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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-07
NORTH SIDE STATION
R0UNDLY CONDEMNED A D N
CITY OFFICIALS SURPRISED AT
p, CONDITIONS.
Official Inspection by Mayor, Alder
men and Chief Of Police Opens Their
Eyes to Barbaric Dungeon Used to
Confine Offenders-Not a Feature
Commended but Management.

That some authority, state, county or
municipal, has not closed the North
Side police station long ago was a
great surprise to the aldermen compos-
ing The council committee which made
an inspection Of the police stations yes
terday. :. ~ .-. >: -.
to be- rather perfunctory duty rei
looked over things IN a generally ap,
proving way until they reached - the
North Side station, which was promptly
and unanimously condemned as: being
fit for nothing better than potato
cellar. -. = ~. : "a W. s A.,
~ Located in Cellar. o.
The station is excellently, managed
by Captain Nick Smith. The trouble
is that the building was constructed
wrong. The rooms in which the cells
are located is underground, and in con
sequence is dark, damp and unfit for
human habitation. %. =
=. Whenever there is rainstorm the
floor for fully six inches. Whatever
possessed, anyone in. authority to per;
init the cells to be located m such ID
black, goxious :, hole will, never A. be
known, particularly when the station
has frstgf1pef that ssonly partly 'used
and second floor which IS all waste
'p'c'' None Too, Good. : D.:
The station cost the same as the
South Side station, about $4,000, ant
while the latter, is far from being Z
model, it passed muster with the in
vestigators. 4 They. were tolerant q
least, not hypercritiea when ~; yisit ii
tions. They condemned the East, Sid
station also, but that is only a, make
shift, at, the best, and win be replace,
by a new station next year. The Mort!
Side is permanent station, Or, vii
be until some high authority gets at
ter MAYOR a.; D. D. P. Jones OH; Aldermen A.: J
Anquist,, J: H. Van Nest Wendell Hel
fig ard Wilhs1 81 Rstte rs 4aa and n Super
launch ling invectives against the cor
ditions, and they said enough to max
book. Thei management Of the sts
ton was commended, but the matter
complained against are beyond the col
troll of Captain Smith.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-07

| It hateful to have to say it but there
ere shoes made that wouldn' t FIT Hot
tentot. .:E.:
You WOULDN'T want shoes like that,
OF course.
Neither would you wish to wear
shoes that would fit Hottentot. For
then they wouldn't fit you.
Every race or section has ito pecu-
liar type of foot.
Gotham Shoes arc made afte,
studying for fifty years the North
western type Of foot,
With smple regard for comfort and
wearing quality and honest workman
ship-not forgetting style-they are
made to suit the type Of feet which
Tie big Northwest develops. -"
The result of all that study is-7so.,
TheGOtZiaIl Shoe
For men, women and ehildea.
Made In St. Paul BY C.. Gotzian & Co. sinos 1883
A request will bring our latest booklet,
"'How Shoes are Made" and it's well worth
the request. "' go;
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03
lovers of the Republican party are the
Tribune and Cannon.

The main object in opening up the
Smoot case for further testimony be-
fore the senate committee on privi-
leges and elections, it appears by the
Tribune, is to discover the exact terms
of the fearful oaths," it is said, Nor
mons take when they go through the
endowment house. This seems a
waste of time and money, for the OBJ
ject might be attained so much more
easily. Editor F. J. Cannon knows al
about those oaths that he and his
paper appear to be so anxious to find
out about. Would it not be much
easier for Mr.. Cannon to divulge thos
oaths himself? He is certainly wei
versed in the rites of the endowm mt
house and has without doubt been the
recipient of more substantial endow
ments from the Mormon church tn n
probably any other man.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03

The Tribune and its editor, Frank
j. Cannon, are most solicitous for the
welfare of the Republican party. How
it makes their hearts bleed for any one
to do anything that would hurt tn 2
grand old party which is so dear ID
their hearts! If any wrecking is to be
done the Tribune wants a monopoly of
it. For four years it has been maxim ,
the meanest and most dastardly fl hit
possible on the party, both nationally
and locally In the general election il
1904 the paper fought the Republicans
and did all in it's power to defeat tn 2
Republican ticket and turn the state
over to the Democrats. 1t is fight n :
the Republican party today in the most
cowardly and underhand way. Frank
Cannon sold out the Republican party
few years ago and joined the Demo
Gratis and trained with them for 4 few
years. Then he sold out the Demo
Gratis and joined the Kearns' "Ameri
cans" and for the past eighteen
months has let no opportunity pass
to strike the Republicans. Now see
the crocodile tears he sheds over the
alleged troubles of the party! The
Tribune and Cannon did everythin
they could to defeat President Rcose
velt's election, and since his election
have spared NJ effort to discre1it and
embarrass his administration. Great
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03

