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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
LONG LOST FATHER
FOR JOSEPH CANS
Srecial to The Journal.


Fort Worth, Tex, Sept. s.-James
Cotton, a, negro who owns a small farm
near ALE, this county, was in Fort
Worth today, and is making arrange
ments to visit Joe Cans, the pugilist,
who he says is his son and whose real
name is Joseph Cotton. The old negro
is backed in his claim by William Hen
3derson, a reputable farmer, John T..
Htnea, sheriff, and F. D. Jones, prom
inent real estate dealer. The old negro
says his hoy was known here years
ago as COTTON Eye joe and that he
"Cotton Eye Joe' was well known
in Forth Worth as pugilist some years
ago., and frequently appeared against
amateur fighters in a ring in the rear
OF of,o Henry B ", saloon: No white
faced Cotton Eye Joe'' successfully
in Fort Worth, none of them being
able to stand before him for more than
ten rounds. He was backed by Byrne
and other local sports as long as he
remained here, but disappeared from
this city years ago and he has never
returned.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09


tactics, was enough to tire man Of Cans long
career In the ring, and man his age. @ <
Public, sympathy generally goes to the white
man when he Is against a negro, but Cans by
his actions In Goldfeld showed up SO much
whittier, as sportsman, that he carried the best
wishes OF the people. His victory was popular
one. = - $50 =, :
II Cans ever takes on Nelson again he should
stipulate that Nolan has nothing to do with
the match In any way, that a referee be Sc
lected who has the nerve to call fouls instead
Of voicing warnings and that Nelson fight for
20 per cent Of the purse. win or lose. 1t would
be an extreme demand, but Cans would only be
carrying out the old idea that what is sauce
for the goose is likewise trimmings for the
gander. &.*Ta - -.
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Golf Conner.
" EREToFoRE golf has been looked upon
as pacific pastime wherein city tired
slaves Of work, or punches Of young men
whose dads had piled up q sufficient amount
Of the tainted to permit them to spend their
time In idleness, spent the golden hours in
pulverizing the pil-like pellet all over section
of the landscape. >~#5e -
1t Is not. 1t Is real game altho it never
came to light until this week at St. Louis where
one player fled protest in a tournament and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09

!, While far from great fielding team,
the Calumet club had the heaviest bat
tters' and it was mainly by stick work
mat the pennant was won. A meeting
OF representative from the various
clubs In the league will be held in Du-
luth next week, when all matters per
tanning to the league will be strai ght-
ened out. There are number of i'm
portant matters which will come up for
action, and it is possible that the action
OF the magnates at this meeting will
have something to do with the makeup
OF the league next year.
IT IS safe to say that all the clubs
made money this season, with the ex-
ception of Houghton and Fargo. Hough-
ton was big loser, according to com
mon report. But this was it's first sea-
son of professional baseball for a great
many years, and the club hackers ex-
pect to have better success another
year. Winnipeg probably was the big
gest money maker this year. The Can
adam city also had the largest attend
as:nce, and despite the excessive salary
duluth made money, the attendance be-
Ing, the largest there this year for sew
eral seasons. 1t appears that the fans
support a team that loses quite fire.
quently better than one that finishes
away ahead in the pennant race, as for
the two previous years.
Calumet. which ranked third among
the league cities in point of attend
ance, made money, and if as many play
ers are sold as is expected at present,
the club treasury will be further
strengthened. Lake Linden also made
money this season, thanks to the ar
rangement of the schedule, as it has
some of the best dates during the sum-
mcr. The sale Of the entire outfeld,
which netted about 81 ,25O, put the club
on easy street.
Nearly all the teams in the league
have disbanded, many Of the players
going to the clubs to which they were
sold.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09

