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EASTERN REPRESENTATIVE,
,W. J. MORTON, . ■• •-' -•■
, 160 Nassau St., New York City.
87 Washington St.. Chicago.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1904.
THE PRISON SENSATION.
The detailed statement of occur
rences preceding and subsequent to the
letting of the contract for the prison
labor of the state, published by The
Globe this morning, will be read with
intense interest by every citizen of
Minnesota. It is minute, it is circum
stantial, it is made by a man responsi
ble in everysense of the term, and It
•will compel attention and command
confidence.
Mr. W. B. Jordan asserts that War
den Wolfer had an interest in the shoe
company by which prison labor was
employed. He recounts conversations
In which Wolfer is said to have
spoken of this freely and as a matter
understood. He describes the devious
ways in which the various interests
worked, and shows the wheels within
wheels connected with the charge of
this public trust. No relation could be
more explicit and none demand more
loudly an investigation and such an
swer as those implicated may find pos
sible.
As far as the board of control is con
cerned, they may find it inconvenient
to explain why they have concealed
these matters deliberately and obsti
nately from the public. Mr. Jordan
avers that he laid before the board
everything that he has now given to
the public, that he asked for a copy
of the record, and that his request was
evaded. All that he has since required
was that the members of the board,
having this information in their pos
session, should give it out. That they
have refused to do, although a tran
script has been demanded from them.
It will now be expedient for them to ex
plain why they have shrunk from pub
licity, as well as why they have, in
their official capacity, taken no cogni
zance as far as we know of the very
serious matters presented to them by
Mr. Jordan.
It is equivalent to a confession that
the wretched apologies which have
appeared thus far make no attempt to
answer charges or explain a condition
by which the state receives, for the life
of the contract, $13,500 less than would
have been paid under proper conditions,
other than the whining statement that
the agitation about it is "political."
"Well, if these gentlemen can stand it, we
can. We believe in honesty, publicity,
fair dealing by the state and the com
plete separation of private from public
interests. If anyone wants to call that
drawing a political line, far be it from
us to say nay. If any party or its rep
resentatives wants to assume responsi
bility for improprieties or to throw
over them the party mantle, that is no
affair of our making.
A grave scandal has been developed,
which Minnesota cannot afford to ig
nore. The board of control and others
have sneered at the mantly letters and
attitude of Mr* Jordan and told him
that it was "up to him" to give fact?
and explanations. We trust that they
are satisfied. He has complied with
fc their request with a vengeance, and his
relation will send a shock through all
Minnesota today. Upon every man
marked by it must fall the weight of
responsibility and the burden of a just
punishment.
If you happen to want to send any-
body poisoned candy by mail just
move over into lowa and prepare the
dope.
A DAY AFTER THE FAIR.
There is something approaching the
ludicrous in the appetite of the senate
committee charged with investigating
the Smoot case for details of Mormon
faith and practice at this late day. It
appears to us to partake very much
of the nature of the depraved instinpt
which leads low-minded boys and men
to obtain and read forbidden literature.
The joy seems to lie in the salacious
ness of the matter, rather than in any
possible helpful application of it.
The condition of things in the state
of Utah and in the Mormon church is
not a surprise to any intelligent per
son. It is known of all men. Not only
that, but it was known to all men
when Utah was admitted that such con
ditions existed there then, and that they
would be put permanently beyond the
right of federal interference if state
hood were granted. Then, if ever, was
the time to act. The majority in Utah
being Mormon, and the Mormon posi-
tion being so defined that no change In
it could fie regarded as possible, the
admission of the territory as a state
was tantamount to a definite and un-
limited permit by the United States
government for the continuance un
checked of all beliefs and practices pe
culiar to Mormoaism.
The senate investigation is an un- j
mixed farce. There is nothing brought j
to light which bears or can bear possi
bly upon the case of Senator Smoot.
There is nothing disclosed which any
act of congress or proceeding 1 of the
courts can remedy. The plain fact is
that everybody outside of the mad
house knew that the admission of
Utah meant the erection of a perma
nent and impregnable asylum not only
for Mormonism, but for polygamy and
anything else which Mormonism chose
to tolerate or defend. Why raise all
this row about it after the nation has
by its own act estopped itself from
further interference? Why burden the
public prints with a mass of matter,
most of it offensive and a large por
tion unprintable, merely to make a
mock show of high morality, when it
is too late for moral ideas, even if sin
cere, to have any practical effect what
ever?
