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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1898.
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TO-DAYS WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.— Forecast for Tues
day:
Minnesota— Threatening weather; warmer;
(southeasterly winds.
Wisconsin — Threatening weather; light
showers Tuesday; probably warmer; light to
fresh southeasterly winds.
Tho Dakotas — Threatening weather, fol
lowed by light showers Tuesday afternoon;
colder Tuesday night: .southeasterly winds,
becoming northwesterly.
Montana— Threatening weather, possibly
with light rain Tuesday: southwesterly wind 3.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Deportment of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau, Washington, Feb. 7. G:4B
p. in. Local Time, S p. m. 75th 'Meridian
Time. -Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
Tern.'Place. Tom.
St. Paul 3SQu'Appelle 28
Duluth ::fi Winnipeg 28
Huron 40.
Bismarck 44 Buffalo 36-40
Willi, ton 44 Boston 36-44
Havre 52|Cheyenne 40-50
Helena _.;~Chicago 42-42
Edmonton _ Cincinnati 48-52
Battleford —.'Montreal 16-26
Prince Albert. —8 New Orleans 56-64
( ;ii£.nry 40 Xew York 38-42
Medicine Hat 4tilPittsburg 42-46
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, 29.94; mean temperature. 31;
relative humidity, 85; wind at .8 p. m., south;
weather, cloudy: maximum temperature, 41;
minimum temperature, 26; daily range, 15.
Note— Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
The Deficit Grows.
We fail to find. In the columns of our
Interesting contemporaries, any re
marks, sine., the Ist of February, bear
ing upon the statement of the public
<*< bl ;::i<l the condition of national
finance that it i .veals. We have to
remind our frit : C ■■■ ■ nee more that they
t >ld us several times in the twenty
four hours, just cue year ago, that the
first duly of man, which had been as
sign* d by divine mandate to the Re
publican party, was to stop the deficit.
Currency reform, they admitted, was
Important, but all our troubles, finan
cial and industrial, had grown out of
ti tariff law that wns inadequate to
produce revenue equal to the nation's
expenditures. This, they said, was the
lirst point of attack. The Republican
party was going to fill the treasury
lirst and look after other necessary
legislation afterward. Again, six
months later, the same heralds of Re
publicanism told us that the thing had
been accomplished by the passage of
lhe Dingley bill. They laughed to scorn
no! only the calculations of the Demo
crats, but the estimates of their own
si cretary of the treasury and their
chairman of the finance committee in
the senate, which showed that the
Dingley bill would widen, rather than
narrow, the breach between Income
and outgo. The tariff was to be rais
ed, revenue was to roll in in great
abundance, prosperity had returned,
nnd tic Ist of January was set as the
latest date when, by any possibility,
another deficit could be marked up on
the treasury books. After the begin
ning of the new year, when all the tariff,
schedules were effective, they said that
d« (bits would become a thing of mem
ory only.
We have waited for events to pass
upon the correctness of this prophecy,
and their oracle has spoken. The treas
ury accounts for the first month of the
calendar year show an increase of debt,
l< ss rash in the treasury, of $12,589,771.
Tbey show that, if all receipts
and payments on account of
tho sale of the Union Pacific rail
road be excluded from the reckon
ing, the increase in the treasury deficit
fcr January was $7,901,484. They show
the total deficit for the fiscal year, be
ginning on the Ist of last July, to be
f0i ,901, 823. We think that the most pa
tient of financiers or politicians would
admit that the time has come for those
now in charge of the government to
fyrnish seme explanation and some de
claration of future intention. The
"Democrali. deficit" has not been cured.
On tiie contrary, it is swelling at a
r&te unknown to our experience under
Democratic policies. Had the Repub
lican party set out professedly to re
\ ise the tariff only with reference to
the alleged needs of industry, it might
claim that revenue had been Impaired
in ord.r to look after the interests of
protection. It Is estopped from that ar
gument by its unanimous proclamation
tbat the purpose of its tariff bill was
primarily to stop deficits and increase
revenue. What it has to show for
seven months of trial, with everything
Its own way, with its new tariff in
operation and with an administration
entirely In sympathy with it, Is a total
c] m t r-f <■-■> OOO.O^O.
The country has not suffered directly
from this, because of the Improvement
in its material conditions. The hard
ships and economies of previous years,
In which we were taking our securities
back from Europe and paying for
them, the happy fortune of a great
crop coincident with a higher scale
of prices, the increase of our ex
port trade consequent upon this and
Uie subsidence of distrust and appre-
hension, with the assurance that our
monetary standard would be main
tained, have all contributed to ease the
country and relieve Its treasury from
strain. The least sagacious observer
understands that these conditions can
not be permanent. No country can
continue Indefinitely to spend at the
rate of $100,000,000 per annum in excess
of Its Income and not suffer serious
consequences. If this congr.ss does
not do something to add to the treas
ury receipts, and, more particularly, if
it does not reduce the enormous total
of expenditures, we shall be obliged to
pass again through the shadow. What
ever it may do, and it shows no dis
position at present to act upon or even
.to realize the situation, it stands con
victed of having failed utterly, after a
full and fair trial, to improve the rev
enue situation or to «top the deficit,
whose existence was its principal ar
gument for favor with the people in
the elections of 1896.
Postal Parasites.
However scant the programme that
this congress has laid out for itself, it
should not adjourn without passing
some bill for the reform of the postal
service on the lines laid down by Repre
sentative Loud. The Loud bill has been
up for consideration for two sessions
and has been defeated, partly because
it contains provisions thought to be un
necessarily harsh and hostile to news
paper interests, but principally because
it proposes to cut off the favoritism now
extended to a few publishing houses.
The abuse at which it is aimed is no
torious and confessed. The carriage
of second-class mall matter involves at
the present time a loss to the postal
department of 7 J /_ cents per pound. Not
less than $10,000,000 a year Is paid out
by the government for the transporta
tion of matter that should not be car
ried under the privilege of second-class
rates.
