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Error in Interpreting Decision, of
Supreme Court Gave Vic
tory to Companies.
,-5& Chicago, March 13.The price of
Chicago Union Traction common broke
on the Stock exchange today from 10 to
7%. There were no sales of West Chi
cago or North Chicago, and few of
Union Traction.
Heavy losses were sustained by a
number of local brokers who acted on
the first information given out regard
ing the decision of the supreme courr
as being favorable to the streetcar
companies, and against the city, and
the first brokers who received the in
formation proceeded to buy stocks.
West Chicago in a few minutes rose
from 50 to 60, but later because of sell
ing by a few brokers who realized their
mistake, the price dropped to 55.
Union Traction advanced from 12% to
13%, and North Chicago from 80 to 85.
The mistake was not realized until the
market had closed. There was very
little doing in the stocks on the local
exchange today.
Effect of ihe Decision.
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scri for $75,000,000propositiond to be use for the
purchase of the lines, which is to be
voted on at the election next month.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Drug
gists refund money if it fails to dure. E W.
roves' signatuie is on each box 25c
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VISIT FBIBON SITE
Stillwater, Minn., March 18.-The
state board of control, accompanied by
officials of the Omaha, Milwaukee &
Northern Pacific roads, arrived here to
day by special car to look over the new
prison site at Oak Park, and the pro
posed right-of way for the spur track to
be built by the three railroads to the
prison grounds.
The citizens committee is now en
gaged in arranging the details of the
tranfer of property to the state. The
titles will be readv in a few days when
the deal will be closed.
ALL-NIGHT BANK FOR CHICAGO.
*f^ Chicago, March 13 Chicago is to have
an "open all night" bank, where, people
may deposit or draw out their money any
hour in the twenty-four A permit has
been issued by the state auditor to or
ganize the Jennings Real Estate Loan
and Trust company, with a capital of
$250,000. The bank will be- open* on
Apr 1.
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valuetermstheir
THE EDITOR
Explains HoW to Keep Up Mental and
Physical Vigor.
A New Jersey editor writes:
A long indulgence in improper food1
brought on a condition of nervous dys
pepsia, nearly three years ago, so se
vere that I had to quit work entirely^
I put myself on a strict 4regimen of
Grape-Nuts food, with plenty of ont-
"*^iloor exercise, and in a few months
found my stomach so far restored that
the process of digestion gave me pleas
ure instead of distress.
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yesterday, "it was generalfy construed Oil company's offices at Broadway,
Ne York, and the othe26 from the
By the decision of the United States
supreme court,,the city of Chicago ob
tains almost complete control of the lo
cal traction situation. The decision
sustains the acts of the state legisla
ture extending the life of thStandard
charters of the street railway
companies to ninety-nine years, but
and here is the vital pointdoes not
sustain the contention of the companies
that contract rights which are limited
to fewer years than remain to the char
ter life of the companies are also ex
tended. Contracts or ordinances of the
city limiting the use of the streets by
the companies are upheld and the rights
of the companies the streets are held
to expire according to the expressed
terms of the ordinances.
The first step that is now expected in
the traction matter is a petition for a
rehearing by the traction companies.
What the Companies Say.
"The attorneys for the Chicago City
Railway company, which operates the
lines on the south side of the city, and
the lawyers for the Union Traction com
pany, operating on the west side of the
city, claim that under the purchase
clause the ordinances governing the
franchises which the supreme court has
held are alive until the property is pur
chased by the city, all of the tangible
property of the companies must be
bought in order to extinguish the life
of the franchises.
The clause is broad. After providing
the manner which the city counctt
shall elect to take over the property, it
declares that it must pay within six
months for the "tracks of said railway
companies, cars, carriages, station
houses, station grounds, furniture and
implements of everv kind used in the
construction or operation of said rail
way, or aBy appliances in and about
.the same."
It is said at the city hall, now that
the question of ninety-nine-year fran
chises has been disposed of: the city
trall be able to grant permits to the
companies to trolleyize all of their
fable systems. The city has been
afraid heretofore to grant such permits,
believing that it could not get the trol
i leys down again without along legal
fight if the companies once erected
'them.
What Mayor Dunne Says.
Mayer Dunne, in discussing the de
cision of the supreme court, said to
day:
The decision is a complete victory
for the city of Chicago. It means that
there are no ninety-nine-year rights in
the streets of the city that the occu
pancy of the streets on the north side
of the city is without any warrant
whatever in law, and that the right of
the companies on the south and west
sides to use the streets is based on a
provision in the ordinance which gives
x* them the right to occupy for a period
t" of twenty-five years the streets they
are now in and until their tangible
property is purchased.
