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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
STEVENS WANTS MEDALS
FOR LATE WAR VETERANS
Would Reward Volunteers Who Served
Beyond Terms Of Enlistment In.
cludes Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa Men.
BY w. w. Jermane..

Washington, April 21.-Representa-,
tive Stevens today appeared before the.
military committee Of the house and
urged the passage of bill authoriz-:
ing the secretary Of war to issue medals
Of honor to- men who served in the
Philippines in the Spanish war and who
stayed beyond their terms of enlist
ment to, help suppress the Philippine
insurrection. The passage Of this. bill
will give. medals to nearly every mem
Der Of the Thirteenth Minnesota, First
South Dakota, First North Dakota and
Fifty-frst Iowa volunteers, who re-
manned in the Philippines after peace
with Spain was declared.
President Mckinley, in his annual
message to congress in 1899, recon-
mended legislation authorizing the is
sue Of medals Of. honor to these volun-
teers, and renewed it again II 1900 No
action was taken at today, % session, but
the bill will be considered again at the
next meeting Of the committee. It is
strongly Endorsed by Secretary Taft
and high officers Of the army.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

With Banks Burned, Tourists
Letters of Credit Will Not
IS Be Recognized. .~
Nav York Herald Special seryioo,

New York Herald Special Service. :--~' - =
Paris, April 22.-Residents> Of CALI
fornia now in Paris, find themselves in
a distressing financial condition, as the
banks upon which their notes ofscredit
were drawn, are now destroyed and the
local banks agen is will not recognize
the drafts.
Men and women of wealth, or who
at least a few days ago were regarded
as very wealthy, have lack Of ready
money. In some cases they have not
enough to pay their hotel bills and cur
rent daily. expenses. : All the money
they have and all that some Of them
can obtain is what was in their pock-
cts when news of. the disaster came. g.
One woman, who is rated as being
worth several hundred thousand dollars
Z in San Francisco property is unable to
obtain ready cash for living expenses,
! and has been forced to. discharge her
servants, close her expensive apart
ment and obtain a room in cheap
pension. : =. :. a. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

funeral Services in New York
Home Are Brought to an
Abrupt Termination.

New York, April 21.-Lying in her
coffin amid masses of flowers, ll-year-
old Veronica Mccain, for whom the
parish priest twentyfour hours ago
performed the funeral rites of the
Catholic church, presented so natural
and life1ike an appearance today that
her parents refused to allow her to
be buried Neighbors are intensely OK
cited by the parents actions and by
weird stories regarding the delay in
%placing the supposed dead child IN the
grave. 49,. ..-@ ..~5:
The story spread that the child had
spoken to a visitor and had begged
that her burial be prevented; that Mrs.
Pauline Clement had obtained per-
mission to remain alone in the room
. with the child and soon after enter
ing the death chamber, she was heard
to call excitedly for those in the adj
Joining room to enter. $3.50 .'-, 70
The story is denied by the father,
who says that the woman was not
alone with the body. DR.. Frazier; who
was accompanied by DIR. Armstrong,
: called at The Mccain home, and to:
gether they made a test which resulted
in leaving the question of the girl Is
life and death still in doubt -
s; Of the various tests made, they re
garded as most important those known
as the circulation and the respiration
tests. To each of these the body failed
completely to respond, but, on the Other
hand, there was complete absence OF
the rigor mortis or other indications in
separable in the case Of body nearly
three days after death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
SHOT WHILE RoBB1NG WOMAN

San Francisco, April 21.-Despite ter
rifle handieaps the situation is being
kept unders admirable control, General
Funston. is in supreme command, but he
lis almost in hourly consultation with
Governor Pardee, Mayor Schmitz and
General Manager E. E. Calvin of the
Southern Pacific. Soldiers are every
where and few persons. are allowed to
pass their lines. Looters are being
shot down without mercy. %%. :
An example occurred, today, an aged
woman, trembling with fright, stood on
a corner at THE edge Of the devastated
territory. Suddenly a man appeared at
her side and attempted to wrest ring
from her finger. + It is doubtful if the
woman even knew what the man was
trying to do until he fell dead at her
feet. ss,..,. $3.50. =.
~ A soldier had shot him down and the
people of San Francisco are applauding
this merciless melting out of Justice TO
the guilty. They are applauding Fun:
ston and his men. They. are applaud.
ing, too, the work of the Southern Pa
cific, which is taking free Of charge, ali
refugees out of San Francisco. - ls5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
La FOLLETTE NEAR END
OF RADICAL SPEECH
Wisconsin Senator Will Finish
His Long Rate Argument
Tomorrow.
.ay'9lHE
aY w. W. Jern1are.

