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2 NEWS OF THE CITY Silver Boy Out of Danger —Sammy Silver, the small boy recently stabbed by a playmate, continues to improve at Bethesda hospital and is considered out of danger. Burglar Suspect Waives Examina tion—Oscar Quehle, accused of break ing into G. E. Bruckner's house on the West side Sunday, waived examination and was held to the grand jury. Goven to Take the Dog Trail—The local campaign against unlicensed dogs will begin Aug. 1. Operations in the field will' be conducted by Patrolman John Goven, inspector of dog licenses. Wife Beater Goes to Workhouse— Charley L. Howard was sent to the workhouse for ninety days. He was found guilty of beating his wife, who received cuts in the face and shotftaer. Governor Names. Municipal Judge— Gov. Van Sant yesterday appointed -A. G. Wedge, of Detroit, Becker county, municipal judge of that city. The. office was Vecently created by the city coun cil. Claims Hunger Forced Him to Steal —The case against Ender Ludwig was continued until today. He admitted stealing two bicycles, but said that he needed money for food. His assertions "will be investigated. Will Lay Corner Stone of Church— The corner stone of the new Bates Av enue Methodist Episcopal church will be laid at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Sev eral clergymen»and laymen will make addresses. The church is to be built as a memorial for the late Rev. F. O. Holman. Bishop McQuaid to Preach at Cathe dral—The announcement is made that Rt. Rev. Bernard McQuaid, bishop of Rochester, N. V., who is in St. Paul in attendance upon the convention of the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent associa tion as supreme spiritual adviser, will preach at 10:30 o'clock mass at the Cathedral Sunday morning. Yo Sam Was Only Disorderly—To Sam, an aged Chinaman, charged with conducting an opium "joint" at his laundry on Rosabel street, was allow ed to plead guilty to disorderly con duct and was fined $10. The witnesses in the case, R. E. Cole, and a woman that gave the name of Inez Evans, for feited their bail and did not appear. Fined for Slapping Non-Union Men -—Frank Smith, a union brickmaker, was fined $5 and placed under bonds to keep the peace. He slapped K. Mun ding and J. Yolk, two non-union men, during a fjuarrrel last Monday over matters connected with the brickmak ers' strike on the West side. He de clared that the men he attacked had used abusive language. Building Permits— The Sharood Shoe company has taken out a building per mit for the construction of six-story brick factory, to be erected on the north side of Fourth street, between Pine and Broadway. The building will be 50x100 feet and will cost $75 000 Another permit taken out was for re pairs and improvements to the extent of $1,200 on the Lafayette hotel, lo cated on Minnesota street. THREE ARE INSANE Probate Court Sends Unfortu nates to Rochester Hospital Three insane cases were before the probate court yesterday, in all of which commitments to the Rochester hospital were ordered. Sarah Johnson, eighty years old, who has been an inmate of the Home for the Friendless for some time, was one of the three committed. The woman's condition has been growing steadily worse for some days, and a few days ago she attacked the matron at the liome, who was saved from injury only oy the prompt interference of others Mary Barry, a girl but twenty-two years old, and before her marriage a clerk in a department store, was ex amined at the detention ward of the city hospital, her condition being such that she could not be removed to the court house. For some time past she has been talking queerly and has suf fered from insomnia. She has been in the city hospital five weeks, and a few days ago she became so violent that it was necessary to tie her in the bed Isaac Palace, aged twenty-two, ana a tailor by trade, was the third person committed. Palace recently attempted suicide by trying to strangle himself, and has been in the county jail hos pital for three days. All of the patients were taken to Rochester yesterday evening. J The Sunday Literary Bill of Fare When the Multitude Flee the Gymnastics in the Schools—A City—How they get out and valuable contribution in the where people go to escape the athletic series by Physical In heat, when it comes, with pic- structor Emanuel Haug of tures- New. York. _, _ .. , . .... _ °ut. By Osborn Spencer. The Teakettle's Artistic Temper ament—Julius Muller's fairy ° Keefe