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VOL. I.
STATE NEWS.
THE farmer's warehouse at Albert
Lea is nearly completed.
THE upper Mississippi steamer Poke
goma, has gone into winter quarters at
Aiken.
Miss MARY TANNER has been cho
sen for School Superintendent of Mar
tin county.
MANKATO, according to a recent
enumeration by directory nublishers,
contains a population of 5,336.
THE New Ulm Herald claims that
501,393 bushels of wheat were shipped
from that place from August 7 2 to Au
gust '73.
THE voters of Lyon county at the re
cent election voted, by a majority of
393, in favor of the removal of the
county seat to Marshall.
THE house of Fred Letter, a few
miles west of St. Peter, with most of
the household furniture, was destroyed
by fire Saturday night last.
REV. E. THOMPSON, of Waseca,
will soon deliver a series of lectures in
various portions of the State on The
Universal Christian Republic."
BY the premature discharge of a gun
in the hands of Bruno Schubert, the
other day, Dr. E. H. Lewis, of Chaska,
had his left arm badly shattered.
THERE was no truth in the story
about a son of "Mr. Griebler of St.
Cloud, being killed by another boy
cramming snow in his mouth and bind
ing it in with a handkerchief.
SOME of the boys" of St. James
were firing a cannon the other day to
celebrate their county seat victory,
when the gun exploded. No one
hurt.
JUSTICE P. M. WRIGHT of Delano is
accused by the Eagle of carrying away,
on his recent departure from that town,
the docket of his court which shows
him to be indebted to the county for
fines he has collected.
VINCENT'S survey party have about
completed the location of the proposed
branch of the Sioux City road, from
Good Thunder's Ford to Blue Earth
City. Grade stakes will be set in the
Spring.
THE Duluth Minnesotian says there
are now about 1,000 men out of em
ployment in the Lake Superior mining
towns, and the probabilities are that
the number will be increased.
QUINN, the rough who was concerned
in the Arrasmith stabbing affray at Wi
nona, has been sentenced to two years
in the State Prison. His pal, Cauley,
was discharged for want of evidence.
A MAN from Janesville was arrested
last week on a charge of incest with
his girl, only eight years old. The
case was adjourned over to Monday last
and was then withdrawn. The general
opinion is that the case had no founda
tion in fact, and for the sake of decen
cy we trust the opinion is correct.—
Waseca News.
BUTTER—We understand that Mr.
C. Rusell, Esq., of this city, who has
been engaged through the summer in
purchasing and working over butter,
by an improved process, has packed
over thirty tons during the season, and
has about twenty now on hand for ship
ment. He ships to Boston and St.ceased
Louis. The dairy interest is fast grow
ing in Rice county, and will eventually
largely supplant the exhaustive system
of cropping consequent upon exclusive
wheat culture.—Faribault Republican.
COLONEL W. H. WOOD, command-
ing at Fort Richardson, reports that
four citizens, who encamped on Lost
creek, about 600 yards from the pa
rde ground, were attacked, on the
night of October 9th, by a party sup
posed to be Indians, and one of them,
Mr. Edward Farrell, was mortally
wounded. The attack was made for
the purpose of stealing horses, but as
the citiens retnrned the fire the In
dians beat a hasty retreat.—Sibley
Co. Independent.
Hkllf^ fc*$l,
A MAN whose name we have not
ascertained shot and killed his wife at
Fort Ripley on Monday last and then
shot himself.
A woman who calls herself Mrs. Ste
venson is obtaining subscribers to Demo
rests' Magazine in various portions of
the State. She claims to be employed
by J. A. Stevenson & Co. of this city,
but that firm denies all knowledge of
her.—Dispatch.
IT is mentioned as a late incident of
frontier life at Marshall. Lyon county,
that an Indian walked into a store
there and laid upon the hot stove a
bag containing a live skunk There
was aloud smell and a mad storekeep
er there.
WM. CAMPBELL, a man about 35
years of age, was picked up on the 31st
ult., on the railway near Breckinridge,
exhausted by exposure, and brought to
Wilmar. where he died. When found
he was under the influence of liquor
and had laid in the snow all night.
