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day: .\iinn«>6ota— Fair; colder In east and
southeast portions; northwest winds.
Wisconsin— Generally fair Monday; colder;
brisk northerly winds.
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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United S;atcs Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau, Washington, Jan. 30, 6:4S
p. iv. Local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian
Tlm<\ — Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
Tem.|Place. Tern.
St. Paul LB.Qu'Appelle —10
Duluth 20jMinnedosa 2
Huron Tl\ Winnipeg 0
Bismarck 12 —
Williston 10;i3uffalo 8-14
Havre 28|Boston 8-10
Helena ::4, "licyenne 30-3«
Edmonton 16,Chlcago 2S-30
Battleford 32-34
Prince Albert .. . .— —18-12
Calgary 26 New Orleans ....60-74
Medicine Hat 22New York 10-18
Swift Current 6'Pittaburg 28-30
— Below zero.
DAILY MEAN'S.
Barometer. 29.88; mean temperature 20
--e humidity. 78; wind at 8 p. m., north
west: weather, dear: maximum temperature,
29; minimum temperature. 12; daily range,
17: amount of precipitation in last twenty
four nous, trace.
Note — Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. —p. p. Lyons. Observer.
JEFFERSOX ON RECIPROCITY.
Washington news mentions tfie slow
r.oss with which the negotiation of
treaties of reciprocity under the provi
sions of the Dingley act is moving. It
was not until Feb. 5, 1891, that Presi
dent Harrison proclaimed the first
treaty, the one with Brazil, under the
reciprocity feature of the McKinley
act; but such negotiations then wore
added to the ordinary duties of the de
partment of state and must hava
moved men >: ... y than now, when we
have a spi :ial functionary whose sole
duty and labor, subject to the inter
fi rence of that all-iound diplomatic
expert, Mr. John W. Foster, is to put
the reciprocity machine in operation
as speedily as possible. If Plenipo Ex
traordinary Kasson and Supernumary
Foster have brought no negotiations
to a head in five months, they have
r.ot done as well as did Elaine, who
hustled one through In four months.
But it is reassuring to be told that
these matters "are progressing in a
manner satisfactory to the officials,"
although it is added that "there is no
present prospect that treaties or agree
ments will be concluded in the near
future."
To the advocates of this sort of re
ciprocal trade it must be disheartening
t" be told that the very countries with
which that sort of reciprocity is most
highly esteemed, those with which we
trade the least, are so dilatory in ac
cepting our proffers of tariff ameliora
tion. Brazil nor Argentine nor Chile
has shown any indication whatever
that it is solicitous to get the
Dingley reciprocity, and it was espe
cially for them that this policy was
spawned. Having raised our rates on
the main exports of those countries
high enough to make trading stock of
them, it would be rather mortifying if
those governments decline to aid in
their lowering and leave us in our own
pitfall. It is probable that they real
ize how much of a sham it is it and do
not propose to put their governments
on the same low level. When one
would learn what the genuine article
is, what real reciprocity is, one must
go back to that fount of all good gov
ernment, the writings of Jefferson. It
matters little whether It is internal or
external government, commerce or
finance, he was and is the master mind.
Nor are his views to be measured by
present day standards. To sense his
saneness, his breadth of view, one has
to consider the state of government
abroad, the prevailing opinion of the
relations of nations, especially in mat
ters of trade. The condition was one
of constant belligerency. The for
eigner was the enemy because he was
a foreigner. Commercial warfare rag
ed when military warfare was resting.
This was the condition when con
gress asked Jefferson, then Washing
ton's secretary of state, for his opinion
on Itae cour.se to be taken relative to
the restrictions put up«n our commerce
by other nations. There were two
methods of dealing with them, he said
in his report. "First, by friendly ar
rangements" with them for the re
moval of the restrictions, or, "second,
by the separate action of our own leg
islature for counteracting their effects.
Tin re car. be no doubt that, of these
two, friendly arrangement is the more
eligible." The •'friendly arrangements"
were to be made with those nations
which could be induced to lessen or
remove their obstructions to imports
of our products, but wherever any na
tion opened her ports freely to our
exports we should meet them in the
same with the same policy. We
should extend this commercial free
dom .i-.i.-t as fast and as far as other
nations reciprocated. Universal free
dom of trade was the ultimate condi
tion towards which he looked. "Instead
of embarrassing commerce under piles
of r gulative duties and prohibitions,"
he lold congress, "could it be relieved
of all its shackles in all parts of the
world, could every country be employ
ed in producing that which nature has
best fitted it to produce and each be
free to exchange with the others mv-
tual surpluses for mutual wants, the
greatest mass possible would then be
produced of those things which con
tribute to human life and human hap
piness, the numbers of mankind would
be increased, and their condition bet
tered." This is r&ciprocity.
It was fifty- three years before the
ideas of Jefferson were fully adopted,
and then not by his own country, but
by the one which, at that time, held
most tenaciously to the views enter
tained today by the dominant party
here. England went farther than Jef
ferson advised congress in 1793 to go,
for.instead of meeting stubborn restric
tions on exports with retaliatory ob
structions, England extends the free
dom of her ports to the products of na
tions that still adhere to the antiquat
ed notion that trade is war and that
of other nations must be hampered
and crippled as much as possible. The
ideal condition Jefferson aspired to,
Peel and his successors reached. The
Toryism that they met and overthrew
is, however, strongly entrenched in a
nation that boasts of its freedom.
m —
TOTE FAIR, NEIGHBOR.
