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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNiE
PKICE TWO CENTS.
CAPE TOWN
IN DANGER
Boers Are Threatening the
Cape Capital.
CAPTURE A DIS ?^R
It Would Mean British Defeat in
South Africa.
BOER INVADERS ARE ACTIVE
MroiiK Force 1m Half Way Between
llit- OraiiKt- River uud
I'a lie Tuvvii.
Maw York Sun Special Scrv/om
l.uiidoi). Jan. -. —Worse and still worse
grows the South African situation. Now
rape Town is iv danger, and if it be lost
to the Boers, the war is over and Britain
must salute the flag of the United States
in South Africa, li is a sad, black out
look for the empire on the opening of a
new century.
Denials and pretenses are abandoned foi
the time being, and the naked truth staads
out in the Cape Town dispatches, which the
var office has given out without com
ment. One says that the invading Boers,
in strong force, have reached a point half
way between the Orange river and Cape
Town; the other that every able-bodied
loyalist In the colony has bee called to
arms to repel the coming foe.
I'eople here who understand the great
nderance of Dutch iv Cape Colony
i-h-iive their heads at this. They know
that the Cane government would never
adopted such a desperate measure
were it not the last and only chance. For
if the Euglish farmers obey the call, the
Dutch wil be forced into rebellion. They
will not sit idly by while their kin are
lighting a race war under their eyes.
In a preamble to the call to arms, which
has been issued in twenty-seven districts
iip to date, including Cape Town itself,
the ('ape government says:
Owing to the fact that the armed forces of
the enemy hay- penetrated south of Carnavon
•rest, .md south of Middleburg east
ward, it is "ecessury to repel the Invasion
promptly, and the government calls upou j
loyal inhabitants to aid the military in this !
duty by the formation of a colonial force for
the sole and exclusive purpose of repelling in
vasion, guarding lines of communication and
maintaining order in the disturbed districts.
Volunteers should enroll with the civil com
missioners in their respective districts. They
will be paid 5 shillings per day, with rations,
forage, arms and horses. The term of service
i 3 not expected to exceed three months. This
notice especially applies to the districts
named in it, but other districts may assist.
Enlisting will begin Thursday.
It is estimated that no fewer than 1,500
Cape Dutch have joined the invaders who
have penertrated further south than ever.
The Boers that trekked westward from
Vryberg and were suposed to be going to
Damaral are making for the Prieska dis
trict of Ca»e Colony.
MOKE MARTIAL, LAW
■ Boer Invaderx Are Very Uuuy in
(ape Colony.
»«■ York Sun Special Serrioe
Cape Town, Jan. 2.—The cabinet held
a special meeting to consider the situa
tion, which is regarded as serious. The
council will probably be followed by a
fun her extension of martial law.
The invaders further north and west
ward of the Orange river and Vaal river
colonies are busy and thriving. They am
bushed and captured, thirty miles from
Kuruman. a British convoy of twenty-six
wagons loaded with military and other
stores valued at $50,000. It is stated that
the escort, consisting of twenty-five police,
made no resistance. All were deprived
of their horses and arms and were then
released
Boers are roaming, seemingly with lit
tle interference, throughout the Vryburg
district between Kimberley and Mafe
king, seizing horses, and, it is said, ob
taining many recruits from among the
colonists. De Villiers, a British Oriqua
land subject, is said to be commanding the
Boer encampment at Geluk.
Mine owners of Cape Colony indulge in
the most gloomy apprehensions and pre
dictions regarding the immediate future
of their industry because the republican
invaders show a determination to inflict
serious damage on the mines whenever
this is possible.
LINES ARE (IT
Boer lurte Thought to Be Heuded
tor i.raai Keinet.
Chaddoek, Cape Colony, Jan. 2.—A de
tachment of tJuprs entered Roodehoegte,
southward of Middleburg, Jan. 1. It is
believed this; force is going to Graaf Rein
et. The telegraph lines are cut between
("urnavon .am] Somerset west and Steyns
burg and Maraisburg. Large reinforce
ments have reached Middleburg.
