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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-18

pleasures of them when they are be-
yond our public income.
The above items, representing only
modest proportion of the necessary
expenses of conducting the city gov
ernment, let us for the sake of making
our argument more striking, proceed
upon the basis that it represents the
whole.
In all probability the sum of ST. 600
could be collected annually by the city
in licenses, which would reduce the
treasury deficit to So, 40 and in order
to obtain this amount it would become
necessary to levy tax of ten mills up
on the $240, 600 of taxable property in
the city. This would raise our an
nual total tax to something like %
mills and would naturally have ten
dency to drive capital from our doors
instead of inviting it as has been said
in support of this movement. Some OF
us have been foolish enough to think
that with incorporation we would get
a city water system. An estimate OF
the cost of this project would cali for
at least SIS, 900; from that up to $40,
600. But let us take the first amount.
Under the law, we could not bond the
city for that amount, nor could we find
a purchaser for the bonds if we could.
Hence, that question is not debatable.
Now, consider the investment of a
home in the city should it be incorpor-
ated. and laboring under the heavy
fax of % mills per annum A modest
cottage will represent an investment
of 81 500. 81, 200 insurance upon il
will cost annually, $24.OO; constant
wear and repairs, $50. 90; taxes, $+2 90;
earning capacity of 81, 500 at current
rate Of interest, $3.50; total, $246. This
would represent the actual annual cost
of living in your own house valued at
$1,5oO. You could rent a like house
for $3.50 year and have $50 90 in
pocket. Hence, the disadvantage of
owning property in town where rates
of taxation are caused to be excessively
high by unwise public expenditures.
1t is very good thing to remember,
that a people do not become rich by
taxing themselves. And, by the way,
this might apply to protective tariff
as we'll. The mere fact that the town
is incorpor rated would not increase the
amount of annual business transacted
in it any more than silk hat and a
frOck coat would transform a tramp
into millionaire. First get the bust
ness which will sufficiently enlarge
our town to warrant the assuming of
this new dignity. The practice of put
ting the cart before the horse is poor
one, and in business, will not only
prove Improbable but disastrous.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-18

Frank Jones was a desperate man,
and after a fashion fearless, and he
came to the end all horse rustlers find.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-18

If you have the faculty of closely ap-
plying yourself for short time, the
count will be easy. Try it.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-18

How many lines are there in the puz-
zle on the first page? Count them and
capture one of the cash prizes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
THEY STOP WORKING
BrickmakeTs Quilt, but Com.
pany Says There Are Only 10

Brickmakers., to the number Of fifty
according to the union, and ten accord
ing to the officers of the st. Paul Brick
company, struck yesterday at the West
Side plant
The union men assert that they yes
terday induced twelve non-union men
to join the strike, and that there is
promise of more joining them today.
This, the men say, gives them good
reason for believing that they will win
the contest with the company, and that
they will be taken back and permitted
to maintain their membership in the
union.
Fritz Koch, president of the brick
company, directly contradicts the
statements Of the strikers, saying that
the concern originally employed but
seventy men. Seven were discharged
for agftating unionism, ten struck on
the order from the union, and all the
others remain. s
Mr.. Koch says that he does not OBJ
ject to the strikers picketing the yards,
if they do not resort to violence. Mr..
Koch admits that he told the members
of the union that they must stop agi-
tating if they desired to remain in the
employ of the company.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
WILL PAY ITS TAXES
Western Union Has Supreme
Court Case Dismissed

Attorneys for the Western Union
Telegraph company yesterday filed in
the supreme court stipulation con-
senting to dismissal of the appeal
taken by the telegraph corporation
from the judgment of the Hennepin
county district court confirming the
action of the state board of equaliza-
tlon, in fixing the assessed valuation
or the property Of the corporation in
minnesota for taxable purposes at
100000
The action was originally commenced
by the state in Clay county. the home
Of w. b. Douglas, then ATTORNEY. gen
eral, but was dismissed because of a
deIect IN the pleadings and commenced
anew IN Hennepin county. There the
district court found for the state. and
the appeal taken from the judgment of
that court to the supreme court. The
case was set for argument for yester-
day by the supreme court. but c. M.
ferguson a Minneapolis attorney. rem
resentlng the appellant company. filed
stipulation for dismissal without tax
alton of costs by the state
5 The action is said to mean the end
or the litigation, and that the Western
union, which denied the right of the
state board to arbitrarily increase its
valuation, will pay taxes in the future
on the basis of 81, 900 900 valuation.
Charles w. Somerby, assistant attor-
hey general, has had charge of the
states end of the litigation in the vari--
Gus courts.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
ARGUE DODGE CASE
Action to Disbar Attorneys Sub.
mitted to Supreme Court

