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6 10f S^i^S^f^fS WEDNESDA Y EVENING^
CITY NEWS.
WEATHER NOW AND THEN
Maximum Temperature To-day 75
Degrees a Year Ago 64 Degrees.
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THE RIVERSIDE PICNICEleven coach loads
or children were- taken to Tonka Bay this mor
ning for the annual picnic of Riverside Sunday
school. The proverbial good weather which hag
never failed to attend this school, save when
the picnic day was changed from Wednesday,
was in evidence and permitted the carrying out
of a long list at athletic contests. Xae train
returned at 4:40.
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(EASTERN GRAIN MEN HEREThree prom
inent grain men of New York, members of the
New York Produce Exchange and leaders in the
export trade, were on 'change this morning, the
guests of F. W. Commons, vice president of the
Minneapolis Chamber. They were Samuel Tay
lor, Jr., of A. A. Fowler & Co. O. McMitchell,
of Power, Son & Co., and Yale Kneeland, of
Kneeland & Co. From here they will go to
Duluth.
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Dr. HENSON MAY GO iff BOSTON.The
question of calling the Rev. Dr. P. S. Henson of
Brooklyn, formerly of Chicago, who is well
known in Minneapolis, to the long vacant pulpit
of Tremont Temple, Boston will doubtless be
acted on at the meeting of the Temple trustees
early nest month, A large number of .deacons
and members of the congregation are said to
favor the former Chicagoan.
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS SCHOOL BOARDThe
annual reorganization of the Columbia Heights
school board was effected by the election of J.
E. Carpenter as president, H. C. Reeves as clerk
and H. M. Verrill as treasurer. Miss Elizabeth
V. MacNamara of street MB was
1 selected as principal710rMarshall fo the coming school year .
ANNOYANCE IS STOPPEDT. L. Despard.
proprietor of the barber shop at 483 First avenue
N, referred to in yesterday s Journal, says that
the colored man who has been annoying women
passing on the street is his porter and not one
of the barbers. He investigated and has decided
to discharge the porter.
ALLEGED COW TORTURERSAugust Nor
ling and Gust Olson, two Soutli Minneapolis boys,
were arraigned in police court this morning
charged with cruelty to animals, it being alleged
i that they had tortured a cow to death. They
?he
leaded not guilty, asked for a jury trial and
case was continued until Sept. 3. The story
j of their escapade was told in Th e Journal
last week.
RECEPTION FOR FORESTRY DELEGATES.
A reception Tuesday night, at which Governor
Van Sant and Secretaray of Agriculture J. M.
Wilson will be present, will be given by the
Commercial Club for the delegates to the Na
tional Forestry Association.
WILL MEET HERE~NEXT YEARThe 1904
session of the middle district German Lutheran
synod will be held in Minneapolis. The synod
adjourned yesterday at Cleveland, Ohio.
NEW IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONAmass
meeting will be held this evening at the gym
nasium of the Lyndale Congregational church
on Aldrich avenue and Lake street, to organize
an improvement association for the district with
in Pleasant and Girard avenues and Twenty
eighth and Thirty-fourth streets. The first
undertaking will be to have the "hole" at Bryant
.avenue and Thlrty-flrst streets converted into a
public park.
STATE FAIR PROSECUTIONF. P. Hoy and
Fred J. HOT were arraigned in police court this
morning, charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses. The complaint sworn to by
Horace B. Hudson, charged that the brothers had
obtained money from Robltshek, Frank & Co., by
'wrongfully representing themselves as authorized
agents of the state fair association to solicit
advertising. They pleaded not guilty and the
cases were continued until Aug. 25.
NEW COMMERCIAL CLUBBERSFollowing
were made resident members of the Commercial
Club to-day: W. E. Johnson, J. T Shearer, Dr.
C. W. Drew and E. J. Fairfield. This reduces
the waiting list to seventy-eight. H. G. Kranz
of Sioux City, Iowa, was elected to non-resident
membership.
DAILY CANVASS No. 320.
i The Minneapolis Journal, out
of 7,019 residences canvassed, had
6,60J* subscribers the Evening
Tribune 1,500, the Morning Trib
une 828,
The Minneapolis Journal in 90
apartment and fiat buildings can
vassed had 1,310 subscribersthe
Evening Tribune 203 and the
Morning Tribune 183.
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ANTONIE ROSENI.EGENThe funeral of
Miss Antonie Rosenlegar will be hald to-morrow
at 2:30 p. m. from St. Peter German Lutheran
church. Eighteenth and Dupont avenues N.
friends Invited.
