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J. Schutt & Son,
Rial Estate, Rental, Mortgage Loans, 340 Temple Court
4£&^H4flt£llli3l f°r tlmt perfect
9OUUV little home, No.
1717 Morgan avenue south; built
last Spring; six rooms, hall, bath,
hardwood finish and floors; open
plumbing, nickel finish, fine hot
water heating plant, gas fixtures,
etc. Fine view; beautiful lot, 50
x 135; only one-half block to Ken
wood car, and 15 minutes to busi
ness. Owner removing from city;
must sacrifice. Small cash pay-,
ment will handle. Balance, si|
per cent interest.
GREEN'S
additions, La wiry HUB.
WeH, the hot weather has come and gone, and our annual autumn State Fair is also
of the past aud we may expect frost at any time, and we should be ready for business.
If you expect to build this fall or winter and take advantage of tho dull season of
the year, now is the time to select your lot In Green's Additions and i>ut in your founda
tion before cold \\ rather, and then you are in shape to successfully handle your building
at your leisure ar.d at a handsome discount compared with building in the busy season,
and at tht> same time secure a better house when -done, as nothing equals finishing a
house with artificial heat.
N. H. EMMANS, THE GREEN'S ADDITIONS MAN, AT 82S GUARANTY; BUILDING.
WALTER L BADGER
NEW YORK LIFE BLDG. .
$6500
I have a 12-room modern house, located
on one of our best down town residence
streets. The house has hardwood finish
and floors, first-class hot water heating
plant, open plumbing, 4.mantels and
grates, laundry, good barn, large lot,
with trees, stone walks; has always
been used by owner and is in first-class
condition. This property can be se
cured lor less than what house cost to
build. Would consider smaller place
in exchange, if well located.
Stevens Aye, near 24th—will buy a
modern 10-room house; hardwood
floors, two bath rooms, barn, located j
on good size east front lot; belongs to
an estate and must be sold; house is
now vacant and ready to move into
without any improvements.
BSaisdeil Addition.
Remember this is developing into the
finest residence section in the city.
Lots are large, and improvements in
certain blocks are restricted as to dis
tance from street and value. Special
inducements to those buying now.
J. A. WALTERS
514 N. Y. Life Building.
$7500— Up-to-date modern house on
, Lowry Hill, east front corner lot
with barn. PSS \'i'.'.'.
$4000— modern house of
8 rooms, with barn, inside of 24th
St.,. Sunnyside.
;v ;■:;•■, ■■■:■. lots.
Lowry Hill di5trict...:........ 500
Blaisdell ay. near 24th st ...... 1 000
Lake st and Emerson . 600
Bryant and 33d, corner ........ 350
Colfax and 32d st .............. 300
Northeast..... .:<: $50 to 350
FARMS.
120 acres, Improved, 5 mites out. $50 per acre.
113 acres, improved, 354 miles out, $C 0 per acae.
. 80 acres. Improved, 30 miles out, $15 per acre.
' Wild and improved lands In Minnesota and
Dakotas. 5 and 6 per cent money to loan.
n9^ *MjS **tb Mi 53b b^ tou
Best investment in the city is a Pleas
ant Park lot. near Nicollet and 45th st.
823 cash, &10 per. month, no interest;
30 lot 3 sold to parties who intend to
build; only 20 more lots.at this price.
They will, sell at $200 each before
April 1 next. Get plats at our office;
and look them up.
Thompson Bros.,
101 South 4th St.
WE \^ANT
A modern and up-to-date choice residence,
10 to 14 rooms, " Lowry Hill or an equally
choice location; with large and desirable
grounds.- We mean business r,nd will pay
?20,000 to $30,000, and make an all-cash pur
chase. Owners, call or address
• LANE & CONRAD CO.
513 Phoenix Building.
T £k WTrt Choicest Soil
«*^^ J&& Little Cash..
Manitoba grows more wheat per acre than
any other part of America. We sell farms for
What you now pay as a year's rent.
Markets handy, taxes low; self-government.
For small farms or large tracts call on
INTERNATIONAL LAND GO
■ Confederation Life blk,46S Main st, w iuuipeg.Man
. Write us for maps, etc.
SEVERAL MEALS BEHIND.
. " ' Leslie's Weekly.
'"Is it. true," asked the benevolent lady,
"that you often have to go without a
meal?"
"It is, ma'am," replied Tattered Thomp
son. "This breakfast you have given me
.-was" due on the morning of May 1, 1889."
TOO MUCH FOR HER
■ Philadelphia ' Bulletin. •
: "Yes, Mrs. Bouncer wanted to send her
daughter to Bryn Mawr, but she decided
on Vaasar." V .. : **
"What influenced her decision?"
. "Sh© couldn't pronounce Bryn. Mawr."■"
NOT RESPONSIBLE.
Judge. .
"Why, may I ask," said the contributor,
"do you always put my name to the verse
I write and never to the prose?" ■
"Well,. you know," smiled the editor,
"we can't be responsible for your poetry."
Young Sapley—That buxom young widow
looks perfectly ravishing in her bathing
suit. .She.reminds. me of a poetical Latin
quotation, —er — .
Cynicus— yes! -"multum in parvo!"
$1775
8-room - new house, comer - Eleventh
Avenue North and Bryant, arranged
for two families; / city water ' upstairs
and down; corner lot.' A fine property,
just completed. The owner is financi
ally embarrassed -and must ; sell. Any
close offer will be considered: We are
offered 620 rent for the house. • See it
and make us an offer.
THOMPSON BROTHERS,
U»l Fourth Street 8.
&R7AA~ Inside 16th st.
