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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
NEW GUIDELESS WONDER
FAST MILE BY ELLA RANGE
Little Wisconsin PAGER Makes Mark
of 2,1Ok on Half Mile Track
at Omaha.

Ella Range, the wonderful little bay
PAGER owned by j. G. Hoppers, Of Chip
pewa Falls, Wis, broke her own and the
Driving park record at Omaha, Neb., last
week. She paced mile close to the pole,
without skip, in 2:10l4. The quarter was
turned in 81, the half in 1:03A, the
three quarters in 1864, and the mile in
2:10A. When it is considered that the
worlds trotting record for a half-mile
track by the Incompatible Cresceus is but
2:09N, the little Wisconsin mares ex-
ploit seems all the more remarkable.
Without bit, bride on rein, driverless and
riderless, she curved the track like a
swallow on the wing.
There are other guideless wonders
some real and some so-called, in the
United States but Ella Range is the only
one owned in Wisconsin and her perform
ances on half-mile tracks have never been
equaled.
Besides being a guideless wonder she is
also a race mare. She has a guideless
record of 2:11 on the half-mile track at
Black River Fails, Wis. She made an
admirable showing last summer through
Wisconsin. She went at Chippewa Falls
in 2:12h and 2:14A; Rice Lake, 2:15 and
2:14: Merland, 2:14A and 2:161k; Cumber-
land, 2:16 and 2:18. These miles would
have graced the record of a track horse
with driver behind to urge her on; but
besides this Ella has gone over fifty miles
better than 2:20 in her work during the
last three years.
She has been in training this spring at
Fremont and has turned the half-mile
track there in 2:171s several times and
once in 2:13.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
CRACK ANOTHER ONE
Safe Blowers sTurn a Trick" in
the Sykes Block.
WESTERN MFG co. LOSES $4,000
Robbers Had Read the Papers and
Knew There Was Jew
elry There.

Safe blowers visited the Office of the
Western Manufacturing company, whole
sale jewelers., COL Sykes block, last night,
forced open the safe and secured jewelry
worth over $4,000. They gained entrance
to the room by. climbing through the
transom, and then were able to work at
their ease until the safe was opened and
the jewelry taken.
The work appears to be that of expert
cracksmen, as the outer door was drilled
in such a way as to enable the burglar to
turn the tumblers so that the door could
be opened. The inner door was forced
with nitroglycerin. The safe contained
a large quantiety of valuable jewelry and
not single article was left.
Some time ago the building was Wis
tied by fire and at that time the fact
was published that the safe contained
over $1,000 worth of jewelry. The police
think that this statement may have
reached the ears Of some professionals
and that they have visited the city fol
the express purpose. of blowing the safe
Still Another Robbery.
The Office of the Ives Ice Cream com,
tied by burglars last night and the safe
blown open with nitroglycerin. 1t ap.
pears that they were frightened ava!
while in the act Of taking the money
from the safe, for coin was scattered
all over the floor It isrnot known JUS
how much was taken, as the proprietor
does not know just how much money the
safe contained. Yesterday, being holi.
day, a large quantity Of ice cream was
sold and there must have been about $20(
in the safe when the place was CLOSED
last night. There is no clue to the rob
bers, but the police do not think that the
safe was blown by the same parties whe
visited the Western Manufacturing com
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
HE TALKS OF GROVER
Henry Watterson Is a Twin City
ri ,, Guest To-day. -. =:
DISPATCHES QUOTE HIM TRULY
He Says Few Things About Cleve-
., land Which May Sound
.- Harsh.

