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The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
DOMESTIC.

Gov. Brady, of Alaska, in his annual
report urges provision for Alaska
representation by delegate in congress,
and says that Alaska's main need is for
pioneers and home builders.
The northwest experienced the coolest
weather of the season, the thermometer
ranging from four to "a degrees below
zero at various places.
Gen. Reyes, of Colombia, now In
Washington, has decided that it is use
less for his government to attempt an
invasion of Panama in view Of the de-
termination of the United States to pre-
serve peace on the isthmus.
Three trainmen were killed and five
injured in a collision on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul road near Abel, la.
Judge Holdom fined Franklin Union of
Press Feeders in Chicago $1,000 for
violation of the typothetae injunction.
Zion City will be conducted hereafter
on cash basis, according to John A.
Dowie
The Great Lakes vessel season now
closed was the most prosperous since
1893.
A protest against Reed Smoot, OF
Utah, remaining in the senate was adopt
ed by a mass meeting in Washington
called by women.
DR.. I. B. Washburn, of Rensselaer,,
Ind.,died as the result of an operation
two years ago in which it is alleged sur
geons left pair of steel forceps near the
liver.
Secretary of Interior Hitchcock in his
annual report shows 22,S24 ,299 acres of
public land sold during the past year.
The pension list decreased 2.901 names,
the total number now being 1,043 1888.
Railroads in Minnesota killed 211 per-
sons the past year, against 1873 in 1902.
Carroll D. Wright, United States labor
commissioner. in an address at Philadel-
phia predicted the abandonment of
wages for profit sharing.
The national contractors convention
in Chicago adopted radical rule for
an open shop.
Fire at Whiting, "a, destroyed the
Bank of Whiting and Cassidy & Whit
ing's department store, entailing loss
Of 100000.
Five passengers were cremated and
ten injured in wreck on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad three
miles west of Abba, Ia.
w. l. Buchanan, of New York, has
been chosen special minister to the Pa
mama republic by President Roosevelt.
A steel trust official announces that be-
ginning January 1, 80 per cent. of the
company's employee will suffer a reduc-
ton in wages.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Much Prize Money.

Minnesota's exhibits at the Inter-
national Live Stock Show in Chicago
place her agricultural college at the
head of all the colleges exhibiting.
They won $1,235 in prize money and
four championships, ten first prizes,
seven second prizes and eight thirds,
with q fourth and fifth additional,
twenty-seven in all, with the cham
pionships as additional honors. The
results are very unusual and show
the character of the exhibits sent, as
compared With those of other states.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Boy Thaws Dynamite.

Frank Bailey, seventeen years OF
age, of Brainerd, was terribly injured
in the woods near Alborn station on
the Duluth, Missabe & Northern road,
by an explosion of dynamite. He is
in Duluth hospital.
The flesh was literally torn from
the bones of the right arm and it is
expected that it will have to be am
putated near the shoulder.
The dynamite was in tin can and
the boy was thawing the explosive
out over a fire. While in the act of
stirring the fire the dynamite explod-
ed. Pieces of the tin can were driven
into the boys flesh. The boys right
side is badly torn.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Made Doubly Sure.

The body of an unidentified man
was found in the woods near Fridley
park. The body was frozen and COW
cred with snow and had the appear
ance of having laid in the woods near
ly week. Coroner Ewing of Anoka
county, who was called to the scene,
decided that the man had taken car
bolic acid and then made sure of his
work by hanging himself, for one
end of the rope was around his neck
and the other was attached to a small
tree. There was nothing about his
person to indicate his identity.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Well Remembered.

Valley City, N. Oak, Dec. 1.-two years
ago Mrs. Matilda M. Boucher of this. place
suffered a great deal with q dizziness IN her
head. She was cured Of this by a remedy
called Dodd's Kidney Pills, and has not been
troubled since.
Shortly afterwards she had q bad bilious
attack and for this she nHed Da emrad
In January, 1903, she had an attack Of
Sciatica of which she says:
Il was almost helpless with the Sciatica,
but remembering what Dodd's Kidney
Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills had done for
me before, I commenced treatment OF
these medicines and in three weeks l was
completely restored to health. have
great faith in these medicines for. they have
been Of SO much benefit to me"
Dodds Kidney Pills are very popular IN
Barnes County, having made great many
splendid cures of Sciatica, Rheumatism and
Kidney Troubles. Many families use no
other medicine.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Serious CHARGES.

