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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
DOMINION GRANTS
CHARTER 70 J, HILL
Right to Buy, Control and Oper-
ate Railroads in America
Secured.

New York. March ia Montreal
president Of the Montreal Light and
Power company ,as authority for a
statement that the Northern Securi-
ties company of Canada has been
granted charter by the Dominion
government; that 1T is backed by the
Hill interests and is intended to alb
sorb the Northern Securities company
of the United States.
The Northern Securities company of
Canada was granted a charter in 1909.
It's powers are very large and include
the right to buy, control and operate
railways as we'll as other enterprises,
both in Canada and the United States.
In regard to the report that the
Northern Securities company Of Cam
ada was to be the successor of the
Northern Securities company of the
United States, President Hill was
quoted as saying:
1--WE have as much notion Of incor-
porating a company in Mars or the
moon as in Canada. We intend to
conform to the law"
Later James J. Hill gave out the
following:
Until the full official copies Of the
opinions and decree of the supreme
opinions and DEGREES Of the supreme
torneys have had an opportunity to
advise us as to our course Of pro-
cedure, the officers of the company
can make no further announcement
than to declare their purpose to
NIL full ho To &c
now interpreted"
Forget Denies Statement.
Montreal, March 15.-Rudolph For
get, vice president of the Montreal
Light, Heat and Power company, to-
day denied that he is responsible for
the statement that the Northern Sc
curities company Of Canada, which
was granted a charter by the Domin-
ion parliament year or so ago. is
backed by the Hill interests, and is
intended to replace the Northern Sc
curities company of the United States.
He merely recalled the fact that
such a charter had been obtained in
Ottawa. He does not think the two
companies have any connection what
ever. SO.
Charter in Existence.
Ottawa, Ont, March Is. The
Northern Securities company was
granted a charter by the Dominion
government soon after the original
suit was brought against the Ameri-
can corporation in Minnesota.
The directors named in the bill OF
interpretations were Canadians, but ii
was understood at the time that J.
J. Hill was interested. The charter
is still in existence, altho no stock
has been taken to operate under it in
Canada.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15

"a small Roosevelt resolution in his
pocket. Called to the platform, he
read the following:
. The republicans of Hennepin county as
sembled by their representatives in con-
vention earnestly and confidently address
themselves to the intelligence, experience
and conscience Of the people of this coun-
ty in the following declaration:
Resolved, We llnqualifiedly uneqIivo-
cally and irrevocably indorse the admins
tration Of President Roosevelt, and de-
mand his denomination and election
We congratulate the country on it's
happy and prosperous condition brought
about as direct result Of his administra-
ton. We express the highest appreciation
of his record, not only in continuing the
great work of President Mckinley, but
also In the greater work of solving the
new questions that have confronted him
In his management of the Philippine
questions; in his firm stand at the timo
of the Venezuelan crisis; in his honest eff :
forts to secure justice to Cuba in his
vigorous demand for official purity and
honesty, and punishment of the corrupt;
in his manly course in reference to the
anthracite coal strike; in his resolute
stand against the closing of Chinese
ports to our trade; in the success achieved
by his practical efforts to enforce the
law against unlawful combinations; in the
courageous, unfaltering and statesman
like manner in which he has aided the
Panama canal; and in the wisdom he has
shown in proclaiming immediate neutral
ity in the war now raging In the orient
In all this and much more he has shown
himself a strong executive and an ideal
president; and
Resolved, That we desire and instruct
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
RUSSIA CHANGES PLANS
Scheme of Campaign Altered Since
Appointment of KurOpatkin.

