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CITY NEWS
THE WEATHER
The Predictions.
MinnesotaShowers, and thunderstorms
this afternoon and tonight, with cooler in
aouth and -west portions and warmer in
northeast portion Tuesday, fair and oool
er in south portion probably showers in
north portion variable winds, shifting to
westerly.
Upper MichiganShowers and thunder
storms and warmer tonight Tuesday,
showers brisk and high southerly winds,
shifting to westerly.
WisconsinShowers and thunderstorms
this afternoon and tonight warmer in ex
treme east and* cooler in west portions to
night Tuesday, cooler, with fair in south
and showers in north portions brisk and
high southwest to west winds.
IcwaShowers and thunderstorms this
afternoon, and in east and south portions
tonight cooler tonight Tuesday, gener
ally fair and cooler brisk southwest
to west winds.
North DakotaShowers and cooler to
night Tuesday, fair brisk westerly
winds.
South DakotaGenerally fair tonight
and Tuesday cooler tonight fresh west
erly winds.
MontanaF?.ir tonight and Tuesday
cooler tonight fresh westerly winda,vV,
Weather Now and Thien.
Today, maximum temperature,
grees
86 de
minimum, 55 degrees a year ago,
maximum, 64 degrees minimum, 55 de
grees.
AROUND THE TOWN
Postoffice Business kfcill Growing.
May stamp sales at the postoffice
amounted to $106,216.38, an increase of
$11,015.12, of 11.5 per cent over the
sales of May, 1904.
Protest Overruled.The protest of
the Bemis Brother Bag company
against assessment of customs' duties
at Port Townseud, Wash., has been
overruled by the board of general ap
praisers. Eugene Hay was one of the
board acting.
Car Service Changes.Hereafter no
cars will be run on the Thirty-first
street electric line between I/yndale
and Nicollet avenues. The Hennepin
and Twentieth avenues cars now go
to Thirty-eighth street and Nicollet.
The transfer points at Nicollet and
Lyndale on Thirty-first street have
been discontinued.
Women at War.A lively time is
promiised in police court- tomorrow,
when Selva HaveW tells of her griev
ances against Mrs. Margaret Sweeny,
whom she accuses of assaulting her.
Mrs. Sweeney as arraigned in court
today charged with hitting Mrs. Haven
with a rock and the case was continued
until tomorrow.
Succeeds His GrandfaGther.0.
Earle Brown has been elected director
of the First National bank, to succeed
his grandfather, the late Captain John
Martin. The latter had been a direc
tor of the bank for forty years.
as made a director at the first elec
tion and remained in office until his
death.
Regulating Cigaret Trade.In the fu
ture manufacture of cigarets, selling
th em exclusively to certain -jobbers at
less than $2 a thousand will be com
pelled to pay the internal revenue de
partment $1.*08 on every thousand. I
case the cigarets are sold to any job
ber who wan ts to buy, the tax will be
only 54 cents. The new ruling will hit
the trust stores.
NECROLOGIO
MRS. JOHANNA JOERS diecT^tEis
morning at the residence of her daugh
ter, Mrs. John B. Eeis, 421 Seventh
avenue S. The remains will be taken
to Davenport, Iowa, for interment.
CAED OF THANKS
We desire to extend our thanks to all
friends who so kindly extended their sym
pathies and help in our bereavement in
the loss of our daughter, Sadie Mills
Hostetter. William Mills and Family,
7$ Cedar Lake Road.
BOOMING "EL TOVAR"
Fred Harvey Issues a Booklet Descrip
tive of Arizona Hotel.
"El Tovar" is the subject of a book
let issued by Fred Harvey for the
Santa road, advertising the new ho
tel at the Grand Canyon of Arizona.
The text is by W. H. Simpson and the
cover by Louis Akin. It is a very
readable pamphlet. The pictures of the
region are well chosen and will be par
ticularly interesting to those who have
already visited the canyon, or who are
about to make the trip.
Many views of E Tovar are includ
ed among the illustrations, showing an
all-the-year-round hostelry, 7,000 feet
above the sea level, close to the rim of
the canyon, with a
distance of thir
teen miles across to the opposite can
yon wall. The general appearance is
not unlike one of the favorite hotels in
the national park. I is a long, low,
rambling edifice, built of native boul
ders and pine logs from Oregon.
