The Minneapolis Journal from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 9

1 1 GENERAL PRODUCE firsts, 18c dairies, seconds, 16c prints, fancy, 18c 'rolls and prints, choice, 16c renovated, firsts. 21c ladles, sec-rconds, 14c packing stock, fresh, sweet, 'Estate, held. 10c? Official quotations of the Minneapolis JRoduce Exchange, corrected up to 12 Wednesday, Jan. 10. BUTTERReceipts yesterday, 27,043 pounds i Creameries, extra creameries, firsts, creameries, seconds 10c-r dairies, extras, EGGSReceipts yesterday, 179 cases.

Current receipts. No. 1, case count, case. $5.50 current receipts, No. 1, candied, dos, 20c fresh alrtles candled, case, J3.75 checks and seei onds, candled, S3 75, refrigerator, candled, doa, 18c at mark, carlots, case, 40.

iv CHKESETwins or flats, fancy, cured, parnffined or unparaffined, 14c fancy, new, ISc choice, paraffined or unparaffined, good, paraffined or unparaffined, fair, paraffined or unparaffined, daisies, fancy, twins or flats, 14c choice, twins or fiats, 12 Mi113c, off grades, twins or fiats, Xoung Americas, faney in quality and regular in style, 14c, choice, off grades, brick. No. 1, paraffined or unparaffined, 13c No. or unparaffined, 10c off grades, paraffined or tinparaffined, 5)7c limburger, No. 1, No.

2, off grades, Swiss, fancy 16c choice, off grades, Otfjllc fancy block. 14c choice block, 11 12c off grades, pultost, No. 1, 9Vjc off 'grades. prlmost, No. 1, 7c off grades.

ONIONSSpanish, crate, $1.75 Globe, 100 lbs, $1 35. CRANBERRIESJerseys, brl, $15 bu, $5 late Howes, brl, $15. WESTERN FRUITSPears, Winter Nellis, box, $3.25, Buerre Hardy, $2 50. CABBAGELarge crate, $3 25, per lb. VEGETABLESBeans, string, btt, $4 wax beans, bu.

$4 50 beets, bu, 65c: cauliflower, crate, $4.50 carrots, bu, 50e celery, doss, EOc celery. California, crate, $4 30 doz, 75 88c cucumbeis, den, $4 plant, do4, $2 garlic, lettuce, leaf, 0c lettuce, head, doz. $1 mint, 40c onions, shallots, dos bunches, 75c parsley, doz, 80c peppers, green, per basket. 75c radishes, round, doz bunches, 50c, lutabagas, bn, 40(gl4Gc squash, doz, $1, spinach, bu, 90c turnips, bu, 40c tomatoes, California, fom-basket crate, $2.50: tomatoes, Florida, six-basket crate, $5 watercress, doz. 30c.

HONEIExtra fancy white. 1-lb sections, 14c fancy white, 1-lb sections, 13c choice white, 1-lb sections, 10c, amber, 13c, goideurod, ISc extracted white, in cans. extracted amber, in cans, 7c. POTATOESCarlots, sacked, white, bu, 60c red, carlots, sacked, bu, 65c small lots, 5c more sweets. Illinois, brl, $8 503 75.

BUC-KWHEVT FLOURFancv. brls, $6 25 bales, 100 lbs, $3 25 choice brls, $6 BEANSQuotations include sacks: Fancy navy, bu, $2, choice navy. $1 65, medium navy, fl.75@l 85 mixed and dirty, brown, fancy, $2 25 brown, fair to good, Lima, California, per lb, FISHPike, per lb, Sc, pickerel, 5c. crappies, bullheads, dressed, 5 sunflsh, peich, POULTRYDressed, undrawn, turkeys, fancy, ISc choice, 16c old toma, 16c. thin, jouug toms, llgl2c culls, chickens, springs, fancy 12c springs, sod, hens, fancy, lie, hens, fair to good and small, 10c old roosters and culls, 56c, ducks, fancy, heads off, 12c ducks, fair to good, lie geese, fancy, heads off, lie, geese, fair to good, 10c.

LIVE POULTRYRoosters, 6c hens, 10c springs, lie, geese, 10c, turkeys, hens, fat, thin, small, ducks, 10c. PIGEONSTame, live, young or old, doz, 75c dead, squabs, nesters, fancy selected, live or dead, small, poor and thin, unsalable. DRESSED MEATSVeal, fancy, veal, fair to good, veal, small and overweight, mutton, fancy, mutton, thin, a overweight, lambs, yearlings, choice to fancy, 10c thin or overweight, hogs, RABBITSJacks, doz $2 75 cottontails, doz, $1 40 white, small, doz, 75c. BANANASJumbo bunches, $2 large bunches, $2 50 medium bunches. $1 DRIED PEAS -Yellow, tnncy, bu, $1 50, yellow, medium, $1 25, green, fancy, $1 30, green, medium, $1 10, marrowfat, $2 GRAPE FRL ITFlorida, box, $5 50.

ORANGESFlorida, box, $3, California navels, LEMONSCalifornia, fancy, $3.75 choice, $3 50 APPLESBen Davis, Jonathans, $5 Kings, $5, Genetons, $3 50 Winesaps, $4 50, Tallman Sweets, $5 25 Greenings, $4 25 4.50 Baldwins, Bellflowers, bu box, Gano, box. $2 25, Wlnesaps, box, $2 63 Black Twig, box, $2 50. EGG MARKET SLUMPS. The local egs market took a good sized slump this morning, and the consumer ought to get the benefit by tomorrow The egg production is unusually turnout the northwest this year, receipts now running fully ten times heavier than in January a year ago. The quality is also of the first variety, and as good eggs can now bo depended upon as is usual in April and May.

