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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12

the mountains and far away to Oregon in
search Of wealth, only to discover that
there was nothing in it,
"Working on the force amt so bad" re-
marked Gustafson. "1ts better than try
ing to get rich quick
After this came Judge Stephen Mahoney
and a represent tative> of the Glass Block,
each of them to say word for an unfor-
tunate whose position is hanging in the
balance.
Acting Mayor Jones and superintendent
of Police E. F. Waite are said to have
the range figured down so closely on OBJ
jectionable members of the police depart
ment that they will be prepared to an
nounce the discharge of at least fourteen
| ranking officers when the head of the de-
partment takes Office, Aug. 18.
| The following, most of them captains
detailed as plain, clothes men, are report
| ed to be on the prescribed list and their
dismissals may be announced Monday:
E. E. Wheelock, private secretary to
the chief; Hugh Jennings, sidewalk in
spector; T. E. Price, pawnbroker in
spector; J. c. Williams, Fred Malone,
George E. Harvey, J. e. Howard, John
Morrisey, Thomas Carroll and G. w.
Brundage, detectives.
Uniformed Captains-John Landberg,
| in command at the south station; Fred
Coffin, second in command, and Henry
Krumweide, second in command at the
fifth precinct. -. =.
The friends of Acting Chief Of Police
Henry GetcheI made a strong attempt to
secure his retention at the head of the
department before the appointment of E.
F. Waite was announced. Mayor Jones is
said to have received a petition, signed
by twenty-five residents Of Park avenue
and 200 Portland avenue property owners,
asking that Getchel be retained:
Mayor Jones announced yesterday that
S. P. Jones, who succeeded T.. R. Brown
as mayors private secretary, will remain
in that position for the remainder Of the
term.
In addition to Max D. Robb and Robert
Hastings, L. J. Gjertsen has entered the
lists to succeed E. F. Waite as assistant
city attorney. City Attorney Healy will
not announce the appointment until he
sends it to the council for confirmation
The friends of Mr.. Robb are confident
that he will secure the appointment
Among those who urged the city attor-
ney to name him yesterday were Judges
Holt and Dickinson Of the municipal
| - . d
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might be revision upward instead OF
downward. Everyone knows that 1t Is
impossible to put tariff bill, big or lit
tie, through the senate If Mr.. Aldrlch OBJ
jects to it, , -.. a.
"Do you mean to say" asked, "that
the republican party is impotent to reduce
the tariff, no matter what the popular de-
mand might be? Do you mean to say
that your great party is subject to the
will of one man?' ~
Agitation Might Unsettle Business.
IT mean to face the facts as I find
them, . was the reply of the cabinet min
lister. "Our party passed the Mckinley
law, and that law put the tariff higher
than it had ever been before. We enacted
the Dingley law, and it's average duties
are higher than the average of the Nc
Kinley law. AS the senate is now. consti-
tut ed I see no hope for any proposition
to revise downward. We may bring On
an agitation, and that agitation may un-
settle business and interfere with pros
perity. 1t may possibly result in some
revision, but cannot for the life of me
see how it is going to be revision with
reduction. If we go through all this tur-
moil and unsettling for the sake OF get
ting a tariff just as high or little high
er think we shall feel very foollnsf
when it is all over.
Iowa and the Meat Question.
"Our friends out in Iowa think the!
want some revision of the tariff. So dt
our friends, the retail butchers. But II
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vison Of the tariff. It cannot be done.
outset. Republicans who are demand
ing revision are demanding the impossi-
ble."
The speaker was member Of President
Roosevelt's cabinet. In sober earnest
ness this gentleman pointed out why the
republican party is powerlessH to revise
the tariff. His proposition is such
when he declined to permit his name to be
printed with the interview.
"In the first place. he continued, I
don't know that we want to revise the
tariff. But let us assume that We do.
How are we going to do it? OF course
there is no use of revising it unless we
can lower the rates. To revise by put
ing on more protection would not do at
all. Now wish some of these people
who are talking about revision and lower
duties in the iron and steel and other
schedules would come forward and tell
us how we are ging to get: them. F.
Protection Interests Are Powerful.
| one before them an effort was made to re-
! wise some of the schedules by means of
| reciprocity treaties You know what
happened. Nothing was done. The pro-
| lection interests involved in those treaties
were powerful enough to block the legis-
| lative wheels. The treaties were re-
jected, and that method of revising sched-
ules and getting slightly lower duties
| came to naught. .s ...'st. ,-
Mark you now," continued this cabinet
member, "that in reciprocity 1t was pro-
posed to sell the reduction of duties. For
every concession Of foreign goods seek
| ing market in our country we were to
gain a compensating concession in the
markets Of the other parties to the
treaties. The representatives of Ameri-
can manufactures would not sell conces-
sions even at fair price. How foolish,
then, to suppose that they will give them
away. Revision with lower duties means
giving away so much of the, home mar
ket; and you and I will be gray before
we see the senate, as 1t is now consti-
tuted, doing anything of the sort.
. The Senate Is Controlled.
..For example, it was proposed in the
French treaty to reduce the tariff on knit
/ goods from an average Of about 63 per
cent ad valorem to an average Of about
IS per cent But Senator Aldrich and
other senator's whose constituents are in
terested in the manufacture of knit goods
\ would not. stand this small cut, and held
up the treaty. So it was with other
trifling concessions proposed. The sem
ate is controlled by the friends of high
protection, and II you can't induce these
Iprotectionistssto sell little of their ad-
vantage, how are you going to induce
them to give it away?
(. "'Let us suppose that the republican
party tries to revise the tariff and tries
honestly. We might get a good bill
through the house, but in the senate 1t
1 would be fixed to. suit Mr.. Aldrich, the
Header Of the high protection element, and
his followers. When we got bill
through we might have revision, but II
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A Warship Will Be Sent.

