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STILL SHY OF FUNDS BOARD OK EDUCATION HAS NO SURPLUS AT ITS DIS POSAL IS IN DEBT TO THE CITY ©lie HtsiHlrcd Thousand Dollars lior rowed From the General Fund MuKt Be Repaid Before Extra Cour«e* of Stmly Can Be Resumed Three HiglnviiyiiKMi Visitors ill 31111 tit} News of Minneapolis. rfiLOEE'S MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE, ** 20 WASHINGTON AY. SOUTH. MINNEAPOLIS, March 11.— The "question of the resumption of 'lie course of stuJy ab.iiiduiu'd by the public sohoo'.s last ye.ir on account ol the lack of funds, is now agi tafiug the minds of the members of the board of education. It is the ilesire of some of the members of the board that the special courses whiih were d -continued a year ago — manual training, sewing, cooking and others, should be resumed at the earliest dute possible, and au investigation oi the probable means at the disposal of the board for the next school year will bo rai'de in order to determine whether tlu- board i-an. next fall, reinstate the old courses in whole or in part. The si-l'.col board, however, has borrowed from liie city's siuking fund about $100,000. This was not paid back this past year. There is a grave question whether it will not have to be paid back this coming school year. If BUi-h is the case, the board will be even ■worsf off than a year ago, and a short year or abandoned courses will be a necessity. \m;kls ixawabes. Three Visitor* to the City Were t'l-oluibly liiiih vt ay in en. MINNEAPOLIS. March 11.— Minneapois en tcrtaiued for a short time three men who left eviden.'fs behind them of being highwaymen. Last Saturday evening three men arrived at the Union City mission and wanted lodging. They were all large, averaging about 180 pounds, and were quite we.l dressed. Their looks were not entirely prepossessing, but, nevertheless, they were shown to bunks. Aa soon as they left the rooms the next morn ing an employe went to the room to clean up. and scop, discovered a roll of something under one of the bunks that he thought was cuffs. He opened it up and was surprised SLAVES IK THE PHILIPPINES. SLAVERY IN THE STILUS, IN MINDORO, TAWI TAWI AND OTHER ISLANDS. \VA S H IXt iTOX, March 7.— United States subjects tolling and sweating within the yoke of slavery almost forty years after the emancipation proclama tion of Lincoln! The attention of the authorities has been called to the fact that slavery is rampant in Sulu. Mindoro, Tawi Tawi and several others of the Philippine islands. The opportunity to be entered in history as a slave liberator is now presented to President McKinley aa It was to President Lincoln. If you wish to become a slaveholder you may go to one of the three islands mentioned and purchase a half -grown | girl Cor $3. One was offered at that rate to Prof. Dean C. Worcester, United States commissioner, lately sent to the islands. The usual price for girls of 15 years is five bushels of rice. Grown men and women sell at prices proportionately greater. The chief Philippine slave market and port for their exportation now Is Malbun, the old native capital of Sulu. Hai-um Xarrasid, the Mohammedan suit m of Sulu— now a United States subject— is the central factor in the -holding and slave-selling bust ness of the entire group. The Moros, who are the Mohammedan Malay sub jects of this hitherto semi-official prince, a *iriue. though on a some what limited scale, the practices of their ancestors— the bloodthirsty Malay piraies, who reddened Philippine waters for several centuries. No admixture ot blood could be more favorable to slave-holding than that of the Malay and Mohammedan, according to Prof. Otis Mason, the noted ethnologist. Among their slaves today are found especially Malays captured from Su matra, Papuans from New Guinea, Siamese, Javanese and Timorese. By collecting: them within their dominion the Sulu masters have aided greatly in producing the peculiar mixture of stocks which now bothers anthropolo gists. Piratical expeditions are still gather ing as many captives as they can safe ly attack in neighboring islands. These warlike Moros of Sulu and the Islands thereabouts moreover adhere to the an yient barbarous custom of casting into s'avery such of their captives of war who do not suffer death. Their most r« ady customers for able-bodied male 6laves for many years have been the Dutch planters in the island of Bor neo, to the southwest. More criminal even than this piratical slave-gather ing is the custom of selling innocent! children into bondage, generally prac ticed by the Mohammedan Malays. The parent who is in need of money lends, or, rather, gives his child as security for the loan, and the little one is con demned to labor until the debt is paid, which seldom, if ever, occurs. Very few children thus sold into slavery ever regain their freedom. Moro warriors try the edges of their veapons by striking down their slaves, HCcording to Prof. Worcester. Moro slaves i!' k Sultf represent all phases of slavery practiced in ancient or modern times— slaves by birth, slaves by cap ture in war, or by