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WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota—Partly cloudy Wednesday;
threatening Thursday; variable winds.
For the Dakotas—Threatening Wednes
day and Thursday; variable winds.
Montana—Partly cloudy Wednesday and
Thursday; variable winds.
lowa—Partly cloudy; threatening Thurs
day; variable winds.
Wisconsin—Partly cloudy Wednesday
and Thursday; variable winds.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterday's observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau, St. Paul,
P. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night.
Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Barometer 30.01
Relative humidity 57
Maximum temperature 88
Minimum temperature 04
Daily rnnge 24
Mean temperature 76
7 p. m., temperature 86
8 p. m., wind, west; weather, clear.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Danger Gauge Change in
Station. Line. Reading. 24 hours.
St. Paul 14 6.5 —0.3
Davenport 16 7.0 —0.3
La Crosse 10 6.9 —0.1
Omaha 18 13.8 —0.1
St. Louis 30 23.8 *0.5
—Fall. 'Rise.
River forecast till 8 p. m. Wednesday:
The Mississippi will continue falling slow
ly In the vicinity of St. Paul.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
High.*pm.i High*Bpm.
Battleford. ..76 76 Boston 76 72
Bismarck S8 86 Buffalo 76 72
Calgary 76 74 Chicago SO 68
Duluth SO SO Cincinnati ...88 84
Edmonton ...76 76 Cleveland ....84 s2
Havre 86 84 Denver 92 78
Helena 86 82|Detroit 80 80
Huron 92 86' New Orleans.B4 82
Med. Hat ....82 82iNew York ...84 72
Minnedosa ...90 7S;Omaha 92 86
P. Albert ....74 72Philadelphia 86 74
Qu'Appelle ..82 SOiPlttsburg 86 82
S. Current ...84 78 St. Louis 90 86
Williston ....SO S4 S. Francisco.so 66
{Winnipeg ....80 76 Washington .84 76
♦Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSE.
The Globe has not undertaken to
follow In its various interesting develop
ments the question which has given local
Republican politicians such intense con
cern, regarding the particular bid for a
system of police alarm in this city that
ought to be adopted by the city council.
The statements which have prevailed
among Republican politicians, and have
to some exent found their way into the
Republican newspapers, show the affair
to be one which it would be best for
all Democrats and other disinterested cit
izens to leave to settlement by those wh i
appear to have such an intense interest
In one or other of the contesting systems.
But during a recent meeting of the con
ference committee there was shown such
a manifest desire among certain Republi
can officials to save the city same of the
surprising expense attending the proposed
Introduction of the new police alarm sys
tem that it may not be amiss to bestow
a word on the subject.
The suggestion of President Clark, of
the fire board, made at that conference,
that it would be well to establish one
alarm system for both the fire and police
departments seems to the Globe to be
in the line of the saving of the pub'.ic
funds, indeed, the remarks which were
made during that meeting to the effect
that the city might purchase the vari
ous parts of the proposed alarm system
in the open market, with great resulting
saving, seem to be worthy of the most
careful consideration. The expenditure
of any such sum as $25,000 for a police
alarm system has always appeared to
those who take the demands of the police
system into account to be a positively aw
ful sum to expend for any such purpose.
We can understand the gravity of the
needs of the fire department in this con
nection. For the effective operation of a
fire alarm system it does not seem diffi
cult to understand why such large sums
might be thought necessary. But that
$25,000 or any approximate sum should b:
deemed necessary to secure the speedy ap
pearance of a police wagon at a given
point is practically inexplicable on any
theory which takes into account the bur
flena of the taxpaylng public.
Let us by all means have a joint fire
and police alarm system, if it is at all
possible. Let us, too, get up our own
Bystem. Wo have electricians of ability
and knowledge enough to put such
a system in operation. Whoever is de-
Eigned to secure the advantage of the
present movement for the establishment
of a high-priced system of police alarm
In this city, it is apparent that the city
can ..get along without any such system.
There is a chance here to save the
people something like $10,000 or JIH.OOO. Let
us hope that the occasion of doing so
may not be- allowed to escape.
CAPT. WATIvINS' ERROR.
The report of Capt. Watkins, of the
American liner Paris, assuming all the
responsibility for the grounding of his
vessel, must be acknowledged to be a
very manly document. There is hardly
anoth.'i- case of the kind on record. Many
commanders of vessels have from time
immemorial endeavored to break the
force of their own mistakes or negligence,
and have left to courts of admiralty the
task, through the examination and an
alysis oi' evidence, to locate the respon
6ibility in cases which concededly were
less plain than this. The public may safe
ly accrpt the statement of the captain of
the Paris that it was through no lack of
anxiety for his ship that the accident
took place, notwithstanding that his re
port does not seem to be entirely satis
factory to the TJiftted States local in
spectors.
The skill and discipline among his crew
which enabled Capt. Watkins to land his
passengers with comfort and without loss
Of life or property ought to be taken into
Account in estimating the degree of blame
Which attaches to him. The sentence
Whloh ensues of two years' suspension is
under ail the circumstances.
but, as the captain observes, his long
career on the sea, during which no ac
cident has happened to either life or prop
erty under his control, ought to be taken
into account.
The American public will naturally re
gret the apparent loss of the Paris. There
is but little hope that the vessel will be
removed intact from its present position,
and it will probably be a total loss.
There can be but little doubt that those
who are called on to risk their lives and
property on trans-Atlantic voyages, who
are familiar with the facts in this case,
would just as readily submit to the di
rection of the suspended captain as to
that of any other of the men charged with
the large responsibilities which have been
his throughout his career. It is human
to err; and the error of Capt. Watkins in
this case, grievous as its results have
been, will not. we believe, cost him the
confidence of the sea-faring public.
