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than "Pillsbury;;" no flour more highly
regarded than "Pillsbury's Best The
name, in itself, is guarantee Of ex-
cellence, and it has been made so by
a quarter of a century of honest deal
ing and competent management, the
two prime essentials in any industrial
endeavor.
About 20 years ago a distinguished
visitor came to Minneapolis. He was
a member of the British parliament,
on junket to this country to look
into Americas manufacturing develop
ment, which, even then, had begun to
attract considerable attention abroad.
Arrived here, he was taken to see the
Pillsbury mills, the show place of in
dustrial Minneapolis.
Now this NJ. P. was victim of alb
sent-mindedness. On occasion he had
been known to forget his own name,
and he was at once seized with dread
lest he forget the name of the city
in which he was being entertained. A
hasty search through his pockets dis
closed not even a scrap of paper. But,
if absent-minded, he was also quick
witted, and he hit upon scheme to
solve the difficulty.
IN the packing-room of one of the
-..sbury mills he saw hundreds upon
hundreds of barrels of -four all neatly
labeled: "Pillsbury's Best, NIinneapo-
lis, Mimi" obviously it was out of the
question to carry barrel off With
him, but the label was different mat
ter. Carefully he gathered the skirts
Of his frock coat about him, gently he
sat down upon newly stamped barrel,
and calmly he smiled as he arose. tax
ing with him highly colored imprint
of the information he sought And
thus it was that Pillsbury's -four and
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had been found such Il mighty logging
stream or better timber.
.Jobbers in lumber in Minneapolis
have increased in number and volume
of business very rapidly Of late. Pa
citic coast lumber manufacturers are
more and more establishing agencies
or branches here. And in addition
the Zine yard" business has conferred
here as it developed to large proper
tions This is the business controlled
by firms owning many individual
country lumber yards which they
manage from central city Office. BY
owning many they are enabled to buy
much cheaper in large lots and to
manage the business at minimum
expense. Minneapolis being the nat
ural market for the Northwest. the
business has gradually conferred here.
The line yards also deal in building
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elusive jobbing business was to be
found in the city.
From some of the best established
of the village stores of the pioneer
days great jobbing houses of the pres
ent have grown. The Oldest jobbing
business in Minneapolis is that founded
by Governor John S. Pillsbury in 1855.
Governor Pillsbury-then plain Mr."
started retail hardware store i'm
mediately upon his arrival from New
England. He was the kind Of man
who never failed, and he survived the
succeeding panic and gradually ex-
tended his business. After time lie
began to sell at wholesale. and in 1874.
having become extensively interested
in milling and numbering, sold out his
interests. The business has continued,
however, without break, the iobblng
department being now the firm of Jan
ney. Semple. Hill Il Co., the largest
wholesale hardware house west Of Chi
cago.
This list Of good bargains in real cs-
tate is but the beginning of what
might be made story of great length;
The wouldbe purchaser can today find
property offered in the real estate
| agencies ut prices that safely net II
| to - per cent. Bargain hunters are
turning down Il per cent offers for OH
! ers of higher profit. thus proving that
the days of good fortune in AIil,neap-
oils real estate are not all historical,
but are in good part the days to com"
One of the factors in the uphllilding of
| city values and the rise of the real cS-
tate business in Minneapolis during TIL"
past few years is the Minneapolis Real
Estate Board. Il body now composed of
upwards of one hundred Minneapolis
real estate dealers. The board has
been active during the past three
years and especially 50 this year.
Minneapolis is not only the largest
lumber manufacturing point in the
world but the principal market of the
Northwest and the center of an "nor-
nous business in forest and lumber
products. building materials and other
closely related articles of trade. \ saw
mill was the first commercial manu-
featuring enterprise ut the Falls of
ST. Anthony, and the numbering indus
try has ever since. been one of the
prominent and picturesque features
of Minneapolis business life. Though
never reaching as great money totals
as the grain and Touring mill indus
tries, it has always been more con-
spicuous as part Of the business of
the city and has usually given employ
ment to a much larger number Of peo-
pie. Until the rapid advance Of flour
milling some 25 years ago, Minneapolis
was known as lumber town. The
name Flour City" had not been in
vented then.
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the first houses We're being built in
the frontier village by the Falls of st.
Anthony. that greatest of all modern
forces, the railroad. was still in Il
crude and ineffective condition. and
the telegraph was little more than the
dream of an inventor. All the other
inventions connected With the utilZa
ton of electricity had not been
thought of. Nine-tenths of the inven-
lions of machinery implements and
processes which now are so much Il
part of everyday life as to be accepted
as necessities without thought had not
been conceived in the brains of the
brightest men in 1850.
minneapolis is known to the remot-
est corner of the earth as Il flour pro-
ducing city. and before -four took pre-
eminence, numbering had reached such
proportions that the place achieved Il
reputation as Il sawmill town. For Il
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city, the influence of the flour milling
and numbering industries and the ell
terprise and activity of the merchants
have already been touched upon. But
unfortunately for the historian the
business of iObbing goods has less of
the picturesque than that of manufac-
turing. The wholesaler employs few
men compared with the captain of in
dustry' who starts mill or factory.
There is no hum of busy machinery,
Ito Harvesting of waterpOwer, nothing
but humdrum weighing and measur-
ing and shipping of boxes and bales
and barrels. 1t is also impossible to
produce figures and statistics of job
bling business. No official figures are
collected. and estimates We're long
since given over in Minneapolis except
in a very general way. But the story
of Minneapolis wholesale trade is none
the less Il very interesting one. and
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material, including sash, doors, lime,
cement, building paper, and other ar
ticles. as we'll as in coal.
Pine has been king in Minneapolis
SO long that other woods have not had
due attention. But they are rapidly
coming into prominence as the white
pine grows scarcer. The use of hem
lock, once despised of all lumbermen,
is growing more common each year;
and southern yellow pine and all kinds
of hardwoods are sold more and more
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partment store demolished the small
competitor who tried to keep up an
equally varied assortment of mer-
chandise: but it simply made room
for the business specialist who achieves
reputation for single line. This is
proven by the development in Mime
apolis in recent years of many exclus-
i've stores which have prospered ex-
ceedingly on the speciality principle.
Among the captains of the milling
industry no name is better known
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long time these two industries over
Dhadowed all other occupations, and
as the city grew to leadership in these
important lines it was, more and more
thought of only as the place where
dour and lumber were made in
greater quantities than anywhere else
in the world.
ut was with something Of shock
therefore, that the business world dis
covered, after awhile, that Mime
Apolis was manufacturing other things
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central power-house i'll each city. This
was found insufficient and new sta
tons We're installed. Still more power
was needed. and in 1898 the company
began to use electricity generated by
water power, having leased the plant
of the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills
company, erected below the main pow
er at st. Anthony Falls. The power
building at this dam-known as the
lower dam-is about $50 by 100 feet in
size and is equipped with water
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Like the manufacturing industry.
the jobbing business has grown in
little over a generation from the SIM
pie beginnings of the frontier country
village. The first wholesaling done in
Minneapolis was the result-rather
paradoxically, it may seem-of great
financial disaster. After the panic of
1857 there was universal distrust in
the business world, and the store
keepers of the northwest, at least out
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in the Peavey Steamship company,
operating four large modern steel
freight steamships on the Great Lakes.
Also controlling interest in the Cable
company, manufacturers of pianos
and organs-factories at Chicago and
st. Charles, III.
The telephone system of Minnenapo-
lis is one of the most complete in the
country. The Northwestern company,
which controls most of the service,
has given its patrons such returns az
, 1904-02-26
A GENUINE SURPRISE
TO SAN DIEGO PEOPLE,

