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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAEP
PKICE TWO CENTS.
SCHLEY DOES
NOT SHIRK
Assumes Full Responsibility
for the Brooklyn's Loop.
AN EMPHATIC AVOWAL
Capt. Lemly Receives Several Other
Impressive Answers.
NEWSPAPER MEN ARE PRAISED
And, Anyhow, the Spanish Ship* at
Santiago Didn't Get
v«*ft Away *
Washington. Oct. 80.—With the opening,
Of the Schley court to-day Admiral Schley
began his fifth day of testimony and the
third day of his cross-examination. The
prospect then was that he would continue
on the stand throughout, the day. Judge
Advocate Lemly still had a long list of
questions before him and the different
members of the Court have been indus
triously preparing questions to be pre
sented to the admiral for his considera
tion when his examination by counsel is
concluded. The testimony began to-day
where It k "* off yesterday, taking up dif
ferent phases of the blockade of San
tiago and passing from that question into
the reconnaissance of May U, when the
Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon was bom
barded. The battle of July 3 was left
for the last subject to.be considered.
Referring to the reconnaissance of May
31. when the Spanish ship Colon was
bombarded as It lay In the harboi at San
tiago, Captain Lemly asked Admiral
Sehley when he first received notice that
the oommauder-ia-chief would be at San
tiago. Witness replied that the notice
had come in a dispatch brought by Cap
tain Cotton dated May 23. This telegram,
he said, was not received until May 31.
Possibly, too, the New Orleans might have
brought information of the coming of Ad
miral Sampson.
"Why did you wait two days after the
discovery of the presence of the fleet in
the harbor before undertaking your rec
onnaissance?"
"For t';e reason I used those two days
for the cualing the vessels of the fleet,
so as to be prepared in case the enemy
should come out."
Good Word for Correspondent.
Relating the occurrences of the bom
bardment he said he recalled thai Captain
Higginson had asked if he (Schley) went
aboard the Massachusetts, that the bom
bardment be postponed until after dinner,
that he warned some people to get off the
turrets, and that Lieutenant Commander
Potts had given notice that they were on
the range. He did not recall, !>e said, the
aignal not to go in closer, but it.wai? pos
sible that such a signal had been sent and
it had not been recorded. It might be
with this as with other signals which had
not been recorded, because the writing of
them was always deferred until the next
day.
: "No man," he said, "except the :
: press correspondents, who brave :
: all clangers, can always have :
: paper and pencil at hand while :
: a buttle is in progress, and as a :
: consequence there is a failure :
: to record many occurrences that :
: should be recorded." . :
"Does your letter to the senate dated
Feb. 18, 1899, plead the precautionary or
der of the department for not destroying
the Colon?"
"I should rather think that is the infer
ence."
"In your report of June 1 to the depart
mentconcerning the reconnaissance did you
not mention any purpose to sink or de
stroy the Colon?"
"I did not."
"But. in your telegrap-hlc report you did
say that your purpose was to destroy the
Colon?"
"Incidentally, yes."
The Judge advocate then asked witness
to tell exactly what h purpose was on
that occasion and \\u. instructions he
had given.
Ajcainat the Colon.
The admiral said that the signals made
indicated the purpose. The signal in
structed the ships to use their heavy
guns against the Colon. The New Orleans,
with her lighter battery was directed to
fire at the shore batteries. The instruc
tion was to go fa to 7,000 yards and he
thought until several days afterward that
the ships had gone in to that distance.
It directed the ships to follow the flag, to
operate against the Colon and fire at the
forts to develop them and I think the recon
naissance, so far as it went, was eminently
successful. The batteries were developed and
the fact was demonstrated that the enemy was
to port. I had a squadron of only six ships.
1 believed only the strongest military neces
sity would have justified my risking the loss
of a vessel that might have reduced our
squadron to a numerical inferiority with the
enemy. The development of the facts as to
the batteries and ships was, in my opinion,
sufficient. The enemy's ships could not get
away, and they did not get away.
