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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
JUDGE ELECTED
Sensational Sequel of the
Magisterial Middle in
Brooklyn.

New York, Jan. 6.-The contest over the
Ign was continued to-day. The old magis-
trates who were appointed during the term
of Mayor Van Wyck, maintained possess
sion of two of the courts under a truce
whereby the newly elected magistrates
were to await further legal decision as to
which they were elected.
In the Adams street court, however, a
scene was created by an order from Wal
ter L. Durack, an elected magistrate. to
the police to remove Edward J. Dooley. a.
Van Wyck appointee, from thecourt-room.
The police, acting under an opinion of
Corporation Counsel Rives, recognized
Durack as the legally elected magistra re-
and forcibly elected Dooley. A police
man advanced to the bench and apologized
to Dooley for disturbing him, declaring
that he was only Obeying orders
WELL" replied Dooley, you must take
the consequences.
Two policemen then assembled to the
bench and each Selling Dooley by an arm.
lifted him bodily from his chair. AS soon
as the chair was empty Durack sprang
into it and declared the court adjourned.
Dooley, after his forcible removal, went
to the Office Of his attorney.
Justice Marean in the supreme court
issued an order Saturday directing the
sheriff of Kings county to recognize the
appointed magistrate on the ground that
the law under which the contesting mag
istrates were elected were unconst itu-
tional.
About the same time Corporation Coun-
sci Rives gave an opinion in the police
department holding it to be their duty to
recognize the holding magistrates as le-
gally elected.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06

OF Its missionary work for the good profits
in the beet are now thoroughly appre-
clated and farmers are figuring in the
sugar beet as a strong factor in their crop
plans.
The value of the beet sugar industry to
the farmers alone will be understood
when it is known that the raw material
for this seasons run at st. Louis Park
cost close to $175,O0O. This means that
the farmers alone were paid that amount;
the cost to the company was somewhat
higher. as the company pays the freight
and stands the shrinkage which inevitably
occurs when the beets are washed at the
factory.
While the factory's output all found
ready sale, the profits from the business
were seriously, impaired by the cutthroat
methods attempted by the sugar trust. No
difference in price has been accorded the
consumer, but the jobber and retailer has
been encouraged to push the cane product
to the exclusion of beet sugar by the pros
pect Of fancy profit. Naturally the
beet sugar manufacturers met this COM
petition, and, according to one of the off,
GERS of the Minnesota Sugar company, the
result has been that the St. Louis Park
factory has just about paid running ex-
penSes Next season it is hoped that the
tariff agitation will be ended and that
the trust will have ceased from troubling.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
Commission May Take Evidence.
APPLICATION TOMORROW
Program of MinnesOta's Counsel
. Months of Delay.

Program of Minnesota's Counsel
p. Months of Delay.
From The Journal Bureau. Room IS, Post
Building, Washington. ss--~~1. -
Washington, Jan. 6.-The first thing
after the supreme court meets at noon
tomorrow, Messrs. Douglas, Mum and
Wilson, representing the state of Mime
sofa in the merger cases, will file an ap-
plication for permission to present bill
of complaint against the Northern Securi-
ties company or against the Northern Pa
cific and Great Northern Railway COM
panies for alleged violation of the laws
of Minnesota forbidding consolidation of
lines in competing railroad.
The court will take this application I'M
der Amusement and will probably be sew
eral weeks reaching decision. 1t was
the state to bring suit against the secre-
tary of the interior In the school land
case. The school land case was simple
and easily disposed Of The present case
is technical and involved and may call
for more time than two weeks.
After filing the application tomorrow
the counsel will have nothing further to
do for the present. The courts decision
will determine whether the case can pro-
coed along the lines already laid out.
An adverse decision would mean that
some new program must be adopted, per-
haps the instituting of suit in the fed
eral courts of Minnesota. This would
mean long delay, for the case, if brought
in tais way, would probably be several
years in being decided. Should the SUI
preme court, as the states counsel ex-
pect, decided to permit bill of complaint
to be filed, a decision will be reached
quickly. The court viii appoint COM
mission to take testimony or counsel will
arrange for the filing of stipulation of
facts, to be followed by arguments and
then final decision The whole matter
would take only few months
M. d. Mum of the states counsel has
been in New York and New Jersey week
or ten days looking up the. eastern end Of
the merger. Attorney General Douglas has
been in Montana with Governor Van SAINT
1t had been planned that DO tn of them
with General George P. Wilson, should
meet in Washington to-day to compare
notes and make such corrections in the
complaint as Mr.. Munn's Investigations
seemed to suggest. This plan failed be-
cause the Baltimore & Ohio train on which
Douglas and Wilson were travelling was
late in reaching Washington. The supreme
court meets at noon each day and the first
half hour or hour of each session is de-
voted to motions and similar matters.
Douglas and Wilson got here too late to
confer with Mum and afterwards to reach
the court in time to file their application
especially since it was brought out at the
conference that several changes in that
fore decided to let the ase go over until
tomorrow. The application will be filed
as soon as the court convenes
Tor
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
Policyin the Senate Is Agreed
Upon.
'PINO INDEP]ENDE
Young Democrats FESTIVE Under the
Older Heads.
Discomfort IS BEARING FRUIT
Definite Policy Wanted to Bring
Them Into Open Fighting With
the Republicans.
Special to The Journal.