A FARMER of Wabashaw county last
week, riding home from Lake City, had
the good fortune to foil a would-be
robber, and left the scoundrel lying in
sensible by the side of the road. He
begged a ride and then tried to knock
the farmer out of his wagon, but was
himself knocked out.
THE Sunday meditations of Mr.
Sims of Alexandria in Douglas county
were disturbed on the 2nd inst., by a
bullet coming through his house. In
its course it passed not more than two
feet from Mr. Sims. Appearances indi
cate that it was fired from near the
house but by whom nobody knows.
ALDO, a Swede, was working at a
buzz saw at Rice Point, near Duluth,
Monday last, when the saw broke from
its gearing and struck him upon the
breast, cutting a gash ten inches long
and severing two of his ribs. One of
his hands was also terribly cut so that it
had to be amputated, but nevertheless
he walked half a mile or more to a
doctor's office before his wounds were
dressed.
YESTERDAY, three gentlemen—W.
J. Murphy, Col. T. Barton, and
Dr.The
H. H. Hill, all of Pontiac, 111., arrived
in town and after a short stay, proceded
by a special train west, as far as the
Sioux river, then retnrned to Marshall.
They were in search of a suitable loca
tion for a colony of 500 Illinois families.
They seem to be partial to this line of
railroad and very favorably impressed
with the country lying between New
Ulm and the State Line.—Prairie
Schooner.
ON Thursday afternoon of last week
Stephen Van Loon, of Holmes City,
started across Pocket Lake in a boat,
and when about half way over the boat
capsized. Mr. Van Loon clung to the
boat, which drifted towards shore, and
called loudly for help. Mrs. Hill,
mother-in-law of Mr. V., who lives near
the lake, heard the cry for help and
herself and little son ran down to the
shore. The boy .waded into the water
up to his arm-pits and tried to get Mr.
V. to let go his hold on the boat but
could not as he was chilled through and
completely exhausted.—Mrs. Hill and
son then started to get assistance from
some of the neighbors, and when they
returned jund Mr. V. dead. The de
was a young man, had been
married about a year. He was a son
of Mr. Miner Van Loon, of Holmes
City.—Alexandria Post.
A FARMERS' MANUFACTURING COM-
PANY.—We are pleased to chronicle
any effort on the part of the farmers to
help themselves by organization and by
the establishment of home industries.
A correspondent of the Indiana Farmer
states that a body of substantial farm
ers has subscribed the capital necessary
for a Farmers' Manufacturing Company,
to be located at Lyndon, Ind., on the
Rock River. Their water power is su
perb. Paper manufacturing and flour
milling is to be the business,, the latter
being already in operation.
1 I I O S E N & I N N O W E E O W E
KED WING, GOODHU
E C0UN1T, MINN., NOVEMBE 19, 1873.
NEWS ITEMS.
—It is stated that the Atlantic &
Pacific and St. Louis, Kansas City &
Northern Railroads will reduce the
salaries of all employees, from Presi
dent down, 10 per cent. Right, if
they include the big bugs as well as
the little ones.
—Brigham Young's new house is to
be on a scale of unusual splendor, if
the Salt Lake Tribune is right when it
declares that it will be one of the most
gorgeous and costly residences any
where between sunrise and sunset."
—The yield of wine in California
this year will not be much over 3,000,
000 gallons against 5,000,000 in 1872.
A yield of 8,000,000 gallons was ex-ment.
pected this year, but the spring frosts
and summer heat cut it down.
—The aggregate number of patents
applied for in the United States in 1872
was 18,243. This was an excess
of 4171 over the combined number ap
plied for in twenty-three other coun
tries enumerated by the British patent
Office. The number applied for in
France was only 4872, in Great Brit
tin 3970 and Belgium 1921.
—The free party of Iowa are evident
ly determined to hold the ground they
won in the recent election. Hon. John
P. Irish of Dubuque, has received com
munications from leading citizens of
thirty-five different counties calling for
organs to represent them. Out of 325
papers in the State only twenty are op
position. Many county officers on the
opposition tickets have been elected,
and there is a good show for live news
paper men.
Ruining the Railroads."
Railroad men and their organs are
constantly harping upon the iniquity of
farmers in endeavoring to curtail their
charges. They pull long faces and say
that the present rates will scarcely pay
working expenses and that any reduc
tion would be absolute ruin-
How can they say this when it is a
fact that the Western roads have earn
ed more money this year than last.
