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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
The Rescue Of Hicks.

The rescue of the imprisoned miner
Hicks from Bakersfield cavein form
one Of the world s dramatic episodes,
For fifteen days bound beneath the
ruins of car which protected him
from the crushing weight Of stone
above him, Hicks was fed and cheered
by his companions above him who
worked madly to effect a rescue. Five
times the contour Of the ground and
the dangers of another cavein compelled
a change Of plans, and it was days
after the rcscuers were in full. COM
munication with Hicks, could see him
and talk with him., before he was
dragged from the hole in which he was
imprisoned. :.
( The story is an intensely human one.
Hicks sensations when he found that
be was jammed beneath the car alive
and unhurt, while all about him were
men groaning in death agonies, were
the first act of drama which ran the
whole gamut from despair to excited
hope and back to the depths Of despair
again. It had it's humorous sidelights,
too. Hicks grew delirious once and
called to the rescuers that the faces
of the dead men were grinning at him
from every corner. He confessed when
taken out that it was the threat Of
"Old Red' Johnson to come down the
speaking tube and "wallop his head
off, if he didn It drop that that brought
him to himself Some purists will
doubtless be shocked to think that the
first thing Hicks wanted was chew
of tobacco. But Hicks had high prece-
dent for his demand. Itowas President
Mckinley who said after his wounds
had been dressed and he had been
dropped in, the bed which he was never
ito leave alive that he felt quite COM
Portable and wanted nothing but a
cigar: ...-. -,
Il Hicks is talking now of giving his
rescuers the biggest time they ever
had to show his gratitude. It is not "a
bad feeling on the part Of Hicks, but
at is. doubtful whether anything hef can
ssso in the way Of setting them UP can
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
Commodity Rates Reduced.

The railroad commission has closed
another chapter in the. campaign for
rate reductions The order served to-
dav on the railroad companies makes a
substantial cut in rates on grain of all
kinds, hard and soft coal, livestock and
lumber. This follows the recent reduc-
ton on merchandise rates, or all classes
in less than car lots, and SO completes
the reduction of rates on all freight
hauled between points in the state of
Minnesota. The campaign for lower
rates has met with signal success.
The farmer and the shipper would
appreciate the reduction more if able
to get the cars to take advantage Of
it, but the car shortage, let us hope, is
a temporary condition, while the rate
reduction is permanent, and means mill
lions of dollars in the pockets of the
producers and consumers of the state.
The reduction is most valuable on grain
and livestock. Here the producer will
get direct benefit, as practically all the
reduction will be added to the price
he receives for his product. Coal and
lumber are articles Of consumption, and
here the middleman is likely to absorb
a good share of the money saved in
freight. However, that is question be-
tween buyer and seller, and as far as
the railroad commission is concerned it
has done its full duty. The railroads
may contest the order. They certainly
would have done so if the reduction
had been larger, and the commission
would have been seriously to blame for
overreaching. A big reduction which
the people fail to get any benefit from
might make political capital, but a
smaller reduction made operative is
what the public would rather see.
Mr.. Manahan will no doubt press his
complaint against the commission now,
since it has reduced rates without his
assistance or consent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
The Chance of Tariff Revision

