Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 19, 1902, Page 7

« re Soeereeooveeeeoeeeoese POPES LOSSES HOO OOOOOO OOD OP OOOHOOO OOD 2° News of the Northwest# ©0060 POSH HHOHSESHEHOSO SSE SHES SHEHHHHOHHHHHHHHHSHESHHEHHH HOSE ALi UNDER WATER laVTEEN MILES OF COUNTRY EN WISCONSIN IS INUN- DAT DAM ON WOLF RIVER BREAKS VALUABLE FARM LAND NEAR ECHO BECOMES A GREAT LAKE, CAUSES CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE MAY GO OUT UNDER INCREASED WA- POWER. CPHER DAMS GREATLY TE Appleton, Wis., April 16.-About ‘f- eu miles of country, including some valucble farm land, is under water near Fach», Wis., as the result of the break of the Pose lake dam, on the Wotf i About fifty feet of the dam went out sterday morning and it is feared ,at the dams at Lower Pose lake, at Keshena, will giv cut under greatly sed water povver and entail seri- jamage by floods. water level ‘n Lake Winnebago derably raisxd since the break, tut ne particular difficulty is expected ut water power points along the Fox river. The dam is owned by the Wolf River provement Company ot Oshkosh. many St. Paul and Minneapolis nbermen e interested in properties siong the Wolf river. s METTLE. GOT WRON St. Paol Man Drinks Carb Acid Instead of Whisky St. Paal, April 16.s-Henry Fortmeyer *nded his life by drinking a large dose »’ carbolic acid, Fortmeyer was a iriver for the Standard Furniture com- any. He went to deliver some goods vt John Rolfing’s n He assisted Mr. Rolfing in moving some furniture n stairs, and in return for his ser- r. Rolfing offered to give him 2 By mistake Mr. Holfing secured 1 bottle containing carbolic acid in- 1 of whiskey. Mr. Rolfing noticed » label on the bottle, went to a clos- st to get the whisky and when he re- ed found Fortmeyer had taken a quantity of the acid. He died within a few minutes. HENNESSY PROMUTED, A Minneapolis Postal Official Whose Work Is Appreciated. Washington, April 16.—Upon the rec- ommendation of Rep ative Fletch- *, William R. Hen y of Minneapolis has been appointed a postoffice inspect- xr. Mr. Hennessy entered the postal » as a corrier in Minneapolis post- » in 1886. He was shortly after- ward transferred to the raiiway mail service and took the first mail over the Soo line. He was awarded a gold reedal by the postoffice department .n 1898 for efficiency. “ZIEB” GETS A JOB. Js Made United States ( missioner on Government Reserve. cux Falls, S. D., April 16. — Judge irland, of the United States court, 1s appointed F. M. Ziebach of Yank- 1 a United States commissioner for regory county. The appointment is made for the purpose of accommodat- the new settlers who are going into at county and the many thousands who will locate there when the 416,000 reres of the Rosebud Indian reserva- tion is opened to settlement during the oming summer. LIBRARY FOR ALBBRYT LE to Give the City 000. Albert Lea, Minn., April 16—Andrew Carnegie has just notified. Clint L. Luce, president of the local library board, that he will give $12,000 for a library building here if the city guar- antees $1,200 per year for maintenance, and furnish a site. There is no ques- tion about the provisions being com- plied with. The city has a library of about 1,500 volumes and about 400 per year are now being added. Carnegie Promisi * Question of Stamps. Winona, Minn., April 16.—The ques- tion of whether surety bonds given bY administrators, guardians and execu- tors in probate court business requires an internal revenue stamp is being in- vestigated here. Probate Judge Vance has interpreted the law to mean that the tax is not required, but internal revenue officers hold otherwise, and the question is now being taken up for final settlement. Adjustable Coach Step. Wincna, Minn., April 16. — Delmore Hawkins, 2 brakeman on the North- western road, has applied for a patent on an adjustable step for passenger eoaches. The object of the step is to do away with the use of stools where the station platforms are low. It is tooked upon with fmuch favor by rail- way officials. Carpenters on 2 Strike. ‘Waterloo, Iowa, April 16. — Three hundred penters and unskilled shop laborers of the Mlinois Central railroad are on a strike, demanding 20 and 25 per cent increase inpay. The company has offered to compromise on 10 and 421-2 per cent raise, which was re- fused. Murder and Robbery. Sioux City, Iowa, April 16—Carl Pres- ton, a farmer near Odebolt, was found dead at his home and murder and rob- bery is suspected. : THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, April 16. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 72@73c; No, 2 Northern, 71@ Corn—No, 3 yellow, 56@57c; No. 3, Oats—No, 3 white, 42@42 1-2c; 39G4le. Minneapolis, April 16.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 745-8e; No. 1 Northern, 723-8@ 725-8¢; No. 2 Northern, 70 7-8@711-8c. Duluth, April 16.—Wheat—Cash, No. 1 hard, 75 5-8e; No. 1 Northern, 72 5-8e; No. 2 Northern, 701-8¢c; No, 3 spring, No. 1 Northern, + corn, 6lc; oats, Milwaukee, Wis. —No. 1 Northern, Northern, 721-2@72 3-4 2 72 3-8@ Barley —Cash Wheat—No. 2 red, 80@811-2c; No. 3 red, 79@80c; No. 2 hard winter, 741-2 @ 751-2c; No. 3 hard winter, 75@75e; No. 1 Northern spring, 74@75c; No. 2 Northern spring, 721-8@731-2c; No. 3 spring, 68 @ 73c. Corn--No. 3, 61@62c. Oats—No. 2, 421-2 @43c; No. 3, 42@42 1-2c. Sioux City, Iowa, April 16—Cattle— Beeves, $4.50 @ 5.85; cows, bulls and mixed, $2.50@5.25; stockers and feeders, $3@4.50; yearlings and calves, $2.50@4.25. Hogs, $6.70@7; bulk, $6.75@6.85. Chicago, April 16. — Cattle—Good to prime steers, $6.70@7.40; poor to medi- um, $6.40 @ 6.70; heifers, $2.50 @ 6; calves, $2.5005.70. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $6.55@Z; good to choice heavy, $6.85@7.07 1-2. Sncep—Good to choice wethers, Western, $4.50@6; native lambs, $4.75@7; Western lambs, $5.25@7. South St. Paul, April 16. — Cattle — Choice butcher steers, $6.2546.50; good, $5.50@6; good to choice veals, $4.50@5; good to choice feeding steers, $3.50@4.50. Hogs—Light and light mixed, $6.40@ 670; mixed and butchers, $6.50@6.85. Sheep—Fancy lambs, 36.1046. good to choice fat lambs, 0G. RAVISHED .BY FIEND. GIRL und Girt Are Set Upon by a Brutal Murderer. Des Moines, Iowa, April 16. — While returning from Highland Park Metho- dist church on the north outskirts of the city Sunday evening Mary Peter- son, fifteen years of age, and Thomas, aged eleven, children of Peter J. Peter- son, a well-to-do dairyman, were mur- dered by some unknown person, The boy, when found at midnight, was alive, but died within fifteen minutes, not be- ing able to give a cription of his as- sailant. The children each Sunday went to the Highland Park church, usually attending the evening servize. In going they passed along what is knowr as the county road which leads to the county hospital. The bodies were discovered by a farmer who heard the moars of the lad. An examination re- vealed that both had their heads crusked in by what is believed to have been a. brick. The entire police force is working on the case. : The police so far are without a clew. The body of the girl was found at the foot of a tele- phone pole in a ditch two feet deep. She bad been ravished by her assailant. Her urderelothing was badly torn. At the base of the head she had been hit with some hard ‘nstrument, resulting in fracturing the skull. Boy COW FOOLS FARMER, Instead of One Calf, Bossic Gives Him Four. Farmington. Minn., April 16.—A grade Durham cow owned by Gilbert Halver- son, in Eureka township, on April 1 gave birth to four heifer calves, aver- aging thirty-four pounds in weight. The calves were born in. the night in a straw stack, and when found by Mr. Halverson w put in the barn. The cow is four years old and gave birth to a calf at the age of two; also at the age of three. Mr. Halverson raised the vow and still owns its mother, who is in geod condition at eighteen years of age. The calves resemble each other so much that ribbons are tied on two so as to know which two have been fed. SULIT AG ST POLICE CHIEF, Dakotan Hart $4,000 Worth by a Billy. Fargo, N. D., April 16.—In the United States court Charles Blood, a farmer near Fargo, has sued Chief of Police Murphy of Moorhead for $4,000 person- al damages. Blood says he was in a Moorhead saloon Feb. 20. Two men be- came ipyolved in a row in which he did not participate. Murphy ordered him under arrest, and, on Blood’s refusal, assistance was called and Blood forc! bly taken to the lock-up. Blood states he was clubbed over the head, necessi- tating treatment in the hospital. North TRAGEDY FOLLOWS QUARREL. Wealthy Iown Refuses to Assent to a Business Transaction and Is Shot. Glenwood, Iowa, April 16.