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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
SYNOPSIS.

Congressman Heman Atkins wants 10
buy Cy Whittaker's place. Cy unexpect-
edly returns to his boyhood home.
Every one in Bayport venerates ana
fears Atkins except Cy. Atkins opposes
the selection of Miss Phoebe Dawes as
teacher.
Cy champions Phoebe Dawes against
Atkins and she is elected teacher. Cy
engages Mrs. Beasley as housekeeper.
Cy discharges Mrs. Beasley. Emily
Richards Thomas. aged eight. arrives at
Cy's place.
She is an orphan and has come to live
with him, although he did not invite her
to do SO.
Cy is furious, but he grows fond of her
and keeps her. He nicknames her "Bos'n ;"
and she learns to love him.
captain Cy invites Congressman Atkins
to Emily's birthday party. and the law
maker decides to accept
Congressman Atkins gets a severe shock
when he learns the last name and identity
Of the girl Emily. A mysterious stranger
arrives at Cy Whittaker's place.
The stranger attacks Miss Phoebe, and
Captain Cy rescues her after a scene of
considerable violence.
A tempestuous town meeting occurs.
Congressman Atkins makes the mysteri-
Gus stranger his friend. The latter turns
out to be drunkard, one Thomas, who
Il the father Of little Emily. Captain Cy
u defeated for school commissioners.
A fight occurs between Captain Cy and
Thomas. Legal troubles arise over Cap
tssa s.y's guardianship Of Emily.
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:
AN ENvIAELE RECORD.

For Thirteen Years the Juliet Murray
Lang Institute las Operated in ST.
Paul, successfully Tre1ting Hun.
dreds OF Unfortunate Men and
Women Addicted to the Liquor ard
Drug Habits.
1t is idle to preach of the evils of
fntemperance for everyone is familiar
with them. 1t also is of little use
telling the victim of the liquor or drug
habit that the indulgence is injurious
to him, that it not only wastes his sub
stances, undermines his health and
brings him into disgrace but ultimately
entails sorrow and misery upon his
family and makes him an object of
loathing and contempt as well. The
chances are he realizes all this far
better than anyone else. The trouble
is, his will power is SO weakened and
the craving is so great that he can't
stop. He simply can't. He's got to
have help. That help is just what
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
TO SETTLE mlD" QUESTION
Liquor Men Will Institute Suits in
Federal Court.

st. Paul, Feb. 21.-The liquor in
terests are getting ready to institute
a suit in federal court calculated to
bring to a final determination the
question of sales of liquor in the re-
stTicted Indian lands, embracing the
entire territory of Northern Mime
sofa included in the treaty of 1855.
This announcement was made by
f. w Zoilman, representative of the
liquor interests. 1t is possible the
suit will not be fled before April, but
it is now in the course of preparation
The action of the government in ap-
pealing the cases decided by Judge
Willard has made the liquor men de-
termined to settle the question of the
validity of the old treaties and the
bearing of subsequent laws.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
PAPERMAkER ATTACKS BILL
Neenah (Wis.) Manufacturer Before
Senate Finance Committee.

NeSnan (WlS.I mdnuIdCtuTSf DcfOrS
Senate Finance Committee.
Washington, Feb. 21.-Hearings on
the Mccall bill to carry out the pro-
visions of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement were begun by the senate
committee on finance. During the fore
noon the only witness was John
Strange of Neenah, Wis, paper
manufacturer and former lieutenant
governor of his state. Mr.. Strange
opposed the bill in vigorous language,
charging that false sentiment in favor
Of it had been manufactured by a
league of newspapers which he be-
iieved to be in violation of the Sher-
man antitrust law.
Considerable difficulty was expert
enced by Senators Lodge, Cullom,
Flint and Stone in keeping Mr..
Strange to his subject and obtaining
from him reasons why the agreement
should not be confirmed. Sometimes
Senator Lodge sharply demanded
something other than attacks upon
the motives of newspapers in their de.
mands for cheaper paper.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
Shrinking Billiard Balls.

