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6 Jhr "?3 -ft h* "City News 4 THE WEATHER The Predictions. 4 MinnesotaFair in north, thunder showers in south portion ^ionight cooler in northeast portion tonight. Tuesday, .fair. Upper MichiganFair and cooler to night and Tuesday fresh to brisk east erly winds. WisconsinThunder showers tonight, with cooler in west portion Tuesday, cooler with showers in east portion resit to brisk easterly winds. IowaThunder showers and cooler tonight Tuesday, fair in west, showers in east portion. North and South DakotaFair to night and Tuesday cooler in east and central portions tonight. MontanaFair tonight and Tuesday ^warmer Tuesday. Weather Conditions. A large area of moderately low pres sure overlying the Mississippi and Red river vallevs and the region south of the Ohio river, is accompanied by cloudy and rainy weather in most of the Mississippi valley and thence eastward to the Atlantic coast, except in the gulf states, tho there are many places where the sky is locally clear. Heavy rains have fallen during the past twenty-four hours as follows: Sioux City, 2:04 inches Omaha, 2:02 Winni peg, 2:10 Huron and Detroit, 1:50 Dodge City, 2:58 Mitchell, S. D., 3:05 Millbank, S. D., 1:93 Crookston, Minn., 1:20. In the Dakotas and thence west ward the temperatures have fallen somewhat since yesterday morning be cause of an area of moderately high pressure which is moving eastward from the Pacific coast. Accompanying the eastward movement of the low pres sure, showers are expected in this vi cinity tonight, with lower temperatures, followed by fair weather Tuesday. T. S. Outram, Section Director. Weather Now and Then. Today, maximum 82, minimum 66 de grees a year ago, maximum 7, mini mum 69 degrees. AROUND THE TOWN Changes in "Army" Detail.Staff Captain and Mrs. John Dale, who have been in charge of the lake division of the northwest province of the Salva tion Army for many years, have been ordered to Kansas City. Their places will be taken by Staff Captain and Mrs. Watt of Sacramento, Cal. O. E. Officers as Quests.The execu tive committee of the Minneapolis Christian Endeavor union, including seventy-five or eighty workers, will be guests tomorrow evening at the Beth lehem Presbyterian church of the Beth lehem society at a supper especially prepared for them. At the close of the supper the party will adjourn to the audience room, where the new officers, elected at the recent annual meeting, will be installed, where Rev. Stanley B. Roberts, D.D., the pastor of the church, will charge the new officers and there will be an address on ''Christian Endeavor, a Spent Force," by Rev. C. E. Burton, pastor of the Lyndale Con gregational church. Musical numbers will be interspersed and C. E. Wood ward, the president-elect, will make a short speech. NEOROLOGIO DR. WEST. J. SWARTZ of Forest Lake, Minn., died yesterday at St. Luke's hospital, St. Paul, from a pul monary disease. He was 30 years old and had graduated from the medical department of the state university five years ago. Mrs. Swarts, a daughter of E. B. Hubbard of Macalester Park, and one child survive. The funeral will be held from' St. Clement's Episcopal church, St. Paul, tomorrow afternoon at 1:30. 1 MRS CHARLES O. AUSTIN, age 84, died yesterday at St. Barnabas hos pital. The funeral took place today at 3 p.m. from the residence, 8425 Blaisdell avenue. The interment was at Lakewood. GEORGE A. NELSON, 33 years old, died Sunday at the family residence, 618 Fourth street S. Funeral at 2 p.m. Tuesday from the undertaking parlors of Modlin & Green. Interment at Layman's cemetery. MRS. WILLIAM E. FINN died at the residence, 120 Polk street NE, Sat urday. Funeral from the St. Lawrence church, Twelfth avenue SE and Seventh street, Tuesday at 9 a.m. RICHARD WATSON died yesterday at his residence, -429 Sixth street 8. Funeral tomorrow at 2 p.m. from the residence. Interment in Layman's cem etery. MRS. T. N, JIMERSON, age 6^ J527 ears, died Saturday at the residence, Nicollet avenue. The funeral took place today from the residence. Interment was at Lakewood. DEAF HEAR SERMONS Westminster Church Installs Telephones Connecting Pulpit and Pew. Westminster Presbyterian church is the second in Minneapolis to establish the acousticon, a device to enable deaf attendants at service to hear the min ister plainly. Trinity Baptist church has proved the innovation to be an ac ceptable addition to its equipment. Yesterday Westminster began the test of five receivers. The arrangement makes it necessary to employ a pulpit, for which none of the pastors of the church has any use. The transmitter is a small box directly in front of the minister, and the receivers may be placed in any pew. SCHOOL CROWDS SALOON W. J. Hirth