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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
Don't Blame Funston.

General Funston should not be blamed
because his ill-advised friends at his
home in lola. Kan, are making him
ridiculous. They have organized a
"F'unston for President club, and are
booming the swimmer for president.
General Funston has given very
good account for himself in his admin
istration of affairs at San Francisco,
and is entitled to the respect and com.
mendation Of the public on account of
the excellent Judgment which he dis
played and the promptness with which
he acted in a trying emergency, but
this is no reason why enthusiastic and
foolish friends should name him for an
office for which he has no qualifications
and to which he probably never aspired
| Furthermore, these sudden booms TO-
| individuals who happen to have done
| something worth while, when the indi
vidual possesses no peculiar fitness TO
the office, are calculated to make TIT
individual ridiculous on the one hant
and to detract from the dignity Of tn
| office on the other.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
Railroads
CONTRACTORS PUSH WORK
WATERFOWL rs HEADQUARTERS
- FOB CONSTRUCTION GANGS OF
rrfr-- : -ETE~ 6 =
MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS Eek.
TENSION. - 49,
Special to TIE Journal.

Special to Tie Journal. i.-"-tt Il
WATERFOWL, S. D., May 3.-The Min
nesota, Dakota & Pacific railroad is
pushing the work of building its ex-
tension from Watertown to the Mis-
souri, river Just as rapidly as possible.
WATERFOWL many carloads of material
and grading outfits. Men and horses
are being rushed to this city and from
here are being sent out along the right
of way, clear to the river. I
Every evening the st. Louis passens
ger train from the twin cities brings
in a special coach carrying laborers
who have been engaged for the grad
ing work. Thirty five to fifty day
many weeks, and there are now over
| one thousand men working on the
| grade. The men camp on the site of
their work. eating and sleeping IN
| tents. Hun dreds Of carloads Of scrap
ers, graders, wagons, etc, haves<been
| unloaded here and sent out from this
| city to make the trip overland to the
places where they are needed. !:
Fifteen hundred carloads of ties are
now stored in the company's yards in
Watertown, and 1900 more are ex.
pected, of which 800 are now en- route
| between Minneapolis and Watertown.
Ties and steel will be sent out from
| here as fast as they are needed to lay
| track after the grading Is done.
The first station out Of Watertown
will be at the outlet Of Lake Kampeska
and will be made popular summer re-
sort. The second station will be a sub.
stantial town, and will be about twenty
miles northwest and will be named
Florence. Plans for three genefss
stores. a bank, harness shop, blacksmith
shop, newspaper and other enterprdsad
are already being made.
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A Case In Point.
To the Editor of The Journal.

To the Editor of The Journal. - ..
In the way of suggestion, may say
to the committee of the thirteenth ward
having in charge the cleaning and put
ting in order of its front and back yards,
that If the side hill of the property occu-
pied by the Minneapolis Floral company
at Thirty sixth street. were put in differ
ent shape it would be much more in
viting and reflect credit upon the occu-
pants The side hill overlooking the
Harriet car line, on the corner of Thirty
fifth street, has been beautifully sloped
and planted to wild roses, bushes,
sumach and other bushes, which gives 1t
most agreeable appearance at any sea-
son of the year, especially so In summer;
but the other half Of that hillside lying
between the Forman property and Thirty
sixth street. occupied by the Minneapolis
| Floral company, is worse looking than
any back yard anywhere in this city. Ole
mattresses, discarded bulbs. roots, rub
Dish, ashes, cinders. and almost every
thing which is dumped outside is dumped
over on the side hill to be looked upor
with disgust by the thousands of pas
sengers who travel over the Como-Harrie
and Minnetonka lines, and this is perpe
| trated by a floral company. If there !:
any one spot in the thirteenth ward de-
nlanding attention that hillside is the
/ place. Como Harriet Passenger
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May 5, 1906.
& ST. LOUIS ROAD
MAPS SOUTH DAKOTA EXTENSION

