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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06

oratory. From the beginning it's stu
dents have taken commanding positions
IN the state and interstate contests.
This year it will be represented by
Ralph G. Shearer, whose subject is
"saxon vs.; slav,'' and by John Dob
son, who discusses "America' Great,
est Problem Mr.. Shearer won first
place in his home contest last March
and Mr.. ,Dobson second. 1t is no secret
that Wesleyan confidently expects it's
orators to win at Huron.
Cecil Salmon, who will represent the
state agricultural college, is native
Of South Dakota and resides at Spencer.
Charles R: Miller, a bright young stu
dent, will speak, for Huron college, and
W. B. Butler Of Parker, a junior, will
represent Yankton. .r "
!. Miss Lou E.. Miles was selected to
represent Redfeld college, and one more
truly representative Of it and her home
city eouldanet have beensSfound, for,
aside from her, tEaining at the state
normal school, from which she was
graduated in 1902, phe is a graduate of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
Despised Dukhobors Are
Fast Winning Their Way

sos. and harness, $9,237 Their farm
implements were all purchased in large
quantities, such items as ffty-two self
binders, thirty eight mowers, twenty
FIVE wagons and sixty plows appearing
turnout the statement of expenditure.
The statement tells of loan Of $780,
900 from Yorkton bank which, Incl
dentally, has since been repaid. Among
the receipts is an item Of 800 which
was received from the sale of $4,000
pounds of seneca root which had been
dug by the women and children. while
their husbands and fathers were work
ing on their farms or on some railway
contract to aid the common treasury.
The receipts from all sources
amounted to $1S9,7s2 for 1905, and the
Dukhobors assert the receipts for 1906
will be double this amount.
Mill and Railroad to Be Built,
One day of the meeting was de-
voted to the discussion of plans for
the future, and it was decided to make
arrangements at once for the building
Of a large fourmill sufficient for the
needs of all the villages. In connection
there will be built an oatmeal mill and
several elevators. 1t was also decided
Dukhobors will build a narrow gage
railway to connect the various villages,
but whether the motive power will be
steam or electricity will be discussed at
the next meeting Of the company.
One hundred teams will be purchased
imme diately for work on that portion
Of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway,
tenders. for the construction of which
have been awarded the Dukhobors.
Before the meeting closed it was
unanimously decided that in future
Dukhobors should not take their horses
from the stables when the thermometer
was lower than II degrees below zero,
and. in addition. the lives of all ami
mails will be made as light as possible,
as God intended they should.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
SWEET PEA FESTIVAL, -.-
: TO BE HELD AT BOHEMIAN
Something New in Fetes and Carnivals
is Backed by the Civic League of the
Montana City.

Special to Tie Journal.
Bozeman, Mont, May 5.-This city,
noted for the profusion of sweet peas,
which Chamber over it's lattices and
hedges in the summer, has decided to
hold a sweet pea carnival or festival
and August II has been chosen for the
opening day.
Merchants will festoon their win
dows, porches of homes will be draped
with them, and wherever in the city
there is room for a blossom, it will
greet the eye of the visitor or native.
. Plans for the carnival were formu-
lated by the sugar beet committee, and
viii lbe carried out by the Civic league.
The affair will be as dainty and exqui-
site as possible and the tumult usually
feature of street fairs will be elimi-
mated. 49,.
f There. will be music and floral par
ade with carnival queen to typify the
spirit Of the occasion and in the even
ing the maskers will hold high jinks.
Excursions will be run from Butte and
other cities.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
Special to The Journal

