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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

IL the Electrus For 30 years tried everything
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
FOOTBALL MAN MISSING
Whitwell of Harvard Disappeared
Feb. ~ and Has Not Been
Heard From Since.
New York Sun Special Service.


Cambridge, Mass. May William Scol-
lay Whitwell. wealthy New York boy
In the senior class at Harvard and a
member of last falls football eleven has
been missing from Cambridge since Feb
II. His relatives have been keeping the
affair quiet in the hope Of finding him. At
the time of Whitwell's disappearance his
father DR.. Whitwell was sick in their
home in New York and the common belief
was that the young man had fastened
to the invalid's bedside. Shortly after. his
father died, and those who knew him say
that his death was due in a great measure
to grief over his missing son.
The fact that Whitwel took neither
money nor clothes with him and that he
was always of a more or less Respondent
nature leads some to the belief that he
committed suicide. ..
teNhitWell was prominent and popular
man, standing feet 2 inches in height
and weighing nearly 200 pounds. In his
freshman year he rowed on his freshman
crew and last fall won his football ..H''
In the Yale game.
Wh1tWell's relatives do not think he
committed suicide. They believe rather
that he became temporarily deranged and
has wandered off. They say he may have
been hurt in the Harvard Yale game. ;,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
LEPER STILL AT LARGE
St. Louis Police Believe Dong Gong
Is Working in Chicago
Laundry.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
st. Louis. May Dong Gong, the Chin
csc leper who escaped from the st. Louis
quarantine Sunday, Is still at large. de-
spite the efforts of the local health officials
and the police. The authorities have in
formation that he is in Chicago It is
thought that he has been tempted by
the vast amount OF work at good prices
which has fallen to the Chinamen owing
to the laundry strike there and he now.
despite tn desperately infectious nature of
his malady, may be working in one of the
city shops.
Dong Gong has been confined at the
quarantine station below the Jefferson
barracks for a year and a half being
treated for a well defined case Of leprosy.
At the time he was discovered to be
suffering from the disease he was partner
with his brother in a prosperous laundry,
catering to high class West End patron
age. and when the nature Of his malady
was made public there was a wholesale
burning of clothes that had been washed
at their establishment. This drove Dong
Gong's brother out of business in ST.
Louis and he went to Chicago
visited Dong Gong at quarantine, holding
long conversation thru the wire that
kept the leper from the outside world
The police now believe that the stranger
was a messenger from Dong Gong
brother in Chicago and that it was ar
ranged that Dong Gong should escape
! from quarantine and join his brother in
that city to resume the old partnership. I
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
TOOK WASH TO KENOSHA
One Chicago Hotel Now Has Clean

Chicago, May There is one hotel in
Chicago to-day that has clean linen. It
has tug load of it in spite Of the fact
that strikers assert no washing is being
done
The manager Of the hosiery chartered
a tug, loaded it down with a weeks wash,
and started it northward with instructions
to bring back the cargo cleansed and
ironed, even if it were necessary to go to
Canada.
The lake captain steamed into Kenosha.
Wis., yesterday, and sent word to a laun-
dry that there was package of soiled
clothes which he wished done up in a
hurry.
The proprietor Of the laundry was
dumbfounded when his driver brought
back several wagon loads of clothes, but
the work was done quickly. When it was
delivered. notification was made that no
more would be accepted from Chicago
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
UNIONS MUST NOT INTERFERE.

New York. May 7.-Governor odell has signed
q hfl designed to prevent Discrimination on
Inc part OF fh'bcr unions against members of The
haticnal guard. The bill is drastic. and rofers
equally to labor unions or employers, making it
lhsdemeanor to interfere in any way with The
employment Of Lerson who is a member Of the
n"'.ona, srarh on account of such membership.
or to dissuade person from enlistipg bv threat
or injury with reference to his employment, trade
or business. 1t especially forbids any trade Or
ganizht1on from passing any resolutions or by
INV discriminating In the matter of membership
aga1nsht any member OF the national guard The
act Is to take effect Sept. l. 1903
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
MADE TOO MUCH MONEY
And So the Delaware & Hudson
Will Have to Be Re-
organized.

