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2 TWO MORE PLUMS RIPE JI I. US J. HEINRIC H. OF 3IIXNEAP OLIS, WII.L BE STATE OIL INSPECTOR ZENAS H. AUSTIN, OF DULUTH He Im ll film' Considered for the In fill:: tiee ( oniniiitNiouerslilp—De feated ( undlduteN on the State Ticket Will Be Provided for Where Possible — Something About Prospective Appointed*. In addition to the selection of L. A. Rosing for private secretary and the probable appointment of Gen. E. M. Popf- a.- public examiner and superin tendent of banks, the following may be takt t. us pretty reliable progn'.stica tlOUS as to st*me of the other appoint ments of Gov.^elteCt Lind: Julius J. HeinricTi. .of Minneapolis, to be state oil inspector. Zenas H. Austin, of Duluth, to be insurance commissioner. It may also be set down as pretty certain that Louis Nash, of this city, will not be the next labor commission er Gov. -elect Lind's policy is said to be f;enerally that the men who have ought the campaigns of the last few yr?us, contributing of their time and §ty ami means to the battle of the allied parties, should lie, where com patible with a sound business admin istration, given places where they can at once reap a reward for their fealty, and render valuable assistance to the head of the administration. Julius J. Helnrich, the prospective oil inspector, is a scion of one of the li and most .substantial German families in North Minneapolis. He has been more or less active ln political affairs in his own city all his life, but his only previous office holding was a term as register of deeds In Minneap ln 1893 and 1892. At the close of his term ot office he engaged in the laundry business with George E. Led gerwood, his contemporary as county audi tot. since deceased. In 1896 Mr. Heinrich was nominated for secretary of state and defeated, but he accepted the nomination again this year and made a hard run against long odds, his Opponent having spent the greater part of the last two years In a continuous canvass of the state for renomination and re-election. Mr. Heinrich's busi record is a worthy one, and he represents a class which will not have the effect in Spain or anywhere else of creating the impression that Min nesota has fallen into the hands of either anarchists or robbers. Zenas H. Austin is a more recent en try in the field of state politics. He was formerly principal of the Duluth high school, but, during the boom in Duluth, resigned to engage in the real estate and Insurance business, in which he amassed a considerable for tune. He has had considerable ex perience as an actuary, and ls well fitted by this experience for the posi tion to which Gov. -elect Lind is said to have him in mind. f)f late Mr. Aus tin published a paper. The Microcosm, Which was very p lir.ted in Ita arraign ment of some local and wider evils. He Is a People's party man and has been YERXA Hints for quick buyers. Bright chances which should be taken on the fly. Oil II io cts /ill I' ill COZEN. ily«/_Ff___v» Ye will aye a /^/rf^fJfl !ar C c number of fine /// il bunches of llauana. vAWwJr nicely ripened for v \\f\_\y* Monday purchasers at 10c per dozen. 11 Gents For ons-Bslloa disss Tin-Covered Oi] ram (usually sold at L.V _a.li) for a few d.iy«. 5 Ceojts For rtm il 17. n Best Wo tea Clothes Pi a. 50 It.irs of the Favorite Brand Laundry Soap for <>ie doll ,i 111 burs tor Be) 42 Bars of the Boprenu Bread Loundrv ioap 1 for one dollar. These are extra large ba-» (Ten bars for ISc) 16 Gents Per dozen tor Selected No. 1 Fresh Eg^a. 16 to 20 Gents Per pound 'or Good Dairy Butter. 24 Gents For pound for the Very He.t Cresmery Put ter. ; GINNED GORN We hay,- made a very ■dvsatagoeas pur-! cha*e of New Packed Sweet Corn of fl,. e quality, and can offer lt at 7c p r can or SOc per doz. 7 Cents Per can for 3-lb cans of Good Sta;d_rd Packed Mew Tomatoes (for a few days). 8 Gents Per can for _-!b cana of MarrowTa. Poss packed tn the Woman's Packing Company. ' Batavea Canned Goods We ar, BOW receiving the new crop. Qoods •11 raised and paek<-d sa the farm In Batavi* i New York. There are few gvxds ea perf.ct b m There are none better. a::d they ars ' not high prleed. (Osbm and samp:, them.) $2.50 For lf.-galion barrels of that perfect Cider from the same shipper a* the last lot Tiiere ' ls nothi.ii- better. It's a good keeper -'0c n r gallon in smaller quantities. 5 Cants Kar-h for large jars German Prepar d Mua tard. j 28 Gents A p. Cfc f^r good Baldwin Apples. APPLES Good New Hampshire Baldwins la ge barrel*, only ......... t* •_ Good Michigan Wagners. Ben Darls Ta - mau S»ret», Raassta. Seek No Fur thers, only ... tl a Very Fsocy Khud* island Greenings" "per barrel tS 'S V.r> Ka-x-y Large Spi. y Northern apt"*, per barrel « . <■- Good Baldwins, per j- . x \ prominent In St Louis county politics. At the state convention of the party in Minneapolis last June he presided with marked firmness, and, although, by one form of tactics and another, the convention was dragged along Into the middle of the night, his efforts to check this dilatoriness won from the mid readers the charge of unfairness. The governor-elect is said to have pretty definitely determined that the successor of the present labor com missioner will not be Louis Nash, the objections to him being of various sorts. The fact that Nash is a com paratively recent comer, having locat ed here in 1887, is being considered. He was indorsed by a number of labor organizations, but these organizations have also indorsed a