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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
6l,463 Copies.
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One Of the interesting incidents of
the current speculations as to war or
peace in the farther east was the dec
laration made by M. Plancon, the dip
lomatic agent of the .Niceroy Alex
Jeff Of Port Arthur, that the action
Of the United States in making q
commercial treaty with China with
out Russa's consent under the eX-
listing circumstances, was unfrlendly
and undiplOmatiC, and that Russia
would not open or allow cOnsuls at
Mul1den and Antung under the pres
ent regime Plancon expressed
Russian policy as the mind Of Viceroy
Alexiem views it, and as viceroy in
the farther east he is understood to
stand in the place of the car, who,
as has been announced, has accorded
him plenipotentiary functions. Only
a, few days ago, the cars ambassa-
dor at Washington, Count Cassini,
gave Secretary Hay positive "assur-
ances" that Russia would place no
obstacle in the way of the practical
application Of the terms Of our new
commercial treaty with China in
Manchuria, the car thereby admit
ting that China was possessed OF
suzerainty enough over that region ,tc
open ports to our trade and concede
several valuable commercial privil-
eyes. The idea Of Plancon, a Rus
sian official, who reflects the poll
cies Of the Viceroy Alexieff, who il
turn is supposed to reflect the policy
of the Russian government, declar
ing that the action Of our government
In negotiating treaty with China
whose sovereignty over Manchurit
is recognized by our government ant
the leading nations Of Europe, wa
unfriendly and undip1omatic, is al
exploitation Of impudence which W.
can only expect from Russia. Their
Is no more reason for the United
States to kotow to Russia and bet
her consent to our negotiation of
commercial treaty with China. thar
there is for us to ask her to let u
make a new treaty Of commerce
with Korea or Japan. Russia ha
not notified the nations Of any in
tention to annex and Russify Man
churia. She has been issuing to he
former allies, with whom sh
marched on. Picking in 1900, q. Sc
RIGS OF assurances" that she intende
to evacuate the country. Her las
fervent assurance" was that the cza
had no intention" Of interfering wit
the treaty rights they have derive
from China. It is true that under tn
mask of these assurances" RusSi
has been marching her legions owe
Chinese sovereignty in Manchuri;
but, until she comes out flat-foote
as the 4conqueror of Manchuria, AM
sword in hand, challenges the treat
nations to war for their rights az
quired from a displaced China, Chin
alone can be recognized as Manch,
ria's sovereign, as Japan now cor
tends, and the alternative will /
left for any power to fight Russ
for her trade rights or retire fro
a promising commercial field
During all this contradictory WI
talk, it is repeatedly stated that tt
White Gar is very earnestly thirs
ing for peace; that war is absolute
abhorrent to him; that. he has fir
quently declared to the council
state that he is the apostle Of peae
What is the matter with the auto
racy of Nicholas II? Is he not {
absolute monarch? JUST here. is ,w1le
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
STATE INSTITUTION EXHIBIT
Board of Control Plans One for the ST.
Louis Fair.


An exhibit of the handiwork of in
mates of the state insane hospitals and
other state institutions is being planned
by the state board of control for the
louisiana purchase exposit Jon. III
1t was practically decided to make this
exhibit at the meeting of the board last
night but as theeboard does not yet know
how much space in the Minnesota build
ing will be assigned for such an exhibit,
the details have not yet been settled.
Much of the meeting was given to dis
cussion of improved table service In the
institutions and the plan put into opera
ton by Mrs. Mary B. James of Mime
apolis, which is intended to better the
service rather than the cooking, was IA
vOrably considered
In some of the institutions said Mrs.
James. the mattresses are often in too
much of a hurry. IF each patient real
lied" she said. that he would get plenty
| of everything that was being served there
| would be less grumbling; the inmates
| would be better disciplined and more pa =
| tent Proper serving would go long
way toward making the inmates more
| tractable.' f..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
Great Record for
January

