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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa, April 2s.-As an
evidence Of the extent to which JUS
tice is tempered with politics as well
as mercy, the sensational details just
coming to light in the case Of Frank
Shercliff, whom William A. Pinker-
ton declared to be the most danger
Gus man in the United States, are
most startling.
Information on file at the governors
office shows that Secretary Shaw, who
paroled Sherc1iff in 1900, while gov
ernor, was induced to this course over
the protest of the trial Judge and
prosecuting attorney by the persuasion
Of Congressman David Mercer Of Ne
braska, who operated thru N. M. Hub
bard, the Iowa political boss, who
discovered" and made Shaw gov
ernor.
Hubbard, in letter to Shaw one
week before the latter granted the
parole, states that Dave Mercer
'helped us pass the bill for the settle
ment of the Sioux City and Pacific
indebtedness" and then asked him to
secured a parole for Shercliff. Hub
bard, who was railway attorney
was engaged in lobbying for the bill
in congress at the time.
Votes for Dave
! Further along In his letter to Shaw
he says:
| II suppose there isS.no doubt thai
! he is guiltysof the crime charged, bul
Dave says he has been punished pref.
| ty well now, and that It will be worth
| 800 or 4e8svotes I'd him from relatives
Of Shereliff If he Tan be paroled.''
Shereliff was sentenced in 1892 fol
the robbery Of William Pollock, "a dia.
| mond salesman, on limited train
He Esandbagged and shot his victim
| before a train load of passengers
seized a wallet containing stone
worth $4,000 and escaped, the Pin
kertons subsequently locating him II
the Wyoming penitentiary.
There was never any doubt as tt
his guilt and he has since confessed
! alleging that he was in the employ O.
Tom Dennison, the political car O.
the third ward in Omaha, known a!
the king Of gamblers. Dennison 1:
now under indictment as his accom-
plice.
Prior to receiving and acting OF
Hubbard's letter, Governor Shaw hac
received a storm of protests from
judges and attorneys and citizens, ant
also had received series Of letter!
from William A. Pinkerton which are
on file in the governors office
stating that Shercliffs parole would
be an outrage; that he was the wors
|
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
KNOX ANSWERS HOUSE
INQUIRY ABOUT TRUSTS

Washington, April 28-Attorney
General Knox transmitted to the
house replies to the two resolutions
Of inquiry introduced by Mr.. Williams
of Mississippi relative to trusts.
He says that no criminal prosecu-
lions have been begun by him against
persons involved in the decision Of the
supreme court of the United States In
the Northern Securities case and
further than this / do not deem 1t
compatible with the public interest to
comply with the resolution"
Regarding the alleged coal combine
the attorney general says that having
obtained authority from the supreme
court to compel the production Of tes-
timony, the interstate commerce.
commission will complete its invests
CATION The matter will then come
hsfore the department. OF 3ushcs.
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PATHS TOUR PROVES
LOSS TO SYNDICATE
Nepy York Sun Special Service,

New York Sun Special Service,
New York, April 25.-Robert Grau,
examined in supplementary proceed
ings concerning his ability to pay a
Judgment Of sos for printing, said
that, while Nine. Patti took away with
her 5000, 900, her tour was not flnan-
cial success.
Mr.. Grau testified that he organized
a company to tour Nine. Patti with a
capital Of $4,000. The money he said
was put up by w. A. Woodend, who
was vice president Of the company.
The $4,000 was deposited with Aug
ust Belmont as security for the diva
who was to receive $4,000 night for
sixty nights, while Mr.. Grau. as pres
ident of the company, received a sal
airy OF $50 per week. ''-
Only thirty-four concerts were
given The others were cancelled,
Mr. Grau said, because Nine. Patti
was perfectly willing to refund to the
company the money that had been de-
posted on the ground that she did not
want to appear In any place where
the public did not want her."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
American Railroad Magnates
Want Japan to Control China
T., and Korea.
Victory for Mikado Would Mean
Opening Up Of Big Garry
,- ing Trade.
Future Of Steamship Lines Oper-
ating From Pacific Coast
at Stake.