~~ A SUBSTANTIAL, INCREASE.
The forthcoming appearance of the city
directory, 1899-1900, offers new and addi
tional evidence of the continued growth
and prosperity of our city. So far as
each succeeding year's directory presents
the municipal history of the year that
has fled and the possibilities of the year
that is in sight there is one fact which
may be accepted as possessing much
significance. That is that throughout all
the years of struggle and depression
through which we have passed in the
past decade there has never been a year
but presented a record of increase in the
adult population of the community.
The city directory is litttle if anything
more than an alphabetical list of those
of the city's population who are engaged
in one or other form of productive oc
cupation. The number of such names re
corded in the city directory is 90,199.
There are that number of such persons
residing in this community at this time.
Whatever estimate we may make of the
actual population, young and old, pro
ductive and non-productive, from this
basis, the fact that there are such a
number of busy people living in our city
shows it to be a community of splendid
urban proportions and possibilities.
The one fact made plain by the figures
of the new directory, and the only one
on which the Globe feels itself at lib
erty to predicate any statements or
conclusions, is that the increase of
actual* names in the forthcoming di
rectory over that of last year is greater
than has marked any other issue of that
publication over the preceding year for
ten years past. That increase is 3,159
names over the number in last year's di
rectory. There has been nothing like it
since 1890, while in the years immediately
following the panic ef 1593 the increases
were as follows: For 1894, 531; for 1895,
760; for 1896, 481; for 1597, 29; for IS9B, 778.
Here is plain evidence of a revival such
as we cannot ignore, and such as needs
no conclusion or argument to make man
ifest. We have undoubtedly reached the
turning point. Population is again flow
ing in upon us in something like its old
volume. The increased market for local
real estate which has manifested itself
during the present year, and as com
mented on by the publishers of the direc
tory, shows that the confidence which, for
a time, seemed to have fled the community
entirely is steadily returning in good vol
ume, and that it is not at all unreason
able to indulge in the belief that the
early days of the 1900's will witness a
substantial repetition of the experiences
of the 'SOs. .
OIR TRIE POLICY.
To whatever cause we may attribute
the failure of our national administra
tion to yield to the tremendous pressure
which has been in operation for many
years to lead this country to identify it
sell" with one or other of the policies
adopted by European governments to
ward China, enough has been made ap
parent thus far to give cause for con
gratulation that no such course has been
entered on by us.
The statements made by the first sec
retary of the Amerigan legation at St.
Petersburg. Mr. Herbert Pierce, con
cerning the disposition of the Russian
authorities and the Russian people to
ward Americans, all go to show that tho
true attitude of this nation in the Orient
is to continue in its refusal to become
identified with the policy of any of the
nations which are regarded by tlvj Chi
nese people as endeavoring to take pos
session of Chinese territory. It has al
ready been shown that the disposition of
the Chinese to trade with us in prefer
ence to any of the European peoples is
affected to our advantage by our free
dom from any of the operations which
look toward the partition of China.
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, on be
half of England, has been fully heard, in
writing and orally, in his statements of
reasons why the United States should in
sist on "the open door" policy. Yet be
fore Lord Beresford had started to cross
the Atlantic England had engaged her
self with Russia in the recognition of the
"sphere of influence" policy. Prince
Ookhtomsky, on the other hand, the
ablest recognized expositor of the Rus
sian policy in China, has set forth the
reasons which should induce us not to
co-operate with England. The outcome
of all the discussion has thus far been to
establish, beyond all question, that the
course we have already pursued Is the
true American national policy. By
maintaining our present attitude we are
assured of the friendship of Russia, with
out giving England or any other Euro
pean power any right to criticise our
course.
Mr. Pierce has made all this plain in
his recent interview sent to the press
through the Associated Press dispatches.
There could be no more convincing ex
pression. Mr. Pierce says at the outset
of his interview:
The relations between the United Slates
and Russia were never on a more cor
dial basis than at present, and the friend
ship which is traditional between the two
countries finds constant e>pression in
Russia, not only among oflicials, but also
among the people of all classes. It is
not too much to say that, from the em
peror down to the peasantry, there is a
sincere friendship for us and a desire to
become acquainted with American meth
ods and to make npe in Russia of the skill
and ingenuity which have advanced this
country with such great strides. For
this reason there is a great opening in
Russia for American capital, and for the
introduction of American machinery and
methods of doing business.
We have here a grand field for our for
eign commerce. Ail that U really need-
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1899.
ful in order to render us the first of the
commercial nations anxious to secure
Chinese trade Is to break off the fetters
which our foolish and paternal legisla
tion has fastened on our ability to com
pete with foreign nations in the carry
ing commerce of the world. When we
have done this, and have taken such step 3
as will enable us to meet foreign carrying
nations on something like a correspond
ing basis, we will take the place which
the genius of our people entitles us to
take as a great national competitor for
the commerce of the world.
•y^*;"'.'.' ■•-
WANTED—LESS HOT WEATHER.
The heat which has prevailed for the
past week or over will soon be regard
ed with much uneasiness, if it is not so
regarded already, by the growers of wheat
in the Northwest. During the spring sea
son and well up into the opening of sum
mer, through the early days of June, the
rain supply was quite generous, and the
cool weather continued with little varia
tion. All the conditions, indeed, prevail
ed during that period looking toward a
bountiful harvest. The weather for the
past couple of weeks, however, has been
such as to cause much misgiving where
before there was little but pleased an
ticipation.
