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4 ©he gfc. jtaatl ®U»b* THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS. OFFICIAL : ,^fg^, CITY OF : "-^^^> ST. PAUL. l > Entered at Postofflce~at St. Paul, Minn., as Second-Class Matter. .. TELEPHONE CALLS. Northwestern — • .' „„,, . Business— Main. Editorial—«B Main- Composing —1034 Main. Mississippi Valley— Business —1065. Editorial — CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. By Carrier. | 1 mo 1 6 mo3_^l2_mos Dally 0n1y........ 40 J $2.25 $4.00 Daily and Sunday.. .50 2.75 5.00 Sunday .". .15 .75 1-00 ■ COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS/ , By Mail. . 1 1 mo 1 6 mos | 12 mos Daily only 25 $1.50 "~53.00 Daily and Sunday.. .35 2.00 . 4.00 Sunday ;... ... 75 1.00 BRANCH OFFICES. New York, 10 Spruce St., Chas. H. Eddy in Charge. _ Chicago, No. 87 Washington St., The F. S. Webb Company in Charge. WEATHER FOR TODAY. Minnesota —Fair; warmer Tuesday. "Wednesday fair; cooler in west portion; variable winds, becoming south and fresh. Wisconsin—Fair; warmer Tuesday. Wednesday fair; warmer in east portion; fresh northwest winds, becoming variable. lowa —Fair; warmer Tuesday. Wednes day fair. Upper Michigan—Fair Tuesday, preced ed by rain or snow in extreme east por tion. Wednesday fair; warmer; fresh to brisk west winds, becoming variable and diminishing. North and South Dakota—Fair; warmer Tuesday. Wednesday fair; cooler. Montana —Fair Tuesday; warmer in southeast portion. Wednesday fair; cooler in north central and east portions. St. Paul — Yesterday's temperatures, taken by the United States weather bu reau, St. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night—Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation: Highest temper ature, 41; lowest temperature, 35; average temperature, 3S; daily range, 6; barom eter, 29.91; humidity, 3; precipitation. .30; 7 p. m., temperature, 40; 7 p. m., wind; northwest; weather, cloudy. j Yesterday's Temperatures— *BpmHigh *BpmHigh' Alpena 40 58 Kansas City ..48 50 Battleford 54 66!Marnuette 38 42 Bismarck 40 46|Milwaukee 40 48 Buffalo 58 66!Minnedosa 32 42 Boston 66 70|Montgomery ..78 82 Calgary 58 701 Montreal 62 62 Gfaeyenae ....50 54 Nashville 06 74 Chicago 44 50 New Orleans..74 88 Cincinnati 58 70! New York (56^72 Cleveland 5* Cfi| Norfolk 70 78 Davenport 42 48|North Plattc .4(i 54 Dcs Molnes . ..42 46lOmnha 42 48 Detroit 48 60] Philadelphia . .68 78 Dulutb 38 42|Pittsburg 62 70 Edmonton 62 CSlOu'Appelle 34 44 Galveston 78 S2jSt. Louis 4S 62 Grand Haven.4G 521 Salt Lake 66 70 Green Bay ...40 46iS. Ste. Marie..36 42 Helena 62 64! Washington ...72 78 Huron 42 48' Winnipeg 28 44 Jacksonville ..76 86j River Bulletin- Danger Gauge Change in Stations. Line. Reading. 24 Hours. St. Paul 14 2.1 —0.1 La Crosse 10 2.1 *0.2 Davenport !;"> 2.5 St. Louis ......30 18.3 *Rise. —Fall. * Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul.) TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 1902. The Apaches out in Arizona are said to be getting ugly. This is not to be taken as an intimation that the race was at any time noted for its good looks. BULLETIN VERSUS ORGAN. Gov. Van Sant's press bulletin, pub lished in the editorial columns of the faithful 80, charged Leonard A. Ros ing a week or so ago with spending the time of the extra session in lobby ing against the tax code and with be ing responsible for its defeat Mr. Rosing in his speeches admitted the charge and claimed credit for it. The Winona Republican and Herald, the personal organ of Gov. Van Sant, at his -Winona home, now comes out with the criticism: "Mr. Rosing indorsed the action of the Republican legislature in defeating the tax code." Now it is plain that Gov. Van Sant should get his bulletin and his organ together. They are as badly mixed as the gov ernor and his correspondent on the coal strike question. The good Lord and good devil policy does not always make good politics. If the Republican candidate for gov ernor wants to take to himself credit lor the defeat of the tax code, the pas sage of which he advocated in a special message to the legislature, why has his press bureau peddled all over the coun try districts of the state the campaign document which begins: "It remains fof the people of Minne sota to say if they want as governor a man who during the extra session of the legislature made it his exclusive business to lobby against the tax bill. * * * This is what Mr. Rosing, the Democratic candidate for governor, did." On the other hand, if Gov. Van Sant criticises Rosing for defeating the tax code which he himself as governor ad vocated by special message, why does he now boast through his organ of "the action of the Republican legis lature in defeating the" tax code," which Mr. Rosing indorsed? Is it the Van Sant programme to claim for the Republicans the credit ol the tax code's defeat when speaking to city audiences, and to charge Rosing with its defeat when talking to country audiences? Has he one howl for the country and the opposite for the city? Has he one song for the bulletin which stands for editorial in the col umns of the faithful SO rural hand or gans, and another for the city organ which has exclusively a city circula tion? The Van Sant habit of blow-hot and blow-cold is becoming tiresome. Voters and taxpayers now know full well that, first, Gov. Van Sant advo cated the tax code in a special message to the legislature; second, that Leon ard A. Rosing opposed it with all his influence, advocating in its stead a con stitutional amendment providing