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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
PAPER TRUST CASES
IN THE SUPREME COURT
By w, w. Jernnane.

Washington, Jan. 1-Frank B. Kel-
logg is in Washington to appear before
the supreme court in the paper trust
cases, which are set down for argument
tomorrow. The main issue in the cases
is not involved in the proceedings now
before the court, but the question
whether the court can compel officers
of the various companies involved to
produce books and records is to be de-
cided. .-.. So
The original proceedings were begun
in st. Paul4and Milwaukee simultane-
ously and in9both places the principal
witnesses weres fined for contempt of
court when they refused to obey the
OFFS documentary evidence asked for by
prosecution. Appeals were taken to the
United States supreme court and the
cases were consolidated for argument
before that court.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
RICH KL0NDIKER
DIES As SUICIDE
Frank Phiscator, Pioneer in the
Alaska Gold Fields, Is
SeR-Slain.

San Francisco, Jan. 1.-Frank Phis-
Gator, millionaire Alaskan miner, end-
at a local hotel by cutting his throat
with a razor. Phiscator is said to have
been one of the pioneers Of the Klon-
dixie and was at FortyMile at the time
Of the great discovery. He built putt me ne
claims on Bonanza creek. Phiscator
came originally from Michigan.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Jan. 1.-Frank
Phiscator, the millionaire Alaskan
miner who committed suicide yesterday
in San Francisco, was very well known
in Berrien county, Michigan: He made
ten visits to BaEoda TheIe nh he mad mad pro- pro-
the luxuries of life. His brothers and
sisters also pro6ted largely thru ms
good fortune. His annual home comlngs
were the occasion for prolonged festivi.
ties among his friends. Four years age
he fell in love at first sight with,
waitress at the Hotel Whitcomb, st
Joseph, and married her the same day
His bride went back to Alaska Witt
him
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
RUSS PRISONS OVERFLOW
Government Is Carrying on Repressive
Measures with Vengeance.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 1.-The policy OF
depressing the revolutionists continues
with a vengeance. Their announcement
that they proposed to carry on guer-
lila warfare until general armed re-
volt is prepared, has stimulated the
government to redoubled energy.
"A band of terrorists is known to be
at work here and last night there were
wholesale searches for suspects.
The city prisons are SO overcrowded
that hundreds have been removed to
Schlusselburg fortress and to the for
tress of st. Peter and ST. Paul.
Government spies are at work among
the Workmen and revolutionary societies
with instructions to give warning OF
meetings, which are Immediately sur
rounded, the members searched for arms,
and the ringleaders taken into custody.
Nevertheless the workmen s council
and the executive committee or the So
cial revolutionists are managing to-
evade arrest and are meeting each day
at different places in the outskirts of
the city.
No Mercy, Is Order.
The patrols are understood to have or
ders not to spare bullets if they are att.
tackled by persons using bombs or re-
volvers.
An interview with Governor General
Doubassof is printed today in which be
explains that the duration of the revolt
4 is due to the extent of the region In
which the military forces are operating
and the lack of troops, which COM
PEELED Doubassof to await reinforce
ments from Warsaw and st. Petersburg
before giving the revolutionists their
i deathblow.
Task Of the Troops.
uThe most diffiekIt task the gov
errtor general continued, was to drive
: them from their base on the Kazan
railroad between Moscow and Perovo,
: three miles east of Moscow, and SUR
, round them in the Presna district so as
to prevent their escape. Both these
tasks were successfully accomplished.
"The strikers of the Prokharoff mills
who held the proprietor as a hostage,
were ready to surrender Friday, but
Colonel Mini. who conducted the nego-
tiations, declined to accept their SIR
render unless they also delivered up the
'Druiinists who had sought refuge
there. -
Let's Stand Firm
Reinforceme1ts entered Courland
: from four sides, but the leaders Of the
Lettish revolution are imperturbable.
Four columns Of troops, principally cav
airy and artillery. are converging to-
ward Mitau and Riga.
The insurgents in the towns held by
them are instituting a social democratic
administration as if they were in per
. | manent possession. At Frankenburg
, woman Of 70 and two girls sit in the
= rev city council.
l. Anarchy in Siberia.
) The papers publish terrible picture.
;, of the conditions prevailing along the
Siberian railway. There are no rail
= way officials on duty and on the sec
70 ton as far as Cheliabinsk, government
/ Of Orenburg, all the stations have beer
pillaged.
IF Complete anarchy prevails al
e. Irkutsk The military trains are run
n ming without order or proper engineers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
TURBINE LINER in PORT