NYE TO MEET FLORISTS
May- Invite Them Here but Will Get
Pointers* Anyway.
Wallace G. Nye, secretary of the public
affairs committee , of the Commercial
Club, leaves to-night for Milwaukee to
attend the national convention of florists,
first with the idea of extending an invita
tion for the next meeting, and second to
get pointers for a chrysanthemum show
which the Commercial Club tals of giving
in November.
Ctajest Installfflent House h tie City^
All Our Second
Hand Heaters
are now on sample,
consisting of all pop
ular makes* Come
in and make your
selection before the
best are gone. \
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Twenty-two WomenAppear in Court
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"Hoff" In New York Shopping.
New Pall Hats ready,' $2, $8, $4. . You
man's $5.
PROF. MAYNE IS NAMED
Succeeds F. D. Tucker as Principal
of Agricultural School.
At the meeting of the executive com
mittee of the board of university regents
this morning-, one vacancy in the faculty
of the school of agriculture was filled by
the appointment of T. D. Mayne of Mad
ison, Wis., as principal, to succeed F. D.
Tucker. The work for the women stu
dents was rearranged to provide for the
dutjes that formerly devolved upon Mrs.
Virginia C. Meredith.
Miss Catherine Comfort, instructor in
English, was placed in charge of the dor
mitory and of the social life of the
young women, and will give her attention
to the sociali culture of the students. She
will continue a part of her English
classes. Miss Juanita Shepherd will add
to her present work in instruction in
cooking and laundry, the work in home
economics in the college of agriculture,
formerly given by Mrs. Meredith, and will
be relieved of some other duties. In the
school of agriculture she will teach home
economics and household art.
TO STOP THEIR GROG
The Sheriff Wants Wire Netting Be
fore Jail Cells.
Sheriff J. W. Dreger has sent a communica
tion to the county commissioners asking that
the Hennepin county Jail be equipped with
stronk wire netting, 224 feet of which is want
ed to be placed on theoutslde of all cells.
The purpose of the netting is not only to
make the jail a safer place for desperate
criminals but to prevent the handing of
bottles and other things to- prisoners. He
also asks that the bed harness used for in
sane prisoners, be replaced with a restrain
ing sheet of the kind used in the city hos
pital.
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To-day's Canvass.
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Neighbors Say Mrs. Crowe Shot at
. Them Because They Ig^.V,rT
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Because the social four hundred of North
east Minneapolis would not open their doors
to her, Mrs. Delia Crowe is charged with
retaliating by firing five snots at the women
she believed to be especially In the way ot
her social advancement.
Twenty-two women were in police court
this morning to testify against her, hut she
had not yet been arrested, tho a warrant was
out for her.
The shooting affray, which did not ter
minate seriously, was the outcome of ill
feelings of long standing. Mrs. Crowe, so the
prosecuting witnesses allege, had become
greatly incensed because her. neighbors would
not open their doors to her. She tried to be
friendly with them but they were offish.
Monday she purchased a revolver, with which
she proposed to break into society.
About 11 o'clock Monday morning Mrs,
Emma Benalken and Mrs. Anna Berk were
standing In. the doors of their respective
houses near the Crowe residence. Suddenly
Mrs. Crowe ran out of her house and, ac
cording to the story of the complaining wit
nesses, fired point blank at Mrs. Benolken.
The bullet went wide of its mark and a sec
ond was sent at Mrs, Berg with the same re
sult. She turned, and seeing a number of
children playing in front of Alderman Peter
McCoy's residence, 640 Johnson street,
emptied the three remaining chambers of the
revolver in that direction, causing the
children to scatter. She then went into her
own house and closed the door.
As soon as Mrs. Benolken and Mrs. Berg
thought it safe to leave their homes they
went to the municipal court and swore out a
warrant for Mrs. Crowe's arrest, charging
her with discharging firearms within the city
limits. Court Officer Callahan was sent to
arrest her, but has not yet been able to find
her."'
GIFT OF H. C. AKELEY
The Memorial Hall at Stowe, Ver
mont, Was Formally Ded
icated To-day, ..
Thus the Minneapolis Lumberman
Honors the Place of His
Birth.
COURT NEWS
HE CHOOSES JAIL
12 Residences
James Matthews Prefers a Cell Rather
than Domesticity.