Some of the commission merchants
of the Twin Cities are said to have re-
ceived illegal consignments of game
and fish, and, after selling them to
firms in Chicago and other cities, to
have notified the original shippers
that the game and fish were confiscat-
ed by the state commission. In this
way, it is said, the firms have sold
large quantities of game and fish
without making any returns to the
shippers
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Champion Butter Maker.

M sondergaard of Hutchinson, ma
tional champion butter-maker, made
high score in the December butter
scoring contest conducted by the
state dairy and food department. His
sample was graded 81. j. w. Koop-
sail of Lewiston, Winona county,
came in second with a marking Of
96H, and Alfred Schroeder of Lafay-
cite, Nicollet county, who took first
place in November, came in third this
time with q marking of SO.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Court Names Surveyor.

Judge Brooks of Minneapolis, has
filed an order in answer to the petit
ton of NJ. H. Hegerle in which George
H. Budd is appointed as civil engineer
to survey the county in connection
with a proposed drainage ditch asked
for in the petition for the town of
Minnetrist, Hennepin county, and the
town of Lake, Carver county. When
the route for the proposed waterway
has been surveyed, the civil engineer
is asked to make report to the court.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS IN SESSION.

Meets to Consider Reciprocity for
Cuba and Other Affairs.
There were two speeches in the Unit
ed States senate on the 18th on the Cuban
reciprocity bill, one of them in support
of the measure and the other against.
Bills were introduced for the erection In
Washington of monument to the mem
DRY Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;
providing for the promotion to the grade
and pay Of major of army chaplains who
have had not less than ten years expert
ence. Adjourned to the 14th. In the
house Mr. Dinsmore (Ark.) condemned
the recognition of the Panama republic
and Mr.. Hit Qll.) upheld the action of
the United States. The pension bill was
discussed Adjourned to the 18th.
The United States senate on the 18th
spent the day on the Cuban bill, most
of the time being occupied by Senator
Bailey (Tex) in an argument against
the constitutionality of the proce eding.
A bill was introduced to create bureau
of public roads in the department OF agri-
culture. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, OF
Boston, was selected as chaplain. In the
house the pension appropriation bill,
the isthmus canal, the Republic OF Pana-
ma, the tariff. tobacco interests and
questions affecting labor were debated.
A concurrent resolution providing for q
recess adjournment from December 19
to January was adopted.
The United States senate on the 18th
continued the debate on the Cuban bill,
Senator Perkins (Cal.) speaking for the
measure, as did Senator Simmons IN.
c., and Senator McCumber On. d. OPP
posed it. In the house rural free deliv-
cry, reciprocity with Canada and the
new republic of Panama were topics I'M
der discussion.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

