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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-30
RESOURCES.

Loans and Discounts. OYerdrafts. =. ..
 U. S. Bonds and Premiums Other Stocks and Bonds. Real Estate, Old Bank
 Building. ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
ATTENDANCE IS HEAVY
GIDEONS TRANSACT ROUTINE
BUSINESS AT OPENING SESSION
AND DISCUSS PROPOSED
CHANGES IN CONSTITUTION.

Having disposed Of the pre-conven-
tion business by meeting Of the execu-
tive committee yesterday, the fifth an
nual meeting of Gideons, the Christian
travelling men IS association Of Ameri-
ca, began this morning at the First Bap-
fist church.
More than five hundred are in attend
ance. Dugal Cree Of Minneapolis, treas
urer, reported finances on firm basis.
The receipts for the year were $1,093
in dues and 81 ,491s in membership fees
from new members. The total member
ship is about five thousand. The report
of the auditing committee was read by
William G. Kinney Of Chicago. The ma
tional superintendent report closed
the routine business.
The amendments to the constitution
were read by sections and lively dis
cussion followed.
The president $ annual message and
the recommendation Of the executive
committee were afternoon features to-
day. The election will be held before
adjournment.
Governor S. r. Van SAINT will deliver
the welcome for the state at the even
ing session at pm. The address of
welcome for the city will be given by
g. w. Buffers, and for the churches, by
Rev. W. B. Riley. The response will be
by W. J. Ennis. The chaplain's ad-
dress will be delivered by Rev. l.. c.
Smith. =, ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
CHILDREN CAN'T
VISIT GRANDMA
NOT IF SHE OCCUPIES AN ANTI.
STORK FLAT.
One Landlord Lost a Tenant Thru His
Ruling That Grandmother Could
Not Entertain Her Grandson, who
Came from Denver for Short So
journ-Litigation Threatened.

The lines of the fiat owners anti
child agreement are drawing tighter.
The landlords are going to absurd ex-
tremes, if tenants can be believed. AS
an example it is cited that this week
a tenant was notified that daughter
could not visit her in the fiat if she
brought her 12-yearold son to see his
grandmother.
The tenant has moved and suit is
threatened for breach Of lease agree
ment.
"Let me introduce you to my sister,
Mr.. Flatowner. She is from Denver
and has come to visit mother. Mother
is at the lake and I have come to fix
her apartments up
"And whose little boy9o asked Mr..
f., chucking the boy viciously under
the chin.
''That's my sisters boy, and he is
going to visit mother, too"
"Oh, no, I guess not, - growled Mr.,
F, say ssa!yagge eEy; emo children are allowed
" Not even to visit his grand
mother?'
"Nope.'
"All right, we shall move then. y
And less rigorous-ruling landlord
was sought. ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
ANOTHER COMES
TO MINNEAPOLIS
FIRM OF EMERSON
NEWTON SIGNS LEASE.
Thru Efforts Of w. II. Eustis Third
Street S Property Owned by A. w.
Wright of Alma, Mich, Will Be I'm
proved for the Well-Known Rockford,
I'LL, Implement House