Are the stars in their courses work
ing for tariff revision9 Now comes
word from Washington that the treas
urv is overlooking and that despite the
threatened expenditures for river and
harbor Improvement and for ship sub
sides. we may by next summer have q
troublesome surplus. Under our. pres
ent methods Of government finance. the
tying up of large quantity of money
IN the form of treasury surplus is a
serious matter. 1t constructs the vol
ume of money available for business
purposes, while the absence of any de-
vice for currency elasticity makes such
construction vitality Important: Tariff
revision as means of cutting down the
governments revenues suggests itself
readily as the remedy. So that to the
increasing number Of those who believe
there should be revision of the tariff
for reasons of justice, there may be
added those experts in finance. who fear
the piling up Of gold in the nation 3
Golfers. &c..
Nevertheless. there comes ever and
anon out of Washington an announce:
ment couched in authoritative terms TO
the effect that revision is impossible
until after the next general election.
nearly two years hence. The name of
no molder of public events is signed to
this statement, and it's acknowledgements
may therefore be questioned. But the
argument on which it is based is wholly
political. The assumption is that the
republican party dare not try the ex-
pertinent Of revision, the first effect of
which might be bad enough to spell de-
feat in the presidential election. 1t is
better, say the tariff opportunists, to
get the election off our hands and then
revise. Thus the dangers of political
defeat would be averted. This sort of
argument does not appeal greatly to
those who are sufferers by the many in
justices of the present schedules. And
1t is altogether likely that the standpat-
tiers would be quite as reluctant to re-
| wise in 1909 as in 1907.
President Roosevelt is never. an op-
portunist. He may yet decide to call
the new congress-, with it's large acces-
sion to the ranks Of the revisionists,
into extra session, and advise it to at.
tack the problem. It would be course
that under certain contingencies, would
appeal to the presidents love of JUS
tice, regardless of political considera-
tions. Up to the present moment there
have been too many other policies that
the president considered more vitality
important than revision. When the
decks are cleared, he will not hesitate to
go into action for any such reason as
the propinquity of national election.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
Souvenir Playing Cards Issued hy
- y Great Northern Railway.

The Great Northern Railway and
Great Northern Steamship companies
have issued a new edition of playing
cards: They are printed on exception,
ally fine stock, and are better: cards for
the price asked than can be had else
where. The advertising. consisting Of
the trademark, is worked into an orr
entail design and is confined entirely to
the back of the card. The steam
ship card IS the more elaborate of1the
Great Northern Railway ~cards fifteen
cents per pack. Steamship cards TWEEN
ty-fve cents per pack. Mailed to any
address on receipt OF. price.
- A. L. Craig.
Passenger Traffic Manager, st. Paul,
Mimi Z -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
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KING --LEoPoLD's BASE USE OF
THE MUSES.. -Leopold Of Belgium. who
Is unwillingly being brought into the
limelisht for his, atrpcious srules of the
congo country, Is a patron Of letters,
put the kind Of a patron against: whom
letters are certain soon .to{ seek an ex-
acting revenge. According to 1.-THE
Blood Money of the Congo" an article
by Robert E. Park, secretary of athe
Congo, Reform, association in the jan
ary' Everybody's, Leopold IS having books
written, oStensibly by independent writ
ers, to set forth in a favorable light con-
dltlens on the Congo. One of such books
named by Mr.. Park is "The Story of
the Congo State,' by Harry Wellington
Wack. This book appeared more than
a year ago. and set forth in it's preface
or introduction it's claims to impartial
ity, asserting that it was based upon
reports from Congo officials to the king,
to which the king had granted access.
It was taken with several grains of
salt ct the timet and, in the light Of
Mr.. Park story Of how Leopold uses
the blood-money Of the Congo to MAIN
tain far-reaching press bureau merely
to protect himself from the wrath Of the
world the book is likely to be given
still less consideration as an authorita-
tive statement of conditions in what the
world now believes is a land of woe
Mr. Parks article is as well a startling
revelation of the character of King
Leopold.
The article alluded to above is only
one of several of very exceptional in
terest in the same number Of Every
body's. "Soldiers Of the Common Good
is summed up by Charles Edward
RUSSELL Will Payne writes of men who
have failed for m i1Iiope ond b,,,n ,,,o1e
new fortunes. 'The Cry of the Sums
is a series of pictures showing what an
artist saw in the slums of New York;
it is a series to make the heart ache
and to move one to good works.. Thomas
LaWson's serial, which one more than
ever suspects is not mere fiction, car
ries his characters to new crisis such
as leaves his readers eager for the mag
aZine's next installment
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
IN THE. LIGHT OF THE "NEW
T."-Ralph Waldo Urine, the au-
thor of In Tune with the Infinite,'' has
written a new book, called In the Fire of
the Heart, in which he discusses social
and economic problems from his position
as an advocate Of the so-called new
thought He frankly says that he has
not aimed to make his book academic,
or technical, Or orthodox, but that he
has deliberately aimed. to make it a
simple, concrete little volume along the
lines with which it deals He discusses
such subjects as government, public util-
tiles, labor and its uniting power, agen-
cies for securing. the peoples greatest
good and closes with chapter on "The
Life of the Higher Beauty and-Power."
Mcclure, Phillips & Co., New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
DEG. e.