Of course no damage has yet been
done. This is the heart of the summer
season, and we have a right to expect
just the danger which prevails at this
time. It may pass away, and a period of
rain and cooler weather ensue. Let us
hope that it will. All the conditions thus
far have been eminently satisfactory. The
next two or three weeks can largely
make or mar the fortunes of our agricul
turalists, and, incidentally, the fortunes
of every active business man in the state
and section.
It is a happy peculiarity of our climate
that no prolonged period of heat sets in
without the certainty of its being broken
in upon by showers usually preceded by
thunder storms. These showers are more
or less severe and prolonged. Indeed they
may safely be looked for at any time
now, since the period of unbroken heat
which has prevailed is much longer than
we usually experience. The threatening
conditions which usually prevail at this
time the farmer usually is familiar with.
They may result substantially in his ruin
or they may develop into the most be
neficent conditions for him. At this mo
ment there is nothing to be done but
wait the developments of the next week
or two before we can secure any in
telligent understanding of the crop pros
pects of the Northwest.
M«M.
The Parisian correspondents who are
cabling dispatches about the Dreyfus af
fair couched in language implying that
everybody knows all about the mystery
are probably doing the best they can.
They appear to know nothing about it
themselves.
It is understood that Cervera was in
dicted on a charge of having permitted
Sampson to sink the Spanish fleet. To
this Cervera has an excellent defense, and
it is no wonder they hesitate to try him.
Out in Colorado they are going to build
a wall 210 feet high to make a reservoir
which will hold 35,000,000,000 gallons of
water. Somebody must be figuring to
break the Johnstown flood record.
The "kissing bug' has reached Chicago,
and commenced osculatory operations on
a policeman. This was, probably, a mis
take on the part of the bug amounting, al
most, to disorderly conduct.
...
It is believed that the introduction of
the automobile will reduce the percent
age of girls who marry coachmen, for
every automobile girl can act as her own
coachman, so to speak. .
An Eastern paper has a slughead,
"Knows the Mayor." This is important,
if true, although quite a number of West
ern people are on record as having
"seen" the mayor.
The Brooklyn Times has a timely edi
torial on "Babies and Hot Weather," but
it contains nothing in the way of a claim
that Brooklyn has the warmest baby in
the bunch.
It is perhap3 not too early to predict
that when the Republican party calls Col.
Roosevelt to Washington the people of
the country will call him back to Oyster
Bay.
Slowly but surely the deadly political
campaign of 1900 approaches. Quite a
number of prominent politicians are now
beginning to talk like farmers.
They have a mule in a Missouri mine
who hasn't seen daylight for ten years.
They call him Dewey, though nobody has
ventured to explain why.
A monster devil fish has been captured
at Tacoma. It is too bad that Tacoma
is so far away that it cannot become a
popular summer resort. "
The melanolestes plcipes is now pro
nounced a hot weather journalistic fake,
but the cimex lectularius Is no myth.
The good roads movement must have
originated in heaven, for do we not read
of its streets being paved with gold?
Automobile milk vans are coming Into
use. How would you like to be the milk
man?
Which is the most unpatriotic, to op
pose imperialism or dodge paying one's
taxes?
Now is the time for Tesla to announce
that he invented the word "Usona."
So far no one has thought of kidnap
ing Secretary Alger.
«■*» _
Somewhat Expensive.
Hutchinson Leader.
The Philippine war is costing our gor
ernment nearly $1,000,000 per day. The
$20,000,000 first cost paid to Spain was but
a trifle compared to the sum total if
the present rate is kept up long.
Shonld Adopt Another Method.
Montevideo Leader.
It Is all well enough to civilize the
Philippines, but somehow that suggests
saving enough of them for seed—at least.
For some hundreds of years we have
been civilizing the Indians by th« other
extermination—and haven't made
a great success of it, either.
' OS*. _
Good Judge!),
Lac <iui Parle Vidette.
Farmers don't say much on any politi
cal question, but as a rule it will be
found that they are anti-Imperialists.
Their judgment is sound.
, _^.^^^^_ _^__^_^__
Tlif TN-st t'oumc.
Roseau Times (Reo.).
It would be better for the Republican
press to honestly advocate the defeat of
John Lind because he is not a Repub
lican. To attempt to encompass his de-.
feat by silly criticism and clap-tray bun
combs will only add to bis strength.
EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL.
"I'm getting tired of all this sort of
rot," exclaimed a bald-headed man,
jumping up in front of the chairman of
the meeting.
The scene was a mass convention called
for the purpose of discussing the ap
proaching political campaign of ISOO.
"To which particular rot do you al
lude?"" inquired the chairman. He might
have said "Which rot do you allude to?"
but he preferred to have some literary
and rhetorical style.
"Yes, sir, I'm agin it."
Here the bald-headed man shook his
fist at a number of people with some of
whom he was not personally acqainted.
"I believe thei^e- is no question before
the house," mildly suggested the chair
man.
"There ain't?"
"No, sir."
"Then, b'gosh, I'll make one," and
he snatched a newspaper out of his pocket
and read the following:
"We are told l-y the Democrats that
Dewey, Otis, Funston, King, Lawton et
al. are all freebooting ■ butchers. They
say that our brave soldier boys in the
Philippines ar^e worse than cannibals.
They say that, we should tender an abject
apology to Aguinaldo and pay him for
having made so much trouble. They say
that we should abolish the Fourth of
July and make the American flag over
into a door mat."
