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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
CITY NEWS
CASTING EYES ON
THE PLUM TREE
MEDICS ARE NOT AVERsE TO
BEING NON-PARTIzAN,
Many Seek Position of City Physician
and Genteel Electioneering Is Going
On Right and Left-The Candidates
Mentioned and Their Claims-Dr.
Kicker Possibility.

On the presumption that DR.. Charles
u, w eston is not a candidate for city
physician and will not accept the posi-
ton, even if honored with the election.
there has been a great activity among
the physicians of the city either in
their own behalf or in behalf of friends.
The electioneering methods are not OBJ
!ruslve, but much work is being done
In various ways.
! 1t seems to be taken for granted that
commissioners Frank r. Woodland and
John Crosby will be reappointed mem
bers of the board Of charities and cor
rect1ons at the expiration of their
terms, in. June, and all the candidates
are working on that assumption. So
tar as can be learned no formal ten
DER OF reappointment has been made
to either and there is no way of telling
II they will accept. Dr.. Woodland has
been member OF the board since it's
organization, twelve years ago, and
may feel that he has done enough. It
IS reported in certain quarters that DR..
Woodland will retire when his present
term expires and in the: same quarters
It is predicted that Mr.. Crosby will re-
main. r. 49, - a.
1t is taken for granted by all those
interested that the selection of city
physician will be made by the majority
OF the board, consisting of Mayor D. ?.
Jones and the successors of Commits
sioners Woodland and Crosby,
City Physician George E. Kicker IS
understood to be a receptive candidate
His friends, pointing to his unimpeach-
able record, say that if the city hos.
pital is to be placed on non-partizan
basis, he is the logical candidate. A
strong candidate is DR.. W. E. Leonard
now medical inspector in the health de,
partment. He is believed to have an
advantage on account of his relation
ship to Mayor Jones. but the statement
is made that this will have no bearing
whatever, as the office will be bestowed
on its merits. Another homeopath said
to be looking for the position is Dr.
O. K. Richardson.
The name Of DR.. U. G. Williams is
frequently mentioned in connection with
the city hospital, but his close friends
say that he is not candidate and does
not want it. DR.. O.. E. LINER has had
his eye on the place for some time and
is. hopeful: DR.. c. D. Whipple and =
number of the younger generation OF
physicians are in the field, and there
will be still more if the Hennepin Coun.
ty Medical association declines to sub.
nit to the board the names of the
capable physicians as requested bv the
mayor some time ago. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
WHEAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Several Kicks.
To the Editor Of The Journal.

