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AGAINST PEIRGE
Old Controversy Against the Prob
able Minister to Norway
Is Reopened.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington. Jan. 24.Since the an
nouncement ox the president's intension
to appoint Herbort H. D. Peirce, first
minister to Norway, an old controversy
between himself and Judge Embrey of
Kentucky, over fees for prosecutions of
a claim against the Russian govern
ment, growing out of the seizure of a
sealing vessel, has been revived in the
shape of charges by the gentleman
named sent to the president thru Sen
ator Foraker and transmitted to the
state department for report.
Embrey states that Peirce, while sec
retary of legation at St. Petersburg, of
fered to assist him in the prosecution of
the claim against the Russian' govern
ment. The claim was paid, the award
amounting to about $55,000. Peirce put
in a claim for one-third of the award,
but he and Embrey could not agree to
settle on that basis, Peirce finally get
ting out an injunction against the sec
retary of the treasury, forbidditrg the
payment of the award to Embrey. The
matter was finally adjusted out of
court.
An investigation by state department
officials showed that the charges of of
ficial misconduct on Peirce's part are
without foundation. His connection
"with the case was with the full appro
val of Mr. Hay, then secretary, and
that approval is a part of the depart
ment records.
Other charges have to do with the
purchase of furniture for the rooms in
which the Russo Japanese peace envoys
met at Portsmouth. At the depart
ment it was said these charges were
without the slightest foundation.
The dismissal of these charges leads
to the inference that when the proper
time comes Mr. Peirce will be ap
pointed minister to Norway, if he cares
to take it. The house committee of
foreign affairs is now framing the di
and consular appropriation
ill ate indications are that while the
new office of minister to Norway will
be created, the salary recommended by
the secretary of state may be cut to
$^,500. No appointment will be made
until the appropriation bill becomes a
law, which will not be for a month or
more.
BABCOCK DENIES
'HOLMF CHARGE
Wisconsin Congressman Orders
Attorney to Sue Collier's for
Printing Crosby Story.
Journal Special Service.
Washington, Jan. 24.Representa-
tive Babcock said last night that he
had instructed his attorney A,o bring
puit at once for libel against the Col
ljer 's Weeklv for publishing in the cur
rent number a statement by Oscar
Terry Crosby that he had "held up"
Oscar Terry Crosby of the Elkms- Wid-
ener-Dolan syndicate for $5,000 for a
Contribution to the republican congres
sional campaign committee.
Tho article Collier's Weekly is
headed ''An incident of high politics
showing how a corporation was brought
to realize its duty to promote the pub
lic welfare." Henry Needham quotes
an extract from the book, "Tibet and
Turkestan" of Oscar Terry Crosby, the
African explorer and electrical engineer,
and charges Representative Babcock
with having demanded a $9,000 contri
bution to the republican railway bill
then pending and in which Mr. Crosby
was interested. The charge is made in
an interview with Crosby as reported
by Needham. The extract in part is:
A bill giving the needed authority
was promptly reported to the senate by
the committee on the District of Colum
bia. Despite that unanimous report
the bill was held up for many weeks
the senate. Every time it came up Pet
tigrew of South Dakota rose and ob
jected. Finally he reached the conclu
sion that absolutely nothing was to be
gained by further obstruction and he
allowed the bill to pass which it did
without a negative vote. That ended
the matter in the senate. The bill in
question received a unanimous vote in
the committee on District of Columbia
of the house, but strange to say it was
not reported by the chairman, Mr. Bab
cock of Wisconsin. It was about five
days before the adjournment of con
gress and the bill was still in the
chairman's pocket."
Then Mr. Crosby is quoted as saying
that Babcock asked him for the $5,000
contribution.
I have never received one penny
from Mr. Crosby or his syndicate,
'either for myself or for the republican
congressional committee," said Mr.
Babcock. "The published statement to
anyone at all familiar with legislation
shows on its face its falsity. I am
tired of having charges made that I
'sandbagged corporations and others
into making contributions to the con
gressional committee of which I am
committee. It has got to stop and
after conference with friends 1 have
decided to begin action against the Col
lier company."'
GEN. JOE WHEELER IS
"HOLDING HIS OWN"
New York, Jan. 24.General Joseph
Wheeler, who is ill with pneumonia at
the home of his sister in Brooklyn, was
holding his own today,
accordingSmitha,
statement made bj
to
Sterlin
General Wheeler's brother-in-law, on
the authority of Dr. A. J. McCorkle.
