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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
MEEUHANTS 6TOOU OFF
Railroads Decline to Tamper with
Trans-M Missouri Differential. >
Srecial to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ..::...t .-
Chicago, Aug. 31.-A firm but polite
refusal, with the invitation to 'tstry a
little longer' the conditions Of which
they complain and which are thirty-one
years old. was given the western trunk
lines to the Chicago Commercial asso-.
citation in reply to its petition for q re-
adjustment Of the rates to TRANSMITS
souri, and southwest territory. ~,
In substance, the complaint Of the
Chicago Commercial association that
the rates from Chicago to trans Mis-
souri, river points are too high when
compared with the rates from St. Louis.
The present differential is 20 cents oS
first and second-class freight and 10
on third. The Chicago men want this
differential made IL cents on first, 70
on second and. 8 on third, with CORE
spending reductions on the lower classes
and the commodity rates:
The railroads immediatel " complained
that to grant the request Of the Chi
cago association would be practically to
knock the basis out ofcall rates thru the
country. 'es.-6
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
MAY EXTEND LINES
Northern Pacific Surveys Route Thru
idaho and Nevada.

Northern Pacific Surveys Route Thru
Idaho and Nevada. )
Journal Special Service.
Butte, Mont, Aug. 31.-Two survey
ing parties have been in the field all
summer working on route for the ex-
tension of the Northern Pacific from
Grantsdale, at the end Of the Bitter
Root branch. One of the parties Of
engineers started southwark from
Grantsdale and in the vicinity Of the
southern Idaho boundary met another
party which had been working north
ward from Winnemucca, New, 1
After- joining the parties proceeded
westward across the upper portion Of
Nevada into California. They followed
the route Of the western Pacific as far
as Sacramento, where they ceased work.
It is further stated that route is
being surveyed thru cumberland in; the
northwestern part Of California. owned
by T. B. Walker, the Minneapolis 1um.
herman, and other men associated with
him. 49,. 49, = -.
The extension Of the Bitter Root
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
RAILROAD NOTES,

The 500 Line will run an excursion to the
500. Mackinac Island. Detroit. Cleveland and
Buffalo Sent. %. with return limit Of Oct.e7.
The Omaha. North Western and Milwaukee
roads have filed notice with the state railroad
commission of reduction Sept. in freight
rates on grain to follow the lead of the three
northwestern roads. which made a 10 yer cent
cut. Other lines are expected to follow.
s. F. Diether; chief clerk in the signal engi-
neerg 9ntce Of the Gfeae I'VE th 1oaa mas
who are building the Portland cutoff of the
Northern Poetic road. O. B. Fredburg of the
Twenty leading China merchants from Chicago
PISSED thru Minneapolis yesterday. bound for
The Wisconsin Central road Is operating tourist
sleeping cars between Chicago and Minneapolis,
connecting with the transcontinental lines.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
OMAHA WANTS MEN
Construction Work in Eastern Wiscon-
consin Is to Be Rushed.

Special to The Journal
Duluth, Mimi, Aug. 3l.-Employ-
ment offices here are Offering big wages
to men to- go to Wisconsin to work on
the new Omaha construction. About
seventy miles of track will be laid,
and the work is to be rushed to COM
pletion as rapidly as possible.
A ten-mile extension is to be built
east from the end Of the Amigo branch,
and from the end Of the new extension
thirty miles Of track will be laid to the
north and thirty miles to the south.
Camps are now being established and
other preliminary, arrangements made.
The contract, which is is. held by NJ. J.
Peppard Of Minneapolis nm poll Ca! calls tor the
year. u,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
ERIE SURPRISES WALL STREET
Gross Earnings for Year Show Increase
@>f Of $4,277,O 900.

