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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-04
A RULING MADE
ON LIBEL POINT
FREE. COMMENT. PERMISSIBLE
ON PUBLIC OFFICIALS, ACTS
The Supreme Court Reverses Libel
Suit: Appealed from Ada--Duluth
Case Establishes Right of City to
Place Water Meters Other De-
cisions.

The supreme court filed an impor-
tant libel decision to-day in the case
of E. j. Herringer against Peter O..
Ingberg. Last year during the cam,
paign Ingberg published a communi-
cation in the Ada Herald criticizing
Herringer, who was county auditor
and candidate for reelection, be-
cause of his action in regard to a
county ditch. ,Herringer sued for libel
and gotta verdict for $3.50. The SUI
premes court decides that the article
was not libelous and that the plain
tiff had no cause of action. "All per-
sons holding public positions are
subjects fors public discussion" says
Judge Brown; in his opinion.
There has always been a distinc-
ton between publications relating to
public and private persons as to
whe ether they are libelous. A criti-
cism might reasonably be applied to
a public officer, which would be libel
GUS if applied to a privatescitizen. 6
s, +, The syllabus of the decision is as
follows:
3. ]. Herringer. respondent, VS.. Peter e.
Ingberg, appellant:
First-In an action for libel it Is held
(a), that an alleged defamatory publica-
ton must be taken and construed in the
light Of the ordinary Specification and i'm
port of its language, (b), that the natura
and ordinary meaning Of the language o,
words cannot be enlarged, extended, or re
stricted, by innuendo. and co., that the
article complained Of in this action is not
| libelous.
+ Second-A citizen has the legal right te
comment fairly and with an honest pur:
pose upon the conduct Of public officers
and the publication Of such comments, fail
and temperate In tone, will not, subject the
| author to an action for damages.
| Order reversed. Brown, j.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-04
Torrens Law Case.

In a decision upon the -Torrens law,
the court holds that 1t is not necessary
to make the state a party where
there is a, tax lien upon the land
claimed. The case was brought in
Ramsey county, and the syllabus states
it as follows:
National Bond and Security Company, Re-
spondent, VS.. Sarah E. Daskam ct al,
Defendants; State Of Minnesota Appel
lants.
Tax lien held by the state Of Minnesota
are not interests in and claims upon ths
land on which they are a lien, within the
meaning of section 6, chapter 234, Laws
1908.
Order reversed. Lewis, J.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-04
Duluth Water Case.

The city of Duluth wins a water
case, in which a householder who had
used a meter refused to allow 1T ito be
replaced after it had been taken out
for repairs, and brought an injunction
to compel the city to furnish water at
the established fiat rate. The decision
holds that the city had a right to
compel the continued use Of the meter.
The syllabus:
Roger S. Powell and Rina H. Powell, APP
pellants, VS.. City Of Duluth and L. N
| Chase, respondents: t
The board of water commissioners in
the city of Duluth established water rates
for private residences, at so much per
| month, based upon the number of bowls,
tubs, etc., and adopted an ordinance with
] reference to meters which provided that
| they might be Installed at the wish of the
consumer or at the pleasure Of. the board,
and that all persons were forbidden to in
terfere with Ur remove such meters with
out permission by the board and In prac-
Etiee adopted the rule that after a meter
i had been placed. customer could not
return to the fiat rate without the board S
consent Before the city owned the water
system, and. while it was being operated
/ by a private corporation, appellants made
application for and had installed a meter
which they continued to use for some time
+ after the city acquired ownership. APP
| pellants made application for a change
from the meters<to the flat rate system,
/ which the city refused. In an action
drought by the consumer to enjoin the city
from invading she premises fors the pur-
pose OF replacing the meter which had
been taken out for repair, and from cut
! ting off the water supply In. case the meter
was not reinstated by the consumer, and
to compel the city to furnish, water at the
/ esta blished fiat rates, held: Water rates
are not taxes within the meaning of those
| constitutional provisions requiring un1-
| for1nity of taxation but are merely the
price paid for water by the consumer as
I a commodity, and the relation between
+ the city and the consumer is that OF con-
tract The ordinance and rule for the en-
1 forcement of the use Of meters were not
| arbitrary and unreasonable. The hndlng
! of the court is sustained by the evidence
1 to the effect that water was furnished to
all Of the consumers nearly as possible
at actual cost; that the fiat rates were
/ made as nearly as possible uniform and
4 to conform to the meter rates Which were
reasonable and without discrimination as
4 between appellants and other consumers
+ Held also, that the fact that appellants
would be required to pay fifty or fifty five
cents a month more by the meter than
the fiat rate system, as based upon their
! prior experience, does not tend to snow
the meter rates unreasonable or that any
discrimination was made between appel
i lants and other consumers.
/ Order affirmed. LEWIS, ).
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
LARGE AS LAKE ERIE.
Little Known Body Of WAITE In Win
nipex In Region Rich in
Minerals.