"I'd rather go to jail than .live with
my wife," sa'id James Matthews gefore
Judge Harrison this morning. Sa James
is now lodged in a nice, quiet cell in the
county jail, to there remain until next
month, when he will be tried for non
support.
Matthews was arrested last winter on
complaint of his wife. He was bound
over and released on his own recognizance
with the understanding that he either live
with his wife or pay her $4 a week. He
has done neither, and this morning was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff George Loth.
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Emerson. W. Lake Street
FUNERAL OF MRS. BARNARD
Large Numbers Attend Services at
' All Souls Church.
Many were those who gathered yester
day at 10 a. m. at All Souls church to
pay a last tribute of love and esteem to
Mrs. H. A. Barnard, who passed away
jat Minnetonka, Saturday evening. A pro
fusion of flowers, sent by many frfends
and the presence of seventy-five men from
the Barnard'-Cope Manufacturing com-
- pany, both at the church-and the ceme
itery, bore witness to the high regard in
'which Mrs. Barnard was held.
Rev. A. N. Alcott conducted the services
Bnd Mrs. Maude TJlmer Jones sang. The
interment was at Lakewood.
May Not Decide Surgloal Point.
The nice question raised in the case of
Ada Nichols against Dr. George G. Kitel
as to how far a physician can go in an
operation without a patient's permission
may not be decided in the district court.
The unique cause of action resting on
the alleged carrying of an operation fur
ther than agreed to by the plaintiff before
she was placed under the influence of
chloroform is met by the defendant, who
has given notice of a motion to dismiss
the case on the grounds: First, that no
question of fact has been raised second,
that the operation of the statute of limi
tations is a bar to continuing present ac
tion.
Tripped on a Bolt.
On acount of a bolt left in a street
car step the Minneapolis street railway
company is asked to pay George F. Dan
iels damages amounting to $4,820. Mr.
Daniels has begun two actions on the
strength of his wife's catching her foot
On the aforementioned bolt, falling and
permanently injuring herself.
The companies having steamers in the
Alaskan trade offer to subscribe for stock
enough in the Marconi company to furnish
money for the immediate establishment of
wireless telegraph plants along the danger
ous coast of British Columbia.
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kflRNITURE GUFSSING CONTtSl
Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treas
ury, was the principal orator of the day,
and he spoke to an audience which far
outnumbered the entire population of the
village, inasmuch as the dedication was
an event of more than local interest. "
Chief honors of the day, however, were
naturally accorded to Mr. Akeley, who,
altho not an orator, gave a talk explain
ing why he had been prompted to make
this gift. He- reviewed his' early fedyhood
days in Stowe and described - the simple
village life of those ante-bellum -, days,
when the good folk dwelt together like
members of one large, happy family. He
told of the stirring times at the breaking
out of the war, and described the intense
patriotism which was rife in the little
place as the boys marched off to the front.
This had made a deep impression upon
him, and as he had prospered thru the
years since he had made up his mind to
contribute a memorial to the dead which
would also be of use to the living. The
building dedicated to-day was the result.
,Mr. Akeley's talk, in his simple, straight
forward style, made a deep impression
upon the audience, many of whom remem
bered him as a boy. From year to year,
in the time he has been, away from his
native village, stories had floated back to
the old home of his successes and wealth,
and to-day's evidence that he still retained
a warm spot in his heart for the old town
was one of the main sources of pleasure
to the Stowe inhabitants.
The memorial building cost about $50,000.
MYSTERY AT BRYN MAIR
A Colored Man Who Lives in the
Woods Is Being
Sought.
Officers are searching the woods in the
vicinity of Bryn Mawr for a colored man
who has frightened the children. It is
impossible to tell whether' the man is
harmless or waiting for a chance to com
mit crime.
Mrs. George B. Keen, 1921 Laurel ave
nue, who reported the case, says the man
has been hanging around in the woo&s
for several months and that the children
are afraid of him. A few days ago a
buggy was seen to stop on the Cedar lake
road near the bridge and two large
bundles were handed to the colored man,
who at once disappeared in the woods.
MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL
RATES
SAVED QN EDGINGS
Garbage Crematory Superintendent Goes
to Wisconsin and Finds Cheaper
Fuel.
Superintendent Joe McDermott of the
municipal garbage crematory has put from
$1,000 to $1,600 into the city treasury by
buying pine edgings for fuel in Wiscon
sin. By purchasing in carload lots he
was able to obtain fuel at from $1 to $1.50
per cord less than he could buy it for in
Minneapolis. The crematory will need
about 1,000 cords the coming year.
