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I 1 I 6 VOLUME 3. NUMBEK 141. One lot Douglas1 VICTORY 'FOrt "GOVERNMENT. Paper Trust Must Answer Questions and Produce Books. fit. Paul, Oct. .The paper trust pas routed in the federal court here, kt the close of elaborate arguments the respective counsel Judge Van pevanter, in an oral decision, ruled kvorably to the government on every proposition. The meaning of the tourt's decision is that defendants' fitnesses must answer questions put them by government's counsel and produce for inspection all books, pa pers and documents bearing on the subject at issue. The decision has a wider sig lificance than its mere relation to the lase at bar, important as that is. As ibout every possible point was urged the opposition in the paper case hat can be raised in any of the trust lases, a number of which are now be fore the federal courts, the ruling of Judge Van Devanter, in every instance iavorable to the government, will af tord a signboard for the guidance of Uigants in similar proceedings. SMALLER OFFICES SIGN. Itr iking Twin City Job Printers Gain Partial Victory. St. Paul, Oct. 6Twenty-four of the imaller job printing establishments of ibis city have signed the eight-hour tgreement submitted by the Typo graphical union and the men em* lloyed in the shops signing have re timed to work. No member of the Typothetae has signed the agreement tad the officers of that organization leclare the fight will be continued to be bitter end. Several of the best tonunion workmen imported to take he places of strikers have been won trer to the union and have deserted heir employers. In Minneapolis the situation is prac Ically the same as in this city, many f the smaller shops signing the igreement. YOUNG CUtoAMV DENIES STORY. Net a Word of Truth in Pat Crowe's Confession. Omaha, Oct. 5.Eddie Cudahy abso lutely denies the truth of the report from Butte of a confession which Pat Crowe is said to have made which Implicates young Cudahy in the kid napping scheme. He gave out the fol lowing interview: "There is not a single word of truth In the statement that I had anything to do either with the planning or the carrying out of the scheme other than I was the victim of the plot. "Again, I was only fifteen years old at that time and if I could plan like ihat I must have been a perfect won der. And, being so young, how on earth would I have gotten rid of the |6,000 without my people knowing it? "I deny the truthfulness of 'the en tire statement." -\.in?al^*iliaZ'm?*- SHOE BARGAINS We have too many Children's Shoes been buying from too many factories going to close one line out every pair will be sold at a little less than we paid for them. Children's Children's Children's Children's Children's J^JMSXti- $2.50 Shoes $1.88 $2.00 Shoes $1.50 1.85 Shoes $1.39 1.75 Shoes $1.32 $ 1.40 Shoes $1.05 One lot Ladies' Shoes worth up to $2.00 at $1.19 $4.00 and $5.00- Shoes at $3.25 One lot Drivers' worth $3.50 to $5.00 at $2.98 O'LEARY & BOWSER IS ANXIOUS TO TALK. New York Bond Thief Apparently Proud of His Work. New York, Oct. 5.The detectives and the police have satisfied them selves that Harry Leonard, the young man who did the National City bank nut of $359,080 worth of securities by means of a forged check, had no ac complices. They announce that all the evidence to convict young Leonard has been obtained and that the case is closed. In court Leonard semed eager to talk concerning himself, but the po lice would not let him. Once the re porters surrounded him successfully and he got launched in the story be fore the police shut him up. "I've been making a study of banft ing and banking methods," he began, "ever since I've been down in the street. A month ago I wrote an article for a Wall street publication showing up the carelessness of the messenger service down there. I liked the article so well that I decided to demonstrate the thing and make a name for myself." At this point he was interrupted by Officers. INCONSISTENCY OF RATES. Interesting Testimony of Chicago Com mission Dealem, Chicago, Oct. 6.Lively interest was evoked by W. S. Taskar of Chi cago, a live stock commission dealer and cattle feeder, who testified be fore the interstate commerce commis sion regarding freight rates on live stock and live stock products from Missouri river points to Chicago. As an illustration of the alleged incon sistency of the rates charged by rail roads Taskar testified that on one oc casion he shipped a herd of cattle from points in Northwestern Wiscon sin to Chicago by way of South St. Paul at a much less freight rate