piracy, bonded chil dien and insolvent debtors. i Few. if any, white slaves are to be found in the Philippines. The reason is simple. All whites are regarded as Christians by the Moros, and Chris ;ii i s must pay a penalty more serious than slavery — or, perhaps, less serious — death. The Moro believes that he ln ci eases his pleasure In the next world directly as the square of the number <>f Christian lives dispatched by his hand. If he die slaughtering Chris tians, he insures himself a cozy corner in the Mohammedan seventh heaven. Rather than commit suicide a Moro, wearied of life, prefers to sneak into some Christian settlement and massa cre as many unsuspecting men, women or children as he can reach before be ing shot. All of this sounds like a fairy tale, but it is the testimony of our Philippine commissioner. John Foreman, fellow of the British Royal Geographical society, recogniz ed as the highest modern authority on the Philippines, says that slaves in this new territory of Uncle Sam do not appeal to law for their freedom. They are too ignorant, for one thing. Fur thermore, they have no money, and none of the solicitors under the Spanish regime was looking for a case not in curing a fee. A friend of Foreman, •who had commenced clearing an estate for cane-growing on the Negros coast, was some years ago seized and secretly carried off to Sulu. He remained a Slav..- for several years, but some of his friends discovered him and paid a gen erous ransom. Now h e owns one of the finest sugar estates and factories in Negrog. Uncle Sam will find it his duty to break up the slave business also In Tawi Tawi, which lies between Sulu and Borneo. Upon the north coast are several settlements of Moro slave hunt ers. Balinbing is the principal market. The entire inerlor of the islard is cov ered with forests, seldom penetrated by the white man, who are in constant dread of the pirates. Col. Hilder, of our bureau of ethnol- to find three mask*. He took them to the office, where they were carefully examined. The outside was made of a dark cloth had eye-ho.es in and noao perforations. They had a flap which covered the lower portion of the face, and were lined with white satin and. neatly padded. The work upon them was neatly done, and they appeared To be hand made. They were undoubtedly the work of experts. The apearanee of the lining showed that they had been worn. The police wer» then notified. A few rulnuteis after the discovery the men en me back and then mad-J a hasty departure, evidently having discovered that the masks had been taken. A short time after their exit the police appeared. It is believed that the men had just come into the city and had th 9 masks not been found, the city might have seen another epidemic of ho'.d-ups_. Power Comi>aii> Sued. MINNEAPOLIS, March 11.— The Miunesota Loan and Trust company, as trustee, and W, W. Eastman hare fKed a complaint against tho St. Aiithony Kails Water Power company and the Minneapolis Milling company, alleging thnt the defendants, through the construction of the new power dam, have destroyed valua ble wster power along the plaintiff's land on the' wist side of the river from St. Anthony falls to a point below the Gas Light com pany's plant. Postal Clerk Resigns. MINNEAPOLIS, March 11.— Fred W. Heck rieh, who was recently appoiuted a permanent clerk In the mailing department of the local postofflce, has resigned to acce; t a better po sitiou in business. He is succeeded by Ed ward C. Cole, who has bteu a temporary clerk. Two \fw Policemen. MINNEAPOLIS, March 11.— Ou April 1 two new men will be entered upon the pay roil of the police department. Mayor Gray will, it is said, give a detective silt to Norman King, who was formerly a member of the po lice department. The other appointments will be that of Tom Murphy, who is said to be slated for the position now held by Joe Ryan — that is license inspector. MINNEAPOLIS BREVITIES. MINNEAPOLIS, March 11— Bishop M. N. Gilbert will preach at St. Mark's church to morrow morning, and will hold a confirma tion service. Owing to the inability of tho committee to secure a satisfactory hall, the social rally in aid of the St. Andrew's society has bean postponed from the 14th inst. to an indefinite tini?, probably the end of (ha mouth. Postmaster Lovejoy yesterday received a letter from Gen. C. McC. Heave instructing him to hold all his mail. Two croppies were found in the possession of A. Peterson by Deputy Babcock, of the fish and game commission, and Judge Kerr imposed a flue of $25 and costs upon him. Lavalle Edwards, of SlB Fourth street south, was quite badly burned about the head and hands today by a pan of grease catching fire. George Kennan, who was to have lectured in Minneapolis next Saturday, will be unable to appear, and Murat Halstead will take his place. ogy, who has visited the Philippines, told the writer a few days" ago that he had seen slaves working openly in the fields of Mindoro, the largest island which is in sight of Luzon, where our war with the Filipinos now exists. "I think," said he, "that we will have a more interesting time with those