Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 21, 1902, Page 3

anne L MAYORIS INDICTED ‘THE MINNEAPOLIS OFFICIAL CAARGED WITH OFFERING A BRIBE. sir, DOC AMES IN SERIOUS TROUBLE ALLEGED THAT HE MADE IM- PROPER PROPOSALS TO OF- ‘ FICIALS. | WANTED OFFICE FOR A FRIEND rf SHERIF: FEES THE TEMPTING BAIT ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN OFFERED, Minneapolis, June 18.—Mayor Ames, four times mayor of Minneapolis, Dem- ocratic nominee for governor against \ A. R. McGill, and so prominent and pepular in his party that he was once talked about as good vice-presidential material, was indicted by the Hennepin county grand jury yesterday afternoon. This came as the most sensational act of the jury’s prolonged and careful de- liberations. or Ames was not only indicted yesterday afternoon for “offering a bribe for appointment to public office,” but the vote of the jury was unanimous. There was absolutely no dissenting from the conclusion that the statements made to the grand jury by County Commissioners Nash and Sweet a fort- uight since that Mayor Ames Had Tried to Bribe commissioners into electing his (the s) private secretary, Tom Brown, , : to succeed Sheriff Phil T. Megaarden were sad, simple statements of fact. The grand jury, many of whom are per- ; 3 sonal friends of Mayor Ames, would | have been exceedingly pleased, so it is said, with an opportunity to avoid in- | dicting the mayor. While the eviden: in regard to the doings of Gardner, Nor- beck, Harvey and others who were close to Mayor Ames, was enough to create the feeling that the mayor knew about these strange affairs, still the jurors hoped that nothing conclusive would be developed so far 28 the mayor's “per- sonal interests were concerned. County Commissioner Nyburg, so it id, was also approached by Mayor in regard to the selection-of Tom ~) z th | | | is Ame Prown as successor to the dethroned Megaarden. To Divide Sheriffs Fees. It is probable the mayor will be ar- raigned some time to-day. The allega- tion is made that Mayor Ames person- r ally approached the three Republican members of the board of county com- missioners and told them he was anx- ious to have his private secretary chosen as sheriff; that he (Ames) said the office was worth $20,000, but that Brown would be satisfied with $5,000, and the remaining $15,000 would go to the commissioners. Commissioner Nesh, who has been @ life-long friend of Mayor Ames, says he is charitable enough to believe the mayor was under the influence of mor- vhine or some other powerful drug when he made these rash propositions, | ond that he did not really appreciate j he real character of that proposition. LOCUSTS AT WORK. Destroy Fields of Grain in North Dakota. Grandin, N. D., June 18.—Grasshop- pers are reported numerous on some farms here. C. C. Evans has ten acres of wheat eaten to the ground, and the vest uf the field going rapidly. A novel nethod is being used to destroy them. | A large flat surface is covered with coal tar and dragged over the field. The grasshoppers that light on it are held by the tar. At the end of the fieid tar and grasshoppers are scraped off and burned. IT IS ALL VELVET. Schools of South Dakota Get $270,- { 924 of Income Fund. | Pierre, 8. D., June 18.—The state land = department is distributing to the schools of the state $270,924 of the in- , come fund, which goes direct to the schools. This is at the rate of $2.15 per capita, and 15 cents more for each child than on any former semi-annual distri- bution and is made on a school popula- } tion 5,104 greater than for any other distribution. MAY BE DEAD OF EXPOSURE. Young Man Disappears and Search- ing Parties Go Out. Henning, Minn., June 18. — John, the twenty-two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Owens of Inman township, left home on June 9 and has not been heard of since. He is subject to severe — epileptic spells, and it is believed that he has wandered off and died of expos- ure, Searching parties have been un- cable to locate him. ‘ HALF-BREED IS ACCUSED. South Dakotan Charged With Mur- der of George Puck. " Sturgis, S. D., June 18.—Ernest Loves was arrested at the Boe ranch, sixty- five miles north of here, and brought to Sturgis. He is charged with the murder -of George Puck on the Red Owl. He is a half-breed. HIS ARM SAWED OFF. Henning Man May Die of His In- juries, Henning, Minn., June 18.