Henry Watterson, editor of the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal and prominent dem
ocrat, was in the twin cities to-day on
his way to Waterville, Mimi, where he
will make an address before the Chau-
tauqua tomorrow. He says:
There was never, at any time, the
least private quarrel or occasion for per-
sonal unfriendliness between Mr.. Cleve-
land and myself. No discourteous word
ever passed between us. He never re-
fused me anything it was in his power to
give, though I laid no heavy hands upon
him in this regard. l have never re-
Qu1red any machine to serve my wishes in
Kentucky, and have therefore had few
friends to reward or enemies to punish
in the regulation way. All stories to the
contrary are absolutely false.
II think Mr.. Cleveland is engaged, and
his friends are engaged in movement to
bring him back into political leadership.
With him this means nothing but office.
Whatever it may mean with them, it
means with him the concrete things of
public life. for he is pre- eminently man
who never drops the substance to grasp
after the shadow. In my belief he took
up his home at Princeton among the con-
spicuous shades of great university,
where he could pose and be before the
minds of four or five thousand students
coming from every quarter, and where he
could occasionally appear as phlloso-
pher and statesman, for no other purpose
than his future temperance in practical
politics.
The Tilden Club was organized to bring
him back into political activity. AS re-
gard that in the highest degree sinister
l have attacked it; the better to attack
it I have fortified my opinions of Mr..
Cleveland's peculiar record as an Office
seeker and an officeholder. AS an office
seeker he has always posed as a man dis
daining the office and rising superior to
'he average politician On this account
I have described him as practicing inde-
| fatigable duplicity. Personally, 1 care
| nothing about him one way or the other
l am democrat in all that it implies. He
! found the democratic party a moral unit
and he wrecked it; in doing this he i'm
posed upon the gullible. This it is which
aroused my resentment. l have wished
| merely to puncture fraud"
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
MINI. IS A MODEL
Mr.. Olsen's Replysto Structures Of
,s> Populist Platform.
COMMON BRANCHES CARED FOR
Legislature Requires High Schools
- to Maintain AN English
.-.t1s- Business Course

j. w. Olsen,f state superintendent OF
schools, was interviewed by TIL e j u r.
al to-day concerning the plank In the
populist platform demanding that the
common schools of the state be divorced
from the university system. He said: :
This plank suggests that the populsts seem
to be hard up forT:an ISSUE The state high
school board has always appreciated that
there are two viewpoints in determining what
work shall be done in the high school;
whether 1t shall be a preparation for still
higher work or more directly the giving of
that bread and butter education which fits
those for life's responsibilities who stop
school at any point in the course. Except in
cne or two cases in Minnesota, there has
never been any conflict in this purpose; yet
the last legislature. made the maintenance
Of an English business course in high schools
seeking special state aid compulsory.
Educators all over the union point to Min
nesota offering free high school instruction,
articulating with, the course in the univer-
sity and other colleges, as a most excellent
example. Many state superintendents and
others have suggested taking Minnesota as
model in their own states. The agricul-
tural school is part of the state univer-
sity. Rather than divorcing the work in
our common schools from the excellent work
therein being done in rearing a generation
OF Intelligent men and women for the busi-
ness of farming, the relationship should be
closer. An effort will be made in the sum
mer schools for teachers this year to inter-
est our common-school teachers in giving a
good quality Of instruction in not only the
three RS, but in nature study bordering on
scientific agriculture.
Our country schools should not be colored
with the activities of the city, but have the
equally useful and more delicious flavor OF
the soil. . =.
Mr.. Austin points to the schools Of Mis-
souri, as a model: What can you say of his
comparison?ts ~44:.~,.z 20
State Superintendent Darlington, in his able
report of the public schools Of Missouri fol
1900, suggests a closer inspection of state
high schools similar to that carried on ir
this state. He also suggests closer county
superintendence for that state, a trainins
school system for teachers, a system o.
teachers examinations and a plan Of fret
tuition in the state Mgh schools Of Missouri
for the pupils of that state. 1t will be notei
that all these suggestions follow lines pur.
| sued in Minnesota for; a number of years.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
HOLE IN HIS PANAMA
Rocket Stick Punctures Costly sLid'
of Gillette Forbes Johnson
AS HE SAT BESIDE HIS FIANCE
The Hat Badly Wrecked and the
~ Price Is Now known: to His
Prospective Wife.