VIRGINIA'S LOSS BY FIRE
>IOO\ * KERB UKBD TO SETTLE
Four Suit* Are Entered at Dulutb
• t'liurginK the Company With
-. . - . Gross Ne)(liK«nce,
Special to The Journal.
Duluth. Minn., Jan. 2. —Four suits have
been ' entered in the district court here
against, the Moon & Kerr Lumber com
pany of Virginia. Minn. It is charged thad
the disastrous fire that destroyed a large
part of the city last June was caused by
negligence on the part of the defendant at
Its : mill. It is charged also that though
remonstrated with repeatedly on the day
of the fire against this negligence, de
fendant persisted in it and is responsible
for the; destruction of the town and loss
of nearly a million dollars.
. The suits brought are test cases. J. P.
Washburn and W. D. Bailee are attorneys
for the plaintiffs. It has been understood
for. several months that these suits were
coming and it is stated that the failure to
switch them off has been the cause for the
Moon & Kerr company deciding not _ to
rebuild and to go out of business. D. ,H.
Moon r< is head of the company' and it is
supposed some Weyerhauser money is in
vested in it.'
DENNIS, NOT CROWE
Man < anght in South Dakota Xot the
Kidnapper.
Omaha, Jan. 2.—lt was "learned to-day
that the man arrested near Pine Ridge
Indian agency after a chase yesterday,
and who. it was reported from Chadron,
Neb., was Pat Crowe, accused of being im
plicated in the Cudahy case, was a col
lector of specimens, named Dennis of Bos
ton. He was released to-day.
< alls .an "'Eastern Man.
Special to The Journal. .
. Grand Meadow, Minn., Jan. . 2.—The Congre
gational church has called Rev. ; Mr. James of
Wilkesbarre, Pa.", for ' three * months, with ' a
view: of locating him. He ' preached. his first
. sermon Sunday.—Watch' meetings : were held
,at the M. E. church and the Lutheran Bear
Creek church. - ..
JOEL P. WANTS
TO HOW
Heatwole Looks Up His Sen
atorial Chances.
HE FEELS OUT THE 3RD
3/ c"^>w s ~ mm
. °°c/ef Jr "T'*'ll Come Out Merely to
2z Tawney.
BIXBY ADMITS TO HAVE QUIT
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Supposed to "Be Keeping Qniet So
as to Hetuin Hlm Fol
lowing.
Now it's Joel P. Heatwole's turn.
From the banks of the Hot Springs, or
some other retreat for he weary, the third
district congressman has written to sev
eral members of the third district's re
publican legislative delegation to inquire
what are the prospects for him to get the
backing of the solid delegation in the
event of his becoming a candidate.
The Journal's statement of yester
day that Bixby is not a candidate is gen
erally accepted as accurate. His failure
to make any positive statement on his own
account it; taken to mean that he merely
wishes to have somtehing to go on when
he throws his influence to some other
candidate if he should choose to do so.
It is the prevailing impression that
Heatwole wants to take the field because
Tawney ie in ir and as much for the pur
pose of shutting Tawney out as for the
chance of election he might have for him
self. The depth and intensity of the love
that exists between the two congressmen
is well known.
The caucus that will nominate Knute
Nelson to succeed himself will be held
Tuesday night, Jan. 8.
I'luns fur I'auciiH.
Caucus agreements were drawn up by
the Evans managers this afternoon —one
for the house and one for the senate —and
incoming legislators will beasked to sign.
I As there is no joint caucus committee,
an agreement or call signed by a majority
of the republican members is the only
way to secure a caucus. "
Nothing definite has yet been deter
mined about a caucus to nominate a suc
cessor to Senator Davis. The Evans men
still favor an early caucus, but get very
is about certain that the Tawney and
little encouragement froru the field. It
Clapp forces and the free lance crowd will
put off the caucus as long as possible and
even strive to throw the fight into the
legislature. The whole aim of the field
at this time is to beat Evans. They dream
of Evans at night and cry out in fear
as they see him in the senate. Differences
between themselves can be settled if
Evans were out of the way, but it looks
as if that would be a long, long time.