Special to The Journal -.... ..
New York, April 23.-A friend OF
Mr.. Hill tells this story:
IT met the old man on Broad street
the day the Venner suit was dismissed.
We shook hands and I congratulated
him on the victory.
"'What!' he said. Have they losr
some more ships!
IT explained that meant the suit IN
Jersey.
"'Oh,' said Mr.. Hill, that doesn't
matter, but the other does!
"That serves to illustrate the anxi-
ETY. with which Mr.. Hill Is watching
the trend Of events in the orient
The fact of the matter is that Mr..
Hill and all other western railroad in
terests look to see Japan, victorious,
become a great commercial nation.
Just as the era Of British conquest
landed that nation at the head OF the
worlds commerce by sea, so, they fig
ure, will victory for Japan stimulate
the life of that nation in commercial
lines. -....-
With the markets Of Japan and
China thrown open to the world and
dominated by a spirit Of commercial
ism there would be created the great
est carrying line the world has yet
seen.
Success or Failure.
In this matter lies the future success
or failure Of the great Hill steamers.
In 1t lies the success or failure OF Pa
ciflc Mail, Canadian Pacific, Northern
Pacific Steamship, Occidental & ORR
entail, the Japanese and Chinese
steamship lines-in fact, the whole
trade of the Pacific ocean so far as
that trade concerns the ports Of the
Pacific coast.
Whatever is of benefit to one will
also be of benefit to the others. All
have big business from Japan and are
looking for big business from emma.
To show exactly where the trade
interests Of the United States are CEN
tered In the Orient, the following fig
ures are instructive: The exports
from this country to the orient In 1903
amounted to about Ut So 100000; 20, OF
an, SO, 100000 to China, $9.OO0,OOO to
Hongkong, and $1,500,000 to Asiatlc
Russia. Therefore, exports to Japan
amounted to fourteen times as much
as to Asiatfc Russia. Manifestly there
r. is no comparison between the two
customers so far as the western rail-
road interests Of the United States are
concerned. .,#
Big Gain in Exports.
The exports from the United States
comparison rejecting the increase In
traffic caused very largely by the
growth Of the Hill business and the
opening Of the Puget Sound ports:
1898. 1903.
To Japan. 900 $21, 495, O0(
To China. ............. 100000 1900. 00(
1898. 1908
Per cent of imports Of Japan
supplied by United States. Ill 17.f
Per cent of imports of Japan
supplied by CHINA. ............. go o.$
These figures tell the story in short
form. The United States western rail
roads have q tremendous equity in the
development of China and Japan.
That equity will only become valuable
as China becomes commercial coun-
try and as Japan does likewise.
AS Mr.. Hill puts it, ...
1--WE must teach these rice-eaters to
eat wheat flour" -.-r
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NEGRO RESISTS POLICE
In TEN.HOUR BATTLE

Oakland, CAL, April 2S.-After a
fierce ten-hour battle between the po-
lice and Wilson Anderson, a negro,
Anderson was shot and killed yester-
day. Anderson, at the point of a pis-
toll, had driven white woman and a
colored porter from a house and then
barricaded the place and fired at every
one who appeared.
Twenty policemen began a running
battle, over a hundred shots being
fired. Officer Sherry stole up to a
window and wounded the negro. Ser
geant Clark fired into the room and
the negro fell to the floor and the Of
f1cers rushed into the house.
There were nine bullets in his body.
Policemen Sherry and Ford had at
tempted to arrest him for the eviction.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
SEATTLE SOCIETY GIRL
BECOMES A PICKPOCKET
Spaoial to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Seattle, WASH, April 2S.-Hazel
Beaumont, once Seattle society girl,
saved her lover from the gal1ows. sank
to his level as a criminal. drifted far
from home, and Is now in the Seattle
city Jail. held as one Of the most no.
torious pickpockets on the Pacific
coast. She and her consort will
shortly be released by the police and
driven from the city. She Is known
to the police as May Sloan and as
Rebecca Reed
It was to save the life Of George
Barrett that the girl became a pick
pocket, and Barrett is still with her.
A few years ago, when young and
giddy, she became infatuated with the
gambler. They ran away to Portland
and Barrett was arrested for the MUIR
der of Dave Williams, q saloonkeeper.
TO protect him from the law, the
girl went out on the steets to snatch
purses and pick pockets. She made
money, freed him and could not for
get the trade she had learned. She
Is fine looking woman Of 35 and
dresses in the height Of fashion.
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PRESIDENTS LETTERS
SOLD UNDER HAMMER