The Gus SUI minS,reIE made heir
initial bow before an audience h a
tested the capacity of Fisher opera
house last night and from the rise OF
the curtain the fun started, and fun 1t
was, and unadulterated.
1t is a positive fact that Mr.. Sun
has gathered about him a coterie OF
real comedians. the principals OF
whom are Fred p. Russell and Eddie
Koran. The singing was by far the
best that has been heard in the min
strel line in many a day.
Especial mention should be made OF
the eccentric dancing OF Eddie Koran
who made a decided hit in the first
part. In the specially part of the pro
gram many novelties were introduced
Without doubt Braddock C Penney
singing and dancing comedians, were
the laughing hit of this part of the
program. W. Corners, somersaul'
bounding wire artist, was really mex
to marvellous.
Take it all in all, Mr.. Sun has go
the right idea of a real minstrel per
Torrance and his company will un
doubtedly be a welcome visitor in thi:
city at any time.-California Union
At the Opera House Tuesday Marcel
LIST. Seats now on sale at Laramie
Drug store
, 1904-02-26
PORT ARTHUR IS
BOTTLED TIGHT
JAPANESE SUCCEEDED IN DARING
PLOT TO STOP THE MOUTH
OF THE HARBOR.
BY Their Magnificent Gunnery They
Have Destroyed Large Part Of the
City, Silenced Number of Guns
and Killed Many People-Russia
Plans Long and Slow Campaign.

