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tf 1 Our Great Annual Linen Sale- 1 I f^STTI J1^!! ■II HI ■!■» THURSDAY HORNING, JANUARY 2d, ! fc^*J^ _ ft 8 W_ ID ?*J JIJrJ IjC* I*l P" We commence our Annual Linen Sale. For well known reasons these \lf gVWW^^F^SS mnPTfVT!t^^^^ S © BCTJWWfIffrW I^rißCiWßfc^ sales have become an important factor in the household economy of many n?, ,f[ !Lr ifJ^i.^J^lfP Jl'H *^; F^ X 0 JjSfojyyyy^^ 1 11 liiH fl Jaii !■! ill mB»: (^^^^^ thousands of homes in St, Paul and the whole Northwest. PPWyPPpyW X © — — — This year we have made unusual preparations. All the famous linen 1 jßjyyjiflfcftU^ @ $6 Towel^ AtlA Tawpl I n looms of Ireland as well as the linen centers of Scotland and Germany have "' ~" , '" ' . :;:"" ":'"; ; '-"' :;' "-"'"' " : " ' —( ? A 1 UWCia...auu lUWCIUIg^ sent their best products. There is a great assortment of beautiful patterns, T^hl^liri^ti Uxr fli^ Vo^ X S Jk tt j j■f■ ■■ ■ P X ~in ' fact the largest, and In every way the "beat selected stock ever shown in *^t/1^ L,UICU . try LIIC I drU. w S p| Hundreds pi cases nave been the twin cities. Immense direct importations, saving you the middle man's This is by far the greatest assortment, and the g* A § fag /SY\^i -arriving during the past two profits, place us in a position to give you as good values as can be found any- best lot of values ever offered to this community. r?i£XsM& 8 © is=s^r^\ WAO i ra All -i l where in the United States, and our constantly increasing sales tell a story Every pattern is up to date, We have gotten rid **r%OIPPto 9 §S^Mdmk special values o f well pleased regular customers.' Below you will find the price news which of ail dead stock /^SSp^^ ® rrH||p bought expressly with the view tell you how to save money. If you can't come to the store to examine the Turkpv D^ri Ho m i Ik^*' 2 \» ™™ of making- this sale strong and 2°°dS> remember that you can always depend on what we say in our ads. urKey KGCI Uamask. «iy g a ||TW£IS 0I maKin tms sale Strong ana I and order by mail . r<w . WMi^ißMS^m&M ffe| Regular 25c 35c 48c 59c 85c $$£^4?, 5 i? impressive. I. ' ' ' „,,!„. M :"" ====: this sal©.. " IB*c 22* c 39c .48c 69c < \^^ " $ 22 5,000 yards 18-inch Striped Damask Toweling, 6,000 yards of the most excellent Crashes and Glass gF s:^ZM^s:as^Baßßßas^Ba^BMaai^:^SO pieces 56 and 58 inch Cloth, bleached and 40 pieces 60 &* and A* •« hthi n • 8 JD worth ioc a yard. A lino of bleached and unbleached Toweling ever put on any counter for 1254 c and 15C.: 1 CI'MC T* AI3T t? unbleached, an "excellent wearing quality for ord- iatrflorHin a « „-S £ « Table Damask, « © Crash and Glass Toweling, 16 to 19 inches wide, which Ordinary widths as well as extra wide. SpecS 4 gl^ 11^ 111 C 1 AJtSJUJIi I- i nary usa ' Worth 39a. Special 1 T «™winaiy -weight In cream and white; good g Qk ordinarily sells at 7 c and Be. For this sale, g-^ during our January sale a yard only ........' lUG 1 . - __ _ »-4^,^^lJ^ for this sale a yard 9*<* substantial goods, such as you generally - tr% S X special, a yard ©C ,"-.-, ■ I "1 v i:!.-^-- /^T ATUC I . 7ara 2 C pay 69c ayd. for. Our sale price, a yd. 4oC 52 faT " 2,000 yards regular ioc and lie crash in Barnsley. heavy H --' , Ijl I I ffT.Zjr "8 7O olecea vertr h M v« on^ j • vi -w-*ur-»# 3: 5.000 yards of nil! Remnants of regular 5c heavy Household, Absorbant and Linen Checked Glass i ' - A. M.±k^r I 7» pieces very Heavy and desirable cream and bleached w - X JO Toweling, red bordered, good widths. Sold Ql^ Toweling: Special during this sale, C&1#» gln patterns running from 2by2to2 by 4 i iaDl° Un«n. worth 45c. for ............. , 340 10 « during this sale a yard only 020 j ayard.........7.. -. .....".... ©2*) | yards, also extra wide widths for round and I x-v jV* ** ' g£ © Huckand Damask towels crepe and i urkiifi Isquarelsquare tab!e& i j Cream and - Bleached Table Cloths I 2^ It is utterly impossible, in an advertisement, to describe all the varieties of towels we carry In this department. We N LJINSIJRP ASS AB LE i 2 vard«s wiHp mnr^ o \\A <- « ?2 Jg have liuck and Damask and Crepe and Turkish towels. Hemmed or hemstitched, fringed or scalloped. Plain white 1 ■■^'^-^ *>*■ E*^*^^**-' 1-H -2-yaras WlQe, Worth . a yd. 65c -- 75c 89c $1.00 $1.2 C 4ico «t tc © tfl and with red or blue borders. The prices are on a par with all the bargains we are showing. Praise for our elaborate range of fine Satin Damask g t? .1. , mam » A ir**-. ;-.