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TV THE MORNING JQKEGONIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1902. r? -"j sr.'yttHi - MOVES ON MERGER Stratum Serves Officers of Great Railways. NEW POINTS IN COMPLAINTS Will Be Filed in United States Su preme Court April 7 McErlde Says Fight Is to Be to a Finish. OLYMPIA, March 26. On receipt of news fronSL Paul today that Attorney General Stratton had made his flrst move against the great railway merger by serv ing copies of the complaint on the offi cials Interested, Governor McBrlde said the fight was to be to a finish. While he was not inclined to talk, he said the Supreme Court would have to find some other point than that made In the Min nesota caso to refuse the application of Washington for an injunction. This ap plication will be ma.de April 7. In the Minnesota case, the defect ap pears to have been that the action was brought contrary to the section of the Federal Constitution which was inter preted to forbid the bringing of an action in the higher court, by a state, against citizens of another state, when one of the parties to the action resided in the state bringing the action. This section will not apply to the State of "Washington, as none of the parties to the contemplated action are residents of this state. It will be set up In the complaint that the Sher "man anti-trust law is being violated; that the Constitution of the State of Wash ington forbids the formation of monopo lies and trusts, and further, that such a merger Is contrary to the well-known principle of the common-law doctrine, which holds that monopolies are incom patible with public policy, and may be dissolved or restrained by the state. In a general way, the action is to be fought on the grounds set out in the opinion given Governor Rogers by Attorney-General Stratton, last December. In that opinion, Mr. Stratton went Into the sub ject fully, and when he left Olympla, the views held in the opinion were to have been incorporated in the complaint in the case in question. POINTS MADE IN COMPLAINT. New and Very Important Point Made by Stratton. ST. PAUL,, March 26. Copies of the com plaint in the case of the State of Wash ington against the Northern Securities Company have been served upon the offi cers of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific and mailed East to the officers of the Securities Company. The complaint, which is drawn after that prepared by Attorney-General W. B. Douglas, of Min nesota, contains three additional points. Two of these are taken from the complaint of Attorney-General Knox. The third point Is new, and It is understood to be a very important one and based largely upon conditions favorable to the State of Washington. Attorney-General W. B. Stratton, of Washington, will remain in Minneapolis until he goes to Washington to file the complaint with the Supreme Court. The date for this has been set for Monday. April 7. The bill of complaint is printed and fills 37 pages. After reciting at length the facts, or alleged facts, as they have been made public on several occasions, the bill proceeds to make seven requests or pray ers of the United States Supreme Court, as follows: TJiat the officers and directors of the North ern Securities Company be restrained from voting any of the capital stock at any of the meetings of the Great Northern or Northern Pacific Companies. That it be restrained from In any manner aiding or advising or Interfering with tha management of the affairs of either of the two railway companies. That officers and directors of the Securities Company be restrained from exercising any of the powers or duties of officers, of either rail way company. That the Securities Company be restrained from receiving, acquiring or controlling any additional stock of the railway companies. That the two railway companies be enjoined from recognizing or accepting the Securities Company as the owner or holder 6f any shares of capital stock of ,elther railway company, and from permitting the Securities Company to vote such stock, and from paying any dividend on such stock to said company or its assigns, or from recognlz lng as valid any transfer, mortgage, pledge or assignment by such company of such stock. That the Great Northern Railway Company be restrained from interfering with, dictating or controlling the policy or business of the Northern Pacific Railway Company. That the Northern Pacific Railway Company be similarly restrained from interfering with the affairs or business of the Great Northern Railway Company. The bill is sworn to by Attorney-General Stratton before James Martin, a Ramsey County notary. Attorney-General Stratton declined to give out the contents of the bill, stating that such action would be discourteous to the defendants. "We are hopeful of the success of our motion to file before the United States Supreme Court," he said. "We will push the action with all speed, for all the in terests involved are equally anxious for a definite decision of the highest court. I think we shall succeed, although I admit that while the bar that operated to deny the Minnesota Jurisdiction dops not .