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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
MINNESOTA LEGISLATORS
HBOUT WHOM YOU REID

a thorough American He began
life as a mechanic in Massachusetts,
drifted West and became hunter,
trapper, guide, soldier and scout.
His military record is preserved in
the History of Minnesota Troops
in the Civil War;" and is a highly
creditable one. He is a farmer now,
and has been for thirty years. Sue
cess has come to him through hard
work and good management. With
success, unlike some men, he has
taken closer hold on the affections
of his people, SO that today there is
no more popular man in Sherburne.
Mr.. Craig is chairman of the COM
mittee on education, and on this
subject he is ''crank" sure. enough
"a quiet one, but none the less eff
fectiye. He has one other hobby
that he is riding this time, and that
is the extension of experimental
station work. Early in the session
he introduced a bill calling for the
establishment of two new expert
mental stations, to be located by
the board of regents of the state
university. This bill was given his
tenderest care in the house, and
after one of his very rare speeches
was passed unanimously. It is now
in the senate, and the "old man.
is camping right on it's trail He
will drive it into camp, too, and
Gov. Clough will sign it. Then
Craig will be happy; but his happi-
ness will be added to if the regents
shall locate one station in the Red
River valley and the. other in the
north central portion of the state.
He takes the position that the CEN
tral station at the agricultural farm
can produce seeds that will grow in
every part Of the state except the
sections mentioned, where soil and
climate are radically different
Mr.. Craig rather likes Grover
Cleveland's idea of extending the
franking privilege to all experiment
stations, in order that there may be
the widest possible distribution of
tested seeds. Thus his bill provides
shall be furnished to farmers free
of cost. Later on he will introduce
a joint memorial to congress pray
ing that the privilege of the frank
be extended as Indicated above. A
very useful crank is H. E. Craig.
HENRY FEIG.
"The gentleman from Kandiohio"
was the way John Boobar referred
to Mr.. Feig one day. A similar mis-
take was made in the GLOBE some
years ago, when a compositor got a
badly written piece of copy and
gave the name of the county as
"Demijohn." That was something
Mr.. Feig knew nothing about, he
said, so he rose to a question Of
privilege next day and had spread
on the journal a correction to the
effect that he was sober and attend
ing to business
Feig has been Crank" in the leg
1slative acceptation of the term.
over dream he once had, in which
there appeared to him a beautiful
architectural creation on sub
merged prairie in Kandiyohi county.
The walls We're of glittering Luverne
Jasper; the grand approaches were
paved with polished slabs from the
petrified forest of Arizona; the win
dow frames were set with Rhine
stones, and plate glass was fitted in
every frame; the turrets, minarets
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and pinnacles were crystallized
gems of speech, with here and there
a sonorous figure of the same or a
glittering generality tipping the
spires; the dome was overlaid with
marble of dazzling whiteness, fast
ened in place with generous strips
of gold; and topping the splendid
pile was heroic figure, azure-clad
and poised as if just risen from the
wave, typifying Kandiyehi Tri-
umphant.
Ever since. that night of blissful
anticipation years ago Mr.. Feig has
been strenuously endeavoring to
make his dream come true, but
without success. Whenever he has
been elected to the legislature he
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take the right road, or keep them
shut and fall off the earth''
POWERFUL FRIENDS.

Among the Republicans in the legis-
lature silver has powerful friends.
The senate is especially favored in
this respect. There are President Day
and Senators Morgan and Stockton
for leaders, while at least dozen 9TH
ers, among them Senator Young, lean
that way more or less.
in the house the leader OF the Repub-
hcap wing, Mr.. Jacobson, is quite
enthusiastic, and in his section of the
Second district the silver sentiment
is strong. jacobson is a power i'm him
self, when well oiled and fully en-
listed. With his influence much could
be done, they hope, to secure the CO.
operation of Republicans who are
wavering i'm their allegiance to the
gold standard.
henry Feig, too. is for free silver.
ana Henry's voice is potent among a
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in former legislatures, and the pub
lie is more or less familiar with their
notions and their records. These
are Messrs. Craig, Feig, jacobson,
Staples and Underleak. Meilicke
and Miller both made one unsuc-
cessful contest before they gained
the goal. Grondahl and Zier are in
active political life for the first time,
though they have always taken a
lively interest in the game of poll
ties. AS briefly as maybe, the
GLOBE will touch on the hobbies
and work of these men.
THE SAGE OF ORROCK.
Il. E. Craig, of Sherburne county,
though born in New Brunswick, is
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laboring under the disadvantage of