—Ed@ Dalson _of this place had his right arm entirely severed close to the shoulder in a saw- mill Saturday. It is feared that the -shoek will prove fatal. ExjAirea’on the Street. ‘Tracy, Minn., June 18. — Frank P. Stevens, a prominent real estate dealer, died very suddenly while on his way to his office of heart Cisease. He was one ,of the early residents of this town. SUGAR PLANTS FOR WISCONSIN. Nine Factories Promised if the Pres- ent Tariff on the Co: odity Is Not Reduced. Milwaukee, June 17.—Contracts have been closed with citizens committees from nine cities in this state by the Wisconsin Sugar company, through which the company agrees to build in each place a beet sugar factory, provid- ing the farmers agree to plant 4,000 acres of beets for three years, and there is no reduction in the present sugar tariff. Two of these factories will be erected next year, and the others in the following year. The cities named are Watertown, Kaukauna, Beaver Dam, Chippewa Falls, Green Bay, Oconto, Racine, Janesville and Dorchester. HE HIT THE PIPE. + Carpenter Who Gets Up in the Night to Smoke Goes Insane. Sioux City, Iowa, June 17.—Because he smoked a strong pipe continuously, and even got up in the night and smoked it, Mir. Michael Donohue claims her husband, a carpenter, sixty-three years of age, went insane. Donohue tried to quit smoking, his wife says, and it made his nervous system worse, and he wanted to murder his family and all the neighbors. Donohue is locked up in the county jail and the in- sanity commission * will examine his mental condition. OPERATORS WILL ORGANIZE, Western Union Men Will Meet in Chicago to Form a Union. New York, June 17.—A secret meeting of Western Union Telegraph operators will be held next Sunday in Chicago for the purpose, it is said, of forming a new- ly organized protective brotherhood in their ranks. A call for the meeting was received in this city yesterday and cir- culated among the operators. The op- erators are not anxious to talk about the new organization, and those who will represent New York at the meeting are being chosen with great secrecy. It is expected that delegates will be present from New York, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, St. Paul, Detroit, Pittsburg and Buffalo. GORED TO DEATH BY BULL. Wisconsin Farmer Is Killed by a Vicious Animal. Oconomowoc, Wis., June 17. — Mads Sorensen, aged seventy-two years, a farmer residing in the town of Summit, near here, was gored to death by a bull on his farm. The old man was gored three times and his’ body was badly lacerated. He managed to crawl through a fence, but his injuries proved fatal and he lived only an hour after the encounter with the bull. FATAL DEVOTION, Doctor Contracts Diphtheria From n Patient and Dies. Sioux Falls, S. D., June 17.—Dr. John A. Garrett, who has been practicing medicine in Sioux Falls for. several years, is dead as the result of his devo- tion to a patient who was stricken with diphtheria. The doctor contracted the disease, and, although everything that medical science could offer was done for him, the effort to save his life was unavailing. TINE PIERCES BRAIN. Farm Hand Sleeps on Haymow and ‘Won’t Wake Up. Appleton, Minn., June 17. — Frank Johnson, a middle-aged laboring man, was killed on a farm west of this vil- lage. He was sleeping in a haymow and a boy went to put down some hay and threw his fork into a pile of hay, striking Johnson in the temple, killing him instantly. Burglars at Faribault. Faribault, Minn., June 17. — F. W. Winter & Co.’s foundry and machine shop was broken into by burglars. They worked the combination and opened the office safe. The iron cash box, which was locked and contained several drafts and checks and a number of valuable papers, but. no money, was torn out and carried away. Several valuable tools were alse taken from the machine shop. The burglars left no clue. pail IN eR Beloit Commencement. Beloit, Wis., June 17.—The fifty-fifth commencement exercises of Beloit col- lege began yesterday. Dr. F. W. Gun- salus of Chicago delivered the bacca- laureate sermon. There were thirty- five graduates. The special feature of commencement week will be the Greek comedy, “The Frogs of Aristophanes,” by the sophomore class. It is the sec- ond attempt in America to present @ Greek play. 5 Secretary Wilson Will Be There. Menomonie, Wis., June 17.—Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture kas accepted an invitation to be present and conduct the opening exercises in October next of the Dunn county agri- cultural college in this city, the first school of the kind to be established in the United States. eee ES ES New President for Madison. Milwaukee, June 17.