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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
|SHONTS WILL CUT
CANAL RED TAPE
Head of Commission Says There
Can Be No Repetition of
Wallace Affair.

New York, July 21.-tss There will
never be a repetition Of the Wallace af-
fair so long as Panama work goes on.
This resignation taught us lesson. We
haev substitute for every official who
may drop out in future. In other words,
heads of every department, so if one
dies or resigns the other will be able to
go on with the work.
This statement, was made by G. P.
Shonts, president of the Panama canal
commission Just before he started for
John F. Sevens, the newly appointed
chief engineer of the Panama canal con-
struction, who succeeded John F. Wal
lace. Mr.. Shonts said that they were
going down to get the place ready pre-
paratorry to building the canal. He
also said:
did not know it. His resignation was O
blessing, because we have now prepared
for any eventuality ond the construc-
tion of the canal won It suffer a particle.
No matter who drops out, there will al
ways be another to fill in the breach.
alleged red tape that is Interfering
with the construction of the canal, but
| haven't been bothered by it. T am
not looking for trouble, but if there be
any red tape, I am going to cut it, no
matter who suffers. This will be my
first trip to the isthmus, and I suppose
| have a Tote to learn about it, but /
hope that the statements Of some first
class engineers that it will take 100
years to build the canal are not true.' -
The first attempt to secure laborers
in large numbers for work in connection
with the construction of the Panama
canal, will be made tomorrow in Wash
ington, when bids will be asked by W.
of the Panama canal commission. for
1000 each Of Chinese, Japanese and
Italian laborers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
TRADE CONDITIONS
UNUSUALLY GOOD
Dun's Reports Say Things Are
Satisfactory Despite the
i. Great Heat.

New York, July FL. Dispatches to
Dun s Review indicate that trade con-
ditions are unusually satisfactory for
this season of the year, particularly in
view Of the abnormally high temper
allure that has prevailed in many cities.
Textile manufacturing at Philadelphia
is active except carpet factories and
building operations maintain activity
in materials. At Pittsburg general
merchandise is seasonably quiet. Whole
sale trade at Baltimore shows normal
activity.
Rain has retarded retail trade in
hardware in Louisville, but clothing
sales are large and cancellations few.
Dry goods trade at Nashville equals
last years, collections are prompt. At
Elanta reports unusual activity in hats
and caps, but collections are less
prompt. Current business at st..
Joseph is fair and collections good.
Advance orders at Kansas City are
large. Extremely hot weather has not
interfered with wholesale trade at St.
Louis. Business in all lines at New
= Orleans is seasonable. Trade at Dallas
improves. ".
Retail trade in summer merchandise
is brisk at Cincinnati, building materi-
! ais are in demand and forward business
in wearing apparel is extensive. Sea
sonable merchandise moves freely at
Cleveland. Light weight wearing ap
parel is stimulated at Chicago by the
hot weather, but production is cur
tailed. Visiting buyers are placing
large orders for fall and winter.
Warm weather has increased thu
sale Of seasonable goods at Minneap
oils. Improved conditions at St. Pau
are well maintained.
Bank exchanges this week at all lead
ing cities in the United States ar
$2,256,21O,41O, gain Of 12.1 per CEN
over last year and 1872 per cent owe
the corresponding week Of 1908.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
FRIENDS LEFT IN
LURCH BY ROGERS
Continued from First Page.
deal BY saying that they must look out
for themselves.
Ropars r!riod ssE.nounh -,
t look out

Mr.: Rogers got his $l2,oOo,000, and
then Lawson yelled, :, as he saws. He
carried ON such vigorous fight that
Rogers was again obliged, he says, to
appeal to him to prevent the financial
rum OF innocent persons. Lawson, APP
paign up to that time and the threat
ened consequences to others, consented
to call the battle off, and it was done,
tho he was charged afterward with ac-
ceptlng bride of $l,00O,0OO for quit
ting. He says it was on the strength
Of this charge that he was barred from
the New York Yacht club, fact which
attracted much attention at the time.
Rogers Painted as Traitor.
But according to Mr.. Lawson, Mr..
Rogers, turned on him and tried to in
volve him such way that the charge
that he had sold out for $1,000000
would appear well grounded. Here is
the story in part as Mr.. Lawson
When told Rogers on the eve of the
legislative explosion that would let up
for the sake of the innocent people who
must suffer If persisted in my exposure,
he and Whitney called together the direc-
tors of the New England Gas and Coke
company and told them had agreed to
quit for a million of the stock Several
Of them were indignant, and proposed
exposing me at any cost, but they were
finally wheedled into voting the stock and
it was given to committee composed of
Whitney, Pruyn and Elkins.
Not only, says Mr.. Lawson, did
Rogers 60 that far, but he actually ap-
pears to have got the $1000,O00 secu-
rites into Lawson s hands to sell on
change for Rogers for a commission,
thus making it appear that Lawson had
actually received the stock.
Mr.. Lawson hints that he has the
records to prove his story and actually
gave Mr.. Rogers sharp premonitory
shock by convincing him Of that fact.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
GRAFT AT MILWAUKEE,
The Grand Jury Ready With a Bunch
of Indictments.