Scheme of Campaign Altered Since
Appointment Of Kuropatkin.
New York Sun Special Service.
Niu-chuang, March 15:-Since the
appointment of KurOpatkin and the
recent councils of war at Mukden, it
is clearly evident that the Russian
plan of campaign is to undergo a COM
plete change, especially since the Jap-
anese have not followed up their ma
val successes by similar active land
operations.
They have given the Russians time
to push reinforcements south and dis
tribute them in accordance with the
new strategical disposition. The gem.
eral commanding states it, has been
decided that there are at present
enough troops in the Liao-tung pen-
insula, Port Arthur, Dalny, Kin-chau
bay and along the railway up to Ia
shi-chiao to hold their own, fear Of
lack Of provisions alone preventing
larger numbers being sent south.
Hardin has become the base of oper-.
atoms, with Liao-yang as the central
advance camp and the. terminus of.
the line Of communications. It ia
closely connected with Niu-chuang via
Hai-cheng and Tashtchiao. With the
Cossack advance posts to the vest
ward on the right flank and with the
Yalu via -cheng on the
left flank and other connecting posts
en- route, affairs are so prepared as
to be able to strengthen any part In
the event of the threatened Japanese
landing.
L x 4 la
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
IRISH MEMBERS
DEFEAT BALF0UR
British Government Refuses to
Resign After Adverse Vote
in House. 49,.

London, March 15.-The govern
ment was defeated in the house Of
commons to-day by 141 to 100, on a
motion of John Redmond, the Irish
leader.
AS it was in the nature Of snap
division engineered by the national
lists, the government refused to re-
sign, but it is regarded as another
straw showing the direction of the
wind.
Mr.. Redmond's motion was made
with the object of calling attention to
Irish grievances. The division was
taken almost Immediately, when the
liberals and nationalist were in strong
force.
Mr.. Balfour was greeted with de-
risive cheers and cries Of resign" and
another message for joe" The
premier admitted that the government
had been defeated, but said there was
considerable financial business to be
transacted before March 81 and he
did not see why any time should be
wasted.
After the division John Redmond
said:
The government recently introduced a
bill forbidding teaching Irish in four Of the
first classes of the Irish national schools.
This caused widespread indignation, to
voice which I moved for a reduction Of
the vote.
AS result of the defeat the objection
able rule undoubtedly will be Withdrawn.
While the general position of the gov
eminent has not been weakened my i'm
preston is that dissolution will follow
another such blow. Naturally we are
elated.
Yesterday evening when the nationalist
voted with the government on Catholic
education in England, Mr.. Balfour had a
majority of 100. To-day with the Irish
against him he had g. majority Of eleven.
The moral is that the time is at hand
when Ireland will hold the balance OF
power.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
.YLADIVOSTOK AS
WARSHIPS' GOAL
Russian Fleet Makes Dash From
Port Arthur to Northern
Port.
------L
Effort Made to Dock Larger Yes
sells and Join the Cruiser
Squadron.
Japanese Scouts Fail to Find
Czar's Vessels Near Port
Arthur,

Toxic, March 15.-It it strongly be-
lieved here that the Russian fleet
abandoned Port Arthur after the
fourth attack and is endeavoring to
reach Vladivostok. Confirmation OF
this movement Is not obtainable from
any reliable source, but recent scout,
ing in the vicinity Of Port Arthur has
failed to reveal the presence of any
Russian Warships.
1t seems logical enough that the
Russians should attempt a dash for
Vlad1vostok, where 1t Is possible to-
dock larger ships, effect a junction
with the larger cruiser squadron and
secure a base for operations while
pressing adequate land defenses.
Vice Admiral Togo Is unwilling to
run the risk of dividing his battle
ship squadron and continues to.
operate the six battleships together.
1t Is believed the Russians will try
to pass thru the Korean straits rather
than enter the Japan sea thru the
Tsugaru straits.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
TRADE RESTRAINT
CHARGED In SUIT
100000 Damages Asked From
Santa Fe Railroad Under
Antitrust Law.

