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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
NORTH DAKOTA |DEA"
MAKES GOOD BEGINNING
Wesley College Plan Of Co. Opera
ton with State GU" Justi-
fies It's Adoption.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal +
Grand Forks, n. D., Dec. 15.-The
close of the first term g work of Wes-
ley college marks the successful inau-
guration of the plan for cooperation
with the state university. Without
friction or jar of any sort, the work
has gone as tho it were years old, and
not in its incipient stages. -''"
The plan has received the warmest
concentrations Of public men. Cover
nor La Toilette in a recent converse
ton with President Robertson ex-
pressed his approval, and President
Edmund J. James of the University Of
Illinois, in an open letter has warmly
commended it. Likewise letters re-
ceived from Berkeley, Cal, and Birm-
ingham, Als., express interest and con-
fdence inrthe outcome. %, 49,. q.
At the recent conference Of state
university presidents held at Baton
Rouge, La. the plan was prominent
field, who read the paper, was elected
vice president for the coming year:
In the next session of the Religious
Education association, to be held in
Rochester in February, the problem of
religious education in universities and
colleges will be one, of the prominent
topics for discussion. The report
which will form the basis Of discussion
will be prepared by a member of the
Wesley college faculty. Already much
interest is being manifested in the
"North Dakota idea,' and favorable
mention has already appeared in the
journal of the association.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
MORE DUkHObQRs For.
CANADIAN NORTHWEST
Veregin, Their Leader, Seeks Men
~ ~ =. = ;
in Czar's Capital for Rail
way Building.
Special to The Journal.

Yor kton, Sask.. Dec. 15.-Peter We're
gin, tle Dukhobor leader, is in st.
Petersburg to gather an army of TO-.
600 or 10000 Dukhobors to work on
railroad construction in western Can
ada, The Dukhobors having become IA
NOUS at this work. Several large con-
tracts have already been obtained by
the Dukhobors to commence early in
the spring and it is to guarantee the
successful completion of this work that
Veregin is endeavoring to bring out
more Dukhobors. IF he is successful
in his mission philanthropic societies
thruout the world will assist in paying
their way to Canada. Already several
prominent Philadelphia quakers have
volunteered financial assistance.
The royal northwest mounted Do
lice expect more trouble upon the ar
rival of this band, because there are
sure to be, some among them who have
the same religious mania which made
the first lot SO objectionable WherI
they arrive here it is expected some
will again preach the second coming
OF the Messiah with the result that
many will be induced to cast away
their clothing and roam the prairies
IN the hope that he will come and they,
being first on the ground, named as
his chosen people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16

How Improvised Hood on a st.
Peter Mans Machine Caused
His Undoing.
Gpecial to The Journal.

special to The Journal. 49, ~-
st. Peter, Mimi, Dee. 15.-F. H. Sill
verton, superintendent of the munich
pal lighting plant, is doubtless the
only man ever threatened with asphyx-
iation in an automobile.
He is an ardent autoist and, to per-
nit Of winter riding, has equipped his
runabout with closely-ftting hood.
The exhaust from his gasolene engine
discharges near the footboard, and
when the machine is in motion there
is sufficient circulation to carry off the
gas. IF the auto is allowed to remain
stationary and the engine is not shut
off the fumes rise inside the hood.
These facts were discovered when
Mr.. Silverton left the conveyance in
front of one of the hotels. He was
absent some little time and when he
returned failed to notice that the
hood was filled with gas. Soon after
starting it began to affect him, and
when he reached the powerhouse, two
blocks distant, he had just strength
enough to stop his engine and stagger
into the open air.
AS he stepped down from the auto
he collapsed, and soon after was taken
violently sick. Z. It was several hours
before he recovered from the effects of
breathing the poisonous gas.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
CITY HAS MONEY TO
LOAN At GOOD RATE
Surplus Piling Up: May Worry
Crystal Falls as it Once Did
MIR. Cleveland,
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal.
Crystal Falls, Mich, Dec. 15.-As q
general thing upper peninsula towns
IN common with many others thruout
the land, have hard time maxine both
ends meet, and often it is necessary to
borrow money to tide the municipality
over until the annual tax collections
have been made. However. the Iron
county seat is an exception to the rule.
Crystal Falls city is SO loaded with
money that the surplus funds are be-
coming g. veritable nuisance and the
council has decided to invest $4,000 Of
the money, putting it into circulation
instead of allowing it to lie idle in
the lands of the treasurer.
The annual report of the treasurer
showed a balance on hand of about
$4,000 over and above all OUTSTANDING
orders. AS the time for the collection
of taxes is at hand the funds in hand
will be increased very shortly by an.
other $4,000. L
The sewer work is all paid for and
the suspension of operations has elm
mated the demand for money from that
source until next spring. The treasurer
has been instructed to place the money
at interest wherever the best rate can
be secured.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
NEW and powerful snow loco

