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S. Webb Company In Charge. WEATHER FOR TODAY. Minnesota cloudy Tuesday and variable winds. cloudy Tuesday and "Wednesday; fresh to brisk south winds Tuesday.

North and South Dakota cloudy; Tuesday and Wednesday fair. Wisconsin cloudy Tuesday; in east portion; fresh to brisk south winds; Wednesday fair. lowa Tuesday; warmer in central and east portions; Wednesday fair. Montana cloudy Tuesday; probably showers in west portion; cooler in southeast portion; Wednesday fair. St.

Paul Yesterday's temperatures, taken by the United States weather bureau, St. Paul, P. P. Lyons, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last corrected for temperature and elevation: Highest temperature, 70; lowest temperature, 61; average temperature, 64; daily range, 25; barometer, 29.78; humidity, 75; precipitation, 7 p. temperature, 70; 7 p.

wind, southeast; weather, partly cloudy. Yesterday's Alpena ...62 ..64 70 Battleford ..50 ..74 78 Bismarck 70 Medicine Hat6o 70 Buffalo 64 66 Milwaukee ..62 72 Boston ...58 ...56 64 Calgary .76 80 Cheyenne ...72 56 64 Chicago ...62 ...70 78 Cincinnati ..64 Orleans.76 82 Cleveland ...64 York ..64 66 Denver ...78 84 Omaha ...72 78 Dcs Moines.66 74 Philadelphia .64 70 Detroit 60 ....60 66 Duluth ...60 54 Qu'Appelle ..60 66 Edmonton ..42 Frisco 60 60 Galveston ..76 Louis ....68 72 Green 72ISalt Lake ....64 72 Helena 64 Marie ..58 64 Huron 76 861 Washington 60 70 Jacksonville 74 ...60 66 Kansas City.6B River Danger. Gauge Change in Stations. Line. Reading.

24 Hours. St. Paul 14 2.0 La Crosse 10 2.1 0.0 Davenport 15 2.5 St. Louis 30 12.3 Rivor forecast till 8 p. m.

Tuesday: The Mississippi will remain nearly stationary in the vicinity of St. Paul. time (7 p. m. St.

Paul.) TO OUR FRIENDS. Anyone unable to copy of The Globe on any railroad train leaving or entering St. Paul will confer a favor on the uinnasement by the fact to the bus. Inena office. Telephone, Main 1005.

annoyed by irregular or late delivery of The Globe will confer a Tor on the management by porting; the fact to the bnalness office. Telephone, Main lOGS. TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1902. While the Montana millionaires who consider their scalps to have been preserved for their individual use through the efforts of "Calamity Jane" are urging Uncle Sam to preserve her from want, they might just supplement their signatures with a few figures showing their own interest in the success of their undertaking.

THE REAL SITUATION. The latest reports from the coal mining district of Pennsylvania indicate that both parties to the prevailing strike are still resting on their arms. The recent period of cold weather has been effective in directing attention to the serious approach of winter, yet each of the parties to this extraordinary contest remains apparently as impervious to the demands of the general welfare as if it were still midsummer. Nineteen weeks have elapsed since the trouble broke out, yet miners and mine owners alike insist that the difficulty is no nearer settlement, and that there can be only one ending, that ending being the particular one for which each contends. Throughout this controversy there has been revealed but very little reason, if any at all, why the public should take sides.

Contentions more or less absurd have been put forward from time to time by both of the parties to the controversy. Neither of them can claim any advantage whatever over the other in this regard. The fact remains that the public service is repudiated by both sides. The mine owners say that anarchy prevails; the miners, that they are the victims of the greed and tyranny of the mine owners to the extent of being unable to earn living Avages at the rate of compensation that has prevailed. There is no occasion for the public undertaking to determine which is right or which la wrong.

The undisputed right of the matter Is that the people must be provided with anthracite coal before many days have elapsed. The duty of providing them with their fuel lies with the mine owners and operators. That duty they cannot avoid by telling us that anarchy prevails. There is no anarchy. The history of this particular industry shows, however, that the mine owners and operators have contributed in the past very materially toward the protection of anarchy In that region.

The state of Pennsylvania will furnish the mine owners all the protection they need in the mining of the necessary coal. That is a prime duty of the etate. They are public service which control the mines just as much as is the railroad, the gas or the electric light company. Their obligations are as well defined. The plea that their men will not work will not protect them against these obligations.

