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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-25
TUNNEL a MlLE LONG
Engineers Digging Through Noun
tain in California.
Los Angles Herald

Los Angles Herald.
Engineers OF the Southern Pacific railroad
are busy digging a tunnel mile hong
through a mountain at Chatsworth Park,
completed this tunnel will be the longest
in that region, and will materially lessen
the line between Los Angeles and San Fran.
cisco. The eastern end of the tunnel is
already completed for distance of $500 feet,
and no special trouble has been met with,
the whole distance having been driven
through soft sandstone.
Over at the western end Of the long tun-
mel things have not gone SO smoothly. In
the first place a large stream of water was
encountered some time ago. making it wet
hole for the workmen until it run itself out.
Another difficulty has shown itself in the
form of a crushed shale under great pressure,
through which the last 200 feet Of the tun-
mel have been driven. Owing to this pressure
exerted on the shale good many more yards
of it may be removed in a given space than
that space really contains, owing to the fact
that it is forced in until the pressure is re-
lieved. ~
There are 2,40O feet yet to do.
The Chatsworth tunnel is directly under
Santa Susanna Pass, through which the old
stage run which connected Pueblo de Los
Angeles with Santa Barbara Mission in the
days Of the Espanola.
There is a country wagon road over this
pass now, but it is much more circuitous
than the stage road, which is still in ex-
istence. 1t must have been hair-raising
ride over the pass, as the old road is simply
trail over the bare rock.
The boundary line between Los Angeles
and Ventura counties follows the top of this
ridge, that the eastern end of the tunnel
is 1n-Los Angeles county, while the western
end is in Ventura. ~ y
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MITCHELL, S. d.

The normal institute for Dawson county
teachers will come to a close Friday eve
ming. Professor L. A.. Stout is the con-
ductor and the teachers are Professor T. A.
Graham, Miss Fannie Foster, of Sioux City,
and Mrs. Anna Morris-Clark, of Deadwood.
The work of the institute has been above the
standard. The enrolment has reached 1856.
The graduating exercises of the institute and
those of the county schools will be held
Jointly, Friday evening, at the courthouse.
The address before the classes will be made
BY Timon J. Spangler, of this cty.-The an
nual meeting Of the Mitchell Cattle company
was held in this city yesterday and was at
tended by several stockholders whose resi-
dences are in Illinois. The election of off,
GERS resulted: W. E. Turner, president; J..
D. Waterman, of Rockford, ice-president;
secretary and superintendent, George A. Sils-
by: treasurer, o. L. -Branson. The company
has capital of $4,000 and is actively en-
gagged in raising cattle. The ranch is located
seven miles north Of Highmore, in Hyde
county.-At the meeting Of the board of edu-
cation, last night, the teachers for the en-
suing year were elected Superintendent E.
J. Quigley was retained as the head Of the
schools for the tenth successive year: Pro-
ee so Fry, Misses D Gold corwi p Cora Miner,
Hannah Foley, Sara Scallin, Clara Nobis,
Augusta Mcguire, Minnie Grace, Alice Saul,
Mabel Jackson, Mamie Saul, Patterson,
Blanche Vande Bogart Emma Cooley and
Rhetta Rogers. the latter two being new
teachers.
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LA CROSSE, WIS.

The annual reunion of the Battle Island as
sembly will be held on Battle Island$ near
Virtory, Aug. Is to "a. An elaborate program
has been arranged and special attractions will
be the feature of each days entertainment.
Excursions will be run to the island and
thousands Of people will visit the famous
Indian battle grounds, upon which Chief
Blackhawk was captured. Prominent speak
ers from the state will deliver addresses
during the week. ~, :, s,-.-.s sri ~. Is
The annual commencement exercises Of St.
Josephs school took place last evening. An
interesting program was carried out, in
which all the graduates participated The
following are the members of the class: John
Hackner, John Mueller, William Netzer,
Joseph Dockendorff, Anna Mueller. Clara
NUM-, Maria Forster, Antonette Fries and
William Fries. .,.- 5. ,a
The beekeepers OF this county report that
the present weather is death on bees and
thousands Of dollars have been lost from the
starvation of bees. For three weeks rains
have fallen almost every day and have
washed the flowers and tree bloom Of nectar
and pollen on which the bees live. Men who
have been in the business for fifty years say
that this is the mcst threatening disaster
they have ever experienced All bees are
being fed in order to save them. 9 <,1 I 2:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-25
NORTHWEST WEDDINGS

