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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
TO SPEND S50O,0OO.
The Northwestern Telephone Ex-
change Company
PLANS EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS
Frederick p. Fish, President of the
Parent Company, Is
Here.

Frederick P. Fish of New York, presi-
dent OF the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company, which controls the North
western Telephone Exchange company of
this city, is spending the day in Minne-
apolis. He says that the total expendi-
ture for improvements made by the
northwestern this year will amount to
half million dollars.
This is my first trip to Minneapolis =
said Mr. Fish, ''and came here as much
to see the town as anything else. Mime
apolls mas an excellent name in the east
as progressive and up-to-date city, and
l must say that it deserves all Of the
good things said of it.
MT. Wainman and other officials of the
northwestern have general outline of
the extensive improvements to be made in
the Northwestern's service. We intend
to bring it to the highest possible eficien-
cy and make 1t up-te-date in every par
tlcular. We expect to spend 100000 in
these improvements S. A large amount of
this will be spent right here in Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul. We intend to improve
the toll line service and make several ex-
tensions in the northwest, as we'll as to
northwest stern towns.''
Mr.. Fish said that the company was not
ready to announce the details. He thought
minnesota was quite we'll taken care OF
as to long distance telephone service
Some extensions in the Dakotas are being
considered.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
NORTHWEST BARKIsEs
Gossip Busy Putting Them In O
Keeping Them Out.

Gossip Busy Putting Them In or
Keeping Them Out.
From, The Journal Bureau. Room 4S. Post
Building, Washington
Washington, March 21.-It is not under
stood here that l.. P. Hunt of Mankato,
is a candidate for first assistant post
master general. Representative Nc
Cleary, knowing of this coming vacancy,
has been Informally talking Of him as an
available man, but nothing has been done.
The place has been formally rendered ice
Manley of Maine and until he accepts or
declines there is nothing to say. 1t is
unfair to Mr.. Hunt to say that he is in
any sense candidate. .'. -..
George William Hill, mentioned in
Washington dispatches to the northwest
recently as a car<ate for civil 9ervice
commissioner, is now chief Of the division
of publications, department of agriculture.
He has lived in Washington for years and
is credited to St. Paul.
Major Edwards of Fargo Is not a can
didate for pension commissioner, reports
to the contrary notwithstanding. He is
standing for the first assistant postmaster
generalship and does not propose to have
two irons in the fire at once. He could
hardly hope to be pension commissioner
for it is assured the National G. A. r.
leaders. and President Roosevelt will Sc
lect as Evans successor some man of
national reputation and acquaintance.
No member of the Minnesota delegation
knows anything about the proposed
change in ambassador to The Hague. II
the president is thinking of retiring Stan
ford Newell he is taking none of the dele
cation into his confidence. Senator Nell
son said to-day he did not think any
change was contemplated.
W w. Jermape
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
ROOM FOR WHEAT.
Elevator Construction This Season
Promises to Break Records.
FIRE-PRooF STORAGE POPULAR
Even Some of the New Line Houses
Will Be Steel or
Tile.

Minneapolis firms engaged in elevator
construction have never had the inquiry
for plans and estimates various types
OF elevators they are receiving this
spring. Indications are that this season
will be the busiest local elevator con-
struction firms have ever had. There is
much inquiry for estimates on fire proof
houses and it is possible that for the first
time this year some of the country lines
will make their new elevators of this type
instead OF wood. The scarcity of steel
which it was thought would curtail the
increase in terminal capacity in Min
neapolis has tLzned the attention of ele-
vator companies and builders to other
material. Tile and cement have been
used to some extent. The advocates OF
brick as elevator material are now hav-
ing an innings. Several companies are now
discussing the brick elevator and may
| adopt 1t as the type Of their best houses.
Contracts for several elevators of from
250,000 to 100000 bushels capacity have
already been let. Estimates are being
! made on several larger houses ranging in
capacity from 100000 to 100000 BUSH
els. Some Of the terminal companies are
figuring on increasing their capacity by
replacing wood storage with fire proof.
| Others in calculating on additions to pres
ent storage are anxious to adopt Are
| proof construction. Various elevator con-
Germs desiring to build new houses at i'm
portant wheat receiving points will erect
| fireproof structures if the cost Of those
types can be brought to what they consid-
| er a reasonable basis. Advocates of tile
and brick as elevator material say that
the terminal elevators here will be gradu-
ally converted into fire proof on account
of the big difference in insurance on
the old and new types of elevators.
| The amount of elevator construction in
the country each year depends in a great
measure upon railway extensions. In
most of the old territory elevator building
| will be limited to new houses erected to
replace worn out or burned structures,
and building by an OCCASIONAL private COM
pany or association of farmers. The vari-
Gus extensions planned by southern Min
nesota railroads will stimulate elevator
building in that section of the state. 1t
| is estimated that thirty new houses will
be built on proposed extensions of the
North Western road in southern Minne-
sofa. The plans of the 500 are also fur
nishing some ground for speculation.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
MRS. MAYER DEPARTS
She Will Sail for Japan With Her
Husband.

