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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
LIVESTOCK WEIGHTS AGAIN.

The railroad commission will renew considera-
ton of minimum weights on livestock at a
hearing Jan. o. The railroad companies have
asked permission to raise the minimums and the
commission has not been prepared to give a de-
cision without further information.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
TODAY IN THE DISTRICT COURT
f. 49, " '-
Judge D. F. Simpson-NlIs M. Nil
son We: Peter Mootz. fight for pos
session Of HennepIn county farm,

session Of HennepIn county farm,
on trial.
Judge F. c. 7rooks-MInor court
matters. L
Judge John Day Smltll-Frank Stew
ems, John Madden and Frank Han
lon, still on trial for alleged grand
larceny In the second degree.
Judge Andrew HoIt-MiohaeI copIsy
vs.. Minneapolis Fire Relief Insur-
ance association, still on trial.
Judge n. .. .Dicklnson-O. J. Evans
VS.. r. r. Retchet G. Co., second
trial of suit to collect $4,000 for
alleged breach of contract.
Judge F. v. Brown-HearIng on
writ Of quo warranto, citing officers
Of Christian Union to show cause
why the Incorporation shall not be
dissolved. Thomas J. Sergeants,
former treasurer of union, testi-
fled to collecting money. ..s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
AROUND THE TOWN

Hill Speaks Tonight.-James J. Hill
will address the members Of the st.
Paul Commercial club tonight. An ad-
journed session is to be held from last
Tuesday, when the list Of prominent
speakers was not completed.
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$16,993.61
Disbursements.


Balance on hand Jan. 10. ....... 5000. 81
One Of the most important communi-
cations was the report of the investi-
eating committee appointed by the pres
ident to inspect the system of the
bureau of grades. This committee, COM
posed of G. E. Greet, A. l.. Wall and
p: j. Stearns, was appointed last year.
The committee visited the mills at Min
neapolis, Winona, Cloquet, Bemidji and
Duluth in August to observe the system
OF grading, and Endorses the bureau.
but hesitate to do so to those who are
of wider experience, - reported the com
mittee. "We would suggest, tho, hoping
that it will be well taken, that cheap
handlers should not be substituted for
better paid graders, as we found to be
the practice at several mills. We would
also suggest that lumber be graded at
the tail of the machine, as provided by
the rules Of the bureau, and not else.
where, as at the car door -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16

Weather Now and Then.
Today, maximum 16, mi nimum de-
grees; a year ago, maximum %, mini
mum zero.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16

Hoffman's t'High-Gr Sale.
So Stetson Shoes, 1915. So Ties, 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16

Adams School Lectures.-W. L. Har-
ris will deliver a lecture at the Adams
school Jan. 90, on. 'Thrift.' This will
be the first of a series to be arranged
by Adams school pupils -for-their pa
rents
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16

MISS MARY bTSORESEN died yes
terday at the city hospital, aged 81
years. Funeral Thursday at 2:30 pm.
from Tabernacle Baptist church,
Twenty-third 49,. avenue s and = Eighth
street. Interment at Layman's ceme-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16

Will Visit Hospitals A.
I.amoreaux,. the architect, with DR.:
Beckman, city physician, left last night
for a two-weeks' tour of the hospitals
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Wash
ington and Chicago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
NECRoLoGIC

ABNER L. LINTON died. yesterday
at 1873 East Twenty-seventh street,
aged Is years. Surviving him are "a
brother, Alonzo H. Linton of Mime
apolis; two sisters, Mrs. James NJ.
Swank of Philadelphia Pa, and Miss
Ada H.. Linton of Rochester, Pa; a
son, Harry H. Linton of New York
city, and daughter, Winifred M. Lin
ton of Minneapolis. Funeral private,
from the residence of A. H. Linton,
1905 Park avenue. Interment at Lake
wood cemetery.
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SEND MONEY TO
r H E JOUR N A L.

