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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
OBITUARY NOTES.

Chicago; Dec. lS-Ex-Congressma u. W. Mills
died to-day at his home IN this city. Mr.. Mills had
been i'll since last July from complication of dis
eases. lie had undergone an operation.
Syracuse, Dee l6-Charles G.. Belden contractor
forty-seven years old nephew of the late James
J. Belden, died at his home here to-day from heart
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
TO CLOSE HALIFAX NAVY YARD.
Orders from England-Dominion May Get
Property for Railroad Terminal.
LIZ TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l


Montreal Dec 16.-A dispatch from Halirax says
that a dispatch has been received there from the
British government, ordering the permanent closing
Of the navy yard More than three hundred skilled
mechanics are employed there. Many ships Of the
British navy have been overhauled and repaired at
Halifax. for the dockyard has been in existence
since 1859 It is believed the Dominion government
will acquire the property to be used as termlnai
for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
CARS IDEA OF REFORM.
Wider Rights for ZemstUos and
Municipalities Erpected.

st. Petersburg. Dec. Let is reported to-
night that The imperial manifesto which will be
issued on December 10. among other things will
increase the rights Of the zemstvos and suspend
the state of siege in cities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
DENIES PITTSBURG LOANS
Mrs. Chad7cick Says She Does Not
O7Ce Any Bank There.

Pittsburg Dec. 16-In a telegram to The
Pttsburg Dispatch" Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick
denies that she is in debt to any Pittsburg bank
The telegram says:
Kindly deny report that 1 owe money to any
Pttsburg banks / don't owe them one dollar.
MRS. c. L. CHADWICK.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
RAD FACTORY FIRE IN HOBoKEN.

Fire broke out late last night in the factory
building of William schimper & Sons. No sl2 10 800
Ferry-st.. Hoboken. The firm manufactures pocket
hooks and novelties. The building is five stories
high Three alarms eaisd 5o 54e entire tire mGboken de-
was asled from Jersey city. II is believed the fire
will be confined the factory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
.STOESSEL AGAIN HIT.
General Reported Slightly Wounded
bu a Rife Bullet.

London. Dec. 17.-General Stoessel. the Rus
sian military commander at Port Arthur, ac-
cording to dispatch from Che-Foo to THE
Daily Telegraph" has again been wounded this
time by rife bullet. The correspondent adds
that the wound is not serious
Enny I'm November General Stoessel was
wounded In the head by a splinter from shell
while he was personally directing the repulss
Of japanese attack.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17

Water-st this afternoon. The damage 70 oui.n-
Ing and stock is estimated at $1,000 Other oni'u
ings were in danger. Including COOK lhe@' -.
= gonora, otarr, was sent in. The IRE was soon
under control.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17

traffic saying spark or collision might cause
a catastrophe within stones throw of the
houses of Parliament.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
PRINCE ANTON RApZiWtLL.

Berlin. Dec. 16.-Prince Anton Ra.iziwin promI-
nent in Berlin court life and an intimate friend
of Emperor William /, is dead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
FINE ENpANeERs THEATRE.

Rochester. Dec. i6-Fire broke out in the furai-
ture store OF Rlekford. schantz & Co.. in South
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
ART SCHOOL PRIZES
Announced at the Opening of the Annus
Exhibit.

Announced at the Opening of the Annual
Exhibit
The list of prize winners for the year
at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts
was announced Saturday evening by Di-
rector Robert Koehler as follows:
Academic Department-Hinkle scholar
ship for 19O4-O5, Miss Nellie Todd of Min
neapolis.
Students scholarship for the coming
year, Clarence Conaughy Of Minneapolis.
Honorable mention, Miss Charlotte Parke,
Hans Hansen and Chris Lindem, all of
Minnea polls.
Children's .Class-Scholarship for the
year, Frank Goetz Of st. Paul, first prize;
Honorable mention, Sophie Tillish, Joseph
G. warbol, Una Mcclatchie and Alice
Knoblauch.
Decorative Design Department-For
students in the first class scholarship for
one-half year, Miss Marie Backus Of In
dependence, Iowa; second prize, Miss Ma
bel Willford of Minneapolis; third prize,
Miss Mary Lockwood.
For students in the second class schol-
arship for one year, Miss Louise Sphinx of
Minneapolis: second prize, Miss Florence
Shook
For students in the third-year class,
Miss Esther Rounce. Honorable mention,
Miss Edna Layman, Miss Helen Harring-
ton, Miss Lydia TIarkins, Miss Harriet
Med Donald, Miss Florence Powell and Miss
Elizabeth Mcleod.
e. G. Gale, president of the Minneapolis
Society of Fine Arts addressed the stu
dents, expressing the approval and inter
est OF the society. "
The summer term Of the school will
open June Is and continue two months
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER

What College Does for GirI.-Presi-
dent Charles F. Thwing of Western Re-
serve university writes with sympathy
and authority in the current Harper's
Weekly on the subject How Shall Edu-
cate My Daughter?"-a companion article
to one by him in a recent Issue of the
Weekly on the education Of boy. Pres
ident Thwing believes in college education
for girls. He argues that, altho there is
small chance that a girl will become
scholar, there is a chance that she may
become thinker; and he would have
her power Of thinking developed. Her
thinking, he says. should have :the ex-
actness Of intellectual discrimination, the
fulness of noble scholarship it should
embody "a culture which is at once emo
tional and aesthetic and ethical, as well
as Intellectual it should be delicate
without being whimsical, vigorous with
out being boisterous, large without being
visionary, noble without unworthy ambi-
tion solid without stolidity, fresh without
girlishness.'' To create thinker Of such
sort, he believes, is the primary purpose
of the college for girls. And his conclu-
sion is that a better use cannot be made
Of the four years following the age Of
II or 18 than to have her go to college.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
Didn' It Know Santa Paula.

The Mortified Independent has a
good joke on the st. Paul Commercial
club and the st. Paul Globe. The sec
rotary of the club and a Globe man
had some rare sport with letter from
Vichy, France, addressed to Mes
sieurs La Santa Paula Commercaile
Compagnie, Santa Paula" The letter
was Endorsed by postal clerk "Etats
Unis," and delivered to the ST. Paul
Commercial club, where it was opened
by the secretary. The writer wished
to be appointed an agent for the sale
Of prunes, apricots and other fruits.
A rather facetious reply was sent, in
forming the French correspondent
that the prune crop in Ramsey county
was a total failure this year, and that
better results might be obtained by
writing to Sac Paulo, Brazil.
The editor of the Northfield Inde-
pendent knows where the letter should
have been sent by the postal authori-
ties, and he calls everybody down
neatly, as follows:
If Secretary Slime, the Globe man, or
some one in the st. Paul postoffice had
been better posted, the letter would have
been promptly sent on to Santa Paula
Cal, where it undoubtedly belonged, and
where 1t would have been delivered tt
those it was intended for and who would
have been able to talk intelligently about
prunes, apricots, etc. When the French
man gets his reply he will be justly
shocked at this display of ignorance about
their own country on the part of Ameri-
cans,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16

THE MoLE's sPEcTAcLEs


Mrs Mole had come to the store with
three mole pennies; she needed pair Of
spectacles and new fur coat
This fur coat is three pennies, and the
spectacles are one penny more" said the
storekeeper.
Couldn't you let me have them both for
three pennies? p pleaded Mrs. Mole. SIN
SO near sighted that can hardly see to
get about, and my rheumatism troubles
me so much that really think I must
have fur coat, but three pennies Is all
I have in the world"
II couldn't possibly" answered the
storekeeper; "but I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll sell you the coat for three pennies.
and I'll throw In this pair of eyeglasses
that hasn't got any chain to it you must
be very careful not to lose them
So Mrs Mole put on her fine new fur
coat-you can see to this day that the
mole wears the finest fur coat of any lit
tie animal she took her eyeglasses with
out the chain, and before she got half way
home she lost them
You can tell that this is true story,
because the moles are still half blind and
wear fine coats. But what most people
don't know is that when they burrow all
around under the ground and spoil the
grass they are really looking for their
glasses It's my belief that if you should
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
The Ames Case.

