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"February, 1906.
STUDY THE FIGURE
This Year to Cross
400
That will depend not only upon the price of copper and, some-
what, the rate for money, but upon the development at the
2400
Foot Level
"When the Boston News Bureau first called attention less than
three months ago to Anaconda as relatively cheaper than
Amalgamated, and yet as the basis of Amalgamated, it was
selling, as quoted in New York, at about
140
I has since doubled in price.
Anaconda has opened an ore-body in its main mine more than
40
feet wide, and about
800
feet long, that is admitted to assay better than the average
4%
of all the Anaconda mines. I is admitted by the Amal
gamated people that this ore body may assay
8%
In Butte it is said that it assays
16%
The Boston News Bureau was the first to give information
concerning it, and has never yet failed to be in the lead with
Anaconda or Amalgamated information. I will endeavor to
keep its readers posted in the future as in the past.
is
Soon to leave the
40s
And tajse up its march towards the
80s
Ig it this year to begin dividends at the rate of*
4
per annum Every intelligent investor desires to answer these
questions for himself, but the
Boston News Bureau
gives more intelligent information to enable him to answer
these questions concerning Amalgamated, Anaconda, S.
Steelthe greatest industrial the world has ever known
than any other daily publication.
It was in
October, 1904
that the Boston News Bureau by a double-column advertise-
ment in the leading papers of the country called attention to
the changed condition of the financial situation and invited a
study of U. S. Steel Common before it crossed
20
Does the increasing output of gold and the increasing
investment and business resources of this country warrant the
statement that the $1,500,000,000 expressed in the capitaliza-
tion of the U. S. Steel Corporation has increased By 20 per
cent in1
comparative valuations?
Is the increased valuation and the future growth of this
company to be represented in the common stock, which com-
mands the entire equity of the company?
Steel Common represents but one-third the total capital-
ization of the company. Should, therefore, a 20 per cent en-
hancement in valuation be reflected by a
60
point advance in Steel Common, and, if so, from what point,
0, 20,or 40
In 1904 the Boston News Bureau said, and it now can do
no better than repeat the same, as follows:
"Seeing tides and times may be a greater asset than cap-
ital."
"The age of iron, of steam and of the telegraph is closing.
The age of steel, electricity and the telephone has opened."
"If you don't believe in the future of this country don't
subscribe to the Boston News Bureau. If you do believe in
the future growth of this country, the Boston News Bureau
can help you every day in the year, for it points out in its 18
condensed columns, without a line of advertising, all places
where values are rising or falling, that should interest a man
of general business outlook. I unhesitatingly points out pit-
falls and dangers wherever seen, and gives the reason for all
fluctuations in values, sometimes historically and sometimes
in anticipation."
Issued daily at 3:20 P.M. $1 per month. $12 per annum.
C. W, BARRON, Publisher,
mamm
Exchange Place, Boston. .__
Offioial quotations of the
Produce Exohange, oometed
Monday, FebTT.
t@8c.
f2,
HinnsapoUs
to- 18 TO.,
f^P& yr/J%%^
BUTTERReceipts Saturday, 18,660 pounds.
Creameries, extra, 25c .creameries, firsts, 28c
creameries, seconds, 18o dairies, extras, 20c
dairies, firsts, 18c dairies, seconds. 16c rolls
and prints, fancy, 17c, rolls and prints, choice,
15c renovated, firsts, 20c choice, 16c ladles,
firsts, sweet, 15c seconds, 14c packing stock,
fresh, swet. 15c stale, held, 10c.
BOGSReceipts Saturday. 143 cases. Cur
rent receipts, No. 1, cash count, case, $4.50
current receipts. No. 1, candled, doz. 16ftc fresh
dirties, candled, cese, $2 50, checks and sec
onds, candled, $2.50 refrigerated, canlded, doz,
lie.
CHEESETwins or flats, fancy, cured, paraf
fined or unoaiafflned, 14c fancy, new, 12%cjmont
choice, cured, paraffined or unparaffined, 11%
fee choice, new, loty @llc faU, paraffined
unpa-affired, ll@ll%c good, paraffined or
unparaffined, 10c. daisies, fancj. twins or flats,
14c, choice, twins or flats, 12%@13c off grades,
twins or flats, 10@UV,c Young Americas, fancy
In quality and regular in style, 14c choice,
12%@18e off grades. 10@ll%o brick. No. 1.
paraffined or unparaffined. 13c: No. 2, paraffined
or unparaffined, 10c, off grades, paraffined or
unparaffined. 5@7c, limburger. No. 1, 12%c No.
2. 111412c off grades, 5@7c Swiss, fancy
loaf, 16e. choice, 13@14c off grades. 9311c
funcy block. 14c: choice block. ll12c off
rades, 8@10c pultost. No. 1. %c off grades,
primost. No. 1, 7c: off grades, 3@c
ONIONSSpanish, crate, $1.76 Globe. 100 lbs,
$150. vellow, per 200 lbs, $1.75 Valencia,
crate, $5 ....._-
CRANBERRIESJerseys, brl, $15 bu, $5
late Howes, brl, $18.
WESTERN FRUITSPears. Winter Nellis,
box, $8.25: Buerre Hardy, $2 50.
CABBAGEPer lb, 2%c.
