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TODAY'S WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Sept. for Sat
urday: "Minnesota- Severe thunder star m
cooler; southwesterly winds, shifting to
D Tvur'onsm-Fair. except showers in extreme
northern portion; warmer in eastern portion
Saturday; cooler Sunday morning; south-
Oakata - Showers; much cooler;
northwesterly winds.
South Dakota— Fair, except showers in ex
treme northern portions; much cooler; south
westerly winds, becoming northwesterly.
lowa -Generally fair; southerly winds,
shifting to northwesterly, and coo.er Satur
da \lon tana-Fair; slowly rising temperature;
southerly winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture
Weatber Bureau. Washington, Sept. J. *>••»»
i, m Local Time, 3 p. m. 75th Meridian
Time. -Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
Place. Tern. Place. Tern.
gt Paul M Minnedosa 82
Duluth iW Winnipeg 84
Huron 9 1 '! ~TZ7>
Bismarck DO; Buffalo 60-70
Williston 84|Boston 60-6b
Havre 58 Cheyenne 78-S2
Helena 52 Chicago 70-70
Edmonton 4- Cincinnati <4-su
Battleford 62 Montreal 56-64
Calgary 54 New Orleans 82-94
Medicine Hat 54 New York 66-70
Swift Current 56 Pittsburg .0-74
Qu'Appelle 64 Winnipeg 84-92
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, 30.04; mean temperature. 78;
relative humidity. 78; wind at 8 p. m., south;
Weather, clear; maximum temperature, 90;
minimum temperature. 65; daily range, 25;
amount of precipitation in last twenty-four
hours, 0.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Danger Gauge Change in
Stations. Line. Reading. 24 Hours.
Bt. Paul 14 4.6 *0.1
La Crosse 10 4.2 0.0.
Davenport 15 3.8 *0.4
Pt. Louis 30 0.2 *0.3
•Rise.
Note— Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
PRACTICAL ADVICE TO FARMERS.
Men at a distance are wont to gibe
Ct the annual meeting of the Farmers'
congress as an assemblage of men
v/ho are not all of them tillers of the
soil and who listen to addresses that
more frequently squint toward politics
than toward methods of agriculture.
One needs to be brought into closer
contact with one of these gatherings,
as the people of St. Paul have been
this week, and to hear them address
ed in the spirit and with the intelli
gence of those who spoke to them in
St. Paul, in order to appreciate the
full value of such association and such
enlightenment. Indeed, if we may-
Judge by results, the meeting this year
was the most interesting and inform
ing in the whole history of the organiz
ation. It is hoped and believed that
from this will date a new period in
the life and work of the Farmers' con
grtss, and a more earnest and single
devotion to the facts and laws that lie
lit the foundation of success in this as
in other departments of industry.
Looking over the various papers
read and speeches delivered before the
association this week, one is impressed
with their variety and excellence. They
bear the air of real sincerity and of
practical worth. They are, for the
most part, free from the air of theory
and speculation. They do not deal
with imaginary grievances and laud
speculative remedies. They come right
down to the plain facts of life and
work on the farm, and they show that
success there as everywhere else de
pends on industry, economy and obe
djence to the laws of life and of trade.
He who speaks to the farmer in this
vein, at a time when the politicians
have been filling his head with wild
theories and with the notion that pros
perity can be legislated into his life,
deserves well of him and of the coun
try.
While all of the addresses were prac
tical and many of them valuable, the
members present attached espe
cial value to that delivered by
Mr. J. J. Hill, and a study of it shows
that it deserves the attention and the
praise that they bestowed upon it.
Nothing could be more helpful to the
farmers of the nation than to take to
heart the words of a man who, having
boen himself rarely successful, points
out to them the only road by which
success can be reached. Mr. Hill set j
their minds at work in the right di
rection at the outset by telling his au
dience that he had yet to discover any
legislation by which the farmers' mar
kets had been extended and increased.
This is true, and it is a wonderful
thing when you come to think of it.
As far as law-making can help the
farmer at all. it must help him by
widening and improving the market
for his produce. All our trade enact
m< nts point in the opposite direction.
They are restrictive in their nature;
and the farmer, the most numerous of
all the voters, the one whose favor is
courted and whose support solicited
a€ every election, has never yet been
the beneficiary of the national legis
lature. It makes fun of him with a
tariff on articles exported, and mocks
him with a bounty on beet sugar; but
it has never enabled him to sell an
other bushel of grain or pound of beef
or pork. Even the reciprocity agree
ments, so much vaunted, were a los
ing game for him; since, if the cost
l>e calculated, it will be found that we
guvc> up more revenue in the exchange
than would have purchased twice over
the entire product that was the sub
ject of the supposititious benefit.
Legislation has not, wiil not, tan-
not afford the farmer any particular
benefit; because legislation has no
creative power. It can restrict ac
tivity. It can take from ope man and
give to another. It cannot make two
blades of grass or two grains of wheat
grow where one grew before. Neither
can it make a demand for two pounds
of breadstuffs or provisions where there
was a demand for but one before. At
least it never has done so in the his
tory of this country; and until it is
demonstrated that it will or is likely
to. it is clear that the farmer who puts
his trust in the efficacy of legislative
enactments is following the road that
leads to poverty, mortgages and Pop
ulism. Prosperity comes not by arti
ficial, but by natural channel The
man who succeeds is the man who,
by mastering the details and condi
tions of his own business and by in
dustry and frugality is able to make
it pay. This is just as true of farm
ing as it is of commerce or of railroad
ing, and there is no other law under
the sun whereby men may grow rich.