New York, May THE most interest
ing feature of the week SO far is the re-
ported advent of E. H. Hartman into
the eastern trunk lines situation. Mr..
Delaware & Hudson on May 70.
Many rumors are afioat as to the mean
ing of this move. The most probable ru-
NOR is the one that has been in circulation
for months. namely that Delaware & Hud-
son is to be converted into second AL
ton. To put the rumor in plain English,
1t means that the gentleman who reorgan-
lied the road will literally soak 1t with
capital" and divide the rake off,
The method will probably be a very
simple one. It is as likely as not that it
will be the substitution of ~ per cent
bonds for the stock of the road in the pro-
portion of two 500 portions OF a bond
for each share of stock. This will permit
of the distribution Of practically 8 per
cent dividend. If the directors undertook
to distribute such dividend on the pres
ent stock at this time, the interstate com
merce commission would probably make
some more remarks with regard to the
profits Of the coal roads. and would draw
invidious comparisons between the coal
barons and the cult Of highway robbers.
Hence the necessity for a reorganiza ton.
1t is not very often that a road is re-
organized because it Is too prosperous
but this seems to be about what will hap
pen to Delaware & Hudson. incidentally
the reorganization will. furnish an excel
lent opportunity to dispose Of the services
| OF a great many ancient and obsolete Of
ficials whose days Of usefulness are long
since past.
When there is anything like this going
on it is quite right and proper that MT
Hartman should have hand in it. There
is no one in the country who more en-.
joys the making Of a handsome profit with
out much risk than does Mr.. Hartman
Moreover, there is no banking firm II
New York that is better equipped will
the sinews of war at the present time thar
are Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The bond issue!
in which this firm has had hand have
been uniformly successful. They have none
| of their capital tied up in Internationa
Mercantile Marine. Atlantic Coast line O
Rock Island. They are, therefore, in al
excellent position to avail themselves o
this golden opportunity. This Is probabl!
the reason that e. H. Hartman is goin,
into the board of Delaware & Hudson.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
ST. PAUL MAN WAS THERE
Had Train Been on Time at Frank
It Would Have Been Crushed
by Mountain.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Spokane, WASH, May 7.-Edward Fur
Miss, advertising manager of Opportunity.
of st. Paul, has arrived in this city, after
one Of the most horrible experiences of his
travelling career, in being an eyewitness
of the wholesale tragedy that literally
wiped the mining town Of Frank, Alberta,
off the map
ooh, can't describe It," said Mr..
Furniss. If our train had been on time, y
continued Mr.. Furniss, "it would have
been crushed out of existence, but we
were late. and the thing happened just as
we approached the town.
1T was impossible to form any opinion
of what had happened. We were most of
us asleep. A terrible grinding crash is
what heard, but it was like no crash I
had ever heard before, and I just realize
the poverty of the English language when
/ try to- even describe the noise.
81 have distinct sensation that a
deathly cessation Of all sound for the mil
lionth part Of an agonizing second oc-
CURED just before the horror. It may
have been that SO awful was the noise
that its maelstrom of din absorbed all
sound prior to it, as it has sucked up and
overwhelmed all that have followed it
In my ears.
"All tumb1ed out Of their seats, half
dazed. There was no shrieking or cries
Of women that 1 remember in the train.
All seemed to be waiting for something
else to happen, when the train drew up
| with jerk. I thought the train was off
the track, and, with others, piled out to
| see.
"a constant, tho distant, crashing filled
the air, and we could see dust like a storm
| in the heavens. We found ourselves
| about two miles from the town, and still
| had no idea of the nature of the occur
| renee as we walked up the track a short
way. We were met by flagman, who
| told us that there had been an earth.
| quake, and we returned to the train
which pulled ahead slowly, until it was
brought to an abrupt stop by monster
| boulder"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
To Ston Train Robbers

An American inventor has produced an
appliance which promises to stop train
robbers most effectively. BY means of
pipes rddating from the boiler of the
locomotive and terminating in nozzles at
the entrance to the cab. along the run
ming boards. over the pilot. and at other
points designed to protect the front plat
form OF the first car, the engineer is en-
abled to repel with torrents of scaldinp
water the approach of highwaymen. We
however are more interested in golden
grain belt beer than in hot water, for it
attracts men, instead of repelling them.
1t is the purest and most refreshing bey-
erage ever produced. the kind you want
in your home for the good of the family.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
he HAS NO CHANGE
Sage Of Nebraska Disposes Of Grover
in an Off, Hand Opinion at
Lincoln.
Reorganizers, He Says, Will Not Oh.
tain Control Plan Attributed
to the Financiers.