"Why did you not steam more slowly
as you passed the moutlPof the harbor?"
Witness replied in a deliberate manner:
Well, that is a technical error that might
have been remedied If some one else had
been in command. Perhaps the firing would
have been more effective If we had gone in
closer, but if we had aud had steamed more
slowly, there would have been no gain, as
the range would have been narrower. It was
a case of tweedle dee on the one hand ami
of tweedledum on the other.
Captain Leraly at this point passed to
the battle of July 3, stopping to ask one
or two incidental questions about the cir
cumstances of the evening of July 2.
The Brooklyn'M Turn.
The cross-examination of Admiral
Schley on the battle of Samlago began
with a que&tion as to what the first
movement of the Brooklyn's helm was
after the enemy's ships were sighted
coming out.
"We were heading west by north," he
replied. "The first helm was to port."
"Captain Cook gave the order for the
turn?"
"Yes."
"You regard that turn as very impor
tant, do you not?"
o' o
: "I think it was the movement :
: that decided the events of that :
: day."
o o
The admiral said in response to ques
tions that he had not mentioned the loop
in hio report of the battle. It was an in
cident of the battle which he had no idea
would ever come into controversy. Cap-
Contiuued on Second Page,
SCHLEY AND
ROOSEVELT
Will They Be Opposing Pfcs-
idential Candidates?
ADMIRAL LOOMING UP
Platform Handicap Likely Should
He Be Nominated.
PROBABILITY OF CANAL SCANDAL
Senator Nelson In Expected to Be
Very Prominent In the Next
Senaion.
From 7%« Journal Bureau. Boom, 4&, Pott
Building, WatMnatm*.
Washington, Oct. 30. —The eastern press (
has begun to take notice of the fact that
Admiral Schley is looming on the horizon
as a democratic presidential possibility
in 1904. The facts regarding Schley's
availability were pointed out in these
dispatches two months ago. Time la only
making the case stronger. In "the Balti
more Sun of Monday morning, this week,
there was a long article from Washing
ton, printed on the first page, quoting
a number of prominent southern demo
crats as to their choice of a candidate in
1904. Singularly enough, many of these
men, once for free silver, favor the nom
ination of Arthur Pue Gorman of Mary
land, one of the strongest of the gold
democrats; others of them favor the nom
ination of Richard Olney; while a consid
erable number point to Schley as the best
man. Among those indorsing Schley is
Former United States Senator Marlon F.
Butler of North Carolina, chairman of
the populist national committee, who
says that if Schley is the democratic
nominee, he will poll the solid populist
vote, just as Bryan did in 1896.
The argument in favor of Schley Is a
powarful one, from the democratic point
of view. He is a national hero, and the
heart of the people has gone out to him
in an unusual way on account of the
persecution which he has undergone at the
hands of the "bureau of fabrication" in
the navy department. Nobody would need
to ask, once he were nominated, "who is
Schley?" and ""Will he be a popular can
didate." He stands before the people
very much in the same attitude occupied
by Grant at the close of the civil war.
He has no record in politics, and there
fore nothing to explain. He will be 64
years old in 1904, and to-day shows no
signs of age or of bodily infirmity. The
people would be expeoted to take to him
as flies to molasses.
Roosevelt, on the other hand, will have
made a record in the office of president
by 1904, and any real or apparent mis
take he may make will operate as a
handicap. The questiou of platforms and
Dolitical principles aside, the race be
cween the two men would be very ex
citing and presumably very close. With
platforms added, however, the handicap
may be on Schley's side, unless the demo
cratic convention of 1904 is more wise
than many that have preceded it.
