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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
UNEARTHING A DEFICIT.

One of the Minneapolis city funds called the perma-
nent Improvement revolving fund has been discovered
short in the of $4,000, less the estimates
ooo
At recent meeting of the city council resolution
adopted to employ expert accountants make in
vesgaton OF the city and report the findings to
the city, and yesterday the committee in charge had
session with that end in view.
Strangely enough however, there seems be objec-
ton the part of the city officials investigation,
tees consideration.
First, it presented that there was city fund
that could be drawn upon for the of $780, which the
council had appropriated to the purpose. Second it
argued that it would require from two years to
make thorough investigations and third that if the orr
gin of the deficit discovered the city would have
recourse anyway.
extremely strange 1t scarcely seems possible that the
public officials OF any municipality in the face of deficit
OF such proportions could have the demand that
the investigation be held UP and present such reasons
the above in any seriousness.
AS if a city of 225,ooo population had no means Of
raising the petty of $500, that any municipality
whatever could stand serenely under the cloud of a
$4,000 deficit in its public funds and make no effort
whatever to ascertain the cause
1t is to be hoped in the good of the Northwest
that Minneapolis finances in the condition of its
recent police department. and that investigation will
prove this to be the case
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
A JOB LOT OF CLAIMS.

When the nations are almost the point Of war
the settlement of their so-caed claims against Ven
ezuea, wonders what those claims and how it
came about that Venezuela owed so many claims to
about all of the nations OF the earth.
The jangle of the claimants brings the facts.
AT least from the revelations of the Venezuelan dpo-
matte circles, have been made of the character
OF some of the claims of the three allied powers who
so hot for conquest and blood assuage their grief
and whose wrongs at first considered grave that
no tribunal of arbitration could do them justice
1t appears that the British claims arise from the sez-
IRE OF British schOoners engaged in assisting the Matos
revolution and in smuggling and that the only claim yet
presented by Mr. Haggard, the British minister the
Venezuelan government, is for the petty of $4,000
Of the seizure by the Venezuelan government of
vessels guilty of smuggling and of assisting revolutions
was entirely lawful. And of the ENJOYS at the
Venezuelan capital led to remark Great Britain was
sure beforehand that tribunal would recognize
OF her claims and therefore she wanted to enforce me-
date payment"
The German claims may have better basis than the
British claims above described She does not DESIRE
alleged that the Dsconto loan scandal be-
come known to the financial world
AS to the wrongs suffered by the third ally Italy, it
that the claims simply those so11e Italian
pedders and that the losses are augabe S1o being as
sessed for the loss of chicken and $Ioo for the theft
donkey. Naturally, therefore, Italy does to
have her claims analysed by The Hague tribunal and pre-
ters immediate payment by force.
II Is therefore tOregOne conclusion that inter
national tribunal will have chance investigate and
digest the several claims of the powers, and being
stopped IN the midst of the attempt enforce payment
by bonbardment and slaughter, it is safe to say thai
they will come to speedy settlement through their en-
voys instead of through a court of arbitration.
Why the allies their warshps and established a
blockade for the settlement of such petty claims it
mains for them Whether it was greed of ter
rtory and an initial purpose to evade the Monro doc
tr1ne simply attempt to give the naval and dplo
matte departments of government something to do is
matter Of speculation
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
TARIFF AS A WAR MEASURE.

