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THE OMAHA DAILY HEEt SATURDAY, JULY 25. 1003. s CURRENT NEWS OF IOWA. COUNCIL BLUFFS. BASK OF P1SGAII ASSIGNS Failure of EetTf Bor owar to Meet Obliga tion the Cau:. FORMER BLUFFS MAN THE PROPRIETOR Expects to Reorganise nlth Addi tional Capital and Resume Business In Short Time. member of the local esecutlve committee, with a number of views of the city. Among the read In matter will be a brief history of the Pythian lodges In this city. The program will, when completed, consist of nearly V0 pages and copies will be sent j f xo every longe in me nav some ume prior to the meeting of the grand lodge here. PREPARING FOR CAMPAIGN Republican 8tate Committee Called to Meet in Des Moines Next Tuesday. HAS MONEY, BUT LIVES IN SQUM.0R ottk Veterans Not Satisnea trim Department Ruling on Inscrip tion to Be Placed on Shlloli Monuments. Charged with Desertion. Pearl Wrtgtrt, a young farm hand, was arrested yesterday on a warrant from th court of Justice Ouren, charged with de sertion after betrayal and marriage, which Is an offense under the Iowa' code. Two months ago Wright was arrested on a serious charge preferred against him by The Bank of Plsgah in Harrison county, mm, r icicner, a wuman vi mm , . ... , . a .1 rt nltv hut ivrt Mi(l nrn.pni t Inn hv mfirrvlntf I owned by h. J. jiuicninwin, " , , . ... . . ,, ' " : ments to begin the republican state cam- ii uinir. h md. a deed of trust1 the complainant. Mrs. Wright alleges that mv"lB 10 y1"1 l" c" " ' . , , . , . , , , . ... . ; naian I m. tha mapplavA AnH with Itm vr.antliin of 115 which he ave her has failed to pro- poentbly the candidates on the state ticket vide for her and their baby. Wright gave bonds In the sum of (300 and his hearing was sat for August 7. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Ju:y 24 (Special.) Chair man Bpence of the republican state com mittee gave notice today of a special meet ing of the republican state central com mlttee to be held In this city TueHday, j July 28 for the purpose of making arrange . I . 1 . I . . 1, n.llt K- - 7 . Vh- Z ofTredltors to Urooks Reed her husband has failed to live with her ' " " " " " for the bneflt of creditors to " ,, k full committee meeting at that time and this city, formerly city u cuum of this city. treasurer. The bank was started somo time ago by Mr. Hutchinson and did a pros perous business, but th failure of one of the heavy borrowers of the bank to meet bis obligations at the .stated time made this atep necessary. This borrower went to Omaha Monday evening with the prom ise that he would raise the funds necessary to pay his Indebtedness to the bank, but as he failed to report during banking hours Tuesday Mr. Hutchinson, to guard the in Promotion for Macrae. Dr. Donald Macrae, Jr., of this city has received notice of his appointment as chief surgeon of the Fifty-sixth regiment, Iowa National guard, with the rank of major. will be here. The campaign will be com meneed some time In September, but there U preliminary work to be attended to and the organization of various matters to be locked after during August and the early part of September. The committee Is or ganized this year very much as It was two years ago, with a finance, committee and an executive committee, these committees i to have full control of the campaign man agement. Headquarters will be In the offices used last season In this city. unmarried. These allow their money to ac- I crisis In Germany, there have been sugges cumulate until they have such a sum as will maintain them In comfort In their na tive land for1 the remainder of their days. This sum Is not great, as they do not re quire either the comforts or the edibles de manded by an American. Usually $1.00) will answer, although many of them go above this sum. The men of family bank their money in the same manner as the unmarried men. They do not send their money direct to their families, but, at stated Intervals, a small amount Is sent to enable the wire and children to get along. In many in stances the family receives nothing until the father returns home, bringing with him what they call a fortune. In some cases, during the absence of the head of the family In this country, the wife and children sustain themselves wholly by their o;n efforts and thus con tribute to the making of the fortune. The wages received by these men is $1.50 per day, with a time and a half allowance for overtime. The Italians do a consluora ble amount of overtime work. Insane nnd Had Money. Mrs. Amanda Anderson was today ad- Major Macrae was assistant 'surgeon of terests of depositors and creditors, decided the Fifty-fifth regiment, with the rank of to close the bank and come to Council ; captain, lie served all through the Philip Bluffs to consult with friends as to the i pine campaign with the Fifty-first Iowa best course