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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04

Freshmen and sophomores clashed in
a long combat near the state university
campus last night, and today President
Northrop authorized Dean John +.
Downey of the academic faculty to in
vestigate the affair and report his find
ings to the faculty.
The action of the president was taken
as result Of the complaint Of 81. l..
Wilson, proprietor Of the student IS
ing was damaged to the extent Of $25
by the combatants. No windows in
the building were broken, but the walls
were despatched with eggs and the
stairwayg show the result Of the sophie
more effort to break up the freshman
party.
Student participants in the affair are
unanimous in expressing their willing
ness to settle for damages done by the
eombatants, but it is not likely that
university authorities will let the mat.
ter rest With the collection Of fund to
pay for the damages done the hall and
building.
The Glass Battle.
The battle broke out last evening in
connection with a freshman dancing
party in Wilson's hall, opposite the
main entrance to the campus.
two hours between an enraged crowd oil
more than 300 students and squac
of twenty policemen. At the close .c1
the fray scarcely an officer or student
had an uniform garment or SOUND
body. In the end the police were vic
torious, but no officer won special dis
tinction for his brave work.
The row started when a few sophie
mores passed the hall and found thu
freshmen in the whirl Of an informa
dancing party. The frst-year men hae
made careful preparations for the af
fair and had spent several DAYS decorat
ing the hall in secret in order that the,
might not be attacked by the sopho
mores, who worsted them a week ago
AS the second-year men stro7led by tn
hall and heard the music, they decidet
! to investigate. Finding the doors bar
ricaded, they knew freshmen were be
hind them.
! Marched on the Hall.
/ Summoning every sophomore within
cal, they marched on the hall deter
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
PARKER IN TT, TOO
Ashland, Ore, Man Indicted-What the
~ ,~~,~. Investment Charges.

Portland, Ore, May An addition
to the Oshkosh, Wis, capitalists, who
have been arrested in connection with
land frauds in Oregon, Sumner K.
Parker of Ashland, Ore, has also been
taken under the same Indictment.
The Indictment is 'one of the most
important returned by the present fed
eral grand jury and charges that under
the name Of the Oshkosh. Lumber COM
pany the accused acquired 100000 acres
Of land in Klamath and Lake counties
by inducing residents Of Ashland and
Medford, Ore, to file upon the land
with the understanding it was to be
transferred to the Wisconsin men as
soon as final papers could be secured.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04


the freshmen beg for mercy on their
Bonded knees. It was, great fun think
ing about it, but more serious when it
came to the actual work The freshmen
were prepared. Water buckets had been
placed by the windows and clubs were
handy in case the fort was stormed.
The first onslaught Of the sophomores
was met with terrific splashing Of
water, and a score of the stormers were
with a fusilade of iron and wooden
buckets and several Of the wounded
went to the rear, where their comrades
examined them to see if they had been
too seriously wounded to resume the
fight for the honor Of the class.
''Mile'' to the Fray.
While the fight was fercest several
freshmen who had not attended the
party came to help the besieged and for
an hour hand-to-hand battle ragged
in the street. Mike Ryan, policeman
and old friend of the students, saw he
calling for more officers, withdrew un-
til they arrived. :
A squad Of patrolmen from the East
Side station, and two detectives from
the South station, started to rush the
crowd from the street. =. They had
failed to count their antagonists, how
ever, and as soon as they were spied by
the students, they were rushed about
the street almost at will. They used
their clubs freely, but were getting de-
ciidedly the worst Of the engagement, SO
first detachment had been pummeled
about by the students for nearly an
hour, the South Side patrol wagon
brought reinforcements.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
OSHKOSH men IN
GOVERNMENT net
BANKERS AND LUMBER BARoNS
CHARGED WITH LAND FRAUDS.
Grand Jury at Portland, oregon, De-
clares They Should Be Tried for Sc
curing E:ntrymen for Pine Lands
Who Were Their Plain Tools.