i Akoond of Swat—An story. other installment of Osborne'g First Aid to Busy Mothers-The CleVer stOry fashion article by Katherine Woes of a Marriage Broker— Anderson is devoted to things How his work was rendered for the children, t useless by Cupid. When the Haskins Did the Re- Seumas MacManus' Letter From sorts—A clever article on "do- Ireland. ing the other side," ,» .. _ , , , J ,_. .. _ . _ ■ Curtis Brown's London Corre 'The Home-Commg of CoL spondence. Hucks"—A short story by Wil- „ . ma _, . Ham Allen White. Hubert M. Skinner's Literary The Japanese Spirit-An analysis Contribution. of Japanese character, written Sports, Social, Music, Books, for The Globe by Shegitoro Sunshine. Morikubo. A| , tngvNewa of the World. SUBSIOY UNPOPULAR Marine Committee Finds It Meets With Little Favor The congressional committee on merchant marine spent a few hours in this city yesterday morning and de parted westward on the Great North ern flyer at 10:30 o'clock. Ducing the brief stay Congressman E. S. Minor, of Wisconsin, voicing his persona! opinion, said that they had already found that a direct ship subsidy was an unpopular measure and that the commission would have to consider some other method of securing trade for American shipping. He suggested two plans: The first of . these was to assist .sMsp.ing by liberal foreign mail contracts, which would re sult in more speed and directness than is necessary where no mail is carried, and at the same time afford the transportation companies enough reve nue to defray the expenses of the ad ditional speed and directness. The second suggestion was that a system of preferential differentials be inaugurated so that it will be a distinct money advantage, to the shipper to import in American vessels. President Smith and Secretary Stine, of the Commercial club, and Congress man Stevens received the party and escorted the members to breakfast at the Ryan, after which there was an automobile ride about town, which only concluded in time to catch the train. NO AFTERNOON MAIL St. Paul Letter Carriers Off to Picnic Today The annual outing of the St. Paul letter carriers, -to--be—held this after noon at Tonka Bay, Minnetonka, will result in no afternoon delivery of mail throughout the city today. The first train to leave for the lake will leave the union depot at 8:20 this morning, but the train carrying the major number of the letter carriers and the holiday crowd will leave the station at 1:45. Committees of the carriers have been at work for some weeks in perfecting preliminary arrangements for a pro gramme to make the outing a success, independent of the attractions at the lake. There will be boat and swimming races, running races for swift boys and girls, for fat men, for lean men, three-legged men, prizes for Caledo nian games, and finally, a baseball game, with nothing less than a case of wine as the trophy. Members of the association last night said that indications point to the most successful picnic in the history of the Letter Carriers' association. CIGAR DEALERS WANT TO SELL FAIR TICKETS Will Boost State's Big Show if Allow- Ed to Handle Pasteboards The selling of tickets for the state fair was discussed last night at a meet ing of the Cigar Dealers' Association of America, held at 48 East Fourth street. Secretary L. K. Newman said that he had received from the state agricul tural society a request that the mem bers of the association "boost" the state fair. He had replied, for the association, that courtesies should be made reciprocal, and that the fair man agers, instead of confining the sale of fair tickets to one St. Paul cigar store as heretofore, should extend that priv ilege to various stores. The secretary's action was approved." The association voted to invite all the' local jobbers to handle its new brands of tobacco. They will be put on the market under association labels. RIVER'S VICTIM STILL AT THE MORGUE Postoffice Receipts Indicate That Dead Man Is C. E. Peders Nobody called at the county morgue yesterday to identify the body of the old man found in the river Thursday. Postofflce receipts in the man's pockets indicate that his name is probably C. E. Peders, and that he was at Deronda, a town in Polk county, Northwestern Wisconsin, about July 1. Coroner Mil ler has received no word so far from the authorities of Polk county. ■ P /• , — CATHOLIC WOMEN TO NAME OFFICERS Fight for Presidency Will Be Decided Today if Work Is Rushed # The Ladies' Catholic Benevolent as sociation voted