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TODAY'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON, Jan. Weather for Saturday For Minnesotat Fair; slightly colder in Southeast portion; northerly winds. For Wisconsin: Generally fair; slightly colder; northerly winds. For North Dakota and South Dakota: Light northerly winds; fair.

For Montana: Fair; warmer in eastern portion; northerly winds, shifting to southerly. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agriculture. Weather Bureau, Washington, Jan. 24.

6:48 p. m. Local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations.

TEMPERATURES. Place. Ther. I Place. Ther.

St. Paul 22 Minnedosa Duluth 18 Winnipeg Huron 8 Calgary St. Vincent 0- Bismarck 0 Cheyenne 26-32 Williston Chicago 36-38 i Helena 24 Cincinnati 34-46 Havre Helena 24-32 Edmonton Orleans Battleford New York 40-42 Medicine Hat Pittsburg 47-48 I Swift Current Buffalo 36-36 Qu'Appello 201 Below zero. DAILY MEANS. Barometer, 30.00; thermometer, 24; relative humidity, 91; wind, northwest; weather, light snow; maximum thermometer, 27; minimum thermometer, 21; daily range, amount of melted snow in last twenty-four hours, .09.

Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. P. F. Lyons. Observer.

THE FARMER'S LOSSES. The Globe publishes this morning a mass of special correspondence from Hallock and Northcote which bears out fully all that has been said of the Imposition and extortion practiced upon the farmers of the Northwest by the elevator combine. It will be observed that we are not dealing with vague charges. Men can always be found who think that they have suffered in- Jury, and are ready to make their plaint as long as they are not asked to substantiate it with' facts. Not such are the farmers of northwestern Minnesota, who are held in the clutches of the great power which has control of the handling of their chief product, their one reliance for subsistence and for escape from the grim grip of debt.

They have suffered; and the story that they tell is one full of facts and figures upon which no fair-minded man can ponder without conviction. These men, over their own names, explain the losses that they have borne and must continue to bear as long as there is practically no open market in the Northwest, save for those who are powerful enough to command it. Our farmers are being deprived every year of a large portion of the fruits of their toil, to satisfy the rapacity of a great combination that mercilessly mulcts them at its every opportunity. The letters in this morning's Globe bear out the charge that from three to eight cents a bushel is the amount unjustly abstracted from the farmer who Is so unfortunate as not to have command of independent shipping facili- I ties. Again and again it shown that men who sold or offered wheat to the local buyers, and afterward were able to ship it to the central markets or sell It there on sample, found the difference in grades, in dockage and in prices from three to eight cents in their favor.

There is a perfectly well-defined scale of variation, showing that fhe shrewd wheat buyers know with whom they are dealing. The large producer, who may possibly resist such treatment, suffers less. The small farmer, whose crop is not large enough to warrant him in providing storage facilities and ordering cars, has to make the best of it. The former is seldom offered more than a total of three cents less than his grain is actually worth. The latter is loser by from eight to ten cents if he is without relief from the tender mercies of the elevator men.

A whole brood of evil devices have been called- into use to cut down the cash value of the farmer's product. First, he is required to take a price for his wheat so much less than the price at the terminal market that the difference alone represents a big profit, after making all allowance for freight charges and the cost of handling. Then the dockage enforced by the local elevator is made double that assigned by buyers in the chief cities who have Inspected the wheat by sample or bought it on the car. The man who has one or two thousand bushels of grain to dispose of will not stand this. He makes his protest, ships independently, and so obtains, as appears in a dozen specific Instances cited elsewhere, several hundred dollars which would otherwise have gone into the till of the elevator company.

But what of the small farmer? What is the man to do who, having debts to pay and being anxious to realize at once, is obliged to make such terms as he can with the elevator companies? As soon as the rush of the fall shipment begins, he has no choice left to him. He is informed that there Is no storage room left for the best grade of wheat. The only bins available are those assigned to No. 2 and No. 3.

He must take what he can get; and that means the sacrifice by him of a great part of the poor profit that the low price of farm products admits. This, is' the injustice and the crime that is being inflicted Upon our people today. Let us ask our readers to bear one THE SAINT PAUI, DAILY GLOBE: SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 189 Q. fact particularly, In mind. This is not only the farmers' It is the case of city as well as country, of manu- facturer and merchant as well as There is 'no' need' for us to say that the prosperity all the people, the succesa of all business interests, rests at bottom upon the of the people to buy.

