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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
RUSSIAN ORPHANS IN
MINNEAPOLIS HOMES
JEWISH CHILDREN WILL BE
+. BROUGHT TO AMERICA.
Waits, Bereaved Of Fathers and Moth
ers by Massacres, Are to Be Tenderly
Cared for by National Committee for
Relief of Sufferers and Placed in
Jewish Homes.

Minneapolis Jews have been asked
to open their homes to children or
phaned by the Russian massacres.
The national committee for the relief
Of sufferers by Russian massacres has
agreed to provide homes in America
for large number Of these little waits,
and is especially anxious to place them
in inland towns, where the environment
is better and the opportunities larger
than in the New York colonies.
Jonas We'll, the chairman Of the local
relief committee, has received the fol-
lowing letter from Cyrus L. Sulzberger,
secretary Of the national committee.
Gone of the most pitiful effects Of
the Russian riots is that thousands Of
parents. This committee has been called
upon to care for number Of these, and
feeling certain that the sentiment Of
the Jewish people Of this country would
respond to so touching a duty, has
agreed to take what. it considers fair
quota. 49, ..... 49,
"jThe caring for and placing Of these
children in proper homes is the problem
Of every Jewish community in this
country. Especially is 1t, desirable to
distribute these children among the diff
ferent interior cities, because they offer
better. environment than. the :. over
crowded city of New York, with its
poor housing conditions, . New, York is
perfectly willing to, do its share Of the
work, but. Of coursait is presumed that
the other Jewish communities will take
proportionate number. 8 :, IT,.
.ttThere are undoubtedly a number of
suitable Russian Jewish families in
your city whose keen sympathy for
these poor waits will prompt them each
to offer a refuge and home to at least
one. Russian families would Of course
be best for this purpose.
cit is needless to emphasize the
sacredness Of the duty that devolves
upon us, and in view Of the urgency
Of the situation, we beg you at an early
date to let us know definitely how
many you are prepared to take.''
Mr.. We'll has already brought this
appeal to the attention Of the general
committee on relief, and in addition
to this offers to give full information
to anyone who may apply to him. There
is large Russian colony in Minneap
oils, and it is probable that a large
number Of these little victims Of mob
brutality may be. given good homes and
prove a strong addition to the Jewish
community. =
The work of collecting funds is still
going on and the cimmittee hopes tc
double the amount already sent in tc
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.


In anticipation Of the annual work Of
collecting taxes County Auditor Hugh
R. Scott has had compiled a complete
abstract Of the work cut out for County
Treasurer Henry G. Hanke for the year
1905. The latter is expected to provide
$4,941, 1922 for score Of different
funds in score or more Of towns and
villages in Hennepin county, as well as
the different funds Of the city of Min
neapolis.
OF this immense sum, $226,920.96 is
due from the towns and villages and
$4,714,871.36 from the city Of Mime
apolis. The state wants $271 ,787.63, the
state schools and university 1856, 721.54,
and Hennepin county wants 1897, IL .93.
The total valuation Of the county,
both for real and personal property, is
$3.50, 1894, IA, of which $12,303, 1854 is ap-
portioned to the country towns and vii
lagos, and $138, 800, 400 to the city Of
Minneapolis. l&
The bulk Of the work Of the county
treasurer is to collect the taxes and the
special assessments for Minneapolis.
This is quite apparent when it Is seen
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
BRITT NELSON FIGHT
PICTURES UNDER BAN
Casino Rink Management Says Mayor
Has Forbidden Them Tonight. .

Declaring that Mayor David P. Jones
had forbidden the show, the manager
Of the Casino roller skating rink last
ing-picture exhibition scheduled to be
given in the rink this evening was off.
Manager Harold Of the company that is
presenting the. views Of the celebrated
fight declared that the exhibition would
be given. Mayor Jones was cut off
from communication at Lake Mime
tonka and no expression could be OBJ
tanned from him.
The showing of the pictures at the
Casino rink this evening was to be the,
first of series Of exhibitions to be
given at other places during the week.
The shows have been extensively ad.
vertised, and tho the rink manager I'M
derstands that the edict Of the mayor
affects only the Sunday night show, it
canot be ascertained whether it is the
intention of the mayor to prevent the
appearance Of the pictures at all.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
q. e. WALES TO COME
BACK TO MINNEAPOLIS
eittsburg Coal Company Will Absorb
Affiliated Concerns, It Is Said.

