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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
MILLIONS. IN MINERAL LEASES
ARE HELD BY DUANS CLERKS

Realy and Lydiard made trip to the
properties in which they Were inter-
ested and explored them.
AS result of their investigation
they allowed several leases to lapse
and the title to the property is now
vested in the state as far as Mr..
Lydiard knows.
'T have an interest in only one quar-
ter section" said Mr.. Lydiard to 7
Globe last night. Il allowed other
leases to lapse, and I believe Messrs
Lane, Moody and Healy did the same.
Messrs. Healy and Lane. believe, have
an interest in one or two other leases,
but to what extent / do not know.
Swan B. Molander, stumpage clerk
in the office of the state auditor under
the Dunn administration, was at the
office of the state auditor yesterday
afternoon armed with copy of the
report of the public examiner relating
to the sale of stumpage. He professeG
to believe that most of the cases where
there is shown to be a shortage oc-
Cured under the administration OF
State Auditor herman.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16

mentioned herein, are just as valuable
as the one covered Shy lease No. 1892.
would respectfully suggest that the
attention Of the legislature be called to
the fact that 1t is commonly supposed
that in our state there are yet thousands
of acres of mineral lands which have not
been explored and which are inaccessible
to market because OF lack or transporta-
ton: 1t Is believed that these lands con-
tain vast deposits of mineral, and there
them up in these long time contracts and
leases, with comparatively little revenue
to the state and at the low royalty price
OF 20 cents per ton when they become
available and are operated.
Would it not be well to suggest to the
legislature the advisa Utility of providing a
method by which these contracts for min
Ing on state land could be sold at public
auction. and that the minimum price Of
20 cenfs-p per ton royalty should be largely
increased Respectfully submitted for
your consideration.
s.. TT .Tohnson P,hlio Eya rninar
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16

ticle J.. section. 8 of the constitution,
providing: No money shall be drawn,
from the treasury but in consequence
of appropriations made by law
When congress appropriates money
for TIE payment of pensions,
IT provides for pensioners who have
been, placed on the rolls under the
provisions of any~and all acts of con-
gress. The president is prohibited
from authorizing a dollar to be paid
out of such appropriation except to a
pensioner created by law. If congress
authorizes the building of one battle
ship and five cruisers, and then ap-
propriates lump sum for construction
purposes, no one would pretend that
1.-THE president could use the money for
the construction of five battleships and
one cruiser.
Constitution Forbids
So, If congress appropriates a lump
sum for the payment of pensions and ii
the existing statute authorizes the
payment Of pensions to those who can
establish that they are Suffering from
any mental or physical disability or
disabilities of a permanent character
which SO incapacitates them from
the performance of manual labor as to
render them unable to earn support"
the president Is forbidden by the con-
stftution to. expend the money thus ap-
proprlated for the payment of pensions
to one who is not suffering from any
mental or physical disability" or who
is not incapaeitated from the per-
formance of manual labor or is not
unable to earn a support" Congress
did not authorize the appropriation OF
pensions because soldiers of the Civil
war We're aged sixty-two; and the
honoring of pension certificates OBJ
tanned on that score, by President
Roosevelts secretary of the treasury,
is an illegal license by which that of
f1c1al permits the money of the nation
to be distracted.
1t is fair inference that the action
or President Roosevelt, three months
before his nomination, was a bid for
the pension vote. If Judge Parker
should today announce that his pension
commissioner, when appointed, would
give certificate to anybody who was
sixty years old, and that his secretary
OF the treasury would honor the certif1.
cate, the reception of such pro-
nunciamento by the people of this
country may well be imagined. Why,
then, should they receive differently
the order of March last? Indeed, the
presidents last act is far more serious,
because he has, without warrant of
law, and selzing the opportunity of Of
flee, in effect appropriated the nations
money for his own campaign fund.
We conclude that the order was I'M
constitutional, lawless, and most rep
rehensible.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
Early. Date in One Contract
GREAT TRACTS OF
TIMBER BRING NOTHING

