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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
CITY NEWS
LABOR MOVEMENT LIGHT
BAD CROP REPORTS CREDITED
WITH REDUCING TILE ANNUAL
HARVEST VIBRATIONS.

The Minneapolis police have, had
less trouble with itinerant laborers on
their way to the harvest fields this
fall than in any season for years.
While thousands have passed thru the
city, few have clashed with the po-
lice. Nearly all have gone and the
Migrants now hanging around are
few.
Lats year was an uneventful one
for the harvest hands. Several were
robbed here, two were murdered al
most within the city limits and many
ran afoul of the police. Whether
there is any difference in the class
of men passing thru this year is not
known, but the police say that they
never saw a year when there was SO
little trouble.
One noticeable fact is that not
nearly so many men came to the city
this year on their way to the harvest
fields as last year. This is explained,
|perhaps, by the fact that last fall
was an Improbable one for them,
and many who went to the harvest
fields did not make a cent and are
unwilling to repeat the experiment.
The unfavorable crop reports from
the northwest, undoubtedly had some
thing to do with keeping many away.
The police expect the influx Of the
returning harvest hands about the
last of next month.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
HAVING NO TROUBLE
City Controller Denies Report About Ne
system Of Bookkeenino

City Controller Denies Report About New
System OF, Bookkeeping.
. City Controller Joshua Rogers is some
what nettled over a report circulated in
business circles to the effect that the
controllers office Is having trouble with
the new system Of bookkeeping and that
his assistant, Dan C. Brown, has been
obliged to send to Chicago for aid in draw
ing off the monthly trial balances. Mr.
Rogers is railing these reports as malic-
ious falsehocds.
whatever in obtaining balance with the
new system, either in carrying it out or
in obtaining the balances, :" said Mr.. Rog-
ers. mo one has sent for any of the ex-
perts from Jones, Caesar & Co., as they
would come here anyway in accordance
with provision of the contract requir-
ing that firm to supervise the operation
of the new system during the whole Of
1904. The report Is of course directed as
an attack against Mr.. Brown, but neces-
sarily is a reflection on myself and my
Office
Jones, Caesar & Co., under their own
signature, deny the charge that 1t has
been necessary for them to send a repre-
sentative to Minneapolis once a month,
and moreover say that they take pleasure
in stating that after the first month Mr..
Brown has, as far as they know, expert
enced no difficulty in balancing the books
promptly and that up to the time of their
most recent visit to Minneapolis the new
system was running smoothly
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
sTRAWS LIKE BULLETS
They Were Driven Thru a Board at
Waconia Icehouse.

A relic from the storm stricken village
Of Waconia was shown in Minneapolis to-
day by E. L. Capen Of the Boston Ice
company 1t was en- inch board with two
splinters and several straws driven df-
rectly thru it. The board was part of
the icehouses of the Boston Ice company
which were destroyed by the wind. One
of the splinters was about foot long
and about an inch and one-half in its
greatest thickness, while the other was
much smaller. So great was the force
with which the splinters struck the board
that they did not split it. Both splinters
carried straws thru the board with them.
While the building was demolished by the
blow, the straw was not removed from
the top Of the ice stored in the structure.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
HAS A BAD RECORD

Police Take Al Ewing to St: Paul to
Stand Trial.
Al Ewing, ex-convict and alleged forger
and horsethief, was arrested last night
by Sergeant Bean of the fifth precinct
police, who caught him on a Washburn
park car at Thirty-eighth street. lie was
taken to st. Paul today, where he will
be tried for stealing a horse and rig yes
terday. Sergeant Bean recovered the sto1-
en- outfit and Ewing is said to have con-
fessed the crime.
The police first got tracegof Ewing when
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26

he passed a forged check for SIS at Flory's
blacksmith shop on Lake street, in pay
ment for shoeing a horse The horse an
swered the description Of one stolen in St.
Paul. Investigation resulted in Ewing
arrest.
Shortly after the police arrested Ewing,
the proprietor of o candy store at Forty
second street and Nicollet avenue report
ed that he had cashed forged check for
Ewing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26

The strongest evidence that can be
offered for the merits of Mi-o-na and
It's curative virtues is the guarantee
under which it is sold by Dillin, Drug
Co., corner First avenue and Wash
ington. They stand ready at all
times to refund the price to any one
who has found that IT has not done
all that is claimed for1it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
Illinois Central Railroad