Washington, April 21.-senator La
Toilette will conclude his speech on the
rate question in the senate on Monday.
That will be his third day. Such parts
of the speech as have already been de-
liyered have not yet appeared In the
congressional record, and it is under
stood that this omission has been at La
Toilette IS request, he desiring to have
the speech appear as whole in a single
issue of the record. t*z
4 It will be by far the longest speech
delivered in the senate since Senator
Nelson of Minnesota, several years ago,
in a speech of three or four days, re-
viewed the political, legislative and eco
nomic history Of Arizona and New Mex
leo, and outlined in detail the climatic
and crop conditions Of those territories.
This speech became famous. It is the
text book, on the statehood question,
and no member of congress, on either
side Of the statehood controversy, has
since it's delivery, ever thought Of 60
ing to the original sources of informa-
tion for data regarding the statehood
question. -- L.T.
. La Toilette Radical.
go The La Toilette speech has stamped
that gentleman as an ultra-radical ON
the rate question. He goes further
than I1llman, and has sadly dlstanced
the president and all the administration
senators. The kind Of a rate bill that
La Toilette wants would 90 even fur
then than any yet demanded by E. P.
Bacon Of Milwaukee and his associated
business interests. .rt@:. 1.r. i's.r'
It would include all the provisions,
such as control over differentials, etc.,
that the president and his friends
think it unwise even to consider at this
time, and it could not by any POSSIBLE
ity be enacted into law, at this session,
or at any other in the near future.
The extreme ground which La Fol.
lette occupies is probably familiar to
his friends in Wisconsin, but it is some.
thing of a. novelty in Washington. IT
has left him in crowd all by himself
There =. not, single other senator who
will indorse his position as a whole.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
NEWS OF A CONTINENT BROUGHT BY THE NIGHT TELEGRAPH
PLANS 4 new FBIsGO
Al 0NG Lines OF PARIS.
Chicago Architect S Specifications,
Approved Years Ago, May
Be Utilized Now.

