:_"»ojaea sfe-V.. mm Official Paper A *r jJ" ^v?,®TT .-r.'p'b ". k% .:.£-x W&m 535553^ It's only fair that the big fi8hSH|uKl be hooked, with the little fr.y it^fche government investigations. I se$r£hat they are now overh^tin't^e millionaire lumbermen- for tlmtjer frauds reacliiri' into the millions! of ad^is^ ^everal hav already been indicted out in Oregon: and they are workin' this way. It is hinted that some of the Minneapolis lumber bafdn^are in the frauds. THey hire poor people to make homestead entries oh rich timber lands in the far western states and in a short time commute their entries and pay for'em at the rate of $2.50 an acre, money bein' furnished by the timber thieves to whom vthe title is passed by the dum mies. Som£ of the land offices and some S senators are said to be smirched in the deals. Thisre seems little doubt th^t there is a, ting of rich tim^*speculators y?ho are reapin' rich profits thro these frauds on govern-, ment, gobblin' up timber at $2.50 an acre that is worth 840. No wonder that these big chaps can liv in palaces and ride in autos and be dpthe4 in flfqe broadcloth every day* No wonder fhgit they can add millions every year id their ill-gotten gains. Anybody that violates the laws in regard to timber claims and homesteads the way they do could pile up wealth. One big tim ber robber boasts that he has got $6, 000,000 salted down in timber lands out in Washington and the Pacific coast territory and his profit can't be measur ed. All I can say^is that I hope secre tary Hitchcock will giv 'em the limit. -This leads me tt Cogitate about the boasted homestead' law. The old idee vwas that it was forithe actual benefit of folks that wished in good faith to settle down ton a'jquarter section aiid .... make their home thera. and improve the country. They had to li bona fide five years on their homestead before gettin' title. It looked reasonably that after a family had got settled this long they were in for keeirs, That's the way jv Mower county was largely settled up In the old pioneer days^ of thie! family is livitf today on thfe very claims taken nigh fifty years ago. I calkerlate that the iniquitous Commutation pro vision is what is doin' the mischief Under this, title can pass in fourteen months on payment of $1.25 an acre. Instead of five years continuous resi dence and cultivation with improve ments reachin' out for the future,_the game now in thousands of cases is a pure bluff. A shack is erected and the owner does well if he sleeps on his claim once in six months. Fourteen months after entry he commutes at a nominal price and he can sell at once to whomsoever he pleases. This in these fraudulent cases, means & sale to big corporations or cattle or timber barons who back up the dummies makin' the entries and get the lands for, pastur or timber. It. certainly is possible to protect the people from these frauds and no one in future should get a homestead who ain't an honest settler. What amass of big scoundrelism is revealed in the exposure of the affairs of the shipbuildin' trust. It appears in evidence that the Bethlehem steel plant was bought in for about three millions and sold to the trust, for thirty millions with bigrakeoffs to some of the pro moters who didn't lift a finger to do any of the work but simply got in their graft. Schwab and J. Pierpont Morgan, were is the deal with lots of others. It was »given out cold to us small heads that this big ship buildin' corporation was a model one with unlimited backin'. Now when its affairs are turned inside out to the light of exposure we discover the hirin' of bogus directors who voted millions of stock and didn't actually own enough to buy 'em a new suit of clothes without tick. One of the high officials of the company testifies that he foolishly signed papers that he did not understand and knew very little about the %fta^pial operations goin' on and yet his naisg^was lent to. the concern and the publk? felt confident, that it must be financial ^tablet and solid with such men at tlfo head. And all this time they yras workin' off their stock on an innocent public: and was pocketin' millions of money on inflated stocks that were ballooned to enormous capacity. False circulars about the earnings of the trust were put out to influence buyers of stock and deceive 'emvi^iThis is what they call masterry financierin'. Wellfl don't want any of it'^j An honest deal is the noblest work ofmanr^j1 .,:..