Boston, April 2S.-Autograph let
ters Of the presidents Of the United
and Of the members Of their cabinets,
together with historical documents
and letters, and letters Of the signers
Of the Declaration Of independence
were sold at auction at Libbies. Good
prices were realized.
A complete set Of autograph letters
Of the presidents, sold separately,
brought $248.75, the prices paid for,
the Individual items varying from $56
for a Washington letter to $1.50 for
one by, Garfield.
Some Of the prices were: John
Adams, SIT; Jefferson, $11; Taylor,
SIS; Lincoln, SIG; Johnson. SIG;
Grant, $44, and Mckinley, IS.
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IN THE SENATE
Roosevelt Administration Increases
Expenditure $2OO,OOO,OO0.

Roosevelt Administration Increases
Expenditure $2OO,OOO,OO0.
Washington, April 28.-The senate
began business promptly to-day, in
continuation Of Wednesdays legisla-
tive session, and Immediately agreed
to the conference report on the emer-
gency river and harbor bill.
Mr.. Allison submitted q series of
tables showing an increase of $28,000,-
600 over the appropriations for last
season, including:
including rural free delivery, $4,000
He also stated that there Is an in
crease Of ss,632,000 in the permanent
annual appropriations, the chief items
being $5,0OO,000 for bank-note re-
!demption and s2,250,00O for irriga-
ton.
Replying to an inquiry from Mr.,
Aldrich, he said that the cost Of the
treasury is about $6,500,000.
Mr.. Culberson presented review
of appropriations for the past twelve
years, covering the last administra-
ton of Mr.. Cleveland and the McKtn-
ley and Roosevelt administrations.
He said the total expenditures UNI
der the Roosevelt administration had
n-=$Hso4OsOOOsOOO, $G41sOoosOON
greater than the four years of the
Mckinley administration and $685.
600, 900 greater. than in the four years
Of the Eleveland administration. These
increases he subdivtded as follows
Civil administration, $780, 100000;
naval, 1921, 000,000; military, 1884,.
100000. He also said that for 1905
the total appropriation on account Of
the military, including pensions, would
be 1887, 100000, and, excluding the
expenses OF the Boer war, the mill.
tary expenditures Of the United State;
for 1903 were $32,OO0,O00 more thar
those Of Great Britain for that year
$131, 100000 greater than those O.
Germany, and 100000 in exces!
of those of France.
The total appropriations made BY
this congress aggregate, according tt
Mr.. HemenwaX $781,574,629. OF this
sum, $26.801,84 was to pay deficien.
cies for prior fiscal years and $56, $780,.
600 Is set aside for application to thu
sinking fund. This leaves the tota
appropriation for the expenses of the
government for the year 1905 $685..
PIP, 1856. The total estimated reve
nues for this period are $704, 472,06
or an excess over appropriations OF
authorized expenditures of $6,199, 274
The president informed the com
mittee that he had no further com.
munications to make to the congress
The committee remained with the
president less than five minutes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
GRAFT and FRAUD
FOUND IN SEATTLE
Officials Charged by Civic Union
With Being in Cahoots With
Criminals.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Seattle, Wash, April 28.-The Civic
union, organized to purify municipal
affairs, will censure the conduct of
Prosecuting Attorney w. T. sScott's
Office if the report of an Investigating
committee Is followed. 20
The committee has found startling
irregularities in the prosecution of
cases in justice and higher courts, and
asserts that criminals and lawbreak-
ers are protected by the county Off
GERS. The administration from the
beginning has been farcical. Tribute
has been paid for the operation of slot
machines, men living upon fallen
women have paid to stay In Seattle,
and the court records show a long list
Of dismissals and compromises.
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ARCHITECT SUES FOR
WORLDS FAIR PLANS

