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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL PRICE TWO CENTS. POINTERS FOR PRESIDENT He Will Confer With Senator Aldrich To-day. TARIFF AS A WHOLE This Will Be Included in the Range of Discussion. PERMANENT COMMISSION PLAN Large Number of ('uiiisreaameu Fa vur Habi'iick'n Bill (or Tariff Revision. Hew York Sun Spmolal Smrvlam Washington, Oct. -S.—ln line with his policy of consulting influential members of the senate and house of representatives on public questions to be dealt with in his first annual message to congress, Presi dent Roosevelt will to-day have a consul tation with Senator Aldrlch of Rhode Is land, chairman of the committee ou finance. It is not known that the presi dent desires the advice of Mr. Aldrich oa any particular subject, but it it. certain that the general question of reciprocity treaties will be of those discussed. Sena tor Aldrich is one of the many men in congress who have persistently opposed the ratification of nearly all <if the treat ies that have been so long pending in the senate, but he has never stated that he opposes the policy of reciprocity. He al ways thought that the treaties negotiated by the state department, under the special supervision of Commissioner John A. Kas eon, were jug-handle affairs in which very little was obtaintd for ihe United States for what was given away. The senator believes that evenly bal anced reciprocity treaties can be nego tiated and has not gone so far as to say Dun this would not be advisable. Presi dent Roosevelt's Ideas arc well repre sented in the speech he made iv Minnesota last month in which he approved reci procity treaties In « general way but did not gd into details. Whole Tin-iff Uuestlim |p. The tariff subject as a whole, with par . r reference to the desirability of any lation by congress, will also be talked over by the president and Senator Allison to-day. The Habcock bill proposing to remove the duties on such articles as are manufactured more cheaply in this coun try than abroad, finds favor among a large number of congressmen, some of whom have urged it in their recent conversations ■with President Roosevelt. There is an other class of congressmen, however, who think it would be very unwise to tinker at all with the tariff question, believing It to be every way more advisable to make such tariff changes as are needed through the medium of reciprocity treat ies. Another branch or the question that has been brought to the president's atten tion and which will be forcibly presented to congress is the proposition for a per manent tariff commission to which may be referred questions relating to tariff changes, including reciprocal conventions with foreign countries. President Roose velt has Kiven considerable thought to this proposition and has been urged to recom mend in his message that congress create sin-h a commission. i'hesident Rooosevelt in a'general way favors the appointment of such a commis sion and Senator Aldrich has often voted in the senate for bills providing for the creation of tariff commissions of one sort or another. The chairman of the finance committee is one of that influential class of congressmen who believe in letting the tariff alone as far as may be and he be lieves that a permanent non-partizan tar iff commission, if it could be composed of the right kind of men, could rearrange the tariff schedules when necessary with less disturbance to the commercial interests than is caused by the periodical enactment of tariff laws by congress. BEALL AFTER A FRANCHISE Uax. -hall Manager Would Build a M'hoiie SjMtem. Special to The Journal. Sioux City, lowa, Oct. 2S.—A three-cor nered telephone war is imminent In Sioux City. Seven years ago an independent sys tem was built in Sioux City to compete with the Bell. The old line then put phones down .Torn i."> to $:•> and $2 and $1, and matters continued in that wise for five years. Then, after the Bell company had lost thousands of dollars in killing off Its competitor, the inde pendent company sold out and phones were put back to $3 and $3. Now A. B. Beall, manager of the Grand opera house, and last yt-ar manager of the Minneapolis basebali team, has organized a $f>,ooo independent com pany and asked the council for a franchise. The New State Telephone company of Ode bolt, lown. building h long-distance wire here, has asked for a franchise, agreeing to put in a multiple switchboard with a capaci ty of j,O(X> subscribers. The Bell company declares their prices will go down to $2 and $1 If either of the new companies starte up. YATES WOULDN'T TELL Death of the Peeress Who Caused His Imprisonment. London. Oct. JS.—The Couutess of Strass brooke, whose death has just taken place in this country, wu the peeress who was the < ause of the arrest of Edmund Yates, who was the proprietor and editor of the London AVorld. It was on her account that he was convicted of criminal libel and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. Yates could have escaped the penalty by giving the name of the writor of the libelous paragraph. This he declined to do.. The libel in question was to the effect that Lord Lonsdale, then, as now, a married man, had eloped from the Hunting Field with an unmarried girl, Lady Grace Fane, now Countess of Londosbor ougb. It was a paragraph for which there was not a shadow of foundation, and which originated in the lively imagination of the tount?ss. ANOTHER LA FOLLETTE PAPER. Special to The Journal. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Oct. 28.—Chippewa Falls is to have another daily paper. It will be a LaFollette organ, and its editor will be Ronald Hoyt, son of Judge William R. Hoyt, of this city. It will make its appearance in January. Struck for "Better Grub" Special to The Journal. Sioux City, lowa, Oct. 28.—One of the most novel strikes on record occurred In this county Saturday, when 140 workmen on the new Moville extension of the North ■\Veßtern railroad, struck for "better grub." They said they were perfectly satis fied with their wages, but unless they were provided with a better bill of fare they wouldn't turn another shovel. The foreman telegraphed to the commissary de partment at Chicago, and when a message came that a large consignment of a good variety of food was on the way, the men agreed to return to work. BOARD MOST SHOW CADSE Quo Warranto Begun Against Control Board. CITED FOR THURSDAY When It Must Justify Its Attitude Toward Normal Schools. EXTENSION OF TIME PROBABLE The Action PrumUrs to Be Hard FouKht by Both l'artieu. Five justices of the supreme court this moruing heard the petition of Attorney General Douglas and J. W. Olsen, state superintendent of schools, and on their re lation granted a writ of quo warranto di rected against the state board of control. The writ is returnable Thursday. On ihat date tho members of the board of control are summoned to appear "to show by what righ or warrant you have usurped and Intruded into, or interfered wiih 'h . ffices, tvi.uchise, rights, func tions, pr ana •. ties of the state normal board." The writ was granted a;. the date fixed after a brief consults .vii, and was filed with thf clerk vi the supreme court. C. W. Somerby, assistant attorney gen eral, served copies of the writ this aft ernoon on Messrs. Leavitt and Lee. of the board of control. Judge Gould is in Wl nona, and the board members have not decided whom to retain as counsel. They will probably ask for an extension of time in which to file their answer. Test of the Writ. The writ embodies information supplied by J. W. Olsen, member of the state nor mal school board, and of W. B. Douglaa, attorney general. It recites the composi tion of the normal board, the laws under which it was formed, the fact that normal schools are maintained under its author ity at certain places, and that "by virtue of the laws of this state" the "general supervision, management and control" of these institutions are vested iv this board. The writ then proceeds: Fifth—That notwithstanding the rights, powers, authority and duties of the state normal school board aforesaid and the re spective members thereof, and of your re lator, J. \V. Oisen, Imposed by law, the re spondents and each thereof, pretending to act under and pursuant to the said chapter 122, and as if the said chapter conferred full au thority upon it \n all flnanrlal matters of or pertaining to the several normal schools of this state, and to the exclusion in such re gard of the said state normal school board, and the members thereof respectively have, and each of them has, wrongfully and un lawfully usurped, intruded Into and inter ferred with, and is now usurping, intruding into and interfering with the respective offices and lawful rights and duties of the said state normal school board, and the'respeetive mem bers thereof, aud of your relator, J. W. 01 --sen. That said schools heretofore have been and now are, wholly maintained by the state of Minnesota from taxes collected upon the tax able property of the state, together with cer taia fees paid by students attending such schools. That upwards of two thousand (2,000) pupils are now in attendance at said schools, and. each student, except those who agree to teach in the public schools of the statp for a period of two (2) years, Is chained by safd normal board and pays to the state of Minnesota, the sum of thirty dollars (S2O) tuition per annum. Sixth—That the said board of control of state institutions, and the respective members thereof, as aforesaid, have and each of them haa '-ontinuously, ever since said Ist day of August, claimed and maintained, and at tempted to exercise the franchise and right to make and execute all and every of the con tracts necessiry to be made and executed for the erection, repair or insurance of buildings, erected or to be erected, for the use of the said normal schools, or for the purchase of all supplies of every character and descrip tion, furnished by the state for said normal schools, or for the employment of professors, teachers. Janitors and other persons cmploye-d or to be employed therein, and in connection therewith, except as to the number of toch ers and the salaries thereof; and in further ance and in virtue of the right and franchise, so continuously claimed, maintained and at tempted to be exercised by it, as aforesaid, the said board of control did heretofore, and on or about the 10th day of October, 1901, de nia.id and require of the state normal echool board that certain policies of fire insurance appertaining; to said normal school buildings be surrendered to it as the lawful custodian thereof: and did. on or about the 17th day of August, 1901, demand and insist that a cer tain instalment of money, amounting in the aggregate to more than forty-eight hundred (4,800) dollars, due upon a certain contract duly entered into for the erection of a normal school building at said city of Duluth, could not lawfully be paid out of the state treasury without the r.pproval of the said board of con trol first given and indorsed upon the vouch ers therefor: and did, on or about the 22d day of August. 