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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Wheat Reserve.

From private reports received by the
Daily Market Record from correspon'
dents throughout the Northwest,
whose estimates during the past two
years have proven very close, it would
appear that some 23.2 per cent OF last
years crop Of North Dakota aud 1868
per cent Of that OF South Dakota was
in farmers hands on Feb. /, last.
The reports cover large portion OF
the wheat growing territory of tho
three states, but there arc many sec"
lions from which no reports have been
received up to date. Taking the gov
eminent estimate of last years
wheat production as basis to work
on, and which report closely agrees
with the published Market Record fig
ures on last years crop, the amount OF
wheat held by farmers Feb. 1, was:
Minnesota, 1886, O96 bushels; North
Dakota, 7,45l,0 bushels, South Da-
kota, 1921, ITO bushels. The amount
of wheat out of farmers hands and
held in interior mills and private and
country elevators, Feb. was:
Minnesota, 4,o45, $50 bushels; North
Dakota, 1,9l4,5OO bushels, and South
Dakota, 1,041, 1892 bushels, q total OF
1901 1882 bushels
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
News Notes.

Unpaid janitors at the new capitol
clean legislative halls
Anna Nelson, q seventeen-y ear-old
Salvation Army girl, attempted to end
her life at the barracks, Minneapolis,
by swallowing bottle of carbolic
acid.
State officials believe that wolves are
being raised for the sake of the state
bounty.
Tom Jenkins is nearly killed during
q row in the restaurant Oliver Ward,
cclored, in st. Paul.
Henry Feig, supervising inspector Of
country elevators, make his report
Fred NJ. Noble, convicted Of attempt
ed criminal assault on Leona Cook, IL
years old, was sentenced to; four aud
one-half years in the state prison by
Judg& Kelly of st. Paul.
The state board of pardons at spe
cial session granted pardon to Chas.
Fred, who was sentenced to ninety
days in the st. Paul workhouse on the
charge of wife eating.
Anna Brennan, pretty seventeen
year-old girl living with relatives at
1910 Ninth street south, Minneapolis,
committed suicide by drinking carbolic
acid.
The friends of the university and the
normal schools decide to stand alone
on the board of control bill.
Minnesota is formally invited to the
Lewis and Clark exposition at Port
land Ore
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LEGISLATORS SEE BRIDE.
Indiana Lawmaker Opens Envelope,
Containing 500 for Vote
Before House.

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 23.-Repre-
sentative Ananias Baker, addressing the
speaker from his seat in the Indiana
general assembly, Wednesday an
nounced that he had received a sealed
envelope which he held in his hand, with
the request that he vote against the anti
cigarette bill. Il have not opened the
:. envelope. said he. There. were many;
cries of "Open it," and Mr.. Baker tore it
open while standing at his seat. 1t con-
tanned a 500 bill.
Mr.. Baker represents Fulton and Cass
counties. His announcement of an at
tempt at bribery was made during vote
on the passage of drastic anti-cigarette
bill, when Mr. Baker arose to explain his
vote. He said the envelope had been
handed to him at his hotel, but he did
not say by whom. The bill was passed
by "a to II, and is now ready to 80 to the
governor. 1t forbids the manufacture
or sale of cigarettes in the state and for
bids anyone having them in his possess
sion.
indianapolis, Ind, Feb. "a. - The
Marion county grand jury will take up
the matter of bribery in the legislature
either at q special session to be called
at once or at the next regular meeting
time of the grand jury, one week from
next Monday.
The special investigating committee,
appointed by Speaker Sydney Cant
we'll, OF the house Of representatives,
following the declarationof Represen-
tative Ananias Baker, issued an afr
davit for the arrest of o. A. Baker, of
Marion, q former state senator, charg-
, ing him with attempting to corrupt
:. Representative, Baker. The investigat-
ing committee, with the assistance of
Attorney General Charles w. Miller,
who did the questioning, wrung from
Representative Baker the name of the
ex-state senator only after half an hour
Of persistent and cleverlys planned
questioning. Mr.. Baker said he had had
to promise the alleged briber not to d.
vulge his name in order to draw him out.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
More Seed Trains.