At pm. today the total ,contri-
buttons from all sources amounted
to $50, 625. 10'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
were With him a thousand times. Then

were With him a thousand times. Then
he asked scores of questions as to the
condition Of Buell's army. When I
said the boys were tull of fight, but a
little shy on r%ations, be said, God
bless EN-; Well make that all right
In short, l and my prisoner gave
Nelson Il good deal of Information
about the two armies-in fact, the first
report in detail that he had beeG able
~ secure. lie WAS very grateful Fol
son.. at my request, was released on
parole and l was practically given the
freedom Of the city. Tvo days later.
when our division Searched in from
West Point. | wGe among those who
gave ii enthusiastic welcome. Folsom
had Disappeared, and | have never seen
him since, Yet | feel in my bones
that ] Wa see him before | pass over,
and II would be iuS- like him to he in
Chicago. II he is want TO hear from
nim."-ChicagO Inter Ocean.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
ORGY N PILLAGE.
STORY OF THE BUTCHERY AT
B~lALYSTOk.
Drunken Mobs Sack and Burn jew
iSh Houses and Tear to Pieces
Victims of Their Savage Fcrocity
-Itiot Lasts Three Days.

The anti-Jewish Rating Mt Bialystok.
Russia. seems now ended. The troops
are in full control, and in view of the
outcry raised it is certain that the au-
thoriticS will not permit a renewal of
the horrors witnessed at BialyStOk. The
entire region is greatly excited owing
to fear that the BialystOk massacre was
only the signal for Il general attack on
the Jews throughout the pale and in
Poland. but if any such conspiracy OK
listed it is too late to carry out the
plans. as the most imperative orders to
prevent further outbreaks have been
issued to the governors and governors
general from st. Petersburg.
When the Associated Press CORE
spOndent arrived at BialystOk the worst
was already over, but on all sides there
was revolving evidence of savage beS-
tiality on the part of the b~loOd-drunken
mobs, which sacked and burned the
Jewish houses, shops and stores. For
s~evcnty-two hours, with Il slight ahate-
mcnt during the daytime. the mad orgy
of bIooi and pillHge went on unchecked.
The inhumanity displayed would have
done credit to the Mongol hordes of
GcnGhiS han in his ~cOnqucStS of China
and central Asia in the thirteenth cen
fury.
At first police and troops urged OF
the mob, but finally, when diSmayed by
the bloody deeds accomplished, they re-
luctantly sought to obey the orders of
their superiors to put an end to the
work of the rapacious bands of roughs,
who were SO far beyond control of the
local forces that regiment after regi.
ment had to be thrown into the city be.
fore order could be restored.
During the rioting the Jews were
hunted down by ferocious purSucrS
who. in the majority of cases, were moi
content with killing more victims, but
tore them to pieces, like wild animals
And while this was in progress the
troops either stood idly by, or. as was
more frequently the case, fired into the
houses and shops where Jews were con
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

cealed, under the pretext that they be-
lieved them to be revolutioriiStS, but
really to make way for the murderers
and p%Iunderers who followed the sol
diers.
While it is impossible to give the eX-
act figures, the visits of the correspond
ent to the hospitals and cemeteries EFT
able him to approximate the killed at
100 Jews and twenty Christians and
the wounded at $50 Jews and Sevea
Christians.
The question of the origin of the
massacre was carefully investigated.
Although many of the Jews denied that
Il bomb was thrown at the Corpus
Christi procession, the fact hat q bomb
was thrown is established beyond a
doubt, but the question Of who threw
the bomb remains unsettled.
At first the Jews fought with revol-
vers and bombs, and with their weap-
ons the majority of the Christian vic
tins we're killed. But the Jews were
o overwhelmed and fed for shelter
like rabbits to warrens. into cellars or
attics. The soldiers watched this chase
and butchery. sometimes laughing with
Indifference, but never failing to fire
into houses where Jews, sometimes to
the number of 100. were making a stand
against their aSSai!ants.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

The celebration held in Jackson, MICH,
two years ago commemorated the first
formally organized State convention
bearing the name Republican. Previous
IS the fusion of the free-soil, a%blitionist,
k~now-nothing and anti-slavery elements
generally had resulted in mass meetings
and sporadic organizations which had for
their object the creating of a new party
having opposition to slavery as its chief
political tenet. One such meeting held in
Eipon, Wis, tentatively adopted the name
Republican, but it was not until the
meeting in Michigan some months later
:Lat a State organization bearing that
title was formally effected.
From that onward the movement spread
Until when the national convention was
called in Philadelphia in 1856 it had
elected a plurality Of the House of Repre-
scntatives and eleven United States SEN
ators. All the Northern States. together
with Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland and
Delaware, were represented in the con-
v~ention. Thus, while the inception Of
1;epublicanism as a force in politics
dates back to a time before the Philadel-
Dhia convention, the latter event in real
ity may be considered the official birthday
OF the national party.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

