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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
THE M1CHEN TRIAL.
Further Testimony as to Purchases
Of Croft Fasteners.

Washington. Jan. 16-when the trial of August
W. Machen and others in the postonlce cases was
resumed to-day the cross-examnation OF eX-As-
sistant Postmaster General Johnson was begun
Replying questions by Mr.. Douglass. OF coun-
sci the defence, the witness said that build
ing up the free delivery service Machen devoted
himself 10 the work, consulting Postmaster Gen
eral Smith and the First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral fthe witness) He said il was necessary to
establish customs and new methods. lie
garded Machen man of good executive ability.
With reference TO the initials a. w. NJ" on let
ters he supposed they made by Machen. and
would have held Machen responsible whether he
initialled letters himself whether in
Machen's Office had made the initials. Machen did
not have the right TO rely on his clerks the
tent that witness might rely a clerk in his
office, as Machen responsible to him.
When letters were shown to him by Mr.. Douglass
and he was asked to identify signatures, he said
he had no reason to believe that they not
signed by Machen. II the signature was made by
others Machen should have advised him OF the
fact.
when did you first see one OF the Croft fast
ene-s?' was asked by Mr.. Maddox. counsel for the
Croft brothers.
"a few days ago" replied the witness.
He knew what the fasteners were, he said the
various details connected with the Office having
been explained TO him him when he took charge OF the
ers had been explained to witness while in Office
few few a 6ays ago When he first took charge Of the
Office was Obliged % rely on chiefs OF bureaus
Patented articles he added. usually were placed
under the exiSency clause.
Frank H. Jones who was First Assistant Post
master General from 1893 TO 1897 testified that he
gave an order his Of Office for Croft fasten
ers He said II orders given for articles TO be
used Machens division il Machens in
formation and Recommendation and witnesses own
judgment. Papers were identified by the witness
Showing that an order for test Of the Croft
Fasteners WAS given in 1898, and another order
thorfzing payment for number OF fasteners to be
used in Washington, made in 1885.
On cross-eXamination. Mr.. Douglass sought TO
show that after adopting the device and fixing
price therefor the ordering and installation OF
fasteners was a matter of routine. The witness
said that although the had been Installed
in Washington he held il 10 be his right. IL the
question arose TO supplying another city with
them, 10 make a change in the device If. in his
Judgment Il was best 20 do so.
He said Machen very useful to him. and he
regarded him 5 a Of good judgment. placing
ere confidence in HIM
The court adjourned until Monday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
AGRICULTURAL POLICY.
Statements of Unusual Interest
Made By Secretary WIson.

Washington. Jan. 16-Although the United
States is deficient in creating new breeds NJ
animals. according to Secretary Wilson, who
outlined the policy of the Department of Agri-
culture to the House Committee on Agriculture
to-day. Sir Thomas Upton buys horses and pigs
at Chicago. The horses said the Secretary. he
ships to Ireland and trains them, then sells them
i'll Great Britain to ten stone Englishmen as
Irish jumpers. The pigs. of which he selects the
thin ones, he cans Irish bacon, which he also
sells In England
secretary Wilson believes that the United
states can furnish the mounts for the cavalry
oi EUROPE with proper study of the breeding of
horseS' ana the department is turning its atten-
tion TO this subject at the present time. The
only thing the United States has ever produced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
F1FTY-FouR LIQUOR DEALERS FINED.
Plead Guilty to Selling on Sunday at Bridge
port, Conn.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. Jan 15.-Fifty-four OF the
sixty-two liquor dealers arrested last Monday
complaint OF the State police charged with selling
LIQUOR on Sunday. pleaded guilty in court to-day
In forty-two fines of sSS and costs each were
imposed and paid. Eight others. who had set UP
temporary bars for Sunday business were fined
SIS and costs each
One was fined SIS and costs. s25 and costs.
two SIS and costs and two forfeited bail bonds OF
$50 each. As a test case one Of the saloonkeepers
arrested for maintaining gambling slot machines
pleaded guilty and then appealed from a nns Of $50
and costa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
GENERAL BLACK SWORN INTO OFFICE.