Gillette Forbes Johnson of Minneapolis.
travelling salesman for wholesale -four
house and author of The Drummer S
Wade Mecum,'' or Jokes and Jests From
the Smoking Car reached Chicago last
night with a hole in his Panama hat that
was not for ventilation. The puncture
was made by a spent rocket from Ev-
anston 1t streamed through car win
dow and nearly transflXed Johnson's hand
to the sill. The travelling man says he
doesn't mind the bruises, but he deplores
the ruin of his costly headpiece.
Johnson went down from Minneapolis to
spend the Fourth with his fancee, who
lives at Oak Park. His hat had come
from the isthmus and had cost $50, and in
it he took great pride.
A family picnic had been arranged at
Glencoe. Returning from the outing last
night, Johnson was sitting with his
sweetheart near the open window of the
railway coach tanning himself with the
$50 Panama. Near Evanston, with a
whiz, rocket tore through his hat, strik-
ing his hand in its course and in
ficting bruises,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
HASTINGS AND MENOMONIE
Interscholastic Track and Field
.e. Meet Won by the Latter =

.e. Meet Won by the Latter E
Special to The Journal.
Menomonie, Wis, July "a de1uge of
rain for two hours seriously interfered
with track and field sports yesterday af-
terroon. The game of ball between Memo
monte and Minneapolis was won by the
latter, score 10 to 6. A fine guard mount
parry H. The interscholastic, track and
field contest between Hastings and Memo
monte high school teams was won by
Menomonie, score 6S to 80 points, as fol-
lows:
One hundred Yard Dash-Waller, Me-
nomomonie, first; Bohland, Hastings, sec
ond; time IL seconds. Third of mile BIZ
cycle race-Thompson, Menomonie, first;
Meyer, Hastings, second; time SO Sec
onds. Broad jump-Bohrland, Hastings,
first; Snively, Menomonie, second, dis
tance 10 feet inches. Putting shot
Chase, Hastings, first; Hethington, Hast
ings, second, distance Sc feet 51a inches.
Mile run, Olson, Menominee, first; Oste-
reach. Hastings, second; time, 5:29. Two
hundred and twenty-yard dash, Waller
Menomonie, first, Arper, Hastings, Sec
ond. Pole vault, Vanhoesen, Menomo-
ME, first; snively, Menomone, second;
height, eight feet. Hurting discus, Oh
son, Menomonie first; Seely, Memo monte,
second; distance, go feet, IL inches Two
hundred and twenty-yard hurdles, Bob
land, Hastings, first: Steendahl, Menomo-
ME, second; time, 81 seconds
Eight hundred and eightyyard run,
Nelson, Menomonie, first; Kraft, Menom-
onie, second; time, 2:23. 44o-yard dash,
Waller Menomonie, first; Steendahl, Me-
nomonie, second: time, 1902. High jump,
Hethington, Hastings, first, snively, Me-
nomonie, second; height, four feet six
inches Throwing hammer, Olson, Me-
nomonie, first; Ruseling, Menomonie, sec
ond; distance, 116 feet inches. Relay
race won by Menomonie, one mile, 4:43.
The track was very sloppy and slow.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
FOR MINNEAPOLIS
Pony Colt just Born in Gentry's
Shows to Be Named Here.


