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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
BIG THINGS H]INTED]
AS Result Of the B. &C. R. s. N.
Purchases In South Town.
100000 HAS BEEN EXPENDED
And the Road Is Expected to Follow
This With stiIl Heavier
Expenditures.

| The purchase Of four blocks Of down
town property by the Burlington. Cedar
Rapids & Northern railway, which Is
announced officially today, means great
things for Minneapolis. The company
will have spent in the aggregate over
| S2O0,OOO. when all the land needed by 1t
has been secured. BY inference this is
only small proportion Of what the road
will oxpend in improvements In this, the
| largest city on its lines.
Thomas H. Brown, general right of way
and toWnsite agent, is unable to state
just what the company will do with this
property. But 1t is probable, he believes,
that the B., G. r. & N. has much
In store for Minneapolis. Mr.. Brown
said to-day
The company has bought at private sale
practically all the property it needs In the
four blocks between Fourth and Fifth streets
and between Eighth and Twelfth avenues.
This makes an area, including streets. Of $3.50
feet north and south by 1850 feet east and
west. The company has paid more than the
market price for property bought at private
sale, but prefers to do this rather than re-
sort to condemnation proceedings.
This is quite an extensive property, but Min
neapolis will be the largest city on the lines
| of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
and the company will endeavor to merit
fair share of business. 5e.
The company will probably use only a
portion of the four blocks at present. The
present contract with the Milwaukee
road provides for entrance to the city over
the short line and for passenger and
freight accommodations.
Much mystery has attended the pur-
chase of the land which has been going
on since last April. Real estate agents
were unable to fathom the movements of
the men who engineered the deal. Mr..
Brown has had his Office with Franklin
Benner part of the time since last spring.
So carefully did Mr.. Brown and Mr.. Ben
ner proceed that almost the entire tract
was under contract or deed before an
linking was obtained by the newspapers.
II. w. Brown of Livingston, N. Y, fig
ured as the purchaser, but the fact of
the matter is only his name was used.
he has given a power of attorney to Mr..
Seymour OF the legal firm of Stringer &
Seymour Of st. Paul, who will deed the
property to Thomas Brown, the agent of
the road. The agents have had little diff
hculty In obtaining property at a reason
able figure.
The Burlington's purchase is one of the
largest OF recent days. With the excep
ton OF corner cut off the Milwaukee
right OF way, the four blocks include forty
lots varying in size from &c to 55 feet
front EACH The improvements numbered
about 100 buildings, which at fair aver
age would be worth $1,000 apiece. The
company also acquired the small triangle
which the Milwaukee's five tracks cut off
at the corner of Twelfth avenue and
Fourth street.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
ABUNDANT ARCTIC LIFE,
BOSTON TranScrint

The arctic impulse is particularly strong
on the scientific man, the naturalist. People
often think Of that northern region as a
barren, lifeless, forbidding waste, bound per-
petually in icy letters Of sullen frost. Nothing
could be further from the truth. The arc
tic has its summer, warm, though brief, dur
ing which its waters TEEN with life in pro-
fusion of forms that rivals the tropics; and
the land areas are plentifully tenanted with
bird and beast. have seen the great
stretches Of the sea fairly brown with the
lowest forms of animal life of which the Es-
kimos say, "Avudluk koko," literally, whale,
he eat" Again 1t IS gray with little floating
creatures, sculling along like miniature jelly
fish, while all along them squirm countless
thousands of annelids, fiat sea worms that
remind you of the leeches Of our summer
ponds. Upon these feed not only whales,
but vast swarms Of smeltlike candlefsh.
whitefsh and hosts Of others. All summer
long great hocks of wild fowl of half a hun
dred varieties fatten on these sea squirmers
until they are too plump to rise from the
water and fall an easy prey to the Eskimo
hunter. 1t is probable that the very pole
has its few weeks of warm summer. during
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13

