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,13 48i S NS GENERAL PRODUCE" Official Quotations f the Minneapolis Produce Exchange, corrected up to 18 m Tuesday. Feb. 18. BUTTERReceipts yesterday. 10,845 pound*. Creameries, extras, 25%c creameries, firsts, 2%c: creameries, seconds, 18c dairies, extras, 24c dairies, firsts, ISc dairies, seconds. 15c tt.ll and prints, fancy, ,17c rolls and prints, choice. 15c renovated, firsts. 20c choice, 15c dairies, firsts, sweet, 15c seconds, 14c. packing stock, fresh, sweet, 15c stale, held. 10c EQG8Receipts yesterday, 44 cases. Cur rent receipts. No. 1. case connt, case, $4.50 current receipts. No. 1 candled, doz. 16c: fresh, dirties, candled, case. $2.25. checks and sec ends, candled, $2.25 refrigerated, candled, doa, CHEESETwins or flats, fancy, cured, paraf fined or unparaffined, 18@13^c fancy, new, 1214c, choice, cured, paraffined or unparaffined, lt%@12Vc choice, new. 10V,ailc fair, paiaf nned oc ucparafflutd, 10c dairies, fancy twins or flats. 14c choice, twins or flats, 12Mi&ll8c oft grades, twins o? flats, 10(t|ll%c Vouiig Americas, fancj in quality and regular in style. 14c: choice, 12%@13c off grades, 10@llMic, brick. No. 1. paraffined or unsaraffined, 1W No. 2. paraffined or unparaffined. Wc, off grades, raraffined or unparatfmed. 5 @7e. "ujburger, No. 1, 12%c No. 2. ll%Q12c: off grades. 5@7c. Swiss, fancy loaf. 16c choice. 13@l4c, off grade*. 0@llc: fancy block. 14c choice block! ll@12c off grades, SfclOc pultost 1. 8&e: off grades, 5@8c prlinost, No. i off grades 336 inPOTATOESCartots. HIDES, PELTS, FITKS, ETC. No. 1. No. 2. Green salted cured steer bides, over 60 lbs 7. iiy Pelts, large, each ...$1.10@1.BO Pelts, medium, etfeb 60 .90 Pelts, small, each 30 .50 Short shearlings, each, green salted.. .15@ .30 Dry territory butchers 17@ .18 Dry territory murrains IB .17 Tallow, cake 4%. 3% Fallow, solid 4% 3% Grease 4% S% 4 No 7c ONIONS-Spanish, crate. $1.75 Globe,.100 lbs, $1.50 ellow, per 200 lbs, $1.75 Valencia. ^CRANBERRIESJerseys, brl, $15 hu, $5 late Howes, brl, $18. CABBAGEPer lb, 2H VEGETABLESNew carrots, do*, Toe. new turnips, doz. 30c. beets, bu, 65c ciate. $3.23 carrots, bu. 50c celery, doz. 8BgJ 0c celery, California, crate. $4.50 do*. "OBOe. cucumbers, doz, $2, egg plant, doz, JM garlic. 10@12e lettuce,.leaf, 80c, lettuce heads doz. $2 mint. 40o onions, bunches, 75c parsley doz. 30c, Pliant. lb.8c. peppers, green, per basket, 0c radishes, round, doi hunches, 40c .utabagas. bu. 50c squash, doz $125iai75: spinach, bu. $125 turnips, bu '40e tomatoes, Florida, six-basket crate, $0 watercress, doz. 30c, string beans, bu, $5. HONEYExtra fancy white 1-lb sections. 14c, fancv white. 1-lb sections, 13c, choice white, 1 lb sections. l(c amter* 18c goldenrod, 12c extracted white, in cans, 7^c, extracted amber, 55c- white, mixed, carlots. sacked, 53c red, carlots. Backed, bu, 50c. small lots. 5c more weets, Illinois, brl. $3 50@8.75. Bl'CKWHKAT FLOURFancy, brls, $6.25: bales, 100 lbs. $3 25 choice, brls, $6 BEANSQuotations include sacks: Fancy navy, bu. $2- choice navy. $165 medium navy. fl.75, mixed and dirty. 45@70c brown, fancy. $2, mixed, fair to good. $1.50@1.75, Lima, Cali fornia, per lb, 6%c. FI8HPike, per lb, 8c pickerel. 4c crapples. large, 8@0c, small. 6@7c: bullheads, dressed, @6c snnflsh, perch, etc.. 3@5c. POULTRYDressed, undrawn turkeys, fancy, 18c: choice, 15c old toms. 16c thin, young toms, ll@12c, culls, 8@10c, chickens, springs, fancy. 13c springs, fair to good. 10@llc Bens, fancv, ll@12c. fair to good and small. 9c old roosters and culls, 5@6e ducks, fancy, heads off, 13c, ducks, fair to good, lie geese, fancy, heads off, ll@ll%c geese, fair to good, 10c. LIVE POULTRYRoosters, 6c, hens. 10@llc springs. 10@llc geese. 10c, turkeys, hens, fat, 15c, thin, small, 10@13c, ducks, lie PIGEONSTame, live, young or old, doz, 7oc dead, 50@60c, squabs, nesters, fancy selected, live or dead, $2@2 25 small, poor and thin, unsalable. DRESSED MEATSVeal, fancy. 8c veal, fair to good, 7@7^ie veal, small aud overweight, SVa@4%c mutton, fancy, 6@7c mutton, thin and overweight, 4@5c lambs, yearlings, choice to fancy, 10c, thin or overweight, 4@6c, hogs, 54@6%c. RABBITSJacks, doz, $2.75@3 cottontails, do*, $1@1.50 white, small, doz, 75c. SQUIRRELSDoz, 60c. BANANASJumbo bunches, $2.75@8 Iarg/ bunches $2 25(32 50 medium bunches $1.75@f DRIED PBAS-Yellow, fancy, bu, $1 50 yel Jow, medium, $1.25 green, fancy, $1.50 green, tnedium, $1,10: marrowfat, $1.80 GRAPE FRUITFlorida, box, $6 50. ORANGESCalifornia navels. $2.75@8. LEMONS-^-California 300s, fancy, $4 860s, fancy. $3.75, choice, $3.50. APPLESBen Davis, brl, $5g) 50 Northern pies, brl, $5.75(26 Jonathans, $66 50, Kings, |5 50@6 Sweets, $4 50, Greenings, $5 50@6, Baldwins, $5.60 Bellflowers, bu box, $1.75@2 Oano, bu, $2.25. 4 10% Green salted heavy cow hides, over OOlbs 11& 10% Green salted light hides, under 60 lbs.11% 10% Green salted hides, branded 11 10 Green salted bulls, stags, oxen or work steers 9% 8% Green salted long-haired kips, 8 to 23 lbs 11% 10 Green salted veal calves, 8 to 15 lbs. 13% 12% Green salted deacons, under 8 lbs, each 7B "85 Green or frozen hides l%c less than green alted. Horse and mole hides, large, each... .S8.00 2.60 Horse and mule bides, medium 2.85 1.85 Horse and mule hides, small, each.... 1.70 1.20 Montana butchers, short trim, light.. .10% Montana butchers, long trim, heavy.. .19% Montana butchers, long trim, light....18% Indian stretched 18% Montana calf, nnder 5 lbs 29% Montana kip, 6 to 12 lbs 18 Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin hides 17 16 Dry bull hides 13% Dakota and Wisconsin calf, under 5 lbs 22 20 Kips, 6 to 12 lbs 18 17 Dry salted, all sections 15 13 Dry horse and mule hides, each. $1.60 1.00 Medium. Small. 814 50 $12 00 Large, Bear, black $20.00 Badger 15 0 11 0 Cats, wild 1.25 90 Pox. red 4.50 3.25 Fox, gray SO .55 Lynx 7.00 4 50 Marten, dark 2200 15 00 Marten, pale 6.50 4.50 Marten, brown 11.00 7 00 Mink, dark 5.00 8 50 Mink, pale 3 25 2 25 Mink, brown 4 00 3 00 Muskrat, winter 17@18 Muskrat, fall 13@14 Muskrat, kits 4@5 Raccoon 2 00 1 35 .85 Skunk, black 2 00 150 1.25 Skunk, short striped.... 