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THE ROOM Remodeling -is still In progress. We are going to offer this week - the following special bargains in PIANOS One new standard make, beautifully designed mahogany case; $1 A 6 former price $275, n0w...,.., $ lUO B One new $350 upright; ■'-' fl> 11 0 beautiful burl walnut case.. $« JO SECOND-HAND UPRIGHTS. In the following makes: Weber, Stelnway, Knabe, Chlckerlng, Wesley, Franklin and Fischer at a great sac rifice. They must be sold immedi ately. Square Pianos from $15 upward. EASY PAY. $5 or $10. monthly. Call or write us. i liKTH 6T PETER AMD MABKCT TO I . Largest Exclusive Piano Dealers. ROGERS IS ON TRIAL IS CHARGED WITH RIFLING THE UNITED STATES MAILS MANY LETTERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN FOUND IN HIS APRON Accused Was Arrested After Two Test Letters That Had Been Previously Prepared by Inspector H. T. Greg ory Were Foufid in His Working Garment, but He Claims It Was Sometimes Worn by Others. The trial of Harvey S. Rogers, an employe of the Minneapolis postoffice, charged with rifling the United States mails, was taken up yesterday in the United States circuit before Judge Munger. Rogers is charged with having ex tracted from the mails on Aug. 19 two "test" letters that had been placed in the malls by Inspector H. T. Gregory. These letters, with thirty-seven others, were found in Rogers' apron, carefully concealed in his locker on the day they were placed in the office. Pleads Ignorance of Letters. After Rogers had finished his work on that day he was taken into the of fice of Assistant Postmaster Hughes and there searched. Nothing was found on his person, but his apron con taining the letters that had been pre pared was immediately produced. He identified his apron, but pleaded ig norance of the presence of the letters in it. Room Examined by Jurors. Before the taking of any evidence yesterday afternoon the jury was or dered taken down into the postoffice room where Rogers was employed, in order that they might get an idea of the location of the different cases, and have a better understanding of the testimony when it was given. The government will attempt to show that Rogers' rifling of the mails has been conducted in a carefully planned manner for the past two or three years. Rogers stoutly denies his guilt, and ' claims that he cannot account for the letters being found in his apron, and also that there has been occasions when his apron was worn by others in the office. SUES FOR RETURN OF $62,000 PAID ON OPTION Itasca County Iron Lands the Cause of Claim Made by George C. Howe. An important suit growing out of a transaction in Itasca county iron lands was begun in the district court yesterday by George C. Howe, of St. Louis county, who sues to recover $62,600 from Mary O. Coates, John Coates, Clark H. Free man, Daniel H, Freeman, J. O. McClure and C. P. McClure, of Steams county; and E. H. and E. C. Holden, of St. Paul. The complaint, which is a document of forty closely written pages of legal cap, sets forth a contract by which the plain tiff acquired an option for the purchase of a valuable tract at the price of $750,000. Of this sum, $50,000 was paid to bind the contract, and the plaintiff claims to have spent $12,000 more in exploration of the land for ore deposits, as agropd In. 'the contract. The defendants guaran teed the title, but plaintiff alleges mat when this was shown to be defective, they took no adequate steps to perfect it, aiming, as he claims, to retain the $50,000 earnest money. In view of defendants' alleged breach of contract, the complaint demands judg ment for the amount of plaintiff's expen diture, with interest. Electric Belts at cost. Reeves, 7 corners. Iyou Seal op Minnesota Cigars every time. KUHLES & STOCK, ' Makers, - - ST. PAUL. Did You Ever Stop to compare the effi cient telephone servica of today with the tele phone service furnished before the Twin City Telephone Company en tered the field ? It is much better now. and We Did It. Independent metallic circuit telephones, Business, Per Month, $4.00. Residence, Per Month, «a. -o. THREATENS TO KILL JOHN MULDOON, ALIAS JAMES O'MALLEY, SAYS HE'LL EXTER TERMINATE POLICEMEN RAVES IN HIS CELL AFTER LEARNING RECORD IS KNOWN Man Arrested for Highway Robbery In St. Paul, After Shooting at Detec tives, Is Identified as Murderer of Cleveland Policeman — Declares He Will Have Revenge. "They can't get me, I tell you they'll never hang me. I'll live when the po lice are all dead. I'll kill all the cop pers, I'll murder all the reporters and even then they won't get me." Raving like a maniac, John Muldoon, alias James O'Malley, uttered these sentences last night in his cell at the county jail. He