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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
FRIDAY. MAY 27, 1398.
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FRIDAY'S WEATHES.
Partly Cloudy; Northerly Winds.
By United States wv.uhcr Bureau.
MINNESOTA— Par ly c oudy weatJier; thov.e.s
In southeast portion; northerly winds.
NORTH DAKOTA— Fair; norifceiiy wi: ds.
.sol *i*ii DAKOTA— Partly cl udy -weather,
showers In southeast portion; northerly
"WISCONSIN— PartIy cloudy w.-alher anl
l wen; light southerly winds, thiit- I
northerly.
lOWA— Partly cloudy weatter and showers; |
le winds, becoming northerly.
MONTANA -Fair weather; northeaster^
winds, shifting to southeasterly.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
The Northwest
6t. Paul 7-IBattleford 58
Duluth 16 Prince Albe:t 62
Huron 66.C_lgary tit
Bismarck 7 Medicine Hat 68
Williston 64 Swift Current 58
Havre C) JuAppelle 5.
Helena 64 Minr.edosa ;"4
Edmonton 6 ; Winnipeg tO
Buffalo 62-6S;ctnclnnati 7*-74
Boston 4-s'lN'ew Orleans .. ..!-6-92
Cheyenne 5)-6l New York s_-56
Chicago 58-6)|l 'ittsburg 70-74 |
YESTERDAY'S MEANS.
2D. 75
Mean temperature 71
Relative humidity 76
Wind at 8 p. m South
Weather Partly cloudy
Maxteum temperature 84
Minimum temperature 58
Daily range 26
Amount oi precipitation (rain and melted
snow) in last twenty-four hours 05
RIVER AT S A. M.
Danger Gauge Change In
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours.
St. Paul 11 4.7 *0.1
La Crosse 10 4.1 0.0
II port 15 3.5 — 0.1
St. Louts 30 25.0 0.0
•)luc. —Fall.
The river will remain stationary or rise
slightly from St. Paul to Reed's Landing from
now to Saturday morning.
Note— Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. —P. F. Lyons. Observer.
ATLANTIC LINERS.
NEW YORK— Sailed: Auranla. Liverpool;
Si uthwark, Antwerp. Arrived: Patria, Ham- |
burg. I
STERD AM— Arrived: Edam, New York.
MARSEILLES— Arrived. Alesla, New York.
ROTTERDAM— SaiIed: Maardam, New York.
PHIL V I >ELPHIA— Sailed: Netherlaud, Ant-,
v ■ rp.
BREMEN— Arrived: Lahn, New York, via
s luthampton.
HAMBURG— Arrived: Pennsylvania, N.w
_oi k..
GENOA— Sailed: Fu'da. New York.
QUEENSTOWN— SaiIed: Lrit:nnic, New York;
it; \ Dl md, Philadelphia.
LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Bclgecland. Philadel
phia; Majestic, New York.
LONDON— Arrived: Manitoba. New- York.
.-'ail, ii- Massachusetts, New York.
NAPLES— SaiIed: Victoria, New York.
TODAY'S EVENTS.
Memorial exercises, cltv schools.
Concert, Fort Snelling Glee club, post hall,
v PM.
Junior-senior reception, Cleveland high school,
Payne avenue and Wells street, 8 PM.
Entertainment Atlantic Congregational
chur.h, 8 PM.
Entertainment, Central Presbyterian church I
i I'M
Entertainment. O. E. S., ICIS St. Anthony !
avenue. S PM.
.Entertainment, Minnewaska tribe. Red Men's
hall. 411 Robert street, 8 PM.
The Globe's Motto: Live News,
Latest News, Reliable News— No Fake
War News.
• The Only Newspaper in the North
west That Prints the Full Associated
Press News Report.
Does France want peace or a piece?
War Bulletin— And the cork is in the
bottle.
The Oregon traveled 13,000 miles, but
didn't break a pedal.
Santiago de Cuba looks like a good
place for a first-class seaport funeral.
Will the Pioneer Press resume getting
out first editions after the war is over?
Sampson and Schley can have their
hot biid after they open the cold bot
tle.
How far is Santiago de Cuba from
• , the Spanish fleet's next stopping
place?
The Pingree potato and the red flag
have gone to rest together until more
peaceful times.
The Ft Paul team should remember
that it 's never too late to learn some
game it can play.'
The r-T.ning up of Admiral Cervera
in Santiago de Cuba is something of a
"boxing'; match, isn't it, Mr. Corbett?
The thermometer seems to itave
awakened to the fact that it must reg
ister high up in order to vote this sum
mer.
An Unlearned Lesson of "6i.
President McKlnley is not utilizing
the wisdom he must have gained be
fore he became Maj. McKinley. If he
will recall those early days of 1861 when
men were answering the call of
"Father Abraham" for "300.000 more,"
he will remember how anxiously every
one turned for leaders who had some
military experience. There had been
carping criticism of West Point and
Annapolis in the preceding years of
peace, and atrabilious persons affec!:ed
to see the germ of a later Praetorian
euard in their graduates; but when the
war signal came criticism was hushed
und the patriotic volunteers felt the
wisdom of a policy that had provided
men trained in the art of war. The
.emand was for men who knew to
teach and lead the men who were Will
ing but did not know. Among the vol
unteer companies that everywhere
formed there was anxiety to get men
who knew something of military life
and work. Veterans of the Mexican
war, however little regarded as citi
zens, became important then. One such
company, we know, felt a greater sense
of security when it secured the serv
ices of a fifer who had fifed for a troop
in Mexico.
But the politician then had the pull.
We all know how Grant hung about
the governor's office in Illinois, doing
a clerk's work, while colonels' commis
sions were given to men who could not
maneuver a company change of front.
No estimate can be made of the lives
that were thrown away and the treas
ure squandered by these incompetents
given commands because they had held
command in political organizations.
