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2 HERE AND THERE. Mrs. Robbing of Litt's hall, will give her closing party on Saturday evening. May 4. Harry Haggenmlller was held in $100 bonds yesterday by Judge Twohy. on the charge of stealing carpenter's tools. A delegation of the Eighth ward cit izen who are opposed to Sunday base ball will call upon the mayor today and present their protest. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the St. Paul Woman Suffrage asso ciation will occur at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Ford's hall. The case of the state against James H. Burns was called before Judge Egan in the criminal court yesterday, but was continued until May 13. The Minneapolis Western Railway company has filed with the secretary of state, a certificate of trust due to the Minneapolis Trust company. A big mass meeting will be held at Labor hall tonight to discuss the eight-hour question. A number of prominent workingmen will be present to make; brief speeches. The B. T. Tobacco company yester day made an assignment to Theodore Sander for the benefit of its creditors. The company has been doing a general •tobacco business at 207 East Fourth street. The ladies of Immanuel Baptist church will serve a dinner Thursday, May 2. in Washburn building, Fifth, near Wabasha, from 11:30 a., m. to 3 p. m. Only 23 cents will be charged for the. dinner, with fruit dessert. Cunningham & Haas have begun suit to recover from the Omaha road $332 damages for loss alleged to have been sustained on two car loads of stock shipped to Chicago in June last. It is claimed the cars wore hung up for ten days at Belvidere, 111. The building permits issued yester day aggregated $5,C55. The largest one was Issued to Thomas Scott, who is about to build a barn on the north side of Irvine aveune, between West ern and Walnut streets, which will cost $4,400. The matter of a receivership for the North Dakota Milling association came up liefore Judge Sanborn, of the United States court, yesterday. Judge Sanborn appointed the same receivers appointed by Judge Thomas a few days ago. It was merely a formal mat ter. Martha J. Smith, a victim of the mor phine habit, was yesterday brought into the probate court, and Judge Will rich ordered her committed to the in sane asylum at Rochester. She is a widow aged about fifty years. She spent a term in the asylum once be fore. Judge Otis «was engaged yesterday hearing the suit of James A. Saxe against Pattle C. Womack et al., being an action to recover $2,000 on a mort gage. This is only one of a number of actions under the same title. The whole amount Involved is $0,300. THEODORE THOMAS CONCERTS People's Church tonight and tomorrw night. Don't miss them. PERSONAL. At the Aberdeen— F. S. Bangs, New ■Jork; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Fitz, Boston. About eighty of the International Car Accountants spent yesterday at the Merchants' hotel. Miss Minnie Schroeder, tire sten ographer in the city clerk's office, re turned home yesterday after a three weeks' sojourn in -New Orleans, where she visited relatives. lAt the Clarendon— B. S. Smith, Brain erd; William Holden, . Winnipeg; J. G. Crampton, Syracuse; George D. Pap son. Detroit; Mrs. A. E. Shears, Pepin, Wis; Hugh Donahue, Albert Lea. At the Metropolitan— A. E. Randall, Newport; J. B. Llndale and wife, Lon don, England; George L. Brown and wife, Culbertson, Mich.; F. P. Glad dus, St. Louis; R. J. Corns, Kansas City. At the International— F. M. Shuley, Sioux City; M. C. Coughlin, Lake City; C. A: Delamater, Rock Rapids; Will-, lam Twoey, Dublin, Ireland; Sidney F. Truax, Hastings; Charles Lynch, Brooklyn; William Fose, Baltimore; H. B. Livingston, Austin. At the Sherman— Neil McKay, Pater son, N. J.; M. D. Thompson, Petaluma, Cab; W. C. Burke, Portland, Or.; L. F. Johnson, Crystal Falls, Mich.; Jay C. Roese, Lake City, Minn.; Albert John son, Redwing, Minn.; 11. Eballng, Glen coe, Minn.; E. J. Leeland, Marshall, Minn. At the Windsor— A. S. McMillan, Wa dena; C. D. Sherlock, Fargo; J. A. Hansen and wife, Kenyon; B. D. Berry, Chicago; S. .Mayer, Milwaukee; W. H. McCall, Dover, N. H.; C. -R. Davis, Chicago; L. 55. Rogers, Waterviile; H. P. Deaken, Philadelphia; Oscar J. Olson and wife, Tied Wing. At the Ryan— Page Morris, Duluth; D. G. Maclay, A. W. Edwards, Fargo; Thomas Ryan, Winnipeg; John M. Cochrane, Grand Forks; G. F. Wlnslow and wife, Eau Claire; George W. Fry, Pittsburg; V,'. H. Leonard Boston; C. E. Lee, New York; J. Preis, Philadel phia; K. D. Watson, England. At the Merchants'— S. Wilson, Richmond, Va.; S. H. Manchu and wife, Hammond, Ind. ; T. J. Dougherty, Northfield; George W. Lang, Win dom; J. L. Mudge, Sioux City; J. G. Hamilton, Grand Forks; H. W. Mattl son, Faribault; J. C. Newberry, St. Louis ; J. L. Ross and wife, Concord, N. H.; Frank M. Luce and wife, Chi cago; B. F. Gallup, Boston. Professional Club's .''lay Hall. Much interest is being taken in the grand May ball to be given by the St. Paul Professional club at Turner hall Friday evening next. The affair is to be; strictly private, and no one will be admitted without presenting an invi tation. The invitation cards are very elaborate, and give promise of a swell affair. The hall will be elegantly dec " orated: A? '■ SK ■"'■' ' '-'"^MBK what: : --:.:;•? Mi I J S miner 3! ipl &8$ €1 w'-^IPI 1 HPHE Johahn'H6ff iv " : || 2& w sk/ -I Malt Extract has *jg 533 .AT^r: iay»s been used in my •*4*. .jidmlnT^ TrfT'iJElta. family for many years. »It S^ % M possesses excellent medic- j^» &5£ inal qualities. £J£ Yd / W. EL% . Beware, of imitations. . The genuine *? S~ '"-■ -- ' ; »' '-. «r^3* P«*>...yo/wßM'H"off's Malt Extract has this signature £^"" r^^^fd^ff^a^y^/) s^^ *3£ : on- neck -label. Eisner & Mende'lson C 0. ,. 0 / lf ** vn^vlot\ t .,iM. pQft Sole Agents, New York. — ■- . (^&/ ! $g THERE ISA DOUBT Whether the Law Regulating Jurors' Fees Is Con stitutional. ; COUNTY ATTORNEY BUTLER Will Prepare an Opinion That the Court Should Pass Upon It BEFORE ANY FEES ARE PAID *■ ' ■'--'•: '':*.""'.- ■ •- • Question Hinges on Amend ment Prohibiting Special - Legislation. There is serious doubt as to whether the law passed by the legislature just adjourned raising the compensation for jurors in this county to ?2 a day, is constitutional. County Attorney Butler thinks there is sufficient doubt in the question to make it necessary for the court to pass upon it before the county officers pay out money under its provisions. He accordingly called the attention of County Auditor Sullivan to the matter, and it was the feeling of the auditor that the county atorney should give an opin ion on the law before any orders for jurors' fees at the rate of $2 a day are issued. Mr. Butler will accord ingly prepare an opinion soon. The question hinges on the consti tutional amendment prohibiting spe cial legislation. That amendment goes further and prohibits the amend ment or perpetuation of any special law on the statute books at the time the amendment was passed. It only permits the repeal of such laws. In 1876 a special law was passed provid ing for the manner of drawing jurors in Ramsey county, fixing their qual ifications, etc., and placing their com pensation at $1 a day. The new law simply repeals the one section of this special law— relating to compen sation. . This, it is apparent, is not a repeal of a special law, but the amendment; of it by striking out. What the legis lature should have done in order to make its work effective was to re peal the whole law and let the jury system of this county come under the general law relating to jurors in the other counties of the state. SUIT OX LAND DEAL. Cannon River Manufacturers* As sociation Want* a Large Sum From W. P. Jewett. A peculiar case was submitted to Judge Kerr yesterday and taken under consideration. It was the suit of the Cannon River Manufacturers' associa tion to recover from W. P. Jewett $13,443 damages on a land deal, that took place in 1881. The allegations contained In the complaint are that the plaintiff secured a grant of land from the state for logging improve ments made on the Cannon river; that the value of this land was unknown to plaintiff, but one, John M. Archibald, represented that he could sell It ■at $1.75 per acre, and that that was a fair consideration for it. - " •-'-•>• . . ... Tho land was thereupon sold to Archibald at that rate, : and he turned it over to Jewett, who, in turn sold it immediately for $2 per acre. The com pany afterward learned that Jewett paid Archibald 10 cents an acre for consummating the deal for him, and the suit is brought to recover 25 cents an acre, the difference between the price Archibald represented the land was worth and what it actually sold for, the theory of the plaintiff being that Archibald was simply acting as an agent, and he and Jewett defrauded the company. THOMAS .TONIGHT. Superb Programme for the Great Concert Tonight. At 8 o'clock tonight, the great Theo dore Thomas will wield his magic baton over his Chicago orchestra of sixty two artists in the People's church, and render the following ...programme: March, Schubert; overture, "Leonore," No. 3, Beethoven; Andante Can tabile; Valse, from Symphony . No. 5, Tsch aikowsky; "J! on coeur ouvre ata voix" ("Samson and Delilah"), Saint-Saens, Miss Fanchon Thompson; Ride of the Walkyries, Wagner; overture, "Tann hauser," Wagner; Bridal Song, Ser enade, Op. 25, Goldmark; "Connais tv le pays," "Mlgnon," Ambroise Thomas Miss Fanchon Thompson; suite, "Peer Gynt," Grieg; Morning, Aase's Death, Anitra's Dance, In the Hal's of the Mountain King; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1, Liszt. On both Monday and Tuesday nights at the Exposition Auditorium, Min neapolis, the orchestra delighted large and enthusiastic audiences, and judg ing from the heavy advance sale of seats for the concerts in the Peop.e's church tonight and tomorrow night, the indications are that St. Paul music •levers will turn out and receive the superb organisation in the same hearty and appreciative spirit it deserves. There are still some choice seats for both concerts left- at Howard, Farwell & Co.'s music store. i .