2 ''The decision has placed the city in
a position where it can tender to the
companiesunder
of tangible
property the of the ordi
nance. The present companies have the
right to be paid for their property, and
that is about all the rights they do
t lave. The decision, by one giant stride,
gjs makes it possible to bring about mu-
$ nicipalizatiori just as soon as the city
can provide the money for the pur
chase of the lines."
gjsw The mayor and his friends believe
lH that the decision has greatly enhanced
the chances of the to issue
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"It also built up my strength1
so that
was able to resume my business,
&$& ^hich is onerous, as I not only edit my
f* own paper, but also do a great deal of
'outside' writing.
I find that the Grape-Nuts diet en
rt ables me to write with greater vigor
lg,than ever before, and without the feel-
& ing of brain-fag with which I usea to
kfjbe troubled. As to bodily vigorI can
fvand do walk miles every day without
fatiguea few squares used to weary
me before I began to live on Grape-
Nuts." Name given by Postttm Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.N~^
There's a reason.^Bead, the little
Tuesday Evenings
KANSANSTHOSE
OIL TRUST WILES
Kansas City, March 13.The inter
state commerce commission resumed its
hearing herfc today in the investigation
of charges of discrimination in railway
rates on oil, filed by the Kansas Oil Pro
ducers' association.
The testimony of $. T. McX)arthy of
the Mission Mining company of Quapaw,
Indian territory brought forth two let
ters on oil rates, one from the Standard
'Frisco railroad's general offices. Mc
Carthy said his mine was built over the
Kansas line, six miles from Baxter
Springs, Kansas. He told of an effort
to use oil from the Kansas field instead
of coal at his mines. He had, he said,
on Nov. 27 last, written E. K. Voorhees,
general freight agent of the 'Frisco,
requesting a rate on oil from the Kan
sas fields to Quapaw. In a letter writ
ten in reply by Mr. Voorhees, which
was introduced, the latter quoted a rate
'on crude oil and fuel oil from
24th Annual Reduced-Price Sale.
The Great Plymouth Clothing House.
KODAMA SUCCEEDS OYAMA.
London, March 13.The Dally Tele
graph's correspondent at Tokio says ttiat
on the completion of the evacuation of
Manchuria, Field Marshal Oyama will re
sign and that on his retirement he will
be succeeded by General Baron Kodama.
Northwest Patents.
Washington, D. C, March 13.(Spe-
cial.)The following^-patents were is
sued last week to Minnesota and Da
kota inventors, as reported by William
son & Merchant, patent attorneys, 925-
933 Guaranty Loan building, Minne
apolis, Minn. William and J. G. Ball,
St. Thomas, N. D., ventilator William
Cue, Parker, S. D., wii^e stretcher
Prank Dahlund, Esmond, N. D., door
stay Eay B. Hinkly, Luverne, Minn.,
rotary engine Philip S. Houghton and
B. H. Deyarmond, Grand Forks, N. P.,
gang plow John E. Johnson, Jtfew
Paynesville, Minn., hose clamp Closson
M. Leffingwell, Little Falls, Minn.,
matrix retainer Otiro H. Lemberg,
gan and S. W. Fellows, Eussell, Minn,'
pin resetter William S. Moses, Tracy^
Minn., rotary engine Albert W. Per
ry, Northville, S. D., drill cup Simeon
F. Pierce (3), St. Paul, Minn., boiler
furnace, boiler flue, trolley catcher
Lee G. Selover, Winona, Minn., power
generator John M. Smith, Waite Park,
Minn., railway switch.
RAID MANITOBA FARM
A ataWwith""takin,g
th
aronnf
hay th stable and by setting flre to
It, created- such a smoke that all the animals
left in the building were smothered There weca
seven horses, sixteen cattle, seven hogs and a
large number of fowl. They were all found
deq.d when Rasmussen entered the stable Ap
parently an effort had also been made to burn
down the stable, but in this the thieves were
foiled
The family was about the place till 11 o('clock
last night, so the thieves must have operated
between that time and morning. Much sym
pathy is felt for Rasmussen, as he is one of the
most diligent and hard-working farmers of the
vicinity, and the loss will be a heavy one to
him
There is no clue to the marauders, but the
attorney general has been communicated with
and* it Is hoped to run them down.*?
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Rate Discrimination and Other
Schemes to Crush Rivals
Are Detailed.'
of 17 cents' a hundred pounds luth every house in the city shook and
Neodsha
Kan., to Baxter Springs, and of 2 i
cents to Quapaw.