There was then the excuse that the
supply of West Point men was not
equal to the demand for them, but,
whatever of substance it had then, it
has none now. Every responsible posi
tion can now be filled with a man
trained to its duties. Field and staff
can be composed of men who do not
have to learn. The quartermaster and
commissary branches of the service,
not second in importance to any, es
pecially require men, not only who
know, but who possess that sense of
honor, that strict integrity, that ver
acity, that are part of the training in
our military and naval schools.
With an ample supply of these skill
ed men to draw upon it is dishearten
ing to see them ignored while senators
•and representatives successfully de
mand commissions for men skilled only
in political craft; while incompetents
are put into responsible place because
they are sons of fathers who were
eminent, and while political fences are
being strengthened, and the game of
war made, to play second to the game
of politics. Lives will again be sac
rificed and treasure squandered, proba
bly again stolen, as they were in "61-5,
and the lessons then so dearly taught
are still unlearned. If it be true, as
claimed by his apologists, that the pres
ident knows what should be done, but,
as one of them says, "Is powerless be
fore overwhelming congressional pres
sure," then it but confirms the judg
ment that he is an invertebrate, wholly
unfit for the duties laid upon him. It
makes even a Cleveland hater sigh for
an hour of the stout vertebrae of the
ex-president in the presidential chair.
Another Connecticut Hero.
The ingenuity of the Connecticut
Yankee passed into a proverb the morn
ing after the world discovered that he
had whittled a perfect nutmeg out of
soft pine, and, palming it off upon the
rest of mankind at the prevailing mar
ket rate, had pocketed a handsome
profit. The history of commerce was
enriched by the incident, just as Amer
ican naval annals are now illumined by
another exhibition of his ingenuity.
The old monitor Wyandctte had long
been rusting her life away in Naw
Haven harbor. Everybody supposed
she was peacefully resting, so quietly
did she lie off the Tomlinson bridge,
two great chains fore and two others
aft, leading off into the water in the di
rection of the sand bar. Nobody was
prepared to believe that the great iron
hulk had actually grown to the bottom
until a navy lieutenant appeared on
the scene a fortnight ago with orders to
heave up her anchors and have her
towed to a Boston shipyard. The
winches were put in motion, and then
began a tug o' war. Not one of the
four anchors would budge. They were
buried fathoms deep in the mud. The
old Wyandotte could not move an mcl?
in any directiion.
An ordinary, every-day Yankee, in
the employ of the Consolidated road,
sympathetically volunteered his serv
ices, and the tired and mad lieutenant
let him have the job. Towing the com
pany's piledriver to the sand bar, he
started the steam derricks. Did he
weigh the anchors? Not he, for he was
a stranger to naval tactics. But what
he did do was to just yank them out
of the mud after four hours' hard
work. Then he saluted the officer and
modestly went ashore. Like that other
American hero, he could proudly ex
claim: "I seen my duty and done it."
The incident will travel down through
the avenues of time.
An American monitor, bottled up for
all time, has, by a Yankee's Ingenuity,
been restored to freedom at a critical
moment in our nation's affairs. Hence
forth let the piledriver with its steam
derricks figure as part of every squad
ron's outfit. Let them be manned by
Connecticut Yankees, and, as fast as
the members of the naval strategy
board fall exhausted from their labors,
let Connecticut Yankees — preferably of
the New Haven variety — be appointed
to fill their places.
All honor to the land of nutmegs
and naval heroes!
Taxing the Provident.
The principle underlying the Dema
cratic amendments to the revenue bill
Is sound, the pay-as-you-go principle;
as much cannot be said for the meth
ods adopted for the application of that
principle. There is a resort not only to
the vicious method of indirect taxation,
making intermediaries collectors from
consumers without responsibility for
the amount col'.ected or supervision of
the methods, tut to inequalities of
Indirection that are un-Demo
cratic. We have adverted to
that phase which deals with corpo
rations, the indiscriminate appli
cation of which creates hardship and
inequality of burden bearing. There
are corporations that can pass the bur
den on to others, and there are other
corporations that cannot. There are
commercial corporations competing
with individual firms, merchants,
manufacturers and others, and the tax
on the gioss receipts of the business of
those who have incorporated is a bur
den from which those similarly engag
ed but unincorporated are exempt.
Another feature of the tax that seems
to be obnoxious to sound principles of
taxation is that which levies a tax on
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE-— FRIDAY— MAY 27, 1898.
the gross income of mutual life insur
ance companies, and an additional
stamp tax of 10 cents upon every
$100 of new insurance taken. The tax
on gross receipts is a tax upon the en
tire amount received from premiums.
As a mutual company Is not a profit
making organization; as it gets from
lis members only enough to pay losses
and < xpens s and accumulate a res rva
fund, it follows that the amount of the
tax must b_ added to the premiums,
and in the last analysis the tax re
solves itsplf into one upon each indi
vidual insurer. It becomes a capita
tion tax upon a class, and one whose
provident d'sposition should be encour
aged instead of discouraged. We
know of no principle of taxation that
warrants the laying of a tax upon
savings invested so as to provide
I against these dependent upon the in-
I vestor becoming a public charge.
While the objection applies to taxation
of the gross income of all insurance
companies, it applies with especial
force to those conducted upon the mu
tual plan.
The Commerce of ths "Soo."
The magnitude of the tonnage pass
ing through the "Soo" canal, into and
out of Lake Superior, can bast be com
prehended by a careful study of the
recently published government report.
The navigation season of 1897 compris
ed 2-10 days, and during th.lt period The
amount of freight passing through this
gateway between Lake Superior and
tho lower lakes aggregated 18,954,000
tons. A comparison reveals the fact,
also, that these figures represent an in
crease of about 11 per cent over the
previous year. The value of this freight
was in round numbers $218,000,000, be
ing an increase of $58, 000,000, or about
25 per cent, over that of the freight
carried in 1896. Approximately one
half of this value was compose;! of the
commodities grain and flour. About 5
per cent each represented coal and lum
ber respectively, while the remaining
40 per cejnt consisted of iron, iron ore,
copper and general merchandise.