1901, and at other times, claim and insist upon the right and duty to approve and allow all and every of the payments of salaries and other moneys due to professors, teachers and other employes employed in and about said normal schools, before the same could lawfully be paid; and did, prior to Au gust 26, 1901, seek to appoint each of the respective presidents of the several normal schools of the state its agent for the local purchase of supplies for the normal school - with which he was connected; and did, prior to said last-named date, assert and exercise the right to refuse the allowance of a certain estimate for the introduction of manual train ing into certain of said normal schools; and did, prior to and on said last-named date, as sort and maintain the right and duty to pre scribe how text books and supplies should be •furnished students attending the several said normal schools; and did, on the last-named date, In its written communication addressed and transmitted to the secretary of the said state normal school board, assert and main tain that the law places the financial affairs of the normal schools of the state absolutely uader said board of control, except as to the number of teachers and their salaries; and did, on the 24th day of August. 1901, in its let- j ter of that date, over the official signature of the respondent Leavett, as chairman thereof, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1901. " V» -J . "* - ** ..'... ___ . , ~——^_- ■ ~~~ j" —— '^ , . ~ ' —m ~- ~~» g^ ' " 'J" -—■* —-^r | ~ 7~— „;; - addressed and transmitted to the secretary of said state normal school board, assume and exercte-e tho right and duty to decline to ap prove certain vouchers for the payment of moneys on account of said Duluth normal school; and did, in its iPtter bearing date the 26th day of August, 1901, over the official sig nature of its chairman, addressed and trans mitted to the secretary of said state normal school board, assume, assert and maintain the right and duty to exercise control over the several normal schools of this state, as afore said, and did therein declare its purpose to be to require such schools to live within the ap propriations made by the legislature for such schools. Now, Therefore, to the end that justice be done, you. the said state board of control of state institutions, and Silas W. Leavett, William E. Lee and Ozro B. Gould, and each of you, are hereby required and commanded to appear before the supreme court of Min nesota, on the 31st day of October, 1901, at 9:30 o'clock on said day, then and there to respond to this writ by answer, plea or de murrer, as you may be advised, and to show by what right or warrant you and each of you have usurped and intruded into, or inter fered with the office^, franchises, rights, functions, privileges and duties of the state normal school board, and the members there of, and of the relator, J. W. Olsen, in the manner and to the extent as in said infor mation it has been made to appear. Hereof fail not. Witness: —Hon. Chas. If. Start. 3hief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota, at St. Paul, Minn., this 28th day of October, 1901, by D. F. Reese, Clerk of the Supreme Court, per J. L. Helm, Deputy Clerk. LANDS TO BE SAVED Canadian Pacific Project to Irrigate 3,000,000 Acres. DENVER MAKES THE SURVEYS Tract Lies Between Medicine Hat and Calgary —Sngar Factory fur Raymond. Special to The Journal. Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 28. —The greatest irrigation project that has yet been at tempted in the Canadian northwest has been undertaken by the Canadian Pacific railroad for the land between Medicine Hat and Calgary. George A. Anderson of Denver has made the surveys, and estimates that 3,000,000 acres may be irrigated at a reasonable cost and every foot of it made eompensa torily productive. The road has decided to irrigate at once 300,000 acres, and if this proves satisfactory the canals will be extended. The experiment^ in the vicinity of Leth bridge with sugar beets proved most suc cessful. The percentage of sugar in the j beets has been so large that Jesse Knight, I the millionaire sugar manufacturer of I Provo, Utah, has decided to erect a $200. --i 000 factory at Raymond, a new town he ! has founded near Lethbridge. He is now | preparing 3,000 acres of land for eultiva- I tion for beet production. Knight and his sons have a ranch of 32,000 acres, and they recently purchased 60,000 head of j sheep and 5,000 head of shorthorn cattle, and they intend to go in for farming in ■ every branch, and will give employment to 200 men. About 60,000 acres of land around Ray mond has recently been opened for set tlement; the most of it will be devoted I to the cultivation of sugar beets. FOR PERJURY Trial of Callnhan of Kidnapping Fame Commenced. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 28.—The trial of James Callahan began this morning before Judge Keysor in the criminal branch of .the district court. Callahan is charged with perjury uttered in his testimony in ■his former trial for highway robbery and abduction of the son of Edward A. Cud ahy. the millionaire packing house owner. Judge Baker granted the motion for a change of forum and exchanged dockets with Judge Hanecy. The latter judge called a jury and the hearing began this afternoon. INCENDIARY PREACHER Tennessee Methodist Conference Ex pels a Member. Nashville, Term.. Oct. 28.—The Tennes see conference has expelled Rev. Mr. Cherry from the ministry and membership of the 'M. E. church south. Cherry was charged with fraudulently collecting in surance on personal property In the de struction of which he is alleged to hare been an incendiary BIG FOG- IN LONDON. MADLY JEALOUS A Hot Springs, S. D. Negro Kills His Alleged Rival and Himself. Special to The Journal. Hot Springs, 8. D., Oct. 28.—nl a fit of jealous rage last night Luther Estelle, a colored niin, shot pM instantly killed Clyde McMalns, a white man, and also shot and criticaJly wounded May Berry, a white girl. Estelle then ran to the home of his stepmother and shot himself, dying at onco. All were employed at the Evans hotel. ' McMains and the girl were visiting- to gether on the veranda of the Evans when Estelle rushed upon them and began shooting. He was infatuated with the girl and madly jealous because she gave any attention to McMains. MADDENING FOG ' I Consternation Among Fashionable Dwellers of London. London, Oct. 28.—West and Central Lon don were enveloped Saturday night in a black fog, which plunged the entire fash ionable part of the city into impenetrable darkness. The fog found its way into the theaters and music halls, until in many cases the stage was scarcely visible. Cabs took refuge under the lights of public houses and refused to move, and scores of busses were abandoned around im portant landmarks, their drivers not dar ing to proceed. The scenes about the emptying theaters were chaotic and the cries of the con fused and helpless people only added to the confusion. Link boys ran about try ing to lead fashionable equipages out of danger, and save London a mediaeval ap pearance. Many accidents were reported from the Charing Cross and other hospi tals. 'TWAS DRY FOR BEETS Yields About Hntohi tiHOn a Great !)isni»j»o in tm i-iit. Special to The Journal. Hutchinson, Minn., Oct. 28. —The beet sugar crop tributary to Hutchinson is nearly all In, and owing to the dry sea son, instead of the 100 cars expected, only 33 have been shipped to the factory at St. Louis Park. From one to three acres each were raised this year by seventy-four farmers, and the result has been so un satisfactory that some will refuse to make contracts with the beet sugar com pany another season. Others, with whom last year's crop was the best-paying part of their farm, netting, some of them, as hi«h as $35 an acre, will increase their acreage. DIVORCE WHILE YOU WAIT lowa District Jndee Would Stop the Practice. Special to The Journal. Sioux City, lowa, Oct. 2S.—Judge William Hutchinson of the district court put an end Saturday to Sioux City's reputation as a divorce mill by announcing that no more "ready made" divorces would be allowed. A system had come in vogue here by which either of a couple agreeing to a divorce could bring a petition into court, with origi nal notice and notice by filing waived, and with default of defendant, and would walk out of court with their divorce decree fifteen minutes after it had been petitioned. Judge Hutchinson said that, while the practice was technically legal, he didn't want the Sioux City courts to have the reputation of grant ing divorces to all comers while they waited. DEMOCRATIC COMBINE Herald and Telegraph of Dubuqnc I'nder One Management, Dubuque, lowa, Oct. 28. —The Dubuque Herald and Dubuque Telegraph, both democratic papers of long standing, have been consolidated and appear as the Telo graph-Herald. P. J. Quigley, manager of the Telegraph, becomes manager of the new paper, and Colonel C. D. Ham, mana ger of the Herald, secretary. John Ell wanger. a prominent business man, is president, and W. C. Luther of the Tele graph, vice president. The policy of the paper will continue democratic. The capitalization Is $160,000. The Herald was founded in 1836 and the Telegraph in 1871. HILL IS TOO BUSY Black Hills Line Waiting for His Attention. WORK WAS TO BEGIN ERE THIS Line Projected an an Imlependc Koad, bat Finally Came Under Hill's Influence. Delay in the completion of the pre liminaries for the construction of the new line to the Black Hills from Aberdeen, through Pierre, to Rapid City and other Hills points is said to be due to the delay in completing the working details of the Burlington deal. While the new line was begun as a project independent of all other systems, it was later announced that one of the big northwestern systems had become in