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2 NEWS OF THE CITY New Classes In Y. M. A. Course- Classes in telegraphy and German were started In the Y. M.

A. course last Ladies' Aid Society meeting of tho Central Park Ladles' Aid society will be held at the home of Mrs. William Bannon. 1009 Summit avenue, Thursday afternoon at To Perfect Flower Show afternoon the Woman's Auxiliary to the Manufacturers' Association will meet the Commercial club rooms to perfect plans for the flower show. Seeks Release From petition in bankruptcy was filed yesterday in the rnited States district court by Charles W.

Peets. a clerk. His liabilities amount to J516.39 and he has no assets. Goes to Attend Dairy W. P.

McConnell, state dairy and food commissioner, has gone to St. James to attend the state convention of butter and cheese makers, which will be held there today and tomorrow. Cedar Street Property Sold property at Third and Cedar streets was yesterday sold by A. F. Soucheray to William Firth for $15,000.

The lot contains a two-story brick building, occupied by tho Smyth Printing company. Asks Divorce for Desertion Franr Fries wants a divorce from George F. Fries, whom she charges with desertion and drunkenness. They were married in February, 1893. The plaintiff asks the court to restore to her her maiden name of Wittman.

Will Be Taken Back for requisition from the governor of Wisconsin, papers were issued yesterday in the from this state of Angus Quinn and Mrs. Angus Quinn, now under arrest at Duluth. It is charged that Quinn and Mrs. Quinn and another woman robbed a man in Ashland on Oct. 6.

Stopped to Make order to permit the completion of some repair work on the interurban line the service between St. Paul and Minneapolis was discontinued this morning: at 1 o'clock and the cars did not begin running again until 5. The service on the Como-Harriet and the Hamline-Jackson lines continued as usual. Drill Corps for drill companies have been organized for boys of tht Central Presbyterian brigade for those over fifteen years of age and a corps for those under that age. Meetings are held Friday evenings.

During the winter addresses will be given in connection with the drills. Friends of Peace to Minne- BOta P( ace society will hold its first meeting in (he Friends' church, Minneapolis, tomorrow evening. The president of the society la R. J. Mendenhall.

Among the ice presidents are the following St. Paul men: Rev. E. C. Mitchell, President James Wallace, of Macalester college, and Rabbi liypins.

Rev. John S. Merrick, of New York, agent of the American Peace ciety, and others, will speak. The next meeting will be held in St. Paul Dec.

20. THINK THE BOARD IS TOO RIGOROUS Central High School Boys Will Give Dances When They Please. A number of boys at Central high school have formed the Brecky club. According to the new rules of the school board only one dance can be given by the school each year, and all spreads after class plays have been ordered discontinued. The students feel that this is drawing the lines too closely, and the Brecky club was organized to give dances and to have a good time generally.

Counting the four kisses there are now eight organizai ions at the school, and the board will allow no more. The new club, its members say, is not connected with the school in any way and does not use the school name. "Brecky" is the first word of the school's yell, but as it is also the first word of several college yells no objection is expected from the school board on this score. The club now has thirty-six members and many more have asked for admission. The first dance of the club is to occur Oct.

30. STATE INSTITUTIONS SEND IN THEIR CASH State Auditor Receives Over $10,000 From This Source for September. State Auditor Iverson has received from the board of control the following statement of receipts of public institutions for September: Asylum for the insane, $127.70 Hospital fur the insane, Fergus Falls 239.42 Hospital for the insane, Rochester 81.24 Hospital for the insane. St. Peter 298 77 School for the blind, 11 57 School for tho deaf, 107.52 School for the feeble-minded, Faribault 554.98 State training school.

Red Wing 4.71 State reformatory, St. 101.09 State prison, Stillwater 6,946.77 State normal school. Duluth 592.27 State normal school, 564.77 State normal school, Moorhead. 307.85 State normal school. St.