%ss<&& m tssi? on . Hennepin
aye., 9 rooms, modern dwelling.
Lot 50x157 to alley,, ground alone
worth more than price asked, and
house can not be built for the
money. v
This is an extraordinary bargain
and must be sold at once.
Don't miss the opportunity to
get a good home and a good in
vestment at the same time.
STATE EMPLOYMENT
Wisconsin Official Advocates It for
the Worthy Unemployed.
A.::BLESSING: NOT A - BURDEN
. !!'.•: ' ■ ' ■■'.■■.■■
Work That Will Not Compete With
Other' Employments—Tax ' for
Koad. Purposed. .
Special to The Journal.
Madison, Wis., Sept. 14.—P. J. Castl© of
the state land office, whose advocacy, in
his-speech on Labor Day, of government
employment of the unemployed, . has
aroused much comment, is thoroughly in
earnest on the subject, and confident that
the day is coming when his theory will ,
become a successful reality. He says: j
The first thought in the mind of the aver
age moneyed man, when he hears this propo
sition, is that its practical effect would be to
'increase his taxes and thereby diminish his
possessions, and intuitively, without any
analysis or investigation, he is ready to con
demn any plan that seems to make him an mi
i Voluntary contributor to another support.--
Under our present system many of the un
employed are supported by the taxpayers in
poorhouses or jails, while another . portion
wander over the country and live upon the
benevolence and generosity of, farmers and
other kindly disposed people. It will not be
maintained for a.moment that the inmate- of
the" podrhouse or jail gives back to the tax
payer any equivalent in service for what he
receives, nor will it be claimed that ; the
tramps and heboes who tour the country give
to their entertainers any valuable return for
the victuals bestowed upon them. Under our
present system there is no way by which the
honest workingman out of employment, going
abroad in search of work, may be distin
guished from the professional tramp.
■ In suggesting that Uie government giv.% em
ployment to the unemployed, it was not con
templated that such employment would com
pete with other employments, or that it would
offer a compensation that would provide more
than ;- a bare living. Government employment
should not be such as to attract men from the
service of private enterprise, but it should be
such as will give to the citizen, in dull times,
the same assurance that a safe harbor will
give to the mariner in a' storm.. With such
provision for the unemployed,. there will be
no' excuse for the existence of' the hobo or
the . tramp, and the honest seeker for em
ployment will not be mistaken for a nomad
or vagabond. We can then, without doing
violence to any humanitarian principle, pay
with the apostle Paul,. "If a man will not
work, neither should he eat." :. •
Instead of this system, being a -burden on
the taxpayer, I believe it would prove a pro
tection and a blessing to all who own ■ prop
erty. The millionaire's millions will be
vastly more secure if the multitude have,the
opportunity of obtaining food, clothing and
shelter. Thomas Jefferson said: > "The moral
coercion of want subjects the will of laborers
as despotically to that of their employers as
the physical constraint does the soldier, the
seaman or the slave. * * . * ; There is noth
ing I would not sacrifice to a practicable plan
of abolishing every vestige of this moral and
political depravity." .':'''■":'•''.■"■'•.-.'■ ■* ','■::. -'
Some will ask, how are : you . going to em
ploy the unemployed? What work can you
find for them to do? I believe where there is
a will there is a way. It is not a rash asser
tion to say that outside of the cities, and in
corporated villages,; there is not 100 miles of
"good-all-the-year-round". road in the state
of ■ Wisconsin, and the conditions [in other
states are not much different. *. A.7-miH',.tax
for road purposes, and many towns levy much
more than this, would give a fund; under the
assessment of former years, of over $4,000,000.
This amount . would employ 20.000 men ; 200
days at $1 a day, or 26,667 men 200 days at 75
cents per day. Would it not be better to em
ploy such a number of men'in'constructing
and repairing roads, and make them feel that
they were giving an equivalent in good ser
vice, than to shelter them in poorhouses and
jails or have them tramping over the country
searching for employment? '■ *
- - ~ "" ' ~"^~ . . ■ , ■■"
THERE WAS NO DANGER.
Puck. : .i '...- '.;*....
''Niece Lillian writes," said good Mrs.
Honk, in the midst of her perusal of * a
letter just received from her young city
relative, "that she thanks us a thousand
times for the invitation, but she knows
she'd just simply die of enny before she
had been here a week."
"Die of any?" repeated honest Farmer
Honk, somewhat mystified. -'What does
she mean by that. Any what?''...
"Why, just; enny—er-er—raebby I ain't
pronounced the word exactly right; it's
Epelt e-n-n-u-I. 'Pears to me, I read
somewhere, once, that it was called 'ong
wee,' or something like that, and—"
."Aw, that's it, hey? Wa-al, you just
write her that she ain't in no manner of
danger of ketohin' no such foreign disease
as that here; there ain't been a Chinaman
in this neighborhood for I d' know how
long!"
;'...THOSE SPORTY SEA URCHINS.
.' New York Weekly Sun-Times.
"What's all the fuss about over, there?"
asked the bluefish of .the codfish, : down in
the" briny deep. ~- . -
"Oh. it's nothing," returned the cod
fish, carelessly; 'only a lot of those sea
urchins having fun with a dogfish with
a can tied to its tail."
■ - i _ ' ;.•<,
TERRIBLE PRESSURE.
Chicago News.
"The barbarians buried their prisoners
in a kind of cement that contracted as it
hardened. You can't imagine how hor
rible it must have been."
, "Oh, yes, I can. I have been In a tight
bathing suit when it started to shrink."
- A SENSE OF FITNESS.
Detroit Free Press.. ' -
Lady of the House— needn't ask for
a cup of . coffee; .-. our gas . stove. has been
turned off for hours.