Lake Winnipeg, or "The Muddy Wa
ter" is quite large sheet of water,
being about 800 miles in length and GO
in width, or about as large as Lake
Erie. One solitary schooner Of some
so tons burthen is all the vessel that
sails over its broad surface, if we ex-
cept the bark canoes of the voyageurs.
The sail vessel belongs to the Hudson
Bay Fur company, and is employed in
transporting furs and supplies on
their way to and from the Hudson bay,
the chief factory Of the company.
Little is known of the great north
ern lake, with its solitary vessel and
its limited business; it is what Lake
Superior was to the world some rs
years ago, and it is not unreasonab BILE
to suppose that as in the case of this
lake unknown resources and unfor-
seen circumstances will in IS years
more surround its shores with civil
cation and cover its waters with steam
and sail vessels. That it is q region
rich in minerals there is no doubt,
from the testimony of many travellers.
The time may come, says the Winni-
peg Globe, when Lake Superior will be
only the halfway place for business
and travel to the northwest.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
TEN MEN AND A SAFE,
Three Doors to an Immense Strong
Box Have Combinations Con-
trOlled by That Number.

In the sub basement of one of our
big life insurance companies is safe
SO large that a theatrical company
migkt perform therein. There are
three doors, the combinations of
which are controlled by ten men, Each
man, a high official of the company, is
an integral part Of the integral whol
says the New York Press. For i'll
stance: Five men are required to open
the outer door, each knowing a fifth
part of the entire combination and no
more. A having set the gratings in his
combination, is followed in turn by b.
c. ID. and E, when the bolt may be
moved. In the same manner the second
door is opened by three men in com
bination, and the third two, in the lat
ter case each being in combination
with one or more Of the other eight
on the outer and second doors. The
safe is regarded as safe.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
VENEZUELA is DECAYING.
German Traveller states That Nike d
Negroes and Indiana Are Get
ting an Upper Hand.

DR.. Passarge, the noted traveller.
who has just returned from Venc-
zuela, says, according to Berlin re-
port:
"President Castro is a fullblooded
Indian and an energetic man without
political wisdom. He rose suddenly
from magistrate of remote village
at the foot of the Andes to the presi-
dency, and his rapid rise made him
overconfident.
"The present situation is due 20
two facts: Germany suddenly sus-
pended the pressure of the early part
of the war, which diminished the re-
spect in which she was held by Presi-
dent Castro; secondly, the attitude
of the officials Of the great Venezue-
Ian railroad toward President Cas-
tro. Germany's first principle must
be not to NEEDLE in the internal af-
fairs of Venezuela. But the railroad
officials forgot this"
DIR. Passarge describes the state as
drifting to certain decay and as fol-
lowing steadily downward course
since Gen. Blanco's presidency. The
color question plays an important
role In political tendencies. The
mixed negroes and Indians, etc, are
getting an upper hand in society and
politics.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
SNUG LITTLE FRENCH INNS.
Cha rning Old HOstelries Which Have
Been Greatly Helped by the
Automobile.

