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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
OIL TO MAKE TX FLOUR
Minneapolis Mills Experimenting
With Fuel Oil From Texas.
WOULD BE CHEAPER THAN COAL
Present DiGerence Hardly Enough Dug
to Warrant Change, but Freight
May Be Lowered.

If EXPERIMENTS that will be made in a
few days prove successful the Minneapolis
flour, mills will shortly be using oil for
fuel instead OF coal. The Washburn-
Crosby company, the prime mover in this
direction has been making Investigations.
The other large milling companies are
also interested, and should the Washburn-
Crosby company undertake the use of oil
the Others will probably follow.
EsaG The advantage would be two-fold. 1t
would be icleaners more easily handled
than roalSand itswould be cleaner. Oil
can. noM-ihe bought in&the Beaumont oil
fields Of Texas at210c per barrel. This is
the crude oil. which would have to be
settled before it could be used for fuel.
The main thing to be figured upon there
fore is the freight. In tank cars the
present rate from Beaumont to Mime
apolis is ,42c per 100 pounds, which makes
the cost about $1.40 Der barrel laid down
here. This is not cheap enough to make
it worth while to substitute oil for coal,
but if freight rates could be lowered suf-
fciently to bring the cost down to slips
per barrel or less it would pay.
A Street Railway Test.
The Twin City Rapid Transit company
has already undertaken trial. Two tank
cars of Beaumont oil will arrive here next
week and will be tried at the plant in
Sl dull LIS lOL LIE Ill |iAAS Ills
company has used fuel oil. but it is the
first Texas oil tried. ..
The Washburn- Crosby officials will wait
for this test and if the oil is all right they
will go into the matter thoroughly. -
In the winter months the Washburn-
Crosby company uses about 200 tons of
coal day. 80. ISL ,-.-..-.
w. II. Bovey, engineer in charge of the
plant, was asked if it would be possible
to use oil for fuel. Mr.. Bovey said 1t
would be entirely practicable. If it were
enough cheaper to warrant some changes
in the furnaces. To use oil as fuel, said
Mr. Bovey it would be necessary to have
large tank capable of holding weeks
supply and this tank would have to be
located some. distance away from the
building and probably would have to be
underground. Mr.. Bovey is familiar with
the use of fuel oil from the Pennsylvania
wells, and believes that if the Texas oil
is of equal quality. it's extensive use as
fuel is certain to come about even IN
manufacturing centers far away from
Texas,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
TIEUP IS COMPLETE
Northern Pacific Tracks Under a
~ Flood of Water.
TRANSFER OUT OF THE QUESTION
work Trains Dispatched to Save
Bridges-Settlers on Lowlands
Driven Out.

