The Minneapolis Journal from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 5

ROULETTE WHEEL HAS SOME NEW WRINKLES INTERESTING DISCOVERY MADE i I GAMBLING RAID. New Fangled "Lid" Enables Operator to Guide Ball to Any Desired Number on CircleThe Apparatus Will Be Used as Object Lesson for New Policemen. Police Superintendent Doyle's men found a new lid when they raided a gambling house at 251 Hennepin avenue last night, and it was taken to police headquarters where it will be itudied for pointers. This lid is a success and a sure thing, for it makes the roulette game an exact sciencefor the house. The poljpe received a hunch last night that a game was on at the club rooms conducted by Al Chapman at 251 Hennepin avenue, and Sergeant Thomas Garvin and Detective Al Johnson were sent to raid the place quietly.

When they entered the rooms they found Chapman and four other persons seated about a table, while in a bed and covered up with a sheet was a peculiar appearing roulette wheel. Discovery Is Made. By the side of the bed was the lid that is likely to make trouble for Chapman. The lid resembled- a cake dish with a hole thru the standard. This, it was discovered, was the lid for the roulette wheel.

When this was inverted over the wheel the part resembling the standard was used to guide the ball to the numbers. A hole or outlet for the ball was directly over each number. The ball, however, never went out at but one of these holes, as the apparatus was provided with a direct chute from the top of the disc to the lower surface of the lid. A scratch on the standard tells the operator where to place the disc so the ball may be directed to any number on the wheel. Cake Dish? No? Chapman protested in vain that the pretty little pieoe of furniture was a fruit or cake dish, and was no part of any gambling paraphernalia.

The officers, however, discovered the good qualities of the whole outfit and set it up at police headquarters as an object lesion for new "coppers." Judge E. F. Waite's new order it impossible for prisoners charged with gambling to get bail without a written order from the police judge was enforced, and Chapman occupied a cell alongside of the drunks. He will be arraigned Monday morning and the officers say they have a good case against him. FALLS DOWN SHAFT John Carlson, 2817 Washington avenue fell two stories down an elevator shaft In the Printer's Supply building.

108 Third street yesterday afternoon and was seriously Injured. He was unconscious' when picked up by the other workmen and was taken to the city hospital In the Central patrol wagon. It Is feared that he sustained Internal Injuries but he will probably recover. What Sulphur Does For the Human Body in Health and Disease. The mention of sulphur will recall to many of us the early days when our mothers and grandmothers gave us our daily dose of sulphur and molasses every spring and fall.

It was the unversal spring and fall "blood purifier," tonic and cure-all, and, mind you, this old-fashioned remedy was not without merit. The idea was good, but the remedy was crude and unpalatable, and a largo quantity had to be taken to get any effect. Nowadays we get all the beneficial effects of sulphur in a palatable, concentrated form, so that a single grain is far more effective than a tableBpoonful of the crude sulphur. In recent years research and experiment have proven that the best sulphur for medicinal use is that obtained from Calcium (Calcium Sulphide) and sold in drugstores under the name of Stuart's Qalcium Wafers. They are Bmall chocolate coated pellets and contain the active principle of sulphur in a highly concentrated, effectivee form.e Few "people yills, aware of th valu ar of this form of sulphur in restoring and maintaining bodily vigor and health sulphur acts directly on the liver, and excretory organs and purifies and enriches the blood by the prompt elimination of waste material.

Our grandmothers knew this when they dosed us with sulphur and molasses every spring and fall, but the crudity and impurity of ordinary flowers of sulphur were often worse than the disease, and cannot compare with the modern concentrated preparations of sulphur, of which Stuart's Calcium Wafers is undoubtedly the best and most widely used. They are the natural antidote for liver and kidney troubles and cure constipation and purify the blood in a wav that often surprises patient and physician alike. Dr. R. M.