Cloud. 316.40 State normal school, 461.75 Total $10,716.81 FLOOD COVERS PARK WALKS WITH MUD Its Removal Will Make Quite an Item of Expense. Tons of sticky yellow mud have been deposited on the walks and lawns of Harriet island by the late high water and. a heavy outlay will be required to remove it. During the flood less than five acres of the island was above water.

The swampy portion is now being used as a dump and when the mud is removed it will be transferred to this portion to make a foothold for grass next spring. NEW INCORPORATIONS. Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday at the office of the secretary of etate by the following: T. McKnight Minneapolis; capital stock. Sum- ht George Christian and Iranklin W.

Crosby, all of Minneapolis. Western Toilet Paper company, Minneapolis; capital stock, 510.000; incorporators, A. J. Dillman, A. N.

La Croix E. D. Durdick. L. R.

Witt. William J. Sayre, C. F. Witt and J.

11. McHenrjVall of Min.oeni>oii3 STATE TO SELL LAND Auditor Announces Sale of De- linquent Property. S. G. Iverson, state auditor, who by virtue of that office is also state land commissioner, has issued a circular announcing a series of sales of state lands to be held at the county seats of the various counties in which the lands are located, beginning Nov.

16 and continuing until Nov. 24. The tracts to be offered consist of state lands heretofore unsold, and lands which have reverted to the state by reason of nno-payment of taxes. Following are the terms which will govern the sale: Fifteen per cent of the purchase price and interest on the unpaid balance from the date of sale to June 1, 1904, must be paid at the time of the sale. The balance of the purchase money can be paid at any time, in whole or in part, within forty years of the time of the sale; the' rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase money will be 4 per cent per annum, payable in advance on June 1 of each year, provided the principal remains unpaid for ten years, but if the principal- is paid before the expiration of ten years from the date of the sale, the rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase money will be 5 per cent per annum; interest is payable in advance on June 1 of each year.

Holders of certificates on which the interest payments are in default can have their certificates reinstated on payment before the sale of the interest in full to date and the penalties thereon, when the lands covered thereby will be withdrawn from sale. All mineral rights are reserved by the state. Following are the dates of the sales: Otter Tail Fergus Falls, Monday, Nov. 16, at 9 a. m.

Becker Detroit, Tuesday, Nov. 17. at 9 a. m. Wadena Wadena, Wednesday.

Nov. 18. at 10 a. m. Crow Wing Brainerd, Thursday, Nov.

19, at 2 p. m. Morrison Little Falls, Friday. Nov. 20.

at 10 a. m. Steams St. Cloud, Saturday, Nov. 21.

at 9 a. m. Mille Lacs Princeton, Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 9 a. m.

In no case do the delinquent lands form a very large proportion of the amount to be sold, and in Wadena and Mille Lacs counties there are no delinquent lands to be sold at this time. THINKS FRATERNAL SOCIETIES WILL OBJECT Insurance Commissioner Doubts Their Acceptance of the Premium Table. Elmer H. Dearth, state insurance commissioner, returned yesterday from an Eastern trip, the original purpose of which was to attend the convention of the National Association of State Insurance commissionei-s, which was held at Baltimore the first week of this month. Mr.

Dearth says that in the matter of attendance and interest shown by the members, the convention was the most successful in the history of the organization, and that a great deal of business was done and a great deal of good accomplished. He expressed himself as well pleased with all action taken by the body, except in the adoption of the proposed uniform bill for the regulation of fraternal companies. Mr. Dearth believes that the form of the bill adopted is not likely to prove practicable or successful. He says that he has been and still is in favor of a uniform bill, but thinks that a bill should be adopted which meet the approval of the fraternal societies themselves and which therefore would not be antagonized by them.

He does not think that the premium table, which has been adopted, will be accepted by the fraternal societies, as it would place them on the legal reserve basis, the same as the old line companies. WANTS THEM TO MAKE PEACE Continues a Divorce Hearing So Par- ties May Settle It Amicably. Judge Jagard yesterday continued over the term the divorce case of Amelia Boldthen against John Boldthen, pending a settlement between the couple of their troubles out of court. The case was on before Judge Jaggard two days, the husband contesting his wife's efforts to secure a decree. Judge Jaggard expressed the opinion that both were at fault, and continued the case in order that their troubles might be adjusted without the aid of the law.