They cannot continue to sit down and fold their arms in inaction. The people await their supply of fuel. They can only get it from these corporations. If they are unwilling or unable to furnish it then the natural right exists on the part of the state, representing the people, to step in and supply the public needs. Without reference at all to the right or wrong of the existing controversy this is the situation which confronts the mine owners and coal carriers, and they cannot get away from it.

The inevitable occurred when the good, pious directors of the "Northwestern individual man voting the Republican ticket that the color line should be drawn, and that colored girls had no place in that institution. And the reason there was not enough worthy of its authors. TODAY'S PRIMARIES. The Democrats of Ramsey county are today confronted by a serious party and public duty. If they discharge that duty conscientiously and intelligently the party will be in control of the offices of this county and the people will be faithfully and capably served in office.

The candidates for the several offices are many in number and represent every gradation in the scale of fitness; but there is not an office to be voted for by the people in November, in this county, for which there is not at least one Democratic candidate of the highest qualifications. It has long been apparent that In the selection of local officials the voting public give very little more consideration to party affiliation than they do tb personal fitness, if they give as much. There is a large proportion of the voters which will be controlled mainly, If not entirely, by party considerations in casting their votes for candidates. In the primary elections there is a correspondingly large proportion in both parties which will be Influenced by considerations of personal attachment and personal views of fitness. Of course these views must differ as widely as those who entertain them.

If the Democratic voters of this county are in today's primaries to be governed entirely by personal choice the result of the election may well ba regarded as doubtful. If, on the other hand, recognized fitness for the office, with a due regard to the probabilities of election, is made the final test, the Democratic candidates for the several offices will in all probability represent so high a measure of desirability as to assure the success of the party in the county. The first demand which their citizenship makes upon all Democrats is that they shall attend and vote at today's primaries. The next Is that they shall be controlled, in casting their vote among the candidates for the several offices, by the desire to promote honesty and efficiency in public office, even as against their personal preference. If the mass of the Democrats of Ramsey county act upon these principles at today's primaries, Ramsey county is certain to be Democratic.

Gov. Taft has become quite a politician. But he has not realized his possibilities by any means. The man who would tell a crowd of Chinamen under any circumstances or in any place that their exclusion from American territory was a recognition of their superior ability, and that they ought to be satisfied, surely has great things before him in the domain of politics. A CASE FOR CONGRESS.

The custom has become so general of urging the Intervention of federal authority to cure existing evils that one is almost tempted to urge that gress should interfere for the protection of the forests of the country. The prevailing forest fires in the state of Washington involve a disgrace as well as a grievous injury to the country and to the state in which they have occurred. It is plain that we have not taken even the first practical step as yet, as a people, in the direction of the protection of our great timber areas. For commercial uses we have allowed our forests to be hewn down by those who have resorted to wholesale perjury in their successful efforts to control our timber areas. While this form of robbery was rampant forest fires at all etages of its progress united in the work of destruction.

Neither state or nation has done a single practical thing up to the present to stay the destruction. No state in the Union, perhaps, is without a fire warden, charged with the protection of our forests. We have one in Minnesota and he draw 9 a liberal salary. He also delivers addresses on forestry. So far as the people know that represents the beginning and the, end of the official usefulness of the Minnesota fire warden.

We are no worse situated In this regard than the people of other states. The position is purely a political job everywhere. Our fire warden doubtless has as much fitness, notwithstanding his years and his former pursuits, for the duties of his office, as any other corresponding official in any state of the Union. The conclusion is not far to seek that the several states, acting in their individual capacity, will do nothing to preserve our forests. The department of agriculture at Washington might be looked to successfully, through the maintenance of a bureau of forestry, to take some rational steps to guard against such a disastrous and disgraceful state of things as that which is now revealed in the state of Washington.

It would be a public benefaction if some means could be discovered by which the department of agriculture, or some other department of the national government, could be Invested with jurisdiction to control this subject. For the man who wants to gamble in the trans-isthmian canal project let us commend unreservedly the press le- THE ST. PAUL GLO3S, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1902. ports on the result of the inquiries Into the soundness of the Panama title. They are about as unprejudiced as anything of the kind could be.

Bach alternate day's reports present exactly the other side of the situation. It is related that a brief session of the board of county commissioners was held yesterday. It is not to be wondered at that the session was brief, considering that all the patrotic members are hustling for public support these days. The wonder rather is that there was any meeting at all until after the primaries. It appears that Doc Ames is well enough to go before a notary public down in Indiana and tell all he doesn't know about the crimes of his administration.