Coal men are deeply interested in
fumors relative to changes in the man
pany's business in Minneapolis. So far
as the wholesale steam and country
business is concerned, it is said that
the Pioneer Fuel, Y. 6 L., OHIO and
the. Jones & Adams companies VIII 1859
so-called soft coal "trust," the Pitts
burg Coal company.
It is reported further that O. E..
Wales, who left Minneapolis three years
Coal company, is to return to Mime
apolis the first Of the year. When Mr.:
Wales left Minneapolis he was head Of
the Pioneer Fuel company. In the con-
summation Of the trust" M Wales
went to Chicago and has SINCE risen
from the ranks. N. G. Coffin, Cor some
time president and treasurer Of the
1s si safsa y sne Cos
of the parent company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
City News
TOWN TALK

The State Institution for Savings
pays 4 per cent on savings accounts. y
Clearance sale pictures, frames, mir
1ors. Buy now. Bintliff s,5th st,2d ars.
st. Anthony. aerie, No. 1247, F. %.
B., will install officers New Yeas
evening.
NATURALIZATION as travelling Gem
panion. Mrs. Grace w. Tubbs, Hamp-
shire Arms. 49,
Call and get, gratis, our Hygenlc
Telephone Disk. D. G. Bell Inv st. Co.,
Ill 9TH st S., Fire Insurance Dept 4
Talk with us before you place your
bonds, burglary or liability insurance.
Fred l.. Gray Co., 1212-1226 Guaranty
Building.
The Century News Store, Hhird
subscriptions. See us before yot send
elsewhere.
Never buy real estate without hay
ing the title insured by the Tile In
surance & Trust company. Cots lit
tie, worth much. ~
The Union State bank has commenced
business at the old banking corner, 100
Washington avenue s. Open Saturday
evenings from to 8. -,
Now is the time to get your savings e
to earning 4 per cent interest by de-
posting them with the State lnstltu-
tion for Savings, SIT First tvenue 5.
Thomas w. Harrison, a prominent
land owner and attorney of Topeka,
Kan, is spending O few days IN the
city as the guest Of Sheriff J. W..
Dreger. = I
Moreau's "Invisible" Bifocals re-
place the crude double focus classes for
distance and reading at very reason
able cost. Worth Investigation. GIG
Nicollet avenue.
The interest coupons maturing Jan: ],
1906, on the bonds Of the Iw1n City
Telephone company will be paid, If de-
sired, at the Security Bank of Minneso-
ia or the office Of the Twin City Iele-
phone company in Minneapolis, MINI.
The directors of the Superior Manu-
featuring company have declared the
fourth semi-annual dividend on the
preferred stock, at the rate OF per Per
cent per annum, payable Jan. l; 1906;
to stockholders Of record Of the date Of
Dec. 26, 1906. The transfer books of
tho company will be closed from Dec.
26 to 81. inclusive.
The directors Of the Twin City Tele-
phone company have declared the
fourth semiannual dividend on the COM
mon capital stock Of said company, at
the rate Of 5 per cent per annum, pay.
able Jan. !, 1906, to stockholders OF
record of the date Of Dec. 26, 1905.
The transfer books Of the company
will be closed from Dec. 26 to Dec. 81,
inclusive.
Professor W. J. Lhamon, NJ. A., of
the University Of Missouri, Columbia,
Mo-, will occupy the pulpit of the
Portland Avenue Church Of Christ,
both morning and evening, today. Mr..
Lhamon is One of the former pastors
# the church and was instrumental in
he erection of It's present building
While in the city Mr.. Lhamon will be
at $50 RidgeWood avenue.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
NO RECORDS broken !
BY YEARS WEAT HER
JUNE MEAN TENPERATURE LOW
EST IN THIRTY-FOUR YEARS.
Dryest in Eighty-fve Years-L.owest
Temperature During Year Was 26
Below and Highest 90 Degrees-Ot
Statistics. - = f. -.

