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The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
MINNESOTA.

st. Cloud-Beginning Monday next all
the towns on the Hinckley branch be-
tween this city and Milaca will have
complete mail service.
Mapleton-D. ]. F. Schefik, of Mime
apolls, has decided to make his home
mere. improvements costing Sc. 500 will be
made on the Mapleton water works this
summer.
Anoka--Judge w. w. Fitch died of
pneumonia Thursday afternoon. He was
major general and department. commando
er OF Minnesota G. A. R., and had been
municipal judge about seven years.
Austin-The Austin canning factory will
put up l,OOO,O0O cans of corn this summer
They now have one order from George
X. Newell q Co. for 5000 cases, as wei
as large orders from Chicago wholesale
Taylor's Falls-As a result of the rail-
road meeting held at Balsam Lake re-
Gently articles of Incorporation of the
superior Balsam Lake & Southern rail-
road have been filed with the secretary
OF state of Wisconsin. The capital stock
is 100000.
Buffalo-August Bredeson, of Cokato.
VINO was brought to this city last Sun
day by the deputy sheriff, has been ad-
judged insane and taken to the ASYLUM
at Fergus Falls ---
Preston-Fillmore county will have
three elegant modern school houses when
the school year opens next fall The
pest or these will be the S1200a school
mouse at Mabel. Peterson will build one
costing $1,000, and Prosper will erect a
two-room school at a cost of $1,000.
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from Pittsburg to San Francisco was g.
trif1e more than one-third the rate from
distance was more than twice as great
from the former as from the latter place,
and, although the freight passed, or
might pass, through the city of Pueblo
the mill. 1t cost the Pittsburg manufac-
turer Go cents to transport that keg Of
nails to the Pacific coast, while it cost
the fuel company $1.60 to transport it to
the same point, although the distance
from PittsbHrg was more than 5000
miles, while that from Pueblo was less
Pittsburg actually passed by the doors
Of the fuel company. Manifestly under
these conditions there could be no COM
petition, and unless that company, hav-
lief, could obtain 1t from some other
source, 1t would be forced to draw it's
furnaces and discharge its men consti-
tuting a pay roll of $4,000 day. That
is strong case, but it differs in no re-
spect in principle from cases in all parts
of the United States.
THE freight rate goes still further, 1t
determines not only who shall do pusi-
ness and where business shall be DONE
but the lines upon which our social de-
Velopment shall proceed.
'"The tendency today is to accumulate
great aggegations of wealth in the hands
of few people and great aggregations of
measure a menace to the public welfare.
While the growth of our cities is neces-
sary to our national development and
should be in all proper ways encouraged,
1t is not without its dangers. The life Of
the masses in our great cities Is less
pure, their thought less wholesome, their
actions more spasmodic than that of the
masses in the country. If any great up
heaval overtakes this nation it will orig
mate in the cities.
1.-THE uniform tendency of the present
condition of rates is to build up the city
at the expense of the country, for the
reason that the rate, the rebate, the con-
cession of every sort, is always in favor
of the city where competition IS sharp
and against the country where competi-
ton is less, and with the result that in
dustries of all kinds are being forced
out of the country and out of the small
er towns and into the great centers of
activity. This is not for the national
good. The small individual should enjoy
exactly the same privileges with the
great community.
is thing of such transcendent impor-
tance to the public at large that it
should be subject to public regulation.
But what warrant is there for this? As
a member of a senate committee recently
said: Why should commission fix the
price of railway transportation more
than the price of wool or of live stock?'
Transportation by railway whether
it be called T. service or a commodity is
in its nature quasi public. The railway
is in a measure public servant. If this
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were not so it never could have been
constructed and could not be operated.
When the legislature copfers upon the
railway these, extraorainary powers, givl
ing 1t the right to appropriate to it's use
the property Of private individuals
against their will. it may determine the
conditions under which its railroad when
constructed shall be operated. 1t may
fix the ratees of fare, say that those
rates shall be the same to all individuals
and that they shall be reasonably adjust
ed between all communities"
Gov D. r. Francis presented the mat
ter Of the st. Louis worlds fair and was
heartily applauded.
A strong resolution favoring the appro-
priation by congress was adopted
AT the afternoon session the committee
on resolutions presented a further report
John B. Weber, Of Buffalo, presented
the plan of the Pan-American exposi-
ton.
Jamestown-Alfred Thorn, Of Primrose
township, committed suicide by taking
strychnine. Thorn had just returned a
couple of days before from a visit to rel
atives in England. No cause for the
suicide is known.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
SALTWATER.
Plans for the Proposed Creamery
Being Pushed.