In 1897 the average charge for freight
on this route was .83 of a mill per ton
i per mile, while in 1896 the rate was
.99 of a mill per ton per mile. The
carrying charge for wheat last season
averaged 1% cents per bushel per 1,000
miles, and the rate on coal for a like
distance was 20 cents per ton. Iron ore
was transported to Lake Erie ports
from the docks at Duluth at 55 cents
per gross ton. The aggregate receipts
from freight carried by all vessels
passing through the locks of the canal
amounted to a sum slightly in excess
of $13,000,000; and the average distance
over which the cargoes were transport
ed was 841 miles. m
Although the traffic on the lakes has
grown enormously since the completion
of the canal, the tendency is constant
ly in the direction of enlarged facilities
with which to meet the greater expec
tations of the future. The largest ves
sels on the lakes in 1896 were of 5,000
tons capacity. In 1897 there were eight
new boats added to the service through
the canal which averaged over 6,000
tons capacity. The present season will
witness the introduction of two and
possibly three steamers of 7,000 tons.
And It Is a notable fact that, with the
increased capitalization in the building
and operating of these vessels and the
enlargement of the volume of the traf
fic, rates of transportation are being
annually reduced, and at the same time
the business of the carriers appears to
be conducted at a profit. This exhibit
affords a wonderful and an interesting
illustration of commercial enterprise,
and its value in the development of
the Northwest is incalculable.
IS THE DON AT HAND?
Conflicting Stories of Strange "Ves
sels Come From Halifax.
NEW YORK, May 26.— Again there
comes a story from Halifax that a fleet
of warships is in the neighborhood
of that harbor, with the additional in
formation that the vessels are Spanish
or French.
The story was promptly followed by
another denying that any sort of war
ship had been seen, and adding that
no order had been issued for the es
pecial guarding of the harbor.
Investigation at Halifax leaves no
doubt that a number of strange men
of-war have been seen off the coast of
Cape Breton.
The report of the sighting of a fleet of
strange vessels was sent out from there
several days ago, and it was at first
discredited here, but subsequent care
ful inquiries develop the fact that they
were seen, and that they must have
been warships. However, no informal
tion can be obtained as to their na
tionality, their exact number or their
purpose.
MERRITT ARRIVES.
General Who Will Command Readi
es San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.— Maj.
Gen. Merritt, recently appointed gov
ernor general of the Philippines, ar
rived in this city tonight. All future
movements of the Manila expeditions
will be subject to his orders. He will
act only under instructions from "Wash
ington. Gen. Otis will accompany the
second expedition, which is expected
to sail within three weeks. The work
of equipping the troops will now be ln
charge of Col. James W. Pope, chief
quartermaster of Gen. Merritt's staff,
who also arrived this evening.
WOULD PROFIT BY THE "WAR.
In the Revised Freight Tariffs the
Rate on Cartridges Is Advanced.
Wis., May 26.—
Transcontinental roads, party to the
deliberations of the transcontinental
freight bureau, which has just com
pleted an annual session here, expect
to benefit materially at the expense of
Uncle Sam. In nothing did the bureau
advance rates so greatly as on cart
ridges.
The tariffs have not yet been Issued,
but it is known that the rates on cart
ridge shells have been advanced from
$1.00 to $2.25 per hundred, and on load
| ed cartridges, shells and wads from
$1.00 to $1.50.
CHURCH ASSEMBLAGES.
WINONA LAKE. Ind., May 26.—To
day the general assembly laid aside
the McGiffert case, which was of In
tense interest to the whole church, in
order to celebrate the 250 th anniver
| sary of the adoption of the West
minster confession of faith and cate
chism.
A Pleased Clobe Reader.
To The St. Faul Globe:
For about a week I have been reading your
paper, and I am delighted with it. The edi
torials are fine and I enjoy them very much.
Some of them are "eye-openers" to a great
many. Two in Sunday's issue seemed to me
especially so — "For What End Reserved'"
and "From Laundry to Parlor."
Keep right on in those lines and I hop*
your readers will encircle the "Globe."
— M.
Winona, May 24, 189.,
STORIES FROM OUT OF TOWN
ITEMS OF INT£K£ST GLEANED
FEOM YESTEBjDAYS VISITORS
James A. HnrrlH, of Owatonnn, on
the Butter Inl'ereM. Senator A.
ti. .Joli ii mo ii Has a Good MesHnge
for Melhy People— -Senator Smith
Says There Ih a Good Demand for
Serviceable Horses.
James A. Harris, of Owatonna, was a
guest ait the Merchants' yesterday. Mr.
Harris is to take charge of Minnesota's
prize winning dairy exhibit at the
Omaha exposition in June. He will
take up his headquarters at the office
of the Minnesota Butter & Cheese com
pany next week, when the work of get
ting together tiie exhibit will begin
in earnest.
Vice President R. A. Kirk and Secre
tary E. L. Danforth spent a good part
of the day assisting Mr. Harris in some
of the preliminary work. A contract
was closed with the Bohn Manufactur
ing company for a huge refrigerator,
which will preserve the tone and body
of the exhibit during the warm days
of summer.
The refrigerator will be one of the
largest ever constructed in the North
■west, and will be completed in about
three weeks. «
A contract will be made ln a few
days with one of the railroad com
panies for hauling the Minnesota ex
hibit to Omaha. The contract will in
clude the entire exhibit made by this
state, both of dairy and other indus
tries.
Mr. Harris said yesterday that the
liberal inducements offered by the
Minnesota commission bad stimulated
a competitive feeling among the cream
ery men, and from the present out
look there should be 125 entries from
this state. The commission pays the
freight, and also offers prizes in addi
tion to those hung up by the exposi
tion managers.
The butter would be renewed once a
month, Mr. Harris said. The amount
netted from the sale of the butter, after
it had been on exhibition for thirty
days, would revert back to the exhib
itor, and more sent on to take its place.