Wilkins, while experimenting with sulphur remedies, soon found that the sulphur from Calcium was superior to any other form. He says. "For liver, kidney and blood troubles, especially when resulting from constipation or malaria, I have been surgrised at the results obtained from tuart's Calcium Wafers. In patients suffering from boils and pimples and even deep-seated carbuncles, I have repeatedly seen them drv up and disappear in four or five days, leaving the skin smooth. Although Stuart's Calcium Wafers is proprietary article and sold bv druggists and for that reason tabooed bv many physicians, yet I know of nothing so safe and reliable for constipation, liver and kidney troubles and especially in all forms of skin diseases as this remedy." At any rate people who are tired of cathartics and so-called blood 'purifiers" will find in Stutrt's Calcium Wafers, a far safer, more palatable and effective preparation.

Do you need a Bookkeeper, Stenographer, Salesman or Clerk? We supply them on short notice. Try us. A. MORAWETZ 500 Kasota Hall's island in the Mississippi river just above the Plymouth avenue bridge, is the scene of busy activity. It is there that the Gerber baths are located, and the institution is to be greatly enlarged together with the island itself.

Contracts have been let for a large, commodious bathhouse with separate wiugs for male and female bathers, and which will accommodate thousands of COMBINE SEEN IN ACT OF SIDEWALK MAKERS CEMENT MEN ADVANCE PRICE 18 CENTS A SQUARE YARD. Sudden Lift Indicates Trust Tactics to Certain City Officials, Tho Contrac- tors Maintain Increased Cost of Ma- terials Prompts MoveMay Cause. Confusion in Last Assessment. Cement sidewalk contractors have agreed to advance the price-from 63 cents to 81 cents a square yard. This action on the part of the sidewalk men indicates in the eyes of cer- I tain city officials that the alleged "combine" is in the saddle again and that the city engineer may have to take immediate action.

The agreement is signed by twenty contractors, including practically all the big firms. The advance is made, according to the contractors, because the price of cement has been hoisted from $1.25 to $1.79 a barrel. The matter will be brought to the attention of the council in the near future and it remains to be seen what action will be taken, as the present assessment of 63 cents a square yard, made last August, is supposed to be in force until December 1 next. If the sidewalk men stick to their price, the city will have to go into the sidewalk business, or annul the assessments now due and in the process of collection, and no walks would be laid this season. Higher Than Old Cost, The big advance, of something like one-third, puts the price of cement sidewalks back to where it was three years ago.

The assessed price of sidewalks for the season of 1904-5 was 72 cents. Because of the drop in the price of cement the city cut this to 63 cents last August for the season of 1905-6, the assessment price which is now in effect. Notwithstanding this official price the trade was demoralized to such an extent last year that yards and yards of sidewalks were laid at 50 cents. Employees of different firms set themselves up in business and the result was a complete shattering of the organization which is said to have existed. The advance to 81 cents, if heavy percentage of increase.

A circumstance which will have some bearing on the question of sidewalk building is the low condition of stocks. Manufacturers say that it has not paid them to make blocks and therefore they have let the stock on hand run down, as it was sold off. For that reason there is said to be only one-fifth the usual quantity of blocks in the yards. An ordinary full stock would be about 200,000 square yards of sidewalking, while the stuff on hand is said to amount to not more than 40,000 yards. Costs More Now, They Say.

"It costs more now to build sidewalks than it-did," said one of the leading contractors yesterday. Cement has advanced at least 20 per cent. In the winter of 1904-5 cement sold at $1.25 a barrel. This year the lowest price to the city has been $1.79. Cement runs from eight to ten yards to the barrel for the blocks alone, and considerable more has to be used in lay- 1 possibly lay walks at the price that prevails now, 63 tents.

"We have had several meetings and have agreed to advance the price to 81 cents. Twenty signers among the cement sidewalk contractors are on the list. There are only from twenty to twentyfive firms in the city. Many have gone out of business on account of the increased cost of manufacture." STORM RAGES IN THREE STATES. By Publishers' Lincoln, March 10 A blinding snowstorm is raging in Colorado, Wyom ing and western Nebraska tonight.

The snow is about a foot deep and forming into deep drifts in the railroad cuts. Rail- people where scores were given bathing facilities last summer. The island was formerly a mere sand spit, which grew out of a bar. Logs and floating debris stranded on the bar until it accumulated enough material to constitute an island. Dr.