After conference between the state
and navy department officials in regard to
Minister Bowen's dispatch the following
instructions were prepared:
Vessel needed imme ediatey at Barcelona
If you sail before the Cincinnati arrives from
Curacao, leave for her instructions cablel
yesterday.
Before the instructions were sent, how.
ever, the Cincinnati reported her arrival
at Porto Cabello, whereupon the instruc-
tions were modified so as to direct that
one of the ships proceed Immediately to
Barcelona. This leaves it discretionary
| with Captain Mclean of the Cincinnati,
the senior officer present. to send the
| Topeka or go himself with the Cincin-
natl The vessel which remains will be
prepared to land bluejackets at Porto
Cabello in case of necessity.
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QUAY TO HELP
He May Make Some Move
ment to Restore Indus
trial Peace.

= Atlantic City, N. j., Aug. Ex-senator
Quay says he is willing to do all in his
power to end the strike of the anthracite
coal miners. George Llewellyn of the
citizens alliance of Wilkesbarre called
upon the senator and asked the lat ter to
use his good Offices in an endeavor to
end the strike Senator Quay after his
talk with Mr.. Llewellyn said:
II am ready to do anything in my pow
er to bring about settlement of the
strike in the anthracite region ..
The senator said he deeply regretted the
ing to meet the miners, operators, OF
both, il it would aid In restoring indus
trial peace. Any suggestions, he said
that may be made by Chairman Llewellyr
will be promptly taken under considera-
tion
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wager something pretty they can't agree
as to where the protection shall be TAX
en- off. The butchers want free meats
but if the Iowa republicans want the
tariff taken off cattle and other live
stock, they have failed to- make their
wishes known. I venture the assertion
that proposal to take off the livestock
duties would be very unpopular in Iowa.
The tariff is largely local question, after
al. One section won't have one
schedule touched and another won't have
another schedule fooled with, and then
there are men like Aldrich who will raise
hades if the duties on dolls, eyes are
shaded hairs breath, and who will log
roll and make combinations and every
body will help them to take care of dolls
eyes.
Where Is the Money:
'Let us give you some facts without
comment. You go out to the farmers and
ask them how they are getting on. They
will tell you that they were never before
SO prosperous. They are out of debt and
have plenty of money. Ask them where
their money is and they will tell you it is
in the local banks Call at the country
banks and inquire into their condition,
and their officers will tell you they are
above 40 per cent. Where is your
money! oh, it is in the banks of Oma-
ha, Minneapolis, St., Paul, Kansas City,
etc. e,-~ --~
"Next you go to the banks in Omaha,
Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul,
and they will tell you the same thing.
They are in good shape: reserves 35 per
cent. Where is your moneys? In Chi
cago.' Now go to Chicago. Same story.
Banks all right. Reserves 80 per cent.
But the money is in New York.
Water in the Bonds.
FINALLY, pursuing your Inquiries in
New York, you will find that both de-
posits and loans have been enormous The
money is not in the banks. There are
only six national banks in New York that
have not been below their legal reserves
since Jan. 1. You want to know where
this money is? Well, S45O,00O, 900 is loaned
by national banks on the bonds of in
dustrial corporations. These corpora
tions issued bonds instead of stocks be-
cause the national bank can take the
former and can't take the latter. In
trinsically they are no better than stocks
In most of them there has been lot oil
[water-curing. Here you see where $780,.
900 900 of the country's surplus stands
against a lot of undigested, promotion
produced securities. The trust companies
have put out millions more in the same
way.
/ "All H1Sht WINE II IS All tight
There is where we stand. It is ali
right as long as it is all right. But
don't want to see anything happen.
don't want to see these industrials begir
i to topple over, to fall against one an
other and come down in heap like chill.
dren's play blocks. And this is one rea-
son why I am opposed to tariff revision
agitation that might start things going
4 the wrong way.
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SURPRISE TO TRADE
Mr.. Jones' Low Estfmate-TOtal for
Country Well Down.

