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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
MINNESOTA FLAX STANDS A TEST
CREDITABEE To THE
STATE.
PRICE IN FOREIGN MARKETS
CAUSED GEORGE GOSS, OF CLAY
COUNTY, TO PROFOUND CUES
FIoN
Result of 1t AIH Is That Merits of
minnesota Product Equal Any
Except Calcutta.

George Goss, of Georgetown, Clay
county, got. 1t into his head that there
was an undue difference in the price
OF Minnesota flax in Duluth and in
the same article in Liverpool, and be-
tween American flax and the products
OF other countries, and Mr.. Goss last
August asked the railroad and ware
house commission to solve the prob
lem.
Judge Mills came to the conclusion
that the easiest manner was to obtain
the prices of every kind of fax in all
markets. consider the freight rates
and duties, and then sift out the re-
suit. He came to the conclusion few
days ago that the difference in the price
OF flax in Duluth and Liverpool was
explained in the freight charges and
duties. He found however, that Odes-
sa, Bombay and Calcutta, flax sold
higher in Liverpool than Minnesota
flax. To solve this incongruity, and
determine the relative merits Of the
different kinds of fax, the commission
Immediately secured samples of every
kind and sent them to Prof Snyder
chemist at the state experimental col
lege. Prof Snyder made his report yes
terday, and the result shows that Min
nesota flax is about on a par with the
best in the world in the quantity Of
Oil it contains. 1Among the samples
secured and tested was a sample Of
American" fax which was sent back
from Liverpool. 1T is a mixture of all
kinds grown in this country. The tests
resulted as follows:
california fax, 35s16 per cent of oil. -
ODESSA flax, &c. 81 per cent Of oil.
Bombay flax, 39.08 per cent of oil.s.ag
American fax 81. SO per cent of OIL II
Calcutta fax, S7.S8Gper cent of oil. Sass
Minnesota fax, 37.41 per cent of oil.
This analysis shows that the Minnesota
product ranks withI the best and freight
rates and everything else being equal, would
command just as good price as the foreign
article.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
In Their NeU Home.
Description of the Princeton House Which Mr.. and
Mrs Cleveland Will Occupy

negations Of color, in either dress or
furnishings.
The bed rooms Of the house are On
the second and third floors. Mrs.
Cleveland's own room is in the Delft
colors, with blue and white raper,
blue and white tiles about the CRATE,
and a blue and white bath room with
a tiled floor and porcelain tub opens
off it.
FINE OLD MAHOGANY.
This bedroom has a genuine old
four poster bed, canopy and all, in.
mahogany. Another bedroom looks
like a fairy bower, brimfull of June.
Pink roses Chamber over the walls and
lose themselves under the pinks and
greens of the friezes. A green and
white bath room belongs equally to
this dainty room, and to another cham
Der on whose walls yellow roses with
green leaves riot.
On the third floor is the largest room
in the house. 1t is the nursery, and is
papered in the jOlliest nursery paper
that the eyes of even such fortunate
babies as the little Cleveland girls ever
beheld. All the favorite heroes and
heroines from nursery rhymes and
fairy tales hold carnival on the walls.
third floor, near the nursery.
The four poster bed in the blue and
white bedroom is by no means the
only piece of old mahogany in the
house. In fact, all the furniture is
antique Mrs. Cleveland is a good
judge of mahogany, and has been col
Iecting for years. She has picked up
desirable pieces in Massachusetts dur
ing her Gray Gables summers, and has
made many purchases in the antique
shops of New York, Philadelphia and
Washington.
Some Of her furniture has been
bought by her direction at the auction
sales, by means of which old White
house furniture is disposed of, so that
she will have with her several SOU
venirs of her occupancy of the execu-
tive mansion. Friends all over the
country have acted as her agents in
buying interesting pieces of old maho
gany for her, till she has one of the
finest private collections of colonial
furniture in the country. She has beds
and bureaus, with rounding fronts, cor
ner cupboards with latticed fronts,
claw footed tables, spindle legged chairs
and other pieces innumerable.
Woodley, the Clevelands' country
house near Washington was for the
most part furnished with old mahogany
pieces, which suit the decorations
of the new home admirably. The cur
tains from the windows at WoOdley,
too, are doing service again in the
Princeton house.
OF rugs, too, Mrs. Cleveland has a
valuable and artistic collection. Only
few of the Princeton rooms are
ca1peted. Polished floors covered law
ishly with rugs best accord with
the walls and furniture.
1t is Mrs. Cleveland's wish to live
quietly. She has had enough of pub
licity, and she does not care to have
the interior of the house which is to
be her home scrutinized by every
chance conner. Indeed, she is anxious
that the furnishing of her house shall
be a secret and from now on the
stranger who finds his way inside the
great hall door of the Cleveland home
may count himself extremely fortunate.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
MRS RUFUS STATEMENT.
Formal Declaration of the Widow
Filed With the Department.