Chicago and Northwestern road,
for instance, has in comparison with
last year increased its earnings at the
rate of $2,000,000 per annum. The
other roads are also doing well, the
Ohio and Mississippi being the only
one which has lost ground.— Western
Rural.
Colorado Liquor Suit.
DENVER, Col., Nov. 12.—An import
ant suit has just been dicided 'in the
District Court at Colorado Springs, El
Paso county, Judge Hallet presiding.
The suit was brought by the Colorado
Springs Company against Carroll &
McDonald, to recover possession of a
lot of ground deeded by the former to
the latter, some months since—a condi
tion in the deed prohibiting the manu
facture or sale or other disposition of
intoxicating liquors as beverages, or the
keeping of any place of public resort
on the premises—and conveyed under
penalty of forfeiture. The condition
was sustained, and the jury found the
defendants guilty of breach of condi
tions, and the property was restored in
full to plaintiffs.
Immigrants Returning to Europe.
The officers of the. German Steamer
King Wilhelm, which sailed from New
York on Wednesday, and the Cambria
which sailed on Thursday, received a
large number of applications from emi
grants, who came out fcy them, to work
their passage back, some offering all
the money they had left for the privi
lege. Such a thinu has never occurred
before, and the officers have taken as
many as possible, though able to employ
only a very few of the numerous appli
cations. So many men are out of em
Eloyment that newly arrived emigrants
ave been unable to procure work and
the panic will probably thus prove a
serious bar to emigration.
The Secrecy Feature of the Patrons
Misapprehended.
Our readers will observe, in this issue,
two communications from correspondents,
who, like many other worthy persons,
seem to have mistaken notions on the sub
ject of the Farmers' Movement, especially
as respects the secrecy feature ofthe Order
of Patrons or Husbandry. These letters
we admit to our columns in accordance
with our usual custom of allowing the
widest possible scope to discussion, and as
tending to bring out more forcibly the
real objects of the movement.
The Granges of Patrons of Husband
ry form but one wing of the great army
of farmers who are engaged in this move-
Farmers' Clubs, Farmers' Unions.
Farmers' Co-operative Societies, ai-e all a
part and parcel of the organization.—
The individual farmer can choose the or
ganization he likes best. The Patrons
of Husbandry is the only Order of which
secrecy is a feature and the secrecy en-"
joined among the Patrons is but slight.
There is, apparently, a widespread im
pression abroad that the Patrons are a
sort of Carbonari, or are members of a
kind of Vehm Gericht, sworn to advance
the interests of their organization by any
means, fair or foul that they are bound
by terrible oaths sworn on dagger-hilts,
skulls and crossbones, to assassinate any
one whom a mysterious secret council de
sires out of the way that their con
claves are held at midnight, the officials
being clad in scarlet robes and impene
trably masked that there the office of
poignarding the luckless wight who has
incurred the condign displeasure of the
Order is thrust, willy-nilly, upon some
neophyte Granger, whose head is the
surety of his obedience,—all this, because
the Patrons choose occasionally to exclude
outsiders from their business delibera
tions.
No one, we presume, would question
the right of an individual to use a re
volver upon a highwayman who attacks
with the same weapon. This case, which
one of our correspondents used to illus
trate the secrecy feature, is not a good
one as applied to the Farmers' Move
ment. Certainly violence is not advo
cated, but simply lawful resistance to the
consolidation of great corporations to the
injury of the people.
The fact that railroads, and monopo
lists generally, have secret understandings
with each other, is too well known to
need much telling. The merchant lets
no one know his private trade-marks
neither does he permit any one but hisknow
employees to know the state of his books,
business, etc. Why is an organization
of farmers bound to expose its inner
most workings to the world
There is, Undoubtedly, danger that
bad men will seek to divert the Farmers'
movement to their own aggrandizement
so far, however, it has been with indiffer
ent success. The real object of the up
rising of the farmers,—or rather, of the
industrial classes, for it must eventually
come to this, is not as against the rail
roads on behalf of the people, although
this has been made one of the prominent
features it is as against the power of
gigantic monopolies of every kind, which,
through the centralization and consoli
dation of capital, bribes politicians of
every grade and party, to subserve their
ends.— Western Rural.
