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TROUBLE PROBABLE BETWEEN
HEW YORK AND CfilCAGO
Passenger Xssocfatlon Is
Holding an Adjourned Meeting to
fry and Adjust Difficulties
and
*ent Troub!^,
(phicago, HI., Sept. 12.—The Western
Passenger Association will hold an ad
journed meeting here this afternoon
apd it is expected that important mat
let's bearing upon the threatening rate
w*r between the various Chicago-New
Vprk lines will be considered. Ac
cording to the opinion of well inform
ed railroad men such a rate war id al
most inevitable. It is expected that
the Western Passenger Association
will decide to accept through tickets
from eastern points, no matter how
great the cut from New York to Chi
cago, provided that the revenue coming
tq the western lines be in no manner
diminished by the reductions on the
eastern roads. The question of win
ter tourists rates to Colorado Springs
and other points will also be consider-
NEWFOUNDLANDERS rfOT.
^London, Sept. 12.—Premier Bond
h& arrived in London to raise a loan
of $2,000,000 to be paid to R. G. Reid
for the Newfoundland telegraph lines.
an interview today on the subject
of the fishery question with the United
Slates, he said that if there was to be
any. change in the "present restrictions
0$ American fishermen the initiative
mtost be taken by the United States.
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Ypung, aged about 40 years, of Oregon
Cjlty, Ore., committed suicide in the
w&ods about a half mile west of Minot
about ten days ago. His dead body was
not discovered until last1Saturday aft
ernoon, when Mrs. Charles Ecker and
Miss Thurer, who were gathering wild
grapes, stumbled over the body, which
w^s partially hidden in the brush.
Horrified by their ghastly find, the
y0ung women ran to the nearest farm
house where they made known their
discovery. Word was sent to this city
and Judge Murray accompanied by Cor
oner J. D. Windell, left for the scene
of the suicide.
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fUpon arriving at the spot where
Ygung had chosen to end his earthly
existence, which was in a' secluded por
tion of the woods near the Soo bridge
and on the north side of the river, the
lotal authorities fourjd that the man had
hanged himself to a small sapling of an
ash with a piece of clothes line. When
viewed by the coroner, Young's body
was lying on its stomach, the head being
slightly elevated above the ground, and
Was still attached to the sapling which
wis bent nearly to the ground by the
weight of the body. The limb to which
Young tied his own hang rope was about
six feet from the ground and it is be
lieved that the limb must have held the
body in the air for sometime after
Young had first started to swing to his
death. The weight of the suicide's body
naturally pulled the rope near the end
©f the sapling and in tnis manner bent
the limb.
Dr. Windell and Undertaker Mcjan
ftett are of the opinion that the man had]
been dead about ten days before his'
body was discovered. Tne features of
the suicide were badly decomposed be
ing in an unrecognizable state. The
clothes, which were at ohe time in
good condition, were alsb in a very bad
sanitary condition and were immediately
burned as soon as the remains had been
laid in the morgue. Young's body was
brought to the city and taken to Mc
Jannett's undertaking rooms where the
clothes on the body were searched.
The identity of the man, who had suc
cessfully undertaken self-destruction,
was established by means of a small
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pencil, the following:
"My name is August Young. My
home is in Oregon City, Ore. My wife's
name is Katherine Young."
On another page of the pad was writ
ten
"Send my watch to my baby boy."
Young was evidently a Norwegian for
he had attempted to write something
in'this language, but the authorities wer?
unable to *get ahyone who could de
cipher It. The dead man had written th?
first two directions in English, but what
his last and final wish was is still un
known. They were each written upon
a separate page and formed the only
contents of the pad.
On the suicide's body were found in
addition to the paper pad, $rt in paper
and currency, razor, a gold watch
with an Elgin movement, a pipe and
some smoking tobacco. There was noth
ing on his body to show where he had
come from to this city, or wh^re his
destination was.
It is very reasonable to suppose that
Young had arrived in Minot .in search
of work, which he could very easily
have found if he had wanted it very
badly. In a despondent, mood, however,
he sought the seclusion of the lonesome
woods where he contemplated suicide
and later carried out his intention by
ending his life.
Because of the badly decomposed
condition of the body, the health officers
of the city ordered the remains buried
which was done Sunday afternoon, the
remains being interred in the city cem
etery. Word has been sent to the widow
of the deceased, notifying
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Boston,, Septj, ,13,—^Not so long ago
"when MoHie, whose papa used to be
rich and no longer is, wanted to get
a little money which she was too proud
to earn by going to work in an office
.or factory she used to try her hand
at hammered brass work, china paint
ing or decorating fans. There was al
ways the likelihood that well-to-do
friends would help by buying the
things she made and whatever remain
ed unsold would be more or less or
namental, if not exactly useful, about
the house. It did not signify in Mol
lie's sight that she knew nothing of
the arts of design from either theMiis
torical or the technical standpjont.