From the Oil Trust.
At about the same time, witness said,
he had written a similar letter to the
Oil company, and he received
a reply from C. W. Ouston, manager of
the fuel department of the Standard.
Mr. Ouston's letter r,ead as follows:
"While the rate of freight from
Neodesha, Kan., to Baxter Springs is
only 6% cents per hundred pounds, it ia
24 cents per hundred to Quapaw Sta
tion. I. T., which would make the price
of oil delivered there 3% cents a gallon,
at which figure we do not think you
could use oil economically, as against
the low-priced coal you could probably
purchase. Of course, the amount of oil
required to equal a ton of coal would de
pend on the quantity of coal used, but
with an ordinary grade of run-of-mine^
coal, it would take about three barrels'
of oil, forty-two gallons to the barrel, to
equal a ton of coal.
"We fear you will find the price we
name too high" to enable you to use oil
to advantage as against the cheap coal
that 3'ou can probably purchase.
These letters were introduced in an
attempt to prove that, while the rail
way company charged all others 17
cents for transporting oil from Neode
sha to Baxter Springs, it charged the
Standard Oil company only 6% cents
for the same haul.
The correspondence also was intro
duced to prove that, while the Stand
ard Becured a rate of 6 cents for
transporting oil from Neodesha to Bax
ter Springs, a distance approximately
fifty-six miles, the railroads charged in
effect 17% cents for a haul of six miles
further beyond the Kansas line.
The Trust's Methods.
E. L. Willhoyt, formerly an agent at
Topeka, Kan., for the Standard Oil com
pany, but now an independent dealer,
with offices at Joplin and Springfield,
Mo., was placed on the stand. Mr. will
hovt said:
The Standard Oil company* when I
was with them, was charged $5 a car
by the terminal company in St. Louis
for transporting a car from East St.
Louis, 111., to St. Louis, Mo. To save
this $5 the Standard laid a pipe line
under the river and every car of oil
westward would be pumped out in East
St. Louis and pumped into another car
in St. Louis. This $5 a oar saved was
that much taken from the ability of the
independent dealer to live in competi
tion with the Standard.
"Since I have ,een in business for
myself, I have had much trouble in.
getting my tank cars transhipped at
St. Louis. This generally happens when
I am low on oil. Once I had a tankcar
of oil drift off from East St. Louis to
Alabama. At the time I was out of
oil and I lost customers on account of
it. The Standard Oil company, my com
petitor in Springfield, had plenty of oil
and got the customers I lost."
Mr. Willhoyt said that while agent
for the Standard at Topeka he was in
structed to watch all shipments of oil
to that point and to ascertain the
name "Of the shiver and the point of
distribution.
Hundreds of Workers Miraculous
e.t
,*ly Escape1
Lockhart, Minn., violin William Mor^ 1 "ft *J^Z^^A*^
.ra and 8 W Fallows RHHII11 Min against thefl no-license movement and the
Thieves Steal Four Horses and Smother
Cattle with Hay Fire.^
WINNIPEG, MAN.Horse thieves, suspected
of coming across the North Dakota boundary
line, visited the stables of Charles
Raamussen,*
adjoining the Tillage of Goodlands, si
this Side of the line, last night and stole four
horses Not satisfied the four best
"ott,n"x *mile**
WAITED AT BILLINGS
BILLINGS, MONTA telegram has-been re
ceived here by Sheriff Adams from the authori
ties at Falrvlew, Okla stating that "Okla
homa" Coombs, the man who made a sensa
tional escape from Jail here a year ago, has
been captured there and asking that he be
identified. Coombs escaped from jail just after
having been convicted of burglary and sen
tenced to five years in the penitentiary. In case
the man. under arrest proves to be Coombs,
^-r Sheriff Adams will leave at once for Oklahoma
UbOQk, "TheBoadtO WellVllle,"inpkg8. and bring, the prisoner to Billing
horsearoundthee in building, th,e thieves gathered today over its annual village election,
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Death at Thorn-^J
son, Minn.
Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Minn., March 13.Eight tons
of dynamite exploded at the works of
the Oreat Northern Power company's
works at Thomson, Minn., last night.
Seven men -were injured but none fa
tally. The names ox the known injured
are: &
Fred Walsh, an engineer George
Young and John Gates.
In the'vicinity of the explosion near
ly 300 men were at work. How they
escaped death is a mystery. All were
thrown to the ground by the force of
the concussion, but as far as is known,
everybody has been accounted for.
Fragments of lanterns here and
there, however, give evidence that the
owners may have been caught by the
explosion, but this theory cannot be
verified.