number of other candidates. It is understood that Maj. J. M. Bow ler, the defeated nominee for lieuten ant governor, will be given some state office, and Alex McKinnon, of Crooks ton, who has twice made an unsuc cessfdl run for state treasurer, has been mentioned as prospective survey or general of logs and lumber for the Crookston district. • o o L. O. Pendergast, of Eagle Bend, seeks appointment as adjutant general at the hands of Gov. Lind. He is the oldest silver man in his part of the state and a tireless party worker. He served for three years with Sheridan, Butler and Merritt, and wais in a score of battles. » * » It is very p«»bable that the reform forces in the legislature will cast a complimentary vote for Philip B. Win ston, of Minneapolis, for senator, when ih^ senatorial contest comes up. • • • Otter Tail county wants twenty ap pofntive offices. The Fergus Falls Journal says: The opinion seems to be very gen eral that Gov. Lind is going to make a clean sweep in officials, so far as he is able. It is true that there are some changes which he cannot make, but nearly all the offices are at his disposal. These offices pay from $50 a month to $15,000 a year, and are filled from all walks of life. All the appointees will be men who have supported John Lind. The way to secure an office Is to pick out such a one as you think you would j like. It ls better not to select one of j too much importance, as the competi- j ti< n will be harder. There are about a j thousand of these at Gov. Lind's d-is- j ]>• sal. Abowt twenty of the_3e will come to a large county like Otter Tail. The Republicans now hold at least this many positions under Clough. After j selecting the office which you want, j have a petition drawn up and eecore tl:< signatures of as many leading men of your party as possiba. Gov. Lind i being a fusionift, the signatures of i Democrats, Populists and Silver Re- I publicans should be secured. When a j suitable petition has been secured showing your standing as a man, your influence in your community and the nrork which you hay- done for the re fenn cause, send the petition to Gov. Lind at New Ulm. If you can. It Is belter to have a delegation wait upon him and present It. He has "at homes" twice every week now, and th-» rush is M great from Minneapolis and St. Paul that the railroads are giving excursion rates. There are other plains, howev er, besides the Twin Cities, ar.d Gov. Lind realizes that the reform move ment had its birth In the Red river raUey, and that the "rejuvenated De mocracy" is but the tail to the kite? • * • J. P. West, deputy public exajniner, whs in town Thursday checking- over the county officials. It is said Auditor <""llir.s is watching carefully to see hew he does the work— Fe-rsrus Falls Journal. Mr. Collins wants a place under pros pective Hank Examiner Pope SIXTEEN SICK ONES ARE STILL HERE M MHKII OK Till: Vol. l VI KKItS XX- M\IN l!\ HOM'll y__|_J |\ rms t .TV Thirteen of The in Arr- al St. Joatljlf, One at Leant of the .Men Will He Kept Innlde for Month*. other* Are Kapldly Con valeaelng Of the many sick soldiers confined j In local hospitals since the call for troops but sixteen patients remain in the institutions, and practically all of i these are convalescent. With few ex- i ceptions the men will be discipline 1 wiihin the next few days. None of the j soldiers at present in the hospitals is dangerously sick, though a vera! if then may be confined for perhaps a month yet. At St. lose] h's h spital there are thirteen soldier patients, ail menvbers of the fourteenth regiment Nearly ail of these are men who were t.iken ill shortl) In Cure the regiment came home and were brought along, or those who became ill after the return. One or two are typhoid convalescents, while the others have been ill with various other troubles. Following are the men and the companies to which tbey belong: Sergeant Joseph Walsh, Compiry H. Glen iiii'. Sergeant Charles .lostcn, Company C Du luth. Corporal J. H. Barb.ird. Company \ Du luth Priv.u. Pct.r M.s. mi Cosapaajr <;. Min neapolis. William Knright. Compel y X Sr Piul. Private Kdward RldweH, Company D. Hi>ljr- Oka, Mass. Private DSTId CliSO, Company A Duluth. Private 11. A. l>udl y. ''.mipany \ p u _ luth. Private O. H. Pahl. Cotßpaajr H. SacreJ Hi>art. Private Albert Btykkechaag Coscpany l. \ F Bois, Ooaspaay 11. litnvi le. Private W:!!iam Jack, n (Vrnpinr I_. Private James A. Ward. Coaapax] F. Fer gus Tails. Private Louis Johnson. Company F. Private Dudley is afflicted with what the physicians term "typhoid leg." a swelling of the limb, resulting from the fever, which may keep him at the hospital for several month*. The only other three soldiers con fined in hospitals here are Oharles Goodrich, Company If, Fifteenth regi ment, Mankato; Norman Clark. Com pany, Ci. Fourteenth regiment. Au gusta, Wis., and Peter Rivers, Com pany L. Fifteenth regiment. Lake Porte, Mich. These are typhoid fever convalescents and are almost well enough to leave the hosoital. WORSTED THE ROBBERS. Valiant Achievement of Harry Op. •Uhl. n Snelllnn Soldier. Harry Opdihl. a private In Company B. Third regiment regulars, stationed at Fort Snelling. reported to the police at an early hour yesterday morning thai he had been in an encounter with two other men. one a civilian, the other a soldier, who he thought intended to rob him. Opdihl claimed to have worsted his assailants, one of whom had tried to use a knife on him. For a man who had been in such a desper ate