Enough that she was determinedjx* get
a few dollars in return for time spent
on what she regarded as & jiind of
fancy work.
This, however, is an age qf special
ization, and the sort of work which
Miss Mollie used to do badly is coming
to be done remarkably well by train
ed craftsmen. As everyone knows,
handwork in various arts has of late
years come back into favor, especially
among the wealthy of the great cities,
and a new kind of employment has be
gun to offer itself to young men and
women who are able to meet the re
quirements of a class of people who
through study and travel are thor
oughly familiar with good art. The
arts and crafts in fact are becoming
commercially important. Just as in
England and Germany the character of
the industry of whole districts is be
ing transformed by the revival of hand
industries, so in this country a similar
development is beginning.
To give the facts and figures regard
ing the handicraft societies, that have
sprung up since the appearance of
the bulletin on the subject, issued about
a year ago by the department of com
merce and labor, would be well nigh
impossible, A new one is born every
day somewhere. Not all of them are
worthy to be called art societies.
Some are composed of people who find
it more entertaining to listen to an
occasional lecture than to work regu
larly at tasks requiring almost infinite
patience, skill and insight. Others,
however, have a high present standard
and still more of them will attain this
as they grow up.
At least a general Idea of the rapid
ity with which the v arts and crafts
movement is growing appears in a re
cent statement made to contributors?
of the increase in the business of the
Society of Arts and Crafts, which has
its headquarters in Boston. This as
sociation, which was founded in 189?/
and is probably the best known or
ganization of its kind in the United
States, has a membership composed of
individual workers scattered all over
the country, who by submitting, arti
cles of sufficient artistic and technical
merit to meet the standards of a jury
of professional artists are permitted to
exhibit in the galleries and receive^
the benefit of whatever sales are made*
a reasonable percentage being deduct
ed toward defraying the running ex
penses of the society.
A very respectable market for hand
work has thus been created in Boston.
The actual volume of business of such
an enterprise is of course small when:
compared with that of, say, one Of the
department stores, but- it is doubtful
if any commercial undertaking in New
England is showing a more normal,
healthy and rapid growth. The whole
amount of the society's sales for the
year 1903 was about $9,000. In 1904 it
came to a little more than $13,000.
About a ye^ir ago the society moved
from its former headquarters in the
building of the Twentieth Century Clubi
to a ground floor location in th^ shop
ping district of the city knd an immed
iate expansion resulted. The sales of
the first six months of 1905 exceeded
tfS.ooo, with a probability that, if the
Ittttiness of November and December,'
iUr$!i if always the largest oi the
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The greater number of the crafts
men whose productions regularly pass
the jury and meet with favor in the
sight of the purchasing public have
drawn, modeled and made designs in
the art schools. They are professional
ly trained artists. And more and more
the arts and crafts workers, accord
ing to C. Howard Walker, the well
known Boston architect who for sev
eral years has served on the jury of
admission to the Society of Arts and
Crafts, and who is also director of the
department of design of the school of
the Museum of Fine Arts, will be
drawn from the ranks of persons who
have had special training. The crude
amateur is being eliminated from arts
and crafts. It is not true and
never was true—that people incompe
tent to do anything else well may ex
pect to succeed in handicraft. In reality
skillful and artistic individual work in
any of the metalsN in pottery, leather,
glass or wood, demands intelligence of
an exceptional order, rare cultivation,
executive ability, in fact, all the quali­
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The success of this Boston society,
which is characteristic of what is hap
pening in several other cities, would,
no doubt, have been greater by this
time if competent craftsmen were not
so scarce. The secretary of the So
ciety of Arts and Crafts says that the
greatest problem has become one of
supply, rather than of demand. There
is at best only a very small number
of workers, who have had the requisite
training to do/things that are better
than the poor inartistic objects upon
which Miss Mollie is spending her
time, temper and eyesight. Almost in
numerable articles come before the jury
of the Society of Arts and Crafts of
which only a small percentage is
worthy even to be considered. The
bulk represent the misdirected efforts
of untaught though often willing work
ers.
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THE COUNCIL OF STATE WHICH AT PRESENT RULES NORWAY.
'council of state, which since the secession of Norway from Sweden has been the supreme governing body of
former country, is composed of the ablest and most public spirited men in the land. It will probably hinge
largely upon the views of these men whether Norway,will,d^cjde to call a princeling to rule over her or at once
make the plunge into republicanism, tn the latter event It 1« more tban likely that Dr. Fridjthof Nans
en, the ex
plorer. will become the first president
NEW EMPLOYMENT AFFORDED BY THE REVIVED HANDICRAFTS
year, comes up to expectation, the total
of the year's sales will amoUnt to more
than $40,000. This enterprise, in other
words, like others of the same general
type in London, Birmingham and in
several German cities, is now paying
its way, and is affording regular and
reasonably remunerative work to .-a lim
ited number of craftsmen.
Classified advertising
simplifies your search.
Even to "look for a nee
dle in a haystack" would
be easier if the haystack
were classified and the
needle placed under the
letter "N." And if the
needle, like many of The
Forum Want Ads., were
threaded with a golden
thread, the quest would
be still more attractive
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ties possessed by, and some others not
ordinarily possessed by the successful
manufacturer of the old school who
keeps in close touch with all the me
chanical processes of his shops.
A great many people, so Mr. Wal
ker" maintains, have been rushing into
the arts and crafts with the notion that
everything necessary is comprised in
learning to manipulate the materials.
A girl takes a few lessons in run
ning, a hot platinum point witt greater
or less pressure along a strip of bass
wood and straightway she begins to
flood the markets with pyrographic
productions of which she will be
ashamed if she ever learns better
In reality there is 110 short cut to
success in handicraft work. The ideal
producer is one who has learned to
draw and paint, who knows the his
tory of the fine arts, who has become
extremely sensitive to differences be
tween cheap, tawdry work and that
marked .by fineness of feeling. Com
mand over the materials of any partic
ular craft is a minor matter, easily ac
quired by one who has a firm grasp
on the principles of design—a truth
upon which ^the whole course of in
struction has been laid out by Mr.
Walker for his department of the
school of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Whether the candidate for an artistic
career is to be painter, sculptor or il
lustrator, crafts worker or designer for
machine production, in any case the
fundamentals of decorative design as
related to the materials and objects of
man's surroundings are essentially th'i
same, nor are they to be learned in
half a dozen lessons, but only by years
of study and growth. The three years
of schooling which the pupil get under
Mr. Walker are of course only pre
liminary to many more years that must
be devoted by one who would succeed.
Special opportunities exist at this
time, Mr. Walker believes, for young
men and women who have been well
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of the principles of spacing and ar
rangement, with no conception of the
antique dignity of the craft, acquires a
small printing press and a font of or
namental type, which he learns to set
laboriously, and straightway he blos
soms out as an "art printer."
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trained in the art schools to take the
initiative in starting smalt handicraft
enterprises. Many examples of success
es of this kind already achieved are at
hand. The rug-making which one
young woman artist has turned into a
local industry in a New Hampshire hill
town the print shop and allied indus
tries with which a young minister in
western Massachusetts is stirring up
the industrial life of a community that
was threatening to become decadent
the growth of small individual pot
teries employing a few skilled crafts
men at Colorado Springs, New Or
leans, Ncwburyport, and other places
the making of hand-turned furniture at
the jewelry work out of which four
young women of Cleveland have gained
a nationol reputation the silver-smith
ing which has made a craftsman at
Gardner, Mass., internationally fa
So that the best thing Miss Mollie
can do is to give up any idea that
handicraft affords a- means of a genteel
livelihood without much work, and get
herself properly prepared to succeed
by virtue of just the same qualities
that are neded in any other Itfie. pf
business.
LOTTERIES SUPPRESSED.
I Guadalajara, Mex., Sept. 12.—State
officials here say that word has been
sent out from the City of Mexico tlfat
all lotteries in the republic must be
suppressed. The suppression will fol
low the expiration of the franchises
held by the Loteria de la Beneficia
Publica. This franchise was granted
for twenty-five years and has a year
yet to run.
The federal government will set an
example by suppresssing the national
/ottery which is under government con
trol and the states which conduct lot
teries will, it is claimed, follow suit.
The lotteries conducted by private con
cerns will be given a certain period
in whiqh to close up their business.
The action will be in line with the ef
forts of the Mexican government to
suppress gambling in every forip,
PROVED AN ALIBI
Minot, N. D., Sept. 12.—Paul Dem
hard, charged with forgery and also
with uttering forged instruments, was
given a preliminary hearing Saturday
afternoon before Judge Murray, and
discharged because of insufficient evi
dence.
Demhar produced" two witnesses
in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Wolff, who reside on a farm sev
eral miles west of Minot. Mr. arid
Mrs. Wolfl testified positively that
Demhard was employed by them on
their farm on the 19th of August and
that he did not come to Minot on the
evening of the 19th. They swore that
they had hired Demhard on the 15th of
August and he was employed by them
UP until the time of his arrest, Sunday,
Aug. 27. Mr. Wolff and his wife
were very positive that Demhard was
not in Minot on the Saturday the forg
ed checks were cashed. it was on
their s^raghftforward testimony that
Demhard was released, as the state
produced several witnesses who impli
cated Demhard in the forgery.
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PEOPLED
PAPER ^1'
FARMERS'
CONFERENCE
NATIONAL CONGRESS OP
PARKERS AT RICHMOND
The Annual Session of This Important
Body Convenes Today in Virginia
and Some Very Important Questions
Will Be Discussed.