Oshkosh, Wis, May Alive lumber
men and bankers representing an aggre-
gate wealth far in excess Of $1,000,OOO
were arrested here by the federal au-
thorities on the charge Of conspiracy to
defraud the general government by
means Of alleged land frauds in the
state of Oregon
The men arrested are Leander Choate,
James Doughty and Thomas DAILY. Mr.:
Bray is the president Of the Bray &
Choate Lumber company and Choate is
the treasurer of that company. The
Doughtys are retired lumbermen. Daily
is cashier of the Commercial National
bank, and all of the men are large
stockholders in that institution.
Each was placed under bonds Of
$4,000 and the hearing adjourned to
May II. Besides the above defendants,
warrants have been issued for August
Anderson and Joseph Black Of Shaw
anO. - a.. 80 .. . =.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
CHANCE SHOT WOUNDS

Innocent Paserby Gets Bullet in the
Leg.
Peter Thielen, employed by the Gluek
while walking along the street near the
brewery yesterday afternoon.
He did not hear the shot, thinks
some boys were shooting birds in the
neighborhood. The wound is not seri-
GUS, but the police are looking for the
person who infictedsit.
This was the second chance shot that
caused excitement on the East Side yes
terday. A bullet went thru window
in the Anderson flats on Eighth avenue
Sc yesterday morning.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
One Fare Plus So to Des Moines and
.t Return, s - . ~: 7

Account General Assembly Presby-
terrain church, May 26-29, the Minneap-
oils & St. Louis railroad will sell round
trip tickets May IA to. II and .21 to %.
Return limit May 81. Two superb
trains daily to Des Moines without
change. Call on J. g.. Rickel, city
ticket agent, 424 Nicollet avenue for
full particulars. as- =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
Marched on the Hall.

Summoning every sophomore within
call, they marched on the hall deter
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04

Not one in twenty is free from some
little ailment caused by inaction Of the
The result will be pleasant surprise.
They give positive relief.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
To California and Return.

To California and Return,
San Francisco 5or Los Angeles. Tickets
on sale April .25th to May 9Th, 1906.
One fare. or 5000, for the round trip
from Minneapolis. To accommodate
delegates and others to meeting Of the
Mystic Shrine this remarkably low
made by the Union Pacific. Short line,
fast trains, no delays. Be sure your
tickets read over this line. Inquire Of
HI. F. Carter, T. p. A., 1915 Robert
street st. Paul. Mimi.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
On With the Dance.

The students, somewhat awed, made
no attack on the new arrivals, but
awaited the results Of a consultation be-
tween the officers and some Of the
freshmen. The freshmen were able to
convince the police that they were the
aggrieved ones, and surrounded by the
big policemen they were escorted to the
hall, where they resumed the dance.
Not satisfied with having quelled the
fight, the officers waited about the
building for something more. They
got it. A grocer was persuaded to
open his store and sell out his entire
stock Of eggs, and the students returned
armed for q second attack. A shower
Of eggs failed to dampen the ardor Of
the police, who were determined to see
the deal thru. and they advanced with
drawn clubs on the attacking sophie
mores. Rush after rush was made, and
two Of the sophs, were struck on the
head with clubs and painfully injured.
This had quoting effect on the at
taekers, and they fought at long range
until the freshmen s party came to a
close shortly after midnight. The dan
GERS were allowed to go home UNI
molested, but the police were kept on
guard until early this morning, to make
sure that the sophomores made no more
trouble in the vicinity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
DAUGHTER DlsINHERlTED.
MuItimlllionaire Cuts OFF Princely Al
loWance.