The moderate charges on this class
of matter have stimulated a whole host
of enterprises that make their profits
at the people's expense. All kinds of
publications, cheap and trashy stories
and in some cases even legal docu
ments have been printed as serial pub
lications. They are issued in numbers
once a month or twice a month, but
are not periodicals in any sense of the
word, and should carry regular book
rates. Instead of this they are
now transported by the govern
ment on the same basis as real
newspapers and magazines, and the
business has swelled until 3.0,000,
--000 pounds of this matter are carried
by the postal department annually. A
great part of this is a pure gratuity
to a private interest. It imposes a
heavy tax upon the treasury, it is the
cause of the deficit in the postal serv
ice, it cuts off a large amount of addi
tional revenue, which would be receiv
ed if these publications were forced to
pay legitimate rates, and it forbids the
extension and improvement of the pos
tal service ln directions where they
are most needed.
The original Loud bill would have
passed congress, we believe, had it not
been for some regulations that were
not acceptable to the newspapers.
Whether that is changed or not, we
believe that the newspapers of the
country can far better suffer some
slight disadvantage such as this would
be than that the postal department
should be crushed under the enormous
weight of a traffic now so managed as
to shift the cost of carrying second
class mail matter from private to pub
lic shoulders.
In the present state of the nation's
finances economy should be the rule all
along the line. Particularly in the
postal department, where it has been
sought to save a few dollars by reduc
ing carrier service in the great cities of
the country, it is intolerable that the
facilities of the people should be crip
pled, while the makers of flash pamph
lets and transient advertising sheets
absorb $10,000,000 a year of the
people's money in the conduct of their
business. Congress will shirk one of
its plainest and most imperative duties
If it do not deal permanently with this
matter and accomplish the reform con
templated by the Loud bill before it
adjourns.
Helping Themselves at Lust.
The members and officers of the Na
tional Manufacturers' Association have
evidently abandoned the hope of get
ting trade to "follow the flag," by ships
subsidized to run otherwise profitless
voyages, and have taken the matter of
seeking foreign markets into their own
hands. Those who still cling to the
delusion that it is necessary to protect
our manufacturers, realize themselves
that the home market has been pro
tected too much and that access to
foreign markets is essential. They
have gone about it in a most business
like manner. They have established a
museum at Philadelphia ln which I
samples of foreign goods sold in com
petitive markets are displayed, tagged
with information showing cost, price
sold for, freight charges, tariffs, and
all the other data which a home maker
would want before going Into a contest
with a competitor.
With the museum is a bureau of In
formation that undertakes to supp'y
manufacturers with helpful facts. We
have received from the bureau a sam
ple of one of these reports relating to
steam and water engines and windmills
in the market of San Pedro. Brazil. It
gives the "countries of origin" of these
articles on that market; the quantity
annually imported; the manufacturers*
prices and discounts, ocean freights,
and inland transportation. The im
posts, character of packing used, a list i
of dealers and the field of distribution
conclude the general information,
which, as will be seen, supplies nearly
all the data wanted by a manufacturer
seeking that market. A page of gen
eral observations follows relative to
the country of which San Pedro is the
trade center; the foreign makers now
supplying the market, and the \-ariou3
kinds of engines arid mills in use.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1898.
Such work will count in getting Into
the markets of that once despised
"abroad," and the happiest feature is
that it indicates that our manufactur
ers are beginning to help themselves
instead of falling back for help on a
paternal government. They may yet
reclaim the prestige which their fathers
won and which, under parentalism,
sapping self-reliance, was lost to the
sons.
Cleveland's Pension Vetoes.
The Wadena Tribune, having made
the assertion that Cleveland approved
more pension bills than did any of the
Republican presidents, the Republican
papers promptly took it to task and
asked for the documents. The St.
Cloud Journal-Press says it "probably
meant that he vetoed more such bills,"
and clinches it with the assertion that
he "vetoed more pension bills than did
all his predecessors from Washington
to Arthur." Which, we are hap
py to admit, is an unusually accurate
statement for that paper. We have
been unable to ascertain the number of
pensioners put on the list by private
bills and the number approved by the
several presidents, but we have Mr.
Cleveland's records during his first
term, in McPherson's Handbook.
During the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
congresses 2,042 private pension bills
passed congress. Of these Cleveland
approved 1,518, vetoed 250 by message
and 47 by "pocket," and let 227 become
operative by lapse of time, the presi
dent simply withholding his approval.
It is not only true that he vetoed more
pension bills, but. more general bills,
than his predecessors. From Washing
ton to Arthur there were but 109 vetoes,
while Cleveland, during his first term,
vetoed 304 bills, "pocketed" 109 and re
fused to sign 284 more, making a total
of 697. The check Cleveland adminis
tered to the swelling torrent of private
pension bills had a salutary effect, and
ever since that time the bill that gets
through congress must have strong
merits. None of his pension bill ve
toes was overruled.
From Grasshoppers to Dairies.
Twenty-five years ago, farmers in
Freeborn county fled from their farms
before the incursions of the Rocky
mountain locusts. Ten years later
many left for the Dakotas because
"wheat is played out" and there
was nothing left to do but move
to fresh land. Today the local
papers are printing the reports of
creamery associations which amply at
test the fact thlat farming does pay
when intelligently conducted. From
the report of one of them, the Glenville
association, for 1897, we find that it re
ceived from its patrons 8,465,097 pounds
of milk, from which it made 366,731
pounds of butter, marketed for $60,748.
--34. Of this it distributed to patrons
$56,178.19, put $2,903.43 into the sinking
fund and used the remainder in ex
penses. The average monthly price of
butter sold was 18 11-12 cents a pound,
and the cost of making it was 2.3 cents
a pound, including .8 cent a pound
put into the sinking fund. This amount
ed on Dec. 31, 1897, to $3,717. out of
which was paid $2,715 for repairs and
improvements and a dividend on the
$4,000 of capital stock of 15 per cent.