Chicago, Jan. GA special to the Rec
ord-HeraId from Washington says: To
give the Filipinos. their independence is
to be the democratic policy in the senate
To-day the republicans Of the Philippine
committee will meet to consider the new
bill providing a tariff on goods coming
from and going into the Philippines,
which has been under discussion for a
week with Secretary Root. The demo-
cratic members of the committee will also
meet and formulate policy They intend
to declare in favor Of a. resolution similar
to the Teller resolution on Cuba, which
was adopted just before the war with
Spain, declaring it to be the purpose
of the United States not to exercise any
permanent control over the Philippines,
but to leave the government Of the ISL
ands to the inhabitants thereof.
This attempt to have some sort of a
democratic policy is the outcome of a
great deal of discomfort which exists
among some Of the younger democratic
members Of the senate. Young men like
Bailey and Culberson Of Texas and Du-
bois of Idaho complain that the older
democrats, under the leadership Of Jones
Of Arkansas, never had a policy concern
ing the Philippines, but have played sec
ond fiddle to the republicans. These
younger men want definite policy and
one that will bring them into open fight
ing with the republicans. OF course they
don't expect to secure any results, but
. they want something to talk about.
In the house the efforts of the demo-
Gratis to adopt a policy appear to have
come to naught. At the caucus held in
December it was agreed to have another
meeting Jan. 10. 1t is now admitted this
caucus will produce no results. The reso-
lutions which were offered last month will
be withdrawn and the minority party in
the house will drift along without a pol
lev
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
Answer to Criticism as to
Santiago Prize Money.
KNUTE WOULD KNOW
Denial That Navy Department Dis
eliminated Against Schley
UNDER CLAIMS COURT DECREE
Declaration That Inequalities of Law
Have Been Removed Through
the Department.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Secretary Long
has addressed to Senator Knute Nelson OF
Minnesota long letter defending the
navy depart ment against what is declared
to be the unfriendly criticism in connec-
ton with the distribution of prize money
and bounty. The letter was called forth
by one from the senator asking for in
formation on this point for the use of j
western newspaper. The secretary de-
clares the criticism that the department
has Disseminated in favor of Admiral
Sampson and against Admiral Schley in
the distribution Of prize money and bounty
is unjust, because the department has no
control over this matter; the money being
distributed from the treasury and all
questions Of law and fact relative to prize
and bounty having been determined by the
courts.
The secretary calls attention to the
laws touching prize and bounty as they
existed at the beginning Of the Spanish
war, and says that though advised by the
attorney general that it might make a
distribution, the navy department pre-
ferred to place the matter in the court Of
claims, and so far from displaying favor
it1sm adopted the most effective means in
it's power to secure just determination
by the courts Of law of the rights of ell
concerned.
Touching the claim of Admiral Sampson
for bounty at Santiago, the secretary
says that the distribution was made I'M
der decree of the court of claims, which
he cites and from which no appeal was
taken. .
He further points out that, under the
prize laws the commander-i in chief of the
fleet is entitled to his "one-twentieth''
of the bounty by virtue of his position as
COMMUNICATIVE chief, whether he is per-
sonally present during the engagement
or not. Says the secretary
AS commander-in-c chief Admiral Sampson
would, therefore, under the Law, have been
entitled to his share Of the bounty for the
destruction Of the Spanish ships at Santiago
if he had been the north shore of Cuba
at the time. This was the law for Which
the navy department is no wise responsible
; On this point the secretary says the
department itself was the first to realize
the inequalities of this law and to make
the recommendation which led to it's re
peal, so that "a rather amusing feature
Of the attacks made upon the navy depart
ment,' as the secretary puts 1t, is that
the administration is. blamed more than
two years after it had cured the evil The
secretary concludes with an extract from
the report of the auditor of the treasury
for the navy department showing 4he
status Of the prize money and bounty
cases yet unsettled, owing to delays in the
courts, and predicting settlement within
no
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06