The Minneapolis Journal has
again demonstrated right to it's
title of 1.-THE Great Daily of the
Great Northwest having car
ried in rs issues in January 1,311
columns of PAID advertising,
while its nearest competitor car
ried 1872 columns, or nearly SO
per cent less. .,.sT -: t. -
BY eliminating Objectionable
medical advertising, which The
Journal would not carry, from
the amount of it's nearest com
.petitor, The Journal carried as
much advertising in it's rs issues
as it's competitor carried in its
;26 daily and five big Sunday
issues.
AS TO CIRCULATION.
During January The Journals
circulation showed the gratifying
daily average of -. -,
6l,463 Copies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
MINNESOTA POLITICS
VoIstead Comes Into Prominence by His
Speech Against Canadian Reciprocity
Redwood County Not Delivered to Dunn
Stevens Bill Not New Move-Hugo's
+, Defeat. Charged to fractional knitting.

Congressman Volstead yesterday dsap-
pointed those OF his constituents VINO
thought he would not be heard from at
his first session. He got the floor for d
lengthy speech against Canadian reciproc-
lty, Which was commended as an able
effort by those, who did not agree with
his reasoning. Volstead has furnished an
issue for the next campaign in the seventh
district. and may find an opponent at the
primaries raising the reciprocity banner.
he has confidence, apparently that his
farming constituency is too much afraid
! OF the competition of Canadian wheat to
think of the compensating benefit of free
lumber from the other side. A campaign
| OF educa ton in the, seventh might con-
vince the wheat raisers that they are in
no danger of lower prices as result Of
| Canadian wheat being ground on this side
and sent to the worlds market at Liver
i pool
| HalVor Steenerson's constituency raises
more wheat than Volsteads, and his de-
clslon- to favor concessions to Canadian
wheat in return for favors from Canada
indicates that he has confidence in the
sentiment of the Red River valley.
A revolt is reported from Redwood
county, where the newspapers are nearly
solid for Dunn. and most of the leaders
committed to him. On the surface the
county has seemed most likely of any ii
lIle seventh district TO land in the Dunn
column, but protest has arisen that i!
vigorous enough ito alarm some Of thu
head men. James A. Larson Of Walnu
Grove, the former representative, is ou
and out antiDunn, and the southern sid,
of the county is strongly that way A
delegates in that county are chosen b,
commissioner districts, it seems certain
that Redwood will not be solid for Dunn
1t may go all the other way.
/
Some OF Congressman Stevens constitu
ents appear to have just reused from Ri
; Van Wrinkle doze. They are accusing hir
OF introducing his reciprocity bill in orde
to rob John Lind Of some of the credit 70
his speech. The Stevens bill was in fac
hammered out last fall, and was put i
l shape to relieve the local millers and en-
able them to handle the Canadian whea
1t was business necessity, and not pc
!, liticad chess move. The character an
l purpose of the bill were thoroly forecast /
the newspapers as early as last October
l Friends Of Mayor Hugo are not slow t
: attribute his defeat in Tuesdays electio
l to the treachery of republicans who de
sired to punish him for his affiliations
:, state politics, and bury him as a politics
y factor. They believe that this party dis
{ loyalty will be a boomerang on the head
: of those who fostered it. 1t is not Iikel
. NOW that Mayor Hugo will become a car
i didate for anything this year, but he wi
Ebe all the more free to take sides as Il
pleases, and as actively as he likes.
> 80: ~ .s., Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Admiral Alexieff is suffering from the
strain of the situation, the dispatches say.
He would be a second Napoleon if he
were not suffering from the strain Of
having the decision Of war involving
thousands of lives and great national in
terests as we'll as the responsibility for
the Russian defeat or victory to come.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Indianola, Miss, has a postmaster at
last Since Mrs. Cox rendered her resig-
nation. the office has been closed, but
now, her term having expired and she hav-
ing refused the reappointment rendered
her; a white man has been appointed to
succeed her. He is DR.. w. B. Martin, who
was one of Mrs. Cox's bondsmen and has
been her stanch friend turnout the trouble
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