It is quite possible that the Evans men
will circulate a call for a caucus for
Wednesday or Thursday of next week,
thus putting every member of the legisla
ture on record.
The expected crowd of legislators did
not reach S'.. Paul this morning. Only a
few stragglers came in and there were
about two workers for every voter in the*
hotel lobbies.
Messrs. Evans and Tawney were in
evidence, but did not have any chances in
the situation to report.
Evans' headquarters, in the Merchants
will be in charge of ex-Representatives W. ;
S. Dwinell and John Goodspeed. The
Clapp men have established headquarters
at the Windsor.
Lieutenant Governor Smith was in St.
Paul to-day.
The news that Governor Van Sant was
in Minneapolis and had a bunch of ap
pointments in his notebook, caused a flut
ter among the would-be appointees who
have been camping in St. Paul for some |
days. —Theodore M. Knappen.
TO ATLIN DISTRICT
Said the Great Northern Will Tap
a New Mining Country.
GREAT FALLS AND BROWNING
Some 158 Miles of Ne*v Koail. All in
Miiniaiui—% (iuud lliin^
for Butte.
Special to The Journal.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 2. —The Great
Northern road is said to have in contem
plation the construction of a line this
year between Great Falls and Browning,
a point on the main linp about 150 miles
west of Havre. The T*Hipany is said to
have made a preliminary survey. The
proposed line will cross the main line
at Browning and pass on to Atlin, a new
mining district, on the ceded strip of the
Blackfeet reservation that is being de
veloped rapidly.
The line will take a northwesterly
course from Great Falls, passing through
Choteau and Dupuyer, porsperous farm
ing communities in Teton county, and
will be about 155 miles in length. Be
sides affording direct connections with
the new mining district the road will re
duce the mileage between Kalispell and
Butte by 200 miles, and facilitate the
shipping of timber from the Kalispell
sawmills to the Butte mines.
Chief Engineer Stevens of the Great
Northern railway told the head of the
mining companies operating in Atlin that
there was little doubt of the line being
built.
LINSEED OFFICERS WIN
PETITION FOR RECEIVER DENIED
Court Holds That Proof of Bad .Man
agement In \<>t i:*
tabliMhed.
Chicago, Jan. 2.—The United States cir
cuit court of appeals to-day sustained the
decision of the lower court, denying a
petition for a receiver for the National
Linseed Oil company.
The suit was brought in 1898 by James
Clark and others, owners of 4,600 of the
180,000 shares of stock. The petition al
leged negligence and bad management
by whom the assets, valued at $7,000,000,
were dissipated.
Judge Grosscup said no certain proof
was shown of bad management or neg
ligence, nor was it shown with certainty
that the directors and officials had spec
ulated.
IOWA NEWSPAPER ABSORBED.
Special to The Journal.
Avoca, lowa, Jan. 2.—The Herald has
been absorbed by the Journal. It will be
known as the Journal-Herald.
WEDNESDAY, EVENING JANUARY 2, 1901.
TAG, YOU'RE IT.
The G. O. P.—That good little Quaker boy is making more trouble for me, I fear.
NEVER MIND TREATY
Senate Will Pass the Nicaraguan
Canal Bill, Anyway.
NEXT MONTH, SAYS MR. PERKINS
Panama Canal Company Hopes to
Head Off Action on the
.. : • Measure.
ftmw York Sun Spocla! Smrvloß
Washington, Jan. 2. —Senator Perkins of
California, who has made frequent visits
to the White House relative to the Xicar
aguan canal project, is confident that the
senate will pass the canal bill in Febru
ary. He says:
The impression seems to have gone abroad
that the United States cannot and will not
do anything toward canal legislation until
England is heard from. This is not correct,
; for I know that the cacal bill will be called
up in the senate by Mr. Morgan without ref
erence to the Hay-Pauncetote treaty, and un
less I am radically mistaken about the senti
ment of the majority of the senators, the bill
will be passed. It will be held back unril
the end of January, out of courtesy to Great
I Britain, to give reasonable time for consider
ation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, but the
senate does hot intend to wait on Lord Salis
j bury, as there is nothing requiring the
treaty-making power to hold the bill in abey
ance pending ratification of the convention,
and it will not be held.
