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- , mkj"^ H GO0D,0LDBDLLTO ^ fl& Bears Have Turned Tail and Wheals Still Creep- " * ~ J J 1 Its Strong Advance Can Be Ac counted For Without the Corner Theory., . . The liveliest bull market In a long? time was on to-day at the Minneapolis Chamb er of Commerce. Wheat shot up to 78%c for May on covering by frightened short sellers. The buying was on a large scale. The bulls came out jubilant and the bears were very sore. Local traders in wheat have been getting jarred up these last few days by a remarkable' showing of strength in wheat and a market unlike anything seen in years. Wheat has been advancing. Slowly, quietly, pric.es have been moving up by the smallest fractional gains. At no time has there been enough of an advance to lead anyone to suspect there was a bull campaign on. Many of the traders have been badly fooled,' and even those who are always first to get aboard on a bull turn have stood around, and seen the May option creep up from 73%c, the low point early in the month. But when May sold up to 78%c with every sign of going higher they began, to. realize that the bulls were it, and there was something doing. They had been deceived by the slow, stealthy upward creep. Everyone Is Guessing. What does it mean? Is any one trying' to corner wheat? These are the questions of the day at the Chamber. When May wheat sold to-day in the Minneapolis pit at 78%c it was the high est price touched so far on .the present option. At this price no one dared sell any considerable quantity short as there is the belief that the most powerful Chi cago interest is baok - of the. market. It - is the expectation that next week will s,ee a lively bull campaign here. Everyone now admits that it is a bull market of the regular old-fashioned kind and now that the movement has started no one pretends to say where it will stop.. The only difference of opinion is in the cause of the strength. The bulls are divided In to those who believe some powerful in terestpossibly Armouris out to bull the market, and those who look upon the heavy buying of Armour in the Chicago pit as merely an incident of the advance. These latter argue that wheat. must ad vance anyway on its merits. . One of the largest elevator companies in Minneapolis has been investigating supply conditions in the northwest, and reports tabulated this morning show that in North Dakota 78 per cent of the wheat has been marketed. In South Dakota '73 per cent has been marketed, and''in Min nesota 68 per cent. This gives an aver age of 73 per cent, so that there is proximately 27 per cent of the crop of last year yet to' come in. How much this means in' bushels depends .upon how much wheat was raised. Most of the estimates were too high. The most re liable and conservative (estimator putt the quantity raised in the three states at about 178,000,000" bu, and there is a feeling that even this may have been a trifle too Jarge.. If the three states raised that quantity, then there is about iS.O'OO*- 000 bushels yet to come, or not as much as will be required by the' mills. : There is In store here 14,918,859 bushels, and in country elevators 6,600,000 bu, which helps out. but at the best stocks are light. This is a sample bull argument such as may be Heard these days on 'change. . ., . ... Terminal, Stocks Light. - But the bulls have other, .strong points to present. Stocks of wheat in Minne apolis, Duluth and Chicago are lighter than on any corresponding date in four years. The 6.600,000 bushels in north western country elevators looks like something until compared with last year, when it is found there were then 11,600 - 000 bu. There are in all about 50,000,000 bushels in the visible supply, which in cludes stocks at 24 points embracing the country from Port Arthur and Fort William, Ont., to New Orleans and Gal veston, and from Kansas City to New York, and almost one-third, or 15Q00, 000 bushels of this is in Minneapolis. The local mills will grind every bushel of this and more besides, so that, the domes tic situation is strong, irrespective of the fact that foreign importing . countries have been bidding for wheat of late. It may be that Armour or some other big bull is out to corner wheat, but "if he'.is. the bulls say, he is only anticlpating^an advance that will likely eomeJ|. irt before another American wheat.1 harvested. : - ' '''' IMPROVES ON OLD WAY Track Laying and Repairing Ma chine to Be Made in Stillwater. Special to The Journal. Stillwater, Minn., Jan. 17.J. N. Bron son has closeda contract for building ma chines for testing the relative distance between railroad rails. The device is operated on a handcar, a dial"indicating the exact distance, and is of great ad vantage in railway building. Fred Mahler of St. Paul owns the machine and will have twenty-five made here. J. C. Nethaway, county attorney, is suffering from a severe attack of inflam matory rheumatism*, The action brought by the government against Dr. J. C. Rhodes, for alleged irre gularities in connection with the pension claim of Sumner J. Mains, has been Con tinued until the June term. Fred A. Flint has been appointed ad ministrator of the estate of S. W. Schendel. His bond was fixed at $8,000. Forty acres of land in Woodbury town, this county, have just been sold for $2,600. The membersof the Commercial Club en joyed a dancing party in the clubrooms last night, the younger set attending in large numbers. William Harberg, of Sandstone, has just completed a thirty-day sentence in the county jail. His offense was the theft of 95 cents. "Alarmed" Over Cheaper Coal. Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 17.Coal opera tors in this state are: much alarmed over the removal of the duty on coal, which will permit the operators of British Col umbia mines to flood California and other coast markets with a good quality of coal at lower prlcese than the Washington mines' can produce it. The British Col umbia mines have the advantage of lo cation on tidewater on Vancouver island together with the employment largely of Chinese labor. The Washington mines employ only white men. Bight years ago under the Wilson tariff British Columbia coal came in free and many Washington mines were closed. It Is feared this ex perience will be repeated. Coal interests are just recovering from the slump in demand caused by the substitution qf California oil in many quarters for coal. Rheumatism What is the nse of telling the rheumatic - that be feels as It bis jointe'were being dis located? He knows that his sufferings are very much like the tortures of the raek. r - ~ What he wants to knew Is what will per i manently cure his disease. Hurt, according to thousands of grateful , - , testimonials, Is Mood's Sarsapdrilla r Xt promptly neutralises the acid in the r j blood & which the disease depends, com r ftletebr ltni?natei it, and strengthens the # 3*1. SATUKtiAY EVENING, m CUSTOMS COIGRKS o, Secretary Shaw Makes an Interest ing Address Before It This* - Afternoon. New York, Jan. 17.The first formal session of the International customs con gress was opened here to-day with an address by Mayor Low. He was followed by Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treas ury, who said: "The people of the United States wel come with greatest cordiality the dis tinguished representatives of American republics of which this congress is com posed. The errand, which brings you is well calculated to strengthen the bonds of friendship which so naturally unite us. "This congress is called in the interest of the administration of custom laws as they exist in the.several republics. That no time may be lost in preliminaries, a program, well calculated to facilitate your deliberations, has been.. prepared by a committee appointed at an international conference which-convened in Mexico one year ago. ' "I desire to emphasize the importance of one or two of the subjects that are to be considered, by this body. It has always been the policy of the United Statesand it is also the' law as again and again an nounced by our courtsto resolve reason able doubts in. favor of the importer. I assume that the same rule prevails in all countries. It should apply, I think, with especial force with reference to draw backs. The whole drawback scheme has been, worked out in. the interest Qf the ex porter. People may differ upon the pro position whether the tariff is or is not a tax upon the domestic consumer, but all concede that it is a burden upon the exporter of material. When%i fore that the government does hot desire to profit at the''expense of its importn trade then.customs officials are*justified. strutng drawbacks ..laws, as liberally as their language will permit, and legis lators, I think, are justified in liberalizing these drawback'laws, as far as possible. "Another subject to which I. desire to call especial attention is that. of* ap praisement. A large percentage of the frauds upon the customs revenues of1 country are committed, on consigned goods,, and . it has always seemed to me that the fact that goods are purchaseable only in the domestic market raises a strong presumption that they are being undervalued. This practice not only drives 'the domestic importer out of busi ness,: "but 'it 'prejudices 'the domestic manufacturer who' ' - produces competing goods. ' - ' '' :- "Another diffcUlty in the way'of the appraiser arises from the fact that near ly ail foreign goods can be purchased for export cheaper than for domestic con sumption. The fact that goods are sold for export cheaper than for the domestic market frequently'Works a great hardship upon the importer.' He purchases abroad and presuming that he has paid the ordi nary foreign market price, invoices' at the price he has paid, but frequently finds himself subjected to an advance of from 10 to 75 per cent with statutory penal ties. "In my judgment, the commerce be tween the countries here