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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

denying my charges, attacking my
character, all at the expense OF your
policy holders and without their APP
prevail.
You employed James M. Beck, ex-
Assistant Attorney General Of the
United States, then and now chief at
torney for. Henry H. Rogers, the Stand
ard Oil Company, the 'sSystem' and
the Mutual Life Insurance Company,
to ridicule my utterances and asperse
my honor in addresses in the cities Of
Philadelphia and Boston.
You employed James H. Eckels, ex-
Controller Of the Currency of the
United States, now president Of the
Commercial Bank and representative of
the 'System" in the West, to attack
my arguments and distort my motives
in Chicago. ~E5
You ordered Vice President Perkins
of the New York Life Insurance Com
pany to perform similar service in Phil
adelphia; and p
The burden of all these documents,
advertisements and disguised adver-
tisements and addresses was: "Lawson
is an unmitigated liar and scoundrel,
whose sole reason for attacking the in
surance companies. is that we refused
| him insurance. 49,.
Today you and your fellow plumber
ers stand convicted in the eyes of, the
world not only of Juggling the moneys
| of the widow and orphan in the stock
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pecial Correspondence.

pecial Correspondence
Duluth, Oct, 10, l9o5.-Of the ut
most Importance to the prospective
'armer is a profitable market. Owing
o the tremendous development of the
lead Of the lakes in mining, manufac-
uring and commercial enterprises of
very description, the possibilities of
agricultural expansion have not kept
)ace with the needs Of a rapidly in
reasing population whose wants must,
md are supplied from outside, which
means that the expense of transporta
ion is necessarily added to the cost of
producing. 1t will, therefore, be read
ly seen that there is not only mar
1et numerically strong, but also re-
nunerative. Land can be bought at
yery, reasonable prices and the soil in
he county is exceedingly fertile. The
beginner not burdened with over-much
.apital has the best of chance in carv-
ng out for himself home that will
prove splendid competence for himself
md family Many Of the tracts Of
and for sale contain more pine and
hardwood than the purchasing price of
he land, and besides supplying timber
,or building and fuel in abundance, q
state Of affairs not encountered in prai-
lie countries. The extraordinary pro-
luctiveness of such lands is the natural
:esult of years and years of decaying
caves and vegetable matter that, in
The course of time, formed the rich top
,oil, requiring no artificial fertilizer for
many years to come, another condition
lot prevailing in prairie locations
where, after year or two without
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21

market, but Of manipulating these trust
funds for the benefit of your own
pockets.
x Notwithstanding the turpi-
tude already exposed to the people, you
still imagine you can SO conduct your
self as to prevent the Investigators
from fastening on you and your asso-
ciates the more desperate crimes that
have been committed in the past-the
$50 to 200 million stolen and diverted
or used in corruption.
But you have mistaken the tempers
Of your countrymen.
I have been authorized in writing by
over 10000 policy holders, carrying over
ifty-follr millions of insurance. to act
for them.
I had intended to await the finish of
the New York investigation before pro-
ceeding, but as I have had placed in
my hands during the past few days evil
dences Of the determination Of your
self and your accomplices and fellow
conspirators to face it out regardless Of
consequences, and as [ believe men
capable of committing the acts that
have been proved during the past few
days fully capable of taking the trans
portable part Of the billion and quar-
ter funds to foreign countries, and
using them to keep themselves from
their Justly deserved punishments, I
have decided to act now. -
. a Thomas w. Lawson. j
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Making a Minnesota Farm
p c. w. HASTINGS.