These farmers got about 70 cents per
100 pounds for milk. The report of tha
Moscow creamery shows about the
same conditions. From it the addition
al items are gleaned that it required
22.46 pounds of milk to make a pound
of butter, or 4.45 pounds of butter were
obtained from 100 pounds of milk, the
average test being 3.92 per cent of but
ter fat. The average price received by
the patrons was 16.62 cents a pound
gross, or 14.44 after deduction for the
sinking fund. It is a far cry from the
ravaged wheat fields of 1873 to the
meadows and pastures, the herds and
dairies of 1897; from the poverty and
distress of the one to the prosperity of
the other. And the cow did it.
Recently the National Tribune
sent out copies to all country
papers containing a marked ed
itorial directing their attention to
the feature of the Loud postal bill that
restricts the number of sample copies
that may be sent out, and asking co
operation to defeat the bill. Es
pecial emphasis was laid upon this fea
ture because it was supposed to be th.
one in which the country editor was
most concerned, and which would in
sure his stout protest against the whole
measure. We have noted with pleasure
that the country editor of the North
west is neither to be fooled by this
trick nor moved by this cheap appeal
to his cupidity. There has been no
exception, where comment was made
at all, to the uniform scouting of the
argument. The Le Sueur Sentinel
ex presses the general comment in say
ing that "there Is no country editor
who will be affected seriously by this
bill. It will not make $5 a year differ
ence to the average publisher, while it
will save millions to the department.
The Loud bill should pass." This is.
the manly attitude, and we feel prouder
of Minnesota newspaper men that they
take it."
It was said, during the fuming of the
Grosvenors over the civil service ap
propriation bill, that most of them were
but playing to the galleries. They at
tacked the law savagely to placate th»
beys there and at home, and make each
think that his meml>er was doing all
he could, while, down in his hea.it, £hs
member was franking his stars that th •
law gave him so secure a shelter from
the Importunate boys. That this
is the case was shown the other
day, when a motion was made to have I
the testimony printed that was taken j
by the committee investigating the j
working of the law. Grosvenor fought
It and called on his followers to join
him in defeating it. But on the show
down Grosvenor was defeated by a
majority of 35 in a total vote of 1.5.
The rest of the howlers took to the
weeds.
The Countess Marie de la Coneep -ion
de la Cantera y Clark de Gobel y Fer
nandez, of Spain, has been granted a
divorce in Fargo. The burden of all that
name was too much for her. and she
wanted the De Gobel y Fernandez cut
off.
A Long Island woman is petitioning
the legislature to change her name.
Why doesn't she come West where
there is such a surplus of marriagre
able young men?
Speaking of the decrease :>f New
York's export trade, there may be other
than commercial reasons why less gets
away from the Gothamite than for
merly.
Mr. Heath's notion is that political
engagements; are all right for federal'
employes, but that there must be no
marriages.
Since Czar Reed became the whole
thing the question of a working ma
jority hasn't bothered the house a lit
tle bit. | : r i
Buffalo has a Mr. Columbus who
claims to be 120 years old. He is not
the Columbus who discovered America.
When Cuba is pacified and Hawaii
shut out, Mr. Morgan will have to be
measured for a spring safety valve.
It was not from any fear of the flow
ing bowl that New York bowlers de
cided not to visit the Cream City.
There are many more men who by
digging in harder could find their
Klondike right here in St. Paul.
If Mr. Letter's corner continues to
grow, the angle will scon be represent
ed by a straight line.
With the bear and the lion both play
ing dog in the manger, China is likely
to suffer for hay.
Emperor William's idea seems to bf
that a man ruling by divine right can
never get left.
Millionaires are not so plentiful In
the Klondike that they are a frost.
The Hawaiian matter continues to be
all at sea.
Thrusts and Parries.
"That is our commission— our present char
ter from the people"— said Mr. McKinley.
The statesman recognizes the source of his
power. The chief magistrate of a great peo
ple loses none of his dignity in frankly ac
knowledging himself the servant of the peo
ple.—Fargo Forum.
Thus tho Fargo end of the major's push
for pie backs up the Washington end just
now held up stoutly and persistently by the
major In person.
President McKinley stands squarely on
every plauk of the Republican platform.—
Owatonna Journal.
Yes. He seems to have put his heel on
the Cuban plank.
Under the Cleveland administration and
the "perfidy and dishonor" tariff one of the
chief employments of the government was to
scratch around and buy gold wherever It
could, to keep the treasury reserve as nearly
complete a3 possible. Under the McKinley ad
ministration and the Dingley tariff the treas
ury is embarrassed with an overplus of gold.
—New York Tribune.
And had It not been for the gold-buying
Cleveland administration, and Its discharge
of Republican silver bullion buying, the treas
ury would be as bare today as the Tribune
Is of ordinary fairness.
The Toronto Globe, with considerable cyn
icism, but with a grain of truth, has been
commenting upon the gigantic pension swin
dle ln tho United States. What it has to
say is of Interest, because, while It is far
enough away to speak impartially. It Is yet
near enough to have a clear view of our do
mestic affairs.— Chicago Tribune.
And It has come to this pass that Repub
lican papers can speak of "the gigantic pen
sion swindle." Er"!sari,us sits by ihe way
side, deserted, his wounds exciting naught
but derision from the heartless throng that
passes by him scoffing.
Warden Wolfer's Explanation.
To The St. Paul Globe.
In your issue of Feb. 6 you do me a great
injustice by your Interpretation of my evi
dence and appearance before the state board
of control of Wisconsin, ln an investigation
of the conduct of the Wisconsin state prison,
now going on. I appeared there as a witness
at the request of the warden and the state
board of control, to testify on matters per
taining to prison discipline and management,
and I did not know of Convict Davis' impli
cation until after I got there.