The first map of the South Dakota
extension of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road shows that the new line
will pass thru some Of the most fertile
counties Of notably fine agricultural
state. It shows also that; in addition
to the $50 or more miles of road which
the Winston Brothers company Of Min
neapolis has contracted to build, an adj
ditional sixty miles west of Leola has
been surveyed by the engineering de-
partment. soe#
One Of the difficult duties before
Manager T.. r. Day has been the Sc
lection of names for the new stations on
the extension, but the Sioux language
has been appealed to, and many names
have been secured which are significant
as well as euphonious. 49,: Z
On the main line from Watertown to
the Missouri river at old LIE Beau, seven
miles out, will be Yahota, the first sta
ton. This name means "to inhale. -
Eleven miles farther will be Florence.
Wallace. the next station, will be about
eight miles east of the Clark county
line. Next will come Bradley, where
the st: Louis road crosses the Madison
Bristol line Of the Milwaukee road. The
! next station, eight miles west, will be
called Croker. Crandall will be the
| next. and seven miles further will bring
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Senator La Follette's Speech.

The three days speech Of Senator La
Toilette upon the railway rate bill
marked g. point in that discussion when
the technical questions of broad and
restricted court review were abandoned
for while, and the senate got back to
the starting place, which is the, right
and duty Of congress to make, rates..
The speech and the running fire of CUES
ton and answer which it provoked, are
most interesting. The senator from
Wisconsin is an able man and apparent
~ sincere. tho perhaps radical critic
of the railroads. In starting his first
campaign for the governorship of his
state, he met the determined opposition
of the trunk lines crossing Wisconsin,
which twice defeated him and made him
student of railroad methods in poll
tics. He studied to good purpose, too,
for he three times defeated the rail-.
| roads, robbed them of the governorshlp,i
the legislature, United States senator,
and handed them a railroad commission
and bill of expenses from the state for
concealed taxes which mounted into the
thousands. He literally smashed the
railroad ring in Wisconsin, and moved
on to Washington at the psychological
moment when President Roosevelt had
begun his assault upon the national rail
road ring He has thrown himself into
that fight as supporter Of the presi-
dent, but an Independent one whose
platform Is much more radical than that
of the head of the administration. .~.
| His rate-biI speech was an extended
review of the evidence of increasing
rates, vicious discrimination and over
I Capitalization. ll5of these things led
the senator to the core Of his speech
which was that before the basis of Just
! and reasonable rates can be reached
!. there must be a valuation of the rail
3 road property Of the country.
2 Senator La Follette's main point il
that the railroads Of the country have
been grossly overcapitalized, that in
J, stead Of representing an honest invest
! ment Of $4,000, 100000 they are wat
cred about so per cent. He produced ;
!, mass of information about individual
railroads running all the way from Jerk
water lines, which had been bought il
: by their larger neighbors, to the gigan
| tic merger Of the Northern Pacific an a.
J, Great Northern, to show that value
/ had been written into: the properties b
/ bookkeeping. The method has change
0 somewhat since Deacon Drew, when b
? found that Vanderbilt had cornere
g all the Erie stock, started<a printin
4 press, and ran off enough more to Gus
9 Vanderbilt. But the principle Of plas
/ tering new bonds and stocks upon til
n same old properties has gone on. ]
), results from this and from the custol
}. 4 Of charging betterments to operatin
$ expenses, that the true net profits {
d our railroads are not known. Therefor
J. a valuation of the railroads is, in h
IS Judgment, q necessary preliminary
II the fixing of Just compensation. Sd
# In Mr.. La Toilette S opinion it
It neither just nor reasonable 30 ask u
It people to accept the railroads vaIue {
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the basis Of rates, when it Is honey
eombed with fraud. Several of his col
leagues in questioning the senator from
wisconsin advanced the old question,
these stocks and bonds having passed
into the hands Of innocent purchasers,
whether congress, after years Of mac
tion, would not do more harm by trying
to squeeze out the water than by acqui-
escing in the present inflated valuation
and guarding the future. To this Mr..
La Toilette answered that the man who
bought railroad stocks or bonds was In
no different situation than the man who
bought a horse or house. He was put
upon his inquiry rs to whether he was
buying real values. Railroad stocks
were generally bought for speculative
purposes and these purchasers were en-
titled to no special consideration.
A short review Of this speech, how.
ever, is quite apt to do Senator La Fol
lette an injustice. In dwelling partic
ularly upon his central point of the
need of a valuation, one is liable to Gre
ate the impression that the speech was
all denunciation Of the railroads. Thi
is not true. The speech tries to bt
fair. It is as fair as a radical who Il
demanding drastic legislation for TIL
wiping out Of evils could make it. L
is a great speech. and one worthy O.
more discussion that it has received.
1t goes without saying that George "
Perkins deeply disapproves of muck
rakers,
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THE GREAT SHAKE OF 1911
: Nebras State Journal.