"This talk about the decadence of
those delightful French and English
inns is all nonsense" said a man who
recently returned from a European
trip. "The advent of the automobile
was a godsend to them, and their pat
ronage has been greatly increased
since people took to riding along those
beautiful roads instead of whizzing
along on dirty, sooty trains.
"And what charming old places those
hotels are! Their immaculate antique
furnishings, monsieur with his CHEEKY
smile, the black-eyed waiting maid, the
awkward chore boy; there is delight
full quaintness about the place not to
be found elsewhere. And after the
evening meal what a pleasure it is to
sit on one Of those coy porches over
looking the queer little town nestled
at the foot of the great chateau.
Others may pass their time abroad
in the palatial hotels to be found in
the great Cities" said the traveller, ac-
cording to the New York Tribune,
"but as for me, give me one of the
snug little inns hidden away in the in
terror of France"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
WHERE DWARFS ARE MADE.
Children In MAdraA Stunted nd Dla- =
torted for the Purpose Of Put
ting Them Out to Beg.

Some interest has of late been
aroused in Madras by the exhibition
OF two dwarfs who are alleged to be
over SO years Of age, and are brother
and sister. These beings are not ONLY
small but distorted. 1t is believed
that dwarb are manufactured" in
Indian. There is a practice extant in
the Punjab of elongating infants
heads so as to render them out of all
proportion to the body. The effect of
compression on tho brain renders the
victims idiotic, says the London Ex-
press.
They are sent around to beg, and in
their peregrinations visit the Madras
and Bombay presidencies. An instinct
akin To that Of an animal, however,
still lives in the distorted beings, and
invariably brings them back to their
masters. They are known as "Shah
Shuja's mice" from the name Of the
temple where they are manufactured.
The children, it is stated, ere vowed TO
the temple by fanstical women
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
ENGLAND'S GREAT BACHELORS.
Four Leading Men OF the nrftiAh
Kingdom Are Unmarried at
Middle Age.

This is the age Of bachelors in Eng
land. The women are discussing with
keen interest the fact that four of heir
great men are unmarried. Arthur Bal
four Is a bachelor, and indeed the first
bachelor to become premier since the
time of William Pitt.
Lord Kitchener, England's most not
able soldier and Lord Miner her most
prominent administrators are both I'M
married.
Completing the notable four IS the
bishop Of London, who is not far from
being the most prominent man in the
church.
The men on the other side, says the
Philadelphia North American, are de
claring that France has long been
cursed with petticoat influence in poll.
tics, and England has had some ex.
perience of the plague of women be,
hind the scenes at the war Office
They believe that "the triumph Of the
four great bachelors points to a quiet
and effective revolt of man"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
BALKS COVETOUS RELATIVES.
nebraska Farmer DiAtr1buteS the
Forty Thousand Dollars They
Want Among the Poor.

Disguised by the chickering's and i'm
portunities of horde of relatives,
who insisted that he divide legacy of
$4,000 among them, Benjamin w. Gist,
young farmer living near Fall City,
Neb,, drew the money from the bank
in $1,000 lots and gave it away to the
poor.
Glst owns good farm and other
property. The $4,000 was left him by
an uncle. AS he was already well to
do, lot of cousins and other relatives
talked of contrasting his uncle's will to
get a share of the legacy. Gist saws
he intended to divide the moneyamonp
his relatives, but they disguised him
Finally he went to the bank. drew
out $4,000 in gold, and drove through
the streets distributing IS, $40 and $50
pieces to the poor. The deserving and
undeserving Jared alike. He saved
many poor family from want, and
frightened many a home.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
GOATS FURNISH THE MILK.
Tho People of Malta Derive Their
Entire supply of IActeaI Fluid
from the Animals.

The population of the island of
Malta, situated in the Mediterranean
sea, amounting to some 100000 souls,
derives its entire milk supply from
the goat herds that abound in that
little speck of rock. 1t is estimated
that there are about 10000 goats on
the island. There are no regular
grazing fields for goats, but every
morning the herds are driven out
along the roads and hillsides. where
they pick up whatever they can find
in the way of weeds or any other
edible matter. which, however, sell
dom includes grass. This is supple
mented by carob beans when the
herd is driven back to shelter at
night.
How the Maltese goat can give the
quantity and quality of milk which
it does upon this food is a matter
of frequent conjecture and it is out
of the question to get anything but
thin and watery milk from cows un-
der the same conditions. An average
goat produces Az pints Of milk per
day and the animals cost from $40
to $25 each. No special effort seems
to be made by the natives to pre-
serve strains, but, nevertheless, the
Maltese goat manages to keep up it's
reputation for looks and productive
ness.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
PLUCKY GIRL IMMIGRANTS.
Hundreds Are Preparing to Leave
England to Seek New Homes
in South Africa.