VEGETABLESNew carrots, doz, $1: newing,
turnips, doz, 90c beets, bu. 65c cauliflower,
crate, $4, carrots, bu, 50c celerj, doz, 25@50c
celery, California, crate, $4 50, doz, 75@90o
cucumbers, doz, $2, egg plant, doz, $2 25,
garlic, 10@12e lettuce, leaf, 80c lettnee, head,
doz, $1 50, mint, 40c onions, shallots, doz bchs,
75c parsley, doz, 80c, pieplant, lb, 8c peppers,
green, per basket, 90a radishes, round, doz,
bunches, 40c rutabagas, bu, 50c, squash, doz.
$1 25@1.75: spinach, bu, $1.10 turnips, bu. 40c
tomatoes, Florida, six-basket crate, 06 water
cress, doz, 80c string beans, bu, $5.
HONEYExtra fancy white, 1-lb sections, 14c
fancy white, 1-lb sections, 18c choice white,
1-ib sections, 10c amber. 18c goldenrod, 12c
extracted white, in cans, 7V4c extracted amber,
in cans, 7c.
POTATOESCarlota, sacked, Burbanks, bu,
55c white mixed, carlota, sacked, 68c red,hospitals
carlots, sacked, bu, 50c: small lots, 5c more
sweets, Illinois, brl, $8.50@2.75.
BUCKWHEAT FLOURFancy, brls, ..6.25
bales, 100 lbs, $8.25 choice, brls, $6
BEANSQuotations include sacks: Fancy
navy, DU, $2 choice navy, $1 65 medium na*y,
l.75, mixed and dirty, 45gl70o brown, fancy,
mixed, fair to good, $1.50@1.75 Lima, Cal
ifornia, per lb, 6Hc.
FISHPike, per lb, 8c pickerel, 4c crappies,
7@8c: bullheads, dressed, o@6c sunflsh, perch,
etc., 85c.
POULTRYDressed, undrawn, turkeys, fancy,
17c choice, 15c. old toms, 16c thin, young
toms, ll(gl2c, culls, 8@10c chickens, springs,
fancy, 12c spriaga, fair to good, 10c: hens,
fancy, lie fair to good and small, 9c, old roost_
ers and culls, 5@6c ducks, fancy, 'heads off, Nicollet ccunties, have acecpted the
12c ducks, fair to good. 11a geese, fancy,
heads off, ll@ll^c geese, fair to good, loc
LIVD POULTRYRoosters, 6c: hens, @10c:
springs, 10c geese, 10c turkeys, hens, fat, 18by
@14c, thin, small, 8glGc ducks, 10c.
PIGEONSTame, live, young or old, do*. 76
dead, 50@60c squabs, nesters, fancy selected,
live or dead, $2 small, poor and thin,
unsalable.
DRESSED MEATSVeal, fancy, 8c veal, fair
to good, TQT^c veal, small and overweight,
3%@4Hc mutton, fancy, 6@7c mutton, thin
and overweight, 45c fombs, yearlings, choice
to fancy, 10c thin or overweight, 4@6c hogs,
6%@6%c
RABBITSJacks, dos, 2 75@8: cottontails,
doz, $1.25@1 40, white, small, doz, 75c.
SQUIRRELSDoz, 60c.
BANANASJumbo bunches, $2 75@3 large
bunches, S2 25@2 50, medium bunches, S1.76@2.
DRIED PEASYellow, fancy, bu, SI 50 yel
low, medium, $1.25, green, fancy, $1.50 green,
medium, $110 marrowfats, $1.80.
GRAPE FRUITFlorida, box, $6.60.
ORANGESCalifornia navels, $2.T5@8.
LEMONSCalifornia, fancy, $8.75 choice,
$3.50.
APPLESBen Davis, brl, $5 Northern Spies,
brl, $5 7609 Jonathans, $6@6 50 Kings, $5.50
@6 Genetons, $3.50 Winesaps, $5 Tallman
Sweets, $5 25 Greenings, $5 50@6, Baldwins,
$5 Bellfloweis, bu box, 1.752 Gano, bu,
$2.25.
HIDES, PELTS, TALLOW, ETC.
No. 1. No. 2.
Green salted cured steer hides, over
60 Ibj 11% 10%
Green salted heavy cow hides, over
60 lbs Hty 10%
Green salted light hides, under 60 lbs.11% 10'A
Green salted hides, branded 11 10
Green salted bulls, stags, oxen or
work steers
8%
Gree salt*! long-haired kips, 8 to
25 H% 10
areenlbsaltedd
reen veal calves, 8 to 16 lbs. 13%, 12%,
salte deacons, under 8 lbs,
each 75 65
Green or frozen hides l&c less than green
salted. Horse and mule bides, large, *ach,.$3.0O$2.60
Horse and mule hides, medium 2 85 1.85
Horse and mule bides, small, each 1.70 1.20
Montana butchers, thort trim, light.. 18%
Montana butchers, long trim, heavy.. 18%
Montana butchers, long trim, light.. 18
Indian stretched 18
Montana calf, under 5 lbs 22
Montana kip, 6 to 12 lbs ..17
Iowa. Minnesota Dakota, Wisconsin
hides flt,
Tallow, cake
Tallow, solid
Grease Kx,
1
8
Dry bull hides ...13%
Dakota and Wisconsin calf, under
Bibs 22 20
Kips, 0 to 12 lbs 19 17
Dry salted, all sections.. 15 13
Dry horse and mule hides, each $1.50 1.00
Pelts, large, each ^'ISSHS
Pelts, medium, each 80 .90athletesat
lelts, small, each .80# .50
Fhort shearlings, each, green salted.. .15 .30
Dry territory butchers .1788 .18In
Dry territory murrains .loB .IT
Large.