Take that away, impoverish the farmer, cut off his and all industries languish and i all the markets are idle, filled with unsalable stocks and clamoring for a I revival of trade. It is a direct blow to the whole community when injustice is done to any part of it; a serious and intolerable blow when it falls upon the great multitude who furnish the demand which tradesmen set themselves to supply. Every dollar taken wrongj fully, from the farmer is a dollar diverti ed from trade, as well as the evidence of an infamous wrong in the sight of heaven. These people are ready tell their story, and a pitiful and wrath! stirring one it is. There is nothing more vital to the interests of the whole Northwest than to put an end to the work of greedy power, and to secure for our farmers an open market and fair grades and prices for their products.

IMPORTANT FOR MINNESOTA. While little information is obtainable as to details, there is good reason to believe, as announced in our railroad columns this morning, that coal has been discovered in the northern part of this state, of a quality and quantity such as to make it commercially valuable. If this shall prove to be true, If fuel suitable to manufacturing purposes carf" be obtained from our own mines, then the last item will have been added to the resources of the state that will set it far above all others. There has been much in the past to suppose that coal beds, other than the lignite of North Dakota -would eventually be found in this section. The whole region has enough coal deposits to make this probable; the only difficulty being that the seams heretofore laid bare are either of such trifling thickness as to make them not worth working, or else of too low a grade to be available in the ordinary furnace.

The discovery of iron ore in Northern Minnesota was another indication that fruitful coal measures might be found somewhere in the vicinity. If, as has been rumored for some time, deposits of value have been located upon the lands of the Great Northern "fh this state, it is a fact of far-reaching importance. The sole drawback to the development of manufacturing in Minnesota on the largest scale, to the elevation of this state to as high a rank in the manufacturing as it now holds in the grain-producing, list, has been the want of cheap fuel. Let this condition be supplied, and the Northwest will be virtually independent industrially of any other section. With almost unlimited agricultural wealth, with unmeasured deposits of the finest and richest iron ore in the world, with a great timber and with coal within its boundaries, Minnesota alone would be an empire, and its future would be beyond compare in its rapid advance to wealth and power.

There is now at least good reason to suppose that this is the fact. For, if there are coal deposits of actual value in Itasca county, it is not to be. supposed that they are confined to a few sections or to any limited area. The first development would lead to others, and the carboniferous wealth would extend its area rapidly as eager prospectors came to search for other deposits. It will be the same in the case of coal as in that of iron.

It was long before the first discovery that iron ore existed in the Vermillion range was accepted as indicating anything more than a local find of little extent or value. Even after this had been developed, it was still regarded as- an isolated instance, and the rise of Northern Minnesota to prominence as a source of iron supply was scouted for years thereafter. Then, suddenly, came- the later discoveries of the Mesaba, whose wealth has astonished the world. These have fairly revolutionized prices and opened a new era in iron production. Still, however, the great centers of reiucing and manufacturing the ore into a commercial product remain nearer to the source of abundant and cheap fuel supply.

It is not unreasonable to suppose thai, if coal of good quality and in quantity that invites development exists also Northern Minnesota, further investigation will, as in the case of iron deposits, disclose other portions of the state where it can be obtained. It is not improbable that its discovery will move on lines parallel with that of iron; and if this be true, there is o'roply no limit to the expansion of our industries and the increase of population and wealth. All this must remain, for the present, a speculation; but it is one that has about it the marks of intrinsic reasonableness and probability. Zz A WORD TO THE POPULIST. We have no doubt that a large majority of the rank and file of the People's party are sincere, individuals, who believe honestly that some effort along new political lines is necessary to secure equal justice to all.