; —Coffee, 7 madame,. is out of the
j question. Have you any left-over, sherbet
|or yesterday's lemonade.;ln the ice chest?
j. PROPER PLACE FOR IT.
\ ...,.:■. ; Philadelphia •. Record. -.
j Customer—See here, -waiter! ' I found a
button in this salad. :.
Walter—Yes, sir; that's part of the
dressing. ..';■;;.--. >, ,r ; /; j
NOTES ON A CANADIAN TRIP
Land of Hard Wheat and Prime Beef—Calgary a Business Point
With a Future—Government Model Farms.
Correspondence of The Journal.
Fargo, N. D. ( Sept. 13.—During tbe
month of August I had the pleasure of
going westwurd and northward upon a
! camping, plant collecting, note-taking and
I pleasure hunting expedition. The route
i led along the Soo through North Dakota
and over the Canadian Pacific railroad and
some of its* branch lines in the Canadian
I northwest. Stays and stop-offs were made
I at pleasure. This, together with the time,
(crop time) gave fine opportunity to note
the quality and value of the soil of that
newer part of this great northwest. This
Red River country from which I write,
justly places its claims as second to none
other as a farming region, but land is al
ready of high valuation here, and adja
cent farm lands are being rapidly occu
pied. Land hunters of small means desir
ing to locate new homes will be pleased to
hear of the broad and fertile areas lying
to the north and west. As one passes
northward from Valley City over the Soo,
he can but be impressed with the thought
that here is a great farming country which
is rapidly being filled in with good homes.
Those who want choice bits of Dakota
land will need to come soon and bring
good money, for such crops as were in
sight of Harvey, Kenmore, Bowbells and
Portal this harvest will be sure to result
there, as in the valley, in heavy purchases
by local owners. They know the value.
For some years connection with the ex
periment station work, in which I have
given much attention to flax and flax cul
ture, I have never seen better flax grow
ing than was to be seen at the points
above mentioned, July 27th. The yields
of wheat and oats from the northern cor
ner of the state will also probably sur
prise many this year. This new part of
the Flickertail state is already showing
other natural advantages which will grow
rapidly as people fill the unoccupied
lands. Lignite of fine quality is mined at
Kenmore, Bow-bells and other points, and
there are beds of fine clays only awaiting
the presence of many people to become
the source of wealth in the construction
of various colored bricks, tile and even
pottery. The rapid introduction of that
wonderful forage grass; Bromis inermis,
will soon make that whole region a cows'
paradise—with the cows content, farm life
svith profitable results becomes almost as
sured.
Across the Boundary.
Crossing the international bounJfary at
Portal —shall one go north toward the In
dian Head wheat district, northeastward
toward Brandon and Winnipeg, northwest
waid by the wny of Edmonton to Atha
baska Landing—or west to the Selkirks?
If either course is taken for a distance
ranging from 100 to 400 miles, one learns
that i^ore is to be a gr-e&t agricultural
land there. It has less sjuramer season
than many a farming country, yet crops,
animals and food j>lant3, forage, etc.. of
all types necessary to insure the most
prosperous of farm conditions can be and
are raised or grown there.
The domain of Uncle Sam is long and
broad, hut his free acres are becoming
so scarce ttot 175,000 people travel many
miles and draw lots to find out who shall
be the fortunate few to make entry upon
some 13,000 claims. In the wide expanse
I have outlined, located just northward
of the Mil ntsota, Dakota and Montana
boundaries, lies the area of several such
states as North Dakota and no word will
mere quickly and fitly describe "the soil
and region than "Dakota." A few years
hence and North Dakota people will hardly
need to feel that they are upon the north
ernmost edge of civilization; for, though
there is now an immense acreage of un
broken prairie sod in the territories of
Alberta. Assiniboia and Manitoba, It is
being picked up with avidity by north
-fteeteru men who appreciate its value for
wheat growing and cattle raising.
Where Hard Wheat Grows.
I found the whole country adjacent to
the Canadian Pacific rairoad and Its
branch lines lying eastward of Regina to
be of a quality which will make that re
gion one of the most noted in the growth
of cereal grains. The season seems just
fitted for the "strenuous life" on the farm.
There is just enough time and heat be
tween spring and autumn frosts ta give
UNIQUE STREET RAILWAY
Port Arthur Has Its Own System and Operates It in the Streets of
the Rival Town of Ft. William.
From a Staff Correspondent
Port Arthur, Ont, Aug. 28.—Port Arthur
people think they have the only municipal
street railway in Canada or the United
States. So far as I know they are right.
And certainly their system is unique in la
cation and purpose. Very few towns of
less than 4,000 people, not suburbs of
large cities, have electric street railways
and probably no other town on the conti
nent has found it necessary to build a
street railway into a rival town in order
to maintain its existence.
When open hostilities between Port Ar
thur and the Canadian Pacific railway be
gan, there was every reason to believe
that they would terminate in the ruin of
the town. With no agricultural back
country, at least with none developed to
any extent, with the tributary mining
interests quiescent, with no means of
transport in the winter except the Cana
dian Pacific railroad, with almost nothing
to bring outside trade, except the railroad
payroll and with that disbursed in Fort
William, it seemed a very safe prediction
that before long the "fort" would absorb
Port Arthur's population. For some years,
however, the town struggled along, losing
its people and slowly declining.
A Bright Idea.