The Morris Sun cannot be put in the
class of either reckless or ignorant par
tisan papers, given to making state
ments as for fact that they either know
are false or do not know are true. It
aims to be candid and fair, and gen
erally is. When, however, it gives
place to the following, it challenges its
reputation:
Oue instance of the means resorted to under
the first Cleveland regime, and continued
ever since, and which has practically made
the law a burlesque, was the manner in which
"offensive partisanship" was used to defeat
the purpose and aim of civil service regula
tions. It is undeniable that the simple fact
that an incumbent was a Republican was
cause sufficient for his prompt removal, and
it must be conceded that in every instance
the place vacated was filled with a most of
ficiously and notoriously active partisan of
the administration faith.
The Sun confuses places within with
those without the classified list of the
civil service, appointment to the for
mer being made only from the lists of
eligibles, those who have passed an ex
amination, and to the latter at the
pleasure of the president. Had Mr.
Cleveland wished to, he could not have
filled a vacancy in the civil list cover
ed by the rules, caused by the removal
of an "offensive partisan," by a per
son of his choice, whether a "most of
ficious and notoriously active partisan
of the administration faith" or not.
The law forbade him, and he was not
a man to defy or evade law. As to
the places appointive at pleasure of
the executive, it is true that removals
were made and Democrats were ap
pointed to fill the vacancies so made,
but it is also true, and the Sun, if it
will but rub the dust of the years off
its memory, will recall that there was
a tremendous outburst of indignation
because President Cleveland refused to
make a "clean sweep," and, when a
senator or representative or "boss" de
manded the removal of a Republican,
he asked if the term of the incumbent
had expired. If it had not, he then
asked what cause there was for his re
moval. Had the official failed to per
form his duties? Does the Sun not
remember the loud complaints made,
the disgust expressed by prominent
Democrats at this unprecedented
stand, and does it not remember that
the precedent of allowing an officer to
serve out his four-year term was set
by President Cleveland and has been
followed ever since by his successors?
Did it never hear disgruntled Demo
crats say that they "might as well
have elected a Republican president?"
It is true that officials were removed
by President Cleveland before their
terms expired not only because they
were faithless in discharge of duty, but
because, while in office, they had made
themselves offensive to a portion of
those whom they served by their ex
treme partisanry. He modified his rule
of serving out the term to cover such
cases. Where an official had been ac
tively engaged in his party's campaign,
neglecting his office to give politics at
tention; where, for instance, a post
master had made the office party head
quarters, or where he had been bitter
in his denunciation of the opposition,
forgetting that he was as much a serv
ant of his opponents as of his asso
ciates, it was termed "offensive parti
sanship." and he was discharged. It
is true that some of these removals
were unjustly made, on trumped-up
charges, for Democrats, no less than
Republicans, let their desire for place
get the better of their truthfulness
sometimes. And it Is true that the
president appointed Democrats to fill
vacancies, but, taking Minnesota as a
sample, will the Sun say that the ap
pointments made were all of "the most
officiously and actively partisan" of
the Democrats? Was fitness subordi
nated to partisan efficiency? It is true
that there were exceptions, as in Mary
land and Indiana, but they were lapses
from an otherwise uniform rule.
Another thing the Sun should wipe
the dust from and admit. If, prior to
Mr. Cleveland's first term, the four
year tenure of office was never re
garded by any president since Jackson,
after that and until Cleveland's sec
ond term large number of officers
who were m^re tenants at will, such as
fourth-class postmasters, were swept
out with each incoming administration.
It was in this second term that the pres
ident, without the intervention of law,
practically put all these tenureless of
fices under the four-year tenure by
simply refusing to make removals until
incumbents had served that term. That
precedent, also, is being adhered to by
his successor quite strictly. In view
of all these facts, to which the fur
bished memory of the Sun will attest,
does our esteemed contemporary think
that it toted fair in the article quoted?
OXI2 MAX "WHO DARE XOT LIE."
One cannot help feeling a certain ad
miration for the man who differs radi
cally with him and is sincere enough
to foliow his logic to its farthest limits,
just as one cannot, if he would, re
strain his contempt for the other sort
of fellow, who also differs, but who
either differs for what there is in it for
him or scurries away from the conclu
sion that flows from his premises when
he discovers where it leads him. So
the rankest of free traders finds in the
stou* consistency of Prof. George Gun
ton material to stir his esteem, if he
THE SAINT PAUG GI,OBS: MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1898.
cannot accompany It with his respect.
The professor is one of those amiable
men, with a soul overflowing with phi
lanthropy, who would smooth down all
the roughness in the paths of men and
bestrew their way with thornless roses.
He belongs to that sentimental school
that blinks the real, refusing "to draw
the Thing as he sees it for the God of
Things as they ai-e," and insists on
drawing it as he would have it. It
is needless to add that the professor
is a staunch, undeviating disciple of
that governmental school one section
of which teaches the wisdom, the be
neficence, the divinity of origin of "the
great American system."
