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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
MERGER SUIT
Outline of the Course That
Will Probably Be
Pursued. ST..

Building, Washington.
Washington, Jan. 9.-On the authority
of one OF the best known members of the
Minnesota delegation h e Journ a
is able to announce positively that no
member of the delegation is planning any
bill intended to affect the railway merger.
The matter was fully discussed during the
holidays with Governor Van SAINT and At
torney General Douglas, and has been
taken up this week with Douglas, Mum
and Wilson. Nobody sees any necessity
for any additional procedure at present
The plan is to have the state follow up
it's case before the supreme court and
later institute one against the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific in the
state courts. After decisions have been
rendered in these cases, it will be time
enough to know what legislation is need
ed If any,, General Wilson told T h e
Journ al to-day that in his judgment
the supreme court, assuming permission
will be given to begin suit, cannot reach
final decision until late next fall. The
court will adjourn for the summer about
the middle of May. Should a suit be in
st1tuted, as the result of permission to
be granted next Monday, or some Monday
thereafter. thirty days would be given
each side for the filing of legal papers,
to summon witnesses in Chicago and New
York. and take testimony, and after that
the case will be brought into court, argued
and submitted. The court almost invari-
ably holds case several weeks, and some
times months, before announcing an opin-
ion. All these delays would carry the mat
ter far bcyind the middle of May. Should
suit he instituted, the commissioner will
be able to take testimony at his leisure
during the summer. -...
There is no way of knowing when the
supreme court will reply to Attorney Gen
eral Douglas request for permission ia
| bring suit. Saturday of each week is
consultation day, and probably Chiel
Justice Fuller will not lay the matter be-
fore his associates before that time, and
if then any of the justices should want
time in which to look up questions in
volved, the case would go over for another
week longer. Mr.. Douglas saw the
chief justice to-day and had a pleasant
visit with him. No mention was mace
of the merger matter. Mr.. Douglas was
ready in case the chief justice brought
the subject up to suggest that an early
decision would be welcomed gladly by
many thousands of good people all ove1
| the northwest.
30 W w .Jermane
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
MUST TESTIFY
Court Order TO Directors Of
Amalgamated Copper
Company.

New York, JAN 9.-Judge Lacomb Of the
United States court here has ordered that
the, directors of the Amalgamated Copper
company must submit to examination be-
fore William Klien on Friday to give tes-
timony in cases between the Montana Ore
Purchasing company and the companies
acquired by the Amalgamated Copper
company. The order directed that sub
poenas be served to examine H. H. Rog-
ers, Frederick P. Olcott, Arson r. Flower,
William G.. Rockefeller, James Stillman,
Leonard Lewiston. Robert Bacon and p.
J. Mcintosh.
The order was issued on an affidavit by
Franklin Bien, one of the solicitors in
the action. 1t recites the fact of the
tendency of the actions and that the wit
nesses reside more than 100 miles from
Butte, Mont, and are not amendable,
therefore, to any subpoena as issued by
that court to attend the trial in Butte.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
Football Enthusiasts Paid $4,000
to See Minnesota Games in the
Season Recently Closed.
Gross Receipts for Wisconsin Game
We're $4,000 Seasons Profit
Will Be About $4,000.

