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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31

swered the argument that children already
were overburdened by other ideas by say
ing that it is mistake to allow worldly
ideas to possess the whole child, and that
she believed that missionary interest
should have it's place in the child's train
ing to the exclusion of something else If
necessary.
Freund was given by Miss Achard, daugh-
ter of the recently deceased editor. Miss
Achard reported that her mother, on her
dying bed, arranged for the issue of No
vember. Since coming to Minneapolis she
had learned that the paper had become
elf-supporting, an end earnestly striven
for by the devoted editor during her
twelve years of consecrated work The
paper has 4,a99 subscribers. The study
was reported by Mrs M. F. Budlong and
also showed marked gains and ambitious
hopes for Improvement.
The report of the publisher of all of the
periodicals and literature of the society,
Miss Pauline J.. Walden, was largely sta
tistical, but it's picture Of prosperity and
good management made it absorbingly in
teresting. 1t told the tale of splendid tall
ents devoted to the service of others and
of the fine ability of women for making a
little money accomplish great results
I. The more important items of the sum-
naries were: Receipts from the period
icals, $16,020l0; the income from other
sources making a grand total Of $23. 41O.76;
there is balance of 81 633. SO, making a
net gain for the year of $1,761.14. The
total asets Of the office S11, 1918 The
total increase Of subscriptions for the
year is 1859, making a total on all the
papers Of 88,976. The publishing depart
ment has remarkable record, having not
only supported itself for twenty years, but
expended $4,000 for outside work Miss
Walden attributed the splendid advance
on all lines to the high character of the
publications and the faithful and persist
ent work Of the volunteer agents in the
auxiliaries whose labors might well be the
envy of secular publications.
The closing report of the morning was
by Mrs. L. F. Harrison on the work of the
children's society, the Little light Bear
ers. Mrs. Foss announced as a resolu-
lions committee, Misses G. Butler and
Kate Moss and Mrs. E. L. Harvey.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31

Evening in India conducted by Miss F.
A. Perkins of Burma. The addresses
will be made by Misses Lillian Marks
Of Ajmere; Marion Newton Of Lucknow
and Frances Craig of Calcutta. To-mor-
row morning reports Of the following
standing committees will be given: Foo
Chow, Mrs. E. B. Stevens; Germany,
Italy, Mrs. F. P. Crandon; Korea, Mrs. W.
B. Skidmore; Malaysia, Mrs. I. w. Joycei
Mexico, Mrs. J. F. Keen.
At 1 o'clock a trolley ride will be given
by the Commercial Club of Minneapolis.
The ladies Of the St. Paul district will
tender the guests a reception from $3.50 to
p. M, at the home of Mrs. George N.
Gilman, 615 Lincoln avenue, st. Paul. In
the evening Mrs. I. w. Joyce will receive
the general committee missionaries and
other visiting guests, from 8 to 10 p. M,
at her. residence, 80 Groveland avenue,
MinneaN polls.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
TO STOP STRIKES
The Plan of the Philadelphia Build
ers' Association Outlined
by Mr.. Stevens.
No Fight on Organized Labor, but a
Full Recognition and Agree
ment With It.
Nesp York. sur. Special Se4svtoe