But the professor follows his nose
and turns not back nor aside because
it leads him into conclusions from
which his fellow disciples flee. While
they are reviling those luscious fruits
of their policy which have been clas
sified and labeled "trusts;" while they
are enacting futile laws ostracizing
their own creations, the professor
points to them with pride, proclaims
their nativity, defends their legitimacy
and finds in them compensations am
ple to justify' their existence. One's
admiration, for the courage of the man
rises as he sees this sincere man, led
by his logic to the maintenance of that
law of existence, the survival of the
fittest, against which his whole policy
is directed. For it is from the competi
tive struggles of all life that come the
fittest who have proved their ability
to survive. The trust from its incep
tion to its full fruition is a strife for
the mastery over weaker competitors.
It crushes them, where it can, with
ruthless hand, and reaches its end only
ever their prostrate forms. But there
is no turning back by Gunton merely
because the syllogism of his logic de
velops a conclusion adverse to his
ideals. Forward he goes unwaveringly,
indifferent to his desertion by the
whole pack of his fellow schoolmen.
The professor, finding the reach of
his Magazine too short to reach the
multitude, has established an Institute,
over which he presides, at which he is
the sole lecturer, and where, week af
ter we* k, he delivers his lectures to
those who are minded to go and sit at
the feet of this Gamaliel. After the dis
course he invites questioning from the
audience. One of these lectures was
given to the solving of the conun
drum "Why Have We Trusts?" and it,
with the questions and answers, is con
tained In a "Bulletin of the Institute,"
with a copy of which the professor has
kindly favored us. We pass his ar
guments to come to his answers. One
querist asked if he conceded that trusts
compel smaller concerns to capitulate
and become servants, and did the pro
fessor think it was for the general wel
fare to crush out these smaller con
cerns. Generally he did, because these
small affairs were on a lower plane of
methods, are not as secure in business,
do not make as good profit. They suf
fer by their smallness. Their suppres
sion by the trust "is the very best
thins that can happen to the com
munity."
Pursuing his quest for knowledge,
the questioner wanted to know what
the professor was going to do with the
people driven out of work by the trusts,
citing the piano trust, that is even now
getting in its work and crowding out
the dealers who have hitherto pur
sued the vocation of selling pianos.
This is what will be done with them,
says the professor, with a calmness as
heedless of individual suffering as if
he were the law of the survival of the
fittest incarnate. They will be dis
charged, to save expense to the trade;
they will have to get positions in de
partment stores; the "responsible" peo
ple will be retained, but the "medi
ocrity" will not be employed. It may
affect the advertising mediums very
much, but, my dear fellow, look at
the compensations. Pianos will be
improved and cheapened, and more
will be made and sold and more men
will be employed to make them. Is
that not sufficient? And so on. Straight
as a bullet to the bull's eye goes the
professor to the ultimatum of his logic,
while all his compatriots are shiver
ing. Beginning with protection from
exterior competition he ends in exclu
sion of internal competition. Defend
ing the policy of defeating the opera
tion of the law of the survival of the
fittest in trade, he ends with assert
ing it because he discovers that the
logic is inexorable and the one follows
the other resistlessly. We close as we
began, in admiration of the sincerity
and courage of this unflinching protec
tionist. It is something, among so
much humbug and pretense, to find one
Gunton.
A lIETHOGRADE MOVEMENT.
In that vital factor of any govern
ment, taxation, there is evidence of a
continuous trend in this country back
wards to the favorite methods of mon
archism. It was a French minister of
the monarchy who defined scientific
taxation as the method of plucking
feathers from the goose with the least
resultant squawking. Such a policy is
comprehensible in a government where
the monarch rules by divine right, ir
responsible to his people, but anxious
to avoid irritation that might lead to
revolt. Naturally such a government
would readily adopt methods of getting
revenue that would extract money
from the people indirectly and under
the guise of cost instead of the blunt
form of taxation. They would com
mend themselves with especial force
to rulers who needed money, but were
not accountable to their people for its
spending. But a republic is based on
contrary principles. The people are
at once the rulers and the revenue pro
viders. Their houses of representa
tives, in nation and states, hold the
purse-strings. No tax can be laid that
does not originate in these bodies com
ing directly from the people. This pro
vision embodies the principle of re
sponsibility for the spending of money
derived from the taxpayers of the
land.
The influence of custom and envi
ronment shows in the transference to
our federal constitution of the evasive
method of revenue getting, universal
at the time of its formation, but it also
contains, in its provision for direct
taxation, a recognition of the true
principle of responsible government
that requires that each citizen bear his
i
wealth-proportioned share of the bur
dens and be advised of Its amount In
his tax receipt. So far, however, has
the retrograde movement gone that,
in the income tax case, we have the
chief justice suggesting that it was
one of the unwritten compromises of
the constitution that direct taxation
should not be resorted to unless In
great emergencies. So we have the
United States deriving practically all
their revenue from taxation laid indi
rectly upon consumers and paid by
them as part of the cost of the thing
taxed. We have this method defended
on the ground that It is so easy of
collection, precisely the reason that
commended it to Louis XV.'s finance
minister.
It was inevitable that this method
should be extended to the states and
municipalities. And now we have the
controller of the state of New York,
in a report in which he discusses the
question of taxation, recommending
that the state depend entirely upon In
direct taxation for Its revenue. Taxes
on corporations, on liquors and saloons,
taxes on gross earnings should take the
place of all direct levies, leaving the
latter to the minor divisions of the
state. But how long would it be before
the minor divisions would be adopting
the same methods? Already in some
states the indirect tax on liquor sell
ing forms a large part of the municipal
revenue. New York shares the prod
uct of the Raines law with the coun
ties, giving them two-thirds of it. How
long would it be before cities would be
levying octroi on everything brought
within their limits for sale, so far as
the restrictions of interstate commerce
would permit? The vicious system has
filtered downward from the nation to
the municipality in almost every Euro
pean government; what is to prevent
its seepage here?