Bear, black $20.00
Badger Cats, wilyd.:::::::::::::: 125
Fox 4 50
.red
Marten, dark 22 00
Marten, pale 6 60
Vtarten, brown 1100
Mink, dark g-00
Mink, pale f-25
Mink, brown -_i?2
Muskrat, winte* HSJ?
Muskrat. fall 18@14
Muskrat, kits
Raccoon
Medium. Small.
$14.50 $12.00
1.10
.90
3 25
.55
4 50
Abduction Charge Is Sequel to Youth
ful Marriage at .Winona.
WINONA, MINN.Some Interesting develop
ments have followed the wedding here last
Wednesday evening of Edgar Sager and Bertha
Anderson of Fairmont. It is reported that on
their arrival homo the bridgroom and his father,
who accompanied the couple to Winona, were
arrested by Sheriff Ward on a charge of abduc
tion, on which the bearing was continued to
Feb. 9, bail being fixed in the sum of $1,000.
When in Winona, the age of the girl was given
as 18 years, but it is said she is under 16. If
this be true, the chaige of abduction can stand,
as the wedding was 8R. elopement, and young
Sager had been forbidden the house by Ander
son, the girl's father. When the sheriff tool:
the two men in cnarge on the arrival at Fair
of the wedding party, the bride went to the
Sager home. Anderson and County Attorney
Palmer arc said to have gone there and de
manded the girl, Mrs. Sager at first refusing to
let her go, but it ended in the girl accompany
ing her father home. Abducting a girl under
16 years of age for the purpose of marriage is
an offense under Minnesota laws that can be pun
ished by a sentence of five years in the peniten
tiary. Clerk of Court J. J. Tripp, issued the
license and Judge 1). E. Vance performed the
ceremony here after the girl had sworn she was
18 years of age. Sager Is only 18, but his
father was present and gave his consent to the
wedding.
OVERCOME BY SMOKE
Albert
65 60
riB 200
.40
2-75
15.00
4.50 7.00 8.50 2.25 8 00
J.0 00
3.00 500 2 65
1.75 2 00
13gl
8 9
200 135 150 125
100
Skunk, black 2 00
Skunk, short striped.... 150
Skunk, long striped i-*J
Skunk, broad striped
and White
Weasel. whl*e, winter
caught 8"
Weasel, stained or oil
color
Weasel, all brown
Wolf, timber
Wolf, prairie,s casedfor
'.85
1.25
.60 .70
.50 .80
.55 .80
.40 .32 .20
05
4.00 1.75
1.75 1.25
1.50
.85
Thes price are No 1 large, medium and
smril- other goods are In proportion. For other
SI not quoted prices are about the same as
last year. ________
INSURANCE REFORMS
World's Work.
Certain changes in the law can help
make life insurance what it should be,
tho -wider public knowledge must be the
basis both for the law and the improve
ments. The law can make it easier to
understand what one pays for when hej
buys a life insurance policy, ana to pre
vent his being swindled bv false repre
sentations. The law can offer onlv
part of the remedy, but it can do this:
1 Forbid a life insnrance company
from selling anything but pure life in
surance policies.
2. Prescribe a standard policy, sim
ple and intelligible.
3. Eequire every policy to state on
its face both the total premium and the
items which go to make up that total
the mortality charge, the reserve and
the amount added to meet the expenses.
4. Bequire that all savings mor
tality, collections and interest on the
reserve assets be credited annually on
the next premium that will fall due.
5 Apply the savings bank law to
the'investment of life insurance assets.
6 Stop the robbery of unfortunate
policy holders in surrender values, and
make life insurance irrevokable. A
life insurance policy is not a personal
investment, but a protection for tho
policy holder's family or creditors.
MERELY DAMAGED.
Washington Evening Star.
"Have you broken your New Year
resolution?*"
"No answered the easy-going citi
zen. "It isn't exactly broken, but it'll
have to lay up for about eleven months
for repairs.''
Yale university is to have a com
mercial museum. The new institution
will be a working laboratory in con
nection with courses now offered in
commercial" geography by Professors
*e aad-Gregoryv
Lea Man Narrowly Escapes
Death in a Fire.
ALBERT LEA, MINN.A. V. Williams, who
was Hying in the Standard printing office build
was nearly killed by Inhaling smoke during
the Are that oke out in the basement, lie
was removed with difficulty and when once out
in the cold air, be collapsed. He recovered some
hours later 'lhe hre vtas contmed to the
basement and did little damage to the building.
There is consternation among the residents of
Riceland township, especially in the near vicinity
ox the. Wangen home, where the only case of
leprosy in the state exists. The demand has
been made that the patient be removed to some
Isolated place where he can be cared for without
too much danger to others. R. E. Wangen, the
victim of the disease, is without turn's and
asficient
the county system of caring for the poor is in,
vogue here, the county commissioners are at their
wits ends to know w*at to do. They cannot
send him to the joorhous and of course all
are closed against the unfortunate man.
The authorities of the township have written to
the state board of health to ascertain if the
ttate has made provision for carina for this
lass of contagious disease. As yet no reply
has been received.
ACCEPT NEW BRIDGE
Commissioners Take Over Structure
Across Minnesota River.
