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WOLF RAISING DEAD
©\l_ OK THE FORMER PROFITABLE
IMHSTRIES KILLED BY LEG
ISLATIVE ENACTMENT
SO SAYS THE STATE AUDITOR
Where Formerly It Took $...-.000
to Vtiy Wolf BonntioH, the Stuie
Hii.*. Keen Getting- _!<.n;i Recently
Willi an Vnnutii ipiiroprlatlou ot
SIO.OOO Law of l-*!>7 Haa Rc
nult.'il In a Great Economy.
State Auditor Dunn said yesterday
thai w ,\i farms had gone out of fashion
in Minnesota. Not that those Inter
est.*d in the illicit practice of breeding
wolves for their scalps cared anything
for ihe season's styles, but the opera
tion of the "low bounty act passed ln
1897 bad enforced retirement with the
gentry of wolf fanciers. The state aud
itor is authority for the statement that
tliere are at present no wolf farms in
the state
Under the operation of the "low
bounty'" law passed in IS!." the reward
is reduced to $5 for a full grown wolf
killed between Jan. 1 and May 31, and
- : ' per head for all wolves killed at j
Other times of the year. Of this the :
state nays a two-thirds share and the
pays the other third. The state
raid for the killing of wolves, under
the previous statute, ten and fifteen
9 a head, which occasioned an
•outlay of the part of the state of near- 1
106 annually. Under the pre - j
. 1 a the annual appropriation of |
I is more than adequate to
meet ali payments. In fact when Mr.
Dunn closed his books the first of the
year there was to the credit of this
fund nearly .TOO.
It has been hinted at from time to
time that the $30,000 annual appropria
tion went to support private industry
in some of the farmers' outhouses,
where Master Wolf, when captured was
kept until a mate could be found, and
- he farm increased its profit. At
least, whether this be true or not some
of the counties where wolves were not
supposed to be very prolific were the
ones that returned to the state auditor
the largest list of wolf bounties paid.
The old trick of working off the same
a the county auditors of several
counties has also gone out of fashion,
as it is now necessary that the entire
carcass be presented at the county seat,
if payment would be had.
When the winters are long and cold
the wolves seem to be very numerous,
and at times very annoying to the
farmers, more particularly during the
very cold weather, as they kill small
stock, and will attack cattle when in
large numbers. "When the winters are
open in Minnesota they find enough
to eat in the woods and are not so
troublesome to farmers. It is with a
view to exterminating them that the
state has made large appropriations
for the last ten years. Its first efforts
had rather the opposite effect, as the
bounty was so high that there w-as no
In raising potatoes, corn and
•wheat, when wolves could be raised at
$!." per head, and without any cost to
the farmer, as his wolfship is always
hungry and will thrive on anything
from oid shoes to scrap iron.
An additional safeguard has been
put on the new law, in the shape of a
section which provides that no boun
ties will be paid by the state auditor
unless the board of county commis
sioners vote to pay its share of the
bounty. This being merely an optional
matter with the local boards there ls
little chance for fraud, and with the
present low bount3* there is but little
Incentive to an untruthful showing.
GETTING DOWN TO FACTS
BA\K SIPERIXTEXDEXT AND PUB
LIC EXAMINER POPE IS REVIS
ING THE OFFICIAL CUSTOMS
Ttvo Rulings Are Made Which Lop
Off Some of the Fees Which Have
Heretofore Been Charged by
>h. riffs.
Bank Examiner Pope Is instituting a new
departure in his office, to assist ln the more
speedy expedition of business ln the depart
ment. Every county ln the stata will have a
number and every building and loan associa
tion and bank in the state will be given a
number, which will greatly assist in carry
ing on the work of the bank examiner's office.
Under Mr. Knox's administration of the de
partment the boards of county commissioners
were requested to send a copy of the pro
rwdlngs of the annual meeting of the boar!
t. rhp ifflce. and ever since that time the
custom has been kept up. But Gen. Pope
believes this unnecessary, and in another cir
cular which Is being mailed to chairmen ot
boards, states that the department will in
the piA'*9 of this ask that an annual report
be made promptly at the completion of each
fiscal year.
• In the third <?lrcular which was mailed to
county auditors yesterday the department
calls attention to the laws relating to sher
iff's'fees charged for unsuccessful attempts to
c Uect delinquent personal taxes. Gen. Pope
lays down two rules regarding the sheriff's
fees in surh cases, both of which rule against
that official. The letter ia as follows:
To Coonty Auditors—
I abstract from a recent decision of Judge
L.iwis in ease of Wagner vs. County Commis
sioners of Ramsey County, some opinions
whir-h ««em to traverse previous instructions
from thi3 department and practices in vogue.
The .Minnesota law was amended, chapter 79
I_,T. subsequent to the decision In Schmid vs.'
Br.wn County. 44 Minn. ST.
Sheriff Fees— For Taking Prisoners Into
Court for Trial—
•'Construing the word 'p::aminatlon' used tn
the statute to mean preliminary hearing, we
find no prevision m the statutes allowing the
sheriff f es for taking prisoners into any court
for final trial, and. therefore, hoid the
charges made by him for taking prisoners
Into the municipal court for trial, whether
for offense against the state laws or for of
fenses under city ordinances, are net author
ized by law, and must be disallowed."
Charges for Falling to Collect Delinquent
Personal Taxes —
The law provides. "If personal property
taxes are not paid on demand, the sheriff
shall distrain sufficient good 3 and chattels
within the county, belonging to the person
charged with such tax. to pay the same, to
gether with cons, but In none of these ease*
was r roperty distrained."
'■' Under tbe law the "sheriff or his deputy"
shall be allowed the same fees for collect
ing said tax, and for making distress and
sale of goods and chattels for the payment
of taxes as are allowed by the law to" con
stables for making levy and sale of property
011 execution.