40" XOlh NSllu pOpuldI4Sn AZ
100000 and Chicago's 100000.
Holton, Mo-, with a population OF
$500, has seventeen churches.
It costs about s6,235, 900 to operate
the government printing office.
House Of representatives costs 3d..
100000 year and senate $1,400,O0O.
Nearly onethird of the 3S1, 1000 in.
habitants OF Cleveland were born in
Europe.
A child Of five should weigh Al
pounds, be 41h inches in height and
have chest girth Of 1914 inches.
The proportional increase in the
population of the cities was less dur
ing the last ten years than previously
Twenty thousand young children
daily and nightly, stand in the streets
of London Offering various articles for
sale.
The average age for men to marry
Is highest in Sweden-31 years-and
the lowest in the United States-26H
years
Papier mache mushrooms and toad.
stools are now made for the purpose
of demonstrating the difference be.
tween them.
The production of Pennsylvania oil
in June aggregated S9,2S9 barrels a
day, which is 5,452 barrels above the
daily average.
The longest telephone wire span in
the world is 5000 feet from pole to
pole, spanning the Susquehanna near
Lancaster, Pa.
In Lowell, Mass, there are $4,000
machine tending operatives who care
for $4,000 spindles and earn over
100000 a month.
There are 1,OS3,473 Odd Fellows in
the United States and Canada, 941,221
Freemasons and 928,O35 Of the Ancient
Order of Forestcrs.
Miss Helen Miller Gould gave a
Thanksgiving dinner to number of
boys at Woody Crest, her home at Iry-
ington-on-the-Huds
Deaths from consumption are di.
vided by age as follows: Under As,
So per cent; As to GO, 20 per cent;
above go, IL per cent.
In the opinion Of the health depart.
ment Of Chicago every school in that
city should be provided with apparatus
to sterilize drinking water.
Smokeless powder, machine guns
and quick firing rifles tend to make the
attacking Of small states by powerful
ones more and more impossible.
At Washington five women are still
drawing pensions as widows Of men
who served in the war of the revOlu.
ton which ended 120 years ago.
The London county council now
makes $35O000 year from tramways.
Leeds corporation secures from sim.
liar source an income Of 100000.
"A new typewriting machine returns
the carriage automatically when the
end of line is reached so that the
operator is not compelled to pause.
Senator Stewart, Of Nevada, is the
only man in the senate who has never
been shaved. His beard began to
grow when he was 16 and has been
growing for 60 years.
The United States now produces
more hops than any other country. OF
the worlds crop of 100000 hundred
weight the United States furnishes
49,, 900 hundredweight.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Renews Recommendation

In it's nineteenth annual report, the
state railroad and warehouse COM
mission renews it's recommendations
that the state enact law making
it illegal for any common carrier to
advance it's rates for transportation
of any class of freight or commodity
without first having obtained the
written consent of the commission
The subject and the necessity for such
q law is strongly urged, as needed
restraint.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Minnesota Notes.

The mangled body of o. H. Berg
stron, of Hector, Mimi, was picked
ND by the section crew at point a
few miles west of Willmar.
The state dairy and food commits
sion has analysed samples of so-called
pure maple syrup sold in Minnesota
that is 100 per cent adulteration.
C.. P. Thurston, st. Paul, hos been
appointed inspector Of customs at
ST. Vincent. This customs Office was
created on account of the increased
train service on that branch of the
0roaa Northern railroad.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Branded as a Fake.

DR.. n. L. Williams and the athletic
authorities at the university branded
as fake, pure and simple, the story
>which-appeared in Minneapolis pa
per to the effect that Minnesota au-
thorities were negotiating with Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons, the prize fighter,
will, an idea of bringing him to the
university as trainer for the football
SQUAD
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
Chorus

Biff Bang! mile minute
No other method of travel IS IN 1t
I want to 60 ripping, skipping and tipping
Away on the Limited Train"
These lines are not original with me. They
are taken from a tuneful little ditty sung
in George AIDES comedy Peggy from Paris. .
The Jingle danced through my brain the
other day as we lay on the siding at Prairie
Junction, or some such place, to let the
Santa Fe's west bound California Limited
go BY Il was gorgeous tram OF pata; ace
windows beauty and fashion and youth and
old age were lolling among the !uxuriant
cushions, some visiting, some reading, some
pleasantly doing, some making wreaths OF
cigar smoke, some gazing dreamily through
the windows at the passing cities, ana
fields, and forests and rivers.
car of our train and watched the California
Limited as she faded away toward the gold
en- west. And I thought of the difference
between travel now and travel in the days
of 40, when it took the gold-seeker half
long, weary year, filled with al! kinds OF
hardships, to travel the distance that Is now 4Hv
slowly moving wagons, the dust, the stones,
the jolting, the thirst. the hunger, the
homesicIness. the snaillike crossing OF
plains. the laborious climbing of mountains,
the weary dragging weeks, the never enolng
trail.
In these palaces that had just glided by
were people going to the same place to
spend the winter months where the climate
IS perpetual summer. And they were not 10
to endure a. single hardship on the Journey.
When night came they were to lie in beds
whose soft embrace makes sleep luxury,
and in the day time the velvet cushions OF
their seats were to be made deeper stu .i by
pillows-and thy were to spend a deiigntlul
mart of their time in the gilded and glittering
dining car, where every dainty that ever
tickled the palate is enticingly servedn !
short, they were to have on the trip all the re
comforts of homs-and of the best KIND OF
home.
I stood there and watched them pass out
of sight while my soul was consumed with
envy. But derived some consolation , out
see California. and / promised myself that
if I ever did 60 there it would be over the
Santa Fe. JOHNNY DRUMMER.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25
ON THE ssDUDE" TRAIN.