ST. PETER, MINN.Acting for their respec
tive boards, L. M. Erickson of this city and
Andrew J. Eckstein of New Ulm, chairmen of
the boards of county commissioners of Brown and
ne-w
bridge
T,
across the Minnesot a river at Hinde' man's
ferry, recently completed .by the Hennepin
Bridge company. The bridge was built Jointly
the two counties and its cost of construction
-was $4,000. These figures do not include the
approaches to the span, which will be built in
the spring by farmers living in the vicinity.
Residents of the western end of Nicollet
county and the northern townships in Brown
county, have long needed this bridge, as at cer
tain periods of the year the Hinderman ford
was impassable. It was also supported by the
officers of the Fort Ridgely Park association,
tbey reasoning that their plan to establish a na
tional park at Fort Ridgely would receive more
favorable consideration if the facilities for
reaching the reservation were improved
WILL BUILD NEW DITCH
County Commissioners at Ada Award
Large Contract.
ADA, MINN.The county commissioners have
awarded the contract for four ditches at an
aggregate cost of $27,600, to be completed be
fore next fall. A petition for three more ditches
was received, and the board decided to establish
one more.
A petition was filed with the county auditor
to have the course of the Wild Rice river
straightened so that it can fake care of the
surplus water during spring end at other times
when the river is high. The estimated cost
will be about $4,000, and will affect about
25,000 acres of land.
COAT SAVED HIS LIFE
Wisconsin Wolf Hunter Has Narrow
Escape from Being Shot.
GREEN BAY, WIS.William Cook narrowly
escaped being shot to death by a gun to the
hands of John 'McKay, who accompanied him
on a wolf-huntlngr* trip. The two men chased
two large timber rwotyB$ into, a deserted cabin,
and, while Cook was in one ropn"Bnd McKay
In another, the le:ttvtoo *chjace at the
wolves, the shot going thru"th waif'and lodg*
ing in Cook's coat. Before leaving the woods,
however, the Jittnters killed the two lkrge
wolves and a cub, which had done much dam
age in the town of Chase. The men brought
the carcasses to the city to receive the bounty
YAUB ATHLETES LONG-LIVED
Of 71 Who Have Competed Since 1855
Only Fifty-one Have Died.
New Work World.
New Haven, Conn.Dr. William G-.
Anderson, director of the Yale gym
nasium, has obtained data to prove that
least Yale athletesdo not
die younger than non-athletic persons.
support of his contention he says:
"Prof. Franklin B. "Dexter, librarian
of Yale, has submitted to me the
records of 761 athletes who competed in
intercollegiate events and won their
"Ys" at Yale on the baseball,-football
and track athletic teams and the crews
between 1855 and 1904. Of these 761
athletes fifty-one have died since grad
uation. The causes were: Consump
tion, twelve pneumonia, four drown
ing, six heart disease, two suicide,
two war and accident, three died
from unknown causes or disappeared,
ten from various diseases, twelve. Of
these fifty-one men, eighteen rowed,
sixteen played football, eleven were
track athletes and six played baseball.
If four who were drowned while young
be eliminated from the crew table the
average age is raised to 47.1 years.
"It is a widespread opinion that
athletes are liable to heart trouble, but
only two Yale men of this sturdy little
army have died from this cause. It
would Beem more significant that of
the fifty-one deaths sixteen were due
to lung affections, the sports engaged in
being football six, rowing four, base
ball two and track athletics four. It
would be unwise to state that athletic
training is a predisposing cause of
lung trouble, for they may be only
coincident.
"The criticism, therefore, that ath
letes die young is thus refuted. I have
been told by a life insurance expert that
college athletes, barring the track men,
show a better average expectation ot
life than their non-athletic classmates
and much better than the general
average of insured lives."
?ust
ENGLISH
STENOGRAPHER'S
Success
In some stenographic systems an a*
bitary sign may stand for one, two or
even three words. Sometimes the mis
translation of one of these signs leads
to funny results.
"The deed shocked the nation to the
heart core'' was what was said, and
the typewriter evolved. "The dead
shocked the notion to the hard car."
"The rumor was but transient, tho,"
was hardly recognizable* as The ram
mer was trains end thru.'' A rear end
collision was evidently in that girl's
mind.
"As manna fed to the Jews' was in
geniously tortured by another voung
woman into As mamma fed the jays."
Yet she was a Sunday-school teacher.
"Plays, creeps and laughs, the inno
cent, crooned the man one day, mouth
ing the opening verses of some project
ed baby verses. When the typewriter
tapped out '"jPlays craps and leaves
the innocent" he scanned her visage
closely.
When "But she held Jake too dearly
for that, and sopassed on" was dicta
ted and. it came out, "Bu she held
jacks, two, drawing for that and so
'iassed one," would it have been un
to credit the girl at the maehine
with an elementary knowledge of
gambling!
THE~THEOBIST.~ S!l\tl,
i- Washington Star.
Mv duty 'tis the world to teach'
i*'
Just how things should be run.
I go ahead and make a Speech
And feel my luty' done.
DULDTH GRAIN MEN
CRITICIZE YOUNG
SAY PROCEEDINGS WEBB
BROUGHT TOO HASTILY
AGAINST BOARD.
Oicial of Defendant institution Gives
Explanations Refuting All the
Charges Made by Farmers' Ex-
changeOne Indignant Member
Thinks the Superior Board Has a
Hand in Present Controversy.
Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Minn., Feb. 5.The suit begun by
state of Minnesota, thru Attorney General Young
against the Duluth Board of Trade is one of
great interest, not only to the members of that
organisation here, but to every board of trade
and stock exchange in the country. If the
charges made against the local board are suf
grounds for sustaining a claim of illegal
ity there is not a. similar organization in the
country that would not be in the same fix.