General Wheeler was a little weaker
than yesterday, but his relatives were
more "hopeful by the assurance of the
doctor that the passing of each day im
proved the general's chance of recov
ery. All of General Wheeler's daugh
ters are* now with him.
Get Rid
of Scrofula
Bunches, eruptions, inflammations, sore
ness of the eyelids and ears, diseases of tht'
bones, rickets, dyspepsia, catarrh, wasting
re only some, of the troubles it causes.
*?-&., It Is a very active evil, making havoc of
the whole system.
Hood'sSarsaparilla
Eradicates it, cores all its manifestations,
and bttflds up the whole system,
Accept no substitute. a 4
HOST ENDS LIFE
AS GUESTS AEEJM
Son-in-law of Adolphus Busch
Kills Himself onJive
of Party.
Journal Speoial Service.
Chicago, Jan. 24.While guests were
assembling in the reception room down,
stairs, their host, Arthur Julius -Mag
nus, millionaire son-in-law of Adoiph
Busch, the St. Louis brewer, and vice
president of the A. Magnus & Sons
company, stood before a mirror in his
dressing room on the floor above and
shot himself thru the heart tonight, dy
ing instantly.
A maid, sent bv Mrs. Magnus, to
learn the r%ason for her husband's de
lay, found him lying face downward on
the floor, a revolver lying on the rug
a few feet distant. The dinner party
guests were apprised of the tragedy and
were compelled at once to turn their
attention to the widow, who was pros
trated by the shock.
Policemen sent to the Magnus man
sion were unable to obtain from the
family information that might furnish
a motive for the deed. Relatives said
later in the evening that Magnus had
everything to live for and that he ap
peared to be good spirits when he
returned home from his club in the
afternoon.
Mr. Magnus, who was 45 years old, had
suffered from attacks of heart failure
recently, and friends suggested that
constant dread of death made him mel
ancholy.
Whether or not the escapades of
Wilhelmina Busch, his wife's sister, had
any relation to today's tragedy was a
question which the members of the fam
ily in Chicago would not discuss. It
was known, however, that Mrs. Magnus,
who went to St. Louis soon after the
elopement of Miss Busch, was greatly
worried over the affair.
24th Annual Reduced-Price Sale.
The Great Plymouth Clothing House.
HEPBURN WINS A
RATE BILL FIGHT
Continued From First 'Page.
the long and short haul clause. The
republicans then put into the bill cer
tain language which is almost a dupli
cation or certain portions -of the last
democratic national platform, and then
the democrats said that they would
support the bill.
It was nearly 8 o'clock last 'night
before the conference broke up.
Representative Hepburn ordered the
amended bill printed, and this morn
ing at 11 o'clock the committee got
together to indorse last night's confer
ence agreements.
House and senate republicans who fa
vor rate legislation regard the unani
mous agreement of the highest impor
tance. They say it will defeat the Gor
man plan to play politics. It will m-
suTe the earnest support of all senate
democrats who really favor legislation,
and. line them up With senate repub
licans of the same class. There are
more than enough of these to put the
bill thru the senate.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota said this
morning, after he had heard of What
the house committee did yesterday: I
am greatly pleased, for I bad's not sup
posed it would be possible to get the
house democrats together on the bill.
I now believe that the bill will reach
a vote in the senate and pass that body
by a majority that will be astounding
to those "who have been opposing it."
Senator Clapp said further "that1
he
thought the phrasing around th"6 %oikl
"maximum," which the house commit^
tee has adopted, altogether the "best,
language thus far suggested. %$ -was,"
written by RepresenttaLve. DavdyJ
of
Louisiana, and Senator Olapp 'says it
already has been put into the Dolliver
bill by the., senate committee.
The change is further entirely satis
factory to the president and his sup
porters outside of congress.
Thus the plan of the opposition to*
defeat the bill in the senate by politi
cal lockeymg, seems to "have failed.
The amended bill will carry Hep
burn's name in the house, and before
the country after its passage, and he
will deserve that honor for it is freely
conceded that it has been his tact, de
termination, intelligence and loyalty
that have made the present satisfac
tory -situation a possibility.
CHANGES I N RATE BILL
"Maximum" Rate to Stand for Lim
ited Time.