Following a catchy sketch of the ho
tel inside and out., is a description of
the Hopi house, and what may be found
in it. One page is devoted to an elu
cidation of ''What you can do at E
Tovar."
OPEN TO PUBLIC
Graduating Exercises of East High
School at University Armory.
One hundred pupils will be gradu
ated from the East nigh school this eve
ning. The commencement exercises
will be held at the university armory
and Will begin at 8:15, the affair being
opened to the general public. The or
der of exercises will be as follows:
Edsay, "All the World's a Stage," MJss Lily
Shadewald.
Essay, "The Tartar Invasion," Henry Dahl
berg.
Vocal solo, "Protestations" (Homer A. NOP
rls), Miss Emily Hyde.
Essay, "The Inspiration of Music," Miss
ICarlan Gould.
Recitation, "Bred In the Bone," Miss May
fcelle Snyder.
Violin solo, "First Caprice" (Musiu), Miss
Anna Louise Woodcock.
Essay, "Jacob Rils," Zenas Potter.
Essay and valedictory, Miss MUdred Anderson,
derson.
Vocal solo, "Irish Folk Song" (Arthur Foots),
Miss Gertrude K. Hull.
Presentation of diplomas, Dr. Charles M.
Jordan.
Class song.
MERRILL IS MAYOR
Issues an Order to Keep the Streets
**'r Cleaner.
?r
&* 13. A. Merrill is reigning over the
destinies of Minneapolis while Mayor
L'j Jones is in the Adirondacks. His first
fj$ official act was to issue an order to
Superintendent James G. Doyle this
ij~ morning to see that less dirt, was
2 dropped on the streets from the wago ns
V" carrying away surplus dirt from the
V many building operations in the city,
There is an ordinance back of this or
der. A officer will be detailed to
vis it every place when dirt is being
hauled to caution the contractor or
foreman. The trouble must be abated,
the acting mayor says, or arrests will
be made.
Monday Eveningf
MORE ARE COMING
THAN ARE LEAVING
SHOWN RECORD OF HOUSE-
HOLD GOODS SHIPMENTS.
Receipts Were Ahead of Outgoing Ship-
ments for May-The Month's Record
Also Shows Heavy-Receipts of Vari-
ous Building Material, Indicating
Again That the City I Growing.
Statistics compiled by Wallace G.
Nye, secretary of the public af
fairs committee of the Commercial
club, show the receipts of build
ing material to have been hea vy
in May. Car lots were received
as follows: Cement, 227 stone and
marble. 182 lumber, 842 brick, 213
lime, 93 cars.' The receipts" of house
hold goods were heavier than those
shipped out, showing a gain for the city.
In all 69 carloads ofthis class of articles
were received at the local freight
houses. Coal shipments in were heavy,
amounting to 30,650 tons, while only
401 were shipped out.
Some of the receipts and shipments
were as follows:
Received. Shipped.
Wheat, cars 4,319 1,428
Flax, cars 86 40
Machinery, cars 611 260
Fruit, cars 897 89
Beer, cars 112 208
Corn, cars 156 28
Flour, barrels ..-15,061 876,276
Wool, pounds 45,000
Oats, cars T55 841
Millstuffs, tons 2,187 24,612
Lumber, cars 842 2,119
Barley, cars 196 191
Rye, cars 54 45
Total carlots, 17,297 received, 18,550 shipped.
Collars lc, Cuffs lc, Shirts 10c.
10,298 customers say best laundry
Hoffman'stwo stores. Try it.
ROYAL ARCANUM
INSURANCE CHANGE
NEW POLICY WILL GO
Committee of the Supreme Council of
the Order Decides to Substitute Fix ed
Rate for Graded Assessment Plan
All Members Mu st Ren ew Their
Membership in the Fraternity.
The Royal Arcanum, one of the most
popular assessment insurance orders,
has decided to change its method of as
sessment and to inaugurate a policy de
signed to perpetuate the order. A com
mittee of the supreme council, after
more than four year s' work, has pre
pared the new plan, based on the
twenty-seven years' experience of the
order. Hereafter there will be an ab
solutely fixed rate for members of
every age. This' will remove the old
age handicap, which sooner or, later
confronts every fraternal insurance or
ganization.
