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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
LAW ON CREDIT SALES
THE SUPREME COURT MAKES A
DECISION OF INTEREST TO IN
sTALLMENT DEALERS.

The case Of Fannie G.. Lane, plain-
tiff against j. W. Dreger, defendant,
and the Metropolitan Music company.
intervenor, recently decided by the SUI
preme court is of more than passing in
terest, for it establishes the fact that
a vendor can not be deprived of the
title to property sold, by mere negli-
gence In the manner of dealing, and
that the title will not pass to Vendee
unless the vendor intends it to.
The music company sold Fannie G..
Lane. prior to her marriage, a piano
upon a conditional sale contract, by the
terms of which the title remained in the
company, until the contract, which was
payable in installments, should be fully
paid. Later she married G. M. Lane.
and he gave his contract in substitution
and renewal of a balance due upon the
contract previously given by his wife to
the company. Mrs. Lane IS contract
was thereupon Cancelled and returned to
her. .
Upon failure of her husband to nav
the new contract according to its terms,
the company sought to recover the
piano by replevin suit, and in the
municipal court, before Judge Holt, a
judgment was rendered in favor
| of Mrs. Lane, upon the contention
that the acceptance by the company
lof her husband s contract was a pay
ment Of her debt, and that the title to
the instrument passed to her by such
cancellation.
A motion was then made by Stevens
& Stevens, attorneys for the music COM
the verdict. and the motion being de.
MED, an appeal was taken to the SUI.
preme court where the trial court iudg.
ment was reversed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
THE MAGAZINES

Thomas Lawson Replies to Norman
Hapgood.-ColIier's for May. 20 contains
Thomas w. LaWson's reply to Norman
Hapgood's previous article on '.How
Much Of a Liar Is Lawson?" Mr.. Law
sons reply is characterized by that pic
turesqueness Of style for which the foe
of "frenzied finance has become ia
NOUS. Concerning the motives which led
Mr.. Hapgood to write his article, Mr..
Lawson says:
We are all prone to seek for some motive of
self-interest revenge the aninus of a
personal attack. 1t has been suggested to me
by who have followed Mr.. Hapgood's in
dustrieus career that his attempt at my assas-
sination was, inspired by desire to further a
perverted but well-known and rather ludicrous
ambition which obsesses him for social recogni-
ton among the notorious fubstocracy of New
York. In fact, these observers dub him "the
fercest climber record,' and declare that
his attack on myself has been the most sue
cessful bid he has yet made for Fifth avenue 8
approval, and that the vested interests are
now vying with one another in inviting him
to dinner. I decline to credit this explana-
ton, but prefer to believe that man to whom
am devoting much of my time Is rather
a constituencies liar than vulgar panderer to
the passions Of the tribe of Croesus.
This is much as tho Mr.. Hapgood had
said, you're a liar and Mr.. Lawson had
replied, you're another Mr.. Hapgood,
by the way, is given space in the same
number Of Golfers for a reply to Mr..
Lawson 4arfs 4ra
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
Monday Evening,


raised as to whether they have or have
not made certain statements; and it
seems as if it were all the more import
ant that members Of the faculty should
be entirely free from criticism on that
score when they are dealing with stu
dents who are punished, and deserve
punishment, for dishonorable business
methods.
In other words, we should feel hap
pier about it if the members of the fac-
ulty had either stood by their original
proposition, if they were right, or, if
they were wrong, had frankly con
fessed error and not tried to make it
appear that a construction had been
placed upon their language which it
would not bear-language which is ca
pable of Interpretation by the public
and cannot in our Judgment be con-
strued as they have undertaken in their
second statement to construe it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
Wonderland-Many Sunday Visitors.