*;,? BRACE OP RUNAWAYS Create Confusion anil Considerable Damage on Seventh Street-. 1 "' Two runaways occurred yesterday, which fortunately'; were not attended by ' serious ; consequences *2j , A '. double team owned by Maguire & Mulrooney, THE SAINT PAUL DAII/T GfcOBE: WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1895. frightened by the breaking of a wheel, ran away on Seventh street. *At Rain-' sey street the horses j knocked Ia 1 feed . wagon : in pieces, and continuing their flight , collided with . a push cart pro pelled by an Italian fruit peddler. ' The latter was knocked down and severely bruised. He was taken to the Seven Corners, where a physician attended him. Soon after another runaway oc curred in the vicinity of the Seven Corners. A team belonging to Lauer brothers, 'becoming uncontrollable dashed out Seventh street. En route the wagon was kicked to pieces, throw ing Mr. Lauer in the street. He was roughly shaken -up but received no serious injuries. By the breaking of the axle one of the horses was so ter ribly cut that Officer Rafter shot it to put it out of Its misery. '; : ->:?/; .';'■ CROP PROSPECTS GOOD According to the Wood. Harvester ■ Works Agents. Beginning today, there will be a de cided increase in the number of men A. Wood ' Harvester company. Re employed at the shops of the Walter ports from the company's traveling agents show that in all parts of the country the prospects for a good crop are the brightest they have been in many a day. Heavy rains are falling, everywhere, and agriculturists are correspondingly elated. Arrangements have been made by the receivers to provide all the funds that may be necessary to run the works with a full force from now until the close, of the season. HURD IS A FIGHTER. DENTIST DOESXJT LIKE JUDGE WILLIS* ALTERNATIVE, AND FINDS A BIGGER COURT Secures a Writ of Certiorari and the Supreme Court Will Hear i the Case Today. Dr. Hurd does not like the alternative of paying $625— alimony and attor ney fees for his wife and $125 fine— or being imprisoned in the county jail, as ordered by Judge Willis Saturday when he adjudged the doctor guilty of contempt of court. The order pro vided that Dr. Hurd had to make his selection by 10 o'clock yesterday or the court would elect for him by sending him to jail. But the doctor did not elect nor did he go to jail. Instead, his attorneys, Henry and R. L. Johns, . applied to the supreme court and se cured a writ of certiorari, calling on Judge Willis to send up to the supreme court by this morning all the papers and evidence submitted to him in the hearing of the contampt proceedings against the doctor. The writ recites that the attorneys alleged that the doc tor submitted sufficient evidence, to prove that he was not In contempt and | that injustice was being done him. Judge Willis prepared a statement of just what took place in the case before him Saturday, and the reason for his ' | finding. This will be submitted with the other papers when the case comes up before the supreme court this morn ing. REGAINED HER REASON. . Mrs. John Egan Returns From the ' Insane Asylum. Mrs John Egan, a widow of sixty, returned to this city yesterday from j Rochester, where for, several months i she was confined In an insane asylum.. j The old lady has been restored |to ' her I friends in full possession of her mental ' ! faculties. ,-;. The return of Mrs. Egan calls to i | mind the sad story of the death of j j her aged husband and little grand- j i child, Elsie Fitzgerald, by asphyxia- '■. ! tion caused by a coal stove in their, j i house, at 55 Ann street, in December j : last. -Mrs. Egan was also so overcome | I by the gas that her life was despaired. , I j of for some time, and when she re j covered and found that her husband i and the little grandchild were dead j j and her home taken possession of by ; the mortgagee, it so preyed on her j mind that she lost her mental bal- j ance and had to be sent to the asylum j for treatment. The old lady's return ! yesterday was the occasion of much rejoicing among her friends. MONEY OR NEW TRIAL. Judge Kerr Gives Claude Ttarnham . I the Alternative. . I Judge Kerr yesterday filed an order 1 giving the