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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

Enormous Money Interests Back Of
the Police Ring---Newest Thing
in Apartment Houses.

flourish as In the palmy days Of the old
Tammany.
Bad advice is the root of Colonel Part
ridges, inefficiency When he went to
police headquarters he found there,
among the officials in high power, one
man who has the general reputation OF
being square" OF this mans efficiency
as an officer there can be no doubt.
Against his honesty nothing has ever been
alleged. He was Roosevelt's best adviser
when that erratic, dramatic, but hustling
commissioner held down the chair. 1t
was generally expected that Partridge
would be largely guided by what this ex-
perienced officer said in departmental
matters. But the new, commissioner has
RELOCATED him to the ash-heap and has
taken as his mentor one of the shrewdest,
cunningest, slickest and most unprincipled
men in the department, a master OF
smooth hypocrity, and what this in
structor says, goes. He is the power be-
hind the throne, and as long as he is there
to pull the strings by which the COM
missioner's movements are directed, the
Sinking policeman, the department poll
tician, and the blackmailer have little to
fear.
By the way, the murderers of McAuliffe,
who bore testimony to police blackmail,
have not yet been caught. Set thief to
catch thief may be very good adage.
Set policeman to catch policeman Ia
had
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Policy Game and Trial of Adams, the "King .

Within few days AL Adams, the
Policy King, Will be brought to trial, and
l am told that an amount of labor has
been put enrhis case shy the district at
torney's Office equal to that usually de-
voted to the most important murder cases.
District Attorney Jerome will himself
will bend all his efforts to make out
suchsa case that, If verdict of guilty
is found, the court will be compelled to
impose not a fine-as is usual in such
cases-but a term of Imprisonment. Tho
policy ring is the most influential of all
the gambling ring politically, because it
is on enormously profitable form of
swindling, and the most strenuous eff
forts will be put forth to save Adams and
his followers. Those who are on the
inside, however, say that the ring will be
appalled, when the strength of the evil
dence which the District Attorneys Office
has collected is made known. F. Norton
Goddard, the young millionaire politician
who knows more about policy in New
York than anyone outside the ring, and
against it than anybody, has been quietly
helping Mr.. Jerome to get evidence. The
policy people are afraid Of Goddard Che
is about the only man they are afraid of
and the atmosphere is rather blue now
adady in the home of the gig"
When the powers that rule decided
recently that it was up to them to do
something to suppress the policy game,
they made one Of those blunders which
rouse the ungodly to glee. They brought
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

charges against Captain Halpin of the
Church street station, because, apparent
ly, the policy-slip printing is done in his
precinct Halpin is comparatively new
captain AS a sergeant he established
reputation for being white; that is
to say, respectable and honest. AS cap
tain, he has continued in that reputation.
But honest as police captain may be-,
there are certain things that he may not
do on pain of being banished to Canarsie,
and one of them is to fly violently in the
face Of the policy ring. There was once
a sergeant-this by way of illustration
who was all ready to become captain.
All the requirements had been complied
with. He arrested a member Of the po-
licy ring for running to openly. That
arrest cost him a seven years wait be-
fore he got his captaincy. In the face
of that sort of thing, it is to be won
dered at that Halpin did not raid the
printing shop, especially when the
chances were ten to one against his being
able to get satisfactory evidence for a
jury? But that made no difference to
the extraordinary Partridge administra-
ton. He had to have victim, and it
Enthusiastically picked out a white
captain. Reform administrations always
do. That is one reason why they don't
last. But in this case the blunder was
too obvious. The charges were dismissed
because Of the '.impossibility of getting
satisfactory evidence against Captain
Halpin.'' A cheerful performance all
around for the friends of reform to con-
temnlata
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
new CRAFT ONLAKES
Fine Passengers and Freighters Co.
ing Into Commission. 81.
NO. SHORE TO BE WELL COVERED
Clergue Syndicate Buys Eight Boats
for Ore Carrying From 49,
Michipicoten.