W0MA2TS BODY SEEN
A South Sider Says It Passed Over
St. Anthony Falls.
N. Eyder, 283 Cedar avenue, reported
to the police this morning that he saw
what appeared to be the body of a woman
float over St. Anthony Falls Monday after
noon. It is thought that it might be" that
of Mrs. N. C. Edridge, 2601 Thirteenth
avenue S, who, disappeared Aug. IS: A
brother of Mrs. Edridge rejects the
theory that she committed, suicide..
Sherman Bell, a rough rider friend of the
president, has just been married at Colorado
Springs and has accepted an invitation to
spend part of his honeymoon at the White
House. There is no little talk in Washing
ton, by the way, over the fact that such a
largfe force of policemen is kept on guard over
the executive family. The wife of a man
who not long ago was a prominent official
wished to leave cards at the White House
before leaving town, but was subjected' to
such officious Interference from the police
men that she departed without doing so.
MORRIS J.
TREVOR., Proprietor.
Back from GermanyJohn F. Dahl,
court reporter for Judge Harrison, re
turned this morning from a three months'
trip thru Germany and England. MrSi
Dahl, who is a pianist of more than local
prominence, remained in Germany, where
she is studying under some of the best
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FUNERAL MEN M ET
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Convention of National Funeral Di
rectors' Association Opens a|3
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Feed Has Gone Ballooning and
Profits Have Dropped in
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A third attempt will be made by the men
who sel milk to Minneapolitans to organize
for their' mutual protection and the possible
increase in the prices charged for milk and
cream.
A circular letter has been sent to the 567
milkmen whose name3 are qn record in the
office of Bread and Milk Inspector William D.
McCall, asking them to meet at Alexander's
hall, Saturday night, for the purpose of or
ganization.
The object of the meeting is, undoubtedly,
to reach an agreement to raise the price of
milk and cream. At present, and for several
years past, milkmen have been charging five
cents a quart for milk and fifteen cents for
cream. In other cities higher prices have
been charged. In Columbus, Ohio, the milk?
men get ten cents for milk and thirty cents
for cream.
The profits in the milk business are not
enormous at the best and in the past eighteen
months the cost of feed has quadrupled. The
milkmen want a chance to even up by char
ging more for their goods.
This attempt to organize has been made
twice before and on each occasion some of
those parties to the agreement have cut prices
or in some other way proved recalcitrant and
the scheme has met with failure. This time
the originators of the movement believe-their
efforts will be crowned with success.
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The .Morning Devoted to Addresses
and MusicA Trolley Ride
S ."* To-night.
Delegates fronv'"-twenty-three1
were present in Plymouth church this
morning at the opening of the twenty
second annual convention of the National
Funeral Directors' association. The gath
ering included a hundred man and women
and more are expected. ' The importance
of the gathering to the public is out of all
proportion to the number in attendance.
Just before the call to order a funeral
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Despite the well-known modesty of H.
C. Akeley, the wealthy Minneapolis lum
berman was the lion of the occasion at
Stowe, Vt., to-day. It was, indeed, a
gala day in the little village of 2,000 in
habitants, where Mr. Akeley was born and
lived until he was 18 years of age.
Exercises in dedication ot the memorial
hall which he was giving to the village
were held, and dispatches from Stowe in
dicate that the spirit of the day was ex
actly as the donor must have desired.
The building is a handsome' structure of
brick, trimmed with native stone. It
contains . a library, a town hall, a" music
hall, with a well equipped stage, and also
a memorial hall in which is a handsome
tablet in memory of each soldier who en
listed from Stowe for the civil war. Facing
on one of the prettiest streets of the vil
lage, the building stands adjacent to the
quiet little burying-ground wherein lie the
bodies of many of the soldiers whose
memory is now further honored.
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J. M. CONNELLEY.
Charleston, S. C. First Vice President
and Leading Candidate for President.
nual address recommended changes that
will be taken up later.
The music of the morning was enthusi
astically applauded. It consisted of songs
by the Minneapolis Ladies' quartet, Miss
Bdnah Hall, Mrs. T. T. Bell, Miss Mabel
Otis and Mrs. Pinkney, also by G. T.
Joyce, barytone.
This. afternoon the ladies took a car
riage drive. At the church Secretary H.
