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Professor Herbert W Munford of Illinois is quoted in the following1 short but pithy comment ®n the Internation al: '•It is at the International that breed ers and buyers mingle to mutual ad vantage. The breeder becomes better informed as to approved market types, and thus the International becomes a potent factor in giving direction to the breeders' efforts toward live stock im provement." Low rates over the North-Western Line from all points west will be an nounced soon. The Pactficfltorthwest. A complete and interesting presen tation of the scenic beauty and the rich natural resources and rapid growth of the Pacific Northwest are set forth in a beautifully illuatrated booklet recently issued by the Chicago & North-Western fl'y., which will be sent to any address '"on rcverpt of 4 cents in stamps. The Lewis and Clark Exposition with the very low excursion rates and personally conducted tours in con nection therewith over The North Western Line from Chicago and the east have created an interest in this subject never before equaled. Fo full particulars address W Kniskern, P. T. M.. 215 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. 50 YEARS* EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communica tions strictlyconfidential. HANDBOOK on Patents seat free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the cietttific American. A. handsomely illustrated weeklv. Largest cir culation of any scientific 'journal. Terms, $3 a year four months, $L Sold by all newsdealers. & CoP36,Broadwav- New York Prsach Office. St, Washington. I. C. Rates To Pacific Coast Cut $15.00. Commencing September 15th, the Minneapolis & St. Louis will have on sale daily one way tickets to Sa Francisco, Los Angeles, Portlan and other points in the West and North west. Rates $1S.00 below ordinary fare. Through tourist cars to Cali fornia twice a weak. Call on ageats for full particulars, or address A. Cutts, G. & T. A. Minneapolis, Minn. An Only Daughter Cured of Consumption. Whe death, was hourly expected, all remedies haviag 1 •& failed, and Dr. H. James was experimenting with the many herbs of Qalcutta, he accident ally made a preparation which cured his only child of cunsumption. His child is now in this country, and en joying the best of health. He has proved to the world that Consumption can be positively and permanently cured. The Doctor now gives this recipe free, for *wo 2-cent stamps to pay expenses. 'This herb also cures Night Sweats, Nausea at the Stomach and will break up a fresh cold in twentv-four hoars. Address CRAD DOCK & CO., 1032, Race St., Phila elphia, naming this paper. BURNED10DEATJ AT S i. PAUL THOS. COALY MS1T DEATH IN IN A VACANT RO DM. I is Supposed th* Fire was Started by Dropp a Lighte Ci- ga A Rubbish. St. Paul, Jan. 15 —Thomas Conley, who came to St Haul ten years ago from Decorah, Iowa, was burned to death in a fire which smarted at ove the saloon of Charles Hi Her, 153 West Third street, at 11:30 last night. It is not known how the fire started, but it is thought that it was caused by a lighted cigar. Mr. Conley had been drinking in the saloon of Charles Hiller, who also comes from Decorah, Iowa, and about 10:30 o'olock George Bitter and Frank Smith took Conley to a room above the saloon, which is used by the Army and Navy Union for regular meetings and social sessions. They say that he ap parently was sleeping when they left the halL An hour later flames were seen bursting from the windows in the sec ond story of the building. Capt. Wm. Hanft of the central police station sent in an alarm of fire The body of Thomas Conly was found by members of the fire insur ance patrol who were cleaning UD the debris. The body was identified by Charles Hiller, the proprietor of the saloon Patrolman Smith called Cor ones Miller, who had the remains sent to the morgue. Thomas Conley was thirty-eight years old and unmarried. He was a railway freight engineer in Iowa and came to St. Paui ten years ago. He had been employed recently by the un ion depot company sweeping snow from the platforms. His father and and mother live in Decorah, Iowa The building is owned by the Ilatnm Brewing company and is damaged to the extent of $200. The adjoining building, owned by Mrs. Mary Burke, was damaged to the extent of $100. Both losses are covered by insurance. Mr. Hiller says his loss is trifling-. BEATEN FOR $19. Complaint is Made Tha Assailants Compelled Victim to Give The an Order on Bank. Minot, N Ja 15 —Beaten un mercifully and threatened with instant death by two neighbors unless he signed a check for §19 is the substance of a complant made by Phillip Glunt, a farmer living five miles north of Bertnold, to State's Attorney George McGee. Glunt, who is a man of sixty vears, claims that two brothers named Farley came to his farm and tried to compel him to give them an order on a Berthold bank for $19, which they claimed he owed them. Glunt denied that he owed them any thing and refill to sign the check. Then, according to his story, they took Ivm into the barn