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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-03
COACH ON FIRE
Sparks From the Engine Started a Blaze
on a MOVING Train

BILLINGS, MONT.-The Billings-Red Lodge
passenger train. returning from Red Lodge last
night. had 3 narrow escape from having one
caught Hre between Laurel and Foster stations
1t being the rear one Of the train.
Of the train, supposedly from sparks from liz. the
engine, catching almost under the platform. It
was necessary 70 cut away a part OF the front
tinguished with water secured from the engine
tant s''e--s
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SUIT TO DEFEAT
A LATE MERGER.
Policy Holders Object to Consolida-
tion Of Des Moines and Min
neapolis Insurance.
Ask for an Injunction and Receiver
Old Line VS.. the Mutual
. Plan.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal,
Des Moines. Iowa, Sept. 3.-Sixteen pol
ICY holders In the late Northwestern Life
and Savings Insurance company Of Des
Moines have asked the district court for
a mandatory injunction requiring the
Northwestern National Life Insurance Of
Minneapolis to return to Iowa all the as
sets, books and accounts Of the former
company which it acquired by the recent
merger. In order that an accounting may
be made. The plaintiffs, all Of whom live
in Dallas county, maintain that their ten
year policies were terminated and the con-
tract between them and the Northwestern
National Life ended when the latter sold
Its business and refused further to ac-
cept payments. Accordingly they petit
|tion for an equitable settlement. AS their
funds were to be used as investments.
they demand showing Of the business
and ask the court to appoint receiver.
These plaintiffs represent about 100000
paid into the company before it was sold
to the Minneapolis concern. Auditor Of
State Carroll is made a party defendant
because he holds about $1,500,000 of the
company securities. The plaintiffs state
they believe the total assets of the COM
pany amount to 100000.
1t is understood that in an amended
petition nearly again as many plaintiffs
will be added. IryHr..
The sale of the Northwestern Life and
iety among the policy holders, and many
object to going into a mutual concern.
The Des ;Moines company was operated
on the old line plan, while the Minneapo-
| lis concern is on the mutual basis. Policy
I holders In the old, company cannot see
how their policies can be adjusted to their
satisfaction. They contend that the ac-
ton of the local company was in fact a
| termination Of their contract and they
want a settlement.
| D. F. Witter Of Des Moines was presi-
dent Of the local company.
| The Northwestern National Life In
surance company Of Minneapolis has re-
ceived no notice of the mandatory injunc-
ton proceedings. Judge w, A. Kerr OF
Brown & Kerr, counsel Of the Minneapolis
company, said that he did not know how
an injunction would be of avail, as the
deal by which the local company had
bought the Northwestern Life and Savings
Of Des Moines, Iowa, has been consum.
mated. Judge Kerr said: I'VE have re.
Insured that company and have assumed
the policy contracts in exchange for its
| assets"
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CONDITIONAL.

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-03
WILLIAMS SKULL FRACTURED.

Special to The journal.
Red Wing, Mimi, Sept. 3.-August Nygren.
employed in Betrher's mill, had his skull frac-
tured by being struck by slab.
Many Actors and Singers use Piso's Cure to
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If you do not derive prompt and salts.
factory results from the use Of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case. and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, president of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
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The commissioners discuss at length
the claim made by their opponents, that
many protests have been filed by British
officials against the American claim in
reference to the boundary line. They adj
NIT from time to time there have been
informal representations, but these they
assert, were in the main without suffi-
cient data to justify serious considera-
ton. Indeed. they say that never until
after the Klondike gold discoveries were
made in 1896, did the British government
take upsthe question seriously. They adj
the claim OF the British that the ten
league strip extended only from the main
waters Of the ocean, but they say this
contention was not made absolutely clear
until the British case was delivered to
the present tribunal on the second Of May
last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-04

serve the purpose of exercise just as well
as to count your opponents predicament a
point after you have him thoroughly in
your power, and let 1t go at that
Carried on in this way boxing as form
of physical culture will be found an eX-
hilarating pleasure.