NELSON It is predicted in Wash
ington that Senator Nelson
TO THE of Minnesota will take a
lively hand in tariff and
FORE. reciprocity debates and
committee work this win
ter. For years he has not been an ex
treme protectionist, and in the stand
which it is btlieved he will take he will
correctly reflect the sentiment of his con
stituents. While congress in tie end may
not be able to accomplish much along
either line, it is pretty well agreed that
there will be a lot of talk in both houses.
The decisions which the republicans make
regarding these two questions will deter
mine the lines along which the next cam
paign will be fought. If the party ratifies
enough of the reciprocity treaties to com
mit itself thoroughly to that principle
and gives evidence of a desire to adjust
the tariff to existing conditions, the demo
crats will go Into the campaign of 1902
without issues, and the republicans will
win another overwhelming victory; but if,
as now seems more likely, the republi
cans fail to accomplish results in these
two directions, the democrats will em
phasize that failure in their congressional
and state platforms, and thus pave the
way to making the issues for the presiden
tial campaign of two years later. It is a
great opportunity which the republican
party has, but so much of selfish local in
terest and of expediency enters into the
work of congress that it is a question
whether it will be able to rise to the op
portunity.
SCANDAL Look out for a scandal
Over isthmian canal legis-
OVER lation this winter! Some
bill is pretty likely to be
CANAL. passed, but before it is de
cided to chose the Nicara
gua or Panama route a lot of congress
men will be "Influenced." Collis P. Hunt
ington, who, by the way, used to take a
lively interest in canal legislation, was
wont to say that It had cost him $25,000,
--000 to teach congress its duty. There are
successors to the late Pacific railroad
magnate who are quite as intent on teach
ing congress what it ought to do. It
would take a Philadelnhia lawyer to un
tangle the network of conflicting interests
mixed up in this canal business. Monsieur
Hutin represents French interests which
amount to millions. With the Panama
people it is all or nothing. Then there are
the Maratlme company, the Gragin Ayre
syndicate and a dozen other cliques, all
with itching palms. There will be some
thing doing in the lobby line.
NO NAVAL In spite of all the talk
that is being indulged in,
INVESTIGA- it is unlikely .that con
gress will investigate the
TION navy department. Prom
inent members of both
houses, who belong to the naval commit
tees, have expressed themselves as favor
ing an investigation, and, indeed, the
facts would seem to ju»tify their position;
but in the end it is quite likely that what
ever reforms may be necessary—and they
are rather numerous, judging from the
disclosures of the Schley inquiry—will be
brought about through executive orders.
Should ,the court of inquiry sustain Schley,
which is almost a foregone conclusion, the
president, himself familiar with navy de
partment detail, will no doubt hold that
the department has been sufficiently hu
miliated, and will quietly give out the
word ihat he will personally look after
the matter and see that reforms are in
augurated. Such a program will have a
two-fold effect; it will save the depart
ment further disgrace, and at the same
time prevent a scandal which might be
turned to political account in the next
campaign. It is the impression here that
the president, after congress gets to
gether, will consult with the leading men
in each house who belong to the naval
affairs committees, and map out a pro
gram of reform which will meet their ap
proval. This program will then be car
ried out, and further publicity avoided.
While there is no doubt of the sufficiency
of the grounds for investigation, it Is a
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1901.
THE DOCTOR THINKS THIS INFANT SHOULD BE WEANED.
question whether the country as a whole '
will demand it. The reforms which be
yond any question are needed, will be
made to best advantage if made without
too much publicity.
TILLMAN, With President Roose
velt and the republican
McLAURIN. majority in the senate in
dorsing Senator Mc-
Laurin of South Carolina, it is believed
that the path of Senator Tlllman, when he
goes after McLaurin's scalp this winter on
southern appointments, will be rough and
rugged. McLaurin has a backing which
Tillman will do well to examine carefully
beforehand. Within the past month Mc-
Laurin has been a caller at the White
House at least two dozen times. His
visits are long and he comes and goes at
all hours of the day. The president is
evidently consulting him liberally regard-
Ing southern matters, and McLaurin may
be expected to take a position In the sen
ate this winter which will compel the
support of the republican majority.