The tariff war between Russia and Germany shows
the possibilities OF the Lodge-Adrich proposition for
maximum and minimum tariff.
Russia and Germany rival powers and near neigh
bors In sight of the boundary fence which separates
the empires the armies of the rival kingdoms are in
drill and camp year in and year But the chief wall
OF division which separates the commercial industrial
life of the two nations the double tariff wall with
yearly varying but generally increasing provisions of
bristling hostility
AS neither country dares or cares to provoke direct
appeal to armsthe main mission of the armies being
that the other does overstep the boundary
line and grab errtory-the tariff has become the
principal belgerent for attack defense and re-
prisa Employing the retaatory principle which under
lies the maximum and minimum scheme, Germany about
year makes tariff attack on Russia and Russia
returns the compliment by increasing duties so
hamper and destroy German trade in Russia
On Jan. 28, Russia promulgated new customs
tariff with special reference its friend and neigh.
Dor the customs wall The tariff exhibits all
the beauties of the maximum and minimum retaliatory
schemethat is to say, the changes all in the maxi
mum direction.
The new tariff increases the tax on all German ex-
ports into Russia from $50 per cent and Rus
sian organ, Novoe Vrenya that Russia
sufficiently equipped for discussion with Germany
The new rates sufficient to destroy mutual trade
between the two countries and tariff struggle which
will PROSTATE trade and cripple industry in hot and
bitter progress.
The system of diferential tariffs is purely war
of retaliation and reprsa 1t is simply trans
fer OF from attack life and limb to an assault
merchandise and trade 1t is the destruction of com
and markets, in lieu Of the annihilaton of
population and fortified works. 1t cripples finance and
transportation and industry, instead of armed soldiers
and produces industrial depression and financial distress
and panic instead of widows and orphans It is the
crime against commercial life that against
the home life of a nation.
If the people of the United States wish to know what
the new program of retaliatory tariff discrimination
ycept maximum and minimum means they should
watch the European tariff wars.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
HIS CLOTHES BULGE
BUT NOTHING DOING
Assessor Says He Went West for Irish
Dividend.

County Assessor Patrick Conley. re-
, turned yesterday from Salt Lake City,
where he has been for ten days doing
alleged stunts" in the gold mine line.
AS he walked up from the union sta
ton yesterday morning, Mr.. Conley
carried a very large grip, and his pock-
cts bulged out in a way which remind
ed one of the pictures of captains of
industry returning from billion dol
lar trust meeting.
Friends of the genial assessor have
been telling during his absence that he
had gone to the Mormon bailiwick to
sell gold mine for $4,000 cash.
Others put the selling price at $15O,0OO,
and those, who claimed to know what
they were talking about said the SELL
ing price was 1925, 900.
"'Twas neither $4,000 nor $3.50, O00,'
said Mr.. Conley yesterday. TT was
what we call an Irish dividend-in
other words | went West to pay an
assessment on some mining property.
Any other story about my trip is
pipe"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

or the more important musical num-
bers. Klaw & Erlanger display a very
happy faculty for getting a comic show
that is artistic in the highest sens
and is humorous without resort to
horse play and low buffoonery, Their
great success in this line of produce
tons is unquestionably due to the fact
that they appeal to refined people and
present such attractions in a manner
acceptable to them
Julia MarlOWe can stay only three
weeks longer at the Criterion theater.
She will take "The Cavalier" on a tour
Of the ten principal cities, closing in
Chicago in May. Her season in New
York has been eminently successful
in fact the most successful she has
ever played.
Louis Mann is making a great sue
cess in his new comedy 1.-The Consul -
at the Princess theater. The play is
of an original character and contains
a number of new and clever ideas eX-
cellently presented by the Shubert
Bros.
The Herald Square theater is crowd
ed nightly to see Dewolf Hopper in his
successful attempt to portray ''Mr.
Pickwick." The transition of Mr.. Hop
per from comic opera to real comedy
is an interesting one and his role fits
him eXcellently.
Dl5Oy Dell pOtlIdyS IIo Dam w 01I6F
OF the Papers in an eXcellently accu-
rate way.
Mr.. Hopper is really a study in good
comedy and carries out his part with
an entire freedom from bombast or
exaggerated methods. Louise Cunning
is pretty and charming Arabella. She
has voice so pure in quality and
sings so well that it is a genuine pleas
ure to listen to her.
The DrpSpnt9tiOD is aOOtbar Ch11hprt
success.
At the Manhattan Mrs. Fiske con-
tinues to lure by her magnificent act
ing.
For Home and Honor a new com
edy drama by Lem B. Parker, is the
attraction at the American Theater
stock company at the American. 1t is
an exceptionally interesting play that
deals with a tortured woman who falls
under the Wiles of a particularly
despicable villain who marries her and
deceives her into believing the mar
riage is not legal.
Heading the most attractive bill
which Mr.. Keith has offered in a long
time is Papinta Papinta, with new and
improved light effects and with yet
more gorgeous costumes. Papinta, alb
sent so long as to be almost a stranger
in New York, returning to produce an
even greater sensation than was won
on her first appearance. Papinta, who
has won the pIaudits of the world and
of whom Frank L. Stanton, of the At
lanta Constitution, wrote:
This way she danced,
That way she danced
And when her twinkling footsteps glanced
The soul of music seemed entranced-
And rosy May met Winter;
And at the falling of her feet
A chorus chimed in music sweet
PapintaY still Papinta. :"
-Sherbert E. Clamp.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
T0DAY'S WEATHER.