Las Vegas, N. M, March 15.-One
Of the most important civil suits in
the history of this territory, involving
half million dollars, has been filed in
the United States court by the Gale
donia Coal company of Gallup.
That company sues the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Pa
cffic, the Colorado Fuel & Iron, and
the American Fuel companies for
100000 damages, attorneys fees and
costs, for. alleged violation sof the
United States statute to protect trade
and commerce against unlawful
restraints and monopolies and also the
statute regulating interstate commerce
and trade. The Santa Fe is charged
with discriminating in favor Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
PZAV TO EDIDZ DECISION
BIZ CHAP7ER FROM C,ANlHDh
CANADA WILL NOT
ASK RECIPROCITY
Premier Laurier Declares Pro-
posals Must Come from
United States.

Ottawa, Ont, March 15.-Mr. Bor-
den, leader of the opposition in the
dominion house, pointed out that all
reference to the joint high commits
sion was omitted from the speech
from the throne.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in reply, said
that Canada will make no more ad-
vances of any kind to the United
States. Whatever was done in
that direction would have to originate
with the United States. If the United
States had anything to propose Canada
would listen to it. AS to the United
States tariff, he said it fostered COM
binations and monopolies, and Canada
would not follow it. But he admitted
that he was an admirer Of the United
States and its great people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
C0L0RED BISHOP
SPURNS AMERICA
African Methodist Bishop Abhors
Lynching and Removes to
Transvaal.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, March 15.-Bishop Will
liam Benjamin Derrick of the African
Methodist church repudiated this
country in a fiery address before a
convention Of colored preachers on
account Of the prevalence of lynch
ings in north and south. The bishop
said he will migrate to South Africa
and direct the work of the church in
the Transvaal. He said:s
1t was the negro who broke the deadly
grip of secession. This Is no country for
US. was a man befores1 was preach
er, and WAS q man before was bishop,
and am still man.
shall contend for the rights of my
people, and if am killed will die a
mans death. will not tell you to retail
late, for that would be advising you to
be brutes. It would be promoting the
brutality of the whites
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
POISONED PASTRY
Sent TO PASTOR
Anonymous Gift Follows Church
Trouble Only Timely Aid
Saves. Lives.

New York, March i 5.A mysterious
family of Rev. Dr.. Essex ]. Crudup,
pastor of the Fillmore Baptist church
of Plainsfield, N, ]. The pastors sis
ter and his 6-year-old daughter who
ate part Of a cake were only saved by
timely medical aid.
The cake was left at a grocery store
by an unknown man who asked that
1t be delivered to the pastor. An ex-
animation Of the cake showed that the
frosting had been filled with a deadly
poison.
Recently there had been trouble in
the church resulting in charges
against the minister and the matter
had been placed before the grand jury.
That body dismissed the affair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
BEAT MINERS AGENT
Masked Men Attack Union Official
Guards Kill Striker

Trinidad, Col, March 15.-Chris
Evans, financial manager Of the
United Mine Workers of America, was
beaten by three masked men with
revolvers on board a Colorado &
Southern passenger train bound for
Pueblo, and painfully hurt.
The men boarded the train at a
point a mile east of Trinidad, and
after attacking Evans jumped off and
escaped. Evans was sent to Colorado
by President John Mitchell.
At Pryor guards killed Michael
Calabace, striker. Calabace, it is
said, had fired at a negro and then
barricaded himself in his house in an
attempt to resist arrest. The guards
broke into the house, and, as Gala
bace ran out Of another door, they
shot him. -s.-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
CITIZENS DEPORT
STRIKING MINERS
Members of Alliance, Armed With
Guns, Drive Miners From
Denver.

Telluride, COL. March 15.-After a
meeting 100 members of the Citizens
Alliance, armed with rifles and re-
volvers, secured the city and took
into custody between seventy and
eighty union men and sympathizers.
In some instances doors to dwell
ing houses were broken open. The
men were herded in a vacant store
room until early to-day, and when all
those desired had been captured they
were then marched to the station and
loaded into two coaches.
AS the special train departed, the
Citizens Alliance fired volleys into the
air.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
GENTILEs PROTEST.
Anti Mormon Party Forming in Utah
Smiths Statements Denied.