Senator A. G. Johnson, of Alexandria,
returned home yesterday. While here
Mr. Johnson held a conference with
President J. J. Hill, of the Great North
ern, with reference to side track facili
ties at Mcl by', Minn. Owing to the fact
that little revenue had been derived
from the business at that point, the
railroad company -did not maintain an
agent there. Several disastrous wrecks
have occurred during ' the last two
years, and the Great Northern company
notified the Melbyites that their track
was to be taken up. Mr. Johnson was
backed up in his protest by several
citizens of Melby, so President Hill
compromised the matter by ordering
the track removed to a point half a
mile distant fYo.m the cut where
the wrecks have occurred. This was
entirely satisfactory to the visitors and
they left town happy.
J. W. Taylor, of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
was a guest at the Commercial
club yesterday. Mr. Taylor was for
merly identified with the New England
Furniture and Carpet company of this
city. He said: "Yes, the furniture busi
ness all over the United States i 3
booming. Hardly a factory of any con
sequence is able to keep up with the
orders. The foreign demand for our
furniture is increasing yearly, but it is
not nearly what it ought to be as com
pared with other lines of business. Last
year a Grand Rapids firm shipped a
large consignment of high grade fur
niture to South Africa, This is quite
remarkable when the competition of
the English factories is considered.
Business is fine all over the North
west."
O. K. Courtlandt, of New York, a re
tired banker, .passed through the city
yesterday on his way to California.
He said: "There is a*marked difference
in the effect of the war upon the busi
ness interests of the East and those
of the West. In the East, although
business is good, there is a feeling of
uncertainty which leads people to be
cautious in buying. Everybody is wait
ing for the war to end before making
any very extensive outlay or pur
chases. Here in the West it is differ
ent. I was told in Chicago that busi
ness never had been better and that
all lines of commerce locally were stim
ulated by the war.
Col. Alvaren Allen, of the Merchants'
hotel, was able to be out yesterday for
the first time since his return from
West Baden Springs, Ind. The colonel
had a lively time of it shaking hands
with his friends. He expects to be able
to attend the old settlers' meeting
Wednesday.
A. G. Gallasch, former cashier of the
Northern Exchange bank, returned yes
terday from St. Louis, where he has
been spending a couple of months. Mr.
Gallasch says there is great excitement
in the South over the war.
J. S. Anderson, of Minnesota, was at
the Merchants' yesterday. Mr. Ander
son is in the general store business and
reports the crops growing magnificent
ly. A great deal of attention is being
paid to wheat this year, he says.
Senator J. H. Smith, of Detroit, was
in the city yesterday. Mr. Smith says
the Detroit people have organized a
company of men and are anxious to
get in under the president's last call.
Considerable trading is being done in
horse-flesh around Detroit. The partial
restoration of the prices of draft horses
has led the farmers to branch out a
little in this line. A good price is be
ing paid for horses on board the cars
at Detroit for shipment to other states.
There will, Mr. Smith says, be a gen
eral revival of the stock business this
season.
J. H. Eldridge, a Barnesville merch
ant, was among the state people regis
tered at the Merchants hotel yester
day. He says the farmers are daily
flocking to Barnesville in large num
bers, having completed their spring
work and got their crops well started.
The few farmers whose farms are in
cumbered are banking upon an excep
tionally large crop to pay off their in
debtedness.
AT THE; HOTELS.
ASTORIA— August Schauer, Green Bay; C.
Bessett. Madelia; J. J. 'Smith. Saginaw; R. R.
Hedenberg, Hallock; ., C. .F. Pais ana, New
York- W. H. Stewart. Taylor's Falls: E. 11
Phillips, Milwaukee; H. Wallhelm. Milwau
kee* J. C. Carlson, ' Rush City; James J.
Flynn Rush City; F.B. R*e and wife, Du
luth- C. W. Gileno, Pipestone; William Mc-
Gilliray Pipestone; J, C. . Golburn, Chicago;
H. K. Ollvison, Plainfleld.,
CLARENDON— B. %. Falrbank, White
Earth- J H. Smith, Detroit, Minn.; E. C.
Boston, Marshall; Thom_- Morcom, New
York: Charles F. Bone, Rice Lake, Wis.; C.
L Gidding Glenwood; Mrs^ Thomas Moxcom,
New York-' W. L. Swtft an^. wife, Rice Lake,
Wis.: H. S. Gallag and boy-,Pendleton; M. A.
Thomson, Duluth. j
MERCHANTS'— E. L. Morris, Fargo; C. R.
Eean. Stillwater; W. S. Calif, Chicago; J.
Lany Sheldon; B. S. Bennett. Fosston; J. F.
Brar.dt. Grand Forks; C S. McLany, Sheldon;
W E Wa'ton and wife, Butte, Mont: Mrs.
Cook Chicago; J. B. Strong, Chicago; J. Gid
eon. New York; J. H. Perry, Aberdeen; Mrs.
Fullc New York; W. R. Reed, Armenia.
N. D.;' P L. Hleglns, New Richmond; P. H.
Hough La Crosse; E. Barnaid and wife, Du
luth; F. J. Duffy, Chicago; J. H. Mclnery,
Grand Forks; Miss E. D. Sneda, Bismarck;
J. M. Holt, Miles City; Mrs. Biehler. Missoula;
Mrs. Paskill. Rltzville. Wash.; Mrs. Mors-,
Drummond. Mont; W. H. Laird, Winona;
G. E. Darling. MorrU; W. Borst. Wind m;
T. McKeczle. Montana; O. T. Brush, Csig?:
A. Brush. Osage; T. E. Adams. Melrose; J.
A. Carroll, De Smpt; O. h. Kioe, Superior;
L. Baumann, Chicago; H. Vehn, Mankato; F.
B. Wurbacher, Litchfield; J. Fratz, Spring
Valley; W. H. McKum, Spring Valley; D. J.