Minnesota-Fair Tuesday; warmer in
northwest portion. Wednesday fair in
south; probably snow in north portion;
warmer; variable winds.
Iowa-7Fair Tuesday in north and west:
probably snow in southeast and central
portions. Wednesday fair
Upper, Michigan-snowz Tuesday; colder
IN south portion: Wednesday probably
fair; fresh to north winds
Montana-Fair; warmer Tuesday. We'd
North Dakota-Fair: warmer Tuesday.
Wednesday probably snow.
South Dakota-Snow Tuesday and prob
ably Wednesday,:
Wisconsin-Fair Tuesday and prob
ably Wednesday; variable winds
st. Paul = Yesterdays Temperatures,
taken by the United R9 States States weather bu-
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
ture, IA; lowest temperature, 8; average
temperature, II; daily range, 5; baron
.0S; Z p. M. temperature, 8; p. M, wind,
west; weather, partly cloudy.
ITrII
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

The proposition Of the allied powers pool issues
and compromise with view backing down and out Of
an international crisis without serious loss of prestige is
significant OF two things: First there will be world
wide and second the allies have been compelled to
see and in confess theS mistake. The beg.
erent has been forced to view the bobardment
by his warshps upon small and helpless REPUBLIC as the
world at large looks at it, and the strong desire of his
principal ally Great Britain, to escape responsibility by
Withdrawing from the alliance has brought him his
sober senses.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
MORE EXPORTS OF
MANUFACTURES
Marked Increase Shown in
1902 Over the Previous
Year.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 2.-Ex-
ports of manufactures show a marked
increase in the calendar year 1902, as
compared with 1901. The total value
of the 1902 exports of manufactures,
as shown by the figures of the treas
ury bureau of statistics, is $41065O-
96l, against 1895, IA $50 in 1901, an in
crease of $500, 900. Nearly all the
important manufactures entering into
our export trade show an increase,
the chief exceptions being iron and
steel and refined mineral oil. Iron
and steel manufactures show a de-
crease of over 81 900 and mineral
oils a reduction of $4,000, 900. Copper
manufactures showed the largest gain,
$12,000,O00. The next largest gain is
in cotton manufactures, which show
an increase of over $1,000, 900. This
increase in cotton goods is chiefly in
cloths sent to China, the total exports
of cotton cloths to China in 1902 hav-
ing been 326,000,000 yards, against
POI 100000 yards in 1901, the value in
1902 being $16,O4S,455, against $1O,224,-
2l5 in 1901. Agricultural implements
show an increase of over $1,000, 0O0:
books, maps, etc. nearly 81 900 900;
manufactures of fbers, nearly 1,000,-
600; leather and manufa ctures there
of, $1,5O 900; manufactures of wood,
ONS1 91,OUO,VUO, Wnl16 wooden goods,
paints, paraffln, jewelry, India rubber
goods, glass, gunpoWder and other ex-
piosives also show increases in greater
or less degree. The chief articles show
ing decrease are manufactures Of
brass, chemicals, clocks and watches,
musical instruments, paper, spirits,
wines and liquors, and, as already in
Dictated, mineral oils and iron and
steel, the reduction in all of these. ex-
cept mineral oils and iron and steel,
being very slight.
The chief reduction in exports dur
ing the year is in agricultural prod
ucts, which show a decrease of $780,
100000, of which $S0,000,000 value is in
breadstutfs, 24,000,000 in provisions,
$l9,OOO,OO0 in animals and $10,0O0.O0
IN cotton, while tobacco shows an in
crease of about $4,000, 900 and fruits and
nuts an increase Of about $1,000, 900.
This increase of $7,000,000 in the ex-
portatiOn Of fruits is chiefly to the
United Kingdom, showing an increase
Of nearly $5,00O,0O0, and to France and
Germany, each showing an increase of
over million dolLSss. The only other
great class showing a decrease is
products of the mines, in which there
IS reduction of about 81 900. 900, due
to the falling off in coal expectations,
which amounted to only $4,000, 900, as
against $22, 600, 900 in 1901.
The following table shows the ex-
portations of principal manufactured
articles in 1902, compared with 1901,
arranged in the order of magnitude in
1902:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

