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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
STATE 40. U. v. is
NOW $1,000 STRONG
Grand Lodge Confers Degrees
Upon $50 New Members
VIII Elect Officers Today.

The comforting of the grand lodge
degree upon $50 new members oc-
cupied yesterday. morning, at Hia-
Watha hall, Sixth and Wabasha streets,
the morning session of the twenty
eighth annual meeting of the grand
lodge Of the Ancient Order of United
-Workmen for the state of Minnesota.
The total attendance of delegates and
grand lodge, officers exceeded four
hundred.
Grand Master Workman F. II. White,
Of Duluth, reported at the afternoon
session that the new constitution had
simpliffed the business of the order.
The per capita tax, he recommended,
should be placed at $1.20 a year for
each member. One-third OF the sum
realized should be put at the disposal
of the grand master for the employ
ment of deputies and for otherwise ex-
tending the order
According to Grand Recorder
Charles E. Larson, of St. Paul, the
Minnesota membership is now $1,000,
gain of 2,977 over the previous year,
and a net gain, after deducting sus-
pensions, of 1852. No less than 4.410
new certificates were issued during
bers reinstated.
Receipts Exceed $5oo,000
The receipts of the grand lodge last
year were $502,034.65. The beneficiary
fund is now credited with a balance of
$1S,S06.S9. During the twenty seven
years the grand receiver of the Mime
sofa jurisdiction has paid out $4,000
900. The 200 deaths in the state
lodges during 1903 established a death
rate Of ga to the 1000 members.
A petition submitted on behalf of the
German lodges asked that the new
constitution be translated into Ger
man. The petition was referred.
Last evening the well-known staff
Of Levi Lodge No. 70, Minneapolis, ex-
emplifed degree work at the conven-
ton hall.
Today the special order will be the
election Of officers. Grand Foreman
w. B. Anderson, of Winona, will prob
ably be promoted to the post of grand
master workman. J. F. MCGUIRE of
st. Paul, is likely to be chosen grand
receiver in place of J. j. McCardy, re-
Cardy held the position of receiver for
twenty seven years.
The noted staff Of Minnehaha Lodge
No. 81, Minneapolis, will perform de-
gree work tonight at Hiawatha hall.
Sword exercises will also be given.
Capt. Watson will command the team
and will deliver a screen lecture rela-
tive to drilling. This staff is accounted
one of the most expert in the West.
The grand lodge will adjourn tomor-
row
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
WANTS STATE TOPAY
Farmer Says Prairie Chickens
Munched His Corn.

If the state is, as proclaimed by law,
the owner of all wild game, Is not the
state liable for depredations commit
ted by game animals upon private
property?
This is the query which G. B. Harri-
son, of Perham, puts up to the state
game and fish commission, apparently
in all seriousness. Mr.. Harrison is a
farmer, and he has submitted to S. r.
Fullerton, executive agent of the COM
mission, a claim, in regular form, for
$54.55 for damage which he says has
been done to his corn by prairie chick
ems.
The bill is specific and sets forth
that 500 prairie chickens poached daily
on Mr.. Harrison's corn field for a pc
Rod Of four months, and that by rea-
son Of the game laws the owner was
unable to protect his property by
shooting the birds. The damage is
computed at As cents per day.
All law for the preservation of game
birds and animals in this state Is pred
'icated upon the fundamental declara-
ton that all game Is primarily the
property of the state. Following this
theory to what he considers a logical
conclusion, Mr.. Harrison contends that
the state may be held responsible for
the damage done by the game to pri-
vate property.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
REFLECTS ITS CHIEF
Mrs. A. c. Nilsson Remains at
Head of Degree of Honor.