Then somebody conceived the bright idea
that it would be better for the merchants
of Port Arthur to bring the people of Port
William to their stores than to move the
stores to the people. Many of the mer
chants owned their stores as well as other
property in Port Arthur and to move
would have worked great hardship and
even ruin. Moreover, they believed that
some day the tide of fortune would change
in favor of Port Arthur and that they
should by all means hang on as long as
possible. So the project of a street rail
way to be built by the town government
took form and at last became a definite
undertaking. Bonds to the amount of
$115,000 were voted and the road was built
in 1892. But it was not completed until
after several obstacles were overcome. As
might be expected, the merchants of Fort
William were bitterly opposed to the
street railroad and resorted to litigation
to prevent it from using the streets of
their town. Pending the dispute in the
courts, the railway was built to the- Fort
William city limits, whence passengers
were carried back and forth in carriages,
it not being possible for the Fort William
authorities to keep the Port Arthur peo
ple from using their streets In that way.
But at length the Port Arthur government
secured the right to put down its tracks
in the streets of the rival town. After
they were laid, there was an organized
effort to boycott the new system, but it
utterly failed and before long the new
road became a well-established institu
tios which neither town would care to
part with. People found it -wonderfully
convenient for visiting back and forth
and Fort William housekeepers soon dis
covered that it paid to go shopping in
Port Arthur occasionally.
Road Achieved Its Purpose.
The citizens of Port Arthur agree that
the road did what it was hoped it would do
—save the town. The trade it enabled
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL,
spring wheat itß most vigorous and per
fect growth. If the farmer will be speedy
in the spring, getting the grain into the
ground properly and as soon as the ground
thaws in the spring he can, I think, count
upon a crop of such quality as is sel
dom seen a few degrees farther south
ward. Ripening wheat does not brook
well a summer heat greater than 90 to 95
degrees and a Canadian seems in danger
of going into physical collapse if a tem
perature greater than 88 degrees Fahren
heit is reached. This point is about or
near the maximum for summer heat in the
be«t wheat districts there, thus no blight
ing is apt to occur at the time the grain
is nearing maturity, filling.
The centers o! wheat raising now seem
to be Brandon and Indian Head, about
which places one seems to see only wheat
and all of it Bix to eight-rowed per head
and four and one-half feet or more high.
Southward from these two towns to the
boundary the wild lands may yet be had
at from $3 to $5 an acre. The native
grasses growing there show that the
whole region is of practically the same
quality and strength. Some of it needs
draining and some of it will need the
usual careful treatment given to lighter
soils to prevent blowing, but it is all
wheat soil. At Brandon and at Indian
Head one can see what the future of this
greater northwest is to be, for at each
of these places is located a government
model farm or experiment station.
Angus Mackay is one of the originals
or pioneers of the Indian Head country.
The farm under his charge shows that he
knows the country and its possibilities
well. The influence of his experimental
work is felt throughout the entire terri
tory. He has taught the farmers there
that there is no need of living upon a
treeless plain, that flowers, shrubbery,
trees and fruit as beautiful as any ever
grown elsewhere may be grown there.
Indeed, the section and quarter over which
he has had charge for fifteen years has
become a veritable park, in which are
found growing all hardy fruits, flowers,
shrubs and hedges, and hundreds of kinds
of grains, vegetables and forage plants.
Paradise for Ranchman.
A pleasant and interesting feature to
Canadian Pacific railroad travelers are
the gardens und hedges at each of the
important towns of this region. These
gardens, furnishing many sorts of vege
tables in season, for the use of the hotels
and dining cars, constitute an important
advertisement of the merits of the soil
of these great expanses of prairie, easily
evident to all.
Westward, from Moose Jaw, surrounding
Medicine Hat, McLeod and Calgary, lie the
dryer buck-grass-covered plains—the cat
tleman's country—sheltered by the moun
tains which catch the snow and rain on
their peaks; it is the ranchman's para
dise, the grass lying bare throughout the
winter months. After leaving Fargo, we
saw no more active, neat and thriving j
young city than this same Calgary. There
Is a vi?or about or in its atmosphere
which makes one feel as though it were
a good place in which to cast one's lot.
To the northward are the Red Deer and
Edmonton countries, from whence come
startling stories of 60-bushel wheat, 120-.
bushel cat crops, and fabulous stories
about the work of the dairy cow when fed
upon the seven-ton-an-acre grass. Had I
not seen I could not believe one half one
hears. Oats do grow there to a size
greater than I have ever seen elsewhere;
grass of the finest quality is abundant,
and I saw several very fine creameries in
operation at Red Deer, Olds, Inniafail and
other points, and everywhere the Deering J
and McOormick harvester people seemed i
intent upon pushing the Massey Harris i
combine off the earth. How they do it, j
sell a right-hand-cut machine to a left
handed people and yet pay the 20 per
cent duty, some good friend of "protection
for infant industries" may be able to ex
plain.
In all, it is a big country up there, a
good one, and Nebraskans, Minnesotans
and men from lowa seem to be after much
of it. —H. L. Bolley,
Botanist North Dakota Experiment
Station.
them to draw from Ft. William made It
possible for them to tide over their years
of discontent. If the road hadn't been
built the town would have been dead long
before the Canadian Northern began to
give it new life. Now that Port Arthur is
enjoying prosperity and increasing popu
lation once more, the Ft. William mer
chants are turning the tables and getting
some Port Arthut money by means of the
Port Arthur railroad but the Port Arthur
people do not find any fault with the fact.
Facti About the Line.
This street railroad of its own kind —
owned by one town and pperated by that
town in the streets of a neighboring town
as well as it itsown —is7.6mlleslong, being
a single track line with passing side
tracks. At present it operates four cars
which are kept very busy. The service
Is approximately semi-hourly and the run
from one town to the other is made in
about twenty minutes.