A little study Of, and practice with, the
following exercises will enable almost any
one to evolve different movements, and
from this one thing alone not a little ami
mating diversion will be obtained.
To dress for boxing. get into gymna-
SUM suit. or, more convenient still, a pair
Of old, loose trousers, an athletic shirt and
tennis shoes. The gloves should weigh
about eight ounces each.
Do not box in closed room. Keep the
windows open SO that the room will be con-
stantly filled with fresh air When through
exercising take a bath. preferably cold.
TO gain the correct attitude for boxing,
spread the feet apart so that either leg can
be instantly moved with comfort either in
front or back to right or left. or made to
describe complete circle without causing
the body to lose equilibrium. The univer-
sal position Of the feet is to have the left
forward. with its toes pointing toward the
hollow of the opponents right foot and its
heel toward the hollow of your own right
foot.
Point the left fist at the face of the oppo-
nent with the arm gently bent and the
elbow raised only moderately from the
side
Let the elbow of the right arm, on guard
rest gently at the right side, with the fore
arm placed across the stomach, so that
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the heart)-As the opponent leads for tho
face with the left fist, guard with the left
forearm, as in Figure >, with the right but
raise the arm higher, with the fist directly
above the front Of the head and just clear
ing it, and the elbow on line with the top
of the head. This change is made so that
the opponent will be drawn closer.
Then. when you have the opponent as
close as is necessary for you to deliver a
good punch, throw your right shoulder
along with the right arm for his lower ribs.
blow, when properly delivered. The more
the shoulder is brought into the movement
the more effective will be the blow.
If the opponent is clever he will guard by
putting his open right hand between hiS
ribs and the impending fist, and, as the lat
ter reaches him, he will rapidly shove his
right arm across his body and thus make
the threatened blow of no account.
The entire movement Is illustrated in Fig
ure 4.
Position v Ito break clinch)-It often
happens that. you hit, the opponent will
rush in and close around your body and
hold you. Then he tries to put his whole
weight on you, with the double purpose Of
resting himself and firing you.
To cure him of this habit, when ha
clinches you-say as in Figure 5, in which,
your right hand is rendered useless-swiftly
bring the butt of the disengaged hand di-
rectly over his mouth and nose and shove
his head back Figure 81.
No boxer can hold clinch under such
circumstances.
The next article on boxing will take up
some of the more important swings and
their guards ANTHONY BARKER.
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saying health-is worthy of careful atten-
ton, 1t would be harmful to carry it to ex-
cess, as in the case Of many other good and
proper things. To make a business Of box
ing would be to encourage the baser ele-
ment in man: while the object of physical
culture should be to develop mans finer
nature by giving him good health through
normal bodily development. For the phi
losophers say that he who Is thoroughly
healthy is more likely to be governed by
higher impulses than he who has the stom-
ach Of dyspeptic.
When to Exercise.
The best time to box is a half hour be-
fore. or an hour after meals Never take
the exercise on a full stomach, which will
hinder breathing. Do not hold rounds ao-
cording to the rules. but box until you find
your wind giving out and then stop. When
rested again take up the exercise.
Further, remember that it isn't always
necessary. to get the proper amount of ex-
ercise. to carry all the movements to their
ultimate issues. In many positions, such
as in breaking a clinch by pressing back
the opponents head with an open hand
placed over his nose and face, it would
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put up at the Arroyo Hotel. Then this
whisper went around that he was an or
ficer of some sort looking for his man. Its
effect on the colony at Grand Butte was
interesting. There were mysterious diSap
pearances not few.
AS you would suppose, the town grinned
broadly every time a man dropped out;
grinned and looked to see the short-whisk
cred one give chase. But as yet he had
made no sign.
One afternoon I CHANGED to be the only
other occupant of the shaded porch, and
he removed his cigar to say, Wasn't some
buddy tellin' me you was lawyers?
Possibly"
Then maybe you can tell me what I
want to know They tell me the govern
ment amt just the same in the territories
as tbs in the states.