Queenstown, Jan. 1.-The gale is mod
Grating and the cunard line turbine
steamer Carmania, which sailed from
Liverpool Dec. 80 for New York and was
unable to enter Queenstown harbor yes
terday on account of the severity of the
weather, came in at 9 O'Clock this morn
ing BY keeping well out to sea the
steamer last night rode thru the storm
with comparative steadiness.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
WHITE FLAGS IN MOSCOW
Reds Surrender, the Last Act Being .
Dramatic One. EE

Moscow, Jan. 1.-Wbite flags flying
from a dozen factories in the tenement
house district of Presna, where the
revolutionaries made their last stand.
now bear mute witness to the end OF
the "December uprising in Moscow.
The entire district is now occupied
by troops.
During Saturday night the vast ma
iority Of the "fghting legions either
their arms, tried to escape in the guise
of peaceful citizens. Only the MEM
bers who acted as guard to the revo-
lutionary committee stuck to their COZ
ors. and, the surrende IS this handful
in the morning Furnished. the last act
of the sanguinary d. Ia
The Dramas Finish.
The staging Of this last act was ad-
mirahle-a snow covered landscape, the
small black residence with a tiny red
flag futtering from it's gable, the end
of Gorbatoff bridge, black with the
guns of the artillery and thin encir-
Cling line of the Seminovsky regiment
of the guard. broken only directly IN
the line of fire.
Suddenly there was flash of red IS
from the mouth of one, OF the guns
a solid shot ploughed thru tn T9is%
of the house. A few sputtel II sEats
replied from a window. M Rst#Es
spoke again and again unit Z tafzef
shots had been fired.
It looked like murG&t - siect 81
tors on hill and so eJlGetits- i1a me
the officer I'M command tss atserHs
which ceased fire. -,
A reserve company of tne ssoeminov.
skv regiment then advance and hreu
volleys at the upper windows.
The White Signal
AT the third volley, white hand
kerchief attached to bayonet, was
pushed thru shattered pane. It
waved frantically and all was over.
! The little garrison of thirty marched
out and laid down their arms, strange
collection of rifles and repeating shot
Guns. All had revolvers.
Strange to say, not one of the men
] had even been wounded, and when they
found that they would not be executed
/ Immediately, they appeared to be rather
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
M,kADo HoNoRs koMuRA.

Toxic, Jan. 1.-Baron Komura, the spe-
cial envoy of Japan to China who nego-
tiated the Japanese Chinese treaty, re-
turned here today from Picking and was
received in audience by the emperor i'm
mediately after his arrival. This excep-
tional reception Of the statesman on New
Years day is believed to be connected
with the impending change Of cabinetss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
DOMINICAN I TREATY
IS TO BE IGNORED.
President and Senate Are Said to
Have Reached an Under
standing.
Present Arrangement in Island
Will Stand Without Amer
lean Action.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, Jan. IA definite rumor
is current today that the senate will
take no action on the Santo DOMINICAN
treaty, but will permit the questions
which it involves to pass from public
view without further action of any sort.
This, it is further said, is the result Of
an understanding reached between the
president and leading republican sena-
tors.
Z Should the treaty now come to vote,
it would be defeated. This conceded,
it is further said to be question, even
in the executive mansion, whether, IN
the light Of what has recently occurred
in the little island, this government
ought to establish permanently the over
lordship which the treaty contemplates.
Plans Of Administration.
This understanding, If it should turn
enable the administration to carry out
its plans with respect to the Dominican
republic almost as well as II the treaty
were ratified and in force. The So
called modus. by its own terms, is to
continue until the Dominican congress
and the senate Of the United States act
upon the treaty. An examination of
the treaty diseloses the fact that it does
not contain limit of time in which it
is to be ratified by the legislative
bodies, whose approval is necessary to
i give it the force of law.
What Morales Decreed.
| The Morales decree, which the fugi
/ tive president himself called a modu
vivendi, declares in specific terms tina
it is to remain in force until the treat,
is ratified. It also provides that whel
the treaty is ratified, the American gov
eminent shall appoint the collectors o
customs but until that time the Amer
cans appointed by President Morale
shall remain in office. It also provide
that if the treaty shall be rejected, tn
money collected and deposited in tn
National City bank, the Rockefeller il
stitution in New York, shall be turne
. over to the Dominican congress to b
distributed among the creditors of th
republic as it shall be determined. Nc
one Of these provisions contains tim
limit. The conditions created by the1
may continue until such time as th
force dominant in Santo Domingo d
crees they shall be changed.
Foreign Powers Quiet.
The foreign creditors have an ide
that the present arrangement will I
4 continued until, fund is created Fl
( the payment of debts, even If tt
treaty is not ratified. That is why ii
foreign governments that were SO imp;
: tient last winter are now models Of 70
z bearance. It is nothing to them whet
er the money collected by virtue Of
Americans acting under a decree Of tt
3 Dominican government, that is, IL
( Dominican president and council Of sc
: retaries of state
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
Holdup in Pittsburg.
$500 900 ERE in eRockToN