Sulu fellows than we are now having with the people of Luzon. Being Malays, in oculated with Mohammedanism, they believe implicitly in slavery. One morn ing when in these waters we saw a Chinese junk drifting about aimlessly, as if utterly abandoned. We let down a boat, boarded her and shocking sight met our eyes. He dock looked like a slaughter house. Blood was smeared from one end to the other Not a soul remained aboard. After taking a few souvenirs, we finished the work of the pirates, who have tried to fire her. Otherwise she would have remained a menace to commerce. This sort of piracy has been pretty well broken up of late by -England, because it reached her colony of Borneo. It still exists, however, though directed mostly against native vessels. The captives, of course, are carried away as slaves now, as before. What the writers of seme years ago say of this slavery can be depended upon to apply today. There were no changes for the better under the Spanish rule." « We will doubtless have to wage war with the Moros before th>?y can be made to abandon slavery, and just aa Col. Hilder prophesies, we will prob ably have more serious times with them than we are now having with Aguinaldo's followers. Spain failed to conquer them because she feared the general hatred of the Moslem for the Christian. Our soldiers will find them to be fierce foes at close quarters They take great care of their arms. On mak ing an attack they make hideous faces to scare their opponents. They protect their heads and bodies with immense shields, below which their legs are kept vibrating to resist missiles. Whe'ru bayoneted they sieze the barrels of the soldiers' muskets and drive the steel further into them, that they may get close enough to kill their adver saries before falling. They behead their enemies by a peculiar continua tion of the same movement with which they draw their huge knives. Just pre vious to our war with Spain the resi dent governor of Sulu protected the lives of himself and staff by establish ing picket lines about the capital and ordering all Moros to disarm under the aim of Spanish soldiers before crossing them. A governor who neglected to secure himself thus had his skull split to the teeth by Sultan Harun; whose warriors massacred all in the town. The Spanish home government, knowing the danger of the post, was in the habit of appointing officials suspected of republican ideas to tha governor ship of Sulu. By wiping out slavery in the Philip pines, President McKinley will simply carry out the thirteenth amendment of the constitution, which forbids slavery, not only in the United States, but in "any place subject to their jurisdic tion." No further action by congress will be necessary. —John Elfrith Watkins. o _ SHE GOT EVEN. A Kittle Exchange of Sweetneaa Be tween Young Women. From the Washington Po>at. People are smiling about town at the little passage at arms which took plaoe between two young women at a luncheon the other day. One of the women is a beautiful blonde, a bride, aud she comes from the South I | wont tell you who the other young woman is, but the bride met her first at the afore said lunrtioon. met her. and shaking hands In her characteristic cordial way, said: "I'm so glad to meet you. You have af forded me so much amusement." ••Amusement?" said the other. "O, yes." went on the bride. "I've been through my husband's desk, and I've read all his old love letters. I found several very warm and affectionate letters from you, and I enjoyed reading them ever so mucii." "I'm so glad you enjoyed them," purred the other. "But do come to see me very soon I have the answers to all those letters- you might like to read them. Mr. X.'s letters are ever so much warmer and more affectionate than tho.su I wrote him. I know you'll enjoy reading Vjpoi ever so much more than you did mine." —^ . Horseless CnrrlaKen. During the reign of Louis XV. of France a horseless carriage was invented by one Vauconson, run by a spring that was wound up like that in a watch. The Duke de Morte n.art and M. de Lauzum rode in it round a court in Paris, but the Academy of Sciences decided that It could not be tolerated, and the thing was dropped. Blind Recognize X Ray*. A French physician recently reported to the Academic dcs Sciences the result of his ex periments en b'.ind children. Among 204 he found five boys and four girls who were able to recognize the Roentgen rays. Some saw the X, cathodic and fluorescent rays, oth ers only the cathodic and X rays, and oue described them aa being of reddish color. THE ST. PAUL Gr,ol*ls. SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1890. REDS WILL NOT RISE THE REPORTS OF TROUBLE IM PEKDINa AT WALKER CAN NOT RE COXFIRMEU SOME INDIANS ARE UNRULY An Over Abundant Supply of Liquor o>u the Retirrratioii (iUen as the Cuune for the In rest Ctttaens I nder Arrwit for Providing Whin. k >' LoKßinje Operations Sntl.s factory News of tlie North tvost. WALKER, Minn., Maioh 11.—(Spe cial.)