The report of the Keep commission on
the agricultural census of 1900 sustains
the accuracy of the bureaus figures. The
commission is now preparing to probe the
affairs of the Interior Department, as Or
dered by the President and suggested by
Secretary Hitchcock. No attention will
be paid to the land frauds. More indict-
ments have been returned against western
lumbermen, who have come into large
tracts of timber lands through illegal
practices. The Secretary is now after
cattlemen in South Dakota n other
States, who are accused with engaging
dummy settlers to enter upon home
steads and then turn the land over to the
cattlemen for grazing purposes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

that before the summer Is far ad-
vanced as many men and as much ma
chinery as profitably can be employed
will be engaged in making the drt
fly on the canal rotue.
Promptly upon being advised Of the
result of the vote in the Senate Mr..
Shonts called on Secretary Taft at the
War Department and began to discuss
the plans of the commission for the
prosecution Of the great work of the
canal construction. 1t was decided that
the commission as a whole should start
for the isthmus at the earliest possible
moment and Chief Engineer Stevens
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
to accommodate itself to mountain

to accommodate itself to mountain
spurs.
A popular error is that n ocean has
a higher level than the other. This is
wrong, but there is a difference of
eighteen feet in the height to which
the tides rise on the two sides Of the
isthmus. Hence, even if the canal were
made at sea level, guard locks would
have to be built at each end. 1t has
been proposed that there be five twin
locks of concrete masonry along the
canal route. Beginning at Colon har-
bcr. the canal will be excavated for
twenty-four miles through the marshy
Iowlands of the Chagres River to Bo-
hio. SO far 1t Will be at sea level At
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
fessed, giving all the details Of the

fessed, giving all the details Of the
crime.
Mrs. HOLSTER was The fourth sseman
murdered within a period of five
months, the first having been Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Mize, who was killed near Del
Prado Hotel, Aug. %, 1905, and whoss
murderer is still at large.
The details of the crime committed
by Ivens We're SO revolving that the
whole city was aroused to action. Mass
meetings We're called in every section,
anti-crime associations We're formed
and a campaign for an increased poles
force started. In order to make the
increased police force possible a cru
SADIE to raise saloon licenses to $1,0O
was started and after . bitter struggle
was carried.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

mus. and for nearly seven miles a vast
cut has to be made through this back
bonc of rock.
For the first five miles this Is called
the 'Emperador' ut Then comes a
mile and a half of the 'Culcbra" cut.
The greatest depth of this cut, from
the hill summit to the bottom of the
canal. is about go feet. The mount
of rock and earth to be removed in the
seven miles of excavation through the
Emperador and Culebra cuts is esti-
mated Mt $4,000, 900 cubic yards.
These cuts terminate at the south
eastern end of the summit level Great
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
New York City Gas War.

