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The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
REVERSE THE ORDER.
Seattle Men Go East to Make Money
by Alaska.

Four enterprising Seattle men landed
in st. Paul yesterday on the Great
Northern overland train. They will
remain here a day or so, after which
they will start for the East, where
they expect to educate the people Of
the East and the Middle West on the
gold fields of the Upper Yukon, with
particular reference to the placers Of
the famous Klondike.
Equipped with very complete out
fit, including moving pictures, dissolv-
ing views and calcium lights, they will
tour the larger cities of the East, and
will show their audiences how and
when to get to the gold fields of the
northern Eldorado.
Capt. B. P. Kunkler is manager of
the expedition, and with him are as
sociated c. H. Dewhurst, secretary;
j. r. Pidduck, treasurer, and L. Mac
lay Rank, press agent. The style of
the combination will be The Alaska
Illustrators" and out of 300 views Of
Alaska showing the route from Seattle
to the Yukon, are a great many views
of the interior of Alaska taken by men
on the ground recently. These will be
shown by means of an electoscope.
Among these will be a picture of the
launching of the steamer Hamilton at
ST. Michaeps. The route over the
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
LARGE LOGGING CONTRACT.
w. p. Tearse, WinOna, Agrees to
Bank 100000 Feet.

A logging deal was consummated
yesterday by which the contract was
let to w. P. Tearse, of Winona, to bank
Is, 900, 900 feet of logs for a syndicate
of Lindsay & Phelps, of Davenport,
the Gable Lumber company of Daven-
port, and the Rock Island Lumber
company, the coming winter. The logs
will be cut in the vicinity of Mansfield,
and will be banked on the ST. CroiX.
In order to complete it, Mr.. Tearse
will be obliged to employ crews of
about 400 to 500 men,
Mr.. Tearse, G. w. Gable and George
r. Lindsay, of Davenport, and J.. P.
Weyerhauser, of Rock Island, were at
the Merchants last evening, and in
discussing the log and lumber situation
agreed that there seemed to be a gen
eral improvement in business all along
the line. The indications are that the
cut the coming winter will be greatly
in advance of that of a year ago, and
the demand and prices of lumber are
better than for some time past. Mr..
Gable remarked incidentally that the
contract was closed recently by which
O'Neal Brothers, of Saltwater, were
to cut and bank about 25,000,000 feet
of logs for his concern, Laird, Norton
& Co.. of Winona; Lamb & Son, of
Clinton, To-, and Weyerhauser &
Denckman, of Rock Island. The logs
will be cut on the Mile Laos and bank
ed on Knife river.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
CyTHERA A, STEES' STORY ABOUT
THE Loss OF A PIECE OF
PROPERTY,
WHICH SHE NOW WANTS BACK
ACCUSES FRANCIS l.. SCHRAM OF
UNLAWFULLY SECURING pos
SESSION OF 1T.
MAKES SENSATIONAL CHARGES.
Files an Action Asking the District
Court to Right the Alleged
Wrong.