40 Arguments were made before the full
bench of the state supreme court yes
terday in the Dodge disbarment pro-
ceedlngS, and the case was taken under
Amusement by the court. The testi-
mony had been submitted some weeks
ago by Referee Hitchcock, Of Mime
apolis, before whom the testimony had
been taken.
Eli Southworth, Shakopee, secretary
of the state board of examiners in law
made the argument for the state and
w. E. Hale and HI. G. Golden, of Min
neapOlis, spoke for the respondents.
The arguments, which occupied the
greater part of the forenoon in their
making, were devoted largely to an
analysis of the testimony. The case
was very fully presented to the court
by both sides, but the evidence is
quite conflicting in important essen
tials.
Col w. E. and Vernon M. Dodge,
Minneapolis lawyers, are accused by
the complaint of Southworth Of i'm
proper professional conduct. They are
charged with representing that in set
Element of personal Injury suits against
the Great Northern they received but
$4,000 when in fact they were paid
$4,000 by the defendant company. The
specific clients alleged to have been
defrauded were Mary Fitzgerald and
Hugh Rankin, both of whom were in
jured in a wreck near DaSsel Mimi,
some months ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
BURGLARS RIFLE
GROCERY STORE SAFE
Knew the Combination and Get AWAY
With $500 in Cash and JeweIry

Burglars made a haul at Lynch e
GIancy's grocery store 426 South Rob
ert street, when they broke in Sunday
night and robbed the safe of it's con-
tents. About $500 in cash and ieweIrv
valued at $150 was taken.
The thieves gained entrance through
a transom over the rear door, and hav-
ing knowledge of the combination of
the safe opened the strong box and
rif1ed it of its Contents .I.
John j. Clancy said yesterday that he
could not tell exactly how much money
had been leftNn the safe, but that there
was between $500 and $500 Several
articles of jewelry. which had belonged
TO Mrs. CLANCY who died year ago,
had been left in the safe, and are also
missing
The jewelry included four rings a
watch and chain and several small
trinkets, which were highly valued BY
Mr.. CLANCY on account of the associa-
tions connected with them. The lew
elry had been kept in a cigar box, the
lid of which was nailed. The robbers
pried open the cover and left the box
The police were notified yesterday
morning when the robbery was dis
covered, and Immediately placed detec-
tives on the case. The fact that no
violence was used in opening the safe.
and that the burglars evidently knew
the combination of the safe, is the clue
on which the police are working
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
WILL BUILD SEWERS
Objections of Owners of Vacant
Property of No Avail

The board of public works yesterday
decided to make a favorable report on
the order to construct a sewer on Acker
street, from Sylvan to Lightner place,
and on Lightner place, from Acker to
Sycamore. The Drake Realty company,
owning more than half of the property
abutting on the proposed improvement,
objected, but Commissioner Murphy
took the ground that the companys
holdings are not improved and that the
owners of the homes want the sewer
and should have it. The other mem
berS of the board took the same view.
The sewer will cost the property own
ers $1.41 per front foot
The final order for the Woodbridge
sewer system was received and sent to
the city engineer for plans and specifi-
cations This is the order vetoed by the
mayor and passed over the veto by the
city council.
The matter of curbing and macadam-
iZIng Grand avenue, from Lawton to
Floral, and Floral, from Summit to
Heather place, was taken under con-
sideration. The estimated cost to the
Summit avenue property owners is
$1.47 per front foot, and Floral street
1892 per front foot
For changing the grade Of st. An
thony avenue, from Saratoga avenue to
a point 200 feet east of Hamline ave-
nue., the cost will be assessed on the
abutting property.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
COUNTY BOARD GETS
INTO A DEADLOCK
Registers Tie Vote on Motion to Ap-
propriate Money for Road Repairs