laboring under the disadvantage of
being a Populist in a Republican
house, and the further handicap of
rather imperfect command of the Eng
llsh language, he succeeded in scoring
signal triumph by the passage of
his bill. OF course he had the united
farmer vote" behind him, and the
able assistance of Jacobson, but the
initiative and the Inspiration came
from Meilicke's earnestness and un-
relenting determination t6 force the
issue. Ordinarily he is a quiet and
attentive member, always in his seat
and seldom talking, but when his bill
was up he was as alert as a cat, and
as bold as a wild boar. Were he as
fluent speaker as the gentleman from
Lac Qui Parle, Meilicke would be as
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certain element. Several others might
be named, but these will serve to show
that among the Republican legislators
the silver leaven is ''workin' power
full
Outside the men already mentioned
are two war horses of high degree.
IN the persons of Gen. John b. Sam
born and Hon. Nose Clapp, ex-attor-
ney general and cherished orator of
republican campaign committees
Clapp especially is a weighty man in
council and in convention, on the
stump and in his daily walks among
the Republican rank and file. Men
IKE Gen. Sanborn always command a
Following, and there are others. like
Lane K. Stone. who will be able sec
ondS.
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it means more than appears on the
surface. The writer took particular
note of several expressions dropped
by the gentleman quoted above,
and if they mean anything it is
that the movement on behalf of free
silver is not to be confined to Min
nesota.
1t is rather a startling assertion,
but there is something more than a
suspicion ON which to base the state
ment that the declaration of the
Illinois Democratic state central
committee was known to be coming
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CHAIRMAN UNDERLEAK,

of the judiciary committee, is not
crank on anything but law. He
wants good law and correct law; and
can move indefinite postponement of
an unwise measure as gracefully as
he can stand off a reporter on exec
utive session secrets. His position at
the head of the principal committee OF
the house brings him up against all
sort of crank bills and crank peo-
pie; yet Joe preserves his nice even
temperament through it all. He Is
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self-contained and well posted, so that
whenever he rises to address the house
he commands attention. The Ives i'm
peachment case has brought Chair
man Underleak prominently before
the people, has made him talked about.
For that reason the GLOBE presents
a faithful likeness today. 1t. will be
observed that he bears his age lightly.
for he was born in Bohemia in 1852.
DR. EDWARD B. zier
If every person in Minnesota does
not know of DIR. Zier, of Minneapolis,
II must be because newspapers are
not. read in some places. No member
OF the present session has been more
cordially denounced from one. end of
Continued on Sixfh T0co-
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LIEUT.. GOV. DAYS VIEWS

-
Interviewed regarding the proposed
convention, Lieut.. Gov. Day asserted
that he knew nothing of it. "Rut T
DO KNOW" said he, that if the friendq
or silver keep on increasing in number
as they have in the past year. there
VIII De no Sold-standard men left I'm
minnesota, nor in any other part of
the West, for that matter Az to tbo
Iauo Oh coinage, 1 am not positively
ueciued, Dut the crime of 1873 must
De expiated and silver must no ra.
STORED to its old place as tbe f,I
equal OF gold in our financial svs+en,
l can name at least twenty of the hest
i.epuDilcan newspapers in Minnesota
that are now openly in favor of tho
Ienio'hetization of silver. Crown 90
thea the movement has been nothing less
liiah phenomenal; and 1 confidentIv
expect that within a shorter nerioS
llian most people think the ma ior,,1
Vi the Republican party will decIaro
unequlvocally in it's favor
"hen the possibility Of Gov. ATe,-r,ar, =,
"ritihg book in refutation of L.
Vey work was broached AR NJ
cohtented himself with a briefly ev-
pressed opinion that Haryev,s arr,
ments are irrefutable, "and Gov. Afsr-
ram would have no sort of show 70
controVert them," he continued. ..I mn
uerstand Mr.. Harvey is shortly to loo
ture In ST. Paul, and at that time Coo
Mefriam or any other man will be
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1t will be designed purely as a
popular expression of Minnesota
sentiment, put forth sufficiently
early to let the controlling elements
of haxh the Republican and Demo-
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FREE SILVER CONVENTION
/ PROJECTED FOR MINNESOTA.

