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THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS.
Entered at Postoffice at St Paul, Minn.,
rs Second-Class Matter.
CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
'By Carrier. _JJjnoJjßj»OßjJ2jnoS
DallPonly 40 $2.25 $4-00
Dally and Sunday.. .50 2.75 5.00
Sunday 15 .75 1-50
COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS^
By Mali 11 moT6 raos | 12 mos
Dally only .25 $1.60 *Oo
Dally and Sunday.. .35 2.00 4.00
Sunday 75 1-50
Semi-Weekly •«> 10°
BRANCH OFFICER
iteir York, 10 Spruce St.. Chas. H. Eddy
in Charge.
Chicago. No. 87 Washington St.. Harry
Fralick, Mgr., "Williams & Lawrence In
Charge.
WEATHER FOE TODAY.
Minnesota—Fair and continued cold Fri
day and Saturday; fresh northwesterly
I o\v a— Fair and continued cold Friday
and Saturday; fresh northwesterly winds.
Wisconsin—Fair and continued cold Fri
day and Saturday; fresh northwesterly
winds. , „
North Dakota—Fair and continued c©Jd
Friday and Saturday; variable winds.
South Dakota—Fair and continued cold
Friday and Saturday; variable winds
Montana—Fair and continued cold 1( ri
day and Saturday; variable winds.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterdays observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau. St. Paul,
■ V F. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night.
■ Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature —1
Lowest temperature —14
Average temperature —'
Daily range ]*
Barometer 00.35
Humidity •«
Precipitation "
7 p m., temperature —■>
7 p. m., wind, west; weather, clear.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
♦SpmHigh *B»mHigh
Battleford .—6 —6 Chicago 4 8
Bismarck ..—8 —<> Cleveland —20 30
Calgary ....-6 -4 Denver 4 10
Duluth —4 2 Galveston ....56
Edmonton .—l2 —2 Jacksonville .58 68
Havre —10 —9 Montgomery .84 .0
Helena —12 —2 Montreal 22 2t>
Huron —2 6 New Orleans.66 64
Minnedosa . —<> —4 New York ...42 50
Qu'Appelle .—lO —10 Omaha 0 6
Williston ...-8 -6 Philadelphia .44 E0
■Winnipeg ... —4 —2 Plttsburg 26 40
Boston 44 46 Pueblo 12 12
rheyenne ... —S 18 St. Louis ....12 20
time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
—Below zero.
FRTDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1900.
SIBMEHGESCE OF CAPITAL..
New York city proposes to invest $35,
--000,000 in an underground subway. Chi
cago has atready put $35,000,000 into a
drainage canal, and the United States
proposes to invest $135,000,000 or more In
the construction of the Nicaragua canal,
' while New York state is asked by Gov.
Roosevelt to put $15,000,000 into an en
largement of the Erie canal. These are
four of the largest items of disbursement
for local improvements in the United
States or by the United States that have
been exploited to the investing public.
The vast number of smaller projects, In
cluding the erection of expensive hotels
and office buildings in the various cities,
absorb so many more millions of capital
that it is difficult to make an estimate
of their total value without reference,
to innumerable reports ef commercial
bodies. But' this much is patent, that in
cluding the gold standard of money, elec
trical street railways, universities beside
which those of Europe fall into-little-i
r.ess, and expensive architectural' won
ders, the people of the United States have
been for the last twenty years indulging
themselves in everything that is best on
the face of the earth, throwing themselves
upon the bounty of Mother Earth to bring
them out safe and sound with the other
nations.
It was no small consolation to our pride
seven years ago when, on the first edge of
a severe financial and industrial panic,
Mulhail, the statistician, discovered from
our census reports of 1890 that we we're
the wealthiest people on earth, per capita,
and that in 100 years we had overstepped
all history in the marvelous piling up of
material values. But it did not prevent
that somnolence of four years which
follows the rejection of all experience
and the Idolshlp of temporary agitators.
We had invested so extravagantly in in-
dn.wtrial shops and in railways that our
.productions outran our local markets,
and yet we had made no preparatfon for
business abroad. It required rest, con
valescence and than a galvanic shock—a
Klondike discovery—to put us upon the
right road to strength and power.
But we are yet In a dangerous frame of
mind. We are still harping upon Euro
pean markets for breadstuffs and raw
cotton. We are stii'l building railways at
home and expensive conduits and ofiice
buildings, simply because we want them.
Millions upon millions of capital are go
ing into palatial office quarters, that
might better go into cotton mills in the
South. Millions upon millions are threat
ening to go into short local agrictiltural
lines of railway, that might better be
devoted to further developments of the
mineral resources of Minnesota, or Col
ojacto, or Montana, and the pro
duction of iron and steel goods.
And other millions are going into trips
abroad for the pleasure of the thing,
not for health recuperation, that might
better go into ocean-going ships for the
carriage of American goods to other na
tions.