The new system will go .into effect
Oct. 1, and every member will be rein
stated at his present age. In this way
the order will start with no deficit.
The new rates are based on the or
der's own mortality tables, which have
been prepared by the best actuaries in
the country, each working independent
ly. The 400,000 living, lapsed and dead
members of the order were classified
and tabulated. This included every
man who has been a member since the
foundation. Oh the advice of the con
sulting actuaries, the first three years
of each man's membership was cut off
and the statistics based on the balance".
Under the new system there will bo
a regular monthly /Tate for each age,
as there is in old-line insurance an an
nual rate. Each member will pay a
fixed rate for life, based on his age at
the time he enters. Ba ch will be
obliged practically to re-enter the or
der. will start at his present age.
The rule will enable the Royal Ar
oanum to free itself entirely of the bur
den of carrying the old men, by secur
ing additional new members and in
creasing the amount and number of
assessments.
The supreme council of the Royal Ar
canum realized that the old system was
unsatisfactory and inadequate. The or
der, tho, has never failed to meet its
obligations at their fa ce value, altho
the policies have always read "not
more than" the face value.
The change will result in a consid
erable increase in expense to older mem
bers, but will be a distinct benefit to
the younger members. The fact that
a member 48 years old has been a mem
ber since he as 25 will not be con
sidered. will at once begin to pay
the forty-eight year premium, which,
however, will remain fixed as he grows
older. A member entering at 21 will
have his fixed rate, which will continue
thru his connection with the order.
WOMANTHOUGHT STREETS
ALL BELONGED TO GOD
A a 'result of a clash between the
"Volunteers of America and Allie Da
vis, an independent street preacher, the
latter found herself in polioe oourt to
day, charged with disorderly conduct.
A few days ago Mrs* Davis asked
permission to speak in the Volunteer
meetings. She was denied the privi
lege, but last evening, with the un
derstanding that she would be allowed
to talk, she appeared at Nicollet ave
nue and Third street and started to ad
dress the crowd. She as asked to
stop, but refused, and finally a po
liceman was called.
Even then she kept on preaching, and
when she refused to move on at the re
quest of the officer, she as locked up
on a charge of disorderly conduct.
I court she told Judge Waite that
she thought the streets belonged to
God, and that she had a right to talk
on the curb. It was thru a misunder
standing, she said, that she had come
there at all.
She was found guilty, however, be
cause she had refused to obey the of
ficer, and the sentence as deferred un
til November. I the meantime she
is not to intrude in the meetings
other organizations.
Mayor Jones will be absent from the The sentence was later reduced to one
ity fortes'
WORKING FOR AN
EIGHT-HOUR DAY
JAMES LYNCH, PRESIDENT OF X.
T. U., I N MINNEAPOLIS.
Believes that the Printers Will Win in
of
W COURT OF APPEALS
Burton-Nlalchow Litigation Has Been Car?
rled Higher Up.
C!harles W. Somerby, F. V. Brown and
V. Welch have presented the brief in
the case of the United States against
Oily D. Burton and Charles W. Malchow
to the United States cirouit court of ap
peals. The brief was largely the work of
Mr. Somerby, and covered 115 printed
pages. Judge John. C. Pollock of Kansas,
Judge John E. arland of South Dakota,
and Judge Willis VanDevanter of Wyom
ing sat on the bench. The decision will
probably be filed at St. Louis.
Burton published medical work written
by Dr. Malchow. It was held to be ob
scene. Both were sentenced to eighteen
months In prison, at the October term of
the United States district court, 1904
Their Fight for a Shorter Working
DayVisit or Tours Minneapolis in
an Automobile and I Being Royally
Entertained by the Organization.
James
INTO
EFFECT OCT. 1.
A
Lynch, president of the
1- ft."-'
oli this morning
International Typographical union, ar
rived in Minneapolis th is morning and
is a guest of the "local union. Mr. Lyn ch
attended the regular meeting of the
St. Paul union Sunday, afternoon and
reviewed the work of the international
eight-hour committee and set forth the
plans for the future in the eight-hour
campaign.