London. Feb. 2G.-There seems to be
no question today that the Japanese
have succeeded in b~ottling up Russia's
battleships and cruisers in the harbor
of Port Arthur and by magnificent gun,
merry destroyed a large part of the city,
silenced a number of guns and killed
many people. Just what is the loss
of the Russians is not known, because,
up to this afternoon, Viceroy AleXieff
has made no report whatever to his
sovereign.
1t is believed here in high official
circles that the late achievements of
the daring Japanese have been far
more brilliant and effective than the
first naval victories of February 7
and s..
The Russian papers today give full
confirmation of the blockading Of the
harbor of Port Arthur, but they IN.
deavor to belittle the damage done.
, 1904-02-26

Justice Day Of the United States
supreme court has just handed down
a decision of interest in Wyoming, it
being held by some attorneys here that
a tax title must first be tested in the
courts before it becomes binding. The
decision by Justice Day aitirms the
judgment of the supreme court of Ne,
braska in the case Of Alvin p. Leigh
against Henry 5. Green, involving tax
sales of property. The court held that
the owner of a tax lien may foreclose
the lien upon notice by publication,
which shall bring in anybody and ev-
erybody intended. and mat in the eX-
ercise of the taxing power the state
may delegate that right and authority,
as was done in this case. to the pur-
chaser at the tax sale. and that sue
procedure is not vioialIvu of the rights
guaranteed by the fourteenth amend
ment of the constitution.
, 1904-02-26
ROCHESTER HAS
100000 FIRE
SHOPPING SECTION THREATENED
WITH CONFEDERATION START
ED AT FIVE THIS MORNING.
Fuse in Elevator of Big Dry Goods
Store Burned Out and Flames
Communicate Through Elevator
Shaft-Help Sent From Buffalo
and Syracuse, but Fire Gotten
Under Control While Before Noon.

Rochester, n. Y. Feb. pa five
hours fire, which threatened the de-
struction Of Rochester's shopping dis.
trict, was placed under control at 1918
today, with the loss estimated at
81. 900. 900. Starting in an elevator
shaft in the Rochester Dry Goods com
pany's building at 5 a. m, in the heart
of the shopping district, the flames
consumed this siX-story building,
structure of the Sibley, Lindsay &
Carr company, and 200 smaller ten
ants suffered, sending blazing embers
over the whole downtown district.
The Beadle-Dearburne company de-
partment store building, with numer-
Gus sub-tenants. the Walk-over Shoe
building and several smaller structures
were destroyed by the fire or crushed
under the debris of the sk~yscrapers.
Only a generous use of dynamite
saved the city from destruction. Since
daylight the excitement has been in
tense. The exploding n the fall of
the destroyed buildings, which stood
~ nv PAIN VI - hiiiN iou jan
think of a warlike bombardment. At
/ O'Clock it seemed, as the wind was
blowing strongly. that nothing could
save the town, and the mayor tele-
graphed to Buffalo and Syracuse for
aid. Both cities responded promptly.
Syracuse replied to the mayor that it
would send firemen and apparatus as
coon ~. n ryNnoinl nnr1l hN vnaIn IN
Buffalo sent a similar message, and at
10 o'clock the special arrived with half
a dozen engines and firemen. and they
went to work with the home people to
save the apparently doomed city. At
this time, however, the wind veered
and it was believed the great fire was
under control.
These departments later did excel
lent work, relieving the local depart
ments.
Partial list of the losses:
Granite building and tenants. $780,
900.
Sibley. Lindsay 4 Carr, building.
$3.50. 900.
Wholesale and retail stores, 81, 5OO,-
600.
Buel building, SIS 5000.
journal building, $6O, 000.
iIlwany building and Kirley build
ing. each $40. 900.
Tenants of the Kirley building. $780,
900.
Rochester Dry Goods company, $780,
900.
Walk-over Shoe company, $4,000.
The burned area is three acres in ex-
tent. Number of persons thrown out
OF employment, 1900.
There is great confusion, and it was
reported several lives had been lost,
bat at on no bodies had been found
ald there may be no fatalities.
The contlagration was started by a
fuse connected with an electrical mo-
tor hat runs the elevators of the Roch-
ester Dry Goods company's building
blowing out and the flames rushing up
the elevator way, Very o o after the
whole building was ablaZe and the fire
spread across the entire block.
, 1904-02-26
soycottinq American Goods.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 25.-The irrita'
ton against the United States on &C
count of the supposed ~unfriendly atti.
tude of hat country against Russia,
which was slightly noticeable through,
out the recent negotiations, seems to
have become daily more pronounced
and since the Vicksburg incident al
Cliemulpo (when the commander OF the
American gunboat is said to nave re
fused to unite with the commanders
of other foreign warships at Chemulpo
to protest against the fighting which
resulted in the loss of the Russian
warships Variag and Korietz. and the
fact that the Vicksburg did not take
on board survivors of the Russian
shipsl American business men here
are really alarmed concerning the pos
sible effect on American trade.
Within the past few days orders for
American goods have been counter
manded. the only explanation given
being that the prospective purchasers
did not desire to purchase American
goods under the present circumstances.
United States Consul General Watts
has been appealed to in the case of an
American firm which has a large con
tract for school supplies, the contract
having been peremptorily cancelled.
Orders for the importation of a big
consignment of wood pulp have also
been countermanded, the intending
purchaser saying in his letter that he
could not be expected to do bust
ness with America after the V~icksburg
incident.
Mr.. Watts has felt it TO be his duty
to write to the state department, point
ing out the state of public feeling here
and the great prospective damage to
American trade unless measures were
taken to allay the irritation.
, 1904-02-26