The widow of Rear Admiral Sampson has been
granted pension Of $50 month the ground of death
due to causes incurred the line of duty the medical
record shows that the admiral suffered from a mental
trouble aphasa during the last FIVE years of his life
Guiding the entire period he saw service as commander
ln-chlet III West Indian waters during the Spanish
American war At various important stages of this
wee the official record shows that he incapacitated
for duty This explains something of the mystery which
surrounds his during the Spanish trouble
and throws light upon the origin of the Sampson
Schley controversy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

1t is evident that Emperor William is anxious that
the world should forget the mistake of his warshps
Nenezue Ian waters Baron Sterberg, the new min
lister arrived III Washington, valves all the usual
MES IN order that he hasten the speedy adjustment of
the international ange This radical departure from
the recent programme of delay and uncertainty which
characterized the German government during the early
stages of negotiation when the German warshps were
pursuing of Venezuelan demolition and conquest
1t plain that the young does brave
storm OF international unpopuarity He is actor
the Worldpower dramatic stage wing loves applause.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
MAN AND BOY ARE
SENTENCED TO PRISON
Brown and Ernst Sentenced for Coun-
terfeiting.

Edward Brown, who was recently
convicted in the federal court of coun-
terfeiting, was yesterday sentenced by
Judge Lochren to serve two years at
hard labor in the penitentiary at Still
water. Brown had nothing to say
when asked if there was any reason
why sentence should not be imposed,
but paled when the court announced
the sentence. Judge Lochren, in pass
ing sentence, said he thought Brown
had been influenced by other persons.
You are still young man." said
Judge Lochren, land have time to be-
come a good and useful citizen of the
commonwealth"
Byron A. Frazier, alias Eugene A.
Bryant, arrested with Brown, and con-
Victed of having counterfeit money in
his possession, was able to be in court
yesterday, but, upon the motion of his
attorneys, sentence was deferred until
Friday, at which time a motion for a
new trial will be argued.
William Ernst, the youth convicted
of passing counterfeit money, was sem
fenced to serve eighteen months in the
state reformatory at ST. Cloud. The
boy, although claiming to be nineteen
years old, does not look to be more
than sixteen. He is sickly looking,
and did not appear to realize the grav-
ity of the situation. He received his
sentence and returned to his seat at
the side of his grief-stricken mother
with smile on his face. DR.. Ernst,
the boys father, was not in court when
his son was sentenced, but the mother,
who has stood by the boy since his
arrest, was present, and was almost
Frustrated when sentence was i'm
posed
Judge Lochren said he was convinc-
ed that the story told by the boy was
not true Capt. ]. w. Lawrence, of
the secret service, will have another
talk with the boy today and try and
secure from him confession regard
ing the source from which he received
the bogus money. Young Ernst claim
ed at the time of his arrest, and stuck
to the story during the trial, that the
money had been given to him by a
stranger whom he had met on Univer-
Sity avenue.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
TWO New Gunhoats.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 2.-The
naval board on construction today accept
ed the model of the two gunboats, Pa
ducah and Dubuque, authorized at the
last session of congress. The boats are to
be of 1850 tons displacement of about
ten knots speed and will carry six finch
guns of the new type. The battery will
be much more formidable than that on
vessels of the Wheeling class, which is of
about the same size hull.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
SECOND WARDERS WANT
PARK BEAUTIFIED
Will Try to Improve Entrance to In
dian Mounds.