and beat him unmer fully and threatened to kill him un ions he complied with their demands. Glunt Sx.y^ lie believes the men inten eil to cat ry out their their threats, inl '-o at last he signed the order, but wrote on it that it was signed under ID ess. Glunt hitchei up his team as soon as he was able and drove to the bank to stop i\meot on the cheek, but found that it had been paid Missing Man. St. Cloud, Minn., Jan 15 —James R. Bennett, city attorney for St Cloud and one of the most prominent law yers of this part of the state, has dis appeared and nothing has been heard fiom him sinee last Tuesday. Bennett was last seen in Minneapo lis, the night before the West noted fire. It was feared he had perished in the fire. Telephone communications with the West Hotel have been kept up and no record of Bennett was found. Detectives of Minneapolis and St. Paul are at work searching for the mis sing man. Bennet was a member of the firm of Calhoun & Bennett. He leaves a wife and family here. It was found that Mr. Bennett went to Milwaukee and was all safe. Slept in Danga La Crosse, Wis., Jan 15.—While every resident calmly slept, an early Sunday morning fire threatened to wipe out Tunnel City, Wis Passen gers waiting for a train at Tomah, five miles away, noticed the illumina tion, and word of the fire was sent to the burning- town by the railroad telegraph operator. Electrocuted. New York, Jan. 15 —Two persons met death in the storm which swept over New York and New Jersey yes terday. Both were electrocuted by fallen electric wires. No Opsn. Omaha, Neb. Jan. 15 —According to the police repDrts the "lid" was down tight in Omaha yesterday for the first time in many years, not one of the 245 saloons being open. N a Frozen. Rochester, Minn., Jan. 13 .-James Fitzmaurice of Waterbury, Conn,, who has been visiting his uncle, four miles east of here, became suddenly de mented, and wandered away into the night but lightly clad to withstand the prevailing zero weather. He doubt less would have frozen to death had not the barking of a dog at the Big low farm aroused Mr. Biglow, who und the younsr man wandering about in th-» yard in a dazed, half-frozen con dition He was taken care of and committed to the asylum. A Clean Sweep. St. Paul.—Governor Johnson has made a e'ean sweep with the state bo^rd of equ-il ition One-half of members of the board go out this vear and the gov ernor announced their successors The only one of the nine retained is W. Hodges of feleepy Eve, a democratic editor whom Governor Joh'nson select ed last fall to fill a vacancy. The appointments are as fo'lows: First judicial district. John Heinen, banker, of Hastings, succeeding F. Johnson of Cannon Falls. Third district, A. French, farmer, of Plainview, succeeding J. G. Law rence of Wabasha. Fifth district, William Gausewitz, druggist, of Owatonna, succeeding Captain G. Nelson of Owatonna. Seventh district, E Vasaly, edi tor, of Little Falls, succeeding C. Sprague, of Sauk Center, chairman of the board and a probable candidate for lieutenant governor. Ninth district, W. Hodges, Sleepy Eve, reappointed. Eleventh district, Henry Nolte, real estate, Duluth, succeeding E Cooley of Duluth. Thirteenth district, Samuel Nelson, merchant, Luverne, succeeding A. H. Fowler of Fulda, Fifteenth district, Con O'Brien of Brainard wholesale merchant and lumberman, succeeding George W. Knox, Aitkin. Seventeenth district, Fred B. Brown, banker and former secretary of state, Blue Eearth City. Mr. Brown is the only republican in the list* The board as it now stands has only three republicans out of twen ty one. Will Meet the Trust. Stillwater —The state board of con trol and Warden Wolfer of the peni tentiary are readv to meet the compe tition of the binding twine trust, which is about to start a flax twine plant in St Paul, and run the prison twine plant out of business by under selling it in the state. If the trust plant cuts into the mar ket for prison twine, the state will carry the war outside, and force the trust to meet competition in the sur rounding states. Under the present law, the prison authorities may go outside the state to sell any of the products left on hand after July 1. That is late in the day to sell twine, but if the state has any trouble next season in disposing of its ou'put, the legislature will be asked to change the law so the state can go outside and sell the prison output any time after May 1. That would give the trust some trouble, The present plan is to break the market only in Minnesota, in order to kill off the prison plant. The trust is not looking for competition all over the northwest. Freigh Shipments. Minneapolis.