P. M. Hall, the commissioner of public health, filed on it as a homestead and transferred the island to the city for a garbage SCION OF NOBILITY SETS OP TELEPHONES DESCENDANT OF CHARLES FOX IS A MLNNEAPOLITAN. Man Who Is Learning Phone Business and Acquiring Taste for American Life and Affairs Belongs to Family of Great English Statesman and Friend of Richard Carvel. o.

w. FOX, Great Grandson of the Famous Briton of That Name. ing the blocks. Accordingly we taken the preliminary steps to- road traffic is blocked, and the jnercury is at zero. Charles Fox, known in history as a contemporary of William Pitt and premier of England, but better known as one of the gay bucks who used to shake dice with "Richard Carvel in the back room at Almack's place in London, has a descendant living in Minneapolis.

Doubtless the English statesman would have been much surprised if someone had dropped in while he was taking tea with the vivacious Miss Manners of Annapolis and toldhim that his great-grandson would be employed as a mechanic in a great city in the then unexplored upper Mississippi valley. Heir to Coronet. G. Fox, the descendant of the Charles Fox of English history and of Winston Churchill's novel, is employed as a mechanic in the workshop of the Northwestern Telephone company. The spectacle of a lineal descendant of one of the greatest men of English and American history and heir to a baronetcy setting up telephone switchboards in a grimy machine shop is typical of the romantic make-up of western life.

Mr. Fox says that he expects to remain here until the middle of the summer, learning the details of the telephone business. He will then return to his home on the banks of Loch Levan in Scotland. There he will try to interest some of the local capitalists and return with enough money to embark in the telephone business is some of the uncovered territory of the northwest. America Good Enough.

Threeyears spent on this side of the water, for the most part in Canada, have made the prospective baronet an enthusiastic American, and he has al- Ward American citizenship. While in Canada Mr. Fox tried farming, but found newspaper work moTe to his liking, and was for a while the assistant manager of the Winnipeg Tribune. When Mr. Fox returns to the United States after a visit at the' home of his father, Sir M.

L. Fox, collector of inland revenue and income tax for Fifeshire and Kenros-shire, Scotland, he will bring with'him his younger brother, J. W. Fox, a graduate of the medical Edinburgh university. In addition to being an M.

Mr. Fox is an allround athlete, and a musician of some ability. He has also made something of a literary reputation by his letters on Canadian' and American life to English papers. THE NEWS OF THE "NIGH THE CIT OF MINNEAPOLIS HER IS THE DESIGN FOR THE GERBE BATHS ON HALL'S ISLAND From Sketch by Boehme Cordelia, Architects. crematory sate.

When the council refused to approve his plans, Alderman M. A. Gerber of the first ward, conceived the idea of establishing a bathing pool for the youth of the city. The channel between the island and the east shore is shallow, has a fine sand bottom, and when piles 'were driven to ktfep the bathers within bounds it became an ideal swimming pool. It proved such a "Woodman Spare That Tree," Say the Police POLICEMAN HOERIS AND THE DECOLLETE TREE.

Ole Bernstad doesn't think it pays to be a good fellow and he said so plainly in police court a few days ago when he was fined $5 for trimming his neighbor's tree without a permit. The neighbor lives at 526 Girard avenue N. The wind had blown a small limb from the top of a tree on the boulevard. The owner didn't like the looks of the tree and Bernstad offered to trim it in the latest style. His idea of style' and that of Park Policeman W.

H. Morris did not agree and the result was that Bernstad pleaded guilty to violating the ordinance before Judge E. F. Waite. Morris testified that the tree was ruined and an investigation by the park board revealed a decolette condition that was shocking even in a tree.

More than 300 arrests have been made by Officer Morris in a little more than a year for damaging shade trees. This case appeared so flagrant that the members of the board decided on drastic action and the police department was asked for help. The result is that every policeman in the city will assist Officer Morris in his work. Hitching a horse near a shade tree, even tho the tree is not damaged, is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine or imprisonment in the workhouse. From now on every offender, regardless of class, will be taken into court.