The truth is well illustrated by the
great work in which Mr. Hill has re
cently been engaged. He believed that
a market could be opened in Asia for
the wheat product of the Pacific slope,
that would help to relieve the market
and restore prices. He sent a man to
th< Orient to study the problem and its
conditions, and today the surplus of
tho West is turning across the Pacific
instead of toward Liverpool. When
we consider the possibilities of develop
ment of this trade, its importance can
scarcely be exaggerated. Yet no con
gress would ever have dreamed of the
idea or cared to follow it out. The
suggestions made from time to time in
the consular reports for the extension
of American trade find no response
from members of congress, busy with
their schemes for the advancement of
political interests. The farmer must
be his own aiiviser and assistant; and
the sooner he learns to look away
from legislation as a help, the sooner
will his fortunes mend.
These are but a few of the ideas
contained in an address that bristles
with thought-provoking topics. It is
the small economy that tells, said Mr.
Hill. A saving of 1 cent in the cost
of transporting a ton of freight ten
miles would pay the entire dividend
of the Great Northern railroad system.
A more intelligent care in the raising
and fattening of live stock would be
millions in the pocket of the farmer.
The building of granaries in which to
store grain, so that the whole product
would not be thrown upon the market
at once to break prices, would add mil
lions more to his receipts. A thorough
study of the best methods of agricul
ture as practiced in our agricultural
colleges would pay big cash returns.
Stop fooling with politicians. Culti
vate peace and friendliness and a
wider trade with all mankind. Study
farming as other men study their pro
fessions. Use only improved methods,
and tal^e care of all the economies.
These are the maxims set forth by Mr.
Hill with forceful argument and co
gent application; and there is no bet
ter gospel for the farmers of the land
to follow.
FALSE AND INSULTING.
While there are differences of opin
ion concerning the decision reached by
the capitol commission, it remains for
the Minneapolis Tribune, exhibiting a
spirit which we had hoped was either
dead or forever discredited, to heap
falsehood and insult upon the mem
bers of that honorable body and upon
the city of St. Paul. In an article on
titled "St. Paul's Selfish Triumph," it
attributes the choice of marble for the
facing of the new capitol building to
the wicked machinations of this town.
"What St. Paul wants," it says, "is a
beautiful building to set off that city."
Were this true we do not know that it
would be a particularly heinous crime.
A beautiful building, that would set
off this city and make its people
proud, will certainly be also an orna
ment and a credit to the state. The
fact, not unknown to the Tribune, is
that the position of the newspapers
and the people of St. Paul on thig
question has been precisely the posi
tion of all the rest of the state. The
Globe, for one, stood unhesitatingly
from the beginning for the use of Min
nesota material. It has never changed
nor pretended to change its opinion,
but acquiesced in the decision of the
commission for the reasons that it
gave. It is not, however, inclined to
mourn the possession by the state of
a magnificent and attractive capitol
building. It is unable to understand,
even in a mean and sordid mind, the
spirit of the Tribune, which seems to
be dominated by the idea that it would
be better for the state to be housed
in an ugly building made of unsuitable
material than it would be for a su
! perior structure to be added to the at
tractions of St. Paul.
The worst of the Tribune's offending
is yet to come. It says: "There is
reason to believe that a clique in St.
Paul predetermined the use of outside
material in the building long ago." It
asserts that the capitol commission
was controlled by St. Paul, and that
| it was "compelled to compromise" in
: its decision. We do not regard this
slur as worthy of any extended notice,
but it should be called to the attention
of the public, that it may receive from
them the contempt that it deserves. It
embodies a willful, conscious and de
liberate falsehood. The members of
the capitol commission have had a task,
arduous beyond ordinary comprehen
sion in arranging the details of capitol
construction. Leading citizens of Min
nesota have given freely their time
and their effort to this work, and they
have performed the duty imposed upon
them by the state with singular fidel
ity and freedom from outside in
fluence. The commission has been
"controlled by St. Paul" precisely as
much :\s it has been "controlled by
Minneapolis," and r.o more. Each city
has one representative on that body,
' and both of them had throughout, we
THE SAINT PAUL G1,03 3 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897.
believe, an eye single to the interest
of the state and of its people.
St. Paul obtains, from the conclusion
reached, absolutely no advantage that
would not have followed the use of
any other material instead of that
selected. It is jealousy of the posses
sion by this city of the state capitol
that inspires the comments of the
Tribune; and. while we can under
stand, possibly, the sway of this
ignoble feeling over a petty mind, we
cannot understand how it could lead
to an accusation so unworthy and so
false. All the answer that need be
made to the article in the Minneapolis
Tribune is to point to the fact that,
in all the final deliberations and bal
lotings, Commissioner De Laittre voteel
steadily for the use of Georgia marble.
