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New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
TO FEDER4TE IRISH CATHOLICS.
FIRST STEP TAKEN FOR AFFILIATION By
ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANs

Denver July 2I-It has been decided by the na-
tioual board OF directors of the Ancient Order OF
Hiberniaus. chosen the last session OF the
nial convention. incorporate each State division
the order. President Dolan was authorized
act as the agent the order in the United States
Canada and Mexico IN arranging the details OF az
hliatiOn with other continental bodies OF similar
character.
This is the first step toward the general federation
OF Irish Catholics throughout the world
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
GEN. GREENEs RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED
WALL STREET TOLD THAT ASPHALT TRUST HAS

WALL STREET TOLD THAT ASPHALT TRUST HAS
ACCEPTED 1T.
1t announced In Wall Street yesterday that
General Francis V. Greene had resigned from the
presidency of the Asphalt Company of America sew
eral weeks ago. and that his resignation had been
accepted. General Greene's connection with the
Asphalt Trust regarded ended but AT the
offices of the concern ii was said yesterday that he
would be there to-day and could speak for himself
In the mean time, IL was said nobody could sneak
for him. General Greene said to he out of
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
MORE WORK FOR THE UNDERWRITERS
ANTI-IMPERIALIsTs TO BURY THE PREsI-
DENTS POLICY AT CARL sCHURZ'S HOME

DENTS POLICY AT CARL SCHURZ'S HOME
Boston July 21-A number of the anti-imperial-
lists of this city. including Charles Francis Adams
Moorfeld Storey and Julian Goldman. left here to-
night for Bottoms Landing. Lake George, to join
other leaders of this movement at a meeting or
the special committee appointed last spring TO In
vestigate affairs in the Philippines and to secure
the publication OF the facts. The meeting VIII he
held at the home of Carl Schurz and Herbert
Welsh of Philadelphia, and many of the Western
leaders in the movement will also be present
Andrew Carnegie the chairman OF the committee
is now i'm Europe and "a temporary chairman will
chosen. but the entire proceedings Will De com
municated to Mr.. Carnegie BY cable
IL has been the belief that the antt-imperlallsI
movement dying out, but these leaders say that
they are determined 10 press the issue with more
vigor than ever II is possible that at the conclu-
sion of the meeting a statement OF facts developed
vi b President Roosevelt
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22

AMERICANS VISITING EUROPE THIS YEAR
will find The New-York Tribune for .a3r
the book stnIIs the leading hotel,
throughout the continent Europe and
Great britain. well She Reading
Room tables. IL may also be obto ed at
the DriaeIVaI xaiIroad stations
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
SEEKING BURIED TREASURE.
SCHOONER SAILS To SOUTH SEAS TO RE-
COVER $70ooOoo HIDDEN BY NIUTINEERs

san Francisco. July 2I.-The schooner Hermann
has sailed for the South Seas. ostensibly on pleas
trip but in reality. il said in search buried
treasure amounting S7OOoOOO0. which is reported
TO have been hidden island by the mutinous
crew Of a japanese ship
Captain James Brown. a retired mariner Of the
Atlantic Coast, is in command OF the Hermann,
and IS accomDanied BY four or five Eastern friends
The little schooner was fitted out at expense OF
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
FOUR ARBTTRATORS NAMED.
MEN WHO WILL TRY THE Plus FUND
CLAIMS CASE AT THE HAGUE

7-TINTWN IASE At THE HAGIE-
Washington, July THE names OF the arbltra-
tors chosen by the United States and by Mexico
TO try at The Hague what is known the Plus
fund claims case were announced this afternoon
This is a claim by the Catholic Archbishop
of California to recover a large amount OF money
alleged to be due from Mexico to the Church. The
United States selected Sir Edward Fry formerly
chief Justice of the Court OF Appeals OF England
but retired from the bench. and +. de Martens
OF Russia the well known international law writer
Mexico named PaRans Guainas Chel judge Of
the Court OF Cessation OF Italy and Savornin Lob
man. Judge OF the highest court In Holland.
These four men Will name "a NTH member Of the
arbitration tribunal which will assemble at The
Hague September l. Jackson ii. Ralston, of
this city, has been named agent To he
United States before the arbitrators Mexico's
agent will probably be Senior AmeliO Pardo now
Mexican minister to Belgium and Holland
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
THE TADERL4ND AT HALIFAX.