Brockton, Mass, Jan. 1.-The total loss
caused by the fire which destroyed the
main portion of the City block at Main
and Ward streets early today is nearly
100000. The section of the structure
containing the City theater was saved,
but heavy damage was caused to the
auditorium by water.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01

A Chicago man attended a ball and,
by using a pedometer, reached thu CON
clusion thatza girl dances about sixteen
miles in the course Of an evening. .ss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01

DR.. George NJ. Gould, the Philadelphia
eye specialist, asserts that fully half of
the sufferers from eye-strain have some
form a Of dyspepsia, partly, at least. as a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01

Auditing Company Will Present q
scathing Report Censuring
School Boards.
Journal Special Service.

journal special service. 1
Chicago, Jan. 1.Startling disclos-
ures will be made in report on the
defalcation of former Superintendent
of Schools Newton G. Dougherty, which
will be presented to the Peoria school
board Tuesday night, The school man
will be shown to have been one of the
greatest sWindlers the world has ever.
known. The report, which is being pre-
pared by the Everett Audit company,
embraces the records of the last seven
years, and will show:-stota1 shortage OF
is more than the widest conjecture
previously had made the steal in the
whole twenty-five years Of DoughertySs
trusteesbip.
The auditors still are at work on the
books and from preliminary survey
of the whole task. it is shown that the
shortage for eighteen years will exceed
$1,000,000.
Bank Responsible.
It has been disclosed by members Of
the investigating committee that not
only will the report of the audit COM
mittee scathingly censure the members
Of the present and the past school
boards FOR their neglect Of duty, but
will declare boldly that the liauldated
Peoria National bank is responsible up
to the limit of liabilities for the loss
to the school fund.
This charge against the bank is
based upon the fact that the pecula-
lions were carried out by Dougherty
by means of forged and fictitious school
scrip, which was cashed by the bank
+ of which DoughertY was president. fhe
scrip was cashed without proper indorse-
ment. The report will assert the cr1ml-
nal liability Of the bank officials.
News of this trend Of the investlga-
ton has produced CONSERVATION IN Pc
oria financial circles.
Dividends Stopped.
When the auditors first discovered
conclusive proof of the bans respon.
! sibility, court action was taken immedl.
ately to stop the payment OF further
dividends by the receiver. The order
was not executed, however, until 30 pei
cent Of .he claims had been paid: Il
it is finally established that the bans
owes the school hoard the amount %
I the defalcation these dividends viii
uuenee will be that the banks affairs
will be tied up in the courts for several
/ The report. which is being rapidly
completed, will be read In the oper
meeting Of the school board. One OF
the conclusions which will be drawn %
the author is that, In all the twenty
five years Of Dougherty,s official con 5
nectionJ with the public schools OF Re
oria, the accounts Of the school. boarc
never received proper auditing. In this
respect the members of the board II
past wears and the members OF the
| finance committee will be charged with
neglect Of their public trust.
Got $4,000 q Year.
One Of the most interesting features
of the report is an analysis which vii
show the magnitude Of Doug erty =
operations. In none Of the last sever
years, it is said. did he steal less thai
$4,000, and in The last three years n
got away with 100000.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
IS FILLING
RUSSIAN PRISONS
Hundreds Of Revolutionists Cast
Into Cells at ST Pet
ersburg.
TROOPS ARE ORDERED
TO SHOW NO MERCY
Anarchy Reigns at Irkutsk and
Along the Siberian
Road.