Ne,U York. Sum Special Ses.vtos
Philadelphia, Oct. 31.-John S. Stevens,
who was elected president Of the National
Builders Association during the conven-
ton In Washington returned to this city
yesterday and discussed the work of the
meeting. While the national body took no
formal action upon the Philadelphia plan
Of organizing the bosses into unions In
order to protect themselves against fire.
Qucnt strikes President Stevens said 1t
was practically agreed to test the plan in
Philadelphia, contractors in other cities to
follow the example II 1t should promise
relief. President Stevens says:
Our aim Is not so much to fight the diff
ferent building unions as 1t Is to avoid, II
possible, any trouble between employer
and employe. We fully realize the disas-
trous results Of strife between the work.
ingmen and bosses, and In order to provide
some way in which the questions that
arise may be anicably settled and avoid
the loss Of wages for the men and delays
for the contractors and subcontractors, we
are going to make strong endeavor to
bring about as solid an organization Of the
bosses as now exists In the different BRAN
ches Of the trades among the workingmen.
1.-THE plan as mapped out for this city is
to have the bosses Of ell branches Of build
Ing, whether or not they are members Of
the Builders Exchange, organize for
themselves, where such organizations do
not now exist, and then agree with us to
have the workingmen In each branch ap-
point an arbitration committee of five Of
their number and have the bosses also ap
point five, for the purpose Of coming to-
gether and arranging as to the scale Of
wages and other details. There Is in adj
dition to this, selected a board Of arbitra
ton Of five from the Master Builders Elk
change which Is to bs q sort OF court of
last resort and where the differences are
to be settled which the branch arbitrators
cannot adjust.
1--WE are not against organized labor. On
the contrary, we fully recognize the
strength of the unions and this very real
ization has brought US to the point where
we see the advantage Of the bosses form
Ing unions to be able to meet the strength
of the workingmen's unions. It will be
the endeavor to prevent. at all hazards.
any strikes, which have been 30 costly Of
late to the workingmen and the contract
ors We will urge the work1ngmef's
unions to agree with the bosses to arbi-
trate all differences. .
I'VE are not combining this movement to
the membership Of the Builders Elk
change, but want all in the contracting
business to come in with us and try to
| stop strikes. In this manner we hope to
! also put an end to lockouts. In our plan
| the union men will be fully recognized and
all differences between the bosses and
their mon promptly adjudicated.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
THE GROSS TAX FRAUDS
The Conf of Luke Wheeler I'm.
licates Many Prominent
Chicago Men.

Chicago, Oct. 31.-Luke Wheeler con-
vinced that his accomplices in the tax
fixing frauds have been sacrificing him
to save themselves, has revealed to State
Attorney Deneen the particulars Of a con-
spiracy more extensive than even the
prosecutor had expected.
In his statement, Wheeler makes
charges Of a. criminal nature against
many prominent business and profess
stonal men In Chicago. Some were al
ready suspected Of completely In the
swindle. Others of the accused hitherto
have been free from suspicion.
Neither the living nor the dead are
spared. President James H. Gornley,
Former Secretary and Treasurer David
G. Rush. and Manager Edward Williams
of the Masonic Temple; Justus Chancellor,
their attorney; julius Solomon, the late
North Town collector; the late Peter
Storm, former assistant to Chief Clerk
Becker of the county treasurer's office,
and all the business men whose names
appear on the notes Wheeler Is alleged
to have forged are included in the lat
ters denunctatton. - = ~ 4
The Masonic Temple fraud, he declared,
was merely one of an extensive series of
such operations, in which he had figured
merely as a comparatively humble agent.
Two men are alleged to have been driven
to suicide by the exposure of the syndt-
Gates operations, and fortune has al
ready been spent in the defense Of the
others. -
Until a short time before the holidays
In 1901" Wheeler said, II was engaged
with many other employees and former
employees about the county treasurer 8
office in a small tax adjusting work,
through writs Of error and other methods
of a similar character. The work was not
particularly dangerous and was rendered
possible through political pull
when the state board of equalization
was in session my work was at Spring
field In the interests of the North Town
collector, Julius Solomon, who remained
in Chicago and gave me percentage Of
the money received for shis services.
Whenever there were indications that the
board was likely to act with reference
to the interests Solomon was protecting,
I notified him and set In motion such pro-
cesses as were necessary to prevent it..
His methods were secret. My duty was
simply to keep in touch with the boards
work and furnish advance information Of
it's Intentions"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31


Friend, and so widespread was the circu-
lation Of the paper, it had been translated
into five dialects. The writer called upon
the branches and local agents for sup
plies of new books and pictures, for near
ly all are worn out except those dealing
with Bible subjects. ~#
The reports Of the periodicals published
by the society were given by the editors,
Miss L. M. Hodgkins, editor Of the moth
err paper, the Woman's Missionary
Friend, taking precedence. Miss Hodg-
kins stated that all Of the branch soci-
et1es save New England, have advanced
In the last five years, bringing the sub
scriptions to 1852 and the sales Of lit
erature to $8,13768. The contributions Of
editorial matter to the Friend in the
year have been in a ratio Of one to three
from the home and foreign fields. The
Friend, through it's constituency, sends
100 popular magazines to it's missionaries.
She desired arrangements made for the
sale OF the paper at railway news stands
Mrs. A. W. Scott, for the Children s
Missionary Friend, was able to continue
the cheerful report Of gratifying advance
ment, saying that on its thirteenth ami
versary it had a subscription list of q, O00
a gain for the year of 2,017. The ex-
pressed the fine discomfort Of aspiring
movements, desiring many improvements.
These. she pointed out were necessary
in order to rank up with the attractive
secular publications for children. She an
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31