fight, the police say Opdihl bore an exceptionally neat and orderly ap pearance when he reported the affair. According to the soldier's story. he was about the city with the men who he claims attacked him until shortly before midnight, when he said his com panions led him into an alley on Sec i ond street, near Robert, where both of them jumped on him. He had $3 with him. and Opdihl thinks his assailants | were after the money. He put up such a good fight, however, he told the po lice, that the men finally ran away. Cheap HontrKekt-n' Excursions to the Sooth Ara run twice every month by tha Wiscon sin Central Liaea; ticketa ara good for atop over in Land Seekers' Territory souUi of the Ohio river. For particulars call at citj Ticket Office. J73 Robert. St. Paul Minn. THE ST. PAUL GLOBE MONDAY— NOVEMBER 28, 1898. AID FOR THE COLLEGE APPEAL MADB TO CONGREGATION. ALISTS TO AID A FARGO INSTITUTION IT IS CARLETON'S NEIGHBOR But aa It Is Three Hundred Miles Distant Their Rlralry Is Some what Remote Secretary Clifton, of the Congregational Educa tional Society, Made Two Stirring Talks for It Yesterday. Theodore Clifton, national secretary of the Congregational Educational so ciety, is making a canvass of the churches of the Congregational denom ination of the Twin Cities ln the in terest of the Fargo college. The in stitution has for some years labored under a very heavy debt, which was but recently reduced to $11,000 by the friends of the college in North Dakota, and particularly the business men of Fargo. Mr. Clifton made an urgent appeal before a large audience at the Ply mouth Congregational church yester day morning, and spoke in the even ing at the St. Anthony Park church. At both churches liberal subscriptions were made towards assisting the insti tution. The Congregationalists of Min neapolis and the other St. Paul churches will also be asked to assist in placing the college on its feet. The trustees of the institution have succeeded in raising $12,000 of the debt, and the Congregational Educational society proposes to assist in raising the $11,000 necessary to wipe out the debt. Mr. Clifton is a forcible speaker and aroused considerable enthusiasm at both churches where. he appeared. He e> plained that the college had at pres ent fully 100 students, and, if its future had been assured at the opening of the fall term, many more would have en tered. The college is the only Congre gational institution of its kind in North Dakota, and is 300 miles from Its nearest neighbor — Carleton college. Mr. Clifton pointed out the great fu ture of the school if it could be foot loose of the debt which had been a great Impediment to its progress. The friends of the school in North Dakota were many, and all were working to raise the debt, and had partially suc ceeded, but it had been found neces sary to go outside of the state fpr part of the money. . The friends of the school were anxious to place the insti tution on a par with Carleton college, of this state, of which the Congrega tionalists of Minnesota were justly proud. Mr. Clifton spoke at some length of the work of the Congregational Edu cational society, which was a consoli dation of the two organizations, the American College and Education soci ety and the New West Education com mission. The consolidated organiza tion supported during 185.7 ten free Christian schools in Utah and New Mexico, assisted nine home missionary colleges and seventeen academies in the- West and South, and partially sup ported 400 candidates for the ministry in theological seminailes. lhe primary object of the society nas to promote Christian education in all its branches. Its Held extends from Maine to California, and its work had covered a period of ten years. The mission schools in Utah and New Mex ico had prospered in a surprising man nci during the last live years, and were considered one of the most val uable adjuncts to the association's work. The schools in Utah among the Mormons had been especially produc tive of good, and among the education al legislation which had been secured tbiough the efforts of the society was the law against polygamy. A vast amount of good had been dene by the organization Sn assisting stiuggling students through the acad emy and seminary. Of these assisted, a large percentage would finish and be ordained as pastors. The general method of the work of the society, aside from a general ml , rwrt in all the college? of the denom ination, was to assist such institutions as might need help. The Fargo col lege had been especially commended to the association, and by heroic efforts of the trustees and the support of the (""ngregutionalists success was about to (Town their efforts. In closing. Mr. Clifton said he re garded the school as one of the most promising institutions of a denomina tional character in the Northwest. HAS LEARNED THE SECRET. V Few Wise HepuMieuna t.et a Con necticut >)a>t;r tn on It. Mayor William P. Taylor, of Bridgeport, Conn., was in thia city last week, and to a reporter for The G 1o b e he said businea* conditions in the Nutmeg state are improving \ • iy rapidly. "The Eastern states." he said, "are recov ering trom the depression which they suffer ed during the recent war. and in SU secttoa. of New England manufacturing has taken a new leeM oi life, ln Bridgeport, where there are many factories, plants are being enlarg ed and more men and women are employed than in years. W»fb_ are not increasing. but they are not being radaced, so the bal ance is maintained. Th>re is a growing d. mand :i the Wes' For our goods, and we are g. ;ting giod prices. The West demands a Brst-claaa quality of manufactured a, The time is coming. 