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VOL. XXII.— NO. 83.
WEALTH 1 WHEAT
MILLIONS MAY BE ADDED TO IT
BY A BMOADER ORIENTAL
MARKET
TALK TO C.RAIS GROWERS
HH. HILL DISCISSES PACIFIC
TRADE AND ITS RELATION
TO FARMERS
ONLY SOLUTION TO PROBLEM
Decreased Acreage May for a Time
Force Vp Prices, but for Perma
nent Effect the Remedy Is the
Creation of an Increased Demand
— ('ruin Growers* Convention Ad
journs After a Successful Session.
FARGO, N. D., March 23.— (.Speelal.)—
The convention of the Grain Growers' as
soi Utlo'.i closed this evening after a ses
sion covering three days, which cannot
but prove of great benefit to the farmers
of the Northwest. The closing day was
the most Important and the attendance,
large from the opening, was greatly aug
mented today by those anxious to hear
President J. J. Hill, of the Great North
ern, whose address was the principal
feature of the programme for this after
noon.
Mr. Hill arrived early this afternoon,
lie was met at the depot by a reception
committee and walked to the opera house
with ihe visiting farmers and delegates.
The meeting was called to order at 2
o'clock by Chairman Johnson, who In
troduced Mr. Kill and paid high tribute
to him as having done more than any
one other man for the development of
the Northwest. This statement was
greeted with applause which grew into
an ovation as Mr. Hill rose to respond.
MR. HILL'S ADDRESS.
Twenty- nine years ago on the date of
his first visit to Fargo, Mr. Hill said,
there were only three white families
north of Ft Abercromble. He was told
by St. Paui people that this country was
too sour and wet for settlement. When
he first suggested it would prove a great
agricultural section, his friends thought
the country might do for grazing ln dry
years. Mr. Hill spoke of his attempt to
Interest the people ot the valley ln drain
age and of the meeting held in Crookston.
The map adopted then, he said, had since
been used for the work. The differences
in elevations in the valley were men
tioned as showing that practically drain
age was easy. The hard task, Mr. Hill
continued, was to arouse public interest
and to secure legislative approval. After
his company had paid $10,000 for surveys,
with tbe promise of $25,000 more, the state
o! Minnesota finally appropriated $100,000.
The citizens on the Minnesota side of the
valley, Mr. Hill asserted, owed Ezra Val
entine, of Breckenridge, a greater debt
in this respect than they could ever re
pay. Lands that had been sold at $2 and
abandoned were now being taken up and
sold at from $12 to $15 per acre since
drainage. He hoped the people on this
Ei.l'- would take up the question, as noth
ing would be of greater value. The ques
tion of data was discussed and general
ni i was promised. While the Great
Northern had land grants ln Minnesota
and Montana, more than in North Da
kota, the road was, Mr. Hill assured his
hearers, as eager to help the cause along
in this state as in Minnesota.
GRAIN THFI GREAT INDUSTRY.
Turning to the subject of grain, Mr.
Hill spoke of wheat growing as having
been the great industry of the valley for
years ar.d probably to continue for many
years more. Pure seed was a necessity.
Summer fallowing and plowing under
fertilizers would keep the land up.
Larger returns could be secured by this
method, nnd by careful attention to sci
entific and practical methods. To keep
the laud up something must be returned.
To do that, cattle and hogs were neces
sary. Mr. Hill stated that this year
along the lines of the Great Northern
railway in this state, east of Minot, the
road would haul 30,000 more cattle than
along its lines from Minot west to the
Pacific coast. His efforts in sending cat
tle and hogs into this country were
touched upon, and Mr. Hill stated that
his road handled more fat live stock
into St. Paul than any other. Fertilizer
from stock, he asserted, was equal in
value to one-third the price of the feed
given to stock and would return to the
farmer that much, if pat on farm prop
erty .
FARM ECONOMY.
Mr Hill, on the subject of farm economy,
said he was surprised to find that dock
age in North Dakota grain went as high
as four pounds to the bushel. The freight
on this cost the people of the state
$300,000 annually. This same stuff sells at
from $5 to $7 per ton. This waste would
annually feed 150,000 head of sheep. This
was bad policy and to avoid it the land
should be well cultivated. Smut, too,
was becoming more serious. This alone
was a material matter.
As to the question of state inspection,
it was. Mr. Hiil said, becoming a most
important problem. It was difficult to
control this, unless there were terminal
markets within the state. The Minne
sota grain Inspection was the standard
in Europe and it would cost the people
much to abolish it, unless something
better could be substituted. He some
times thought of federal inspection for
Minnesota and the two Dakotas. This
would probably be better for North Da
kota, because the state would have rep
resentation.
Mr. Hill then paid tribute to the Red
River valley, Its land and Its climate.