Elizabethgrad, Government of Kher-
son, Russia, Jan. LA collision involv-
ing two military trains occurred today
between Spamenka and Dnieperovsk.
Twenty soldiers were killed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
LAWS TO AVENGE
LOSS OF PASSES
Pennsylvania Solons Now Threat
en- to Legislate for the
People.
Journal Special Service.


Pitsburg, Jan. lit is predicted that
the "no pass' rule of railroads, which
takes effect today, will cost the rail
roads many millions Of dollars in Penn
sylvania, before 1907. Retaliatory meas
ures are already being framed by legis-
lators, and they can probably do enough
damage at the extraordinary session be-
ginning Jan. 19 to offset all the free
passes the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany has issued in a year.
William T. Greasy, democratic leader
from Columbia county, has already. re-
ceived enough promises from republican
members thruout the state to insure the
passage Of his bill allowing trolley lines
to carry freight. The Pennsylvania
railroad has succeeded for twenty years
in suppressing such a bill Immediately
after its introduction. Such law would
cost the railroad about 100000 an.
nually.
After Mileage Extortion.
Representative Lawrence B. Cook of
Pittsburg proposes to introduce a bill
that will make it a misdemeanor to
charge for more mileage than actually
exists. The Pennsylvania has in the
past twenty years shortened the route
between Pittsburg and New York by
about fifty miles, but it still charges
4O1 GuO Olu u1StduCc.
Bills are contemplated that would fix
the responsibility for accidents and
compel the railroads to provide more
safety appliances. Bills to insure bet
ter sanitary arrangements in cars, tc
provide seat for every passenger and
! to change the laws that give the rail
roads such great monopoly over tile
state are now under consideration.
The law allows 500 per mile for the
assemblymen during session. Hereto
fore the railroads gave the members an
nual passes and as many trip passage:
as they cared to use while the session
was in progress.
Holdup in Pittsburg.
{ In the Pittsburg city council tn,
Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio ant
the Wabash railroads rave fourteen bill
pending, each relating to some conces
sion needed for improvements or exten
sions. Two months ago any Of thes
bills would have passed without opposi
ton. Now they are all being carefully
scrutinized. The bills have been re
1ferred to subcommittee. Corporation
men and people conversant with legisla
tion in this state understand what tn
subcommittee means.
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Odessa, Jan. 1.-The governor gem
eral has ordered the inhabitants Of this
city to keep inside their houses and to
lock the doors, holding the householders
responsible for any firing from their.
premises
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
TWENTY PEOPLE HURT N
STREET RAILWAY ACCIDENT
Two Portland Street Cars, Running at
Terrific Speed, Collide, With
Disastrous Results.

Portland.-More than twenty per.
sons were injured in a head-on COLI.
sion between two loaded Woodlawn
cars of the Portland Railway COM
pany at the intersection of Union and
Holiday avenues. There is consid-
cradle incline on Union avenue Just
beyond Holiday, and on this the in
coming car, which is supposed to ton.
tinue on past Holiday, became un
comfortable. The car, instead of con.
tinuing on it's proper tracks, ran into
an open switch at Holiday and with
terrific speed whirled around the cor.
ner and into an outgoing Woodlawn
car, which had come to stop before
turning from Holiday into Union ave-
nue.. Both cars were badly wrecked
and hurried calls were sent for the
police and ambulances. When all the
had been removed from
he cars it was found that only eight
persons had suffered sufficient injury
o necessitate removal to the hospital.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
TORN TO- PIECES
BY DYNAMITE
Eleven Men Killed and Five
Fearfully Injured as Result
Of an Explosion.
Pennsylvania Dynamite Plant IL De-
stroyed, the Shock Being Plainly
Felt Fifteen Miles Away-Frag-
ments of Bodies Found Hun
dreds Of Yards Away.