The next thing to do in the Ames
case is to try it again. Bear in mind
that 1t is not Ames so much as Min
rleapolis that is on trial in this case.
Ames may go free, but Minneapolis
cannot escape the responsibility of
furnishing or acquitting a chief execu-
tive resting under the charges pre-
ferred in this case. The cost Of prose-
cution is not to be considered. 1t is
true that another trial conducted un-
der similar conditions might result in
another disagreement. But at least
another effort should be made to Sc
cure decisive action by the courts.
When another trial is undertaken it
Is to be hoped that it will be known
before the trial commences whether
the jury contains any one who is SO
thoroly convinced before hand, wheth-
er it be of the innocence or of the
guilt of the accused, that the evidence
submitted on the trial could not affect
his verdict. .a.. 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
CITY NEWS.
BRAVE NAVAJOS
IN GREAT NEED.
HAVE SUSTAINED SERIOUS CROP.
AND STOCK LOSSES.
Lucien G. Speers Of Flagstaff, Ariz.,
Says that Upon the Crops of This
Year Hangs the Fate of the Trick
Succession of Lean Years. :

Upon the success of the crop raised
this year on the Navajo Indian reser-s
walton in Arizona, New Mexico and:
Utah depends the fate of the Navajos,S
famous in history and now in song,i
according to Lucien C.. Speers of Flag
staff, Ariz., who is at the Hotel
Brunswick. Mr. Speers says that for
several years the winters have been
growing more severe and the droughts
in summer more protracted and as
result every living thing on the res
ervation has suffered seriously. Last
summer the unfortunate Indians, who
were among the bravest in war and
are now the most willing students Of
the ways Of civilization, appeared to
be on the verge Of starvation. --.- E
cit has been growing worse on the
Navajo reservation since 1S99," said
Mr.. Speers. I'm that year there was
an unusually heavy snow which lay
on the ground until late in the spring.
Then it seemed to evaporate, leaving
scarcely any moisture in the earth.
The Indians, as usual, planted their
corn, squashes and melons, but in:
many places they never sprouted.
When autumn came not. enough corn
had been raised to supply one-fourth
| the people. Then they had to follow
their old custom of living almost en-
| tirely on meat.
| In 1901 things were no better, and
| the live stock began to die off. In
August of last year there came a heavy
rainfall, filling the dry washes with
foaming, churning torrents and COW
! ering the desert with a wide lake,
which thes thirsty earth swallowed in
less thanEa day., That was too late,
! hoWever,stoS be of any benefits and the
outlook for the winter was gloomy.
It&was a hard struggle for the Indians
to get along.
''The focks Of sheep and goats,
upon which the Navajos depend for
! their living, have been led from place
to place in the vain search for pas
ture, but lack of water and food has
caused the animals to perish in great
numbers. Those that are left are in
1 most cases too lean to eat, and the
fleece is also very poor and light.
1.-The Navaios have been accounted
the richest Of the Indian tribes. They
| were the most promising of the gov
| ernment's wards and are the most in
teresting Of all the reds in the south
/ west because Of their thrift and stu
dious endeavor to become civilized in
every sense of the word. Their chief
pride has been that they have been
self-suppOrting since the government
furnished them with f1ocks and placed
them on the reservation. But when
i the springs fail and the ground is
i parched, succor must come from the
government or from the people UNI
! officially, or fearful distress and great
! loss Of life will be the inevitable re-
suit
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16

Advertising Manager for the International
Harvester Company of America.
The large interests that Mr.. stiles
administers as advertising manager
Of the International Harvester Co.
comprising the Champion, Deering,
Mccormick, milwaukee and Plano d.
visions, and entailing the expenditure
of hundreds Of thousands Of dollars,
are guided by a sure hand. Mr.. Stiles
Is first and foremost practical-not
alone in executive detail Of the many
branches Of his work, but with a large
and comprehensive understanding of
the entire policy of his company and
ability to push factors at hand-which
to an advertising man Of less expert
ence might appear barren-to an
unusually successful issue. ~
The lines of machines sold by the
International Harvester Company of
America are advertised in every grain
and grass country in the world by
means Of catalogs, in addition to a
large amount of newspaper publicity.
In the United States alone about $50
carloads Of advertising matter are dis
Etributed each season. An army of
| 50, 900 local dealers handle the goods
sold by this company IN the United
States alone. sb-a au:3E .8iTTE( .3.rs3esg ~
| Mr.. Stiles is one of!;lthe most
thoughtful advertising managers in
the country. s $50
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16

feeling of distrust. For months the
press had shouted that the men In
whose hands the care of these mighty
capital mbinations had been placed
were abusing their trusts and working
only for personal interests, but Wall
Street. was deaf and against plain evil,
dence Of it on every side Wall Street
was callous. But, this bond scheme
was too much even for the street.
More than anything else it put the
bulls out Of business and rushed Wall
street into the dumps where. it has
now been for a. long time IS
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
THE SANDS o, DEE