terested and stood ready to purchase the road as soon as it was completed. It was also understood that in the sale of the bonds and other preliminaries some of the bigger elements in the railroad world would assist the new line to the Hills. So far had these negotiations proceeded that the promoters were confident that the first installment of cash would be ready several weeks ago. The report is now current that President J.J.Hill, of the Great Northern, is the man interested in the project and that the plans formed several months ago by the promoters tended to make the new line a part of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington combination. The Burlington already taps the Hills country but the new line would give the Morgan- Hill system the prestige in the immense business which sooner or later must find its way from western South Dakota to the twin cities. The Great Northern would furnish the eastern connection at Aber deen and had already promised excellent traffic connections from the start. This would have interfered with the plans of the Milwaukee and the North-Western sys tems on the traffic of western South Da kota. The Great Northern, Northern Pa cific, and Burlington deal can be improved upon from President Hill's standpoint and pending the settlement of the bigger questions some of the smaller ones like the new air line to the Hills are held in abeyance. LIND AS AN ARBITRATOR TO HELP SETTLE PLUMBERS' HOW The Main Point at Issne Is the Dis position of Imported Men. The controversy between the plumbers' union and the building trades council on the one side and Messrs. Kelly and Wll kins, the seceding members of the master plumbers' association, on the other, will be officially passed upon by the board of arbitration selected for that duty next Wednesday. The board consists of W. C. Edgar, editor of the Northwestern Miller, Louis Hansen, state organizer of the state federation of labor, and former president of the woodworkers' union, and president of the Trades and Labor Council, and former Governor John Lind. Mr. Edgar was the choice of the two master plumbers and Mr. Hansen was selected by the build ing trades council. The two this morning agreed upon John Lind as the third man and the latter promptly accepted the task. The main point for the board to decide is the fate of the non-union men brought into the city by Messrs. Kelly and Wilkins and now in their employ. The plumbers' union demands that they be discharged and men from their own ranks be employed in their places. In view of the fact that the two firms have guaranteed their imported men work for the whole of the present season they in sist that it is impossible to grant this concession. CLAIMS SETTLED United State* Gets £0,000 Compel- nation In South Africa. London, Oct. 28.—At the resumption of the sitting of the South African compen sation, commission to-day Major General Sir John C. Ardagh, on behalf of the gov ernment, announced that all claims of foreign countries had been settled diplo matically, as follows: , The United States, £6,000; Austria; £15,000; Germany,".; £30,000;,: Russia, £4,100; Italy, £12,000; Spain, v £150; Sweden and Norway,' £I,ooo;.Switzerland, £250; Belgium, £800.V,;. 12 PAGES-FIVE O'CLOCK. IILLMAN'S PITCHFORK It Is to Be Turned Against President Roosevelt. ROOSEVELT IS EEADY South Carolina Appointment the Bone of Contention. ARMY POST AT FORT SNELLING Formidable Objections to the Pro poned Location of One at That Point. »*%!* Th* Journal Bureau. Room di, r—t Building. Wmehinaton. Washington, Oct. 28.—President Roose velt has already drawn up the articles, as the matchmakers would say, for a merry little fight with the senate early in the session—at least as much of a fight as Senator Tillman of South Carolina <fn give him. Southern democrats here first announce the news. The fun will start when the appointment of George E. Koes ter for collector of internal revenue, made by the president a few days ago, is taken up for confirmation, and with Senator Tillman as a principal it goes without say ing that the fight will be a merry one. The office of collector of internal reve nue is the best paying one in South Caro lina. Had the president appointed auy republican of even passing respectability Tillman would have acquiesed. It is a republican administration and no demo crat has license to kick if the president appoints only republicans to office. That is the philosophical way that Tillman views it. But when the president appoints a gold democrat to the best office in the state upon the recommendation of Till man's colleague in the senate, a colleague who was elected as a democrat but who only last summer was read out of the party by the South Carolina democratic state committee, that is another thing. Senator Tillman is a pretty good hater and there U said to be no man in the state that he hates like this particular col league—Senator McLaurin. The latter in the last congress supported practically all of the more important administration measures and is a representative of the new progressive element of the south that would discard the cherished traditions of that section and accept new ideas with the promptness of the north. President Roosevelt is in sympathy with this