Special to The Journal.
Fergus Falls, Mimi, May 5.-The
work Of organizing the ninth congress
sional district in the interest of county
option and state prohibition has been
begun in earnest, W. A. Rice, a young
pointed by the prohibition state central
committee to take general charge. Mr..
Rice will devote all Of his time to the
organization work, and will be assisted
by a corps Of organizers in every
county.
The advocates of county option, while
they are working under the auspices Of
central prohibition committee, are by
no means confined to the prohibition
party. The movement is COMPARE
lively new one in Minnesota politics,
but has been tried with success in other
states.
The men behind the movement pro-
pose to have a county option nominee
in every legislative district in the state
"a candidate who will work for and
vote in favor Of a county option bill if
elected to the legislature, or for any
other temperance measure that may be
introduced. Some work has already
been done in Otter Tail county, some Of
the meetings having been held in the
country districts during the winter, and
sums of money subscribed. '~-s 80
- In times past we nave neafd muCn
about farmers threatening to boycott
villages in case they voted mo
license, - said Mr.. Rice in discussing
the matter, Eand saloon advocates have
gloried in this fact: Today there is a
very different spirit in evidence, at
least in some localities. The farmers
are awakening to the fact that when a
village votes for license, it pockets all
Of the license money, while the farmers
pay a proportion of the drink bill, and
also pay the greater part of the cost Of
prosecutions for crimes resulting from
liquor drinking.
" terminals are prosecuted by the
county, and the cost is borne by all the
taxpayers of the county, while the
license money goes into the village or
city treasury. Instead Of boycotting
villages for voting against license, 7
find that in some of the localities which
I have recently visited, the farmers are
planning to boycott the villages which
vote in favor of saloons. -.
tsThe case of Hawley is conspicu-
Gus example. There long list Of far
mers signed a written statement to the
effect that if license were voted they
would go elsewhere to do their trading,
& and license was not. voted Similar in
stances are reported in Kandiyohi
county. ~.
Whatever one may think of the
third party movement, it seems to me
!. 1t is only fair to give counties an oppor-
tunity to vote on this question and
abide by the decision Of the majority
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Special to The Journal.
Winnipeg. Man., May 5.--Excited
from Russia on account of their re-
igious belief, their houses burned and
in which the Dukhobors found them
selves several years ago. Peter We're
gin, their leader, had been sentenced
to the Siberian mines for his outspoken
religious views, and every conceivable
hardship had been thrust upon them.
When things appeared at their worst,
philanthropists from London, Paris and
Philadelphia came to their aid, paying
their passages to Canada, where the
government gave them land. Four
years ago Veregin's time expired in
the mines and he at once followed his
people to Canada. His proposal of a
commune was at once adopted and those
who owned stock, farm implements or
land placed them in the name Of the
Dukhobor Trading company.
Veregin Great Leader.
That was little over three years
ago and Veregin has proved himself to
be a captain of industry and the com.
mune has prospered. The first general
meeting of the company was held few
days ago in the village of Nadeshda,
Saskatchewan, and was attended by
two men and one woman from each of
the fortyfour villages, as we'll as by
overseers and secretaries.
The various secretaries presented
their reports and the oft-repeated as
sertion that the Dukhobors had made
a success of communism was proved by
the financial report covering the past
three years. In that time they have
expended over 100000. buying all
their supplies at wholesale, which has
melted them a saving Of over 80 per
cent. In the report are such items as
soap, $2,6l5; winter footwear, $5,96l go
butter tubs, 81, 1853; third payment on
land purchased, 1925; 10000 pounds
of binding Irvine, $4,000; clothing, $751;
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Why Rural Wisconsin
Town Has Claims to Fame

around. He is not oppressed with any
great amount of awe for his sisters
achievements; indeed, he frankly told
the writer some years ago that he sell
dom or never reads her writings. He
doesn't like their erotic character.
Old Home of Miss Sabin. :
Another daughter of this community
of widespread reputation is Miss Ellen
C. Sabin, president of Downer college at
Milwaukee, the leading girls college of
the west. She grew up On farm al
most adjoining this village, and has nu-s
merous relatives here. She ranks
among the noblest women in the eonn-
try, having dedicated her life to the up
lifting of her sex.
A younger sister, Mrs. E. Ray Stew
ems of Madison, is also, notable wom-
an. She was a prominent teacher and
is now state regent of normal schools.
Her husband is a circuit court judge.
Mrs. Sarah Bewick Colby, editor Of
the Woman's Tribune, Washington,
D. c., spent her childhood and young
womanhood on farm within three
miles of Windsor. :
A woman of decided literary talent,
Mrs. Olyette Ellis, is present resident
of Windsor. She is an unassuming
woman and makes no efforts to gain the
attention of the outside world but she,
has written poems that show unmistak-
able evidence of genius. They are
marked by fine, genuine feeling, and
polished, chaste diction.
Windsor has also produced several
men of prominence. Charles .Durkee,
| senator from Wisconsin in the SOS. tho
not ''product' of this community.
lived here, owned property here, and
had relatives here.
The late S. U. Pinney, justice of the
| supreme court of Wisconsin. and one Of
the abIest jurists the state has pro-
duced, came as lad to Windsor, and
here began his distinguished career.
His sister, Mrs. Byron Chamberlain,
still lives in the east end Of the village.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
LINKS OF WELL CHAIN
GATHER MUCH GOLD
Montanan Will Melt the Chain, Ex-
pecting to Make a Cleanup of Sew
eral Hundred Dollars.
Special to The Journal,

