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THE AZErt illF,MESOTA HISTORICAL SCCIETY, Rift* tl ociet y I Vele) 01144.e -esti t III VOL L. ---No. 30. HASTINGS. KINN.. iiTITRDAY. APRIL 18, 1908. FRIENDLY ANIMALS. The Intimacy Between Thom and Man In Yellowstone Park. One of the most pleasant features of the drive through the Yellowstone Na- tional park is the apparent intimacy be- tween man and the animal and Med - life in the park. Thanks to the wise and stringent regulations, no shooting Is allowed within its boundaries. "The result," says- an English tourist, "la positively charming. Hundreds of little chipmunks, with their gaudy striped backs, scamper Impudently about or peer at the passing coach from the roadside. The squirrel did not bolt for the nearest tree, but nodded a wel- come. All bird life treated us like- wise. Even the lordly eagle hovered near, and the wild turkey stalked un- concernedly through the rank grasa. We perceived a doe and a fawn graz- ing by the road. Not until we were within a few feet did they seek! the shelter of the woods, yet not to fly. They simply moved aside. Here at least mankind was regarded as a friend—one who could be trusted. The only animal who ran away was a brown bear. He turned tall at the eight of a coaching party. Yet it was quite a common thing for bears to approach close to the hotels at evening to feed on the refuse thrown out. It was an after dinner relaxation for the guests to watch them feeding. They munched and disputed the choicest morsels, for the most part indifferent to the com- pany. Only when we became Inquis- itive and approached too near did they retire, and these animals were perfect- ly free and unfettered in their move- ments. It may read like a fairy tale, but it is solid fact." THE BST INDIA COMPANY. What Great Britain Owes to Holland and Pepper. It is curious to remember that when England's commercial greatness was a -making her most serious rival was Holland. But the enterprising Dutch- men ruined their chances by their greediness. There was a popular little couplet which ran: In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. The whole course of English pre. dominance abroad might have been changed if the Dutch had not "asked too much." In the closing years of the sixteenth century they had a trade monopoly with the East Indies, and they "put up" the price of,pepper to such a point that the English consumer "struck." _ A meeting of London merchants made one December afternoon a deci- sion the Importance of which to Eng- land cannot be exaggerated. It was nothing less than the resolution to form a London East India company. The petition of these merchants to good Queen Bess was granted in royal charter of Inc irporation. The company, f' anded at first to es- tablish direct trade communication with the east and lower the price of pepper, soon took to itself larger pur- poses. Fleets of merchant ships came and went between England and India, and from the quarrel about pepper the corporation of merchants was des- tined, through Clive and its "nabobe," to give England a vast empire.—Pear- son's Weekly. The Reason. It was Washington's birthday, and the minister was making a patriotic speech to the children of the secondary grade. "Now, children," he said, "when 1 arose this morning the flags were wav- ing and the houses were draped with bunting. What was that done for?" "Washington's birthday," answered a youngster. "Yes," said the minister, "but last month I, too, had a birthday, but no flags were flying that day, and you did not even know I had a birthday. Why was that?" "Because," said an urchin, "Washing- ton never told a lie." — Philadelphia Ledger. Mussels of Philippine. During August and September as many as 1,000 to 1,500 sacks, each con- taining nearly 200 pounds of mussels, are dispatched every Wednesday from Philippine alone. Holland, Belgium and France are the best customers of the Philippine mussel farmers, but quite a number of the cherished shell- fish find their way across the channel from the Dutch beds to the Britlshers' dinner table. In Philippine mussels form, one may say, the staple food of the population. They are consumed in every possible manner—stewed, fried, in soups, In gravies and with particular relish alive.