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WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1901. YERXA Here are prices and goods that you cannot afford to pass by unless you wish to do your pocketbook a pos itive injury. Oranges, Very Cheap. Good California Budded Oranges, any ' size, full peek measure f0r........ EOc Per box, only ........$2.00 Per dozen ..*.l2c, 14c, 16c, 18c, 20c 22c, 30c California Navel Oranges, per box $2.25 Same, per doz ...;10c, 12c, 15c, 18c, 20c Fancy California Navel Oranges, very large, very bright and sweet, per : box $2.40 Same, per dozen, (worth 60c) 380 Sierra Madra Oranges Sr'S.Si? ally sweet.deliclous flavored°orangeß,Rrown In the foot hills of the Sierra Madra. There never was finer fruit offered in 6 a Aft this city- per b0x................ 90iUU & rom ISo per dozen up. Flftvlfla Riissett. per box ..... #Q AA rlOnaa Dozen 36o and 36 0 •OiUU Grape Fruit Each ......:. M le-8e Lemons dozenr.'.i..lOo 160 and 20C EggS EElyn ly. f. r. es. h: J lie ,:MSrs» k:.?!l* 48c Cut aa( A aii _ Northern grown, unlabeled OWB6T bOril (new packed) C. 60c dozen—per can.. f( Fresh Dairy Butter^ 16020 c California Figs £&... _6c Kidney Beans ST2MS: 4c Sweet Potatoes ZrT.... 26s H.O. Wheat Sb pKleFl^ 9c Star Mime Meat Each 6e Prunes Jbo^.! 1.!:^!^! 1!*: 4c Lard '5^...... 8k Coffee p^. toB. a. nd R. l°: 15s Pa^laa Robal-Afine Mocha and 90 A lIQTTOe Java flavor, per lb ZfcS A A U AA Hoffman House—This fine coffee Oil C 6 will fill the bill, no matter how high a price you have been paying. Shredded Wheat Biscuit Demonstration—You &re invited to try a sample. A beautiful and useful Cook Book presented Free. Cigars Very Cheap. EL Pabelon $1.10 box of so. 2 5e tit rapeion aw 26c This Is a gentlemen's smoke. ■ : Columbia Dome *u*°%S&c Good size long filler. .. ; "GOOD BREAD, GOOD BUTTER, GOOD COFFEE." THE GRILL 308-310 First Ay. 8. lenox|#Hß®l AMD A^^ ami i Itu >S KEPT AT THE JAIL Quarantine Keep* Mew Prisoner* From the Workhouse. The Minneapolis workhouse was yester day placed, under a : strict quarantine for two weeks. Health Commissioner Hall has ordered every one at the "works" to be Vaccinated. While the quarantine is in force prisoners on workhouse sentences will be kept at the county jail. EIGHTEEN HORSES BURNED. The stables of the St. Paul Sanitation com pany were burned last night. Eighteen horses, seventeen sets of harness, three tons of feed and a large amount of straw and hay were In the destroyed buildings. The loss is ?5,00Q, partially insured. Me of Parma «** Smok* one and you will smoke another. . ARE YOU UP TO THE MARK? If you wish to be so, the Telephone is indis pensable. No one can be up to the work, in this age. without this twentieth century adjunct. Now is the time to get Into commuulcatioa. Not la two hours. Not tomorrow, but Immediately! The other fellow often gets the order you might haTe had, because he has a Telephone In tils place of business. ■" " m Ask the local managers. gffl|g| Northwestern am 91 Tol&phon0 4 9.- Exchange Company. CROWN PIANO With its marvelous tone adjustment and • tone pedals continues to attract the at tention of the musical public. The tone of the "Crown" piano leaves nothing to be desired. The case work is extremely artistic. A Colonial design in solid ma hogany is especially attractive. Prices Range from $375 to $450 1 Cash or $10 Monthly. FQSTFR £ WAI lift 40 nfth st* s" rUOILn ft W ALLJU, Corner Nicollet THE CITY . TOWN TALK Judge Charles E. Bond has returned from a two weeks' trip in Colorado, California and other western states. The funeral of the late Mrs. Louise Chand ler Parcher was held to-day, from the resi dence, 123 W Fifteenth street. Pun«ral services for the late Wilmot Price will be held at his home, 02:' E Fourteenth street, to-morrow, at 2:30 p, ni. Miss Denia Erum died Feb. 5. The funeral will take place from the lmmanuel Baptist church Thursday at t:M o'clock iv the after noon. The subject for to-night's gospel meeting at the Bethlehem Presbyterian church will be, "Confession, Faith and Salvation." E. C. Oakley will sing "Tne Mistakes of My Life Have Been Many." Detective* are in search of the young man who has been passing forged checks in the saloons of the down-town district. A peculiar feature of Bis operations is that all the checks are for the same amount, $14. Burglars have been operating successfully !u the flat district on Fifteenth street. Mou <lay night two grocery stores and a residence in South Minneapolis were visited. In every instance the burglars were successful, but no large hauls were made. While