Country Well Down.
How much wheat have we raised in the
United States this year? This is the
question now Of paramount Importance in
the grain trade. Up to yesterday several
estimates had been made, but obviously
they were not close figures.
Yesterday afternoon the agricultural
department. gave out its regular monthly
report and this morning came H. v.
Jones estimate for the northwest These
two reports afford something to guide one.
The government says the winter wheat
crop is approximat ely O,0OO.OO bushels
The government makes no attempt at an
estimate on spring wheat, but says the
condition is equal to S9.7. Mr.. Jones,
however, covers the three states, Mime
sofa, North Dakota and South Dakota and
says the yield this year will be 1885,
600 bushels.
This report was surprising to the trade,
since there has been much talk of the
good crop to come from the northwest.
Now Mr.. Jones has put out figures pre-
dieting the lightest yield, with one excep-
tion, for several years. This makes it
necessary for grain trade calculat ors who
accept Mr.. Jones' figures to tone down
their former estimates.
Nearly every prominent grain house
has some one in it's employ who keeps In
touch with reports from various points
and estimates probable yields for the
benefit of his house, revising his figures
from time to time conditions change
or the reports of reliable Investigators
are made public. These calculators are
beginning to scale down their figures
With the estimate Of only 178,850,0 ,00(
bushels in the three northwestern states
there will be a further scaling down al
around.
No one pretends to give an authorita
tive estimate at this time, not even the
government. The threshing reports mus
first be heard from. But even now i
can be estimated approximately how the
yields will compare with last year. TAX
Ing the average of the grain trade esti
mates, modified by Mr.. Jones' report, ant
the figures shown are 100000, 900 bushels
for winter and 253,OOO,OOO bushels fo1
spring wheat This would give 663, 900, ,00l
bushels for the total, or liz, 2,OOO, 900 bush
els less than the grain trade calculation
at this time last year, when it was gen
orally figured that the total yield wa
775,000,000 bushels.
Many who made estimates earlier in tn,
season failed to make sufficient allowanc,
for the decreased acreage in the north
west due to the substitution of coars
grains for wheat.
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HEARD FOR TEN MILES
BurIingtOn's Station at Hogan Blown
to Pieces-Train Saved by
Engineer.

Lacrosse, Wis, Aug. 12.-The depot at
Hogan on the Burlington road, about
seyenty-five miles above here, was struck
by light ming and totally destroyed. Fifty
pounds of dynamite stored in the build
ing for blasting purposes exploded at the
same time with report that was heard
for ten miles around.
The limited train, sout Inbound, rushed
into the station at the time Of the ex-
plosion, but the engineer realizing the
danger put on the emergency brake and
kept the train at a distance from the fire.
Had the train arrived sooner it would
have been damaged and probably blown
up. No one was injured. rs @
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
Foraging on the Farmers.

Shenandoah, Pa, Aug 12.-Complaint
has been made to brigade headquarters
that the strikers are foraging in the rich
agricultural district of the Catawissa val
ley. The life of one farmer has been
threatened because he attempted to pro-
tect his property and the raids have
reached such superior proportions thatthe
farmers are preparing to take some con-
cert ed action to stop further depreciation.
It is not unlikely that cavalry will be
sent into the district. A widow, who
owns farm, reported that several men
came on her premises and started to dig
pot atoes. She ordered them off but they
paid no attention and did not leave until
they had taken all they needed. One
farmer has several men patrolling his
farm day and night. The foragers do not
confine themselves to stealing crops, but
also take poultry.
The soldiers in camp are daily feeding
several hundred women and children.
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Imprisoned Miners Released.