This is the assertion of those who have investi
gated the board's side of the controversy.
There is much criticism of Attorney General
Young's complaint, not because he has instituted
proceedings, but because he has Med coui
plalntin which are- embodied assertion which he
states to be "in his belief true." Grain men
here say that he could have easily ascertained
that the charges were entirely untrue. They also
say the name "farmers* exchange," and the fact
tbft some farmers are interested in the concern
making the complaint, may have led the attorney
general to bring bis complaint without investi
gating the other side of the case. An official of
the board said:
Says Charges Are Not True.
"The attorney general charges the Duluth
Bosrd of Trade with twice refusing the applica
tion of* the Minnesota Farmers' Grain Exchange
for membership, when he could hare found out
Tery easily that the said exchange never made
an application for membership. He also charges
that when the stock exchange began selling grain
thru the Duluth board it waa stopped from doing
so thru the action of directors of the board who
stopped all dealers from handling It, under pen
alty of being boycotted. That assertion is ab
solutely false. No such thing was ever discussed
at a board meeting, much less action taken. As
to the matter of handling tfce exchange's grain,
there is not the slightest thing to prevent any
Arm from doing so, if the business is transacted
in accordance with the commission rule of the
board, which every member is required to ad
here to. Whether a firm wishes to handle the
business or not is a matter for it to decide, and
by the same rule, grain men cannot be com
pelled to handle anyone's business whose respon
sibility may he in doubt.
"There is not a grain man In this market
who has not sustained losses at some time or
other thru country shippers. More than one
firm can toll of selling grain on which mortgages
or liens afterward turned up that required it to
be twice paid for. Is it any wonder, therefore,
that the grain man picks his customers with
great care?"
One of the largest firms here, according to re
liable information, charged off 8100,000 in ten
years, an averflgp of $10,000 a year. This repre
sented losses sustained in doing business with
country shippers. This is the ride of the busl
nes that the public never hears of, and the800
farmer never talks about. Minnesota laws, It is
claimed, are peculiarly favorable to the grower
Of grain as against the merchant.
Explains Membership Fee.
Another charge made by the attorney general
is that in further aid of the Iulut Board of
Trade's alleged conspiracy, a membership fee of
$1,000 is now demanded. The fact is the mem
bership is limited, and as the limit Is reached
it Would be impossible to gein admittance even,
by paying double the required fee. In this
respect the board Is like the Minneapolis Cham
ber of Commerce, the Chicago Board of Trade
and every other grain and stock exchange.
It is said here there is only one thing In the
entire complaint on which the state can fight
a case. That is that the commission rule is
a violation of the law. The rule here is claimed
to be no different from that enforced in other
exchanges, and that the right of exchanges to
make rules governing lt% members to their ad
vantage, as against outsiders, has been sus
tained by the courts in practically every In
stance. One- indignant grain man said today:
"It is frequently charged in the complaint that
the Duluth board is seeking to create a monop
oly of handling the grain at Duluth. The
Duluth board is an organization under the laws
of the state. It has established a grain market
here and the business here is done on its floors,
hut there is nothing to prevent any set of men
from organizing another board. It would un
doubtedly take considerable capital to place
itself on a paying basis, but the Duluth board
had to go thru a period of hardship. The Supe
rior board is today trying to establish itself
without paying the price Duluth did, and at the
expense of this market.
In this connection, grain men freely express
the opinion that it would not take a very search
ing Investigation to find the Superior Board of
Trade people at the bottom of the charges filed
with Minnesota's attorney general.
WOMAN BOUND AND BOBBED
Masked Men at Hibbing Gag Victim
and Steal $7.
HIBBING, MINN.School children found Mrs.
JonaS Johanicks in her home, bound, gagged and
tied to a chair. She stated that two masked
men had entered her house, seised and bound her
and then madfc a tboro search of the premises.
The woman owns several buildings and she is
supposed to be wealthy, but she says the robbers
secured but $7.
While a crew of men was making repairs on
a steam shovel at the Hull-Rust stripping, Sam
ma Cokkt, a Finnish laborer, was caught by theof
chain and pulled into the machinery, cutting off
both his legs and inflicting Injuries from which
he died at the hospital.
His right leg was severed at the hip and his
left leg was taken off about six inches below
the hip.
It was Cokkl's first day at work on the job
and he had not been employed more than two
hours,
1,200 FIBE AT ANOKA
Blaze Starts Under Bar and Destroys
Saloon and Building.
ANOKA. MINN.The Columbia saloon, run by
Swan Swanson, was destroyed by fire yester
day afternoon. The loss is estimated at $1,200.
The origin of the fire is unknown. The blase
started under th bar, altho the place was
empty at the time and had been unoccupied all
day. The second floor was also unoccupied. The
building is owned by Thomas Coleman and is a
two-story brick structure.
Fred Goes of this city, a lumberman employed
ln the Goes camp near Cass Lake, was run over
by a load of logs yesterday afternoon and one
leg was crushed. The accident occurred on the
drive, where Goes fell under the load. A
physician from this city was called to attend
the man.
FDJB AT OWATONNA
NEW S O TH E NORTHWEST
PACKERS NO NOT
WANT LAW CHANGED
MISSOURI RIVER CONCERNS PRE-
FER SHIPPING LAW.