Mrs. Anna @. Nilsson, of Morris, was
reelected by reclamation yesterday
afternoon as grand chief of honor of
the Minnesota grand lodge, Degree of
Honor, auxiliary to the United Work
men, that is holding its annual con-
vention at Woodman hall, Ninth and
Franklin streets. Mrs. Myra L.
Sprague, Long Lake, was reelected
grand lady of honor Mrs. Frances
Buell. Olson, st. Paul, and Miss Daisy
Bixby, Sank Center, were also re-eIect-
ed. respectively, grand recorder and
grand usher. Mrs. Lizzie Schroeder,
st. Paul, and Mrs. Addie Baker, Min
neapolis, were chosen grand chief Of
ceremonies and grand receiver.
Esther Lodge No. 80, of st. Paul, and
West side lodge, No. Is, exemplified
the work last night at Woodman hall.
The 206 delegates were welcomed
yesterday morning by Mrs. Victoria
Heron, of Prosperity Lodge No. 49,,
st. Paul. A response was made by
Mrs Emma Gallup, of Anoka. Short
speeches followed by number of past
grand chiefs of honor.
Mrs. Nilsson, the grand chief, report
ed that seven new. lodges had organ
lied in 1903, and that four had reor-
gained. -Four lodges, also, had gone
out Of existence. There were 1879
lodges in hesitate, gain of eight dur
ing twelve months. She recommend
ed that the Degree of Honor and the
United Workmen pay Jointly the cost
of building at the state fair grounds.
the total expense not to exceed 81, 600.
The grand recorder, Mrs. Frances
Buell. Olson, said that the Degree had
gained 1853 members during 1903. as
against 1,090 during 1902 The total
membership now in good standing is
1887. There had been an increase of
1,711 In the beneficial membership"
which was 7,035 at the end of 1903.
Amendments to the constitution
were discussed yesterday afternoon.
Several proposed changes of impor-
lance were referred to the committee
on resolutions.
A few officers whose election or ap-
polntment was not reached yesterday
will be named this morning. After
wards the delegates will consider a
proposal that a surplus fund be Gre
ated to prevent an excessive number
OF assessments in case losses at anv
time should become uncommonIy fire.
quent.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
BRINGS SUIT TO
COLLECT PERSONAL TAX
County Attorney Brings Action
Against a Number of Parties.

County Attorney Kane. acting for
Ramsey county, has brought suit
against a number Of estates with q
view of collecting delinquent personal
property taxes, alleged to be due Ram
sey county. Some of the defendants
lows:
Augusta M. P. Crowley's heirs, for
1892 on a valuation Of $4,000; Ella
Plough, for $295.50, on an assessment
of $4,000; Eda F. Shapely ct AL, heirs
of Mary I. Clark, for $301.22, on an as
sessment of $10,175; Victor H. Smalley,
Stephen Conday and Josephine M.
Smalley, heirs of E. v. SmaIley, for
$183.68, on an assessment of $500, and
Annie T. Treacy ct al, heirs of Michael
Treacy, for $295.90, on an assessment
Of $4,000.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
LOCAL THFATERS
MUST MAKE CHANGES
New Law Recommended Re-
quiring Managers to Install
SprinkIing Apparatus.