This Is the only prevision I am able to
find allowing the sheriff compensation for
pr-_.vn.ing delinquent tax warrants and by
the wording of the law Itself, theso fees are
to be paid only "for collecting." Fees are
not allowed for an unsuccessful attempt to
collect.
Literary Society's Dancing Party.
The G. B. C. Literary society will give
their ninth dancing party in honor of tha
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girls of tho club in their rooms, corner Sev
enth and St. Peter streets, on Friday evening,
Feb. 3. A special Invitation has been extend
ed to the members of the J. D. Hess Business
college. The following committees have been
appointed:
Floor Manager— B. Herbert VV ileo.kson: as
sistant, Mr. Rehihard.
Reception— Miss Van Hoven, Stewart Hoff
man, Miss Grace Walters.
!.'*fr. shment — Miss Con Connan, Mr. Pear
son, Miss Pelliquin.
Musi - Mr. Wilcockson. Miss Bel_el. Mr.
Krickson.
Door— Mr. Lin___e_, y r . Erickson, Mr. Pear
son.
Arrangement — Mr. Thompson, Mr. Blanding,
Mr. Smith.
THEY SAW MGR. MARTINELLI
MESSRS. C.RODE AM> KERST WHO
WERE BBBT EAST BY AS-
Sl MPTIOX I HI'RCH
Did Not Know Upon What Ground*
the Removal Wan Made, So They
Were I noble to ll.inill. the Suh-
Jest SatUf-i. toril.v.
P. M. K_r_t and John S. Grode. the commit
tee of the Assumption church societies, who 1
went to Washington to confer with Mgr. _f_j*.
tine'.U in onnee-tlon with the subject of the
recent deposing of Father Alfred, returned
home y _s..rday. Speaking about the trip,
Mr. Kerst said:
"I can only say in a general way that we
had a satisfactory interview with the nion
signor. We saw him in New York at tho
home of the Paullsts last Wednesday. He re
ceived ua cordially and gave ua a full hour
of his time. We presented documents bearing
on the case and such oral testimony as we
thought essential to an intelligent understand
ing of the situation. The monsignor said he
would give the subject the fullest considera
tion and resort later.
"We were in a rather embarrassing position,
in this way, that we did not know the exact
causes that moved Archbishop Ireland in ask
ing for the removal of Father Alfred. The
archbishop, on the eve of his daparture, ad
mittedly for Europe, wai seen by a commit
tee from the church societies, but failed to
give his reasons for the course he had taken.
Under the circumstances there was nothing
left for us to do but present the ablegate
with all the facts in our possession."
Mr. Grode's remarks wre of the same gen
eral tenor as those expressed by Mr. Kerst.
He said:
"Arehibishop Martinelli gave us a fair
hearing and I feel certain that he will do Jus
tice to all concerned. It will be necessary for
him to communicate with the archbishop to
get his 3lde of the story. The vicar general
of Uie archdiocese, in the absence of the arch
bishop, had given his consent to the holding
of tho meeting out of which gr6W the dif
ficulty. The consent of the archbishop was
not asked, for it was not thought necessary.
At the Stillwater meeting, his grace was pres
ent and was then advised that such a meet
ing would be held. He offered no objection.
It is said in some quarters that the arch
bishop took umbrage at some resolutions that
were read at the Sherman hall meeting. These
are the same resolutions that were passed at
the Stillwater meeting, at which the arch
bishop was present. If there was anything
objectionable In the resolution certainly tht
archbishop would have made known the fact
there.
"There may be a canonical law that con.
sent of the archbishop must be obtained for
the calling of church meetings. If there be,
we laymen know of no such a law. Noth
ing transpired at the Sherman hall meeting
that could give offense to any one, lay "or
clerical. It will probably be several weeks cr
months before we get the decision of Arsh
biehop Martinelli. We fael that if any mis
take was made it was the fault of lie po
cieties, and the blame should not attach to
Father Alfred."
Father Alfred is occupying the pastorate at
Duluth, formerly the charge ot Father George,
who has been transferred to another plt.ee.
The church is in the East end. and has one
of the most flourishing parishes of the ZenUh
City.
FATAL ATTACK OF APOPLEXY
O. W. PHILLIPS, OF MERRIAM
PARK. PASSES AWAY QUITE
UNEXPECTEDLY
Complained of Feeling- Sick and
Went to Get Some Medicine "When
He Collapsed and Died Within
Half an Hour.
While at his employment at the wholesale
drug house of Xoyes Bros. & Cutler yester
day morning. 0. W. Phillips, living at IS9S
Dayton avenue, Merriam Park, was seized
with an attack of apoplexy and died within
half an hour. Mr. Phillips reached the office
at his usual hour yesterday morning, and was
apparently in his usual health. Aa the morn
ing progressed, however, he complained of
feeling ill, and finally went up stairs to ob
tain some medicine. As he 3tcod waking for
the medicine, he suddenly collapsed. Two
physicians were in tbe store at the time and
gave Mr. Phillips prompt attention, but their
efforts were vain.
Mr. Phllli'ps had been in the employ of
Xoyes Bros. & Cutler for a number of years.
He was regarded as a most faithful employe,
and his death sadly affected both the mem
bers of the firm and all of his friends. He
was fifty-three years of age and le.ves a
wife and grown son. Dr. Phillips, of Mer
riam Park.
LATE SOCIAL NEWS.
Mrs. O. Rittenberg and Mlss Laura Mor
ganstern entertained Mrs. Elsenberg-Montaur,
Misses Stein and Fox, Chicago; Miss Gold
man. Pennsylvania; Mrs. Lyons, Minneapolis;
Mrs. Strouse. Xorth Dakota; Miss Kahn. De
troit, at a theater party.