I desire to say, In justice to myself, for
your Information, and for the information of
the genera! public, that I did not testify (as
my evidence will show) that this man Davis
alias Caimp caused an investigation in this
state. What I did say was that he attempted
to produce an investigation; that he con
spired with other convicts tev bring it about
and. when finally prepared, as he supposed'
wrote a eontraforand letter, purporting to
come from an official of this prison in which
the charges of mismanagement were pre
ferred; that he sent this letter surreptltously
through a lady visitor to Senator John Day
Smith, ot Minneapolis/ then a member of the
senate, during the legislative session of 1592-3
This letter was a subject of inquiry by Sec
tor Smith, _t thet time; which you can read'iv
verify, if you will call upon him. When the
inquiry was made I laid before him surrep
titious letters and notes, which I had dis
covered .myself and written by this man
Davis to other convicts, together with notes
fro-m other convicts to Davis, proving con
clusively, and to the satis_ac,:ion of Senator
bn_itn and other members of the s -nate that
it was a conspiracy oa the part of Davis to
bring about an Investigation, and that he
Davis, was the star actor, and the matter
was promptly dropped, as testified by mo be
fore the state board of cojitrol of Wis -onsi-i
The truthfulness of these statements, as a
whole, can be easily verified.
The investigation of 1831, or the recent In
vestigation, had nothing whatever to do with
this case. The Davis referred to in the
lnve^igatlen of IS9I Is not the same Davis
t'iat figured in the attempted invc-stlea'ion cf
this prison in 1893, and more ro-ently of
the Wisconsin state prison, by letters and
papers found secreted and In the poss^.s'on
of this man Davis, alias C_\mp in the Wan
pun Prison The smooth scoundrel has
s-nlrched the character and reputation of a
lady. wr.o had previously borne a goo*
character, and also implicated the chaplain
and two or three other officers of the prison '
in a way that conclusively proved him to
be one of th. most unprincipled scoundrels
extant, and. withal, an exceedingly smo-th
one. and thi_ fact was conclusively demon
strated to the satisfaction of bnth the p-oae
cut-on and defense in the Investigation of th-
Wisconsin state prison, jest closed
_■•,, . r. _ T H , rnry Golfer" Warden.
Stillwater, Feb. 7. 1898.
PRESS COMMENT.
From the Sandstone Courier (Rep.).
Under its new management The St. Paul
Globe gives promise of bscoining more I
useful and valuable as a newspaper.
From the Sauk Center Herald.
The St. Paul Globe comes to the edi
torial tables of the Herald markedly im
proved in r-ppeaa-nce. ;U hns east off the
unsightly choppy! appearance of its news
page?., and there 'is an -air of self-respecting
dignity about which will inspire confidence
ln the reliability of its., reports.
From the Menagha Messenger (Rep.).
The Be-dai eld man from New York, who
has come West to show the boys how to run
a newspaper, seems to have started in with
a determination to poke Joel Heatwcle off
the earth. When The Globe man sees
Joel's mammoth frame.j ar.d gets better ac
quainted with hlni, he will revise his phots.
ts
From the GnugvOe .Enterprise (Dem.).
The Globe is a good eld payer and with
the ether -dailies. In the Twin Cities makes
a bri-rht array ia 7 newv^aperdem.
tr- — * -
From the Oitmvil_p Jourral (Rep.).
The St. Paul Globe, under the new
managem-nt is without the customary first
page cuts, scare-heads and pithy editorial
paragraphs. The latter feature, however, is
transferred ta the editorial page of the
.aper.
From the Braincrd Journal (Dem.-P p.).
The St. Paul Globe newspaper property
has been bceght by George p. Sp'nn. y. ?n
Eastern new-paper man cf recognized abil
ity. Mr. Spinney makes the fatal mistake.
however, of continuing the bastard politics
heretofore advocated by The Globe.
There is oo such thing possible as success
fully running a Democratic newspaper on
Republican principles. It savors too much
of the peculiar principles of the man who
declared that although he was earnestly in
favor of laws to prohibit the liquor traffic,
he waa just as earnestly opposed to their
enforcement.
From the Wadena Pioneer-Journal (Rep.).
The St. Paul Globe now looks like a
metropolitan newspaper. Under Its new
management It has been greatly improved.
Frcm the Little Falls Democrat (Dem.-Pop.).
The St. Paul Globe has assumed a mere
metropolitan air, and looks like a full
fledged city daily newspaper. This feature
alone Is refreshing.
AT THE PLAYHOUSE.
The dainty operatic comedy, 'The Ceish_."
delighted another large and extremely ap
preciative audience at the Metropolitan opera !
house last night The play and e.G_up__.y j
have made a hit and their suc.o^s is merited.
A popular price matinee will be ghen
Wednesday.
Next Sunday evening the popular extrava
ganza, "Miss Philadelphia" will begin an I
engagement of four nights and Wednesday I
matinee at the Metropolitan. The company
presenting it includes Joe Cawtfiorn, Elvia
Crox-Seabrooke, Queenie Vassar, Georgia
Stewart and many other well-known artists.
The sale of eeats for thia engagemeut opens
Thursday morning.
Madame Scalehl and her compan/ will
give one grand operatic con. art at the Met
ropolitan opera house Thursday evenig, Feb.
The "Two L'.ttle Vagrants" drew a largo
house at the Grand iast evening. The play
is full of heart interest, relieved by an
urder-currcnt of comedy. While somewhat
like "The Two Orphans," It is an improve
ment on the latter in '.he abs3ii_o of its
realistic features. Miss Mildred Holland,
who plays Fan Fan, gives a most capable
performarce of the role.
Next Sunday night the Grani opera house
will have for its attraction James J. Cor
bett and hl3 company.
AT THE HOTELS.
Hotel Metropolitan — George Purvir, Crooks
ton; A. F. W. Edestln, Duluth; Mr. and Mrs.
