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NUMBER SIX
CHANGES DUE IN CANADA
IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE TER
RITORIES WILL SOON BE
COME PROVINCES.
Many People of the Northwest Terri
tory Are Clamoring for Home
Rule Government.
WINNIPEG, Man.. Dec. 12.—The
country editors of the states, who
think that it is sufficiently definite to
say in a personal paragraph that Mr.
So and So has left for Canada, may not
be greatly disturbed by the news that
great changes are to be made in the
map of the Canadian northwest. The
event, which it is now assured will
take place at an early date, is one
which will be of great political sig
nificance for the northern part of this
continent. By the beginning of the
next year, delegates from Regina will
go to Ottawa to discuss the terms on
which the three territories of Alberta.
Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, which
only a generation ago were the private
property of that most ancient corpora
tion, the Hudson Bay company, are to
become free and autonomous provinces.
We say "autonomous" on this side of
the line and not "sovereign," and there
in lies the whole difference between
the American and the Canadian system
of federation. In the beginning the
state declared whether it would or
would not join the American union.
Even now the people of a new state
frame their own constitution and re
tain all powers which are not specially
delegated. In Canada the new prov
ince is created by the federal power
and receives its constitution from its
hands, subject to the approval of the
sovereign crown of great Britain.
Consequently there can be no talk of
the right to secede on the part of the
provinces whose legislature can only
deal with matters placed within its ju
risdiction by the federal act. In short,
in the scheme of Canadian legislation,
the crown, not the people, is still con
sidered the source of authority.
Not Much Practical .Difference.
In practice, however, the average
man seldom feels the difference. The
Canadian parliament has heretofore
been most generous in its treatment
of the territories. Manitoba became a
province when its population scarcely
entitled it to the privilege of home
rule and its right to govern itself in
all matters of local concern have been
upheld by the rest of the Dominion in
some very strenuous political strug
gles.
The present territories, which are
soon to become provinces also, furnish
an excellent example of the pliability
of Canadian institutions and of the
fair temper of the Canadian rulers.
As early as 1888 these territories were
given a measure of home rule and
since 1897 they have enjoyed govern
ment by a legislature chosen by the
people and a cabinet responsible to the
representative* in the same manner as
the British cabinet is responsible to
Hie commons. Instead of being repre
sented by delegates in the federal cap
ital, the territories now have ten rep
resentatives in the house of commons
and two senators, a number of seats
greater than their population would
have entitled them to at the time the
act was passed. All British subjects
have the right to vote and, in muni
cipal matters, all rate-payers have the
right of suffrage irrespective of na
tionality. As the territorial legislature
does not levy any tax on property, the
only direct taxation being for muni
cipal purposes, it can truly be said that
there is no taxation without represen
tation in the Canadian northwest.
The only rights which the territorial
legislature does not possess are those
to borrow money on its own responsi
bility and to dispose of the public
lands. As the federal government at
tends to those.services in a very satis
factory manner, it is not surprising
to And that in some localities conven
tions are actually passing resolutions
to the effect that the territories are not
yet ripe for provinical autonomy. It
would be a poor politician in an Amer
ican territory who would run counter
to an agitation for admission to state
hood. But in the recent elections, Pre
mier Houltain, of the Canadian terri
tories, tried to defeat the liberals by
representing that they were opposed
to provincial autonomy for the terri
tories, but signally failed.
PLIES VOCATION AS MINISTER.
Confidence Man Picks Insurance Men
as His Victims.
SEATTLE. WashTDec. 12.-Garbed
as a minister, W. W. Cooper, believed
by the police to be a clever confidence
man, has been arrested by City Detec
tive Wappenstein. Dozens of insur
ance men in the state and H. M. Grin
nell and H. L. Sizer, of this city, have
been his dupes.
For several weeks ministers in the
state have been attempting to effect
the capture of the man, but until yes
terday the police failed to lay hands
on him. He was arrested in the office
of H. L. Grinnell, and is now in the city
jail.
Cooper's game was to secure ad
vance money on salary from insurance
men with whom he secured employ
ment. He explained to his prospective
victim that he had been a Methodist
minister, but on account of his preach
ing so muchc had injured his voice. He
asked for some honorable means of
making a livelihood until he could
again enter the pulpit.
His talk was impressive and seldom
did he fail to land his victim. Thei
man was dressed in _the conventional
minister's garb, wearing the customary
white bow tie, white vest, long coat.
His facial expression, his victims say,
was nothing if not ministerial.
After impressing the man to whom
he was talking that he would make an
excellent insurance solicitor he asked
for a small advance on his salary. He
usually manged to get this.
From Grinnell, of the Mutual Bene
fit Life Insurance company, he got
$16.00, but did not write up any insur
ance for him. From H. L. Sizer he se-'
cured $5. Sizer is the local representa
tive of the Perm Mutual.
Several days ago the police were
formed that the man was in the viciniJ
ty, and Detective Wappenstein was put
on his track. He arrested him as he
was leaving Grinnell's office after hav
ing duped another victim.
* The detective looked on the ministe
rial garb of the man he knew to be a
fakir and said:
"You're a nice minister. You never
preached a sermon in your life."