! = \ . .
Special to The Journal.
Bismarck. N. D.. March 27.--The tie-up
OF the Northern Pacific road at Mckenzie
is still complete and there are no indi-
cations Of relief. The water in the Nc
kenzie slough, which covers the track to
depth OF several feet for a distance of
two miles. rose seven inches last night
and with high wind Is washing the road
bed badly. Attempts to tranfer passen-
gers from the east to the west bound
trains We're abandoned last night, the mud
being so deep about the slough that teams
could make no progress. E
1t looks now as though no trains could
get through until the water subsidies, and
1t may last for several days. The water
is SO high in some places that settlers on
the low lands have been forced to aban-
don their houses. ,
| The new steel bridge Of the company
over the Apple creek is threatened by
high water it is feared it will be carried
away Work trains have been sent there
to save the bridge if possible. s s,'>t
All county roads are almost impossible
and many bridges over creeks and streams
have gone out. The high water all
through this section is unprecedented:
East bound trains are being turned
about at Mandan and sent west to sup
| ply equipment on the coast. The Mis-
| souri, river is expected to- break I'D at
any time. The shore ice began to move
| out last evening and the channel Ice will
| not be long behind. s-. 49,, -...>
| The Missouri Is high, but unless the ice
gorges there will probably be no over
| flow from the river +." .~&.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
He IS NOT 50 SLOW
Governor Savage Takes a Stand for
Increased Railway Taxation.
A POPULAR ISSUE IN NEBRASKA
His Platform Must Be Accepted or
There'H Be TrOublous Times
in Bryan's State. SO IT, .
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. .--- -. :
Omaha, Neb., March Ex-Governor Saw
age, candidate for the republican nom
ination for next term, is preparing to give
| the republican office holders and politi-
clans chance to stand on his own plat
form, with the alternative Of getting clear
off the earth If they do not like the ma
teral out Of which the principal plank
is made. The governor will put in opera
ton plan he has had under contempla-
ton for several months by which ne will
force the republican state treasurer and
the state auditor to agree to reverse the
republican practices Of thirty years and
levy tax on the railroad property OF the
state in proportion to that put on other
property. -".
The fact that such thing is to be done
by the governor has become known among
the politicians of his party and has also
come to the ears of the railroad people,
lists in these circles is all the more in
| tense because it is not advisable to have
it talked about generally. ~
When the state board meets on May 10
to fix the valuations Of the railroad prop
erty In the state for taxation for state,
county and municipal purposes, Savage
will, as member of that board, submit
OF the property Of all the railroads in the
state be raised. This board is composed
of the governor, the state treasurer and
the state auditor and is created by an act
Of the legislature. H..
The governor will point out that the
equitable assessment Of railroad property
in the state has been the avowed policy
of all political parties for many years,
and that the vast majority Of the voters
have honestly favored such action and
looked in vain to the men elected to
Office to accomplish the reformation. The
political party platforms have dealt in
general phrases and the men elected to
| office on these platforms have not found
the way to put into practice the changes
promised.
The bold stroke which the governor has
determined upon Of calling for show of
hands on the railroad question is one Of
the most audacious moves that the state
has seen for many a day. He practically
puts his opponents in such position that
they must accept his platform or face Al
most certain defeat at the polls. In the
latter case Savage, defeated and rejected
by the conventions, would be- in the atti-
tude Of being Endorsed by the voters
II his platform is accepted and he is
not the candidate he will have the salts
faction and the glory Of being the one
man who put the republican party square,
ly and irretrievably on record on the
antimonopoly side Of this question.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
WILL MOVE CEREAL MILL
TO "LIIsTLE PITTSBURG" DISTRICT
s. G.. Ne1dhart Vacates Old Pray
BuiIding-Other Little Pitts
= :. burg improvements. Il

S. G. Neidhart will remove his cereal
mill and machinery warehouse from the
old Pray building at First street and Fifth
avenue which is leased by the Bruins
wick -Balke-Collender company to Little
Pittsburg." He has leased from Wood
bury F. AG<ceWs ten lots at 1923 Delaware
street Sc for ten years. On this site
he will erect a three-story, frame feed
mill, warehouse and engine room, to cost
$4,000. Mr.. Neidhart is dismantling the
historic Minnetonka mill and is remov-
ing the available machinery to town. =
mir. Neidhart has been engaged for ten
years in handling all sorts of mill ma
chinery. incidentally he. began the grind
ing OF a cereal food ! This business has
SO increased that new quarters are neces-
sary. He will begin at his new plant the
manufacture Of stock food. & H
The total expenditure will probably
reach SIS, 900. A permit for $4,000 has
already been issued. The tract Of land is
back Of the Lenhart Wagon company s
factory. ~, III. + s.
/ The Globe Iron Works in the same dis
trfct has taken out a permit for a $1,000
wo-story frame storage house at 2529-
1881 University avenue Sc and for $1,000
frame addition at 2427-2429 University.
r. B., Pelton is the contractor. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
HOTTER FOR Mr.. CASTRO
ADDITIONAL TOWNS CAPTURED
Pending Operations In Venezuela
Are All Going the Revolu-
tionists' Way.

Willemstadt, March 27.-The, Venezue-
Ian revolution, according to adyices re-
E. ceiyed here, has not realized what it
promised last week. The government
forces have reoccupied Port La Mar and
Juan Griego, island of Margaria, and still
hold Carupano, Cumana and Barcelona,
all in the state of Bermudez. A force Of
1000 reyolutionists under Domingo Mon
agas, which has been besieging Barcelona,
has reiterated before the government
forces.
. General Reiera with 1900 men, is still
In the state of Falcon, trying to effect a
junction with General Montillas, revolu-
tionary forces, estimated to number 500
men,. President Castro appreciates the
new danger Of the situation and manifests
astonishing activity and intelligence.
San Antonio, state of Bolivar and Ma
turin, state Of Bermudez, are in the hands
/ of the new revolutionary forces and 1000
reyolutiOnists under Generals Monagas,
Penaloza and Rolando, have united and
are menacing Cumana and Barcelona.
The situation Of General Riera, in the
state of Falcon, is perilous.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
LAND is DRYING.
Heavy Winds Over the Albert Lie
Country Rain In NJ D.