Mrs. Thomas Hyland. of 761 Cedar street,
will entertain the members and thelf friends
of Nobility ledge No. 13. D. of H. at pro
gressive euchre next Wednesday.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers will give their next
card party Wednesday afternoon in Odd Fel
lows' hall. Fifth and Wa.basha, where thoy
hope to meet all their friends.
The firs, grand masquerade ball given by
Guiterman Bros.' Benefit association, at
Standard hall, last Tuesday evening, was well
attended. About 200 couples danced to the
music of Hilyard's orchestra, and all spent
a most enjoyable evening. Prizes were award
ed to the following: Best dressed lady acd
gent. Fred Te'.lender and Miss Mary Nelson,
representing Romeo and Juliet; best group.
Miss Peglow, A. Anderson, __. Pierring, T.
Pomplin and Miss Minning, representing rot
ton pickers* ; moat comic gent and lady, Rob
ert Schultz and Miss Shefty, representing
tramp and washwoman. The cake walk was
awarded to Charles Daley and Miss M.
Chandler.
Schubert Clnb Mnsicale.
The Schubert club will give a musleale
Wednesday afternoon in the Park Congr<.s_.
tional church. It will be a Chamlnde after
noon. The numbers are as follows:
Air De BaMet, Op. 31. No. 1 Mies Talman
Notes on Chaminade.
"Madrigal" Miss Constans
"Concertstruck" Mlss Nabersburg
Haydn, (a) "Pastors. lie;" Hollaender, lb)
"Under the Juniper Tree" —
Mrs. Maude Ulmer Jones. Minneapolis.
(&'i "Calliyhee," Air De Ballet, No. 4; (b)
•'Appassionate," Etude Mrs. Detzer
'The Silver Ring" ...Mrs. J. W. Pumderson
(a) "Autumn." Etude de Concert, No. 2,
Op. 35; (b) "Pas Dcs Aniphores," Air
De Ballet. No. 2; (c) "Scarf Dance "
Air De Ballet, No. 3 Miss Stierle
Graduating; Exercises.
The graduating exercises of Hancock school,
class of January, 'S9, were held in room 1.
The spacious room was filled to overflowing
with the alumni of the school and friends
and parents of the happy graduates. A short
programme was given, consisting of nlano
solos and a solo by Master Leo White, which
waa heartily encored. The diplomas were
presented to Misses Ferna Flint, Florence
Young. Agnes McCollum. Martha Miller,
Esther Moline, Kattie Ryan, and Messrs. Her
bert Morgan, Albert Hendrickson, Grant
Montgomery and John Pewters at the after
noon session of school.
To Help Sam John ion .
A vaudeville entertainment will be given at
Central hall Feb. 7 for the benefit of Sam
Johnson, the Impersonator. Other participants,
in the programme will be Misses Flora Tur
ner, Inez Thorsell. Bertha Pittmaine, Ella
John-on and Lena Beckman and Messrs.
Thomas Sylvester, George D. Nichols, M. E.
MeNally, G. E. Johnson, Vf. Rhoden, Edw.ird
Peterson , A. Anderson and J. Shields.
Through Tourist Car to California.
The Chicago Great Western Railway haa a
through tourist car leaving St. Paul every
Tuesday at 8:10 a. m. for Los Angeles, Cal
This car .-una via Kansas City and the A., T.
A S. F. Railway, the best winter route to
lower California points. No mow or cold.
Tfeese cars are equipped with all modern ap
pliances, both for safety and comfort. The
berths are sufficiently large to accommodate
two persons, the linen ia changed every day
by the porter in charge and the berth rate is
ony $6.00 through. Remember the line, the
Chicago Great Western, and if you desire fur
ther Information call on or addre «» J P
Elmer. C. P A.. Fifth and Robert streets!
St. Paul. Minn. "*
lUE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY JANUARY 29. I**99.
m LIGHTS FOR HMS
THEY WILL BE USED AT THE
FOI-.THIO-.IIM. POILTRV
SIIOW
ARC LIGHT ANNOYED PULLETS
Office*™ of the State __Meetat____
Promise That the lNiM* Show, Al.
though the Thirteenth, Will be
the Greatest and _lerrle.it Show
of 411 the Series. Over _*,000
iiiril. Expected.
President Lawrence Hope, of the
Minnesota Poultry association, is not
a superstitious man. As head of the
executive committee of the association
he is determined that the thirteenth
annual poultry show next week shall
make a new mark for lovers and ex
hibitors of the feathered tribe. The
committee met yesterday, and after
carefully weighing the matter decided
to accept the permission of the city
POULTRY HERALD CUP.
POILTRY HERALD Cl P.
fathers and hold the annual exhibition
in the Market house, where it was last
winter.
The St. Paul show has for some years
brought together exhibits of the best
specimens of all the many breeds of
fowl in the country, and especially in
the West, and its patronage, both as to
the number of exhibitors and the pub
lic, has increased with each succeed
ing year. More birds, more money in
cash and cups for prizes and a greater
variety and perfection in breed show
American poultry the finest in the
world.
Added to this is the excitement of
the contests for the different honors of
the various classes, including this year
many entries from the pigeon fanciers,
carrying out the innovation of the last
annual show.
Secretary Meili says there were over
2,000 birds shown last year, and that
the number next week will greatly in
crease those figures. He has received
word from the leading poultry men in
this state, in Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa
and Dakota who are showing their pet
fowls this week at the show in Wi
nona, that they will be here for the
St. Paul display.