—Earl Gar- man shot and probably fatally wounded his father, M. L. Garman. last night. Young Garman was endeavoring to secure his father's consent to a busi- ness transaction, and, on being refused, drew a revolver and shot his father in the back of the head. The elder Gar- man was owner of the Glenwood mills, and s of considerable local promi- nence. FOUL ‘PLAY SUSPECTED. lown Farmer Found Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances. Odebolt, Iowa, April 16. — Carl W. Preston was found a few miles south of here with a bullet hole in his head, underneath which was a rifle with one cartridge discharged. As the hole was behind his ear susolcion of foul play is held, and an investigation is in progress. Fresn buggy tracks led to and, from the house. Preston was @ popular bachelor farmer. DEPOT BLOWN UP RS USE TOO MUCH NITRO- RINE AND DEPOT 1S WRECKED. RURGL GLYCt KILLED BURGLARS —_ PROBABLY NO TRACE OF EITHER THE SAFE OR THE ROBBERS CAN BE FOUND. EXPLOSION SHOOK THE TOWN WINDOWS SHATTERED AND BOARDS DRIVER THROUGH SIDES OF BUILDINGS. Eveleth, Minn., April 17. Burglars made an error in judgment in estimat- ing the amount of nitro-glycerine need- ed to blow open the depot safe, and now not a trace of the safe can be found, and the depot is scattered all over a large area, The burglars are missing, and it is not known whether they have yet come down. About 4, o’clock yesterday morning: burglars made an attempt to enter the safe in the station of the Duluth, Me- saba & Northern railroad. They made entrance to the depot easily and intro- duced a charge of nitro-glycerine in the safe. A few minutes later there was an explosion that woke up the en- tire town and shattered windows in houses for blocks around. When the crowd got there the station Jay in ruins, and the $ Debris Had Caught Fire from the stove. The flames were ex- tinguished, and then an unsuccessful search was made for the safe, It was too big to carry away, and it is thought it must have been blown into pieces too small to be located. No trace whatever can be found of the burglars, and it is not known whether they shared the fate of the safe or made their eseay It is said that just before the explo- sion two men were seen running hastily from the @epot toward the Spruce mine, near the village, though no one knows who they wer Money has been found some distan way from the scene of the explosion. Boards from the depot were driven through the sides of build- ings near by. An attempt was also made to enter the Duluth and Iron Range depot. but the burglars were evidently frightened away. CAUSED BY A CRANK PIN. Homestake Stamp Mill Will Close Down Indefinitely. Lead, S. D., April 17.—A crank pin broke on the 350-horse power engine in the Highland stamp mill of the Home- stake, and the flying piston wrecked the engine and other machinery so badly that it will be necessary to close down for an indefinite périod. Both cylinder heads were broken out and the connect- ing rod tore up’ the floor of the engine room. <A. D. Ferguson, the engineer, had stepped out of the room for a m»o- ment, and there was ro one within reach of the flying rod. He felt his way back through the fog of steam and shut off the throttle, but not in time to prevent the ruin of the engine. AE AR neta MAD SHEEP. Forty Head, Bitten by Dog, Dying of Hydrophobia. Appleton, Wis., April 17. — Arthur Brenkensteder, of the town of Osborn owns a_ flock of eighty Southdown sheep, highly bred, forty of which were bitten by a dog about two weeks ago. They are now coming down with hy- drophobia at the rate of five or six 4 day. Scme of them have died. They froth at the mouth and butt each oth- er. Adam Schyer went to shear them yesterday and was attacked, the sheep butting and attempting to bite him. Ali of them were bitten about the head. Their noses are ‘ed and badly swollen. They have been separated from the rest of the flock. POLICE HAVE A CLUE. Excitement ins Dex Moines Over Double Murder Is Intense. Des Moines, Iowa, April 17. -- The chief of police announced yesterday that he had unearthed a tangible clue’ which he believes will lead to the arrest’ of the murderers of the two Peterson children Sunday night. He refused to divulge the details. The negroes now in jail it is conceded have no connection. with the case. John Hutchinson, who was arrested because he had spots on his clothes, -has b2en able to prove an: alibi and will be released. The excite- ment over the case is intense and ev- ery precaution has been taken to pre- vent a mob from seeing any person who might be arrested. BARELY ESCAPE DEATH. Northwestern Into Open Switch, Huron, 8. D., April 17.