HEEES, PELTS, TALLOW, ETC. No. 1. No. 2 Green salted cured steer hides, over 60 lbs Green salted heavy cow hides, over 60 1214 1H4 Green salted light hides, under 60 lbs 11 Green salted Lides, branded 11 10 Green salted bulls, stags, oxen or work steers 9 8 Green salted long-haired kips, 8 to 25 lbs 11 Green salted veal kips, 15 to 25 lbs 11 Green 6alted veal calves, to 16 lbs .14 Green salted deacons, under 8 lbs, each 70 60 Green or frozen hides less than green alted.

Horse and mule hides, large, each Horse and mule hides, uiiedium Horse and mule hides, small, 60 $2 60 2 S5 1 85 1 70 1 20 Indian handled, dry flint, over 18 lbs Montana butchers, short trim, light. Montana butchers, long trim, heavy. Montana butchers, long trim, Indian stretcted 18 Montana calf, under 5 lbs 22 Montana kip, 6 to 12 lbs 17 Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin bides 17 Dry bull hides Eakota and Wisconsin cnlf. under 5 lbs 22 Kips. 6 to 12 lbs 19 Pry salted, all sections 15 Bear, black $20 00 Badger Cats, wild 18 Dry horse and mule hides, each $150 $1.00 Pelts, large, each $1 50 Pelts, medium, each 90 Pelts, small, each .50 Fhort shearlings, each, green salted .15 .30 Dry territory butchers 17 (fji 18 Dry territo-y murrains 15a 17 Tallow, cake 4 Tallow, solid 414 Grease 4 1 MILLAR TOLD THAT HEJfAS DEAD TRAVELING MAN IN SAN FRAN- CISCO GIVEN A SEVERE JOLT, Another Man Named Miller Had Taken His Mail and, Deeply byLoving Message from the First Man's Wife, Had Committed SuicideJoyful News for Dixon, 111.

San Francisco Bulletin. When F. J. Millar of Dixon, 111., entered the Hotel on lower Market street, yesterday morning, registered and asked for his mail, he was calmlv informed by the clerk that he (Millar) was dead. "Why, man!" exclaimed the young man behind the desk, "you committed suicide Thursday afternoon in the nave of the ferry building.

At least, so the hotel records Whereupon the obliging custodian ot the quill and blotter turned over to the astonished gentleman from Illinois a bunch of newspaper clippings describing the recent tragedy in the ferry 3 Large. Medium. $14 50 110 90 S25 55 4 50 15 00 4 50 700 350 300 225 Small. $12 00 .65 CO 2 00 40 2 75 10 00 3 00 5.00 265 2 00 175 .14 1 50 125 Pox. red 4 50 Fox, gray 80 Lynx 700 Marten, daik 22 00 Marten, pale 6 50 Marten, brown 110 0 Mink, dark 5 00 Mink, brown 4 00 Mink, pale 3 25 Muskrat, fall 13gl Muskrat 10 Muskrat, kits Raccoon 2.00 Skunk, black 2 00 1 85 1 50 ke wu 85 125 .70 Skunk, striped Skunk, broad striped and white 70 .50 Weasel 100 65 Wolf, timber, cased 4.00 2 75 Wolf, prairie, cased 1 75 1 25 These prices are for No.

1 large, medium and mall other goods are in proportion. For other furs not quoted prices are about the same as last year. .40 .40 150 85 RUNS AND FALLS DEAD Employee of Superior Shipyards Dies Suddenly on Way Home. Elvene Dhols. Violet Underbill, Marie Iverson, of the board of conducted the examination: Duncan McGregor of Platteville, C.

B. McFarland of Stevens Point, Fied Sled Schriever of Milwaukee, William Kittle of Madison and Frank A. Ross of Supeiior Many of the graduates are from other cities in the state. STARTLED HER. 1 Tit-Bits.

TJncle CharlesI doW't know as you will thank mc for interfering, Ellen, but they tell me this Mr. Cashman yti fltfe going to marry is utterly worthless. EllenWhy, Undo Charles? Not in a pecuniary sense, you know he's got money enoughbut from an intellectual point of view." "Oh, Uncle Charles, you don't know what a turn you gave me!" building, when a young man named John August Miller shot himself thru the brain. An empty envelop, bearing a Dixon, 111., postmark, and addressed to F. J.

Millar, in care of the Hotel Terminus, was found on the dead body. On the envelop the suicide had written: This letter makes me Millar nearly Thoughts of the consternation in his home at Dixon, of the result of the shock to his wife and his relatives, the anticipation of a possible tragedy at his own fireside, staggered him. He rushed to the nearest telegraph station and kept the wires hot sending messages to his family and friends in the east. In the meantime, "What had occurred in the little city of Dixon, 111., in which Millar is a prominent citizen, a charter member of the Elks' lodge, and where his wife and her parents reside? Mrs. Millar Thursday afternoon received a telegram from San Francisco that a man on whose body was found an envelop addressed to her husband had committed suicide.

The unfortunate woman collapsed and took to her bed. Her mother, just recovering from an operation, h'ad a relapse, and Millar 'a large circle of friends and brother Elks did all in their power to console the grief-stricken woman, who imagined herself a widow. The Dixon newspapers appeared with glowing eulogies of the supposedly dead Millar his pictures, framed with inverted rules, decorated the front pages, and the Elks prepared for a fitting memorial. While all this was goin on Millar was in Los Angeles. Here is his stoi-y: name is F.

J. Millar. I live at Dixon', 111. I am an expert for the Acme Gas company of Chicago. I have been on the coast for two months doing experimental work for the California Fruit Canners' association, I left here a week ago last Sunday for Los Angeles to make tests for the Canners' association at their Los Angeles and other southern plants on different fuel oils.