^ Those" Canucks don't mean one bit of what they pretend in the way of in* dignation- and wrath over the Alaska boundary righteous JeiJision. If any^ thing ^Ise had come las the outcome of arbitratin', the Cfuiiu&B would hav h9en the most supprised folks on thc^coiu sars* tate Soc Vol. ^X^yi^No 35 AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY. JttlNNESOTAT. tinent. They know they didn't hay a ghost of a claim and the whole project was a case of pure bluff and nerve. I sometimes feel In my bones that they just got up the v^hole project1 to arbitrate so that they could let their selveB down easy from an ,embarrassing position/ The Canucks ain't goin'to secede from England and they aintl goin' to do anythin' brash and des* perate. They're just .puttin' on the whole pretense so as to let theirselves down wherethey ought to be and where they're anxious to|ftt. They're no fools and they needn't be supprised to find that we ain't. It just makes jjjte laugh to see how they pretend to be hotand hsar 'em tell of what big things they're goin' to do with England. They may shoot off their mouths once too often and Uncle Sam may take a notion to annex the whole Canuck shebang and then where would they be at? We could use Some, of their maritine pro vinces down New Brunswick way to excellent advantage. Some of their territory would round us out in great shape and we really ought to hav it, If the Canucks try to shake off Eng land and be left all unprotected in this great cold world without a protector their territory would be picked up so quick that they wouldn't know what struck 'em. FARMER BEN. Hrud|pM. Wisdom'ap^ied to practice is caller "pradence." The mian who is j^ot caught by the alluring prices for worth less goods is applying wisdom to praci* tice. They depend on us for high quall^ and low prices—that is practicalpiu ence. C. A. Emmons tf Austin Lumber an4.Fuel Qo -..-,4 "V V. 't. NewOreatWesternScrvIce. Although permanent passenger ser vice over the Chicago Great Western between St. Paul and Omaha oyer the new. line through Austin was instituted on Sunday night the road will make no attempt to mark the event, but will wait for the new equipment, ordered last summer. This has not been de livered and the new trains, which have beenpromised^will^Otljfeptft^n for* another month or twol. When tfceae g^ ^ausiH Who sang,^the sltor.pa into service headquarters officialis plan to give them a ceremonious advent. :T The new equipment for the Omaha service willjue finer than any the Maple Leaf now operates. The Pullman com pany is building new cars for the fast trains, and these will embody many late ideas in construction. In interior conveniences and finish they will sur pass anything the road at present owns. It is expected that deliveries will begin in about thirty days. There are two through trains each way daily leaving Omaha at 7:55 a. m. and 7:35 p. m. passing through Austin north at 3:51 a. m. and 4:18 p. m. Going south they leave the Twin cities morning and eve ing, passing through Austin at 11:36 a. m. and 11:02 p. in. The present local passenger train be tween the Twin Cities and Mason City will be retained going north through Austin at 6:55 a. m. and south at 9.-00 in the evening- Floral Club Should Not Disband. ,, The Albeit Lea Tribune says that our Floral Club should not disband. It says: "The Ladies' Floral Club and Library Association of Austin, claimed proposition of disbanding. The organ ization was effected March 16,1869, and it has had a continuous existence ever since. One of its objects was to estab lish and maintain a Kbrary and this the club has done until now there are nearly 3,500 volumes oh the strives and as the club expects to turn tihe books over to the new Carnegie library build ing being built and the regularly ap pointed board the- members of the club deem Uiat their services will not longer be desired or required, but therti is-where they are in error, for there will be need of all the assistance that can be secured to properly carry on the .le gitimate "work that now devolves upon a library to perform. After