Special to The Journal. go.
Duluth, Mimi, March 22.-Several fine
new passenger steamers will be put on
the Lake Superior trade this year. First
there will be the fine large steel ship
Huronic, the largest steel ship ever built
in Canada, to run to Sarnia. The Lake
Superior Transit company will probably
have one 350-foOt steel ship for the Du-
Buffalo service late in the year.
The Argo, new last year, will be trans
ferred from the north to the south shore
trade, and a new vessel will take her
place. The fine and fast steel ship
Iroquois, built at Toledo, will be used on
this line. The Clerque syndicate will
operate two ships from Detroit to Port
Arthur. covering the north shore of Lake
Superior.
The Clergue syndicate has bought eight
large lake freight ships for service in
carrying ore from Michipicoten to Lake
Erie ports. They will come UP the lakes
at the earliest possible date and will
make twelve ships to be operated by the
Clergue concern in the ore trade Ship
ments from Michipicoten will be very
large this year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
IN A NUTSHELL

Cleveland, Ohio-The Lake Carriers Asso-
citation has fixed the wage scale for seamen
upon practically the same basis as last year.
Indianapolis-The annual banquet of the
American Free Trade League held here was
attended by about 100 prominent democrats
and free trade advocates.
Kansas. City-Northern Arkansas farmers
and their families have been living on acorns.
Relief is being organized here.
New Haven, COMMIT is announced at
Yale that DR.. F. L. Chase, assistant astron-
omer in the Yale observatory, has discovered
a new star, which he has called Nova Persia
st. Louis-Frank P. Sargent head OF the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen, denies
that ne has been offered, much less accepted,
the position OF commissioner Of immigration.
and proprietor Of the, Livingston Post and
president of the Montana Press Association,
dropped dead last evening in the postofice,
aged 81 years.
New York-The brownstone fronts of sew
eral four-storv private houses on Park ave-
nue. have sunk because of the undermining of
the foundations by excavations for the rapid
transit tunnel.
Chicago challenge for an airship race
in Chicago to be held as a preliminary event
to the 100000 aerial steeplechase at the ST.
Louis world s fair. has been sent to Santos
Dumont by Theophilus Williams of Chicago.
St Louis-Government officers have arrest
ed Charles F. Reuter-, alias George W. Wer-
ner, whom they charge with using the mails
to defraud, he having attempted to induce 20C
women ali over the country to correspond
with him. ostensibly with view to matri-
mony.
Omaha-The annual conelave OF. the alumni
of Michigan university, last night. brought
members of the association from all parts OF
the middle west The guest of honor was
DR.. James B. Angel, president of Michigan
university. The banquet was attended by
Horace G. Burt, president of the Union Pa
cifc railway; Casper E. Yost, Major Graham
j. Sterling Morton, former secretary of agri-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

New York, March 22.-There is shadow
On the wall down at police headquarters.
1t darkens the atmosphere about Com
missioner Partridge's official desk. To
man with two eyes it closely resembles
an AK If one could follow the shadow
Indefinitely he would probably find at the
other end Of it silhouette Of Mayor
Low, in strained posture as one who
doesn't want to use the AK, but sees no
other way out of it. For Colonel Part
ridge, with all due regard to the fact that
he is an estimable citizen, is in the Office
Of police commissioner of New York, a
monumental failure. Even those who
least wish to believe this have been
forced to the conclusion that the sooner
he is out of the position the better it will
be for all concerned. What the place
needs at this time is a man with the
purpose and vigor and courage to do
radical things. Commissioner Partridge
has done nothing except what he has
been advised to do by those within the
department who control his acts. Under
him the excise regulations are matters OF
scorn to every saloonkeeper. Under him
the policy shops gather in the pennies OF
the poor without molestation. Under him
the gamblinghouses and disorderly resorts
have a free field; and, worst of all, under
him police blackmail and oppression
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Jealous, He Binds His Wife to
a Stake in His Stable.
SHE rs GORED TO DEATH
Red Calico Apron Challenges Saw
age Bull to the Attack.
METHODIST PREACHER INVOLVED
While on His Way to Plunge Into
the Niagara the Murderer Con-
fesses to His Brother.
Mesv Yerk Sun s1ocias Services