If the street railway makes good it's
assurance of adequate facilities for NOV
ing large crowds, and the city finishes the
laying of-a sidewalk in front of Wonder
land park on East Lake street, there
would seem to be no unsurmountable OBJ
stacle to prevent the park from opening
it's season next Saturday in almost COM
plete readiness.
While there is much work to be done in
the way of preparation this week, the
force Of 800 men at work will accomplish
wonders. All material and amusement
apparatus has: arrived except the cables
and cars for the airship swing, and these
are on the way.
There was steady stream Of visitors
yesterday from to pm, and something
like $4,000 made the rounds Of 1.-The Bow
ery,' in response to the announcement
that the grounds would be open for public
inspection. Vs. ice. - ,u-.,...
AS there were also big crowds at the
ball game and Mnnehaha Falls, the Min
nehaha avenue cars were much over
crowded. AS the street railway company
has promised, however, to have the cars
reaching Lake street on Hennepin, First
Fourth, Eighth and Cedar avenues, run
direct TO the park, this overcroWding will
be obviated in future.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
BiJou-"The James Boys in Missouri.

The flavor OF gunpowder, jackboots,
flannel shirts, bloodshed and burlesque
hangs thick and heavy about 1.-THE James
Boys in Missouri at the Bijou this week.
When compared with the common belief
and generally acknowledged reputation
OF the James boys, the melodrama has
the report Of a legislative committee on
a timber steal beat a mile for WhiteWash
literally applied.
Yet the play is interesting and excit-
ing as a whole, and occasionally extreme
ly funny on account of the blackface
work Of w. E. Belts and Blanche Holt.
The James boys are pictured as the vic
Tins Of spite work and not bloody ruff
fans, Indifferent Of the lives and covet-
Gus of the property Of others. Jack Bent
ley and Bob Ford are painted as the real
bandits, and the James boys are honest,
impulsive lads who have incurred the
enmity Of the Bentley gang. Thru it all
there is little strain of homely and gem
uine love, which sustaips the heart in
terest.
AS whole the cast is above the aver
age. Gay Enrol as Jennie Summers, the
sweetheart and wife of Jesse, is capable.
Her transition from the gay, rollicking
sweetheart lass, who sings and dances
and plays poker to the mother and wife,
is well indicated. w. e. Belts as Lige
Pumpkin, faithful and true, tho sometimes
badly scared, and Blanche Holt as Liz
Jane from Boston, his lady love and boss,
do a really funny blackface speciality and
carry their amusing work all thru the
story.
! Will Sanctchi and Howard Tremaine as
Jesse and Frank James are acceptable
and adequate. Josephine Fox as Mrs
Samuels, their mother, and William Mar
BILE, Jr,, as DR.. Samuels, are both ma.
tural and genuine. Charles Ogle as Jack
Bentley and Monte Howard as Bob Forc
do the double villain parts with some
skill.
The piece is effectively staged. The trair
robbery in the third act is realistic an6
gives the only opportunity for promiscu.
GUS '.gun plays" SO dear to the gallery
The lynching bee the scene in the cave
of the Bentley gang, the attempted arres
of the boys while rescuing their father
and mother, and the death of Jesse IL
the last act, are all effective.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
A MUSICAL GREETING
Chrlstlania Students to Be Met by Min.
neapolis Harmony.

1t is the intention of the Norwegian
SINGERS of Minneapolis to greet the
students of University of Christiania
with song on their arrival here next
Thursday morning. The students will
come in at the union station, from Eau
Claire, at 1920 am, and will be met BY
the reception committee, consisting Of
former students of University of Chris
tiania and the singers. The latter will
sing, "Sangerhilsen,' composed by Ed
ward Greig, an ardent friend of the
students chorus, to which his favorite
song was dedicated
An invitation is extended to Dovre
Singing society, the Kierulf club, the
male members of Our Savior's church
choir, the Warden Singing society. and
the recently organized Viking society,
to meet tomorrow at 3 pm at the
Northwestern Music house, 800 Nicollet
avenue, to run thru Sangerhilsen, -
which is familiar to all, and to indicate
how many voices can be counted upon
for the exercises at the railway sta.
ton. The management would be par.
ticularly grateful to the Orpheus and
Apollo societies if they would join in
the chorus. ~ -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
Homestead Contests,