Parkersburg, w. Va, Aug. 12.-Judge
jackson this morning released Thomas
Haggerty and six other men, members Of
the miners union, who were serving sixty
days in Jail for contempt of court The
men filed petitions for release, alleging
that they had not known they were violat-
ing the injunction when they did SO and
promising not to do so again. Attorneys
for the coal companies opposed the release
but it was granted subject to rearrest. to
complete the original sentence II they
violate the Injunction again.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
THE TOWN
IS SACKED
The Venezuelan Revolutions
lists Take the City of
Barcelona.
The U. S. Warship Topeka,
Now at Porto Cabello, Or
dered to the Spot.

Washington, Aug. 12.-Minister Bowen
has cabled the state department. from
Caracas that our consul at Barcelona has
informed him by wire that Barcelona has
been taken by the revolutionists; that
they are sacking the town and that in his
judgment the protection of a vessel
should be Immediately afforded him. Mr..
Bowen says he has cabled the Cincinnati
to return without delay. He notes that
the Topeka is at Porto Cabello and the
Marietta up the Orinoco river.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12

Women will be kept out of
all saloons in the city hereafter.
Drinking and immortality will
be separated. We will under
take to divorce the saloon and
the social evil and to restrict
them rigidly to their respective
spheres. They have gone hand
in hand long enough and it is
time to call a halt. Extract from
interview uqfh Mayor Jones:
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THE CAPE HAI1IEN TROUBLE
Commander McCrea Declares tn,
Blockade Abandoned

BIOCkHde ADAndOned. : =.
Washington, Aug. 12-.The navy de-
partment to-day received two cablegrams
from Commander McCrea of the gunboat
Machias, dated Cape Haitien, Aug. u, in
which he reports that the attempted
blockade of the port by the revolution
lists is ineffective. In the first dispatch
he said: .-
Have decided blockade spasmodic, there
fore ineffective. Notified consuls Will pro-
tect innocent, neutral commerce.
In second dispatch he said: s... r
Consider blockade abandoned; American
schooner reporting blockader absent.
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PRINCE. .SHO
The Governor of Kharkhov
Fired At Four Times
Chief of Police Hit.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 12.-Prince Obo1-
enski, governor of Kharkhov, was fired
at four times last night while he was in
the main avenue of the Tivoli gardens at
Kharkhov. One bullet struck the prince
in the neck producing a slight wound.
Another bullet wounded Bessonhoff, chief
of police, in the foot. The culprit was
arrested.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
A Battle in the Dark.

Scranton, Pa, Aug. r. A lively battle
occurred last night between deputies and
strikers at Throop, mining village six
miles north of here. Scores of shots were
exchanged, but, as far as is known, no one
was hit. The one colliery In the village is
operated by the Pancoast Coal company
and there has been much stone throwing
and hard feeling. -.s .0.a ..-
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IT CANNOT
]. Be. REVISED
A Cabinet Official Claims
That the Tariff Is In
trenched in Senate. ...".. =.
How Agitation Might Bring
Down Some Of the Trust
.= Card Houses.

New York sam Snookaf 8aruNos. -
Chicago, Aug. 12.-Walter Wellman, in
his Washington correspondence to the
Record-Herald, has an interview with a
cabinet official He says: ...
1T Is all nonsense to talk about re-
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
NEW MAYOR
HAS YlGOR
He Delivers a Forcefu1 Ulti-
matum for Guidance of
Saloon Men.
His Policy Toward Certain
Vicious Elements Now
Sharply Defined.

