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Henry Reynolds, rep., 1,517, W. S. Scott, dem., 1,182: superin- tendent of schools, L. J. Larson, rep., 1.481, Herman A. Panzram, dem., 1,652; county commissioner of the Third district, John S. Johnson, rep., 240, Patrick MeIIngo, dem., 175. C. H. Bailer, county auditor, Geo. A. Wilson, judge of probate, Dr. H. G. Blanchard, coroner, N. M. Nelson, conrt commissioner, O. L. Smith, surveyor, H. J. Hanson, county commissioner of First district. and Edward Thompson, county commissioner of the Fifth district. were elected without opposition.
J.F. MURPHY
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W.A.CLEMENT
J.A.HENRY
C.W. BROWN
CHAPTER LXXIV.
NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER MEN OF WASECA COUNTY, PAST AND PRESENT. NEWS, RADICAL, JOURNAL-RADICAL- HERALD-ARGUS-NORTH STAR. CHILD, MURPHY, GRA- HAM, MORSE, HENRY, BROWN, AND OTHERS.
NEWSPAPERS.
The present newspapers in the county of Waseca are the Journal-Radical and the Waseca County Herald, of Waseca, the Argus, of Janesville, and the North Star of New Richland.
The Journal-Radical is the lineal descendant of the Home Views, which first made its appearance at Wilton as far back as March 13, 1860. That was sometime ago. It was edited by J. W. Crawford, at one time register of deeds of this county, and printed at the office of A. B. Cornell, in Owatonna. About the 1st of March, 1861, Alex. Johnston and S. J. Willis took the paper in hand, called it The Waseca Home Views, and printed it at Wilton on their own press and type. They published it in Wilton until the fall of 1861, when Johnston bought the Willis interest and removed the material to Faribault, changed it to a democratic paper, still continuing to publish a Wilton edi- tion with Buel Welsh, Esq., as local scribe at Wilton. In the fall of 1863, Hon. H. D. Baldwin, who had a lien upon the material, brought it back to Wilton. James Mowatt was em- ployed as printer, and James E. Child served as editor. The first issue of The Wilton Weekly News made its appearance December 8, 1863. It was a six column folio, all home print, and Republican in politics. At the close of the first year of the paper, Mr. Child bought the outfit and assumed control of the
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paper. March 8, 1866, the paper was made one column larger, and in this form it continued for a number of years. In October, 1867, Mr. Child removed the material to the then new village of Waseca and changed the name to Waseca News. In No- vember, 1868, Wm. J. Graham became half owner of the News, and tried to edit it for some time. He remained with the paper until May 31, 1871, when Mr. Child again took entire charge of the office.
On the 1st of August, 1871, Mr. John F. Murphy, now of the Herald, became a partner in the management of the News and continued as such until May 29, 1872, when he retired.
July 15, 1874, the form of the paper was changed to a six- column quarto. It was then the largest paper published in Southern Minnesota west of Winona.
Jan. 6, 1875, the name of the paper was changed to the Minne- sota Radical. In May, 1878, Walter Child, son of James E., be- came part owner of the paper and took charge of the mechanical department. In October of the same year the Messrs. Child bought a portion of the material of the Liberty Blade, of Min- neapolis, and took over the subscription list of that paper, coll- ing the consolidated papers the Radical and Liberty Blade. It was known as an advocate of the temperance and anti-monopoly interests. Incessant toil as attorney and editor for years had impaired the health of the elder Mr. Child, and he reluctantly sold his interest in the paper to Hon. W. G. Ward, in July, 1880. who was then a candidate for congress. Mr. Ward restored the heading, Minnesota Radical, and employed Hon. E. B. Collester as editor, although Senator Ward himself wrote the "savage political articles." In August, 1881, Mr. Ward, having tired of the "luxury," transferred it to C. E. Graham. This gentleman continued the paper until the last of December, 1901,, when he sold material and good will to a company consisting of Dr. F. A. Swartwood, P. C. Bailey, E. B. Collester, L. Bliss, R. P Ward, C. A. Smith, and W. A. Clement. These men at the same time be- came the owners of the Waseca Journal, a paper theretofore pub- lished by J. T. IIeck, who came here from Washington. Recently Mr. W. A. Clement, who had been business manager from the be- ginning of the consolidation of the two papers, has bought the other interests, and is now sole proprietor. The Journal-Radical
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is now somewhat like the boy's jackknife. He first broke the blade and had a new one put in. Then he broke the back and had it replaced. Lastly the handle came off and he got a new one; and yet it was the same good, old jackknife.