—The trustees of the University of Wisconsin will an- nounce Wedaesday that President J. W. Bashford of the Ohio Wesleyan uni- versity at Delaware has been chdsen as president of the Wisconsin university. Three Persons Drowned. Port Huron, Mich., June 17.—During a gale P. Martin, aged 17; Beatrice Harris, 16, and Norma Abraham, 7, were drowned, in Lake Huron by the over- turning fo a rowboat off Edison Beach. ‘The accident was witnessed by many. Drowns From a Bicycle. Eau Claire, Wis., June 17. — Dellber Skinner, aged seventeen, an employe at the paper mill, while riding his bicycle along the top of the long flume on the Chippewa river on his way home from the mill, fell into the rapids below the dam and was drowned. “Ss i PER aS cS Girl Killed by Lightning. Kokomo, Ind., June 17.—Miss Myrtle McCoy, fifteen years old, was killed by lightning’ while sitting in the doorway of her home, four miles north of here. A child in her lap was unhurt. - ° e e ss e é e ASYLUMS ARE ALL CROWDED. State Board Asks for| Bids on Two Additions. %, The state board of control advertised for bids for the erection of the new wings of the Hastings and the Anoka iusane hospitals. The legislature in 1901 provided for a new wing at each of the institutions to cost $29,000, and to accommodate ‘about 125 patients. The bids will be opened June 24. The additions will practically double the present capacity of both the Anoka and the Hastings institutions and will be immediately nlled by chronic cases niw cared for at the insane hospitals. “The problem of caring for the incur- able insane and those that can be berle- fited by medical treatment is difficult,” said W. E. Lee of the state board of control. “One of the large hospitals could accommodate all the patients that we have that can be greatly bene- fitted by medical treatment. Such an arrangement as having one hospital and the remainder of the institutions as asylums might be possible if the present hospitals were strictly state and not local institutions, but it is out of the question now. Then, too, the item of transportation to and from the asylums would be costly. “Anoka and Hastings may some day be transformed into hospitals, and then a cottage asylum system could be built up about each of the state institutions for the care of insane, This would cost a little more for maintenance than at present, as there would have to be a medical staff. Now we have no medical staff at the Anoka and Hastings asyl- ums, but have a physician from town visit the institution each day. “The present hospitals would be much better off if at least half the inmates were quartered in asylum cottages near-by, say within a mile or two. The chronic cases need very little medical attendance and could be cared for at the cottages. The superintendent, cvhen in doubt whether a case is 80 chronic as to justify the patient’s being sent te one of the asylums, could send the patient to a cottage. “The present hospital buildings would in no wise be wasted if half the tn- mates were removed to cottages. The Increased efficiency due to the addi- tional room would more than compen- sate for the decrease in the number of people housed.” pS a te SES CO-OPFERATE TO IMPROVE STOCK. AMES GIVES BAIL} MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR Is RAIGNED, CHARGED WITH BRIBERY. AR- A NEW SENSATION [IS SPRUNG DETECTIVE: ON TRIAL FOR AL- LEGED BRIBERY DISAP- PEARS. MAY WAVE KILLED HIMSELF NEVER HAS MINNEAPOLIS BEEN S80, WROUGHT UP BE- FORE. Minneapolis, June 19.—Mayor Albert Alonzo Ames of Minneapolis is ar- raigned in court to answer two indict- ments charging him with having at- tempted to bribe a public official. Christopner C. Norbeck, a city de- tective whose trial for bribing had been in progress several days, disappears mysteriously, interrupting in a startling and wholly unexpected way very sensa- uvonal judicial proceedings. These were the more interesting de- velopments in the police scandal situa- tion yesterday. Never in the nearly half-century history of the county has there been anything like the excitement which has bee1 caused by the unpleas- ant relations of the past few weeks. AS the mills of justice continue to grind the results become more and more sen- sational. The arrest, trial and convic- tion of Irviag W. Gardner, the ener- getic and enthusiastic financier and go- between of the municipal administra- tion, Caused Much Stir indeed; but the earlier proceedings at the big court house were unimportant as compared with yesterday’s happen- ings. The disappearance of Detective Norbeck