Tonawanda, N. Y, March 22.-J. B.
Post, a farmer IS years old, living on the
Worth road, four miles south Of this vii
lage, bound his wife, Amanda, to stake
in the bull pen of lis stable yesterday
morning. She wore a red calico apron
which aroused a confined bull to frenzy
and in it's rage the animal attacked the
woman and gored her to death.
It is said that Posts act was caused by
jealousy of Hiram Coates, Free
Methodist preacher, Who lives at Ken
more, near by. Coates had been fire.
quent caller at the Post farm and had
often gone out driving with Mrs. Post
Last night he met Mrs. Post at prayer
meeting at Kenmore, and as the pair were
attentive to each other, Post quarreled
with his wife on returning home.
After the killing Of his wife, Post
started for the Niagara river, with the
supposed intention Of casting himself in
He was stopped on the way by his
brother Frank. who asked where he was
going, and why. In his excitement Post
was unable to give satisfactory answer
and finally broke down and confessed tc
his brother.
George Reeves, rural mail carrier
meanwhile, had discovered that all was
not as it should be at the Post farm
The doors Of the house were open and
signs of struggle were evident in the
sitting-room. Entering the house, Reeves
called for Post. Receiving no answer
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22


he went to the barn. In the bull pen he
discovered Mrs. Post, with the animal
glazing at her corpse. The ropes which
had bound her to the stake had given way
under the strain of the bulls goring and
the woman was lying in q heap. Her face
and body were severely mangled.
The mail carrier notified John O'Day,
chief Of police in Tonawanda, and a pa
trolman hurried to the scene of the
tragedy. The coroner was also notified.
A party Of farmers, hurriedly organized
by Wise, captured Post without a struggle
on his way to Buffalo. He was remanded
to jail in this place. 1t is generally be-
leved that he is insane. He had often
threatened to break up the friendship, be-
tween his wife and the minister. The
fact that he chose to. kill his wife by let
ting the bull loose upon her is explained
.by some on the ground that poster pic
ture from "Quo Vadis' on his barn had
deeply impressed him. The community is
deeply stirred and there is talk of a
lynching. 49,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Oxford FearfulIy Done Up While the
Winning Grew Does Splendid
Work Throughout.
Robert p. Porter's Interpretation Of
Cuban Situation Emperor Will
lam as Detective.

Putney England, March 22.-The fifty
ninth annual boat race between crews
representing the universities of Oxford
and Cambridge was rowed to-day over
the regular Thames course from Putney
to Montlake, and was won by Cambridge
by eight boat lengths.
The weather shortly before the start
was showery The water was fairly
smooth and moderate southwest wind
was blowing. Cambridge won the toss
and chose the Surrey side of the river
The boats started at 1925 p. m.
Cambridge went away with a slight
lead. pulling thirty-six strokes in the
first minute. Oxford pulled thirty five
strokes in the same time. At Craven
Steps (about three fourths of mile from
the START Cambridge was leading by
about three quarters of length. This
lead was steadily increased until she was
two lengths ahead of Oxford in the first
ten minutes of the racing. Oxford then
cut the lead down somewhat, and al
1858 p. m, passing under Hammersmith
bridge about one and three-fourths miles
from the start, Cambridge was little
{ over a length ahead. Favored by the
bend in the river at Chiswick Eyct, Cam
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
THE PRESIDENT is LEARNING THE ART oF,"JuJuTsU"
From a Boston Special Dispatch.

