Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 23, 1904, Page 3

—t—- \ England’s Tariff Policy Means Death to the North- west Unless New Markets Are Established. Within Ten Years Manitoba Can Supply England With All the Wheat She Needs, ‘The Minnesota State Agricultural so- ciety held its annual meeting in Minne- apolis on the 12th, 13th and 14th insts. The conspicuous feature of the meeting was the following address by J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern railway, on the afternoon of the 18th. He was greeted with great applause when he took the platform, Mr. Hill’s Speech. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It fs a great pleasure to me to be here to- day, and I may say it is a pleasure for me at all times and in all places to be able ¢o raise my hand or voice in whatever will help the country in which we live. The nation ‘always has and always will de- pend for everything that goes to make the country worth living in upon the men who cultivate the soil. There is more in- ¢elligence, more patriotism, more of every- thing that goes to make good citizenship, on the farms than anywhere else in the country. (Applause,) It has always been so, from the early days to the present, Many of us here can remember what. a few years ago, we called “‘the late un- pleasantness.” ‘The men left their plows fn the furrow, half way across the field, to follow the flag of their country, and the farmers’ sons were the men who most distinguished themselves. Country life is @ better life to develop a man‘than that in the city. It gives him better oppor- tunity, if he will take advantage of it. And I want to impress upon the fathers, ‘and the mothers, if they are here, that. their children in growing up on the farm should not look forward to the time when they can leave ft, when they can have their hair banged and soaked down and come to the town to look for a job. Better men and better women live in the country, The time will never come when this country can afford to lose sight of the interests of the people who live on the land. Everything that is of value comes | out of the farm, the forests, the mine. and the sea—four sources from which every- thing that is worth having comes. Farms Must Support Everybody. Now, we have not got the sea. We had some fine forests in Minnesota, but where are they? They are so far gone that ten or fifteen years will wipe them out entirely. The trees that are left stand- ing in your forests are practically all counted. You have in Minnesota the most valuable iron mines in the world, ut you have no coal, you cannot make iron. All you can do is to dig iron ore with steam shovels and take it to other parts of the country where they have coal and coke and can make the metal into fron and steel. You cannot do it here as things are to-day, and it is very doubtful if tron will ever be successfully made in Minnesota. That leaves you the farm, from which every man in the state must draw his tiving, Your cities, your churches, your schools, your universities, your lawyers, your doctors, your merchants, your mill- 2rs, everybody, make their living out of the men who cultivate the soil, and this must go on in Minnesvta, for all time Now, what are you dving to help the farmer? To help him means to help yourself. ‘The state has a most excellent experimental farm, or a department at- tached to the state university. It does little more now than help to get appro- priations for the other ena. Was Younger Then. There was a time—twenty years last @pring—in this state, and particularly in the northern part of it, when no rain fell from seed time until the Ist of July. ‘The grain stood green in the fields, barely diving. In July some copious showers fell, and they made a little more than half a crop. 1 didn’t Know as much thei as I do now. I _was younger and had fess experience. I thought I would hein the farmers of the state, so that they ‘would not depend on one crop. I thought i would help them to some good stock and cattle and hogs. And in my inno- cence (laughter) I thought when they had the opportunity they would take ad- vantage of it. 1 got together some excel- lent herds of beef and dairy cattle for myself, and I brought out within two years, mainly from the North of England ‘and Scotland, about 800 thoroughbred bulls. Something over 600 of them were distributed in this state and less than 2X) in North Dakota. Now I want to say that the people of North Dakota derived vnore benefit from less than 200 than the people of Minnesota did from 600. What did they’ do? Most of them sold them. «Laughter.) I gave the pigs and they killed th.m in the fall—and they were good winter pork! (Laughter.) This