there was something Of row. Enough Of
row to let 1t get into the papers. Whenever
country club row gets to the papers that is
pretty good sign that it was fair sized sort
OF rumpus on the green.
Hereafter golf will be watched with more
interest by sport followers. Any game good
enough to have protests is worth while. Golf
has been noted for long period as first
class incentive to profanity not only to the
club swinger who tops his drive, but to the
market gardener whose horse muses. us the
vegetables along a half mile of road after
getting stung in the flank with flying ball.
But if there are to be real rows and lqrarrels
in golf we demand public links, in the parks.
at once. As the players gain proficiency in
quarreling golf may reach the high estate
now occupied by baseball.
w i. NUNS the Word.
a 1NCE that famous ''triar' of Kelley and
- Lydiard the Milwaukee papers, or at least
that section of the Milwaukee press which
has its thinking done for them in the Alhambra
building or the Hotel Davidson, have been
making noise like oyster attached to the
inside of a gum boot and sunk eighteen feet
below low-tide mark in the Halifax river. The
silence could be speared with a ball bat.
They started to whocp little about syndicate
ball, but cut that out quickly. Perhaps they
received an intimation that that was still tick
lsh subject on this circuit.
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Fellow Feeling.
~ HERE is one common ground where George
Lennon and Watkins can get together
- and rub They can commiserate
each other on possessing two of the finest speci-
mems Of tail end ball teams ever seen on any
diamond. They are as the circus posters say:
THE GREATEST ON EARTH.
2-Count Them-2. ~.
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Honors Well Won.
- OLDFIELDS. Nevada, residents taking
.Gu pride in the fact that they have won the
reputation of being the "squarest'' bunch
Of grafters who ever soaked a desert thirsted
pilgrim 25 cents for shell O. suds.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
$NEa1$N B 9 9 rs and B q O st s
$HNIAY by TIE DUTCH UNCLE
BEING 2DIVERS AND 5UNDR> REFLE


In 1855 Kelley and Smith fought hours and
10 minutes near Melbourne. As they progressed
the nights became shorter. They come down to
1S4S when Grant and Madden battled 5 hours
aud 40 minutes at Woking. England. Then
came Andy Bowen and Burke who went 40
rounds to draw at New Orleans. Next in
porting over the records one strikes the shorten
battle on record. four seconds the time required
for Dial Hawkins to lash out and take the none
tary commodity from Martin Fluherty.
BY this 1t will be that the face pushers
OF today, battling with hair stuffed gloves, are
as children playing with bubble pipes COM
pared with those horny handed farriers and
miners Of years gone by who settled their ring
disputes with the whang Of good bony fist
against skull of the same material.
In the old days the bif of callous knuckle
in the vicinity of the solar plexus a thing
to be afraid Of A rap with a clenched bunch
of 1ves was apt to send sorrow soaking thru a
wide circle OF friends. to say nothing Of the
nnlucky wight whose anatomy stopped the swing:
These padded rings, wrapped ropes. ammonia
and smelling salts bottles all to the good,
but by measurement the battlers of the Older,
days must have had these twentieth century
limited round sluggers beaten into a custard.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
RACE IS OVER IN
NORTHERN LEAGUE
Calumet Finally Clinches the Flag
After a Red-Hot
Battle.

=, Calumet, Mich, Sept. Sin one of
the closest fights ever witnessed in
northwestern baseball, Calumet landed
the pennant of the Northern Copper
Country league by taking double
header from Houghton on the last day
OF the season. Houghton needed to
win only one of the games to give it
the pennant, but the superior Batting
and the fine work of the Calumet pitch,
ers won both games for the aristocrats.
The teams finished as follows:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
IOWA LEAGUE

Fort Dodge 8. Marshalltown 2.
Waterloo 3. Clinton 3. 13 innings.
Oskaloosa 6. Ottumwa 4.
Burlington 0, Keokrk 0. forfeited.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
FAST AT WINDSOR.

Windsor, Ont, Sept. .S.---A fast track
with bright weather and card Of
seven excellent races brought an UNI
usually large half-holiday crowd to the
Windsor track today. These won:
Carrot Wilson, Boola, Sam Farmer,
Gold Mate, Julia Gentzberger, Posing
and Condo.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
DEMUND SCORES
Rainey's Prize Colt Landed the Flat
bush Stakes. -,
By Publishers Press,

BY Publishers Press. .-r.,s --
Sheepshead Bay Race Track. Sept. 8.
the qualities that made him
practically peer of the 2-year-olds in
the early part Of the season, Paul
Rainey's $4,000 colt, Demund, led his
field from start to finish and easily won
the Flatbush stakes today. Fountain
blue, Diamond JIM Brady's $4,000
colt, at odds on in the betting. was
never a contender and finished seventh.
4 poor field faced the slater in the rich
Century stakes: only four horses going
to the post. Fine ClotS. the favorite,
set the pace until the last furlong. when
Bedoin came along and in driving
finish, won by head. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
WESTERN LEAGUE