den sort of an affair that would
greatly detract from the Importance
of any declaration that might be
put forth. Beyond all this, too, there
is a well-defned suspicion that, if
Populists participated, they would
insist on wandering from the main
point and try to ''resoloot' on other
issues besides silver.
This last contingency will have
more weight than anything else pos
sibly could in barring the Populists,
for, as stated, the cherished de-
sire is to make the convention not
only weighty, but
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DR. EDWARD B. zier.

Continued ON Sixth Page
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-07
IN DEEP yazIEk M IL sSgzyS1EzgTaA

FIG. Iv-sHowING DIKES WITH INTER
SPACES PARTIALLY FILLED BY PRECIPI-
TATED SEDIMENT.
is water enough to enable boats of the
greatest desirable draft to passage. Fig.
2 is map of a bend in the river, with
bar and dredged channel through the
shoal place. 1t is held by the advocates
of this plan that it's adoption will &C
complish more than can be brought
about by any other plan as yet hit upon,
and it is quite likely because of the re-
suits obtained in the experiments con-
Quoted this. year that considerable work
along similar lines will be done next
year.
1.-THE dixie plan is one which has been
strongly advocated by the commission
in the past, and on the workings of
which a great deal of money has been
expended first and last 1t may be IN
derstood by reference to Figs. 8 and 4.
The idea is that the mud held in sus-
pension by the water of the river will
be precipitated between the dikes, thus
constructing the channel and of course
causing stronger stream to flow in the
narrow undiked portion. This stronger
stream washes away the bar, producing
comparatively O66p Wd10I. Ills WOIhS
fairly well, it is said, in actual practice.
cit was after I had visited the Office
Of the commission that visited Cap
tain Mason. His office is on barge
floating on the river he loves so we'll
and moored to the levee. Captain Mason
speaks we'll of the efficiency of both the
schemes described, but says the dixie
plan is more expensive, besides being
unduly slow. New bars form faster
than the old ones are mastered by this
plan. Of the other plan he says that the
only objection so far as he can see lies
in the way it has been worked.
sit has been the custom to work only
eight hours a day in the experiments
that have been tried, and the federal
law, in fact, prohibits a days work of
more than eight hours on government
jobs But in dealing with the Missis-
sippi river this is sometimes fatal. Often
in eight hours the work is only begun.
No channel is open. The river will not
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Heve that in less than five years we
could compete with the railroads dur
ing at least nine months of every year.
If we could do that, times would not
only be better for the river men, but for
the whole country, for whatever tends
to lower the cost of transpor tating the
necessities of life is general benefit
1.-THE Mississippi river commission is
composed of Colonel and Brevet Briga-
der General Cyrus B. Comstock, presi-
dent, with an Office in New York; Lieu
tenant Colonel Charles R. Suter, ST.
Louis; B. NJ. Harrod, New Orleans;
Hon. Robert S. Taylor, Fort Wayne;
Henry Flad, st. Louis; Professor Henry
L. Whiting, Washington; Lieutenant
Colonel Amos Strickney, Cincinnati,
and Lieutenant George A. Zinn, secre-
tary, with an Office at 2732 Pine street,
st. Louis.
SIT was at this Office, which is located
in fine old fashioned house, with a
row of classic columns in front, that 1
learned something about the actual
work of the commission, though give
only the briefest outline of what was
told me because of the limitations OF
space.
During the past autumn most of the
commission S energies have been devct-
ed to the testing of the new dredging
plan. Itshould be stated before proceed
ing with the explanation of this plan
that the rivers bottom is in reality
succession of low hills and valleys; that
in the valleys there is always plenty of
water tsee Fig. y, and that the hills
are the bars, which shoal gradually up
stream and shelve rapidly into deep wa
ter on the down stream side. At the
shoal places there is always a tendency
to widen, as the volume of water COM
posing the stream could not otherwise
pass down the channel. The scheme is
to dredge narrow channel through
each bar. After that is done it is believ-
ed that the river itself will widen and
deepen this artificial channel until there
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FIG. T-sHOwING BEND IN RIVER WITH
BAR AND DREDGE CHANNEL.
[B, B, channel