—Reports that the Indians will a&ain cause trouble in the spring can not be verified. That there is dissat isfaction no one will deny, but the action of the government in appropri ating $70,000 for a building at the agency will have a tendency to pacify the few hot-headed Indians who are now kicking-. As long as the Indians get all the whisky they wish they will be in a state of excitement. Whisky was the principal cause of the trouble last fall and, in the opinion of officials, will cause new disorder, if its sale is not stopped. The deputy marshals who have been here lateiy say that they have never seen as much drunkenness among the reds as they have witnessed this year. The Indians for some time have been fighting among themselves, and, when Deputy Marshal Morrison re turns in a few days, he will arrest the guilty parties. Three Walker citizens have been taken to Detroit for selling liquor to the Indians and more arrests are ex pected to follow. Capt. Mercer, the new Indian agent, intends to build a fine $5,000 house for his family in the spring. Assistant Superintendents of Logging McCoy and McClure are very busy these days. As the camps are soon to break up, they are watching the cutting of the boom sticks. They re port everything satisfactory so far. The city election will be held here Tuesday. There is only one ticket in the field. STILLWATEK. Minneapolis Prisoner Released Binding- Twine Batlnera Brisk. STILI WATER, Miuu.. March 11.— (Special.) — Leroy Berrier, the Minneapolis prisoner pardoned by President McKinley, was re leased from prison today and returned to his home in Minneapolis. Ha was serving a sentence for sending obscene literature through the mails and the DP.rdon was se cured at the request of Congressman Fletcher. During the cast week there has been a large Increase in the number of orders for binder twine received at the prison, and shipments now average $3,000 worth of twine per day. Warden Wolfer said today that he believes a very large percentage of the farm ers of this state will take advantage of the law passed enabling them to secure twine at the prison prior to the time when It will be sold to dealers, and he looks for a large business iv April. The remains of John Underwood arrived this morning from Solway. Minn., and tiv j funeral will be held at South Stillwater to morrow. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Underwood accompanied the remains: An election will be held at South Stillwater next Tuesday and several tickets are in the field. The contest for president of the village council is exceptionally warm, the candidates being Axel Anderson, George Torinus and Mr. Baldwin. E. W. Doe. who has visited relatives and friends in this city for a week, has returned to his home at Willow River. George L. Patchin left for Wiilow River, Minn., the first of the week, and expects to remain there for tome time. A. A. Harper has returned to Cass Lake after a pleasant visit with friends in this city. Dan Huddler. of Aberdeen, S. D., epent yesterday with Stillwater friends. Mrs. N. A. Nelson and child are spending a few days with Mr. and Mra. Newcomb in St. Paul. ' J. O. Holen left Monday for the East on business. Col. W. O. Bronson and R. S. Davis are expected home from a week's stay at Hot Spring*, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Otis, of Minneapolis, were guest* of friends In this city la3t Sun day. Mrr R. M. Anderson entertained the Parish Aid Society of Ascension Church yesterday afternoon. Mrs. L. Seeba hag returned from a trip to Chicago. The Bluffers enjoyed a bus ride to Hudson Thursday, where they visited Miss Jula Keefe. The Red Men have made arrangements to give a dance In Music hall on Monday fol lowing Easter. Oscar F. Johnson has returned from Lin coln, Neb., where he attended school Georre S. Millard, of Kansas City, spent a part of the week with Stillwater friends. BELL COMPANY OUSTED. Duloth Grants a Telephone Fran. chine to a Detroit Company. DULUTH, Minn., March 11.-The city coun cil has voted a telephone franchise to the In dependent company represented by R. H. Evans, of Ddtroit. This action has beem urg ed by the mayor and is reigarded as an excel lent solution of a very difficult problem , The franchise of the local Bell company ex pired Mwch 9. Under acts of congress ap plying to post roads, it is not supposed its wires can be forced off the streets but its r.ght to do local business will orobably be tesrted to, the courts. For years a Bell long distance company has been trying to make connection with Duluth. but every attempt has been counted with a demand for a local franchise, practically an extension of that of t>he local company, a.nd Mayor Truelson has lousfht it. LAND WILL BE RESTORED. Filing;* on Ceded Lands Are Being Canceled. CHAMBERLAIN. S. D., March 11.