Boldthen is a city sprinkling inspector, and contends that he has always supported.his family in the best manner possible upon the money he was able to earn. DAMS RETARD FLOW OF WEST SIDE SEWERS Dr. Ohage Will Ask the Government to Have Them Removed. Health Commissioner Ohage is preparing to make a direct appeal to the government for the removal of the dams in the slough south of Harriet island and extending down as far South Robert street. Two big sewers empty Into tha slough and the dams retard their flow.

Factory owners along the slough have asked Dr. Ohage to have the dams removed and have promised aid in tearing them out if the government gives permission. ORDERS CEMENT WALKS ON SEVENTH STREET Engineering Department Gets Aldermen to Take Action. Cement sidewalk orders are generally directed at correcting bad sidewalks in the residence districts, but one approved by the board of aldermen last night is somewhat out of the ordinary. For months the engineering department has been making an effort to have the walks along the north side of Seventh street, between Wabasha and Cedar street, repaired.

Its efforts have been without avail, and last night an order was passed calling for the construction of cement walks needed in that stretch of territory. THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1903. PERSONAL INJURY SUITS NUMEROUS District Court Calendar Is Burdened With Them Verdict Is $2,500. Personal injury suits had the right of way In fhe district court yesterday, the new cases filed, the cases trial and the cases in which verdicts were rendered involving more than enough to pay the salary of the president of the United States for one year, or to be more exact, 161,285.

Six new cases were commenced, four against railroads and two against the city, in which more than $30,000 is involved. The cases on trial and those in which verdicts were rendered involved sums ranging from $1,800 to $12,000, but the largest verdict secured amounted to but $2,500 in a suit where $10,000 was asked, the smallest being $73, in a suit for $5,000. Following are the cases: Boy Loses Two Fingers. Curamings Flaherty, the father of John Flaherty, a minor, sues the Chicago Great Western Railway company to recover $5,000 damages for injuries sustained by the minor son while the latter was in the employ of the Great Western. The plaintiff alleges that his son was employed in the yards of the company in West St.

Paul, it being hi 3 duty to attend switches, clean -at engines and attend to other duties. It is charged that on July 26, 1903, the boy was under an engine taking the ashes therefrom, when the engine started forward suddenly and without warning, the wheels running over and crushing the boy's left hand. The injury was of such a nature that two fingers had to be amputated, and the father has demanded, in the suit brought by him, that the company settle for the injury by paying $5,000. Brakeman Loses His Foot. John E.

Jennings is the plaintiff in a suit brought yesterday against the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis Omaha Railway company for damages in the sum of $12,000, which Jennings demands as balm for the injuries he alleges he received as a result of the company's negligence while he was emplayed as a brakeman. Jennings says that on Nov. 22, while performing his duty as a brakeman, he was ordered to go between two freight cars in the yards at Itasca for the purpose of making an air coupling. While he was between the cars, he says the train was suddenly started and he was thrown to the ground in such a position that his foot was on the rail, where it was crushed by the wheels of the train which passed over it.

Jennings alleges that the train was started without any warning and with the knowledge that he was between the cars. Freight Handler Sues for $7,500. James Elliott yesterday commenced an action against the Great Northern Railway company to recover damages in the sum of $7,500 for injuries alleged to have been sustained while he was in the employ of the company as a freight handler at its yards in St. Paul. Elliott says he was employed in the capacity of a freight handler, and that on Aug.

21, 1903, while he was engaged in unloading a car of freight the car was suddenly jerked forward and a large box containing heavy freight fell upon his foot, crushing: it so badly that a number of the bones were broken. The plaintiff contends that the accident was result of negligence on the part of the defendant company and he has brought suit to recover $7,500. Gets $2,500 for a Broken Leg. In the personal injury damage suit brought by John Dell against James E. McGrath, a jury in Judge Brill's court yesterday returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $2,500.