They have been from the outset badly officered, badly misled, and have seen their resources exhausted and their purposes misrepresented and defeated by the schemes of the third class politicians who eagerly sought command of their ranks, and who frequently, by reason of their familiarity and the unfamiliar! ty of the farmer and the laboring man with machine methods, obtained it. The People's party Intended to be' a protest against the influence of monopolies and class privilege in public life. It was a demand for greater justice to the common people, and for a reassertion- of their power in the legislative bodies of state and nation. for its principles, and owing mostly, as we have to the inferijr quality of its leadership, took the shape almost from the beginning of a warfare of wrong against wrong. Instead of stand- ing Arm on demand for the" abroga- tion of privilege and favoritism in legislation, it matched privilege with privilege, and.

asked that -one bad law, be answered by another. Seeing that the enormous power of the government had been exercised in too many instances to advantage upon capital, it asked not the abolition of that system. and a return to the democratic simplicity of earlier days, but an extension and enlargement of governmental power to embrace the whole the people. Thus, instead I of making its fight against paternalistic Influences, it came to advocate their embodiment in even more pronounced i form in our laws and institutions; in the vain hope that the favor of government, which had heretofore been the property of the few, could now be so enlarged as to become the possession of the many. This is the fundamental error of the People's party movement.

We have seen in almost every plank which that party has adopted. Realizing that the currency system of the country is altogether wrong because the government is so involved in the issue of money as to enable speculators and capitalists to use it for their own advantage, it came forward with other propositions to further engage the government, in the business of money: manufacturing, instead of applying the real remedy, which is to take the government out of that business altogether. Seeing that federal law assists! the manufacturer to pluck the people; that he may feather his own nest, and having propositions in mind that the treasury should take a single: product, 1 namely, silver, and issue warehouse certificates against it which should circulate as money, the principals of the People's party answered with their subtreasury scheme, which was only the same proposition in an enlarged and more objectionable form. So we go all down the line, and find that the trouble with the People's party has been, not that it did not voice a real protest against real errors, but that it asked for their correction by methods which could result only in making, them more extensive and more severe. It has failed of its purpose because it did not hit upon the right principle of remedy at the outset.

That principle is not to strike at corporate and capitalistic influence in legislation by offering to confer equal power to oppress upon all the people indiscriminately, but to eliminate such influence from the government altogether. We must return to the old fundamental principle, the everlasting foundation, and safeguard of liberty, that all the powers of government should be limited to the smallest extent compatible with protecting every individual in the exercise of his political and civil rights; leaving -him thereafter free to pursue life, liberty and happiness in his own way, as long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. The error has been made. It has produced its legitimate and inevitable fruit in the rejection of the People's party as an organization in every part of the United States As a party- it is today absolutely without a future. We call the attention of those who have acted with it heretofore to a few simple facts.

In a house of representatives which numbers 356 members, the People's party today counts eight men. In a senate which, when complete, numbers ninety members, there are two who are Populists, strictly speaking, and four others who vote with that party occasionally on certain issues and are generally in sympathy with it, but are unstable in their party relation. At some time in the past the People's party has been in possession of the state governments of Washington, Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, Kansas and South Carolina, and has had either a majority or the balance of power in the legislatures of a large number of other states. Today there is not a single state in the Union belonging to the People's party. The governor of Nevada is a free silver man, but he was elected as a protest against the outrageous regime of Waite.

South Carolina is in the possession of actual Populists, although they are trying to get rid of the name. The changes made by the last election were proof conclusive that as a political power the People's party has waned, and that there is no possibility of such success for it in the future as can enable it to carry into effect. any of its own plans. It may exercise a trifling influence upon the policies of either of the two great political parties between which the choice of a government for the nation and the state must be made. But it is obvious to any man, whatever his sympathies, that it cannot hope to become paramount as a political power in this country or over any considerable portion of it.

This being the case, and the ills which the People's party was organized to correct being still in actual and unchecked existence, it is proper that those who have acted with it, as sensible men and as patriotic citizens, should consider what ought to be their future policy. Is it worth. while for them to go on throwing their votes away in support of an empty name? Can they hope to remedy any abuses by holding conventions, making platforms, nominating candidates and going to the polls, only to find themselves hopelessly beaten at the election and without power not only to mold legislation, but even to affect it. It is certainly time that the thoughtful Populists, of whom there are thousands in this and every other state, by whom we do not mean the ranters and the rejected politicians of other parties that have sought the Populists' ranks as a means of getting back into power, but the men who work hard for a living on a farm or in the shop and feel the pressure of unequal conditions, should' sit down to think this matter out and see where their influence can be thrown politically to the greatest All that we ask -of them' is to study the two great parties as they stand today, and in the light of their past history, and, it is that one or tho other of them will control the government of this country for many years to come, to determine from which they are-most likely to Obtain that redress and assistance which they feel that they have demand. The is today and must of the control which great corporate influences have obtained throughlthe policy of favoritism and oppression known as protection, shaped absolutely by influences most hostile and repugnant to the ideas at the bottom of the People's party movement.

