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, 1904-04-28
Prof. Roberts Speaks.

Chicago. ILL.,, April 28.-The annual
meeting of the National Municipal
league began in this city yesterday,
!. it'll delegates present from every
large city in the United States. Pres.
ident Charles E. Bonaparte of Balti-
more called the assembly to order.
Addresses of welcome were responded
to by Vice President Charles Richard.
son of Philadelphia. HIS address, was
followed by Clinton Roners woodruff
of Philadelphia, who spoke on "a
Years Disclosure and developments"
Prof. F. H. H. Rober4~ of the Uni
versity of Denver, and fdgmerly of the
University of Wyoming Vat Laramie,
spoke on The Denver Situation and
the Rush Amendment Prof. Roberts
reviewed Denver's history from the
beginning to the present day. The
''city hall war" caused by an attempt
on the part Of Governor Waite to re.
move two members of the fire and
police board in 1894, and the fact that
a political machine had been built up
by the board, said Prof. Roberts, led
TO . demand on the part of the people
for home rule, which finally resulted
in the adoption of the Rush amend.
ment to the state constitution. After
mentioning salient features of the
charter that has been adopted under
the amendment. Prof. Roberts con-
Guided as follows:
The exact status of Denver is diff.
ficult to determine. Is it independent
Of the state? The majority of the
supreme court says No The court
is unanimous in the belief that in local
affairs Denver is absolutely free from
the state. m the majority hold it is
subordinate in mattero hat usually
belong to the county. as Denver is a
county as well as a city. Can a defin-
tie line be drawn between city and
county without endless litigation? 1t
seems hat Denver might o her
mayor king, make the office hereditary
without fear of interference from the
state. The city m county of Denver
certainly holds an anomalous place in
the history Of American governments.
since it is neither a city nor a state"
, 1904-04-28
Looking After a Contract.

Washington, D. c., April Csc. Da-
Wis of Rawlins. Wyo., is here in regard
to a contract for transportation OF
army supplies from the railroad to
Fort Washable. There is competition
between the Rawlins and Casper trans
portation companies for the contract.
1t is made one of the conditions of the
contract that Indians from the Sho-
shone reservation must be employed to
do the hauling.
Rawlins contractors who are hand
ling government freight destined for
Fort Washable and the Wind River
agencies state that they know nothing
about the contracts being awarded to
Casper men 1t is said that at the
present price for freighting the freight
ers a barely make a living, and that
If a contract has been made at a lower
figure, the contractors viii surely lose
money.
, 1904-04-28
MORSE ACQUITTED
RtNCHMAN CHARGED WITH COM
PLiCITY IN ATTACK ON BIG
HORN COUNTY JAIL.
Prosecution Dropped Case Owing to
Inability to Get Witnesses to Tes.
tify Against Men Who Shot Cor
man and Walters and Accidentally
Killed Deputy Price.

Cheyenne, Wyo, April 2S.-Dan Lee
Mcrse. a ranchman of Big Horn coun.
ty, who was charged with completely
in the midnight attack on the Basin
jail when Deputy Price was murdered
and German and Walters were lynched,
was last night acquitted by a jury at
Ba sin.
The prosecution dropped the case.
owing to its inability to get witnesses
to testify. and the court instructed the
jury to find for the defendant.
Indictments were returned last fall
against George Saban, James Tatlock
and five other leading ranchmen, who
were alleged leaders of the mob, but
owing to the failure of the prosecution
in the Morse case the entire matter
will be dropped.
1t is alleged that many thousands of
dollars were expended by members of
ths mob in getting witnesses GU of
the country and closing the mouths
of others.
, 1904-04-28
AGAINST PRIMARIES
NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
ENDORSES PAPER READ BY
ITS PRESIDENT AT CHICAGO.
Declares Primary Elections in Munic-
qualities Are a Failure and That
Independent Candidate Is Handi-
capped In Getting His Name on
eailot-euprefnt Court to Decide.

Chicago, Ill, April 2s.-At the meet
ing of the National Municipal league
here today the members seemed gen
orally to agree with the sentiments
expressed in a paper by President
Deming Of New York. He urged that
the primary system of elections in mu-
inequalities had proven a failure, and
that the Independent candidates were
handicapped in getting their names on
the ballots. He suggested that any
citizen with a sufficiently large follow
ing should be allowed to have his name
printed on the ballots. Elections would
then lie between the views of public
policy and not between e
, 1904-04-28
AFL0AT
ARMoRED CRUISER LAUNCHED
At SAN FRANCISCO TODAY
WITH GREAT ECLAT.
Daughter Of Builder Pressed Electric
Button Which Sent the New Yes.
sci Down the Ways, and It Was
Christened by Daughter Of Gov.
ernor Pardee-vesseI 10 Modern.