The plaintiff was a logger, employed in Aitkin county, and was engaged in work known among the loggers as swamping. He was later put at work skidding, of which he was ignorant, and while on top of a load of logs, the logs commenced rolling and he was injured to the extent of a fracture of one of his legs. Judge Orr had on trial yesterday the case of John P. Schmidt against the Brewing company, a suit in which the plaintiff demands damages in the sum of $12,000. The plaintiff was in the employ of the brewing company and a team he was driving ran away, resulting in a number of injuries to himself.

He says the team was unmanageable, but the brewing company contends that the plaintiff secured his employment with them by representing that he was a capable man with horses. The personal injury damage suit of Theodore Laschinsky, as the father of August Laschinsky, against the American Can company, is on trial for the second time, the first trial having resulted in a disagreement of the jury. Suit is brought for $1,800 damages for injuries said to have been sustained by the son while he was in the employ of the defendant company. He lost a portion of a finger on his right hand in one of the machines used at the plant and the allegation is made that the machine was defective. Sues the Milwaukee.

The Milwaukee road is the defendant in a suit brought yesterday by Edward F. Sklenar, who asks damages in the sum of $1,960 for injuries alleged To have been sustained by stepping into a hole at the Duke street crossing of the road on West Seventh street. It is alleged that the defendant company violated the law by permitting the crossing to become defective. Jacob L. Smith yesterday brought suit against the city for damages, amounting to $1,025, for injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of his falling through a manhole on West Seventh street.

He says he stepped on the covering of the manhole and that it turned, causing him to fall into the hole. Smith is a mail carrier and he alleges that his injuries prevented him from performing his duties for some time. Jane Sullivan is the plaintiff in an action brought against the city yesterday for $5,000 damages. The plaintiff alleges that she was walking along Wacouta street and received a fall as a result of a defective place 4n the sidewalk. Leonard Pihaly, the street sweeper who sued the Union Pacific Tea company for $5,000 for injuries sustained by reason of his being run down by a reckless driver in the employ of the tea company, was awarded a verdict i for $75 by a jury in the district coufrtJ yesterday.

Wants Names of Worthy Families. Relief society will again provide dinners for the poor of the city on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's day The preparation of the list of worthy families to be provided Is already under way, and, in order to make It complete. Secretary Hutchins desires that anyone who knows of a worthy famirv who will not otherwise be provided for on the holidays shall communicate with him immediately. MISS JOSIjE M. YOUNG GIVES ORGAN RECITAL Audience Enjoys Programme at Dayton Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Miss Josie M. Young, organist, gave a recital. last evening in the Dayton Avenue Presbyterian church, which was largely attended by friends of the young musician and of her teacher, G. H. Fafrclbiigh.

These were principally musical folk who were able to appreciate, thoroughly the excellent programme was presented. Few local musicians, and of these only two or three women, have found pipe organ playtng their forte. Because of this and also because of tho fact that church work absorbs most of the time of the organist, it is only occasionally that St. Paul music lovers have an opportunity to hear an organ recital by a local musician. To say that Miss Young met most satisfactorily the.

demands of her programme last night is to pay that young woman a deserved compliment, and not a light one, either, for the programme included: Sonata, in minor (op. 42); Barcarolle (from the fourth piano concerto), Sterndale Bennett; Andantino, in flat (second), Lemare; Toccatta and Fugue, in minor, Bach; Andante Cantabile (from the fourth organ symphony), Charles Marie Widor; and Marche Pontiflciale, de la Tombelle. Miss Young has advanced so far in studentship that manual dexterity has largely subordinated the purely mechanical phase of pipe organ playing. Even in such a number as the Guilmant sonata able to present a smooth web of music with no ugly knots to suggest apprentice workmanship. Miss Young has the interpretative gift, a phrase that is but another expression for insight and reverence.