I ordered my mail forwarded from the Hotel Terminus until the following Saturday, expecting at that time to get back here for Christmas. "Delays incidental to experimental work detained me until after Christmas, and, as I expected to return from day to day, I left my mail at the Terminus hotel unforwarded. In the meantime I had been sending my letters east from Los Angeles. "When I returned on' the belated owl train this morning I ounVl that the hotel had changed mangement and clerks. When I told the clerk at the desk that there must be some mail from my little wife he looked at me and exclaimed: 'Why, man, you are "After asking for an explanation I discovered that another man' by the name of Millar or Miller had been getting some of my mail, and that one letter postmarked Dixon, 111., Dec.

21, seeemed to have affected him peculiarly to have touched some sensitive chora in his heart. I am satisfied that my wife had written me in response to a homesick letter I wrote her concerning my first Christmas away from home sfriee our marriage. I have just receceived a telegram from my home in reply to several messages I sent Thq telegram states that my wife is recovering and my mother-in-law is also getting It is probable that the suicide, Miller, opened the letter hoping it was for him. When he read Mrs. Millar's sweet, sympathetic message to her homesick husband the contents capped his climax of misery, and he sent a bullet into his brain'.

The Dixon papers have re-turned their rules, the Dixon Elks have countermanded their order for the beautifully engraved memorial, and all Dixon is wishing the dazed little wife -of F. J. Millar a happy new year. GIFTS FOR ART MUSEUM Paintings, Panels and Coins Presented by G. A.

Hearn and J. P. Morgan. New York Herald. A.

Hearn and J. Pierpont Mor- oardannounced an at a meeting of the of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday afternoon that thev had given rich gifts to the institution. Mr. Hearn's contributions were a collection of twenty-two paintings worth more than $150,000 and $100,000 in money. Mr.

Morgan gave to the museum five exquisitely carved panels of the sixteenth century and a collection of coins worth many thousands of dollars. Only stipulation was made by Mr. Hearn in his communication to the trustpes of the meseum. Tt was that his pictures should bo exhibited aB a collection in one gallery. For many months Mr.

Hearn, whoexamples determinatiohas was is a keen student of art. studiee his collection of pictures. He was aided by several of that SUPERIOR, on his way home from them shipyards. John Martin started to lun his friends, but he alone arrived at thfe about 500 feet he dropped dead from heart fail- j. i.it.

ure. Exhaustion frodeath. desired tochange, could a hard and cause of his sudden years of age andaOiie of the skilled workmen at the shipyards. The regents who examined the class to graduate from the Superior normal school this term announced1 the following successful graduates: ma Notwithstanding the great distances covered, the railway of India cany no Bleeping cars. The seats can "be converted into berths, but travelers have to ftrovide their own bedding.

Nor are here any dining cars. thd which whic banremoveh anddisplayeworkhisofcollection, other art, obtainedd after long search, placed in the gallery with better results. This collection of pictures, while estited to be valued at $150,000, is OQ Alina Lindegren, Mable Cowie, Genevieve Mc- really worth a great dea more On of Graw, Anna Lucas. Darwin W. Ruggles, Blanche the Choicest IS a painting InnesS.

Murphy. Mae Laura Thorsen Lillian Dar- This is thought connoisseurs to be row and w. white. The following members the gem of the twenty-two pictures. A001l The $100,000 will be put on interest, the income to.

be devoted to the purchase" of other pictures and to encourage American artists, in whom Mr. Hearn has taken deep interest. Mr. Morgan's gift was unexpected. It was known that he bought some fine carvings in France recently.

There are five' panels in the group and they were taken from a chateau in France which was built during the sixteenth century. The carvings will form the nucleus of a furniture exhibit at'the museum. Fur niture has been an art so long that the trustees foel that a department of this character will be gladly received by the public. IS THIS SO? 1 Detroit Free Press. "Pa, how are-Jaws made?" -VM "By men." "Are they hand-made!" "No, they are madefcypolitical ma- 1 1 SAYS HIS WIFE MURDERED CHILD HOLDING MAN MAKES STARTLING CONFESSION AT ST.

Charges Woman with Crime and Admits Assisting in Burying Body, but Authorities Doubt-His StoryBusiness Men Indignant over Publication of Malicious Reports. Special to The Journal. St. Cloud, Jan 10.John Drygas, llving In the town of Holding, has made the startling confession to the county attorney that five years ago he and his wife murdered the illegitimate child of their daughter. He lays the crime to his wife, but admits that he took part in it to the extent of burying the body under the crib in a barn.

He offered to take the officers to the spot. The peculiar part about the confession is that the authorities have reason to believe it is not true. Drygas has served several short sentences in the county Jail for beating his wife, and the county attorney expresses the opinion that the Btory he tells is invented for the purpose of revenge unon his wife. Monday evening neighbors of the Drygas family, having learned that Drygas was coming to St. Cloud to give himself up to the sheriff, and that he was Implicating his wife, came to the city and sought the county attorney.

They vouched for the good character of Mrs. Drygas, and represented to the county attorney that Drygas' motive was revenge. When Drygas appeared he gave the county attoiney a minute description of how his wife had strangled the infant with a handkerchief. He was not locked up, but the authoiitles will make a thoro investigation. Judge Bruener As a result of the agitation over the Sunday closing of the saloons, It has been proposed that the general liquor laws of the state be amended so as to permit municipalities to vote on the proposition at any general election, whether the hours fixed In the geneial law shall govern or whether they shall be legulated by the council or mayor.

I is argued that such an act would not trespass upon the rights of citizens of villages where saloons are not wanted, and would leave to a vote of the people in theother cities where theie are saloons the matter of hours when they may be kept open The business men of the city and everybody regrets the malicious stories that have been circulated, telling of all kinds of action contemplated by those opposed to the mayor's recent order closing the saloons on Sunday. One paper went so far as to quote Judge Bruener to the effect that the saloonkeepers at a meet Ing over which he presided had advised the mayor to leave the city in twenty-four hours. Judge Bruener denounces the inteiview as ancounty. outrage, and says he never saw a representative of the paper or talked with one BONDS FOUND INVALID Albert Lea Will Seek to Amend Its Charter. ALBERT LEV MINN.The city council some months ago ordered a special election as towaswaattended whether the people of the city desiied three or four thousand feet of mam sewer put in, and to authorize the issuance of bonds in the sum of $18,000 to pay for that pait of it that could lot be assessed against the abutting property.