1 believe, when this section of the country may be a manfaeuir intt center. I do not know of a more prom ising Held for such enterprise. I think l.cal condition! may be overcome, and the Wear will take Its place with the Ea:t as a com petitor fcr the trade of the eoun'rv. "Politically. Connecticut is Republican by a majority of I7.SM, and the Democrats will have c hard time to wrest the supremacy from that party. The Democrats In the las": campaign made the mistake of advocating a silver standard. They evaded the issue di rect, but put a plank in the platform affirm ing a belief in bimetallism as enunciated by Tl.ornas Jeffcr=.>n. Joe Barbour, who led the Republican.-, looked the matter up. and de clared that he waa unable to find in any of | Jefferson's writings any reference to bimtta; --i lism. and the break hurt the Democrat* more than if they had eonir- out tlat-footed for silver. If they had let tbe issue alcnt they might have made a much better show ing. We were, of course, surprised at the elec tion of a Democratic governor in Minnesota but since talking with several Republican poltUciaßS here about it, I can unders'and bow the Biiwctapwaa accomplished. "POtitlea in New York state is' attracting attention in the East now. It is expected that Oc!. Roosevelt will cause an investigation to be tuiilo in the matter of the cana! steals and both parties are wondering h.w it will end. It is the belief there that if Roosev.lt !iv..* ur. to his record he may be a po wet fai opponent against McKinley ln 1900." COSTLY NIGHfsTsLEEP. Few Hours* Slmulier Coat Victor vlimlili *(■%. Victor Schmidt, hailing from Grand Forks. N. D.. took a stranger for a bedfellow at a hotel at 444 St. Peter Street Saturday night, and ia now mourning the loss of $65. According to Schmidts story, the police think he v. as "hooked" in Minneapolis. The Westerner reached Minneapolis last Thursday. He says he went to an employment office and was prom ised work with a dairyman near Has tings. He says he deposited $2 and was told to come back Saturday, when arrangements would be made for him to go to Hastings. When he return ed. Schmidt says he was introduced to a young fellow who was said to be the son of the man for whom he was to work. The pair came to this city, Schmidt says, and put up at the hotel When he awoke yesterday morning Schmidt's companion was gone, also $65 which he -had left in his pocket when he retired. Dr. Ball's ( ongh Syrap con be ro lled on. If you suffer from coughs, colds hoarseness, bronchitis or other throat and" lung affections, this old reliable remedy will cure you- BRIDAL PARTY RODE IN THE BLACK MARIA m . EDITOR TRBNHAM f MUTATES A NOVEL AVIS UU ING CUSTOM After an AU M*ht's Stay In * .sow. Stalled Street Car, Ha sad His Bride He rei In a Lnxnrloni Black Maria. Newton Trenham, editor of the Alex andria Citizen. !_____. had his cup of bit terness filled to overflowing lately, Trenham trotted to the Pacific slope and hack with tbe rest of the state editors in ten days and a fraction, and liked the speed so well he thought he would ta_ke a HUtfe exercise this fall and run for the legislature. He was in the also ran class, so he came to St. Paul and weffded a charming girl to console him for the loss of political honors on the advice of some neighbor ing editors who had found the salve a healing one in such oases. The wedding was a delightful one, but before starting on their honeymoon trip Mr. and Mrs. Trenham engaged two seats on a Como interurban car at a maximum rental of five cents per seat, intending to ride to see some friends. This was last Monday after noon at 4 o'clock If they had started at 3:30 it might not have been so bad, but the 4 o'clock car had troubles of its own. It wasn't running for the legis lature either. It was running for home the best it could, anid that wasn't very well. It was the first time the Como intterurban had ever experienced a snow flurry and it was not acclimated. Trenham did not see how the engineer ing talent that had surmounted the Rockies and Selkirks could balk at a little thing like a snow shower, and he and his bride made out imaginary menus and things for the nervous pas sengers on board who had no honey moons with them and knew the gro cery bill was^oing on at home just the stsme. It was lots of fun for a while. But as the shades of night began to get two and three feet deep, and the si'ow drifts even deeper, and the con ductors on the other cars tha/t were stalled in the drift began to carry coal intr Mr. and Mrs. Trenham's and pre pare to stand a siege, the Alexandria editor began to wonder if matrimony waa all it was cracked up to be, in St. Paul, at least. Ajf midnight the bride and groom had become somewhat reconciled to their fate, and the <_Uwn of the next day was a time of delight, for the coal supply wasn't h tgh, excepl in price. _____ last a car from Minneapolis arrived e«arly in the afternoon, pnd "toted the bridal party to the Wodthouse. which is a somewhat out «if the way resort for hmipymooners. but none the less an in teresting innovation In bridal parties. Th» stieet railway peop:? assured the passengers that they would find Supt. Fitzgerald v real nice man, and Mr. Lowry would send a four-horse 'bus over to "the works" just as soon as he CoUld. But Trenham had read about Black