Worlds AFR Service to st. Louis
The Illinois Central Railroad now
operates four fast daily trains between
Chicago and st. Louis, leaving Chicago
at $3.50 am, 1904 pm, 9:27 pm.
and 1896. pm. Dining, Buffet
Library, Sleeping and Free Reclining
Chair Cars. Tickets to the Fair at
greatly reduced rates. Ask for time
table and literature. A. H. Hanson,
G. P. A., Chicago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
Harry Mitchell
Editorial

A $15 suit Of clothes as my tailors
make it ism It to be judged by any
standard of clothes making that you
know about.
1t is no more fair to say that a Scot
land Wooden Mills suit is to be COM
pared with regular tailor's $15 suit,
or "hand-me-down' $15 suit, than to
say that a 800 diamond in South
Africa isn't better, larger and finer.
than diamond that 500 will buy in
this country.
What l want to make clear is that
the duties, middlemen IS profits, and in
cidental commissions that force you to
pay from $50 to $50 for tailored suit
Of clothes ordinarily are eliminated in
my way of cloth buying and clothes
making.
You must understand that I own and
conduct chain of stores under the
name of the Scotland Wooden Mills
Company. ] go to factory and say
"Here Mr.. Manufacturer, you can keep
| your factory busy making certain pat
terms and fabrics that I want. You
sell all you can make to me. You have to
selling expense; no jobber gets profit
| from the sale of goods; but you deal
| directly with me and we will keep you
| busy all the time. - Then the manu-
| facturer makes what we want, the way
we want it. I get only those fabrics
and patterns that half dozen Of the
! best experts in America, employed by
| me as buyers, decide we want after an
f, investigation Of metropolitan styles,
| and after finding out what are the best
! of the imported materials.
Do you see how all the profit taking
| transactions are cut outflow it is
from factory to you, and no mistaken
That is the way I've built the tre-
| mendons business conducted under the
name Of Scotland Wooden Mills. I
shouldvsay that and our way Of tailor
| ing.
] venture to say that can dress you
in SIS Scotland Wooden Mill suit and
then in $35 "other kind' and the
/ only difference will be in favor of the
,,swagger cut of our suit
If you're $35 suit man, you may
be prejudiced against my $50 suits.
| Well there you lose 800. But If you
will get out Of the rut once, you III stay
out. And if you re ready-made suit
man, you haven It seen yourself dressed
right. Those pretty-near' fits are
all right if you don t care. If you do,
I've got values that deserve your at
tention now.
Please realize that $4,000 pieces of
| fall fabrics' isn't an advertising
| phrase, but fact. These new goods
are here now and they re so good that
I'm willing to back every suit we
make from them with any kind Of a
guaranty you like that will insure your
satisfaction.
| Whether shopper or a buyer, you
are welcome here.
| HARRY MITCHELL
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
FAIREsT KIND OF OFFER.

If Mi-o-na Does Not Cure Dyspepsia,
Get Your Money Back at Dillin
Drug Co.
You run no risk whatever in pur-
chasing Mi-o-na, Natures cure for
dyspepsia.
5 Take it for month Ca SOC box
contains two weeks treatment) and if
it does not help you, bring back the
empty boxes to Dillin Drug Co. and
they will return your money in ac-
cordance with the following guaran-
tee:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26

Plate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
Room Renting Bureau.

For the convenience of Journal
readers and state fair visitors, The
Journal has established a room-rent-
ing bureau, where full particulars
are registered of rooms and apart
ments advertised in their columns.
This service is absolutely free.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26

was the star and also toured with "The
Strollers." Mrs. Chafee says that her
daughters are not stage-struck. but that
they like the work and prefer that method
of earning their living
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
Guarantees.

We hereby agree to refund the
money paid for Mi-o-na on return of
the empty boxes, if the purchaser tells
us that it has failed to cure dyspepsia
or stomach troubles. This guarantee
covers two SOC boxes, or a months
treatment.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26
JOINS "YANKEE CONSUL"
Hazel Chaffee of Minneapolis viii Sing
with Savage's Company.
n6;., rr,,a1 ~ eeoo <Jo,,,1,+a~ 20

} MISS I1sZeI OIIdlIee,- -uduSIteT Oh II. u.
Chaffee, 1888 Fifth avenue S, has Joined
Henry W. Savage's Yankee Consul"
company, at the Studebaker theater, Chi
cago, and will tour the country with that
company this year. She is accompanied
by her sister, Miss Donna Chatfee, who
has been on the stage before, but Miss
Donna will return home as soon as the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26