Homesteaders in northern Minnesota
complain that there are land men who
are making a living by contesting
homestead claims. They have them
selves no valid claim on the land, but
file contests by the wholesale and put
poor settlers to the expense of defend
ing their claims before the land office
authorities.
Beyond a doubt hundreds of such con-
tests are filed for the sole purpose Of
exacting sum Of money from the
homesteader in settlement. Others are
prosecuted to GUST q bona -fide settler
whose proof may be insufficient, and
secure the claim for some rowing adj
venturer who will prove up and sell out
TO the speculator. A petition is to be
circulated, asking congress or the land
department. to provide some regulation
which will stop indiscriminate contests.
1t is likely that the proposed measure
will be one requiring contestant to
put up a bond, and to reimburse the
contestee for his expenses in case the
contest fails. This seems reasonable
as the presumption ought to be that
the man first filing is genuine settler
and if the contestant does not have a
clear case he has no right to bring the
contest.
Men Of Independent means do not
settle on homesteads to secure farms
The item of travelling expenses, law
yers fees and witness fees required il
contest proceeding is a burden heavier
than some of them can bear, and one
which it ought not to be SO easy to i'm
pose. It is to the public interest that
remaining homesteads be taken up ani
improved, but the danger Of having tt
fight contest is enough to deter many
poor man from the venture. Contests
ought not to be made impossible, fo1
there is found in many entries thai
should be exposed, but the contestant
ought to be willing to assume some re
sponsibility.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
Unfortunate.

In their staement issued last Satur-
day the committee Of the faculty on
students publications say "that they
have not in their report charged or in
tended to charge Byron & Willard with
graft in any Of it's forms; that mas
much as part Of their report seems to
have been misunderstood and a larger
meaning given to it than the committee
intended, they hereby withdraw entire
ly the expression which gave offense.
That expression in the original recon-
mendations was "that owing to the IT.
regular methods employed by Byron &
Willard 4 = to secure the business
of the Gopher,' etc. For this state
ment the committee now wish to sub
stitute "that by reason Of carelessness
in the matter Of the contract Byron &
Willard contributed somewhat to the
combination Of circumstances which
made it possible for O'Brien and Sains-
bury to deceive the Gopher board. -
We are quite sure from what we have
heard said about the matter that we are
not alone in q feeling of regret that
LuO oO1uul1LtCO oAoulI AtSO OAP1C SSCO
itself in it's second statement as it did.
People who understand the English
language have difficulty in reconciling
the two statements. There can hardly
have been any misunderstanding or
any other meaning given to the original
statement than that the committee
meant what they said-namely, that ir-
regular methods had been employed by
Byron G. Willard to secure the business
of the Gopher. If the committee found
afterward that they had been misin-
formed and nlisled by the statements of
the students involved, it would have
been quite the proper thing for them to
say So, and that would have been a
very different thing from undertaking
to make it appear that when they said
Byron & Willard "employed irregular
methods to secure the business Of the
Gopher they simply meant that they
were guilty Of "carelessness so as to
contribute to combination of circum.
stances that made it possible for
O'Brien and Salisbury to deceive the
Gopher board.''
We are not interested in the contro-
versy between Messrs. Byron & Willard
on the one hand and the committee of
the faculty on the other. We have no
knowledge of the facts as to whether
the original statement made by the fac
ulty committee was true or not. But
we are good deal interested in having
members of our university faculty en-.
tirely free from any criticism for shut
fling and evasion when the issue is
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
Unicue-NeW Bill Today.

The headliner for this week at the
Unique theater is Frank 2. McNish, the
minstrel who originated the acrobatic
eccentric act known as "silence and
fun" McNish was last here with
Across the Pacific three years ago,
but he is best remembered as the
founder Of McNish, Johnson & Slavin
MINISTRIES, one Of the greatest organiza-
| tons Of the kind ever gotten together.
Other entertainers beginning engagements
today are: Lane and Suzinetta, cannon
ball tossers, the latter being the only
| woman performer Of this kind; Frank B
Murtha, story telling and singing come
dian; Joe Davy and Bertha PHILIPPE, char
| acter sketch artists; Hecklow and
! Wheeler, noted as high-class dancers anC
singers, and Irene Mason in illustrated
ballads. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
Prize Fighting-Aiding, ETC.