The report pertaining to stumpage
of school land pine is in line with the
earlier reports that have reflected on
the former state auditors administra-
ton. While no direct charges of Off
cial profit are made on the part of the
state auditor, the grossest neglect Of
his official duties is charged in the
making of timber permits and the fail
ure to enforce the laws governing
them.
The report contained set Of 161 per-
mits, taken at random from the rec
ords of the auditors Office in the
seven years prior to 1903. In every
case the cruisers reports show timber
cut and not paid for by the men who
profited by the practice. The law re-
quiring the holder of a permit to be-
come responsible for all the timber on
piece of land for which he holds the
permit has, the examiner says, been ig-
nored, for in many cases the permit
holder was released from responsibility
without payment and new permits
were granted by the auditors office
under which the remaining timber was
cut. The examiner concludes from his
investigations that great tracts of tim
Der were cut and the state received
very little if anything, in the way of
compensation.
Another table of fifty-nine permits
detail cases where the permits were in
force when Auditor Bierman retired
from office. Nothing was ever after
wards recovered from Them and no ef-
fort has been made to learn how much
was cut from these sections of state
land.
The examiner can scarcely believe
that the timber is still standing after
ten years. Mr.. Dunn's Office was given
added power under the law passed as a
result of the investigation of Mr..
Bierman's Office. The report says he
did not cancel the contracts under
which nothing was done, and made
little effort to enforce them. The tim
Der has disappeared in part, new per-
nits were issued for what was left and
collections were not made for the tim
Der that had evidently been taken by
the pine land thieves.
The examiner goes into the questions
involved very thoroughly, and in his
timber report to the governor suggests
an investigation to determine the liza
billy private or Official" and whether
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
Sheep Butchers Continue Strike

CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-Because of al
legged discrimination against sheep
butchers employed at the Union stocks
the sheep butchers workmen have de-
c1ded to remain on strike. All of the
packing companies excepting Armour
& Co. are alleged to be discriminating.
At meeting of the packing trades
council it has been agreed that the
sheep butchers union would be sup
ported in the strike
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
Proposals for oats
Office Board Of Fire commissioners;

Office Board of Fire Commissioners
st. Paul, Mimi, Sept 16, 1894
Sealed bids will be received at this Of
fee until Wednesday, Sept. %. 1904. at 4
p. M, for furnishing the Fire Departments
of this city with seventeen thousand
10000 bushels No. 8 white oats, to be
of crop of 1904, to be well cleaned and To
be weighed on department scales, corner
Eighth and Minnesota streets.
Five thousand $4,000 bushels of tho
above amount will be for immediate de-
livery; twelve thousand (12.000) bushels
to be delivered after Jan. 1. 1905, as called
for by the Chief Engineer. all to be de-
livered at the different Engine Houses
in this city.
proper bond will be required for the
faithful performance of the contract. The
Board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
Bids to be indorsed Proposals for
OATS and addressed to the Undersigned
BY order of the Board. 80
VIM. OGORMAN,
Secretary
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
MINERAL LEASE REPORT
TELLS STRANGE THINGS

That part of the reports which will
attract instant attention, for 1t is a
new line of inquiry on the part of the
public examiner, relates to the sale
and transfer of mineral leases by the
state auditors office. The report indi-
Gates very plainly that George A. Finn
and Isaac c. Patterson became finan-
cially interested in valuable mining
contracts and Mabel Evans, of Prince
ton, figures in a number of the leases
now held by the former state employees,
as the person to whom the leases were
originally issued.
Miss Evans is a sister of Patterson,
the difference in the names being due
to the fact that she was adopted in
infancy by a family named Evans.
With her name in a number of leases
appears the name of Emma Arden, but
in the f1fty-year contracts with the
state the interests of the two women
give way. either in part or in whole,
to the land clerks who had actual
charge of the making of the leases.
The leases were issued by the state
auditors Office in 1902, according to the
Johnson report, they were turned
into fifty-year contracts within the
year, and then, having left the employ
of the state, the names of Finn and
Evans appear as the lesses.
W Siihd SttNSt SoSC
Attention is called in the report of
the public examiner to the case, exclu-
sively reported in The Globe Tues
day, of the Mabel Evans interest in the
Virginia Silver lease This property
is estimated to contain at least 2.OOO,-
600 tons of iron ore, and if the indica-
tons are not at fault Miss Evans is a
very wealthy woman. In this case her
name is the only one to appear.
-Four leases are cited in which Emma
Arden had one-third interest, with
Mabel Evans two-fifteenths. Under
the contract, issued a year later. the
record shows Finn and Patterson AS
having Seven-fifteenths interest, with
the two women not appearing
Two leases which show the two
women as the lessees later indicate
Finn and Patterson as owners of the
contract.
Early Date in One Contract
The record shown by the state ex-
amlner discloses an instance where
Patterson became the owner of two
contracts While he was yet in the
service of the state Leases of date of
April z, 1901, ran to w. S. Brisbane,
and two days later were assigned to
Mabel Evans. A year later fifty-year
contracts were issued with Patterson
as owner of a one-half interest
The report of the public examiner
cites specific instances where the chain
of evidence between Miss Evans and
Miss Arden and Mr.. Finn and Mr.
Patterson is conclusive, and then tells
the governor the law prohibiting con-
fractural relations
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16

