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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
CHINESE BOYCOTT
IN II PROVINCES
War on American Goods Cuts
American Trade in Orient
=
80 Per Cent.

San Francisco, Dec. 2S.-Ac cording to
latest reports received here from the
orient the boycott in China has become
so serious that number of American
houses have closed their doors until the
conditions change.
r. Van SAINT, who represented local
firm at Shanghai, has arrived here from
the orient. Speaking Of the boycott,
he said: .....
"The situation in China is very seri-
GUS and there is absolutely nothing in
the stories that the feeling against
American goods has lessened. 1t has now
extended to seventeen provinces and in
Canton and Hankow the situation is
just as bad as in Shanghai. The Ameri-
cans are not doing 20 per cent of the
business they formerly did and at Hong
kong the Chinese wero purchasing Aus
tralian -four at much higher price than
: that quoted by the Americans.
''The Chinese state that they will not
trade with the Americans until there is
modification of the exclusion laws, but
this, l told them, was hardly probable
In the event of the United States failing
+ to pass law less stringent than the
present one, the Chinese will adopt more
drastic measures.
The boycott has developed into al
antiforeign feelings and the British anc
German business concerns in the orient
are suffering the loss of considerable
trade - ..-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
FIFTY PRITCHARDS
IN FEDERAL JOBS
Former u. S. Senator Certainly as
Good to His Family as In
s----. 49,"
surance Presidents.

Washington, Dec. ga tremendous
row over federal patronage in North
Carolina has brought to light unique
lawsuit and the charge that fifty blood
relatives. of. former United States SEN
ator Pritchard and his son-in-law,
Thomas S. Rollins, are on the federal
pay roll in that state.
f.. The unique lawsuit Is one in which
H. s. Anderson sues Thomas s. Rollins,
chairman of the republican state cen
trail committee, and others for $4,000
damages for their failure to carry out
an alleged agreement to secure him a
federal office paying at least 100000 a
year. :, ..-..-e -
In letter to the attorney general,
Anderson makes some remarkable state
ments about the distribution of federal
patronage in North Carolina. He brings
out that State Chairman Rollins is
the son-in-law of Judge Pritchard and
asserts that more than fifty relatives
by blood or marriage Of Judge Pritch-
ard and Chairman Rollins are holding
federal offices. 50. ;, -
The republican party in North Car
DINA, he asserts, has degenerated into
family affair and the organization is
maintained only for the purpose Of get
ting federal patronage for family con
noCtlOnS .r'. y -. .'". IN"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
RICH KIN MoURNED
But POOR SCORNED
Aston Evicted, the Astors Are Adj
amant; Aston Widowed, the
Astors Exhibit Mourning.

New York. Dec. 2s.-After vain APP
Jacob Astor, to lend him $40 to pay
his rent, Carl Frederick Astor, with
his family, was compelled to move yes
terday from a dismal tenement in
East One Hundred and Twenty ninth
street. Lack Of work, sickness and
other misfortunes finally reduced the
family to such financial straits that
they could not pay their rent, and they
were forced to, go away. The only
remained Of their furniture and seek
the home of friends until the father
can obtain work.
Carl Frederick Astor is past 40 years
old. He inherited a small estate in
Waldorf, Germany, the ancient home of
the New York Astors, but it was con-
fscated when he came to this country
years ago to escape military service.
Aston has papers which, he asserts,
proved his relationship to the Astor
family in this city.
Waldorf in 1868 Felix Astor, leaving
two sons-Jacob and George Peter.
Jacob is the founder Of the family of
rich Astors, he says, while the line of
poor Astors runs back to George Peter
Carl Frederick Astor is an intelligent
German, who, in the deep lines Of his
face, shows the strife and sorrow of a
hard fight to obtain a Few pennies to
support his family.
Death Stops Ball.
Society folks were dismayed today by
the receipt of recalls of the invitations
to Mrs. Astor's annual ball, which was
to be held in January, in tho towI
house, Fifth avenue and Sixty-fftf
street. Owing to the death of George
Ogilvie-Haig of London who married
Augusta Astor, Mrs. Astor IS daughter
the ball has been postponed. After {
six weeks period of mourning, prob
ably late in February, Mrs. Astor vii
entertain in her accustomed way.
The death Of the millionaire distillel
will also prevent Mrs. Orme Wilson I
| annual dinner dance. Mrs. John Jacob
-Astor was to entertain with a small
dance" Jan. 10. but her cards hav'
been recalled.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
INSANE If Gull TY.
SAY THE DOCTORS.
Medical Men Testify as to Mrs. Bren-
mans Condition--Case viii Go
to Jury Saturday.