New York, Aug. 3l.-.The prelimina-
~ statement of the Erie road for the
year ending June 80, 1906, surprised
Wall street. Instead of a heavy fall
ing off in earnings, which some other
roads have shown Erie has. earned
more than $4,000, 0OO-a gross increase
$1.547 900.
The showing is due to the policy Of
the management in devoting it's heavy
expenditures for improvements to the
development of the general traffic in
it's territory more than to the improve
ment Of it's facilities for marketing coal
or any other particular class of COM
modify.
Not the least interesting showing is
that the company incurred an addition
81 expense Of only 100000 in the trans
portation, which brought more than
$1,5OO,OO6 additional gross earnings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
ROAD sIGHs FOR STEEL.
Red River Lumber Company Has to
Stop Work.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Bemidii, Mimi, Aug. 31.-Delay in
securing steel is hampering work on
the extension Of the Mallard Lake line
Of the Red River Lumber company.
Grading has been finished on the line
from Mallard to Squaw lake, six and
one-half miles, but work has been
stopped because Of tn the o6 non-arriya1 OF
in Squaw lake and 100000 in Long
lake, the property Of the Red River
company. These logs will not be
hoisted until the railroad is completed
so that they may be shipped to the
mill at Akeley, via the Mallard extern
sion and the Great Northern.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
CHICAGO RATES cAsKEW
North Western, and Milwaukee Pull Out

North Western, and Milwaukee Pull Out
of Reciprocal sse 5t hi,a. Agreements.
Chicago, Aug. 3l.-Arrangements for
new switching tariffs were knocked
awry Monday by the action ,of ( the
North Western and Milwaukee roads in
notifying the eastern lines that they.
would no longer. participate in. the re-,
ciprocal switching arrangements in
Chicago. This notice was received just
as the eastern roads were about to issue
the new tariffs. :....; <. 49,. Il
The reciprocal arrangement is one
of long standing and has proved salts
factory to the lines. 1t provides that
car brought into Chicago by an east
ern line for an industry on western
line is delivered to the industry and
the switching absorbed. The same is
true of shipments from the west to in
dustries on eastern lines. By this ar
rane,ernent Chicago rates are made APP
plicable to all points within the city.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
CONSTRUCTIVE WORK BEGUN
Minneapolis Will Eventually Enjoy
Short Line to San Francisco.

Actual construction work on the San
Francisco, Idaho & Montana road,
whose headquarters in the promotion
stage were in Minneapolis, has begun
out Of Caldwell, idaho. This line is
expected to give Minneapolis the short
est route to San Francisco and inter.
mediate points as far east as Montana
Officers Of the road are nowsin Chicago
closing contracts for bridge work and
other details.
According to E. r. Place, assistant
general manager Of the road, the line is
to play an important part in the devel-
opment Of Idaho. afordinR railroad op-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
o'DoNNELL IS PROMOTED :
Northern Pacific Fills St. Paul City
Office from Field Force.

c. P. O'Donnell, district passenger
agent of the North ern Pacific at Indian
apolis, has been appointed city passen-
ger and ticket agent of the Northern
Pacific and city ticket agent of the
Burlington in St. Paul. He succeeds
George "A. McCaskey. T.. ~.... :.
MI. O'Donnell has been in the service
of the Northern Pacific for about ten
years. He first entered the city ticket
office in Duluth, being promoted later
to city ticket agent at Superior, Wis.
He went to indianapolis as district pas
senger agent two years ago last spring.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
BRIDGE CAUSES TROUBLE
North Western Must Rebuild Part of
'=* Green Bay Structure.

Special to The Journal. g. ~
Kaukauna, Wis, Aug. 31.-The new
bridge at Green Bay, upon which the
North Western road is said to have
spent, nearly 81 100000, is no nearer
completion than it was several months
ago, and one. of the Reconstructed piers
has lately moved two feet out Of line.
In rebuildingf4he pier@extra precaution
was taken to place it on solid founda-
ton. The trouble is, caused by quick
sand which covers the bed of the river.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31

branch Of the Northern Pacific into
| Nevada has often been talked Of, but
the surveying parties recently sent out
lis4 the first tangible evidence that the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
portunities1 for one of the, richest sec