interrupts a trial which was proceeding in a manner wholly and entirely satisfactory to, the prosecu- tion. The prosecution of the case of Garaner was so favorable to the state that it became evident to those who gave the testimony any special atten- tion that the jury in the case would have no trouble at all about arriving at a conclusion. é The case of Norbeck was even more remarkable than that of Gardner in !ts one-sidedness. The state's officers went into the second case (Norbeck) wita that assured confidence and zeal which was the natural result of so decided a victory in the Gardner casse. To The Most Prejudiced in favor of the defense it was plainly evident how the case was going. The state presented valuable evidence which it could not introduce in the Gardnor case. A few days of this sort of thing was sufficient to'completely unnerve the defendant. That he was fast be- coming a nervous wreck was apparent to those who watched him in court Mon- day. Norbeck. was last seen in Minneapolis about 11 o’clock Monday night. No one has yet been heard from who saw Nor- beck after that hour. The sheriff is doing everything he and his deputies can do to find the missing detective. There are those also who believe Nor- beck has committed suicide. This the- ory is not accepted by thcse most fa- miliar with the man’s characteristics, however. Mayor Ames appeared in court late in the afternoon and furnished bail in the sum of $5,000. He was given until Mon- day to plead. Southern Minnesota Farmers Form an Association. The Southern Minnesota Pure Bred Live Stock asscciation was formed at a meeting of Minnesota breeders held at Albert Lea to facilitate the distribu- tion of pure bred horses, cattle, swine and sheep among the farmers of the southern part of the state, and to as- sure them that they are getting only first-class animals. An animal fair will be held at a cen- tral point with gocd railroad facilities, at which the breeders will send stock to be sold. Animals offered for sale must be pure bred, and they will be passed upon by a jury of live stock experts before they can he sold. The farmers of the state have fre- quently complained of the trouble and expense in getting worthy pure bred sires and the fair is expected to make it possible for them to get the best kind of animals at a lower price than if they sought for animals among the in- dividual breeders. The officers of the new association are: President, W. W. P. McConnell, Mankato; secretary, R. C. Blackmer, ‘Albert Lea; executive committee, J. J. Furlong, Austin; Dr. Wedge, Albert Lea, and John J. A. Timpane, Water- ville. I. 0. 0. F. GAND OFFICERS. - C A Fosnes of Montivedeo Is Elected Grand Master St. Paul, June 14. — The Minnesota grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Minnesota Re- bekah assembly concluded their annual sessions at the capitol yesterday after- noon with the election of officers, There was a spirited contest for the position of grand master of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows between S. A. Farnsworth of St. Paul, C. A. Fosnés of Montevideo and C. R. Wilkinson of St. Paul Park. Mr. Fosnes was elected on the second ballot. The other officers elected were: Deputy grand master, G. 8. McCulloch, Brainerd; grand warden, W. 8. Elliott, Ct. Cloud; grand secretary, A. L. Bol- ton, St. Paul; grand treasurer, c. M. Sprague, Sauk Center; grand repre- seritative, William McGregor, Minne- apolis. STATE PHARMACISTS. Annual Convention in Session at the Hotel St. Louis. , Excelsior, Minn., June 19.—The State Pharmaceutical association is in ses- sion at Hotel St. Louis, President Stew- art Gamble presiding. About sixty members are present, but more are ex- pected on late trains. Routine business occupied the first meeting. The secre- tary’s report shows a total member- ship of 286, an increase of 17 during the year. There are 59 applications for membership to be acted upon at this session. AT ST. MARY’S HALL. Eight Young Ladies Given Diplomas by Bishop Edsall, Faribault, Minn., June 19.