Marias, and while he had never before had an ardent desire to woo one, he had a more or le^a well defined notion that Mr. Lowry's 'bus was a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, and he handed Supt. Fitzgerald a glorious jolly about his workhouse being the finest he, Trenham. had ever spent a honeymoon in. and if he had his way he never wouid patronize any other workhouse on any of his wedding tours. I so there was nothing for it but for the superintendent to hitch up the Black Maria and see tfeajt his admiring visit ers got over to the University avenue ] line, which was then open, on a sort of Raine« iaw compromise. So the bride and groom and sundry other of the belated pas -engers rode to city life a?ain in the workhouse van. and the Minnesota editor has again demonstrated bis e.bility to go out of the beaten patljs and challenge the world by the originality of his devices. MISSING JFOURDAYS. Therewa Roeller's Krleuiix Are Wor ried \hnn« Her Vliseiiee. Theresa Roeller, a girl seventeen yean of age, formerly employed ln the i family of Thomas Wallace, a farmer | I living t___fee miles out of the city on j the Sunfish lake road, has been miss ' ing since last Wednesday, and the po j lice have been requested to institute : h search for her. Miss Roeller came Ito St. Paul Wednesday morning. She 1 left tows to return at noon. She has Inot been heurd of since. The pirl's friends do not know what to make of her disappearance, fearing s<>:ne harm may have befallen her. Miss Roeller is described as a rather tall, stoutly built girl, with light hair ar.d fair complexion. When last seen she wore dark clothes and a large black hrt. with blue rim and a large black feather ornament. UGVI OF THE WORLD. Dr. Wrlßlit Say* It Wan Thrift nnd Not Hndtlhn. Rev. John Wright, of St. Paul's church, preached the first of a series J «.f sermo - . - rday morning on I "Comparative Religion." He discussed i "Christianity -ar.d' Buddhism." His | ■ text was St. John viij.. 12: "Then j ' spake Jesus again unto them, saying, | I am the light of th^ world." Dr. Rhodes said in part: A lad born near Ronare-=. in India 500 —men j before Chr'.st was destined to move Urn I minds of multitude?, until tho followers of ! his faith DOW number 500.0tf0.000 souls. ! The only son of a king, he led a worldly ; and idle life, such aa was common to an j Eastern court. At tv.enty-uine he forsakes ; p.- 'ace. home and pleasure and enters u;>tr.i j the life of a hermit. All the historians atf- I mit that hi* life was lofty and pure. He I died at the advanced age of eigbtv years. having lived to bring nearly the whole of India to his feet. What Is the Buddhist way to salvation? j Summarized, it is «■. follows: There are four I great truths. First, misery accompanies ex ] istence; src_xd all forms of existence resuit from passion; third, there is no escape from existent except the destruction ot desire; fourth, this may be accomplished by follow ing the four-fold way to Nirvana. Th*n fallows the four-fold way. First, freedom from evil desire: second, from ignoranc : i third, from doubt: fourth, from unklndnes* and vexation. As a reward Nirvana U r<«ehed. This is not heaven nor a future »-:ate. but a condition in tiiis life cf perfect ism. It wMI be ee.n that Buddhism is a system of morality without a .-plritual side. It holds a pessimistic view of life. Chris tianity is optimistic. Christ preached a gos ] pel of hopefulnesß. Buddhism has no con j cept'on of stn. for while it talks in a mystic way of "Karma," by which it means the demerit of msn. !t has no definite idea >f our accountability to GoaT The incarnation and atonement are wanting, for It is the con sciousness of sin that makes an atonement a necessity. Buddhism encourages medita tion, but has no place for prayer. This ls quite to be expected in a system that leaves God out. Neither does it express a belief In the supernatural. Th* Gospel writers are careful to reeosd of* Christ that He went about working miracles. The historic church has always held that the supernatural ls one of the marks of -the divine origin of Chris tianity. The most serious defect of BuddhLstn is its silence upon the immortality of the saul. What wouW CBristianitv be without its glorious utterances concerning the cer tainty ot the future life? Buddhism ln its day wa* a thousand times better than th* i^ross Hinduism ,|fcat . -preceded It. It is am. better than the agnosticism and atheism of our day. But the comparison falls when we place this Indian" philosophy by the side of the simple gospel of Christ. Reformers and teachers have come and gone, attracting and influencing ths minds of multitudes. Thej^ bajm been lights in their day, but their lamps went out in darkness. It was left for cnl¥ : one among the sons of men to say: "I am ths Ugh; of the world." Something New In Car Fnrnllarr. An elegant Dresser Is included hi the fur niture of the commodious Ladies' Dressing Rooms on the New Drawing Room Sleeping Cars leaving Chicago 10:30 a. m. daily via Pennsylvania Short Lines, and arriving Twenty-third Street Station New York City in time for dinner next day. Other through trains for New York via Pennsylvania Short Line* leave Clsicag© S p. m., 5:30 p. m.. fc:ls p. m. and 11 :30 p. m. every day. For fur ther particulars apply to J. M. Greaves. Traveling Passenger Agent, 611 Guaranty Building. Minneapolis- ' SPLIT IIP THE LAWS COMMISSIONER DEARTH DISCUSSES THE INSURANCE LEGISLATION NEEDED IN MINNESOTA ONE LAW FOR