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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-11

In gathering information for the
arrest OF Thomas w. McGregor an d
G. Ellswrth Upton, Of Baltimore, on
the charge of conspiracy with G. f.
Smith, OF Baltimore, to defraud the
government in the purchase OF
pouches, the inspectors sent a dun
my letter to the manufacturer, ask
ing fora bid. Not suspecting the
origin of the letter, the contractor
replied that he would be pleased to
deliver them 10 large lots ut 80
cents per pouch. When the inspec-
tors read this letter and compared
it with tie 90,cent rate paid by the
department, they concluded that
the time for action had arrived.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-11

Consul Golschmidt, at La Guayra,
Venezuela, has cabled the state de-
partment that nc yellow fever exists
at that port, but there Is an cpl
demo of fevers at Caracas. Ply
s~iciaLs, be says, differ as to the
character of the diseases. Many
prominent doctors assert no case oil
yellow fever has been reported for
four months.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-11

The Christian Herald has trans
nitted to Assistant Secretary of the
State Louis LOOMS a check for s10,-
900, for the fund for the famine suf-
ferers in the Chinese province Of
Kwana ST. Mr.. Loomis deposited
the money Eere and notified United
States Cousul-General Nc Wade, at
Canton, that he may draw for the
amount Of the cheek. Every report
that goes to the state department
either by mail or cable contains tie
most pathetic stories CT extreme des-
titution prevailing in Kwang 81,
leading to the commission of un-
natural crimes, such as the sale of
daughters into co%ncubinage, and
there are even hints of caGnlbalisT.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-11

New York Clty.-Shirring of all sorts
make a notable feature of the seasons
styles and are never more effective
than on the waists designed for young
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
FAVOR UNITED EFFORT
State eongfegationalists Lean To.
ward e 9 Consolidation g n: Of Their
. Missionary Enterprises. . &: Il

Consolidation of Missionary enter
prises found favor with the Congre-
gationalists this morning at the state
convention in st. Paul. A. Miller, a
prominent 4ayman, gave the principal
address of the session on "Consolfda-
ton of 2. Missionary Appeal" =. He
urged that the church should fall in
line with the general tendency of the
day; and consolidate its efforts in the
direction of, missions. Instead of
sending money: for one fund to New
York, and fer, another to Boston, and
for another somewhere else it should
have central organization to receive
all missionary contributions, and to
be expended. In this way an eco
nomical distribution of funds would be
assured.
Rev. G.. S. Rollins Of Minneapolis
spoke on 'The Motive in Missions
committe was presented by Rev. Ed
gar l.. Heermance, and it's q recon.
mendations were adopted in detail
They included the adoption of the
primary lessons Of the publication so.
ciety for all schools, with especial
lessons for Bible classes, the sBlakeley
lessons, and advanced Y. M. c.. A
course, and the continuation Of the
present plan Of circuit work. The
Sunday schools of the state were re-
ported in a prosperous condition.
This afternoon the Minnesota w. B
M. /. held in annual session.: presided
over by Miss. Margaret j. Evans O
INorthfeld.5 The final session of TIL
convention will be held in the Parl
church, St. Paul, this evening. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
.DIDNl I RI / JOSHUA
The City Controller Blandly Retorts
to AID. Powers Fierce
Inveotive.
Final Pruning Operations Brought
Out the Expression From
55 Aid. Powers.

7 care as much for what you say
as do for the passing wind re-
marked City Controller Joshua Rogers
very blandly, while Alderman Fred M.
Powers stood over him hurting invec-
tives at the venerable city official.
Everybody expected q scene, for Mr..
Rogers habit Of hot repartee Is well
known, and the easy manner in which
he Ignored the TRADE. from Alderman
Powers was a surprise. Just before.
the alderman had accused the city
controller Of speaking Of him in con-
temptuous and sneering terms and
finally offered the suggestion that Mr..
Rogers was incompetent to hold the
position of city controller.
The Final Pruning.
All this happened at the meeting
Of the council pruning committee this
morning. After the spat was over,
the aldermen began to ..'prune'' the
estimates for the permane mt Improve
ment fund. It was found that the
board Of tax levy had provided rev
enue OF only 2.25 mills which would
fact it had fixed the various items SO
that they aggregated $295,250, or
$500 too much. Here was a chance
to do some cutting right away. The
sum of $4,000 was taken off the
100000 item. for rebates on special
assessments; $500 was deducted from
the c1ty's portion for sewers and a like
amount from the city's portion for
paving. Then $4.75O was voted for
a bridge across Minnehaha creek at
Twenty-eighth avenue s and $1,000
was voted for the purchase Of two lots
near Hennep1n avenue and Thirty-sec-
ond street for an engine house site.
This made the appropriations equal
the revenues and the other sugges-
tions Of the board of tax levy were
formally approved and the committee
adjourned. -. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
TO END LABOR TROUBLES.