than he could have shipped the live stock direct to Chicago. The tariff from the points where he shipped in Wiscon sin to Chicago was 25 cents a hun dred. By shipping to South St. Paul and thence to Chicago he was able to obtain a rate of 15%. cents per 100 pounds, although the distance of the commodity had to be transported was about 300 miles farther than by the direct route. Taggart Reports for Duty. Columbus, O., Oct. 5.Captain E. P. Taggart, whose divorce case in Wooster attracted the attention of the entire country for weeks, arrived at the Columbus barracks during the day and promptly reported for duty. He firmly declined to talk in any way of the divorce proceedings or of the probable final outcome of the trouble. Pittsburg, Oct. 5.The Standard Oil company has again advanced the price of Pennsylvania and Tiona oil 5 cents. The other grades of oil were not chanced*- 1. i&S LIBERTY DEAD IN CUBA. Defeated Candidate for President In* terviewed at New York. New York, Oct. 5"Liberty is dead in Cuba and the condition of affairs there is worse than it ever was, un der Spanish rule, even in the most ferocious periods of the Weyler gov ernment. Financial ruhi and dishonor face the people and if things continue as they are the nation will be con verted into one of hereditary rule." The above declaration was made by General Jose Miguel Gome2, governor of the province of Santa Clara and candidate of the Liberal party for the presidency of Ouba, at the New Am sterdam hotel, where he is stopping. Upon his arrival on the steamship Monterey from Havana General Go mez refused to discuss Cuban affairs at length, but after he had rested at his hotel he was mere communicative. "I am here to rest for some days," he continued, "and to breathe the air of liberty that is lacking in my own country and for which I have fOUgJbt so long. "'f' "On false charges the government assassinates the Liberals, the jails are filled with political prisoners &d we have no hope of justice from judges and magistrates who recognize no law hut the will of the government We are hindered in casting our votes and Cuba is now suffering a reign of terror never equaled under -Spanish tyranny. It was such things as these that made us withdraw from the ejec tions. Public funds are used for elec toral purposes. The sanitary condition of the island is a disgrace. The Cu ban government has employed thou sands of men in the sanitary depart ment, but for voting not for working purposes." FALLS FROM OPEN WINDOW. Cashier of New York Bank Meets Tragic Death. New York, Oct. 5.Notwithstanding a desperate struggle of his wife and son to hold him by the feet after he had fainted and toppled over the sill of an open vindow George F. Krapp, cashier of the Cooper Exchange bank, fell to the street from the fourth floor of his home and* was killed. Mrs. Krapp and her son Herbert saw Mr. Krapp, who was in ill health, suddenly fall over backwards. Both mother and son jumped to the win dow in time to seize the falling man by the feet. They held him safely for a few seconds, screaming for help, but' the assistance was slow in coming and Mr. Krapp's weight began to slip away from his rescuers. The realiza tion of this terrible fact caused the wife's strength to desert her com pletely and the son, with his mother helpless at his side and compelled to hold his father alone, was* too light for his father's superior weight. Ex hausted and on the point of being dragged over the window sill himself the boy lost his grip and Mr. Krapp fell to the street. He died soon after wards. MINISTER UNDER ARREST. Accused of Attempted Train Wrecking in Hope of Reward. Princeton, Ind., Oct. 5.Rev. W. H. Brooks is in jail on a charge of at tempted train wrecking. Tuesday he rushed into the station of the Evans ville and Terre Haute railroad and told the officers that he had been cap tured by two men during the night and forced to assist them in putting an obstruction on the track, bis cap tors discussing the robbery of the pas sengers while they worked. When taken to the scene the minister be came confused under questions and the officers soon were convinced that he had placed the crossties and rails on the track unassisted and had told the story in the hope of getting a re ward. FIFTEEN PERSONS INJURED. Three Coaches Derailed While Going Around a Curve. Connellsville, Pa., Oct. 5.The Fair mount express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was wrecked during the morning near Morgantown, W. Va. Three coaches, including the baggage car, ladies' ceach and a Pullman chair car, left the rails on a curve and