—A. Pitcairn -Knowles in Wide World Magazine. A Retreating Chin. Nothing weakens a face more than a retreating chin. Unfortunately pfamPar- atively little can be done for 1. ,It can be remedied to a certain extent in childhood by rubbing from the throat up and out, holding the head well up during the process. Sometimes, too, the trouble may be caused by the way the jaws close on account of the posi- tion of the teeth, and a good dentist may often be of help. Bandages worn round the chin at night, so placed that the lower jaw is forced forward, will sometimes remedy the defect slightly, especially when begun on quite young children.—Exchange. Always the Same BURIED ALIVE. The Mode of Death Selected by a Chi- nese Murderer. Rough justice as It Is administered irt most parts of China is sometimes tempered. by individual tastes, as an incident printed In one of the China port journals attest. A man in Suchien, condemned to die, preferred to be burled alive, and his wishes were car- ried out to the letter. During the famine two brothers who lived in Suellen fought desper- ately to stave off starvation from their families and bad blood arose between them. At last the elder brother sold his father's coffin for food. When he refused to divide the proceeds with his younger brother the latter chopped off his head with a cleaver. Because It was too expensive to carry the murderer several scores of miles to the nearest yamen of Justice the local elders, including the father of the murderer, whose coffin had been sold, sat in justice upon the culprit and condemned him to death. He asked that he beuried alive instead of re- ceiving the horrible torture of the "thirty slices." The father interceded with the other elders to get them to grant his son's request A grave was dug, and the victim, with his arms and feet securely bound, was trundled in a wheelbarrow to the edge of the pit by his wife. There, upon the murderer's own request, his bonds were loosed, and he walked to the grave, lowered himself into it and was ready. The victim's wife put a felt hat over his mouth as his request, and then she helped the eiders to fill in the grave with six feet of earth. TORTURED TO DEATH. The Horrible Fate of a Number of Regicides. The lot of the regicide when caught is not usually a very enviable one. To be hanged is the least he can expect. Perpetual solitary imprisonment is a far more dreadful fate. It drove Brea- d, the assassin of King Humbert of Italy, to suicide, and it transformed Lucchini, who murdered the empress of Austria, Into a hopeless imbecile. Among the plotters implicated in the murder of the late shah of Persia ot - was tortured to death in prison, whllo° another was incased in wet plaster of pads, which on setting slowly crushed the life out of him. Three of the as- sassins of a previous shah were boiled alive In huge copper caldrons. So late as the year 1831 the two Mavromichaelie, who slew Count Capo d'Istra, the first president of Greece, were immured within close brick walls built around them up to their chins and supplied with salted food, but no drink, until they died. Damiens, who attempted the life of King Louis XV. of Prance, was first barbarously tor- tured and then torn to pieces by wild horses. This punishment was carried out in one of the principal squares of Paris March 28, 1757. Bavaillac, who assassinated Henry IV. of France, suf- fered a similar fate. The murderer of Selina III. of Turkey was publicly impaled, lingering five and a half days in dreadful torment Those whb did to death his immediate successor, Mustapha IV., were tortured and starved on alternate days and de- prived of sleep by night until death came to their relief.—Chicago News. An Ancient Suez Canal. It is certain that in ancient times a canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas did exist. Herodotus as- cribes its projection to Pharaoh Necho, 600 B. C. The honor of its completion is given by some to Darius, by others to the Ptolemies, liow long this canal continued to be used we do not know, but, becoming finally choked up by sand, it was restored by Trajan early in the second century A. D. Becoming again useless from the same cause, it was reopened by the Caliph Omar, but was finally closed by the "unconquer- able sands" about A. D. 767, in which state it has since remained. This an- cient canal, from Suez to Bubastis, on the east branch of the Nile, was 92 miles long, from 108 to 160 feet wide and 15 feet deep. His Prayer. O'Connell had got a man off at one time for highway robbery and at an- other for burglary, but on a third oc- casion, for