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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
3 CTS. ON DOLLAR FOR
CREDITORS OF ESTATE

After serving twelve years as admin
istrator Of the estate Of Robert B. Con
key and handling funds amounting to
$56,766.85, George H. Warren's final
report has been allowed by Judge of
Probate F. c. Harvey, and the estate
ordered closed up. The estate has been
in the probate court since 1893. A hear.
ing on the final account was had in
1902 and since then the court has had
the matter under advisement.
In his decision, Judge Harvey holds
that the Conkey estate is insolvent
The administrator has received $50.
766.S5, and bills have been allowed tc
the amount of $53,246.67. The amount
now in the receiver IS hands is $3,52O.lS
But % per cent of the claims against
the estate have been paid. The remain
ing creditors will receive but 3.407 cents
on dollar.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
White Works for Sympathy.

If M. Witte should be taken at his
word by Japan the peace conference
would not be held. He gives it out in
advance that no terms which wound
the dignity of his country can or will
be accepted and follows this up with a
statement, very general in character, to
the effect that Russia can continue the
war Indefinitely. rs s~e. 4 "~.
Inasmuch as Japan can also afford to
continue the war indefinitely, advan
cling her demands with each campaign,
and in view of the fact that she cannot
even now avoid wounding Russian dig
nifty by some of her demands, to confer
would appear to be useless --...
Nobody knows this better than M.
White, and his proclamation was per-
haps intended largely for European and
American consumption. Having been
advertised as peaceat-any price man,
he felt the necessity of notifying the
world that he was a very staunch Rus
sian notwithstanding his better repu-
tation. Read between the lines, his
pronouncement does not mean very
much unless it be taken as an appeal
to some European power to come for
ward and save Russia from the legiti-
mate consequences Of her own folly.
If there is a European country with
the disposition to do this it Is more
than doubtful whether one can be found
with the hardihood to attempt it.
Why should there be any particular
sympathy with RussiaY She has merely
+ been ousted from the possession Of
stolen goods. Her own territory has
not been attacked. The island of
saghalin never properly belonged to
her, 50 that even in her latest military
move Japan has not infringed upon the
legal possessions of her antagonist. The
deadly "yellow peril" has gone. 1t
passed like a storm cloud which comes
and goes without bursting. The world
is no longer afraid of it. If the world
is afraid of anything it is that Russia
will escape from her present mess with
out the bureaucracy being dethroned
and the people Of Russia freed. Other.
wise there is no real sympathy with
Russia and no fear for the outcome OF
z the negotiations. .- ~ e.. -..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
School ChIIdren's Eyes.

To the Editor of The journal.
In your paper of July 7, 1905, under the
heading, LET Well Enough Alone dan
ger Of submitting school children's eyes
to inexpert care is considered.
The Minneapolis school board is fully
justified in refusing DR.. H. M Bracken,
secretary Of the state board of health, the
request to appoint some oculist to exam
inc the school children's eyes.
The state medical board is not invested
with power to compel any examinations
of that kind, nor is the state board of
health. have noticed several publica-
lions which have been represented as
coming from DR.. Bracken. The gentle
man states that those tests should be
conducted by an expert. Yes, DR..
Bracken, that Is true. If they are i'm
properly fitted with wrong glasses, the
result might be worse than before. Ex-
perience in the past does not prove that
the parents rush to the cheapest optician
they can find, and that the optician fits
with lens which will magnify. This
statement is absolutely untrue Those
would not help temporarily. 1t would
cause a much greater error in refraction.
and the result would be the pupil could
not wear the glasses ten minutes. This
statement proves to me that DR.. Bracken
is not, nor does he understand errors OF
refraction The oc4list is the proper
person to apply to in cases Of disease OF
the eye, but not in cases of errors of re-
fraction.
Some time ago noticed that the state
board of education had sent out test
| cards to help the teachers detect defect
i've sight. While the board has no such
power under the law creating board OF
education, nevertheless it is a good plan
just so long as the teachers do not use
| their influence in sending to any particu-
lar optometrist n. w. Granger.
Rochester, July IA.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
CITY NEWS
CARRIES A PHONE
IN HIS POCKET
ALASKAN LEARNED MUCH ABOUT
TELEPHONY IN SWEDEN.
orvar Gerle Says the swedes Lead the
World in That Business, and He OBJ
tanned from Them Several New De-
vices Which He Will Use in Alaska.