Three more good seed trains will be
run through the northwest shortly,
one by the 500, one by the Minneapo-
lis & st. Louis, the other by the Oma-
ha road. The 500 train will leave
Wishek, March 7. The others will
start from Minneapolis The agita-
ton for good seed has spread even be-
yond the hopes of the men who started
it. The railroads are giving men and
material to the cause and it is now Ger.
tain that in the next thirty days the
gospel of good seed will be preached to
the farmers of the northwest as never
before
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
FLAMES ON RIVER FRONT.
Big Docks and Other Property Burned
in New Orleans.

Big Docks and Other Property Burned
in New Orleans.
Death Of Edward Cooper.
New Orleans, Feb. 27.-Five million
dollars worth of property has been
swept away by fire that started at eight
o'clock Sunday night. The immense
freight terminals of the Illinois Central
have been wiped out, and it will take the
city months to recover from this STU
pendous blow to its shipping and export
trade. Fourteen squares and over so
acres of the most modern wharves and
freight sheds are in ruins, the flames ex-
tending nearly a mile along the river
front. The two largest grain elevators
in the world are piles Of smoking: ruins
and the 2, 00O, 900 bushels Of grain housed
therein practically is total loss Twen-
ty thousand bales of cotton are de-
stroyed. Several hundred thousand
packages of sugarsrepresent' q total loss.
Tons upon tons of cotton seed and oil
cake, millions Of feet of lumber, and
vast quantity of every conceivable kind
of freight are nothing but heaps of smok-
ing ashes. So rapid was the spread of
the flames that hundreds of freight cars,
the majority of them loaded, were de-
stroyed despite the efforts of engines to
draw. them outside the danger zone.
Nearly 100 small .resiaenees~aad shan
ties, mainly occupied by negroes, were
burned, In nearly every case the occu-
pants losing all they possessed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Ramie Fiber in Germanv.

desire to call attention to the grow
ing demand for ramie in the textile
industries of this country. The long.
strong and glossy fiber of this plant
serves as an admirable substitute for
fax, cotton or silk, and only it's pres
ent scarcity and cost prevent a largely
increased consumption. If, as was SO
long and earnestly insisted by the late
Prof. Waterhouse, our southern states
are specially adapted for the success
full cultivation Of this plant, it can
not be too strongly urged that expert
ments in cultivating it be more widely
extended. The raw material will find
as ready market in Europe as would
flax fiber.
HUGO MUENCII.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
A Busy Place.

The annual report of the Union De-
pot company, submitted to the ten St
Paul roads who are stockholders, by
President A. w. Trenholm, shows that
during the year just closed more BUSH
ness was done at less cost than ever
before.
Last year / 1854 locomotives and pas
senger cars went in and out of the de"
pot yards each day, 3s5, 756 during the
entire year, as against 369, se2 in 1903.
The daily average of incoming and
outgoing trains for last year is 597.
The net decrease in operating expen-
ses during the past year is estimated at
about SIG, 600. This was due in large
measure to the decreased cost OF the
maintenance of way and structures.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03

S. F.. Fullerton says the proposed law
permitting hunters to kill female
moose and caribou would mean the ex-
termination Of big game in Minnesota.
Discouraged over business reverses
Nels Bitterness of st. Hilaire, Mimi,
committed suicide at the Beaufort ho-
tel, Minneapolis, by asphyxiatton.
M. B. Campbell and Fred Grody were
arrested at St. Paul on charge ofprize
fighting.
Christ Hanson, five miles west Of
Vernon Center in the accidental dis.
charge of shotgun, blew of his left
hand and DESTROYED his left eye.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Flax Binding Irvine.