After four days of negotiation, and
four days OF strenuous travel thru four
states, former Mayor w. H. Eustis has
closed the deal which will bring a new
agricultural implement house to Mime
apolis. and will give the city the largest
voted to the agricultural implement
The new-coming firm is the Emerson
ford, Ill. The building will have front
age of eighty feet and depth Of 100
feet and will be an exact counterpart Of
the Advance Thresher company's build
ing, which it will adioin. The new
building thus created will have an entire
frontage Of 176 feet on Third street s
and will be the handsomest as we'll as
the largest of it's kind in the city.
A. W. Wright, the millionaire lumber
man and salt manufacturer Of Alma,
Mich, will make the investment-th
third he has made in Minneapolis prop
erty. His other two holdings are the
buildings occupied by the Great North
ment- Darling company at Third street
and Seventh avenue s. The total invest
ment is about two hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars. Mr.. Wright, in retiring
from the active business in which he
made his fortune, sold his lumber inter
ests to the Weyerhauser concern and MS
famous, Mahoning mine on the Mesaba
vestment in Minneapolis property has
been made largely thru the efforts of
Mr.. Eustis who returned this morning
from a hurried trip to Alma, Chicago
and Rockford, with all necessary papers
signed.
AS the J. I. Case Implement company
is about to build a big warehouse be
tween Washington avenue and Seventh
avenue 8 and the comparatively new
spur track on which the Advance
Thresher, the Demonstrating the Great
Northern Implement and other compa
MES are located, and as ground has al
ready been broken for the Emerson
Newton building which KEGS and Col
burn and the H. N. Leighton compan,
propose to have ready by Jan. l, tn
deal closed by Eustis appears to presag
the movement Of Horticultural row.
into south town.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
SECOND STORY WORKERS
PORCH CLIMBING Blu R G. L A r s
HAVE INVADED MINNEAPOLIS
AFTER AN ABSENCE OF NEARLY
SIX MONTHS.

After leaving Minneapolis in peace
for nearly six months, porch climbers
began their operations again last night
by robbing the residence Of J. Burt,
924 First avenue N. .. ..-
The marauders climbed upon porch
in front Of Mr.. Burt 8 room, on the sec
ond floor, and cut the screen without
awakening him: They yko searched ear aed,, his his
scended to Mrs. Burt g room on the first
floor: She awoke Just as they were
and screamed for her husband. The
robbers made no at attempt to silence Hence heri
but slipped quietly from 9na the room, ana nai
showed that they had taken a valuable
gold watch from the dresser.
:" Thieves also entered T. P. Tolly's
candy store at 1924 Chicago avenue,
and took some small change from the
cash drawer.
The police fear that these robberies
may be the beginning work Of an or
ganized gang, and several men, will
be detailed on the case to prevent fur
Their work.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
POLITICS ON CHANGE
UNDERCURRENT OF TALK WOULD
INDICATE A POSSIBLE CONTEST
IN ELECTION OF {, PRESIDENT OF
CHAMBER,

Minor signs in the, undercurrent, Of
talk on 'change, indicated this morning,
that for the first time in years, con-
test is likely for the office of presid dent
of the Chamber. James Marshall, hay
ing served two terms, will retire Jan. /.
His successor will be elected Oct. 6.
Whether there will be a contest depends
upon the decision of p. S. Woo, worth,
who has been urged by a number OF
friends to become a candidate. He has
so far been entirely noncommittal as to
his intention. -. 49,
Peter B. Smith, now vice president
less Mr. Woodwork enters the race.
Mr.. Smith is director Of the Wash
burn Crosby company, is identified with
the ST. Anthony & Dakota Elevator
company, and has other high class bust
ness connections. Mr.. Woodworth is
head of the firm Of E. S. Woodwork &
Co., also of the Concrete Elevator COM
pany;- and is a director in other large
corporations. -
Many Of the younger element would
| like to see a contest, believing that the
breaking away from old formality, and
| the injecting of a little spirit into the
election would be good thing for the
! Chamber The election will also pro.
! vide a first vice president, five, new di
rectors, three members of the board OF
arbitration and two members Of the
board Of appeals.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
SCHOOL BONDS
TO BE VOTED ON
NEW sCHooLHousEs COSTING
100000 NEEDED IN THIS CITY.
Question Of Issuing Bonds Must Be
Decided by Voters at Coming Elec-
ton Schools Needed in All Parts of
City Congestion in High Schools as
Well as Grades.