During each day for four weeks the
czar's forces in the East have been
crushed, and the heartless indifference
of the Autocrat is exhibited in the
fact that he sits up and takes his vodki
as though there was nothing doing.
MINNESOTA AND NATIONAL DE
MOCRACY.
The policy outlined by a prominent
Democrat as fittest for the party in
this state and made public by him
-through The Globe In a late issue
is so admirable that we wish to em
phasize and reinforce it. The Democ
racy of Minnesota should send a dele
gation to the national convention whose
warrant for wisdom shall lie not in
any instructions, but in the character
of its personnel.
The state convention should name
delegates at large, and the districts
choose Democrats in each who can be
depended upon to do the best thing for
the party. They should be conserva
tive, careful men. They should be free
from the taint of extremism/and in
tolerance. They should be able to for
get what has happened on both sides
in the past, to remember only Democ
racy reunited and rejuvenated, and to
think and act only with an eye single
and heart devoted to its honor and
success.
Any attempt to control the conven
tion in the interest of any particular
candidate should be frowned down.
The situation at present is not such
that any individual aspirant for the
presidency has a clear field or an open
title. It is not such that any man who
has been mentioned deserves the in
structed following of Minnesota. The
atmosphere will not be clear or the
way of success made plain until repre
sentative Democrats shall have taken
counsel with pne another at St. Louis,
and out of it have evolved harmony
and wisdom. Let the pledge of Min
nesota lie in the naming of her best,
most disinterested, ablest, calmest and
most impartial Democrats, and trust
to them for the result.
Did you notice how much better the
old war pictures—made in New York
before the opening of hostilities—were
than the new ones —made in Germany
—are?
CLINGING TO THE FLESH POTS.
The grafting instinct in Republicans
dies hard. The time was when the ex
posure of improper influence or of the
use of official place or power for pri
vate profit would have bfeen equivalent
to the withdrawal of- the official from
public life. Now he stays, rises in his
place indignantly, defends his right to
a percentage of profit on his business,
denounces in scurrilous terms those who
have exposed him and" hangs on like
grim deaths to the- position he has
abused.
It is refreshing indeed, as an illustra
tion of the moral tone of modern Re
publicanism,' to read the proceedings
in congress relating to the reception of
the report of Mr. Bristow. The mem
bers who are hit shout out {hat he is a
liar and a scoundrel in one breath, and
in the next announce that there is
nothing in the report to fix a shadow
of improper motive or conduct on any
member of the house. If this is so,
why such violence of indignation?
The truth is, the Bristow report
shows that, as The Globe has said,
it has become the almost universal,
but none the less corrupt and disgust-
ing, habit of members of congress to
use their official influence to secure
money compensation for the services
of their henchmen among the post
masters and other federal employes.
Republicans are guilty because Re
publicans alone have the ear of the ad
ministration and- the power to offer
indirect bribes to leaders in their dis
tricts under the guise of extra clerk
hire and other allowances. Human na
ture being pretty constant, any con
gressman or senator will do the same
thing while the customs of'the depart
meift and public opinion tolerate It.
A breath of cleansing air from the
outside ought to sweep away this
whole dirty cobweb that the spiders of
graft have woven about the"" national
service. Worse than any money wast
ed or influence used is the absence of
shame among the guilty. Tiese men
who dare rise in congress to vindicate
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1904 •
HERE is the DAILY INCREASE for February in the
number of copies of Tlae St. Paul D^ily Globe de
livered by MAIL or by CARRIER Tof .PAID IN
ADVANCE SUBSCRIPTIONS. This exhibits the actual
increase in circulation over all losses, and shows the
NET GAIN in this branch of the circulation last month:
Gain. Gain.