The generating plant is run by steam
and is located at Current river, two miles
east of Port Arthur. The same plant
also operates the municipal electric light
ing system, which besides illuminating the
streets furnishes light for the homes and
stores of the town* The town is now ex
pending $60,000 in erecting a water power
plant which will utilize the falls of Cur
rent river and generate about 950 horse
power.
Not a Financial Success.
As an investment, the street railway
and lighting undertaking has not proved
a success. The total income has never
until this year equaled the operating ex
penses, to say nothing of the Interest on
the bonds—ss,7so. It cost $15,300 to oper
ate both plants last year and the receipts
were about $1,600 less. This year the
street railway is doing so well that the*e
will be a surplus over operating expenses.
For some years the electric lighting and
street railway system was managed by a
common council committee but it is now
directed by a board of electric railway and
lighting commissioners of whom three
members are elected by the people. The
mayor is an ex-officio member and the
council elects one member.
A Large Debt.
Between the original cost of its electric
plant, the present work of putting in
water power generators and other causes
of debt, the town of Port Arthur has ac
cumulated a bonded debt that would dis
may a Minnesota town. The total prop
erty assessment of the town, exclusive of
property exempt from taxation is about
$1,000,000 and the d«bt about a third of that
sum. But as most of it runs for a long
term of years and there is every reason
to believe that the town will grow in
numbers and in wealth, no alarm is felt
and the tax rate of 26 mills is not regarded
as excessive.
Am Summer Resorts.
Port Arthur and Ft. William are good
places for a summer outing and many hay
fever victims have found them well
adapted to afford relief from that annoy
ing disease. There is excellent trout
fishing in nearby trout streams and Lake
Nepigon and river are easily accessible j
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14 1901.
by the Canadian Pacific railway. Delight
ful excursions may be made to Thunder
Cape, Silver Islet, Pio Island and along the
coast. Twenty-two miles up the Kamin
istiquia river are the grand Kakabeka
falls which in one sheer leap carry the
great volume of water in this river into
a canyon 140 feet deep. There is a good
wagon road to the falls and the drive is a
delightful one.
Although there is not much of a country
population to use them there are some
good roads out of Port Arthur. Notable
among these is the eastern end of the
Dawson road which was built for Lord
Wolsely and his army when they marched
from Port Arthur to Winnipeg to sup
press the firsr Riel rebellion in 1870.
Thosre who like mountain climbing may
try Mount Mackay or Thunder Cape and
there is unlimited opportunity for those
who find pleasure in yachting.
—Theodore M. Knappen.
Realty in Minneapolis
That better times are coming in real
estate circles is shown in the facts at
tending the sale of the fire department
station on Third street, between Nicoi
let and First avenue S. The city has
been striving vainly for years to dispose
of this property in order to have the
money available for a new station on the
city lot on Fourth street N. Until two
months ago nobody would make an offer
of any sort. Then, in response to adver
tisements by the city council, one local
real estate firm offered $14 ; 000. To-day
two parties are bidding keenly against
each other for possession and have set
a mark of $17,100, and it is the belief of
some of the aldermen that the end has not
yet been reached. So the council last
night rejected all bids and authorized
another advertisement.
The rivalry for possesion of the proper
ty started two weeks ago when Anna
Betcher made a formal offer to the coun
cil of $15,550. The bid was referred to the
fire department committee, which met
Tuesday. The matter was under consid
eration and the committee was about to
accept the offer when a messenger arrived
in hot haste and planked down a com
munication, accompanied by $500 in cur
rency, offering an even $16,000 for the
property. It was signed by one T. A.
Rockwell.
The representative of the other bidder
at once made protest against receiving
a bid brought in in such an unceremoni
ous fashion, and declared that if it were
received he would ask the privilege of
raising that figure $50 right on the spot.
The committee was in a quandary, but
finally decided to put everything over un
til Friday. Yesterday they met again and
both parties submitted new bids. The
Rockwell bid was $16,600, the Betcher bid
Just $500 higher. The aldermen expressed
great gloom at the way things were going
and decided to give the rival bidders one
more chance at each other. New bids
will be received at the next meeting of
the council. It is understood that a local
brewing association and a saloon man lo
cated near the property in question are
the parties behind the" bids. The Third
street property has a frontage of twenty
two feet and runs back to the alley. One
building is two stories in height.
The principal building permits of the
week were:
Wisconsin Central Railroad Co.. river
between First and Second avenues N,
two-story brick freight depot $20,000
Wisconsin Central Railroad Co., Boom
Island, one-story brick roundhouse.. 15,000
Wisconsin Central Railroad Co., Boom
Island, one-story brick machine shop 0,000
Minneapolis General Electric Co., 15
Fifth street S, addition to building .. 4,000
J. H. McEnary, 2324 Pleasant avenue,
two-story frame dwelling 3,500
Wisconsin Central Railroad Co., Boom
Island, two frame buildings 3,000
Mrs. Emily Smith, 3337 Minnehaha ave
nue, lVg-story frame dwelling 2,000
Samuel H. Chute Co., 313, 321, 329 Cent
ral avenue, improvements in brick
stores 2,000
Minnesota Moline Plow Co., 401 Third
street N, freight elevator 2,000
G. W. Olney, 4023 Lyndale avenue N,
two-story frame dwelling 1,700
W. J. Geer, 2717 Coif ax avenue S, two
story frame dwelling 1,500
W. S. Gurney, 1227 Filmore street NE,
lV^-story frame dwelling 1,500
George E. Campbell, 1106 Twenty-third
avenue NE, two-story frame dwelling 1,200
K-^chneider, 1500 Grand street NE, V/s
--story frame dwelling ...". 1,200
Mrs. Rhooda Riley, 954 Twenty-fifth
avenue NE, two-story frame dwelling 1,200
L. O. Tombler. 202 Twenty-fifth street
NE, frame addition and repairs to
dwelling 1,000
P, K. Dychtowlcz, 1616 Fourth street
NE, two-story frame dwelling 800
Win. E. Rapke, 1024 Fourth street N,
addition to dwelling 600
C. A. Grahn, 118 Fourth street S, brick
addition to store , 500
The Improvement Bulletin reports the
following building notes in to-day's issue:
L. A. Lamoreaux, architect, is preparing
plans for a residence to be erected at Liu
den Hills for Covell Brothers. It will be
26x30, two stories, attic and basement. Colo
nial style. Cost, $2,200. Mr. Lamoreaux is
preparing plans for a residence to be erected
on Colfax avenue S, near Twenty-seventh
street, for J. W. Geer. It will be 26x34, two
stories, attic and basement, frame. Cost,.