~ sA0 AIuAsoA VA Au5 ,JOuTual.
Everybody who knows anything about a
hsh, knows that fish run down stream in
the, fall, and up stream in the spring.
Inc OBJECT is to winter in deep water and
spawn IN shallow water during the spring.
The beaver takes advantage of this to
build brush dams, which water will filter
thru and at the same time compels the
fish to winter in the deep water produced
by the dam.
+ In consequence Of this instructive habit,
hsh IN the Lake of the Isles, Calhoun and
Lake Harriet, naturally during the fall Of
the year hover near the outlet of the
lakes and If permitted make their exit
Ii 1t is necessity to lower Lake Har-
riet in the fall, the water should be fill
tered thru wire screen,
From the fact thatsI went fishing four
times last summer in these lakes and did
not get a bite, While the years before,
nshlng was good, 1t is fair to assume that
my poor luck was due to the unphilosoph-
1cal methods of the park board, as I used
the same fishing tackle and good healthy
worms and practiced all allurements
known to piscinal lore
/ 'rNlnety-n1ne per cent Of those who visit
our lakes are pedestrians Should a pc
destrlan desire to take a stroll around
the lake, he is compelled to take bicycle
path and walk in ffear and trembling,
fearing that some bicycle scorcher will
lombard him from the rear.
~ should he take the main road a still
worse fate awaits him from some person
with chattel-mortgag ed autom obile.
Before he has scarcely started on his
stroll, he is made very forcibly to feel
that the money spent by the park board
mas been spent almost entirely in the in
terest OF the rich instead Of the poor.
On a river where there is a current or
on large bodies Of water where wind and
wave are to be contended with, oars are
a necessity. Upon these small placid
lakes a roWboat is inartistic, crude and
dlspleaslng. What more pleasing sight
can be imagined, than a maid skillfully
padding a canoe? 1t is. the very essence
of grace and beauty
NO encouragement whatever has ever
Deen given by the park board to cultivate
art1stlc boating. What would the Vene-
tan. gondolier say, could he visit Lake
Harriet some Sunday afternoon and OBJ
serve the crude aquatic sports practiced
byt we Minneapolitans? What would
Mlnnehaha say, could she for short half
houf return to life and see some Of our
young men trying to paddle a boat?
1t you ask the Russian peasant to- ex-
plain why he. submits to the rule of the
car and grand dukes, he replies that the
yoke was placed Upon his neck centuries
before he was born
# you ask 80 per cent of our voters, Pc
destrians, who visit the lakes. to explain
Why they permit these thi!~~ to done be-
fore their own eyes, while oower is in
their hands to rect1fy; IL 44twill hard
ly be able to offer a rational explanation.
It is the legerdemain of politics. which
they submit tamely ito as the Russian
peasant to the rule of the grand dukes.
3D. II E. D.: Titus.
minneapolis, MIMI, May IS, 1905.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
THE MAGAZINES

The Gar as an Insurance Risk.-The
car has been the most active recent risk
in English companies, says writer in
Lesle's Monthly for June. Up to week
before last Christmas the rate on his life
was 5 per cent per annum. On Dec. 80,
holders Of Russian bonds. who insured him
with Lloyd's for some tens of thousands
Of pounds had to pay IS per cent for a
policy running only ten months. After
the assassination Of Grand Duke Sergius
and the terrorist threat to wipe out the
imperial family, the car suddenly retired
from activity as an insurance risk No
body wanted him at the price the under
writer's placed on his life.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
What the Gas Steal Was Worth.

The graft in the Philadelphia gas
works steal is exhibited in the Compel
itive bid submitted by responsible bank
ers. 1t should be recalled first that the
gas trust offered to advance the city
$25,OOOOOO ard take the gas works for
seventy-fve years. The city by ac-
cepting the donation, abandoned it's
present lease, gave up an income of
$685. annually, surrendered the right
TO confscate. the improvements Of the
lessee at the end of the period and. de-
prived itself Of the power to command
b reduction Of the price of. gas for fifty
years to come. "
The competitive bid offers the city:
| First, $2O,000,000 with which to buy
out the present lessee and take posses
sion Dec. 81, 1907.
Second, to pay the city a fixed an
nual rental of $1,250,0O0 or total Of
$93,750,00o and interest during the sew
enty-fve years of the lease.
Third, to pay the city over and above
the rental, one-third of the profits for
the first ten years, and thereafter one
half Of the profits.
Fourth, give the city one-third voice
in the management of the plant.
Fifth, free lighting to the city, cost
ing at present $450,000 year.
This offer is made in good faith by a
syndicate Of financial men who have the
means at hand to make it good. It
suggests the marvellous power of ma
chine politics in Philadelphia, when the
former VIGOROUSLY jug-handled PROPOSE
ton was all but forced thru the coun-
Gil, when providentially caught in the
the public-service corporations wonder
that the people seem to rush heedlessly
into municipal experiments with such
illustrations of rapacity before them?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

He should be allowed to buy a ticket
and board "a train like any other eiti-
zen. 1t may not come to this because
Of the unknown dangers to the presi-
dent from tanning into miscellaneous
crowds. Yet the advertisement of
special trains does more to draw these
crowds than anything else. Nor is
there much evidence that the secret
service fummery has ever done any
thing to protect the chief executive.
President Mckinley was shot at pub
lie reception with a wise sleuth on
either side of him. Perhaps the best
precaution, for Roosevelt at least, would
be to discharge the sleuths, do his trav-
cling in ordinary trains and depend
upon his own watchfulness and that of
the friends who accompany him. We
have no doubt that would be his pref
erence. -. @$
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
The States Attorney.

