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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
ROOT, LODGE, TURNER
They Are the United States Members OF
the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal

They Are the United States Members of
the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal
Washington, Feb. 14.-Secretary of War
Elihu Root, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
and Senator George Turner of Washing
ton state have been selected as the United
States members Of the tribunal provided
for in the Alaskan boundary treaty, rati-
fed by the senate on wednesday.
When the treaty was submitted to the
senate it provided for the appointment, as
members of the tribunal to fix the bound
airy line, of members of the high court OF
judicature which is the usual form in the
treaty phraseology of Great Britain. AT
the suggestion of members of the COM
mittee on foreign relations, however, the
language was changed SO that impartial
jurists of repute," could be appointed, and
under this characterization Messrs. Root
Lodge and Turner have been chosen
The work Of the tribunal will take Its
members to London for several months
the coming spring and summer. The
commissioners will meet at London soon
after the adjournment of congress
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
WORK OF NATURAL GAS
1t Causes Several Deaths and $780,
900 Fire at Tarentum,
Pennsylvania.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service
Pittsburg, Feb. 14-One person was
cremated, two fatally hurt, two others
seriously injured and seven buildings
totally destroyed in a fire which visited
Tarentum, Pa, village twelve miles
north of here, early to-day. The names
Of the victims are:
Ray Craig, aged IL years, cremated while his
father was trying to rescue him; D. J. Craig,
burned and hurt while jumping from second
story window, will die: Mrs. D. ]. Craig. in
hailed smoke and flames and injured by jump
ing from window, will recover; Hope Craig
aged s. daughter of the Craigs, burned abou,
face and body; also skull fractured by falline
from second story window, will die; Sherley
Craig daughter. aged 10, burned about face
and body. right arm and leg broken by jump
ing from window, may die.
When the Craig family was awakened
the only escape was by the second story
windows Mrs. Craig dropped the girls
from the window while her husband tried
to rescue his son, but before he could
reach the boy the entire house was en-
veloped in flames.
The fire was caused by over-pressure
of natural gas.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
The Reasonable Reformer.

\ AT times a man must cut loose from
his associates, and stand alone for a
great causeiE but the necessity for
such action is almost as rare as the
necessity for asrevolution; ana to
take such ground continually, In sea-
son and out Of season, is the sign of
an unhealthy nature. 1t is not pos
sible to lay down an infiexible rule as
to when compromise is right and
when wrong; when it is sign Of the
highest craftsmanship to temporize,
and when it is merely proof of
weakness. Now and then one can
stand uncompromisingly for a naked
principle and force people up to it,
This is always the attractive course;
but In certain great crisises it may
be very wrong course. Compro-
mise in the proper sense, merely
means agreement; in the proper sense
opportunities should merely mean do
ing the best possible with the actual
conditions as they exist A compro-
mise which results in a half-step
toward evil is all wrong, just as the
I epportunist who saves himself for the
moment by adopting a policy which is
| fraught with future disaster is all
wrong; but no less wrong is the atti-
| tude of those who will not come to
an agreement through which, or will
not follow the course by which, it Is
| alone possible to accomplish practical
| results for good.
These two attitudes; the attitude Of
deifying mere efficiency, and success,
without regard to the moral qualities
| lying behind it, and the attitude of
disregarding efficiency, disregarding
practical results; are the Scylla and
Charybdis between which every earn
est reformer, every politician who de-
sires to make the name of his profess
sion a term Of honor instead Of shame,
1 must steer. He must avoid both I'M
der penalty Of wreckage and it avails
him nothing to have avoided one, If
he founders on the other.
/ People are apt to speak as If in
! political life, public life, it ought to be
a mere case of striving upward
striving toward high peak. The
smile is inexact. Every man who is
striving to do good public work is
travelling along a ridge-crest, with the
gulf Of failure on each side-the gulf
of inefficiency on the one side, the
gulf Of unrighteousness on the other.
All kinds of forces are continually
playing on him, to shove him first
into one gulf and then into the other;
and even a wise and good man, unless
he braces himself with uncommon
11mness and foresight, as he is
pushed this way and that, will find
that his course becomes a pronounced
zig-zag instead of a straight line; and
if it becomes too pronounced he is
lost, no matter to which side the zig
gag may take him. Nor is he lost
only as regards his own career. What
is far more serious, his power of do
ing useful service to the public is at
an end. He may still, if a mere poll
tician, have political place, or, If a
makebelieve reformer, retain that
notoriety upon which his vanity feeds.
Y But, in either case, his usefulness to
the community has ceased.
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FIGURES ARE LARGE HERE IS ITS

ssn.ei.lfta rha 1onrnaI.