1t seems gambling is gong on in tn ,
city almost as extensively as during
the Morris administration. The onl J
difference is that under the former
regime the city derived a large revenue
from it in the form of fines or licenses,
conducted with the knowledge of the
police, the city gets nothing from it.
although it is by no means certain tina.
the gamblers don't have to pay pretty
smartly for the privilege of being al,
lowed to engage in the business.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03
PUTTING ON THE LID.

Editor Truth: The passenger
agents of the railroads east of Chi
cago have put on the ante-pass lid
so tightly that for one of them to
even think of issuing a pass would be
mortal sin. All the eastern passen-
ger agents are sitting on this lid and
holding it down and like detective
on the trail of a criminal, they are
constantly watching each other, hop
ing and praying that some one of
them will break the agreement so
they can all jump off and let the pent
up force throw the lid so high it will
not cCme down again in ten years.
The eastern passenger agents have
been worked to a finish on free trans
portation by all kinds of people.
will give a sample of three of them.
Mr.. Castor o. Lubricator is a hand
car inspector with the Cranberry
Marsh and Balsom Swamp railroad.
His daughters chum wants to go from
Chicago to Gigglerville Ohio, and re-
turn, and she works Mr.. Castor o. Lu-
bricator for his influence for a pass.
Mr.. Lubricator writes to his superin-
tendent for a pass for his daughter to
visit her grandmother in Gigglerville
who is very sick. In due time the
pass comes. The chum takes it. signs
Miss Lubricator's name, goes to Gig
glerville and back and brags about
how she has beat the railroads. Here
is another: Mr. Wood B. Sooner, a
| farmer, of Sooner, Wis, has driven a
regular land agent over the county
and has learned the ropes somewhat
in drumming up trade. He gets few
cards printed and opens real estate
office in his kitchen. He wants tc
visit his old home, Lonesomeville
near Buffalo, New York, so he greases
his boots, puts on new shiny celu
loid cellar, a white boiled" shirt and
with his wife and daughter calls or
| the western passenger agent Of the
Michigan Central railroad at Chicago
He leaves his wife and daughter in
the outer Office to chew gum and rub
Der at the good looking clerks who
are busy selling tickets to Kalamazoo
Detroit and Niagara Falls, while he
gees in to the private Office, hands his
card to TIE general agent and makes
speech like this: | am Mr.. Woo
B. Sooner, from Sooner, Wis. / an
the great and only real estate agent
there. Ever since / opened my office
all trains going to Sooner have beer
crowded with immigrants coming tt
my office to buy land. All the grea
railroads of Wisconsin appreciate my
great work, see the passes l hold OF
these reads. My wife, my daughter
and myself work night and day ant
Sundays to accommodate all the set
tiers who visit Sooner. A great cry
has come to us from Lonesomeville tt
come there and get up an excursion
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03

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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03

Postmasters sending subscriptions to TRUTH
may retain % per cent of subscr ption price
as commission.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-11-28

create public sentiment against such
legislation. The establishment of a
parcels post system similar to that in
England, would be directly in the in
terest Of the farmers, and the sentiment
among them is largely in favor of such
legislation.
The local press of this state seems
to be almost unit against a parcels
post. We will answer some of their
objections on the editorial page. The
following article from the Richmond
News-Leader, has been going the
rounds of the Florida weekly papers.
Doubtless the editors think it an
unanswerable argument against a par
GELS post Possibly it may be, but
we do not think so.
Matter of Extending the Parcels
POSTPONE of the serious questions to
come before the next Congress is the
extension of the parcels service Of the
United States postofflce system. The
extension is said to be backed by
powerful lobby, maintained by the
mail order houses of the great cit
les. It's success will mean serious
injury, if not ruin, to many retail
stores in the country and the smaller
cities.
On the one side it is argued that
the extension will be a great advant-
age to consumers and users, espec-
tally Of dry goods as it will enable
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-11-28