represented might be very largely, increased' and to our mutual advantage. The means . pf intercommunication are very unsatisfac tory. . That they can be materially1/im- - proved, and with very moderate expense to any of the countries represented, must be apparent to every thinking person. I venture to express, the hope that the time .'win come and perhaps sooner thar we dreamfor commerce is the great leveler, the great civillzer and great edu catorwhen the peoples represented here will .be speaking a common: language and If so it will be^ the most .convenient lan guage of commerce when these peoples will have uniform stahdardW of weights and measures, but if these standards shall ever be unified the choice must be made of those most convenient to commerce when standards of value and denomina tions .of money shall be uniform and in - ternationally interchangeable, but if this is to be realized the adopted standard must be the best and the denominations the most convenient when standards of wages shall be measureably uniform but if this shall ever be accomplished, then that standard must be the highest." : ap - FIVE MEN WERE KILLED Serious Accident in a Turret of the Ifottleship Hafi?achui}^tts -"Tjes^ - terday iMoraingt any&aiy crop s : .-'-. ' San Juan, P. -R., Jan. 17.Five men were killed and four others were wounded, two of theni probably fatally, by the ex plosion of a powder charge of an eight Inch gun in a turret on board the United States battleship Massachusetts yester day at target practice off Culebra island. The explosion occurred shortly belfore noon and was due to the accidental dis charge of SL'percussion'" primer while the breach of the gun was open. The full charge exploded in the turret and killed or injured all the crew, numbering nine men. Ensign Ward E. Wortman, in charge of the trret,- escaped * injury, though standing near. Magnificent discipline was immediately shown by the officers and crew. Captain Harry Lee, commanding the marine guard,, and.-Ensign.Clarence Abele imme diately flooded the turret with water and Lieutenant Charted F. Hughesand Gunner Kuhlwein*.went below to the magazine, picking up powder charges and prevented further explosions, whil Lieutenant Wil liam Cole.and Gun Captain Stoneman entered the turret and withdrew the charge from the other gun, who^e breech was open. The .survivors whenrrescued were burned,.mutilated and. nearly dead. The list-of casualties is as follows: Oe^dA. Hendrlcksen(' boatswain i'sm^te ^. H.' Losser, apprentice' ,$. F. Xfalinowski,' lands man ,Jt. J. Elaitt, ordinary seaman Robert Rule, otdlnary -seaman..'., ." InjuredW. W. A. Sctiert, apprentice A. S. Tacke, coxswain J.' G. Patterson, ordinary seaman A. N, Dossett, 'ordinary seaman.. $E MAY B *0PE CARDINAL SERAFINO VANNUTELU. manufacturesconcedeimported from Who was yesterday named by the pope vice chancellor of the Catholic church, to succeed Cardinal Parrocchl, who died the day before. The haste of the pope In filling this Important position with the leader- of the liberals In the college of cardinals Is causing much comment In church clr'~-* " ' -- ' ^{^W^f^^f^f^WW^if^M^^M is'once d there - A T SMNGM I Word Is Received of the Death of Captain1 t'\ - Going to That Country as an Engi neer, He Gained High Favor. J - ."*. $ Intelligence reached Minneapolis this mornfng of the death of Captain W. W. Rich o* China, on Jan. 12. Captain Rich was the first general manager and chief, engineer of the Boo road. He had charge of the construction almost from the first, and remained with the company untuil 1898, when he left to become consulting engineer for the Chinese government, with headquarters at Shanghai. Mr. Rich builj the Wisconsin Central between Milwaukee and Ashland, and also did some' construction work for the Milwaukee road. He and Senator W. D. Washburn were intimate friends and In 189$ he went put to. China with the sena tor, who sought a railroad concession. This plan fell. tWough, but Mr. Rich made so favorable an impression upon the Chinese authorities that, soon after his return to this country, the position he held until-his death was offered him. Officially he was known as the "consult ing engineer of the imperial Chinese rail way administration/' His wife, Alice Hamilton Rich,, who was with him when he died, is well known to readers of Leslie's Weekly as the author of articles on China and the orient. The only information yet received is a cablegram sent? to a sister, Mrs. Ray mond,-of Middletown, Conn. " l con THE PASSENGERS ARE YERY ASGRI a W. W. Rich in * China. Continued from First Page. leaving Southampton to impair the speed of this ship. The delay has been only such as might hay been reasonably ex pected from the crippled condition of her boilers. Providence, indeed, has been ex ceedingly kind to us and we are truly grateful that through her tender mercies we have been thus far spared a calamity too horrible to contemplate. -"Fourth, we cannot tod severely con