making t»st time to a fire yesterday afternoon, First Assistant Chief A. H. Runge narrowly escaped serious injury. He was crossing Sixth street and Seventh avenue S when the front axle broke. He escaped in jury by a flying leap. Professor Halnes of the college of engineer- Ing at th» university has completed statistics which show that this department has more than doubled in the last four years. The college has an attendance of 26t, with 100 freshmen. There are 3,412 students enrolled iv the university. The many friends of Detective Thomas Gal lagher presented him with a handsome gold star engraved: "Police Inspector, Minneap olis. Presented to Thomas Gallagher by His Friends." The star was inclosed in a'u at tractive case with the names of those who contributed engraved on the lid. The executive committee of the Vermonters' Association of Minnesota, which met in the office of Charles M. Drew, in the New York Life- buildiag, yesterday afternoon, decided to hold the annual reunion on Feb. 25, at the N'ieollet. The banquet will begin at 7 in the evening. The reception will- be held from 9 till 10. The remainder of the even ing will be spent in dancing. Memorial services for Queen Victoria were held last evening in St. Paul's Episcopal church, by Clan Gordon. This was the first distinctly religious memorial service in honor of the queen held in the city. The music was furnished by the surpliced choir of the church and Mrs. Maud Ulmer Jones, who sang Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise." Rev. F. T. Webb and Rev. William Wilkinson made addresses. The citizens of Southeast Minneapolis held a meeting last evening, in the Oak street en gine-house, to discuss better bridge connec tions with the West Side. A committee con sisting of H. W. Stacer, Joseph Everington, W. F. Andrews, C. Birkhofer and F. M. Dur gin was appointed to secure the support of the Hennepin county delegation in putting a bill through the legislature providing for the issue of bonds for a new bridge. Antolne Chouinard, the tall police officer who used to stand at Sixth and Nicollet and untangle teams and shoppers before the days of Mayor Ames, had such an attachment for that particular corner that he could not leave it. He has entered the employ of the Plym outh as a salesman in the clothing depart ment and is proud of the fact that a change of administrations, though it changed his du ties, could not drive him from his favorite corner. Dr. E. R. Woodard and his coachman had a narrow escape from death on the railroad crossing at Fourteenth avenue S and Sixth street yesterday morning. While crossing the tracks the team suddenly balked. Dr. Wood ard jumped from the rig and pulled the ani mals to one side just as a switching engine backed on the tracks. The carriage was over turned and the coachman thrown to the ground, escaping with slight injury. Harry Corson Clarke has invited the news paper men of the city to see his performance of "What Did Tomkins Do?" at the Metro politan to-night. The courtesy extends to the editorial and local forces of all the daily pa pers and to the news carriers of the Times, Tribune and Journal. The Journal band will usurp the time-honored functions of Professor Danz' musicians between acts. At the matinee to-day Mr. Clarke's photo graphs were distributed to the ladies present. THE WEATHER The Predictions. Minnesota—Unsettled to-night and Thursday with possibly snow flurries in east portion; rising temperature to-night; variable winds. Wisconsin —Partly cloudy to-night; possibly snow flurries Thursday; not so cold; variable winds. lowa—Un settled to-night and Thursday, with prob ably snow; warmer in west and central portions to-night and in east portion Thursday; variable winds. North Dakota —Generally fair to-night and Thursday; not so cold to-night; variable winds. South Dakota—Partly cloudy to-night and Thursday; warmer in west portion to night; variable winds. Montana —Partly cloudy to-night and Thursday; warmer in southeast portion to-night; variable winds. •, For Minneapolis and vicinity: Possibly snow flurries to-night and Thursday; ris ing temperature to-night. Minimum Temperatures. Minneapolis. ~^._— 6 La Crosse -. — 6 Davenport....^...— 6 St. Louis ..... 12 Port Arthur.......—20 Buffalo li Detroit....^...^.^ 8 Sault Ste. Marie.. 4 Marquette. .._..« 2 Eaeanaba 0 Green Bay .... — 4 Milwaukee — 2 Chicago ..... 0 Duluth — 8 Houghton ... 4 Qu'Appelle «, —10 Kansas City....»., 4 Winnipeg ....^....—22 Omaha .... S Huron — 8 M00rhead..........—12 Bismarck .. —12 Williston..... » —lO Memphis ......... 