! - g Nebraska State Journal. "'.
The nearest a destructive earthquake
has ever come to Nebraska I'M historic
time is New Madrid, Mo.-about 500
miles in an air line. The event began
Dec. 16, 1911, and continued for several
weeks. The accounts of early settlers,
tlatboatmen and explorers are filled with
the vivid story Of the great shake" as
it was called. Tracts of land as large as
an average Nebraska county were sunk
to such great depth that tall trees dis
appeared in the waters which rushed IN
and formed lakes still existing today.
Cracks in the earth five miles long, ten
feet wide and several feet deep appeared.
Chickens were shaken out Of trees where
they roasted flatboats were. sunk and
houses shaken down.: The small popula-
ton in the region prevented great loss of
life, two women only being killed among
the settlers, Congress passed an act for
relief, permitting those who had lost
| their land to select new claims elsewhere
on public lands in Missouri. These lands
were called New Madrid claims" and
became a source Of litigation later.
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WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
The Law of Contempt.
}, Editor of The journal

To the Editor .ol %1AetvVh
Two or three misapprehens1ons are a ",
parent in your comment OF yesterday vi
the Holland contempt case:
First, attempts at Jury br1blng are
not merely contempts Of court; they are
also felonies. punishable by ten years
in state prison, or fine ct $2,ooo, OF
both. Rev. Laws, sec. 4a .T me. s ssas!
ute of contempts (sec:. 46ol3 expfesdsadd
declares that Persons pt aIso 9;a.
BE to Indictment, if it is an Indlctaole
offence.'' So if Holland has not been
adequately punished, he may, be.
Second. no change in the law was Ell
fected by the classification OF con
tempts as "direct' and "construc-
tive,'' for it is one which the law Ina. mas
ca MINI. as. the supreme court, speak
INC of the statute, says: It also. receg-
, nizes the usual classification OF con
temnts as direct and constructive, or
consequential In the same OPINION
Chief Justice Start says: EDlreet con
tempts are those committed in the IN m
maiate e view o+h and RBelengeg to the
o ofher class u.s. Since Since the court found it
I NECESSARY to read this DISTINCTION TITO
! the statute, and because both brev1ty
and perspicuity were advanced thereby,
we thoug ht it best to put 1t into the
written law.
| Third. the statute has always atilxeds
contempts. The maximum in any case
however aggravated, is a fine OF $2oo
/ and six months in jail; in one of these
i classes only a. $50 fine can be imposed,
/ and no iaii sentence. Now which one
i EAs the statute has been printed eVel
4 since 1866, it would appear that dlrec'
i contempts were the ones pun1sha6le o!
4 the lighter fine only, but this is due te
4 an. obvious error, of the types. IN tnf
i old sections (Gen: Stat: 1894, oloo) a. =
d twelve subdivisions. Only the first twt
4 offSthese relate to-. direct contempts
4 i.e.. to those committed in the 1mme
Z date view and presence of the court: :
Section 6l56 reads: "But W hen thu
contempt is one of those mentioned IL
the first or second subdivision. Of tn
last section, it must appear that tn.
right or remedy of a party
has been defeated or preludiced there
4 by, before the contempt can be pun
i ished by imprisonment or by a fine o
4 more than $780, This was so. plainl,,
the reverse of what was intended tina
the revisers traced the section to 1t
source and found that word mot
after stis'' had been inadvertently
J omitted by the printers. 1t is in tn
) printed report Of the revisers of 1866
t in the section Of the former statut
t from which the provision was takel
and in the enrolled bill now. on I'll
4 with the secretary of state. 1t is, there
v fore, and always has been, the statut
law of this state that the courts al
restricted to $50 fine in: cases of i!
s direct contempt, precisely as stated i
t the new revision. Daniel Fish.
Minneapolis, May 8, 1906.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
ENGINEERS ARE BUSY
Two Great Systems Are Pushing for TIM
Coast.