^--- '- J » I»D'-' #I#/5 rfk | E ac h —71 10c 1210 -Ft, "' 19c 25c 1 Table Cloths and Napkins cannot be too strongly f| rc>r IMS Sale .~V. • . *5o 890 670790-90051.1951.40 S *S Each 7J© I©o 1210 IS© ISO §SSS lexprtssed. Thestock cannot be surpassed In" vahii | •*V* * I © if Si^O t&1 a 1 Sf i& Ig#3§ © WJ ••. •. ! _____ *aa>'^^ r Hand beauty. *" 11 A -^T* A. £* • m •». ▼ S «**" 90c *i.io »i.40 5i.66 »2.i0 »2.76 1 fggtgsp^j^xs*?, I .A ureat Saving: in Napkins. S § Lunch Cloths, Scarfs and Shams. Doilies. ' ISS£? BS^ Th ey a rTaii hapu r «ULi d nans of dozens of Napkini Thepatterns are new and ths <iua"tles s|mpiy matchi««. § can be raised. Look at the prices. All prices In » unoa bfl kg We will put into this sale the greatest lot of bargains 500 dozen tied fringe bleached Satin Damask Doilies in this sale are correspondingly low. 18-inch square worth SI 9«i for fti AA L ft I ever shown in hemstitched, open work, plain linen Lunch 9^^MKllSi!l§ohn:S/BSi & Sons, 1 square, wortn $1.^5, for. ...... $I.UU 22-inch sauare worth $2 50 fnr !£?! I I S^Sassr^!?.!l^ 33c :'Z7%. John S. Brown & Sons, *"t«-**^- «i-as Ii:?g 8 © Another lot worth up to $1.50. Special, 75q but for this sale they ar C a dozen $1.00. *■Q^ § o,*f r" , . 1 22-inch square, worth $2.00, for ...... $1.50 24-inch square, worth $400, for 53.25® 1 °ach *" #tto M-v" -- •-••-I Table Cloths and Napkins. I v :w *^;... : $3.75 -8a'Z6l i SHEETS, SHEETINGS AND nUSLINS WHITE GOODS AND BEDSPREADS I © A We are offering you Ready nade Sheets and Cases. I and C2o bm y p are ya thd 3Vegular price with the sale price. I -.^ weeks expect to show in our White Wa have an overflow** # 5 2 • jQ here all the very best SOO dozen 42x36 and 45X36-inch Pillow Cases, 1 Each item means a substantial saving. i Jlo^ Department the most complete and beautiful line of stock of Spreads from the X S /Brfi^ brands of sWtino- bleached and unbleached. in either hemmed or hem- I .„ T .. -'PMI ?0, tA I ' Sttos « t«H pTpil? D !?"« d Wals t Fabrics, Fancy Nor- crib size to the largest and © 0 ? AM» brands Ot Sheeting stitched, worth regularly iaf^c, I 4 C and l S c each. 1 $2.00 Table CiotjlS for $ 1.19 I g ties- M T 7"" Plala eV er shown In the Twin extra large, Our regular line 3 © Jti&mt jit anc! muslins at MiU ™r! u:r^r a. dozw: . $:: ißr IOC I 2 -soTable Cloths for. 1.59 ?^o£^^&Z^Jl£^* ?,S?S2? tat° a C°]leCtl°n S © ]p^^X Prices or even less 200 dozen 2 and a^ yard wide Sheets, bleached and 1 3-°° Table Cloths for. 1.98 I 59» yards 36-In. Striped 20 pieces 40-Inch Naln- .. S §® ,^i( r«^H ' Ef-C^ S CVen JCSS 20° dozen 2 and aX yard wide Sheets, bleached and 3- OO Table Cloth S for. 1.98 500 yards 36-fn. Striped 20 pieces 40-Inch Naln- .. kO 7\^i JxcepTion^lucky E^^^^E^^ 3.75 Table Cloths for. 2.59 Sfe."V l& 1 lfc Ma, rßeilleß flnd g 9 /f\ \*^ • purchaPsjr o T ywh'=h CV= .; S h.f^r..* s°ul-. an*5-35; 44© j 4-5° Tabl e Cloths for. 3.00 la!'.? IOC -*•>«*•»• 920 Honeycomb § @ /Ep^SSa—- —.. Bladl S've our patrons the Ao dozen double hemstitched Sheets, extra heavy, I 6. SO Table Cloths for, 3.98 1 3,000 yards 40-Inch shew %i» hc° 1* Spread*. S 1 ttrFS^T^S" ' benefit but rone of these Unen finish, s! M 81x90 Inches. Wcrth 75c 59C i nn Table doth, for. 5.00 I Striped Swiss, 8 0 Wash»W. White Organ- - -.« „.. hemm . « 4goods Will be sold to deal- Special • f. . OSiC | B'O° labls,qoths for. S.OO I worlhl2Kcyard. ®O SLJ*? 1" "^ *"• I case fall slz ., hemm»d ® I 7° £SS te £S iS4^S r- P£r^Tr JB£ 9-75 Table Cloths for. 6.25 ..«. o, » 25c "J^T* S Spmo wC as me, ° StOns2; ! . Ssl"Kf..?ri..fl^.