M. Kilpatrick of Elmwood, 111., and sev-
H. M. KILPATRICK.
Elmwood, III., Secretary National Funeral
Directors' Association.
eral committees made their reports. Ad
dreses were given by Archbishop John
Ireland, by Dr. John S. Fulton of Balti
more, secretary of the state board of
health and by CM. Loring of Minne
apolis on "The Modern Cemetery."
To-night a trolley ride to Minnehaha
will bo taken.
Hugh D. McCrea of Canton, Ohio, one
of the delegates, was a neighbor of Pres
ident McKinley and had: in charge the
president's funeral at Canton. Rev. G. L.
Morrill has been appointed raconteur of
the convention and in addition to his
stories, he will give an organ recital.
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SECOND WABD STIRRED UP
S. K Improvement Association Takes
Up the Main Street Dives.
It is the intention of the Southeast
Minneapolis Improvement association to
give active support to M. W. Savages's
campaign for the eradication of the dives
along Main street SE. The, association
will meet this evening at Wilson's hall,
$15 Fourteenth avenue SB.
A COCOA FACTORY HERE
Oatmeal-Cocoa Co., .Recently .Incorpor
ated, Will Establish One to Make,
New Drink.
Minneapolis will have a cocoa manufactur
ing plant in the near future. It will be
erected by the Oatmeal-Cocoa Company, re
cently Incorporated. The oatmeal-cocoa is
an entirely new product, the formula for
which has been worked out by H. J. Kost,
now employed in the register of deeds' office
of this county and the proposed factory for
the manufacture of the beverage, together
with oatmeal, cocoa butter and other byprod
ucts will be the only one of its, kind in the
northwest. L.
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Runs to Minnesota Loan and Trust
. Compaify and Secures a
Bond Issue.
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J. H. McCULLY.
Idavllle, lnd. President National Funeral
Directors' Association.
procession, marching to the strains of
Chopin's funeral march happened by. The
delegates were greatly interested. The
convention was called to order by PresT
dent J. H. McCully of Idavllle, lnd. The
invocation was by Rev. G. L. Morrill.
Acting Mayor David P. Jones gave the
address of welcome. . The response was
by JF. W. Alexander of Conrad, Iowa,
who told several really new stories on
the twin cities. The president in his an-
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A trust deed from the Minnesota & In
ternational Railway company to the Min
nesota Loan and Trust company trustee
was filed to-day with the secretary of
state. The deed secures $2,000,000 of the
bonds of the Minnesota & International
railway and is one of the largest financial
deals ever handled in the northwest.
President B. A. Merrill of the trust com
pany this morning said:
"We have always been interested in this
railway. It was Minneapolis enterprise
and capital that started this line, former
ly the Brainerd & Northern. The late
JoJhn S. Filjsbury was one of the
original promoters and later several lead
ing Minneapolis lumbermen became Inter
ested. Subsequently a controlling inter
est was purchased by our company for
the Northern Pacific. It has been a suc
cessful prperty from the start and has
been a d Istinct benefit to Minneapolis.
This railway will make it possible to ship
pine logs to Mineapolis, all rail, long after
the timber oh the streams tributary to the
Mississippi has' disappeared. Large
quantieties of logs are now brought to the
Minneapolis saw mills over this line."
The Minnesota & International runs
north from Brainerd thru Bemidji and a
short distance beyond Blackduck. It is
ultimately to be extended by way of Big
Fork to Koochiching on the Rainy river.
The horrible pictures about which there
has been such a clutter raisedthe photo
graphs of Indians in the agonies of the
sun dance tortures, are in Chicago, in
possession of the official photographer of
the Field Museum. Professor George A.
Dorsey took pictures of the dance, and
if there were any torture pictures among
them he is the responsible party. Ac
cording to Indian Agent Seeger, who has
been in Washington stirring up the de
partment, some one hired an Indian to
stick skewers in his back and to fasten
to them a rope attached to a dried buf
falo head, which was dragged about in
the dance. James Mooney of the govern
ment bureau of ethnology has been taking
the blame of this accusation, and has not
replied because his mouth is closed by
orders of his chief. But he has made
some affidavits, and says there will be
some talking soon, gag or no gag.
In a little while the government is. go
ing to have a nice little surprise for the
farmer. It will take the form of a tip
on how to make money out of weeds. At
present farmers do not think much of
weeds. Many of them think if it were
not for weeds the agricultural life would
be more salubrious'. Few agriculturists
have thought of weeds as a money-making
proposition still fewer have thought of
growing them as a regular crop.