never become law unless the farmers
and rural citizens generally, fight for
| it.
Congress, last session, appointed a
joint commission to investigate and
report on second-class matter. This
commission has had hearings at New
York and Washington, and the express
companies have insisted upon increas-
ing the postage on magazines and all
papers except dailies. If this is done,
the additional cost will generally be
added to the subscri ption price, and it
will be blow at education and general
intelligence. The express companies
have hitherto defeated every effort to-
ward the parcels post, through the
| help and influence of such men as Sen
actor Plat, of New York, who is presi-
dent of one of the companies and chair
man of the Senate committee on postal
affairs. The express companies now
advise that the postal deficit be made
up by tax upon the educational agen-
cles of the country, so that no financial
consideration will help to push along
the parcels post, and so that the exor-
bitant railroad rates for carrying the
mails, the unlimited and much-abused
franking privilege, ETC., need not be in
terfered with. We say that the par
cells post alone would make up the $10,-
100000 deficit shown at the close of the
last fiscal year, besides saving more
than double that amount to the people
An organization known as the Farm
ers' National Congress has just held
a meeting in Illinois and among other
things passed resolution which was
reported by the Indiana Farmer, as
| follows:
The Parcels Post Law-Among the
resolutions passed by the Farmers
National Congress was this:
"Resolved, That we recommend that
an appropriation be made by Congress
at its next session, for the establish
ment OF an experimental local parcels
post that shall cover general transpor-
tation within the limits of rural de-
livery route"
This is in the right direction, but is
not quite positive enough. Why es-
tabhsh an experimental local parcels
post? Has any one any doubt as to
it's popularity and utility? 1t would
seem that the success of the parcels
post in England for SO many years
would be sufficient proof of its de-
STABILITY, without experimenting here.
It is undoubtedly a good thing, and
let us adopt it as soon as possible.
Another item, from the Indiana
Farmer, shows one form of the organ
lied opposition which we must meet
and overcome:
The Merchants League of America
has been organized by New York
merchants to oppose any parcels post
legislation, and they are at work to
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-11-28

because it would compel a dealer If
Cleveland to sell his goods as low as E
dealer in Chicago sells them? Should
the outrageous and oppressive express
companies be maintained and support
ed by the government for the benefit
OF merchants and dealers who are
afraid Of free competition? For every
dealer there are at least one hundred
consumers. Should public policy favo,
the one against the hundred? How i;
it in England, Germany, France ano
other European countries where they
have had the parcels post for years
Are all country merchants and dealers
driven out Of business? Not at all
Business goes on just as it did before
except, perhaps, that inordinate profits
Of some dealers and merchants have
been cut down by outside competition
Postmaster Dewstoe, at the meeting
above referred to, urged the necessity
Of caution in extending the postal ser
vice. He wants the movement to &c
slow. Why should the immense advan-
|tage of the parcels post system be de-
ferred any longer? Every year Of de-
lay robs the people of millions and en-.
riches few stockholders of carrying
companies, besides depriving farmers
Of the inest1mable privilege of delivery
and collection of packages at theii
doors Rural free delivery is now pret-
ty we'll established all over the coun-
try About 10000 rural carriers make
their daily trips with horse and wagor
Ito carry, on an average, little over
two pounds of mail matter Each coulo
carry 100 pounds at little additiona,
cost to the department., and this woulc
make the rural service se1f-sustaining
If each carrier hauled 100 pounds pei
day instead of two and one-hal
pounds, the postal receipts would bt
increased at least tenfold, outside O.
increased expense. Not one single
sound argument against the parcel.
post system can be adduced. Every
consideration, for the peoples interest
is in it's favor. But like every othel
reform, it must fight it's way through
against host of purely selfish inter
ests. The farmers will be the chic
beneflciarles Of this system They
must advocate it, and fight for it with
might and main, if they want it.. The
people Of large towns and cities will
do little or nothing. Merchants ane
dealers who think their business will
be injured, will expend time, money
and labor to defeat it. Congress will
convene in less than a month. Ar,
the farmers ready to back up the par
cells post bill which has been intro
duced and, unless smothered o
switched off, will be considered at tn,
coming session? Organized interest
all over the country, such as the Ma
tional Hardware Jobbers' Asso'n, will
| be ready to fight the bill, and it viii
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-11-28

