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CITY NEWS'
^flR^HE WEATHER
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The Predictions.
Minnesota and WisconsinFair to
piight, Sunday and Monday cooler to
ught probably light frost in lowlands
iris northwest winds. Upper Michi-
8aykand
anShowers and cooler tonight Sun
Monday, fair brisk northwest
Jwinds. Iowa-Fair tonight, Sunday
fluid Monday cooler tonight possibly
(light frost in northwest portions fresh
northwest winds. North DakotaFair
tonight, Sunday and Monday prob
ably light frost tonight, with cooler in
north portion northerly winds. South
DakotaFair tonight. Sunday and Mon
day probably light frost tonight, with
cooler in southeast portion northerly
jwinds. MontanaFair tonight, Sun
day and Monday possibly light frost
rtoiiight rising temperature Sunday
Variable winds.
For the upper lakes, brisk to high
northwest winds tonight and Sunday,
diminishing by Sunday night showers,
followed by fair weather. A storm is
moving eastward and is now over Lake
Michigan. During the past twentv-f our
hours it has caused scattered showers
from the Missouri valley eastward to
the middle Atlantic coast and south
ward over the southern states to the
Gulf of Mexico. An extensive area of
high barometer, accompanied by cool
weather, is overspreading the north
"Vestern districts, and the fall in tem
perature is already felt in the upper
Mississippi valley. Frost is reported
'a "Wyoming.
The indications are for generally fair
and cool weather thruout this entire di
vision, preceded by showers in the east
portion. Light frosts are probable to
night in the northwestern states. La
day will be fair.
Weather Conditions.
High barometric pressure covers the
country between the Kockies and the
Missouri and from Kansas northward
Into the Canadian northwest, carrying
cooler weather well into the lower Mis
souri valley, and cool weather continues
in the northwest. Showers fell during
the past twenty-four hours in the Mis
""sissippi valley and lake region, and
scattered showers eastward to the At
lantic coast. The following heavy
rainfalls were reported- Davenport, 2.72
Inches Chicago, 2.02 San Antonio, 1.66.
Charles A. Hvle,
Temporarily in Charge.
Weather Now and Then.
Today, maximum, 60 minimum, 50
-degrees a year ago, maximum, 67
miniinum, 54 "degrees.
AROUND THE TOWN
Infant Mortality High.-Infant mor
tality was very high Minneapolis in
August. Out of 210 deaths reported to
the health department, 62 were children
inder 2 years. Of these 45 died of
sholera infantum.
No Park Board MeetingThere will
be no meeting of the park board next
Monday for two reasons, Mondav is a
egal holiday and in addition, so many
)i the commissioners are out of the city
,hat a quorum could not be obtained.
New A. O. U. W. Hall.Nicollet
odge, No. 16, A. O. U. W., will build
hall at 308-310 Central avenue. It
rill be a three-story brick block, and
he cost, exclusive of the furnishings,
rill be $19,667. It is to be completed
Feb. 15.
Flat Burned Out.Fire originated
rom the kitchen stove burned out the
lat occupied by Oscar Olson at 1215
Washington avenue S, at noon today.
!?he department prevented the flames
rom spreading to other parts of the
milding.
More Divorces Wanted.Tilda Mon
on is plaintiff in a suit for divorce
iegun in the district court today
gainst Peter Monson. She charges
_ruel and inhuman treatment. Marie
)l8on seeks a legal separation from
iharles J. Olson on the ground of de
ertion, and Sarah E. Hamilton wants
divorce from Frank E. Hamilton be
anse of his alleged cruelty.
Dinner for Folds.Officials of the
rooklyn Rapid Transit company gave
dinner Wednesdav evemwg at the
clarendon hotel, Brooklyn, for George
i. Folds, formerly of Minneapolis, who
as resigned as assistant general man
ger to become general manager of the
outh Side Electric Railroad company,
hicago.
"I' GoingAre You?"The 6,000
adges issued by the Commercial club
advertise Tuesday, Sept. 5, as Min
aapolis day at the state fair have
roved insufficient for the demand.
!anufacturing and mercantile estab
ghments want them in blocks of from
le to five hundred. On all the down
wn streets the badges are to be seen.