May Find He Is Too Near the Blaine School. W. J. Hirth, proprietor of a saloon at 1115 Washington avenue N, was ar raigned in police court today, charged with maintaining a saloon within 400 feet of the Blaine school in violation of the city ordinances. Mr. Hirth has conducted the saloon at that place for many years and only recently certain persons discovered lat it was closer to the school than the law allows. He pleaded not guilty and the case was continued until June 21. WINONA FIRE LOSS OF $50,000. Special to The Journal. Winona, Minn., June 18.The loss at the fire in Conrad's fur factory is placed at $50,000, with insurance of $20,000. Monday Evening-, PRICELESS RELIC IN CAPITOL BURN FLAMES IN NEW STATEHOUSE CAUSE LOSS OP FILES. Old Newspapers of Early Days Con sumed by Fire in Stackroom of His torical Society Started by Spon taneous Combustion Minneapolis Firemen Fight the Blaze. Minnesota's new state capitol at St. Paul was damaged nearly $1,000 by fire last evening, the fire originating from spontaneous combustion. The building was closed all day Sun day and the offices unoccupied. Shortly before^ 7 p.m. Otto Somers, assistant custodian, found the flames in the stackroom of the state historical so ciety, on the ground floor, where the files of old newspapers are kept in tall steel cases. The fire department was summoned by telephone. One of the Minneapolis companies, in St. Paul to aid in fighting the Ryan Annex fire, responded. The door to the stackroom was opened and clouds of dense smoke and intense heat rolled forth. One of the firemen was overcome and had to be carried out. The fire destroyed some 115 volumes of old newspapers, some of which are not now published. In most instances these files were the only ones in ex istence. For this reason it is hard to estimate their value. A frame fileoase of forty shelves was consumed. The heat was so intense that steel shelves nearby were warped and melted, and solder ran down in streams to the floor. Saturday the floor in the oilroom was oiled. It is probable some lint from the oily cloths accumulated under the one frame filecase in the room, and there ignited by spontaneous combustion. In the 115 volumes burned, some thirty papers were represented. One of the most valuable files^ destroyed was that of the Southern Minnesota Herald, which started publication at Browns ville in 1857. The loss is fully covered by insur ance. The state board of control car ried $950,000 insurance on the builcling and $50,000 on the contents. GRAIG SUCCEEDS WHITNEY UESTION OF MAN FOB GBEAT NOTHEBN PASSENGER DEPT. SAID TO BE SETTLED. A. L. Craig is to be passenger traf fic manager of the Great Northern road, if dispatches received from Port land, Ore., are to be relied on. They state that Mr. Craig has resigned his position with the Oregon airway & Navigation company, to succeed* to the position which F. I. Whitney has just resigned. It is learned from a high source that the position had been of feied Mr. Craig and his resignation from the O. R. & N. indicates that he has accepted. Opinions have been about as to whether C. E. Stone, general passen ger agent, would be promoted, or whether the Harrison man would get the high job. Friends of Mr. Stone ahve said that he had the confidence and backing of the Hill boys for the position and,, that he would certainly land it. On the other hand, railroad men who professed to be wise were willing^ to bet that when the offer came it would be made to Mr. Craig, owing to the in fluence of L. W. Campbell, fourth vice president in charge of traffic, once a Harriman man himself. Mr. Stone was formerly general pas senger agent of the St. Paul & Dufuth line. When that road was absorbed by the Northern Pacific he succeeded Mr. Craig as assistant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific. Later he transferred to the Great Northern to accept a similar position, and became passenger agent when Mr. Whitney was made passenger traffic manager. Mr. Craig was put in the position which he has held with the Harriman interests by Mr. Campbell before he left the Oregon Railway & Navigation and it is said that Mr. Campbell in sisted on having the new blood brought into the Great Northern work. In tho event of Mr. Craig's appointment, it is surmised that the shakeup along the passenger line will be something worth seeing. Whether Mr. Stone will choose to Remain as general passenger agent is entirely a matter of speculation among his friends. AGED WOMAN BURNED GASOLENE EXPLODES Mrs. Harry White. 