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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

cial~ subjects are treated in an up-to-date
way, as Acoustics of Music Halls, :fCoal
Mining by Chief Austin of the government
bureau of statistics; Labor Troubles,'' by
w. aG. Irwin; 3"The Three HIS in Educa
tion," by w. NJ. Beardshear, ex-president Of
the National Educational association. The
World To-day Is conspicuous among the Pc
riodicals for the beauty and excellence of its
illustrations. And it's early promise that it
would keep pace with the worlds progress
has certainly been admirably fulfilled SO far
The Century is an unusually attractive mid
summer holiday number. About fifty pages
are given to the Antillean eataclysms. Pro-
fessor Kemp of Columbia discusses the gen
eral subject Of earthquakes and volcanoes;
Vicar-General .Parel of Martinique gives "a
thrilling narrative Of the Martinique tragedy; !;
Captain Calder, chief of police Of St. Vim
cent, and T. M. Mcdonald, planter, describe
their personal experience and observations,
and there is included translation Of Pliny' s
account Of the eruption Of Vesuvius in August,
A. ID. 10, which numbered his uncle among
its victims. The illustrations Of the volcano
matter throughout are very interesting. Joel
Benton pleasantly recalls the days Of P. T.
Barnum, the greatest Snowman on earth, !"
who, had the distinction of being the only
citizen Of his day to whom letter from Asia
would come direct If addressed ''Mr. Bar
num-. America There is notable paper
on 1.-The New New York. illustrated in
color and black and white by Jules Guerin,
with some shalf-tones., I'm the Far East is
an amusingly picturesque poetic structure,
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, with pretty and
odd marginal decorations by Alfred Bren-
nan. There is also North Dakota story by
a new writer, Eleanor Gates, entitled "Chap-
ters from the Biography of Prairie Girl.'
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

4 4 -.
drink 'twixt me and the earth. And now here
I be hanging 'twixt heaven and the East river
and the river much easier to reach-perish-
Ing for a smoke, and my pipe might as well
be on top of one of them burning volcanoes
for all the good it is to me. It's the curse
Of the trade" s~.'- - = z"'.T
Dunwoodie laid on with a heavy hand Well
| for him that his perch was high and that the
eye of the boss was not likely to inspect his
| work critically! =
just then, as if to add insult to injury, there
came pungent smell athwart, Dunwoodie' S
nose. Young Pat McCabe was smoking in his
Dunwoodie-young Pat McCabe, the impudent
| Dunwoo oode-yuong Pat McCabe, the impudent
fellow who had dared ask Dunwoodie for his
only daughters hand in marriage!
:" Dunwoode's daughter, the peerless Pearl,
| the girl Dunwoodie had been father and
| mother to since that sad day when her own
mother was laid beneath the sod in the Gene
| terry OF Evergreens, and Of whom the old man
was as jealous as hen with one chicken
| Need more be said? Dunwoodie looked upon
| young McCabe, a likely fellow enough and as
handy with his brush as old Michael Angelo
himself, with keenest detestation = He hated
him aHRthe worse because deep. downsfn his
| soul he knew that Miss Pearl favored the
handsome Irishman.~ - - ~. -!
! McCabe's pipe was. considered the dirtiest in
the gang, He had. the love Of his ,racesfor a
we'll colored .dhudeen,, and he smoked a. to-
tacco-so strong that it would draw tears from
the eye Of a>4potato. Dunwoodie had often
cast aspersions upon it.. But now-Eow, the
odor which the winds waited to his hungry
nostrils was sweeter than the spicy ,breezes OF
.Araby the :Blest.t l.. ..:,.S~ ..-t '....
Ho glanced darkly across the chasm -o1
ttwisted cables and dizZying heights Of all
which separated them. and remembered some
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Iscapegoat for; either the stupidity or In
capacity of some one else. -'s---=.- -.
/" aG& w. d. Washburn.
The Norlands. South Livermore, Me-, Aug 3.
Hon. W. ID. Washburn, Minneapolis, Mimi:
My Dear General II ann not little sur
prised, on, my return to %, Du-
tuquey this morning, to find that the naillers
have gotten 1t in some way into their heads
that was not friendly to their London dock
bill. The first time the bill was explained to
me promptly gavo it my approval. as it
seemed to be@tn every way wise and just.
Twice / got it the floor, and would have done
SO the third time, but MI. Fletcher asked that
l do not call the committees, As Mr.. Tawney
was out of the city, and Mr.. Fletcher was
unwilling to have the fight go on unless Mr..
Tawney was there to help him. One cause
of the delay in action in the matter was be-
cause Mr.. Fletcher thought they were likely
| to reach a compromise with the opposition,
and It went over at his request. have been
for the bill uncompromisingly ever since 1t
was explained to me, and cannot understand
why the millers should oppose one who has
been their friend. g--
write to you as you are one Of the men
who are interested, whom know, and whom
have always had faith In. Very sincerely
yours, ID. 3. Henderson.
Dubuque, Iowa, July II, 1902.
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!. MINNESOTA POLITICS.