THE WASECA COURIER.
This paper was published by Mrs. A. B. Cornell, of Owatonna, in 1862-3. It was a five column quarto, the local editor being Col. J. C. Ide of Wilton. It never had the hearty support of the people of the county, and ceased to exist in the fall of 1863.
WILTON COURANT.
Early in the winter of 1867, after the News had been removed to Waseca, A. J. Clark and W. D. Palmer, of Winona, were induced to start a paper at Wilton, and they called it the Courant. Mr. Clark was "great" on securing bonuses and man- aged to get a number of pledges from citizens of Wilton and from some of the county officers. His bills for the printing of county blanks were enormous, far exceeding any ever allowed before or since, but the people did not, as a rule, take kindly to the new paper, and about August 17, 1869, Mr. Clark, having secured a bonus from a town in Sherburne county, gathered his material together and removed thither. He was a man of con- siderable ability, genial, and kind in disposition, but strong drink had so debased his manhood and destroyed his business ability that he died a financial and physical wreck a number of years ago in the South.
JANESVILLE ARGUS.
The next successful paper to be established in the county was the Argus. In the spring of 1873, John L. (not "Billy") Barlow prevailed upon the people of Janesville to purchase press and material for a newspaper and turn the same over to him, taking a chattel mortgage back. Mr. Barlow seemed to be a failure from the start, as a newspaper man, and those who had their money invested foreclosed the mortgage within three months after he started, and the paper was suspended.
In the fall. of 1873, the Janesville proprietors of the material prevailed upon C. E. Graham, of Freedom, to accept the same and start a newspaper. The first number appeared November 2,
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1873. It was a five-column quarto and bristled with odd, quaint sayings, and with witticisms fresh and stale presented in an orig- inal manner. Mr. Graham continued to publish the paper until August, 1881, when he sold it to Mr. John A. Henry and bought the Waseca Radical. Mr. Henry has had command of the Argus continuously ever since, although he was ably assisted by Mr. C. W. Brown, as a partner, from the fall of 1900 to about June 15, 1903.
THE RECORD.
Messrs. W. J. Graham and A. H. Carman, in October, 1873, started a small, three-column folio, called The Record. It sus- pended the next spring.
WASECA LEADER.
This was a weekly paper instituted in Waseca, by T. F. Hol- lister, from Wisconsin, in the spring of 1876. Mr. Hollister strug- gled hard to maintain the publication, but with three papers in the village at that time, he found it impossible. On the 7th of May, 1880, he sold his outfit to Messrs. G. W. Morse and A. F. Booth, who consolidated it with the Herald, then owned by Messrs. Morse & Booth.
WASECA COUNTY HERALD.
Lem Reeves and A. J. Fullerton came to Waseca from Mc- Gregor, Iowa, and commenced the publication of a seven-column folio, the first number of which bore date October 5, 1877, and announced itself as "straight Republican." Oct. 4, 1878, it was changed in form to an eight-colunm folio with "patent inside." That fall Mr. Fullerton retired. Mr. Reeves continued the pub- lication of the paper until May 2, 1879, when he disposed of the outfit to A. F. Booth. July 1, following, H. F. Pond, of Trempea- leau, Wis., bought a half interest in the paper, and the firm name became Booth & Pond. They published the paper until April 23, 1880, when Mr. Pond retired. On the 7th of May following, as before stated, Mr. Booth "absorbed" the Leader, at the same time forming a copartnership with Mr. G. W. Morse. The next week Mr. Booth sold his interest to Mr. S. M. Rose, and on May 14, 1880, the IIerald was issued by the new firm of Rose & Morse. Under the able management of these two meu, the paper became
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firmly established. Mr. Rose died about March 13, 1883, and his widow continued her interest in the paper until Dec. 1883, when she sold to Mr. J. F. Murphy her half interest and the business was thenceforth conducted in the name of Morse & Murphy, until Oct. 15, 1885, when Mr. Morse sold his half interest to James E. Child. The firm name of Child & Murphy was used until about the first of April, 1890, when the name of the firm was changed to J. F. Murphy & Co. This name has been con- tinued to the present time. At the beginning of volume XXI., Sept. 21, 1900, the form of the Herald was changed from an eight-column folio to a six-column quarto.