Mrs. Francis Mayer, accompanied by
her two children and Japanese man SER
want, left yesterday over the Great
Northern for Yokohama. At Seattle she
will be met by Deputy Marshal W. E.
Grimshaw and expects to sail March 25,
with her husband.
Several prominent men Of the city SUBJ
scribed to the fund which Marshal Grim
shaw headed A sufficient sum was
raised to pay the passage to Yokohoma
and for subsist ence on the way, leaving
Mrs. Mayer a small amount against en-
ergencies. The expenses of the servant
were cared for by Toshiro Fuyita, Japa-
nese consul at Chicago.
At the train were the marshal, Deputy
Shaw, who brought the party to the train,
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson, with whom Mrs.
Mayer boarded, and " d. Jones of the
Great Northern, to whom the destitute
woman was indebted for many courtesies.
Mrs. Grimshaw provided basket lunch for
the three days trip, and, without doubt,
the party will 60 through well provided
for. ..
Mrs. Mayer expressed much gratitude
to the Minneapolis people who came to
her rescue at a critical time and in many
ways aided her during her sojourn here
and as she was about to depart.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
TO HIT THE RAINY
1tasea Lumber Company's Road May
Go to Roochichins.

Itasea Lumber Company's Road May
Go to Roochichins.
The report is revived that the ,Itasca
Lumber company's road in the northern
part of the state Is to be extended north
to Koochiching on the Canadian border.
The road is now thirty miles long and the
plans Of w. G. Joyce of Chicago, who is
the moving spirit, contemplate extensions
south from the main line of the Great
Northern system which will give the twin
cities q direct line to that section.
It is reported that J. J. Hill is interest
ed and in the same connection that he
tried to get control of the Duluth, Vir-
ginia & Rainy Lake road, now building
from Virginia to Koochiching. but the
owners refused hattering proposition.
Mr.. Joyce Is in control of the Itasca
Lumber company. owning more than
majority Of the stock. His associates are
H. G. Akeley and J. P. Sims of Minneapo-
lis, and Thomas Hume and G. H. Hackley
Of Muskegon, Mich. The proposed line
south of Deer river is through Mile Laos
county, and skirting the east shore of
Mile Laos Lake. This would bring the
new line to connection with the Eastern
Minnesota near Groundhouse, and the
road would use that line into the twin
cities. .,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGES
Emoprted Recently, Promise q Rare
Treat for Hunters. ,-
Shooting and Fishing

SuOoLluS ana FlSQlQg.
The covey of plump red little Hungarian
partridges, trif1e larger in body than q
quail. but with quail characteristics, re-
Gently imported by the Massachusetts,
Sportsmen's association for the big exhi-
bition in February, have become quite at
home in their new quarters with the other
foreign game birds just outside the city,
and are the subjects Of much interesting
speculation among wing shots! The birds
were taken In Hungary last summer, the
capture being made in that part of the
country where the climate corresponds
with that of Massachusetts. The whole
lot captured for the Sportsmen's show
stood up under the stress of. the long sea
voyage like little sailors, and when they
had disposed Of their sea legs in the tenn
porary game preserve established by di-
rectors of the show within easy flight Of
the gilded dome, they fell into their new
surroundings like emigrants bent upon
making themselves at home in a new
country.
The birds were very wild on arrival, but
they are gradually becoming domesti-
Gated, and when game bird shows such
tendency it is looked upon as a bright
prospect for breeding. Game birds that
refuse to become domesticated, as do our
rufded grouse, will not breed In captivity.
Good reports concerning the Hungarian
partridge were received by the directors
of the association long before it was posi-
lively decided to broaden the scope of the
Sportsmen's show and include foreign
game in the exhibit. European gunners
who have put in days afield with these
sprightly little fellows pronounce the
bird quite the equal Of anything that can
be flushed. 1t is gamy, cunning in ways
of ayoiding danger, swift in flight and
delicacy after death. 1t has trick of
screening its precious little body behind
the most convenient tree when it gets up
to go, and an inbred knowledge seems to
tell it to rely largely upon its legs and
not to be too quick about getting into
the air
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
A BRUSH AT VERMILLION
STUDENTS OF STATE u, IN BATTLE
Crimsoned and Clothes Torn
and Spoiled.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Vermilllon, S. D., March 21.-The board
of regents of the state university, in ses-
sion here. were greeted when they, went
on the campus to-day by color fight be-
tween $50 students. The freshmen had
an annual banquet in the east hall last
night and invited the juniors. The SEN
iors broke in and captured the freshmen's
colors aid good part of the banquet.
Five of the seniors were held as prison.
ers and after the banquet were taken 10
rooms and made to dance iigs, stand Oh
their heads and do sundry other unpleas-
ant acts.
The regents and professors were going
out of the chapel with the students this
morning when the seniors waved the
freshmen colors they had stolen and gave
the freshman yell This was a signal for
scrap. Professors sought to stop il,
but were brushed aside. When it was
over, there were half a dozen bloody
hoses and neckties and collars were torn
off and coats and trousers torn and split.
The faculty s not expected to take any
action.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
MRS. R. B. HARTLEY DEAD
Former Resident OF Minneapolis
Dies In Duluth. -