LA CROSSE, WIS.-Mss Eunice schellen-
berger of this city and Wilson N Cooley of
Hawarden' Iowa, were united in marriage
yesterday at st. Paul's Universalist church,
Rev. Nellie Mann Opdale officiating They
were attended by Miss Lille Kosanda and
Wayne Wheeler They will make their home
IN Hawarden,, Iowa The marriage of Miss
Lillian A.: Pabst Of Lewiston, Mimi, and
George M. TyrreN OF Lincoln, Neb., took
place here to-day. - - 49, -.
Z W1NONA.. .MINN.-The marriage of Miss
Margaret Alice Burke and Frank Manning
took place this morning in the chapel OF the
procathedral, Rev. Father English, recently
ordained to the priesthood, officiating, it
being his first wedding ceremony. After a
wedding breakfast the couple left for Musko-
gee, l. T., where they will make their fu-
ture home. ,| 80
LEAD, S. D.-James Greer and Miss Julia
Wheaton were united in marriage. They are
popular society young people Of Lead
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PIERRE, S. ID.

Attorney General Burt has furnished the
state treasurer with an opinion in regard to
the handling of funds paid to the state, by
insurance companies for losses on PUBLIC
buildings. He holds that money SO received
r:ghtfully belongs to the general fund under
present existing laws, and can not be PAID
into any other fund. He further holds that
there is no specific statute FOR paying out
these funds without legislative approprla-
ton for that purpose, but intimates that IN
case Of great necessity the state authorities
might imply that funds paid for insurance on
burned buildings were appropriated for re-
placing or repairing the same.-Artcles OF IN =.
corporation have been filed for the Rand Gold
Mining company, Of Thunder Mountain, AT
Pierre, with capital Of $4,000, 600; incorpora,,
tors, Duncan c. Plumb Charles A. Hawk and
S. G. DeLand For the Pratt Drug com
pany at Pierre, with a capital OF $l20. wv );
incorporators, Washington C.. Pratt, william
B. Ward and James S. Sebree For the Ora
Honda Mining company, at Lead, with capt.
tai Of $4,000, 600; 'incorporators, Robert n;
Driscoll Ernest May, Frank Abt and George
Pierre, with capital of $3.50, 900; incorpora-
tors, Serene E. Norton, Horace B: Goodwin
and James S. Sebree. For the Mutual Sc,
curltes company, at Pierre, with capital or
81 200, 900; incorporators, James Stewart, Aora-
ham White and Ivan w. Goodner. For the
British American Petroleum company at
Pierre, with capital of 81, 600, 600; lncorpora-
tors, S. H. Gleason, D. w. Unversagt ana >:
G. DeLand.-The contract for the printing OF
the legislative bills, journals and session laws
was let to the State Publishing company, ana
the printing of the official reports to the ADer-
deem News.
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THE LIGHTEsT OF WOODS
Considerably Lighter Than Cork
and Found in Missouri.
Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
Deep in the boys and swamps of southeast
ern Missouri, in Dun1lin and Butler counties,
where the land is never dry and water from
one to six feet deep stands perHetually in the
forests, there grows rare and curious tree.
The natives know it as the corkwood or cork
tree. Science has given it longer name, the
Leitneria foridana: f1oridana because it was
first discovered in Florida along the coast,
from which it has long since been washed
away. Some meager specimens of 1T, two to
six feet high, are still found in the swamp
near Appalachicola, Fla, and few near Var
ner. Ark. but in both these places it is ex.
ceedingly limited In number, an occasional
specimen being found, and hardly rises to the
dignity of tree. Only In southeast Missouri,
where it reaches height of fifteen to twenty
feet and a diameter of two to Ave inches, is 1t
really tree.
What makes the lockwood so remarkable is
its exceeding lightness., Beyond doubt it is,
as William Trelease of the Missouri botanical
garden has shown, the lightest tree in weight
that grows. Its wood weighs less than cork.
It Is SO light that the natives use it to make
floats for their fishing nets. And yet its wood,
though SO spongy that pne may easily sink
ones finger nail into it., is far tougher than
cork. The specific gravity of corkwood. as
learned from careful tests made by Professor
'Nipher III St. Louis. is .2O7 The roots are
even lighter than the stem; a test showed
them to have the astonishingly low SPECIFIC
gravity Of Is.
A further idea Of the lightness of the cork
wood may be gained by IA comparison with
other woods. The great majority of woods
range between 400. and 800. Cork itself is
$40. The tree that approaches closest to the
corkwood in lightness is the golden fir tree,
which grows in the swamps around Tampa
bay and along the Indian river, Florida. Its
specific gravity, according to Sargent, is .2616
In comparison with the corkwood. which is
| the lightest wood with it's specific gravity OF
.2o7 may be placed the heaviest wood known
the black ironwood of Florida, whose specific
gravity is 1902.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-25
ESCANABA, MICH.