The Democratic party Is -essentially a party of popular rights, of individual liberty, of hos- tility to government interference wit!) the affairs of the individual, and of resistance to those very undemocratic forces which are at work to suppress and impoverish the people. The prop- osition which we assert, and which cannot be contradicted successfully, is that, while the Democracy will not become a champion "of" certain doctrines that have heretofore been formulated as part' of the People's party creed, because it sees in them" a danger to popular liberty and a promise of that extension of the paternalistic spirit which can end only in despotism, yet it does constitute the only organ- i ized body in this country which repre- sents, resistance to privilege and assertion of equality of all men before the law. Before the time comes to cast another vote, we- ask every man who has been in the past a supporter of the People's party to question himself whether it is not the part of- practical wisdom for him an allegiance that means the useless sacrifice of his.political influence altogether, and to ally himself with only party from which he can ever hope or expect a realization of all that was worthy, noble and true in the political dreams of his past. A NEED. OF THE STATE.

The experience of the state has demonstrated the need of some place of detention and correction for female prisoners committed under laws. The number of these, fortunately for the community, is so small that no sep- I arate provision for them has ever been made. "indeed, it is the circumstance of the commitment of a single woman to the reformatory that raises the practical question. This has brought out that the women who are consigned to Stillwater, seldom numbering more than two out of the body of inmates, cannot be taken care of properly without great difficulty. Humafnity and decency re- quire separate provision for them; while I there are not enough to- demand the construction of women's quarters; as we hope and believe there never will be.

This seems, to render advisable a legislative provision, suggested, naming the workhouse, of one of the large cities as -a- proper confinement for female prisoners sentenced under state laws. In these only hardened charac- I ters would be found, since the arrangement in St. Paul, by which those of -fenders of whose reformation there is still hope are sent to the House of the Good Shepherd, enables us to avoid the necessity of forcing these into a public place of detention. It is inevitable, as population increases, we suppose, that there should be some women among the -violators of the laws of the state, and these, too, must be made to suffer its penalties. But it would be easy to provide for; this in some other place than the great institutions which the backward jtate of morality in the whole community makes it necessary to maintain for the incarceration and discipline of law-breakers.

The suggestion made by the secretary of the state board of charities and cor- rections is one that should be 'acted upon at the first opportunity. -mmm THEY WANT SILVER WAGES. The new party, of which Jones, Stewart Co. have laid the keel in their pronunciamento, and which they hope to launch successfully in St Louis on July 22, assures the waiting and anxious public that "the paramount issue at this time in thi United States is between the gold standard, gold bonds and bank currency on on? hand, and a bimetallic stjijidard, no bonds and a national currency, on the other." They might have stated the. issue more accurately by saying that it is a battle between the gold standard and all that that implies, and a silver all that that implies; a statement of the issue that would have the merit of accuracy and of freedom from buncombe.

A "bimetallic" 'Standard is pure humbug. It is a thing no country ever has had, that none have and that none can have. A standard is, as it always has been, one that the commercial world, the men of business, and not governments, have first adopted. Ev- cry country on the globe is under such a system today, whether the unit be gold or silver; one -or the other, not both. -yy But these men declare that they apprehend danger to our industries from the cheap labor of the Orient.