America is wonderfully progressive
in the development and adoption of all
sorts Of mechanical devices and mod
ern methods, and takes the lead in most
things, but when it comes to telephones,
Sweden sets, the pace for progressive
America and the entire world,'' says
Orvar Gerle, the Alaskan mineowner,
months tour of the old world.
Swedish life in city, village and
country is bound up in the telephone.
All over the rural districts the telephone
IS met with, not only at the large
estates, but on the very smallest farms.
Every household in the cities has a
phone, every room in the hotels, even
those OF the cheaper class, and every
streets there are telephone Hs, booths 9th 'is as
thick as mailboxes in American cities,
and at these booths instant communica-
ton IS obtainable with any part Of the
country. 1t is impossible to explain
how thoroly the telephone has become
fixture in the daily life of the Swede,
and stranger could hardly understand
1t without personal visit.
1.-THE result of this devotion to the
telephone has been an evolution of a
system so perfect that it leads the
world, and the adoption of a series Of
telephone devices which, for simplicity,
strength, beauty and general utility,
are unexcelled The land of the tele-
phone would not be an inappropriate
! name for Sweden in the present genera
ton. .,..
ct am taking with me to Alaska
| several devices which will be used at
the mines on Prince of Wales island. I
have never seen their equal for prac-
tical purposes, handsome appearance,
and, above ALL for cheapness One de-
vice is a combination of telephone and
microphone. It is unique in that it has
no speaking tube for transmitting. The
| sound is transmitted to hollow tube
in the handle of the receiver, which is
held to the ear in the ordinary way.
The speaker talks freely into the air.
The microphone is much more sensitive
than the ordinary telephone transmit
ter. and the. device in itself is en-
tirely hygienic, as there is no danger
of infection from mouthpieces. It is
operated by batteries and is intended
for business houses, factories, hotels,
steamboats,. etc. ~s-.
telephone and telegraph apparatus
which is SO compact that the combined
receiver and transmitter can be car
ried in ones coat pocket. I have been
told that this telephone, which is con.
verified into a telegraph by pressing a
push button in place of key. has been
adopted by the Austrian and Belgian
armies to the exclusion of other sys
TENS. I am inclined to take the ap
paratus down to Fort Smelling for ex
periments. and if I thought that il
would interest the officers, I would
gladly make the trip.''
Mr.. Gerle and his companion, Mr.
Nordstrom, will leave in a few days
for Alaska: visiting, while en- route
the new gold fields in Nevada. y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
ABOUT MINNESOTA LAKES
Northern Pacific Describes Them fol
Vacation Going Folk.

The Northern Pacific road has issued
an interesting little book entitled
minnesota Lakes It is volume of
some fifty pages, profusely illustrated
and made more than usually attractive
by three-color half-tone picture of a
sunset scene on Minnesota lake.
Nearly every page has picture of
some summer-resort scene or of fine
catches made by fishermen. There is
a description of many of the summer
resorts on the Northern Pacific lines in
this state. At the conclusion is an in
teresting tabulated summary, showing
the various lakes that may be visited,
the attractions Of each, and the daily
and weekly rates charged at all the
hotels. This is an ideal little volume
for one to peruse who is looking for
pleasant place to spend summer va
cation. The book is to be had on appi-
cation to the Northern Pacific company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
: sentimental DAMAGES"

To the Editor of The Journal
The Minneapolis Tribune in last Thurs
days issue contains an editorial article
under the caption Of Sentimental Dam
ages in the Civil Courts After citing
cases In which damages have been
granted for breach of promise and vari-
GUS other instances, the editor refers in
a slurring way to the federal government
as paying pensions to soldiers who apply
for pensions, mot because of wounds or
injuries, but because they need the
money" should like to have the "patri-
otto editor" Of the Tribune find man who
served one year at the front and received
no injury to his physical system from ex-
posure, deprivation, over exertion, from
hard marches day and night from being
compelled to drink water that was unfit
for even a hog and which no animal of
the lower orders would drink, and all this
in country in which the air we breathed
was laden with malaria, and not be in
jured, or who does not now suffer from
the effects, tho he may not have been
wounded or have even a hospital record
"A Veteran.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
NEW INTERPRETATIONS.

Trustee Loan company. Minneapolis; capital
Freeman and De Lancy D. Webster Of Mime
apolis, Horace E. Peck of Kenmare, n. D., and
Alice Peck Sales of Detroit. Mich
Retail Merchants Trading Stamp COMPANY St
Paul; capital stock, $1,000; Nancy Robinson,
president and secretary; E. Robinson vice presi-
dent and treasurer.
Austo Brush and Door Mat company, st. Paul;
capital stock, S1o0, 900. Charles W. Field, ST.
Paul. Vice president: joseph G. Krnmeek.' St. St.
Paul, treasurer, and Charles W. Field, Jr., St.
Paul, secretary.
Strond- Humphrey Manufacturing company,
Hastings; capital stock, $4,000, manufacturers
of motor boats and vehicles. Harris K. Strond,
president; Charles NJ. Strond, secretary; Rich
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
Folks Ideals.

