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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
RAILROAD HISTORY
A Chapter by General J. w. Bishop Give
Before the State Historical

The difficulties, and especially the grass
hoppers, against which railroad builders
contended in Minnesota thirty years ago,
were, related last night by General J. w.
Bishop Of st. Paul before a meeting of the
state historical society at it's rooms in
the capitol. General Bishops paper was
"A History Of the st. Paul & Sioux City
Railroad This road, originally styled
the Minnesota Valley railroad. is now a
part Of the North-W Western system. Cen
eral Bishop was chief engineer of the Min
nesota Valley company from 1867 to 1872
and general manager of the st. Paul e.
Sioux City company from 1873 TO 1881.
Judge Francis n. Crosby Of Hastings.
Edward M. Johnson Of Minneapolis, and
Chauncey N. Griggs of st. Paul were cleo
ted life members Of the society.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
BRIDGE NEARS COMPLETION
New Approach to the University on
Fourteenth Avenue Sc.

Work on the new bridge across the
Great Northern tracks at Fourteenth ave-
nue. Sc was resumed yesterday. The ap-
proach to the university will be COM
pleted in about two weeks. The bridge
is the same width as the street and will
make noteworthy Improvement in the
university surroundings. It was designed
by A. M. Burch, a graduate of the en-
gineers school, class of '95. The south
end of the bridge is opposite the main
arch Of the Pillsbury memorial fence
which is also nearly completed. The walk
will now be straight from Fourteenth ave-
nue. to the main building of the .'U.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
PAPERS FOUND.

Private papers belonging to Gottfrid
Hangar, a former resident of Sundsvall
Sweden and of Trondhjen, Norway, have
been found by student at the state uni
versity, who has placed them in the hands
OF Professor J. s. Carlson. head of the
Scandinavian department of the univer-
sity. The papers were apparently lost by
a young man that recently arrived in this
country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
LAKERS WERE LATE
Hutchinson Line Was 9Iockaded and
North Shore Residents Couldn't q.

North shore residents reached the city
from Minnetonka at lis p. m. day.
They were due at S:55 a. m. The de-
lay was due to the derailing of an extra
switc hengine west of Waconia on the
way to Hutchinson. The incoming train
could not pass the blockade and the
Takers were finally brought to the city by
special train that was sent out as far
as Mound to pick them up. ~.~..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
MINING COMPANY INDICTMENTS
Understood to Have Been Wrawn Before
Grand Jury Recess.

Judge Elliott yesterday afternoon lis
tened to the second report of the present
grand jury and then adjourned that body
until May 4. The last few days have been
occupied principally at least, in the in
vestigation of the affairs of the Hunter
Creek Mining and Milling company. Two
or three indictments are understood to
have been found, altho no arraignments
have as yet been made.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
POSTMASTER FOR DEEPHAvEN.

Special to The Journal.
Washington, April 14.-Postmasters
appointed to-day:
Minnesota-Black Hammer Houston
county, Oscar K. Bagley; Deepha ven, Hen
nepin county, Auburn M. Shuck; Merton
Steele county, George e. Weber
Iowa-Daytonville, Washington county
M. l.. Webster. >
South DISQUALIFICATION. Brule county
J. E. Wright. E..--
Wisconsin-Redcliff, Bayfield, county
Paul Miethke. @ =. 4 - ~ :. =. >
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
EDITOR VS.. PUBLISHER
They Get Into Court, Where They Are
Advised to Settle Differ =
encee OuiofIv

Axel Kringelbach, editor Of the spong-
fuglen, South Minneapolis Norwegian
paper, was in police court yesterday
charged with threatening to break the
peace. The complaint was sworn out by
Martin Ulvestad. book publisher whose
place of business is at 25O7 Riverside ave-
nue.. Ulvestad says Kringelbach criticized
him editorially, and that when he remon-
strated Kringelbach threatened to thrash
him. The case was dismissed and the
men advised to settle their differences
quietly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14

"WeIcome Exceptions, In this Shop
Shirts 81, 50. Hoffmans Toggery Shop
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

Johnson Sides, the Indian peace
maker, died at Pleasanton, Cal, Mon
day night.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18
The Panama Canal.