Railroad rates from the valley proper
were from 15 to 40 per cent lower than
from any other wheat growing section.
With these advantages land should sell
for as much here as in lowa. He thought
every acre in the valley worth from $40
to $50. Land here, he said, has a greater
market value than in the Dcs Moines
valley in lowa.
WIDER MARKETS.
Foreign commercial relations -were then
touched upon. Mr. Hill gave the farmers
some good common-sense advise. At the
market wheat would bring a price regu
lated by demand. There was no law com
pelling that a higher pries be offered. ,
*
By a reduction in acreage prices might
be forced up, but that was an unnatural
method. Supply and demand in Europe
regulated prices. People abroad knew
the United States had a hundred or two
million bushels extra to sell. Thc.ro was
one way to help this, not by reducing
acreage, but by widening demand through
an extention of commercial relations.
The government alone could do this. In
the history of thirty years no Intelligent
utterance by public men could be found
on the subject -of opening new markets.
The national representatives spent too
much time in getting postofflce and local
appropriations. The recent congress had
appropriated $30,000 for improving the
navigation of the Red river. The Great
Northern owned all the boats on Red
river and would sell them for half the
appropriation. The last congress appro
priated a billion and a half dollars, but
not fifty cents of this was of value to
the grain growers of the Northwest.
UNLIMITED DEMAND.
Along this train of thought Mr. Hill
touched upon the value of a Japanese
line of steamships. He held such boats
could take wheat across the ocean for
$2.50 a ton if properly conducted. Japan
and China could use more wheat than the
United States could export. There would
be no danger of getting too much. Supply
could not exceed demand. If that market
could be opened it would do more to
raise the price of wheat east of the
Rockies than the value of forty million
bushels shipped to the East. The dif
ficulties of shipping wheat by the eastern
route across the equator and twice
around the horn were obvious. Mr. Hill
had asked the government to pay a sub
sidy of $1.50 per ton for Oriental ship
ments. This would have cost a million
and a half dollars and would have raised
the value of the wheat product of the
Northwest $35,000,000. The newspapers
took up the measure and a bill was pre
sented, but Its own mother would not
have recognized it. The bill as presented
was principally for the benefit of ship
builders, and representatives In the na
tional congress should be held respon
sible.
As illustrating the injustice of govern
ment bounties, Mr. Hill Instanced the ap
propriation of a million dollars for the
improvement of the Mississippi river be
tween Fort Snelllng and Minneapolis, the
only good result of which would be to
furnish the university students a boating
course. St. Paul received a million and a
quarter, but Northwestern wheat growers
could secure no relief.
STEAMERS TO ORIENT.
In Minnesota the lumber was being ex
hausted. The state had some iron mines,
but North Dakota had little else than its
Boil and Its climate. Everything had to
come out of the ground. If it were his
duty to provide a remedy himself, Mr.
Hill stated he would do so by putting on
a line of ships to the Orient. Other coun
tries had mercantile fleets and fostered
them. The United States did not. It
was not the fault of the country, but of
the people.
MENACE OF TRUSTS.
Then turning to the last phase of his
address Mr. Hill warned his hearers that
there was danger of another great crisis,
from the overcapitalization of enter
prises and from the failure of trusts. This
would, he believed, be the greatest crisis
in the history of the world. He would
make shareholders responsible for stock
sold after three years. That would be a
preventative to reckless promoting. The
attorney general was criticised for his
refusal to head off the trusts and do his
share to prevent possible disaster. What
Influences the actions of the average rep
resentative of the people was, Mr. Hill
said, beyond his comprehension. The
chief and only aim seemed to be to secure
a re-election.
In closing, Mr. Hill said he thought the
future prospects of the country depended
entirely on the opening of new markets.
This could be done by refusing to appro
priate money for few postofflces and de
voting it to a broader purpose. He asked
the audience to give him credit for hon
esty in his purpose and utterances. He
was glad to see so many experiment sta
tion men here and so many Intelligent
farmers interested in their work.
There was frequent applause during the
progress of Mr. Hill's remarks and a
hearty outburst as he closed.
REGULAR BUSINESS.
Considerable important business was
transacted today by the association. A
resolution was offered by A. M. Anson, of
Casselton, declaring that the govern
ment's monthly crop reports are detri
mental to farmers, as giving information
to foreign speculators, which has a ten
dency to bear down -prices, and requesting
the government to discontinue the month
ly reports and issue one annual report
at the end of the crop season. A motion
by ex-Railroad Commissioner Underwood
to table the resolution was defeated. The
convention voted that the resolution
should be sent to Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson.
A resolution was also adopted asking
the state insurance commissioner to in
vestigate the Fessenden Hall Insurance
company, with a view to closing up the
company.