Dill, Prescott, Wis.; J. J. Hartley, La Crosse;
S. G. Anderson. Hutchinson; H. A. Avery,
Austin; Rev. J. H. Wenk, Glencoe, Minn.
METROPOLITAN— N. C. Hogey. Bristol,
S. D. ; M. Smith and wife. Beaumont; J. L.
Edsall, Bradley, S. D.; S. J. Huntington,
Sioux Falls; H. T. Young and wife. Le Roy.
Minn.; L. C. Weyond. Chicago, 111.; G. W.
Finch, Chicago, 111.; James A. Ames and
wife, Chicago, 111.; Mrs. Leer, Wahpeton.
N. D. ; Frank Coltman. New York; Mrs. E.
L. King, Newport, R. 1.; Miss Hogan, Heltna,
Mont.; W. McCracken. Toledo, O. ; J. E.
i Ferris, St. Louis. Mo.; J. P. Buder. .'ark
River. N. D.; C. R. Patterson. Tac:m>,
Wash.; J. S. Milstad, Ortonville, M.nn.;
Charles Taylor, Pana. 111.
RYAN— W. W. Walker, F. M. Guthrie, Du
luth; G. W. Miller, J. M. Pearce, Dcs Moines;
D. M. Wolff, New York; Thos. Regaii, Garri
son; J. L. Kenneday, Buffalo; J. IL Campbell,
Grand Rapids; Geo. It. Peck, Chicago; J. H.
Gill, .Vllwaukee; G. 1). Bramon, Bcsron; E.
C. Walcott, Aurora; L. B. Kuppenhelmer,
Chicago; C. S. Danzeyle, New York; L. A.
Oyster, Chicago; M. C. Fish, New York; B.
Johnson, Milwaukee; Mrs. F. Mcßor.ough,
Eau Claire; Geo. T. Simpson, Winona; M. B.
Koon, Minneapolis; J. G. O'Brien, Stillwater;
C. Campbell, Erie; IL. S. Schwab, Chicago;
Ralph Worms, New York; H. L. George, St.
Joe. Mo.; 11. C. Adams, Chicago; Lawrence
Rosenthal, Cincinnati; L. E. Smith, New
York; J. B. Snow, Chicago; P. E. Brady,
Pittsburg; Roy Wilcox, Eau Claire; L. R.
: Halsey, Chicago; M. F. Patterson, city; D. R.
I Snow, Mankato.
j SHERMAN— Mr. and Mrs. William Scott,
Durango. Col.; Mrs. E. Spring.r, Manitoba;
J. McLeod, Ellsworth; Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Nixon, Orange, N. . V. ; J. W. Morgan, Spo
kane; R. R. Hedenberg, Hallock; M. H.
Kalamazoo; William McCoy, Spring Valley;
O'Hara and son, San Francisco; J. Barrett,
Chicago; O. B. Olson, Eau Claire; Ed Cox,
Vancouver; D. H. Nixon, Lexington, Pa.;
James A. Manly, Winona; A. B. Kitzmiller
Kalamazoo; William McCoy, Spring Valley;
J. Howe, Chicago.
WINDSOR— A. B. Meyer, Chicago; Alfred
Weymann, Osnabruck, Germany; Otto Wey
mann, St. Louis, Mo.; M. B. Richards, Sioux
Falls; A. M. Berg, Sioux Falls; W. C. Too
mey, Galveston. Tex.; Frank C. Salters. Syra
cuse, Ind.; George F. Deining, Milwaukee; S.
IW. Tripp, Chicago; H. W. Jewett, New
Hampshire; M. J. Dowling, Renville; C. Gi
raux, Duluth; A. L. Martin and wife. Lima,
O. ; Miss Emma Wilcox, Lima, 0.; Miss Lucy
Wyman, Lima, O. ; O. B. McPherson, Chi
cago; W. E. Barnes, Fargo, N. D.; 1,. E.
Larkiri, New York; W. Weaver, New Ulm;
H. Johnston, Chicago; W. J. Best, Clinton,
Pa.; George A. Smith, Chicago.
"MAYOR" GRIFFIN'S SLEUTHS.
Found Mr. Reardon's Clothes "Where
City Police Failed.
"Mayor" Griffin yesterday rendered Assem
blyman Reardon a service which Mayor Doran
and his entire police force could not do after
their combined efforts of nearly a week.
Thieves broke into J. Hauser's tailor shoi),
18 East Eighth street, last Saturday night,
and with $100 worth of other property carried
off a suit of clothes belonging to Assembly
man Reardon. "Mayor" Griffin heard of As
semblyman Reardon's loss and yesterday,
much to the city father's surprise, the "Red
Mayor" delivered the missing clothes to the
assemblyman's home. Furthermore all of Mr.
Hauser's property was returned.
Mayor Doran had ordered his policemen and
detectives to hunt up the missing property,
but Assemblyman Reardon realized the ab
sence of hope which this held out to him for
the recovery of his wearing apparel, and re
signed himself to the purchase of another
summer suit.
But he forgot that there was another
"mayor," and where the police department
failed, "Mayor" Griffin, single-handed,
achieved success.
"Mayor" Griffin did not hear of the robbery
until Wednesday. When he learned that As
semblyman Reardon was a victim of the
thieves he determined to recover the stolen
property. Summoning his detectives, "Door
Mat Jimmy," "Mickey, the Mike," and
"Skinny, the Kid," the "mayor" instructed
them to get out among the gang with hia
ultimatum tlliat those clothes had to be "slung
back."
"Mayor" Griffin's aids didn't have any
rogues' gallery to assist them in getting to
the right parties, but it was not long before
they reported to their chief that the property
was coming back with the apologies of those
who had appropriated it.
An hour later "Mayor" Griffin walked down
Seventh street with two large bundles under
his arms. Mayor Doran would have doubt
less have required Assemblyman Reardon to
visit the police station, had his opera c>«3
I been fortunate enough to ''turp up" the goods,
but not so "Mayor" Griffin. Straight to As
semblyman Reardon's room he went and
opening the bundles, told the assemblyman
to pick out his suit. Mr. Reardon did bo and
then lugged the rest of the. property to Mr.