carry freight cheaper than the railroads
that have been built in a great net
stretching from ocean to ocean we can't
carry it at all. Tue situation is reversed
sure enough. In order to compete sue
cessfully with the locomotive we have
to make use of big boats that can trans
port large cargoes cheaply. In order to
run big boats we have to have water
a-plenty, and that's just what we
haven't got. That is to say, we haven't
enough water to cover all the bars deep
enough to float the big boats, but if the
United States government would only
infuse little guInption into its dealings
with the river navigation problem we'd
be all right, for there is water enough at
all times of the year to sufficiently fill
a properly handled channel, so that the
largest river steamers could ply unob-
structed up and down the stream.
1t wouldn't take such an enormous
amount of money either. don't know
how much even approximately, nor does
any one else, but of this 1 am certain:
If the matter of improving the stream
was put into the hands of practical
river men, a passable channel could be
maintained at much smaller expendi
ture than any one imagines. At present
there is a continuing appropriation of
50, 900, 900 in existence for the improve
ment of the Mississippi. This money is
to be expended in such sums and ways
as shall be allotted by the Mississippi
river commission. Now, we all know
that the gentlemen composing that COM
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FIG. I-sHowING BOTTOM OF RIVER WITH
DEEP WATER AND BARS.
unknown. When mere boy, he began
river life in the smallest capacity. As
a young man he worked his way up to
be assistant pilot and then pilot. and
later, when in the prime of life, he won
the responsible post Of captain. That
was when the river was at its best,
when, no matter what the stage of the
water, it was profitable to navigate it;
when it was worth while to have boats
of light draft to crawl over the bars
with small cargoes when there was only
enough water in the channel to be
spoken of as a fright smart dew by
the veterans and boats of heavy draft
that could take enormous loads at low
freight rates when the channel was
full. Times were good then with the
river men from the foot of the Allie
ghanies down the Ohio, from st. An
thongs falls down the Mississippi, from
the foot of the Rockies down the Big
Muddy and all the way to the gulf. for
then few railroads were being operated,
and the vast regions drained by the
unrivaled system of internal waterways
that reaches almost every part of the in
terror Of the United States were depend
ent upon the steamers, and if the peo-
pie couldn't get their supplies by pay
ing moderate freight rates they had to
pay what was asked, that was all.
I'm such circumstances, " said Cap
tain Mason, ''the rivers were navigable
at any and all seasons of the year, for
we could build boats that would scrape
a1Onc in 81 inchoc IF -uato1- If rood loo
or even less. But now unless we can
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[E, E, E, E, E, E, sunken barges.l
continue the work begun as it would if
a channel had been dredged clear across
the shoal place. On the contrary, it will
tend to undo all that has been done
to fill up the half opened channel. The
work ought by rights to be continued
full blast with no let up for % hours
or even 49 hours at a time by means of
shifts and relays till the channel is all
open. Then none of the work would
have to be done twice.
81 have plan of my own which
believe would work wonders. +" Here the
captain drew diagram, which is shown
in Fig 5. 81 would build six barges,
each 800 feet long, tow them into posi-
ton over a bar, as shown in the dia-
gram, and sink them TO the bottom. A
strong current would thus be forced to
flow between them, and believe that
in that way the river could be made to
cut its own channel through the bars.
This plan would be cheapest of all, and
the barges could be raised and used
over again indefinitely, and believe it
would also be most efficient. The time
must come when the management of
this river will be placed in the hands of
practical river men. don't want it IN
derstood that want the job. for I don't,
but the government is welcome to my
idea
The officers of the commission S en-
gineer corps are Major Charles J. AL
len, st. Louis, Illinois river to Ohio
river, work under act of 1884; Captain
S. ". Roessler, Memphis, Ohio river to
Island No. 20 and thence to White river;
Captain G. Med. Townsend, Memphis,
White river to Warrenton, Miss. Cap
tain John Mills, New Orleans, War
renton to head Of passes.
N. I. DEXTER
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To whom it may concern:

Notice is hereby given that we, the under
Topeka. Kansas, +. G. Bowen. L. L. Strngham
and S. C. Garrard. were duly appointed by the
mayor and council of the city of Topeka. and
having duly qualified as appraisers to ascertain
the actual value of the land proposed to be TAX
en- under ordinance Number 1862. approved De-
cember 10th. 1894, for the purpose of opening
and widening Western avenue or Taylor street,
between Thirteenth street and Douthitt street,
in said city, and also TO assess ana appralSe the
damages and benefits arising therefrom to the
lois and pieces of property lying and situated in
the benefit district created and established by
said ordinance, which is described as follows,
towit:
Commencing on the south line of Thirteenth
street at point the center of the alley be-
tween Polk street and Western avenue; thence
west along the south line of Thirteenth to the
east line of Fillmore street: thence south along
tile east line of Fillmore street to the south line
of Otnumbered five hundred and thirty; thence
west along said south line produced to the west
line of the Storr s tract; thence south along the
west line of the said StOrr'S tract and said west
line produced to the north line of Fifteenth
street; thence east along the north line of Fill
more street to the west line of Western avenue;
thence north along the west line of Western ave-
nue. to the north line of Douthitt street; thence
east along the north line of Douthitt street pro-
duced to The center of the alley between West
ern avenue and Polk street; thence north along
the center of said alley TO the place of begin
ming
Ali being in the city of Topeka, Shawnee
county, Kansas. And also TO make a true value
and appFaiSement of all the lots and pieces of
ground situated in said benefit district without
regard to the buildings OF improvements there
on
And notice is hereby gwen further that we
will meet as such appraisers the 9th day of
January. 1885, at 10 O'Clock a. m, of said day. at
the corner of Thirteenth street and DOuthitt
street in said benefit district for the purpose of
ascertaining the actual value and making ap-
praisement of the property and assessing the
damages and benefits as aforesaid.
Z. L. STRINGHAM.
S. G. GARRARD,
Appraisers.
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SITUATIONS wANrEp-FREE.

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liberty to use these columns for assistance II
that direction. While this notice appears the
Monday and Tuesday. for Topeka Kansas
people, all notices of Situations Wanted, nos
exceeding five lines. or thirEy-fve words. ID
length. Provided that all advertisements OF
this nature are handed in previous 70
ten o'clock Saturday morning; also on WedneS.
THIS class handed in by ten o'clock Wednesday
morning.
No advertisements OF this nature to be started
except on Saturdays and Wednesdays. No OBJ
legation is incurred on the part of the adVertis:
er No worthy and needy man or woman need
hesitate to take advantage of this offer. No one
IN business or having employment IS expected 70
take advantage Of it, but all others invited -
avail themselves freely.
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&c, Q, dlkeS; d, y, D, RESULTING chann6I.
mission mean we'll They are willing
that the river shall be made navigable
for big boats at all times of the year
when it is not frozen up if only the
work can be done their way. But as
they do not understand the river fear
they will never be able to bring it to
their way of thinking. But if they
would put the work in the hands OF
some one who does know the river.
some one who could and would humor
it and coax il to help in making the
channel wider and deeper itself. I be-
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First Ward.
All north of the Kansas river.
FIRST PRECINCT.
All east of Kansas avenue.
SECOND PRECINCT.
All west of Kansas avenue and south of Cor
don street.
THIRD PRECINCT.
All west of Kansas avenue and north of Cor
don street.
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OFFICIAL NOTICE.
OFFICE OF
COMMISSIONER OF ELECTIONS,
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 2, 1895.

I, Frank Herald. Commissioner of Elections
of the city of Topeka. Shawnee county, Kansas.
do hereby in conformity to section three of an
act of the legislature entitled, An act TO pro-
vide for and to regulate the registration of vot-
ers; to regulate elections, and to provide for the
appointment of Commissioner of Elections in
cities of the first class. approved March md,
1899. do proclaim and declare that the bound
aries of all the wards as made by the council
precincts as made by the Board of Supervisors
of Elections, are as follows. to-Wit: