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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. PRICE TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LAYS A DUTY ON JUDGE TORRANCE II DRIVES WHEAT AWAY Strict Inspection Here—Loose Inspection Elsewhere. WHERE IS THE FAULT? Inspector Barncard Says He Is Com plying With the Rules. MEANTIME RECEIPTS FALL OFF Isooacr Grading- Elsewhere May Af fect Exports, but Is That an Offset f Receivers of grain at Minneapolis assert that Inspection is so rigid at this point that shipments are being diverted to other markets. They say that while Min neapolis receipt* are subjected to a more rigid Inspection than last year, Chicago, Milwaukee and Duluth are allowing the same latitude and liberality in grades that was general In wheat inspection a year ago. The effect of this during the past three or four weeks has been to di vert grain shipments from Minneapolis to Chicago, Milwaukee and Duluth. Competing Markets Active. Several of the prominent receivers of grain support their assertions by letters received from wheat shippers in the coun try explaining that while they prefer Min neapolis as a market on an even basis, the inspection at other points is more liberal. They also complain that this con dition of things has given Chicago and Milwaukee an opportunity to encroach still further on Minneapolis' territory. Chicago this year has men soliciting ship ments successfully for a distance of fifty miles past the line where the freight rate gives the territory to Minneapolis on an even basis. Milwaukee has also been do- Ing more hustling for the trade that on even terms usually comes here. A large amount of the wheat south and west of Minneapolis which usually comes to this market has gone to those points. Where Duluth is favored is on the wheat to the north and west. Country shippers are writing their correspondents here that grades are easier at Duluth. During the past two weeks a large amount of wheat received In Minneapolis has been sent on to Duluth. Part of this movement has been fostered by commission concerns and partly by elevators. The Inspection Attacked. One of the prominent buyers her says: "There is certainly something wrong with the inspection here, and it is having a bad effect upon Minneapolis as a wheat market. I do not believe that any dis crimination whatever is shown as be tween local buyers. The department Is decidedly fair on that score and efficient as well. But we are out of line with other markets. I have forwarded a largo number of cars received here on to Du luth and in many instances the inspec tion there has given me a grade better than the inspection here. These aro statements which can be supported from other sources. This condition explain: the comparatively large receipts at Duluth during the past three weeks. The ele vators are shipping grain there for tha same reason. They find that Duluth in spection is more liberal." Chief Deputy Inspector J. N. Barncard said that the department was doing all in its power to give a fair inspection of all grain. It had certain rules to follow and these wer being followed to the letter. He said that he did not know what the policy of the department was last year beVause he was not connected with it at that time. He said that each year brought its kicks. The department had the usual number this year and they were about evenly divided on both sides of the fence. I/iist Year's Policy. From another source it was learned that the policy of last year had been objected to vigorously as too liberal; that some of the receivers of wheat lost money on damp grain as a result of it, and the de partment did not propose to be subject to that criticism this year; that a rigid in spection was necessary because there is much damp grain coming. One of the prominent millers said that as far as he had investigated, he- re garded the inspection this year as fair. A big wheat shipper made the point that a good, straight inspection would help the export wheat trade of Minneapolis as against the other markets. This point was also brought up by men who criti cize the inspection and the statement was made that the little prestige Minneapolis would gain on that score would not begin to offset the loss due to the wheat being diverted to other markets. As it is now, other markets than Minneapolis are re ceiving the preference on higher grades. In all of the appeals so far, the appeal board has sustained the inspection. HOMESTEAD FRAUDS Conviction That Mnj Affect Similar Cnnen in Minnemota. Helena, Ark., Oct. 15.