1 replied that the government was the
same for all practical purposes, and he
went
Il got some papers to serve. and I didn't
know whether they'd hold out here or
not
TT will hold all right If it was properly
issued. Have you found your mann"
He shook his head. ITS a girl I'm
lookin for. Black eyes. brown hair with
a CLINT O. red in it. the prettiest mouth
you ever saw. and a trim-built. tight little
figger to match. When 1 find her I'll know
where to find my man
The mystery fog began to lift. His
rough and ready description was wonder
fully like an impressionist's sketch of Mary
Howison.
Then into the discriminating end Of
the main street rode two figures side by
side; young woman sitting her pinto like
one bred to the saddle, and young man
whose normal seat was the cushion of an
engine cab-to wit, Mary Howison and our
Teddy.
The sheriff's chair came to the floor with
a snap.
Excuse me-" he said and vanished.
An hour later, when harrison and Mary
rode out of the dusty street end slouched
tod hfrnd ho a
wide detour on the bare plain to hold them
in view.
AS 1 afterwards learned 1t was on this
return to the ranch that Teddy put his
fate to the touch.
1t promised to be his last opportunity for
a while While in town he had been nott-
fed to hold himself in readiness to take
out the west-bound Fast Mail at mid
night.
Now be the speaker fluent or tongue-tied.
such things as Teddy had to say do not
utter themselves spontaneously. So 1t came
to pass that fifteen of the thirty miles had
been galloped over before.
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track near the bottom of the hill. A herd
of range cattle browsing near the line
took notion to stampede and cross ahead
of US. McGrath's whistle shrieked the dan
ger signal. and the pointer of our speed
recorder dropped like the arm Of minia-
ture semaphore-
The next instant Mr.. Blaisdell and his
guest were doing involuntary summer
saults on the brown plain to right and left
of the rear platform and Teddy Harrison
had earned his vacation without pay
1t was pretty bad smash: though.
thanks to the vestibules and the empty
private car to take the force of the blow,
there were no lives lost. But the big 6l9
had plowed a third of the way through
Mr.. Blaisdells private office
harrison was the only cool atom in the
caboose. You fellows had ought to KEEP
out o my way" he growled, when We had
dug him out of the wreck.
In the hills to the northwest of Grand
Butte lies the seigniory of one Barton
Howison, cattle king, and thither Teddy
betook himself at the beginning of his
month of leisure. Now from the Bad
Lands to the Three Tetons you would not
find curster Ishmaelite than this man
Howison. But he had taken fancy to
Teddy: and Teddy, like every other unat-
taChed bachelor in the Chugwater country,
desperately in love with Mary Howl
son.
Teddy's standing with the cattle king
dated back TO the time when he was pulling
fast freights. Howison had driven into the
beef The Chicago market was up and
posing for a plunge; wherefore time in
transit meant money. Ted happened to be
sent out on that particular run, and he
gave Howison and the beef outfit the ride
of their lives. By consequence the cattle
king. known far and wide as hater of
railroad men on principle gave him the
latch string of the ranch house to pull
when he pleased.
The ranch was thirty miles from the
Butte the crow flies But the mail run
with its thirty -six -hour-layover at the d.
vision station. brought possibilities. BY
dint OF a little practice a man may learn
To catch catnaps in the saddle; and Teddy
ambied II back and forth between town and
the Howison ranch when he supposed
to be sleeping the clock around.
II was matter, of course, that he should
be jeered numerically by The men. He
took II all in good part TIL one day old
man Targis revived a tradition to the eff
feet that Bart Howison was an escaped
convict from of the southern states.
Then he struck back smartly.