His vote determined the selection of
the material, and without it the choice
agreed upon could not have been
made. In the face of this pertinent
fact, the charge of the Tribune ap
pears as impudent as it is vicious and
vile.
AN OVERWORKED SCARECROW.
We noted some time ago the inge
nuity of the patrons of various jingo
schemes in substituting Japan for Eng
land as the bugaboo with which to
scare into conniption fits the ignorant
element among our own people. A year
or two ago, whenever it was thought
desirable to frighten this country into
•the adoption of some unwise and un
justifiable policy, it was Great Britain
that was held up before our affrighted
eyes as the monstrous ogre that was
about to devour everything in sight,
unless the United States should grab it
first. It was English aggression in. the
Sandwich islands that was made the
pretext fo% our unwarranted interfer
ence there. We were told that this
group in the Pacific was absolutely es
sential to the completion of England's
circle of power about the globe, and
that nothing but the annexation of Ha
waii by the United States could stop
it. That theory was exploded by the
frank admission of the political leaders
of England that they did not care what
steps the United States might take; and
that, in fact, they were inclined to rec
ognize the predominance of American
interests in the Sandwich group.
For years the main support of the
Nicaragua canal jobbers has been the
threat that, if we did not build a canal,
England would. Time and again we
have been told that English syndicates,
backed by the government itself, were
ready to step in and buy up the canal
concession and plant the British lion
firmly upon the isthmus route. While
jealousy and hatred of Great Britain
were powerful implements with which
to work upon American prejudice, this
scheme did fairly well. Neither the
canal steal nor the annexation fraud
would ever have male such headway
but for the plea behind them that their
principal design was to frustrate the
wicked plans of Great Britain.
This scarecrow, like others of its
kind, grew after a while so bedraggled
and tattered, through exposure to
many storms, that it lost its ef
fect upon jealous minds. Es
pecially was this true after we had
been taught, by the position of Great
Britain in the Venezuelan affair and on
the general arbitration treaty, that she
was not seeking to humble the dignity
and diminish the power of the United
States, but was ready to join hands
with us in establishing a world-wide su
premacy of the Anglo-Saxon race. Af
ter an English premier had conceded
the wide extension and emphatic appli
cation of the Monroe doctrine made by
President Cleveland and Secretary Ol
ney, and after her foreign office had
gone to the limit of liberality in agree
ing to a general arbitration treaty
which our senate mutilated and reject
ed, England ceased to be available cs
a bugaboo.
A bugaboo, however, the jingo
must have. Were his plans for
involving the United States in foreign
complications and injudicious expendi
tures of money outside of this country
left to stand on their own merits, they
would not have a show of success.
They depend absolutely upon an appeal
to international hatred and a frenzied
fear that some other nation may get
ahead of us in doing an unwise thing.
The only available substitute for the
British lion and the Cobden club ap
peared to be trie little island empire
recently come into prominence by its
triumph over China. We may consider
that it has been now elected formally
to the position of scarecrow plenipoten
tiary and bugaboo extraordinary to
the United States. It is Japan that is
going to seize the Hawaiian islands if
we do not steal them, and it is going to
construct the Nicaragua canal if we
turn the jobbers down.
It was a godsend to the jingoes
that a misunderstanding arose be
tween the Japanese and the Ha
waiian governments concerning the
exclusion from the Sandwich
islands of emigrants from Japan.
These became first a source of local
difficulty, and then the foundation of a
protest by Japan against the Hawaiian
annexation treaty. The Japanese
do not care a rap whether
the United States absorbs Hawaii or
not. They do object to bringing the
islands in under arrangements which
would place citizens of Japan, domi
ciled in the Hawaiian islands, under
the stringent laws of the United States
relating to Asiatic emigration. The
circumstance served just as well the
purpose of the jingoes as if it had been
the remonstrance against annexation
itself which they pretended it was.
Forthwith they raised a clamor that,
unless we annexed Hawaii without a
moment's delay, it would become a
part of the empire of Japan. It was
that argument that was relied upon to
force the treaty through, and it will
be amplified and extended next winter,
when the corrupt prcpesition is to have
its final hearing.
The analogy is made perfectly com
plete by the later announcement that
Japan is trying to obtain rights to
build a canal through Nicaragua. This
discloses the whole purpose of the fan
tasy which is to make that coun
try the national scarecrow. It goes
without saying, to a man of
average intelligence, that Japan
has just about as much idea of
either constructing or controlling a
canal in Nicaragua as the United
States has of cutting one across Corea.
The rumor is made out of whole cloth
to fit the purposes of those who will
never relinquish their scheme to bilk
the people of ''this country out of a
good many million dollars. The dodge
is too flimsy to deceive anybody, but it
ought to throw a flood of light upon
the character and motives of our
American filibusters. When they find
it necessary to, overwork a scarecrow,.
as they have both Great Britain and
Japan, it ought to be evident that they
themselves are neither honest nor sin
cere. It would be,.a good thing for the
American people to drop the scarecrow
business and ■*■■ aH the filibustering
schemes that go with it into oblivion,
and to attend strictly for some time
to come to the ample occupation sup
plied by a proper care of their own
business affairs.