The question box occupied the first
hour, with short talks from Prof. Hays,
Supt. Gregg, Profs. Bolley and Waldron,
and Messrs. Barnes and McKlsslck. R.
N. Lewis, a trustee of the agricultural
college, spoke on rotation of crops and
diversified farming as means to keep up
land for production of hard wheat. Mr.
McKissick, superintendent of the May
ville Farm company, read a paper on di
versified farming and the culture of for
age plants, especially clover.
Secretary Worst read a letter from In
spector Clausen defending Minnesota
grain inspection, also a letter from Con
gressman Spalding expressing interest in
prospective legislation to promote the
purpose of the convention. The com
mittee on grain clearing made tests of
m-ichlnery.
The Cleland seed-cleaning machine,
manufactured ln Minneapolis, was
awarded the first prize.
Machinery dealers gave a mammoth
banquet this evening to the farmers.
NINETEEN DEAD.
This, "With Thirty-Four Missing.
Record of Windsor Hotel Fire.
NEW YORK, March 23.-Nir ™ n dead
and thirty-four missing is the ..cord so
far of the Windsor hotel fire on Friday
last. One more body was found today.
This brings the list of unknown dead to
nine. The fragments were dug up about
twenty feet west of the annex on the
Forty-seventh street side, in a part of
the ruins where no other bodies or bones
have been found. . The remains consist
simply of a portion of a spinal column,
with some of the ribs attached, a piece
of the skull and some small bones and
charred flesh. The remains were taken
to the morgue and numbered "Body
No. 9."
■ —
PARALYSIS FEARED.
Archbishop Hennessy Seriously 111
at Dubuque.
DUBUQUE, 10., March 23.— Archbishop
Hennessy is seriously ill at the archi
episcopal residence here. He was sud
denly stricken after dinner yesterday, but
his condition was not considered serious
until today. His speech is affected, lead
ing to the assumption that he is suffering
from paralysis. It la also feared the
brain Is affected.
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 24, 1899.
CHAKCE FOR CLASH
AFFAIRS IN SAMOA ASSUMING AN
ASPECT THAT FOB EUODES
SERIOI'S hum hi i;
GERMANS ARE GROWING RESTIVE
DISPUTE THE RIGHT OP THE
AMERICAN AND BRITISH CON
SULS TO DICTATE POLICY
SITUATION NOW COMPLICATED
Possibility of Revocation of the
Treaty of Berlin Grows Stronger
With the Progress of Events ln
the Island-— German Ambassa
dor at Washington Conifers With
the State Department.
WASHINGTON, March 23.— The Ger
man ambassador. Dr. yon Holleben,
called at the state department today to
further confer with the officials concern
ing- the Samoan situation. The Berlin
authorities have communicated very free
ly upon the subject within the last few
days, and as a result of the extended
dispatches from the foreign office the am
bassador has presented a long note, cov
ering the latest phases of the case.
It is understood that the German ad
vices confirm the arrival of Admiral
Kautz and the convoking by him of a
meeting of all the officials on the 11th.
But they do not know what resulted from
the meeting. -All their reports are silent
thus far on this point, but the German
view is evidently one of apprehension,
lest serious results may grow out of the
meeting, ln which event the German view
is that the responsibilities should be
borne by those bringing about the meet
ing. Further than this, questions are
arising as to the extent of authority of
the British and American consuls, acting
together, to do anything without the con
currence of Consul Rose, of Germany.
The German view evidently holds that
the Berlin treaty requires the three con
suls to act unanimously and not through
a majority. Another question is as to
the right of a naval commander to take
any special action. The Berlin treaty, in
their view, would limit the rights of na
val commanders within very narrow lim
its, leaving them simply to execute what
the three consuls by unanimous agree
ment determine upon.
These are the main points engaging at
tention, and in view of the question in
volved news of Admiral Kaautz's action
following the meeting on the 11th Inst.,
is awaited with much interest and not a
little concern.
SITUATION COMPLICATED.
The German government, as is gathered
from the Berlin advices, ls disposed to
stand firmly In support of its its repre
sentative, although it has been intimated
to it that the retirement of Rose would
facilitate a satisfactory and speedy ad
justment of the complications in Samoa.
It is manifestly impossible for the United
States to discredit its representative, the
chief Justice, or for the British govern
ment to repudiate Mr. Maxse, in view of
the weight of the tesimony in their favor,
so that a practical deadlock has been
reached so far as this matter of chang
ing the present representation of the
three powers at Apia ls concerned.
Our government knows nothing as yet
of the reported combined protest of the
German citizens of Samoa against Mr.
Chambers. If the German government
cares to proceed to that length, it can,
under the treaty of Berlin, request the
United States government to withdraw
him. But, in accordance with the provi
sions of the treaty, if the United States
does not care to accede to this request,
Mr. Chambers would continue ln office
until the German government manages to
secure the approval of the British gov
ernment, and in view of the facts above
stated this is not likely to be had.