Much has been written and said o
late concerning the proposed Panama
Canal.
Some of it has been common sense
and some of it has been rot, pure and
simple.
There is one fact that stands out
above everything else. We need and
must have the canal.
As to where that canal is we are not
particular.
Probably the Panama route would
be the best, but the Panama is not
the only one.
There is the Nicaragua route, almost
rs good as the other.
Is there any opposition on the part
of the people to the digging of this
canal? Not bit.
Is there opposition on the part OF
any class? You bet!
Who are they?
They are the stockholders and the
officials of the transcontinental rail
roads, whose lines would be paralleled
if we dig a canal across the isthmus.
And their opposition is very great
and powerful.
And they are using every art known
to shrewdness to prevent the con-
struction of any canal.
Unless the American people arise in
their might and demand it the canal
will never be built.
Colombia has rejected our treaty,
and if the truth were ever known il is
dollars to doughnuts you would find
American gold at the bottom of the
rejection.
1t passed the American Senate only
after the press and the people united
and threatened to retire our dignified
statesmen to private life unless they
considered the interests of their con-
stituents.
The railroad people are working
twenty-four hours day to defeat the
project.
And they will defeat it unless we
look sharp.
Once in while it becomes necessa-
ny for the people to let their voices be
heard, and to demand of their official
servants that they do the bidding of
their masters.
1t is time for the people to take a
hand.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halps Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. j. Cheney for the last 10 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o. WALDING, KINNAN 4 MAR
WIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous serfaces of the system
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18
We Need Good Roads.

There is but one sure way to have
good roads.
That is to build them.
If the country roads are poor the
farmer and his wife and his daughter
and his son and his hired man come
to town simply when they are COM
PEELED to.
They often miss good market for
their products because the roads are
too poor to get to town. This is loss
to the farmer and likewise loss to the
merchant. 1t is also to certain ex-
tent a loss to every business and pro.
fessional man in town.
What will prevent one farmer from
marketing his produce will likewise
prevent hundreds of others, and the
money they are thus deprived of il
kept from circulation in our midst.
Then again, if the roads are bad anC
the farmer does not feel like wadinf
through the mud to get to town, ht
often uses the mails to send to the city
mail order house for what he wants
while if the roads were good he woulC
ride into town for them.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18
GROUND BROKEN.
Work Commenced on the Big Canal.
QUELQUEFOIs.

The Wadsworth Dispatch reporter
visited the canal site where the Stone
Company has just commenced to dig
its section of the big government
canal.
The point of commencement is less
than three miles south bearing very
little east of Wadsworth.
1t took five days to move the steam
shovel from Wadsworth to where it is
now at work. The moving was done
by laying sections of temporary rail
road track.
The machine is one of the largest
and most powerful of its kind and at
each lift it brings with it about two
tons of dirt.
The Stone Company has contracted
to construct seventeen miles of the
canal. When the work is under way
at full capacity there will be four or
five of the big machines in operation.
The men work eight hours day and
receive 81, paying IS cents per day for
board. When the crews now working
for the company in California arrive
there will be two shifts at work; one
from A. NJ. until noon, the other from
l:3O P. NJ. to $50 P. NJ.
A number of photographs of the
scene were taken that the Dispatch
says will surely one day be historic of
perhaps the greatest event that ever
happened in Nevada-the practical be-
ginning of a scheme that is to revolu-
tionize this State, to make the desert
blossom as the rose, to provide homes
for thousands of citizens of the United
States, to prove to the world the great
capabilities of our soil, to adorn the
wastes of land with prosperous COM
munities and the educational institu-
tions that follow.
Here many easterners will learn that
a farm in the west means comfort and
bank account against the eternal
struggle for livelihood the same class
of men have to endure among the
rocky hillsides of New England and
elsewhere, and here all strangers may
have proof of that prodigality of our
soil when irrigated that has ever char
acterized it and endeared it to us.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18
OCEAN LINERS IN PORT.
The work That IL Done by the Crew
That Never Sails.