z John Graham Brooks in Golfers Weekly.
Given a national organization of employers to
act with the federation Of uniors and the most
M
Is now in the rashness of the local labor union
or the pfghead edness OF certain employers Or
has a very dim conception of the unremitting
struggle that goes on between the national labor
organization and It's own local unions. The ma
'tional body, as it strengthens, stands more ond
more for peace and order. Its leaders are learn
ing the severe conditions that limit business.
They fear the sympathetic strike. They fear
the haste and unfairness OF the separate union.
They urge with increasing sincerity the keep
field Of arbit -ation. We. never shall get really
Wch WITH n
tion is met by employers organization. The
worst phases Of arbitrary power In both are thus
put. ina check. 7:E <Es5, :: r-E So =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
Grain Coats, Cut Prices, Wet
~ Weather." H.. - :
SIS, SIS. $40. Hoffmans Toggery Shop:
VICE PRES. KIDD COMING
Officer Of A. F. OF. L. Will Try to
= Settle the Flour Mill -
...;...% +. Strike. 49,: 49,

Instead of President Gompers OF
the American Federation of Labor
Vice President Thomas T. Kidd will
come to Minneapolis in behalf Of the
striking flour mill ! employees. Just
what effect Mr., Kidd''s presence will
have on the situation the strikers are
not prepared to state but they view
= The ~. Northwestern Consolidated
company, did not start the Zenith mill
yesterday, but got the, Northwestern
in operation this morning and the
Wash burn Crosby, company started
up the west side or it's A mill
in addition to those. already run
ming. The Consolidated company
purposes to- start theZenith to-mor-
row, and athe Piikbury- Wash burn
company the. big Al mill Monday
morning. ~ 7zy.s1I a5as' 81 -:
uniont ranks are reported I! At strike
headquarters theseHevidsnces are adj
mitted.@a It is5ss said that ii the, break,
tended to the nai1ers ana packers, and
that many Of the latter have gone
back to work in the mills in, the last
twenty-four hours. 33ro:f 49, ~.
The railroads shipped out ISL car
loads Of flour from the three big COM
pan1es yesterday The shipment for
the day before was 126. {sTs K .xg
The striking flour mill employees
have taken formal notice of the pres
ence in the mills Of state university
students and have sent to the univer-
sity authorities resolutions protesting
against allowing students to work II
the mills as strike breakers:
y Thissiis the. first Time the strikers
have acknowledged that the students
were an element, in the situation since
the third day of the. strike, at which
time President John M. Finley Of the
mill employees union announced hi:
Intention Of personally protesting
against the lending Of: university stu
dents to manufacturers whose plant:
were tied up by a strike:
It was stated by the strikers severa
days ago that practically all the stu
dents had left the mills. - ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
BOOSTING 40 TONS
a Difficult Engineering Feat in
Progress at the Federal
Building.
A skylight 50 Feet Square Being
Raised Without Removing
the Glass.