demn the recklessness of a management that would send such a crippled .vessel loaded with human freight to contend with the storms and perils of an Atlantic winter. We believe that our lives have been put in jeopardy and certainly our loved ones at home are being made to suffer great mental anguish, not to men tion the severe financial losses many of us have incurred and are now incurring. "Fifth, that on the evening of Jan. 10, 1903, the following petition was presented to Captain. Passow, commanding the steamship St. Louts: 'The undersigned passengers of the steamship St. Louis bound for New York hereby request that in view of the crippled condition of this steamship, and the consequent uncertainty of. the date of her reaching that port, you hail some fast westbound steamer for the purpose of transferring us thereto, or that the boat put into Halifax If feasible. (Signed*) By the Saloon Passengers. "That in reply Captain Passow ex plained the difficulties and dangers at tending a transfer of passengers at sea and further stated that it would be an exceedingly dangerous undertaking to at tempt to take the ship in her present con dltion Into , the harbor of Halifax. . He volunteered the information that he might later on. enter Boston harbor and, had the question then under advisement. "Sixth, that it is a matter of keen re gret that a first-class steamship, such as the St. Louis is reported to be, should not be supplied "with the'j^arcbni systeirr, the absence of which has been seriously felt' during this ever-to-be-remembered voyage. "Seventh, that the thanks of the pas sengers, are due to the officers of the ship for their uniform courtesy under jtbes vey trying circumstances in endeavoring to , allay our uneasiness" and excitement." The comrtjittee consisted of P. Lloyd, Louis .B.uBernei, W. Bonynge and Ralph Nichol. The report of this committee was unani mously approved and resolutions were adopted condemning, the action of the management of the line as outlined in the committee's report. ' Kick From the Second Cabin. The second cabin passengers also framed resolutions, the gist of their pro test being in the subjoined paragraph: - "It was plain from the daily runs of the ship that something was radically wrong with the boat from the outset. Inquiry elicited the information that the boilers were in a defective condition, and proof can be adduced that this was not only known to the company but that passen gers were wilfully deceived and represen tations made that the voyage would bo finished In the ttsual time." This circular of protest was signed by H. Millard of Chicago, as chairman Gordon Graham, Dr. E. J. Fernandez, Miss Florence Mabbett and about twelve or filte enothers of the second cabin pas sengers. p The Company's Statement. The American line gave out the fol lowing statement later in the day: "The delayed arrival of the St. Louis was caused by leaving Cherbourg late and by extremely bad weather. There was nothing In the known condition of: her boilers that would have prevented her from reaching here after a normal pas sage. The marked loss of steaming power cawld not have been foreseen. Even in the light of our present knowledge, there is nothing in any way that affects the perfect safety of the ship. The management much regret the inconveni ence caused the passengers and the anxi ety caused their friends." Nobody Allowed on Board. When the passengers started ashore, a quartermaster was 'plaCeed''on guard at every gangplank with orders frfcrn :-~-*--** deck superintendent,"hot to allow any one to go on board: None of tlie ship's" offi cers was allowed to come ashore. The passengers freely expressed their feelings at the delay. A. BartletteHoyd of Baltimore was one of the signers of the first cabin passengers' resolutions. He said: ' '"- "The speeches made at the indignation meeting were much more fiery in tone and much more bitter against the man aarement of the company" than the resolu tions show. We attempted to .make the resolutions as dispassionate as. pqs'siib!e.v Everybody VYas Depressed and Angry* "There was no pleasuret nor gayety aboard the ship. Every one was as de pressed and angry as men and women could be in such a situation. Suspicion began from the very moment we left Southampton. When it first began to be rumored about the ship that the boilers were defective and leaky we sought In formation from the officers and stewards, but we could learn nothing. Our fears were either laughed at or evasive "answers made. "But when the "officers saw that we were In deadly earnest and ^ould not be denied in our endeavor to know the truth, they changed their attitude, and told us promptly what we wanted to know, or told us they knew nothing about the cause of the delay. All of the first-class passen gers have put their cases in the hands of myself and Mr. Berniel as their lawyers and authorized us to make such claims against the company as we saw fit and to endeavor to collect damages." New YorkProfessor Llbbey sails to-day by the Etrurla, the Tribune's London correspondent announces, to resume work at Princeton, after a fortnight's visit In Loados. Rev. ArthuA.Crane, r C . r '* .""