Special 10 The Journal.
Winnipeg, Man. Feb. 14:-C T. Hamil-
ton Of st. Paul. in an interview yesterday.
said:
1.-THE men behind my road have plenty
Of money and II they are willing to spend
for the benefit of the country.
LAS soon as can see the government,
the names of the promoters will be made
known. am told to-day that II repre-
scented American capitalists I would have
difficulty in getting the bill through but
don't believe this.
Canada has a tremendous territory,
and what is wanted Is railroads to develop
it, bring in new settlers and move out
the grain. The more country there is
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The President Draws Fire.

3 And, meantime, a surreptitious antagOn-
Ism has developed to the author Of even
500 mild compromise, which is manifest
III a persistent effort to discredit the
measures and their sponsors The presi-
dent has been subjected to a CALLING fire
upon both tanks. His motives and his
sincerity are called in question by those
whose real grievance is that he will not
lend himself to an insincere pretense.
Along this line are the stories, which are
put IN circulation, that the president is
acting at the behest of the trusts and that
the legislation he is advocating is null
nty Many OF the enemies have masked
themselves under the screen Of a demand
Tor something more drastic and are fir
Ing at the administration forces from that
cover. They would fain defeat the presi-
dents program, knowing well that the
something more drastic is beyond the
reach of practicability.
Il The Presidents Views.
Those who would understand President
Roosevelt's position in this effort to Sc
cure beginning of trust regulation, will
find it set forth in his own words in his
essay on Latitude and Longitude Among
Reformers,'' publish in that volume en-
titled ''The Strenuous Life" In that arti-
Gle he discusses the difference between
crank reformers and reformers who
take sane view of conditions as they
exist, and strive to do the best they can
with them. He admits that it is necessary
and right, on rare occasions, to draw
apart from the world as it is, and to stand
tor some principal or ordeal. But those
occasions, he argues, are rare, and the
reformer who is most useful is the one
who Keeps in touch with his fellow men
and, while never abandoning the ideal, is
| willing to make use of the imperfect in
| strumentalities at his hand to bring about
will be a step in the right direction.
President Roosevelt has alluded to this
essay, in discussing this legislative situa.
| ton in the matter of trust regulation, an6
has asked some Of his friends to examine
it for light on his present position. The
president is having the opportunity, rarely
presented, for applying theories which
| were evolved and formulated as such, tt
concerto condition Of facts. He is
bit of the theory which applies to the mat
| ter in hand:
/ The Reasonable Reforn1ar s.s..as
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

opened up by the railroads the more
settlers you will have, and as a conse-
quence corresponding increase in the
wealth of the country. A few days ago
I was in conversation with member Of
a firm in Chicago. The firm had In
Illinois alone some 500 correspondents,
and, from information sent by these men,
the firm believed that nearly $4,000 were
coming to the Canadian northwest from
that one state. What do you suppose
these people will think when they see
that the government Of this province will
not permit Of moneys being invested in
Manitoba because it comes from the side
of the international line which has al
ways been their homer
'sDoes your company propose to ask for
any subsidy"
eve shall not ask for one cent, and you
can say, besides, that in the event of the
charters being granted, work on the line
| will proceed at once"
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The real battle has all been under cover.