81
1s14-Treaty of Client between
Great Britain and America signed. :
1a3e-London & Greenwich railway,
first line in London, opened.
Il d856-Hughy MillerI famous Eng
Iish geologist, committed suicide.
Born 1902.
=, 1se4-First bombardrnent of Fort
Fisher. ssa,., -.
1ses-Edwin N. Stanton died.
:1572-Barnum's museum. New
York. city, destroyed, by fire. -
1sSs-Dr. Charles Mackay, English
author and song writer, died, p. =
11seo-isaac saWtells convicted at
Dover, N. =. of murder OF. HIS broth
err Hiram. 81. * ~. s. s..
1sa1--coIIision on Hudson ,rivefs
railroad at Hastings. N n; four.
{ teen killed. si'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
, JUST TO LOOK, AT
Kansas Civ Sta


What will the public think of the story
about the actress at burlesque theater
in Kansas City Who when, smoke was
seen arising from the roof, besought the
hremen to save her trunk. containing
$500 worth of gowns. If any burlesoue
actress in Kansas City is that we'll fixed
for clothes why does she not wear them?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
GOALS FROM THE FIELD

having selected speaker from Hen
nep1n county, the house appears des-
tined to take a reader from this county.
TOO. 1t that should happen, T hope the
proud recipient of this honor will be
John T. Jones. The other man from
Hennepin county may be, and undoubted-
~ is, all right, but he is not John T.
Jones. John T. is sui generis, that is to
say just the man for chief clerk He
mas mead which 1t takes a TX hat to
surround, and which is packed full of
facts of prime necessity to new legisla-
tors Besides that, John r. has voice
with a range rivaling that of Herr Bung-
starter, who recently at the Auditorium,
sang everything from first base to left
field. Jones' voice has been trained in
expression, and it is believed by many
that he could carry a meritorious bill
simply by his sympathetic manner of
reading An act entitled an act; section,
nuzz- buzz. Very few in the opposition
could Withstand it's appeal.
There is only one objection to Jones
that know Of A while back he. had the
habit of nesting in with crowd of men
at the Commercial club and when there
was a 1ull in the conversation, starting
something about the baby. Some one, of
course, would give him glare of rebulke,
but then he would persist, II am not a
man who goes about talking about my
own children. but the fact is, boys, this
baby is diff"
Usually somebody would stop him there.
but Jones kept up this line of converse
ton until ''Westy" one day brought him
a blank application.
whats this for?" asked Jones. ~. :. .
II thought you would like to put the
baby on the waiting list. 1t is against the
rules for non-residents to occupy the club
so much.'' :.
Such conduct might prejudice the legis-
1ature against Jones, but as I said, hear
he has reformed ~ -
Speaking of chief clerks recalls an in
cident in the life Of the late Charles W.
Johnson. Colonel Johnson was for a long
time reading clerk Of the United States
senate. This is a position equivalent to
being king of some of the minor mon
arches Of this earth, and many people
IN Minnesota, when they went to Wash
ington looked up Colonel johnson and
asked him to get their bills thru, instead
of going to their senator. Probably, too,
he got more bills thru than many sena-
tors ever did. This incident, however, re-
ferred to visit of a committee of sena-
tors to Minneapolis during the recess of
congress. Senator Hoar of Massachu-
sets was among the number. Colonel
Johnson was named chairman of the local
reception committee, and knowing what
senators liked, he did the thing up brown,
Incidentally he introduced everybody to
everybody else, and in the course of time
attracted the attention Of Senator Hoar,
who was never known to see anybody
smaller than president Or an ambas-
sador. ..>-.r- 4
who is that gentleman who seems to
know everybody, he. asked Of another
senator. adjusting his eyeglasses with
a true Boston gesture a
why, don't you know him? that's
Colonel Johnson Colonel Johnson,
chief 80.
~ do believe you are right. tits our
clark" James GRAY. 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
Very Low Fares from Chic. oo