- - * "* * .. " -sft .- i " - THfe mKNEAPOLIS? JOURNAL WARNINfeTO A. LEA .**? That Town Is Likely jto Lose Its f* Public Building if It Does _*'". NotWMijhOut .. Advancement and' Retirement Col. E. L. Huggins'Well I&nown in Minneiota. rrom The Journal Bureau, Boom 45, Pott Build in*, Washington. ti.' Washington, , Jan/%.Representatives- elect Buckman and Steenerson are ex pected here next week to do a few prelim inary turns Jn learning the ropes. -:^K-v''' -- A.THfle .^ate,-. Representative Fletcher to-day received a petition with 2,00i) names from Minne apolis asking congress to pass the bill taking the duty off of coal. The petition will be:filed in the: house. Of course, it came too late to have any effect on the coal legislation. ~ Retirement of Colonel Hugglns. The Minnesota'delegations have unani mously requested the president to advance to the grade of Brigadier General and then to retire Colonel E. L. Huggtas, now commanding at Fort Meyer. The request will be compliedwith very Soon. Colonel Hugjgins has a brilliant civil war record. He served with the Second Minnesota Volunteers and won a medal for gallant conduct at Chickamagua and other fields where that regiment appeared. in 1866 he entered the regular army and has since served oh the plains, in Alaska, Cuba, China, the Philippines and Porto Rico. For a number of years he was military in structor at the university of "Minnesota and is wel known to all the older citizens. Warning to Albert Lea. The people of Albert. Lea are likely to lose their public site if no more interest is shown in the matter than has been shown by them since congress authorized the expenditure of, $3,000 for that pur pose. Assistant Secretary Taj'lor of the treasury department ssaid to-day that he would soon forward to-congress a letter showing that the department had adver tised for proposals for a site but that no responses were received. He will there fore ask for instructions whether: the appropriation shall be. allowed to la]ye or whether the department shall, make an other effort to procure a,.site. It is assumed at the - department that no one in Albert Lea-was willing to sell a lot" of the size desired-for the amount available, butt it is /also believed that some bids should have: been submitted with a view to ascertaining values qt the property there, so^- that the depart ment would be in a position to make further recommendation* as to- the in crease in the appropriation- Mr. McCoy's Trip. James F. McCoy of ^Winona is in Wash ington for a few dayr on his way to other eastern cities. -- ryy^ -y^ Jermane. GONZALES MOT LIYE The Crisis in His Case Is Believed to Be NearTemperature Rises to 102. Columbia, S. C, Jan 17, 1 p. m.-^-Bditor Gonzales' condition j s extremely, critical. The wound has just been redressed. Pulse, 135 temperature, 103 . respiration, 32. Mrs. Gonzales-1stwith her husband and will remain ^ith,hUn.:^ . " ..A. hurry calL hag jftst^been sent for sev-j eral local physicjj^njp t?: come to' tljfc Co-: lumbian hospital at, once,!,. The, family is' within immediate call and prepared for the fvorst.-' ^ ' ^Columbia, S. C., Jan. 17.Editor Gon zales, it was stated this morning,%. was resting easy, having passed a favorable' night, although his' condition remained critical. There, was: some encouragement as the patient has put up a stern fight for lifer' ':"" "-'r. ' -Jr.:-: - '"' -' It is thought the crisis will have passed by this afternoon and it is rcpqrteu' by LIEUT. GOV. J. H, TILLMAN. South Carolinian, Who Shot N. Q. Gon zales, an Editor of Columbia, That State. ' - '" " ...^ the physicians that if Mr. 'Gonsales can hold his own until that time the chances for his recovery will be greatly increased. The bulletins as issued by the physicians are the only source of information to the public. No one but the nurses and physicians are allowed in-"the, room. Mr. Gonzales' pulse this morning was respiration 27 and temperature M- the TILLMAN'S DEFENSE. ,lt Will Be That "He Thought" Gbnrales ..-'. .',! Was:iAr.rned. ' 'J:^ . Columbia, S. C,' Jah 17.Lieutenant Governor Tillman spent the day in jail itt ^consultation with his lawyers Con gressman George W.^Croft, former Judge O. W. Buchanan and Coleman L. Blease. Two of his counsel" gave to the Associated Press, with a request that it be pub lished, the following" statement" prepared by Mr. Tillman himself in response to a telegram from a New' York newspaper: "I can only say that when the truth of the unfortunate affair is known, my friends as- well as. the people will know how thoroughly I Was justified in.acting as I did. The'^^ statements" ! Hshed-iif'thi paper*?arS I will be prepared to-show at- the: time. Beyond this i do not care to make any further statement. 