4 Year,in Advance
Terms 2.00
Bellefonte, Fa., Oct. 23, 1891.
P. GRAY MBBE, VY NAIA
. P. GEA
Democratic County Committee, 1891
ce. W.'S. Galbraith
«WW, .. W.'S. Galbrai
Beliohonte, ¥ ooh ... Joseph Wise
John Dunlap
. John T. Lee
Epitor
Centre Hall : oroug .
About Time for New Precedents.
~ Its bad enough for the people of the
state to loose a million and a half of
dollars at one whack, but ‘to be told |
that this was done because republican |
precedent said it was right, ought to |
make it a warning that every tax-pay- |
er should heed.. Precedent means, that
the came thing Las been done before.
How often the people of this ring-rid-
den state have been robhed: to what
extent their Treasury has been deplet-
ed, by the “precedents,” behind which
McCamant and Boyer are now irying
to hide, the :good Lord and the ring
only knows. Is it notaoout time you |
Howard Borough.... . H. A. Moore
Milesburg Borough A, M. Butler
Milheim Borough... Ti A. fisser
i : ; mes s
Puilipsbue, on Ww oy C.A. Faulkner,
i 3d'W.. 2 Frank Hess
Unionyille Borough.. seen. Bo 'MLGrist
Burnside. Eugen. Meeker
Benner. : Harvey Aguiar
. ilip Confer
Boss ...T. F. Adams
‘EY
Collge® Fi. ¥: FN. Reameine
dn ry {1 BeCloskes
ison, E.* aniel Dreibelbis |
LV Geo. W. Keichline
A .. Chas. W. Fisher
ores? ST James P. Grove
Isaac M.Orndorf |
. Geo. B. Shaffer |
...._Eilis Lytle |
.. 'J. W. Keller |
. W.T. Leathers
La enry Hale
... Alfred Bitner
John J. Shaffer '
W. J. Carlin
P. A. Sellers
J. C. Stover
8. W. Smith
B. Spangler
« Jas. Dumbleton
.. William Hutton
Haines, E.P
“ Ww. P.
I Thomas Turbidy
Sow Shee, : .. John D. Brown
... Jerry Doni van
Spring NT or Se Carson
ff iy %Srdeey
10F is . W.T. Hoover
Dlr . Chas. H. Rush
Walker « D. A. Dietrick
Worth... .... O.D.Eberts
csi nese A SCHAEFFER, Chairman.
Democratic State Ticket.
POR AUDITOR GENERAL,
ROBERT E. WRIGHT,
of Lehigh county.
FOR-STATE TREASURER,
A. L. TILDEN,
of Erie county.
DELEGATES T8 'CONSTIPUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Chas, R. Buckalew. Chauncey F. Black.
Geo. A. Jenks. Geo. M. Dallas.
Sam’l. G. Thompson. David W. Sellers.
Henry N. Scott. Robt. E Monaghan.
Win. 8. McLean. F. M. Vandling.
Jno. Latta. Rodger Sherman.
William Weihe. Thos. Lazare.
Samuel Griffith. Grant Weidman.
Geo. W. Zeigler. R. Morgan Root.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For DELEGATE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
ELLIS L. ORVIS.—Bellefonte, WM. BIGLER.
—Clearfield. g
Jury Comuissioner—GEORGE BOWER.
To the Democrats of Centre County ?
The Democratic County Committee
of Centre county offer a handsome ban-
ner costing about fifty dollars to the
election district of the county polling
the largest percentage of the vote cast
last year,
The basis of calculation will be the
vote cast for W. H. Barcray, candi-
date for Secretary of Internal affairs,
The comparison will be made between
that vote and the vote cast this year
for Roserr E. Wricnz, eandidate for
Auditor General. :
The banner shall belong to the win-
ning district so long as it shall con-
tinue to poll the largest precentage of
its vote at subsequent fall elections ;
the basis of calculation to be determin.
ed each year by the County Committee
and to become the permanent property
of the election district polling the
hjghest percentage of votes according
to the dbave plan for three consecutive
years. L. A. SHAFFER,
Chairman.