150 125 .50 Skunk, long striped 130 1.00 .70 Skunk, broad striped and white 70 .50 .30 Weasel, white, winter caught 80 .65 Weasel, stained or off color 40 .32 Weasel, all brown Wolf, timDer 4.00 1.75 Wolf, prairie, cased 1.76 125 These prices are for No. 1 large, medium and mall other goods are in proportion. For other furs not quoted prices are about the same as last year. 65 .60 200 .40 2.T5 .30 .20 05 1.50 85 TELEPHONE RATES New Light on the Problem from the New York City Company. New York Times. Even more interesting than the so long-delayed announcement that public tio laudatio of what his company' had done, the general manager made what is, we think, the very first admission that ever came from a Bell official that the cost of maintaining a telephonic service does not always, and will not al ways, increase at a rate faster than the Increase in the number of subscribers. We have heard, ahl so many, many times, that the telephone business was unlike every other business in the world in that it could be more cheaply con ducted on a small than on a large scale. We have had numberless elaborate dem onstrations that this claim was true, and some points made in some of the demonstrations, it must be confessed, carried an inconvenient amount of con viction with them, even to those of us who had given special attention to the abject, instead of contentingor dis contenting1ourselves, like the rest of the great army of telephone users, with growling against the tolls on general principles. Not satisfied with the usual grafting adopted by floriculturists, a French man* M. Molliard, of Paris, has started in.to transform vegetables. Already he has succeeded in turning a radish into a potatoaccording to a recent consular report. Father Aeby, a noted miser, has died at Berne, aged 70. When he was 22 a fortune was be Queathed him, and from being a spendthrift he state of preservation, sold for $2.25. Tuesday Evenings ORIGIN OF NEW SLANG SHROUDED IN MYSTERY For the past six months those who in dulge in up-to-date slang have been saj'ing twenty- three.'' The meaning of the expression has been too obvious from its use to require a definitionit is the equivalent and the successor of "ge thee hence," "g 'long," "on your way," "skiddoo," and other methods of conveving the impression that the party of the first part desires the immediate departure from his pres ence of the party of the second jart. But the origin of twenty-three'' is a mystery. The New York Evening World has asked its readers who can throw any light on the subject to do so. Some delving bookworm has traced it back to Charles Dickens and instances that when Sidney Carton, the hero of A Tale of Two Cities'' was summoned to the tumbrel to be driven to his finish on the guillotine his number was twen ty-three. The book worm asserts- that the number has since been associated "with a quick departure. Somebody else advances the theory that not more than twenty-two horses are started in the big handicaps, and that all over that number are sent back to the stable. On the race track, he says, twenty -three means to go back to the stable. A victim of superstition writes that the number "23" is prominently dis played over the entrance to J. P. Mor gan 's office at the southeast corner of Nassau and Wall streets, and takes it as an omen of bad luck. The play that gave "twenty-three" wide-spread popularity is now in Min neapolis, "Little Johnny Jones," and sacked. Burbanks, bu. its author, George M. Cohan, says he doesn't know where it came from, ex cept that he heard it in San Francisco. Tom Lewis who plays the detective and says: "twenty-three for you," however, has a theory that seems rea sonable. "I was originally a gambling term,*' he says, "used in connection with a dice game, worked by grafters connect ed with the circus. Twenty-three was the throw of the dice that got the money, and when it was called it was also a signal for the cappers to get out of the'way qi\ick before the victim I made a roar to get his money back, It would be used with variations some times such as 'eighteen and five,' 'eleven and twelve.' The Cappers would do a little mental arithmetic and then hike for the tall timber." DOCTOR SUES FOR FEES Complicated Litigation Over Question of Treatment Given Pauper. WINONA, MINN.The question of whether a town may be compelled to pay for physicians' services rendered to a pauper who was not in destitute circumstances prior to the injury which rendered these services necessary, is to be appealed to the supreme court. Dr. Bobbins of this city brought action against the town of Homer for services in attending Kichard Lessard, an alleged pauper, who had fractured his arm The case went to the supreme court on a de murrer, and was sent back for a new trial, the supreme court holding that the doctor was enti tled to recover. At the last trial in the district court the jury returned a verdict in the sum of $135 for the plaintiff, but dismissed the action on its merits and charged the costs to the plain tiff. The appeal is. now being made to secure a final decision. More than 1,000 people attended the annual reunion and banquet given yesterday bv the Winona County Old Settlers' association." The membership of the association is now over 900 Piesldent D. E. Vance reviewed the history of the association, and the addresses were made by 0. O. Wilson of Rochester and Dr. W. W. Mayo, also of Rochester. MAY BUILD NEW SCHOOL Union Services Begin at Auditorium with Large Attendance. STILLWATER, MINN.The opening of the gospel union services at the -auditorium was a pronounced success. The building was packed from parquet to balcony. Rev. S. J. Kennedy, pastor of First Presbyterian church, piesided. Rev. F. L. Balmer, rector of Ascension Epis copal church, read the Scripture lesson Ret. Israel B. Bergstrom, supply at the local Baptist church, offered the invocation. Other ministers on the stase were- Rev. W. J. Walt, M. D. church Rev. J. W. Dixon, Congregational church. The address was delivered by Rev. 0. P. McOiU of Minneapolis, and it was dra matic in some of its features. His theme was "The Soul's Tragedy," his te\t being taken from the writing on the wall which Daniel interpreted to King Belshazzar. SCHANDEIN WILL CASE Jury Will Hear Issues of Fact Raised at Recent Trial. 10 00 3.00 5 00 2 65 1 2.00 Lisette Schandein, which gives Emil 13@14 Schandein and Mrs. Ella E Frank the income 8@ 9 M^J5*&a^*S..