These conditions lead to the belief that
there is some danger of the repudiation
of the treaty of Berlin, and, in the pres
ent temper of the parties, it would not
be surprising if this happened without an
attempt on their part to replace It, al
though It is of course believed that even
in that event some modus Vi
vendi will be provided to prevent an
other such clash between the conflicting
interests as happened ten years ago, re
sulting in the treaty of Berlin.
DR. LAPPONI ILL.
Pope's Physician Unable tot Attend
His Distinguished Patient.
LONDON, March 23.— According to the
Rome correspondent of the Daily Chron
icle, Dr. Lapponi, the pope's physician,
has been ill for two days. He is suffering
from an attack of bronchitis, and will not
resume his attendance upon the pope
until he has fully recovered.
The correspondent further says the
pope Ignores his doctor's prescriptions
and follows his usual vocations, though
he ls so feeble that it is doubtful whether
he will be able to hold the next con
slstiory. The question of a conclave ls
the subject of much secret negotiation.
OFFICER MLRDERED.
Afghans Shoot and Kill Lieut. Col.
Le Marchant.
CALCUTTA, March ».— A dispatch
from Peshawur, capital of the Punpaub
division of that name on the Afghan
frontier, says that two Pathans— or Af
ghans—have shot and killed Lieut. Col.
E. H. Le Marchant, of the Hampshire
regiment. The murderers have been ar
rested.
GETTING TOGETHER.
France and Great Britain May Ad
just Another Quarrel.
LONDON, March 24.— The Standard
this morning makes the following an
nouncement:
"We understand that the negotiations
between Great Britain and France re
garding Newfoundland promise a satis
factory settlement, France being willing
to surrender her shore rights there if
adequately compensated."
• PARTITION IS COMPLETE.
Division of Africa Is Satisfactory to
Interested Powers. -
LONDON, March 23.— Although the full
. details of the French-English African set-
"' "i^.iown, the general
opinion is thai a I'alr division has been
effected. With Uie exception of Tripoli
and Morocco, both independent states,
the African partition is now complete.
France's advantage lie* In the possession
of the Tripoli Hinterland.
The clause giving equal trading facili
ties between the fifth and fifteenth paral
lels ls thought to be the one feature most
liable to cause trouble, as the French
may attempt to make these trading posts
a basis for military operations.
CAHLISTS PERPLEXED.
Cannot Understand Latest Instruc
tions From Their Loader.
LONDON, March 24.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard says that Don
Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has per
plexed his adherents by a dispatch ln
which ho allows them to go to the polls
at the forthcoming parliamentary elec
tions if they so desire, but explains that
he does not wish the Carllsts to be repre
sented officially in the next cortes. The
general opinion in the political world,
says the correspondent, is that the dis
sensions in the Carllsts' ranks and the
Irresolution of the pretender really de
prive the party of all importance.
REAL TRAGEDY.
Austrian Actress Shot Herself in
Full View of the Audience.
LONDON, March 24.— The Vienna cor
respondent of the Standard says that the
popular actress, Lolo Banzolla, exclaim
ing: '"Tis love that kills," shot herself
with a revolver, on the stage, In full
sight of the audience, during a per
formance at Cilli, Styria, and was re
moved in a dying condition.
LONDON ALARMED.
May Take Steps to Make Hotels
Fireproof.
LONDON, March 23.-Jesse Collins, par
liamentary secretary of the home office
answering a question In the house of
-S-f^S 8 ♦£. oda /' . Bald he understood, ta
view of the destruction by fire of the
Windsor hotel, New York city that the
question of the exit* and flreescanes of
hSSSSs f°- te]s v and m-nsions w?lf be
brought before the London county coun-
FAMOITS PAINTER DYING.
Michael Munkacsy Breathes His
Last In an Insane Asylum.
BERLIN, March 23-Michael Munkacsy,
the famous Hungarian painter, who has
been secluded In a hospital for the insane
at Bonn for more than two years is
dying.