The year 1905 was not a record break
er as far as weather was concerned,
1t did not approach either extreme in
heat, cold or precipitation. June came
the nearest to fracturing record with
the next to the lowest mean tempera-
ture in eighty-fve years, $40 degrees
as against 81. 5 degrees for June, 1871.
The next lowest temperature was &C.,
degrees for June, 1865.
Unless heavy snow or rain should
fall today December will 60 on record
as the third dryest December in the
eighty-fve years covered by the wealth
er bureau records. So far the precipi-
tation has been 0.6 inches. The two
dryest Decembers were that Of 1850,
with 0.4 inches, and that Of 1851, with
0.5 inches. The total precipitation for
the year was 33 40 inches. This did
not touch either end of the score. The
wettest year in the eighty-fve was 1S49,
with SO inches Of precipitation, and
the dryest 1889 with only 1881 inches.
The coolest day in 1905 was Feb 2,
with a temperature Of -26 degrees,
and the Warmest was Aug. 10 with IS
degrees. The coolest day on record
in eighty-fve years was Jan. 81, 1883,
when the thermometer registered Al
degrees at St. Paul The warmest day
recorded by the st. Paul thermometer
was July "a, 1901, when the mercury
stood at 104 degrees. - -.,-. .">,'
The: Years Record. -.
The years temperature record is as
follows: January, maximum 36 degrees
on the LIST, minimum is, degrees on
the 10th, mean IA. degrees; February,
maximum Sc degrees on the 28th, mini
mum go degrees on the I'd, mean IL 9
degrees; March, maximum Ct degrees
on the 26th, minimum 3 degrees on the
18th, mean 35.1 degrees; April, maxi.
mum 70 degrees on the 25th, minimum
Fl degrees on the 7th, mean. a degrees
May, maximum IT degrees on the 3lst
minimum SO degrees on the 9th; June,
maximum IS degrees on the 10th, mimi:
mum IS degrees on the 9th, mean "a 9
degrees; July, maximum 90 degrees on
the 10th, minimum 81 degrees on the
9th, mean 69.S degrees; August, maxi
mum IS degrees on the 10th, minimum
80 degrees on the LIST, mean 70. g.; Sep.
TENDER, maximum "a degrees on the
18th, minimum 43 degrees on the 18th
mean 63.7 degrees; October, maximum
81 degrees on the 9TH, minimum II de-
grees on the 28th, mean 45.6 degrees
November, maximum 81 degrees, on the
18th, minimum IS degrees on the 30th
mean 35.2 degrees; December, maximum
40 degrees on the 9th and 10th, mini
mum Il degree on the 4th, mean not
complete.
The precipitation by months was as
follows: January, OIL inches; Febru
airy, 0.59 inches; March, O.73 inches;
April, 0.74 inches; May, AT inches
June, I'll inches; July, 1902 inches
August, 4.32 inches; September, 6. s
inches; October, 2.17 inches; Novem
Der, 3.o7 inches; December, o.06 inches
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
RELEASED AS VAGRANT;
ARRESTED AS A THIEF
Joseph Gary, Just Pardsned, Caught
Juggling Away Loot.

= Released from Jail yesterday morn
ing, on probation, after being sentenced
to the workhouse, joseph Cary, 81
years old, was arrested again last night
}nd held at Central station on charge
bf burglary. Cary wss arrested Thurs
day night on q charge Of vagrancy and
day. He was released pending his good
behavior. H.
- Someone had broken into the ware
house Of the Aultman Engine and
Fhresher company and filed sack with
brass castings. These were hid near by
and the employees laid in wait for the
ynss nst spr anaa ca Gafy IL az The
sack. ,; They We're captured with the
The. boy. who is but Is years old,
gave his name Jas Bartran Ritz, but
would net tell the police where he lived.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
An Annreciation.

To the. Proprietors of the ttModel
Clothing House, ~ : :
We, the employees Of the <<Model
Clothing House," wish to take this %.
portunity to publicly express our ap.
probation of the courteous and gener.
GUS treatment received from our en-.
ployers during the past year, and also
h 6eelng remembered SO generously on
Christmas. We can heartily say that
the. name "Model" is applicable to
each representative of the firm, for
every member is certainly model EN-.
ployer. We wish you a happy and
prosperous New Year. e.. :, -
Of the Model Clothing
House. ~ sr-E E#s.Zss a z, 9
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

the central committee. So far all funds
have been collected from the Jewish
people, and no appeal has been made
to others by anyone officially entitled
to do SO. Should the need in Russia
grow and the resources Of the local
Jews become exhausted, then the COM
mittee will enlarge its appeal, but not
till them III. f.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

In Second Banquet-The second
travelling men of the Bardwell, Robin
son Lumber company was held at the
Cafe Trafalgar last evening. Plates
we're laid for fourteen persons. An in
teresting program Of toasts and music
made the Occasion an enjoyable one.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
"MEDITATION"

The Beautiful Painting on Exhibition
at The t1ye,,, A A;s Fourth Floor,
This realistic work, which represents
two young girls sitting by an open
CRATE in deep meditation, is from the
brush Of Mr.. Julien Feist, who is now
making his home in Minneapolis. The
facial expression and light effects are
particularly noteworthy, while the pic
turey in its entirety attracts much ia
vorable comment -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
Important to Deuositors.