crease in all the departments Of circula-
ton. The chief necessity, she said, was
for more chidren's literature. The num-
Der of volumes of 'Via Christi the So
ciety's textbook, by Miss l.. M. Hodg
kins, the editor Of the Wo,nan's Friend,
comes to S,414. The total issue Of leaf
lets from the Boston house, which have
passed through the hands Of the commit
tees amounted to $4,000 copies. Of the
Little Light Bearers" $4,000 copies were
sold.
Mrs. Keen finished the report of the
constitutional publication committee be-
gun yesterday. It's most interesting feat
ure was the letter from a. missionary in
India telling Of the progress Of the women
there. The zenanas, the letter stated,
were full Of women who regularly read the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
THE EDUCATED RED MAN
Agent Erwin of Oklahoma Says He
Is the Worst of the
Bunch.

Washington, Oct s1.-A severe arraign-
ment of the Indians on the Ponca, Otoe
and Oakland reservation in Oklahoma is
made by Agent Erwin, in charge of the
reservation, in his annual report to the
commissioner Of Indian affairs. The re-
port says:
Hardly any Of the young Indians, those
who have graduated from non-reservation
schools as we'll as those who have at
tended for a number Of years. do any work
at all. 1t can be set down as a perfectly
safe rule that as a class the young edu-
Gated Indians are the most worthless ones
In the whole tribe. Nearly all Of the work
done by the tribe Is performed by the
middle-aged able-bodied ones who cannot
write or speak English. The educated In
dian coming from the schools usually gives
the excuse that he has nothing with which
to work, neither money, implements nor
stock Of any kind. This Is true, but
notice that they manage to live their
annuities and lease money and buy horses
buggies, etc.. on credit and borrow money
from the banks with very little prospect
of ever being able to pay their debts.
ANY able bodied man or woman is able
to obtain work at fair wages. Many OF
tho people are addicted to drink and both
men and women are inveterate gamblers.
They have practically nothing to do. Their
days are spent In almost utter idleness
and vice and debauchery are rampant. The
degradation Of these people will continue
and increase until they are made to work
and live by the result Of their labors."
AS remedy for this condition Of affairs
the agent recommends that the Indian
children be educated only at reservation
boar ding schools, further education being
90 per cent waste of effort and money,
that the schools under the jurisdiction Of
the Oklahoma government be established
"a 4I,4k ~
can come into constant contact with white
children and that the payments by the
government from their trust funds now in
the United States treasury be used to en-
able them to start in farming and stock
raising.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
BY JONES OF ROCK"

Tickets for Home Given Out to RosIns
M en- at University.
Through the courtesy of the Great
Northern a number Of university students
are going home to vote. Round trip tick
cts have been distributed on the campus,
with the understanding that those who
receive them shall go home and vote for
for clerk of the supreme court. Rumor
has it that the distribution is managed
by Jones himself, who is a student in the
law department.. The number appears to
be unlimited. =: : sI*',f$lt%5,
1t is hard to hide a good thing under a
bushel about the university and the story
Of the Great Northen's generosity has
gone abroad. Mr.. Jones is besieged for
tickets on every side,: and all the appli-
cants claim to be good democrats
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
MISSIONARY PAPERS
Editors and Publishers Report the
Splendid Support Given by
the Methodist Women.
The Publishing Department Is Self
Supporting and Helps Largely in
Other Departments.

Owing to the necessity of all reports
requiring action being presented at the
morning meetings, some radical changes
have been made in the M. E.. Womens
Foreign Missionary Society's program an
nounced by the local committee The
program arranged for this morning at Wes-
ley church, the beginning Of the reports
Of official correspondence with the various
missionary fields, was put over to to NOR
row morning and business left over from
yesterday, the completion Of branch re-
parts. was heard. This was followed by
the program scheduled for this afternoon,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
THE REAL ISSUE
Secretary Root Says It Is the In
dorsement of the President.