*.^ 19C I »3.005/ 8 Napkins for.. $1.98 ] wo* ,0.. ylr , 7© .'^J-*-*- u-j cU" —•" » sf° 5 g'S^ir-a; fiwsft-,^- S?S?" ~lft=Nrs| t2J#5S£S::a TSS^SE ££■-« *S:**fc m £s S Vd 9 i- £:^ as Mu'siin -^cambric: ,*•:: i sss« r 7 51 8 8 ;^~^^^ f-s=- Sl-191 © for --. for 100 Fruit of the Loom. Dwight's Anchor Lonsdale I napkins t0r.,.., 7.48 Sample Bedspreads. Extra Quality soft finish Satin fet-ycS X 50-inch bleached casing, 9-4 bleached sheeting, Pride of the West. Rival Utica. Fern ' ■■■^■■^■■■■^■■■■IMMI^^ ' „ , , ' Q"»ta, worth $ZSO, for 0n1y.... .*..... g W- regularly 16c, 41| regularly 24c, 4"T^ ■ A ,!T J* "T ***' K!Val< UtlCa< Fern' ________ " r wwm^—p—t— Here is a spec feature. It can't interest everybody, for I case of full size Fringed Quilts Spe- AI- © © for IUU for BIG All these Standards at less than Mill Cost; I i there are only 25 Travelers' Samples of fine Hem- cial for this sale .... r...... UOGl^ ©54-Inch bleached casing, 10-4 bleached sheeting, Worth.. 6c 7c 8c B#c lOc-Uc 12^c-15 MAIL ORDERS. stitched, drawn work, embroidered, extra heavy Irish i case of Cut CornerFrln^ n..iiVJ "1L _ « - %i Jg regularly 18c, **1 regularly 26c, * 1£ = — _ « % i^c-15 These two advertisements of the Linen and Muslin Bedspreads sizes 2*z2j_ and 2^x3 yards. Worth |* 75 s Mc^, SH * QUiltß> Si 4-2 ffi for lIC f0r...: ! IO2G 0r... .4^o 5o 60 7© 80 100 Underwear sales are so arranged that every woman They are mussed and soiled a little-that is, they need vortn * 1-75- Special V Mn*+£k 7£ g. Unbleached Sheetings 2 ca Yd. Less Huslin Hill Remnants. !M*:?,^ Jlw^^^^J^ o^tiS *^^^*SZ?. Bed: $2.10 $ S These Boston Mill Goods are full width and an excel- 36-inch bleached Muslin, worth 8c and loc any- _m^ s« nd us ™ ? rer- Keep these ads and watch for PRICE. Each ' Bedspread Samples—A larpe lot of them samnle © g& lent, heavy round thread fabric. | where on bargain tables. Special, a yard.. T. DC I those which follow. W. H. ELSINGER & GO. | g7 n "J g SBfB $13 B s© 819 Pieces of different Vo cho'oe, JR P S OFFICIAL REPORTS PROVE ST. PAUL'S PROSPERITY IN 1901 FIGURES SHOW THE CITY'S GROWTH *»OSTOFFICE RECEIPTS LARGE—IN DUSTRIES ARE GROWING. Good old St. Paul can shake hands with himself and look back over the year con cluded with pride, for the city bearing his name has shown a good substantial ' growth in every line of industry, com merce and manufacture, during 1901—not a mushroom or boom growth, but an ad dition to an already large business of a volume of increase quite in keeping with the advent of good times and peacs. The postoffice receipts of the city dur ing 1901 were $577,6^8.05, as against $521, --866.56 for 1900, an increase of $56,331.49 in Cross receipts. These figures mean that the merchants Of the city, and people as well, have ex pended over half a hundred thousand dol lars more in purchasing stamps, etc., than they did in 1900, a fact indicating that the city must have increased in population and business. That St. Paul is the commercial center Of the Northwest is shown by the figures of jobbing done. The sales in 1900 ag gregated $200,000,000, and during the year Just closed nearly $250,000,000 worth of roods was marketed from ttoe oity, or an increase of 25 per cent. Nearly all of the prominent wholesale houses have enlarged their capacity by the purchasing or renting of additional floor space, an enlargement greater than ever before experienced during a single year. Nor is manufacturing neglected. The city has now, In roup.'d numbers, oa i- a thousand manufacturing concerns, employing quite 30,000 persons, and man ufacturing nearly everything conceivable, from a harvesting machine or locomotive to macaroni. In all. the output of man ufactured articles made during 1901 will •sceed in value the sum of $125,000,000. Over 33,000 pupils received an excellent education in th« public and private schools and colleges. The public school system has forty-seven graded schools, .with 25,000 students and nearly 600 teach ers, while there