Governor Folk, writing to the New
York Independent from the land of the
lid, explains that the land of the lid
means the land Of the law. AS an
idealist, he holds that he has no more
right to violate his oath to enforce a
Sunday law than he has to hold up a
larceny law. The people who want the
who would be rudely shocked, he says,
by an abandonment Of the law against
burglary. Those who would enforce the
burglary law to the letter do not see
so much virtue in the laws against
adulterated food. Some laws all men
agree upon, others they differ about.
Governor Folk looks at all laws alike.
They are all equally sacred, all equally
enforceable s .qzs. F-ssf S
This is the difference between an
idealist and practical administrator.
All laws are not alike because all are
not looked upon alike. This may be IN
fortunate, but it is none the less true.
If all laws were the expression Of the
sentiment Of the majority Of the peo-
pie, enforcement would be compare
lively easy; but, unfortunately, some
laws are the expression Of the senti-
ment of very decided minority. While
there may be some question as to the
wisdom Of keeping on the statute books
laws that are and cannot be enforced
they are often valuable as definitions
of the ideal to which the best senti
ment aspires, but with which the ma
jority sentiment has little sympathy
altho not ready to demand repeal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
POLICEMEN DAY OFF
They Will Spend Tomorrow at Lake
Minnetonka.

Most of the police officers will have
day off tomorrow, the occasion being
the policemen s annual picnic at Lake
Minnetonka. The regular lake trains of
the st. Louis road will carry the crowd.
More than $1,000 in prizes will be Of
vertising has filed 100-page pro-
gram, which will net the police relief
fund about $500. The day will be spent
in games, boating and dancing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
ADJUSTMENTS
Wonderland Is Popular.

A pleasant change in the weather last
night brought good-sized throng Of Wis
1tors to Wonderland park. A proram of
fireworks supplemented the program of
high wire walking and acrobatic fea-
lures. The Juliens give performance
on the Roman rings THAT includes some
remarkable exhibitions of strength. One
feat performed by Edourd in particular is
undertaken by very few performers.
Hanging from solid bar hiss body twice
revolves between his arms, used as pivots.
This feat requires a double dislocation of
the shoulders. Herr Granada and Alma
Fedora, the aerialists, are performing
feats that they have not heretofore in
cluded in their high wire act.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

administration which seemed destined 70
provoke the political enmity Of the pro-
tectionists. . Since Mr.. Root has re-
turned to the cabinet he must have gone
back for the purpose Of provoking the
enmity Of the protectionists or the Lon
don Outlook must have. been mistaken.
But no one who has seen the London
outlook and seen it weighed will how
it can be mistaken.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
z LOCKED IN HER ROOM
Grace Hayward s Reward for Attempt
ing to Conciliate Actors.

Grace Hayward Reward TOT Attempt
ing to Conciliate Actors.
Miss Grace Hayward, formerly lead
ing lady Of the Ferris stock company
attempted to play the role Of peace
maker in a real stage fight at Water
bury, Conn, where she is now playing
"leads.'
Earl G. Simmons, leading man of the
Waterbury stock company, had excited
the jealousy of his fellow actors, and
they decided to "put him out of com
mission" They succeeded over the
of the leading man s friends. Sim
mons will not be able to ego on
again this season. Miss Hayward was
locked in her room to prevent her Civ
ing aid to the wounded man.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Governor Vardaman of Mississippi has
announced himself a candidate for the
United States senate. He said in his
statement that his platform would be the
repeal of the fifteenth amendment and
that he would make a campaign of edu-
cation in that behalf before northern au-
diences. He favors yielding to the reduce
ton in representation in congress and in
the electoral college that might follow
from the elimination Of the negro vote.
The north would be much interested in
listening to a discussion Of the matter,
but it would probably be difficult to fire
the northern heart to the extent Of openly
disfranchising the blacks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
TAILoRs WILL PICNIC
Force Of Scotland Wooden Mills Take
Outing Friday.

Harry Mitchell will close the Scot
land Wooden Mills Store and his work
shop Friday and give his force, $50
strong, a picnic.
This annual event will be held at
Medicine lake this year, and six tally
hos will carry the party to the pleasure
ground.
Aside from the eating event, there
will be a contest between the Harry
Mitchell ball team and nine from the
clerical Office and garment-making
force. The regular Mitchell team has
won good percentage of games this
year, but the breadwinners think they
can take the professionals into camp.
Prizes will be awarded to successful
contestants in the pie-eating match,
potato and egg races, foot races and
similar sports.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

M. White expressing the opinion that
Russia will soon resume her position as
itics seems to contemplate a prolonged
nap on the part Of the other powers. 1t
will be q few days before Russia will be
ready to do any preponderating.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
Fish Biting Better.

