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NO RELIEF IN COURTS RAILROADS NOT ENTITLED TO ASK FOR INJUNCTIONS AGAINST SC ALTERS SO BUFFALO JUDGE DECIDES Holds That ■ Trunk Line- Associa tions Combine to Fix; Ruteis s in Violation of Law* Railroad presidents are considerably worried over the decision of Judge Hazel, of the United States circuit court at Buf falo, that the Lackawanna railroad was rot eiuiil:d to an injunction restrain Bcalpe.s from handling is tickets. Judge Hazel gave as his reason that the ro;id •was a member of the Trunk Lines a.' soclatlon "which combines to fix rates in violation of the law, and, ■. therefore, is not entitled to redress in a court of equity." 1 hi .result of such a rulingcannot be toa lightly ..-t mat.d by th • railroads of this country who a-re membtrs of "pools.*" The formal articles of agreement of tae various trtight and pass» nger arsoe.a* tions were drafted by skillful attorn* ys and the right of each -read to "take in dividual action" on every question of rates Is plainly declared in the articles ol" agreement, but th* constant effort of the heads or' the associations Is to pre vent "individual action"- be ng taken by any road. According to Judge Hazel's decision, it is impossible for any of the roads belonging to th<> associations to secure redress in court. WILL EATER UA CROSSE. Great Westers,, Said to Be Reaching Oat Again, LA CROS3E, Wis., Aug. 31.—(Special.) —A BuiLncrton official stated today that the Great Western will positively buy the Green Bay & Western and will enter I.a Crosse. By the recent purchase of the Wlnona & St. Peter road, the Gr sat Western grains a cßur line between Me. Intyre and Winona. The absorption of the Green Bay will give it a direct line across Wisconsin. The .plan is to bu Id a new dtp t at La Cio:se and run through trains. An extension will be built through the. Kkkapco valley from this city. Lo cal railroad men gay that when the Great "Western enters La Cross- the prospects will be good for the erection of a union depot. Promotion for Daniels. It is thought that in the near future George H. Daniels, general passenger agent of, the New York Central, will be made passenger traffic manager of the New York Central linos and Boston & Albany, with super\ on also over the West Shore passenger department. Mr. Daniels is probably the best known passenger official In the countrj. lie is a past master in the art of advertising. and scarcely a day passes but some docu ment regarding the superiority of the New York Central over all other roads emanates from his office. Next to Chiun cey M. Depew, he is the best orator in the service of the New York Central. Mr. Daniels is a son of Illinois, being born in Kane county, on Dec. 1, 1842. He entered railway service in 1557 as rcdman with the engineer corps of the North Missouri railroad. In ISSO he became gen eral ticket agent of the VVabash, and in ISS2 was appointed commissioner of the lowa Trunk Line association. Shortly afterwards he was placed in charge of the Colorado Railroad association,' and two years later was burdened with the additional *duties of commissioner of the Utah Traffic association. On Jan. 1, ibSG, he assumed the position of commissioner of the Central Traffic association and chairman of the Eastern passenger com mittee. He then became vice chairman of the Central Traffic association and chairman of the east-bound passenger committee. While in this position Mr. Daniels waged a fierce fight against scalpers and the commission system, and this drew the attention of the Vander bilts to him, and in April, 1883, when they SICK MADE WELL WEAK MADE STRONG ■melons Elixir of Life Dscoverai by Famous Doctor-Scientist That Cures Ev.ry Known Aiimant. Wontarul Cures Are Effected That Seem Lke Miracles Performad—The S.cret of Long Life of Olden times Revived. The Remedy Is Free to All Who Send Name and Address. • After years of patient study, and delv ing into the dusty record of the past, as well as following modern experiments in the realms of medical .science. Dr. James W. Kidd, 1588 First National Bank build ing. Fort Wayne, Ind., makes the start ling announcement that he has surely DR. JAMES WILLTAM KIDD. discovered the elixir of life. 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State what you want td be cured of and the sure remedy for it will be •ent you free by return mail. needed a new general passenger agent, they selected George H. Daniels for the position. Fe's Xew Manager. W. G. Nevin will resume next Monday the duties of gentxal manager of the Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque. In cluding the Santa Fe. Pacific, Southern California and San Franciaco and San Joaquin Valley railroad, he was granted a leave of absence for six months la-t February, and has just returned from an European trip that has greatly bene fited his health. A. G. Wells, who was acting general manager during Mr. Kevin's absence, returns to the position of general superintendent of the Santa Fe's Western lines. Mr. Nevin was born Dec. 15. 1855, at Boston, Mass., and entered railway serv ice in IS7S as clerk of the Philadelpn a & Reading railroad* About a year later he came West as clerk on construction of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe in Kansas. In 1880 ho became material agent of the Sonora Railway or Mexico, and in ISS2 became purchasing agent of the Mexican Central railway. From ISS6 to l>yi he was out of railway service. In IS9I he accepted the position of purchas ing agent of the A.ransas Pa?s railway, and two j ears later was made assistant to the general manager of the Gulf, Colo rado & Santa Fe. He tntn came to Chi cago as assistant to the first vice presi dent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway. In 1895 he was made general purchasing agent of the same road, and in ISO? he went to Los Angeles as gen ual manager of all the Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque. IHht Four Finances. The financial report of the Big Four, which is expected "To issue snortly, cover ing operatl ma of the property fCT the year mded Ji:,r\e "ft last.' will contain the following figures: Earnings from freight trailie for tho twelve months, $11,040,002; f:om passenger buslres3. 