Washington, Jan 24.The fact that
the Hepburn bill, in substantially the
form in which it will go to the house,
is the Dolliver-Clapp bill pending in
the senate committee, shows how near
together the leaders in both houses
have come to be on this great question.
In essence the bill empowers the in
terstate commerce commission, on hear
ing, after a complaint is made, to fix a
reasonable maximum rate. The private
car and terminal questions are thoroly
covered. The commission is to be com
posed of seven members. Provision
is made for a test of the legality of
the commission's rates in the courts.
Changes Are Made.
The most significant change is the
abandonment of some of the most dras
tic features of the original Esch-Town
send bill, notably the provisions of that
measure fixing a flat rate to remain in
definitely, and the adoption in its stead
of the plan for a maximum rate to
stand for a limited period.
The amended bill also provides for
seven members of the interstate com
merce commission instead of nine, as
was provided in the original Hepburn
bill. Another amendment incorporated
at the request of the democrats pro
vides that in cases where no damages
are asked the commission may simply
state its conclusions and need not set
forth its findings.
A section of the Davey bill requiring
that the attorney general in appealed
cases shall file the certificate necessary
to expedite the hearing was incorpor
ated in the amended bill. Another
amendment provides that orders of the
commission shall continue in force for
three years unless repealed.
No existing cases are to be affected
by the bill, and all laws relatiagvtob
witnesses and the conducting of hear
ings before the commission ar,e to' "be
continued.
Railroads Use Influence.*
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 24.Union Pa
cific railroad employees at the behest
of the road's officials are writing let
ters to Senator Burkett urging him to
oppose the rate regulations bfll.
kett refused in a tart reply..
Bur-
MASTERS AND PILOTS MEET.
Washington, Jan. 24.The grand harbor of
masters and pilots of steam vessels of the
United States, the supreme body of the Steam
boat Men's association of the United States, is
holding Its annual session here. Delegates rep
resenting the steamboat men of every important
.poet in the country, and from St. Nicholas,
Afrirtra, asd Honolulu, are present.
Wednesday Evening, THE MlttNEAPOBIS^OURNAI/.
STORM KILLS 15,-'
SO REPORT SAYS
\iu:
Heavy Wind and Rain Storm
Causes Immense Loss in
West Virginia.
Weston, W. Va., Jan. 24.A heavy
wind and rainstorm, resembling a
waterspout, passed over the south
eastern portion of this state yesterday,
flooding Cherry, Holly and Elk rivers,
carrying away bridges, houses and
many million feet of valuable timber
and, rumor says,* causing the loss of
fifteen lives. In Richwood the water
rose five feet in the houses on OokforcT
avenue and three feet "in the* waiting
room of the passenger station The
total loss will be heavy.
The water came up so suddenly that
men, women and children had- to wade
wist-deep out of their homes to the
mountain top.
The Cherrv River Lumber) company's
yards were under water. At Curtin two
railroad bridges on the Pardf and Cur
tin Lumber company's road were
washed out. At Curtin also a barber
shop, with all its furniture and tools
went down with the current, every
chair remaining in the place. Over
twelve miles of the Holly River & Ad
dison railroad wa6 completely washed
away.
The report that fifteen lives were lost
is not confirmed.
VALENCIA ASHORE
OFF CAPE BEALE
Continued From First Page.
torn'ey. She was to visit her sister,
who is ill at her home in this city.
E. L. Fondo, a Seattle passenger, is
a commefcial traveler, whose home is in
this city. Charles Samuels, a sawcutter,
is also a Seattle man. He had been in
San Franeisco on a pleasure tripT W.
Lombard was returning from a pleasure
trip to San Francisco.
Passenger List of Valencia.
San Francisco. Jan. 24.The-Valen-
cia's passenger list is as follows:
First Classtor SeattleJ. S. Wldner, N. M.
Anderson, Miss Van Wick, Alice Stoltenburg and
two chlldien, F. T. Fonde, T. Brown,
W Taylor and wife, Burt Parker, E. Albon,
William Sibley, Mis W. O Rosenburger. Miss
I Shave. Peterson, N Peters. Harry
Ward, Walker. H. Tellman, W. Merle,
Hoelschor, B. B. Basel. Mrs. Williamson,
Miss W Cole W Allison. Fred Erickson,
Charles Samuel, Bonebacker, W Lombardlne,
S Hunker and wife, Geoige D. Hardman, B.