lions Of the northwest, - - =.
ginning Of construction work, ~ said
Mr.. Place, "and in a few weeks large
gangs will be at work. . We are nego-
tiating for steel for the bridge over the
Snake river.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
GRAND PRIZE ARTS

they are legislators, and have other bust
ness on hand than showing their constitu-
ents about the city, telling them where to
secure the cheapest board or finding out
whether such or such a thing has been
patented or not, and the thousand and one
other things fired at most of our august
statesmen. Why, some people think they
are errand boys
These and many other reasons have led
up to the notion that there should be
states building erected here A bill ought
to be presented looking to the donation by
the United States of the land required for
such structure, and then an active propa-
ganda. or whatever you choose to call It,
begun to get the different states to sub
scribe the necessary funds for that build
ing, its maintenance and that of the neces-
sary STAN to carry out the purposes for
which it Is planned
Briefly described. those purposes are set
forth hereafter. But to assist in elueidat-
ing them 1 have prepared some sketches
Not to suggest that the building be so and
so particularly, but merely, as I said, to
elucidate and as a basis, something to
show, to arouse some interest among state
legislators during that propaganda I have
just mentioned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.

The second annual meeting of the Car
negie hero fund commission was held in
Pittsburg Wednesday. All of the old officers
were reelected. and John p. Cowan of the
Pittsburg Gazette writing force was added
to the force OF special agents employed to
investigate cases brought to the attention
OF the commission. Only one award was
made, that of $500 to Miss Maude A. tt
tus of Newark, N. J. On October 16, 1906
Miss Titus, a sixteen-year-old school girl
was awarded silver medal for saving Miss
Laura v. Reifsnyder from drowning in
Casco bay, near Yarmouth, Me. On Octo-
Der IS her father died. leaving her without
means to finish her education. The COM
mission, taking this into consideration, re-
opened the case. and awarded her 81, 500, to
be paid In installments as needed for her
education. This is the largest award yet
granted by the commission. During the
year 761 cases have been investigated or
these 3S2 were refused, 10 were granted, and
$50 are pending.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

post offices, to which any one might have
his mail directed while visiting here There
would be bureaus of information concern
lnS railway time tables, boarding places
etc. and every man visiting here could feel
ne had place to go to his very own in
his states headquarters, to meet his fellow
citizens, to read his home papers, and feel
at home in.
These headquarters would also have a
business purpose There would be gathered
all the information on every point about
each state, and 1t would soon grow into a
vast clearinghouse for states affairs not
connected with federal matters, and would
go far toward forming a closer bond than
now exists between states In these rooms
and in allotted spaces In the great hall dur
ing times 1t is not needed for other pur-
poses, there could be limited exhibits of
state manufactures, etc. and from all these
could emanate immigrant literature and all
sorts Of other things for the greater glory
of the state.
in fact, there should be kept there a
competent corps of assistants under the d.
rection of each states delegation, whose
business 1t would be to make 1t pleasant
fos the people of that state visiting here to
gather and exchange information with
other states and to do anything and every
thing not legislative In the interest of that
state that an ambassador or minister Is ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

| pected to do here for the country he is ac-
credited from.
The Auditorium.
on a line with the first floor | would
nave the auditorium shown at the rear OF
the guiding. This. with its two galleries.
would hold very large assembIages, con-
Ventions, states meetings. national asso-
Citations, ana what not. handsome rev.
enue could be derived from this auditorium
and there is nothing here now adequate or
suitable for that purpose. There IN NJ
would De dressing rooms convention COM
mlttee rooms. etc Then, at times screens
ID ID could be raised and that auditorium
ana grand hall thrown IN together into one
vast assembly room capable of seating
twenty or twenty-five thousand persons.
what place for national conventions and
inaugural ballst Today, when President ia
Inaugural ted, practically the entire business
or the pension office has to be suspended
Tor couple of weeks while that building is
belng fixed and unfXed for that event-an-
other consideration for the governments
donation of land
This may be termed summary n sort
or synopsis of the scheme and purposes OF
a states building in Washington an en-
nassy from every state at the national cap
ital
In the limits of this little space Ii would
De impossible to tell you all the advan-
tages, all the purposes of such a scheme I
nave attempted to simply pave the way
giving you a few Introductory remarks
anent that scheme.
ut is a project worthy of The Stars cor
dlal support and bespeak your hearty CO.
operation in helping it on to a realiza-
ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
portanee Of the country-a great national