"GET UNDERSTANDING."
Party exigency never requires the suppres
sion of truth, or at least it never ought
to require it. The record of the Republican
party speaks, for itself. We do not attribute
the high price of wheat to the election of
President McKinley. The scarcity of wheat
in other countries is the cause. Wheat, like
everything else, is regulated by the law of
supply and demand. But the fact that the
money you receive is worth a hundred cents
on the dollar, you owe to the Republican
party. Their patriotism, in raving you from
a depreciated currency, adds stability to the
more favorable business conditions.— Howard
Lake Herald.
Good. May you ever speak the truth
as you see it, regardless of the exi
gencies of party, an!* may capacity to j
see the truth increase in you. When it |
shall have expanded more, you will not
say that the price of "everything else"
is regulated by the law of supply and
demand in this country. You will per- J
ceive that the Dingley act was passed
to prevent the operation of that law
in this country on every article in its
schedules. Is the present price of lum
ber, coal, sugar, glass, wool clothing
regulated by that law?
Then, when truth abides more with j
you, you will hardly assert we owe it
to the Republican party that money is
worth par, but you will admit that it
is in spite of it, for history will tell
you and truth will make you say that
every monetary act of your party since
1862 has tended towards making a
money worth less than 100 cents on a
dollar. Democratic skirts are not clean
of these heresies, it is true, but it was .
a Democratic president that forced the
repeal of the latest act of Republican
monetary folly, that brought on the
panic of 1893 and was sending the cur
rency headlong to a silver, or, worse, a
paper basis. It is to President Cleve
land that the country owes it that we
are not today with a Mexicanized cur
rency, as it is also due, later, to Dem
ocrats who refused to be led into that
financial morass.
The St. Paul Globe takes Lieut. Col.
Saylor, the publisher of the Howard Lake
Herald, to task far printing free trade edi
torials, it having supported McKinley and pro
tection. The Globe should be informed
that Mr. Saylor has nothing to do with the
editorial columns of the Herald, and as they
are edited by a free trade; sound money Dem- j
ocrat. its editorials are perfectly consistent
with the writer thereof. Lieut. Col, Saylor,
now that he is drawing a living i salary from
the Republican administration, is perfectly
willing that the administration should go
to the devil, and if his hired man, Tanner, |
can send it there he'll not object. — Monticello
Times.
There Is that in the foregoing that seems
j to us to betray a feeling of envy of the
fortunate Saylor, who has moored his bark
in the Snug harbor of the adjutant general's
office, whose salary looms up in a grandeur
that dwarfs the mere $5 a day and
perquisites of a state senator. We fail, other
wise, to comprehend how Col. Saylor can
have "nothing to do" with the editorials his
"hired man" writes.
m
"Come off," you old sorehead, wasn't Mc-
Kinley elected, and didn't you vote for him?
Ain't wheat a dollar a bushel, and can't a
poor old farmer pay five dollars for a pair of
shoes if he wants to, and ain't you glad of
it? What are you giving us?— Still water Ga
zette. _
Yes, McKinley was elected. No, we didn't
vote for him; that sin does not burden our
conscience. Yes, wheat is bobbing around a
dollar. A "poor" old farmer can pay $5 for
a pair of shoes if he wants to, but he will
be |2 richer if he sticks to the
?3 shoes. We are glad wheat is a dollar, and
we are not glad that McKinley was elected,
and we are sorry to see the Gazette even
intimating that wheat is a dollar because Mc-
Kinley was elected. Leave that kind of talk
to the frauds and the chumps. That's what
we are giving you.
— — -^^—
It is claimed that the potato crop through
out the country is rather short and that
prices will be good.— Wells Advocate.
And it is "claimed"' that prices will be
good because Dingley added ten cents a^
bushel to the tariff on potatoes. You are
not onto your job as a tarifflte in ascribing
good prices to short crops.
The poor farm comes to the front with No.
1 northern wheat, this year. This beats
No. 3 and rejected, as a whole lot is going.— i
Wahpeton Times.
If the poor farm produces No. 1, what do
you call the farms that produce No. 3 and re
jected?
. *
This country is suffering from an overpro
duction of politicians and an underproduction
of statesmen. In fact the American states
man is a thing of the past. Blaiue was the
last.— Madison Independent Press.
Blame appears *o some eyes to be a states
man because he stands at the vanishing point
of statesmen and the dawn of the politician.
WILL SEE THE FAIR.
Visiting Merchants Will See tlie Big
Show.
As was expected, the third of the j
Merchants' excursions to St. Paul, in
augurated by the Jobbers' union,
brought comparatively few visitors, j
! owing to the ttear proximity of fair '
| week, but still, a considerable delega- \
i tion from various points in the North- i
] west, arrived' yesterday and the day!
I before and registered at Secretary j
j Beck's office. .Most of them will re- j
I main over to see the fair.
This third excursion was gotten up !
rather hastily. The Chicago jobbers,
forseeing thai the merchants all !
over the Northwest would come to St. J
Paul during the fair, secured a change j
in their dates of from the 6th to the I
Bth, to September* 2-10, in order to
"head-off" this cdfnpetition. And the
Twin City job%ers?simply "went them
one better."