"a NEW ana powerful snow loco
~ motive for use in large part
in hauling logs in the pineries
of northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and
other~nort Invest states, has been built
and, put into service. It is u decided
change, as even the laymen may easily
see. from the style of traction engines
ordinarily used.
A portable boiler, fre-box pattern, is
mounted on heavy channel iron frame,
which extends from the extreme front
to the rear of the machine The chan
nels support the cab. and coal tender.
A water tank is carried under the
boiler on the same frame The latter
ton wheels in the rear and by the sled sled
in front. The boiler is 10 feet in
length, IS inches in diameter, tubes ~
inch, ~
Four cylinders are provided for trans
uniting. power. These are attached in
pairs. two engines on each side of the
boller, bolted to the frame and boiler
In upright position. Each pair of en-
glnes is equipped with reversing link
motion.
The traction device consists of two
heavy runners, one on either side of
the engine, which are carried on 5l5
inch iron. shaft. On each end of these
runners IS attached pair Of heavy
boxes in which iron shafts run. Each
SHAFT has heavy sprocket wheel and
these wheels mesh into and carry the
tread on .1ogchains. The latter are -.
Aaches wide and about % feet long.
sf'ach q pair Of runners also has two tool
steel roller. chains. These chains are:
shown on the side Of the sprockets IN
der the tread chain. This traction de-
vice 1s novel and certainly the most in
terestlng part Of this locomotive.
When the engines are started power
Is aso transmitted IS by spur pinions on
end of the driving shafts. On the
rear end OF these driving shafts are at
tached bevel pinions which mesh in
large bevel gears running on uuills on
the main bearing. These bevels also
nave spur gear attached to them
which carries the power thru an inter
medlate gear and another spur gear
to the shaft Of the rear sprockets. the
rear. being the driven sprocket. All
gearing is cut from solid steel. The
runner castings, sprockets, tread chains
and all parts subject to severe strain
are made from high grade of cast
steel and are built for severe work
The cab is fitted up in the usual loco
motive STYLE, each engine having
quadrant and lever for reversing. The
regular type Of locomotive throttle is
used " "
These engines weigh about fifteen
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
NEW POWER FOR r !.
NORTHERN LOGGERS
Snow Locomotive, Used in Minnesota Woods Will Travel
Fifty Miles Day and Haul 10000 Feet of -
Logs to the Trip. :<%..

tons without coal or water and about
eighteen tons. when ready for the road.
With 200 pounds of steam pressure
they develop about One hundred horse
power and have a speed Of from four
to five miles an hour. =,
Where the roads are we'll graded and
iced these engines will handle from
seven to ten heavy logging sleds. Sew
eral engines hauled 10000 feet of green
hemlock and hardwood to the load and
made three round trips every ten hours
day.
The builder of these snow locomo-.
tives, a. manufacturing company of
Eau Claire, Wis, has delivered several
Of them to lumber firms, principally in
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and success
fd1 records were made. One engine
near Walker, Mimi, took nine sleds to
the landing, each sled carrying $4,000
feet of white pine and Norway logs,
and one made regular trips with rs, 600
to 80, 900 feet to the load. Some with
100000 feet made four trips on
tive-mile road every day.. This engine
is particularly serviceable when the
timber is scattered or stands in small
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
CUNNING Of LUNAT|C
MATCHED BY OFFICERS
Latter Overpower Runaway by
Hiding Identity in Disguise i.
>.,u of Lumberjaoks. !: - =. .
Special to The Journal.