1 It is understood that Colonel Tillman's line of defense' wilt - be that he thought Mr. Gonzales was armed and that he had a weapon in his coat pocket and that he had his hands in his coat pocket. He is said to contend that he had every reason to believe that Mr. Gonzales was armed Mr. Qonzaies' friends state that he -was not armed. -HF-ir "Jame s H. Tillman." A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding and Protruding Piles. No cure, no pay. All druggists are authorized by the manufacturers of Pa&c Ointment to refund the money where it fails to cure any case cf piles, no mat ter of how long standing. Cures ordinary cases in six days the worst case in four teen days. One application gives ease and rest. Relieves itching instantly. This Is a new discovery and it is the only pile remedy sold on a positive guarantee, no cure, no pay. Price 50c 'alreadyd ~pub- Untrue an this W^sm^U^UA^M^ fel BEH p mm Dop The Special Grand Jury in Chicago Considering Action on the - - Evidence. of Chicago, Jan. 17.The special grand jury, which has spent a week in seeking to determine whether the scarcity of coal is or Is not due to a combination of coal operators, coal dealers and railroads, will conclude its labors lata this- afternoon or to-night, having spent the day be hind locked doors considering final ac tion on the evidence presented. Prior to its convening to-day' the' committee appointed to draft the report to be made to Judged Ewing met and completed its task. No intimation as to the - finding of the jury has com% out. TONS AN D TON8 OF IT What an Aldermanlc Investigation In Mil waukee Has Revealed. Special to The Journal. Milwaukee, Jan. JL7.The investigation made by the aldennanio committee into the fuel situation has resulted in the dis covery within the Umits of the city of 10,800 tons of hard coal, 231,400 tons of soft coal, and 6,150 cords of wood. All but 800 tons of the hard coal was found in the yards of J. Gross & Son, on Canal street. A member "of the firm told the committee that the coal belonged to the Lehigh Valley Coal company, and that it Is-* beihg shipped "to customers in the northwest on orders received last summer, and is not for sale to Milwaukee people. If legal authority can be found to war rant the action, the coal will be confis cated by the city and^ distributed at the market price to the people of Milwaukee. eAdam Gross, a member of the firm, is said to have offered to sell coai to people who apply with health department recom mendations at $10 a ton. The Milwaukee road to-day posted notices in public places in the city call ing attention to the fact that It had sus pended several passenger trains on ac count of the shortage of coal. It is un derstood the trains wiU be abandoned un til the coal famine is over. - OJUD SCHOOLMATE OF BAEft How He Obtained Coal for Himself and Residents of Crest on. Special to The Journal. ~ - Des Moines. Iowa, Jan. 17.J, H. Lich ty, a poor farmer residing near Creston, has saved the residents of that place from a coal famine. In his- boyhood days he occupied a farm ^adjoining that of the Baers and'was a schoolmate of George F. Baer, president of the Reading railway. DUrI.hg:the recent cold shap Lichty ex hausted"his' supply of fuel and was unable to procure any in Creston, where, a serious coal famine existed. He bethought him self of President Baer, and wrote the lat ter a personal letter, appealing for. coal as a special favor, He has received a reply from Baer ex pressing pleasure to learn of his former playmate, and informing him that his agent In Chicago has been Instructed to forward, three Cars of coal to a. Creston dealer at once, from -vphich Lichty was to be supplied at the cost of freight. '''PE TON A T THE MINES Testimony That Shows \yho Is Making the Killing. Washington, Jan. 17.A number of wholesale dealers in coal who do business in Philadelphia and Baltimore and sell coal of independent operators, testified yesterday before the senate committee on! the District of Columbia. Two of them declined to answer questions. , A. Beaumont Whitney of the firm of Whitney & Kemmerer of Philadelphia, said that this ,firm Is now paying $8 per ton tor anthracite at- th* ramesf., minus JO per. cent commifsion, whereas, before the - strike the - price was %%. 