Both propositions were approved by the people, but when the bonds were offered for sale, atfor neys who are experts on bonding questions, made an examination end discovered that the home rule charter under which the city Is operating, conferred no authority for issuing bonds. The re suit is the bids for doins the work have been reiected and a movement is on foot to have the charter amended so that bondq can be issued when desired by a referendum vote of the people, roviding the stale law is not infringed upon so doing. WANT A NEW COUNTY Sixteen Unorganized Townships White Earth to Combine. HID PARTRIDGES IN HAT Game Warden Makes Arrest Lacs Lake. at Mille MORA.

MINN Charles Malone, a merchant from Isle, Mille Lacs lake, passed thru this place in care of a deputy game warden from Brainerd and was taken to Princeton, where he was bound over under bonds of $250 to appear before the grand jury During Malone's absence the game warden appeared at his place and found hidden in his hay mow about 150 partridges. claims were placed there by Indians unknown to him MEAE3N CHOSEN ARCHON Royal League Elects "Officers at Duluth Meeting. DULUTH MINN The state advisory cou 1- cil of the Royal league, at its annual session in Elks' hall, has elected the following state offi- Jaines Meakin, Duluth archon A W. Sharpe, Duluth, past archon, James Monahan, Minneapolis, vice archon, A. E.

Roecker, Grand Rapids, rator O. J. Rudd, St. Paul, treasurer R. B.

Leach. St Paul, scribe, M. T. Hannon, Two Harbors, suide, A J. Kidd, Minneapolis, warder B.

J. Johnson. Minneapolis, sentry G. W. Campbell, Bemidji, prelate.

Representatives to the supreme council, which nreets in Chicago next April, John B. Perry, of Minneapolis and George L. Hargreaves Duluth. RECONCILES HER PARENTS Couple, Divorced Twenty Years Meet and Remarry. SPRING VALLEY, MINN.Isaiah Inman and Cornelia Jaqua were man led here, 2Sara Warner, justice of the peace, officiatins.

The couple pcrted and a divorce was obtained about twenty years ago. the wife resuming her maiden name -JChe whereabouts of Inman were not known by the family until about four week a visJt This invitatione hn acceptedr The mother also cam a simila Invitation. Explanations were made and an oldtime couitship followed. Neither one had remarried and they are now doubly happy In their reunion after so many years of estrangement. FINDS WIFE AND SON Iowa City Man Reports Disappearance to Police.

IOWA CITY, IOWA.Mrs. Maude Ross Davis of O'ttumwa, Davenport and Iowa City is missing Her husband, an working at Davenport, arrived here today and found the house deserted He reported the matter to the police and also the fait that a student in the State University of Iowa, who had been rotating in the house, was also missing The husband h'ad no proof that the student's disappearance was connected with that of his wife. ELDORA, IOWA.County,, auditors must furnish official papers a full aUd complete copy of all proceedings of the lwird, the schedule of bills allowed, with names and claimants other infoimatlon. according to an order of Judce O. Vci million, in a decree authorizing a writ of mandamus against the countv auditor.

The ate aiose from the refusal of the board to have its proceedings published, except in summarized form, showing only the totals allowed each session on each fund. NEW nXM, E. C. Edsall wil' THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. v' IOWA? at OROOKSTON, MINN.rThere is a movement end ot Norman county, now in the White Earth Indum -eGervation.

Four reservation townships in Clearwiter county also may be included. The Mannomeu County club is pushing this proposition, and intends shortly to begin A campaign for signers to a petition asking that the Question be brought before the voters at a special election Residents of White Earth are said to favor the orectionft a county out of the entire reseration, the county seat to be decided at a special election. It is announced that the Minneapolis, Red Lake Manitoba Railway company has disposed of $700,000 of its bonds to the First Trust Savings bank and James Forgan of Chicago The bonds are known as first mortgage per cent gold bonds, with interest payable eeml-annually in June and December TELEGRAPHIC NEWS- OF MASQUERADES AS I A HOTEMAITER GIRL WORKS AS MAN SEVERAL MONTHS AT DUBUQUE." Proprietor Learns pf Deception and Discharges Her, the Young Woman Leaving at Once for McGregorUsed Boy's Clothing Eight Tears Ago at Prairie du Ohien, Her Former Home. Special to The Journal. Dubuque, Ion Jan.

10.After masquerading tn a boy foi eight years, Lillian Burke's identity has been discovered and as Bob Gavin, night waitei at the Newport restaurant and at the Hotel Julien buffet, she win not be known any more in this vicinity. Since last bpring she has been employed iu this city and none suspected she was other than her male attire represented her untU about ten days ago when one of her fellow employees Lecame suspicious and accused her of being a girl. She at first denied her sex, but later she broke down and confessed. She continued in her work at the buffet with the knowledge ot her true sex known only to two other employees until todaj, vthen the knowledge reached the eats of Manager Keeley and she was discharged. She has gone to the home of relatives at McGiegor.

Is a Wisconsin Girl. The story of how the glil, who is about 20 years of age, came to assume male attire, starts at Prairie du Chien, her native town, about eight years ago. It is said that her pm ents quarreled, and that the mother attired the gill in boy's clothing and, leaving some of the girl's female apparel on the river bank to give the impieseion of suicide, disappeared with the girl. I is said the latter tried the stage, but found it unprofitable and then began working in restauiants as- on foot to create a new county out of the sK-1 fifty-population town with a paid up capital of 1 i teen unoruanized townships in the eastern 1 $10,000, the minimum amount of capital with a waiter, doing the work of a man in a satisfaitory manner and being faithful in the discharge of her duties. Several times during the summer she has gone to McGregor to visit relatives, and was known In that town on thesa.

occasions as Bob Gavin, visiting a family named Burke, presumably her father orjjnother. Except for her voice, which is not a Jinan's by any means, none would suspect' from outward appearances that she was than a man. a FEAST OF "POOR MEN' Celebrated Club of O'Brien County, Iowa, Holds Its. Annual Meeting. SHELDON, IOWA.The ninth annual meeting of the Poor Man's club of O'Biien county was held at Frlmghar and celebrated with an elaborate banquet.

