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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
HAVE A "PANTOLAMODA'
What Is It? The Oldest Complete
Mammal Skeleton Known
100000 Years Old.
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New York Sun Special Service.
New York. Aug. 3.-In striking comparison
with the monstrous animals of the COLLECTION
of fossil mammals just placed on exhibition
at the American Museum Of Natural History.
is the clumsy skeleton of the pantolamoda;
1t is the oldest complete mounted mammal
in existence. The curator says 1t is 5000,
900 years old 1t was found in New Mexico
and presents an impressive example OF the
possibilities of evolution, as illustrating the
law of progressive increase in size.
This exhibition of fossils as rearranged and
made public, represents the ersults of thirty
three years of exploration and an expendt-
ure Of $780, 600 Each alcove contains group
of animals, placed so as to show the evolu-
ton in the orthern American horse, the ele-
plant, the mastodon and the rhinocerous
Many of the new and important specimens
were obtained by recent expenditures sent out
at the expense of William c. Whitney.
| In an alcove devoted to the evolution OF
the horse, the results of the Whitney eX.
| plorations in Texas, Nebraska and Colorado
are shown Besides the ancestral four toee
| horse, representing the beginning of series
| there are shown also three toed and one toee
variety. The first named specimen was founc
| in the Wind river beds in Wyoming and is
| about the size of a fox. Its frame is not un,
| like that Of the Whippet, the swiftest dog o.
| its size.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
SHE WAVED A BIBLE
Margaret Goodman Swore by It that
She Hadn't Robbed Her
Employer.
However, the Court Pronounced Her
Guilty and Fined
Her SIS.

YES sir; I will tell the whole truth and
nothing byt the truth" cried M B'l Coed
court this morning BY the holy W word Of
God, I swear it. l did not steal any money,
Just took my own money from Mrs Dag
she ought when I had finished my weeks
work and took the money from her purse.
She left the purse around to tempt me-"
Bean of the Fifth precinct police upon a
charge of stealing a quarter from the purse se
Of her employer' Mrs; . A. F. Dagsetts z 3h2
court that she had missed money from her
purse from time to time and had marked
several coins and left them where her hired
was moved from the kitchen to the dining
room and when she examined it she found q
quarter had been extracted. She called
Officer Bean, who found the quarter in Miss
Goodman's purse. He questioned the girl and
finally she admitted taking the quarter, also
IS cents on the day preceding and So Wednes-
| day afternoon She showed him a silk ira
| sol which she had purchased with the s..
On the witness stand this morning Miss
Goodman exeitedy c4ptenaed that the n money naH
and she had a right to take it as she had
earned it. Between her sobs she told Judge
and that she had done what was right when
she took the money.
"Did you tell the officer in the presence Of
| Mrs. Dnggett that you had taken the money.
| asked the court.
Eyes, I told them that was the response
| 'They were determined to get me into trouble
and what else could do? They showed me
no mercy, and to thom that show no mercy,
no mercy shall be shown, says the holy
Word of Cod" and she held aloft her Bible
/ ISIS this the money that you stole from Mrs.
Daggett's purse?" asked the court,
''That is the money that took from Mrs.
| Daggett;s purse" responded the prisoner,
| "but didn't steal it. It was my money
"Is this the rarasol that you, purchased
! with the SIS that you stole from Mrs.
Daggett's purse?' continued Judge Dickin-
son. S5E t.4S-s 80 "t.5E@ sS ~
"That is the paraso1 that I bought with my
money, which took from. Mrs. Daggett S
purse, but it not stolen persisted the
prisoner. II earned every cent of that money
and had right to take it whenever
wanted to. She had no right to keep my
money from me- -.-
II will impose light fine on you this time,
as I think you have learned a lesson from
this experience said the court.
| "You may put any fine me you want, .
cried the girl, Il don't care. have nc
money. They have all my money. took
nothing that did not belong to me and am in
nocent of stealing anything. That was my
money"
''Well if that is the way you feel, I will
make the fine heavy enough to teach you 6
lesson. The sentence will be SIS fine or 1;
days in the wor khouse Hereafter take ne
PERSONS property without first consulting
them. This money and the parasol I viii
give to Mrs. Daggett."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
THE JOURNALS
SWEET PEA SHOW.