—John M. Ham was to-day convicted in the federal court of for gery in connection with the soldiers' addi tional homestead lands and sentenced to three years in Fort Leavenworth penitentiary and to pay a fine of $500. This is the first conviction ever secured in the United States courts for such an of fense. There are pending nine other in dictments, the frauds having been practiced extensively in this state and in Michigan, "Wisconsin and Minnesota. The case is re garded by the several government land office officials as the most important in years. SLIGHTLY STRONGER TODAY Got. Pillsbury's Condition Thought to Be More Hopeful. Governor Pillsbury's condition was consid ered slightly better to-day. He is still un conscious, but his splendid vitality is bearing htm up wonderfully. A member of hie fam ily said to-day that the governor appeared better than for some time. But little hope was held out, although it was thought the governor might linger for some time. aeacolis. WRITTEN BY MISS STONE American Missionary Tells of Her Abduction. CAPTORS LESS KIND Do Not i atinue Their Original Courteous Treatment. USE OF TROOPS WAS A MISTAKE Miss Stone I'reea That Haste In Pay- Ing the Hnnsom Is Ad visable. Sofia, Oct. 15. —Further word has come from Mies Stone in the following letter, written from Macedonia to W. W. Peet, treasurer of the Turish mission in Con stantinople: My Honored Friend —I write to inform you that on the 3d of September I was captured by a great number of armed men—some forty —as I traveled from Sansko to Diumaala ; with about twelve teachers, students and 1 others. They took with me for my compan ion Mrs. Catherine Tsilka. The reason why the/ captured us is for a ransom. The price which they demand for us is 25,000 pounds, Turkish, which sum must be paid in gold, and this entirely without the knowledge of the Turkish and Bulgarian governments, witLiu the term of eighteen days from to-day. The condition of Mrs. Tailka decided the limit, as she- Is to give birth to a child in thiee months. We are pursued by a Turkish army. I beg Dr. Haskell himself to go to Constantinople and exert himself for the payment of the ransom at Samakov, where men will receive it on presenting an order from me. The men who captured us at first showed courtesy and consideration toward us, but now, since Turkish soldiere aad Bashi Bazouks have be gun to pursue us -and the ransom is delayed, our condition is altogether changed. There fore I beg you to hasten sending the ransom demanded and that as energetically as possi ble. You will represent to the Turkish gov ernment that it atop the pursuit of us by sol diers and Bashi Bazouks, otherwise we shall be killed by the people in whose hands we are. I pray you to communicate without de lay the contents of this letter to the repre sentative of the United States at .the porte and request his most serious co-operation. Pray for us. We ere at peace with God. With hearty salutations, your friend, —Ellen M. Stone. Bandit Band Dissolves. Although the time fixed by the brigands who abducted Miss Stone for the payment of the ransom demanded expired a week ago, no one has appeared at Samakoff to claim the money or to announce the fate of the captive. It is now learned that the band has "dissolved, but" that Miss Stone is kept under surveillance at some distance from the frontier. This is due to snow and cold weather rendering the mountains uninhabitable. The efforts of the police to arrest Saraoff, formerly pres ident of the Macedonia committee, who is suspected of complicity in the kidnapping, are still unavailing. The failure is due to the sympathy of the inhabitants and local authorities. The police at Sofia have arrested cer tain suspects, including Paul Genadieff, brother of the well known 'barrister and deputy. Charles M. Dickinson, United States consul at Constantinople and diplomatic agent to Bulgaria, says: "When the Stoi»» party was captured it was compelled to wade stream up to the Perm mountain. Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka were hurried up the mountain and the other pris oners were released next morning. Just be fore the Stone party appeared the brigands captured a Turk aud battered out his brains with the butt ends of guns to prevent him telling they were lying in wait. The whole bai:d was disguised as Turkish soldiers when it captured the Stone party. The parents of Madame Tsilka, the teacher who was captured by brigands with Miss Stone, have received another letter from their daughter urging the step already taken, namely, stopping the military pursuit because the brigands threaten the prisoners with immediate death in the event of danger to them selves. The writer says she and Miss Stone are hidden in a subteranean re treat and are treated courteously. She also says the only means of securing their release is to pay the ransom demands. CAPTORS TIRKS Story of the Driver Who Accom panied Miss Stone. Kite York Sun Special Sorvit* Vienna, Oct. 15. —George Todaroff, the driver who accompanied Miss Stone when she was kidnapped, has arrived at Sofia. He says his captors are Turks and that the abduction took place on