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Mower County transcript., 1905-12-20


others to make like or greater improve
ment and thus become an object lesson
for good. A we'll kept home is an edu-
Gator and the lessons it teaches are
many.
Bird Island Advances: A man who
claimed to be a priest taking up sub
scription for the sufferers of Armenia,
was here last week and picked up a
little for "the good Of the cause" He
| was soon rounded up, however, by
! Father Fey, who, after examining his
credentials, found him to be an impOs
ter With sole mn promise of'disrob-
ing and leading Setter life, he was al
lowed his liberty. Helsaltpri hororo
giving to assist in work Of that nature,
the local priest or minister should be
consulted, as they are in better posi-
ton to detect snch flauda
Kiyeviile Recorder: Matt Fox was
up from New Haven the latter part of
the week and dropped into the Record.
or office fol, short visit. Mr.. Fox
says that they have the best corn crop
they ever had around New Haven
His own corn went 85 bushels to the
acre. It is of good quality and sound
He picked promiscuously out Of load
| 80 ears that weighed one pound each
Mr.. Fox is one of the most successful
! farmers Of Mitchell county. He has
resided in the county ~ years and says
he knows of no better place to live
!, than northern Iowa. .3ss,
! Estelline Tribune: It requires yerJ
little brains to criticize. One OF thu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
CHRISTMAS EN- TOUR
Yale Clubs Will Have Christmas Tree on
the Road.

The Yale Glee, Mandolin and Banjo
clubs who are to give a concert in the
Auditorium the evening of Dec. 26, will
have what is probably the most novel
Christmas party in the country.
The ffty-odd members Of the musical
clubs are touring the country in their
cooks and walters and the special train
on which they travel is very much like
home to them since they: spend the
greater part Of the two weeks en- route
on it.. -. - -: = +: 49, 1 Is
The musical clubs: are 50 much on.
the jump between the long distances
to cover between concerts and the many
social affairs given in their honor in
each city visited that they will have no
time for a regular Christmas tree except
when con the wing" ~ ..
Some OF the more active Of the mem
bers have therefore prepared for an ex-
elusive Yale club Christmas tree party
to which. only the members will be in
vited, and which will last from st, Paul
to st. Louis. There will be a real tree,
properly decorated, in the middle of the
dining car and presents for each mem
Der Of the club. What is due to add to
the hilarity Of the occasion will be the
time honored custom Of compelling each
new member of the club to tell funny
story upon receipt of his present. It IS
specifically stipulated that the story
must be funny. -.
The seats for the concert at the Audi
forum the evening Of Dec. 26 will be
placed on sale at the Metropolitan
Music company Thursday morning.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
The Anti-Saloon League.

One of the latest devices for curbing
the power of the American drinking
place is the so-called Antisaloon
league.
It has come into prominence in the
last few years in Ohio and has spread
to nearly every part of the country.
There. is an antisaloon league now in
nearly every state which pretends to
have any temperance sentiment at all.
THE Antisaloon league seems to have
profted by the mistakes and failures
of other temperance movements. 1t
calls itself non-partizan and tries to
live up to it's declaration. It makes
it's first assault not upon the drinking
habit but upon the political power Of
the saloon, holding that it is first nee
essary to get rid of the saloon and it's
influence before other and more dras-
tic measures are taken to rid the world
Of the drinking habit. The objective
point Of the league is usually local OPP
!, ton, tho it does considerable law en-
f5fcement work.
Tn Ohio, where it's organization is
the most perfect, the Antisaloon league
has had most marked effect upon the
politics Of the state. There is no doubt
that it contributed largely to the de.
feat of Governor zHerrick. He had been
elected by the temperance element in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
Railroad Notes.