portance of the country-a great national
monument
'They tell us that we number somewhere
between seventy-eight and eighty million
people. Many hundreds of thousands of
these millions visit this city during year s
time. They are here as strangers in a
strange land unless, of course, they can
get hold of the poor, overworked congress
man from their district In few other
places is the sovereign citizen. the voter,
made to appreciate so thoroughly the fact
that he is the servant and the other fellows
the masters. In fact, the sovereign citizen
whatever he may have thought before conn.,
ing here quickly finds out after visiting the
Capitol and one or two of the departments
that one eighty-millionth of whole is a
biessediy small quantity.
Then, too. one can find here all he
wants to know about the states as units;
but he will be somewhat aged when he
has secured the information.
"Other countries maintain ambassadors
and ministers here TO look after their sew
eral interests, and they give those officers
quarters to transact their business in, ana
dwellings where they may make the other
fellows green with envy by the excellence
or extravaganza or their entertainments
Now, while you may say that the senators
and representa- lives In Congress represent
their several states. you must realize that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
FAMOUS SIOUX CHIEFS
HUMP AND IRON LIGHTNING
HERE ON A VISIT.
They Call at Museum Attempt is
Made to Secure Casts of
Their Faces.

Chief Hump and Chief Iron Lightning.
two prominent Sioux Indians from the
Cheyenne River reservation, South Dakota,
are paying visit to the city of the Great
White Father and incidentally viewing the
sights OF the national capital. Both Chief
Hump and Iron Lightning participated in
the famous bloody battle on the Little Big
Horn known as Clusters last fight, when
the sons OF the plains annihilated Custer
and his little band of soldiers. The two Sioux
chiefs were rebei1ious Indians then, and
their hands were turned fercely against the
paleface but their warrior days are over
now and they both dwell peacefully on the
reservation set aside for them by Uncle
Sam, and dream no more of savage wars
and scenes of carnage.
Chief Hump surrendered himself to Gen.
Miles in 1877 at the forks of the Yellowstone
river, and since that time he has been the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

=
Greer was well known in many quarters
as the rector of St. Bartholomew "the
Vanderbilts' church." Where the Rev. DIR.
Frank w. Gunsaulus is not known as the
brilliant pastor of the Central Church, CHI
cago, succeeding DIR. Hills, he is almost
sure to be famous as the head of the Ar
mour Institute of Technology.
Lyman Abbott, who first started out to be
lawyer; Robert Collyer. who began life as
a blacksmith; Henry Van Dyke, whose
reputation now rests chiefly on his books.
and Edward Everett Hale, who has been
more widely known, perhaps, as the au-
thor of THE Man Without Country
were certainly among the most famous
preachers prior to their entire or quasi
REIMBURSEMENT of active pulpit work. Al
though a scholarly preacher, Francis l..
Patton's popular reputation rests upon the
circumstance that for fourteen years he
was president of Princeton University;
while to the present generation, James Glib
bons and Henry c. Potter are best known
as the only American cardinal and the Pro-
testant Episcopal bishop of New York. re-
spectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

900 feet on its long axis, north and south,
by 500 feet wide.
IF this is not available, then let the
federal government donate some other patch
equally well situated and slightly; it has
plenty.
Assuming that the market-place were so
donated and that 1 were asked to offer a
rough suggestion for a building to put
upon It, / would front the business end of
that structure upon the Mall (supposing
that the north side property is to be con-
demnedD, the Auditorium end upon Penn
sylvania avenue, and side entrances on 7th
and 9th streets.
1.-The first floor I would open onto a
grand central hall or court, some 200 by $50
feet square. The second floor, being q bal
cony around this court. would be cut up
into smaller rooms (B b than those (B 81
of the first story and all of them would be
states headquarters. There would be state
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
A STATES BUILDING
Proposed to Unite 1t With an
Auditorium.
SOME DETAILS OF THE PLAN
Expense to Be Borne by the Whole
Country.
IT IS NOT A DISTRICT AFFAIR
All the People Would Find in the
Suggested Structure Headquarters
During Their Stay in the City.
IT IS NOT A DISTRICT AFFAIR