Johnny Drummer, who Il Side
Tracked to let the Limited go by,
expresses his sentiments regard
Ing that Superb Train.
''It has been my dream of joy supreme
10 ride in plush and velvet splendor
Parlor car for swell tailender
Platform fenced with swell brass fender
On the Regular Limited Train
Electric bell right under your nose.
Porter to come and brush your clothes
Grub in the diner the best that grows
A downy bunk for nights repose
On the Regular Limited Train
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

HAS the doctor given up all hope?" "Oh,
no; he thinks the estate will settle the bill
if mis- patient dies."-Cincinnati Times
Star.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli-
BILE MEDICINE for coughs and e. e9ld s. ;Soo w.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

You may follow luck to ruin, but not to
zuccess.-Garheld.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

"Did she return your affection?" eyes,
unopened."-Detroit Free Press.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

They who court fame never win it.
Rams Horn.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

Stops the Cough
and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price Is cents
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

Putnam Fadeless Dyes cost but 10 cents
per package.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

Sometimes, as many find to their cost,
something venture, nothing have.-Puck.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

A plot to Kill united states Cohsul
Powell at Santo Domingo was related
by a passenger, who carried letter from
a high Dominican official to friendin
New York.
The Federal National bank, which was
closed by the stock panic early in Oc-
tober, reopened in Pittsburg.
William H. Ennis, a former Brooklyn
policeman, convicted Of having muir
dered his wife, was put to death in the
electric chair in Sing Sing On. " prison.
The secretary of the treasury, has
asked for an appropriation of $l3O,Ooo
for additional gas buoys on the upper
great lakes.
Two hundred st. Louis (Mo.) criminals
may be free as the result of q supreme
court decision requiring states attor-
ney's information to be verified.
Mrs. j. Messersmith, her daughter,
and Frank Smith, clerk, were burned
to death in a fire at Braidwood, III.
The Princeton (Wis.) state bank,
which was closed October 20, through
the alleged embezzlement of the CASH
Ter, has reopened it's doors.
Harry Maine, cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants bank of Linn Grove,
a., shot himself because of losses in
speculation. The doors Of the bank
were closed
Gen. Benjamin Viljoen, Boer COM
mander, has arrived to arrange for an
exhibition of Boer life at the st. Louis
exposition.
The breaking of dam flooded large
portion of the city of Paterson, N. j.,
causing immense damage.
Francis B. LOOMS, assistant secre-
tary of state, says Colombia intended to
declare the French concession for the
isthmian canal void and then sell it to
the United States for $4O,O0O,OOO.
The sum of SGT 900 was netted by bal
poudre for St. Luke's hospital annex in
Chicago.
DR.. Frank B. Mallory, of the Harvard
medical school, announced his discov-
cry of the scarlet fever germ.
Practically all of the assets Of the
s117OOOOOO Consolidated Lake Su-
perior company were bid in by Speyer &
Co. at an auction in New York city for
$4,5OO,OOO.
Arguments in the Northern Securities
case were completed before the United
States supreme court. A decision is rot
expected until February.
Brig. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant has
been assigned to the command of the
department of the lakes, with headquar-
tiers in Chicago.
Jesse Green (coloredD, who was con-
victed of the murder of his wife in Ches-
ter, Pa, was hanged.
William I. Buchanan, of Buffalo, N.
Y, the first United States minister to the
republic of Panama, sailed for Panama
The steamer City of Washington ar
rived in New York from Colon bringing
the signed copy Of the canal treaty with
the republic of Panama.
Asa G. Bushnell, a New Haven (Conn.)
bank cashier, committed suicide because
his accounts were $4,000 short.
BY the sinking of the tugboat Matte
M. at Lake Concordia, Miss, six men
were drowned.
Capt. buttons last voyage to New
York on the steamer Umbria ended the
worst trip of his career. The craft was
three days late and seven persons were
injured by heavy seas.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
roDt Cho A p Talbot british
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