Thirty-three thousand football enthusi-
asts rooted at games on Northrop field
during the season of 1901 and $4,000 sup
piled the chorus for the contests fought
out on the gridirons at Madison, Evans
ton and Champaign. For the pleasure
derived from the liking of sports" it's ad-
mirers gave up coin of the realm to the
amount of $40, 900 for admission alone and
spent thousands more in attendance upon
the games away from Minneapolis and in
backing up a team which, though once
badly defeated, yet closed the season with
credit.
Financially, the season of 1901 was big
success for the athletic association of the
University of Minnesota. The schedule
was hard one; three of the games were
played away from home and yet the sea-
son closed with nearly $4,000 net above
the expenses of the season.
The total receipts of the association
$45,000, of which $4,000 came from spring
athletics, baseball and track meets. The
remaining $4,000 represents the receipts
of the football season of 1901 in the ag-
gregate. OF this amount approximately
one-half was turned over to visiting
teams as their share. Minnesota's gross
receipts for the season were thus close to-
$4,000. Expenses Of every nature ag-
gregate $1,000, leaving net balance, in
round numbers, of 1000.
The first game of the season was with
the second team early in September and
Melted = $250.71 The game between the
Minneapolis, and st. Paul high schools
and the varsity brought In $500. The
receipts Of the Carleton and Chicago
P. and S. games were about $3.50 and
1900 respectively. Then came the Ne
braska game on October IL, when the
Nebraskans came to Minneapolis by
thousands only to see their team go down
to defeat. The receipts Of this game
were $4,000. On the following Saturday
the game with Grinnel1 was cancelled,
out of respect to the memory of Governor
Pillsbury. This necessitated the payment
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of. a guarantee of $780, On Oct. 26.
the Iowans came up to Minneapolis
with small following of admirers
They had lost heart before they started
and were afraid they couldn't win. The
football world generally believed this,
too, and in consequence the receipts OF
the game fell off considerably. These
were few hundred dollars short Of
$4,000. The two remaining games on
Northrop field with the Haskell Indians
and North Dakota netted the manages
ment practically nothing. The gross
receipts were about $500. OF which $500 was
given as bonus to the Haskell team.
Nov. Is. the day Minnesota received
such jolt at the hands of the badger
team at Madison, was not SO "blue'' a
day so far as the financial part was con-
cerned. Minnesota's share of the receipts
of that game amounted to $500, and the
two games with Northwestern and Illinois
brought in about $4,000. Only at
Northwestern was the guarantee ac-
5cepted. In this case it amounted to
$3.50.
An Expensive Sport.
The expense budget of the season was
large one, amounting to nearly $1,000.
This includes the salary Of the coach,
$4,000, for the training table $1,000, for
travelling expenses to Madison, Chicago
and Champaign, $4,000, repairs on field
$780, uniforms and equipment $500, "rub-
bers," $500, advertising $1,000. Salaries
of manager and trainers, with incidentals,
swell the total expense to nearly $1,000.
The balance in the treasury amounts to
about $4,000. This is an amount very
much IN excess of that Of any other foot
ball season at the University of Mime
sofa. This fund will be used to enlarge
the seating capacity at Northrop field and
in improving the gridiron. The field will
not be enlarged this year. The grand
stand, which now has seating capacity
of 1900, will be enlarged by the add.
tion of a second story. The bleachers also
will be extended permanently the full
length of the field on both sides of the
gridiron.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
STEAMER LOST
Captain of the Bristol and
Six of His Crew.
Drowned.


Vancouver, B. c., Jan. 9. = The big
steamer Briston was wrecked on the coast
Of Green Island. half way between here
and Skagway, on the plight Of Jan. 2 and
Captain Mcintyre and six of the crew
were lost.
" Three boats carrying seven men each
which was the last to leave the steamer,
was smashed against the collier and all
on board went down. The following were
lost: +.
JAMES M'INTYRE, captain.
c. VIVIAN. chief engineer.
FRANK ROBERTS, pilot.
A.. EDWARDS, third engineer.
H. G. HURTLAND. .-...
WILLIAM H.. ROMER.
JOSEPH SILVA.
" The three boats were picked up next
morning by the steamer Cottage City.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
IDENTIFIED
Harvey Logan Said to Be One
of the Montana Train
Nrn -
Robbers.