If we understand the duties of a
state s attorney in criminal cases, it is
his business as an officer of the court
to contribute as far as possible to the
doing of justice and the discovery of
the truth as to the charges against
the accused. 1t is, of course, his bust
ness to present the facts tending to
show the guilt of the accused, but as
an officer of justice he is expected to
do this in manner free from any
manifestation of great bitterness Of
feeling against the accused. Nor is he
at liberty to lay obstacles in the way Of
developing the fact of his innocence.
If this is not in brief an approximate
ly correct statement of the proper at
titude Of the attorney for the state in
criminal prosecutions, we are not the
only ones who are mistaken in the
matter; ..>", 80
Reference to the subject is sug-
gested and prompted by the conduct of
the prosecution of DR.. George R. Koch.
We do not wish to indicate any opin-
ION as to the guilt Or innocence of the
prisoner. The courts will make another
attempt to establish the fact one way
or the other. But the extremes OF
statement in the arguments of the
state s attorneys, their treatment of
witnesses, the character of some of the
evidence introduced, their general con-
duct thruout the trial at Mankato, ex-
hibits a -. degree Of bitterness which
seems to us not to comport with the
proper attitude Of officers of the court.
It is true that such an exhibition Of
feeling is not unusual, perhaps it is
not unnatural, but it is no less repre-
hensible. So marked was this exhi-
ton of feeling on the part of the
states attorney in the recent cele-
brated Nan Patterson case that it was
made the subject Of very vigorous
and yet we recall nothing in our read
ing of the reports Of that case which
suggests more occasion for criticism
than the general conduct Of the state 8
case in the Koch trial. The matter is
Of general interest because it seems
to US to be a miseonception of the
duties and responsibilities Of court
officers and calculated to operate
against the securing of justice. It
certainly places the state in an atti-
tude before the public which does not
make for public confidence in the
ability or the disposition Of the courts
to do justice.
Labor men in Massachusetts secured
the passage Of a bill prohibiting nom
f1t11ol ha,i1 di,,cr ToI 1o,,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

District Attorney Jerome occasionally
strays from his base and, he: wandered
far when he charged the outcome of the
Patterson trial to the interference of the
newspapers. 1t is possible that some
newspapers of the yellow brand may have
overstepped the bounds of propriety while
the case was on trial, but there is no
evidence that they expressed any doubts
of the woman's guilt which were not from
the first public property, and which evil
IDENTIFY prevented the jury from coming to
an agreement. 1t was not a miscarriage
of justice as Mr.. Jerome. affects to be-
lieve but it would have been had the
defendant been convicted upon the evil
dence adduced by the state. - -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

The India type, from which this half
tone was made, is the newest thing in
portraiture. It has been developed by
Lou Sweet, of the Sweet galleries, and
presents a charming combination of
brush and camera work. A few years
ago Mr.. Sweet introduced the "Ikon-
otype,' a form Of print in which the
original negative of the subject face
was preserved, the other features of the
print being sketchily executed with a
crayon point
The India type shows an advance
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
Thursday Evening,

chusetts evidently have not heard that
country is tirstSta citizen Of the United
States and then Of the state in which he
resides. The right to live in the United
States includes the right to live in Mas
|sachusetts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