- tend to our state, there are other ques tions for the court to pass upon that are Important. Our people have manifested much more interest than I at flrst thought they would take in this matter. Our state is developing rapidly and our peo ple are very busy with their work In that line; too busy to give the merger the attention It would receive in an older state, such as Minnesota. Our state Is, of course, less cut up by the lines of the two systems than Is Minnesota. Our peo ple, however, approve our action and we shall do our best to maintain It to a successful Issue." THE COLONIST MOVEMENT. Five Thousand Ilonicseekers Pass Throupfh Minneapolis "Westbound. MINNEAPOLIS. March 26 Over 5000 homeseekers passed through Minneapolis tonight, en route to North Dakota and states further west. Estimates by the various roads handling this movement place the total for today af5000 people. With the additional 1500 or more taken out by the westbound trains last evening, the homtseeker rush through this gateway in the past 24 hours has been well up to 7000. one of the biggest days in the his tory of the big immigration movement to ward this part of the country. The home seekers Included about 2000 Dunkards, chiefly from Illinois, Ohio and Indiana, who are traveling in six complete trains over the Great Northern Railroad, along whose lines In Northwestern Minnesota and North Dakota they will make a per manent settlement. Forty passenger coaches and 100 freight cars were required to carry the party and their household effects. Heavy Da8g-e Salts. NEW YORK, March 25. Six new suits Xor damages, aggregating ?95v,WQ, Xor the loss of lives of New Rochelle residents, who were killed in the Park-avenue tun nel collision, and for Injuries rcedlved by wreck victims, have been begun against the New York Central In the Supreme Court -at White Plains. The largest suit for damages Is brought by Walter C. Cof fin, of 68 Lafayette street. New Rochelle, who sues for $300,000 for Injuries received by his son, Everett Coffin. Everett, who Is 15 years old. is still in Flower Hospital, and it Is claimed will be a cripple for life. "With the other suits for Injuries and deaths previously filed, the total demand for damages amounts to nearly $1,800,000. Hill Knows Nothing of Sew Read. SPOKANE, March 26. About a month ago it was announced that the Eureka & Eastern Railway was to be built from Eureka, CaL, to Welser, Idaho. Lord Turlow, one of Its promoters, was .quot ed as stating that he had reached agree ments with Messrs. Hill and Harriman, and that the Great Northern 'would con nect with the new line at Weiser, and that the two roads would act In con junction. In answer to Inquiries, a letter from President Hill haa been received here, stating: "I beg to say that I know nothing whatever about uhe Eureka & Eastern Railway, beyond the reports I have seen In the newspapers. I am not connected with the matter In any way." Ha-tvley Confirms the Report. NEW YORK, March 26. Edwin Hawley. president of the Iowa Central and Min neapolis & St. Louis roads, said .today It was true that he and his associates had ccqulred control of the Colorado & South ern Railway. Just who his associates are Mr. Hawley declined to say at this time. Mr. Hawley added that his Inter ests In Colorado & Southern would remain separate and distinct from those In the Minneapolis & St. Louis and the Iowa Cen tral. He declined to say whether or not he had In mind the possibility of a com bination with any of the leading South western lines. "Will Exploit -Eastern Resorts. NEW YORK, March 2G.-Members of the joint passenger committee In charge of the passenger business of the railroads of the country will meet in this city to con sider the policy of the Western railroads as regard tourist traffic during the Sum mer. Tnls year the Eastern roads will try to prevent the Inroads of the West ern companies, which last year came East and induced thousands of tourists to go to Colorado, attracted by the low rates of the Western lines. This year the East ern roads Intend to exploit the resorts of the Coast. Rio Grande Changes. DENVER, March 26. Important change have been announced on the "Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Wr. S. Martin, gen eral superintendent, has resigned, and it Is understood will be succeeded by F. W. Egan, superintendent of the Western di vision of the Grand Trunk, with head quarters at Detroit, Mich. Mr. Martin, it is said, will go to some Eastern road. M. H. Rogers, consulting engineer of the Denver & Rio Grande, has also resigned, and the office is abolished. San Francisco Street Rail-fray Deal. SAN FRANCISCO, March 26. The Union Trust Company has paid out $9,255,400 to the stockholders of the old Market-Street Railway Company as a result of the sale of that corporation to an Eastern syndi cate. Over 280 holders of stock yet re main to be paid. The amount due them is, in the aggregate, $9,117,000. Change in "Jhe Grand Tronic. DETROIT. March 26. C. W. G. Brown lee, of Montreal, has been made superin tendent of the western division of the Grand Trunk Railroad, with headquarters here, to succeed F. W. Egan,' who, It is reported, will become general superintend ent of the Denver & Rio Grande. LAW'S PENALTY PAID. American Haaged in the North for MHrder of His Cham. SEATTLE, March 26. A special to the Times from Fort Saskatchewan, N. W. T., says: Charles Bullock, was hanged here today for the murder of Leon Stalton in the Battle River country, last April. The prisoner had been convicted on pure ly circumstantial evidence. Victim and murderer were Americana, but casual vis itors to the King's domains. When the crime was discovered weeks after It took place, the officers had but a slender clew to work upon. Thousands of dollars were spent running the murderer down, Cana dian officers spending weeke In the United States to follow clews. At the trial, which took place at Cal gary, Alberta, last month, witnesses were present from Michigan, Wyoming, Mon tana and Canada. The history of the crime. In brief, follows: Leon Stalton left his home at Kalama zoo, -Mich., to take a position with the Union Pacific Railroad, at Aspen, Wyo. There he met Bullock, who was also from Michigan, and they became chums. Bullock Induced Stalton to accompany him to Can ada, Bullock's parent? having a farm in the Battle River district. When they left Aspen. Bullock had $42, and Stalton, then 19 years old. had $220. They were traced from Aspen to Great Falls, Mont., thence to Lethbridge and Calgary, N. W. T., where two tickets were purchased for Ponoka, 20 miles from the farm of Bul lock's parents. Bullock arrived alone at the farm with plenty of money, and gave his father $55. He remained three days and then left, saying he was going to the Coast. Instead he went to Montana and changed his name. Two months later a body was found half burled near the Bullock farm. Cor poral Hetherlngton. of the Northwest Mounted Police, was put on the case, and eight moths later landed his man. Bul lock. The first clew was found by a tail or's name on the clothes of the dead man. showing the clothes were made In Kala mazoo. Correspondence with the police of that city and with Canadian police au thorities brought out the fact that Stat ion's parents were looking for their boy, from whom they had not heard. Then Stalton's father was brought out here and Identified the remains of his son. North Yakima Hop Contracts. NORTH YAKIMA, March 26. Arthur E. Poole, for Pier Brofe., of New York, this week filed the following hop contracts: Sam Chong, five tons, at 12 cents; the Yakima Hop Company, 10 tons of 1902 crop, and 20 tons for each of four suc ceeding years, at 11 cents: Hlen G. and S. H. Rankin, 15 tons each year for five years, at 11 cents; F. B. and J. P. Shard low. 10 tons for three years, at 11 cents: Fechter & Janeck, 20 tons, 1902 hops, at 12 cents; C. S. Meade, 15 tons for five years, at 11 cents. Trial of, Man Who Killed Officer. ABERDEEN, March 26. The trial of W. J. Yourex, who shot and killed Marsha Smith, of Cosmopolls, and dangerously wounded Constable Fenwlck, of this city, several months ago. began in Montesano today. Yourex will allege self-defense. Fenwlck has recovered, though the ball wound, which was in his stomach, was be lieved to be fatal. J. S. Dunn, agent of the New York Life Insurance Company, who was arrested here on a charge of embezzlement, was acquitted by a jury at Montesano. "Western Woolgrrowers Trast. SALT LAKE CITY, March 6. Accord ing to the Herald, a woolgrowers trust Is being organized throughout the West. Already, it is stated, 70 of the heading sheepmen of Utah have gone Into the organization, while many of the principal woolgrowers In Oregon, Nevada and Idaho have also joined forces with the new organization. Abolition of the mid dlemen's profit and the turning of the same to the woolgrowers' 14 stated to be the object of the sew organization. CECIL RHODES IS DEAD (Continued from First Page.) mulatlng. He lost money over the war, but what Inroads that made must have been trifling compared with the many mil lions he possessed. He never lost his open-handed but some what reckless methods of handling money. Not long ago he walked into the office of one of hi confidential subordinates and threw down a bundle of notes, bonds, etc., saying, "Invest these for me," and went out without waiting to have them looked at Inspection revealed the fact that they amounted to more than a million pounds sterling. How they were Invested Mr. Rhodes never knew or cared for months later, as that night he went oft on one of his wandering tours and refused to allow himself to be bothered with the details of the Investment of his million until he returned to England. The news of Mr. Rhodes' death reached London .too late to excite comment on tne stock exchange. The bulletin an nouncing his death, which was sent from Cape Town at 6:30 P. M., reached the newspaper offices Just as the final editions were going to press. Some of the half penny sheets soon turned out posters an nouncing the event, but a number of tho last editions did not contain even the baro announcement of Mr. Rhodes' death. Throckmorton street was deserted when the news came, so there was no excite ment in the stock markets. OPINIONS OF THE LONDON PRESS. Editorials Influenced hy Papers' Political Views. LONDON, March 27. In estimating the career of Cecil Rhodes and Its effect on the history of the British Empire, newspaper editors are largely influenced by their political views. But the opin ion is unanimous in the press here that In spite of the defects and the limita tions of his forceful character, few men have more profoundly impressed the imagination of their contemporaries or played a larger part in the world's af fairs than Cecil Rhodes, and that tho empire is poorer because of his death. With the expressions of admiration for his great services are mingled kindly regrets for the disastrous mistakes made In the Jameson raid. The Standard says: "There was a cer tain largeness of magnanimity, even In his failings. He remains an Impressive and inspiring figure and a real lover of his country, who sacrificed much to make England great and. powerful." The Dally Mail describes him as the successor of Lord Cllve and Warren Hastings, and says: "The virulence With which he -was hated abroad Is the measure of his service to England." The Dally Chronicle says: "There was nothing In the career of Cecil Rhodes to support the charge that he was a vulgar money grabber. There was noth ing small about him; even his blunders Sere colossal." The Dally News bitterly attacks Mr. Rhodes on account of the Jameson raid, declaring that not even Randolph Churchill shattered a more brilliant ca reer by a more conspicuous act of folly. The Daily Telegraph says: "If Cecil Rhodes was guilty of a great blunder in 1S95, he paid as dearly for It as his most bitter foe could wish. Now that ho has passed beyond the reach of ma lignity or censure, only the magnificent services he rendered the empire he loved will be remembered," In an editorial on Cecil Rhodes, the Times says: "With all his undeniable faults and the errors which marred his noblest work, Cecil Rhodes 'stands a heroic figure, which the traditions of Imperial history will cling to." Much curiosity Is evinced as to the probable disposal of his property and Interests. 1"he general notion is that the bulk of his property will be bequested, not to an Individual, but to public Inter ests in South Africa, and that Dr Jame son will be designated to succeed, so far as any one can succeed, to the charge olf his Rhodesian Interests. The Matop pan Hills, where Mr. Rhodes wished to be burled, is the scene of his historic conference with Matabele chiefs. A dispatch from Cape Town In this morning's Dally Express says that Dr. Jameson is authority for the statement that Cecil Rhodes left Grooteschuur, his residence ' near Cape Town, to the people of that city, as well as large sums of money to charities. CECIL RHODES' CAREER. Life and Achievements of the Un crowned Klnft of South Africa. Cecil John Rhodes, the English colon ial statesman whose ambitions and ability won for him the title of the Napoleon of Africa, was born at Bish op's Strotford, Hertfordshire. England, July 5, 1S33. His grandfather was a well-to-do dairyman In the Islington suburb of London, to whom tradition assigns 999 head of cattle and the in ability to possess an even 1000. His father. Rev. Francis William Rhodes, was for many. years vicar of St Michael's Church In the parish of Bishop's Strotford, where a stained-glass win dow commemorates the esteem In which the villagers held a benign man with a remarkable virtue for 10 minute ser mons. Cecil, the third son, a weakly youth, received his early education at the local grammar school, one of King Edward VI's foundation, as did his numerous brothers, of whom one died in the heart of Africa and others did. honor to the rolls of the English army. A term or two at Oriel College, Oxford, followed, and then physicians ordered him to the Cape. He landed with moderate means and took to diamond mining, ultimately consolidating all the mining Interests and controlling the diamond supply of Africa. The warm African climate had made a mountain of energy of a weak ly English youth. Cape politics soon attracted him. He entered the colonial Parliament as a member for Barkly West and later took office in the min istry of Sir Thomas Scanlon. On the fall of Sir Gordon Splgg's Ministry. July 17. 1S90. he became Premier of tire Colony. In 1891. he visited England, and while there donated $50,000 to the Irish Home Rule fund. In September, 1893, he took the field against Loben guela, the warlike King of Matabele land. with a flying squadron of 600 troopers. In vain did the fearless lmpls of fierce Matabeles charge the moving square. The Maxim, Gardner and Nor derifeldt machine guns made as short work of these, war-like Naboths as the white gold-seekers did of their vine yards. Charges of slaughtering surren dered prisoners were freely brought against the Irregular troop3 of the Chartered South African Company com posing the force. Toward Equatorla they marched, and slaughtered savage's as they went. Rhodes had his mind on a telegraph line, If not a railroad, to Cairo. Lobenguela tersely called him "The man who eats a country for breakfast," and Lobenguela's kraal at Buluwayo, was made the new capital of Rhodesia very soon after Rhodes marched Into the land. Loyal to the crown, his deeds and his utterances marked him as a man too Imperial for a crown to rule. England began to conciliate this political meteor; who added more to the empire's bounds In a month than armies In a century. He was called home and sworn of the Privy Council. But the drawing-rooms of Belgravla were too small a world for the man whose breathing space was the great Karroo desert, and thither he returned. In the African hinterland, gold fields were on every hand, and the soil was a second Eden in fertility. Then came the Uitlander agitation In Johannes burg, led bv his brother. Colonel Fran cis