st. Louis, April 28.-Cass Gilbert Of
New York, architect OF the Art Pal
ace and Festival hall at the worlds
fair, has rendered his resignation as
n member OF the commission Of archi-
tects.
Mr.. Gilbert also brought suit against
the exposition company for $4,000,
which he alleges Is due him.
Mr.. Gilbert declares that, while all
plans were to be submitted to the
commission for approval, that ''the
buildings placed in my hands have
been changed as regards sculpture and
decoration without consulting with
t1Sv
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
GOVERNMENT TROOPS
LOSE In SAN DOMINGO

st Thomas, D. w. l., April 2S.-A
German steamship which has arrived
from Monte Cristi, San Domingo. re-
ports that 800 government troops
were engaged in the recent attack on
the Jiminez force at Guayacan.
After a fierce battle the government
troops were defeated. Their losses
were forty-one killed and sixteen
wounded. Generals Cabrera, Arroyo
and Luna were killed. Twelve Of the
Jiminez force were killed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
MARRIED WOMEN MAY
TEACH IN NEW YORK,

New York, April 2s.-Marr1ed
teachers have won their fight for the
right to teach in the New York city
schools, and leap year privileges may
now be exercised.
The board Of education has adopted
resolutions reinstating those teachers
who had married and had been dis
missed.
The teachers directly affected had
refused to recognize the right Of the
board to dismiss them, because of their
marriage.
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RUSSIANS GROSS TUnlAN

Twenty Thousand Marching Against
Japanese Left Flank on Yalu.
New York Sun Special Service.
Paris April 28.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent Of Petit Parisien tele-
graphs:
Twenty thousand Russians have
crossed the Tumen river and are
marching rapidly toward the Japan
ese left flank. The plan Of the general
is to get the Japanese into open coun-
try in Manchur1a and then give battle
IT learn from an absolutely reliable
source that the Japanese have crossed
the Yalu in strength above Win.
General Kuropatkin had given orders
for the troops In the first line to res
tire, leaving a free passage TO the
Japanese, who immediately took ad.
vantage Of the retirement"
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MEASLES EPIDEMIC in GOTHAM.

New York, April 2s.-In the five bor-
oughs of Greater New York the depart |
ment's weekly report shows 1850 cases Of
measles, with 81 deaths due directly there |
sicians attribute the existing conditions
to the severe winter, which caused living
rooms to be kept tightly closed at the
expense Of ventilation.
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CANADIAN CATTLE men
WRESILE WITH NANCE
Special to The Journal.

Winnipeg, Man., April Isl. G..
Rutherford, chief provincial veterina-
rian, is touring the territories consult
ing with stock associations and lead
ing cattlemen, as to the best methods
for the prevention Of mango, which
may result in serious damage to cat
tie owners by loss Of market.
The matter Is serious, as dipping is
the only sure preventive, and for own
ers of large ranches this is an enor-
nous undertaking.
All cattle leaving the territories are
now sprayed before shipment under
government supervision.
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SHOTS FIRED AT
LABOR CANDIDATE
Bullets Crash Thru Window
While Prospective Mayor
Sits at Home.

Jeffersonville, Ind, April 2S.-An
attempt was made to assassinate D.
M. Robins, candidate for mayor on
the Independent labor ticket E
Mr.. Robins was seated in his home
when two bullets crashed thru the
window, one splintering the chair on
which he was sitting and the other
demolishing a lamp.
The shots were fired from an alley
in which a revolver was found later.
No arrests have been made.
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ESKIMO OF FAR NORTH
KILLED BY MEASLES
Special 10 Tho journal.

Special TO The Journal
Winnipeg, Man., April 28.--All Es-
kimo living In the Mackenzie basin ex-
Dept ten families, have been killed by
the ravages of measles, says the Daw-
son City News. Before the epidemic
there were forty TO fifty families with
a total OF perhaps $50 to 200 or more
persona The great ravages OF the
disease and the awful results are told
by Bishop Breynat, who has Just
reached Dawson by long and tedious
5ourneying from the mouth OF Mac
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JAPANESE REPULsED

MfkadO's Troops Charge Ma1lcnu11u0
Town but Are Driven Back.
New York Sun Special Service.
Liao-yang, April 28.-Ttfe Japanese
troops which crossed the Yalu river,
charged, Tuesday night. the Russian
position near Lizavina, village on
the Manchurian side OF the river. They
were repulsed, but their loss is not
known.
Two gunboats steamed up the river
to the support of the Japanese troops.
A Russian field battery at Amisan
opened on the gunboats and the gun
boats were forced to steam out OF
range.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
JAMS Seize Kiulien-cheng.