28 Pittsburg . 16 Knoxville ..„ 22 Cincinnati M & Boston . 12 New York ._. 12 Washington ...... 18 Char1e5t0n......... 36 Jacksonville 4'J Montgomery....... 34 New Orleans ..... 46 Shreveport.......... 40 Galveston 50 Havre ..._....—10 Helena — 8 M0dena............ 28 North Platte 4 Denver..... 4 Abilene 34 El Paso 30 Spokane 16 Portland 36 Winnemucca 18 San Francisco.... 42 Los Angeles 42 GOOD POSITION OFFERED The Right Standing' In Examination Will Take It. The United States civil service commis sion announces an examination to be held wherever free postal delivery is estab lished, on March 19 and 20, for position of examiner of surveys, general land office service. The age limit Is 20. Persons who desire to compete should apply to the Unit ed States civil service at Washington, D. C, for application forms. HAS LEPROSY Man With Dread Disease at City Hospital. In an attic room of the contagious ward at the city hospital is confined a man named Erickson, afflicted with leprosy. He has been at the hospital for over a year, living in hermit style, doing his own work, washing his own clothes and pass ing his days in complete isolation. It is thought he may live for several years. FHE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. RIVALS ARE WANTED Wyman, Partridge & Co. Desire a Competing House. MANY BUSINESS OPENINGS A Scarcity of Good Buildlns:*—Good ! : Kleld for a l.iirne \\ n&ou Factory. • • . The Jobbers of Minneapolis are asking for more competition in a half-dozen lines of trade. Several firms that have grown rich in a field all their own would gladly | 'veleome able competitors to assist them in holding the rapidly growing business of the northwest as well as supplying; that healthy competition which. is : the ' life -of trade the world over. Instead of being fearful that other firms will locate in Minneapolis, they are looking: about to ex tend the right hand of fellowship and to offer, encouragement to reliable business houses that may conclude to locate in this city. - ■ ■ ■ - There is abundant room in Minneapolis for more jobbing houses and the fact is becoming known throughout the country. Representative real estate firms like the J. F. Conklin & Zonne company, Thorpe Brothers, and Edmund G. Walton, have been figuring with various outside firms for months with a view of getting them established in desirable quarters. One of P. H. 3-4 Gibbons Alive Again P. H. Gibbons, the former democratic politician and coal dealer of this city, founder of the society of "The Sons of Rest,' 'author of "How I Met Red Dog," or "The Life and Times of Charles Astor Parker," has concluded to engage in beastly trade. Mr. Gibbons has organized and incorporated a bill posting company which will do a regular business in town and country bill posting in the state of Minnesota. The Gibbons' posters will go after all the business in their line that is in sight. Nothing will escape them that offers a fair front for their brushes. Where one bill has been stuck the Gibbons company will try to stick two, in city, country and town. Their operations will cover the etate like a G. O. P. campaign. Breckenridge, Fer gus Falls, the lines of the Northern Pacific and kindred roads, will show like a circus print shop when the Gibbons Posting Agency gets well under way. While picked men will do the towns and villages, traveling on railroad trains, local agents with livery teams will be utilized for country work, such as painting signs on fences, creameries, fence rails, big stones, bridges, barns, cattle sheds, hen coops, doghouses, etc., etc. The headquarters of the company will be In Minneapolis, and many responsible men are behind Mr. Gibbons. The Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association want just such a concern where they can get at it handily, and the Gibbons company fills the bill. Mr. Gibbons was formerly a bosom friend and follower of "Mike" Breslauer, who Is cast for the part of "Red Dog" In Charles Astor Parker's memoirs. In the hot conflict of politics these two democratic war horses became estranged. Mr. Breslauer's bill-sticking store has long enjoyed a monopoly in this city, and it is said that Mr. Gibbons' determination to go into trade is grounded in a desire to break the financial back of his old associate. He has made some dire threats of what he would do with the postable objects of Minnesota, and before he gets through he expects to "paste" Breslauer good and plenty. the firms mentioned has at least a dozen inquiries for room in the jobbing district, but as there are not three buildings avail