S. P. Patterson, Philadelphia; C. Ener. Mil
waukee; George S. Cowan, Milwaukee; P.
Elckman, Glencoe; E. Sweetiand, New York;
C. Ainslin, New York; J. C. Edwards, Hel
ena; J. B. Walton, Helena;' R. C. Summers,
St. Louis; P. Newell, Sioux City; S. C.
Downing, La Crosse; Charles Stickleln, Ta
coma .
Windsor— H. XX. White, Chicago; Cornell
H. Patton, Duluth: H. Alexander and wife,
Winona: H. H. Oilman, Burlington, Io.;
George D. Armstrong, Chicago, .1. A. Watson,
Helena; C. A. Palmer, Luvcrcie, A. 11. Cope
land. Chicago; C. L. Feldka-.np, Milwaukee:
H. E. Plerpont, Chicago; Miss Gracd John
son, Red Wing.
Ryan— J. Glassberger, Ch'cago; A. C. Cogs
well, Detroit; O. Herman, Ni»v York; R. W.
Ballard. New York; W. 1\ Ball. Fargo;
George B. Morgan, New York; S. L. Griffin,
Philadelphia; Sam Thrall, advance agent
James J. Corbett: H. C. Black. Drayton; R.
Morgan. Springfield; J. Knappenheimer, Chi
cago; H. C. Hei-ler, Philedelphia; Henry A.
Castle, Washington, D. C; C. B. Holncomg,
Kansas City; L. A. Lipman, New York; C.
W. Gibson, Cincinnati: A. T. Hershaw,
Napanee; J. A. Ellis, Chicago; Howard Hel
ler, New York; F. W. Getteys, Nashville;
L. H. Coffin, Boston; Thomas Fox, Newark,
N. J.; E. A. Bigelow, Chicago; J. T. Barber,
Eau Ciaire; Mrs. Reynolds, St. Oloud; Mrs.
Mary Meyersburg, St. Louis; Miss O. Mey
ers-burg, St. Louis; Arthur W. Becker and
wife, St. Louis; M. H. Hanna. Marshalltown:
Robert Crothers, Chicago; A. Nathan and
wife. Great Falls; P. J. Egan. New York; G.
O. Welsh, Fergus Falls; H. Helzman, A. H.
Hoerer, Philedelphia; F. Pratt. Chicago; F.
Gelderheimer, New York; D. H. Bolton, New
York; W. D. La Parle, Chicago; George A.
Ccbbans, Marions; B. W. Howe, Sauk Cen
ter; K. J. Bemls, Hartford, David Anderson,
Mrs. Charles O. Gage. Boston.
Merchants'— J. Mullen, Sioux Falls; N.
Gransc, Sioux Falls; A. N. Palst, Minneapolis;
F. B. Huntington. Milwaukee; J. S. Noble,
Ellsworth; N. B. Cole, Ellsworth; O. Granach.
Grand Forks; J. C. McClure. Red Wing; P.
H. Carney, Mankato; A. F. Backus, Milwau
kee; Joe Holman, Kenyon; J. C. Knowlton.
New York; F. B. Wurzbacker. Litchfield; P.
H. Rolse, Willmar; A. B.» Grlness, Chicago;
J. R. Montague, Miles City; H. P. Stevens,
Ironwood, Mich.; F. G. Stevens, Chicago; T.
F. McClure. Litchfield: Aug. Koerner, Litch
field; O. 11. Campbell, Litchfield; S. W.
Leavitt. Litchfield; S. S. Johnson, Cloquet;
J. L. Grun, Pipestone; C. A. Conner, St. Pe
ter; H. A. Hanson, Clear Lake, S. D.; R. C.
Plnnltz, Park Rapids; W. H. Moulton. St.
Cloud; L. Rels. Chicago; P. A. Carney, Man
kato: Robert Anderson, Valley City. N. D.;
M. K. Rudd. Mankato: F. Lewis, Owatonna;
W. S. Gehagan. New York; A. L. Smith, N.
T.; M. V. Bach, Ottouwa; Samuel Pepper,
Miles City: G. E. Blackburn, Butte; George
Harvey, Missoula; L. L. Baxter, Fergus Falls;
Miss S. Johnson.
Astoria— W. E. Carlisle and wife, Chicago;
J. L. Mariner. West Superior; George W. Fur
ber. Cresco, Io. ; D. G. Howey, Kansas City,
Mo.; Charles Brown, Sioux City; O. W. Sun
ner. New York; E. R. Henton and wife, Du
luth.
Clarendon— J. 11. Smith. Detroit; R. B. Orr,
Pelican Rapids; J. B. Ruddy and wife, James
town; F. J. Crandall. Chicago; John Llebe,
West Superior; H. A. Peterson. Duluth; A.
D. Galusha, Decorah; K. Cleopliss, North-
WCOd.
LIMIT TO THE NUMBER.
Impossible for More Than 1M),000
to Kencli Alaska This Season.
B. R. Kennedy, of Victoria. B. C, was in
the city yesterday, and talked of tho affairs
on the Pacific coast, and the exodus of peo
ple for Alaska.
"I have figured It out," said Mr. Kennedy,
"and, from the figures which I have arrived
at, it will be absolutely impossible for over
80,000 or 90,000 people to get into Alaska dur
ing the first part of the season. Yet. from
what I have read in the papers, I should judge
that nearly ",0,000 people have already start
ed. There are about twenty boats plying
between Alaska and this country, and thirty
eight are being built on the Pacific coast to
take care of the rush. That would make
fifty-eight boats.
"It will be difficult to pick up any more
'tramp' boats, as the twenty first named in
cludes a number of this class of boats, char
tered at Seattle and San Francisco."
"To i provide for any which m'.ght be built
later !we will add .ten. that would make
sixty-eight beats. These beats have a eapac-
i ty of an average.*f 150 people apiece.
