
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
Buried as Pauper; Cash Found.

Buried as Pauper; Cash Found.
st. Cloud. - With three signed war
ranty deeds to property near Avon. a
village Is miles west of this city, and
more than $500 in notes hidden in az
old piece Of stovepipe, Anton Schiefer
an aged recluse, died all alone in his
little house a mile from the village,
The burial was at the expense Of the
town. After the funeral neighbors and
authorities Of the village began 4
search for concealed wealth. The
money and valuable papers were found
in a tin tobacco box within the stove
pipe.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
Plan to Save Skaters Lives.

Albert Lea.-Steps have been taken
by the city authorities to purchase life
saving apparatus to be used on Foun-
tain lake. This course was prompted
by the drowning of a young man in
the lake last week, it being asserted
his life could have been saved had
there been any means of reaching him.
It also is probable the mayor will
appoint several special policemen to
patrol the shores of the lake and keep
skaters from getting on the Ace until
It is deemed safe.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
GENERAL NEWS,

The action of Hon. A. J. Balfour,
the leader Of the opposition in the
British house of commons in accept
Ing the proposition to submit tariff
reform to referendum If the Union
lists win in the coming election is
hailed with the greatest enthusiasm
by the Unionist party.
Mack Neal, negro, who shot one
person to death and wounded four
others at Waverly, Va, was riddled
with bullets by a posse which sur
rounded the negro in cabin.
It is announced that John Gerard
Foster, who died in an insane asylum
st White Plains, N. Y, after being con-
fined there for fifty years, left an es-
tate of 100000. His most conspicu-
ous idiosyncrasy was the desire to
wear clothes many sizes too large.
Gold in what is said to be paying
quantities has been discovered on the
farm of John Grost In Antrim county,
Michigan.
Twenty persons were killed and 26
more were injured in hunting aoci-
NNAIo 49, IAV upkSA PSAAA0uAc1 VI N4A~AA-
gan during the season of 20 days.
The final estimates for the United
States navy for the fiscal year 1911,
to be submitted to congress, amount
to $126,046,659.24, or 100000 less
than the sums appropriated in the
naval bill for the current fiscal year.
This statement was made by Secre-
tary Of the Navy Meyer.
The plurality of Governor Harmon
over Warren G. Harding, as shown by
official returns, is 100,377. This is
more than double the plurality of any
previous Democratic governor of Ohio
and only 1900 behind Myron T. Her
rick's record Republican plurality in
1903.
Five hundred or more people per-
1shed In a terrific hurricane which
ragged over the Caspian sea. Ten ships
are known to have foundered. Fears
are felt for many more, and at Astra-
khan landing stage carrying 300
men, was swept out to sea and it is
believed all were lost.
William J. Pollard, editor Of the
Seneca Falls IN. ~ Courier-Journal
and president of the New York State
Press association, is dead of heart dis.
ease.
It is officially announced that Queen
Helena of Italy expects an addition to
the royal family.
Careful revision of the list of casual
ties In the factory fire disaster at
Newark, N. j., showed that "a persons,
all Of them young women, lost their
lives. Nineteen were injured.
Mrs. John Lockwood Kipling, moth
or of Rudyard Kipling, is dead in Lon
don.
An engagement took place at Chi
huahua, Mexico, between 600 federal
troops and 400 Maderistas, in which
the rebels were routed with loss of
Ii killed and many wounded. A num-
Der of federals were wounded, includ-
ing one officer. The revolutionists
were driven into the mountains.
The census of this year will show a
population of more than 100000
In tho United States and its posses.
Eions, near and remote.
A young woman supposed to be
ETHEL Clara Leneve boarded the Males.
tic when the vessel touched Queens
texa % it, way tt. NeN...YeEk1
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
DIAZ INAUGURATED AGAIN.
Ceremony Shorn Of Ostentation Be-
cause Of the Recent Outbreak.