Cht-fu. April 28.-Chinese junkmea
arrived from the Yalu say that a Jap.
anese force has occupied Kiulien-
cheng, a town just north of Antung,
on the Manchurian ssidessof the Yalu
river. They say. that only small i
body Of the Japaneses arTnyahas crossed
that river.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
THIRD JAPANESE ARMY
Three Divisions Being Modified and
Fourth May Be Called.

-" IOUI Ul1 NAtSJ DO OsH34S&As
p London, April 2s.-Shanghai dis
patches say that the third Japanese
army Is now being modified. It corn-.
prises the fifth division from Hiro-
shima, the tenth from Hinieju and
the eleventh from Zentsuuji. A fourth
army will be mobilized If necessary.
Little attention is paid to Russian
stories Of Japanese reverses. They are
believed to have been spread for the.
purpose OF influencing the European
money markets in Russia's favor.
The Vladivostok fleet IL believed to
have regained its harbor.
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g. =. p. LINE ASSURED.

Ottawa, Ont, April 2s-The Grand
Trunk Pacific bill has been read second
Time The government had majority OF
forty-four. The construction OF the new
transcontinenta1 railroad is now assured
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Cody, Wyo., April .2S.--The Buffalo Bill
divorce case has been transferred from
Big Horn county to Sheridan. Wye, and
has been set for trial during the first
week Ia June. The change Of venue was
asked bY Mrs. Cody
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Japan BUYS Submarine.

Bridgeport, Conn. April 28.-Ths
Lake submarine torpedo boat was yes
terday afternoon sold to the japanese
government.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
FIVE DEATHS
IN one FAMILY
Another of the Afflicted Lock
wood Family Is Dead of
Contagion.
Death Of Another Patient at the
Quarantine Station Is
Reported.

Two more smallpox deaths took
place last night. The victims were:
Ella Fisher, 220 Second street S, at
quarantine hospital.
Mrs. Wesley Lockwood, 2424 TWEEN
ty-ffth avenue S.
Five members of the Lockwood
family have now succumbed to small
pox within the month, while three
more are fighting for their lives.
The contagion is extremely viru1ent
and, considering its nalignance, it is
accounted strange that the epidemic
is not wider spread.
Joseph H. Lockwood Of 1854 Twen-
ty-seventh avenue S. who died first
and was buried on Easter Sunday,
transmitted the disease to three Of his
children, and two Of them. Hettte and
Joseph, have since died at the quar-
antine hospital. Miss Helen is still
there, being nursed by her mother.
In the family Of John Wesley Lock-
wood, PAPA Twenty-ffth avenue S, a
brother of Joseph H. Lockwood, there
have been two deaths, and to-day
the disease. The dead are his sister,
Mrs. Catherine Stewart, and his wife,
who died last night. Remaining in
this branch Of the family are the two
daughters Of Mrs. Stewart and a
young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
w. Lockwood.
Not far away, at 24ss Twenty-fifth
avenue, in the home Of William L.
Lockwood, son Of the woman who
died last night, one case of smallpox
has thus far appeared, the patient be-
ing the head Of the household. The
family is a large one and the mem
bers have been exposed to the disease
on several occasions, but they may
escape.
Relief Fund Suggested.
A relief fund for the Lockwoods is
proposed by former Labor Commits
sioner Martin McHale. All the wage
earning members of the family are
either dead or down with smallpox
and the resources have been exhausted
by the number Of funerals and the
extraordinary calls on the reserve
fund. A list has already been started
in the neighborhood. Mr.. McHale
called on Health Commissioner P. M
Hall this morning to urge that the
department. assume the expense for q
trained nurse while the neighbors will
attend to the food supplies and other
necessities.
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Quarantine Complaints.

Complaints are made In various sec-
-tions over what many consider the in
efficiency of the smallpox quarantine.
Members Of families in which the dis
ease exists are permitted to walk
about their yards and converse with
their friends.
The health department officials ex-
plain that smallpox patients have the
right OF way anywhere .oIa their own
premises and 1t Is the duty Of others
to keep away from the plague spot.