W. Rhodes. Of the Cape Premier's knowledge of all the proceedings, no one -questions. None knew better than he that a conflict was bound to come between a majority of Anglo-Saxons de prived of the franchise and a Boer oli garchy. His policy had been Fabian in tactics, but his Impetuous Lieutenant, Dr. L. S. Jameson, .flew across the Transvaal border, with results that J brought the secret policy of South Af rican administration into notoriety. Rhodes attitude may be accounted for by his" knowledge of Boer Intrigues with Germany, but the ,fact remains of his complicity In the Jameson raid. Resign ing from the Cape Government and again visiting Downing street, he hur ried back to quell an extensive Mata bele revolt and then sat down to as sist in administering the government of the land which bears his name. "His aim," as a keen critic said, "Is nothing less than a British Empire with home rule for all the parts, with an equal citizenship throughout, and with full representations of all the British regions in the central governing bodiesv In that case, South Africa would .take her place with Australia, Canada and the rest, and all British soli would be deemed equally sacred.. This Idea entertained by Mr, Rhodes is the only hope for -the permanence of the political affiliation of those regions now pertaining to the Brit ish crown and known as the 'British Empire. Other men hold this cpneep tlon and are working for Its realization; but Mr. Rhodes, both In ability and In virtue of his actual place In imperial affairs, stands shoulders above them all." When the Anglo-Boer war broke out. Mr. Rhodes was at Klmberley, where he remained during the siege, placing him self at the head or a regiment of guards that he organized and maintained. On the relief of the city, he hurried to London and met Mr. Chamberlain, but the subject or result of their conference was never announced. His health being bad, he returned recently to the Cape in the hope that the South African air would benefit him. but his condition steadily grew worse. RHODES, THE EMPIRE MAKER. An Estimnte By Enrl Grey, Who Knew the Financier Well. NEW YORK, March 26. Earl Grey, be fore sailing from England, gave to the Associated Press an Interview concerning Cecil Rhodes, the Earl having received cablegrams from South Africa which led him to believe that Mr. Rhodes had but a few days to live. Lord Grey knew the South African leader intimately, having served with him on the board of the British South Africa Company, and the Intimacy grew when the Earl was Gov ernor, of Rhodesia. Lord Grey said: "Cecil Rhodes Is the .only .exemplar, per haps, In our generation of those Idealists who in the days of Elizabethan ndven ture made the Anglo-Saxon the predomi nant partner in the world's firm.' I need not call up their names and titles. They were all after their kind, both the admir ation and the terror of their contempo raries, and I believe that with all of them from Drake to Robert Cllve, terror rather than admiration was the key note they struck. The conservative forces are those which naturally are in control of governments. We never know what he will do next,' said a friend to me of Rhodes. Something big. some great development that might Involve perhaps a change In the very constitu tion of our empire. The world, at least its governors," do not much like such men as these who keep them awake at night, and so the greatest Englishman of our day has come to be looked upon, and not by the British mandarin only, with somewhat mixed feelings. "One thing I should like especially to point out. He had a never-falling confi dence in the growth of the federal prin ciple of government. He admired the American Nation enormously, but for this strange and detached reason he believed that you owed your prodigious orderly development to the splendid con struction of your Constitution. I per sonally have always opposed home rule; being at that time In the House of Com mons, I left Mr. Gladstone's party over this Issue. Rhodes, however, never wea ried of assuring me that I ought to have gone forward, that in this direction alone was safety; that the Irish were building better than they at all knew, that their demand was on all fours with, the American state right platform and that in the very rapidity of the proposed change was our best promise of safety. He gave, you may recall, 10,000 to Mr. Parnell. This gift was a rock of offense to the bert "Whig element In our country for example to the Spectator, but Rhodes believed with Sir Hercules Rob inson that Ireland would make one or two orderly states of a federal union; he saw that fhe federation of Canada had been agreeably arranged and that In the Canadian settlement a race prob lem had been solved; that the time for Australian federation was now at hand; that a peaceful (as he thought) federa tion of South Africa was Inevitable and that with certain modifications In our second chamber, so that It might evolve as an Imperial senate, the federation of these various components into an im perial union would bo secured, and In our time." Earl Grey then turned the conversa tion to the famous Jameson raid, calling It the "unhappy raid, which obscured my friend's bright light." "But let us be fair to him." continued Lord Grey. "Rhodes, In the first place was Premier In