tum bled over the bank to the edge of the Monongahela river. Fifteen to eight een persons were injured, five of them seriously. DEFERS FINAL DECISION. Great Britain Replies to Invitation to Peace Conference. London, Oct. 5.Foreign Secretary Lansdowne during the day replied to the Russian invitation to Great Brit ain to be represented at a second peace conference at The Hague, ac cepting it in principle but deferring final decision until more fully in formed regarding the questions pro posed to be discussed and the scope of the conference. Would End Epidemic of Crime. Des Moines, Oct. 5.In an effort to put a stop to the epidemic of crime which has been a source of terror to Des Moines all summer Judge McVey has sentenced Alonzo Watson to prison for twelve years for highway robbery. i%y'. r\Ji^ 15J^ 45k-.^-i feJ^-v SBJ ^w ftV 1 3EMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1905. 1 A^r^j*'?^'1.^^ EMPEROR WILL SIGN APANE3E PRIVY COUNCIL AP- PROVES TREATY OF PEACE WITH RUSSIA. FORM OF RATIFICATION DISCUSSED MINISTERS OF ,THE TWO COUN- TRIES IN CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTON. Tokio, Oct. 5.A prolonged meet ing of the privy council was held here during the day, extending into the aft ernoon. At the conclusion it was announced that the peace treaty had been ap proved. ^The treaty will be immediately rati fied by the emperor. An order, abrogating martial law at Sasebo, Nagasaki, Tasushlma and Hakodate was passed by the privy council. DISCUSS FORM OF RATIFICATION. Russia and Japan Resume Diplomatic Relations. Washington, Oct. 5.Diplomatic re lations between Russia and "Japan were resumed at the state department during the day while Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador, and Mr. Taka hira, the Japanese minister, discussed thy forms of ratification of their re spective countries. The call was made by appointment at the request of Mr. Takahira, who desired to see the Rus sian form of ratification. Accordingly Secretary Root sent for Mr. Smith, chief of. the diplomatic bureau of the state department, who brought to the diplomatic room a copy of a Russian extradition treaty, which gave Mr. Takahira the information he desired. The envoys remained for a few min utes in conversation with Secretary Root and then left the department without further exchanges. They bowed pleasantly as they parted out aide the diplomatic room. It would seem certain from this that ratifications of the peace treaty are to be exchanged at Washington. As soon as the date of the ex change of these ratifications has been agreed upon special plenary powers will be cabled to Baron Rosen and Mr. Takahira by their respective em perors. The exact form which these powers shall take was diseussed at the day's conference, both envoys be ing anxious that there should be no difference on that subject. The plen ary powers will be indentic. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Russia Agrees to the Japanese Propo sition. St. Petersburg, Oct. 5.Russia has agreed to the Japanese proposition to exchange prisoners of war, whereby 1,866 Japanese prisoners in Russia will be delivered at some point on the western frontier of Russia and 64,000 Russians will be delivered at the ports of Kobe, Nagasaki and Yoko hama, whence they will be conveyed to Vladivostok in ten Russian trans ports now interned at Shanghai and Saigon and two or three other ships which are being sent from Odessa. The American .charge d'affaires, Spencer Eddy, is endeavoring to make special and more speedy arrange ments for the release of 250 sick Japa nese, for whom it is hoped Japan may send a ship direct to the Baltic. KING WANTED SPEEDILY. Norwegian Commercial and Industrial Interests Favor Monarchy. Christiania, Oct. 5.Attempts to create agitation in favor of a Nor wegian republic are finding no support from the country. At an important meeting of repre sentatives of commercial and ship ping interests it was unanimously re solved to present an address to the storthing declaring that the submis sion .of the subject of a change in the constitution to the plebiscite would greatly injure the country's economic interests. An address was drawn up asking the storthing to insure tranquillity by the speedy election of a king. SAILS FOR HOME OCT. 13. Miss Roosevelt to Devote Interim to Sightseeing in Japan. Yokohama, Oct. 5. Miss Alice Roosevelt and her party arrived here during the day on the steamer Minne sota from Shimonoseki. Miss Roose velt was received, by the American minister, the American, consul, the im perial master of the ceremonies and the governor, but