Graham. Mattie Huraden
For JuneauMrs. D. Stewart.
For BellinghamMrs. J. C. Thompson, W. S.
Hume
For VancouverHarry Woelleyde, A. T.
Ralph, William Smith.
For VictoriaD. H. Hess, Donald Ross, Howe
For TacomaJames Wright, James Inglehome
Seeond ClassFor SeattleM. O'Neil, Harry
Greggv, W Wilson, Jack Loring, Jacob Nikko,
I Puntha, Peter Glubo, Theodore Sherver. J,
E Lucas, Doherty, Miko Myoclvic, J.
Campbell, Theodore Chieves, J. B. Shannon,
J. Erickson, S E Lawson, G. Nordstron
and wife, Gladk, T. Campbell and wife,
Montgomery, C. A. Cosett, Peter Hogaii,
W M. Ogle and wife, Hermkamper, D.
Dalev A Handgert, Hawkins, T. Slmp
bon, T. Martin, O West, W. A Dean, AiBher,
II toerrv, Hult, J. Keating, J. Willlts, M.
Smith, Hosie.
For JuneauB. Pintiln.
For TacomaFrank Novonch, Tom JBrown,
Sam Tern, Waughtil, E. Waughtil.'
For VictoriaJ Fernie. J. Cauferth
For VancouverA. Kars
Following is the list of officers. Captain O.
Johnson, First Mate W. Holms, Second Officer
Peterson, Third Officer Caiueion, Fourth
Officei A A Berk, Purser J. O'Farrell,
Fieight Clerk Lehn, Assistant E E. Hopkins,
Chief Engineer W Deunlng, First Assistant En
gineer Carey, Second Assistant Engineer F.
S Davis, Third Assistant Engineer Nelson,
Chief Steward J. H. Oddlnnot, Stewacd^, H
Campbell
The Valencia was an iron screw
Steamer of 1,598 tons capacity, 252,7
feeMong, with a beam of 34 feet and a
depth of 19 feet. It was built in 1888
by Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia. Dur
ing the war wUh Spain the Valencia
was engaged for a time in the trans
port service of the United States con
veying troops to and from the Philip
pines.
First Aid to Survivors.
Seattle, Jan. 24.General Manager
Pearce of the Pacific Coast Steamship
company said last night that the Val
encia is insured for approximately
$150,000, of which amount three-fourths
is carried bv English underwriters and
the remainder in San Francisco/ He
said the first effort of the company
would bte to render aid to the survivors
of the disaster.
Scene of Many Disasters.
Portland, Jan. 24.Few places in the
worjd have such a record of marine ca
tastrophes as has the deadly- "West
coast," as it is known, of Vancouver
island, which has caused the destruc
tion of fifty-six vessels and cost 711
lives in forty years. "Within the
month past the west coast has wrecked
the Valencia and the ships King David
and Pass of Melfort, seven lives .hav
ing been lost on the King David and
twent-si on the Pass of Helfort. Be
sides these, greeks in which there have
been more than ten lives lost, accord
ing to the list compiled by th Oregon
ian, are: Bark, John Bright, in 1867,
fourteen lives lost steamer, Pacific, in
1875, twenty-six lives ship, Grace Dar
ling, in 1878, fifteen lives bark, Malle
ville, in 1882, twenty lives ship, Sier
ra Nevada, in 1886, thirteen lives ship,
Hlrvey Mills, in 1886, eighteen lives
bark, Eldorado, in 1887, fifteen lives
ship, St. Stephen, in 1887, twenty-two
lives ship, Ivanhoe, in 1894, twenty
three lives steamer, Mont Serra,
1894, thirty lives steamer, Keewenah,
in 1.894, thirty-one lives -jschooner,
Jane Grey, in 1898, thirty-fonr lives
British warship Condor, in 1902,
eighty lives schooner, Triumph, in
1904, thirty-two lives, and ship, La
morna, in 1904, twenty-six lives.
Schooner Foundered?
Victoria, B. C, Jan. 24.Captain
Gaudin, agent of marine, received a
telegram last night from Lightkeeper
Dakin at Carmanah, that the name
board of the sealing schooner Fawn
had been found in the surf near there.
The schooner Fawn left Bering sea for
Victoria last October with 5,502 seal
skins, in charge of six white men and
twenty-one Indians.