$3,100.
L. O. Hickok, 517 Guaranty building, has
the following contracts and work is progress
ing or will be begun, immediately for the
erection of a 30,000-bushel frame grain ele
vator at Eagle Lake, Minn., for J. B. Home
ston; two 40,000-bushel frame grain elevatofc
at Souris, N. D., on the new branch west of
Bottineau, N. D.; one for Winter & Ames
Co., and the other for Turner & Brenner Co.
He has aUo the contract to erect a 15,000
--bushel elevator at Browersville, Minn., for
the latter company, and a 15.000-bushei grain
elevator at Vista, Neb., for the Winter ft
Ames Co.
The Keith company, architects, have plans
for a residence to be erected for George if.
Cook, of 2219 Bryant avenue S, about a block
south of his present residence. It will be
i 39x60, three stories and full basement, frame.
| H. X. Leighton & Co., have the general con
tract to erect the residence. Cost, $15,000.
J. Henry Record, architect, has plans for
a residence to be erected on Lyndale avenue
!S, near Twenty-seventh street, for Charles
! Leif. It will be 24x26 stories, attic and base
ment, frame. The general contract is let to
F. C. Hoit. Cost, $2,200.
Harry W. Jones, architect, has plans for a
residence to be erected on Third avenue S
near Twenty-fifth street, for U. J. Peppard.
It will be 26x38, two f^Jries and basement,
Menomonie pressed brick and cut stone Cost
j $5,000.
E. P. Overmire, architect, has plans for* a
residence to be erected at 2735 Pillsbury ave
nue by F. P. Nicoll. It will be 26x31. two ato
ries, attic and basement. Cost. 43,000.
The Butler-Ryan company has the Wiscon
sin Central Railway company's roundhouae
neariy ready for the roof. The machine shop
is well under way, as also the bridge over the
east river channel. Work on the depot will
be begun soon. Permits have been issued for
all of the work. Cost, $45,000.
It is reported the Bradley-Clark company
will erect art additional building east of their
present buying, Fifth street and Third ave
nue N, to occupy 22 feet front by 150 feet, four
stories, of red pressed brick front, with mill
construction interior. Possibly this work
will be deferred until spring.
Harry W. Jones, architect, is preparing
pians for interior improvements to be made in
the stone residence of James Qui»k on Vine
place, making an amuaement hall on the third
floor, with some heating, ventilating and
plumbing. Cost, $2,500.
The Allan Black company is doing the
plumbing and gaafltting in the frame resi
dence of F. M. Durgin at 421 Walnut street
SE; also in the E. G. Clough residence at 513
Ninth avenue SE, and J. E. Meyers' modern
frame residence at 2640 Fremont avenue S.
J. & W. A. Elliott secured the contract to
erect the new Swedish hospital on Tenth ave
nue S and Eighth street, excepting heating
plumbing and electric lighting. The founda
tion is completed. L. A. Lamoreaux, archi- '
tect. Cost $30,000.
Carl F. Struck, architect has plans for a
residence to be at St. Francis, Minn., by the
Baptist society, for the parsonage. It will
be two stories, coionial style, eight rooms
Cost $2,000.
A. L. Dorr, architect, reports the bids were
opened for the erection of the Grace Presby
terian church, but no contracts were let at
present until their church extension society
approves of the work.
Emily Smith, 2506 Fourteenth avenue S, has
let the general contract to erect a residence
at 3337 Mlnnehaha ay, to N. C. Husby It
will be 26x36, lVfe-story, frame, modern. Cost
$2,000.
William F. Doltz secured the general con
tract to erect J. F. McEnery's modern frame
residence at 2324 Pleasant avenue. Fremont
D. Orff, architect. Cost $3,500.
A. A. George secured the plumbing and gas
fitting in the modern frame residence being
erected by H. G. Darrow for B. F. Scott at
3220 Nicollet avenue.
Lang & Pease secured the contract for the
plumbing, gas-fitting and sewer work In the
modern frame residence at 2436 Girard avenue'
S, for E. B. Hayford.