are sixty private and parochial school and eight colleges where 8,000 young minds are taught to shoot. In 1860, when the first mayor was elect* cd. the city had a population of 850, while the year before but thirty-nine votes were cast at the town election. Now 6t. Paul has a population In excess of 170,000, and with suburbs at least 200,000 would be the total figures. Eleven trunk lines, with twenty-three divisions, and over 35,000 miles of track, make St. Paul their headquarters, and nine general offices are located here. Our citizens can wander around in fifty-five square miles of area, and yet never go without the city, or else can dis port themselves in 585 acres of beautiful park property. If one cares to walk a promenade of SBS miles of graded streets may be taken, while a bicycle ride of fifty miles might be indulged In without riding on anything but the best of pav ing. As fine a brand of water as can be found anywhere flows through 250 miles of mains, and at night over 10,000 lights serve to light the streets. # Sixteen lines of cars and 140 miles of track carry the people of the city, while to give ample telephone facilities nearly I 7,000 miles of wire is used, much of which is now underground. Down at the union and Minneapolis & St. Louis railway depots over 150 trains arrive and depart daily, while 30,000 per sons come and go from the city on an average every day, riding is quite a thousand cars. And we also read books. There are over 50,000 volumes In the St. Paul pub lic library, and it circulates during the year fully 230,000 volumes. Not alone stands the public, library as a source of book information, for, in ad dition, there Is the State Historical so ciety, with 65,000 volumes on its shelves, and the state law library, which has over 20,000 legal tomes which to select from. Should the : reader tire of books and want real interesting information, it can v be toad through forty newspapers pub lished daily, weekly and monthly. The proud rank of second is accorded St. Paul in the list of home-owning dt ies, while twenty hospitals and homes care for the sick and neeay. " The man, or for that matter woman, who delights in being out 'o \ night at lodge, could belong to no less than ninety four secret orders, and, yet never have left the city limits. It takes 297 lodge organizations to keep the secret work go ing, while the clubman" has forty-six clubs to choose from, to say nothing of fifteen commercial organizations. In case of fire fifteen steamers, four chemicals, eight hook and ladders, thirteen hose carts, five hose carriages, j twe-nt^-one supply wagons, one water tower, one salvage corps, 202 men and five fire chiefs, suitably equipped with rubber tired buggies, could be summoned. Water to quench a sizable fire would be found in 17,080 buildings and jin hydrants too numerous to mention. All the advantages shown above and many more make ample reason for the claim, that St. Paul, as a residence city, Is second to none in the United States ..of America. Marriage Licenses' and Divorces. : During the year closed ■'• yesterday 1,512 marriage licenses wore issued in the of fice of Clerk of the Courts Rogers. About 90 per cent of the. decisions entered In the 117 divorce cases considered by the district court granted absolute divorce. - The remarkably small sum or 1 only 126 second naturalization papers - was grant-* *HB s^ FAnt GLOBE, WEDNESttSf^ J«:mTilffirX~~Sß(a v by the court. This is accounted for by the fact that last year was "off" from the standpoint of holding of elections BANK CLEARINGS BEAT ALL RECORDS TOTAL FOR LAST YEAR EXCEEDS ?260,0 00,000. St. Paul's bank clearings for 1901 -were the largest in the history of the city, the total for the twelve months being $260,413,773.17. This is $13,352,618.92 larger than the clearings of 1900, which were the largest on record up to that year. Business men regard the volume ot bank clearings as the surest and most reliable Index to a city's prosperity and progress, and, judged by this standard, St. Paul has just passed the best year In its history. The clearings averaged i over $1,000,000 a month greater than the next best year, and in it was the largest individual week's clearings in the city's annals, $7,016,455.23. which was for the first week in December. The gain maa« in 1900 over 1899, which was also a heavy year, was* $7,754,493.61, or not much more than half the gain recorded in the twelve months just past. An examination of the clearings for the past fifteen years shows ' that ■. 