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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
IMPROVES ON OLD WAY =
Track Laying and Repairing Ma
chine to Be Made in Saltwater.

special TO Inc journal.
Saltwater, Mimi, Jan. III. N. Bron-
son has closeda contract for building ma
chimes for testing the relative distance
between railroad rails. The device Is
operated on a handcar, dial indicating
the exact distance, and Is of great adj
vantage in railway building. Fred Mailer
OF st. Paul owns the machine and will
have twenty-five made here. - D.:
J. G. Nethaway, county attorney, is
suffering from a severe attack of inf1am-
natory rheumatism.
The action brought by the government
against DR.. ]. c. Rhodes, for alleged ire
gularities in connection with the pension
claim of Sumner J. Mains, has been con-
tinued until the June term. -
Fred A. Flint has been appointed adj
ministrator Of the estate of S. w.
Schendel. His bond was fixed at 5000.
Forty acres of land in Woodbury. town,
this county, have just been sold for 81, 500.
The membersof the Commercial Club en-
joyed dancing party in the clubrooms
last night. the younger set attending in
large numbers.
William Harberg, of Sandstone, has just
completed thirty-day sentence in the
county Jail. His offense was the theft OF
95 cents.
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TONS AND TONS OF 1T
What an AidermanIc Investigation In Nil
waukee Has Revealed. =

What an AidermanIc investis alton In Nil.
waukee Has Revealed.
Special to The Journal. -.
Milwaukee, Jan. 1.-THE investigation
made by the aldermanic committee into
the fuel situation has resulted in the dis
coYery within the limits of the city Of
10000 tons OF hard coal, 2s1, 400 tora Of
soft coal, and $3.50 cords OF wood All
but 800 tons Of the hard coal was found
in the yards Of J. Gross & Son, on Canal
street. A member Of the Arm told the
committee that the coal belonged to the
Leh1gh Valley Coal company, and that it
iss being shipped to customers in the
northwest on orders received last summer,
and is not for sale to Milwaukee people.
II legal authority can be found to war
rant the action, the coal will be confis-
Gated by the city and distributed at the
market price to the people Of Milwaukee.
sAdam Gross, a, member of the firm is
said to have offered to sell coal to people
who apply with health department recon-
mendations at SO a ton. -. ~
The Milwaukee road to-day posted
notices in public places in the city call
Ing attention to the fact that it had sus-
pended several passenger trains on &C.
count Of the shortage Of coal. 1t is I'M
derstood the trains will be abandoned un-
TIL the coal famine is over.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
~ have no more
nervous headaches
and rest very well at
night"

When a woman suffers from female
weakness and irregularity or other forms
of woman1y disease, the effect is cer-
tain to Be marked In her nervous sys-
tenn, the general effect being, a. in Mrs.
Woodin's case, unervous headaches, rest
lessness at night" aud a rundown condi-
ton. It Is simply common sense then
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ness, irregularity, etc, you will cure the
Nervousness, sleeplessness aud other con-
sequences of woman1y disease.
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the general health. It establishes regu-
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aammation and liberation, and cures
female weakness. It cures headache,
nervousness, sleeplessness, etc, by cur
Ing the womanly diseases which cause
these ailments.
Sick women are invited to consult Dr..
Pierce, by letter, free. All correspond
ence strictly private. Address DR.. ".
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. -
benefit have received from DR.. Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription and Golden Medical Discov-
ery,n writes Mrs. Ervie F. Woodin. Of Millerton.
number Of years had been troubled with female
weakness nervous headache. irregularity, rest
lessness 1T night, and, In fact was oil rundown.
but after taking three bottles of Favorite Pre-
scription' and one Of Golden Medical Discov-
more nervous headaches, and rest very wen at
night; Id fact, feel Hike different. person.
thanks to your kind advice and wonderful tnedi-
cine. earnestly advise all who suher from any
similar troub1essto write to Dr.. Pierce at oree.
They will mot regret It" ~ - :.
~Favorite Prescription has the testi-
mony Of thousands of women to its COM
plete cure Of wornanly diseases. Do not
accept an unknown and improved sub,
stitute in its place.
Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Nllets should be
used with vFavorite Prescription when
ever laxative is required.
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"AIarmed" Over Cheaper Coal,