st. Paul demands the sacrifice of Pro-
fessor McVey. That would establish a
dangerous precedent. Professor McVey' S
fault is that he was blue -pencileA. Witt.
such a precedent established, no reporter
would be safe. One of the joys of the
reportorial life is to promise story
that is not delivered.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
NEW HUNTER LICENSE
Proposed by Executive Agent Fullerton's
Report.

The state game and fish commission, al
ter an executive session yesterday. ap-
proved the annual report of Executive
Agent Fullerton. This report recommends
a small license for resident hunters desT-
ing TO shoot small game This would In
crease the revenues of the department to
permit more effective work, but sentlmenf
opposed the change last winter, and 1t was
not put in the game code.
Mr. FuHerton's report favors an inter-
! national hatchery on Lake of the WOODS
to propagate sturgeon, which are being
cleaned ont by the caviare hunters lie
declares that, protection Of the big game
| is causing it to increase, tho more was
killed last fall than ever before. Not less
than 5000 deer and 200 moose We're shot
! by hunters There were $40 resident
| hunters licensed, and 344 non-residents
The new hatchery at. GlenWoed WIN hass
a CAPACITY of 100 OO0, 900 pike fry and
/ 6. OOO, 900 trout Later both hatcheries VIII
| turn out bass and crappies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

BE- To-day the Russians at Port Arthur
have figured it out that the japanese will
make good food for cannon, and that
when it is all over the American Million
aire will take the spoils. The stars in
their courses once fought for some one,
Japs will fight for us.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

When Mr.. Clarke Of Arkansas declared
that President Roosevelt's course in re-
gard to Panama and Colombia had been
correct gin every particular and was more
popular among democrats than among re-
publicans. the blow almost killed Father
| German. &c.,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
AT THE THEATERS
Foyer Chat.

The attraction at the Metropolitan for
three nights and Saturday matinee, start
ing tonight, will be Daniel Sully in "The
Chief Justice,'t a new play written espe-
cially for him by Fitzgerald Murphy. The
play is a modern one in which a group Of
high-class characters are cleverly con-
trasted and made to tell a story that is
absorbing and dramatically intertNting. &
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
PERFUME OF THE PINES
Will Chamberlain in vermillion Is. D.)
Republican,

III Z
Republican.
A man from Dakota whQ has Just re-
turned from northern Minnesota declares
that there is something very fine and
charming about the great park regions of
our neighboring state. Leaving the open
prairie one gradually enters the big woods.
An impressive stiffness there abides. Deep
SHOWS mantle the earth. The thermometer
shows that it is down a trif1e below the
freezing point, but you don't seem to no.
tice the cold. The air is bracing and in
vigorating and you feel like selling a
Winchester and beating the tamaracks for
moose and bear, or to forth to stalk the
shy deer. Big white owls hutter away as
you approach. with a muttered whool You
think how nice it is to live and eat and
eat-breakfast foods! We gods, not here!
where the scent of the pines gives you the
appetite OF a hyena. All, that perfume OF
the pines!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

In England they are talking nonsense
about the yellow whrlWind. Their idea
is that Japan will lick Russia, organize
China and India and throw Europe back
into Europe. But first the Japs must beat
the Russians. It looks easy on paper,
but, like the cat, the Russian always
comes back.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

President Harper says that professors at
the University of Chicago are free to criti-
else John D. Rockefeller. That Is about
the best thing we have heard about
To,n n
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

:. It has been decided that the. traveller
On a pass is entitled to damages for in
iuries Sustained in railway; accident.
NoNthe railways will have to- throw ii,
an accident insurance ticket.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