Richmond, Va., Sept. i2.~rThe an
nual session of the*Farmers' National
Congress opened here today with a
large attendance of delegates repre*
senting every state and territory in the
United States. The congress was call
I ed to order by the president, Harvie
Jordan, of Monticello, Ga. The mayor
I of the city delivered an address wel
coming the delegates on behalf of the
city. Col. Benehan Cameron, of Ra
I lcigh, the vice president of the con
gress, responded. Then the president
delivered his annual address.
The congress is more than twenty
years old, is non-political and com
posed of delegates from every state and
territory, appointed by the respective
governors on the recommendation ol
the agricultural organizations of tlie
states. The total membership is abotit
4,000. The present session is of con
siderable importance and many import
ant subjects will come up for consid
eration. Among the subjects to be dis
cussed are: "The Farmer and the
Railway "Tariff Schedules as They
Affect the Farmers "The Percentage
of Government Expenditures for Agri
cultural Interests "The Distributive
versus the Productive Half of Fann
ing "The Farmer and Postal Re*
forms" and "Primary Agricultural Ed
ucation." The congress will remain in
session until Friday of next week.
HILL AND HARRIMAN
HAVE ANOTHER TfLT
Portland, Ore., Sept.
mous the designing and shaping of organized, the Portland & Seattle, rail
picture frames suitable to the character way, said to be allied with the Harrl
of painters' canvases out of which sev- man properties, and the Wallula P|p»
eral Boston artists have created an cific, which is asserted to be an offshoot
artistic craft. These and almost count- of the J. J. Hill roads. Both these
less other small industries which have roads purpose building down the north
arisen to supply a real demand illus- bank of the Culumbia River, and.tfe
trate what can be done by a person of Portland & Seattle, in addition pur
artistic skill who has also sufficient poses to conduct a line to Seattle. "4,
push and executive ability to start an Surveying parties, said to be recei^
enterprise needing for its chief capital, WS pay checks of the ^Northern Pacific
taste and refined feeling rather than j.1
an extensive plant. There have been
few instances in which anybody who
really had a right to succeed in an
applied art has failed in this country,
but the technical conditions of suc
cess, according to Mr. Walker, are
severer than most people suppose.
i2.--Develop-
ments of the last few days, confirmed
by the fact that large sums of money
have been and are being sp^nt in rai^
road surveys along the north bank
of
the Columbia river, indicate that a fight
for the control of the water level grade
along the Columbia River from east
em Washington to Portland of ti&f
mean proportions will occur within tUii
next few months between the Hitl and?
Harriman interests. V
(Two companies, having in the
4he same purpose, have been recently
Co., are active in the district lying
between Vancouver, Wash., and the
Cascades of the Columbia. On the
authority of a right-of-way agent, whp
is said to be acting in the interests of
the Northern Pacific road, the state-v
ment is made that a right of way h4*
been purchased with but two insigniS*
cant exceptions, for the entire distant
between Vancouver and Kennewi
Wash.
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parties repr?ptnting the Portland &
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Lyle and Vancouver, Wash., and thi?
survey wrk is being vigorously press
ed.
#OMAN GARDENER:
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 12.—MrJs
Blake, a woman gardener, is making
fortune raising vegetables at Fairbanlgi
for the Tanana miners. Her garde®
last year proving very successful, she
greatly enlarged it this year. Recent
ly she came outside for the purpose ol
taking in 5,000 strawberry plants to
gether with bulbs, shrubs and fre$h
vegetable seeds with which she expects^
to make at least $10,000 next yeaf.
She has homesteaded a rich piece of
valley land at Fairbanks and is having
a large area put under cultivation
Next spring she will take in Jersejp'
cows and establish a dairy.
CHILD SAVES MOTHER'S LIF&
Seattle, Sept. 12.—Mrs. C. Smith fyf
West Seattle attempted to commit stiir
cide by drinking the contents of ft
bottle of carbolic acid. The rash act
was witnessed by the woman's j.vyear
old daughter, and that the mother t#
still alive is due entirely to the interfere
ence of the little girl, who grabbed
the deadly poison from her mother1#
hands and thus prevented her frop*
taking a sufficient quantity to cauift
death.
Although married to Smith but
few months, he being a second
band, the woman claims their maritll
relations have not been very pleat
ant and she has been brooding over her
unhappy lot for some weeks. The acid
was spilled over the mother's faqs,
which was terribly burned.
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This man idso slates that within the
next few weeks contracts for the cog*
struction of a roadbed will be let, and
he adds that President Elliot of the
Northern Pacific v-ill, in the next few
days, make an important announce*^
ment. The info- inaiion is also ascer-":
tained that Louis Gerlinger, president ,f
of the WallnU Pacific,,, will make an 1
announcement within the next tep
days.
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