"Smith" Was Whipped.
There was a lively fight in Frank Price's
bicycle store at Fourth and St. Peter streets,
Thursday evening, in which a well-known
man who was arrested under the alias of
John Smith, was severely punished. Price
was also taken into custody, and yesterday
both were charged in the police court with
disorderly conduct. "Smith" forfeited $15 bail,
and when Price explained to the court that
he had acted in self-defense, he was dis
charged. The man named "Smith" was
whipped to a starry finish.
STRIKER IS fIUTE
I MTED STATES DISTRICT ATTOR
NEY SAYS LITTLE ABOUT THE
PROPOSED PROSECUTIONS
OF TWIN CITY RAILROAD MEN.
SAYS THE INVESTIGATION WILL
NOT BE CONFINED TO FLOUR
SHIPMENTS.
FIFTY SUBPOENAS ARE ISSUED.
J. J. Marehand's Preliminary Work;
It Is Reported Has Been Com
prehensive and TnotrougU.
United States District Attorney E. C.
Stringer was seen yesterday by a re
porter for the Globe, but refused to
be interviewed on the matter of the
proposed prosecution of shippers and
railroads accused of violating the inter
state commerce law. He said he wus
placed In a very delicate position in
the matter, and it would not be proper
or right for him to give out anything
before the matter was brought before
the United States grand jury, which
convenes Tuesday. He did say, how
ever, that the investigation would be a
very thorough one and that it would in
clude othertlines of freight business than
flour shipments; also that Special At
torney Marchand had been in St. Paul
several days investigating the matter,
and that a number of subpoenas had
been issued out of his (Stringer's) of
fice, summoning shippers to appear be
fore the grand jury, but how many he
would not state, nor would he enter
into the details of any charges made.
If indictments are brought in,
and Mr. Stringer seemed to think there
would be, although he didn't say so,
the cases will be tried before Judge
Lochren. Whether the prosecution will
be conducted by himself or Mr. Mar
chand has not yet been decided, "but,"
he continued, "Mr. Marchand repre
sents the interstate commerce commis
sion," which might mean to indicate
that he will play a prominent part in
the prosecution.
"I can say this much," added Mr.
Stringer, "that the conviction of the
offenders is punishable by fine or im
prisonment, or both. When the law was
passed the railroads fought hard
against the imprisonment clause, but
it was adopted nevertheless.
"Really I would like to tell you more
about the matter, but my hands are
tied. You will hear something about
it next week, though."
When it became noised around yes
terday in railroad and commercial cir
cles how thoroughly Special United
States Attorney J. J. Marchand had
gone about the preliminary work in
the matter of the proposed prosecution
it caused a good deal of surprise. Mr.
Marchand, who has been in the Twin
Cities before, has lately come here, and
although he has undoubtedly been col
lecting data with which to fortify the
case of the commission, he has worked
so quietly as not to have excited any
great amount of comment. While it is
true that some of the railroad men
knew of his presence, and had an in
timation of the nature of his mission,
it was not supposed that his investi
gation would be as far reaching and
comprehensive as the developments
yesterday would seem to indicate.
That his purpose was to get after the
people who have been accepting freight
business at less than published tariffs,
seems to have been to some extent
understood, but it was not suspected
that the sensational developments
which now are imminent, would be
made at this time.
It is hinted that the organization of
the several freight bureaus since the
famous supreme court decision in the
Brown case, will come in for some part
of Mr. Marchand's attention, in addi
tion to the matter of shaved rates, al
though, this could not be definitely
learned yesterday. Certain it is that
not less than fifty subpoenas have
been issued from the office of United
States Marshal O'Connor, and of these
a majority went to Minneapolis.
The list practically includes all the
railroad contracting frieght agents in
the two cities, as well as some of the
shippers. The flour shippers, who, it j
is claimed, have been responsible
through their organization in securing
low rates on their merchandise, are in
cluded in the batch. While most of
the freight men denied any knowledge
of the matter, it was discovered that
a number of them had received the lit
tle notices. An effort was made in
several instances to avoid the service,
but it was no go, and every one was
found. The information sought in this
manner will be laid before the federal
grand jury when it sits next week.
What the shippers fear, it is said, is
that in case of a cut rate where there
is a violation of the inter-state com
merce act, their culpability is equal
to that of the road making the rate.
They are afraid that the attention of
the commission is not to be confine-l
entirely to the railroads. They can
already see, they believe, the policy
which will be used in summoning them
before the grand jury, and setting off
their testimony against that of the
railroads.
Judge Lochren will preside over the
se&sion of the federal district court, j
One attorney, who has been retained j
by some of those interested, comment- ,
ed upon the peculiarity of the pro
cedure. He pointed out that the sub
poenas are rendered returnable to the
court and not to the judge personally,
which fact amounts to making it a
federal grand jury.
The federal grand jury sits Sept. 7,
but the subpoenas are dated for Sept.