The council committee of public safe
ty yesterday completed it's draft of
amendments to that portion of the
building code relating to theaters, and
directed City Engineer Rundlett to pre-
pare an ordinance embracing the
changes.
If the amendments adopted by the
committee pass the council all the
theaters in the city will be required to
install sprinkling plants, and will be
required to print in each programme
directions to the audiences as to the
most convenient exits for the various
sections of each house.
The managers made a determined
protest against being required to in
stall sprinkling plants which they said
would involve a heavy outlay and
would be inconvenient on the stage.
Might Drown the Stage With Tears.
Manager L. N. Scott, of the Metropol-
itan, said that the sprinkling pipes
would interfere with the stage scenery,
and that If automatic systems were put
in they might be started off by accident
and the stage would be deluged with
water during a performance. He also
pointed out that the Metropolitan is
practically ireproof and that numerous
standpipes with hand hose afforded
ample protection. The Metropolitan was
SO well provided with exits. he said, that
there would be no danger to life in
case a fire should break out. Manager
T. L. Hays, of the Grand opera house,
offered practically the same argu-
mentS.
The members Of the committee,
however, regarded sprinkling systems
as a necessity. City Engineer Rund-
lett read letters from building inspect
ors of several cities of the country
and all stated that where their codes
did not already require sprinkling sys-
TENS they would be required. The
amendment was approved, as suggest
ed by Mr.. Rundlett, except that instead
of requiring automatic sprinklers, the
word automatic" was stricken out.
Hate to Lose Advertising.
The theater managers renewed their
objections to the amendment requir-
ing a printed diagram Of the house on
each programme, and the committee
compromised with them, but adopting
an amendment providing for the print
ing of directions as to the most con-
venient exits.
It is expected that the theater man
ayers will renew their fight against
the amendment requiring sprinkling
plants when the draft prepared by
Mr.. Rundlett comes before the council.
Having finished its work on the thea
tiers the committee on public safety
will now take up those parts of the
code relating to churches, hotels and
public halls. Inspection tours among
those buildings will be made and Mr..
Rundlett, who will be asked to pre-
pare amendments where needed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
Notice Of Village Bonds for Sale.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Blue Earth, Village Of Lake Crystals.
Whereas, At an annual election for the
Village Of Lake Crystal, In the County of
Blue Earth, State of Minnesota, held in
said village on the oath day Of March,
1903, majority of the votes cast at said
election were in favor or the proposition:
That the said Village of Lake Crystal
raise the sum of twelve thousand dol
lars ($12,00O.00) for the purpose Of erect
ing water reservoir and extending the
water mains of said village and erecting a
village hall, jail, and constructing
lighting plant for said village, the negO-
table coupon bonds Of said village to
be given In the aggregate amount Of
twelve thousand dollars ($12, 100000 in
twenty -four (2D bonds, of denomination
of five hundred dollars ($50000) each,
said bonds to be dated on the date they
are issued and to be due and payable in
twenty years from date of their issue,
and to bear interest at the rate Of six
per cent per annum, payable annually,
both principal and interest to be payable
at the Village of Lake Crystal, in the
County Of Blue Earth, and State Of Min
nesota.
that sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Trustees of said village, at the
Office of the village recorder of the said
day Of March, A. d. 1904 at eight o'clock
p. m. for the negotiable coupon bonds
Of said Village of Lake Crystal, in the
aggregate amount of twelve thousand dol
the denomination Of five hundred dollars
($500.00) each, said bonds to be dated on
the second day Of May, 1904, and due
payable in twenty years from their date
of issue and to bear interest at the rate
of six per cent per annum, payable an
nually, both principal and interest to be
payable at the said Village of Lake Crys-
tall
And at the time and place men
toned, the Board of Trustees Of said Viii
lage will open and consider all bids for
the sale of such bonds and the said
ject any and all bids offered for the pur-
chase of such bonds.
Said bonds will be issued under the
authority and in pursuance Of Chapter
200 Of the Laws of Minnesota for 1893
and the proposition to issue the same,
tend the water mains of said village, and
erecting a village hail. Jail and construct
ing lighting plant for said village, were
duly sanctioned by vote of a majority Of
the electors of said village at the annual
village election, held in said Village Of
pursuance of said Chapter 200 and OF
Chapter 1876 of said laws of Minnesota for
1908. A certified check payable to the
treasurer of said Village of Lake Crystal
for one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.0O)
must accompany each bid, to be forfeited
to the village in case the bidder fails to
comply with the terms Of his bid.
Bids must be sealed and marked Bids
for Bonds"
BY order of the Board Of Trustees of the
Village Of Lake Crystal; Minnesota,
President of Board Of Trustees.
Attest: G. D. OFT, Village Recorder.
Bids to be received on any part or the
whole.
Feb &E-aA~Ar-t> a-1anA-a+-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
CITY NEWS
new HOME FOR STAR
Theater to Move to Robert, Be-
tween Seventh and Eighth.

It is now considered absolutely GER
tain that the Star theater in st. Paul
will have a new home before next fall.
The Hamm Brewing company yes
terday purchased from J. r. Rasmus
sen the property on the east side of
Robert street, between Seventh and
Eighth streets, the price paid being
$4,000. The property transferred yes
terday has a 50-foot frontage and is
$50 feet deep. The Hamm Brewing
company already owned a twenty-five
foot frontage adjoining this piece of
property, and the acquisition of the
corner lot gives the company sew
enty -five-foot frontage with depth Of
$50 feet.
Negotiations have been pending be-
tween the owners of the Star and the
Hamm Brewing company for some
time, but have been delayed until the
corner property on Robert street could
be secured. 1t was stated last night
that plans would be drawn for the new
theater building at once, and the ac-
tual construction of the building is ex-
pected to begin in the early spring
1t is given out that the contemplated
plans are for building to be erected
jointly by the brewing company and
the theater owners which will be one
of the most modern theaters in the
country. While the negotiations have
been pending for some time, the mat
ter has been kept as quiet as possible
until the Hamm Brewing company had
closed the deal for the property bought
yesterday.
William Hamm, when asked regard
ing the object of the purchase, said
negotiations had been and were still
pending with the owners of the Star
but no definite deal has as yet been
closed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
Net amount In force at
end of the year 81 ,203, $50 ,528. 90
State Of Minnesota.

