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Paul." he wrote, "are all Of the differ
ent portions of the silurian formation,
and the strata lie not quite horizontal,
but dip gently each way from the vi
cinity of Prairie du Chen The rocks
are composed of buff and gray coIored
magnesium limestone, interstratified
with softer sand rock. This sand rock.
especially in the upper portion of the
river, is very soft and composed al
most wholly of slick. The different
rates of abrasion of different strata
have caused considerable local varia-
lions in the appearance of the bluffs,
and rock terraces of different eleva-
lions have been formed. The great
chasm in which the Mississippi flows
between these bluffs was produced
most probably by the action of differ
ent forces from what are now exerting
their influence there"
The general adds that the Falls of
st. Anthony, now seven miles above,
were probably at Fort Smelling once
upon time. Gen. Warren concluded
from his examinations that throughout
the space between Fort Smelling and
Rock Island rapids the current of the
river had not been of sufficient
strength to transport gravel and that
the bars which prevented navigation
were therefore composed of sand; that
this sand was very silicious and free
from cement, SO that it was easily
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Navigation From Mississippi the


lands lying within the limits Of the
state of Minnesota. and that not more
than one section thereof shall be Sc
lected in any one township; provided,
further, that said selections shall not
be made from any lands containing
mines of gold, silver, cinabar or cop
per, nor from any lands to which rights
of presumption or homesteads have at
taehed.
The act further provided that the
lands granted should be subject to the
disposal of the legislature of the state
for the purpose mentioned and no
other; that the lock and dam should
remain forever a public highway, free
from any toll or charge of any kind;
that the work should be done under
the direction Of the engineer depart
ment of the United States, according
to the plan and estimate submitted by
Maj. Gen. Warren, and that if the lock
and dam were not constructed within
two years from and after the date of
the acceptance and disposition of this
grant by the legislature of Minnesota,
the lands were to revert to the United
States.
Another section provided that in case
the government made an appropriation
In money, the lands should also revert
to the United States. By a river and
harbor act passed in the year 1873, the
government made an appropriation of
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of the necessary land, the preparation
Of detailed plan with drawings, the
procurement of a travelling galloway
and its erection, the purchase of an air
compressor plant, a stone crusher, the
operation of the plant, the erection of
the necessary buildings for carpenter
and blacksmith shops, and engine and
boiler houses.
At the close of the year 1898 the plant
was complete and ready for work. The
cofferdam for the lock had been COM
pleted with the exception of some earth
filling and the detailed plans and draw.
lngs for the lock and dam had been
prepared but not submitted for the ac-
ton of a board. Another river and
harbor@ act passed in March, 1899, au-
thoriZed this work, together with Lock
and dam No. 1, to be carried on by
continuing contract. The item in the
act was as follows:
Improving the Mississippi river be-
tween the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils & Omaha railroad bridge at ST.
Paul and the Washington avenue
bridge at Minneapolis, continuing i'm
provement, $4,000. Provided that a
contract or contracts may be entered
into by the secretary of war for such
materials and work as may be neces-
sary to complete said improvements, or
said materials may be purchased and
the work done otherwise than by con-
tract, to be paid for as appropriations
may from time to time be made by
law, not to exceed in the aggregate
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$4,000 for the construction of a lock
and dam near Meekers island so the
land grant was relinquished by the
state.
Ordered to Ascertain Cost
In 70 the secretary of war was au-
thorlzed to have an examination made
and estimates prepared in order to as
certain what it would cost to make the
Mississippi navigable to steamers with
a four feet tonnage from st. Paul to
the Falls of st. Anthony. In SO another
act, which read exactly the same, was
passed. In '8S an appropriation of
$4,000 was made by congress for the
Improvement of the west bank of the
Mississippi river below the Washing
ton avenue bridge at Minneapolis. 1t
was not until Aug. Is, 1894, however,
that a river and harbor act was passed
which gave authority to commence an
improvement of the river between ST.
Paul and Minneapolis by slack water
navigation Congress at that time ac-
knoWledged that the original condition
OF the channel was such that at low
stages 1T was navigable by very small
boats only, and that at all stages the
current was SO swift for about three
miles that boats were unable to make
Roadway against it.
