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fc A Klf •&<? NO STRING TO DELEGATES Brown County Representatives in Republican State Convention Left to Do as They Please. Chances Are That They Will Favor a Dark Horse Candidate for Governor. Leaders W Picked the Slate are Known to be Opposed to Jacobson. A contingency might arise whereby the Brown county delegation to the republican state convention today would vote for Jacob F. Jacobsen, but the chances are all the other way. The leaders on the delegation are opposed to Jacobsen and these leaders usually have their way. The convention which elected them was held at Turner Hall Thursday afternoon, about forty of the faith ful being present. In the absence of County Chairman Bobleter, Philip Lieseb. called the con vention to order and without opposi tion Sen. Geo. W. Somerville of Sleepy Eye was elected chairman and Adolph Frederickson of Springfield secretary. Mr. Somerville upon taking the chair made quite a speech. He re ferred to Roosevelt as the "greatest of Americans" and to Taft as "that big, brainy man who had made good in every undertaking." Trusts and re bates, he said, had been the great curse of opportunity in this country-, making it impossible for the mdivi dual and small corporation, to exist, and the time had now arrived when the people must choose between toe Roosevelt policy of restraint for these great evils, and progress, or disre gard of these policies, and retrogres sion. At the close of Mr. Somerville's speech Jos. A. Eckstein moved the ap pointment of a committee of three on credentials and in compliance with this motion the chairman appointed Jos. A. Eckstein, E. J. Fernholz and H. J. Knudson. A committee on resolutions was also named, consisting of E. G. Hage, "S. D. Peterson and Hans Mo. After a brief recess the committee on credentials made its report, and of tuose entitled to representation it was found that the following were present: New Ulm—L. G. Vogel, Jos. A. Eckstein, Capt. Burg, S. D. Peterson, Wm. Pfefferle, Wm. J. Julius, Henry Herrian, Philip Lieseb, L. B. Krook Wm. Durbahn and B. H. Deters. Seven ot these were from the First ward and the balance from the Third. The Second ward was entirely without representation. Sleepy Eye—Hans Mo, H. J. Knud son, Geo. Somerville, F. H. Buelow, Albert Hauser, George Hanson, R. Curtis, W. C. Steinke, W. G. Raverty and Thomas Kretsch. Springfield—Adolph Frederickson, John Schmelz, E. J. Fernholz, C. M. Semans, Albert Prahl and E, G. Blackburn. Cobden—Axel Newdall and J. M. Steinke. Evan—Emil Rasmussen and Wm. Schulz. Prairieville—J. M. Hanson and Geo. Foster. Hanska—Edward Carlson, E. G. Hage and A. R. Eggensperger. Linden—John N. Johnson, Casper Larson, Peter Ellanson and Albert Ellanson. Other towns—Home, P. D. Raverty Milford, Louis Spellbrink Eden, Peter Carstenson North Star, Henry Timm and Fred Dorrow Comfrey, Dr. Prim and P. R. Nelsen. A permanent organization having been effected, with Mr. Somerville still in the chair, the committee on re solutions offered the following which was adopted without a dissenting vote: "We the republicans of Brown coun ty, in convention assembled, renew our allegiance to the grand old repub lican party. "Under its benign influence, this country has become the greatest and most prosperous under the sun. "We particularly endorse and point with pride to the administration of that great soldier and statesman, the ,, greatest living American, Theodore Roosevelt. "We commend the nomination of that great, big, brainy man, William Howard Taft, and that greatest of par liamentarians, James Schoolcraft Sherman, as our standard bearers in the coming campaign, and we pledge to them and to the whole republican ticket our earnest and loyal support. "W heartily endorse the republi can platform as adopted at .Chicago. "Both of our United States senators are wise, able and influential men in 'Jel&fo&ir&fr & A$ the councils of the nation and we ap prove of their great work for the state and for the country." The resolutions adopted, Hans Mo moved that the convention proceed to the election of twelve delegates and twelve alternates to the state conven tion. The election, it was agreed, should be by ballot, but no nomina tions being made from the floor of the convention, it appeared to an out sider as if those present would be all at sea as to whom to vote for. Not so, however. Printed tickets were passed around and with the exception of one name, that of Louis J. Buenger, the slate candidates were voted for almost unanimously. Tom Kretsch of Sleepy Eye was substituted for Buen ger and the list of those chosen then read as follows: Delegates—S. D. Peterson, Philip Liesch, Chas. Silverson, L. G. Vogel. Emil Hage, Axel Newdal, Nels Chris tenson, Geo. W. Somerville, Hans Mo, Thomas Kretsch, J. C. Rothen berg and Adolph Frederickson. Alternates: Jos. A. Eckstein,fWm. J. Julius, O. C. Strickler, B. H. Deters, Casper Larson, Ed. Carlson, Emil Rasmussen, P. D. Raver, y, Frank Curtis, Wm. Steinke, Ed. J. Fernholz and C. M. Semans. As soon as the election of delegates had been disposed of Paul Ewert, candidate for congress, was called upon for an address, and for a quarter of an hour or more the convention was regaled with a discussion of the republican national platform, a plea for a revision of the tariff and a denunciation of those twin