25. fieA said he did not blame any one for getting the best price he could. Charles D. Norton of Philadelphia said that within the last two weeks he had paid as high as 18.50 per ton for anthra cite at the mines which would\majjse the price laid down in Washington $10.60. THE DISTRICT inrBG-SKTP. .Washington, Jan. IT.Chairman Jenkins of the house Judiciary committee to-day requested the committee on rules to bring In a special rnle selting aside a day for the consideration of bills reported from that committee. The* rule will be reported next -week. Among tbe bills to be considered are those for an additional district Judge for Minnesota and for. increasing the salaries of United States Judges. proper - Coal In Box Cars. Louisville, Ky.,' "Jan. 17.According to the Courier-Journal the coal shortage in Chicago has for ar openedventure,e up th opportunity new business and'Samue l Born*-of La Fayette, Ind., has taken ad vantage- of it." He will ship coal to Chi cago in box' cars from the cities around the Falls of the Ohio, and the cars will come back loaded with grain. By mak ing an arrangement with Indiana and -Illinois grain dealers he has been en abled/ to assure cars will bev assurance, it is said, two railroad com panies have guaranteed to furnish him with.the necessary cars. - Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 17.City Council man Emerson announced last night that he thoroughly indorsed the Chicago ordi nance making it a misdemeanor to fore stall fuel supplies, punishable with a fine of $200. He is waiting to obtain a copy of the Chicago ordinance and will intro duce'it to the council on Monday night. This action is prompted by the feeling which has been aroused through' the late combine of the retail coal dealers which sought to regulate coal prices, and did hold the price at.almost a prohibitive fig ure until the granid jury began its'Inves tigation. Then the combine agreed to dissolve. New York, Jan. 17.-H2oal from the in dependent operators, which has been sell ing at not less than $10 a.ton since the suspension of their. agreement with the coal roads, sold in individual instances at $9.75 and $9.60 a ton yesterday, al though most sales were at $10. A fur ther break is looked, for to-day or Mon day, .and with the increased amount of $5, coal expected to arrive next week, there should be still lower prices for th.e Inde pendent product.. 7 "4 102, theboth railroads their loaded ways.that On , this After the Coal Fiends. First Break In Prices. MRS. MINNIE M. COX* Colored postmistress at Indlanola, Miss., Whom the President Is Determined to continue-Id Office, - */,^ Tv^ JANUAHI 17, 1903 IT'S HEBE TO STAY The Boarjl of Control Now Generally Accepted as a Permanent _ Institution/ Main Change Sought Will Be in the Interest of State Education- - al Institutions. The board of control is in Minnesota to stay. This is an important fact that has become pretty well established thus early in the legislative session. For the past year the air has been full of threats, and from various state Institution towns have come predictions that the board of control was doomed to extinction at this session of the legislature. It now seems certain that no serious attempt to repeal the law will be made this winter. Opponents of the system have canvassed the situation in the legis lature, and they find the board of control idea too strongly Intrenched. They have come to the conclusion that they cannot muster enough votes to make a fight with any show of success. The splendid show ing made by the board for its first year gives it an unanswerable argument on the score of economy, and the generality of members, outside the sphere of influence of any state institution, are determined to continue the system so long as it can make suoh a record. Friends of the state schools at Owaton na and Faribault have given up the idea of knocking out.the board, and have pre sented the other alternative, which will suit them as well. The Morley bill, intro duced yesterday, removes all educational institutions from the board of control. So far as the university and normal schools are concerned this is in line with the wishes of the governor and the board of control, but Mr. Morley goes them one better, and includes the schools for de fectives and for indigent children. The board of control now has the financial di rection of these schools, but wants the entire charge, and Governor Van Santhas recommended the abolition of the local boards. On the other hand, the Morley bill gives the local boards entire charge. Mr. Bforley claims that all the educational institutions should come out from control Of the board, and that the Owatonna and Faribault schools are educational in the same degree that the university and the normal schools are. There is some sentiment in the legis lature against any change. This will op pose the Morley bill, and any other on that line. The university and normal schools have this element to fight, and need every vote they can get. The Owatonna and Faribault people understand this, and Offer an alliance. If it is rejected and the university and normal school people go it alone, the delegations from Bice and Steele counties will stand with the ultra element and fight any change in the law. It 'is probable that the alliance will be made between all the educational institu tions in which case the board of control influence will-be'against the bill. The situation is complicated and decidedly in teresting. TO PURCHASE FORESTRY LANDS The Forestry Board Plans a New Line of Work. The Minnesota Forestry board thinks that as the state, for many years, has been paying $20,000 annually In bounties fdr tree-planting