A ———
What Will You Do About It?
If a man deliberately robbed you of
$1.50 you would follow him for a day,
to recover your money or to punish
him for the crime. Through the con-
nivance of repablican State officials
every voter in the commonwealth, has
been ‘robbed of over this amount.
They know exactly who the robbers
are, ' they know also that they
can never get their money back,
bat will they not, each and every one, -
spend a few hours to go to the election
and vote to punish them for this crime,
Tt is as great a wrong to rob the tax.
paver, after he has placed his share of
“public expenses in the treasury, as it to
reach into his pocket and take it ont,
Every taxpayer in the Siate has been
robbed, and every one should take
pleasure in assisting to vote the rob.
bers out of office. What's the use of
growling taxation and hard times Af
you dod’t try to put out of office the
party.-that steals your money, after you
have paid it over to the tag collector-
EE —————
——"Tafty for the Independent Re.
publicans” is the head under which ac-
couats of the WrieHr and Tirnpex
meetings are being published by the
republican - papers, throughout the
state. Yes, you are right, but the
“taffy” is of an exceedingly sticky kind
and’ its going to glue a nice majority to
honest Democracy.
make some new precedents
The way to:
~—Read the WATCHMAN for political
and general news,
were finding out Mr. Taxpayer? This
thing of loosing the money that is
| wrung from you in the shape of taxes,
has been going on forso many years,
that the men who have been doing. it,
have come to think that 1t is all - right.
Would it not be well for ail concerned,
to stop and take an account of stock,
see where we stand and start out and
for our
State officers to follow.
do this, is to go to the election and vote
for Wricnr and TiLogx.
—— County Chairman SHAFFER has
added a great incentive to the getting |
out of a full poll, throughout thé coun-
ty, by bis offer of a handsome banner
to-the election district polling the larg-
est percentage of the votes. ;cast for W, i
H. Baroray last fall, The banner
will be a very handsome one and 1s to
cost $50,00, or more. It can be retain-
ed by the district winning it, so long as
it shall maintain the largest percentage,
and will be an emblem of superior po- |
litical work. The idea is something
naw and the contest will be watched
with much interest.
well for its trophy! This: beautiful
emblem of staunch Democracy is with-
in your grasp, and it is yours. if you
want it. ri
Where They Will be Held.
Democratic meetings will be held at
the following places :
| Saturday, Oct. 24,—Suear Grove school
house, Huston twp.
and Pleasant Gap,
Monday, Oct. 26.—Linden Hall.
Tuesday. Oct. 27.—Tusseyvilie.
Wednesday, Oct. 28.—Stover’s school
house, Miles twp.,
“ Clark's school
house.
Thursday, Oct. 29,—Wood ard.
5 te * Madisonburg.
Friday, Oct. 30 —Eagleville,
+ fe “ Coburn.
Saturday, Oct. 31.—Snow Shoe,
4 “ . “ Hublersburg,
Able speakers will be present to ad-
dress all of them and a rousing recep
tion should be given those who will talk
to you, Turn out Democrats! and start
the campaign ball rolling, in good
style, in your community.
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$100,000 For Horse.
New Yorxk,Oct. 17 —Tattersall’s pre-
sented a scene today rarely equaled in its
history. The occasion was the sale horses
of the Nursery Stud Farm. The feature
of the evening was the sale of the cele-
brated stallion St. Blaise. Mr. William
Easton was in his best form “St Blaise
is a horse of magnificent breeding.” he
said. “Among the many race horses he
sired may be mentioned Tristan, Shot-
ever, Peter, Thebus, &c., while Fusen,
St. Blaise’s dam, was a good race
mare.”
St. Blaise is a rich dark chestout with
a narrow white blase on his face, both
his near legs being white nearly to the |
knee and hock, while the coronet of his
hind foot has a band of white about it.
He stands abont 16 hands and
inch. \
When St. Blaise entered the ring the
auctioneer took off his hat, saluting St.