P. N. Peterson, of this city, who has
been i'll for some time, has gone to hos
pital in st. Paul to undergo treatment.
The Vivian departed yesterday with a
raft of logs for c. Lamb & Sons, Clin-
ton 10. The Kit Carson took out raft
Of lumber.
The Central Lumber Company OF Hud-
son, Wis, has decided to run night and
day the coming season in order to fill its
contracts for saving. A tow of logs was
shipped to Hudson for that concern yes
terday.
A meeting of the association organized
recently for the establishment of a cream
cry in this city will be held this after
noon, and the committee appointed to
look over needed machinery will make
report he building selected is the old
Florence mill on North Second street,
which viii be remodeled to meet the re-
quirements Of the ASSOCIATION.
A determined effort is to be made to
clean the city this season, and the Capt.
tol City Sanitation company will come
here in day or two prepared to take up
the work.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
DAYS NEWS IN BRIEF.

Cairo, IH.-Riley Powell (colored) was
hanged here today for the murder of
t Emo odye FRYE at Charleston, Mo. in Octo-
Bluefield, w. Va.-News has reached
here that. on Wednesday at TazeweT.
twenty miles west of here John Peters
lcolored{ was lynched for assaulting Kit
Tie Ritchie, sixteen-year-old girl.
Cairo. nl.-Riley Powell the neero who
murdered Elmo Eric, city marshal Of
SsnG charleston, Mo-, in this city, on oct. II
1898, was hanged here today in the pres
ehce OF about one hundred spectators
W;a3shIngton-The senate committee on
public buildings and grounds today an M
tnorized q favorable report on the bill
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COMPLAINT OF CoNsUL
Guide Book of Carlsbad.

During spring and summer hundreds
of letters generally arrive at Carlsbad
from England, America and the colonies
in which a description OF Carlsbad and
asked for. In accordance to a general
desire the corporation has published a
handsome guide book of Carlsbad, Of
which 10000 copies are printed in English
and post card addressed to the mayor
or "Stadtrath" of Carlsbad asking for a
copy. Of this guide book will be sufficient
to place applicants in the possession Of
the guide free of any charge.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
Child Killed by STREET Chr

WINONA, Mimi, April 2O.-(special y
The nine-year-old son of j. A Appelt,
barber, was struck by a street car late
motorman, seeing the lad in the street.
rang the gong to warn him, but as the
car approached the boy staggered and
fell in front of the car. The body was
fearfully mangled. The car was not
equipped with feeders.
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blaze att neviI,s Lnke.

DEVILS LAKE, N. D., April 2O.-
Especial. )-The livery barn of Charles
Pierce was totally destroyed by fire at
noon. Loss on building, $1,5OO; Insurance.
$1,000. Most of the contents were saved
except two horses. The wind blew a
terrible gale. number of buildings in
the path caught fire, but heroic work
of the citizens saved them Children
playing with matches started the fire
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
MARGARET MUST GO HOME.
Young Girl Is Ordered to Return to
Her Father.

Her Father.
Judge Harrison yesterday afternoon
granted the application of Peter Heller,
who applied for a writ of habeas corpus
for the release of his sixteen-year-ol
daughter, Margaret, who he claimed was
unjustly restrained of her liberty by John
Duff, the proprietor of the Duff house at
st. Louis Park.
The hearing revealed that the father is
arrayed against two of his daughters,
who claim that they were driven from
home by his threats and continued abuse
and that they were obliged to seek shell
ter and protection elsewhere.
Heller, who is a WidoWer. has four
daughters and four sons, and, according
to the story of Margaret and her elder
sister, who have been employed at the
Duff house as domestics, they were driv-
2n from their home at Belle PLANE last
September by their father, who threat
ened to do them bodily harm if they came
back.
A short time ago, so it is claimed. Hell
ger requested the Oldest girl to send
him SIS, which she. refused to do, where
upon he insisted that Margaret must
join him at their residence in St Paul.
The charge that Mr.. Duff had restrain
ed her liberty was proven unfounded
but, on the contrary, he had taken them
in and provided for them in the most
kindly manner, and he was eXonerated
by the court
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Hastings Happenings.