Copy of Certificate of Authority
State of Minnesota,
Department of Insurance
Whereas. The Scandal Mutual Life In
surance Co, a corporation organized I'M
der the laws of Illinois, has fully com
piled with the requirements of the laws
of this state relating to cooperative
or assessment insurance.
Now, therefore, i. the undersigned In
surance Commissioner. do hereby en-
power and authorize the above named So
of cooperative or assessment life in
surance in the State of Minnesota ac-
cording to the laws thereof until the
3lst day of January, A. ID. 1905, unless
said authority be revoked or otherwise
legally terminated prior thereto.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal of Of
fee at St Paul, this 31st day Of January,
ELMER H. DEARTH
Insurance Commissioner
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
HoImbers Named for Treasurer

John A. Holmberg, the former sheriff
of Hennepin county and the man who
had charge of the execution of Harry
Hayward for the murder of Catherine
Cling, has been nominated candidate
for state treasurer by the Republicans
of Colorado.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
III ID
SAPOLIO
FOR TOILET AND BATH

Delicate enough for the softest
skin, and yet eficacious in removing
any stain. Keeps the skin in perfect
condition. In the bath gives all the
desirable after-effects of Turkish
bath. 1t should be on every wash
stand.
ALL oRocERs AND DRUGGISTS
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Board Of Fire Commissioners
st Pa,,l MINI Co.,

st. Paul. MINI. Sept. IA. 1904.
Inc Board met in regular session at q
Presentmcommissioners Clarkin. Free
Warner. go - ~
: Minutes Of the previous regular and
special meetings read and approved.
A request from Commissioner of Public
works asking that fire alarm poles be re-
moved from Bates avenue was referred to
President Warner
The First Ward Improvement Associa-
tlon asked for the removal of fire alarm
poles poles on on Payne avenue Preferred to Presi-
n nsa n;n Wa ar they also asked for the
pacing OF fire alarm box at the corner of
EdHgerton and Brainerd avenues
referred to Superintendent of Fire
Alarm and the Chief Engineer to investi-
gate and report. 80 - =.
Supt. Burdick, of the Street Railway
Company requested that the ordinance
requiring e the street cars to stop at GER
tam crossings when fire apparatus is max
ing ing runs be withdrawn. and the street
ca car company would enter into written
agreement. to make all stops called for
In the ordinance
the President. -, - -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16

