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| HISTORY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. fr THE GREATEST MOUNTAIN-BUILDING KNOWN IN THE ♦) ' HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Last Sunday the Globe contained an interesting paper upon the earliest life at St. Paul, as demonstrated by the fossilized rocks beneath the glacial capping. Previous to the gradualcon traction of the cooling earth, the Si lurian sea existing here extended west ward across the localities now known as the Rocky mountains. Mr. James Blair and Mr. W. N. Culver recently discovered the same character of fossils at the crest of the main range in Mon tana at a mountain which they called Brower peak. A copyright article con cerning the mountain-building of the immense ranges of the West, written by Warren Upham for Hon. J. V. Brower'a work on the Missouri river and its sources, has been made avail able for these columns, which is given in full herewith, and is the latest sci entific information concerning the won derful results of time, climate and con ditions: Many stages of mountain-building have left their impress on the gieat Cordillera n belt of the western part o£ the United States and the Dominion of Canada. As the Missouri river has its sources in the Rocky mountains, which are the principal eastern range of t v is belt, we may best begin our description of the country tributary to the Missouri by a very brief review of I—Cyclis1 — Cyclist — Good heavens. I'm pursued by a savage on a bicycle! these stages of growth and develop ment of this greatest mountain belt of the world. Extending our view to embrace the pntire belt of which the Rocky moun tains are a part, we see that it forms the western side of both North and Bouth America. Its length from Cape Horn to Alaska is about 10,000 miles of a great circle, from which the some what irregular course of the belt is nowhere widely distant. With this Andes-Cordilleran oro.^raphic belt is also associated the mountain system, consisting largely of volcanoes now ac tive, which forms the Aleutian islands, tKamtchatka, the Kurile islands, Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Borneo and Celebes, lying nearly in the same great circle with the Andes and Rocky moun tains, and with them continuous in an arc of about 240 degrees. Along this circumferential line, having an extent of two-thirds of the girth of our planet, the great lateral stresses of the earth's crust, caused by the gradual cooling and contraction of the interior during long past geologic eras, and even up to the present time, have been relieved by plication, faults and uplifts, in the processes of the formation of mountain | ranges. The Gold and Selkirk ranges of this Confflleran belt in British Columbia, according to Dr. George M. Dawson, consist of archaean, cambrian and si lurian formations, which were pushed up into mountain folds before the close of these very ancient divisions of ge- | ologic time. The auriferous slates of j the Sierra Nevada, as Becker has Shown, were similarly buJlt up in a : folded mountain range at the close of the Gault epoch in the cretaceous period. Mr. S. F. Emmon.i, of the United States geological survey, from his studies of the Rocky mountains in Col orado, concludes that certain land areas oxisled along this belt before the Cambrian period; that mountain rang- ) os were thrust up at various times j during the palaeozoic era, and in the Jurassic period near the middle of the ensuing mesozoic era; but that these mountains had been slowly worn away, or reduced to very moderate heights, before the close of the cretaceous period, when {he mesozoie was suc ceeded by the tertiary era. During the later half Gf cretaceous lime a vast inland or mediterranean Bea, far surpassing the size of that •which now divides Europe from Africa, Stretched from south to north across this continent, reaching from the Gulf | of Mexico over the broad area called I the great plains to the Mackenzie river j basin and the Arctic oc°an. In the last or Loramie^division of the creta ceous period the water of this *;f-a be came brackish and finally fresh, being Bhut off from its former connection j •with the ocean by the gradual rise of j the land borders on the south and (north. A great depth of cretaceous I sediments, marine below and la :ustr : ne above, had been laid down on all the area of the plains and upon mien of the country which is now traversed by the Rocky mountain chain, \mx which had sunk in this period beneath the J ■ea level. At the end of the Laramie epoch came great movements of uplift, folding and overthrusting of the cretaceous and older strata along all the belt of the Rocky mountains, which, with refer ence to the date of these disturbances of mountain formation, has been called the Laramide range. The great ero genic