THE NORTH STAR.
R. P. Child made the first venture in newspaper work at New Riehland, in the fall of 1878. About six months' experience closed the deal. Sept. 24, 1884, Morse & Murphy, of the Waseca Herald, commenced the publication of a paper called the New Richland Review, with L. M. Paschall as local editor. It was ably edited by that gentleman, but it did not pay and was dis- continued Oct. 7, 1885. The next venture was the North Star, which made its first appearance Feb. 4, 1886, S. K. Gregg and M. E. Goodwin publishers. Mr. Goodwin retired April 15, 1886, leaving Mr. Gregg sole owner. The latter part of August, 1887, Bronson & Holland bought the paper, O. H. Bronson becoming editor. Their first paper was dated Sept. 5, 1887. Mr. Holland soon after retired, leaving Mr. Bronson in sole command. Along in the nineties, Mr. Bronson sold the outfit to B. W. Graham, nephew of C. E. Graham, "on time." After about a year Mr. Bronson again took charge of the office. He was a very com- petent, bright editor. He continued with the Star until June 15, 1903, when he sold the whole plant to Mr. C. W. Brown, who has continued it with marked business ability ever since.
TOWN TALK:
A three-column folio paper made its appearance Oct. 9, 1879, and was exactly what its name implied. At least, for the time being it was the talk of the town. It bore the name of T. White, editor, although T. White probably never wrote a word of it. The second number, dated Oct. 23, 1879, was decidedly personal,
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and exhausted the energies of its authors, it is supposed, as that was the end of the publication.
THE CLIPPER,
Oct. 4, 1901, Thos. J. Kelley, from Jordan, Minn., started a paper called the Clipper, in Waseca. He issued six numbers and then threw up the enterprise. No doubt he was deceived by representations made by Waseca men that knew nothing of the newspaper business.
CHAPTER LXXV.
WASECA COUNTY IN THE SPANISH WAR-OVATION TO COMPANY K-CAMP RAMSEY AT ST. PAUL-COMPANY ROSTER-TRIP TO CHATTANOOGA-MARCH TO CAMP THOMAS-CAMP LIFE-RE- TURN HOME.
For years, Waseca county had maintained a military organi- zation, known as Company K. At the time of the breaking out of the Spanish war, in 1898, the company was nearly complete in its number of men, and within a very short time af- ter the call for troops, the company was ready for ser- vice. About the last of April, Capt. Walter Child received orders to embark his company for St. Paul the next morning. "There was hurrying to and fro" among the boys to get ready for the WENN sudden change, and the peo- ple of Waseca, at the instiga- tion of John Moonan, Esq., also moved in the matter. A local paper said :
"Wednesday evening, Capt. Walter Child received orders for Company K to proceed to St. Paul, via the M. & St. L. railway 7:30 o'clock morn-
CAPT. WALTER CHILD.
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ing train. Hon. John Moonan learned of the order about 9 o'clock the same evening, and immedlately set to work to give the boys a decent send off. Quietly but effectively he enlisted the services of patriotic citizens and in a few hours, Thursday morning, had everything ar- ranged for a monster meeting and banquet. And so it happened that Company K, of this county, received a generous ovation the night be- fore it left. The Waseca Opera House was filled to overflowing, and the street in front of the building was crowded with a swaying, patriotic mass of people who could not gain admittance. While a bounteous sup- per was being prepared in the G. A. R. hall by the ladies, the crowds outside were being entertained by the Waseca band. At the same time, in the opera house, a formal meeting was being held to cheer and con- gratulate the young men that were about to face the hardships of war in defense of the old flag."