—Minneapolis freight shipments and receipts for the year just passed show up well with the ad vances made by the city in every other line. The advance in total carlots re ceived in 1905 is about 1,500 cars The advance in shipments, however, is much greater—12,000 carts. Tli IM were 106,471 ears of wheat re ceived and 24,635 shipped. There were 15,154,187 barrels of flour shipped out. Timber filled 21,309 cars To keep people warm there were 627,775 cars of coal received. Wool shipments amount to 1,873,984 pounds. Of merchand se there were 418,371, 538 pounds received and 753,947,723 shipped. Minneapolis—Brewers, saloonkeepers and tabacco manufacturers of this city paid $397,260.95 into the United States treasury through the medium of the stamp tax in 1905. Of this sum, $28, 000 was derived from the federal li cense tax imposed on all retail liquor dealers. The value of the beer, cigar, tobacco and snuff stamps sold in the course of the year amounted to $369, 260 9", which was $4 843 83 more than the stamp sales for 1904. New Notes. Crookston—Attorney General Young has secured the settlement of a timber trespass claim against the Crookston Lumber company. The state receiving $2,795 68. Stillwater—The farmers of Washing ton county living in the vicinity of Withrow have arranged to hold a farmer's institute at Withrow Jan. 26. St. Peter—Fire broke out in the dry ing room at the St. Peter furniture factory, and damaged the plant to the extent of $15,000 St. Paul—A Christmass tree caught fire in the home of H. P. Miller, and caused a loss of $300. Winona—The river was dragged for the body of Joseph P. Page, who it is believed drowned himself on Christmas eve. St. Cloud—For the first time in twen ty years the St. Cloud saloons were all closed on Sunday. The lid went on at midnight Saturdav, and the- orders of the mayor were obeyed to the letter. The police reported that all saloons were closed. Hamline—About 800 cars of Red ce dar shingles are piled up at the Min nesota Transfer, exposed to the ele ments and now covered by several inches of snow. Some of the shingles have been piled up on the ground for weeks and they are likely to remain so for some time yet. Mankato Bernhard Meyer, aged ninety-four years, fell dead from heart failure and asthma when he arose at St Joseph's hosoital, where he was spending his last days He was the last survivor of his own family, al though he leaves several grandchil dren. DEFECTIVE PAGE DR. W I I A B. A E PRESI DENT OP UNIVERSIT OF CHI CAGO, PASSES AWAY Had Long Been a Sufferer—Building' "Up of the Great Institution of Which Was the Head Wa Crowning Work of His Useful Life. Chicago, Jan. 11.—William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, died Wednesday afternoon. About a year ago Dr. Harper was taken to the Presbyterian hospital for an op eration for appendicitis. When the incisions were made it was found that he was suffering from carcinoma (cancer of the intestines). He ral lied from the operation and recovered to a sufficient extent to partially re sume his university work. Among his visits out of town were one to John D. Rockefeller's, at Lakeland, N J., one to Mr. Rockefeller, at Cincinnati, and a third to Battle Creek. Mich. From the last named point he re turned early in September with the announcement that he felt so much improved that he would resume his regular work at the university. This he never did, however, and all through the fall and winter it was apparent to his friends that he was slowly grow ing weaker and that the chances of his recovery were remote. His death closes a career of educa tion in which the University of Chi cago was his crowning work. Student and Educator. Dr. Harper was born in the little Ohio town of New Concord, Muskin gum county, July 26. 1856, the son of Samuel and Ellen Elizabeth (nee Rai ney) Harper He entered the United Presbyterian college when eight years of age and upon his graduation from that institution at the age of 14 deliv ered an oration in the Hebrew lan guage. After three years' study at home he became a student of philology under Prof. William Dwight Whitney at Yale university, and in 1875, at the age of 19, received the degree of doc tor of philosophy and immediately was elected principal of the Masonic col lege at Macon. Tenn. He left this po sition a year later to become a tutor in the preparatory department of Den nison university at Granville, O., where his devotion to work and his ability to arouse interest in his students led to his selection as principal of the de partment of this institution that was known as the Granville academy. The president of Dennison university at this time was Dr. E. Benjamin An drews, now president of the University of Nebiaska. Drs. Andrews and Har per worked harmoniously and became lifplong friends It was the recom mendation of Dr Andrews that se cured for Dr. Harper appointment as professor of Hebrew and the cognate languages in the Baptist Union Theo logical seminary at Morgan Park, 111., A\hich position he held from 1879 to 1886. Dr. Harper had previously united x\ith the Baptist church while at Gran ville. In his new position at Morgan Park Dr Harper devoted his attention to instruction in Hebrew by the corre spondence system and also to the in ductive method of teaching languages and in his later career he never aban doned these two things. In 1891 he was chosen president of the new Uni versity of Chicago, to be founded the following year. From the first, with only a $2,000,000 endowment from Mr. Rockefeller, he projected plans upon an unparalleled seal", and when the moneyed classes caught a glimpse of the epic greatness of the scheme they flocked to his support. The minor de tails of biography are of little value Harper's life. His history is written in the consideration of President between the lines of that of the Uni versity of Chicago. Graft in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 10.