OF MOVES
Judge Morrow Imposes a Fine
of Che Thousand
Dollars.
Meanwhile the Judge Lies
Critically Ill He Raj
lied To-day.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
San Francisco. Cal, JAM g. Judge
Moves is guilty. The circuit court of
appeals rendered its decision in the fam
Gus Nome contempt proceedings this
morning. Judge Moves, Frost and Woods
are all declared guilty of contempt of
court. Judge Noyes is fined $1,000; Frost
is given one years imprisonment, and
Woods four months. Thomas Geary, an
other of those charged with contempt,
was dismissed. He is from California.
The courtroom was about half filled,
most of those present being directly in
terested in the case. Judge Noyes was
not present, owing to his severe illness.
At II Judges Morrow, of circuit court,
and DeHaven of district court, took their
seats. Judge Morrow read the decision.
It was written by Judge Gilbert and is in
most scathing terms. Gilbert declared
that conspiracy existed between McKen-
zie and Noyes, one of the worst that had
ever been known and, because of Noyes'
position one of the most fragrant crimes
on record. The decision was much like
the one in McKenzie's case.
Judge Morrow conceded with Gilbert,
Ross dissenting. Young Frost apparently
did not look for, such heavy sentence
He sat dazed and turned deathly pale
Woods was not present. Those who have
been hostile to Judge Noyes were openly
| rejoicing after the decision. They appar-
emily could hardly restrain their joy. Out
in the hall they laughed, shouted, shook
hands and slapped one another on the
back. AS one said: eve have done Noyes
| up at last
In the meantime Judge Noyes lies at
the Hotel St. Nicholas almost at deaths
door. He was suddenly taken with q
severe hemorrhage last Monday and his
! condition, while not at first serious, grew
| worse Saturday night and Sunday his life
| was despaired Of He rallied this morn.
1 . ing, talked of the coming decision anG
seemed very hopeful. The adverse de.
Eeision. however, may cause relapse and
| his friends here are prepared for the
|
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
TRAGEDY IN
IOWA HOTEL
Neff of West Union Kills Miss
Falb and Him
self.
He Was Insanely Jealous and
Attempted the Life of
the Girls Lover.
Special to The Journal.

! Special to The Journal
West Union, Iowa, Jan. Cone of t Il
| most appalling tragedies that has eveSN
| occurred in West Union occurred last
| evening shortly after O'Clock, when H.
NJ Neff shot and wounded Emmett Sulli-
| van, shot Rose Falb so that she died q
| few hours later, and then killed himself.
For some years Mr.. Neff and Miss Falb
| have been keeping company and have been
engaged. The wedding day had been set
| several times, but for some reason the
marriage was regularly put Off by Mr..
Neff. Finally the girl tired of this, and
several weeks ago she told him that IL
was all up between them. In the mean
time, she had been receiving attention.
from Mr.. Sullivan.
A few moments after o'clock Mr.. Mex
came from his rooms in the Siam block, {
greeted Night Watch Colburn and walkeF
directly north to the hotel. He emit cred
the east door and went UP the back stairs
to Miss Falb's room Here he found Mr..
Sullivan and Miss Falb. Sullivan at
tempted to keep the door closed, but NeR
forced it open. grabbed Sullivan by the
collar, pushed his revolver into his face
and fred The ball entered one OF hiz
nostrils and ranged along the cheek bone.
he is not dangerously QuTC. MT. SULLIVAN
broke away from him and ran down stairs.
the blood gushing from his wound in
streams. The hotel people and othera
heard the first shot and started up stairs.
meeting Mr.. Sullivan coming down. Be-
fore they could reach Miss Falb's room
several more shots were heard and when
Clerk Otley entered her room she was
found stretched on the floor covered with
blood.
Mr. Neff was seen on his way to tho
back stairs as Otley turned at the head
of the office stairs to 60 to Miss FRlb'a
room. He went directly to his rooms.
took of his overcoat and hat, threw the
five empty shells from his gun, reloaded
the weapon, placed it against his temple
pulled the trigger and dropped dead,
Several young men were In the Windsor
club adjoining, and heard the shot. They
went to his door and raped several times,
getting no response. After repeated ef-
forts Lock Durham and Ed Thomas
broke in the door and Mr.. Neff's body was
found partly on the bed and partly on the
floor
Miss Falb had one bullet almost in the
center of her forehead. another In or hes
hind the ear and the third in her rt9hA
breast. She never regained consotouas
ness, dying at 1890 this morning.
No cause is assigned for the Dreadful
deed except insane Jealousy. Mr.. Men
was ex-clerk of courts of Fayette county
plant.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
HOW It WENT DOWN
Bark That Sank the Wal1a Wa1la
Reaches Frisco. -
ToWED TO PORT BADLY DISABLED
Her Captain Describes the Collision
and Tells Why He Could Give
No Assistance.