If I ever hear of your allow
ing another woman to darken
the doors of your saloon, you
will Immediately be notified to
trot out your liquor license for
cancellation. Acting Mayor D. F:
Jones to Frank G. Savoy proprietor
Of the Log Cabin saloon 253 First
Avenue s.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
5 All Right

Teacher Say they aren't or they are
not You must never say they amt
Tommy why not?' Teacher Because
1t amt proper, that's why. Philadelphia
Press.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12

SISTER OF THE RINGL1NGs WEDs.
Special to The Journal.
Baraboo, Wis, Aug. 12.--Miss Ida Ring
ling, sister of the Ringing brothers, and
Harry North, an engineer on the North
Western, were married In Chicago yester-
11av
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
EDITORS AFLOAT
Gopher State Association Member

Gopher State AssOcfatiOn Members
I. -.- Leave for Georgian Bay.
Special to The Journal.
Duluth Mimi, Aug. 12.-The Minnesota
editors, 200 strong, arrived here this
afternoon. After lunch the party took
the fine new steel ship Huronic for Saul
and Georgian bay. The editors will re-
turn on the eighteenth and visit the
aud Vermillion ranges. The weather is
perfect.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
WEIDENFELD
WAS CURIOUS.
He Explains Why He Started
the Suit Against the
Merger. ....-
It Was for the Legal Infor.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. With
Lamb Strained.

"Details of Mr.. Lambs examination latt
yesterday will be found on page Of thit
paper.]
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LOWER THAN
EXPECTED
H. Y. Jones' Estimate of
Tri-State Wheat Crop
tor 1902.
Below 10000, 900 Bu.-Av-
erage Better but Acreage
Lower Than in 1901.

THE JONES ESTIMATE. 1902.
AnreS AYerage. RuShelS.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-08-26
British Navsl Review,

LONDON, Aug. 16.-Portsmouth is now
filled with visitors who have gone 90 wit
ness the naval review. Several royal er-
sonages have joined the royal party of
CowoS.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and Mrs.
Chamberlain, Earl Roberts, commander
in-chief of the forces, and General Lord
Kitchener reached Southampton and
boarded the steamer Nigeria upon which
the Boer Generals De Wet, Delarey and
Botha will be welcomed upon their ar
rival from South Africa and entertained
during the review. The Lords of the
Admiralty arrived at Portsmouth and
boarded the Admiralty yacht Enchantress
which will participate in the naval pro-
cession to be reviewed by King Edward
AT an investure held on board the royal
yacht at Cowes fifty gentlemen received
coronation honors from His Majesty's
hands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-08-26
WILD RIDE ON
A DEER'S BACK

WILLOWS, Aug. IA party of hunt
ers which passed through town last even
ing on their return from hunting trip
in the Coast range related the wild eX-
perience of a hunter by the name of Joe
Mealey with a large buck,
Mealey. early one morning last week,
hunting alongside steep mountain shot
a large buck on the opposite side Of a
rugged ravine The hunter sat astride the
PROSTATE animal to cut its throat, but
the moment the keen blade of the knife
penetrated it's hide the buck jumped to
his feet. and. with the hunter on his back.
clinging to the antlers and neck for dear
life, was off on a wild run. The buck
continued the wild dash for over a third
of a mile, jumping small ravines, leaping
brush and going like the wind, before it
was exhausted and dropped dead.
1t is stated that the deer was one of
the largest killed in those parts for years
and that Mealey was sick from the fright
he received while taking his exciting and
dangerous ride. He could not jump off,
as that would have been certain DEATH
and he knew not at what moment the deer
would leap over steep precipice.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-08-26
CAPT. CARTER PROTESTS.
Army officer ssys He
Never Stole q Gent.

DULUTH, Mimi. August 16.-Captaln
o. NJ. Carter appeals to the American
people to suspend judgment against
him, in a letter written to his chief
counsel, Judge II. G. Stone, who is now
in Duluth. Carter asks that his de-
sire be made known through the press
to his fellow countrymen.
The letter follows:
81 wish to say that all the evidence
shows that | have never stolen a cent
from the Government nor ever received
a cent paid by the Government to Gay
nor and Greene, nor to any other con-
tractor. ! am prepared to show where
| got every cent of money which | ever
had or ever spent. Under such circum-
stances, ] ask the American people to
suspend judgment against me until
can have a regular trial and be given
an opportunity to prove my entire in
nocence and honesty and to clear my
self of the outrageous charges filed
against me. / shall be able to prove
beyond a doubt that / did my duty
without fear or favor and that the
Government never lost a single cent
through any work done under my
charge. ! feel that / have suffered an
unjust and disgraceful Imprisonment
without being guilty of any wrong do
ing whatever. l propose to fight as
hard as Captain Dreyfus fought and
even with an overwhelming public
opinion against him.