AN INVITATION is extended to all to visit
the Press Room. which liz the finest in the west
The battery of presses consists Of three four
deck Goss Presses, with total capacity OF
LA. 900 eight page Journals an hour, printed
folded and counted. The best time to call ID
from s:15 to 4:sO p. m. Inquire at the business
office and be directed to the visitors gallery.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

In the presentation of 1.-THE Cavalier
at the Metropolitan for the first half Of
next week there has been preserved the
atmosphere and spirit of the old southland
which George w. Gable depicts SO low
ingly and graphically.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

The Canadians have been a little hasty
in piurning themselves on their moral su-
periority. TO- the Americans. But. they
voted dead men at a recent election in
Toronto. ..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

A college professor at Appleton, Wis.
declares that Job never existed If tina
is SO we are glad for Jobs sake.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

- j. Pierpont Morgan is enjoying winter
sports at Montreal. Pierp has more time
for fun than he used to have.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

At a banquet in New York Friday
night the members of aScertain club are
to drink radioactive water called poeti-
cally 'liquid sunsline'' Many a Ken
tuckian will consider this a vindication of
his life.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

. Mayor Hugo of Duluth will now be tho
mayor Tugo. .-.:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

The gas meter is pretty quick but the
furnace seems to be a few laps in the lead
this winter. - & -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Yaks are used for beasts of burden in
Tibet. They are not very. large beasts but
are more useful than the Yaps we have in
America. r .55- ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Rudolf5von Gottschall, German play
wright and; novelist, recently cele-
brated his eightieth birthday at Leip-
sic. He has been an auth or for sixty
Years. rs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Down somewhere in Louisiana the robin
redbreast Is thinking Of us up here.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

A street railway map shows a trolley
line to Minnetonka. That is good, but we
should rather have the face Of the country
show if
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Indiana does not permit con-
sulnptives to teach school. A good
move.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
THE N0NPAREIL MAN
Some Elastic Children Who Travel on the
First Avenue S Line at a. mater
Few Dozen Alleht at Twelfth Street
the Car Is Still Crowded to the Gates.

Plant is made that the First avenue car
due down town somewhere near 8 o'clock
in the morning is loaded to the guards.
People are not only squeezed in but
doubled UP and put in under the seats. At
Twelfth street the car stops and about 100
high school gentlemen and ladies get off.
When the last one descends to the street
the line Of bright children reaches over to
Second avenue S. Then the gates bang
to, the car starts UP and everyone gives
"a start of~surprise- to find that the car
is just as crowded as it was before. Mean
time there come humping and squealing
along behind a few blocks apart two small
cars with no passengers in particular. The
motorman Of the big car, having stopped
at every crossing, has picked.%up all the
passengers who care to travel for the next
fifteen minutes or so, and the conductor
has extracted from each his nickel. Move
up front, please. Plenty of room in front
incidentally we may say that we have
discovered method Of avoiding crowded
street cars. Walk. It's not only cheaper
but healthier.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

The mercury in Nebraska having
reached a position where it can be whit
tied like lead. the papers are coming out
strong on the stand up for Nebra ska -
sit down long they would suffer from
frOstbite. s -rf u r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Rose sydell and her London Bellies win
be the attraction at the Dewey next week.
The program is the strongest she has ever
offered to the public.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Another of the popular ladies' matinees
will be given at the Dewey theater to-
morrow. The Merry Maidens have proved
a drawing card this week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