for franchise taxation and an income tax; third, that the legislature would not have the tax code, and that it did submit a constitutional amendment, which, although not all one could wish, does permit of progress in the direc tion of the tax reforms advocated by Mr. Rosing, and that the latter in his speeches advocates the passage of said amendment Leonard A. Rosing i.roclaims his views to the world. One hundred thousand copies of his St. Paul speech, wherein he stated his opposition to the tax code and his reasons therefor, have been given to the voters outside of this city, who were not fortunate enough to hear him. Do the people of Minne sota want for governor a man of clean cut views and convictions, and who stands by his convictions at all times and places, or a man who is pro-tax code today and anti tomorrow, blows hot in the country and blows cold in the city, and has never hesitated to shift responsibility whenever and wherever he thought it would get him office? The latest returns from the anthra cite region in connection with the presence of a big military force have not resulted in proving the operators to be prophets. SOMEWHAT OF A FROST. It is apparent that the first big Re publican event of the state campaign, the Fairbanks meeting at the Exposi tion building in Minneapolis on Sat urday evening, partook 1 of the nature of a frost. In the same auditorium where, the Monday evening before, John Lind and Mayoralty Candidate Haynes drew an audience of 4,000, Senator Fairbanks and Congressman Fletcher and orators Peterson and Hay brought together only 2,000. It is not known whether Senator Fairbanks was ignorant of the stand of the Minnesota delegation in con gress or intended to be sarcastic when he gave out as his main text: "We want a house of representa tives which will sustain President Roosevelt!" If that is the issue in the election of Minnesota congressmen this year, then by all means no Republican should be re-elected, because every mother's son of them voted and worked dead against the president on the one bill of the sessioq which specially repre sented the president's views. On the other hand, three-fourths of the Democratic members of the recent congress voted for the president's rec iprocity programme; and every Demo crat nominated for congress in the nine congressional districts of Minnesota this fall stands for reciprocity with Cuba and Canada as against the Re publican delegation's stand for the beet sugar and pine stumpage com bines. Senator Fairbanks was wise in dodg ing the coal issue with the 67-cent duty which the Republican tariff gives the operators' trust. The demand of Minnesota Democrats that the tariff shall be taken from trusts, the Indiana spell-binder dis misses as a demand for "free trade." That is the way the attorneys of the protected interests are accustomed to meet any and all demands for tariff revision. But this bugaboo no longer terrifies. With a coal famine in the land, with protected trusts dominating the coun try, and the party in power sustain ing and protecting the trust power in its gigantic exploitations—the Ameri can people, at least the clear-headed and thorough-going yeomanry of this North Star state, are not to be scared from their duty by a cheap and worn out bugaboo. It behooves Correspondent Cavilier or Candidate Van Sant, one of the two, to be getting out that ".unlimited sup ply of wood" right lively. SUPERSTITION IS INSANITY. The theory recently advanced that fully 80 per cent of the American peo ple are insane to a certain degree is borne out by a test made the past few days by the Chicago Tribune, which set a tall ladder against a building on a busy street and watched the people as they walked under or around it. Five hundred were carefully counted and notes made as to whether they walked straight ahead or side-stepped the lad der. Of the 500, 366 walked to the outer edge of the sidewalk to avoid passing under the ladder, and this sole ly because they were superstitious, because they believed it bad luck to pass under a ladder. J The ladder is only an instance of the scores of things that people regard with suspicion. The figures 13 give a good many a cold chill every time they see them. Not infrequently one sees a person hurriedly leave a street car because it is numbered 13 or there is a 13 somewhere in the combination of figures which mark it. The same con dition of things exists in hotels and to such a degree that nowadays one sel dom finds a room in any first-class hostelry bearing the number 13 unless it is a closet or ante-room. In the railway sleepers it is much the same. j It is almost a daily occurrence for a passenger assigned to No. 13 to get the conductor to assign him to some other, or, failing in this, sit up all night in a regular coach. . And the women, heaven bless them— they go around all day picking up pins head toward them and pat themselves on the back, figuratively speaking, of course, over the good luck that is just over the hills for them. But if they get the pins point toward them they lie awake nights thinking*of the bur glars they are going to find under the bed, the balloons they are going to fall out of or the horrid men they are going to marry only to regret it ever after. * All these superstitions are solely a species of insanity. Every reasoning man knows that it doesn't matter whether one sees the moon over the right or left shoulder, whether one meets one two or five funerals or none, | whether one has a rabbit's foot or a horseshoe. These things ha,ve nothing