This would seem to indicate that it would not prove fatal if he went through the same operation in Minneapolis. The meteoric theory of the origin of the forest fires is a good thing in its way; but the blazing meteor in each case is evidently the remains of some antiquated politician who has been drawing a big salary for looking after forests which he never saw more than the outskirts of. With zero weather prevailing in Germany, the outcry which has prevailed up in this region at a slight visitation of frost is made to appear just what it is. There are different ways of making money; but it will be agreed that the one now being pursued by Uncle Sam is about the simplest and most expeditious. All the fools are not born in a single generation.

If it were so, Cora Belle Fellows would not find another of her kind among her sex. Let not the unsuccessful candidates in today's primaries lose heart The expenditure was small, and the advertisemen There will be an extra supply of second-hand cuts in every newspaper office, which can be had cheap tomorrow and thereafter. There really is a doctor's trust. The slightest examination of the accounts of even the youngest member of the profession will prove that much. There are men with the hide of the pachyderm in all callings, even that of preacher, as the press reports from Oyster Bay make plain.

ONE PAIR OF DEUCES. There's a little game called poker, which the same is wicked, quite, And playing In that little game I know is never right. Yet, in my sinful, sinful way, I've sometimes held a hand. And tried to hold a nine-spot high and still look pleased and bland; I have met the race of bluffers, and I know their little ways; I have tried to look serenely on an unexpected raise; But at end I've always noticed, If the hand was played with care. That a little pair of deuces was better than no pair.

This life's a mighty poker game sometimes I fancy still; We take the cards the dealer deals, and play them at our will. And some of us are bluffers; with words of cant and gush We try to make the players think we hold a royal flush; With nothing: but a nine-spot high we puff and swell and blow. And think we're playing shrewdly, for it seems to work, you know. Till some thoughtful, watchful fellow says, "I call you." World of care! For his little pair of deuces is better than no pair. The man who wears $12 hats on $7 pay; His bluff will work all right enough until it's called some day.

The politician, prating of "me own loved native land," While his hand's extended backward, some day we'll see his hand The man who thinks effrontery is bound to take the trick Is sure to hear "I call you," and the words will make him sick. Somewhere, somehow, shall merit count, though It may have naught to spare, For a little pair of deuces is better than no pair. York Times. FINDS UNCLE SAM'S BOND WOTH MORE THAN $600 Queer Discovery Made by an Old Ger- man Woman. WASHINGTON, D.

Sept. treasury department has received from United States Consul General Guenther at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, a United States bond for $500, which he forwards for redemption for the benefit of Mrs. Margaret Schnell, an old German woman living at Bornhein, a suburb of Frankfort. The consul general writes that Mrs. Schnell has a fad for collecting old daguerotypes, and rocently in cleaning one she had had about ten years she accidentally broke the glass covering the ancient portrait, disclosing the bond which had neatly folded and placed in its hiding place many years before.

Mrs. Schnell was about to throw it away, but was persuaded to take it to the United States consul to ascertain whether it had any value. The portrait is faded beyond possible recognition, but the old case shows that it was made in Worcester, Mass. The bond is of the issue of July 1, 1867, series and has twenty-eight coupons attached, showing that the last one removed was for interest due 1, 1373. Interest on the bond, however, ceased on April 6, 1879.

United States Treasurer Roberts today forwarded to Mr. Guenther for Mrs. Schnell a government warrant for J657.81, covering the principal and interest to that date. GAS COMPANY APPEALS 75-CENT ORDINANCE CASE Chicago Concern Seeks to Keep Illuminant at $1. CHICAGO, Sept.

People's Gas Light and Coke company today filed an appeal bond for $600,000 in the 75-cent gas ordinance case, which was dismissed by Judge Grosscup July 3 for want of jurisdiction. An assignment of errors was filed and the appoal allowed by Judge Kohlsaat in the federal court. Notice was served on the city. This appeal is another step taken by the gas company to frustrate the endeavors of the city to force the corporation to serve its patrons with gas at 75 cents per 1,000 feet, instead of net as at the present time. The city maintains a right to regulate the price of gas under an ordinance passed some time ago.

The company, on the other hand, insists it has the power to set its own price. The case has been dragging in the courts for several months. Ship for G. A. R.

Reunion. WASHINGTON, D. Sept. order was issued by- Secretary Moody today for the training ship Lancaster to proceed to this city to take part in the reunion of the G. A.