9 and 10. Violations of the interstate
commerce act are misdemeanors, sub
ject to a fine, not to exceed $5,000 for
each offense. But where the offense
i? "an unlawful discrimination in
rates, fares or charges for the trans
portation of passengers or property,
such person shall, in addition to the
fine hereinbefore provided for, be liable
to imprisonment in the penitentiary
for a term cf not exceeding two years,
or both, such fine and imprisonment,
in the discretion of the court."
As is well known, the act requires
tariffs to be published by the railroad
companies and filed with the inter
slate commerce commission, giving
rates of passenger fare and freight
rates between all points, and the roads
are forbidden "by any special rate,
rebate, drawback, or other device, to
charge, demand, collect or receive from
any person or persons a greater or
less compensation for any service ren
dered or to be rendered, in the trans
portation of passengers or property
than it charges, demands, collects or
receives from any other person or per
sons for a like and contemporaneous
service."
WHICH OP THEM OWHS IT?
Boniface and a Laundress Disagree
as to Linen.
Kate Brennan, a rather prepossess
ing young woman, formerly employed
as a laundress at the Colonade, was
a prisoner in the police court yester
day, on the charge of larceny. The
c, ni plaint against Miss Brennan was
signed by J. B. Geldrich, the young
woman's former employer, who accus
ed her of the theft of several sheets,
towels and pillow cases of a value erf
$5 Miss Brennan indignantly denied
the theft and testified on the witness
stand that the property belonged to
her personal effects, partly brought
from her home in Winona and partly
purchased since her arrival in St. Paul
a year ago. She said she always fur
nished her own bed clothing and
towels wherever she worked. She was
preparing to leave the Colonade yes
terday, she said, when Mr. Geldrich
took her property from her trunk and
claimed that it belonged to him. Sev
eral witnessef for the prosecution
thought the alleged stolen property or
some of it at ieast, belonged to the
Cclonade, and Mr. Geldrich was cer
tain of this fact. The court took the
matter under consideration, continuing
the case until today.
DID NOT HEAR THE TRAIN.
Emil Martinson i s Instantly Killed
Near Elevator B.
Emil Martinson, the twelve-year-old
son of Nicholas Martinson, a laborer
living at 284 Burgess street, was in
stantly killed by a Great Northern
passenger train yesterday afternoon.
The accident occurred at a paint where
Gaultier street crosses the railroad
tracks, near Elevator B, while the b.^y
was watching the construction of a
sewer «upon which his older brother
was engaged with a crew of laborers.
He evidently failed to see the ap
proaching train and was so intent
upon the operations of the workmen
that he likewise did not hear several
warning blasts of the whistle as the
engine bore down upon him. He was
struck by the pilot and hurled twenty
feet into the excavation. When those
who had witnessed the accident ran to
his side, the youth was dead. His
head was badly cut and the skull evi
dently fractured, while Dr. Leavitt,
who was hurriedly summoned, was of
the opinion that the body had been
severely crushed.
The accident happened about 1:30
o'clock. The dead boy's father is in
Montana and as his mother was away
from home yesterday it is thought he
concluded to visit his brother at his
place of employment and walked down
Gaultier street and across the railroad
tracks. The lad had hardly reached
his destination when passenger train
No. 4, due in St. Paul at 1:45 o'clock,
sped toward him from Minneapolis.
He had taken a position in the center
of the track upon which the train was
approaching, facing the opposite di
rection, however, and failed to see it.
From the story of several persons near
the scene of the accident, nevertheless,
it would seem that the engineer saw
the boy, but either did not have time
to bring the train to a standstill or
thought the youth must surely hear
his whistle of danger and seek a place
of safety as it Is said that the whistle
was blown several times while the
train was fully 150 feet away. Be this
as it may the train rushed upon the
boy and hurled him into eternity with
out the slightest apparent suspicion of
danger in his mind as he made no
movement to escape. After the acci
dent the train, it is said, did not stop
nor diminish its speed, but ran on to
the city, either denoting a reprehen
sible course on the part of the en
gineer or evidencing the fact that in
spite of the blasts of the whistle, that
he was in ignorance of the accident.
Coroner Nelson was notified of the
bey's death and in view of the circum
stances, stated last evening that he
was uncertain as to whether or not an
inquest would be held. He slid he had
reported the affair to the railroad
company, where he had been promised
the names of the train crew, and that
if it was deemed necessary, after a
more complete investigation, he would
conduct an inquest. The body of the
dead boy was removed to the under
taking rooms of Thoorsell & Thaung,
327 East Seventh street.
TO INVITE THEM AGAIN.
St. Paul Would I.lke the National
Engineers Next Year.
The National Association of Station
ary Engineers wHI hold its sixteenth
annual convention at Columbus, 0.,
this year, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 7.
and continuing in session until Satur
day. Sept. 11. St. Paul No. 7, sends
this year four delegates and two alter
nates to the convention, six in all, and
this sextette will work to have the
seventeenth annual come again to St.
Paul. The fourteenth annual was
held in St. Paul, and the committee in
charge of the same received from the
convention a document that they are
guarding with special care. The con
tents of this document was that the
fourteenth annual was one of the fin
est and best managed of all those held
during the fourteen years existence of
the order. This document bears the
signature of 270 members of the order
who were in attendance, and it was
said that no other city had treated the
dolegates so royally as had St. Paul,
and they would he glad to come again
any time. The main barrier to St.