We call the English and the Germans
slow people at home, for that they ride on
slow street care, put up at ordinary ho-
tels, sit on hard benches at church or In
the university, and have but few of those
sky-scraping steel palaces that mark the
business centers of all American cities,
liut when we examine the trade returns
o* their customs departments, It is seen
that the capitals of these peoples are
amply employed in taking care of the
business of the world abroad, and that
wealth is pouring into them from the four
quarters of the globe. That while the
American people are living in fine houses,
as the result of one hundred years of
prosperlty, England and Germany are liv
ing in quite ordinary style after two
thousand years from Caesar and his le-
glons. That we are 11kg the farmer who
buys a piece of land and invests his cash
at once in a house and furniture, and
then goes Into debt for &I 3 horses and
machinery. We have almost twelve bil-
lions of our capital In railways at home—
an Investment in mere facility of ex
change; this represents one-seventh of
«ur estimated total wealth. All of Burape
has no such investment, even Franc©
being satisfied with the slower but ten
fold cheaper transportation furnished by
canals and small rlverways. In compe
tition for foreign trade, we are handicap
ped by our magnificent distances and by
our bragging disposition of being able to
do everything and have everything a lit
tle better than any other peoples. We
are compelled to haul our goods a long
ways to the seashore. And we have sunk
millions upon millions of money in ex
pensive interior improvements under the
headings of local transportation and local
municipal improvements. Five million
dollars for a court house Is one of the
assets of a near-by American city of 200,
--000 population. Four million dollars
would have built eight steamships fit to
carry a million dollars' worth of goods
at a trip to the Oriental trade, and left
a million to go Into the local edifice of
justice and correction. The bonds have
been floated, the credit of five millions
exhausted, the energy and force of ten
years' construction put Into the basket
that goes to market, but the market has
no demand for the goods. A half mil
lion into a water power In the same city
has gone to furnish power for local use
of lighting and street railway service.
The same money would have built a cot
ton mill of 20,000 spindles, and furnished
it working capital for twenty years, to
make goods for the Oriental trade, that
would have brought into the country an
nually over $200,000 In gold for the mere
surplus products of the mill.
ls it not true that we are submerging
in mere luxuries, or brags, enough capital
and credit each year to build a merchant
marine that would float a foreign traffic
as large as that of any nation? Is it not
true that England and Germany, with
accumulated credits abroad of more than
twenty billions of dollars—dividend pay
ers—are stripping themselves like prlzs
fighters of all surplus burdens, and pre
paring- for the mighty competition that is
before them for the wealth of the world,
throwing off each garment of doubtful
utility, and putting on colonial posses
sions to make up the brawn of demand
for factory goods that must soon be lost
to them in America?
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DR. OHAGE'S GOOD WORK.
Two everts have been brought to con
summation in this city recently affecting
the well being of the people which should
occasion much public satisfaction. They
are the establishment in the near future
of free public baths, and the collection of
garbage directly by the city authorities.
For both of these events we are In
debted chiefly to the health commissioner,
Dr. Ohage. He has gone outside of the
routine discharge of 1113 official duties to
serve the public. He has selected the
two occasions for doing so with the good
sense and judgment which show at once
that h© is no mere experimentalist, and
that he conceives his relation to the pub
lic to involve something more than the
mere perfunctory discharge of the duties
which warrant the drawing of his month
ly salary.
It would be hard to find a precedent for
the action of Dr. Ohage in our entire
local political or official history. Officials
there have been who have not concurred
in certain existing conditions; but they
have left those conditions as they have
found them, and have not deemed It a
part ot their public obligations to take
any positive step in the direction of rem
edying them. It has not been so with the
health commissioner. He has forced—lit
erally forced—action on the community
in two directions which go far Indeed to
ward safeguarding the public health.
Of course the sanitary aspect of the
garbage question is the one which will
appeal most strongly to those of our peo
ple who are glad to see the work entrust
ed to the city authorities. But there is
another consideration. Democrats at
least are steadily approaching the accept
ance of the day-labor principle in the
discharge of public work, as sound public
policy, both for the community and the
Individual citizen. It has been found in
many American cities to be a much more
economical system than the contract plan.
Better wages have been paid under the
system to the citizen doing the work and
"better work has been done and money
saved* to the community in all cases
where the principle has been adopted
thus far. Dr. Obage rendered a service
to the community in having it applied to
garbage collection in St. Paul, aside
wholly from the good he did In the di
rection of an Improved sanitation.
The example of our health commissioner
iar ui;e which might b» adopted with
great advantage to the city by every
other official at present in Its service.
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HANXA OX "GRAFTS."
Some time ago Senator Hanna made a
public declaration concerning the Payne-
Han na subsidy bill, that it was not "a
graft." This was said at a period in the
progress of the bill when Its promoters,
Including the Ohio senator, had not the
remotest thought that they would be un
able to saddle an additional $20,000,000 on
the patient people of these states.
Senator Hanna. is recognized through
out the country as an authority on
"grafts." His denial that his subsidy
scheme was of this variety will hardly
carry conviction to the people of the
country. He Is plainly a prejudiced wit
ness, and as an expert, he just as plainly
argues for his retainer.
There was an effort made In one of our
minor courts recently to secure a judicial
definition of a "graft." And, If we are
not mistaken, the present auditor of thia
county gave expert testimony on the sub
ject. But the subject Is one in which
ordinary citizens who are not prominent
in political life, as Senator Hanna and
oyr county auditor are, must, of course,
plead ignorance of the precise meaning
of the term. Generally, we apprehend, It
may be safely defined as a corrupt
growth, created and cultivated by the
"grafter," from a stem which may or
may not have Itself been tainted by cor
ruption. .