The trained animals owned by the Gentry
Brothers know tricks that but one man can
teach That is the reason they are SO at
tractive to all Of every age. The famous
Gentry shows are coming to Minneapolis for
a week. The engagement will begin next
Monday, July 7, with daily performances at
2:3O and)S .. m. and street parade every
morning at 10 o'clock
These annual visits of the Gentry shows
are looked forward to with pleasant antici-
pations by the amusement-loving public Of
the city, and this year the Gentrys claim to
have an exhibition more literally and strik-
ingly combined than in any other entertain
ment of any kind that has ever solicited
the public's patronage. The elf-land splen-
dors of Arabian Nights are outdone, in the
opinion Of critics who have seen the score
of pretty little palaces on wheels which form
one section of the bewildering street parade
With the Gentry shows this season there
are 200 ponies, winsome they are wise,
and half a thousand pigmy pets, which are
giants in talent. Each and every act is pro-
Eounced to be originally great-the result
OF training that none can initiate.
The pavilions are absolutely waterproof.
the arrangements for taking care Of the pat
rons are perfect, the location is an ideal
one, and week OF enjoyment for the amuse-
ment-loving public is assured.
A telegram from New Ulm. Mimi, where
the Gentry show is exhibiting to-day, states
that last evening one of the ponies became
tue mother of the smallest baby colt in ex-
istence. This little mite is but 10 inches
high, but is active we'll developed and a
beauty. The telegram states that it is the
intention Of the Gentry Brothers to christen
the little colt Minneapolis, some time in the
weeks engagement here
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
RESENTED THE CHARGE
He knocks A. G.. G. StOver Down
Says He Called Him "BiS
Mitt" Man.

Captain Henry L. Getchell of the fifth
precinct station felt called upon yesterday
to defend his own good name and that OF
the members of the force who have had
no connection with the recent police cor
ruption. AS a result Of his zeal he was In
the police court this morning charged
with assault and battery, A. G. c. stover
Of St. Paul being the omplainant. His
case was set for July 30.
Captain Getchell. says bystander, had
a few words with the complainant at MIC
ollet ball park. Slower became angry and
called Getchell a "big mitt" man. Getchell
attempted to reason Slower out of his be-
lief, but without avail. says the same
witness, and Getchen becoming angry in
turn "up and knocked Stover down." Sto-
yer complained and had Getchell arrested.
. Getchell to-day says: 'The man was so
abusive I couldn't stand it. Calling police
men big mitt men is getting too common.
This fellow can now probably tell just
how big my mitt is.
Uniformed officers of the city generally
approye Getchell'S action.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
LYMAN w. HARRIS DEAD
Pioneer Citizen Passes Away at the
Age Of 81.

Pioneer Citizen Passes Away at the
Age Of 81.
Lyman W. Harris, an old resident OF the
state, died at the residence Of his daughter,
Mrs. Lizzie A. Campbell, yesterday, at the
age OF 81 years. Mr.. Harris was born in
New York. but came to Minnesota in 1856,
taking up his residence in Spring Valley. He
was member of the Minnesota Pioneers
association. He is survived by two sons,
William D., OF Seattle, Wash, and Fred D.
Of Sparta, Wis; also by two daughters, Mrs.
Lizzie H. Campbell and Mrs. Mary F.
Conklin both of this city. The funeral will
be held from Craig's undertaking rooms,
Franklin and Bloomington avenues, sunoay,
at s p m. Interment at Spring Valley
AUGUSTUS j. STARK-The funeral
from sisters residence, 25O0 Elliot avenue, to-
morrow at o'clock. Members of the Royal
League Knights of Pythas and Ladies OF the
Maccabees are requested to be present.
MATTHIAS 1LTIS-The Eagles are re-
ouested to attend the funeral of Matthias
iltis, which will be held from the X. OF P.
hall, Fifth and Central avenues, Sunday at
3. M
BERTHA OLSON, % years Of age, died
at the city hospital of blood poisoning yester-
day. Miss Olson lived with her parents at lyle
Ninth avenue S.
PAUL F. THOMPSON, oldest son OF
Lockwood H. and Carrie A. Thompson
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
AMERICAN ATHLETES
They Make Good Showing in Cham
pionship Meet.