For a radius of forty-five miles in
every direction front Duluth the explo
sion could be distinctly felt. In Du-
EXCESIOR YOTERS
DO VALIANT WORK
Continued From First Page.
citizens, was 'on hand today, marshaling
the no-license forces into the voting
place. Other workers were assisting
the preacher who encountered formida*
ble opposition in the consistent, tho
quiet gathering of the license voters.
On the surface all was serene. The
minister saluted business men who he
knew would scratch the license side of
the ballot with the same cordiality that
he greeted the voters who shouted for
the temperance cause. These men re
ciprocated as true comrades and to one
who is unacquainted with the swirling
undercurrent and the charges that have
been hurled back and forth, it is diffi
cult to imagine that the hand not ex
tended in greeting grasped a knife hid*
den behind the back.
Tho it has been charged that the
street railway company would attempt
to vote the laborers who have been
quartered in Excelsior all winter
against the license question, the men
did not appear at the polls up to noon,
and the way that they drive spikes in
an effort to complete the big docks for
the yellow trolley fleet, indicated that
the momentous campaign and election
had little interest for them. It is the
argument that the railway company
controls the bar at Tonka Bay and one,
it is said, will be started in the St.
Louis hotel, and would oppose the pres
ence of saloons in Excelsior thru the
fear that its passengers would stop
there.
Other rumors that attempts would be
made to register the, ballots of illegal
voters SQ far stand unproved, and tne
orderly character of the balloting today
indicates anything but strife.
A new factor in the excitement of
the day was the issuance of an "ex-
try" by the Excelsior News. It urged
the election of the entire caucus ticket
and bitterly assailed tha cause and ad
vocate of license. For^his-reason, even
temperance men deprecate it as they
say it may act as a boomerang, both
caucus candidate for mayor, C.
Cheely. On the other hand, tne radical
drys commended the editor of the News
and took issue with those who con
demned its bitter charges.
At noon one man waft, challenged on
the grounds that he had"not been nat
uralized, and for a time excitement
surged high. The man quelled the out*
burst, however, by showing his citizen
ship papers, and he was permitted to
drop his ballot in the box.
CONTEST AT KOBBINSDALE
Reform Party and'Reduced License
Faction in Ballot War.
Robbinsdale is having a fine time
the principles at stake being very sim-
ilar to those that are agitating the
entire countryj#amely, reform. Fo
some time the Wore reputable businesr
and residence Interests hayfe desired
a complete housecleaning in the village
administration.
This reform element has the follow
ing ticket in the field: President,
George J3. Swift recorder, W. J. Ran
dall couneilmen, !E. M. Pearson, E.
Forsaifch and CharleB Huff. can
didates airev
all new men in thThe village
administration. They stand for high
license and better regulation of the
Robbinsdale saloons, especially on Sun
day.
-The* Other party caters to the%aloon
element, it is said, with a promise of
reduced license. The present license is
$650, and the saloon men wish it cut
to $500. It is said, however, that the
wet ticket, if elected, could not reduce
the license. The candidates on the low
license ticket are: President, Henry
Scott recorder, George F. Nash' coun
cilmen, E. M. Pearson, H. Hendric,kson
and J. W. Stipe
THE)MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. March
Itm IMBED- ISOSIM. ANIH6JII |US 'S HMD IS ON
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HAS PASSEMWAY
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to see that her wyish was cawed out at
once. She had no thought but for her
life's work and the workers, declaring
^that both were now, as ever, dearer to
her than her life.
Leader of suffragists.
in several instances dishes and bric-a
brae rattled as tho an earthquake had
occurred. The opinion everywhere pre*
vailed that the explosion was close at
hand.
Physicians Hasten to Scene.
At Carlton, twenty miles from tjiis
city, and but^ one and a half from the
scene of the explosion, the concussion
was not felt at all, and the inhabitants
there were not aware that one had for women that the energies^of her life
were chiefly directed. *In 1854-55 she
taken place till informed- by telephone,
Messages were dispatched calling for
physicians from that point and from
Oloquet, six miles distant, and by means
of teams they hastily responded.
The Great Northern Power compa
ny's powderhouse is on the St. Louis
river, eighteen miles from DulutS and
two miles down the river frdm Thomson.
The cause of the explosion is not known.
The man who was in charge of the
powderhouse had just visited it and
locked the door for the night a minute
or two before the explosion. He had
walked about fifty yards from the pow
derhouse when the explosion took place.
Building Blown to Bits.