Mrs. Rebecca B. Hartley, widow Of Edward
W. Hartley, died in Duluth Wednesday after
noon at the home OF her son, G. G. Hartley.
Mrs. Hartley was born in York county, New
Brunswick, Dec. 22. 1928. She was the mother
OF twelve children. all born In New Bruins
wick. Seven OF these are now living. They
are; Wilder w. Hartley OF San Francisco,
Benjamin 3. Hartley of Oakland, CAL; Gull
ford @. Hartley Of Duluth, Roland H.'Hart-
ley of Minneapolis, Mrs. l.. G. Rogers of Buf-
falo N. z; Heber l.. Hartley Of Cass Lake.
Mimi, and Frederick c. Hartley Of Chicago.
Mrs Hartley moved with her family to Min
nesota in 1875 and located at Brainerd.S In
1SSS she moved to Minneapolis and took up
hsr residence in the southeast portion of the
city, lear the university, where she lived
many years. She had been in poor health
Tor more than two years prior to her death,
and during that time has not been able to
leave her bed. Colonel Roland H. Hartley
and wife went to Duluth yesterday and will
assigt In making arrangements for the funeral
which will take place from the residence of
g. G. Hartley.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
ROBERTS CASE FEES CUT
! $12,5oo REDUCTION MADE
Largest Cut Made In Fees of Attor-
"a neys Who Served Before
Receivershfp.

After considering the objections of cred
'1tors to bills presented in the T. M. Rob-
erts bankruptcy case, Referee Merriman
has rendered decision reducing the bills
$l2,2O0 In the total, or about 40 per cent.
Bills were presented recently by the
receivers, the attorneys for the receivers,
the bankrupt, and petitioning creditors.
5. l.. Ingram, for the syndicate Of credi-
tors who purchased the stock, offered
objections to the amount. He employed
H. F. Woodward to argue the case. With
him was associated George Porter. A
week was consumed in examining the par
ties to the case and in the arguments
AS result the bills were cut from $27, 500
to $500, as follows:
Reduced to.
Receivers at 5000 each. -. .$12, 900 5000
Attorney for bankrupt ..... 5000 1000
Attorney for petitioning
Attorneys for receivers. .... 5000 1850
Total ............. .$27 800 SIS, 300
It is probable that Mr.. Ingram will ap-
peal within the six days allowed by
Referee Merriman. The bills as allowed by
the court, 1t is understood, are satisfac-
tory to the creditors represented by Mr..
Ingram, but they think that a sum of
$4,000 paid to Attorneys Lancaster, Cray
and Tooker should be returned. 1t seems
that on July 20 Frank w. Shaw and c.
M Way took charge as attorneys in fact,
were appointed receivers July 26, and
erts suspended payment and before Shaw
and Way became attorneys in fact, or
between July 16 and July 20, Mr.. Roberts
paid the three attorneys s., 900 each,
which it will be now sought to recover by
appeal to the district court. ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
DELEGATES TO MINNEAPOLIS

Prohibition Conventions at Fergus
Falls, Hutchinson, Princeton.
Special to The Journal
Fergus Falls, Mimi, March 21.-County
prohibition conventions for the selection
of delegates to the state convention in
Minneapolis next Tuesday and Wednesday
will be held on the oath at Fergus Falls
Hutchinson and Princeton. There will
be an afternoon session and evening rally
in each case. The Otter Tail county con-
vention will open with forenoon ses-
sion. National Chairman O. w. Stewart
OF Chicago and B. B. Haugan will be the
speakers. Charles Scanlow will address
the Princeton convention, and A. A.
Graves that held at Hutchinson
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
washington Small Talk.