The vice of a method of getting reve
nue which the consumer unconscious
ly pays is the irresponsibility of the
spenders of the money, the absence of
check on extravagance and the incen
tive to corruption. We have seen it
in congress; we see it in our state, and
it shows in cities where liquor licenses
form part of the revenue. Were hu
man nature better than it is; were vot
ers more careful in selecting admin
istrators; were public offices always
held to be a public trust and never re
garded as a private snap; were there
more conscience and less commercial
ism; were statesmanship nothing
"But a better way
To dodge the primal curse and make it pay,"
then funds thus derived might be wise
ly and prudently spent by legislators
and councils. But one has but to look
about him with seeing eyes to learn
that these prerequisites do not exist,
and, with the increase of revenues de
rived by indirection, comes increase of
extravagant spending, too often taint
ed with something worse and more
dangerous.
AT THE THEATERS.
Joseph Arthur's melodrama bearing the
blithe and cheerful designation "The Cherry
Pickers" began a week's engagement at the
Grand last night The title gives not the
slightest indication of the real character of
the play, which is by no means a pastoral
comedy, but a military melodrama of swords
and guns— particularly one great big gun.
This gun, like the buzz saw in "Blue Jeans,"
is the main factor in furnishing the crowning
climax of the drama. Even as the claw-like
teeth of the whirring buzz saw are about
to tear their way through the middle of the
helpless hero, when the heroine snatches him
away in time, so, in "The Cherry Pickers,"
does the brave young girl rescue her lover
from his critical position some three inches In
front of the frowning muzzle of the cannon,
which an instant later discharges a deafening,
devastating blast. The scene Is a thrilling
one. the success of which depends very much
upon the nice adjustment or time between the
heroine and the avenging villain, who swings
the gun around and touches it off when he
imagines he has drawn a bead on the hero's
diaphragm.
It is but just to say that this detonating
climax was greeted with storms of applause
last evening, so cleverly was it brought about.
The denouement, it must be confessed, is ac
companied by a sense of relief, for while the
gun is turning and the heroine is frantically
struggling to release her pinioned hero one
shudders to think what might happen should
she fail to act with sufficient promptness.
There Is another effective and, from a gen
uincjy dramatic standpoint, more legitimate
climax at the close of the second act, when
the hero, Hamlet-like, stabs through a screen
at an invisible foe and runs his sword
through the villain's valet, instead of the
valet's "betters."
In all seriousness "The Cherry Pickers,"
while possessing the inevitable "thrills" that
all melodramas produce or aim to produce at
regular intervals, is not as coherent and well
constructed as might be wished by those who
crave this variety of theatrical diversion.
Its improbabilities, which no melodrama "can
afford to be without," are rendered more con
spicuous by the dialogue Instead of more
plausible. Many of the speeches are absurd,
and few arouse any audible response in recog
nition of such sentiment as they may contain.
The cast is uneven. Ralph Delmore, in the
role of Col. Brough, the cruel and unscru
pulous commander of the British regiment
in India, easily distinguished himself among
the men. Mr. Delmore is an experienced
actor, who has acquired the art of repose
and who possesses the quality of self-control
and repression. The character of John Na.
zare, the persecuted hero, was assumed by
Robert T. Haines. a player of good ability
and considerable intensity. His performance
would show an improvement if Mr. Ilalnes
would discard a certain stiff and stilted de
meanor and a suggestion of the stagey and
artificial in the delivery of his speeches,
especially in the quieter scenes.
Miss Jessie Satterlee's impersonation of
Mrs. O'Donnell-Duleep, a vociferous, but jolly,
big-hearted Irish matron, with a penchant
for liquid inspiration, was somewhat broad
and boisterous, but in the main effective and
satisfactory because of its spontaneity.
R. V. Ferguson's characterization of Brown,
the tool and valet of Col. Brough, was de
cidedly comical and artistic. In appearance,
voice and action- Mr. Ferguson's Brown was
the picture of ' an English lackey. Miss
Eleanor Browning, who assumed the leading
female role, that of Nourmallee, the half
caste, was inadequate to the demands of the
character, owing chiefly to the lack of voice.
Her description of her lover's heroic conduct
at the fort was her best effort. Nat D.
Jones was far from impressive in the role of
Xourmallee's father. Edward Poland's imper
sonation of Ayoob, an Afghan spy, while not
uneffectlve. would gain in impressiveness if
Mr. Poland would curb his inclination to
shout all of his speeches.
Identified? aa the Hnrderen.
BURLINGTON', 10., Jan. 30.— Members of
what is known as the Storms gang are now
under arrest, charged with complicity in the
murder of Mrs. Rathburn and her daughter.
Blood stains were found on the clothing of
Storms, the leader. A lad named Peterson
today told the police he called at the home of
the Rathburns several weeks ago and found
two men there. One of them, he said, asked
Mary Rathburn to fix his tie, and the boy
afterwards identified the tie found on the
body of Mary Rathburn as the one that had
been called to his attention that uight. The
supposition is that the girl tore the tie from
her assailant in the struggle for her life.