- .
The :Knatvold boomers are in Wabasha
county to-day. The friends Of the Albert Lea
;man have visited every county in the first
distFict with the exception OF Winopa, Mr.
:TaRHney's home. They concede him "a good
plurality there, but as Winona is a..demo-
cratic county and there are few inducements
to republicans to turn out at the primaries
the vote there is figured light. - : f-@ : -
Some time was spent in Austin last week,
There is a peculiar condition in Mower coiun-
ty. The "machine,'' headed by Senator Sam
Sweningsen, control county politics., and is
also backing Tawney. There is an anti.
crowd which is making local fight against
the .Sweningsen following, and it is lining uI
for Knatvold The Knatvold men claim g
lighting chance for carrying Mower. = r
They spent Monday at Dodge Center. Man.
toryille and Kasson IN Dodge county, which
the Knatvold men claim they will carry
strong. Tuesday was spent at Rochester
where the men who run republican politics
are for Tawney. -; ,t+S~es+ Z: -, = :. - =
The Knatvold men count on majorities il
Freeborn, Waseca. Fillmore, Houston, Dodge
and Steele counties, with fighting chance
in Mower and Wabasha. They concede Taw.
ney majorities in Olmstead and Winona coun
ties. $50 -. 4ssEe.sY ...-...s q
The Tawpey followers make light Of tht
Knatvold candidacy They say he will hav,
hard work to cary his own county and Taw
ney will get all the rest. =. r.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

In Bologna, Italy last week. assze convicted
Trapani. Fonan and Pazzolo members OF the Malta, OF
murder, the three thirty years
imprisonment EACH The proceedings Palizzoo
considered especially Important former member
Of the Italian OF deputies chiefly responsible
for the death of Marquis finally hunted
to death the Malta after long opposing Vaccinations
The Malta is secret society which has long been
powerful IN Sicily than the itself It's object is
substitute its authority organ
ization Is but society
steadily each other that it able
troll elections criminals and force landlords
ploy but Its members their Boycotng is
weapon, violence assassination
not infrequently resorted SO large portion Of the
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The END OF TRACEY

The only regret most sane people Will
have to express regarding the death OF
the outlaw Tracey yesterday is that 1t did
not come the day he fed from prison
walls, and before his rash dash for ltber-
ty had caused the death and wounds OF so
many good mon. It would have been I'M
mensely better for the whole country II
he had been shot like a dog before he got
away from the prison.
His sanguinary and thrilling career
from that time till his wretched death in
a Washington wheat field yesterday will,
in all probability. be responsible for an
epidemic of emulatory crime. The large
numbers Of young men without moral
stamina, perhaps already on the frontier
of crime, will be nerved bysTracey's noto-
rious career to do deeds similar to his
simply for the sake of the notoriety. Then.
too, the ability of one resourceful man to
escape from whole population In pursuit,
which Tracey has demonstrated. - will
tempt some to commit long contemplate
crimes, trusting to find safety in flight.
Tracey seems to have been bent on
making himself conspicuous name in the
annals of crime, for he did many things
in spirit Of bravado which seriously in
terfered with his chances for ultimate
escape: He generally confessed his iden-
tity wherever he went and relied upon: the
terror he thought his name would inspire
to- prevent those to whom he revealed
himself from communicating with the au-
thorities. \
The Seattle Times has received a num-
ber of letters from maudlin persons argu-
ing that Tracey had put up such a splen-
did fight and had worked SO hard to win
liberty that he ought to have been al
lowed to disappear without furt her moles-
tation. When persons right at the scene
Of his horrible crimes exhibit such weak
| ness there is no occa sion for further argu-
ment. as to the unit oward effect of his ex.
| ample. ~'~"' I
It is too bad that at the last he was not
captured, that he might have beer
wretchedly hung, instead of leaving the
world IN a manner that put a tragic eli
max to red and horrid career.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
zens is often responsible for the activity
of the bad. s
A PUBLIC BATH HOUSE

