Freeborn County Standard from Albert Lea, Minnesota • 1

ALBERT TEA MINN THURSDAY OCT 6 1 SSI uimuiMiraui HW1 IB Jum WWW WWBII1 IBM HELD 1 REEBORN OR OUR OUR STORES ATI ANY OUR COMPETITORS IP Im I THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN MINNESOTA In Quality they Cannot be Beat 80 and a gg ELIXIR CLOTHING at IS THE LARGEST IN THIS STATE STRAUSS SCHLESINGER Yl Spring Lake was tapped on Saterday night and on Monday morning the dam went out It the last straw that breaks the and the last pint of water that breaks a dam AAAA' We claim to own our goods as cheap as any Milwaukee Jobber and we 'z So large indeed that we can dress up every boy in reeborn county and have more goods left than any of our competitors Step in and see our stock and you will at sight pronounce it the largest stock ever brought to Albert Lea gpgp A Jjfe long experience in the clothing trade and three studying of the wants of the people of reeborn county enables us to lay over all competition in selecting goods while our constant practice of dealing fairly and honorably with our customers has giv en us a reputation which extends far beyond the boundaries of ree born county arid year after year returns to us the familiar faces of those who having once tested our straightforward manner of doing business are ever ready to patronize and encourage us in well doing: A Difficult Problem Solved Ambitious competition and over exertion use up the vital powers of men and women so that a desire for stimulants seems to be a natural human passion and drunkenness prevails in spite of temperance reformers on account of this necessity for bodily and mental invigora tion Ginger Tonic fairly solves this difficult problem and lias brought health and happiness into many desolate homes It does not rear down an already debilitated system but builds it up without Express See other column Has stood the test for fifty two years wad has proved itself the best remedy known for the cure of Consumption Coughs Colds Whooping Cough and ail Lung Diseases in young or old Sold everywhere Price 35c 50c $100 per bottle City Council The city council met on Tuesday evening The city attorney presented several amend ments to city ordinances He called the atten tion of th'council to the fact that a special ses sion of legislature was about to be held and suggested that the city might need some legislation the most important of which was dividing the bonded indebtedness of the city and township He thought it should be divid ed on the basis of the assessment when the city was organized Sundby wants a stop put to feeding teams between and Hewitt stores Laid on the table Clarence Wedge sent in a cchmunication stating that he was ready to build a sidewalk on Washington street when the city did its duty and graded said street The city attorney remarked that all the duty the city had to perform was to estab lish a grade A tax of was levied for the ensuing for the general fund for the fire department and for the road fund The matter of fixing the bridge across the dam was taken up and discussed by the council and several outsiders and the street commissioner was finally ordered to make it passable for teams The council then ad journed EVER SORE What I tell vou is the truth told for no other purpose but to testify to the merits of the Cuti cura Remedies Mr rederick Yeaton of this town has been troubled for years with a ever Sore on one of his legs Last fall and all winter he could hardly walk a step I induced him to take your remedies He has taken about four bottles Cuticura Resolvent and used the Cuti cura and Cuticura Soap externally His leg to day is almost well and he walks with ease It was a sight to black and swollen very badlv I wish vou could see his leg to day The change would astonish you CHAS TRIPP Alfred Me isarly in the year 1874 the prospecting com menced again A 3 inch bore was being put down and at a depth of 50 feet a strange phe nomenon occurred Deep down in the earth could be heard what is described to iis a howling noise 8 At the mouth of the hole was a terrific hissing The inhabitants gathered from far and near Everybody expressed their opinion as to the cause but no one knew inally Mr Rodgers who had all along taken great interest in the coal business sat down Jjy the hole and using a favorite expression of his proceeded to light his pipe Placing his ear down close to the hole in order to ascertain if possible what was going on down in the bowels of the earth he was startled by the sudden ap pearance of a blazing jet at least three feet in height It is said that he did not need to be told to get out of the way of the flames Mr Cram who was sitting near waited until his whiskers were badly scorched and he too got out of the way In fact if we may believe the reports everybody gave the miniature infernal regions a wide berth The howling