54.979. --651; mail. $635,402; ex-ress. $363:776; rents, $258,656; total earnings, $17,577.457; operat ing, expenses. $13,706,324; car service. $110, --326; insurance, $-6,042; taxes, $612,944; to tal expanses. $i 2,"53,635: net earnings, $5,121,851; fixer! charges, $2,5)16,^62; balance, $2,204,889. There was an increase of J13.540 over the previous year. Dur'ng the year thc-e was no change in capitalization or funded debt. The p.e vious year the surplus was equal to 5 per cent on the preferred and 6.5 per cent on the common stock, and the showing for the last fiscal year is very near the same, but in reality it is a better one. in that a much larger amount was put back into the property in improvements and better ments than during the year ended June 30. ISOO. Building: I'lksci 1 Shop*. Work has commenced on the extension to the Northern Pacific's blacksmith and machine shops at South Tacoma. When the work is completed an increase In the working force of 25 per cent will be made. The capacity of the shops will show a big gain. Though the company will not rash construction, the work will be completed by the end of the year. The improvements to the machine shops will enable the company to add five stalls for locomotives. At present there are ten, al ready making the South Tacoma shop one of the largest in the country. The improvements under way will give the Tacoma plant an equal rank with the Northern Pacific shops in this city. All the heavy work of the railroad west of Helena is done at the South Tacoma shops. The district includes practically all the mountain divisions of the North ern Pacifc. and as a result the demand for repairs Is unusually heavy. The shops, in addition, care for the repairs of every description nc-ce-ssary to rolling stock west of Ellensburg, Wash. Seattle Situation Unchanged. President Me^en has declared that the Northern Pacific has taken no interest in the Seattle. Wash., union depot since last fall, and the situation 13 unchanged. The necessary legislation has not been secured, and the companies interested could not proceed. The Northern Pacific refuses to enter the Seattle depot grounds over a drawbridge such as would be nec essary unless waterway legislation is do-ne away with. While President Mellen was in Tacoma he was very much inter ested in the water front "improvements and was taken along the entire front. The time of the Northern Pacific presi dent while in Tacoma was occupied large ly with hearing reports of officers at that point. New Bridge at La Crone. The latest rumor about more improve ments on the Milwaukee road is that the line will build a new bridg-e across the Mississippi river at La Crosse. There v. ill also be constructed a "V" track be tween North La Crosse and the city proper. The improvement involves the expenditure of $100,000 or more. At pres ent the Milwaukee road runs into North La Crosse direct, and from there it is necessary to back the trains down Into the city proper, which occasions consider ?jble delay. This is also do-ne "on the Omaha road, and the railroad men have come to call La Crosse "the town we back into." Thing: of the Past. It lexemes more apparent that th« Western Presidents' association has bv come a thing of the past. It has been found convenient this year to dispense with its monthly meetings, and they have been postponed from time to time, so that none has been held. E. T. Jef fery, president of the Denver & Rio Grande road, is chairman of the associa tion, and a'ter consultation with the members, he has announced another post ponement. Th^ agreement provided for mrn.hl,- m?etir,gs, in which the inter state commerce commssioners were to take part anJ give moral support to the presidents in preventing the manipula tion of rates and stopping violations of agreements. Appeal to the Courts. CHICAGO. Aig. 31.—Oiorpcrat;on Coun sel Walker today filed in the United States circuit court, the city's reply to the bll of W. S. Elkins, whereby Mr. klkins s-€ks to have .ieciJed interests of the Chicago Union Depot company to North and West sides, which it now claims by right of the ninety-nine-year 1.1 I of I£(s. giving it the right of the streets until 1£65. The city's reply is a general and specinc demurrer in which Ihe jurisdiction of the federal court is cenicd. Ihe !ran:'h"se under wh eh the company now operates, according to t'.* corpo;ation counsel, expires In 1903 Coins to Salt Lake City. DEiWER, Col., Aug. 31.-The News says today: The Colorado & North western railway is to be extended to Salt Lake City. The announcement was made by Thomas H. Mann, who has iust re turned from Chicago, where he was call ed on Monday last by Col. *l. B ' Black one of the projectors and builders of the Colorado & Northwestern, ar:«s who re cently gained control of that road. Cray's Xew Position; SALT LAKE, Aug. 31.—David R. Gray for several years general agent of the Southern Pacific in Salt I.ak.?,.has been appointed general agent !n tho Inter- Mountain region for the entire Harriman system, including the Southern Pacific I .'iion Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Oregon Navigation company. This Is a new position growing out or the recent railway consolidation. Building- New Line. fn hn f^r ndry ' Preslr"ent of the Hastings mill, of Vancouver, and Capt. McKenzie agfnt of the Great Northern railway.' have caused active work to be begun on tbe cc>nstru<ton of the Vancouver Northern & Yu!-on railway. It is sad that the line will *>c constructed within a year and that the new government bridge across the Fraser will be used Eml of S. C. & P. SIOUX CITY. lowa, Aug. 21.