Special to The Journal.
Chicago, April 2l.--When work be.
gins next. week on the rebuilding Of
San Francisco, the drawings and sug-
gestions submitted a few months ago
by 2. il. Burnham, a Chicago archi-i
tect, may be used as the ground work
for the new city. Nearly two years
ago an association was formed in San
Francisco for the purpose of devising
ways and means of improving the city
from practical as well dis an artistic
point of view. t.
This association, Of which former
Mayor James d. Phelan is president,
is known as the Association for the
Francisco, and it invited Mr.. Burnham
to make general plan of the city. Mr..
Burnham erected studio on the slope
of Twin Peaks and for sixteen months
he and his assistants studied the posi-
bllities of the city and made sugges-
lions for its adornment and improve
ment. >...s5 -
Plans Boulevard Chain.
These plans, which cost $1,000,
were submitted to the city acouncil of
San Francisco last September and were
accepted by Mayor .Schmitz, who
pledged his support to- carry out such
suggestions as were practicable and de-
sirable.
When Mr.. Burnham was asked to
draw plans for a city beautiful it was
represented to him that San Francisco
had suffered in the past from the lack
! OF comprehensive plan for the lay
ing out Of parks and boulevards in and
around the city, making the hills and
suburbs easy Of access. 7-'
Mr.. Durham IS idea is to have q
chain Of boulevards encircling the city
business center wherever practicable,
to relieve congestion on M rket street.
"To open all the diagonal streets
proposed in the plan, said he, "would
be the work Of a generation, as was
| the case in. Paris, but once the outer
encircling driveway is . established,
these diagonals will follow, affording
direct and satisfactory access. to it
| from the various centers.
Follow Lines of Paris. -. :
| While the sketches prepared by Mr..
Burnham were prepared with view
| to utilizing as many OF the streets
then existing as possible, the recent dis.
aster has eliminated that feature from
consideration, as the business center
! which it was intended principally to
4 improve has been wiped out.
! The main sketch suggested by Mr.
| Burnham for new city followed The
lines Of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Lon
don, and consists Of a number Of con
centric 1ringfi Separayad by Rsaieeya1rd]s
The smallest IF the Hhgs iaeloses the
civacF center, thasfP ostion Of the city
which plays the ast important part
in civic life and which should be stu
ated near the geographical center.
! From the inner circuit boulevard
run. diagonal arteries to every, section
Of tie city and far into the 'stirrouna'
ing country. = .-. s..ss,.., -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
HOMES IN P|TTsBURG !
FOR FRISCO REFUGEES
Plan on Foot to Provide Trans
" .portation and Rent Free to
~ 1000 Families.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Pittsburg, April 21-One thousand
OF the destitute families of San Fran
cisco will be given transportation to
Plttsburg and house rent for one year
free, while the head of the household
Will be given all the work he can do at
good wages, so that he may recover his
financial feet. This UNIQUE proposition
was set on foot here today and appears
to have been taken well by men of
means. '-'H7.' - II.
John Murphy, wealthy banker, real
estate owner and philanthropist, started
matters by donating ten houses for one
year, rent free, to ten families, fleeing
from the stricken city, and also will
furnish transportation for these fam
lilies. Mr.. Murphy said:
1--WE want to take care Of 1000 fam
lilies from San Francisco in this way.
There is $20,000,000 worth of building
work alone in Pittsburg this coming
summer and 1000 men from the coast
can find all the work they can perform
to get as far from. the land of earth
guakes as possible, we will give them
the chance ..'t'
Il will grant rent free for one wear.
and ten of my houses to the head Of ten
San Francisco families who have lost
their homes there, and will also give
daily employment to them and many
81 have the assurance from MANY
other business men that they will work
with me and this offer will bring 1000
families to this city, giving them per-
| manent work and new home. -
Pittsburg's contributions to the re-
lief of the destitute today reached over
$2,000,000. The largest contribution
was for $4,000, which came from the
Carnegie Steel company. The Nation
al Tube company, which donated $4,000
today increased the donation to $4,000.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
! WILL CONTROL ALL .
Vanderbilt ROADS
Vice President Brown of New
York Central to Move
to Gotham.
lew York Herald Special Service.

New York Herald Special Service.
e, New York, April 21.-William Carlos
Brown, now first vicepresident Of the
New York Central and of the La Ike
Shore & Michigan Southern railroads,
will on June l, remove his office from
Chicago to New York. After his ar
rival here, William Newman, president
of the two roads, will go on a two
month s vacation. During the latter s
absence, Mr.. Brown will be the acting
head of the whole Vanderbilt holdings.
/ 1t is probable that Chauncey NJ. De
pew is to retire as chairman of the
board Of directors. It is even reported
that his resignation is already in. the
hands Of the directors. Mr.. Newman n,
now president, will, in that case, be-
come chairman of the board, and Mr..
Brown will become president.
When seen at his office in the Grand
Central station, Mr.. Newman. said: .~
= At present Mr.. Brown is in charge
Of the entire operating department of
the system. For two years he has been
in Chicago, spending one day a week in
New York. He will act in my place
while I am away
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
SENATOR McGILL|VRAY !.
ENTERS THE FIELD.
Says He Can Give Wisconsin an
Administration Without y.
fractional Strife. 4,