"Now, Mr. Chairman," con
tinued the bald-headed man, haul
ing off his coat and throwing
it on to a chair, "what I want
to know is, who in this country has ever
said any such thing? Where are the
Democrats, or Pops, or Prohibitionists, or
socialist labor people who are saying any
such thing? There ain't nobody saying
it, and that's why I say I am awful
weary of so much Republican rot. Every
man who faces bullets'under the Stars
and Stripes Is a patriotic hero. He's there
for that purpose. If he wasn't in the
navy when the Spanish war broke out.like
Dewey, he enlisted in the army or navy
to do what? Whip the Spaniards and
drive the last cussed one of 'em out of
Cuba. Well, they did that, didn't they?
God bless 'em! And just because their
term of enlistment hadn't expired Bill
McKinley set 'em to fighting Filipinos.
Ain't I right? Won't history bear me
out in what I say? Did congress au
thorize our army to go on killing people,
who were once our allies?"
Here the bald-headed man shed his
vest.
"Mr. Chairman, I'm a pa 4 riot. I fought
four years in the War of the Rebellion.
My grandfather was with George Wash
ington at Dorchester Heights. My
father served all through the Mexican
war. One fought to found this govern
ment, another fought to repel invasion,
and I fought- to preserve its integrity.
Now, then, if a man's truly honest he
will applaud honesty in others. If a
man's truly patriotic he will applaud pa
triotism in others. What would you think
of a man who should brag about how
durned honest he Is, and should then try
to lick another man because he was hon
est, too? What do you think of an edi
tor who blows every day about how pa
triotic he is and yet wants the United
States army to shoot patriotism to
death in other countries? These fool
Republican in'v.-spapers make me tired.
Can't a man express his opinion of a
weak, vacillating and hypocritical politi
cal administration without being called
a traitor to the flag? Is all the virtue
wrapped up in one party? Can't a man
condemn a policy without being called a
traitor and a pagan? Mr. Chairman,
I'm done for today."
ROOSEVELT* CONTORTIONIST.
Mr. Rogers Makes a Few Thrusts at
the Colonel.
To the Editor of the Globe:
I have been hoping the Globe would
pay its respectfi to. the "Great Contor
tionist," Gov. Roosevelt, of New York.
In this morning's paper, under the above
caption, "you did it to a triumph."
"Teddy," always as rostless as Ahasue
rus the Jew, ov/es his fame, like Homer,
largely to the accidents of his situation.
He now appears to have degenerated
into an automaton for Tom Platt. His
relations to Platt remind one of the
brass statue which Albertus Magnus is
said to have animated Just so far as to
make it chatter and be his servant. Ted
dy in using his voice, having thus a sense
of the doom of echo, appears as uncon
cerned at the absence of truth as a
Filipino at a lack of linen.
His fulminations, like St. Lazarus'
rattle of the leper, is beneficial to the
people in warning them to get out of the
way of a sight that would sudden them.
A Spanish proverb has it: "A long
tongue and a short understanding most
times run in couples." Puncture these
mountebanks, Mr. Editor, until they
"start like Satan at the touch of Ithu
riel's spear." —J. N. Rogers.
St. Paul, July U.
THE FAIR SEX.
Atchison Globe.
Some women think that only a married
man can do wrong.
If a woman Is truly fond of her hus
band she believes he is "coming down
with something' 1 every, time he falls off In
his feed.
Women wil itrust their daughters with
men under conditions in which they would
not trust their : husbands with other
women.
When a girl laughs and looks pleasant
when she sees her steady talking to a
woman she disliked, she thinks what a
great actress the world would have gain
ed had she gone on the stage.
An Atchison -woman who has worked
hard all her life in order that her family
might have something saved up, is now
worn out and dying. Those who have a
good time as they go along are the right
kind of philosophers.
A girl's idea of disloyalty Is to keep a
secret from a friend.
When awife is away from home she,
reads her husband's letters through care
fully to find something upon wihich sus
picion may alight.
IN LOVE WITH HIS SISTEII.
I have the sweetest sister ever bloomed
in beauty's garden,
A winsome little angel full of innocence
and grace;
If you could see the charming girl you"d
grant me smiling pardon
For saying she would knock 'most any
male heart off its base!
There's rippling music in her laugh, it
seems inspired of heaven;
Her smile would melt the coat of ice
from woman-hater's heart!
Though but my sister, by her charms my
heart is sadly riven—
Is pierced from suburbs clear to core by
Cupid's stinging dart!
Her pretty face an angel from the upper
realms would covet,
A smiling face set in a frame of semi
golden hair; ..-.:',
Ah! that sweet, winsome frontispiece! to
see it is to love it!
No man susceptible .of heart could
'scape its waiting snare! •■- /■ ;
Her teeth of rorcelainish tint set in their
rosy portal
Seem far too pure to chop at such a
vulgar thing as.hash!
I'll bet my birthright gainst a dime no
other female mortal
Such lovely teeth- of nr.tural growth
upon the eyes can flash!
Her hands are' beautiful in shape, and
very well she knows it; :.;-
Her feet—well, them I r.ever saw, but
damty are hef boots;
Her nose is oft.the Grecian, build, and
when the- darling blows it
The melody sweetpr than an orches
tra of flutei! ' J
Her gentle voice falls on the ear Hke
golden love r bells tinkling.
It holds me in a. waking trance that
seems almost divine!