-The old Sioux City & Paci'ic railroa-l. which ha-1 its tirth forty years ago, w 11 pass out ot existence tonight, bf coming the prop erty of the Chicago & North-Western. which purchased the road at the recent sale in Washington. RAILROAD TWOTES OF INTEREST. Charters have been procured by the an£ti F£ f°r f?"rteen new branch lines whic^wm beasis thml. 3 gSrreßate «h ° An order has been issued by the man agem of IS* PUtsbu & Western road prohibiting the use of cigarettes on trains by passengers as well as trainmen. The 'Frisco and Cotton belt railroads are engaging in a determined struggle for traffic in the St. Francis basin Ten nessee, and both are providing new lines through that rich territory. B . w unes Work on the new Chicago & North- Western extension from Princeton to Grand Rapids, Wls., is being.pushed" and Wautoma; the county seat, which has never had a railroad, has been : reached wTr a££i ayl.n " Will be '" flnl*h on the Burlington s extension from i, Toluca, THE ST. PAUI, GI.OBE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1901. Mont., to Cody, Wyo., about Sept. 15. Surveys have been made for an early ex tension from Cody to Yellowstone i'ark. At the annual meeting of the Canadian Pacific to be held Oct. 2, a resolution will be submitted authorizing the issu ance of bonds to the extent of £2,400,000, to be utilized in the acquisition of steam vessels. A plan to use electricity in place of steam for the abatement of the smoke and noise nuisance of the New York Cen tra! road in its tunnel in New York city will be submitted to the next meeting of the board of directors. President Ashley, of the Toledo & Ann Arbor road, has arranged for a car ferry terminal at Manistique, Mich, and re building of cocks and warehouses will be started at once. Manistique is an open harbor durii.gr the winter, and terry boats of the Ann Arbor line will ply the year round. J. J. Mahoney, superintendent of the Winona & Western road, has been ap pointed general manager of the Fort Smith & Western. Mr. Mahoney will leave for Fort Smith as soon as the WK nona & Western is transferred to the Chicago Great Western. The Fort Smith & Western is building a line through Oklahama and Indian territory and Nt.-w Mexico. It is rumored from reliable sources that the Missouri Pacific has obtained control ol' the Blaokwell, Enid & Southwestern railway, an indeptndent line now builuing rapidly across Oklahoma. TTus line was started at Jblackwell, and has now trains running to Keene, a distance of ninety miles. The line when completed will be over 300 miles long and traverse the heart of Oklahoma. The contract for the construction of 225 miles of the Arkansas & Choctaw line, from Arkinda to the Red river, has been awarded. The work will be completed within a year, and the line will be optr. attd as an independent property. It has ample financial backing, and is expected to be a pjy.r.g proposition from the start. It will traverse a country of diversified resources and wj.l be extended from time to time. The Santa Fe has bought the Kansas Southwestern railroad, a short line run ning west from Arkansas City to An thony, a distance of sixty miles. The deal has been under consideration for some time, and has finally been consum mated. The fact which brought about the sale is the desire of the Santa Fe to extend its limits to the coal fields of Arkansas. The Southwestern people had a plan to extend their lines from Arkan sas City to that country, and all arrange ments, including the final survey, were made. The Pittsburg, Johnstown, Ebensburg & Eastern railway is having its share of trouble at present. The road's em ployes all went out on a strike, and the traffic of the road is at a standstill. Al leged failure on the part of the company to pay the men their salaries is the rea son given. Eight passenger and freight trains are on the schedule. The large number of people stopping at the sum mer resort hotels and cottages along the line is plaoed at great inconvenience. General Manager Frank Patterson re signed. He declined to take the respon sibility for running trains. Among the most pressing needs of the Southern Pacific road, to supply when the expenditure of 140,000,000 is talked of, is the rebuilding of nearly all the bridges on the system. The total length of its bridges is 959,150 feet, and of this 93 per cent consists of timber. To put the road in thoroughly up-to-date condition the greater number of bridges will have to be rebuilt, the spans being placed on solid masonry and steel substituted for wood in these spans. It is proposed to put $10,000,000 a year into physical im provements for the next four years and to take this sum from earnings in the first instance at least PERSOXALdS OF THE WEEK. After Sept. 1 General Agent Choate, of the Union Pacific at Pittsburg, will also represent the Southern Pacific at that point. A dispatch from Monterey, Mexico states that A. C. Michaelis, at one time traffic manager of the Wisconsin Cen tral, died in a hotel at Tampico. Col. John Peter Moore, live stock agent of the Frisco line at Fort Worth, Tex., is dead. He was one of the best known railroad men in Texas. He was in his sixty-third year. C. F. Franklin, who about six months ago, resigned the general superintend ency of the Clover Leaf road and became connected with the Toledo Belt line, has ajjain taken service with the Clover Leaf as master of transportation. Auditor Theron Geddes, of the Rio Grande Western road, has announced his resignation, to take effect Sept. 1. As sistant Auditor John F. Evans becomes assistant auditor of the Denver & Rio Granae system, also, with headquarters at Denver. j J. B. Wright, who retired recently from the position of superintendent of the Sac ramento division of the Southern Pacific, is to be shortly taken back in the em- - ploy of the company, and is to succeed Julius Kruttschnitt as general manager of the road. wan. '. —: ■■'' HUGE SHIPBUILDING PLANT. Inwardness of Bethlehem Steel Company Transfer. "--."• NEW YORK, Aug. 31.