at the next mail delivery The farm
er's wife could send in a dozen eggs
or weeks supply of butter to a Gus
toner, or she could order trimming
for her new hat or a new bonnet, and
have this done for a few cents, thus
saving a trip to town. The merchant
could get his supplies, as he does now,
by freight.
1t certainly would be wise for con-
gress in the coming session to test
this matter by experiment, precisely
as it did with the rural route years
ago. This would not interfere with
the present established rates Of busi-
ness and wou1d,' we are quite sure,
open the way for the establishment
Of parcels post adapted to the condi-
tions and requirements of this great
country.
Some of the opponents of parcels
post have had meeting ait Cleveland
Ohio, and the editor, of the Ohio
Farmer, gives brief resume of their
argument against it, and then proceeds
to answer it very forcibly, as follows
At dinner given to the directors
of the Cleveland Chamber of Com
merce, members of the committee on
postal affairs, etc., a fierce attack was
made upon the parcels post movement
The dinner, in fact, was given by the
National Hardware Jobbers' Associa-
ton, through Geo. T. Mcintosh, chair
man of it's committee. onup postal
affairs, with the single object of en-
listing the aid of the Chamber of Com
merce in killing the parcels post move
ment. The speakers portrayed the
dangers which confronted the whole
sale and retail merchants of the county
ii the parcels post became established
so that mail order houses could send
large packages direct to consumers at
low postal rates. This was the only
argument presented, and it is the only
one that can be presented. In plain
language it is simply this: ''If the par
GELS post is established and packages
up to IL pounds in weight are carried
by the mails and delivered to consum-
ers at the low rates proposed (cost Of
service), it will bring all the whole
sale and retail merchants and dealers
Of the entire country into close COM
petition and their profits will be cut
down accordingly" The mail order
houses of Chicago were the central tar
gets at this dinner. The parcels post
would give them a great advantage
over other merchants and dealers. But
what is to prevent these other mer-
chants and dealers from sending or
ders by mail also? The parcels post
will be open to all. If the farmer can
purchase supplies cheaper in one place
than another, should the policy and
laws of the country prevent him from
doing so? In other words, should the
parcels post be denied to the people
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19
COOLER WEATHER PROMISED.
Break in the Present Hot Wave /!
Indicated.

Cheering information for sweltering hui
mainly in this city was given out at the
weather bureau this afternoon by Prof
Edward B. Garriott, the official dispenser
of good. bad and Indifferent brands Of me-
teorology He said there would be a break
in the present torrid conditions tomorrow.
and conditions would be more pleasant.
1.-THE temperature for Sunday" he said
will hardly reach eighty degrees. Yes
terday the maximum thermometer read
ing was o. At o'clock this afternoon the
reading was "a, and still going up, with a
chance of nearing the 90 mark
While Washington is being encompassed
with sInothering hot wave the cooling in
formation. comes from North Dakota that
freezing weather Is prevailing there, while
snow is falling In upper Michigan The
downtown street temperature at 1:3O
o'clock this afternoon was given on the big
thermometer at Affieck's drug store as ~
degrees.
Comparatively cool weather is promised
for tomorrow night.
The highest temperature recorded in the
United States yesterday was 90 degrees, at
Phoenix, Ariz. Temperatures of 81 pre-
vailed at Albany. N. Y; Raleigh. N. CT;
Richmond. Va, and Yuma, Arz. The low
est temperature, 2s-four degrees below the
freezing point-was registered at Devil S
Lake, n. Oak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19
Two Fraud Orders.

Postmaster General Cortelyou has at
tached his name to another fraud order
against a German lottery concern. TINS
time 1t is the Serial Bonds Society. Union.
Kronstat:n Eise,e and Bankeffekten-Ges
aft, at Stuttgart. The investigation OF the
postal inspectors disclosed the fact, accord
ing to the report upon which the action OF
Mr.. Cortelyou is based. that communities
lions are being sent into this country from
this address, soliciting remittances for lot
terry tickets
A fraud order has just been issued against
the American Promoting and Trustee Com
pany and its officers and agents as such, OF
Fl Doane street. Boston, on the alleged
grounds that this concern solicits through
the mails fees for financing business propo-
sitions and lives on the fees alone, In al
most every instance never attempting to
finance the scheme.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19
Building Permits Issued.