.IVES IT TO ST. PAUL
ORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
BBFUSES TO RECOGNIZE MINNE-
APOLIS PROXIMITY TO FAIR.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
-len getting itself disliked by Minne
Kjlis business men in the last few
.ys. It is advertising special rates
the Minnesota state fair "a St.
ml." Business men have protested
ainsi this discrimination which may
id readers of the rural papers to
ink that Minneapolis has nothing to
with the fair. The protests are of
avail, however. The only reason
-town for refusing to credit the fair to
th cities is that tickets to St. Paul
st 30 cents more.
"It looks like 30 cents," said a Min
apolis business man today. "The
eat Northern has been very fair with
advertising the fair as occurring in
& twin cities, but the Northern Pacific
ftcials have certainly practiced rank
jcrimination against Minneapolis in
,advertising."
state fair management adver
the institution as being located
way between the two cities.''
GLOBE THE BATHS
!Jalhoun House to Shut Up on
I Sept. 9.
}s been decided to close the pub
is at Lake Calhoun on Saturday,
Most of the patronage at the
from the boys, and as they
at school after next Wednesday
3 little occasion for keeping the
pen Should the weather be hot
"ew days after Sept. 9, however,
hs will be kept open.
CARD OF THANKS
vlah to express our sincere gratl
tnd thanks to our friends and
ors and especially to the doctors
irses of the Northwestern hospital
eir kind assistance and sympathy
the illness and death of our be
husband and father.Dlstel.
^r.-Mrs. Louis H. Distel.,
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7lsh to express our heartfelt thanks
friends and neighbors for their
3s during the recent illness of our
1 husband and father and kind
hy in his death and for the many
ul floral contributions.
"Mrs. Anthony Conroy and Family.
Saturday Evening,
CROWD OF PEOPLE
LET WOMAN HANG
LIFE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED
BY PROMPT ACTION.
Body Found Dangling to Oak Tree Near
Robbinsdale, and Was Left Hanging
Till Coroner CameUnwarranted
Fear of the Law Probably Caused the
Neglect.
While more than a hundred morbidly
curious persons were gazing at the body
of a woman danglin'g from the limb of
an oak tree near Robbinsdale, yester
day afternoon, not one of the throng of
fered to lend a helping hand and cut
the body down.
After the discovery of the body by
a hunter^ the crowds began to flock,
but arriving on the scone and seeing no
officials there, they stood gossiping
about the situation. When the coro
ner arrived nearly an hour later, the
body was still warm and physicians
think that had some attempt been made
to revive the woman when she was
first discovered, her life might have
been saved.
Coroner Kistler says that the woman
had been dead about an hour when he
arrived. The failure of the curiosity
seekers to cut down the body, he says,
is due to the prevalent idea that no one
has a right to do so. This, he says, is
a mistake, for there is always a possi
bility that the person may be alive, and
if cut down' could be saved. There is
no more violation of the law in cutting
down a hanging body than in trying to
bring a drowned person back to lire.
The life of the woman might have
been saved yesterday, says the coroner,
had someoli'e had the nerve to climb tho
tree and sever the rope.
Finding the Body.
The body was first seen by John
Simons, who was walking in the woods
near Penn and Thirty-second avenues N.
Simons was out hunting rabbits, and
noticing tracks of a woman's feet on
the soft moss he followed them until
he came to the tree, where he was
struck speechless by the horrible dis
covery. In his excitement he turned
and ran out of the woods to a nearby
saloon, from which place the coroner
was notified.
Coroner Kistler at once went to the
scene and cut down the body, which
had been hanging but a short time.
Th flesh was still warm and the limbs
still flexible, snowing that death had
come but a few minutes before discov
ery. When the coroner arrived nearly
a hundred persons had gathered to view
the remains, but no one in the crowd
had ever seen the woman before. She
was apparently about 35 years old, and
was fairly well dressed.
A bicycle path that is much used
leads from the city to the little grove,
but no one saw the woman go there.
She had laid aside her large hat and
umbrella, had tied the strap about her
neck and climbed to one of the large
branches. Here she fastened the other
end of the strap to the limb and
dropped to her death.
Suicide Carefully Planned.
The suicide was carefully planned, for
the young woman had taken pains to
remove everything that would give a
clue to her identity. She wore a white
shirtwaist and over this a black jacket
trimmed with white lace. Her skirt
was black and her hat black and
trimmed with white flowers.
The body was at once taken to the
county morgue, and altho the news of
the discovery spread rapidly the body
has not been identified. Throngs have
visited the morgue in an effort to tell
the coroner who the woman was, but
the case remained a mystery.