Country Rain In N. d.
Specials to The Journal
Albert Lea, Mimi, March 27.-Tremen-
dous winds have prevailed for several
days and have inteffered more or less
with the farmers In their seeding opera
tions. Sowing in Freeborn county is in
full swing with the ground In excellent
condition., but it NAV soon be too dry tor
grain to grow. The acreage to wheat is
less than usual and the amount of oats
barley and fax sown Is greater
Mayville, N. d., March 27.--It has rained
here for day or. more and great deal
of water has fallen in the many squalls
that have been passed. The rain is need
ed. The snow is gone and the frost SIS
coming out of the ground very fast.
Wahpeton,! N. D.. March 27.-The Red
river Las risen rapidly during the past
twenty-four hours; 1t is thought that
dwellers along the flats near the river
bed will need to move out. No fear is
entertained, however, that farmers will
,be inconvenienced in the south end Of the
valley, atzleast, as flood has never been
known in this vicinity. The danger
arises from an accumulation of water
along the river course further north
Help for spring work on farms is much
needed The work will be under full
Roadway net week
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
Northwest Pensions.

Washington, March Extensions granted:
Minnesota-Peter w. Weego, Minneapolis,
Murray (deceasedJ, 'Mapleton. s12
Iowa-Andrew J. Grace, New Sharon, So;
Wiley Hunt Garden Grove, S.; Lambert II.
Forbes, Creston, Sc. War with Spain-Charlie
H. Smith. Ottumwa, Sc; Squire B. Daniels,
Gushing, IS; Daniel R; Royalty, Lyons, $40;
Abel w. Roberts, ,Eldon, ST; Francis M:
Thompson, Rock Rapids, $72; John kincaid
(deceased), Dubuque. s12; Nancy E. Edburn,
Cedar Rapids, S.; Cordelia E. Mason, Grin
| nell, $12; Amelia Younkerman, Council Bluffs.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT G. Parks, Trevor, Sc;
William Moore, Green Bay, s12; Jacob Bauer.
saukville, s12; Robert W. Sanborn, Superior
S.; Jeremiah ]. Humbert, Mineral Point, s.;
Edgar Tremper, Rice Lake, Sc; Henry r.
Ward, Monroe Center, $40; William Cooder-
Michaels, So.
South Dakota-Increase,. reissue, etc:
Charles Victor, Deadwood. $12; Henry Allen
WATERFOWL, SO. Special act: Harrison L.
De Long, Sioux Falls, $24.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
ROAST FROM RHODES
Left South African Testament
Criticizing British Government.
LAMENrAT1oN ON HIS DEATHBED
NIourned Because He Must Leave So
Much Important Work I'm
Is accomplished.

: London March 2T.-There is a report
that Cecil Rhodes left a political testa-
ment dealing with the war and the future
Of South Africa, but that, owing to its
severe criticism of the imperial govern
ment, it's publication will be delayed. MI
Rhodes idea, 1t Is report ed. was to throw
on the shoulders of the imperial authori-
ties the responsibility for the tragic fail
ure of the war policy X
The Rhodesian section Of the colonial
exhibition, at the Royal Exchange, has
been draped In black. After a slight
hesitation at the opening of the stock ex7
change the tone Of Kafffrs was distinctly
firmer, showing that Mr.. Rhodes death
had been discounted.
A memorial service In honor Of Mr..
Rhodes will be held in st. Paul's cath
edral, April 10.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
'PICKETS USE FORCE
Drag Would-be Patrons From Ye-
Sings Restaurant Door.
POLICEMAN QUIETLY LOOKS ON
Crowds Obstruct the Sidewalk, but
the Officers Remain In-
different. e