Michael Munkacsy was born near Mun
kacs. Hungary, Oct. 10, 1544. He had been
virtually dead to the world since the
paralytic shock which, in the latter part
of 18S6, compelled him to abandon all hone
At tw r \, W ° r £ lng at ms easel a^ a 'n-
At that time he was at Godesburg For
months he sat brooding and melancholy
until, in an excess of madness, he sud
denly-attacked and nearly strangled his
attendant and his physician. He was im
mediately removed to an insane asylum
from which, on it becoming obvious that
his mental condition was hopeless, he was
removed to the retreat where he has Just
passed away, in the prime of years
Munkacsy's parents were poor and be
fore he was seven years old he was left an
orphan, and given over to the charge of
an uncle at Osaba, who seems to have
treated him very harshly. It happened
that ln the same village his sister was
quartered on an aunt, and the small boy
lived between the two houses. The
youngster was afterward apprenticed to
a tradesman. In his autobiography "The
Early Recollections of Munkacsy," which
appeared in the early part of 1897, after
he had lost his reason, he tells with the
most charming simplicity of those days
of apprenticeship, of heating glue and
grinding cheap paint. At fourteen he was
a qualified workman, and was sent by
his uncle into the world with five florins
ln his pocket. For two years he lived in
the town of Arad. Then, his health weak
ened by wretchedness and lack of food,
he was compelled to return to his uncle's
house. Here the sight of engravings set
him copying them, and the taste returned
to him like a passion.
Shortly after this he entered the studio
of a German, named Fischer, where he
met Szamossy, a painter of some talent,
who gave him an invitation to enter his
studio. He accepted, but not having
other means to pay for instruction. In
sisted on being a kind of domestic serv
ant and man of all work in Szamossy's
house.
After eighteen months he felt strong
enough to strike out for himself, and, on
a very limited purchase of colors, he be
gan to paint compositions with life-sized
figures. His autobiography ends with
that Incident. .
In 1870 the young Hungarian arrived In
Paris, not knowing a . word of French,
with a picture he carried to the Salon
with his own hands. It was the success
of the year, "The Last Day of a Con
demned Prisoner," and immediately es
tablished his reputation. This was fol
lowed nay "The Night Prowlers," "The
Studio," "The Two Families," "Milton
Dictating Paradise to His Daughter,"
"Christ Before Pilate." "Christ on Cal
vary," and "The Last Moments of Mo
zart."
One of his great paintings, "Christ Be
fore Pilate," was purchased by John
Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, who had
it on exhibition in this country for some
weeks. Another of his best known works
ls the "Ecce Homo," first shown at Buda
Pest during the fetes of May and June,
of 1806, when the Hungarian nation at
tained its tenth century as an indepen
dent state.
IS TO HANG TODAY.
Cole> the Colored Murderer "Who
Killed Sophronia Ford.
BISMARCK, N. D., March 23.—(Spe
cial.)—James Cole, who last December
shot and killed Sophronla Ford, will be
hanged here tomorrow morning. The
prisoner tonight, as he has been ever
since his arrest, ls calih and cool and de
clares his willingness to suffer for his
crime. No attempt has been made to
secure a new trial or a stay of sentence,
and there has been no appeal to the gov
ernor for executive clemency. The con
demned man has no known relatives and
his own apathy has prevented any efforts
being made in his behalf. All the prepara
tions for the execution are complete.
Cole ls a colored man and his victim was
a mulato girl, with whom he was in love.
Jealousy prompted ' the crime.
TRIAL Of MR. QUAY.
More Than Fifty "Witnesses Sum
moned by the Prosecution.
PHILADELPHIA, March 23.— 1t was
announced today that the common
wealth has subpoenaed all its witnesses
in the trial of former United States Sen
ator Quay and his son, Richard R. Quay,
which begins April 10. Between fifty
and sixty persons have been summoned
to testify for the prosecution. It is said
that Assistant District Attorney Clement
personally attended to the summoning
of two Pittsburg 'bank cashiers. The
trial is expected to 'take place before
Judge Beltler
TICKET FOR 1900
IF M'KINLEY IS NOMINATED MR.
REED WILL NOT BE HIS RUN
NING MATE
JEKYL RHORS ARE REFUTED
EVIDENTLY INSPIRED STATEMENT
TELEGRAPHED OUT OP THOM
ASVILLE, GEORGIA
M'KINLEY AND HOBART AGAIN
That Ia the Way the Ticket of the
Next National Republican Con
vention Will Read if Mr. Hauna
Can So Arrange It President
Is About Bendy to Return to the
Capital.
THOMASVILLE, Ga., March 23.—Pres
ident McKinley spent pretty much the
whole of today ln the open air, as did
Vice President Hobart. This outdoor
life in a mild and dry climate ls doing
much to tone up the system of each, and
today they showed an improving state
of health.
The president's programme after break
fast ls a seat ln a rocking chair on the
porch until time to dispatch a little
business with Assistant Secretary Cor
telyou. This is followed by a drive. To- .
day this took the form of a tally-ho par
ty, the whip being Charles Chapin, Sen
ator Hanna's nephew. President Mc-
Kinley, wearing a black derby. Instead
of the accustomed high hat, occupied
the box with him. Others of the party
were the vice president, Mrs. Hobart,
young Garret Hobart, Senator Hanna
and Miss Hanna. After a light luncheon
at the house, a drive to the Country
club followed. Here the club, which is
the recognized social institution of
Thomasville, entertained the party, and
then the party drove around awhile,
late in the afternoon again finding them
on the front porch. Tonight the presi
dent signed appointments and transacted
other necessary business.