This afternoon began a big engi-
neering operation in the raising Of the
forty ton skylight Of glass and iron
on the federal building to its new ele-
walton, a lift Of thirteen feet. The
operation will take two weeks. Mean
while the bricklayers will be in swift
pursuit Of the jack-screW men, and
when the skylight is in place the brick
walls under it will be about COM
pleted. 5'.. h
G. A. Anderson, the house mover,
superintends this kind Of work for
the II. N. Leighton company, the con-
tracing firm on the government
building alterations. For long time
MT. Anderson has had a crew Of men
preparing the foundation work
against any possible accident in RATS
ing this. heavy structure, which is
hfty-e1ght feet square and has ten
foot pitch to the center peak.
Long steel I-beams were placed di-
agonally2 across each, corner under the
steel corner-plates of the skylight.
The twenty-four jack-screws were set
under these beams. The jacks stand
on the heavy wooden blocking, which
IN turn rests on steel beam bridges
fifteen inches thick, which stretch
from the solid iron columns of the old,
part Of the building across to a. brick
division wall. The old brick wall, which
projected a, foot above the tin roof Of
the building, is being knocked out
preparatory to continuing the big iron
column construction, which in this
style Of architecture forms the sides
of the large light wen in the interior
of the building. a.s# =
The process will be slow. A. quar-
ter Of a turn will be taken on each
jack, a corner at time, and the crew
OF; men will go round and round the
structure for two weeks until a height
OF, thirteen feet, twelve inches above
the new roof is reached, Meanwhile
the structural steel men will be plac-
ing the skeleton work. for the new
roof. go t.t: p, n !. s. G.
I'-5 Keeping Out the Showers.
There used to be warning sign on
the. federal building scautioning intrll-
ders against walking on the tin roof.
The workmen have been obliviouss Of
this sign, cutting great holes thru for
ease In their work. When a rain
storm comes every ones attention is
turned towar damming the torrents.
Immense tarpaulins are stretched
over the yawning chas1ns. Seen from
the top of the Guaranty building next
door the men appear like a lot Of ants
protecting their underground home as
! they rush about, each with double
handfuls Of cement to dam the crew
ices where the water cfeeps thru.
= On the ground that it is more ex-
pensiver to repair the damage from
water than to prepare against it,: the
contractors are laying a temporary
roof of expensive material, impervious
to moisture" It looks like. wide sheets
of rubber, but is a preparation of
something like tar: paper suspended
| on cords, covered with a substance
like soapstone, which will bend read
lily without cracking. - x. =. s..<
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
A $50, 600 PAVILION
FOR LAKE HARRIET
The Street Railway Company Retailers Association Park Board
Representatives Agree PanAn Elaborate Amusement Plant
Projected With Swimming Pool for Older Visitors and Wading
Pool for Chidren-Funds Already Provided For

Lake Harriet is to have a magnif1-
cent pavilion to cost 100000.
The street railway company will
suppl va portion Of the funds and the
Minneapolis Retail Dealers associa-
ton will obtain the remainder, the
park board to repay the money at its
convenience.
These are the net results reached
this morning at a conference in the
park board rooms at which were pres
ent Park Commissioners Harry w.
Jones and Fred L. Smith OF the special
pavilion COMMITTEES: Messrs. w. l..
Harris, M. L. Rothschild and George
d. Dayton Of the retailers association,
and c.. G. Goodrich of the street rail
way company. .s5.
Before the project can be launched
It must first have the approval Of the
park board, but this is expected at the
next regular meeting.
At this mornings conference the
completed plans of Warren I'll. Mann
ing were shown and explained by Com
missioner Jones. The proposed pa
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
QUICK WORK IN DEC,
Even Confirmed Bulls Got Excited
When December Wheat Jumped
Two Cents.
Increased Milling Demand Strong
Factor in the Situation
To-day.

December wheat jumped 2 cents
this morning so quickly that the
wheat pit was thrown into great ex-
element and the shorts almost on the
edge of panic, were brought face to
face with hard proposition. The
market opened at 76&c, this being the
fourth day of successive minor gains
which had carried it up from the re-
cent low point at 75@75bc. Nothing
unusual was noted at first and the
market held around the opening fig
ure or a fraction above.
Along towards noon came the ru-
| NOR on the floor that one of the local
milling : companies, unable to get
enough good wheat off the cash tables
to run its mills, had turned to ele-
vator stocks for supplies. This was
rather sensational, yet by no means
unexpected to traders who had close
ly watched the situation in the north
west. ..-
In the pit a number of traders were
caught short and from 76Ac the jump
to 1880 was made in short order. De
cember later sold to 79c, passing the
May option. .-.>p> =.
Up to this morning the local stocks
of wheat had increased by 100000
bushels since Saturday last. This is
not more of a gain" than should or
dinarily be made at this season, and
AL view VI l1lC ldCL LlldI some OIL Tie
Ehour mills are closed it4is no. gain al
ball. { II the mills are now. to draw
Eupor elevators for supplies no great
ftncrease in stocks is likely and the
shorts, Of whom there are stillaa great
number with contracts uncovered
who have sold the, December on the
expectation Of a. heavy movement AND
big drop in price, may have to buy
in at higher prices to make good theil
deliveries. ,@t@E
Receipts Are Light. &.
| : Only IS cars of No. northern
| showed in. receipts Of Tuesday, OF
No. yesterday, and 10 cars to-day
Meanwhile much no grade stuff not
available for milling purposes is com
ing.
Local millers are now good buyers
Of wheat as more mills are starting
up. Chicago and New York had 1gooC
inquiry to-day from abroad for whea
and just after noon a telegram came
on change here that a cash grair
house in Portland, Oregon, had jus
sold 100000 blu of wheat I, to- go t,
Japan. -.
AS more Minneapolis mills are
started demand for wheat will b.
keen and a run like that of to-da,
with only 263 cars in all and the bull
low grade. stuff will not begin to fill
requiremtns. Receipts will likel,
increase later, but not until thu
weather improves greatly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
EXPO WILL BE READY
Congressman Tawney Returns From
an Official Visit to the Grounds.