In a suit brought in the district court
by Cythera A. Stees, a wealthy proper
ty owner Of the city, against Francis
L. Schram, she makes sensational
charges.
Plaintiff alleges that she is owner in
fee simple absolute of large quantity
of improved property in st. Paul,
among it being a large double dwelling
house on lot 1, in block 1, of Irvine's
addition, and that this property was
and now is encumbered by a mortgage
given by plaintiff to w. F. Peet to Sc
cure a promissory note, made on April
TO- 1891, and due in three years from
that date; that this mortgage is now
owned and held by Eva H. Lynch who
is assignee thereof. Plaintiff affirms
that this property was and is valuable
and paying real estate and that plain
tiff had derived therefrom through rem
tails large sums of money from time to
time.
The petition recites further that as
plaintiff was unacquainted with busi-
ness and unable to attend to the man
agement and renting of this property,
she employed defendant to take entire
charge and management of all her
property, and particularly the premises
in question; to rent it and make all
collections and repairs and to pay the
balance to the plaintiff.
From July "a, 1894, up to the present
time, plaintiff alleges. her agent has
collected for her large sums and also
paid money out; that on Sept. 1, 1895,
defendant abused the trust plaintiff
had reposed in him and "wrongfully
unlawfully and fraudulently'' stated
and represented to plaintiff that the
mortgage already referred to, being in
default, had been foreclosed by the
owner thereof and that the time for
the redemption of the property had eX-
pired and that the property was no
longer owned by plaintiff; that her rev.
enue from the rentals had thus been
cut off and that "all of said statements
were false and well known by plaintiff
to be false when he made them
The complainant affirms that she be-
lieved defendants representations to
be true, and relying upon them, made
no effort to collect any rents from the
property or to require defendant to ac-
count for them. Defendant is alleged
to have continued in control of the
out the knowledge or consent of
plaintiff, and that he has so contin-
ued to conduct affairs up to the pres
ent time; that the property had rent
ed for $45 per month at the time de-
fendant had made false and fraudu-
lent representations" that defendant
has refused to render an account to
plaintiff, and that he "fraudulently,
wrongfSlly and unlawfully claims to
be entitled to said rents, and has ap-
propriated and collected the same to
his own use;" that plaintiff believes
the amount defendant has so convert
ed is $3.50.
While defendant was acting as her
agent plaintiff alleges that she signed
many papers and leases upon his
ftatements to her of their contents
without reading them; that on Sept. 1,
in question, and on several other oc-
casions thereafter, defendant wrong
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
TRAGIC PLEASURE TRIP.
Ship Captain Killed With His Wife
Passenger.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.-Among
the cabin passengers who arrived from
the Orient on the steamer City of Pek-
ing were Mrs. A. Nichols, Miss M.
Nichols and the formers little son,
their home in Bath, Me, after having
passed through terrible experience.
They left New York in March last on
board the ship Abner Coburn, of which
Mrs. Nichols husband was the cap
tain, for pleasure trip to Hong Kong.
June 19 the Coburn ran into a gale.
Sail was shortened and everything
made as snug as possible, but just as
Capt Nichols was coming up the COM
panlonWay to take an observation. a
big sea washed over the stern, smashed
the wheel, rolled the two steerSmen in
to the scuppers and hurled the skipper
down the companionway, inf1icting in
juries from which he died eight hours
later Chief Officer NJ. L. Marks was
thrown against one of the boats and
seriously hurt. The storm continued
for two days after the captain died,
but the second officer, J. F. Nichols, a
son of the skipper, rugged up a jury
rudder and naFigated the vessel for
fifteen days, during (which time Chief
Officer Marks was confined to his
berth. Capt. Nichols was buried at
sea, his son reading3the burial service
as his remains were consigned to the
deep. The Coburn g arrived at Hong
Kong in time for Mrs. Nichols and her
family to catch the City of Peking
hOmeWard bound b
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24

fully, unlawfully and fraudulently'
reiterated his statements about the
fcreclosed mortgage, when in truth the
mortgage never had been foreclosed,
and that these statements were made
to her by defendant ito defraud and
cheat her.
According to the petition of April %,
1897, defendant presented to pla1ntlf
paper for her to sign, representing to
her that she must of necessity sign 1T
in order to protect her interests. The
complaint alleges that he did not ex-
plain to her precisely what the paper
was, and that he knew she was not
acquainted with it's contents; that she
reposed entire confidence and faith in
him as her agent and in his honesty
and integrity in his dealings with her
with regard to her property; that she
placed her signature to the paper,
which proved to be a quit claim deed
to the property in controversy.
This deed, plaintiff alleges, was filed
with the register of deeds on Aug. II,
1897, and that this instrument was new
er acknowledged by plaintiff according
to law nor authorized by her, and that
it was so presented to her to cheat
and defraud plaintiff of her right, title
and interest in the property and TO
enable defendant to acquire title to
it, that defendant falsely and fraud
ulently' pretends and claims to be
owner to the property and appropri-
ates the rents and profits from it.
In order that she may have her
rights re-established to the property
plaintiff asks the court to clear the
title and order an accounting by de-
fendant of all moneys alleged to have
been received by him as rents from the
property from Sept. 1, 1896; also that
judgment be given against defendant
for any balance found to be due upon
the accounting.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
HIS MEAN WAY OUT OF 1T.
Declared 1t Was Not a Joke at All,
but n Fact.