New York Special to the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
New York, July.-Friends of Frank
Work. the aged multlmilionaire, father
of Mrs. Burke Roche, today declared that
he had intimated to them in mis- own
characteristic manner that he would cut
off the allowance of 100000 a year to his
daughter because of her secret marriage
to Aurel Batonyi, the riding master. Mr..
Work denied all knowledge of the move
ments of his daughter and her husband,
saying:
Il don't know where they have gone.
They will never come here, that is a
sure thing. | take no interest in the
affair. and | don't want to be bothered
on account of 1t. I am a man nearly
81 years old, and am not well, and these
things upset me, so the least said about
1t the better" :
Mrs. Batonyis quarrel with her father
in January last had for Its outcome the
cutting off Of the allowance to the daugh-
ter and had for its cause, 1t was stated
at the time, what the millionaire father
declared to be her unbounded extrava-
gance. At that time he allowed her but
100000 a year and II was because she
overstepped these by $4,000 year that
Frank Work, in anger, gave her some
advice that she did not relish.
Society began wondering today. there
fore, what Mrs Batonyi would do when
her father cut off her allowance alto
Of ~ IN w hat
would amount to a mere pittance. 1t
was believed that Frank Work was an
gered more by learning that the man his
daughter had secretly married was not
only riding master. but also was d.
vorced.
He was married to Miss Hattie l..
Smith, school teacher who met him
when he was riding master in the Cen
trail Park Academy. He was divorced
from her in 1891.
Batonyis real name is John Kohn, and
he testified in court that he dropped this
for Batonyi in 1855 before he came to,
this country.
Batonyi also figured in the diary of
Mrs Fayne Moore. introduced during the
famous badger" trial In 1856
Baytonis divorce attracted much atten-
ton because of Mrs, Batonyis attempt to
have the divorce annulled a few months
after she secured the decree on Decem-
Der IS, 1891. She said it was obtained
by collusion: that her husband promised
to remarry her If he could be free long
enough to make his peace with his
wealthy parents, who were incensed at
his marrying without their permission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
THE LUcKlEsT MAN.
New Jersey Man Can't Turn Around
Without Getting Money.

Plainfield IN. J) Cor Chicago Tribune.
Walter Freeman Of this city is without
doubt one of the luckiest men living Luck
came his way last year when he won a
$500 automobile at the annual hospital
carnival on a rattle ticket which cost him
lust 81. Last week he increased his bank
roll by $1,000 in transactions where the
goddess of luck played the leading role
Freeman stopped in a Broadway oilliarn
parlor one day last week and watched
game in which difficult shot was en-
gaging the attention OF the two contest
aants. Freeman butted in, declaring the
shot couldn't be made.
.sBet YOU $1,000 to 500 I'll make 1t.
shouted the New Yorker. flashing rat
roll in Freemans face. The money was
put up and the shot was missed. Freeman
took the money.
The next day he was going down Cort-
land street when a Plainfeld friend met
him Say, old man." the Plainfieider
stammered loan me $25. I'll be honest
with YOU Tn going to play the races.
I'll give you half of what ] won.
Freeman handed out s25 The next day
he met his friend again with his face
wreathed in smiles. Out of one pocket he
pulled $25, saying
This is what l borrowed from you yes
terday." Putting his hand into another
pocket he drew forth big wad of green
backs, and counting out $500, said to Free
man: Here. take this. That is half the
profits OF yesterdays bet"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
This sorrows heavenly,
II strikes where it doth love.
-OthelIo.
Homecoming Week.

As soon as the railroads grant
cent-a-mile rate to wandering Ala
bamians Governor Jell1s will issue a
proclamation making the Birmingham
proposition a state affair The railroads
will no doubt make favorable rates,
because they can thereby get a deal Of
travel that they would otherwise not
get
While Birmingham practically speak
ing will become the center and focus
and inspiration of the homecoming
week, it will apply to the entire state.
Home to Alabam" was begun In this
city, and it will be carried out here
with a great programme. especially If
William jennings Bryan accepts Bir-
mingham's invitation to become its
star orator on that occasion. He doubt
less will come.
The homecomers will first be well
coined in Birmingham. and then they
will be turned over to their respect
i've counties. which will undoubtedly
organize welcomes to suit themselves.
No county town will be apt to ignore
so touching an event-one that comes
home to every family in every county.
AS soon as Governor Jelks' proc
lamation is issued, let every person
mail copies of it to their friends in
other states. Let it be sent far and
near together with pressing invita-
lions to gather once again in the dear
old state. Home to Alabam" should
be the watchword until the wandering
sons and daughters have been gathered
In the Alabama fold again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
Great Music Festival.