"Well, they can't do a —- — thing
with me anyway," he replied, smiling
at his predicament.
He gave his name at the police sta-"
tion as W. W. Cooper and his age as
24. He said that when working at a
legitimate business he was a clerk.
While the man is held in jail it is
believed that he knew of what he was 1
talking when he told the detective that
nothing could be done with him. His,
case will be taken before the prosecut
ing attorney today.
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FOUGHT OUT BY HANSBROUGH.
North Dakota Senator Opposes Plan
Proposed by Secretary Shaw.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12.—
Senator Hansbrough and Representa
tive Lovering of Massachusetts had a
long conference with Secretary Shaw
today about the new* drawback regula
tions which the secretary is consider
ing.
Senator Hansbrough stated his op
position to the proposed regulations,
covered briefly in an interview with
him in a recent dispatch to The Jour
nal. He says that if the millers are al
lowed to import Canadian wheat and
mix it with the domestic product and
export the flour and get drawbacks,
it will injure the North Dakota far
mers and lessen the price of their
product. The senator combatted the
statements made in the preliminary re
port of Special Agent Kemp to the
effect that much of the wheat in Min
nesota elevators was shriveled. He
told the secretary that he would let
the millers have all the No. 1 hard
wheat they wanted from North Da
kota at current prices, and said that
it was not necessary to adopt any
more liberal drawback regulations than
are now in force because the millers
do not need any relief.
Representative Lovering, who is the
author of several drawback bills, fa
vored the proposed revision of the
regulations and urged the secretary to
make them as liberal as possible.
Information was given out late to
day by an advocate of the liberalizing
drawback regulations, that Secretary
Shaw would within a few days, prob
ably tomorrow, issue an order making
most sweeping changes in the present
drawback regulations, especially in
their application to the drawback on
wheat. These new regulations will be
issued as a result of the recent inves
?-rations of Special Agent Kemp. I
THE EVENING STATESMAN MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1904.
HAVE SCHOOL ON WHEEIS
EXPERT AGRICULTURISTS WILL
TRAVEL ALONG LINE OF RAIL
ROAD TO INSTRUCT FARMERS.
The Scheme It is Believed Will Materi
ally Increase the Wheat Crops
of the Northwest.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 12.—
Farmers of Minnesota, South Dakota
and other states through which the
North-Western railway lines run will
the given free information this winter
on how to raise larger crops by using
the full productive value of seed.
The company will run a "pure-seed
special" train in charge of Professors
Wheeler and Wilson of the South Da
kota Agricultural school, and Messrs.
A. C. Johnson and M. F. Greeley.
Stops will be made at every station,
where brief lectures on the care and
use of seed grain will/be given.
• The special will carry samples of
each of the various grains commonly
planted in the northwest. The experts
accompanying the special will demons,
trate, by practical examples, the live
and productive seed and the manner in
which it may be distinguished from
dead and worthless grain. Every ac
cessory which can aid in spreading
practical information of the seed-grain
subject will be provided.
The South Dakota experts assert
that proper attention to the question
of planting pure seed will increase the
grain crop of the northwest 5.000.000
bushels a year. Somewhat similar agi
tation was undertaken in lowa last
year with reference to seed corn, with
the result that this year's crop shows
noticeable results of the work of the
agricultural experts.
Wheat that is dead or which dies
easily under adverse conditions, is of
ten planted, and the specialists will
show the farmer how dead seed may
be avoided and how the efficiency of
seed may be increased 20 per cent.
The inspection will cost nothing.
The meetings will be held at two or
three points in every county which
the road traverses. It is said that ihe
Milwaukee road, which is a rival of
the North-Western, will offer a train
for the same purpose over its lines.
Minnesota is not to be forgotten in
the pure-seed agitation. While the
special train will cover South Dakota
first, it will also cover the company's
Minnesota lines, and later in the win
ter will be placed at convenient points
to afford valuable information to Min
nesota farmers.
The North-Western has a large mile
age in southern Minnesota, all of which
will be traversed by the special train,
invitations will be extended to state
agricultural school officials to partici
pate in the journeyings of the seed
cars, and, if time permits, it is prob
able that the special will cover the
Omaha lines in addition to those of the
Northwestern.
NEWS FROM GOTHAM.
Republicans Not Pleased With Citi
zen's Union.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Republican
leaders are not at all pleased with the
attitude of the Citizens' Union re
specting the next city campaign. The
Union, in announcing its intention to
take part in the campaign, indicated
that it is strongly in favor of the nom
ination of an independent democrat for
mayor. The idea of indorsing a re
publican who might be named as the
candidate of the republican party was
scouted as preposterous, and there
seemed a strong if not outspoken sen
timent in favor of the nomination of
R. Fulton Cutting, as its candidate for
mayor. Mr. Cutting's high character
and gerat abilities are generally recog
nized, and Senator Piatt has irTtimated
that he is the kind of independent
democrat that republicans might sup
port; but the idea of running a dem
ocrat against the Tammany cndidate
has met with a storm of protest by
the republican press and most of the
leaders of that party. The republicans,
in fact, have about decided to name
a straight-out republican ticket, be
lieving that the great prestige secured
in the presidential election will carry
it to victory.