301 Fourth avenue NE, was seriously burned about the face and body today, when a gasolene stove on which she was preparing a meal exploded, enveloping her in burn ing liquid. She had been leaning ove,r the stove and had just turned to cross the room when the explosion occurred. Her screams attracted the neighbors, who ran in and succeeded in extinguishing the flames by -wrapping clothes about her. A physician was then summoned to dress the burns. Mrs. White is nearly 70 years old, and it is feared that she can not survice the shock. Her husband, who is em- Sced The McPhail Piano loyed in the lumber camps, was noti by telegraph of his wife's condi tion. OLD SOLIMEiRiS IN COURT C% F. McDunnell and William Hues ter, inmates of the Soldiers' Home, were arraigned in police court today charged with violating the park ordinances bv peddling refreshments in Minnehaha park. All veterans of the civil war are giv en licenses to peddle, free of charge, but the city attorney and the courts have held that they cannot legally ped dle in the parks. The regular licenses do not grant this privilege. The vet erans have always maintained, however, that the park board has no right to say where the city ordinances shall be en forced and where they shall not. The case has been continued until Thurs dayw, when Judge C. L. Smith will de cide the case. Is creating more favorable talk and comment than any other make* oi the present day. Go where you will, this popular instrument is making hosts of friends. The_ factory is taxed to its utmost to supply the demand. This means something. Hear the McPhail and you will readily understand why it is so popular. Cash or $10 monthly. Representatives for The Knabe-Angelus Piano. FOSTE & WALDO. *& r- NOMINEES CONSULTING MEMBERSHIP OF NEW STATE COMMITTEE BEING CANVASSED BY MEN ON TICKET. Senator A. O. Eberhart of Mankato, the republican nominee for lieutenant overnor, was in St. Paul today con erring with A. L. Cole. State Auditor Iverson and other nominees have called on Mr. Cole at the Ryan hotel, and the names available for places on the state committee are being carefully can vassed. There is a good deal of pres sure for places on the committee, and work is being done in the interests of candidates for chairmari\ The commit tee selection is practically in Mr. Cole's hands, and he realizes the importance of selecting a strong committee. Men who will give tone to the campaign, and at the same time who know their dis tricts and can do effective organization work will be drafted for the service as far, as possible. Mrx. Cole is improving in health, but the state committee proposition is bringing him a heavy mail and many callers, and his brother, Dr. A. B. Cole of Fergus Falls, is doing his best to keep* him from overdoing. The meet ing of candidates to select the commit tee will be called in a few days, and it is believed that the list will be com plete by the time the nominees get to gether. Dem Leaders Confer. Former Governor John Lind called on Governor Johnson today, and the ad ministration wheel horses Joined in a discussion of the situation. The strength and weakness of the republican candi dates figured considerably in the dis cussion. Chairman Day of the demo cratic state committee has received as surances of a good attendance at the committee meeting Thursday in St. Paul, which will issue the call for the convention. "Manufacturers Grant Permission" During necessary repairs caused by our recent fire, all contract (Exclusive"High Grade) summer goods will be "cut in price." Such "High Grade" mak ers as the following: The Stetson -Shoe Co. The Youmans Straw Hats. Henry H. Roelofs Co. Fine Hats. Deimel Linen Mesh Underwear. Wilson Bros.' Fine Shirts. Lewis Knitting Co. Fine Underwear. Crawford Shoe Co. Boston Garters, Guyot Suspenders. These makers and others have granted us permission to put Our Own Price on these well-known goods. Come and take advantage of this if you need a summer outfit (good for 30 days). Fine Goods at Cheap-Goods Prices. Hoffman's Toggery Shops. Both Stores. HattersTailorsOutfitters. 53 So. 4th St. No. 13 Nicollet House. Laundry, 720-722-724 1st Ave So. ELY'S APPEAL BASED ON TECHNICALITY OF LAW Dr. Theron H. Bly's appeal from his district court conviction of performing a criminal operation will be argued in the supreme court a week from next Tnursdav. County Attorney Al J. Smith will represent the state and Col onel W. E. Dodge will argue for the defendant. The case is of unusual importance, not only to the defendant, but because it will settle an important point in the Minnesota laws. The defendant places his confidence of securing a new trial upon his contention that the verdict shduld not stand because the indict ment does not specify and the state did not prove by what means the opera tion was performed. Mr. Smith has made an exhaustive study of the law in the case and con tends that it is sufficient for the in dictment to state an operation was per