But suppose "pussley" would bring a
dollar a bushel, or jlmpsum was worth
$15 a ton? If plaintain found a ready
market and ragged robin was in demand
at $10 a load that would be different.
Well, there are some weedsnot the
ones above mentionedwhich abound In
various parts of the country, and which
have an unsuspected value. They contain
certain chemicals and extracts which
bring a high price in the drug market.
Every year thousands of dollars worth of
herbs and weed plants are imported from
abroad for such purposes, which might
just as well be raised on American farms.
Professor R. F. True of the botanical de
partment has communicated with a lot
of chemical manufacturers who would be
willing to buy these plants, and is making
a list which will serve to guide the farmer
to a market for his novel crops. At an
early date he will tell what are these
particular weeds which may be grown at
a profit. Some farmers may get a hint
from it which will make them rich.
W. W. Jermane.
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP
About 8,000 acres of land will be re
claimed by the Truckee river irrigation
project, which is the first of the federal
undertakings of this character to be ac
tually begun. The reclaimed land will be
just across the California border in Ne
vada. It is tributary* to the thirty-mile
canal upon which the contractors are just
starting to work. The land is nearly all
desert waste, and is public domain. It will
remain such until the canal is built, having
been withdrawn from entry when it first
appeared likely that the government would
choose this location for its work. It might
appear, at first glance, that 8,000 acres
was not a great amount of land to be re
claimed, considering the expense of a ca
nal thirty miles in length. It is explained
by the experts of the reclamation bureau
that this is merely the main feeder, and
that the work to be undertaken later will
add many thousands of acres to the irri
gated district at a proportionately small
cost. At present there is water enough
only for 8,000 acres but when Lake Ta
hoe is dammed up, and a subsidiary stor
age reservoir built, at a total cost not to
exceed $5,000,000, the water supply will be
vastly augmented.
Thousands of letters are coming to the
department of agriculture from farmers
who want to know more about the "ni-
trogen - yeast" which. has been described
in these dispatches. For the benefit of
those inquirers it should be stated that
the plant Industry bureau is doing its best
to take care of this correspondence, and
to furnish the information desired. The
stock of nitrogen yeast has been exhausted
and it will be impossible to supply the de
mand for it before fall. Applicants should
understand that the yeast is good only for
growing clover, alfalfa, soy beans and such
luguminous crops as are raised to "rest"
the land.
SOUTH DAKOTA TOPICS
Watertown and the Third Judicial district
seem u ha trying to add a little spice to
rlitics in South Dakota. Julian Bennett,
democrat and heavyweight, is judge of the
circuit. It is reported by his own party men
that he does not care to serve another term,
preferring, like Judge Campbell ol the Fiftn
circuit, to re-enter
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Miss Alice M. Smith, of Minneapolis,
Minn., tells how woman's monthly suffering
may be quickly and permanently relieved by
Lydia E* Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:I
ment for any medicine, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- -
pound has added^ so much to my life and happiness that I feel lika
making an exception in this case. For two years every month I would
have two days of severe pain and could find no relief, but one day whett
visiting a friend I run across Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-''
pound,she had used it with the best results and advised me to try it.
I found that it worked wonders with me I now experience no pain and
only had touse a few bottles to bring about this wonderful change. I
use it occasionally now when I am exceptionally tired or worn but."
Miss ALICE
have never before given my endorse-
M. SMITH, 804 Third Ave., South Minneapolis, Minn., Chair-
man Executive Committee Minneapolis Study dub.
Beauty and strength in women, vanish early in life because of
monthly pain or some menstrual irregularity. Many suffer silently
arid see their best gifts fade away. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound helps women preserve roundness of form and
freshness of face because it makes their entire female organism
healthy. It carries women safely through the various natural
crises and is the safeguard of woman's health.
The truth about this great medicine is told in the letters from .
women being published in this paper constantly.
Mrs. C. Kleinschrodt, Morrison, III., says: '
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:I
since I was thirteen years of age with my menses.
They were irregular and very painful. I
doctored a great deal but received no benefit.
"A friend advised me to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which I
did, and after taking a few bottles of it, I found
great relief.
"Menstruation is now regular and without
pain. I am enjoying better health than I have
for sometime."s u .---- - v- -- -,?-,-i
high and low, all suffer from the same organic
troubles. Surely, no one can wish to remain weak
and sickly, discouraged with life and no hope for the future, when proof is so
unmistakable th at Lydia E . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will cure
monthly suffering all womb and ovarian troubles, and all t he ills peculiar
to women.