Cape Colony: he knew that Kruger would fight to the death any federation of South Africa under our flag. He knew that either South Africa must come- under the Dutch flag or the English flag, or that the alternative was the 'national system or rather the welter and chaos you see in South Africa today. If the Transvaal, arming to the teeth, continued this condition of preparation, then also every man in our colony of Natal must similarly arm. It Is no longer possible that a chess board of little armed 'nations' can be permitted; they menace the peace and orderly progress of the entire world. We had this in South America: we have got it in the Balkan Peninsula and, therefore, war clouds gather at all times over Central and Eastern Europe. Rhodes saw this; he saw that 'independence' on the Kruger plan was incompatible with individual freedom; that It Involved all round militarism. "Then, again, he had great financial Interests In the Transvaal: these gave him the moral right to effect a revolu tion if he could. Here was a so-called republic refusing to a majority of Its community the franchise, while levying taxes at the rate of $90 per capita and turning two-thirds of this mlsbegdttcn revenue Into munitions of war. Kruger aimed at arming all the Dutch in South Africa with the gold he levied from rHHHHait': slsfl THE LATE CECIL RHODES. the Rand mines. I do not want to dis cuss the ethics of our war or the causes of that war, but I do want to make it clear that my friend hoped by an ef fective coup d'etat to destroy at a blow Krugerism and to secure for the Trans vaal the same political conditions, name ly, equal rights for all white men, as obtained In Cape Colony and Natal. Ho failed; the raid failed; Dr. Jameson 'up set my apple cart,' as Rhodes phrased it, and the abortive raid presented Rhodes himself to all mankind In . a false light." Passing to the expected death of his friend. Lord Grey said: , ' "The world will be poorer; no one will dream such dreams and try to draw them on a map; no one living perhaps will try as he would have tried to fed erate our empire on the American sys tem. Rosebery, yes he will try; we will many of us try and we will succeed. Others can carry on his work. I am happy that I went to Washington, where these things look alone fully accom plished. Such men as your President, Senator Hoar and others I could name, give those who come near them much encouragment. A great genius goes out with Rhodes; true, his work will go forward In some ways more smoothly, perhaps because he had Inevitably arous ed great antagonism; but we shall not seo his like again and his passing will for me and many others take much color from our lives. 'Other nations,' he once said to me, 'will pursue peace; but the two great English-speaking na tions standing together can enjoin It.' " Lord Grey concluded by saying: "When his will Is read. It will be known with what intention Rhodes, who never wasted a precious moment on pleasure or self-indulgence, had collected a great modern fortune."" CHARACTER OF RHODES. John Hays Hammond Says Ameri cans Do Not Understand it. NEW YORK, March 26. John Hays Hammond, who was for many years and up to the time of the death of Cecil Rhodes Intimately associated with him In the development of South Africa, was consulting engineer of the British South Africa Chartered Company and the Con solidated Gold Fields of South Africa, in which Mr. Rhodes held Important Inter ests, had this to say of Mr. Rhodes: "Mr. Rhodes, whose sun went down when It was yet day, died in the 47th year of his age. He leaves no posterity, but leaves his rame on the map of Africa (Rhouesla), sponsor for a commonwealth nearly as large as our Western States. Had he lived he would have devoted the remaining years of his life, and would have spent every dollar of his fortune in equipping that commonwealth. "Unfortunately his character was mis understood In America. Judged by Ameri can standards, Mr. Rhodes was truly a great man. He was not only a great cmplre-bullder, but also a captain of In dustfry. He Is oftcner reported as a shifty, unscrupulous financier, In league with capitalists to coax the Transvaal Into a hopeless war In order to steal the mines of the country. Ho Is also reported as giving hl entire life to the amassing of large wealth, and ready to employ the most unscrupulous methods to that end. But by even the most bitter of his ene mies conversant with the facts, such alle gations are repudiated. "The truth Is that Rhodes cared little for money beyond the power it gave him to assist in the development of South Af rica. From a moJt intimate connection with him in his business enterprises, I am able to state that his methods of finance were not only scrupulously honorable, but were characterized by unusual liberality. He was known to South Africa as a man of unbounded generosity, and one on whom they could depend for the furtherance of any deserving local enterprise or worthy charity. "Personally Mr. Rhodes was democratic In his tastes, and a colonial In his political and social bias. He was fond of the simpler and better pleasures of life, devoted es pecially to out-of-door life on the veldt, and had a contempt for and disdain of so cial conventionalities. He was a man of innate refinement and culture, and a grad uate of