WASHINGTON, March 13.-The for
NAL written statement of Mrs. Rita
Ruiz, widow of Ricardo Ruiz, was sub
mitted today to Secretary Sherman.
Mrs. Ruiz tells how her husband was
arrested Feb. and thrown into CELL
Notwithstanding his production of a
certificate of American citizenship and
the naming of competent witnesses to
prove that he had not participated in
political work. He was kept in this
cell for 13 days, although Mrs. Ruiz in
formed Consul General Lee of his ar
rest within two hours. Mrs. Ruiz tells
of receiving the chair used by her hus-
band on which he had written her a
farewell message; of his death on the
18th of February, of the official denial
to her of his death, and finally, of the
wounds on the dead mans skull, the
marks of blows on his person. She in
sists that a horrible wrong was COM
mitted and in justice to herself and
her children, she demands the punish
ment of the guilty.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
NEW YORK'S KICK.
Basis Of Complaint of Loss of Corn
Trade.

NEW YORK, March 13.-The produce
exchange is busily engaged in prepar-
ing its case against the Joint Traffic
association, which the interstate COM
meree commission is going to hear on
Monday. For q week Henry b. Her
bert, chairman of the grain committee.
and Assistant Superintendent Me
Knight have been in consultation with
counsel for thegeXchange' preparing sta
tistics intended to showriffow the ex-
port trade of New York city has been
almost ruined by the discrimination
against 1T tbys theaJointp Traffic
association. The net gain in the re-
ceipts of corn, last syear by Atlantic
seaports was Al. 40, 71S bushels. The fol-
lowing table shows what a small per-
Centage of that increase New York got
as compared with other cities: New
York, :, 417,972 gain in bushels; Boston,
S61, 1893 gain; Philadelphia, 6,615, 305; Bal
timore, 15,S69,831; Norfolk, 9,345, 922:
Newport News, $50. 290; total, Al, 170,71
bushels. t,a .
p The produce exchange will show that
the increased exports of corn last year
at. five seaports were 1851, 725 bushels,
while New York exports decreased $685.
627 bushels, as the following table will
explain: .1+.za.-H.;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
Net gain
-.... 37,16, 09S


Another table Twill show g. loss to
New York Of wheat exports of 657, 100
bushels; to Norfolk, 165, 765; to Newport
News, 116S,073, against gains by Bos-
ton, Philadelphda,2and Baltimore of r.
594, 419 bushels. Still other statistics to
be submitted show that while New
York in 1873 exported 67.98 per cent Of
the entire corn crop which went abroad
from the Atlantic lseaboard, in 1886 it
exported but 2918 per cent..lAt. the
same time Bostonisrr exports increased
in the same period from OLA per cent to
10.43 per cent Baltimore from 2231 per
cent to 29.61 per cent and Norfolk from
80 per cent to 14-46. D
The hearing next Monday promises
to be one Of the most important in the
history of the Interstate commerce
commission, and the produce exchange
promises to bring forward testimony
of a sensational character. 1t is said
that the reasons why the Vanderbilts
have diverted the corn traffic from
New York, over the New York Central
to Norfolk and Newport News over
their Chesapeake & Ohio route will
make mighty interesting reading.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
NO PURCHASE MADE.
Big Four Has Not Bought the Chi
caEo a. Eastern Illinois.