FRATERNALS Which Should Be Framed in Bur. mony With the Ideas of the Fra. t ernttl Congrci- — Another En sotment Noceosary for tho Hegn latlotn of Life Assessment Com panies The Fire Business. "J am ln favor of the passage of an Insurance law governing fraternal so cieties," said State Insurance Commis sioner Dearth yesterday, "that will meet the indorsement of the Fraternal Insurance congress. The men who con stitute that congress have the interest of the societies which they represent at heart, and I believe they are in favor of laws that will insure the permanency of their organizations. There is no reason why fraternal so cieties conducted on business principles should not be as sound as other in surance companies." "But in the matter of life assess ment companies," continued Mr. Dearth, "the fraternals should, !a my opinion, be divorced from all assess ment comjxinles. Thsy want a law in keeping #ith what vrill ensure their future permanency and solvency. Every member of a fraternal insurance asso ciation wants the solvency ofhis com pany maintained without Increasing . the cost beyond a reasonable amount, and no person wants It more than the leading men In these organizations. There is no reason why a fraternal shouldn't be as sound as an old line company. I am also of the opinion, as I said, that a bill framed in harmony with the opinions of the fraternal con gress, which Is composed of leading responsible fraternal societies, should be accepted and passed by the Minne sota legislature. But I think that each fraternal should have some reserve fund to provide for the Increased mortality rate that may be expected to come. "There is no necessity for any such reserve fund as Is carried by some of the old line companies, that is, for the protection of fraternals. These re serves keen accumulating until they are beyond any possible demand that might ever be made on them. A frater nal society should simply have such A MODERATE RESERVE as would be actually required to meet the contingency of an unusual death rate, or such increase as may naturally be expected to come sooner or later, i That Insures the stability and solvency of the associations. "Bu>t our present assessment law is worthless. When fifty persons can now file articles of incorporation with the secretary of state they are entitled to a certificate allowing thefh to do business. The record shows that only a small number of them have lived to i any length of time. Here is what 1 say about the subject ln my report: I would suggest the passage of a law governing strictly assessment, or what are more properly called natural or stipulated premium associations, and a separate law governing societies operating strictly upon j the lodge or fraternal plan. Such separate enactments have been passed in certain other ! leading fe-astern states, and Minnesota snould > leave no stone unturned to place upon her | statute books laws covering these different j classes of associations or societies whlciTshall I merit tiie confidence and respect, not only of our own citizens, but also those of tho eoun- I try at large. As an illustration of tho opinion enter- i talned by the Insurance officials of other i states relative to the efflciencv of the Minne sota statutes governing our so-called assess- \ ment life and casualty associations (Including ' fraternals), I quote from a stalement made to the commissioner of Minnesota by a certain state official: "A certificate from your department, to the effect that a Minnesota assessment life or casualty association has fully complied with the statutes of said state, carries no weight i whatever with the Insurance department of < my state, as your law>e practically afford no j protection whatever to the policy holder* of this c!as* of companies." Thia statement, coming from a well kuown and able insurance official of another state. Is certainly ln itseif alone a sufficient argu ment In favor of an immediate passage of GOOD AM) SUFFICIENT LAWS, that ■tudl afford ample and full protection to aH members, or prospective members, of this class of associations and societies. Such a law should provide for and definitely fix a standard of solvency, whereby tt shall be re quired that the actual cash funds of any such company or association are sufficient at all times to cover the net value or future in creasing cost of its outstanding policies, as calculated upon seme acceptable table of mortality, and shculd it ever fall below such an amount an asKessTient upon ita policy holders should be immediately levied to make gcod such deficiency. The oid post mortem, or "pass the hat" plan, originally followed by practically all so-called asspssnirtu insurance associations is fast becoming obsolete. Practically every association now in existence, which originally conducted its business upon this plan, is now upon, or making desperate efforts to get upon, what is termed the natural or sUpu'aieJ premium basia. with rates based upon some well established mortality table 3. all con tracts, as a matter of course, containing a safety clause providing for additional assess ments, should such additional funds be re quired on account of an epidemic or other unusual causes. The plan of simply requir ing the members to pay barely a sufficient amount to take rare or the death losses, as they a'-crue. together with management ex penses, has resulted, sooner or later. In NO END OF FINANCIAL TROUBLE for the company. Unless a sufficient amount is collected frotn