Des Moir es I. Siou City O.
Denver G. Omaha 2.
Pueblo 5. Lincoln 8.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
Something Missing,

~ HE virtual retirement of Michigan and
Wisconsin from western football affairs
is going to mean the loss of a lot Of old
friends. The wolf stories Of injuries to star
players were never believed, but they made good
reading matter. 1t is now up to Cy Sherman,
Of Lincoln, Neb., to rise to the occasion with
tales OF dark despair and gloom In the corn
husker camp. Cy can, at one fell swoop throw
more broken legs, strained dunkments and gen.
eral dependency into a quarter column of solid
agate than any other space burner this side of
the Platte. Cy has "wolfed' the Nebraskans
SO long that If one of 'em did happen to break
a leg the catastrophe might include the deaf
of half OF the population Of Lincoln by the
time the story reached St. Joe. There's only
one man In America that Cy bows to in handling
Of near-news. That's the LeSueur liar-the
best earth.
But we love Cy. 1t is rare pleasure to
see him squirm all over the grandstand Mt
Northrop field while the gophers playing
peek-a boo with the cornhuskers on the green
grass. He's the livest wire in the Lincoln
newspaper battery but he hates to Nebraska
lose worse than the burglar hates the cop.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
Not Well Advised.
VK 7 p HEAR, in roundabout wa,
w during the recent trip OF the

WYE HEAR. In roundabout way that
wv during the recent trip or the millers
to Milwaukee,, Charley Havenor drifted
BY the hotel where the red-leggad legIons were
stopping and in moment OF forgetfulness
started free discussion OF the Nike Kelley
case. We -...sa ~ -.
Rumor also hath it that Havvy in a few
minutes heard bunch OF the Kings English
that would have caused disluay 10 a man in a
cyclone cellar to say nothing Of chap who
! was forced to stand up and listen to it In the
OPEN 1t Is said to have been a chorus ranging
| III tones all OF the way from the center field
| tenor of Lefty Davis to the first base basso of
E. buckingham Freeman. with the shrill Italian
! voice Of lGapressrio Marguerite kllroy dropping
In at orportune times.
Strangely enough the hitherto unscooped sport
M: ING. writer's OF Milwaukee overlooked it-that is
they printed nothing about it. The session must
have been interesting while 1t lasted.
X
Brothers, We Salute Thee!
~ OWN at Kansas City the other day men,
, Der OF the Okaw Amalgamated Assocla-
tion Of Umpire Regulators, Left Field
! Bleacher corps, clearinghouse regiment, up
| in the 25-cent observatory OF the Assassination
park and hurled fully ma tured egg at Stephen
Kane, the arbitrator.
The Kansas City Star remarks with SNUG
| satisfaction that the Brahma bomb flew true and
! smote the ump in the
The Mnnehaha Sharpshooters. who pick
| gnats of the arbitrators with rasse eggs at u
| range Of 225 yards, rise up and send greetings
to the brother OF the Okaw
Peace Be Unto Thee!
1t will be restful next year If Joseph, King
Joe. the First. will pick out a staff of UNI
pires of larger size than Kane. Owens and
Egan. It will not require such sharp sighting
to get them.
Perry Werden and Bill Sullivan are about the
! right size for quick-fre practice.
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Luck in Baseball.
~ HE winning of the Syndicate Association
pennant by Columbus goes to show, once
more, they say in the woods. that
1t is mo use to pit science against bull luck"
1. I. !.
Serene in Milwaukee.
~ OWN in Milwaukee baseball is forgotten
3 already. The skat players have taken
the center of the stage and the skat
editors of the newspa pers have chased the base
ball writer's into the doghouse. They can use
the long winter nights to advantage In polish
ing up and ransacking their lexicon In an en-
deavor to dig up new names to call Mike Kelley
next season. when he Is managing the Mime
apois team
The thinking up the meanest name can
probably get large red apple IL he calls at
the light Office building.
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Evening it Up.
~ HE next time Joe Cans meets Battling
Nelson the articles of agreement should
forbid ,butting in clnches. If this pro-
viso is left out Cans should insert a clause per-
hitting him to horse shoe in eacb glove.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09

| The Pegg & Rlckerts will play the fast Har-
| riets today to settle the IS and 19-year-old
championship of the city. For games with the
Pegg & Ricketts, address Art Bauer, $500 AL
4 drich avenue N. s<z
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
WISCONSIN LEAGUE