San Francisco. Cal, April 28.-The
armored cruiser California was today
launched in the presence Of a great
crowd, with the accompaniment Of
whistles. bells and booming cannon
Mrs. Walter Martin, daughter Of Henry
Scott, the shipbuilder, pressed the
electric button which started the yes.
sci down the ways. Florence, the
daughter Of Governor Pardee, christ,
ened the vessel. The governor, with
his uniformed staff. General MacAr.
thur and other notables were present.
In the California are. embodied the
, 1904-04-28
GIRLS r
Maidens on Picnic Prevent Destrue.
ton Of Property.

Mercur, Utah, April 28.-Miss Annie
Sullivan and sixteen scnool girls saved
$4,000 worth of railroad property from
burning yesterday.
The girls were on their way to the
summit for a picnic when they discov-
cred a box car on fire, and several
others threatened with destruction,
owing to the gale that was blowing.
Miss Sullivan detailed two of the
girls to return and notify Station
Agent I'm. Dean, while she marshaled
the other seventeen and formed a fire
brigade. Filling their picture hats
with sand, the girls succeeded in
smothering the flames before assist
ance arrived.
There were six cars. two Of them
loaded with merchandise, and 1t is es
timated that the heroic efforts Of the
gilrs saved the railroad company about
$4,000.
Agent Dean marched the girls dowr
town and bought all the candy in the
drug store for them.
, 1904-04-28
THE SENATE
NAMES OF PRESIDENTIAL APP
PorNTEEs FOR JUDGES OF
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Territory Man for Central District,
Missourian for Western District,
kansan for Southern District and
Itiinoisan for Eastern District
Men Nominated are Noted.

Washington, April 2S.-The presi
dent sent to the senate today the fol
lowing nominations:
Thomas Humphrey of the Indiar
Territory, to be judge of the United
States court for the central distric'
of the territory.
Louis Sulzbacher of Kansas City tt
be Judge of the western district of the
Indian territory.
Joseph Dickerson of Kansas, to be
judge Of the southern district of the
Indian territory.
william r. Lawrence of Illinois tC
be Judge Of the eastern district of the
Indian territory.
, 1904-04-28

Among the 10000 Magyars in the
United Statec there are 100000 Pres
byterians, who hold the reformed faith,
which is that Of the Presbyterian con
fession. Among this large number
there are but two ministers. DR.. G.
Karzany of youngstown, Ohio, and
Rev. julius Hamborsjky. who was or
dained in the Hungarian reformed
church of the Helvetic confession.
, 1904-04-28
Robber Dies at Hospital.

Chicago. ILL.,, April 2S.-George
Walsh, a robber. who was taken for
stealing hams, died today at Engle
wood hospital. He was caught steal
ing hams from the stock yards Satur
day night by Peter MCGEE, a watch
man. The men exchanged shots, in
which Walsh shot and fatally wound
ed MCGEE and another Waterman
named Arthur Clements. He himself
received his death wound from Nc
Gee.
, 1904-04-28
Senate Passes shoshone Bill,

Washington, d. c., April 2S.-Sena
tor Clark of Wyoming secured the pas
sage in the senate last night of the
Mondell bill providing for the opening
to settlement of 10000 acres of lane
comprising the northern portion of the
Shoshone Indian reservation. Severa,
amendments were made to the bill as
it passed the house, one Of these pro
viding that agreement with its provis
ions by the Indians is not necessary
Mr.. Mondell secured concurrence ii
these by the house before adjourn
ment.
, 1904-04-28
Wars FIRST VICTIM.
Shaft to Memory Of First Soldier Killed
in the Civil War.

Grafton, w. Va. April 2s.-Ten thou.
sand veterans today attended the un'
yelling OF the monument to the mem.
DRY OF Bailey Brown. the first soldier
killed in the evil war. The local
Grand Army post raised the funds for
the monument, which is a handsome
granite shaft
, 1904-04-28
BELIEVED TO BE INSANE.
Young Attorney Leaves Wife and Fam.
lily Almost Destitute.