London, July 5.-The amateur athletic
champi ionship meeting at Stamford Bridge
to-day was of unusual interest, owing to
the international flavor impaired to 1t by
a number of American entries. The
weather and grounds were all that could
be wished and big crowd was present.
The results were as follows:
Putting the Weight-William Coe (Ameri-
CAM, ~ feet 104 inches; R. W.. Edgren
(American), SO feet inches There were no
English competitors, although Coe entered
as representative of Oxford. :
Hundred Yard Dash-A. F. Duffy (Ameri-
CAM, first; R. W. Wadsley, second; Dennis
Murray, third; Duffy won by yard and a
half; time los.
Mile Run-Binks, Unity Athletic club, first;
Hawtrey, second; Baker, third. Binks won
by two yards. Time, 4 minutes 16 As Sec
onds. This broke the British amateur record.
One Hundred and Twenty Yards Hurdles
G. w Smith, New Zealand, first; Trafford,
second; Phillips, third. Time, 16 seconds.
High Jumps. S. Jones, New York Ath-
letic club, 6 feet 8 inches first P. O'Connor,
6 feet 2 inches, second; G. Leahy, 6 feet
inch, third. - '-z
Hammer Throw-T. F. Kelley, 142 feet 6
inches May, 130 feet 2 inches; Edgren, 121
feet inch.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
B0ATR0UsEs DESTROYED

Two From Minneapolis Injured in
the Storm at AnnandaIe.
Special to The Journal.
Annandale, Mimi, July 5.-A wind storm
last night demolished a row of lighthouses
and caught in the debris five people. F. w.
Rowland had his shoulder broken and J. H.
Sibbert was badly bruised. Both are from
Minneapolis.
A steamer with a party was beached with
no injury to persons upon her. A party of
Iowa fishermen, c. P Bratmober, George
Lichly, Frank Fowler, Alfred Longley,
George B. Miller William Stewart, William
Hopkins, R. G. Wilder all of Waterloo; Nor
man Lichly of Des Moines, L. Robinson OF
Cedar Falls, arrived to-day. W. J. Scanlon
and Harry Waite of Minneapolis accompany
them.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
The Percy HassveIIs Next.

One week from tomorrow evening, Min
neapolis will make the acquaintance of
stock company entirely new to the north
west. This is the Percy HasWeH stock
company, from Baltimore, Md, where it
has been playing for an entire season. It
is permanent stock company very popu-
lar in the east, and at the conclusion OF
it's season here will return to Baltimore
for next winter. The personnel now is
the same as it was all last winter, and
as the company will appear her in plays
already produced elsewhere, it naturally
follows that the ensemble performances
will be we'll nigh perfect and devoid of any
first night irregularities.
The Percy Haswell company is headed
by Miss ePrcy HasWell, young actress
of such marked talents that proninen.
New York manager, Henry B. Harris, has
already secured her on FIVE years con-
tract to become a regular touring star
early next September, Immediately after
she leaves Minneapolis. Mr.. Harris will
star Miss Haswell first in "a Royal Fam
ily," and will later introduce her in
new play as the initial attraction at his
New York theater, the Hudson Theater,
row building. It may easily be seen that
| the leading lady Of the new stock COM
pany is an actress of more than ordinary
ability.
The rest of the stock company will be
found fully up to the high standards of
it's star. Frank. Gilmore, the leading
man, con es from the famous Thorne fam
| lily of England. He was leading man with
John Hare for three seasons in London,
and toured this country in that capacity
with Mr.. Hare four seasons ago. He
| liked the country so well that he returned
and was successfully leading man with
| Nat Goodwin, leading man with Mrs.
| Minnie Maddern> Fiske, and, last fall, he
became leading man with Miss Haswell.
| George Fawcett, the well-known char
acter actor, is the director and manager.
! MI Fawcett is no stranger to Minneapo-
| lis. He played here in a number of pro-
ductions, the last being Mr.. Lifts pro-
duction of Caleb West,' in which Mr..
Fawcett was the Captain Joe. Mr.. Faw-
cett was the original Ben Boone in the
first production Of Blue Jeans" While
| Mr.. Fawcett's company is playing in St.
! Paul this week, Mr.. Fawcett will appear
! with the Frawley company in this city,
in blue jeans" playing mis- original
role. This arrangement was made as an
| accommodation to the FrawleY company;
| Mr.. Fawcett will then continue with the
Haswell company at the Metropolitan. He
| will be seen in number Of special pro-
dIctions later on, and it is promised that
ne will give DIR. Jekyll and Mr., HYDE"
| in which he won great success in St. Paul
the past week
AS for the rest Of the Percy Faswell
company, it will be found adequate in
every way to sustain the artistic rsputa-
tions of these principals.
The first play to be done by Miss Has
we'll and her company will be Henri Lave
dams famous drama ''Catherine," play
entirely new to Minneapolis. With Annie
Russell in the title role, "Catherine'' IAN
for seven months in New York city.
"Catherine" will be the bill during tie
week Of July 13.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
NEW CHAMPION RUNNER
High School Boy Smashes Western
TWo-Mile Records.