Effort of South Dakota Interests to
Secure Amendment of Measure Lim
iting Number of Hours Stock Shall
Remain on Train Without Attention,
Is Not Regarded Kindly at Other
Centers.
Special to The Journal,
Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 5.The effort that cat
tlemen of South Dakota will make to secure a
chang In the law governing transportation of
mention of which has been made in these
dispatches, will not have the support of the Mis
souri river packing centers.
It should be known that the present federal
law requiring that live stock be unloaded for
rest and feed every twenty-eight hours, has
been in existence about a quarter of a century.
There was no pretense, however, to comply with
it till last year, when Secretary Wilson issued
instructions that the law be obeyed and threat
ened to piosecute railroads if It is violated. The
result is the law Is now being strictly enforced.
The law operates to the advantage of Kansas
City, St. Joseph, Omaha and Sioux City, for live
stock coming from west of the Missouri river,
too far to make Chicago within twenty-eight
hours. Is unloaded at one of these four points,
and naturally the owner wiU sell without going
on if the market is right. The run from the
Missouri river to Chicago is made usually in just
about twenty-eight hours, so that since the law
has been enforced, a lot of stock has been un
loaded at Missouri packing centers that other
wise would go to yards on the Mississippi river
for feeding.
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Marriage Reveals Romance.
A romance of forty-five years ago came to
light in the marriage yesterday at St. Louis of
Mrs. A. Gronlnger of Sioux City and Mahlon
Gore, former mayor of Orlando, Fla. Mr. Gore
formerly owned both the Sioux City Journal and
the Sioux City Tribune. In early days, before
Mr. Gronlnger married Caroline Reinke in 1860,
he knew and was fond of the young woman. But
both he and Miss Reinke married others. Mr.
Gronlnger died two years ago. While traveling
Mrs. Gronlnger again met Mr. Gore. This mar
riage followed and cansed great surprise in Sioux
City.
POULTRY SHOW CLOSES
Howard County Association Has Suc
cessful Exhibit at Cresco.
CRBSCO, IOWA.The second annual exhibit
of the Howard Cou.ity Poultry association elosed
Saturday night. The large armory building was
filled with a fine exhibit of chickens, turkeys,
geese, ducks and pet birds and animals. Nearly
(500 birds were entered for prizes. The exhibitors
from Minnesota were F. A. Smith and A. W.
Edson, Austin George P. Garblsh and A. A. Zie
mer, Waltham C. E. Symes, Blooming Prairie
B. F. Sullivan, Stewartville H. M. Yates, Albert
Lea B. D. Farrington, Fillmore, and F. A. Cro
well of Granger.
Among lhe prominent local exhibitors were
Frank Huber, L. S. St John, Will Scholz, Fred
Salisbury, a. B. Woodard. George L. Richards,
C. D. Nichols, George L. Champlln, H. Miller
R. W. Wade. A. W. Isbell and several others.
The association gave a chicken-pie supper to
guests. George D. Holden acted as Judge
and gave good satisfaction.
The corn exhibit in Connection with the poultry
show was a great success.
SHERIFF IS INSPECTOR
New Office Created in South Dakota
Given to Trathen.
DBADWOOD.
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Home of Charles W. Dupue Destroyed
While He Is Away.
OWATONNA, MINN.Fire destroyed the resi
dence of Charles W. Depue on North Cedar
street late Saturday night. The family was
away from home, so that the fire, which started
in the kitchen, had a good headway. A miller
going to work at night discovered it and called
the fire department, but it was too late for any
assistance. The house burned to the ground.
A valuable dog, which could not get out,
wasmissiontwentSouth
burned. The house, partially covered by insur
ance, was valued at $2,000.
DIED WITHOUT MAKING WILL
ST. CLOUD, MINN.County Attorney J. B.
Hlmsl has received notification from W. M.
Schindlcr, one of the supervisors of the town
ship of Krain, of the sudden death ot John An
derson, a Scandinavian farmer living ln the
northern part of the township. The matter tvas
presented to the county attorney for the reason
that the deceased made no provision for the
disposition of lis farm or personal property.
Anderson was a single man and as far as
can be learned had no relatives ln this country.
His estate consists of a valuable farm and
several hundred dollars worth of live stock. If
it develops that he was a citizen of the United
States and there are no living relatives, his
estate will come into the possession of the state.
Pending an investigation, Coroner J. B. Dunn
of St
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ove the prop-
of the Th Norwegianran Swed
ish consuls to the United States bsve been noti
fied of Anderson's death.
tbiiTstate createS. ttaMiSTMS!? %"*& number of dogs was about forty. The first i
inVne^tor TVE,2? ?1 J^l
tol?e
sioners to fill thfs position and has qualified him
self for the office. His duties will consist in
examining hides and seeing that the killing of
all beef Is properly done. The salary is by
the cattlemen.
This position is anImportant one in the cat
tle countr'y^and* one that has been needed fo
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cattle raised in Lawrencendcounty, yet lying as
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charge of selling bides without an inspector's
stamp. The man was put under $100 bond for
nis appearance.
GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN
Several Miles of South Dakota Land
Overlies Pure Water.
BELLEI FOUROHB. 8. D.It has been demon
strated that all of this country, from Minnesela
several miles up Hay creek and as far north
and east as Snyder's ranch below Snoma, overlies
a great artesian basin filled with the purest of
water. Frank Durst has Just struck a flow of
soft water with a capacity of 200 gallons a
minute. The well was driven on top of a hill
and is a little less than 700 feet deep. Be
cause of its location the entire farming country
can be ell irrigated. The sinking of these arte
sian wells is doing more to make this farming
country valuable than anything else that has
happened in its history. It is not only of ad
vantage In irrigating for agricultural purposes,
but also for stock raising.