Halifax. n. s, July 2-The steamer Naderland
which left New-York Saturday for this port TO
take the Belgenlands passengers forward to Liver
pool, arrived this afternoon
The Naderland did not lose much time in setting
the Belgenand's passengers and bsgsage board
and resuming her passage for Liverpool
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22

Vineyard Haven. Mass. July H-The battleships
Kearsarge and Alabama got under way at Nobsk1
at noon to-day and steamed out through Vineyard
Sound to the westward, presumably for Newport.
The Massachusetts remains at her anchorage of
NObSka
New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
INJUNCTION AGAINST HEINZE.

SCPREME COURT SHOTS HIM OUT FRON
THE MINNIE HEAI.Y PENDING APPEAL
Helena, Mont. July I.-The Supreme Court to-
day granted injunction applied for by Miles
Finen or his successors in interest. the Amalga-
mated Copper Company, TO prevent F. \. Heinze
from operating the Minnie HeaIy mine. pending de-
termination of appeal from Judge Harneys noted
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25

Is the Sibley house at Mendoza haunt
ed? There are those who say that it is.
Ancient and mysterious, falling into
ruin with so varied and curious, a his
tory 1t is perhaps not remarkable that
those who know somewhat of its story
should believe that at least one unhappy
spirit returns to the scene where in the
body it. passed days both bright and sad.
1t is not one of the ghosts of the days
when this gray old, house held place
In history that is said to yet linger about
1t. but the spirit of that unhappy woman
who, visiting the place only four years.
ago with a gay and hard working hand
of. art Students, suddenly, and without a
word of warning shot herself one sum-
mer night.
1t was the old, old story, rumor
said,. Of unrequited love. Pretty, grace
full picturesque looking, and high strung
as the artistic nature usually is, the ac-
cepted version of her pitiful yet little
known history is, that she was unhap
PLY mated and that she fell in love WlGh
one among that light hearted hand. He,
alas, SO far as she, poor thing, was con-
cerned, did not return that affection, and
who could blame him, for was she not
already married? At last in some way,
| the fact that the unhappy wife had be-
| come enamored of him was revealed to
the young man, and he contrived to con-
| Vey to her that her love was not returned.
v,
bears a darker color, and there have not
| been lacking hints that among this group
| who seemed so happy and SO careless
| there was in reality a suicide club and
that this was the first victim.
| Ask any of the inhabitants of Men
dota about it and they shake their heads
and say in that slow, Indifferent way SO
characteristic Of Ghe French Canadian
| and the half breed temperament
II don't: know. Maybe yes"
But living in the old house in another
almost as old is enc woman alone, and
with the deep, mysterious, sorroWfLl eyes
Of her mixed race, ask her and she says
quietly and with not a trace of emotion
of fear Or of aught but complete conHic-
tion, "Ah, yes, she returns, yes; see her
often; she returns
Are you not afraid?">
Afraid! No. Is the slow reply. why
should I be?'' We must all die. Some
day shall be like that, too
And she relapses into silence, the 81
| lence of one who lives alone and talks
! but seldom. D.
| since the tragedy the artists live no
more In the historic and picturesque
| mansion, they paint it, and admire it,
but live somewhere else. This was not
the first band Of the brotherhood and sis
terhood of the brush who had taken up
their quarters here, for the season before,
in 1895, band Of art students from Min
neapolis came and stayed there, then this
last band in 1897 from the St. Paul Fine
| Arts School once more fitted it up, and
the great old rooms rang with laughter
and presented gay appearance that they
had not done for many long years.
:: II the Walls Could Speak.
What strange and varied stories coul6
this old gray, thick-walled house tell II
stones could only speak
Built long, long ago In 1886, within it,
four walls have visited and lived not only
those sturdy pioneers who made this grea
state of Minnesota what 1t is to-day, bu1
there were entertained here visitors
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25

manner and could neither get up nor
down. In the morning some one lighted
fire and as it did not burn threw more
and more wood upon it until the room
was filed with smoke All this time the
Indian. though terribly burned and in great
pain, with the stoicism of his race made
never a sound and it was not until some
one went upon the roof to find out the
mysterious cause of all the smoke, that
he was discovered and drawn out But it
was too late; he was shockngly burned
and died soon after. The next year Stb-
ley entertained a party of $50 of the Da-
kotahs going TO the hunting grounds, and
among their number was the Indian chief,
Little Grow.
This same year Sibley was made a
civil justice and much strange law was
dispensed in one of the upper rooms
which he used for courtroom. One case,
a contest over the ownership of a piece
of land, being decided by the learned
judge starting both contestants fairly,
and bidding them run a foot race for
the property in question, the first to ar
rive at it to be declared forthwith the
legal owner of the property.
Two years later Sibley brought his
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25
is THE SIBLEY HOUSE HAUNTED?
" Shelter of Distinguished
the Honeo O a Happy ->.5y