"1 believe we will win in our fight
for the shorter workday because what
we ask for is right," said Mr. Lynch.
"We are willing to Confer with the
employers with a view to arriving at
an amicable agreement as to the de
mands of the workmen, but we are pre
paring ourselves in the meantime for
a struggle. The unanimity with which
the union printers are clamoring for
an eight-hour day indicates that upon
this phase of the demands there will
be no compromise. The book and job
printers are among the last of organ
ized workingmen to ask for eight hours.
All the building-trade organizations are
receiving more money and working fewer
hours than the job printers, and even
the laborers enjoy these things, while
in some eases they receive more pay
than the printers."
A committee of members of No. 42
is entertaining Mr. Lyn ch this after
noon wtth an automobile ride around
the city and suburbs, including a run
to Fort Snelling.
This evening, at Union Temple, Mr.
Lynch will address a meeting of the
local union, when he will again talk
upon the eight-hourworkday. Everything
points to a large attendance, as inter
est in the campaign is assuming greater
proportions. T. BV Thomas, president of
the St. Paul union, and E 0. Ives, also
of N o. 30, will be present and give
short talks. A delegation of the mem
bers of the St. Paul union will also
come over. A large number of Min
neapolis printers'^ were in attendance
at the meeting in St. Paul yesterday
afternoon.
It is purposed that the unions of
both cities unite in their work in the
interest of the eight-hour movement,
and this will probably be done. More
attention will.be given to the work of
organization in the country districts,
and organizers will likely be sent out
by the locals in the near future. Mr.
Lynch will leave tomorrow morning for
K!ansas City, where he will continue his
work in the interest of the eight-hour
day.
"Too Many Straw Hats" $1, $1.50, $2.
Hoffmanns, two stores. Get one.
IN FAVOR OF UNION
CAPTAIN M. H. MAGNUS OF CHRIS-
TIANS TALKS O THE SCANDI-
NAVIAN POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
The people thruout Norway are satis
fied to remain under the rule of the
King of Sweden, and believe that tho
two countries should continue,under onei
government. So says Captain M. H.
Magnus of Christiania, Norway, who is
registered today at the St. James hotel.
11 It will soon be a century that Nor
way and Sweden have been under one
governmental head,'' said Captain Mag
nus. ''It was in 1814 that the two gov
ernments were consolidated, and the
people have practically been satisfied
ever since. I my estimation, it would
be a great catastrophe for Norway to
insist on withdrawing from the rule of
King Oscar. The only demand for such
separation is among officials, and cer
tain other parties who would, perhaps,
be especially benefited thru carrying out
suoh a separation.
"Not only do I think the two coun
tries should not be separated, but I am
a -firm believer that it would be a great
thing if Denmark could be persuaded to
form a governmental alliance with Nor
way and Sweden, and thus unite all- the
Scandinavian nations under one gov
ernment. I my trip across the Atlantic
I met a number of prominent Danes, and
in conversing on the subject with them,
found they agreed that such a triple
national alliance would be beneficial in
every way to each of the nations con
cerned.
"There could be no greater disaster
to the people of Norway than an en
forced war for separation from Sweden.
The masses of the people are not clam
oring for any change in government,
and have no desire for bloodshed
in a cause which they themselves do not
believe in."
PATTEE AT CARLETOH
UNIVERSITY LAW DEAN DELIV-
ERS BACCALAUREATE BEFORE
CABLETON COLLEGE SENIORS.
Nbrthfield, Minn., June 5.Yester-
day as baccalaureate day at Carle
ton college.
The baccalaureate address by Dean
Patt ee of the state university law school
was a discussion of The Sternal in the
Temporal," the great power back of
both man and nsature. Dean Pattee un
dertook to show that this eternal ener
is a living being, an intelligent be
ing, a personal being, and a loving be
ing, in a word he is the being revealed
by Christ as the Father.
Dean* Patt ee arrived in Northfield
just thirty-four years ago on Carleton's
commencement day. For man^f years he
was a teacher and a lawyer in North
field, and served on college board of
trustees. A large number ox old friends
heard him on Sunday with especial
pleasure.