0peC1a1 TO Lie JOurudIs d.
Winona, MIMI, Oct. 8.-Congress-
Tawney has returned from an official
VISIT to tsLouis. 1.-THE work OF, COM
,pletfnE the buildings lat; the Louisiana
purchase exposition" hestt said Il lis
going forward very rapidly, and bysthe
frstaof December, certainly not later
than the first Of January, all of the ex-
hibit buildings will be completed. The
streets dirveways and walks about the
grounds are now being built and many
are completed. The grading is prac-
tically finished and almost all the for
eign buildings are either completed or
in course of erection. s.,~
:"Part of the Philippine exhibit has
already arrived. There are thirty six
native Filipinos on the grounds en-
gagged in the construction of the va
rious buildings Of the Philippine ex-
hibit. - = -.5< = = ~ - a.
"There is no. longer any doubt Of
the exposition being ready for the
public by-April 80 next, the day fixed
by congress for the opening"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
HOME MISSION WORK
Directors of Society Are Elected-D1
NOrthrop's Report. ~

directors or Society Are Elected-Dr.
Northrop's Report. 80
At the meeting Of the Minnesota
Home Missionary society yesterday,
Rev. S. G.. Smith and Rev. George %.
Perley We're elected directors, Mr.,
Perley succeeding r. H. Carleton; = In
his report as president of the state
committee on home missions, Dr.ACy-
rus Northrop said that without di-
ninlshing the sum for foreign mis-
sions, the amount for home missions
might be increased and that the re-
suits would more than repay for the
expenditure. - s. OIL: :,
Home MISSIONS" he said, are en-
titled to the SUPPORT Of the church as
much as any other work Of the church.
The need Of them is apparent on every
hand and the results ACCOMPLISHED
are easily seen and understood. The
work in this state, especially in the
district of northern Minnesota. is
growing with each year, and conse-
quently making greater demands on
the church for it's support, q a..
The report of Superintendent G. r.
Merrill showed large increase in the
church membership thru the agency
Of missions. -
Rev. Henry Holmes OF. the. Lowry
Hill church in Minneapolis delivered
the annual sermon last evening. He
contrasted Christ living with Christ
dead. We are wont to speak Of the
Christ crucified,'' he said. (which does
not appeal to a large number Of men.
What we want to preach is the living.
active Christ to-day-a force which
has done all things which we have
been hearing about in the foreign and
home missions field. = .s sta
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
NOVEL Photograph
Machine Which Registers the Distance
f., Walked and the Direction. .
Taken.
Baltimore News.