whatever to do with the sunshine and shadow of life? Let all those who can "forget the ladders, the thirteens, the rabbits' feet and the moonshine. This at least would be great good luck to any man. "Hail to King Coal!" said the weath er man yesterday. And it nearly snowed. BORIS HAS A GOOD EYE. There was some good in the Grand Duke Boris after all. Stopping in Paris, on his way home to the realm of the czar, he said: "American wom en love to" dance and sing and be merry, THE ST. PAUL GLOBS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1902. but their morals are higher than those of the women of any European coun try." To which every manly American will give a hearty second, Henry Wat terson to the contrary notwithstanding. Boris' testimony is valuable, as he made a close study of the situation from a long-distance view of the girls of San Francisco to drinking cham pagne from chorus girls' slippers in Chicago and attending all sorts of functions of the "400" at Newport. With all this before him, and having no ax to grind, Boris pays the highest possi ble tribute to the women of Yankee land. «. The grand duke adds that American girls are the most graceful in the world and that many of them are intellectual marvels. He takes pains to assert from a critical examination that the story started in St. Louis that Chicago girls have the largest feet of any in the world is grossly untrue. He says, on the contrary, that the feet of the Windy City girls are exceptionally small and shapely. For this every sensitive young woman in Chicago would have a photograph of the grand duke in her library, except for a side remark that he throws in at closing to the effect that Mrs. Hobart Chatfield-Taylor is the most beautiful woman of ttfe 1,000,000 in the big, bust ling town. Remarks like that almost cause a riot on the Lake Shore drive, Michigan avenue and Drexel boulevard. Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor is pretty, but the others are not going to admit that she is the prettiest. And, in passing, it should not be for gotten that Boris says complimentary things of the men of America. He as serts that "American men's existence is a life-long devotion to their women." Let's all. chalk .up a big credit mark for Boris. We can forgive the drinking of champagne out of a slipper and the fondness for the poetry of Ella Wheel er Wileox in a man who talks so sensi bly about a great people whom he has visited. '■„ Two more aeronauts have yielded to the inevitable. The rapid automo bile as a deadly machine is in danger of losing its laurels. • , i^ 7- , THE PARTY WHIP LASH FALLS. % There are few more rock-ribbed Re publican counties on record than Fari bault county in Southwestern Minne sota. ; It went 2,761 to 986 against the Democrats for the office of state treas urer in the last election, and in much the same proportion <■ for the entire ticket. •. • . Faribault county comprises the Twelfth legislative district of Minne- 1. sota, and in the last election elected Representative J. A. Armstrong by i 1,000 majority. . ; • '..■{■'■'^.Ji : ..Rasmus Rfork, a Norwegian farmer, came out for the Republican nomina tion at the primary election last month against Representative Armstrong, who was a candidate for the customary re- : election. f'-.=,> ; ;r ; - Representative Armstrong's commit tee brought out the charge ' against Mork that he was not a true-blue Re publican, that in the past three cam paigns he voted and worked for- John - Lind, the Democratic-People's candi date, for governor, and that in so doing, he worked in harmony with Leonard A. Rosing, John Lind's campaign man ager and this time candidate for gover nor. ' -' ■ ' •/£> Rasmus Mork admitted the charge. . . He did vote and work for John Lind. He did harmonize with Leonard A. Rosing, Lind's manager and now him self the Democratic nominee for gover nor. ';'.',' -•"."*«■_- So the issue was joined, and on that issue the Republican Voters of this Re publican county, which ' goes * two or three to one for the Republican ticket, went to the primary election polls and cast their ballots. . ■* \\^-y. Rasmus Mork, who confessed his vote , for Lind and ;- worked with Rosing, was nominated. .'•::"•;-;" "\- . \ Representative Armstrong who .waved the party lash was defeated. Daylight .is breaking on hidebound partisanship. . '-' The whip of the party boss has lost its power to control the 3,000 Republic an voters of Faribault - county. And why should Republican •. voters, stand and be herded and voted like cat tle any longer when their bosses have turned traitor to every interest of the people and to every pledge of the party? /"";•■'.■ '**:■}■[[- - -.:, V : • Why should they be voted for the trusts that are protected by Republic an tariffs which rob every Republican producer and consumer in the state? ' Why should they stand and be lashed into voting for the lumber tariff which according even to the admissions of the Republican press—between campaigns —taxes every builder of a home and ' I granary $8 per thousand for lumber? Why should they stand and be lashed , into supporting the duty for the. pro tection of the coal trust which threat ens every home in the land? ' v. Why should they stand and be voted for a state administration which in creases the taxable valuation of farm property over $100,000,000 this year, while letting off the ' Twin City Rapid Transit company with an assessment of only $5,572,000 for $23,000,000 of ac tual market value? No wonder they rebel, and no wonder Rasmus Mork, who has the courage to snap the party whip, into shreds, has the support of his fellow Republicans against the candidate who places party above country and home. - ,' ? '-■ ■.v': •.'