special TO Inc journal.
~ Sheridan, Mont. May 5.-Herman
Hermsmeyer, son of the fatherland.
says he has stumbled upon an easy way
Of gathering gold. . He has an old
Fashioned chain pump in his well and
short time ago he discovered glistening
particles of gold dust clinging to its
links.
Investigation brought out the fact
that the whole length of the chain,
something like 100 feet, had been eaten
full of small holes by the action of
alkali. These holes, says Mr.. Herms-
meyer, were full of pure gold. He dug
out the contents of several holes with a
penknife and a test proved that the
gold was genuine.
He now proposes to melt the chain
and clean up several hundred dollars.
Mr.. Hermsmeyer says the water in the
well must contain gold in minute par
ticles, which, thru precipitation, have
have become lodged in the holes eaten
by the alkali. .s -.
If his cleanup pans out as hoped. he
proposes to lease all the wells in Sheri-
dan and put in chain pumps.
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Special to The Journal,
Windsor, Wis, May 5.-Many rural
communities in the west can boast of
having given to the world one or more
notable men who have shed a luster
upon their childhood home, but it is
safe to saw that no other rural com
munity on this side Of Lake Michigan
can point to SO many eminent daugh-
ters as can the country surrounding
Windsor. -..
AS is well known, the most famous
of living American poetesses, Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, is native of Wiscon-
sin. and this community has the distinc-
ton Of bringing her up She was
born at, Johnstown, ten miles east of
GAINESVILLE, in 1850, and was brought to
Westport, three miles west of here,
when only 2 years old. There she spent
all of her childhood there she got most
OF her scholastic training; there she
wrote her earliest poems and essays, in
Guiding "Maurine' and the celebrated
moved to New York. in 1885. after her
happy marriage to- Mr.. Wilcox, fame
had been already won.
The Wheeler Brothers.
Her two brothers still live in this
locality. Marcus Wheeler is a black.
smith In this village, almost 70 years
of age. Like Elihu Burrit, the ia
nous blacksmith poet, he invokes the
muses. while laboring at the anvil an6
the forge. 1t was not suspected that
he had poetic inclinations until a few
years ago, when, despite his sixty ode
years, he surprised his neighbors by
publishing in Wisconsin papers short
poems of some merit.
The other brother of Mrs. Wilcox
Edward Wheeler, is a farmer. and chi
tivates the old Wheeler farm in West
port. He is witty, clever fellow
| bearing strong resemblance to Davit
Harum. Like him, he can express hi
thoughts with refreshing directness ant
'swap' horses better than any maj
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
NEW COPPER COMPANY,

Helena, Mont, May Still another
company has been formed for the pur-
pose of developing properties in the
Butte copper district, articles of in
corporation of the Butte Lode Exten-
sion company having been filed: The
its incorporators are W. L. .Renick. L.
NJ. Harley, G. J. Green. J. NJ. Kennedy,
Joseph Russell and j. M. Denny. Butte
is to be it's principal place Of business.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
KNIFE LAID TO SALARIES

Manistique, Mich, May 5.-The new
city. council has applied the pruning
knife to municipal salaries. The offices
so far affected are: City attorney, cut
to $500 from $500; treasurer, $500 from
5000; chief of fire department, $3.50
from $500; city clerk, 5000 from 81, 900,
and assistant engineer cut to $1.75 from
So day. =. -
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SAY Al COHOL BILL IS
MENACE TO INDUSTRIES
Hardwood Timber Districts of the
North Object to Proposed
Legislation.
Special to The Journal.