The International Harvester COM
pany is contracting with a number of
farmers in southeastern Minnesota to
grow fax the coming year and sell it
to them to be made into fax Irvine for
binding purposes, samples of which
have been shown to the farmers This
Irvine, it is represented, can be secured
about onc-half cent pound cheaper
than the prison-made sisal Irvine.
Il is claimed that the fax secured there
is better than that grown further
north in that it is more even in length.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
ExcELs IN SCIENCE
Trained bY Noted Educator Colored
Baltimorean Becomes VAL
liable Assistant. III

John w. Widgeon, scientist, is prob
ably the most interesting negro in Balti-
more. He holds position at the Mary
land academy of sciences directly under
the eye of DR.. Philip r. Uhler, which
gives him q place of distinction among
his race. He has accomplished, says
recent report, wonderful amount of
work of a scientific nature without any
other training than that given him by
DR.. Uhler, whose protoge he has been
for many years, and he is engaged at
present upon the arrangement of co.,
lection of coral which he gathered last
summer in and near Jamaica which is
said to be the best in that part of the
country.
Widgeon's life has been such an in
teresting one that at the suggestion Of
DR.. Uhler he has begun to write out
the whole of it. He is the only negro
in Maryland who has seriously attracted
the attention of scientific men,
and what he is doing now bids fair TO
make him even more widely known than
before.
Widgeon was born of slave parents on
the eastern sxore of Virginia in 1850
After the civil war he went to Baltimore
and got a position in the establish
ment of Kuhn & Cummings, photog-
raphers, where he learned a great deal
about photography. Then he went to
work for Sharp & Dohme, where he re-
NAMED 16 years. During his connec-
ton with this firm he learned a lot of
chemistry, for he was employed in the
laboratory ten years. DR.. Uhler gave
him a position as helper on one OF
his scientific corps after he left the
drug firm, and he showed such marked
ability in this line Of field work tina.
it was not long before he was sent out
on expeditions by himself to gather geo.
logical specimens for collections or for
study in the laboratory. He has been
engaged upon this sort of work for Is
years, and in that time he has got to-
gether valuable collection of fossils.
rocks, minerals, Indian relics and birds
and snakes, all of which are on exhibi-
ton at the Maryland academy of SCI
ences.
The coral collection is excellent.
Widgeon made two trips to Jamaica to
get it. He did all the work himself. He
stripped and dived for the specimens he
wanted, not bothering with the para
phernalia of regulation scientists and
divers.
DR.. Uhler say that he would not dis
pense with the services of his colored
helper for those of highly trained sci
entific man, because Widgeon, being
negro, can and is willing to do certain
kinds of work which white man would
not do.
"His endurance and patience" con-
tinued DR.. Uhler, "are unlimited, it
seems TO me, and his Indian blood, of
which he has considerable, his grand
mother having been full-blooded, gives
him the characteristic trait of wood and
field craft. He is invaluable to me and
the work he does is as complete and
thorough as could hardly get under
other circumstances"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Railway Extension.

Word is received from reliable
source that A. Guthrie & company OF
St. Paul, railroad contractors, were
awarded a contract fer extending the
Minnesota & International road to the
Big Fork river, distance OF thirty
miles this season.
The work will be pushed forward
rapidly and preparations are being
made by the contractors to get men,
teams and tools on the ground.
Northome is the present northern
terminus of the road, and Information
al Fails or Koochiching, as it is better
known, on Rainy river, is the ultimate
destination.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Poor Milk.