caEo a. Eastern Illinois.
CHICAGO, March 13.-The board of
managers of the Joint Traffic .assoeia-
ton has authorized the Grand Trunk
road to make the same elevator and
terminal charges on oats to Montreal
as have been made by the Canadian
Pacific. Roads have been notified that
the commissioner has been authorized
by the board to grant authority to
meet the cuts in round-trip passenger
rates made by the outside roads The
board further decided that no allow
ance exceeding $50 perscarload on
oats and 81 on other grain shall be
made for transferring grain at Western
terminals.
Positive and authoritative denials are
given by the governing powers of the
Big -Four and Chicago & Eastern ILL
nois roads to the report that a deal
has been consummated for the pur-
chase by the foTFnernof the property of
the latter. The deaIiis no nearer being
closed now than 1T was four years ago
when the Big F0nr made an inventory
of all Eastern Illinois property The
result of that inventory was to con-
vince NJ E. ingalls,. president of the
Big Four. that the Eastern Illinois
property was worth considerably more
than he could affDTdd ito pay for Chicago
terminals, to secureF which was really
the only particHiarE object he would
have had in view iw buying the prop
erty. Since that time the Big Four
has been using the Eastern Illinois ter
minals here to "a limited extent, but
the purchase of the property is as far
off today as it has ever been.
A three-cornered fight, which has
been in progress among the New Eng
land, the Central Traffic and Western
Passenger association roads since 1895.
10 In fol 0f= T%
was over the division of through rates
on Knight Templar and Christian En-
deavor business to Boston that year.
The rule is that initial lines have the
right to fix the basis on which rates of
this kind shall be made. Central Traf-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14

wrung from the banks or bankers by pro
cesses that are not likely to be repeated
Since the instruction began money has
been raised in Cuba by devices In the way
of forced loans that even the most firmly
intrenched despots have seldom dared to re-
sort to. Weyler issued SO, 600 600 in paper
money under the threat that whoever re-
fused to take 1t should be peremptorily locked
up and kept in prison.
Forcing the people to take green goods
In payment for solid values can be made
to go at prison doors and at the point of the
bayonet, but the limit must finally be reached.
Spain has gone ashore financially, and it is
most unlikely that she can ever again score
popular outburst' or pad Cuban credit
with any more worthless paper
No wonder her rulers, who understand the
desperate financial straits in which the king
dom finds itself, are adopting a conciliatory
course.
They have no relish for more War-par-
ucularly war with the United States What
could that mean to Spain but financial ruin
and national humiliation?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
THE SAME GOAT
He Saw I'm His Dream Was In the
Lot When He Bought It,

Il had rather peculiar experience once"
said well-known architect, land while l
understand but little of Dreams their causes
or meaning l know that the one had caused
me to think considerably, says the Washing
ton Star. Il was doing very well profession
ally, and had made up my mind that would
buy lot and build me house for a resi-
dence, though l had not thought of any
particular locality. A few nights after that
l dreamed that l had bought lot and that
when l took possession of 1t l found that
there was goat upon the lot, and l was
told that the goat went with the lot as a
sort of chrome. did not want the goat,
for / never admired goats, but 1t appears /
had to take him, and it was one of the Billy
brand. The dream so silly that l did
not mention 1t even to my wife. Some weeks
after that / actually bought lot, and after
the preliminary papers were made out went
up there one afternoon with my wife to
show 1t to her. Here comes the strange part
of my story. In the rear part of the lot
stood the goat l had seen in my dream with
out any mistake, even to a broken or crumpIed
horn on the left side. Then l told my wife
of my dream of three weeks before. 1 tried
to drive the goat away, but he returned as
often as ! did so. Well my wife liked the
lot, and so did l, and the purchase was COM
pleted | tried to ascertain who owned the
goat, but could not get any very definite
Idea as to its ownership. The goat hung
around the place while was building and
although l did not want to keep the goat
I had to do So Billy died few days since.
having been decided nuisance to me and
others for long time,'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
Railway Notes.