I settled in St. Louis county in 1887.
+ found a homesteader who was badly
discouraged. He had cleared about
three acres, and on this had crop of
potatoes and garden stuff growing. AL
tho T had but 800 I was able to- Sc
cure these $50 acres and get little
start. Of course had hard time be-
cause of shortage of money, but there
was much in the country to give me en-
couragement. Myself and family got
most of our living from the fish in the
lakes and game in the woods. In early
spring we made maple syrup and sugar,
which always sells well. It is a crop
which can be gathered when nothing
else can be done. u. .,,s=.s.--1 sEg
Myself and family went to work en-
Enthusiastically and we now own over
400 acres of land and are entirely out
Of debt. I cultivate about seventy
acres, raising sufficient grain for my
ten hogs, twenty head of cattle and 100
head Of sheep, with occasionally some
thing to sell. Oats grow well here,
averaging fifty bushels to the acre,
while all garden vegetables grow in
abundance.
I find my most profitable. crop is hay.
It seems to be always in demand. we
are so near the great mining sections
and Duluth that we never have any
trouble in getting rid of what we want
to sell. My hay is mixture OF clover
and timothy, which averages about
two tons to the acre, and in my expert
ence has never failed. It is harvested
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Duluth, Minnesota
Offers the Greatest Opportunities for Farmers

heavy expense for fertilizers, but
meager crops result. Here are innu
merable streams and lakes, insuring
ant supply of fish for the table. The
forest. abounds in game Of every de-
scription, affording recreation and fine
pressing. Here all conditions for the
stead are successfully met: reasonable
lands, abundant wood and water, fish
and game, fertile soil, fine and invig-
Grating climate, unsurpassed market at
the very door, and full returns for your
produce, instead Of mere share, as is
always the case where in order to reach
the market, the transportation expenses
are greater than the profit of the pro-
Queer. The noted Jean du Luth stock
farm is a magnificent example of what
can be accomplished in few years
in the raising of stock, and proves that
in this field as well success awaits the
willing hand, coupled with intelligence,
perseverance and the love of work. The
toiler in the city, aside from the fact
of the less healthful work, seldom gains
independence, for most of them live
but from hand to mouth. The farmer,
on the other hand, adds to his pos
sessions, for he labors on his own land
and adds to it's wealth. Apart from
profit and wealth. there is a satisfac-
ton in being ones own master that
| nothing can REIN burse. He that owns
a farm in the right place is a king
in his own kingdom, the freest mortal
in creation, earning the full wage OF
| his own endeavOr.f .s
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% John A. Mccall, President New
York Life Insurance Co.

Sir: It is time your attention was
llled to the moral sense of the Ameri-
IN people = 1t is time you
ere shown yourself as you are today
en- by the millions of your countrymen,
no, month ago, believed you to be a
reat and honorable man.. -. - -.
In spite of the terrible exposures of
lie past few weeks, in spite
e the unwilling of the iugglery, graft
C,g and corruption of your administra-
Con of the most sacred trust that can
ae confided to man, you remain uncon-
lnced of your fall and unprecedented
NJ your shame, y: forgetting
Lat The enemy against whom your man
a1lvers were directed was the American
Leople, and that your charac-
Or and reputation were as absolutely
lefore the bar as though you had been
pdicted for sequestration of the funds
e some dead friends wife.
You have made yourself the custodian
{ these funds under sacred pledge of
luare dealing and honest administra-
ON. You have made yourself the ma
Ional executor of the widow
I'D the orphan; n Hundreds Of
-Aillions of dollars have been confded
you annually-scores of millions of
lie nation have been turned into your
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7 Timber and Mineral
Wealth Unsurpassed
North Star State Is Rich in the
> Essentials of Modern
Industry. 49,.
Vast Areas Of Forest Remain TN:
touched, and the Ground
-. b.. Holds Vast Stores. - =