Each town in the was represented and some enme from outside the The poverty of the members of the club clearly indicated by the menu, which included blue points, roast turkey, roast venison, ojhter salad, malt punch, etc. W. Armstrong was toastmaster. and made many happy hits In introducing of the evening. W.

W. Arthurbolt was elected president of the club for the ensuing year, and G. Rust secretary. Company of this place last nlaht dedicated its new armory, the address beins made by Professor O. M.

Elliott. A reception from 8 to 10 followed bv a dance a la militaire, which fon the bench by the city's "bravest and best." Members of Comsany apoeared in uniform. The drill floor of, the new armory is the largest In northwestern Iowa BANKING IN HAMLET Iowa Village of Fifty Inhabitants Has Two Banks. ELDORA, little''hamlet of Farson, Iowa, probably has the best record of a ny place of similar size in the IJnited States for the number of banks compared to the number of inhabitants. The total population of the little place is but fifty souls, but the town boasts two state banks organized under the laws of the commonwealth of Iowa.

Farson Is located on a railway and is in Wapello county, not far distant from Oitumwa, Iowa. Two 1 weeks ago the Farson" was organized tains less than 800 inhnhfhint, tain less than 80 0 inhabitants NURSE HAS HARD TASK Woman Left Alone with Dead Man and Sick Wife. LE SUEUR, MINN.Mis. Gioth. a skilled piofessional nuise of Le Sueur, icports an unpleasant task she had to peifoira out in the countiy seven miles from town last week.

The farmer and his wife, who were the only persons in the house, were both ill, and the first night Mis Groth was there the husband died. There were no relatives to give assistance and no neighbors came in, so that the nurse was in the house alone with the sick woman and the dead man three days. The roads were bad and her only callers were three men who, having beard of the death of the farmer, came to the at 3 o'clock one morning to see him. The house was old and poorly made, contained only two rooms and the only fuel on the place was green wood that had to be burned in thecity cook stove, that being the only stove in the house. The onlyp place wheer Mrs.

Groth could lie down to lest was a haid, lumpy couch only four feet long. I twas a difficult proposition in so small a house, after the farmer had died, to keep the temperature Just right to fit both his requirements and those of the Wck woman. The thermometer outside marked below zero. MUST SUPPORT DAUGHTERS Mankato- Carpenter Committed Till He Makes Payment. MANKATO, MINN.Unless John Dahlen, an ablebodled carpenter, supports his two young daughters he will have to serve a term of six months in the county jail.

This is the order of the court. In November Judge Cray directed that he pay $15 a month for the support of the children. Dahlen made the November payment, but balked ou the December one and was before the court yesterday on an order to show cause why he should not be adjudged in con tempt. He claimed that he was unable to get work, but the court bad been informed otherwise and committed him to jaU until the Installment was paid, the imprisonment not to six months. This is the first case in Blue Earth county under the new law.

Twenty-one applications have been received for the civil-service examination on Saturday next for the position of rural maU carriers. This is in spite of the claim that the salary paid carriers is too small. MAY BE COAL VEIN Afton Farmer Believes He Has Made Valuable Discovery. STILLWATER, MINN.Is there a vein of coal under the bluff at the south end of Afton, a little village in the southern pari) of Washington county? This is the question that will soon be determined by men acquainted with conditions where coal evists. Joseph Stephens, on whose farm the supposed coal Is located, was In the city today and said he would ask that a man be sent here from the state university to make an examination.

A different times during the past four or five years, clouds of dark smoke have been noticed comlnz from crevices in the bluff, but up to the time no investigation has been made. Stephens is of the opinion that there is a bed of coal beneath the rock aha that the smoke is due to the burning of coal gas. wf. ARSENIC CAUSED DEATHT Expert Testimony Introduced at Pratt Murder Trial. ROCKWELL CITY.

IOWADr. A. M. Ljnn of the Iowa board of health, submitting expert testimony in the Pratt murder trial at Rockwell City today, testified that Pratt for whose death Mi Pratt is was due to the effects of arsenical poisoning, the poison having been administered prior to the man's death. "Druggtat Yetter has already testified tl-at Mrs.

Pratt purchased arsenic prior to ber hesband's death and also that be sold, Perslng, ihe bi-ed man accrsed jointly with several sheets of fly paper. An effort will the formal opening services of the new be njade to prove that arsenic in large quantities church this evening. is used in the preDamtion of fly paper, FOR REWARD Recovery of Body at St. Peter May ST. PESTER, Swenson.

an attendant at the St. Peter hospital, is likely to made the defendant in a novel suit brought by August and Charles Bengtson, who are endeavoring to collect a reward they claim was offered for recovering the body of a suicide. They may take thelrN On April 30, 1005, Euill Lundberg, also a hospital nurse, committed suicide by jumping from the North-Western railway bridge Into the Minnesota river. He carried a life insurance policy of $1,000 an his anxious to secure roofs of The fcf the tragedy, the assert the dead man's couqbi, Victor, Swenson, offered them $10o if they would find the body. Nine days later the brothers discovered it at a point about a mile down stream, They claimed the leward, but it was never paid.

The insurance policy was collected in full" and forwarded by H. Hobe. Swedish vice consul at St. Paul, to Lundberg's aged mother, who resides in Sweden. Provision was made for the Ent ayment of the funeral expenses of the insured, the reward was overlooked and the plaintiffs now purpose collecting it from Swenson.