The ways and means committee and the
committee on public grounds and build
ings Of the city. council will meet at the
old city hall tomorrow afternoon at 2
O'Clock to consider what shall be done
with that property when the city Offices
are all finally housed in the new city
hall building. 2st .s}@.,
One proposition to be considered Is to
put the property up at auction and sell
1t to the highest bidder, the money to be
used in the paving of street intersections,
so that more paving may be laid where
it is very much needed. That might be
a very useful purpose: to which to put
the money obtained from the sale of the
building and the ground, but the proba-
biHties are that this property will not
bring a very large price It is not situ-
ated so as to be very desirable CONNER
cially, and T b e urnsa renews its
suggestion that the ground be retained
by the city, the old building torn down,
and public bath house be constructed
there which: shall be kept in operation
summer and winter. 50 ! r. s.
Possibly the building to be erected on
that site might provide accommodations
for something else besides bath. house,
but this should be the chief purpose to be
served. It is admirably located for such
purpose. 1t is DOWNTOWN, in
the center of a. class Of hotels
and boarding houses patronized by
workingmen in which accommodations for
bathing are rarely provided or If so they
are usually of very unsatisfactory char
acter. The proximity of a sanitary public
bath house, free, or conducted at nom
inal charge, would undoubtedly be taken
advantage of by hundreds OF men who are
not now able to indulge very frequently
in what is so necessary not only to phys
ical but to moral health-a cleansing
BATH 1t is doubtful If the city can do
anything which would contribute more to
the promotion Of good order. and, civic
healthfulness than by the construction Of
a public bath house. at the. point indi-
Gated. Clean men make better citizens
than dirty men; but the city makes no
provision for cleanliness. # will pay to
| do, So. e%-E <
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

yield in the territories at 100000. Mani
toba may or may not show any increase.
1t seems certain that western Canada will
not produce over 100000 bushels of
wheat this year, The new American set
tiers have devoted their attention largely
to fax as the first crop. While no fig
ures on the fax acreage are vet avail
able, it is certain that 1t will be large
and also the yield. ,-
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
IN a NUTSHELL.....
The nana-1talz'ss Attempt Stamp VT

population of Sicily belongs to the Malta is moved by
fear of IL that the Italian hercuean task
on its hands In trying to root out the dread society The
recent trials held in Bologna it we'll
understood that conviction be Sicily
even on undisputed evidence
the Malta have been organized in the United
States BY Italian immgrantsp and few OF the crimes
committed in this country by Italians be traced
the plottngs of the Malta Its notable in this
country was the murder Of the Of New Orleans
IN 1890 The Indignation stirred by this crime
sponsibe for the ynching OF members society
who. though still in jail, had been acquitted.
This utterly unjustihable act to have been
ductve Of salutary results however
has the Malta active
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
TIMBER COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT

Almost, daily now come practical demon.
Of the cutover timber lands of Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan. Their abundant
production Of grass and clover, assured
by immunity from drought, is slowly turn
ing them into rich dairy and stock
regions. -~- ~ =
4 In Pine, Kanabec, Mile Lacs and neigh
boring counties, over fifty creameries have
been built in the last two years and many
more are projected. The land burned
over by the disastrous: Hinckley fire Of
September, 1894, has been turned into a
very productive, though still new and
crude, region. When the legislature ap-
propriated $4,000 to seed the burned
region with timothy and clover, it was
laughed at, but to-day none laugh, for
the land that received that seed now
supports bountiful crops of clover and
timothy. So completely has the public
within the last few years there has been
a very general demand for them and thou
sands of acres have been bought by actual
settlers who are making money.
Another straw that shows how the wind
of agricultural development is blowing in
the wooded country is to be found In the
announcement that: some Chicago capt.
talists have purchased "a large tract Of
land near Brentwood, Wis, on which
cattle and sheep will be fattened for the
market on an extensive scale. Five thou
sand d>head of cattle are to- be put onto
these lands at once. The hackers of this
enterprise. estimate that the summers
feeding on the Wisconsin ranges will add
from 225 to $50 pounds to the weight OF
every steer, yielding an advance Of from
$8 to $1s a head In the selling over the
buying price. The land is cheap and it
has the advantage Of being very near to
several markets.
Many of the 10000 settlers Iowa has
sent into Minnesota this year have
bought timber land and have no fears
as to the outcome Of their venture. The
other day thirty Nebraskans passed
through Minneapolis en- route to the
northern part of Minnesota to buy cut
over and burned oyer lands.
Cheap prairie lands near markets are
very scarce now, and the timber country
lis at last attracting, the attention II
was entitled to on It's merits long ago.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
A Soldiers View.