I am satisfied that England will accept the
treaty as amended. She knows that we want
ilie caual and will have it without reference
to any compact.
M. Hutin, president of the Panama
Canal company, has returned to Washing
ton, and he is talking volubly about being
assured that France, Great Britain and
IN THE SENATORIAL "PUSH" AT ST. PAUL.
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SeDiw^ *5E a£ °f Ada ~You kDOW that l was Congressman McClcatjr -Don't know anything Congressman TY.wnev-They can't scare me.
alwa>s for E\ans. about the senatorial contest.
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\l&9f&** ill $*" \ V
ri£,- Gllman> St- Cloud-When Im libra- Sylvester Peterson (register of the lmd office Representative "Sherm" Smith, Minneapolis-I
lav * at Crootaßton)—l'n not doing a tiling to Ju»t fixed five votes for Evans. If 'Bob" I
Anybody. Oh, uoi on Jy had more like me! My!
Germany will combine to guarantee the
bonds of the Panama canal corporation
and thus enable it to finish that waterway.
M. Hutin wants the United States to as
sume the present indebtedness of the Pan
ama Canal company and to complete the
big ditch, and as he evidently has secured
powerful backing in the senate, he be
lieves he will succeed, at least to the ex
tent of muzzling th» Nicaraguan project
for many years.
Senator Morgan, chairman of the com
mittee on interoceanic canals, says that
while it may be true that the Panama
canal can be completed for $100,000,000,
and that it might be a better waterway
than the Nicaragua ditch, nevertheless
the $100,000,000 expended would represent
only an equity in the enterprise. The
$400,000,000 already sunk in the De Les
seps scheme-is at....**.;. . cpivsented by
shareholders, arid these will demand dol
lar for dollar.
"The Danama ditch," says Senator Mor
gan, "is hopelessly loaded down with ob
ligations, and this government should
never assume them. It is better to spend
from $200.000,000 to $250,000,000 and have
an American canal free from complica
tions and indebtedness."
AGREE ON SUGAR
All the Coiiiimiii*** Are Xow ((uutiiiK
the Same Prtec.
New York, Jan. 2.—The American Sugar
Refining company has reduced the price of
all grades of refined sugar ten points, and
the National Sugar Refining company has
made a cut of five points, making the
prices of both companies the same.
Arbuckle Bros, have reduced the price of
granulated sug; rs to conform with the
list of the American Sugar Refining com
pany and the National Sugar Refining
company prices. This puts all the com
panies on the same basis. \
The Heiress—Oh, papa! The duke has
proposed.
Papa—Mm! What are his prospects?
The Heiress—He says he can settle with
his creditors for a shilling on the pound.
fwS
CHINA CAN COMPLY
Guarantees Performance of Terms
Imposed in the Note.
EQUAL TRADE RIGHTS FOR ALL
PunUhnient of the Designated Box
er Leaders Expected to
Follow.
Washington, Jan. 2. —Minister Conger
cabled the state department under date oC
, Peking, Jan. 1 that the ministers had been
| notified formally not only that the agree
ment was accepted b>" the Chinese govern
ruent but that that government felt able to
guarantee a performance of the conditions
imposed.
It was feared that there would be much
difficulty in settling the indemnities, and
in the re-arrangem&nt of commercial trea
ties. It is probable that the agreement
touching the commercial arrangements
will be a general convention insuring uni
form treatment to all.