Washington Jan. 16.-GeneraI John c. Black. OF
illinois, recently appointed member of the Civil
Service Commission. to succeed the late John X
Proctor, called at the White House to-day to pay
his respects to the President. He was accompanied
by his and Civil Service Commissioner Cooley
While there he took the oath of Office which was
administered by the White House notary, NJ. a.
I,atta. General Black will assume his duties at
once, and. In accordance with an arrangement Of
fected Will be made president OF the CIVIL Service
Commission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
TO PROTECT REAR OF Il" TRAINS.
Railroad Commissioners Recommend in Case
of Fatal Brooklyn Collision.

Albany. Jan. 16.-In the OF the COLI
sion the Fifth-ave. line of the Brooklyn Union
Elevated Railroad Twenty-ninth-st. on No
vember 10 last. in which the motorman and conduc-
tor of the train causing the collision were killed,
the State Railroad Commissioners have recon-
mended to the company the rigid enforcement OF
the rule which requires trainmen go back on the
track and protect the rear of their trains when
they come 70 a stop between stations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
SIX HURT BY DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
Accident Occurs at House of D. C. Blair,
Building at Bar Harbor.

Bar Harbor. Me-. Jan. 1s.-By an explosion Of
dynamite to-day six were injured OF
whom is not expected to live The dynamite had
been left IN the ledge in the of house being
constructed for d. c. Blair and at the time OF the
explosion Ray Higgins. the foreman. who was the
worst injured was attempting to remove it with
bar. He Is twenty-five years old and has a wife
and child.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
PURE FOOD BILL REPORTED.

Washington, Jan. 16.-The Hepburn Pure Food
bill. which passed the House at the last Con-
gress. ordered favorably reported by the
House Committee Interstate and Foreign Com
merce to-day. The bill reported contains the
present law regulating the importation OF foreign
food, passed in the last Congress. One or two
amendments of minor character relating TO the
administrative features OF the measure, were
agreed to by the committee. at the suggestion of
the Department of Agriculture. The bill provides
for the exercise of federal jurisdiction over fool
products which enter into Interstate commerce
Prohibiting authorizations and rnisbrandng.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
FIND BONES OF HUMAN GIANT.
Said to Belong to Man Eleven Feet in
Height.

Chicago. Jan. ia dispatch THE Record
Herald from Winnemucca, New. says that work
men engaged in digging gravel there have uncov-
cred at depth OF about twelve feet number OF
bones that once parts OF the skeleton OF a
gigantic human being. DR.. Samues pronounced
them the bones OF man who must have been
nearly eleven feet In height
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
DOLPHIN SENT FOR sMITHsoNs DUST

Washington Jan. 16.-The Dolphin left the Wash
ington Navy Yard to-day for New-York to receive
the body of James Smithson. founder of the
Smithsonian Institution which is the steamer
Princess Irene from Genoa due New York d
January 20. The Dolphin viii meet the ship down
the Bay and escort her to her deck. where the
body OF the philanthrop;st will be transferred to
the government vessel and brought this city for
burial, in accordance with plans OF the officers
of the Smithsonian Institution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
coNcILIAToRs NEED AN UMPIRE.

Hazleton, Penn. Jan. 16.-T. d. Nichols.
tary of the Cancellation board to-day re-
quest to Judge George Gray. of the Third Judicial
District for the appointment of umpire de-
eide FIVE grievances from the Wyoming and Lacka-
wanna districts which the conciators have been
unable 10 agree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
MOTHERS DENoUNcE MoRMoNlsM.

Washington. Jan. 16.-The executive boards o,
the National Congress of Mothers at a meeting
here To-Day, strongly denounced Mormonisn and
urged the diplomatic corps in Washington to ad-
wise their governments that Mormonsm embodies
polyEamy. and ask them to take action TO prevent
emigration to Utah Measures TO afford protection
from alleged false representations OF Mormon mis-
sionarses were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17

Custom House statistics just issued show that
I21 SIS cases of e. RI. Mumm's champagne were i'm
ported during the year 1903 This represents about
one-third OF all the champagne brought into the
United States. and is greater by nearly 2000
(one-quarter of million bottles) than the mporta
tons Of any other kind. Ass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
JUST WATCH.

when You through with this part of the paper !
hal nd IT 20 tho Madam See II she does not hunt ND
the Little Ads. Of the People" the nrst thinS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
THIEVES TAKE $4,000, LEAVE saoooo

Roanoke. Va. JAN 16-BurgIars secured 20 oca T.,
silver BY dynamitins the in the bank O, ROCKY
Mount. Twenty-Five miles south OF the city early
TINS morning An alarm caused by the explosion
induced the robbers 10 make hurried escape Ieav
ne steer vault containing $4,000 in gold and cur
IL 81 I,nlosstsc POSSES are securing the country
Sl nnoln there Is no trace The bank carries ss 40
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
ABOUT FURS.
A CARD FROM c. c. SHAYNE.