La Crosse O. Freecort 5.
Wausau l. OshEcsh 3.
Green Bar 2. Eau Claire o.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
Fighting Child's Play Now.

wv HILE Nelson and Cans battling
wv at Goldfeld the other afternoon all
interested bulletin reader remarked:
''1his fight game is fierce. Just think of any
body fighting forty rounds! They must be
getting near the record!''
Prize fighting of today is feather pillow
fight compared with the game Of less than a
hundred years ago. In the good old days.
the gladators wandered forth the green and
battled upon the turf with bare knuckles for
purses which would not attract NTH rate pre-
liminary battler in these times. AS for long
fights the moderns not in it.
Away back In 1895 at Cheshire, England. one
pug. rejoicing In the eccentric title Of Jones
went forth to battle with another plug ugly
named Tonney. They started at noon and I'm
1shed by the light of torches and when the count
did come the men had battled 2T6 rounds 1t
don't matter who won--you didn't know either
Of em.
They fought for small purse before large
crowd, the reverse Of the conditions today.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
LUCKY AND UNLUCKY PITCHERS.
Won by Lost by
One RIM One Run

The East Minneapolis team will leave over
, the Rock Island road this morning for Fari-
bault, MIMI. where they will meet Newgard's
fast Fleckenstein team.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
EASTERN LEAGUE

Providence GO. Baltimore 4-3. s
Buffalo 81. Toronto ID.
Jersey City A. Newark LIS
Rochester so. Montreal 2-i.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
CENTRAL LEAGUE

Terre HATE 4. Evansville S.
Canton 20. Wheeling 10.
South Bend 2. Grand Rapids 3.
Springfield 2 Dayton 4. 10 innings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09

Easing Down on 'Poleon.
" HERE is one satisfactory side to the de-
cline of the Cleveland team in the pen
nant race. That Fountain Square poet
has stopped perpetrating those French Canuck
verses laudatory of Lajoie, the Wonder Of
Woonsocket. = H-
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Mr.. Nolan, Who Was.
w ? HEN George Siler was waving Battling
w Nelson into his corner in token Of
defeat thru foul Of Joe Cans ut
Goldfeld, Monday afternoon. he was as also Civ
Ing Bill Nolan, unconsciously perhaps, the high
sign for the sport cemetery.
The battle has resulted in temporary back
set for Nelson, but it has shown up this Butte
man, who managed him. for fair and keeps
Nolan is today about as unpopular as could well
be imagined and it is his own fault He started
into this affair with Cans and the dinge had
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
OHIO-PA. LEAGUE

Newark 3. Marion 8. ."-s.,ss
New Castle 2. Youngstown 6.
Sharon .. Akron 10.
Lancaster /. Mansfield 6.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
Evening it Up.

~ HE next time Joe Cans meets Battling
Nelson the articles of agreement should
forbid butt1ng In clinches. If this pro-
viso Is left out Cans should insert clause per-
hitting him to sew horse shoe in each glove
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
Honors Well Won,

- OLDFIELDS. Nevada residents are taking
Gu pride in the fact that they have won the
reputation of being the "squarest'' bunch
Of grafters who ever soaked a desert thirsted
pilgrim 25 cents for a shell O suds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-11

at the Frazer theater the OLD opera
house was the scene Of some hood
lumism that was very discreditable to
the town and distasteful to those who
had paid their money for the purpose
of being entertained from the stage
instead of the gallery.
When the IL high school girls took
their seats in the box ON the right
they were greeted with Kisses and
slurring remarks from a gang in the
gallery. The same disturbance was
continued while the orchestra played
its first piece and at subsequent times
during the evening the crowd in the
rear made itself heard.
Although special officer was on
iuty and supposed to be subject to
instructions from the theater man.
agement, no effort was apparently
made to quiet the boys. AS a result
some very severe criticism was in.
dulged in by those who failed to ap.
preciatc the uproar.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-11
EXPENSIVE TO HOLD SHEEP.
$500 Fed for Six Weeks on S14 Hay al
Ellensburg.