Salt Lake City, March 15.-Non-
Mormons are actively organizing new
political party to oppose the church
policy.
The resolutions declare that the
law-abiding citizens repudiate en-
phatically the statement Of President
Smith that his offense Of living in open
polygamy Is condoned; that, on the
contrary, the disclosures made by him
at Washington were nowhere received
with greater amazement, indignation
and disgust than in Utah; that it has
been heretofore impossible to get at
the real facts of the situation, owing
to the wall Of secrecy with which the
polygamists have surrounded them
selves, and their constant practice of
failing to comply with the laws in
reporting births.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
laps MENACE NIU-OHUANa

Column to Make Assault Upon Town
Within Ten Days.
Special to The Journal.
Chi-fu, March 15.-News received
from Niu- cluang to-day shows that
the Russians are preparing to fall
slant fear at u-chuang of Japa-
nese attack. If the Japanese plans
are not changed, they will assault Niu-
chaung and effect a landing of troopl
within ten dayS.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15

Hennepin county republicans met in
convention this morning and selected
113 delegates to the state convention,
which meets in Minneapolis Thurs
day. These delegates were directed to
vote in the state convention for RoOse-
welt instructions. They were instruct
ed to present the name Of Thomas
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
FUDGE AND SMITH
QUICKLY CHOSEN
They Will Represent This Con-
gressional District in Chi
oago Convention.
Only One Ballot Was Taken and
They Won Hands
Down.
The County Convention Chooses
State Delegates and Instructs
for Roosevelt.
DISTRICT CONVENTION

Names w. w. HeffeIfinger and c.
A. Smith as delegates to republican
national convention.
Makes Stewart Gamble and T. e.
Byrnes alternates.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
MINERS VOTE TO-DAY
100000 Men to Decide on Proposed
Wage Reduction,

Indianapolis, March 1.-two hun
dred thousand coal miners from Penn
sylvania to Iowa are voting to-day
whether to accept the offer Of the
mine-owners for two-years' scale 51z
per cent lower than the present wage.
Sentiment in the different fields ia
vors following the advice Of the ma
tional officers. Thursday the result
will be made known.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
DEMAND IMPERIAL FARMS

JAPANESE WANT On0-CI0fU OF Korea TO
Grow Grain.
New York Sun Special Service.
Seoul, March 15.-The japanese
have demanded the use Of all the inn
perial farnsteads in Korea to produce
the grain necessary for the sustenance
Of the army during the period Of hos
tilities.
Twenty thousand troops are. being
sent to protect the farms against dep
relations Of the populace. The inn
perial farms consist of one-third of the
land Of the country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
CHINA WAKING UP

Baron Hayash Declares Empire IS.
Beginning to Realize It's Strength.
New York Sun Special Service.
London, March 15.-Baron Hayashi,
japanese minister here, has been in-.
terviewed by a representative Of the
Paris Patrie. The baron declared that
China is waking up and after years
hence when her 4O0,00O,0O0 people res
alize their strength, they no longer will
submit to any power.
mo concessions are possible on our
part, unless Russia evacuates Man.
churia. I think the war will last q
long time" continued the baron. All
we desire is that war be confined to
ourselves and Russia"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
LYMAN ACCEPTS

Carleton College Professor Will Have
Chair Of ApoIogetics at Montreal.
Special to The Journal.
Montreal, Que, March 15.-Rev. Eugene
w. Lyman Of Carleton college, Northfield
Mimi, has accepted the chair of apollo
getics in the Congregational college here
and comes next fall.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
JAPAN DOMINATES KOREA
Railway, Police and Telegraph Con.
trolled by Island Empire.
Now YORK Sun special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
London, March 15.-The Times corr
respondent in Seoul, under Saturdays
date cables that the civil influence
which Japan. has brought to bear on
Korea is not less remarkable than the
military precision for which it paved
the way from Chemulpho to Seoul.
Every controlling influence is Jap
anese in the railway, police and tele-s
graph departments. Japan must have
been laying foundations for the pres
ent occupation for many months and It
only required sufficient backing from
an armed force to defeat the less.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
STUDENTS WELCOME ANDREWS.