Last had plans purpose erecting build
which expected have ready by October
pointed informed by Charles W. Cowen Co.,
the building will be ready February In order
building West pastering
must be down. lot OF dust which
the which filled
them the floor buildings therefore
seth stock possible during TO
feet sales have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17

TURNS OLD GOLD AND SILVER INTO sooD
MONEY.
incre are several places where lis done every day.
see oid Gold and Silver heading among the Littls
Ads. Of tae People,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
A Deep Cot in Prices

Mems fur lined overcoas ladies' fur lined circulars Coats
Seal Otter and Persian Lamb sleigh
sold a a discount of $50 less than former prices
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
SHE SCREAMED:
BURGLARS FLED
Mrs. Anton Knob1auch Says
Fright Made Her Disregard
Leveled Revolver.

II was so frightened that I just
couldn't help screaming, even tho the
burglars did threaten to shoot me If
made a noise" sad Mrs. Anton Knob
LAUGH, II Sixteenth street N, whose
room was entered early this morning
by two armed and determined ban
dts. II ran to the window and called
for help without thinking Of the con-
sequences
Mrs. Knoblauch was awakened by
someone moving about the room.
When she started to get up, one man
turned fashlight on her while one
placed revolver to her head, order
ing her to keep silent If she valued
her life. At this she called to her hus-
band and then sprang to the window
and screamed for help.
A neighbor heard the cries and I'M
mediately telephoned for the police
who came in a few minutes with the
patrol wagon, but too late to catch
the robbers, who ran down stairs and
ESCAPED.
When the officers searched the
house they found that the telephone
wires had been cut in the basement
to shut off communication with the
police, but other than this no damage
was done and nothing was missing
Both the men were masked and were
careful not to allow the hashlight tc
fall on their faces. The police are
handicapped without a description Of
the marauders. sso 81.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
WILL WORK AND PLAY

Final arrangements have been made for
the vacation schools. Monroe school,
Twenty-third avenue 8 and Franklin will
open Monday at a. m. and the course will
embrace cooking, manual training ~1d
sewing. Three teachers will be in charge.
Tuesday has been named for the first
day at Madison school, Tenth street and
Fifth avenue S. The same departments
will be taken up as at the Monroe school.
Blaine school, Thirty-eighth street and
Twelfth avenue N, will open Wednesday
morning at 8 o'clock. The course en-
braces sewing, cooking, manual training
and nature study. The latter calls foY
daily outdoor work. Sheridan school,
Northeast, opens Thursday and cooking.
sewing and manual training will be
taught.
The special playground and nature
study department opens next week at the
Bethel settlement at Cedar avenue and
Two-and-a-half street. The tots will
have games, sand piles and swings to
amuse them and the Bethel gymnasium
will be opened All indications point to q
successful season.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
DEBATE BEFORE ROWDIEs
Audience at Wilson-Peterson Argu
ment Was Disorderly.

The debate on the merits of the
two leading gubernatorial candidates,
between General George P. Wilson
for Judge Collins and J. A. Peterson
for Robert Dunn, took place last
evening at Camden Place wigwam,
but was something of a disappoint-
ment. To begin with, the audience
was very boisterous and disorderly,
being especially noisy when General
Wilson spoke.
General Wilson asserted no man
should be governor who, like Dunn,
habitually disregarded the law and
took up the side of the lawbreakers.
He spent considerable time explaining
the maladministration of the auditors
office under Dunn as shown by the
official reports. Finally he asserted
no man should be put in position to
govern others who could not govern
himself
Peterson started out with state
ment that tho Collins had spent six
teen years on the bench, no one was
heard to express regret over his re-
tirement. He asserted that Collins
had drawn two decisions in personal
injury suits against railroad corpora
tions, which were so rank the supreme
court was obliged to reverse itself.
He then proceeded to hold Mr.. Wilson
up to ridicule. Both men occupied a
few moments in rebutta1, the audi
| ence becoming the more rowdy as the
meeting drew to a close.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
MILE A MINUTE
SLOW FOR THEM
M. s. ST. =. OFFICIALS Make 6s
MILES AN HOUR.
The Record Run From Fort Dodge
Was Made in Two Coaches Pulled
by Light Engine of the Type Of
the EARLY Eighties.