Mexico City, Mexico. - President
Diaz issued to the Associated Press
the following message to all nations
on the occasion of his Inauguration for
the eighth time as chief executive of
the Mexican nation
1T is very gratifying to me to say
that my heart is full of faith in the
progress of people, who, like the
Mexican, has known how to conquer
by it's own efforts place among the
lovers of toll after having proved it's
valor in war in patriotic. defense of
country. I am also pleased to say that
today more than ever before I can
declare that Mexico belong definitely
to the group of nations of assured sta
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
SAVED BY LIVING CHAIN,

Wilbur Frasier Pulled From Red Lake
River by His Companions.
East Grand Forks. the pres
ence of mind of his companions saved
the life of Wilbur Frasier, of Anchor,
Mimi, when he broke through the ice
of the Red Lake river in this city.
His friends formed chain and with
the use of long stick, which they
held out over the open water, he was
given assistance, being pulled to solid
ice, where he was removed from the
water.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
6emidji Celebrates Last Might,

Bemidji, Nov. 29.-Revelry reigned
here on the eve Of what probably will
be the last day that Bemidji will have
licensed saloons. Nearly every one
OF the % places now doing. business
here was crowded with men who cele.
brated the closing order as a holiday
event.
Following the raid of government
agents upon the saloons at Perham
where places were closed, the officers
under command of T. E. Brents. head
ed for Bemidji. 1t is taken for grant
ed that Bemidji will be the next town
to be closed, and it for that reason
that the crowds made merry.
The passing of the saloons is a no.
table epoch in the history of this
city. Half dozen years ago Bemidji
was wide open. There were more
saloons than all other business houses
combined and open gambling was ram.
pant.
Already there are applications from
men Of other lines of business to rent
the buildings to be vacated by the
saloons. Some Of the places here
which will ship away their liquor sup.
plies probably will continue as soft
drink parlors and will attempt to sell
malt, but up to this time there has
been but little malt shipped into Be.
midi.
The Bemidji brewery recently re.
ceived heavy shipment of malt and
has enough to insure the brewing OF
beer for months to come. The brow.
cry has received no notice from the
government that it must shut down
and it expects to continue, and al
though it cannot ship to outside points
1t hopes to be able to supply the fam
lily trade in Bemidji which the brew
cry people contend promises to be
large from now on.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07
LIQUOR Ii IS RETURNED I NED
NEMESIS OF sALooNMEN IN
INDIAN COUNTRY CLOSES
- MANY BARRooMS.
800 BARS ARE ON BLACK LIST
Over 5000 Cases, Kegs, Barrels and
Demijohns Sent Back to St. Paul
IT. e. Brents Follows in
Wake Of Shipments

st. Paul.-''The tPussyfoot' John.
son Boose special" composed of
nine cars made the trip from Detroit
to st. Paul. T. E. Brents, nemesis of
liquor dealers in the Indian country,
closely followed the "speciap' on the
regular Northern Pacific passenger
train. He came to see that the car.
loads of liquor were not sidetracked
on the way. He was accompanied by
Clarence T. Johnson, the 22-year-old
son of "Pussyfoot" Johnson, chief In.
dian agent.
1t required the efforts of so men,
working for IL hours at Detroit to load
the nine cars composing the train
The shipping bills show that more
than 5000 cases, kegs, barrels and
demijohns were consigned to one St.
Paul wholesale liquor firm.
Agent Brents, in charge of the raid
permitted the saloonkeepers to sell or
return all liquor in their establish
ments. Only twenty gallons of whis-
key, "a gallons of wine, 40 cases and
one barrel of beer were destroyed in
the raid at Detroit. According to Mr..
Brents, even this much would not
have been poured into the cutters had
the proprietors not tried to smuggle it
from their buildings.
-Four saloons and two agencies for
foreign breweries were closed by
Brents and his deputies in the
raid at Detroit. The saloonmen have
informed the Indian agents that they
will under no circumstances reopen
their places of business.
Thirty Liquor Men Face Trial.
Brents, In company with Clarence T.
johnson, left for Sioux Falls. They
will appear as witnesses at the CON-
Ing session of court in that city.
Thirty violators of liquor laws on and
in the vicinity of Rosebud and Pine
Ridge reservations are on the calcn.
dar for trial. "Pussyfoot" Johnson
left for Detroit to take personal
charge of the work in that section Of
the state.
When he returns from Sioux Falls
he says it is his intention to start in
and make a general cleanup of every
saloon in the territory in which he has
been working for the past month.
Detroit land men and others inter-
ested in local business affairs are plan
ming to put the liquor question square,
ly before the Northern Minnesota De-
velopment association when it con.
venes in Brainerd Dec. 1, to determine
If some action may be taken to set
aside the liquor clause in the Indian
treaties. They are not optimistic re-
garding congressional action along
this line, and say none may be hoped
for unless there is a far-reaching sem
timent against the lid"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07