—The clos- ing exercises of St. Mary’s hall took place yesterday forenoon. A class of eight young lady graduates received their diplomas from the hands of Bish- op Edsall, who delivered the annual ad- diess. Miss Caroline Eells, principal of the hall, tendered a rreception from 12:30 to 3 to the numerous friends of the institution who witnessed the com- mencement exercises. GREAT NORTHERN STRIKE. Boilermakers Prepare to Press Fight — Three Thousand May Strike. St. Paul, June 14—“If the strike of the bollermakers on the Great Northern is not settled by the first of next week every boilermaker and helper in the Northwestern district will be called out.” This was the statement made by a member of the local branch. The Northwestern district includes the Great'Northern, Northern Pacific, Great ‘Western, Burlington, Omaha and all contract shops. If a call is made for these men to walk out between 3,000 and 4,000 will be affected. The - strikers claim that the boilermakers are out at every point on the Great Northern sys- tem. THe local men claim they are prepared to hold out indefinitely. Sells Firewater to Reds. Sioux Falls, 8. D., June 19. — Lewis Vandry, who was captured in North Dakota by deputy United States mar- shals, appeared before Judge Carland of the United States court and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging, him with selling liquor to Indians. He was fined $100 and sentenced to a term of sixty days in the Moody county jail at Flandreau. parE Wai ERE AES OFFICERS RESPONSIBLE. Much Lumber Burned. Eau Claire, Wis., June 19.—¥Fire yes- terday destroyed 2,000,000 feet of lumber and the company’s office of the Linder- man Box and Veneer'plant. The dam- age is estimated at $25,000. The factory was saved. of Becomes Murder. Berrien Springs, Mich., June 19. — Fikesall, who was shot by his son John while the father was forcing his way into the family home last Sunday night, died last night. John Fikesall is under arrest. Two Captains Punished for Steam- boat Collision at Duluth. Duluth, Minn., June 14.—The license of. Capt. Michael Fitzgerald of the steamer G. G. Hadley was revoked yes- terday by United States Inspectors Monaghan and Chalk, and Capt. M. C. Cameron of the steamer Thomas Wil-. son was suspended sixty days. This was the result of the recent investigation into the collision between the two poats when nine men lost their lives & short-distance from the ship canal piers in this city. © 2 Dr. D, Frank Powell, St. Paul, Minn. MINNESOTA’S WEALTH OF ORES. State Produces More Iron Ore Than Do Many Nations,’ The iron-bearing region of Lake Su- perior in 1901, according to the figures of the geological survey, continued to lcad the world. The production of iron ores in the United States in 1901 amounted to 28,887,497 long tons, as com- pared with 27,553,161 long tons in 1900, a gain of 1,334,318 long tons, or 5 per cent; the gain of 1901 over 1898 was 49 per cent. The total value at the mines of the ore mined in 1901, as reported to the geological survey, was $49,256,245, or a mean value of $1.71 per ton, an appar- ent décrease of 71 cents, or 29 per cent from the 1900 figures of $2.42 per ton. The value of the iron ores mined in 1900 Was $66,590,504. As in the year 1900 Minnesota con- tributed the greater portion of the in- crease for 1901, and advanced to first place as a producer, Michigan, which has uninterruptedly occupied this po- sition since 1881, now being second, The Lake Superior region produced its maximum ‘output of 21,445,903 long tons in 1901, being 74 per cent of the total quantity reported and an increase of 4 per cent over the total of 1900. Minne- sota. contributed 11,109,537 long tons during the year, or 38 per cent of the total of the country. With the exception of the German empire and Great Britain no country in the world has reached so great a total in any year as Minnesota in 1901, and this phenomenal product exceeded by 3,989,175 long tons the production of iron ore of all the mines combined, as reported by the tenth census of the United States in 1890. Michigan ranks second with a total of 9,654,067 long tons, Alabama third with 2,801,732 long tons, and Wisconsin seventh with 738,368 tons. LANDS ARE VALUABLE. Forestry Lands Inspected by Gen. Andrews and Prof. Green. Gen. C. C. Andrews, chief fire warden, and Prof. Green, of the executive com- mittee of the state board of forestry, returned recently from their visit to the lands in Cass county which were donat- ed to the state for forestry purposes by the late John S. Pillsbury. Both Gen. Andrews and Prof. Green were well pleased with the land and the work be- ing done. The land is in three separate tracts, and lies a Httle west of Gull lake. It was once covered with a heavy growth of pine, and is well adapted to forestry purposes, The tracts are now being surveyed. by T, L. Duncan, of the state experiment farm, and four assistants. Mr. Duncan's report will probably be published as a bulletin by the state forestry board. There are about thirty farmers living in the township in which