A remarkable run of passenger
train, bearing officials Of the Minneap-
oils & ST. Louis railroad, was made
yesterday afternoon from Fort Dodge
to Minneapolis. the distance being COW
cred at the rate Of from sixty-three
to sixty-eight miles an hour. The loco
motive that pulled the train is twenty
five years old, and Is one Of the light
type built in the early eighties.
There We're two coaches, and the
party consisted Of L. r. Day, general
manager; A. B. Cults, general pas
senger agent; A. e. Clark, general
counsel; w. M. Hopkins, general
freight agent; H. G. Kelly, chief en-
gineer and M. Sweeney, general SUI
perintendent. They had been inspect
ing the Des Moines & Fort Dodge road
recently purchased by the M. & st. T..
The locomotive was No. Z. 1t is a
pigmy, compared with the moguls now
used In the fast passenger service, the
drive wheels being not over sixty
inches. The speedy run the little en-
CINE made is the talk of the st. Louis
officials today, and of every railroad
man along the line. A sample sprint
is the one made between Albert Lea
and Waseca, a distance Of thirty-1ve
miles, made in thirty-two minutes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
Big Projects Assured.

Eleven American and several Ca
madam millionaires, whose wealth ag-
gregates more than $125, 900, 900, have
just returned from a special trip to
Fort Frances, Ont. Fort Frances is
the main center at this new Industrial
point at Koochiching Falls, at which
place these nultimillionaires are now
interested in developing the tremen-
dous waterpower and erecting mann
moth mills and manufacturing plants
Of all kinds.
Fort Frances, as a new manufacture
ing center and site for a great city,
has no equal in the United States or
Canada. Great fortunes will be made
there within the next few years in
real estate holdings. Every one with
500 or more in cash should at once,
before the boom, secure a holding in
real estate in that destined metrop-
oils. Fortunes can be made there
with even a small start. Millions of
dollars Will be expended for improve
ments at that point within the next
two years, and no district on the
North American continent will be
more prosperous than this new man
ufacturing center.
The Northwestern Homestead Lo-
eating company, 40 Temple Court
Minneapolis, Mimi, will give full par
ticulars to those desiring information
about lots at Fort Frances, Koochi-
ching Falls, or lands in the Rainy
River district. Call at their Office OF
write for information.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
SEEKING VIEWS
OF SHIP SUBSIDY
MERCHANT MARINE COMMISSION
TO VISIT MINNEAPOLIS.
Flour, Grain and Lumber Shippers to
Be Consulted as to Their Views on
Proposed Plan to Boom American
Shipping by Bounty Plan.
Large shippers from inland ports

Large shippers from Inland ports
will have an opportunity to express
their opinion on substituting the mer-
chant marine. In the investigation Of
the sentiment of the country as to a
ship subsidy, the United States mer-
chant marine commission will visit
Minneapolis and shippers, principally
the flour and grain men will, be given
opportunity to give their views before
this commission. The body is made
up Of members of the house commit
tee on marchant marine and fisheries
merce. In fact, the shippers and ex-
porters will be requested to express
their opinions as the commission has
power to direct the attendance of wit
nesses and the production Of books
and papers which may be required.
tors Gallinger Of New Hampshire,
Lodge Of Massachusetts,, Penrose of
Pennsylvania, Martin Of Virginia and
Mallory of Florida, and representatives
Grosvenor of Ohio, Minor of Wiscon-
sin, Humphrey Of Washington, Spight
of Mississippi and McDermott of New
Jersey. It's itinerary includes visits
st. Paul, Minneapolis, Tacoma, Seattle,
Portland and San Francisco.
The commission has not been west
of Chicago and last evening the mem
bers were guests at a dinner Of the
Illinois Manufacturers association.
Dates for the Minneapolis investiga-
ton have not been announced.
The history Of the movement to up
build the merchant marine of the
United States Is we'll known. The tes-
timony before this committee will be
published and distributed among the
mem bers Of congress. Based on a
digest of this mass Of testimony the
ci0 To 1ro q
bill suitable to the Indicated sentiment
Of the directly interested persons in
the country.
The Commercial Club will see that
the commission is taken care Of In
Minneapolis. Secretary W. G. Nye
Of the public affairs committee wrote
yesterday to Senator Gallinger, the
chairman, asking for facts as to the
arrival and length Of the stay in Min
neannliS. - $50. - $3.50
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
LEAK MAY CAUSE SUIT