R. The Lancaster has just arrived at New London from an extended cruise. Mrs. McKinley Paid $39,809. WASHINGTON, D.

Sept. treasury warrant for $39,809 was forwarded today to Mrs. Ida S. McKinley, widow of the late president, for salary, which would have been due him on July 1,1902, the appropriation for which was made at the last session of congress. ST.

PAUL 1 Tonight marksthe 550 th performance of "King Dddo," that jolly monarch of comic operas, vttho has enjoyed the most prosperous 'reign in modern theatrical annals. The company at the thte week is the same which presented! the opera at Daly's theater, New Ytfrk, ana according to the popularity with which the work is being received here, it is safe to assume thai the reports which indicated King Dodo" created in New York have not been exaggerated. Raymond Hitchcock seems to have been made for the title role, or, rather, the title role could hardly have been written better had it been constructed for Mr. Hitchcock. His interpretation of the silly old monarch is about the drollest thing we have had.

Haverly's Mastodon minstrels will open an engagement of three nights and Saturday matinee at the Metropolitan Thursday evening. This organization is claimed to be the best on the road and includes an imposing array of singers, comedians and specialty artists, headed by the inimitable George Wilson, the leading light of the minstrel stage. Montgomery and Stone, who play the two leading comedy roles in "The Wizard of Oz," the new extravaganza which comes to the Metropolitan next week, have an excruciatingly funny parody on the cockney idea of an American coon song, which they introduce in the last act. Montgomery and Stone have appeared in England in all the principal music halls and they won first honors when they went to London with Edna May in the Frohman production of "The Girl From Up There," at the Duke of York's theater. David Higgins and Georgia Waldron in their charming pastoral play, "Up York State," attracted a second large audience to the Grand opera house last evening, and both play and players were received in a most cordial manner.

These two players are very popular with St. Paul audiences, and their latest vehicle displays their respective talents to splendid advantage. A play which is sure to be received with much fAvor by local play patrons is "The Night Before Christmas," which is scheduled to appear at the Grand the coming week. Another English play met with approval last night: at the Garrick theater, New York, which opened its fifth season under Charles Frohman's management. Robert Marshall, who wrote "His Excellency," "The Royal Family" and Second in Command," is also the author of "There is Many a Slip," which was given its first American presentation.

Miss Jessie Millward took the leading female role and increased her artistic favor. Considerable interest was'displayed in the acting of James Erskine, who took the leading male role, and who is Lord Roslyn. Leo Dietrichstein had the comedy role, and Beatrice Irwin made a pleasant impression on this, her first appearance in America. Miss Percy Haswell made her initial appearance as a star under the direction to Henry B. Harris, at the Columbia theater, Washington, last night, presenting Capt.

R. Marshall's comedy, "A Royal Family." Miss Haswell received a cordial welcome from a brilliant audience. Frank B. Carr'a "Thoroughbreds" drew good crowds to both afternoon and evening performances at the Star theater yesterday. The number of well trained voices in the company is very large.

Fred C. Whitney has signed a contract with Walker Whitsides whereby he will manage tiie tragedian for several years. Mr. Whitside is popular on the road and Whitney thinks he can duplicate this vogue on Broadway. Shortly after the new year he will make a revival of "Richelieu" in New York city with Walker Whitside as the star.

Mr. Whitney says he will have an all star cast and promises that in the curse scene there will be people on the stage. Mrs. Leslie Carter's company assembled for rehearsals of "Dv Barry" on the stage of Belasco's new Republic theater yesterday. Charles A.

Stevenson, Hamilton Reveille and the other principals will continue in their leading roles. Aubrey Bouccicault, who played In St. Paul last season with Otis Skinner in Francisco de Remini, plays the part of Paul Charteris in Genevieve G. Haines' society drama "Hearts Aflame," which opened last week at the Bijou in New York. De Wolf Hopper's starring tour In "Mr.

Pickwick" opened last Thursday night at Elizabeth, N. J. The New York run is set for January 19th at the Herald Square theater. It is the plan of the management to have the production as full of the atmosphere of Dickens as possible, and with that end in view Mr. Hopper has left behind him his flap sticks at Weber and Fields.

The latest attraction at the New York American theater is "The Fatal Card." This stirring drama, written by two of England's leading playwrights, Haddon Chambers and B. C. Stephenson, was originally produced in this country several seasons ago by Charles Frohman. Beginning with exciting times in the gambling rooms in Colorado, the story proceeds to England, where a murder and dynamite explosion are only a few of the suspensful episodes. This play gives Charles Hallock a capital opportunity in the character of Marrable, the villain who has his good points.