1891, that year of phenomenal real estate ac tivity and inflated values, comes third in the list of largest clearings. In tnat year the total was $242,075,278.10, or about $5,000,000 below the total of 1900. In 1892 there was a drop of about $20,000,000, and the two following years showed still fur ther declines, while in 1895 the upward move was begun, when there was a gain of $39,000,000 over the total of 1894. Since then the gains have been steady with the exception of a slight drop in 1897. The clearings by months lor I the last three - years. are: January— $22,281,786.62; 1900, $22,445, --391.91; 1899, $19,332,180.51. February—l9ol. $17,675.(565.22; 1900, $16, --042.402.76; 1899. $15,387,097.54. \ March—l9ol. $19,374,751.51; 1900, $18 464 --361.03; 1899, $17,903,592.37. April—l9ol. $19,693,394.71; 1900, $17,797,327.97 --1899, $16,241,177.50. •■""••* May— $21,351,544.58; 1900, $22,004,319.05; ,1899, $20,114,341.27. > , June—l9ol, $19,611,297.04; 1900, $20,536,882 73 --,1899. $19,444,741.76. >- - - July—l9ol, $20,689,627.37; 1900, $20,913,753.87; 1899. $18,550,787.84. - Augu5t—1901,:'519,180.627.13; -1900. $18,3015 121.64: 1599, $1v,45C,560.28. . > — ■ 5eptember—1901,5»,922,436.75; $18,817 - 245.51; 1899. $21,i;8.a9i>.58. ■-: I■•- October—l Sol, $28-,101.48;. 1900, $23 811 - 133.96; 1899, $25,598,363.33. ' . - ' ' November—l9ol, $28.403,101.48;; 1900 $23 - 811.13386; 1893, $24,309,639.10, December—l9ol, $26,638,293.40; 1900 $22 --767,151.51; 1899, $23,241,554.82. ' Record by Years. The total clearings - by years from 1901 to 1887 care: , 1901 .;............$260,413,773.17 1900 ....:........... 247,0(50,954.'.!> 1899 239,306,^0.84 3898 .5,702.5S 1897 ....;.......... 197,712,209.91 1896 . 228,875,312.£« 1895 .-. .222,332,186.41 1894 183,856.875.90 1893 207,679,490.34 1892 221,076,157.21 1891 342,075,278.10 1890 225.564.566. l; 4 1889 ....; ...... 209,409.381.1 3 1888 194,913,011.43 1887 205,012,122.78 POSTOFFICE DID LARGE BUSINESS UNCLE SAM'S CUSTOMS RECEIPT** ALSO QUITE SATISFACTORY. There ig nothing In the life of a city which tells more surely of the condition of business than do figures about the postoffice business transacted. From the good old days when a box with a dozen or so pigeon holes sufficed to hold all the letters for residents of St. Paul, un til the present date, when It takes 444 letter boxes for the reception of street mail matter alone, is a long step, just as the growth of the city since that good old date Is a matter of local pride to every St. Paullte. Not only does the government own and operate the number of mall boxes men tioned, but in addition there are in con stant use throughout the city thirty largo package receivers, each capable of hold ing at least five times as much mail mat ter as was the original box. In rainy weather and snow, through summer and sunshine, and winter and sleet, 127 men are constantly employed In handing out and receiving mail, while twenty-two in addition are kept constant ly subject to call, to take the place of any absentees or to help out when there is any special rush of business, such as that which took place during the holiday season just concluding. Nearly everyone has noticed that In many localities the old box. affixed to a lamp post, has been supplanted by an up-to-date post used solely for holding the receptacle of mail. The government now owns and operates 16S such contrl vances in the city, and more will be put in as the arcliaic lamp post