." . ' -■ ■ ■, ■ ■■■■■-._ "-.-■-'■ ■:.*. The ; Cavilier . way of disposing of a thing is not always the true way. ——— — — -«. ■.»: .-* ■ ?<•":-. WHAT ARE THE MEN OF MARS? That men talk most about those things *of which they know the least was never more fully shown .than on the question of whether or not .Mars is inhabited. Prof. George W. Hough had no sooner stated • that the planet is inhabited, ? but there was .no probabil- . ity that anybody on earth would r ever know to a certainty,: than the astro nomical bright lights of the world 1 be gan to • get garrulous to an astounding degree. Prof. Lowell says if a Martian were on earth he would weigh twenty-seven times as much as a man. Sir Francis Galton asserts with positiyeness that the inhabitants of Mars are communi cating with the earth in signals that are something: like telegraphic charac ters and thaTthly are of a high order of intelligence. Prof. Hoeckel believes the Martians far surpass ordinary men and women in i intelligence and that they excel infstrehgth and gracefulness. Prof. Chandler also thinks they are heavier andi stronger than ourselves, with much thicker skins and eyes and ears quite different from those of the men of earth. Flammarion is sure there are men anJd women on Mars, but he inclines to the belief that they are formed like dragon flies. Dr. Joseph Charles Street talks like a comedian, but he is serious when he says the Martians are of the same general shape as man.but are fiery red and about eight feet tall. He says they are hideous and have no beards or eyebrows and no hair on their heads. All of this talk is entertaining, but at the same time unsatisfying. In reality we are not in telescopic, tele phonic or telegraphic communcation with the Martians. We do not see them, hear them or hear from them. Whether they are there or not is large ly a question of atmosphere. If they have air such as ours animal life could exist there, but if there atmosphere has no oxygen or nitrogen in it such beings as we are would perish. Then, again, they may be so different from the men of earth, their lungs so dif ferently constructed that they could not only live but thrive without oxy gen and nitrogen. The question broad ens, but how little real light is thrown upon it. The policy of the one beet sugar company of Minnesota in fleecing the farmers by deductions of 10 per cent to 30 per cent from the proceeds of the beets for alleged "tare" became so notorious that President Theden and two of the other directors of the company resigned rather than be par ties to the mulcting regime. The farm ers have ha 4to appeal to the courts for their rights, and in a recent suit were successful in obtaining a favor able decision. Is this the industry for which the Minnesota delegation in congress deserted the interests of Min nesota in commercial relations with Cuba? • Senator Fairbanks . insists that t the Republicans can be trusted to revise the tariff. : Well, they were intrusted with > that . job in 1888; and what did they give —the McKinley tariff. They were intrusted again in 1896, and they gave us the Dingley tariff which gives protection to 206 trusts, / cap italized at $6,000,000,000. Do we want any more of this kind of "revision?" 1 «0> The divine right of kings has a re vival in two directions; as witness the announcement of Baer in regard to himself and God running the coal sup ply of the country, and the speech of Senator : Fairbanks in which the G. O. P. is pictured as a part of "the loom of the Almighty." ; . Republican orators should take pains to look up the facts before they dilate on the untariffed trusts of Great Brit ain. All the so-called trusts and cor porate consolidations of Great Britain combined have less than half the cap italization of the United States Steel corporation alone. By substituting the name of, Baer for that of Mitchell, Correspondent Cavilier would have given Gov. Van Sant credit for sound judgment. The sentence would then have read: "If Mr. Baer would resign, I assume that it would not be difficult to arbitrate." If the shock to the presidents of the coal-carrying roads resulting from having to submit to a proposal from Mr. Morgan to arbitrate should prove fatal, it is highly improbable that this people would observe the event as an occasion for prayer and fasting. It looks as if they were trying in Indianapolis to anticipate the day of judgment, when the grave gives up its dead. The Indiana capital, until lately, was not one of the American cities which were supposed to be ready to discount eternity. It is now announced that Russell Sage is about to take a rest at the age of eighty-eight. Judging from the influence of activity oo the health of Mr. Sage, he has discarded the most essential requirement to continued long life. How deeply Mayor Maybury, of De troit must be regretting just about this time that he is not a citizen of New York or Ohio, in which case he might have the uncommon experience of being struck by lightning. Admiral Casey is expected to bring about peace in the pending strife down in Panama. »Let us hope he will have better luck than a certain celebrated namesake of his, of whom great things were expected when he went to bat. Holding the mirror up to nature is all very well in its way, but it evidently does not impress that Omaha peda gogue favorably, at least when only feminine human nature is