was informed that the ' IS - «*?", ..' £STC9BfH sRx\ Another of the Vanderbilts has adopted the perilous, fascinating sport of high speed automobiling. Alfred Gwynne Vandervilt, who hitherto has made coaching his pet hobby and has let the speedy horseless vehicle se verely alone, now has the auto craze. He plans some daring feats on his new auto, and will probably go to Eu rope in the near future to race European cracks. police lidive conclusive evidence that he and his "pal," Trimble, were implicat ed in the shooting of Policeman Kear ney, of Cleveland, and was shown a letter from Chief Corner, of that city, to substantiate the statement. "The papers lie. The police lie. You are all liars," screamed the desperado. "You want to kill me, btlf you can't. I'm proof against death and all the coppers in the world can't hurt me. Threatens to Kill Reporter. "If ever I get out of here, I'll kill you," he shouted at the reporter. "Oh, if I could only get my hands on you I'd murder you right where you stand." Muldoon then jumped to his feet, beat his fist violently against the cell door in a vain endeavor to reach his interviewer. He kicked the steel bars, and when he saw his efforts useless, lay on his bunk and for fifteen min utes heaped torrents of abuse and oaths on the heads of the police and the newspapers. By his talk and manner Muldoon acknowledged the verity of The Globe's stand from the start to the effect that he was responsible for the murder of a policeman in Cleveland. Suddenly his mood changed, and looking the reporter squarely in the eye, he said: "My day will come. You're having your's now. I'll be free sometime, and if ever at liberty I will find you a/id nothing can save you either. You will find that John Muldoon does not for get." A question as to what the papers had done to him only brought forth another tirade of abuses and curses. Is Positively Identified. Yesterday Chief O'Connor received word from George E. Corner, superin tendent of the Cleveland police, in which he positively identified O'Malley as James Muldoon, the man who shot Officer Kearney in that city June 8. Accompanying the letter was a com plete prison record of the man, which confirmed the opinions of the St. Paul police, and the exclusive announce ment in The Globe. Muldoon, since taken into custody, has been confident that he was com paratively safe and that his identity was in no danger. He even boasted that the police would be unable to "get to him." When he discovered yesterday that his record was known and that prob ably he would be extradited to Ohio for trial, the man was overcome with rage. He was tola that the Chicago police also wanted him for the murder of Po licemen Devine and Pennell. This was more than the man could bear. He tore madly up and down his cell de claring that he would not hang, and that if liberated he would murder the police and the newspaper reporters. Has a Long Record. Muldoon's criminal record begins in 1896, when he was sentenced to a boy's reformatory in Ohio for burglary. In April, 1900, he was sent to the Lancas ter reformatory on a burglary charge, and In June of the present year shot Officer Kearney, in Cleveland, while the policeman was holding him at the call box waiting for the patrol wagon to arrive. He and two other crooks, ar rested for burglary, escaped. Sterling, alias John Wilson, arrested last Sunday morning, also has a long criminal record, and at present is want ed in Cleveland for breaking jail. He has served a number of terms in Ohio for robbery and house-breaking. The third of the trio, not yet appre hended by the St. Paul police, is Charles Trimble, a noted Eastern crook, and a "pal" of Muldoon. He Is one of the men who escaped when Muldoon shot the Cleveland officer. Trimble is a brother-in-law of Sterling. LARSON PLEADS GUILTY. Murderer of Magnus Johnson Found to Be Perfectly Sane. Special to The Globe. ALEXANDRIA, Minn.. Sept. 13.—Gus taf A. Larson was arraigned to plead to the indictment charging him with murder in the first degree for the killing of Mag nus Johnson on March 24 last. He plead ed guilty. Judge Searle had requested that Larson be examined by a physician as to his mental condition. After Lar son had pleaded guilty, Dr. H. J. Boyd was called and testified that he had ex amined Larson and found his intellect sound and considered that he was capa ble of distinguishing between right and wrone. and that he was responsible. THE ST. PAUI, GWBE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1902. Snap = Shotting Magnates. CAMERA FIEND A TERROR TO M ORGAN, BUT SCHWAB^, MORE AMI ABLE, STANDS THE ORDEAL CHEERFULI^. The wise celebrities, domestic and foreign, will learn in time the disad vantageousness of