— Mail and Express today says: "The filing of a mortgage for $7,503,000 by the Bethlehem Steel company with the register of Hudson county, New Jersey, stating that securities deposited thereun der included 5,555 acres of land on the j Haekensack meadows, brought to light a very important feature of the big An gle-American steel deal which is now in process of formation. "''•:?. --"It furnishes for the first time a correct clew to the capitalists who are to de velop the Meadows on an enormous [ scale by the establishment of a .ship ; building . plant, immense docks and pos sibly a belt line railroad, which will con i veniently connect with all the trunk lines now entering Jersey City and Hoboken. "In searching for further particulars about the project for utilizing the Meal ows. some new points in regard to the Bethlehem-Vickers-Maxim deal were ob tained. In spite of denials, it was offi cially stated today that tine combination will go through, and the details of the big new company already have been agreed on. "It can also be authoritatively an nounced that it is the intention of this combination to build another large steel plant in this country, in addition to the Bethlehem plant, to be used chiefly for the manufacture of armor plate for war ships, which will be the specialty of the new company. •".''.'' "Where the new plant will be located it Is impossible to state at this time, but it will presumably be somewhere within easy reach of the miming regions. In ad dition to this armor plate, possibly in Pennsylvania, it. is understood that a great shipbuilding plant will be located on the Haekensack Meadows, which" are regarded as a very convenient location for such an enterprise. "As to why the Bethlehem Steel corn ! pany should have bought so much land i in this vicinity, it was explained today i by one who is familiar with the steel deal that J. P. Morgan is the prime fac tor In the scheme, and it was convenient to place the ownership of the land in such hands. The railroads in which M- Morgan is interested, including the Read ing, Jersey Central and Erie, will at no i : distant date want a large amount of I I terminal property not too far from Jersey ; City, and the Haekensack land will then ! meet their lequirements perfectly, i •It is learned today on the best au i thority that the Haekensack land em ! braced under the Bethlehem. Steel com pany s mortgage includes the Pike prop, erty, which belonged to a" single estat • • A local banker said today that he un- I derstood that the Pike estate property ' wan bought by a Philadelphia syndicate recently with a view to turning it over to other parties, and he thought that there was no doubt that the Bethlehem Steel company is now. in control of this land, which has upward of ten miles of water front. "Some of those Interested In the Phil adelphia syndicate are understood to have been persons friendly to Drexel & Co." . He Was Punctured. "Mr. Starr," said the manager, "you positively must cease letting your mind dwell so much on your bicycle." '•Eh! Why? 'asked the tragedian. Perhaps you are not aware, of it, but in the third act, where you should have cried, 'Ye gods, I am stabbed," you shouted, 'I am punctured!'" The Point of View. .; : *v X Puck. . • . " - ' Rector—The divorce laws are scandal ous. They should be changed. v- .*' Grass Widow—l quite agree with \ you,. rector. It a shame to .be compelled to live so many months In those Impossible places, in order to acquire a legal resi ence.-'..--'.;^mgß^&wßHg|BS.-.. ; . ' ■...■ AFTERNOON NEWS CONDENSED. London—Andrew Carnegie has given £10,000 to build a town hall at Mother Well, Lanarkshire, Scotland. New York—A stone plow, believed to be fully 300 years old, has been unearthed at Blootnfield, N. J., by workmen on a culvert. Menomlnee, M^ta.—The match block factory of A. W. Clark & Co., also a saw mill and shingle mill, were destroyed by fire. Estimated loss, $50,000; partially covered by insurance. Columbus, Ohio—The American Tin Plate company applied to the United States district court here for an injunc tion against the striking employes of its plant at Irondale, Ohio. Pottsville, Pa.-The powder mills at Kreba station were totally destroyed by a terrific explosion, and two men were instantly killed. They are Ira Rupert and Richard Hous<>r, both of Krebs station. New York-Two more victims of tho fire in tenement house in B oiklyn Fri day nght, in which four persons' lost their lives and seven were seriously In jured, died, bringing the number of dead up to six. Glebe, Ariz.—A disastrous fire is rac ing in the lower workings of the Old Do minion Copper company's mines. The or gin of the fire is supposed to be from a candle lelt in the work. Work to extin guish the fire has failed. Lewlston, Idaho—lndian Agent C T Stranahan says the census of the Nez Pt-rces Indians, just completed, shown the total Indian population to be 1,567 of which number iO3 are females. There was a decrease of 60 since last year. Washington—lnformation has been re ceived at the war department tr^t the remains of Gen. JLudlow wtfl be cremated Services- will be held Tuesday at Trinity church, in New York. The ashes will be interred at the old home of the Lud low's on Long Island. London—The British customs collec tions for the fiscal year 1900-01 were £26 - 270.959. This is £3,227,487 more than for 1899-1900. and £2,650,959 more than the budget estimate. The inland revenues collected by customs were £7,227,877, an increase over those of 1899-ISOO of £942,045. Chicago—Commercial t atHters, who or ganiz d under the name or "Gideons of the State of lUinois," began a two days' rally here. The order is compo ed of persons wh) pie "gel Ih2mselve3 ag&inst the use cf profanity, drinking intoxicants or play.ng poker. A membership of £,0.0 is claimed. Canton—President McKinley and party will leave Canton Wednesday morning for Buffalo, going by way of Cleveland. The itinerary has not been officially an nounced, but it is understood the party will go on the Fort Wayne to Alliance. thence to Cleveland, reaching- Buffalo Wednesday afternoon. ■ London—The Standard's report from its correspondent at Pretoria, on the subject of health of the refugee camps in the Transvaal shows that, of 62,479 men, women and children collected under Brit ish supervision, 1,467 died in July. Eight hundred and sixty of the deaths report ed were of persons below the age of twelve years. Santa Fe.N. M.