In addition to voting for their favor
tie candidates on Nov. 8 and express
ing their views on the proposed city
charter and the million dollar filtration
plant, the people of Minneapolis will
have an opportunity to authorize the.
schoolhouses. The council has taken
no step in this matter as yet, but the
school board has asked the aldermen
to supply funds for several new build
ings which are badly needed. The
aldermen can do nothing without au-
thority from the people, as the D per
cent limit of indebtedness fixed for the
council hon Ia; been t. exceeded thr4 the
forth the council will be unable to float
any more bonds except on direct au-
thority Of the voters Of the city or the
state legislature. zsg ...
The question is now before the coun-
Gil committee on ways and means,
which will undoubtedly recommend that
pie, and the council will take the
necessary action at the next meeting:
The matter Of ways and means for
securing funds for new buildings was
generally discussed at a special meet
ing Of the board held yesterday after,
noon. It was decided that the board of
tax levy had all it could do to supply
the schools. Assistance could only
come from the council, and the task
of raising the funds was referred to
that body.
School directors say three new school;
houses could be used to advantage anc
within year their erection will be
| Imperative. There is need for a new
building in North Minneapolis to relieve
Grant, Logan and Lowell schools. The
Laurel school, on Laurel and Lyndale
avenues, which is only an old house re
built for school purposes, is not only
poorly adapted for its purpose, but 1!
entirely too small for the district, ant
should be replaced by a modern struc
ture.
A building is also needed in the terri
! tory between the Longfellow school a
Lake street and Minnehaha avenue, AM
the Minnehaha school. This territor,
is being rapidly settled. At presen
some Of the children walk as far as tw'
miles to school. ~ 81 -.
With the high schools the condition
are no better. At the Central an
South high schools, the general assembl,
rooms have been cut up into school an
recitation rooms and are crowded. III
introduction of the commercial cours
this fall has increased the high schoo
attendance by fully $50 pupils.
There has been more or less agitatio:
in the eighth ward for a high schOo
and the board Of education admits tina
I new building of that character j
needed, tho it has not been determine
that the Calhoun district is the mos
advantageous place.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
CLASSES BEGIN MONDAY
An Attractive Study Course Arranged
at the Y. M. G. A. ----

i The boys department. school Of the
Young Mems Christian association
opens Monday. Glasses will be held
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fri
day nights. l.. H. ,Beeler will be in
charge of the school and will have as
assistant Arthur Kassebaum, all under
the supervision of A. G.. Cartlich, the
secretary of the department.
Many privileges will be accorded the
members of the boys branch; such as
gymnasium, showers and swimming pool
twice week, reading and games, rooms
in the boys house, socials, the annual
banquet. Diplomas will be given to the
students who successfully complete two
terms work. The gymnasium classes
will be held Monday. and Friday from
Ito s. %. M, and Bible class "Wednesday
evening. Lunch will be served Mon
days and Fridays from $50 to 9 pm
and Wednesday at@6:15 pm. An EN-.
splovment bureau for boys is to be an,
other feature of the work.
The class scheiS lie is as follow: Mon
day and Wednesday, elementary arith
metic, spelling and penmanship; Tues
day and Friday, advanced arithmetic
algebra, grammar and bookkeeping.
The cost is small. Membership in the
department is 81. Each study costs S
q term. Books are furnished at mod
crate prices.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
SAL00NKEEPERS WARNED
WATCHING ALDERMEN POSI-
TON ON CLARK LICENSE ORDI-
NANCE, WHICH PROMISES Ex-
PENSE.

Alderman E. w. Clark has stirred
up trouble among his colleagues by the
introduction of an ordinance repeating
the notorious Rand ordinance provid-
ing for refund Of the unexpired bal
ance on liquor licenses in case they are
revoked. .....
Mr.. Clark proposes to, re-enact the
ordinance of 1889, which provided that
where a liquor license is revoked by
council or mayor, the city shall refund
a sum corresponding to one-half of the
unexpired term of the license. and
in case of revocation by the courts,
the whole amount shall be forfeited.
Alderman Rand had this measure
changed some years ago so that in all
cases of revocation the holder gets a
rebate proportional to the unexpired
term.
Under this Rand ordinance it is no
hardship on a saloonkeeper to have a
license revoked for he can go down to
the city hall the day after and in the
name Of his bartender, wife, son or some
friend apply for another license. Mr.
Clark says that his ordinance will not
hurt the decent saloonmen in the least
but will be of great assistance to the
authorities and in keeping the tough
| places within bounds.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
ARE PURELY AUXILIARY
Women's Wing Of the Gideons Unique
in It's Organization.