plaintiff the alternative of jof accenting $300 damages or new trial in the case of Claude G. Burnham,. guardian, against William Bannon. i This was a suit for damages growing out of an assault committed on Burn- ' ham's son by the defendant because ; | Bannon thought the boy had stolen a : | box of candles from his store. The j ! jury gave a verdict for something over i j $400, and a motion for a new trial was ] | made. In a memorandum attached to l his order Judge Kerr remarks that the assault was so unjustifiable he as dis posed to let the verdict stand as it i was as a warning to others. But on j more mature deliberation he conclud- i ed it was too high, in view of the fact } that the injury done was inconsider- , able, and no specific attempt was made to recover for defamation of character. THEY DO NOT TALLY. State Auditor Dunn Looking- Into Things a Bit. State Auditor Dunn is sending out notices to big lumber firms in the state who have failed to make "full returns for the timber taken during the past few years. The auditor has discovered 'that the returns made by the survey ors general do not tally with the esti- [ mates of the Staples pine land invest!- ' ] gating committee. The lumber firms : may have added to~-their possessions by trespass or in- some other Illegal manner. Once before during his "term of office Auditor Dunn has sent out ; these notices, and the state, - as a re ' sult, has saved a large sum of money. From the first notification one firm i I paid $3,400 into the state treasury. j The list sent out yesterday calls for a' j total of 33,74G,032 feet, divided between I about ten firms, the . principal items??? I being as follows: .-::.-; ;v? Donald McDonald, Chippewa Falls, Wis., 11,C64,589 feet; T. R. Foley, of Aitkin, 2,326,550; Powers & Dwyer, Min neapolis, 2,550,320; Milliken & *McGuire, r Minneapolis, 3,618,480; Itasca Lumber company, Minneapolis, 6,618,521. City Finances. . :^}"'-'f^ The city treasurer's report for the month of April makes the following shewing: By balance April 1, 1895, $834,551.28. The receipts credited to the general? fund amounted to $33,768.65, and those? - paid into special funds brought the • - total, including the balance on hand April 1, up to $1,225,420.11. The total disbursements for the month amounted: to $270,619.70, leaving a balance on hand • today of $954,809.11. ■■ .... ? -£r . Didn't Mean to Do It. i" 7 '- Rosa. Bell, the . seventeen-year-old^ girl arrested Monday night for Leon-"* tempt of court, was discharged yester . day. j She explained to Judge ;. Twohy that in abruptly leaving the court, she was ignorant of having offended." CATER MOVVNED: He Loses His Suit Against the Northwestern Telephone Company. i i; TRIED TO COMPEL REMOVAL Of Telephone Lines on? a Highway on Which His Property Abutted. \ 9 ,-.,.- 1... — — :-,.q1:..; '. JUSTICE MITCHELL DECIDES m ■ - -,-^- — air'- The. Company Entitled: to Same Privileges as Rail road Companies. 1 ; . ' A decision was handed down 'by the supreme court yesterday in ' the case of Joshua O. Cater against the Northwestern Telephone Exchange company, which decides the interpre tation of the law of 1893, which gives telephone and electric light ; com panies the same rights exactly 'as those enjoyed by railroad companies. The decision is written by Justice Mitchell, the chief justice and Justice Buck dissenting from the opinion of the majority of the court. / . : ;• The defendant is a domestic corpora tion authorized to erect and maintain telephone exchanges and lines, j It has constructed a telephone line between the cities of Minneapolis and St. Cloud, a Dart of which is on and along: the side of a rural highway, the ; fee of which, subject to the public easement,, is in the plaintiff, who is the owner of the abutting land. It was built with out his consent and against his pro test. It consists of poles planted in the soil at a distance of 170 feet from each other, upon which wires are stretched. The defendant claims the right to construct and maintain this line, solely by virtue of the General Statutes of 1894, section 2641. » ? This action, was brought to compel the defendant to remove Its poles and wires from the highway. The plaintiff does not allege as proof that the line is not constructed in accordance with the requirements of the statute or that he has been caused any pecuniary damage. He plants himself squarely upon the proposition that the erection and maintenance of telephone; poles and wires is not within the : public easement in a highway, but consti tutes the imposition of an additional servitude upon the land, and that is the question presented by this appeal. The question is res integra. the;first of the kind in this state, and the. de cisions, upon it, as well as ugomtfele graph lines, In other states . eg -.; ARE CONFLICTING/ j '« • "It is assumed that the defendant's telephone line is for the use of^tlre^pub lis upon the payment of, certain charges.". Judge. Mitchell, who wrote the' first part of the decision says, "and -therefore the use to Which the highway has been appropriated f . the defendant Is a public one. The trans- i mission of intelligence by telegraph or telephone is a business of & public character, to be conducted und^r pub lic control in the same manner as. the transportation of . persons or -operty . by common carriers." .,' , *, t ., t .