vices stock gambling and rebates. "The time for eqivocation and evasion is past," shouted Mr. Ewert. "Here after parties and men in high office must stand for something." And then the convention adjourned. WILL APPEAL TO GOV. JOHNSON Eau Claire Authorities Don't Like the W a Brown County Officials Act. A special "from Eau Claire, Wis^ to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, under date of June 28th, reads as follows: 'The authorities here sent a tele gram today to the authorities of Brown county, Minnesota, stating that if the latter were not heard fronvwith in forty-eight hours with regard to Halsten Slud, Gov. Johnson wou&d be appealed to. The message was sent collect aud was refused. Rud is-sixty five years old and destitute and is said to be not mentally sound. He belongs in Brown county, but was picked up here While trying to make his way on foot to -a locality near La Crosse, where he-says he has relatives." Inquiry among the Brown county authorities reveals the fact that Rud is neither destitute nor insane. His relatives have provided for him & fine home in Lake Hanska, but he -simply won't stay there. He likes to "tramp it," and Commissioner Jorgensonhas notified the authorities in Eau Claire that if tbey will simply let him alone he will ha«?e no trouble in reaching his relatives when he feels in need of tehm. A cannon with a history is to be used in St. Peter's celebration this week. The -cannon is one that was brought to St. Peter from Fort Ridge ly in 1860, when the excitement of the Lincoln-Douglas campaign was at its height. Followers of the rail splitter secured the cannon to furnish noise at a monster rally, and as they were par ading the streets the cohorts of Doug las charged down upon the procession. A passage at arms followed, and when hostilities finally subsided it was found that the field piece had mysteri- VOLUME NE W ULM, E O N COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY. JUL 1,1908! ously disappeared. Twenty years later it was found at tbe bottom of an un used well, its usefulness having been destroyed by tearing away the train. Since its recovery it has been fitted with a new carriage, and it will play a star part in Friday's sham battle. John A. Krohn, a St. Peter boy, has started to walk from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, pushing ahead of him all the way a wheelbarrow con taining his extra clothes and such other articles as he desires to carry with him. His route will be along the coast as far as possible and he expects to cover the trip, a distance of 9.000 miles, in 400 days. His wife will travel along the route by train, billing each town her husband expects to visit with conspicuous posters announcing the time of his arrival. Krohn will travel under the name of "Colonial Jack" and will sell aluminum souveniers to pay the expenses of his trip. JUDGE OLSENSANCTIONSBIG DITCH W on Brown-Redwood County Drain Will be Commenced at Once. On Tuesday of last week Judge Olsen of the district court signed an order which makes it possible to be gin work on the ditch, which is to drain sections of Redwood and Brown counties, at once. The ditch will be one of the biggest undertakings of its kind ever at tempted in this section of the state. Starting in Redwood county it will extend through portions of the town ships of Prairieville and Stark into Sleepy Eye creek and thence into the Cottonwood river. With its branches it will have a total length of seventy miles and will cost in the neighbor hood of $100,000. By the order of the court a number of farmers owning abutting property are awarded damages, their names and the amounts they are to receive being as follows: John Nelson, $75 J. J. Penning, $125 Carl Schulz estate, $265 Emma Tesmer, $225 Charles Remele, $150 Otto Hartmann, $300 Hugo Friton, $90 Otto Friton, $100 Mrs. Larrabee, $150 E. P. Bertrand, $175. The township of Stark will recover $50 for damages to the Hartman bridge across Sleepy Eye creek. JOHN LIND FOR GOVERNOR AGAIN Well Defined Movement in his In terests Said to Have Been Started. Yesterday's Minneapolis Tribune contains the following: '•Former Gov. John Lind of Minne apolis may be the next democratic nominee for governor. A well-defined movement is on foot to bring this about and it is receiving the sanction of the leaders in the party. "Mr. Lind is being urged as a com promise candidate and it is urged that his nomination would heal the breach that now exists between the Johnson and Bryan wings of the party. For mer Gov. Lind has always been classed as a Bryan man. He was for Bryan in the recent mix-up in Minnesota, al though, at the last moment, he went on record as favoring Gov. Johnson. The Lind boom is being fostered by a few of the Bryan men and is receiving the sanction of some of the Johnson leaders. Should Bryan be nominated at Denver, and the local democrats fail to discover a compromise candi date, the Bryan men will undoubtedly make a strong fight to overthrow the Frank Day machine, and in such an event Thomas J. Knox of Jackson will be the most likely candidate." THE REVIVAL rt- Cleveland Leader. feg^i CHURCH SYNOD AT MANKATO Germa Evangelical Lutherans Gather in Forty-eighth 4 *r Annual Session. Attendance Large and Business Transacted of More Tha Usual Importance. Preparations Made Looking To« wards Celebration of Golden