The Barcarolle, the Bach number, and the Pastorale of the sonata, most fully revealed for the gift is still but partially developed. But in every number she played last evening Miss Young had something distinctive to offer, so that the entire programme was a triumph for the organist. Miss Helen Faith Martin, contralto, sang two numbers, Gounod's Divine Redeemer" and Liddle's "Abide With Me." For so young a singer, Miss Martin has an admirable style. Mr. Fairclough played her accompaniments.

SUES TO RECOVER ON BREACH OF CONTRACT Bought Hotel Outfit, But Did Not Get Promised Lease. Viola P. Beall commenced suit in the district court yesterday against Minnie Brenck and Charles Brenck, to recover $100, which says she paid in partial payment of $1,400 worth of furniture, which is in the Star hotel, located on the second and third floors at 21 East Fifth street. The plaintiff alleges £hat she entered into an agreement with the defendants for a two-year lease of the hotel, which she was to have upon the payment of $75 monthly. In consideration of receiving the lease she agreed to pay the defendants $1,400 for the furniture in the hotel and made a payment of $100.

After she had paid the money she says the defendants were unable to deliver to her the lease, and she now sues for the return of the- $100. WILL HEAR ROAD CASE AT SPECIAL SESSION White Bear Injunction Case Will Come Up Saturday. Tjfoe injunction suit brought by Philip Gilbert, attorney, to prevent the county codnnissioners from expending money upcu. the improvement of Lake avenue, a road in. White Bear village which extends from the village to Manitou has been continued to Saturday, whftn it will be heard at a special session.

County Attorney Kane was otherwise engaged and could not give his attention when the case was called yesterday. Mr. Gilbert others want the road upon which the proposed improvements are to be made vacated and a new road constructed upon the flat lands below. The commissioners decided to improve the present road, and were temporarily restrained from doing so by an order of the court. The hearing Saturday is upon the application to have the injunction made permanent.

SHERIFF HAS TROUBLE OVER GOODS SEIZED Court Will Have to Settle Matter of Ownership. Whisky and other liquors valued at $400 is causing Sheriff Justus no end of trouble, and the end is not yet. A few days ago the sheriff seized the goods from Louis Goldstein upon a writ of replevin which had been sworn out by the Sadler Liquor company, who claimed to own the goods. The sheriff took possession of the liquor and was holding the necessary length of time, when yesterday Goldstein again secured possession by rebonding 1 the goods. Goldstein claimed that he owned a poction of the goods nd that the Sadler Liquor company had nothing whatever to do with them.

He furnished a bond and again secured possession of the liquor. The question of ownership will be settled some time later in the week. TESTS SHOW LESS FOOD ADULTERATION Manufacturers Have More Respect for the Minnesota Law. By the records of food analysis in the laboratory the state dairy and food department, it is shown that there has been marked improvement in the quality of the manufactured food products offered in the state. This Is attributed by the department to recently enacted laws and to the better facilities afforded for carrying on the work of the department.

Comparison of the records for the Icurrent year with those of last year and 1901 shows almost uniform improvement in the articles of food which have come under consideration. For a period of two years ending Dec. 15, 1902, the department examined 10,119 samples of various kinds of foods, of which 3,449, or 34 per cent, were found to fall below the standard required by law. In the ten months beginning Dec. 15, 1902, and ending last Thursday, 5,947 samples were examined, and of those but 1,488, or 25 per cent, were found to be lacking BAPTISTS CONVENE IN ANNUAL SESSION Reports Show Work of the Denomination in Satisfactory Condition.

About 100 clergy and laymen are in attendance at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Eastern Minnesota Baptist association, which opened yesterday morning for a two days' session at Immanuel Baptist church, 1046 West Seventh street. It is one of the best in the history of the association in point of attendance. Rev. M. B.

Critcher, of Hastings, was selected moderator for the ensuing year. George Warner was chosen as clerk and treasurer. The reports of the committees showed the association in good condition. Letters from churches in the district were encouraging. All report an increase in membership the past year.

Several of the churches have made considerable improvements in their Work in Mission Field. The delegates from the Woman's Home Missionary societies of the district went into session after the completion of the business meeting of the association. Mrs. W. S.