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 17.-Coalz opera
tors in this state are much alarmed over
the removal Of the duty on coal, which
will permit the operators of British Col
umbla mines to flood California and other
coast markets with a good quality of coal
at lower pricese than the Washington
mines can produce it. The British Col
umbia mines have the advantage of To-
cation on tidewater on Vancouver island
together with the employment largely OF
Chinese labor. The Washington mines
employ only white men. Eight years ago
under the Wilson tariff British Columbia
coal came in free and many Washington
mines were closed. 1t is feared this ex-
per1ence will be repeated. Coal interests
are just recovering from the slump in
demand caused by the substitution Of
California oil in many quarters for coal :,
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" Al|I.RNINlTl|'O A. LEA
That Town Is likely TO Lose Its
Public Building if It Does
Not Watch Out.
Advancement and Retirement Of
Col +. !. Higgins Well Known
in Minnesota.

From The Journal Bureau, Room 45, Post Build.
ing, Washington.
Washington, Jan. Representatives.
elect Buchanan and STEVENSON are ex-
pected here next week to do a few prelim-
mary turns IN learning the ropes.
/. A TrlfIe late. -.%s
4 representative Fletcher to-day received
2 petition with 1000 names from Mime
apolis asking congress to pass the bill
taking the duty, of of coal. The petition
will be filed in the house. OF course, it
came too late to have any effect on the
coal legislation. ,.s% a
Retirement Of Colonel Higgins.
The Minnesota delegations have unani-
mousiy requested the president to advance
to the grade Of Brigadier General and
then to retire Colonel e. L. Higgins, now
commanding at Fort Meyer. The request
Will be complied with very soon. Colonel
Huggtns has a brilliant civil war record.
He served with the Second Minnesota
Volunteers and won a medal for gallant
conduct at Chickamagua and other fields
where. that regiment appeared. In 1856
he entered the regular army and has since
served on the plains, in Alaska, Cuba,
China, the Philippines and Porto Rico.
For a number of years he was military in
structor at the university Of Minnesota
and IS wei known to all the older citizens.
..-. Warning to Albert Lea.
The people of Albert Lea are likely to
lose their public site If no more interest
is shown In the matter than has been
shown by them since congress authorized
the expenditure Of $4,000 for that pur-
pose. Assistant Secretary Taylor Of the
treasury department said. to-day that he
would soon forward to congress a letter
showing that the department had adver-
tised for proposals for q site but that no
responses were received. He Will there
fore ask for Instructions whether, the
appropriation shall be. allowed to Lapse or
whether the department shall make an
other effort to procure 3 site. =
It Is assumed at the department that
no one in Albert Lea was willing to sell
a lot Of the size desired for the amount
available, butt 1t is also believed that
some bids should have been submitted
with a view to ascertaining values Of
the property there, So that the depart
ment would be in a position to make
further recomm endations as to the in
crease In the appropriation.
.*.. Mr.. Mccoy's Trip.
James f. Mccoy Of sWinona is in Wash
ington for a few days on his way to other
eastern cities. y. ~ 49, - 81
.SS:- w. w. Jermane.
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DIED I ] At SHANGHAI
Word Is Received Of the Death Of
Captain W. W. Rich in
China.
Going to That Country as an Engi-
neer, He Gained High
Favor.

Intelligence reached Minneapolis this
morning of the death of Captain w. w.
Rich u China, on Jan. IL. Captain Rich
was the first general manager and chief
engineer Of the 500 road He had charge
Of the construction almost from the flrst,
and remained with the company untuil
1898, when he left to become consulting
engineer for the Chinese government,
with headquarters at Shanghai.
Mr.. Rich built the Wisconsin Central
between Milwaukee and Ashland, and
also did some. construction work for the
Milwaukee road. He and Senator w. D.
Washburn were intimate friends and In
1895 he went out to, China with the soma
tor. who sought railroad concession.
This plan fell through, but Mr.. Rich
made so favorable an impression upon
the Chinese authorities that, soon after
his return to this country, the position
he held untilh death was offered him.
Officially he was known as the Consult
ing engineer OF the imperial Chinese rail-
way administration" - 49,, ..s g.
His wife, Alice Hamilton Rich, who was
with him when he died, is we'll known to
readers of Leslie's Weekly as the author
of articles on China and the orient.
The only information yet received is
cablegram sent to a sister, Mrs. Ray
mond, Of Middletown, Conn. -
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The WORK ON
IRRIGATION
Great Care Taken in Selecting the
First Locations for DEM
onstration.
There is Great Clamor From the
Arid States to Have Some
thing Done.
New York Sun Special Service.