Turkish terri tory. The Bulgarian police have Todaroff under surveillance, as they are not sat isfied with his statements. Consul Dick inson still complains that the Bulgarian authorities are not taking proper measures to deal with the brigands. EASTMAN GETS PLAGE ON THE NORMAL, SCHOOL BOARD Got. Van Sant Appoints St. Cloud Journal-I'resH Man to Sue- ceed W. B. Mitchell. Alvah Eastman, of St. Cloud, was this ! morning appointed a director on the state normal school board to succeed William B. Mitchell, resigned. Mr. Eastman has al ready signified his willingness to serve. Mr. Eastman is editor of the St. Cloud Journal-Press and has been supporting the board of control in its controversy with the normal school board. He will work in harmony with the board of control if possible. His appointment by Governor Van Sant indicates that the governor is doing all he can to help the board of con trol out of its unpleasant position. Messrs. Mitchell and Eastman are not : on good terms personally, and Eastman's appointment will not have any tendency to heal the breach between them. Attorney General Douglas will not act in the suit with the board of control until all the necessary papers have been drawn by President Anke»ny of the normal board. CHAN~CeTFOR MOLJNEU% \ew York Conrt of Appeals Grants a Nevr Trial. Albany, >N. V., Oct. 15.—The court of ap peals has granted Roland B. Molineaux a new trial. Molineaux was convicted of the mur der of Catharine J. Adams In New York city and sentenced t« death. The court grants a new trial on a prevailing opinion written by Judge Werner of Rochester, his principal ground being that the lower court erred 'n admitting evidence as to another alleged crime, the death of Barnett, and thus merged two iuues. , TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1901. uv.- ■■■,--.. -.'■ "-<^_ o •• •■■-.' i i-^ X _^^^*m mm a^ / ro rnfc^>^ y A KENTUCKY AIRSHIP. Henry Watterson of Kentucky Sets a Big Task for His Flying Machine. BELONGS TO CONGRESSONLY Reciprocity Question Will Be Left Therewith. ROOSEVELT'S COURSE All President Will Do Is to Recom- mend the Principle. FAVORS MARINE REHABILITATION Suggestion That the President May Imitate Emperor Will iam's Example. Special to The Journal. Chicago, Oct. 15.—Walter Wellman, in a special telegram from Washington to the Record-Herald, says that President i Roosevelt will recommend to congress in ' his message next December 1 the general principle of commercial reciprocity with foreign nations. But the president will not suggest any particular form of ap plication of the principle. He regards that as the proper function of congress and as a matter with which the execu tive has nothing to do in the initiative. The president is in favor of reciprocal j arrangements and will quote from the late ! President McKinley's Buffalo speech in favor of that doctrine, but he does not propose to attempt to do any of the work which naturally devolves upon con gress and does not intend to recommend, in terms, the reafflrmation of any oj! -the treaties now pending. He will go as far 1 in advocacy of reciprocity as Mr. McKinley would have gone had he lived, but no farther. President Roosevelt realizes that reci procity, while supported by sentimental considerations, is, after all, a tariff affair, and all tariff affairs are matters of busi ness in which conflicting interests appear and must be harmonized before anything can be done. That is the mission of con- i gress, not of the executive. All the i president can do is to recommend the principle. Nothing; Likely to Be Done. Among' senators who have discussed this reciprocity proposition there is a strong feeling that nothing of importance can be accomplished for some years yet. It is so easy for 1 manufacturing or pro ducing interests whose prosperity is ! affected to block legislation through their friends in congress that it. is feared next winter's reciprocity campaign will begin and end in talk. o o : Others fear that the republican : : party, anxious to avoid hurting : : some of these protected and pro- : : tecting interests, will permit the : : years to roll by without reduction : : of tariffs, either by direct legis- : : lation or 1 by the indirect method : : of reciprocal tariff arrangements : : with other countries, and that : : sooner or later the people will : : throw the republican party out of : : power and put in a party : : that will reduce customs taxes. : : This was the fear of the late : : president. • o o But he realized, as his successor does, that, while it is easy to perceive the dan ger, it is a matter of the greatest dif ficulty to ward off by means of wholesome legislation to which some powerful in terest objects. Hence the prevailing opinion that the president will turn the reciprocity suggestion over to congress and that congress will do nothing. Subsidies. The