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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
HANDICAP HARNESS HORSES
Horace w. Wilson Thinks Change
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T7oTdCee w. wilson hinkS ChanSS 10
Bound to Come.
Horace w. Wilson, secretary of Oak
ley Park, Cincinnati, and Charter Oak
Park, Hartford thinks system of handi-
Gaping horses by weight is bound to sup
plant the present record classification MIR.
Wilson says:
For the past six or eight years have
advocated plan of handicapping the
trotters and PAGERS by weight. There must
be some way adopted to handicap the
horses. SO that the chances of all will be
more even. Every horseman knows that
in all classes there are horses that out
class their class, If can put it that way,
and they have all the chance Of winning
believe in handicapping by weight, put
ting the weights on the backs OF the
horses and making a fair system of pen
alties and allowances that will give all
the horses an equal chance 1t is evident
from the entries to the early closing
events that owners have given notice
that they are not going to patronize the
system Of record racing now in use as
literally as they have been doing OF
course. the greatest ones in the classes
will take try at it, but the number is
| insufficient to make it profitable for the
associations. feel confident that we will
see the time when the system of handi-
Gaping on the trotting tracks will be
either by weight or distance, as obtains
| on the European tracks,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
BoRROWS A LUCKY DIME
Piker at Aqueduct Starts Thou
sand Dollar Bank, Roll on a
One Dollar Bet.

did borrow dime from you satur-
day."
This question was asked by a fagman
on the Long Island railroad in the betting
ring at Aqueduct recently. He appeared
worried when he was informed that he
had not found his benefactor.
You see, was all out after the sec
ond race Saturday, and dug UP 80 cents
and borrowed a dime from stranger to
make up the dollar. I bet it on Ernest
Parham and got 10 to for my money.
went along with that start until I quit
the day nicely to the good. want to find
the man who gave me that dime, for he
gave me start and I'm going yet"
AS he spoke he exhibited particularly
healthy roll of coarse bills that must have
represented at least a thousand dollars.
He was beaming from his good luck, and
while speaking he stripped off hundred
that he said he intended playing on New
ton Bennington's Kickshaw.
Il wish I could find that friend that
gave me the stake. I would declare him
in with a part of this, because he surely
saved my life Saturday." he continued
After the Parham race I went to Dr.
Saylor for a ten-spot and I haven't
touched bottom yet I bet $50 on Flori-
Eel at 4 to 1. and had $50 on Mackey
Dwyer at even money.
How am doing to-day? Well, you
can go broke and I'll lend instead Of Dor
row to-day. got to 1 for fifty on
Flying Buttress and I have been making
f1fty-dollar bets ever SINCE"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
FLOUR FOR EXPORT
Orders forF Foreign Delivery Received
by Minneapolis Mills Yester-
day and To-day.
More Mills Expected to Resume
The Conditions in Europe
More Favorable.

The first foreign sales of flour since the
reopening Of the Minneapolis mills were
reported to-day. Millers sold some flour
to go to England and some to the CONT
nent. It is understood that there are
some good sized trades pending and more
orders may be entered If millers can shade
prices a trif1e
Foreign orders booked yesterday and to-
day reach about $4,000 barrels. This is
interesting in view of the recent shut
down. the partial resumption and the later
granting of concessions by the railroad
men at the Chicago conference.
The mills are grinding along without
important change. It is the opinion in the
trade that more mill will start, now that
rates are on q more quotable basis. 1T
is true" said miller, that we have en-
tered a little export business and can
readily see that this coming coincident-
ally with the granting Of a niggardly con-
cession in freight rates makes the infer
ence natural that this has enabled us to
do this business. Such an inference would
be wrong"
The settling Of English tax questions
said the same man, had more to do with
the matter. Besides crop conditions ir
France and on the continent are not sc
promising. Naturally the foreign flour
buyers are willing now to lay in stocks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
CITY MI VS..
WEATHER NOW AND THEN 5
Maximum Temperature To-day SO
Degrees; a Year Ago SO Degrees.