They pretend to want their single silver standard to protect American labor, to "prevent our farmers, mechanics, manufacturers' "and other industrial workers" from being reduced to the "wages of Chinese coolies." And to do it, they would put our currency. on the same level, make identically the same in value, with that of these countries where labor is so cheap that ours cannot- compete -with it. Tariffs, they assure the gullible wage earners for whom they jflsh, cannot alone protect them; a silver standard must also be or else they will sink to the level of the of China. there ever logic so lame or conclusion so baseless 1 The -Orient, China and Japan, on a silver basis, can produce so cheaply that.iwe cannot hope, even under the shelter of protective tariffs, to compete with unless -we also go to silver bails. Are they really addressing this argument -to the industrial workers of the nation or to its manufacturers.

its employing classes? If to the latter, it is comprehensible; if to the former, it passes comprehension. A year ago an Englishman in India wrote home a letter that was published, in which he urged England to adopt what they call, by courtesy, the bimetallic standard; and he declared, as his most convincing argument, that a gold standard produced high wages and a silver low wages, and if England wished to compete with these Orientals she must adopt the same standard of value that her competitors enjoyed. On this hypothesis alone is the argument sound. The facts of every nation on a silver basis support it. Everywhere in such countries wages are low; the cost of production is nominal, measured in We have heard much of the "pauper wage" of Europe, and apprehension of it has sent the shivers up and down the back of thousands of workmen a campaign.

But the wages of the Orient render the European wage rate princely beside that which prevails there. The Japanese artisan lives on his ten to twenty cents a day; a pauper in Europe might rubsist on it, but to the American it would be literally a starvation rate. And yet it is to this feast that these party builders invite the wage earners to sit down. There is no escape from it. One cannot eat his cake and have it.

We cannot pick and choose. We cannot take what is good and reject what is bad. If we take silver monometallism, we take it for better and for worse. If we take the currency system of these countries, we must take their wage rate. We doubt if the wage earners of this nation will sit down at that table.

A SILLY CANARD. A time of -real imaginary disturbance between the nations is the paradise of the correspondent. He sets his imagination at work upon the wires, and the press dispatches are filled daily with rumors and schemes that bear upon their face the evidence of their improbability. Nothfng but the magnifying effect of distance, and the fact that people are extremely credulous about moves on the international chessboard, could secure for this succession of silly rumors even a respectful hearing. There has been a rank crop of them since the first appearance of the Venezuelan controversy as a serious affair.

We have heard that Russia" had offered to lend the United States $200,000,000 in gold, if desired, to replenish our treasury reserve. We have heaid that there waa an alliance between Russia and France, the most bitter and deadly enemies on the continent, for an imaginary assault upon England. The last fruit of this active fancy is the report that Russia has entered into a treaty offensive and defensive with Turkey, by which she is to secure passage through the Dardanelles and exercise practical suzerainty over the Turkish empire. The newspapers of this country, or a few. of them at least, actually take this story seriously.

It is a sillier canard than that which represented France as the friendly ally of the power that wrested the Rhenish provinces from her control, and inflicted an injury that neither this nor the next generation of Frenchmen will ever forget. The animosity between Russia and Turkey, is deep and deadly. The latter has defied all the great powers together successfully. What could induce her, after this, with a demonstration before her eyes of their insincerity, to make a practical surrender of imperial power to the one nation which she hates most of all the world? Nor is that all. Russia herself would have no desire to enter into such an arrangement, because she understands that it would unite all the rest of Europe against her.

If such an agreement, giving Russia exit for her warships to the Mediterranean, would have been tolerated, it would have been at the end of the Russo- Turkish war. The treaty of St. Stefano, by which this concession was wrested from the vanquished Turk, was promptly disallowed by the rest of Europe. Notice was served upon Rus- sia that she would not be permitted to enjoy the identical privilege which she now represented as obtaining, and the result was the new treaty of Berlin, restoring the so-called integrity of the Ottoman empire, to which Russia, at the moment of her triumph i in arms, was compelled to accede. If Turkey, beaten in the field and completely at the mercy of European arms, was protected by the other powers frcm such surrender, what likelihood is there that they would now permit, or she desire to make, the same terms at a time when no such compulsion can be exercised? The whole story is so intrinsically improbable that it would hardly deserve mention were it not taken up and discussed with a serious face by those who should know better.

It is a fact, although we regret to be obliged to say it, that all dispatches at the present time from Europe to American newspapers, and from America to European newspapers, bearing upon international relations present or contemplated, must be received with a critical THE STORMING. The first great feature of the carnival, the storming, which took place last night, more than fulfilled public expectation. was a great success, and one of the most brilliant and I gorgeous spectacles ever seen in the Northwest. Those who have believed that popular interest could not be awakened in a winter carnival must confess themselves mistaken. The whole city was alive last night.