—Startling disclos ures of the extent of graft on city con tracts were made Monday by Assistant Corporation Counsel Sutherland before the Cullerton committee appointed by Mayor Dunne to investigate the charges. That attorney declared that the city has been defrauded of $5,000, 000 in the last ten years on contracts for the construction of water tunnels and sewers, and on the purchase of machinery. Will Remember the Bride. Ardmore, I. T., Jan. 10.—The Rough Riders will send to Miss Alice Roose velt on the occasion of her marriage to Congressman Longworth, next month, a handsome present United States Marshal Colbert, secretary of the Rough Riders' association, who is behind the movement, has made a re quest upon each rough rider, including President Roosevelt, for a donation to ward the present. A Bold Robbery. East St. Louis, 111., Jan. 13.—Six men drove two wagons up to the gen eral store of Halifax & Lewis Friday afternoon, knocked down John Hali fax and guarded him with a knife while the store was looted and con siderable stock loaded into the wag ons. The six escaped, hut were pur sued and arrested. Sherrick Arrested. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 13.—David E Sherrick, former auditor of state, was arrested Friday on two additional indictments charging him with embez zlement and conspiracy to commit a felony. The trial of Mr. Sherrick has been set for February 5 Bond was given in the sum of $10,000. 'f^mJrJ\£^ *, POCKET GOPHERS. Tl»ex Are Found In Widely Separat ed Parts of the Country. By D. E. LANTZ, Kansas experiment station. In some families of rodents cheek pouches when present have the open ing inside the mouth. In the geomyidae the pouches are present, are fur lined and open outside the mouth. The fam ily and the type genus derive their name from their mode of life, which is entirely in the earth. Nine genera of pocket gophers are known, all of them confined to North America. Only three of the genera enter the United States. Of the United States genera one is found in the great plateau region from central Mexico and Lower California POCKET GOPHEB. northward into British America, anoth er from east central Mexico northward through New Mexico, western Texas, western Oklahoma, into Colorado, while a third is restricted to two large and widely separated districts in the Unit ed States. One of these districts in cludes portions of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, while the other includes much of the great low plain of the Mis sissippi valley and extends from the Rio Grande northward to southern Min nesota and Wisconsin and from eastern Illinois westward into Colorado and eastern Wyoming The pocket gophers all have the ex ternal pouches, strong lower jaws, fore feet strongly developed for digging and very small eyes and ears. The prairie pocket gopher is abun dant in the eastern part of the state and is the most formidable mammalian pest with which Kansas farmers have to deal. Its damage to the alfalfa growers of the state alone amounts to more than $800,000 yearly. This dam age it. not directly in the destruction of the alfalfa plant so much as it is in the interference with the work of cutting the crop and the loss by reason of hav ing to cut the plant far above the ground to avoid running into the mounds thrown up by the gophers This loss amounts to about one-tenth of the entire crop. Besides the damage to alfalfa, there is a similar one to clo ver, timothy and native meadows and the direct destruction of vegetable gar dens and other crops. This species does similar damage to crops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dako tas, Nebraska and Missouri, a section of the most fertile land in the entire country. The prairie gopher is of a dark liver color, lighter on the under part, and has pure white feet, with longer claws than any other species. Pocket gophers are easily poisoned. They are very fond of common pota toes, sweet potatoes, apples, raisins and prunes. The presence of strych nine, arsenic or other poisons does not seem to deter them from eating the food, but if the poison is sweetened they seem to eat it more readily. In summer it may be desirable to take the trouble to sweeten the poison, but in the fall and early spring it does not seem worth while to do this. A tool devised for the purpose of in troducing the poisoned food into the burrow is a spade handle shod with E T~ •M-m TOOL FOR OPENING RUNWAY. an iron point. A bar is attached about fifteen inches from the point to enable the operator to use his foot in press ing it into the soil. It is only neces sary to find the runway of the go pher. The handle is