All amateur flower growers are In
vited to take part in the open compe-
ton afforded by The Journals Sweet
Pea Show to be held on the second
floor Of the Dayton Building, ITO Mic
ollet avenue, Aug. 5, and Z. TIL
] urna and the leading florists
and seedsmen Of the city offer 1854 to
be given as premiums in the various
classes of exhibits which include be-
side sweet peas, asters, dahlias, mas
turtiums (tall and dwarf, carnations.
margueries, verbenas, gladioli. dian
thi Chinese pinks), and general gar
den flowers. All vases or receptacles
for flowers will be furnished by the
management and no collection Of flow
ers will be too modest to receive con-
sideration.
The object of this show Is to pro-
mote the growing of flowers In the
homes and to assist the Minneapolis
Outing association in a noble work.
The beauty of the exhibits as an at
traction will be supplemented during
the three days with music by The
I Journal Newsboys' Band and re-
freshments will be served by the
Christian Endeavor society of the
Park Avenue Congregational church.
| should be filed out and forwarded as
/ soon as possible, to H. l.. Pathey,
! manager the Journal Sweet Pea show.
| All entries must be in by 10 q. m.
1 Monday, Aug. 3. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03

me out on the prairie. The bronchos gal
loped off. I'd gone about mile before my
friends suggested that I'd better push be-
hind Then they took off the lariats and IN
fastest broncho in the bunch. Say, boys,
don't you want a tow?' yelled before they
dropped too far behind.
And when the auto entered Billings at =
speed more moderate Mr.. Wolfe was
escorted by half the Crows upon the agency
braves, squaws pappooses-everybody that
could catch a pony and keep up Win the
parade.
Chief .'Big Mouth however. would not
condescend to look. His friends. who insisted
that he was not Indifferent to the latest
styles, suggested that the auto go over. to
his bonse. When the machine stood heiCre
his door the chief consented to come quf s ana ne
see the white mans Mo a
eyincing no special interest became willing
to take ride behind the lever. During a
ten-1nie spin around the OUTSKIRTS OF me ne
ask if Mr.. Wolfe's engine wouldn't go bet
ter on the track 1t was a kind Of loco
motive, as the chief con5ectured. Upon i, iaTe
his buckskin shirt, drew out tobacco p Que
filled with gold and greenb3ase,ks, and SAID
Guess buy him How much el1! 80 ~, nr;oe
of thirty ponies he had to learn that MS new
iced would travel very Tnuch raster anc ia .I
thcr than any horse; that it would carry tvs
..bucEed 'sor SHE'D; that it could journey witt
ease thru prairie dog village without evel
stumbling in the biggest hole; that it ate M
grass like pony, nor coal Ike locom ntdG
but was easily satisfied with a little meol
cine water from the agency store
| s.Big Mouth then insisted that the autt
could be trained to use river water insteat
-"make him drink, . urged the chief, w :n
| refarred to an army officer riding by
| And before the purchase money was pait
over Mr.. Wolfe had agreed to have tEe aut,
! nainted ct his own expense, the reddest ret
that could be bought in Billings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
ode COP" HAD SHAVED :.
Newsboy Gamblers Didn't Know
Him and Were Caught.

''De cop played a mean trick. on u.s."
explained Robert Marquis, a newsboy,
who was arraigned in court this morning
charged with shooting craps. 1--WE had a
lot Of kids watching for de cops and de
fly bobs and de kids all know de officers,
but dis here guy went and shaved his
mustache off and we didn't know him.
We seen him comm thru the de alley but
we never fought it was a cop. and de first
ting we knowed me and Johnny Bacon
were pinched. We didn't shoot much, jist
a little while we was waitin' fur de papes.
Homes we didn't and if you let us go dis
time, jedge, We won't do it no more
The two newsboys were arrested Sat-
urday evening as a result of the extra
vigilance taken by the police to stop crap
shooting in the alley at the rear of the
Fourth street newspaper offices. PATROL
man George Hamilton succeeded in steal
ing into the crowd and caught the two
boys who were excitedly watching the
turning of the mystic cubes. They did
not see him until he was in the crowd
and altho they made a desperate effort to
elude his clutches, he landed the two of
them in the central station.
When they were arraigned in court this
morning they pleaded guilty to the charge
Of gambling with dice and Judge Dickin-
son fined them So each.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
BIG MOUTHS BUBBLE.
Maurice Wolfe Of Minneapolis Sells
the Chief a Gasolene
-. Runabout. T.. ....
But First Had to Agree to Paint
.+ It the Reddest Red in
- -aa s--.-
Billings.