which, if there is land area, grass grows and
flowers bloom. Certainly this is true of the
most northern shores Of our continent, far
within the arctic circle. One may see off
shore, a hundred beluga, white whales, rollin g
along through the sea in porpoiselike ,plunges
advancing, flashing under the sun, like a
foam-crested tidal wave, while focks of div
ing and splashing wild fowl dot the sea, some
times clear to the brink of the eternal ice.
On the cliffs one will find innumerable lively
wild flowers blooming in waving grass, with
butterflies and humble bees among them,
the snow bunting nesting, the ground SPUR
rel burrowing and breeding, ptarmigan, snipe,
piover and many other birds hunted by the
white fox, the red, blue and black fox, the
weasel, marten and mink, while the wolf
and great snowy owl hunt them all. One
will also find there the fossils that prove that
that frigid land once an Eden of tropical
| luxuriance, where Adam and Eve may have
| roaned and loved. But the frost came
| swiftly, for the mastodon and mammoth were
frozen in by it before their flesh had, in some
instances, time to decay from the bones, and
the Eskmos will tell that now and then
in the spring freshets the still undecayed
bodies are washed out and the natives so
fortunate as to discover them feed their dogs
on the flesh.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
EATON CHOSEN
Speaker and All House En-
ployes Selected at Des
.,.-. y=--H-
Moines.

Special to The Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 1S.-The re-
publicans of the house caucused at 2
o'clock. w. L. Eaton, Of Usage, was
chosen speaker; Rush Benedict, Of Har-
Ian, chief clerk; John G. Crockett. of
Eldora, first assistant; John Cook, of
Hampton, second assistant.
Agreements had been reached on all the
offices before the caucus down to the
pages, and there was little or no con-
test. The house is now ready to start
business on Monday morning.
The senate republican caucus will be
held tonight, and will select DR.. G. A,
Newman, of Cedar Falls chief clerk. The
democratic caucus will also be held to-
night. Senator Allison is coming this
evening.
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MRS. EVANS IS SELLING GOLDFISH AT
1907 E 21st st. Come before stock is all picked
over. Bloomington car.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
WIRELESS VS.. WIRELY
Marconi System Affects Pacific Gable
Project Seriously.

Project Seriously.
Washington, Jan. 13.-The effect Of
wireless telegraphy on the future OF the
submarine cable was developed to some
extent today by the house committee on
commerce, in connection with a hearing
on the proposed Pacific cable. Vice
President Ward, Of the Pacific CONNER
cial Cable company made a statement
Chairman Hepburn asked questions as to
the effect Of wireless telegraphy on the
submarine cable. Mr.. Ward replied that
the new SYSTEM presented serious ques-
ton. He was not certain thatsthe Pacific
cable project would have been undertaken
II the long-distance experiments had oc-
cured earlier. AS to the claims that
wireless signals had been conveyed two
thousand miles, across the Atlantic. Mr..
Ward said that II the claims were made
good they would deter people from laying
any more cables. When asked as to the
effect thus far on the cable business Mr..
Ward said that 1t had depressed cable In
terests. 36
William COLON. Of New York, a di-
rector Of the Pacific Commercial Cable
company, said that the company, after
laying the cable across the Pacific. stood
ready to sell II at any time to the
United States government ct an anpraised
valua tiou. sA
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
CASE OF MRS. NELSON
Arrested for Taking an Armful
Wood.

Arrested for Taking an Armful of
Wood.
A pitiful case at the central police sta
ton Saturday and one which touched
the hearts of the usually stoical officers.
was that Of Mrs. Mary Nelson, IS years
old, the wife of Charles Nelson, a ship
per for one of the down town stores. Mrs
Nelson was arrested for the taking of an
armful Of wood, valued by the complain
ant at 10 cents. .a.-
Mrs. Nelson has been mentally deranged
and has from time to time taken few
sticks Of wood from the supply Of Simon
Anderson. a neighbor. Mr.. Nelson says
he had explained to Anderson that
he would pay for any wood his wife might
take. However, Anderson to-day had
Mrs. Nelson arrested and taken to the
central station. Her husband was sent
for and the situation was explained,
whereupon Judge Dickinson was notified
OF the conditions and issued an order for
the woman's release on her own recog-
nizance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
Stepped Into Bryan's Shoes