on the prairies, it would be reasonable to expend a like amount annually as a start in the purchase of waste"purposes. lands in r sstr y has , therefore , asked of womanly disease, the effect is cer-. for the passage of a bill to enable it to I tain to he marked in her nervous sys purchase land suitable for forestry, but not exceeding in any congressional town ship one-eighth of the area of such town ship and at not exceeding $2.60 per acre, a "quarter of the net revenue from the land always to go to the town in which the land is situated. Such a bill was in troduced in the house yesterday by Mr. Bander. The forestry board consists of practical men, including Fred Weyerhaeuser, and it is probably wise in asking for a very moderate appropriation till "it can dem onstrate what can be accomplished. WELL-KNOWN EMPLOYES Former Lieutenant Governor and' an Ex-Senator on House List. Some well-known names appear on the list of house employes announced yester day by Speaker Babcock. The clerk of the committee on taxes and tax laws is W. H. Yale, who was lieutenant governor of the state from 1870 to 1874, and state senator from Winona county from 1894 to 1898. The clerk of the insurance com mittee is Sherman S. Smith of Minneapo lis, One of the most active and picturesque figures in the last house. The speaker could not have found in Minnesota a person better qualified for clerk of the appropriations committee than Miss May V. Gibbens of Farmington, for the past eight years voucher clerk in the office of the state auditor. In that ca pacity all warrants from state institutions have passed through her hands, and she Is familiar With every detail of the busi ness that wfil come before this important committee. St. Louis, Jan. 17.Because of an order issued by their foreman that they must refrain from chewing fcnm during working hours, slxty-flvd girls employed as band wrappers for the Sam uel Cupples Xmrelop company. INVESTIQATE DR. ALFRED L COI F t^I, rAlwri^Cl^ 1-,. WLC 24%aahlngten *v. S.,Mlnntapotls Minn. Hours-9 a. m. to 5p. to. and 7 to 8 p. hi. Sundays10 a. m to 12:30 p. m. v,fa thIetforest regions for for- Opportunities Splendid business opportunities are continually being offered in The Journal classified ads. If you will read the ads to-night you may find the opportunity you are looking for. THE WORE ON MGATIOK Great Care Talten in Selecting the First Locations for Dem onstration. There Is Great Clamor From the Arid States to Have Some thing Bone. New York Sun Speoial Service. Chicago, Jan. 17.William u. Curtis in a Washington special to the Record-Her ald says: In reply to an inquiry from J. P. Heart of Crown Point, Ind., as to what has been accomplished under the new irrigation law, I would say that the secretary of the Interior, who has the matter in charge, has. not been idle. The act was passed on the 17th of June, 1902, and on the day following plans were sub mitted by the director of the geological survey for putting it into effect Those plans were approved by the secretary of the interior, surveying parties were at once sent into the field, and have been since engaged in making examinations and preparing estimates for the construc tion of seven reservoirs at convenient lo cations. Great care has been exercised in se lecting locations which will be of the greatest benefit to the country which will accommodate upon the land to be irrigated the greatest number of people, and which will return to the treasury the cost of the undertaking, so as to keep in tact the fund for new works. - This fund, derived from the sale of arid lands, now amounts to $8,000,000, and is all available for irrigation works, and for the reclamation of the arid regions in thir teen states and territories. Notwithstanding this vast sum at his disposal, the secretary of the interior Is proceeding with great caution, and will consider no projects from a political or sentimental standpoint. The men who are carrying on the work are chosen by competitive examinations to test their special fitness most of them have spent the greater part of their lives studying the problem, measuring the riv ers and constructing irrigation works, and they are proceeding carefully upon sound business principles, precisely as would be done if they were working for a busi ness corporation which depended upon tha profits of the enterprise. The construction of water storage res ervoirs and irrigation works is still a mat ter of experiment, and the president and secretary of the interior are extremely anxious that at the beginning of this great enterprise no mistakes shall be made. There is an intense public interest in all the arid states, and a great clamor from the people to see something done. The interior department is receiving let ters by the bushel asking -where and when construction is going to begin, and there is great rivalry among different locali ties which hope to benefit by it. 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