movements of this time are sim ilarly named the laramide revolution. For the western half of North America, this time of vast mountam-bui'ding was comparable with the much earlier .Appalachian revolution in the eastern KTnited States, at the end of palaeozoic time, by which the Appalachian morn tain belt was formed. Emmons writes of this grand Ftage in the devlopment of The Coriilleran mountain belt as follows: "The post cretaceous movement, as has been al most universally recognized, was that •which produced the main plication and faulting, and played the- most impor tant part in determining the prtsent orographic features of the Rocky mountain region. But, as It is evident that these features had been *n a great extent already outlined !n the move ments that went before, it is also mere than probable that the oost-creta^eoua folds and faults have been further em phasized along the principal lines of disturbance in the less violent move ments that have affected the region since, even into very recent times. It is therefore manifestly Impossible to determine with absolute accuracy how much of the present displacement of cretaceous beds in folds and faults was produced in the first post-cracaceous movement and how much in those* that have supervened in tertiary and recent times. * * * I have laid stress upon the importance of the •novem*»nt at the close of the coal-bearing laramie in the Rocky mountain region. * * * It is unquestionably one of the most im portant events in the orogriT>h!cal his tory of the entire Cordill ;ran pytt-c-m. With the exception of the ?r3at i;"tcn formity between the archaean and all overlying sediments, • • * no move ment has left such definite evidence as that which followed the deposition of the coal-bearing rocks, to which the name laramie has by universal consent been applied." Dr. George M. Dawson, now the di rector of the Canadian geological sur vey, writes: "In the mountains, the cretaceous rocks have been in volved in all the flexure, faulting, and overthrust suffered by the palaeozoic: and both in the mountains and foochills these rocks are found at all angles up to vertical and even over- IX AFRICA. 2 — l'm a goner this time, sure. turned. It Is thus difficult to know to w<bat elevations those rocks may have been thrust up In some places, but a minimum estimate may be arrived at by tracing the continuations of the beds over the less disturbed autielinals or by adding their volume to the eleva tion of the flat-lying rar^ves of the older rocks. About latitude 50 degrees it may thus be shown that the base of the civtaceous must In several places have coneldermfoly exceeded 10,000 feet in altitude, while in Mr. McConneU's section along Bow pass (51 degrees 15 minutes) • • • the same horizon must have been about 15,000 feet above sea-levfl, the beds at this place being nearly flat. To ascertain the uplift of tht.- the beds which were at sea-level j at the close of the cretaceous, the vol- I ume of the cretaceous strata must, | of course, be added to such figures as the above. This was, in the eastern part of the mountains, at least 17,000 feet, and may have been 20,000 feet • • • giving as a minimum estimate of greatest uplift for the region say i 32,000 to 35,000 feet. • • ♦ It is prob ably impossible to ascertain exactly how long the main uplifting process continued or to what extent its effect j was counteracted by concurrent denu j dation." This author states it as his j belief, however, that the mountain up i lilting and folding may have continued through the very long eocene and mio cene periods, which may be estimated to have comprised together about nine tenths of the tertiary era. During the early part of the miocene period Dr. DaWBOn thinks that the Rocky moun tains adjoining the west side of the Canadian portion of the groat plains were "a range comparable to the Hima layas in height." The geologic strata of this northern portion of the plains are the Dakota, Colorado, Montana, and Laramie for- I mations, of late cretaceous age, whose deposition took place during the clos ! ing part of the secondary or mesosoic j era. Southward, in the United States, i the plains comprise extensive deposits ■ of tertiary lacustrine beds, represent- j ing the continuation of the brackish j waver and finally lacustrine conditions which prevailed over large areas of the plains during the Laramie period; but J j in the northern region, crossed by the I Missouri river and extending to the | Peace and Mackenzie rivers, no tertiary ! beds are found. Since the beginning I of the tertiary era this region has been i a land surface undergoing denudation. When its marine and lacustrine de posits were first raised to be dry land they had a monotonously flat surface. A very long cycle of base-leveling en ' si:ed, beginning as soon as this northern part of the plains