SEN- Both senators from Ne
vada are now in the repub-
ATORIAL llcan party again. Sena
tor Stewart announced his
HOME- intentions a year ago, and
now Senator Jones follows
COMING. him, both holding that
"free silver is no longer an
issue," and saying that they left the re
publican party on account of silver. Mr.
Jones is not entirely correct in saying
that he has acted with the republicans on
all Questions save that of finance, for in
the last congress he frequently voted with
the democrats on other questions, and
finally nobody was able to tell how he
stood with regard to pending measures.
This "home-coming" is the more gratify
ing since it is the general opinion that
Delaware is to be represented in the sen
ate by two democrats, owing to the bitter
ness of the Addicks feud. The Addicks
republicans have threatened to turn the
state over to the democrats unless Ad
dicks is made a senator, and in this city
it is believed that the threat wil be
made good.
PAY FOR Indian Commissioner
Jones has received a par
-IMMBER. tial report from Captain
Mercer relative to the de
mand that was recently made upon dead
and-down timber contractors on the White
Earth reservation for payment for green
timber cut last winter. The commissioner
refuses to divulge the particulars of the
report, but it is understood that some of
the contractors have resisted the govern
ment's demand and that it will require
•considerable pressure to induce them to
comply with it. Commissioner Jones has
directed Captain Mercer to insist upon
the original claim and to make no com
promises.
SEELYE'S Indian Commissioner
Jones to-day heard argu-
CLAIM. ments in the case of Chas.
E. Seelye, claimant for
about $11,000 which is now in the hands of
the Indian office. Seelye contracted to
cut a certain amount of timber on the
Chlppewa reservation, in 1899, and sold
that timber to a lumberman named Por
ter, of Minneapolis. Porter furnished part
of the logging outfit and supplies to In
dian lumbermen and filed a claim for a
portion of the money due Seelye for tim
ber. This claim was resisted by Seelye
and the Indian office, not being able to
arrive at an understanding, determined to
withhold payment of the entire amount.
Recently efforts were made to reach an
agreement as to the amount due each
claimant and the hearing to-day was to
have Commissioner Jones determine that
question. Judge George D. Emery, of
Minneapolis, represented Seelye and Mur
chison of New York, represented Porter.
The commisisoner indicated willingness
to order payment if an agreement could
be reached as to the proportion due each
claimant, and a conference will be held
between representatives of both parties
and a law officer of the bureau with tho
view to closing the incident. Seeleye is
now serving an eig'ht-monih sentence in
Hennepin county jail on the charge of set
ting fire to forest in northern Minnesota.
The application for his pardon, which was
recently rejected by President Roosevelt,
it is believed under misapprehension of
the true facts, was cordially indorsed by
Judge Lochren who tried the case, Dis
trict Attorney Evans and Mr. Purdy, his
assistant, who prosecuted it, and by Sena
tors Nelson and Clapp. Congressmen
Morris and Fletcher are deeply interested
in Seeleye and the former is coming :o
Washington to make a new application
for pardon. The fact that Seeleye was
convicted as the result of a conspiracy is
now admitted by every one who has fol
lowed the case.
Commissioner Jones has been fully ad
vised of the situation, but says that his
department can properly consider only
that part of the case that relates to the
111,000 claim. The conspiracy matter,
he says, must be investigated by the de
department of justice, and to this depart
ment Seelye's friends purpose to take it
at once. It does not appear, In view of
to-day's developments, that the conspir
acy against "Seelye embraced George F.
v Porter, or any lumberman in Minneapo
lis or elsewhere, although that was the
understanding here at the time the story
which was published in The Journal
yesterday was written. The conspiracy
was confined to a few Indians who were
Seelye's enemies and had determined to
get rid of him. They concocted a story
about forest fires and then willfully per
jured themselves on the witness stand.