The boys had a little experience to start with. They left Wa- seca early in the morning, arriving at St. Paul a little after 10 o'clock the same morning. Upon arrival the company received orders to leave all grips and packages with detail and teams which would bring them out. Consequently all boys without haversacks left their rations, and had nothing to eat until 9 o'clock at night, after marching from St. Paul to the fair grounds. It was an unfortunate oversight on the part of the St. Paul offi- cers. The company was finally mustered into the United States service May 8, 1898. The following was the roster of Company K, Waseca :
CAPTAIN, Walter Child.
FIRST LIEUTENANT, Milo A. Hodgkins. SECOND LIEUTENANT, J. S. Sheehan. FIRST SERGEANT, Geo. E. Stowe. QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT, E. Durston.
SERGEANTS.
Joseph Dunn. Arthur E. Ward.
F. C. Priest. Charles Hemstreet.
CORPORALS.
Alvis Henle,
A. F. Bartles,
D. E. Cordry,
Carl Lund, F. C. Cook,
E. R. Connors,
J. McLoone,
Henry Gasink,
M. W. Anderson,
A. J. Kurkowski,
P. J. McLin,
J. D. Reynolds.
MUSICIANS.
L. H. Dibble,
H. E. Gillam.
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ARTIFICER.
11. E. Hartson.
WAGONER.
W. A. Santo.
PRIVATES.
Bostwick, JI. J.
IFanson, Olof
Olson, Martin
Beers, R. W.
Holzgrove, 11. C.
Petran, A. L.
Burke, Geo. F.
Hlale, John
Peterson, Fred
Barlow, Geo. W.
Healy, Geo.
Panzram, 11. A. J.
Blomberg, Alvin
Irons, Frank B.
Ryan, M. A.
Blakeslee, W. M.
Johnson, Theo.
Reynolds, Wm. S.
Calhane, W. F.
Koplen, I. W.
Remy, W. M.
Clark, Frank
Lund, Jor
Sill, Ransom
Chase, Ira
Larson, O. J.
Schaumkessel, Ang.
Daniels, S. B.
Lloyd, T. E.
Schaumkessel, Al.
Dewald, 11.
Middaugh, R. W.
Shortell, Henry
Davis, E. A.
Mlddaugh, C. A.
Vernon, Wm.
Ellingson, M. K.
Myrue, Wm.
Veal, Herman
Erickson, W. M.
Melin, Frank
Wilsey, T. A.
Fritz, D. C.
Mika, C. B.
Williams, H. H.
Fristad. A.
McMahon, W. A.
Winship, A. F.
Gibbs, U. S.
MeGinnis, Timothy E.
Webster, Harry
Gasink, Goo. A.
McDonald, James A.
Wichman, Theo.
Gasink, Edward .J.
O'leary, John
Zerath, F. C.
Hale, I. W.
Olson, Sinon
The company remained at Camp Ramsey, the State Fair grounds, until May 16, 1898, when its regiment, the Twelfth, was taken to Chickamauga Park in Tennessee. The company passed through Wasera, on the 16th of May, over the M. & St. L. rail- way, and was furnished coffee and lunch at Waseca, with a grand ovation. The following extracts from a private letter written by Captain Child, give something of an idea of the trip.
On train between
Hannibal and St. Louis, Mo., May 17, 1898.
Father: We broke camp at 6:30 a. m. Monday, May 16, and took train about 11 a. m. Were detained In St. Paul on account of our bag- gage and stock, and did not leave there until about 2 o'clock p. m. One man of Company D had his head badly cut in Minneapolis while leaning out of a window. lle was knocked senseless.
Our regiment is in three sections. We all have sleeping cars. The officers have a very fine sleeper and the men are comfortably provided for. The people of nearly every town along the route are out in force, especially through Minnesota and Iowa. We awoke this morning in
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Burlington, Iowa; got coffee at Keokuk, and had our breakfast. We have been following the Mississippi river all the forenoon, and the country is the most Godforsaken, I believe, that I ever saw.