Postmasters appointed to-day: Iowa-Gran-
ger, Dallas county, Mabel Fees; Pierceville
Van Buren, county, ]. A. Morris. Wisconsin
Farmhill Pierce county, j. W. Kohl.
A favorable report was made to-day on the
bill introduced by Senator Gamble, authorz-
ing the secretary of the interior to investigate
and pay the claims for damages filed by GER
tain Lower BruIe Indians who were forciby
removed from the Rosebud reservation in 1898
Colonel Plummer Of North Dakota and
Maine is in the city and he and Major Ed
wards had q long, reminiscent talk yesterday
in Senator Hansbrough's committee room.
Colonel Plummer's powers as an entertainer
are unimpared and his residence in Maine
seems to be renewing his youth.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
0RAT0RY AT THE UNIVERSITY
The PilIsbury-Dunwoody Contest
This Evening.

l -
Eight university orators will compete this
evening for the $100, s75 and $50 prizes
offered in the annual Pillsbury-Dunwoody
oratorical contest. The contest will be held
in the university chapel at 8 o'clock Several
musical numbers will be given. The judges
on delivery are ex-Mayor James Gray, A. t.
Ankeny and H. V. Mercer. The orations
and orators are as follows: "Boer versus
Briton,' j.. G. steenson; '-The Blood Value
OF Civilization" George d. Silloway; .'The
Dangers OF Imperialism y H. E. Edwards
THE Genius OF Patriotism" Thomas D.
Schall; THE Evils Of Conquest NJ c.
O'Donnell; "An Unrewarded Hero j.. A.
Layne; 'The Savior of France Max w.
Buell.; ''The Dawn Of Peace George p.
Jones.
The judges on thought and composition have
pronounced the orations far above the usual
standard and a contest of an unusually high
order is expected.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
GOES TO NAVAL ACADEMY

Arthur Joyce of the University Gets
Appointment.
Colonel Frank NJ Joyce received word
to-day that his son, Arthur Joyce, had re-
ceived an appointment to the navel aca-
denny at Annapolis This is the first va
cancy since application was made. The
appointment was at the request of Con-
gressman Loren Fletcher. Arthur Joyce
is 18 years of age and freshman in the
engineering course at the University Of
Minnesota.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
A SWEET LIFE ENDED
Miss Ruth Brimhalps Death Takes
Place at Baltimore.


Miss Ruth l.. Brimhall OF this city, aged
d years, died Sunday morning In Baltimore.
Md, where she had gone for weeks rest
and recreation at the loving request of her
pupils. She had for the past two years been
in charge Of the vocal department of st.
Mary's seminary, St. Mary's City, Md.
In her death Minneapolis has lost one of its
most promising and talented musicians. Miss
Brimhall was devoted Christian, for many
years an active member of Highland Park
Presbyterian church Of this city. Her life
Was Its own best eulogy, the memory Of her
songs her best requiem. The charm Of her
personality was in the gentleness Of her ma
ture, frank righteousness and innocence.
Life is better for those who knew her, as it
Is better for the beauty of the flowers and
the Tilt of the birds.
Dying just at the dawn of life. she will be
remembered scarcely more than a child
in age, and as only child in the innocence
and beauty OF character.
Two sisters-Miss Aibbie Brimhall of this
city and Mrs. George 0. Johnston OF Rob
binsdale-and two brothers-George O. and
DR.. 8. D. Brmhall Of this city-survive her.
The funeral services were held in the
Highland Park church, TWenty-frst avenue
N and Emerson. to-day at 2:s0. Friends are
invited.
ELMER j. REYNOLDS, advertising
agent IOC plelus 0cul1ch q w., 81 1Aul, anu
living at 674 Molly avenue, died Wednesday
from tuberculosis. He was member of the
order Of Elks, under whose auspices the fu-
neral services will be held. He was one OF
the most popular commercial travellers in the
northwest.@ 1nterment will be at Revana,
Mich, -. - .....-. ...-.
~ r.. Il. CUTeFS-rhe funeral of DR.. R.
q. Quits was held from the residence. 2713
Blatsdell avenue. to-day at D. N. 1t was
discovered from examination that DR.. Quits
died OF apoplexy, the hemorrhage at the base
OF the brain being very profuse.
MISS JESSIE BRIGGS, aged 10, died
March 10, at her home 1929 Two-and-one-
half street s. She was the second daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs George Briggs. Funeral
from residence to-day at 2:S0 p. N. Inter
Inent at Lakewood.
MRS. OECELIA C. KRUM - The
funeral Of Mrs. Ceoelia G. Krum will take
place from tho residence, 255 Beacon street
sD, Saturday, at 1:S0 p. m.
MISS NELLIE HABEL of 113 East
Fifteenth street, died Wednesday at Alma,
Wis. The funeral at that place to-day.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
wOMEN's MEDICAL CLUB
Voices It's Opposition to the Inspec
tion Plan.