$ C ft H H ^ O R F E l T W - -
cannotwill forthwiththeir
produce the original letter and lgnatorei oi
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aboT testimonials, which prove absolute genuineness.s
V V V V V Lydia S . Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mast.
not to be shut out by a constitutional pro
vision had the law for increased compensa
tion made inoperative as to his own circuit.
Many of Judge Bennett's friends are
friends of Mr. Seward, and would like noth
ing better than a union of forces upon the
latter. They profess to believe that Mr. Case
is an impossibility and that as the situation
clarifies Mr. Seward will be seen to have
the best of the argument and will be nomi
nated.
Ex-Senator John Hanten, a staunch demo
crat, would also like to be judge, and may
be that party's candidate In the event that
Judge Bennett decides to retire. Hanten, it
is asserted, would have no show in a
straight-out contest with Bennett for the
nomination. Tho pulling for the same party
the twain have long been rivals and no love is
lost between them.
As the situation stands Bennett doesn't care
to be judge again provided he can pick his
successor.
Representative H. A. Hildebrandt is aim
ing to displace Colonel Lee Stover as regis
ter of the Watertowri land office, and is said
to have gathered together some strong in
dorsements. Colonel Stover's Philippine
service secured the office for him, but
whether he will be able to hold on is said
to be quite another question.
While Mr. Bristow of the postoffice de
partment at Washington may discharge C. T.
McCoy from assistant superintendent of city
delivery, as has been telegraphed from Wash
ington, Mr. McCoy's intimate friends in South
Dakota think it will be a cold day 'before he
is out of a government job entirely. A late
Washington dispatch tells how Mr. McCoy
broke into the civil service, and the story is
pretty straight, except that he matriculated
thru the Huron office and not thru the
Watertown office. He started as a plain
clerk with a small salary and in a short time
the class of the office was increased and the
clerks went under the civil service. Then
he was transferred to the St. Louis office,
with a salary of $1,700, ana when this was
not enough he was appointed assistant super
intendent of city delivery. This was in the
palmy days of Perry Heath, himself a South
Dakotan, many years ago.
There Is not a shrewder politician in the
west than Charlie McCoy, and if he needs or
wants a government job he has the friends
at court and the personal strength to hold on.
He literally broke into the service thru the
aid of Postmaster Charlie Cooper of Huron
and others, but he has made a good official
and has had charge of a good many important
enterprises. Had his mines in Colorado
panned out, he would not now be a govern
ment employe. He needed tne place, how
ever, and the politicians whom he had be
friended in times past helped him to get it.
Postmaster Cooper laughs every time he re
calls how the trick was turned.
practice.frlends,
But a con
tingency may arise, say his
v
will practically force him to ta"ke another
nomination and make a strenuous campaign
for re-election. ,
George W. Case, a republican and former
federal official, has announced, himself as
a candidate for the judgeship. In the event
of Mr. Case's success in the caucuses and
convention, the friends of Judge JBennett are
saying that he will again stand for the of
fice and will be elected hands down.
Bennett and Case haven't been friends for
a long time and both are good haters. In
censed upon one ocacsion because the judge
took his time in signing a certain order, Mr.
Case said if court were not in session he
would do certain violent things to his honor.
With the ejaculation, "This court is now
adjourned," the judge launched out his pon
derous right and landed on the neck of Mr.
Case. The latter went down like a stricken
beef, but he was game and when be - was
able to get up grabbed a chair and made a
wild rush for "the court." Bystanders inter
fered at this juncture and the round closed
with the points in favor of the judge.
Should Judge Bennett leave the bench for
the bar. he will want to have some assur
ances that someone beside Mr. Case will be
the presiding official. For this reason it is
believed that if Mr. Case runs Judge Bennett
will decide that there are worse prospects
than another term-in a judicial office.
But certain, wiseaces are saying that neither
Mr. Case nor the judge will be the chosen
candidates in the Third. They declare that
the present drift is toward Charles X. Seward,
who ran the last time against Judge Bennett
and was defeated. Sewara is a republican
and would like the office. When he was a
member of the legislature he pushed a bill,
which became a law, for increased compensa
tion for circuit court judges. He expected
at that time to be the next republican candi
date for judge of bia circuit, and
" which
Many of the editors of the state are enjoy
ing the excursion to Salt Lake City and Den
ver this week. H. S. Volkmar. of the Mil
bank Review is, however, In the Cascade
mountains for recuperation, and S. A. Travis
of Pierre is making bis first visit to Minne
apolis and St Paul and the adjacent lakes.