The Bay de Noquet Lumber company
which recently purchased 10000 acres of land
along the Sturgeon river, from the Chicago
4 North Western Railroad company, is pre-
section. Its new logging railroad has been
completed from the river to Nahma, a dis
sanoe Of Ave miles. and will be extended for
. distance Of forty miles further. opening
eomotives and cars have been ordered and
connection with the 500 Line will be made
at Sturgeon.-An official Of the company states
that it Is the purpose Of the Milwaukee road
to build another big ore dock adjacent to it's
present structure at North Escanaba. 1t is
only in the past year or two that the road
has made bid for ore traffic, and it's bust
ness In this line has reached enormous pro-
ortons.-Advices from Nahma, this county,
tell Of the awful fate of the 3-year-old daugh-
ter Of Peter Frye. The mother was wash
ing and left tub of scalding water on the
Kitchen floor The child in playing backed
into the tub and death ensued in an hour.
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AID Republican County Conventions.

Hubbard-Henry R. Cobb, Charles p
scheers, H. E. Davis, B. F. Wright, M
Lawhead. c. W. Martin, L. H. Rice, T. A.
Cross and J. G. Stewart. -
Freeborn-Hans stensrud, o. C.. johnson
syend Svendsen, Adam Buchanan, John Ber-
seson. J., W. Nelson, Chris Jensen, ]. ]
Berkyam, John A. severson, H. Blackmer, C.
G. Edwards, V. Gulbrandson. H. A: Morgan
oscar subby. o. I. 0pdal. Henry Drommer'
hausen and William Wohlhuter. a...5--
Otter Tall l.. Berthold and L. p. Dayi'
SON; Perham; James A.. Brown. A. B. Cole
E. E. Corliss, j. W. Mason, W Z. Campbell 4ps 81
3. A, Everts and DR.. JONES' Battle Lake
Walter Nealey, Deer Creek; Paul Peterson
Parkers Prairie; H. C.. Hansen. Homestead
c. N Haugen, Pelican Rapids; E.C. weston
Paddock: Ole Larson, Dane Prairie; A. B.
Thompson; Henning: 2. NJ Head, Tumuli
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-25
GREAT LAKES TO EUROPE
Minnetonl<a, New Steel Ship, Ready
for Ocean Service. j.

for Ocean Service. j.
DULUTH, MINN.-The American Steam
ship company. owning the new big
ocean going steel ship Minnetonka, has Just
changed its registry and port of hail from
New York to this city. A second ship, to be
launched soon. will also have Duluth registry
and hail.
The Minnetonka is the largest ship ever
built on lakes for ocean service. She was
launched lately at Cleveland in two parts
and was put together at Montreal after be-
ing towed herself down the lakes In halves
That is, the hind end. containing the ma.
chinery, toWed the forward end. This was the
first time any such thing was ever done on
the lakes. The Minnetonka carries 5000 tons.
In day or two this ship will be in Quebec
on her way from New York From there she
will sail for Europe. The plan of the Ameri-
can Steamship company. OF which a. B.
Wolvin OF this city is manager. is to utilize
this and her sister ship as the TRANSATLANTIC
link in a traffic from the great lakes to
Europe. The Great Lakes and Quebec Trans
portaton company is the lake link. IT
already has several steel ships and Is now
letting a $1,000, 900 contract for more.
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FARGO, N. ID.

Forger Saunders is comfortably located in
the North Dakota pententiary after having
been extradted and returned here from Win
nipeg Saunders escaped from jail here after
having pleaded guilty to forgery and having
been sentenced to five years IN the peniten :.
Twichell took no chances with him. but kept
him locked up in the dungeon between trans rs:
Saunders assumed a repentant altitude Tor
his conduct. but declined to make any state
men regarding his escape or his wanderings.
"A woman who gave her name as Mrs Smith
and Bismarck as her home hired livery rig
from Doyes barn for short drive and when
she failed to return an INVESTIGATION , was
made, which located her at Detroit, MIMI
with the team. She was arrested ana re-
turned to Fargo. 1t is said there are some
rather mysterious matters involved IN the II,
affair-The twelfth annual session OF me
grand lodge, A. F. & A. NJ, will close this
evening With an entertainment. Thursday
the grand chapter, R: A. NJ, and the sra s,aa
chapter, O. E. S., both meet in their tWel1tn
annual sessions Many prominent Masons
the here from all over the state.
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WASHINGTON; d. G..

. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MINES tWilli H. Smith, st. Paul,
Sc: John Coolen, Smith Lake, So; Joseph
Kaiser, Alma City, s12: Solomon Robertson
Houston, $12; minor OF Andrew D. Townsend
fowa-Joseph A. Goodhue, Sioux Rapids.
SO; william H. Busham, washington, $ l2;
william Davis, Strawberry Point, slo; LEWIS
Grant City, s12; Michael Ryan, Soldiers
Home, Marshaltown, $40; William Lee, cor:
ming, $40; oliver P. Kimmell, Red OAK az s15
Hatiie NJ. Stringham, Manchester, Sl2
Amanda Honna, Ottumwa, $12.
Wisconsin-James A. Erwin, National NIL
itary Home, Mlwaukeei S. Fran nk,F Ferr tes
Eau Claire, S.; Michael koP1in Mlwaus s1s
Mel Meivin N. webb, Whitewater, SO; Lalisa
Shepard, La Crosse, s.; Susan M. Henry
Waukesha. IS. ,ru,,r;de,a
North Dakota-Leveretta II: Iro"or'ose
Dunseith, S. =.
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WILLMAR, MINI.

District court is in session this week. The
grand jury has returned indictments against
Carl Hanson, alias Carl Christensen, OF Col
fax, who is charged with grand larceny in the
second degree; He robbed the home OF Re ley;
and it is alleged stole gold watch and
chain, besides money and other vauables.
George w. Sherwood, alias Robert S. O'Neal,
continued 'sblindpig" cases, all from Atwater,
are on the calendar. The most interesting
case on the civil calendar will be the breach
of promise suit of Henry l.. Won Schenck VS.;
Amanda Hoglund-Clint Colburn was lodged
in the county jail here yesterday for skip
ping livery bill. He was found guilty in
Judge Bitterness court and sentenced to ten
days. The complainant was Chris Freese-
Passenger train No. II ran over an old soldle1
near Montrose, instantly killing him. His
was before Judge Rofse on the charge CT
assault :, in the third degree. preferred by
Harvey Watkins Both are from Raymona,
was continued until July 3. : .a. ..--z..
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BIG STONE CITY, s. ID.

Yesterday was Hobson day at the Big stone
Lake Chautauqua. and it was one of the best
in every respect that the association has ever
had The attendance was large. The after,
Moons program began with musical and
entertainm e11t features by the Aberdeen harp
orchestra, w. I. Nolan, the impersonator.
and Miss Florence Pace, the soloist; At 5
o'clock, Richmond p. Hobson was introduced
and for two hours and. a half held his vast
audience spellbound Captain Hobson more
than ever is the hero in the estimation of this
community The evenings program was on
the popular line and was given by Miss Pace,
Miss Miller and Mr.. Nolan, readers. All OF
these are very popular here and the enter
tainment was we'll received; +: w: Sears
raaiy on the ground On Thursday evening,
the Sanford Dodge opera company will pre-,
sent the drama, "The Tanning of the shrew ", j.
and the attendance is more than doubled.
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ANOTHER MURDER TRIAL
Case Against Thoem Com enced. at
- Grand Forks. ~ - ::

CdSe Against InOem comm enCeu n
- Grand Forks. ~ - -.
GRAND FORKS, N. D.-The trial of Ole
Thoen, charged with the murder of Thomas
Kjorvestad on June 8 at Thompson, N. D.,
was begun yesterday in district court. There
was little trouble experienced in getting the
jury, which was completed shortly after din
ner as follows: Joseph Monreau, II. A.
Elton, John Smith, Arthur Thompson. A.
McMaster, liver Amundson, and Richard Hav-
Hand, all of this city: I. r. Coburn, of Lari-
more; S.. D. Osburn, OF Fairfield; Joseph
Wilson, Of tstrabane, David spengler, OF
strabane, and John Crerar, of Grace.
The state called for DR.. Love, of Thomp-
son, who testified that the cause Of death was
blood clot on the brain caused by a frac-
ture of the skull. 49,,
very important part Of Dr. Loves tes.
timony was in regard to admissions made to
him by Thoen that he cThoen)- had struck
the fatal blow. DR.. R. D. Campbell was next
called and gave practically the same evidence
testified to by DR.. Love: States Attorney
Wineman and Assistant States Attorney Rex
represent the state, and John A. Sorely, the
defense. $780,. 81 q. =:
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DISCOVERED By ACCIDENT
Ore Find at the Tilden Insures the
Property's Permanency.