is actually what they did with pigs that I brought from the old country or with the stock which was bred from them, and for which I paid as high as $300 for a single animal. Those I sent them were just as good. They were misled. A lot of de- signing demagogues—rank demagogues-— who care no more about the farmer than they do about the wind that whistles, if they can get his vote, told the farmers that I was trying to reflect upon the great wheat-raising State of Minnesota, trying to injure its good name—by bring- ing the best stock that I could find and distributing it free of price tu the people of the state. It was discouraging, but I kept it up and showed them that they might in Minnesota feed cattle success- fully, and send cattle from Minnesota to compete with our friends from Illinois. I fed stock ten miles from here, raised the fodder they ate, and I have a hatfull of old medals that I took in competition in Shicago with our friends from Illinois and Missouri, and Iowa, and Nebraska, and Kansas. and Indiana. (Applause) Mr. Hill proceeded to say that one year he sent only a_single steer to the live stock show at Chicago because they had leuro pneumonia down there and he ook seven first prizes. He had taken the Sweepstakes against all of the states when he showed four or five animais. He said he held for a Minnesota fed steer, the highest record in the United States of percentage of dressed to live weight 74% per cent killed in Chicago in competition | with all the states. As illustrating profit in stock raising in Minnesota, he related that two eee, he bought a bunch of steers al took them to his farm ten miles from Minneapolis. He paid $20 for the steers, gave them $19 worth of food and sold them at $i@ per head, a profit of $35 per head. ow, if I can do this, any farmer tn the state can do it, if he only will. The time will come when he must do it, and it is everybody's interest in the state to @ee that he has a fair opportunity. Ppceking of the public-domain. be said: ‘here was a time when our popular campaign song was “Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us a farm.” To-day he has not any farms to give us that we can cultivate. All of the agricultural land that can be cultivated without irrigation is gone, and the people are selling their homes in the United States and moving into Northwestern Canada, west of Win- nipeg, where they can buy land at from $6-to $10 an acre. More people have gone there than many of our men would like to acknowledge. They have a large area of country. A couple of months ago, at Bismarck, I made a statement in regard to their country, and was to some extent misquoted, and I will take occasion to correct ft. They have an area north of us equal, practically, to that of the United States. Only a comparativelv small portion of that can be cultivated with profit. They probably have an area three times that of the United States where they can cultivate the land with profit, and they raise good crops. North of that it is too near the north pole, Proceeding, he explained that six rail- rape agreed to contribute $5,000 each for ays years to conduct a She of edu- tion, sending men about the country to Yecture and call upon men in public life to urge them to promote irrigation in, order to reclaim the public domain which was now practically worthless. hi, Mr. Hill said that a year ago last win- ter he went to the State of Washington to attend a meeting of farmers. They were getting less than‘50 cents a bushel for their wheat. He gave them a reduc- tion of 10 per cent on the freight rate, but what he tried to impress upon them was that they needed new markets. There were not enough people to eat wheat in the markets they were selling in to con- sume all they had to sell. SCHSSLEHHSHOOSOSOOSO Our efforts to find a new market have been successful—more success- ful than I had hones for—and the demand for wheat for export to Ori- ental markets has been such that the farmers of the State of Washington had from 75 cents to 80 cents a bush- el. Some things have happened in the last two years. The progress we ® have mi has been greater than I expected five years ago to make dur- eeoesses PHOOOOOOH Last February and March the mills m Minneapolis began, in a small way, to ship flour to Australia and to China and to Japan. It seemed a long way to send flour to market, from Minneapolis by way of the Pacific coast to Australia, but by taking advantage of all the conditions entering into the question of transporta- tion, loading our cars in both directions with full loads, we were able to give a rate from Minneapolis to Hongkong of 40 cents a hundred—40 cents a hundred for 8,000 miles—$8 a