The Jekyl Island trip having caused
reports of a conference there, and that
Speaker Reed would be nominated for
vice president on the ticket with Mr.
McKinley at the next Republican con
vention, it can be stated again, author
itatively, that politics was tabooed at
Jekyl island. Speaker Reed declined a
vice presidential nomination at the last
. convention, and no thought of a change [
of view on his part has ever been sug
gested, and the administration leaders
have not had him in mind in this con
nection. Moreover, the statement can
be made that the closest and most cor
dial relations, political and personal,
exist between Messrs. McKinley, Hobart
and Hanna, and that for some time
they have had a definite understanding
that, if Mr. McKinley were renominated,
his running mate would be Garret Ho
bart.
Tomorrow the party leaves here for
Tallahassee, Fla., where they hope to
escape all elaborate functions, and have
so notified Gov. Bloxham. Monday prob
ably will find the president started on
his return journey to Washington, the
vice president and Senator Hanna re
maining here.
FAVORS A NEW PARTY.
J. Sterling: Morton Outlines New
Principles for Democracy.
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., March 22.—
J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agricul
ture under Cleveland, is hopeless of the
triumph of Democratic principles under
the present banner.
"They might win under a new name,"
he said today, "but a new party would
have to father them. I think Mr. Bryan's
hold upon a section of the present Demo
cratic party is as strong as ever. He rep
resents the discontent in all parties."
"Has there been any step taken to form
a new party?"
"No; not that I know of. A convention
could be held. It does not take long to
form a new party when there is a general
upheaval. The Republican party was
formed in 1854; it nearly elected its candi
date in 1856, and did elect its candidate
in 1860. Things can happen quicker now
than they did then. The Independent
Democratic party of 1896 was formed in
six weeks. If the election had been a few
weeks before it was Bryan would have
been elected. The crystallization of the
adverse sentiment defeated him. This
new party was the party that elected Mc-
Kinley."
"What should be the platform of this
new party?"
"About that known as the Indianapolis
platform. The Republican party has not
lived up to its promises. It was elected
to secure currency reform. It met in ex
tra session of congress and passed a
tariff law and no currency law."
"Who would be the nominee of the new
party?"
"Well, there are several good men who
represent the types which are called for.
There is Edmunds, for instance. I have a
great admiration for Carl Schurz, but he
was born in Germany and so is not avail
able."
"Do you think there Is any chance of
Mr. Cleveland returning to political life?"
"He might not so desire," said Mr. Mor
ton, "but he may be dragged back into
it. He is a good type of the man
wanted."
"Do you think this new or conservative
party would grow fast enough to win tha
fight In 1300?"
"Perhaps not, but it ls better to make
a fight for what is right and get beaten
than to support what ls wrong."
BELMONT TO TELLER.
New Yorker Responds toi the Col
orado Senator's Comment.
NEW YORK, March 23.— Perry Bel
mont, president of the Democratic club,
was shown an Interview tonight, in
which Senator Teller, of Colorado, was
quoted as saying:
"The members of the Democratic club
ore Republicans masquerading under
Democratic colors."
Mr. Belmont, ln reply, Issued the fol
lowing written statement:
"Senator Teller is the leader of the
Silver Republicans— the allies of Mr.
Bryan; upholding with him the Chicago
platform, and naturally uniting with
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BULLETIN OP
IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY
Weather Forecast for St. Paul.
Fair and Warmer.
I— Mr. Hill to Grain Grotrrcrs.
Sitnatlon Squally In Samoa.
Ticket for 1000 Fixed.
Six Negroes Lynched.
3— Alleged pine Thefts.
Mrs. Lowe's Sanity Questioned.
Agricultural Alumni Dines.
3— The Legislative Session.
Hospital Fight In Senate.
Honse Split* on Sugar Bounty.
Street Car Wages Raised.
4— Editorial.
Railway Men Agree.
Situation at Manila.
B— Sporting News.
News ot the Hailroads.
6— Markets of the "World.
Bar Silver, BO 6-Sc.
Chicago May Wheat, 68 5-B— 3-<Jc.
7— Minneapolis Matters.
B— ln the Field o* Labor.
White Bear Legislation.
Aid for Criminals.
ATLANTIC LINERS.
N „W YORK- Arrived: Spaarndam,
Rotterdam. Sailed: Bremen, Bremen,
via Southampton. Arrived: Nordland
rJrQrfSBLi, Spaarndam, Rotterdam.
QUEEJSSTOWN-Sailed: Majestic, New
, -*<"*' Belgenland, Philadelphia.
MOVILLE - Arrived: Ethiopia, New
York for Glasgow.