Marquette, Mich, May 5.-That if
enacted into law the bill removing the
revenue tax from denaturized grain,
or vegetable, alcohol will deal severe
blow to important Industries in the
Lake Superior region, is the contention
of large interests operating in the hard
wood districts of Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota. The effect upon the
production of wood alcohol and the kin
dred product, acetate Of lime, would be
serious, but no more so than in the
case of the allied products of charcoal,
pig iron and hardwood timber. In
deed, it is declared, the bill is a menace
to the primary industries of the hard
wood timber states. .n A.,
The managers Of the various chem
zeal plants Of the north country have
WINGED that the proposed exemption Of
denaturized alcohol from the internal
revenue tax would deprive them IF a
market for the larger portion of their
wood alcohol output, drive many of
their plants out Of business, and make
the separate production of acetate Of
lime Improbable This, in turn, it is
asserted, would materially enhance the
cost of producing charcoal and pig iron.
The cost Of charcoal, without the
simultaneous production of wood alco-
hol and acetate of lime, would be near
ly doubled, and the cost of charcoal
plgiron increased from $3.50 to So a
ton.
The improved quality and extended
uses Of coke iron have brought it into
such close competition with charcoal
iron that the increased cost of the lat
ter which would be brought about as a
result Of the proposed legislation would
undoubtedly greatly curtail it's produc-
| ton and eliminate large portion Of it
from the market. In short, it is con-
tended, the direct effect of the bill
would be to transform the production
of charcoal pigiron from a profitable
into an Improbable industry and men
ace its very existence
This is the reason why the pending
legislation is viewed with alarm by
timber owners, farmers, wage earners
and railroads interested in hardwood
districts. It jeopardizes their business
and property values, they say, and Of
fers nothing definite or tangible, but
only chance for an experiment. to see
whether denaturized vegetable alcohol
can be made product that can com
pete with gasolene.
Contrary to the position taken in the
above, students Of this question assert
that the production of free alcohol will be
beneficial to the manufacturers Of wood
alcohol, because wood alcohol will be re-
quired in the denaturizing process.
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NEW MILITIA COMPANY.

Ishpeming, Mich, May 5.-The Ish-
peming light guard, an Independent or
ganization, is a candidate to succeed
the lronwood company in the state mil
lltary service. The lronwood militia
has been ordered mustered out because
of lack of discipline. :,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
CASH IN STRONG BOX
Montana's Securities Amount to Over
Million and a Half.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Helena, Mont, May 5.-The state of
Montana has cash and securities to the
amount of $1,560, 324.61, according to
the report of State Treasurer j. II.
Rice. just made public The receipts in
April amounted to $79,165.92 and the
expenditures were $45,22S.25, and as
the cash balance on April / was $475,-
533.77. it is found the cash balance on
May is $509,471.44.
The state board of pardons has con-
irned the action of Governor Toole in
extending executive c1emency to Mi
chael Pepos, convicted in Cascade coun-
ty Of inhuman treatment of his chill,
dren.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
500, 900 FOR MORE ROADS.

Grand Marais, Mich, May 5.-The
proposition to borrow 100000 to be
expended in the construction of roads
has been acted upon favorably by the
Alger county board of supervisors, and
at special election called for June 70,
the question of issuing bonds for that
amount will be submitted the electors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-06
NEW ULM'S SCHOOLS
First Glasses in Manual Training Are
- 49, ~. at Work. - r..,@r-..--

E1fst- -CIasses,- IN Manual Training Are
=. - - - q. at Work. 81. v...4--. ~
Special to The Journal. - 49,,
New Ulm, Mimi. May 5:-The board
Of education has filed the vacancies
in the teaching force of the school by
the election of Miss Katherine M Tan
ey of ST.. Paul to the position of prin-
cipal, and Lewis Larson of Atwater in
structor in science. Margaret M.
Groehler was also elected to teach a
Glasses were started in the manual
training work this week, and Superin-
esting the boys wonderfully. The
board has decided to enlarge the as
sembly room of the high school build
ing. and will also increase the size Of
one Of the primary buildings and add
one more teacher. .#-,.. -
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MoNTRosE,s SCHOOLS BOOM.

Enecial to The Journal
Montrose, S. D., May. 5.-The school
board is planning to erect a $4,000 adj
dition to the already commodious school
building. and to employ five teachers
the coming school year.
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$50, 900 SCHOOL FOR EscANABA.