noise up for several days there was no dimunition in the volume or brill iancy of the flames the excitement of the peo ple knew no bounds The fact was that in bor ing for coal they had struck gas pipe had set it on Are and now had a dead sure thing on either coal or petrole um Smothering and extinguishing the flames Catarrh Relief in five minutes in every case gratify ing wholesome relief beyond a money value Cure begins from first application and is rapid radical and permanent Choking putrid mu cous dislodged membrane cleansed andhealed breath sweetened smell taste and hearing re stored Complete treatment for Ask tor Radical Cure I Radical Cure Complete Treatment i RATS MICE WA ter Bugs Roaches and Red and Black A Ants eat ravenously Extermina tor and die No fear of bad smells Barns granaries and house holds often cleared in a single night Best and cheapest vermin killer in the world No failure in the 30 years Every box warranted Sold bv all grocers and druggists Ask tor Parson MaiDd tor 25c by WEEKS POTTER Bos tonMass WWW VEGETABLE' BALSAMIC Bogus Certificates It is no vile drugged stuff pretending to be made of wonderful foreign roots barks and puffed up by long bogus certificates of pre tended miraculous cures but a simple pure ef fective medicine made of well known valuable remedies that furnishes its own certificates by its cures We refer to Hop Bitters the purest and best of Exchange See anoth er column PYMAM OR BLOOD POISONING WHICH RESULTS IN ABSCESSES ULCERS SORES Carbuncles boilsand ITCHING HUMORS I CURED a Made from Professor Acid Phosphate Recommended by leading physicians Makes lighter biscuit cakes etc and is healthier than ordinary Baking Pow In cans Sold at a reasonable price The Horsford Almanac and Cook Book sent free Rum ford Chemical Works Providence I And 83 Lake StChicago III arm for Sale Of ifio acres one mile south of Alden known MOttieNSplX Also 50 head of hogs and inquire or Agent Walker Clear head and voice easy breathing sweet breath perfect smell taste and hear ing no cough no choking no distress These happy conditions are brought about in the severest cases of Catarrh by that most agreeable economical speedy safe and never failing specific Radical Cure Complete and infallible treatment consisting of one bottle of the Radical Cure one box of Catarrhal Solvent and one im proved Inhaler all wrapped in one pack age with treatise and directions and sold bv all druggists for 81 Ask for Radical Cure General Agents WEEKS POTTER Boston Mass BIS PRICES! LU I 1 11 LOW IBICES Strauss Schlesinger ESTABLISHED IN IS 57 CLOTHING HOWE Examination of Join Wetztze the al leged Horse The Prisoner Held for Trial On Monday John Weritze the man brought from Nebraska by Col Shee on nlOrra nf stPllinff Mlll horses was arraigned before Jus for them he said He hoe Rlackmer Morgan appear said he got them up in Henry county I 1 I zx 4 lx I i zv 1 the defendant I days said it was GOO miles I figured has almost all appeared in substance day 1 1 1 tx Um A "NT TV A PD ill Anrj veloped was that Daniel McPhil iden was arrested Watson is a Scotchman titled the prisoner having seen him in I am 1 inch taller than he he is this city just before the robbery and stronger built than light complex A Aldrich also testified to the ion Richardson is my brother in same fact The following is the testi law He is about 1 inch taller than I mony of the James Watson dark complexion black hair and Jr being the man who worked for black moustache which is colored Mr Miller just before the horses were he is about my 30 I never saw stolen and James Watson Sr being James Richardson while I was in his father I 1 Sacramento my wife told me he was I am the defendant in this action on a hunt I believe he was in the I lived at Spring Creek Nebraska 1 1 country when Watson came back have lived there five years was away Richardson lives 3 miles north of me six months ago in July at my father that was where Jim was going When in laws James Watson Sr moved they went on a hunt they hardly ever to Sacramento Nebraska the 12th of made it in less than ten days to three July 1881 I am a blacksmith by weeks trade took my tools when I went to Affidavits going to prove an alibi Sacramento James Watson Jr and were offered by the coun James Watson Sr went with me sei but were ruled out on the ground James Watson Jr said he was going that they were ex parte to Illinois went off with David The prisoner was held for trial in Meads Meads returned said he left I sum of in default of Watson in Kearney Nebraska about which he was committed to jail a week alter 1 went io went to down one day and back the next about two weeks after went with Mr Himer a hardware man on a visit to my wife at Spring The Beautiful village on the Lake Creek Himer went with me and car shore complete History of the ried me there and bask again to Sacra reeborn