Hauser's tailor shop.
"Mayor" Griffin walked up street with the
assemblyman and explained that the clothing
would have been recovered sooner but for the
fact that the audacious persons who had car
ried off the clothing, had disposed of one
coat. This garment had to be traced, thus
entailing some delay.
"That's the kind of a mayor to have," said
Assemblyman Reardon last evening, in speak
ing of "Mayor" Griffin's achievement, "he
did what the detectives and police force fa'Pd
to do, and can get my vote for re-election any
time.
CAN NOT FIND BROWN,
And the SaloonUt's Creditors Are
Anxlons.
J. P. Brown, formerly the proprietor
of a saloon at 320 East Seventh street.
Is said to have leflt the city, leaving
unliquidated a considerable indebted
ness. Yesterday the Hamm Brewing
company attached the stock and fix
tures at Brawn's place to satisfy a
debt of $830.
William Hamm refused to discuss
Brown's business relations with the
firm further than to state that the in
debtedness was not due on a retail
license. An effort had been made to
locate Brown for several days, Mr.
Hamm said, and when lt appeared that
the saloonkeeper had left town, an at
tachment was levied on his place.
It is paid that Brown also left other
creditors.
BUGLER TOOK A BRIDE.
Another Romance of the Thirteenth
Leaks Oat.
It seems that one romantic wedding of in
terest in and out of the Thirteenth regiment
of volunteers occurred the day of the night
on which the troops left for the coast.
I Arthur A. Dem, a bugler in the Thirteenth
I regiment, formerly employed by G. D. Tay-
I lor, a woo&enware agent en Wacouta strict,
has for some time been paying his addresses
to Miss Lucia E. Taggart, of 118 Seventh
' street north. Minneapolis.
I The morning of May 16 Mr. Dorn obtained
• a few hours' leave from camp, and met M:S3
Taggart, with a friend, Miss Glenn, who
lives in Southeast Minneapolis. Clerk of
Courts Dickey Issued a marriage license, and
they hastened to the offlce of Justice of the
Peace Beardslee. where they were wedded.
Miss Taggart's friends in Minneapolis
have, some of them, heard of tho nuptials.
I but Mr. Dom's St. Paul intimates have not
been enlightened as yet.
That night tho groom left with the troips,
while his bride remains at her home in M n
ncapolls.
QUEHL SUED FOR SLANDER.
Mrs. Root and David Morgan After
the Commissioner.
The resolution introduced at the meeting
of the county commissioners on April 4 by
Paul Quehl, in which he proposed to invest
gate tho affairs of Mrs. Susie V. Root and
Rev. David Morgan, has resulted in two _ep
arate suits for slander, in which Mr. Quehl
is tho defendant and Mrs. Root and Rev.
Morgan are the plaintiffs.
Both state that their reputations have been
damaged to the extent of $10,000, and they
ask Judgment ln that amount Both aUeca
in their complaints that the charges made
by the county commissioner are entirely
without foundation, and were made with a
wanton and malicious disregard for their feel
ings, and have caused them to suffer the
contempt and reproach of the public.
Mnrnanc's Trio Let Go.
Officer Pat Murnane found three men wan
dering around on Eagle street Wednesday
night unable to give a satisfactory account
of themselves and locked the trio up on the
charge of vagrancy. They gave the names of
Jack Galvin, William Perkins and Edward
Cormandy. In the police court yesterday the
prisoners were discharged.
One Forfeited the Bail.
John McCarthy, who, with Mrs. Delia Cul
len, created considerable excitement in lower
town last Sunday by driving recklessly about
the streets, failed to appear in the police
court for trial yesterday and forfeited $25
I ball.
i The charge of drunkenness and disorderly
conduct against the woman was continued
until Monday.
WHOSE IS THE MISTAKE?
MINNESOTA SAID TO HAVE
SENT "SHOUT" REGIMENTS
Strange Charge in View ot the Fact
That Nearly 1.000 Diwappuiuted
Young Putriots Were Sent Home
CnmuMtered Gov. Clough Says
Ills Organizations Complied "With
the Orders of Secretary Alger.
"It would be much easier for Gov.
Clough," said a prominent Minnesotan
yesterday, "if Minnesota's quota under
the second call were 17,000 men rather
than 1,700. It Is an honor beyond com
parison to think that the North Star
slate, which was one of the three in
which the draft was not enforced dur
ing the war of 1861 to 1865, should have
mustered in her troops so promptly in
this most recent call that her colonels
are commanding brigades in the en
campments of the Sunny South."
And the gentleman who made this
declaration made it after hearing from
the lips of Gov. Clough himself the
statement that the war department at
Washington was accusing Minnesota of
sending out regiments short of men.
Strange accusation this to make
against a state which fed 1,000 men or
thereabouts for from one week to two,
while they were awaiting examination
by army surgeons and officers, only to
have them rejected on the ground that
the alloted strength of a military com
pany under the new army call was
eighty-four men.
"Minnesota offered, in compliance
with a request to her governor from
Adjt. Gen. Corbin, presumably acting
with full federal authority, regiments of
a dozen companies of 100 men each, 106
men, to be exact."
When the young men of Minnesota
marched from the armories and rail
road depots to Camp Ramsey there
were 3,600 of them. After all elimina
tions by reason of physical disability
were made, there were still plenty to fill
the companies.
MINNESOTA NOT BEHIND.
Gov. Clough was quite surprised when
shown yesterday the supposed official
statement of the war department that
Minnesota had fallen behind her quota,
and that she must raise her regiments
to the regulation number before she
would be recognized in the organization
of further troops. "There must be some
mistake here," said the governor. "Min
nesota has offered more men than Uncle
Sam would accept. We boarded 1,000
men only to have them sent back to
their homes. I have in my files a letter
from Gen. Alger, secretary of war
stating just What he wanted from the
people of Minnesota. I do not thing the
statements contained in this newspaper
telegram were authorized by him."