February 1 50 February 1© 57
Februarys 2...* .36 February 17. 33
Februarys 8. „ 18 February 18£. o
February 4.. 36 February 19." 79
February 3. 10 February 2O 82
February 6 39 February 22 41
February 8 38 February 23;....«, ...100
February 9 22 February 24 24
February 10 8 February:23i..............i00
February 11 66 February 26 78
February J2 , 7 February 27 84
February 13..... 14 February 29 82
February IS 37
Total net gain : 1141
SUMMARY OF CIRCULATION INCREASE:
City and country subscriptions 1141
Counter sales 100
City newsdealers 417
Country newsdealers 125
Total Net Gain In February 1783
themselves and to assail those who
have exposed them represent a grade
of public morals so low that its toler
ance in our national halls is a distinct
menace. People should give their rep
resentatives to understand that they
must set for themselves a higher ideal
of public conduct or retire from public
life. Look at the situation in the In
dian territory, where members of one
of the most important commissions in
the country decline either to give up
their jobs or to withdraw from the
private enterprises which their offi
cial positions have been used to make
profitable. Look at congressmen ve
hemently asserting that right and pro
priety combine to permit such prac
tices as the Bristow report has re
vealed.
The republic cannot face its own
future securely without declaring em
phatically for a new and higher line
of conduct. It can serve Its country
and the cause of public morality no
better than by driving out the whole
race of money changers, and declaring
that no party which does not at least
put itself on record against the cor
rupt use of public power, either open
or implied, can retain the public con
fidence or support.
It might be just as well for the Japs
if they would quit imitating Napoleon
in dealing with the Russians.
ROOSEVELT, DICTATOR.
The Republican party, drunk with
successes unearned, is being brought to
its senses and delivered from tremens
by rather nauseating doses of Roose
velt bromide. Col. Roosevelt has taken
the organization in hand. He has held
its nose while administering Fairbanks
as a sop to those people who in presi
dential campaigns look after the suc
cession and who in horse races bet
their money on the horse that has a
chance to be second. He has indicated
who is to be the chairman of the na
tional committee. He has practically
taken charge of the party and proposes
to run it in the interests of Roosevelt.
Which shows that he proposes to gath
er the fruits that are now ripe.
The remarkable part of all this is
that the party is standing still and al
lowing Col. Roosevelt to put the cinch
on. The lesser lights of the Republican
party are simply'accepting the Roose
velt domination because they do not
know what else .to do. And the colonel
is going through with the breaking in
of the party as he is alleged to have
gone through with the breaking of
bronchos —though eyewitnesses to the
latter transaction have not yet been
produced.
Destiny has made Col. Roosevelt the
master of his party as it made him
Roosevelt, of New York. He was born
to the purple, he was butted into the
legislature of his state, he became a
political reformer because there was
nothing else to do; he became presi
dent of the United States because fate
was due to fiount Tom Platt, who had
calculated on shelving a man whom he
recognized as a menace to the Repub
lican party.
Col. Roosevelt is now the dictator of
the Republican party. Next fall he will
be the Republican party, and there are
signs that fate, which has so far smiled
on him, will shrivel him with a frown
in which the sins of the organization
which he is taking upon himself will
take form.
The time is inauspicious for a man
who is simply lucky to take on the bur
den of an organization which is rotten
from center to circumference and
which is about to submit to a public
examination.
The posthumous work of Hanna on
Wood is of a character to prove that
poet in the wrong who intimated that
the good men do is generally interred
with their bones.
Would Mr. Smith be such a booster
for polygamy if he was in the habit of
going home a bit late nights and listen
ing to a symposium by the Mesdames
Smith?
If the Japs keep on burning powder
so carelessly the Fourth of July anti
noise people will win out in a walk.
Senator Tillman is laid up with
throat trouble. And can you wonder?
Contemporary. Comment
A Matter of Precedence.
With Admiral Walker at the head of
the Panama canal commission it is
certain that the marines will be used
to the full extent before the regular
army is called upon, if the sea fighter
can have his way.,, The right of prec
edence between the highest naval of
ficer and the highest army officer is
still a burning question in Washington.
—Omaha Bee.
Negroes and Southern Republicans.
The political fortunes of the South
ern white Republicans and the South
ern negroes are at the lowest point,
and the two facts are related. The
abandonment of the colored men of the
South by the Northern Republicans
has brought about the destruction of
the Southern Republican organization.
—Boston Transcript.
Where the Electoral Votes Come From.
Mr. Roosevelt has got two more del
egates instructed for him, and two al
leged delegates are also instructed for
him. The latter pair are the result of
a divided convention, and involves a
dispute over credentials. But all four
are from Virginia.—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
He Has Made His Reputation.