Is 1t schotzka's Rody.-The body of an
unknown man was found this afternoon
/ In, the boom near ST. Paul. 1t is thought
! IT. may be that of Peter p. Schotzka. the
lspldiers' home gardner who disappeared
last week, leaving notes indicating sui
eide.
Police Don't Know Theme. A. Berger
and a women, claiming to be his wife, are
under arrest at Montreal, Can, charged
with Matchmaking D. G. Bosseau, a mil
lionaire, and compelling him to sign
checks and promissory notes to the
amount of $4,000. 1t is said that the
couple have been in this city, but the pc"
lice know nothing Of them.
Mining Investors Junket-Several Min
Reapolis persons interested in the Mer-
chants Mining company of Chicago will
go to Arizona on the company's special
i train which leaves Chicago Monday night
over, the Santa Fe. The citizens Of Pres
colt will give luncheon and reception
for the party Saturday night. Those who
go from Minneapolis are: Josiah Towne,
Miss. Grabill. Messrs. and Mesdames E.
4 e. Fisher. r. Holton, John Van Nest.
Sherman Smith, A. w. Armatage, M.
Whitcomb, J. w. FreW.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02

Hugh J. McClearn is a senior law stu
dent and president Of his class Imme-
diately after graduation he will be found
in the Duluth law offices of Mitchell &
Reynolds.
Mr.. McClearn was born in Pennsylvania,
graduated from the classical course Of the
Northern Indiana Normal school in 1898,
taught two years in South Dakota, and
entered the U. Of NJ. law school in 1900.
He Joined the Kent Literary society at
once and has been prominent in debate
and oratory since. He won honors twice
in the intersociety contests, once in the
Federal society and was captain of the
team which so signally defeated Chicago
and Michigan universities last year and
brought the undisputed western cham
p1onship to Minnesota. The prize won-in
this contest was $3.50.
This year he entered the oratorical con-
tests and won first place in the inter-
society preliminary and a high place in
the $175 John S. Pillsbury contest. The
debate with Wisconsin, May 8, will be
his last appearance as student debater
before a university audience, and his
friends expect him to distinguish him
| self as he has always done in the past
| Mr.. McClearn is born debater. He
loves controversy Of pleasant, vigorous
kind, and is never so happy as when he is
| in contest. He possesses all the ele-
| menus Wnlcn Drlng men success In this
line, viz, a clear, vigorous mind, a warm
heart, capacity and willingness to sub
/ nit cheerfully to an intolerable amount OF
drudgery and determination never to al
4 low a single detail to escape. His class
mates honored him with the highest Of
4 flee in their gift this year-class presi-
dent. and in every department of the uni
versfty his sterling worth has won him
a host of friends. all Of whom believe the
future has much in store for him.
I The standard of debate and orator.
at the university has risen very rapidly
/ within the past three years and this i.
perhaps the best team ever sent out Wis.
consin has hard proposition on hel
hands and If she defeats these men she
n must have a stronger team than she ha.
lever sent here before.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
HOW THEY GOT EVEN
Tenants Who Moved Posted Abusive
Notices for Their ouondam
Gossips.
The Neighborhood All Torn Up by
the Nature Of Insin-
uations. e
I'VE don't wash our face in the potato

I'VE don't wash our face in the potato
kettle"
This charge aroused the utmost indigna-
ton to-day among the residents in the
two-story frame house at 832 and 824
Eighth avenue S, as they read the fare
we'll addresses pasted by retiring tenants
inside the front windows of the lower
floor of No. 824
Potato kettle! I should like to know
exclaimed a thin woman with informal at
tire and a corrugated brow. "Sakes alive!
can't guess whoever they mean! 1t can t
be me! But everybody knows that all
the six families incur flats have got real
china washbowls and plenty Of EN-! It's
not for me to say who $ a fright. a perfect
fright! But what will strangers think,
I'd like to know when they go to, read
such things as that in the windows of the
very house we live in! What will they
think. ladies', just tell me that!''s
What they did think the strangers die
not say; but several hundred had gath
cred soon after 8 O. clock to peer thru the
windows at this amicable envoi.
NOTICE.
To the old, royal-nosed, eavcsdropping, scan
dial monger; also the honorable cheap stiff ant
bis wife. Be it known:
That we paid our rent That we were no
put out or arrested. That we don't buy furni
ture on the instalment plan. That we admire
cheerful liars, but must leave yau. That thos
That we don't wash our face IN the potato ket
tie. That we have a dollar to give to tn
| fortune teller to get a husband. That w
| love you-nit. ; S4s%% #
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
PRESIDENT LEAVES TOPEKA
Before Going He Shakes Hands With
a Colored Policeman.