to pursue. As a result a deed volunteers. Major Macrae hopes that not- of trust conveying all of his assets, said to i withstanding his promotion and transfer ! judged Insane. She Is an old woman who exceed In value,the liabilities of the bank,; to me firty-sixth he will be permitted to. had been for years living alone In a hovel was made to Mr. Heed as trustee, and he accompany his old regiment, now the Fifty- j In a poor part of the city. She was yes- la now in possession. Mr. Hutchinson s friends state that the present difficulties will be speedily overcome and the bank reopened with increased capital and even brighter prospects. fifth, to the maneuvers at Fort Riley October. In Call Good Hoads Convention. Colonel W. F. Baker of the Board of Ileal Estate Transfers. 100 Jennings and J. H. Cole, slO feet lot 6 ana nio reet lot 7, block 9, Bay llss' 1st add., r. d 1,560 & Annis, loi Pearl street: I George B. Folsom et al to Marraret County Supervisor, and committeeman tor . TV Iowa of the National Oood Roads assocla- ! Trustees of Aultman Miller & Co. to tlon, and Ernest E. Hart, member of tha i Aultman & Miller Buckeye Co., lots state executive committee of the Iowa I ;. j J oc k...6..Br.ya.nf,. Oood Reads association, have issued a call Omaha Paint' nnd Cliass Co. to H.' j'.' for a delegate convention of the people of j Jj6 d "w bC 22' Baylls" Pottawattamie county Interested -In the johnmr t .-'i.w;n ' ii'a'rrv ' n ' ' Y.LLV.' good roads movement, to be held in this ; s4, nw4, 17-74-43, w. d ! 6.6G6 cltv Wednesday. August 19. "?clv."" vl 'ey 10 m. u. Notices have been prepared and will be sent to the mayors and members of coun cils of all the cities and towns and the trustees, clerks and road supervisors of the various townships of the county, all of whom will be entitled to seats In the convention. Each city or town council and each board of township trustees Is also authorised to select three additional dele gates to the convention. According to the call, the meeting Is for the purpose of perfecting a permanent or ganisation and to take such further action to advance the good roads movement as may be deemed best. The convention will be held In county courthouse and will be called to or der at 2 p. m. Congressman Walter I. Smith has ac cepted an Invitation to address the con vention and his remarks on the good roads movement are expected to be especially interesting, as he . has ' already announced his opposition to government aid in the building of roads. Other prominent speak ers are also expected to address the convention. terday taken from her hovel In a critical condition from the ravages of consumption. She had had no food nor water for several days and was crying out in pain from her These transfers were filed yesterday In 1 bed. The officers suspected that there the abstract, title and loan office of Squire ; might be money In her house and put a j guard over it last night. Today an exojnl- nation of the premises was made and $S25 ; was found hid In tin cans in her bed. It Five transfers, total $7,327 MINOR MESTIOlf. svs fells drugs. Stockert sells carpets. Crayon enlarging, SOS Broadway. Expert watch repairing. LefTert. 40$ B'y. Celebrated Meti beer on tap. Neumayer. Diamond betrothal rings at Leftert's, 409 Broadway, .J4? and 18K wedding rings at Lefferfs, 409 Broadway. , , . - t - . .. tn. .Ming rinnpu urass toast tao- the south courtroom of the I lets. Alexander's Art Store. Mrs. W. L. Harris and children are home from a visit with relatives In Oakland. Ia. Mrs. W. L. Williams of Mynster street Is home from a visit to southern Iowa Mrs nrnhlm nf XT'. -II,,,. T. I- .1 i . v. un...,,B, m.. id i ;ic guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Foster, of Avenue G. was also found that some years ago when she was ill she had persons come to the house to wait on her and she afterward claimed to have lost several hundred dol lars, and this was the reason she had re- i fused to allow anyone to come to her house 1 at this time. A guardian was appointed j for her and she was declared incompetent. I She was living In extreme poverty and ' filth and Is also too ill to leave her bed. Inscriptions nt Shlloh. Governor Cummins will send to the sec retary of war a statement In conjunction with that of the Iowa Shlloh commission relating to the inscriptions on the Shlloh monuments and urge upon the secretary of war that he reopen the case and overrule the decisions of General Alnsworth, chief of the record and pension department. In regard to the history of the two Iowa regiments of soldiers that were in nervlce at Shlloh. The formal statement of the Iowa commission was forwarded by a com mittee of the commission today. It re cites the history of the controversy be tween the state and national authorities in regard to this matter, and shows that nil the. official' records as well as the state