Inherently, the Hanna-Payne subsidy
measure bore strong evidence of belnj a
"graft." That evidence is not to be over
come by the mere negative declaration
of the Ohio senator, high and mighty as
he undoubtedly is as an authority on
"grafts," and as a representative of the
national power of this peop'e. However
this may be, it may, with none the lea.*
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1899.
propriety, be asked why Senator Hanna,
the power behind the executive throne of
Imperialism, felt called on to deny the
Imputation of a "graft" being involved
in his bill. He had no more regard for
hla own reputation or for the dignity of
his high official station than to'feel call
ed on to stand before the leading com
mercial body of the leading city of the
United States pleading that he was not,
at least in connection with this particu
lar measure, a corruptionist? Can it be
that he was willing to recognize the prin
ciple that in a matter of this nature Ilia
burden of proof rests upon him to show,
when a mere assertion is made to the con
trary, that he is not proceeding to his
end through corruption? It looks decid
edly as if this were the case. But, in any
case, it is a pitiful spectacle to observe,
that of a man of the highest influence
on the progress of. our national affairs,
the recognized head of his party and of
his party's national administration, en
gaging in a defense of himself as a public
character, which is based on the tacit
admission that he is not wholly incapable
of resorting to corrupt methods, at least
in other directions.
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A Kokomo man Is making a great fuss
because he was married to the wrong
woman, through the error of an inter
preter. Many men have shared the same
fate and without the interposition of any
third party.
Russian press censorship must be un
duly strict these days. For some time
the Novoe Vremya has not ventured to
express an opinion even upon the
weather.
Mr. Richard Harding Davis must have
arrived by this time, and yet there are
no reports of the continent of Africa be
ing out of plumb.
If King Oscar had ever witnessed an
American baseball game he would not be
so anxious to act as umpire every time
occasion offers.
China Is bold enough in hurling de
fiances at the powers, but it is careful
not to cast any of them in the directiun
of Japan.
Spain now realizes that her fatal mis
take in the late war was In not having
a supply of kops and kopjes on hand.
If Mr. McKinley cannot find any one
else to go over the course with him,
why not try Mr. Tanner?
Any police officer who was omitted In
the dispensation will please hold up his
hand.
February is rapidly establishing a rep
utation for itself as a chilly proposition.
Among other things that cold often
contracts Is pneumonia.
AT THE THEATERS.
METROPOLITAN.
Practically there are but twelve char
acters in "Toll Gate Inn." On the pro
gramme, however, they are strangely
Juggled. With the fall of the curtain
one looks instinctively to see Poatchie, a
haifbreed, played by John B. Weeks, at
the top. He la four numbers down.
Neb Pennington, by Arthur L. McCor
mick, does as effective work as David
Murray in the role of Col. John Malt
land; yet he is shunted down eight
places on the bill.
"Toll Gate Inn," appendixed as "a
colonial romance," opened at the Metro
politan last evening. The major portion
of the villainy Is concentrated in Capt.
Richard Snell, in the hands of Howard
Truesdell. The plot—a most convention
al complexity—hinges on the deviltry of
treason in the ranks of "the old conti
nentals in their ragged regimentals." The
solecism of a continental officer making
love to the sister of a man whom he has
procured to be shot to death as a spy
somewhat mars the effect of thi3 "colo
nial romance." True, It Is awkward
love making in the shadow of an impend
ing execution, and the actors are candi
dates for absolution if they fall to pre
sent very forcible or passionate passages
in their billing and cooing. The play
wright, Langdon McCormick, is to blame
and consequently no one is disposed to
chide the members of the cast for their
rather frosty work.
Miss Sylvia M. Bldwell, as Hester Pen
nington, and Miss Helen Winter, as
Dorothy Maitland. both labor under the
restraints placed upon them by the au
thor. The entire play placks warmth,
color, action and cogency. With better
material the company now playing "Toll
Gate Inn" would be seen to advantage.
The play will be at the Metropolitan
two nights more, with Saturday mat
inee- GRAND*.
"The Sorrows of Satan" wilj be pre
sented at tho Grand for but three more
performances.
"McFadden's Row of Flats," which has
been a recognized success in the farce
comedy line during the past four sea
sons, Is being given, it is said, this season
in a manner more elaborate than eve*
before. It is popular in every sense of
the word with the people, and is always
a medium for wholesale laughing pur
poses It has been staged with attention
to detail, and the costuming is from
original designs. In the company will
Thomas and Quinn, the four emperors
thhg is new except the title and that a
number of novel features^ will be^ .£«£
"McFadden's Row of Flats will be the
attraction at the Grand next week.
~~ DEATHS 0^ A DAY.
rttpt TN Feb 15.-Herr yon Herrfurth,
Prussian local government act. which
created such a storm among Prussian
Knd owners He remained only four
y*ars in power, and resigned his office in
August, 1892. His successor was Count
Botha zu Eulenberg.
MADRID Feb. 15.—Duke de Medina
Hsidencla. 'grand chamberlain and chief
of the royal household, Is dead.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 15--Mrs-
L. H. Delahay. aged seventy widow of
Judge Mark Delahay, of the United
A. Osbora, of Kansas.
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DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF.
Washington—The senate committee on
military affairs has favorably reported
the bill for the establishment of a mili
tary post at Dcs Motnes, 10.
Chicago—Mrs. Jeannette Schwartz and
her two children. Lulu, aged nine, and
Henrietta, four months old, were found
dead In bed here today, the result of as
phyxiation.