Barrett, of Minneapolis, state vice president of the Woman's Baptist Home Missionai-y society, presided. Mrs. C. A. Weatherby, of St.

Paul, made a report on the home mission work in the Eastern Minnesota district during the year, and Mrs. S. F. Stewart, of Minneapolis, state missionary, gave a synopsis of the work in the state. The Woman's Foreign Missionary union went into session at 2 o'clock.

Miss Thompson, a missionary in Burmah, India, spoke of her work among the children in the far-off country. Her description of that field was graphic and interesting. Miss Katherine W. Kidder, of Minneapolis, read a report of ihe work being done by Dr. Mary Bixby in the province of Kityang, China.

Dr. Bixby is supported by the State Union of Woman's Foreign Missionary Societies of Minnesota. The general association went into session again at 3:30 o'clock. The meeting was devoted to the discussion of the subject, "Our Forward Movement." Rev. W.

T. Milliken, of the Hebron Baptist church, spoke on "Lessons From the Thirteen Years' Life of the Eastern Association." Interesting talks were also made by Rev. G. M. Reid, of Hastings: Rev.

H. B. Steelman, of Woodland Park church, St. Paul; Rev. E.

R. McKinney, Burr Street church, St. Paul, and Rev. C. C.

Markham, of Immanuel church. Sunday School Work Discussed. The meeting last evening was largely attended. The entire evening was devoted to the discussion of Sunday school work, and several prominent Sunday school workers participated. Dr.

W. B. Riley, pastor of the First Baptist church, of Minneapolis, made an. address on Sunday school work. E.

Fagenstrom spoke on "Teachers' Tools." His lecture was illustrated by stereopticon views. Mr. Fagenstrom is secretary of the State Baptist Sunday School association. The convention will continue today, closing this evening- with an open conference. The programme for today includes addresses by Rev.

R. M. West, the new pastor of Fist Baptist church, of St. Paul; Dr. Ford, of Pillsbury academy, and several others.

MAY HAVE COLLECTED INSURANCE TOO SOON Woman Now Seeks Divorce From Man She Supposed Dead. Mrs. Victoria E. Blumenauer is suing for a divorce from John H. Blumenauer, whose life insurance she collected from the Royal Arcanum some months ago upon the showing she made that her husband was dead.

Since the collection of the death insurance the woman is apparently not so sure of her husband's death, and she has brought suit for divorce. The husband disappeared in 1895, and not having been heard from since was supposed to be dead. His continued disappearance was the ground upon which she collected the life insurance. Judge Jaggard partially heard the evidence in the case yesterday and took the application for a decree under consideration. In the divorce action the husband is charged with desertion.

BOARD APPROPRIATES $20,000 FOR POSTS Will at Once Call for Bids on This Contract. The recommendation of the board of aldermen setting aside $20,000 for the purchase of lamp posts for the gasoline street light district was approved by the board of aldermen last night without discussion. The board of public works, now that the appropriation has been made, will at once advertise for bids. They will be received in time for consideration at the next board meeting. IS RELEASED FROM A LOSING BID Contractor Took Sewer Job at a Price That Is Too Low.

The board of aldermen last night released Patrick Doherty from his bid for the construction of a sewer on Fairfleld avenue, between South Wabasha and Custer street. Doherty explained to the members that in making his offer he had failed to consider the construction of a tunnel beneath the railroad tracks which cross the street, and that if he were held to his bid he would lose money. Doherty bid $1,527. The next lowest bid was $1,925. Want to Locate Margaret Hurley.

A letter from Royton, Lancashire, England, asking the whereabouts of Margaret Hurley, who left the old country for the United States forty years ago, has been received by City Clerk Redington. The woman is believed to have come to St. Paul, where she married a man named Coleman thirty-two years ago. Moseley Commission Arrives. WASHINGTON, D.

Oct. Alfred Moseley educational commission, composed of British educators, arrived in Washington today, and were greeted by representative educators. An informal meeting was held, at which several addresses were made. The commissioners this afternoon visit- Ed the Catholic university, the elementary schools and the Columbian university. Tomorrow they will received by the president.