formed "by means unknown." The point has never been raised in this state and each lawyer is insistent in the claim that his interpretation of the law is the correct one. SWIMMING IS GOOD AT CALHODN BATH HOUSE Lake Calhoun was a favorite place to day for the young people in the lake district. The announcement that the bath-houses.would open was a notice to every boy and girl of swimming age to get ready for real sport. Old oatning suits were dragged out and overhauled for a strenuous season. When it was announced tffat the bath houses were ready for business there was plenty of ^patrons. The bath houses at Calhoun are not favorably located. As far as the con venience of the children is concerned it is admitted that it was a mistake to move them in the first place, and in the second place to move them so far. To the youngsters it means a long, dusty walk or else the use of the St. Louis park trolley line with its infrequent service. BUYING OONiOEItT TICKETS Business Finns Help to Support Lake Harriet Season. Eegarding the Oberhoffer Orchestral band, whose engagement at the Lake Harriet pavilion roof begins June 24, almost as. a civic institution the lead ing business firms of the city are al ready subscribing heavily to the ad vance sale of seats. The Oberhoffer band is practically the summer organi zation of the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, for the support of which public-spirited citizens have in years past raised a fund of $10,000 annually. The coming season will find the Sym phony orchestra backed with a fund, of $25,000. Many of the musicians brought to Minneapolis by Conductor Emil Ober hoffer for the Symphony season are kept in the local musical colony largely thru the summer engagement, by the board of park commissioners, of the Oberhoffer Orchestral bandknown during the past two seasons as the Minneapolis Park band. IOWA MAN TUMBLES Edward Brown Narrowly Misses Lofty Plunge into River. Edward Brown of Waterloo, Iowa, fell over the embankment near the Tenth avenue bridge yesterday and narrowly escaptd death. He was walking along the narrow path beside the railroad tracks when he misBed his footing and fell over the bank, striking a tree thirty feet be low. The tree saved him from going into the water, but he was badly bruised and was taken to the city hos pital. WOMAN GiOElS TO JAIL/ Grand Larceny Costs Mabel Griffith Four Months' Liberty. Mabel Griffith, colored, who recently pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the second degree, was sentenced today to four months in the county Jail By Judge F. C. Brooks. Leonard Wilcox was arraigned and pfleaded not guilty to an lndlctmeht charging forgery In the second degree. Hfs case was Continued over the term and ball was fixed at J500. MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. LABOR SITUATION $ BECOMING!ACDTE DEMANDS FOB MEN IN EXCESS OF SUPPLY. Railroad and Other Contractors Exhaust Available Supply and Fanners Will Soon be in Market o: Harvest Hands Crew Foremen Hire Laborers In dependently of Agencies. With a scarcity of nearly all kinds of labor in the market today, employment agencies are wondering what will hap pen at harvest time. If all the grain planted in North Dakota comes to har vest, it is said there will not be enough men to take care of it. Inasmuch as the prosperity of the railroads of the northwest, and of Minneapolis, depends on the saving of the grain at harvest time, the future is already causing some worry. "You can't make it too strong that we neod men in this market," said au employment agency man today. "Men are needed in railroad work and we can't get them. The average wage for company work is $1.75 a day, while rail road contractors are paying $2 a day. If anything over that ampunt is offered it is presumable that the work is un usual. For instance, a contractor has offered $2.25 for work in Wisconsin, but I found that it was a place where men had to to work up to their hips in the mud. Trick of Contractors. "It is reported that common labor commands $2 to $2.50 at Duluth, and that men are not easy to find there at those figures. That may be true, but it is often a play of labor contractors to get out such newspaper articles to head a lot of men in their direction and then they will pay them only what they LDve'to, because with a resulting con gested market wages necessarily drop.'' This is the season between hay and grass with labor. The spring lumber work is over and the fall harvest has not begun. Between June 15 and July 15 it is pretty hard to get a lot of good men to work. If they have a little money to spend they will lay off for a while. Another class which is not work ing is the "bum" class. Several "causes contribute to the pres ent scarcity