able for jobbing purposes, the brokers are unable to meet the demand. They can only point to the activity in the realty market, the prospect for a building boom in the spring, or the expectation that Minneapolis capitalists will invest heavily in new, substantial business houses lo cated well down town. Many Good Opt nin^a. The live business men all see that there are innumerable openings for new con cerns in Minneapolis, especially in the Jobbing and manufacturing lines. The proportion of increase in the number of retail stores ia largely in excess of that in the wholesale houses. For example, while every dry goods house in Minne apolis has been greatly enlarged and im proved in the, last few months, and an other large store has been added to the list, but one wholesale house —Wyman, Partridge & Co. — remains the only whole sale house in Minneapolis. Its business is several times greater than it was ten years ago, but it is practically without competition in the northwest. The firm has expanded until it is one of the fore most dry goods houses of the United States, and another addition to its mag nificent building on Fourth street and First avenue N is certain to be built in a few months. But the firm is eager for competition. Said Mr. Partridge this morning: Mr. Partridge Want* Competition. The percentage of increase in population in the territory tributary to this market has been very great. Aside from the natural growth of the vast country to the west of us, the heavy immigration to the northwest in recent years has been a tremendous factor in settling up the country. The vexed question of freight rates is now fixed on a basis where we can land goods in Minneapolis at substan tially the same rates as apply for Chicago, and the Soo road stands guard against any combination of the all-rail routes. Thus we are able to compete successfully with the strongest market in the west. The increase in population in the northwest naturally Ipads to an increased demand for al! kinds of goods in the jobbing line, and while we jobbers aim to keep pace with the demands of our customers, there is necessa rily an excellent opening for jobbing firms with abundant capital in this territory, and particularly in Minneapolis. Mr. Partridge adverted to the fact that Minneapolis' reputation rests on her manufacturing industries, which has made this city the great manufacturing center of the west. Her great importance as a jobbing center has not been generally ad vertised, although the fact remains that Minneapolis is the jobbing center of the west outside of Chicago, and to-day offers greater opportunities in the jobbing field than any of the cities in her class. Mr. Partridge continued: Xew Firms Needed. There have been comparatively few jobbing houses established here in recent years, al though the jobbing business has more than doubled in this city in the last ten years. But the increase has been handled by firms that were engaged in the business in its incep tion. New firms have not entered the field to share in the prosperity. We would gladly welcome a new dry goods house, one with sufficient capital to do a successful jobbing business. Large capital is required because immense assortments are demanded by the trade nowadays. While the twin cities, in a jobbing sense, make one market, we should consider it decidedly to our advantage to have the dry goods market better represented here, even though it may be claimed that there are in Minneapolis and St. Paul a sufficient num ber of jobbers in the dry goods line to handle the trade tributary to this market. Major Heffelflnger expressed himself in a similar vein, although the boot and shoe trade has received a substantial addition in the Grimsrud Shoe company, the new jobbing concern which began doing busi ness in Minneapolis, Jan. 1. \V. W. Heffleftnger, president of the Jobbers & Manufacturers association, has frequently pointed out the necessity for more job bing houses in this city. A Chance for Wagon Maker**. A. G. Dunlop. manager of the Minne apolis Plow company, says there are at least 15,000 wagons distributed from Min neapolis every year, but that very few of them are manufactured here. The only two large wagon factories in the state are located at Lake City and Winona. "A good, live, wagon factory is badly needed in this city, ' said Mr. Dun lop, "and it is surprising that some one has not established a plant here. We have everything at hand for the manufacture of wagons, —wood, iron, paint, etc., and the manufacturer, in his competition with eastern makers would have the