"If they were al? started off the same day
they would take 10,200. The trip can be ac
complished in ten days, if a pocd run is
made, that is only to Dyea. If all conditions
were favorable with sixty- eight boats they
would be able to take oDly SO 000 in a month.
Fe.r three months it would be 90.8C0. All
these people would have to go In over the
pass, and I don't believe that is possible. In
_ummer when the boats go by the way of
St. Michaels, it would take much longer.
Very few people can by taken up the Yu
kon, because of the scarcity of boats. The
large ocean steamers can not go up the
river.
"The estimate which has been made that
20*"', 000 will go to Alaska this spring is im
possible for the want of water transporta
tion."
!".Tr:rter?u at C'onover Hall.
Henri Marteau, the great violinist, will
appear at Couover hall Monday evening. Feb.
11, under tbe management of the Schubert
club. It is three years since Marteau ap
peared in the same hall, and at that '.ima he
was scarcely out of his teens, yet he so
charmed his findienco that, yielding to the
popular demand, lie reappeared in a second
concert the sa^ne season. Three years have
sdded strength and repose to the playing of
Marteau, and made him a still greater ar
tist.
He will be BSRisr°d by Emil Ober-Hofier,
who wil! play the Chopin numbers.
Seljool Population Ini'i-enseH.
V. Lewis, assistant superintendent of the
state public school at Owatonna, was in the
city yesterday. lie reports that the popula
tion of the school has greatly increased dur
ing the ?ast year.
They have at present seventy more chil
dren than were enrolled for a corresponding
time !?.st year.
Rauav,!!)- In Collision.
A horse belonging to Jehu Mavtson, a baker
at 95 South Wabasha street, ran away on
West Third street at 9 o'clock last evening.
£"d collided with a bugsy owned by John
Horejs, of lISS West. Seventh street.
Horejs' carriage was somewhat damaged,
but no one was injured, as boch vehicles were
unoccupied.
You Will Net Hnvf I uv.-v to Wait.
From the New York Sun.
Our valued ron temporary, the Mtnneiro'l?
Tribune, which attributes "Don Quxote" to
Scot., continues Its original and fascinating
literary researches. It has dscovered "Le- j
tit! . BMlT.abeth Lend n," ".May Ru sell Mcl- ,
ford," "William an. .Vary Howe!!." "Mac- !
euley" and "The Mom Mrs. Newton." We ■
await with i-le-_san' ar.tii t- atior.j the dis- i
covery of CI: It Wendell Sherlock, Mary J. !
Holmes and Robert Byrnes.
HEAR THE ALASKA SIREN
GREAT NORTHERN MEN ANSWER
THE BEWITCHING CALL
Twelve of Them Willing to Take
Chances That In This Case the
Fascination Has Behind It the
Reality to Whleh Their Labor
Aspires Others Join.
An even dozen St. Paul men, most of
whom have spent the last ten years
in the service of the Great Northern
r. ad, left here yesterday over the line
of that company for the Klondike.
They have been planning for the
journey for the past few months, and
are going in search of gold.
There are but two members of the
party who are not practical workmen,
and; those two have been chosen presi
dent and secretary, respectively, of thy.
little band. The two men are James
A. Scott and Harry T. Smith, conduc
tors, one running out of St. Paul and
the other on the Fergus division of
the road.
The party will sail from Seattle for
Valdes on the Excelsior Feb. 20, and
will make for the headwaters of the
Copper and Tenana rivers.
H. T. Smart, who has been the bridge
foreman on the Fergus division of the
road, will have practical charge of the
work done by the party, and will have
as aides Louis Lace, John Ritter, Jake
Canteen and John Shaule. practical
carpenters and machinists.
In addition there will be George
Stubbs, from Melrose; C. A. McCabe,
who has been in the mail service of
the road, and S. H. Simolson, a sail
maker, shoemaker, etc., from Rothsay.
Paul Lancaster will go with the par
ty as mining expert, assayer, etc., hav
ing had considerable experience ln
California.
Some of the members leave behind
wives and families, and all are on
leave of absence. They will provision
at Seattle.
WILL. START FROM ST. PAIL.
Zenith City Party Will Prospect for
Gold on Stewart River.
Special to The St. Paul Globe.
DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 7.— A. H. Moore, C.
V. Greer and 11. J. Jeronlmus left here' to
night bound for the Alaskan gold fields. Their
departure causes quite a little comment ow
ing to the fact that they are determined to
stay away from the Yukon river country and
will make the Stewart river their objective
point. They will go by way of St. Paul and
from there to Vancouver. At this point they
will take the boat for Fort Wrangle and will
reach that point on Feb. 20. It is their Inten
tion to push on at once to Teslin lake over
tho Stickeen route. At tho lake It Is the In
tention to build a largo boat and by tho time
thia Is finished It Is thought that tho Ice will
bo out of the lake and the start for Stewart
river will begin at once.
Another party bound for Alaska is composed
of J. A. Cameron, of Houghton, Mich, and
Arthur Coachc, Asa Hammond. John Mcin
tosh and J. G. Real, of Baraga, Mich. This
party missed connection today, but leave to
morrow and will go from thero to Vancouver
following the route of the local party. They
have with them seven dogs to bo used ln
packing. They also propose to go up the
Stewart river on a prospecting expedition.
Some of the party aro experienced miners
and all are well equipped fur the undertak
ing.
GOING TO COPPER RIVER.
St. Cloud's Gold Seekers Make a
Start for Their Eldorado.
Special to The St. Paul Globe.
ST. CLOUD. Minn., Feb. 7.— St. Cloud's
Alaska gold prospecting party left tonight
over the Great Northern and will go direct
to Tacoma, where it will complete its outfit
and on Feb. 19 sail from Seattle for Valdes
Inlet. John Sco'.t is the rp?sldent and Harry
Smith the secretary of the company. Both
aro well known Great Northern Passenger
conductors. Tho other members of the party
are: Harry G. Smith, John Hitter, John XV.