AS a field for the enterprise of the
lumberman Minnesota offers unsur-
passed opportunities, notwithstanding
the fact that the pine forests that
once covered thousands Of acres in the
central and more southerly portion Of
the northern counties, have been cut
and removed. There still remains large
areas Of forests which the, woodman s
ak has not yet touched and which has
been made accessible during the past
few years by the construction Of ,ex-
tensions Of existing lines Of railroad,
which now cross and intersect every
county in the state.
The rapid development of the state
has wrought revolution in the lumber
ing industry. Formerly the lumberman
was forced to depend upon the rivers
portating his logs to market and the
sawmill. The price Of lumber was low,
and even where railroad facilities were
available the cost of rail transporta-
ton was so much greater than the cost
of rafting that it was seldom that the
railroads were used to haul logs any dis
lance The result was that large bodies
of timber remote from logging streams
! were perforce left untouched, as the
| difficulty and expense of transporting
the logs was too great to be profitably
undertaken.
Railroad construction has now
reached these more remote tlmbered
areas, touching them at a hundred diff
ferent points, and where once it was
the exception it has now become the
rule to transport logs and lumber by
rail. Logs are now hauled very gener-
ally over logging roads to a main line
of railroad and thence, not infrequent-
fly, for one or two hundred miles either
directly to the sawmill or to the ban Ks
of the Mississippi or other Of the larger
streams, whence they are hoated to the
mills. The large sawmills, too, are fol
/ lowing the receding, timber line, ad
vancing further north as the timber is
removed. There are immense mills on
the shores Of Bemidji, Cass and Leecf
lakes, in the Rainy river region, anc
along the st. Louis river, the magn1h
cent waterpowers of these localities be
} ing used to good advantage. Many
smaller mills have also been esta blishec
turnout the northeastern counties. The
opportunities for such industries are in
Vulnerable and the field for such enter
E.prises will not be filled for many years
) E small mill established at almost an
| point in the northern counties OF Min
tnesota will find ample material to WOrl
upon, and it's output will not keep III
with the local demand, SO rapidly j
!, Qisettlement advancing.
: Following the large numbering opera
tions has come the pulp and paper in
dustry. Northern Minnesota abound
in valuable waterpoWers which for in
Z dustrial purposes are only. now begin
= ming to receive the attention they de
. serve. Pulp and paper mills ar
t being established at desirable points
e notably at International Falls on Rain.
t river, on the Mississippi river at Gran
Rapids and Little Falls, and the 81
ILeuis and Cloquet rivers and elsewhere
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Saturday Evening,
An Open Letter to John A. Mccall
President New York Life Insurance Company


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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
STATE LAND SALES
Grea. Opportunity to Secure Homes.
At the following times and places 1 will
hold sales of school and other state land:

Acres OHeFe0
Hallock. MINI. Oct. %, 1905 -. $4,000
Warren, Mimi, Oct "a. 1905. .......... 24,000
Crookston. Mimi, Oct. %, 1905 1000
Red Lake Falls. Mimi. Oct 20. 1905. 10000
Roseau Mimi, Oct. %, 1905 .......... eco
Bagley Mimi, Oct. 81 1865 ......... II, 900
Ada Mimi Nov l. 1905, .......... 24O
Fergus Falls MIMI, Nov. 2, 1906. ..... 5000
Breckenridge Mimi, Nov 3, 1906. 5000
Elbow Lake Mimi. Nov. 4. 1905. ....... 12O
Detroit. Mimi, Nov. 6, 1905. ........... 3d. 900
Wadena, Mimi, Nov. Z. 1905. ........ q, 900
Long Prairie. Mimi, Nov. 8, 1905. ...... $4,000
Pine City, Mimi, Nov. 8, 1906. ....... Il, 900
Mora. MIMI, Nov. 10. 1905. $500
Princeton, Mimi, Nov H. 1905. ....... 5000
Duluth, Mimi, Apri19, 1906. ......... ,OOO
Carlton, Mimi, April TO-, 1906. 30, 900
Aitkin Mimi, April H. 1906 80, 600,
Branerd, Mimi, April IL, 1906 ........ 10000
Walker, Mimi, April 49,, 1906 ........ %, 900
Park Rapids, Mimi, April IA, 1906. 80. 900
Bemidji, Mimi, April 16. 1905. ....... 40, coo
Grand Rapids, Mimi, April II, 1906. -. 40, 900
TERMS OF SALE.
These lands will be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder. Fifteen per cent of the
purchase price must be paid at the time of sale.
The balance may for 10 years at per cent
annual interest if desired The title to all state
land is perfect. Valuable illustrated book on
Minnesota lands free: also list of lands offered
SAMUEL G. IvERsoN,
State Auditor and Land Commissioner,
, Aug. l. 1895. ST. Paul. MIMI
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turned to commercial use, and like the
vast beds of clay, granite and building
stone which have been developed in the
central parts of the state, will ere long
become of enormous importance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
BUY ANOKA COUNTY Lar