NC" 4OIA GUN 0pcC1A4 00ASAoos
Chicago, Jan. 17.-William E. Curtis in
Washington special to the Record-Her-
aid says: In reply to an inquiry from
J. P. Hearst Of Crown Point, Ind, as to
what has been accomplished under the
new irrigation law, would say that the
secretary Of the interior, who has the
matter in charge, has not been idle. The
act was passed on the 18th Of June, 1902,
and on the day following plans were sub
mitted by the director of the geological
survey for putting 1t into effect. Those
plans were approved by the secretary of
the interior, surveying parties were at
once sent into the field, and have been
since engaged in making examinations
and preparing estimates for the construc-
ton Of seven reservoirs at convenient To-
cations.
Great care has been exercised in Sc
lecting locations which will be Of the
greatest benefit to the country; which
will accommodate upon the land to be
irrigated the greatest number Of people.
and which will return to the treasury the
cost Of the undertaking, so as to keep in
tact the fund for new works. This
fund, derived from the sale Of arid lands,
now amounts to $8,000,0o0, and is all
available for irrigation works, and for the
reclamation of the arid regions in thir-
teen states and territories.
Notwithstanding this vast sum at his
disposal, the secretary of the interior Is
proceeding with great caution, and will
consider no projects from a political or
sentimental standpoint.
The men who are carrying on the work
are chosen by competitive examinations
| to test their special fitness; most Of them
have spent the greater part Of their lives
studying the problem, measuring the riv-
ers and constructing irrigation works, and
| they are proceeding carefully upon sound
business principles, precisely as would be
done II they were working for a bust
ness corporation which depended upon ths
profits of the enterprise.
The construction Of water storage res
| ervoirs and irrigation works is still a mat
ter OF experiment, and the president and
secretary of the interior are extremely
anxious that at the beginning of this
great enterprise no mistakes shall be
made. There Is an intense public interest
| in all the arid states, and great ciamor
from the people to see something done.
The interior department is receiving let
tiers by the bushel asking where and when
construction is going to begin, and there
Is great rivalry among different locali-
ties which hope to benefit by it. In the
meantime the survey will continue upon
the seven different tracts which have been
selected, and as soon as expedient the To-
cations will be announced.
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Coal in Box Cars.

Louisville, KY, Jan. 17.-According to
the Courier journal the coal shortage in
Chicago has opened up the opportunity
for a. new business venture, and Samuel
Born Of La Fayette, Ind, has taken ad-
vantage OF it. He will ship coal to Chi
cago in box cars from the cities around
the Falls of the Ohio, and the cars will
come back loaded with grain. BY max
ing an arrangement with Indiana and
Illinois grain dealers he has been en-.
abled to assure the railroads that their
cars will be loaded both ways. On this
assurance, it Is said, two railroad COM
parlies have guaranteed to- furnish him
with the necessary cars,
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The Board Of Control Now Generally
Accepted a 2 Permanent
Institution
Main Change Sought Will Be in the
Interest Of State Education
-. r. al Institutions. 4.,...