ments of the survivors of the two Iowa regiments support the position taken by the state commission. The matter is re garded as so important that all work on the . monuments will be suspended until after it is settled. A difference of two STATUE TO BE OF BUTTER One of the Exhibits to Be Sent from lovra to the St. I.onls Fnlr. MANCHESTER. Ia., July 24. (Special.) The World s fair at St. Louis will give spare to some interesting exhibits from Iowa, and one of the best, which shows the development of the. west, will be a re production of the John Stewart creamery which was established here In the early next nnd was the first In the world. The exact building will be reproduced, together with the crude machinery used In making butter. A large glass case will contain a life-sized statue of John Stewart, made of buttter and kept frozen throughout the fair period. Mr. Van Dusen, the first creamery butter maker in the world, who la living, will be honored by a life-sized photograph of himself in the exhibit. He Is over 80 years of age. The butter made from this creamery took prizes at the Centennial at Philadelphia and it was from this advertisement that the creamery business gained such promi nence in the west. GERMANY'S SINEWS OF WAR Government Has Thirty Million Dol lars Laid Aside In Case of Hostilities. Joseph Palmer has been annotated nn trnl man at Cut Off lake In place of Thomas Eaton, resigned. , Mrs. John P. fntdv .nd VTn .... t-- Wheeler of Avenue B have returned from : hour the time the regiments are al- Barbers Want to Close Sunday. If the union sanctions it there will be no more shaves or hair cuts on Sundays In Council Bluffs. At a meeting of the hnna barbers last night In the Grand hotel two-story frame cottage on Glenn avenue. It was decided to ask the union to sanction For rent, office room, ground floor. One ,. fc,, n -hon until mldnlKht I or 1 . mo8t centrl location In the business the keeping open of shops until mianigm porton of tn, cUVi Apply to The Bee ttaiuraay ana wie musing m ujj u;mv:v, vuy. a visit to Washineton. D. C. Colonel Alexander Hogeland will address the congregation of the First Congrega tional church Sunday evening. George Gerner took out a building per mit yesterday for the erection of a Il.BUO day. This will be asked for In lieu of tne recent order of the union closing shops at 9 o'clock Saturday nights and 11 o'clock Sunday mornings. A committee of three was appointed to lay the matter before the union. The boss barbers also decided to form a permanent organisation and a meeting for this purpose will be held next Thursday evening In the Grand hotel. A committee was also appointed to wait on the union and request that the boycott ordered on the three shops Thursday be declared off. , The meeting last night was presided over by Henry Herman, with Frank Silvers as secretary. Proprietors of seventeen shops were present -- ' ' -' Captain A. J. Merrltt of Mi nnpflnoHn an. r1 """"inn oi me Aiinnesota eoluiera leged to have been on the field Is the chief matter at stake, but there are other and minor differences between the two com missions. A cemmlttee of the commission will also go to Washington to urge the matter on the War department. To Pnh Sanitarium Project. The delegation from Des Moines to the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Coun- ell Bluffs will give assistance to the Colfax P?mi!: 'UwieOAvenuT'" M j fT?' In Ur?'n Up0n the d uciuiun Bi-uun De taaen at tne meet ing next month on the project which has Dlscoatlnae Business Agent, The Council Bluffs Trades and Labor as sembly decided last night to discontinue the office of business agent at the expira tion of its present contract with J. A. Raabe, which will be at the end of this month. Thomas R. Drake of the Typographical anion was elected president for the en suing halt year. Other officers elected were: Vice president. W. H. Shelley; re cording secretary, F. E. Marlowe) financial secretary, F. A. Spencer. The action of the grievance committee of the assembly In sanctioning the action Of the Barbers' union in declaring a boy cott against the throe shops which refused to observe the closing hour schedule or dered by the union, was approved and rati-Bed. Druggists Return Thanks. The following resolutions thanking those who assisted In making the meeting of the State Pharmaceutical association such a success have been adopted by the Council Bluffs Retail Druggists' association: Resolved, That the thanks of the local organisation of dnirglsts of this city as a fart of the Iowa Pharmaceutical asmicU lon be tendered to those who so liberally assisted us In the entertainment of the Iowa Pharmaceutical association, whose ronventlon met In 'this city July 14, 15 and 18. Among those who especially assisted us In making the convention u success ws would mention the street railway company the Grand hotel, the John O Woodward company. J. F. Wilcox, the Harle, Haas Drug company, the Groneweg A Prhient- Jan company. Stewart Bros., the Pergny Moore company, the Council Bluffs Row ing association and the Council Bluffs lodiie Of Elks. We Contract tn lrn nnhlln n .,.