An idea of the force of the explosion
is obtained from the- fact that the dy
namite tore a hole twenty-five feet
deep and fifty feet aoross at the site
of the powderhouse. Among the near
by buildings that were wrecked were
the roundhouse and pumphouse. These
were demolished. The damage to a
steam shovel that stood near the pow
derhouse was complete.
The company is working day and
night shifts on the water-power devel
opment work, and alL of thjjmen wh
were within a distance' of 1,000 feet
suffered severely from the. concussion.
Dinky engines were raised from their
tracks by the force of the explosiftn.
Consternation reigned amflpg the men
on the work for a time after the pow
derhouse had blown up, and wild ru
mors of many men killed by, Ijhe acci
dent were in circulation.
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Susan Bromwell Anthony, probably
the best-known, advocate of woman suf
frage in America, was born at Adams,
Mass., Feb. 15* 1820. When Miss An
thony was still in her teens her parents
removed to New York state, and in
1846 settled at Rochester, *which city
the eminent reformer continued to call
her home during the remainder of her
life. Miss Anthony received a liberal
education and spent the early part.of
her career as a schoolteacher, which
profession her father had followed be
fore her.
Miss Anthony first spoke in public in
1847, and from that time took part
the temperance movement, organizing
societies and lecturing. In 1851 she
called a temperance convention in Al
bany, after being refused admission to
a previous convention on account of
her sex. In 1852 the Woman's New
York State Temperance society was or
ganized. Thru her exertions and those
Of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wom
en came to be admitted to educational
and other conventions with the Jight to
speak, vote and serve on committees.
About 1857 Bhe became prominent
among the agitators for the abolition
of slavery. In 1858 she made a report,
in a teachers' convention in Troy in
favor of the co-education of the sexes.
But it was to secure equal civil rights
held conventions' in each county of
New York in the cause of female suf
frage, and from that time on she ad
dressed annual appeals and petitions to
the legislature. She was active in se
curing the passage of the aot of the
New York legislature in 1860, giving
to Imarried women ,the possession or
their earnings, the guardianship of their
children, etc During the civil war she
devoted herself to the Woman's Loyal
league, which petitioned congress i a
favor of the thirteenth amendment.
Hex Fight for Suffrage.
In 1860 she started a petition 4n fa
vor of leaving out the word "male"
in the fourteenth amendment, and
worked with the Rational Woman Suf
frage association to Induce congress to
secure to her sex the right of voting.
In 1867 she went to Kansas with Eliza
beth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone,
and there obtained 9,000 votes in favor
of woman suffrage. In 1868, withthe
co-operation of Mrs. Stanton and Par
ker Pillsbury, and ywith the assistance
of George Francis Train "Miss Anthony
began, in New York city, the publica
tion of a weekly paper called "The
Revolutionist," devoted to the eman
cipation of women. In 1872 Miss An
thony cast ballots at the state and con
fressional election in Bochester in or
er to test the application of'the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments of
the United, States constitution. She
was indicted for illegal voting and was
fined by Justice Hunt, but, in accord
ance with her defiant declanation, never
paid the penalty. Between 1870 and
1880 she lectured in all the northern
and several southern states more than
one hundred tiroes a year. She ap
peared before every congress since 1869
and presented a petition for a constitu
tional amejidifc^^enfranchising women.
During her long and busy life she trav
eled and lectured extensively both in
America and Europe.
WELL KN6WN DT STATE
home in Duluth was often the scene of
gatherings of suffrage women, when
Miss Anthony visited the zenith city
on quiet little visits for rest and change.
Of all the women who have been
engaged in suffrage work, none are bet
ter qualified perhaps to continue in the
footsteps of the late leader than Dr.
Anna Shaw of Philadelphia, Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Catt and Mrs. Rachel Fos
ter Avery. Anna Shaw, particularly,
was the closest friend of Susan B. An
thony, and having been in continuous
contact with her and knowing her ideas
oneerningsuffragistsk
friend of Miss Anthony, and the Steam The ground of it is that the possession
the wor it is but natural
that the should thoose her
as their apostle. i
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A ffXrAJLUTTEED CUB*TOBVXLM.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pile*
fonr druggist will refusd money If PAZO 01 NT
MINT falls to cure xou in 6 to 1* days. 50c.
RANCHMAN KILLS HIMSELF
SPBARPISH, S. Suffering with melan
choly, Herman Boettel, a ranchman in the
Crow Peak district, took His life by shooting the
top of his head off with a gun. He had re
turned from a rabbit hunt with a friend, and
after ^writing some letters, went out with the
friend, who busied himself with work on the
ranch* Boettel took a small saddle gun and,
placing It over his left eye, pulled the trigger.