For additional details Of the Brennan
trial see page 5.
Is Mrs. Stella Brennan. insane or is
she innocent of the murder Of her three
little stepchildren9
That, is the question that twelve men
will have to decide day after t0mor
row. That is the question that remains
paramount after the testimony has all
been introduced. It is the question
suggested by the defense and the one
toward the answering of which their
evidence was directed today in their
last efort,to save the ACCUSED.
Up to today the defendant wit
nesses have testified to facts intended
to break down the states case and to
lay the crime upon some unknown and
Cary marshaled his heavy artillery and
with his medical experts made his last
attack upon the case so carefully con-
structed by the state.
Medical Experts Testimony.
Drs. U. g. Williams, William Bart
lett and E. j. Clark were sworn in turn
and testified, first, that Mrs. Brennan
is and was in delicate condition /;
second, that if she committed the
crime of which she is accused she was,
Al tAO1I Oplu1ou, 1uSduo. vi IUSS-cA-
animation, however, each Of the ex-
perts testified that she is sane now,
that she now knows the difference be.
tween right and wrong and that she
may have known the difference when
she committed the crime.
Do you assume that the defendant
did murder these children?" asked Mr.
Smith Of DR.. Clark.
eyes,
! Mr.. Cary made strong objection tc
Mr.. Smiths question after it had beer
answered. He imputed trickery on the
part Of the county attorney, and wher
overruled by the court he became I'm
pudent and was finally severely repri
handed. M: Cary's excitement occa
stoned considerable interest and con
veyed the impression that he had beer
touched in very tender spot, and thai
the defense had practically given VI
trying to prove Mrs. Brennan innocen
in seeking to prove her insane, but dit
not want the jury or the public to re
alize their precarious position.
Smith Won't Reply.
Mr.. Smith stated at noon that
would not dignify-the insanity theor
Of the defense by putting on his insa1
ity experts altho two Of the three wer
/ in court and have been for the past tw
days.
i Just before. the noon recess Mr.. Car
stated that as attorney for the defend
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ara vi company was instantly eSIaD-
lished.
Monopoly's Cornerstone.
Railroad rebates, illegal discrimina
.tions and unjust favoring of the large
shipper as against the smaller one are,
therefore, the cornerstone Of the Stand
ards monopoly of the oil business. This
fact will be the principal one brought
viii vii show, not in the published report,
but in the secret one submitted to the
president for his guidance, that the sys-
tenn Of railroad rebates continues to
this day practically as it was estab-
lished in Cleveland about thirty five
years ago.
The Investigations Of the government
experts show that from practical
Of oil is shipped anywhere in the United
States without the Standard Oil COM
pany being given the benefit Of dis
criminatory rates.
In many places today, unfortunately
for the public, the Standard Oil COM
pany is the only shipper. In such cases
rebates are not necessary. 1t there IS
only one shipper and if he have infu-
ence enough. with the railroads, all they
have to do is to publish low rate for
oil. Then there is no rebate, no dis
elimination. no possible chance for gov
eminent interference.
Oil Taint on Railroad.
In more than one instance agents Of
the government have worked on the
relations between the Standard Oil COM
pany and some particular road at a
great shipping point. They have dis
/ covered that Standard Oil money con-
trolls the railroad. They have found
| that men who are pecuniarily interested
in some subsidiary Standard Oil com
pany have also been stockholders in the
railroad.
] Above ground and below it the Stand.
lard Oil company seems to have been
able to control transportation rates
turnout the country, and this will be the
4 principal feature Of the report that
4 will be submitted to President Roose
welt by Commissioner Garfield before
j the last snow melts.
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his first start in defiance Of the oppo-
sition Of refners in New York, Pitts
burg and the oil cities. 1t was under
his direction that Cleveland at that
time became the greatest center of oil
refining in the country.
One Road Against Another.
He probably never would have sue
ceeded in distancing all his competitors,
however, and he certainly never would
have progressed to the point Of organic
ing the Standard Oil company if he had
not learned che artful secret Of playing
off one railroad corporation against an
other. The scene of his operations was
at Cleveland, which was on the Lake
Shore railroad, and which, Of course,
was dependent on the Vanderbilt sys-
tenn for it's outlet to the seaboard The
New York Central and Pennsylvania
were engaged in fierce struggle for
trade in the newly developed oil regions
in the embryonic days Immediately
after the civil war.
RI was the financial genius Of John D.
Rockefeller which evolved the principle
that there should besa sliding scale OF
rebates. That is to say, he insisted that
the biggest shipper should have the
biggest discount, and when he had once
peTsuaded the railroads to agree to this
principle, the supremacy Of the Stand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
OIL OCTOPUS TRAIL LEADS
THRU MANY RAILROAD DOORS
Government Seuhs Find Standard Oil Monopoly Buded on
Rebates, with Railroads All Over the Country
Liable to Prosecution.

Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Dec. 2S.-Raymond, in a
Philadelphia special to the Chicago,
Tribune, says:
At the outset of the investigation
into the operations of the Standard Oil
United States government, there. was
discovered, of course, an intimate
relationship between the production and
Transportation, both Of the crude and
finished product. The Standard Oil
company could not live day in oppo-
sition to any independent concern which
would spring UP, if it were not Tor It's
practical control of the transportation
business.
The control dates back a long way,
and is practically coincident with the
day when John D. Rockefeller Of C!eve-
land, after doing profitable business
in company with Mr.. Andrews, the
mechanical genius who developed the
oil business, organized the Standard VI
company and began to control the out
put Of America. Ownership, OF pipe
finally ownership of railroads them
selves have made the Standard Oil com.
pany what it is today, the greatest
monopoly and the most dangerous plu-
tocratic agency in the world.
Must Stop Rebates.
This is the fact which was first
brought to the attention of the govern
ment agents and they have been led te
see that an attack on the Standard Oil
! company cannot hope for success unless
/ at the same time, almost every rallroac
/ line in the country is brought to book
and made to see that a rebate to the
| Rockefeller combination is just as lille
gal as cut rate to the Colorado Fue
& Iron company or any other corpora
ton.
The Investigations of the department
] Of commerce and labor have led in thu
direction Of uncovering a gigantic sys
! tenn of railroad rebates which has beer
built up in almost every city OF tn
United States. This is but q continu
ance Of the original policy Of the Stand
ard Oil company.
John D. Rockefeller went into tn
business Of refining oil in Clevelan'
more than a generation ago. He mad
rs s.
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ant he invited the state IS medical ex-
perts to examine the defendant to de-
termine her condition. Drs. j. G. Litz-
enberg and Alb. Gates made the exami-
nation.
This afternoon DR.. Williams, recalled
to the stand by the defense, corrobor-
ated the other medical experts .of the
defense as to Mrs. Brennan s insanity
1t she committed the murder. A Mr..
Burr was then called and testified that
there was no moss of any consequence
upon the room. of the Brennan shed.
With that the defense rested.
On rebuttal the state will call the
doctors, who will probably testify that
Mrs. Brennan may be in a delicate con-
dition, but that they are unable to
state ba sR Pesst no5yn They will Ea probably probably
This testimony will be followed by that
of Detective Edward Helm, who will
testify to conversations with James
Brennan had after the murder, b
which the husband of the defendant
told the detective that his wife was
jealous Of the children and had tried
to have him put them out Of the way.
Tommy Will Be Called.
| Tommy Brennan, the state g star wit
ness and the stepson alleged to have
| been shot thru the face by the defend
ant, will be recalled as the states last
witness. The little fellow will deny
1 his fathers statement that the boy told
him at the hospital that he was sure
that his stepnother did not shoot him
and will testify that he told his father
1 that he was not sure whether or not
his mother shot him.
| Arguments will be begun tomorrow
morning, and the case will probably go
| to the jury about Saturday noon.
With the trial drawing to close, the
defendant does not change in the least.
She sat this morning and listened with
perfect equanimity to- the doctors who
said that she was probably insane when
she shot the children, if she shot them.
She showed no signs Of caring whether
she was insane or not.
The crowds are increasing and q
double line extended this noon from
the head Of the stairs on the third
floor downstairs and around to the
Fourth street elevator on the second
floor,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
MUSIC AWAKENS
CARNEGIE DAILY
Pipe Organs Notes Rouse the
Laird of Skibo from His
SAUNDERS.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
New York, Dec. 2S.-Andrew Carne-
gle is awakened every morning by mu-
sic. Just as the clock strikes 8 each
day, the first notes Of "Lead, Kindly
Light" or "Silent Night" his two
favorites, roll out Of the pipes of an
immense organ in his home in Fifth
avenue, rousing the steel king for the
day and starting the machinery of the
household to work.
Whether Mr.. Carnegie wakens whom
the first bars are played or whether he
is gradually reused from slumber, de-
ponds, he says, on how tired he is. At
any rate, he believes in being brought
back to CONSCIOUSNESS by the music Of
some hymn he loves, SO that the first
thoughts will be restful, soothing and
give him inspiration for the day.
The instrument is played by Walter
G. Gale, organist Of the Broadway tab
ernacle, every morning, Sunday in
cluded.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
NO MONEY FROM HERE
Minneapolis Bankers Have Too Good a
Demand at Home.