Blaise as king of theearth. “Gentle.
men, what am I bid.” Some one said
$50,000. “I am bid $100,000,” was the
triumphant ery. Mr. Charles Reed, of
Fairview Farm, near Gallatin, Tenn.,
was the bidder.
“It is the most startling bid the world |
bas ever known, It has stopped you
all,” cried Mr. Easton. There was dead
silence in the vast assemblage. The
bids were stopped and the king of stal- |
lions was knocked down to Mr, Reed.
The event of the evening was over.
Some of the other sales were as follows :
Magnetizer, b. h,
The Ill. Used, T. W.
port, La., $15,000.
~ Fiddlesticks, brown horse, foaled 1873
by Lexingten, out of Filagree, $300.
Ch. c. out of Lady Primrose, by St.
Blaise, foaled April 29, 1890, Jacob R.
Ruppert, $30,000.
B. f. by The Ill-Used, out of Lady
Roseberry, foaled Febraary 7, 1890,
James Rowe, $11,000.
B. c. by The Ill: Used, out of Royalty,
foaled March 8, 1890, John Daiy, $1,-
800.
Bchreve, Shreve-
Ch. f. by St. Blaise, out of Wood Vio-
lets, foaled April 24, 1890, Alfred Lake-
land, $1,650.
B. e. by The I1l-Used, out of Corde-
lia, foaled March 4, 1890, James Rome,
$7,100.
OvGHT TO BE. —Fogg—Is Boggs a
rich man ?° Dubbs: -No, but he ought
to be. Fogg—Why ought he? Dohbs— He
has held a political’ office for five
years.
Ar THE KITCHEN DooR.—‘Get out
o’ this, you nasty tramp, or I’ll set the
dog on you.”
“Set away, ma'am. He'll never hate
nothin’. I'm a bad egg.”
Chairmen work |
hard to make the winning district pay |
foaled 1885, by | },
SEEOEMEC TA
The Whole Town Alarmed.
Three Negroes Were Lynched Lats.
Saturday Night and Now the Citizens
Fear an Uprising— Go». McKinney
{ mmeden’
l'entire town isin arms and pickets are
posted on every outskirt. The trouble
comes cover the rumored uprising of
negroes in consequence of last night's
"lynching.
Mayor, Bowles has. telegraphed to
Gov, McKinney to send the Monticello
Guards here as a measure of precau-
tion. The report caused a suspension
of services at the churches to-night.
The troops will arrive about midnight.
The negroes who were lynched were
"miners. They had been paid on Sat.
‘urday and appeared in Clifton Forge
{ during the day under the influence of
liquor. They were boisterous and dis-
| orderly, threatening to take the town,
| A posse under charge of town Ser-
| geant went to arrest them. They re-
sisted, and moved off in the direction
[of Iron Gate, a mile and a half away.
+ The posse foliowed. The negroes
| turned and began firing. The shots
| were returned.
| Qae white man, P. A, Bolling, a
railroad brakeman, was instantly kill-
| ed, a white man named Wilkinson in.
| jured, and one negro dangerously
; wounded. Four ot the negroes were
arrested and taken to Clifton Forge.
About ‘two o'clock this morning
(about, 100 men met and determined to
take the prisoners from the jail and
lynch them. By the use of axes and
- crowbars the doors were opened and.
the negroes taken out.
A boy 16 years old was released, and
the other three men were taken to a
tree a short distance from town and
hanged Ooe negro and one white
whan killed outright and three negroes
“hanged.
Garza Still at Liberty.
President Diaz Offers $30,000 for Him,
: Dead or Alive.
Say ANToN1O, Tex., Oct. 18.—The
capture of Calinero E. Garza, the lead-
er of the revolution now in progress in
the northern States of Mexico, has not
yet been effected, although President
| Diaz has offered a reward of $30,000 to
any one who will take him dead or
(alive, It has been a very difficult
matter to get authentic information
concerning the bold invader during the
past week, but the report reached here
last night that he was near Piedras
Negras, Mexico, with an army of sev.
eral hundred men well armed. The
Mexican government is rushing troops
| to that section by the hundreds, and
| will make every effort to.bring the up-
| riging to an end.