looking, OH SO empty and so deserted!
Every footstep echoes and. almost invol-
unfairly the voice sinks and an intoler-
able feeling of depression creeps over the
gayest spirit. To the left is the stairway
leading to the second story and to the
right the large reception room, where
many a council with the Indians took
place and many a meeting and discussion
that made history in the pioneer days.
was held here. It stretches along the
front Of the house and is twenty five by
thirty feet with two windows; one opening
upon the north and the other upon the
east. Here, too, all is desolate and for
gotten and the chickens who have made 1T
their abode only add to it's melancholy,
deserted appearance.
At the end Of the hall opposite the front
door Is long room running all across
the end Of the hall and fifteen feet wide.
At the east end of this room another
door leads into the open air and there is
another stairway leading up to the second
floor. The rear of the house is divided
into two large rooms forming, in days of
there Is a big hall twenty-five feet long
and twelve feet wide, high ceiled and
old, the dining-room and the kitchen,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25
THE CARDINALS SOUP
Nothing in 1t to Prevent Its Use for
Baptismal Purposes.


A prominent Roman Catholic clergyman
we'll known to the writer recently visited
the Eternal City, and while stopping at
the American college there was invited to
dine att the house of one of the Roman
cardinals, whose name for many reasons
is not given. but who is known among the
dignitariesi of the church in Rome for his
parsimony and the povertysof his menu.
His position, is such: however, that an
Invitation to dinner is equal to a COM
mand, and it is a common saying among
the priests, "1'll have. good appetite for
breakfast tomorrow; | dine tonight with
Cardinal R." 's '~' -, -
Among the guests at the cardinals fta-
BILE on the evening alluded to was atlfttle
old man from the Jesuit's fcollege.a- He
was a jolly fellow, in a quiet way, but
his humor was always tinged with satire.
He is metaphysician, and when asked
for an opinion on any proposition he al
most invariably prefaces his reply with
the +proviso OF the Old stholastics-"1 dis
tineuish'' -: 'ss ~ ga" 1T g. r. 9 = -.
At dinner the conversation turned into
a serio-conic discussion on the validity
OF "a Baptism administered with soup In
stead of water. The host, thinking to
start the disquisitive Jesuit on an anus
Ting dissertation, said to him, giving
meanwhile, a dignifed wink to the rest
of the. guests, How say you to that
prop sttion; Fr. C----'? - Is 1T lawful to
baptlse in soup?" G :"ss - "A
{ II distinguish, your eminence,'', replied
the old man. and those near him saw
the twinkle of smile behind his glasses
II distinguish. To Sbaptize In ordinary
soup would be-. think, contrary to the
canon; but to baptize in your eminence's
Boup would sbe-entarefy Lawful. = = = : E
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25

| many famous authors, historians and
painters in the old days when Henry Sib-
ley, factor for the American Fur COM
pany, and his charming wife, made this
| their home. -..
Much early history was made here. in
this great bare reception room, and this
big living-room that to-day looks SO
dreary and so depressing IN its deserted
and abandoned condition echoed with
song and laughter
> Henry Sibley, himself came to Mime
sofa in 1884 and in 1886 he had this
strange o.u stone house built by half
breeds and Indians. Mendoza was then
called st. Peters or sometimes New
Hope, but this was afterwards changed
to Minedota, the pretty Indian name
meaning the ''mingling of waters,' for
near here the Minnesota and the Missis-
sippi rivers meet and later became; Men
| dota as it is to-day.
| For many years this house was the most
pretentious of all in the territory and nat
| urally all visitors and strangers drifted
| to it.
Something Unique in Architecture.
And how strongly and yet strangely
built it is. The great stone walls are four
| feet thick, and of two layers Of stone
cemented together with some sort of ce-
ment that is to-day as hard as the stone
| itself. It stands two and half stories
high, and has a gabled roof that Is now
surmounted with belfry which was not
originally on the building. Nearly all OF
the cut stone Of which the house is
built was RATED up the river from st.
| Louis and remainder was cut from
!; the uuarries near by s,The great support
/ ing beams are of oak, rough hewn out OF
immense trees by the half-breeds. Equally
curious in construction are the partition
I walls and the ceilings The upright sup
pprts are small trees cut out roughly as
the others. while between them are woven
:. willow branches about two inches thick,
and split in two placed about two inches
fapart and this whole space, which is a
! foot in width, is filed inawith the same
1 CLAW and mud that has hardened so ex-
| traordinarily = Over this is clay put on
as plaster. f.. .,,tE, ,,
Even more curious are the ceilings: The
heavy oak beams have cleats nailed along
the bottom edge Of their sides,E and be-
tween the cleats rough laths are inserted
each one Of which is wound with rushes
and coarse grass and plastered with clay
1.-THE gable roof is supported by great oal
tirnhers and originally covered III will
thick oak planks and shfngled with heavy
4 oak shingles but it has been SO often re
4 naired that there is little of the origina
roof left now. :' <%7..' = - = -, -
F The front door is on the west side, ant
i looks out over the river and was formerl.
i entered by six broad stone steps, bu
these have now disappeared, possibly beer
4 carried away to form steps to some more
j modern dwellings, Now there are nom
81 and so the visitor must enter by scramb
ling the best way he can from the grount
Ito the doorway.
4 A Raronisi Hall. ssa3SS 81
And when one throws open the dec
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25
TWO SABBATHS A WEEK
Do the Signs q fthe Times Indicate
< fheiT EstabIi shments *zs