Milwaukee, July 21.-The grand jury
has completed it's investigation Of the
twenty-five to thirty indictments will
be reported. No indictments will be re-
turned as result Of the investigation
Of the fremen, but most of the bills will
be based on county board affairs and
will be along lines similar to the los
indictments already reported. It is be.
two more confessions. August Pulls, ex.
supervisor and now under several in
dictments, and l.. R. Stollenberg, county
plumbing contractor, have been before
the Jury a gerat deal during the past
week, and it is thought they have told
something about grating at the court
house.
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THANK The LORD
IT IS Her LAST
Continued from First Page.

very sources of our intellectual and
moral life blinded or silenced to the
ethical quality of the practices Of our
daily life? Will it pay our colleges to
put over their doors the teaching of one
Of our present-day moralists, Never
discuss politics OF religion if you would
succeed.
and the church. True. And the prin-
ciples of the religion he processes are
so antagonistic to the principles of the
business he practices that the very world
which emulates him has been turned
into hypocrities and cynics under his
tutelage. = Not only has char
ity been tainted by the hypocrisy Of his
life, the church itself has been polluted
and many man has turned away from
it's doors because of the servile support
it gives to the men of whom Mr.. Rookie.
Teller is the most eminent type. Does
all this pays
The Cost Counted.
tsThere is no Sinking the answer. II
does not pay. Our national life is on
meaner for the kind Of influence he ex
ercises. From him we have received
10 impulse to public duty, only lessons
in evading it for private greed; nc
stimulus to nobler ideals, only a lesson
in the further dedication Of gold; no ex
ample of enlarged and noble living, only
one of concealment and evasion; nc
impulse to free thinking, only lessor
in obscuring vital ethical issues by
dressing them in the CARDS Of piety ano
generosity. None Of those higher things
which the public has right to demand
from the man to whom it permits great
power is returned to it by Mr.. Rookie
Teller. For Mr.. Rockefeller has none Of
these things to give. He has nothing
but money, and never was there more
striking example Of the impotency Of
money! He has, neither taste nor cul
tivation, ideals nor potent personality
He is not a great man, not human
man. He is a machine money ma
chine stripped by his overwhelming
passion of greed Of every quality which
makes man worthy Of citizenship. HI
has not made good. He cannot make
good. It is not in him. He has nothing
the aspiring world needs. On the con
trary, that for which he does stand il
a menace to our free development mo-
only or chiefly our free development il
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commerce, but, vastly more important,
our free development in citizenship and
in morals -
Rockefeller in Church.

! - i s { (
An interesting part Of Miss Tarbell IS
article treats Of Mr.. Rockefeller as
she saw him at his favorite place Of
worship in Cleveland. She saws:
No child in the assembly was so I'M
easy. Turnout the church service which
followed, this same terrible restlessness
agitated him. He sat bent forward in
his pew, for moment, his eyes intent
on the speaker, then with a start he
looked to his right searching the faces
he could see, craning his neck to look
backward. Then his eyes would turn
again to the speaker. But not to stay
searching the aisles to his left, craning
again to see behind him. Those who
have observed Mr.. Rockefeller in
church over a long period Of years say
that he has shown this uneasiness for
years. Unconscious habit, perhaps.
Fear, fear Of the oft-repeated threats
Of the multitude Of sufferers from the
wheels of the, cars Of progress he has
rolled across the country. SO many a
man who knows him will say. It does
not matter what it Is. It is pitiful, SO
pitiful, that one cannot watch John
Rockefeller sit thru church service
of the saddest objects in the world,
For what, good this undoubted power Of
achievement, for what good this tower.
ing wealth, If one must be forever peer.
ing to see what is behindl''
Devotee Of the Simple Life.
On the other side, Miss Tarbell paints
a picture Of a man devoted to the sim
pie life. His homes are unpretentious
almost or quite ugly, and the regula,
| tions in all three impose great frugal
/ ity. The Rockefeller as the world sees
him, says Miss Tarbell, is Hquiet
modest, church going gentleman, de-
voted to. Sunday school picnics, golf
and wheeling, whose evenings are never
spent in anything more exciting than 8
game Of numerico, washed down by q
glass Of cider, whose chief occupation
outside of business, is giving away as
much money as he can without it's do
| ing more harm than good, whose chief
pleasure is in fine fields and trees, in
flowers and gardening, whose smile Il
friendly for young and old, who wei
comes old, friends, who adores his
grandchildren, and who meets criticism
and Misrepresentation by quoting the
meek doggerel:
There is so much bad In the best Of us,
There is so much good in the worst Of us
That it scarcely behooves any Of us
To talk about the rest of us"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21