Just as the people Of New York were
expecting to take advantage of the new
law reducing the price of gas from 81 to
so cents per 1000 feet, the constitution
ality of the law was attacked in an in
junction secured by the gas company from
Judge Lacombe in the federal circuit
court, the company alleging that it could
not manufacture and deliver gas at so
cents without loss. On the other hand.
application to the State Supreme Court
by newspapers and organizations procured
orders restraining the companies from
refusing to supply gas at so cents and
from changing the slot gas meters so as
to sell at 81. Some of the machines al
ready had been so changed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
pKITICS&Hh

~~~~~@~~~

Commissioner James r. Garfield of the
bureau of corporations is '~passionately
fond of tennis and frequently joins in
baseball games with his children.
In the neighborhood of his home in
Mississippi, John Sharp Williams is al
ways called John Sharp" This is be-
cause the family of the Congressman's
mother were the Sharps-the great peo-
pie of that section.
Clifford Pinchot, chief forester for the
government, and James Rudolph Gar.
field, head of the division of corpora
ions in the Department of Commerce,
are said to be the most persistent visit
ors at the White House.
Richard +. Pettigrew of South Dakota
wan to be the first socialist to sit in
the United States Senate as such. He
has served two terms already. Being an
eclectic in politics he was first elected
as a Republican, afterward e-elected as
a Delno-Populist. and in three years will
hoist the Socialist banner.
Bob Taylor, the Ex-Governor Of Ten
nessee. who has just won a United States
senatorship at his party's primaries, was
the author of the remark about Mason
and Dixon's line that it was "the line of
demarcation between hot biscu.. and cold
bread"
Senators Knox and Spoon'r are the
Damon and Pythias of the Senate. One
day Alger came out of the cioakroom
and ran against Dolliver. Where's
Spooner?" asked Alger. DO you want
to find hing said Dolliver. Sure" re
piled AIger. well, find Knox then and
yot'U navo Spooner."
Judge J. I. Fleming of Oklahoma is
unique. He served in the Confederate
army, voted the first time in bis life for
Grant. and the last time for Harrison.
He believes that every Unor soldier
shonld he paid a pension of $50 a month,
inasmuch as they saved the greatest
union Of States on earth.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
OF A PARTY.
Republicans Celebrate Fiftieth An
niNcrNarN in ThiInNcIphia.

In celebrating the 6fticth anniversary
Of the first Republican national conven-
tlon rs the golden Jubilee of their par
ty's birth the Republicans assembled in
Philadelphia kept we'll within the limits
Of strict historical accuracy, says the
Chicago News. The convention in Phila-
,iclphia fifty years ago which nominated
John {. Fremont for President was the
first in which Republicans from all the
Northern States We're assembled. 1t prop
erly marked the official and formal en-
trance of the party into national affairs.
Whether it is also to be regarded as mark
ing the birth of the party is a question
upon which not all Republicans agree.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
FINED $4,000 AS A "TRUsT."
Harvester Com pnny settles for
thc Arknnsas Law.

bTSl - '''
The international Harvester Company
surrendered to Tia" STATE of Arkansas
rather than stand rrinl on an Indictment
of violating the antitrust laws of that
State. The company. through a repre-
sentative in Chicago, agreed to plead
guilty and pay a fine of 10000 on each
OF two counts, making 100000. The
costs. it is said. will amount 20 $1,000
more. A year az, the State Of Arkansas
collected 100000 in fines from an cast
crn insurance company.
The "rxclusivc contract clause forbid
ding agents to hlndIe anything but tho
agricultural implements manufactured by
the trust formed the basis of the harvest
or prosecution. The company admitted
that his clause was in their contracts.
1t also admitted that it existed in the
contracts for some time after an extreme
~ stringent antitrust law was passed in
Arkansas in March,, 1903. The harvester
company. while acknowledging that tho
ryrluSivr contract clause existed in agree
nrntS with its agents in Arkansas for
some months in lDOl, representatives of
thn corporation said that it had since
been stricken from contracts in all States.
Texas, Missouri and Michigan. like Ar
kansas, have strong antitrust laws.
There were TWO eases, one against the
international Harvester Company and
The other against The international llar-
Nestcr Company ot America. Each cor
poration. under a compromise, admitted
to doing business in violation of the law
for nifty days. The fine is 500 a day,
making n total fine of $4,000.
Attorney General Rogers left Chicago
for Little Rock with the 100000 check,
highly rlatcd over his victory. He said :
I'VE are getting 10 ike twisting the tails
Of the trusts. We have now beaten the
life insurance and harvester people. l
think we will begin at once to &c after
several others that are openly violating
the In w.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

THUS. 7. SHUN IT, ITTIy tHVIH.
Cut loose now and build h canal.
The American people want results on
the isthmus as Don as they can be OBJ
tanned, and l want them. Dig, dig.
Congress and the people are behind us
in our efforts"
Within forty-eight hours after the