An accepted ncn-reIigious definition of
Sabbath" is "a time of.rest or quiet,
| respite from toll; trouble, pain. sorrow,
etc" We have two Sabbath days In a
week, Of religious CHI ter, Saturday and
sund ay, one abefngF tths Jewish and:s55the
HaeE aieSs hi sstbss eaash @ hss' s. ooe
tinued Indefinitely, 'But|it. is a. question
&whether there will not be a gradual blend
| ing ST, tie, secular, aspects Of the, two
days, resulting in two holidays week. as
defined above.
i11he tendency to resolve Saturday into, a
! secular, Sabbath >fort the masses, the, COM
slant in recent years. The practice be-
+ gsn a generation ago Of cutting down the
fbt'siness hours Of '2saturday afternoon.
1 Fpre instance. mechanics accustomed, to
working until 6 O'CLOCK on Saturday were
allowed to "krock off, at 5 o'clock. and
Sd on. '' ''1'a =. .','"'~ : ~. : -
4GThrough gradual stages we have reached
the. point where Saturday is practically a
| half holiday in the summer season, with
/ Indications that it will be the same
| throughout the year in the not far distant
4 future. More. rapid progress IS being
made in the. east than inthis section OF
the country in the conversion of Saturday
into general holiday. In New York, for
example, as stated by the Times Of that
|
seasc rs, and in summer is practically dies
non from business point of view.'
! Three notable features have tended to
:. tighten the burden of labor within a gen.
| Grafton. First, the limit Of days work
has been cut down; second, several legal
holidays have. been added to the -oldElist
and third, Saturday has become partial
holiday. All indications point to a con-
4 tinuance in the same direction. The fu-
! ture promises further reduction in the
hours constituting days work, more le-
gal holidays: will be added to the present
list, and eventually the secular Sabbath
will extend from Friday to Monday.
These gradual; changes to which the
signs of the times directly point. will be
possible for: the, same reason that the
similar innovations already noted were
possible In all the. vocations Of life men
are now capable Of accomplishing a great
deal more within given number of hours
| than was possible thirty or forty years
ago. To the aid of the business man has
come rapid communication, the telephone
telegraph and modern methods generally
The mechanic and the farmer can dc
vastly more work and with less drudgery
by reason of machinery that is largely
automatic. - In all lines of business ac-
tivity, in fact, the inventor Is paving the
way for making human toll easier and fol
shortening the work hours of the toiler
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25