Oxford. Rhodes had an Indomit able spirit and dogged perseverance. He was Imaginative, "nit was not a mere visionary. He was built on broad lines, and he abhorred petty politics, which he contemptuously designated as the policies of the parish pump, and he deprecated quite as strongly what, he termed the 'unc tuous rectitude of certain statesmen. Po litically he was a great admirer of demo cratic Institutions, but at the same time he was a loyal Imperialist. "Rhodes had his defects and faults, but these will not obscure the glory of his name. Great men. It Is said, are made of faults. Of one thing there can be no doubt, that Rhodes' iaeals were pure and lofty, and I believe that history will deal rather with his Ideals than with his achievements and methods, and that he will, therefcre. rank high among the great men of the 19th century. Cecil Rhodas found in the meditations of Marcus Aurellus many aspirations for his own career. "Until the unfortunate Jameson raid, for which he has received far more blame than he deserves, as history will prove, he was very popular with the Dutch of South Africa. "Within a very short time there would have been a revolution of feeling, and. strange as It may sound to day. Rhodes would have been able to re establish his Influence with the Dutch, and would have been quick to take ad vantage of the situation, and would have passed into history as the great pacificator of- South Africa. Thfs estimation of Rhpdes is shared even today by many of the progressive Dutchmen In the coun try" :. CANADA'S MINERAL OUTPUT Annnnl Report Chronicles TJnniiual Discoveries in the Northwest. WASHINGTON. March 26. The mineral production of Canada during the year 1901. according to the preliminary state ment of the Geological Survey, was val ued at $69,407,031. of which $42,834,000 was metallic and $26,257,000 pon-metallic. A report made public at the State De1 partment today from United States Con-sul-General Blttlnger, at Montreal, says that the figures represent a growth of about 8 per cent over 1900. An Interesting portion of the Consul-General's report Is devoted to unusual mineral discoveries in the Northwest. Among these are men tioned a natural soap mine, a paint mine and several soda lakes, which were found In the foothills near Ashcroft. B. C. The report says their bottoms and shores are Incrusted" with a natural washing com pound. i Lieutenant-Commander Brainerd. LOS ANGELES, March 26. Lleutenant Commahder Frederick R. Brainerd. United States Navy, retired,, Is dead at the Cali fornia Hospital, after an illness of but a few days. He was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis In 18S0. and served with credit in the Spanish-American War, being attached to Admiral Sampson's squadron. Accepts a Son Francisco Cnll. CHICAGO, March 23. Rev. M. P. Boyn ton, for several years pastor of the Lexington-Avenue Baptist Church, has accept ed a call to the Hamilton Square Baptist Church, of San Francisco. He will leave April 1 to assume the new charge. ' Injuries Prove Fatal. BERKELEY, Cal., March 26. E. A. Frengel. a mining engineer, died today from Injuries received by falling down an elevator shaft at Baker City, Or., last Friday. Dr. English Is "Worse. NEWARK, N. J., March 26. Dr. Thomas Dunn English Is much worse, and his fam ily and attending physicians today have grave fears that he will not recover. ' TALK ON CATTLE FEEDING DR. WITHYCOMBE -ADDRESSES PER RYDALD INSTITUTE. Necessity of Conforming: Methods to Conditions The Farm Sep arator and Its Valae. PERRYDALE, Or., March 26. The far mers of this vicinity met yesterday after noon and evening, with Dr. James Withy combe and Pro'fessor F. L. Kent, of the Oregon Agricultural College, for & dis cussion of topics pertaining to the farm, and the dairy. D. L. Keyt was selected as chairman of the meeting, and Dr. Wlthycombe was then called upon to dis cuss "Cattle-Feeding." He said in part: "We must conform our methods to our conditions. . We cannot profitably feed out of doors, as in Kansas and Nebraska. We must feed under sheds; not expensive structures, but such as will keep the ani mals sheltered from the Winter rains. For successful feeding we must flrst secure suitable forage crops. Then we must secure animals adapted to the production of meat. It costs no more to produce a pound of gain on a steer that will sell for 6 cents a pound than on one that will sell for 4 cents, and the probabilities are that the better animal will sell much more readily than the poorer one. The younger the animal, the greater the gain for the food consumed, other .conditions being equal. Hence a beef animal, or any other animal designed for meat, should be kept in a vigorous growing condition from birth until ready for the block. Two-year-cld steers are found to be very profitable for the market. "When you start a herd of any kind be sure to secure a male of character as well aa breeding. Not all pure-bred animals are to be recommended. But It will not do to disregard the breeding, for pure-bred animals have the power of transmitting their characteristics, much more strongly than grades. The male may be regarded as half the herd, hence improvement can be most economically effected along this line. A few dollars' difference In price should not be allowed to stand in the way of the purchase of