yyy men to staid at work and think I y0 Of he standard: I was a half mile away atany of the Nearly a quarter of a century ago the village rest of the time 'we at Mr reeborn became a thing of life Surround house I bought a place an excellent farming country with a about the 15th day of August 1 hau g00(Ry supply of timber along the lake it is not not been out of town for live weeks tQ l)e W01Kerecl at that when the town was previous to September 1st that was lai(1 Qnt on the shores Of one Of the most beau the day Watson came with thb horses I tfUi akes in the county the proprietors I was in the post office 1 got a let t10Ught tiiey julj struck a bonanza Unfortu from my wife saying my land papei naejy the railroads missed them on every side were lost Watson came to tie and as a matter of course other towns have and called me out I read him outstrinped them in growth and financial pros ter he said thought I would stop 1 and leave you a horse to go home with I persuaded him to stop he And yet reeborn has a great many things to brought three one roam and feel proud of I believe they never had a sa two bavs had a I think it loon in their town They have erected a fine had repaired had a school building and endeavor to maintain a break down I said where did school that shall be a credit to the place They vou et those horses He said he have two churches and I am informed that got them in Illinois of a man who these are comfortably filled every Sabbath owed him a debt Two horses were Two flourishing Sabbath schools are kept un very sore on the neck looked as the year round The stores and dwelling houses though they had been driven a long are neatly painted and in a good state of repair said he got the harnesses with and the town has nothing of the tumble down the horses I said did you appearance that might be expected get the buggy Ho said bought socially they have endeavored to keep them He said he paid ten dollars for it I selves above par A Good lodge has paid for fixing it I told him flourished well Their grange meetings were that made it dear enough He said I made occasions for literary feasts Lyceums he would leave the bay horse with me I have been maintained Spelling schools have for use I thought it was lucky He I abounded Even their dances have been con came Thursday I put the horse in ducted in such a manner as to give no offence the shop and hired a saddle and rode in the early settlement of the county when him home Saturday He was a good timber was more plenty than at the present horse I had hurt my foot shoeing a I time a steam sawmill at that place turned out team and sat around the house Sun iarge quantities of lumber A wind grist mill day Watson came down that noon I at a iater day a source of profit to its own staid about the house and went oyer I erSj as wep as the surrounding country to Mr and talked with I Rut all this is foreign to the subject about him He started to go away and 1 1 Which I intended to write The coal wanted himo stay He said he would has been written about and talked about go over and help Richardson make s0 mu that a history of the efforts put forth hay I asked him what I should do t0 conVjnce the world that coal really exists at with the horse he said sell him tor pace )nay not uninteresting to your me or trade him for something smaller rea(jerSi gome twenty years or more ago vari or use the money till iall You can ous partjes in digging wells found more or less sell the harness and use the money ti fIoat coa) wiuCfl ie(i t0 the belief that sooner or I want it He said the Jeast lie wou iater the fact would be developed that the vil take for the horse was lie san lage of reeborn rested on an immense bedof heAyould come over Monday Mon 1 coa nothlng Nyas ever dono atj0Ut it until day he did not come I stai ted at)Out njne years ag0 wiien jjr DsRodgcrs Sacramento Monday about I in jjgging a wep fOllud coal in such quantities I got to Mr fy ft COm depth of fifty feet that the neighbors to rain ry told me to stop and bored 90 feet farther but his oman as heie without obtaining any satisfactory results would ii ko to ge home but further than finding specimens of coal In sufficient tools bad digging and the difficulty ciuciv Liiv I encountered in attempting to insert rained all the tnne till 2 clock I got Ued the abaiHlonPme of the enterpr: to bacramciito about sundov I posi Several shafts 1ave at vai ions times been sunk Watson since that Sunday the depth of about fifty feet the only result Whtn I got to Sacramento I let Mr tle (f good Himer have the horse for his board Sheriff Cave of Harlan county came At one time a 3 foot shaft had readied the on Sunday about 10 I was in getting depth of no feet No solid rock had been en shaved: when I got shaved he asked countered although slate rock and coal were me out asked me if I had a horse visible in various places