THE NEBRASKA PATRONS AND
THEIR PRODUCE.—The Central Union
Agriculturist of Omaha, Neb., says
We are credibly informed that Grangers
in this vicinity have been shipping their
own wheat to Baltimore, and realized
$1.05 per bushel net, and that for the
much abused Arnautka or Russian
wheat. Some person must be making
money, when our grain-buyers only pay
seventy-five to eighty cents per bushel
here.
NEW GRANGE PAPKB.—The new Grange
paper, The ADVANCE, published at Redpatronage.—Lake
Wing, is well: up to the times, and if it
holds out as it has begun will more than
repay the cost to the Patrons. The first
copy is running over with good things and
just what the Patrons need to concentrate
their efforts in one channel.—JanetvilU Ar
gus, Waseca Co.
NO.6.
From the Western Rural.
Humbugs.
The magnitude of the business done
by swindling enterprises of various de
scriptions is almost incredible. It is a
fact of a discouraging character that the
victims of these business subterfuges are
most largely those of the agricultural
class, who have so long been the doomed
prey of not only sharpers who use strict
ly legal methods of commerce and trade
to defraud them, but of the scoundrels
who operate by secret and cunningly-de
vised means to fleece the unsuspecting
people.
The Western Rural has always endeav
ored to do its best to protect its readers
from imposition, and hence is sure that
they have suffered comparatively little
from the schemes of swindlers. But
there are thousands and thousands of
farmers who read no journal devoted to
their especial interest, and there are too
many of them who sneer at such journals.
Such are the legitimate and usual victims
of the sharpers. They rely mostly for
their reading upon journals that only
aim at pecuniary success, and whose ed
itors trim their sails to suit the indica
tions in the political horizon, and wha
can be bought or influenced to favor this
or that political or business enterprise,
according to the amount of inducement
offered them. It is no secret that many
largely-circulated journals are understood
to receive as much income from what
they do not. publish as from what they
do.
In the Western Rural, three weeks
ago, we made a full expose of the opera
tions of an enormous swindle in Chicago,
callin. itself the "Union Furnishing
Company, Geo. B. Hodge & Co., Man
agers." We did our best to induce other
leading journals to copy the same, or
give its substance to their readers. But
very few did so, and some of them did so
very tardily. We say it is a shameful
fact, but it. a fact. Such editors say
that, if you do expose such swindles, the
people do not appreciate your work, and
it is thankless and profitless. The Union
Furnishing Company's business contin
ues on an immense scale, employing
about fifty persons We shall give more
particulars concerning it, soon.
We might have made, probably, $10,
000 within the present year, by suppress
ing facts of which we were cognizant
but we did not do so, although money is
doubly valuable just now. We will not
countenance or conceal rascality—if we
it. And we have faith, still, that
the people—thefarmers, will sustain us
and encourage us, in this business.
We now have resolved to open a
special department in connection with the
Western Rural, to be called a Private
Detective and Special Information Bu
reau," for the benefit of our subscribers
and supporters. Full particulars of this
will be given as soon as our plans are
completed. All our subscribers will have
the free benefit of this department.
ONE portion of community are never
allowed to suspend. They are the tax
payers. Come good times or bad, rain
or sunshine, they must grind out the
public grist. They cannot hold on to
deposits, get extensions, or a discount on
what is charged to them. The blood has
to come every time without reference to
favorable or unfavorable seasons, business
losses, sickness, or other calamities.—
Nothing comes about with greater regu
larity, or is more certain, death excepted,
and that is not more sure. Nor is any
thing more depressing than these tolls on
industry. When excessive, they drive
communities to despair.
THE Orange Advance is the name of anew
paper from our neighboring city of Red
Wing, devoted exclusively to the interests
of the Patrons of Husbandry in this State.
It is in the form of a neat quarto, and weU
filled with matters pertaining to the farm
ers' order, and should meet with a liberal
City Leader.
THE Orange Advance is the name of one
of the latest and largest papers in this
city: It is devoted to the interests of the
farmers, and gives a summary of the latest
and most important news. It is decidedly
a farmers' paper, and is worthy of their
Tttost generous suprert.—.Vor/A Strr