Escanaba, Mich, May 5.-The new
high-schoo1 building to be erected in
Escanaba will be one of the finest
structures of its kind in the. territory
north Of the straits. It will cost about
100000
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Contrary to the position taken in the
above, students Of this question assert
that the production of free alcohol will be
beneficial to the manufacturers of wood
alcohol, because wood alcohol will be re-
quired in the dena turizing process.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-31
HARLEM RIVER AQUATIcs.
First Open Amateur Rowing Race of
the Season

NEW YORK, May 31.-The first open
amateur rowing races of the season in this
vicinity were rowed on the speedway course,
Harlem river, this city. yesterday. The
program was an unusually long one. being
composed of sixteen events and two trial
heats. sixty-eight entries In all. Two-thrds
of the entries were from local clubs, in
GLIDING four from Columbia University.
Philadelphia had a few men in the races
and Washington. d. c.. scuIler.
The program included eleven entries in
junior singles, necessitating two trial heats
and a final. The races began at am.
with the trial heats in junior singles The
star events of the day were senior singles,
senior doubles and senior four-oared shells,
in which the best oarsmen of the Harlem
were entered The weather condition were
favorable and the course, except at the ex-
treme upper end. was smooth. Summaries:
Junior single sculls-ESrst trial heat won
by Thomas MCGEE, Ravenswood Boat Club.
New York; L. Major. Bohemian Boat Club.
New York, second; time. 7.l0 Second trial
heat won by ]. j. Hughes. Atlanta Boat
Club. New York: Joseph Thompson. Mas
sau Boat Club. New York. second; time,
727
Junior double sculls-Won by C. b. Stew
art and c. F. Quinn, New York Athletic
Club. H. Hart and s. Hartenstein, Wyan-
oke Boat Club New York. second. Time,
6.41
Veteran senior single sculls-Won by c.
r. Miller. Nassau Boat Club; J. p. Buckley.
Portland. Me-. second. Time 7191a.
Senior single uuarter-mile dash--Won by
John Hoben. Ravenswood Boat Club. New
York. F. Fuessel. Harlem Rowing Club.
second. Time. minute seconds.
intermediate single sculls-Won by Du-
rando Miller, New York Athletic Club: Jere-
miah Dunn. Ravenswood Boat Club New
York. second Time 7.21.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-31
GEN. KEIFER AT sHARPsBURG.
orator at Memorial Exercises TODAY
Over 5000 Present.

zen j. Warren Keifer representatiya
from ONO and former Speaker of the Horss
Vi representatives, was the-orator at tho
memorial exercises held yesterday AT Antia-
am hauohai cemetery at Sharpsburg Md
Inc crowd In attendance was estimated ar
over o.ooo. including a number OF nerso,s
from washington and other cities ana tia
usual quota of veterans The exercises
were under the auspices of Antietan post
NO lf o. a. R., of Sharpsburg.
At 12:39 o'clock in the afternoor ~, -
cession formed. in front of knights or
Pythias Hall. with nearly SCORE a, or
carnations in line. Capt. ]. w Robrer
Ne ne S,l,ei marshal and Capt. J. c. Ward of
naserstown was officer OF the day The
Snepnerd college Cadets Of Shepherdstown
w va, TOOK part in the exercises Young
gir-s attired In white and bearing flags and
garlands TO represent the states Of the
u mon were feature.
At the cemetery Lincoin's Gettyshur, aa
dress was read by Capt. j. " Davis SUI
perintendent of the cemetery who then
introduced the orator of the day Gen
keffer delivered an eloquent and able adj
Dress ten. REFERS father was native of
SharpsDurg and the cemetery ther.. is the
burial place of his grandfather Gen. Keller
served in the Union army Throughout the
civil war. He enlisted as a private and at
the close of the war was a brigade COM
mander in the Army of the Potomac. He
was appointed major general Of Yolun-
teers during the Spansh-American war and
Commanded the first division OF the Tth
Army Corps
The exercises at the rostrum in the
cemetery In the afternoon, concluded with
prayer By Rev. A. A. Kerlin pastor of the
Memorial Lutheran Church, Sharpsburg.
and were followed by the strewing of flow
ers on the graves of thesJ.Oo0 soldier dead.