To the Editor of The Journal
p If you will take tho time to read these few
lines and publish them in T b e j ur a
it wild perhaps go to show that the 30 much
kicked about water cure in these islands is
not too cruel for these savage people. In the
first place, it is their own invention: and
to Judge from a deed done few miles from
here on last Memorial Day they are not en-
titled to mercy, as on that day a detachment
Of the Fifth cavalry was out decorating the
graves Of their dead members when five men
were captured by about eco ladrones and car
ried of to the mountains. Their bodies were
found June Il, all hacked to pieces, unrecog-
nizable; which goes to show that when II
comes to cruelty the Filipino can teach tho
American. I don't think that they are en-
titled to any sympathy whatever
Louis G. Anderson.
Company E, Second Battalion Engineers,
Manila, p. I. Formerly with the Electric
Machinery company OF Minneapolis
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TAKEN AT ITs WORD

The Northern Securities company Is
having more trouble. This time IT. Is in
Montana. Governor Toole is making, the
trouble. He advised the state board OF
equalization to increase the assessment
of the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific some 800 per cent, the new assess
ment to be upon the basis of the valuation
Of the roads as shown in the statement of
the Northern Securities company. The
Montana mileage was turned into the
merger at valuation Of .$62,S00 mile.
"Of course we have been in error, y
ironically said Governor Toole to, repre-
sentatives of the railroads last Saturday,
"in taking $4,000 mile as the cash value
of such roads, but when such successful
flnanciers as Mr.. Morgan and his associ-
ates have within year paid that sum for
them, 1t certainly makes prima facie
case for the board. - ~ d." - 49, y. ::
While the board Of equalization has not
seen fit to make the increased assessment
800 per cent, it has made it 1856 per cent
This raise would increase the states rev
enues $44o,ooo, and the railway com
panies are naturally hustling to avoid
paying It. e. II ~ al = = ~ =
1t is not surprising to hear that the tax
payers of the state, outside Of the rail
road companies, are in favor. Of the in
crease. ~ "a. g><z ID a.sae ss5,s 4>s 4
Railways generally do not bear thei1
fair share of the burden Of taxation. But
If the Northern Securities company values
it's lines in Montana at $52,8oo a mile
and purposes to pay dividends on .tha'
basis, it cannot object II the state au.
thorities use that figure as the basis O.
assessment Evidently they are taxed fal
below that figure now-about two-third!
below it.. 80. -: =: II ,s''i,F. IS.
If other property in Montana pays taxes
on about the same percentage of actua
value of the property that 1t is purposet
to apply to the Northern Securities lines
the company has no grievance. 1t cal
only blame itself for placing the value
so high And if that were \ done TO-
watering purposes the more does th'
company deserve to be compelled to tak'
its own medicine.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
THE MAGAZINES

Success for August has very sensible Illus
strated article on forestry OF the scientific
Kind, by Frank Fayant, who details the meth
DDS of the forestry schools like Cornells,
which are practical and scientific from the
start to finish, and shows how a. new and
valuable industry has. been born. which is
going to give many Americans an honorable
vocation. ssf.ss !.
Frank Leslie $ publishes a most interesting
illustrated paper by G. e. Borchgreyink, sthe
bold antarctic explorer, who has enlarged our
geographical knowledge OF the approaches to
the south pole. He tells very: interesting
things about the birds OF that region. The
number As very attractive in fiction. A fea-
sture ef interestiis story by Onoto Watanna,
entitled Contract" This lady was born in
japan, her mother being a native woman and
sher father being an Englishrnan. The story
lis Illustrated BY q Japanese artist, Genjiro
Yeti. IS
e The World To-day Chicago: The Curren:
sEncyclopaedia company, 1876 Fla Sale
strest) for August contains an admirable re-
yiewo the events OF Importance In the world
|sduring Jnno and q portion Of July, and spe-
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
Copyright, 1902, by McClure's Newspaper
Svndinofo e,s