There is great alarm felt among the
citizens on both sides of the Rio Grande
border. That Garza has not given up
| his wild undertaking is shown by a
| stirring manifesto which he has just
{ issued, and which is being distributed
lin all the cities of the republic through
his secret agents.
Garza is issuing his proclamations
from a point not far from the border,
doubtless with a view, if he 1s very
closely pressed by the Government
troops, of skipping over the Rio Grande
into this country. Piedras Negras is a
| small settlement on the line of railroad
" which runs through Eagle Pass. The
| country all aronnd is very £parsely, set-
| tled, and the chief industry is’ cattie
raising. The country slopes toward
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;| the Rio Grande and along some of the:
water courses with thickly wooded
| banks, which run north to that river,
Garza would have little trouble in es.
| caping undetected into this country.
| The region north west of his present
| headquarters is almost wholly unin-
! habited. Unless he is betrayed into
| the hands of Diaz there is little proba-
| bility that he will be captured. '
Ee ———
Italy Follows Germany's Lead.
Revocation of the, Decree Discriminating
Against American Pork.
Mr. Louis Contencin, President of
| the Italian Chamber of Commerce,
| says that he has just received notice
0 from Italy that che Italian Ministry
has revoked the decree discriminating
| &gaiost American pork. For some
| months Mr. Contencin has been en.
| deavoring to persuade the Italian Min-
| ister at Washington of the ad visability
1 of this action. He said last night at
i the Italian Chamber of Commerce, 4
{ Pearl street : A
“Notwithstanding the Meat. [ngpec
tion act passed at Washington last Au.
gust, authorizing the President’ to close
| the ports of this country to products of
any nation discriminating against
American products, no threats of re.
taliation upon Italy have been made
by the United Stafes, gor has there
een even-a-demand-tor—the {ree ad-
mission of American pork into Italy on
the part of this country. The revok-
ing of the decree by the Italian Minis-
try was purely voluntary und an act of
courtesy. From the first the Italian
Chamber of Commerce here has work.
for this repeal, considering the law ex
cluding American pork unjust and
thinking that all things possible should
be done to strengthen the good feeling
between this couatry and Italy.”
The notice to Mr. Contencin. was in
| the form of an official despatch from
| Rome. Fink ,
WasHiNgToN, Oct. 18.—The State
Department has not as yet received
any information regarding the the jre
ported removal by the Italian Govern.
ment of the prohibition against Amer-
ican pork. Negotiations have, how-
ever, been progressing satisfactorily to-
ward that end.
Maud 8.’ Record Beaten.
Stockton, Cal., Oct. 20.—Sunol beat
the world's record on the Stockton
track to day, making a mile in 2.081,
beating Maud S.’ time halt a second.
A Fearful Arraignment.
From the Democratic State Platform.
We arraign and condemn the Repub-
ican Legislature for having refused to
Sends a Military Company to the Scene,
CrirroNn Forge, Va., Oct. 18.—The
enforce the Constitution by appropriate
legislation ; for having failed to pass
hinest and equitable apportionment bills,
as required by the Constitution 5 Jor
having ignored the demands of labor for
relief by law; for. having denied the
righteous popular demand Jor such laws
as would distribute the burdens of public
taxation equally upon all clases of pro-
perty, and for having refused to reform
>long-existing abuses wn the mercantile
appraisement laws, as recommended by
the Democratic Executive in 1885.
We arraign and condemn the Repub-
lican Auditor-General for having per-
mitted John Bardsley, the Republican
| Treasurer of Philadelphia city and
county, to embezzle $500,000 of State
tax collected by him, which he was per-
mitted to retain for a long period after
the same was due and payable.
We. arrawgn and condemn (he Repub-
lican Auditor-General for having per-
mitted John Bardsley, the Republican
Treasurer of Philadelphia city and
county, to embezzle more than $360,000
of State license moneys collected by him,
which he was permitted to retain for a
long period after the same was due and
payable.