1t wasn't painted red and it wouldn't drink
water from the Yellowstone river. Such
were the only important objections made by
big Mouth chief of the Crows, when he
bought last week, at Billings, Mont, the
first automobile ever sold to a wild In
dian. This machine was an Oldsnlobi!e run
about. 49,. ~ ~
Maurice Wolfe, travelling representative of
the Olds company, with headquarters at Min
neapolis, 'bubblcG'' into Billings to find that
his machine was altogether a novelty in that
region. The cowboys and other white men
knew OF the autos. by reputation, OF course
elsewhere. But the Indians were as much
astonished as redmen will permit them
selves to be. - r. -
On the road to Billings Mr.. Wolfe became
stalled in an irrigation ditch. He heard a
shout behind him, and was presently sur
rounded by group Of cowboys. Two Of the
horsemen rode into the ditch and fastened
their lariats3 to the front axle OF the auto,
t.and the lariats, stretching from the pom
mels Of the cowboys saddles, soon yanket
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
MONEY FOR SCHOOLS
The State High School Board Ap
--. portions "a Total Of
100000. !
Fourteen Schools Are Added to the
High List-Graded
School Aid.

The annual state aid to high schools and
graded schools was apportioned this
morning by the state high school board
at the university library building. i:
According to the recommendations OF
George B. Alton Of Minneapolis, state high
schol inspector, aid was given to the 141
high schools on the list last year and tc
IA additional high schools at Argyle
Breckenridge, Cokato, Ely, Gaylord, Har-
mony, Hibbing,. Lake Benton, Milaca
Minneota;; Montgomery Royalton, St
Louis Park, and Thief River Falls.
Aid amounting to $3.50 each for specia
instruction in the common branches was
voted to Browns Valley, Park Rapids
Winona, st. Paul, Sank Center, Albert
Lea, Hastings, Red Wing and Dodge
Center, and these, together with schools
at Owatonna, Aitkin, Madison, Monte
video, Preston and Tracy. were author
lied, to compete for a, similar grant II
1904. $500 q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
IYERs0N HITS HARD
The State Auditor Discusses Some
Recent Ramsey County Tax
Propositions.
Says County Is Planning to Initiate
Local Taxes to Beat the
State. 49,. ...-,s ~

State Auditor 1verson to-day gave warn
ing to the Ramsey county board of equalt
zation that the proposition to keep down
Ramsey's valuation in, order to escape
the state tax would not go very far with
the state board Of equalization. The
board meets next month and can raise
Ramsey's assessment as much as it likes.
Mr.. Iverson's statement given out to-day
is in sharp criticism Of the attitude taken
by the jobbers' union and Mayor Smith.
He says:
From the reports Of the Ramsey county
board of equalization as published in the
daily papers, we get some astounding and
startling work of equalization. The pub
lie is informed that assessments of whole
sale mercantile establishments members
of the jobbers' union Of st. Paul, are to
be Judged, compared and equalized with
like establishments in Minneapolis: Du-
luth, and even With Chicago in the state
of illinois,; that any movement fora dis
turbing the assessments as returned Shy the
assessor, is but a political game. a grand
stand play;3that assessments should not be
raised because it would / increase. the
amount ofstate taxes from st. Paul. FL.
Those are the published sentiments at
a meeting of the county board composed
of st. Paul and Ramsey county officials.
am positive that such sentiments will be
spurned and ridiculed by SO per cent of the
people Of st. Paul, Ramsey county. Now
what are the facts as to the state tax?
| The average rate of taxation in st. Paul
for 1902 was 3O.95 mills. OF that amount
2.53 mills is the entire state tax collec-
| tions, and only one mill OF that Is for sup
port Of the state government for state
revenue fund. Less than -thirtieth OF
the sum collected in general taxes in ST.
! Paul goes to support the state, and yet the
Ramsey county board of equalization pro-
poses to cheat the state as thy do in Chi
cago.
Another pertinent fact evidently never
heard Of by the county board, is that two
tenths Of a mill, or 20 per cent of the
entire one-mill levy" for state revenue
funds, goes to help pay for the new mar
BILE state capitol to cost $4,500,0O0, being
built in St. Paul. For the past ten years
every farmer and merchant and every
dollar of taxable property in the state has
been annually paying at the rate Of e
cents on each $1,000 for that purpose. AT
the present rate they will all continue tc
pay for it for twenty years more before
our new state house is paid for.
1.-THE rate of taxation in Ramsey county
is now high, nearly 8 mills higher thar
Hennepin county and nearly mills higher
than St. Louis county. The proposition
1 to still further increase the local rate tc
beat the state tax is evidently intended
! to beguile the local taxpayers, 1t is GER
tainly a remarkable doctrine
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
]. c. SODINI IS
UNDER ARREST
Proprietor Of the Columbia Theater
Charged With Bribing a
Public Officer.