A. L. Berdoe has been appointed general
manager of the White Pass Sc Yukon, succeeding
A. B. Newell. vice president and general man
ager, resigned. :,
Big Fork & Northern road, a branch of the Min
resota & Interna tional from NOrthome to Ripple.
p H Durham las been appointed to the new
position of district freight and passenger agent
of the Great Northern road at Grand Forks,
B. G. He has been travelling freight agent from
St. Paul.
Officers of the San Pedro road were elected
yesterday at Los Angeles as follows; President,
W. A. Clark: vice presidents. w. b. Bancroft,
J. Ross Clark: secretary. ". q: Comstock !;
treasurer W. 81. Leete: The executive commit
tee and the boz I'd Of directors remain the same
The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railsost I,
Helena with 50, 00O. 900 capital 3: D. Sewall,
assistant general Superintendent. Is an ineor-
norator, as well as P. II. Seaman, Montana gem
eral agent, and the general counsel. Mr. Shell
ton. .
Intimaticns of change in the mechanical de-
partrent of the Great Western road have ma
terialized in an announcement that 1t VII! Do
moved to Oelwefn Iowa. Master Mechanic Chris
holm will have headquarters there and eleven
men who now live in ST. Paul. 1t is the iosicai
situation for this department.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
UnIque-VaudevIlIe,

Dash and novelty are the chief fea-
lures OF good, all-around vaudeville bill
at the Unique this week.
The leading attraction is the novelty
sketch presented by 1.-THE Three Amer
lean MS" Mealey, Mullery and Gun
nlngton.t The trio is an exceptionally
versatile one. and their stunts include
some good singing, startling acrobatio
work, clever comedy and weird body
twisting. Their act is called "HoteI
Topsy-Turvy, and is especially suited to
their talents. The act is prettily staged
and every effort has been made to elm
mate the dry features.
Fred V. Russell has an amusing act In
his Chinese speciality. He Is a clever
CHARACTER 1mpersonator and a good come
dlan.- "A Homespun Wooing' is the title
OF a short but laughable skit presented
by Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Young Joseph
Golden keeps the audience in an uproar
with his monolog. altho on one or two oc-
cas1ons his work shows overstudy of the
almanac. Jennie Bently. one of the few
successful female jugglers, has fin
1shed, act, While Aheaen and Baxter an
old favorite team, take we'll in thei1
comedy acrobatic turn.
Hermann La F1eur and Harold Beckrc
have a new illustrated song and the
usual series of moving pictures closes the
performance
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
HAS COWBOY SUITOR
HARD ON HER TRAIL

A young man! wearing solubrero
and corduroy trousers walked into the
Metropolitan operahouse last night with
rather a sheepish expression on his
face, but with flashes Of determination
lighting his eye. His unconventional
costume attracted some attention as
he walked down the center aisle to a
seat in the first row Of the orchestra,
where he sat, turnout the, performance
Of sfThe Sultan of Sulu,' as if in {,
trance. When the final curtain was
rung down he made his way to the
stage entrance, where he was stopped
by an attendant.
"I want to see Miss Demarest,' he
said in an uncertain voice. The intru-
der was told that the hour was late,
but if he would wait, there might be a
chance to meet the young woman. This
did not seem to please the visitor, WHO
storm, and he was warned that lie
might find himself in the hands of the
police. In the meantime Miss Dem
Arrest, who had been warned of her Wis
itor, made her exit thru the main en-
trance Of the theater.
Altho Miss Demarest claims not to
know her visitors name, he is not a
stranger to her.. When she was play
ing in Helena, Mont, the young man,
who was employed on cattle ranch,
became infatuated with the young wo-
man. Miss Demarest, however. was in
no mood to relinquish her position Of
prin1a donna to become the belle of a
stock ranch. Her importunate lover
has been rebuffed time after time, but
he has always come back smiling in the
belief that persistence must win in the
end. There is considerable speculation
among the members Of the company
about what scheme the lovesick swain
will next invent to reach the ear of
Miss Demarest. Up to the present he
has exhausted all the time-worn arti
fees Of disconsolate admirers, but he
has the breezy originality Of the plains
to assist him in inventing some new
scheme
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
PRAISES MINNEAPOLIS
Southern Editor Publishes Observations
of His Recent Visit Here.

Minneapolis comes in for consider
able attention this week in number
Of papers published in North and South
Carolina and Virginia. As return for
a pleasant afternoon in Minneapolis
last August, A. Roscower Of Goldsboro,
N. c., has prepared a two-column sketch
Of Minneapolis which he publishes in
his paper, the Goldsboro Headlight.
The same article is published also in
twelve other dailies and fifteen week
lies in the three states mentioned.
Mr.. Roscower was in the north last
summer and stopped in Minneapolis
Aug. IL. Wallace G. Nye, as secretary of
the public affairs committee of the Com
mercial club, entertained the southern
editor with an automobile ride about
the city and the lakes and drives of
the park system. That the visitor was
not only interested, but greatly i'm
pressed also, is shown by his compre
hensive article praising Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
ADJUSTMENTS
MetropoIItan-"suItan Of sulu."