Years ago, when we We're camoring for
some fixed and sensible plan for the i'm
provement of Washington, ra ther than the
haphazard dropping of buildings promiscu-
ously about the city, said l.. W. Fitzpat-
rick today to a Star reporter, 1.-THE Star
did splendid work and contributed very
largely to the contamination of the scheme
and the appointment of art commission.
Later, The Star as ably seconded our pro-
tests against the location of the Depart
ment of Justice on a fractional block occu-
pied now by the Belasco Theater In still
more recent times a project for a great
states building, an auditorium and offices
tor senators and representatives, was first
preached in this city through The Star.
Many people laughed at the idea. Congress
looked upon it ruthless extravaganza
but nevertheless and Notwithstanding the
scheme is being realized piecemeal, if not
as whole. The two houses of Congress
have already begun splendid Office build
ings for their members-and the joke of 1t
is that much of the opposition at first
noted emanated from some of the gentle
men now on the building committees of
those structures! And today there is a
well-organiZed movement on foot to give
Washington an adequate auditorium
larger scheme? Why build an auditorium
now and states building a little later?
The two are intimately related, such
integral parts, one of the other. that it
seems unwise to disassociate them. Be
sides, now planned, the auditorium affair
will be the result of individual effort, capt.
taliZed by Washington's citizens. Judging
the future from the past we are safe in
saying that If we build an auditorium under
such limitations it may be a very respect
able affair, but certainly not as costly as
adequate to the nations demands, as would
be a national structure. Moreover used for
q G audi tnri,1, f,
Washington is bound to be, it is hardly
seemly that it should be a private enter
prise.
Essentially a States Project
"a great states building and auditorium
might be contributed to by the federal gov
eminent and in small part by Washington's
citizens; but 1t should really be more es-
sentially states project. And think of 1t:
But a paltry fifty or sixty thousand dollars
from each state would give us a building
commensurate with the dignity and i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

Former State Treasurer Henry Wulff and
Justus Loeb, who was associated with
Wulff in the operation of the Consolidated
Financing Company, were each sentenced
by Federal Judge Bethea at Chicago We'd
nesday TO two years in the house of corr
rection and to pay fine Of 800.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
The Proposed Building.

ITO begin with, Congress should donate
to the states the land for such building.
1 would suggest that that patch of land
now occupied by the old Central Market
and entirely owned by the government, be
so donated. I would place this most inn
port mt building III that block. II is nearly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

The records of the pension office show that
the first pension granted by this government
for wounds received in the military service
during the civil war was issued August -,
1861, to Leopold Charter. One pension had
been issued prior to this one, but that was
for wounds received in the naval service.
Mr.. Charters application for pension was
filed August, T. 1861 and was granted five
days later. He was member of Company
G.. 18th New York Militia Infantry. AT one
of the recent encampments of the Grand
Army of the Republic Photographic re-
production of Mr.. Charters certificate OF
pension was printed in the official program.
The deceased was well known In Grand
Army circles and had many friends in
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
CIVIL WAR PENsIoNER DEAD.
Leopold Charter Recipient OF First
Certificate Issued in 1861.

Leopold Charter, vice consul of Belgium,
died at Savannah. Ga. Wednesday OF
apoplexy, after an illness of two weeks
He was seventy-one years old and enjoyed
the distinction of having been the first man
pensioned by the national government be-
cause of wounds received during the civil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

Great Preachers Of Yesterday.
Some persons may be inclined to place
the Rev. DIR. Robert s. Macarthur OF New
York among the nationally known active
preachers. Until he became coadjutor
bishop OF New York the Rev. DIR. David Fl.