Dramatic critic Franklyn Fyles writes of the Rogers Brothers in the "Rogers Brothers in Harvard:" "These wags are not clowns. They are as quiet with their droll German-English as Joseph Jefferson Is with his Dutch- English, and their tricks of elocution are played as effectually. But chance has placed them in extravaganza, and they have to sing and dance as Jefferson can't and won't." Amelia Bingham Is now mentioned as planning a revival of "The Taming of the Shrew" In order that she may play Katherine. If her talent as. an actress were at all commensurate with her liberality in the matter of casts, Miss Bingham would be easily the most interesting woman on our stage.

There Is speculation, even among the actors themselves, for Blanche Bates' support, as to whether or not "The Bath Comedy" is the play selected for her use this season by David Belasco. Mr. Belasco's general representative, B. F. Roeder, in this connection, says: "There is little doubt but that 'The Bath Comedy' will be the piece.

Mr. Bplascp. however, will not settle matters for the Bates organization until after Mrs. Carter, in 'Dv Earry' is in readiness for the opening of the Republic theater." Bulgarian Government Victorious. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept.

15. It is semi-offlcially announced that the elections to the sobranje (national assembly) have everywhere resulted in victories for the government. TWo Postoffices Are Robbed. WASHINGTON, D. C.

Sept. postofflce department lias been notified that the postoffices of Pittsfield, and Hazlehurst, were broken into last night and robbed. About $105 in stamps, money order and postal funds were stolen at Hazlenurst. HEAVY VOTE IS EXPECTED Continued From First Pajje. sible without resorting to dirty polltics.

Each is a hustler. Either, If nominated, would prove a formidable candidate for the election, and the one fortunate at the primaries will receive at the polls the hearty support of the less fortunate three. Bitter Legislative Fights. The Republicans have two bitter leg-. islative fights, both for nominations to seats in the senate.

In the Thirtythird district Benny Knauft, late of the board of aldermen, is after the scalp of W. W. Dunn, with little apparent hope of success, and in the Thirty-sixth district Representative Rukard Hurd and Senator Hiler Horton are battling for nomination to Horton's seat. Whatever may be the result as to number of votes polled, Hurd can come out of the race feeling that he has made a manly fight. He has attended to his own campaigning and refrained from mudslinging, while standing up under a back fire, which has included charges ranging from the purchase of non-union cigars up to mental incapacity and dishonesty.

He may be whipped, but he will have nothing to regret when it is over. The upper end of the Thirty-sixth district furnishes a very satisfactory commentary on the reward for party backsliding for the sake of office getting. The Seventh ward is considered hopelessly Republican, and it was up to Ambrose Tighe to become a Republican when he made up his mind to take a shy at the legislature. He was opposed by Charles Hamilton, whom the practical politicians had thrown down before, and it looked like a good time to hang up the proselyte's banner. Prior to Tighe's entrance, Hamilton's chances were not considered good, as it was expected an organization Republican would be brought out to again take the former mayor of Winnipeg's scalp.

Tighe's entry closed the card, and the old-line Republicans have rallied to Hamilton. Last night in the politicians' gossip Hamilton was a 3 to 1 shot for the nomination. The qualifications for participation in today's primary election are the same governing regular elections, with a few minor exceptions. Full citizenship and a residence of thirty days in the precinct is essential to a vote. The minor, though, who will be twenty-one prior to the election is eligible to registration and a vote at the primary.

Women are entitled to registration and votes for the nomination of the superintendent of schools, for whom they may vote at the regular election. A MALICIOUS LIE. A malicious, lying circular was distributed yesterday in the Thirty-sixth district, stating that I had bought and distributed thirty thousand "scab," nonunion cigars. This is a dirty, damnable lie. I will pay into the treasury of the Cigarmakers' union $100 for evidence leading to the conviction of the author of the circular.

The opposition must indeed be desperate to resort to such contemptible methods. Organized labor always found me ready and willing to co-operate and assist them in any legislation they desired, and they ought to know a good friend when they have one. RUKARD HURD, Candidate for State Senator, Thirty-sixth District. ROSING AND MEEHAN TO SPEAK. Will Make Addresses From the Same Platform at Willmar.

Leonard A. Rosing Democratic candidate for governor, and Thomas J. Meehan, the Populist candidate, will appear for addresses on the same platform at Willmar Friday. There Is a street fair at Willmar and all Kandlyohi county is expected out to hear the two candidates. Mr.

