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The sawmill engine is 12^: by 12 feet. It crating on the river twenty-eight years with home-mado money in comparison to the fol- 

 ia equipped with a Blandy sawmill, with this equipment." lowing unsolicited endorsements of my prod- 

 60 feet carriage and four head blocks. The While the letter does not so state, the uct? Listen while I read yet a few: 

 boat carries one heavy planer, double sur- I^ecord believes that the planing mill equip- " 'Dear Busch: You are a better man than 

 facer and matcher combined. '"®°' '* located on the upper deck of the I am. I can make money but not Budweiser, 



"In sawing on the Tennessee river we have """' ''''''*'' '''^° *^°'''^^ '■'""° *°'" *''•' ''°"^" "''''° ^"^ '^'^ '"^''° both.-John D. Rocke- 



,, , 11 J • X ., ""S 01 the crew and sawmill operators. feller.' 



the logs rolled anto the stream and we pull F,om the foregoing statement of Master '"A. Busch, St. Louis: Everything going 



them on the boat w.th a bull wheel. We Baker it would soem that steamboat sawmill to smash. The signs indicate an increased 



make from $2o to $40 a day sawing by the equipments might be profitably employed on sale of Budweiser. I am putting it down in 



thousand, and get $4 for sawing softwoods, " S°o<l many of the southern .streams where Kansas.— Carrie Nation.' 



$5 for hardwoods. We believe this the best *''*''''^ '^ ^ sufficient amount of water for " 'Dear Brother in Reform: I have found 



way to sawmill along every river. We can "PP""!'''"" twelve months in the year. The places where Budweiser brings as high as 



go to a pile of logs and can be at work in '^"'''="''''^'' encountered in towing many vari- ninety cents premium on the bottle. Yours 



fifteen minutes. The sawdust and slabs make '"f °^ 'v«''"° ^''f''°°^' «« "''" ''"O""- ^°' P""*-^' J**^^" ^'""^'^y-' 



all the fuel we ne 1 hi- " """'^'^'^'^^'oi °f ''"s so" of mill should " ' My dear Busch: Case of Bud came this 



■■-.- but one boiler'' ' "" ^"""^ obliged to enable operators to pick up timber lying close morning. On tasting the first bottle His Ex- 



^ There is nl' ^f f *° "^^ waterways without suffering the usual cellency exclaimed, 'Bully! Dee-lighted! This 



.,.„dle thrp. T/ ^"Tu"" ! '"''■" *" '°'' ^™'" '"°'"^" ^°g^' ^"<1 =>!«« eliminate the i« bay, oats and a curry-comb! Send two 



cu tin. Z7u stuff "'Tr 7 . ''"' ^"^ '■^'P'^'''"'^ *°^'"^ '^""'S''- -^ "g of this sort pints to Fairbanks !-Loeb, Secretary.' 



irnhnnf'" I , ^^ °"'" '""'' '""''' ^'^ "^""t *« ^o its Own skidding, and "What does Government Chemist WUey dis- 



Ifonrmnp? ? T"/"^f',"'''"'^^^'°'' the lumber product could be loaded on barges cover in Budweiser and in this Johann 



LdednTr , T^^ ^""^^"^ ^ ''"'' "^''^y *''"'"i to suitable piling and Schmidt funny business? I will read: 



loaded barge ot lumber. We have been op- shipping ground. P g < ,, ^^^,^_^.^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ Budweiser No. 



-^ - , _ ^ 698,470,657,213,811, Series K: 



Helief of the Financial Situation at FoamandBubwes 37.02% 



^^ * » 9 x ront 58.17% 



k3 f • J^OtitS, Hopobarleyricene 4.81% 



Last week the St. Louis papers announced ,,,„„,,,,■ „ , •„ . , Temperature, 38° F. ' 100.00% 



the return of Adolphus Busch from Europe, ^""™^ that will circulate without question Analysis of Bank of Converse Johann 



and that he would meet with the bankers and °'^/""[t; something that everybody wants Schmidt No. 75642: 



financiers of that city and devise a way to T "7 ^'"'?^ "" presentation and not ques- Oxygen 19.64% 



immediately relieve the financial situation /'' goodness; something that if endorse- Nitrogen 78.17% 