journal Special Service.
Vancouver, B. O.. May 8:-Authoritss
tive advices have reached here that tho
Canadian Northern is organizing surs
yeying parties with the object of locats
ing line this summer between tho
summit Of the Rockies and the Pacific
coast. Engineers have already been SEE
lected. Surveys will be made both BY
the Yellow Head and Pine river passes,
This means lively race between the
Canadian Northern and the Grand
Trunk Pacific to get first locations
which will give them enormous adyant
tages in the way Of gradients. The line
which files plans. first at Ottawa will
have the choice Of route. The Cana
dian Northern engineers viii commences
their labors in both passes as Grand
Trunk Pacific parties are already on the
field in those locations.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03

A freshman from Stevens Point made
the statement that the men of Wiscon-
sin were not sufficiently cultured" and
just to prove that they were sufficiently
cultured and couldn't stand any more, a
crowd Of Wisconsin university freshmen
cut of his, hair, painted his face with
iodine, made him sing at the fraternity
houses and then threw him off the pier
into the lake. What better proof could
be desired tof the falsity Of the statement
Of the Stevens Point freshman?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
Additional Lake Service.

Additional lake service will be begun
by the Great Northern road on May 8.
Trains will leave Minneapolis daily at
9:35 am, and CLIO pm; daily except
Sunday at sos pm; daily except Sat
urday at 1880 pm, and Saturday only
at pm. Trains will leave Mound Tor
and 4 pm; daily except Sunday at 7:5s
am; daily except Saturday at 9 p.m.;
SATURDAY. only at 10 pm.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
SENATE VOTES FOR RAILWAY
Bill Favoring ELL Roads Passes Cana
dian Upper House.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Ottawa, May 3.-The senate railway
committee yesterday had discussion
over the bill representing the Vancouv-
er, Westminster & Yukon railway, be-
hind which is J.. J. Hill and the Great
Northern. The bill provides for the
building Of several branches in British
Columbia, and thru Yellow Head pass to
Edmonton.
Senator McMillen put up vigorous
protest against the measure, contending
that the building of the line would di-
vert trade to the states. Senator Tenn
pleman said the government did not
view with favor any attempt to block
legitimate railway building enterprises.
The government was in favor of this
road and of any other that was going
to aid in building up Canada, no matter
where the railway came from. This
company had shown its good faith by
building. and it was reasonable to think
that it would extend to Edmonton. The
bill finally passed without division.
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the line to Condo, on the North. West
ern line from Doland to Groton. Condo
will be the junction with the Leola
branch. -,
The first station west of Condo will
be Brentford; Mellette, on the Mil
waukee's Aberdeen north-and-seuth-
line; Worthwhile, Chelsea, Cresbard,. We,
Gotta, meaning Ghost just east Of the
crossing of the Milwaukee's Orient
Eureka line; Onaka, meaning "gar,
ner',; Tolstoi, a. Russian settlement;
Hoven. in Potter county: Lowry, named
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
LOVE IMMORTAL

Yes, hope may with my strong desire keen
"a pace, Is Is
And l be undecided, ,unbetrayed;
For il of our affections none finds grace
In sight of heaven, then wherefore hath God
made aar 2" ss
The world which we inhabit7 Better plea
Love cannot have than that In loving thee
Glory to that eternal peace is paid,
Who such divinity to thee imparts
As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts.
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies
With beauty, which is varying every hour
But In chaste hearts, uninhueneed by the power
OF outward change, there blooms deathles
flower,
That breathes on earth the air Of paradise.
--Michelangelo, translated by Wordsworth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
M. Whites Tumble from Power