calmly, If reluctant ly, submitting to the snap shots of the camera fiends attached to the New York sensational newspapers. A good many of them have, no doubt, learned their little lesson in this respect within the past couple of weeks, from the aw ful photographic presentments that have been made of them upon the steamers and piers as they arrived here from Europe. This is the period when the famous personages are flocking back from Europe, and in consequence the incoming steamers are clustered with newspaper photographers, who board them at quarantine, while the piers contain a reserve guard of the persistent lens marksmen. A great majority of the returning celebrities have this year evinced a real or an affected disinclination to having their personal pulchritude or the lack of the same corralled by the newspaper pho tographers, and the result has been something terrifying, says the New York correspondent of the Washington Star. ABANDONS TALLY-HO FOR AUTOMOBILE. The reason why is that the sensa tional newspaper photographer, when he is sent to make a snap shot of a celebrity, is simply bound to get the picture, willy nilly, by fair means or foul. He knows that his job depends upon his success in getting quick por traits of persons who do not, or pre tend that they do not want to have their pictures in the newspapers, and this knowledge is sufficient to force him to any extreme to gain his point. He is fully aware of the fact that if the photographer of a rival paper suc ceeds in snap shooting a celebrity while he himself fails in the attempt his posi tion with his newspaper isn't liable to be worth a cast-off motorman's glove after the fiasco. This is the reason why the much-de cried snap shooters are such persistent and absolutely unsquelchable Individ uals. This is likewise the reason that, in about 99 cases out of 100, they ac tually succeed in getting snap shots of the famous "side steppers," no matter how frantically the latter strive, or pretend to strive, against the newspa per cameras. J. Pierpont Morgan, a gentleman who, since he achieved his vast promi nence In the world of finance, has un questionably become afflicted with that malady politely termed "the delirium of grandeur"—the affliction is describ ed in less complimentary phrases when applied to ordinary individuals —blus- teringly announced on the deck of the steamer that hauled him into New- York harbor the other day that he wouldn't have his picture taken by a newspaper photographer "for $5,000, --000." That seemed like a pretty fair ish bagatelle for immunity from the besiegements of the score or more of newspaper and magazine photogra phers who hovered about the extremely gruff boss of the financial puddle, but Mr. Morgan might just as well have made his figure rounder by saying $50, --000,000. A very busy and self-impor tant secretary of the financier kept himself more or less In front of Mr. The Way To Chicago Our Limited now leaves St. Paul at 8:25 p. m. and arrives in Chicago at 9:20 next morning. This superb train is lighted by electricity, and has steam heat in Winter. The equipment consists of Buffet - Library - Smoking Car, Compartment and Standard Sleeping Cars, ; and Reclining Chair Cars. Breakfast is served next morning in a comfortable Dining Car, beautifully decorated. The ser vice is "a la carte" —you pay only for what you order. This is more popular vrflh travelers than the " dollar a meal" charge. No extra charge for tickets op this train TICKET OFFICES: 400 Robert Street. St. P&ul 414 Nlcollet Aye., Minneapolis 101 Morgan during all of tge time the lat ter was on the deck offejie as it came up the harborf ana when, in spite of this, one of th& photographers took a shot at the trust originator, the officious secretary appeared to become real vexed, so he did.* He advanced upon the photographer who had gtot the shot, raising a heavy jjane'ias he ad vanced. ■ "Did you photograph Mr, Morgan?" the secretary demanded with as much fierceness as he could assume. "I sure made as much of a crack at the same as I could with portions of your carcass in the way," dryly replied the photographer. "How dare you photograph Mr. Mor gan?" ferociously inquired the secre tary, raising his club as if to smash the camera, and mentioning the financier's name in a tone of awe, as if the juggler of millions were of celestial origin. "It's part of my graft," calmly re plied the photographer, becoming a bit angry himself "Individually, I don't care any more for Mr. Morgan than I do for Paddy the Pig or Grand Central Pete, but I drifted on board this craft for the purpose of getting a view or so of his frame. I've got one, and I'm going to get some others before he geta off the boat. As for you, I'd