+ At meeting Of the Women's Medical
club last evening the Ames inspection
order was discussed at length and the
following resolutions adopted:
Whereas, Through the public press we learn
that the mayor of Minneapolis has instituted
the municipal regulation of vice, by ordering
medical inspection of inmates Of houses OF
i'll fame; ..
! Resolved, That the members of the Wo-
mems Medical CT lb of Minneapolis are unan-
imously and emphatically opposed to such
regulation for the following reasons:
It Is degrading and unjust to the women.
and brings absolutely no safety to the COM
munity atslarge. Municipalities and countries
that have tried this method long and sys-
tematically have abandoned it as Intellectual,
vice and disease increasing instead Of de-
creasing under it. England and her colonies
are conspicuous examples In this list.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
A LARGE RESIDENCE SALE
The Leon Lane Place Purchased b!

The Leon Lane Place Purchased by
Geo. IA. Elwel1.
George II. Elwell, president of the Min
neapolis Furniture company, has pur-
chased the Leon Lane residence at 7th
street and Ninth avenue Sc, and will oc-
eupy it as home. The house was built
several years ago. The place occupies a
quarter Of a block The corner is the
best residence property that has been Of
fered for sale on the east side of the
river for several years. 1t is the largest
transaction Of the kind for a long time.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
NAMES SPOON FOUND IN SWEDEN.
Inndnn Daily Mail

A curious find has just been made at
Samrisham, In Sweden AT low water q
sailor discovered among the stones, on tIl,
beach of Massakasbay there, a teaspoon of
brass After cleaning it he found en-
graved on the inside the picture of a man
of-war, with the words Maine and
$4,000 tons The spoon would therefore
appear to have belonged to the ill-fated
Maine, sunk in Havana harbor in the
spring of 1898, and 1t needed four years of
the ocean currents to wash this tiny OBJ
ject ashore on the coast OF southern
Sweden.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
SEQUEL OF A SPREE
Madison, Wis.,. Man Strikes His
Wife and Attempts Suicide.
Snecial to The Journal

Special to The Journal.
Madison, Wis, March 81. = Charles
Burnham, proprietor of a students board
g-house at 604 Francis street, struck his
wife in the face during violent quarrel
at their home at noon to-day and then
tried to take his own life by cutting his
throat with razor. The injuries Of
neither will prove serious.
Burnham, who has served two OF three
terms in Jail for being drunk and dis
orderly, was put all last night and his
wifes reproaches on his return brought
on the quarrel.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
FLOUR DEMAND STRONG
To-day's Business Was the Best fe
Months.

All the local -four mills report the best
business to-day for months. Buyers of
flour are beginning to stock up more free
ly. This Is especially gratifying to the
millers for the reason that since Janu-
ary there have been alternating periods
Of good and dull trade, with the volume
Of business onsthe whole moderate. One
reason for this was the fact that the
price Of cash wheat made it difficult for
millers to put their prices to basis low
enough to sell abroad. Within day or
two tley have been able to book some
foreign business and to-day the foreign
business entered was the largest yet
Indications, millers say, are pointing
to good spring -four trade.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
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NEW "U" BUILDINGS
Progress Being Made-Roof Going
On Physics Buildinc

sHCFs. 01f01H5'
r. G. Mcmillan, the contractor, is putting
the roof on the physics building at the uni
versty. 1t is truss roof Of glass and gal
vanized iron. The building will be finished
in July ..s
The roof Of the anatomical building, re-
Gently scorched, has been replaced. The
building will be ready for use by the middle
of May. IN
The state board Of health laboratory, or
research laboratory, as it is called, is almost
ready for the roof and will be completed
early in June, This Is to be a two-story
brick building to cost $1,000 or $4,000.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-21
ENTIRELY RATIONAL.

:
Yes; he said If he had his choice he'd
rather be an ex-convict than anything
elsc.'
"The idea! How eccentric!"
Not at all. You see, he's Just been
sent to prison for term Of ten years"