"MODEL" ROADS FOR
HORTHffESTERN STATES
By W. W.^ Jermane.
provided the co-operation of state or
county authorities can be secured. It is
proposed to do the work next summer,
the federal government providing the
necessary ^machjnery^ and expert road
makers. t&y'*
jLiiii*
"To Live Happily." Choose as a
wife, the daughter of a good mother,
and as a whiskey Pickwick Rye, the
best of the good ones.
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NOT MENTIONED
Senator Nelson Nails, Portion of
Recentgtory About White
Earth Agent.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, Jaw. 24.The statement
printed in a Washington special to a
twin city paper last Friday, giving a
sensational report about* Simon Micb
elet of Minnesota, Indian agent at
White Eaffth, was read with interest
by the Minnesota senators and others
wno declare that they have no knowl
edge of any of the alleged facts. The
report began with "the statement that
Senator Nelson' had gone to the White
House for other purposes than paying
his respects to the president, and inti
mated that during the interview ap
pointments of Indian agents at White
Earth and keech Lake were discussed
Senator Nelson' says^. he Went to the
White House to \alk about Alaskan
matters and^tp present a prominent
Alaskan tofc .the chief executive. He
did not talk Minnesota appointments
while there, and has not discussed In
dian' agencies with tbe^president at any
time.
The story in question goes on to dis
cuss charges made against Michelet and
alleged attempts to bribe him in con
nection with placing White Earth tim
ber on the market. As to these charges
neither Senator Nelson nor Senator
Clapp knoWs anything.' A real com
plaint was made against Michelet's
plan of allotting lands in the White
Earth reservation. But this was in
vestigated by Major McLaughlin and
continued in force upon the latter's
recommendation. So far as the senators
were informed no other charges have
been made..
Indian Commissioner Leupp/said as
to the investigation that it would be
a matter of official report about which
he could not say anything for publica
tion. As to other features of the story,
he was not informed, Mr. Leupp stated
again that Secretary Hitchcock's reac
tion of the timber bids was on a recom
mendation which had-been based on the
report of a special agent as to prices
the timber should bring, and that none
of the bids reached the .jninimum named
by his agents. 'g i
PRESIDENT WON'T
HAVE THIRD TERM
Friends of President Say
Would Refuse if Honor
Was Offered.
Washington, Jan. 24.Thirty-four re
publican statehpod "insurgents" held
a caucus yesterday in Representitive
Babcock's room and outlined their
fight against the Hamilton, bill. This
is the largest number of republican
members so far at an anti-joint state
hood meeting.
The "insurgents' leaders now
claim sixty republican votes against
the proposed rule to prevent amending
the Hamilton bill, and say there is no
truth in the rumor that democrats are
"leaving the city and have been in
duced to remain away so they cannot
vote with the democratic organization,
which is in symprthy with the repub
lican "insurgents'^ and wants to pre
sent the admission of New Mexico and
Arizona as one state.
GHIGAGO PROFESSOR
FALLS DEAD AT CLUB
Chicago, Jan. 24.Professor Henry
L. Boltwood, for twenty-three years
principal of the Evanston high school,
fell cead yesterday afternoon at tho
EvaustGn club. He was one of the old
est tducators of the country and in
June, 1904, celebrated his fiftieth year
of active teaching. He was born at
Amherst, Mass., and was 75 years of
age.
lie was playing pool With Professor
H, Cutler and stootffwatching him make
a shot. Suddenly^the aged instructor
etegaered against the table with an
exclamation, then, without uttering an
other word, he sank lifoless to the floor.
Dr. E. E. Shutterly was called but when
he anived, a few minutes later, he pro
nounced life extinct.
Washington, Jan. 24.It is an
nounced that the agricultural depart
ment has agreed to construct one mile
of model road each in Minnesota, North
Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, hood, but felt he could not be the party
BEDE MAKES SPEECH
Explains His Vote as
Insurgent.
to attack an organization of the house.
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Journal Special Service.
Washington, Jan. 24.The closest
'friends of President Roosevelt know
that Mr. Roosevelt will not be a candi
date for a third term. They know that
his mind is irrevocably made up -on
this subiect. Not only will he not
again,be a candidate for the presiden
tial nomination, but he will not accept
the nomination if it is offered him.
SfftTEHOorau/:
A STRENGT TES
Continued From First Page.
all unfriendly to railroads, the assess
ment is $17,000.