Richmond. Ind, April 2S.-The po-
lice are looking for Grin Fisher, a
young attorney, who disposed of all
his property and disappeared. leaving
his wife and family almost destitute.
The wife had just secured a divorce.
1t appears that Fisher had a mania
for collecting tobacco tags. and had
, 1904-04-28
EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES.
Has Killed All Esquimax in Macken
zie Basin Except Ten Families.

Winnipeg. Manitoba. April 2S.-An
epidemic of measles in the Mackenzie
basin has killed all the EsquimaX in
that settlement except ten families
Before the disease appeared there
were forty families, totaling about 20C
people, and now all are gone except
about a score. News of the ravages
was brought by Bishop Breynai. who
has just arrived at Dawson after a
tedious journey from south of Mac
kenzie.
, 1904-04-28

New York, April 2S.-The health de-
partment official report for five Dor
oughs of Greater New York show
1870 cases of measles, thirty
seven of which were fatal. and 1875
deaths from pneumonia. The epidemic
is attributed to the severe winter,
which necessitated living in closed
rooms with little or no ventilation.
, 1904-04-28
BY COW.
Engineer and Fireman Of Freight
Train Caught Under Engine.

Fort Worth. Texas, April 2S.-A
Frisco freight train was wrecked neal
Brentwood last night by striking a
COW. Engineer Albert Wade and Fire.
man l.. A. Hunt were caught under
the engine and scalded to death.
, 1904-04-28
Will Go to Supreme Court.

Topeka. Kas.. April 28.-Attorney
Hite. for Dan Anthony, today an
day announced that an appeal would
be taken to the supreme court from
Federal Judge Pollock's decision, that
he had no jurisdiction in the contest
Anthony instituted against Congress
man Curtis for the congressional nom
nation in the First Kansas district.
, 1904-04-28
MISSIONARY CONFERENCE.
Only Three Responses Received I
Call for Twelve Missionaries.

Omaha, Neb., April 2S.-At today's
session of the Woman's Baptist foreign
missionary conference it was announc-
ed that only three responses had been
received to the call for twelve mis-
sionaries for the foreign field.
, 1904-04-28
BIG 'UNS WERE THERE.
PuoiIists Attend Benefit for Ex-Cham.
pion John L. Sullivan.

Boston. Mass. April 2S.-The benefit
to eX-Champion John l.. Sullivan this
afternoon attracted sports from all
over the east. A record breaking
crowd Witnessed the performance
Among the fistic stars participating al
the athletic part of the entertainment
were Kilrain, Charlie Mitchell, Jim
Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Terry Nc
Govern. Jimmy Britt and Tom Shar
key.
, 1904-04-28
Tried to Burn eattleship.

st. Petersburg. April 2S.-A Port
Arthur correspondent reports that the
Japanese have invented a new com.
bustible. They tried to burn the bat
tleship Retvizan," he writes, "by set
ting adrift RATS loaded with this
burning material against the Retvi-
zan, and then the combustible con
tinued to burn under the water"
, 1904-04-28

Kansas City, April 2S.-Judge Sulz-
bacher was a member of the supreme
court of Porto Rico and is n Of the
most highly esteemed members of tne
bar in the state Of Missouri.
, 1904-04-28
Hot Fiqht for Judoeship.

Santa Fe, N. M, April 28.-A hot
fight for the judgeship of the Sixth
judicial district will be begun here as
soon as the president signs the bills
passed by the senate this week. Lead,
ing candidates are Judge Freeman of
Carlsbad and w. C. Reed.
, 1904-04-28

Transports Sunk and Crew Captured.
st. Petersburg. April 2S.-An Of
fetal dispatch today reports that two
Russian torpedo boats blew up a jap
anese transport at Wonsan, Korea. 1t
carried 400 tons Of rice. 1.500 tons of
coal. four Hotchkiss guns. seventeen
officers. twenty men. e~ighty-ive coolies
and sixty-five sailors. who were cap
tured.
All of the other soldiers on the YES
sci. 600 in number. refused to surren-
der. drew up military lines and fired
at their foes. as well as those who had
surrendered. AS soon as those who
surrendered were safe the Russian de-
%stroyers opened fire on the transport
and, after a brief time. the boat went
down with the 600 men.
, 1904-04-28

worn out several buggies driving
around the country collecting them
from farmers. This is believed to have
affected his mind.
, 1904-04-28

Hand.tailored suits for spring that
hold their shape and fit at Woodruff &
rerry's.
, 1904-04-28
MET MASKED Guns
DETACHMENT OF JAPS RUNS INTO
RUSSIAN BATTERY AND FINDS
LATTER TOO HOT FOR 1T.
Japanese Troops Retire Into Village
and Take Refuge in Houses, Rus
SLAMS Declining to Follow Up Ad-
vanta9e-A Japanese Transport
Blown Up and Rice. Coal and
hotchkiss Guns Go to Bottom.