recom mend you to fetch that club of yours to a parade rest real quick, or I'll just take you by the slack of your waist coat and toss you over the side, even if you were the secretary to four Mor gans and a couple of Ahkounds of Swat besides—that's what I'll do with you, Willie." The important secretary subsided promptly, and Mr. Morgan rushed to the Durser*s room to get away from the camera. They all caught him with their lenses as he started on his dog trot, and, with one leg in the air and his yachting cap pulled down over one ear, the eminent financier in these pic tures —which were published the next day—only needed a cutlass between his teeth to resemble a glass-eating and sulphur-burning pirate of the Spanish Main as depicted by Howard Pyle. Then they alL^went down in a body to the purser's room, where Mr. Mor gan had taken refuge. They found him seated in a corner of the room, which, nevertheless, was in a strong light, and . very well adapted for the photographic ; purposes. The great money man was tilted back in a chair, growling angrily, with a cigar clapped fnto his counte nance at the precise angle affected by Chuck Connors, One-eyed Connolly and others of that tribe —which is a little eccentricity of the eminent financier's. One by one the photographers passed before the door of t\e purser's room, shooting away at the wrathful looking organizer of everything, and the por traits that they thus secured made Mr. Morgan look for all the world like a sullen mastiff just about to make a final effort to chew hi - tethering rope. Before Mr. Morgan became aware of what they were doing and kicked the purser's door to all of them had taken these horrible negatives of him. The notable women who, arriving from Europe during the past fortnight, ineffectually strove to escape the cam eras, were rewarded for these efforts by having snap shots of themselves published in the yellows that made them look like composites, of washer women, gypsies and chords girls. The Vanderbilt party tried to keep news papers, handkerchiefs, parcels and all sorte of things before their faces as they stood upon the pier upon the morning of their arrival, but the pho tographers, not to be thwarted, buzzed around them like bumblebees, and all succeeded in snap-shooting the women of the party in the most grotesque and absurd attitudes. The Duchess of Marlborough was in particular the victim of the newspaper cameras. Now, the Duchess of Marl borough is not a pretty woman. She is very far from that, and all of the ideal ized portraits of her made by French painters and published in the Sunday supplements of the New York yellows will never make her a pretty woman. But she is at least presentable, albeit her figure is slender to the point of emaciation, and her countenance is in no Wise interesting. Btft the snap shots that were taken'of the unfortu naate American duchess by the news paper camera-clickers simply made her out a fright of the most frightful de scription, and if she saw them she must have wept bitterly over .them. The lineaments and figure of hep trim mother, Mrs. Belmont, were likewise most wretchedly rendered by the news paper camera folk, and all because they wriggled about and marde such deter mined efforts—foredoomed to failure — to evade the snap-shooters. Young Charles Schwab, president of the big steel outfit, who went to Europe last week to %ist up after ISs physical breakdown, apparently profit ed by *Jiese awful examples as he saw them in the yellow newspapers. As Jae stood on the pier, chatting with some friends while he waited for his steamer to issue the "All aboard and all JTfhore" call, he observed the large flock of men with cameras circling about him. He stepped out into an open space with a laugh. _ "Here, you boys," he said, cheerfully, RIOT AT OTTUMWA SERIOUS RESULTS OF A STRIKE ON THE STREET CAR SYSTEM CAR WINDOWS SMASHED AND TROLLEY WIRES CUT Not a Wheel Is Turning in the City, All the Men Willing to Work Being Induced to Leave or Driven From the Cars With Stones—More Trouble Is Probable Today. OTTUMWA, lowa, Sept 13.—The street car strike is assuming a serious aspect. The blacksmiths in the em ploy of the company struck today. The city depends upon the street car plant for electric power, which may be shut off. Not a wheel was turning on the street car system of the Ottumwa Traction and Light company at 9:30 o'clock tonight, after a wild hour of smashing car windows, cutting trolley wires and other damage to property of the company by the mob. All the men finally were induced to leave or were driven from the cars with stones. One motorman was hurt by flying missiles and several arrests were made. The mob was dispersing at midnight, but if an attempt shall be made to run the cars tomorrow, trouble probably will follow. CAPITAL TWO BILLIONS ONE OF THE BIGGEST OF RAIL- ROAD COMBINATIONS Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt Interests Said to Have Formed an Alliance— Their Designs Is to Protect Them selves in the Coal Fields—Large Number of Eastern Lines Involved. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 13.—A lo cal paper prints the following: A financial alliance has been formed by the two great factors in the East ern railroad field, the Vanderbilt inter ests and those of the Pennsylvania sys tem. The new combination grew out of a competitive movement of several months ago. The two bfg interests were mutually interested in the bi tuminous coal fields, and in the hard coal fields as well. The Pennsylvania system predominated in the former and the Vanderbilts in the latter. By an understanding the Vanderbilts yielded the soft coal fields to the Penn sylvania in return for a similar con cession on the hard coal from the Pennsylvania. The Eastern field was threatened by an invasion first by the Goulds and later by the Grand Trunk railroad, and these big financial interests wanted to preserve the territory for themselves, and the ties that had been formed by the coal deal were strengthened in the endeavor to protect the Eastern field. The interests of the two big houses were growing gradually to gether, and soon resulted in an under standing such as has been now reach ed. The combination of interests makes one of the biggest deals that has ever been seen. To consider the vested rights of the two big houses east of Chicago, to say nothing of their prop erty west of that point, gives them a capitalization of over $2,000,000,000 and a mileage of over 30,000. The roads included in the combina tion are the New York Central, Penn sylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesa peake & Ohio, Norfolk & "Western, Philadelphia & Reading, Lake Shore, Big Four, Michigan Central, Nickel Plate, Boston & Albany, Baltimore & Ohio, Southwestern, Pere Marquette, Hocking Valley and Lake Erie & West ern. "fire away—l'll stand up for you. As long as it's bound to be I want to be made to look as human as possible, anyhow." The result was that the snap shots published of Mr. Schwab on the fol lowing morning did not make him look like a gloomy gorilla or a slouching criminal, but like a cheerful, self-con tained man of the world. Mr. Schwab seemed to have the right end of this photographic business, as the saying goes. The celebrities might just as well stand and deliver to the persons with the cameras. They are inevitably gotpg to be photographed somehow or another, and before long they will unquestionably realize that when they are presented in the picture dailies as freaks, as they have been for a long time, now the joke is on them. The labor unions of Stillwater and all friends of labor in this city and South Stillwater, have been invited to attend mass meetings to be held in Woodmen hall, this city, and the roller rink at South Stillwater tomorrow evening, when addresses will be delivered by Labor Com missioner O'Donnell, of St. Paul, and John Swift, of Minneapolis. MjF II Whose Mianhooa Is Slipping Away ra HilM ' a*lll- Elther >'ou must master "or it will if time to save yourself. Once cured m '-'-• 1 11 with indescribable woe... right now- is ™|^k O rsaW prematureness. loss of W&Sm 1 f§ by us. you will never again be bothered w«n^^j^j^ symptoms, which rob you i^SSa HI |H ambition, nervousness, failing memory, or otner sj™"^.»*j £ pleasure or mar- BHaaMM||M , aMJBUMy , ' of your manhood and absolutely, unfit 7°? £ n a^e for violating, the - laws. of B«fcg»Uttfl«im^raK^ftftWJE,^g» rlage This is the punishment meted out by nature lor viui*.""*. . ■-" . ■■■■■'-.'•:.-■.••■ . ■" health. .• ; ' . • - • ■ ■ '.■ '" -'■ ;" '" . ' -: ■' ■" ■:: '-'■■''" vyt HOW TO ESCAPE THIS PUNISHMENT -jgjjjjr There is only one sure way in this life. Nature in all such eases Is weak and *(£& \VwSljM^ ' crying out for help. The wasting processes, ■ with losses and leakages, have - !■ u^^^^Hl wrought an injury to those particular organs, causing them to shrink, shrivel' J •^.L«s»i^w^^^^q and decrease in size, to become overworked and lack proper circulation and - feSJSTvJIfe* ■KSi Ma nourishment, shattering the nervous system?- impairing the memory, dulling the M , ■' /iji 'yJEw intellect, and preventing free, easy action of the brain, deranging both body and I JW ' /^jjumWa * mind, and the crisis sooner or later surely will come. Now, to check this wast- V . -\J2!