Altho several women have been re
ported missing to the police recently
none of them fits the description of the
suicide. The police are working on the
case. GORN EXCHANGE FLOODED
BURSTING WATER TANK MADE
TENANTS THINK A SECOND DEL-
UGE WAS COMING.
Torrents of water flooding the Corn
Exchange building at 10:20 a.m. led
the tenants to lose faith the signi
ficance of the rainbow. With a boom
that sounded like a boiler explosion, the
wooden tank on top of the burfding,
holding about five hundred gallons,
burst and the contents went in all
directions, deluging the front sidewalk
with gravel and water and nearly crush
ing the roof on the two-story section
of the building in the rear of the ele
vator shaft. Water that did not es
cape over the roof found its way down
the iron stairs and thru the hallways
with great rapidity. Every crevice was
invaded by the flood, and soon many
of the offices were dripping with water,
notwithstanding frantic efforts of the
janitors.
Fortunately, no one was passing the
front of the building when the iron
hoops burst on the tank. A horse be
longing to the Twin City Fixture ex
change was hitched in the stockade at
the rear of the building and was fright
ened badly by the showerbath, and
tried to climb the high fence with
his wagon.
FIRSTTEACHER'S MEETING
DR. JORDAN ADDRESSES GATHER-
ING CALLED IN PREPARATION
FOR SCHOOL OPENING.
Dr. Charles M. Jordan, superintend
ent of schools, addressed the first gen
eral teachers' meeting of the year this
morning at 10 o'clock, in the assembly
room or the East high school. About
1,000 teachers were present.
The plans for the year's work will
be given out at the various meetings of
teachers and principals to follow later.
Dr. Jordan explained that the meeting
this morning was merely for general re
organization, and suggested that the
teachers pay particular attention to
three thingsthe pleasant relationship
between teacher and pupil, the helpful
ness of acquaintance with parents and
the necessity of making things pleasant
and easier for new teachers. The
present school year opens under more
promising circumstances than any pre
ceding year, and the teachers were
asked to co-operate in making it suc
cessful.
At the close of the remarks special
meetings were held for the teachers of
the separate buildings, and another for
principals and supervisors. There will
be no office hours in the rooms of the
school board on Monday.
INSPECTORS' SCHOOL
Commissioner E. K. Slater will held
a school for the state dairy and food
inspectors at the state capitol the first
three days of next week. The sessions
will be held in the morning and in the
afternoon the inspectors will take turns
attending to the exhibit at the state
fair.
At the fair grounds there will be an
exhibit including non-meltable brick
ice cream, evaporated cream made from
skimmed milk, embalmed beans and
painted olives.
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MAYOR JONES^
fHf PROCLAMATION
As Tuesday, Sept. 5, has been set
apart by the management of the
Minnesota State Fair as Minneapo
lis day, and as the value and im
portance of this annual exposition
of the industry and products of
this state cannot be exaggerated in
their relation to the advancement
of this community, I hereby order
that the various departments of the
city government be closed after 1
p.m. of that day.
I would also urge upon every
business house and manufacturing
establishment that they co-operate
to the largest practicable degree,
by partial closing of their places of
business, to insure the success of
this occasion, as by a large attend
ance this community can show its
appreciation of one ox the most
powerful factors in the develop
ment of the city, state and the
northwest. David P. Jones,
Mayor.
$
CUPID FOILS
YELLOW JACK
BRIDEGROOM-TO-BE ESCAPES THE
QUARANTINE GUARDS.
Fever Scare Prevented the Brent-Butts
Nuptials in Laurel, Miss., but the
Principals Stole AwayCeremony
Performed at'Hotel del Otero, Lake
Minnetonka.
Dreaded yellow fever may spread ter
ror and create stringent quarantine
laws and regulations, but it cannot in
terrupt the course of true love. So
much is proven by the wedding last
Monday at the Hotel del Otero, Lake
Minnetonka, of T. E. Brent of Laurel,
Miss., and Miss Mattie Butts of Ar
kansas.
These young people were to have
been married at the home of an uncle
of the bride-elect in Mississippi. The
fever scourge prevented the nuptials.
More than that, the impatient lover
was held a prisoner to quarantine laws
in his home. Correspondence was not
denied him, however, and plans were
made.