HASTINGS, Mimi, April 2O-(Spec:al.) )
Mrs. Caroline Gay died at the residence
of F. B. Doten on Ramsey street last
evening from la grippe, after a two
weeks illness, aged seventy-eight years.
The remains will be forwarded to Wash
burn, To-, tomorrow morning, accompa-
MED by MIR. Doten and Miss Clara b.
Doten.
Mrs. Maria L. Cartigney, of West St.
Paul was taken to the Rochester asylum
by Judge 7. P. Moran. Her age is afty-
two years. She was committed from ST.
Paul some five years ago, but was dis
missed in 1898.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
Sidewalk Cyclists Fined

John Ohnick, an employe in the reg
lster of deeds office, was arrested on the
charge of riding his bicycle on the side
aen only 120 feet. He was fined S..
Joseph Kelley was also charged with
riding on the walk, and he said that he
doctor, and that he was in a great h1r-
~, and, besides, he was ignorant of the
ordinance. Judge Holt imposed a fine
Of S., one-half of which was remitted
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
Organ Grinder to BE an Earl.

LONDON, April 21-The Daily Mail
makes the following announcement:
I'VE learn that an arrangement Is on
the eve Of completion permitting Wis
come the earl of Pulet, the younger son
by the late earl's third wife abandoning
his claim TO the title, but reserving an
annuity, to be paid out of the estate'
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FOUND IN A MILL RACE.
Swan MattsOn, Who Disappeared
MysteriOusIy Wednesday NIcht.

Swan Mattson, 1900 First street south.
q q Iaborer, employed by the Minneapolis
General Electric company, at some work
near the East side pumping station,
suddenly and mysteriously disappeared
last Wednesday night ten minutes before
going to his work at IL o'clock. Abso-
Iutely no trace of him could be found.
Yesterday his body was found in the tail
race IN the river near the station He
had evidently walked out on 12xI2 beam
which runs out over the race and had
lost his balance and fallen in.
MattsOn was one of q crew which the
company is working in e.ght-hour shifts.
The other members Of the crew saw
Mattson few moments before they were
to begin work and when he suddenly
disappeared they were at a loss to ac-
count for his whereabouts. Yesterday
morning a crew working in the race dis
covered Mattson's body in the pit TWEEN
ty-five feet below
Coroner Nelson was notified and had
the body taken to the county morgue. A
brief investigation satisfied the coroner
that Mattson met death accidentally and
no inquest will be held. Mattson was
forty-tive years of age and as far as
known, single man, without friends or
relatives.
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WERE TORN INTO PIECES
FRIGHTFUL FATE OF woRKMEN
IN DYNAMITE MILL.

BAY CITY, Mich, April 20-The pack
Ing house of the Ajax Dynamite works,
near the village of KawkawIin, this coun-
ty, was blown up this afternoon, killing
three men. The dead are: William
Weaver, Kawkawlin; Edward HaIligan
kawkawlin, and William Van VIassar,
West Bay City.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
Starting the Mills.

CLOQUET, Mimi, April 20-(Special. y
One of Weyerhaueser's mills started TO-
day. Other mills will start as soon as
sufficient supply of water enables own
ers to get logs down, which will be. it
is hoped, in the near future.
Forest fires are feared very much. as
material to feed flames is very dry at
this writing.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
WANTS ALASKAN JUDGEsHIP.
Ambition of Arthur II. NOyes, a Min.
nenDOItS Attornev

Arthur H. Noyes, a well known Min
neapolis attorney, is candidate for the
position of district judge in one of the
three districts which it is proposed to
establish in Alaska.
There Is bill in congress at the pres
ent time for the establishment of a code
and civil government in Alaska and dis
trict judges will be appointed for Sitka
Circle City and st. Michaels, if the bill
passes. Each of the offices is worth
5000 a year.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
Homeseekers' Excursion Tickets.