But In this rairiblihg, off-hand verse I
scarce can give an Inkling
Of all the charms possess9d by that
sweet sister;dea,r of mine. /--
rf
You're no doubt wondering just why the
bloomln' deuce a fellow
Should group lhe-ieaking is of his brain
in a poetic maze.
Should che.w the rag of poesy and muse
ically bellow
Such- hifalutin* language to exploit a
sister's praise.
The thing is new to me.- you know, and
: hence it is T shovel
Such, tuneful fuel on tne nre to keep
her charms a light;
It is a new experfence ' most devilishly
■ novel— ': - '*'■':'r'•■ y '
■ She's only, been. my sister since I
; ,popx>ed .t^.her last : nisht. ... .. ...
i —Denver Post. •
DATE STILL UNKNOWN
AUXILIARY HAS NO POSITIVE IN
FORMATION WHEN THE TIIIK
TEKVTH LEAVES MANILA/V.T?;i
PROBABLY ABOUT JULY 20
The Executive Committee linn Some
CorreHpondence With the Au
. thWities Through Senator Diivlm
—Some of the St. Paul People Will
Go to Sau Francisco to Meet the
Boys.
The Thirteenth Regiment Auxiliary as
sociation met last night at the Commer
cial club. The session was largely at
tended, but little beyond the transaction
of routine business was done. Reports
from the officers and executive committee
were read, showing what had been done
during the month since the last session,
and the usual discussion regarding the re
turn of the. regiment was indulged in.
Several interesting letters were read from
members of the Thirteenth,givlng graphic
descriptions of the advance upon Balawag
and the occupation of the city, in which
movement the Minnesota boys took a
prominent part.
. The report of the executive commit
tee was given by its chairman, Thomas
Cochran. . The telegrams and correspond
ance of the month were read, but noth
ing additional to the press reports given.
The chairman reported that on July 3 the
committee had wired Senator Davis, ask
ing whether the regiment would return
on the "Warren," then at Manila. A re
ply was received that the boys would
be sent home on the "Zealandia" or upon
the "Sheridan," leaving about July 20. The
committee had addressed a letter to Sen
ator Davis regarding advices received
from the Washington correspondent of
a morning paper, stating that it was the
intention of the government to return the
troops in the order in which they left.
It was asked that the state's claims be
presented, and a request made that the
regiment be allowed to come in its order,
as the seventh to leave, instead of the
ninth. Senator Davis replied that he had
addressed the war department along the
line suggested, but gave no additional in
formation.
The report devoted considerable atten
tion to the causes of the delay in re
ceiving mail from the regiment. An in
vestigation had been made, with the re
sult that it was learned that' no trans
ports had arrived in San Francisco bring
ing mail from the Philippines, since those
which" brought the last letters, dated in
May. Advices have been received that
transports will arrive in San Francisco
this week bringing mail.
The secretary of the association wrote
a letter to Gen! Shatter, in command of
the department of California, asking what
soldiers of the Thirteenth were confined
in California hospitals. A reply was re
ceived that in the Presidio hospital, San
Francisco, Privates Arne, Sperry, Griffin,
Sill, Hemphin, Tyler and Welde were
being cared for. Since the receipt of
the letter Private Welde has been dis
charged. , , .~*
The report was accepted and placed on
file and Mrs. Robinson, wife of one of
the officers of the Thirteenth request^
to write Mrs. Ames and Mrs. Trowbridge.
now in San Francisco, asking if aiiyth ng
could be done by the auxiliary to help the
soldiers of the regiment in the Presmio
hospital. O'Brien announced that y,-
President O'Brien announced that ne
had learned that the regiment would
Jeave Manila before the next ,meeting o
the association and suggested that a.
rangements be made in such an event,
to call a special meeting. Maj. Espy fig
ured that the regiment would not leave
before Aug. 1. and thought there would
be plenty of time to consider the plans
for the reception of the men at the next
regular meeting. No action was taken in
the matter. The president stated that
he would leave for San Francisco with
Mr. Cochran as soon as the regiment is
expected there. ... 1 . _ <i ♦»,.
There was only one incident ol the
meeting out of the ordinary. Maj. Espy
secured recognition to express an opin
ion on certain sections of the report of
the executive committee, which criticised
the government regarding the delay In
returning the regiment. He stated that !
so far as he was able to lesrn, no special
favoritism had been shown any of the
troops by the government, with the pos
sible exception of some of the Western
regiments. He thought the delay was
caused by the fact that the sick were
returned first and on account of the re
enlistment of certain of the volunteers.
"I promised that the regiment would
return on the Grant," said he in con
clusion. . «;
Mr. Cochran took exception to the re
marks and stated that in case he had
known that Maj. Espy and not the gov
ernment was to blame for the delay, he
would have seen that the executive com
mittee placed the censure where it was
deserved. ; ' - ■
• A letter from Sergeant Jackson, Com
pany D, was read, giving a very inter
esting account of operations in and.
around San Miguel and Balawag. Many
incidents of the campaigr were given,
throwing considerable light upon the
actual conditions which the troops have
to fight. He spoke highly of Capt. Metz,
of D company, stating that though sick
and" hardly- able to keep the field, he had
insisted on remaining with his company
and had shown great bravery and cour
nge. He praised Gen. Lawton, saying
that no ofticer in the field was . mere
popular with the troops. After Maj.
biggies was wounded,the Thirteenth was
left without a field officer on duty and
the burden of the line officers was great
ly increased. Mr. Cochran read a letter
from his son, also a member of the regi
ment, giving details of the occupation of
Balawag, and stating that though loot
ing had been r'gorously prohibited, the
amigos and camp followers, especially
the Chinese, stole without let or hind
rance, afterwards selling their ill gotten
grains to the poldiers. Some complaint
had be-2n made by the beys, who could
not see t!.-e necessity of doing their loot
ing by proxy. The next meeting of the
association will be held on the first Tues
day in August.