, be sure to discover them and put on the Gus
tomary shine. Mr.. Bryan did likewise.
In the morning Mr.. Connery was up early
and stepped into the first pair of shoes that
came to his hand and later went to the din
ing car for his breakfast. On returning be
was surprised to find Mr.. Bryan In a per-
turbed state because he could not find his
shoes. Suspicion pointed to Mr.. Connery and
on looking foorward Mr.. Connery discovered
that the shoes he had on we're not his own,
though they bad felt most comfortable. The
laugh was on Mr.. Connery, and from the sat
isfaction his friends take in telling the story
it is likely to be for some time.
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E. E. Connery, the local commission
man, is boasting that he is great man,
or at least that he has been in great
mans shoes. His friends are joshing him
because he couldn't "hold the job. The
story, as told on the produce exchange
this morning, runs thus:
Mr.. Connery and several commission men
were on their way east to attend the meet
ing of the National League Of Commission
Merchants, and in the car in which they
left Chicago was William Jennings Bryan.
When Mr.. Connery retired for the evening
he set his shoes out where the porter would
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
Chicago Kinks to Compete,
to The Journal,

Special to The Journal
Chicago, Jan. 1.-TWO local Kinks will
compete in the ninth annual bonspiel of
the Northwestern Curling association,
which is scheduled to begin at Duluth on
Monday. Mild weather has prevented the
men from getting any practice this week,
but, as the thaw has been general, the St.
Paul, Duluth and Winnipeg players have
not had much advantage. The Kinks will
be skipped by e. w. Kibbe and d.
O'Grady, and the players, who will assist
them. are C.. Richmond, M. Richmond, G..
F. Hall, H. Milloy, w. G.. Schultz, H. J..
Holthoefer and ]. Campbell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
SUFFICIENT REASON.

chicago IrIDuHe.
'.The trouble with me- remarked the
man in the macintosh, when it comes to
making speeches. is that can't think on
my feet"
IT don't wonder" observed the man in
the imitation sealskin cap, looking at
their ample proportions. "Pd be awfully
embarrassed myself with a pair of feet
like that"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
wilkins File. another Complaint.

Persistency seems to be the main char
acteristic Of Granville H. Wilkins. Ever
since he was released from the insane
asylum he has been convinced that the
county owes him reparation for the in
dignity shown him by committing sane
man to such an institution. He has
brought suit in this and other counties
and although he has been unable to get
into court-his sixth suit was dismissed
last Monday-he is not in the least dis
couraged. Yesterday he filed his seventh
suit against the county. He still refuses
to retain an attorney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
Allison Opens Headquarters

Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. IA r. Daw-
son, private secretary of Senator Allison.
to-day established headquarters here for
the senator, preparatory to the campaign
for the election Of two United States SEN
ators by the state legislature next week.
Senator'S Allison and Dolliver will arrive
tonight and maintains headquarters until
the election takes place.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
Police Relief Appeal Argued.

The suit brought on behalf of the tax
payers Of the city to restrain the receiver
of the Minneapolis Police Department
Relief association from dividing the police
relief fund among the members and pay
ing out of the respective amounts was
argued in the supreme court yesterday,
George L. Nevius appearing for the tax
payers, who won their point in the dis
trict court. Appellants were represented
by W. H. Donahue and Simon Meyers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
NEWS FROM THE OTHER SIDE,

- Chicago Tribune.
Shade of General Winfield Scotland
this IS the immortal Julius Caesar! Do
yoDknow General, that one Of the favor
tie EXPLANATIONS of my countrymen, even
now is Great Caesar!"?
Shade of Julius Caesar-You fatter me,
General. Acquaintance of mine asOure
me that "Great Scott!" is much more fire.
Quently heard"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
sport.men,. Club Reorsanized.