—About noon yesterday a Chicago & Northwestern train, drawn by two engines, ran into an open switch at Iroquois, Engineers Mills and Winnegar and Conductor Greene narrowly escaped death. Both engines and nine cars jumped the track. Several feet of track was torn up and the depot platform partly demolished. Chicago, in Runs Pastor’ Killed by Train. Ottumwa, Towa, April 17.—Rev. D. F. Dunlavey of Chillicothe, aged forty- seven, is dead as a result of injuries re- ceived by being struck by the fast freight on the Burlington. He was pas- tor of the Methodist church at Chilli- cothe and was married. Child Burns to Death, Appleton, Wis., April. 17.—Mary, the two-year-old infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kline, was burned to death yesterday afternoon in a rubbish fire in her parents’ back yard. shippin ghouse of the firm. OLEC’S HARD ROAD. Between State and National Laws Its Faturt Here f4u't Bright. State Dairy and Food Commissioner McConnell and George L. Dingman, his assistant, welecme the passage of the oleomargarine bill by congre¢3. They believe that the government tax, in connection with Minnesota's strin- gent state law, will drive not only oleo- maigarine but renovated butter entire- ly out of the state. There are now just two establishments in the state that ave government licenses to sell oléb- margerine at wholesale and no retail licenses exist in the state. The oleo law about to be passed final- ly by congress expressly states that it shall not alter or make void any state law. Minnesota ‘absolutely prohibits the sale of colorad oleo or adulterated butter. The federal statute will im- Fose a tax of 10 cents 2 pound on both articles, which will be prohibitive in itself. But even after paying the tax, dealers cannot sell colored oleo in this state, or adulterated butter. Agents of the internal revenu2 department. will Icok after the collection of the tax and somewhat lighten the burden now rest- ing on the state authorities. Renovated butter, old butter that has been rechurned to give it a fresh ap- pearance, may be sold in Minnesota if stamped or labeled. The cleo bill re- quires a license of $600 from the manu- facturer of this produce, $480 for the wholesaler and $48 for the retailer. It also imposes a tax of a quarter of a cent per pound. The same conditions apply to uncolored oleomargarine. It can still be dealt in, where the tax is paid and the proper sign rosted/ but af- ter complying with all these conditiohs even the uncolored product will not be a profitable article cf commerce. Any one buying it and coloring it to serve in a hotel or restaurant is treated as a marufacturer, and must pay the tax of 10 cents a pound, while the state law prohibits such an act altogether. The difficulty has been in keeping out of the state oleo shipped in from out- side in original packages to proprie- tors of restauraits, and especially io the Northern lumber camps. The new law will cut this off by hitting the man- ufacturer and depriving Minnesotans of their source of surply. The law ee rsuch to the deiry interests of e state, TAX SALE INSTRUCTIONS. Auditor Dunn Issues a Circular to Couty Awiditors. State Auditor Dunn has prepared a circular of instructions, which has been approved by Attorney General Douglas, relating to the Anderson tax law, which he is sendiag to county auditors in responge to the many inquiries re- garding the application of the law this spring. The circular states that the sale of delinquent -taxes this year should be held the second Monday in May as provided in the Anderson law, and the notice of sale should be given and the sale conducted as provided by the law. The certificates of sale are to be issved as near as possible in the form given in the new law. The circular calls attention to section 29 of the law, which covers proceedings subsequent to the sale in May, and al- lows the county auditor to transfer the land bid in by the state at any time to any person, except officials connected with the previous proceedings, who shall pay the state the amount’ for which the land was did in and 12 per cent interest. Title 4 of the law will govern re- demptions that may be made of land sold for delinquent taxes. No sale of unredeemed lands as provided for in title 5 of the law, can take place, the circular states, until after three years have elapsed from the second Monday in May, 1902, and no county auditor will