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The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Dixon-I understand that you said
didn't know as much as yellow dog.
Hixon-I never said anything of tn,
kind.
"Then what did you say?"
II said my yellow dog knew NOR
than you did."-Chicago Evening News
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Every doctor knows the man and woman
who cultivate the habit Of accosting him in
the street and in the guise of ordinary con
verfation try to extract free medical advice
One such inquirer greeted an eminent physi
clan with the remark:
II hear fish is an excellent brain food. d.
you think 90
Excellent" was the reply, "but in youl
case it seems a pity to waste the fish. Lon
don Outlook.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05
Her Customs.

May-Clara doesn't look as stout as
she did when she came from abroad.
Belle-No. BY the way, has she shown
you all the things she has smuggled in ?
N. Y. Worldc
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Tried to skin me, that scribbler did,"
"Xvhat did he want?" Wanted to get ont
book jointly, he to write the book and to
write the advertisements. / uincd him
down. wasn't going to do oil the literary
work!"-Baltimore News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Less Than Half Rates South. October -.
Round trip tickets via the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad viii be sold on October 20 to New
Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery and other
Southern points from Chicago and vicinity
at rate Of $500; from st. Louis. Cairo,
and intermediate points. $1,000. Liberal
limits and stop-overs. Write JNo. NJ. BBALL,
A. G. p. A.. NJ &. o. r. R., St. Louis.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Don't you think the public cares for
ghakespeare@ "Yes," answered Mr.. Storm.
ington Barnes, "the public cares great deal
for Shakespeare, and seriously resents the
way some Of ~ actors sbuse him. Wssh-
inGtou Star.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Skids-"Did your friend, Chesterus Nc
Ranter, the tragedian, enjoy his vacation."
Scads-1 can't say a. to whether he en-
joyed it or not, but the public did. "-Balti-
more American.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Chicago, st. Paul Minneapolis, four daily
trains via the Chicago 4 North-Western
Ry.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

You cannot reach the heart with the head
alone.-Ram's Horn.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

The trouble-peddler will never lack crs
TONERS in this world.-N. O. Times. Demo
crat.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

A thief loves honesty as hungry man loves
steak, and for the same reasop-that he feeds
upon it.-N. o. Times Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

George Sand: Vanity b the quickssnd Of
reason.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

June Tint Butter Color makes top Of
the market butter.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Marked dDown.-Stella-"bu wat makes
you think the duke is bargain" Bella
HE is in reduced circumsiances."- New
York Sun.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05
Under q Disadvontage,

I.ady-What did you mean. by apply
ing for q situation without written
reference.
Applicant (apologetically)-n you
place, ma'am, Oi can't wroite.-N. Y.
journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

There has been a revolution in field
sports. From conditions of 70 restraint,
the absence of law and license, when the
fields and woods were open. and the
United States was. as the Chicago COM
plainant puts 1t, "a free country" we
have proceeded to good laws and game
clubs, which largely control the shoot
ing. The Canadians have also taken q
great interest in the subject of game
preservation. and In a recent report their
game commission has expressed the opin-
ion that in the establishment of the game
preserves lies the salvation of the game
an opinion in which that American ed
itor and sportsman devoted to caribou
and barren grounds heartily concurs.-
Century.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Pov~ dwells with ehesrfulaess- -Emsr.
son.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

Candor looks with equal fairness at both
sides of . subject.-Noah Webster.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05

A man who Is continually shooting on
lis mouth cannot hope successfully to
pose - big sun. Chicago Daily NsvA
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05
OLD pR0vERB IS VERIFIED.
One Tribe of Indians Thrives Upon
q Liquor Which In Poi
SON to Another.