stealing a coasting brig, the task of hoodwinking the jury seemed too great for even his powers of cajol- ery. However, he made out that the crime was committed on the high seas and obtained an acquittal. The prison- er lifted up his hands and eyes to heav- en and exclaimed, "May the Lord long span you, Mr. O'Connell, to mer— Argonaut ft per Tear ha Adverse*. THE GENTLE ALLIGATOR. Getting Him Out into the Open For the Camera Man. 1 have seen a barefoot boy when the alligator refused to respond to bis call wade. In the inud to his waist, explore with his toes till he felt the vriggit of the gator beneath them, then worry him to the surface, grab him by the nose before be could opeu bis jaws and tow the creature ashore to be photo- graphed. When as alligator tint we were hunting crawled Into his cave 1 -iteld a noosed rope over bis mouth while the boy poked a stick through the mud until It bit the creature to bis hiding place, and soon I had him snared, ready to be dragged out ou the prairie and tied, to be kept till the camera man was ready for him; then we turned the reptile loose oto a bit of prairie, and the boy and I, armed with sticks, headed him off when he tried to escape, while the camera man, with hie head in the hood of his instrument, fol. lowed the creature about, seeking tor evidence in the case of reason terns Instinct. When tbe camera man Wu through with him the alligator was asst tree, a final shot being taken at hinaljui he walked off. Our hunter boys eoetid never be made to comprehend our rea- sons for restoring to the creature. their freedom. They understood the photo- graphing, but when this wu done why not collect a dollar for tho,.-rePtilses hide? Their manner implied that to this question no sane Ammer wu pos. sible.—A. W. Dimock in Harper's Mag- azine. ECONOMY IN ITALY. The Roman Season the Only Time When Real Luxury le the Rule, During the greater part of the year we have only the servants that are necessary—my busband's valet. one but- ler, the porter who stands at tbe en- trance to the palace and a general utility country boy who in the after- noon puts on a livery and acts as foot- man. The women servants are a cook, Confidence when eathg, that your food is of highest wholesomeness—that it has nothing in it that can injure or distress you — makes the repast doubly comfortable and satisfactory. This supreme confidence you have when the food is raised with Baking 1Ploweller Abimainiobr reare The only baking powder made With Royal Grape Cream of Tartar There can be no comforting confi- dence when eating alum baking pow- der food. Chemists say that more or less of the alum powder in unchanged alum or alum salts remains in the food. Nen and the Bucket. PIGEONS OF ST. MARK'S. There Is one particular fever of non. sense which the Princeton Tiger claims Why Venice Venerates Them, Par- the credit of having originated. for in titularly en Easter 'Day. the November issue, 1902, appeared the There is a tradition, now generally following verse: a scullery maid, a laundress and two accepted in Venice, which tells how There once was a man front Nantucket maids besides my own personal one.. the great doge made a formal and Who kept all his Cash In a bucket, This list is not as extravagant as the ceremonious visit to the Piazza San But hie daughter, named Nan, IMune Would be la AineriCi. Ran away with a man, Marco one Palm Sunday centuries RP- And as for the bucket—Nantucket. Wages are nothing by comparison.With him went his entire suit of cite- For the next few u3onths Nan, her One can get a good lady's maid for $10: claim, including the foreign ambassa- father aud her newly Required butt- e month, a competent butler for $10,1 dors residing in Venice. The presence band encountered n series of the most astonishing adventures In every known hamlet in the country which could be converted into limerick form by the brains of newspaper and magazine writers from sea to sea. By the time Nan cause back with a dozen or so ad - a cook for 110, a chambermaid for $6. , of this hoot of dignitaries, the blare of Their fare would seem coarse to the the sllver trumpets that announced their coming and the magnificence of tbe processions greatly impressed the people of the city, who were gathered, 111 many as coell beaccommodated, on the edges of the piazza and in nearby ditional verses tacked on to her there places. is reason to wonder in the face of the Tbe doge was moved to show his