\n-r ' The question to be settled, ' thesis > what is I'the1 'the nature arid extentjof' the { public easement in a highway 1 . "If there is any one fact ) estab lished," Judge Mitchell says, ''in the I history of society and, of the law itself, I it is that the mode of exercising -this 1 easement. is expansive, developing • and j growing as civilization advances, , and today our. urban highways are devoted to a variety of uses not ;- known \ In former times and never dreamed of. by. , the owners of the -soil when the public j easement was acquired. No distinc- I tion should be made between the na- j ture of these new uses, if the public j traffic is not interfered with,, and-pri vate rights are not violated. In my j opinion the telephone line does not im- | pose an additional servitude upon the 1 land. In ; short,' that It is merely a i newly discovered method of using the old public easement." Dissenting, Judge Start, after citing numerous decisions in other states, says: ->•■:• "The locus in quo in this case is a country highway, the title In : fee of which, subject to the public easement, is in the appellant. ' " ;' \ ..'', "Whether or not his claim is valid depends upon what answer shall be given to the question:. In the erection and mairrtenancs under legislative [au thority of poles and wires in j ' V? . A RURAL HIGHWAY ; \ "-' : '■" for a telephone line an additional ser vitude for which the abutting property owner is entitled to compensation? "I am' of ithe opinion, upon both prin ciple and authority, that tha planting of telephone posts upon a public high way in the country, the fee whereof is in the abutting property owner, is an additional servitude, an appropria tion of private property, and unlawful as to such owner, unless the right : to do so is acquired by contract or condemna tion. In reaching this conclusion- I am not unmindful of the fact that the use of the telephone is a beneficial and public use, but private property can not be taken for public use- without compensation first paid or secured, no matter how small the value. This is the constitutional right of the humblest individual, which must not be lest sight of in our enthusiasms over the public benefits conferred by the ■ telegraph"* and telephone, or in the desire to pro mote the public welfare." '.j . Judge Buck also •dissents ; ana says:' "The great weight of author] tls£> is against the view, of the majof-it<y?tof [ this court and the late decisions of I eminent courts are in accordance the views which" l have endeavired to express." ': ,•■ - • Judge Buck, like Judge Start* a as serts, that:" . - j 3 :1 - "The.erection- of telegraph and tele phone poles is not merely a new meth od of exercising old rights, but ths ad dition of. a new servitude, and lessen-, tially a new burden upon the street// • y'~~- '.'.V .-■-..- 1 ■^ CHIEF JUSTICE DISSENTS" 0 5 The chief justice, in his dissent, says ! that the analogy drawn between the '.design of ; the country roads and the j jutes of the telephone companies 'is i very remote, if not fanciful, and 'was j j not contemplated when the original j damage was assessed. -, -. - '■ Justice Buck says that the ground has been so thoroughly covered in the ' opinion of the chief justice that were : it net for the great importance of the ! subject there would be little for him j to . say. In addition' to the treasons j given by Chief Justice Start for. dis- j senting, Justice Buck says that the great?, preponderance . of ? decisions in cases of. this kind are against the ma -:jority of the . court, ■ and ; that in ,his opinion the number of persons who l are injuriously ; affected .by such- a sweeping decision are -greatly in the majority, and tht the law should a barrier against ; the encroachments upon '- private property. -.The syllabus Is: as follows: "... ; ' .' " » -^ •Joshua O. Cater, appellant, vs. The " Northwestern Telephone " Exchange .{> Company, respondent. ? . ± s ',£ .-.- Syllabus— The .defendant* under leg islative authority (Gen. - St. 1894, sec- tlon ".. 