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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
HINES BRANDED A
LIAR And PERJURER
STRENUOUS MOMENT IN MEETING
OF NATIONAL COMMISSIONERS. i
Burr, Commissioner from Florida, AS
serts that Official of the Louisville
& Nashville Road Made Three Sworn
Statements, All Different, of the
Value of the Company's property.

Deeadwood, S. D., Aug. 1s.-At the
session of the national railroad com
mlss!oners yesterday, Stet Burr, com
missioner from Florida, created a sen
sation when he openly denounced Walk
er ID. Hines, former assistant general
counsel and now first vice president Of
the Louisville G. Nashville railroad. as
liar and perjurer.
He said Hines made a sworn state
ment of the valuation of the property
of the Louisville & Nashville railroad
to the controller of Florida, for the
purpose of taxation for the year ending
June 80, 1902 Later he made another
sworn statement to the commissioners
of Florida on the value of the property
of the same year for rate-making pur-
poses, which was much greater
Still later, Mr.. Burr said, Hines made
another sworn statement of the value
OF the property of the same year when
applying for temporary injunction in
the United States district court to en-
Join the commissioner from enforcing
reduction in passenger rates, which
was double the statement made to the
commissioners Or to the controllers.
Burr asked the national railway com
mlssloners not to give any credence to
statements made by Hines before the
committees of congress.
Benjamin F. Chadbourne, railroad
commissioner of Maine, made a heated
reply to the charges.
Charles T. Staples of Minnesota pre-
sented report which showed that the
valuation a mile of railroad on which
taxes are levied varies in different
states from 1914 in South Dakota to
$1,366 in Massachusetts, and that there
are over a half dozen methods of ar
irving at basis Of taxation in the
various states. ..
The commissioners association elect
ed these officers: DR.. W. G.. Smith,
South Dakota, president; E. A. Mosley,
Washington, secretary
The next meeting will be held at
Washington, D. c., Feb. 81, 1906.
Misrepresentation Says Hines.
Louisville, KY, Aug. 19.-Replying
to the charges made at the DeadWood
convention, Second Vice President
Walker D. Hines of the Louisville &
Nashville road, says that Mr.. Burr IS
statement is simply deliberate mis-
representation
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
Russian Boosting.

The history Of the Russo-T Turkish
war Of lS777S furnishes pretty good
evidence that the Russian soldier is not
invincible. In that war it was the pre-
ponderance Of numbers that gave the
Russians victory. The czar's troops
crossed the Danube promptly, captured
Nicopolis and attempted Immediately to
occupy Plevna, which was defended by
,Osman Pasha. The first attempt was a
disastrous repu1se for Russian force of
$500 men. The Turks met them before
they had reached Plevna and drove
them back with a loss Of nearly 5000
men. Ten days later the Russians re-
enforced, tried again, but in an assault
on the Turks they were defeated, met
with a stunning check, which might
have been turned into a rout had the
Turks pursued their advantage.
The Russians did not try it again
until they had accumulated an army of
10000 men to go against the Turks, who
were estimated to have $4,000 and
Osman Pasha. The attack began with
bombardment lasting from the 9th to
the 11th Of September, when the Rus
slams attempted to carry the works by
assault. General Skobeleff took one Of
the redoubts and held it until the next
day, waiting yainly for REINFORCE
ments. Everywhere else the assault
failed and the Russians retreated, hay
ing lost 10000 men.
Plevna was at length compelled to
surrender as the result Of regular siege
operations. But the Russians did not
have one victory in the field to console
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
THROW BOMBSHELL
At SPECTATORS
British Columbia Will Tax Tim
Der Held by Americans In =.
der Special License. -
Special to The Journal,


Vancouver, B. c., Aug. ls.-Many
millionaire Americans, including the
Weyerhaeuser interests, have been TAX
ing up hundreds Of square miles Of tim
Der on the supposed route of the pro-
jected Grand Trunk Pacific railway
thru the forests of British Columbia,
and the timber will be held under spe-
cial license for speculative purposes.
The provincial government, however,
threw a bombshell into the camp of
the spectators today by posting notices
that all timber held under special
license would be taxed ? per cent of
its value. It is estimated that $780,
100000 worth of timber is so held. and
that the province will thus collect $780,
600 if the holders of timber will
stand it.
The press today announced that in
spite of the strict law passed by the
provincial government to prevent the
export of logs into the United States
an enormous quantity of cedar is
being exported thru subterfuge. The
act was so framed that hand log
gers licenses were not mentioned as
one Of the conditions under which logs
could not be exported.
Taking advantage Of this flaw ex-
porters bought from twenty-five to fifty
loggers' licenses each, and without OPP
position from the government have
been doing an enormous export trade
in cedar logs, which are not marketable
here.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
Financial Independence Of the
o.. " West.

First advices of the shipment Of
money in considerable quantity to the
| crop-producing west, come from New
York this morning. This is little ear
| lier than last year, yet it is not neces-
sarily indicative of greater need, but
| on the contrary, it is likely that the
| west will require less assistance this
year, proportionate to the quantity of
produce to be moved, than is usually
! the case.
No one, however skilled in finance,
has ever been able to figure out in adj
vance, even with approximate correct
ness, what the westward. movement Of
| currency will run to in a crop-moving
season. About the closest one can come
to it is to compare one year with an
| other, from the western end BY such
comparison it would appear that less
money will be needed by considerable,
yet the financial independence Of the
west, a thing the west likes to talk
about, is not wholly established yet.
Much is heard every year, when the
crops begin to move, Of the ability of
the west to finance the movement with
out recourse to the east. It is true
conditions in this respect have changed
wonderfully in the past few years. Still
it is putting it little strong to talk of
western financial independence, and it
has been noticed that in the past, when
the western feeling has been that the
country could get along without New
York s help, it has never quite turned
out that way, and millions Of dollars
have moved out sooner or later in the
season. So also this year, while pros
perity is so great and money so plenti-
full in the west that present view of
it would indicate ability to go it alone,
the west will probably be found draw
ing on New York again little later
on, for there are big crops to move.
This question is of interest just now
in another way. A big stock boom is
on in Wall street. To keep stocks
booming nothing is so desirable as easy
money rates, which means Of course
plenty of money. Hence the interest Of
Wall street, long doing business in in
different markets where commissions
are smaller and expenses proport;onate-
ly larger, can see at last the long
waitedfor time, when prices are to
make new high levels, and business is
to run heavy. Anything tending to
check this is frowned, upon. A money
drain upon New York for crop purposes
would not help stocks any. Hence there
is shifting around, and while in many
a year the west has Boosted Of her fnan-
cial independence, and the astute men
of Wall street have coolly figured out
where the west was vain and foolish,
today we find Wall street talking of the
financial independence Of the west, and
pointing out that less money will be
needed from New York this year than
ever before.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
Shonts' Discovery,

Chairman Shonts, who has Just re-
turned from the canal zone, admits that
it is still there. He also admits that
while wo:k is not progressing fast it
has not stopped by any means.
Mr.. Shonts finds that tho pressing
necessity is for housing for the work
men on the canal. Originally, he says,
everybody's ambition was to see the
dirt fly. Nobody seems to have put in
much mental exertion on the problem
what to do with 10000 men who handle
the shovels.
Mr.. Shonts may be right. It would
not do to leave 10000 men out in the
rain to rust overnight. 1t is but proper
that they should be housed. The fact
that the first and second commissions
did not think Of it, shows the wisdom
of the president in substituting for
them a railroad man, who has made a.
study of the housing problem, and who
knows how essential it is that even Ia
boring men be fed and have a decent
place to sleep, if you expect them to
work. =,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
Will the Negro Work?

The negro problem in the south pre-
SCENTS two aspects, each of which has it's
own difficulties. There is first the So
cial problem, which at the present time
is Ell impasse. The negro cannot cross
the social line, and where he is the pre-
ponderant portion of the community nu-
merically, it is well nigh impossible to
preserve It. The efforts to segregate
the negro are only partially successful.
r The second division is the labor prob
lem. The south is confronted with the
situation that while industrially that
section has advanced by leaps and
bounds during the past fifteen years the
natural supply Of labor has not only
not increased in quantity in proportions,
but has tended to deterioriate in quail
ity. This statement is made on the au-
thority Of the Manufacturers Record,
which has recently conducted a thoro
INQUIRY into the subject.
The south is confronted With the
problem of educating the negro to in
lustrial efficiency or of turning toward
foreign immigration for a labor supply.
& This should preferably come from other
parts Of the United States or from
northern Europe. The south does not
like the italian nor the other southern
European immigrant. It would well
come the Swede, the Norwegian, the
Irish or the English immigrant, but I'M
fortunately it cannot get him. He pre-
fcrs the northern states. In this d.
lemma many southern manufacturers
are looking toward Chinese and Japan
csc labor, tho they realize that a
swapping immigration Of either of
these races would not be tolerated.
The alternative seems to be the edit
cation of the negro to industrial eff
cheney. This is dubious tho not {.
hopeless task. The main thing against
success in this field is the natural shift.
lessness OF the negro. Two or three
days. work a week will keep him in his
simple manner Of life in warm climate
i and he appears to have no sense of re-
sponsibility beyond. He cares nothing
for his employer interests, nor does
he appear to have an ambition to make
himself independent. This is, of course,
only relatively true. There are excep-
tions, notable ones, but it is the rule
that the negro is content to live from
hand to mouth.
The exceptions, however, show what
can be done with the negro industrially.
The education Of the negro to a sense
! Of responsibility for his family is not
impossible, and it would appear to be
the. point on which to attack the negro
problem. The labor question solved,
many of the social problems would dis
appear. The negro with family, a
home, a steady job and an ambition,
would be a different creature to deal
with from the rowing, tramp negro, who
is a constant scare and an occasional
menace to society &,
# Leaving for the present the question Of
the social status Of the negro, the south
should bend its energies toward his in
dustrial education and the churches
should supplement the work Of the state
ID
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
Italian PROGRAM ronIahIt.

Owing to the great success gained by
Fanciulli's band, it has been decided to
keep the splendid organization at Lake
Harriet for another week. AS it will be
impossible to give the cantata, Zone Flag
and One Country" tonight, it will be
given on Tuesday evening Of next week.
Instead Of the "Fanciuli Festival the
italian program which was to have been
given last evening will be played. After
a great deal of persuasion, Claude Mad
den has consented to give violin solo
this evening. Mr. Madden is one of the
greatest violin soloists in the country and
his appearance at this evenings concert
will be great event in musical circles
The most popular numbers included in
tonight's program are the duet from I'll
Trovatore, the quartet from "Rigoletto,'
the "Cavalleria'' intermezzo and the grand
selection, 'Mephistopheles." To hear
Messrs. Nappa and La Penna give the
ever popular Miserere Of 'Trovatore'' will
be a rare treat in itself The dramatic
overture, SAUL" will be fitting close to
this exceptional program
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
The Ginseng Market.

Being a ginseng grower, was much in
terested in the article by John Goodnow,
formerly United States consul general at
Shanghai, in which he stated that the
Chinese market is controlled by a trust
which uses only Korean ginseng. L have
studied the market for several years and
wish to say that Mr.. Goodnow's state
ment is entirely misleading. He would
have us believe that there was no market
for the ginseng root in China. We have
been exporting the ginseng root for more
than a hundred years, sometimes at only
a few cents pound and sometimes at
higher price. But to go back only ten
or twelve years, it appears that during
that time the market has steadily and
gradually risen from less than 81 to IS
a pound and even higher. The price today
is the highest ever paid. I have stated
that an acre Of good ginseng root was
worth $4,000 and at the present time no
one has undertaken to disprove the state
ment If you can raise good ginseng roots
that will weigh two ounces each at five
years Of age and sell at one-half the pres
ent market price, there is no product that
would pay one-half the money that may
be obtained from growing ginseng. e.
IN. L. Van Slyke,
Elmore, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
Free Public Baths.
To the Editor of The Journal, r..

Would it not be advisable for the proper
authorities to designate and notify the
public Of enough suitable swimming places
on the river. lakes and creeks within
the city limits to enable those desiring
to swim to learn? Temporary sheds could
be erected for dressing and an officer an
pointed to prevent 'horse- play"
AS an education and developer Of lung
strength as well as self confidence, par
ticularly in children no amusement can
compare with swimming. There are many
proficient swimmers who would gladly
volunteer to give examples of life saving
and thus aid in a very necessary part of
a practical education.
The records Of the United States life
saving service at Washington D. c., show
many cases of resuscitation after over
three-fourths hours submergence
BY the aid Of bystanders the writer was
able to resuscitate little girl 6 years old
who had been submerged for at least
eighteen minutes, altho supposedly com
petent authority had declared her beyond
recovery Frank w. Bigelow
Minneapolis, Aug. Is.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
LAWSON IS NAMED IN
COPPER STOCK SUIT
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Boston, Aug. 1S.-A bill of complaint
has been fled in the supreme judicial
court, equity session, by William A.
Payne, Charles H. Payne and Herbert I.
Of Payne, Weber & Co., against Albert
G. Burrage, Thomas W. Lawson and
fourteen others.
The suit is the result of the tangle
over the stock Of the Copper Range
Consolidated company.
The complaint says that Payne, Web
Der & Co., on Sept. s. 1908, were law
full owners of 10000 shares Of the capital
Company NJ of Of the p actual Value Of $780,.
900 or more, and the complaint asserts
that Burrage has converted these to his
own use.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
WONDER WHAT BEN SAID
Kansas City journal.

KANSAS City journal
A few days ago Mrs Ben Troop wife
of Grand Island passenger conductor.
was pumping from a cistern and she
heard a splash in the water below. She
peered over in the water in time to see
the widening circle Of ripples caused by
something falling in. She felt in her belt
where she carried her watch and it was
gone. She informed Mr.. Troop and he
Immediately went to work to empty the
cistern OF water. After several hours
work he finally succeeded in getting the
cistern dry and about that time Mrs.
Troop found the watch in bureau
drawer in her bedroom.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
ADJUSTMENTS
Aerial Acts at Wonderland,

The return and casting act of the Fly
ing Baldwins is to be featured at Won
derland park next week, and their rig
ging, which is being put in place, indi-
Gates that it will be all that Is claimed
for it in the way of sensation flights thru
the air, as it takes up a space 4Ox90 feet
There is also to be another balloon as
cension at Wonderland Sunday, if wealth.
er permits. Professor Thompson is going
to show that he really can make balloon
ascensions, he says. s...H.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

Demand for kipling's New StorIes.--A1-
tho the August edition Of the Century was
largely increased, to meet the anticipated
demand for the magazine containing Rud-
yard Kipling's "An Habitation Enforced"
the edition was virtually exhausted in less
than a fortnight from the date Of issue.
week the main office of the
American News company had not copy
left, and the publishers have not sufficient
reserve supply to meet the demands COM
ing from the news companies turnout the
country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
no WONDER.
Chicago News.

chicago news.
Gray-Terrible storm we had last
evening, wasn't it? Thundered loud
enough to wake the dead.
Smith-So9 / didn't hear it.
Gray-Didn't hear it! Why, man,
where were youa
Smith-At home. An old schoolmate
of my wife that she hadn't seen for
years spent the evening at our house.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
them for the enormous losses inflicted

them for the enormous losses inflicted
by comparatively feeble foe.
When M. Witte refers to the Turkish
war as an evidence of Russian prowess
in the field, he refers to something that
is merely q proof that Russia, when she
has the. short end Of the line Of com
munications, has interminable re-en-
forcements and always needs them.
When he calls attention to the fact
that the Russian army two years after
Napoleon visited Moscow made return
call on Paris and dethroned the Corsican
he states only partial truth. Russia
went to Paris in company with the
rest of Europe. She could never have
reached Napoleon s capital alone.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
SALTWATER B0MBARDED
STRIKES FOUR BUILD
EINGS - LARGE BARN AT THE
POORFARM Is BURNED,
Special to The Journal.