%LSaai^2, IOWA MILWAUKEE, WIS.Judge Halsey has de 75 n^l^t^^^nt^? KlK *e president ofcit thesome Concordia college. He $JMrs on^ property worth $625,000an the residue of an estate $7,000 to,the third, s- child, Mrs. Clara Cassa MAY CAUSE PARTY SPLIT Trouble Results Over Pirst Experience to Dodge Primary. the caucuses, a meeting of the democrats was called for last night at which time nomination papers were passed around for former Mayor Darl Hamme lbeb eln telephone calls Within a borough are to signatures could obtainehde to stay off any op- P. W. Eddy, Jamestown. bo reduced in price to O cents, IS the position. Anticipating such a move,a Humphrey The issuance of embalming licenses to these fact that in the Course of his explana- Pierce, another former mayor, came out in a sixteen brings the total number of licenced em- republican paper last evening that he would balmers In the state to ninety-three. The also be a candidate. Pierce's action in mak- diplomas will be sent out by Dr. H. H. Healy, ing his candidacy known before the Hammel secretary of the state board of health, meeting caused trouble in the ranks, and to an extent never known under the old system In vogue before La FoUette's pet law was put in force. Rev. John McCoy, who recently resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian church here, has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian church at Eau Claire. He will take up his new duties next Sunday. ganization should not be disbanded and the re spondents enjoined from exercising the duties of their offices. NORTHFJELD, MINN Lincoln's birthday was celebrated by a patriotic service at the auditorium. Ell Torrenoe of Minneapolis, former commander of the A. R. delivered the ora tion on Lincoln The St. Olaf bank rendered program of apprtpriate selections, assisted by Miss Jessie V. Payne of Carleton college as eclolst. SPRING VALLEY, MINNThe German Evangelical parsonage was wrecked by fire, caused by a defective flue. Loss $200 fully in sured. HASTINGS, MINN.There were 646 births and 205 deaths-in Dakota county during the past year. Hastings had thirty-seven deaths and sixty births. POLITICAL GUNS TO BOO FEB. 21 IOWA'S GOVERNOR OPENS CAM- PAIGN NEXT WEDNESDAY. Cummins Decides to Make Formal An- nouncement of His Candidacy for Third Term at a Monster Republican Bally at Fort Dodge, Capital of Tenth District and Home of Senator Dolliver. Special to The Journal. Foit Dodge, Iowa, Feb. 18.Wednesday, Feb. 21, has been set for the formal opening of the campaign of Governor Cummins of Iowa for another term, in the Midland theater of Vila city. Plans for a republican led-letter political meeting will soon be completed, and it is ex pected to be the greatest republican rally that 8 northern Iowa has undertaken for years. Lead lng republicans from the third, eleventh and tenth congressional dlstiicts are expected to be present. Altho this will not be the initial gun of the governor's campaign, it will be prac tically the opening of It, and so regarded, The matter of third term which has been used in connection with his name is seemingly not offensive to the governor's supporters in this distrlpt. And it is to this fact in all proba bility that he has chosen the capital of the tenth to formally open his campaign. Rumor has it that he will take advantage of the op portunity to refute the allegations that heUias an ambition for Senator Doliiver's place in the United States senate. This charge has been laid at his door repeatedly by friends of Iowa's Junior senator. The rumor comes from a source that allows of no doubt as to ithsa genuineness and leaves no room for denialI. Governor Cum mins halsualwayfsthat^heU fmalsd an? hiel gal? fo of Long Prairie Considers Erection $40,000 Building. _., LONG PRAIRIE. MINN A mass meeting was held here to discuss the question of erect ing a modern public school building to cost approximately $40,000. The general sentiment seemed favorable. The Todd county merchants' association held its annual convention with a banquet at Hotel Reichert in the evening. There was a large at tendance. James Johnston of Bertha township, a farmer, has annotneed his oandidacy for senator of the fifty third district in osposition to Senator Wood. REVIVAL AT STILLWATER MANY WANT POSITION Flock of Applicants Appear for Super intendent Hicks' Position. FARGO, N. D.There will probably be as many applications for the superlntendency of the Fargo schools as when the board last fall se lected Supeiintendent Hicks from a field of thirty or more. Mr. Hicks baa resigned to ac cept a better position in Cleveland, and many are after the place. The list of applicants In cludes many in the state who have been success ful There is also a favorable sentiment toward the selection of a North Dakota man. tho It is not known how the board stands on that propo sition. The fact that a new man must come by March 1 makes the matter more difficult. Professor Aaker of a local business college wilL be in the mayoralty race. He was a former resi dent of Moorhead and was mayor of that city ^.IJ^LSJ has been in ibi years anS.I an avowed prohibitionist. It is said that he will ,i make the race on a closed town proposition. His candI( i no 0f Charles Quarles, attorney for the residuary t-upreme court on the change of venue and the legatee, and for Jacob Heyl, executor of the extra attorneys engaged in the prosecution of estate under the will, when asked if the af- the case, one of whom is said to have received fldavit of prejudice would be filed against the $100 a day for the four weeks In which he was people and a change of venue be asked, said engaged that no decision had been reached on this point and that he was not prepared to say at the present time whether steps would be taken to have the case transferred to another county. APPLETON, WIS.The initial experience with successful ones are: George A. Bodmer, Ken- the primary election law over a mayoralty con- mare F. A. ^Argne, Hamilton Charles Ohnstad, test ls liable to cause a split in the democratic Willow City W. D. Prentice, Cogswell Ben- party of Appleton. As It is no longer possible jamin Homanson, Souris Emil Johnsgaard, Bot- to railroad a candidate thru for