The premium list is out and has been
sent to most of the fanciers with its
list of over $1,500 in cash prizes and
half a dozen silver cups. This will be
a busy week for the committee, which
consists of President Hope. Secretary
Meili and Vice President Ed Kynch,
who is also to be the superintendent of
the show. Market hall is to be put in
order for the reception of pens by the
last of the week. The blinding arc
lights will be dispensed with and in
place of them will be a large number
of gas lights, which will allow better
judging and add to the enjoyment of
the spectator. A plan has been adopted
for the disinfection of the hall each
day so that no objectionable odor will
be apparent.
The Judges will be the well known
Sharpe Butterfield, of London, Ontario,
who is now judging at New York;
George D. Holden, of Owatonna, and
C. H. Conary, of Minneapolis, who will
pass upon the pigeons. The decimal
score will be used, a,nd for the flrst
time in the history of the association
the American Standard of Perfection,
which will call for some slight changes
in the judging as heretofore done, will
serve as authority for the decisions
made.
The five silver cups are valued at
something over $300, and it is promised
there will be some close contests for
first honors in the different classes.
Each cup becomes the property of the
exhibitor who wins it twice. They are
held as follows at this writing:
The association cup was captured by
William Schulz with his pen of white
Wyandottes, and the poultry men say
BANTAM CUP.
he will have some hard competition if
he expects to win again this year. John
G. Osmundson. of Nerstrand, Minn.,
holds the prize cup for having the larg
est number of birds entered scoring
over 90 points. The prize cup in open
competition went to C. N7 Bliss, of Min
neapolis, who showed the highest scor
ing pen of fowls. Mlss Virginia Thur
man, of St. Paul, entered her tiny sil
ver duck-wing bantams last year and
easily carried off the bantam cup,
while the Toultry Herald cup for the
highest scoring bird in the class hav
ing the most entries was won by the
present secretary of the association, B.
S. Griffin, of St. Paul, with his famous
Plymouth Rock pullet. This same pul
let has reached the dignity of hen, and
will enter this year for the top honors
among the big black and white fowl.
As a pullet she had little or no compe
tition.
The pigeons are going to be a promi
nent feature of the exhibit this year,
there being over thirty classes, and
each class numerously subdivided. The
pigeons will be looked after by W. H.
Schulz and William Stasson, and will
include carriers, tumblers, pouters,
Jacobins, owls, trumpeters. Orientals,
fantails, turbits, magpies, swallows,
priests, dragoons, homers, runts and
archangels.
As stated, C. H. Conary. of Minne
apolis, will judge the different classes.
A number of unusually interesting
special prizes have been offered, among
them being money prizes for the best
hen's eggs.
This will show Mrs. Hen as well by
her product as in the feathers, and aa
there is no entrance fee required there
will in all probability be many wonder
ful eggs shown. These, after the prizes
have been awarded, will be given by
the president to some local charity.
Phil Schweitzer, who conducts the
Minnesota home for the crack Blue
Andulasians, had the encouragement
of the youngsters in mind when he of
fered cash prizes for the boys and girla
who will show the handsomest coop in
which are bantam entries. It is ex
pected that there will be some keen
rivalry among the more youthful ex
hibitors.
Although the entries do not close un
til Saturday there have been received
entries from Luverne, Winona, Crook
ston, Beveral towns- in Wisconsin, while
there will be a generous representa
tion from Minneapolis. Word ls also
received from lowa, Dakota and Illi
nois that their best birds will be here.
DAUGHTERS ARE BUSY.
Arranging for the National ('ongr.!.
at Wnr-hinnrton.
The different chapters at the Daughters of
the American Revolution, in St. Paul, are
preparing to hold meetings for the election of
delegates to the national congress, which be
gins in Washington, Feb. 20.
One chapter, the St.Paul, haa already se
lected its delegates at tiie meeting held last
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Deals, as regent of
the chapter. Is a delegate ex-offlcio. Her
alternate is Mrs. James F. Wade. The second
delegate is Mrs. W. P. Jew-itt, with Miss Ada
Murphy as alternate.
The Nathan Hale chapter meets Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with Mrs. F. E.
Rice, 322 Summit avenue. Mrs. Charles S.
Fee will read a paper on "The French in
North America."
The Distaff chapter also meet 3 Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with Mrs. John
Quincy Adams, of Crocus hill.
It is presumed that sill the chapters in
the state will have their full representation at
the coming congress for it wilt ba a most
important one. There are over twenty
amendments to the national constitution to
be voted upon and there are also a number
of amendments to the national by-laws to be
acted upon in order to have them conform to
the amendments to the constitution passed
last year. One of the most important of
these to the chapters is the one regarding the
division of dues. As tilings now stand the dif
ferent chapters keep half the dues and turn
the other hahf over to the national society.
Under rhe new law the chapters will keep
two-thirds of the dues banded, in and turn
one-third to the national society.
Another important n__a..u_» . that will be
acted upon concerns the method . of electing
state regents. The new.-, amendment to be
voted upon provides for the election of the
state regent by the delegates in their respec
tive states or territories prior to the national
congress. An effort has be.n made here in
the past to elect the regent for Minnesota in
the state, but by the majority lt waa con
sidered unconstitutional.
Officers elected at the national congress
thia year will serve for two years instead of
one as heretofore. Every alternate year is
for the election of officers and the intervening
year for the regular business and discussion
for the gcod of the society.
The national officers are making prepara
tions to give a large reception to delegates
and visiting daughters, for which purpose the
old Corcoran Art gallery has beea secured.
MAYOR KIEFER CAUTIOUS
DOES SOT WA7XT THE -.RAM) JIRY
TO KXOW SALOONS KEEP
OPEN LATE
So tlie Llqaor Selling Fraternity-
Has Been Instructed to Keep the
Doors Locked Alter Midnight for
a Little While at Least.