the members during tha years of its existence to provide for a reserve fund sufficient, at least, to cover the constantly ircreasing mortality expense, the only alternative is a very material in crease jn the number of assessment!; to be levied, or an increase ln the assessment or premium rate 3, either of which steps, if too long de'ayed. is bound to result ln disaster, and many poor people who have, in meeting their assessments, denied themselves the ac tual necessities of life, presuming that they were providing for the future protection of their families ars shocked upon beio? brought to realize that the protection which they have made such sacrifices to secure is null and void. Under the provisions of the present Minnesota statute governing this class of associations a continuance or repetition of thisl-oadition of affairs still remains possible. Some such enactment as is here pro posed may be presented to the legis lature this winter, but Mr. Dearth says so far he has not given the matter any attention. A law was introduced In the last session, but certain features were too burdensome for the bill to carry and live. Mr. Dearth was asked who drew up that bill, but was unable to say, as it was drafted before his appointment to the commissionershlp. FIRE INSURANCE LEGISLATION. Mr. Dearth went on to discuss what he considers necessary or advisable in the line of fire insurance legislation this year. In general the law govern ing fire Insurance is good, but Mr. Dearth thinks it needs some amend ment*. The commissioner would throw up a stronger line of protection around the agents of the state in the matter of reinsurance of large risks. Under the present law a very large risk may be written in some foreign company by its agents in Minnesota, but when the time for which the risk has been written expires the property may be reinsured, in fact it is general ly reinsured. Mr. Dearth says, auto matically. No benefit accrues to the agent or the state in this way. Mr. Dearth thinks that, every time a large amount of insurance written in blanket form or otherwise expires, the Min nesota department and the Minne sota agents should get the beneflt of it, whereas neither of them does at the present time. Mr. Dearth doesn't think very favora bly of that part of the present law which authorizes the writing of insur ance in unauthorized companies. "It is vicious," said he. "because It furnishes no protection for the insured. ¥ * there la a firs loss the companies -^-■^- ■: ■ ===== pay if they feel like paying, and if they don't feel like paying they don't. L think the old law governing this point was better than the present one. Then a man who wanted to place in surance in unauthorized companies fil ed an affidavit ln this office that he waa unable to secure all that he need ed in the companies authorized to do business in the state. Still the argu ment was made that to confine a man to the companies which were admitted to this state was an unfair limit to put on people who wanted to buy Insur ance, and if people feel that way about it and are willing to trust to the com- panles to pay all losses I suppose it ls all right. If they cannot collect their insurance they have only themselves to blame for it. As a matter of fact there has been very little of that business Written this year, not nearly as much as last year. "In conKfictlon with fire Insurance law I would be lp favor of allowing the organization of fire Insurance com panies in the state with a paid up capital of $50,000 to do business exclu sively ln this state. If they want to do business outside of Minnesota then they should increase their capital stock to $100,000, as in the present require ment." The commissioner also thinks the in surance laws of the state ought to be codified, but that ls also touched upon ln his report. FEARS HER CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED MRS. H. VEAT IS WORRIED ABOUT SILENCE OP HER. DAUGHTERS They Went to La Crosao a Short Time Ago and Nothing 11 im Been Heard From Them for a Weelc. Mrs. Herman Felt, living at 698 East Sixth street, requested the Margaret street police yesterday to make inquiry of the authorities at La Crosse, Wis., concerning her two daughters, Amelia and Annie, who went to La Crosse sev eral weeks ago to secure employment. The mother has heard nothing from her daughters for a week. Before that the girls wrote home, one or the other, nearly every day. The sudden stop ping of letters has alarmed the mother, who fears something may have hap pened to her daughters. The girls went to La Crosse in an swer to an advertisement, followed by correspondence with a widower .of the Wisconsin town, who, Mrs. Feit says, represented that he would employ one of the girls as his housekeeper and would also get work for the other. The girls went away three weeks ago. They wrote to their mother and friends reg ularly for two weeks. Then their let- I ters suddenly stopped. No one has i since heard from them. Mrs. Feit says her alarm is caused by the tone of sev eral of the girls' letters. She says some one will go to La Crosse today in search of the girls if the police learn nothing of them. Both of the Feit girls are dressmak eis. Amelia is thirty years of age, while her sister is twenty-eight years old. LUNCH HOUR TALKS. Commercial Club Announces a New Series. The city development committee of the Commercial club has arranged sev eral more Informal noonday talks for business men. The next one will be given at noon Wednesday by Superintendent of Mails O. H. Negaard, on the "Mail Facilities and How They Can Be Utilized by Lo cal Merchants.'' State Game Warden Fullerton will follow Thursday with tha subject of the 'Wealth of the Game and Fish of the State." Dec. 5 John Caulfield, secretary of | the St. Paul city waterworks, will de liver an addresß on the "St. Paul Water System, Supply and Its Value to the Community." UNDER A BANK OfIIOWEKS. Mabel ll« . IdMon'n Body Lay in Slate Yesterday. The funeral of the late Mabel Davidson took place yesterday afternoon from the home of her slater, Mrs. W. J. Noble. 