The next triennal music festival of Biz
ingham, England will take place the first
week in October of this year. No fes-
rivals are quite up TO those of Rirming-
man, 1t is unfortunate for musical folk
that the Birmingham event occurs at a.
season of the year when teachers, or
ganists and professional musicians in
general are busy with their fall work
Because of the October dates few If any
Americans who would most appreciate the
great works rendered. can attend.
This years festival will be especially
attractive said music lover who made
the trip to England three years ago for
the purpose of attending the Birmingham
festival. Richter is to be the conductor
"Albani, Muriel Foster, Ada crossley,
John Coates. Andrew Black and Ffrang-
con Davies, are the leading vocalists; and
young Mischa Elman, the wondrous boy
violinist, is the bright particular star.
Without doubt, Elman Is the finest per-
former of his years since the far-off days
when Joachim astounded the world as a
prodigy. There can be no two opinions
about Mischa Elman-he is a genius fully
fiedged, though mere boy in years and
technique. but an exquisite, tear-compell-
ing expression that is awe-inspiring in one
so young Wherever he goes he con-
quers simply by virtue of irresistible
genius. To have listened to his playing
is to have added a treasure to ones store
house of memory. Like Rubinstein at the
piano, Mischa Elman on the violin is I'M
forgettable. He is an incarnation of Apollo
himself.
THE programme of the festival is rich
in new works. Chief among these is The
Kingdom, Part H. from the pen of Sir
Edward Elgar,. the foremost living British
composer-posslbly first among all mas
tiers of the divine art now with us. This
work, as another instalment of Cigars
great sequence on Scriptural subjects, is
awaited with eager interest throughout
the world of music. The same masters
Apostles produced at the last festival,
also finds place in this years programme.
Other new compositions of much interest
are Granville Bantocks Omar Khayyam,'
Holbrook's The Bells and a sinfonletta
In minor by Percy Pitt. In addition,
sundry time -honored favorites will delight
the ears of music lovers. We need but
instance Handlers Messiah Mendels-
sohn's Elijah, the same composers
Hymn of Praise Beethoven's Mass in d,
and Bachs Sing we to the Lord to
enumerate list that will have the widest
popular appeal. Sir Charles Stanford's
stirring setting of Tennyson's ballad on
the Elzabethan subject, The Revenge,
is alone worthy to fill the historic town
hall of the Midland metropolis. The band
and chorus will number 500'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
PETTUS' BEREAVEMENT.

From. the Mobile Register.
Alabama is not alone In offering con-
dolence to Senator Edmund Winston
Pettus in his bereavement through the
death of Mrs. Pettus. The dean of the
United States Senate is known through
out the land as the type of a genera
ton which has left the greatest i'm
press on our national character and few
of his original contemporaries remain. His
domestic life has been the subject OF
many printed articles in recent years.
These articles have brought into RELIEF
the wife of Senator Pettus. displaying
the womanly qualities which are the basis
OF the home contemplated with pride. N
Alabama we knew of these qualities, and
we esteemed the possessor. Her exceed
ing gentleness, her devoted attention to
her husband and her share in all the
concerns of his public life, were in her
native state twice-told tale before the
public prints described them. Senator
and Mrs. Pettus were the Darby and Joan
of the present, and now that their sane
tilted companionship of sixty-two years
is broken by death, terms Of human solace
fail. God comfort the venerable man
whom death has heavily burdened.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
SUNFLoWER PHILOSOPHY.
the Atchison (Kan.) Globe.

From the Atchison (Kan) Globe.
There are a half dozen bells. at least
You never know when woman will
begin crying, br an automobile stop
running.
After a woman passes so she seems to
think that any dress is good enough for
any occasion, providing it is black
Isn't 1t fact that the most successful
men you know are polite men? Then
doesn't it follow that If you hope to sue
coed you must be polite?
So far as we can see the only advantage
man has over woman is that he can
turn the key on his work at o'clock.
When a man thinks decent thoughts and
behaves himself as well as possible, it
shows in his face. Likewise. when a man
is mean, he looks like a sheep-killing
dog.
A company has been formed to build
a ladder to the moon. You will imagine
that stock in the company cannot be
sold. Don't fool yourself; the chumps are
taking it quite readily
Don't worry If you are not good look
ing You look all right to your friends;
the best looks on earth could not make
you look good to your enemies, and those
who are not interested in you don't
know how you look.
In the story book a brother throws his
arms around his sister and kisses her.
In real life, he never kisses her except
when she goes away on long journey
and then 1t is only frost-covered peck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
Rains In Alabama.