most of the lands are situated, and many more farms will be opened in the immediate vicinity. The forestry board, it is an- nounced, will occupy only non-agricult- ural lands. Gov. Pillsbury, in‘ donating the tract, designated the state university as the beneficiary to receive forever two-thirds of the revenue that may be derived from the land. Any! donor of land for this purpose has the right to designate any public school or public institution of learning as the benficiary of two-thirds of the revenue. The other one-third is divided among the state, county and town in which the land is situated in lieu of taxes. WOULD CUT UP COUNTY. Resident of Polk County Present Petitions to the Governor. County Auditor John Peterson of Polk county, J. P. Johnson of McIntosh, and Hugh Thompson of East Grand Forks, called at the governor's office recently to urge action on a petition for the di- vision of Polk county, filed during Gov. Lind’s administration. A proclamation submitting the question of division to a vote of the people will be issued within a few days. The petition asks that the eighteen townships in the western end of Polk county constitute a new county, to be known as Valley county, with East Grand Forks as the county seat. The petition was presented to Gov. Lind a few days before he left office, and he decided to leave it for his successor. It was filed away, and as it was a matter that did not require immediate action, it had been overlooked, and would prob- ably have escaped notice had not resi- dents of Polk county called attention to it. Two other petitions asking for the di- vision of Polk county were presented to Gov. Van Sant soon after his inaugura- tion, and have been voted upon. The three divisions are part of a plan to di- vide Polk county into four counties, with Crookston as the county seat of what would still be Polk county, the central portion of the present county. One of the other new counties will be just south of Red Lake county, and would have McIntosh as its capital, the other would comprise the southwestern fortion of the present county. GRASSHOPPERS IN OTTER TAIL. State Entomologist Washburn Will Investigate. Dr. F. L, Washburn, state entomolo- gist, has gore to Otter Tail county to investigate a reported outbreak of grasshoppers. 'The report is that grasshoppers have arpeared in that county, although as yet little damage has been done. As the grasshoppers increase in size and num- bers, however, it is feared they will do serious damage to the growing crops. 'The mild winter was unusually favora- ble for them, as few of the eggs were killed. - ‘The state furnishes a limited amount of kerosene oil to farmers that have hopperdozers, and Mr. Washburn will ascertain what is the best method of doing away with the scourge for this season. By plowing late in the fall and early in the spring, so that the grass- hoppers are buried so deep they cannot get out, they be prevented from appearing ‘n great numbers the next SOHOSHSHSHSSHSHSSHH SHH OOOO OOOOOD i dh amen c e 4 me aac : News of the Northwest . } ’ SOCCOSEHSSSHOSHOHSHSHHSHSOHOHOHHSHSSHHHSHHOHHHHHO SO GE THE CROP OUTLOOK. Grain Is Growing Rapidly, Much Rain Has Wallen iped The crop situation in the Northwest 4s apparently all that could be desired, yet there are conditions at work that cause grave apprehension, and might as_well be stated now as later. The pro- tracted rains have caiised rust in prac- tically all the fields of wheat. The cor- respondents reporting show a generally satisfactory condition, but underneath it all there ‘s a story of the appearance of rust that will be recognized as a ecndition serious to contemplate at this season. There has undoubtedly been too much rain, but it has been fortunate that the weather has been cool. The generally low temperature has per- mitted the grain to stool nicely, and ‘his being the case the grain will be able to better withstand the hot weath- er that is approaching. Whether this hot weather will come at a time when the grrain will suffer is problematical, but the deep root that has been attained will help it even in this trying period. The grain crop of the Northwest will be watched with a great deal of inter- est from this time on. Some of the re- ports received say “the seeding is about finished.” ‘This refers to flax, corn and karley, for no other small grain could be expected to mature if planted at so late a date, and it will be a close call for corn and flax. Grain not planted at this time might as well not be planted, unless for fodder or fertilizer, and