2641) ; constructed along the side of a country highway" (the fee of .which" : was in j plaintiff) a? # telephone line con sisting of poles planted .in ' the ground . upon which wires were strung. It did not interfere with the safety ando con venience of ordinary travel or unrea sonably or materially impair plain tiff's special easements in the highway as owner of the abutting land. : :/..■■ . Held, that it did, not impose an ad ditional servitude upon the highway. Order affirmed. " MITCHELL, J. Supreme | Conrt Cases. The supreme court heard the follow-, ing cases yesterday: - : ~ City of St. Paul, respondent, vs. Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, appellant. Argued and sub mitted. - i-*\./""" Anders Peterson, respondent, -vs. S. O. Hall, appellant. Submitted on briefs. 'V-'i,'^-ii Jennie Clifford vs. William G. Tom llnson. Submitted on briefs. State ex rel. H. W. . Childs, Attorney General, relator, vs. .Walter W. Routh, respondent. Argued and submitted. In re accusations against Robert R. Odell and Edward J. McMahan. These causes referred by stipulation to ref eree. FIELDS GROWING GREEN. The Crops Reported in Excellent Shape Everywhere. The Minnesota weather bulletin for the week ending Monday, April 29, is as follows: The werk has averaged warmer than usual, with Thursday, Friday and Saturday days having very nearly normal temperatures, but owing to -the earliness of the sea son these days were 'too cool for vegetation in 'its present advanced stage, and consequently its growth was somewhat slow. Frequent frosts occurred, and in exposed localities a thin skin of ice formed on these nights. No injury beyond the tem porary check in growth has, how ever, taken place on account of ex tremes in temperature. Thursday badly distributed snowers fell over the southern section, which were, heavy only in Rock county: they were followed Sunday by good rains in the west half of this section, and it is only in its eastern half that more rain is now needed to germi nate late sown grain and to start pasturage. The early sown grain Is up sufficiently to give a green hue to the fields. It has sprouted nicely and has a good stand and color. The northern and central sections had good rains Saturday and v Sunday, whidh were the first of any conse quence this year in some of the coun ties. The early sown : grain in these sections is also up, and 'that drilled in Is looking exceptionally well. That sown broadcast is not in as good con dition, but it is better 'than might have been expected under the unus ually dry and windy conditions that have prevailed this spring. The seed ing of . wheat and oats is finished, except in a very few instances. Bar ■ ley seeding is generally well ad j vanced, some 'having finished, .while | others are just beginning.' Flax seed : ing is well under way.- The main work of the week has been the plant ing of potatoes and. preparing .the. land for corn. Some in the south half of the state have ; begun ..planting corn, but this work is hardly general yet. Gardens have nearly all been planted and early vegetables in the south half are up sufficient for culti vation. Pasturage has started well in the northern ; counties and has i sufficient growth^ elsewhere for I stock ' to mostly, obtain their living. Fruit •trees are in bloom, and the apple and plum prospects r are so far very 1 promising. The most backward coun j ties are those in the pine regions east of the Mississippi river, caused by' lack of rain to accelerate the de parture of frost. >v The : rains., th's week | were just what they ; heeded, and | seeding and planting, there will now be pushed to completion within a j very few days. The seeding of bar [ ley, oats and wheat began early in j the Rainy river '■ country, between j the lG'th and 20th, which is unusually j early for them. The week, on the whole, has been the most favorable one of the season and has caused a general feeling of satisfaction to prevail throughout the state. PIKE OJCAL.LAGIIAN Amused a Large Audience at Cre tin Hall Last iNicht. An interesting musical and dramatic entertainment was given at Cretin hall last evening under the auspices of Division No. 8, Ancient Order of Hi bernians. The hall was filled with an enthusiastic audience, who welcomed all impartially. Frank Kelly made a decided hit in his "Dutch Selections," I as did the quartette composed of J P. I Gehan, M. Keating, C. Morrow and I J. Hoffman, . in vocal selections. The S entertainment concluded with the ro | mantic Irish drama, "Pike O'Callagh- I an. or. The Irish Patriot," happily pre- I sented by talented amateurs. An en | , » Mr. Frank C. Goodale, proprietor of I the drug store corner of Central and ! Jackson Streets Lowell, says, March, I ISO-,:" "' • :is •";• , V ' "Our sales of Lloyd's Sarsaparilia are ■; mora than twice as large as those of any ' '.:•■:: blood preparation. 