Lancaster, Pa.-Eleven men were
blown to pieces and five others were
seriously injured by the explosion oil
a dynamite plant on Saturday near
Pequea, along the Susquehanna river.
The accident was one OF the most hor.
rible in the history of Lancaster coun.
ty The victims were literally torn to
pieces, hardly enough remaining OF
the bodies to make Identification pos
sible.
The cause of the explosion is not
known. Two of the unidentified vic.
Tins had just started to drive from
the place with a load Of dynamite
They had gone scarcely fifty feet when
the plant blew up with a defamation
that was plainly heard fifteen miles
away. A great cloud of smoke covered
tho site Of the factory, and when II
cleared away there was not vestige
Of the horses, wagon or men. Frag
ments Of human bodies were found
hanging to trees hundred yards
away. Persons living near the factory
began the work of rescue, but there
were few In the place who had moi
been blown to atoms. The remains OF
the dead were gathered up and placed
In soap boxes, Identification being i'm
bossible.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
TROOPS FIRE VOlitY At
STRIKING COAL MINERS
Eight Men Are Stricken Down by
Representatives of the Law, VINO
Evidently Shot to XIII.

Indiana, Pa.-The new mining town
of Ernest, on the Buffalo, Rochester
& Pittsburg railroad, five miles from
here, was the scene early Friday OF a
conflict between a detail of state con.
stabulary and striking coal miners, in
which eight strikers were wounded,
three of them fatally.
Shortly after daylight body OF
strikers, headed by brass band,
marched from Anita mines, in Jeffer-
son county, to receive one of the mine
officials expected from Punxsutawney.
On the way to the station the march
ers. encountered a detail of twelve
members of the state constabulary.
AS they passed a member of the band
fired his revolver at the troops. No
one was struck, but the constabulary
Immediately retaliated with volley
from their carbines.
When the smoke cleared eight strik-
ers were lying on the ground and the
others had fled precipitately down the
hill.
After the excitement had subsidized
the wounded miners were removed to
Adrian hospital. AS the result of the
shooting mass meeting arranged for
the afternoon was Cancelled
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
Labor In Philippines.

Washington.-In response to COM
plant by President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, So
licitor Charleton of the Philippine gov
eminent has reported to Secretary
Taft that the eight-hour law is en-.
forced in the Philippines and is held
to apply to all works there provided
for by appropriations from public
moneys Of the United States. AS to
the employment of Chinese laborers,
the solicitor says that the Chinese are
now excluded from the Philippines,
but it has never been the policy of the
government to restrict or to prevent
the employment of Chinese in any
branch of the war department a. me.
chanics or laborers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
DEATH IN PATH OF STORM.
Several PennsyIvanlans Killed by
Lightning, and Crops Ruined
by Hail.

Pittsburg, Pa.-From many points
In western Pennsylvania come reports
Of death and damage by severe thun.
der showers and electrical storms Sun.
day. At Monongahela the storm was
accompanied by high wind that up
rooted trees and blew down many
buildings. A number of residences
were struck by lightning, the tele-
graph service was put out Of commits.
sion and several thousand dollars
worth Of damage was done.
At Beaver Falls hailstones of i'm
mense size fell, doing great damage
to windows, fruit trees and crops.
AT Kittaning, James Mitchell and
his 15-year-old son, who were sitting
on porch, were struck and killed by
lightning, and the house was set on
fire. Others of the family were
stunned and neighbors came to their
assistance in time to rescue them
from the flames.
At Punxsutawney, Clyde Blose, aged
Is, and Bert Weise, aged 20, were
killed by lightning while standing in
the doorway of barn. Lacid Blose,
brother of Clyde, was also struck,
and Is not expected to live.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
Stabbed Boy With Nall.

Newark, N. J.--Stabbed by one OF
his little playmates with a wire nail,
Louis Neuer, IL years old, lies in his
home in serious condition. Charged
with having inflicted the injury, Louis
Seidenberg, is years old, was held in
$500 bail in the Fourth precinct court
The stabbing as the sequel to a
quarrel between Neuer and a younger
brother Of Seidenberg. Neuer called
the younger brother a name, and the
older brother went at him. After a
few passes had been exchanged Sci.
denberg pulled wire nail from HE
pocket and plunged It into Neuer's left
breast. Nh