LANGTRY SIGNS FOR VAUDEVILLE.
New York. July 21.--Lily Langtry has signed
the season of ten weeks, two performances a
day beginning at the Colonial theater on Oct
2. She Is to receive $50, 900 gross for the en-
gagement, and it may be that at the close of
the season she may decide to go farther west
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
NoRpAu OUT w1rn z1oN1srs

London July 21.--Dr. Max Nordau. accord.
ing to the Jewish World, has definitely declined
to be one of the three leaders Of the Zionist
movement, who, it was proposed, should sue
coed the late DR.. Theodore Herzl. the founder
Of the movement, who died about year ago.
DR.. Nordau gives Ill health as the reason for
his declination.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
IOWA'S NEW BUILDING
The Cornerstone Of a 100000 structure
Laid Today.
Special to The Journal.

Iowa City, Iowa, July. 21.--The cor
nerstane Of the new engineering build
ing of the State University Of Iowa was
laid here today. The handsome stone
structure, when completed, will cost
about 100000.
In the copper box inserted in the
a copy Of the Minneapolis Journal,
President MacLean declaring that T b e
Journal was good friend Of edu-
cation and Of the University Of Iowa.
The addresses were delivered by Pres.
ident MacLean, Governor A. B. Cum.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
n. QUAY EVANS, JR., DEAD.

n. CLAY EVANS, JR., DEAD.
Chattanooga, Tenn, July 21.-Captain G. Clay
Evans, Jr., retired, died today at his summer
home on Waldens Ridge, aged SO years Cap
retired some time ago on account of poor health.
He was the only son Of H. Clay Evans, ex.
pension commissioner and eI-consul general az
London.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21

K1PLEY GOES TO PRISON CELL.
Chicago, July 21.-Daniel Ripley, former city
detective. nephew Of former Chief Of Police JOS
eph Ripley. was taken to Joliet penitentiary
today to begin his sentence OF fourteen years
for the murder of Joseph Hopkins in 1902.
Ripley shot Hopkins in quarrel founded on
jealousy a woman.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21

Minis, Judge w. I. Babb Of the board Of
regents, Senator John Hughes of Iowa
county, Professor w. G.. Raymond, Pro-
lessor L. e.. Weld and others.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
sMITH nEATs IARNEn.,

London, July N.-In the challenge round sin.
giles for the Davis tennis trophy at Wimbledon
Today s. H. Smith, England beat William a.
Larned, United States, Ga, "a, 81, GA.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
MEXICO ) (. |.
MR.. AND MRS. BoUcHNER RETURN.
FROM MOST DELIGHTFUL TRIP
THROUGH THE SOUTH


Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver P. Boughn.r ss.5
turned Thursday evening from . trip
Of more than month in tne so.aI.
They visited New Orleans and from taat
city went to Lutspotosi, Mexico, w;,ese
they met Josiah ". Wilson and Wife,
natives Of this county: They fond ais.I
sii.on prcsperously engaged il riie,
conduct Of a smelling works md using
coke made by Henry G. Davis, 81 tnis,
state, in tne manufacture 81, the pro.
duct Of tas works. They spent 4 dr Z.
or % at San Antcnto and other historical
points in Texas They were also 1t
Fort Worth, Texas. They visited Afrs.
Bousaners sister, Miss Augpsy spaaes,
al Sherman Tex. spentng twelve days
vita her. That point l. known as tie
Black Land Belt and Il. noted as being
the most highly fsrtile spot IN 10 World.
They also visited the CITY Of Aixieoa
The trip was botas prcarabls and hens.s
icial a. well as most interesting and
they return in flne health. z 1
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
MURRAY
WAS HERE
PRESIDENT OF BAlr1MoRE i OHIO
ARE ON WAY 10 THE STATE.
OF CALIFORNIA.