A person who within this state engages
H. instigates, aids, encourages or does
any act to further a contention or fight
without weapons between two or more
persons or a fight commonly called a. ring
or prize fight, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
This is a part of the language of the
section $685. of the Revised Statutes of
Minnesota. 1894. It was passed by the
legislature to prohibit and punish so.
called boxing matches and prize fights
and has succeeded in practically
squelching this industry in the state.
All classes Of decent citizens have &C.
one, and it is, therefore, with amaze.
ment that we read in the Tribune of
last Sunday a detailed plan to break
and nullify this law. The scheme laid
down by the Tribune is to organize a
Sunday excursion down the Mississippi
river to some unknown island and there
"enjoy life to the limit for a few hours
Of one day"
The Tribune does not leave it to be
inferred what is the character Of this
pure ctuu uuuSu1cu .lOJ. IL IS1lS uOW Iue
ring can be laid out either on the boat
or on some obscure shore, and gives
the names of lot Of bruisers whose
services can be had for the function.
There is, the Tribune complains, {
dearth Of river boats available for thu
purpose, nearly all the vessels having
been chartered away in advance BY
people who are planning. stupid picnic!
without any fight attachment. But hay
ing made an active and, no doubt, sym
pathetic canvass, the Tribune is able tt
report that there is one man who is IL
accord with this aw-breaking venture
and it calls upon some man with money
to come forward and put up enough tx
lovercome his scruples; that is, his fears
that he will be arrested and the reputa
| ton Of his boat made known to the pub
llic. If this man can be fixed and tn,
first excursion put on nicely tn,
Tribune feels sure there will be others
and the summer will be one of deliriou
joy.
Is We do not know who else is reading
/ the Tribune s misd emeanor department
|but hope that the sherifs and constable'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
TO TEACH FORESTRY
-umbermen Want to Establish Chair
sl#Ssts at Vale

Lumbermen. thru the National Lumber
Manufacturers association. are planning
to establish and endow in the forestry de.
partment of Yale university, which will
furnish instructions in the relations Of
practical forestry to the lumber industry.
Courses in forestry are offered now at
various colleges, but they deal mainly with
the relationship of forests to climate.
rainfall winds and soil, rather than from
the standpoint OF the actual production Of
lumber.
President Roosevelt, whose attention
was called to the matter by Clifford Pin
chot, chief forester of the United States
department Of agriculture, Is interested
in the venture and heartily indorses 1t.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
DIR. MONTGOMERY ILL
Overcome in Pulpit in Denver Church
.--. Will Take Rest.

Information came from Denver last
evening that DR.. J. S. Montgomery,
formerly pastor of Wesley NJ. E. church
in this city, was taken i'll at the morn
ing service at Trinity church, Denver,
yesterday. He was overcome at the
conclusion Of his sermon an was taken
to his home in an ambulance.
Some time ago it was announced that
the high altitude of Denver did not
agree with Dr.. Montgomery and that
he might be obliged to give up his pas
torate at Trinity. 1t is thought that
be will seek a short rest at a lower
altitude before attempting to continue
his work. A dispatch from Denver to.
day reports the patient as much i'm
proved. .-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
TO TALK PAPER
E. l.. Mcclellan Leaves to Attend the
Conference at Niagara.

F. L. Mcclellan, of the Mcclellan
Paper company, has gone to the
urers and dealers, May %, at Niagara
Falls. It has been arranged to have a
committee representing the National
Paper Trade association and one repre-
senting the American Paper and Pulp
association meet at the Prospect house.
Mr.. Mcclellan is one of the five repre-
senting the former association. The
considerable Importance. It is to be
the first practical recognition by the
manufacturers of the paper dealer or
CARNATIONS. The dealers feel that they
are to meet with responsible men, who
are able to back any agreement that
may be made. Certain abuses have
been complained of by them and their
correction urged.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
DARK IN SOUTH AFRICA
EnaIishman Says Industrial Situation ]
Bad.

EngIIshman Says Industrial Situation Is
Bad.
South Africa is on the verge of a Pc
Rod of 'frenzied finance according to
the opinion Of G. Stallmann Of Kidder-
master, Eng, who has just returned from
South Africa, and who is now spending a
few days in Minneapolis.
1.-THE Industrial situation is in a fearful
muddle as result Of conditions growing
out of the Boer war, he said. THE war
compelled small mine operators to sell out,
SO today the great mines are all owned
and operated by few owners who work
them on the compound system. Their en-
ployees are isolated. and compelled to buy
all supplies and provisions from mine
company stores. The cost OF living IS
vastly beyond the income Of the average
person. The rent Of an ordinary house is
25 a month. There sass great discomfort,
and financial revolution seems at
hand. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
MIR. sCRIBNER FOUND
Lawyer Whose Mind Is Affected Was
at Chaska.