Knoxville, Tenn, Jan. General Man
ager D. S. Elliott and Messenger G. H.
Smith of the Great Northern Express COM
pany, and Fireman F. w. O'Neil, who
were on the train which was robbed by
bandits at Wagner, Mont, July 3 last,
have positively Identified the man under
arrest here as Harvey Logan as one of
the men who robbed the, express car of
the new Montana bank bills and other
valuables.
The same train which brought these
three men here had as passengers man
and woman who came on Great Northern
tickets, and who are believed to be friends
of Harvey Logan. They are thought to
have followed the Elliott party to this
city. They are being looked for by the
police. Messrs. Elliott, Smith and O'Neil
have departed for St. Paul
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
FALLS FROM
HIS PEDESTAL
Astounding Developments in
Late Management Of SD.
Reform School.
w. H. Tompkins, Former su-
perintendent Involved in
Sensational Scandal
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Aberdeen, S. D., Jan. 9.-The state board
of charities and corrections in session at
Plankinton to-day, expunged from the
records resolution commencing the adj
ministration of w. H. Tompkins which
was adopted at the time. Tompkins was
superseded as superintendent of the re-
form school. This action was the result
of an investigation into the management
of the institution which was begun shortly
after Superintendent Young took charge
and which was instituted at the request
of several girl inmates, who claimed to
have been the victims Of gross indignities.
The stories told by the girls in the form
of affidavits are unprintable and are OF
such a character as to appall the reader.
The scandal promises to become the
worst in the history of the northwest
and it is doubtful if such disgraceful
charges have ever before been made
against the head of public reformatory.
= He Wrote Letters.
The charges embrace moral turpitude Of
grave character. Young girls, some of
them Of comparatively tender years, one
less than 16, swear that Tompkins fire.
quently made criminal advances to them,
that he Waylaid them on numerous occa-
sions and took scandalous liberties with
their persons surprising them in their
sleeping rooms and in bathrooms. None
of them would admit having submitted,
but their affidavits are explicit as to
other acts that cannot be described.
One of the girls produced a letter which
she claimed to have received from Tomp-
kins after he had left the institution, ad-
vising her that he would meet her at
Sioux City at any time and containing Pc
culiar references to other girl inmates.
This letter, the girl sWore, was in Temp
kins' handwriting, although it was not
sigLed. The letter requested the girl not
to write to him direct, for fear of trouble,
but to address her letters to a we'll known
lawyer and politician of Rapid City, who
would see they were safely delivered
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
COUNTY PRINTING AWARDS.

Special to The Journal.
Hastings. Mimi, Jan. 9.-At the meeting OF
the board Of county commissioners yesterday.
the financial statement was awarded to the
Pennington Tribune, the delinquent tax list
to the Gazette, and the proceedings to the
Democrat, at legal rates, supplements to be
furnished every paper in Dakota county. The
following physicians were also appointed to
attend the sick poor: DR.. Charles Cappellen OF
Hastings. DR.. E.. w. Hammes of New Trier,
DR.. w. NJ. Dodge Of Pennington. and DR.. ].
e.. MacNamara of West st. PauI.-The funeral
Of Miss Lena Freiermuth daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Columbus Freiermuth Of Hampton,
will take place from st. Mary's church, New
Trier, tomorrow at 10 a. M, Rev. Leopold
Haas officiating.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
DARK. FOR 0LEO
U. S. Supreme Court Would
Not Help the Manu-
facturers.
Vow York Sun sDeox.1 s,rvxos

wow YORK sun 0D0GIn 60Pvl0O
Washington, Jan. .9.-The supreme
courts decision sustaining the oleomar-
garine act of Ohio, which is in some re-
spects the most drastic of all state laws
against the cleo industry, illustrates the
peril of that industry in case congress
should pass the Grout bill.
The only hope Of the oleo manufacturers
would be that the supreme court would
declare the law unconstitutional The
Ohio decision. makes it reasonably clear
that the court would do nothing of the
sort The circuit bill Is simply an amended
version Of the Ohio law. The underlying
purpose. of the two is the same-to de-
stroy the oleomargarine industry. This
was presented to the court in a clear anG
comprehensive manner by the attorneys
for the oleo manufacturers Of Ohio, bu
the court ignored 1t upon the broad GROUND
that the Ohio legislature had not ex.
ceeded its police powers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
ANOTHER CAVE.IN
Bodies of Buried Miners at
Negaunee May Not Be
Recovered.

Special to The Journal.
Negaunee Mich, Jan. 9.-Another large
block of ground caved in at the Negaunee
mine last night, going direct to the left
where the bodies Of nine workingmen are
entombed.
The blacksmith shop, which stood on the
bank few feet from the opening, went
down, and it is feared the dry house will
also go. The drift Is filling with water,
and with the shaft in bad shape it may
be weeks before the bodies are recovered,
if at all. The names Of the dead given
out at the mine office last night are:
William Williams, John Sullivan, John
Pascoe, John Pearce, William Pokanan,
Rick Lofty, Jacob Hanala and Louis and
Jacob Mattson
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
Washington Small Talk.