The Chinese government's guarantee is
expected to be followed by the prompt ar
rest and punishment of the Boxer lead
ers and sympathizers named in the decree
of Sept. 25 as follows: Prince Chwan,
j Prince Yih, Secondary Princes Tsai Lien
' and Tsai Ying, Prince Ti.an, Duke Tsai
! Lan, and the president of the censorate,
Ying Nien, assistant grand secretary of the
civil board, and Chao Chu Chiao.
NELSON'S REMAINS AT MANKATO.
Special to The Journal.
Mankato, Minn., Jan. 2.—The remains
of Xels B. Nelson, who died at Faribault
as the result of having his legs cut off
-yesterday at Dundas by a Great Western
freight train on which he was braking,
were brought to Mankato to-day. He be
longed to the local lodges of Odd Fellows
and Maccabees and was popular with all.
He was employed at the Great Western
station for three years.
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12 PAGES-FIVE O'CLOCK.
A FAMOUS MAN
CALLED HOME
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly Suc
cumbs to Heart Disease.
THE END IS UNEXPECTED
Though His Powers Had Been Fail-
ing for Several Months.
AN EVENTFUL CAREER CLOSES
He Had Made a Name in Litera
ture an Well as in :
Politics.
Ignatius Donnelly, author, statesman
and scholar, died suddenly at midnight
last night in Minneapolis, after an illness
of only three hours. His illness and
death came at the home of his father-in
law, Martin Hanson, 3022 Twenty-eighth
avenue S, where he had gone with Mrs.
Donnelly t 0 spend the night.
For several years it had been Mr. Don
nelly's habit to emerge once a week from
his retreat at Nininger, coming to Minne
apolis and spending a day at the office of
the Representative, his weekly paper, re
vising the proofs of his editorials for the
week. As usual since his second mar
riage, Mrs. Donnelly accompanied him yes
terday, going directly to her father's
home, while the venerable editor met his
associate, Edgar A. Twitchell, at the
Brunswick hotel about 2 o'clock. From
there he went to the Tribune building,
spending some time at work and appear
ing to be in his usual spirits. He then
went to the Hanson residence, where the
family had supper together. About 9
o'clock he complained of feeling badly,
and went upstairs to bed. In about an
hour he was taken with a fit of choking
and awakened Mrs. Donnelly. She helped
tim to a chair, and he seemed to get re
lief, but was soon gasping for breath
again, and a physician was sent for. Dr.
W. B. Murphy, who lived some fifteen
blocks away, responded at once, but did
not reach the bedside until nearly 11. He
at once declared it a serious attack of
heart failure, with small hope for recov
ery. He worked hard for the life, using
every expedient to revive the fast sinking
man, but in about an hour, without even
recovering consciousness, the patient al
most imperceptibly passed from life into
death. Not a struggle, not a sign of recog
nition, marked his last hour of life.
Though seldom ill, Mr. Donnelly has not
been in vigorous health for some time
past, and seemed to be feling the weight of
his years. The day before his death he
had complained of the choking sensation
which marked his mortal attack.. His as
sociate, Mr. Twitchell, had noticed yester
day afternoon how feeble he was growing,
and said he was not surprised to hear of
the sage's death.
The funeral will be held Friday after
noon from the residence of the son, Stan
J. Donnelly, 817 Portland avenue, St. Paul.
A PIONEER JIIXXESOTAX
He Had Resided in This State Since
185 S.
No Minnesota man was better known
in the world at large than Ignatius Don
nelly, theorist and scholar. At home, he
was chiefly known for his life-long con
nection with politics.
Practically the whole of his life was
spent in Minnesota, whither he turned
with prescient eye when, with his young
wife, he left the old home to seek fame
and fortune in the new west.
Ignatius Donnelly was born in Phila
delphia in 1831. His father, Dr. Philip
Carroll Donnelly was a native of Ireland,
who bad attained to respect and prom
inence in Philadelphia as a physician.