— During the past tea days the local United States land office has canceled about 120 filings upon ced ed Sioux lands in accordance with the recom mendation of the special inspector, who re cently made a personal! investigation of the land 3, and the order of the commissioner of the general land office at Washington These lands were years ago filed upon prin cipally for speculative purposes, and have since beon abandoned by the original claim ants, and this action on the part of the gen eral land office, will make it possible for the hinds to bo now filed upon by actual settlers without being compelled to first ko to the expense o* ins-tituting a contest in order to clear ud the records in the land office. In all nearly 300 of this class of entries will be canceled, restoring about 40,000 acres to the public domain. SENSATION IN EAU CLAIRE. Wife of a Prominent Lumberman Is Charged With Forgery. EAU CLAIRE, Wls., March 11.— Mrs. D. H. 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S. and foreien XX && X v V^ re of , lmitatlons - Ther e is no genuine Electric Belt but the Sanden S?X 8© v, i. i FREE BOOK "Three Classes of Men " §<$ W wh IC h e X p, am s all, S eat in pl,ia seal.i envelope. All letters answered by «. personally, all ad ,ic« free, irite today.to address ,1 yen helov, GO i Sanden JJectriceo.,32^ Minneapolis. Minn. | third time. The presenit complainant is a teamster in the employ of her husband's lumber company. The teamster's wife has a note of $450. made over two years ago and bearing the forged signature of D. H. Fergu son. The prisoner was released on $800 bail. Civil Right* Vpheld. OSHKOSH, Wia., March 11.— Judge Goss rendered his decision today In the case of Mts6 Rachel Black, the colored girl who sued the Century RoCler rink for $200 dam ages for ejecting her from the rink on account of her color. The judge awarded damages of $5 and costs, amounting 'to about $8. The Judge afterwards said that a plain, denial on the part of the rink managers that the girl's color was the cause of hep exclusion was not sufficient; if there was any other cause the company should have sought to prove it be fore the court. Charged With Forgery. LONG PRAIRIE, Minn., March 11.— W. P. Noble, proprietor of the Little Sauk Stave mill, was arrested yesterday, charged with forgery. He failed to secure bonds, and passed the night in the county Jail. Aberdeen Man Suicides. ABERDEEN, S. D., March 11.— Richard Manning, a resident of this city, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by shooting him self through the heart with a revolver. He went up stairs, lay upon the bed and placed the revolver so close to his body that his clothing was set on fire and burned quite a hole before he was discovered. His wife and children were out of the house at thextime. This is the third attempt he has made to take his life. He leaves aawife and four chil dren. Held for Homicide. JAMESTOWN, N. D.. March 11.— At the . preliminary hearing of Harrington, the man who stabbed M. Garvey, a machinery .dealer of Carrington. he was bound over to the next term of the district court in the sum of $2,500. During a quarrel some time ago. ovqr the payment of a note, Harrington stabbed Gar vey in the knee. The wound- resulted in blood poisoning, from the effects of which Garvey died. Road of the Rongh. RED WING, Minn., March 11.— (Special.)— Martin Emerson, indicted for passing a forg ed check on Albert Schmidt, of Froratenac, pleaded guilty here today and was sentenced to the St. Cloud reformatory. J. Flinn. in dicted far erand larceny, was allowed to plead guilty to petit larceny, and waa sen tenced to ten days in the county jail. Prison Terms. BRAINERD, Minn.. March 11.— (Special.)— Charles Smith, indicted for forgery in the sec ond degree, today entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to one year at Stillwater, Nels Bender indicted for grand larceny in the sec ond degree, changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to one year in the peniten tiary- Bogna Silver Dollars. BUTTE, Mont., March 11.— A man who gave his name as Gus Shriekengost has been arrested here for having in his 1 possession a large quantity of counterfeit silver dollars. He was Identified as the robber who held up a train near Ogden and afterwards robbed the postofflce at Montpelier, Idaho. Cracksmen Boa nil Over. GLENWOOD, Minn., March IJ,— The cracksmen who blew the safes in the post office and county treasurer's office were bound over to the June term of the district court to day. Sheriff Thorson takes Olson to Minne apolis and Nichols goes to Morris jail. Soldier Remanded. ALBERT LEA. March' 11.— (Special.)— Ed Gallagher, lately a Drivate in Company I, Twelfth regiment, waived examination on a charge of forgery here this afternoon, and was remanded until the May term of court. Surprised Them. Some benighted little Hawaiian children made their first acquaintance with Santa Claus last Christmas at a Sunday school en tertainment planned by Americans,' and the dear oid gentleman nearly frightened the tots out of their wits. Great Meteorite. What is known as the Bruce meteorite is now on It 3 way to the British museum from Australia. It is said to weigh no less than four tons. HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any cass of Catarrh that cannot be cured b» Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the- last 15 year 3, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business tran sactions and financially able to carry cut any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Waldlng. Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure ie taken internally, act- Ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. ( Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pia s artfUhe best. NEWS OF RAILROADS THREATENED DISTURBANCE OF PASSENGER RATES SEEMS TO HAVE COME DUE TO HOMESEEKERS' RATES Sow and Canadian Pacific Threaten to Apply the Rate* on a $25 Basiu to Polnta Thli Side of Where the Standard Fare In That Amount, in Fact, Will Bring It Down to Minnesota. The passenger rate disturbance which was predicted three weeks ago, when special homeseekers' rates were announced by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, has occurred and no railroad prophet can foresee its end. The Soo line will start the trouble at an early day, perhaps tomorrow, by making a rate to the coast based on the rate of $25. This means a cut of about one-half in tariff to intermediate points for the Great Northern and Northern Pacific rate of $25 applies only to points beyond which the regu lar standard fare is only $25. The Soo threatens to apply its cut to Minne sota and North Dakota, and await the result on the American lines to reduce their local rates. An official of the Soo yesterday said that it was preposterous to ask the Soo and Canadian Pacific to make a rate of $25 to the coast when such a rate was designed only to benefit the American lines. He said the Amer ican roads had settled all the territory they can for the present in Minnesota, Dakota and Montana, and now they are reaching out for settlers for Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Such immi gration cannot be of any benefit to the Soo and Canadian Pacific, and the rates put in by the roads would be dis astrous to the Soo and Canadian Pa cific, which would be compelled, in con sequence, for their own self-protection to more than meet. "Wait until our circular appears," said the Soo official. "There will be smoke in the air and it won't come from a peace pipe." Whether the reduced rates on the Canadian Pacific and Soo would be made to apply in both directions was not stated. But this is not the only fight the northern transcontinental lines have on hand. They have another with the Santa Pc and Southern Pacific and other roads in the South and South west. The trouble is over the rates to Los Angeles for the National Educa tional association convention. When It had been decided by the as sociation to hold its convention in Los Angeles the Santa Pc passenger rep resentative promised to make a round trip rate from Missouri river points to Los Angeles of $52, with an under standing that such rates should apply only to tickets returning by the same route. For an additional $12.50 the Santa Fe promised a return trip via Portland and the Shasta route. Then the date for the convention was fixed, and after all preliminaries had been settled the Santa Fe and Southern Pa cific notified the association that on business via Ogden, returning through the Shasta and Portland route to St. Paul, there would be a charge of $5 more. The roads then demanded from the Northern Pacific and Great North ern $18.50, or $6 more than it put in, thereby placing the Northern lines at a disadvantage. The lines running through Ogden re fused to agree not to participate in this business, but gave notice that they would sell round-trip tickets to Los Angeles for $64.50, returning through Portland, whereupon the Southern Pacific announced that it would refuse to honor such tickets. The Northern lines at the same time notified the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific that they could not accept less than $25 fcr the haul from Portland to St. Paul or to Missouri river points. The result is a most complicated situation, which certainfy promises to become more complicated before It is straightened out. The rate to the Baptist convention in San Francisco will not be affected by the quarrel over Los Angeles. It has been fixed at one first-class thirty day rate of $60 for a round trip. Pas sengers going by way of Portland will pay $72.50 or $67.90 from St. Paul. The Great Northern, Northern Pa cific, Soo and Canadian Pacific have announced an intention to meet the rate to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vic toria, Vancouver on the same dates and conditions. LOOKING FOR UISIXBSB. Dinaiipearances Explained by the Preienee of Strniitt-vrn at Augrastn. There have lately been a number of mys terious disappearances from the railroad world, and a good deal of curiosity has been evinced as to the whereabouts of certain well known railroad men. Now It appears that all were at Augusta, Ga., studying the prob lem of securing the transportation of tue Fifteenth regiment to Minnesota. J. P. Elmer, general agent for the Chicago Great Western, showed up at his office, Rob ert and Fifth streets, yesterday for the first time in a week, and boldly admitted that he had been to Augusta and had put In a few strong strokes for his railroad company in an attempt to get a contract for the transporta tion of the whole regiment. "Just