of labor, beside the im mense amount of work that is under way. The street railway company is hiring hundreds of men for revision and betterment work, the city has a long pay roll for summer work, and so has the park board. Great crowds of men that would have been available this summer have gone to the Pacific coast and will not be back for several sea sons, and Canada has made heavy draft on the northwest for labor. Thus, with any number of men taking their vaca tions, the cause of the shortage is easily figured. The pinch in the market is so notice able that railways are sending their crew foremen about the streets picking up men, in utter disregard of the labor agencies. A gang of Austrians, who are the most independent among the laboring people was offered $1.50 in St. Paul yesterday, with transportation, cook pay, free cars and coal, but they de manded $2, which the agent refused to agree to. It is probable that some con tractor will take them at their price) however, so close is the competition. A contingency now in sight to bother the railroad ^contractor is the farmer, with his offer 'ol highWes. The farm er* is sometime^ JOafflput for har vest help that. he^Vill drive to' a rail way camp and'take WiTfrom under the nose of the boss, by the offer of higher wages. The special demand for labor just now is for the railroads, which are making heavy improvements in the northwest and building new lines. BRIGHT LINE MOUNTS IN THE THERMOMETER "Excelsior" is the,motto of the mer cury. Yesterday it mounted one degree higher than on Saturday, touching the 88 degree mark. Today, at noon, the reading twas 82 degrees, which gave promise of something higher about 4 p.m., the usual hour of maximum tem peratures. Yesterday the whole city sweltered, either at home or on the cars, which carried thousands to nearby lakes in search of comfort. The heat was not excessive in itself, but coming alter an unusually cool spring it was felt keenly. Night brought little relief. At mid night the government thermometer reg istered 73 degrees, and the unofficial tubes were still doing something in the upper eighties. At 2 a.m. the mercury fell three degrees, to 70. At 4 a.m. the reading was 68, and at 6 a.m. the mini mum of 67 degrees was reached. In two hours the mercury regained the six degrees it had lost in six hours, and the day's quotations opened at 8 a,m. with 73 degrees, the reading at midnight. Thru the morning the rise was con tinuous. At 10 a.m. the recorder set down 79 degrees. At noon the 82-degree mark was reached. Showers and cooler weather promised for tonight failed to exert any influence in advance. DOCTOR SAVED LIFE Hurried Mite of a Baby to Incubator Institute. Tjhe infant incublator institute at Wonderland park last summer had sev eral cases that bordered on the sen sational. There was the baby that bioke the world's record for feather weights, tipping the scales at one pound five oufices. Then there was a pair Of diminutive twins and a baby that was born on a sleeping car. Thus far this season there have been no incubator incidents of an unusual character. One case, however, is in teresting especially to the medical fra ternity. It is that of a boy received a week ago that weighs two' pounds and ten ounces now. It is a very small baby, and its life is due to a physi cain's forethought and promptness. The baby was on the way to the in cubator as fast as an automobile could take it within one hour after birth, and the little fellow has thrived splen didly. This case furnishes a good illustra tion of the course to be taken when the aid of the incubator is sought to overcome the Blights of nature. Even a day's delay would have been fatal. There are now five babies at the in stitute, two of them having graduated to the nursery. WEST PAINTER RESIGNS Familiar Man with Brush and Ladder Seeks New Fields. "Dick, the Painter," known in pri vate life as Eichard Stanway, who for twenty-two years has been a familiar figure about the West hotel, has re signed. It was Mr. Stanway's duty to see, that the paint all over the big building was retouched whenever neces sary, and his ladder and paintpot won him the title by which he was known to the majority of the hotel's patrons. He has not yet decided what line of work ha will follnwr Defective Page ADYISESfiGAS SHUT-OFJP r+ !