disappears. Within the past few days all the boxea have been equipped with nicely print ed cellu'old cards bearing the date of col lection of mail, and information as to the proper method of sending letters, purchasing money orders and sending let ters. In addition the down town cards tell when mail collected at the box at some particular hour and minute will ba delivered at the postofflce, thus helping the business man to know whether or not, if he deposits his mail, it will reach the office in time to make some certain train. These cards are peculiar to St. Paul, and are the idea of Supt. H. J. Hadlich, of the local department of deliveries. On many of the boxes will be noticed a black star. This is placed so that the passer may know that mall is collected from that "box during- the night—lt is on the star route. In the city there are four regularly equipped branch stations, where all th* functions of the main office are carried out while in all stamps may be bought, money orders purchased and mail regis tered at nineteen substations. The av erage resident of the city has not far to go to transact his postal business. The close of the year win witness a marked increase in the total sale of stamps over the number sold In 1900, and by this fact we may know that the city and the business in the city has sus tained a substantial growth, for th'.s fact is regarded by those who know as the surest index of growth. Postmaster A. R. McGill says that he is well satisfied with the growth shown by the sale of stamps, and equally well with the outcome of the holiday season and, In fact, he feels that at this season he has many things to be glad for and may have more when he gets back from Washington—that is if St. Paul gets a postofflce branch at the union depot. Customs Re-turns Satisfactory. Up in the United States customs de partment they say that the business will amount to nearly the same as It did in 1900, and that is saying a great deal, for that was the very high-water year with the port of entry. The district, handled with St. Paul as the port of entry for custom goods, is all that portion of Minnesota which is not drained by waters flowing into Lake Superior, the latter section being handled with Duluth as the port. About twenty-five men are required in this district to take care of the goods Imported and in 1900, customs amounting to $630,434.84 wefe collected. The close of 1901 may witness these figures eclipsed, but this does not seem likely. It seems safe to say, however, that at least $600,000 worth of customs •were collected during the year which goes out of business this date. One of the reasons that the customs do not increase more rapidly, Is that right in the city of St. Paul is manu factured much which was form erly imported from abroad, and 9t. Paul can be grateful for that, WORK OF THE PARDON BOARD SOME NOTABLE CHARACTERS ARE) FREED DC YEAR JUST PAST. , The work of the state board of par dons for the year 1901, If measured by the number of pardons and commuta tions of sentence granted, would seem but slight. -: But when it is considered that but a very small percentage of the ap plications are favorably acted upon and that all applications must be carefully considered and each individual case thor oughly studied from the communications submitted, it will be seen that the du ties of a member of this board are ardu ous. The board is composed of the gov ernor, the attorney general and the chief justice of the supreme court. Among the cases acted upon last year were several notable ones, most con spicuous among them, of course, oe>ng those of the Younger brothers, who were paroled at the meeting of the board In July, when they had almost completed a quarter of a century of imprisonment. Another case of scarcely less Interest, locally, was that of James J. SouthalL whose sentence of ten years for fraudu lent operations t In government time checks, was commuted to four years and two months, at the first meeting of the year, Jan. 21. The other cases In which pardons or commutations *of sentence were granted were for the greater part of minor importance. The record Is as follows: James J. Southall, sentenced from Ram sey county. Nov. 14. 