ton! It is a mill a ton a mile—the lowest transportation that ever was thought of on the face of the earth. The rate of transportation from here to New York (1,300 miles) is 25 cents a hundred, $5 a ton. It is 2.000 miles of rail transportation from here to the coast, and then 6,000 miles of water. I have been charged with everything— from ‘an Oriental dreamer’’ to a crank (laughter), but I am ready at all times to lead guilty to any intelligent effort with- in my power that will result in getting new markets for what we produce in this northwestern country; because every bushel that you take out of the market here, ev2ry bushel you send to a new market, every bale of cotton you send to a new market, everything that you send to a new market, helps what is left, the surplus saved is much less, and it is not here to compete with our own shipments to ‘Liverpool or Antwerp. It is just as much advantage to the man raising wheat in Ohio that the farmer in Washington shall send his wheat to the Orient, or the farmer in Minnesota shall send his wheat to the Orient, as that the man in Ohio shall send it, because that much wheat is taken out of the markets in Europe. Well, now, our efforts in that direction have been crowned with remarkable suc- cess. I think I can give you some figures ae will be of interest to you on that sub- ject. He quoted In detail the ports in Aus- tralla and the Orient where shipments of wheat and flour had been made, show- ing that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 4,319.992 bushels of wheat and 1,565,- 488 barrels of flour had been shipped, That business has only begun, and yet the largest orders for flour that have ever come to Minneapolis from any quar- ter have come from the Orient. So great is this demand that to-day it is making itself felt in the price of every bushel of wheat that is sold in this market. The most intelligent wheat authority I know told me, within a few weeks, that the lowest estimate that he could make of the enhanced price of grain, owing to this Oriental demand, was already five cents, and he thought that actual figures would show it to be seven cents, a bushel. Now, if it is five cents a bushel an 180,- 000,000 bushels raised in our three North- western states, it amounts to $9,000,000. Tt is worth saving, it is worth making an effort to bring it about, and we have in every way in our power tried to make it possible to carry that intg effect. Now, what help do we get? e SOSH HHOSCOOE bn sty make a rate that iene lowest rate that ever was made for transportation in the world, we have @ to defend ourselves from ‘the siate @ and from the nation because we are ® $ cenalig ot trad Absolutely ae fending ourselves from “restraining trade!” It is said that if we have @the power, the power must be used @ to restrain trade. > SOSHSHHHOSHSH SOOO OOOO They forgot that in order to compete with the merchant ine of every na- tion flying a commercial flag on the high seas that we must have power to carry that trade forward. It takes power to carry that trade to the extent we have carried it. Who else has carried it?) Who else has raised their hand for it? But they forget the greater contains the less. The power to expand a trade and build it up and make it great and make it pos- sible to ship a barrel of flour from here to Hongkong at 30 cents more ‘than. it costs to send it from here to New York— that takes some power. The power to ex- and trade makes us criminals, and we are defending lawsuits to-day because we are charged with the power to restrain trade, and that if you have the power to carry the trade on. you must have some power somewhere, no matter how you exercise it—you are a public criminal against the law of your country. (Laugh- o & ry Now the time is coming when it won't be my funeral—it will be yours. Mr. Chamberlain a year ago took a leaf out of our political economy and started out a political campaign in Great Britain in favor of A Preferential Tariff, in favor of a tariff under which Great Britain would admit the agricultural products of her colonies free, and the colonies in return would give her free access to their markets, and tax every- body else; Great Britain, on the other hand, sareothi to put a tariff or a tax on the imports of every other nation. ‘The agricultural industries of this coun- try are enormous. Last year the figures, as I -reme: r them, furnished by the agricultural department of the general government, gave three thousand million dollars as the value of the products of the farms of this country. Great Britain and her colonies buy from us above 70 per cent of all our exporis. Suppose they put a tariff of 12 cents a bushel on our wheat. Remember