on two important amendments yesterday. One of the amendments provided that bids for printing the Fraternal Leader, the offi cial organ of the association, be offer ed from the floor of the convention in stead of to the supreme" trustees. The question was brought before the con vention at yesterday afternoon's ses sion and was warmly debated. It -is understood that the present adminis tration fought the amendment. It was finally carried, however, and Miss Julia Ward, of Chicago, was awarded the printing of the paper. The morning session concerned itself with the amendment that provided for an increase of rates. Two insurance tables were presented to the delegates. The one which was adopted is based upon the mortality tables of the na tional fraternal congress and provides for a sliding scale, changing with the age of the applicant at admission and ranging from 33 cents at the age of eighteen years to $1.76 at the age of forty-nine years. The adoption of this new rate will increase the income of the association, it is hoped, and will insure to it solid financial stability. May Not Conclude Today It is hoped, but hardly expected, that the association will elect its officers at this afternoon's session. If they do not get through with the remainder of the amendments to the constitution in time tc do this, the convention will not adjourn until Moffttay. While no formal social affairs have been given since the association con vened, informal receptions have been given at the Ryan hotel every evening in honor of one or more supreme offi cers or in honor of one of the candi dates. Mrs. McGowan's friends among the delegates are glad to do her honor in this way every night at the Ryan, and the supporters of Mrs. Costelloe. her opponent in the contest for the of fice of supreme president, honor her in a similar manner. Mrs. Maria Quinn, of Newark, N. J.. is a candidate for the office of first vice president, opposing Mrs. Mary A. Flannagan, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mra. Linn, of Scranton, opposes Mrs. There sa Lutz, the present supreme marshal, who desires to be retained. Bitter Figtrt for Highest Office Most interest is aroused among the delegates in the contest for supreme president. Mrs. Costelloe, who is working for the office, has had an in teresting career in connection with the association. She was a charter mem ber of the first branch organized in Brooklyn. At that time and for some years prior thereto she was promi nently connected with a large Catholic fraternal insurance association com posed of men, filling the position of supreme secretary's assistant. In 1892 she was elected a member of the su preme board of auditors of the asso ciation and later she was elected su preme treasurer, which office she held for a number of years. Her, friends declare her long service deserves, to be rewarded with the highest office In the gift of the association. The reception tendered Thursday evening by delegates to the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent association at the Ryan hotel was for Mrs. Costelloe, of Brooklyn, and not for Mrs. McGowan, of Buffalo, as stated. GOODRICH BLAMES CITY FOR DELAY Says Street Car Company Would Have Rushed Improvements but for Charter A meeting of the Commercial club listened to the report of the committee on city development which touched on a number of matters of interest. The principal subject treated in the report was the conference had with C. G. Goodrich, of the Twin City Rapid Tran sit company, covering the hesitation of the company to push forward the im provements promised some time ago. Among these improvements was the extension of the Rondo street line; the building of a line to Lake Phalen and the construction of another interurban connection with Minneapolis. Mr. Goodrich told the committee that the new charter provision which makes obligatory the payment to the city of 5 per cent of the gross earnings of all street railways constructed conflicts with the charter held by the company, and while the company had contem plated spending $1,200,000 in extensions and improvements this year that it would be impossible to do so unless the charter was amended so as to comply with the franchise of the company. A friendly suit is now in the courts to determine this point and the com mittee recommended that the litiga tion be expedited. Another matter considered in the re port was the recommendation that the Commercial club of Minneapolis join with the Commercial