presented to view. For complete and detailed refuta tions of Senator Fairbanks' tariff arguments of Saturday evening see the editorial columns of the Republic an evening organs of the Twin Cities for six months past. While the big bosses of Eastern pol itics and business are casting about for a settlement of the coal- strike, let them not forget John Mitchell's plain and simple proposition to arbitrate. Why does the president send all his petitions to John Mitchell? Why not do a little Baer-baiting in the Al leghanies, instead of restricting his prowess to the .Rockies? The operators refuse to recognize the Miners' union or the president of the United States. They may be compelled to recognize the American people be fore the latter are through with them. NOT GOOD TO BURN. Oh. what care I for diamonds, And rubies, rich and rare. And rosy cheeks and laughing eyes And wavy chestnut hair? What care I for the beauties Which poets may discern? They're well enough when wanted. But they aren't good to burn. And what care I for reasons. Propounded with much care. To show just why we cannot cook Tomorrow'asbiirof fare? For statesmanlike; deductions My spirit dtfes net yearn— They are mentally inspiring. But they aren't good to burn. - — Washington Star. Ho 4 th« v Cities Grow. The calendar year 1901. according to a recent report of the United States geo logical survey, was the greatest in the history of the country in city building. Forty-two cities submitted reports to the department in response to inquiries and these showed that the total number of permits issued in those cities was 85,571 as against 68,417 for 1900. a gain of 17,154, or 25.07 per cent. The value of the buildings erected on these permits fn 1901 was $372 173,631. compared with 5247.561, --585 in 1900, a gain of $130,657,046, or 54 per cent. TAT ST. PAUL heatre*/* Lewis Morrison, in "Faust," is play ing to good business at the Metropoli tan this week. He is surrounded by an excellent supporting company, and the performance is, in many respects, the best "Faust" ever seen in this city. Morrison's Mephisto is identified with himself, and it would be difficult to establish another in his place. This is his twenty-first season in this role, and his interpretation has improved and broadened with age until it may now be considered a classic. The en gagement will close with two per formances tomorrow, the matinee be ing played at popular prices. "A Modern Magdalen" opens a half week engagement .at the Metropolitan Thursday evening. The company is headed by Roselle Knott and W. J. Ferguson, and is one of the strongest dramatic organizations ever seen in the Northwest. An audience enthusiastic to a de gree, and especially well dressed, fill ed every point of vantage in the large auditorium of the Grand opera house last evening, and if vociferous and continued applause be taken as a cri terion, thoroughly enjoyed every mo ment of the four acts of Blaney's big military melodrama, "Across the Pa cific. When Ward and Yokes show us their second edition of "The Head Waiters," at the Grand the coming week, it is promised that an all-new entertainment will be found. New in every sense—music, songs, fun, ward robe, scenery—all have been unstint ingly provided to maintain the trade mark of these favorite comedians. The seat sale opens Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. Eight sweet-voiced boy choristers and half a dozen men singers, all from London, entertained an audience thai was largely Anglo-Saxon and corre spondingly enthusiastic last night at the Auditorium. But, though patriot ism may have prompted the presence of the 300 or more people last night, it was merit only that inspired the fre quent and hearty applause which fol lowed each chorus or solo number of the Coronation choir. The eight lads who comprise the boy choir possess voices of unusual sweetness. Not all of the voices are robust in quality, two or three of them are noticeably frail, but not one voice has a hint of the shrillness that mars the voices of so many boy sopranos. The chorus has no great carrying power. Indeed, against the background of deeper male voices their melody was etched in delicate rather than in deep lines, but these lines were the gold of pure mel ody. Master Percy Phillips and Mas ter George Forsythe were heard in solos last night, the former singing "The Bird and the Rose," and the lat ter, "Orpheus and His Lute," by Sulli van. Henry Leslie's "Swallow" was sung by the boy choir alone. The vocal work of the men of the party was quite as satisfactory as that of the boys. Edward Branscombe, a tenor; Percy Coward, a baritone, and Charles Ackerman and Albert Arch deacon, bassos, did some ex cellent solo work. The pro gramme was made up largely of English ballads, old and new, with the exception of three patriotic songs. For an encore number the choir sang the Coronation ode song at the coro nation in Westminster Abbey. Al though the lack of orchestral or organ support was noticeable, that lack did not altogether destroy the impressive ness of the rendition. The programme concluded last night with the singing of "God Save the King" by the Coro nation choir party. Mme. Marie Hooton, the contralto, who accompanies the choir, has a clear and vigorous voice of much sweetness and power. Her crisp enunciation contrasts refreshingly with the slip shod English one is, accustomed to hear from the majority of concert singers. Mme. Hooton sang two songs, "Daffodils a-Blowing," by Edward German, and the old English ballad, "Barbara