Dejahaye, St. Cloud; John Shaule, George
Stubbs, Melrose; Christ McCabe, St. Paul, of
the railway mail service; A. Lancaster, Chi
cago; C. S. Simeleon, Rothsay; Jacob Cantin
and Lewis Lace, Minneapolis. The company
has been organized for several months. All
aro shareholders and the proceeds of the
expedition are to be equally divided. After
landing at Valdos Inlet In Aiaaka the party
will at once start for the Copper river and
first explore the Chlttyna, which flows into
the Copper river from the south. The stream
is 114 miles long and will be thoroughly pros
pected by the party. In case they are not
successful there they will prospect other
tributaries of the Copper river, of which
there are a great many. The party Is well
equipped and will take along supplies for
eighteen months.
BEGGARS FROM KLONDIKE.
Different Story Thau the I Mini Told
by a St. Cloud Man.
Special to The St. Paul Globe.
ST. CLOUD, Minn., Feb. 7.— 11. A. Wheeler
has returned from Seattle and Tacoma,
where he has been on business for the past
two months. His accounts of what he saw
of tho returning gold seeker:; from Ala.slsa
arc not very' encouraging, "i witnessed the
return of the City of Seattle at Seattle, with
190 men from the Klondike," he said.
"There was $40,000 ln gold in the party as
near as I could learn. Some of the men had
fairly good stakes, but the majority were
beggars. They had neither money nor
clothes, nor anything to (at. I waa talking
with a man who brought ba*k $10,C00, and hs
said to me that if he was absolutely certain
that he could go back and get three times
a- much ho would not go into the <«ountr/
again. The people who wore ther? had n )th
ing and those who were going in refused to
sell. He tcld me that he had nothing tj put
or. his feet and he offered a party he met
$100 for a pair of boot packs but he refused
to sell, and he had to bind up his ff-ct in
pieces of an old blanket.
CONDITION OF COPPER RIVER.
Is Not Navigable for Craft of the
Lightest Draft.
A letter was yesterday received by a rail
road official in Minneapolis from an agent on
the coast, as follows:
Authentic information just obtained proves
Copper river utterly Impassable. A short
distance from the sea the river divides Into
three or more mouths, all of which are be
set by fiats and sand bars, and the water is
extremely shallow and swift. Further up
the main river arc numerous whirlpools and
eddies.
After the gla.-ial belt the river passes
through a succession of deep canyons, result
ing in impassable rapids. The river Is not
navigable for craft of lightest draft; even
Indian canoes in most experienced hands
"NO CUBA, NO HAWAII"
FRIENDS OI- 1 INSURGENTS TO BEGIN
WAR ON ANNEXATION
Sensational Move Expected I":-!>jji
Senator ."rlattoi. Today (luinietl
That Reed tv Inclined *«> Rescind
IJI-; Premise lo Allotv the Immi
gration i»iii to Come Up.
Washington Bureau St. Paul Globe, '
Corcoran Building. )
Special to Th? St. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7— lf the plans
projected tonight are carried out. the
sonato will send another Cuban resolu
tion to the house, in favor of action by
congress on a crisis that i- fast ap
proaching.
A Northwestern senator said tonight,
speaking of matters in the senate, that
if thore was no action relative to Cuba
tht re would be no agreement to name
a date on which to vote on the Hawaii
an annexation treaty.
The frionds of Cuban independence
aro beginning to be restivo. and .he cry
at both ends of the capitol is "No Cuba,
no Hawaii." Senator Mason, of mi
ni-is, will mako some rather sensational
statements tomorrow if he can get a
hearing in the senate.
There Is more than probable prospect
that the immigration bill- will not be
considered in the house until the short
soFsion next December. Speaker Heed
has promised the New England men
can only be used In certain places.
Valdes bay, to the north of Copper river
has a glacier at head ot navigation, which v
impassable except on foot. The Interior ol
this district Is unexplored, but, from the na
ture of the surrounding country, is deemed
almost impassable.
EVEN ALDERME.V GO.
Huron Offlcal Starts With His Son
for Alaska.
Special to The St. Paul Globe.
HURON, S. D., Feb. 7.-Ald. Charles Sea
holm aud son will start tomorrow tor the gold
fields in Alaska, taking with them provisions
and all necessaries to last them eighteen
months. Mr. Seahclni Is familiar with min-j
Ing and well posted on what is needed in that
region, having spent two years in the North
west territory. He takes money enough with
aim to make Investments for other par
nere ln the event that he can get ln on
ground floor." A number of others will lea
here for the Klondike within the next few
weeks. Mr. Seaholm's departure creates al
vacancy in the city council, he being one of (
the aldermen from the Second ward,
vacancy, however, will not be filled before 1
the April election.
KLONDIKE INVASION.
Five Thousand Japanese Laborers
for the New (;old Fields.
SAN FANCISCO, Feb. 7.— The Call says:
Japan is going to invade tho Klondike. A.
standing army of 5,000 able-bodied laborers 1
are being got together for the gold fields,
and In a month or so they will make a
scent on Dawson City. One of the Ni;.
iuren Kaisha steamers will bring them hero.
but, as they will not land on the soil of tho
I nited States, there will bo no one to say
nay unless Great Britain takes a hand ia
the matter.
One of the Japanese steamers that, has been .
I carrying laborers will bo used to carry •
to their destination. It Is added that the ..
Japanese will be brought over by a syndicate,
and trouble In the Klondike is predi ted. '
THEIR OUTFITS BURNED.
German Mechanics From n>v» . o>rk
Are Still Stalled in Chicago.