was uplifted at the end of cretaceous time and continuing nearly or quite to the end of the ter ttary era. During this time the surface was gradually lowered by the action of rains, rills, rivulets, creeks, and rivers, until it was mostly reduced to i a base-level of subaerial erosion. Across an area 700 or 800 miles wide from east to west on the international boundary, and of much greater extent from south to north, the processes of base-leveling were at work through the vast duration of tertiary time, cut ting down the plains far below their original surface. But here and there l» lated areas of hills and even moun tains remain, consisting of remnants of the horizontal cretaceous strata which elsewhere have suffered erosion. The most noteworthy eastern high land area of this kind is the Turtle mountain, lying in the north edge of North Dakota and the south edge of Manitoba, its extent on the interna tknal boundary being about forty miles, with two-thirds as great width. This high tract, diversified by many subordinate hills and short ridges, 50 to SOO feet above adjoining depressions, rises with a massive general form sug gesting, as seen from distant points of view, the rounded back of a turtle; but as seen from the south or north, its many hills and buttes present a serrated outline. Its altitude above the surrounding country is 300 to SOO feet, the summits of its hig-hest hills being about 2,500 feet above the sea. Beneath a veneering of glacial drift, which is in THE SAINT t»AUL GLOBE: SUNDAY, MARCH 7^ 18©f f large part morainic and generally strewn with many boulders, averaging perhaps fifty to seventy-five feet in thickness, Turtle mountain consists of neariy horizontally bedded Laramie strata, chiefly shales, irirh very thin seems of lignite. At or below the base of this highland, the freshwater IJaramie formation rests on the marine cretaceous series. A thickness of not less than 500 to 1,000 feet of the L*Lra mie and marine beds has been carried away from the surrounding 1 eastern part of the plains. Westward the depth of the tertiary base-leveling was greater, About the west end of the Cypress hills in Assini boia, Dr. Dawson rinds that the general surface of the plains is now some 2,200 feet lower than in early miocene time, when rivers from the mountains de posited the gravels which now cap these hills. Around the Highwood and Crazy mountains, in central Montana, according to Prof. W. M. Davis and Dr. J. E. Wolff, the erosion of the plains has a vertical extent of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. Perhaps the most striking evi dence of this great erosion is afforded by the range of the Crazy mountains, which lies immediately north of the Yellowstone river, near Livingston, and is conspicuously seen from the North ern Pacific railroad. These mountains trend slightly west of north, and ex tend about forty miles with a width of fifteen miles, attaining an elevation of 11,178 feet above the sea, and 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the prairies at their base. Their structure has been thor oughly studied by Wolff, who finds that they consist of late cretaceous strata, soft sandstones, nearly horizon tal in stratification, intersected by a network of eruptive dikes. The more en-durirag igneous rocks have preserved this range, while an average denuda tion of not less than one mile in ver tical amount reduced all the adjoining region to a base-level of erosion. The Highwood mountains, about twenty five miles east of Great Fails, having a height of 7,600 feet above the sea or about 3,500 feet above their base, are dojscribed by Davis as displaying the same structure, and therefore similarly testifying of great denudation. The epeirogenic or continental uplift at the beginning of the tertiary era ap pears to have raised this portion of the great plains to a height above the pea equaling or exceeding the vertical extent of their tertiary erosion; that is, to a height of at least 1,000 to 5,000 feet, increasing from east to west. This uplift, however, beginning at the end of cretaceous time, may probably have progressed through the first half or a longer part of the tertiary era. Toward the end of this era, the base-leveling had reduced the country mostly to a plain which was probably only a few hundred feet above the sea, lying much below its present altitude. Between the generai tertiary cycle of base-leveling and the glacial period there intervened a second great epeiro genic uplift, as shown by the present elevation and westward ascent of the n *^x\ *■*. /^ ""* S — Holy Smoke! he's run into me. I'm a dead man. great plains, and by a return of the conditions of vigorous stream erosion and a new cycle or partial base-level ing, by which wide, flat valleys were cut in the eastern part of these creta ceous plains. This latest uplift