AS ivory dries it shrinks, and expert
ence has taught the ivory billiard ball
turner that tusk shrinlis more in
width than in length To meet this
popularity the best balls are made
from tusks little thicker than the ball
The tusks of COW elephants are best
for billiard balls. They are not SO
curved as bull tusls, and the fine nerve
passage is not so plainly seen. The
billiard ball is turned in the rough and
kept in a warm room for two years.
1t is then, after shrinking, turned again
to true.-New York Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
JOIN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Syracuse IN. W Mail Clerks Take
Revolutionary Step.

Syracuse, N. Y, Feb. 21.-Two hun.
dred and forty-eight railway mail
clerks here took revolutionary step
for government employees by afiliat-
ing with the American Federation of
Labor, receiving a charter therefrom
and electing and installing officers.
The new organization, which stands
on the same basis as labor union, is
to be known as the Railway Mail
Clerks Protective association and is
the first organization of postal en-
ployes to join the ranks of organized
labor.
The clerks claim they have not the
right to appeal and cannot reach the
department to better their conditions.
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Citation for Hearing on Petition for
Administration.
Estate of Thomas F. Marsh.)

GTATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF
- Redwood in Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Thomas F.
Marsh, decedent.
The state of Minnesota to all persons in
terested in the granting of administration
of the estate of said decedent: The petition
of Waldo E. Marsh having been filed in
this court, representing that Thomas F.
March then resident of the county of Red
wood state of Minnesota, died intestate on
the 18th day of January, 1911, and praying
that letters-of administration of his estate
be granted to Waldo E. Marsh; and the court
having fixed the time and place for hearing
said petition:
Therefore you. and each of you are here
by cited and required to show cause. if any
you have. before this court, at the probate
court rooms in the court house, in the city
of Redwood Falls, county of Redwood, state
of Minnesota, on the 9th day of March,
1911, at 10 O'Clock a. m why said petition
should not be granted.
Witness, the Judge of said court and the
seal of said court, this 18th day of February.
1911.
COURT sEAL) A. r. A. LAUDON,
A. G.. DoLLITF Probate Judge.
Attorney tor Petitioner. 30-3t-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28

The Juliet Murray Lang Institute
has been giving the past thirteen years
and it is with not a little pride that
we point to our record when we think
of the hundreds of poor unfortunates
we have rescued from fate worse
than death-a drunkard's grave-the
homes united and made happy and
the tears for joy of the mothers, wives
and children.
The cravings for alcoholic stimulants
or narcotic drugs can be permanently
removed by the Juliet Murray Lang In
stitute. That fact is well established.
It matters not how a person becomes
addicted to the habit or of how long
duration it may be or how strong the
craving or desire has become, the
Juliet Murray Lang Institute soon
gives relief. We destroy the appetite
for drink remove the alcohol from the
system and then build the system up to
its normal condition, leaving the pa
tient mentally and physically the same
as he was before the drink habit was
formed.
AS can be seen from the above cut
the Juliet Murray Lang Institute is a
lII1e OlU IldHSIOll, ny sir uD-
berry and stately elms. 1t is located
but one block distant from beautiful
within easy walking distance from the
business section and only one block off
the West Seventh street car line.
The cost of treatment includes board
and medicines and the services of the
physician in charge. The terms are
most reasonable and will be furnished
upon application. If you have a friend
or relative afflicted with the drink or
drug habit you viii be doing a worthy
and charitable act in recommending
him to the
JULIET MURRAY LANG INSTITUTE
288 Walnut St.,
st. Paul, MINI.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
FIERCE STORM IN ALASKA
Wind Reaches Velocity of Eighty
miles an Hour.