One of the worst wrecks of the many
made here by great building opera
tions is the site of the Pennsylvania
railroad terminal, bounded by Seventh
and Ninth avenues and Thirty-first
and Thirty-third streets. The work
of razing the 300 buildings on the
property, which cost $10,000,000, has
been completed. But there is still
much debris to be removed, and the
district looks like a city that has been
devastated by fire. The work of prepa
ration for the building of the great
terminal has been carried on with re
markable celerity. On an average, 600
men and 180 teams have been em
ployed daily in getting rid of the hun
dreds of well-built brick and'stone
structures that stood on the property.
Three immense steam shovels, each
capable of lifting seventy tons in one
effort, and fifty steam drills capa
ble of boring through fifty-seven feet
of solid rock in a day, are used in
hollowing out the large space which
will be occupied by acres of railroad
tracks and underground structures of
the terminal.
One of the Questions now being in
vestigated by the commission on pneu
monia, of which Dr. Thomas Darling
ton, president of the board of health
is chairman, is whether the luxurious
steam-heated apartment of modern
times is not responsible in a measure
for the increase in the ravages of the
disease. During the past month there
were 682 deaths from pneumonia in
Greater New York. Of these, 461 were
in Manhattan and the Bronx and 221
the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and
Richmond. By far the greater num
ber of these deaths were in what re
known as apartment house districts.
Physicians who have been interviewed
on the subject of "the modern flat as
a cause of pneumonia" give divergent
opinions, but nearly all of them state
that the tendency to overheating the
sleeping apartment an 4 lack of venti
lation undoubtedly are increasing the
inroads of the disease.
Returning to their native land as
winter approaches, thousands of Ital
ian laborers are crowding the Mediter
ranean liners and the outward bound
ships are carrying larger numbers than
ever on their eastward voyages. The
cessation of out of door work in large
public enterprises and on the great
railroads is in a large measure re
sponsible for this, and the agents of
the steamship lines say that in the
spring the emigrants will again be
come immigrants.
There is little doubt that the sub
way has drawn an enormous amount
of traffic from the Metropolitan Street
Railway company. It is said that a
study of the situation, made by persons
in the employ of the Metropolitan com
pany, shows that the subway has not
only taken away a great deal of the
long-haul business of the surface
lines, but that it has also cut into the
cross-town traffic. Uptown residents
can no wreach points off the line of the
elevated by taking the subway cars.
Until the subway was opened for traf
fic these uptown east and west side
residents were obliged to avail them
selves of the transfer system of the
Metropolitan lines. The decrease in
the traffic of the Metropolitan has
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the company will be forced to accept a
merger with the Interborough company
at terms dictated by the latter, but
the report is as devoid of official con
firmation as heretofore.
In order to prevent further danger
from leakage to the interior as well as
the exterior of Grant's tomb it has
been decided to render the monument
waterproof, and the work of preserva
tion is already under way. The sys
tem used is identical with that em
ployed in saving the Obelisk in Cen
tral Park. It consists in filling all the
pores and interstices of the stone with
paraffin, which is unaffected either by
acids, by alkalies, by water, or by the
gases in the atmosphere. The melting
point of paroflin wax is about 140 de
grees Fahrenheit, so the stone, to un
dergo the waterproofing, must be
heated by hot compressed air to a
temperature a little above this. The
paraffin wax is then melted and
sprayed over the surface, and this
coating is finally driven by compressed
air into the pores of the stone to a
depth of about a quarter of an inch. It
is estimated that by means of this
treatment stone may be kept in a state
of excellent preservation for a hun
dred years or more.
Miss Norma Munro. who used to be
an active figure in New York life, has
gone to Paris and will probably re
main there for some time. She has
taken an apartment and has made no
definite plans for returning to this
country. After her brief experience
as the associate manager of a theatre
that did not succeed. Miss Munro did
not lose her interest in theatricals.
She merely transferred them to play
writing and she is now an enthusias
tic student of that art. It is with this*
object that she has gone to P;tris. g ne
is said to be absorbed in her efforts to
succeed in writing a play that will win
her fame and money, of which, how
ever, she is not much in need.
COULDN'T MAKE HORSES WIN.
Woman Healer Attempted Too Much,
Divorced From Cruel Husband.
DES MOINES. lowa, Dec. 12.—Be
cause Mrs. Mary Orr, a divine healer,
was unable to comply with her hus
band's demand that she make his race
horses break the world's record, she
was subjected to brutal treatment. an.J
was accordingly granted a divorce at
Marshalltown.
Her story, as told to the judge, was
corroborated by two witnesses. Mrs.
Orr achieved reputation as a divine
healer iv Colorado, but has not prac
ticed much in this state. It was shown
to the sal isfaction of the court, that
she suggested to her husband that if
she could only have the influence over
his horses that she could over human
beings, she could make them win every
race in which they were entered.
He thereupon began to insist that
she perform this feat. She attempted
it, but his horses failed to win. He
then abused her and the divorce suit
resulted.
George Hedger has recently installed
two large and handsome show cases
in his jewelry store on Main street.
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