The captains authority over an ocean
liner, and equally, Of course, his respon-
slbi.ity for her, extend only over the
time when she is crossing the sea-
Practically the responsibility ceases
when she approaches land on either
side. for the pilot assumes charge Of
her navigation ms soon as he comes
aboard When the ship arrives at her
pier or as soon, TO be exact, as she IL
within mailing distance, the captain is
no longer in control She is then under
the authority of the marine superin-
tendent, who Is In command of the
piers and tugs and harbor front equip
ment of the line AMI who takes charge
of the docking of all vessels.
To bring giant liner to rest at her
pier is delicate operation. The flow
of the tide, the Roadway impaired by
her engines before they stop, the depth
of the water, must all be taken into
consideration, for the quarters are mar
row, and II she were to ram the pier
ii would mean bad smashup. But
with the skill OF long experience the
superintendent, by voice and hand, con-
trolls the great vessel perfectly, and
with tugs helping her and cables draw
ing her she glides into her resting place
as quietly and easily as a tired child
slips beneath the covers at night.
Practically, from the moment when
the liner is made fast she is turned
over to the crew that never sails. Her
officers remain on duty, and their work
is as arduous and almost as incessant
in port as at sea. But the law requires
that the crew OF each vessel shall be
paid off and discharged at the end Of
every voyage In the case of the liner
they are again signed Immediately, but
during the period while the vessel lies
in port they are not officially connected
with her, and the work which naturally
would fall to their lot Is performed by
the port crew.tEarl Mayo IN Lesle's
Weekly.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

valuation of other property by 100 per
cent.-it reduced the valuation of its
own property by 100 per cent. and
increased the valuation of all other
property by 100 per cent. Oh, for a
photograph that would necessarily re-
peat the foregoing facts within the
hearing of every independent taxpayer
in Nevada.
QUELQUEFoIs.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

At meeting of the State Board of
Revenue recently held at Carson,
Hon. H. F. Bartine was elected State
Examiner under the law of 1903, and
it is stated that he will enter upon his
duties at once, and make a tour of the
counties of the State and meet with
the County Boards of Equalization.
1t is further stated that the Board of
Revenue is fully determined that the
tax-laws shall be given fair trial.
| neither doubt nor question any fact
stated. Mr.. Bartine will do all in his
power and ability to carry out the
provisions of the tax laws. But the
tax laws are damnable, and should
eternally be ever damned. They were
enacted by a legislature that belonged
in the main TO the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company; they were drawn
up by the paid attorneys of that cor
poration, for the purpose of reducing
the taxes of that corporation, and pill.
ing the same on the shoulders of the
general taxpayers of this State. | re-
peat that do not doubt that Mr.. Bar
tine will perform the duties of his
office with strenuousness and vigor
On his tour, he will find his pleasantest
meetings with the Boards of Equaliza-
tion in the counties traversed by the
railroad, and he will find his cold frosts
in Douglas, Ormsby, Lyon and Storey,
and it will not be any to warm in other
counties, not touched by the railroad.
During the last twenty years in Cali
fornia, the railroad company has man
aged to reduce the valuation of its
road from SAC, 900 to $4,000 per mile,
and by just such work as it did
through the Legislature of 1903 in Ne
yada, it has managed to increase the
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

Most of the pears and over half of
the apples in Carson City are worth
less this season because of scale
which has infected them. The agricul-
tural department estimates that it re-
quires about three and four years for
this scale TO kill the trees. This ought
to lead tree owners to do some think.
ing-News.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18
For Sale or Rent.