sufficiently thick to make a hole large enough to per mit one to drop the poisoned potato directly into the burrow. The opera tor then passes to another place, leav ing the hole open. It might be well not to let swine run in the alfalfa fields for a time after the poison has been put out. Good Prices Fo Apples. It is apparent that growers should have little difficulty in contracting ap ples at remunerative prices this sea Bon, says American Agriculturist. In stead of acting bearish, as a year ago, buyers are frankly acknowledging that they expect to be compelled to give more money for the coming crop than they did for that of 1904. Offers of $1.50 to $2 per barrel are not uncom mon. In Michigan many orchards have been sold at $1 to $1.75 for fruit as it stands on the trees. Some growers with fancy apples say they will hold out for $2 to $3. In parts of Ohio buyers have bid $2.50 for early fruit, and in New York fall stock is being contracted around $2. Contracts re ported in western New York for win ter fruit at $2. Bone Dust or Winter W at The soil for wheat must be richly fertilized and well pulverized. Even then, if the winters are exceedingly dry and cold, there may be a failure in the crop. Many farmers in Missouri are using bone dust to advantage. The land that is bone dusted will yield from five to ten bushels more to the acre—W. D. Neale, Missouri. Pf* /-r||^WP!|pP Reeve's Iron Pills Made from the prescription of a tried and trusted physician and used by him for 20 .years with marvelous results. Nowputupbya pharmacist of 25 yeans standing and 4t1AO retailed everywhere UD l"Vsen|~ at per bottle («£fiftt) 1 REEVES IRON MILS appears on every bottle of the genuine. Beware of imitations ANDREW ECKSTEIN MODEL Meat Market, Tf quality is more of a factor with vou than Quantity you ought to trade at our market. We make a special effort to secure only the best of beef, pork, veal and mutton and so are in a position to furnish you the choicest of meats. A trial order will convince you. Stuebe Bros. Week-end Excursions, Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad. The Minneapolis & St. Louis Rail road will place in effect until March .31 the following excursions arrange ments: HAL RATES—After twelve o'clock noon of Saturdays to all points within 150 miles, good for return until Mon day morning: minimum rate 75 cents. A E AN ONE-THIRD—On sale Fridays to points not less than 75 miles nor more than 150 miles distant, limit the following Monda\ ONE A E S $2.00-To points more than 150 miles away, limit five a s. These rates apply to the Cities where theatrical attractions and other am usements are best at this season of the ear, and they also apply to local stations on the line. For further particulars call on Min neapolis & St. Louis agents. Yesterday art£ Today. The Chicago & North-Western Rail way has issued a valuable and interest ing compendium of railway history in the Northwest from the time when the Indians ceded the United States the last territory east of the Mississippi" up to the present day. Over a hundred pages of historic matter concerning the various roads forming what is known as The North-Western Line, well printed in strong paper covers, post paid for ten cents. W. Kniskern, P. T. M., Chicago. Homeseekers to the Northwest. ,, On every Tuesday until December' the Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. will sell Homeseekers' round trip tickets to points in Iowa, Minnesota, South and North Dakota, and thtT Canadian Northwest, at one fare plus two dollars. Tickets limited twenty one days and stop-overs allowed. or rates and particulars call on agents, or address, A. B. Cutts,G. & A. Minneapolis, Minn. Homeseekers and Settlers. To points in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas India Territory, Oklahoma, Texas andLouis iana, the Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. has placed on sale for a a 2 and 16, February 6 and 20, round trip and one way tickets at extremely low rates for benefit of homeseekers and settlers. Round trip tickets at three fonrths of the regular one way rate, limit twenty one days. One way tickets at two dollars higher than half fare. Twenty-one day tickets are on sale drst and third Tuesdays to points in other states in the Southeast, Wes and Northwest, at one fare plus *2.00 for round trip. Don't fail to call on M. & St. L. agents for full particulars as to rates, etc, or address, T- fWl blood,giving color, appetife,nerve force, —"that contented feeling? REEVE'S IRON PILL CO. £nH» ST. PAUL guarantee the repayment of the purchase price if they fail tobenefit and warrant them absolutely harmless in every way. Twill pay you to try THE WONDERFUL TONIC WITH ZO YEARS 0FCWESBACK0FIT THIS SIGNATURE ^ff\ *I» 1"J: I* ,D1 A.h A. S G. & T. A., Minneapolis, Minn. Very Low Rates to Denver, Col., Via the North-Western Line. Excur sion tickets will be sold on a 27, 28 A and 29, limited to return until Feb.*-Ar 15th, inclusive, on account of W Growers and Live Stock Association Meetings. 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