80 Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home;s
And call the cattle home,
Across the sands O. Dee!''
The western wind was wild and dank with
5zs5=a5. foam, s5jt=s-
+ And all alone went she.
The creeping tide came up along the sand,
And DER and DER the sand,
And round and round tho sand,
AS far as eye could see;
The binding mist came down and hid the land
And never home came she.
Oh. it is weed. or fish, or floating hair?--
A tress of golden hair,
a drowned maidens hair,
Above the nets at sea-?
Was never salmon vet that shone SO fair
Among the stakes OF Dee.
The cruel, crawling foam,
The cruel, hungry foam,
| To her grave beside the sea;
But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle
- home fs5
Across the sands O. Dee.
s Charles Kingsley.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16

Some Of the efforts Of Mr.. Dunn's
newspaper friends to straighten out his
timber trespass record result in much
straining Of the facts The Redwood
Reveille, for instance. says:
The Buchanan case has not yet been
closed up, but payments have already
been made and the case will be closed
as soon as the necessary evidence is at
hand. ..--s-#
AS the Buchanan trespass was COM
mitted in the winter of 1s9s-1S99, it is a
little late to be collecting the necessary
evidence" The fact is that Mr. Buck
man, then a state senator, came in and
Dragged about the trespass and that final
settlement was made with him in 1902
for $4,000. There is no further charge
against the congressman on the books OF
the state auditor. eF5s-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
The Outlook in Iowa.

The standpatters are in the saddle
in Iowa. According to all reports,
the state convention, which assem-
mated by Blythe, Shaw, Hepburn,
Cousins and all the other enemies of
Governor Cummins. The apostle Of
the iowa idea" will not muster more
than one-fourth of the delegates, and
If he Is elected a delegate it
will be because the controlling faction
does not wish to repeat it's mistake
of four years ago, when it defeated
Cummins for reelection as national
committeeman, and caused a revolu-
ton in his favor which landed him
in the governors chair.
The result in Iowa is to be regretted
from the standpoint of the party's in
terests. The west is the home and
stronghold Of tariff revision sentiment.
Western republicans have been de-
handing change in the schedules on
trust-made articles, and some prac-
teal application Of reciprocity theo-
ries To secure any such results, the
west must stand together. The east
ern friends of the steel monopoly and
the allied trusts hail with delight the
position Of Iowa republicans, who
have been hoodwinked by the warn
ing cry of "let well enough alone,''
and have surrendered to blind stand
pattism.''
With Iowa, a great agricultural
state, opposing tariff revision at the
Chicago convention, the chances will
be much less for any concession to
western sentiment in the platform.
AS T Journal has remarked
before, the situation this year favors
the most reckless attitude. on the part
of the standpatter friends Of trust
corporations. The hapless democra-
cy is torn between reactionaries and
disorganizers, and promises to be an
easy prey. The party managers who
dominate the eastern delegations do
not feel afraid of tariff revision SEN
timent this year, and the result may
be a platform very. unsatisfactory to
western republicans. ~
welt will win this year with almost
any kind Of a platform, or with nc
platform at all; but as present condi-
tions become exaggerated, there is go
ing to be an insistent demand for re-
lief in the shape of tariff revision
| Either that demand will work a revo-
| luton within the republican party
| both east and west, and the tariff will
be revised by it's friends, or the jot
will be turned over to our democratic
friends, with their dangerous aca-
| demic theories.
This looks like the standpatters
year, but T h e Journal believes
it is their last. Time will prove their
undoing, and men like Cummins, who
are now in advance of the sentiment
in their own states, will be the lead.
ers called on 'to~save the day in 1906
or in 1908. uThey are only ac,littl&
ahead Of the procession.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
A Losing Scheme.