—Vice President Rooso velt has consented to write a history of the rough riders for the roster of the ■New Mcx co volunteers in the Spanish war, w,hich will be published by the au thority of the thirty-fourth"* legislative assembly of New Mexico, which 'has made an appropriation for that purpose. Denver—Traffic on nearly all the rail .roads in and out of Denver was badly delayed today on account of the wash outs caused by a heavy rain storm- cov ering a large area east of Pike's Peak. An unusually severe rain and hail storm caused several thousand dollars' damaye to streets and buildings in Cripple Creek. '. Columbus. Ohio—The National Grand Lodge of ; Free and Accepted York Ma sens of the United States of North Amer ica, colored, was incorporated here with headquarters at Columbus." ' The lncor porators are: Capt. W. D. Matthews John W. Childers, Oliver B. Jones, George W. Pinkard and Robert McFarland. . :v Detrodt— News says- that the Ev erett-Moore syndicate of Cleveland is ne gotiating for the purchase of the Sand wich, Windsor & Amherstburg electric railway, which runs along the Canadian side of the Detroit river for fifteen miles, and is valued at between ;$350,000 and $403, --000 . The > road runs from Walkerville to Ojibwa. .:-. r- a'v .jtiy': ;.■ -" j> .-■■■"■ ■ ■•-. Milwaukee. Wls.-Julius Van Steen. em ployed as cashier at the Pflster & Vogel tannery, was arrested on a warrant charging him with embezzling $10,000 from ♦* employers. Van Steen Was taken into ■the.district court, pleaded guilty, to the charge and was bound over for trial. An expert is now examining the books. Van Steen had the position of cashier for two ycQ.rs psst. Houghton, Mich.—Two hundred miners employed on the day shift of the Isle Royale mine struck. The men demand .higher wager and shorter hours. Nothing W« L c i?.?? c until ifc is known what the night shift will do. The day men are determined, and will not allow the night men to go to work. It is thought miners demands will be granted, and that there will be no trouble. Pittston Pa.—Two miners, Joseph Josiski and Charles Pinck, were killed by an explosion of gas while at work in No 9 shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkebarre Coal company. While proceeding to their chamber in the mine they ignited a body of gas that had accumulated A number of miners who entered the shaft to recover their bodies was nearly suf focated by the afterdamp. Helena, Mont.—Young TJn, a Chinaman, who has been employed for the past two £ ears .£? a Poultry farm, near this city, drew $800 from th 3 bank preparatory ta return:ng to China. He placed the money in a trunk, which he took to the cabin of some friends. Late m the evening while the festivities were in progress eight masked nun entered the cabin ab stracted the $-00 from the trunk and quietly departed. There is no clue to the robbers. lucson, Ariz.—Advices from Ft. Thomas indicate that the Apaches are becoming: restless. Over 200 Indiana are gathered near Fort Thomas holding meeting an.l d.scussing grievances and numbers of In dians are coming from the northern part of the reservation to join those at Fort Thomas. Settlers are feeling uneasy at San Carlos, wh eh is sixty miles distant irom the nearest post. There are only six privates and a sergeant at the fort. Birmingham, Ala.—Mrs. Fannie .McOill carrying a baby in her arms, was run down by a trolley car on Twentieth street and Fourth avenue and mother and child were mangled to death, being dragged half a block under the car The accident was witnessed (by many people John Smith, the regular motorman, and Charles Courseen. a learner, were imme diately arrested and placed in the coun ty j3.ii. . New 'or*c.- The, Journeymen Bakers' and Confectioners' National union is said to be preparing for a general strike against the bakers' combination. A large generaL strike, it is believed, will result An address has been issued by the in ternational executive board, urging the Journeymen to organize everywhere A new bread-kneading machine is credited with being the cause' of the trouble said to be impending. -.-;.-.., - Altoona.Pa.—At Munson, a mining. town north of this city, Emanuel Rinus, a German miner, was "emptying powder from one cask into another at his home when a spark fell from his pipe into the powder. The explosion which-followed wrecked the house and hurled the Rinus family in all directions: The father, rr other and two children-were terribly bruised and mangled. All are living, but their death is expected. ..-.. Cleveland—Eight' or ten non-union men and a similar number of union men the farmer employed In the Crescent mill became involved in a quarrel in the vicin ity of the mill. Utows were struck as a preliminary, to a brief, battle with stones, and the drawing of a revolver by a non union man, who, it is said, fired, the bul let slightly Injuring a bystander. No ar rests were made. rf i b - Washington—Ambassador White, at Berlin, in a report datexl Aug. 9, in re gard to the German grain trade during the first half of the current year, shows that the value of both .exports and im ports of grain in Germany was less than it was from January to July, 1800. The volume of Germany's trade in grain dur ing the first half of 1001 is set down at 2,479,739 tons imported,-and 240,205 tons exported. The trade in wheat chows an importation of 805,379 tons, and an ex portation of 140,473 tons. A Full House Wanted. Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Blugore—l thoug-ht her divorce suit was to have come up in the June term of court. Mrs. Swellman—lt was, but she had it postponed until the September term. She felt it would be impossible to secure a dtcent audience during the summer, as nearly every one is out of town. ART OF TATTOOING MOST FAMOUS ARTIST IN MIKADO'S KINGDOM COMES TO NEW v ' YORK MITTJHASHI IS HIS NAME Prominent People of Gotham Are Antony His Patrons, and the Cos tom of Decorating the Body Is Growing-. m Jfc-E was • a very good-looking lit jL^jla tie "Jap," dressed in Ameri- ■' . .'s**&(* ■ can style in blue shirt waist &, » and blue serge trousers, and" *^' v as he rat, in front of a famous little tattoo shop at the mouth of the . Thieves' Highway, few who glanced at him knew that he. was one of the'most , famous tattooers in the mikado's king dom, &i»j "-**fc^f> New York Times. Mitu hashi is his name, and- he has been es pecially Imported from Japan by his en terprising partner to "do" on Americans the famous "Boxer" head of which the "Jap" is the designer. The "Boxer" head, it is necessary to explain, ia an outcome of the Chinese war. It is a gory design. b6t one that has struck to the gentle heart cords of the American sailor. The design is the decapitated head of a Ch'naman. Through the skill, from the middle of the crown, extending out through the gory neck, a sword sticks gracefully. The eyes of th« unJucxy "Chink" are half closed as if he liked tlfe sensation, while the end of his pig tail is held between the teeth. The de sign, while realistic enough, is artlstlcal^ ly robbed of some of its gruesomenes3, and in Japan, as well as in other coun tries where the seafarer roves, if a sailor wants to be up to date, he must have the head of the "Boxer" pricked into his hide. Mituhashi is a relative of the late Hori chio, who five years ago won a special prize offered for the most artistic and original tattoo work done in the Japanese kingdom, and it was from Hoiichio that Mituhashi learned his art. The story of fhe contest won by Horichlo as' told by Mituhashi is an interesting one. Not since tattooing mapy years ago be came a recognized art in Japan was there a greater rivalry among the tattooers of the kingdom than when a number of prominent Japanese of Yokohama offered the prize for the most artistic and most original work that could be executed by any tattooer throughout the length and breadth of the land. Even before this contest, Horichio was conceded to be the greatest of all living Japanese tattoo artists, but it remained for him to earn for himself, once and for all, the title which opinion alone bestowed. Throughout the kingdom the tattooers went to work, keeping their wort secret and hiring men upon the backs and arms and shoulders of whom the work was done. On the great day of reckoning it was Horlchlo's coolie who was brought in last for inspection before the Judges. On the back of the coolie was a hugs spider's web, so delicately and finely out lined that only upon close inspection was it possible to see that the work was really that of the hand of man. Even the dust which clings to the threads of a spiders web long exposed was shown in the work. The web extended from shoulder to shoulder and from the small of the back to the man's neck. Here a single thread continued upward, and, avoiding the hair, trailed along the side of the head to the middle of the forehead, where it de scended in a waving line down alongside the nose and to the middle o£ the chin— and on the point of the chin sat the huge yeMow spider, the lord of the castle. Mituhashi does not speak English, but through an interpreter he tells of the wonders of tattooing which he has brought with him—of the new colored pigments which only recently have been discovered in his own country, and with which he hopes to decorate Americans. . "Next to the people of my own coun try, Americans take more interest in the subject of artistic tattooing than any other civilized people," raid the Japa nese through an interpreter. "I have traveled "much all over the world, each time returning to my own country, but nowhere do the people understand as they do here the beaut es of the art. Here, as in my own country, the better people have a taste for the art, for no matter where you go you will find the ordinary sailor tattooed. But the differ ence between tattooing and tattooing is the same as that between a chromo which you hang en the wall of your sta ble and the fine oil painting which you hang in the parlors of jour homes. It is this understanding which the Americans have." "I think it hurts the little fellow down rightly to have to tattoo one of those common designs on saiiors," broke in "Prof." O'Reilly, the partner of Mituha sftii. "You see, there is other work to do here "besides the expensive and artistic work demandej by the wealthier classes, and the 'Jap' is never more miserable than when he werks on one of those fe!- j lows whose only aim Is to get the marks ! as good and black or as hr ght and red as possible—the rough work, in other words. I heard ct this Jap and his repu tation and his success as the designer of the now famous Boxer's head, and I thought if Japan could support him so could the Bowery. "He refuses to work with the electric needles, and therefore his work is all the way from four to twenty times slower than the machine work—according to the | kind of work he is doing. You can esti- ! mate for yourself, considering that the motor needles str.ke 5.0C0 rimes a minute where an expert, if he is very quick, as this man is, can make only 2:0 jabs in the same time. ' "One of the first jobs he struck when he came here was where a man wanted to be tattooed out of revenge. He came in here prepared to spend $50 if neces sary to have his scheme put through. He picked out a huge snake to be worked from his shoulder clean down to his wrist. The head of the snake was to be the head of a certain woman whose photo graph he brought with him, and ho wanted the tongue to protrude and to have it forked. I worked the snake into him myself, but the head, he said, he wanted put on by hand, for he imagined the likeness could be done more accurate ly. The job was finished and the-mm left. "Two days later I got a telegram from Rockaway. It came from our snako friend, and he wanted to know how quickly we could remove the head from the snake. No; I do not kn >w the story connected with the incident; you must make your own yarn. But tie Jap was heart-broken at the loss of his fine woman's head. "The craze of beng tattooed for re venge is a common one. There was once in this neighborhood a pa-r of very stanch friends, even together, and both great church members. One cay one of thorn came here and had a peculiar order. He wanted engraved on his arm the picture of his friend, and under it he wanted the words 'G— <3— William Ounnngham.' He urged and coaxed so that fina'ly T