The commercial value of the road'on
a stock basis is about $39,000 a mile.
Some of the republican members of tho
house who will vote went down to Ari
zona and New Mexico last fall in a
special train over tho Santa Fe rail
road.
Insurgents Hopeful.
City News
MMBOSCH LOVES
I^EiO TT OF WEST
GREAT CONDUCTOR SINGS THE
PRAISES OF PRAIRIE LANDS.
Leader of Famous Symphony Orches
tra, Which Appears at Auditorium
This Evening, Compliments the West
Telepathy Requisite in Successful
Conductors of Orchestras, He Says.
"My trips across the continent are
among the most interesting in my
life," declares Walter Damrosch, ,the
famous conductor of the New York
Symphony orchestra, which will be
heard at the Auditorium this evening.
I have heard many complain of the
monotony of that long ride across the
western prairie, but to complain, one
must be devoid of soul. After the din
and turmoil of New York, the nerve
racking experiences of every day, to
find oneself in a world of opalescent
pinks and grays, marvelous twilights,
purple hills and illimitable perspectives,
would tend to send a man's thoughts,
upward.
Perhaps one reason I lik& the west
so much is found in the receptions by
the people in the" west. The audiences
are almost pathetically grateful."
"Is the work of a symphony orches
tra received as appreciatively by New
York audiences as by those in other
parts of the country?" Mr. Damrosch
was asked.
I believe that the New York au
dience is one of the most appreciative
to be found anywhere in the. World,"
replied Mr. Damrosch, "but it is also
the most exacting. It is more blase
than the audiences you find in other
parts of the country. It is desirous
of one's best and is correspondingly
ungrateful for that best. There is no
yesterday in the memory of the New
Yorker.
"New Yorkers are provincial, too, in
a way. We have so much ourselves and
stand in such an exalted position in
regard to other cities that we are often
lamentably ignorant of what is goioj* on
in the world about us. Tiixs waj
brought forcibly to my mind in a re
cent trip thru the west.
"My manager had booked us for
Oklahoma City. My impression of that
place was entirely limited by fugitive
facts of memory. I recalled the enor
mous land boom of fifteen years and
expected to find a rough prairie town.
I was amused at the idea of giving the
program that had been announced. On
my arrival I found one of the most
modern cities it is possible to im
agine.
Telepathy is the secret of successful
orchestra leading, in the opinion of Mr.
Damrosch. In answer to a query as to
what is the extreme qualification neces
sary to make a man a perfect leader,
he says:
A iran must be able to get from the
members of his orchestra what he de
sires. He must be able thru them to in
terpret his musical conceptions. An or
chestra must be a complete harmoni
ous whole and this whole must be in en
tire accord with the mind of the man
wielding th ebaton."
Of bis orchestra Mr. Damrosch says
that it has been so successful financial
ly that he has been able to secure, since
ne. was last here several years ago, some
of the^best of Europe's musicians,
greatly to the grief or European con
ductors, but much to the glory of
American art, and that his present or
ganization is by far the greatest he
ever had.
AGE, WILL GOVERN
SONS OF HERMANN WI LL GRADE
PREMIUMS ACCORDING TO AGE
OF INSURED.
Hereafter the Sons of Hermann will
grade the premiums charged for insur
ance according to the age of the in
sured. This decision was reached at
today's session of the grand lodge, now
sitting at Kraft's hall, Twenty-first and
Washington avenues N. Tho the dis
cussion was long drawn out, the final
vote stood 85 to 10 in favor of the
change from the old flat rate.
Under the old system it cost each
member about $17 a year for death
assessments. Now the charges will
range from about $9 for those 18 years
to $27 for those 45 years old. The new
system is one which is being adopted by
all fraternal insurance orders, and the
members of the grand lodge are con
fident that the change will result in
increased membership.
In addition to disposing of the clas
sified insurance" plan, the grand lodge
has decided to devote the $3,600 lett
over from the abandoned "home for
the aged" fund to advertise the order.
Some years ago the society undertook
to raise sufficient money to erect and
maintain a home for the aged. The
{ected
a Statehood
Washington, Jan. 24.Steenerson
and Bede were the only Minnesota
members voting with the statehood in
surgents this aftern'oon. Bede made a
witty speech by way of explaining his
vote, and was called downlsy Speaker
Cannon for referring to the ~Ne^ York
senators by name. Bede had said that
as far as these gentlemen were con
cerned he had been trying his best to
forget them, thihs reference was against
the rules of the house, and so Bede sub
sided.