BESSEMER, MICH.-Through accident a
valuable find of iron ore has been made at
the Tlden mine, which WIN add new aease
of life to the property. few days since
Captain W. H. Knight the superintendent.
was passing the old cave on the west line OF
the property, when he noticed that IN one
place where portion of the wall OF rock
+, on :one side of the opening had crumbled
away the ground had the appearance OF being
ore. Going down into the pit and making a
close examination developed that the ma
terial uncovered actually was iron.
Men were at once set to work to tunnel
into the ore, which has now been found to
extend eastward on the Tilden property
Years ago, when both the Tilden and old
Colby properties were operated by the Peno-
kee & Gogebic Development company, the
ground east of No. 5 shaft on the latter
property was developed and worked up to
the line between the two mines. The tim
bers were then taken out, and the ground
was allowed to cave in. The wall OF rock
having been encountered from the Colby side
of the line it was considered that to search
for ore any further in that direction WOULD
be useless, and the same obstacle being met
with on the Tilden property at NO. shaft,
work was also stopped there, leaving a large
and supposedly barren territory between the
present workings of the Tilden and those
abandoned at the old Colby, undeveloped
Now shaft house is being built just south
of where the recent find OF ore was mace.
A vertical shaft is to be put down, and drifts
driven to test the extent of the ore deposit.
which it is believed is very large in dimen-
sions 1t is believed by the mining men that
the ore dips eastward and extends to the
footwall; and if such proves the case, the
discovery is one of the greatest ever made
on the Gogebic range. - ~ ..e ..-.-.s
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HURON, S. d.

An earnest and eloquent address by O., w.
Stewart. chairman Of the national proh1oi aa
vention here last night 1t was the largest
Convention convent held BY the party in this state and
resulted in nominating this ticket: II For con-
gress, ]. w. Kelley of Huron, ": w. Sml I!
of washington Springs; for governor, n. n.
Curtis Of Castlewood; lieutenant governor:
walter ]. Edgar of Bookings; secretary OF
state, George H. Brown of Northvllie; auut
for A, H. Tasker of Albee; treasurer, knute
Lewis of Lake Preston; superintendent on OF
public instruction, r. 3. McClenon OF Madi-
son; commissioner Of schools and public LANDS,
D. W. Noble Of Centeryille; railway con- CON
nation matte was made for attorney genral: The ex-
ecutive committee is: Dr.. G. V. Templeton
of Woonsocket, W. A. Stromme OF Volsa:
G. q. Hopkins of Estelline,> Knute Lewis OF
lake Preston, G. H. Brown of Worthwhile. A
central committee Of fifteen was also named. =
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CAss LAKE, MINI.

The improved business condition In Cass
Lake since the passage Of the Morris bill,
last week. is truly wonderful. Already many
people are coming into the village looking for
Investments. There have been many trans
fers Of village property, and the prices paid
have invariably been a substantial increase.
"A large crowd Is expected here on Thursday
Friday and Saturday of this week. when the
eighth annual tournament of the northern
Minnesota Firemen's Tournament Association
will be held, and on the Sunday following,
June %, when there will be three special
trains rate of a fare and-a- third for
the round trip to Cass Lake has been granted
and for excursion day a single fare will
suffice s..- s
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TAKE PLACE OF HORSES
Doukhobors Maintain 1t Is Wrong
to Work Four-Footed Animals

YORKTOWN, ASSA.-The Doukhobors
have fanatical idea now that it is wrong
TO work any four-footed animal, and as
the powers that be- will not permit them
to work their women, the men are COM
PEELED to take the place of horses in draw
Ing their supplies out to their settle
ments.
They have been holding meetings for
some time and their religion apparently
is inducing sort of mania. 1t is gen
orally thought that something should be
done to bring them to more reasonable
state of mind In regard to the land which
they occupy, without either having
entered for free homesteads or having
purchased. 49,
They say that the land Is the Lord s
and, as such. should be held in common
by all people.
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sPEARFIsH, S. d.

The small fruit season has opened in the
spearhsh valley, and home grown strawper-
ceiIent season for them, and several growers
have enormous crops. Perhaps the heaviest
grower is Professor f. L. Cook: president OF
fhe state normal school, who is an accom-
pIished horticulturist and raises not only
Strawberries but raspberries, blackberries
currants and other small fruits with much
success. Many normal school students are
given employment during their summer vaca-
tion at Professor Cook s farm.