BANK ELECT OFFICERS Changes Announced in Affairs of Fergus Falls Institution. FERGUS PALLS. MINN.The bank elections occurred here today with the followina results. First National bflk. O.

D. Wricht. F. C. Barlows, B.

A. Jewett. Elmer E. Adams and Vernon A Wright, directors Officers will be chosen later. i Scandia State bank: T.

Hille. president: George H. Woodhouse, vice president, A. G. Anderson, cashier.

These gth J. Breen O. Barke, O. SherDin-rvm H. Bergerud, K.

Pederson and HansBMartlnson, constitute the board of directors. First State bank: A B. Luedke, president Amund vice president: A. Brandenburg, cashier. These, with O.

J. Fossen, C. W. Kaddate. N.

Field and J. G. Durrell, constitute the board of directors. The annual meeting of the fire department was held last night, and the following: officers elected: Chief, 15, H. Stark first assistant chief, Alfred Wessberg second aslstsant chief, Charles Jungroth, secretary and treasurer.

R. E. Lincoln. SIOUX CHIEF DIES Big Eagle Succumbs After Two Days' Illness. GRANITE FALLS, Eagle, chief of the Sioux nation, died at his home near this place and was buried yesterday afternoon.

Many relatives and friends were present. was sick only two days His father and giandfather were chiefs before him. An incident that happened "during the siege of New TJlm in 1882 shows that he was friendly to the whites. Near New Ulm lived a family by the name of Alvin. Alvln and a young son were in the field stacking grain when Big Eagl came to warn them that if they did not go to New TJlm at once they would be killed.

They hastily drove their ox team to the house, loaded on the family, and a few articles of clothing and started for New 171m. The hostile Indians attempted to overtake them and chased them all the way to town. HEARING JENKS CASE District Court Tries Recovery Suit at at Stillwater. STILLWATER. MINN.Judge W.

C. Willis ton of Red Wing held a term of the district 1 court here.y The most Important matter taken up was the trial of the case of the estate of the late Captain A. T. Jenka against Christian Henningsen, to acquire possession of part of the Hennlngsen block on South Main. Btreet, a dispute arose In the days of the old operahouse.that The trial of Jury cases will berrfn next Tuesday with Judge F.

M. Crosby of Hastings tne January ii- i i i case Into the courts. The First National bank held Its annual meeting and the old list of fourteen directors were elected for another year and the same officers were again chosen. The toard of directors of the Lumbermen's National bank elected as officers: Colonol R. F.good Hersey of St.

Paul, president David Bronson, vice president A. Lehmicke, cashier H. S.the Smith, assistant cashier. The prison sales of binder twine amount to about pounds daily and, at this rate, the stock en hand will be soon exhausted and the sales confined to the daily outnut. TO DEDICATE SCHOOL Cotter to Officiate at Winona on Sunday.

WINONA, MINN.Next afternoon the new seventeen-roolmb parochial school building, lsl hl8 pa St 1 to do businesl. and last week the Farmers' Sav- JW. by Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph B.

of Larson began business in the little ng which a bank may obtain a charter for the transaction of a savings bank business in the state of Iowa. Both of the banks are said to be backed by capital furnished by Ottumwa men and are said to be doing a niee business already. In this county at Radcliffe there are three banks and a trust company, and the place con- Tn clergy of the city assist th schoo? will open next Monday Wit 1- fourteen of the seventeen rooms occupied. A week from nes.t Sunday the ceremony of blessing the bell for the new St. Casimir schoolhouse and church on West Broadway will be performed by Bishop Cotter, assisted by local Catholic clergy.

The two local councilIs of the Royal Arcanum, the and Winona have joined lth Jgm combined councilformer th under name of the The new" officers sMng 9,680 cubic yards of excavation per mile, were installed by Grand Secretary George Hughes and Deputy Grand Regent Barber of Minneapolis. Whit Timinons is the local regent. The Mississippi river has at last closed at this point, the date of freezing being the latest known since a record has been kept. The official date of dosing was Jan. 8.

and the latest, before, In the last fifty years, was Jan. 2, in the winter of 1881-2. USTRUD A OANDEOATE Minnehaha County Man Seeks Office of State Superintendent. KELLEY CASE AGAIN County Commissioners Resoind Action i Favorable to Official. HURON, few days ago of county commissioners passed resolutions alleging that the prosecutions against G.

A. Kelley. charges of having forged certificates of acknowledgement, uttering forged deeds, as shown in six indictments returned against him by the grand Jury, were instituted by poiitical enemies, and that the fact that on the hearing of three of the charges two resulted in acquittal and the other the Jury failed to agree, indicated? that it was useless to continue proceedings further, and recommended that'the cases be dismissed. The board since has adopted resolutions recinding the former resolution and directing all reference to the same to be expunged from the records. FOR INTERURBAN LINE Sioux Falls Concern to Begin Construction Work in Spring.

Tn SIOUX FALLS, S. Further interest in the complicated political situation in South Dakota will be aroused by the announcement soon to be made by H. A. Ustrud of Minnehaha county of his candidacy for nomination to the office of state superintendent of public instruction by the republican state convention to be held in this In June. At present Mr.

Ustrud is filling the position of superintendent of schools of Minnehaha countv, he twice having been elected to the office. With the exception of three years spent in educational work In Wisconsin, he has been a resident of this county all bis life. He received his education in the public schools at Baltic, and for years was a teacher in the schools at that place. Should he be nominated and elected to office of state superintendent of public instruction he would be the first native born South Dakotan to fill that position. SIOUX FALIS, S.

D.What may be the first of a network of ejsftric lines centering at Sioux Falls, is announced to besin construction early in the spring. The Sioux Falls Interurban Electric Railway company, recently incorporated, with Dr. R. Brown as president and George A. Pettigrew secretary, has announced that money necessary to construct the road has been rfcised and that work will bezin as soon as the snow is off the ground.