87 Srmth Vic toria street. The remains were taken to For est cemetery, where they will b* rreroated. The service was short and impressive. A quartette consisting of Harry George Percy B. Q]mrch'ill. Mrs. C. B. Yal* acd Mrs. S. V. Harris sang "Rock of Ages." The floral gifts were numerous. Many came from organizations with wiiich Miss Davidson had been a favorite, and a great mnay were sent by individuals as token* of love aud esteem. The Laurel Cycle club •ent a hugs bunch of chrysanthemums. There were orossts. pillows and bouquets of giv-at variety. Miss Davidson's body ls cremated at her own request. Police Took Her In Charge. Mrs. Mary Kelly, whore hu_-band, James Kelly, is eerving a four months' sentence at the workhouse for maltreating her, was arrested yesterday afternoon on the charge of drunkenness. Kelly eked out a living a a cobbler in a tumble-down shack on Ced;ir rtreet. between Seventh and Eighth streets. .Since he was sent to the "works" his aged wife, who Is a cripple, has been getting along as beat she could. During the pres ent cod spell sho has had n\> fire In the _hep. Secretary Ilutchins. of the relief so ciety, had requested that, the police take Mrs. Kelly in as a humanitarian expedient, let before this order waa Issued she was locked up for drunkenness. Mold Salt Spring Lands. The board of regents of the state university ha* Just effected the sale of 1.W6 a; r<s of silt spring landa lying in Wilkin coun'y. These landa are twar I^awndale, between Kotheay and Barneevllle. These lands were first given to the state to develop the salt springs which were supposed to exist In cer tain places. It afterwards transpired that these springs were but alkali springs. Later these lands were turned over to the board of regents to furnish funds for a geological and natural history survey of the state The Wllkfn county lands have never been sslablo ur.til now. Some of these lands are excellent for hay. The parties buying the land hope to colcni.re lt. \ot Tumionow Mghi. Tuesday evening, Dec. 6, the Criterion Amatpur Dramatic company will present at St. John's hall. Frar.cls and Forest streets a grand triple bill, consisting of three one at p!ay«: "The Marble Arch." "Sweet Will" and "Mttter X." The easts of 'lie three plays will Include Frank H. Ford Jc«eph J. Pflster. Philip KemplfT Francis W. Inden, Gecrge Dames, Kathryn Bersee Agnee McDermott. May Shinners, Laura Hickey. Fannie Dean and Norah Clinton During the intermissions specialties will be Introduced. Bnglneer Bartlett's Iturial. The funeral of Alfred W. Bortlett. the dead Omaha engineer, will be held today at 8:30 a. m. from his late residence. 253 Banfll street, under the auspices of Eureka L#-dee No. 9. A. O. U. W. * Cooper WUI Move It. Bartley Coopar. a Minneapolis contractor has gone to Omaha to superintend tie re moval of the Minnesota building to Illinois for its new purchaser. Go Sooth This Winter. For the present winter Beason the Louis ville It Nashville Railroad Company kas im proved Its already nearly perfect through service of Pullman Veatlbuled Sleeping Cars and elegant day coaches from Cincinnati Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago, to Mobile' New Orleans aod the Gulf Coast. Thomas ville, Ga-, Penaacola, Jacksonville, Tampa Palm Beach and other points in Florida. Per fect connection will be made with steamer lines for Cuba, Porto Rico. Nassau and West Indian ports. Tourist and home-seekers' ex cursion tickets on sale at low rates. Write C. P. Atmore, general passenger agent. Louis ville, Ky., for particulars. (J) Select Yonr Xraas. Gifts _^3L In Jewelry and Watches and /fisnrsA have them reserved al f/^EMIL GEIST'S, 66 East 7th St. Beware cf Imitations **_&-%. ]]fircekemhire%&i v.* 1 »HN OWNCAVS MNS, Aacrs, NEW VOftK. " ADVERTISED LETTER LIST. Ust of Unclaimed Letters Remain. Ing in the PostotHoe, St. Panl, Nov. SB, 18U8. Free delivery of letters by carriers at tha ..rvMn^V-Vr 0 ?-- may be »«u"e"bV Ob serving the following rules the I hou_s Plalnl> ' t0 Btreet and numb * Jr of Head letters with the writer's full address, including street and number, and request an swers to be directed accordingly Letters to strangers or transient visitors ln the city, whose special address may bo un known, should bs marked ln the left-hand S__rJ. cr _, transient" This will prevent their being delivered to persons of the same or similar names. Persons calling for letters in this list will please say they sre advertised, otherwise they will not receive them. —Robert A. Smith. Postmaster. A1 £2*'n, Mr r Lyness. Miss Emily. 222 Tenth St. Ailing. Mrs. Gertrude McCamn, Hon. Geo Ambeshaw. Mooser. McGJllivry, A. R American Production McKeirney, Wm . °P« MoKey, E. L. Anderuson. Johan. McLennan, Dan. Andrews, F. W. McMahon, D X Arbrom. Mrs. J. McNary. Miss Bessie. Archer. Miss Margaret Malison. 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