With as much grace as possible three
of the six county commissioners yes
terday voted in favor of accepting the
dictum of County Attorney Kane and
appropriate money for road repairs to
township supervisors.
Those who thought this a good solu-
ton were MessrS. Powers, Wright and
Pottgieser, and those opposed Messrs.
Nash, Gray and Seng. The proposition
came from Mr.. Powers, who introduced
a resolution authorizing the appropria-
ton of the following amounts to the
townships mentioned: Rose. 81. 500.
Mounds View, $1,575; New Canada.
$780, White Bear, $1,625; total, So. 400.
The resolution was defeated by tie
vote.
1t was agreed that the township SUI
pervisors viii be invited to meet with
the board Monday and if possible agree
upon a basis Of settlement that VIII
prove possible.
The contractor for the second White
Bear well reported that he had struck
water at $50 feet and the committee in
charge Of this project was instructed to
inspect and report if the volume of wa
ter is sufficient.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
WORK is STOPPED
ON NEW THEATER
Men Employed on the Criterion
Quit Owing to N0npayment
of Wages

Work on the new Criterion theater,
Ninth and Robert streets, has been
suspended since Thursday of last week,
and the men who have been employed
on the building have daily appeared
and asked for their money in vain.
On Saturday, June IS, the first indi-
cation of the financial embarrassment
was made evident, when the company
gave the twenty-five workmen emf
ployed time checks, instead of bank
checks or money. A number of the
men pawned their orders with business
men in the neighborhood, but when the
orders We're presented to L. w. Wilson,
in charge for the company, they We're
not paid. AS a result the men quit
work Thursday. On Saturday a part
of the number were paid 20 per cent of
the amount due them, and promised
that the full amount would be forth
coming yesterday. Such was not the
case, however.
w. f. Hunt, attorney for the COM
pany, yesterday made this statement
of the causes leading up to The sus-
pension of work:
sThe building is being erected by the
Criterion Theater company, a Mime
sofa corporation, the contractor being
Frank P. Mcclure, of Chicago. The
collection on the capital stock has not
been as regular as might be wished,
and when payments were not made
to Mcclure he stopped work. Matters
are being arranged and it is expected
that the mechanics will be paid to-
morrow and work resumed"
The construction has progressed to
the extent that the brick work is sew
eral feet high, but the bricklayers as
sert that they have not received any
pay since they began work. The stone
masons were paid for putting in the
foundation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
GIVES THEM CREDIT
Maj. Frick Tells What Civilian
Physicians Did for Army

MAJ. j. e. b. Prick, regimental sur
geon In charge of the Twenty first in
fantry regiment at Fort Smelling, read
an interesting paper last night before
the Ramsey County Medical associa-
ton at the Commercial club.
The meeting was one of the largest
ever held by the association, 125 men,
bers being in attendance. There were
present several visiting physicians
from Minneapolis and a few of the Of
1lcers from Fort Smelling were also
there.
Maj. Prick had with him his army
chests, and explained in detail the
uses OF each chest. He told the civilian
doctors of the methods employed by
the army medical department. and
gave the medical men outside the army
great credit for the efficiency Of the
army service.
1T was through the efforts of the
CIVILIAN doctors and medical societies
that we of the army first gained rec
ognltlon at Washington" said Mai.
Frlck. Your work in bringing pres
sure to bear upon the war department
Tor the Improvement of the army med
lcal department brought about it's pres
ent efficiency. You made the war de-
partment recognize us as a useful aux
Hilary You gained for US the position
we now hold in the service. 1t was
through your work that the doctors in
the army were given their own rank
OF colonel. major and captain True,
the physicians in the service aided in
this work, but We would have been
powerless habit not been for the great
cooperation of the civilian doctors
and the various medical associations"
Following the reading of the paper
there was general discussion, in
which Drs. Richie, Greer, O'Brien and
Pine participated. banquet preceded
the meeting.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
OWNERS OF POLLING
PLACES WANT RENTALS
Compromise Measure Allowing Them
$40 Each Will Be Offered

The property owners who rented
their store rooms and vacant lots for
booths, to be used during the recent
spring election, have not yet received
their money, and there is not a day
that one or more does not come to the
city hall with a complaint
As originally prepared, the resolu-
ton to provide for payment called for
SIS for stores and SIS for vacant lots
This was amended to read $25 for
stores, but was voted down in the as
sembly, DR.. Schiffmann contending
that too much was being paid. Since
that no effort has been made to secure
the passage Of another resolution. At
the next meeting Of the board of al
dermen an attempt will be made to
get through a compromise measure fix
ing the amounts at $40 and S..
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
CLAIMS SALOONMAN
GAVE DRINKS TO GIRLS
Arthur /. Ryberg Is Arranged in Police
Court on Serious Charge