Representative Esch, of Wisconsin, ap-
and asked for an appropriation of 81, 600 for
an additional building at Tomah school Rep
resentative Morris did not. have hearing,
but it was decided to set aside a day in the
near future for the consideration Of his Chip
pewa timber bill.
Iowa postmasters appointed to-day: Cylin-
der, Palo Alto county, J. A. Jones; Swanton,
Butler county, Henry w. Whatton.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
OCEAN VESSELS.

OIE7AIN- lVESSEIo. -
New York-Arrived: Friesland, from Ant
werp; Teutonic, from Liverpool.
Hamburg-Arrtved: Phoenicia, from New
York.
es-Arrived: Hohenzollsrb. from Nsw
York. as.f mi
Liverpool-Arrived: Celtic and, Majestic
from New York; Partisan, from st. JOHN.
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WIFE MIRnEp cAsp conc ovEp

WIFE MURDER CASE GOES OVER.
Special to The Journal
Waverly, Iowa, Jan. 9.-The trial Of Louis
Busse for the murder of his wife, has been
continued to the April term of court The
case was brought here on change CT venue
from Allison, Bremen county.
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: AN INQUIRY
One Will Be Made Into Cru
city Charges at Red
Wing School.

President Leavett Of the state board of
control says thorough investigation will
be made of the charge of cruelty at the
Red Wing school The monthly meeting
at the institution will be held Friday or
Saturday but the investigation will not
occur until later. Some of the complain
ants have asked that their testimony be
taken at ST. Paul instead of at Red Wing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-09
FLOUR TO THE ORIENT
Order Ever Shipped From
the Pacific Coast.

Special to The Journal.
San Francisco, Jan. 9.-The largest order of
-four ever shipped from the Pacific coast is
being filled by the Sperry Flour company Of
Stockton, Cal. The order includes 5000 tons
for the orient. AS the order is for quick de-
livery 1t was impossible to obtain accommo-
dations on regular steamship. The COM
pany therefore chartered the steamship Arab.
The vessel will take the first complete cargo
Of -four ever sent to China by California
mill. 81
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Department of Commerce


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$500 HOTEL ROBBERY.
Special to The journal.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Jan. 9.-The Hotel
Belvidere burglarized last night and $25
taken from the bar till, besides a quantity of
cigars and other goods.
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w ID
Lumber company in
answer to the demand for
payment for green 'lum-
Der cut on the White Earth reservation
last winter, states that there's nothing
further to say and that the former re-,
fusal to pay for the timber must be adj
hered to, and Indian Commissioner Jones
said to-day that there was but one thing
to do now, bring suit to recover the
amount due. AS soon as the necessary
papers can be prepared, the case will be
referred to the attorney general.
. w w .Termane
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-02-26
LIBERTY'5 LIGHT TO 90 OUT.
Great Statue No Longer to Be a
Beacon for Marines.

Liberty's light is to shine but two
weeks more. says New York dis
patch. Notice to marines has been
sent out by the lighthouse BOARD to
the effect that the light shown from
the great Bartholdi statue, Liberty
Enlighting the World, twill be discon-
tinued about March /. The reason,
not given in the notice, is that con-
gress has declined to make an appro-
priation.
The light upheld by the great statue,
which was presented to this country
by the people of the Republic >ot
France in 1886, was designed to shine
forever. An electric light plant capa-
BILE of furnishing % acknowledgement
light was installed, but it cost $4,000 a
year to run, and it has not been used
recently. Now acknowledgement has
been found too expensive.
The statue cost S25O,OOO before it
left France.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-02-26
DESTITUTION IN ARKANSAS.
Drought Causes Terrible Suffer-
ing in Four Counties.

The conditions prevailing in the
four counties of Baxter. Fulton, Sharp
and lizard, in north Arkansas, are
dreadful to contemplate, as a result OF
the terrible drought from which the
country suffered last year. With the
exception of fairly good wheat crop
in that section, there was scarcely
anything raised by the farmers.
The corn crop was an absolute fail
ure, and there is not now sufficient
corn in the affected district TO plant
the crops. The same is true as to the
cotton crop. The people are in need
of bread, feed for stock and seed for
planting to enable crop to be made.
In view of these conditions a meet
ing was held at Franklin, lard, coun-
ty, on January 20, participated in by
leading men from all parts of the four
counties, who declared that "A per
cent of the people are in need of help
and of that number so per cent are
practically destitute, the remainder
wholly unable to do more than care
for themselves.
Resolutions were adopted calling on
Arkansas senators and representatives
in congress to take active steps to Sc
cure financial aid from the federal gov
eminent to assist the people until an
other crop is made. To add to the
serious conditions it is feared by many
that the wheat in the counties is al
most totally destroyed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-02-26
|CHRISTIAN INDIAN WAS BURIED ALIVE.
of Age Was Converted by Missionary and
Denounced Mummeres of Tribal Medicine Men, Found
n and Died Soon Afterwards.