Mayor Kiefer has had another spasm re
garding the closing of saloons at midnight.
It is not any more severe than the many
previous attacks of the same nature which
the mayor has undergone, aa the favored few
saloons that keep open all night just the
same when he orders a general closing as at
any other time, are still doing business at
all hours of the night. The mayor's attack
seized his Thursday evening. It is not known
whether it came on gradually or struck him
suddenly, after learning that the grand Jury
was inquiring into a lot of matters that the
mayor ought to take care of himself, but it
reached its height during the afternoon when
the same old order was sent to Chief Goss
to have the saloons closed tight at midnight.
The order was transmitted to the patrolmen,
but those on whose beats are located th_
'•owls" had private Instructions, and the
aforesaid "owls" continue to "hoot" all night
long aa of yore.
Of course the saloon keepers are angry,
not so much at being ordered to close, but
because of the constant change of base on
the part of the mayor. One week they get
the "office" to keep open, and the ne_rt week
around comes a thirsty policeman with an
order for them to close up. But then the
saloonkeepers do not know what an Inquisi
tive grand jury this is that is in session
now, so perhaps their wrath will be molifled
after the grand Jury adjourns by the antici
pated permission to run all night again.
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
Midwinter Meeting at the Guild of
Christ Chnrch.
The St. Paul convoca'ion of Episcopal
churches will hold a mid-winter meeting" in
Christ church guild hall in St. Paul Tues
day evening, at 8 o'clock, and continuing
during Wednesday, Feb. 1, _599. It will be
pecessary for those attending convocation
from out of town, and who need to be en
tertained, to notify Rev. E. Dray, secretary
of St. Clement's church, Portland avenue and
M .ton street, before Tuesday. It ls particu
larly desired that every member of convoca
tion be present Tuesday evening.
The following programme will be carried
out:
Holy communion, 9 a. n_. ; organization, 10
a. m.
Report of conference committee on pro
posed Canon XXII., 10:16 a. ni. Rev. C. C.
Rollit
Paper — "Sacerdotalism," 11 a. m. Rev. Har
vey Officer.
Paper— "The Development of the Belief in
the Immortality of the Soul, aa Traced in
the Jewish and Christian Church," 11:43 a.
m. Rev. Geo. H. Mueile*-.
Paper — "Summer Cam pa - for our Boys,"
12:30 p. m. Rev. T. P. Tburston.
Lunch, 1 p. m.
Paper — "Our Rural Missions," 2:15 p. m.
Rev. H. S. Streeter.
Paper— "The place 0$ Prayer in Parish an*
Mission Work," 3 p. m. Rev. John Flock
h. rt.
Reports on mission work, 3:30 p. m.
Frcm 4 to 5:30 p. m.,* ths** Rev. F. A. Allen
will illustrate a lecture on "Church History,"
with stereopticon views.
Dayton's Blnff Mother.' Clnb.
The Dayton's Bluff Mothers' club wiil meet
at 3:45 on Monday afternoon at the Van Bc_en
school.
Dr. Eachus will address the meeting on
"The Care of the Teeth in Chi'.dhood."*
Go see the Southern products exhibited by
the Southern Railway at 354 Jackson street,
St. PaaL
WHICH CANAL ROUTE?
JILIIS M(li:ilS< II IllS< ( SM.*. Tt
FEASIBILITY OF PAX AM A A.MJ
NICARAGUA PLANS
HE WORKED ON PANAMA DITCH
HU Familiarity With the Topogra
phy ot the Country I. en tir. Ill.i. to
Favor ot the Panama Route if
Por.NeM.iion ott the ..eeesaary Ter
ritory Can Be Acquired by Ihe
lulled State*.
Factory Inspector Julius Moersch
was for three years In the employ of
the Panama Canal company in the
capacity of a civil engineer. Discus
sing the proposed Nlcaraguan canal, of
which so much has been said of late,
Mr. Moersch gives The Globe the fol
lowing interesting interview:
"Tto idea of connecting the Atlantic with
tne Pacific ocean was flrst taken up by the
Central American governments. As early as
1..5 a proposal was made to John Quincy
Adams, then president, and to Henry Clay,
the secretary of state, to build a canal Joint
ly by the United States and the republics of
Central America. President Jackson, ln 1535
sent a special commissioner to the Isthmus
of Panama to study the situation. The pro
ject became of more Interest to our country
after the acquisition of California by the
United States, and it was generally expected
that by the ratification of the Clayton -Bulwer
treaty wtih England in ISSO the project of
building an interoceanic waterway would be
materialized. But not until after the War of
the Rebellion waa the project again taken up.
Real Admiral Ammen, who was appointed
ohief of the bureau of navigation ln 1870, sent
different expeditions to Central America for
the purpose of making surveys and determin
ing the most feasible route. A commission
appointed by President Grant In 1*74, after
going carefully over the ground, made a re
port in 187. and recommended the Xicaragua
route as being the most feasible from th.
engineering standpoint and of greatest benedt
to American commerce.