David McC. Scribner, a lawyer liv-
ing at 734 E Fifteenth street, was
Ehaska, MINI. He viii be brought
back to Minneapolis and examined as
to his sanity. Mr.. Scribner's mind has
been affected for some time and he
has been under the Doctors care at
hospitals and other places. He disap-
peared a few days ago and was not
heard from until the message came
from Chaska Yesterday
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
Who Are Republicans?

; It is waste Of breath to say that re-
publicans who scratched the head of
the state ticket last fall are not repub-
licans. They were republicans then
and are republicans now, and they
voted as. they did with the best inter
ests of the republican party at heart.
1t would be unfair and unWise to dis
franchise them in the next state con-
vention, as some Of the partizans Of the
late republican nominee threaten to do.
AS shown in the news columns today, it
would make vast difference in the
makeup of the next convention if the
delegates were apportioned on the vote
for governor. Not only Hennepin, but
a score of other large counties, would
lose heavily by such a departure from
precedent, and the convention would be
the smallest the republican party has
held in number of years.
The time has gone by when it is
necessary for republican to swallow
all convention mistakes and "vote Ter
straight' in order to retain party
standing. The man who has never
scratched his ticket is curiosity and a
relic of former days. The state pri-
mary law. recognizes a mans right to
participate in party nominations when
he has H''generally. supported" it's can
didates, and the attorney general has
ruled that this applies more forcibly to
candidates for president and for con-
gress, as representing the national prin-
| ciples of the party.
| Delegates have been apportioned for
years past on the presidential vote.
There is no good reason why this should
be changed. It is true that many dem
ocrats voted for Roosevelt last fall, but
they were to be found in every county
Of the state, and no injustice would be
done by counting their votes. If the
Roosevelt vote would make the conven.
ton too large, then the committee can
take a different ratio. In 1900 many
democrats voted for Mckinley. The
Van SAINT plurality fell $4,000 below
that scored by the president, and the
Van SAINT vote has never been take1
as the basis. The Mckinley vote rep
resented the full party strength, and il
has been used in three state conven
tions as the basis of apportionment. L
Roosevelt less of republican than nj:
lamented predecessor Must the Dunn
shibboleth be revived to divide the par
ty in 1906? If the Dunn vote is to be
the test, then republicans are a minor
ity party in Minnesota.
The broadcast minds in Minnesota re
publicanism, whether they did or die
not accept the nominee for COVE :no1
last year, are now anxious for concerted
effort and harmony. It will be hare
enough to bring about, with the tendeil
cy to a local fight in each town ant
county on the lines drawn last year. ::
the state central committee wishes t.
j. perpetuate the old factions, it will car
~ out the program Of punishment 70
counties where the scratching was mos
emphatic. Counties like Nicollet an
Otter Tail, which voted with the win
ming faction in the state convention
will be hit just as hard as Hennepin.
The state committee will do wisely t.
let bygones be bygones. *..<. r..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-22
GOOD NINTH STREET SALE
A. 8. Latham Buys Third Avenue Cor
ner of Flats.

Elmer e. Kelly, manager for Crowell &
Croker, has sold to A. B. Latham; the
builder, the Ninth street property known
as the old Smith homestead The con-
sideration. was $4,000. The ground di-
mansions are SO feet on Ninth street by
IS on Third avenue S, being the north
east corner. This is one of the most de-
sirable sites in the city for an apartment
building, being only one block removed
from Hampshire Arms and in district
that is rapidly being covered by fiat and
apartment buildings.
Mr.. Kelly's sale follows those Of other
real estate men recorded last week, and
Is the third important transfer of prop
erty In this vicinity within fortnight.
Mr.. Latham will eventually erect an
apartment building. but the old house will
be allowed to stand, possibly until next
year.