We arraign and condemn the Repub -
lican Auditor-General for having con-
spired with John Bardsley, the Republi-
county, to. appoint and retain corrupt
Mereantile
their offices for their own private pecu-
Appraisers, who abused
niary advantage, robbed the State of its
wealth hundreds of thousands of dollars
of needless costs, and we demand the
dismissal of the Mercantile Appraisers
of Philadelphia.
We arraign and condemn the Repub-
lican Auditor-General Jor having con-
spired with John Bardsley, the Repub-
lican Treasurer of Philadelphia city
and county, to speculate in public adver-
tising and for having received Jrom the
publishers of the same bribes to influ-
ence their official conduct in placing such
advertisements.
We arraign and condemn the Repub-
lican State Treasurer for wilfully and
knowin gly permitting Bardsley to retain
in his possession over $1,000,000 faxes
collected for and owing to the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania, by reason of
which dereliction a large portion of the
money has been lost to the people.
We arraign and condemn the Repub-
lican State Treasurer for having con-
spired with John Bardsley, the Repub-
lican Treasurer of Philadelpha, to se-
cure to him the payment of $425,000
of the public school fund, long in ad-
vance of the usual time, and when Bard-
sley was already known to the State
Treasurer to be a defaulter Jor over
$500,000, which sum thus improvident-
ly paid to Bardsley was bf him embes-
eled, to the loss of Philadelphia city
and the shame and scandal of the State.
We arraign and condemn the Repub-
lican State Treasurer and the Republi-
can Auditor General for having con-
spired to pay to John Bardsley, the Re-
publican Treasurer of Philadelphia city
and county, on December 80, 1890,
$150,000 out of the State Treasury,
ostensibly on account of Philadelphia
county’s share of the personal property
tax ; but actually before that tax had
been paid into the State Treasury, and
when John Bardsley was already a de-
Jaulter and embezzler to the amount of
$622,013...
The Rainmaker’s Experiments.
Will be Lnlored fin the Present
Unless Better results ‘are Obtained,
Sax Dingo, Texas, Oct. 22.—The on-
ly effect of the war begun here on Fri.
day ou the elements of the rainmukers
was a heavy dew which fell this -moru-
ing. The explosions were continued
all day, and to night they are terrific.
Unless rain falls by to-morrow evening
the experiment will be abandoned for
the present. If it does fall the rain-
makers will go to Mexico and contin-
ue operations there, as that govern-
ment is willing to pay liberally for the
production of rain in the sterile por-
tions of the republic,
Jobn 8. Ellis, who has charge of the
operations, to-night said: “The mater-
| ialsiused to eanse rain are of the best,
but ifthe experiments are continued
some changed should be made in the
method of the production of rain by
concussion iu the atmosphere, as a
steady and considerable Improvement
upon present methods should be ac-
complished.
can Treasurer of Philadelphia city and.
Just revenues, and imposed the Common
GENERAL BRISBIN'S LETTER,
The Great Apostie
tion to the West Writes Abowt
Minnesota and Darkota.
The Prosperous West and
a Great Crop. A
Wonderful Yield of Wheat, West.
ward the Star of Empire.
Rep Wing, MiNNEsora,
; Oct. 12th, 1891,
Eprror WarcHMAN :
The visit of the Editor of the, Warcuyan +o }
the West must have given him a new idea of
the great Empire lying west of the Mississippi: |
It vas a happy thought of somebody to have
the great editorial convention of the nation
meet at St. Paul and it has done us much
good. From all sections, Maine to Texas, and
the Gulf of Mexico to the British line, come
kind words from the thousands of editors
and writers who assembled, at St. Paul. Many
of them had never before seen the West and
had no conception of its grandure, extent and
fertility. I was particulary pleased to see
many editors from the East, to whose papers [
have for years been sending glowing accounts
of this glorious West of ours, and I think some
ofthem had begun to think I even drew tha
picture and was something of an enthusiast, if
not a crank, on the Wes.. But I never said
half the editors have said in its favor since
they returned home after visiting the West
and seeing it for themselves. >
The Warcayax editor was most welcome to
me as he not only represented the press of cur
county, but tha people who I knew best and
among whom I was born and brought up. I
had written much and said much to them,
through the Warenman and Iwas glad to be
sustained by Mr. Meek’s own observations.