Chicago engagement Is finished
Miss Hazel Chaffee has followed the
example set by her sisters. Her twin
sister, Helen, was member of the Bob
White" company when Marguerite Sylvia
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-26

Do You Need Shoes?
New fall styles are in at the Nickel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
CITY ARRANGES FOR
NEW FUEL SUPPLY
Contracts for Goal and Wood for Public
Schools Are Awarded

The city purchasing committee yes
terday awarded the coal and wood con-
tracts for the public schools in equal
shares to the Jones-Adams con1pany
and the Northwestern Fuel company.
the lower bid of Holmes & McCaughey
being ruled out because it failed to
comply with the specifications. The
bids were for 1909 tons Of soft coal.
500 tons of hard coal, and small
quantity of wood.
For the hard coal the bids were the
same, ranging from $8.45 for June to
1915 for September, but on Yougnio-
gheny soft coal Holmes & MeCaughey
bid $40 a ton straight, while the others
asked $4.75 to $4-S5 ton. For other
soft Goals Holmes & McCaughey under
bid the others by about the same per
cent.
The specifications under which the
bids were submitted required that an
analysis be given of the coal it was
proposed to furnish, and as Holmes &
McCaughey failed ITO do this their bid
was rejected.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
GIVES UNIQUE DINNER
TO SWEDISH EDITOR
A. N. Goldberg, of Stockholm, Enter
tanned by Vice Consul E. II. Hobe

A unique dinner was given Saturday
evening by Engelbreth H. Hobe, vice
consul for Sweden and Norway at ST.
Paul, at his residence at Bald Eagle
lake in honor of A. N. Goldberg. the
eminent Stockholm, Sweden, editor,
who is representing the Swedish gov
eminent as commissioner to the ST.
Louis fair.
The dinner was served after a GUS
tom in the higher class Swedish homes,
the first course being served from a
small table and the guests partaking of
bread, butter and cheese standing.
Later the company of fifteen repaired
TO the Hobe dining room, where an
elaborate dinner was given and where
toasts to America and the Scandina-
Wan countries were proposed
Editor Goldberg, who is a warm per-
Sonal friend of the king and crown
prince of Sweden and Norway, paid an
eloquent tribute to the advancement
and prosperity of his countrymen who
have settled in America. Among the
guests present who responded to toasts
were G. A. Smith, the Minneapolis
lumberman, and P. E. Hanson, secre-
tary of state.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
MAN LEAVES WOMAN
COMPANION IN JAIL
Pat Hussey Pays His Own Fine-May
Watson Goes to Works

Dislike of life in the workhouse over
came Patrick Hussey's natural gallan-
try in police court yesterday, with the
result that he paid his own fine of $25,
and allowed Miss May Watson, who
was arrested in his company, to go out
for thirty days.
When Judge Hine fined the couple
$25 each, or thirty days, Hussey was
evidently puzzled for a moment as to
which course to pursue, but looking
anywhere but in the direction of the
woman he dug into his pockets, paid
his fine, and went from the court room
without leaving hope to his companion.
Hussey told a bailiff that he would Sc
cure the release of the woman if he
could get the money.
The couple were arrested for disor-
derby conduct. HuSsey is a well known
police character, but the woman is not
KNOWN
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
MERE KIDS TO HIM
Col. j. B. Cook Calls Two Ven
erabie Friends "Boys"