that the surpius wheat we export fixes the price of the en- tire crop, that which we sell among our- selves and that which we sell to go abroad. The surplus grain always fixes the market price. If your wheat is taxed 10 cents a bushel on 180,000,000 bushels in your three Northwestern states it would amount to $18,000,000. That you have got to pay. These conditions are not far from you. Every the newspapers that Mr. winning his way. He h: progress in the first year than he ex- pected to in the first three yeare when he took it up a year ago, and it is only a question of time when your have got 1 pay this tax if you send your wheat to Great Britain. Now, what will you do? What other market have you got? You may rely on us; you may say,‘ We are depending on you to give us this Oriental. market. We cannot disobey the law. (Applause.) We will do anything in our power to help you. We have from the beginning. SOPH SOOO POVOVO SOS PS in We have led every reduction of she on agricultural products that has been made in twenty years in the Northwest. We have never need- ed aspur. We have increased the tor as fast as we could, end by a@ larger tonnage we are able to reduce @ the rate. SOSHoCHOOOCOOOOOES When we took the road, twenty-five years ago, the rate from $t. Vincent on ain was 40 cents a hundred, To-day it 15 cents a hundred. (Applause.) All we need is our dividend; we get our 7 per cent if we earn it, and we earn it very easily, And I want to assure you there is not much profit ‘In_carrymg a barrel of flour from here to Hongkonk at 40 cents a hundred. Whether we do it or Sota will know ft. If M poli ber o ec wil know it ly to your sorrow. Bt I said feta we are ready to k |, 3c emit that ie urselves with you to the very farthest limit possible, but we can’t make 0 criminals in the eye of the law. : He asked the farmers what they were doing to help. He sald the people, of Washington were awake and when they found that the interstate commerce com- mission was about to issue an order that all rates made to or from Asiatic points shall be published they petitioned the commission to refrain from making such an order because it would practicall; give our rates to foreign competitors ani they would underbid the American rate and so divert the shipments of produce from this country to others. That mat- ter is now pending before the interstate commerce commission. He read an ex- tract from the memorial sent by the ship- pers of the Pacific coast protesting against having American commerce handicapped in the interests of foreign nations by such unwise action_as this. . We are in competition in China with English, German, French, Scandinavian, Dutch and Italian lines, and if we are compelled to make our rates public they simply take advantage of it. He said he wanted business men, the merchants, the bankers, the millers, the farmers, in fact everybody, because we all depend upon the man, as I said before, who cultivates the land, I want you to see that our hands are not tied, that the markets are not closed to us, and if the farmer is taxed 10 cents a bushel on his grain and a proportionate tax is placed on his pro- visions, his hogs, his cattle, his lard, his tallow, his cotton which he has to sell, going to Great Britain, bear in mind, you will pay the tax. When you have no surplus or only a very small surplus, then they will come here and compete for your food if they need it. Pride Before a Fall. You may say “Oh, well, they have got to buy their bread from us or their peo- ple will starve. I will call your atten- tion to the fact that twenty years ago the Province of Manitoba did not export a bushel of wheat. Of the last crop it ex- ported 35,000,000 bushels. At the rate your American farmers are going into that country, in ten years they will raise all the wheat Great Britain needs. Then you will pay the tax, or you will hold your wheat, or vou will find a new mar- ket. You may then appreciate the value of the Oriental market. Possibly its in- ception was in the mind of “an Oriental dreamer,” but it makes no difference about the dream as long as the dream comes true. (Applause.) When that time Saas I want man to bear in mind that man calle our att before. (Applause.) id grou ie To show that Minnesota was not mak- ing the progress which she should, Mr. Hill took the receipts of the Great North- ern road in ten Minnesota towns, namely: Anoka, St. Cloud, Alexandria,’ Barnes- ville, Thief River Falls, St. Hilaire, Stev- ens, Hallock and St. Vincent. ' The total business of these ten stations five years ago was $950,000. The year ene, ane Duan Was $1,435,000, the increase being $485,000, of which was at Thief River Fails. Mies Now, I commence in North Dakota. Larimore (west of Grand Forks about thirty miles), increased from $101,000 in 1899, to $150. in 1903; Park River from $99,000_to $170,000; Langdon from $97,006 to $257,000; Devils Lake from $132,000 to $328.000; Cando from $115,000 to $2: 000; Rugby from $36,000 to $1€2. H Granville from nothing to $133,000; not from $124,000 to $391,000; Souris.’ where the road was built two years ago and the station two years old (we have notn- ing back five years ago to compare with), 000; Bottineau from $48,000 to $182,- These ten towns, five years a: had a business of $752,000, against $95 000. in the Minnesota Minnesota has grown to _ $1.435,000, or an increase of $485,000. Dakota has grown from $75' 900 to $2,304,000, or an increase of $1, 552.000, HO 4H 4049 HHOD @ The time has come whentyen ate @ not growing as fast as you think you @are. There are large areas of ‘the @ best farming land in the State of Min- @nesota where there are not as many @ @ acres under cultivation as there were @ @twelve or fifteen years ago. Some@ @parts of our road in Minnesota I go@ @ through at night because I don’t want ®@ @to see the absolute neglect and in- ® famous farming. Sd POSHOOHOOOHSD If any of you gentlemen think that T have painted the picture in too high col- ors by calling your: attention to what Mr. Chamberlain is doing, and to what is the absolute and immediate effect that you may and must look for, I will be ready to answer for the faith that is in I know I am right, and I know the is coming when you will have to ar an additional burden of from twenty to thirty million doliars a year in these three Northwestern states unless you can find a new market for your stuff. Where will you go? Can you take it there for nothing? The African will eat corn meal. doesn’t care so much for wheat flo is a.singular fact, but it is true, every nation, including India, once they get wheat flour, prefer it to all other food. I was talking to Japanese the other da one of their universities, and in his country an eminent physician. He told me that the cause of their great tend- ency.to dropsical complaints was the large proportion of rice which they con- sume, and that an imperial commission had made this report to the government. and for that reason they wanted to buv more of our flour. Now, you have always been in the habit. I think, of feeling that we are at all times ready to do anything in our power to help you, but when the exercise of power in the carrying of your business to new markets, to take the place of the market that you are losing, becomes a_ crime, and we lay ourselves open to fine and im- prisonment, I have got to tell you that we don’t want either, and you have got to see, if you want to, whether your rep- resentatives are ready to stand For or Against Your Interest. As far as we ae omearnes we are per- fectly happy. As‘I said before, our divi- dends won't suffer whether we carry one barrel of flour or one million barrels of hour. There is very little in it. But there is this in it: I have always held, as a principle, that in operating a railroad our greatest prosperity came from the greatest prosperity of the people living on the line, and unless we can take the nat- ural resources of the country (and your natural resources are confined practically to what is raised on the farm)—unless we can take the natural resources of the country to some market where thev can be sold with a profit to the man who raises them, who creates them, the time is not far distant when we will stop creating them. You can sell owt or abandon your farm. We cannot abandon our railroad. We might sell the shares, but the railroad must be there; it is under contract to be operated and it has got to be operated. Now, it is our most selfish interest to put the whole situation where it is within your reach, within the reach of the neo- ple living on the line. to develop the local interests, whatever they may he, with a profit to themselves, or else our investment is worthless. And, following that up, I have tried in every way that I could to find new markets for your stuff. Before we built a mile of road west of the Rocky mountains we had men in the East seeing what the business was and how far it might be developed. And we have kept men there from that time aere ite a length: @ read quite a lengthy report from an agent in dhina, which_he Rad just re- ceived, showing. how Russia and, other countries were getting their grasp upon the Reged Se rd te Orne generally to the exclusion of t ie ucts of the United States. Bahn Now, I have read you this to show you that it is not all fun. It is not the easiest task to compete with all the nations for their trade, and with all the adverse con- ditions we have to meet. And it is a still harder job when we are told that it is against the law to do it. And when it comes to a point where you need that market, if you are barred out of it, it won't be our fault, i won't detain you any longer, It is respassed on getting late and I have your time too much, I simply want to say this: That if the time comes that the conditions that I have outlined are real- ized by you, remember that, as far as IT could, you were forewarned. (Applause.