GOPPER HIVER fIUjIT
large: parties op Americans
left st. Paul yesterday
to take part.
GYPSY QUEEN CREW DEPART.
XEARLY A SCORE OF CHICAGOANS
WILL TAKE A BOAT TO LAKE
TESLIN.
VARIOUS OTHER GOLD HUNTERS
Passed Through the Twin Cities on
Their Way to the Gilded
Klondike.
Yesterday was a busy day for repre
sentatives of the overland coast rail
road lines in the matter of sending
out passengers arriving in St. Paul
from Eastern and central states en
route to the Alaska gold fields, and
the regular Northern Pacific and Great
Northern trains carried westward at
4:30 o'clock fully 200 gold hunters. In
one of the parties were five women.
Every party was more or less heavily
burdened with baggage, and several of
them had from three to a dozen dogs
to be used in sledding the Alaskan
trail into the gold district. All of the
fortune seekers had a definite destina
tion, and every party of more than
two or three was under the direction of
some chosen leader or captain. A no
ticeable coincidence in yesterday's ex
odus was the fact that the majority of
the fortune seekers were bound for the
Copper river district and not Dawson
City or the Klondike region. Among
those going to Alaska this spring there
seems to be a belief that the Klondike
fields will be overcrowded, and the de
sire, besides, to be in American terri
tory is influencing many to seek less
explored districts.
The largest party that has so far
passed through St. Paul went to the
ccast yesterday in a special car at
tached to the Northern Pacific over
land train, being the Gypsy Queen Min
ing company, of Chicago. In the party
were five women, who will brave the
hardships of the gold fields in hopes
of winning a fortune. In the party
were :
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Henry Finch,
Whitehead, Lorin Finch
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dt. A. J. Richter,
Bachem, Charles Xickett,
Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Xeubert,
Stout. A. C. Burnham,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. B. Stevens,
Johnson. W. H. Gilmore,
W. \V. Winward, P. McGuicn.
The party is under the leadership of
P. D. Whitehead and arrived in St.
Paul over the Wisconsin Central yes
terday afternoon, half an hour before
the Northern Pacific regular left for
the coast. The stock of the company is
largely owned by Chicagoans.
The first stopping place of the gold
seekers will be Tacoma, Wash., where
four more will join them. From there
they go to Victoria, where they will
embark by steamer. Landing at Fort
Wrangel they will take lighters up the
Stikeen river twenty-eight miles and
then go by sleds overland to Lake Tes
lin. There the party will put up the
Gypsy Queen, the steamer, and will
live in it until the summer.
The gold seekers expect to reach the
Klondike early in March. They take
with them six tons of baggage. In
cluded in this is the steamer, that has
been built in sections that it may eas
ily be carried overland. A steam
dredge, centrifugal pump and triplicate
saw mill plant are also among the
conveniences. Thirty heavy sleds and
forty horses will also be taken.
The most sanguine lot of Klondikers
to leave for Seattle yesterday was the
Keystone party, under command of
Col. Creighton, which went out on the
Great Northern. There are nine mem
bers in the party from Braddock and
Beaver, Pcnn.. including a minister, a
physician and a lawyer, but the hopes
of the entire party center in Col.
Creighton, who is an Alaskan pioneer,
having spent ten years in the Yukon
country. Col. Creighton has traveled
the Yukon river- from source to mouth,
and under his guidance the Keystone
party hopes for more advantages in
the search for gold than will fall to the
lot of others. The party is thoroughly
equipped for a two years' stay in the
gold region, and will seek the yellow
metal first in the Copper river country
and afterward wherever indications
point to the richest deposits. Col.
Creighton is enthusiastic over the pros
pects of the party, and thinks it wise
for any one who can to go to Alaska,
but he says much disappointment and
some suffering will result to those in
experienced in gold hunting and un
accustomed to the severities of a cold
country, who are rushing to the new
fields without ample preparation or a
definite destination. The Keystone
party will sail from Seattle Feb. 12.
Its members are Col. Creighton, T. W.
Sharp, B. W. Rayl, H. W. Richards,
O. A. Richards, Robert Brice and Le
Roy Townsend.
Caspar Keer and George Forrest, two
young men of Bay City, Mich., were in
the Klondike rush over the Great
Northern yesterday. They go to Van
couver to join a party, of wh-ich Keer's
father is the head, and which will lo
cate in the Lake Teslin country.
A party of ten members from Albion,
Ind., left for Seattle over the Great
Northern. H. F. Riddell is in charge
! of the gold seekers, who are bound for
j the Copper river fields. His associates
are Daniel Winerhrener, Mart Winer
brener, Howard Surfus, Fred Kimball,
John Yangyen, Gustav Hahn, John
Hofman, Curt Simmons, A. D. Hostet
ter and G. Reed. This party numbers
among its members mechanics, carpen
ters and several practical miners. They
will sail from Seattle Feb. 15, and pro
ceed inland to the gold fields by means
of dog sledges. The party brought two
large Newfoundland dogs from Albion,
and, while stopping in St. Paul yester
day, purchased a third of the same
species for $15. At Seattle more dogs
will be bought.
A party of sixteen Southerners from
Jacksonville, Miss., left over the Great
Northern, with a full equipment for a
two years' stay in the gold fields.