Three men, whose combined ages
aggregate 243 years. stood in front OF
the Ryan hotel desk yesterday and cut
pigeon wings, bantered each other to
run foot races and the Oldest of the
trio volunteered to do song and dance
turn just to show that, despite his
years, he was Just as young as he
used to be-"
Dr. David w. Lamb, of Lawrence,
Mass. was a guest at the st. Paul no.
tel yesterday and in a conversation
with Col. Frederick r. Welz, proprietor
of the Ryan, a somewhat animated dis
pute arose as TO which was the older.
The Massachusetts doctor presented
venerable appearance, but his claims
to a superior age over that of Col.
WelZ were not accepted until the East
ern man had produced a document
showing that he is eighty years old.
The best that Col. Welz could lay
claim to was seventy-seven, and while
the hotel man had agreed to pay the
penalty of having been born at least
three years too late by an adjournment
to the buffet, Col. j. 3. Cook, who has
an Office in the Ryan building, capered
nimbly across the lobby. He was call
ed in to give a reckoning of his age.
why, you boys are mere kids COM
pared to me- declared Col Cook. Il
was quite a lad, Dr. Lamb, when you
first looked on the sand dunes of the
bleak New England shore, and as for
you, Col Well, / was quite a help to
father when you first saw the light of
day across the water. But while l am
considerably older than either of you,
| am younger in a way. l feel like
running a foot race. or 1 will do a song
and dance stunt to show that l am
just as young as l ever was. A man
is just as old as he feels, they say, and
on that theory am just in my prime
Col Cook pleads guilty to being
eighty-six, and in spite of his years he
is one of the most active business men
of st. Paul, being at his Office almost
every day, driving fast horse to and
from his office, and keeping an eye on
a business that is one of the large in
stitutionS of the city.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
MUSIC MUST BE FREE
Park Board Refuses to Change
Present Policy at Como

President Wheelock's suggestion at
the meeting Of the board of park COM
mlssioners yesterday that the needed
new pavilion at Como park might be
secured by charging admission to the
concerts was not approved by other
members of the board present
In advancing the idea Mr. WheeIock
said that the plan had been in force in
Minneapolis for some years, and
although he was nominalIy opposed to
reversing the previous policy of ST..
Paul of giving free concerts, it was.
nevertheless, true that money for the
proposed new building must be raised
in some manner.
Commissioner Aberle said that "the
people would much prefer to vote bonds
for the erection of a pavilion than to
have a charge made for seats at con-
certs. Just think of the poor man who
takes his wife and five or six children
to the park and is asked to pay 25 cents
each to hear the concert. I do not be-
heve that would be right"
I'VE should not change the present
policy" declared Commissioner Top
ping. 1T will surely be possible to Sc
cure the needed money in some other
manner"
Supt. Nussbaumer estimated that it
will cost $4,000 to build the pavilion.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
LIGHTNING STRIKES
A FREIGHT HOUSE
Bolt Shoots Through That of Rock
ltt-.. Island, but Mo One Is Hurt

The Rock Island freight house, on the
West side, was struck by lightning dur
ing a storm yesterday morning at 6:20
O'Clock, and serious damage might have
been caused had the building not been
practically fireproof., The bolt struck
the freight house on the east side near
the top, tearing out a few square feet
Of stone cernfce work, and shot through
the building, starting. a fire in the west
end under the office
The fire was quickly brought under
control by Henry Pierce and Patrick
Bell, watchmen, and when the fire de-
partment arrived the blaze had been
nearly extinguished. J. w. Lawhead
local freight agent, said that the only
serious damage caused by the lightning
was to the electric wiring in the build
ing. The elevators, which are operated
by electricity. were crippled, and the
telephone and telegraph wires were put
out of order
A Strykef avenue street car was
struck by a bolt of lightning about the
same time while running on South Wa
basha street. The motors of the car
. We're burned out and the woodwork
caught fire, but the blaze was quickly
ext1nguished. No one was injured by
either bolt
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
CONTENDS HE WAIVED
HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL
State Raises Novel Point in Case Of
CorriVau, Convicted of Murder

Arguments were heard by the s,1-
preme court yesterday in the appeal of
Louis Corriyau from the Judgment of
the Lake county district court. finding
him guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. G. w. Somerby, assistant attor-
ney general, who argued the case for
the state, raised the point that Corrivau.
who had accepted a Communication of his
sentence of hanging to life imprison-
meat at Saltwater. had waived his
right of appeal from the findings of
the trial court.
COrrivau's attorney conbatted thjs
point and based his appeal on the
ground that the evidence had been in
sufflclent to convict, and also on alleged
errors OF law occurring in the trial The
point raised by the attorney general
mas not been passed upon by the courts
OF Minnesota. The case was taken
under Amusement by the supreme
court.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
CHAFFEE DUE JUNE 80
Lieutenant Generate Visit Fort
Smelling on That Date