put the blasphemous thing on his arm un der the picture. That fellow came bark that night to have it removed, which, of course, was impossible He said he could not sleep with the thing on his arm, BLOOD POISON Isths worst dlsea?B on earth, ye the easiest to euro WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. Many ha™ pimples, spots on the skin, sores In the mouth ulcers, falling hair, bone pains, catarrh, and don't know It is BLOOD POISON. Call and eet BROWN'S BLOOD CURE, $2.00 per bottle- lasts one month, Sold by F. M. Parker, 364 Wabasha St., St. Paul. : BROWN'S CAPSULES " Cure men In a few days. Parker'i Drue Store. Til C I AQT PU AM PC The Doctors at the Heidelberg- Medical Institute IllL LHU I UlirinuC say emphatically that they will not again ext;nd ■——i^—^———» the Free X-ray offer. They have generously con sented to give it free until Ssptember 10th, but ail must understand that thsy mint call during the next few days, Call at ones and do not overcrowd the doctors' offices the last few days of this great free offer. j.--:-: • B 111 £«F \ '<&: :>•<*■. &x 3&* itf-'-■•>■'■'■: y-tf&sl m&9&Nm." fs&m- ,<i*\±''t£x m m a. <m «ar »... q™>- ■ W«W t. J>*ii**WalfW^f^v^^CTiriH|f||Cr , ~|i, ... '- Tit • £''%■ ■ ' ff '/■Y*sy2Ett*BSi How to Ca@t th© free Examination a The specialists at the Heidelberg Med ical Institute, corner Fifth and Robert streets, will make their regular examina tion and X-ray examination, if necessary, FREE for all patients who call at their office during the next few days, before Sept: 10. ,^ mmmmmmmm^ ../ Do not wait If you are - • sick or fear ycu have any 0 disease. Call at the Hei- SfiSj) §■ delberg Medical Institute and .find out what ails ! c. H _ you. You know when the iWJtf^ij" real trouble is known BU«i» Q. that is one-half the cure. The examination is very *•»>£• S£ntle> carsirg no pain or IWe&USL discomfort. No hlrm eve *" comes from the use cf ' the Heidelbe:g Medi-al _, , , Institute's big X-rays. Bear in mind the offer is limited in time only. All diseases will be examined free. But all should call, without delay. The offer is given only to those who call be fore Sept. 10. Only a few days more. OUT-9F-T3W& People in the city should call for the free examination.' Many country people and farming folks; are taking advantage of •the great free offer, and are coming .to St. Paul and find out what ails them. The examination is free to only those who call before Sept. 10. HFIM-I RFRQ MPfilPAl PIQTITIITE LIUCLDLiIU ffI£!JHiHL 1 1%l 11S U9 C^ Corner sth and Robert Streets, St.. Paul Mini. B a r&ftW£r27S? and finally I worked a design over the ' words so that they were completely ob- : literated. "This is a curious business. I have been for twenty-three years in it, an I during that time have come across some queer experiences; the trouble is I can't remember them all, or. even part. I think about the most bashful customer that j comes in here is the young woman who ! wants to surprise her best fe'.low. I can ; spot her every time long bf fore she makes up her mind to come in. She bangs around outside of my shop, and deiays, j as if she were about to go into a dentist s parlor. Finally, when her courage is up j and she thinks few people are looking at her, she flits in. " 'Can you put a name on my arm?' ) she says. And before she knows it the j operation i 3 finished. Usually then she , sees the designs of butterflies, or of a bleeding heart ot flower, maybe, and she buys one of these and has her arm tat- ! tooed to show to Wil.iam or to Bill or i whatever his name is. "Here are some designs, many of them new ones just brought from Japan by ■ Mituhashi. Here is an album of ordinary j work, sailors' ait. United States shields, ! full-rigged ships., ladies that mig>.t repre- j sent any one of a hundred, cannons and | anchors. This is the common sort of stuff j which the ordinary seafaring man wants ; —the more ink and the blacker, the moie ' he thinks he is getting for his money. ! But here are some more arMstic designs; ■ that skull with the snakes crawling out ! of the eyes and mouth is a favorite with ! many, I do not know wily, except per haps to show their indiffcr:nee to what ever might be . thought superstitious j ■Che skull costs $15 to "do.' Here are some Japanese girls, some butt^rfles. and some dragoons, all $15 each. Here is a huge ! snake crunching half a dozen frogs in its ; toils—there is much work on that piece, ! and it runs up to 57?, trending on the j size of the snake. Here is a hoo.ied co. i bra; th»it is cne of the late t from Japan • and it costs $25. Then there are c«gics fighting with snake 3in mVair and fight- j ing on land and over the brink of a'prec- ! pice. Here is the head cf the Savior and I a crucifix, both favorites with sailors. I Here is a dragon that is one of Mituha- I shi's designs, and is one of the finest I \ have ever seen. It is worth $130. Her* is another new Japanese desgn. a sort of chain of life, a string of monkeys ! dangling from a tree hand in hand, the last monkey in the act of picking a fish ; out of the water. And there is a boa con- j stricter wound around the body of a gorilla that costs $250. "If you knew the number of men and women who ar? attoo d you would open ' your eyes in wond< r. Of course I am not ■ at liberty to give Dames in many cases, but there are two of the prominent peo ple who allowe 1 me to mention them. I One of these is Peter P. Meyer, son of j the partner of*'D*ek' Croker. Mr. Meyer' has a splendid combination Mason'c em- I blem tattooed on his forearm, one of tho finest pieces cf its Kind in th's country. ! Another who allowed me to use his name j "is Wiliiam Lawrence Gretn. the Albany | publisher, who has seme splenu d work j on him, the subje.ts b leg draogns, high- j ly colored and Excellently executed. Hen- j ry W. Long-f How's son was an admirer of tattooing, and had over a thousand I dollars' worth of tattooing distributed over his persi- n. There seems a fascination about India ink. Once you get a little in you here or there you cannot feel rested until you gft \ more. M:iny of my customers are per sons who have be n