The efforts of the Second Ward I'M
prOvement association are now direct
ed at securing a better and more orna-
mental entrance for Indian Mounds
Park. The association wants Hoff-
man avenue made the principal gate
way, and at meeting last night nam
ed a committee to call upon the park
board and ask its cooperation. Hoff-
man avenue terminates within two
blocks Of the park and the scheme is
to cut it on through.
The association also desires Sixth
street from Broadway to the bridge
paved and will appear before the coun-
Gil and solicit it's aid.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

If Gen. Miles is not persona grata among certain
Republican politicians Washington there is no ques-
ton of how he is viewed abroad, when the king and
queen of the United Kingdom dine him Windsor Cas-
te and the princes and princesses are proud to do him
honor. Nelson Miles is of the strong and great
characters of our national life and an honor to the
american fag and the world at large knows it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03
Iron Eounder Assiuns.

NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 2.-Stephen j.
Meeker, successor to D. NJ. Meeker &
Son, iron founders. and one of the Oldest
concerns in the trade, made a personal
assignment today At the same time the
Smile Coupler & Manufacturing Com
pany of New York also made an assign
ment. The liabilities of Meeker are
placed at $250,00O, with no appraisement
of the assets. Those Of the Smile com,
pany are placed at $4,000. Meekerr is
the coupler company the financial en-
barrassment of which forced him to make
the assignment.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

Col Fullerton, guardian of game preserves
oplnes that SIS tariff will suffice to amply protect
the sportsmen of the North Star from the "pauper
labor hunters of other states and that the $50 high tariff
proposed might be looked upon monopolistic tariff
wall for duck-bag trust.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

Is the presidents publicity programme for the trusts
undergoing modification in harmony with his change of
view in regard to publicity of his bear hunts? The pub
1cty demanded in the last antitrust bill is much
greater than that which the president all of sudden
deems wise for his hunting exhibitions
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

The senate made it General" George l. Matchan sur
general Of logs and lumber for the Minneapolis dis
trct and the objections of the adverse petitioners were
shot down the logshoo without any consideration
than petition for free lumber would receive from
pne-baron association
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

1t is certainly inconsistent, from psychological
point of view for state which offers bounties on trpets
place prohibition kisses. Why should man get
-4arried, if it is unlawful to kiss lis wife?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

Blu Hamara with his army has been captured and so
faith in his saintship destroyed The Sultan bought off
part of Bus support by liberal bribes and faith in his
sanity omnipotenee is again
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

London sewage has given typhoid fever to fish and
oysters for distance of fifty miles through the
Thames fisheries and the Whtstable oyster BEDS and
the board of health is whether vaccinate
the fish and oysters to quarantine the sewage.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

The sudden drop in the New York coal price from
$I2 to $3.50 since the recent landing of cargoes
from Nova Scotia and Wales, shows what little foreign
competition under free coal provision will to trust
prices.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

In New York they going to spnsters who
persist in not marrying First they will have to prove
that they persist.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

Adjt Gen Corbn reports that Minnesota has 2oo-
600 young eligible to bear arms Thanks but Min
nesota has better occupation for her boys.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

The crown princess of Saxony is to be deprived of
all her titles The she is called by others will
make up for this loss.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

The Irish comedian. Joseph Murphy.
comes to the Grand opera house next
Sunday. night for q weeks engagement,
presenting for the first half of the
week, Kerry Cow" and for the lat
ter half, his Shaun Rhue"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

Capt. Hobson resigns from the navy He names CD
teal and not abial troubles the cause.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

One of the best straight vaudeville
bills that has been seen at the Star
in some time is that given by the High
Rollers this week. The olio is full of
good things that appealed forcibly to
the large audiences at both perform
ances yesterday. The same bill win
be given throughout the week.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

There should be some measure introduced at the
present legislature make the taking Of medicine obg
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-03

Williams and Walker and their COM
pany are Offering a Jolly entertainment
at the Grand. The music of I'm Da-
honey" is attractive and the special
ties of Williams and Walker are well
received. The first matinee perform
ance of the engagement will occur to-
morrow at 2:3O