thirty-four .and over years of usefulness it would be unwise for the organization to be allowed to die and the members should ifeconsidefUie idea^of abandoning the work but resolve to pitch in-and work harder than ever for the success of the library, now that it has a home of its own and all the- other literary work that naturally goes along with it. The citizens of Austin should see that the The Minneapolis Symph ny Orche$tra. to be the first women's club to be incor porated, in this state, is considering the English horn, the bassoon or fagoV, the Ladies' Floral Club is kept in existence' for many years to come to push on the good work that isso abundant if taken up in anjr city." t'mmm TI^ First Organization of Jjts the Nort.h^^^ -:S'^.: Minneapolis is to have a permane: grand concert or^estret of 50 This has b^h'decided,* and 'durinjg. tl spring and summer tHye plans -h gradually been perfected so: that orgiAhization' is" now^ in Workih^ sha Mr. Emil Ot^rhoffer is the direc of this new orchestra-' and behind stands the lJhilarmonic Club with 250 singers from amongst the b€«t' ci zen sofMi neapoli^', still further in background, feeing the/xeal foum tion upon wMeh itfa« v%fiole struct^ rests, we find 50 pf' ^e city's leadfng business men andfiqfehcial institutio^s, whb have snbscribed a guarantee fuAh of $30,000 to insure thie^ftnapcial oj||s come of this great, undertaking. concerts will be given ^during the w| ter upon a scale never before attem ed in the northwest. Mr. Oberholfer went to Europe i^g the summer to buy. the n^cessi music for this undertaking, and wh^Te th^|e he also engaged some of the fin«t artists^who will appear as soioists^it the different concerts. Four oratorios will be given and ^x instrumental concerts, at which ^ill ^e played some of the. greatest. ^orks»f the m^iers^ "Paradise Lost," by ihibois Amongst the greit Soloists who ^l appear at the Symphony coticeants n|tty be mentioned Jacques Thiband/^e French violinist who has been atj ing general attention in Europe the last two years for„ his wondei playing, and who has ^feen ^fetj decorated by royalty' such as no ,ot| artist has ever been Wore. Olive Fremstadt, the new ^on of thinNew Wagner Festival performances at MunChen this summer, is of social in terest tO:ihe nofthwest, as she is a Min neapolis girl who left Minneapolis twelve years ago with a determination to gain ,^Eor herself Harold Bauer and Adele aus der Ohe are., the two piano soloists who will ap pear during the season, and besides those already mentioned there are nearly twenty other noted artists com ing. The orchestra has been made up from amongst the best musicians of Minne apolis and St. Paul* but as there are several instruments entirely Unrepre sented in the Twin Cities, there have been engaged about fifteen artists from the-eastern cities, people who have played with the noted orchestras of Chicago, New jfork and Boston, Pitts 'burg, and even from Europe there will be some. 1 Such instruments as the harp, the oboe and the French horns are not usedHn smaller orchestras and there has therefore been no field in the Twin HCities for artiste who: play on them. The men have therefore been secured on yearly contracts scr that they can settle down and become permanent cit izens ih Minneapolis. The opening event will be on Thurs day, Nov. 5. Mdme. Marcella Sem brich will be the soloist on this occas sion at an expense of 92,000. She oc cupies today the position held twenty years ago by Adellna Patti as the un disputed queen of the world's singers and her appearances ijni the west Will be limited to this one night in Minneapo lis, one night in Milwaukee and two nights in/Chicago. Mr. Harry' Randall is the business manager of the new organization and" may beaddresMSdin regard to securing tickets, etc., at the Metropolitan Music (Jo'u. store in Minneapolis. The prices will jrange from 50 cents to $2.00 for single reserved seats^nd orders are be ing received from all points in Minne sota^ S"*'j S Therauditorium in' the Exposition Building has .undei^one '.extensive im provem^nts to fit it pr^i^rly for these concerts^^ DNESDAT, NOVEMBER §,.1903. to WM^- siih," by Saint-Saens, and Mendj|^ ssohn's "Elijah" will be sung^and tj|$ s$lo parts will be taken by the b^t artists which this country without consideration of price. 