To Florida and Havana, Cuba and re.
turn, via the Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
road and Washington, D. c.: also
diverse routes. Stop-over PRIVILEGES.
Descriptive booklet ON application. Ad.
dress re. Hasse, n. w. II. p. A. ST.
Paul, Adinn.,s or GB:s NJ Austin,3 G. r" a.
Chicago. ,.-e,
.& ~ i. s., 8 ISIi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

The laundry work in the United States
is far superior to that done over here
writes Consul General Wright from
Munich. Should say so, il. Look at the
big wash hung out by the Storers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Chicago is about to organize a cam
paign against the town knocker. Here
tofore every knock has been a boost for
Chicago, but the Shea case, the teamsters'
have made her sensitive s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

For the sake Of trying to do something
to- 7 e Journal the Tribune is TAX
ing Senator Nelson's name in vain. When
the senator gets thru with the Tribune
for making him appear to be talking thru
his hat h e journal may think it
worth while to take the matter up.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
OUT OF THE ORDINARY
Chicago News

- Chicago News 49, ..s.... /
Gyer-Higgins is a sremarka BILE man
Myer-In what way? .. -. 49,. .,
,Gyer-Why he can wait at the @ele
phone without making PENCIL marks on
the desk. pad
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Harry Thaw's mama says she is will.
ing to spend 100000 to free Harry. Har.
RVS attorney will assist in the disburse.
ment.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

is toS say We did not prevent, the Pan-
amans from setting s;up their own govern
ment. we aidn't ado that because g.
Cleveland tried. it. once sin .H1IawaiiA and
the precedent was considered bad. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Curtis Jet Of Kentucky, who is now
serving two concurrent life sentences by
his own confession, is determined they
shall not undermine his right to a prison
job.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

If B. Tillman ever comes in personal
contact. with that preacher who says
Adam was a negro there will be in
teresting doings. 49,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Joseph Chamb erlains at 70 has practi-
cally$lost his mind. Mr.. Chamberlain al
ways refused to take exercise Of any
kind. He even hired a man to run his
lawn, mower. Keep, moving. u,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Peoria, ILL.,, will soon unveil a :monu-
ment to Robert G. Ingersoll, the man
who, with the distilleries, made Peoria
famous
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

A man is under arrest in New York
charged with having started the great
Chicago fire. Thus is the cloud which
hung for a generation over the O'Leary
cow lifted. 49, =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

The days will be growing a millionti
part of an inch longer in a few weeks
Then comes spring and another yeal
gone without anything done. >v-l
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Tom Watson accuses Colonel Mann OF
Town Topics fame of having "eyes that
look like hald-boiled eggs" The old de-
famer looks a good deal like bad egg
anyway.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

If the Panama canal commissioners
would pay half as much personal 1atteh-
ton to the canal as the president they
might know half as much about it, -,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

After Jan. the Chicago postoffice is
to be kept open all night. The post.
master will have to catch a little sleer
after breakfast.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Sir. Campbell Bannerman is in doubt
whether to abolish the lords or join them.
If they could be abolished after he joins
them everybody would be satisfied. ...s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
Cheap Ra..ss to the sout h 81.