Dunwoodie- liked his pipe as well as the
next man and perhaps a tride better, and
when he had settled himself in his bos'n $
chair near the top Of the big bridges tallest
suspender and found he had left his beloved
corncob and his bag of Painters Delight" in
his other oyeralls at home, his despair was so
great that his head SWAN and he saw red
clouds before his eyes. -, ss4# s..
"It's the curse of the trade" said Dun
woodie. Here I've been at the brush for
forty year or SO, and never the time but
was painting in the wrong place. If I worked
on a red fence, a bull was sure to be in the
field; If I'd been@of on a bit Of a bat, the ross
would set me a-painting of scrolls and wriggly
things, till it seemed as If I'd got 'em sure; If
was dying of thirst, they'd give me the stee-
pie of a meeting house to color-Baptist at
that, more than likely-With never drop to
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

The Increase in the western Canada
wheat acreage Is comparatively small.
Manitoba Increased it's wheat acreage this
year only $4,000, while all the territories
gain only 10000. The gain in the terri
tories represents a percentage gain OF
about 16 per cent over last year. From
these figures it would appear that some
Of the estimates of this years western
Canada wheat crop are far too liberal.
The government estimates The increase In
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
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Train INSPECTION.

To the Editor Of The Journal. ls =-s.s7E:
Z want to call the attention Of the health
boards to the sanitary condition OF the closets
on the railway cars, on the day cars of the
accommodation trains.
! The closets and Iavatories OF the Pullman
and Wagner cars are usually in excellent con-
dition, but very small proportion OF the
travelling public can take seats in a drawing
room car or berths on a sleeper, and IL any
inspector will give some attention to this mat
ter he will be most enphatieally convinced
that systematic inspection is needed. Let
any one take a days ridefi an ordinary rail-
way car and he will see.zs -J.aB.
Aug s, 1902 ~. ss.<@ =, 2szs 5=-3e, srgs.-
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
. orHERsspEoPLR's NOTIONS,
The London Dock Bill.

To the, Editor Of The Journal.
+ enclose herewith a letter just received,
rremailed to me from Minneapolis, from my
old friend, Colonel Henderson, speaker of the
house Of representatives, with reference to
the London dock bill fasco, and which wish
you would kindly have published in = b
] o u n a / in order that the speaker may be
put right IN. this matter and the unjust pre-
iudice created in the minds of our n1illers
may be removed. have known Colonel Hen
derson many years, serving for a long time
with him in congress. and have always
found him steadfast friend OF Minneapolis
and Minnesota, as well as the entire north
west. y
In any event he. should not be made the
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
Fayorss Park.

To the Editor Of The Journal. 49,
4 cannot refrain from commanding the sug-
gestion that the site of the old city hall be
converted into a park. have come to the
city many times through the union station
and felt the surroundings were4a disgrace to
Minneapolis. It would wonderfully nelp to
modify the feelings OF visitors II that fat
iron of land were beautiful green grass
plot, with few trees. fountain, etc. Let
1t be under the care Of the park board. / will
give $40 toward carrying out Senator Pot
ter's suggestion.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

President Roosevelt yesterday reminded
the men OF the Mayaowers that while good
artillery is necessary it is useless If the
men who, handle It don't hit what they
shoot at. That's right. It's not the pur-
pose of the navy merely to carry around
lot Of imposing guns. What counts is
hits. -
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

The train robbers seem to. be creatures
whose stay in the land; will be of indefi-
mite. duration. The fact that it is rare
for any of them to escape eventual JUS.
tice does not seem to operate to extin-t
guish the breed. &'st r.. p, -. s. se. i
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

St. Paul seems to be run in the inter-
ests of business saloon business judg-
Ing from those ordinances that passed the
board Of aldermen the other night.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

Here's a prediction that Acting Mayor
Jones WIN vastly improve the morals of
this town, both in appearance and fact.
All that is required is courage and COM
mon sense, and Mr.. Jones has both,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
.AMUsEMENTS
Foyer Chat.

Continued success greets the performance
Of because She Loved Him So,'' at the
Metropolitan by the Percy Haswell company,
the largest audience of the summer season
being in evidence last night. There will be
but four more performances of this highly
interesting comedy, including the matinee.
Saturday: afternoon.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07

That rush for relies 5of Tracey ought TO
have been stopped. It is disgusting and
demoralizing, Il s i ss. # ;.S Z.