A special from Seattle, Wash, says:
The steamer Dirigo, which arrived
from Alaska several days ago, brings
news that Chilkoot Indians, near Hins
Mission, Alaska, on February 5, bur-
led alive one of their tribe, a boy fifteen
years old. The boy had been convert
ed to Christianity by Methodist
missionary, and in burst of religious
zeal denounced the mummeries of the
tribal medicine men. This act arous-
cd the anger and superstitions of the
men of the tribe.
Recently fourteen natives residents
of the village of Kluckwan died of con-
sumption and this spread the belief
that the boy, in league with the evil
one, through his knowledge of the
white mans religion, caused the
deaths.
The disappearance of the boy from
school aroused the suspicious of Mr..
Sellon and he started in search. At
the outskirts Of the village he found
the tracks leading to fresh grave.
Digging down he found the boy still
aliye, his blodshot eyes rolling in in
sane agony, his hair torn in handfuls
from his head. His finger nails were
torn off in his efforts to escape from
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-02-26
HER DEAD BODY FOUND
STANDING AGAIST A TREE
MRS. AMANDA LESTER DISAPPEARED
FROM HER HOME NEAR WESTON.
Foul Play Suspected, But No Evidence
of it Has Been Found So Far.
Shrouded in Mystery.

The mysterious disappearance of
Mrs. Amanda Lester, prominent and
respected lady IS years of age. which
has caused the greatest sensation ever
knows in Webster county, has been
solved by the finding of her body in
swamp nearly three miles from the
home of her sister, Mrs. Dismuke, of
Weston, with whom Mrs. Lester had
been staying for some time.
When the body was found it was evil
dent that Mrs. Lester had been dead
for some hours. However, there was
no signs to. indicate foul play, and the
mystery as to the cause of her wander
ing away and dying in the swamp is
now as far from solution as ever.
News received in Dawson from Wes-
ton says that when found Mrs. Lester
was standing against tree dead. Her
cape was found in creek some dis
lance away, and in the pocket of her
dress was found her purse containing
several dollars.
Mrs. Lester left the home of her sis
ter to walk in the woods, as was often
her custom. Nothing was Thought of
this until night had come on and she
had not returned. Although her sis
ter and family were greatly alarmed
they had no great fears, thinking
that surely Mrs. Lester had stopped
with some of the neighbors.
When in the morning inquiry was
made and it was found that no one had
seen anything of the aged lady her
people at once realized the gravity of
the situation and search was at once
instituted.
The news soon spread all through
the town of Weston that Mrs. Lester
had disappeared, and the widest ex-
element prevailed. AS time wore on
this grew none ;the less, but on the
other hand increased as place after
place was carefully examined and
still the search remained fruitless.
Many theories as TO the disappearance
of Mrs. Lester we're advanced, but
hardly any Two agreed. Though MANY
thought that foul play had been done
no motive could be assigned, and
there was not the slightest cIew on
which to suspect anyone.
Eearly the third day after her disap-
pearance the body was found In the
swamp by party OF the searchers.
The finding of the body has exploded
the foul play theory, as there was no
sign to indicate criminal action on the
part of any one.
On the other hand. it ia said that
Mrs. Lester had always been possessed
of strong mind and that she was not
given to wandering.
Mrs. Lester was an aunt of Mrs.
Walker Lewis, wife of the well-kno wn
Methodist minister, and was a resi-
dent of Atlanta until about year ago.
when she went to Westoa to live with
her sister.
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Because of the precautions of the
traffickers in the meat it was found
impossible to get much evidence,
"The price charged for horse mea:
ranges from two to four cents pound
for fore-quarters and from three to
five cents for headquarters. Choice
cuts for steaks and roasts bring from
four to seven cents a pound. The
same cuts of beef average from 20 to %
cents a pound"