ordeals to which she had been subject - bounty to his subjects, so he had a ed whether the pecuniary advantage number of pigeons, each one weighted gained by absconding with that bucket by having a piece of paper tied to one repaid her for all that she had been of its legs, released front the gallery through. — Roy 8. Durstine in Bohe- a fit Mark above the portico where mien magazine. spoiled servant of America, consisting, as it does, chiefly of bread, soup, mac- aroni and fruit, with tea and coffee of an inferior grade and fresh meat owe a week. We spend nothing that we can possibly help until the Roman Set - son. Then we have enough surplus to get an additional number of maids and a long row of footmen (these fortthe most part young women end men Own the village of our owe estate), and both in our country villa aud itt our Roman palace we open all the rooms that for eight months have been closed and for four mouths live in luxury.— An Expatriate in Everybody's Maga- zine. The Angier Fish. A singular superstition about tbe angler fish is entertained in some parts of Sweden (Bohuslan), according to Maim and Smith "It is so feared by many that the tackle Is cut as soon u the 'monster' reaches the surface, and its captor hurries home in order to get there, if possible, before the misfor- tune portended by the monster over- takes him." The extreme of =tarot, tune—death—is believed by some to be indicated. Nilsson tells that the Swed• bh fishermen on the banks "bellere that on board tbe 'tweet ou which aft angler is taken some one is doomed to die soon. They therefore never of hardly ever take the angler on board but prefer to cut the line aud time kenr the hook with the ash." An anemornetrical faculty is mirth uted to the angler In Masanchlrette According to Storer, "among the 6 men in some parts of the bay- thPre 15 a common saying, 'When you taLe gooeeflsh, look out for an pastel -1y storm.'" A Human Foot Warmer. It is interesting to learn that Jullue Caesar found our Celtic ancestors just suffocating themselves with smoke. Giraldus, the early Welsh historian, describes a family as sitting round their smoky central fire by day and lying round It •by .night But they could have bid little comfort from it for the same historian tells us that Oise of their princes eked out his fire with a human foot warmer.. This officets the bronze horses rear their gigantic bodies. The pigeons thus hampered How He Hayed Money. Were easily caught by the greedy crowd A. country politicinn in Pennsylvania waiting in the square below, and those managed to get elected to the legisla- who were lucky enough to capture ture at Harrisburg for one term. When these sacred birds took them home and he came back he built himself a fine fatted them up for their Easter dinner. house, coating about $20,000. His old A few of the pigeons escaped and taught refuge high up in the domes of neighbors, who knew he had no money before he went to Harrisburg and who the church, where the band of man knew the salary of a Pennsylvania could not reach them. The fact that legislator, were curious to discover tbe pigeons found safety in the very dome of the tomb of Bt. Mark worked where the returned statesman got on tbe superstitious natures of the mul. means to build the house. 8o one day a committee waited on the man who Wade, and they at once believed that built the house, and the spokesman the good saint had given the birds pro- said: dation and had thus signified his wish "Jim, 11 may be none of our business that the pigeons should be regarded as sacred creatures henceforth. to your thinking, but we think you owe it to us who sent you to the legislature From that time until the present day the pigeons of St Mark's have been to explain where 7„ got the money with which you built this house. You safe from the sacrilegious hand of didn't have a cent before you went to MAO, and ever since it has been the Harrisburg and owed everybody in the custom to give them extra attention place. How about it?" and food on the anniversary of their! being taken under the protection of the "Why?' said tbe builder, "Its simple enough. You see, when we were in saint of the church. That is why ev- Harrisburg we didn't keep a hired erybody who is in Venice on Easter girl."—Argonaut. Sunday provides an extra supply of food for the pigeons of St Mark's.