NOT ONE COMPANY PAYS GROSS EARNINGS TAX City Controller Brown Finds Five Fran- chises, But Not a Dollar Paid Thru Their Operation. In looking over the various franchise measures City Clerk Dan C. Brown finds that there are three heat supply companies, one electric light and power company, and one telephone company which are required to pay a gross earnings tax to the city. The electric company's rights have been acquired by the Minneapolis Electric company and the telephone company hats been merged into the Twin City Telephone company. To what extent these companies are bubject to gross earnings tax probably may be a matter for judicial determination.

Of the three heating companies, the Cudahy Packing company has not constructed its subway, Tta-J Powers Mercantile company also failed to construct a subway as provided in its ordinance, and the- only concern paying a gross earnings tax is the Guaranty Loan company. Even this company has not paid over any acknowledges a Bmall indebtedness. srsot MINNEAPOLIS-JOURNAL. Sunday', March success that everything is to be enlarged. The island, which last year comprised only about a half an acre, is to be enlarged to five acres.

All winter long teams have been hauling brickbats and debris from the old Plymouth and Diamond mills, and all manner of stone, earth, and sand obtained from various places. The island is to be laid out PUBLIC PAWNSHOPS WOULD HELPTHE POOR NEW YORK BANKER SUGGESTS NEW CHARITY. Secretary of American Institute of Bank Clerks Calls Attention to Lack of Place Where People of Small Means Can Obtain Loans on Collat- eral at Low Interest. I 0 GEORGE E. ALLEN, i Hew York, Secretary of the American Institute of Bank Clerks, 1905.

ilSince George E. Allen, of New York, secretary of the American Institute of Bank Clerks, who has been inspecting the Minneapolis chapter, makes a suggestion that will interest local philanthropists. It is nothing less than the foundation of a loaning institution where poor people shall be treated decently. In short, he suggests a complement to savings institutions. I have been in this room," said Mr.

Allen at the Hotel Nicollet yesterday, an idea has come to me. I can see from this window four pawnshops. Do you know, every large city like Minneapolis should have a place where people who wish to borrow on small things could receive as much attention as those who want to borrow on the best Wall street collateral. This is the most important thing that is undone, I think. America Is BehindV "'Such institutions are established in England and other countries, and we have one on Twenty-third street York.

Seeing these pawnshops here reminds me of something I had not thought of in a long time. When I was with a trust company I knew from amounts borrowed by this pawn shop from our company and from other institutions to loan out that it was doing a large business. "Some of the charitably "disposed people'in Minneapolis should get together and form a company with 000 capital, to loan money on small things where people would-get decent treatment. The savings bank is nothing but a charitable institution, and this would be the complement of it. This institution would be nothing more than a big pawnshop.

I would not loan the people money for nothing. I do not believe in giving something for nothing. "In New York the legal rate is 3 per cent a month and our institution charges 1 per cent a month or 12 per cent a year, which is better than 36 per cent, and yet money can be made at it. Twelve per cent a year, what more do you want for your DEATH FOR TWO IN JEALOU St. Joseph, March 10.In a fit of jealous rage A.

M. Lllis tonight fatally wounded Miss Elnora McOueen and then turned the weapon on himself, inflicting injuries which caused his a few minutes later. with paths and grassplots, planted with trees and shrubbeery, and made as attractive as the means will permit. The funds, with the exception of a small appropriation from the city council, will be met by private contributions. The attention of the good people is called to this enterprise in the hope that they will contribute liberally.

GRAND JURY'S WORK HAMPERED BY CODE LAWYERS UNCERTAIN AS TO PRESENT BODY. Theory Is Advanced That Indictments Returned Since March 1 Are Illegal Because Jury Was Not Drawn Ac- cording to Provisions of New Laws Prisoners May Be Released. Hennepin county prisoners indicted since March 1 are illegally indicted and held because the present grand jury is not legally drawn and no further true bills can be returned until a new grand jury list is made up and a new grand jury drawn and impaneled according to the provisions of the new code. This is the contention of attorneys both in Minneapolis and in St. Paul and their beliefs will undoubtedly be urged upon courts in the near future.