The domestic servant problem Is
keen in England. It is critical in
South Africa-so much so that the
high commissioner recently issued an
appeal for respectable and healthy
English girls willing to work and
make South Africa their home. In re-
spouse to this appeal so plucky young
women from various parts of the Brit
ish Isles have sailed for South Africa,
says London Report.
These girls have been selected for
their physical fitness by the South At
rican expansion committee, and it is
the present intention to send out 100
girls a month until the needs of the
housewives of the Transvaal. Rho
desia, Cape Colony and Natal are salts
fed.
There were many affecting leavetak-
ings at the committees "hoste" in
Upper Westbourne terrace, where
most of the girls lived until the time of
their departure, but the girls were full
of hope for the future. An escort
matron will accompany them all the
way, and see them installed in the
committees "hostel" at Johannes
burg.
In view of the expected increase of
women emigrants to South Africa, the
horticultural college at Swanley,
Kent, which is under the supervision
of the Kent county council, has opened
branch for the training of women
for colonial life. The course will &C.
cupy about q year. The syllabus in
cludes seed sowing, fruit packing, jam
making, cow keeping, dairy work,
carpentering, household management,
colonial hygiene and native language.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
RED, BLACK OR BLONDE.
Dark-Haired Children Have the Most
Imagination, But Red-Headed
Get the Good Marks.

Some curious statistics relating to
hair have been collected by the school
authorities at Lille. 1t Is found that
authenticated boys are generally at
the head of the recitation classes, and
blonde girls come out highest as arith-
heticians. But in composition they
are nowhere, says the London Ex-
press.
The dark-haired children of both
sexes have the quality of imagination,
and in their compositions know how
not to fatigue the attention, and as
compared to the auburn and blondes
are born stylists.
I dare say the auburn boys and
blond lasses in the Lille elementary
schools are of Flemish-that is to say,
phlegmatic-race. Their brains do
not grow at once congested when they
stand up to recite, and for that reason
they keep the mastery Of the vocal or
gans. In short, they continue to know
what they are about. The dark chill
dren are probably of -eItic-that is to
say, Gallic-origin. The blood comes
with rush to their brains, and they
grow confused, splutter and break
down. If they could only be taught to
remain silent for a few moments they
would be all the better for this rush,
as the confusion would have passed
away, leaving only stimulated mental
organs.
Finally, on the subject of hair, says
n writer in Truth, l am sorry to say
that the red-headed boys and girls in
the Lille schools are 1T the bottom in
everything, save in good conduct
marks. Nor are they remarkable for
good health. The dark boys behave
better than the auburn or the fair, and
are more sensitive to praise or blame
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
THE ACTORS OF CHINA.
The IRIS Is a Profession Which Once
Adopted Ia Vital to Those who
Follow 1t.

Actors in China are usually very
well paid, but likewise are much
despised. No actor or son of an
actor can compete at the public ex-
aminations for the literary degree
which is the doorway to public office,
and consequently the actors profess
sion when once adopted, is vital to
Ign Eagle. Once an English doctor
was called to attend young actor
whose leg was in a bad condition
from careless treatment The foot
had been cut off as the result of an
injury caused by fall on the stage.
Filth and negligence had done the
rest and there was very little chance
of the mans recovery, still the doc
tor felt that he should take that
chance and therefore took off the
mans leg. To the surprise of the
doctor his leg healed at once, and in
few weeks the actor was again
ready to go on the stage. The doc
tor fitted him with an artificial leg
and his good fortune began. He at
once undertook part where his leg
was knocked off to the horror of the
audience. After the apparent acct
dent he was carried off the stage
but soon reappeared, walking as well
as before. The Chinese know very
little about artificial legs and each
time the dramatic incident occurred,
they regarded it as miracle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
PERILS OF THE TRAPPERS.
ers Went to Their Deaths on
the Platte River.