of the Rocky mountains and of the country eastward I believe to have extended to the Atlantic coast, and there to have caused the erosion of the now deeply submerged continuation of the channel of the Hudson river, which reaches a hundred miles beyond Sandy Hook to a maximum sounding of 2,844 feet near the submarine margin of the continent al plateau, though a nearly uniform depth of only about 600 feet of water is found on each side. The late ter tiary and early Quaternary uplift of nearly all our continent to a height from 2,000 feet to, probably in part, 5,000 feel higher than now appears to me the most probable explanation of the ice age, bringing a cold and snowy climate throughout the year, with con sequent deep accumulation of snow and ice. But under the great weight of the Ice-sheet the continent sank to its present height, or, for most of the northern region whioh had been Ice enveloped, from 100 to 500 or 600 feet lower. Many changes in the courses of rivers wtre produced by the upward and downward and again upward epeiro genc movements associated with the Ice age, and by the deposition of the glacial and modified drift. In the case of the Missouri river. Gen. G. K. War ren remarked, nearly thirty years ago, that it flows through all ite course on the marginal part of the northern drift bearing region; and he therefore at tributed the location of this great river to the obstruction of the ice-sheet, which he supposed to have turned it from a more northerly and easterly preglacial course. It seems very prob able that the present Missouri is made up by the union of the courses of sev eral independent proglacial rivers, and that some of these old avenues of drainage underwent great changes of location, as Prof. J. E. Todd has shown from his explorations and studies of the glacial geology of South and North Dakota. Much further exploration, however, Including the present water shed which divides the most north eastern part of the Missouri river from the Souris and Assiniboine rivers and the lakes of Manitoba, will be needed to ascertain whether the upper Missouri was permanently turned far away from Its preglacial lower course by the vicissitudes of the ice age. _^. A Town In Midair. Inventive geniuses are now busy trying to devise something that will prove as great an attraction at the great Paris exhibition of 1900 as did the Eiffel tower in 1889. An Amer ican inventor suggests a floating town a kil ometer up In the air. He promise* to con struct houses, streets and an aerial railroad, the whole to be safely supported by a series of gigantic balloons, and prevented from float ing off into space by being an<rhored to the exposition grounds. Access to the streets ot the aerial city is to be obtained by means of elevators; and the visitors can, according to the scheme of this enterprising genius, take rooms there, and ttr« and sleep in th« clouds. AfiOflG THE OHDEHS DOINGS OP THE LAST WEEK Ef LOCAi, SECRET SOCIETY cm cl.es. KNIGHTS OF MALTA ELECTIONS LIST OP OFFICERS INSTALLED BY ST. PAIL MB OLIVk, lIRANCH, COMMAXUEHIES. MACCABEES TALK CONVENTION. Looking Forward to the Coming Event With Interest — Coimmit. tee for May Hall. The Lenten season appvirs to htve Increased the interest in secret society work. Officers of the various orcers report an increased attend mcc aid ex plain this by saying that as balls, heps ! and dancing parties are not the piuptr I thing- for the next month or so. the members turn to the lodge tcor.* for entertainment and social goodfellow ship. KNIGHTS OF MALTA. The following commanderles elected officers the past week: Adrlel No. 168, St. Paul No. 154. Olive Branch No. 192, St. Elmo No. 216, Coeur do Lion No. 213. Mount Stnal No. 158. Northern Light No. 235, Minneapolis No. 212, Ivanhoe No. 193 and lonic No. 204. The eommanderies of the Twin Cities will hold a joint Easter service on Easter even- Ing, 7:30, April 18, at St. Paul's Episcopal church. St. Paul commandery will give a minstrel entertainment on Tuesday evening at Vasa hall, 254 East Seventh 6treet, to members and their friends. St. Paul Commandery No. 154 Installed the following officers Tuesday evening: Sir knight commander, J. T. Hauglund; general issimo, H. C. Conyers; captain^general, C. J. Sund; prelate, C. T. Schnider; recorder, F. C. T. Buehring; assistant recorder, Earnest Peterson; treasurer, Nels J. Ness; senior warden, A. N. Willing; junior warden, S. Sandbrekken; standard bearer, A. E. Young; sword bearer, J. C. McDougall; warder, N. i. Erickson; sentinel, A. E. Messenger; first guard, George Elmer; second guard, A. Da vis; trustees, R. F. Roberts, F. E. Elmund, Ed Gill; representatives to grand command ery, H. P. Coffin and L. G. Anderson. Adrlel Commandery No. 168 installed the following officers Thursday evening: Sir knight commander. A. T. Coutts; generalis