On a day set, in defiance of rules,
regulations and disease, the bridegroom
to-be escaped the guards and made his
way north by the shortest route. He
came directly to Lake Minnetonka,
where he was joined by Miss Butts
Monday morning. Hasty arrangements
were made. A minister was secured
by telephone and Monday afternoon the
young people were happily united by
Rev. Stanley B. Roberts in the apart
ments of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Hop
kins of Hotel del Otero.
The bride and bridegroom will take
a somewhat extended wedding trip and
will vaot return to their future home
until the yellow fever has become a
thing of the past.
The affair was witnessed by a small
circle of friends from the hotel, and
spite of the hasty preparations, the
apaitment where the service was read
was fittingly arranged for the event
with masses of flowers and foliage. The
witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. George P.
Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Murray
of New York, Mrs. Hall, Miss Eliza
beth Morgan, W. W. Boyd, Miss Min
nie Wyman, Cora D. Boyd, Allela E.
Morgan and E. F. Morgan of St. Paul
Mrs. Carrie M. Bosenbaum and T. B.
Swanson of Chicago, Mrs. Charles Dan
iel Harrington and W. J. Williams of
Minneapolis, Miss Lou Palmer of Ver
mont, Miss Lila Macdonald and Mar
garet Fuller of Columbus, Ohio.
PLANNING FOR INSTITUTE
COMMITTEE AGREES ON NAME
AND DATE FOR MISSION CON-
FERENCEMAY BE PERMANENT
FEATURE.
The Interdenominational Young Peo
ple's society, which was formed to
bring here a great missionary institute,
held in the oriental room at the Y. M.
C. A. building last evening the first
regular executive meeting since its or
ganization.
George M. Marine, chairman, pre
sided, and important business was
transacted. The name chosen was the
Northwestern Young People's Mission
ary Institute. The time selected was
the first week in February, 1906.
The exact date will be fixed in New
York city at a conference of missionary
workers Sept. 7, and one of them,
Harry Wade Hicks, will come directly
to Minneapolis, speaking in Westmin
ster church at an interdenominational
mass meeting Sept. 10, and holding
a conference with the executive com
mittee the same evening. Three large
institutes are to be held on the Pacific
coast in January and the selection of
the February date will enable the same
workers to include Minneapolis on the
return trip, and reduce the expense.
The plan is for a three-day session
the first hour, morning and afternoon
will be devoted to Bible study the next
two to mission study classes, and the
evenings will be given to mass meet
ings. The workers will be all of inter
national fame.
It is quite within the possibilities
that a permanent summer institute, like
that held in Silver Bay, New York, may
be located here. One for the middle
west has been decided upon, and four
teen locations have been examined and
found not entirely satisfactory. Miss
Violet Roberts, secretary, confessed to
having written', unofficially, to the com
mittee suggesting Minneapolis, and the
citv will doubtless receive considera
tion.
Chairmen and vice chairmen for four
committees were chosen as follows:
Finance, E. R. Ellis, Minneapolis
.George R. Brack, St. Paul.
Entertarninent, Miss Belle Jeffrey,
Miss Pearl Smith, Minneapolis.
Publicity, T. H. Colwell, Minneapolis
James Fleckenstein, St. Paul.
Program, J. M. Anderson, Minneapo
lis Robert Geddes, St. Paul.
These four committees will be great
ly enlarged, and subcommittees will be
formed.
Several names were added to the ex
ecutive committee, which will ultimate
ly include at leas ttwenty-five names,
as now constituted, it is as follows:
George M. Marnie, chairman Violet
M. Roberts secretary C. R. Ellis, treas
urer Messrs. George Darling. Ralph
Norton, R. Babcock, Rev. T. Heysham,
Misses Belle Jeffrey and Pearl Smith,
Minneapolis and Messrs. E. J. Frisby,
R. R. Otis, Robert Geddes, James
Fleckenstein. C. J. Hunt and Gertrude
Oakes, St. Paul.
These represent the various organiza
tions of Christian young people in the
twin cities.
Carey Roofing will neither run in hot
weather nor crack in cold weather.
Absolutely guaranteed. See W. S.
Nott Co., Tel. 376.
WEIGHTY CHANGES
0 GRAIN RULES
BOARD OF APPEALS ALTERS IN-
SPECTION REGULATIONS.