Judge Emery says that the perjury has
been confessed. It was on this new de
velopment that another application for
pardon will be based.
THE CASE Attorney General Knox
is considering the ques-
OF ORTIZ, tion whether his depart
ment or the secretary of
war has jurisdiction over the case of
Rafael Ortiz, the Porto Rican confined in
Stillwaiter prison for murdering a soldier
in his native eoymry. Ortiz recently
made an application for pardon, which
was referred to the district attorney for
Porto Rico. To-day'a letter was received
from that official in which the question
of jurisdiction was raised, and i<t will
be determined in a few days.
—W. \V. Jermane.
Washington Small Talk.
W. M. Regan of Minneapolis was in Wash
ington last Sunday and Monday.
Postmasters appointed to-day: Minnesota—
Rollag Clay county, Severt Anderson Mon
tana—Browning, Teton county, J. P. Carberry.
HEINZE LOSES
U. S. Court Refuses to Re
mand an Action Against
the B. & M.
Special to The Journal.
Butte, Mont.. Oct. 30.—Judge Knowles,
in United States court has overruled the
motion of the attorneys for August Heinze
to remand to the stafe courts the case of
John McGinnis and others against the Bos
ton and Montana an action aiming to pre
vent the acquisition of the Boston and
Montana by the Amalgamated Copper com
pany and to prevent the Boston and
Montana from paying dividends or paying
out any money pending the appointment of
a receiver.
The refusal of the judge to remand the
case is considered a signal victory for the
Amalgamated.
SO. DAK. MAN MURDERED
Fearful Tragedy on a Fariu Near
Norfolk, Neb.
Special to The Journal.
Sioux City, lowa, Oct. 30.—George Fetterly,
driving home from Pierce, Neb., with Edmund
George, stopped at the home of Christ Duerr,
a mile from Norfolk, to get a drink. Fet
terly's body was later found with the skuil
almost shot away.
Duerr says he saw a man leaving his barn
and when he told him to 3top the man turned
and shot at him. He then fired both barrels
of his gun at he stranger, killing him in
stantly. Duerr has given himself up.
Fetterly was 35 years old and respected. His
parents live at Alpena, S. D.
BODY WAS FLOATING
M. J. Grady of Indiana Lout From a
Steamer at Racine.
Special to The Journal.
Racine, Wis., Oct. «o.—The body of a man
supposed to be M. J. Grady of Hartford City,
Ind., was found floating in the harbor this
morning. It Is bllieved the man was a
passenger on one of the Goodrich Line steam
ers from Milwaukee to Chicago and that he
fell overboard while the steamer was in the
harbor.
JEALOUS WOLVERINE
Kills His Wife and Attempt* to Com
mit Suicide.
Xewaygo, Mioh., Oct. 30.—Abraham Stees
shot aud instantly killed his wife to-day and
then shot himself. He will probably recover.
Jealousy is believed to have been the cause
of the shooting.
INDIANS FIGHT
I lat h.a«l Tribesman Shot and Killed
at IMuiiiM. Mont.
Speoial to The Journal.
Helena, Mont., Oct. 30.—During a fight at
Plains, Missoula county. Baptists Robeau, a
halfbreed, shot and killed Antoine Michelle,
a Flathead Indian. The Indian agent and
state authorities are investigating
A M. 0. THIEF TAKEN
Dwight J. Carpenter Confesses to
Frauds on Postoffices.
HE IMPLICATES TWO OTHERS
Arrested at Red Wins Where He
Tried to"" Cash Money Orders
for. $100 Each.
Special to The Journal.
Red Wing, Minn., Oct. 30.—Dwight J.
Carpenter, aged 24, a junior at the s.tate
university, was arrested here last even
ing on a warrant sworn out by the local
postoffice authorities.