nomination at tineau A. D. Davis, Dickinson 0. A. Lestrud, ide a th eno HASTINOS, MIKN,A writ of quo warranto has been filed in the district -court citing C. CHARGED WITH BIGAMY Frank Tragard, a Railroad Brakeman, Arrested at Monroe, Iowa. a At a sale in England the other day .._ some Hogarth engravings, in a good i^l^ Clarkson. Andrew Anderson, Iver Mortenson and another wife, KateyTragard. She also found that hazing somethe freshmen,anotheone and studentremainder was sus- Jacob Findular, president and trustees of the A^mrji^-f^ -Mj-%yt- MINNESOTA *tio regardedwio the senator aseffort a friend make no to 8wr as long as Senator Dolliver desires to hold the office. It is understood that the governor will debate and defend the Dolliver rate bitf. In fact, the advertising matter now being prepared for the meeting admits as much, and he will explain in detail, as he did at a recent meeting at Primghar, his own experiences with the railroads and the influence of the railroad lobby. The keynote of the campaign will no doubt be sound ed in the explanation of why the Blyth forces are opposing the passage of the primary and antipass bills. Local republicans friendly to the governor are looking forward to an old-fashioned rally, the like of which has not been witnessed in northern Iowa for many years. GOOD SPRING PROSPECTS South Dakota Counties Anticipate Great Activity in Few Months. LAKE PRESTON. S. D.The flood tide of immigration will strike South Dakota this spring The region west of the Missouri will be the scene of the greatest activity. The settlers have taken advantage of the open winter to push out to the land, and filing has been going on rapidly at Pierre and Chamberlain. All avail able lands in Lyman and Stanley counties are being picked up rapidly. New towns are building and others projected. Piesho, on thp Milwaukee extension) has grown from nothing to 1,000 in a year. Midland, on the surveyed line of the North-Western, con fidently expects a similar growth in the spring. The town will be platted and lots put on sale in March. Letters from prospective residents are pouring In from all parts of the country in quiring for definite statements as to the future of the town. Work In the cuts and on bridges Is being pushed by the North-Western during the winter months,. The temporary brldg across the Mis souri at Pierre can only be used during the win ter months, and will have to be rebuUt next winter. The permanent bridge will not be ready for use before 1907. The Gregory County Interstate Telephone company has been organ ized at Bonesteel and is pushing its lines west along the extension of the Milwaukee. Will the soil produce crops? Some stockmen smile and say the land will soon be for sale after patented. Others declare that as good crops can be raised here as east of the river. If vegetation can be taken as an indication, the soil should be good. The grass is better here than east of the river. There is no rock on the land and no sand. It is believed by many of the ranchmen who have been long on the ground and have experimented with the soil, that the land will be sufficiently productive to make excellent homes for the settlers. Their experience shows that there is an increase of moisture-retaining with each year of cultiva tion. lnK a regarde$4,693 seriously, countyy paid out Heyl.f ot the Murph case brought her from Ward The decision of Judge Halsey may result in' A bill for that amount will be sent the Ward a trial of the case, which was appealed from county officials, but it will not represent the the county court, where Judge Carpenter sus-, total cost of the trial, as there are the expenses tained tho will, being had in another county.' Eistoryto 84e for the trial the preliminary hearing, the appeal to the EMBALMEBS' EXAMINATION Sixteen of Thirty-one Applications Pass Examination at Grand Forks. GEAND FORKS, N. Sixteen of the thirty one applicants who took the examination of the state board of embalmers passed the examina tion ahd have been issued state licenses. The l^Kf,* MONROE, I0WA.T-0n complaint of Mabel Tragard,'" Frrnk Tragard was arrested here for bigamy. The woman claims they were married in Fremont, Neb., last August. On coming determined""to" put down hazing at any cost. Re- here she alleges that she found Tragard had cently several of the older students were caught Insuranc polic had been changed, making pended for year, for the village of Lilly Dale, to show cause why the or- Kate Tragard the beneficiary Instead of Mabel cf the nresent semester, and others from one Tragard, as it was originally taken out. Tra- week to one month, while a_ cadet was reduced gard, who is a_ railway brakeman, figured In i sensational assault case recently. WHALEY ENTEBS AEENA Clay County Man After Nomination for Sheriff. MOORHEAD, MINN.The first one to enter the political arena in Clay county is Archie Whaley of Hawley, who filed yesterday for the nomination as sheriff at the republican prima ries. Mr. Whaley opposed John M. Bayer, the present incumbent, two years ago, and polled a good vote. A six weeks' training school for teachers will be held at the Moorhead normal school as usual next summer. The school will open on June 21 and close Aug. 1. ABERDEEN, 8. D.The three banks at pres ent doing business In Aberdeen have combined resources of $2,065,100 32. A fourth bank will begin business on Feb. 15, and a fifth Institu tion is a possibility {&-\4\ TOE Ml^NEi*6LI'B JOUfeNAt. TODAY'S NEW S OEiTHE^NORTHWES (MICT1AB0R0N GOOD ROADS WORE & TBI-COUNTY ASSOCIATION Delegates to Meeting at St. Cloud Adopt Resolutions Asking for State Legislation on Several Important QuestionsElection of Officers Re sults in Selection of Carl Mathie for President. i r..t.:f^^.cxA^.x'Xx4a: Special to The Journal. St. Cloud, Minn., Feb. 18.The Trioounty Good Roads association, consisting of members from Stearns, Benton and Sherburne counties, held a most successful meeting last night and elwted the .following officers President. Carl Mathie of St. Clpud vice presidents, Stearns county, C. M. Sprague of Sauk Center Sherburne county, D. M. Campbell, town of Haven Benton county, Jo seph H. Coates, Sank Rapids secretary, H. 0. Ervin, St. Cloud treasurer, 0. h. Atwood, St Cloud. Resolutions were adopted