$1 FOR ENLIGHTENMENT
South Dakota Receives Contribution
from New England.
PIERRE. S. D.The governor's office has re
ceived a letter from one ot the New England
ctates ln which was inclosed a 81 bill. The
onljr communication accompanying the remittance
was:
"Please find inclosed $1 for the enlightenment
your stattr, which sum ought to have been
mailed jot later than Dec. 81, 1008
As there is no enlightenment fund in the
state treasury the remittance will be returned to
the writer as not available.
The state land department for Januarv Issued
patents on full payments to 137 tracts of state
lands. Wh'le some ot these patents were issued
on matured contracts, most of them were in
cases where the purchaser preferred to pay a
year's intere'i. in advance for the privilege of
making fianl payments.
The largest number which went to any oue
comity was-twenty-Ave to Minnehaha. Yankton
secured IS. Union 11. Lincoln 10, Bon Homme
10, and the rest of the number was made up ln
smaller allotments scattered to practically all
the counties of the state where lands have been
sold.
The democratic state committee has selected
cream color as the official shade- for the ballots
of that party at the primaries this year This,
makes three selections so far: White for re*The
publican, red for socialists and cream for demo
crats.
ARRESTED AT WATEBTOWN
Standard Oil Driver of Huron Cap
tured by Sheriff.
HURON, S. D.Carl Brelsford. driver of the
tank wagon for the local branch of the Standard
Oil company, disappeared Friday. The wagon
nd team were found hitched in a ravine about
two miles from the city. Telephone communi
cation was had with the authorities at Water
town, and on tha, arrival of the Great Northern
train from HjMJPr*t that place, the sheriff of
Coddlngton county found Brelsford and took him
into custody. He was brought back here.
At tho Weste-'n Baptist Missionary Aid society
meeting at Omaha. Rev. T. M. Shanafelt of
this city was chosen superintendent of the work
of the society ln that Dart of the country west
from Chicago to the Pacific coast, but he has
not yet decided to accept the position. The ter
ritory covers eighteen states. Dr. Shanafelt has
served years as superintendent of Baptist
ln Dakota.
MINE MANAGER RESIGNS
Alexander Maitland Leaves One Con
cern to Join New Combine.
MARQUETTE. MICH.Lieutenant Governor
Alexander Maitland at Negaunee, confirmed the
report that he had resigned as general manager
of mines of the Republic Iron A Steel company
He retires March 1. when he will be succeeded
by 0. T. Falrbairn. at present assistant gen
eral manager of the Interstate Mining company,
idq with headquarter* a' Virginia. Minn. Maitland
rcrtiirit, tskR gsoeru roanag*anf of &e
Larue, Nassau. Croxton. Brunt and Hobart
mining companies, which are to be consolidated
mdef one corporation. AH control mines on the
Mcstfa.-*) *S
DEADWOO g. D.*-Th* North-Western will
put in a new bridge two miles from Deadwood
en the main line The steel beams have arrived
snd wllKreplaca the wooden structure sow
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JAPS SETTLE IN**
PLATTE CODNTRW
NIPPON SUBJECTS SECURE
TBOL OF 3,000 ACRES.
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Farmers Greatly Exercised over Bapid
Influx Along Government Irriga-K
tion DitchJaps Raise Large Crops-pJ
on Lands Supposed to Be Arid*
and Find Beady Market for Ev
thing.
Special to The Journal,
Omaha, Feb. 5.Farmers in northwest &**$
braska are greatly exercised over the fact thafe^.i-
300 Japanese have settled along the governments
irrigation ditch between North Platte and Garn-**i
sey. They have secured control of 3,000 mats?
of land soon to be watered by the great ditch,
and are showing the American farmers how to1''~'
make large sums from lands supposed to be arid,
by producing large crops of beets, potatoes ami'
celery.
The Japs were first brought to the NorthJ
Platte territory last spring to work in the sugar
beet and potato fields. They saw the advantage'
of owning lands by the big ditch and quietly,
organized co-operative companies. Gradually
tbey acquired the land until now they have 3,000
acres under their immediate control. Last year
tbey raised large crops, in many instances out
doing their American neighbors, both in quality
as well as quantity. It is at raising celery that
these sons of Nippon excel. They are partlenjj
lar about their farming, and as celery require*
great care, they aim to have every stalk not only
of even color, but about the same length and
size. The result is that they find a ready mar
ket for it nad command a much higher price.
Many new additions are being made to the
Japanese colony, and it is expected by midsum
mer that at least 2,000 Japs will be settled In
the North Platte country.
Yearns for Her Children.
Burdened with the weight of a century of"
years, destitute and with only one of the twelve
children she raised to care for and cheer her in
her few remaining hours, Mrs. Julia Massa of
this city lies on her deathbed, covered with
scanty, ragged clothing and praying fervently
that at least some of her children will come to-,
her bedside and receive a mother's dying bless
ing. Kind neighbors have taken It upon them
selves to do what they can to soothe the aged,
woman's last hour, as well as to grant her re
quest that her children come to her again.