Carpenter appeared before Postmaster
Rasmussen and tried to cash two money
orders for $100 each, written in favor of
E. S. Gardner. His manner was not re
assuring and the postmaster finally be
came suspicious and telegraphed Oxford,
Wis., from which office the orders came,
and was promptly advised they had been
stolen.
United States Deputy Marshal SheehaH
and Inspector T. R. Lance of St. Paul ar
rived to-day and took charge of the pris
oner.
Carpenter made a full confession, impli
cating two others who are at large, but
who will no doubt be in the net in the
course of a few days. He also admitted
he had cashed two orders at La Crosse
and had others —ten in all—to cash at
Winona, Northfield and Eau Claire.
The prisoner is a good appearing young
man, and pleaded in vain not to be taken
to St. Paul in shackles. His parents hay
a restaurant near the state university, and
he is said to have borne, heretofore, the
beat of reputations. He was taken to
St. Paul this afternoon.
It is understood the men stole the money
orders in blank and then filled them out
at a figure which they thought could be
realized.
NO VACANCY EXISTS
Attorney General So Rules Regard
ing Board of Regents.
IT WILL HAVE BUT 12 MEMBERS
The Act Creating Gov. Pillulmry Re
gent Did Not Permanently
Enlarge the Board.
There Is no vacancy on the board of
regents of the state university and John
S. Pillsbury will have no successor on
tbat body.
Attorney General Douglas settled th»
point in an opinion written .to-day, at the
request of Governor Van Sant. He holds
that hereafter, unless the legislature in
creases the number, there will be only
twelve regents, though the act making
Governor Pillsbury a life member in
creased the number to .thirteen.
After quoting the statute the attorney
general states:
The general purpose of the legislature was
to honor Mr. Pillsbury by making him a life
member of this board, instead of passing a
separate enactment to accomplish this pur
pose, the legislature amended the then exist
ing law creating the board, and thereby made
Mr. Pillsbury an honorary member having
the same powers as other members, and inci
dentally changed the total number to thirteen.
The second paragraph provides specifically
for the appointment of nine other members
not specially designated in the act. If the act
is construed as continuing the total number
of thirteen members after the death of Mr.
Pillsbury, the provision referred to authoriz
ing the appointment of nine members fora
specific term, of necessity must be construed
as authorizing the appointment of ten mem
bers, oue of whom shall serve for another
and a different term than provided by the
act in question. The clause in the act quoted,
to wit: "Whenever a vacancy therein occurs
for any cause the same shall be filled for the
unexpired term in the same manner," can
have no reference whatever, in my judgment,
to the term of Mr. Pillsbury, which the legis
lature provided should continue during his
good pleasure. If this clause «is given any
effect whatever, it must be deemed as having
reference to the power of the legislature,
which is supreme in the premiss.
I beg therefore to add that, in my judg
ment, you are not authorized to appoint such
successor, and that hereafter the board of
regents must be deemed to be composed of
twelve members. Tours respectfully,
—\V. B. Douglas, Attorney General.
16 PAGES-FIVE O'CLOCK.
LESSON FOR TURKS
AND BULGARIANS
United States Naval Demonstration
in the Dardanelles May Be Pre-
cipitated Any Moment
Treaty Parties That Control Entrance
to Turkish Waters the Subject
of Secret Conferences.
flew York Sun ffpeo/a/ Bmi*rlom
New York, Oct. 30.—The Journal says,
under date of Washington, Oct 29: The
near future of President Roosevelt's ad
ministration is likely to he signalized hy
a severe lesson to Turkey and perheps
Bulgaria. A demonstration in the Med
iterranean is expected and may be pre
cipitated at any moment by the death of
Miss Stone or any act of barbarity com
mitted against her or the missionary and
Amorican citizens for whom Turkey and
Bulgaria are responsible.
The officials are looking more deeply
into the case than that of the mere safety
of Miss Stone. It Is known that diplomatic
movements of world-wide importance are
pending. The local diplomats say this is
not the time to discuss the movements of
this government.