— New York Herald. The freaks of the sea are the anglers and bat lashes. The people of North Carolina have aptly named the angler tbe allmouth, for the tall begins where the mouth ends. Inhabiting the north Atlantic, the angler has been given a variety of names. On the Massachu- setts coast it is known as gooselish. Rbode Island terms it bellowfish, and Connecticut gives it the cognomen of molilgut Jamaica bay calls it the car- petbagger. England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales all have their local names. The names of the English give to this one fish are expressive of its habits, to say the least They call it toadfish, frog, fishing frog, devilfish, sea devil, flautist), monkfish, pocketesh, wide - gut, kettlemaw and widegap. Thomas Pennant, who in 1770 wrote his "Brit- ish Zoology." did not like the name of fishing frog, then applied to the Ask so he "changed the old name of fishing frog for the more simple one of an- gler." Strange Good Friday Custom. In Munich and Vienna the churches CO Good Friday are the scene of a very striking picture of the burial of Chalet A figure of the Saviour is car- ried In state around the church to the altar, where Is a sepulcher, to which seems through an opening formed by artificial rocks awaits ft. The ivin- down ars darkened, and through the gloom the eyes of thousands of awed worshipers are drawn to the tomb, where a solitary light Illumines the white palled figure of the crucified duty was to keep his master, feet Christ In some parts of Austria large warm by cherishing them 1a his bosom Processions parade the streets, headed during meals. For thie , purpose he by priests riding on horses and bear - squatted under tbe table, and nogoubt lug banners, with an escort of white it "did him proud" so to nurse the my- robed choristers chanting hymns, and al moccasins.—T. P.'s London Weekly. la Bavaria the peasants form proces- Why said an indignant man, entering the ed. "You made Hs Was Angry. a nada. La your ,strong, heralded by a man bearing a gisadonsn,ealundruiiredsa, sometimes thousands, Where Ma Was Strict, itarial sanctum at a daily Journal Little Girl—My mamma is awful was one of the competitors at an ath- strict Is yours? Little Boy—Orful. tette entertainment lut night aad you tau, cari....But she lets you go any. referred to me as 'the well knows Where you want to and— Little Boy -- lightweight champion.' " Oh, she ain't strict with me. Little "Well, are you not?" le oiroA flew `"".014—Then who is she strict with? sporting editor. "No; I'm nothing of the kind." was , "We Boy—Pa. the angry response, "and it's confound -1 Wasteful. edly awkward, bemuse I'm a coal, Grasper (a very careful man)—No I dealer."—Philadelphia Ledger The lefay of Humanity. Human nature is kind and generous, but It Is narrow and blind and can only with difilculty conceive anything but what it immediately sees and feels. People would instantly cars for others as vvell as themselves ff only they could imegine others as well as themselves. Let a child fall Into a river before the roughest man's eyes— he will usually do what be can to get „ . - Should new allow my daughter tu it out, even at some risk to hhnseit marry a journalist. He always wastes and all the town will triumph in the Thought He Wee Geis. te Oben. sae side of the paper. And still less saving of one little life. Let tbe MOO Thought Ho Was Smart. The new rubber In the Turkish Wit obe wed a poet He doesn't The Man With the Gun (boastfully had formerly been a barber, ! i even go to the end of the line. Little Willie—Say, pa, what is a gen- at least *dozen girls. Miss Sweet Girl A The and cynically)—I have been engaged to Thus it was When his And patron1 ...__ ins? Pa—A genius, my son, Is a man (looking annoyed)—And always been came in that the Dew •robber booked emir* minutes are the gold dust of who as a boy tbe neighbors said would unlucky in love, eh? He—Oh, I don't him over and mid pitylegig.."Wealt thaer the portions of Life most fruitful , yourself somethnes. don't your—Laois. , lit good or evil, the gaps through which Newt never amount to anything. --Chicago know. I've never married any of them -1 ville Condor -Journal. Whatf—Philadelphia Inouirer. . ' tMeptations seter.