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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
LOCOMOTIVES IN EGYPT
British Reports Comparing Ameri-
can With British Engines.

London, April "A parliamentary pa
per gives correspondence respecting the
comparative merits of the American,
British and Belgian locomotives now in
use in Egypt. In dispatch to the, foreign
secretary, covering reports received from
railroad officials, the British diplomatic
agent and consul general in Egypt, Lord
Cromer, draws the general conclusion that
the main reason why SO many orders for
railroad plants have recently been given
to the United States is that the Ameri-
can firms are able to execute them with
extraordinary rapidity, due largely to the
system of standardization. In respect to
price Lord Cromer finds the British firms
can hold their own where special designs
have to be executed. s
With respect to the quality of British
work it is at least equal, often superior,
to American and Belgian work, while in
consumption Of coal the British engines
have a decided superiority over the Amer
lean, though not over the Belgian engines.
The British manufacturers weak point
is delay in executing orders. Tests showed
that the American freight engines con-
sumed 25.4 per cent more coal than the
British, while the latter drew 22.1 more
load. With the same load, the American
passenger engine consumed so per cent
more coal than the British engine.
Mr.. tombstone, president of the rail-
road board, gives warning against the
condemnation of American locomotives
because these trials have been unsatis-
factory, pointing out that the Egyptian
engineers and firemen are not SO muscu-
lar nor intelligent as the Americans, and
that alterations had to be made to enable
them to operate the locomotives satisfac-
torily. He says in some cases suitable
American design has been selected and
the difference of coal consumption was
very small
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
POKES FUN At PROMOTER
Sabin Says He's the Kind
Who Always Wants to
Borrow ''Ten."

Former Senator Sabin takes a search
me- attitude toward the reports coming
from Detroit that big contracts have been
let for the construction of the Gulf &
Manitoba road from Duluth . to Kansas
City. In recent interview at Duluth,
he said:
~ question very much the authenticity OF
that story. l am personally acquainted with
one of the men who is evidently at the back
OF the so-called project. He is an English
man and just such a man as one would ex-
pect 10 $3.50 -Jch story to be published
broadcast. That chap is a professional pro-
moter and always dead broke One cannot
be in his presence an hour without being
asked for a loan of ten dollar bill
The Duluth gulf road proposition is an old
one, and while, of course, it would be an
excellent thing for this city and the country
through which the read would run, to nv
mind it will be a great many years before we
will see realization Of the scheme 1t will
cost an immense amount of money to carry
out the project and am of the opinion that
there is no one set Of men at the present time
who are willing to finance the thing
The New York Comemrcial publishes an
authorized statement to the effect that
the Banque Franchise and Calonial of
Paris and Belgium have agreed to take
100000 of bonds for the building of
the Manitoba & Gulf railroad on the
basis of IS per cent.
The road will run from Duluth to Oma-
ha and Kansas City, cutting every one of
the greatItranscOntinental lines,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
WEEK OF So HOURS
New Schedule Adopted by Employ
ing Machinists of the City.
SHORTER HOURS AT SAME PAY
1t Means Il Saturday Half-HoIiday
for Machinists-ActiOn Purely
Voluntary.

Employing machinists of the city have
done the handsome thing by their men in
cutting down their hours Of work and in
leaving the scale of wages at the former
standard. This has, been worked out in
way that will be appreciated by the ma
chinists of the city, too. The new sched-
ule, as adopted by the employers without
even a suggestion from the machinists,
calls for tifty-six hours work per week,
with sixty hours pay, as against sixty
hours work for sixty hours pay, under
the former schedule. Ten hours will
constitute days work every day except
Saturday, on which six hours will make
days work, the shops closing at / p ln,
giving the men Saturday half holiday.
This course was decided upon at q
recent meeting of the employing machin-
lists and is not in any sense the result of
the strike of last year, when the en-
ployers were masters Of the situation. It
is purely voluntary action on the part of
the employers and will be all the more
Appreciated
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
CLEVER MIND READING
Henry Payne Keeps the Odd Fellows
GUESSING