Director Chaffee reports that rain
falls last week were daily occurrences
in all parts of the state. Drouthy con-
ditions were everywhere broken, and
the ground was well saturated. On
the $4,000 square miles of surface in
this state it is within bounds to say
that three inches of rain fell, and the
curious can therefore readily ascertain
how much water fell in this state last
week. The aggregate was something
immense, and possibly that aggregate
will be duplicated during the present
week.
The temperature has been suffl-
GENTLY high although little below
normal, but there has been deficiency
in sunshine, and cultivation has been
stayed by the rainfalls. All these
things will be quickly remedied when
the clouds pass by, as they no doubt
speedily will. The season" has been
prolonged, and the hope is that the sun
will soon resume its power and sway
in the cotton fields, dismissing the
clouds to a later period in the growing
season,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

ply did what Jameson attempted-she
crushed the Boer republics.
A few men have won great fortunes
in South Africa, but the many have
lost money there. But few of the
Rand mines are earning dividends,
despite the unprecedented gold output,
but Belt and Robinson were never gold
diggers They were manipulators of
gold stocks as well as of diamond
stocks. Belt and Barnato and Cecil
Rhodes are all dead, and all they leave
behind is the reputation of dying very
rich How much that is each reader
must decide for himself. for he pays
his nickel and takes his choice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
IN INDIA MAY
AFFECT COTTON INDUSTRY

trees to the acre, this gives a total yield
of 400 to 500 pounds per acre. which is
above the average of Egypt and no less
than from eight to sixteen times greater
than the average of all India.
The second years crop will probably
be double the first and the third years
double the second. Each succeeding crop
will no doubt increase still further, as 1t
Is we'll. known that trees of this variety
after the third year have yielded to
10 pounds Of clean cotton per tree an
nually during a known life of twenty
years and over 1t will thus be seen that
If one-third of the eotton-growing area
of India were planted with this tree the
result of the second year would be crop
far in excess of that of this country and
America put together. The quality is so
excellent that it opens an entirely new
field for Indian manufacturers as 1t does
upon the future prosperity of the coun-
try. cannot be overestimated.
I was formerly for 20 years a member
of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers associa-
ton and had five years experience of
NONNSiA S'N"'iie III EBypA. Ills cOltOii HAS
been called Spence cotton In reeogni-
ton of the fact that I was the first to
discover its important value and to bring
1t to the notice of the commercial COM
munity. Several cotton trees have been
tried in this country, notably those from
Peru and Brazil but the first will not
grow In the plains at all. and the latter
has not been found practically suitable
to the climate. The great advantage and
importance of the Spence cotton tree is
that it is practically indigenous. that
it has been found all over Western India
and no doubt exists in the east. and
that 1t will grow and flourish practically
in any soil in this country.
The zeal of the government of India
for the Improvement of cotton cultivation
is shown by rather sharp letter which
has recently been addressed to the gov
eminent of Burma. This government pub
lished report at the beginning of the
year to the effect that there is little pros
pect of the extension of cotton cultiva-
ton in that country. The government of
India, in replying says that the conclu-
sions arrived at as regards the future
we unduly pessimistlc, and goes on to
declare that the conditions appear to be
sufficiently favorable In the dry zone of
Upper Burma to justify experimental
work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
Richest Man in Enqland.

Alfred Belt, manipultor of diamond
and coal mines in South Africa is
dead He was the richest man in Eng
land, although he was but SO years old
at the time of his demise. He was ac-
counted the second richest man in the
world John d. Rockefeller is credited
in popular lists with fortune of $780,
100000 He leads the column. The
late Mr. Belt came next, his fortune
being put at s5OO,OoO,OOO, and ]. B.
Robinson of South Africa is No. 3. The
last-named is said to be worth $780,
100000. These three men were or are
very rich, and nothing besides.
The man who is just dead was i'm
plicated almost to criminal degree in
the Jameson raid, but all that was for
given in the Boer war. England sim