club of this city to bring pressure to bear in the mat ter of improving the mail service of the Twin Cities. CITY OFFICIALS ARE TO SEE STATE GUARD Col. Reeve Invites Entire List to Visit Camp Lakeview City Clerk Redington yesterday sent notices to all members of the two branches of the council and to all of the city officials notifying them of the invitation extended to them to visit Camp Lakeview as guests of the First regiment next Monday afternoon. The invitation was extended by Col. C. McC. Reeve, Monday having been set apart as "St. Paul day" at the" camp. Free transportation will be provided the city officials, who will be tendered one or more special cars by the Milwaukee. The officials will leave St Paul Mon day afternoon at 3 o'clock, and return ing will arrive in the city at 10 o'clock in the evening. Christian Endcavorers' Meeting The St. Paul Christian Endeavor union will hold its annual meeting Monday evening in the First" Christian church, corner Nelson and Farrington avenues. Mr. Clmton \ Norton, of Min neapolis, will tell of his trip to Jero salem and the world's Sunday school convention. This is the meeting at which the work of the year will be summed up and the officers for the en suing year elected. President Smith Entertains Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Smith entertain ed a party of friends at the Commer cial club yesterday. Among thosp present were: Col. and Mrs. Cornelius Gardner, Gov. and Mrs. Samuel R. Van Saitf, Judge and Mrs. W. H. Sanborn \ and Miss Patten, of Detroit. rind I Hips TO HAVE AUDITORIUM .. ;. ;_; ■ -••-; _■-:-■ ■■:-•" v--:-:.".y.-...--7 -\J..■'■ 'I Citizens of East Side to Erect j Building by Popular Sub scription Preliminary steps were taken at a meeting held in the First ward last night for the erection in that ward of an auditorium to cost between $30,000 and $40,000, and a general committee on subscriptions was named to report at a citizens' meeting to be held two weeks hence. The meeting last night was held at i Fellows> h»». wn Payne avenue, and C. E. Hillstrom presided. The project was thoroughly discussed and the First ward business men present were enthusiastically in favor of a gen eral movement which would result in the building of the proposed audito rium. Chairman Hillstrom appointed as the committee to solicit stock subscrip ting to the enterprise the following: A. W. Carlson, H. H. Blinn, Emil An derson, Albert D. Nelson, L. M. Nelson, John Blomquist, Prank Anderson F A Holcombe, Charles E. Carlson, Theo dore Nelson and G. Gilbertson. The meeting showed its faith in the chair man's judgment by naming him to head the committee, and it will begin work immediately. <maYa S a pr2,P°setf to raise from $30,000 to ?40,000. Shares will be sold at $50, but a system of partial payments has been arranged so that subscribers will have four years in which to complete the final payment's: Each subscriber will pay,* 2 and the first monthly paymenr or *i at the time of subscribing. Sub sequent payments wilt be $1 each month, so that approximately forty-six months will be given subscribers in which to complete the payments on their shares. Blocks of Stock for Some Some of the wealthier residents and those interested in the growth and de velopment of the ward are expected to subscribe for a number of the shares, but it is aimed to make the auditorium scheme a popular institution by dis tributing the stock among a large num ber of people. 1 When sufficient stock has been sold the plan is to incorporate a stock company such as was done at Stillwater recently in building a new opera hoase and to proceed at once with building operations. It is expected to erect the founda tion for an auditorium to cost at least $30,000 this faD, and the first story or the new structure will be built this sea son provided half the amount neces sary is raised. The promoters expect to build a three-story building of substantial character with stores on the ground floor and offices on the second, the main assembly room to be on the third floor, and to have a seating capacity ample for any gathering that the First ward district is likely to witness. The soliciting committee's report, to be. presented at an adjourned meeting of the First warders two weeks hence, will be followed by the appointment of a committee on site. WOMAN ISiINJURED IN STREET COLLISION Wagon Crashes Into Buggy and Mrs. A. H. Rannow Is Thrown Out At Seven corners early yesterday afternoon the pole of a wagon that was being