The state dairy and food department
announced the result of the examina-
ton of milk and cream samples taken
from diaries and stores supplying milk
in the twin cities. Out Of thirty-six
samples tested for the week ending
Feb. 10, ten were found illegal.
In two eases, rich, thick cream was
found in fact to be below the legal
limit Of 20 per cent Of butter fats and
thickened with gelatine>
This is the first of series Of bulle.
tins and most of the samples were
taken in St. Paul.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
MINNEsorA HAPPENINGS

State Art society plans q permanent
exhibition at the new capitol.
= A vaudeville performance is the holi-
day treat at the state prison.
A Representative Cole offers a bill
providing for improving state lands
Labor Commissioner Williams will
not enforce the Sunday law.
The state supreme court hands
down dcci sions in seven cases
A prisoner and his guard disappear
from Fort Smelling.
NJ. J. Wiley says that the inspection
Of Gil in Minnesota is farce.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Guilty Of 1Ganslaurhter.

New York, Feb. William McGee,
said to be the last white survivor of
the Custer massacre on the Little Big
Horn river, was found guilty Of man
slaughter in the first degree here Fri
day night and was remanded for SEN
tence. He was accused, of fatally stab
bling Frank Mitchell, his room mate,
on December 10, after a quarrel.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Curved Fronts.

ibid it ever occur to you," queried
the originator of fool remarks, that
the majority of politicians are fat
men?"
ut never did," rejoined the rapid
fire thinker, "but, now that you have
mentioned it, begin to understand
why so few of them are straight-for-
ward."-Chicago Daily News. :
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Fatally Shoots Sister.

Muncie, Ind, Feb. 23.-Rudyard
Foust, the four-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Foust, fatally shot his sister,
three years old. through the head with
revolver.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-03-03
Food for Thought.

A woman does lot of thinking try
ing to figure out whether the baby is
going to be great man or q good
MANN. Y. Press. e
The Washington times., 1905-09-12
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RY.

Trains leave Pennsylvania Station Daily
$50 p. M.-CHICAGO AND ST LOUIS SPE-
CIAI.. Solid yestibule, electric lighted
Dining Car Train to Cincinnati. with Pull
man Sleepers to Louisville. Cincinnati In
dianapolis, Chicago, and st. Louis. Par
lar Car Washington TO Virginia Hot
Spkngs week days Dining Car from
Washington
1I:lO p. MI F. V. LIMITED. Solid YES
thule. electric lighted, Dining Car train
TO Cincinnati. with Pullman Sleepers TO
Cincinnati, Lexington. and Louisville
Compartment Sleeper TO Virginia Hot
Springs daily except Sunday, Sleepers
Cincinnati 10 Chicago and ST. Louis
Dining Car
Reservation and tickets at SIS Pennsylvania
avenue; 500 Fourteenth street, near f. and
at the station Telephone 1910 for Pennsyl-
yania Cab Service H w FULLER,
Telephone Main 1866. Gen'l Passenger Agt
The Washington times., 1905-09-12
ENOEAvORERS INSTALL
OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR
Executive Committee of District of Co.
lumbia Union Held Meeting
Last Night.

The new officers sof the District of
Columbia Christian Endeavor Union
were installed at the executive COM
mlttee meeting held last night in the
MT Pleasant Congregational Church.
owen p. Kellar was in the chair. At
ter the reports had been read, Mr..
kellar introduced the new officers for
the ensuing year. They are: President.
Hermon c. Metcalf, of Gurley Memo
rial Presbyterian Church.; first vice
president, II. Clyde Grimes. of Con-
Eress Street Methodist Protestant
Church; second vice president, Joseph
H. Lee. Of Nineteenth Street Baptist
Church; third vice president, Miss
Alice NJ Meynes. of Temple Baptist
Church; recording secretary. Amos NJ
Piper, of First Presbyterian Church,
and treasurer, Edward Tarring, of New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
President MetcaH delivered a brief
address and then nominated the follow
Ing committee chairmen, who were
elected:
Lookout-Owen p. KelIar, of Calvary
Baptist Church.
missionary c. Schroeder. of First
Congregational Church
Junfor-Miss Edith v. Bradt of Gun
ton Temple Presbyterian Church.
Christian citizenship. G.. Rock
wood. of North Carolina Avenue Meth
odist Protestant Church.
Music-Miss Louise Dale Leeds of
st. Paufs English Lutheran Church.
PreSS7James NJ. Pickens of Yer
mont Avenue Christian Church.
The Washington times., 1905-09-12
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