We passed the second section of our regiment at Hannibal. They stopped there for coffee, as their engine had broken down. The boys are all feeling well at this writing, 12 m., except Geo. Gasink, who is a little sick at his stomach from riding on the cars.
We have seen, from the car windows, the log huts that we have heard of, occupied by the colored race. One small town in Missouri was nearly all log huts.
Company K appreciate the eatables and demonstration made by the Waseca people, and are at this time enjoying the lunches. Waseca is all O. K. The merchants there furnished our train with coffee for $7.50, while in Keokuk the same amount of coffee cost us $23.50.
We shall be in St. Louis at 3:30 p. m., and from there we go to Cor- inth, Miss., thence to Chickamauga. We shall probably reach our des- tination about Wednesday night.
Under date of May 21, writing from Camp Thomas, he said:
"We arrived at Chattanooga, Thursday morning at 4.30, and although we were there all the forenoon, we did not leave the depot.
"We left Chattanooga about 1 o'clock p. m. and marched to Chicka- mauga Park, a distance of some ten miles. The boys were all in heavy marching order, and a good many of all the companies fell out along the road. We got into camp a little after 7 o'clock, and the boys were nearly dead for want of water. A detail was sent for water to one of the springs, but found it guarded by an Illinois company. Their guns were loaded with cartridges, and they would let no one get at the spring unless accompanied by an officer; such a cry as went up from the men for water, when we arrived, was enough to make a man sick.
"A lieutenant has to go with the water brigade several times a day. The reason for this guarding is, that some one had poisoned the springs and wells, a day or two before we arrived, and they had to be cleaned out; so guards are now stationed at each spring and well.
"The Park is a fine place. Our regiment has cleaned its camp quar- ters so that there is no grass or leaves left on the ground. We all rad a good bath in Chickamauga creek yesterday. The water looks dirty, but one can wash quite clean in it after all.
"This is no play soldier. The first night in camp no tents were put np, and we all lay upon the ground in our blankets and were very glad of the chance to do so and rest. A good many of the boys sleep in the open air yet, as one car load of our tents was lost on the way. Our boys are all standing camp life pretty well, although the 'grub' is pretty tough at present, as we are just finishing up our traveling rations. We expect something better after a little."
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Under date of June 11, the Waseca Herald correspondent wrote :
"On the 11th of June, Corporal Cordry was detailed to return to Wa- seca to secure twenty-three recruits for the company so as to bring it up to the number of one hundred and six. He arrived at Waseca June 13, 1898, and on the 21st of the same month his recruits had all been secured. The following were the recruits with name, age and occupa- tion of each: Anderson, Otto, 31, miller; Axtell, Arthur V., 21, farmer; Borge, Lars K., 22, tailor; Clark, Geo. A., 22, saddler; Davis, Thos. A., 24, miller; Everson, Sofus, 21, clerk; Hanley, James M., 21, law student; Hanson, Albert, 23, plumber; Johnson, David, 23, laborer; Ketchum, Verner A., 20, farmer; Lindsay, George W., 25, clerk; Leo, Wm., 25, tinner; Smith, Jasper A., 26, farmer; Skaug, Henry M., 21, clerk; Shave, Edwin, D., 23, carpenter; Sand, Ole, 21, mechanic; Smith, Varde, 18, lahorer; Starr, Frank E., 19, laborer; Sterner, Wm. A., 27, butcher; Thoresen, And. C., 23, miller; Waite, Fred A., 22, butcher; Wynnemer, Fred, 31, mechanic; Wickersheim, 24, farmer."