Special to. The Journal. 49,, ~.
Calumet, Mich, Dec. 15.-Disguised
as ordinary lumberiacks seeking en-
ployment, Deputy Sheriff Mare Pepin
and Special Deputy Axel Peterson
made their way into4a lumber camp
near Cornell and captured Paul Reno
an insane patient, who has three times
escaped from the Newberry hospital.
= Reno escaped from the institution,
the last time six weeks ago, while be:
ing given open air exercise by two at
tendants, whom he succeeded in out
distancing when he finally broke away.
Attic: located several times, on each
occasion he eluded the officers and
when word was received that he had
obtained employment in the lumber
camp near Cornell they determined
that another failure should not be re-
corded.
Disguised as ordinary woodsmen they
made their way into the camp without
exciting the suspicious of Reno and re-
manned there until a favorable oppor-
tunity was offered for his capture.
Then after a short struggle they over
powered him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
DRINK BILL LOOMS
IN UPPER MICHIGAN
$3.50, 900 Is, Estimated Cost of
Liquor Traffic to the Town
u. X Fl. of Norway Alone. Ill.,.
Special to The Journal.

Marquette, Mich, Dec, 2l5.-The
money received from saloonkeepers for
Licenses forms an important source of
revenue for the various cities and vii
lagos in the upper penins,llas The little
req, cards IN each case. sell at the rate
oI.$30u a year, y: - 49, .
In Dickinson county $uo,615 was col
lected from this source the,"past year.
There are 105 saloons, of which; the
city Of Iron Mountain has fifty-four
and the city of Norway thirty. ~
In; the latter community-and. the
comparison would be still more striking
in the case of Iron Mountain-there is
sone Hhquor VENDOR for Sabout every
thirty voters. Figuring. the tax at $500,
rent, help, etc, at $1,000 more with
living expenses at $1,000, the average
profit to be made by each establish
ment is $4,000, which sum is doubtless
too small since it does not take into
consideration the money most saloonists
are, in the habit of either banking or
ydissipating. ..-.. -.
However, figuring the amount of bust
ness to be done to secure; this profit
at $4,000. the aggregate cost of the
liquor traffic to the people of Norway
is $3.50 900, or sum equal to the entire
pay roll Of the city's industries for
three months of each year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16

Eau Claire Night Then Become
q Summer Resort Million
aires Favor Scheme.
Special to The Journal.


the LARGEST 1 pro M ever brought be- os
fore the citizens Of Eau Claire is un-
der consideration. The plan is to build
3 dam at the lower end Of the city, on
the Chippewa river, to such a height
that there will be q high stage Of wa
ter within the city limits the year
around. - @
This, it is believed, would not only
greatly improve the sanitary conditions
Of Eau Claire, but would do much to
beautify it, ard probably in years to
come make it a great summer resort.
The plan is to raise the Chippewa river
to the same height as Half Moon lake
and thus make it an ideal place for
boating and yachting. Many Of the
city s richest men live on the banks
of Chippewa, and they are taking q
deep interest in the movement. W.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
HUSKY GOPHER HUSKER
Swift County Man Willing to Pit Skill
! o. Against Iowa's Best.
Special to The Journal:

Special to The Journal: nara sasa IT, e. il
Appleton, Mimi, Dec. 15-Illinois
and Iowa have Dragged so much about
feats performed by their cornhuskers
that it is well to call attention to the
record made by S. N. Cross, Swift
county, Mimi, cornhusker, near this
city a few days ago. In 8h days he
husked and cribbed 697 bushels by
actual weight, or an average of eighty
two bushels a day, and travelled eight
Ths day. from the fields s t9 the crib
has good corn and men who are second
to none in husking. Mr.. Cross will
wager 500 or more that he can 'husk
100 bushels Of corn in ten hours in a
good, Worhmanlike manner in Swift
county cornfelds.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16

cases small feed mills or other light
machinery may be run by. the water
necessary for other purposes, but wells
for mills and even for electric light
power may well be discouraged. An
exception might perhaps be made for
water too much mineralized for stock
and domestic use, but it should first be
settled that it is not closely connected
with waters which are useful in such
ways lest the latter be wasted.
Some have the idea. that great
changes il the climate may. be wrought
by evaporation from artesia1l wells,
but that may be as much or more from
n numerous small wells distributed to
the farms than by large wells. Be
sides it is by no means yet proved that
the g, multiplication Of wells distributed
to the. farms than by large wells. Be-
SIDES SD it i, is by no means yet proved that
the multiplication Of wells has affect
ed the, rainfall OF to any perceptible
extent the humidity of the atmosphere.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
UNION WILL SING. CANTATA.
Special to The Journal, !. zl.arEEf

Yankton, s. D., Dec 15.-On Monday
evening the Yankton Choral union will
present new and beautiful musical
work, the cantata of "The% Swan and
the Skylark.'' The union is associated
with the .Yankton college conservatory
Of music and Is under the leadership Of
Professor Lee N. Daley, director of
have been in training on this COMPOST
ton for three months. q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
cAsK ExPLoDEs; MAN HURT.

Crystal Falls, Mich, Dec. ia pe-
cu!larr accident, resulting in painful
injuries, befell Roger Jackson, who
sought to stop a leak, in a key by
blowing steam into it from boiler.
He put such pressure on the cask that
It burst as he was bending over it.
The head flew J.; out and the escaping
steam scalded his face, neck and hands
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
.. WORLDS HIGHEST DAM
Government Men Are Building It on The
s5:f "a Shosh0nes in Wyoming. i .:S;t: =,

Special to Tho Journal fs .=*s sss 'sS
4 Washington, Dec. 15.-The highest
dam in the world is a = common ex-
preston to. the promoter and the press,
but the highest dam in the world is
actually under construction by the
United States reclamation service on
the Shoshone river in northern Wyom-
ing. The structure from foundation to
ing parapet and probable low places in
the foundation. is likely to exceed this
dimension by few feet. ~ 49,. ;
The width of the canyon at stream
bed is sixty-fve feet, and at the $50
foot reservoir contour the canyon walls
are only l55 feet apart.
Work was begun. in September, 1905.
and has been carried on continuously
since. - -:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
, THIEF A GOOD sPRINTER.

Special to The Journal.
Miles City, Mont, Dec. 15-After
stealing 500 and a revolver from Rich
ard Ferguson, a rancher at Elkalaka,
Charles Everett, a young man, walked
forty-fve miles across the snow in less
than seventeen hours, with a deputy
sheriff in hot pursuit. He did not re-
sist arrest when overtaken.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
MS SOUTH DAKOTA THAT ARTESIAN BASIN MAY RUN DR.