Ignatius early showed his bent for study
He graduated from the Philadelphia high
school in 1849, and at once began the
study of law. He was admitted to the
bar in 1853, and at once showed marked
ability. In 1855 he declined a nomination
for the legislature by the democratic party, |
with which he had at first affiliated, be- i
cause he did not agree with the party on
the slavery question.
Early Aspirations at Mil Inner.
Late in the year 1855 he was married
to Miss Catherine McCaffery of Philadel
phia, and their wedding tour was a west
ern journey in search of a home. He
foresaw the coming struggle between the
free and slave states, and wishing to set
tle far from the scene of the conflict,
turned to Minnesota. The town was
named for another early settler, but Don
nelly was really the chief promoter. He
purchased a 600-acre tract, and laid out
the town site, which at that day prom
ised to be a leading city. He built a
home here, and founded a weekly paper,
devoted to booming Nininger, and in gen
eral to attracting immigration toward
Minnesota. He took a front rank at once
at the bar of the then frontier state, and
at the first state election was chosen
lieutenant-governor. He was re-elected
in 1861, and in 1862 was elected to con
gress from the second district, which he
represented until 1868. His aggressive
spirit had made him many enemies, and
his battles with Elihu Washburn, Gov
ernor Hubbard and Governor Ramsey led
finally to his joining the liberal republi
can movement in 1870. From this it was
only a step to the greenback movement,
and from this he drifted successively into
the farmers' alliance, the populist, and
latterly the midroad populist movements,
being always a leading spirit.
As a Literary Man.
Mr. Donnelly was a deep student from
his early days, and first attracted atten
tion with an e3say on the Sonnets of
Shakspere. But when he gave to the
world his theory of the Baconian author
ship of Shakspere's plays, he gave the
world a literary sensation which was re
vived only last summer by the publica
tion of his latest book, "The Cipher on
the Plays and' on the Tombstone." His
"Atlantis" and "Ragnarok" propounded
startling scientific theories. Later, the
political and industrial movements arous
ing all his energies, he gave to the world
"Caesar's Column," and several other
polemic works, which he invested with
much literary charm.
Mr. Donnelly's domestic life was always
simple and retired. By his first wife
he had several children, of whom two
survive him—Stan J. Donnelly, an attor
ney of St. Paul, and Ignatius Donnelly,
Jr., a practicing physician of Butte, Mont.
His first wife died some years ago, and
Feb. 22, 1898, somewhat of a sensation
was created by his marriage to Miss
Marion Hanson of Minneapolis, who had
been his assistant in the Representative
office. Their married life was very
happy, and his young widow is deeply
bowed by her bereavement.
DOSXEL.LV AS A WRITER
Sketch of His Literary Labors Which
Bronght Him Km me.
In literature, as in politics, Ignatius
Donnelly was an iconoclast. He ran a
Continued on Seventh; Pas«?
JOHN GOODNOW
IN 'FRISCO
He Arrives at San Francisco
From Shanghai.
TO WASHINGTON FIRST
Diffusion of Knowledge a Causa of
the Uprising.
AMERICAN POLICY IS THE BEST
It Is Absurd, He Says, to Chance
the Outbreak, to the Mis- , :
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<*• w York Sun Spmolal Servlom
San Francisco, Jan. 2. —Among the ar
rivals from the orient on the steamer City
of Peking was United States Consul Gen
eral John Goodnow of Minneapolis, who
has represented this country for thre»
years at Shanghai. After a brief visit to
Washington he will spend his sixty day*'
leave of absence at his old home in Min
neapolis.
Mr. Goodnow declares that the policy of
the United States toward China is the only
fair one, and that America is the only
country in which the Chinese have any
confidence.
Among the chief causes of the Boxer up
rising, Mr. Goodnow places general diffu
sion of knowledge of outside affairs among
the common people, due to the telegraph
and newspapers. Since the Chinese-Jap
anese war ihere has been a great increase
in the use of telegraph and a rapid de
velopment of newspapers. The reading of
newspapers has resulted in the growth of
patriotism.