Those Who have savings to deposit
should not forget that the Minnesota
Title Insurance & Trust company,
ings and starts interest the first Of
each month, which is mitch better thap
starting it the first Of leach quarter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
WILL KEEP BOY

A. j. Stuart, 3443 Twentieth avenue S,
announces that he Is going to keep the
baby boy left on his doorstep at 1890
pm week ago yesterday. MIR. and
Mrs. Stuart will have been married
twenty-seven years next Jan. Is. They
have no children.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

T wish>to announce to my friends and
customers that have withdrawn nv
interests and services from the Dayton
Dry Goods company, and will announce
my future plans later. I wish to ex-
courtesy extended to me by all con-
cerned in my business relations of the
past. 4 j. B. Mosher.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

AT HALF PRICE-A FIRST CLASS SALOON;
best location in the city; must be sold within
one week account Of other business; will
consider city property or land at cash value.
Address 32O6 Lyndale av S.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

The principal purposes for which
taxes are collected in Minneapolis ap-
pear in the following summary:
General revenue 81, 1856, e7s. 10
Ward funds Observation-Disclosures. 200, 260.72
Charities and corrections ........... 1873, 69O.4S
Interest ................... $40, 0S9 36
Special assessments ............ csc, $40. 81
Park and library boards. ........... POS, O35.74
School board Observation-Disclosures. 1,O4O, 17S.6 SO
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

by the following tables that the taxes
Of Minneapolis are approximately TWEEN
ty-one times larger than the taxes for
the remainder Of the county. The as
sessed valuation Of the taxable property
in Hennepin county, outside the city, is
only ne-thirteenth of the assessed valu-
alton Of the city. !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
THOSE MIGHTY JAWS HAD ME

things are extremely delicate and l knew
that such handsome ones would bring
good price from the owners of some aqua
rum, l lay down fiat on the rock with my
face only an inch above the water,
thrust my arm down as far as it would
go and felt the rock to determine how l
could best loosen the anemones from 1t.
1t was so awkward a position that very
few seconds made an almost unsupportable
strain on my muscles, and l tried to
straighten up with a jerk. My arm had
barely moved inch before / was
brought up sharply. Something had me!
l peered down into the green water and
saw my arm, like a dim, wavy shadow, In
the obscurity. Down where it was fast
could see nothing at first, but gradually,
as my eyes became accustomed to the
gloom l saw a misshapen object that SEEM
ed to be surrounded with ragged things
which waved necessarily in the current.
By this time 1 could hardly keep my face
out of the water for / lay in such position
that all my back muscles were needed to
hold my head up. Yet the strain on the
submerged arm was growing greater every
moment, and 1 could distinctly feel that
whatever had hold of it made dull, logy
motions as if 1t were trying to drag the
arm down farther
Strangely enough, felt no pain of any
knd-only the sensation OF steady pull.
with the occasional tuggings. Every time
l tried to jerk my arm loose the answer
| from the hidden thing would be little
plunge.
Suddenly the sun came out strongly and
frradiated the water, shooting its beams
like golden dust deep into the sea. l looked
eagerly down and saw horrible thing
fast to my arm.
SQUAT and muddy, with oblique eyes and
thick, f1eshy fins looking hideously like
human hands, the thing that seemed to be
looking up at me was as ugly a thing as
swims in the sea. l recognized it at once,
for it is a common creature all along our
Atlantic coasts, though the people of one
section would not recognize 1t from the
name given to it by the people of any
other section, because it has more different
names than perhaps any other fish along
shore Sea toad is one of its common
names, and to my mind the most descrip-
tive for the nightmare creature looks more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