Probably mo- stockmen in this Sec
tion of the state, preparing for a
shipment to the eastern market eX.
perienced the difficulties of Coffin
Bros, who after six weeks delay final
ly got 90 ears of sheep, consisting of
eNOO head, sent away from Ellensburg
last week, says the Goldendale SEN
t'nel.
1t was six weeks ago that the offic-
ials Of the Northern Pacific railway
said that they would have cars in
readiness by the time the sheep were
brought to the valley. The cars did
not arrive as promised, but for some
unknown reason high officials order
ed them to the east Notwithstanding
the protest of the local agent.
At the time the cars arrived the
sheep were brought to the valley pre-
pared for shipment. The officials
asserted that they would Immediately
have other cars brought to replace
those removed. A weary wait of 81,
! weeks elsued. There was no grazing
ground for the stock, so 1t was neces
sary to purchase hay and feed then
during all the time they were waiting
transportation. Hay in the Kittita
valley is selling for s14 a ton. and tn
sheep consumed five or six tons daily
which entailcd an expenditure to tn
owners of between $4,000 and $4,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-11
CHURCHILL SELLS
BUSINESS COLLEGE
PENDLEToN SCHOOL BOUGHT
BY MISS NJ. NJ. SLATTERY
Well Known Commercial College Be-
comes Property of the Proprietress
of the Standard College of Spokane
and the Business College of La
Grande-Two Strong Commercial
Men to Be Added TO the Force.

Pendleton Business college has just
Churchill. who have conducted 1t for
the past three years, to Miss NJ. NJ.
Slattery of the Standard Commercial
college of Spokane who also conducts
the business college at La Grande.
Pendleton Business college was
founded in 1899 and has been in the
hands of a number of proprietors
since its birth. 1t has been a notable
attraction in the educational life of
Pendleton and has brought a large
number of young people from all
parts of the inland empire to this
city for a business education.
Miss Slattery is an experienced
business college woman and will add
new features to the Pendleton school
and make it attractive in every way.
She is a graduate of Oshkosh Nor
NAL school and of the University OF
Wisconsin and has had large prac-
teal experience in the management
of commercial schools and comes to
Pendleton to engage permanently In
this branch of educational work.
Prof and Mrs. Churchill have not
yet decided upon their future work
but will perhaps remain in this city
or vicinity.
Miss Slattery, in speaking of the
prospects of the college, said to the
East Oregonian today:
with this excellent foundation tc
build on, Pendleton can boast a bust
ness college second to none in th'
west. 1t is my intention to add to th'
already efficient corps of teachers
two of the strongest commercial mer
| that money can procure"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-11
Union County Pioneer Here.

Commissioner Ben Brown of Union
county, the man who built the first
cabin in Grand Ronde valley, and who
has been a highly respected citizen
of that county for the past A years,
Is in the city today on his way home
from a business visit to Hermiston.
Mr.. Brown is well known to many
Pendleton and Umatilla county pio-
neers, having resided one winter at
the Umatilla agency, about 35 years
ago. For a number of years he has
been assessor of Union county and is
now county commissioner. While in
the city today Mr.. Brown has been
the guest Of John HALEY, Jr., whom
he has known for the past 40 years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-11

The Lewiston Tribune reviews the
railroad situation in that part of Idaho
in the following characteristic man
ner:
Does the Milwaukee really intend to
enter central Idaho with branch line
through the LolO pass to tie to the
Hartman lines at this point? asks the
Tribune. The Tribune today prints
an advertisement of Joseph NJ. Molloy,
the we'll known timber buyer, which
asks for "140 more timber claims at
once to close up the next deal" Are
these claims being purchased for the
Monarch Timber company of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee, & st. Paul railroad
Mr. Molloy refuses to state for whom
hc is acting as agent.
During the past spring and summer
Mr.. Molloy was the purchasing agent
of the Monarch Timber company in
this section, and as such he purchased
great number of claims, involving
the transfer of thousands of dollar.
to claim holders, in the Clearwater
| watershed. The records at the cour
house show that while the number o.
transfers to the Monarch company
was large. it does not quite reach tn;
amount advertised for today.
The Monarch company recent,
concluded a deal for the purchase o
a million acres of timber land in tn,
st. Mary and st. Joe river valleys. An
Eounccments were made yesterda,
from the company's office that rout
had neen selected along the st. 10
river in crossing north Idaho.
In view of the fact that the compan
has not confined its purchases. to tn
Occur d'Alenes it is reasonable to be
lieve they will enter the Clearwate
country. either directly or by branc
line from Montana, on a water grad
route to a connection with the o. F
& N, in this vicinity.