over the previous style of sketched
prints, in that the details of millinery
and costume are worked out with a
brush. By this process all portions of
the print are subordinated to the face,
and the print has the effect Of a most
cleverly executed wash drawing. At
the same time the blending of the brush
and the camera work is SO fine that it
is almost impossible to detect the di-
viding line. Printed upon rough sur
faced paper, the Indiatypes are dis
tinct departure from anything yet &C
cOmDlished hy the nhotopraDher
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Governor Johnson has an option on The
Minneapolis Journals support for renomi-
nation and election. The St. Paul Dis
patch is also Johnson organ and the
Pioneer Press had the wind knocked out
OF 1t SO completely last fall that it will be
hard work to get up much republican en-
thuslasm. The Hennepin county push
should certainly be happy.-Delano Eagle
We do not know how the rest of you
feel after this, dear contemporaries, but
as for ourselves, we are simply crushed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Hennepin county democrats are said to
be bearing down hard. upon Governor
Johnson for appointments Hennepin
county democracy is always more n,mer-
Gus and more noisy after an election than
before - p; FL ~. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
"A business man in Chicago wrote to a
friend in another city as follows:


friend in another city as follows:
We are practically in state of anarchy
thru the most senseless and idiotic strike
yet called, that of the Transfers union.
Our police force and municipal govern
ment are rotten to the core, and condi-
tons really beggar description. .r..,~
The transfers or their sympathizers, in
groups, pitch onto a non-union man or
strikebreaker and when he is finally res
cued, more dead than alive, by the police,
the police proceed to arrest him, letting
the assaulters go.
And yet the "business man. writes his
own indictment. It is because he and
others like him leave the matter Of city
government to the corrupt and the lawless
that their city is so wretchedly governed.
The people who believe in law and order
can rout the lawless and the corrupt any
time when they have sense enough to drop
politics and get together on the law en-
forcement platform.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Colonel Watterson says if John Paul
Jones was pirate Washington was a
highwayman and Franklin a lobster. The
coloners confusion of comparisons is sug-
gestlve OF Holsters and late suppers. If
Jones was a pirate Washington was a
traitor and he would have been if he had
been licked. In that case we all should
have been Beers or Poles or Canadians,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Whitelaw Reid called yesterday at the
state department and received his final in
structions from Assistant Secretary
Loomis who doubtless impressed upon
him, if he learned anything crooked about
the state department, not to blow it in the
London papers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

If some Luther Burbank could induce
the strawberry to blush little more be-
fore reaching the table it would be valu-
able horticultural work.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
WELLE DUNNE!
Wa shington Post.

While the president may not congratu-
late Mayor Elect Dunno of Chicago upon
his political success, he should at lea st
send a word to Mrs. Dunno and the ten
little DUNES.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Leader Murphy telephones from Mount
Clemens, Mich, that he instructed the
five Tammany senators to vote for 80
cent gas. They all voted for dollar gas,
thus causing Mr.. Murphy helpless pain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Air, sunshine and cleanliness make
germs sick. Germs are one of natures
provisions for the absorption and destruc-
ton of filth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Careful figuring shows that the presi-
dents western excursion cost him 5000,
or at the rate Of sSoOla bear. Mrs. Roose-
welt could have bought ten rugs for less
money. T. E5f..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

The Times informs US that ''if big Bill
iGreminger had not fell he would have
nabbed the ball." It was a fell error of
Mr.. Greminger t$s%f
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Nan Patterson's yearning to be at home
with mother forever more'' seems to
have expired in two days. Ma evidently
set Nan to sweeping and washing dishes.
Nothing like regular employment to cure
a girl of Mans caliber of a love of home,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
THE LID HAS NO CHOICE

Philadelphia North American
There are several different kinds of as
surance that the lid" will stay down
while big Bill Taft continues to sit
on 1t.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

What do you suppose would be the eff
feet upon Shakspere of an attempt to read
and digest the baseball page of a paper of
today? The language do move.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

OF course the "standpatters' will not
object} if the isthmian canal commission
buys American products in the markets
of the world at world market prices.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

The new straw hats are to have mar
rover brims than last year. Straw hats
are what they wear where the weather is
warm.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Il The huge automobiles used by sight
seeing visitors in New York are now
regularly known as the Rubbernecks. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
AT DEWY MORN

All the birds were singing gayly,
Tho you'd think 'twould make them
blue
To awake each blessed morning
With their bills all over dew
Philadelphia Press.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

A yeilowish glare is spread over the
landscape IN California This is said to be
sunshine. Js e2s.5 5a:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

The coastwise trade of Minnetonka has
grown to such large proportions that Ex-
celsior is beginning to smell of salt cod
fish drying on the docks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
/ AN INcuRABLE COMPLAINT

There's one complaint the best M. D.
Finds quite beyond his skill.
And that's the one his patients make
When he sends in his bill.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
THIS "JokE" ON cHAUNcEY
Detroit Journal.