I the afternoon the chapel of Willis
hall was well filled for the last college
prayer-meeting of the year. --The leader
was Dwig ht Mowery, & member of
the graduating class. In1
the evening
about two "hundred gathered on the
lawn near Gridley hafl and sang famil
iar hymns. Later, the eighth annual
meeting of the Huntington-Missionary
society was held.
TO IMPROVE, ROAD
Street Railroad Will Bear Expense on
Excelsior Highway.
Petitions signed by the requisite num
ber of Hennepin property owners were
received by the county commissioners
today, asking for three distinct changes
in the county road leading to Excelsior.
The changes are made for the benefit of
the street railway company, whose tracks
have been laid on certain portions of
the county highway. The expep.Be will
be born by the corporation. The peti
tions will'undoubtedly be granted.
Bi ds in $10,500" ditch bonds, oh
bridges, roads and printing, were opened
by the county commissioners today.
Contracts will be awarded at one*
SLAYER OF ROM A
4 WEEPS ON STAND
GRAPHIC BEOITAL OF THE OSBEO
TRAGEDY.
Nicholas Eckes Tells the Jury How
Came to Kill the ItalianSays Roma
Had Threatened His Life Repeatedly
Case Is Drawing to a Close.
Nicholas Eckes, on trial for the kill
ing, of Fred Roma, gave a dramatic
recital before a jury and a room full
of spectators in Judge Simpson's
court today, ending in a violent fit of
weeping.
The defendant is 43 and has been a
resident of Hennepin county for thirty
years. said he had been shot near
six years ago, but the court would
not allow him to tell the story.
was allowed to say that he was still
unable to do any hard work and that
his nerves were weak as the result of
the old wound.
Sajd Roma Threatened Him.
Eckes also testified to a fight in
which he had Been Roma engaged about
four years ago. said that he threat
ened to "fix" Eckes, too, because he
had called upon some passerby to in
terfere with Roma's fight. told of
being warned against Roma, who had
several times threatened to "do him
up."
Aft er these preliminary matters had
been disposed of, Mr. Hall gave free
rein to his client on the story of the
fatal shooting. Eckes armed himself
with a pointer, and as he proceeded
with the details and movements of the
tragedy, he traced th em on the big
chart before the jury.
Story of Tragedy.
said that Roma "picked onto"
him and that he argued back and forth
with him a lottg while before he really
put him out. When Romarefused to
go, he said that he "pulled hiB gun"
and with it as a menace forced the in
truder to leave. as going back to
the bar when he turned around to Bee
the door open and Roma ruBh in.
"With one hand in his pocket and his
other clenched fist raised like this he
rushed at me!" exclaimed the witness
as he assumed a fighting attitude. "He
yelled: 'Shoot me if you dare!' and
rushed across the room at me like this.
I told him to keep back but he didn't
stop. I hollered: 'Stand back or 111
shoot!' didn't and I shot once and
then again."
"What was your intention when you
fired the first shot?" asked Attorney
Hall.
To. scare Roma and keep him
away."
"What was your Mention when ou
fired the second shot?"
"To keep him aw ay from me," an
swered the witness after some thought.
"Had'you at any time any intention
other than to protect yourself 1
"No, tdr."
There will be seven or eight more wit
nesses introduced by the defense, but
their evidence will be mainly corrobor
ative of that already introduced. The
case will not go to the jury before
Wednesday.
Transfer Company Is Sued.
Minnie Vessey, in an action In the dis
trict court, alleges that her boarding
house, 300 Tenth street S, was broken
into last- February by three expressmen,
who attacked her and removed from the
premises some baggage they were sent
to fetch. Miss Vessey asks $800 damages
front 'the -employer- ^of^-the -men, the Cam
erorif Transfer company. The-
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. June 5, 1905.
case is on
trial before Judge H. T. Dickinson.
Sues Catholic Order of Foresters.
Henrietta Gague is plaintiff in an ao
tton brought in the district court to ool
lect $1,000 from the Cathollo Order of
Foresters. She avers that she was a
beneficiary In a policy taken Out by her
late husband. The case Is on trial be
fore Judge F. C. Brooks.
TRUSTED HIS HELPERS
PRESIDENT OF DEFUNCT BUCKET-
SHOP DID NOT EXAMINE HIS
BOOKS, E SATS.