In the United States the free hunt
ers approach the mountains by three
main routes. 1t was coming down the
Platte that poor SCOTS canoe was
overturned, his powder lost and his
rifle rendered useless, relates Outing.
Game had retreated to the mountains
with springs advance. Berries were
not ripe by the time trappers were
descending with their winters hunt.
Scott and his furnishing men could
not find edible roots. Each day Scott
weakened. There was no food. Final
ly Scott had strength to go no further.
His men had found tracks of some
other hunting party far to the fore.
They thought that in any case he
could not live. What ought they to
do? Hang back and starye with him,
or hasten forward while they had
strength to the party whose tracks
they had espied. On pretense of seek
ing roots, they deserted the helpless
man. The next spring when these
same hunters went up the Platte they
found the skeleton of poor Scott 60
miles from the place where they had
left him. The terror that spurred the
emaciated man to drag himself all this
weary distance can barely be con-
ceived; but such were the fearful odds
taken by every free trapper who went
up the Platte, across the parched
plains or to the headwaters of the
Missouri.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
Education and Beauty.

An American scientist has come to
the conclusion that the tendency Of
too much education or intellectual de-
velopment in women is to make them
lose their beauty. He instances the
FARO women Of India. They are SUI
preme. They WOO the men, control the
affairs OF the home and the nation,
transmit property, and leave the men
nothing to do. The result is, says the
scientist, that they are the ugliest
women on earth.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
LETTERS FROM HEAVEN.
Strange COmmun icatiOnA Of an In.
dianapOlis Crank to the Nation.
Al Treasury Department..

For five or six years the treasury de-
Partment has periodically received a
letter or epistle from an Indianapolis
man who signs himself United States
in Heaven" and who dates his epistles
Heaven" The latest of these commu-
nications is in line with all the others,
and although brief is interesting, as
showing the class of matter which
sometimes reaches the executive de-
partments. This one is dated
Heaven, SO, ., 49," and is as follows:
81 do not care to set up my opinion in
controversy with the others of the
American bar, but l have opposed the
Panama canal because / think it I'M
wise, because the French company has
a doubtful title" 1t is signed United
States in Heaven"
The communications from this cor
respondent are promptly transferred
to the waste basket, and from there
are carried out by the charwomen who
clean up the treasury department. No
answer is sent to this alleged heaven
~ coiIcsPoHueHI. III soHN u thc ue-
partments the heads are SO exceeding
ly courteous in their treatment of cor
respondents that they might be dis
posed to insist upon an answer to COM
munications of this kind, but this is not
SO in the treasury department.
At the white house, says the Wash
ington Star, unless it is seen absolute
ly that a person is crazy, his or her
communication is always responded to
in the most courteous manner.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-01-08
COMMERCIAL PROFESSIONS.
Men Of Money who Labor to Turn
Their Business Into InstitutiOns
of Uae1ulness.

The truth is, we hear too much
about the commercialism of the pro-
LESSONS. There are men who vulgar
ize them all, no doubt, and who sell
their craft-right for mess of mil
lions, for there have always been such
men, says Worlds Work. But there
is another tendency of our time that
is far stronger than the tendency
to get wealth; it is the ten
dency to establish, to build, and
to maintain nstitutions-institu-
tions of any useful and honorable
kind. Men give themselves in the
most unselfish way to build up colleges
and universities, hospitals, museums,
clubs, associations for the advance
ment of trades and professions, libra
ries-there is no end of the list. Men
labor to turn their business into insti-
tutions. Many founders of great COM
mercial houses work for their honor
able perpetuity.
Many manufacturers plan their fac
tories SO as to give them an institu-
tional character and value. The
naturally conservative tendency of an
active people is toward institution
building. Strong men in almost every
department of work show such ten
dency, often as a dominant trait of
character, and this is a stronger mo-
tive than the mere wish to be rich.
The rich man who stands alone, who
is not identified with some great in
stitution, commercial or public, is not
envied. He is more likely to be pitied.