Topeka, Kan. May 2.-The president
WAS up and stirring about his car this
morning fifteen minutes before the, time
kcheduled for departure. After chatting
with Senator Long J. few moments he was
presented to the small crowd gathered
10 see him off.
The president said: II will not attempt
o MIKE speech to you, but simply wish
lou good morning. and tell you that I
have had a good time in Topeka I want
8 say to you that part of this time has
teen very lively one and that last even
ne in driving from the governors resi-
&ence to the auditorium rode about the
Eveliest gait Of the trip and don't think
ever saw such fast running policemen
IS YOU have here in Topeka. I want to
low shake hands with one Of the sprint
rs."
He then reached over the railing and
lave hearty shake to the hand of a
liz colored policeman, who was within
|istance. The officer smiled ''all over
lis face and showed his white teeth in
.ue Rooseveltian style.
The train pulled out promptly at
clock for Sharon Springs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
EMPLOYEES BUY STOCK
Goodfellow Dry Goods Co. Gives It's
Employees Chance to Enter
the Company.

The oGodfellow Dry Goods company
last night offered each employee a noppor-
tunity to buy from one to five shares Of
stock in the company on easy payments
Already the offer has been accepted by
several. The force, numbering 240, was
called together and the new cooperative
plan explained by George D. Dayton, the
president Frank III. Carleton. ]. 8.
Mosher, vice president and D. D. Dayton
also made short talks.
The plan was evolved by G. D. Dayton
The business of April was more than
double that of the same month a year ago,
and he believed the time for the move had
come.
Mr.. Dayton said to-day: IT believe in
the cultivation ~of the most kindly feel
ing between the firm and its employees.
If we give the employees this opportunity
1t will cement the pleasant relations
The stock has a par value Of $1OO a
share.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
CAN TRAVIS BE BEATEN?
Ext Champion Is Showing Great
Form in the EARLY Golf
"..,. Events. ,

The showing made by Walter J. Travis
in the early golf events demonstrates that
the former amateur champion is practical
ly in a class by himself, and 1t is ques-
ton whether any one can, beat him out
in the national tournament at Nassau and
the various open events. At present there
is no one in the east apparently capable
Of worrying Travis much. The present
national champion, Louis N. James, Jr.,
is not. expected to last long in the heavy
field certain to be on hand at Nassau.
He'is a Glenview golfer. but will doubtless
be seen in frequent competitions here TINS
season. H. Chandler Egan. of the Ex-
moor Country club, near Chicago, is fan
cied by many to prove a dangerous can
didate for championship shonors this year.
He at present holds the intercollegiate
title, which he won representing Harvard
over the links of the Morris Country Golf
club last fall. Et
1t would be difficult to find a player in
this country with the same easy and
graceful style, and should the boy i'm
prove at all he may become dangerous
rival to Travis. 1t is said Of Egan that
he plays in almost perfect form. He hits
the ball from the tee with much less eff
fort than Findlay 8. Douglas, but there is
little to choose between their drives when
it comes to distance. Like Douglas, Egan
is able to reach the average 400-yard hole
III " ana as the Interchangeable CHAIN
pion's direction is much better than the
average amateur, his chances Of holding
out in par figures are correspondingly
greater.
Apropos of the dissatisfaction prevailing
| on this side as to the conduct Of the
national championship. it would seem the
leading golfers Of Great Britain, who have
played their championship always at all
match play, are not unit.
Harold Hilton, writing in the Sporting
Chronicle, says: II candidly believe that
the original method of our American
friends--that of playing qualifying round
of thirty-six holes by score play and
then making the survivors play off in
heats of thirty six holes-is the best test
of championship, but in place of making
the qualifying number thirty-two players
I should restrict it to sixteen
In this connection it might as we'll be
stated that the directors of the Western
| Golf association who voted for all match
| play for the western championship event
were a unit There was no division, as
| there was in the U. S. G. A. committee
meeting. The committee sat for two hours
and a half, but the matter was thoroughly
gone over in that time and finally all
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
FLOUR FROM 'SPUDs'
"a Big Manufacturer Of Potato Flour
Contemplates Starting a
Factory Here.
He Appreciates the Location in a
Great Potato Producing
District.