G. J. Ryan and John F. Spaulding,
of Big Sandy, Mont., who have been
East on a visit, went west on the
Great Northern road to embark at Se
attle for Alaska. Both have spent
much of their time in mining through
out Montana and expect their previ
ous experiences to be valuable in the
Klondike fields. Ryan and Spaulding
had eight big dogs of the Newfound
land and St, Bernard species careful
ly boxed up in crates in the baggage
car of the overland train. The dogs
were secured in Montreal, Can., with
particular reference to their service as
pack animals in Alaska. This expedi
tion goes to Dawson City.
Among the passengers on the North
ern Pacific coast train en route for
Alaska was George S. Williams, a St.
Paul young man, whose destination is
Dyea. Mr. Williams leaves home with
no settled plans, but will, if the op
portunity offers, install himself in the
hotel business at Dyea. If, after reach
ing Alaska, he finds other business
ventures which are more promising, he
will engage in something other than
the hotel business. Mr. Williams w.is
formerly in the employ of the North
ern Pacific Express company.
C. 11. Page, of Buffalo, left over the
Northern Pacific for Seattle, where he
will join a party of thirty gold seek
ers from his native city. Most of the
members of this party are already at
the coast, and their outfit is already
packed ready for the steamer. This
party will go to the Copper river coun
try. Among its members are several
practical miners and a mining expert.
They will prospect along the Copper
river, and have made arrangements
for crossing the mountains at the head
waters of the stream next winter, in
case the river valley does not pan out
as well as is expected. Mr. Page says
his party will travel slowly and with
out the aid of dogs, as it is considered
that the dogs are more of a care than
a help.
F. J. Date, of Elkhart, Ind., left on
the Northern Pacific overland to join
a company of gold seekers at Seattle.
He is the last of the party to start for
the coast, and will sail from Seattle
with his companions now waiting for
him there Feb. 5. Mr. Date's party
is bound for the Copper river country.
Word has been received at North St.
Paul from Rudolph Fluer, who was
here in the early days of the town, and
boarded at the "Wabasha house, that he
recently returned to "Washington from
the gold fields with about $30,000. He
expects to return to the gold fields
again in the near future, and says he
will bring back $50,000 at the least.
O. S. Boston, of 24 West Congress
street, will leave with a party of twelve
for the Klondike, Feb. 10.
Of all the unique gold hunting par
ties that will go into the Alaskan treas
ure box this spring, probably none will
attract more attention than the party
of twenty-one rich, young Englishmen
who are said to be on their way from
Liverpool, England. The young gold
seekers will be conveyed to the land j
of gold by one of the best steam yachts i
of Great Britain; they will be sur- ,
rounded with every luxury that money :
can buy, and visions of the vast wealth |
awaiting them will be their dreams, j
They will not go for the wealth, but for I
the excitement of roughing it in a |
strange country.
Several months ago Klondike fever
struck England, and the contagion
reached not only the common people,
but also the wealthy men of that fa- |
mous isle. Lionel Hart, the son of a |
wealthy African merchant, who was i
the first to get the fever, has been i
organizing a party of his young friends j
to visit, prospect and invest in the Yu- i
kon. Among those who .will accom- j
pany him are said to be Neil Gossage, !
a son of the millionaire .soap manu- j
facturer; Fred and Arthur Tait, of the i
Tait Sugar Refining company; J. Lever, j
son of the "Sunlight" soap manufac- !
turer, and Jack Jones, of the Jones j
Steamship and Trading company.
The steel steam yacht Irene, owned !
by Col. Gamble, commodore of the Mer- '
sey Yacht club, was chartered to con- |
vey the party to St. Michaels. The
Irene was built by the designer of the
Valkyrie, and will be in charge of a re
tired captain of the Allen steamship
line. The party sailed from Liverpool
Jan. 15. They will touch some points
of interest on the Atlantic and Pacilic
coasts, and expect to reach Victoria
about March 1. They will proceed
from there to St. Michaels, after get
ting men to work for them in the Yu
kon country. If the climatic conditions
do not suit, or if the pay dirt does" not
wash up well, they will return to their
homes, counting the trip as one of
pleasure and sight-seeing.
D. E. Taylor and W. F. Zwick. of
Seattle, are guests at the Hotel Nic
ollet, endeavoring to interest Minneap
olis capital in a company which pro
poses to operate a dredge upon the
waters of the Yukon river. Mr. Taylor,
who is the designer of the dredge, has I
been a miner for many years, and
spent considerable time in Alaska. The
dredge, when constructed, will cost
$30,000 and will take up oarth and grav
el from the bottom of the river and
sluice it on the barge.
MERRY WEDDING BELLS.
Bernstein-Levy Nuptials Celebrated
Yesterday Afternoon.
Miss Hattie Levy and Mr. Samuel H.
Bernstein were married yesterday af
ternoon at the synagogue on College
avenue. Rabbi Aronsohn performed
the ceremony in the presence of a
large number of friends and relatives
of the contracting parties. The brides
maids wero Miss Sarah Levy, sister of
the bride; Misses Lena Bernstein and
Ida Gotstein. The gentlemen attend
ing the groom Avere J. Wiseman, Jacob
Levy and Meyer Cohen. The bride
wore a gown of white brocade satin,
made in Europe. The bridesmaids wore
white silk. Among the out of town
guests were Miss Silver, of Minneap
olis; Mr. and Mrs. Coddon, of St. Croix
Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson, Mr. and
Mrs. Cardoza, Mr. and Mrs. Rosen
berg and Mr. Dockman, from Minneap
olis. After the ceremony dinner was
served, after which dancing followed
at the Twin City hall.