George J. Hammond, president of the
defunct Ooe Commission company, tes
tified, before the referee in bankruptcy
today, that he had never examined the
books of the company. When asked if
he was not tho principal stockholder,
he replied that he was practically the
Ooe Commission company. It was then
asked how he was familiar with.the
business if he did not examine the
books occasionally. explained that
his clerks made reports once a week or
oftener and that he relied upon them.
The books show that Hammond owed
the company $194,000. said today
that that was an error,-as it was a
debt of the company itself. I wag for
debts incurred for telegraphing and for
new elevators installed. I Hammond
is sued, the defense will probably be
that the entry was an error and was
not discovered because Hammond did
not examine the books. identified
the books as belonging to the company.
BAND CONCERTS CHEAP
Those at Harriot Will Cost Less This
Year Than LaL
To popularize the Lake Harriet band
concerts the park board committee on
privileges and entertainments today de
cided to recommend that the admission to
concerts be reduced from 25 cents to 15
cents, at evening and matinee perform
ances.
The concerts will begin Monday, June
19, and will be held every evening thru
out the summer, with batlne* on every
Sunday afternoon.
BACK TO THE WOODS
The Mayor and His Friend Will For
get Civilization.
Mayor Jones and J. E King
an left Saturday evening for Kee ne
valley, in the Adirondacks, made fa
mous as the scene" of Sol Smith Rus
se.lFs "Peaceful Valley." Mr. Jones
expects to be gone about ten days.:,
ENTERTAINMENT A HOPKINS.
A entertainment will be given next
Thursday evening at Anderson's opera
house. Hopkins, for the benefit of the
Hopkins Methodist Episcopal church
and the People's Mission "fresh-air
fund." the proceeds to be divided
equally. The program will include
numbers by the Minneapolis Journal
Newsboys' band, Josephine Bonaparte
Bice, reader, and Miss Tenie Murphy,
soprano.
Hill :DAVID JAMISON DEADl
David Jamison, who for several years
had charge of the paving department in
the city engineer's office, died yesterday
at St. Barnabas hospital after an opera
tion for appendicitis. Mr. Jamison came
to Minneapolis from lied Wing, the fam
ily home, when a young man. He was 45
years old. The remains were taken to
Bed Wing today for interment.
ROOMING PACIFIC
COAST FIR HERE
WESTERN LUMBERMEN'S NOVEL
WAY O POPULARIZING IT.
They Will Open an Office In Minneap-
olis and Teach Dealers and Consum-
ers that Their Product Has Advan-
tagesWill Have an Elaborate E x-
hibition of Wood and Pictures.
Educational work in the advantages
of the use of Pacific coast fir in build
ing is to be taken up actively by the
coast manufacturers in a novel way.
They will establish a permanent ex
hibit of the Washington fir, cedar and
spruce. It is expected that the Pa
cific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' as
sociation will back the plan. A cen
tral location for the exhibit is de
sired, and it. is expected that half of
the former quarters of the H. Hill &
Son bank, in the Lumber Exchange,
facing the lobby and elevators, will be
available for the purpose.
Besides having an elaborate lot of
samples from the coast, finished and
unfinished, and a picture gallery of
lumber operations in the west, the ex
hibition room will be arranged to serve
as a lobby for the gathering of the
lumbermen and others interested in
building, and conveniences for letter
writing will be provided, a public sten
ographer, and the representative in
charge will be a regular information
bureau* for visiting lumbermen. C. M.
Stafford, eastern sales manager for the
Larson Lumber company of Bellingham
and representative of the Skykomish
Lumber company, also of Washington,
suggested the enterprise, and the de
tails have been pushed nearly to com
pletion.
The permanent exhibit will be far
superior to the display made at the re
cent lumbermen's convention in the
courthouse, and it will contain some of
the exhibits shown at the St. Louis
exposition. Sections of the-big trees
will display the age rings of the forest
monarcns, which in cases show the ma
jestic rulers of the forest to have stood
600 and 700 years. It is expected to
have a curiosity in the shape of a tree
grown thru the fallen trunk of a mon
ster cedar. This will illustrate the du
rability of the wood. Altho the trunk
had lain on the ground while the other
tree had been growing for generations,
the wood was still excellent for mak
ing shingles. The showroom will be a
complete exhibition of the Pacific coast
tree in every stage, from its early
growth to the finished lumber and shin
gle product.