Tawney made a statement explaining
his vote for the statehood rule, he said
that he had been opposed to joint state-
RAISED TO PEERAGE.
24 The death yesterday
Jan.(Jteorge ofTJonflon, Rev. Si Croxton Shlffner,
rector of Hamsey, Sussex, adds another
titled American woman to the peerage
Captain Shiffnem Who succeeds to his
father's baronetcy, in 1894 married Elsie,
a daughter of Ogden Burrows of New
^ort, R. r"2r,
dan was abandoned and the money col
was returned to the donors. The
sum of $3,600 remained unclaimed and
has now been made the "propaganda"
fund.
The election of officers will be
conclude he meeting, will be held late
this afternoon. Cari Harpke of St.
Paul, who has been grand president for
the past three years, will not seek re
election, and so far John Kunz of St.
Paul has a clear field for the honor.
TO CUBE A COLD 117 ONE DAT
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Drug
gists refund money if It fail* to cure. E. W.
Grore's signature la on each box 23c.
MEANS MUCH MONEY
January 24, 1906.
Taxable Estates Totaling $1,131,760 in
Probate In Three Months.
That the validity of the inheritance'
tax law means a considerable revenue
to the state of Minnesota Is evidenced
by the list of taxable estates that have
come into the clerk of probate's office
in the past three months. This list
shows property conservatively estimated
at $1,131,760. It is a follows:
Decedent. Real Personal.
Martin Whitcomb $56,700 $9,260
Ellen C. Musgrave 40,000 2,000
Sarab P. Brown 45,000 750,000
fcilas Hillman 20,000 1,200
Frederick H. Barnard 7,000 27,000
Charles O. Bade- 10,000 0,000
Louise J. Crandall 15,000 73,000
Peter S Peabody 23,000
George It. Robinson 20,000 1,600
Wullam 6. Amsden 20,o00
Total* $213,700 $018,060
GAME WARDENS COMING
National Association Meets Tomorrow
1'- "in St. Paul.
The national convention of state
game wardens will meet tomorrow in
St. Paul. The sessions will be held at
the old state capitol, and at the open
ing meeting addresses of welcome will
be given by Governor Johnson and
Mayor Smith of St. Paul. Several war
dens from other states are already in
St. Paul for the convention. S. F.
Fullerton of the Minnesota commission
and his subordinates axe receiving the
coming' delegates.
DO.you-
WITH
GET
PROMISES ARE TINSEL
Agency Said to Be Defrauding Girls Who
Seek Work.
Local charitable associations have had
several complaints recently about the
work of an agency that has secured
money from young girls under false pre
tenses. It is claimed that girls have
gone to the office of this concern in
answer to advertisements for girls to
make fancy "work with tinsel. They have
been required to make deposits of $3
in eachs case and have then been given
the material with which to work When
the work is returned it Is gaid to nave
been rejected and demands, for a return
of the deposit refused. An investigation
is being made
$250,000 LOST IN
A BIG COTTON FIBE
Krrfoik. Va., Jan. 24.The Interna
tional Compress company's compress on
ihc T'lizateth river here, together with
much stored cotton in the warehouses
and sheds of Rogers, McCabe & Co.,
were burned early today. Robb Addi
son,, a white laborer at the burned com
press, Was asleep in the building at the
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SENATE COMMITTEE I
WOULD CEDE ISLAND:
Washington, Jan. 24The senate
committee on foreign relations today
voted to report the treaty with Cuba,
ceding the Isle of Pines to that repubu
The treatv was not amended.
FOURTEEN INJURED
IN BAILROAD CRASH
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 24.Fourteen
persons were slightly injured in a
collision yesterday at Glendora between
the Santa Fe Limited west-bound train
and a local train. All the injured wer kg
passengers on the local. far-
SIOTTX FALLS SCHOOL BUSHED.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Jan. 24.The Dow*[*
school burned last night The loss is K.O00,
insurance $22,000. The re Is beliered to
heen
The Kimball business was established in 1857, and since that
time more than four hundred thousand instruments have been sold
an unparalleled record. The first Kimball piano manufactured
is still in use in a college club in Ann Arbor, Mich., and doing
good service.
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