President J. ]. Hill, of the Great Northern,
started for New York last evening an
other business trip.
General Freight Agent Somers, Of the Great
Northern, and General Freight Agent Moore,
Of the Northern Pacific, will go to MONTREAL
to attend the meeting of transcontinental
lines in that city. Mr.. Somers went last
night via Chicago, and Mr.. Moore will leave
this evening via the 500 line.
General Passenger Agent r. l. Whitney. of
che Great Northern. is in Chicago.
The Canadian Pacific earnings for the week
ending March were 1925 600; for the same
period last year, $345,000; decrease, $40, 900.
Earnings OF the Baltimore G. Ohio for 1896
showsa net1decrease of 81, 450, 900. Since the
road went into the hands Of receivers &c.
009 600 OF receivers certificates have been
issued, the effect Of which has been to in
crease fixed charges by $500,0O0 year.
H. NJ. Clay, city passenger agent Of the
Union Pacific railroad at Denver. has been
promoted to the position of general agent
at Salt Lake to succeed D. Z. Burleigh who
becomes general passenger agent of the Ore
gon Short Line.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
MILWAUKEE, ALL RIGHT.
Its Winter Has Not Been az
Especially Extensive One

Its Winter Has Not Been an
Especially Expensive One.
CHICAGO, March 13.-Vice President
Bond, of the Milwaukee & ST. Paul
road, said today that the ST. Paul is in
as good condition as it has ever been
and is equal to that Of any other
Western road. The company has had a
bad winter, caused by interruption OF
traffic. While the winter has been
troublesome to the st. Paul road, it
does not necessarily follow that it has
been very expensive, provided the thaw
comes in such a way as to obviate Sc
r1ous floods and the consequent dam
age.
Earnings of the Chicago & Northern
Pacific for the month of January were
$S4,S96, against $67,755 for the same
month last year; increase $17,141. Net
earnings for the month were $50, 695,
against $43,355 last year; increase $780,
270
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
Named the POpuIist Party.

1t was David Overmyer of Topeka, Kan.
who christened the Populist party. 1t was
soon after the Peoples party was organized,
and the question of a new and taking name
was being discussed. why not call your
party Populist?" asked Overmyer Of a little
group of reformers at Topeka. 1.-The name
is new and 1 believe would express what
you want The idea struck a Populist
editor there, and he wrote editorial in
dorsing it. 1t soon became popular and the
next national convention adopted II. The
word populist Is not in the dictionaries, ex-
cept, perhaps. the latest one printed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
Kensington Lloyd Coming.

H. kensington Lloyd who has recently an
peared as an entertainer in Minneapolis, viii
appear at the Peoples church Friday evening
and Saturday afternoon, under the auspices
OF committee of st. Paul society women.
The Relation Of the Real to the Ideal' is
the subject of some very interesting deIinea-
tons OF character and impressions OF charac-
ter by Mr.. Lloyd. Saturday afternoon at 2
O'Clock his subject will be THE Power of a
Line: illustrating the growth Of a line from
the simple to the elaborate, The Child Made
FathGr to the Man,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14

fie lines undertook to do 1t on this oc-
casion, however. and offered Western
roads lower basis than the New Eng
land roads were willing to accept. The
Central Traffic roads agreed to act as
unit in the matter and insist on
their basis being observed. They have
now relented and undertaken to settle
their differences individually. and they
have advised the Western roads to do
the same
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS.
over a Million Dollars for the Day
in New York.

NEW YORK, March 13.-The total
payment on account of duties at the
customs house today amounted to
81, 4S8, 693, of which $1,27O,696 was paid
on goods Withdrawn from bond, max
ing one of the largest totals in the his
tory of the custom house. Payments
on sugar alone were said to have
amounted to several hundred thousand
dollars. This anxiety on the part of
the refiners was caused by the fears
that the change from an ad valorem
to a specific duty would largely in
crease the rate of duty on the sugar at
present held in bonded warehouses.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
IDLE FOR SEVEN YEARS.
Omaha Compelled to Get Out Its
Rotary at Last.

The officials of the Omaha road are
kicking against fate. 1t is all owing
to the quantity of snow which has
fallen the past week. Friday the
South Dakota and Southern Minnesota
divisions Of the system were opened
after a great deal of difficulty, and
there was consequent enjoyment. The
officials were proud of the fact that
ordinary snow plows had been suff1-
cient for years to keep all the lines
open. Seven years ago the road pur-
chased a new rotary snow pillow at a
large price, and the pillow was stored
in the roundhouse to await the COM
ing storms. For seven years the pillow
has stood idle, but. yesterday after
noon, it was oiled up and brought out
for use the first time. The pillow will
be sent out on the Huron branch and
the branch to Sioux Falls, where the
drifts were reported as being rapidly
piling up. The snow which started
yesterday afternoon threatens to cause
a great deal of trouble on all the lines
running out of st. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
ASHLAND AND ST. PAUL.
Contract for Grading on the New
Road Soon to BE Let.