Tho coutingent of German mechanics from
New York did not materialize, having met
with an accident on the Wabash road, between ■
Now York and Chicago, by which the car In
which their outfita and provisions were
stored, was nearly destroyed by fire
A message was received from the leader of
tho party at the Great Northern offices yes
terday saying that negotiations wero going"
on between the party and the road's officials
and that the party expected to leave for tha
\\ est some time today.
OMAHA HOYS IN LINE.
Leave the lioad to Try the Copper
River Country.
[ The Soo train yesterday mornlug took to
tho West a party of Omaha employes, under
' the lead of XV. J. Miller. Many of tho party
; live- hero in St. Paul, and are bound for
: the Copper river country via the _ki_lu-n
; river route. Mr. Miller, who has served hla
apprenticeship in Alaska, had in the parry
hlmer Morris. A. J. Langis, Michael Flatter*''
. ty. It. M. Crosby. W. w. Clark. F. M. Jack
son J. A. Ltilldahl, R. A. McDonald, [•"rank
; I.afordo, Thomas Killeen, of St. Paul; and
vV, V Hrown - o* Spooner, Wis., and Frederick
Nicholas, oi Itasca.
Winona .Men en Route.
1 Special to Tho St. Paul Globe.
j WINONA, Minn., Feb. 7.— Mr. Benjamin
( ranglo left yesterday evening for tho Klon
dike. Ho will make the trip out to Fort Ed
monton ln company with Mr. Holt, the presi
dent of the Chicago party of sixteen to
which Mr. Crangle belongs. Theso two go
In advance of the rest of the party to pur
chase the necessary supplies at. Edmonton
There thoy will be joined i )y the others at
tho end of March, when they will set out
for tho Pelley river, and go down that
stream to Fort Selkirk, which they expect will
be their headquarters for the next two yearn
Edward Roessner also left Winona yester
day for the Klondike.
Military Hule 1 rued.
WASHINGTON. Feb. .'-Senator Wilson
(Wa.<n.) was at tha war departn.cn* teoay
urging that action be .aken tiy the military
arm of tho government i, preserve crder at
Dyea and Skaguay. and t.pe.:iaUy at the 'ut
ter place, where fears aro . utortalnod that
trouble will ens ie • lf.i t: :e arrival ..r mere
gold seekers.
Great Northern Carries Tbem.
The Great Northern has been selected as
the route from St. Paul to the coast over
which the consignment of reindeer which
the government Is sending to Alaska la to
be shipped.
The reindeer an- expected to reach this
system in about two weeks.
Trulls Will He Blocked.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 7.— Gen. Grore. A
Brackett, builder ard principal owner <r tho
Sk-tgoay wagon read, says the trails i.adine
lrom Lynn canal over the mountain rang'
rn-h'T* h 1 " v", ''" able to accommodate tho
rush to the i ukon.
lowa Klondlkers.
DUBUQUE, 10.. Feb. 7.— The Lee part ol
ten men left tonight for Klondike. This is
the fourth party m leave here for il.. l-ciu
fields, r -
ALONG THE LINE.
Lars Larson and Ole Olson, two sturdy
Swedes hailing from Chicago, left on tha
Soo train during the morning from tho Coo
per river country. They came In over the
Milwaukee and were well equipped with ad
ditional i-lothing. firearms, etc., and will buy
their l'ood at Seattle.
The Badminton Magazine, an English pub
lication, for November, contains an article oo
The Stlckeen River _ a Route to the Klon
dike." The article was written in .$95 __\
1 predicts the great rush to the gold fields
which h:'.s now set in.
The Copper Kiver Transportation and Min
ing company lias announced sailings of it.s
steamship Towneend to Valdes pass, and
Orca. near the mouth of the Cooper river
every twenty days, commencing April 1.
Louis Lece. JaoCb Canton, of Minneapolis,
John Scott, of St. Paul, and nine others from
the Twin Cities, constituted a party which
left on a west-boupnd train for Seattle last
night. Tho patty is well equipped to with
stand the rigor;; of Alaska weather and it la
tbe intention to explore the Copper river re
gion.
Henry Keefe and P. P. Keefe, sturdy farm
lads from CaledQpia, Minn., passed through
St.. Paul yesterday. They were among tho
gold-seekers and hone to locate good claims
in the Klondike. At Seattle they expect te
outfit and make their arrangements for X"ing
into the interior.
Buffalo, N. V.. contributed two seekers aft'T
wealth among those who passed trough St.
Paul on a coast-bound train ye Chey
were Albert Smith and Charles Wfil
Tbey expect te obtain their outfit al
torla, where they will meet a third
ber of the party. This third man bas
returned from Klondike, where he has stak**.
out a claim.
that timo should bo given for consider
ation of tho bill as soon as the appro
priation bills were out of thi way, but
this afternoon he went to a Massachu
setts member and said that th> pi
sure against the consideration was be
coming very strong and that ir might
be well to let the matter go v- r. This
is not R I's style of doing business,
but when such men as Representative
Babcock, of Wisconsin, become alarmed
at tho situation, and when other West
ern members say thai if the Lodge bill
Is allowed to pass it will mean ih<- loss
of fifteen Republican mom hers, it be
comos a serious party question in Mr.
Ri cd's '-stimatlon.
It is. therefore, quite likely that th*
Republican leaders will side-track tho
bill until aftoi- th> congressional elec
tions.
National Committeeman Kittridge, of
South Dakota, Is expected h re tomor
row to tako a hand against the confir
mation of C. T. McCoy for Indian agent
at Cheyenne.
Ex-State Representative John M. Un
derwood, of Minneapolis, has returi
from New York. He will appear before
the senate committee on public lands
Wednesday on iho Alaska right-of-way
bill, in which his company is inter
ested. Senator Wilson, of Washington,
says that action should be taken soon] '
and that unless some transportation
facilities are soon provided, crime and
robbery wili be rampant in Alaska.
Tarns Bixby Is still in Washington.
and it is intimated tonight that ho is
not altogether out of the gubernatorial
race In Minnesota.