Paul securing the next N. A. S. E.
convention, is a resolution, which was
adopted as a part of the national con
stitution, compelling the convention to
be held in future within a limited dis
tance of Cleveland. The object of this
was to save expense on account of
mileage. Last year the convention
was held at Buffalo, N. V., and it was
then found that with smaller attfn
dpnee the mileage expenses were
greater instead of loss than those at
St. Paul. There is a disposition on the
part of a number of the delegates to
Columbus, to again change this part
of the constitution and leave it open
as before, and if this is done, St. Paul
may get it again.
W. B. Robinson, president of St.
Paul No. 7 and chief engineer of the
Aberdeen and Kndicott buildings, is
the chairman of the St. Paul delega
tion, and the other delegates are H.
M. G^rmtin, chief engineer of the
Ryan hotel; Julius Keller, chief engin
eer of Lindeke. Warner & Schuermeier
and Alex. Nicoll Jr., chief engineer of
the state capitol; T. F. S. Hays and
Thos. R. Fearing, chief engineer of
the Metropolitan hotel, will also ac
company the delegation from St. Paul.
The delegation has already received
assurances from Duluth. Superior,
Winona, La Crosse. Mankato, Fergus
Falls, Racine and Milwaukee, that in
case the clause above related Is
changed, they will support St. Paul
for the convention city of IS9B. H. M.
Germain and Alex. Nicoll Jr., were two
members of the former executive com
mittee that handled successfully and
without any loss the former conven
tion at St. Paul.
FARMERS IX THE FIELDS.
Delegates to tlie Congress Tour tlie
Grain Region.
A special train of eleven coaches
provided by the Great Northern,
pulled out of the union depot yester
day morning at 8 o'clock, bearing the
delegates to the National Farmers
congress, their wives and the asso
ciate delegates, on a pleasure trip
through the Red River valley, that
the visitors from East south and \\ est
might see the wonderful wheat Hems
of the Northwest. General Passenger
Agent Whitney accompanied the par
ty which numbered over 500 persons.
Passing through the thru-ing towns
of St Cloud and Sauk Center^ the
party arrived at Alexandria shortly
after noon, where dinner was served
Then on through Fergus Falls and
Moonhead, the arrived at Fargo, N
D late in the afternoon and weiv
royally entertained by the citizens of
that place, the excursionists spending
the night there. .
Today they will continue on their
jaunt to Grand Forks, Larimore, May
ville Wahpeton, Morris, Benson, Will
mar and Litchfield, arriving in St.
Paul again at midnight.
The Great Northern road issued a
handsome little brochure, descriptive
of the towns and country passed
through, and each number of the
party received one as a souvenir of
the excursion.
COTILLION THE THING.
New German C'lnb In ()re;:iiii/c<! tow
the Winter.
The Cotillion club, composed of
twenty-five gentlemen, gave a german
at the Albion last evening. The music
was furnished by the Fort Snelling
orchestra, and refreshments were
served in the dining: room. The club
intends to meet periodically during the
winter and the entertainments will be
in the nature of germans.
Regular meeting of Ellsworth Circle No. 8,
Ladies of the G. A. R., will be held Monday
evening.
The Jackson-Drew Mothers' club will not
hold another meeting until after the opening
of school.
The home of Mrs. D. A. Monfort was thrown
open Thursday to the managers of the St.
Paul School of Fine Arts, he reports ren
dered at the meeting were gratifying to the
hopes and ambitions of the directors, and
gave them added encouragement fur the win
ter's work. The school will bs opened Oct. 4
on the second floor of the Moore block, at
Seven corners, under the direction of Mrs.
Barber.
At the annual meeting of the West Side
Monument association, held Friday morning
at the home of Mayor Doran. the following of
ficers, were elected: Mrs. P. B. Doran. presi
dent; Mrs. J. C. Uryant. secretary, and Mrs.
V. J. Hawkins, treasurer. At the next meet
ing vice presidents and other officers will
be elected. Semi-monthly teas will be given
by the members of the association, to which
all interested will be invited.
Dr. Mary Fowler, the missionary from FJur
mah. addressed the meeting at the First Bap
tist church yesterday afternoon, giving some
very interesting and some very sad facts In
regard to women's life in Burmah.
Miss Mason, of Wabasha street, has re
turned from her summer's visit in Phila
deplhta and vicinity.
C. F. Klser has returned from New York.
Miss Woods, o( St. Louis, la at the Aber
deen.
T. C. Field will return from New York
Monday.
John H. Mitchell Jr. haa returned from
Minnetonka.
Mrs. Mclntyre and son and daughter re
turne yesterday from the East.
Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Talbot, of Philadelphia,
are at the Aberdeen.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stringer have returned
from an Eastern visit.
Miss Bronson, of Rice park, is spending
two weeks at Lindstrom.
Miss Minna Bartleheim has returned from
a visit to Tramway, Wta.
Mrs. 11. J. McCainc is spending a few
weeks in New York and Boston.
Mrs. J. Morganstern and daughter have re
turned from White Bear lake.
Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Ware and family have
returned from Alexandria.
Mrs. Charles E Clarke, of Marshall ave
nue, has returned from New York.
Mrs. Arthur Matheis, of St. Anthony ave
nue, is visiting in Columbus, O.
Miss Shores, who has been visiting Mr 3.
Germain, returned home Wednesday.
Miss Minnie Owrnuyer, of Louisville, Ky.,
is the guest of Mrs. J. M. Duke, of Laurol
avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Laurel avenue-,
are entertaining Mr. ana" Mrs. Kingston, of
Toronto.
Mr. Latttimer and Miss Lattimer, of Laurol
avenue, will leave today for Louisville, Ky.
Messrs. George N. and C. P. Nash hava
moved to their new home, Gt>7 Gcodrich ave
nue, on Crocus hill.
Miss Gertrude Stoker has returned from
Boston, where she has been attending lectures
at Clark university.
Mrs. Edward Randall and family, of Mar
shall avenue, have returned after a month's
outing at Chisago City.
Miss Sarah Ilallman, of Galena. 111., who
has been the guest of Mrs. J. S. Robinson,
left Thursday for her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hills, who have been visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Irvino, left Thursday
for their home in Baltimore.
Miss Agnes Foote, of Fort Atkinson, Wls.,
who is visiting her aunt, Mrs. K. S. White.
Is spending a f.w days in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Thomas Smith, of Duluth; Mrs. Teresa
Griffith and the Misses Hill, of St. Loui-,
arc guests of Mrs. Steigus, of Dale street.
Mrs. M. C. Blackmail and daughter, of
Central avenue, have returned from Empire.
Mrs. A. M. Gordon, of Fort Dodge, who
has been visitmc; her sister. Mrs. A. C. War
den, of Smith avenue, has returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Shufeldt visited MaJ.
and Mrs. Tucker during the week.
Hurry Kavis has returned from a trip to
Chicago.
EASTERN TOI'RISTS.
Large Party on Special Bound for
the Yellowstone*
The regular annual Pennsylvania
Yellowstone tourist party reached St.
Paul last night at 10:30 over the Bur
lington, and after the train was pulled
into the union depot and looked over
the Northern Pacific people took hold
and started it off to the national park,
where it Is expected to arrive about
noon tomorrow.
The equipment consists of combina
tion smoker and baggage car 4,806,
compartment car Uromlo, sleeper Pe
lion, library and observation car
Olympic and diner, all belonging to
the Pennsylvania company. The party
which consisted of something over
forty tourists from Rochester, Brook
lyn, Plainfield, Baltimore, Pawling,
Fort Montgomery, New York, Lowell
and Philadelphia, was in charge of
Tourist Agent C. E. Rosenberg, Miss
E. C. Bingham chaperone, and I3ag
gagemaster J. H. Speakman.
The start was made Kept. 2, and will
end in Philadelphia Sept. 16. The park
will be reached as stated Sunday at
noun, when the regular tour will 'ji
made. The train will return here
Tuesday, Sept. 14, when the travelers
will spend the day in St. Paul, leaving
via the Burlington in the evening.
FOR LABOR DAY,
StUUvater Band In Added to the Pa
rade I.Kt.
The Stillwater band, numbering
twenty pieces, and which recently be
came a member of the American Fed
eration of Musicians, through the ef
forts of J. B. Wood, organizer for that
body in this district, will head the
Trades and Labor Assembly of thta
city in the Parade on Labor day. The
addition of the Stillwater band will
make 100 pieces, each Instrument be
ing played by a member of organized
labor.
The Labor day committee at a meet
ing held last evening elected E. B. Lott
chairman of the local committee and
F. E. Hoffman chairman of the com
mittee on sports at the state fair
ground.
CAUGHT IN AN ICE BOX.
Minn .Julia Ke»»ler Pinioned nn«l
Painfully Injured.
Julia Kessler, employed as a cook
at Ramaley's pavilion, White Bear
lake, was severely injured yesterday
morning, necessitating her removal to
St. Joseph's hospital for treatment.
Miss Kessler was leaning half way
into a large ice box at the pavilion
when the heavy upraised cover fell
across her body, pinioning her in a
painful position, where she lapsed into
unci nsciousness. After her rescue she
was attended by Dr. Clark, of White
Pear, but manifested signs of more
serious injury than was at first
thought, and was accordingly sent to
the hospital. Miss Kessler's pain last
night necessitated her being placed
under the infiuense of opiates.
ROOMMATE AND MONEY.
LonlM Krnmeek Mouriiins the Ab
sence of Both.
Louis Krumeck, living at 410 Grove
street, reported the loss of $80 to Capt.
Rouleau, of the central station, last
evening. Krumeck is a waiter and
accuses a former fellow waiter, with
whom he roomed, of stealing his mon
ey He says the $80 was 1.-ft in a
valise in his room, and that since its
disappearance he has seen nothing of
his roommate. In fact, it was the
absence of his companion that turned
Krunwck's attention to his m
The roommate did not return Thurs
day evening, and last night Krumeck
discovered his loss. The police ore
i looking for the missing man.