San Francisco, Jan. 6.-The French
bark Max, Captain Benoist, which was in
collision with and sank the steamer Walla
Walla, causing the loss of about forty
lives, and which was towed to this port
last night was badly damaged in the acct
dent Her lib boom, made of hollow steel
was broken and twisted and the tip of II
trailed in the water on the port side Of
the vessel and at about right angle
with the line of the hull. Her stem was
twisted, and great gaping holes had been
torn in her bow. There was one almost
at the water line and another a few feet
above. Only her water tight COM
partments kept her from sinking. The
French vessel left Glasgow 12O days ago
bound for this port She was in ballast
and consigned to Frederick Henry. Her
captain had little to say regarding the dis
aster except that his vessel was closely
following the rules Of the road when the
steamer came under the bows of his bark.
He declared that the lights of. the Max
were properly burning and displayed and
that the men of his crew saw the steamer
for long time before the collision. He
said:
we could think OF no reason why the men
on the steamer did not US, and as the
vessels approached, we became anxious Then
it was too late The steamer had tried to
cross our bows, but had failed. Just before
the crash came the steamer swung slightly
to port, though effort was being made
to pass to our stern; but the change in her
course had been made too late. The bark
struck the steamer almost amidships on the
port side. For moment they hung together
and then drifted apart. Our vessel was so
badly damaged we thought she would sink,
and, under the circumstances. we had all
We could do to take care Of ourselves. By
daylight we had beaten well out toward the
sea and were safe from the breakers; but
our vessel was to great measure unmanage-
able. Saturday morning we accepted tow
from the steam schooner Acme, which later
was aided by the cutter McCulloch.
The captain added that he thought the
lookout on the Walla Walla was intoxi-
Gated, but this charge is emphatically
denied by Captain Hall Of that vessel, who
says there were three men on watch at the
time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
KENTUCKY LAW
Power of the State Commission to
Fix Rates in DisDute

Washington, Jan. 6.-The United States
supreme court to-day, in an opinion by
Chief Justice Fuller, reversed the find
ings of the court below in the various
railroad cases growing out of the Ken
lucky statutes empowering the railroad
commission ofahat state to fix rates. The
suits were in the nature Of an Injunction
and were instituted by the railroads of
the state to prohibit the commission
from proceeding under the law The SUI
preme court in its opinion to-day did not
go into the merits Of the law, but simply
reversed the previous decision on the
ground that the injunction proceedings
were premature. The cases were all sent
back to the lower court to be dismissed
in accordance with this decision.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
EDDY ABUSED
Letter Writers Score Him for
Alleged Utterances on
Congressmen's Pay.