—Mrs. Thrall man be shown that hundreds of chit, dren are dying of fever for want or some sanitary measures which it will cost him trouble to urge, and be will make no effort, and probably all the town would resist him if be dider- Rumble PSYCHASTHENIA. ' A Physician Says This is One of the Causes of Panics. The panics that start lu Wail street often begin In the morbid financial fears of orerstrained braina—peychas- 11111atESOLUTION IN RELATION TO at sprinkling of streets. Resolvedby the city council of the city of Hastiees that tbe following streets and terri- tory to the city of Hastings, to -wit: Second Street, from the west line of Eddy Street to the railroad track on the west tilde of Ce huge, Milwaukee, and St. Paul depot. Ramsey Street, from the north side of the alley north of Seoond Street to the south side of es Dr. Clarence Hughes In the the alley between Second and Tbird Street. thenia. Psychastheula tnukes panics, Sibley Street, from the north aide of tbe alley nortb of Second Street to the south side of Third Alienist and Neurologist Street "We once knew a mind overburden- , ed. brain overstrained man suddenly conclude he was coming to want aud 1 would not be able 10 pay his taxes when his Inconel was $40.000 annual ly. He milked itte own cow, be bar - named his own bents and cared for it (sold the others), dismissed all his 1 servants and his wife's and had in - sound', but finally recovered complete- ! ly. Others with less Income or more fall through brain overtax into the same morbid way of feeling and think- ing. "One kind of insaneld U a 111118 who under mental stress of say kind acts as though he were insane, but has not the disease of real insanity to ex- cuse his actions. "He hovers on the verge, but does not pass over Into real mental aban- don u he appears to be going. lie does and says euch odd, unreasonable and annoying things that his friends often wish he would pass into genuine insanity, so that he might be properly and lawfully restrained or that he might happily extinguish himself by suicide. Somettmes he does commit suicide or become really insane, and we then know where to place him." A LITTLE BIT BEHIND. The Old Men Wes Not Very Well Poeted toe the Haws. In tbe midst of the heated dissension on potnts connected with certain his- torical sensations which their teacher had sought to Impress ofe tbena the two grandchildren appealed to their grand- father, who sat musing and puffing his pipe in the corner, for support "Grandpa," cried the eager brotber, "who was It ki.Ued Caesar—Cassius or Brutus? I say Cassius." "Waal," replied the grandfather, sud- denly becoming grave and taking his pipe from his mouth, "it war one or tether. Let me see. Yes. 1 gums 'twar th' man you said." "And Ms says It was Made Antoi- nette who got put to death in France," again cried the youth, triumphantly glancing toward his sister, "but I say it wu Mary, queen of Scots." "Now, you may be right there, too," ventured the involuntary vindicator after fidgeting In his chair. "Come t' think of it 'twar Mary, queen of Scots, that war electrocuted In Freon." At this the young girt. eyes !lambed. "Grandpa," declared she, stepping bte fore him and eying him sternly, "you don't seem to know anything about it." The old man's bead went up as if shocked. "Th' truth is, children," he then admitted as he passed his free hand over his head h&pie1 "your grandfather.ain't read 16' newspapers very carefa this week. Pm a leetle mite behhad."—Bohemian Magazine. An Unwelcome Gratuity, An American merchant bitterly op- posed to the custom of "tippling" public servants for each Inconsequential serv- ice wu astonialted to find the practice in Europe more general than in Ameri- ca. While in London be had occasion to employ a cab and upon being driven to the desired destination drew forth a handful of change, counted out tbe exact tare and tendered It to the driver. "Beg pardon, atrr' exclaimed the cab- by. in a tone of injury. '"Ow long 'eve ye been saving up for this 'olidayr Suppreseing his annoyance at the driver's effrontery, the tow** sought a restaurant and tipoe receiving tbe din- ner check again tendered the exact amount of Ids Mit The Waiter bowed, assisted- his guest into his coat, then, selecting a bright new sixpence, 0? - fared it to his patron with: "Beastly weatber, ski 'Ere's coach farer—Lippincott's Malaita& The Rat. The rat's sins are manifold. The damage which be does In a yea to crops, cargoes, stores, 'Mari* poul- try and game, dairies anCouthouess, foundatioes, walls and drainage can- not be calculated exactly. but It mast be enormons. He is ublquitotta Re warms in fields, bodges, Coverts, farm- yards, cellars, sewers, docks and skips. He is clever in getting out ot ties, extremely courageous, able to exist on almost any kind of food and horribly prolide.