Rosing will appear at Carver on Saturday. WASHINGTON DEPARTMENTS ARE TO BE CLOSED The President Issues an Order Re- garding G. A. R. Parade.

WASHINGTON, D. Sept. 15. President Roosevelt has issued the following executive order closing the departments In Washington on the day of the G. A.

R. parade during the encampment here next month: "Executive order that the members of the Grand Army of the Republic employed in the public service in the city of Washington may have the opportunity of joining in the parade arranged for Wednesday, Oct. .8, 1902, and that all others may unite with the citizens of the District of Columbia in showing hqjior to the Union soldiers and sailors to be gathered in the national capital on that occasion, it is hereby ordered that the several executive departments, the government printing office and the navy yard and station at Washington be closed on Monday. Roosevelt. "White House, Sept.

10, 1902." LEGISLATORS REMEMBER THE LATE PRESIDENT Resolution Adopted at the Special Ses- sion at Columbus. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. The following resolution was adopted this afternoon by the general assembly: "Memorial Sunday, the 14th day of September, 1902, was the first anniversary of the death of our late loved President McKinley. The day brings in special emphasis, illumined by the history of another year, a newer and better vision of the fine qualities of his mind, the enduring strength of his character and the single purpose of his life, established in patriotism, to serve his country to the full measure of his great powers, while God ordained for him to live; high on the tablet roll of our great men stands his name in letters large and fine; deep graven in the hearts of his countrymen Is his memory; his history will endure. "We realize how poor and inadequate are the words of any brief review to even epitomize the results of his life.

Having loved him in life, we cherish his life ennobled by heroic death. We commend him as our example to the citizenship of our dear commonwealth which he loved and served so well. For ourselves, on this first anniversary of his death in the performance of our public duties, we, in honor of him, hereby dedicate our lives anew to that pure integrity, moral fidelity and high patriotism so peculiarly and completely exemplified in his private life and public career." Admiral Rodgers Arrives. WASHINGTON, D. Sept.

navy department has received a cablegram from Rear Admiral Rodgers, who has just been detached from commond of the Asiatic station, announcing his arrival on the New at Yuensan today from Vliidivyatock, STILLWATER MEN CHARGED WITH THEFT Ernie Mclntyre and Edward Lane Are Arraigned for the Larceny of $600. Ernie Mclntyre and Edward Lane appeared In the municipal court yesterday morning to answer to a charge of grand larceny, but they were not ready for a hearing and the matter was continued until next Monday. They are charged with the larceny of $600 from, a trunk, stored by Miss Maria Quincy In the old barn of the John McKusick estate. The steamer Lizzie Gardner returned to port yesterday morning to secure a crew before leaving for Hannibal. A crew was secured late in the afternoon and she left for Lakeland, where her raft was tied up.

The Staples Towing company has engaged the steamer J. J. Hill, owned at Hastings, and she will begin towing logs from the St. Paul boom to Prescott. The Hill was here yesterday after some needed machinery.

The officers and committeemen of the Stlllwater Fair and Carnival association were busy yesterday locating the attractions that are to be here during the fair and carnival to be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Some of the best attractions obtainable will be here and the fair promises to be a grand success. Only a few of the union men returned to work at the St. Croix boom yesterday, and a much larger crew is needed before the boom can turn out as many logs as it did before the strike started. Every effort will be made to secure a crew in order to turn out at least a large proportion of the logs now lying in Nevers dam.

The ball game in this city next Sunday will be between the Gannymedes of Minneapolis and the Joseph Wolf company team. The primary election will be held today for the nomination of candidates and all of the candidates on the Republican ticket yesterday were confident of success. Every effort is being made to secure a large turn-out of voters in the country districts and the candidates have employed men and teams to take voters to the polls in several districts. LIEUT. JOHN R.

MORRIS TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Blows Out His Brains on Board Battle- ship Olympia. BOSTON, Sept. John R. Morris, U. S.

was found dead in his stateroom on the United States ship Olympia by a fellow officer today. He had committed suicide by shooting with a revolver. The Olympia is anchored off the Boston navy yard. Lieut. Morris was the engineering officer of the Olympia and began his duty on that ship Jan.

25 last. No cause is known for his act. Capt. Henry W. Lyon, U.

S. the commanding officer of the Olympia, is in Paris, and in his absence the ship is in command of Lieut. Commander C. H. Harlow, U.