There have been secret conferences be
tween the president and state department
officials, which affect not only the United
States, Turkey and Bulgaria, but the
treaty powers which virtually control the
passage of a hostile squadron into Turkish
waters. ,'
: There is ample reason to be- :
: lieve that intimations, if not :
t positive orders, have already :
: gone to Rear Admiral Cromwell, :
: in command of the European :
j station, to hold himself in readl- :
: ness for final action by the state :
: department. :
Here are the United States war vessels
which would be used in a demonstration:
The Chicago and Albany at Leghorn, the
Nashville at Genoa, the Dixie at Ville
franche, and the Monongahela at Ville
franche.
The Buffalo, commander C. T. Hutchin
fion, will be at Maderia on Nov. 3. It is
learned on high authority that this gov
ernment is sounding European powers on
the important question of an approach to
Bulgaria. This could be done only by the
powers waiving the objections to the pas
sage of the Dardenelles.
It is believed that the assent will be ob
tained. France could not get this assent
in her recent trouble with Turkey because
Attempt to Blow Up a Block
Special to The Journal.
Sioux City, lowa, Oct. 30.—An attempt was made to blow up the Purslow block,
occupied by eighty tenants, yesterday. The safety valve of the steam boiler was
filled with soap, and the engineer discovered it just in time to prevent a terrific ex
plosion. The author of the crime was no fool, for hot soap with steam forms a vio
lent explosive. The only reason that can be suggested for the attempt is that many
of the colored women who were run out from the notorious Soudan row two weekg
ago have taken up their residence in this block.
TRIED FOR BRIBERY
Former Agent of a Publißilng Houmc
in St. Paul.
Lansing, Mich., Oct. 30.—At o-day's session
of the trial of Charles A. j?ratt, formerly
agent of a St. Paul pub'.ohlng house, for
bribery in connection with an attempt to se
cure the passage of a joint resolution In
the legislature of 1899 providing for the pur
chase of a set of law reports for each circuit
court in the state, the testimony was princi-
pally corroborative of that given yesterday
with regard to certain drafts given to ex-
Speaker Adams and Land Commissioner Wil
liam French by Pratt. Fred Clark, a former
employe of Pratfs, testified to writing a let
ter to French after the resolution failed of
passage asking him to return the drafts given
Dim by Pratt, also one to the proprietor of the
publishing house stating that French still
had the draft.
Circuit Judge Person, who was in ofßo^ dur
ing the session of the grand jury which in
dicted Pratt, was called to tell of an alleged
confession made to him by Pratt. Person,
however, having raised the question of his
right to divulge statements made to him un
der such circumstances, suggested that it
might be against public policy.
EXPOSED TO SMALLPOX
Vaccination Becomes Popular at
Red WiiiK.
Special to The Journal.
Red Wing, Minn., Oct. 30.—A great deal of
excitement was created in this city last eve
ning by the appearance of a man who seemed
to suffer from a well-developed caae of small
pox. His name is John Pugh and he had been
sent here from Bay City, Wls., six or eight
miles over In Wisconsin, where he had been
working. The city authorities took him in
charge and drove him baok to Bay City in a
carriage. During his stay here a, great many
persons were exposed and to-day these were
being vaccinated.
Revoking Indian School Order
Washington, Oct. 30.—Secretary Hitchcock to-day gave assurance to Archbishops
Ireland of St. Paul and Riordan of San Francisco that he would revoke the Indian,
school order of former Commissioner of Indian Affairs Browning, which held that
Indian children must be sent as far as practicable to the regular agency and govern
ment Indian schools and that after the government institutions had been supplied as
far as practicable the Indian children might be sent to the sectarian schools. The
Browning order, which elicited considerable comment at the time, was recently
suspended and the archbishops called to-day to ask that it be entirely revoked, in
stead of suspended. The secretary agreed to this modification.
she is a European power and her act
might lead to complications.