To nearly all points In the United States
on sale at all ticket offices of the Chi
cago Great Western Railway on the first
and third Tuesdays of May and June, at
the very low homeseekers' rate of one
rare plus $500 for the round trip. Tick
cts good for return within q days from
date of sale. Persons contemplating q
trip will save money by calling on j. P.
Elmer, G. A, corner Fifth and Robert
streets, St. Paul
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In THE HANDS
OF THE BOERS
Continued From First Page


ments with respect to the Notifications
and strength of the Beers along the Big
garsberg range. The enemy have recently
established a large hospital, which is al
ready filled, and hospitals are being es-
tablished by them at various railway
towns.
The Beers are losing many horses. The
rank and file are not allowed to forage
for supplies. Their sugar is exhausted,
and only bush tea Is available.
The Beers are reported to wish to leave
Biggarsberg and to take up a position at
Majubas but the commandants refuse.
TO APPEAL TO POWERS.
CAPE TOWN. April 2O-At a meeting
of the volhsraad of the Orange Free State,
at Kroonstadt, today, President Steyn de-
nounced Lord Roberts proclamation as
''treachery," and declared that as Great
Britain's object was their destruction,
their last hope was to appeal to the CIV
ilized powers to intervene
BOER OFFICIALS GAzETTED.
PRETORIA, April 20. Maj. Gen.
Schalkberger has been gazetted vice presi-
dent tin succession of the late Gen. Jou-
bert, and Gen. Louis Botha has been
gazetted acting commandant general (suc-
ceeding Gen. Joubert), in command of the
Transvaal forces.
COMPLAINT OF CONSUL.
BERLIN, April 2O.-The German foreign
office and a number of kGernnan papers
have received detailed Complaints from
Germans in Cape Town respecting the
alleged subserviency to English preju-
dices displayed by the German consul
general there, DR.. Eocke The Norde-
deutsche Allegemeine will print reply.
WILL SEE DIR. EEYDS
PARIS. April 2O.-James Francis Smith,
the American District Telegraph boy,
who is bearing to President Kruger a
message of sympathy from Philadelphia
and New York schoolboys. has arrived
here. He will sail from Versailles April
26, but before leaving he will have an in
terview with DR.. Leyds at The Hague.
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appropriating $4,000 for enlarging the
nIlhlin hIlildincr Of Rl1rlira crtnra Ia

appropriating $1,000 for enlarging the
public building at Burlington, 10.
Oberlin O.-President John Henry Bar
rows, of Oberlin- university, announced
today that DR.. Alice H. Luce, of Welles-
ley college, had accepted the election as
dean of Oberlin.
Kansas City-Thomas Westlake, farm
hand, was today found guilty of murder
in the second degree for killing Wood
Mitchell, a law student and collector,
and sentenced to fifty years in the peni-
tertiary. D<t!8lAK#
Lima, On. L. Michael, ex-vice presi-
dent of the National American bank,
which was robbed here two years ago of
$18,0O0 was indicted this afternoon for
the robbery. 1aI.i
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21

While Robert A. Smith was
mayor the tax estimate for
1896 was S419,519 less than
the one for the preceding year.
McCardy and the Republican
politicians are not saying any
thing about this fact.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
"Great Northern Buffet Smoking
Cars In Servicc,,

: Commencing Sunday, April 22nd. Buffet
Smoking-Library Cars will be attached
70 Great Northern Flyer leaving St.
Paul 900 a. m. every day for all points
the finest railway car running in the
Northwest. .tAe
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HAS WOUND Up IT'S WORK
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS AD-
JOURNs TO MEET IN CRIPPLE
CREEK
MR.. PRoUTY GIVEN THANKS
His Address Pronounced Most Im-
DOrtant of the COngress-AIany
Business Matters Dis
posed OF.

HOUSTON, April 2o.-The eleventh an
nual session Of the rans-Mississippi
Commercial congress adjourned this after
noon, to meet next year in Cripple Creek,
Col. The important business today was
the adoption of plan for the organiza-
ton Of the congress on permanent basis;
the Endorsement OF the st. Louis exposi-
ton, and the appoin tment of a commit
tee to represent the congress in the hear
ing on the ST. Louis fair bill in commit
tee next Saturday, and the adoption Of a
resolution calling for the immediate pas
sage of one Of the Nicaraguan canal bills
now pending before the national congress.
The personnel Of the St. Louis fair com
mittee was left to the executive commit
tee and will not be announced for some
days.
After the congress had been called to
order and had disposed Of routine detail,
Judge E. B. Perkins, of Dallas, made an
address on Statehood"
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
Change of Time Great Northern
Sleeper to Winnipeg.