Notwithstanding the high rate for
call loans money, in, New. York, which
the Minneapolis bankers do not thoroly
understand, by the way, the local
banks are not sending down surplus to
reap the advantage of the high returns
prevalent there on short investment.
The demand is too good at home.
It is questionable whether banks
would make anything by sending funds
to correspondents for investment. The
loans for which the high rates are be-
ing paid are overnight. borrowings on
squeeze trades, as a rule. The broker
must have the money and must pay
for it. The money is returned the next
day to wait for another call, and it
may wait some time. The loans are not
really available for bank purposes, and
it is a question whether the correspon-
dents would pay the Minneapolis banks
more than the regular price Of mone'.
The situation does not mean that a
regular broker must pay the enormous
rates for his regular loans, but the
caught-short' brokers, who must GOV.
er, are the oass who are suffering.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
RATS! TOO FORMAL"
He WROTE IN WILL

Washington, Dec. 2s.-Elphonso
Youngs, proprietor Of one Of the largest
retail grocery stores here, died several
days ago and his will was offered for
probate today.
Under the first paragraph, which be-
gan "Calling to mind the uncertainty
of human life. etc., Mr.. Youngs wrote:
"Rats! This is too formal. All
there is about it is this. At my death
wife, Amelia Loretta L. Youngs, to
have and control everything possess.
Whatever remains of the estate after
the death Of Mrs. Youngs is to 90 to
Elphonso Youngs, Jr., a son Of the
testator.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
SNELLING'S STATION
DECISION IS DEFERRED
By w. w, Jermane.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The papers in
the controversy between the Twin City
Rapid Transit company and Colonel
Sweet, commander Of Fort Smelling,
over the location Of the waiting room
at the end Of the trolley line in the
reservation, are before General Oliver,
assistant secretary of war. He an
nounced today that he would not take
any action until after the holidays, as
Representatives Stevens and Fletcher
have asked to be heard on the matter
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
WHERE ROCKEFEI.LER
GETS HIS MILLIONS

Washington, Dec. 28.-The
United States supplied more than
one-half of the petroleum produced
in the world in 1904. A statement
of the worlds production Of pc
troleum, prepared by the British
board of trade. which has just
reached the bureau of statistics Of
the department of commerce and
and labor, puts the petroleum pro-
duction Of the world in 1904 at
9,303,000,00Q gallons, of which
4,916, 100000 gallons were produced
in the United States.
The WORLD production for 1904
breaks all records.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
MOSCOW BATTLE-BATTERED :.
Populace the Chief Sufferers from Com
bats in Streets.