Allen." Everything done by "The World Beaters," the attraction at the Star theater this week, is first-class. There will be afternoon and evening per formances all the week. SUFFOCATED ON THE STILLWATER LEVEE Adolph Sprich, an Old Resident, Loses His Life in a Building Which Is Burned. Adolph Sprich, a well known resi dent of Stillwater for many years, lost his life yesterday morning by being suffocated in the old warehouse on the levee belonging to the estate of A. T. Jenks, deceased, which was almost to tally destroyed by fire. Mr. Sprich, who was a contractor and builder, occupied the two upper floors of the building, and was on hand yesterday morning to start the gasoline engine. He had been working about the shop an hour or more before the fire started, and had left his brother Emil on the up per floor about ten minutes before the fire was discovered. Just how he lost his life will never be known, but the presumption is that he was at work in the inner room and that the flames prevented him from getting out through the door on the west side. There is a door on the north side of the building, and after the flames had been subdued his body was found be side the door and close to the wall. While the fire was raging it was sup posed that he was in the building, and the firemen worked with might and main to locate him, but the smoke was' so dense that they could do "nothing until the fire in that part of the build ing had been extinguished. As soon as he was discovered he was carried to the front end of the building, and it was said that life was not extinct, but all efforts at resuscitation proved fruitless. Deceased was forty-four years of age and unmarried. He leaves a number of brothers and sisters. He was a member of the Sons of Her mann, the Knights of Honor, the Still water Maennerchor and other organ izations, and was a popular fellow among the German-Americans of this city. The warehouse is practically a total loss, only the walls and a few burnt beams remaining. It was an old land mark, having been built in the days of freight traffic by water' between Stillwater and St. Louis. The loss on the * building is estimated at $1,500, partially covered by an insurance of $1,000. Mr. Sprich had considerable machinery and building material in the building, the loss on which cannot be estimated. He carried a small in surance on his property. Albert Laßue, who conducts a gro cery store in the Mower block on Chestnut street, had a cerebral hemorrhage in P. H. Christiansen's barber shop yesterday forenoon, and reports from his home last evening were not of an enwuraging nature. He had not been in very good health for several days, and the collapse came very suddenly. His condition In the afternoon was so serious that it was considered advisable to telegraph for his daughter, Mrs. Harry Orff, of Glyndon, Minn. The fire department" responded to a call from the Minnesota Flouring Mill company's plant at midnight Sunday, flames halving broken out in a pile of edgings, adjoining the engine room. The outer walls of the mill were scorched a little, but the damage was small. The Chauncey Lamb and bowboat cleared Sunday with logs for C. Lamb & Sons, Clinton, Iowa; the Juniata and Clyde cleared yesterday with logs for Zimmerman & Ives, Guttenburg, and lumber for P. .J. Seipples, Ott, Muser & Co., and others, of Dubuque. The Columbia cleared with logs for Charles Boettcher, Red Wing. Miss Temple Clark, a sister of Matt Clark, of St. Paul, who has been very ill with heart disease for more th./jj a week, was much weaker yesterday, and it was stated last evening that the attending physicians did not ex pect her to live throughout the night. The death of Mrs. Sarah Raiter, residing on South Harriett street, oc curred Sunday afternoon. She was the widow of Gustav Raiter and had re sided here for many years. A small strike occurred yesterday among the carpenters employed in construction work by the Northwest Thresher company. The men struck for advanced wage and a nine-hour schedule. Four of the men went out, but the rest of them remained at work. Officers of the company are of the opinion that the strike will "be settled without difficulty and that all of the men will be at w rork again today. Judg« Williston, of the district court, will hold a special term of court at the court house today. CROWN PRINCE OF SIAM SEES OUR FUTURE DEWEYS Visits Naval Academy and Attends^Wash ington Theater. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 13.—The crown prince of Siam spent the whole forenoon today in visiting the capltol and congressional library. He was given an opportunity to examine into all details of both buildings. At 1 o'clock he left here in a special train for Annapolis to inspect the United States naval academy, and returned to Washington at 6 o'clock. He attended the theater after dinner. His brother, Prince Chakarabongse, who is an officer in the imperial Russian Hus sars, was griven a private dinner tonight by Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa dor. ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Oct. 13.