driven along Seventh street caught in the wheel of a buggy and overturned it. The occupants of the buggy, A. H. Rannow, a farmer; Mrs. Rannow and their six-year-old son, were thrown out. Mrs. Rannow was severely, perhaps dangerously, in jured, but the;, father and child were not hurt. The injured woman was at tended by Dr. F. D. Rogers, who ac companied her iii the police ambulance to her home :in'Delaware street, near the city limits. - The wagon was driven by William Schoeneeker, a laborer, who lives near Cleveland avenue and Seventh street. STATE FAIR WILL PAY FOR GOOD VEGETABLES Big Prizes Are .Posted for the Agri- cultural Exhibits Division J, in the Minnesota state fair premium list, means "vegetables and farm products." And Division J is one of the most important sections of the great state fair. The products ex hibited in the great agricultural hall represent more distinctly than any oth ers the very bone and sinew of North western agricultural prosperity. While the management of the state fair recognizes every other department of agricultural activity most liberally and is striving to develop' the agri cultural life of. the state in all direc tions, it must, of course, take espe cial pride in the' department of agri culture and keep a watchful eye on the premium offers that exhibitors may have every encouragement to make the best possible display. This year the premium offers for vegetables, grains, grasses and the like have been completely revised 4 and it .is believed brought up to date in every particular. The class devoted to vegetables opens with a premium of $100. offered for a collection of not less than twenty va rieties of aoit -less than ten species. This premium money is to be divided according to score, 100 to be taken as a standard. In addition to this, a pro rata division^: to the exhibit scoring highest an additional $12 will be paid; for the second best, $S, and for the third best, $6. N. S. Gordon, of Crookston, is su perintendent jof the agricultural di vision, and O; K. Bergot, also of Crook ston, assistant. J. H. Shepperd will be the judge. No entries will be received after Aug. 22, and exhibitors are re quested to make their entries at least one week before the opening of the fair. This year the fair opens Aug. 29 and closes Sept. 3. Half-fare rates have been secured on all railroads. FEW SMALLPOX CASES REPORTED TO BOARD Week Ending July 18 Breaks Record for Small Number But seven new cases of smallpox were reported to the state board of health for the week ending July 18. This is the smallest number of new cases returned in nearly four years. Fountain township, Fillmore county, reports three of the cases, and one each is reported from Graceville, Hanska, Srown county, Grand Rapids and May,« Cass county. OHAGE TO ENFORCE SMOKE ORDINANCE Supreme Court Declares Com missioner Has Right to. Regulate Nuisance - ; The i supreme court of Minnesota yesterday, in a decision written by Jus tice ■ Lovely, affirms ' the district court of Ramsey county upholding the valid ity of the so-called "smoke ordinance" of St. Paul, and Dr. Ohage says the law will be rigidly enforced. : . ; • The lower,courtvis affirmed in every respect, and Dr. Ohage, health officer ot < St. Paul, who has prosecuted 1 the case through the various " courts and established-the right of the city to regulate _ the : volume, of smoke ! from tne tall, chimneys, jis • highly elated at the successful termination of the h^ t A £- W uS f ought i" all the courts SA -^ Il5 h eil corporation attorney, t£n +?' ***, •m€s The decision sus tains the validity of , Ordinance No. iSS-' as; amended by Ordinance ; No. 1968 prohibiting, the emission of dense smoke within the corporate limits of £wH Clt y ' nd sustains the contention that the city has the police power to regulate the evil. - In the case, which has been tried in the courts of the city, county and state, Knute Haugbro, fireman-of the Angus hotel, was ! the defendant, but the case was a test of the power of the city to enforce the ordinance. The syllabus simply declares that the ordinance ~is a valid exercise of police powers of th« municipality, and the conviction of Haugbro is : sustained. ; ''" ;;• Justice-Lovely's opinion goes into the case quite: thoroughly on its merits. The court says:- Justice Lovely's Opinion The issue on this review is the ex ceedingly simple one, viz., whether the words of ■ the ordinance and complaint dense smoke,' which are made by de fendant's contention a determinative