LIVERPOOL-Arrived: Catalonia, Bos
ton.
HAMBURG — Arrived: Pennsylvania,
New York.
TOYAI'S EVENTS.
METROPOLITAN - "The Prisoner of
Zenda," 8:15.
GRAND— "A Trip to Coontown," 8:15.
Palm aGrden— Vaudeville, 2 and 8 PM.
Market site commission meets, city hall
4 PM.
Spinsters' Matrimonial convention, Day
ton Avenue Presbyterian church, Day
ton avenue and Mackubln street, 8 PM
Commencement, State Agricultural
school, St. Anthony Park, 2 PM
Grant School union meets, 8 PM
Entertainments, Madison school,' 3 and &
him in his purpose to create discord and
division in the ranks of the party."
WAS OFFERED MONEY.
Pennsylvania Legislative Bribery
Committee Scores One Point.
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 23.-The
bribery committee held afternoon and
evening sessions and then adjourned until
next Tuesday afternoon. About sixty
members were called in the thiee sessions
of the day, and each in turn answered
ln the negative the live questions put by
the chairman.
About the only departure from the regu
larity came from Mr. Coray, of Luzerne
county, who said a member of the house
told him he could have money if he would
have moved to reconsider the vote by
which the McCarrell jury bill was post
poned.
"Who was the member?" Chairman
Fow asked.
"I do not know whether the man was
in earnest, and I prefer not to give his
name until he has taken the stand and
has had a chance to tell himself," he re
plied.
Mr. Coray answered the other ques
tions in the negative.
In the house today, on motion of Mr.
Fow, the investigation committee chair
man, the time for filing the report was
extended until Monday, April 3.
BRYAN ON BELMONT.
Compares the New Yorker to an
E___.de-.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 23.—Will
iam J. Bryan spent the day in Birming
ham and was given an enthusiastic re
ception.
"What the Lord's supper ls to the
Christian, so the Jefferson banquet ls to
the Democrat. Just as a good Christian
would revolt at having the sacrament |
administered by an infidel, so a good
Democrat objects to have a Jefferson
banquet presided over by Perry Bel
mont," was the epigrammatical manner
ln which Mr. Bryan referred to tha
much-talked-of New York banquet,
which Mr. Belmont and his followers
are to give in New York next month.
This morning Mr. Bryan was taken on
a special train all over the Birmingham
district, and he enjoyed greatly being
shown its wonderful industrial develop
ment. A public reception was given him
this afternoon ln the Morris hotel. To
night, at the Auditorium, he addressed
an audience of over 4,000 people. He
6poke for three hours, and was well re
ceived.
GOV. PINGREE DENIES.
Will No* Attend the New York Silver
Democratic Banquet.
LANSING, Mich., March 23.— Gov. Pln
gree today stated that contrary to re
ports from New York he was not going
to attend the sliver Democratic banquet
to be held there on April 19. He _aid he
had not, as yet, received an Invitation,
adding:
"I never looked for an invitation from
those fellows either."
MOB IN MISSISSIPPI.
Three Negroes Lynched Near Silver
City, in Yazoo County.
JACKSON, Miss., March 23.— Three ne
groes were lynched by a mob near Silver
City, In Yazoo county, last Saturday
morning. After being shot to death the
bodies of the victims were weighted with
bundles of cotton bale ties and thrown
into the Yazoo river. The negroes were
Minor Wilson, C. C. Reed and Willis
Boyd. They were the ringleaders of the
negroes ln a race encounter on the Mid
night plantation, early last week. They
were arrested and taken to Yazoo City
jail. The offense with which they were
charged having been committed In Shar
key county, the Sharkey authorities
were notified. Last Friday evening Dep
uty Constable Sylvester arrived and the
prisoners were turned over to him. The
constable boarded the steamer Rescue,
with the negroes, Saturday morning and
reached Sliver City with them. The ne
groes fell into the hands of the mob near
Silver City, were shot to death and
thrown into the river.
The feeling against these negroes had
been very bitter on account of a disturb
ance at the Midnight plantation last
week, ln which they, with two other com
rades, had'"flred upon two whites on the
public road. A horse belonging to one of
the white men was wounded, but the men
were not harmed.
SIXWERELYMED
AN ALARMING STATE OP AFFAIRS
EXISTS IN LITTLE RIVER
COUNTY, ARKANSAS
BLACKS MO WHITES ARRAYED
SUMMARY PUNISHMENT OP A NEG
RO MtRDERER STARTED THE
SERIOLS TROI.BLE
NEGROES INCITED TO RISE
Leader Was General Ducket, Who
Was Taken P-„ m R Sheriff's
Posse and Swang to a Tree Kill
ed a Planter Named James Stock
ton, Then Called ou Members of
His Race to Slay More Whites.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March »-N_-r_
was received here this evening of an
alarming state of affairs in Little River
county. A telegram received late In the
afternoon stated that an attempt on the
part of the negroes to start a race war
against the whites resulted ln the whole
sale lynching of negroes by white citi
zens. Six were reported dead, and it war
stated in the telegram that in all proba
bility others had been hung and were
swinging to limbs ln the woods.