The estimated cost of the work was
$59S,235. A report submitted in June.
1898, showed that $32,S3O.72 had al
ready been expended on the work. This
report added that the preparations
made for the commencement of the
lock and dam consisted in the securing
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censed that any of his comrades dare
crltlclse the imperfect land bill, and
therefore withdrew from political life,
the land league, which he had found
ed, and which had now more or less
passed from his control, went through
at least the form of imploring him> to
come back, and after receiving his re-
peated refusals, settled down to forget
him. This did not concur, however,
with the programme of Mr.. O'Brien's
friends, and of late distant rumblings
that may or may not portend an earth
quake have been heard from the Unit
ed Irish league branches of West
Mayo (where Mr.. O'Brien resides) and
Cork (for the capital of which Mr..
O'Brien sat in parliament). They as
sert that the United Irish league is Ian
gushing and losing its hold upon the
country (the men on horseback may
read the reason Why, and they ask
that Mr.. O'Brien be induced to come
back into political life again. Those at
the heads of things, presently, would
try to ignore these; but Mr.. O'Brien's
friends seem determined not to permit
them. So there is trouble brewing.
-Seumas MacManus.
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moved by the water and that the bars,
therefore, were constantly shifting. He
estimated that the sand extended
downward generally from forty to six
ty feet below low water service. He
found that steamboat men and RATS
men had made some effort to improve
temporarily the navigation with slight
dams of brush.
Examination Is Continued
In his report he recommended that
some dredging be done and that time
be given him to watch the experiment
and prepare a more complete report. A
continuance of the examination was
ordered in another river and harbor
act.
In July, 1858, congress granted to the
state of Minnesota 'for the purpose of
aiding said state in constructing and
completing a lock and dam at Meeker's
island ESQ called), in the Mississippi
river, in said state, and thereby ia
cilitating the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi river between the Falls of ST.
Anthony and the mouth of the Mime
sofa river, 100000 acres of public lands,
to be selected in alternate odd num-
bered sections by an agent to be ap-
pointed by the governor Of said state,
subject to the approval of the secre-
tary of the interior; provided that said
lands shall be selected from the public
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M CUNT CHARLES, Donegal, Ire,
June 2S.-Our droll old city of
Dublin seldom wants for a sensation.
But for its sensations, life in Dublin
would be almost slow. Just now they
have ghost in the old parliament
house. An airy, merry, prankful ghost.
AS the ey-changers now pollute
the temple, the Bank Of Ireland, hav-
ing for long occupied the old parlia-
ment house, a guard of soldiers is al
ways on duty there to protect money
bags, that no mortal could get at, from
robbers who have no existence. There
is bell connecting the soldiers guard
room with the officers quarters, which
is supposed to be rung in case of a
midnight surprise. This bell, unlike
the other bells of the capital, rested its
tongue for years Recently, in the mid
die of the night, it unexpectedly spoke
The officers sprang from their beds,
and clad with little else than cutlasses,
rushed out, only to find the sentry
sleeping as sound as usual. There was
no assault in force by the Dublin bur-
glars, and no one had rung the bell!
On various succeeding nights, it is said,
the mysterious alarm was repeated,
and there was no explanation forth
coming. It is now thought that it may
have been the ghost of old Castlereagh
coming back for his razor; though
more think it is a warning to the au-
thorities to bundle out the men with
the moneybags. and sweep up the
house against Grainne Mhaeps coming.
in to her own again.
Member does Dublin lack for its
naive humors. and never did. Here is
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an Irish agricultural 1aborers' bill, by
Which 1T was intended that. following
the example of the farmers, the labor
ers may be placed in position to pur-
chase outright their little cottages,
With rood or half acre of land, the gov
eminent advancing the purchase
money, which would be repaid to them
principal and interest-in small in
stallments, extending over a great
number of years. This bill, If it be-
comes law in its original form, would
be a great benefit to the many thou
sands of agricultural laborers in Ire
land. 1t would encourage thrift and by
giving them permanent home of their
own, tend to make the laborers com
Portable and happy. Today the laborer
is in much better position than he
was ever before in Ireland. There is
better demand for his labor, and conse-
quently much higher wages; and if he
had that to which hitherto he has been
a stranger, a comfortable, permanent
home, he would less often need to turn
his eyes to America and to Scotland.