Cordova, Alaska, Feb 21.-One of
the worst storms ever experienced in
Cordova and the Copper river valley
ended after three days of continuous
rain and of wind reaching velocity
of eighty miles an hour. Snow melt
ing on the mountain sides caused bad
landslides on the railroads running up
the Copper river, but they are now
cleared The river is bank full and it
is feared that the flood will start the
glaciers moving long before the Alas
ka winter Is ended.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
Medical Authority Dead.

New York, Feb. 21.-News has been
received here of the death at Sassa-
daga, Fla, of Dr. Emmett Densmore of
this city. He was nearly seventy-ive
years old. Besides being a medical
authority of considerable repute and
the author of several books on hygiene
and food theories he was an inventor,
being associated with his brother
James in the manufacture and intro
duction OF typewriter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28

had intrusted to Georgianna would, he
believed. arouse Phoebe's indignation
She would not call again. And When
he returned to Bosn it would be to
take up the child's fight alone II ne
lost that fight. or when he lost It, ne
would close the Cy Whitaker place
and leave Bayport for good.
He had been in Washington once De-
fore. years ago. when he was first mate
of ship and had few weeks shore
leave. Then he went there on pleas
ure trip with some seagoing frlendS
and had a jolly time. But there was
precious little jollity in the present
visit He had never felt so thoroughly
miserable. In order to forget he made
up his mind to work his hardest to dis
cover why the harbor appropriation
was not to be given to Bayport.
The city had changed greatly. He
would scarcely have known it. He
went to the hotel where he had stayed
before and found a big modern build
ing in it's place The clerk was in
clined to be rather curt and perfume
tory at first, but when he learned that
the captain was not anxious concern
ing the price Of accommodations. but
merely wanted a conf table berth
somewheres on the saloon deck" and
appeared to have plenty of money he
grew polite. Captain Cy was shown
to his room. where he left his valise.
Then he went down to dinner.
After the meal was over he seated
himself in one of the big leather chairs
in the hotel lobby, smoked and
thought In the summer, before Bos'n
came and before her father had arisen
to upset every calculation and wreck
all his plans, the captain had given
serious thought to what he should do
if Congressman Atkins failed, as even
then he seemed likely to do, in stcur-
ing that appropriation. The obvious
thing, of course, would have been to
hunt up Mr. Atkins and question him.
But this was altogether too obvious
In the first place the strained relations
between them would make the inter
view uncomfortable, and in the sc 81
if there was anything underhand III
Heman's backsliding on the appropria-
ton Atkins was too wary bird to be
shared with questions.
But Captain Cy had another ac-
quaintance in the city, the son Of
still older acquaintance, who had been
a wealthy shipping merchant and mine
| owner in California. The son was also
a congressman from a coast state, and
! the captain had read of hlm in the pa
pers. A sketch of his life had been
printed, and this made his identity alb
solutely certain. Captain Cy's orig
inal idea had been to write to this cor
| gresham Now he determined to find
| and interview him.
He inquired concerning him of the
hotel clerk, who, like all Washington
clerks. was a walking edition of
who's Who at the Capital"
Congressman Everdean" repeated
the all knowing gentleman. Yes, he's
in town. Has rooms at the Gloria,
second hotel on the right as you go up
/ the avenue--only short walk. What
can | do for you, SIR
The Gloria was an even bigger hotel
than the one where the captain had his
berth" An inquiry at the desk Of
another important clerk was answered
with a brisk:
."Mr. Everdean? Yes, he~rooms here
Don't know whether he's in or not.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
CHINA'S REPLY
UNSATISFACTORY
Russia Concentrating Force
on the Frontier.
DEMANDS UNWARRANTED