Moscow, Wednesday, Dec 27, 6 pm.
The backbone of the insurrection IS
broken and the uprising here is rapidly
going to pieces. The psychologists are
able to keep up only a guerrilla war
place renders the task Of suppressing
them slow and tedious.
The Brunnaia quarter has been
cleared Of the members Of the Dru,
jina,'' as the fighting Organization of
the revolutionists is called. They have
transferred their operations to, East
Tverskiaia, consisting principally OF
sionally throwing "a bomb on advancing
patrols, and making off on the appear
ance Of artillery.
All the troops of the Moscow garri-
son, including the former disaffected
Rostoff grenadiers and the reinforce
ments which are employed in crushing
the revolutionists, are still insufficient
to .thoroly occupy the territory won
thus enabling the. evolutionists to slip
into vacated territory SO soon as the
troops move on. ii 1850.
Many Of the attacks on patrols are
seemingly made out of a pure spirit of
bravado, since they are completely flu.
tile from strategic standpoint. The
remnants Of the ssiiSil|surrectio now lack
cohesion on q 81 Z 5s.
Like a Ksatlefeld.
The city of Moscow bears the pic.
turesque appearance of battlefield.
Officers are everywhere seen galloping
thru the streets or being driven about
in rapidly moving sleighs accompanied
by escorts Of dragons or Cossacks.s
The, center of the city for the first
time today showed signs of life. The
; stores were reopened and the inhabi
tants, who had been cooped up for five
days, were venturing out for breath
Of fresh air.
The troops began operations Thu
morning at the triumphal arch, bonn
harding and demoishing an immens'
barricade near the car stables of tn
Belgian company, which had been bull
behind overturned tram cars. Thence
slowly pivoting from the arch, the col
umns swept eastward, clearing all tn
streets off Tverskiaia and north of thu
boulevard which separated the battle
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28

st. Petersburg, Dec. %, 500 pm. -
government have completely over
turned the plans of the reyolutionists
in St. Petersburg. Practically all the
leaders have been arrested. The few
who are at liberty are in hiding. fhe
police believe they have captured most
Of the store of rifles and receivers and
those in actual possession of strikers
and rvolutionists whose lodgings were
searched last night. Wherever arms
were found, the owners were arrested.
Nevertheless, the LADDERS from their
hiding places still continue to assure
their followers that all goes well.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
1920 ACRES WITHDRAWN.

Washington, Dec. 28.-Withdrawals
from public entry and settlement of 49,
2SO acres of land in Washington were
ordered by the general land office today.
The Withdrawals are thirteen townships
in the Walla WalIa and nineteen towns
ships in the North Yakima districts, and
are made for irrigation projects.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
RUSSIAN OFFICER GOES HOME.

San Francisco. Dec. 2S.-Captain John Over
pensky who was in command of the Russian
battleshtp Poltaya in Port Arthur during the
recent war with Japan, arrived here today on the
liner Coptic. When the Poltava was finally sunk
on Nov. %, Of last year, by Japanese shells.
Captain Overpensky was taken prisoner and
on his way to st. Petersburg.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
WALTER 3. HILL DEAD.

Athens, Ca, Dec. 2s.-Walter B. Hill,
chancellor of the University of Georgia,
died today of pneumonia. He was born
in Talbotton, Ca, Sept. 9, 1851. He was
trustee of Vanderbilt university and
member of the Georgia Bar associa :
ton.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
SANTA CLAUS JESTS
st. Nick Plays a Prank on an Ousted
Federal Official.
ial to The Journal,

Omaha, Dec. 2S.-United States Dis
trict Attorney Baxter, who was dis
day, received on Christmas morning a
set of Roosevelt s books as gift from
a friend
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or LNNOCEN7S
MARKS MOSCOW CONFLICT
BATTLES RAGE In
KREMLlN' SHADOW
Crowds Moved Down in Combats
While Troops Gain supre-
macy Over Reds.

Moscow, Dec. 28.--There was artil-
lery firing in Sadovia street today.
The shops in the main streets are
open.