be required to submit to ‘he state audi- tor the annual list of lands that have become the absolute property of the state, required by law, until July, 1905. Another circular will be issued with- in three weeks pertaining to the sale of lands the absolute preperty of the state under the general tax law of 1878, as the provision of the Anderson bill re- lating to the sale of unredeemed lands, apply only to lands sold under the pro- vision of that act. CALL FOR BOND BIDS. Heretofore the State Has Bought Bonds in the Open Market. The state board of investment, at its meeting April 22, for the first time in its history will receive sealed bids from financial firms,-on uniform blanks pre- pared by the state treasurer, for selling from $100,000 to $200,000 of bonds to the state. Heretofore when there was money enough in the permanent funds which the board invests, bonds have been bought in the open market, or of firms that made an acceptable offer. In some instances there has been competition among firms desiring to sell bonds to the state, but this will be the first time that the state has received sealed or- ders. The blanks on which the offers are to be made are furnished by the state treasurer, giving the desired informa- tion about the bonds which the firms offer. ‘The bonds purchased will be for the permanent school fund. _ *. ELEVATOR BURNED. Immense Quantity of Wheat Is De- stroyed nt Glencoe. Glencoe, Minn., April 11. — ‘The ele- vator of the Treadway Bros., of this place, caught ‘ire in the cupola yester- day at 1:15 p. m. and was a total loss. There was 16,000-bushels of wheat and several hundred bushels of corn in the puilding. This was the old A. H. Reed & Co. elevator, built in 1873, and thor- oughly repaired by the Treadways last fall at a cost of $6,000 and was the main Na FIGHT 1TS CLAIM IN COURT. Red Wing Insists on Having Girls’ _ raining School. The state boar] of control has re- ceived verbal notice from Attorneys O. M. Hall and Frank Wilson that the people of Red Wing will bring injunc- tion proceedings sgainst the bozrd if it attempts to locate the new girls’ train- ing school,‘ provided for by the legis- lature last winter, at any city except Red Wing. The original act providing for a state training school for boys and girls lo- cated the institution at Red Wing. The Red Wingers claim that the law pro- viding for a new state training school for girls is unconstitutional. The in- stitution was provided for in the gen- eral appropriation bill, and the claim is made that the title of the act does not embrace the establishment of a new school. The title reads: “An act to appropriate money for the general expenses of the state govern- ment and other purposes.” Under the head of “State Training School” the state board of control is empowered to separate the boy and girl inmates of the Red Wing institu- tion, and establish for the girl inmates an institution to be known as the “Min- nesota State training school for girls,” to be located more than two and one- haif miles from the present training school, which shall hereafter be used for boys only. 'The act appropriates $43,000 for a site and the erection of two cottages for the school, and provides that prefer- ence is to be given te the city offering a free site. Red Wing has as yet made no offer of a site, and claims that the school must be located in that city, but two and one-kalf miles from the present insti- tution. Hutchinson, Carver, Glencoe, Pine City, Litchfield and a half-dozen other towns have made tenders of sites, and there is ke2n rivalry among some dozen small cities to secure the institu- tion. The board of control has as yet taken no steps toward locating the school. If the beard should be compelled to lo- cate the school at Red Wing it is prob- able that the appropriation would be practically exhausted in furnishing a site. If the Red Wingites persist in the threat to carry the matter to the courts it is probable that the location of the school will be deferred until after the next session of the legislature. MEAT IS IMPROVED. Shows Greatly De- Dairy Report IMegal creased Percentage of Product. The dairy and food department has reported on the analysis of 95 samples of sausage, head cheese, hamburg steak, pressed beef and boneless ham. Of the 95 gamples 85 were legal and but 10 illegal. All of the illegal samples were of packinghouse make, containing preservatives not permitted by law. This