London, April 2S.-Inclement. wealth
er along the Yalu is delaying Japanese
operations. The town of kuling
Cheng, near ANU. has been occupied
by the mikado's troops. Scouts Of the
opposing forces are constantly ex-
changing shots.
A Japanese detachment advanced
from the village Turen Cheng and en-
countered a Russian masked battery.
The Japanese retired into the village
and took refuge in the houses. The
Russians did not attack.
, 1904-04-28
Kansas Man Well Connected.

NdTsds "o' WIT SorF'rSSeSo'
Topeka. April 2S.-Judge Dickerson
is the brother-in-law of Edward Hoch.
the republican nominee for governor
Of Kansas.
, 1904-04-28

latest improvements. She cost SIS, 00o,-
900. Length, sos feet; displacement.
l3,iO0 tons; armament. four eight-inch,
fourteen six-inch and eighteen three
inch guns.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-13
Delivered by Carrier.
Another Russian Disaster.

The Russians capacity for blunder-
ing seems to fight on the side OF the
Japs. Another serious blow has been
struck at Russian supremacy in the
east in the sinking Of the battleship
Petropavlovsk, and the drowning of
Vice Admiral Makaroff, the distin-
guished naval officer on whose effi-
cheney as q sea fighter Russia relied
SO confidently. What must make the
loss of ship and commander more dis
heartening Is that the ship was blown
up by a Russian mine.
The Russian fleet seems to have suf-
fered nearly as much, from plumbers
of Russian management as from the
accuracy of the Japanese fire. The
Russian campaign to date has been
a. series of plumbers and exhibitions OF
unreadiness and apparent inability to
get ready, which Is calculated to pro-
duce genuine alarm in St Petersburg.
The Japanese, on the other hand,
seem to have made few If any mis-
takes, and no serious ones. Every
thing they have undertaken has ap-
parently been we'll planned in ad-
vance, and their movement Of men
and supplies, their choices Of position
and general plan Of campaign have
challenged the admiration Of nava
and military authorities thruout the
world.
Thus far it has been fight be-
tween brains and bulk, with the usua
result Probably few people have ex'
pected the Japanese to win agains
the Russians in the long run, but un'
less the Russian campaign is con-
Quoted more intelligently hereafter
than it has been thus far the run may
not be so very long. Before Russia
Is able to prevent it Japan Will nave
established herself too firmly acros:
the path Of the Russian advance to be
removed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-13
THE MAGAZINE faster

War Before or After DecIaratIon?-w
Japan's course honorable under present.
day laws of war? The question is one that
has been answered both ways. Rt. Hon.
Sir Charles Dixie, Bart, NJ. p, gives an
answer that it seems should carry special
weight. 1t is in The North American Re-
view for April. He says: 1.-THE steps
taken by the Japanese minister at St. Pc
tersburg constituted as fair and complete
a warning of war as is now usual before
the first acts Of war. America has pro-
duced some Of the greatest textbooks on
international law, and they are there to
confirm this statement. The greatest
books on war are the German treatises,
in all of which-and most recently by
Won der Goltz-we are informed, upon
the highest military authority, that acts of
war will In future invariably precede the
slower formal declaration. Won der Goltz
goes much further than the Japanese in
practice went
.Anglo-American" in the same number
of the Review goes after the legend" of
Russian friendship for the north in the
civil war in a way that is sure to arouse
very sturdy doubts as to Russia's claim
on American friendship now. This is un-
der the title "Some Revelations OF the
War and the revelations are such as
to make the reader 'sit up and notice
things The number is one Of excep-
tfonal merit in magazine making.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-13
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
His Recantation Is Not One to Which
Shadow OF opprobrlum Attaches-No
Reader Of the Book Would Blame Him
for His Course