(,. houses free from ronolies by the year. In sect Exterminator Manfacturlnr company. Council Bluffs. Ia. Telephone F634. Cecil Mae, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Pope, 1201 Eighth avenue, died yesterday from brain trouble. The remains will be taken to Oakland. Ia.. for burial. C. A. Kneedler of Sioux City, who, with his wife, has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Murphy, 824 Avenue B, left yesterday for Denver. Mrs. Kneedler will remain here during his absence. Rev. Frank A. Case, pastor of the First Baptist church, Is delivering a series of bible lectures before the Pine Lake (In- uiautw mauiMuquu, in luiniiment or an en gagement made before he was called to the luuiiurate nere. The case against . Michael Klldare and others, owners of the saloon at the corner of Fifth avenue and Pearl street, charged by Colonel W. H. Knepher with violating the mulct law, was continued In Justice Ouren's court yesterday until Monday. J. W. Huffman brought suit In the dis trict court yesterday against Llllle Diner Dill and other heirs of J. C. Huffman, de ceased, asking the court to have certain lots In Hall's addition sold and the pro ceeds distributed. The plaintiff Is one of the heirs. , Children and matches gave the Are de partment a run shortly after noon yester day to 1710 High street, where a barn on the premises of Max Kreidler was on Are. The quick response of the department saved the barn from total doatrut-tlon. Children playing with matches set fire to the straw In a manure heap and the flames spread to the barn. Mrs. Emma Edwards caused the arrest yesterday of William Vrooman on a charge of perpetrating a gross fraud on her In connection witn the sale of a wagon. Mrs. Edwards complained that Vrooman sold her a wagon for $30, representing that the vehicle wus In perfect condition, whereas In fact it was an ancient and decrepit affair, which had been painted to hide its defects. She complained to Vrooman and he offered to put on a new set of wheels, for which he chanted her 112 and rrfuan.t to let her have the wagon again until she paiu ine money, vrooman, who Is a black smith on West llroadwav. denlva the charges made against him by Mrs. Edwards aim gave uonu lor nis appearance In Jus tice ouren s court next Wednesday. K. Y. Plumbing Co. Tel So. Night, F667. Plumbing and heating. Blxby A Son. Booming Pythian Vrand Lodge. The meeting of the. Iowa Pythian grand lodge In this city next month Is to be widely advertised throughout the state by the local executive committee. One form of advertising will be the Issuance of a book let in which will be set forth the attrac tions of . Council Bluffs and containing a number of views of the picturesque scen ery for which the city Is noted. The com mittee is alio working on a souvenir pro gram which It Is expected will be the finest thing of Its kind ever Issued for a con vention In. this city. It wl'l contain half tone portraits of the officers of the grand lodge, officers of the uniform rank and Is located Ia., July 24.-(Speclal Bigamist WEBSTER CITY Telegram. ) A. E. Isenhart, the Marshall town bigamist, who was married in this city last week to Miss Emma Mitchell of Clemmens Grove, was located this morn ing In North Bend, Neb. They were found through the medium of a letter written by Miss Mitchell to her parents. She is Ignorant of the fact that her supposed husband Is a bigamist. The girl's brother left this city this morning with the offi cers to make the arrest. Nothing haa been heard from them and it la now feared that he may have escaped, as, had they made the Journey as planned, the arrest would have been made early this after noon. LEWIS CUTLER MORTICIAN. IMPeejtCouocllilUf 'Pbs been before the grand lodge several years ior tne establishment of a state sanitarium for the Pythlans at Colfax Springs. The project has been approved by the grand lodge and a committee la at work on de tails for the same and Is expected to make definite report at the next meetlna-. Th delegations will ask that the matter be disposed of and either the sanitarium erected or definitely abandoned. Cherokee Hospital Needs. The following are recommended as the needs of the State Hospital for the In sane at Cherokee in the biennial report of the superintendent filed with the Board of Control: rarm cottage ; $20000 Infirmary for both sexes ,' t'koo Furnishing Infirmary g'oon rire aepartment building go) Deen well and tow n-v,-!. i. ,w unco buu waier cisierna inn paii. neciions ima Repair and contingent 10 000 lp to October, 1901, there had been ex pended for the hospital $466,435.66. The