is the cleanest report yet made of meat inspection. It shows that the de- partment is having success in securing compliance with the law and in elevat- ing the standard of meat preparations. It is evidence also that the retail meat dealers are very particular and vigilant in offering to customers only meat preparations of standard quality. The department also presented the final report on analysis of vinegar, sup- plementing the previous week’s report. The rumber of inspections noted the previous week was 76, of which 46 were legal and 30 illegal. The last report is on 95 samples, of which number 52 were legal and 43 illegal. The: percentage of illegal sample& was very high in both reports, but esp2cially in the latter. There is a total of 98 legal samples and 73 illegal, which is a very high percent- age of poor vinegar. As noted in the earlier report, nearly all the illegal samples were of foreign manufacture, being shipped into Min- nesota and piaced with retailers for sale. “ Commissionet McConnell says: The home-made vinegars manufactured in Minnesota are almost invariably found to comply with the law. This is an in- teresting and important fact to be con- sidered by the retailers. There is no object whatever “n handling goods that are not of standard quality, nor is there believed to be any disposition to do 30. ‘The fact that Minnesota vinegars are of standard quality should be appreci- ated, and no doubt this is the case. : The department reports also on jellies, jams and preserves. Of 13 samples 8 were legal and 5 illegal. Only 2 of -the 13 were of Minnesota manu- facture, and both were found to be legal. All illegal samples were of out- side manufacture, and were labeled as being pure and up to standard. It is quite easy to deceive in these goods,” and dealers are becoming to realize more than ever that their safety lies in patronizing the home manufacturer, who has an object in seeing that his goods are all up to the required stand- ard. LABOR IS INTERESTED. Proportion of Answers to Depart- ment Questions Larger Thany Any The wage-earners of Minnesota are replying to the inquiries sent out by ‘Labor Commissioner O'Donnell better 'than those in/any other state. The in- ‘Cividual wage-earfiers’ statement has thus far brought 269 replies out of 500 planks sent out, more than f0 per cent. The female wage-earners have sent ‘in about 100 replies to the 250 inquiries! ‘sent out. The employers of domestic servants have been indifferent to the dnquiries made by the department. The experience of other states has seldom resulted in more than 15 per cent of re- plies to the inquiries by state labor de- partments. making special investigations, is re~ ported recently as having received less than 5 per cent of replies to the in- quiries: S 7 The large proportion of replies re- ceived, reported by Commissioner O’Dernell to the eighteenth convention of labor commissioners held at New Orleans a few days ago, was consid- ered wonderful, and the testimony of the commissioners of other states showed that an investigation was us- ually considered successful if from 10 to 15 per cent of the tlanks sent out were returned answered. - i Wisconsin, which is now |- BULLETIN NO, 1 OUT. First of the Weekiy Crop Reports for Minnesotan Section. The weather bureau’s climate and crop service bulletin, No. 1, for the Minnesota section, has been issued. These bulletins will be issued weekly threugh the spring, summer and part of the fell months. Bulletin No. 1 is given below: The preci tion during the month was light. Some dragging was done in central and western portions before the cold weather, and in yery dry spots a little wheat was seeded between the 10th and 15th. After ihe 24th there was considerable windy, cloidy and damo weather, but no heavy rains. Wheat seeding began again about the 24th in the southern half of the state, with the soil in good condition for working. At the close of the month the whole Red river valley was still wet, and no work had been done, while in the southern half of the state considerable prepara- tion for seeding had been made, some in wheat seeding, and in the southern pcrtion wheat seed- S$ well advanced. a few oats sown, some gardening done and pota- toes planted in one or two cases. In the southern half the soil was in excellent condition, except in the extreme south- east. where it was too wet. Very high winds on the 26th, and 27th caused soil- drifting