Whereas, The Home Insurance COM
pany, corporation organized under the
laws of New York, has fully complied
with the provisions Of the laws OF this
etate, relative to the admission and au-
class.
Now, Therefore, I, the undersigned, In
Surance Commissioner, do hereby empower
and authorize the said above named com
of fire and marine insurance in the State of
Minnesota, according to the laws thereof,
until the thirty-f1rst day Of January, A. D.
1905, unless said authority be revoked or
otherwise legally terminated prior thereto.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my official seal at
st. Paul. this 31st day of January, A. D.
1904.
ELMER H. DEARTH
Insurance Commissioners
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
WOULD SELL 7 PIGS
PENDING DIVORCE SUIT
Mrs. Mary Walter Asks Court for Per-
mission to Barter the Porkers.

In order to be able to support her
self and her children pending the
hearing Of a suit for divorce she has
brought against her husband, Mrs.
Mary Walter yesterday applied to the
district court for permission to sell
seven seventy five-pound pigs.
The original suit for the divorce was
brought in Dakota county, but was
transferred to this county yesterday
Mrs. Walter charges her husband,
Nicholas Walter, with many acts of
cruelty She asks to be given the
homestead at Lillydale.
Deposits received subject to check and
interest paid monthly upon Daily Bal
ances. Security Trust Co N Y Life hide
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
SWALLOWS CARBOLIC
ACID, BUT WILL LIVE
Mrs. E. Johnson Makes a Futile At.
tempt to End Her Life.

Mrs. E.. Johnson, a lodger at the
Westman hotel, 378 jackson street. at
tempted suicide early yesterday morn
Ing by taking carbolic acid. The police
ambulance was summoned and the
woman was hurried to the city hospital.
Physicians say she will recover.
No cause is assigned for the act. The
woman came to the hotel a month ago
and has worked there for her hoard
since. She is said to have come from
Montana, where she separated from
her husband. When taken from the
hotel she gave her name to the police
ambulance surgeon as Mrs. Helen
Stevenson. and said that she was twen-
ty-four years Of age. = = !.
.r,; There .,d are always good things among
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
RandaII's Son Is Defeated.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb. 16.-
George A. Castor, Republican, was
elected to congress from the Third dis
tr1ct at special election held today
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Henry Burk, Republican. His Dem
ocratic opponent was Samuel J. Ran
dali, son Of the famous speaker Of the
national house Of representatives.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
ReIoIt Benefits From carneoIe.

CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-At the annual
dinner of the Chicago Alumni association
OF Beloit CWis.l college, President E. ID.
Eaton announced that plans had been rre-
pared and approved and the contract let
for the erection of a $4,000 library. the
gift Of Andrew Carnegie
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17

Savings deposits made on or before Jan. will r, :
ceive TIRES months interes! on April T. Security
Trust Company. New York Life Building.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17

Unless all your worldly wants are
satisfied, don't neglect to read 1.-THE
Globes Paying Wants.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17

There are no air ships advertised
among '"The Globes Paying Wants."
but they're about the only things that
aren't
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
$14.25 to Detroit.
1856 to Montreal.
$500 to New York.
27.00 to Boston.
$3.50 to Portland. Me.
24.65 to Albany, N. Y.
0e m - CnrinrRo1a M

Via Chicago Great Western Railway.
Tickets on sale daily. For more irforma-
ton apply to j. N Storr GenI Agt. Cor.
9TH & Robert Sts.. st. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
RAILROAD NOTICES.
St. Louis. Mo.-Hot SPRINGS, Ark.

st. Louis, Mo.-Hot Springs, Ark
Take the Rock Island The shortest
quickest and best. Double daily service
with through wide vestibule Pullman
sleepers and day coaches between Twin
Cities and ST. Louis. For further infor-
nation call at City Ticket Office, Sixth
and Robert streets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17

Our safetyvDeposit Vaults are the best.
security Trust Company. N. Y. Life bldg.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17

:. West Side Deliveries, Wednesdays and
Saturdays, 2 p. m. >--N
Hamline and Merriam Park Deliveries.
Daily 2 p. m. -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17

There are always good things among
The Globes Paying Wants.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
HOME INSURANCE COMPANY.