declined any for malities. She will go sightseeing into the interior until Oct. 13, when the party headed by E. H. Harriman and Miss Roosevelt's party will leave Yo kohama for San Francisco on the steamer Siberia. m* DEFECTIVE PAGE tr^^^rf|F|r^f-^i^^^r^f ^^^^s^^S'p"-fH?l^^r it'S"i| T*Tt**J (J GERMANS GET COAL STATION. Small Island of Danish West Indies v% Bought by Steamship Line. Chicago, '*0bt. 6.The Tribune's Washington correspondent says: Con siderable concern has been caused the administration as a result of the ac tion of the Hamburg-American Steam ship company in purchasing Water Inland, a small key which commands Ihe Danish West Indies, for use as a eoaling station. Advices' to the' state department, IRrhich have been furnished by Consul Payne, who is stationed at St. Thomas, intimate that the purchase was ef fected through collusion between the German and Danish governments. The Anxiety of the authorities arises not only from this fact, but from the fur ther fact that the Hamburg-American company is subxentioned ty the Ger man government Its steamers are Available in time of war for use as auxiliary cruisers and its coaling sta tions may be utilized by the German government in order to carry on hos tile operations. The dispatch from Consul Payne was referred,, upon its receipt, to the navy department and is believed to have been sent to the general board, though this could not be confirmed. From what experts of the navy-said, however, it developed that the general sentiment Is that it would be against the interests of the United States to permit the consummation of the project of the Hamburg-American company. DEFENDS ROCKEFELLER. Chieago Millionaire Philanthropist In- C'"%I..'-.':' Z:'' terviewed. ^.--v"' Chicago, Oct. 6.T would rather be John D. Rockefeller today, divested of his wealth and with his lovable per sonality, than any of the crew, saints or sinners, who are attacking him." The foregoing is a quotation from an interview with Dr. D. K. Pearson, a Chicago millionaire, nationally known as a philanthropist. "To the popular mind," continued Mr. Pearson, "excited just now by socialistic outcries, there is no wealth that is untainted. This cry of 'tainted money' is no jest. It is unfair and un-American. It has become the rally ing cry of the socialists and the drone and the discontented member of so ciety, who hates those whose talents er wealth exceed his own." Mr. Pearson, after talking in this strain with vigor for some time, showed a recent letter which he had received from Mr. Rockefeller. Divest ed of personal items it concluded: & "Thank you for yeur kind words, good friend I appreciate them. Life is short and you and I have too much to do in the world to be diverted from our purpose to try and make things better. Let us keep right on and do our best in our day and generation, rejoicing in the beautiful sentiment expressed by our lamented Lincoln, 'with malice toward none and charity for all.'" NO FURTHER ALARM FELT. Yellow FeveV Situation Continues to Improve. New Orleans, Oct. 5.To business men the most encouraging feature of the yellow fever situation is the* dis position that is being manifested by parishes and towns in Louisiana to raise their quarantines about Oct. 13 In harmony with the suggestion of Dr. White and President Souchon. It is another day of gloomy weather, with light showers, but the fever situation has lost whatever alarming feature it may have possessed. For the fifth day there has not been a single case reported from the originally infected region and for several days no deaths have occurred in the Emergency hos pital, while the cases under treatment there have dropped to thirty-eight and nearly all the patients are doing well. Above Canal street old cases are re covering more numerously than new ones are being reported. The Louisiana state university, it is announced, will open Nov. 1. The various departments of Tulane uni versity will' open about the same time. The public schools in many parts of Louisiana are already in operation. PROBABLY' *FA"tALLY~ HURT. Mayor Roach of Minot, N. D., Injured by Runaway. Minot, N. D., Oct. 5.Mayor Joseph loach was seriously, if not fatally, ajured in a runaway accident. While itanding near the Roach elevator he ras struck by a runaway team and irushed under the weight of a heavily oaded farm wagon. The mayor was licked up in an unconscious condition md taken to his residence. Mr. Roach is president of the Sec tid National bank of Minot, a member tf the state Republican central com mittee, chairman of the county com aittee and one of the wealthiest men a this section of the state. 