Philadelphia—George Weeks, colored,
was hanged In Moyamensing prison to
day for the murder of Alice White, also
colored, on Dec. 25, 1898.
Pottsville, Pa.—Thomas Brennan, of
New Philadelphia, was hanged today for
the murder of Harry Elliott, a neighbor
and fellow workman, In a colliery.
New York—Surrogate Fitzgerald today
handed down a decision denying the ap
plication of Henry B. Anderson for a
court order declaring the trust fund of
?5,000,000 created by the will of the late
W. H. Vanderbilt exempt from inherit
anca *<*■*
.GapiW' Cl)Sit
Washington Gossip, Political and
Otherwise, for the Readers
of Urn Globe.
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WASHINGTON}? Fs. 15.-(Special.)-
There are so maig anfjitious men in the
Minnesota delegation l&iat it seems im
possible for them? to ■tvork together in
perfect harmony. ;$ n tie lower house at
least six out of \he seven are looking
for some higher MRce^han that of rep.
resentative. At Ittst Six of them would
lake to become go'\£>ernj» or United States
senator, or both.JCoifjfresssman Eddy Is
very anxious to ; "bec<jfc[ie the chief ex
ecutive of the N^rth $jtar state. Repre
sentative McCleafy hSs the same am
bition. Mr. HeatwpJe would like to first
become governor and then United States
senator. Mr. Tawney has about the
same ambition. Mr. Fletcher, it Is said,
is an aspirant for the senate, and Page
Morris, of Duluth, also has an ambition
to elevate himself politically and official
ly. Mr. Morris, however, will be content
at the present time if he can secure a
renomination and re-election as the
Sixth district's representative in the next
congress. As a matter of fact, all seven
of the congressmen are willing to serve
their constituents in a like capacity for
the two years following the end of the
Fifty-sixth congress, unless by chance
one of them should be given the Repub
lican gubernatorial nomination this fall.
There is littla danger of lig-htniing strik
ing any of them unless it is Mr. Heat
woie, of the Third district.
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So far aa the senators are concerned,
Mr. Davis would not mind stepping from
the senate chamber into the executive
mar slon. This is a laudable ambition of
coiirse. The presidential bee has been
buzzing in Mr. Davis' somewhat ruffled
silk hat for several years past. As is
well known, he endeavored to secure the
Lacking of the Minnesota delegation to
the St. Louis convention in 1896. That
was a McKinley year, however, in Min
nesota as well as in all other state 3.
Mr. Davis was, of course, forced aside.
As McKinley's renomination is certaiin
at the Philadelphia convention, Mr.
Davis, if his ambhion is to be fulfilled,
must walit until 1904. There is a chance,
his friends here still think, ihat If a
Western man is chosen to lead the Re
publican forces in that year, Mr. Davis
may be the Republican nominee. So far
as Knute Nelson is concerned, there Is
not anything higher than a United State*
senatorship for him. This is due to the
fact that he Is not a native-born Ameri
can citizen. f
• • *
There have been several clashes be
tween the members of the Minnesota del
egation and several instances might be
pointed out wherein they have failed to
agree on certain matters which have not
been made public and which, by the way,
probably worked against the interests of
the entire state se far &s legislation and
other matters are concerned. It is pre
sumed that the jealousies existing in the
past will continue' as long as the present
members remain in congress. Outward
ly there Is Httle indication of the strife
within. That every man In the delega
tion Is a hard worker is conceded. If
the nine members were united, however,
it goes without saying that they would
be more capable of carrying through
legislation of benefit to the state than
they «re at the present time or at any
time In the past.
• • •
Commerce of the United States with
Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian,
Philippine and Samoan islands continues
to show rapid gain. The December fig
ures of the treasury bureau of statistics
show for the single month of December
exports of considerably more than $.i,000,
--000 to Cuba, and imports valued at $1,355,
--000 from" Cuba; to Puerto Rico, exports
valued at $312,000, against $183,600 in De
cember, 1898; to the Hawaiian islands, ex
ports exceeding $1,000,006 in value, against
$536,000 in December, 1898, and to the Phil
ippine islands, $379,000, against $10,000 in
December, 1898. Taking the entire year
and the live islands, or groups of Islands,
Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian and
Samoan islands, the total for 1899 shows
an increase of more than 100 per cent in
exports to those islands over the year
1898, while the imports? from them show
an increase of nearly 50 per cent over
those of 1898. Naturaily the commerce of-
Cuba would show very material gains
compared with that of 1898 or 1897, when
war prevailed In that island, but an ex
amination of the earlier figures of our
commerce with that island shows that
the imports from the United States to it
in 1899 were larger than those of any
earlier calendar year, and very much
greater than those of any save the reci
procity years of 1892 and 1893. The same
is true of Puerto Rico, while the exports
from the United States to the Hawaiian
islands are more than twice as great as
in any year prior to 1898, and the imports
from them 50 per. cent in excess of those
of any preceding, year. In the case of
the Philippines the increase is much
larger so far as'it relates to exports,
which reached, in 1899, $1,663,000, as against
an annual average of about $100,000 dur
ing the preceding decade.
—J. S. Van Antwerp.
THREE DESPERADOES CAUGHT.
Are Said to Be Members of a Cans
of Robbers.
CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Three men who are
under arrest in Janesville. Wls., are said
to have been positively identified as tha
robbers who broke into the postofflce at
Dekalb, 111., the night of Nov. 6, and
took a large stim of money and stamp*.
The names of the prisoners so far aa
known are "Toronto Jim," "Lefty" Fitz
gerald and "Dad" Flinn. The report as
to their Identification was telegraphed to
Postofflce Inspector Stuart, in Chicago,
toflay by InspectoV Guy Gould, who has
been looking for the men since.the rob
bery took place.
The men were recently arrested by
Sheriff Appleby, of Janesvllle, who holds
them in the jail there on a state war
rant charging them with the robbery of
a bank at Milton, Wis.
Inspector Gould sent word that wit
nesses say the prisoners are members of
a desperate gang who are supposed to
be responsible for the robbery of a num
ber of banks and postoffices in Illinois
and Wisconsin.
The -government lost $2,915 in stamps
and money by the robbery of the Dekalb
postofflce last November. .
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STABBED TO DEATH.
Husband I» Arrested, Charged With
a Cowardly Crime.
NORFOLK, Vo- Feb, 15.—Mrs. William
J. Garland, wif? of Jl saloonkeeper in
Phoebus, was founj murdered this
morning in her bed her husband,
when the latter <*wok« An autopsy de*
veloped the fact that! she had been
stabbed just below th* left breast with
a darning needle an<fi so skillfully was
It done that the^eedfe struck the heart
in the center, causing instant death. The
husband reporte<|Ube murder and he was
arrested charged, with, the crime. He
protested his inr»cence. He is wealthy
and is not knowcitfo h|ve quarreled with
"his wife. * C
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Illinois J*rohVbltionfnt».
CHICAGO Feb. 15.—Members of the i
Illinois state committee of the Prohibi
tion party met today;'and dec Wed to is
sue a call for 1,400 delegates to attend
the state convention m Chicago, June 26.
The national convention will be held In
Chicago the following day.
Ohio Republican Convention.
COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 15.—The Repub
lican state central committee today de
cided that the state convention should
be hold In Columbus, Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 21 and 25. It was de
cided that all delegates should be chosen
by popular vote, the former custom of
allowing committees to select delegates
jikvloac caused «reat dissatisfaction.
BARTON U THE FIELD
CONSENTS TO THE 17SE OF HIS
NAME AS A MAYORALTY
CANDIDATE
EIGHTH WAED IS AROUSED
Democrat XVill Have Another Big
Meeting at JfMrang'n Hall, on
University Avenue, Tl»l« livening
—Gov. 1,1 iid May Take Part In
Sprint Campaign From the
Stump.
Humphrey Barton, the attorney, and
chairman of the Democratic city and
county organization, yesterday gave, his
formal consent to the use of his name
as a candidate for the mayoralty nomina
tion by a number of his friends who havo
been urging him to make the endeavor
to secure the nomination, and, if success
ful therein, the election, which seems, in
the present disrupted state of the Repub
lican party locally, to be most surely
presaged for a united Democracy the first
day of May.
Mr. Barton has determined to tender
his resignation as chairman to the exec
utive committee of the city and county
organization at a meetiogr which will be
held at the headquarters in the New
York Life building at 7:30 this evening,
and will be free from any suspicion of
attempting to advance his personal cau3e
by the use of his position on the com
mittee, although the organization has not
yet considered the idea one way or the
other.
♦ * *
The meeting of the executive committee
this evening will be Important for this
reason, but It is not thought that its ses
sion will be long drawn out, and it is
called for 7:30 in order that the members
can get an early start and attend In a
body the meeting of the Democrats of
the Eighth ward, which will be held this
evening at Jessrang's hall. University
and Farrlngton avenue 3.
• • *
The Eighth ward is a storm center in
a political way these days. Not only has
It two avowed mayoralty candidates In
the field, Dr. B. H. Whitcomb, who has
been making an aggressive canvass, and
Matt Bantz, now alderman, who has an
ambition to drive the municipal chariot
for the next two years, but the once sol
id Republican phalanx In that ward,
which brave Willie R. Johnson led down
to the Rubicon so strong for Andrew
R. Klefer in the spring of 189$, now looks
a good deal like an awkward squad that
had been besieged for two months on
hard tack and coffee. Kiefer's official
career seems to have piled one new faux
pas upon another, as far as keeping lined
up the* men who made him mayor In IS9S
is concerned, and, aside from Billy John
son—whose support may or may not be,
as has been charged by many, about the
temperature of tepid milk—Kiefer has not
much of a following in the ranks of the
party in the Eighth.
It may be that the mayor believes, with
an American politician of earlier vint
age, now dead, and therefore esteemed a
statesman, that he "can take care of his
enemies, if some one will look after his
— fool friends," but, unless that Is the
mayor's plan of campaign, he has cer
tainly fooled all the political strategists
and tacticians of the Ed Rogers and M.
N. Goss schools alike.
* * *
Speaking of Goss, a rumor prevalent
yesterday that Patrolman Cline would be
made chief o f detectives seems to be
without foundation. It is true that he
did arrest three boys yesterday for
"shooting craps" in an alley, but the
mayor does not consider that wou'.d en
title him to be promoted over the shoul
ders of Inspector Chri3tenson.
• ♦ •
"Frederic," safd the mayor yesterday
after the executive private office had b?en
the theater of a clammy silence for a
long time.