s'mo, J. W. Turner; captain general, Tony Vogt; prelate, James Paris; recorder, T. R. Sisson; assistant recorder, Howard Young; treasurer, T. J. H. Leuth; senior warden, C. B. Leigh; junior warden, E. F. Funk; stand ard bearer, J. S. Cummings; sword bearer, J. P. Davis; warder, F. W. Gadbois; sentinel, S. Stevenson; first guard, William Kennedy; second guard, O. J. Carlson; trustees, J. W. Turner, S. H. Putnam, William Kreuger; representatives to grand commandery, C. J. Lang and William J. MoCub.ery. Olive Branch Commandery No. 192 installed the following officers Monday evening: Sir knight commander, O. H. Nelson; generalis simon. S. T. Anderson; captain general, F. G. Smith; prelate. Rev. M. G. Shuman; re corder, John Alvin ; assistant recorder, David Skooglun; treasurer, J. A. Linnen; senior warden, Charles Anderson; junior warden, W. L. Stock well; standard bearer, A. Paul ine; sword bearer, A. Hanson; warder, Charles Boogren; sentinel, A. W. Peterson; first guard, A. Suudstrum; second guard, L. " Lindquist; trustees, William H. Lewis, L. H. O:son, L. Lindquist; representatives to grand eoramaudery. Gust Williams and William H. Lewis. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Liberty Lodge No. 137 entertained their members and friends at progressive cinch Thursday evening. Twenty tables were ktpt Koing and a good time was had by all. The ladies' prizes were won by Miss Margaret Ware. Miss Ida Sandin and Mrs. H. C. Boye son; gentlemen's prizes by F. W. Bailey and <^^V- r*' __— — 4 — The Savage — Excuse my interrupting you, sir, but is that a ninety seven bike? I'm so anxious to see tlioee new sprocket wheels. T. E. Haggerty. The Twin City lodge held a spirited session Monday evening. Bros. Bard and Young wanted an Easter ball, but Brother Lind strum had let tho hall. Then there was trou ble for him. Brother Stobbart took a crack at the newspaper representative for neglect of duty, but Brother Sullivan put a quietus to any further spreading of discontent by a fraternal appeal. Then all was well. Champion Lodge No. 13 will give a smoke social Friday evening. Bring your corncoDS. Liberty Lodge No* 137 held an interesting meeting Thursday evening. This lodge Is making arrangements to entertain the Pyth ian wheel, which is expected to roll Into their castle hall Thursday evening. AH members of the order are cordially Invited to be pres ent. I. O. O. F. Dayton's Bluff Lodge No. 96 visited Fort Bnelllng lodge in a body last Thursday night. The members of Fort Snelling lodge gave a banquet in honor of the visiting brother*. Flora Rebekah Lodge No. 114 will have Its next meeting Tuesday evening. The Re bekah degree will be conferrro. At the last business sps&irth of Hancock encampment one brother *reesjved the patri archal degree. Th<> eueampm#nt has several other candidates for the sansa. degree. Hancock enca.mpment'3 iceial hop and card party was a very pleastot Jfffair, well at tended and much enjGyed'jcj 1 ' *11 present. Twin City lodge at ife sjSecial meeting, Friday evening, conferred the4niatory degree on one candidate, the second degree on three brothers and the third degree pn one brother. BS4 HVs^^ffi Vi}4????? %%% Z Z MBMBB At the meeting of Excelsicr3odge last Mon day evening, three applications were re ceived. The paper read by Lteut. Guy Carle ton and the music furnished lav Fred Lindner and A. H. Qehler were excellent. WOODMEN OF THE WOULD. La Sall« Camp No. 7, tnttiated new mem bers Monday evening and hel* an Interesting meeting. The camp will givk a card party Monday evening at their hall on East Tenth street, to which the ladies are invited. Messrs. Soucy, B&xille and Bordenave have the affair In charge. Prosperity Camp No, 2, fceM a regular meet- Ing Wednesday evening,' at which three new applications were received and one member initiated. After the business of the camp was transacted the meeting adjourned and the members with their famines and friends enjoyed a very pleasant evening playing pro gressive euchre, followed with supper and dancing. About fifty couples were present. Several selection* on the mandolin and guitar Bankrupt Stock FURS ™> eLOfIKS I have added to the Ransom & Horton Stock, recently bought by me at public auction, a lot of 300 Cloth Jackets, about 100 Cloth Capes and about $3,000 worth of Fur Capes and Fur Garments. These goods were all bought by me from stocks in Chicago and New York at 25 to 33^ cents on the dollar, and will be sold accordingly. The store is now equipped with about $2* 000 worth of fine goods, which I offer at of original prices. You can get a $15 to $18 Jacket for $5.00. Some elegant, swell Short Capes, suitable for spring, at nominal prices. A lot of about 100 Skirts at less than cost of materials. We also have a large lot of Hen's Fur Coats, in Astrakhan, Dog- Etc > and Fur-Lined Coats, at about half value. While we know