-.ss NJ DAILY-Local for Harrfsonourr
Warrenton Danvt-e. and way staliocs
,o.H a NJ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Florida
Iimited First-class coaches and sleeper to
CoIumbia Savannah. and jacksonville. Dim
ing Car Service
NIX a M DAILY-United States Fast Man
First-class coaches and sleeper to New Or
leans Dining Car service.
x.or p M WEEK DAFS-LOcal for Harrf-
souburs aad way stations on Manassas
x.Es II. DAILY-Locai for warrenton and
-.So p NJ DAILY-New York and Atlanta
Esxnress First-class Coach TO Atlanta
SIesner TO Columbus. Ga, via Atlanta
Snnset Route Tourist Sleeper Washington
- San Francisco Mondays and FRIDAYS
go p NJ DAILY-New York and FLORIDA
'xnress Through Coaches and Sleeper 70
Coisnobia Savannah. and Jacksonyille
Siasner 70 Augusta and Port Tampa Din
81 car Service a Ia Carte
,n.nS p NJ DAILY-New York and Mer,nhi,
snited (via Lynchburg). First-class Goa -
- sleeping car to Roanoke EnoxviIie
CHATTANOOGA, and Memphis. sleeper 20 Neu,
Srieans Dining Car service.
NIX y NJ DAILY-washington and Sou+h
vestern Limited All Pullman tratr Oh
Car 10 Atlanta Sleepers 10 Nashville At
Orleans Dining Car service.
Aur 6, S. Il. HARDWICK. Pass. Traf Mgr.
1e05. w. II. TAYLOE, Gen. Pass Agent
l. s. BROWN. General Agent
The Washington times., 1905-09-12
FILIPINO FEMALE BEAUTY,

There is little doubt that Filipino
women age more rapidly than either
their American or Spanish sisters.
anyone who takes the trouble to OBJ
serve for himself can see that up to
the age of about sixteen. or. in
some instances, up to about TWEEN
~, the Filipino maiden is de-
cldediy pretty. so far, at any rate,
as her features are concerned. Leav-
ing the color out of account, we should
say that her features have a marked
European or, perhaps, we should rather
say, Aryan cast, approaching those of
the coolie of India
In her teens. however, a great falling
on takes place; the nose fattens, the
cheek-bones protrude, bony ridges form
over the eyes. and the features lose
their Ayran cast and take on those
Of the Malay. All this is in accord with
what embryologists teach; In the early
stages OF growth there is a general
similarity, the divergences appearing at
the later stages A negro baby, for
example, IS almost white.
The beauty stage of the Filipino
woman is reached at very early period,
while that OF the American is often
delayed to a remarkable degree--Ma-
Mia Cablenews-
The Washington times., 1905-09-12
LEGAL NOTICES.
9c7 G STREET n. w.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA. Holding a Probate Court.--No
IBIS Admnistra tion.--This IL TO give notice
that the subscribers. of the District or Co
lumbia have obtained from the Probate
Court OF the District of Columbia letters
testanentary on the estate OF James Cole
man, sometimes known as James CoIenon
late OF the District of Columbia deceased.
All persons having claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same with the vouchers thereof. legally au-
thenticated, to the subscribers on or before
the 2sTH DAY OF AUGUST, A ID. 1905:
otherwise they may by law be excluded from
ell benefit OF said estate Given under our
hands this 18th day of August 1905. E. l..
SCHMIDT. HARRY M. PACKARD, 40 5th
st NV Attest: (SeaD WIN. q. TAYLOR
Deputy Register OF Wills for the District OF
Columbia: Clerk of the Probate Court. Les
TER Il PRICE. Attorneys. au29. se5I2
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TRUSTEES SALE.
TRUSTEES. SALE OF TwO-STORY BRICK
DWELLING. No. 6le + STREET SOUTH