An interesting difference of statistica
on the question of race suicide Is re-
vealed in the report Of Charles NJ Bu-
chanan. superintendent of the Tulalip
Indian agency in Washington. and that
of Charles wilkins, superintendent OF
the Umatilla Indian agency at Pendle-
ton, Oregon, received by Indian Com
missioner Jones.
Mr.. Buchanan reports that the birth
rate among his Indians is only half the
death rate, and al. the rate at which his
population is dying on It will not be long
before he will be an Indian agent with
out charge, says the Washington
Times.
Mr.. wilkins begins his report with q
statement just the contrary. He says
that because Of the longevity and re-
markably good health of his Indians he
has In a total population of $50 40 who
are over 20; 17-four men and 13 women
who are over 80, and one aged dame
who boasts 81 summers, and is still able
to sit up and take notice. In the course
of the year the agent was panied to note
the passing away Of venerable patri.
arch, who came to an untimely end al
the age of ia years.
The Indians at the Tulalip agency are
rapidly taking their allotments Of land,
and few of them are now without their
allotments. They are having trouble
however, white men claiming the lands
of which the Indians have held posses
sion for many years.
Both reports complain bitterly Of the
inability of the agents to keep their In
dians from accumulating glorious
"jags" whenever they have "the price.
Mr.. Buchanan says that 1t is no trouble
at all for an Indian to get liquor when
he can pay for it. and that 1t Is almost
impossible to convict the liquor dealers
because of the difficulty in procuring
evidence.
The white men OF the country are op-
posed to sending a white man to jail fot
selling liquor to his red brother, any
how, and they are especially loath to
convict them when the evidence against
the white man is furnished by the In
dams. Out of IL trials at the agency in
the past four years for selling liquor ia
Indians there was only one man con-
victed and he pleaded guilty and got ofl
with light punishment.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-12-05
To Cure q Cole IN one nay.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. A
druggists refund money If it fails to cure. Is
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printed articles ON Minneapolis and
Minnesota, and a history of T h e
] ourna !, then eight years and a