new element and he likes McLauren. The way Senator TiHman proposes to go about it is to work the senatorial cour tesy racket. Senatorial courtesy means throwing down a man named by the presi dent for an office when the senator from 'that state'ln wmeh the appointee flvea submits that confirmation would be offen sive to him. Not that Koester himself is offensive,) but he became so because Mc- Lauren asked to have him appointed. It is a racket that has worked all right on past occasions regardless of the politics of the senator working it; but it may fail with Tillman. OBJECTIONS Adjutant General Cor bin authorizes the state- TO FORT ment that it will be a number of weeks before SNELLING the war department gets around to the question of the selection of four army posts in accord ance with the plans of .the secretary of war for having regular and systematic in struction given the regulars and state troops in field maneuvers. "This subject is at the bottom of a long list of business which Secretary Root has before him," said General Corbin, "and he will not reach U soon. The secretary was away for a long time on account of illness, and the accumulation of important business, which has been very large, must first re ceive attention. It is not known what posts will be selected. This will prol>^ ably be left to the commanders of the sev eral military departments of the coun try, who will be asked to make recommen- In this connection it should be said, for the benefit of those who are booming Fort Snelling for one of the four places, that the war department will probably in struct the department commanders that only those posts which are located on the larger military reservations will be eli gible for selection. It is conceded that Fort Ripley, in Kansas, will be one of them, for the reservation there contains thirty-one square miles of territory, which is sufficient for the operation of a large force. The friends of Fort Snelling may very easily determine whether it will be eligible under the instructions which the war department is to issue to the depart ment commanders. Its reservation eni- braces 1,531 acres, or not quite two square miles and a half, and cannot be enlarged. Then, again, the war department wants these four posts located favorably with reference to long continued out door work. It is hinted here, although nothing offi cial has yet been said, that Fort Snell ing is rather too far north. The summers are too short for the purpose which the department has in mind. As the matter is understood here, it is the intention of the secretary of war to begin field maneu vers at each of the four posts to be se lected as early in the season as possible, rapidly replacing each detachment of reg ulars and state troops with fresh detach ments, and carrying the work from April until late in November. By crowding and stretching the work over y period of eight months annually a.t each post, it has been figured that once a year every regiment of regulars and state troops can be given the exercise and drill which the depart ment thinks so necessary. These objections to the selection of Fort Snelling are not pointed out with a view to discouraging the northwest, or to influencing the action of the board which will make the final selection. This selec tion will be made on the merits of the case in each instance, and there will be no chance anywhere for ,the operation of a political "pull." It will be well for the friends of Fort Snelling, however, to understand that there are substantial objections to Its se lection as one of the four posts, and that while ultimately these objections may be overcome, at present they appear to be quite formidable. Everything, however, will rest with the board of department commanders, and as the board will nat be appointed for several weeks to come, it is perhaps idle to pursue the subject fur ther at present in the newspapers. FEARS FOR In republican circles here It is feared that the MARYLAND. Booker T. Washington incident may have an ef fect on the Maryland election. That state is busy electing a legislature which will choose a member of the United States senate to succeed George L. Wellington. The state has been republican, both sena tors from there being of that persuasion. The state was brought into the republican ranks by the vote of the gold democrats. But now that the silver issue is dead, Continued on Second Page. DEATH CHAIR IS PREPARED The Last Day of President McKinley's Murderer. ON EVE OF COLLAPSE He Will Probably Have to Be Car- ried to the Chair. WRETCHEDEST STATE POSSIBLE CzolgOHZ Will Die To-morrow and His Body Be .Cremated , In Buffalo. Mmw York Sun Sometmf Smi-v/om Auburn, N. V., Oct. 28.