TRUSTEES SALE OF TWO-STORY BRICK
DWELLING. No. 6Is + STREET SOUTH
WEST.
By virtue OF certain deed OF trus: duly
recorded in Liber No. 2s03. at folio ga ct
seq. of the land records of the District of
Columbia. and at the request OF the party
secured thereby. We Will sell by public aac-
ton, in front of the premises. MONDAY.
THE nth DAY OF SEPTEMBER. 1905 AT
$3.50 O'CLOCK Il. M, the following described
property: Part OF lot ferty-six (46), in Ar
thur Fendall, trustees. subdivision OF lots
in square four hundred and sixty-seven (467),
as said subdivision Is recorded In the Of
fice OF the Surveyor OF the District OF CO.
lurnbia. I'm book J. H X, page %: con-
tained within the following metes and bounds
viz: Beginning at the northeast corner OF
SAID lot and running thence south 1925 feet.
thence west 1919 feet: thence north 93 %
feet to south + street. and thence east Is 10
feet TO place or beginning. with right OF
egress and ingress over the following parts OF
said lots forty-six and forty-seyen. OF said
subdivision. beginning for same at point
west line OF said lot forty-six 46). 90. %
feet south from northwest corner thereof.
and running thence east 24.l7 feetf thence
south "a feet to public alley; thence west
feet: thence north 80 feet; thence west
OH feet; thence north feet. TO beginning.
with the Improvement above stated. che
property will be sold subject to a deed OF
trust OF SI.75O securing a building associa-
ton Terms: All over and above the trust
to the building association to be cash, OF
which $500 deposit will be required at time
OF sale. Terms TO be complied with within
ten days from time of sale. or property
will be resoid at risk and cost OF purchaser;
conveyancins and recording at purchaser 8
cost VICTOR II. WALLACE. w. s.
NEWELL. Trustees WILSON d MAfERS.
Auctioneers.
The above sale is postponed until WE'D
NESDAY. SEPTEMBER ID, 1905: az 30
7. M. VICTOR II. WALLACE w; 8.
The Washington times., 1905-09-12
STEAMBOATS,.
NORFOLK AND WASHINGTON
STEAMBOAT COMPANY

Every day in the year from foot OF 7th
st for Fort Monroe, Norfolk. Newport
. News and all points south. by the SUI
. perb powerful steel palace steamers
. Newport News. Norfolk" and
- Washington
Lv. Washlngton.6.30 pm Lv. Portsmouth s pm
Lv. Alexandria. 4 90 pm Lv. Norfolk. ......6 pm
Ar FIT Monroe. Z 90 am Nv. Ft. Monroe - pm
Ar. Norfolk $500 am Ar Alexandria. s 80 am
AT. Portsmouth. 500 am Ar. Washington. Z am
- STThrough connection made at Nor
folk with steamers OF Old Dominion
- Steamsh Co. for New York and Mer-
- chants and Miners steamships for Bos-
ton.
aEFcr further information apply at
- general ticket office. 705 18th ST, Col
orado Building telephone Main-22s0)
or It'll ST. wharf telephone MaIn-376O)
JNO. CALLAHAN,
I'd V. Pres. & Gen. Mgr
W. Il CALLAHAN. Gen. Pass. Agt
gRS-tS
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SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY.
Ticket Uffice, I42I Penna. Ave.

For Petersburg Raleigh. Wilmington, CO.
,un,bia Savannah. Jacksonville, Tampa, At
lanta, birmingham. Mobile. Pensacola. and
New Orleans
lO.50 A NJ. DAILY-Seaboard Mail-Through
Pullman Sleeper 10 Jacksonville. Fla. con-
Meeting at Hamlet with Pullman Sleeper to
Atlanta.
train TO Jacksonville and Tampa with
through Pullman Sleepers- Also Sleeper to
birmingham this train