4 Senator DepeW. is said to be in danger
of losing $1,000,OOO in the Equita BILE Life
squabble without getting even a funny
story out Ct it. - :, r"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
CRUSHED MOROCCO?
Detroit Journal.

| Detroit Journal.
Judging by the attitude of France,
Spain, England and Italy the kaiser
gives every promise Of being done in
Morocco"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

"a A New York bucketshop has mourners
to the extent of a million dollars.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

The glorious Fourth is coming. Last
year 450 children were manned, crippled
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
WiLLlE'S JOB
- Ha Stings (Neb

Hastings (Neb.) Tribune.
Willie Sulzer is working in the sand pit
at present for the Hastings Dry Pressed
Brick company. $aA
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
"A CHAMPAGNE STANDARD
Joplin Globe.

Banker Bigelow of Milwaukee endea-
vored to Introduce a champagne standard
in a beer town
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18
THE cHocTAWs

Denver Republican.
Apparently there is no hope of so train
ing singers that they will enunciate dis
tinctIy
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

Robert Fitzsimmons, the celebrated
fighter, in "A Fight for Love- drew two
large audiences to the Bfjou yesterday.
Mr. F1tzslmmons will be at the Bijou all
week. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

A "TITTLEBAT TITMOUSE" IN CON-
GRESS.-The following extract from a
recent Washington letter by Milt Saul in
the ATLANTA journal will interest all who
have read Samuel Warrens famous novel;
'Tittlebat TitmoUse" "a successful
abridgment of "Ten Thousand a Year"),
an illustrated edition of which, edited by
Cyrus Townsend Brady, was published not
long ago by Funk & Wagnalls company:
The United States has a living, breathing
reproduction of "Tittlebat rtmouse enrolled
in the membership of its national legislature.
Representative Baker of Brooklyn, N. Y, is
the modern Ttt1ebat, and he follows so closely
the political lines Of Warren's celebrated hero
Of the British parliament that close observer
is amazed to note there is not a stronger per-
sonal resemblance between the two
Titmouse 1t will be remembered, introduced
in the British parliament on his election to that
assembly an "Act for Giving Everybody Every
thing Baker has introduced in congress an
act to give everybody everything the human
heart could wish for in the way Of public com
government run public, trains public hotels
public baths public cigar factories and all other
institutions calculated to increase the happi-
ness of the dear people to whose cause he has
devoted his earthly life and eternal salvation
The other day this human Niagara (for such
he is in action, altho he is placid brook in
repose) heard someone mention the Southern
railways subsidy for fast mail for the south
Instantly he broke loose and surpassed all his
previous efforts in what was generally presumed
to be an attack on southern democrats. Shortly
afterwards one southern member asked another
why he did not reply to Baker.
REPLY to Baker, exclaimed the member ad-
dressed. 'My friend, there are too many Of
the Crumpacker kind attacking the south to
allow any Of us any time to waste on the Tit
mouse kind
The allusion was not without force, and it
soon became known that Baker was regarded
as the Tittlebat Titmouse Of the f1fty-eighth
congress. The discovery of his bill to give
every thing to everybody clinched the title upon
him and he will doubtless go down in history
as the modern replica Of Warren's celebrated
creation
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

The Burgomaster" will be seen at the
metropolitan beginning tonight and clos
Ing on SUNDAY evening. Ruth White and
oscar L. F1gman still play the two prom
inent roles.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-18

LoND ON-Journal on file at American Express
office. Waterloo place, and U. :. express
] office, 90 Strand.