also in the CITY. They are guests al
the Union Pacltic.
Chris Madsen. who has been at
Clark's sa~nitarium. Pueblo. Colo, for
treatment for inflammatOrv rheuma,
tism returned Yesterday afternoon
much improyed in health and sneak,
ing very highly of the sanitarium
Mrs ~ Dowc,r of aidpav Nob
who is visiting Judge and Mrs. c. E.
CARPENTER, was a very pleasant caller
at this Office Yesterday. with Miss Nc
Intosh of that city. She will remain in
the city for W or three weeks yet.
Mrs II Reraeythaus and four chill
dren who have been visiting old
friends here left Yesterday afternoon
for Denver Mr. and Mrs BergeIthaus
wore former residents of Laramie
, 1904-02-26
Religion Will Play Part.

Moscow. Feb. 26.-Russia is plan
ming a long and slow land campaign
that includes driving the laps into a
huge trap n crushing them. Relig'
ious sentiment is to take a large place
in the coming battles. This week the
most sacred image in Russia was sent
to st. Petersburg, and from there it
will be taken to the far east, with the
flower of the Russian army. 1t is a
representation of the dragon appearing
to st. Sergius. and is always kept at
the royal monastery. 1t is n foot
square and is covered with precious
stones. 1t accompanied Alexis, Peter
the Great and Alexander | On all their
campaigns. A silver tablet attached to
it enumerates the battle at which
Ikon was present.
, 1904-02-26

L. J. Bell is in the city.
w. ID. Watson is-here from Holmes
d. NJ. Blair is down from Sherman
Miss Ogilvie of Fort Collins is at tn
Johnson.
Father Cummiskey was at Cheyenne
last night.
B.. H. Towner is in from the Mich
igan mine.
Charles Kuster has gone to the Ram
bier mine.
Judge Carpenter returned last NIGH
from Casper.
c. Cranberg of Medicine Bow is al
the Union Pacific.
J. j. Lindsey is in the city today and
called at this office.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. II. Homer are in
from the Flag ranch.
j. J. McCutcheun is down from the
Iron Mountain ranch.
George Hodgeman arrived from
Cheyenne last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Davies left this
morning for Centennial.
Judge Lacey of Cheyenne was here
this morning from Cheyenne.
Mrs. Neil Clark of Bosler was a
guest at the Kuster hotel today.
County Attorney Gibson has returned
from a business trip to Cheyenne.
William Dubois. the Cheyenne ar
chitect, arrived in the city this after
o
Mrs. b. l.. Scoville of Poughkeepsie
n. Y. is the guest of her son, Henry
| Scovine.
X. n. Gibson and Charles X. Slime
of Chicago We're stopping at the unior
Pacific today.
Ed Matthews OF the Michigan mine
is in for treatment for illness. He vii
remain a day or two.
The Denver guests at the Union Pa
Ciic included II. X. Spilman. \. NJ
Smiley and Louis Curtis.
w. II. Cohen of St. Joseph is at tn,
johnson and George Buck. jr., of tina
Town is at lnt Union racine.
Father Cummiskey returned this aft
ernoon from Cheyenne, where he haC
been for a visit with Bishop Keane.
Clark Pelton has returned from
months visit with his mother and 9th
er relatives at Collins. Huron county
Ohio.
c. f. Curtis, J. NJ. McEnerny. J.
Langdon and II. C. DeSollar of Der
Yer were among the guests at the Kus
ter last night.
Mrs. Haering of Pueblo. Colo. is tn
guest of the family of 7. J. Dayton
having returned from Denver wit
Miss Jessie Dayton.
These Denver men were registere
at the Johnson this morning: S. A
Bent, j. d. Grant. A. c. Lawson, w.
Pierce, d. Higgins and J. f. Joyce.
Francis Swigart went to the Stron
mine IN horseback today with a spt
cial message for Superintendent b
ker, and is expected home this ever
ing.
senator Frazee, proprietor of tn
Leader, will leave Monday for Ne
York to be absent three or fou
weeks, when he will buy the usual bi
stock of goods for the store.
Colonel ]. b. Woods, the well know
stockman of Cheyenne. was in the cit
this morning, calling upon Mr.. R. I
Homer of the Flag ranch. who VIZ
, 1904-02-26