—With no more feeling than an animal, the strange wretch that killed President McKinley slumbered in his cell last night less than thirty-six hours from eternity. He evidenced no interest in anything that transpired around him in the death-house yesterday. He saw no persons other than the guards who watched his every move. He did not utter twenty words during the entire day. He ate but little of the extra food brought him. He did not ask to see the brother who had come from Cleveland at his re quest. His sole indication of interest was at the noise made by the executioner in the chamber of death twenty-five feet from where he sat in sullen silence. It was just before his dinner was brought. He had been sitting for three hours without saying a word. Clarenca Egnor, another condemned man who oc cupied the next cell to him, was reading aloud from one of the prison books. Sud denly there came the sound of a hammer and the voices of men moving in the death chamber.' It was State Electrician Davis, the legal executioner, the twist of whose hand has sent twenty-seven murderers to their death. Davis, with an assistant, w^s testing the apparatus, arranging the death chair to his satisfaction and con necting the wires. As he gave directions Egnor stopped reading and said to the guard in front of his cell: "They're get ting the chair ready, ain't they?" < kolk'omz In Interested. . The guard made no reDly, but the ques tion aroused the wretch in the cell next to him. He got up and paced the eight foot from door to wall feverishly, s--at down again and then walked or rather stag gered to the door. The guard came to the grating. "Well," he said, "what's the matter?" "Nothing," said the assassin doggedly. "I thought I heard .something." The guard made no reply. The assassin, hanging on the door, looked moodily out at the outside wall. He said nothing for a minute. "What do you want?' asked the guard, "Anything?" "No," stammered the assassin, not look ing up. "I thought I heard something that was all, that was all." "What was it? What did he mean? What did he mean; that man in there?" "He said they were getting the chair ready," said the guard. The assassin staggered away from the door and the other condemned man heard a moan as he sank back on his couch. He had to be called twice before he obeyed the command from the guard to eat his dinner. He ate. sparingly and smoked only an inch or so of the cigar which was handed to him. Davis and his assistants were occupied in preparing for the execution of the as sassin for an hour, Davis, who is a wiry little man with a mustache, was very business-like in making his report to the deputy warden. He said: "Everything is all ready." His work consisted of comparing the measurements of the assassin to see if any changes were necessary. He found that no changes would be required. 'Won't Be a. Loug Job. He said: "As far as I am concerned, everything is ready. It won't be a long Job." Davis did not see the assassin. He will not see him until he is led or dragged from his cell to the death chair on Tues day morning. An extra battery waa brought by Davis and will be placed in position to-morrow. Every precaution will be taken to make the work of ex termination as swift and certain as pos sible. The officials of the prison think that within three minutes from the time the assassin is brought from his cell the current of electricity will be turned on and he will be a dead man. They do not anticipate any scene in the death cham ber. He will not attempt to make a: speech, as he told his brother yesterday he would make, unless he rallies from the state of collapse into which he hat sunk. The guards believe he will not realize his proximity to death until he has been strapped in the death chair. From his condition to-day it is not prob able that he will revive sufficiently to attempt a harangue. No attempt will be made to brace him up for the ordeal by administering stim ulants. Some of the men who have been sent to the death chair have been given drugs or whisky. The wretch who killed President McKinley will not be given either. If he collapses In such a manner that he is unable to walk from his cell to the death chair, he will be carried b> the guards, strapped in the chair of death and the current turned on. The orders to the warden are to make the execution as expeditious as possible. The brother of tlie assassin will be per mitted to see him to-morrow. He will make a last attempt to induce the as sassin to make a more complete confes sion than he made to the Buffalo authori ties. The brother and the priest, Father Fudzinsi, who saw the assassin last week, will be the only persons admitted to the assassin's cell to-day, unless his condi tion becomes such as to require the services of a physician. Priest on Hand Attain. Father Hyacinthe Fulizinki of Buffalo, who visited the assassfn laa-t Friday, was with him for nearly an hour last even ing. After leaving the prison he said that the assassin was In a better frame of mind and that he was disposed to accept consolations. He would not say, however, that the assassin had repented. Said the priest: He has admitted that if he had his life to live over he would be a different fellow. I have strong hopes for him. Father Fudzinksi said that the prisoner was in a morbid, highly nervous state, so paralyzed with fear that he is in a semi stupor which gives him an appearance of Indifference. He volunteers It as his per sonal belief that the assassin was on the verge of collapse and would be carried to the death chair. Father Fudzinski said be would offer his services and hoped they would be accepted. "He is a strange product, a puzzle," said the priest. All the details for the execution are complete. The death warrant will be read to the assassin In bis cell ibis a*t«r-