test of sufficiency, fairly imply and reasonably contemplate in their mean ing the commission of acts which con stitute a nuisance and justify restric tions under penal consequences. "Unless we are entirely at fault in our apprehension of the significance of words when used in their accepted sense, the terms 'dense smoke' suggest and reasonably imply much more than counsel for defendant concedes. While it may be true that at times the emis sion of smoke in small quantities from' chimneys may not be so offensive as to itself constitute a nuisance, it is not so easy to see how dense smoke can be regarded with toleration or found ac ceptable to the senses of ordinary hu manity, particularly in the residence portions of a community such as this ordinance was intended to apply. "To be logical, and to affect, per haps, unnecessary learning to aid com mon sense and common knowledge, it would follow that the exhalation of vapor from burning vegetables, wood, coal or peat, crowded together, con taining much matter in a small space, as soot, cinders and coal dust exhaled from chimneys would necessarily in flict upon the occupants of residences and apartment houses sreat discom fort, greatly add to the ordinary bur dens of urban existence, and fall with in the ordinarily accepted definition of a nuisance at common law. "Under a municipal ordinance pro hibiting the exhalation of dense smoke in the city of Chicago the same ques tion was presented as here, and in dis posing of the subject the court of last resort in Illinois held the following pertinent language applicable to this controversy, which we approve and adopt: "'Nor will any subtle distinction be indulged as to what is meant by "dense smoke" as those terms are used in the ordinance. The terms used will be understood as commonly employed, and this court will understand by "dense smoke" precisely what every body else does that has ever seen a volume of dark, dense smoke as it comes from the smokestack or chim ney where common soft or bituminous coal is used for fuel in any considera ble quantities.' "There are well known devices in common use for mitigating the evils caused by dense smoke, and the en forcement of the ordinance cannot be said to inflict hardships upon the con sumers of the materials which occa sion the nuisance complained of." Ohage to Enforce Ordinance Referring to the decision, and an in cidental statement by Dr. Charles Louis Mix, of Chicago, professor of physical diagnosis of Northwestern university that "smoke murders" are the result of dense volumes of smoke in large cities, Dr. Ohage said yester day: "The St. Paul department of health fully indorses the statement of Prof. Mix, of whose correctness it has had ample chance to convince itself. It must not be understood that smoke in itself causes consumption, but the in halation of impure air polluted with sulphurous smoke produces an irrita tion and condition of the air passages which makes the person extremely lia ble to take on the disease. "As the suppression of the smoke nuisance is not alone possible, but also economical, the ordinance will from now on be vigorously enforced." AGED WOMAN BELIEVES HUSBAND IS WAITING Mrs. Bessie Tilberg Picked Up by Po lice While Wandering About City Mrs.. Bessie Tilberg, the aged 'woman found on Arlington Hills Thursday night unable to tell clearly where she lived or her name, was taken home yes terday morning by her daughter, Mrs. L. Peterson, of Minneapolis. "Mother is eighty-eight years /old," explained Mrs. Peterson at the central police station. "This is the third time she has run away from home within a year. She always tries to get to South St. Paid, because, as she believes, there's a man down there that she's en gaged to marry." NEW INCORPORATIONS Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday with the secretary of state for Thomas Davis & Sons, heating and plumbing fitters, St. Paul. The capital stock Is $25,000 and the incorporators •are Thomas Davis, Samuel J. Davis and Thomas E. Davis. The Homelite company, Minneap olis, manufacturers of novelties and hardware specialties, filed its articles of incorporation yesterday. The cap ital stock is $25,09. Andrew G. Kelly, John Kelly and Bertha Kelly are the incorporators. Articles of incorporation of th.c dlearwater Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran church, Shevlin, Clearwater county, were filed. There is no capital stock, and the hicorporators are prom inent parishioners of the new