srecia! to The Journal. 8
Camp Douglas, Wis, April 21.-In a
long and interesting address here to-
night, State Senator j. J.. McGillivray
of Black River Falls made his formal
announcementS as candidate for the
nomination for governor.
The speaker took advanced. ground
for, the principles of. the primary law
and the abolishing of all forms of
graft in public and official life: He an
nonnced himself as unqualifedly for
state control and regulation OF. all cor;
porations. His platform In other re-
spects, he, said, was as follows:
a government by the people, not
politicians; fair play for all labor;
new capitol, in keeping with the
and muscle and material Of the state;
the cutting down Of the extravagant
expenses Of the state government; an
administration. free from fractional
strife. -
9. Nh. McGillivray gave Senator La
Toilette a dig by saying: "Certain pol,
iticians may become overbearing and
manageable in their desire to control
the affairs of the government. Their
ambition is. to rule and manipulate the
legislature of our state and others, and
even the national congress, and their
efforts in this line are becoming one
of the great evils of the day '
Speaking directly of himself, Mr.. Nc
Gillivray said: IT do not stand here
and assert that I am the only man who
can be trusted, for there are thousands
I am glad to say. who are worthy Of
trust in this grand old state of ours;
but do claim that my heart is right;
that I have been a factor in establish.
ing important principles and that ]
stand for them now; that I have had
sixteen years experience in Legislative
work; that I belong to no clique OF
combination and that I will not be the
tool of any man or set of men. If you
trust ME with the nomination and cleo.
ton, will do my best TO- give the
people of the state fair and. impair
tial administration free from factiona,
spite. - '<@:>.~ 49,, ;. - ,.
The meeting was we'll attended anc
the address was received with much ap
plause. !, Governor Davidson, who viii
be candidate to succeed himself, will
soon make public his platform. It i:
now being translated into the. Norwe
gian language for use in certain news
papers. :, - 49,. go. ..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
HE TASTED 40 DAYS
AND LOST 60 POUNDS
Veteran of Civil War Believes That
Long Abstinence Has Worked Cure
Which Specialists Gould Not Effect.

Lancaster, April 21.-Benjamin F:
Esbenshade, IS years old, veteran Of
the civil war, has concluded a forty day
fast, and, altho emaciated, believes he
has cured himself Of chronic stomach
disorder.
Speaking of his trying ordeal, the
aged veteran said:
81 have spent hundreds Of dollars
trying to cure the disease, and have
consulted many doctors, but all to no
avail. At last I resorted to this meas
ure and I have faith that in a few
months I will be restored to my good
state Of health.'
When Esbenshade started on his long
fast he weighed 100 pounds and at the
termination he tipped the scales at 100.
His step has become slow on account Of
extreme weakness. During the entire
forty days he ate nothing at all, but
drank about pint Of water each day.
His first food on Saturday was an or
ange and an apple. d. .<. s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
CH|LDRENs' TRAGEDY "
Still. !. DEEP II: MYSTERY
Girl, of Two Stabbed in Office,
Unconscious, and Boy
80 /, Charges Burglars. =. . !.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. 2 ~-@~,1 !, ~ $50
New York, April. 21.-The strange
double, stabbing in the office Of Meyro-
WITT Bros, diamond dealers Of Maiden
Lane, Friday, remains a mystery. Belle
Hechte, the 15-year-old girl victim, is
still unconscious and in condition
that may result fatally. Jacob. Negro
WITT, the l6-year-old boy, will recover.
He sticks to, his story that he. and the
girl were stabbed by two burglars. A..
Coroner rAeritelli has placed a police
man as guard over the boy He was
ableto learn from the girl before she be-
came unconscious, that she was stabbed
by "a - boy who looked like, Jakey.O
The police believe young Meyrowitz
stabbed <ile girl and then, to avert. sns-
.picicn, inflicted ten slight flesh wounds
on himself.
Coroner sAcritelli is, Inclined to be-
lieve that in the dazed condition fol-
loving the pain and shock: Of the stab
bling and the. subsequent operation, the
girl was unable to tell all she knew.
She. has seven severe wounds, one of
which pierced the wall Of the abdomen,
while two others close to it are very
deep. T.: ..-,1.-E..-. ~ IL. j.. 80,
The story of. thu, girl, as given out
Friday was that: she was attacked by
the boy, and that after desperate
struggle she wrested the knife from him
and stabbed him in defending herself
Walter Scott, bookkeeper, said to-
day: -. d, :.
7 ran in and found. the boy lying
on the floor with big jackknife beside
him covered with blood. I stepped over
his outstretched legs to pick itup, but
he grabbed it first and slashed at my
legs. He said something about it being
none Of my business. The girl was III
another part Of the office badly done
I'D. - -. -. So :.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
RoCKEFEIsI.ER's HOME 3 !
s1T z::zTHRFsAT TENED BY FIRE!
Forest Blaze Is Controlled a Short Dis
8 tarce from Oil Kings Lakewood
Mansion.