St. Paul's Sak Selling Store. Field, Scblick Co Fourth, Fifth and St. Peter Streets. Sale of lace curtains very nearly half-price i '-are odd.

absolutely perfect and under anything you can get at full price. We bought them away under yours at nearly half. 5.50 to 7.00 lace A 0 go 0 12' so lace ij mm Women's winter coats you 13.50 to spend on a coat? We give you a choice today of five different Kersey coats in the new 1. hl. 3 HM 5" Fresh news of Walking amd women's suits dress skirts il, Very TX tO A new assortment.

If you have not asssaar- zsssst ha ng the ha 1030" and stand up We've got to be receiving new skirts TO7 -a ltS have been see every day alm or how could we ing at 27.50. Materials are fine Panne sell the skirts we do? This latest lot cheviots shaggy zibelines and Scotch were made to sell at 13.50 and are 'in all and English fancies. the best materials and C. hoice 22 kO have every new style touch A TA at GETS NEW INDUSTRY Indiana Plating Works Will Lo- cate In St. Paul.

The removal to St. Paul of the MUncie Silver Plate Manufacturing company, of Muncie, an enterprise employing 125 skilled hands, is now assured. At a meeting of the West Side Improvement association at Paul Martin's hall last night It was announced that $30,000 of the $50,000 stock to be taken by local capitalists as a condition of removal to this city had been subscribed, and that the remainder would be taken within a week. This, the officers of the association state, assures the factory for St. Paul.

The new enterprise will be located in the brick building on the West side levee formerly occupied by the Minnesota Canning company. It will move to St. Paul about Jan. 1, and will bring seventy-five of its employes. The plant is capitalized at $150,000, and does a large business.

The members of the West Side association feel especially well satisfied over securing it because a number of local jewelers, who know of the goods turned out by the company, were among the first to offer to take stock. The company is forced to leave a large plant at Muncie because of the effect which natural gas, generally used in that city, has on the silver and nickel plating. The gas in the atmosphere causes it to tarnish quickly and there seems no way to avoid It. The West side association has several other enterprises in prospect and expects to land one or two more before Jan. 1.

Another meeting will be held Oct. 27. IOWA FARMERS FLOCK TO THE NORTHWEST Agriculturists Buy Stock Ranches in Minnesota and North Dakota. "Never before In my fifteen years experience as a real estate agent have I seen so many people leave lowa for homes In a new country as I have this year," said C. W.

Mitchell, of Sidney, lowa, at the Merchants last night. "At least 100 well-to-do farmers from Fremont county alone have sold their lowa farms and settled in the Northwest this year." Mr. Mitchell and a party of a dozen landseekers arrived in the city yesterday evening and will leave this morning for North Dakota, where the party will look at the land in that vicinity. All of the members of the party were from Fremont county, which is in the extreme southwestern part of lowa, and is one of the richest agricultural belts in the world, being in what is known as the "blue grass region." The land in that section of the state sells for from $80 to $100 per acre, but many of the people who have fine farms there are disposing of them and buying up stock ranches in the Northwest. "Only a few days ago," said Mr.

Mitchell, "a party from our county went up into North Dakota and bought up about 15,000 acres of land, and many farmers down there have made large individual purchases. The people in that section ot the country have great faith in Minnesota and North Dakota, and they find, by investigating, that there is more money to be made in stock raising than in the ordinary modes of farming. They sell for $100 per acre and buy new land for from $5 to $8, and the cheaper land, when stocked, yields as much profit as the more expensive land." Mr. Mitchell has personally conducted a number of land-seeking parties, and, in every instance, almost every member of the party has invested in either Minnesota or Dakota landft "A few years ago," said Mr. Mitchell, "our people went West when they sold out, but last year they commenced to take advantage of the opportunities in the Northwest, and this year more than 90 per cent of them come up North." Mr.