The heavyweight pugilists who are
looking for some one to whip, Cham
pion Jeffries seem to have" entirely
overlooked the 'qualifications of Gov.
Jeff Davis, of Arkansas. —Atlanta
Journal.
Wasn't a Universal Grandfather.
After inspecting the case of Prophet
Smith it becomes more and more ap
parent that Prophet Dowie has his re
deeming qualities.—Chicago News.
They're Biting Good Now Also.
If the politicians don't give Grover
Cleveland a rest pretty quick the
chances are that he'll get out of pa
tience and go afishing.—Boston Her
ald.
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Here's a Chance to Make Good.
President Roosevelt's suggestion
that the public lands be disposed of at
auction is hereby accepted, if he'll be
the auctioneers-Baltimore American.
Russia May in Two Months.
"Mikado," we are told, means "au
gust gate." But this does not prevent
the mikado from making war- at a
March gait. —Chieagd Tribune.
But They Don't Buss in Japan.
Japanese Hobsons may be popular
heroes now. But wait till they go
ashore and the girls get at them.—
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Good Old Last Straw.
Mr. Ma chen missed a point by not
pleading insanity.—Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL MENTION
Dr. Samuel G. Smith, of the People's
church, who haV'been in California on a
vacation for some time, has returned to
St. Paul. <
Rran—John .O'Brien, Somers, Mont.; A.
H. Goetz, Waukfesha. Wls.; F. A. Wilde,
Milwaukee; George O. Welch, Fergus
Falls; D. D. Isaac, Mountain Lake, Wis.;
Percy H. Wilson, Norfolk, Va.; Frank
Good, Akron, Otalo;' W. N. Mooney, Co
lumbus, Ind. te
Merchants—C. F. Miller, Waderia; H. W.
Reineke. Wasecai--Theodore From, Fari
bault; G. S. Trimble, Westlake; E. F.
Miller. Waterloo, Iowa; T. L. Brivry,
Stanwood, Wash.? W. A. Knapp, Warren;
T.. F. Phillips, Dubuque; A. A. Leider
bach, Rockford, 111.; Frank Camathan
and wife, Grand Forks, N. D.; Joseph
Sims, Billings, Mont.
Windsor—F. A. Reynolds/Omaha; G.
W. Ingraham, Jamestown, N. D.; George
R. Merryfleld, Kalamazoo; George _C. Car
penter, Buffalo; M. N. Wooley, Howard
Lake; Frank Kramer, Cass Lake; G. H.
Markham and wife, Rush City; F. C. Com
stock, Kenyonr L. B. Willenmeyer,
Jfcmestown, N. D.; R. B. Hall, St. James.
TODAY'S WEATHER
Minnesota —Pair In west, snow in east
portion Friday; Saturday fair and warmer;
brisk to high northwest winds.
Upper Michigan—Snow Friday; Satur
day fair, except snow in east portion;
brisk northwest to north winds.
Montana —Rath in south, snow in no.
portion Friday, warmer in east portion;
Saturday snov/ qr rain and colder.
South Dakotai-Talr Friday; Saturday
i fair and warmer. I .••■»■
North Dakota—-Fair and warmer Friday
and Saturday. -.. j. i
1 Wisconsin—Snow. «nd colder Friday;
Saturday fair; brisk northwest winds.
Yesterday's Temperatures—
St. Paul — Yesterday's observations,
taken by the United States weather bu
reau, St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for
the twenty-four "hours ended at 7 o'clock
last night—Barometer corrected for tem
perature and elevation. Highest tempera
ture, 34; Jowest.-temperatur.e, 31; average
temperature, 32^, dally range, 3; barom
eter, 29.52; h.um'ldity, 95; precipitation,
.22; 7 p. m. temperature, 31; 7 p. m. wind,
north; weather,-cldudy.