advan tage of whatever freight applies on a wagon from eastern points to Minneap olis. This item is a most important one, as much as $5 or $6 in some cases, which is not a bad profit on a wagon in itself. The fact is, a well-equipped local factory could undersell the easterners and still make a profit." Mr. Dunlop regards wagons && great advertising mediums. .Many small coun try towns become known throughout a large section of country because their wagons, bearing brightly painted descrip tions as to their manufacturers' name and abode, are perambulating over the country roads. Mr. Dunlop hopes to Bee a wagon factory with a capacity of 2,500 or 3,000 wagons a year established in Min neapolis at once. He says it is a shame, too, that Minneapolis has no binder fac tory. He declares there is a fine open- Ing for such a plant, properly managed, and with sufficient capital to enable it to get well under way. NO BLOOD MONEY FOR HIM SALOO* KESTALS BIV HOOKS Jacob Stone' Protests . at Athenaeum ; Meeting: and Mr. Webb Explains ; fur Samuel Hill. The forty-first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Minneapolis Athe naeum society was held . yesterday after noon in the public library building. The following officers were elected: President, J. E. Bell; vice president, Samuel Hill; secretary, F. A. Chamberlain; treasurer, E. C. Cook; directors, J., W. Kendrlck, J. B. Atwater, A. C. Fairbairn. Jacob Stone and E. H. Holbrook were appointed audit ing committee. Miss Jennie McMillan, librarian, re ported that the society bad received dur ing the past year from the ' Spencer trust fund $6,598.66, and expended for books $6,550.17. The balance of this fund on hand Jan. 1 was $954.12. The Minneapolis Trust company, as trustee, has collected during the year $6,010.34 in rents on this trust and expended $7,300.68. The balance in the hands of the trustee at the begin ning of the year was $435.81. The general fund was increased by $209 interest and reduced by the expenditure of $114. The society has 44,433 volumes on hand, about 2,859 were added during the year. The col lection has cost $125,789. Some of the volumes in circulation have depreciated in value, but many of the books have trebled in worth since they were purchased. The library has 200 periodicals on file, also eighty-seven mounted photographs which were presented by Mrs. Samuel Hill. Miss McMillan said that inasmuch as the soci ety could not expend money for photo graphs such gifts were aad would be very acceptable. Saloon Rental Question. Some years ago Dr. Klrby Spencer left property on Washington avenue between Third and Fourth avenues S. in the hands of trustees to establish «. library for the benefit of Minneapolis. The revenue is turned over to the Athenaeum for the ex clusive purpose of buying books. Some of this property was rented by former trus tees for saloon purposes and is now so occupied. ' Yesterday Mr. Stone offered a resolution that the renting of this prop erty for saloon purposes was inconsistent with the objects of the corporation, and requesting the trustee to cease renting it for that purpose. It was explained by Mr. Webb, proxy for Samuel Hill, that most of the property was rented under long term leases and that only two are subject to short leases. He did not think that the Mixed Drinks, Mixed Clients A professional man from northern Minnesota who strayed Into Minneapolis yes terday had taken too much of the juice that inebriates while visiting the legislators at St. Paul. While on his way from the interurban car to a hotel, he was gathered in by one of the new policemen, because his gait was a trifle wobbly. He realized that he was close to trouble, and he also knew that he did not want to appear at the police court to answer to such a charge in person. He sent for an attorney, and the bond was fixed and approved. The attorney was to appear in court and plead guilty to the charge of drunkenness for the client. It also happened that the same attorney had a client from North Dakota who was in the city to confer with him —a man he had never met. The North Dakota man was prominent in church work in his town and a radical prohibitionist and teetotaler. He resembled the other client in appearance. The North Dakota man was at the attorney's office in the afternoon to keep his appointment. The attorney had also made an appointment for the afternoon for the other fellow. As he came out of his private office into the reception-room, he took a quick look and supposed he recognized his friend of the morning. "I fixed it," said the attorney: "I