"Yessir," replied the private secretary
peering cautiously into the laager before
entering.
"P'rederlc," continued the mayor, "who
it is by that Republican city committee
once yet?"
"I beg your pardon," queried the puz
zled secretary. "There was so much
noise In the hall."
"What it is the Ice that cuts this city
Republican committee yet?"
"Oh," replied the secretary consoling
ly, I see that they had a meeting yester.
day, but I presume the papers "
"Who is this committee yet? You don't
seem to get me by the idea already."
"Oh," rejoined the secretary. "I don't
know that I can tell them all. I guess
there's Johnny Selb, and possibly Mike
Fitzgerald, and Llndahl, and Bigue, and
Fred Bryant, and Chester Smith "
"That's that Smith fellow. What is
yet they call him for fun once—Chet
Smith. I wish you would write him a
valentine with the compliments of yout
mayor; that's me. Tell him, Frederic;
tell him he is not mayor by a large ma
jority; not chet, Frederic, not chet, al
ready."
♦ ♦ •
Gov. Lind returned yesterday from
South Dakota, where he made a number
of political addresses the first part of the
week. * The governor reports that the
cause of Americanism and liberty is
popular in the state and that he had
large audiences in each case.
♦ • •
Incidentally, it hag been hinted that
the governor will take part in the city
campaign in this city this spring to th«
extent of appearing on the platform in
a few party addresses. And in view of
the fact that he formally and finally
read himself out of the Republican party
at the banquet in Minneapolis in Janu
ary, it may be presumed that a united
Democracy, with a platform bearing the
true ring, can command the governor's
time for several addresses in various
parts of the city.
• • •
The Seventh ward cast 863 votes for
Kiefer in 1898. It cast 2,238 votes for Mc-
Klnley In 1896. So it will have nearly
three times as many delegates in the
coming Republican convention as it
would have had if delegates had been al
lotted on the mayoralty vote of 1898. Is
it any wonder that Herr Andrew in the
city hall is beginning to see the hand
writing on the wall? Is it any wonder
that the lower town Republicans are
wondering what the Seventh ward will
do in the convention to elect delegates to
the state convention. It has been loyal
to Clapp in the past, and there seems no
reason to doubt its loyalty now. The
CIaDD-Rogers-antl-Kiefer combination
may yet throw the Kiefer-Van Sant-
Stevens combination several degrees out
of its reckoning.
Senator R. B. Thompson, of Fillmore
county who returned home yesterday,
after sitting In at the session of the
state central committee Tuesday, sa>s
that Sam Langum is making a good can
vass for the Republican nomination for
secretary, of state and has a good prom,
lse of success. „ #
Langum's friends have been Inclined
to consider Israel Bergstrom his most
dangerous adversary for *• nomination
but now that Theden and BJoblom are
both out for support in Hennepln the op.
position is not feared as much as it
was.
"What's that I saw in the Globe
about some young Minneapolis lawyer
who wanted to be nominated for Judge
Collins' place on the Republican ticket?"
asked State Auditor Lmnn yesterday.
"Somebody better tell him to farm out
the job to some one else and he'll find
it more profitable."
• • •
City Engineer Claussen yesterday ap
pointed Louis F. Schultz, of the Fifth
ward, a3 street commissioner oft the Fifth
and Sixth wards, vice Thomas F. Yorke,
removed. The hand of Mayor Kiefer is
plainly seen in the change made by the
city engineer. Some months ago the
mayor gave out the information that a
street commissioner to succeed Yorke
would be appointed providing the Repub
Hears organization would unite on a man
for the place. A meeting of the present
committeemen of the ward was held and
George N. Warren unanimously agreed
on. This did not suit the mayor and
rather than have Warner appointed
Yorke was allowed to retain the office.
Yesterday word was sent the engineer to
nam© Schultz for the place and the order
wan carried out. Peter Bielen will be
named by Schultz as foreman at a sal
ary of $€0 per month. The salary ot
street commissioner is $75 per month.
Thp city engineer also announced thp ap
pointment of C. T. Brown, an employe
of the Great Northern, to the poslton of
draughtsman in the office at $75 per
month. F. F. McCarron, who has been
in the engineering department as transll
maji at $85 per month, for the pa«t fifteen
years, waa notified yesterday that hi*
services would no longer be needed. City
Engineer Claussen said last evening that
McCarron had been let out for the reason
that there was no work for him to do
• • *
Yorke is said to have been the only
native of England on the city's pay roll
• * *
J. R. Parshall, of Faribaut, who throw
down the administration when it was
sought to reorganize the soldiers' home
staff, Is now in St. Paul. It is said that
Parshall's official scalp will be taken at
the next meeting of the board of man
agers of the state institute for defectives,
for which he is steward, and he now
wants Gov. Lind to intercede for him,
notwithstanding the fact that he Ignored
the governor's wishes when Commandant
McMillan waa re-elected.
• • •
In the list of. candidates for city
treasurer published a day or two ago.
the Globe inadvertently omitted the
name of Deputy Sheriff Jansen, of the
Fifth ward, who is making an earnest
effort for the nomination.
m ■—
BEFORE BOARD OF ABATEMENT.
Application^ for Redactions In Per
sonal Assessment* Are Heard.