From The journal Bureau, Room, 80, Post
Building, Harrington. -
Washington, Jan. 6.-Representative
Eddy has rturned from Minnesota to find
an even bushel of letters from all parts
Of the United States written by people
who do not agree with his published in
terview that members of congress do not
earn $4,000 year. .- sA
what do the letters say?" I asked
Eddy.
everything that is mean,' he replied.
zone letter is from Massa chusetts and
says that while it may be true that con-
gressmen from Minnesota, myself includ-
ed, do not earn $4,000 year, the Massa-
chusetts members each earn that much
and more. I wouldn't care so much about
the letters if had ever said that ofWhich
I have been accused. have been in con-
gress too long not to know that SIS 900 is
too little for the member who tries to
do his duty" T..
Brought Forth by Hansbroush,
Two important bills were introduced by
Senator Hansbrough to-day. One pro-
vides for the ratification Of the agree
ment with the Devils Lake Indians for
the cession of their unalloted lands, COM
prls1ng something more than loo, 900 acres
The bill applies the free homestead clause
of existing law, so that settlers upon
land who desire to fulfill the require
ments of the homestead law may do so
without cost except the regular and office
fes Those who commute will be re-
CURED to pay about $3.50 per acre The
senator hopes to get favorable report out
of the committee on Indian affairs on the
bill and to put it on the senate calendar,
so that it will be in order to go in the
Indian appropriation bill when that
measure comes over from the house, If the
house fails to insert a provision ratifying
the agreement.
The other bill introduced by the senator
provides for exchange of lands. It is in
the interests of stock growers of the west,
lions of railroad lands, are very anxious
to exchange one-half of their holdings
with the privilege of relocating like
amount of land elsewhere so as to bring
7 their holdings together in solid block.
More Money for Meeker Dam.
Secretary Root to-day transmitted to
the house letter from chief of en-
gineers calling attention to the fact that
as now estimated from detailed surveys
recently completed, it will cost $1,466, 900
instead of the original estimate, $1,166,-
457, to complete the revised project for
two locks and dams in the Mississippi
river between Minneapolis and st. Paul
It is accompanied by the detailed report
of Major HoXie, containing revised esti-
mates, which is approved by Colonel Err
nest, division engineer.
w. W. Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
More Money for Meeker Dam.
Washington Small Talk.

In few days a party of well-known North
Dakotans will start from WASHINGTON for a
trip through Florida and possibly Cuba. Jud
already here. Heewill be joined in few days
by Secretary of State Porter, former State
Senators Noble and Hanna and Editor M. Fl.
Jewell Of Bismarck They will be gone until
about March /.
There is no prospect of a fight between Rep
resentatives Eddy and Morris over the latter's
Indian timber bill. Eddy does not fully in
dorse that feature of the bill placing discre-
Itionary power in the secretary of the inte-
rior, but will not make a fight against the
bill on that account.
Thomas Vatnasdal was to-day appointed
postmaster at Duxby, Roseau county. Mimi.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
ALASKAN TITLE
Mining Case Settled by the Federal
Supreme Court.

Supreme Court.
Washington, Jan. 6.-The United States
supreme court to-day rendered an opin-
ion in the case Of the Mckinley Creek
Mining company, VS.. the Alaskan Mining
company, involving title to certain mining
claims in Alaska. The contention was
made that the Alaska company held no
right to protection under the mining laws
of the United States, not being citizen
of the United States. The court did not
sustain this contention and affirmed the
verdict Of the district court of Alaska.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
A MENoM1NEE DEATH

Special to The Journal
Menominee, Mich, Jan. 6.-Mrs. Mary A.
Few, aged u, is dead. She leaves son, F..
j. Few of Menonlinee, and a daughter, Mrs.
VIM. A. Breeze, of Richmond Center, Wis.
She had lived here many years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
HEPBURN UMMOVED
Thinks His Nicaragua Canal Bill
VIII Win Ont

Washington, Jan. 6.-Representative Hep
Durn' chairman OF the interstate and foreign
commerce committee, says tn modification
concerning the willingness of the Panama
Canal company to sell its properties to the
United States for s4O,O00,00O, will in no way
affect the progress Of the pending bill, which
he claims will pass by an overwhelming ma
jority. He will try to get vote on the bill
Wednesday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
Nineteen Men Drowned.

Lisbon, jan 6-The British steamer Al
fonso. from Newport, Dec. 10, for Gibral-
tar, and the Spanish steamer Vilelva both
loaded with coal, collided during the night
Of Jan. off Aviero, Portugal. Both YES
sells sank. Eighteen men of the Alfonso
and one man belonging to the Vilelva
were drowned.