out IL
ooh, said the two months bride to the
girl friend who had called, Charley did
the meanest thing last night, l wouldn't
have believed it of him.
DO tell me what it was asked the girl
friend.
'Well, you know we we're having some par
lor amusements, or thinking about having
some, when it happened. 1t was just after
dinner. Charley had been reading some sup
posedly funny paragraphs in the evening
paper. They were so poor they actually
made me faint. Finally 1 told him that 1
could do better than that myself
What, at making jokes?" interrupted the
girl friend.
why, yes. of course"
'Well, what happened?"
'sWhy, of course, he was sure couldn't"
''Just like a man.
But he was mistaken"
"Do tell me all about it."
well, he wagered me a three-pound box
of candy and all the soda water 1 could
drink that couldn't make joke
And you did it right away
Eyes, it didn't take me FIVE minutes
what was the joke
well, you know we had that lovely blue
china set that he bought last week the
table and
''It is lovely"
'And just took my inspiration from that"
''You know the teapot has shepherd in
blue upon it,
yes"
''Well, my joke the supposed conversa-
ton between two fashionable girls on the
milk pitcher of the chocolate brown set that
mamma gave US. l ran: Why don't you
associate with that gentleman over there?"
and the reply was, He's not in set
Well, l had the teapot in my hand when 1
made the joke, and just as 1 told it 1 let the
teapot fall. Now comes the mean part.
Charley used such mean subterfuge. He
repeated the joke, then looked at the pieces
of the teapot the floor and then, as 1
demanded the fulfllment of my wager said,
That's no joke, that's fact
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
THE CLOCKS FAULT.
How 1t Confused Citizen With an
Inguisitive Jaw.

''Hi! There you! Haven't you about got
that block surrounded?" asked a Piety Hill
policeman to a Warren avenue man at 8
o'clock the other morning, says the Detroit
Free Press
We'll, 1 dunno, wot is it t-h-h-h-hic you?
Can't l walk home wizzout policeman tag
gin M around?'
"No, l should say not, at the rate you've
been walking ground that block. Do you
know how many times you've been around?"
mo. Say, " been roun' morn once?'
well, I've been watching you for half an
hour and you've just made your sixth cir
cult. don't know how long you were walk
ing before l saw YOU.
"'zat so? Say, maybe I am little tangled
UP. 1 thought 1 wuz toler'bly sober. Come
long Cass avenue, y'know an looked UP at
that clock on ther h-h-h-i-high school, an it
said II o'clock. JUS 'sas plain as day.
Il turned down Warren avenue towards
home, y know, er thought did, an looked
an saw that clock agin. Jus passed ther
blamed thing on ther other side, y know.
That mixed m'up. But KEEP goin'. Wen
l got to Second avenue, y'know looked an
three sides 1 seen ther thing on. That mixed
m'up agin.
"But 1 KEEP goin' and wen I got to Forest
avnue l saw ther darned clock agln. That
After that I didn't know wich side l wuz on:
I s'pose 1 KEEP goin'. 1 dunno. You say L
did,
you KNOW InaC HlSH scnool cioch Ads loui
faces to it?
-Four? Say, m'friend, 1 counted sixty.
Yezzir, sixty, an ther wuz no signs O. lettin'
up
We'll, 1 guess you'd better let me take you
home''
Take m'home? Well, guess not. I've
got little of ther speerit Nv investig-h-h1c-
shun bout me. I'm goin' to see how many
sides tn are to that blamed clock, anyway
'All right, go ahead"
And the policeman walked away. He had
not got more than a block when he heard the
.'zhay! Shay? Mister Copper! Kin you tell
me wich side I'm on now?"
You're on Cass.'
A half-hour later the policeman came back
His friend was still walking around.
'.WeIl. how many have you counted now?"
Hundred n leven. I'm goin' ter Civ
'tup!'
And when the policeman turned the key in
his door for him the lamp was still burning.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
DISTRICT COURT WORK.
Another Batch of Suits Have Been
Started,

Nearly a dozen more suits were filed
with the clerk of the district court yes
terday, one of which was that brought
by Howard Wheeler, as receiver OF
the estate of Henry H Hahn, against
A j. Daimon The petition alleges
that on June 20, 1895, Hahn gave his
note for $3.50 to John G. Jensen, who
assigned it to the State Bank of ST.
Paul; that on Dec 20 1895, Hahn
made another note to the bank for $500,
and on Dec. 23 1895, he made another
note for $125. The bank sued on the
notes and recovered a Judgment
against Hahn. 1t is alleged that Hahn
made sale of his book accounts for
the purpose of defrauding his credit
ors, the sale being made to defendant.
The accounts amounted in the aggre-
gate to $4,000 Petitioner seeks to COM
pei defendant to pay over to him all
moneys he has collected on these ac-
counts.
Banner Lodge No. 4, Ancient Order
of United Workmen, is sued by Louise
Knauff. She alleges that prior to Oct.
%, 1895, August A. Knauff her hus-
band, was a member in good standing
of the lodge, and on that date he died
after a lingering illness. Defendant
for $4,000, and now she wants $162
more for medicine and doctors bills.
Suit was begun by Charles femme
against the ST. Paul Street Railway
company for personal damages. He
alleges that through neglect defend
ant company failed to keep the snow
cleared for a space of two feet out
side of the rails, and on account of
this plaintiff, who was driving a horse
and cutter, en- March 16, 1897. with his
infant child, was upset and thrown out.
Plaintiff alleges that. he was seriously
injured and laid up for five weeks. He
wants $1,000 damages.
The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacture
ing company is sued by Katherine Cal
ley to set aside a certain contract for
a sewing machine valued at S39.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
POLICY OF PARLIAMENT.
Bank of England Carrying 1t Out,
Says High Official