VIOLATIONS, SHOWN by the record, not one
| case Is shown where any legal steps have
been taken to enforce the terms Of the
contracts upon either principal or bonds
! men.
Schedule No. 1 will show you how the
| loss to the state is proven in a sample
/ lot Of 102 cases, each case covering a
| section.
If the cruisers estimates were as much
| too low IN those 161 sections, mentioned
| in schedules and z, as the records
| show them to have universally been where
| the timber was all actually measured.
| causes herein and heretofore mentioned
has been almost beyond estimate.
Respectfully submitted.
-S. T. Johnson, Public Examiner.
| Sec. .S6-57a22, permit No. 49,, issued
company, estimated at 500, 900 feet, and
! sold at $2.75 per 1000. The surveyor
general on April 49, 1891, reports a Acut
of 1,840,540 feet, and another cut was re-
i,s5s. a2o feet. Total feet cut under this his
| permit, 3.098,960 feet. In June, 1895,
/ Cruiser Dedon says that at least 6OO0,-
7 600 feet of good pine has been cut from
this section two or three years age"
This would make It appear that there
were really 100000 feet Of timber cut
under this permit, and little over 3,o00,-
| 600 feet paid for. The rest Is not ac-
counted for In any manner, and nothing
| appears to show that any effort was made
to locate same and enforce payment.
/ Sec. s6-53-12, permit No 1923, issued
to Merrill Ring Lumber company, Oct.
| 20, 1884, expiring in 1896, estimated
amount 1,2o0, 600 feet, sold for 50 per 1000,
shows no record of any payments having
on Oct. q, 1897. another permit, No. ls,
was issued to Duncan Brewer e Co., ex-
piring in 1899, giving an estimated amount
of 1.702-000 feet sold for s2.10 per LOCO.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-16

law might be passed to the same ef-
feet
Cost of the Order
TIE consider next the extent of this
executive usurpation. Almost every
veteran of the Civil war is today at
least sixty-two years old. The very
last will become so within the next
four or five years. The actual effect
of the order has been to appropriate
at least $72 per annum Of the nations
money to every human being who was
connected with regiment for three
months in the Civil war. = The total
amount it will never be possible to
measure in exact dollars and cents.
Figure up the number of men now liv-
ing who were connected with the army
or navy for ninety days in the Civil
war and who are not disabled, give
each of them $72 year as minimum,
or $144 year as a maximum, and we
have the sum total. Estimates have
been made at $12,0G0,000 per annum.
The pension commissioner has insisted
that s5,400,000 per annum will be a
more approximate figure. 1t seems
that there are about 1872 900 survivors
of the war not on the pension rolls
prior to this executive order. If all
these were to be placed on the rolls,
the result would be about SIS, 000, 006
per annum. If the chosen representa-
tives of the United States in congress
assembled had desired to appropriate
fifteen million dollars per annum, or
any other sum, to such Grass of PEN
sioners-men exactly as well able to
earn their living as anybody erse sixty,
| two years of age-that was their right.
1t was not the presidents.
In this aspect of the case President
Roosevelt deliberately disreRarded arr
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-11

Justice Johns donket was unimport g y
5 Yesterday, and was over With IN q q 8sh2't
space Of tine II III n ~
4 James Ronc. was sent down for twelve
months as a drum . NJ
iIgrank uoualns for being drlrt and dis.
orderly paid SCI and WIS pu e under SO,
cl,rity Nor ten days, III IA
y Eddia Myers, colored Has CHARGED ts9
ara nut lindors security for 8 s,;ty y,
fer for recklessly driving, aud running into
Mary Dunneyunt.9 colored, was essessed
IS and given SIX W day securl IT, 10Y VS.
y Alberta Hanks, colored, Was V fined $40
ana given thirty days security on tho
charge OF Maintaining Y dlRord erly house.
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SLOUIsA3C COUNTY BONDS

SIS BIDS 10 PUR CHASE SUCH BONDS
to tho aggrega Of ". 900 q more
will be received att Louisa, p v a., until IL
o'clock noon & Of SATURDAY, October II ].
1904 for the who'll Of ssucll issue and any
ass The bonds will be IN denomination of
prlpclp Issued .as te I! money =,
order Of Board OF superyl so; q g SAD
liz diss as follows: Five bonds or $500. to
nv, begin Iln.
Wisconsin such bond as may fall; due over
years after date; that the SAID COUNTY
charge ali such bonds twenty years a fter
January 1922 With interest !;
cent. per annum from lda te az such bond,
payable annually the istS Day q jan
nary of each and every yea gso5 long q s
such bonds shall remain q U sta Ing and
unpaid, eginning viii, January lso 9
will be made known on October 1904
rivllege8 Of rel ting any md all bids
for said bords Is reserved. ~: n
~. NJ EADl5, Cha lrma
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The Two Adams and the Two
I'LL Creations,
Tditor yrImcs,D isratcll;