«j&^;/§|»^T^": •.'" ing process, stop all losses and leakages, and resupply the lost vitality Is to re- fiSfflPMKffwVik. '; pair the injury that has been done. Nature is then given a chance to recuper- TffiJfflSHß^'^^HV ate. The circulation is equalized and both body and brain are given a new im- - Krf '"■^Bpshßsm petus by merely aiding nature at the right time and In the proper way. A course jt(P'*>^Bi~^": I of the New Treatment will do this. It is for weak men of all ages who are * JM"'■_'s?/£* I in every way weak.; We will restore you to what nature • intended you to be BkSß^HuSs^Hb- '--^ —a hale, hearty, happy man, with physical and mental powers comptete. Every T"TTT!^^™. ca ~ train brings some man from a distance to be cured. Call or write today. Every- ' ; v CONSULTATION FREE. thing confidential. -No secrets given away. Consultation and advice free., .^. x i "'_ " '_'/ '" "' ■"" "■■ Not & Dollar Need Be Paid Unless Cured t9fl in* ■ I also cure (to stay cured) Gonorrhoea. Gleet, Discharges, Swellings, Stricture, Hy- OnrOf lIICQ9OOQ drocele, Varicocele, Rupture, Small, . Shrunken vor Undeveloped Organs, a Blood —-^.— -—■ with us. Call or write.",. ■ :i--c''. •''•'.•^r-'' V- '"V •■-%•■-.■:••.,■-' *: •" ; --'V ""- WRITE UCinCI DCDr. MEDICAL JTSf.i r:.r-i ntIUtLDEKU IN!,T! TiJ. T. EI write for ax«nin«tion«nd«dTi M fr«,. •■ -{: Cor. sth and 3 pj, r t ST.ets. Entrance 108 E. sth Street,; ST. PAUL, MINN. ; Railroad faro deducted ior out-ot- Hours-aaily, Ba.mldßp. m, : - >..;-;■ • ■ Sunday«-8 am-to lp.ni.; t,wn patients coming to the city. * Hour.-Dally, Ba.mto Bp. m-. - - - - Smday-9 a. m- to Ip. m. Good Furniture. SAMPLES AND ODD PIECES. A Few Specimens. Brass-trimmed Iron Bed, any color $4.50 Worth $6.50 Elastic Pelt Mattresses *...-... 12.00 Worth 15.00 Solid Mahogany Chairs 12.00 Worth 20.00 Solid Mahogany Rockers 13.00 Worth 21.00 Solid Mahogany Tables 12.00 Worth 20.00 Solid Oak Dining Tables - 12.00 Worth 16.00 Solid Oak Dining Tables 15.00 Worth 20.00 Box-seat Dining Chairs, in leather '. 2.75 Worth 3.75 Mahogany Dining Tables 20.00 Worth 35.00 Mahogany Dining Chairs 4.00 Worth 6.00 Mahogany Sideboards 50.00 Worth 65.00 Flemish Oak Dining Tables 20.00 Worth 28.00 Flemish Oak Sideboards 30.00 Worth 50.00 Flemish Oak Dining Chairs, leather 3.00 Worth 4.00 Couches 12.00 Worth 20.00 Davenports 22.00 Worth 30.00 Parlor Suits, Upholstered Chairs, Rockers and Divans at ONE-THIRD OFF Odd Dressers at a big discount. Bird's-eye Maple Chamber Suit $38.00 Worth $50.00 Solid Mahogany Chamber Suit 75.00 Worth 125.00 Solid Mahogany Chamber Suit 150.00 Worth 225.00 Mahogany Desk 15.00 Worth 20.00 Oak Desk 14.00 Worth 20.00 Brass Beds at Cut Prices for one week. Forty Center Tables from $1.50 up to $25.00, many at less than cost. It will cost nothing to see what we have to offer. It pays to com pare goods. DeCoster & Clark Co., 375 **««, st St. Paul a Fruit ©enter "How much am I offered for this car of golden beauties? Not a bad peach in the lot and every one a seller? Speak quickly, gentlemen. One dollar did you say? Dollar five did I hear? Well there yours and you've got 'em dirt cheap." Just a little scene that is enacted daily in a little stuffy room of the main entrance of the Milwaukee depot, but to the dozen or more quick-eyed men seated on the rough deal tables that it contains, this harangue of the auc tioneer means much. It means that where a year ago every dealer along commission row had to go to Minneapolis to buy his stock of fruit, the lucious, golden products of the West and Northwest are now damped at his very door and all he has to do is to take his pick, pay his money and the fragrant beauties are rolled directly into his cellar. City Now a Fruit Center. St. Paul no longer depends on the Mill City for its fruits. It no longer recognizes Minneapolis as the fruit center of the Northwest, for times have changed and the cars that arrive daily from the West instead of being switch ed off into the yards of that city now come direct to St. Paul. It is this fact that results in the daily scene Just de scribed and which for nearly a year has been in active operation. According to J. E. Mulroney, one of the largest dealers in fancy fruits along commission row, nearly 300 cars of California and Western fruit have been auctioned off in the St. Paul railroad yards since the season opened and the number is increasing. The daily sales, he says, never fall below five cars and some days that figure is greatly ex ceeded. A year ago local fruit men in attend ing these sales had to go to Minne apolis, reship if the lot was a broken one and suffer other Inconveniences, often resulting in a loss. The sales are conducted -by the Twin City Auction company and are held daily in the yards of the Milwaukee and Omaha Railroad companies. Every fruit dealer along commission row attends them and when the de mand is brisk