He says that sixteen out of nineteen
provinces were kept out of the uprising,
but many of the viceroys told him per
sonally that if the partition of China was
attempted they would not for a moment
try to restrain the people of their prov
inces. They would fight.
The Mlssion&rled.
In speaking of the probable outcome of
the Chinese troubles the consul-general
said:
I believe a satisfactory setlement will b#
reached along the lines laid down by the
president^ Thoie Chinese who are working
for the integrity of their country are friend
ly toward the United States and are ready to
assist in a prompt and amicable settlement.
The uprising was by no means a popular
movement with the great masses of the peace
ful Chinese population. From evefy quarter
they deplored the acts of their irresponsible
countrymen.
With regard to mi-ssionaries and their
position in China, Mr. Goodnow believes
there is still a great field for mission
work, and their presence in thft orient
should be encouraged. It would be best,
howflver, not to send missionaries outside
of the treaty ports until peace has been
perfected.
Mr. Goodnow said it was absurd to
charge the missionaries with causing the
Boxer war. They were simply hated by
the Chinese as one part of the great for
eign element that threatened to upset
their national institutions.
Mr. Goodnow has a good word for the
American troops sent to China, and he
also praises the work of a little band of
women sent by a philanthropic commit
tee of New York people of which Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid was chairman, to pro
vide hospital supplies and comforts for
the sick and needy. Two members of
this band returned on the Peking—Miss
E. B. Ridley and Miss M. Henshaw.
VAN SANT DROPS IN
He Still Professes Uncertainty Re
garding Certain Appointments.
TAKES THEM UP WITH JAMISON
He Will See Otehr Party Leader* on
the Matter Before Return-
Ink: Home.
Governor-elect Samuel R. Van Sant
dropped anchor in Minneapolis this morn
ing and was at once surrounded by an
axious crowd of fellow citizens of the re
publican faith anxious to know "how 1
about" certain apointments. The weather
had not dampened or cooled their ardor
in the least, and so far as the governor
could see, they were as hungry as on the
occasion of his former visit.
The governor made straight for the of
fice of his guide, philosopher and friend,
Judge Robert Jamison. The judge ex
plained that he had given out no informa
tion concerning the private secretaryship
and his excellency remarked, "Xo more
have I? Where did they get it?" The
judge said he? didn't know, and then they
began talking of the seven large appoint
ments the governor has to make. But
they were unable to find good men for
them up to the time of going to press.
At the Hotel Nicollet cafe, where ths
governor took lunch with Secretary Jami
son, he said he was still steaming up the
river for St. Paul with a heavy cargo. As
to taking on more passengers he couldn't
stop on this trip to pick them up. although
he had discussed the eligibility of appli
cants for a ride on the gubernatorial boat
with "the judge" and other friend*. "But
I can say frankly," said the governor,
"that I am not yet ready to announce the
important appointments for the reason
that they have not been decided upon. I
will talk things over with friends in both
cities to-day, and will probably leave for
home to-night."
Judge Jamison came over to town to
day for the first time since his recent ill
ness.
TO THE WALL
Champeny Creamery Company Goe(
Into Bankruptcy.
Milwaukee, Jan. 2. —The Champeny>
Creamery company, a syndicate that
opened seventeen plants in Wisconsin,
lowa and South Dakota, went into bank
ruptcy to-day. A receiver was appointed
by the United States court. Xo statement
of assets and liabilities was filed. The
failure was a great surprise to the dairy
and commission trade.
. Postmasters appointed i to-day: Minnesota—
Bever Bay.- Lake • county. Augusta Wegnert.
New *Ri:ine.^Slbleyi county, rAugust S." : Vesh. 'J
Montana —Teton ■ county, William > > O.*3i«
Mlnter. South Dakota— Winfred, I^ake coun-;
ty, : John W. Chapiu. Wisconsin^—Aren, •- lowa •• >
county,' William v Orhls: ; Lake ; BeuUh,' Wai-pi'
worth county, Frank L. Henry. ■