it's late the prices are put where you can afford to buy for next year, beside getting about six weeks' wear of them this season. These are plain facts, and we advise you to come at once and see for yourselves. HENRY HABIGHORST. ■were rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Guy Chapel. The winners of the various prizes were: La dies' progressive, Mrs. J. A. Ragan ; gen tlemen's progressive, Mr. Paisley; ladies' lone hand, Mrs. G. T Seixas; gentlenien's lone hand, Frank Keifer; ladies' foot prize, Mrs. Wyman; gentlemen's foot prize, Mr. Pres ton. ROYAL, ARCANUM. Minneopa council conferred the degree on one applicant Monday evening. Threo now applications were read and arrangements were made to have a social at the next meet ing. Kandiyohi Council No. 1621, at Willmar. Is making good progress, and baa been put un der the. personal supervision of Grand Secre tary Davenport, who is appointed deputy grand regent. Among the St. Paul councils are enrolled Morriam Park. Hemline and Interurban, but owing to the difficulty of communication or apathy on their part it is .-seldom anything definite can be learned of their doings. Terrace council read one new application Monday evening. Following the business ses sion a musical programme was given closing with an informal hop participated In by mem bers of the council and their ladies. About forty couples were present. This council will confer the degree at next meeting. Past Regent Charles O. Kreig«r, of Ram sey counsel, was presented with a solid gold 1 jewel at its last meeting. In making (he presentation, which was a complete surpriso to the recipient, Regent Gilbert referred to the council's appreciation of Brother Krelger's faithful services and unflagging interest In the council. Ramsey council had Its usual good at tendance last Tuesday evening. Four candi dates were initiated by the council's model degree team, headed by Regent Gilbert. Six new applications were read and the new quar tette added materially to the pleasure of the evening. Brothers Wolever and McMillan sang duete under duty seventeen. Orator Harris wa sdebtured from giving a repetition of "A Warrior Bold" owing to a severe cold. Collector S. G. Harris tendered his resigna tion to take effect April 1, explaining that proposed absence from the city necessitated the step. The resignation was regretfully re ceived and the vacancy will t>B filled at next meeting. Official circular No. 6 has been Issued by the grand regent under date of Feb. 25, 1897, and reads as follows: To the Officers and Members of the Grand and Subordinate Councils Royal Arcanum of the Stats of Minnesota. Greeting: In acocrdance with the provision of the grand council constitution of the State of Minnesota, the seventh annual session of the grand council will convene on Tuesday, i March 23, 1897, at 10 o'clock a. m., in the I John A. Rawlins post hall, fourth floor of the j Masonic temple, Minneapolis, Minn. All representatives or alternates who have not previously been admitted to membership In the grand council, will present themselves to the committee on credentials not later than 9:30 o'clock a. m., with proper certificates. Past regents and regents not members of the grand council, are entitled to seats there in upon presentation of credentials, but with out voice or vote. When a representative at tends, the alternate can only be admitted as a past regent. It is requested that all standing committees have their reports ready at the opening of the session to avoid delay. Section fi, of article 111. of the grand council constitution, will be strictly enforced at this session. This section provides as follows: ''A representative of a subordinate council that is in arrears to the grand council for dues, or any portion thereof, or for supplies furnished by the grand council, If the In debtedness has existed for iaora than thirty days prior to the close of the fiscal year, and bill has been rendered for same by grand secretary, shall not be entitled to voice oar vote until such Indebtedness haa becon» liquidated." The law requires that each past regent vrmr th« appropriate Jewel of his rank. All r*sotw- tions In duplicate, proposed amendments to the constitution and memorials, must be In the hands of the grand secretary by March 19, 1597. Reports of all officers must be In the hands of the grand secretary not later than March 14, 1897. Secretaries must mall the special postal card reports to the grand secretary before March 14. This is absolutely necessary and must r.ot be neglected Tho following committees are hereby ap pointed to serve during the session. Credentials— W. J. Footner, Allen Gerrish, F. A. Schwartz. Mileage and Per Diem— Clinton Brooke, J. B. Nionhauser. H. C. Irvin. Distribution of Reports— S. M. Davis, Will W. MacFarlane, Frank «J. Meyst. State of the Order— George C. Knispel, L. L. Sanford, J. A. Fortln. New Business— George Thane, F. F. Towle. W. II .