Dense crowds packed the streets, and gazed upon every part of the proceedings with keen enjoyment and intense en; thusiasm. The carnival grounds were surrounded by shouting multitudes, and the pyrotechnic display was really i magnificent. Not in the days of the I old ice palaces was tnere ever seen I a finer exhibition of fireworks, nor was there anything to exceed, if to equal it, at the world's fair at Chicago. The management of the carnival are more than making good their, promises, and those who have remained away from the grounds, who ha not witnessed the parades and grand displays such as that of last night, have lost one of the finest spectacles that it ia possible to imagine. Witn every day that it continues, thj winter carnival attracts increasing numbers and becomes a more pronounced and unequivocal success.

When a woman wears a man's clothes she takes man's chances in the world. A young married woman donned her husband's clothes and went out for a A young man met her, quarreled with and blacked her eye. Had he known she was a woman, he woud have been too gallant to discolor her optic. The slight earthquake shock in the neighborhood of Washington Thursday may have resulted from the occupancy of the chair of the speaker of the house by young Mr. Tawney for a whole hour.

AT THE THEATERS. Salter Martin's big "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company will give a special children's mat- i inee this afternoon, and will give their farewell performance tonight. "Shore Acres" comes tomorrow night. "Fantasma" will bid farewell to St. Paul ror at least a year after the performance tonight.

The sale of seats for the matinee is exceptionally large. "The Land of the Living, a new melodrama, will be the at- I traction next week. MINNIE WANTS IT. The Sister City Bids for the Lutheran Seminary. The church council of the Norwegian synod, which is in session in the city, had under consideration yesterday the question of the adoption of a site for i the new Lutheran seminary which will be built to take the place of the institution destroyed by fire at Robinsdale two years ago.

The cities offering in- ducements for the seminary in the first instance were St. Paul, La Crosse and Chicago, but yesterday noon the com- mittee on location received a commun- ication from the corporation in Minneapolis owning the homeopathic hospital property, Fourth avenue and Twentysixth street, offering liberal induce- ments should the hospital buildings and grounds meet the approval of the committee. In view of this fact, the i members of the committee visited Mm- neapolis during the afternoon to investigate the proposition of the Mill City corporation. All were well pleased with the site and the consideration at- tached, but at the executive session of the council last evening no decision could be reached regarding any of the I proposed sites, and the entire matter was postponed until the next meeting of the council, which will take place in May. While none of those interested could be induced to give any information regarding the probable outcome of the location of the new seminary, it was evident from the duration of- last night's session, which lasted until after 12 o'clock, that the council had reached a "deadlock" stage, and that the postponement more the nature of a compromise, than from any lack of desirable locations having been offered.

A subcommittee was appointed to act in conjunction with the location committee already in existence, and to report at the general meeting in May. RESCUE LEAGUE WORK Discussed In Connection NVith the Woman's Christian Home A committee of the Rescue league held a meeting at the Memorial Lutheran church yesterday afternoon to talk over the work of the league and that of the Woman's Christian home. The home of the latter association and that of the Rescue league, it is thought i may be made to serve the same purpose, and if so, the necessity of maintaining a home by the league may be done away with. The question under discus- i sion was the Woman's Christian home could be utilized along the line and in conjunction with rescue Work. Another meeting will be held next week to further consider the work.

The Rescue league at present has no i one in its home, but the necessity for having such a place exists just the same. Rev. Mr. Haupt says that so long as there is such a place, one of the rescued who might be placed with some family always knows that if anything happens where she is she has a home i to return to and that she will not have to return to the haunts of vice and the life she has abandoned. One of the girls rescued by the league, has been with three families and each time has I returned to the Rescue home, whereas, if there was no home to return to, she might have returned to a life of shame.

WORK OF SNEAK THIEVES. The Residence of Frank J. King? Entered. The residence of Frank J. King, No.

697 Laurel avenue, was entered by thieves yesterday afternoon. Mr. King reported to the police that he had lost some articles of jewelry, but he did not think that the thieves had secured much that was valuable. Mr. King is a cigar dealer at the Merchants' hotel.