church. We close at I o'clock today and ready to do in 4h hours the business ol 9. | tSt Paul's Silk Selling Store. )| Field, Scblick $ Co. Entrances Wabasha, Fourth," Fifth and St. - Peter Streets. '" * Wash ::; ~~gr The 11 dress jr best : ';: ■ goods ■: y*"'- i yet! ? We're making preparations for the greatest crowd of the I season, for there: are cotton dress fabrics in the lot \ li. | worth up to 35c a y^rd | Sensational sa^le of Wilson Bros, summer shirts for men The famous 1.00 "Bi-metallic" shirt in the very ■ -,-sbk. latest and most desirable patterns of madras and /Ef ij^^h if* oxford.. Not mussed, tossed up and handled shirts, Jlg|^ Bill V but all new, all in good colorings, all complete with i|f||| '. cuffs—and the sale price from 8:30 till 1 o'clock JB JSjf REMOVE HERR FROM HOSPiTAL TO JAIL Officer Swears Out Warrant for Assailant of Blanche Lamont Edward Herr, the hypnotist, who shot Blanche Lamont, an actress, in the Empire theater the night of July 11, after which he shot and seriously wounded himself in an attempt at sui cide, was arrested yesterday afternoon at the city hospital and removed to the county jail. The warrant upon which Herr was arrested was sworn out by Lieut Horn, of the police department, yesterday', and charges Herr with assault with an attempt to kill. The issuance of the warrant has been delayed for the rea son that Herr was in a serious condi tion at the city hospital, where he was being treated for the wound in flicted at the time he attempted to end his own life. Herr is still in a serious condition, but upon the report of the attending physicians that he would recover, it was deemed advisable to place him under arrest and have him placed in the county jail where there would be no chance for escape. Herr was re moved to the county jail last evening and placed in the hospital ward. His victim was known in Sts Paul as Blenche Lamont, and she was sap posed to be Herr's wife. Since the shooting, however, it has been learned that the woman is Mrs. Charles Saun ders, a former resident of St. Cloud, where her husband is now in business. Yesterday she made the statement that she did not desire to prosecute Herr. The prosecution will be made by the state, and the woman is being detained as a witness and is virtually a pris oner. She will be held pending Herr's trial. The shooting is supposed to have been caused by jealousy. Herr and the woman had been "working" together for some time, the woman doing a song and dance turn nt the Empire, while Herr operated the calcium light. It was just after slie had finished her turn and had gone into the balcony, where she joined a man at a table and commenced drinking, that Herr ap proached and snot her. Three shots were fired at the woman, all of which took effect, after which Herr turned the revolver and fired a bullet into his own head. After being removed to the hospitals it was learned that neither the man nor the woman was fatally injured, and the authorities have been waiting for Herr's condition to improve sufficiently to remove him to the county jail be fore swearing out the warrant. Herr's trial, unless a postponement is secured, will come before the October grand jury, and may be tried at the October term of court. WILL BUY HEAVILY State Prepares to Contract for Institutions' Supplies Proposals for the furnishing of sup plies for the state institutions for the quarter beginning Aug. 1 will be re ceived by the board of control, and it is estimated that the board will award contracts for suppjies for the wards of the state approximating $140,000. The quarterly contracts usually en tered into by the board amount to about $125,000, but as the quarter about to begin is the first quarter of the state's fiscal year,, the board has ad vertised for a year's supply of tanned goods, drugs and a number of other staple .articles commonly used in the state institutions and in which there is no danger of loss by carrying a year's supply in stock. The board will contract for .canned goods by the carload, for great quan tities of canned corn, tomatoes, peas, beans, peaches, apples, plums and other staple articles used in the state institu tions. The yearly supply of drugs for the hospitals for the insane, the prisons and semi-charitable institutions will be bought at this time, and this supply costs several thousands of dollars. The award of the contracts for sup plies for state institutions means a vast deal of work for the state dairy and food commission, for the