The Klondykc Saloon, by Octo-
Der LIST. For particulars write to
the owner,
A. Z. CHRISTENSEN,
1860 Bird Ave-, L. Oakland, Cal.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18
Carson Letter.
ED. COURIER:

ED. COURIER:
| have been writing to the CoURIEF
since the fall of 1891, missing but very
few weeks, generally caused by alb
sence. During these nine years can
remember of but one former occasion
when felt that should correct an en-
ror of composition, which is certainly
a compliment to you. In my last let
ter | wrote: "Above all things, the
University is devoted to the search for
the truth in all things, and after per-
son graduates from university, if he
bellies his alma mater, he is indeed in
eorrigible.n For 'belies" you inserted
"believes." The difference is too great
to pass without correction. After a
fair review of university work, have
concluded that there is an unavoida-
BILE result that must follow, and that
result the entertainment of truth and
correct principles. The search and in
CURRY is always into facts-always into
what is matter, and how did it get into
its form, and how to disintegrate or
dissipate it back into its original con-
ditions To obtain such knowledge,
truth must and can be the only guide,
so, the constant search for truth-hon-
estly pursued-must lead a person to
its throne. One of the things that
struck me most remarkably in arriv-
ing at the conclusions have reached,
is the fact that the leading universe
ties are filled with young men whose
parents obtained their wealth through
the high protective tariff. They enter
fully impressed with the belief that
the high protective tariff is correct
fiscal policy, and they leave free trad
ers. Complaints have recently been
made by millionaires against Harvard
or Yale that free trade principles were
being taught in those institutions, and
for that reason have threatened to
withdraw patronage. But the truth is
that neither Yale, nor Harvard, nor
any other high school of learning
teach either free trade or protection;
they simply teach the truth, and as a
result, the pupils dovelop-evena against
their early training and teaching, as
free traders. The foregoing facts stat
ed seem very significant: A young
man enters a university fully imbued
with the idea that protective policy
is proper and correct, and with knowl-
edge that but for the protective policy
he might not have been able to enter
the university. He spends four years
in the university in the investigation
of truth and learning, and he comes
ont free trader. The question natur-
ally arises: Do the universities teach
falsehood, or is the high protective
tariff falsehood? No highly educated
man, not in politics, and who has no
interest in 1.-THE result of the action"
favors high protective tariff. True,
the high protective tariff has made
vested their money with tremendous
energy to develop the resources of the
United States; but | believe that the
result will tend strongly to the disin-
tegration of the Republic. 1t has GER
tainly created a discomfort unprece-
dented in the history of nations and
is directly responsible for the locking
of horns between capital and labor
now on hand, the result of which no
one can now foretell.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

Convicts Woods and Murphy, who
have waxed fat and written poetry
since their incarceration in the Washoe
county jail, were taken back to Fol-
som Sunday morning.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

There is now available under the
Newlands irrigation act in the U. :.
treasury $16, 19l, $50 for the reclama-
ton of arid lands. OF this amount $S,-
461, 49S resulted from sales of public
lands during the present year to date.
The amount received in 1908 was near
ly double that of 1902 The amount
contributed by Nevada during the first
half of 1903 was S12, 405,
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

| observe that the COURIER is now an
incorporated concern. further note,
with pleasure, that it will "cuss" Re-
publicans and Democrats alike, when
they deserve it. | believe have done
that very thing in the past, and see
nothing in prospective to change my
course in the future.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-18

In the Delineator for October, Miss
Clara L. Laughlin writes of A House
o. Dreams, and the paper will strike a
cord of sympathy in every reader, for
it gives broad, beautiful conception
of the external features of 'home."
From library to kitchen, upstairs and
downstairs, in bedroom and hall, it is
perfectly, happily planned, and the
many varied needs of the home it meets
in every detail. 1t is indeed house
to dream of, and prospective home
builders will find therein fund of sug-
gestiveness as well as wealth of SEN
timent to illumine the bare walls OF
architects plans and estimates.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-08
Theory and Practice.