Aboard n paatial spscial TRAN, Presi
dent Oscar G. Murray, OF tine B. q o.
and mis- party, including all the othel
officials high in the councils of the bis
corporation, passed through the cit,
Thursday evening 81 q
President Murray Is on his way t.
California. Superintendent Hale Is t.
accompany MIN. Some of the other Of
ficials are going west. and at the same
lime all are making the trip tour Of
inspection.
Included in the party. aside from Presi-
dent Oscar G. Murray, and General Man.
ager Thomas Fitzgerald, are the follow.
ing named officials: Arthur Hale
superintendent of transportation; >. E
Grisnsr, superintendent of the mainte.
nance and way; q. F. Bent, general
superintendent; W. NJ. Grant, vice presi-
dent; w. II. Brimson, general superin,
tandspt of The B. 4 o. S. w; U. b.
Williams. division superintendent, and
many otaers. There are about twent,
lin the party.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
ARREsTED
sAs OMpLlCE
SONS OF SPENCER HILL ARsucHr
: no JAIL ACCUSED OF BEING M
PLIcATED IN ASSAULT.

co1stable Nv. Guy Merritt arrested
Ernest and Edward Hill at Gypsy on
Thursday evening and brought them to
jail here. The constablc's action wa.
the result Of. a warrant sworn ont be-
fore Squire NJ. S. Riley by William n
Boggess. The latter is'a son of Samuel
VI. Boggsss, VINO was snot last Sunday
evening by Spencer X. Hill. father Of
the fellows the constable brought to
jail Thursday evening. Boggess accuses
tfem of taking hand in the ARRAY and
making felonious assault on sa,nue,
Bosgsssl
Edward HILL Is a moro boy being only
II years of age and the magistrate ex-
pressed the determination Friday morn.
ing TO release him. giving him into INC
custody Of mis- motner until March 20
at which timr all three Hills will be
givsn a aearing If the injured man who
is in a Fairmont hospital is able to at
tend .seo9ft.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
SADNESS
IN HOME
n E.a AID ElRs. KYLE CAUSED
S BY DEATH of THEIR DAuGH-
TER HAZEL.

- = =
4 The nome of Mr.. and Mrs. Jasprr 5.
Kyle, on South Chestnut street, was
:saiasned at 10 o'clock Friday morning
~ the death of their daughter, Hazel,
aged Is years. caused by typhoid ever
with waicn she was seized some days
ago.
The death of this daughter is deeply
regretted by many school mates with
whom she was very popular. she was a
bright sweet girl ndsths afflicted FAM
ily have the deepest sympathy of the
Community in this bereavement.
the deceased was a member of toe
First Baptist CHURCH, an active member
Of the Junior society of tae church and
Sunday school, and devout Christian
girl open.hearted, frank and of. lovely
disposition.
Two cther members Of the family are
siek With the same nnalady and the death
Of HAZEL makes the conditions all the
snnors Messing to the bereft family
my Slany friends.
Fal will be held from Che
Rees 4ssca by Rev. R. B. Mcdaniel
t0nolrcw afternoon, the exact hour no,
having as yet been decided.
4
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
,souIRE HAS HOT HOUSE

Magistrate NJ. S. Riley Ia garlsns,
of no little proportions and possesses q
7knowieige along this line equally ex'
tehsiye as his fine knowledge of the law
Is profound. Taking advantage Of This
he has turned a portion Of his Off E.
who's atmosphere Is rather warm when
lawyers get to wrangling, into a 70,
house. AS the result a part of ais time
wiz be devoted the NEXT few weeks to
the raising Of tomato. cabbage and'otaer
garden plants sufficient not only for nj,
own use but also to supply many Of al.
neighbors.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
OLDEST
SUIT
IN State.
IS THAT OF MrrcHrrr AGAINST
MITCHELL WHICH IS BEING
ARGUED. IN n
IS AarNeER1Ne AND FAMOUS 1lr1.
CATION OVER LAND M LEWIS
COUNTY. ! i
Many Prominent Lawyers Have Bsen
Idntiaed With the Case Land IN
Controversy Was Settled BY Jesse
Hughes.