"Minnesota has men enough who are
anxious to defend their country The
only trouble is to find places for all of
them."
"At the present time Minnesota has
no equipments for her troops. When
we receive official notice of a call, how
ever," said Gov. Clough yesterday, "we
will be able to turn the men wanted
into the field in twenty-four hours
with camp equipments complete, every
thing, In fact, except guns and uni
forms, which only the federal govern
ment can buy."
SHANDREW AGAIN COLONEL.
It was stated yesterday that the first
new regiment mustered in when the
new call is received will be command
ed by Col. J. C. Shandrew, who wu
until a short time ago the colonel of
the Third regiment of the national
guard, now practically comprising the
Fourteenth regiment volunteers.
P. M. Catlin, it is said, will be his
adjutant, and it Is said that C. E. Bond
of Minneapolis, will be captain of one"
of the companies which will be in it.
Mr. Bond served five years in the regu
lar army and has seen service. Since
his return to private life he has served
five years more in Company I, of the
Third regiment, N. G. S. M., Minneapo
lis, and has taken a marked interest in
keeping the company up to the stand
ard in markmanship.
TWIN CITIES GET BUT TWO.
It is also reported that in case Minne
sota is limited to 1,700 on the second
call, St Paul and Minneapolis will get
but one company each.
The governor said yesterday that the
national guard organizations would not
be given any recognition in making up
this new regiment.
The veterans of the national guard
have been busy in St. Paul recruiting
companies, but it is declared that it
will be given no more consideration
than a company entirely without the
organization, such for instance as Lieut
Washington Rice's Minnesota Buck
tails.
In Minneapolis a company baa been
organized principally of veterans of
Companies A and I. These have been
mustered under the leadership of Capt.
balsman, who visited the governor yes
terday with a tender of their services
J. Frank Wheaton, the colored lawyer
of the same city, also tendered a com
pany, composed of colored men, but it
looks as though Capt. Bond's company
would be the only one from Minneapo
lis to be recognized. O. H. Rask, of
the same city, also wants a commission
as captain.
Col. E. H. Milham, of the Uniform
Rank, Knights of Pythias, tendered
the services of a full regiment.
The batteries of the now practically
defunct national guard want to ro
also.
Ex-Senator James S. O'Brien, of Still
water, and Frank H. Lemon, deputy
warden of the state prison, were visi
tors. They wanted a company for the
city on the bank of Lake St. Croix.
Representative Thomas Torson, of St.
James, was trying to do something for
that community.
M. W. Grimes, of Le Sueur, and E. B.
Shanks, of Fairmont, also want com
panies formed in their towns.
BATTERY A ANXIOUS.
Unless a company or two of artillery
is included in Minnesota's quota under
the second call of President McKinley,
the members of Battery A will, at their
meeting tonight in the Armory build
ing, offer their services as an infan
try company. The men are all well
drilled, and the disappointment of some
of the boys over having to remain at
home has been very keen.
Of course the boys would much pre
fer to go as artillery, but, if none Is
allotted to Minnesota, there is no doubt
but what they will join the infantry
to a man. The company has been on
the gui vive since the second call was
issued, in hopes that they would be
given a chance to go to the front.
Under a recent order issued by the
war department no artillery is accept
ed for the Cuban campaign, unless the
guns and carriages can be transported
on the backs of mules. Battery A's
guns weigh nearly 1,000 pounds. How
ever, this makes little difference one
way or another, as the men expect to
receive new equipment when they go
South. First Lieutenant Hy Larson
is still commanding officer, no one hav
ing been selected to fill the recent va
cancy. To bring the company up to a
war footing two additional lieutenants
will also be selected later on.
HOME GUARD TO FORM.
It Is not unlikely that the home mem
bers of Company E will organize an
other company. At a meeting last
week, attended by twenty or more, a
civil organization was perfected, elect
ing First Sergeant P. J. Metzdorf as
president and Herman Brandhorst, sec
retary. Another meeting will be held
Tuesday night, when it will be decided
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Just what the future procedure of the
company will be.
WILL HELP IN THE PARADE.
The home members of Company B
will march in the Memorial day parad*.
They will wear white duck trouser.
and dress coats. A half dozen or m or«
of the company were on hand lasl
night, but nothing further was accom
plished towards raising an additional
company.
DRILL AT THE ARMORY.
Thirty-five or more attended the drill
at the armory last night of a volun
teer company being organized by Stu
art McMillan. Capt. McMillan expects
to have his company ready In time to
go in under the call for the additional
75,000 troops.
ONLY IRISH IN THIS ONE.
C. A. McCabe, a railway mail clerk,
is organizing a crack Irish company.
Mr. McCabe has already secured quite
a large list of those anxious to Join
his company. He proposes to make it
an exclusive Irish company. Mr. Mc-
Cabe thinks he will have little trouble
in having his company accepted, as his
is the only organization of the kind
and has many friends among the folk
from the Emerald Isle. John Woulf
is to be first lieutenant. Woulfe was
for eight years a member of the Illi
nois state guard prior to the first of the
year, when he came to Minnesota. The
following names were reported yester
day to the Valentine news store, Wa
basha and Ninth streets.
J. E. Darmody, 051 Plum street.
John Lane, 95 Valley street.
Dr. George F. Sta«'k, 527 Wabasha stre t.
F. J. Kelly, 577 Hudson avenue.
J. J. McMahon, 530 Lisbon.
N. S. O'Donnell, 2:50 East Fillmore.
Thomas O'Neil, CO East Seventh street .
C. A. McCabe, 527 Wabasha.
A. P. Murphy, 527 Wabasha.
T. J. Gagan, 503 Wabasha.
James McCabe, 527 Wabasha street.
John Woulfe, 475 Wabasha.