SV".' AVVl^&V*
toStf
place the remains will be shipped. He left sev
eral sealed letters, the contents of which are
not known.
WORTH KNOWING
that Allcock's are the original and genuine
gorottt plasters aU other* ladtrnttonsv
Defective
/BIG MONOPOLIES
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vict the corporation. The court also
held that the testimony whieh the gov
ernment offered tended' to show a com
bination in restraint of trade that the
twenty-four defendant corporations
had jentered into a combination by
jWhica they organized the General Paper
company, which corporation managed
the sales and divided the profits among
the various defendants. They held the
testimony tended to prove this and was
therefore material.
These Must Tell Facts.
Among the witnesses summoned by
the examiner were L. M. Alexander,
secretary and treasurer George A.
Whiting, first vice president and W. C.
Stuart, general sales manager of the
General Paper company, and E. T. Har
mon, president of the Grand Hapids
Pulp and- Paper company. They re
fused to produce their books or to make
reply to certain questions concerning
the conspiracy alleged by the govern
ment in the proceedings against the pa
fer company, claiming personal privi
eges under the fourth and fifth amend
ments to the constitution of the United
States, which'they asserted relieved
them.from disclosing the facts concern
ing which they were interrogated.
They also contended that to compel
such disclosure would amount to an
unreasonable search and seizure, within
the meaning of the fourth amendment,
,andi to require them to give evidence
against themselves, within 'the mean
ing of the fifth amendment. A Similar
plea, was made on behalf of the Gen
eral Paper company. The refusal of the
witnesses to testify was reported to
the circuit court for the eastern district
of Wisconsin and that tribunal directed
them to reply to the questions and to
produce the books of the company as
required. From that decision an appeal
was taken to the supreme court.
The Minnesota Cases.
The facts in the Minnesota cases were
similar, but the court proceedings were
different, permitting the court to take
jurisdiction in those cases while it could
not do so in the Wisconsin cases.
The names of the parties to the Min
nesota cases were: Benjamin F. Nel
son, president of the Hennepin Paper
company Anselm C. Brossard, treasurer
and manager of the Itasca company,
and Clarence I. McNair, general man
ager of the Northwest Paper company.
In his opinion in these cases Justice
McKenna took up the three various ob
jections to the court's proceedings and
passed upon them as follows:
"I. That the evidence, documen
tary and oral, which the witnesses were
required to produce, was not shown to
be material to plaintiff's case.
"FirstThere are. three answers to
this contention. The evidence "is clearly
combinationt
Suffragists of Minneapolis Lose Stanch
Friend in Great Leader.
To Minnesota women interested in
the cause of suffrage, the deathfof Su- titled to its dividends.
san B. Anthony leaves a vacancy which
it will be hard to fill, for t6 this strong*
and wonderful leader of the suffrage
movement the Minnesota state organi
zation of suffragists owes its growth.
''When the state organization was in
its very infancy, Susan B. Anthony was
our leading genius she gave us strength
and courage to overcome all the ob
stacles, and during hours of discour
agement it was she who led us on with
an all-inspiring 'forward' to make the
organization what it is today,'-' said
one of the well-known suffrage leaders
today.
Miss Anthony does not only leave a
host of sorrowing friends in Minneapo
lis, but to \he home of her nephew,
Wendell P. Mosher, on Aldrich avenue,
her death has brought deep grief. Miss
Anthony was the sister of, Mr. 'Mosher's
mother, and he was one of her favorite
nephews. He left last evening for
Bochester, N. Y., to be present at the
funeral services Thursday afternoon at,
2 o'clock. Susan B. Anthony was one of the
honor guests at the national convention
held in Minneapolis by the suffragists
in the fall of 1901 in the First Baptist
church, and there are few people who
will ever forget the fine, white-haired
speaker of those days. Mrs. S. As
Stockwell, state president of the Minne
sota Suffrage association, attended the
national convention in Baltimore last
month. At that time Miss AnUiony
showed signs of failing health and was
able to speaki at but few of the sessions.
However, she held the platform a few
days later in the Church of Our Father,
Washington, D. C, where an anniver
sary celebration was given in honor of
her eighty-fifth birthday. It was the
last time she spoke at any large nation
al gathering. Miss Anthony was an
intimate friend of Dr. Cora Smith
Eaton, and it is said that of the young
er suffrage women, she was very dear to
her.