When Fred Hall, Chicago high school stu
dent, smashed all standing western intercol.
legiate records in the two-mile during the
A.. A. u. meet at Ravenswood last Saturday
afternoon, accomplishing one of the most re-
narkable feats in the history Of western ath.
letics, the prophets picked him as a runner
who bids fair to set worlds records tefore he
finishes his athletic career.
With hardly any competition to urge him
on, Hall reduced the western record, made by
Kellogg Of Michigan at the conference meet
May 81, by eleven seconds, and for the first
time brought western record in the two
miles within respectable distance Of the east
ern for the same event. Halls time, caught
by three watches, was 1856. Hall has beer
carrying the colors Of Hyde Park high schoo
and the First Regiment Athletic Club to vic.
tory during the past year, and in the mile ane
the two-n1ile has not found his equal. He Ii
10 years old. He will enter the University Of
Chicago next fall, and will add materially te
the strength of the maroon team.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
MORE RAIN IN IOWA
Crops Flooded and Much Railway
Track Washed Out.

Special to The Journal
Sioux City, Iowa, July 5.-service has been
temporarily suspended on the Moville branch
of the North Western. Ida Grove reports
400 feet of track washed out between there
and Arthur
About three inches of rain fell in a brief
space last night east OF here. Battle Greek,
Iowa, reports eight inches CT rain in a week,
and Odebolt six
A barn and horse of Jacob Koehler, lear
Odebolt were struck by lightning. Last
nights storm was very serious for crops.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
GRAY MADE A MISTAKE

J. C. Haynes View of Ex-NIayor's
Candidacy.
J.. C. Haynes is expected to file in a few
days his certificate as candidate for the
democratic nomination for mayor. He de-
clines to discuss the candidacy of James
Gray except to say that, in his opinion, Mr..
Gray made mistake in entering the race
Olaf Gyllstrom will be a democratic can
didate for county commissioner in the Sec
ond district, comprising the SIXTH seventh,
eleventh and twelfth wards
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
Window Glass Higher.
KINGS GUESTS

Edward VII. Gives a Dinner to Lon
don Poor-He Still Improves.
London, July 5-The following bulletin re-
garding King Edwards condition was posted
at 10 o'clock this morning: h:
'His majesty had another excellent night
and he is cheerful and feels much stronger.
We are glad to be able to state that we con-
slider the king now out Of danger. The even
ing bulletins will, therefore, be discon-
tinued." - -...;.. i
Half-a-million of London's slum dwellers
were King Edwards guests at dinner this
afternoon. They were scattered in about 400
halls, schools and parks in various num-
bers.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-05
better for Pelican Rapids.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, July 5.---The passen-
ger department OF the Great Northern rail-
road has recommended that daily train SER
branch Of the road, the branch running from
this city to Pelican Rapids. The executive
department. will have to pass upon the mat
ter, but It is altogether probable that the
service will be established. For several years
the train has been run only three times a
week and the people along the line have oeen
petitioninx for better service