New York, Oct 31.--An immense crowd
at Cooper Union was addressed by Secre-
tary Root, who said in part:
1.-The national issue Of this political
campaign, in its most important and
practical aspect, is whether President
Roosevelt shall be sustained in his adj
ministration Of the national government.
II am not going to talk about what
the republican administration at Wash
ington has done further than to say that
+ believe it has been honest and efficient
and that it has accomplished success
fully many difficult tasks, avoided many
dangers and attained many results nene-
fetal and creditable to the country. !
think it's policies babe been justified and
it's conduct Of affairs approved by their
fruits. -.'.. :: :-,-
1.-THE one case of urgent necessity TOR
action which failed Of response was the
bill for a. lust measure of reciprocity with
Cuba and that was defeated by COM
bination between the democrats in con-
gress and small minority Of the repub-
leans refusing to go with the majority Of
their party. There is good reason to be-
lieve that the measure will succeed at the
next session.
Twill the people Of the United States
elect a house Of Representatives with a
republican majority to work in harmony
with the president and with the repub-
lican majority of the senate, SO that he
may go on, as he has begun, with an
effective government, working out prac-
tically the plans for improving admins
tration and for the remedy of evil along
the lines upon which the legislative and
executive branches agree? Or will the
people elect q. house with democratic
majority, which will be hostile to the presi-
dent, will not agree with him upon any
course of conduct and will hinder and
embarrass him In all his efforts for the
n,,blic rood during the remainder Of his
present term Of Officer" ,'G
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
PARNELL MONUMENT
Augustin st. Gauden's Design Is a
-...z- Masterpiece. $50 XIX. *

Special to The Journal.
New York, Oct. s1.--Augustin st. eau
dens had conference with John e. Red
mond, M. p, yesterday with reference to
the Parnell monument which is to be
erected in Dublin. The design which is
now complete Is pyramid forty to fifty
feet in height composed Of green Come
mara marble with a colossal statue of
Parnell at tho base In front in the act Of
speaking, standing by table over which
is thrown a large Irish flag. T The pyra-
mid is to represent Ireland. The four,
sides will contain symbols set into the
marble in gold, expressive OF the four
provices of Ireland. Around the base of
the pyramid the names Of the thirty-two
counties will be inserted The figure Of
Parnell will be in bronze. The cost Of
the monument will be $50, 900. It is to
eb delivered in Dublin Within three years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31

the reports OIL the periodicals published
by the society. The unfinished branch re-
ports were given by Mrs. Charlotte ONeal
for the Pacific branch and Mrs. A. N.
Fisher for the Columbia rive branch.
The literature and periodicals Of the
society are in the nature of ammunition
and 1T is held OF the greatest importance
that this be Of the highest type and that
it be used effectively. The reports of this
department were opened by the report of
the literature committee by Mrs. r. H.
Pooley, which showed a gratifying in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
FELL. 100 FEET
Dead Body of John Simmons Found
at Deadwood.
to The Journal.

Special to The journal.
Deadwood, S. D., Oct. 31.-The body Of
John Simmons, a laborer, was found this
morning near the Elkhorn roundhouse, he
having evidently fallen from the Spearf1sh
road on a bank 100 feet above His hat
was near the road and it can be- seen
where he tried to save himself by grasping
shrubs and roots. He was a packer in
the government service in Cuba and came
here from Jefferson barracks.
Washington, Oct. 31.-The annual report Of
Adjutant General Corbin, to be made publin
shortly, contains q strong recommendation for
the re-establishment Of the army canteen.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
P0sTOFFICE ROBBERY
$1,000 in Cash and Stamps Secured
at Reedsburg, Wis.

Special to The Journal.
Reedsburg, Wis, Oct. 31.-About mids
night the postofflce was entered by bura
glars who blew open the safe by dyna-
mite, securing $1,000 in cash, registered
letters and stamps. There is no clue to
the thieves.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
TEACHERS IN AN ACCIDENT
Miss Fanny Gearhart OF the Anoka City
Z - Schools Seriously Hurt In
Runaway.