ITS lie and you all know it," he re-
torted. THE Twin last one of you dassent
hint that to Bart Howison's facer
TargiS laughed. "Mebbe not. But IL I
were you | wouldn't mix up too thick with
the family. Buddy
If an ourang-outang on this railroad
wants to make my business his business"
A chorus of derisive groans drowned the
defiance. and so the matter rested
IL was during the final week of Larri-
sons enforced vacation that a short
whiskered man with sleepy eyes arrived
at the Butte one morning on the flyer and
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and almost all Its conditions are rigidly
prescribed. He must practice in court during
that time. taking the cases of the poor. His
income from this source Is almost nominal,
and he must keep himself alive by earning
a petty income with all kinds of hard. mean
toll. So he learns the world in which he Is
to be Judge. for he struggles for existence
as do the people who will come before him
some day to be judged.
Truly the Wise Men of the East.
But, though he experiences their privations
and their temptations, he may not stumble
like them. ITO become a judge. o Haf1s,
the green cloth that thou wearest around
thy fez must be ever unsoiled." is the law.
1t is bitter hard service. But they who go
through 1t untarnished are wise when they
emerge. They are what the Koran de-
mands when it says that only a human be-
ing who has become true man shall dare
to judge other human beings.
Hans Forster, the orientalist. who knows
the true eastern judge better probably,
than does any other European today. tells
in a recent work Of his talk with the Kadt
of Safed-a talk which illustrates what l
have said here about the class.
Poor judges of the unbelievers,' said
the Kadi of safed Hassan Bey, to me,
after he had read several articles from the
Turkish law to me, and had in turn, ex-
planned to him about the duties Of our
judges. Poor judges Of the unbelievers!
owing to your dutiesi
THAT was strange to hear from the lips
of a man who had been a kadi hidden away
in that little hamlet in Palestine for forty
years and in that time had heard little or
nothing about European judges. When /
asked him if he had never. for even a mo-
ment, repented his choice of a profession,
the aged man smiled and answered:
Not for a moment. How can one feel
repentance for that which gives him joy?
And that truly IS the secret of the judges
of the orient" concludes Forster. They
are peaceful. I know more than one. Their
profession gives them joy. We read pretty
Arabic stories of the astounding judgments
of the kauis. The stories are true of today.
The kadis are the wise men of the lands Of
the morning.
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Prosperity in the Dakotas.

''The Dakotas are coming to the front
faster than most eastern people have any
idea of. and within the next few years will
take their place as the leading agricultural
states of the Union" said T. G. Barber to
Star man at the Riggs House. MY home
Is down in the corn district and there is
no better place for corn in the world. The
first settlers raised wheat, but while the
crops were good, they soon learned that
the quantity of corn that could be raised
on limited section of land was of much
greater proportion. Everybody Is prosper
GUS in the Dakotas. and during the busy
season the farm hands earn as much -
So day. The past winter has been the
most severe experienced in the Dakotas
since 1895, and there have been weeks whom
the thermometer did not register above
zero"
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Strictly speaking. there were two OF them,
with only n short forty-mile run interven
ing, and there was doubt about his
having earned them.
1t happened in this wise. harrison was
running the Fast Mail with his regular en-
CINE the big G19. Train No. T.. the Pacific
Flyer was badly off time, and the Mail.
which had left the Missouri river terminal
six hours later, overlook the passenger at
Grand Butte.
Here the division dispatcher made slip.
The Mails time was faster than that Of
the delayed flyer: hence, Dispatcher Per-
kns should have let it pass No. at the
Butte.
But Perkins gave the order to go. and
ten minutes later he let the Mail follow.
AS it CHANGED, was a passenger on No.
Z that morning. the guest of Superintendent
Blaisdell of the Prairie division. Our car.
which was the superintendent private
offce-on wheels. was the last in the long
train. Through the plate-glass rear Win
dows we had frequent glimpses of the Mail
harrison whisked into the tangents just
as were leaving them
IF we were on the other side of the hill
that young Berserker would have good
chance to repeat McCartney's bad break"
remarked the superintendent, chewing
grimly on his half-burned cigar.
l nodded Mccartney was one of the
Mail engineers, who, under precisely SINH
lar conditions. had chased No. Z to within
a hands breadth of rear-end collision.
Perkins will doubtless hold US at the
summit and let the Mail pass I ventured.