Ingenuity of Dealers in Scouring Wheat
to Raise Weight Will Be Useless
HereafterWeighing Rule Made
More Specific--4'Rejected" importantr rules were adopted- tw
The first reads: "Wheat scoured or
otherwise manipulated, the test weight
will not be considered in grading
same." It is well known that wheat
has been raised from 49 to 55 pounds
to the bushel by scouring, or reducing
the bulk by removing the "whiskers"
on the kernels, thus adding weight.
I his sort of manipulation will be
avoided in the future.
Another important change is the rule
regulating the matter of pouring gram
into the test kettles. By a simple ma
nipulation the weight could be raised
one pound to the bushel. One of the
first acts of Mr. Evenson after his ap
pointment March, was the discovery
that in Duluth grain was poured in one
manner, and in Minneapolis it was
poured otherwise. To the uninitiated
there was no difference, but the scales
showed otherwise. By pouring the
grain into the middle of the kettle the
weight is heavier than in the case
where it was poured against the side,
as in Minneapolis. The rule reads:
Manner of testing wheat, flax, barley
and rye shall be tested after it is
cleaned. The test kettle shall be
placed where it cannot be jarred or
shaken From scoop, bag or pan hold
two inches from top of kettle, pour into
middle of same at moderate speed un
til running over, striking off in a zig
zag manner with the edge of beam
held horizontal."
Rye Must Be Cleaned.
Another point of importance in this
rule is the clause affecting rye. There
is no dockage on rye as on wheat, flax
and barley. Consequently rye has been
tested when dirty. It must now be
tested after cleaning, which gives the
farmer a better show as to weight.
In the new inspection rules reacted
spring wheat is done away with and
made No. 4, making now six grades.
The note regarding hard, flinty wheat
was retained, notwithstanding protest,
as it was believed no hardship would
be worked.
Rejected durum wheat is done away
with and No. 4 grade is substituted.
Altho complaint was made last year
that the standard of rye was below any
other market in the world, the re
quest of some that the board put a
dockage on rye was not observed to
maintain uniformity with world's mar
kets. No. 1 rye is advanced from 55
to 56 pounds, and No. 2 from 52 to 54,
still leaving it Otoe pound below the
Wisconsin inspection, /an advantage for
the Minnesota department. No change
was made in the standard on flax, altho
requests were filed, all the present stand
ard was deemed satisfactory.
To stop the practice of mixing dirt
with barley by eastern agents after it
left Minnesota inspection, the rule re
garding feed barley is changed. Strong
requests came in along this line from
Duluth. The new rule reads: "Feed
barleyNo. 1 feed barley must test
not less than forty pounds to the meas
ured bushel, and be reasonably sound
and clean. No. 2 feed barley shall
include all barley which is for any
cause unfit for the grade of No. 1."
Rejected flaxseed grade is omitted in
the new inspection rules, in favor of
No. 2.
GOLD WAYE A TRAMP
METEOROLOGICAL HOBO ADDED
TO DISCOMFORT OF THE SUM
MER-CLAD CITIZENS TODAY.
A gjeat "Nervine," "Dr. Laurit
zen/s Malt Tonic.*' At druggists' or opment in an agricultural way, once
delivered to house. Phone,""N". W.,' the stumps are cleared of the land,
East 440 Twin City, 13399* i which is remarkably rich and fertile.
As much real discomfort attended the
cold wave which greeted the unprepared
citizens of Minneapolis this morning as
comes with the high-pressure products
of real winter. In offices and stores
clerks went about their work with
numb fingers, and on the streets the
combination of a straw hat with an up
turned overcoat collar or of heavy
gloves with a generous expanse of open'
work hosiery was too common to ex
cite comment.
At the weather bureau in the federal
building the observer had a large stock
of statistics to explain iust how it hap
pened and to show that he was in no
wi?e to blame.
It seems that some cold air currents
from the North Pacific are making a
vacation tour of the states. Yesterday
was spent in Alberta, Can., and this
morning the advance guard arrived in
Minnesota. There was enough 50-de-
erree temperature to spread from the
Mississippi to the Rockies and as far
south as Kansas. The cold will move
on to the east within the next
twenty-four hours, but there is another
wave behind it loaded with frost.
Tomorrow morning a temperature
anywhere between 30 and 40 degrees
mav be' expected. There is almost a
certainty of frost in the low districts.