and the offerings few the scene is an interesting and a spirited one. Scene a Lively One. With every state in the Union pour- Ing in its offerings of garden and or chard products, commission row along: Third street is a busy spot just now. Barrels and crates of every description line its sidewalks and the air is redo lent with the odors their contents send forth. Peaches, apples, grapes are now the principal article of commerce with the commission men, that is those whose business Is exclusively the handling of fruit. The vegetable man is also in evidence, but he is confining his at tention to potatoes and garden pro ducts In season. The peach naturally heads the list, for this is the time of the year Cali fornia and Washington begin to turn in their harvest. The fruit is of excel lent quality and brings the dealer from $1 to $1.10 a case. Next week St. Paul will be sampling the fruit of the Colorado peach orchards, the finest fruit sold in this section. It is an ex tremely fine, solid fruit and whole sales about double the price of the California product I/overs of apples will probably rejoice in the announcement that there is a big crop of apples this year, in Canada especially. The price, however, has by no means slumped, for the North this time must contribute to the South, where the crop in some respects is a failure. In lowa and Wisconsin the orchards are full of this fruit, and it is being shipped to the big fruit centers as fast as cars can be secured. They sell from $2.50 to $3.25 a barrel, an ad vance of about 15 cents a bushel over last year. Weather Hurts Market. St Paul at present is enjoying the benefits of an ill wind in a surfeit of watermelons caused by the sudden cold weather. The dealers have several car loads on hand and are selling them for what they can get. Another fruit that is somewhat of a drag because of the bad weather is lemons. More than one commission man is out of pocket be cause of heavy stocks. The cool sum mer is responsible. About the costliest fruit Just now is the orange, of which it is said there is not over a carload in the city. They are what are known as Valencias, and sell for from $5 to $5.50 a box. As It will be some weeks before the Cali fornia, Mexican and Florida oranges arrive, the price is expected to rise. Next to peaches and apples, grapes and pears are the heaviest In point of receipts along commission row. The grapes come from Michigan and neigh boring states, while California and Oregon furnish the pears. The crop is fair in size and quality, and has a ready sale. The grapes bring from 14 to 15 cents a basket, while the pears sell at $2.25 a case for the California product and $1.75 for the Oregon and Wash- ington product. Other fruits which are heavy sellers are sweet potatoes and plume. The price Is $2.75 a bushel for potatoes and $1.25 a case for plums. Of bananas this year there Is no scarcity. The trust is not permitting a glut, but it is extending some clem ency to the dealers by permitting th«m to buy from the track instead of at the ports of entry, the principal of which is New Orleans. Carloads of the fruit reach St. Paul weekly and are purchased by the dealers. Before pur chases had to be made at New Orleans, the buyer paying the freight. STILLWATER WOMEN WAIT FOR DISHES They Have been Victimized by Solicitors for a Magazine Offering a Premium. Several Stillwater housewives are anxiously awaiting the arrival of sets of dishes they ordered through an alleged magazine publishing company some weeks ago, and for which each of them deposited $5 in cash. A little more than a month ago two well dressed youn men spent two weeks here soliciting subscriptions for a magazine, the price of which was 15 cents a month. As a premium, however, the subscribers were to receive a set of dishes when $5 had been paid. The solicitors evidently did not get rich enough on the 15-cent plan, and after they had waited two weeks they visited their subscribers and informed them that some of the sub scribers were anxious to get their dishes right away and they had arranged to pay $5 down. The solicitors represented that it would be much more convenient for ail of their subscribers to do the same so that all of the dishes could be ordered at once. Several of them contributed the required sums and have been waiting pa tiently ever since for the dishes which have not arrived. They are now confi dent that they were "worked. The so licitors claimed that their mapzine was printed in New York city, but the price of the publication was not given .neither had the magazine been admitted to the m He 3nry Wolfer, warden of the prison, has gone to Philadelphia to attend the Na tional Prison congress and convention of prison wardens. T