..... GucSS1nS.
A rival to the famous Bishop and the
mystifyihg P. Alexander Johnson has
arisen in Minneapolis in the person of
Henry 5. Payne, who has been doing
some mind reading stunts lately before
Minneapolis fraternal orders.
: Payne is not in the class Of the six
questions fora dollar clairvoyants nor of
the ordinary sciritualistic mediums; he
appears simply as an entertainer. Last
night before North Star Lodge l. o.
0. F. he cave an exhibition which made
the members sit uD and wink hard Two
score or more paper slips, some blank
and some containing names of departed
members of the order were folded and
placed in hat and Payne drew them
rapidly, one at a time. The blanks were
instantly rejected without unfolding,
while those with names were as quickly
read and Payne went on to give an ac-
curate description of each Though a
new conner in Minneapolis, he told all of
the late William Cheney's characteris-
tics and described his occupation. In this
instance he even went so far as to de-
scribe the tragedy at Minnetonka several
years ago wherein Mr.. Cheney's little
daughter was drowned.
Another test new to mind reading was
the reproduction Of a letter written in
another room. DR.. A. K. Norton retired
to one of the committee rooms and wrote
letter to Payne asking him il he could
diagnose disease. Payne was seated at a
typewriter before the audience and when
Dr. Norton returned with his document,
Payne had an exact copy already written
on his typewriter. This reading of the
mind at distance and without personal
contact is characteristic of Payne's work
and he gave other illustrations of it last
nipht
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
TOWN TALK

Correct spring clothes at The plymouth" 4
Pictures eXquisitey framed for presents.
The Beard Art Co., 624 Nicollet.
Frederick Roach has been selling Rambler
bicycles since 1887 at $40 Henneoin az.
Miss Leonard will move April 8, from Syn
dictate Arcade to 4o2 Tenth street S. -
We offer a very desirable $4,000 per cent
city loan. Barnes Brothers, Oneida block
The Title Insurance and Trust Company
pays per cent on deposits subject to check.
Steinberg, the violinist, will give benefit
concert for the Peoples Temple at Century
hall, April 16.
The regular meeting of the Minneapolis
Stamp Collectors Club will be held Friday
evening April A. at 5t4 Bank of Commerce
building.N
stamp Deputy II. +. Dams of the revenue
once reports total stamp sales for March OF
S49, o5s,Sl. The total for a year ago under the
old revenue law was sol ,66S5S.
A vicious dog attacked A. ]. Ward, of oil
- seventeenth. street, as he was riding his
picyc!e in the eastern part of the city, and
bit him in the calf of the leg The wound
was dressed at a hospital.
The House of Faith Presbyterian church
held its annual meeting Monday eyenina r
W. Hengereld and d. c. Craig were elected
elders, and J. l.. Brown a trustee Reports
showed the year just closed to have been the
most m. prosperous in the history of the church
Mucn credit is due the pastor, Rev. Charles
Scanlon, lately nominated for governor of the
state by the prohibition PARTY.
Delegates and alternates to the national
association as OF letter carriers convention at
by minneapolis branch, No. 8, as follows:
Guy c. Hawkins, John A. Hanson, o. A.
olson and Charles w Schwerin: alternates,
Charles ii. Northham, J. j. McKenna. j. l..
Langan and George B. Dickinson.
A cantata representing the return of the
Jews to Jerusalem from captivity in Babylon
VIII be given this evening in St. Peters A
NJ. E. church. A chorus of forty voices will
assist the soloists, Mrs Frances E. De Leo
Mrs. Olive A. MARSHALL Of Chicago T. w
Luca and F. Carpenter Nelson Mrs, E. P
Crawford will be at the piano, Mrs. Arleen
Scott the organ, II. Buckner violin, and E.
English, cornet e.- a..
Several chicken .coops belonging to South
Minneapolis residents have been raded re-
Gently. Monday night the hennery of George
Raybarde, Il mail carrier, Fifty-frst street
and Fort avenue, was broken open and twenty
chickens We're taken Others who have re-
ported losses are Andrew Hove, Fort avenue
and Fifty third street, and Messrs. Brown,
and Elliott, residing at Fifty-second street
and Thirty second avenue S.
Y. NJ. c. A. annual gymnastlc and athletic
exhibition will take place tonight at 8
O'Clock The events are follows: Twenty
yard dash, class drill on horizontal and par
allel bars by advanced class, business men s
drill, fencing by Mr.. Mallette of St Paul and
Mr.. Smith OF Minneapolis, also exhibition be-
tween Miss Tweet and Mr. Malette, tumblng
and boxing, running high jump.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
The Predictions.