Celestial Empire Declares That to
Grant Request of Cars Government
Would Give to the Latter a Com
mercial Monopoly in Mongolia,
Even to the Exclusion of Chinese
Trade.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 21.-China's
"ultimatum," unsatisfactory in almost
all of it's conclusions, has been re-
ceived here.
The answer falls so far short of
Russia's demands that the war office
has already concentrated large Rus
sian force on the frontier, preparatory
to Selling the Kuldja district of Chi
nese Turkestan.
China says that to grant Russia's
demand would give the latter COM
mercial monopoly in Mongolia, even
to the exclusion of Chinese trade.
The third article in Russia's note
demanded:
Freedom to trade and liberty to
travel and reside for Russian subjects
In Mongolia and territories behind the
great wall"
China contends that this is an un-
warranted extension of the idea of
freedom of trade, particularly as Rus
STA demands exemption of taxation
for her people.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
FARMER SLAIN; BRIDE HELD
South Dakotans Body Has Knife in
Heart.

Aberdeen, S. D., Feb. 21.-Philip
Kreiter, thirty-five years old, farm
er living four miles from Hecla, was
found dead with butcher knife stick
ing in his heart He held another
knife in his hand. His wife, Eva May
Kreiter, twenty-five years old, is un-
der arrest on charge of murder 1t
is alleged the woman had been stay
ing for some time at Hecla hotel,
but on Sunday went out to the farm,
where Kreiter had remained. The
couple had been married but six
weeks, it is said, and removed to the
Hecla neighborhood only month ago
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
Citation for Hearing on Petition for
Determination of Descent of Land
Estate of Matilda Eakin.)

GTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
- Redwood, in Probate Court:
In the matter of the estate of Matilda
Eakin, decedent
The state of Minnesota to all persons in
terested in the determination of the descent
of the real estate of said decedent: Tne Pc
tition of William L. Lussenhop having 6een
filed in this court, representing that said de-
cedent died more than five years prior 10
the filing thereof, leaving certain real estate
in said petition described, and that no Will
of decedent has been proved nor aomlnls-
tration of her estate granted in this state,
and praying that the descent OF said real
estate be determined by this court;
Therefore. you. and each of you, are
hereby cited and required to show cause, II
any YOU have, before this court, at the pro-
bate court rooms in the conrt house. in the
CITY of Redwood Falls. county of Redwood.
state of Minnesota on the 18th day of
March, 1911, at 10 O'Clock a. m, why said Pc
tition should not be granted
witness the Judge of said court. and the
seal thereof, this 10th day Of February.
1911.
A. r. A. LAUDON.
COURT sEAL) Judge of Probate.
A. C.. DoLLIFF,
Attorney for Petitioner. 29-3t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
PANIC BUCABoO
BROUGHT OUT
Extra Session Bad for Busi-
ness, Old Guard Says.
DOUBT 1T WILL BE CALLED

Prediction Made That President viii
Change His Mind When 1t Is Point
ed Out That Such Action "WouId
Invite a General Business Disaster"
In the United States.
Washington, Feb. 21.-That an ex-
ira session invites general business
calamity is the answer of the old
guard opposition to President Taft's
plain ultimatum that an extra session
will be called unless there Is a vote
In the senate on Canadian reciprocity
before March 4. The presidents ulti-
matum was conveyed to congress and
the public by Representative Mccall
in an interview given out after a con-
ference between the Massachusetts
representative and the president.
Soon thereafter senate leaders got
busy working up the bugaboo Of i'm
pending disaster. They discussed the
matter among themselves and with
newspaper men and they sent word
TO the White House that the presi-
dents determination to call an extra
session was virtually an invitation to
serious trouble in the business world.
They argued that the entire tariff
question would be opened up by the
Democrats at an extra session and
that there could be but one result of
this, particularly since the business in
terests of the country had barely had
time to compose themselves after the
agitation and uncertainty incident to
the enactment of the Payne-Aldrich
law.
president Taft doubtless thinks
now that he will call an extra session
If the Canadian reciprocity agreement
is not ratified by the senate, said one
of the old guard leaders, "but I be-
Iieve that when he sees the certain
result of this he will change his mind.
/ can't believe that the president will
deliberately invite general business
disaster"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
CHATTER XVIII.