•BpmfiiKhi •BpmHlgh
Alpena .18 18] Jacksonville .. 66 74
Battleford ...-£--2|Los Angeles....so 56
Bismarck U■ lSjMarquette 18 20
Buffalo 26. 28 Memphis 64 66
Boston 28 &0 Medicine Hat..lß 18
Chicago 40 53|Milwaukee 34 38
Cincinnati 50 66|Minnedosa 8 20
Cleveland .... 46, 50 Montreal 10 12
Denver 54 5/New Orleans...7o 76
Dcs Moines ....30 35! New York ....36 38
Detroit 30 32|Omaha 28 66
Duluth ... 16 18jQu'Appelle ...-2 4
Eft Paso 72 76 Moorhead 16 24
Edmonton .... 6 12 San Francisco.so 56
Bscanaba 20 :24 St. Jmvlls 48 62
Galveston 68 72|Salt Lake 50 52
Grand Rapids.32 36|San Antonio...B2 90
Green Bay ...28 30iSte. Marie......20 20
Havre 18 181 Washington ...42 54
Helena 42 42IWinnipeg 14 16
Huron 24 26|
•Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
-Below zero
What the Editors Say
James A. Martin has many friends
in St. Cloud; Collins hasn't. Collins
has always "trun the soup" into Jim
and has calied him pretty nearly every
thing but a respectable citizen. So
when Jim goes to St. Cloud he tells
his friends there that he had nothing to
do with getting Collins out as a can
didate; that he knew nothing about it
until it was .announced in the papers,
and that then they forced him to re
sign his good fat office and take charge
of his campaign. St. Cloud accepts
the apology with a grain of salt. —
Cambridge Independent.
The present price of potatoes em
phasizes the fact that the farmers of
this section might well pay more at
tention to that crop. In an ordinary
season potatoes can be profitably
raised for 25 cents per bushel. Last
season the average cost probably ex
ceeded 25 cents, owing to the many
light crops and failures, but there is
certainly a good profit at present
prices (60 cents to $1 per bushel) for
those who have them. In years when
the price goes below 25 cents potatoes
can generally be profitably fed to stock.
—Mclntosh Times.
The ministers of Sioux City are con
! templating the formation of a union.
They say they have to work as hard
as anyone else and must organize to
protect their interests. This may be all
right, but imagine the pain it will give
the regular attendant at church if he
goes down some Sunday morning and
I finds that the preachers have ordered
a strike and the churches are closed,
or think of the hardship that would be
worked if the weddings should be tied
up by labor troubles in the preachers'
union.—Sleepy Eye Dispatch.
Nothing momentous this week ex
cept the revived report that W. H.
Eustis is going to break- into the game
and try to be governor once more. If
he does enter the race, what a flutter
there will be in the Collins camp, to be
sure! No, there is no love lost between
the Hon. William Henry and the Rt.
Hon. Loren C.—St. Paul Herald.
A medical ad in the Wabasha Herald
announces "Itch on humans cured in
thirty minutes." We will wager. that
this remedy will fail if applied to poli
ticians. —Thief River Press.
Education for the Few.
In St. Paul the high school problem
presents itself in concrete form, in a
way that should be extremely edifying
to other cities. The social topography
of St. Paul is different from that of
Minneapolis and many other cities. The
well-to-do persons, whose children
have leisure to go on attending school
till they are eighteen or twenty,, are
mostly gathered in one quarter, instead
of being scattered iir various equally
advantageous locations. St. Paul has
one pre-eminent "good residence dis
trict," while perhaps Minneapolis has
a dozen.
It seems to be naively admitted that
this good residence district furnishes
most of the students for the high
school and it is argued that this insti
tution, proudly called in educational
reports "the university of the poor,"
should be located for their particular
convenience. St. Paul has a high
school, centrally situated in a rather
plebeian location. It has also a so
called separate school of the Mechanic
Arts, where industrial training is said
to be given to rather more purpose
than when- mixed with the rule of
three and the study of English. The
proposal is made to abandon both of
these and erect a new and costly high
school on St. Anthony hill, which the
proposers think is the center of popu
lation because the "good people" live
there.
It looks as if this proposal would die
of public scorn and laughter; but it
will at least have served its purpose
of advertising the false conception of
the high school as an agency for feed
ing the university with students from
what may be called the leisure class of
children. There is such constant pres
sure into this class of students, though
labor and self-denial on the part of
both parents and children, out of the
class whose education normally stops
at about fourteen, »that high school
work is by no means to be despised or
rejected.
But a fatal error is made "when it is
fostered at the expense of the grade
schools of the common people. What
ever proportion of the children of the
poor bravely make their way through
the- high schools, the cold fact remains
that more than 90 per cent of all the
students never reach them at all.—
Minneapolis Tribune.