"A private company was organized in the
United States in 1887 under the name of the
Xicaragua Maritime Canal company, which
started at once, extensive surveys and pre
liminary work. Finally in the bygone year
a I'nited States commission went to Xicaragua
to make a study of the situation and their re
port is now before congress. But during ali
thts intervening time European enterprise
also had been taking a more or less lively
interest in the projeot on hand. Encouraged
by the success of the Suez canal, which con
nects the Mediterranean with the Red sea
and opened a shorter and direct waterway be
tween Europe and India and the Orient,
Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of tho
former canal, organized ln 1881 a company
for the purpose of bulldiug a canal across the
Isthmus of Panama. But before the Paris
congress, Count de Lesseps admitted that he
should have given preference to the Xicaragua
route, lf it had been possible to build this
canal without a system of locks. The ill suc
cess of the Panama Canal company is too
well known to be repeated, suffice it to men
tion that the company went in bankruptcy in
15.9, almost precipitating the French republic
into a panic. A new company has been
formed in 1891, and is engaged at the present
time In the work. Turning our attention to
the proposed Xicaragua canal route, we will
Snd the same to be over three times the
lengths of the Panama route (the latter being
16 to 47 miles from ocean to cceanl, but
nevertheless, it seems to have some advant
ages. The mountain range which extends
from Cape Horn to Alaska, and is known in
South America as the Andes and in Xorth
America as the Rocky mountains, slopes down
on the Isthmus of Panama to within 300 feet
above sea level and its greatest declivity is on
the Xicaragua canal route, being about 150
feet above tide water. On the Panama route
& clear ent through the mountains down to
and 32 feet below tbe sea level has to be
made in order to float ships. But the great
est difficulty experienced by the former Pan
ama Canal company came from the floods
which rush down from the mountain slopes
during the rainy season and transform In
nocent looking rivulets Into roaring torrents.
The Rio Charge, which empties near Colon
into the Bay of Lemon, is crossed by the
canal. The river bed. during- the rainy season
can not carry all the water off and floods in
consequence the whoie lowland towards the
Atlantic and Is liable to All the canal with
sand and rock, thereby obstructing naviga
tion seriously. The new Panama Canal com
pany adopted a new system of work and lt
is believed that they wil_ overcome this ob
stacle.
"The Panama canal being a canal on sea
level, nevertheless must have on Its western
extremity a lock in order to overcome tha
difficulties arising from the difference in the
tide water of the two oceans. The distance
from the shores of the United States to the
Panama canal, both on the east and west
side, is far greater than that to the Xicara
gua canal, but since the world's commerce
does not require two canals across the Amer
ican continent, it becomes a serious question
which, will be better for the United States, to
embark in the doubtful enterprise of building
the Xicaragua canal or to acquire possession
of the Panama canal. The United States, for
commercial and defensive reasons, must have
better and quicker communication between its
eastern and western coast and should have
control of any waterway across the continent
Lake Xicaragua, which lays ln the proposed
canal line and covers 3,000 square miles, Is
navigable and would facilitate the construc
tion of this route. The lake Is 110 feet above
sea level and Its western shore reaches with
in twelve miles of the Pacific ocean, tha
intervening range being only forty feet high.
The San Juan river forms the eastern outlet
of the lake, and is about 100 mtles long and
empties into the Caribbean sea at Graytown.
It is intended to build a dam across the
river about sixty miles from its egress from
the lake, and so raise the waters to the
level of the lake. A direct canal will be built
from the dam to the sea. The canal, so
constructed, will require a series of power
ful locks on both sides of the lake, ln which
ships can be raised and lowered. The argu
ment often brought forward that the coun
try which this canal line is to traverse is
mere in danger of earthquakes than the Isth
mus of Panama has been set at rest. But
another obstacle presents Itself. There are
no natural harbors on the Atlantic side and
powerful breakwaters would have to be built
in order to shelter ships from the inrolling
waves of the ocean and mako their entering
the canal possible at any time. On the shores
of Lake Xicaragua is the once flourishing city
of Granada, and further away north is the
beautiful little town of Xindidri, with its fine
cocoa groves. The country around the lake
would be greatly benefited by the new canal
and a prosperous future could be prognosti
cated to the interior of Xicaragua and Costa
Rica."
DEATHS OF A DAY.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 28.— Hon. Evan
Jones, one of the most prominent flgures in
the Populist party, died last night at hia
home. Mr. Jones was on the national Populist
ticket with Gen. Weaver, and waa also a
congressional candidate on the Populist ticket
two rear? ago.
SAX FRAN-CISCO. Jan. 28.— 8. B. Carle
ton, editor and proprietor of Town Talk, of
this city, and editor and manager of the of
ficial organ of the Knights and Ladles of
Honor, the Chronicle. Indianapolis, is dead.
Mr. Carleton waa born ln Cumberland. Md.
He was an active member of the Masonic or
der, the Elks, the Knigbts of Pythias. Knights
and Ladies of Honor and the Foresters.
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A STATE SANITARIUM
AND FOREST PRESERVATION
IIN miNNESOTA.
The agitation, by various individ
uals, concerning a state sanitarium
and forest reservation ln Minnesota
may be most rightly described as an
unaccomplished hope. Nothing has
been successful, except at Itasca lake.
Every day of every year the grow
ing trees and evergreens ln Minnesota
drop from a living perpendicular to a
dead level, every second Of time from
daylight to nightfall. The destruction
is constant, avaricious and continuous.
It has been proposed to locate a
state sanitarium at Cass lake, on the
Ojibway reservation, near the narrows
connecting Pike bay with the main
recess of that beautiful body of water,
for the reason that a virgin body of
pine is growing there at an extensive
lake near a railroad.
Today an Indian war is threatened
for the intrinsic value of the pine
standing there; two saw mills will be
in operation at that point in April of
this year, and the lumber yards will
be extensive and the log booms in
Pine bay and Cass lake will shut out
even the passage of row boats. The
secretary of the interior has ordered
the stumpage sold, and several hun
dred men are at this time landing the
dead and down timber, mostly alive
and thrifty, preparatory to active lum
bering transactions of vast propor
tions, in the near future.
The possession and ownership of the
pine there depends upon bidders, in
competition, or most probably in com
bination, at the United States Land
office, on the day of sale, when the
cash must be paid in advance for the
stumpage right. These transactions
are culminating rapidly, and thirty
Ojibway warriors passed through St.