At the meeting of the board of" abate
ment yesterday, Aid. Kenny, in his usual
emphatic manner, declared that the action
of the state board of equalization in malt
ing wholesale advances on city assess
ments was nothing short of an outrage.
The principal object of the state board,
Aid. Kenny said, waa to burden the city
with taxation and let the country escape
its due proportion. Mr. Kenny suggested
that a resolution setting forth the views
of the board on this subject should be
drafted and forwarded to the state board.
Present at the meeting yesterday were
Mayor Kiefer, Aid. Murphy, Reeves
and Kenny, Assemblyman Warner and
County Auditor Johnson. The board re
ceived a batch of applications for abate
ment on personal property taxes and re
ferred them to a committee consisting of
Aid. Murphy and Kenny and Assembly
man Warner. With those received yes
terday, and others referred to the commit
tee at a previous session, something over
200 are to be reported and acted upon at a
meeting to be held Tuesday at 10, o'clock.
The Northern Exchange bank, repre
sented by Attorney Carl Taylor, objected
to an assessment of $42,170 on its capital
stock of $100,000. An affidavit presented by
Theodore Borup, one of the directors,
stated that the capital stock of the bank
was seriously impaired July 5, 1899. and
the institution went into voluntary liqui
dation. Mr. Taylor said the shares of the
bank were assessed at a higher valuation
than of any of the other banks. A fair
valuation would be $26,158, as the stock
was not worth more than 50 cents on the
dollar, and he asked that the valuation b*
fixed at this sum.
In the estate of E. S. Edgerton, Attor
ney Wlckwire asked that the valuation be
reduced from $13,540 to $7,540.
The London Northwest American Mort
gage company, assessed at $50,240, asked for
an abatement of $50,000 on the ground that
its credits were not personal property
taxable here and the only taxable prop
erty was $240 in office furniture.
W. B. Bend, who returned assessable
property at $775, had the valuation raised
to $1,230, and claimed .$455 of this amount
excessive.
Oliver Dalrymple, assessed for $6,010,
filed an affidavit setting forth that he
rented 265 Summit avenue furnished and
lived at his farm at Casselton, N. D.,
summers. He owned personal property
in Ramsey county valued at $930, and
asks abatement between this amount and
$6010.
W. W. Thomas, assessed for $8,070 on
twelve mortgages, grave notice that he
had either assigned or lost the proper
ty, and demanded entire abatement.
O. D. Brown, a member of the St. Paul
Loan company, asked for abatement of
$5,020. leaving taxable valuation of the
company at $120.
A. A. .McKeechnie, secretary of the St.
Paul Union Stork Yards company, ob
jected to assessment for $3,700. mortgage
held by the company, claiming that mort
gage bonds outstanding amounted to
$1,622,000, and under the law was an offset
against mortgage in its possession.
Receivers of the Walter A. Wood com
pany assessed $100,000, claimed excessive
$75,000. M. D. Munn appearing for the re
ceivers said $100,000 was collected and
paid out. The bills and accounts not out
lawed were worth five cents on the dol
lar. No manufacturing in 1899 and no
raw material on hand.
Ferdinand Willius, assessed for $2,780,
claimed $1,265 excess, and asked valuation
to be fixed at $1,515.
Gustave Willius delivered to the county
assessor a sworn statement of personal
property. The valuation was increased
to $1,390, and $430 of this is claimed to be
excessive.
L. N. Scott, manager of the Metro
politan opera house, objected to the val
uation of $5,100, claiming this amount was
$2,500 excessive.
The applications of those who were
heard, either in person or by attorney, as
well as the applications filed, were re
ferred to'the special committee of inves
tigation.
State Auditor Dunn yesterday denied a
number of Ramsey county applications
for abatement. _
American Warships Drill.
ST. THOMAS, D. W. 1., Feb. 15.—The
United States armored cruiser New York,
the battleships Texas and Massachusetts,
the gunboat Machias. the auxiliary gun
boat Vixen and collier Caesar are off Cul
bra, drilling and maneuvering. A sailor
who died of typhus was buried here to
day with naval and military honors.
today's JSttradiems it
FIELD, SCHLICK & CO., Lowry Ar.
cade, always make a feature of adding
new attractions daily to all of their sales
so that they will not lose any of their at
tractiveness. All of this week their
stationery and undermuslln department*
have been thronged, but today's offering*
are full of new specials. In the linen
department you'll find some sheets and
pillow cases at just about the cost of
materials?
MANNHEIMER BROS., Sixth and
Robert streets. This Is housekeepers' day
at this store and many specials are of
fered in the linen and washgoods de
partments. Attractive prices have also
been made for today's visitors, amona
the cloaks and art goods.
A. H. SIMON, Seventh and Jackson
streets, announces that beginning Satur
day afternoon he will offer his whole
stock of Jewelry at auction, as he Is go-
Ing to retire entirely from the retail
business after an uninterrupted career of
over twenty-five years.
BROWNING. KING & CO.. corner Sev
enth and Robert, today Inaugurate a
CLASH IN ILITUCKY
GIVEN EMPHASIS BY RECOGNITION
OF GOV. BECKHAM BY PRISON
OFFICIALS
HIS PARDON IS RESPECTED
That of Taylor, In the Case of Ha>e«,
Whs lgnoreil-(;ot. Beckham Or.
ders a Prisoner Released, and Ho
Is Immediately Given HU Liberty
—Agreement a« to Contest* Be
tween Minor Candidates
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 15—The clash
between the Democratic and Republican
branches of the state government was
emphasized today by the prison officials
releasing John Seals, a Louisville convict,
on a pardon issued by Gov. Beckham.