Miss Wyndham, our correctly ladylike
chief secretary, shows disposition to
nurse the bill out of existence. She
would give the laborers a shorter loan
than that given to the farmers, and at
the same time charge them higher in
terest. OF course, 1t must be remem-
bered, that in the case of the farmers
purchase, the money was going into the
empty pockets of the chief secretary's
friend, the landlord; the laborers' pur-
chase money will be going to the far
mer only, and in him, our chief secre-
tary has no family interest. 1t is
doubtful that, if the bill be at length
granted, it will be in anything like an
acceptable form.
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E7HE Mlnneapolitan can now look
III forward confidently to a time
when he will be able to step
ABOARD a steamboat launch moored to
MS own wharf, for dam No. 2, which
the government has been constructing
near Meeker's island, will be complet-
ed within the year and It's completion
means that the work on dam No. 1,
lower down stream, will be pushed.
When these two dams are in working
order the Minneapolis correspondent
OF the Encyclopedia Britannica can
truthfully write that the Flour City
is the head of navigation of the Mis-
sissippi river.
He could have truthfully written this
forty-seven years ago, for in the late
'6Os no less responsible body than the
Minnesota legislature stated in a me-
mortal to congress that up to 1857
steamboats, of the average tonnage
used On the Mississippi above ST. Louis
made regular trips to within two and
half miles of the Falls of ST. Anthony.
that is, to the rapids at the foot of the
rails, and occasionally to the two cities.
Minneapolis and st. Anthony, situated
On their banks.
The memorial was drafted for the
purpose of persuading congress that
something should be done and done
Immediately to give Minneapolis her
share of river traffic Congress heed
ed the petition and Immediately be-
stirred itself.
Must Wait Five Years More
Thirty-eight years have passed since
the memorial was received in Wash
fT1O h. n
pleted. In another five years the sister
twin up the river will have the pleasure
of welcoming steamboats, at her own
wharfs. But the glory that was
Greece and the grandeur that was
Rome" is not more definitely a thing
of the past than is the steamboat traf-
nc on the Mississippi above st. Louis.
Undoubtedly Minneapolis will be
pleased when both dams are complet-
ed, for the improved navigation will be
a convenience, but it is not probable
that she will display any extravagant
delight.
It required exactly thirteen river and
harbor acts of Congress. three sundry
civil acts and one concurrent resolution
to make the Mississippi river navigable
up to the Falls of st. Anthony, and it
done the expenditure of over 81 600 600
and the employment of many men.
river and harbor act, approved
June %. 1856, directed the secretary
of war to cause examinations or sur
veys to be made of the Mississippi
river between Fort Smelling and the
Falls of st. Anthony and the upper
Rock river rapids of the Mississippi
with the view of ascertaining the most
feasible means, by economizing the
water of the stream, for insuring the
passage, at all navigable seasons. Of
boats drawing four feet of water. Maj.
Gen. G. K. Warren, u. S. A, major of
engineers, came West and made an ex-
haustive examination and later sent In
voluminous report to the secretary Of
war. To this report was added an in
teresting description of the Mississippi
river.
.The bluffs from LIE Claire to st.
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The Social Calendar

Eyes. have been so busy with my
visits this week" said the impressive
lady. / Mondayed in Chicago and
Tuesdayed at Peoria. Then I Wednes-
dayed at home and Thursdaycd in
Michigan City. Fridayed with friends
at Moline and Saturdayed at Wauke-
gam
"Yes?" asked the friend. "And where
do you expect today tomorrow ?'-
Judge.
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And to my mind, the advertisers pre-
sumed too much upon the sympathies
of family friends.