printed articles on Minneapolis and
Minnesota, and history of T h e
our n |, then eight years and a
half old.
The new owners were not long in
discovering that 1T would be to their
interest and that of their readers to
make a change in the policy which
had governed the circulation depart
ment. The company bought out those
who controlled the city and country
circulation. Taking an account at this
time. in the middle of the year 1887,
it was found that there were sixty-one
regular city carriers, and that the city
country subscribers, $500 in number
at the time of the purchase, had now
increased to 5000. During 1887 and
1888 the circulation grew rapidly, and
there was a corresponding increase in
advertising patronage and a general
improvement in the character of the
paper as to- reading matter, general
style, etc. The paper was made eight
pages every day, usually with a larger
number of pages on Saturday.
The slxteen-page issue, referred to
above, contained the names of the
members of The Journal staff, and
among them are those of men who
since have become intimately identi-
fled with sthe papers career. A. ]
INuooCli, IICI pIOOlESduGI, Has lOIlS
been a member of the editorial staff
in various capacities. For years his
paragraphs have. been a popular fea-
ture of the editorial page and have
been copied widely by newspapers in
all parts of the country He is now
known as The J ourn a. Is mon.
pareil man." from the title of his lat
est editorial page feature. w. b
Chamberlain, then news editor, be-
came city editor later, and is nov
managing editor. Among the new re
porters of that time were J. s.. Var
Antwerp, who afterwards served fol
ten years as, T h j our n Is Wash.
ington correspondent, now dead, ant
Hartley, c. Davis, who has won success
in New York journalism, and is nov
one of the editors of Munsey's mag:
azine. Fred H. Sanders, now advertis.
ing manager of T he ur a L. wa:
at this time serving his apprenticeship
In the business office.
The New journal Building and
The Tribune Building Fire.
In the summer of 1889 the fac
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used it at night, leaving it for h e
ournal by day. This latter ar
rangement proved unsatisfactory, how
ever, and an annex was erected direct
ly back of the building, facing on First
avenue. Here the composing-r was
installed. This was the home of T n e
j o II + N a | until the disastrous fire in
1882 which destroyed it's plant along
with the whole Tribune building.
Modern Ideas Are :
Introduced i'm All Departments.
The vigor with which the new man
energized TIL e our a !,
tempered as it was by good judgment,
soon began to make itself evident in
all departments. Its contemporaries,
which had fallen into a rather .somno-
| lent habit; became suddenly aware that
they had now to reckon with a wide
awake, hustling newspaper, keenly
alive to every pulSation of, the young
and vigorous community which it rep
resented. The activity of the news
department, both in the local and the
outside fields, at once brought the pa
per into general and favorable notice.
"All the news twelve. hours ahead, of
the morning papers was it's slogan
and the promise was usually we'll car
ried out. Indeed, in much of the coun-
try tributary to Minneapolis, the trains
ran on such schedules that T h e
j ourna was. literally twenty-foul
hours ahead of the morning papers
with the news. The public seemed
keenly to relish this experience of get
ting the news while it was news. An
up-to-date afternoon newspaper was
a novelty in this region, and the his
tory of similar ventures in other cities
or the west was now to be repeated
in the new urban center of the north
west. ..-'-
The circulation felt the impetus CIV
en- it by this Improvement in quality
1t Increased by leaps and bounds. One
of the first occurrences that gave il
a start upward illustrates very we'll the
spirit that animated the new manage
ment. This was the tornado at st. Cloud
in the spring of 1886, so fatal to life
and SO destructive to property in that
thriving little city. It occurred late
in the afternoon and the news, with
the wires all down, did not reach the
evening papers Of that day. Even the
morning papers received very meagel
and contradictory reports. T h {
j ournal, however. with an enter