Mitchell said the past summer had been a good crop year in Southwestern lowa, and that the farmers there, as a rule, were prosperous and in a position to go into the stock raising business upon a substantial basis. Government Contractor Arraigned. WASHINGTON, Oct. J. Stern, the Baltimore contractor, arrested in Toronto, under two warrants charging false pretense in the supply to the government of satchels for rural free delivery carriers, was given a preliminary hearing in the supreme court today.

Stern pleaded not guilty. Miners Return to Work. PITTSBURG, Oct. hundren coal miners at Dravosburg and Camden Bend, employed by the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke company, were put to work today, after an idleness of five weeks, owing to the lpw water stage. The increased demand of the Southern markets make this re-employment necessary.

About 1,500,000 bushels are ready for immediate ship- MAtll COLLEGE MAN WEAK Superintendent Smith Scores the Eclectic System. "College education is now at its minimum standard," said Supt. A. J. Smith, of the city schools, yesterday to The Globe.

"Twenty years ago there was such a thing as 'college-bred 1 man as a distinctive type, but now there is not. Your college man of today is in no way distinguishable from those about him and he is not a scholar. He may have a smattering of a great many different things, but if you ask him to translate a sentence in Latin, to work a problem in algebra or demonstrate a theorem in geometry, he is unable to do it and he will very frankly tell you so. "I ascribe this largely to the eclpctic system in our colleges. In his first quarter the student has presented to him the chart of studies and hours of recitations and lectures and he chooses his course without regard to what he has studied or what would constitute a complete course.

lie Belecta study because the time suits him and not because he particularly desires that study. would be the same to him were it English literature or calculus." ICE IN YUKON RIVER MAY CRUSH STEAMERS Boats Will Be Unable to Reach Daw son Unless River Clears. DAWSON, Oct. river steamers are battling against the floating ice in the Yukon in serious danger of being caught in such positions that they will be crushed next spring. Unless the river clears itself of ice for a few days, none of these boats will be able to reach their destination.

The condition is unprecedented so early in the year. Three of the owned by the White Pass Yukon line, are now on their way up the Yukon with 150 passengers each. They may not be able to proceed more than a third or one-half the distance. They have already been two days making fifty miles against the running ice. If these boats fail to get through, their passengers will have to walk hundreds of miles.

Many are not warmly clad and extreme suffering would result from such exposure. The mails and several hundreds of thousands in gold shipments are aboard these steamers. Five White Pass and two independent steamers are scattered along the river between White Horse and Dawson, bound this way. They are carrying 200 tons of cargo each. The number of passengers is not known here.

Several other steamers are fighting with the ice at various points along the river. Lynchehaun Case Not Decided. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. -'0. -The Lynchehatm case will not be decided for several (Jays yet.

Moore baa not finished consideration of the '-ase and. requiring: more authorities on questionabie points, he appealed to the attorneys for information. Messrs. Fox and Lafollette, representing the British today presented briefs for consideration, and those, with like documents by the attorneys for the defense, will be examined before Mr. Moore renders an opinion.

Pan-American Bishops Meet. WASHINGTON. D. Oct. bishops of the Protestant Kpiscopal church in the United States and tho Church of England in Canada and the West Indies, are attending the Pan-American conference of bishops, which began here today at the pro-cathedral.

At the close of the services the bishops assembled in the church for the organization of the conference. A business session was held this evening. Both sessions Were executive as will be all the sessions of the conference. Right Rev. Henry Batteries bishop of Washington, received the bishops at the see house tonight.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine All druggists refund tho money if it falls to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box.

25c. Is Allowed to Change His Plea. John O'Regan. indicted for assault In the second degree, changed his former plea of not guilty and pleaded p-uilty when arraigned before Judge Orr day, it having been agreed to permit him to plead to simple assault. He was charged wUh assaulting Axel Smith, a policeman.

He will be sentenced today. Deposits received subject to check and Interest paid monthly upon Dally Balances Security Trust N.Y. Life bide Try the Merchants- Lunch Greene New Prlrata Dining Rooms Up Ststrs. i 'uZMST 343 Robert St- (Formerly with.