From a Boston Special Dispatch.
While congress is wrestling with the
proposition to pass a bill to protect the
president, Theodore Roosevelt is learn
ing the art Of "jujutsu' as an additional
means Of self protection.
When it is remembered that the presi-
dent is physically powerful man-that
he can box with the best of amateurs,
that he is highly skilled in all kinds OF
wrestling, that he knows "savate," the
French art of boxing with the feet-it will
be seen that, when he has mastered the
mobiles Of Japan he will be an unsafe man
for any one to tackle, unless the attack
comes through treachery.
How O,Brfen Learned Art
The news that Professor John ]. O. Brier
is teaching the method Of killing without
marx" (the English of "embrokkwal''
was surprise here, where Professor
O'Brien has long been known as the only
teacher of that art in America.
O'Brien was for ten years chief of Pc
lice of Nagasaki, the port where more
desperate characters abound than any
there that he was initiated into the order
of "Embokkwai,' the sole purpose O
which was to teach, perpetuate and pro.
tect the secrets of jujutsu."
In it strength counts for little. Skill
quickness of hand and eye, a strong hant
grip, with the knowledge of the holds
makes comparatively weak man mattel
Flor man vastly superior in Drawn ans
weight.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Railway Development in Asia Minor

Berlin, March ga curious reaction
has set in here against the attempt to
raise capital for the Bagdad railway IN
Germany. Regret IS expressed in sew
eral responsible papers that Germany is
concerned in any way in this enterprise.
Germany, 1t is contended has no business
to interfere in the development OF the
Asiatic possessions of Turkey. Any con-
siderable extension Of German trade IN
those regions is not to be expected. Ger
MANY has no Mediterranean coast line,
and therefore no Mediterranean interests
which the Bagdad railway would serve.
She has enough to do to maintain her
position in Europe without pursuing an
advantageous policy in Mesopotamina and
Syria. We
The Deutsche Tageszeitung leads an
attack against the undertaking on the
ground that the extension of the German
influence in Turkey in Asia will undoubt-
eddy excite the jealousy of Russia. About
no region on her borders is Russia SO
sensitive as about Asia Minor. Compe-
tition here with Russia means sooner OF
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

Berlin. March 22.-The astonishing
stat ement was made in the Reichstag the
other day that in 1901 more Germans had
emigrated to South American than had
gone to be colonists in Germany's foreign
possessions. Colonization is at present
a topic Of great interest in Berlin. Re-
turned travellers and explorers deliver lee
u lures to largely attended meetings, there
are long articles in the press, and the de-
bates on the subject in the Reichstag are
animated and interesting. Still German
subjects, although willing to seek their
fortunes under the British flag in Austria
liza or South Africa or in some American
republic, decline to become pioneers in
German colonies.
For this reason the Budget committee
has just struck out the item Of !, $50 900
marks for railway from Tanga via Ko-
rogwe, to Mombo, in German East Africa.
At the present time the railway has been
built as far as Korogwe. but rs it has
turned out complete fiasco, the commit
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

bridge increased her lead and led by four
lengths at Thorneycrofts works. Cam
bridge was rowing splendidly while Ok
ford was fearfully done up. ....r
Cambrdge's time was 10 minutes .
seconds.
At no time throughout the race did
Oxford in the slightest degree Halter the
hopes of the supporters OF the dark blue.
Any possible cnance which the OXonlans
might have had was shattered by the re-
suit of the toss giving the light blues
Cambridge all the advantage or
station. Immense crowds as usual turned
out to view the contest.
Huntley's somewhat sluggish stroke ap-
peared to be too slow to suit some of the
powerful Oxford men behind him. Their
weight would have told, at least, in the
earlier part Of the race had they been
given more chance. AS it was, each land
mark on the river banks, found them far
Their in the rear, and at Harrods stores
their troubles were increased by the wash
OF their opponents boat. Off the Sac
charine works the dark blue stroke made
his effort, and the Oxford crew struggled
CALAMITY, but only for short distance.
Nelson Cambridge did not quicken his
stroke, and the gap was reduced to about
a length as the boats shot under Hammer
smith bridge. The effort took all the
steam out of the OXonians, their stroke
dropped from thirty-seven to thirty-two,
and hn ~ on yxyaS ,,T1 n 20 1Ixyn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