Saltwater, Mimi, Aug. 1s.-In a
terrific rainstorm last night lightning
struck the residence of W. G. Master
man, also a residence owned by James
w. Foley, Charles Glaser's bakery, and
a large barn. at the poorfarm, which
was destroyed.
OF the buildings in the city Mr.. Mas
terman's was the most severely dam
aged by the force of the lightning and
the fire that followed. The storm was
the heaviest Of the year. Three inches
of rain fell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

In late summer Colorado is at her
best. Rock Island' trains to Colo
RADIO carry standard and tourist sleep
ers, dining cars and free reclining
chaircars equipped with electric fans
and electric lights. Low round-trip
rates in effect daily. For informations
call on A. L. Steece, City Passenger
Agent, 1922 Nicollet avenue. Minneapo-
lis, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

w. K. Vanderbilt, we learn from
faithful organ, works as hard as any
ten-dollar- a-Week clerk" Gracious,
doesn't he amount to any more than that
in the business?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

by wise effort to raise his religious
status.
The negro is in the south, and if he
can be made a good workman it is much
bother for the south to do so than to
invite immigrants, whose presence can
only result IN the negro being thrown
entirely out Of the industrial arrange
:ments and his becoming a charge upon
the state and constant peril.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

Says the Denver Times: Nothing ap-
peals to the American people like plain
businesslike figures" Nonsense, what ap-
peals to the American is a trim, well-knit
figure with just a flake Of embonpoint.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

The taking of the st. Paul sensus has
been referred to as an achievement The
collection Of the building statistics is con-
coded to be a triumph. Happy the town
that has two men capable Of such sus-
tanned effort. Perhaps they are brothers.
in-law.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

The kaiser and Walter Wellman have
exposed a diabolical plot to build up a
great Japanese empire in Asia. The kaiser
is unalterably opposed to great empires
anywhere but in Germany
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
CORNERSTONE TO BE LAID
Methodists of Pennington Arrange In
teresting Exercises.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Pennington, Mimi, Aug. 1s.-The
cornerstone of a new Methodist church
in this place will be laid tomorrow,
the 10Th, at IL am. Bishop Joyce, had
he lived, would have had charge of the
exercises. Rev. j. F. Stout, presiding
elder, will preside and make the prin-
cipal address.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

The Chicago News notes some curious
facts about the revenues of Great Britain
during the year 19045. The bluebook
discloses among other things that fines
for slave dealing brought in 5000, while
some Of the properties left over from the
coronation Of King Edward were sold for
$35. The English government made a
mistake In not advertising the sale among
American tourists. They might just as
we'll have brought $35, 900.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18

Some citizens Of Scranton, N. y,
got an advance tip that their bank was
going to fail and drew down their dough.
The other creditors have joined the anti
tip league with an ak rampant on blood
red field
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-18
AIRsHIP SCARS soRELY
Ludlow's Flying Machine Wrecked on
a Flat Reef.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Aug. 18.-Israel Lud-
lows airship had trial yesterday af-
ternoon, and now lies mass of
wreckage besides the Hudson River
yailroad tracks at Seventy-ninth street.
Charles Hamilton fell $50 feet with the
machine. but escaped unhurt. The fly
ing machine dropped down over a group
Of twenty small boys who were look
ing at it. One of them, Edward Glea-
son, 10 years old, was caught under it
but was not hurt.
This was the third unsuccessful at
tempt to fly the machine.