Paul last Wednesday on their way to
Washington to influence action relat
ing to the disposal of the pine at Cass
and Leech lakes.
An eminent divine has recently giv
en expression, in an evening paper, to
a desire to secure the entire locality
as a park. The cost would be far in
excess of $1,000,000. In the meantime
lumbermen and sawmill owners are in
active operations in the very center
of the region proposed as a park, and
two branch lines of railroad penetrate
the forests, maintaining daily trains
to and from Cass lake.
The legislature is strenuously work
ing to cut down expenses, investigate
frauds, increase assessments and re
duce rates of taxation, with a necessity
of replenishing the revenue fund by
temporary use of another fund, in an
ticipation of future receipts.
The result will be no parj_ and no
sanitarium at Cass lake, under the
auspices of the state.
In five or six years a now rapidly
culminating series of lumbering trans
ticns will, with celerity and certainty,
transform the ideal park and sanita
rium locality between Leech and Tur
tle lakes, into a region of pine stumps,
burned over and abandoned. The time
necessary for the production of another
forest there, even under the most fa-
mm OF ENGINEERS
THEY ARE DlSCl '_______ BY PRESI
DENT ESTABROOK, OF THE
LOCAL SOCIETY'
SOME WAYS TO HELP ST. PAUL
They "Were Suggested at the An
nual Meeting: of the Civil Engi
neers* Society Good Roads
Cause Was Discussed at Some
Length and Other Important Im
provements Considered.
At the annual meeting of the Civil
Engineers' Society of St. Paul the old
officers were all re-elected, as follows:
President, J. D. Estabrook; vice presi
dent, Oliver Crosby; secretary, C. L.
Annan; treasurer, A. O. Powell; libra
rian, A. W. Munster; representative on
the board of managers for the associa- j
tion of engineering societies, George I
L. Wilson.
Reports of the various officers were !
read showing that the society is in a
flourishing condition.
The objects of the organization are i
the professional Improvement of its j
members, the encouragement of social ;
intercourse, and the advancement of j
civil engineering. While its proceed
ings are mainly of interest to mem
bers of the profession, it frequently
touches on matters of public concern.
In his address President Estabrook
said that this was an age of wonder- j
ful consolidations and development of j
great enterprises; some great in re- j
suits, others in inception only. Small !
beginnings and steady growth are no I
longer popular. The full blossom must
appear without previous sprout or bud. j
Working units are abundant every- i
where; or, if locally or temporarily i
scarce, some machine is at once adapt- (
ed and made to All the gap. There is '
a decreasing tendency to promote skill- ,
ed workmen. The unskilled man, who, \
without losing himself, ls able to guide j
others through broad fields of actlv- ■
ity, is the once placed in charge.
Trades? unions and societies try to con- ;
trol the working units, regardless of ,
degredation of the products. What,
then, is to become of the average en- ;
gineer? We need not concern our- !
selves about the genius who makes
his work without our help. Such men j
have appeared in the past and risen j
to prominence in the profession. Oth- !
ers who started as engineers branched '
off into other callings where they be- I
came doubly famous. But of the nine- !
ty and nine not destined to become fa- j
mous, must they confine themselves
to curves and calculus, beams and >
bolts, striving for perfection and neg- !
lecting fitness; figuring out details, j
while others are determining relations !
with commonplace affairs? On at lea-t
one of our great railways we find
sumptuous train equipment and satis
factory service, and there discover i
managers whose early training and i
wit-sharpening period brought them in
hourly contact with the traveling pub- j
lie. On another line we find superior ;
permanent way, safety devices and i
complete structures, but less display j
in vehicles, less catch-passenger at- |
tractions, and there discover that en- j
gineers have been promoted to the |
field of management. An engineer j
would not be less, but rather more, if j
he were first a man and then an en- i
gineer. The unskilled public canr.ot '
fairly judge of his professional ability, |
but can better determine as to his |
manhood and breadth of outlook. There |
is certainly a widespread belief that ;
the engineer is a great deal of a nar- i
row craftsman.
In closing his address Mr. Estabrook j
touched on some matters that should j
more particularly attract the atten
tion of the general public, especially I
business men. He said: "Again, th**
engineering needs of this region might ;
well receive consideration. For in- i
stance, why have 200 square miles of i
agricultural country lying to the
southeast of us remain for fifty years
cut off from St. Paul by a ravine I
cross.d by wagon roads having 10
per cent grades? Or, again, why have j
we no gocd Common road connections j
to the north across the great belt of (
sand that stretches from Stillwater to
White Bear, to Anoka? And, still
again, w-hy should we have no union
depot for a year, and no space for car
riages for an indefinite period?"
The society expended last year for
entertainment $51.45, and has assets
11
vorablie conditions, ls 100 years, since lt
is certain that the lumberman win
carefully rut over the whole fleld a
second time for ties, pulp, telegraph
pules, cedar posts, tamarae fe
birch, maple ar.d oak wood, and
to hoop poles and Jack pine shingles.
Fire will sweep over the region a
second and third time, and in twenty
years the annihilation of the magnifi
cent forests north of Leech lake will be
an accomplished fact; an abomination
ln the sight of civilization.
Straggling settlers have already
sought a foothold there, and as a more
remote result, the small farms of a
sandy and unproductive soil will yield
a pittance to those who come Into a
succeeding possession.
At this point, it has been suggested
that the state can step ln and inaugur
ate forest culture.