__ STATE FIRE MARSHAL DRAWS LESSON FROM RYAN ANNEX FIRE. The Byan Annex fire in St. Paul has demonstrated the wisdom of a point which Edward A. Peterson, state fire marshal, brought to the attention of fire departments thruout the state a short time ago. Mr. Peterson sent out a series of cir cular letters inquiring the opinions of fire chiefs as to the advisability of having outside shutoffs t6 all gas mains in buildings of any size, as in times of fire gas connections in building base ments are apt to become broken or melted, and the gas thus allowed to escape. If there had been such an outside shutoff to the Eyan Annex, it is probable that the fire would have been early under control and perhaps a much greater portion of the building saved. Certain it is, that the gas ex plosion which did such damage would not have occurred. In the replies received to Mr. Peter son's circular letter there was not a single one which did not agree with his suggestion that outside shutoffs to gas mams in buildings would be a good thing. Chief J. E. Canterbury of Minneapo lis replied, in part, that "in our busi ness district, where the mains are large, it would be a good business prop osition for gas companies to have out side stopcocks on all large mains enter ing buildings." Mr. Peterson will use the letters he has received^ as the basis of a recom mendation to the next legislature for a state law requiring all buildings of any size to be equipped with gas shut offs on the exterior. FALL OYER 1 CLIFF RESULTS IN DEATH The dead body of a man, thought to be O. H. Anderson of Stillwater, was found at the foot of the high cliff at the end of Urban place, St, Paul, last night. In the man's pocket were his watch, a bottle of whisky and some small change. Coroner Miller investigated the case and learned that the man had been sleeping on the edge of the bluff earlier in the evening aid that he prob abi* rolled over the bank and was killed. The man was about 50 years old. SYNOD DRAWS A MULTITUDE Largest Attendance in a Dozen Years Upon Augustana Church. Meeting at Denver. Bpecial to The Journal. Denver, Col., June 18.The annual meeting of the Swedish Lutheran Au gustana synod, now in session here, has a larger attendance of delegates than any since 1894. It was expected that merely a handful would go so far west, but the desire to see the great west and the low rates on all roads to Denver, together with the interest in the questions of the church, have brought an unprecedented number of delegates from the different parts of America. Nearly every regularly* elect ed delegate from Minnesota, both lay and clerical, is on hand. The Augustana synod has about 800,000 members, more than 1,000 congregations and 550 pas tors. Nothing has been left undone by the Denver-people to entertain the dele gates. Their homes have been opened and arrangements have been made for seeing the Tbeautiful city under the most pleasant circumstances. The series of entertainments will end with an excursion by a special train over the famous Georgetown loop. Smaller parties will later go to Colora do Springs and Pike's Peak. Some Church Leaders. Dr. G. A. Brondelle, pastor of the con gregation entertaining the synod, occu pies one of the most prominent posi tions among the Swedes of Colorado, and is one of the most influential men in the Augustana synod. Politically the most prominent man in Colorado is J. A. Holmberg, state treasurer. Another prominent Denver man is J. E. Holmberg, fbrmer sheriff of Hennepin county, who has resided in Denver for several years and carries on a large contracting business in house building. He has taken a prominent part in entertaining the delegates. Denver Church History. The large Lutheran congregation of Denver was organized in 1878 with six charter members, of whom five were women. In the early days the organi zation bought a lot in i what is now near the center of Denver. Here a modest church was erected. Later this property was sold at a profit of over .$50,000 and the present beautiful struc ture was built at another place at a cost of $65,000. Dr. M. Wahlstrom, the former president of Gustavus Adol phus college, St. Peter, Minn., was the first pastor of the Denver church, and the oldtimers here yet remember his great work. This was in 1879 and 1880. Dr. J. Telleen, at present professor in the Lutheran seminary at Bed Wing, Minn., was pastor here from 1880 to 1883, during which the congregation had a steady growth in membership. Sunday was the great festive occa sion of the meeting. Sermons were preached in the morning by Bev. O. E. Piatt of Philadelphia and Dr. C. M. Esbjorn of Kingsbury, Cal. Twenty-one Ordained. In the afternoon twenty-one young men were ordained to the holy minis try. An impressive ordination address was delivered by the venerable presi dent of the synod, Dr. E. Norelius of Vasa, Minn. The names of the young Eastorbeeand 6inn. the places to which they ave assigned are: P. E. Bergstrom, St. Peter, Minn., to Maple Cheyenne, N. D. E. A. Lind en, Hallock, Minn., to Wheaton, O. M. Bloom, St. Peter, Minn., to Broshby. Tex. A. M. Green, Seattle, Wash., to New Orange. Mass.: Andrew Andre, Bock Island, 