Lincoln, Neb.. May w. J. Bryan last
night gave emphatic expression to his
views on the possibility Of the candidacy
of Grover Cleveland for the democratic
presidential nomination.. Mr.. Bryan said:
While Cleveland would be rightfully
entitled to the nomination If the reor-
ganizers obtain control Of the party, they
will not obtain control. Cleveland has no
chance whatever Of the nomination and
those who feel any interest in his welfare
will not be foolish enough to urge his
nomination. He might with some reason
aspire to a republican nomination, but in
his widest dreams he can hardly imagine
the possibility Of democratic nomina-
ton.
"He will receive considerate mention in
the papers that get their editorials from
the stock tickers, but the fnanciers are
too shrewd to make him their representa-
tive in presidential campaign. Their
plan is ito select some one whose opinions
are known to them, but not known to the
public. When they have used a man as
long as they can they throw him over
board and get a new one.
If the democratic convention passed
O. resolution leaving the candidate to be
selected by j. Pierpont Morgan alone,
Morgan would not think for a moment of
risking his financial interests on such a
nomination. The talk about Cleveland
serves to I'LL up space and occupy time
| while the money smagnates perfect their
secret plans.
THE republican papers that abused
Cleveland like a pickpocket while he was
| president and have denounced his admin
| istration ever since will speak courteous
! ly of him for two reasons-First, because
| they could not hope for anything more
helpful to them than his nomination; and
| second, because the large republican DAHL
| les are controlled by the same financial
influences that control the so-called
democratic dailies that bolted and are
now seeking to lead the party back to
Clevelandism.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
HE WAS IMPRISONED
And Now Harry B. Bulls Wants
Venezuela to Pay Him
$4,000.
Gave Information to the Govern
ment for Which the Government
Imprisoned Him. J.

Haverstraw, N. Y, May 7-Harrya B.
Bulls of this place has made a formal
claim for $4,000 against the government
of Venezuela for false Imprisonment and
detention at Maracaibo. Mr.. Bulls was
in charge of the electric light station at
Maracalbo in May. 1900. There was an
active revolution on foot and persons as
ISOLATED with the electric light company
had stored ammunition and explosives in
the stations. He says he wished to turn
over the stuff to the government. but he
was afraid to have it known that he had
given the information. He accordingly
suggested to the president of the state
that the ammunition should be seized and
that, blind, he should be arrested and
then promptly released. His plans were
carried out with the exception If his re-
lease.
He says he communicated with the
United States consul. II. Plumacher, who
was living outside the city, but Mr.. Plll-
macher pleaded illness and disinclina :
ton to come to town for couple of
weeks. k-
MI. Bulls says he was bundled off to
the penitentiary, where everything was
taken from his pockets except a tiny
silk American flag. He was thrust into
a badly ventilated room In one respect
he was fortunate as the proprietor Of the
hotel where he had been boarding con-
tinued to send him food.
After a months incarceration he was
informed that a lawyer had been APP
pointed by the government to defend him
This man called on him and promised
to call again. He never reappeared.
When the hearing finally occurred, Mr.
Bulls pleaded not guilty, but gave no tes-
4, t1mony and heard none He was Informed
atterWard that he had been convicted
He wrote several letters to the American
minister in Caracas, but was able to SNUG.
gle only one Of them out of his prison. He
then saw Mr.. Plumacher, who said per.
z sonal appeal might be made to Presiden1
castro, but that the best plan would be
for Mr.. Bulls to serve out his full tern
ana then put in a claim against Venezue
Ia. AS result of the appeal to the min.
lister, this telegram was sent to the pres.
1dent of the republic:
Having adjusted the political matter:
OF the North American H C. Bulls, pro.
coed to place him at liberty as convenient
~ as possible. -Cipriano Castro
Upon being released, Mr. Bulls saws :
native tried to kill him. and when he com
piained to the local authorities, he was
himself placed under bonds to keen the
peace. All his papers and money hac
peen stolen in his absence.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
10 HUNT FOR FOSSILS

University of California, May Professor
j. g. Merriam of the department of geology viii
go to the southeastern part Of Idaho this summer
to search for reptilian remains in a portion OF
the Triaszic format ton lower than any of those
iii which such remains have previously beer
found Herbert M. Vans will assist Trofesso,
Merriam They will be accompanied Ivy Pro
fessor James Perrin Smith Of Stanford univer
sty. edo. ... =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
PACKING HOUSE STRIKE.

Chicago. May 7.-Business at the packing
noises is icing conducted under difficulties to-
day. owing to the strike of stationary engineers
which was called without warning yesterday af-
ternoon. However. by one expedient or an
other, all of the eight concerns that refused
to sign tie scale demanded by the strikers are
keeping their plants in operation pending the
decision upon plan of action. The packers de-
clare the new denand--an eight-hour day and
"a cents an hour--to be violation Of an
agreement entered into several weeks ago on an
award OF 50 cents an hour and tenAhour day,
nude by a board Of arbitration whose members
We're picked from, men selected by the engineers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
To Los Angeles or San francisco and
49, Return, $50.