Special to the Globe.
ASHLAND, Wis, March 13.-Con-
tracts for grading sixty miles of thu
New Ashland railroad will be let this
month. Mayor. Bardon received a let
ter today from Director Cook to the
effect that the contract will be let this
month for grading from the present
terminus to Hayward forty miles AMI
twenty from the Mississippi river
northeast
Cook has succeeded in delivering the
railroad bonds in the East and two
more engines and twenty fiat cars are
expected daily.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
AshviIIe, N. c., Florida and South
ern Resorts.

Asheville and the mountain regious OF the
Western North Carolina have long been
noted for their attractiveness as health and
pleasure resorts The Southern Railway, in
connection with the Queen and Crescent
sleeping to Cincinnati and AshevilIe
without change. Round trip tickets to Ashe-
Vile every day Of the year, good six months
Solid vestibule train Cincinnati to Jackson
vile, Fla, and convenient schedules to other
Southern resorts.
For particulars address ]. C. Beam, NJ w,
P. A., Ill Adams St.. Chicago
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14

at st. Joseph's hospital from the effects of
blood poisoning, yesterday reported tn
be somewhat improved. Miss Tanning is
still in critical condition, but showed such
Improvement yesterday that 1t is hoped the
disease has been conquered, and that she
will soon be on the road to recovery.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
Sold to Minneapolis.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 13.-President
Pullman, OF the Louisville base ball club, to-
day disposed Of George, better known
Fog Horn Miller to the Minneapolis club.
The consideration is not known.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
Spain Stranded Again.

Boston Globe.
1t looks as If the treasury Of Spain were
going down for the third and last time.
The popular" loan of $50 COO, 900 raised last
fall has been exhausted and where is the
next lift coming from2 The last much-her-
aided offering of patriotism was largely
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
LOCAL NOTICES.

Improvement In the times is evident at
Hotel Metropolitan, where the choice cafe
and dining room service and superior accom-
modations, European or American plan, show
appreciative patronage.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
DIED.

RYAN-In this city. March 10, 1897, at the
residence Of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Nc
Gee, S98 Dawson St., Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan,
aged sixty-fve years Funeral tomorrow
(Monday) from residence, at s:45 a. m.
Services at st. Johns church at 10 o'clock
Milwaukee papers please copy.
A New Idea.
E. w. Shirk's purchase and consolidation
of the Quinby & Abbott undertaking business
with his Seven Corners livery will be a COM
bination appreciated by the public. Mr..
Teeple will remain as manager Of the under
taking rooms, 322 Wabasha- Telephone sos.
Livery, Seven Corners, Telephone, S39.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
A Bad sign,

''1 guess something must be preying upon
Johnsons mind
why so?"
HE hasn't told me cute thing that his
boy has said for three days now."-Cleveland
Leader.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
EZETA DEAD.

News Received of His End From
Panama.
NEW YORK, March 13.-Dispatches re-
ceived here from Panama state that Gen.
Antonio EZeta died there today.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
The Advance Agent of Prosperity
Has Arrived

William Mckinley is president Of the United
States the government at Washington. still
lives; congress meets in special session on
March 18th, and good times are coming
For further particulars call upon or address
any agent Of the Chicago, Milwaukee st.
Paul railway. City Ticket ONCE, 365 Robert
street, st. Paul.
Use the Long Distance Telephone to Mime
sofa. No. and So. Dakota cities and towns
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14

Phil p. hltcncoIA, uave.ng passenger
agent of the Lackawanna route, is at the
Ryan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, DEATHS.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Justus l.. George Winona Co.. Lizzie Fouch
Ira r. King, Adams County, ILL.,
Mrs. Elise A Hall, Allen County, Ind.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14

Customer docking over the stock)-I can't
see useful thing in all your stock
Silversmith-Of course, you can't. These
are all wedding presents.-Clips.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14

Miss Tanning Improving.
Miss Isabel Tanning. who is seriously i'll