as I was leaving," he said. "Her man Brown, of the Wisconsin Central, ar rived, and be is now doing his best to get the regiment "The regiment will l«*v« Augu«t* liaroh 27. I do not believe there will be 100 members in Augusta after that date." ST. P. TRAIN SCHEDULE. Change in the Running of th« Trains Begins Today. The new train schedule of the Northern Pa cific will be put In operation today. The coast trains will leave this city at 8:65 a. m. and 10:46 p. m.. and ther* will be no after noon train to Tacoma. The company yesterday Issued a folder giv ing the time of the "2 Diurnal" trains. Di urnal is a new word for railroad use, and the originator of the application is awaiting its effoct with feverish anxiety. It has al ready been criticised by the hypercritical aa a misnomer, for diurnal usually means the period of the sun, and is the opposite of noc turnal. As one of the "diurnal" trains leaves at night, some railroad men have been cruel enough to make light of the folder. Wftbuh'i Hew Mali Train. ST. LOUIS, March 11.— Negotiations be tween the postcfß-e department and the "Wa bash railroad management for new mail service between Buffalo and Kansas City have been brought to a favorable conclusion. One part of the arrangement ia a new after noon train over the Wabash from St. Louis to Kansas City. The departure from St. Louis will be at 2 p. m., and the arrival In Kansas City will be made at 9:4fi p. m. St. Louis-Kansas City train la only the last link in a new through service from the East. Under the arrangement made a new train will leave Buffalo at 8:30 p. m. It will bring the mail into St. Louis in time to reach business houses shortly after 2 o'clock the next day. Through mall from the East by way of Buffalo will go right on to Kansas City, reaching there at 9:45 and make the night connections out. Canadian Pacific Annual Iteport. MONTREAL. March 11.— The annual report of the Canadian Pacific railway has beeu made public. The balance sheet" srtiows that the groes earnings for the year were $28,133. --977; working expensee. >15,6«3,6<8, making the net enrnicga $10,47.'. 372, leaving a surplus for the year of $494,124. The working expenses for the year amounted .to 69.92 per cant of the gross earnings, and the net earnings to 40. 0S per cent, as compared with 57.16 and 4U.54 per ceivf, respectively, in 1897. The earn ings per passenger, per mile, were 1.51 cents, ant 1 , per ton of freight, per mile, 0.7;! cents, as against $1.82 and 0.78 cents, re*pectlvely in 1897. Lake and Rail Rate*. The railroads are now getting ready for lake and rail business and are patching up all old deals which were terminated when the lakes froze up. A meeting was to have been held in Min neapolis last week, but It was postponed until this week. The old scale, lake and rail, was 75 to 25 cents. Whether the same rates will be put in thi3 year is problematical at this time, but It must ba 3Oon decided. The trunk lines are now In correspondence with the Western lines on the subject. Central Pacific Settles. WASHINGTON, March 11.— The four of tie twenty srml-anuual notes recently given by the Central Pacific Railroad company, in settlement of the government's claim against the roa<J, amounting to nearly 112.000.000, were anticipated and paid into the United States treasury at N>w York yesterday by Speyer & Co., representing th« officers of ttie Central Pacific company. The available trash in the New York treasury In increased by this amount. Bids for Moving? the Seventh. Bids for the transportation of the two com panies of the Seventh regiment at Fort Snel! ing to Ft. McPherson and Ft. Crolx were put in yesterday by all the St. Paul-Chicago- Kausas City lines, but Quartermaster French did not award the contracts, because he pre ferred to have the matter passed upon by Gen. Wade, who Is expected In this city to day. The awards will be made tomorrow. Short Cut Into Seattle. The Northern Pacific director! have deter mined to make a short cut Into Seattle by building a line f/om Palmer to Franklin, uiul thence paralleling a line of the Pacific coast company. It is also rumored that the Northern Pa cific will build a line from Black river junc tion to Anacontez, Wash., and also a branch to the Benton coal fields. ii. N. and It. P. RntcN Met. SEATTLE, Wash., March 11.— The Canadian Pacific and the Soo Line today met tho Great Northern and Northern Pacific colonist rate of $25 from Eastern terminals to Puget sound points. On and after tlie third Tuesday of the month and the first Tuesday In April, tha Canadian road quotes a round trip flrst-clas* rate of $02 from St. I'aul. NOTES OF THE RAILROADS. P. A. Hawley, general agent of the St. Paul & Duluth at Minneapolis, arrived at New York yesterday on the steamer St. Paul, formerly the auxiliary cruiser. He has been In Paris. DR. FELLER, 1 80 E. Seventh St. ST. PAUL, MINN. 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MONEY M4RKET EASY WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT OX THE WHOLE REGARDED AS FAVORABLE RESERVES NOT UNDULY LOW Season Approaching When the Movement of CaJih Will Be In the Direction of New York Loan and DepoMt Expansion Han Seem ingly fulminated Flsnres Are Somewhat Puz«ltng at Present. NEW YORK. .March 11.