pleaded guilty for you." The North Dakota client looked mystified. He finally managed to ask "What for?" "Why, that little drunk," said the attorney. "But I don't understand," said the other. . "Well, it affects some of them that way," said the lawyer, and he proceeded to explain what had happened in the morning when the client's intoxicated mind was supposed to be a blank. Just then the police court client entered. The attorney gasped. There were explanations, and the man from the prohibition state went away satisfied. The other fellow intends to sign the pledge. property could be rented to advantage for any other purpose. Mr. Stone remarked that "Sam Hill was the whole thing any way," as it transpired during the discus sion that the property does not belong to the Athenaeum society but that it has simply a title to the income. MADILL LIKES WARFARE He Re-enlists fur Another Whirl at the 'Pino*. Benjamin W. Madill, who enlisted from Fargo in the Forty-fifth volunteers and recently returned from the Philippines, has re-enlisted for three years and left for the coaat last night. Madill likes the climate of the Philippines and the coun try. Soldiers have quit guessing on the possible duration of the war. He says that there is too much ambush to permit an intelligent guess. He believes that the American soldier is treated the best of any in the world, and prefers the regular army officer for a commander to a "volun teer every time. CAPTAIN BLAKELEY'S FUNERAL. The funeral of Captain Russell Blakeley, who died in St. Paul Monday night, will be held from the residence, 525 Jackson street, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The services will be conducted by Rev. L. IC. Alcott of Minneapolis, and the Church of the Redeemer choir will furnish the music. REV. MR. M'LBOD INSTALLED. Rev. Murdoch MeLeod, formerly of Kasson, Mlnn., was installed as pastor of the Merriam Park Presbyterian church last evening. Rev. C. C. B. Duncan presided over the services. The charge to the pastor was made by Dr. Kirkwold and that to the pastorate by Dr. A. B. Meldrum of Central Presbyterian, church. HE WAVES A MAGIC WAND W. J. CLARKE'S NOVEL EXHIBITION Wand AVI th Electric Transmitter Work* Wonders l»> Principle ■ of Wlrelexa Telegraphy. , Like the magicians, W. J. Clarke waves a wand and, presto, wonders ensue. But there is this difference: Mr. Clarke makes no profession of magic, he merely shows what the electric current can be made to do without metallic conductors, thai is to say, wires. Mr. Clarke is the eminent New York, electrical engineer who is to lecture in the Institute of Arts and Let ters course Friday night at the Lyceum theater on "Wireless Telegraphy." Yet the word lecture hardly describes what Mr. Clarke proposes to do. The great feature of his evening's entertainment and instruction is the experiments. These are numerous and intensely interesting. They reveal the whys and wherefores of wire less telegraphy in the most fascinating manner. But to return to the wand mentioned above. Instead of placing the transmitter of his telegraphic apparatus on a table Mr. Clarke places it in this wand. By doing so he makes it patent to all that there is no "wire connection with the various receivers attached to the different instruments and machines used in the ex periments. It is easy to see how much is added to the spectacular side of the ex hibition by the use of this wand. Here are some of the attractive experiments which will strikingly show the principle involved in wireless telegraphy: Operation of a stock ticker. Ringing bells. Running an electric motor. Lighting and extinguishing gas jets. Lighting and extinguishing electric lamps. Firing cannon. Running a miniature electric railroad. Running and steering an automobile. It must be remembered that all of these feats and many others are accom plished at a distance without any wire connection and simply by the transmis sion of an electric current through the air. Mr. Clarke Is ono of the foremost In vestigators in this line and is a very in teresting talker. Reports from his en gagements elsewhere indicate that his exhibitions are of the most absorbing in terest, to say nothing of their great in structional value. WINDOW BREAKERS Their Depredations Annoy the Court house Commissioner*. A regular meeting of the courthouse and city hall commission was held late yester day afternoon, at which President John son announced the standing committees for the current year, and the treasurer re ported a balance on hand of $50,422.53. The budget was passed upon and bills amounting