1 a-W£ar_ -fSlilll We are now jM jl future on the stage, afid now shie returns after having captured Europe and placed herself upon a footing as tfie acknowl edged dfva amongst the leading con traltos. ShjMs an exceptionally hand some woman and will undoubtedly create a sensation -when -she' appears with the Minneapolis Symphony Or chestra inMarch. MiJid'itt 'nI Force is the Only Law Among Nations Among nations there is but one way in which the possession of the prizes of nature can be determined, and that is by force. Arbitration can only serve where strength is equally balanced, and the matter in dispute is not worth the price of the conflict. So far as we now know, the district in which iron can be produced cheapest and in un limited volume is Northern China. Russia is, at present, massing several hundred thousand men in Eastern Asia preparatory to an attempt to crush Japan and absorb this region. Each citizen can judge for himself what attitude befits the United States in this emergency. Furthermore, as industries acquire momentum the necessity for a vent grows imperative Germany feels this necessity. Germany and Russia form together an overland -economic system stretching from the -Pacific to the North Sea. In the main the interests of the two empires are identical. Meet ing in central Europe, the adjoining ends of these empires are fixed, but the extremities are free, and thus Russia expands toward i*ekin, and Germany seeks to enter South America. But South America is the last continent at once rich, vacant,, in the path of ex changes, and accessible. Also South America is the only certain vent for our surplus in the future, as Asia is the only certain base from whence we can draw raw material §hould Russia ab sorb Northern China, and by means of German capital and talent establish an industrial centre there, and should Ger many occupy South America and de velop it, with Chinese steel, the over land economic system would girdle the world, and the United States would suffocate. Botlf base and vent would be closed.—Brooks Adams, in the No vember Atlantic. p- "?x- ^rrrh.y.c, Robbed The Graver* A startling incident, is nairated by John Oliver of Philadelphia, as follows: "I was in an awfuL condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, parn continually in backhand sides, no appetite, growing: weaker day by aay.. Three physicians bad given me up. Then ^pas advised to use Electric Bitters to my great ioy, the firsts bottle made a decided Improvement I continued their use •ror three weeks, and am now a well IrOaan. I khow they ronbed the grave of another vlcttml" No onn should Wi to ftip/iOidy w, mM •vm&sj im-m ^9 ««JiS :(3«|i= 7~%flt-- Fi^sa- Men's good Overcoats ex cellent wearers 'e -style, fit perfectly..... v. -Men's Overcoats, made from the abrics, wor am ship and fit equal to cus^ torn, tailoring, this week.. ^Boysovercoats age i2to 20, good wearers, newest style ClM Aline of extra good quality Overcoats ages 121020, Very fine ma terial, comfortable, and stylish -Boys Overcoats, age 3 to io $1.50,12.50.. longer than what "you buy. in average shoe stores. We handle the best makes that are on the market. We have the exclusive sale in this of the Dr. A. Reed Cushion Sols Shoes and the celebrated Hanan Shoes. There is style, comfort and wear in these makes. have neve^ before offered such values in every department as we p. oitering. Don't take, our word alone for this.- Compare, the "I^that wh^t we sayaje* fadts. We earnestly nbwer /ercoats $10 $3 Men's fine suits, in Scotch: Cheviots, Black Clays, Blue Clays, Blue Serges, Thibets and Homespuns," cut in the newest styles, lined with fine Mohair Serges, ex ceptionally good wearing A line of|Men's Suits made of best We have just opened up Three Gases of the best quality of Canvass Gloves and, Mitts. While they last, pej*. pair ...... Our Men's and Boys' Shoe Department grown to be qifite a factor in our business. This we attribute to ihefact that we aim to sell only the best quality^ It is 'a fact that shoes bought from us will County Schools. The annual report of our county schools to the state superintendent shows the following items. There were four INDEPENDENT schools last year, Austin, LeRoyAyle and Grand Meadow, and th^foljpwihg facts were gathered concerningVlnem: I. No. of pupils entitledjto ap portionment, 1793. '2. No. of pupils not Xfetuled to ap portionment 158. (T 3. Total enrollment l05lN \v 4. Average number or daysX^eh a a 1 3 7 5. No. of men teachers 6. 