Deputy Warden Punch was acting ward
en tonight, and when the pardon paper*
were presented to him, he ordered Seals"
release, and the latter left the city to
night.
Douglass Hayes, a Knott county con
vict, recently pardoned by Gov. Taylor,
is still in conftement, the prison officials
refusing to recognize Taylor as governor.
Attorneys for contestees and contest
ants today signed the following agree
ment as to the conduct of the contests of
I minor state officers:
"We, the undersigned, attorneys for
contestants and contestees, hereby agree
that all the testimony taken in the con
test for governor and lieutenant govern
or in the city of Frankfort, so far as the
same shall be competent and relevant,
shall be received as evidence In the con
tests now pending before the state board
of election commissioners, now sitting as
; a contest board; and lt fls further agreed
| that the said contests shall be submitted
to said board without arguments, the
counsel for neither side nor any other
person to be present during the trial and
the contestees expressly reserving all
! rights to except, object or demur to the
evidence of other proceedings which they
may have under the law; and, further,
that the said contestees do not by the
agreement waive raising any objection to
I jurisdiction, and this agreement is to tak*
i effect after the board shall have acted
upon the preliminary motions and affi
davits heretofore filed before said board
by the said contestees, and all of them,
with reports shown by the records. In
the event that such motions, supplement
ed by their affidavits, shall be overruled
j by the board, thia agreement is to be In
j effect and binding at once, this Feb. 15,
1900."
The contest board met at 3 o'clock,
when the reading of testimony was be
gun.
REPI BLICAJVS APPEAL.
CInI in That Judge Tuft Erred In
Ruling; on Jurisdiction.
CINCINNATI, 0., Feb. 15.-This after
noon Attorney H. B. Mackey, • with ex-
Gov. Bradley and other attorneys inter
j ested in th« Kentucky contest election
| cases, appeared before United States Cir-
I cult Judge William H. Taft, in chambers,
' end filed notice of an appeal from the de
j clslon rendered by the latter on Wednes
j day afternoon. The appeal will be taken
direct to the United States supreme court.
It will be remembered that in the two
cases brought to the notice of Judga
| Taft the question of federal jurisdiction
i was raised, and he decided that the ques
| tion involved should be referred to the
) state courts of Kentucky or should have
1 been taken direct to the federal supreme
[ court.
The petition for appeal merely states
that Judge Taft erred in declaring that
Jurisdiction did not lie in the federal
court, and it Is solely upon this ground
that the appeals were taken.
There were two petitions for injunc
tions filed in the circuit court of the dis
trict of Kentucky. One was by Sweeney,
one of the Republican contestants for
state officer, and the other by certain
citizens of Kentucky. Both claimed that
the Republicans were to be ousted by the
state board of elections, sitting as a
contest board, in favor of the Democrats,
and the application was for preliminary
Injunctions to prevent this.
When Mackoy appeared before Judge
Taft this afternoon he had with him sev
eral other petitions, which were brought
by the other minor Republican state offi
cers. The prayer of each is the same.
Judge Taft examined them all and allow
ed the appeal in each. The appeal bonds
were fired at $250 each appellant.
A proviso of these petitions, clearly
stated in them, is that they shall not hold
in abeyance the action of the clvir courts
of the state of Kentucky in the cases af
fected by them.
Attorney Mackoy was a member of the
Kentucky state constitutional convention
which framed the present constitution,
and has the reputation of beiLg at home
in knowledge of the constitutional law
of his state, and of the United States.
GETTING TOGETHER.
Leelska/tare May Meet In Frankfort
Next Monday.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 15.—The pros
pects of the legislature getting together
and holding regular sessions at the state
capital are conceded to be brighter to
night than since Gov. Taylor adjourned
that body to meet at London, followed
by the removal of the Democratic branch
to Louisville.
Speaker Trimble told leading Democrats
who were in Louisville today that h«
thought both branches would meet to
gether here Monday.
Efforts are being made to reach an
agreement as to who shall preside in th?
senate. In order to avoid a cla-h between
Lieut. Gov. Marshall and Sanator Carter,
president pro tern, of the senate. If this
is settled, the chief barrier to the Demo
cratic and Republican branches meeting
together will have been removed. It is
believed this will be accomplished on
Monday.
two days' special sale lit which their lead
ers are suits, overcoats and ulsters. If
you cannot get time to take advantage
of this sale today you can make your ar
rangements to pay the store a visit on
Saturday, and thus take advantage of
their advertised bargains. They alao tell
about some good vaVuea in their boys'
department at reasonable prices.
THE PLYMOUTH CLOTHING HOUSE.
Corner Robert and Seventh streets, are
after ulster buyers and are placing these
garments at lower figures than ever be
fore in order to close them out. They
also announce the cloßlng out of the two
big shoe purchases they recently made,
and close with a mention of their new
line of hata.
THE NORTH STAR HOUSE FURN
ISHING COMPANY. 434-436 Wabasha
street, are offering an excellent line of of
fice desks, chairs and bookcases.
YERXA, Seventh and Cedar streets,
call special attention to their sale of
bakery goods fresh from their own ovens
and also that next Monday prices on
coffees will be advanced.