favoring state legis lation for the use of convict labor in the prepara tion of~road material fpr free delivery to coun ties that national government provide by legisla tion for co-operation with the state that the cash payment system be substituted for the stat uto labor tax. The meeting indorse4 the under taking to perfect a igcoct road from the twin cities across Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wadena and Hubbard counties to Itasca state park, also a good road from Sts' Cloud to Sauk Rapids, across Benton county to Mille Lacs lake. Following the meeting a banquets was given at which_ addresses ^ere made by President Mathie of St. Cloud, Frank M. Eddy of Sauk Center. Senator Bpuwcr W St Clond aid George W. Cooley, president of the state asso ciation. ENGINE CRKWJMDN'T KNOW Wreck Occurs and Three Cars Are Left Behind. ..i^ a, ft jaX&. freight teal* on th Milwaukeed line betweenurn1t ty th^T*^ to town It required sev eral hours' workla clear th track. The varioursa committees having In charge the annual, meetlnp of theo ltyo SOUTH DAKOTA FA- VOBS PRISON LABOR. VheaHge! Aberdeen ahd Linton oecujiar acciden that caused the a train crew noi*nd of'annoyance. Four mllea the third car from fh^Trear, broke ahd let the trucks down on the track The wheat car was derailed, and thhee coupling with the car in front disconnected. The air brake system was un w ??*,nee. %n ^u and firemen knew nothing of the accident until thev pulled into Aberdeen and discovered the conductor, brake men, caboose and two other cars were missing. A special was sent to the scene of the ac cident and the passengers on the passenger train, which was behind the wrecked freight, taken on and broughtPerfectine. their plans for South Dakota Travel-e Me association be held here Jun 1 2 the gathering. One of the attractions will be the merchants' floats, which will be modeled after those in the famous "Veiled. Prophet'* paraides af St. Louis. Special efforts will be made to provide attractive entertainment *or women visitors to the city, and Aberdeen ex ects entertain the largest ctowd in her during the two days the traveling men and their friends are in town. Fearing the hotel and lodging houses will prove Inadequate to meet the demands, comfortably furnished tents will be placed on vacant lots to accommo date the overflow. The traveling mem have adopted the follow ing rally "Its up to yon to be at Aberdeen June 1 and 2. Skidoo." It promises to become as famous as the cry of last year, "On to Watertown. The water It fine." Rov. W. J. Calfe of Kansas City, Kan., a noted evangelist, has been engaged by the First Methodist church to conduct a revival meeting here in April. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Vermillion in Doubt About Taking Over Two Plants. VBRMILlIlONV S. D.Sentiment seems to be growing here that some move should be made looking to the purchase of the waterworks and electric light plants. The theory is held by many that with municipal ownership of both plants, the city could not only better the service but would reduce the cost to patrons.. There are others, however, who question the advisabil ity of buying either Dlant, especially as the city would have to be bonded heavily to make the deal. Just at present the taxpayers of Vermillion are paying about all they can rea sonably stand, and this may have a great deal to do with the defeat of bonds should they be voted on. Practically every cent of money that goes into the city treasury comes thru taxation. Revenue from other sources Will not exceed For some time the Milwaukee company has been desirousu of^ienlarging it, stockyards in this city, butt,f*inr orderl to do this the company was compelled t.....brlns proceed- ???r$500. lot t0^i ee .,condemnation the ness stand testified that the lots were worth at least $100 each to her. She is the principal owner, having eleven of the fourteen lots in her name. However, the Milwaukee company can have the bunch of lots at $50 per lot. as the owners have signified their intention to accept the- Jury's verdict. PUNISHMENT FOB HAZEBS Brookings College Deals Out Sentences to Several Students. ABERDEEN, S. D.The faculty of the South Dakota Agricultural college at Brookings is from first lieutenant to private. There was much indignation, expressed by the students, but the faculty is standing pat and the students im plicated in the hazing have decided to take their punishment. VOTniG AT SIOUX FALLS Special Election in Progress on Court house Proposition. SIOUX FALLS', S. D.-i-The voters Of Butte county are today having a special election on the proposition of issuing bonds in the sum of $40,000 for the construction of a county court house building. The countyr which is in ex cellent financial condition, needs a modern court house badly and it ls believed thp proposition wUl carry. If the bonds are voted they will be Issued in denominations of not less than 4100 or more than $1,000. They will bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent and will be due and payable in twenty years after the date of their issue. The county will reserve, -the right to take up the bonds at the expiration of five years, or multiple of five years, if It wishes to. SCHOOL FUND IN GOOD CONDITION SOUTH DAKOTA'S EDUCATIONAL FINANCES KEEP INCREASING. Total Amount Is Now Nearly $5,000,- 000 and Commissioner Bach Keeps It Busy Drawing Income to Kelp Re- duce Taxation in School Districts Every County Holds Investments for First Time in State's History. Special to The Journal Pierre, S. D., Feb. 13.The school funds of this state are in a remarkably healthy condition. On Jan. 1 the total amount was $4,670,326.81. This was either loaned on real estate, to coun ties or municipalities, or stood to the credit of the state in the way of deferred payments on lands that have been sold. This sum is drawing 5 and 6 per cent Interest, which Income goes directly into the school funds of the different counties for the use of the schools. Up to four years ago the whole amount drew 6 per cent, but the rate was reduced to 6 per cent, and since that time .a sum of $2,000,000 has been placed at the new rate, much of It being money paid on the old~C per cent loans and reloaded at the reduced rate. The balanee Is still