to $2,243.35 were allowed. William "Robertson, chief engineer of the courthouse, addressed the commission on ths necessity of taking measures to pre vent the depredations of vandals, who seem to take pleasure in smashing the windows of the courthouse. Upon several occasions recently, the doors and the win dows of the municipal courtroom and the sheriff's office have been broken. It was suggested that both the windows and doors be grated with iron bars, and the matter was left in the hands of the building com mittee. FIX REPAIR PRICES Minneapolis Cycle Trade Association Meeting l>aat Night. The Minneapolis Cycle Trade association had a meeting last evening and adopted a scale of prices for the season. The follow ing prices were agreed upon: automobile two-inch tires, $2, for each ad ditional inch, 50 cents; automobile coaster brake, $7.50. The wheel prices adopted were the same as last year with the fol lowing additions: Building frames, $6, (material extra); cleaning tandems, $2.50; cleaning coaster brake, 50 cents; cleaning bearings, $1; cleaning nickel, 50 cents; enameling frame and forks, $4 (rim ex tra, $1 plain colors); enameling frame and fork, knocked down, $3; set of new spokes, one wheel, $2.25; two wheels. $4; blueing spokes, $1 a pair; crating bicycle, $1.00. WHAT KIND OF FUEL? Waterworks Committee Working on the Problem. The council committee on waterworks will inaugurate a series of fuel experi ments at the north side pumping station to determine the relative merits of coal, saw dust and coal screenings. Sawdust ha 3 been in use there for years and is now costing $4 ocr million gallons of water pumped. It is proposed now to see if the work can be Jone for iess money by the use of coal. The committee yesterday au thorized the purchase of 100 tons of Yough iogheny •run-of-tb.e-pile" at $3.50, one car of Youghiogheny screenings at $2.75 per ton, and one car Hocking Valley screenings at $2.41, and will proceed at once to in augurate the experiments planned. The results will determine whether or not the committee will continue to use sawdust. The committee will hold a special meeting next Monday to consider ©etitions for water mains. REJECT LANE'S PLAN Surprising- Action of Mayor Ames and His Appointees. Mayor Ames met with a committee of his new police appointees last night and together they discussed the merits of the Lane and Snyder police commission bills. The gathering approved the Snyder plan, and agreed that Lane's scheme wouldn't do at all in that it did not provide for re taining the members of the police force and makes a mere figurehead of the mayor. TRAMP CREATES PANIC. A tramp caused a panic in the city hall at St. Paul yesterday afternoon. He entered the building with a well-developed case of small pox and made inquiries for the health officer. All who saw his blotched face fled in terror. The man was removed to the pesthouse, and to-day the health department will vaccinate all the employee of the city hall. Yellow Kirn For "Goodness saka" amek« \t. '^y^^T^^"*^^^^^^^^^ EJMsLANb'l^vi>»^ Valentine Novelties By Miss Bertha L. Corbett; the cutest >J> •/>!--■ „ things ever seen. "Suiibomiet Baby" (L___X / 3— A Valentine*, absolutely unique, artis- " '•' \ "T> 4 • * tic and dainty. • ""'"^f^ 3* "V^ :>// *-'" "Beetle »<•-•' Valentine., another (U/^\J *flrt original conception, as novel as the >» / T 7 " vsP"vJ "Sunbonnet Babies." Can be used also V x'v-^} . as score cards where one wants some- / y>^s^y -"~* ( thing really novel and artistic. "1 / *-. Y^v\^ Each in a flue envelope, \\ / Ciyr; 15 tents and 30 tents. %<&* NEW ENGLAND BAZAAR -:Ba.j&a AMUSEMENTS LYCEUM FrWay Eve. *-# UCl#m Feb. 8. The Institute of Arts and Letters presents a Lecture upon and experiments in Wireless Telegraphy . BY-^—- Mr. W. J. CLARKE OF NEW YORK. "MAGIQ THAT HERRMANN NEVER DREAMED OF." Among the experiments Mr. Clarke -will pre form are: - Operating a Stock Ticker. Ringing Bells. Operating an Electric Motor. . Lighting and Extinguishing Gas Jets. Lighting and Extinguishing Electric Lamps. Firing Cannon. Operating a Miniature Electric Railroad Prices 50c, 75c and $1. Seats now selling. Metropolitan Music Company's Store. Bicknell Young-, BARITONE, "Ballads ana Ballai Sinainff," Unitarian Church ISS( llfg.' The Provision Company. PRESENT WEEK HAS SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS FOR MEAT EATERS. Our Methods are Right. Our Prices are Right. GOME TO HEADQUARTERS, THE LEADING MEAT HOUSE, ITd Sirloins at Wo Bb. Rounds at Go and 7o Bb. If you contemplate putting up any lard for summer use, now Is