Five men were blown to atoms and
! nine others were entombed beyond
hope OF rescue by gas explosion In
the mine Of the Choctaw Asphalt COM
pany at Jumbo, near Antlers, Okla.
In the list of appropriations for river
and harbor improvements for the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1912, made
public by Secretary of War Dickinson,
congress will be asked to appropriate
| the sum of $4,000, 698 for construction
| work in different parts of the country.
OF this amount no provision is made
for the lakes-to-the-gulf waterway pro-
ject
Officers of the Illinois Mine Workers
| issued statement at Springfield in
which they accused National President
| Lewis of misconstruing the contract
between Illinois miners and operators
for the benefit of the operators.
Attacking the American Sugar Re-
| filming company, Familiarity known as
the sugar trust, as a lawless combina-
ton, the federal government has be-
| gun its suit for the dissolution Of the
corporation. The bill in equity was
filed by Henry A. Wise, district attor-
ney. in the United States circuit court
at New York. The suit is expected to
be one of the most important actions
of the kind ever undertaken In this
country.
Six men arrested last week at Gin
cinnati were identified as the robbers
who took $4,000 from bank at Meta
mora, O., September Z, ..<@
The Lamar register., 1910-09-28

Well. friend. timothy hay and corn
are not by any means a balanced ra-
ton for a horse. and unless you fed a
lot of corn and she digested 1t well
you would not likely see much flesh
coming on her ribs. says a writer in
Tribune Farmer. I suggest that you
get that corn ground into meal; then
with every 100 pounds of the meal mix
100 pounds Of wheat bran and IS pounds
Of linseed meal. and feed her pound
of the mixture to every hundred pound
weight Of horse daily in three feeds.
and as a seasoning place in each feed
a tablespoonful Of the following:
Granulated sugar. two pounds; COM
mon salt, one pound: ginger. six
ounces: powdered gelatin. four ounces:
powdered sulphate OF iron. four
ounces: powdered charcoal. three
ounces; powdered anise-seed. three
ounces. Mix all well together. Use
freely of elbow grease propelling a
good brush. 20 minutes daily. on her
skin.
The Lamar register., 1910-09-28

A year ago there emanated from the
Passenger Department OF the Denver
& Rio Grande Railroad a folder giving
the time OF trains. with notes descrip-
tive of the points of interest. the see
merry and the Industrial and commercial
Importance of the cities located on its
line together with information regard
ing attitudes and populations. This
folder, at once SO simple and under
standable, was such a marked improve
ment over the puzzling leaflets usual
ly handed the traveller that 1t was re-
ceived with instant favor and attracted
much attention. Its drawback was an
awkward fold. and 1t was minus a
map. All this has now been remedied.
a new descriptive folder. with a splen-
did Coast to Coast map and collaps-
ible fold that simply falls together.
having made its appearance a day or
two ago The Rio Grande now enjoys
the distinction of issuing the simplest
and most readily understood time ia
Bile OF any railroad in the United
States.
The Lamar register., 1910-09-28
RZZfY|