The Cooks union was aided and abetted
by the police in it's fight against Chinese
restaurants this morning. Although there
is a city ordinance forbidding crowds from
collecting on the sidewalks in such num-
bers as to obstruct travel, the police to-
day looked on while a big gathering effec-
tually blocked the entrance to the Can
ton restaurant on First avenue S..
The proprietorEis Ye Sing,Ia naturalized
American citizen, who has lived in Min
neapolis for twenty years: He employees a
white girl cashier and has white wait
ers. His only offense is, that of employ
ing a. Chinese cook The cooks union
asks him to discharge the Chinaman and
substitute one of it's members, and has
undertaken to boycott him out Of bust
ness unless he does so. J, r D.
The Jealous pickets, who are posted
about the restaurant, no longer keep the
distance observed at the start, but stand
in the doorway and thrust their cards
declaring a boycott against the place
into the hands of everyone who enters.
Not satisfied with mere presentation of
cards, the pickets made so bold this
morning as to lay hands on some would
be patrons of the restaurant and drag
them forcibly away. ~>'' -. :: 81
While this was going on Captain Fred
Coffin, of police headquarters, elbowed
his way through the crowd, smiling at Ye
Sings discontinue and kept on down the
street, without making the slightest at
tempt to clear the sidewalk. ~ =
In spite of the opposition, the restaurant
continued to do business this morning,
and the proprietors expressed themselves
as highly indignant. a.
They call this a free country" said
Yes Sing ''but that doesn't look much like
it," indicating the staring faces, pressed
against his front windows. ''There are
lots of Boxers out there" he added sar-
castically. 81 have applied to the police
anything for me. I'm willing to fight this
boycott; all I ask is a fair show. 1t must
be against the law for them to drag my
customers away from my doors. A lit
tie while ago two women wanted to come
in and they were so roughly treated that
they did not dare to. If the police do not
interfere, I will ask the courts for, pro-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
GOOD FOR FARMERS
The New Lard Law Likely to Benefit
Them.

THE enactment of the new land law
will be fine thing for Minnesota farm
ers and packers said Dairy Commits
sioner Mcconnell to-day. The Mime
sofa producer has not been able to put
pure lard on the market to compete with
the adulterated article. Counting his
work nothing, it was impossible for him
to refine the fat of his own hogs and sell
1t as low as outside packers sold the i'm
pure stuff These packers extract the oil
from the lard, which is quite valuable,
and make it up by adding cheap cotton
seed oil. The law now prohibits them
from selling this stuff without labelling
it "adulterated,' and the consumer wou' !
rather pay little extra to get the pure
article The law is going to be en-
forced. and it willhave the effect of driv-
ing these substitutes and aduterants prac-
tically out of the state 49, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
State Capitol News
ANDERSON A. CANDIDATE
He Would Be Judge in the Third
District.


w. B. Anderson of Winona has filed his
certificate with the secretary OF state as
a republican candidate for district judge
in the third district. This district is
composed of the counties of Winona, Ohm
sted and Wabasha. A. H. Snow, the
present Judge, is democrat, and Will
probably be candidate for reelection.
Judge o. B. Gould of the state board OF
CONTROL the predecessor Of Judge Snow,
may contest with Mr.. Anderson for the
republican nomination. The latter was
leading member of the legislature that has
just passed into history, and is promin-
ent member of the Winona bar. -. =. i. -
There are seven other district judges
in Minnesota whose terms expire this fall,
as follows
Judge T. NJ. Crosby of Hastings, first judi
cal district
Judge Charles E. Otis and O. B. Lewis Of
st. Paul, second district.
Judge D. F. Simpson Of Minneapolis, fourth
district. -
Judges J. D. Ensign and w. A. Cant of Du-
luth eleventh district.
Judge Gorham Powers of Granite Falls.
twelfth district.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
:, LEAVE THE FISH ALONE
Game Warden Fullerton Makes a
Timely Talk.

Game Warden Fullerton Makes a
Timely Talk.
( This is busy season for the game war
.dens. No food fish of any kind may be
caught until May l, and the open season
for. bass does not begin until June 1.Dur-
ing the early spring, when the fish are
spawning, decent sportsmen let the fish
alone, but there is 5const ant trouble from
INSCRIPTIONS pot hunters. Executive
Agent Fullerton said this morning.:
The small, clear creeks are many of them
full Of fish just now. They leave the rivers
and go up into these quiet waters to spawn,
and sometimes they are in such numbers that
you can almost walk across on the mass. No
respectable sportsmen will touch them. but
there are fellows so low that they will go
into these creeks and throw the fish out
with pitchforks, then haul them home and
feed them to the hogs
The deputy game wardens are ali keeping
a sharp lookout for these fellows. No fish
Ing Of any kind is allowee now, except spear
ing red horse and pickerel without light.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27

Chicago is one of the wonders of the
nineteenth century. No city in the his
tory of the world has had an equal growth
or greater development in corresponding
length of time. It is the worlds great
est railroad center, and it's manufacturing
interests are being multiplied each year.
About 5000 railroad passenger trains ar
rive at and depart from. Chicago every
twenty-four houts-some of them marvels
of solid splendor. A writer in an Eastern
journal, recently, dwelling upon the sub
ject of Chicago and its railroads. singles
out the Chicago, Milwaukee q ST. Paui
as the greatest of our western lines and
it's Minneapolis Chicago Pioneer Limited
trains as without doubt "the famous train
OF the world"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS
DULUTH CITY SUED FOR $4,000
Livery Keeper Says He Can Find No
Place for His Wooden
Stables.
SDecial to The Journal.