While the advantages which fir lum
ber offers for building uses are ve ry
evident to the western consumers, Min
neapolis architects, builders and pros
Eective owners of buildings are be
eved not to be sufficiently informed
as to the higher qualities of the western
fir. Altho it is used to some extent
in Minneapolis and tributary territory,
,,the field is believed to be open for more
active cultivation. Its use is specially
indicated here because Minneapolis is
In the 40-cent rate zone, being, fact,
the terminal of the cheap freight rate.
Fir* is said to be fine for Duilding
purposes because of its Strength, dura
bility and susceptibility to fine finish
in all the different stained effects. Fir
costs less in Minneapolis than any other
finishing^ woods of equal grades/' said
Mr. Stafford.. "Few people know that
it is susceptible to the highest finish
for interior work. The grain of the
fir is such that almost any wood can
be imitated, as it allows fine oak,
birch, mahogany or yellow-pine effects
in any of tho variety of finishes, and
as its qualities become better known,
Fir lumber costs very much less than
oak or birch of the same grade and
also less than yellow pine for flooring
ceiling and wainscoting: and other pur
poses where that kind of lumber is
utilized.
"At the lumbermen's convention we
had thirty pieces of fir finished in as
many different styles by Pike & Cook,
the contractors. The ease and quick
ness with which the samples took the
finish was an eyeopener to these men
and to other Minneapolis contractors
and architects, and many of them have
advised the use of fir by clients.'*
CHILDREN MAY HELP
Sale of Souvenirs Proposed to Secure
Cash fof Godfrey House.
A meeting of the board of education
was held late this afternoon. Among
the matters discussed was the proposi
tion of tbe semicentennial observance
committee to permit the school children
to sell souvenir buttons and badges as
one of the means for raising funds for
the purchase and maintenance of the
Ard Godfrey house, whioh the pioneers
want preserved as one of the landmarks
of early St. Anthony. There is a divi
sion of sentiment as to the propriety
of bringing the children into the move
ment, but the idea is well received and
the children may be asked to help.
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THE
J. E. BELL
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President
Built Now.
After ten years of work, the govern
ment lock and dam at Meeker island,
known officially as look and dam No. 2,
is completed.
The dam proper, which was the last
section, was completed a few days ago
and yesterday all the gates were closed
to see if everything as shipshape. The
test was satisfactory. The beartrap''
dams at the west end were opened and.
closed several times and seemed to work
perfectly. They are, in fact, automatic
and open and close themselves when
water has been turned into the proper
chambers.
There is little more to be done. Part
of the old coffer dam used in the con
struction of $he works remains and tbis
will doubtless be removed. There are
also some repairs to be made to the low
er end of the lock where some floor tim
bers were torn out by the water and
some loose rock is to placed on the
up-river side of the dam to protect the
base from the action of the water.
The works will be of no service to
navigation between St. Paul and Min
neapolis until lock and dam N o. 1 at
Minnehaha is completed, which will re
quire a season or two of work.
In 1894 when the complete plans and
for the improvement of tbe
figured at $1,166,457 for two dams and
locks. Dam No. 2, on which work as
first begun, as estimated to cost $598,-
235. On account of the rise in the price
of material and labor it became neces
sary to revise the estimates. I Jan
uary, 1902, a new set of figures was
transmitted to congress and in this set
the cost of lock and dam N o. 2 was
placed at $7331100 and for both dams
at $1,466,000.
The big lock was practically com
pleted in the summer of 1902, altho
the maneuvering machinery as not en
tirely installed^ until later. All the
work is of concrete and the work is a
sample of the most modern ideas
in that line.
NELSON IS DOGCATCHER
Will Impound Tour Dog if I Isn't
Tagged.
Patrolman Nels Nelson has been ap
pointed inspector of dog licenses, in
common parlance, dogcatcher. The dog
catching crew has been organized for
the season and the wagon starts out
next Wednesday. Every unlicensed ca
nine in the city is to be caught this
year, as the season begins somewhat
earlier and will continue as long as
may be necessary.