Among the Merrymakers
Best Yet.
The old gentleman was down in the big
furniture store.
"By the way," he said, just before leav
ing, "my daughter has just started to
have a young man calling, and I suppose I
should buy them a pretty sofa to make
love on."
. "Yes, sir." responded the suave clerk,
1 "and here is the very kind you need. It is
called 'Cupid's Retreat.' "
"H'ml What are the good points?"
"Why. in just one year the cover wears
off, displaying a card: 'It's Time to Get
Married.' " —Chicago News.
Circumstantial Evidence.
"See here!" cried the merchant, "some
one is giving away our secrets."
"I'll bet it's that young Bjuegore you
took in as cltrk," said the junior part
ner.
"Impossible! He comes of one of our
best families. He has in his veins the
blood of great—"
"That's just it. 'Blood will tell,' you
know."—Philadelphia Press.
A Resemblance.
"What do you think of my historic
novel?"
"It resembles some of the most success
ful works of its kind," ariswered Miss
Cayenne.
"In what respect?"
"In being neither novel nor historic."—
Washington Star.
Hopeless Case.
"I suppose," said the bachelor brother,
"you think your Baby Is the one and only
in the world most of the time."
"Most of the time," echoed the young
mother. -"Why. I think so all the time.
"Is it possible!" exclaimed the b. b.
"And I used to think you had an occa
sional lucid moment."—Chicago News.
Content.
"Aren't you sometimes tempted to com
plain about the ingratitude of republics?"
"Certainly not," answered Senator Sor
ghum; "I haven't the slightest hesitancy
in declaring that this republic has amply
paid me for everything I ever did for it."
—Washington Star.
Easily Distributed.
She—You have become a regular flirt.
He—Think so?
She —Yes; and yet when I refused you
last year you said your heart was broken.
He—Exactly. Perhaps that's why I'm
able to give some of it to every girl I
meet. —Philadelphia Ledger.
Signs.
"Do you regard dollar wheat as a sign
of prosperity?"
"Not out our way," answered Farmer
Corntossel. "It's just a sign that we
haven't any wheat." —Washington Star.
In the Car of Progress.
Atlhough politeness is the thing
Japan is noted for.
It is observable they won't
Give up the seat of war.
—New York Sun.
At St Paul Theaters
A painfully inadequate performance
of Henry V. Esmond's delightful com
edy, "When We Were Twenty-one,"
was given at the Metropolitan last
night. Only one member of the com
pany can be honestly commended, to
wit, Joseph Totten, who contributed a
spirited and spontaneous portrayal of
the Imp that was altogether satisfying.
As for the impersonation of Richard
Carewe by Dick Ferris, it was quite
perfunctory and monotonous, while the
Phyllis of Grace Hayward savored of
the rural drama, in accent and action.
The three bachelor friends of Carewe
were impersonated by actors who did
not know their lines.
The less said of the rest of the show
the better. —F. G. H.
Fay Davis and members of Charles
Frohman's Empire Theater company
will present Henry Arthur Jones' com
edy, "Whitewashing Julia," at the Met
ropolitan opera house for three nights
and a matinee, beginning Monday
evening.
Only three more performances of
"Yon Yonson" will be given at the
Grand this week.
The center of interest in "The Sign
of the Four," which comes to the
Grand next week, of course, is Sher
lock Holmes. Many and thrilling are
the adventures of the noted sleuth.
There will be a ladies' matinee given
at the Star today by Rice and Barton's
company. The attraction is perhaps
the best offered at the Star this season
and is drawing large audiences.
BURKE HAS NEW PLAN
FOR ROSEBUD LANDS
Suggests That Their Value Be Ap-
praised by a Commission.
Globe Special Washington Service,
1417 G Street.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 10.—
Representative Burke saw the presi
dent today and presented a plan for a
commission to appraise the lands of
the Rosebud reservation, promising, if
the president approved, to amend his
bill accordingly. By this plan the
lands would be appraised and classi
fied and sold in open market for the
appraised prices, doing afway with
sealed bids. The president said he
would examine the plan, but made no
promise as to approval.
Representative Steenerson was in
formed that an Indian inspector will be
sent at once to the Red Lake reserva
tion to arrange for the Indians to va
cate the lands at the end of three
months. He believes he can arrange
for lands tc- be opened July 1.