Mr. Volkmar has been attending the press
meetings and excursions since the organiza
tion of tho association, and his brothers of
the tripod will, no doubt, demand an explana
tion of his failure to join them at this time.
E. C. Torrey.
UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION
Freight Rates Frojn New York to the
* Pacific Same as to Min-
neapolis.
To the Editor of The Journal
I desire to call your attention to a species
of freight discrimination against Minneapolis,
in favor of more eastern points, and more
particularly New York points, which I have
not seen discussed in your paper.
Knowing your loyalty to the business in
terests of our city, I trust you will take this
matter up in such definite form as will bring
the matter thoroly and forcefully before the
business- men of our city, that they may
unite, if possible, in devising ways and
have suffered ever
How is Itpossible for us to make it plainer
that Lydia E . Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound will positively help all sick women ?
All women are constituted alike, rich and poor,
more equal basis with our eastern competi
tors.
Minneapolis manufacturing establishment*
have developed within the last few years
to such an extent as o enable them, with
an equal freight rate and proper home en
couragement, to supply the Pacific coast
trade very largely with such goods as they
manufacture, as, for - instance, furniture,
tedding, springs, mattresses, shade cloth,
window shades and other important lines. In
several of the lines named, our factories rank
well to the front and the principal handicap
in marketing the goods to coast poiqts Is,
not that we are unable to meet the eastern
competitors in the manufacture of goods, or
that we are not able to buy our raw material
to sufficient advantage, but it is largely in
the fact that it costs us as much, and in
some instances more, to lay our goods down
at Pacific coast terminal points than It does
our eastern competitors when they ship the
same goods from the east, and more particu
larly from New York. To illustrate: In our
own line of manufacture, shade cloth,' it
costs $1.50 per cwt. to deliver goods to Los
Angeles and San Francisco, slightly more to
Portland and Seattle, while the same goods
are shipped from New York city and laid
down at those towns at the same rate. Thla
is manifestly a discrimination.
As manufacturers, we are all obliged to
pay freight from the east on more or less
of our raw material, and because of this we
are handicapped by the discrimination. It
seems eminently unfair that Minneapolis
Should pay the same rate on furniture .and
other goods which she manufacturers to Pa
cific Coast terminals that New York city does
when the distance is 1,500 miles less. We are
obliged to pay railway companies from 77
cents to $1.05 per cwt. to get our raw ma
terials to Minneapolis from eastern and other
points, which is equivalent- to- a double
freight charge on the manufactured product.
That interior points, such as Salt Lake,
are obliged to pay almost double the freight
rate Los Angeles, for instance, has to pay,
when the goods to reach Los Angeles or*
narily pass thru Salt Lake, is perhaps not
our fight, but rather the interior cities' fight
but that we manufacturers have to pay the
tame freight as eastern points is our con
cern, and there should be some way by which
this matter can be speedily corrected.
The railroad companies claim, we believe,
that the rate which they. make from New
York to the Pacific coast is necessary, owing
to the competition by boat. It occurs to us
that this is a reasonable excuse in only a
limited number of instances. In other words,
the great bulk of the manufactured, commo
dities which carry this "competitive rate"
is of a character which, by force of con
stantly prevailing conditions cannot. be
shipped by water. After a careful analysis
of the situation, we are inclined- to think
that this so-called "competitive rate" is al
most wholly in the interest of the New York
manufacturers ar.d jobbers as against"manu
facturers and jobbers at Interior points, M
Minneapolis. .
Should statistics be desired covering a large
range of articles where this discrimination la
manifest and working to the material detri
ment of Minneapolis manufacturers, we wlU
be pleased to supply them. We hope that you
will take this matter up at the earliest pos
sible time, and'if you are successful in get
ting it before the public and the business men
generally in the proper light, the railroad
companies will soon sat about to correct the
injustice. Without question, an" adjustment
of the rates will do much toward building up
our factories in several Important lines.
Minneapolis stands well in the w!st. Sh
is looked upon as being a manufacturing
center and a place capable of producing good
goods in quantities, and a city which eon
tains manufacturers worthy of the best trade
they-have to give This being the case,'it
seems unnecessary that our further de
velopment as a manufacturing city should -be
handicapped by an Unfair discriminating
freight rate. '^ S. M. Hauser.j
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