JVO TIME TO HAGGLE
Objections to the Conrwe of Conanl
General Dickinaon.
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Oct. 30.—William E. Curtis, la
a special cablegram from Sofia to the
Record-Herald, published this morning,
says the state department, United States
Consul General Dickinson and the United
States legation at Constantinople are cer
tain to be assailed by a storm of criti
cism when the facts concerning the man
agement of the case of Miss Ellen M.
Stone become known in the United States.
President Roosevelt some weeks ago
sent a characteristic message to Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, warning him that
the American people and the civilized
world would hold him responsible for
Miss Stone's safety. A similar dispatch
should be sent immediately to Consul
General Dickinson ordering him to cease
talking and to act.
Mr. Dickinson's policy is disapproved by
the entire diplomatic corps at Sofia and
by everybody who understands Bulgarian
politic* and is interested in Miss Stone's
welfare. The Bulgarian government is
powerless and determined to avoid re
sponsibility. The bandits dare not make
overtures for fear of compromising the
Macedonian committe.
Consul General Dickinson refused to
send a messenger to Miss Stone, and even
declined to send her a letter of sympathy
and encouragement by the messenger dis
patched to negotiate with the bandits by
M. Bakhetief, Russian diplomatic agent
at Sofia. He refused to spend money to
secure information or open communica
tion with the kidnappers, and daily re
sumed his useless debate with the Bul
garian prime minister.
The consul general asserted that h»
acted under instructions from Spencer
Eddy, secretary of the United States lega
tion at Constantinople. Mr. Dickinson
quarrelled with M. Bakhmeiteff, the Rus
sian diplomatic agent, and rejected the
advice of the experienced ministers of
England, Germany and Austria, who urged
postponement of the diplomatic contro
versy until Miss Stone had been rescued.
Mr. Dickinson should have been or
dered to proceed immediately to Bansko
or Samakov with instructions to open
communication with the bandits at any
cost. If objection was made to the pay
ment of a ransom he should have offered
a reward of $10,000, thus, enabling the
bandits to surrender Miss 'stone without
compromising the Macedonian committee
or the Bulgarian government. Stung by
the criticism his course aroused, Mr,
Dickinson left yesterday for Samakov.
A COUNTRY TROLLEY
Decorah-Chatfleld Line Will Be at
Once Incorporated.
Special to The Journal.
Preston, Minn., Oct. 30.—At a meeting
of business men last evening it was de
cided to incorporate the Minnesota &
lowa Electric Railway company with
headquarters at Preston, the line to ex
tend from Decorah by the way of Preston
to Chatfield and ultimately to the twin
cities. Articles of incorporation will be
drawn at once and filed with the secre
tary of state.
The first officers and directors of the
company are: H. R. Wells, president; R.
E. Thompson, vice president; Henry Nup
son, treasurer; S. A. Langum, secretary;
C. N. Goddard, Decorah; Tollef Sanderson.
Harmony; O. H. Case, Fountain; A. L,
Ober, Chatfleld; M. T. Gratton, Preston,
directors, the officers of the company to
be ex-offlcio members of the board of
directors.
A preliminary survey is already un£«r
way.
SHAMROCK 11. NOT FOR SALE
Sir TliuuiuN Reaches Qneenatovrn
and Denies the Report.
Queenstown, Oct. 30.—Sir Thomas Lipton,
who arrived here this morning on board the
White Star liner Celtic, from New York, said
the report that the Shamrock 11. was for sale
lv New York was quite untrue and that he
intended racing her in New York next sea
eon. He reiterated his purpose to again chal
lenge for the America's cup, and expressed,
himself as being quite satisfied with the man
ner In which Shamrock 11. had been sailed.
Sir Thom'is denied the reports of disagree
ments with those who wepe on board the
yacht, saying that at no time were his rela
tions with those in charge of her in any war
strained.