Kdw. F. Sahler is doing the plumbing
work In the residence of Mary C. Orth at
12329 Minaehaha avenue.
W.A. BARNES
Rial Estate, Loans, hsuran&s aid Raniols.
feO%&*£h£h--Lot 54x148 feet, on
«{9 &m <L3 %Jf%9 which stands a . two;
story frame dwelling," No. 1500 Madi
son st NE, facing east; also a two
story frame flat, building of . two flats
facing south; No. 671 15th avNE: lot
nicely graded and sodded, stone lawn
and sidewalks, shade" trees, city water,
all in good condition; rents pay 12 per
cent on the investment. Snap. .
ftOCAA-^'ll buy lot 4. block
q)«9S9IJ^J7 n ; Wilson, Hell &
Wagner's addition; situate on' Western
ay. between 11th and 12th stsN: size of
lot, 50x150 feet to alley; a brick- block
could be erected on this lot with stores
on the first floor and flats on the second
and third floors; such a building would
rent at once. • There is a small house
on the lot that rents for $200 per an
num, which would carry the invest
ment at 5 per cent, arid we will take
back a mortgage' for-$2,000! at 5 per
cent. It will" pay you to examine' this
Investment for it is a snap. ;
21st ayS; has 8
VjrWW rooms and is' fitted
up for two families; the house is in
first-class condition, having- lately been
shingled and; : painted inside and out
lot 41x100 feet. We will sell this prop
erty on monthly payments; there is a
first mortgage of $1,000 on the proper
ty drawing 4 per cent interest, and we
will make the interest 5 per cent on the
equity. Figure this out and you will
see it's a bargain. - .
ti* 4 C C ft— 15th. ay. S., east
Vlwwv :. front, house has eight
rooms and woodshed, closets, pantry,
cellar and cistern; neighborhood flood.
Lot 36x128 feet to alley. :
Call for Our New Bulletin of Bargains Just Out.
DAVID C. BELL, Prest. .. .. WALTER A. EGGLESTON, Sec JAMES B. SUTHERLAND, frees
David C. Bell Investment
em WO. Hi SO- f We are Now Open for
llfl C A » v 4Sii «l * Business All Day on
Wh fOUrth dl. $p Saturdays.
3* "6 it 9 X— No 2837 27th Aye. &4 §? Beautiful east front
V>llV4i^ S. , New house, vI9U lot on Minnehaha ay,
city water, ready to move into; lot size 40x150. Only 840 down, bal
: 48x157. • Why. pay rent when this ance monthly,
can be bought on easy terms? -. g- -Only, for lots, 40x150,
<& ■£ CAA- No. 163 Island Aye vll © but one block from Mi-
V» B«9W House rents for neh aha car line. $20 down, balance
$17 per month; corner ■ lot, 50x100. monthly. , -v ." ; .
This will be sold at once. OR-Harriet aye, near
i|-^ o; 341° Harriet Vfi«fO 34th st. East front
V^^tm%M\W aye., new modem lot, 45x128; walk and city water.
home, ready to occupy; open plumb- This is a bargain, -
ing, furnace, etc. - East front lot ftQAA- ay, between
45x129. Easy terms. vIOU If 34th and 35th sts.
G&Cfcßfl— Na 2429 S. 9th St., 8 High east front lot, 45x124; sidewalk
*jj? %9 Hjf %p room house, newly and city water, • -
painted and in good condition; rant- INACA-Cedar Lake road and
ed for $10 per month; 8 ft. stone VmOU Ist ay. N., size 50x
walk in front. „; . 163, wooded. This will go quick.
*laS£tffe#lA— No. 2756 Fremont g* |- A— Garfield ay., east
,9vVUU'::aVe. S., fine all 9uuO front, corner 24th at.,
modern residence in first- class con- stone walks and water on both sides
dition; southeast front corner lot, and sewer and gas in front. This
all improvements in street. price to close an estate.
Call for Oor catalog of Real Estate Bargains.
David P. Jones & Co.
ONEIDA BUILDING.
On Lowry Hilt— We have in this
district for sale several handsome homes
which we cannot advertise in detail,
but concerning which we can give full
particulars at the office.
Flat Silo -The best and most availa
ble flat site in the city, located on Low
ry Hill, at the corner of Hennepin and
Summit Avenues, with frontage on
three streets, and south and east ex
posure; dimensions are 115 ft. on Hen
nepin, 100 ft. on Lyndale, and 218 ft on
Summit. Three car lines pass this
property. Occupies a commanding
view. For terms and full particulars
call at the office.
9/ltm Gurvß Residence Sites
200 feet on Mount Curve, at corner of
Emerson Aye., which we can sell at
less than $100 a front foot, and in
quantities to suit buyer. This particu
lar location commands the finest view
of the city that can be secured.
H /> t\ TT HIT"11 Look up that Beautiful
G [ Lj 111 IIP /Home of A. R. Miller, 1804
I Till IE filllial V First Avenue South, of 12
\J UU I XXI ; <xWXJLJLjLUX I /rooms, solid pressed brick, convenient^
ly A I i r< < " ' |ly arranflre with large * lot 75x128,
330 Lumber fcxcnange)i5 r e i hade trees- Uu3t besol4 Ci"
OlAAAflk wiU Purchase the 12-room AJS tp i». 5% for that comfortable home of 8
ralUilisii house, No. 1800 First ay S; Jhflloll I rooms, all modern, with good
yavww corner lot, 75x124>4; fine tr~'**i'w barn; east front lot 125.be
lawn, shade trees, etc. , . tween 23d and 24th Sts.. on Aldrlch Are.
tf IA ft A 111 -the very low price for the CJlflffl^l or *he £ roo,?L house, No. 80
AIUOOD 12-robm house, all modern. 54111111 Orth iwelfth Street. Lot
I)MWWW combination hot air and hot ■WF*'W 50x100. :;:';.
water heat; corner lot 45x120. Also has a i 9APAA only for that 12-room house.
good barn. No. ItJO3 Stevens ay. , nD&iajSj I *<>• ill West. 14th St. Lot
'..,>.■•** , - . . ipFWWwV 4~}VIOO '■ 1 ■
OHFCAA is a sacrillce price for that _.«.___. _ , ' o
■mIQBI I bnckTeneer house with spac- COSAO 2 nthe 1"00? 1 hous« with
* ****** lous lot . 75xm overlooking UIIOIIU bathroom, oast front lot 63x125.