6. No. of women teachers 4 7. Average monthly wages teachers $91.63. 8. Average monthly wagei women teachers $43.85. 9. No. of teachtcs high schools, 34. 10. No. of teache normal schools, 25. II. NO. of teache colleges, 11. 12. No. of volum braries, 370. 13. No. of tri Day, 30. 14. Average months, 9. 15. Average mills, 11. .sssrissar~ p^erthls ^elc^Iie^ greatest vahies^ tfiu^e^ohr We Shall surpass all previous efforts. best $15 $5 •••.v.--.... Ki'Vir- Per Annum, in Advance. .'ported fabrics, hand made biittpnholes, hand--padded collar and. shoulders, equal' in every particular to custom. tailor-x ing We are headquarters for Fur Coats. We have the exclusive sale in this city of the "North Star Guaranteed Fur ^Coats." Carry also a large line of Fur lined coats, price from $35to Special Values in Underwear. This Week. Men's fleeced lirfed Underwear, good quality.... Boy's Fleeced lined Underwear good quality ....... Men's Natural Wool Underwear good quality has $1.00 16. Average rate of mills, 3.8. bought for li- Arbor of schools in of special tax in From the GOUNTEY schools the fol lowing notes were taken: 1. No. of pupils Entitled to^p portionment, 2780.1^,/ 2. No. of pupils not entfued to ap portionment, G60." 3. Total enrollment 3640, 4. Average number of days each pupil has attended, 82. 5. Nov of men teachers, 11. 6. No. of women tciachere, 163. iBJ 7. Averajge monthly ..wages of men teachersf $36^6^^^T^%. 8. Average monthly wages of wom en teacher8,|$33.09. 9. No. of teachers graduates of high schools, 40. 10.. No. of teachep graduates of ^Normal schools, 1&: P'% llfeiNonaiSrom colleges, 12, No. of volumes bought for li braries, 279. 13, -No. of trees ptanfed oil ^.rbdr Day 4&9. 14,' ?No»rof school Rouses having no tn«8«)}out them, 6 special tax in HIGH SCHOOL NOTES The preliminary contest for the pur pose of selecting the members of the Austin high school debating team for this year will be held in the high school assembly hall about Nov. 20. This is an» event in which not only the pupils of our high school but the public generally are interested. It is hoped and confidently expected that the creditable record made by out team last year will be duplicated if not excelled. The question for debate this year is, Resolved that American cities and villages should own and operate their public utilities. This is a question in which the American people are taking an increasing interest, and the know ledge gained in the study of it will be of great service to any young man or woman for years' to come. In order to lessen the burden imposed on- the af« irmative, the questiou uhas been re stricted by the state ^management to the following ntilitiesf lighting plants, water and Sewer s^tttems, telephones, and street railways! Already nine high school boys and'girls have entered upon vigorous preparation for this contest.! They are Elisabeth Murphy, Gertrude Kline, Lizzife Rush. Luther Roseland, Lafayfette French, Jr., ilert Dibble, Mitojji ^Birkettj. Roy Adams and Fred Djigan.ffCtMoto will probably declare •&eir0 intention, _to join in the neapi.-^ fntur^ a ali'Mr tfae contest will be a' spirited and interesting one is warrant od by ttie foct that the best debaters •. among the stu^OTrb^^rTncluding all^J the members pf-l^t year's te%nQ havel^ In ttie^first congressional district the following^high schools have thus far^ joined the league^ Albert Lea, Bloom ing Prairie and Austin. Owatonna,^J Rochester and Winona are considering the matter and may come in later." A high school orchestra has been organized under the leadership of Miss Minert. A chorus composed of twenty high school girls has aTso been formed. These organizations will furnish musier at the debating contests and the FTidayC^gd afternoon literary societies., Austin 5taun Laundry. Patronize home ^institutions .. an£f4 haveyourlauiidry work done at 'Ihe, Aiistin Steam Iiwmdiy style of the art/ No' chemicals Xtsmdry delivered /•i the highe8t| licais used^ free: of -rcharge^