• Man tor. Every council in the state should be repre sented by its representative or alternate. Representatives who may from any cause be unable to attend are requested to notify their alterntaea without delay. MACCABEES. St. Paul Tent No. 24, held their regular review Monday evening. After routine busi ness a very pleasant time was had by the members present swapping stories. This tent is growing rapidly, and the meetings are getting to be something to look forward to. The convention committee reported progress, and it is understood that Duluth and Superior are going to send down a special train full of Maccabees for that event. A special is expected to start from Marahaltown, 10., and take in all the towns en route. Dele gations aro also expected from the Dakotas, and It behooves all the Maccabees in the city to attend the regular reviews and get in touch with the work so as to be able to entertain all who come to the convention. The committee appointed for the May ball was: Chairman, M. S. Mead; Booksiaver, Foster, Nichols and Berry. MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA. Scandia camp will confer the first degree on Eeveral candidates Friday, and the For esters will turn out In new uniforms. The base ball club of St. Paul camp gave a hop the 22d of last month which proved a wucemm. The camp will meet for business Monday evening. O. E. S. St. Paul Chapter No. 24 will hold Its regu lar meeting Friday evening at Braden hall. The relief society will meet Monday after noon with Mrs. T. S. F. Hayes, 1237 Lincoln avenue, ROYAL NEIGHBORS. Royal Oak camp met Wednesday evening. Two applications were received and two new members were admitted by card. Several visiting members were present from Maple Leaf. A committee of five was appointed to make arrangements for their second annual social, which will take place at Lltt's hall HIS ABSENT DARUMi. Bill— I've got to raise tw-ewty dollars this week. Phil— ls It urgent? Bill— l should say so. If I don't get It, my wife will come home. ir on Easter Monday. An Invitation fn>m Neighbor Kent, of Mlnnchaha, to take a sleighnde Tuesday evening was accepted and the members are requested to moot at the hall at 7:45 p. m. sharp. ORDER OF THE WORLD. Maple Leaf lodge initiated one new mem ber Tuesday night. A committee wus &u --pointed to rent a hall for a Dall, to be given on Easter Monday. The masquerade ball at t-ontral hall Friday night was a success in, every way. Two hundred couple participated. Curlnar a M.-ilkiiiK Home. A driver of truck was in great distress in front of the Judge building yesterday after noon, because hia horse balked crosswise In the street, and caused not only a loss of his time, but also blocked traffic. W. L. Arkell said to his brother Bartlett. who sat in the of nce: "I will bot $100 to 10 cents that I can go out and start that horse in two minutes " Uartlett took the bot. the money was placed in Private Secretary W. J. Merrill's hands, and the two Arkells started for the street. W. J Arkell picked up two handfuls of sand and asked the driver to hold the horse's hea4 still. Then he packed each of the horse's nostril's full of the sand, and almost instantly the ani mal began to sneeze and started with a rush to the great delight of the driver, amid the shouts of the bystanders. Mr. Arkell tha winner, says he doesn't read the London Lancet for nothing.— New York Sun. - — ' m 1 A Millionaire*!* Full. The recent sale of the Vulture mine in Ari zona, to secure a loan of $24,000, marks about the last that will be public of Horace A. W. Tabor, once senator form Colorado. At one time he was worth many millions of dollars, and from this mine of bis over $10,000,000 ia gold ore was taken. Tabor was lavish, ex travagant and foolish In days of prosperity, reckless in his latter day investments, and is supposed to have paid an enormous price for hia thirty days' service in tho United States senate. Today ex-Senator Tabor is again delving in the earth, hoping to find another fortune in tho way in which he found his first one. But for the flashily magnificent Ta bor opera house. In Denver, there is nothing left to remind one of his princely life. I/> imin Gage's Probity. In 1K93 a customer of Lyman J. Gape's bank asked 9r>r a loan of $200,000. Mr. Gage asked him •♦hat he wanted the money for. The customer replied that certain street rail way stocks were greatly depressed and could be bought cheap, with a chance for a big profit. In answer Mr. Gage sa^ substan tially: "All the money that that this bank has Is needed for customers who need the money. I will advance to any insolvent cus tomer all that he requires to tide him over this crisis, but I will not loan to any customer money to be used in speculation, however sure the profit"