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The board of control is in Minnesota
TO stay This Is an important fact that
mas become pretty well established thus
early In the legislative session. For the
past year the air has been full of threats,
ana from various state institution towns
nave come predictions that the board Of
control was doomed to extinction at this
session OF the legislature.
1t now seems certain that no serious
attempt to repeal the law will be made
TINS winter Opponents of the system
have canvassed the situation in the leYis-
lature, and they find the board of control
idea too strongly intrenched. They have
come to tho conclusion that they cannot
muster enough votes to make fight with
any show Of success. The splendid show
Ing made by the board for its first year
gives 1T an unansWerable argument on the
score OF economy, and the generality Of
members, outside the sphere Of influence
OF any state institution, are determined
to continue the system so long as it can
make such a record.
Friends of the state schools at Ovation
ma and Faribault have given UP the idea
OF knocking out the board, and have pre-
scented the other alternative, which will
suit them as we'll. The Morley bill, intro
duced yesterday, removes all educational
institutions from the board of control.
SO Tar as the university and normal
oSAOOAS Sfo concerned LQlS 1S IN line Will
the wishes Of the governor and the board
OF control, but Mr.. Morley goes them one
better, and includes the schools for de-
fectives and for INDECENT children. The
board OF control now has the financial d.
rection OF these schools, but wants the
entire charge, and Governor Van SAINT has
recommended the abolition of the local
boards. On the other hand, the Morley
bill gives the local boards entire charge.
Mr.. Morley claims that all the educational
institutions should come out from control
OF the board, and that the Owatonna and
Fartbault schools are educational in the
same degree that the university and the
normal schools are.
There Is some sentiment in the legis-
lature against any change. This will op-
pose the Morley bull, ard any other on that
line. The university and normal schools
have this element to fight, and need every
vote they can get. The Owatonna and
Fartbault people understand this, and
offer an alliance. II it is rejected and the
university and normal school people &C
1t alone, the delegations from Rice arld
Steele counties will stand with the ultra
element and fight any change in the law
1t is probable that the alliance will be
made between all the educationa institu-
lions In Which case the board Of contro
influence will be against the bill. The
situation is complicated and decidedly in.
teresting. - >".--.: -
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WELL-kNoWN EMPLOYEES
A Former Lieutenant Governor and an
AZ Lous> let

A Former Lieutenant Governor and an
Ex-senator on House List.
:, Some well-known names appear on the
list of house employees announced yester-
day by Speaker Babcock. The clerk of
the committee on taxes and tax laws Is
w. H. Yale, who was lieutenant governor
Of the state from 1870 to 1874, and state
senator from Winona county from 1894 to
1893. The clerk of the insurance COM
mittee Is Sherman S. Smith OF Minneapo-
lis, one Of the most active and picturesque
figures in the last house. =
The speaker could not have found in
Minnesota a person better qualified for
clerk Of the appropriations committee than
Miss May v. Gibbons of Harrington, for
the past eight years voucher clerk in the
office Of the state auditor. In that ca
pacity all warrants from state institutions
have passed through her hands, and she
Is familiar With every detail Of the bust
ness that VIII come before this important
committee. 'l.% .f-"1
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After the Coal Flends.

Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 17.-City Council
man Emerson announced last night that
he thoroughly Endorsed the Chicago ordi-
nance making it q misdemeanor to fore
stall fuel supplies, punishable with fine
Of 5000. He is waiting to obtain copy
Of the Chicago ordinance and will intro
duce 1t: to the council on Monday night.
This action Is prompted by the feeling
which has been aroused through the late
combine Of the retail coal dealers which
sought to regulate coal prices, and. did
hold the price at almost prohibitive flg-
ure until the grand jury began its inves-
tigation. Then the combine agreed to
dissolve. ..- -. ...
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50 PER TON AT THE MINES
Testimony That Shows Who 10 Making tn,
kIlIIno, E@s ~ 49,

Washington, Jan. ia number OF
wholesale dealers in coal who do business
In Philadelphia and Baltimore and sell
coal Of Independent operators. testified
yesterday before the senate committee on
the District Of Columbia. Two Of them
declined to answer questions.
A. Beaumont Whitney Of the firm Of
Whitney & Kemmerer Of Philadelphia,
said that this firm Is now paying IS per
ton for anthracite atrhthes mines, minus
10 Per cent. commission, whereas, before
the strike the price was $a.25. He said
he. did not blame any one Tor getting the
best price he could: ~. T.
Y Charles D. Norton Of Philadelphia said
that within the last two weeks he had
paid as high as $3.50 per ton for anthra-
cite at the mines, which would make the
price laid down in Washington $1o.5o.
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BEHIND LOCKED DOORS
The Special Grand Jury in Chicago
Considering Action on the
Evidence.