w. 4 . i ! III =
julius Freud Of the National Milling and
Evaporating company Of Detroit, Mich,
who has been in Minneapolis for the past
week. contemplates starting potato flour
factory here. Mr.. Freud realizes that this
city. because Of it's position In the coun-
try's greatest potato-raising district,
would be strategic location for that kind
of factory. He came at the solicitation
of the public affairs committee of the
Commercial. club. The committe has gone
over the field with him and while no con-
illusions have yet been reached. he Is
greatly impressed with the opportunity.
Mr.. Freud already manufactures po-
tato flour at his teDroit factory and sup
plies quantities of evaporated vegetables
TO the British army.
Minnesota besides being the granary
of the world, said he yesterday, ''is also
the greatest potato market. It would be
a great economy for me to get close to the
tubers." =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
LOSS IS 100000
Forest Fire in Pennsylvania Also Re-
suits in Loss O Life,

Coudersport, Pa. May 1.-THE charred
body Of Edward Hill was found to-day on
the road near Clean. He had evidently
met death in the forest fire which swept
the Kettle Creek territory yesterday. His
horse was also burned to death. Great
damage has been wrought by the forest
fires in this vicinity. The town of Cross
Forks is threatened with destruction.
The saw and planning mill Of the Lack
awanna Lumber company has been de-
stroyed together with "a number of cars
belonging to the Buffalo & Susquehanna
Railroad company, and several buildings
in the southern section of the town. The
loss thus far is estimated at about
81, 100000.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02

, he will fill the second place on the WiscOn-
sin team to which he was recently elected
unanimously by the debating board. Mr.
Chase is fluent, remarkably self possessed
loves debate as a thorobred loves the
ring, and is never out till he Is counted out
by the judges.
Benjamin Drake, Jr.
Benjamin Drake, Jr., will open the de-
bate on the above question for Minnesota.
His lucid style and dignified, gentlemanly
bearing gains for him ready hearing with
every audience and fits him admirably for
this place.
Mr.. Drake is a native Minnesotan. He
was born at Maple Plain and trained for
college in the East Minneapolis high
school, where, even in those days, he was
| a debater Of ability. True to his early
| love, he has stuck to forensics turnout
his college course and has distinguished
himself in both debate and oratory.
Between his high school and college
courses he sandwiched in year Of valu-
able experience as "a private in the Span
ish war. This promptness in offering his
services to his country in time Of need
shows the timber Of which he is made
and accounts for the patriotic ring which
always characterizes his speeches when
the question offers the opportunity.
Mr.. Drake is now a senior academic
and junior law student, and during each
of the past four years he has been prom
inent in some contest In his freshman
year he won the Shakopean oratorical
4 medal and the Peavey debate prize. In
his sophomore year he won a high place
in the Pillsbury oratorical contest and the
u Peavey debate prize again. In his junior
1year he distinguished himself for high
4 grade work in the debates against Michi-
J, lgan and Chicago and won his share of the
final $50 prize. This year he won first
lplace In the free -all'' oratorical. which
tentitled him to a place on the Pillsbury
| prize contest and was recently appointed
, by the debating board to place on the
team against Wisconsin He Is president
of the senior class of the academic depart
| ment and will be in the law school two
!, lyears more.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
SUBSTATION TO MOVE
Downtown Library Branch Will
Leave Voegeli's Store.