taken a company of naturalists to Alaska with
him as his guests. He had had delightful time
with the scientists and they had profted much
In knowledge way by the trip TO comparatively
new fields. found that Mr.. Hartman was keen
ly Interested In birds. trees. shells. flowers.
stones and mammals. and that he knew and ap-
preciated nature In all its forms. That the
only time Z. H. Hartman, but from
what he said during the two hours and half
spent In his car that winter night was not at
all surprised when found out that he had pro-
vided fund for geological research.
Across Lafayette square. due west from the
Cosmos club. is the vacant Decatur mansion.
This house was built by Commodore Stephen De-
catur in the year 1919. and 1t was from Its por-
tails that he went forth year later to meet his
death ut the hand of James Barron. also a naval
officer. who had challenged Decatur to a duel. It
is American history and the circumstances
known to all. but It might be said that 1t was
Barron who was In command of the United
States ship Chesapeake at the time 1t
hauled by the British ship Leopard and searched
for alleged deserters from the British navy
Books have been written about LAFAYETTE
square. but the stories that told about the
men whose statues in the square, and about
the men who lived in the houses surrounding 1t.
are endless, and not all OF them, perhaps, have
found their way into print The statue of Lafay-
cite was erected at one corner of the square not
long after the statue of Andrew Jackson had
been put in place in the center of the square,
provided square can be said to have a center.
Lafayette visited America In 1925. and even
day one hears occasionally of some living person
who remembers his visit.
Not long ago there died in Chicago at her
home Elm street the aged Mrs. Davidson.
She was born in Charleston, S. C. Her maiden
name Anorum; she a granddaughter of
Col William Washington. a first cousin of George
Washington. 1t was William Washington who
at the battle of the Cowpens fought a hand-to-
hand fight with Colonel Tarleton OF the British
forces. Colonel Washington succeeded in cutting
off the thumb of Tarleton's sword hand, and
then there was interference which separated the
combatants.
Lafayette was strong personal friend of VIII
The Lamar register., 1910-09-28
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liam Washington. and when he visited Charleston
In the year 1925 he was a guest at the Ancrum
residence. Mrs. Ancrum. the mother of Mrs. Da-
wilson. being daughter of Colonel Washington.
Mrs. Davidson. then a child six eight years
old. remembered the visit perfectly and kept
until she died a present which Lafayette had
given to her. the grandchiid of his old friend and
comrade In arms.
There is statue of Washington in Lafayette
square. though one day there may be, for II Is
said to be possible that Andrew jackson may be
put elsewhere and George Washington may take
his place. The nearest physical approach. SO to
speak. that one gets to the first president. in La
fayette square, is in the White House. which
fronts II. II may not be generally known that the
White House was completed before Washington
died. 1t was only few days before his death.
Washington tradition has II, that George and
Martha Washington walked through the recently
completed White House. to give their approval
disapprova as II may be. of the arrangement
Of the rooms. 1t is possible that that visit to
the capital the last which the Father
Of his Country made. for It was only short time
afterward that he died at his country seat. Mount
Vernon.
Reference to Mount Vernon brings to mind
the fact that there is living in Washington today
aged man named John Lane. who is the only
living person who ever saw George Washington.
Now. nasmuch the Father of his country died
Ill years ago. this may seem to be something
pretty close to a false statement on Its face. but
It is the truth nevertheless.
When John Lane a small boy the driver
Of a stage that between Washington and
Mount Vernon asked the lad II he wanted ride.
and the answer hasty climbing up to the
seat of honor by the driver. The boy made the
trip all the way to Mount Vernon and arrived
there Just they were removing the body OF
Washington from the old tomb to the new one.
In order to make certain that the remains had
not been tempered with by ghouls who not long
before had broken into the old tomb. the comm
opened and John Lane. aged ten. lifted
up to look the face of the Father of his Coun-
try. Mr.. Lane today is the only person who
survives OF the little company which present
at the transfer OF the body
The Lamar register., 1910-09-28

too highly strung. In this rough
world every man should look out for
himself'-a he proceeds to teach
some one else the same unfortunate
lesson. The constant renewal Of his
sense OF injury has made him think
better of himself and act worse by his
neighbor than he would ever have
done had he been more forgetful.
From any expression OF determined
revenge all decent people now shrink.
1t is passion with which persons
above certain level Of cultivation
hardly count. Hard work. more -