S. N. Lieut. John Morris was appointed to the naval academy from Missouri and is the second officer of the Olympia, Dewey's flagship, to commit suicide within five days. Chaplain William F.

Morrison, U. S. committed suicide by shooting Thursday last at the Marine hospital, Chelsea, where he had been transferred a few days before. KANSAS CITY, Sept. R.

Morris was one of the few survivors of the battleship Maine. Soon after that disaster he wrote to his sister in Kansas City, describing the explosion and his narrow escape from death. At the time his rank was that of assistant engineer. Letters In the Fair Estates. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

Judge Cook issued letters of administration today in the estates of the late Charles and Caroline Fair to Herman Oelrichs. Joseph Harvey and Charles Neal. Oelrichs acts for Mrs. Oelrichs and her sister, Mrs. Vanderbilt, and the other men act for Mrs.

Hannah Neilson, mother of Mrs. Fair. Mary Elizabeth Williams Dead. SALEM, Sept Mary Elizabeth Williams, an artist of international reputation, died at her home here this afternoon. Tears ago she studied art in Rome and afterwards lived beside the Mediterranean and traveled in Egypt.

She met John Ruskin, who her pictures considerable attention. How Sponges Are Gathered. One of the odd but profitable vocations of man is that of collecting sponges from the floor of the sea. In collecting sponges four methods are primitive diving, dredging and diving with a special outfit. With harpoons one of the chief difficulties Is to see the bottom clearly through a troubled sea.

To obviate this is a wooden or zinc plate cone like a water bucket, open at the top and with a glass bottom, is used. On looking through this water glass, which is partly submerged, the bottom of the sea may be clearly studied even at thirty fathoms and the proper sponges picked out. The primitive method of diving, with no other apparatus than a slab of stone as a sinker ami a to communicate with the surface.Ts most popular in Levant. On reaching the bottom the diver hastily snatches up as many good sponges as possible and, after remaining under water from one to two minutes, tugs violently at the cord and is drawn to the surface. The sponges are collected in a net which the diver carries around his neck.

At greater depths, particularly along the coasts of Asia Minor, dredging Is employed usually In winter. To these simpler operations was added some twenty-five years ago the "skafander," or diving apparatus, which enables the diver in his submarine dress to spend an hour under water at a depth of from ten to fifteen fathoms. Experience has shown that the employment fo the last two methods is a severe tax upon the sponge banks, aa everything in sight large or small gathered. Germs and seeds also suffer greatly, and it tatces years before a new crop matures. The abuses which so disastrously affect the Levantine sponge industry have prompted a Russian philanthropist to Inaugurate a campaign for the abolition of diving apparatus in sponge fishing.

He Was Willing to Search. A woman stopped at a cloth counter in one of the large department stores recently and asked to be shown some patterns suitable for early autumn wear. The salesman began on the lowest row of shelved compartments and pulled out and opened box after box, until the counter on either side of him was piled as high as his head with goods. Three times he climed a ladder to the upper rows and staggered down under the weight of box patterns until, when the woman took a survey of the shelves, but two patterns remained unopened. Then she said, very sweetly: "I don't think I'll buy any today.

I'm sorry to have troubled you, but, you see, I only came in to look for a friend." "No trouble whatever, madame," he replied, politely. "Indeed, if you think your friend is in either of the remaining two boxes, I don't mind opening them, Times. Willing to Show Goods. You see, ma'am." began the professional beggar, "I got my arm scalded. I'll be glad to show you" "Never mind," interrupted Mrs.

Koaldart. "You're only wasting your time here. "Not at all, ma'am. My motto is: 'No trouble to show goods. Press.

H. P. HALL today FOR CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT. H. P.

HALL. NEW YORK CITY GOSSIP, RAPID TRANSIT PLANS A SECOND TUNNEL TO BROOKLYN. Over $10,000,000 a Year Needed for Now Increase of Pupila Over Last Many Automobiles In the Endurance Test Battla Between Lord Derby and the Monk. NEW YORK, Sept. is the Intention of the Low administration to make contracts on or before July i next for the following immense proiects: An East side extension of tha rapid transit tunnel, such as urged by the Tribune, from Forty-second street to The Bronx; the Broadway spur or extension, to the rapid transit tunnel from Fourteenth street to Forty-second street; the Jerome avenue extensiona second tunnel to Brooklyn.