The late Mrs. Sarah Burger Stearn
of Duluth, one of the old-time workers
of the state association, was a stanch
material. The charge of the bill is tha't I remedy, Dr. Swamp-Root, is
the 4efendant manufacturing corpora-1
1$5J*T^JF
Claim Cannot Avail.
other companies, became their selling aiSStSf Jw&*
agent, ancf was entitled to a oertaiS &*"' JESL W
percentage of .the sales.
"Presumably," he proceeded, "it
exercised its powers, made sales and re
ceived profits* In all that it did the
manufacturing corporations were iiter-^
eated the Owned Its stock, were en-
TBis, we may
admit for argument sake, not prejudge
ing i4 any way, may be consistent witn
continued .competition between com
panies, but it may be otherwise.
Atered
any rate, the manner in which the pa
per company executed its functions
may be links in the evidence adduced
by the jUnited States, and thiff is
enough to establish the materiality of
the evidence.
"Necessarily the books oontained the
information. The paper company was
the, selling agent or the Northwest
Paper company and must have kept an
account of its sales and into what states
the paper of the company was shipped
and sold. Such accounts are material
and relevant to complainant's case.
They may or may not, in connection
with other evidence, sustain the charge
of the United States, but they are ele
ments in the proof, ^having tendency
enough to sustain the charge to be con
sidered material.
"SecondThe claim of immaterial
ity of the testimony cannot avail plain
tiffs against the .orders of the circuit
court. The testimony is taken to be
submitted, to the court where the suit
i pending and all questions upon the
evidence, its materiality and sufficien
cy, are to be determined by it and after
it by an appellate court.
"ThirdThese writs of error are
not prosecuted by the parties in the
original suit, but by witnesses, to re
view judgments of contempt against
them for disobeying orders to testify.
Being a witness merely, it is not open
to them to make objections to that tes-^
timony. The tendency or effect of the
testimony on the* issues between the
parties is no concern of theirs. The
basis of their privilege is different from
that and entirely personal, as we shall
presently see.
"II. That the documentary evidence
called for was not shown to be in the
possession or under the control of the
witnesses. This contention is untenable.
of the witnesses was not personal, but
was that of the respective corporations
of which they were officers. (Granting
this to be so and that the witnesses
could have set up whatever privileges
the corporations had, nevertheless they
had the custody (actual possession) of
the books and were summoned from ne
cessity as representing- the corporations.
Last prop Knocked Out
"HI. That the evidence, documen
tary and oral, required to be produced,
was in the nature of incriminating evi
dence which the witnesses and Ihe de
fendants are privileged, from furnishing
to the plaintiff under the provisions or
the federal constitution and the well
recognized principles of equity proce
dure.
"This contention asserts rights per
sonal to the plaintiffs and rights of the
corporation defendants in the suit. The
basis, of both rights is the protection of
the fourth and fifth amendments to the
constitution of he United States.
"The argument submitted is substan
tially the same as that made by appel
lants in Hale vs. Henkel and McAllister
vs. HenkeljL/ It is insisted that the im
munity given by the act 6T Feb. 25,
1903, lis not a as the- penalties
n* forfeiture,s tbroad whieh,the 4*A.Uth
in error or the corporations of which
they are officers will be subjected. If
the immunity, it is urged, protects from
the penalties of the antitrust act of
1890* it does not protect nor has con*
gross the power to protect from tfc*
Pain or dull ache in the back is un
mistakable evidence of kidney trouble.
It is Nature/s timely warning Jp show
you that the track of health is not clear.
If these clanger signals are unheeded,
more serious results are sure to follow
Bright's disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble, may steal upon
you.
The mild and the extraordinary effect
of the world-famous kidney and bladder
it
a
Have You Rhomnatlsm, Kidney, Live? or
Bladder Trouble?
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mor
th
cKilmer's
B00n realized. It stands the highest ior
rfu
June 2, 1890, to suppress competition
between themselves, and that they ac
complished this purpose by organizing
the General Paper company and gave
it certain controlling powers over tM
output of the mills and the prices and
distribution of their products. Before
the application to the court for the or
ders under review there were certain
facts established."
Many Facts Are Cited.
Many of these facts were cited, and i..flJ^Stt
the justice then said that by the^dnpU-.fS^^tj^^&
ing cases. A trial will convince anyone
and yon may have a sample bottle
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LAMB BACK.
Lame back is only one symptom of
kidney troubleone of many. Other
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Swamp-Boot are, being obliged to pass
water often during the day and TO get
up many times during the night, in
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sions Of th$ answers *Shtf G^eral aper *rfttiW In passing, brick-dust or sedl-
company entered into contracts with'
5^.Jf
?*2* fw
8-
ness nervousness, sometimej the
heart acts badly, rheumatism, bloat-
penalties of tne Minnesota laws, which
make criminal ^combination and con
spiracy. in restraint of trade and sub
ject to forfeiture the charters of corpo
rations which become parties to such
combination and conspiracy.