ONE LIFE LOST.
Sole Casualty in the Sinking? of fhe
Steamer Portia.
HALIFAX, N. S., July 11.—The steamer
Portia, which struck on Uisr, Fish shoal,
fifteen miles cast of Halifax last night,
filled and sank during- the night.
The only victim of the wreck was a
twelve-year-old Assyrian lad, known by
the name- of Basha, who was traveling
second-class from New York to St.
John's, N. F., where his mother lives.
The others on board the steamer. Includ
ing seventy passengers and a crew of
thirty-four officers and rner>. who were
landed safely at Sambro island, were
cared for there during the night, and will
be brought here today.
CLASH OF
S. A. SylveHter. Wanted in Xorth lla
!-.«>> 11. RelvMsied in Washington.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 11.—In the
United States district court today Judge
Hanaford discharged from custody S. A.
Sylvester, who Is wanted in North Da
kota for err.beiezlemf-nt. Sylvester has
been In jail about one year. The state
supreme court ordered him returned to
North Dakota, but this decision was
.Usresrarded by Judge Hanaford, who
holds that the federal court has Jurisdic
tion over extradition cases.
Demoralization of Madrid.
A correspondent in the Frankfurter Zel
tung draws a lurid picture of the Increas
ing demoralization of Madrid. The pres
ent population Includes, he says, 20.000
professional beggars, the fame number of
abandoned women, 5,000 thieves and there
are hundreds of gambling houses.
STILLWATER.
Surveyor* General at Odds Over
Fee«— Edward Brown Dead.
A peculiar state of affairs exists here
relative to the office of the surveyor
general of logs and lumber, and the mat
ter will probably not be settled until It
is aired in the courts. ' Some days ago
John L. Little, of Star Prairie, Wis., who
had been appointed surveyor general of
logs and lumber for the Fourth Wiscon
sin district, by Gov. Scofield, appeared in
the city and informed Surveyor General
Mosier that he was here for the purpose
of scaling all logs cut in Wisconsin.
Mr. Mosier of course refused to share
his fees with Mr. Little, and the latter
then made a similar effort to scale at the
St. Croix boom. The boom company also
refused to permit him to do so, and there
the case stands. Mr. Little argues that
inasmuch as so many of the logs mar
keted here are cut In Wisconsin he
should be mitted to make the scale.
The question of authority will have to
be settled in the courts and will proba
bly come up for decision at an early
date. In the meantime Mr. Mosier will
continue scaling all logs, as has been
the custom here for many years.
The petit jury in the district court will
be recalled today to hear the case of
William O'Brien and Dennis • Boyle
against the Northwestern Improvement
company, brought to collect damages
amounting to about $15,000. The plain
tiffs aver that the defendants' corpo
ration constructed, maintained and oper
ated a dam in Kettle river to their dam
age, and hence have asked the courts to
determine the matter. The jury will re
convene at 10 o'clock and the case will
be heard by Judge Williston.
Edward S. Brown, for many years a
familiar figure in this city, and regarded
as one of its foremost men, died Monday
evening, after an Illness of several
months' duration. Mr. Brown was taken
with heart disease some months ago, and
since that time has been confined to his
home. Although he was able to be up
and about until recently, it was evident
that his vital forces were fast failing
and that his death was only the question
of a short time. He was born In Orono,
Me., sixty-nine years ago, and was edu
cated in the comman schools at that
place. Later in life he removed to Puget
sound, where he engaged in the lumber
business, and later he removed to Still
water. He came here in 1873, and was !
for many years a member of - the lum
bering firm of Hersey, Bean & Brown.
At the time of the failure of the North
western Manufacturing and Car company
he was . appointed receiver for the con
cern, and he was also one of the trustees
of the large estate left by Martin Mower.
He also represented Washington county
in the state senate one term. Deceased
was an estimable gentleman, and was
well liked by all who knew him. He is
survived by a widow and two daughters,
Mrs. R. S. Davis and Mrs. J. D. Bronson.
The funeral will be held this afternoon
under the auspices of the Masonic frater
nities of this .city, of which he was a
member.
Edward' Heppner, for many years a
well known character on the streets of
Stillwater, committed suicide yesterday
by drowning himself in Lake St. Croix.
At an early hour in the morning he walk
ed to the Milwaukee trestle and threw
himself into the lake. The act was wit
nessed by several and the alarm was
given. Officer Walter responded and
found Heppner's body floating on the sur
face, but life was extinct. He had been
despondent for some time and was tired
of life. Deceased was 54 years of age,
and some years ago was in the saloon
business in this city.
Stephen Murphy, arrested on a charge
of assault, was released from custody
yesterday, after a preliminary examina
tion In the municipal court. The evidence
against him was insufficient.
MARRIAGE BROKER LOST.
Could Not Collect for Services aj» a.
Go-Between.
CHICAGO, 111., July 11.—Negotiating a
marriage by a third party for a consid
eration was today declared by Judge
Shepard, of the appeal court, to be "void
at law and in equity, as being opposed
to morality and public policy."