experts of the commission are required to make analyses of many of the articles sub mitted by sample and then to make analyses of the actual goods purchased to determine v.'hether or not these con form to the sample originally sub mitted. Not the Same Woman . Mrs. Mary McNearney, of 69S Rice street, wishes it understood that she is not the woman of similar name who was sentenced to the workhouse for vagrancy by Judge Finehout in the police court last Thursday morning. MINNESOTA BUTTER MAKERS EAR AHEAD But Four of the 117 Tubs En tered at St. Louis Fall Below 90K W. W. P. McConnell..state dairy and food commissioner, yesterday received from A. W. Trow, agent of the com mission at the St. Louis world's fair, the detailed score of Minnesota com petitors in the July national education al butter scoring contest, conducted by the national bureau of agriculture, the scorings of which were announced on Wednesday of this week. The success of Minnesota in the national contest is most gratifying to the Minnesota commissioner, and it is believed that it will be of great advantage to the state as an advertisement of the superiority of the butter of the North Star state in the markets of the East. Minnesota captured practically all the honors of the competition, and of the 117 tubs of creamery butter en tered by exhibitors from the state, all but 26 scored over 94 and but 4 fell be low 90 l/ 2, while the lowest awanled a Minnesota exhibitor was 86 in the scor ing. The general average attained by butter from Minnesota was 9414, and the average of butter scoring over 90 was 94.75. In the dairy department Minnesota had three samples going above 90, Mrs. M. L. Holmes, of Owatonna, taking first place in the national event with 95. The Butter Scores Following are the detailed scores of the Minnesota butters taking 94 or better: W. C. Silverling. Knatvold. 98%; W. A. Fadden, Plato. 98%; E. F. Greely. Alden. 98; J. C. Joslin, Winston, 98; C. k. Ham merberg, Irving, 97; S. S. Simpson Do ver. 97; W. F. Stahman, Loretta 9-7; George F. Went worth, Owatonna, 97; James A. Armstrong, Armstrong 96%; A. B. Fischer. New Richmond. 96%- H.» A. Hendrix, Manchester. 9<>%; T T James, Lake Crystal. 96%; Robert Kuh man. Green Isle. 96%; D. J. Levenick. Green Isle, 96%; Alfred Schroeder, Lafav fttc. 96%; W. F. Stoltz, Loretta. 96%; '('. J. Bang, Elmore. 96; John Fridner. Strout 96; H. C. Hanson. Smith's Mills, 96; H H Jensen, Clark's Grove, 96: C. A. Rasmus-, sen. Austin. 96; W. A. Santo, Skyberg, 96; August Swenson. Klossner !tfi- Wil liam Thielman. Faribault. 96- A P Tut tle, Hobson, 96; H. J. Credicott. Eaatons 95%; J. E. Lindberg, Rock Creek, 95%; C 10. Smiokes. Stockton. 95U- A T. Sunda. Lamberton, 95%; O. A.~Storvick, Emmons, 95%; H. C. Anderson. St. Peter, 95; Alfred Anderson. Litchlield, 95; George Byers. Wrmillion. 95; E. J. Ehlort, Dovrey 95; T. E. Eckstrand, Annandale, 95; N. N. Engerbretsen. Mansfield. 95; H. H. Goetsch. Money Creek, 95; John Grosser, West Brook, 95; Edward Hed Nieollet, 95; George A.- Holmes. Biscay. 95; O. P. Ju.ison, Blooming Prairie, 95; Peter John son, Courtland. 95; H. N. Johnson. Cum prey. 95; A. R. Kinney. Ottawa. 95; Lauritz Larson. Darwin. 95: N. R. Lund, Plainview, 95; Thor Moe. Winthrop 95; M. R. Mortenson, Cokato, 95; W. W. New land. Eyota, 95; A. O. Nelson. London. 95; Carl W. Peterson, Balaton. 95; E. H. Peterson. Arco. 95; F. A. Peterson, Lind strom, 95; J. A. Peterson, f'hisago 95- M Sondegard, Hutohirison. 93; L. M. Soren son, Svea. 95; Henry Springer. Conger. 95- B. B. Scripture. Long Prairie, 95; A. G. Schat-ndel. Elmore, 95; A. C. Stadhelm. Albert Lea. 95; Erick Walstroni. 95; J G. Wilson. Winthrop. 95; Peter Anderson Tyler, 94%; William Bun-hard, Ww Ger many. 94%; L. LahnbaclUicn. P,utternut, 94%; J. W. Reynolds. Lake Crystal 94%- L. S. Taylor. Glenville, 94%; L. A. Wo brock. Medford. 94%; E." J. Babcock, lluntloy. 94: James F. Grady. Deerfield, 94; Emil Brockhoff. Arlington. 94; P. E. Chri.stianson, Gailield. !»4; ('. I. Cole, Rockford, 94; O. R. Duncan, Wasoca, 94; John Grandy. New Sweden. 94; E. J. Holmers, North Branch. 94; John J. Howe. Oakland. 94: Alex Johnson. Lafay ette. 94; John F. Kielty. Watkins 94- J. W. Koepsell. Lewiston. 94; F. E. Lowry, . Waseca. 94; Christian Madson. Lamborton, 94; George Nelson, Fairfax, 94; P. M. Paulson, Morgan, 94: Erick Peterson, Clotho. 94; J. D. Ponty. Morristown 94; H. J. Rosenau, Meridian, 94; Janus Soren son, Lyndale, 94. 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