J. D. Collins, 255 Aurora avenue.
J. J. Lynch, 97 East Fourth street.
J. M. Woulfe. 97 East Fourth street
P. Colbert. 97 East Fourth street.
Mike O'Connor. 258 Carroll.
E. Quinlavln, 2C5 East University.
J. J. Brown. 447 Lafond street.
In addition to the list printed above
another list is being circulated with
about fifteen signatures.
SONS OF VETERANS' ROSTER.
The following is a complete list of thoss
who have enlisted in the new company which
Is to be composed entirely of Sons cf Veterans,
up to 6 o'clock last night: Eben Oakes, No!
7 East Tenth street; J. F. Terriss, 836 East
Seventh street; Maurice Murphy, 55 Manitoba
avenue; Herbert Metz, 365 Maria avenue M
R. Mills, 281 Rondo street: S. S. Scott.' _■><!
Selby avenue; Louis Gutheimer. 1270 Ir.'land
avenue; Henry Fanester Chumer, 543 Oak
land Laubert S. Fairchild. 300 Dayton ave
nue; S. P. Imgmundson, 472 Marshall- E S
Sheehan, 821 Ashland; Richard Norton 155
Western; Fred Granger, 133 Livingston: A. C.
Warden. 447 Smith avenue; C. F. Mullen 279
Martin; W. W. Sharp, 201 East Roble street;
O. W. Forgee, 179 East Third street; Albert
Stelzcr, 603 Seventh street; Frank Johnson.
1071 East Third street; W. W. Wrbb, 36S Nel
son avenue; Charles Christopher, 79 East
Ninth street; Martin McDarough, 141 East
Twelfth street; Harry L. Putman, South St.
Paul; Benjamin L. Gray. 186 Gllan; Louis
Bebrublott, 254 East Eighth street: Tom
Wells, 120 Belvidere street; J. J. McMahon
330 Lisbon; D. H. Baughman, 36 East Sev
enth; Henry Carl, 190 Custer: Frank Rusek.
114 Snelllng avenue; C. E. Johnson, 63 West
Dearborn; W. A. Garrett, 201 West Sixth
street.
WILD WESTERN EIDERS
COL. GRIGSBY'S TROOPS PASSED
THROUGH ST. PAIL YESTERDAY
They Look Fit to Give the Spaniards
a Lively Fisrht If They Ever Meet
in the Field Range-Fed Horse*,
Too, Are in Fine Form to Carry
Them Into Action Were En
Route to Chickamauga.
Four troops of Col. Grigsby's com
mand of "rough riders" passed through
this city yesterday from the West f.n
route to Chickamauga.
Troops G and H, numbering 170 men,
arrived at the Minnesota transfer at .
o'clock in the morning in a special
train of four coaches, a sleeper and a
baggage car. They came in over the
Great Northern road. A special freight
arrived later carrying 170 head of
horses.
Troops G and H are composed of vol
unteers living at or near Fargo, N. D.
The two troops of "rough riders" from
Miles City and Billings, Mont., reached
here at 5:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
occupying a special train. They num
bered 144 men in all, and were com
manded by Capt. J. B. Bond. Other
officers were Capt. J. T. Brown, First
Lieut. Bailey and First Lieut. John Mc-
Kay.
Eighty-seven horses belonging to the
troopers are at Miles City in charge of
ten men. When the number has l>een
swelled to the number of men they will
be shipped to Chickamauga.
The "rough riders" were mostly all
young fellows, of magnificent physique,
showing the manner in which they
have spent their lives. The second de
tachment especially was made up of a
lot of good-looking young men, «rhoM
tanned skin and figure showed them to
be men accustomed to roughing it.
There were some, however, who had
left their positions as clerks in stores
and banks to fight for their country's
honor, and they could be easily picked
from among their more hardy-looking
companions.
Ca.pt. Bond is an ideal type of a fron
tier soldier, and looks as if he stepped
out of one of Remington's pictures.
The troops received rousing ovations
at Fargo, Staples. Mandan and Detroit.
At Fargo a band turned out ln their
honor, and at Staples the children w«r*
at the depot in a body carrying a large
flag.
The second detachment of "rough
riders" came in over the Northern Pa
cific, and left for the South via the Bur
lington. E. Valentine, assistant general
passenger agent of the Burlington, and
C. H. Humphrey, of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois, left with these two
troops.
It was not known at what time the
troopers would pass through here, and
as a consequence there were but tern
people at the depot to welcome them.
To-t-i Wan I nun II:. in.
J. S. Toss, arrested Thursday for striklm: a
woman on East Seventh street, was Btnten ,1
to the workhouse yesterday for thirty diys
The evidence showed that Toss has ace t 1
the woman whom he knew, and, after ,i •■ ■
words, knocked her down.
Tried to Steal the Earth.
August Anderson, arrested on the charge
of taking several wagon loads of earth bran
property belonging to Thomas F. Martin
was yesterday certified to the grand Jury for
examination. The ofTense of which Ander
son Is act used Is a felony.
GEN. BEND AN OFFICER.
Getn a Place on the Executive Com
mittee of a Railroad Ajtuoclutioii.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., May 26 —
The Association of American Rail ma 1
Accounting Officers elected the follow
ing officers today, and adjourned to
meet next June at Montreal:
President, P. A. Homitt, of the Cin
cinnati, Cleveland, Chicago & St. Louis
railroad; vice president, H. D. Buckley,
of the Baltimore & Ohio; second vice
president, Daniel Jones, of the Phila
delphia & Reading; secretary and
treasurer, G. G. Phillips, of the Chi
cago & Northwestern; executive com
mittee, H. A. Rubridge. of the Chica
go & Eastern; G. J. Pollock, of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas; W. B. Bend,
of the Chicago Great Western.
Will Xante the Lucky One*.
WASHINGTON, May 26.— 1t la said that the
president tomorrow will send to the senatn
the remainder of the staff appointments to
the volunteer army. These appotiuni n'a
will be between thirty and forty in number.