-. q 81
OF land five miles OF broken
all
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by IS
osto the i
Has by
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Beginning year ago, Eveybody Magazine has steadily
attacked the gazed robbers Of the business until the
whole country has become keeny alive the evil which
struggling Destroy and which have been in the Of Pres
dent Roosevet's "Square Deal for Every Man."
lhs destructive until the OF widows
and orphans shall be until beef shall longer control the
food supplies; until the concentrated Of shall
be shaken of the great businesses Of country; and until
municipal and federal shall everywhere be clean
and honest
A great magazine-Everybody's for November
Mgua5 a. dealers
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.ucts of his farm, which otherwise
would be wasted. For the farmer the
wooded area of Minnesota offers adj
vantages superior to those Of any other
section of the northwest.
For the lumberman the field is large
and lucrative. There is a strong de-
mand for lumber owing to the rapid
settlement Of the land, and sawmills
are urgently needed. The pulp indus
try offers splendid opportunities for the
investor and the economical operation
of the mills is assured by utilizing the
splendid water powers now going to
waste in dozens of localities.
M Mineral Wealth.
Minnesota is not classed as mineral
state and the mining and mineral laws
applied or extended to Minnesota; but,
as a matter Of fact, Minnesota stands
first among the states of the union
as a producer of iron ore. The mines of
the Mesaba iron range, extending
from the western line Of Lake county
to the western boundary Of Itasca
county, are the most wonderful in the
world They are the most accessible,
the easiest and most economical OF
operation, and have the most extensive
deposits Of iron ore of any iron mining
| district in the world. From 1898, when
the mines were first developed, to 1904,
/ there was shipped 66,571,771 tons of
soft ore, and today they furnish
about 80 per cent of all the iron ore
consumed in the United States. The
Vermillion iron range, which lies
north of the Mesaba, has been produ-
cling iron ore of the finest quality since
1884, and while it's output is not SO
great as that Of the Mesaba range, it
4 possesses producing mines of enormous
extent and richness, from which, since
/. they were opened, about % 100000 tons
A of high-grade "hard'' ore has been
shipped.
The iron mines Of Minnesota employ
4 10000 miners. The annual output now
Eexceeds $4,000, 600 tons of ore; three
main lines of railroad are kept busy
hauling the ore from the mines to the
4 docks at Duluth and Two Farbors, ano
4 a vast fleet of 1ake-go vessels is en-
I. gagged during the navigation season IL
4 carrying the ore to the eastern con
4 sumers.
Along the northern boundary and
{. trending eastward from Lake Of the
s Woods is mineralized formation il
which gold, silver and nickel is found
. while large deposits of alunina clay
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Charles Edward Russell, in his Foeword his eloquent and
constructive Mans Struggle for Equality in
the Americans will find for the evils that bes and
hamper them old days they found for monarchcal
despotism, and again for African slavery.
Lawson helping. Russell helping Everybodys Magazine
helping Let every who has for the under-dog read what
Mr. Russell has his series beginning Eveybodys Maya
for November that he learn and think and when the
comes,
,r everybody. For everybody; that means you.
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-08