At this time the water Watson bought he took the horse proved quite an annoyance and it became ne and claimed it had been stolen I tooK cessary to employ a double set ot hands thus himdo'wnto where the horse was keeping the work iir operation day and night there were two horses he did not Suddenly one day without any warning while know which one it was and I told the miners were quietly engaged with their him rom the 6th to the 10th of I work the water rushed in with such a rapidity September I was in Sacramento and they were obliged to scramble out of the from that time till the 15th Wil hole in double quick time in order to save their son slept with me most of the time in lives Machinery was rigged for pumping Sacramento He keeps a drug store which would throw a barrel a minute but it I sold a harness to Mr McNeill and making no perceptible dimunition of the vol took a note When Sheriff Sheehan jime of water the work had to be abandoned zx 4 xl rl lx 4 1 1 4 rx vx 1 ZX P4 nvin lx rj xi 4 UiXlAAV LU1U lUlt UUU ness with me told him where it was and went witii him to get it Sheriff Cave came into my shop and inquired for Watson and asked me where the gray horse was said I had better tell Where the gray horse and Watson are for there is a sheriff down from Min nesota from where the horse was sto len and he will probably arrest me I told him I did not know had not seen him since I left Spring Creek I have been a blacksmith since 1869 I have known Jim Watson all that time and have known him since he was a boy at Long Island He lived in Nora shell then he came to Nebraska He was in the Illinois penitentiary three years for stealing horses Jim said he had been ped dling that there was lots of money in it When he came back to Nebraska from Illinois he had a cou ple of dollars He lived in Nebraska before he went to Joliet He was farming and had about $1000 when he first came to Nebraska His father and he got a letter that they could get work weaving at Lawrence Kansas The Work did not suit them and his father came back on foot Jim then went to look for work and the first we knew he went to the penitentiary in lEOTlNpRi PROESSOR SALT RHEUM Will McDonald 2542 Dearborn St Chicago gratefully acknowledges a cure of Salt Rheum on head neck face arms and legs for seven teen years not able to walk except on hands and knees for one year not able to help him self for eight years tried hundreds of reme dies doctors pronounced his case hopeless permanently cured by the Cuticura Remedies GREAT BLOOD REMEDIES The half has not been told as to the great cu rative powers of the Cuticura Remedies 1 have paid hundreds of dollars for medicine to cure diseases of the blood and skin and never found anything yet to equal the Cuticura Rem CHAS A WILLIAMS Providence I The Cuticura treatment for the cure of Skin Scalp and Blood Diseases consists in the inter nal use of Cuticura Resolvent the new Blood Purifier and the external use of Cuticura ana Cuticura Soap the Great Skin Cures Price of Cuticura small boxes 50c large boxes Cuticura Resolvent St per bottle Cuticura 'Soap 25c Cuticura Shaving Soap 15c bold bv all drussists Depot WEEKS POTTER Boston Mass lltlCUEl only tended to increase the coal fever and ex citement ran high Immediate steps were taken to form a stock company in order that the work might be prosecuted witli more vigor On the 2Stli of April 1874 with a nominal capital of with A Southwick Dunn Rodg ers Goward and Drake as directors the Prospecting and Mining Asso was launched into being and a 7 foot shaft was sunk What was the use of any more prospecting? that extraordinary flow age of gas demonstrate to a certainty that either coal or petroleum lav only 50 feet below the surface at this point? The shaft went down with almost lightning like rapidity Specimens of coal were found on various occasions The depth of 50 feet was reached and the workmen came to a conglomerated mass of shell and gravel stones melted together forming a thin crust over what was supposed to be a rich mass of coal One more vigorous blow of the pick ax and the black diamonds would be ex nosed to view A large crowd asse mbled to witness the decisive stroke Breathlessly the excited mul titude watched every motion of the miners The pick was raised for the last blow and the last blow was struck Expecting to nna rne coveted prize only a bed of quicksand 15 feet a 1 1 ill I in depth was exposed to their view It is need I 1 11 4 I zw UA less to say that the work was soon abandoned 1 I I 1 11 1 I I II I anathwoa1 fever sank several degrees below dll CHIU VV 111 LCl Vj UvUlD a AM 1zkx WX I SY vuivr parties wiiuse iiaiiics we uiu uvu icam finally commenced prospecting again going i downH5 feet Specimens of coal all the way down but nothing ever came of it The people bore their defeat with as good a grace as possible Of course a great many