| A unanimous vote of thi was ten- dered the society to Mr. Hill for his ‘able an intelligent a professor in BEAUTY IS IN JAIL PRETTY. YOUNG SCHOOL TEACH- ER CHARGED WITH MYS- TERIOUS CRIME. BIG SENSATION {S_ LIKELY INTIMATED THAT WELL KNOWN PERSONS OF MILLER MAY BE IMPLICATED. SOME CONFESSIONS EXPECTED BITTER RIVALRY FOR FAVOR OF A WOMAN MAY BE _IN- VOLVED. Miller, S. D., Jan. 19.—Pretty Hattie Pilcher, the school teacher who was mysteriously wounded by a pistol bul- let on the night Wilbur Quirk, the clerk at Collins’ drug store was held up, is in jail accused of direct com- plicity in the bold attempted robbery. It is intimated that the handsome young woman may have had the assis- tance of well known persons in her al- leged crime. The warrant upon which she was arrested was sworn to by half a dozen prominent business men, and accuses Miss Pilcher of assault with intent to commit felony and with ad- ministering ether to Wilbur Quirk to enable herself and other persons un- known to commit robbery. Startling Developments, likely to involve with Miss Pilcher men who have not before been men- tioned in connection with the case, the authorities say, can be expected. When arrested by the sheriff the beautiful girl protested her innocence, but lost not a whit of her dignity. She led the officer along the railroad track to a point half a mile east of town and there told him where to find a revol- ver. This he secured, and Miss Pilch- er told him that it was with that weapon she was shot in the right shoulder. Drops of human blood made a trail from the rear of the drug store to the Henshaw hotel.. She says the blood was not drawn by the bullet that | struck her. She declared that the shooting was accidental, but refused to answer when asked where she was when wounded Saturday she had declared that it was at the Henshaw hotel, but now she Declines to Talk of It. ‘The authorities declare that confes! sions will soon be secured, not alone from the pretty prisoner, but also from sources the knowledge of which will startle the town. More arrests may bé made to-day. Wilbur Quirk, the drug clerk, after his experience of being drugged, bound, gagged and tied to an iron post in the store by masked assail- ants, has gone to his home at High- more. Several weeks ago he all but lost his eyes by an explosion, and he had just resumed his duties after re- covering from this misfortune when he was made the victim of the sensa- tional attack that is now thé sole topic of discussion in this vicinity. A suggestion that his assailants wanted to satisfy a grudge against Quirk rather than rob the store has been advanced. It is contended by some that bitter rivalry for the favor of a woman might have caused the at- tack, but no convincing evidence of the existence of cuch a cause for en- mity has been presented. LITTLE CASH ON HAND. Failure of the Citizens’ Bank at Mount Ayr, lowa, Quite a Crash. ° Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 19.—An un- official investigation into the affairs of the Citizens’ Bank of Mount Ayr, which closed its doors Saturday, shows that there are liabilities of almost half a million, $400,000 of which rep- resents deposits, with but $700 in cash on hand. Day Dunning, presi- dent of the institution, declares, how- ever, that the assets will eventually equal the liabilities. It is said this es- timate is predicted upon all paper be- ing worth its face value, an extreme- ly doubtful proposition. Indications are that the creditors will lose heavily. The president isa stockman. John Peterson has been appointed receiver. Thfs is the fifth Iowa bank to collapse within two months. Overloading, spec- ulating and inability to realize upon notes is generally considered respon- sible. THAWING PROCESS FATAL. One Killed. and Three May Die’ From Dynamite. Phillips, Wis., Jan. 19, — William Niemale was instantly killed and three others probably fatally injured by an explosion of dynamite in one of the camps of the J. R. Davis Lumber com- pany near this city. Niemaler placed six sticks of dynamite on a board on the stove to thaw it out, when the "part of the MORMON ELDERS NEARLY FIRED. Pastor Scores Utah Sect and Elders Are Present to Hear Him. Albert Lea, Minn., Jan, 20. — “Put them out!” “Put them out!” The presence ot two Mormon elders in the First M. E. church, and a vigor- ous attack on their teachings by the pastor, the Rey. F. E. White, caused this cry Sunday evening during the services. For a few minutes the situ- ation looked dark for the disciples from Utah, but cool heads restored order before violence had been done, Talk of tar and feathers for the pros- elyters has been heard as a final and more effective measure to get rid of them than were the stale eggs they were treated to on a previous Visit. HULL WINS OUT. His Brother-in-Law Nominated for Mayor of Des Moines. Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 20.—George W. Mattern, brother-in-law of Con- gressman J. A. T. Hull, chairman of the committee on military affairs, was nominated for mayor by the Republic- ans of Des Moines. yesterday after- noon in one of the most bitter primary contests in the history of the city. John MacVicar, ex-mayor, secretary of the League of American Muncipalities, was defeated by a narrow margin. One } of the heaviest votes ever known was polled.. The contest has a direct bear- ing on hte congressional fight, as Mac- Vicar represented the interests of Judge Prouty, who is a candidate for congress against Hull. CARRIES DEAD BABE FAR. Mother Walks Eight Miles to Show It to Coroner. Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 20. — With her dead babe hugged closely to her breast and her heart throbbing with bitter sorrow, Mrs. M. W. Jones, who resides eight miles west of here, walked all the way to the city yester- day because she believed the coroner had to see the infant before it could be buried. Between sobs and tears she explained her act to Coroner Beck, who, learning that the infant was but a few months old, told her to return to her home and bury it. The child; had taken ill with pneumonia a few days ago. The mother had no one! to send to the city, so she herself hur- tied here. UP MISSOURI IN MACKINAW. Montana Pioneer Who Just Died Took Wife in 1866. Missoula, Mont., Jan. 20. — William' Kennedy, sixty-eight years old, pio- neer of Western Montana, and ex-may- or of Missoula, died of dropsy at his home here Monday afternoon. He came to the Bitter Root valley in 1860; went back to Ohio in 1863, was mar- ried to Miss Lizzie Sweeney and! brought her up the Missouri river in ; mackinaw in 1866, she being the firs: white woman to make the trip. A! widow and four sons survive him. _FOR MUNICIPAL LEAGUE. Milwaukee Citizens Take Decisive Steps for Organization. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 20.—As a re- sult of the meeting here addressed by’ Secretary Fisher of the Chicago Mu- nicipal Voters’ league, Chairman, Iisley will name a committee of three,, bf which he will be one, and they will select six other citizens. The commit- tee of nine will at once begin the for- mation of a municipal league on the same lines as that in Chicago and hope to have it in working order for the spring campaign. DUST STORM HITS FARGO. ~ Damages Stocks in Stores and Annoys Housekeepers. Fargo, N. D., Jan. 20. — The worst dust storm that has struck Fargo in a dozen years prevailed all day yester- day. It commenced in the morning, mixed with fine snow, which made a thick paste, but by night it was dry and like fiour. Stocks of goods in the stores are badly damaged and resi- dences are filled with dirt. On the streets it was almost suffocating. Bank Wins Verdict. Fargo, N. D., Jan. 20.—Judge Pollock has directed a verdict for the Bank of St. Cloud against the City of Fargo, for some old paving warrants. The bank purchased the warrants from a contractor. The city did)not pay them and held that as no provisions for the paving of intersections had been mace the warrants were illegal. The case will be appealed to the state supreme court. Married Fifty Years. Faribault, Minn., Jan. 20.—Mr. and Mrs. Briggs Thomas, old citizens of this city, celebrated their golden wed- ding Friday evening last. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have lived in Faribault over forty-five years. Bank Robbers Sentenced. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 20. —- The Quimby bank robbers, Charles White, John Wickes, Elmer Dunning and Ab- ner Hicks, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon at Cherokee and were sen- tenced to seven years in prison. Postoffice Robbed. Mason City, Iowa, Jan. 20. — The postoffice at Wheeler was broken into and robbed. Alderson & Co. lost heavily. in shoes and clothing and the thieves made away with the greater DEFECTIVE PAGE + sociation Me i H At a meeting at St. Paul of repre- sentatives of the Minsesota Valley’ Fair and Racing association dates for county fairs for 1904 were fixed as fol- lows: Redwood, at Redwood Falls—Sept. 7, 8 and 9. Yellow Medicine, at Canby — Sept. 14, 15 and 16. Lac qui Parle, at Madison—Sept. 21; 22 and 23. ‘ Chippewa, at Montevideo—Sept. 28 29 and 30. : ‘ Renville, at Olivia—Oct. 5, 6 and 7.; Lyon, at Marshall—Oct. 12, 13 and! 14, Representatives were present from Brown and Nicollet counties, which desired admission to the association, but they were denied entrance owing to the difficulty of arranging a satis- factory circuit. Lyon county is the only county added to the circuit as formed last year. A constitution was adopted which vests the management of the associa- tion in a board of directors consisting of one member from each county in the association; providing for a mem- bership fee of $25 from each county in the association; a president, vice pres- ident, secretary and treasurer, to bei chosen by the directors from their own number; and for an annual meeting to be held in the same place as the an- nual meeting of the Minnesota State, Agricultural society. The first board of directors chosen is made up as follows: Redwood county, George L. Evans; Renville, M. J. Dowling; Lac qui Parle, James Lit- tle; Chippewa, F. E. Bentley; Yellow Medicine, B. Nelson; Lyon, John Shutz. The board elected the following of- ficers for the year: President, F. E. Bentley, Montevideo: vice president, John Shutz, Marshall; secretary and treasurer, George L. Evans, Redwooc Falls. The meeting was enthusiastic an1 there is every reason to believe that the fairs and race meets this year wilk be even more successful than those of 1908. In the neighborhood of $16,000 will be hung up in purses, and a list of attractions secured that will be as good, if not better than were offered last year. COSGROVE IS RE-ELECTED. Third Time President of Agricultural Society. C. N. Cosgrove of Le Sueur was elected for a third term as president of the State Agricultural society at the closing session at Minneapolis of the annual meeting; B. F. Nelson of Min- neapolis, first vice president, and C. R. Smith of St. Paul, second vice president, were also re-elected, but changed places, Mr. Smith becoming first vice president and Mr. Nelson second. Secretary E. W. Randall and Treasurer F, J. Wilcox will no doubt be reappointed by the board of man- agers at their next meeting. Of the board of managers N. 8S. Gordon, Crookston; J. C. Currye' Mankato; J. M. Underwood, Lake City, and L. D. Baird, Austin, hold over. William EB. Lee, Long Prairie, whose term expired, was re-elected by ac- clamation; Col. W. M. Liggett, dean of the state agricultural college, was also re-elected with little opposition. Representative J. F. Rosenwald of Lac qui Parle county suggested his pre- decessor in the house, J. F. Jacobson, as a more appropriate candidate than Col. Liggett. The southern part of the state declared Mr. Rosenwald was not adequately represented. He even hinted that the opportunities for new men to join the board were limited. But Mr. Jacobson received no more than twenty votes. President Cosgrove’s anntal report insisted that $150,000 should be ap propriated for a new live stock amphi- theater. A woman’s building, a fish pbuilding and an apiary were also need- ed. Secretary Randal! in his report announced that the manxufactures building, costing $30,000, would be ready for use next fall. In the report oof treasurer Wilcox, the receipts of the society last year were given a9 $160,438, ‘the disbursements $154,804, including $47,098 for permanent im- provements, and the balance on, hand, together with former surplus, as $60, 872. Condition of Banks. The total resources of the 291 state banks were $1,116,686.61 less on Dee. 8 than the total resources of 257 banks in operation Nov. 25, 1902, accordmg to a statement just issued by Publie Examiner Johnson. The deposits have fallen off $2,156,805.74, whereas the capital stock has increased slight- ly, $371,350, the surplus and profits $626,784.61 and’ other liabilities $41,- 984.52 Regarding this statement Mr. Joh» son says: “While there is a feeling of caution and a great deal of care exercised by all financial institutions, I feel that a comparative statement of the banksis very satisfactory.” The statement follows: Noy. 25, 1902, Dee. 8, 1903. (257 banks.) (291 banks.) Total resources. $56,286,248 24 $55,169,562 6 Capital ....i.... $7,604,700 00 97,976,080 08 Surplusand eposits 5 3 43,604, Other lab! 624,160 27 | pees | | | | $56,286,248 24. $56, 169.581 Two Made One. % “I really got a good square meal at our boarding: he se to-day." “Oh, come, now.” “Fact; Borden and I tossed tions, and