But again the dispatcher missed his OPP
portunity. And a few minutes later the
chase had transferred itself to the west
ern slope, with the added hazard of a pre-
cipitous down grade to make it more ex-
citing.
Say. by George! this thing is getting in
teresting" said the superintendent, when
McGrath. our engineer, slammed the long
Flyer at a curve in a way to make our
heavy Special flirt with her trucks like
a light dancer trying to kick off the
clogs
I glanced up at the dial of the speed
measuring mechanism, with which the Spe-
cial car was fitted The index had passed
the siXty-mile- an-hour mark, and was still
mounting by imperceptible jerks. And
Harrison, with his ten-minute handicap,
now cut down to less than one, was pacing
us so evenly that might have been tow
ing him with a hawser
The catastrophe came on bit of straight
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He said haltingly. Il guess you know
why l was so struck on seeing you home
tonight"
How should I know?-except that I
know you are always headstrong."
Am l? It's part Of a runners nerve.
guess. Man has to have nerve If he's going
to pound iron on the right-o'way. Just
the same. l haven't the nerve to say what
I've been aching to say to you for a month
back, Miss Mary
She gathered her bride reins and her
gaze went far over the dun hills following
under the western sun.
Il am glad you haven't" she rejoined,
slowly. not looking at him.
Harrison held his ground stolidly, chew
ing at his mustache.
You mustn't come to the ranch any
more" says she.
You could have knocked me out with
a BUNCH o waste" said Teddy when he
was telling me of 1t afterwards. Not come
to see you any more? says 1. No. says
she. It's against the lay to hang a man
without teliin' him what for says I.
1T was just about then that we both
saw a slouchy looking chap riding by on
top O. the RISE He was heading for the
ranch. with the throttle wide open.
:" If l should tell you what for says
she. with a sort of slow fire in her ewes
you'd never want to see me again. Mr.
Larrison.' And with that she hit the horse
a lick and was gone"
That night it was the private opinion of
the round-house force. more or less pub
licly expressed that Larrison's lay-off had
ruined his temper beyond repair. And when
! the big eight wheeler had been backed to
her stand at the station Teddy perched
himself like sulky boy on his box-seat
and let the fireman "oil around"
1t was while he was sitting thus in sui
len majesty that the incoming Mail whis-
tied. Above the din of shrilling brakes
and drumming wheels Larrisons ears
caught another sound-the quick thudding
of unshod hoofs on the dry hard soil Of
the mesa.
1t was mOonless night and the sheen
| of the electric headlight made everything
Egyptian dark behind it. None the less.
Harrison saw horse picking it's way
across the tracks In the yard toward the
cab of the 619
When the horse came under the cab
window he saw that 1t was ridden by a
woman. His sullenness vanished like the
mists OF the morning when a voice we'll
known and well-loved came up to him out
of the darkness. is that you, Mr.. Lar
rison?"
You bet it's me: it's always me when
you are the one that's askin," he rejoined
promptly. What's happened?"
The worst that could happen" she
quavered. "A man has come-from Ten
father to the train at Black Canyon to
carry him east by Maverick and the Short
Line. He was afraid the boys might find
out and overtake him If he came this way"
Taking Bart Howison? -when he didn't
want to go?" said Teddy. incredulous
Yes. All Ling. the cook, told me. Father
was alone in the ranch house. and the
man slipped up behind him There was a
fight"
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Forcing Growth Of Trees.
From the Anglo-Russian

FROM the Anglo-Russian.
A new method has been lately put to the
test of experiment in the Crimea, that Of
supplying trees with the food necessary
for their growth through the trunk. thus
dispensing with the slow processes Of ma
ture, which can only work by means of the
roots. Salts of iron, either In liquid or
solid form, have been introduced by cutting
a hole in the stem. An account of these
proceedings has been recently read before
the Imperial Botanical Society Of st.
Petersburg. The system has been applied
to eight hundred fruit trees, and photo
graphs showed that it had quite fulfilled
the expectations.