1898, to ten years at the state prison for grand larceny in the first degree. Sentence commuted at the meeting of the board Jan. 21, 1901, to four year and two months. John Pinger, sentenced from Ramsey county, Oct. 17, 1899, to the reformatory for assault in the first degree. Sentence commuted to one year and five months. A. C. Richardson, sentenced from Pipestone county Dec. 28, 1895, to nine years and three months in state prison for attempted knowledge of a female child. Pardon granted. - , Fred Hittman, sentenced from Olmsted county Dec., 17, 1878, to life imprison ment for murder. Pardon granted. Robert Fitzgerald, sentenced from Crow "Wing county March 22, 1895, to twenty years In state prison for raps. Pardon granted. - ■-...„ George Cassady, sentenced from Hen. nepin county April 25,. 1899, to five years in . state prison for grand larceny in the second degree. Sentence commuted to four years. - • • Thomas Shepherd, sentenced from Hen nepin county; FeT>» .T.; 1900. to seven and one-half years •Uk state prison for. grand larceny in , tb' d first degree. Sentence commuted t^ two years. . ; . -■■■■• John Foster, sentenced from Cass coun- largo. Spe- &£*% U' lm- ,to slx yaani In state prison for grand larceny in the first de gre. Sentence commuted to four years and four months. . John Carroll and Burt Carroll, sen tenced from Jackson county Mardh 12, 1899, to eight years and three months each in state prison for robbery In th« first degree. Sentences commuted to six years and three months each. Thomas Cole Younger, sentenced from Rice county Nov. 20, 1876, to life Impris onment In state prison for murder. Parole granted at meeting of the" board July 8, 1901. James Harden Younger, sentenced from Rice county Nov. 20. 1876, to life impris onment" In state prison for murder. Parole granted at meeting of the board July 8, 1901. Claude Harrison, sentenced from St. Loula county Nov. 27, 1900, to state re formatory for carnal knowledge of a fe male less than sixteen years of age. Pardon granted. ■William Eben FarJbault, sentenced from Ramsey county June 22, 1901, to the St. Paul workhouse for the term of one year for grand larceny In the second degree. Pardon granted. Charles E. Brame. sentenced in th« municipal court of Minneapolis Jan. 4. 1901, to the Minneapolis workhouse for the term of fifteen days for assault and battery. Pardon granted. Joseph Larkin sentenced in the muni cipal court of St. Paul, Sept. 17, 1901, to the workhouse for the term of sixty days for petit larceny. Pardon granted. John Vlngers, sentenced in the muni cipal court of St. Paul Aug. 17, 1901, to the St. Paul workhouse for the term of nine ty days for larceny. Pardon granted. Peter Beckelin, sentence*! from Douglas county March 16, 1900. to state prison for five years for manslaughter in the second degree. Sentenced commuted t» three years and six months. George A. Plummer and Jacob Sylves ter, sentenced from Crow Wing county Sept. 14, 1899. to state prison for eight years for highway robtoery In the first degree. ' Sentences commuted to three years and six months each. MANY GALLS FOR THE CORONER DR. A. W. MILLER WAS SU3OIO.VEO »T4 TIMES LAST YEAR. ■ .... *,: fjf, ■■ -■, ■ks.j*'- ■. - -. _■...... ■■.. - J , .... . ■ ■■ Like all other branches of city and county government, the business of the coroner has also Increased and the re port of Dr. A. W. Miller shows that during the year he made 274 official calls, as against 1?5 made by the coroner In 1900. The largest number of vio lent and sudden deaths occurred In July, when no less than forty-one sudden fa talttles were reported. In the corre sponding month m 1900 there were twelve deaths of this kind that required the coroner's attention in his official ca pacity. The lightest month last yea*