"The extent of the immunity and its
application to corporations was consid
in Hale vs. Henkel and McAllister
vs. Henkey and decided adversely to
the contention of plaintiffs in error.''
For a Trust Inquiry.
Washington, March 13.The house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce today decided to make a fa
vorable report on the Townsend joint
resolution providing for an appropria
tion of $50,000 to enable the interstate
commerce commission to investigate
railways and monopolies under the Till
man-Gillespie joint resolution. The
Townsend resolution also corrects other
defects in the Tillman-Gillespie resolu
tion pointed out by the president.
Pearce's
Opening display of the very latest
spring fashions for women, tomorrow.
BANCHER KILLS HIMSELF
Frank McCarthy Commits Suicide
Great Falls, Mont.
GREAT FAJE-LS, MONTBecause he
cream
ms.
A
at
hatd
pent money "foolishly" while on a viatx
Aberdeen, S. Frank McCarthy, seed 36, a
well-to-do rancher living a few miles from
Btockett. engaged a room at a local hotel and
there shot himself thro the head. He was dead
when found.
McCarthy had gone to Aberdeen with a bgnch
of horses which he sold. Returning home, he
stopped at this city and going to a doctor told
him that he bad been spending money fottllshly
and had'lieea drinking and desired to be braced
up before going home to his family. The doc
tor sent him to a local hospital to take treat
ment. McCarthy remained there only one day,
when he left, saying he fe)t in fine condition.
M. few hours later n* appeared a
thfe
hotel
influencte liquo
ipeare at the hotel
apparentl- mnc unae toe influence of liquor,
He engaged a room and immediately retired
ap- tb *c
The followng evening the landlady became
alarmed at her inability to get any response
from her lodger and summoned a policeman,
who broke in the door. McCarthy had wrapped
a quUt about his head In order to deaden the
report of huij revolver.
3. W. MWb of Minneapolis, after two day*
In Washington, started for home Tuesday. He
had been spending several days in western
Maryland Mttlingup some business matters and
came by way of Washington on the way home-
ing, irritability, worn-out feeling,
lack of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow
complexion.
If your water when allowed to remain
undisturbed in a glass or bottle for
twenty-four hours, forms a sediment or
settling, or has a cloudy appearance, it
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remember the name, Swamp-Root,
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Boys9 Box Calf Shoes
Ton no doubt know that aU kinds of
leather has advanced within the last
year, of the different kinds. Box Calf
has %een advanced the most.
We are In possession of 600 dozen
pairs of Boys' Box- Calf Shoes at old
prices, and as quoted below they are
less than manufacturers* cost of pro
duction: Little Gents' sices 9 to 18 $1.25
Youths' sizes 13% to 2 $1.35
Boys' sizes, 2% to 5% S1.4S
Home Trade
Shoe Store
St9-tt? Mcotlt
WASHINGTON NOTES,
Representative Davis has recommended WH
Ham H, Nichols for postmaster kt Belle Plaine,
Minn., in place of Edward Chard, resigned on ac
count of ill health.
As a result of protests made bv Representa
tive Dixon and Senator Carter, it is nrobabh*
that directions will be issuedtoa few days re
voking the cyder for the transfer of 500 Turth*
Mountain Indians from North Dakota into Mon
tana. Afa agent of the Interior department will
be directed to find suitable lands in North Da
kota
The senate committee on appropriations ha*
added MK amendment to the fortifications ap
propriations bUl providing for a government
powder factory.
Harrison Lyon of Minneapolis Is in Wasbingtoa
on his way home from Florida.
The senate has passed the following bun:
Increasing to 180,000 the annual appropriattoa
for agricultural experiment stations: extending
the public land laws to certain lands in Wyom
ing authorizing the construction of a bridge be
tween Fort Snelling reservation and St. Paul,
Minn. for the relief of settlers upon the aban
doned Fort Bice miUtary reservation. North Da
kota.
The senate in executive session today ooa
firmed the following nominations. Gebaardt
Wlllrlch, Wisconsin, consul at St. John, N B.
Postmaster. Iowati. W. Wents, Oakland W.
S. Gardner, Clinton.
Royal-Baking. Powder,
is made of
of
pure
tartar
4 beyond all ^question*
Ijtoiwholesomeness ^and
{%rensrthJThe most eco
nomical to^use.
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