Minneso ta-Generally fair Tonight,
Thursday partly cloudy with proba bly,
threatening in west portion; slightly
cooler in east portion tonight; warmer
in west portion Thursday; northerly
winds. Upper Internationally fair
tonight and Thursday, except possibly
snow Aurries in extreme east portion;
northwest winds. Wisconsin-Gcnerally
fair tonight and Thursday; slightly
cooler in north portion tonight; norther
ly winds. Iowa-Partly cloudy tonight
and Thursday, probably threatening in
west portion Thursday; warmer in west
portion tonight; northerly winds. North
and South Dakota-lncreasing cloudiness
tonight and possibly showers in west
portion; Thursday probably showers;
warmer northeast winds shifting to south
east. Montana-Showers tonight and
probably Thursday: variable winds.
For Minneapolis and Vicinity-Fair to-
night and Thursday
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
Weather Conditions.

Except for light rains on the middle
and north Pacific coast, light snow in the
WESTERN 2arts Of New York and Pennsyl
vania and snow hurries in northern
Michigan, there has been no precipitation
since yesterday morning. 1t is warmer
than it was twenty four hours ago in the
Rocky Mountain region, Kansas, Okla
homa and western Texas: elsewhere the
changes are slight. The
movements of the pressure areas are
rather sluggish. The low pressure on the
north Pacific yesterday morning has
moved east of the Cascade range, but the
''high' in the central lart of the cOun
try, and the Glow off the New England
coast are moving eastward very slowly.
T. S. Outram, Section Director.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
TRIES TO END HIS LIFE
FRED BoHANNoN, CAMDEN PLACE
He Wa. ont Of work and De.pon-
dency Is Thought to Have
Caused Deed.

. 4 .
Fred Bohanon, aged 40. tried to end his
life by shooting himself last night.
Though appearing to be in the best Of
spirits, after leaving other members of the
family, he stepped outsinto the woodshed
back of his home, 4316 Washington avenue
n, and, placing revolver to his head,
just back of the right ear, he sent bull
let into his BRAIN DR.. G. A. Smith was
called and ordered Bohanon removed to
Asbury hospital where he is lingering in
precarious condition.
Bohanon was butcher, in the employ
of his brother, Charles Bohanon, who con-
Quoted a market near the Bohanon home.
Yesterday the elder Bohanon sold his
shop and this left the brother out of en-
ployment. This is the only reason that
can he assigned for his desire to end his
life. Bohanon's father was j. G. Bohanon,
who took homestead in what is now
Camden Place about fifty years ago
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
Minimum TemDcr;t lures.
Minimum temperatures for the twenty
four hours ending at 8 a. NJ. to-day:
NOW UP TO TANSEY
The Engineers Union Is Ready to
Initiate Him.

According to members of the stationary
engineers union, James TanSey has slim
foundation for his charge that the orSani-
zation is prosecuting him. Tansey init
mates that his card is being withheld
to keep him from joining the union and
taking the place of one Of the union en-
gneers at the city hospital. Union rep
resentatives say that Tansey's application,
received just a month ago, has not been
held up. Instead, it has passed through
the usual process Of careful Investigation,
to establish the applicants qualifications
as an engineer. Last night when the
union met it was ready to receive the re-
port on the application and to initiate
Tansey as as he had passed the usual
examination, but the candidate did not
appear.
The engineers also warmly defend Bust
ness Agent Turner of their union against
Tansey's implied charge of official I'M
fairness When Tansey first came to the
hospital to work and was discovered to
be non union, Turner went so far as to
give him an official permit to work as a
union man until his application had been
passed upon. This permit expired last
night and the whole thing appears to be
up to Tansey. ,,'.'..,. g.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
ALTGELD'S WIDOW
Fund Being Raised for Her, the Fo1
mer Governor Dyin.. Poor

Fund Being Raised for Her, the For
mer Governor Dyin. Poor.
From The Journal Bureau, Room 10 Post
Building, Washington.
Washington, April 2.-Clarence barrow and
Joseph Martin are here visiting democrats o.
national prominence in the interest of For
mer Governor Altgeld's widow, who, it is
reported has been left practically destitute
An effort is being made to keep this errand
from becoming generally public and the
friends OF the deceased decline to say what
success they are having. 1t is known, how
ever, that senators and men of national repu.
tation who knew and admired Altgeld have
asked to be put down for sums ranging from
$500 to $1,000 1t is related here that Gov
ernor Altgeld did not leave money enough
to pay for his burial and that all funeral ex-
penses will be met by private subscription
w, w. Jermane
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
HOW SEEDS GROW
Novel Plan for Showing Termination
Devised by w. w. Carlisle.