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the carriers and newsboysG close / by,
who are staggering off with great loads
of Journals for their customers, and
the mailers, who are wrapping and
preparing papers for the mail with IN
credible swiftness. n. 80,
The center Of. Fascination however,
is the wonderful presses. : There are
three of them, all Of the most modern
Goss. model. Each of, the three is
composed Of four presses, piled one
atop the other. There are thus, in
reality, Il twelve complete printing
presses, each one with "a greater ca z.
pacity than that: of the press on WHICH
The Journal was printed when it
passed into the possession of it's pres
ent owners. These presses will turn
out in an hour. LA ,00O&fou six 3 or
eight-page& papers; 10000 ten, twelve,
fourteen or. sixteen-page papers; or
$4,000 twenty, twenty-four, twenty
eight or, thirty two-pa papers: i In
addition: each Of the three presses lis
equipped with colored ink attachments
which make it practicable to + print
nearly all Of these sizes in three col
ors, besides black, If desired. : 81. q; !. 7;
The rear portion Of the annex is two
stories high, and over the carriers and
newsboys' quarters is 4 a clubroom for
holds its rehearsals here. !, ;, The
furnishings include a piano, pictures
on the walls, ckers for the small mu-
Esicians and other conveniences. But of
this wonderful band, more anon :5..:..4i
The business office, with its adver-
Using and circulation departments, oc-
cupies the entire ground floor of the
building. and is admirably arranged for
the small army of clerks. stenogra
piers, solicitors and messengers re-
quired to transact it's affairs. g 5 Il
On the second floor the itorial de-
partment holds sway. Here are the
library, the waiting and consultations
rooms, the telephone switch boards
which connect all the offices in the
building with each other, with the
homes of the heads of departments
and with the outside world. Here, too,
are the Offices of the editor and 5 OF
the manager; here are the specia
wires that bring. in the news of the
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could no longer: be blinked that T h e
j o. r n a needed home of its own
an exclusive newspaper building with
facilities adapted to it's growing needs
and with liberal allowances for growth.
The management therefore took a long
ground lease of the property at A and
40 Fourth street S, where it's building
now stands, and, plans having been
drawn, began at once the work of con-
struction. This proved to besa most
fortunate move, for, while the build
ing was under way, the Tribune build
ing fire came and wiped out Of ex-
istence all. the tangible assets Of the
Journal company. This was on satur-
day night, Nov. 80, 1889. It will be
remembered that after the Bracket
block fire, what was left Of T h e
j gu r n a l was sold for $4,000. After
the Tribune building fire, 100000
would not have bought the name, good
will and subscription lists Oft h e
Jour N a l. This was what had been
wrought in nine short years. s
While the new building was well
under way, when this disaster befell,
| it could not be made ready under two
months. Nothing daunted, the man
agement, with the faithful co-opera-
ton of the entire staff, went to work
to set temporary home in order.
Asylum was found with the Mime
apolis Times, at AZ Third street S.
whose proprietor, c. A. Ninocks, well
coined the paper with whose early
history he had been so intimately con-
nected. Not an issue was missed, not
even a noon edition. For a few Issues
it was found necessary ito be content
with a four-page size, but very soon
the old size was resumed, and, in spite
of crowded quarters and reduced press
capacity, the readers of the paper saw
very little evidence in it's columns of
the experiences thru which T h e
Jso.urn a l was passing.
In January, 1890, the company took
possession of the new building, sew
eraI days being required to get every
thing in readiness. On Jan. rs APP
peared the. first issue all of the work
on which was done in the new build
ling. .,3r az Z
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=, o.t e i,,,,e.,i,e ,,',hiioa+in,s n ara
p4gio..s pe't e.
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A Modern Pressroom
And a Beehive Building.