The real battle has all been under cover,
Only now and then has it broken into the
open, in such significant episodes as the
exposure Of Rockefeller's relations with
vote against the publicity bill, and Hen
derson's futile effort to nullify the admin
istration bills in the house.
The most formidable opposition has been
that in the presidents own party. The
democrats are in helpless minority, and
are additionally handicapped by their Of
fetal position. The real opposition has
been that which was certain to manifest
itself through the influential men in the
party the managers who control the party
organization. and who really control legis-
lation. These few men, the senate lead
ers, and the few house drivers, have ac-
corded most reluctant and grudging
support to the presidents endeavors.
It is not necessary to pry into motives.
The mere recollection Of existing condi-
lions should be enough to bring these men
| under suspicion. Campaign contributions,
| business affiliations-in general, conditions
as they are-there is nothing more to be
| said. It is a moral certainty that, left to
| themselves, these men would never un-
dertake seriously the task of perfecting
real with emphasis on the reaD trust
regulation.
Result, Compromise.
| But the devil should be given his due,
Tand it is only fair to these same party
leaders, to state that they have not with
held their support entirely from the pres
| ident's antitrust program. Confronted
as they were with the strong sentiment
throughout the country, and with a virile
and aggressive president who realized the
| power which such a sentiment placed in
his hands, they determined to compromise.
To do otherwise might entail serious con-
sequences, to themselves to the party,
and to the interests which seemed to them
4 to be endangered. In the attitude of the
| president they discovered determination,
a stubbornness, or even a bull-headedness
las they would name (which was quite
sure ITO eventuate in an extra session OF
congress, a quarrel between the executive
and the legislative branches, special
message which would be an appeal to the
country and denunciation Of the party
/ 1eaders-everything calculated to infame
the people, unsettle business, and open the
/ way for the party of the opposition to
/. strengthen itself. and possibly even to
4 come into control Of the government
i They had a parley. They negotiated
4 They threshed it out on the give and take
basis, as business men driving bargain
4 They agreed to take SO much and the
president agreed to take so little. The
final compact Is less than the president
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
HIS HEAD CUE OFF
A Northern Pacific Switchman Meets
Death in the Yards.

William j. Andrews, a switchman en-
p1oyed by the Northern Pacific, was in
stantly killed in the yards near Twenty
second avenue NE, shortly before noon to-
day. His head was completely severed
from his body while one hand was badly
crushed.
The foreman of the switching crew sent
Andrews down the track to set the brakes
on a string Of freight cars. The man did
not return and when the foreman went
to look for him he found Andrews life
less body near some cars which had been
kicked in. No one saw the accident.
Andrews was about 25 and unmarried.
He leaves brother, a sister and his pa
rents, all ct Two Harbors. MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

Arnold & Co employed the best legal
talent in several cities. Letters are said
to have been found from at least one
member of the Missouri legislature, per-
tanning to the interests Of the company at
Jefferson City. ..s-z ....s
The legislative Investigating committee
met in joint session to-day
Representatives of all the turf invest
ment companies and six of the grain and
stock investment companies of st. Louis
had been requested to appear and Ser
geant- at Arms Stevenson had been fur
nished with papers to compel their at
tendance
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
Held In $500 Bon dis.

Chicago. Feb. 14.--EIarry Broiasko, M.
i. Book and Matte Woodir, arrested yes
terday in the police raids on turf invest
ment concerns, were to-day held in bonds
of $500. Preparations are in progress for
the prosecution of the turf concerns by
the postoftice department. The police de-
partment is preparing to bring a number
of cases to the attention of the grand jury
and ask indictments. The first argu-
ments concerning the evidence Of the
concerns raided yesterday will be heard or
Feb 90.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
POWERS MUST ACT TOGETHER
Situation in Macedonia Regarded as Al
arY1Inu In London.

armInq In London.
London, Feb 14-The situation In Mace
donia becomes more threatening every
day. Premier Balfour admitted yesterday
that it was causing the government anx-
iety and suggested that the only way OF
solving the question would be by the COM
mon action Of the great powers. He evil
IDENTIFY approves and is ready to indorse
the Russo Austrian note demanding au-
tonomy for Macedonia.
To anticipate this note the sultan has
ordered the mobilization of several hun
dred thousand troops, but the powers have
seen through this bluff and the porte has
been warned that it's action will not in the
least affect the determination of Russia
and Austria.
Germany has not yet disclosed her hand
but the emperor is scarcely likely to ask
England to help him protect his friend
Abdul Hamid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
NOTHING THIS SESSION
The Friends of the Newfoundland
Treaty Give Up Trying to
Do Anything.
From The Journal Bureau, Room Is, Post Build-