The termination of seeds is to be illus
trated to the pupils Of Hamilton school
in novel way. William W. Carlisle Of
the local weather bureau has devised a
plan which will show the growth of sew
cral varieties of plants from the seed.
An electric Jar has been lined with
white blotting caner and the interior
filled with thoroughly wet sawdust. Over
the top absorbent cotton forms pro-
lection Around the sides between the
glass and the blotter, in plain sight, have
been placed kernels of corn, oats barley,
wheat, flax and seeds of the morning
glory, pumpkin, squash and sunfower
In the course of time, nourishment be .
ing drawn from the moisture of the saw
dust, the seeds will grow, and the whole
process OF termination, the putting forth
of roots and the full growth can be
watched with great interest by the school
children.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
califor,nia-via The SUNSHINE Route.

If you contemplate trip to California
this fall or winter consult the Chicago,
Milwaukee, & st. Paul Ry.
Beginning Tuesday, Oct. 18th, and every
Tuesday thereafter during the season, a
high-class Pullman tourist sleeping car
will leave st. Paul and Minneapolis, run
ming through to Los Angeles without
change arriving Los Angeles Saturday
morning, four days.
The line is via the celebrated c., M. g.
st. p. "Hedrick Route" to Kansas City.
thence over the A., T. & S. r. Ry., max
ing the most popular and interesting
route to the South Pacific Coast.
This service includes the personally
conducted feature west of Missouri river
"a special conductor accompanies each
car, whose duty it is to carefully look
after the wants of each Individual pas
senger.
Write for the cheapest. rates and for
copy of the Sunshine" folder, containing
full particulars of this famous route.
II. T. Conley, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent,
u G., M. & st. P. Ry., st Paul.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
Giant Morning Glories.
They Are Winning Friends on Ac-
count OF Size and Glorious Col
Oring.

Everybody loves morning glories Even
did they not give us a grand new well
come every day of their season, they
would be loved for their luxuriant foliage
and their generous shade during mid
summer.
A new variety Of morning glories is
the Giant Mikado," introduced by North
rup, King & Co., seedsmen, % Hennepin
avenue, Minneapolis. The flowers are of
gigantic size, with colorngs and markings
beyond description from snow white to
black purple), pink, rose fiery red, Grim
son, pale blue, royal purple, maroon, in
digo, bronze, slate, brown, cherry and
ash gray; some are varigated, some
spotted, some edged with one color and
the threat of another in variety almost
infinite.
small packet will plant quite bed.
You can find out all about these. as well
as other varieties, by calling for cata-
logue at % Hennepin avenue II not
convenient we will send you the catalogue
free, if you write for it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
A VERNET MASTERPIECE
A Battle Picture Found in S
Louis Cafe

st. Louis, Mo-, April I'm an old cafe
in Market street painting has been
found believed to be masterpiece of
Horance Vernet, who fourished in the
early part of the last century. After care
full cleaning by James Kelly, an artist,
the painting showed in vivid colors bat
tie scene in the Soudan between Beduoins
and lions.
Halsey C. Ives, director of the museum
of fine arts, pronounces the picture a
Vernet. 1t is probably worth SIS 900.
Friends of Speck, the proprietor of the
cafe, who died recently, asked him to
send his pictures to some competent per-
son for examination but he always re-
fused
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
BIDS WERE NOT ASKED
For Fine New Books for the Sheriff.
Office.


1t will doubtless be in order soon for
some one to inquire why bids were not
sought by the county commissioners in or
dering the new books for the sheriffs
office. 1t may be that the set was sup
piled under $780, but persons somewhat
familiar say that this is not likely unless
the prices formerly obtained by the
county for it's special books have been cut
in a most liberal manner. The books
themselves are. magnificent in appearance,
being bound in leather and apparently of
the best.
Of course, no sheriff who ever held
office in Hennepin county ever had such a
splendid set Of books in which to carry
his accounts. The new books are recep-
ton register, service record, civil case
journal, cash deposit record, register of
sheriff's collections and mortgage sales
records Most oftthem were unknown to
former sheritfs, although they doubtless
kept somefhat similar records, if not in
such elaborate books
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
Business. Opportunities for All.