At noon today discomfort in the form
of a chilling Tain was added to the
cold, but clearing prospects early in
the afternoon gave promise of better
things. WHEAT PROM PINE LAP
CLEARING IN ITASCA COUNTY
YIELDS 35 BUSHELS TO ACRE,
OF HIGH QUALITY.
Samples of new wheat of high grade
that ran thirty-five bushels to the acre
were brought into Minneapolis today
by A. C. Bausman. Remarkably high
as is the yield, the most interesting
thing about it is the fact that the
wheat was raised in Itasca county. On
the farm of E. O. Walley, township
149, range 26, in a clearing in the
woods, this record was made. Itasca
county has not been classed as agricul
tural, and as a wheat producer it has
not before been heard of.
Mr. Bausman says the clearings in
the woods are doing surprisingly well,
proving the fact that a large area of
country really tributary to Minneapo
lis, and now given up principally to
the lumberman. is susceptible to devel
*THE MINNEAPOLmiJOURNAl September 2P1905.
Grades
Give Way to Numbered Grades.
Uniformity in state inspection and
a fair correspondence with the markets
of the world in grading was sought by
the state board of grain appeals in its
annual joint meeting yesterday. Peti
tions from different points were con
sideredf carefully by the board and
where the best judgment and exper
ience of the inspectors the changes
were considered feasible, the petitions
were acted upon favorably.
The changes in the rules for the crop
year of 1905-06 are not numerous, yet
in cases they are very important as
bearing on serious complaints made
during the year. Chairman A. F. Even
son reports that fo uniformity in grad
m
MAIL DIRECT TO
FORT SNELLING
SERVICE MAT BE ESTABLISHED
ON NEW STREET CAB LINE.
Application Will Be Made to the Post
office Officials at Washington-They
Promise to Take It UpAll Mail Now
Goes by Way of St. PauL
In response to a suggestion made by
The Journal, the local postoffice
authorities will at once make applica
tion to the postmaster general for direct
mail service between Minneapolis and
Fort Snelling.
Under the present arrangement all
mail passing between this city and the
fort goes by way of St. Paul and is
much delayed in consequence. There is
a branch postoffice at the fort. Mail
is collected at 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
by an enlisted man, is taken to the fort
office, sorted and sent to St. Paul.
Thence the Minneapolis mail is sent to
this city on the interurban line. Mail
is sent from St. Paul to the fort twice
a day. The Sunday service is o:
a day, delivered in the morning.
Under the present system it takes
from twelve to eighteen hours for a
letter to pass between Minneapolis and
the fort.
The proposed change calls for direct
service between the fort and the city
by way of the new Fort Snelling line.
The same man who handles the pouch
service on the interurban line could at
tend to the fort service. By this ar
rangement it would be possible to in
sure the delivery of a letter mailed at
the fort in the morning on the after
noon of the same day, instead of the
morning of the day following, as at
present.
The Washington correspondent of
The Journal questioned the post
office department on this subject to
day. He telegraphs:
"The postoffice department officials
say that no application has yet been
made for a street railway postal ser
vice between Minneapolis and Fort
Snelling, but that as soon as such a
requisition appears, the question will
be taken up and carefully investigated,
with a eview
NEARLY HALF FAILED
Usual Heavy Percentage Lose in Teach
ers' Examination.
Barely one-half of the candidates for
teachers' certificates who presented
themselves for examination last month
were successful, but the result is pleas
ing to the superintendent of public in
struction, as it is better than for the
two past years. There were 7,072 can
didates, and certificates were granted
to 3,736, or to 52.82 per cent. Gram
mar took the place of mathematics as
the worst stumbling block. History
was another difficult subject.
The certificates were distributed as
follows: Complete first grade, 365
complete second grade, 1,402 condi
tional first, 230 conditional second, 584
limited second, 835 renewal first grade,
20 renewal second grade, 136 ex
changed first grade, 20 exchanged sec
ond grade, 144.
If F. E. Packard, formerly of Crooks
ton, will present himself at the edi
torial rooms of he our a 1 he will
,^hear of something to his advantage.
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Intoxicated Man Started Trouble at
Sandwich Wagon, and Drew Knife
On One of the Venders, Catting Deep
Into the Man's VitalsMan Under
Arrest Declares His Innocence.