Che Foo. Feb. 2G.-Arrivals from
Port Arthur report that before the
Tuesday attack the Russians received
timely warning from three torpedo
boat ~destroyers. which met the Jap
anese fleet twenty miles outside. The
Japanese fleet approached to within
eight miles of the entrance and com
menced the attack. The first to retail
late were the forts. followed by the
-four Russian cruisers. The engage
ment lasted until dawn, the japanese
making an effort to destroy the arse
nal. The damage to the town was
very serious. but thousands of men are
working day and night strengthening
the garrison and repairing the damage
done by the Japanese guns.
, 1904-02-26
SOCIAL SENSATION
PROMINENT BUFFALO LAWYER
SHOT BY MEMBER OF LEAD
ING DRY GOODS FIRM.
Latter Held Police at Bay for Time,
but When He Saw His Capture
Was Inevitable, Turned Pistol on
Himself and Blew His Own Brains
Out-Cause Of Trouble Unknown.

Buffalo. n. Y, Feb. 26.-Henry l..
Schwartz of the prominent legal firm
of Baker 4 Schwartz, attorneys, was
shot and fatally wounded at his pri-
vate Office in the rear of the Marine
bank building. today, by II. A. Knowles
OF the dry goods firm of Knowles &
Gardner. Both men are prominent So
cially. What the trouble was about no
one knows. The shooting caused great
excitement, and when the police ar
rived they were met by knowles, who,
in a determined manner. held them at
bay with his revolver. Suddenly, when
seemingly his capture was inevitable,
he turned his revolver on himself and
| blew his brains out.
, 1904-02-26

Judge Carpenter OF tins city VIII
go 10 Cheyenne next week to |
court for Judge Scott.
w. A. Hunt today filed claim for the
Mayfiower mines Nos. I and ., in sec
ton 1. township ii. range II.
Petitions for the probate oil the Wills
of Mrs. Elizabeth Pin@rce and Mrs
Caroline Rading were MED today anC
March Il. at 10 II. m. set for the date
of the hearings of the matter.
The Wyoming investment company
in a warranty deed dated February e
1901, and filed today, conveyed to John
l.. Meyer lots | and ,, block $50, Dow
news addition to Larami". for $500.
, 1904-02-26
WASHOUTS DELAY TRAINS.
West Bound Train Nearly d Whole
Day Behind Time.

Ogden, Utah, Feb. 2G.-TNo wash.
outs on the Union Pacific near Baskin,
about twenty-five miles EAST of here.
have delayed traffic for almost twenty
four hours on that line. No. 3, which
was due to arrive here at 3:30 o'clock
yesterday morning. was caugh. be.
tween the two w]ashuuts. one being a
bridge at Baskin and the other a few
miles east of there. This train arrived
in Ogden at HAS last night, almost a
day late.
, 1904-02-26
It KILLED THIRTEEN
SCAFFoLD IN CHICAGO PosToF
FIcE coLLAPsEs WITH AW-
Full LIST OF FATALITIES.
Extended Into Dome Of Building One
Hundred and sixty Feet and Con-
tanned Fifteen Plasterers-Famous
Sporting Man Dead at Kansas
City--Four Dead in Wreck.

Chicago, Feb. 26.-Thirteen were
Killed by the collapse of a scaffold at
the p~ostotfice this afternoon. The
scaffold extended throughout the build
ing and up into the 16O-foot dome.
The crash of the falling structure was
heard "a block away. There were ff-
teen plasterers on it, and Of these
thirteen are reported dead or fatally
injured. Two corpses have Dee taken
from the debris so far.