in some places. It is still too early to determine the condition of the winter rye and the small area of winter wheat. Cool weather and generally dry, ex- cept for rains in the middle west, and at seattered points elsewhere, on the 6th. The low lands of the Red river valley are wet, and no seeding has been done in the valley except a very little in Clay county. In the southern half of the state the soil is in splendid con- dition for working, except in the south- east, where the soil is wet. Wheat seeding has been general, though de- by the heavy frosts, and in some it is finished. In the southern cats are being sown, and small areas of barley. Gardening is also be- gun. A copious warm rain is needed to insure satisfactory . germination of seed sown in light soil. Very cold for the season on the 7th and Sth, and cold enough on other mornings of the week for heavy frosts or freezing in the fields. Generally very light rains on the Sth and 10th in parts of the middle west and southwest, and very heavy rains in Clay county, In all the southern two-thirds of the state good rains are very much needed, No work in the Red river valley except a little harrowing and wheat séeding in Kittson county, and a beginning of spring work in Marshall county on the, 12th. In the central and southern por- tions the soil is in splendid condition for working, but in nearly all this area it is too dry to sprout the seed, and this dryness, with the cold of the soil, is retarding germination seriously. Wheat seeding is general, and is ad- vanced from a mere beginning in the northern central and the extreme south- west portions, to completion in the southwestern and central southern por- ticns. Oat seeding is progressing nice- ly where the wheat seeding is well in hand, and some barley is sown in southern counties. The freezing of the soil early in the week retarded work in the forenoons, and later in the week gales of wind made work very uncom- fortable and difficult. On the 10th and lith, in all the southern half of the state, there were westerly and north- westerly gales of wind which raised the dry soil into the air in clouds, which were so dense in places as almost to obscure the light of the sun, This soll- drifting uncovered a great deal of seed, which is said to be lying bare on the surface of the ground; the broadcast seed suffered more in this respect than the drilled seed. Winter rye and win- ter wheat generally look well. but growth is very slow. LY REPORT ON SMALLPOX. State Health Department Finds That ‘The Dixeaxe Ix Decreasing. Three deaths from smallpox were re- ported to the state board of health during the past week, one from Bran- don township, Douglas county, one from Union township, Houston county, and one from Lodi towaship, Wower county. The report for the week shows a de- crease in the extent of the disease, amd contains the sixty cases in Mille Lacs county discovered by Inspector Sinks during his tour through the county, where the railroad does not reach. A total of 63 cases are reported from that county, 41 in Onamai township and 15 cases in South Harbor township. Ner- vis, Hubbard county. reports eleven cases, and Bemidji eleven cases. Three cases are reported from Hennepin coun- ty, all outside of Minneapolis, and six cases are reported from St, Paul. w MEDAL FOR DAIRYMEN, Van Sant Supplies Prize for Bighext Butter Scores, Gov. S. R. Van Sant has supplied a $100 gold medal to be given to the dairyman who kas been a contestant in all the monthly butter contests of the dairy and food commission, and who has the highest average score for the year. The medal will * be awarded about May 25, when the last monthly contest closes. On the front of the medal ts engraved “Van Sant Medal.” The state seal, raised in gold, is in the center, and around it is engraved ‘Minnesota Dairy and Food Commission.” On the reverse side of the medal is the figure of a cow, raised in gold, with the name of the winner and his score. ¢ Gov. Theater and Saloon Burn. Rib Lake, Wis., April 17.—Fire broke out in the new Bonneville opera hall early yesterday and destroyed the hall and a saloon underneath. The loss is estimated at $8,000, with no insurance. Roanoke, Va., April 172—It was an-_ nounced yesterday that the Protective Order of Elks had purchased the Hotel Bedford at Bedford City and ste eat the building into a na- na * home, on the Norfoyk & Wentarh rele eth tae ; Roanoke and Lynchburg.