In Dragging of the seed don't forget the
soi.-Judge.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

tONElGNs
Baron Won kardoff, in an address to
the German reichstag, declared the en-
pire was rapidly drifting toward social
ism.
The Japan diet has been dissolved
by the emperor as a blow at the war
party, and the cabinet now will have free
hand to treat with Russia.
A United States flag raising at Guam
tanamo was avoided by Cubans, who
declared the naval station there has been
forced upon them.
Nine American jockeys earned nearly
100000 on the French turf during 1908.
Spain will not participate in the ST.
Louis exposition.
The results of the election for presi-
dent, held throughout Colombia on De-
cember 8, show complete triumph fol
Gen. Reyes.
Three Americans and seven natives
were killed by fumes from blast of
dynamite in quarry near Manila.
The schooner Sailors Home was driven
ashore at st. Mary's bay, N. F., and her
crew of six persons persisted.
Great Britain and Holland insist that
Panama must be responsible for SIS ,000,-
900 of the Colon bian debt.
United States marines were landed at
Colon and were on the way to inter
cert the advance of the Colombian war
party believed to have landed south OF
Panama.
Jewish emigration from Russia to
America is constantly increasing In
PROPORTIONS.
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

Biff! Bang! mile minute
No other method of travel is in it
1 want to go ripping, skipping and tipping
Away on the Limited Train"
The Tomahawk., 1903-12-25

consul at Boston, died suddenly Of heart
trouble.
Isaac Price, said to be the Oldest man
in Brooklyn, N. Y, died in his one hun
dred and second year.
Judge James Cheney, said to be the
wealthiest man in Indiana, died at Fort
Wayne, aged sc years. His fortune is
estimated at $25 100000.
J. Stanley Forrest, widely known as
the prison evangelist, died in Davenport,
Ia.
The republican national committee
selected Chicago as the place and June
21, 1904, as the date for holding the next
convention.
John r. Proctor, of Kentucky, presi-
dent of the United States civil service
commission, died in Washington, aged
SO years.
Alexander Mcdonald, who was elected
to the United States senate from Arkan-
sas in 1869, died at Norwood Park. N. J..
Viola Sands Hazard, thought to be the
oldest woman in Rhode Island, died at
her home at Wakefield, aged los years.
Maj William H. Garland, aged "a
years, died in Johnson City, Tenn, at the
national soldiers home. He had shaken
hands with every president of the United
States except Washington.
Patrick Collins (dem.) was reelected
mayor of Boston by $1,000 plurality.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-06

an inspired mnsic-drama Age had chastened the
lung Ring" dramas when he wrote ".Parsifa," bu,
it had only lent him serenity, without destroy.
ing his great power and his poetic charm. Never,
perhaps, has Nature, in its infinite beauty, been
exquisitey interpreted than in the music illustrative
of Good Fridays Spell" Hard, too, would it be to
match the vOuptuous graces of the passages devoted
to the Temptation of Parsfal in the Enchanted Gar
dens. And the accomplishments to the more solemn
attending the unwilling of the Grail in the first
act and in the last hardly less marvellous than the
mysterious episodes around which they are woven
The story? As have already, it relates
the redemption" of Amfortas Uypifying if WILL
Humanity from the consequences of sin. The ere
deemer," or more properly the healer-not under
any circumstances to he COMPOUNDED with the Divine
Redeemer-is the hero Parsifa
In the first act watch his coming as youth from
the deserts amid which he has grown up, fearless and
free. On the borders of Monsavat. he meets Gurne-
MANI, veteran of the Temple with Kundry. witch
and woman, wicked penitent according to her mood.
He shoots and is accused of sacricge For in
the country of the Grail all life is sacred 81 knew
not it wrong" says Parsifal He seems pure and
he is astonishingly ignorant that Gurnenanz sus-
poets he is the "guieless FOOL, who has been pre-
ordained of Heaven to cure Amfortas and bids him
to Love-Feast of the Templars. He tells him Of the