M. W1CLe 1umDle lTOm EOWeI.
Even if the latest report that Count
Witte has fallen be true, it is probably
a much more important event to M.
Witte personally than to anybody else.
It is said on the one hand to be a
victory for the reactionary party, on
the other hand to pave the way for the
car to assume the personal direction
of the progressive movement. In either
event it must be recognized that the
revolution in Russia is larger than any
man or set of men.
; The czar may act or react, as suits
his mood, and the world will not be
greatly concerned. The important fact
is that 130,o00,o00 human beings have
decreed the doom of autocracy in Rus,
STA and that individual efforts. to re-
turn to the old state are like turning
back the clock of time which goes re.
lentlessly forward. =
Witte may have been the M. Neckar
Of Russia, but as the twentieth century
looks back to the records of the: eigh
teenth it sees that N. Neckar was a
| mere incident, Louis XVI mere speck
The important thing was the: revolu
ton. There was a time when it might
have been guided. There never was {
time when it could have been stopped
After his address in Jerusalem +
| it would not be surprising If Mr. Bryan
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for Thomas Lowry, president of the 500
line. across the border in WaIworth
county; Alaska, meaning george"
and Scranton, the terminus at the river,
are the other towns. sis
Starting from Condo, the stations on
the Leola extension will be Randolph,
Stafford, Nahon, meaning "here";;
Aberdeen, Richmond, Wetonka, meaning
Important which is across the Nc
Pherson border, and Leola. The town.
sites beyond Leola have not been
named -. .,--. 49, . , 49, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03

According to the Abilene, Kan, Re
Hector Mr.. Harris, who has been nomi-
mated by the democrats for governor, was
not a prominent senator. Possibly not
| from the Abilene viewpoint. One j. Ralph
Burton lives in Abilene -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
THIS DATE TN HISTORY
MAY 8

141e-Pope Alexander ". died.,
1655-Engllsh took Island OF Ja-
malca from Spain.
1s1o-Lord Byron swan the OAR
danelies.
1s1a-Havre de Grace. Md, burned
by the British.
1ef4--LouIs XVIII. entered Paris
(the first restoration).
1es9-Napoleon I'LL. declared war
against Austria.
f894-Earthqual<e shocks In Greece,
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Texas and Louisiana, $3.50.

Tickets on sale via the Minneapolis q
st. Louis railroad from Minneapolis to
Galveston, Houston, San Antonio;
Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, ana
Lake Charles. La. Dates OF sale nrsb
and third TUESDAYS of each month, linn
He'd to thirty DAYS. Liberal stop-oyer
privileges. Rates equally low to points
In. the west and southwest. For full
,particulars call on +. g. Rickel, city
ticket agent, 424 Nicollet avenue. Z
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The: navy bill carries q trifle under
500, 600, ooo--a mere bagatelle' When
Richmond Pearson Hobson gets his naval
program in working order this amount
will be- spent on paint for the battle
ships. 49,. ...' {-,c*-,.
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loading the cost upon the public. TT

loading the cost upon the public. The
market value of these properties must
be based on their earning capacity and
their earning capacity is based on coal.
On per cent dividend basis the pub
lie is paying every year on watered
stock of these fat corporations far
more than the miners ask. But if the
demands are granted, the public must
pay again. Has the public any rights
in this business? If SO, how shall they
be ascertained and enforced?
Dowie says that Voliva, is another, and
that means a good deal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
Cotton Picker.

A wise southern inventor has devised
an automobile cotton picker. The work
which used to require three or four men
to the acre can be done by one man
with the help of this machine. The
great drawback in a contemplating ma
chine is that the unripe cotton is picked
with the ripe. This disadvantage is
done away with in the new invention.
This will greatly facilitate the handling
of our mighty cotton crop. If golden
grain belt beer is served at every meal.
the home will be cheerful and happy.
It's purity and healthful qualities make
it the ideal home beverage.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03

Somebody who has read them. states
that Maxim Gorky's novels ARE filled
with inexcusable nonsense The world
has yet to see a nice, cheerful, optimistic
Russian novel, containing neither adul-
terry nor brutal murder. with a few poi
sonings thrown in to tighten it up.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-03
Files Big Mortgage.

Pierre, s. D., May 3.-The Minnesota.
Dakota & Pacific railroad has fled with
the secretary of state a mortgage for
$50 900 900, which runs to the Central
Trust company of New York, and bears
interest at 4 per cent.
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THE MINNEAPoLIs JoURNAL.

vention before which Hoch was to be
candidate for denomination. Hoch has been
the head and front OF the fight on the
Standard sls OIL company in Kansas. and lit
looks some as II he were; simply getting
what might be expected from the Stand
ard crowd. They know that game well.