The regiment remained at Camp Thomas, Ga., until August 22, when the men broke camp and started for Camp Hamilton, near Lexington, Ky. The Waseca Herald correspondent, under date of Aug. 28, 1898, wrote as follows :
"We broke camp at Camp Thomas at 6:30, Monday, the 22d, packed up and started on the march for Rossville about 9 o'clock; after a fast march of nearly seven miles, we arrived there only to find that there were no cars and that we would have to wait until night. When night came we were told that the cars were expected any time, so we camped on the ground without even putting up our shelter tents, for we ex- pected to load any time within the night. The cars at last arrived Tuesday morning, and at 9 o'clock we were going as fast as steam could carry us away from the place that none of the men can remember with pleasant thoughts. Nothing of any interest happened en route, only that the boys were delighted with the beautiful scenery that was to he seen from the car windows.
We arrived at Rossville about 4 o'clock, Wednesday morning, unloaded, marched to our new camp, put up our tents, and Thursday night found us all settled with board floors in our tents. A good many of the boys have purchased cots.
This place seems to have been made on purpose for a camp-the ground is sloping and it so pleasant and cool here. The grass is green and that is something we have not seen since we came South. This is in the heart of the blue grass country where the best of everything grows. If anything does not grow, the people make sure to get it in some other way. The people here think there is nothing too good for a soldier; at Camp Thomas all the people thought of a soldier was the money they could get from him, and they got pretty near all of it too.
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Just think of paying forty cents a gallon for milk, and that not very good. Here we get the very best milk right from the farmers for twenty-five cents a gallon."
By this time the war with Spain was substantially at an end and the boys were destined to return home without seeing any actual fighting.
After remaining at Camp Hamilton about a month the Twelfth regiment was ordered home, to New Ulm, to be mustered out of service. The company arrived in Waseca September 22, and was tendered a banquet and a flag presentation. The banquet was prepared by the Woman's Relief Corps and the old veterans of MeKune Post, G. A. R., with the assistance of lady friends. The company men and many of their relatives, with the members of the W. R. C. and G. A. R., sat down to a sumptuous repast at the G. A. R. Hall, about 7 o'clock p. m. As soon as the banquet was disposed of, all repaired to the court room, where speeches of welcome were made, and a large silk flag presented to the eom- pany. The flag was the joint work of the ladies of Waseca, Waterville, and Janesville, and was a very handsome gift. Short speeches were made by Senator Collester, Hon. Peter MeGovern, Capt. Walter Child, Editor Jolin A. Henry, and lawyers F. B. An- drews and John Moonan.
The company remained in camp at New Ulm,-most of the men being home on furlough-for a month, when they were paid off and mustered out of the United States service, with the privi- lege of continuing as a part of the State organization. But after the service the men had seen, they lost interest in the organiza- tion and declined to stand the expense of maintaining a company, so they soon after disbanded.
CHAPTER LXXVI.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS-WASECA AND ITS MAYORS-COM- MISSIONER KEELEY INVESTIGATES AND FINDS "STEALAGE."
WASECA AND ITS MAYORS.
The official reeord book of Waseca, from the organization of the village to the year 1881, has been lost for a long time. How or when, no one seems to know. After considerable search, were found the following names and dates. Under the village charter there were three trustees, instead of aldermen, and one of the three was made president, who was in faet mayor or chief mag- istrate.
PRESIDENTS.
W. G. Ward in 1868; Wm. Everett in 1870; I. C. Trowbridge in 1871-2; George P. Johnson in 1873, 1874 and 1875; P. C. Bailey in 1876, 1877, 1878; R. L. McCormick in 1879 and 1880.
MAYORS.
Warren Smith in 1881; M. L. D. Collester in 1882; I. C. Trowbridge in 1883, 1884, 1885 and 1892; G. Buchler, 1886; E. B. Collester, 1887; D. S. Cummings, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896; D. E. Priest, 1891; John Moonan, 1897; C. A. Smith, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903; Wm. C. Wobschall, 1904 and 1905.
From the Waseea County Herald, Dec. 30, 1904:
COMMISSIONER KEELEY INVESTIGATES.
"We are informed that the record of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners, at their late session, did not contain all that was done. It is reported to us that the board appointed a committee of two of the county officers to examine certain books of the county, and that no record was made of their appointment. Our informant says that Commissioner Keeley, some time ago, commenced to investigate
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