Z Ed tor yTlnes.D 15patch IL go g l,sS
sir,-Tho old Adam has but one life.
which Is IA life Of sin, called SINS hesli.
) which he llns to retain as a precautionary
now creature OF the new creation which
God In His loving blindness and tender
u nlerces has fully provided. for the utter
u obliteration of sin i and the redemption
OF the human race. Tho new creutnre,
I therefore, has another life. which rs
n snless one having crucllled the old
4 man with Ills deeds and put on Christ.
E III whom ls no sin, by that baptlsln which
IS for the remission OF sins BY the wasll-
blood OF Christ clcanses from al 4 81 nj,
aud why can't n we keep 80? re We we
compelled to be disloyal7 Is tho spirit
3powGrS too weak to govern the physical?
i This Is just where the trouble les Be.
cause the Apowtle John says IT Il ere ia
no man that liveth and sinneth net,
he ts made to NEAR that man cannot
not have been conceived by the subtillty
Of: the serpent, the Their OF all liars.
] call this the greatest OF all lies, from
tho fact that I have never vet met the
man or woman who belongs to the Adamic
creation WHO does not believe that q
IS utterly Impossible To llys Without lsin,
whether they are good or had. Ana
yet there are others Who pro TESS 70 helongi
to 4 the new creation who bolieye the the
We know that the doors Of sin are
vida opon enou oh In the days Of probaY
ton, but don't say that 8 hay call ts 30
closed TO anyone, unit the final Jud glpent,
believe that tIle new creature In Christ
closes the door, because he has found tho
snarTow A way and walks ~ It. ".
RUS III whole course through the mid
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Mr.. Walden Here.

Il Mn Ernest Walden, we'll lsno own llera as
one Of, the ropulals postnl. onsra toIs, who
there were cllunges In. tho head luartel's
here, MAS In the city last nj ght. Hing,
ON friends. He Ia now holding ~ respon.;
sible nos tion, IN the Postal telegraph
Office In Washing on, a
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4 Nlo!GIsl ~ .
g unlYERSlI SCHOOL l:.a !!

OPP, MONROE PAR K T@4iRIcHMoND.s VA
aFORTIETH5 SESSIqN%of mine mon hs.5S Sept
~ UNI, prsparat ton fur I uni;
and Military Academic Primary department
for small B boys, with separate instructors
study hall and reel to ton rooms: Number oe
board IA strictly limited. 81 Tho rincpal Will
30 at home, n d elviders 81. Af:eF Sept.
81 For fun informal as to- terIns; system.
and College Record sslnce cAta.
oKue u book and dr,l stores II Or BY mai
upon app ton to- w " =, s3sss5
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TTrin q 7'fhc lVorld,s Fair

4 1'Eo IS days In Washing ton. Only ss5o
3 Tor the round trip. Train ~ III leave Broad
ana Hancock Streets a Az n ret
sing$ leave !; yTashingt ton Wednesday sep
5tcrllber 18th. at Fl. n. IS sharp y stops a.
and 9 uantico and at Alexandria, ~ assen-
GERS " from Petersburg and Il vicinity can a.
Connect with this excursion either by: rail-
way trains or trolley ca rs, going and re-,
turning Take the Broad Stree cars ana
get Off right at our II ain. We SO regard
less OF the weath er. . . -,
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n VATio Al F Ar NE RS coNV,E n II on, s
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II He WORLDS EAR, VIA
q AM RAILWAY. "a
SOUTHERN i. RAILWAY.

The Southern Raj lway w III operate spe-
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change, In y charge Of q competent and
courteous representative of the passenger
department. Southern r ailWay, whose
pleasure 1t will be to look carefully NJ
ter the comforts Of our patrons. The
route VIII lay through, Danyille, Sails
bury, sAsheville, 'The Land OF the sky.,"'
Knoxville, Louisville, ana " the fanhohs
blue grass section OF Ken lucky. BY using
this train you will be insured a delight
fu',,s comfortable journey, through ono OF
the most charming and plcturesqu Tue SEQ
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tho, state Celebration and Farmers and
Cotton Growers Convention, q ,,is
For full Information apply to nearest
ticket agent or address. 53yS
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III District Passenge Agent. Richmond. Va.