Speaking of this case Chief Clark said last night that citizens should take ample precaution to protect their property during the carnival. Many houses i have been left deserted this week, yet the police department has been obliged to withdraw many patrolmen from the residence quarter of the city for duty at the carnival grounds or on the crowd- Ed business streets. Detectives Enright and Sweeney further investigated the King robbery last night.and found that it was perpetrated about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when no one was at i home but a servant. The thief entered the I house at the front and took a lady's watch and a gentleman's watch, diamond ear-rings, a diamond pin and other jewelry, aggregating in value about $200. "Gen." Kelly Sf.eaUs.

"Gen." Kelly, of the industrial army, addressed an A. R. U. mass meeting at Assem- bly hall last evening upon the various phases of the labor problem and incidentally started a boom for the American section of the Social! ist's Labor party. He exalted Debs, denounced capital and declared every department of the present form of government was In league with tho capitalist to op! press the laborer.

No sooner did an issue in a strike result successfully for the I workingman than congress at its next session I passed a law at the instigation of the capital! ists making the act which terminated the strike for the benefit of the laborer a misdemeanor. Manager Quits. The resignation of Donald M. Phllbin. general manager of the Duluth, Missabe Northern road at Duluth.

will remove from the state one of Its youngest and ablest railway managers. Mr. Phllbin has been with the road since Its beginning, being formerly manager of the Duluth, South Shore Atlantic's iron ore traffic. Ills road handled last year in seven months 1,600.000 gross tons of ore, besides other freight, with scarcely an effort and with a minimum of break-downs or conges- I tions, though Its dock storage capacity was inadequate. It is not believed that Mr.

Philbin will leave fee iron ore business. Library Plan In Advisement. County Attorney Butler stated yesterday that the gentlemen who made an offer to erect a library building on part of the site of the I old market in return for a lease of tho maining portion were considering the sugges; tions of the library board, but whether or not i the suggestions were favorably received, he was unable to state. Entertainment at Hancock School. Yesterday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, about seventy-five friends and patrons assembled at the Hancock school, where they were entertained by songs, directed by Congdon, and an address by State Superintendent Pendergast.

1 The room was very prettily decorated in "blue 1 and white, the class colors, arid all Kccmevl to I enjoy the social part afterwards. GOOD PAT WflflTED AX IMPORTANT CONFERENCE HELD AT THE HEALTH OFFICE YESTERDAY. CATTLE KILLED. THROWN' ON THE TWIN CITY MAIU PRACTICE TO BE STOPPED. THE FEDERAL INSPECTOR JOINS Dr.

Stone and Local Packers In Move for the Public Safety and Health. A conference likely to be followed by important results took place at the health office yesterday between Health Commissioner Stone, Frank Clifton, the president of the Minnesota Packing company at South St. Paul, and Dr. O. B.

Hess, United States inspector of live stock at the South St. Paul stock yards. It is the wish of the health department of St. Paul, as well as of the Minnesota Packing company, to put a stop to the slaughtering of diseased cattle and the selling of the meat in this and other cities of the state. At present there is no way of getting at the butchers who buy condemned animals at the South Paul Stock yards, and subsequently slaughter them and put the meat on the market, principally in St.

Paul and Minneapolis. Dr. Hess, the United States inspector, has no jurisdiction or authority except over meat that is to be shipped out of the state of Minnesota. He inspects the.animals and condemns those found diseased, but in case such an animal is slaughtered and the meat is shipped to any place within the state. Dr.

Hess is powerless to interfere with or prevent such action. In many instances animals are condemned and released for stock purposes, but the purchaser, instead of keeping the animal the proper length of time, slaughters it and sells the meat. Mr. Clifton, of the Minnesota Packing company, wants th -operation of the state authorities in order to put a stop to these violations of the law. Inasmuch as there is no local Inspection of live stock in South Si.

Paul, the only authority that can reach these cases is possessed by the board Of health. Accordingly, Dr. Stone intends to write a letter to the state board requesting the appointment of a state inspector of live stock at the South St. Paul stock yards. Dr.