Lincoln, Neb., March 15.-Several hum
dred bowling Nebraska university stu
dents met Chancellor E. Benjamin An
drews at the station on his return from
the east and hauled his carriage thru the
streets to the university. The reception
was planned as a rebuke to the demand
for his removal
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
PRESIDENT WILL
WAR ON COMBINES
Wall Street Uneasy Over What
Z Chief Executive Plans for
Future.
Roosevelt Will Take Steps to
Prevent Industrial and
Financial Panic.

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, March 15.-The Amer
lean people have made up their minds
that they do not intend to permit
great aggregations of capital to alb
serb the industries of the country. The
supreme court decision yesterday is in
accord with that determination.
Had the merger been sustained, it
is known that other mergers would
have followed in quick order, one Of
southern railways, another Of far
western railways, and one Of railways
in the east. until the great carrying
trade of the country would have been
in the hands of a few men.
Industrial and manufacturing mer-
gers would also have followed. This,
the American people say, is contrary
to public policy, and the supreme
court has borne them out.
Invasion OF Liberty.
The abstract logic of the outcome
was presented in the minority opin-
ions of Justices White and Holmes,
who argued that to say that man, or
corporation, should not be per-
mitted to purchase whatever and
whenever he or 1t pleases. to the full
limit of the purchasing power, was
an invasion of the rights Of the indi-
vidual and contrary to the funda-
mental law. They also said that it
was unfair to attack the big mergers
and let the small ones go without mo-
lestation.
The decision marks a radical change
in public policy towards corporations.
It is an admission of the trend of the
day toward a position which objects
to the unlimited use of wealth for
selfish purposes, and which demands
that the government must exercise
certain rights, not hitherto supposed
to exist, except vaguely, to protect the
public from commercial and indus
trial despotisn. The socialists and
paternalists will look upon the de-
cision as favoring their contentious in
some minor particulars.
Up to the President.
/ It is now up to the president to
determine, what shall be done in the
way of new trust prosecution. 1t has
| been known for g long time that the
attorney general, at the presidents re-
| quest, was resting on his oars until
the supreme court could speak on
the merger case. The decision being
in favor of the government, the presi-
dent is at liberty to bestir himself in
a hundred different directions.
There are many cases which could
be made against trusts, for the mer-
ger decision does not apply exclusive
ly to railway mergers, but to combina-
tons of whatsoever character, if made
in restraint of trade.
It will hit the beef trust and the pa
per trust as hard as it hits the railway
trust. None of these great corpora
lions can now. feel safe. It is in the
power of the president to bring them
one and all to book on short notice.
To do so, however, might precipi-
tate an industrial and financial panic,
and so it is believed that the president
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
RUSSIANS CONCENTRATING

Troops WithdraWn from Northeast
Korea to Vladiyostok.
New York Sun Special Service.
s. Toxic. March 15.-According to q
dispatch from Yuen-san (Won-son1,
the Russians are believed to be with
drawing from the northeast frontier
or Korea and concentrating at Vladi-
vostOk.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
COUNTY CONVENTION

OOON COTNV GTN 1OIN
Names 113 delegates to state con-
ventIon next Thursday.
lnstruots for Thomas Lowry, Sen
ators Clapp and Nelson and Governor
Van SAINT a delegates at large.
Adopt strong Roosevelt resolutions.
Directs Hennepin delegates to work
for Roosevelt instruction to national
convention delegates from Minnesota.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-15
PORT ARTHUR QUIET

No News Received from the Scene Of
Land Operations.
Port Arthur, March 15.-All is
quiet in the Port Arthur district and
no ne wshas been received from the
scene of the land operations, where
the movements of the opposing forces
are evidently confined to recon-
instances.
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