Most of the parties Interested In thoe line are residents of Sioux Falls. The route to be taken, has not been definitely fixed, but it is likely that the first line will go along one side of Wall Lake and from there to either Bridgewater, Parker or Salem and beyond. The city terminus, which will eventually be in the heart of the city, will at flrBt beview established at the junction of the Great Northern and Bock Island tracks. FEAR SON WAS BILLED Columbia Man Awaits Answers to Telegrams Sent Oklahoma City. ABERDEEN, S.

D.Relatives of Fred Atkins of Columbia, son of C. W. Atkins of that place, are waiting with great anxiety the result of several telegrams they have sent to Oklahoma City. regarding the identity of a young man who was murdered there on Monday. The only mark of identity was a hat which had been purchased of O.

Smith Co. of this city. The descriptionr of the murdered man answers to that of voung Atkins, who left Columbia recently for Oklahoma City to assume a position as instructor in an Indian school at that place. "Before bis departure, Atkins is said to have Durchased a hat from the store named-. vm NORTH DAKOTA PLAN DRAINAGE IN RED RIVER VALLEY DELEGATES STATE SENATOR 7.

CASHEL, Wlio Gave an Interesting Address Drainage Convention. xxyXKXT-xy3exxxautzxxxxxx3cas3ca9ScxxX Special to The Journal. Grand Forks, N. Jan. 10.The state drainage convention began at the Commercial clubrooms today.

I was called to order by B. J. Lander, president of tbje Commercial club. Mayor George E. Duls delivered an address of welcome and an adjournment was taken until the afternoon.

"Drainage Work In Minnesota" was the subject of an interesting address by George A Ralph, of Crookston, engineer of the Minnesota state drainage commission. State Engineer A. L. Fellows of Bismarck gave an address on the relation of state engineer to drainage problems. He was followed by Attorney Scott Rex, with an address on North Dakota's drainage law.

One of the most interesting and practical addresses was that of Senator J. L. Cashel of Grafton on "Plans, Cost and Results of Drainage in the Red River Valley." Mr. Cashel discussed the state from the standpoint of its three great natural divisions, the Missouri valley, the central basin, in which are the James and the Mouse rivers, and the Red river valley. In the Missouri district the great river and its tributaries should give a supply of water for irrigation purposes.

I the central district, the speaker pointed out that Mouse river could be diverted to flow thru a channel of small lakes into Devils lake, tho this might not be feasible because of International complications, the river rising In British territory, and returning there. The waters of Devils lake could be made to flow south, thru the Sheyenrte and James, and thus furnish abundant water for irrigation where is needed. Has Too Much Moisture. While the western districts need more moisture at times, the Red river valley occasionally has too much of it, and how to get rid of the surplus is the important question. Mr.

Cashel recommended the construction of east and west drains two miles apart, running back an average of seven and one-half miles. North Dakota measures 212 miles from north to south, and this system of drainage would require about 795 miles of large drains. In some sections a portion of this work hat been done, and allowing for this, there would be needed about 700 miles of drains. These ditches would average sixteen feet in width at the top and six feet at the bottom, by about four and one-quarter feet deep. is at 12 cents a yard would coat $1,160 per mile.

The total cost Is estimated as follows 700 miles of ditch $812 000 600 bridges at $125 1 200 culverts at $80 36,000 Right of way Engineeis, etc 52,000 Making a total of $1,000,000 This is less than one-fourth of the fund now available for irrigation purposes, and represents a cost of about $1 an acre for the land benefited. The earth from these drains should be deposited on the road, the sides should be sodded, and the result would be that in a short time the state would have the best system of earth roads to the land. The money for this in the opinion of Mr. Cashel, should be secured as a loan from the national government fiom the ledamatlon fund, of which approximately $4,000,000 has been derived from the sale of North Dnfrota lanfe. recommended that congress be induced to appropriate from this fund the sum needed for drainage purposes, which fruiu should be secured by a lien on the property beiieflto' in proportion to benefits, and should be lepnld iu twenty annual installments at 2 per cent lnieicst.

Cost Per Quarter Section. The ictal cost j.or onarter section would bq 60. The inciease in the value of the land would easily be $3 an acre, and the Increase in productiveness cull 53,200 in the twenty years, making a total offcj.oOC,or $25 an acre, which Is about the average biice of land in the district ww. Another plan the stealer said met with -general approval among fnrroer was the construe tion of smaller en every section line. The cost of this Le had computed as $800,000.

The money for this plan could be raised in the same mnnnei. and the benefits would be cor respondingly creat. The ipeaker referred to the crop history of the valley for a number of years past, and he found that in the years. 1891, 1892, 1896, 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1905 there has been partial failure of crops in various sections of the valley due to flooding either In the spring or in the summer. This makes seven partial failures in fifteen years, or one about every other year.

Computing the, loss due to this cause at four bushels of wheat an acre, the speaker showed that there has been lost in these seven years 8,000,000 bushels of wheat, which at 50 cents a bushel equalled $14,000,000, or about $1,000,000 a year, which is the approximate cost of drainage for all time. He showed In the same manner that this increased valuation wonld yield the state $72,000 more each year in taxes and the railroads twice as much each year in freights. To Dam Pembina River. A further recommendation was the partial straightening of the channel of the Red river by cutting off Some of the big bends and the damming the Pembina river so as to withhold a great portion of the spring freshet until it could be released without danger. The principal address at tomorrow's session will be delivered by President James J.

Hill the Great Northern, who is credited with constructing the first drainage ditch in the Red River valley many years ago at a point near Fisher, and which is still used in draining a large section of land in tha.t part of Minnesota. Before the final adjournment of the convention a state league will be formed with a. of systematically draining the Red River valley section of the state. ROADS PAY FIRST FEES Wisconsin Grain Inspectors Make Collections at Superior. SUPERIOR, WIS.The first fees to be paid directly to the Wisconsin, inspection board by any of the grain-carrying roads entering Superior have been turned in by the Northern Pacific and amounted to $25.60.