\ the old days. the great days
IL of sailing ships and merchant
fleets Rapport was com
49, munity of travellers. Every
ambitious man went to sea and even
tually. if he lived became a captain.
Then be took bis wife and. in most
cases. bis children with him on long
voyages. To the stay at homes came
letters with odd foreign stamps and
postmarks. Our whatnots and parlor
mantels were filed with carved bits of
ivory, gorgeous shells, alabaster can
dlesticks and plaster miniatures of the
leaning tower at Pisa or the Coli
scum at Rome. We usually began a
conversation with, when my husband
and / were at Hongkong the last time"
OR, II remember at Maurftius they
always New Orleans and Frisco
were the nearest domestic ports the
mention of which was considered
worth while.
But this is so no longer. A trip to
most of us, but when we visit New
York we take care to advertise it be
forehand. And the few who avail
themselves of the spring ''cut rates"
and go on excursions to Washington
plan definite programmes for each day
at the capital and discuss them with
envious friends for weeks in advance,
And If the prearranged program is
not scrupulously carried out we feel
that we have been defrauded. 1t was
the regret of Aunt Sophronia Hallett's
life that on her Washington excursion
she had not seen the diplomatic
corpse" She saw the president and
the monument and congress and "the
relics in the Smithsonian institution, y
but the corpse" was not on view.
Aunt Sophronia never quite got over
the disappointment.
Probably no other Bayporter In re-
cent years has started for Washing
ton on such short notice or with so
i'll defined program as Captain Cy. He
went because he felt that he must go
somewhere. After the conversation
with Asaph he simply could not re-
main at home. If Phoebe Dawes called
he knew that he must see her, and II
he saw her what should he say to
her? He could not tell her that she
must not visit the Cy Whitaker place
again. If he did she would insist
upon the reason. If he told her of the
town talk" he felt sure, knowing her
that she would Indignantly refuse tc
heed the malicious gossip. And he
was firmly resolved not to permit bel
to compromise her life and her future
by friendship with social outcaT
like himself AS for anything deeper
and more sacred than friendship. thai
was ridiculous. II for a moment
remark of hers had led him to dream
of such a thing it was because be was
as he had so often declared, an "oll
fool"
So Captain Cy had resolved uDol
fight. and he fled to Washington be
cause the business of the "Commftte
of one offered a legitimate excuse TO
going there The blunt message h
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania.

Pittsburg, Feb. 21.-One of the
is being experienced throughout West
ern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and
West Virginia. In this city four inches
were registered, while in the outer
districts it is much greater In a
number of places it is combination
of rain and snow and wire commune
cation has been retarded.
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Congressman Allen Dead.

Washington, Feb. 21.-Representa.
tive Amos L. Allen (Rep., Me- died
of pneumonia at his apartments here
following several days Illness. His
daughter, Miss Laura e. Allen of Al
fred Me-. ard son, DR.. Edward C. AL
len Of Bos.xns were with him when he
died. Mr.. Allen was ssventy-four
years OF age and had been q member
Of congress since 1899.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
Takes BipIane to China.

San Francisco, Feb. 21.-Fung Guey,
a Chinese, has left here for his native
land, taking with him Curtiss BIZ
plane, in which he intends to make ex-
hibition flights. 1t Is believed that he
will be the first aviator to rise from
the ground in China Fung Guey has
been experimenting with asroplanss
Tor about two years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28
A Gink.

Father" asked the boy. what is
gink?'
Il have only vague idea, my son."
said Professor Goozie. "but I presume
gink is a guy or a geezer or some
thing of that kind raised to the nth
power" -Chicago Tribune
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-02-28

Miss Phoebe visits the Widow BersIey
Phoebe investigates some matters per-
tanning to the past.
Captain Cy goes to Washington regard
ing serious matters affecting Congress.
man Atkins.