Duluth, Mimi, March PR. S. Lerch.
an ex-livery stable keeper, has brought
suit against the city for $4,000, main
tanning it forced him out Of business. He
had wood stable on ground sold for i'm
provements and was obliged to move. He
leased lot inside the fire limits and
started to move to it, securing permission
from sleepy city council to locate there
on The council a week or two later
walked up and revoked the permission and
the Lerch barn has been homeless wan
derer ever since. s.-....-#
Now he says the city's repeal of per-
mission to locate drove him out of bust
ness. 1t doubtless did. -.
The city's defense will doubtless be that
the council had no right to give him per-
mission, by simple vote, to move wood
building into the fire limits any more than
it would have power to allow him to build
it new there. =, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
Heart Failure the Cause.

Cape Town, March 27.--The Immediate
cause Of Cecil Rhodes death was two sue
cessive attacks Of heart failure. Mr..
Rhodes last words were the names Of his
brother and some Of the others present,
which were meant to be good-byes. The
body will be taken to Grootschuur, the
residence of the deceased, near Cape
Town, on a special train. There it will
probably lie In state for a day or two 1t
has not yet been decided where he will
be buried 1t was the wish of Mr.. Rhodes
to be Inferred at Matoppo Hills, Rhodesia.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
HEIR OF MILLIONAIRE
). c. Rice of This City Related to
Patrick's Victim.

Patrick's Victim.
j. C.. Rice, who conducts a detective
agency al 30l Hennepin avenue, is a near
relative of William Marsh Rice, who was
murdered in New York city last Septem-
Der, and may come in for share of the
100000 estate.
Rice was: killed by his valet, Charles
f. Jones, at the instigation of Albert T.
Patrick, New York lawyer, who was
yesterday found guilty Of murder, and
who will be sentenced a week from next
Monday. .. .
After the murder will was discovered
making Patrick a heavy beneficiary.
His conviction, however, will bring the
genuineness Of this document into ques-
ton, and the estate will probably be par
titioned ultimately among the heirs, Of
whom ]. c.. Rice is one
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
MEN TURN ROBBERS
One Breaks Down at Madison, Wis.
Under Pressure and duplicates
Five Others. a.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Madison, Wis, March 27.-By the con-
fession of Christian Tollefson it is learned
that the attempt to rob the, Bank OF
Cambridge, March 7, was made by six
young men of the vicinity, of whom he
was one. ..i.- "a. s.urr -. H. ..~-9'1
Tollefson was arrested last evening and
J broke down and made a statement impli-
eating Martin Peterson, Gus Bjordan,
Abel Christensen, Ole Thompson and
Andy Lund, all living in near Cam
bridge. a .= -.
They were frightened from the bank BY
dog. The sheriff has gone to Cambridge
to arrest the other Ave men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
$50 MUCH TO Do"
Rhodes Seemed to Think He Had
Done But Little. s- .-.ss.s

Capetown, March 27.-The preparations
for the state funeral of Cecil Rhodes,
which will take place here April 3, are in
progress. Flags are haif-masted every
where. The body will lie in state In
parliament house for several days.
Those who attended the sick bed say
Mr.. Rhodes continually sorrowed over the
fact that he left so much unaccom-
plished $50 little done. so much to do"
was an expression which he used more
than once. All kinds Of novel means
We're utilized to counteract the trying
heat. Boxes of ice were let into the roof
OF. the sea side cottage at Nuremberg,
where he died, punkas were continually
kept in motion and extra windows were
cut in the walls
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-27
A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

John Lind Buys a Fine Farm Near
Excelsior.
Former Governor John Lind has pur-
chased the 160-acre OBrien farm at Lake
Minnewashta, just over the line in Carver
county. The farm is two miles from Tx
celsior. 1t is we'll developed and has a
large sugar bush.
Mr.. Lind intends to have the nronertv
worked under his own supervision. He
will build a residence there and expects
to utilize the place as a country home.
spending six months out of every year at
the lake 81