The itinerary according to which
Lieut.. Gen. A. r. Chaffee, chief of staff
or the army, will inspect many Western
posts next month Shows that the gem
eral will leave Washington, D. c., Sat-
urday, and will return towards the end
OF August. He will go first to Detroit
and then by water to Duluth He will
be accompanied by Gen. G. F. Hum
phrey, the quartermaster general.
From Duluth the party will come to
St. Paul, being due at Fort Smelling
Thursday, June 80, and will leave the
fort next day. The haIts at other
posts between Minnesota and Wash
fngton will be:
Fort Lincoln. N. d. noon July 2 to
noon July 3; Fort Keogh, Mont, $50
p. m. July to $50 p. m. July A Fort
Mackenzie, Wyo., 1:43 p. m. July to
2:35 a. m. July 6; Fort Missoula, Mont,
9:16 p. m. July to S:55 a. m. July 8:
Fort Harrison, Mont, 2:15 p. m July 8
to 1920 p. m. July s; Fort Assinni-
bolne, Mont. 6:37 a. m. July to lib
a. m. July IL; Fort Yellowstone, Wye,
he: 80 a. m. July II to IL a. M July L.
+ After visiting Fort Wright, Wash,
Gems. Chaffee and Humphrey will reach
Seattle, Wash, at /: 10 o. m. July 49,
and leave there at the same hour six
days later.
Subsequent stopping points will be:
vancouver Barracks, Washington; Fort
Walla Walla, Wash; Boise Barracks,
Idaho; Fort Douglas. Utah. Fort D. A.
Russell. Wyo.; Fort Robinson, Neb.;
Fort Meade, S. D.; Fort Niobrara,
Neb.; Fort Crook, Neb.; Fort Des
Moines, Iowa; Fort Leavenworth, Kan;
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
Leaving Jefferson barracks on the
morning of Aug. 13. Gems. Chaffee and
Humphrey will visit the worlds fair
at st. Louis, and will then go back to
Washington.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-21
MATTRESSES MUST
GIVE UP POMPADOURS
Sixth Street Restaurant Owner
Declares Against the
Popular Rat

'Cut down the pompadours or quit
your jobs
This is the decree of the proprietor
of a popular restaurant on Sixth
street to his fifty-five pretty mattresses
and before the end of the week there
is likely to be a half hundred vacan-
cies in the profession, if the order be-
comes effective.
There was a conference yesterday
at the restaurant and the general
manager of the cafe declared to the
girls that their pompadours must go.
mo more rats" declared this ar
bitter of fashion. "An my girls must
have their hair combed down fiat and
parted in the middle. Now this order
is final and it's either cut out the
pompadours or quit
And then the conference ended.
Fiftyfive girls looked at one an
other and grinned. Then they left the
general assembly room in the base
ment of the restaurant for the cafe
proper. 1t was just before supper
time last evening that the manager
delivered his important and revolu-
tionizing order. When the girls finally
realized its import they were so daz-
zled that they became indignant.
We'll, wouldn't it cause a girl to
drop her tray?" asked Josie, one of the
prettiest Of the many good looking
young women.
Its certainly the limit" was the
response of one of the other girls. Il
wonder what he knows about hair any
way. Wants us to look like our
grandmas. No pompadour hair
brushed down and parted in the mid
die; wouldn't l look like a pretty doll. -
Mattresses Threaten Strike
Not for me-" chimed in another
waitress. 1 guess it's up to me to quit
Tor wouldn't part with my pompadour
for all the jobs in st. Paul It's one Of
my good features. Then my hat Is
made for high head dress and I can't
afford new creation until Septem-
ber."
And Of the fifty-five girls all but
five Or six are looking for new jobs, SC
loath are they to give up their style
of headdress. The patrons of the
restaurant, too, are in sympathy with
the, indignant mattresses and formal
petition may be made to the proprietor
of the cafe to allow the girls to con-
tinue to dress their hair in any style
that best pleases them.
But the proprietor seems determined
When seen last night he said:
Its just this way. The girls must
cut down their pompadours or Til be
required to raise the ceilings. 1 have
seen the pompadour gradually grow
higher, until it has finally become 8
disgraceful freak.
MY stand is this. A waitress is g
servant. She should be dressed neat
and plain. l don't care what my girls
do when not working, nor do I care
what, they wear or how they dress
their hair. but when in my ,restaurant
they must conduct themselves as serv-
ants should. ~-,-.o-s-------
Many of the girls now dress then
hair as if they were going to a. ball
This must cease. have told the girls
in a nice way that the pompadour must
be cutaoat, and I think that they vii
comply with the rule. If they don't.
know where I can get mattresses whC
wiH." $3.50