last general assembly appropriated $132,000 to complete the Institution. New loirs Corporations. The secretary of state today received and recorded the articles of Incorporation of me interstate Land and Trust com nan v of Des Moines, with a capital of $100,000; r. r.. tirooKe, president; Horace M. Re- bok, secretary. The Iowa Security com pany of Davenport was incorporated with ijW.ooj capital, by U. D. Eddy, president; H. T. Batty, secretary. Tha Ra Plantation Company of Dubuque was or ganized, with $600,000 capital; H. C. Reche preaiueni; j. M. frits, secretary, Dr. D. Macrae of Council Bluffs, has been appointed surgeon of the Fifty-sixth regi ment, Iowa National Guard, vice Dr. G. L. t-ray or Lake City, resigned. Dr. Macrae was with the Flfty-nrst Iowa in the Phil Ipplnea. Mother Vincent Heads Order. OTTL'MWA. la.. July 24. (Specials Mother Vincent, formerly of Davenport, has been choen mother by the order of Slaters of Humanity of Iowa, with head quarters tn this city. Detroit Lako, Battle Lake. Lake CUtheral, Bemldjl Lake. Deerwood. are a few of many of the North ern Pacific's lake raaorts Write Chie. 8. Fee. G. P. T. A.. Northern Pacific Ry.. 8U Paul. Minn., for rates and information. WORKMEN SAVE THEIR MONEY Thrlfiy Habits of Austrian and Italians Employed on Illinois Contra.1. WEBSTER CITY, Ia., J-uly 24 -(Speclal. The Italians and Austrlans who are working on the Illinois Central In the em ploy of both the road and tha McArthur Bros., contractors, are an exceedingly thrifty set of men. There axe about 400 of them and on a pay roll of about $18,000 a month they put about $9,000. or one-half, In the bank each month. These men are engaged In making the Cen tral's famous $3.(00,000 grading cut acrosi the state. The method of banking used by them is at once unique and Interesting. They do not send their money back to Italy or Austria direct from here, as la generally supposed. Instead they place It In the banks at New York and Philadelphia, where they keep a standing account. The Italians all place their money In the New York banks, while the Austrlans u?e the Philadelphia banks. The former class are In the direct employ of the Illinils Central Railroad company, wh.Ie the latter are In the employ of the McArthur Bros. Many of the men of both nationalities are A correspondent of the Washington Post, wilting from Berlin, says Germany has had $30,000,000 in Idle, glittering gold hoarded for thirty .years In great Iron boxes for the sole purpose of launching' its mighty army and nnvy against the first enemy that dares to challenge the kaiser's legions to battle. The cash Is In Germain coin -10 at.d 20 mark pieces but It Is French money, be ing part of the collossal Indemnity Of $1,000, 000.000 which Bismarck and Moltke wrung from the humbled Frenchmen at the end of the war of 1870-71. Having won that cam paign because of the merciless, dn.lng rapidity with which they pounced upon t!;e French at the beginning of hostilities, the Germans thought It grimly appropriate that the fruits of their victory should supply the means with which similarly to crush their next great antagonist. This bagatelle of 320.000.000 marks does not, of course, represent the funds upon which Germany would solely rely In war time. It Is, in fact, only Its mobilization money. It expects It to last but six days, Just long enough to equip the whole nation for actual fighting. At a cost of $6,000,000 a day for that length of time the German war man agers figure that theycould arm to the teeth every mile of Germany's frontier and coast with men, gUnSKaod ships enough to offer irresistible defense and crushing at tack. . I , The war chest is contained In the historic Julius tower at Spandau, a fortified town, fifteen miles out of Berlin, which consti tutes the capital's strategic point of defense on the west. Spandau has a stirring mili tary history. It was savagely attacked by the Russians and Austrlans In the seven years' war, but gallantly and successfully defended by the grenadiers of Frederick the Great. In 1805, however, a coward Prussian commander surrendered it with out defense to the troops of Napoleon, who held It for nearly a year. Again, In 1812, French soldiers held the town during Na poleon's retreat from Moscow over Berlin. Prussian troops under Major General Thueme subjected Spandau to a terrific ten days' bombardment In 1813. at the end of which most of the .town was destroyed and the French driven out. The Julius tower and the fortress In which It stands are too or 600 years oIJ, having been erected In the days of the mark of Brandenburg by Albrecht the Bear. The tower was formerly known as the Judenturm." because was first in charge of a Jewish custodian. Although the earth fortifications of Spandau are now In process of gradual demolition, being too vulnerable for modern artillery, the town Is heavily garrisoned