Commencing December IsthEa1ld son
the. and third Tuesdays Of each
month until March, 1907, the North
Western line will sell ona-ways colo
MIST tickets at nearly half fare to points
il Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Get tickets andinfo rmation at 600 Mic.
oalett avenues Minneapolis, 1896 Robert
street, st. Paul, or address T. W. Teas.
dale, General Passenger Agent. St.
Panl sd, =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Dun & co. find that it costs more r.
live than formerly. Mrs. Dun could have
told the firm that a year ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

=, Mayor schrnitz Of San Francisco. hav-
ing shanghaied most of the witnesses
against him, is demanding an immediate
trial. X a%Este : (, - s. i, : $,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Chicago now has a chance to buy into
the street railways for $50, 200, 900. It
ought to be worth that if only to stop
the present roads from running in their
present manner.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Perhaps the president might prroftabiy
invest that $4,000 in making peace with
the Pulajanes -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

While President Roosevelt may not
have met the biggest liars, he appears
to have met the most.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

The Review of Reviews calls R,,t+e
"fowerless, goddess, grassless." Anyhow,
it has Heinze.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

A car shortage in Mexico will result
in. President Diaz putting a few general
managers in prison. :.-,.j;.L ..:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

The Open Courts current number con-
talns "The Red Monster by F. w.
Fitzpatrick. The international Society
of Building Commissioners, of which the
author of this article is executive officer.
is meeting with. some success in having
cities consider the -revamping Of their
tax systems. AS things are now, the
more money a man puts into a building,
the more precautions he takes against
fire, for instance, the. more is he taxed
by the municipality. g. 1t is suggested
that a. more persuasive means should be
employed by communities to get people
into the notion of building better by
graduating the taxes on property accord
ing to that property's safety or danger:
that the. man with a fireproof> building
should pay a less pro rata tax than the
one owning a fire-trap. This is the view
set forth in the article
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

The ship subsidy bill is being trimmed
down SO that it no longer interests the
senate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
TRIUMPH.

The race is won; victor 1 am hailed
With deafening cheers from eager throats-
and yet,
More glad the victory, could I forget
The strained, white faces of the ones that
failed.
owen McGiUicuddy in Appletons Magazine.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

Justice Brewer says We rode rough
shod over the rights Of Colombia. That
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24
4 't'#G =. iFoyerT Chat.


Phoebe Davis, Robert Fischer, Ella
Hugh Wood, Uric Collins and nearly all
the other members of the original cast
Will be seen at the Metropolitan during
the week beginning next Sunday evening,
in the big. original Academy Of Music
production Of 'Way Down East" Seats
for the engagement can be secured
Thursday morning. o.. ~ "a -.
81 Patrons Of the Unique will be offered a
vaudeville performance of marked excel
lence during Christmas week. The pro
gram introduces such sterling entertain
ers as Finkham and company, the, Meek
er-Baker Duo, Taylor and Fairman, Ma
son and Filburn, Perez and King, and
Eugene Emmett. Irene Little has pre-
pared several new illustrated, songs, and
a, new series of moving pictures will be
exhibited. = -. -. 49,
p At the Lyceum this evening the Fraw-
leys will be seen in the initial perform
ance of TOO Much j Johnson which has
been chosen for their Christmas, week
bill y The play is farcical comedy, from
the clever pen of William Gillette, and is
fconspicuously funny, from all points of
view, Tonight is ladies' night, which
means that popular prices will be allowed
the ladies. The management also an
nounces Wednesday as johnson night"
and Friday as souvenir night.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

George H. writes Ito the editor''
to ask if we believe in Santa Claus,
We do.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

The Southern Pacific Railroad company has
erect at once $3.50. 900 railroad hospital.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

of a gold standard in The British Straits
Settlements. The number contains re-
views of new books and the usual valu-
able record of political events turnout
the world.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

A salary of $1,000 looks pretty big
if you are not congressman.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-24

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