—Loadon Spectator. The Retest Direst. "See here," cried the artisI, who bad come to complete about tbe materlak he had bought, i can't imagine any- thing worse than your paints." "Mare strange," replied the dealer. 'Don't yon ever use your hningthadon on your patntIng?"—lizehange. Hopeless. "Ws wish, madam, to enlist your in leduencing your husband tor the public good. Hs holds the key to a very inberesUng situation and"— "I don't see how I can be or say ae. !manes to you. :obi never could dad a kaybole."—Rouston Post Useless Meow. Languid WaliglIS—Aftit all is said, pal, matey iln't erorebg. Dry Deei gen—I knows it tram migmmenee. I *must found a duo dollar WS mar de aster sr a proldbldon state.--Patik, men ere dreilied ta the bswl la the sea. -1v106 Partes. Vermillion Street, from the north skis of tbe alley north of Second Street to the south side of Fit tit Street. Tyler Street, frotn the eouth side of Second Street to the north side of the alley 112 block fifteen. Shall be sprinkled during the ecu 1908, begin- ning on the lot day of May. 190k and terminat- lag on the lieth diy of October, 1908, unless the city council by resolution shall orderaald sprit*. ling to cease before said last named elide. Said sprinkling sttall be done in ascii manner that said greets shall be at all times E.Uffielently wet so that no dust shall at any time be raised on or blown from the surface of such streets, and such eprinkling shall be done and said Street, shall be kept la such wet condition on every day of the week, Sundays excepted. The sprinkler tanks used shall be of modern types and &ball hare modern and the most ap• proved types of sprinkling attachment., which shall be approved by the oily eouncil or a em- ulous appointed by the city toenail. Resolved further, that the said city council shall meet at the City Hall, in the city of Hest - Inge, on Tuesday, the 28tb day of Apnit, 1908, at eight o'clock p. m. of said day, for the purpose of taking action lu relation to doing the proposed vrork of sprinkling in the manlier and at the time bereinbefere set fail, and at the time and place hereinabove Set torch bids will be opened for the doing of said work by contract, and that et 'ski meeting opportunity will be given to any and all intereated parties to be heard for or against the proposed work of sprinkling said streets and territory. That the city clerk Is hereby directed to cause et -- notice of the said meeting to be published in the official newspaper of the city, and to give notice that the city council will on eald 98th day of April meet as aforesaid to take action in relation to the proposed sprinkling, and that all pardes Interested will at tbat time be given an oppor- tunity to be beard for or againet said proposed work. Said clerk le further ordered to advertioe for sealed bids for the doing of said work of spriu k • ling according to tbe provisions of this reeolte don in tbe manner and for the time hereinbetore speolded, and that ail bids will be opened at aald meeting of the council on sald 28th day of April, 1908, sald bidders to glee bonds for ttie faithful performance of said work. Adopted this 13th day of April, 1908. .1. P. WEST, OW, Iiatoto, City Clerk. Mayor. N OT I C E. Please take notioe tbat a meeting of the city eounell of the oily of Heating" will be held at the City Hall, in tbe cite of Hastings, Minn., on the 98th day of April, 1008. at eight o'clock p. tn.. for the purpose of taking action in relation to the sprinkling of tbe foliating described 'mute and territory In the city of fluting*. to -wit: Second Sireet, from tbe west line ot F,ddy Street to the raliroed track en the west skis of the Chicago. Milwaukee, sod Si, Paul depot. Tykr Street. from the south side of Second Street to the north eide of the alley In block fifteen. Ramsey Street. from the north side of the alley north of Second Street to the south aide of the elle, between 'et:end and Third Street,. Sibley Street, from the nortb side of the alley north of Seoond Street to the soutb side of 'bird Street, Verrni.lion Street, front the teeth side of the alley north of Second Street to tbe eout b eide of Fifth Street, during the 3 ear naS. beginning May 1st, 1908. and terminating Oct. lfeh, 1408, unless the city council by resolution order aald sprinkling to cease before said last named date, said sprinkling to be dem le