"We transact no bushes, elect no Of
fcers and handle no funds,' explained
member Of the woman s auxiliary to
the Gideons today.
The organization is certainly, unique:
eve are not club, 'insisted the mem
Der. And she is right, for no club would
allow the men to transact al Of its, busi,
wives of the national officers chosen by
the Gideons, serve as the national o9i-
GERS Of the auxiliary. The same is
true Of the state associations and Of the
city camps.
Any woman can become member
on one condition-she must marry a
Gideon. There are as many members
in the organization as there are mar
ried Gideons, but there is not a large
quito f-town representation at the con-
vention.
Yesterday afternoon a prayer service
was held in the Hennepin avenue
church and Mrs. F. A. Garlick Of Chi
cago, national president, led the devo
tions. Tomorrow at pm. a service
led by Mrs. A. L. Brabrook Of Chicago
will be held. in the First Baptist church
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
RAISE ON LUMBER
Board Increases Local Assessment, but
80, Protest Will Be Made.

Minneapolis lumber manufacturers
will appear before the state board of
equalization. next Tuesday morning to
cent in the assessment on logs and lum
Der, which was recommended to the
board yesterday afternoon by the pom-
mittee The original assessment was
So, 444, 1876, and the increase will amount
to $688,879.
Machinery values for. Hennepin We're
raised from $l,132, 405 to $1,4l5,502,
and protest on this item will also be
made Tuesday. -
Ramsey county was increased 25 per
cent on logs and lumber, and on ma
chinery. Heavy increases were also
Hennepin's assessment on bonds and
stocks was raised 1887 ,5l9, and Ram
sey's, 1920, 136. ez
The board will also give hearing
Tuesday to Representative Of the West
ern Union and North American Tele-
graph companies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
TYPHOID INCREASING

Typhoid has shown an upward tend
ency in the past month both as to the
number Of new cases and the number of
deaths, but the health officials do not
consider the figures alarming. In Sep
tember there were twenty-five new cases
and there may be that many more I'M
reported cases, as some physicians do
not report typhoid.
The number of deaths was eight as
compared with three in August: Three
having been brought to Minneapolis
for treatment. Only five deaths are
due to local conditions.
Still, the fact that colon bacili are
found in the reservoir water is note
worthy. Colon bacilli do not, of course,
produce typhoid fever, but they Indicate
that there is source of contamination
in the water.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
JOURNAL WANT
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them.
The contest provided for one seat to
every eleventh Ad brought to L e
Journal counter beginning on
Wednesday at 8 a.a. and continuing
until Thursday noon, and two seats to
every twenty-second ad.
Scores of Ads were received, neces-
stating twentyfour prizes to be
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01