Apropos of the boots, Sir Mount
Stuart Grant Duff, in his diary, which
has just been published, sets down an
Englishman's epitaph which he had
found in cemetery at Chifu = an
epitaph which, through slight error
in photography, carries with it quaint
air of conviction. It reads:
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Seunas MaeR0anus Writes of Men Affairs the Green Isle

one of the latest culled from the adver- {
Using columns of Dublin evening
paper:
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mortality amongst centenarians in Ire
land. A sprightly pair, aged respec-
lively 108 and 103, opened the ball in
Kerry few months ago, and since then
the provincial papers have been kept
busy chronicling the deaths of many
others in various corners of the coun-
try. The death of couple of those
+ that went off more recently, recalled
the tragedy in Limerick long ago,
which furnished the plot for Gerald
Grifhn's charming novel, THE Collie
gians,' and Dion Boucicault's famous
play founded on that novel;, THE Col
leen Bawn." William Quinn who died
at Groom recently, aged 100 years, was
a first cousin to Ely O'Connor, the Col
leen Bawn, and Mrs. Mary Dillon, who
died at Groom also few days later, in
her 103d year, remembered well going
to Limerick market with her butter in
1922, and there witnessing the execu-
ton of Seaman for the murder of the
Colleen Bawn. Seaman, who had been
defended by no less than the great Dan
eO'Connen himself, when ordered for
execution, requested that he might be
drawn to the gallows in his own car
rage. His request was granted, but the
horses refused to draw the carriage.
They could be neither coaxed nor COM
PEELED, and had finally to be taken from
the carriage and their places supplied
by hired horses.
In the Irish political arena all goes
not merrily as that worn-out marriage
bell that has been for SO long rung in
our ears. Some of the wheels within
wheels of the machinery of the United
Irish league have got out of gear for
want of Oiling, and one does not need
a very fine ear, just now, to detect
this. When Mr.. William O'Brien, in-
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There has of late been a startling
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CUNT CHARLES, Donegal, Ire,
June 2S.-Our drou old city of
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Hosts Try SUBWAY

NEW YORK, Oct 81. = Sjghtseers
crowded the subway for hours yester
DAY, They came from Fifth avenue and
Itester street, from Brooklyn and Jersey
City. and all the nearby cities, towns and
villages, and many of the railroads
brought trainloads of excursionists from
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-01
BUTCHERS

ing that year. AS compared with the
previous six years this percentage shows
slight increase in the number of pupils
as compared with the total population.
The total cost of the public school sys-
tenn is given as $251. 457 .e25. This Is an
increase of s16.000.000 over the previous
year. 1t amounts to $3-15 per capita of
total population and s22.75 per capita
per pupil
Since 1870 the proportion of male teach
ers has decreased from 80 per cent OF
the entire number to 26 per cent of the
entire number the past year. The aver
age compensation for male teachers last
year was sl9.9S and s4O-51 for females.
This Is a slight increase over the previ-
Gus year.
for the year is given as 1,093 49, BY the
addition of pupils in elementary schools
academies, institutions for higher educa-
ton, evening schools. private kindergar-
tens, Indian schools. state schools and
schools for detectives and orphans the
The report estimates that the average
schooling given TO each inhabitant i'm 1870
was 672 days and In 1908 1.034 DAYS
The report shows that last year 15zS- -
So children were enrolled in the conn
mon schools for that race In the former
Columbia. The enrolment In 1877, the
first year statistics were taken of the
negro schools was 571 SOC. Since 1876 IL
is estimated that $3.50. 000. 900 has been ex-
pended In the education of the negro chill
dren in the former slave states, and near
the white children of the same sections
Ninety-six reform schools are recorded.
with 81 ,46S inmates, q, ,9l3 OF whom are
learning useful trades.
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distant places. 1t is estimated that 1S0,-
coo people rode In the underground trains
during the three hours from to 5 o'clock
and that OF these fully one-quarter were
children.
The plans of the management were soon
disarranged when the afternoon rush be-
gan Heretofore the two downtown sta
tions at the city hall and BROOKLYN
bridge have been the points at which the
rush has occurred, but today every station
on the line had its share Of the business
and none of the Sunday passengers left
the cars till the end of the road was
reached.