The case at Issue was the appeal of
B. H. Hellem from the judgment of the
superior court, by which he was denied
the right to recover on a contract exe
cuted In 1896. By the contract Benjamin
W. Anderson was to pay Hellem $2,500 on
the marriage of the former to Mrs. Sarah
Hughes. Helium had contracted with
Anderson to bring about a marriage be
tween him and the Widow Hughes, in
consideration of the payment of $5 down
and $2,500 when the marital event was
concluded. The $5 was paid and receipted
1 for, but the groom balked at the pay
ment of the $2,500. The decision of the
superior court was affirmed, and the
costs of the proceedings thrown on the
marriage broker. In delivering the de
cision Judge Shepard said:
"All undertakings of such go-betweens
as mercenary matchmakers are repro
bated by law."
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DEWEY'S MEDAL.
It Has Been Seat to Him by the
Navy Department.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—The navy de
partment today dispatched to Admiral
Dewey the medal awarded by act of con
gress to commemorate the battle of Man
ila bay. The medal is identical with
that sent to each man in the fleet with
the exception of his own name engraved
upon the edge.
Dead at Manila..
WASHINGTON July 11.—The war de
partment has received the following from
Gen. Otis at Manila, under date of July 9:
Following deaths since last weekly re-
Typhoid fever, July 2, Charles N. Wil
seck. Company G, First Wyoming in
fantry; sth, Edward Weldon,Company X,
Fourteenth infantry; William Miller,
Company G, Twelfth Infamy.
Dysentery, 4th. Wiliam H. Hill, hospi
tal corps; sth, Thomas W. Petro, Compa
ny M, Fourth infantry.
"Drowned, 4th, Charles Hyatt, sergeant,
Compay E, Fourth cavalry.
RICH AND EAGGED.
A Wealthy Young: Man Refoses to
Live In Luxury.
Kansas City Journal.
It is an unusual thing for a man with
an annual Income in the neighborhood
of $50,000 to dress like a tramp from choice
and sleep in th-i cheapest hotels or at
times in calabooses for lack of better ac
commodations. Yet such an individual,
it is said, is J. Eads How, son of the late
Col. James F. How, vice president of the
"Wabash. He slept in the Macon (Mo.)
calaboose Saturday night because the ho.
tels were crowded and nls seedy appear
ance encouraged no one-to offer him a
piace. He was on the street Saturday
evening talking of the religion of tne
twentieth century, the burden of his
discourse being socialistic. The officers
apprehended him, thinking him deranged,
but teleerauhed instructions from St.
L,ouia caused his prompt release. His
voice was sweet nnd gentle and his
choice of words and purity of accent pro
claimed him educated and refined.
He spoke again on Sunday, taking up a
collection, which he turned over to the
mayor to start a religious library. He
went from Macon to Bevier, where he
spoke for an hour Monday night on the
same theme. Young How Is a graduate
of Yale and Oxford, and has had all the
advantages of a home of luxury. As his
name indicates, lie is one of the Eads
heirs also, to whom the government
pays $250,000 annually for the Mississippi
Jetties. He gets a sixth part of this, In
addition to other incomes. Ho Is of
strong religious convictions, and devote*
all his time and talent to mission work,
and spends his inrome for charity and
religion.
In a conversation with Mr. Gray, of
Macon, he said that his conscience would
not allow him to live in ease and luxury
when he saw so much misery about htm,
»o he has donned his mean garb and goes
about preaching on the streets, appealing
to men to live ft htfher life.
TO FIGHT FILIPINOS
PRESIDENT CONFIRMS NOMINA
TIONS MADE BY GEN. OTIS FOR
MANILA SERVICE
• ■
ONE OF THE THIRTEENTH
■
Carl 1,. Stowe. Second Lientenunt of
the Thirteenth Minnesota, Is
Made Captain in the Thirty-
Sixth Regiment— In a Minne
apolis Volunteer, and Went to
Manila With Company F.
WASHINGTON, July Thepresident
today confirmed and commls-sicned the of
ficers recommended by Gen. Otis for the
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh volun
teer regiments, now being organized la
the Philippines. They are as follows:
Thirty-sixth Regiment—Col. J. Franklin
8011, captain Seventh cavalry; Lieut. Col.
William R. Grove, major first Colorado;
Majs. William H. Bishop, major Twenti
eth Kansas; John Q. A. Braden, first lieu
tenant First South Dakota; William L.
Luhn, first lieutenant and adjutant First
Washington; Mai. and Surgeon H. F.
Titus, acting: assistant surgeon; Captain
and Assistant Surgeon George W. Ma
thews,, acting assistant surgeon; assistant
surgeon, Isaac H. Brower; Capts. Robert
S. Abernothy, first lieutenant Sixth Unit
ed States artillery; Erving E. Booth, cap
tain First Colorado; George B. Lamping,
second lieutenant First Washington;
Charles W. Mfeade, first lieutenant First
Montana; Charles French, first lieuten
ant First Montana; Henry Steere, cap
tain First California artillery; Edward L.
Glasgow, captain Twentieth Kansas;
Daniel F. Craig, captain Twentieth Kan
sas; Harry A. Hegeman, captain First
South Dakota; Warren Ickes captain
Fifty-first I»wa; Carl L. Stowe,. second
lieutenant Thirteenth Minnesota; Freder
ick R. Dodge, second lieutenant Twenti
eth Kansas; Harry E. Smith, -;
K. Fitzhugh, ; First Lieuten
ant Will H. Point, first lieutenant Fifty
first Iowa; Cornelius F. O'Keefe, first
lieutenant First Colorado; Lorren Chevsr,
second lieutenant Wyoming battalion;
Fred S. Smith, second lieutenant First
North Dakota; Benjamin Lear Jr., sec
ond lieutenant First Colorado; Walter V.