j. G. Sodini gave himself up this after
noon and was awaigned on a charge of
giving a bride to public officer
He will be released on bail, his bonds
men being Charles G. Gluck and A. A.
Eichhorn.
Sodini's arraignment introduces an ew
character into the legal side of the mu-
nicipal house-cleaning. AS proprietor OF
the largest and toughest variety theater
on Washington avenue, he made much
money and posed early in the Ames re-
gime as being able to deliver the goods
on almost any sort of proposition call
ing for police connivance When the
crash came, Sodini did not tarry long.
The bride he is charged with giving
is supposed to have been given to DR.
Ames for closing rival variety theaters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
READY FOR APPLICATIONS
Industrial Home for Colored Girls Ii
Condition to Enter Upon Its

The Industrial home, under the manage
ment of Rev. and Mrs. M. w. Withers and
Rev. and Mrs. F. G. Bingley, at 24O6 and
240S Seventeenth avenue s, IS now ready to
receive applications Persons wanting col
orerd help must file their applications With
E. H. Moulton of the Farmers and Me-
chanics' Savings bank, depositing with him
$40 to pay the railroad fare. The. girls will
come from Missouri and the railroad fare
from Kansas City is about $3.50. No girl
who does not bear good, reputation in her
immediate vicinity will be accepted, and
Christian girls will be given preference. The
agent, who is to make a. special trip there
gentleman, we'll acquainted in Missouri, and
competent to make wise selections. He will
cooperate with the pastors Of the various
large churches who will assist him. Persons
depositing $40 will be paid back by the girl
on the installment plan. In case Of the
homes being unable to supply girls, the $40
will be returned to Mr.. Moulton.
The home is established to aid poor eSce,,1 but
with housework, and having been instructed
in that, to secure places in desirable homes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
THIEF DROPPED BILLS
Lost Two 81 Notes While Slowing
Away Blon's Roll of 4
$3.50.

Alfred Blon, 1928 Elm street, Chicago,
who is stopping at the st. James hotel,
awoke this morning $3.50 poorer than he
was when he retired. This was because
some one had entered his room in the
night and had extracted $3.50 from his
trousers pocket without disturbing his
slumbers. He reported the matter to the
police and Detective Bahan. was detailed
to investigate.
The following additional schools OBJ
tanning grants this year will probably in
clude the school at Roseau after a fur
Their inspection Akeley, .Avoca, Bingham
Lake, Clara City, Echo, Hayfield, Nc
Kinley, Mountain Iron, New Auburn,
Raymond, sanborn.| Soudan, Sparta,
Starbuck, Stewart.
Blon first discovered his loss this morn
ing when he saw two one dollar bills lying
on the floor Knowing that he had no
bills of that denomination he began to
Investigate to see who had left the money
there. He felt for his purse in which he
had $3.50 but was dismayed to find it
gone. The thief had evidently dropped
50 Of his own while slowing Blon's roll
away. -, : e.s, =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
A QUEER LOVE STORY
Man Rejected Because of His NAL
odorous Profession Amasses For
tune in Gold Fields.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special SefvIce:
Albany, n. Y, Aug. 3.-Information has
been received in Granville, Washington coun-
ty, of the death of Lewis Deuel. in Aus
tralla at the age of 81 years. He left for
tune of So, SOC, go. He was a native of Gran
vile and during the '40s was known as the
champion skunk hunter and trapper OF
northern New York.
Deuel. hunted the ill-smelling polecat for
the value of it's pelt.- When he, proposed
marriage to a village belle, the latter reluc-
family refused OF, account of the nauseatins
nature Of Deueis business. aggravated By
the cruel comment of her friends
Deuel. pleaded piteously, but in vain, and
in a frenzied moment left Granville, vowins
that Miss De.ong. the belle, would rue the
day of her refusal. He Joined the exodus OF
gold -fev cred men for Australia and kept his
address and good fortune in mining secret
until his death few weeks ago.
Miss belong died few years ago, never
having married because, as she claimed in
death, she loved none other than Lewis
Deuel..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
DEEDS LAND TO TRINITY
Unique Course Is Taken, It Is
Charged, to Escape Liability
for Fraud. H.
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Carterville, Ga, Aug 3.-A unique deed has
been filed here in which Rev. w. H. Kerr
transfers tract of farm land to God. the
Father; Christ, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
for many mercies received in hand paid, re-
ceipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, on
contition that the farm is to be used for an
orphans home, to be known as the Kerr
Orphans Home and that Rev. Mr.. Kerr
and his family are to be the Lords trustees
and that the land is still to be liable for
Kerr's debts
The reason for this peculiar deed has just
been revealed by suit filed here by an aged
couple of the name of Cachran, members Of
Kerrs congregation, who claim that he de-
frauded them out fthe land in exchange for
stock of goods which he claimed to be
worth much more than its true value, and
that they were led into the trade by their
confidence in Kerr. They ask to have the
trade set aside and the land restored to
them. -rl
IL the bill filed by the Cochrans it is
charged that Kerr has no intention Of devot-
ing the land to the service Of God, but that
he made the deed purely to protect himself
for the results of the fraud which they al
iege he committed. IS e.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
CITY NEWS.
Il WEATHER NOW AND THEN
Maximum Temperature To-day 50
! Degrees; a Year Ago "a Degrees.