Arthur L.. Ryberg. saIoOnkeeper at
429 South Robert street, was charged
in police court yesterday with selling
liquor to two minor girls, and was held
in 800 bail for trial today
The complaint was made by James
McGraw, the father of one of the girls,
charging that Ryberg coaxed the girls
into the saloon, and furnished Gertrude
Murphy, aged sixteen years, with
several glasses or gOblets of. beer"
and gave to Jennie McGraw, aged fif-
teen years, several glasses of wine and
one glass or goblet of BEER
Probation Officer Graves has taken
an interest in the case and will do his
utmost to secure the conviction of the
saloonkeeper. claiming that Ryberg
talked with the girls and induced them
to enter the place and then gave them
all the drinks they would take.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
TODAY The CIRCUS
Ringing Bros. Reach Town for
Two Performances
Today the circus.


Inc big show will go into camp on
the University avenue grounds before
L e u reaches it's readers this
morning, and the people will be rest
ing preparatory to the street parade
WHICH Will start from Victoria and Uni
Verslty avenue at $50. The route to
be followed by the parade is on TTniyer-
sIty to Wabasha, to Seventh, to Broad
way, to Sixth, to st. Peter. to Tenth to
Rlce, to Summit, to Nelson, to, Earring
ton, TO Dayton to Victoria and grounds.
Ringing Bros show yesterday PLAYED
Two performances. ins+ HTinneapolis to
larger crowds than ever before We're
put under canvas in. that town. The
show has grown to enormous size. The
big tent will hold about 10000 peonIe.
The menagerie annex is almost as big
ana the animal collection it contains
is the most valuable in America
Among the odd creatures of wild ma
ture to be seen in this department of
the great show are the only rhinocerous
in the country, CRATES, horned
horse, baby tigers, panthers, forty ele-
plants and real baby elephant, still
unWeaned. The circus acts are given
In three-rings on two stages and amid
forest of overhead trappings The
hlppodrome race is run on a track one
quarter of a mile long,
: The spectacle of Jerusalem and the
CFuSd0eS opens the performance and
runs about thirty minutes. The costum-
ing of this feature is lavish in the ex-
IRENE and the music and ballet spe-
claltIeS as we'll as the athletic pastimes
introduced are new. There are 200
girls in the ballet and chorus and the
music is furnished by a band of fifty
pieces and tremendous portable g.
stop pipe organ.
Nearly all the circus artists are new
to the Northwest, and make their first
appearance in America with Ringing
Bros. The four Eldreds, from Emo
land; the four Bedinis, from ItaIv the
seven ClnserrettiS, from Germany: the
Tasmanian troupe, from Australia, and
the eight ColIni-C aironS, from France
are among these. The riding feats of
the Eldreds and Bedinis are novel. and
made a great hit. The Dacoma family
Dollard troupe, Rio brothers, Forums
brothers, Flying Fishers, three AIvos.
Tybel sisters, Genaro and TheoI
Kaufman family and Jackson family
are foremost in a long list of circus
celebrities. The trained elephants. per
forming seals and educated horses are
striking numbers in the big circus pro-
gramme.
The sensational thriller" of the pro-
gramme is the much talked-of Lean
ing the Gap" Walter Lave the per-
former, who dares death by a desperate
ride down an almost perpendicular
plane about two feet wide and then
flies on his wheel through space-a
distance of ffty-tWo feet-landing on a
padded incline, causes a sensation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
SHERIFF GATHERS
IN SLOT MACHINES
Midway Citizens Committee
Checks Cigar Business i'm
Their District