: ) +
George AIDES musical plays certainly
have good wearing qualities. Altho the
Sultan Of Sulu" is here for it's third
season, 1t has not shrunlS SO much as a
minute, and its colors are still bright and
unfaded Mr.. AIDES humor is Of the
plaid or striped material. He seldom
handles more delicate fabrics, but his
gibes at matrimony and divorce, at poll
tics and society are as timely now as
,sented to delighted audience some five
Years ago.
The present company is a new one in
Minneapolis, and is more energetic than
musical. Everybody works, works full
time, Tor there Is no Sinking from even
the smallest OF the many chorus girls.
Albert Mahar as Ki-Ram, the sultan,
mas rather colorless personality until
arter ne has annexed unlimited American
cocktails, when he shows a much WARMER
nue.. Mr. Mahar does not caper nor does
ne prance, but his facial expressions are
very funny. His voice Is more suggestive
Of q foghorn than lark. but what he
lacks IN tunefulness he makes up in ex-
presslon. and his rendition of the old ia
voritei sR-E-M-O-R-S-E e. was capital
90 was the popular and -whistled
Since First Met YOU" in which he had
the assistance Of his ex-wives and their
ne" lovers. Sinclair Nash was a most
important Colonel Budd of the volunteers.
with political speech ever on his Inns.
and A. S. Aspland alled in manly
1ashlon, the Important role Of the lieu
tenant, without. which it would seem to
be impossible to have musical comedy.
Jack Claire, the ever-ready insurance
agent, Wakeful Jones, capably took a
snare In trlos,s quartets and any other
musical combination A veryy tail speci-
men of the American girl was Miss
FRANCES Demarest as Henrietta Budd
and Harriet Sheldon was a most strenu-
Gus and vengeful judge advocate Ber-
nice Hart. the favorite of the sultan,s
wives was In amusing contrast to Maud
t'arie, who had the role of Gall1lu, the
faithful first spouse. The sehoolma ans
from Boston were more dainty than de-
mure. The numerous natives, soldiers
guards and girls aided in presenting
many attractive pictures, 50 that alto.
gether the comedy still holds a strons
| power to please -. F. R. sterrett. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
MAKES CONCESSION
st. Paul Favors Allowing Smoke for
Five Minutes in an Hour.

St. Paul is planning to make a con-
cession to the railway companies, steam
boat companies and large industrial
plants in the matter of observing the
antismoke ordinance. An amendment to
the ordinance which will permit chin
neys and stacks to smoke as they please
for five consecutive minutes in one hour
has been favorably reported upon by
the assembly's committee on streets. DR..
Justus Ohage, the commissioner Of
health, is strongly opposed to this con.
cession, as it will practically nullify
the ordinance. Railway officials declare
that it is impossible for locomotive
to pull a heavy train up the steep grades
leading out Of st. Paul without emitting
considerable smoke. L. T. Chamberlain
Of the Northern Pacific stated that the
railway companies were willing. to OBJ
serve the law, but it was physical i'm.
possibility to do so under the present
conditions in any other way than to dis
continue the trains.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
Clean Sidewalks,

The answer to question which a
good many people ask about this time
Of year may be found in another COL
umn Of this paper today. The ques.
tion is:
''Why don't the city compel every
body to clean his sidewalk Of snow and
ice?'' r g
People who have come to Minneap-
oils within the past ten years are not
familiar with the controversy the city
had with "Elder' Stewart over the
condition Of the sidewalk in front of
his premises at Fourth and Hennepin.
1t is regarded as an evidence of good
neighborliness, of proper regard for the
convenience and safety, not to say the
goodwill of others, to keep clean
sidewalk, but these reasons have never
appealed to MI. Stewart. He declines
to clean his sidewalk and declines to
be held responsible for it's condition
by the city. In one contest with the
city he has won out. Since then the
law has been modified, and, as City
Attorney Healy suggests, it would be
a good thing if some street commits
sioner-and under the law that means
the commissioner of the fourth or fifth
ward-should make a test case. : It is
| humiliating to- think that here in the
city of Minneapolis we have no way
to insure the cleaning of the sidewalks,
where the winter is so long and the
snowfall often heavy. But perhaps we
have. Perhaps the law would stand
and if it is good law the knowledge
Of the fact will develop great deal
Of interest in the snow-shovel market
and great deal Of activity on one of
those home exercises which Bart is Just
now making the people Of Minneap
oils familiar with.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
TO SPREAD REFORM
Civil Service League Officials to Con-
duct CAMPAIGN Here.