If they are right it will mean untold trouble for the county authorities and may mean the escape of certain prisoners. Provision of Code. The new code provides that the county commissioners select a larger list of names from which the jury is subsequently drawn. On receiving from the county auditor the list of grand jurors selected by the county board, the clerk shall write the names in said list on separate pieces of paper and fold each as nearly as possible in the same manner, so that the name written shall not be visible, and deposit them in a box. At least fifteen days before the sitting of any district court, the clerk thereof, in the presence of the sheriff and a justice of the peace or district judge, shall draw from the box the names of twenty-three persons td serve as grand jurors at said term of This, it is contended by'the lawyers, takes the place of all other law on the subject and invalidates the present prac" tice under which the grand jury was drawn, viz.

of selecting the jury from a grand list made up at the beginning of the year by the district judges. Eleven Indictments Here. The new law went into effect March 1, and it is claimed that all bills returned since that time are invalid. In this county there have been eleven indictments returned. Of this number, however, pleas of guilty have been entered in all but two cases, those of William who has defaulted his bond, and Robert A.

Martin, who pleaded not guilty to forgery and was released on his own recognizance. The grand jury meets again on the fifteenth, and what they may do after that is a question. When asked about the proposition yesterday, County Attorney Al. J. Smith stated that he did not want to discuss it in any way.

He said that it was his present opinion that the code did not change the law of Hennepin county in regard to grand juries, but that he was not prepared to pass an official opinion. "If the point is raised in this county then it will be time enough to thresh it he said. We will fight it and take it to the supreme court where alone the meaning of the law can be definitely May Flower Mandolins Are the beat on earth. $1.00 A WEEK. When you want a Musical Instrument, go to one who knowsthat's ROSE, Successorto MET.MUSIO CO.

Small Inst. 41-43S. 6th St Catalog for the asking. O'BRIEN SUGGESTS INSURANCE CHANGES MINNESOTA MAN WORKS NEW CODE. Committee of Fifteen Soon to Meet in Chicago Has Much Work Cut Out Revision of Life Insurance Laws Im- perative and Outline of Requirements Will Be Prepared.

At the meeting of the committee of fifteen of the insurance commissioners' organization, which committee is to convene March 20 at the Palmer House, Chicago, Thomas D. O'Brien, Minnesota commissioner, will without doubt be a central figure. His opinion, therefore, on the subject matter to be considered by the committee is of importance. "The first thing which the committee will probably consider," said Mr. O'Brien yesterday afterenoon, "is Armstrong "report, and in this connection will have to be considered the islation which the Armstrong report proposes for the state of New York.

Second, the committee will doubtless arrange for completion of its report to the insurance commissioners who will assemble in convention again: i next September. Prepare New Code. "The committee may employ parties to prepare a new insurance code, may request, the committee on uniform laws to draft desirable laws, or subdivide the committee into and each division take up the drafting of laws covering a certain phase the general subject in hand. "It is my hope and belief that the foundation may be laid, that the time may be taken, to prepare a code which, as far as possible, will be ideal. Such a code when prepared, may not be adopted in all states, but there is no reason why it should not be recommended and presented to all legislatures that each legislature may adopt it in whole or in part, as it sees fit.

"It seems essential that the commissioners should take what action they can best to settle this matter in view of the hundreds of insurance agents whose livelihoods are actually impaired by the present suspense of the public mind and feeling of unrest relative to the big insurance companies. "As to what the code of laws will contain which the committee of fifteen will suggest, is of course problematical, yet to my mind there are a half dozen things which need attention in the way of uniform state legislation and which I favor recommending to the legislatures of the various states. Some General Suggestions. "First, the institution of a system of annual dividends on policies and abolishment of the deferred dividend contract. "Second, the creation of a closer relation between the policyholders and the managements of the respective companics.

"Third, that investments be better distributed, that is, that there be more investments made of the same amount of money, and that they be more scattered. Fourth, that there be a reformation of the annual reports to include a perfected gain and loss exhibit, that there be shown the salaries of officers, dates of purchases of securities, etc. "Fifth, a prohibition of ambiguous policies, and a discontinuance of policy, contracts which cannot be fulfilled. "Sixth, a proper rating and classification of fraternal and assessment insurance companies, in view of the fact that there is a great deal of difference between the ideal fraternal company organized among men who have something in common beside the insurance, and fraternal companies organized by a small coterie of men solely to sell cheap insurance." Git-La Grippe is a rational treatment for colds. It kills the grippe Cures in on day.

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