—Walter E. Clark.
MARRIAGE LICENSE IS
GOOD IN IOWA, ANYHOW
Nebraska Preacher Accommod
Young Hawkeye Couple.
Special to The Globe.
SIOUX CITY, lowa, March 10.—Rob
ert H. Mort and Miss Grace Savage,
of this city, secured a marriage li
cense^and crossed the river to South
Sioux City, Neb., to be wedded. Rev.
Mr. Bishop, suspecting from their
youth that something might be wrong,
examined the license carefully and
found it an lowa document.
"You can't be married with this in
Nebraska," he said.
"Come with us on the street car,"
said the groom to the minister, "and
marry us when we cross the state line."
The minister did so, tying the knot
as soon as the Missouri was safely
passed. Irate parents were too late to
interfere. An lowa license was not
good in Nebraska,' but a Nebraska
preacher was good in lowa.
MACDONALD FINDS
AN UNLUCKY SPOT
Three Times Escapes Death at the
Same Place and Season.
Special to The Globe.
LA CROSSE, Wis., March 10.—In the
same place and in identically the same
manner that twice before at the same
time of year he had narrowly escaped
death, Moses Macdonald, a wealthy
farmer, last night was saved from
drowning in the Mississippi.
Macdonald was driving toward his
home near Brownsville, on the ice
road, which crosses the river just be
low this city. Straying from the road,
his horses crashed through the ice.
Wood haulers heard his cries and went
to his assistance. Macdonald's previ
ous escapes were in 1902 and 1903, at
the same time of year.
ROOSEVELT LISTENS
TO GRIGSBY'S LAWYERS
President Is Expected Soon to Decide
as to Those Charges.
Globe Special Washington Service,
1417 G Street.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 10.—
Thurston and Ballinger, the lawyers
employed by Col. Melvin Grigsby, dis
trict attorney at Nome, to defend him
against the charges preferred against
him by the department of justice, had
a hearing before the president. The
president will now take the case un
der advisement and will probably an
nounce his decision soon.
—Walter A. Clark.
Train-Bearing Ice.
PARIS, March 10.—The St. Peters
burg correspondent of the Figaro says
that as doubts existed as to what
thickness of ice was required -to bear
trains safely over Lake Baikal official
experiments were made, which proved
that thirteen inches of ice would bear
a heavy train. The ice in Lake Baikal
is often four feet thick. The railway
around the shores of the lake to bring
together the two ends of the Trans-
Siberian lirfe will not be finished be
fore autumn.
Empress Not an American.
WASHINGTON; D. C, March 10.—
So much publicity has been given in
the press to a story that the emperor
of Korea had married an American
woman named Emily Brown, that
United States Minister Allen, at Seoul,
has been obliged to print identical re
plies to women correspondents, denying
the truth of the story and declaring
that there is no room in Korea for for
eign female nurses, governesses, com
panions and the like.
The easiest way to register is to do it
when you go to the primary to vote
next Tuesday..
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Secretary Shaw Thinks With*
drawa! of $40,000,000 Is
Safe Proposition.
Globe Special Washington Service,
1417 G Street.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 10.—
The prospect that the $40,000,000 pay
ment by the United States to the new
Canal company, of France, will
have to be made in gold coin, instead
of by international exchange, has caus
ed some serious consideration of the
effect on the money market. After a
careful survey of the situation. Secre
tary of the Treasury Shaw has reached
the conclusion that the withdrawal of
this large .amount of money from the
circulating medium of the country will
not be seriously felt in New York and
the other monetary centers, and that
all fears of a money stringency are
without foundation.
It is admitted now that the funds
need not have been withdrawn from
the national bank depositories quite a3
early, for the transfer of the canal
property will consume a longer time
than at first expected. It was gener
ally agreed among financiers at the
outset, however, that the banks were
in good condition to stand the strain of
this large withdrawal. This would not
have been true four or five months ago
and it would not be true, probably, four
or five months hence, but just at this
time there is plenty of money to carry
on the business of the country. By the
time the crop-moving season arrives,
it is believed, that the treasury will
have accumulated such a surplus of re
ceipts over expenditures as to be in a
condition to replace the deposits thus
withdrawn, and thus avoid any danger
of a stringency during the season of
naturally tight money.