From The Journal Bureau, Room Is, Post Build>
ing, Washington.
Washington, Feb. 14.-It is exceedingly
unlikely the the Newfoundland treaty
will be taken up prior to the adjournment
of congress. Several influential New
England senators, led by Lodge and Hale.
are against it and would be able, without
assistance, to defeat it at this stage Of
the session. The friends of the treaty
think there is no use in making an effort
which would be no more than a mere
beating of the air. 1t is unlikely that
Senator Cullom, in charge of the treaty,
will even make an effort to call it up.
w. w. Jermane, ,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

1t developed that Postoffice In
spector George A. Dice recommended
a fraud order against this concern
after his investigation. Instead Of
the order. it is stated Arnold & Co.
received a letter from an influential
postal official which they used as an
advertisement. The writing of this
letter and the reasons for overruling
the recommendation of Inspector Dice
will be made the subject Of investiga-
tinn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

airy treaty. it would be well for the joint
high commission to meet soon to take
up the questions at issue between Can
ada and the United States, whose settle
ment was impossible when the commission
met last, owing to the -overshadOWing i'm
portance of the boundary dispute. If Sir
Wilfrid feels well disposed it is believed
the commission will be called for some
early day in March, either in Washington
or in Ottawa.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
THE PETER POWER SUIT
It Will Get Member Of the Stock
Exchange Into Still More
Trouble.
Special to Tho Journal.

New York Feb. 14.-H became known
in Wall street to-day that the governing
committee of the stock exchange for sew
eral weeks has had under consideration
the part played by a member Of the ex-
change in the suit of Peter Power against
the Northern Pacific Railroad company.
rendered nexttweek, and it is possible that
either expulsion or suspension will be
| the result. All the members of the gov
erning committee preserve absolute 81
lencee
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
ARRESTS MADE IN SOFIA
President Of the Macedonian Com
mittee and Other Agitators
Are Taken In.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb. 14-President Mich
aelovski of the central Macedonia COM
mittee; General Zoutcheff, the vice-presi-
dent; President Stancheff of the Sarafoff-
Macedonian committee, and many others
have been arrested.
1t is unofficially announced that the
government has decided to dissolve the
Macedonian committees in Bulgaria an6
place a strong military Gordon along the
Macedonian frontier, thus demonstrating
Bulgaria's readiness to fulfil her interna
tional obligations.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
GRAVE ROBBERY CASE
The DR.. Alexander Jury Sends il
Word To-day That It Can
not Agree.

indianapolis, Feb. 14.--At 1920 p. m.
the DR.. Alexander jury sent word to the
court that they could not agree.
DR.. Alexander Of the local medical col
lege is on trial for body snatching. There
is strong feeling over the case and threats
Of injury to DR.. Alexander in case Of a
disagreement have been made.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
wanted and more than the party leaders

wanted and more than the party leaders
wanted. It is a compromise.
But even this compromise, supported by
the strong man Of the party, and strenu-
ously urged by the executive has had to
travel rough road. It has had to be
snatched from pitfalls, and to be helped
over DISTINCTIONS It has had to run
the gauntlet of the legislative assassin,
and to meet the legislative hfghwayman
with his bludgeon
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

st. Louis, Feb. 14.--The grand jury's
investigation into the turf investment
companies was resumed to-day.
Neither e. J. Arnold nor. his manager,
l.. A. Gill; has yet been found. For
evidence as to methods Of the Arnold
company, the grand jury is depending on
Its books and papers and the testimony Of
some of it's lesser employees. Interesting
developments as to the identity of some
of the investors. prominent in st. Louis
life, are expected. -.- e..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
!" JOINT HIGH >
MAY now MEET
Senator Fairbanks Has Written Sir
Wilfrid Laurier Suggesting
This Step.
Questions at Issue Between Canada
and the United States to
Be Taken Up.
Root, Lodge and Turner Appointed
Members Of the Alaskan Boun-
Diary Tribunal.