The syndicate formed for the con-
version into bonds of preferred stock
Of the United States Steel corporation
has wound up it's affairs with a net
loss of $16,2OO,0O0 to its members.
There will be little sympathy for the
losers. The scheme was a bad one.
That it went thru was due only to the
once predominant position Of the
banking house behind it.
Just who fathered the plan may
never be publicly known. When it's
bold brilliancy first flashed upon the
street, credit for its origin was given
to the head of the Morgan house.
When everything conservative was
turning from it, when financial names
of thirty years standing were found
attached to financial articles pointing
out the folly Of it, when in short all
the best people fought shy Of it, then
it was declared to be the plan Of the
youngest and newest member Of the
house.
The proposition was, in brief, to
take about $200,000,000 of preferred
stock of the Steel corporation and
make it over into bonds. Economy
was the object proclaimed. The
stock dividends were per cent; the
bonds would bear per cent interest
and this was emphasized. The fact
that fixed charges would be increased
that the company, not obliged to pay
dividends on stock in a bad year
would necessarily have to pay bond
interest in good seasons and in bad
was not emphasized. In vain die
eminent financiers point out the un.
| timeliness Of the plan; that it would
shake confidence in the billion dollar
steel company then only recently or.
gained, and. that If there was any
excuse at all for it, in just SO far, i
was reflections uponathe wisdom of the
Steel corporations organizers in no
| having so arranged matters in the frs
| place.
All was in vain. There was abou
$6,000,0O0 commission in it for thu
big house, and it had to 60. But i
was the last straw.
The Northern Pacific corner
brought the end of the great specula
tive excess, the first Northern Securi
| ties suit the end of the craze for rail
road combinations and Community o
Interest plans. The stock conversion
scheme of the Steel corporation
! marked the beginning of the genera
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
'Boroughs Manhattan and Bronx.
PASTORS HEAR AN M. D.
Methodists Are Addressed by DR.. Maicflov
of kamIIne University,

Methodists Are Addressed by Or. Maicf1ow
of HamIne University.
The Methodist ministers turned aside
from the consideration Of the spiritual
side Of human nature to-day to the con-
sideration Of physical problems affecting
the wellbeing Of the race. By invitation
DR.. c.. w. Malchow of Hamline University
Medical school read a chapter from his
book, now in the press. "The Sexual Life.
the chapter being Zone of LIES Chise
Functions The book is written wholly
from scientific standpoint and its deli
cate treatment of difficult subject was
warmly commended.
! The Congregational and Presbyterian
ministers united in meeting at West
Minister for which DR.. j. r. Bushnell read
paper on Moses and Modern Legisla-
ton" No meeting Of the Baptist min
listers was held.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
cLEvELAnD,s OFFER 70 pARkEF

Judge Alton b. Parker Of New York, was
offered the post Of first assistant postmas-
ter general by President Cleveland. The
salary was $1,000, but Mr. Parker. who
Eclined to accept His salary was $4,000
and; as he was building up a good prac-
tice. he said he could not afford to accept.
Postmaster General Villas commented:
81 gave up. a practice worth $4,000 a year
to accept an $4,000 cabinet position" To
been making $4,000 annually for ten years
] should not mind doing the same.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16
AT THE THEATERS
BiJou-"UncIe TOMS Cabin,

The annual avuncular visitation is upon
US. "Uncle Toms Cabin that worst of
melodramas and greatest of stage sue
cesses, has come again. In defiance of all
the canons of dramatic art, it persists.
And the people go to see it. This Is the
secret of its longevity-the public still
goes to laugh at Topsy and Marks and to
weep with Uncle Tom and Eva.
The present production, under the man
agement Of Al Martin, is well done. The
characters are presented with due respect
to all the traditions that cluster around
them and the interpolated specialties are
Of good quality. The cake walks and the
dances and the shouting make things live
ly between the narrowing moments of
pathos.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-16

The Dunn supporters have concocted a
story to the effect that the Collins boom
has burst and that Eddy is to succeed to
his strength, agreeing to take care of
some of the judges political supporters.
The genius who concocted this story Of
fers an insult to the intelligence of the
people Of the state and betrays lack Of
experience in his business. This is very
coarse work, and will be so regarded by
an intelligent public ,s5.,}y