It was greatly to be regretted that the tour
could not have been made more extensive and
that it did not come a month later when the
vast grain and corn cr ps of the West were
fully developed, but enough was seen to as-
sure all that hardly anything could be said of
the great West that would be an exaggeration
ofthe facts. Here in Minnesota we are par:
ticularly happy as the Crops are enormous and
the acreage and yield far exceeds any other
year in the history of the State. The whole
year of 1891, has been one of unexampled
prsperty. and developement for Min-
nesota. ' From the time the strawberries were
ripe until the corn and potatoes matured na-
ture seemed to strain wuerself to give the
farmer a prolific yield of everything he plant
ed. The wheat crop was truly wonderful and
Minnesota, I believe, has to day fully 30,000,
000 bushels more wheat than she ever had be-
fore. Enormous as this increase may seem, it
is fully justified by the yield per acre taken
from the threshers who have begun to see
their way through the hundreds of thousands
of stacks,heaped up like bee-hives all oyer the
State. The peopie of Minnesota will havethis
year fully $150,000,000 to spend as a result
from all their crops: But this is not all the
encouragement which the farmer has receiy-
ed from his husbandry, Mortgages are being
paid off already, new barns and houses erected
every where, out buildings and . fences im
proved, new machinery bought and land add-
ed to the old farms. The acreage next year
will be vastly increased, and if we have a good
year another season, fully $100,000,000 will be
added tojthe wealth of the State. Our farmers
in this section are not only out of debt but
have money in bank and many of them have
sums amounting to $500, $1,000 and $2,000 each
loaned out at interest. There is already a
great inquiry for land, and farns in the best
sections have advanced during the year from
$5.t0,810 per acre. Most of the inquiries come
from home aud farmers who desire to add ad-
ditional lands to their farms. These men are
paying from 20 to 25 per cent more for the
lands they want than they could have bought
them for last year. "I'here is every sign HOW
of a vast immigration from adjoining States,
and the last and home farmers are getting
fearful.if they do not buy the lands adjacent
to their own and which they want now, farm.
ers may come in and buy them sothey cannot
get them. The increase in price of good lancs
all over the State amoucts from 10 to 25 per
cent. over prices of last year. But lands are
not yet high, as well improved farms can be
bought at {fom $20 to $25 per acre ; those not
So wellimproved at $15 to $20 per acre and un-
improved lands at from $5 to $12 per acre.
Thais is black loam land free from stone, rich
and almost inexhaustable that will raise from
25 to 40 bushels of wheat per acre and from 40
to 70 bushels of corn to the acre. Vegetabies
are a drug, 400 bushels ot potatoes, 1000 cab-
bages and trom 15( to 200 bushels of almost
any kind of root crops being a frequent yield
per acre,
Our market here is one of the best in the
West and shows the cost of living to be as
cheap as any where in the United States; still
it is hardly an exception to other local markets
in Minnesota, yesteraay articles of consum p-
tion were selling on the streets of Red Wing
City as follows:
Wheat hard..
Corn old. .
COPA. NOW.0u revs ep arss & ‘“
Oats :
...90-93c per bushel,
.
Cheese, Minnesota £ Ib.
Cheese, Wisconsin ..............12¢ Hoge
Buckwheat not yet threshed 8 and 1de per lb.
for flour.
Poultry—
Chickens live...... HS 2a 8c per Ib
Tarkeys «1100 11 9 to 10c per Ib.
Ol ens'*’ JI... 00200000 6to Te *
Roosters'tatiy O01 oo) 510 6c ud
Ducks ‘and Geeses live............ Sto go: te
Vegetables— t
Onions | per bushel... .....80 to 5c
Potatoes white Y , 20¢
Potatoes sweet ~~ « os . 75¢
Turnips:sweet | ii*ii olin 30 to 35¢
Cabbages per head 4c, doz 35 and 40¢
Cucumbers 50¢ ‘per bu. beets 35¢ per bu.