~
Afford Cooley, one Of the civil SER
vice COMM sioners at. Washington, and
Elliot a. Goodwin, secretary CT the
National Civil Service Reform league
will visit the twin cities next month to
arouse public. sentiment in favor of re-
form in municipal matters and in the
methods Of making appointments to
public office by the state, and the
larger municipalities.
They hope to be able to organize a
strong state league, with branches in
Minneapolis and st. Paul and possibly
other cities. They are relying on the
hope that Governor j. "A. johnson and
other state officials will indorse their
plans and give them substantial sup
port, and that they will also secure the
approval of the municipal officers of
the twin cities. Both men are excel.
lent speakers and are greatly interested
in the cause they are advocating.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
What Gould Said.

The Springfield Republican has dug
up bit of testimony given before the
United States senate committee in 1883
by Jay Gould, which is interesting and
timely. It is interesting to discover
that Mr.. Gould entertained such ideas;
it is timely to reproduce them when.
the truth they contain seems to have
been so seriously and unfortunately
overlooked by a great many men en-
gagged in one form or another of the
public service. In his testimony Mr..
Gould said: e.: -
Corporate property is clothed with
public rights and with public duties,
and those rights are paramount
to the rights Of the stockhold~
holders: that is , you are to perform
your public obligations to the business
you are created to perform. When that
is done, [ judge Of it as T would any
private property, because I have faith
publican institutions under which we
live. If there were clamor that the
Western Union was charging unreason-
able rates it would be perfectly fair for
the government to inquire into it. and
it they found them unreasonable, to
CONTROL Cnem.
"Created to perform'' is very sig
nificant phrase, but it describes the sit
uatlon. Never yet was any railroad or
telephone or telegraph or street rail
way, or any other form Of public SER
vice corporation, endowed with the
privilege Of taking possession Of pri-
vate property or occupying public prop
erty solely or primarily for the benefit
of the organizers and managers of that
corporation. In every INSTANCE the con-
ferring Of such power has been pri-
marily that the public may be served
better than it could be served in any
other way, and the public service--or
"rights,' as Mr.. Gould expresses it
care paramount to the rights Of stock
holders. - 81.
= There is nothing dangerous or threat
ening in this theory. for, as Mr. Gould
suggests, when these public rights and
public obligations have been fairly dis
charged, the property is to be judged
as to it's proftableness the same as
any other property. We must believe
this if we are to have faith in repub-
lican institutions, faith in ourselves.
Mr.. Gould believed it, and when he said
that if there were a clamor that the
Western Union was charging unreason-
able rates, the government should in
q,lire into them and make them rea,
sonable, he simply said what the presi-
| dent Of the United States says today
when he declares for rate regulation by
authority Of the government.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
A CALIFORNIA TRIP
Winter Months Afford Best Opportunity
for Merchants and Many Others to