Commencing Sunday, April 22d, through
sleeper to Winnipeg will be attached to
train number seven, leaving Minneapolis
9;0 p. m. Sleeper for points on the
breckenridge division and Grand Forks
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
UPSET MABEL's PLANS.
st. Cloud Girl who Wanted to Go
on the Stage.

on the Stage.
SALTWATER, Mimi. April 20.-Miss
Mabel Wheeler's desire to go upon the
stage was ruthlessly disturbed yesterday
afternoon by Chief of Police McIlrea,
who received a telegram asking that she
be detained. Miss Wheeler resided with
her parents in ST. Cloud, and came here
to join IN Gay Paris company. Her
father, who had opposed the step, knew
her destination, and will arrive here this
morning. She is a comely miss of sew
enteen.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
GOMEZ IN sANro DOMINGO.
Cuban Leader Was Given a Brilliant
ReceDtion

SANTO DOMINGO, April 20 (via Hay,
tien oable).-Gen. Maxine Gomez arrived
here from Cuta today and met with a
brilliant official and public reception. He
landed under salute fired from the fort:
was met by committees at the landing
place; the streets were decorated in his
honor, and he will be serenaded this
evening
The minister OF war, senor Braha, has
resigned.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
GREAT is FREIGHT RATE.

1.-THE freight rate ordains where cities
snail be built and communities main
tanned. This may be illustrated by the
case of the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany, which came before the commission
some years ago. That company was lc-
Gated in Pueblo, Col, and possessed very
extensive facilities for the manufacture
Of iron. 1t aimed to sell It's product
mainly upon the Pacific coast, and its
competitor In that market was Pfttsburg
and corresponding territory. The rate
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-21
MILLIONS STARVING.
Distress Among People In India Is
Spreading.

SIMLA, India, April 2O-The distress
among the people is spreading, and $780,
600 persons are now receiving relief.
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MR.. PRoUTY,s sPEECH.

Hon. c. A Prouty, Of Washington, was
the next speaker, and he handled his sub
ject in such a mastery manner that
special vote of thanks was given him.
Mr.. Prouty spoke about Freight Rates.
He said, in part:
1.-The attention Of this nation is today
mainly fixed upon It's foreign affairs. The
serious and delicate questions for its So
luton relate, however, to internal mat
tiers. Whoever will contemplate the vast
territorial extent of the United States
and the result of its internal develop
ments for the last half century must
stand convinced that SO long as We con-
tinue sound and healthy within no mis-
take in foreign policy can seriously or
permanently injure us. The overshadow
ing problem for the United States, pre-
rious names, is the adjustment, so to
speak, of the relations between wealth
and commonwealth; how to put upon the
one hand some limit to the greed Of
riches and to protect, upon the other
hand, the due rights of property.
I'm the solution of this problem no
question is more important than that Of
railway transportation, for this question
underlies all others. Few people under
stand the enormous consequence in every
point of view, of the freight rate. Since
the vast territory directly west of the
Mississippi river has huctuated about
three cents per bushel. Three cents a
bushel on the price OF corn means In
p
acre, and this upon 6 per cent basis
amounts to a difference in value of from
$40 to SIS an acre. What is true Of, corn
is true of every other agricultural prod
uct in the United States, and even more
ture of many other products.
"Of even greater consequence Is the
freight rate to the individual business
man. Take the milling industry. Tes-
timony before the commission shows that
from to cents a barrel is regarded as
a fair profit, and that much flour is
ground at an even less profit. Here are
two mills where the cost of producing
flour is exactly the same, but the freight
rate in one case for some reason is
made two or three cents per 100 pounds
lower than in the other. One mill runs
at profit; the other makes nothing.
The same is true to q greater or less
extent in every department of business.
THE most prominent political and So
cial question today is the trust. Prob
ably no one factor is SO potential in the
upbuilding and the perpetuating of those
great combinations of capital which sue
ceed in defying law and public opinion
as discrimination in freight rates. In
deed, it may be doubted is any trust in
the necessities of life need be greatly