president has decided to adopt a similar policy in dealing with the subsidy question. An eastern newspaper, organ of the subsidy seekers, says President Roosevelt, will recommend subsidies In' THE SHERIFF HAS BEEN INDICTED The Grand Jury Brings Four Counts Against Megaarden for His Administration of His Office. There is no question but that indict ments will be returned against Sheriff Me gaarden when the grand jury next reports. It may be to-day or it may be to-morrow, but the indictments will be forthcoming at the first report. They will be four in number, so it is said. Warrants will be given to Coroner Williams to serve and he will be in temporary charge of the office, if .the sheriff is removed by the governor. When the grand jury left its sanctum this morning and worked its way along the marble corridors and staircases of the courthouse to Judge Harrison's court room every one in the building knew of it in a twinkling. It was just as if all had been placed on an electric circuit and some.one had pressed the button to an nounce that the jurors had left their room. "The grand jury is going to report," was whispered on all sides, "and Me garden is indicted." For it had been ac cepted as an unquestioned fact that when his message to congress. This is an error. Ho will follow the example of the late president and recommend to congress the passage of measures designed to build up the American merchant marine, leaving congress the task of finding the method. This is as far as President Roosevelt feels like going at present. Later on, when he has secured a firmer grip upon the subject and upon all his relations to the national legislature and to the party and public questions, he may feel like taking a positive stand in favor of a def inite policy, in case congress has done nothing meanwhile. For the present caution and conservatism are the presi dent's motto. If congress passes a de cent subsidy bill the president will un doubtedly sign it. , Not Sure of Faatage, Senator Frye thinks congress will pass the bill which he and Senator Hanna have ready for introduction, but very few of his colleagues agree with him. If con gress does not take hold of this problem and find a solution of it pretty soon Pres ident Roosevelt may have a chance^o show what he can do. He is thoroughly in earnest in his desire to have the Amer ican flag restored to the ocean. This is a form of "Americaism" which specially appeals to him. It is known to all his friends that he greatly admires the skill and energy with which the kaiser encour ages the rival steamship companies of his empire to compete for ocean trade. The kaiser pats first one of these com panies on the back and then the other. He keeps them up to the fighting mark much as one manages a battle between two game cocks. It matters not to him which wins; he is content as long as Ger many has the finest and fastest ships on the ocean. Suppose President Roosevelt were some day to imitate the kaiser's ex ample? UNFIT FORJHE MINISTRY Illinois Clergyman Who Slurred President McKinley. Chicago, Oct. 15.—Tie Rock River Method ist conference to-day voted that the Rev. A. B. Smart "was unfit for pastoral work." He was accused of making slurring remarks about President McKinley following the aa -1 sasßinatioa. /' the jury did report there would be a bunch of bills against the sheriff. The jury filed into the courtroom fol lowed by the usual trail of curious people. A case was on trial before Judge Har rison, but just as he was about to inter rupt the proceedings, the jurors left. Under the circumstances it was an ex traordinary' proceeding and the spectators Including several ex-deputy sheriffs who are now on the police force did not know what to make of the move. It was taken by some to be a sort of ruse to cover the actual doings. But it was learned later that the jury simply had another form of an indictment for Jerry Reardon, who was then on trial. However, the hitch had been overcome and there was no necessity for returning the other indicement. Seeking Megaurden'i Shoes. Candidates for sheriff and their friends are crowding the county commissioners. It is reported that Otto Langum and Tom Gallagher are in the lead, but that other candidates, notably S. B. Loye and L. A. Lydiard, intend to be heard from before the election is held. County Commis sioner Mike Nash denies the story that he is a candidate. HE WILL LIVE HERE Bishop Edsall Definitely Decides to Reside in Minneapolis. ONE CONDITION EASILY MET It Is That He Be Furnlahed aa Com fortable a Home an at Fargo. Samuel Cook Edsall, bishop of the Epis copal diocese of Minnesota, will make his home in Minneapolis. In a letter to a friend in this .city, Bishop Edsall says: "Since Bishop Whipple's death I have been carefully weighing the various con ditions as to the place of my future resi dence. After