From The Journal Bureau, Room Is, Post Build
ing, Washington.
Washington, Feb. 14.-It is learned from
the state department to-day that Sena-
tor Fairbanks has written letter to Sir
Wilfrid Laurier suggesting that in view
of the ratification Of the Alaskan bound
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

Many disgruntled investors were
present when the three prisoners were
arraigned. Among them were H. A.
Smith and John Reed Of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa. investors in the Brolaski
concern Of $4,000 and $4,000 respec-
lively. Cedar Rapids residents, they
say have about $113 900 invested with
Brola ski.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

In the matter Of securing trust legis-
1ation President Roosevelt's attitude has
been that of the reformer, who, in order
to take a small step ahead, has accepted
a compromise.
w. w. Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
UP TO THE PRESIDENT
The Elkins Bill Amendments Agreed
To in the Senate Without
Debate.

Washington. Feb. 1.-THE president
has signed the department Of commerce
bill and the general staff bill.
Washington, Feb. 14.--The senate con-
vened at o'clock to-day and Immediately
agreed to the amendments made to the
Elkins anti-rebate bill by the house. This
completes congressional action upon the
bill and it now goes to the president
MI. Quay gave notice that beginning
next Monday he would ask the senate to
take up the statehood bill each day imme-
diately after the conclusion Of the routine
morning business.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
SMALL FREIGHT WRECK

Special to The Journal.
WinOna. Mimi, Feb. IA North Western
freight train was partly wrecked while coming
down the bill least of here this morning. delay
ing traffic for q few hours. The trac. khas now
been cleared.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14

Peter F. Klein of Marion, Iowa, also
preferred charges against Brolaski who.
he says, obtained S475 from him by false
pretenses. Klein represents syndicate Of
thirty Marion people with over $4,000 in
vested.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
STOOD IN WITH
POSTOFFICE
Interesting Developments in the
Turf Investment Company
Fraud in St. Louis.
Influential Postal Official Who
turned Down a fraud Order
Recommendation
The Grand Jury and the Legislature
Both at Work on the
Scandal.

"Details of raids the Investment cotnpa-
nies in Chicago will be found on page ) of this
paper.
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HERE IS ITS
PHILOSOPHY
Presidents Course in Anti Trust Leg
islation and What It Has
Been Based On.
A Chapter From "The Strenuous
Life" on Latitude and Longitude
Among Reformers.
To Be Continually in Opposition to
Associates the Sign of an
Unhealthy Nature.

From The Journal Bureau, Room IS, Post Build
ing, Washington,
Washington, Feb. 14.-In his campaign
to secure some sort Of antitrust legisla-
ton at this session Of congress President
Roosevelt has had more to encounter than
the public can possibly understand.
The sun., 1903-05-08
.,i'Sl' DAT FOR A MASCOT.
East Side Kunchback Gets Another Present
From W. e. whitney.

Max Pabinowitz the East Side hunch-
back who sells programmes at the race
tracks, returned TO Essex street from Nor
ris Park yesterday with big roll of bills.
On the opening day at the Jamaica track
William c. Whitney bought a programme
from Max, gave him good-szed bill for
it and rubbed the boys shump for luck.
Mr. Whitney's horse Blackstock won the
Excelsior Handicap that day and the story
about it was exceedingly good advertising
for Max's trade az a mascot.
According to the story the boy told last
night, there were any number Of super
stitious persons at Morris Park Yesterday
who wanted to touch the hump for luck
and were willing to pay dollar or more fora
programme and the privilege Among
them, the boy says, was Mr. Whitney again.
who paid s. for his programme
Max gathered in more than 500 before
the Metropolitan was rum and, having a
hunch, on his own account. played all of
il on Mr.. Whtneys Gunfire, getting to
for his money He was the most envied
boy on the East Side last night.