Although no St. Louis paper saw fit to pub^ '"e^ts are required has them of the strongest; Smoke and other impurities.. 2.19% ■ 



lish the proceedings of that meeting, we be- ^""''^"j'^^ that will take the place of money Ro^ks-a trace. - 



Ueve that we violate no confidence when we !• , "^T- ^'"' ''^^°'^ *'"' "'^''"' ^°" ^'^' Temperature 147» F. 100.00% 



publish the observations of our special re- ^^ ^""'^''''"^ ^""'^ "* ^'' *'-- the world .,^^.^^^. ^.^^^^ ^^^^ ^^.^ ^^ ^^^ ,^^^ 



^L"' "Aft- f,-,-„>,/io T 1 i , Busch, you have a mint.' Now I know that 



The meeting -.vas called to order and the ^^ ^l' "f'^ f-? ^T T^^[ ^°'^ ""''^ ^« -^^ '"'t joking. Come on, gentlemen, with 



bankers present were with difficulty persuaded !_ "„" '!^ !' ion n "^r T"" .Tl " *'" --ur bonds mortgages and good coU;tei.l 



occupy front seats-they were all so shy. J^Z^^^l ° '° "■''' -<! I -"^ furnish all the circulation you 



Mr. Busch, after being introduced, said in '^ fortune? ^^^^ 



P"t: ]2fT''- ■ ■ "Ach! I haf talked too much! Let us go 



"My friends, I am glad to be with you ^'^'^ "^e and unUmited coinage of Bud- bei die brauerei, yes?" 



once again. Sent Looey owes me much. Why? ^^""iser will swell the circulation and relieve A motion was' made and carried to exclude 



Who was it that put Sent Looey in every- the stringency. reporters and go into executive session and 



body's mouth? I did. How? Prinz Holz- "What is there to the endorsement of the this paper, up to date, has no more authentic 



kopf to me said, ' Herr Busch, where do you unidentified Johann Schmidt on a piece of information. 0. D. B. 



live when you are not with your son-in-law at ^ jr»- ^-^ * * r^ 



home?' I said, In Sent Looey.' Where is A. Kansas sJid ^cttler and o V ctcvan 



that?' Mid he. I answered, 'Your Highness, TWr 1 rf 



that is the burg down by my brewery where rralniZt TVCC 



I make Bud. ' His Highness got weiser soon 



yet. It is with a feeling of sadness that the lover the banks of the beautiful stream known as 



"While I was washing the Missouri river I'*' trees learns that the last veteran walnut Big Sugar Creek. This name is especially 



nrad from my liver out at Baden-Baden came '" Kansas has fallen. This gigantic tree was applicable, as there are many hard maple or 



word that trouble was brewing in Sent Looey. owned by Thomas Parent, one of the first sugar trees along its banks, and scattered 



I was mad. I could not understand, as I left settlers in the Sunflower state. He came west over its wide and fertile bottom lands. Sugar 



orders to brew nothing but Budweiser, while "'"^" ^ young man twenty-two years of ago Creek is one of the main tributaries of the 



I was away. So I quick hops the train on f''""' ^^^° to seek his fortune in the new Marias dc Cygne River, into which it empties 



and catches barely the boat and here am I to country. He took up a claim on Big Sugar at a point near the little sleepy town of 



save you. Creek, in the eastern part of the state. It Trading Post, where the early pioneers car- 



"What do I find? No business, no money, ^*^^ •'"^t a half century ago on Aug. 29 that ried on an extensive trade and traffic with 



no circulating medium of any kind but this '^c baited his prairie schooner and kindled his the Indians. 



Johann Schmidt check business, and no one ''''""P ^^° °" the one hundred and sixty acres During a conversation which I had with 



knows Johann Schmidt and all are afraid "^ 'a"*^' ""'^ '° I''"" county, Kansas. Here Mr. Parent several years ago he said that 



to trust him. He is not willing to endorse his '"^ determined to remain and build for him- when he came to this part of the country the 



own checks. But I am here to relieve you, self a home, and he has since that time, up region was open for settlement and he had 



my fellow citizens. to his death which occurred recently, lived choice of prairie or timber land, and that it 



"What you need is an unfailing supply of continuously on this same quarter section, on was on account of these stately sugar trees 