PROGRAMME FOR EDITORS.
It Will Be Given Out In a. Few
Days.
The executive committee of the Min
nesota Editors and Publishers' asso
ciation met yesterday afternoon at the
Windsor hotel to arrange for the com
ing meeting of the association, which
will be hold In Minneapolis Feb. 17
and 18. The orogramme has not been
finally determined upon yet, but will
be sent out in a few days. The as
sociation will be the guests of the Min
neapolis Press club, which has made
elaborate preparations for the enter
tainment of the visiting editors.
WIND BLEW A GAT, 10.
Out-of-Door Life Was Angrht hot
Pleasant.
A severe gale, which was ace .mpani'd
bj lowering temperature late in the day,
combined with the terribly dusty con
dition of the streets to make existence
outdoors yesterday anything but a
pleasure. The flurry of snow in the j
morning hours was soon blown into lit
tle barks only to be covered by the dirt,
which was considerably greater in vol
ume. No damage by the storm was re
ported, however, other than the per
sonal Inconvenience to which it subjpet
ed the members of the human family.
WAS A THIRD WARD LEADER.
Dnnicl B. Kelly, Who Die«! Saturday
Morning,
Daniel B. Kelly, who died Saturday
morning at his home, 232 East Tenth
street, although he had only resided
continuously in St. Paul since 1891. first
made this city his home in 1850. He
was a recognized political leader in the
Third ward for years, a prominent Odd
Fellow and a member of the State
P'uneral Directors' association.
Mr. Kelly was born in New York in
1533. He is survived by a wife, three
sons and two married daughters.
The funeral will be held from the
family residence at 2 o'clock this af
ternoon. Friends of the family are in
vited.
VALUABLE DOG KILLED.
Alice K. Winner of the Continental
Derby in 1897.
Dr. L. C Bacon's famous English
setter, Alice X, winner of thp Conti
nental Derby in the field trials at
Brown's Valley last summer. and j
among the most noted dogs in the
country, was killed by a cable car yes
terday near Avon street.
Sacred Thirst Society.
The Cathedral Sacred Thirst society yp.-?
torday elected for ihe year 1K»8 the following
officers: President, Miss Mary L. A. Smith;
vice president. Miss M. I. Cramsi;>; treasurer,
Mrs. John Churchill; recording secretary,
.Miss Enima Stone; financial seurftary, MUs
Helen Hurley; executive committee, Mes
damr-s Haas. K. A. Smith, McEvoy, McQuade,
Misses M. Barnes and Lizzie Smith.
Did Molly Steal the Hat?
Molly Daly is under arrest on the charge
of stealing a hat belonging to Bertha Pesch.
The arrest was made by Ofticer Casey upon
a warrant sworn out several weeks ago.
PATTOfI I|l DEFENSE
PRIXCETOX'S PRESIDENT DE
CLARES STUDENTS OF THE U
SOT INTEMPERATE.
AT TIMES ARE BOISTEROUS,
THE NATURAL RESULT OF THH
OVERFLOW OF ANIMAL
SPIRITS.
HE GIVES A WORD OF WARNING.
Sabbnth Lecture to the Students ou
the Recent Princeton Inn
Affair.
PRINCETON. N. J., Jan. 30.— A few
days ago President Francis L. Patton
announced that he would address the
undergraduate body today upon the
subject of temperance. As a conse
quence, Marquand chapel was crowded
at 5 o'clock today. In the audience
were several signers of the Princeton
Inn liquor license, among them Grover
Cleveland, Prof. Charles Woodruff
Shields, whose resignation from the
Presbyterian church has caused criti
cism growing out of his signing tha
petition, and Prof. Charles Greene
Rock wood. Dr. Pattern said:
At their meeting in October tho attention
of our trustees was turned to the recent
agnation which has so seriously involved the
good name of Princeton university. A com
mittee was appointed to consider" the whole
subject and report at a subsequent meeting
of the trustees. That roporc was presented
and udopted at the meeting !;.-ld Dec ?3
it \^as resolved that a strict^ literal and im
l>aitlal enforcement of the existing law re
spectjDg Intoxicating drinks be enjoined upon
tne taculty. and that tho president of tha
rsity be asked to make a statement to
the students on the whole question.
I bear testimony to the high moral tone of
(he students of this university. I know that
they have been misrepresented and misunder
stood. Their hilarity, their boisterous out
bursts of exuberance; their songs, which ofte,
have a moro bacchanalian sound than I Would
wish, and, in some instances, their inexcusa
ble acts of wrong-doing, have produced im
pressions which the facts will not Justify
nnd they have on many occasions been
charged with drunkenness for no other reason
than tnat, under tho influence of the gre
garious instinct which sometimes assumes an
almost irrational mode of expression, animal
spirits have been allowed too much freedom
and speech and action have not been kept
within those metis and bounds which mature
men in the busy walks of life art apt to as
sociate with sobriety.