I is expected ihe Great Northern will at once follow suit. This is in accordance with an announcement recently made by the roads that they would pay the fees as they became due. Commissioner Shannahan, the Buffalo, N. member of the inspection board, is In the rity, and it is expected that a conference now in session may result In some changes in thetlou plans of the board. Commissioner Swanston of North Dakota was unable to be present.

MONTANA 6k PROBLEM AT GRAND FORES CONVENTION. State Senator Cashel Explains Proposed Improvements and Gives Valuable Information of Probable Cost with Suggestions for Necessary 'Funds from Government to Complete the Work. DECIDES SCHOOL. 1 BONDS ARE VOID Decision of the Court. "The act of the legislature now under consideration in authorising expenditure of moneys received from the sale of normal-school lands, or timber on lands granted in aid of the state normal school, for payment of these bonds or interest accruing thereon, is in direct violation of the provisions of section 12, article of the state constitution, and Is therefore void and of no effect, and being so, the state treasurer rightly refused to proceed under it and cannot be coerced by mandamus.

"The alternative writ of mandamus is quashed and these proceedings are dismissed." Bonds of the state university, school of mines, agricultural college and deaf and dumb school, in fact of every state institution having a land grant, with the exception of the state capital and penitentiary, are affected, a boulder and dashed his brains out. BAN INTO BOULDER Peculiar Death of a Boss. CANNOT HOLD TWO JOBS Wisconsin Court Rules Against Oconto Official. GRAND FORKS, D.Just before leaving for a stay of three months in California last: night, former Mayor John Dlnnie announced himself a candidate for major This action has been anticipated several days and did not cause any surprise among those conversant with the politics of the city at a municipal contest. Beach's Glycerine Hand Soap AH Grocers- MADE BY JAMES BEACH SONS, Dubuque, lew Makers of the Famous -'Peosta SoaA" Beach's Glycerine Hand Scan will prove a surprise to the housewife, the stenographer, the office man, the school boy, and even the mechanic.

I removes the worst grime without injuring the most delicate skin. Use it continually and thus keep the hands soft and white. Five cents. EVERY WOMAN wants to feel well and look wall. This eoodltka only be attained by keeping all the tunctlons of the organs of the body in harmonious.

Healthy action. Periodically in th life of a normal woman certain functions are to otcted. harmony neglect which regulate the whole system and nature in this peculiarly womanly function. STOMACH TROUBLES RADWAY'S PILLS cure aU disorders of the Stomach, Bowels, Ktfe nays. Bladder, Costivenoss, Pfiss, SICK HEADACHE.

FEMALE COMPLAINT8, IniTOTJSrfESS. INDIGlSTIONjOORSTlPATMHI AND ALL DISORDERS OF THE LIVBB- fttt BB BOX. AT DRUGGISTS' OB MAIU I Jii jfi MONTANA SUPREME COURT MAKES IMPORTANT RULING. Nearly Every State Institution Is Affected, $450,000 Realized from Sale of Land or Timber Having Been In- vested in Bonds of Different Educa- tional DepartmentsWill Appeal from Decision. ifi Special to The Journal.

Helena, Jan. 10.Th supreme court's decision just announced in the famous bond controversy places the state educational institu- tlons Montana in a predicament. I declares that the investment of money from the sale of school land or timber thereon in bonds of dlf- ferent state institutions Is iu violation of section 12 of the constitution. fe The state has $450,000 of such money Invested In bonds of different educational institutions, 1 which action the court declares to be unconstltu-, tional, because, while the state legislature may' say how these lands may be sold, it has not the power to say how the funds received therefrom shall be disposed of. Ruling Causes Excitement.

Tf The court's ruling has created so little eafcitsment at the statehouse. Governor Toole was nonplussed and declined to make any statement. for publication. I is reported that the will be appealed to the supreme court of tb United States, the claim being made that is a federal question involved. O.

S. Haire, an architect, having a the state normal college for services, began proceedings to mandamus State Treasurer Rice into paying his claim, which the latter refused, under the advice of the attorney general to pay no claims of any state Institution. The case was argued before the supreme court for three days, several of the leading attorneys of the state participating. The decision Is pronounced the most Important ever handed down from that tribunal. The decision says In part: Montana Mine BUTTE, MONTJames Woylen, a well-known night boss of the Gem mine, was found dead on the side of the hill east of the Speculator mine.

Hi skull was fractured and the body had ljlng at the side of the trail for several hours. The marner of his death Is a mystery. I is thonght, however, that while on his way to work he got off the traiu in some way in the dark and started running down the steep hill. hich leads off the trail, and that, accelerating his speed against bis win, he ran headlong into an OCONTO. WIS.Judge Hastings has handed down a decision that a county judge cannot hold office as justice of the peace at the same time.

Suit was brought against H. F. Jones of this city some time ar to force him to give up one office or the other. In the opinion of the court the two offices conflict in certain instances. It Is likely that an appeal will be taken in order to have the question settled finally.

RAOWAY 65 Kim street, Hew Tori, VIRGINIA FARIAS FREE CATALOGUE of Splendid Bargain. B. CHAITIK ft BICHM0HB, VA, PROP08AXB FOR WATER HAIX.OVTXCZ Chief Qoartcrmaster, St. Paul, 11, 1905 Sealed Proposals, In triplicate, will bs received here until 11 a.m., Jan. 11.

1906. flr a a right-inch water mala, running from 9th sts, Bfdaurck. and connecting with the present water main at Fort Lincoln, with valves, meters, complete, taformafurnished on application here, or at Fort Lincoln. Government reserves the right to accept or reject any or aU proposals, or any part then. of.

Sawyer. Q. Ii.