Jubilee in 1910. The forty-eighth annual session of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Minnesota which was held IK Mankato last week, was attended by nearly one hundred and fifty min isters, teachers and lay delegates, the latter representing forty-two congre gations. Throughout the entire session the New Ulm representatives played a most important role, and not the least interesting feature of the conference, by any means, was the scholarly ad dress by Re^. Prof. John Schaller. Reports of officers showed that the Lutheran Normal school at New Ulm had enjoyed a very successful year, as had also the Gemeinde-Blatt, the semi-monthly organ of the general synod. This publication now has over 10,000 subscribers and the net income last year amounted to $5,500. This money goes into the treasury of the general synod and is devoted to edu cational work in Minnesota, Wiscon sin, Michigan and Nebraska. For missionary work among the Apache Indians in Arizona the sum of $5,281 had been raised and of this amount $5,262 had been expended. Rev. Harders, a missionary among the Apaches, stationed at Globe, Ari zona, reported on the mission work among the Indians. The work could be made effective, he said, only if boarding schools were founded for the Indian children, where they can be taught in their own language. He also recommended that special missionaries be sent for the scattered white mem bers of the denomination. The plan of a church extension fund was proposed and was referred to the committee on inner missions, as it was feared that the banking laws of the state would interfere. Treasurer Gundlach of Elysian, after making his report in which he showed collections amounting to $13,326 and expenditures in the sum of $12,206, announced that on account of ill health he would be compelled to re sign his position as custodian of the synod funds. The resignation was accepted with expressions of regret and John Boock Jr., the Gibbon bank cashier, was chosen to fill the vacancy. On the board of trustees the follow ing were elected: Rev. C. J. Albrecht and F. H. Retzlaffi of New Ulm, Rev. A. F. Winter of Mankato, F. Schweppe of St. James and F. Buelow of Sleepy Eye. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the synod being only two years henee a committee was ap pointed to prepare for an appropirate celebration of the event. A similar committee was also named to arrange for the observance of the silver anni versary of Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm. This will occur in 1Q09. The question of whetner the Willow Lake congregation belongs to the synod of Minnesota or of Missouri was left for it to decide for itself, upon the recommendation of a joint commit tee of the two synods that has been wrestling with the problem for several months. DR. HOIDALE'S NARROW ESCAPE Tracy Physician Has Exciting Ex perience During Blinding Rainstorm. A message from Tracy is to tbe ef fect that, while returning from a pro fessional call in the country Monday night of last week in one of the fiercest rainstorms that Tracy and vicinity has ever experienced, Dr. A. D. Hoi dale, brother of the former New Ulm attorney, drove over an embankment, where a bridge had been washed away, taking a drop of ten feet into a rush ing torrent of water. Dr. Hoidale was in an enclosed coupe at the time and his escape from death was nothing short of miraculous. Both horses were drowned, but Hoidale managed to break through the windows into the swollen stream and by heroic swimming succeededan reaching shore. Frank Smasal took possession of the Anton Kachelmeier saloon and re sidence this morning, Mr. Kachelmeier moving int® the residence formerly oc cupied by Mr. Smasal. eb« **..**- a JOTTOMEYER'S Fine Dry Goods We have had the rare chance to buy several hundred S W a is for ladies at "a very low figure and we now offer the entire assortment at exceedingly low prices. All new, fresh goods, not a single soiled or damaged garment among the lot. A 50c waist at 25c A 75c waist at 40c A $1.00 waist at 60 A $2.25 waist at $1.50 A $3.70 waist at $2.00 Among the lot there are also a number of colored waists, which are to be had at bargain prices. It will pay you to see what we have to offer. Every waist guaranteed to lit, or money refunded. BARGAINS BARGAINS Eggs are taken in exchange for goods. OTTOMEYER'S A Proclamation to You An announcement of low prices. We can save you money on dependable merchandise. We simply ask you to call at our store, examine our goods, get our prices and compare them with any other price you may have on the same goods. You will then be convinced that our prices are lowest. Our Assortment of Specially Selected Seasonable Merchandise are in splendid readiness. In buying greater care than ever has been used in behalf of our patrons to insure them the greatest values in return for their money. Come and inspect our stock whether you buy or not. We guarantee our goods to be exactly as repre sented. We will refund your money if you are not satisfied. Come, Admire, Criticize—just as you choose. But Come. Stop! Look! Read! Think! Bargains like these are rare. CRONE BROS. NOTICE TO FARMERS j£ X^ S* £. 3 ffj* If your crops are destroyed by hail, why not seed to Buckwheat f£ We just bought a small quantity of seed for this very .NO. 2T New Ulm Roller Mill Co. w- .s Si Lu'M 'fW~