the time to buy FRESH LEAF LARD. WOODWORTHANDJAYNE They'll Sing Coon Songs for the i ''Roosevelt" Banquet. , "Word has been received from Francis J. Carmody, L>oren Fletcher's private sec retary •in Washington, that quarters for the entertainment of the Roosevelt Marching Club have been engaged. Nearly seventy-flve members have agreed to go and they are working- early and late to make their minstrel show a success. A souvenir program is being prepared and ; it will be most attractive. Two new coon songs will be presented in the minstrel show. They are being worked up by Mr. Frank from the manu script and will be sung by Richard P. Woodworth and Trafford N. Jayne. Mr. Woodworth/s song is a very catchy south ern lullaby, and with the humming ac companiment to the chorus and the fine "swipe cord.s which are possible it is sure to become a favorite with the local lovers of tha'- sort of music. Mr. Jayne has a very catchy coon. song. It is writ ten to waltz time and also affords some good opportunities for "barber shop cords." John Shaw and L. R. Northway are working up a Rogers Bros, "stunt" which is said -will be a side splitter. Shaw caa roll his "r" with the best, and "Nick" Northway's "splashing" is said to resemble one of the celebrated foun tains at the world's fair. "Speech, Gale!" has already become a familiar local cry wherever and when over congenial spirits assemble, be it around the banquet board, on the street or at a football game. So cleverly is the enthusiastic political orator, whose big words and oratorical flights get the mas tery of him, imitated by Gale that his work in this line has become classic, and that he will make a success as a colored spellbinder goes without saying. And last, hut by no means least, the Journal's famous Newsboys' band of fifty boys will help out. Tteae are a few of the many good things the Roosevelt Marching Club have in store for those who will attend their military minstrel show to be given at the Lyceum theater on Feb. 25 and 26. M('CARDY BOWS He Will Furnish St. Paul's Treasurer With Daily Reports. Controller McCardy of St. Paul has bowed to the inevitable and promised to begin Monday next to furnish the city treasurer with daily reports of the finances, as directed by the charter. He yields his position on the advice of the corporation counsel that there is no alter native. He declares, however, that other business in his office will necessarily have to be neglected in order to make the de sired reports. Among other things he will be unable to give the time he has in the past to the auditing of claims. CAUSE OF HASSONS DEATH. Coroner A. W. Miller and a jury investigat ing the death of Johu P. Hasson, found dead in a saloon at Eagle and Washington streets, St. Paul, came to the conclusion that "death was caused by a rupture of a blood vessel on the brain and by shock caused by a fall, due to chronic alcoholism." The Plymouth Clothing House. Knox ■fgTl ft *J& ■ *^T &, 3* Inftill fa Hanan Hats. 1 gKJB JWn I \ A ■fl H Siloes- Correct Dress from Head to Foot. l^6^fcf^P?% (1\ r i They're far below value. I IoRR IES i/) ' c Fine Overcoats, all styles, all BHEPtKi/' iVI ■ They' were $25, $22 and lffifi^|Wa\ffrV \ $20; now only $15.—518 *§ffi||p • ,'-5' ' U I \i and $16 values now $12. ■^rrirl 11 i) \ ' Equal Reductions on Un fe-^-'Il \ll H derwear and Shoes. tfa-»4^ S^v.:^! v;:-.«w ■•■■,, Sixth a.nd Nicollet. AMUSEMENTS^ METROPOLITAN | SffiJSSK" TO-NIGHT HARRY CORSON CLARKE What Did TornkinsOo? To-morrow Night Daniel Sully SEATS SELLING TO-MORROW FOR THE BELLE OF NEW YORK BEWEYi MATINEE DAILY. THEATER. f EVENINGS AT 8:15. HURTIQ '« SEAMGH'S "BOWERY" p™l St BURLESOUERS Iqc Including Fine Vaudeville Bill. Qn Next Week— Gentry Maids j 3UC -.81J0U... BRET M'LISS HARTE'S JKSi JLMJL&& NELLIE McHENRY AS THE WILD MOUNTAIN ROSE. MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2:30. Next Week „ FREDERICK WARDE. IMTRA FINE LOT OF DAIRY BUTTER Just Received—Hundreds of Jars of Select Dairy Butter,gath ered from the best butter makers in the state. Prices very low, commencing at 13c and ranging according to quai* ity, 15c, 16c and 18c. Fine Fresh Creamery g% €%g± Butter, per pound mmm»%i ...THE... Crescent Creamery Co. 618-620 Hennepln Avenue. PIAHOS ■ TO RENT *0 New Gabler r Pianos In elegant mahogany cases, . colonial style! sold for $10 monthly. II |_L_ The all reliable Kranich. & Back Pianos are sold only by us. T«rma cash or $10 monthly. II TT OUR PRICES ARE LOW. Ktuieuiber, it's what you get toe the price that counts. 41 and 43 Sixth Street South METROPOLITAN BUILDING. f