and alive with the troops of two Infantry regiments and one regiment of field artillery. It ia also the seat of several great arsenals and ammunition works. ; The war chest was Bismarck's idea. In 1874. after the cost of the French cam paign had been provided for, the Iron Chancellor determined to devote the surplus of the Indemnity to an Inviolable mobiliza tion fund for the German army, and the citadel of Spandau fortress was chosen as a fitting receptacle. The fortress stands upon a picturesque wooded island at tha Junction of the Rivers Havel and Spree, and is approached by old-fashioned draw bridges. At one end of the fortress rises the unpretentious red brick Julius tower, a circular pile some twenty-five feet In diameter and sixty feet high, in which the great hoarding of cash is kept. The money is packed In 1,200 wooden, iron-bound boxes, each containing 100.000 marks and weighing 107 pounds. The tower Includes two stories. Inclosed within thick stone walls. Three Immense Iron doors lead to the rooms In which the gold is Bto-ed. Each door has two different keys, which are In the keeping of different men. so that tne money can oniy i viewea In the presence of six persons with the keys to the various locks. The precious keys are In the custody of the Imperial chancellor, the secretary of the trensury, the commanding general of Bpandau garrison, a member of the Reich stag finance committee, and two subord inate officials of the War and Treasury de partments. These six functionaries Journey to Spandau every January to make an official Inspection of the war cheat. They do not bother to count every mark, con tenting themselves with weighing half a dozen boxes chosen at random. A regiment of field artillery Is stationed upon the Island immediately adjacent to the tower, but only single sentries guard the rich treasure citadel day and night. Around the base of the tower, which rests upon deep sunken stone foundations, are a series of small cellars of rough rock con struction. These are Inspected dally by a regimental colonel, to make sure that the approaches to the strong box are intact. There has been much speculation as to whether the war chest could not be robbed by an Ingenious process of tunneling com menced far away, but the government has rendered such an achievement practically Impossible by acquiring for. military pur poses most of the land In the neighborhood, and the Spandau country side for miles around is patrolled by troops. Periodically, during times of popular dis tress, particularly during the late Industrial tlons thst the Spandau war treasure be tapped for the relief of the poor and un employed, but such appeals have never been any more seriously considered than the occasional complaints against the economic waste Involved In kteping $3J, OnO.OOO Idle a fund which would have by now almost exactly doubled Itself If It had been put out at Interest at the modest rate of 8H per cent. Patriotic Germans can conceive of no mere money compensation equal to the advantage of having ready cash enough to enable them to loose the dogs of war with the deadly promptness that proved France's undoing.. Modern Germany, with Its high credit abroad, would probably experience little trouble in financing a war, although it would add terrific burdens to Its already heavily taxed subjects. Immediately the kaiser had declared war the Rrlchsttg would be asked to vote a war loan, which would be offered for subscription In the usuul manner In the money centers of the world, notably New York and Chicago, should the enemy happen to be European and the markets of Ixndon, Paris, Vienna, St Petersburg and Amsterdam prove averse to helping to foot the war bill of the fatherland. How much It would cost to feed, move and fight the 2,000,000 soldiers and sailors the kaiser would command Is problematical. It may be taken for granted, however, by Intending antagonists that the kaiser's ad visers, Moltke-llke, have that Item as clearly calculated and provided for us they have arranged a future Invasion of Fr.mce or Russia, which Is so minute as to Indicate the very hour train loads of German troips can be rushed to specific points' on the French or Russian frontier. ' In this connection It Is worthy of note that Germany's military budget for the year ended March, 1W3, was $142,0,000 and her navy cost $22,000,000. The accomplished secretary of the treas usy and chief financial officer of the Ger man empire Is Baron Max Guldo Franz von Thlelmann, who Is well known in the United States and a profound admirer of America and American Institutions. He served as German ambassador at AVnsh lugton for several years preceding the arrival of Dr. von Holleben. Baron von Thlelmann is an up-to-date, keen man of affairs and has the world's financial sit uation at the tip of his tonguo. His pe culiarly Intimate acquaintance with