LONDON, Sept. 23. = The protest
which the London bankers drew up at
their meeting in the clearing house
yesterday against the policy of the
governor of the Bank of England in
announcing it's willingness to maintain
one-fifth of it's bullion reserve in silver,
was presented to the bank today. The
resolution is accompanied by formal
letter, and the resolution itself is in
the name of the clearing house asso-
citation, as, although the members were
not representedfat at the meeting, a ma
Jority of the membership was repre-
Sented and unanimously adopted the
resolution, which is as follows:
That this meeting entirely disapproves of
the Bank of England agreeing to exercise
the option permitted by the act of 1884, of
holding one-flfth or any other proportion what
ever of silver as reserve against the circu-
1ation of the Bank of England notes.
Ihat copy of this resolution be sent
to the Bank of England, the prime minister,
the first lord of the treasury and the chan
cellor of the exchequer."
An organized movement has begun
to induce other commercial bodies to
protest against the announcement of
the governor of the Bank of England.
A high official, who was a partici-
pant in the negotiations between the
United States bimetallic commissioners
and the British cabinet, said today to
a representative of the Associated
Press: Il fear the bankers will fright
en- the government into receding from
their stand for bimetallism They
have forgotten that parliament unani-
mously resolved measures to secure
stable par of exchange between gold
and silver, and Sir Michael Hicks
Beach fhe chancellor of the excheq-
uer) pledged himself to do all in his
power to carry the resolution into eff
feet. The English public has forgotten
also that ten of the fourteen members
of the agricultural commission signed
a report recommending bimetallism as
palliative for the agricultural de-
preston in England. The public and
newspapers seem to think the govern
ment is Influenced merely by desire to
secure the good will of the United
States when it is attempting to carry
out the declared policy of parliament. -
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
MIR. sTIcKNEY RESUMES.
Further Testimony, in the Minne-
sofa Provision Company Case.

A story got abroad yesterday from
Court Room No. 2, on the third floor
of the court house, where Judge Brill
is patiently listening to reams Of tes-
timony in the Minnesota Packing and
Provision companys case, that Mr.
Squires, of counsel fer the defense, and
A. B. Stickney, witness for the plant
iff, had one of those times, and that
the court had to interfere to preserve
order. The story fe travelled around
among the law offices, but was mainly
without foundation
What really happened was this:
There was a written statement OF the
affairs of the UnionrStock Yards COM
pany, which it was believed Mr.. stick
ney referred to in a letter to Philip
Shufeldt. Upon adjournment Wednes-
day afternoon, the court sustained the
objection of Mr.. Kellogg to the admis-
sion of the statement as evidence, on
the ground that the connection estab-
lshed was too remote. In the mean
time Mr.. Stickney found that the state
ment in question was the one referred
to in his letter, and so objection to it's
introduction was withdrawn.
Mr.. Squires proceeded to cross-eXam-
inc Mr.. Stickney on the statement.
Mr.. Squires wanted Mr.. Stickney to
answer some of his questions, yes" or
no" Mr.. Stickney said he would an
sWer them in his own way, If Mr..
Squires would permit him to do so.
Mr.. Squires extended the permission,
after the court had ruled that MI.
Stickney need not confine his responses
to the words yes and mo"
Constantine w. Benson, one of the
London stockholders in the Union
Stock Yards company, was the first
witness called yesterday. Mr.. Benson
said that he first met Philip Shufeldt
in England. Last spring he came to
st. Paul and urged Shufeldt to prepare
a statement Of the company's assets
and liabilities but Shufeldt, he sald
asked for further time
Mr.. Benson testified that, on March
II, he had the necessary legal papers
served on Shufeldt requiring him to
give the information wanted. Shufeldt,
he said, requested postponement.
But none was granted and the next
day March IL, the witness proceeded
with Messrs. Stfckney and Kellogg to
the offices of the Minnesota company
at South st. Paul. There they met
Attorney Squires and Frank Clifton.
They demanded ito see the books, but
the demand was refused. Then fol-
lowed the application for a receiver.
On crosS-examination Mr.. Benson said
he did not examine the statement of
assets and liabilities sent to England,
as he did not consider the statement
gave the required information.
Court adjourned until 10 a. m. today.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
CANNIBALISM.
Interesting Statistics in Regard to
the Practice of Eating Human
II