1 regard it as at the head among blood purifiers, and i there Is no doubt that its peculiar merit: ! is what ha? kept up Its' sales . during so ! many years when others have been ad ' vertised and sold, but have been obliged after a short career to give place to Hood's. We often hear.' customers say Hood's Sarsaparilia did them Rood." ]; Hosd'® Sarsapariila is the Only Try© Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eye today. This is lire secret of its wonderful sue-. c ; sr. ; "It cures win-re all other prepara tions fail. ? '.' "? "..'.,.'■. .??!?-'.' Urtftrl'b Pfflr ; ettieaUlim llis.birionsr nUUII O rilit) vms, Headache. 23c. OUR MOTTO: New Goods Every Season. P^^ if | ......We Challenge Comparison ii. ti 1^ ■ ' = ' — ===== = ii\ vsl - i len s uuiTi itipg We are taking especial pains to overcome the aversion to READY-MADE CLOTHING. The high-grade merchandise displayed is fast wiping it but. For instance— here is a Cutaway Frock.... t Hen's Outfitting We are taking especial pains to overcome the aversion to READY-MADE CLOTHING. The high=grade merchandise displayed is fast wiping it out. For instance— here is a Cutaway Frock.... ..Coat and Vest Made of genuine Imported Clay Worsted— cut in accordance with latest fashions— perfect fit guaranteed. CUSTOM TAILORS get $45 and $50 for no better garments, and you can buy them here for The line of Fancy Trousers in best weaves WE are LEADERS. » s complete. Third Street, fJ^/^l/4/fY^P BOWLBY Cor. Robert. {^^l/(y#y#t & CO. joyable feature was the dancing of a j genuine Irish reel by Jerry Haggerty, Frank Kelly, James Rochford and three ladies. DR. PERREX'S MEETINGS. He Interests a Large Congrega- I ion nt the First Baptist Cnnreli. ! "Harvest Time" was the subject of • the address by Dr. Perren at the First . Baptist church last night, and, the con- j gregation, though not as large as it is hoped it will be later, was profoundly) Impressed with the earnestness with which were urged upon them the com- • parlsons between a harvest time and : a revival. One point of resemblance j was found in the fact. that in the time j of harvest laborers were . in great de- j mand. Help was often so scarce that I wives and even children went Into the . field for fear the harvest should not [ be garnered before it was spoiled. So in Christian work there was room for | all. Christ did not tell the disciples to pray to the Lord of the harvest to | send forth ministers, but laborers, j "We used to pray for fields to be I opened, now we have to pray for | laborers to occupy them," continued-' j Mr. Perren. "Again, harvest time calls j for tremendous exertion. Spurgeon j has said that when you want to cut grain you must get where the grain is. It is not (enough to build fine ! churches and then say 'let the people I come in or stay away as they please.' . We must go out and compel them to i come In. Then the grain must be cut down. Men must be pricked In their hearts, as they were on the day of Pentecost, and then the grain must be gathered into bundles. "Sometimes 'we hear of revivals where numbers make profession, but j only a few are added to the churches, ) and the actual results in such cases i are not worth much. Then another p . similarity between revivals and har- ! 1 vest is that in harvest time the labor- j ; ers get good pay, not necessarily in j ; money In the Lord's harvest field, but i in the joy that He gives to His work- j ers." The preacher then appealed to i his hearers not to call this a revival— j it was only working for one. Not until ; all were really working was it worthy j of such a name, and he begged them, [ unless they really meant to enter the ' i harvest field and reap, to let him go • I on and not waste his time, as other ! ■ fields were waiting for him. j Almost the entire congregation ad- j journed to . theafter-mcetlng in the j ' chapel, and both meetings were marked j by great solemnity. I Tomorrow the subject of the after- [ noon meeting In the chapel at 3 p. m. j Is "Pentecostal Power," and In the ' evening Dr. Perren will speak in the [ church on "Elijah's God and God's • Elijah." • B'i THEODORE THOMAS CONCERTS Tonight and tomorrow night, People's Church. A few seats left. .?>..,. STATE FUNDS ON DEPOSIT. The Monthly Report of State Trenf.nror Koerncr, - <.. The monthly statement of State 1 . Treasurer • Kosrner shows . that . there is $1,435,152.03 of j state money on de posit, which is credited to the different* funds as follows: Revenue fund $680,031 55 Soldiers' relief fund 2,513 10 Forestry fund 82,629 88 ; Redemption fund 13,127 61 ' Funding tax fund 91.2 34 83 ! Permanent school fund 327,353 73 ! i General school fund 123,433 37 • Permanent university fund .. 41,051 66 | : General university fund 25,71183 \ Internal improvement fund . . 