such manner that said street shall he at al, times icutBetenti, wet go that no dust shall at any time be raised on or blown front the surface of aald sueeitg. tied guch sprinkileg 'hall be done and beld streets 0.11 be kept in such wet condition on every day in the week, Sundays exoepted. The sprinkler tanks used shall be of modern types, and shall have modern and most im- proved typee of gpriukling "Bushmen., stitch shall be approved by the city council. Sealed bids will be received by the city clerk up to the 98th day of April, 1905, at eight o'clock p. m., for the sprinkling of said streets and territory in Otte manner and for the time and under the specifications bereinabove set forth. Said bids will be opened and considered at said meeting. Bidders to glee bonds for the faithful perfor- tnanoe of Litid work. The city mused referees the right to reject any and all bids. Dated at Hastings, Minn., this 14th day of April,1908. CH ARLES HANK ES, City Clerk. ESTATE OF DECEDENT. State uf Minnegotacounty of Dakota —ss In probate oourt. In the matter of the estate of Frank Rend, decedent. The btu-, of Minnesota to Caroline Ruud, William Frank Rend, Harry Emil Rand, and all persons Interested in the allowance and probate of the will of said decedent- The peti- tion of Caroline Rund being duly died in this oourt, represeeting that Frank Ruud, then resident of the nounty of Dakota. suite of Minnesota, died on the gid day of March, 1908. leaving a tut will and testa- ment, which ta presented to this court with .1d petition, and praying that acid instrument be allowed lie the last will and testa- tnent of said decedent, and that letters testamentary be Issued thereon to said Caroline Ruud. Now, therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause if any you have, before (big court, at the probate oourt rooms in the oourtbouse, in Hut. Inge, county of Dakota, stet* of Minnesota, on the 14th day of May. 1908, at 9:90 o'clock a. to., wby the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Witness, Thos. P. Moran, judge of "aid eourt, end the seal of said court this 14th day of 4prli, 1908. r0ovier Sast..1 THOS. P. MORAN, 804w Judge of Probate. ESTATE OF DECEDENT. State of Minnesota, couety of Dakota.—.. In prebate court. In the matter of the estate of Jacob Mutter. decedent. The state of Minnesota to Peter Mamer, Josephine (Schweich) Matuer, Mary Schaal, Margaret Beecher. (math, Siemer. John Mettler, George !lamer, J. eph )tamer. Ferdinand Mentor, Jacob Mainer, Berdie Witmer, Met). Manner, Jennie Hamer, Nicholas Newer, sod all persons interested in the final a000unt end distribution of the estate of said decedent. The representative of the above named decodes Davis, filed In this court bit final account of Otto admInietration of the estate of 6.14 decedent, together with hls petition praying for the adjustment and allowance of &aid Snsl tiocount and for distribution of the residue of said estate to tbe persons thereunto entitled. Therefore. you and each of you are hereby cited and required to show Cali.. If any you bate, before this court, at the probate court room In the courthouse. In the city of Heating*, in- the county or Dakota, state of Minnesota, on tbe 13th day of May, 1908, at ten o'clock a, m., why said petition ehould not be granted. Wilts.'s the judge of told oourt, and the seal of mad (mart, this 16th day of April, 1905. itgat..] THOS. P. MORAN, Probate Judiee, Hauser Om esq,. Attorney for Petitioner. ORDER FOR HEARING. state of Minnesota, eounty of Dakota —6B. In probate wart. le the matter of the guardianship of Walter H. Perkins, ward. The guardian of the above named ward, viz: Hides R. Cabe, hales made and filed la this mart bar anal nomad, together with her peti- Mon representing that said guardianship W. terminated, and praying that .Id amount be essadeed, adjusted sad allowed by this court, and that said guardian be die It la ovdered tbat said petignt beard end sald Account examined and adjusted by this coed.. the whet* coon room, in the court - booms, in the city et Hastings, county of Dakota, state et allemeote, ou the ibtb day of May, 11101, at 9:81) o'olock a in.. and that this order he served by publicaUen thereof, once in each week, tor three secomplve weeks prior to said day of -ausomas, le The Hastings Ossetic a weekly 'Newspaper, priated sad published at Hastings, Mese.. Dated April 186. IOW Ilk the mart. THOS. P. MORIN. tWel.) 1041w Probate Judge.