-The Finan cier says: 'The loan and deposit expansion which has been a marked characteris tic of the New York bank statement since the opening of December, has seemingly culminated. The exhibit for the week ending March 11 shows a fall ing off of $3,062,000 In loans, and $8 - 155,100 in deposits, the change in the atter item being due in part to the loss of $3,413,900 in ca?h which the banks report. The decrease in reserve was only $1,375,125. the excess now standing at $24,578,826. It is doubtful if tM averages tell the whole story of the week's operations. The material increase in reserves for the several weeks previous has had the effect of bringing a great deal of cash to New York in the hope of profitable employ ment, and the total amount does not figure in the current statement. On the other hand the movement to the interior has been lighter than U3ual. "The most important factor of the | week appears only in part in the state ment. Central Pacific payments March 1 called for a transfer of no less than $6,000,000 in cash from the banks t • the sub-treasury, but in the weekly averages this counted f>r only one day. or nominally one-sixth. Th ■» money has gone out of the banks, how ever, and may influence rates for a few days next week. To what extent this will prove true depends largely upon the volume of interior money which will be forwarded to this city. "The statement, so far as current operations are concerned, is rather con fusing. It is to be noted that while the actual cash in banks declined $3,500,000 — and one bank's loss more than ac counts for this— the excels reduction is only $1,333,000. The deposit changes which reduced reserve requirements by over $2,000,000 explain this showing. The loan contraction probably reflects the consummation of several special oper- J.atlons. and the liquidation Of sp?cula tive accounts. It Is also not Impossible that It indicates a thorough absorption of the large volume of American se curities returned from Europe, and in a lesser degree the contraction in for eign credits. Regarded os h whole, the statement is favorable, in that it f nre casts continued ease in money. The time is rapidly approaching when the movement of money will be in this di rection, and reserves will be strength ened materially, although they cannot be said to be unduly low at present." CHMOTM HOI SE HI I. KM. New Oiih to Be Voted fey Iht- Banka on Monday. NEW YORK. March 11.— A proposed amendment to the constitution of the New York Clearing House association will be voted on at the meeting of the associated banks here Monday. This amendment provides that the clearing house committee shall have power to make and enforce rules for collections outside of New York city and to require banks to charge for these collections at a rate to be fixed from time to time by the committee. The rules proposed are as follows: For items collected in th.- accounts or in dealing Uhe government at t!io t'nit:d States, rhe stote of New York, or the , Ify of New York, and for Items r-cllt>i-: <1 in the cltfes of Bosi.in, Mass.: Providence, K. T ; Albany, N. V. ; Troy. N. V.; Jersey CKjr.N. .1.: Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore. Md.: the chjr^j shall In all oa*»s bo discretionary \fith tho collecting barks, and the same s'l.ill not h-* governed by the piovlelons <rf !hos<> rules and regulations. For n.'l items from whomsoever rrvelvtd (exoept on thoee points declared discretionary In »eo:io>u 2), payable at ;oi. ts in Connac'iCOt, Delaware, Indiana. Illinois. K?utu.-ky. Maine, Maryland, Massadnuaetts, Michigan, .Missouri. New Hampshire. New Jersey, New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania., District of Columbia, Vermont, Rhode Island. Vlrßlnla. West Vii ginia and Wisconsin, the collecting banks shall charge not less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the amount of the items respectively. For all Items from whomsoever received, payaibve aX jwlnts ia Alabama., Arizora. Ar kansas, California, Colorado. Ploii'la. Geor gia, Idaho, ludian Territory, Iow;i, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota. Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska. Nevada. Xew Mexico. Xortli l>n kola. Oklahoma, Oregon. S.uth Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, T':xas, Uiah, Wash ington. Wyoming and Canada, the eojle*-;his: banks shall chanje not less thai! one-quarur of 1 Der cent of the amount of the items re^oectlvtlv. The expense of collecting checks and drafts is an item of fi-wral millions of dollars a year to the clearing hou;-e banks. It renders hundreds of small accounts not only unprofitable, but a source of loss. With the present low rate of Interest the profit of an account with s.n average balance of $1,000 is only about $6 a year. The* regulations include a fine r>t $5,000 for the first violation and expul sion for the second violation. Burled In Westminster. In Westminster Abbey 1.178 person* hava I been buried. 7