Winter Months Afford Best Opportunity
for Merchants and Many Others to
Get Away from Business.
From the Commercial Bulletin, Mime
apolis, Saturday, Dec. 2, 1905.
Hundreds Of people who read this
paper are planning a trip to the west
coast and stay Of few weeks at least
in lower California.
Winter is vacation season and
California the vacation land.
Which way shall we go? That is
the question many are asking now.
Right here the "Omaha Road' comes
forward with a. through car service to
California unsurpassed in the history Of
railway travel.
Three times each week through
tourist car leaves the twin cities over
the CONAN" line for southern Califor-
ria. One goes by Omaha, Ogden,
Sacramento, San Francisco and down
the coast to Los Angeles. Another
thence over the Santa Fe through
Southeastern Colorado, and across New
Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles.
A third route, which is already prov
Ogden, Salt Lake City and down the
New San Pedro and Los Angeles road
recently constructed and known as the
Clark road. This route takes the
tourist through country full Of inter
esting features and much of it but lit
tie known until this railway was built.
It runs just below the famous Death
Valley region and it's equally famous
Nevada and California. This is the
shortest through car route between
the twin cities and lower California.
This gives the tourist choice of three
splendid routes, the best through car
service, and all at a reasonable price.
The traveller has no changes to make
after leaving the twin cities. These
cars, their appointments and the serv-
ice in every respect, are all that the
most particular and critical travellers
can desire. Home comforts are there
chant recently said to the writer. "You
always meet nice people travelling on
the Omaha s tourist sleeping cars. ~
Tourist cars are the preference of
those numerous people who wish to
travel comfortably at reasonable cost.
Each car has it's colored porter in
charge. Cars are vestibuled, lighted
with gas, carpeted, have comfortable
mattresses, regular Pullman blank
cts. pillows. berth curtains and clean
bed linen is furnished each night.
manner as first-elass Pullman sleepers,
except that each heater is supplied with
an enclosed oven in which coffee, tea,
ETC., may be warmed, and adjoining is
a sink with hot water faucet.
General Passenger Agent 7. w.
Teasdale Of the Omaha road, who has
given the subject of California travel
much study and who has been greatly
instrumental in bringing the through
car service to its present high stand
ard, is much pleased with the splendid
endorsements the travelling public is
giving the Omaha 8 fine arrangements
travel California ward will show big
increase this season!
If further information is desired
call at ticket office, 600 Nicollet avenue
Minneapolis, or 396 Robert street
(Ryan HoteD, st. Paul.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
The Mayors Veto Powers.

In the matter of the request of the
mayor that contracts be passed by res
olution, some of the aldermen have
called attention to the fact that the
mayor is inconsistent, he having sat
in the council and voted to award con-
tracts on committee reports. Attention
is also directed to the fact that the
mayor has signed contracts since -
came into his present office, which were
awarded in the old way.
We do not understand that Mayor
Jones denies either of these allegations
nor is either Of them pertinent to- the
issue raised by the mayor. The only
question is whether the public business
is being done in the best way. If it IS,
then the mayor is wrong. If it is not,
then the mayors suggestion that con
tracts be passed by resolution should
be tried
The point has also been raised that
if contracts were awarded by resolu-
ton, it would result, in the case of a
veto, Of minority rule in the council
Eight members would be sufficient tC
sustain a veto and thus defeat the
awarding Of contract, in accordance
with the will of the majority. The
weakness Of this objection is in the
fact that veto by the mayor is a neg
alive act. It does not award the con
tract to anyone else. It does nothing
but place upon the council the respon
sibility of meeting the mayors objec
tions or Of agreeing upon the origina
proposition by two-thirds majority.
The awarding of contracts by reso
luton strengthens rather than weaken
the position Of the council. 1t still
has the initiative, and it has the sig
nature of the chief executive as in
dorsement of it's action. With this in
dorsement, the aldermen may go t.
their constituents and ask: "Why, i
this contract was not good one TO
the city, did not the mayor, represent
ing the whole city, veto it?'
Under the present system the coun
Gil accepts all the responsibility fo
possible mistake, and adds nothin
to it's legitimate legislative authority
It is in the interest Of square-dealin
aldermen, as we'll as Of the whole city
that the mayor should have all con
tracts presented at his desk in the form
of resolutions.
The weather man is also on the side o
the heavy advertiser.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-19
SMOKE Is COSTLY
Stacks and Chimneys Cause Annual Loss
of S5,5OO,Oo0.

Smoke Inspector J. W. Allen, esti.
mates that smoke causes q damage OF
fuilv $5.5O0.O0O a year to property in
MINNEAPOLIS, the loss being represented
Nv denreciation in the value of whole
sale and retail stocks of merchandise.
The estimate is based on the statistics
of Chicago, where the annual loss from
the same source is estimated at $40 ,O00,-
600. : There are $4,000 chimneys in Min.
neapolis, of which about $4,000 are on
dwellings,, about 10000 on commercial
houses and 10000 for industrial plants.
The three classes of stoves and furnaces
annually consume upward of $4,000, 000
in fuel.