Amer ica has made him a valued member of the kaiser's cabinet during the late years, when the "American danger" has been such a continual nightmare to patriotic Germans. Baron von Thlelmann fsed to spend his summers at Lenox, Mass., where he learned golf, Mid he Is now president of the most aristocratic golf club In the empire at Ber lin, where he lrequently plays as a competitor of Ambassador Tower, Consul General Mason, and other leading Ameri cans who belong to the organization. Like England and France, Germany's official financial transictions are managed by a state bank, known as the Relchs bank. The paper currency of Germnny consists of Rclchjbank notes, which are outstanding at present to the amount of 11T) 00O.OCO marks, a total ?xactly redeem able with tho Idle chest finds at Fpa-ifau. Ge?many's policy of keeping her savings In her stocking, so to speak, is, of course, rather behind the times. Put It it a sur vival of a custom that used to be well nigh universal among tne nations, and that exists even today in Persia. The shah has his war chest In a strong room of the palace at Teheran, where he keeps $50,000,000 In gold pieces to be used only in case of war or some other great emer gency. Like most of the up-to-date sov erelgns, he is believed to have a com fortable balance for a rainy day at the Bank of England, nnd, of course, In ense of necessity, the royal Jewels, of which he has more than any other monarch, could be pawned for. enough cash to enable him to begin a respectable war. But in spite of these resources, it is said that not a single coin has been removed from the war chest In the palace during the present shah's reign. In this connection It is interesting to note that the destruction of the 'old citadel at Mete the other day unearthed the war chest of Emperor Charles V of Germany, left behind In his hasty retreat from the siege of 1652. In addition to a large sum In gold coin It was found to contain a great variety of watches, of which the king was an enthusiastic collector. The value of tho whole is estimated to be little short of $1,000,000. England used to have a war chest, too a strong box filled with gold that was car Tied about in every campaign to pay the army. The only reminder of it today, how ever, is what Is called the "treasury cheat fund," a government deposit of $3,760,000 that Is always kept at the same figure at the Bank of England; used only as a convenience whenever ready money Is re quired, and at once restored by whatever department adrew upon It. j I have heard that Austria and Italy both have an actual, literal war chest, filled with gold for an emergency, but Inquiry falls to evolve any definite sum or location out of the haze of mystery in which the subject Is carefully kept GOSSIP OF COMMISSION ROW Freak Berry Appears on Market Just to Be In Line with Cir cus Iden. Tha circus haa had its effects on the mar ket Yesterday the representatives of the vegetable kingdom were doing museum features. For Instance, for the edification of the retailers there were fifteen or twenty quarts of a berry which is a combination of the strawberry and the raspberry and a perversion of nature fully worth tha price of admission. This berry grows oa a thorn llko tho raspberry, but its fruit, while hav ing the rounded drupes over its surface, as In the raspberry, is In shape, stze and color a strawberry. Its flavor is not very satis fying. The blackberries have been selling too cheaply and find they have been losing money, so on Monday or Tuesday they will go up from $2.60 to $2.75 or $3. They will be scarce from now on and after about ten days there will be no more. There Is an occasional box of strawberries to be seen and a few red raspberries drift in at inter vals from Denver, but even these will not last two weeks. Ordinary raspberries have been all tn some days now. The rude and Impulsive Santa Fe railway has done something which will probably cause a shortage of peaches on the market Saturday. It has ditched ten cars of Cali fornia fruit out somewhere in the woolly and among these were at least two for this port. The market has been cleaned up again after having a whole car of tomatoes dumped on It and Is ready for another car Saturday. These are tomatoes It la a pleas ure to eat and they have gone at 75 and 80 cents. The next lot will be from Tennessee and will be cautiously taken up by the re tailers until It Is seen that there Is no feud to be worked out on northerners. The lem ons have taken a tumble off the shelf and hurt themselves. The price Is down 25 cents and will not go up again until warmer weather. I The White City at Walker, Minn., provides a camping re sort on the shores of Leech Lake where beauty of scenery, good fishing and comfort of the Individual arc all combined. Write Chaa. B. Fee, G. P. T. A. 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