Radishes 12¢ per doz. tomatoes 50c per bu.
Celery 5¢ per bunch 5 stalks very large.
Beans wax 70c per bu. string 50c per bu,
Squash hubbard 10c each others 7¢ each.
Beets rutabagos and spinnach not quoted and
sold for whatever they would bring.
Fruits—
Apples $2.50 and £3.00 per lb. choice varieties
Grapes in baskets, Minnesota, 7 and 8c per Ib.
fin “- Wiscousin, 6 and 7c he
Wild Plums 10¢ per quart.
Crab Apples 50 to T5¢ per bu.transcendant.
Cranberries 10¢ per quart Minnesota.
v 8 and 9¢ per quart Wisconsin.
aaee 18 and 20c per doz.
. 22c per pund.
12 to 16¢ per Ib,
12 to 15¢ per Ib.
Te rary a) §7 to §8 per ton.
Game, Mallard ducks $250 to $2.70 per doz.
$ Teal ducks $1.26 to $1.50 per doz.
Prairie chickens $3.00 to $3.50 per doz.
Partridges $3,50 to 83.75 per doz.
Meats—
Dressed hogs $4.00 per hundred lbs,
Beet, fat steers live weight 4c per lb.
of Tmmigra- i
fri RTE Fons ater do
Matton: Jive weight 5upq 824 per Ib,
Fat cows 2¢ live weight a
| Stockers steers tive $1.85 to 3.04" per 100 Ths.
| Mess pork 9¢ per Ib. lard 7, = ess
| Woo! 24 and 256 per 1b washed, unwashed 15¢
Wood, hard maple $£.50 per copq.
Mixed wood $3.00 and §3.50 per cord.
Coal, hard $7 per ton. :
So you will see living is not high in the
! West, but the farmer finds a ready murket for
! his erops and products and their grea: yield
per acre enables him to make big money at
‘even low Prices, Forty bushels, of wheat to.
the acre would enable our farmers to compete
With eastern farmers, at 50 cent per bushel
21d 50 ‘oof corn at75 bushels per acre and
Lay at 214 tons per acre. We cut'dur hay here
twice in tre’ same year the'first' cutting giving
"15734 tons per acre and:the second cutting
301 ton peracre The second cutting is
much the best hay, bding fine and soft. If we
| figure up our erops in Minnesota, and add to
th: wealth of our State $30,000,000 for increase
of crops over other years and then, figure up
jourtncrease in the price of good farming
! lands abort} $70,000,000 and add the two togeth-
er we have an ‘actual increass of State wealth
in (891 over 139: of '8101.000,000; ‘hot bad you
will say for our western’ Stats, *
' But the two Dakotas which had begun to de-
cline in wealth and be suspected of not being:
good for farmers suddenly leap. to the front
again and shake their treasures of goiden
grain in the face of the nation. Their crops
are simply astounding. Forty “bushels of
wheat to the acre and {he ond is not yet. This.
prodigious crop has surprised even western
farmers. Who would have believed it? 1 con-
fess I was skeptical Jas to the value of Dakota
lands for farming purposes, but I give it up
and gladly say I was wrong. As a good friend
of the west [should never have said these
were not good lands, but I did, and acknowl-
edge it with shame and humiliation, The Da-
kotas have added fully $200,000,000 to their
wealth by this crop so they can stand it to be
abused a little now and then.
The great difficulty has been in harvesting
and saving this crop. Men could not be had
at any price to handleit but it is now all cut,
and threshing is going on day and night
Farmers in Dakota offer $2.50 per day for
threshers and guarantee them from four to six
weeks work. Our erops were s little earlier
than the Dakota crops and ‘as soon as they
were out of the way in response to the call for
he p, many of our farmers went West with
their threshing machines and crews to save
the Dakota wheat. The, call was for 10,000
men to thresh’and although it was impossible
to supply|all the demands, still a mighty army
of workmen went. Such a thing was never
seen before even in the West, The railroads
| threw open their lines to the threshers and
| they moved| with flags and banners on the
| golden fields. The enthusiasm rosé to fever
{ heat and the] threshing machines are running
| day and night. The streams, of golden gran
! are pouring in upon.the Northern Pacific and
Gr2at Northern Railways, and heading even
for Liverpool, Only about 25 per cent of the
great crop can be housed in the graineries of
the West, and the rest must be moved East.