Special to The Journal.
Anoka, Mimi, Oct 31.-Miss Blanche
McKinster and Miss Fanny Gearhart
school teachers of Anoka, were run into
by runaway team while they were driv-
ing in the country last night. Their
horse was killed. Miss Gearhart is in a
critical condition from internal injuries.
Mrs. George Merrill, aged about IS
years, died last night of consumption.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
A BIBLIoPHILE SELLS.

New York, Oct. 31.-George B. Deforest Of
this city, widely known bibliophiIe, has, 1t is
announced, sold his library, valued at $75, 600,
to q dealer,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
To cure Cold In One pav

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money If it fails to cure
p. ". Groves signature 10 on each box. 25e.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-10-23
THE CAUSE OF TIDES.
influence OF the Moon Upon the Wa
ters of the Earth Scientifically
Explained.

According to the law of grayita-
ton, the attraction of moon and
earth is mutual; moon attracts earth
as well as earth attracts moon, says
a scientific exchange. Earth then
may be considered also as travelling
round the moon. Therefore earth
falls towards moon, just as moon in
going around the earth is continually
dropping from the straight line IN
which it would move if gravitation
were not actfng. Imagine the earth
made up of three parts, independent
and free to move upon each other:
~ The waters on the side toward
the moon; CD the solid earth itself;
t3) the waters on the side away from
the moon. In going round moon and
sun, these three separate bodies
would fall toward it through a great
er or less space, according to their
individual distance from sun or moon
Waters of the opposite tide, there
fore, would fall moonward or sun
ward through the least distance,
waters of the direct tide through the
greater distance, and the earth itself
through an intermediate distance.
The resultant effect would be sep
aration from earth of the waters on
both near and further sides of it..
AS. however, the real earth and the
waters upon it are not entirely in
dependent, but only partially free
to move relatively to each other, the
separation actually produced takes
the form of a tidal bulge on two OPP
/ 5Osita Sides
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-10-23
REAL COMEDY JAIL.
New York County BastiIe from
Which Prisoners Rarely Ewes
Attempt to Escape.

Elizabethtown, the county seat of
Essex, in the Adirondacks, possesses q
comedy jail, says the New York Times.
It is small, having windows secured
by wooden bars and a jailyard inclosed
by q solid fence of quarter inch
boards which a health male could push
over with his shoulder. But the pris-
oners rarely, if ever, attempt to es-
cape.
Some good stories are told by Judge
Kellogg. Judge Hand and other resi-
dents. It is a custom to allow the pris-
oners out on parole, SO that they may
cut the grass on neighboring lawns, do
garden work, or repair roads for the
village or county. Recently one pris-
oner who should have returned at six
o'clock did not apply for admission
until nearly an hour later. The war
den angrily demanded to know the
reason, and added:
ssDonst let this occur again or will
mot allow you to come in. lock the
door at six o'clock and won't open il
in the future for you.
Another, accused Of and awaiting
trial for manslaughter, overstaid his
parole and pleaded as an excuse that
as it, was Saturday be thought he would
10 and spend Sunday with IS vile, re-
turning to the jail on Monday morn
Ing.
Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-10-23
NO FOREIGN REPAIRS.
Ships OF the American Navy No More
to Be Inspected at Will In
Alien Ports.

The navy department. has come to
the conclusion that it is not proper
thing for foreign officers and others
to have the privilege Of examining our
ships in all their details while those
vessels are on foreign stations, says
the Army and Navy Journal Ata for
eign dockyard ship is open to inspec-
ton and comment and all information
desired can be readily obtained. The
bureau of construction and repair has
brought this matter to the attention of
the secretary of the navy and has
pointed out the inadvisa bility of the
policy of permitting Americanmen-of-
war to be extensively repaired abroad.
In the future, therefore, all repairs
of any moment required by our vessels
cruising abroad will be carried out in
home dockyards where it is practica-
BILE.
The San Francisco has been sent to
the Norfolk navy yard in furtherance
of this new policy, and it is understood
that our naval vessels as fast as they
require overhauling will be promptly
sent to home station for the purpose.
Tt is felt that the time has come when
secrecy in detail may be of prime i'm
portance to our naval authorities.