later the enmity of that empire. Another
reason which the tageszeitung brings
forward against Germany's s.. support Of the
railway is the satisfaction with which
England sees Germany's advance in that
region. This, it is said, should make
Germans pause before they put their
money in an undertaking which is after
all only speculation. ID j
At the same time advices from Con-
stantinople are that Marshal KAHN
Pasha, who is in charge of the works of
the Dana sous Mecca railway, informs his
government that from Ell Mezarib, sixty
three miles south Of Damascus, the line
has been wholly completed for another
twenty-five miles to the south, including
the laying Of a permanent way. The
earthworks for further distance of near
ly forty miles are also finished, and the
rails will be laid on that portion of the
line without delay. The total amount
of subscriptions toward the cost of this
undertaking collected so far is $404, 900.
The earthworks Of the line thus far have
been made entirely by troops.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Securities Shadow Still Darkens Wall Street

however, is the settled opposition of the
leaders to any big rise, and though this
may have changed their policy now, 1t is
not likely that they will want to see
speculation break loose again so long as
the Northern Securities case is hanging
over all deals and over financial plans
of any magnitude. The crop scares are
not to be looked for till in May. There is
nothing difficult ahead to prevent little
rise, but for long upward pull the con-
ditions would seem to be not propitious.
/ No doubt the big leaders will prepare for
the Northern Pacific decision, and that
lis the thing for us all to watch for.
sDuaHA &
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Experts Can Perform Wonders.

Experts Can Perform Wonders.
Experts can do fearful things; by it
arms can be broken, bones wrenched from
sockets, backs shattered, the heavy bones
Of the leg fractured Xix pipe stems, and
even the neck broken Weapons are use
1ess9 no defense is possible.
Its work is SO quick and sudden that it
lacks all of the elements of the spectac-
ular, and when exemplified upon the
stage it is always "a frost" The spec
tators see a big, powerful man walking
or rushing toward man, SLENDER erect,
steady and watchful. quick movement
and the big man is writing in pain on
the floor, or is SO badly hurt that nature
mercifully sends him relief.
Except that a score can be handled as
quickly as they come there is nothing to
be seen. 1t is weird, and seems half east
ern magic, or what skeptical Americans
Icall a fake" But no man who ever met
a master of the art ever concluded that
there was anything of the fake about It,
President Needs No Aid.
So when President Roosevelt has aided
fthe knowledge of this art to his repertoire
he will be man half or wholly insane
who will try to assault him and allow
him half chance
And Theodore Roosevelt, horseman,
Idead-shot, boxer, wrestler, "savattem, .
and member of the fem bokkwi" will need
l.little aid from congress or any but his
Iown splendid body, heart and brain to
t.care for himsslf at close quarters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22

London, March 22.-Robert P. Porter,
OF the United States, has an article in the
Times in which he emDhas iZes the unsat
isfactory Industrial conditions of Cuba,
which, he SAYS, will net improve until
congress establishes some sort of COM
1uercial reciprocity. This ought to have
been, done at the outset, he adds, but
President Mckinley decided otherwise
The result is that the German and Brit
ish trade with Cuba has steadily in
creased, while trade with the United
States has declined. The remedy would
be free trade. which MY. Porter fears is
impossible. The next best thing would
be reduction of so per cent in the du-
ties on Cuban products imported into the
United States. The proposed reduction
will help, but it is Insufficient. Mr.. Por-
ter rebuts the contention that the enact
ment of the pending measures will en-
barrass the United States with foreign
countries. He elaborates this view, con-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Some German Colonization Plans

tee will have nothing more to say to it,
and almost unanimously declined to sane
tion further outlay. German East Africa
becomes more hopeless as colony. This
year the government subsidy is higher
than ever, now amounting to 6,400 900
marks, against 5,25O,00O marks last year.
The condition of affairs in German
Southwest Africa is no better. A large
and aristocratic audience interested in
the advancement of the German African
colonies met several days ago under the
presidency of Prince Won Arenbuerg, and
in the presence Of Duke Johann Albrecht
of Mecklenburg, to consider what had best
be done for the development of Southwest
Africa The meeting came to the con-
clusion that energetic steps must be taken
to foster exports. Encouragement, it was
said. must be given to cattle and horse
breeding. The audience was informed
there were splendid regions inland for
the raising of merino sheep and Angora
goats for mohair. Ostriches also ought
TO have a future