111., to Marquette, Mich. August Samuelson, Lafayette, Minn., to Camden Place, Minn. C. 0. Swan, Bock Island, 111., to Worthing ton, Minn. Joel Olsenius, Bock Island V. E. Holmstedt. Minneapolis, to Hutch inson, Kan. F. W. Hanson, Kansas City, to* Manson, Iowa B. O. Bersell, Bock Island, to Chicago: Hugo Thorene, Stillwater, Minn., to North Easton, Mass. A. H. Franzen, St. Paul, to Boise City, Idaho J. E. Oslund, Cokato, Minn., to Wallace, Idaho H. E. Sand stedt. Bock Island, to Scandia, Kan. The following persons, who have not taken a complete theological course, were granted ordination: H. Myren, to Newport, B. I. S. D. Hawkins, to Olympia, Wash.: O. Lindgren, to Alber ta. Can. A. J. Lawson, to Iron Biver, Wis. Olof Nordblad, to Washburn, Wis., and N. P. Sjogren, to Port Ar thur, Ontario. .tv*fe ot r,t. *?fffl BSE KHEALTH IK BUTTERMILK^! Chicago, June 18.Buttermilk la belnjr* con sumed in large quantities by Oblcagoans la miut rf b*tfa health. loan Tih ?.J Tbe Northwestern National's New Policies. BANKERS WILL THRONG TO STATE MEETING Between 400 and 500 bankers will at tend the annual convention, which opens Wednesday at Tonka Bay. Secretary Chapman already has received requests for 175 reservations at the hotel, and notices from 200 more bankers that they will be present. It promises to be the largest convention in the his tory of the Minnesota association. Two New York bankers arrived to day to get ready for the meeting and are at the lake. Harry Wilkinson, edi tor of the Chicago Banker, will arrive tomorrow morning to make his first visit to the northwest. He is a_per sonal friend of G. F. Orde of the First National and J. S. Pomeroy of the Security banks, and will be introduced properly. The Northwestern National Life Insurance Company presents Its new policies as .the foremost exponent of what Is best in life Insurance. These policies are modeled after the standard contracts recently adopted by the New York legislature. They embody all worthy recommendations resulting from the recent life insurance Investigation. The Company's policies Include In a limitedv number of forms all that Is desirable in life insurance. They are submitted to the Insurance public In concise and unmistakable language, as fixing the standard for insurance simplicity, liberality, directness and freedom from restrictions and technicalities. All policies provide for an annual accounting after the third year, and give the insured a choice of five different ways of ap plying his annual dividends, covering all the options advised in the" Armstrong legislation, and one attractive option In addition. The Company's dividend plan will rank as the most complete and ex- haustive plan of annual accounting and distribution of dividends offered on the insurance market. All policies are automatically non-forfeitable after three full premiums have been paid They contain as surrender value con cessions, besides the non-forfeitable provision for a paid-up policy, options for extending the insurance. Cash loans on the policies may be obtained as early as the end of the second year. A grace of thirty days is allowed on the payment of every pre mium after the first. The policies provide a simple method of designating a benefici ary to be either revocable or irrevocable. In making a beneficiary irrevocable, under this Company's policies, no question can arise as to the rights of any creditor by reason of a change of beneficiary privilege being construed to make a policy part of an estate. Where a beneficiary named is designated as revocable, change of beneficiary can be effected at any time by application to the Com pany, provided the .policy is not assigned. The policies are absolutely free of conditions as to residence, occupation or travel. No extra premium is required for military or naval service In tune of war or peace After one year the policy is absolutely Incontestable except for non-payment of premiums. In paying claims under the policies the Company grants bene ficiaries choice of the three methods of settlement recommended by the Armstrong Committee. First. The beneficiary can allow the money to remain with the Company at interest at 8% per cent, and have the original sum payable to the beneficiary's legal representative or assigns. Second. The Compariy will pay the claim In equal annual in- stallments at the beginning of each year for a period of ten, fif- teen or twenty years, and for the amounts written in the policies under the option. Third. The Company will pay a fixed installment at the end of each year, for a period of twenty years, and as many years longer as the beneficiary shall survive, for the amounts set forth in the contract. The beneficiary may, in place of any of these options, have the full