|
vermillion, $; D., Dec. 15.-Profes-
state geoloeist, is again pushing his
campaign for conservation Of the
waters of the artesian basin. -
A decided decline in pressure and
volume of wells has appeared in most
places where many wells have been
made, and this decline is approx
mately proportional to the age Of the
wells. Often the decline may be re
ferred to the failure of casing, choking
or underground leakage, but it is now
generally conceded that new, perfectly
constructed wells fall far short Of
wells made fifteen. or twenty years
ago. the same locality. =: -. =
I In city where more than dozen
wells have been made, some Of them Of
large size, where the original pressure
was $50 pounds, now only sixty or.
seventy can be obtained from that
strata. In another the pressure which
was 100 at first fell to 80 in about
nine years. Another with only two or
three wells fell from 1875 to Is pounds
in two years. Several which once had
fair flows now have the water standing
several feet below the surface and
new wells do not give relief. Quite
extensive areas also outside of town
fail now to give flows where once they
were quite satisfactory. 49,
History Repeating Itself. -
The history of smaller artesian
basins has shown that extravaganza use
may rapidly exhaust copious supply.
that even when the source of suppiy
is constant, like annual rainfall or
seepage from mountain streams, it
may yet be overdrawn so that flowing
wells become impossible.
The Denver basin, supplied from the
mountains like the Dakota, was dis
had 400 wells in strip forty miles
long and five miles wide along the
South Platte. Most of the wells were
in the city itself. Many Of them had
strong flow and good pressure when
constructed. In 1886. it was not
thought any general decrease could be
detected. Between 1888 and $780,.
however, a continuous decrease in the
flow Of the city wells took place, and
by the end of the latter year all but
six Of the city wells had to ,be pumped;
while numerous wells in! the basin
were permanently abandoned. An able
student of theIcase estimated in 1890
that If all the wells Ia Denver, were
plugged, it would 6be forty years be-
fore the water bearing rocks would be
again in the condition Of saturation
existing when the first well was sunk.
Wells in Chicago sunk in 1864, by
l902 showed decline Of the water
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
Flow Limited; Then a Tax.

Third A flow Of certain number
Of gallons a minute, fifteen is thought
advisable, should be allowed free to
each quarter section, and all excess
above tn that should y be discouraged bysa
except il special cases. like towns nS 81!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16

+. Emma Owen Town enjoys the -distinc-
tion of being the first woman ever
elected to office in Dickinson county,
Iowa.
She is abundantly fitted to fill the
position, having served as deputy re-
corder for six years. She entered the
soon after the primaries, having for
opponents the nominees Of both the re-
publican and democratic parties, there
fore there was much opposition to over
come. Her home is at Spirit Lake. s1
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-16
"SHERBIE" IN TRAINING
Boy Mayor Likely to Be a Candidate
..~,.s for Governor. ~:
'pecial to The Journal,

Madison, Wis, Dec. 15.-'ts herbie !"
Becker, Milwaukee IS boy mayor. is in
training for the republican nomination
for governor. He is likely to shy his
caster long before the next general
election, ~
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-11-24

Tributes. &C.. 10 Cents Per Line
Washington, Harriet Ross, daughter Of the late
Trueman Belt, ST., and Elizabeth A. Belt
RIDGELY.-On November 14th, Harry c.. hus-
band. of Minnie M, and son OF II. G. and the
RiTTER..On November nth, Irene, wife of
GeGrgez Fl Ritter % tb At his
dence. near Upper Falls, Ernest Millitzer,
aged So years.
residence, BreSms lane, ' near Be Bel ' road
soIss s Nary & sds son ana
dence of her son, William Edwards. Sherwood,
Mary Ann, wife of the late Charles Edwards,
CUNNINGHAM.-On November 18th, at his
residence, Rev. James A. Cunningham. pastor
Of st. Thomas Church. woodbury..
ZQUCK;5GAt Glen Morris. Md. November 10th.
overwhelmingly, at Canton, on November
18th, George Leyshon, aged % years.
the Hillen road, Walter H., husband of Alice
CoALE.HOn November 10th, Martha E. Coale.
of baltimore county.
GREEN.-On November 10th. Rachel n. Green,
daughter of the late Sarah c. Brooks, of Balti-
BLOMEIER.-On November 20, at his home,
Ingleside avenue, Catonsville, Christian Bio
meier, aged g years. months and days, hus-
SLADE.-On the 21st instant. at the home of his
parents in Resterstown. John Hunter, infant
of DIR. Harry NJ. and Elizabeth Slade.
MONROE.-In San Juan. P. r., of typhoid
pneumonia, Edith L., in the 18th year of her
age, beloved wife of DIR. Harry W. Monroe,
aud daughter of Mrs. 8. r. Whitmore (nee
Hastings)
WILLIAMSON Wednesday, November 21st,
Agnes Riddell, widow of the late Benjamin
Hawkins Williams, and daughter of the late
Robert Riddell.
STARR.-On November 2gd at his late residence,
Reisterstown road. near Gordon lane, John f.,
husband of Emma l.. Starr,