with him. Twenty years. -. -,
A Missouri editor, claims that any col
lege can make a doctor; but that it can't
make an editor. He has to be born one.
When a doctor gets drunk it Is case of
overcome by heat and if he dies it is
heart failure When theteditor gets@drunk
it is '.too much booze;H and if he dies rpeo-
pie spread the report chat he had de1itium
tremens. Judging foyss this 5tfe two honor
able professions i'm Missouri, seem to be
running alongein rabout sthe same old rut
as in 1850. The best doctoris the fellow
that gives the, powerfu1est drugs and the
best editor still has to keep one eye peeled
lest he stop a 1charget of buckshot with
his person. We would not care to- fal
into" the clutches of either the doctor. o.
| the editor in Missouri. Both seem ito be
loaded" ,.' " rs. =. 'tt".s g.
| The way in which the yellow reporter
goes about his work is shown in recen
! ''interview'' with Dr. e. Benjamin. An
dreWs. A reporter went out to see DR.
Andrews about the proposed sRockefelle
building at the Nebraska state university
| incidentally, as a chance aside, the re
/ porter suggested that the crushing Q
weak competitors. in business might b
something like mercfully taking up
sickly child and ,,benevolently Wringing it
5lsneck.',' E.%s 81
#S...Perhaps,' or -"Aha,' or Eyes" Q
something like that is What the. docto
is now alleged to- :have said. Yet whe
it-tappeared in a. Chicago paper Dr.. An
drew's remarks were edited and expande
as follows: ssfT' -
| Society as it becomes more enlight
ened, will snuff out the lives. of sickly an
deformed infants. to prevent their becom
ing at maturity a burden. to it and t
themselves. A committee Of skilled ply
scians, firmly believe, eventually wi
determine the fate of those who are sicl1l,
or whose recovery from disease is impos
sible. Such persons, 4 if. the physician
agree. will mercifully be put to death"
(, Later reports from Lincoln state ths
the doctor does not want to have til
baby killed if it is not feeling well.
"A. J. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

The south is preparing to plant an enor-
NOUS area to cotton. I'VE intend to slap
in few wheat this spring also. after this
heated term passes SO that we can get
out on the land without danger of sunburn
or fly bite.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Two audiences that filled the Bijou wit
messed the performances of '"rhe Fatal
Wedding yesterday afternoon and eve
ming. &
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
TRAVELLERS ABROAD

viii find The Journal file as follows:
car Express Co.. 5 Waterloo Place. 4sE
! DENMARK--U. S. Legation. :. .
PARIs--Eag,e Bureau, F3 rue Cambon. heh-
dents visiting Paris ccu have their mall OF
kilograms sent care of this Bureau and the
same will be forwarded to them or held 1or
their arrival
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

The ideal college professor. according tt
President Harper of Chicago university
should be married. and if he has three
or four children he will be still better He
does not dare to put up much of a kick
after that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Sir Oliver Lodge says that the ritual OF
the English church, has become as me-
chanical as the grinding. Of the Tibetan
a few theological half bricks shortly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

st. Louis papers are disturbed because
three city employees were shot in one day
in that city's Saloons If this accident
had only weeded. out all the boozers on the
city salary list, it would not have been a
bad days work. - 20;
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

A large matinee audience witnessed the
Ferris production of Taken from Life
at the Lyceurn to-day. The last matinee
Of the week will be given Saturday. Next
week Dick Ferris and company will APP
pear in Nat Goodwin's great success,
>''When We Were Twenty One. MINES
apolis council of the Royal League has
bought the house for Monday and Tuesday
evening performances. Mayor Haynes and
the aldermen have been invited to attend
Monday evening, atsywhich time Mayor
Haynes will make an address.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD

Facts About Jiu Jitsu, the System Of Ply
steal Exercise by Which the Japanese
Have Developed Wonderful Powers of
Endurance---WaIIace lrwin's Song Of
Sour Grapes-8oek on the Federation OF
Religions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

Calderone 1abored under the serious dis.
advantage Of not having his technically
with him. Twenty years.! -. .~'.'.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04

The. musical comedy, Foxy Grandpa 4
which opens at the Bfiou Sunday after:
noon for a weeks engagement, while
largely appealing to children. is not g
Juvenile performance 1t is filled with sc
many good things that 1t appeals to adults
equally. Joseph Hart plays the title role
and Miss Carrie De Mar will essay thu
part of Polly.