Principal Office, New York City. Cor
gained in 1881 John H Washburn,
president. William H. Cheney, secretary.
Attorney to accept service in Minnesota,
Insurance Commissioner
Cash Capital. So, 600, 900.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17
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HEADQUARTERS

We quote you for Wednesday and Thurs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-04

about it, we both understand the sit
uauon- All I've got TO ask you is, will
You do it?" While / was making my
speech Croker sat there looking straight
ahead as inDasSive as a craven image
ana not giving the slightest sign OF
what he was thinking or what he in
tended to say, and he didn't breathe a
word for full minute. Then he took
his cigar out of his mouth and turned
around to me, and, in the NEST matter
of fact voice imaginable, said: "Mr.
Whitney, 1 have been waiting fifteen
years to find you in a hole. You
needn't worry about this. | guess 1t
will be all right" Well 9Jr. whitney
continued. after a momentarv pause. Il
suppose L thanked him. / don't know.
Anyhow, that is all that was said, and
maybe / don't feel betteri Now, les's
go and get something to eat
"TheSnext mornings newspapers con.
tanned positive assurances of Tammany
Halls determination to support the ma
tional ticket with all its might and
main, and within twenty-four hours
thereafter il was definitely known
throughout the country that MIR. Muir
ply had joined hands unreservedly with
his friend Croker in an effort to carry
the state of New York. The effect of
this announcement upon the workers
Of the party throughout the country
was electrifyipg. It was the beginning
of the end of Republican rule for at
least four years"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-04

there was to be learned. After break
fast he went to his library, or working
room, looked over the memoranda
made by his secretary during the night
and the kilograms Of congratui alton
that began to pour in.
There was little as yet to inform him
as to the platform There were init
nations of the sixteen hours session of
the committee, of contest and il APP
peared on the financial question, but
nothing conclusive or definite or in
forming. Thus the time passed until 8
O'Clock, when definite news came in
and the morning newspapers were
brought. To these he devoted himself,
absorbed in them, obtaining d compre-
hensiye view Of the events at St. Louis.
Then, without word to anybody,
without continent or exhibiting in any
way his thoughts, he called for his
horse and set out on a solitary ride
During that ride he digested his infor-
nation and determined on his action.
He made history. AS he was returning
from that solitary ride dispatch from
New York gave him further inforrna-
ton. Arriving at his home he went
straight TO his library and with a lead
pencil wrote on a white pad of paper,
which the writer saw and read that
day, the now famous dispatch. hand
ing 1t to hhs secretary, with instruc-
tlons to forward ii Immediately. This
was done forthwith, by committing it
to the hands OF one of his assistant
secretaries. Mr. NeWcOmb, who carried
it to the office at Esopus and stood over
the operator as il was being sent, in
order that there might be absolute as
surance that it was transmitted and
that there was no leakage in the trans
mission TO Mr.. Sheehan.
At that time he had seen no one but
the members of his family and the
newspapers of the day. There were no
persons near him with whom he could
consult; he had seen no one with whom
he could consult. He had no commu-
nication by word of mouth, By letter,
by telephone or by telegraph with any
one person outside of the narrow circle
of his immediate family. Involved in
this assertion is the fact that on Fri
day, Friday night and Saturday morn
ing up TO il o'clock when the dispatch
had been sent, he had no communica-
tion from or with any one in ST. Louis
or With any one outside Of st. Louis on
the subject OF politics or convention
events.
BY his associates and all who have
known him from the earliest time his
essential truthfulness has been a rec
ogpiZed characteristic-not the truth
fulnesS that is exact in words alone,
but in that frank, non-eVasive and
earnest truthfulness that makes even
the suggestion of a meaning other than
his words exactly imply seem in the
minds of his acquaintance like a sac
rilege. So, when he says that in the
sending of that dispatch he consulted
with nobody-with not a single soul,
and that his action was taken on his
own initiative and after realizing the
situation at st. Louis, no one who ever
knew the judge or realized the esteem
in which he is held by those who do
know him entertain any doubts, while
the falsity OF the charge of "prear-
rangement" or OF "foreknowledge." OF