All of these projected improvements are on the programme for the next twelve months. They will constitute the first fruits of the changed system of levying assessments on real estate in the city. There are five great projects now needed in the city. First, subways; second, docks; schools; fourth, water department; fifth, a municipal building. Chief Engineer Parsons was directed by the rapid transit commission to prepare plans for another extension of the subway in The Bronx borough, along Jerome avenue.

Many living in the district through which Jerome avenue runs have sent letters to the commission urging an extension of the subway along that avenue. They have declared that the best existing means of travel in the district is by the inadequate trolley line in Jerome avenue. It was decided yesterday to give a hearing to residents of the district at the next meeting of the commission. Mr. Parsons, when he was directed to prepare plans for a subway extension along Jerome avenue, said it had been his desire to do that for some time, but he had been handicapped by not having enough draughtsmen, as all of his staff had been kept busy on plans for the Brooklyn tunnel and the new bridges.

He said he made a requisition on the civil service commission, and hoped to have additional draughtsmen soon. Work on the Brooklyn tunnel will begin before Nov. 11, starting at Battery place, and thence continuing toward the Brooklyn borough hall, a distance of a mile and a half. The tunnel is to be ninety-four feet under the mean waterline in the middle of the river. It is expected that the work of construction will take three years to complete.

Millions Needed for Schools. Registration of all the schools in Greater New York was completed yesterday, and the total increase over last year is 38,877 greatest gain yet made in any one year. It is conceded at school headquarters that the unexpected result of the registration makes the abolition of the waiting list a harder question to deal with than ever. Reckoning 2.000 pupils to a school requires forty twenty buildings of the size are necessary to keep up with the gain since September, 1901, to say nothing of the number then without proper accommodations. C.

B. J. Snyder, superintendent of school buildings, calculates that it costs the city $200 a pupil for erecting new schools, not counting books and other supplies of that nature. At that rate it will cost $7,775,400 to build schools enough to furnish each new applicant this year with a full day's education. New York is already about fifteen schools behind time, so that to catch up and insure to every chlM a full day in the class room about thirty-five new buildings, at a cost of nearly should be erected within the next year.

To do this is almost an Impossibility, and the only thing that can be done la to build as many schools as are now projected and rent enough property to establish sufficient part-time classes to do away with the waiting list. Automobile Endurance Test. Thirty-six automobiles have been named to start in the reliability run of the Automobile Club of America from New York to Boston and return, Oct. 5 to 15. The motive power of twentytwo of the nominations is gasoline and of fourteen it is steam.

An additional entry fee of 10 per cent of the original fee will be charged for subsequent nominations up to the final closing of the books, on Sept. 25. committee expects that there will be more than 100 entrants by that time. There were eighty-five last year for the endurance run of the club to Buffalo. The entrants are divided into classes by weight, without regard to motive power, though the latter is considered in the rules applicable to the contest Class A Is for vehicles under 1,000 pounds.

Class for vehicles from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds, and Class fcr vehicles more than 2,000. Race for Gold Cup. Drivers of road horses in America at last have a chance to find out who owns the real champion light harness horse. Mr. C.

K. G. Billings has contended that, behind The Monk, he could beat any amateur driver in America, while Mr. Smathers has assured his friends that while holding the reins over Lord Derby he never would have to take the dust from any man. So warm has grown the argument between these two gentlemen as to the merits of their respective champions that the Empire City Trotting club has decided to settle the question once for all, and offer a gold cup worth $3,000 for the winner of the best two mile heats out of three.

This race will be decided at the grand circuit meet, which begins at the Empire City track next Monday, and as owners will drive their own horses the result will settle the question of the amateur driving championship of the United States. All Trials Indefinitely Postponed. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. a meeting of the common pleas judges of Franklin county today all criminal and civil trials were indefinitely postponed. This action is the result of the declaration of the supreme court against special legislation.

The judges did not pass on the validity of the laws. Dimmick Jury Disagrees. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. After deliberating for nearly fortyeight hours the jury in the second trial of Walter N. Dimmick, accused of embezzling $30,000 from the United States mint in this city, was unable to agree and was discharged.

Dimmick will have a third trial. American Vessels Abroad. NICE, France, Sept. United States battleship Illinois and the cruisers Chicago and Albany arrived at Villefranche today. Year for Impersonating Marshal.

SPRINGFIELD, lIL, Sept. the United States circuit court this afternoon, Henry Uhler pleaded guilty to impersonating a United States deputy marshal, and was sentenced to one year In Chester penitentiary..