The talk occasioned by the desire of
the French Canal company to have the
payment made in gold coin has not
ceased. There is no doubt in the minds
of many members of the administra
tion that the greatest significance at
taches to this request in connection
with the far Eastern war, for it is be
lieved that France is in imminent dan
ger of being drawn into the war, that
the French government is aware of this
and- wishes to be prepared for it.
The question has arisen as to just
when the United States will (as Sec
retary Shaw recently put it in a pub
lic speech) "begin to shovel dirt" on
the Panama canal. The probabilffy is
that the work will begin immediately
after the transfer of the title to this
government. The French company has
a large number of men at work on the
isthmus, and as soon as the title passes
the pay of these men will of course be
stopped, so far as the old company is
concerned. Preparations are now mak
ing to take charge of the French com
pany's equipment on the isthmus, and
the arrangements are expected to be
completed by the time the money is
paid over to the canal company, which
will probably be within sixty days from
this time. —Walter E. Clark.
RHODE ISLAND CHOOSES
DELEGATES TO ST. LOUIS
Six of the Eight Are Said to Be Sup-
porters of Hearst.
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., March 10.—
John J. Fitzgerald, of Pawtucket, lead
er of the Democrats in the state house
of representatives, won a victory in the
convention today in the choosing of
delegates to the national Democratic
convention at St. Louis. Mr. Fitzger
ald, assisted by ex-Mayor George W.
Greene, of Woonsocket, Democratic na
tional committeeman, routed the forces
led by Col. Patrick H. Quinn, of War
wick, chairman of the state central
committee, and Col. Samuel R. Honey,
leader of the "old-time" Democrats,
electing five supporters arid one dele
gate who had been counted as an op
ponent, but who today voted with the
Fitzgerald and Greene faction, which
Is working in the interests of W. R.
Hearst for the presidential nomina
tion. Having done this, they permit
ted the leaders of the opposition. Col.
Quinn and Col. Honey, to be named In
completing the delegation. The other
delegates are: John J. Fitzgerald.
George W. Greene, Samuel E. Daubney.
David J. Barry, Andrew W. Fa^rell, Dr.
Thomas H. Connelly.
Following the convention, a meeting
of the six Hearst delegates was held,
at which the presidential candidacy of
Mr. Hearst was indorsed and resolu
tions favoring the adoption of the unit
rule by the delegation in voting were
passed.
The delegates were uninstructed, but
Fitzgerald announced that he would
vote for Hearst, and afterward it was
said that the six Fitzgerald delegates
would support Hearst. Cofl. Honey an
nounced himself as an opponent of
Hearst, saying that he would vote
against the man "first, last and all the
time."
Newspaper Man for Governor.
WICHITA, Kan.,* March 10. — The
Republican state convention nom
inated the following ticket:
Governor, Edward W. Hoch; lieu
tenant governor, David W. Hanna;
secretary of state, J. R. Burrows; au
ditor, Seth G. Wells; 'attorney genera!,
C. C. Coleman; treasurer, Thomas T.
Kelly; superintendent of insurance,
Charles Luling; superintendent of
public instruction, .J. L. Dayhoff:
Judges of supreme court, Clark A.
Smith, W. R. Smith, E| W. Cunning
ham.
Six delegates at large to the Repub
lican national convention were elected.
The platform favors protection and
Roosevelt.
Wood's Appointment Up Again.
WASHINGTON, P. C, March 10.—
The contested appointment of Geu.
Leonard Wood to be major general of
the army was taken up in ex
ecutive session of the senate, and, after
listening to a brief prepared by the
late Senator Hanna, summing up the
testimony which had been given in the
hearings before the committee on mili
tary affairs, and several affidavits ob
tained since the hearings closed, the
senate adjourned. Senator Foraker
announced that he would move to take
up the case at every possible opportu
nity.
Ship Railway Proposed.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 10.—
Senator Morgan has introduced a joint
resolution directing the isthmian
canal commission "to examine the
question of the practicability of con
structing and maintaining a railway
structure for the transportation of
vessels and their cargoes across the
highlands on the route of the Panama
canal, between the sea or tide levels
on each side of the same, at or near
Gatun^ on the Caribbean side, and tht
Rio Grande on the Pacific side,"