pure-bred males. "For best results the comfort of the ani mal must be considered. If In an uncom fortable frame of mind, the animal will requlio more feed. The cow confined In a rtcrirt stnnchlnn. the steer keDt In a muddy. dirty stall, or the pig running In a cold, wet pen will not thrive like It would if kept comfortable. Water and salt should be accessible to the animals at all times. But tue grain-feeding should be done reg ularly. Automatic feeders are not to be recommended. All grains should be fed dry, as a rule. The drier the food, the greater the amount of saliva the animal will mix with It, hence the better it will be digested." J. M. Wise said he was not satisfied with tha nrnrtir of tvlne beef cattle. He thought it would be better to have feeding mangers, where the animals would be sep arated at feeding time, but at otner time be free to-move about under sheds. E. C. Keyt, stated that he had been able to secure an average gain of 100 pounds per animal in one month during the past Winter on a ration of clover hay and about eight pounds of barley chop. Professor F. L. K.ent aiscussea iuu Farm Separator," calling attention to the essential features of a cream separator, and showing wherein certain so-called cream separators were not entitled to the name. For the milk producer who sells his cream it was pointed out that he not only gets more cream from his milk by the use of a separator, but gets a better price for it. Mo3t creameries pay 2 cents per pound more for the butter fat In sep arator cream than for that in "pan skimmed," and some creameries will not handle the latter at any price. EXHIBITION OF SUBLIME NERVE. Man Takes a RIgr to Catch a Train, Then Turns Horse Loose. OLYMPIA, March 2G. An exhibition of what is here considered sublime nerve came to light last night. A man who was, desirous of catching the Northern Pacific overland at Tenlno, 17 miles from Olympla, entered the Pioneer Dairy barn Monday night and took therefrom a horse and buggy. These he used to make the con nection at Tenlno. after which he turned the horse loose near where he left the buggy standing, and then proceeded to Portland. A warrant charging horse stealing was procured for the Individual, whose name Is unknown, but as the de scription of him Is vague he will probably escape unpunished. , Nonsuit in Damage Case. The damage suit of Mrs. K. H. Moore against W. H. Kneeland, et al directors of the Shelton school district, came to a sudden ending In the Superior Court of this county yesterday. The case was brought here on a change of venue, as it Stand hy the Standard ! Price's Cream Baking Powder is everywhere the acknowledged standard, the ,powder of the highest reputation, greatest strength, and absolutely pure. It renders the food more healthful and palatable, and using it exclusively you are assured against alum and other dan gerous chemicals from which the 'low grade powders are made. Dr. Price's Baking Powder is sold on its merits only never by the aid of lotteries, gifts, commissions or other schemes. The- entire value of your money comes back to you in baking pow der the purest, most economical made. Price Baking Powder Co., Chicago. Paines Celery Compound The Best Invigorator and Strengthener for Old People Its Use Insures Freedom From the Infirmities That Come Vith Advancing Years. 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The plaintiff was nonsuited, on motion of the plaintiff her self, as it was discovered that 'the action should have been brought against tho school district Instead of against the di rectors. Many "Srandge" Fires In Orchards. Local fruitgrowers are beginning to pre pare for warding off the dangers of Spring frosts. Already horticulturists have pre pared "smudge" fires In orchards, which will be made just warm enough to counteract the anticipated coM nights that are looked for at this season. For National Gunrd Officers. An order has been Issued frcm. the Adjutant-General's office looking to the ap pointment of Matt H. Gormley. late Cap tain First Washington Volunteer Infantry, to be Captain and Regiment Adjutant In the National Guard. Captain Gormley ls Instructed to present himself for ex amination at the Seattle Armory March 26. The order also provides for the ap pointment as Second Lieutenant and Bat talion Commissary of Harvey J. Moss, late First Lieutenant of the volunteer regiment, and he will report for examina tion as to his competency at the same time and place. Both men served in the Philippines and were recommended by Colonel Lamping. The guard organization permits the selection of staff officers from outside the guard Itself. St. Helens Brevities. ST. HELENS. March 25. The telephone line between Yankton and St. Helens was completed yesterday. Fishermen are preparing for the open. season, and a larger number of fishermen will be on the Columbia drifts than here tofore. There is much less illegal fish ing this season than usual. Ordered to Stop a Fiprnt. DENVER. March 26. The Fire and Po lice Board today Instructed Chief of Police Armstrong to stop the fight between Jack McClellan and Kid Broad, which Is scheduled to take place at the Coliseum Club Friday night. Z3 Note. Alum baking powders are low priced, as they cost but three cents a pound to make. 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