With forty-five hundred thousand
people, the only forest culture po.si-
J. ? 111I 11 ' 8 state wlll be '*y individual
? J*' J" r ' instead of accumulating
and, the state is and has been lavish-
Ingly pushing land sales as fast as a
price is in sight. The only reason of
fered at this time for a refusal to treat
for the preservation of seal life is a
protective and prohibitory duty on Ca
nadian lumber of $2 per thousand so
as to prevsnt competition in favor of
the Cass lake and other lumbermen
tnat they may squeeze a higher profit
from their business of destroying for
ests, with r.o intention or expectation
of preserving anything but unduly ac
cumulated fortunes from Xature*..
bounty.
The proposition is kindly offered by
one who is deeply interested in forest
preservation, and the ho D e for a state
sanitarium, that it is about time to
base action o n something more tangible*
than a dream of remote and uncertain
contingencies to occur after the forests
of the state are transformed into
wastes.
The only possible solution at this
time is to adopt the suggestions made
In Gov. Llnd'a inaugural message rec
ommending the extension of the Itasca
state park, at which point no purer ai"
or more healthy region for a sanitarium
can be found in the state.
In that manner a virgin forest of
pine may be preserved forever, instead
of calculating on the possibilities of
the closing days of the twentieth cen
tury.
Two hundred men are at this time
in camp a mile or two from the north
east corner of the state park, slashing
the forests and damming the river pre
paratory to the flrst log drive 'from
that point down the Mississippi
Since the above was written Senat r
McCarthy has introduced a bill in th-=>
legislature for the Leech lake park, at
vv alker. Cass county, covering about
twenty-four sections of land, subject
to future approval.
The land proposed for the new park
_ pr _ nc!pally oWl *ed by lumbermen
and has been cut over, but to wha*
extent cannot be stated here for want
of definite information.
m_ /?/. ama ? unt of *^-M- of which
J294 .4 Is cash. There are no liabilities
it has thirty-one resident and twen
ty-one non-resident mem her?.
GIRL WELL_GUARDED.
Father and Brother of an Indiana
Girl Prevent Her Elopement.
_J. RA ? II \. In(3 *' Jan - 2S — Edward Youcom
sec_red a license Wednesday to marry Miss
i^ C7 n GO , oiia ' the "-wr-old dang
John Go odlnf an i nfluential . f . rme _ who re _
sides three miles south of this .itv. The li
cense was granted, it is said. o_ the
John Bachelor that the gts. was of agp
The wedding was sot for last r gilt aad It
is believed the couple contemplated eio**i*_ 2
BOw Goodin's father and brother' w_r .
warned of the intended wed ling, and ea -h
secured a shotgun and declared he wou 1
Kill the flrst one who attempted to tak» the
girl from the house. One of the Wends ot
the groom attempted to conciliate the bate
father, but was ordered to leave the premise.
- at the point of a gun.
Youcom was warned of the danger await
| ing turn. To-day a man. presumably sent by
, T*oucom to kidnap the bride ,-!_«. went to
•joo-lns place, representing himself a_ an
officer. He said he had a warrant for the
girl » arrest and desired to bring her to f-»
city.
Goodin's gun was quickly taken from the
rack, and the pretended officer was sent
from the premises.
Goodin and his son have Miss Nancy con
stantly under surveilance, aand It is evident
the wedding will be postponed .or some time
to come. The young lady ai.pea.-s to take
the matter a_ a huge joke.
EX-REBEL HONORED.
Boston Post Will Hold ____■_ Uc_ Over
Body of a Former Confederate.
BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 2..— John Buck an
ex- Confederate cavalry trooper, who was
wounded at Antietam, died in this city, aud
on Sunday he will be buried with the honors
of comradeship and the ritual of the Grand
Army by the department officers of this
state.
The action of the Grand Army in accord
ing a military burial to the dead Conf.d.rat
ls ln keeping with the American spirit of
today. Such a burial has never before been
given a Confederate soldier lv the North.
Buck was a Virginian, but fcr sixteen years
had lived ia this ctty. He often admitted
to friends that he thought the outcome of
the war was for the best.
His wife, wbo is dying in a hospital, ia
receiving every attention possible at the <o
licitatlon of Grand Army men. A son is aa
engineer on the cruiser Brooklyn.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
BOSTON. Jan. 2..— 8y a decision at
suran.-e commissioner pub.i.hed today, ths
practice of the trades unions of the sta:e of
insuring their members against sickness,
death, lo;*s of tools. loss of work, etc., is de
clared Illegal.
SAN JOSE. Cal.. Jan. 38.— Sheriff L.ng
fo-rd has wired the Burlington. 10., sheriff t>
re7eaae the Dunham suspect he has under ar
rest. The officers are satisfied the man la not
Dunham.
MIDDLESBORO. Ky., Jan. 28.— Wh
attempted to whip Tom Jackson, in ll.r! aa
county, last night, when Jaok.on'e wtfe in
terfered, killing the leader. The dead leader
proved to be William Wright, a neighbor of
Jackson's.
LOS ANGELES, C.1.. Jan. 28.— A. C. Brad
ley, the old soldier who shot Gov. Smith, of
the Soldiers' home, at Santa Monica, has been
found guilty of asiault with a deadly weapon,
but recommended to the mercy of ths court.
SAN FP-ANCI3CO. Jan. 28.— Mrs. Leland
Stanford has gone East in her private car on
a tri? to combine business and pleasure. It
is said she will visit New York in era
with a meeting of Southern Pacific official*
to be held there next week.
NEW" YORK, Jan. 28.— Georea Brown, a
farmer, living at Norwocd. L. 1., broke his
neck ln jumping from a window in the liousa
he occupied with his family, and which had
taken fire while all were sleeping, early to
day. Srowu's wife and five children escaped
uninjured.
BOONE, 1 ... Jan. fs.— The Chicago & North
western freight house caught fire at 12:20 to
day and «i. destroyed, with a.l i_s contents.
ln half an hour.
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