— Chowfa Maha Vajiravudh, crown prince of Siam, and suite, accompanied by a number of prominent government officials from Washington, arrived here today and was received at the station by Lieut. F. L. Sawyer, of the navy, and an aide to Supt. Wainwright, of the naval academy. The battalion of marines was paraded outside the inclosure at the station. After bei*g received at the station the party took carriages and were driven into, the grounds of the naval academy, where they were formally welcomed by Supt. Wainwright and the heads of the depart ments at the academy. A salute of twenty-one guns was then fired in honor of the nation's guest, who reviewed the battalion of midshipmen. Subsequently the prince and his party were taken through the academy buildfhgs. The party returned to Washington this even ing. FINNS KICKING VAINLY AGAINST THE PRICKS They Will State Some of Their Desires to the Russian Government. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 13.—Sev eral numbers of the Finnish court of appeals have been removed because they opposed the application of the new military conscription law in their jurisdictions. The members of the diet representing the rural population are preparing to present to the authorities at St. Petersburg, through the land marshal, who is president of the diet, a petition in behalf of the entire Finnish people for the limitation of the impe rial manifestoes relating to Finnish laws and also for the postponement or modification of the introduction of the Russian language in official procedure. STAMFORD NEWEL WILL REMAIN AT THE HAGUE No Foundation for the Report That Jackson Will Displace Him. BERLIN, Oct. 13.—The authorities at Washington have asked Secretary Jackson if he would accept ar ministry in South America and he replied that he wculd if it were offered, though he preferred a ministry in Europe* There is no other basis for the widely circu lated report that Mr. Jackson is going to The Hague. Minister Newel has not resigned, and it is learned that he does not intend an early withdrawal from The Hague. GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S TARIFF POSITION IS STRENGTHENED It Is Assured of the Support of the Na- tional Liberal Party. BERLIN, Oct. 13. — The National Liiberul party has decided in conven tion at Eisenach to stand by the gov ernment's tariff bill. This declaration, coming immediately before the re sumption of the sittings of the reich stag, and taken in connection with the yielding attitude of the Conservatives, puts the ministry in a much better po sition for the session. Though parliament reassembles to morrow the tariff bill will not come up for several days. GERMANY STRONGEST RIVAL IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Competition Shows in Supplying Machin- cry and in New inventions. WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 13.—Ger many is the greatest competitor of the United States in the field of electrical en gineering, according to a long report made public at the state department today from United States Consular Agent Harris, at Bibenstock. He says that the German competition shows not only in supplying electrical ma chinery to the different nations of the world, but also in devising new inventions in both weak and strong current electrol ogy. The Germans, he says, attained their leading position through profound scien tific training. SOLDIERS ARRESTED FOR A POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION Strange Incident in Connection With the Pan-German Movement. VIENNA, Oct. 13.—A newspaper of Tarnew, Galicia, reports a curious in cident in connection with the Pan- German movement. Fifty dragoons living in German Bohemia returned to their homes recently on the comple tion of their military service in Galicia, when they were all placed under mili tary arrest for a political demonstra tion. When the soldiers entered the train to go home they hung Prussian flags out of the car windows and sang "The Watch on the Rhine." WILL PRICES OF LAUNDRY WORK BE ADVANCED? This May Be Among the Consequences of the Coal Famine. WASHINGTON, D. Q., Oct. 13.—The. nineteenth annual convention of the Laundrymen's National association be gan here today, with Presfdent Henry S. Porter, of Dorchester, Mass., in the chair. More than 600 delegates were present. The convention may consider the question of a raise of prices for laun dry work on account of coal shortage. The association discussed several tech nical topics of interest to the organiza tion. Window Glass Factories Start. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Oct. 13. — Practically all of the window glass fac tories in the country will be started to morrow for the season. The starting of the factories in Indiana alone means the employment of nearly 20,000 men and boys. The men In air branches of the trade will receive higher wages than last year. SIR MICHAEL PRESENTED NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR MEETS ROOSEVELT The Two Are Personal Friends of Ten Years' Standing, and After the Formalities They Sit and Have a Chat at the Temporary White House. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct 13.