A case which has been psndine fos
sixty.ave years in tae circuit courts d
Harrison and Lewis counties ID beina
argued today before Judge Lynch. nh;
style Of the case Is BeIsora Mitchell ami
others against John A. Mitchell and
others.
In 1910 Benoni Mitchell ind rsaac s.
Mitchell, his brotaer, became tde nd.
ministratos of the estate Of tacir father
John Mitchell. Tee securities ON thei,
administrations bond were Martin Life
john Mitchell and Joseph Mitchell. and
the trustee was Ricaani pobson. In
Order to save harmless their securities
Isaac s. aud Bsnoni Mitchell executed a
deed of trust to Ricnard Dobson. tins.
tee, whica deed Of trust provided that In
the event of default Of the aimnitra,
tors the securities were to be made whole
by sale Of tae undivided interests d
Benoni and Isaac Mitchell in taeis
fataer's estate. The deed Of trust Gov.
cred taeAe undivided interests.
In ls47 Richard Dobson sold the untii.
vided interests of Benoni Mitchell Al
trustees sale, and Joseph Mitchell BE,
came the purchaser. Bsnoni aftrward,
alleged that the sale was made not ii
accordance to law and claimed man,
legal defects and franls.
For over forty years yario,,s matter.
arising out Of this transaction nave been
tnreshed over BY the circuit courts Of
Harrison and Lewis counties. Tire. az.
ferent ejectment actions and several
suits in equity have grown ont Of Il,
Almost all the leading lawyers Of the
Lewis county mar for the la.t balf ten.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
COTE
INSTEAD
OF ELKlNs
Is NOW THE TALK AMONG MANY'
ACCORDING TO PARKERsBURG
PAPER.
SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF JUDGE
NATHAN GoFF IS RAPIDLY
sPREApINc
Seven Hold. Over State Senators Said
70 Have Agnsed Not no Support Elk
ms and COMMITTEES win Wait On
Juda, GoF This Week.

M
The Parkersburg Dispatch says fhsra
Wa d powswow at Parkersburg Tn,irs.
day afternoon relative to Judge Gc.f Do.
ing The next United States senator from
West yireinis and that tiacrs was nrrsh
ant. lins talk among some Of tic
Republican leaders al the meeting
It says this sentiment arrived at full
blSssom during st6s sion of taS late
lssisIstulS ei.. tbs story goes .taat
E|kihE pepesi Ion 70 ekTtaip faction
81 The party, that faction which opros.
ed Dawson. became so APPARENT, that any
avcwals Of neutrality on mis- part met
with no rsdence. He. it was cnarg:
ed, took an active and successful part
In defeating Senator Oliver Marshall
for the presidency of the Senate.
Then the old grnases were recalled;
how he had rnled at the State con-
vehtion in wfeeling against Tetr
ana by so doing helped to bring about
Dawson's nomination by dispensins
With the committee on credentials,
An thess Things and more of an of
fshsive character were recalled and
anger grew. It finally resulted In a
conference OF Tete-ites. among l;ieu
majority of the State Senator'S, sew
sfai Of whom wsre holdovers. The
long distance Telephone was brought
intp play between Washington AMI
Charleston. Ellans was on, tie Wash:
ington end. whiIe Senator Montgomery,
Of Preston. manipulated the receiver and
acted as fhk spokesman of the Tetsr
staiwarts. the discussion was lengthy;
II wa not and peppery-and, it Is pre-
lsun,ed Elkins was charged up with the
message
( Those VINO ywere on the inside of what
was doing claim TINT Elkins male all
\ sorts of promises, none of which ne mas
ever tried 10 fulfill.
But the interesting phase of that
nestine is this: The seven aoldovcr
State Ssnators there and tnen drew
up an agreement, which they signed
Stating that; they would vote first. last
and an the time fos, anybody to de-
feat Eikms for reelection, Taat agree
ment IN writing is still cxtant and it rs
that which a committee of two of those
self same Senators will present to Judge
Coli in few days. probably this week
at mis- nome in ciarksburs. as an induce.
ment for MIN to enter the contest early
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-03-24
WILL MOVE
TO OHIO
WHERE HE INTENDS TO BUY a
FARM-MR. GusMAN SELLS
RESIDENT PROPERTY HERD.

J. ]. Gusman, the well known mer.
cnant, sold mis- Locust street resident
property Friday morning 10 Harry Doud,
an oil man. for handsome cchsidera-
ton, which is private, and win give
possession of 1t May i Is II +
Mr.. Gusman leaves Monday for OHIO
for the purpose of buying a farm in
that state, upon waica he viii locate.
Mr. Gusman is one Of Clasksburgs best
citizens and there is mucn regret over
the prospect of the removal of himself
and mis- estimable family from this place.