completion of the Panaman canal legis-
lltion President Roosevelt issued in eff
feet the above order to Chairman
Shonts and Chief Engineer Stevens.
The President expressed his great graf
iication at the action of the Senate in
supporting his plan, and it is announced
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

disaster of April 81, 1866. when more thar
1.400 exchanged prisoners returning to the
North on board the steamer Sultana were
killed by the explosion of the vessels boil
ers in the Mississippi river near Memphis,
Tenn. A bomb, it is supposed, had been
placed in the coal. When the explosion
came, Goodrich was thrown into the river.
He chung to a piece of wreckage and float
ed for some miles, finally drifting into an
eddy which carried him beneath an over
hanging tree. Selling the dropping
branches he was enabled to draw himself
to safety. Although it is nearly half a
century since the explosion took place,
Goodrich has never been able to forget the
awful horror of those fatal moments.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
A Flag Which Has II History

AS the stream of visitors pours every
day into the Treasury, writes Il CORE
sDondent to the Atlanta Constitution,
not one in Il hundred stops at the mar
row room which is the headquarters of
the captain of the watch. had been
trough the building fifty times before
I saw the interior of that room. one
day its keeper said to me:
Did you ever see my flag:
On being told that l had not he tooh
me into a plainly furnished room,
whose only ornament is Il silk United
States flag, protected in a glass frame.
That was the flag with which the
Presidents box was hung on the night
of his murder by Il L!at aSslssln.
Booth shot Lincoln from the rear Il
then leaped on the stage to make ms
sickening proclamation of Sic Semper
Tyrannis.' AS he jumped from the box
lis spur caught in this flag and made
2 rent of several inches.
During the war General Phil Cook,
Of Georgia, pushed Il brigade almOst TO
the gates of Washington, II had the
honor of leading the only Confederate
force that ever fought in the District
of Columbia. 1t was out at Frazier's
farm, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, and General Cook says that the
dome of the Capitol was clealy visible
to his men as they fought.
1t was to meet this raid that a regi-
ment was formed out Of he employees
of the various departments in Wash
incton. The city was full of Southern
sympathizers, but a large number OF
ladies contributed to the purchase of
d beautiful flag for the Home Guard
They bore it into one or two battles,
but it seems that it was never in any
lively quarters, as it was perfect when
Manager Ford borrowed it to drape the
Presidents box on the night of his
assassination. 1t is now growing vel
low with age, but it is preserved as
one of the relics of Dur civil revolu-
tion, as a thrilling testimonial of n
of the maddest acts ever perpetrated
by a frenzied mortal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
B1RD's-EYE VIEW OF THE CANAL.

ed by the Bohio dam, at Pedro Miguel.
thirty-eight miles from Colon. At this
point, it is thought, there will be two
double locks, which will bring the level
Of the canal down to about twenty
eight feet above mean sea level. A
mile and a hall further on toward the
Pacific is Miraf1ores, where there Will
perhaps be another double lock. which
will let vessels down to the level Of
the Pacific.
Commercial Event of the Age.
By dividing n hemisphere, man will
create a new commerce of the world,
and bring the countries of both sides of
the globe into closer relationship. Next
to girdling the globe with submarine
cables. therefore, this work of cutting
through the Isthmus Of Panama will
prove, 1t is hardly too much to say,
the most important commercial event
of the age.
The annual cost Of operation will be
about 50 100000, but 1t is expected to
yield a revenue in tolls of nearly $40.
100000. The revenue producing func-
llullS VI Inc tdilai Will NC iilIioI us SoHh-
pared with its services in promoting
the industrial and commercial prog
ress and general welfare Of the United
States. But while we speak of its com-
mercial and political advantage to the
United States, we must also remember
its worth to the world and to the prog
ress of civilization.
Survived Awful Disaster.
w. N. Goodrich of Menominee, Mich,
is one Of the few survivors Of the great
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

SteNenS UcSlreS mat JOHN r. STEVENS.
full approval shall be had Of his own
plan before the work shall progress
further.
Outline of the. Work.
The Isthmus of Panama is in shape
much like an elongated letter s laid on
its side. Its general direction is east
and west. At the canal zone the 18TH
mus is forty wiles wide in a direct
line; but the canal can not be built on
a straight line, having several curves
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29

to the gaIlows. The rope was ADJUST
ed, the trap sprung, and his neck was
broken by the fall. There We're few
witnesses to the execution. Physicians,
necessary officials and newspaper re-
porters were the only spectators in the
Jail gallery. Thu parents and imme-
diate friends of the youth We're ever
denied the privilege of speaking to him
before he walked to his fate.
Mrs. Bessie NJ. 1ollister was MUIR
dered on the evening of lam. IL near
the carpenter shop owned by William
Ivens, father of the murderer, 36S Bel
den avenue The body was found next