The Minneapolis & st. Louis Railroad
will SELL on May Sd and 18th to 18th in
elusive, round "trip tickets to Los Angeles
or San Francisco at $50, with final return
limit to July 18th, 1903. Passengers have
privilege Of diverse routes going and re-
turning and stop-overs in each direction.
Call on w. L. Hathaway, city ticket agent,
No. l Washington avenue S.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

carey's Magnesla Cement Roofing,
The only roofing material that grows bet
ter with age. Try it. w. s. Mott Com
PAW. both phones 376.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
BURNED TO DEATH

+ New York. May THE wife OF James *
Polk nephew of former President Polk, is dead
as the result of burns recently received at her
home here. Mrs Polk. a few nights ago car
rleI !: candle into the bathroom and n some
manner set FIRE to the window curtains In
her efforts to extin2uish the flames her bath robe
caught fire. She turned OH the water In the
batl,tub and jumped ILL., but did not succeed in
putting the fire out until she had been terribly
burned.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN suPPL1Es-DE-
partment of the Interior. Office Of Indian
Sealed propossals, ,ndorsea Ps9posa1s for
z etc. as the case may be- and directed to the
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs, Nos. 119-12I
Wooster st, New York city, will be received
until o'clock p m n Of Tuesday. May - 1903,
wooden and cotton goods, clothing, notions. hats
and caps Bids must be made out on govern
1nent blanks. Schedules giving all necessary
Information for bidders win be furnished OH
application to the Indian Office. Washington
d. c.; the United States Indian warehouses,
119-l21 Wooster ct: New York City; 265-267
South Canal st. Chicago, ILL.,; 81 Howard ST,
Omaha. Neb.; COZ South Seventh St, St. louis
Mo-: the commfssaries Of subsistence. u. S. A..
at Cheyenne, Wyo.. and st. Paul. MIMI: the
quartermaster. Y; $. A., Seattle, WASH: the
postmasters at Sioux City, Tucson, Portland,
Spokane and s. Tacoma; and the Manufaeturers'
Francisco, Cal. Bids Will be opened Ut the
hour and days above stated, and bidders are
invited to be present at the opening. The de-
partment reserves the right to determine the
point of delivery and to reject any and all
bids, or any part of any bid. ". A. Jones.
Commissioner.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

Among the choice bits il
they were delayed in ira
should have left us their
that must be cleaned up
Table Damask He avy,
bleached, a new collection of
patterns, deep double borders
and plain centers, II inches
wide, the $l75 quality, Fri
day at $1.35.
Silver Bleached Darnask
Irish make, extra heavy and
very durable. sold regularly
at ST. So. Friday at $1.15.
Napkins 100 dozen Of our So
quality in an assortment Of
pretty patterns, So size
Friday, per dozen, So. 10.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

Tray Cloths Size 1927;
made Of fine damask, spoke
stitched, SOC value, Friday,
at $50.
Pillow Shams with beautiful
applique work, hemstitched
and with escalloped edges,
worth up to So a pair; divided
into four groups for Fridays
selling
Group No. 1-75c a pair.
Group No. 2 95c a pair.
Group No. 3 $1.25 pair.
Group No. $3.50 a pair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

Bedspreads Large crochet
spreads; $50 new ones that
came this week, $l.25 quail
ity, at 95c.
Marseilles Pattern crochet
quilts of unusually good quail
ity, $l.s0 value; Friday, at
SIZE.
Fringed Crochet Bedspreads
for very large beds, heavy
fringe all around; $1.75 quail
ity: Friday, at $1.49.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

India Linon One Of the neces-
saries of the season; so you
will appreciate the bargain
4O-inch width and fine and
sheer quality. the 25c kind;
Friday, at 15c.
Swiss Mule Another large
importation has just reached
US, and We will start the sell
ing Friday-the 60c quality
at SEC.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-12-22
Speaking without Words,

Spanish young ladies hold animated
conversations with their lovers by
means of Il fan, which they always car
ry. Italians use a flower for similar
purposes, and young girl who may be
apparently idly pulling the petals from
a rose is in reality making arrange
ments for perhaps secret visit to the
opera house with her lover
In Malta comparatively few people
can read, yet nearly every one holds Il
prayer book when at church. The rea-
son for this is that a prayer book Ian
guage is in existence, and by carefully
watching each others movements two
persons can readily and secretly com
municatc with each other through the
various positions in which the books
are held being recognized as code
words.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-12-22
APHORisMS.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
-John Spldpn

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Scldcn.
All imposturc weakens confidence and
chillS bencvolence-JO
The only waalth which will not de-
cay Is knowledge Langford.
Trouble teaches men how much there
Is in manhood. Henry Ward Beecher.
Your real influence is measured by
your treatment of yourself-A Bron.
son AlcOtt.
Human Judgment is finite. and it
ought always to be charitable-Wil-
liam Winter.
Kindness in us is the honey that
blunts the sting of unkindneSs in an
othcr.-l.andOr.
politcncss is a sort of guard which
covers the rough edges of our charac.
tor and prevents their wounding others
-Joubcrt.
The constant duty of every man to
his fellows is to ascertain his own DOW
erS and special gifts and to strengthen
them for the help Of others -Ruskin.