Inventors
America's Best 10c Cigar,
Browning,King & Co
CLOTHING. FURNISHINGS. AND BATS
This Week's Special
Sale of Men's Suits
Materials include Black and Blue Serges,
Cheviots and Unfinished Worsteds as well
as neat Fancy Patterns all are made up
4 in the well-known Browning-King man-
ner. Any man from 34 to 44 in chest-
measure can be fitted 350 suits in all
Reduced from $
$15, $18, $20, $22
415 419 ^ieoUetit^ Av
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HENNEPIN COUNTY
SAVINGS BANK
order of its Trustees MUST close out the balance of its real estate
taken on mortgages, at prices that are sure to attract buyers who want bar-
gains. I consists of the following:
40 acres between 44th and 46th streets in Portland avenue,
and running over to 3rd avenue south. This is a splendid tract
to divide into five acre lots, that will make line vegetable gar
dens and support horse and cow, or to divide into lota.
20 acres between 47th and 48th streets on Portland avenue,
running over to 3rd avenue south. This is part of the old Farna
worth farm, mostly high and wooded, a fine tract for an addi
tion to the city, making low priced lots for moderate homes.
Lots 10, 12, 13, 14 and 41 feet of lots 3 and 4, all in block
23, Morrison's Addition to North Minneapolis. These lots are
mostly high, beautifully wooded, and near the center of the
manufacturing district of North Minneapolis. Beauty and good
car service makes these lots ve ry desirable.
480 acres in Logan county, N Lies line, with good
meadow, four miles from Napoleon, county seat of Logan coun
ty. Also 160 acres adjoining the townsite of Napoleon, a grow
ing town, the center of the finest grazing land in North Dakota.
I on want to buy any or all of th is property call and see us. Terms
to suit.
ONE LOCK AND ISPECIAL WATCH
DAM COMPLETED
TEST OF THE $733,000 STRUCTURE
PROVES SATISFACTORY.
Gates Closed Yesterday and Water Ran
Over the Dam Below the Franklin
Avenue BridgeTen Years' Work
Ends, but Lower Structure Mu st
W. H. LEE
Cashier
OYER MURDERER
CRAWFORD MAY E CONCOCTING
A DANGEROUS SCHEME.
Sheriff Dreger Instructs Man Who
Guards the Condemned Prisoner to
Report Every Half Hour On the Night
WatchNic Smith, the Anoka Pris-
oner, Likes His New Prison.
Sheriff Dreger has ordered extra care
in the death watch ever C. D. Craw
ford, the condemned murderer, held in
the county jail for the authorities of
Sherburn county. Hereafter the death
watchers who are stationed just outside
the cell door will be lequired to ring
in and report on the watch system every
half hour, from 5:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.
Crawford has showed little feeling,
but he is cunning and resourceful, ana
it is feared that his apparent indiffer
ence may be a blind.
Nic Smith, the little Austrian held for
the murder of Fred Mathew in Anoka
county, has shown a decided improve
ment since he entered tke Hennepin
county nail. The Anoka jail is a dark,
dreary nole.
Smith is simple-minded, and feared
that he would be taken out and lynched
or that some terrible punishnent would
be inflicted. had no friends ami
became so depressed that it ras feared
that he would die before he could be
removed. was jailed with the three
Columbia Heights murderers then on
trial.
The kind treatment and comparative
cheerful surroundings of the Henne
pin county jail'have festered hiahealth.
A great historical pageant is inactive
preparation at Sherbourne, Dorsetshire,
to commemorate the 1200th anniversary
of the founding of the town, bishopric
and school by S Ealdhelm, A. D. 705.
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PAST XHTEKEST IK ESTABLISHES HATtX
factoring business can be acquired will re
quire $30,000 to $50,000 purchaser to tak
active bart la management and to be_betweriD
26 and 38 years of age.
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WANTEDMIDDLE-AGED WOMAH WAHTfi
to act as nurse for young baby want oni
who la experienced. Apply at once. Mrs
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Wood car.
Office Furniture
GAGE &. CO.,
Cor. Hens. Arm. and 6th 8*.