As a result the train schedule previously
arranged was disregarded and locals and
expresses, filed to capacity. skipped sta
tions all the afternoon. The crowds at
the stations waited patiently. however.
and gave the police and station men little
trouble. =
Several short delays occurred. but dur
ing most of the afternoon the trains were
run under a three minute headway- The
running time was slow, few of the local
trains making better than fifty minutes
on the trip from the city hail to Harlem,
while the schedule time is thirty seven
minutes.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-01
SALTWATER

Nicholas Peterson. well known resi-
dent OF saltwater. died suddenly at his
home on West Wflkin street of heart fail
ure- Mr. Peterson. who was seventy six
years OF age. had been in poor health for
some time. but was up and around and
on Sunday felt fully as well as usual. He
aged TO reach the room of his son Anton
and told him that he was very sick A
physician was called. but death came a
half hour later Deceased had resided in
saltwater since 1850 and was the father of
p n. Peterson. OF ST. Paul. The other
surviving children are Mrs. Paul Hanson
OF saltwater. Mrs Peter w. Copeland, OF
this city The funeral will be held to-
morrow afternoon There Will be serv-
ices al the house and at the Swedish Lu-
theran church.
Charles Howe alias johnson. who es-
capped two weeks ago from the jail at Pine
City. where he was being held for trial on
charge Of grand larceny was recaptur-
ed in Minneapolis and was brought to the
Washington county Jan. where he win re-
main until spring.
The last rites anent the death OF Mrs.
M j. Towey occurred at St Michaers
church yesterday forenoon. where funeral
services Were conducted. The remains
were taken to South Saltwater for burial
The funeral OF Mrsa.w W. Hail is to be
held this afternoon from her late home on
West Wilkin street and the interment will
take place at Fairview cemetery
Ernest Nolan is laid up with a broken
shoulder, the resulr Of playing football
with the Prison Cry team at Athletic
park Sunday afternoon
Abott w Tyner, OF Tyler. Mimi. son
Of R. c. Tyner, OF Saltwater, was mar
ried at Lake Preston. s. D., Oct 25 to
Miss Josie T. Bush.
The Eclipse Saw Mill company at South
Saltwater shut down its mill for the sea-
son yesterday. the seasons cut aggregat-
ing l5.000,oo0 feet
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MEXICAN PESOS
ARE GUT OF DATE
Philippines Are Doing Business on the
Gold Standard

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 31.-The
bureau of insular affairs today gave
out statement touching conditions
applying to the Philippine currency.
The Philippine commission passed an
act to discourage the further use of
the currency formerly in circulation in
the islands and designed to give the
gold standard full effect. The secre-
tary of war has received the following
the Philippines showing the effect of
this legislation:
.The approach of Oct. 1, when first
currency taxing provision became ef-
fect1ve, caused large export of Mex
lean pesos commercially and large in
flows Of Spanish-Filipino coins in the
treasury. On Sept. 1, 1904, 500 Mex
lcan pesos were exported and 1920
Spanish-Filipino pesos came into the
treasury and were Withdrawn from cir
culation. During September actual
circulation of new currency increased
1,1S1,000 pesos. In October to date
3S2,991 pieces of Mexican currency
have been exported commercially and
$4,000 Spanish Filipino by the insular
government for recoinage. Have on
hand nearly 100000 Spanish Filipino
pesos for recoinage. The increase of
actual circulation of new coins for Oc-
tober is approximately 100000 pesos.
Every bank in Manila published no.
tees refusing to receive old currency
on deposit after Sept. 80. Railroads
receive no old currency at any price.
Nearly all accounts of banks through
out the islands have been reopened in
the new currency. Banking business
has called in it's old notes and issued
new ones based upon the new currency.
All new contracts are being made in
new currency. Business throughout the
archipelago is conducted now mainly on
the new basis. Banks and large deal
ers are cooperating with the govern
ment. Very little old currency is left
and existing taxing provisions will
eliminate that by Jan. 1 next The gold
standard is an established fact and now
meets the approval Of the entire public
Business conditions are much i'm
proved.