Building permits were issued by Inspector
Ashford today as follows:
To Mamie ]. Jackson. for two two-story
brick dwellings at 32o-322 M street south
west; architect, William T. Davis; builder,
Joseph Manning: estimated cost. $500.
To Abner-Drury Brewing Company, for
two-story brick warehouse at 25th and F
streets northwest; architect, Edward o.
volland; builder, Charles D. Volland; esti-
mated cost, 5000.
To George C. Humphrey. builder. for five
two-story brick dwellings at 529-537 M
street southwest, and for five two-story
brick dwellings at M1S-1126 9th street
southwest; architect e. Volland; estimated
cost, $25.0oO.
To Mrs. Robb Hinkleys for repairs and
alterations at 1923 10th street northwest;
architect Frank H. Jackson; builder, r. l..
Parry; estimated cost s.. 500.
To John Welsh. for repairs and altera-
lions at ITO 9th street northwest; esti-
mated cost. 81 800.
To George e. Hamilton, for repairs and
alterations at 1851 New Hampshire avenue
northwest; architect. Leon E. Dussez.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19
tine COURT RECORD
District Supreme Court.

O1101cC B0prono court.
EQUITY COURT NO. 1--Chfef Justice cla-
baugh.
Lane ast. Lane; aiinony psndente lite or
dered paid. compIafnAntss solicitor n D.
Campbell; defendants solicitor, l. p. Har-
low.
EQUITY COURT NO. 2-Justice STAFFORD.
Waldhorn agt. Davis. reference to audi
tor: complainant.s solicitor. 8. c. Peelie;
defendants solicitors. c. E. Emig and A. g.
WorthinSton.
CIRCUIT COURT NO. 1--Justlce Wright.
pany agt. Arnold; motion for new trial
Med; plaintiffs attorney H. Winship
wheatiey; defendant's attorneys, Ivan Hell
deman and George Burgess.
Chapman agt. Heurich Brewing COMPANY:
Ju0gment on verdict for plaintiff for $50:
piaintins attorney. F. 8. Key Smith; de-
Ienoanrs attorney. Leon Tobriner.
m AneLacan savings Bank agt. Robinson &
20: condemnation Of one share of stock
OF George z. Robinson ordered; plaintiff 8
attorneys, II. III. Classic and A. George
CIRCUIT COURT NO 2-Justice Anderson
van Why agt. Schneider: motion for new
.rlal Med; plaintiffs attorney, Hayden
johnson; defendants attorney Saumei
Maddox
Baumgarten agt. Baumgarten: motion to
Quasn service granted: plaintiffs attorneys
Won g Rosenberg; defendants attorneys
II.
American Security and Trust Company
agt. District Of Columbia; judgment for
plalntin for n.525.33; plaintiffs attorneys
A. b. Browne and G. E. Hamilton; defend
ants attorneys. e. H. Thomas and r. H.
Stephens
American Security and Trust Company
agt. District of Columbia: judgment for
plaintiff for 81 09.28 PLAINTIFFS attorneys
A. b. Browne and G. E. Hamilton; defend
ants attorneys. E. H. Thomas and F. H.
Stephens.
Potomac Laundry Company agt Benson;
Judgment by default; plaintiffs attorney.
L. ]. Mather.
Richardson agt. Cannon; motion to re-
store property overruled; plaintiffs attor-
| neys. Thompson & Laskey; defendants at
torney. Edmund Burke.
BANKRUPTCY CoURT-chief Justice
Clabaugh.
In re Charles B. Cropley; sale finally con-
firmed.
In re Augustus J. Stabler; discharge or
dered.
In re Virginia Tiffany; hearing on dis
charge set for May 81
PROBATE COURT-Justice Stafford.
Estate of James Henderson: petition for
probate Of will filed; attorney, ]. H. Stew
art
Estate of Richard Crowther; will dated
December 10, 1904, filed.
Estate Of Margaret E. Toner; petition for
probate of will filed.
Estate of Caroline E. Patrick; will
dated May a. 1904. filed.
Estate of Margaret Edes; order to convey
| land; attorney, John Selden.
Estate Of Lee Blakey: letters of admins
| tration granted to Julia s. Blakey; bond,
$500; attorneys, MCGOWAN, Server Mo-
| hun.
| Estate Of Michael Maloney: petition for
| probate Of will filed; attorney. Oscar
| Luckett.