The following story is told by a min
lister of the city. says the Kansas City
Journal, and is one which he consid-
ers too good to be kept:
Two women were riding on a Troost
avenue car a short time ago, and one
of them was endeavoring to secure her
companions consent to become a men,
Der of her church.
II only wish l could interest you in
the church work." said the first speak,
Ell. ut is so interesting, and besides
it would do you so much good, spirit
ually."
II have been thinking seriously of
joining the church.. confessed the
other, 'but, you see, 1 have so little
time. and If l should become a member
l should go into it heart and SOUL
ooh, l wish you would" said the
first. 81 am on my way to a mission
airy meeting now, and do you know
that I got a transfer out of the con-
ductor, and he punched it two hours
late for me. so that 1 beat the old
street car company out of a nickel
''And 50 I've lost a new church
member" said the minister in conclud-
ing his story. II labored with that
woman for hours after that, but the
Christianity of the first woman was
too much for her, and she refused to
Join"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-08
Texts That Were Apropos.

Two stories are told in Harper's Mag
azine of ministers stumbling on texts
Of a humorous personal application. One
was very young minister, having
charge of his first church, and preach
ing a series of sermons on the life and
utterances of St. Paul. The last one
of these was given just before taking
his leave, and during his absence he ex-
pected to take unto himself a wife, his
engagement having been announced.
After turning over the leaves of the
Bible thoughtfully, he said: ct invite
your attention this evening to these
words of the great apostle, I am ready
now to be offered up" The other min
lister was a widower. who had remar-
ried within a year after his first wife's
death. His friends and congregation
thought him very expeditions, and on
the next Sunday, when his text was an
nounced, they could scarcely control
themselves. He rose in his place in his
pulpit and said: my beloved breth-
rem! You will find my text in the sew
enteenth verse of the fourth chapter of
Second Corinthians, Our light affliction,
which is for the moment ,"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-08

BRIGHT BITS.
down.

White Horse-"I hate to eat dry
hay" Brown Householder up! Think
of the poor people that have to eat
health food. '-Chica go Daily News.
-Wife-"We must have a piano"
Husband-"We are neither of us must
call Wife-"I know; but what is home
without a piano lamp?"-New York
Weekly.
Farmer Hayditch Ito his neighbor,
Farmer Turniptop)-"Hallo! Going in
for barbed wire fencing, Ell? Isn't it
rather dear?" Turniptop-"Yes but
then you see my men don't waste time
sitting on t."-Pick-Me-Up
--Daughter-"He says my eyes are
like limpid pools, pa" Father-"Who
does?" Daughter-"That young man
who was in the front room with me last
evening, pa" Father-"Well, you tell
him if he stays so late again I'll raid
the poolroom. Judge.
LET me see, wasn't it Longfellow
who wrote about that old mill at New
port?" said the long-haired man. Say
you're mixed. old man." replied the
gent in the loud suit. 'Longfellow was
the horse that won the handicap once.
Anyway, l never heard of a mill bein
pulled off at Newport. "-Philadelphia
Press.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-08

Peter Van Vechten, for sixty years
a resident of Milwaukee and now hale
and strong of memory, recently called
to mind some incidents in the life of
Junius Brutus Booth, who was a
warm friend of his family's, says the
New York Commercial.
In his later years." said the Mil
waukeean, mo one dared to play in
Richard the Third with the older
Booth except an actor named Scott,
who was an expert swordsman and
could cope any time with the great
tragedian. / think it was not For
rest, but another actor whose name I
cannot now recall, who was chased
from the stage by Booth. / lived in
Catskill, N. Y, at the time and remem-
Der reading about the incident.
Booth, the elder, was a remarkable
man. He could read a page of a news
paper and recite every word of it after
a single reading. He often made bets
with strangers that he could accom-
plish the feat-and he always won.
His stage managers had to resort
to all sorts of means to keep Booth
sober enough to play his part at night.
They would not give him money and
the saloon keepers, through the fore
sight of the manager, would refuse
him credit On one occasion he went
into saloon and offered to pawn him
self for whisky. The saloon keeper
agreed to let him have all the liquor
he wanted if he would agree not to
leave the house until the bill was paid
This arrangement was made, and
Booth stayed in the saloon all day
drinking. Half an hour before the
time for the performance he sent a
note to his manager telling him he
was in pawn and that it would take
Sc to redeem him. The money was
sent, and the play went on as usual"