s:nia will continue 20 Now Orleans,
Lead bunker coal and after the Presi-
dent has boarded her will return tn
Key West. where the iare will start
The ships will then run with all pos
sihlc speed up the coast and end the
race off Cape Henry. 'rhe vessels
w!li come INFO the Roaas Immediately
after the race and drip anchor off
OIL Point, where President Roosevelt
WI; board the yacht MayC. Mer ami
IHo'ced on her to Washington.
1t is expected that large sums of
E.oney will be wagered Oh ne outcome
of he race AMI thousands of dollars
NIL be spent on it. Onside Of such
l. imro details as the wear Ia lie en-
9iICs and the cost Of oil. an item
which cannot be estimated closely IN
til after the race is concluded, the coal
consumption will run up to an enorm.
Gus figure. At their economic speed
CT IL knots an hour the cruisers each
coal for every knot made. When the
race is under way, with forced draught
under the furnaces. the bunkcrs will
be rapidly emptied. Conservative csti-
mates by naval officers place the cost
for the entire trip at s25.0OO for coal
alone. 1nEiAS&al- 8 1SilE5S
President RoOsevet, however is do
sirous of seeing test between the
three cruisers in speed and endurance
as he is very anxious to see for him
self just what one of the latest types
of American armorcd cruisers could
Go in case of a long running fight or
chase TT sea.
At the same time the personal inter
est taken by President, Roosevelt is
highly gratifying to the officers aud
men on the three cruisers. who ara
perhaps as anxious as the President
to ascertain Just which of the vessels
Is .he fastest.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-08
RIVALRY BETWEEN THE CRiW,
Local Built West Virginia, With the
Nations Chief Executive Aboard
Will Come to Hampton Roads From
Gulf Under Forced Draft, Accom-.
panied by the Pennsylvania and
Colorado.

When President Roosevelt return /;
from New Orleans to Hampton Road;
on the handsome local built arno.ad
cruiser West Virginia, after his south
crn tour. he will witness one of tho
greatest races between modern war
ships ever held in any navy Of The
world.
White hound np the cOas from New
Orleans. the West Virginia VII l."
net at Key West by her Craup bH:l:
sister cruisers, the Pennsylvania anil
Colorado, and the vessels will enter
nron a race of twelve hundred mile
rnier forced dramghj Great rivalry
cAi:isi among the crews of the. three
vrss els and the race VIII determine
which of the ships is the fastest. On
their .rial trips the West Ni;giniu
averaged 22,1i knots Der hour. the
Colorado, N22.33 knots, and Tho penr.
syl.ania. 22.i3 knots an uour unIcr
forced draught. Since ia. trial lha
West Virginia made ncl,:l % knot,
ever The course Off nrovincctown.
eiass., and naval men pick he as
tue winner of the naval race.
II was intended that the local bull
cruiser Maryland, sisler II the other
three ships, should par 'cipatc in the
race. but she has developed Iongi
.iidii.al split In her crank shaft and
viii be laid IN for repairs for some
time.
Tho ntire fleet will st south from
Nav York together, and lie Colorado
ana Pennsylvania VIII STOP at Key
West where they viii rcp''hish their
huDEcrs with coal. The West vir,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-08
CLIFF ROBINSON
WILL NOT APPEAL
Expected Opportunity to Test City's
Anti.Gaming Ordinance Fails
to MateraIize.

Through Attorneys Ashby anu
Scmmes, Cliff Robinson, who was re-
Gently fined $50 by Justice Brown In
the Police Court for conducting u
gaming house and noted an appeal ID
the Cooperation Court, withdrew the
appeal yesterday morning and gave
security to lay his fine in ten days.
Robinson was arrested about n
month ago on the charge of conducting
gaming house Mt 213 Twenty.sev-
cnth street and Justice Brown fines,
him $50 under the city ordinance Gov
ering fines for probrietors' of gaining
houses.
The ordinance was based upon Il
section Of the city charter, which gives
the city council the right to pass an
ordinance prohibiting gambling in the
city. Attorney 3. II. Semmes, in argu.
ing the case before Justice Brown in
the police court, commended tina. the
ordinance was not constitutional ia
that it ccnllicted with the State law.
An appeal over Justice Browns de.
cision WIS made to the Corporation
Court end it was expected that a test
of the validity of the ordnance would
be made in the case. but the appeal
was withdrawn.