Special to The Journal.
Winona, Mimi. Jan. 13-The Winona
Sportsmen's club has reorganized for an
other year by the election of the follow
ing officers: President, DIR. F. M. Nor
ris; vice president, P. Steffes; financial
secretary, b. N. Goodhue; recording Sec
Rotary, George B. Stager; treasurer, T. NJ
Holman: shooting captain. M. Morrison
M. Morrison and j. M. Hoffman, have Sc
lectsd teams for 9 shoot on Washington
birthday. s5f 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
CHAMPIONSHIP RACE
Crack Ice Boats of Wisconsin Nee
at Madison. ..
,cia1 to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ......,.
Madison. Wis, Jan. 1s.-The first ice
boat race for the championship of the
Wisconsin lakes, and the most important
event Of the kind which has been held in
the west, is being sailed on Lake Monona
this afternoon. Four lakes are repre-
scented, Madison by half dozen yachts,
while from outside there are the Comet,
owned by Fred Pabst, Jr., of Milwaukee;
the Snowdrift, owned by Charles A. Amo
of Oconomowoc, and the Flying Cloud,
owned by Mark Banta of Oshkosh.
The wind is blowing a fifty mile gale
from the northwest and the race is a
lively one. A crowd Of Oconomowoc en-
thusiasts, decked out in red streamers,
came up in the expectation of seeing their
boat win.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD SUBJECT.

Uhlcag0 7TTlDune. =
The man who had been kicked by mule
and was quoted as saying he considered the
source was speaking of it afterward to some
Of the other fellows. .
Il wouldn't care" he said, ''if there hadn't
been SO much fuss made over It,, as if it was
bright thing for anybody to say, but the
honest truth is that never said anything of
the kind When you're kicked by mule,
you're not in frame Of mind for considering
things. What I really said was: You
were somebody else mule, and it wasn't
against the law to shoot inside the corpora
ton, I'd blow your derned old head on, dern
you!"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
GROWTH OF JoBBlNG
Shown by Receipts and Shipments
During the Year.

Minneapolis merchandise shipments
largely increased during 1901. The total
for the year was 69715S,2S7 pounds, as
compared with 5SS,624,O59 for the year
previous Minneapolis received during
the past year 6s2, 1921 pounds. as against
585, 661, 821 in 1900. These figures cover
general merchandise, jobbing and manu-
featuring lines only. Fruit and farm ma
chinery show big increase The butter
trade has fallen off, due partly to de-
creased production in Minneapolis terri
tory on account of high-priced feed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13

eff the devil came to Chicago is no
longer tenable question. The occa-
sional cheering Of the Anarchist reds for
Czolgosz gives every assurance that his
majesty is already there.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
RETAIL HARDWARE MEN
Ioyva's Contingent. to Meet In De
Moines in February.

Ottumwa, Iowa. Jan. 13.-President w
A. Mcintyre of the Iowa Retail Hardware
Dealers association to-day announced that
the annual meeting Of the association
would be held in Des Moines. Feb. 1920
The meeting promises to be one Of the
largest in the history OF the .associa-
tion sgg sihEzft, atssR5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
9THE YoUNGERs MUST wAIT.

THE YOUNGERS MUST WAIT.
The meeting Of the state board of pardons,
scheduled for next Monday, has been post
poned until Jan. n, owing to the absence Of
Attorney General Douglas In Washington.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
WILKINS SUES FOR $40
Another Move in the Famous Poor
Farm Plumbing Case.