amount due under the policy paid immediately upon accept ance of satisfactory proofs of the death of the Insured The Immediate payment of claims Is another feature of the Company's policies. Besides giving in simple language the terms and conditions of the insurance,Pa-W-uP the Company plainlydprints indits policies a table iew,several MYSTERY IN DROWNING OF ST. PAUL MEN Two men were drowned in lakes near St. Paul yesterday, and one of the deaths may furnish the police and cor oner with a mystery. John Swenson and his friend Swan Oak were taking an outing at Lake Gervais when, according to Oak's story, both fell asleep. On awakening Oak missed Swenson and after a short search found his companion 'B dead body in two feet of water near the shore. Oak did not report the matter to the coroner, but told Swenson'B wife of the accident and then disappeared and could not be found by the St. Paul police last night. Coroner Miller is in vestigating^ Swenson lived at 636 Pine street, St. Paul. The other victim was Charles Abisch, 1Q6 Jessamine street. He went to Lake Phalen early in the afternoon with his brother, and after spending some time fishing, started to wash their canoe. While working he slipped from the bank into the lake. He sank out of sight almost immediately. His brother ran for help, but when the body was recovered there were no signs of life. EXCELSIOR MEN ARE RUN DOWN BY ADTO Dr. H. C. Arey of Excelsior and F. J. Stoddard of Christmas Lake were badly^ bruised in an automobile acci dent in Excelsior yesterday. The two men were driving thru the village in a buggy when an auto came up behind them. They started to turn to one side of the road when the auto crashed into them, overturning the bug gy and throwing the occupants to the ground. They say the auto carried the number 416 and was occupied by a man, a boy and two women. The chauffeur did not stop to take note of the dam age done. Neither Dr. Arey nor Mr. Stoddard was seriously injured, but the bufTRy *as smashed beyond repair. insurance an extende insurance values available under each contract. Figures also appear which exhibit the various settlement options, whereby instead of one sum nay able at the death of the insured, payment may be had by accenting one of the installment privileges. Northwestern National policies are designed to be th* most liberal, most up-to-date, and simplest forms of contract on the market. By their unmistakable terms they satisfy the holder and make sure provision for support and comfort in later life or for the care of loved ones in the event of death. NO REFUGE IN STATE FOR TAX DELINQUENTS Delinquent personal property taxpayers who have moved out of the couaty in which their tax was levied are, under the new code, no longer safe from prosecu tion. In the new laws it is provided that It shall be the duty of the auditor of the county in which a delinquent tax is re corded to notify the clerk of court of the county in which the taxpayer lives and tre cle'k shell then furnish a warrant to tne sheriff, who in turn must serve it and levy upon the property owner's goods the same as if the tax was due In his own county. Clerk of Courts A. E. Allen has recently received two statements frfwn Kasdiyohi county and warrants are now being pre pared for former residents of the western county. Others will undoubtedly come in and County Auditor Hugh R. Scott Is pre paring to return the compliment and make possible the collection of delinquent taxes standing against former residents ot Hen nepin county. FIRE BURNS GABS Elevators in Southeast Minneapolis Threatened by Blaze. Fire broke out in a string of freight cars in the Great Northern yards near Nineteenth avenue^E, early this morn ing, and for a time Threatened to spread to the large elevators in the district. The fire was discovered shortly aftcg midnight and the firemen had to lay more than a thousand feet of hose be fore water could be thrown. Yardmen took away several of /the cars, and as soon as the water was thrown on the others the fire was controlled. Octave Mongeon, a lad of 16, lost his left arm last night by falling under a Jackson-street car in St. Paul. He was standing on the side of an open car and lost his balance while changing position. The wheels passed over his arm and crushed it so badly that amputation was necessary. 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June 16. 1906 Information has been received at this depart ment from Mr. Arnold Shanklin, American con sal general at Panama, Panama, of the death oo the 11th of Mar, 1906, at Ancon Canal Zone, of Darld Patton, an American 1tlxen The legal representatives of tbe deceased can obtain further Information by applying to this department. Per dispatch No. 85. Dated May 14. 1906.