This warm dry weather is just what
has been needed to make the fishing
good. At many places along the
Northern Pacific Railway it will be
better than ever now. Get Mime
sofa Lakes booklet E. (" G. F. Mcneil,
City Passenger Agent, 10 Nicollet
Block, Minneapolis, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Coal dealers are Mortified at the dis
closures Of large profits. They would
have it understood that the only time
they make any money is in the summer
when they advance the price 10 cents a
month and nobody buys.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

A l6-year-old boy was run over by a
hack driver yesterday. d Too many driv-
ers feel that If pedestrians get out of the
way IT is all right, and If they don't it is
equally all right
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Seattle will soon have fine natator-
ium, with sea and fresh-water baths, re-
sembling the big Sutro baths near the
Cliff House in San Francisco. Plans for
a structure to cost $4,000 are now being
drawn in San Francisco. This reminds
one Of the Minneapolis public baths, it is
so different
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

The worm has turned. "A southern UNI
pire has sued the jackson, Miss, Ledger
for $4,000 damages for referring to his
work as "rotten." The paper ought to
be sued for using the 1908 vocabulary.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

New York has a little celebration COM
ing for which it has applied for the loan
Of Togo and the Japanese flagship. Think
of Togo being exhibited to enable the
Tammany saloonkeeper to sell more beer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
HIS Suspicious OF SULPHUR
Kansas City Star.

Thomas W. Lawson says that Rookie
Teller towns practically everything now
except the sulphur combination" Well,
you can see, by the way he sticks to the
Baptist church, that that is one thing he
wants to avoid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

"Scotty" has not arrived in New York
yet. When he arrives it will cost him the
dog collar to get breakfast and for din
ner' he will have to apply to the Friendly
Inn. F..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
JOHN DIS IN EMBRYO
Kansas CITY Star.

Persons who make failure Of their lives
that is to say, who show no talent for
getting hold Of money and keeping it
may find small grain of announcement
in the discovery by a Kansas editor that
all persons who succeed are Rockefellers
on small scale.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

The London Outlook brings the news
that Mr.. Root resigned from the cabinet
some months ago partly to resume his
practice at the bar and partly because
as a possible candidate for the presi-
dency. he did not care to remain in an
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

W. o. Winston, who is more competent
to give an opinion than many brigades of
politicians or correspondents, says the
Panama route is the correct one for the
canal; that Mr.. Stevens Is the right man
for the engineer and that America IS the
right country to dig the ditch. The next
thing to do is to buy a spade.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Bombita, the greatest of the Spanish
toreadors' has retired, but unfortunately
he could not take the song with him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Henry B. Sill of Buffalo put $4,000 into
the Depew Improvement company, bank
ing on Chauncey's picture. It proved to
be a negative.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

People who subscribed to Peary's pole
hunting fund did it from mixed motives,
some Of them just to spite the weather.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

senator Mitchell has been refused new
trial. Should think he would be glad Of it,
considering what frost the last one was.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
SEVERAL ACES

Washington Post.
Norway has no king. but Is showing as
much confidence as a man sitting behind
the full complement of aces.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Commander Peary is short several toes
as the result OF his last trip to the far
north. But he proposes to run the pole to
its hole If it takes berry box full Of toes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

General stoessel is not to have the
sword subscribed by French admirers.
The czar is afraid he would give it up too
easily again.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

SO far two Rockefeller fathers have
shown up and the census is by no means
complete. H..1..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

whose name the secretary Of the conven-
ton swallows while he is filing his lungs
preparatory to springing yellow Medi-
cine.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Every time the czar hears loud noise
he calls national assembly,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

The sag In the temperature may be due
to the fact that Mr.. Lawson has passed
over. Nh --...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

The Portland exposition is teething.
Dentists from fifteen states are there
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

Waterman county increased two folks
in five years. Watonwan is the county
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19
The Merchants Know

The business men Of Minneapolis know the
value of bona fde home circulation. That's why
they use THE JOURNAL so extensively. Every
day THE JOURNAL carries more. advertising
than any other Twin City paper clean, reliable
advertising, too.
COMPARE THE, JOURNAL TODAY,
TOMORROW AND EVERY DAY with it's
nearest competitor, and you will find that THE
JOURNAL has more advertising, more reading
matter, a better news service and is the newspa-
per that is the most acceptable in the home.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-19

A slight rash of new evidence is re-
ported from Mankato.