Jacorak Still lmproving-Peter Jaco-
rak, who was stabbed by William krlsh
a few nights ago. is improving and the
physicians think he will recover. kr1sh
Is still being held in the central station,
Dyer VIII Be Cared For-William Dyer,
the feeble minded man who has been con-
! fined for over week in the county jail,
will be cared for by the county. Inc
commissioners this morning decided that
the responsibility rested upon them for
caring for Dyer, and he will probably be
sent to the school for the feeble minded.
on EIIIott's Track-Charles Elliott, the
negro who escaped from the workhouse
a few days ago. was seen with another
negro near the end Of KenWood parkway
yesterday and the police think he will be
arrested soon. The police We're notified
when Elliott was seen yesterday, but the
man had disappeared when the officers
arrived.
interurban Owls Interrupted-From mid
night tonight until $50 tomorrow morn
ing the interurban trolley line will be tied
up. A sewer Is being run across Un1ver-
lsity avenue at Oxford street, over in St.
Paul, and the laborers can't have any
cars around. The Como interurban will
run as usual and short line will be run
at the st. Paul end Of the old line as far
as Oxford street. 49,.
Blind Jim Locked Up--James Costello
known as Blind Jim" to those who have
occasion to patronize his popcorn and pea
nut stand on the corner Of Fourth street
and Hennepn avenue, is in the county
Jail Ordinarily Of the most cheerful tenn
permanent a few days ago Costello began
acting queer. Yesterday afternoon he be-
came much worse and was taken to the
Jail In the patrol wagon apparently hav-
ing lost his mind.
c. E. Union at Linden Hllls-Eleven
christian Endeavor societies were repre-
scented yesterday afternoon at the union
meeting of the Minneapolis first district
at Linden Hills Congregational church.
The order of exercises included addresses
by Rev. DR." George r. Merrill E. F. Waite
and Walter Haight, and vocal solos by
wv. w. Gould and Mrs. K. Larson. DR..
merrill spoke on the relation Of the G. E.
society to it's own church, Mr.. Waite on
the relations to the outside church and
Mr.. Haight on the work Of the City Hhris-
tian Endeavor union.
He stole a bcyce-Fred Wargin was
arraigned in police court this morning
under the name Jones, charged with steal
Ding bicycle from William Mclaughlin.
Judge Dickinson sentenced him to thirty
days in the WorkhOuse. Young Wargln
told the court that he had run away from
home in Duluth in July, and that he had
gone to Winnipeg. Afterwards he went
to Grand Forks, Fargo, Crookston and
finally, drifted into Minneapolis. He had
only worked one week and then he made
no more than his expenses. His father in
dorsed his testimony.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
Three Seek Divorces.

Because Robert Hagelin refused and
neglected to live with her, Lizzie IIage-
lin has brought an action for divorce. Mr..
and Mrs Haggelin have been married since
1896 Hugh D. Watkins has also gone
into court for the purpose of being sepa-
rated from Gorilla j. Watkins, who, he
claims, has deserted him. Papers have
also been filed in divorce case brought
by Emma j. Cannon against Michael j.
Cannon. Desertion is charged.