Mr. Hill over whose road the Editor of the
WarcHMAN came East from Montana, has bor-
rowed 2000 freight cars to aid in moving the
Dakota crop. | The great glut of wheats in the
Red River Valley of the north and about
Glyndon, Grand Forks and Crookston, Minn.
Mr. Dahlrymple one of the great Dakota wheat
farmers isnow at Duluth loading three steam-
ers with his wheat for Liverpool. He cut
from one of his farms 30,000 bushels and all
his farms] in Dakota will yield him probably
not less than 300,000 bushels this year.
Two youngimen from Minnesota went to Da-
kota and rented a farm last spring for $8 per
acre to be paid for out of the crops. They
sowed it in wheatand the planting, cutting and
| threshing will cost them $8,000, They have
| 3)000 bushels of prime No. 1 hard wheat that
will be wealth to them, §1 per bushel. They
will have $14,030 to divide or $7,000 apeice for
their year’s work, and all they had to pay
down was $6,000, mostly for seed, horses,
wagons, harnesses and plows. Not a bad be"
ginning for two young fellows both’ of whom
are yet under 25 years ot age.
Our western fariners are holding their
wheat for $1 per bushel and they expect to get
it. Pennsylvania farmers know what dollar
Woeat means to the farmer. It is wealth and
to spare. The small amount of grain needed
to bread the family isa mere bagatelle and
the great surplus is for sale.
[had intended sending youl some tables of
our western lands still for sale and their loca-
tion and price, but this letter is already too
lo1g. There are still millions of acres of
them and as good as have been taken. They
can be had for from $5 to $15 per acre. The
Great N rthern alone has 1,500,000 acres to
sell at thot price. We want to-day one million
of farmers in the West and will guarantee
them not only comfortable homes but wealth
and plenty for themselves and their children
after them. Two hundred thousand farmers
can find homes in Minnesota. Five thousand
people are needed to settle the 700,000 acres in
Sioux Valley, Dakota, and 8,000 more on the
Red River of the North. A million or two
millions of people can be absorbed in the
Northwest, and nobody will know they have
come, 80 vast is the region. We have thous-
ands of Pennsylvania farmers in M innesota—
they are among our best, and all are ‘prosper-
ous and happy. : J
James S. Briseiw,
U.S. Army.
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Cannot Escape.
From the Harris urg Patriot.
The enemy is on the run. With
them money is scarce and enthusiasm is
cold. “Republican corruption exposed
and Republican dishonesty detected,”
us Mr. Cleveland puts it, has alarmed
the honest men of both parties and
aroused the indignation of all, indigna-
tion which must seek practical expres-
sion at the polls. .
Mr. Watres has tried to start the tap.
iff ery in Philadelphia, Harrispurg and
Pittsburg ; first, with the view of “fry-
ing’ campaign “far” from the manu-
facturers, next with the hope of alarm-
ing ail beneficiaries of the McKinley
oill into renewed efforts to save the boss
named and boss-owned ticket. But Mr.
Watres’ bugle seemed to have a cold in
its throat, and it neither inspired nor
alarmed.
Likewise has the effort to orevent the
purposes of the governor in calling an
extra session fallen fruitless, The peo-
ple are not blind. They see that the
vxecutive simply performed a duty from
which he eould not have escaped had he
wanted to ; the demand of the situation
was that officials guilty of grave offenses
against the law should be heard and, if
guilty, promptly removed.
All attempts to ward the blows given
the Republican leaders in behalf of
public honesty have failed. Disaster is
settling around them. They are trying
to dee from the people’s wrath, but they
cannot escape.
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