4 : 3
Like a breath of south wind in late win
ter comes Halliwell SATELLITES A Bachelor
In Already among the mass OF spring books
that have thus far passed in review before
this chair. 1t is just bit out OF the Ar
cadian life of people able to appreciate
at their true value the joys of such an ex-
1stence. There are no intricac1es OF plot,
no thrilling incidents, no villains or hne
heroes" or heroines of ineffable beauty,
but there are men and women who know
and love the good things of meadow and
hill slope, wide-rolling acres and kitchen
garden, sun and blue sky, birds in air and
fish in stream. and all that go with such
things in good story, including fine types
Of men and women
The master, the bachelor, of this Ar
cady, which is twenty acres In extent plus
bank account, is lover OF nature.
Flowers, he says, surely, are the sun
dials OF the year, that measure time, not
by the niggard unit Of an hour, but by
months and seasons" He thinks men are
given to making t'too much Of flower culti
walton and realize too little the poetry
of vegetables The flowers he calls the
'girl children" whom Nature may be
trusted to care for but beans, peas, let
tuces and caulifowers and other products
of the kitchen garden are the boy chill
dren' of his nursery Speaking of cats,
he says: They seem to warm winters
night as much as the fire itself does.
Concerning the Cleaning Of Pipe"
drops this hint for philosophers who
smoke Believe me, a free draft in ones
pipe is essential to lofty speculation OF
any kind"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-13

The Atlanta Constitution declines to
accent the assurance of the Duluth News
Tribune that all is satisfactory and har-
monious among the Minnesota republicans
on the tariff question, and that the re-
publicans of the state are entirely satisfied
with the platform adopted by the last con-
vention. The NewsTribune warns the
Atlanta Constitution not to take the word
of The Minneapolis Journal and the St.
Paul Dispatch but to accept it's assurance
that the republicans of Minnesota as a
whole are in line with the "standpat"
policy and have no sympathy with the
Iowa idea" 1t must be conceded that
the "standpatters' have the ball just now,
but this is a case in which time Is an
element. Just now the republican party
nowhere appears to be ready to tackle
the tariff question. 1t is laid aside until
after the presidential election. But there
only temporary arrangement; that the
republicans, not only in Minnesota, but OF
the west generally, are determined that
with the election out Of the way, the
leaders Of their party shall pay some heed
to the tariff reform sentiment within It.
and that this matter shall have a fail
hearing at the next session. The Atlanta
Constitution Is pretty well informed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-13
The Tariff on Wheat.

The Grant County Herald, speaking
Of Canadian reciprocity and TIL e
o urn l. s remarks about the Or
tonville resolutions, says. "It is not
necessary to give the Canadian farmer
g. free wheat market in this country
in order to have a right to remove the
tariff on lumber. Canada did not put
that tariff on lumber, and Canada cam
not remove it. The tariff is an Amer
whenever we please
That is all true. But we We're talk
ing about reciprocity with Canada, and
reciprocity means that each side shall
concede something to the other with
the idea that the net result will be
Of mutual benefit.
1t has been the general understand
Ing across the border line that If Can
ada were to give us freer access to
her markets for our manufactured
goods we should allow Canada freer
access to our markets for her raw
materials. We will certainly have to
concede something to Canada If Cam
ada Is to give us anything Of material
advantage. The trouble Is that we
have delayed so long the proffering
of anything which Canada can afford
to accept that that country is growing
Indifferent to the whole scheme.
AS to the statements of the Herald
to the effect that T h g 10 urn Is
editorial page and it's market page do
not agree, because the latter shows
that Minneapolis is better wheat
market than Liverpool, it is assumed
that the Herald knows that temporary
conditions arise at various times under
which, for short period, the Mime
apolis market might be relatively bet
ter than Liverpool 1t is sometimes
relatively better than Chicago, or Du-
luth, or New York, but those are
only temporary conditions. When
ever they obtain they are usually
brought about by some unusual mill
ing demand, these dreadful enemies
of the farmer, the millers, creating
this demand temporarily to supply
contracts already entered into. These
contracts must be filled sometimes
whether the local supply be large or
small with the natural effect upon the
local market, but manifestly this must
be temporary condition. The
millers of Minneapolis can not make
-four profitably out of wheat for which
they regularly pay more than the rul-
ing price in the markets of the world.
When it comes to a demand for a