Steele Park. No. 1703 Fifth aye S;as j?ood as i ▼www'»- No- 3108 2nd At. 3. Look this
a flower garden of your own, free of cost; i up at once.
hardwood floors, good barn. etc. ft A Afk for an 8-room house with large
toft 6% « for that 10-room all modern $?3O||y l°s'^ xl 63' No. 2006 2H Street
a>%IIUU house with barn; two bath Z m A,5 v. -^i . .
«p^i«0«0«p rooms;, lot 60xl'i»- No. 1320 ; 6IQAA for the c-room house with lot
Clinton Avenue. tSS^UIB 20x130. No. 271 Twenty-flrst
.. , "Ban aveuue south. .>
ACTOR AS^FISHERMAN
Jeltemon Knows All About the Sport
and Dellffhts in It.
Ladies' Home Journal.
"Naturally 'my dog Schneider 1 wasn't
there. But Rip himself —Joseph Jefferson
—was there," writes James S. Metcalfe
in his account of "(Join' Fishin' with Joe
Jefferson." The ulaee Is Palm Beach,
Fla. Mr. Jefferson talks of fishing as we
leave the hotel and take our boat. 'The
flsh,' he says, 'is»not all there is to fish
ing. It keeps you out in the fresh air
and gives you occupation—just enough oc
cupation—and interest. If you are a
philosopher and want to think, you can
think and flsh at the same time.'
"We stop rowing and Mr. Jefferson looks
at the water with experienced eye and
tells the eaptalr where to drop the an
chor. In a minute our hooks are baited
and over the side. Both our rods are im
mediately jerked in a fashion which in
dicates that something besides the cur
rent is pulling at our lines. The rushes
of the flsh threaten to entangle our lines,
but Mr. Jefferson expertly keeps his fish
pretty well to his own side of the boat
until finally we drag in at almost the same
instant two splendid sheepshead.
"The sport continues good, and there is
no doubt about Mr. Jefferson's keen de
light in it. Our success rouse interest
in the neighboring boats. As we make
other catches in rapid succession they
380-302 Nicollet
■$ SJS &k *T|— loo2 22d ay XE, iB
-*& 3spi&%2 room dwelling, re
cently fixed up for two families; has
cellar, . city water, enameled sinks,
screens, storm windows, - stone lawn
and sidewalks.
<& 1 7flll- Na 2013 27th ay S, 10
--.s> II ■ VU room , house, cellar,
well, . cistern, screen? and storm win
dows, stone lawn sidewalks and steps;
city.water an 1 sewep in street. House
recently shingled- and painted outside
and fixed up inside. ,
&96m£ldn~819Peunav N; this
vV house . has ' recently
been thoroughly overhauled, viz: paint
ed, shingled, a new stone foundation,
large cellar; all i rooms * and closets
papered and woodwork painted; sewer
in street; city water in nouse;lot2,
block 1, A. C. Loring addition.
fi* 4 *S O C -2310 Pierce st. X. E.,
<M9H«JPqjP«9 two-story , frame
dwelling of seyen rooms, hall and clos
ets, cellar, well and cistern, barn and
shed; screens and storm windows for
all windows and doors. Lot 40x130 ft.,
faces east A snap—look it up. Take
Central ay. car. h^> J;'
&±H EftftrNo. 3531 17th ay S!
*P ■ %9 W ; this is a 9-room dwel
ling with a. cellar, well, cistern and
screens, and storm windows and shed.
&^©ltf&£l—32<J East 27th street,
*3&^«37ijp<is 2-story frame dwell
ing, modern, of nine rooms, besides
halls, pantry and closets; basement
under whole house, with cement floor,
stone lawn and sidewalks; good wood
shed and barn; shade trees. Lot 44x
97 feet to alley. CV r.-
$2750— F0r lot on Mount Curre. 50
by about 400 feet deep, running back
to Kenwood Parkway,
SSSOO—Fot lot on Mount Curve, 100
feet front by about 400 feet deep, to
Kenwood Parkway.
Kenwood Lot for $9OO— Lot
just off Parkway.on W 22nd St; dimen
sions 48x168 deep. Cheapest lotoffbred
in this locality. Call at the office at
once If you want the lot.
Railway Traokago— On the new
Wisconsin right-of-way on Third aye
2s T: dimensions 50x100 feet; will sell for
57300 if bought promptly.
$1850 for a corner east front lot on
Ist aye S and 24th st; all special im
provements in these streets; cheapest
lot in this locality.
come closer .to us. A young woman In the
next boat had been industriously making
casts, without taking any flsh. Mr. Jef
ferson had been busy pulling in flsh, but
not too busy to notice her operations.
'Young lady,' her finally says in a kindly
tone, "excuse me, but 1 think you would
have better luck if you would move the
sinkers a little bit further up your lino
and throw your hook in over there,' indi
cating with his finger a spot a little near
er our boat. She thanks him and does as
he suggests*. In an instant her rod shows
the jerkings which indicate that a ash
has been hooked."
A BAD BREAK.
Judge.
Careful Waters —Is it dangerous to
change your winter flannels suddenly?
Well, just look at what happened to
Frayed Perkins!
Staggering Blow—What happened to
"Perk?"
Careful Waters—Why, during de hot
spell, didn't the blamed fool change his
red winter flannels in a field where dere
wuz a crazy bull!
A REAL WONDER.
Yonkers Statesman.
Bill —Have you seen that woman lightn
ing changes artist at the theater T
Jill—No. Is she good?
Bill —Great! Why, she puta on her bon
net in less than flfte.en minute* *