13,379 IS j Internal improvement land I fund 21,939 87 \ Internal improvement land fund interest 3,206 77 j ! School text-book fund 47,51-; 49 ; State institutions fund 39,852 33 j Swamp land fund '■........;... 7,270 20 1 Reform school fund 6,761 78 j Grain inspection fund 10,482 20- Total $1,495,152 06 ! ST. PAIL TRUST COMPANY Holds Its Annual Meeting to Elect si President Today. . The annual 'meeting of the St. Paul Trust company will be held today. The meeting is of more than usual in terest/inasmuch as it has been given out -.that .Gen.. J. W. Bishop is to be succeeded as president of the company. Rumor has had' it for some time past ! that Judge Otis would, in all probabil-. j ity, be the next- president of tire com- I pany. though the report has be;n de- [ nied by the judge. Should Judge Otis | retire from the bench, however, there would be more aspirants for his place than there are for the position he would retire to assume. There in some reason for the belief, though, that Gan. Bishop may be re-elected. Mnstc nit Cretin Hall. At an entertainment to be given to night at Cretin hall under the auspices of the St. Paul Institute an attractive programme will be carried out, con sisting of selections by the High School orchestra, an address by M J. Costello, piano solo by Miss Kathryn Collins, readings by Rube Allyn, bari tone solo by J. F. Gehan and violin solo by Ira Donnelly. Seed for Sufferer*. The state relief. commission yester day purchased 3.C84 bushels of pota toes, 1,805 bushels of oats, 116 bushels of corn, 1", bushels of peas, 85 of beans, 9 of rye.v.lo of barley and 70 pounds of onion seed. The commission will dis tribute this seed among sufferers from the recent fire, with as little delay as possible. =•-.-; --' V.HI Seine No More. For seining fish In the river at the foot of Robert Street Victor and Louis Lawrence and August Bertman were fined $75 by Judge Twohy yesterday. On promise of future good behavior the state's attorney recommended that sentence be suspended. The court complied. SAID TO BE SANE. Fifteen Months' Confinement in p.n Insane Asylum. DETROIT, Mich., April 30.— A strange story has 'come to light re garding the case of Mrs. Addle A. Randall, of Bay City, who has bean confined in the insane asylum at Pontiac for fifteen months, although her friends and several of the asy lum attendants, the latter at th risk of I ing discharged, claim that she Is entirely sane. Mrs. Randall claims that her husband, abetted by cer tain physicians, is responsible for her present situation. A thorough in vestigation will doubtless be made. OF f*l«**»***l*l*l*l*S*^?*ic^ IseHLiEK&e©,! STILL* GOING ON. MP B**8 ** 9n finn pairs oi si]oߧ AY- 14ft mi 142 E. Sixth St, OPPOSB7E RYAN HOTEL. BS^^^^ JOS. SCHLITZ BREWING CO.'S £&£&tk SfelE^^Bfe. ' ' ll ' trat * a Milwaukee : .'JHHPh EXPORT EEERS -: •ll^^^^^^f-i I AND MALT EXTRACT. II JOT, ICCT OF SIBLEY TELEPHONE - 07 I STILLWATER NEWS. 1 A Hutt (Joes to Pieces Ilecause of | Low Water. J The low stage of water In the St. I Croix and Mississippi makes navlga- I tlon difficult, and several rafts have I gone to pieces, among them a lumber j raft taken out from this city by the i Henrietta a few days ago. j The Volunteer departed yesterday ; with a raft of logs consigned to the j Empire Lumber company, Winona, ! and Musser, of Muscatine, 10. The ! Aimer Gilo left with a raft of logs and j lumber for the Canton Saw Mill com ! pany, of Canton, Mo. The boom crew was Increased yes terday, and last evening numbered 240 men. The Stillwater Lumber company's : mill at South Stillwater started up yes- I terday, and all mills on 1 1 » - - St. Croix I are now In operation excepting the | Schulenburg-Boesheler mill in this city and the Nelson mill at Lakeland. I These mills will not be run this sea ; son. The monthly report of the superin j tendent of schools shows that the en rollment of the city schools for the past | month aggregated 1,691. | A grand sacred concert will be given I at Ascension church tomorrow even : Ing. | Charles T. Goodrich has sued the | City of Stillwater in the district court, i claiming the sum of $600 for damages !to his building on South Mai street during a violent rain storm in May, 1894 April Trrnsnry Receipts, WASHINGTON. April 30.— The treas ury receipts during April have not | been up to expectations, and it i-; | probable that there will be a deficiency i this year of nearly $45,000,000. Re ceipts for the month were $24,Mig3j3. j and expenditures $32,952,690, leaving a ' deficit for the month of $3,7-)4,8.>1, «*<,u<J ' for the fiscal year to date $45,247,006. i . «m Summer Rules. Round trip summer rates to local j resorts on the St. Paul & Duluth R. !:., ; Including Forest Lake. Chisago La„cs, ! Taylor's Falls. Rush Lake, Pine City, : etc., are now In effect. • Bass are biting as never before, and J all the above lakes offer excellent ; snort.