in the 6 per cent list, either as old loans at the 6 per cent rate, or as deferred payments on sales made prior to the time of the redac tion in rate. These deferred payments at the present time amount to $1,634,776.54, and every year sees a large amount of this paid in forcing it into the lower rate class, and it will not be many years before the whole fund will boat the 6 per cent rate. Nearly $700,000 in Loans. For the year 1005 the loans of the fund were $676,626.50, of which $865,495.74 was sent out from the office, and the balance reloaned by the counties as paid in to them on old loans. The department has been taking up many sound municipal loans the past year, but out of the total amount loaned for that period more than half a million dollars was on farm property that class of loans always taking up a larger part of the fund than all others combined. The sum of $58,650 was loaned to school districts $87,450 to municipalities and $45,000 to counties for last year. Faulk county took the required cash from the school fund for the erection of its new court house municipal loans were made in the counties of Codington, Day, Grant, Gregory, Hamlin, Hyde and Moody and school district bonds, running from $200 in Stanley to $11,600 in Ham lin county, were made during the year. For th first time in the history of the state every county now holds investments of the per manent school fund. Stanley never asked for any of the fund previous to the past year, but in organizing its school districts it is finding a place for the cash. At no time within the past year has the permanent fund been allowed to accumulate, and it has all been kept busy drawing the income which helps reduce local taxation in the school districts of the state. It is the hope of Commissioner Bach that he can bring this fund for distribution up to half a million dollars for this, his last year in the office. CROSS I N THE HEAVENS Bare Phenomenon Is Seen by Citizens at Moorhead. MOOKHDAD, MINNA fiery cross in the heavens, such a phenomenon as that which ls said to have Induced the Emperor Constantine in 813 A.D, to become a Christian, was witnessed here, laft night between 8 and 9 o'clock. To scientists the phenomenon is known as double halos, appearing about the moon in dia meters of 45 and 90 degrees. Extending perpendicularly entirely across the halos was a broad shaft of light, while another shaft somewhat fainter appeared horizontally, forming a perfect cross. At the top of each halo was a crescent of light which greatly added to the beauty of the sight. 'A single halo about the moon is of frequent occurrence, but the double halo ls said to be very rare and in ancient times many miracu lous events were attributed to its appearance. Among the chief of these is related of the Emperor Constantine, who in 813 A. D. Was marching at the head of his army against Max entlus. In the night the emperor related that be had seen, stretched across the heavens, ah Immense fiery cross, and this he Interpreted as a sign that the Christian religion, whose sym bol the cross was, was the true and only re ligion, and he forthwith allowed himself to be baptized and became a convert. FOUR ENTER RACE FOB SENATE Mayor of Ely Is Latest to Announce His Oandidacy. BVELETH, MINNFriends of Patrick R, Vail, mayor of Ely, announce that he will be a candidate for senatorial honors In this district, the forty-ninth, of which* he ls not now a resi dent, but into which he soon will move to take care of bis interests in a brewing company at Virginia. This makes the fourth name mentioned for this office, the others being P. B. Dowllng of Eveletb, William Brown, a Duluth, Mlssabe & Northern conductor, and L. A. Barnes, alderman of the seventh ward In Duluth. ,Vall has been In politics before. In the ses sion of 1807 he was a member of the lower house as representative ttfisn the fifty-fourth district, which then Included Cook. Lake and St. Louis counties. He first engaged In business in this part of the state at Tower, where he opened a saloon in the early days of the town, twenty or more years ago. He also engaged In the hardware business and went to Elv when that town was founded. He owns property in several of the mining towns and is Interested In the clothing business at Ely. COUNCILMAN OUSTED District Court's Decision Settles East Grand Forks Controversy. EAST GRAND FORKS, MINN.-Ju.dge Watts in the district court has filed a decision ousting Councilman Jarvls and seating his opponent, August Boerchers. The decision of the court finds that there were four fraudulent votes cast and counted in the election, and that of these Jarvls received three and Boerchers one., This ?oundtho ave latter a majority of two on the ballots be regular. The case has been a long drawn out one and lt ls likely that the decision of Judge Watts will be appealed to the supreme court. WILL BUILD MODEL BOAD Government to Construct One Mile of Highway in Valley. OROOKSTON, MINN.Word has been re ceived here that the department of agriculture of the United States Is to construct one mile of model road In Minnesota and North Dakota some time during the coming summer. A "letter received by F. D. Bell, agent of the Great Northern, asks If lt is desired to have the road constructed in this vicinity. The proposition will be taken up at once by the business men with the idea of having the road constructed between here and the state experiment farm, north of the city. CHILD DRINKS POISON Farmer's Tot Has Narrow Escape from Death. GARY, MINN.A 2-year-old daughter of John Dleckman, living on a farm near here, drank the contents of a bottle supposed to contain picture gliding. When the child's mother dis covered, it its jaws were firmly locked and had to be pried open to allow the administration of an emetic. It was feared that death would ensue, but later reports say that it ls thought the child will recover. RECORD FOB GRAIN STOCK 17,760,000 Bushels Now Beported at Head of the Lakes. DULUTH, MfNN.Grain stocks at the head of the lakes now amount to 17,760,000 bushels, the largest total on record. This includes 1,000,- 000 bushels of grain in Duluth-Superior harbor. The total elevator capacity is about one-half occupied. The bulk of the wheat In store Is in elevators on the Duluth