The disturbances grew out of the lynch
ing of a negro named Gen. Ducket," near
Richmond, in that county, on Tuesday
Last__ Saturday a planter named James
Stockton was murdered at his home near
Rocky Comfort, by Ducket. The negro
escaped at the time, but after remaining
ln hiding in the swamps until Tuesday he
surrendered, saying he had had nothing
to eat since his flight. He was taken
to Rocky Comfort, and soon after his
arrival there Sheriff Johnson and depu
ties started with him for Richmond. They
were overtaken by 2uo armed men, who
demanded the prisoner.
Ducket was taken to the place where
he had killed Stockton, and after making
a confession he was lynched. When the
negro was taken to the George plantation.
Just before the start was made for Rich
mond, it seemed as if every man In ten
miles knew of the capture, and before
the officer and prisoner could get fairly
started the whole country was aroused.
After the lynching it was learned that
Ducket had frequently tried to get the
negroes in the county to join him in a
race war against the whites. A few hours
after he had killed Stockton he passed
several negroes at a farm house and told
them he had killed one white man. and
If they would follow him he would kill
TFZ^ v, ,L S n , 0W beli «ved that the ne
groes had banded for a race war
Ducket's body was buried by the coun
ty, as the negroes refused to touch it.
NOT THE FIRST TROUBLE.
Little River county Is in the extreme
southwest corner of the state, bordered
on the west by the Indian territory and
on the south by Texas. The negro popu
lation ls large, and has for a long time
proved very troublesome to the white*
Frequent murders have occurred and
thefts and fights have become common
affairs. One or two negroes have pre
viously been severely dealt with when
the people found it necessary to take the
law Into their own hands, but It was not
until Tuesday that the trouble took on a
serious aspect. It then developed that
carefully-lald plans had been made by a
number of negroes to precipitate a race
war and that many white men had been
marked for victims. It Is learned that
twenty-three negroes were Implicated in
the plot and the whites are now bent on
meting out summary punishment to the
entire coterie of conspirators. Six have
been killed, and the work of wiping out
the entire list continues without relaxa
tion. All implicated in the plot are known
and small parties of white men. varying
ln number from twenty-five to fifty," are
scouring the country for them. Wherever
one is found he is quickly strung up and
his body perforated with bullets..
The work of dispatching the first two or
three was an easy matter. But the news
soon spread among the negroes, who. In
stead of making the resistance and of
fering the battle that they had threaten
ed, became panic-stricken and began get
ting out of the community as quickly as
possible. Two whose names are on the
list of conspirators got a good start and
succeeded ln reaching the Texas state
line before being captured. They were
overtaken, out of breath and exhausted,
but were swung up without ceremony.
DETAILS OF LYNCHINGS.
TEXARKANA, Ark., March 23.— The
wildest excitement prevails among: the
negroes of Little River county where
many negro men have been lynched by
the citizens of that section. The affair
comes directly from the assassination of
the planter, James A. Stockton, by the
negro, General Ducket, on last Friday,
Ducket having been subsequently lynch
ed ln retribution of the crime. Among
those who have fallen victims to the
wrath of the whites arc Edward Good
win, Dan King, Joe Jones, Ben Jones.
Moses Jones, and still another whose
name could not be obtained. The la^t
three named were brothers, and were ln
tirrnte with the assassin of Stockton, nn-1
It was discovered that they were leading
a scheme to avenge their comrade's
death.
The assault was provoked by the un
earthing of n plot that the followers of
General Ducket had concocted, and when
the revelation was made the citizens be
gan their search for the principals.
Friendly negroes of the white people,
who had originally informed Stockton r>r
Ducket T s threat, were the medium of
knowing the facts against the present
victims, these Informers themselves hav
ing been warned under the penalty of
death not to communicate the plans of
the outlaws to the whites.
All of the victims that have fallen be
fore the whites were pursued singly over
the count ry and met their fate at differ
ent times and In different localities. Ed
Goodwin was shot down »>n Mud creek,
near Rocky Comfort, and his body
thrown into the stream. The Joneses
had fled in different directions when they
learned of their pursuit, and were run
down and lynched one at a time.
ONE MORE VICTIM.
Mrs. Marian A. Williams Is Dead at
Omaha.
OMAHA. Neb., March 23.— Mrs. Marian
A. Williams, fatally Injured ln the Pat
terson block fire, died today, making the
third death. All the other injured are
doing well.