Locations in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota
and Missouri on the Chicago Great West~
ern railway; the very best agricultural
section Of the United States. where farm
ers are prosperous, and business men sue
cessful We have demand for competan4
men,. with the necessary capital. for all
branches OF business. Some special OPP
Good locations for general merchandise
hardware, harness, hotels, banks anS
stockbuyers. Correspondence solicited
Write for maps and maple leaflets ". i.
Reed. Industrial Agent. 6O4 Endicott
Building, St. Paul Mimi. IA So, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
HOLY TRINITY ELECTION
Fiftieth Anniversary Of Parish-An
nuaI Meeting of St. Andrews.

i Z.
The annual election of Holy Trinity par
ish last evening resulted as follows Sen
tor warden, George S., Grimes; junior war
den, H. N, Lyon; vestrymen, Professor F.
S. Jones, Joseph Garbett, J, S. Todd, A.
Schenden. A. B. White. N. Nyberg, M. c.
Williams and PR. Holmes; clerk of yes
try, Theodore Potts; treasurer, A. G..
White; delegates to council. George S.
Grimes, w. Woolett, Michael Garbett, A.
G. White, J. P. Coan.
Since the organization of the parish
there have been 876 baptisms, 554 con-
formations, 237 marriages, and 1853 burials
recorded. The total contributions in the
fifty years were s1O4 ,990.91 OF this amount
s51, 1910 has been given during the past
ten years.
The occasion was the f1ftieth anniver-
sary Of the organization of the parish.
At the annual meeting of St. Andrews
church the following were elected: SEN
Tor warden, E. Mortimer; junior warden,
c. Whips; yestrymen George Ainsworth,
Oscar Bergland, Peter Christian S. O..
Abrams, Robert Merriam, w. c. Put man.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
California ana Return. $50.

The North Western Line will make a.
special rate of $50 for the round trip from;
st. Paul Minneapolis to Los Angeles and
San Francisco for the Convention of Fed
Grafton Womens Clubs May 1st-sth.
Tickets on sale April Goth to 9th in
elusive. For full information as to stop
over privileges, different routes, accom-
modations, ETC.. call on or write J. A.
O'Brien, G. T.. A., S22 Nicollet Ave-, Min
neapolis or E. A, Whitaker, C. T. A., SS2
Robert St., st. Paul, or T. W. Teasdale,
GenI Passenger Agent, st. Paul, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
SMALL'S CASE DISMISSED
The Chicago Court Exonerates Min
neapOIis Man.

In Justice Gibbons court in Chicago
yesterday the suit against Sanford S.
Small Of Minneapolis, who was charged
with larceny as bailee was dismissed
John Anderson, a rival real estate dealer
with whom Small had dealings in 1898,
had Small arrested, charging that he had
disposed OF certain bonds and securities
held by them jointly and that he had
made no remittance to Anderson. Small
showed that he had turned over certain
holdings in Louisville, Texas, for Ander-
sons share in the property. Small was
exonerated by the court, and Anderson
was Informed that if Small had taken any
thing from him it was ground for civil
and not g criminal case. Smalls attor-
neys assert that it was plain case of an
attempt to disgrace Small without reason.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
!. p. Charges ut Staples.

Special to The Journal.
Staples. Mimi, April 2,-H A. Lyddon en-
tered to-day; upon lis duties as master me
ern Pacific and F. Larson as storekeeper.
The territory formerly presided over by Mr.,
Bean has been divided as the work was too
heavy tor one man. The stores department
at East Grand Forks has been discontinued
and the accounting will be done at this point
in future. Mr.. Lyddon will have charge of
the lines in Minnesota from ST. Paul to
Fargo and from Winnipeg Junction to the
boundary. Mr.. Bean is to have all the lines
east of Staples. so
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
Pressed Steel Car Wheels.

Bethlehem, Pa, April 2-An expert
mental plant to cost several millions of
dollars is to be built at the Bethlehem
Steel company's works by President
Schwab of the United States Steel cor
poration, and Charles T. Schoen, formerly
president of the Pressed Steel Car COM
pany, for the manufacture of car wheels
from pressed steel.