Yucatan was part of a powerful empire,
this old woman, having made her son gov
ernor of the city of UXmal, retired from
the splendors of his court and travelled
many a weary mile till she came to Mani,
where she took up her abode in the cavern.
In the cavern she met a big serpent with
a plumed head. Under a large tree by
the side of a river that ran through the
cavern she used to sit with the serpent for
hours at time.
One day she said to the serpent that she
was very fond of children.
so am t. replied the serpent with SLY
look in his little eyes-"for eating"
The old woman was Mortified at first but
finally she became so fond of the serpent
that she agreed to help him to his favorite
food. So the old woman went into the city
and told the governor that hereafter the
water of the well would be sold. not for
money, but for a child. If the tribute was
not furnished, then the big serpent would
come out of the cavern and eat up the peo-
pie who came for water.
There was great grief in the city of Mani
when the heralds went about prOclaimng
the demands of the old woman. The rich
would not give up their children, and
when the officers of the governor tried to
seize upon the children of the poor there
was a riot, and the people chased the gov
ernor back to his palace. tearing his spen-
did feather cloak and knocking off his
plumed head dress of gold and gems.
So the governor summoned his guards
about him and shut himself up in his palace.
the ruins Of which you may see to this
day, while the priests burned copal be-
fore their idols. and the people went about
in much distress for want of water.
Things went on this way for three days.
for nobody dared to visit the well where
the great plumed serpent lay III wait for
them.
on the morning of the fourth day there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

caught the coarse wooden fabric of my
shirt and l knew the character of those
| teeth too well to hope that l could tear
myself loose.
| Had 1t not been for my position, I would
not have been much worried, for the glimpse
| that l had obtained told me that the Great
ure could not weigh more than forty pounds
| or so, and by exerting my strength / could
| no doubt have hauled it out of its hole.
! But as you know. l lay in a position that
| made me helpless. Indeed, 1t was getting
more and more difficult for me every mo-
| ment to hold my face away from the water.
| My first emotion had been to seize what
| could of the inside of the things throat
| and try to tear 1t out but my judgment
| told me that all l would achieve by this
| would be to make the fish wedge itself
| still more tightly, and even If l could have
| killed 1t, l could not get free. knew per-
| fectly well that by this time the sea toad
| was anxious to let me go as was that
| it should. But we were both fast together
At last my face dipped into the water.
| l lifted it again, but my strength was 60
| ing. Again it dipped beneath the surface
| and again lifted it, but only after an ex-
| hauSting strain.
Suddenly all my muscles gave way My
| face went down. There was rushing In
my ears laundering of waterfalls, and
then-I fell into sweet sleep.
| Almost instantly l seemed to wake and
| opened my eyes only to see the heavens
| reel crafty back and forth. There were
| red flashes all around me- My head ached
| as If it were splitting.
I l heard a far-Of voice saying: THAT was
! a close call for him"
| My senses began to clear, and I opened
my eyes again to see an old friend, one
/ of the government life-Savers, leaning over
4 me-
Well, you were pretty near a goner"
said he. And 1t was tug too, to git We
| out. And L nearly dropped ye back into
| the sea when L saw what was on the cad
| of your arm"
He pointed to his feet and there lay the
| sea toad. still kicking feebly and part
of my shirt sleeve still tangled in its mighty
mouth.
That wide open mouth still gapes from
my library wall as l write this to remind
me Of my tightest squeak"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
by the river, with the great plumed serpent

by the river, with the great plumed serpent
at her side.
approaching, here comes your dinner"
Then, as the boy stopped at little dis
lance, she asked: We'll, do the people
want to buy water?'
Yes answered the boy, and then he
said to the serpent: shut your eyes and
open your mouth, and l will give you a
meal you will long remember.
The serpent did as he was bid. Pantemit
taking a great round stone from his bag
threw it down the creatures throat. The
old woman began to scold, and as soon as
the serpent recovered from his surprise he
made a spring for Pantemit with his mouth
open. But the boy, jumping aside, threw
another cobble stone down the serpent's
mouth. and so they had it all around the
tree, the serpent trying to get at Pante-
nit and Pantemit, every time the creature
opened his mouth, throwing a cobble stone
into it.
stop. Stop cried the old woman. "You
will spoil my serpent's digestion forever
Go away and leave us alone. Take all the
water you want
us 1t a bargain?" asked the boy and
the serpent, who had enough of it by this
time, cried out that it was. and that If the
people of Mani would keep out of the cavern
they might draw all the water they wanted
from the well. But if they ever intruded
on the place where the big tree grew on
the banks of the river they would have to
give up child.
The governor was so glad that he made
Pantemt a noble and gave him a great es-
tate Pantemits palace is the largest mound
of the many that mark the site of the
ancient city of Mani.
But under the tree by the river, with the
pIumed serpent by her side, still sits the
old woman waiting for some dweller in
Mani to come there for water.