Three nickel-in- the-slot cigar ma
chimes that, it is alleged, were being
operated in the Midway district, were
seized yesterday by deputy sheriffs and
taken to the sheriff's office in the court
house.
John La Belle, running a confection-
cry store at SAP University avenue;
Arthur l.. Woolsey, drug store, 391
North Prior avenue, and Evan H. Ed
wards, confectionery store, 1949 ST. An
thony avenue, will today be brought
into police court charged with permit
ting the operation of the alleged gam
bling devices.
The warrants were secured frorn
County Attorney Kane by d. w. Doty,
acting as attorney for the Midway
citizens committee, and were placed in
the hands of the sheriff for service.
with the understanding that the slot
machines We're to be seized at once and
the men brought into court today. The
charge is made under the state law,
which provides for a maximum fine of
$500 or six months in Jail, or both,
which takes the case beyond the juris-
d1ction of the police court and makes
the defendants subject to indictment.
the slot machines are gambling devices
members OF the committee have tested
them and claim that winning can be
made on an average of one time out Of
four. and have prepared a statement
showing that the machines are gam
bling devices entirely. This is the ex-
PLANTATION on which it is proposed to
prove that playing the machines is
gambling:
Drop a nickel in the slot, press the
lever all the way down and let go.
The number played will be indicated
by the nickel at the little front win
dow, and the cards straight across
from corresponding numbers show
winners. The winning hands are:
Royal flush, 100 cigars; straight flush,
so cigars; four of a kind, 80 cigars;
full hand, 20 cigars; flush, 10 cigars;
straight, 8 cigars; three of kind, 6
cigars two pair, 4 cigars; pair of jacks
or better, cigars"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
MRS. NEFF WILL LIVE
Wife of Man Killed by Car
Expected to Recover

While the remains of James A. Neff,
the aged man killed by street car IN
Merriam Park Sunday afternoon, lie
in casl<et at Thoorsell & Thaung's
undertaking rooms, awaiting burial,
his wife, ignorant of his death, is at
st. Joseph's hospital in serious con-
dition.
Though Mrs. Neff's injuries are not
deemed fatal, the shock of the acct
dent had a serious effect, and the at
PENDANTS at the hospital are withhold
ing from her the news Of her husband s
death.
The funeral of Mr.. Neff will be held
this afternoon from the Union Gospel
Mission, 443 Jackson street, at 8
O'Clock. The interment will be at For
est cemetery. Rev. r. Y Neal, of the
Free Methodist Mission, Merriam Park.
will conduct the services.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
STATUTE COMMISSION
TO RESUME WORK SOON
John c. Knox and Judge Fish Will Be
on Hand July

letter from T. J. Knox, of the stat
ute revision commission, received yes
terday at the state capitol, announced
his expected return early this week
Knox was called away ten days ago
by the drowning of his son, John G..
Knox, with John Crawford, of Lake
field, in Shoal lake, Manitoba. The
bodies of both men have since been re-
covered, and the funeral of young
Knox was held Saturday at Jackson
the family home. ---------.---4e..
Judge. Daniel Fish, the Minneapolis
member of the statute revision COM
mission, who has been i'll for three
weeks of typhoid fever, has been or
dered by his physician to rest and re-
cuperate, and has gone to Walker, on
the banks Of Leech lake. He will re-
turn to his work with the commission
about July s.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
IRONMOLDERS' UNION
EXPECTS NO TROUBLE
Employees Are Said to Have offered
Committee a Compromise

The local iron moulders' union is
negotiating a new scale that contem-
plates a slight increase in the present
wages received by the men, the union
holding a special meeting last evening
to consider a report from the commit
tee in charge.
At meeting held Saturday evening
a number of the employers met with
the men and discussed the questions
at issue, and special committee was
named by the union to conclude the
negotiations. The committee called the
special meeting last evening to ask
for instructions, it being understood
that the employers offered compro-.
mise.
The committee was given power to
act Members of the union who would
talk insisted that there is no danger
CT trouble.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-28
WILL SELECT SITE FOR
STATE SANATORIUM
Board of Control Expects to Buy From
500 to 600 Acres

Fhe state board of control is plan
ming trip to Walker, Cass county,
in the near future to make selection of
a site for the sanatorium for consump-
tives provided for by legislative ap-
preparation.
Members Of the board Of control
were at Minneapolis yesterday eXamin-
ing some titles to land bought recently
to be added to the tract to be used in
connection with the sanatorium, and it
is expected to purchase from 500 to 500
acres of forest and open land con-
tiguously located for the grounds. No
large building will be erected this sea-
son. but it is expected that a temporary
structure will be built and will be oc-
cupied early in the autumn. The OPEN
air treatment, regarded as the most
eficacious, will be employed.