A property owner on Central avenue
just south of the bridge across the
railway tracks at Central and Broad
way, threatens to bring suit against
the city for turning city water into his
we'll. He wants no city water for
any purpose and demands that the
city desist from defling the water in
his well.
The Central avenue main at this
point has always been a source of
annoyance to the waterworks officials
and the city engineer. It springs a
leak every now and then and each
leak costs about $500, for the pipe is
under the approach to the bridge and
forty feet below the surface. The main
is leaking again and is causing trouble.
Andrew Rinker, the city engineer, is
planning to lay a new main along this
stretch, altho the expense will be
1arGe,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
JENKINS AUTO
BROKE UP A.SCHOOL
TEACHER AND PUPILS AD-
JoURNED TO INSPECT IT.
A 450-Mile Trip With Some Regular
Regular Deluges Of Rain and Some
Notably Bad Roads as Features Is
Completed Without Serious Acct
dent

H l.. Jenkins Of the H. L. Jenkins
Lumber company reached Minneapolis
last evening after a 430-mile auto trip.
For an endurance test it made all
compared the midday sun. Mr..
Jenkins started in his White steamer
to Benson, Mimi, to look after the re-
tail lumber yards, and finding that
everything was ideal for a tour, tele-
graphed back for Mrs. Jenkins and
his 4-year-old son. They met him at
Glenwood, but there their troubles
began.
1t began to rain.
The party was hardly out Of Glen
wood before the weather resemb a
typhoon in thte Chinese sea. But the
bold tourists were not to be baked.
Soon they were in mud up to the
axles, and was necessary to take to
the tall grass and wheat fields to make
any progress at all. Notwithstanding
the fact that the machine had to be
made nto mud boat, they arrived in
ST. Cloud at 8 pm. after ten hours
trip.
It was near Litchfield that they ex-
perienced what country roads can be.
The local "good roads committee had
evidently been at work blowing up
sod from the cutters and throwing it
into the middle Of the road in huge
clods two to three feet high. It was
here that the front ankle rested peace
fully on a gigantic lump and let the
wheels spin round. An honest farm
er pulled the machine out for two
bits. In Litchfeld the car attracted
much attention. But at no place did
the strange vehicle rouse so great in
terest as it did at Broottn. The after
noon session Of school had just begun
when the tourists stopped at the
school pump. There was whizz and
rush and the whole school, fol-
lowed by the teacher, came pouring
out to see what strange manner OF
people were abroad. There was moth
ing more doing in thte school for the
afternoon.
The best roads came last From
Anoka to Minneapolis the cyclometer
registered twenty-five miles and the
watch fifty minutes. The roads were
perfect. In fact, good time was made
whenever possible and there was only
| one small accident, a broken spring
| Mr.. Jenkins said that they enjoyed the
trip in every way, including the acct
dents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
KILLED TRYING
TO AVOID DEATH
William j. Foley, an Old Rail
road Man, Stepped in Front
of Train.

After twenty years of railroad service
without a mishap, William J.. Foley,
yard foreman at the union station,
stepped in front Of one passenger train
while trying to avoid s. another, this
morning, and was fatally injured. He
died in St. Mary's hospital three hours
after the accident. Mr.. Foley was 40
years old# and lived at .703 Fifth
street NE.
About O'Clock he was directing
the switching Of some empty passen-
ger coaches, when the violent ringing
of a locomotives bell warned him
Of the approach Of a train.
Turning, he saw the Northern Pa
cific passenger train coming toward
him on the track on which he was
standing. He jumped aside quickly,
and as he did SO the Great Northern
train hit him. He was thrown TWEEN
ty feet and fell on his face. Ills Jaw
bone was broken and his chest
crushed.