Alfred Keil, a sandwich vender, is
near death's door at the city hospital
as the result of a deep knife wound in
flicted by James Duhta at 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. Dunn is locked up
at police headquarters where he stoutly
affirms his innocence in spite of the
fact that he has been identified by sev
eral eye witnesses to the cutting.
The affair occurred in front of Pete
Blair's saloon at Nicollet avenue a'n'd
First street where Keil and his part
ner, J. W. Sheerin, had stationed their
wagon. Dunn came up to the wagon
I and began to make insolent remarks to
Th Sunda service is one mail I the customerSj driving some of them
away. Sheerin, seeing that Dunn was
intoxicated, led him away, but the man
returned and began abusing Keil.
Keil then jumped out of the wagon
and pushed Dunn away. The latter
then made a vicious lunge at Keil and
drew a knife awd waved it over his
head. Keil is a powerful man, bvut did
not see the menacing weapon in time to
save himBelf, and he closed with his an
tagonist. Dunn made a pass at Keil
with the knife, and the wounded man
staggered back to the wagoW, calling to
his partner. Dunn ran for refuge in
a nearby alley, where he was pursued
and caught by Patrolman George Dahl.
Keil was hurried to the city hospital,
and an examination showed that his in
testines had been perforated in? BOV
eral places.
When Dunn was first arrested his
hands were covered with blood, but on
the way to police headquarters he man
aged to wipe most of it away in some
manner. Dunn says he has lived in
Min'nteapolis for fourteen years and that
he resides at 403 Hennepin avenue. Al
tho he was put thru a severe sweating
process last night, he still stuck to his
story that he was not the man who had
the trouble with Keil. He had never
seen the man, he said, and was just
walking thru the alley on the way to
supper.
to determining whether
the service is necessary. The applica
tion may be made by the postmaster at
Minneapolis, the postmaster at Snell
ing or the commandant at the fort."
A WAEM AUGUST
Average for the Month Highest Since
1901.
Last month" was the hottest August
since 1901. The average temperature,
as shown by the tables prepared at
the local weather observatory, was 71
degrees. The hottest day of the month
was Aug. 10, when the government
thermometer registered 95 degrees, and
the coolest Aug. 1, with the ther
mometer at 50. The total precipitation
for the month was 4.32 inches, and the
prevailing winds from the southeast.
LOCAL PLAYERS WON
Misses Jordan and Wales Take Semi
Finals in Women's Tennis Tourney.
Miss Jordan and Miss Wales of Min
neapolis won the semifinals of the
doubles in the woman's tennis tourna
ment from the Misses Mairs of St. Paul,
at the Minikahda club this morning.
Only two sets were necessary to decide
the contest. The score stood 6-0 and
6-2.
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The Largest Agency of Its Kind in the Northwest 1
STREET STABBING
MAY BE MURDER
VICTIM LIES IN SERIOUS CONDI-
TION AT HOSPITAL.
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IOWA REQUEST
IS TURNED DOWN
NO EXAMINATION OF THE NORTH
WESTERN NATIONAL LITE.
General Manager L. E. Thompson Tells
Hawkeye State Auditor That Recent
Investigation of the Company Is
Sufficient and That Expense of An/
other Would Be Unwarranted.
The Northwestern National Life In
surance company of Minneapolis has
declined to submit to an examination
by the Iowa department. Reasons for
this attitude of the Minneapolis com
pany are given by Leonard K. Thomp
son, vice president and general mana
ger. Mr. Thompson said today:
I have advocated federal supervi
sion of life insurance for many years
but have never fully appreciated until
now the enormous saving that would
accrue to policyholders in doing away
with these state examinations, piled one
upon another, and unnecessarily dupli
cating the same work.
"We have been diligent in our ef
forts to reduce expenses and to make a
profit for our policyholders, and we are
not willing to expend any more money i
for examinations which can be of no
value.
"The solvency of the company and
the proper conduct of its affairs as now
administered have been established be
yond question by the examination just
completedj the results of which have
beenpubhshed.
We are exceedingly busy here at th
office catching up after the Kansas ex
amination, getting out new policies and
literature, and arranging for an aggres
sive fall campaign, and it would be Det
ter for us to suspend temporarily the
soliciting of new business in Iowa,
should Auditor Carroll revoke our
license, than to be subjected to the ex
pense and the interference with our
work of another examination following
right on top of the one just completed."
Mr. Thompson has written to State1
Auditor B. F. Carroll of Iowa, explain
ing the position of the company.
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