The state board declared an intention
OF increasing the "goods and merchan
dise'' returns from all counties to an
amount equivalent to so per cent Of
to do It is peculiar. nos i To H eu MJin
county, which had already increased its
returns, $l,54l, l9l the board has added
$l,57O,6S6, an increase of 20 per cent
over the return made by the city as
SCISSOR and verified by, the city board of
total increase of 100000 over the
assessment of 1908, or 81 per cent? or,
eliminating an item regarding which
there is some dispute with the state
board as to it's proper classification, ~
per cent over the 1903 returns.
!, Ramsey returned only $205,sO9 more
than last year, 50 that, while the state
cent on it's 1904 return, it's assessment
stands at but 80 per cent increase over
1903, as against Hennepin's ~ per
cent.
Steele county,, a. portion of the dis.
trlct represented by the chairman Of
tee of the state board-which commit
tee recommended an increase of 33 l-3
dise' returns Of Hennepin county-re-
| turned $57 900 less than last year, and,
after the insignificant per cent raise
made by the state board, shows Is per
cent less than in 1908, as against Hen
nepin s increase Of AZ per cent
Winona county, the home Of Cover.
nor Van SAINT, paid but 2 per cent in.
crease over 1908; St. Louis county, Il
! per cent increase; Isanti, 5 per cent de-
crease; Anoka, 2 per cent decrease
Polk, 5 pei, cent increase; Renville, 1(
per cent decrease; Rice, per cent
increase; Stearns, Is per cent increase
Brown, per cent Increase; Houston
10 per cent increase; Lac. qui Parle,
The merchants Of Minneapolis are un
able to see the "equity' Of these fig
ures and are up in arms to the extent
of EXPRESSING their determination t,
contest the action Of the board in tn,
courts, unless the board chooses to re
consider the same. The standing com
mittee on taxes of the Retailers asso
citation has requested hearing befor'
the board for 2 o'clock next Tuesday
in protest. as.a,1~s :az%
If the board should not reconside
its action, legal steps will be take,
4 to vitiate same on the ground of in
equality, and it would seem, in the 1igh
Of the above figures, that there exist
ample justification for such action.
The state at large is interested t.
the extent of but approximately on
mill in the total tax levy, and loca
taxpayers are questioning the logica
place in the governmental machiner,
Of board on which they have, not
|, withstanding enormous and preponde1
ating commercial and financial inter
ests, but one representative, and which
despite the inconsequential interest 0
the state at large takes it upon it
self to juggle with their returns in s
arbitrary and inequitable a manner.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
COUNTY JAIL IS
BADLY CROWDED
JAILER HAS TROUBLE TO KEEP
PRISONERS IN ORDER.
Desperate Criminals Watched Night
and Day to Prevent Any Attempts
at Escapes in Forwarding
Sentenced Prisoners Adds to the Con-
gestion Of the Jail.

Never before in the history of Hen
nepin county has the county jail har-
bored so many prisoners as are now
under the charge of Jailer Nels Clau-
sen. Never before have SO many des-
perate men been congregated in local
prison, and the officials are rebuilding
their vigilance to prevent attempts to
escape.
There are now ninety-fve inmates of
the Jail, which was not intended to
accommodate more than seventy-Gve or
eighty. The prisoners usually average
Every nook and corner of the Jail is
now filed and supplies are running
short. acquisitions to the county COM
is only by the most strenuous efforts
Of Sheriff Dreger's force that order
is maintained.
II have been here night and day for
the past week. said Tailor Clausen
this morning. 81 have not dared to
leave the jail even for short time, as
the large number of desperate men con.
critical. On several occasions I have
had to put men in the dungeons to keep
order and to impress the rest Of the
prisoners with the danger Of becoming
unruly.'
Many prisoners convicted and SEN
fenced are still in jail here. Over a
dozen men were sentenced last Satur
day, and as yet no commitments have
been made out in the clerks Office
This delay, when delay is extremely
costly and even dangerous, is explained
on the ground that "there is so much
| other BUSINESS ~.
A. notable feature of the situation is
the large number of boys in jail. Near
80 per cent of the prisoners are under
age and a large percentage Of these are
held on charges of grand larceny. The
stealing of watches seems to have been
m fact he nrofessn Of pck the a nocke
seems to have become dangerously pop
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
Weather Conditions.

Clear weather is general this morning
in Minnesota and northern Iowa and
thence westward to the coast, also IN
the southern states, much Of the Ohio
valley, the lower Rocky mountain region
and the southern Pacific coast region.
Rain has fallen since yesterday morning
in northern Colorado southern Nebraska.
Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee, also on
the New England coast and in northern
Saskatchewan, and rain was still falling
this morning at Edmonton, Prince Al
bert Wichita, Kansas City, st. Louis,
Cairo and Houghton. 1t is considerably
warmer than it was yesterday morning
In North Dakota, and warmer In Montana
and it is generally cooler elsewhere.
II S. Outram, Local Forecaster.