r he j o urynasPS present home IS
a striking building of four stories and
basement, with a unique Bedford stone
front in the italian renaissance style.
It is admirably adapted to the needs
of thriving newspaper, it's only ten
ant, besides T h ED o u,r nal being the
Daglig Tidende, "a Norwegian daily
printed on Journal presses. But even
the generous provision for growth
made when the building was planned
proved inadequate, and in recent years
an annex has been built to provide a
pressroom, which is a model in it's
way. This annex is "A by 80 feet on
ing. The great battery of presses, in
stead of being installed in dark and
dingy basement as is almost invariably
! the case with newspaper plants, is
thus located on the ground floor. Above
the Journal presses is a huge sky
light, flooding the whole room with
healthful, helpful daylight. The walls
are white, too, and as each press is
4 operated direct by an electric motor
the plant is always spick and span.
In one end Of the room, the stereo-
| type plates are cast, the molten metal
being taken from great cauldrons and
poured into the casting boxes. The
matrices of PAPER mache, already
fashioned and dried on great steam
tables on the fourth floor, come slid
ing down a chute into the pressroom
where the stereotypers cast their semi.
cylindrical plates for the presses with
marvellous rapidity.
! The busy scene when The jour
n a is "'going to press" may readily
be viewed any afternoon from Wis.
itors' gallery, which runs along one
side and is entered from the business
| office 1t is sight to remember, tho
the din made by the great presses is al
first rather confusing. Soon it is seen
| however. that every man of the busy
what to do, from. the lead despatched
stereotypers and the inky pressr1en tc
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man interest stories and it's free
lance views ofjmen and their doings.
- A third imp ortant adjunct in h
Jso u I'm ais news service is the Wash
ington bureau, under, the able direc-
ton. of w. w. Jermane, who succeeded
J.. S.::Yan Antwerp in 1898. Tt was
1.-THE. r first. such bureau estab lished
by any Minneapolis newspaper, and
it has been of the greatest value
to 4. readers 'of IT he: %Jso.urEn a. for
the intimate view it, has given of
men and measures from northwest
ern standpoint. Mr.. Jermane, while at
tached to the local staff of T ne
IJSozusr.n; II, established the department
Of daily. n official news e mment, which
covered len and situations in a disin-
terested manner, with out fear, or favor.
Thru it. T. he j o u:r n; a. L has come to
be recognized as the fairest; and best
source of unbiased political informa-
| ton in the northwest. This work
brought Mr.. Jermane into close con-
tact with all the political leaders and
equipped him for. the broader field to
which he was transferred. In Wash
ington s he has a large acquaintance
with the leading men Of the nation
and not only;is his bureau usually
first to announce northwestern news,
but 1T not infrequently in natl nal mat
tiers .antedates the regular news agen-
Ecies. The bureau has Just moved into
beautiful and commodious quarters in
the new Colorado building, where all
lvisitors in Washing ton from the north
west are made welcome.
s The news of the northwest is daily
gathered bysa corps OF 800 corresponds
l;ents in Minnesota; the Dakotas, Iowa,
Wisconsin, upper. Michigan, M onta ma,
Nebraska, Manitoba and the far west.
It: comes by mail, by telegraph and by
Telephone. Not only is 1T more COM
pleteIy printed in q The J3o u rn a
than in any other paper of the north
west, but it is also true that no daily
in the United States" covers" the news
of its Immediate territory so thoroly
as T h Ell o urn a. - 3. ~.
s. similarly complete is the department
of local news, under the efficient di-
.rection#of VA. SFrisbie, the city edi-
ltor, and a corps of reporters. 81 Com
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prise which seems natural enough now,
but which was unprecedented in those
days, dispatched two members of its
staff, Messrs. Brownlee and Harris, to
the scene. They arrived in time to
scoop" the rest of the world the next
day with a complete and graphic ac-
count of what had happened. This was
followed upon subsequent days with
other details and with stories of the
relief work. 1t was a fine piece OF
newspaper work, done rapidly and
completely. 1t made T h Ell our n a rs
reputation secure, for the other news
papers of the twin cities which had
depended upon their regular st. Cloud
correspondents, were so palpably
worsted that it was the talk of the
northwest. The circulation responded
to this stimulus marvelously, and il
was noted that nearly all of the in
crease gained at that time became a
permanent addition to the list.
How a New Press
Refused to Do Its Work.
At the time of the change of man
agement, Nov. /, 1885, the daily cir
culation was 11,0O0. A statement is.
sued Nov. II showed 1925 subscrib.
ers. During 1886 there was a, gair
of about SO per cent, for. in January
1887, the circulation was 1874. This
u CoulSe SSiSo III IMP oNeu ~ SsS
facilities, and by the time a new press
Potter, with a capacity of $4,000
eight-page journals per hour, could be
built and set in place, the circulation
had gone UP to 10000. A sixteen.
page paper, the first ever printed ii
Minneapolis, was issued in honor o1
the new press and the 10000 circula-
ton. The press behaved badly, after
the manner of new machinery, and the
edition was not all printed until after
10 p. M, many readers not receiving
their copies until next day. If the
management had ever been in doub
regarding the strong hold which the
paper had on.the people, this accident
removed it. Hundreds of subscribers
thronged the office, waiting for the
press to run, and the telephones Were
| kept busy explaining the delay.
J In this first sixteen-page issue were
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northwest, of Washington and of the
world; here is the ticker telling Of
what is happening in Wall street; here
is the busy city editor with his corps
Of reporters covering the twin cities
and vicinity. here is the managing edi-
tor, who is the executive officer of the
1ship, SO to speak, and here are all
the other editors and writer's. who help
In the making of the paper. The
Tidende has the entire third floor.
On the fourth floor are the compos-
ing-room, where the news matter and
that portion of the 7stereotyping plant
which turns out the papier mache
matrices. The reading matter, the
want ads and even some of the display
advertising are set on fourteen of the
wonderful linotype machines. On one
ofEthese, machines an expert operator,
working on a keyboard resembling
/ that of a typewriter, turns out as much
matter. as four or five compositors
could by, the old hand-setting method.
At the, other end of the floor, expert
compositors< are engaged in setting the
display advertising, a task requiring
! SO. much skill and involving such a
complicated problem that the machine
| to perform it has not yet been evolved
and perhaps never will be-
There is fifth floor, too on the
roof, where the cartoonists, artists,
photographers and engravers put in a
busy time turning out illustrations for
daily use. From basement to roof,
then, it appears that The Journal
building is a very busy place.
A Very Complete News Service
, Has Been Worked Out.
The news service of T h e Journal
is very complete. Two leased wires
bring to it the full day report of the
Associated Press. It may be said in
passing that the Associated Press, since
it absorbed the United Press, is the
! greatest news collecting agency in the
world. Experimenting this service ir
an important way is the New York Sur
special service. The Associated Press
reports the happenings Of the worl6
without bias or favor But it's re
ports also lack color, and as it's wires
are burdened with political, CONNER.
tcial,, foreign and other classes OF
routine news, it has little time for news
that is merely interesting. The Sur
service supplies this need with its "hu