1 Endorse Roosevelt's Position. Philadelphia, Oct. 5.The conven fon of the National Carriage Build trs' association has adopted the re tort of Daniel T. Wilson, chairman of fee executive committee, denouncing liscriminating freight rates and sup porting President Roosevelt in his nove for the establishment of a tribunal to deal with the subject. TEN GENTS PEB WEEK PRESIDENT IN EARNEST 'I',' %W'Z ,VJ*e* DETERMINED TO SECURE LEGIS- LATION FOR REGULATION ft OF FREIGHT RATES^ ''ii& CONFERENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE SUBJECT DISCUSSED BY EXECU- TIVE AND TH E AUTHOR OF HOUSE MEASURE. ct7.. -ip g" Washington, Oct. 5."President Roosevelt is dead in earnest on the subject of railroad rate legislation and' is just as determined. as ever that legislative regulations shaU be enact ed looking to federal supervision of the freight nrte sanation." This statement was mad by Bep resentative Tbwnsend Of attslrt^ta, one of the authors of tne so-ooiled Bsch-Townsend railsoad sate biM which passed the house of isyreseata tives last winter, after a eonlweoce with President Roosevelt. The con ference was the i most interesting and important held during the day at the White House. The president has taken p the subject of railroad freight rates with an earnest desire to reach such a conclusion as will be satisfactory generally, but he adheres to the principle embodied in the legis lation proposed at the last session of congress. Representative Townsend called to talk over the general subject with.the president, and of the necessity, for the making of changes in the measure which he and Mr. E6ch proposed last winter. Mr. Esch notified the presi dent that he could not be here at this, time, but that Mr. Townsend and he were in utter accord. Mr. Townsend did not have opportunity to go fully into the subject with the president, but the president requested him to call again. Roosevelt's Feeition Unchanged, -s* "I have no authority, to represent the president's views as to railroad rates," said Mr. Townsend, "bat I can. say that he entertains now the same Views in principle as he expressed in his message last December. He be lieves that to either the interstate commerce commission or to some other body ought to be given the au thority to adjust rates found to be unreasonable. The erux of the whole matter is not that the commission should nx rates, but that it should have the power to substitute a reason able rate for one found on investiga tion to be unjust. Without such au thority the evils complained of could not be reached." "Have any suggestions been made of changes in the Esch-Townsend bill?" "Some changes may be made," re plied Mr. Townsend, "but they will be for the purpose of making th* bill clearer on certain points. It is in tended, of course, to inolude in the bill regulation of private cars, refrig erator cars and terminal charges. We thought they were covered by our measure, but in order that there will be no question about them they will be/included in the bill in a definite way. One thing is quite certain there will be no narrowing of the scope of the billno modification of the principles involved. The interest of both the shippers and the railroads are to.be subserved'. Nobody wants to do an injustice to the transporta tion lines and the bill agreed upon will not be unfair to the railroads." METCALF 18 SURPRI8ED. His Department Held Responsible for Chinese Boycott. Washington, Oct. 5.Strong protest will be made by Secretary Metcalf of the department of commerce and la bor against any modification by the state department of its circular of June 6 directing the American consuls in China personally to inquire into the truth of statements in Chinese certifi cates before signing them. The in structions referred to have become known as the "president's circular" in that it was issued by his direction fol lowing the boycott established by China against the importation of American goods. It was the principal subject of discussion at Tuesday's cabinet meeting, which Secretary Met calf was unable to attend on account of illness. He expressed great sur prise on learning that in his absence the cabinet members took the position that the regulations of the depart ment of commerce and labor were re sponsible for the strained relations between the two countries to a great er degree than are the laws them selves. Berlin Street Cars Running. Berlin, Oct. 5.All the street carsr%, are running, the strike of the elec trical workers being unable to stop work at the powerhouses. 1 '-.J^'l&Mf '& KW %K