Catchett; Milo C. Carrey, Alexander H.
Davidson, A. J. Erickson, A. E. Jolhro,
Winfield Harper, C. A. Bach, Roscoe
Treadwell, Arthur M. Fergison, Thomaa
B. Crockett, S. W. Widdefleld; second
lieutenant, Edwin T. Mann.
Thirty-seventh Regiment— Rob
ert B. Wallace, lieutenant colonel, First
Montana; lieutenant colonel, Thomas R,
Hamer, lieutenant colonel First Idaho;
majors, B. Frank Cheatham, major First
Tennessee; Charles T. Boyd, second lieu
tenant Fourth cavalry; Henry B. Orwis,
captain Twentieth Kansas. Surgeon, F.
A. Winter. Assistant surgeon. T. B. An
derson. Captains, Nick F. Givens, Cap
tain First Tennessee; Sam Van Leer, cap
tain First Tennessee; David E. Lyle, first
lieutenant. Eighteenth United States In
fantry; Henry R. Richmond, captain First
Tennessee, H. B. Myers, captain First
Tennessee; James M. Croft, second lieu
tenant First Montana; Michael Flaherty:
Wm. B. Hanna, First lieutenant First
Montana; Benjamin M. Koehler, second
lieutenant Sixth United States artillery.
First lieutenants, John Patton, first lieu
tenant First Tennessee; Ernest. Van D.
Murphy, second lieutenant First Mon
tana; Robert O. Ragsdale, first lieuten
ant First Montana; Robert O. Ragsdale,
rirst lieutenant First Tennessee; R. B.
Clark; Albert J. Bright, first lieutenant
First Tennessee; Granville L. Chapman,
first lieutenant First Tennessee; C. M.
Lester; Charles H. Sleeper, first lieuten
ant First Colorado; W. T. Vaughn, second
lieutenant First Tennessee. Second lieu..
tenants, Joe B. Cooke. second lieutenant
First Tennessee; Alvin K. Baskette, sco
ond lieutenant First Tennessee; Winston
Pitcher, first lieutenant First Tennessee.
Col. Bell, of the Thirty-sixth, was nam
ed for one of the lieutenant colonels for
one of the regiments being raised in this
country.
Gol. Wallace Is a captain In the reg
ular army. He has been severely wound
ed while fighting with the Montanas in
the Philippines.
CANTEEX CONTROVEHSV.
Delegation o*l Temperance Advo
; cates Appeal to the President.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—A delegation
representing the national temperance so
ciety and other kindred organizations
called upon the president this afternoon
to record its dissent from the opinion of
the attorney general interpreting the so
called army canteen law.
The members of the delegation, after
tha call, reported the president as say
in? that the opinion of the attorney gen
eral was given without any previous
knowledge on his part—that he did not
know an opinion had been asked for by
the secretary of war—neither did he
know that such an opinion had been
given until several days afterward, and
that he would look into the matter per
sonally, and that if the opinion of the
attorney general was found to be cor
rect it should stand, but h« added that
all men were fallible, and that if the
attorney general had made a mistake
he had no doubt he (Griggs) would be
ready to rectify It.
MINNESOTA'S QUOTA.
Seven Ofllcerx in the \ew Volunteer
Regriments— Waif*.
WASHINGTON, July Adjt. Gen.
Corbin said today that Minnesota will be •
j given seven appointments in the new
volunteer regiments, and that only those
who were in the service during the late
war will be given commissions. Repre
sentative Morris and Mrs. Cushman K.
Davis called on Gen. Corbin today and
urged the appointment of several young
men for commissions in the new volun
teer regiments. They refused to say who
the young men were.
The Union National Bank of Sioux
Falls, S. D., has gone into voluntary
liquidation by resolution of the stock
holders.
Stewart M. Decker, Minnesota, who has
been named by the president a» captain,
was formerly captain of the Crookston.
: company. Fourteenth Minnesota volun
teers.
Director Merriam expects to submit the
entire list of 300 supervisors of census by
Aug. 1.
T. H. Benton, land attorney for the
Great Northern railway, is in Washing
ton on minor business for the company.
FAREWELL CALL.
German AmbnxHndor Now Ready to
Leave Wai*hlngrto>n.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—Ambassador
Holleben, of Germany, has made his fare-,
well call on Secretary Hay, and will leave
here on Thursday for New York, whence
he takes the steamer for home. In New
York he will confer with Herr Mumm,
who is to be German charge this summer,
during the ambassador's absence. Little
ia known of Herr Mumm's instructions,
although the belief has been that he
would have authority to take up the
German reciprocity negotiations, which
have made little progress of late.
FORT WRIGHT.
Xew Post Jfenr Spokane Named for ■■
a Hero.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—By direction J
of the president the new military post •
near Spokane, Wash., has been named
Fort Wright, In honor of Gen. George
Wright, who was colonel of the Ninth
infantry and a brigadier general of vol
unteers. Col. Wright defeated the allied -
bands of Indians near Spokane Plains
on the sth of September, 1858. He was
drowned July 30, 1865, in the wreck of
the steamer Brother Jonathan, while on
his way to assume command of the de
partment of the Columbia.
CHICAGO AT CAPE TOWJr. "'
Yankee Cruiser Reports Her Ar
rival in South African Water*. '
WASHINGTON. July 11.—The cruiser 1
Chicago has arrived: at Cape Town. Ad-- ;
xnlral Howitzer has remained inland and
is now at Johannesberg, whence he will'
Igo to €ape Town to Join their enilsecs *•••-