prayerful and careful con sideration I am now ready to say that I will accept the offer made by the Minne apolis churchmen when I was simply bishop coadjutor. I will live in Minneapo lis, provided I can be furnished with a suitable house." In another place in his letter Bishop Edsall says he will expect as comfortable a house as he has In Fargo. A determined effort will at once be made by the Minneapolis churchmen to secure the desired home for the bishop. A suitable house will cost between $12 - 000 and $15,000, and the intention is to purchase it outright. FrieDds of the bishop said to-day that now that the bishop has consented to make Minneapolis his home, there should be no delay in providing him with a house to live in. They are anxious that churchmen and the public generally see to it that funds are at once forthcoming to insure his resi dence here. Bishop Edsall will come to the city In November to take up his work. His friends are greatly elated over the pros pect of his coming, and they declare that a good home will be provided for him. Only 23 per cent of the population of England and Wales lira in the country. 16 PAGES-FIVE O'CLOCK. EVANS' FATE RESTS WITH TORRANCE President Roosevelt Has a Momen- tous Conference With G. A. R. Commander-in-Chief. Recommendation of Judge Torrance as to Evans' Retention or Dismissal " Goes." from The Journal Bureau. Room S3, Post XiuUdinu, Washington. Washington, Oct. 15. —Judge Torrance, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., left Washington last night for Cleveland, from which city he will return home. His visit here was rather unexpected. He went to Cleveland to attend a meeting of the Mc- Kinley monument commission, of which he is a member, and got word there which brought him to Washington as soon as the meeting was over. Just what that word was Judge Torrance does not^say, but it is understoood that President Roosevelt wired asking for a conference regarding Grand Army mat ters. The President is collecting material for his message to congress and wants all light possible on pension questions, the adminitration of the pension office and other things near the old soldier's heart. The conference between him and Judge Torrance lasted for more than an hour and was most cordial in every way. As was to "have been expected, the judge declined to discuss it with newspaper men. While lie was waiting for the president to be at leisure Judge Torrranee met Henry Clay Evans, commissioner of pen sions, who had also come to the White Houfte to see the president, but not by ap pointment. Torrance and Evans chatted pleasantly for a few minutes and arrange ments were made for the former 1 to visit the pension office in the afternoon. This visit lasted two hours and Mr. Evans sub mitted to Judge Torrance a large amount of documentary evidence bearing on pen- Bion cases which are relied upon by the anti-Evans forces to prove their charges. Judge Torrance would not expresss any opinion regarding the character of the evi dence or what it seemed to show. All Depends Upon Torranee. From sources which I believe to be en tirely reliable it is learned that the pres ident yesterday discussed Evans' case very freely with Judge Torrance, and made it clear that he was a friend of the old soldiers and wanted to please them as far as that was possible without doing anybody an injustice. He knows practi cally nothing about details of the Evans controversy. He knows the bitter feel ing against him, but nothing beyond that. He wantn to settle the case on its merits strictly. It is believed that Judge Torrance, as a result of his conference with the presi dent, will make a study of the Evans ROOSEVELT AND THE TRUSTS President Anxious to Hit Upon a Method of Curbing Their Power for Evil. Washington, Oct. 15. —Next to reciprocity and .the Nicaraguan canal the president discusses with all his callers the subject of trusts to an extent which shows how important he considers this topic. Most of those called into conference in the White House consider the details of their talks as strictly confidential, but it ap pears to be quite evident, from the vari ous reports which'filter out from time to time, that the president has rather strong convictions on this subject. He fully recognizes, his callers say, the gravity of the problem, and, while he is full of the idea that something must be done, he, like many other men, is some what dubious as to how and when the rem edy for trusts must be applied. The president, it is said, is extremely anxious to do something to curt) the power of the trusts so far as their opera tions tend to raise prices and crush com petition. At the same time he does not desire to inaugurate a crusade against corporations merely because they are companies and not private firms. He is fully aware, his callers declare, of the great danger which would come to the Wheat Brought Back for Reshipmcnt Boston, Oct. 15.