The down town library substation is to
be removed from Voegeli's drug store to
J. T. Garland's confectionery store in the
Hotel Nicollet building. Thomas Voegeli
yesterday informed the library board that
he no longer had space to accommodate
it. The general committee was also au-
thorized to secure a new location for the
substation also managed for years at
Stevens avenue and Twenty-sixth street
by the late George Saunders
: Dr. .Hosmer,e presented a: statement
showing the expenditures of library
boards in five different cities, including
Minneapolis. Only. one city,GLos Angeles,
shows smaller percentage expended for
salaries than Minneapolis. 2.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
BENJAMIN DRAKE, JR.

The annual debate between the Univer-
sity of Minnesota and that Of Wisconsin
will take place in the University of Min
nesota chapel the evening of May 8. This
contest is one that has always attracted
much attention and aroused great inter-
est. This year will see no lessening Of
the usual interest. The question will be:
"Would the REIMBURSEMENT by the fed
eral government Of its right to tax in
heritances to the states exclusively be
preferable to the REIMBURSEMENT by the
states Of their right to tax inheritances to
the federal government"
The Minnesota debaters are men who
have won the right to represent their in
stitution by excellent preliminary work.
Raymond p Chase.
Raymond P. Chase is one of the few
men who begin work in debate in their
freshman year and while still undergrad
yates rise to the top. Debate is such a
difficult art, it requires such long and
patient practice and the standard in the
big universities has risen so high that UNI
less student has some practice in the
high school or at least shows a predilec-
ton for it he is not likely to become pre-
| be, it known the men who completely
grasp the complex economic problems
which are now being debated in inter
collegiate contests are as well equipped
mentally, have as good analytic and better
synthetic power than the men who dis
tinguish themselves in higher mathe-
mates and physics Besides this they
must have grace and power of presenta
ton. All this Mr.. Chase possesses. The
/ Shaksperean Literary society is proud to
number him among its strongest debaters,
! and 1t has had many, past and present
He was In the intersociety debates last
year and later won the position OF leader
Of tha 1ntersophomore Pillsbury prize de-
1 bate. This year he entered the prelimin-
aries for the Central league team and
won first place and prize, of SIS. In the
debate against. Northwestern university
i held in Evanston last January, he distin-
II guished himself for quick and powerful
srebuttal Because Of this characteristic
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
To-day's Canvass
10th Ut. s..
NEUROLOGICAL
9th St.

r MISS FRANCES STANLEY KELLEY,
a niece of Bishop Stanley of North Da-
EEkota. died yesterday at st. Joseph's hos
Epital in ST. Paul. The funeral was held
from the cathedral this morning at 9
O'Clock, the requiem mass being cele-
Sbrated by the Very Reverend Thomas
fEgan, vicar general of the diocese of
Fargo, and the last absolutton being ad-
gministered by Bishop Stanley.
ALLAN FRANCIS FAIRCHlLD, aged 8
years, died yesterday at Eureka, Lake
Minnetonka. He was the only son of
Clifford ]. and Francis Miller! Fairchild.
aged 8 years. 8 months. Philadelphia, Pa,
papers please copy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
PICKETT CHILDREN GIVE Il
Sympathy for Scott Family by Chill.
dren Whose Mother Was Burned

In connection with the contributions
for Mrs. w. E. Scott and her children
family Of one 5of the recent explosions
victims, comes a little note and a gift of
" that makes a direct appeal to the sym
pathy OF the public. Hazel A. and Reu-
ben II. Pickett. whose mother was burned
to death, have written the letter and
made the contribution. The letter fol-
lows:
May 2, 1908.
AS our mother was burned to death we feel
very sorry for the little Scott children and will
give one dollar toward helping them. In sym
pain, Hazel A. Pickett,
.-., .-. Reuben E. Pickett
A cash contribution was also received
by T h journal to-day.