Charles Wilkins has brought suit against
the county Of Hennepin for $40, the
amount of his last bill for the plumbing
work at the county poor farm. The bill
has been allowed by the board Of county
commissioners, but appealed by the Tax
payers league. The Great Western Print
ing company has brought suit against the
county on bill for $113.2S, the sum al
lowed for the April term calendars, but
which was similarly protested.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
METEOROLOGICAL,

ARCHIBALD PORTER, 4O6 Madison
street. died at the age of IS at St. Barnabas
hospital Thursday of dropsy. The funeral
was held Sunday at 2:20 p. N. from the
K. of P. lodge rooms, Fifth street and First
avenue Sc. Interment was at Lakewood
MRS. KERAN DOLAN, 2214 Third
street N, who was taken to St. Mary's hos
pital on Dec. 80, died this afternoon after
undergoing an operation. r-s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13
Messrs. W. ri. Sloane Of veWYork

Will have their representative, Mr. Percy w. French,
at the Ryan HOTEL St. Paul, for period of two
weeks, commencing Wednesday, January 18th,
He is prepared to submit sketches and estimates for
the entire Decoration, Cabinet W 0rk, Furni-
fure, Upholstery and Carpeting of residences,
clubs hotels and public buildings
Mr. French will also have a complete line of
samples of Upholstery Fabrics in all the latest
artistic effects.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13

"A Long Brush UniOn-One Of the first
crafts now unorganized that will take Its
place in the ranks of union labor this year
Is the bill posters. They are already pre-
pared to organize and send for charter
from the American Federation Of Labor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-13

Polfcemen's BalI-The date for the
policemens ball has been set for Feb. IL
and the affair will take place in the Pollce
drillroom in the new city hall. Rossiter'
band of ten pieces has been engaged Tor ing
evening. Supper will be served Tickets
admitting two and including supper will be
81, and the proceeds will go to the police
emergency fund. 81
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-27

past year, and the interest in farming
was never so great as among the
scholarship and agricultural boys who
have done the work. Mr.. Kraus's con-
tention, that Hawaiian farmers should
water their land less and cultivate
more, seems to be borne out by his
practice during the year.
The library has also been success
and an appropriation OF $500 is asked
for the purchase Of books.
Several changes in the faculty arc
reported. c. +. King. instructor in
place will be filed by Stanley c. Liv-
ingston OF Oberlin. Miss Alma Krusen
has been granted years leave of alb
sence TO study in New York. and Miss
Lucy L. Osborn OF Stanford will take
the work. The vacancy in the in
structorship in painting caused by the
resignation Of F. S. La Crosse will be
filed by Nelson Smith.
Recommendation are made by Mr..
Dyke for the various needed improve
ments mentioned in the report, and
also as to the amount required for the
next years work.
Supplemental reports are made by
Ida NJ. Pope. principal of the Girls
School, and by Alice f. Knapp, prin.
cipal for the Preparatory school.
Telling Of the work in the school.
Miss Pope says there were twice the
number OF applicants for cooking in
struction that can be accommodated
in the kitchen.
Miss Barnard has resigned.
A failure was scored in supplement
ing the work Of the alumnae.
The large majority are making a
brave fight for self-support, says Miss
Pope, but positions that insure suffi.
cient income for decent living are hard
to fined. Cooperative housekeeping
was attempted but expenses were so
great and experience so small that II
was given up. Thousands OF dollars
are spent in the education of the girls
and then at most susceptible age they
are turned from this sheltering roof
into conditions the most deplorable
where pitfalls and snares abound. Case
after case comes to our observation OF
the signal failure Of girls, due to over
whelming temptations. to lack of ex-
perienCe, etc."
A home for girls and hospital for
the training OF nurses is recommend,
ed. The mortality among Hawaiian
infants and children Is alarming" con.
cludes the report. las shown by tbs
reports of the Board OF Health, and
comes largely from unintelligent car,
in infancy. A hospital for women ant
children would help eradicate this evil
which threatens the extinction of thu
race"
There are several changes to be mad,
in the faculty Of the Preparation
school. Miss Bates has been married
and Miss Thomas goes to study for {
year in the States Miss Post of Den
yer and Miss Sturtevant OF Oakland
will take their places.