—Ac cording to appointment made Saturday Sir Michael Herbert, the new British ambassador, was presented to the pres ident today by Secretary Hay. The presentation took place at the "tempo rary White house" on Jackson Place, and this was probably the first occasion since the White house has been occu pied as the presidential mansion that the credentials of an ambassador or minister have been received outside of its doors. Instead of calling at the state depart ment first, which is the usual course, the ambassador proceeded directly to the temporary White house with the full staff of the embassy, in their dip lomatic uniforms. Secretary Hay, meeting him at this point, presented his to President Roosevelt in the par* lor on the second floor of the house. The presentation was made in the usuaf. form, with the important exception that the president, though rapidly pro gressing toward recovery, heeded his * physician's warning, remaining seated. The ceremony was brief, consisting in the presentation of the new ambassa dor by Secretary Hay, delivery by the ambassador of his credentials and a felicitious speech by the ambassador expressive of the pleasure it gave him to return to Washington and an appro priate response by the president. President and Ambassador Old Friends. That was all of the ceremony, and when it was over Sir Michael, who is a long-time friend of the president, their acquaintance dating back moro. than ten years, accepted Mr. Roose velt's invitation to be seated, and the .two had a long personal chat. The new ambassador will take rank next after Signor Mayor Dcs Planches, the Italian ambassador. The foreign embassies here now rank in this order: Germany, Russia, Mexico, Italy and Great Britain, with Austria-Hungary next, as Mr. Hengelmuller probably will present his credentials as ambassador before the new representative from France arrives and is presented. How ever, there have been persistent ru mors that Mr. Yon Holleben, the Ger man ambassador, who is now dean ot the corps, soon will relinquish his post here for another one on the continent, and there have also been intimations that Comte Cassini, the Russian am bassador, who has been at Washington since June, 1898, will be transferred to another post. If these two prospective changes ma terialize Senor Aspiroz, the Mexican ambassador, will become dean of the corps, with Signor Mayor Dcs Planches, of Italy, ranking next, and Sir Michael Herbert standing third in the list of foreign ambassadors at Washington. CONFLICT AMONG CHOCTAWS AVERTED . Federal Troops Take a Hand and Do the Peacemaker f Act. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 13.—A serious conflict between partisans of rival candidates for the governorship of the Choctaw Indian nation, Indian Territory, has been averted by the presence of federal troops, according to dispatches received at the interior department. Gov. Dukes, the outgoing: governor, who is said to be a partisan of Hunter, one of the candidates, took charge of the capitol building, assisted by arm ed horsemen, and, according to Indian Agent Schoenfeld, arbitrarily permit ted persons to enter and sit as mem bers of the Choctaw council upon commissions issued by himself, and f refused to admit members having cer tificates from regularly constituted au thorities. Agent Schoenfeld appealed to Washington for troops. On their ar rival the Choctaw council was permit ted to enter the building and resume its sessions. The official dispatches received today show that the vote of the council for the office of principal chief (governor) was counted yester day. Green McCurtain had a major ity of 689 and was duly sworn in. Agent Schoenfeld wires that the pres ence of the troops prevented, a clash between contending factions, and that he now anticipated no further trouble. All the armed men in the Choctaw capital or capital grounds have been disarmed or removed by the troops. Gov. Dukes made a determined fight, as shown by the following telegram . he sent to the secretary of the in terior: "Agent Schoenfeld has considered disarming my peace officers and di recting my procedure. I am proceed ing strictly within our constitution and laws, and the election will be set tled by our legislature fairly and just ly between the contending factions. It will be done peaceably if Agent Schoenfeld does not go beyond keeping the peace. My peace officers are di rected to not even resent insults, but simply to stand at their post of duty and not permit my government to be overthrown. I wash my hands of the fatal results that may occur if Agent Sehoenfeld insists on usurping any authority as. chief executive." McCurtain also wired that by in structions of Dukes, the latter's armed light horsemen posted in the capital ordered many members and council^ officers from the building. _ **" "The horsemen," he added, "are ap pointees and bitter partisans of Dukes, with whom Marshal Hackett and dep uties are co-operating. It is openly stated that Dukes' purpose is to con tinue these conditions and prevent the counting of votes for chief until the expiration of time fixed by law, and thus continue himself in office." WE'LL WAIT FOR AUSTRIA AS PATIENTLY AS POSSIBLE Delay in Raising the Legation at Wash- ington to an Embassy. VIENNA. Oct. 13.—1n its issue of today the Neves Weiner Tageblatt says the for eign office feels called upon to explain why the Austro-Hungarian legation at Washington has not been raised to an embassy. The explanation made is that #he money voted by the delations for the purpose will not be available before * 1903 and, although the change has been decided upon, formal announcement or it must be deferred until then. It was announced from Vienna last March that the Austro-Hungarian legation at Washington would be raised to an em bassy next year as an evidence of the cordial relations existing between Aus tria-Hungary and the United States. Ihe United States minister to Austria-Hun gary was made an ambassador last sum mer and mesented his credentials in this role to Emperor Francis Joseph June 26. ;"'•' :'.,, " Porte Says It Isn't So. : LONDON, ' Oct. 13.—The *< porte > de nies the report that , private negotia-^ ■•* -tions were • proceeding between , Russi* fand Turkey, which, if successful, woufj — result -, in san v agreement to • close the ■ Dardanelles Vto r all but - Russian ; war ships.