—Grain shippers at this port are allowing their grain to remain on the steamers and to be brought back to this country and shipped again to its destination In the expectation of some (improvement in the grain situation in the meantime. The Furness line steamer Columbian, which leaves London on Wednes day for this port, will bring back a good portion of her outward cargo of 45,000 bushelfl of wheat. The Virginian, of the same line, which sailed on Oct. 6, for «London, will bring back 16,000 bushels of wheat which she carrried out. The Furness line steamer Appomattox, operating between Newport News and London, is coming westward with 40,000 out of 50,000 bushels of grain shipped. This curious state of affairs i due in part to extremely low trans-Atlantic fright rates prevailing and partly due t« scarcity of warehouse* «& (be other side and resultant high storage orates. question with a view of making recom mendations for the president's guidance. The documents in the several cases upon which the Evans forces base their fight will be carefully examined. Fortunately all of the evidence which will be adinissa ble is of documetary character. Judge Torrance is himself as free from preju dice in the matter as the president. He will go at the investigation as a judge who is getting ready to hand down a decision. o o : If he finds that the charges : : against Evans are not sustained : : he will remain in office. If he : : finds that they are proved, Evans : : will be dismissed. : o o This is popular impression regarding understanding reached at the White House yesterday. As for the politics of the case, it is likely that neither the pres ident !^K Judge Torrance will consider it. Thv^*.' r would not stoop so low aa to tell the ! sident that the soldier vote —in Ohio, tor instance —was in danger of slumping unless Evans is dismissed at once, even if that were the situation, and the president is just brave enough to be independent and want to arrive at a fair conclusion regardless of political effect. McKinlt'j Keady to Remove Kvnna. It should again be said that President McKinley was ready last March to remove Evans, distasteful as the task was, when General Sickles and his friends began their bitter personal assault upon the commissioner and placed the president where he could not act without seeming to be under compulsion. The president would do nothing under.fire, and so the matter went over. Old soldiers themselves are to blama that Evans is still in the office. This state ment is authoratatlve. What President Roosevelt and Judge Torrance both want are the exact facts in the case, without prejudice or color of any sort. On thesa facts the president's decision will be made. Whatever Recommendations may be made by the commander-ln-chlef will be backed by evidence and will 3tand any Bort of fire, either from. Evans, should the recom j mendation be adverse to him, or from the Grand Army, should the recommendatioa sustain Evans,. It is a matter for general congratulation that this much-discussed case is now, as a result of yesterday's conference at the White House, at last on the way to an honorable adjustment. Judge Torrance gave up all his spare moments yesterday and last night to re ceiving visits from distinguished Grand Army men of this city who came to see him in large numbers. Nov. 15 he will be the guest of Lafayette Post, New York city, perhaps the most noted post of the country and as guest of honor will deliver an address. —W. W. Jermane. country from legislation which would tend to restrict the ordinary uses of cap ital. At the same time he has expressed him self again and again as being in favor of legislation, either by the federal govern ment or by the states or by both, which will tend to kee» the trusts within legiti mate bounds and make them merely or ganizations to cheapen production, which is their legitimate sphere, instead of be ing conspiracies to crush competition anC create monopoly. The president has requested a great many men in different parts of the coun try and in different \vlks of life to feel public opinion for him and let him know not only the conditions of public senti ment regarding the trusts themselves, but more particularly to secure suggestions as to the best methods of restricting the operations of the trusts to their le gitimate sphere of action. The president fully recognizes the difficulties growing out of the limited power of the federal government, and of the consequent di versity of legislation by the states, but he believes, it is said, that the time is ripe for a judicious agitation of the subject, so that in the end some method may be arrived at which will cure the manifest evils of the trusts without in any way attacking the natural rights of capital to combine in a legitimate manner.