Dd1IlulOlS NEWS
| The Photograph is a newly devised in
strument which not only makes a record of
the distance travelled by q pedestrian, but
OF the direction taken, so that at the end
OF a tour map can be shown giving the
distance covered and direction taken in
black and white. 1t is the invention of a
man named Ferguson, who gave descrip-
ton Of the machine before the Engineers
society Of Shanghai. = re, tsss i q
Inc Photograph is contained in a box
that the person walking bears before him
| suspended from the shoulder by a strap.
This box contains a small board on which
is fixed q sheet Of paper which is to re
ceive the tracing, parallel to the board
and at a little distance from it being a
plate OF unpublished glass. The active por-
ton of the instrument-called the recorder
lis composed Of a small metallic frame
bearing a wheel with pointed teeth which
rests on the paper and traces by punching
holes. The recorder is supported on the
paper and on the glass by small wheels.
| The board being maintained vertically I'M
der the action of its own weight, the de-
scent being regulated by. the shake given
| each time by the steps of the bearer. :
Here are the essential portions of the
recorder. A small moving body-arranged
as an equilibrated pendulum long spring
acting on a very small lever, which, at
each oscillation, makes advance to the
extent OF tooth, and a ratchet wheel, the
| axis Of which carries an endless screw
geared to printing wheel. If the ratchet
wheel has fifty teeth, fifty oscillations will
| make one round of Its axis and the print
| Ing wheel has made a. mark for fifty -osoil-
| latfons Or steps. If the interval Of the
| teeth Of the printing wheel is 100 of an
/ inch corresponding to- fifty steps, i, 900
steps will correspond to one inch or one
half mile, 1000 steps to two inches or one
mile, etc. zr= =.
The board is always vertical and is fixed
| in the middle of a horizontal axis connect
| ed with the box or envelop, and conse-
quently the board may turn around this
axis. At the upper part of the box-whch
a. spirit level always keeps evenly held-is
a piece carrying a magnetized needle form
ing compass. A button, which is turned
by the. hand, makes the piece in question
always coincide with the needle, if a turn
in the direction causes the walker to devil
ate from the original direction. A little
transmitter composed of two pulleys Of
the same diameter and an endless cord
connects the piece carrying the needle
| to the axis Of the board, SO that if the
bearer changes his direction to right or
left the board inclines from one side to
the other of it's original direction, while
always remaining the same as the glass in
q, vertical plane. 1t will be found that the
recorder thus not only traces the distance
but also the direction in which the bearer
l1s going.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
PUTTING AT NAILS
Emily sandahl Said She Was Pre-
pairing to Go on the
-. Stage. .......sss
Police Say Link Crossman Seems
to Be mpressario for the
Company. {

Emily Sandahl, 1118 Sixth street S,
a stage-struck girl, arrested last night
by Lieutenant Riviere and Patrolman
Mcleod of the central police was in
court this morning on a charge Of
incorrigibi1ity. After an examination
Judge Holt ordered her committed to
the state training school. 1854, I,
The Sandahl girl left her home
about three weeks ago and her parents
sought her vainly until last night
when her mother learned that she
was stopping at the Glenwood hotel,
near washington and Hennepin av-
enues. She called PatroIman Nc
Leod and he and Lieutenant Riviere
entered the hotel and found a group Of
boys and girls sitting in the parlor
smoking cigarettes. Mrs. Sandahl
pointed out her daughter and she was
arrested altho she pleaded for one
chance to be good.
The girl told the officers that she
had hired out travel with an opera
company and that her contract called
for a salary Of $50 per week and ex-
penses. The company was about
ready to leave the city and would have
gone to-day. had not the police inter-
fered. She said that she had been in
Chicago and to Judge Holt admitted
that the fine clothes she wore had
been purchased in Chicago by the
manager of the opera company, Gust
Fbecause. he wanted to be good to her.
l.. The police are Investigating the
Aopera: comp and il. is limited that
definite action win taken in the mat
ter. It was given out at police head
quarters that "Link'' Crossman, Of
big mitt fame, has some connection
with the company. ~ :.
>. The Sandahl girl, before leaving for
the training school at Red Wing, told
her story to Superintendent Conroy
and S. l.. Van Etten, Humane society
agent" She said that she had associ-
lated with Martha Olsen, Cedar av-
nue., girl, who has been in the work
house. The Olsen girls home has
been a meeting place for young girls
in South Minneapolis and many OF
|more chance to be good. e., Il,
/ Humane society will investigate. IT,, j
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
:. POLICIES TO BE BARRED :
New Amsterdam Company Warned
by Insurance Commissioner go
~. Host - i w..
+o,.frha To,,rr.1

Special to The journal. +, -< ~
Madison, Wis, Oct. 8.-The New
Amsterdam Casualty company of New
Y ork has been notified by Insurance
Commissioner Host that it must cease
issuing certain policies or contracts
thru the, Great Northern Registry
company of Milwaukee, or it will be-
come his duty to revoke; the New
Amsterdam company's license to do
business in; this state. ...-
The notice is based on an opinion
by the attorney general that, the COM
,pany hos violated the laws Of the
state. The policy issued thru the
Great Northern Registry company
purports to be $1,000 accident policy
with SIS a week for temporary dis
ability, a payment Of 81 a year to
cover all. - ~ - -. -. . ~
The attorney general, in his opinion,
says the policy; as a whole, Is call
culated to-. mislead. The indemnity
features are printed In large black
type at the head of the contract and
the limitations, which are many, in
fine print and appear to be well cal
culated to mislead the unwary. t-.-:.