jokes were cracked at the expense of the born coal Even their local poets took the matter in hand and we are permitted to insert a poem read at one of their grange meetings about that time I have heard of a city of fame by the shores of i a beautiful lake Of its hopes for the future all vanquished and what it was striving to make And its rally again to the contest though oft driven back in dismay And their struggle for coal or petroleum not given up to this day heard of the shaft in the hill top when' few of the noble and brave Worked hard with their shovel and pick axe in vain tneir tuei to save i 1 WE HAVE JUST RETURNED ROM NEW YORK: IMluerlralre had the bed reek friend I WHERE WE BOUGHT OR CASH OyER I heard the next day that the people had built I 4 y' all their hopes on the sand And though they were sold for the present they I risSesgxz $75000 WORTH O'CLOTHINGI And I learned that to prove to their neighbors the story of coal was no farce I One drew from his pocket a lucifer and lit up their city with gas I As the fire flashed out from the crevice it drove back the valiant men there But instead of falling as victims they only lost whiskers and hair I I am told from that time to the present most A 1 pn "IKT 1 T1 wonderful things could be penned I KJxU' Of that city so noted for mining and some of its 5 wonderful men ()WcltO II 11 cl JVl 1HH Some say they have grangers what are they? Ct i viLLLCt I wonder if I should one know Al 2 Vx A1 A a Do they look like our donkies in saddle? or do JLIlCLIclIlOlcl minAn'll (YTAWQ I Iknow you will laugh at such nonsense and THiTTI YytOTl think I ought to know more I 5 VV CL But when I was young you remember no news I 7 paper came to our door Our father had ways for his money and could not afford it you see ror ourAlbertLeabtore we secured tb2Oooo worth of ACloth hedoes the reading for me mg which we bought from 15 to per cent cheaper than any' Two years agoMessrs EJ Clark man mtheState who owns his own goods and having had the ated themselves for the purpose of prospecting advantage or buying direct from the manufacturers and such large rom atheinrecor5s tkeptWbytME quantities we claim and can prove to you that we can a that the first 15 feet consisted of soil and yellow clay then 30 feet blue clay 3 feet quicksand and water 48 feet gray and blue clay 44 feet quicksand and water 3 feet soft rock or hard pan feet hard gravel clay and pebbles 8 feet soft soapstone limestone and sand stone At this point a 2 inch tube was substituted passing through gravel mixed with black clay then into fire clav then took out a good show ing of Galena mineral Specimens of coal were found from the point where the blue elay was reached 15 feet from the surface to the bottom of the hole nearly 200 feet Here it was dis covered that the bore was so much out of aper pendicular line that it was with difficulty that tubing could be forced down and the enterprise was again abandoned But Mr Clark lias the most unbounded faith that he will yet find coal at reeborn in paying quantities A your readers arc aware another stock company has Lately been formed of which he is the superintendent He has closed a con tract with Messrs Haight Weir' of Winne bago City to bore to the depth of 200 feet tub ing the liole as they go down These gentlemen have so much confidence in their ability to do the work that they get no pay in case of a fail ure to reach the required depth Operations have been progressing about two weeks under the management of Messrs Miher and Reynolds two active young men who seem to understand ir business Probably the next six weeks will solve the problem Old Settler A A Illinois Ho came back from there last May went with me to Kearney came back about September 1st I thought it rather strange where he got the horses that was why Tasked him the way I did He said he got them in Illinois on an old debt Another man asked him how much he gave horses was arraigned before Jus for them he said not much for the state and Stacy Todd for Illinois said he drove through in 12 I i wUlnci mi VGrt TY' i I fit! VW sum II VVMW III JllllCrt A LitLlllUVL The testimony fbt the prosecution this up and found it was o0 miles per rnin uieisiu ui jiuv ucvcx JI 1 I TVT Mx 4 lx rx 1O Ct thD UAKDj clIILL uuiiuu 10 uuv vi 141 cuiana vnuu 21 The only new fact de time I moved to until I I rx tinea the prisoner xiuvnig auviiLum 1 i hhi iiivn uiuvi vuau uv uu this city just before the robbery and stronger built than light complex A Aldrich also testified to the ion Richardson is my brother in same fact The following is the testi law He is about 1 inch taller than I mony of the James Watson dark complexion black hair and Jr being the man who worked for black moustache which is colored nnvAv aanr NO WHOLE NO 12 The Great One rice A 4 iS' KgaMagM elixir 'Lzv AA O' i Yf A 4 a A 4 A 'S' 2 jplx 14 1 1 1 A I.