here and got tattoo:d time and time agaSn, and many drop in I regularly to se« if there is not some new I design which they may want. Here and j there some one comes in to have some j poor work, a rememibrance of s_Shool | days, done over, to cover it up with some ! fine design. And it has happened that as socn as the new design was in place the old ink-fever reawoke, and the customer comes in until he is literally covered about his arms with all sorts o>f de signs." THE WEALTH TO COME. Demand for Product* of Irrigation Will Exceed the Slipply. "Look Beyond the Present and into the Future" was the keynote of an address by C. E. Wantland, chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the National Irriga tion congress, delivered at the Trans- Mississippi congress recently assembled at Cripple Creek. "In the new West." said Mr. Wantland, "the main lines of railway are already provided. The pioneer lines were not con- 11 Ho Mot Meglect Yourself WARNING SISNS OF DISEASE* Are you nervous? Do you have weak spells? Do your ears ring? Are you constipated? Do you bloat after eating? Do you have a bad taste in the morn ing? Do you cough? Are you losing flesh? Do you spit blood? Do you fear consumption? Do you have hot flashes? Do you have a pain in the back? Is anything growing on you? Have you a tumor or cancer? Have you any blood disease? Do you have pimples? Is your hair falling out? Do you have catarrh? Are you growing weak? Do you have rheumatism? Do you have liver trouble? Have you gall stones? Are you dizzy in your head? Have you kidney trouble? Get up at night to pass water? Puffs under eyes in morning? Does your heart flutter? Is jour memory poor? Are you despondent? Living seem uphill work? if you have any of these symptoms, it Is a warning of disease. Do not neglect yourself. Call on the doctors at the Medical Institute before Sept. 10, and if necessary they will make an X-ray ex amination FREE. And will tell you what the real trouble is. structed because the products of the country they crossed justified the expend iture. There were prophets (in thoso days when the first trans-continental road was built. This was done when the great possibilities of the West were only talked of by dreamers; now, 'all wise nun-agree that 1 eyo-id the Mississippi 1 eg tho jg-reat wealth of the days to come,' and the prophets of today tell us that tho great trade to be developed In the lands beyond the Pacific will call ' for all the grain, which can be :aised in the Irrigated valleys of the Pacific coast states. "In a repor(,to the Fifty-sixth congres 3 op the free hoir.rs bill, the committee on public lands said: " 'x?. legislative enactment ever placed upon the statute books of the nation has been more lauded than the free homestead laws of the United States. Under its ben eficent provisions .5 he hardy sons of New England,, the thrifty young men of the Middle and Western states and the stur tZ iin.m'BT ants Of the old world poured th, we* fertli e- unoccupied, regions of the West, and by the labor of their f,a,!lff S «°V ey transf«"ied the forests into fmm .ma and changed the almost lowy fields of waving grain. Cities and towns sprang up in this territory as If frri n\ as\ c- churches and schooWioiises ar e ' "d H at eVery crossroads, and no more hf «n *1 °r loyal citi*ens can be found n»i L the commonwealth than the orig- V? Jl om6steadp™ and. their descendant! mi a po'""* mans law: poor men availed themselves of its advantages ™m the fabulous wealth they have created c OomSfon V- eS and th* natiOn * free apply with double force In favor of appropriations by congress to assist in the reclamation of arid lands farther in the mountain and^aclfic'^oasf state? where irrigation is necessary states. If it is good policy to buy off Indian* and open the 12.000 homestead tracts m Oklahoma, for which KW.OOO are just now struggling, the business men of the West may consistently urge that it is rfght to pot water upon 40.000,000 acres of ard lands, upon which a million famines ?*an raise grain and fruit o n fbrty-acrefcUn? J?irlr« nlVs ,th ° mprcnants and manufacl turers and heavy taxpayers of the West realise that it is their'burden, "nd get Ktlon i e«orts of the National ifri Ration and other associations working for Improved conditions, many of us will be a ong time dead probably before 'he wft£ members of congress will get l?rrn~?£ ♦ and _set- ure the necessary 2S33P&ESZ thro" Sh' congreS3 th low«'th e fV lll? WS., the fla?' but it also fol. MMh ?/ ♦ irrigation reservoir and the tim*' Carry water at the right "If organisation can be substituted for talk surveys for theories, reservoir building for resolutions and the home less irom other states be brought into our valleys and given a chance to build up homes under favorable conditions then we may Justly claim it to be true that the West is the most American part of America.' " ;^- HAD ALMOST GIVEN UP HOPE. Mr. Alfred E. Cotton, aged forty- T<kt* ears- a teamster, and living at 532 Spruce street, Camden, N. j!! writes: "For the past ten years i have suffered with dyspepsia, liver trouble and indigestion, but the past six months I have suffered something terrible. I could not attend to my work, as I could not eat anything and could not sleep. I have tried differ ent kinds of medicine, but did not feel any better. A friend advised me to try Ripans Tubules. He said they did him a great deal of good. I was giving up all hope, as I thought I could not live. I got - a box of Rl pans Tabules and tried them, and after I used the second box I ob tained relief. I take one after each meal, ana I can eat anything without any distress. I can truthfully say that they are the best medicine I ever, used, as I feel like a new man. I can cheerfully recommend them to any one suffering as I did. ' You. are welcome to publish this testimonial." There Is scarcely any condition of 111 health that Is not benefited by the occasional us* of a . R.I.P.A.N.S, Tabule, and the price, 10 for 5 cents, does not bar them from any. home er. Justify any one in enduring ills that are easily cured. - For sale by all drueciits. •