A manuscript recently discovered in the
neighborhood of Cairo gives some interest
ing information in regard to cannfbalism,
says the New York Herald. For thousands
of years the fashion of eating human flesh
prevailed in Cairo and the adjoining country.
The object however. was not to satisfy hun
ger. but rather to honor the dead. Only the
arms and legs were eaten, and, Tor all we
know to the contrary, the remaining por-
tions of the bodies were treated with be-
coming reverence.
Taking this established fact as starting
point, Flinders Petrie, the eminent Eng
study the psychology Of anthropophagy,
and he was soon in possession of several
other equally remarkable facts. For ex-
ample, he learned that of every hundred
persons who eat human flesh twenty do SO
with the object of honoring their dead as
well as of securing their good will, and thus
in the next world. Such is the custom of
the Thibetans, as well as of the Australian
and South American aborigines. The Thib-
etans were especially wont to hold most i'm
pressive religious ceremonies while the can
nibalistic feasts were going on.
The Samodes do not hesitate to eat their
parents and in defense of their conduct
they maintain that the dead will thus live
more happily and altogether more comfort
ably in the future life In ancient times
certain tribes invariably ate their deceased
it would be a monstrous thing to hand them
over to the tender mercies of the worms.
All cannibals, however. are not actuated by
such unselfsh motives According to writ
er in the Journal des Debats, many can
nibals eat human flesh with the object of OBJ
tanning direct benefits thereby. Thus we are
told that 10 per cent of them eat the most
stalwart warriors who fall in battle, with
the hope of increasing their own courage,
and that they also eat dead children, with
the object of thus recovering their lost
youth. Again, 10 per cent eat their nearest
relatives through religious motives, since
they hope thus to escape the wrath of the
gods. Moreover, per cent eat human flesh
because they hope in this manner to punish
those whom they are eating.
There is room for much further investiga-
tion in this direction, and those who know
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
OVER AN ASPHALT CONTRACT.
City of Denver Interested Before
the Court of Appeals.

CITY OF benVeF 1nteFeSSeu ISSloHC
the Court of Appeals.
The suit of the city of Denver Col,
against the Barber Asphalt Paving
company, appealed on an error to the
United States circuit court of the dis
trict of Colorado, was argued yester-
day before Justice Brewer and Judges
Sanborn, Thayer and Riner in the
United States circuit court Of appeals
by plaintiff in error and submitted on
brief by defendant in error. This IS
an action to compel the municipality OF
Denver to pay for the paving of Ger
tain streets between street railway
tracks. The paving company alleged
in its original complaint that the con-
tract it had with the city for certain
paving was about $3S,000. On the first
trial of the case plaintiff company re-
covered a judgment of $1S,2S9 against
the city for the paving between the
street car tracks. The city carried
the case to the federal court and the
judgment was reversed. At the second
trial the paving company recovered
judgment for $24, 1856, and now the city
has brought the suit up to the court of
appeals.
By stipulation the case of N S. Nc
Donnell against S. j. Burns ct al. ap-
pealed from the United States circuit
court of the western district of Mis-
souri,, was continued until the Decem-
ber term.
Arguments were begun on behalf Of
plaintiff in error in the case of the
New York Life Insurance company
against Ida NJ. Baker, guardian, error
to the United States circuit court of
the district of Nebraska. Further ar
guments were postponed until today
This is a suit to defeat a judgment
against the insurance company of u
life policy.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-24
TRY GRAIN-o! TRY eRAIN-o!

Ask your Grocer today to show you a pack
age of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that
drink it without injury as well as the adult.
All who try 1t, like it. GRAIN-O has that
rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but 1t Is
made from pure grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress. Il the
price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package.
Sold by all grocers.