it is doubtful if in either case the farmers of the Northwest would do this to any great extent. It must be assumed that these reports are isolated instances. Much of the small grain is from fif- teen to eighteen inches high, and from Tune 25 to July 10 wll be heading out. "he season has been prolific of growth of stalk, and for this reason the fields look well. However, it is not stalk alone that makes grain, and farmers and grain men will closely watch develop- ments during the next three weeks. Locusts have been reported in some localities in North Dakota, but the area thus far covered by these pests is not large, and the radical measures adopted to stamp them out leads to the hope that their ravages will not be ex- tended. Weeds are getting an alarming start, and this is likely to cause future loss to individual farmers, which, in the aggwe- gate, will be no small amount. Hay promiscs an unusually large yield. Pastures never. looked better, and, if a season of reasonably dry weather shall prevail for thirty days, the Northwest crop yield will be main- tained. VAN SANT ASKS AID FOR NEEDY. Proclamation Issued by Governor in Behalf of Cyclone Sufferers. ‘Gov. S. R. Van Sant asks the people” of Minnesota to come to the relief of residents of Clay and Becker counties who are left in destitute circumstances as the result of the cyclone which vis- ited that territory June 9. To this end he has issued a proclama- tion asking for general contributions. and designating depositories for relief funds. The proclamation is as follows: A destructive cyclone passed over the northeastern portion of Clay and northwestern part of Becker counties en the 9th inst., killing several people and totally demolishing a number of farmhouses and barns. In a great many instances all the cattle, horses, farm machinery and household furni- ture of their owners were destroyed. The financial loss is far less than if the ecmmunity in which the storm raged had been a city or village, but the des- titution of those in the path of the storm is beyond description. The loss will exceed $35,000. “At the time of the serious destruction of property by cyclones visiting Roches- ter and St.,Cloud many years ago, the « people of this state contributed prompt- ly and generously to those afflicted upon being given the opportunity. To the end that like contributions may be made, I, as the chief executive of the State of Minnesota, do hereby designate the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the St. Paul Lispatch, the St. Paul Globe, the St. Paul Daily News, the Minneapolis Jour- nal, the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Times of the Twin Cities; the Duluth News-Tribune and the Her- ald of the city of Duluth; also Hon. Alvah Eastman of the St. Cloud Jour- nal, C. F. McDonald of the St. Cloud Times, C. W. Blakely of the Rochester Post, and Hon. A. T. Stebbins and Hon, H. M. Richardson of Rochester, as 2 committee to severally solicit subscrip- tions in aid of said sufferers, “All subscriptions when finally col- lected may be forwarded to Hon. J. H. Block, state treasurer, for transmission to a committee to be appointed by the public authorities of Clay and Becker counties. MUST BE CLEAN OR CONDEMNED. State Board I es Edict on Jails and Lockups. The jails, lockups and poorfarms of the state this year will receive, accord- ing to the present plans of the state board of control, the most thorough in- spection they have had since the system of state inspection was instituted. More than half the jails and poorfarms have béen inspected, and a large number of Icckups have been examined, Several of the lockups are booked for condem- nation unless they are repaired within a stated time. Since the reports made by the local health officers on the condition of the town lockups of their towns have been received the board has-been devoting especial attention to the work. The in- specting has been done by State Agent Gates. The condition of the lockups in many parts of the state, where inspect- crs had never been, was beyond descrip- tion. They were in many cases filthy, vermin-infested firetraps, in which it was an act of inhumanity to inearcerate @ man, the twn authorities of every town in which there is a dirty lockup to clean it up at once under penalty of punish- ment. ‘The result of this order in many casés has been a noticeable improve- ment in the conditions of the lockups, but the presence of. the inspector has had a still stronger effect. _ The board of control has instructed’ setppecs Sublist