But there was never less reason for ad
verse criticism of Princeton than during the
period in which it has been so" unsparingly
bestowed upon us. I have taken pains to find
out tho truth, and I am still unshaken In
my conviction that the tendency in Princeton
is steadily in the direction of a diminished
use of alcoholic drinks. Still, I must not be
blind to the fact, and after making all al
lowance for willful misrepresentation or mis
take I am constrained to believe that thsre Is
far more of what i.-s called moderate drinking
among us than tho wisest and best friends of
I'rinreton could wish, and there are those
among you who are putting their future' In
peril by the excessive use of intoxicating
drink. B
There is nothing unnatural in the desire of
the trustees for a vigilant enforcement of
what has for many years been the law of the
university in regard to alcoholic liquors
While I am in full sympathy with your feel
ing that the university man is not to be
treated as though he wore in a preparatory
school, I am ready to take my full share of
responsibility for the report which, as chair
man of tha committee dealing with the ques
tion, was made to the board of trustees
There are two classes of men whom I have
particularly in mind: Those who have al
ready fallen into intemperate habits, and
those who are in danger of forming those
habits. Drunkenness is practically an un
pardonable sin in our academic life. It must
be understood that a man cannot be guilty of
repeated acts of intoxication and continue in
this university if hl3 offense is known to the
authorities.
I wish more particularly, however, to say
a kindly word to those who are understood to
be moderate drinkers. If any duty is intui
tively given us In consciousness it is temper
ance. I mean the duty of self-control. Let me
caution you, then, against the habits which
put self-control in peril.
MR. FEIST IS INDIGNANT.
He Replies to the Charges of l<\
Kenny.
Martin Feist, chief engineer of the
St. Paul waterworks, Is wroth over an
epistle which appt-ared In one of the
Republican papers over the signature
of F. Kenny. Mr. Feist says:
•in reply to the statement in the Dispatch
Thursday of F. Kenny, late night engineer
at the West side pumping station, I want to
tell you he was employed last year at Vadnals
station as assistant engineer, but ho did not
like it there; came one morning to McCarron
Lake station and told me somebody was
shooting after him at 2 o'clock In th.> "morn
ing, and showed me his empty pistols. I went
out to Vadnais lake and investigated the mat
ter, and found out that K< nny had boon doing
the shooting himself from Inside the building.
He left th. re, and I put him to work at the
West side pumping station. Two months after
he asked me for one month vacation to see
his sick father at New York, but tie went
there on business about a boiler cleaner pat
ent. After he came back from the East he
had an article in the Sunday Glob c, and
wanted to start a factory at the West side.
Last October ho asked me for one month*
vacation again for going to Hot Springs on
recommendation of Dr. Wluaton, but I found
out later that Dr. Whcaton does not know
him. He left here on the 6th of October and
came Lack on the Z<n)i and told some friend
he had an operation at the Mot Springs. I am
told he only went there on business. I never
saw Kenny since the first of September last,
except a month ago on the street, but not to
talk to. After he was absent from duty threa
months I went over to the station and told
Joe Ooerr, the engineer, if Kenny went to
work again he had to see me or the board. lln
came there about, two weeks ago and was so
informed. He said he would not go bffore
any board. I had heard he wanted to be cus
todian at the court house building arid watch
man or elevator man. At the same time he
was after the janitor' 3 Job at tho Havton's
bluff school house.
"As to politics, I never was mu< h of a poli
tician. I have been employed thirteen years
by the board of water commissioners. I never
had any trouble before. I live outside of the
city limits and cannot vote in the city. I
was never In the city ut the time of Mayor
Doran'a election, i never knew Mr. Doran
until the sth of January, is:< 7. when P. Kenny
told me he wanted to see me about the West
side station job. But one thing— my best
countrymen, Democratic or Republican, voted
for Doran. The first time In iSTj I voted In
Chicago fcr Gen. Grant for president, and
once for Grover Cleveland, and the last timn
for McKlnley. About i". Kenny's politics: Tie
wont to Duluth about Miree years ago as a
Democrat; boarded with a man who was
r-lected for aldernn'n as a Democrat. Kfnny
worked for him. and thp sam^ man worked
Kenny into the postofflce building there n%
engineer. Ho hold the Job orlv about six
week?. 11. 11. C. Bement or .Jch-i Caulfleld
or any member of the water b
askod me if I was a D< moeral or Republican,
uiitil my name was in the newsoaper. I never
pskecl any of my assis!ar;r engineers or fire
men about their politics. I hav>> no Mmc for
politics: keet>3 mi- busy keeping tho four
pumping stations in operation, working from
twelve to eighteen hours every day in th'?
year and have no t:in" fur a man like
Kr nny."
They Want V sin's \imt.
Tf the Republicans of Minnesota would give
to the st"ip a governor that would honor
the state and his party, and give the people
a business and reputable »f»rn nistration they
should nominate C. I). GUflll
He is one of the largest farmers
or the state, being extensively • ngaged in
cattle raising, nrd at tho .-■-. is one
of the ablest men in the state. We can
imagine no man better H'-.i fur the posi
tion ?nd none who ■■■ mid mi
lv administer th>> great trust Mankato Re
view.
'Mini* Where Yon ••<;<>« Left"
The Pioneer Press has left virtuous path
of journalistic modesty and delda
■ with roses of self-laudation.
nay it displays in a conspicuous place on itM
Bret page an it mof Draise culled U<: [U some
country . scbange. We ha t tho
■ Press was able to stand on its own
. -Delano Eagle.
— «d^^_ .. ,
Promoted a Consul.
BERLIN. Jan. .10.— Herr yon Reichcnau
first secretary of the German legation at
Washington, has been promoted to the rank
of Germac consul general ac Sofia.