Special to. The, Journal. T.
Lakewood, N. j., April 21.-John D.
Rockefeller magnificent home was in
danger Of being destroyed by a forest
fire today Several acres Of timber
land, owned by Mr.. Rockefeller were
swept by, the fire, and, the house stood
directly in the path Of the flames. r.
: > The fire started in a piece Of woods
owned by a neighbor. The twigs blazed
up like a flash and spread to another
pile Of brush. The flames soon: got BE.
.yond control and in a few minutes the
fire, had: swept to the, timber land
owned by Mr.. Rockefeller.
All the neighbors and employees at
the Rockefeller country place Joined in
fighting the fire. Three hours hard
work by the men and changing wind
finally brought, the fire under control.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
FEAR TIDAL WAVE is q
DESTROYER OF NOME
Alaskans in Washington Alarmed
Over Possible Follower
of Quake.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, April 21.-The delegates
from Alaska who have been here all
winter looking after legislation for that
territory have heard the news of the
earthquake at San Francisco with pc
culiar apprehension, and this is par.
ticularly true of Richard s. Ryan, dele.
gate from Nome. They have every mo-
ment since the appalling event been iv-
ing in anticipation of a great tidal wave
came the city Of Nome would be oblit-
Grated. s '
When we first went to Nome,' said
Mr.. Ryan today, 81 found unmistaka-.
BILE evidence that Nome is subject to
destruction by tidal waves, and that in
fact one had swept the site of the town
within few years.
"Nome, as you know, is located upon
sandy beach. Off the town the water
grows deeper very gradually, so that
a wave would sweep up from the sea
with nothing toscheck its progress, and
engulf the town. 49,.
"The evidence I found of previous
tidal wave consisted of line of gigan--
tic tree trunks lying along the base OF
the foothills about four miles back of
Nome. These logs were too large to
have come. from anywhere but the sea,
having probably been swept down the
| Yukon during a. time OF flood, as there
is no timber to speak of in the Nome
district.
"The line along which they lay very
plainly marked the crest of a tidal
wave, and huge one, too, as they were
at least 400 feet higher than the level Of
the ocean. The condition in which the
logs were found showed that they could
have been there only few years, thus
disposing of the theory that they
marked the line of an old beach, which
we were at first disposed to regard as
accounting for their presence sr=
| awe have always lived in the fear
that some of the frequent earthquakes
in Japan would send another wave to
us which would put an end to Nome. as
a city, I have no doubt that the citi-
zens, Of Nome, who have cable com.
munication with Seattle, have been liv-
ing in hourly dread of wave from the
San Francisco earthquake
| Different from others in action and effect
Satin skin cream is worth trying
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
WASHINGTON NOTES

: Representative Burke got off train from
the west today just his colleague. Mr. Martin
boarded one with his family to go to South
Dakota. Burke is telling members of the house
that the organization has the Gamble forces
beaten.
t'I didn't do thing to them while 1 was in
the state" said Burke. They shot full
OF holes and we have them skinned to DEATH
Representative Marshall of North Dakota has
recommended Andrew G. Scott for postmaster
at Hurd, formerly Sans, Bottineau county; F..
E. Ingram at Truro, Bottineau county; a..
Michaels at Judson. Morton county, and Robert
Dancy at Wade Morton county.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles 81. Loring have left
Washington for, Rochester N. ". where they
will remain some little time arriving in Min
neapolis about May 10. Mr.. Loring's health
has been greatly improved as the result of his
winter In Florida. and he feels quite himself
again
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
LOG DRIVING WAR MAY
LEAD TO BLOoDSHED
Old Trouble at Devils Greek, Mich,
Breaks Out Again and Dam is
r. Threatened . s.<.T .E2e Ms
Special to The Journal. I.

Special to The Journal. 3 sss g.
Menominee, Mich, April 20. The
old trouble between the lumber firm
Of s. Crawford & Sons, of Cedar River
and the people living snearsDevils Greek
over the driving Of the creek by the
former, has: again broken out, and a
state of civil war exists on the creek.
Word was brought of one affray to-
day. The two dams of the Crawfords
were guarded by armed men when one
night a band of men attempted to blow
up the lower dam with dynamite. The
guards fred at a dark lantern and the
attempt was given up. Next night, the
guards were reinforced and the assail-
ants came again, hiding behind stumps
and crawling up, pelting the guards
with stones and irving to brighten them
A bloody fight is expected at any
time A break in the dam would tie
UP Loco, 300 feet Of Crawford logs. One
dam was blown up last year al. great
loss to the Crawfords. s*5s @