Stone will also recommend the appointment of a state Inspector at New Brighton and at the Minnesota Transfer. MRS. NVADLEIGIDS MAVIS. Miss Helen Hays Served With Another Legal Document. The throbbing void left En the heart of Mrs.

Ira Wadleigh, of Minneapolis, by the fleeing of her husband and of the affection which lied with him is as difficult to iill as a wisdom tooth or the expectations of a constituent. Jan. 10 Mrs. Wadleigh asserted, through her attorney, Mr. Cormany, that certain articles then in tho possession of her husband's late stenographer, Miss Helen Hays, would fill the void of her wants.

At least, she earnestly desired to possess the following objects, beyond which she' seemed to desire nothing, namely, towit, as the complaint Jocosely remarks: One pair of diamond eardrops, one solitaire diamond ring, one otter coat, one typewriting machine, one chair to accompany the machine, one pair of opera glasses, one gold watch, studded with diamonds, one gold neck chain for said watch, one gold "friendship" guard ring for the diamond ring, one lady's bicycle, one couch and one chair, and one plain gold band ring "marked 'Ira' on tieinside." Such prompt and successful action was taken by her attorney to gratify Mrs. Wadleigh's yearnings of Jan. 10 that he, acting on her behalf, became speedily possessed of the typewriter with its little brass chair, the bicycle, and, it is alleged, certain articles of jewelry. These valuable articles were presumably placed in the cardiac vacuum and gently rammed down. But the chasm still remaining would have done credit to a Japanese earthquake.

Mrs. Wadleigh concluded to take the balance out in cash. A scientific survey of the unfilled void, as made by her attorney, was expressed in decimal currency, and found to amount to exactly $12,275 and no cents. Miss Hays was expected to draw her check for that amount, the expectation being politely hidden under the guise of a suit for alienation of affections. Miss Hays is not so good at figures as Mrs.

Wadleigh, and she will not draw her check until she is sure that the amount named is correct. Pending this calculation, however, Mrs. Wadleigh has taken another look into the recesses of her soul, and has decided to readjust her demands. Attorney Cormany therefore filed yesterday with Attorney Encell, of this city, who is both Miss employer and her legal representative, an amended complaint in the original replevin action. The amended document avers that Mrs.

Wadleigh would be pleased, gratified, and even delighted, if she could procure from Miss Hays, without interrupting the latter's hard sum in arithmetic, simply the solitaire diamond ring, the otter coat, the pair of opera glasses, the gold watch studded' with diamonds, the gold neck chain for said watch, and the friendship guard ring for the said solitaire diamond ring. Mrs. Wadleigh makes no reference to the articles procured in the first instance. She doesn't yearn any longer even for the Oriental couch and the plain gold ring "marked 'Ira' on the inside." Attorney Encell, however, does not believe that Mrs. Wadleigh's wants are at length satisfied and that she will be content when she gets the check for I $12,275.

He believes, on the contrary, i that the amended complaint is simply i a plan to prevent any dispute at the trial of the original replevin proceedi ings as to the ownership ana wherej abouts of the articles secured from Miss Hays by the deputy sheriff and Attorney Cormany. Mr. Encell, neverj theless, has not abandoned hope that "justitia," as they say at the school, may yet be "fiat-ed." POLICE COURT NEWS. Dairymen Fined for Sellings Too Much Water. Charles Schanno, a dairyman of Lake Como and Phalen avenue, was fined $10 in the municipal court yesterday for selling milk that contained an illegal proportion of water.

W. J. McMenemy, charged with the same offense, was acquitted. He proved that he had purchased the milk of a dairy company. William Duffy was sent to Como for ninety days as a vagrant.

Duffy is said to be unfavorably known to the police. John McNlerney, aged fourteen, was I held in bonds of on charge of larceny. It is alleged that John has been picking the pockets of customers at Yerxa's grocery store, Seventh and Cedar streets. Several empty pocket- I books were found on an upper floor the building whither John and his panions hay been wont to make mysterious trips. The boy went to the county Jail to await his trial on Jan.

30. An additional horso I has been purchased by the salvage corps. It will be kept in an extra stall at the back of tlie bulging and 11l take the place of either of the corps team which may become porarlty disabled..