side. Stacks In creased 360,000 bushels last week, of which 200,000 bushels was wheat and 112,000 bushels flax. The rest was other grain. "r ._, February 13, t'900. MONTANA irAf CROOKSTON, MINN.Fire has destroyed the Bchoolbouse at Emerson with all Its contents. Including a valuable library. The loss ls esti mated at $16,000, partly injured. agjfi3--- 4, RULING RELIEVES LIFE SOCIETIES ATTORNEY GENERAL RENDERS AN IMPORTANT DECISION. Beneficiary, Protective or Relief In- surance Companies Not Compelled to File Articles of Incorporation and Written Appointments of State AgentsSupreme Court Affirms Judgment for $15,000 in Personal Injury Suit. Special to The Journal. Helena, Mont., Feb. 18.In response to a communication from Secretary of State Yoder, Attorney General Galen has rendered an opinion in regard to the filing of articles of incorpora tion and written appointment of state agents by foreign mutual, protective and relief or bene ficiary Insurance companies in which it is bfeld that they cannot be compelled to so act or prevented from doing business In Montana, for failure to do so. This decision by the attorney general stands as the law unless a contrary ruling shall be made by the supreme court. The particular case in question was that of the Railway Employees' Mutual Protective so ciety, a California corporation. The concern was not organized for profit, pays no salaries or commissions to agents or officers and expends its funds for the mutual protection and relief of its members. Attorney General Galen finds that, while the law of 1901 relating to foreign corporations is broad enough to include every kind and de scription, and requires the filing of articles and designation of state agent, that sections 706 and 721 except benevolent, fraternal and secret societies from its operation, and that there has never been enacted any law providing for such requirement on the part of the excepted com panies. "Therefore, in the absence of legislation sup plementing section 11 of the constitution, we have no law under which foreign insurance cor porations of the excepted classes can be required to file articles of incorporation or statements or Written appointments of agents upon whom process may be served," concludes the opinion. The decision is a most important one, affect ing, as it does, the virtual taxation of all bene ficiary Insurance societies operating in the Windfall for Woman. Judge J. M. Clements in the district court has ship, Judge Clements awarded her the residue. Supreme Court Decisions. The supreme court has rendered its final de cision in the suit of Nels Nord against the CHILD BURNS TO DEATH Kerosene Falls on Stove and Tot Dies of Burns. SUPERIOR. WIS.News has been received here of the fatal burning of a 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Britt, living on a farm southwest of here. The mother had left the boy, his twin brother and two other chUdren in charge of an 8-year-old girl during her tempo rary absence from the house. In some manner the little fellow pulled down a can of kerosene from a high shelf. The oU spilled in falling and a quantity of it fell upon a hot stove, catch ing fire. The fire spread to the clothing of the child, and before his mother was able to reach the house was amass of flames. He died twenty four hours later. The other children escaped injury. TROUBLE OVER TAXES Two New Wisconsin Towns in a Legal Tangle. RADISSON. WIS.A somewhat peculiar state Of affairs exists In this place and the town of Winter, which has resulted in the refusal of citizens to pay their taxes. Both of these towns are new, having been created by the legislature of a year ago. The treasurers of the towns are said to have failed to file proper bonds with the county treasurer, and as a result Sheriff Gyllnnd obtained from Judge Parish an injunc tion restraining them from collecting the taxes. Treasurers Racette of Winter and McCluskey of this place retaliated by obtaining an order for bidding the sheriff to collect the taxes, and as a result none are being paid, citizens fearing that they would have to pay twice. SAYS BOY BOBBED HTM Merchant of Bandolph, Wis., Believed of $1,200. SHEBOYGAN, WIS.A 14-year-old boy, John Laschirger, ls under arrest here, charged with holding up A. P. Richards, a business man of Randolph, Wis., and relieving him of $1,260. Richards ls said to have left a saloon in com pany with Leschinger, who agreed to take blm to a hotel. Richards, however, claims that the INJUBED BY LOGS Two Men Badly Crushed While Work ing Near Ingram, Wis. INGRAM, WIS.While decking logs for tho C. A. Coon Lumber company of Glen Flora. Wis., yesterday, Carl Stewart and George McConneU were perhaps fatally Injured by the giving way of a rollway of logs. They were taken to the hospital at Ladysmith for surgical treatment. Piles Cured Suffering for Years, and Bed-Ridden fvFrom Piles, a Contractor of ti.r Marion, Indiana, Is Cured fcy Pyramid Pile Cure, "jg Trial Package Sent Free to All Who Send Name and Address. directed John O'Neill, administrator of the es- wasting fevers, such as tvnhoid and tate of John Keefe. to turn over the residue, v.iv.uli ATT amounting to $5,186 cash, to Mrs. James malaria, are caused by the bad condition Shea of New Haven, Conn., the only daughter in which these diseases leave the blood. ^Ke^wLSaps one of the most eccentric As a result, the flesh continues to fall characters in Helena, he having worked for a way, the sufferer grows nervous and many years as a trackwalker for a local street- lyrit-Ki- i appeal taken to the supreme court, where a new trial was granted with the above result, and now this has been affirmed. A decision was also rendered In the case of Rosenbaum Bros. & Co. of Chicago against the defunct Ryan Bros. Cattle company of Custer county, defendant, the First National bank of Leavenworth, Kan., intervener. The intervening bank loaned the cattle company $115,000 on four promissory notes, and later began proceed ings to foreclose the mortgage, averring that neither principal nor Interest had been paid. In the meantime Rosenbaum Bros. & Co. had brought action against the Ryan Bros, company and caused writs of attachment to be issued and to be levied on the property described in the mortgage. The Leavenworth bank was grant ed permission to intervene in this suit. The lower court held that the complaint in the In tervention did not state a cause of action, and entered a decree that the intervenor takes noth ing. From this decree and an order overruling its motion for a new trial the Intervenor ap pealed. The supreme court has affirmed the de cision of the lower court, thus giving the Chi cago firm possession of the property of the de funct cattle company. Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver to every part of the body. Snch a oSSft SSTS- c^ar^ty.^he^Nord "Pacific been found and in hundreds was awarded $15,000 because of personal in- of cases it has been proven that Dr. Juries sustained at the defendant's smelter. At xr/iiliiurjii* Pinlr Pills frw Pl the first trial the case was nonsuited and an Iad"walked him into" a side 'steeet.~"knocked" him daughter, Miss Julia Robey of Dixon, 111. The down and robbed him of a certified check for funeral will be held Wednesday from the Prsf $1,200 and $60 in cash. Richards reported the matter to the police and Laschinger was ar rested. The check and money are said to have been found in bis pockets. HAIXOOX, MINN.Rev. Nell Gilchrist of Crookston, assisted by Miss Grace Taylor of Minneapolis, who has charge of the singing, ls conducting a series of revival meetngs In. the Presbyterian church here. NORTHWEST WEDDINGS FRAZEE, MINN.Miss Allle Chilton and Peter Schroeder were married at the Catholic church yesterday. The bride was a public school teach er, and the daughter of a prominent pioneer family. The bridegroom ls county attorney of Becker county. EMMETSBURG, IOWA.Mrs. M. L. Turner of this place was married to T. I. Way of Parker, S. D. They wUl make their borne at Parker. The bride ls prominent here in church and social affairs. NORTHWEST NEOROLOGIC MENOMINEE, MICH.William H. Phillips, grand master of the Michigan Masonic grand lodge, dropped dead today. The cause of death was heart disease. He was formerly pros ecuting attorney here and was a pioneer resident of Menominee. ^Wf^^'i ABERDEEN, S, BvMrs. Joseph 8. Miller^ *'I was troubled with piles for sev eral years before I would let it be known. But at last they became so severe that I could not walk and. I had to take my bed. 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The Pyramid Pile Cure is put up ift. the form of "easy-to-use," specially made, suppositories. They are sooth ing, painless, instant and certain. A trial treatment will be sent you at once by mail, in plain, sealed wrapper, without a cent of expense to you, if you send your name and address to Pyramid Drug Co., 12669 Pyramid building, Marshall, Mich. After you receive the sample, you can ?ilte a regular-size package of Pyramid Cure at your druggist's for 50 cents, or if he hasn't it, send us the money and we will send it to you. E AFTER TH E GRIP AND WASTING FEVERS TH E BLOOD IS BAD. Dr. aged 74 years, died at her home at Brittos. Mrs. Miller was one of the earliest settlers of Marshall county, Miller township In that county being named after her husband, who, with hia wife, first settled in the township. HASTINGS, MINN.John Maurlti died at tb* Hastings state asylum from contraction of ths liver. He was 70 years of age and was com mitted from Waseca. ALMA, WIS.Professor Claude Bodman, prin cipal of the Nelson graded school, died of pneu monia. He had been sick only about one week. He was a member of the M. W. A. lodge. The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Berry was held yesterday. Mrs. Berry, who was 84 years of age, and one of the early settlers, is survived by a family of grown-up children. PIPESTONB, MINN.W. W. Robey of Plp stone died at a hospital at Sioux Falls, S. He was one of the best known citizens here, anS had a host of friends thruout the state. He had been a resident of this county for the last twenty years, and In 1898 was elected post* master, which position he has since held cos tlnuously. He ls survived by his wife and byterian church, of which he was a member. AMATTER OF HEALTH A Cream free from akrni or too- plMstfOMSd *M ROYAL BAIUNQ KWOCR CO^JW YWPfc Hi Actually Williams' Pink Pills Make Ne Blood and Good Health Follows. The evil effects that follow many dis eases particularly the grip and the TA /.omnanv. He dieri suddenly last fail. and. "oie, ana even siignc exertion causes These are danger- he bad saved nearly $10,000 from his meager 0U 8 8y alfo-Vir. nartimi /n mptoms and wages. Mrs. Shea having proved her relation- aj^ywum "uuuai w ham system Is in a state that invites pnen- indicate that the monia, bronchitis or even consumption. What is needed is a new supply of rich, xed blood to carry health and strength i"lS ^af VMS IO J^al PeoplUnmP have accomplished this result. I was all run down from the effects of the grip," says Mrs. Amelia Hall, of No. 6 High street, Norwich Conn., "and could not seem to get strength to walk could not eat a full meal, my stomach was so weak, and I was so nervous that I could not sleep. I could only stay lit bed a few minutes at a time, either night or day. The least little thing would startle me. I had difficulty in breath ing, had frequent faintiug spells and felt that every hour would be my last. "M general health was completely wrecked and I had neuralgic and rheu matio pains, dyspepsia, .constipation, and female weakness. My physician at tended me for the grip and again for the condition that it left me in. but I got no strength from the tonics he pre scribed. In fact, nothing helped me until I tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and they cured in*. I grew stronger and gained flask from the time I began taking them. I am satisfied that the pills are all that it claimed for them and I shall always do all I can to make their good qualities known." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are gnaran* teed to be free from stimulating or harm ful drugs of any description and may bs taken without fear of injury to the most delicate system. They quickly cure ner vous disorders of every kind, oheok wasting diseases and build up strength. At all druggists, or direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Sohenectady. N. Y., post-paid on receipt of price, si Qent8 per box, six boxes for 12.50.