Chicago, Jan. 1.-THE special grand
jury, which has spent week in seeking
to determine whether the scarcity OF coal
IS or Is not due to a combination Of coal
operators, coal dealers and railroads, will
conclude It's labors late this afternoon
or tonight having spent the day be-
hind locked doors considering final &C.
tion on the evidence presented. Prior
to its converting to-day the committee
appointed to draft the report to be made
to Judge Ewing met and completed its
task. No intinaation as to the finding
OF the jury has come out rg ".
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First Break In Prices.

New York, Jan. 17.-Coa1 from the in
dependent operators, which has been sell
ing at not less than SO a ton since the
coal roads, sold in Individual instances
at .s9.75 and $3.50 ton yesterday, al
though most sales were at $40. A fur
Their break is looked for to-day or Mon
day, and with the increased amount of
SIS coal expected to arrive next week, there
should be still lower prices for the indie
pendent product. -, -
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OLD scHooLMATE OF sAEe
How He Obtained Coal for Himself ant
Residents Of creston.

Residents OF Creston.
Special to The Journal.
Des Motnes. Iowa, Jan. Ill. III. Lich-
IT, poor farmer residing near Creston,
has saved the residents OF that place
from a coal famine In his boyhood days
he occupied farm adjoining that of the
Baers and was a schoolmate of George F.
Baer, president Of the Reading railway.
:. During the recent cold snap Lichty ex-
hausted his supply of fuel and was unable
to procure any In Creston, where a serious
coal famine existed. He bethought him.
self of President Baer, and wrote the lat
ter personal letter, appealing for, coal
as a special favor, -:
He has received a reply from Baer ex-
pressing pleasure to learn Of his former
playmate, and Informing him that his
agent in Chicago has been instructed to
forward three cars OF coal to a. Creston
dealer at once, from which Lichty was to
be supplied at the cost of freight.
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TO PURCHASE FORESTRY LANDS
The Forestry Board Plans New Line
--4 IT,. II. NJ work

wv T"eeuy ooATo rIahS NEW Line
80 ~-~. ~ OF Work.
The Minnesota Forestry board thinks
that as the state, for many years, has
been paying $4,000 annually in bounties
for tree-planting on the prairies, 1t would
be reasonable to expend like amount
waste lands IN the forest regions for for
'estry purposes. It has, therefore, asked
for the passage Of a BILL to enable II to
purchase land suitable for forestry, but
mot exceeding in any congressional town
ship one-eighth Of the area Of such town
ship and at not exceeding $3.50 per acre,
a quarter OF the net revenue from the
land always to go to the town In which
the land Is situated. Such bill was In
troduced in the house yesterday by Mr..
The forestry. board consists Of practical
men, including Fred Weyerhaeuser, and
1t Is probably wise In asking for very
moderate appropriation till it can dem
onstrate what can be accomplished,
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THE DISTRICT yupasH1p,

Washington, Jan 7Hchatrmsn jenkins Of the
committee on rules to bring In a special rule
setting aside day for the consideration of bills
be reported next week. Among the bills to Be
considered are those for an additional district
salaries Of United States Judges. sel2
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st. Louis, Jan. 17.-Because of an order issued
by their foreman that they must refrain from
chewing gum during working hours, sixty-nve
uel Cupp1es Envelop company.
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GONZALES CANNOT LIVE
The Crisis in His Case Is Believed
to Be Near-Temperature
..~>,s Rises to 102. =

-. Columbia, S. c., Jan. IT., p. n,.--Editor
Gonzales condition ais extremely: critical.
The wound has just been redressed.
Pulse, 1875: temperature, 102; respiration.
81. Mrs. Gonzales is with her husband
and will remain viii. ht!n.za I
eral local physieia4s To- come to the Co
lumbar hospital At The family Is
within immediate call and prepared for
the worst. r" :57 <sgT*o ~ 81. ~
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New York-Professor Libhey sails to-day by
the Etruria, the Tribunes London correspondent
announces, to resume work at Princeton, after
tcrnights visit In London 5
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the physicians that if Mr.. Gonzales can
hold his own until that time the chances
for his recovery will be greatly increased.
The bulletins as issued by the physicians
are the only source of information to the
public. No one but the nurses and
physicians are allowed in the room. Mr..
Gonzales pulse this morning was 102,
respiration II and temperature o.