One by one the children left home, and as
the days rolled by failed to remember ~thtr'
kindly old mother who had so tenderly nurtured
tbem in infancy. It is not strange, then, that
this old lady, who was 100 years of age on
Jan. 18, should yearn for one last look at
them. Two of the children are supposed to lie
living in the vicinity of Minneapolis, two- In
Iowa and one in California, but the whereabouts
of the rect are not known. With her son Jo
seph, Mrs. Massa has been living for some time
past in a little house. The son. who some years
ago lost a leg in a railway accident, is working
at odd jobs and anything he can do. He has
done his best to care for 'his feeble mother. The
father died ten years ago at the age or
years, and since that time mother and son have
struggled to provide a living.
WOLF HUNTERS BETTJBN
La Crosse Nlmrods Kill Three Largs
Beasts Near Green's Coulee.
LA CROSSE. WIS.After a long chase thro
the wUds of the county, the party of wolf hunt
ers that started ou with the wol
brought heroen'stNew from Albin Iowa, shot
larg timber wolves. At the start of the
bunt8e,h the farmers in the county reinforced the
pack of hounds with mongrel so that th
first wolf
the
the
wolves down and engaged in a fierce fight that
will incapacitate them from wolf hunting for a
week or more. Several of the dogs were badly
Injured. The hunters say that two other wolves
were sighted and injured by shots tho tbey were
unable to secure the qusrry after the hounds
had started it. The hunting party was com
posed of some of the most prominent men of
the city, including State Senator Thomas Morris,
Judge L. Kleeber, Editor A. Candrian, G. A.
Kaeppler, F. E. Withrow. G. G. Lang, John
Costly and others.
The habeas corpus proceedings before Justice
John A. Daniels to determine who Is entitled to
the custody of fl-year-old Edward Frigin, his.
father, John Frigin of Kansas City, Mo., and his
grandmother. Mrs. Ernest Groeschner of this
city, both claiming bim, have been decided ln
favor of the father and the child was ordered
turned over to him. The case has been appealed
to the circuit court. Frigin is now remarried
and lives ln Kansas City. He wants to take his
son there another son being now with him.
When the season opens on the Mississippi river
this year, the Sidney will be the first Diamond
Jo packet to be Disced in service, according to
the announcement made by the officers of the
company. Four thousand dollars worth of re
lalrs have been mad* on the craft and when It
goes into commission it will be one of the finest
steamers on the ut per river.
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FIGHT BIG DITCH SCHEME
Proposed Structure for Folk and Bel
Lake Counties, Opposed.
OROOKSTON, MINN.There promises to be
merry time at Erskine Feb. 13, when the hearing
on judicial ditch No. 5 is held before Judge
Watts. There Is considerable opposition to thi*
ditch, especially by farmers who live north of
where the survey runs.
The structure is to be forty miles long, the
longest in northern Minnesota. It originates in
Lake Sarah and runs thru part of Polk and
Red Lake counties.
One objection is understood to be that the fall
of water in the course will be so great *b*t
land to the north will be flooded every spring.
Another objection states that as the conntry
thru which it runs'is sandy, the ditch is really
not needed. It was thought at the time the
ditch was surveyed that it could be constructed
for |1,000 a mile, but those who oppose its
construction say that the cost will be at least
$1,600 per mile, which would change the as
sessment materially.
Both sides seem to be determined to carrj$
the case into the courts and long Is litigation
promised.
FLAN A NEW CHURCH
Congregationalisfs at Glenwood Will
Build Edifice Next Summer.
GLENWOOD, MINN.Steps are being taken
toward the erection of a new Congregational
church here this summer to cost about |8,000:
Lutheran society also expects to make lm-f
provements to the extent of about $1,000 on its'
building and grounds.
The new McCauley operahouse was opened t*f
the public with a grand ball given by Mrti
J. H. McCauley. More than 300 guests were
present.
PLATTVILLE, WISWhen the legislative1
committee appointed to investigate the University
of Wisconsin meets tomorrow, it is said it will
summon former Regent H. G. Taylor to explain
the sale to the university farm of several high
grade cattle at high prices while serving as
chairman of the subcommittee on agriculture.
PERHAM, HINtf.The Perham Commercial
club elected the following officers for the en
suing year: Amos Marckel, president Frank
Schroeder, vice president Dr. F. J. Brabec,
secretary R. G. Claydon, treasurer M. J.
Daly, J. W. Donobue, J. P. Ooughlln, L. E.
Davison and Dr. J. L. Berthold, executive com
mittee.
CLINTON, IOWA."A laboring man who
cheats his employer by shirking his doty Is a
thief and the labor union upholds him. It Is a
school of thievery," said Archbishop Keane ln aa
address at St Patrick's church yesterday.
DAB8SL, MINN.Leonard S. Graves has been
reelctid principal of the local school. This
will make his third year.
HATITELD, MNN.Mrs. Nels N. Lee. waft
lived with her husband on a farm four miles
northeast of here, died from carbolic acid poison
ing. She was in Ill-health, She leaves two
tinall children
SIOUX FALLS, 8. D.Farmers In the vicin
ity of Irene have been Induced to organise a
co-operative company to operate a department
store. The following sre the officers: Presi
dent, W. F. Mayer vie* president. Lars Kaar
holt treasurer, C. M. Peterson secretary, .$*.G.
Kjeldseth.
CHISH0LK, MUTM.Andrew Kirksnan.
Finnish laborer at the Meyer's mine, was killed
by a ran of loose ore. He was employed un
derground, and the ore, not more than bushel
ot loose stuff, cam* away from the face of
the stop and struck him directly on the bead,
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