beautiful young bride to preside over the
old mansion, and if there had been gay
scenes before, how much gayer and
brighter were they now when there WaS
a mistress to charm and entertain the
guests! A nobleman, too, came to hide
his head here, for Count Harastty, ban
ished from Hungary, his native land.
found at the Sibley house refuge and
an abiding place. Later on there was an
| other wedding, the first wedding in ths
old house between white people, when
Mrs. Sibley's sister, Abbie Steele, mar
| ried DR.. Thomas Potts and once moro
nuptial music made the great rooms ring.
Stephen Douglass, too, was an honored
guest when he came to settle some dis
puted points about the Wisconsin bound
airy line. -.~>. .-s:-,-. :. =. .-e-'- .s.s 4
| Here in the courtroom upstairs, RAM
sey, the first governor, wrote. the mes
sage which proclaimed the Territory Of
Minnesota, and on June II, 1849, pro-
claimed the judiciary of the new territory,
and two months later the first court In
the territory, was held upstairs in th&
| stone warehouse.
In 1854 Sibley entertained a brilliant
party Of writer's, including Parkman.
Larned and Bancroft, all gathering ma
terial for their books, and in 1862 camo
| the news of the Indian outbreak which
was first received at the Sibley house.
that being still the most important man
sion in Minnesota. Joy, sorrow, weddings,
funerals and great events of state all
took place here! it was the center OF
Minnesota, in fact, the actual headquar-
| terS.
The times changed and st. Paul grew
up to rob Mendoza Of the proud position
| it's citizens felt so sure Of, and aftes
standing empty some years the Sfbley
| house passed to the Roman Catholic
church and the good sisters used 1t for
a parish school when it received the adj
dition of the belfry. Then, in 1895, the
| Minneapolis art students came to paint
and live in it, and finally that last party
from ST. Paul, in 1897, whose gay COM
| ing ended SO tragically.
| This is that same party of whom some
one wrote SO shortly before that terrible
and awful deed In the meantime 1t
shelters as jolly and as industrious q
crowd Of students as one could wish to
see."
And so now it is vacant, yet, il what
| she who knows it best says is true, II
is worse than empty, being haunted by
| the troubled, restless spirit Of that un-
happy woman who found life SO unhappy
! as to prefer the dark unknown, and SO
rushed unbidden to her Maker to whom
Judgment of her sorrows. her tempa-
! tions and her sudden end must be left
Helen Gregory-Flesher.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25

both of which opened into the large liv-
ing-room> in the center >of the house.
General Sibley's own office was in the
east wing. = j.. =. ,-
Upstairs there are three rooms and a
hail. The former were used for bedrooms
in Sibleys time and again when that un-
happy party Of artists made their illfated
visit to the historic mansion they were put
to the same use. The first room CORE
spends to. the kitchen and dining groom
downstairs, and the second room. is the
same size the big living-room. under
it, while theHthird room corresponds to
the kitchen and dining room in the rear
Of the house. 4. - ao-.:.- .,-a.'~.
ID The third story was. never completed,
and 1t Is now lighted by. a, small skylight
put in, for: the benefit Of the artists. who
used 1t for a portrait studio. ,
Below the first floor is a cellar fifteen
feet deep, enclosed by thick walls and
| lighted on all sides by. small windows
| just above the surface Of the ground out
side. Along the west side is q long room
| with q large open fireplace that in the
| old Sibley days was used as a summer
| kitchen and laundry. The rest Of the eel
| lar is divided into two rooms. one OF
which has great hooks set in the masonry
of the walls for hanging whole carcasses
Of oxen or sheep; the other was a wine
| cellar
| Distinguished Guests.
And ah! what guests have been enter-
| tained here! George Featherstonhau ugh
who made the first geological survey OF
the Mississippi and whose writings dis
| pleased the pioneers vastly; Jean n.
| Nicollet, the famous French scholar and
adventurer, upon whose breast was the
| Legion, of Honor, and who was professor
| in the Royal College Of France spent 2
whole winter at Mendoza. George Catlin
whose books on the American Indians
have never been surpa ssed or equalled
| In 1887 just one year after the old house
was built, another distinguished visitor
arrived, Captain Marryatt, the famous
| naval writer, whose stay terminated Sc
! ,unpleasantly, because during the Maine
| boundary dispute he so far forgot him
self and his host as to tamper with the
4 Indians until, in fit Of indignation, Sib-
ley is said to have thrown him from tha.
1 little balcony that still adorns the house.
Then inv1s3S Sibley entertained a more
t charming guest In the person of Mrs.
Alexander Hamilton, daughter of Philip
Schuyler and widow Of Washington :
favortte aid and private secretary. For
| her ball was given and many other novel
| entertainments to which the WlldneSS OF
the Surroundings must have lent strange
! and unusual charm. Then in 1883, re-
turning with Nicollet, came john Ere
| mont But beside the white-faced visf-
| tors, was there not Hole in -the-Day, chief
of the Chippewas, who rested here DURING
| the very height of his feud with the
Sioux?
/ An Unfortunate Red Man.
Next year a rather comical adventure
! befell the family in the old house, though
| it ended tragically for the chief actor
An Indian, overcome by longing for fire
water, rose. in the night, and tried tt
| break into the wine cellar by getting doWr
through the chimney, but across it was
an iron bar which made the throat sc
narrow that he became stuck in some
| T.