Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 14, 1904, Page 3

t News of the Dorthwes GREAT MINES IDLE MINNESOTA INDUSTRY SERIOUS- LY AFFECTED BY TIE-UP ON LAKES. BATTLE ROYAL IS BEING WAGED ‘| the hole which had SHIP OWNERS AND MASTERS AND MATES BREAK OFF NEGO- TIATIONS. Duluth, May 10.—The announcement that all negotiations have been broken off between the Lake Carriers’ and the Masters and Pilots’ associations, and that an indefinite period may elapse before their dispute is settled, is a se- rious blow to this section, following on the heels of the latest navigation sea- son in more than a quarter ofa cen- tury. The mere fact that the boats are to ‘be held up and the crews will not be employed is a matter of small conse- quence compared to the thousands of men and the scores of mines that will be idle pending the adjustment. The prospect is that the vessel owners and the masters and mates are going to Have a Battle Royal and settle for years to come questions that have been held in abeyance, or which have been compromised in the past. Every iron mine at Ely on the Ver- million range is idle and will colftinue so until the boats begin conveying ore. The stock piles are filled to the capacity of room allotted to them, and there is nothing more to do until the stocks can be reduced by shipping to the ore docks. The ore docks are not designed to hold great quantities in store, and even if the pockets were all filled at Duluth, Two Harbors and Al- louez bay, it would give little relief. Five great mines in Ely alone await the movement of ore before they shall resume hoisting again, and now that a Tie-Up of the Lake Fleets fs assured, a feeling of discouragement is experienced there and at other min- ing towns, as well as in Duluth, for these towns are all tributary to this . What is true of the Vermillion is true of the Mesaba range, and in greater degree, for there are vastly more towns and mines affected. Some of the big steam shovel mines, among them the Mahoning at Hibbing, were to begin shipping this week. Now there is nothing for them to do but wait for the big boats to move. When there is plenty of stockpile room, underground mines can keep right on preducing in the event of in- terruption to the shipping, but the steam shovel properties, the largest shippers of all, Are Immediately Affected and have to stopas soon as the boats quit moving, as they load on direct from the mine to cars. It has been announced that the Lum- ber Carriers’ association has made its peace with the masters and mates, but the end is not yet. They have yet to make their peace with the longshore- men, and the prospects are not promis- ing for an immediate settlement. This battle will be fought out in Du- luth, unless one side or the other should unexpectedly make concession. The outlook, however, is for trouble. Take it all around many thousands of men who have expected to go to work on ships, at the docks, on rail- coads and in mines this week are dis- appointed, and it may be some weeks yet before their services are in de- mand. FIRE FOR SALVATION ARMY. Plot to Burn Barracks at Mitchell Is a Failure. Mitchell, S. D., May 10.—An attempt was made to burn the Salvation Army barracks in the city last night. Two men passing by the building Saw flames, and, breaking in the front door, extinguished them before any damage was done. On _ investigation it was ascertained that a carpet on the stage and some flags had been saturated with coal oil, as also was the papers on the floor. A string was run from the papers to the outside of the_build- ing, which was soaked in oil, and the fire started from this. WOULD BE HARD ON BOSSY. Tuberculin Test Proposed for Cows Rouses Citizens. Duluth, May 10.—William Langslow, city dairy and meat inspector, pro- poses that an ordinance be passed by the common council making the tuber- culin test compulsory on the cows in this city. One prominent citizen de- clares the people would be justified in éefending their cows with a shotgun if any such proposition should be coun- tenanced by law. He says the tuber. culin test ruins such cows — LOSE EYESIGHT IN EXPLOSION. Three Laborers Seriously Injured by Dynamite. St. Paul, May 11.—The’ eyesight of two laboring men was destroyed and a third laborer was seriously injured by an explosion of dynamite yesterday while blasting a trench with the city water mains on West Seventh street, near Tuscarora. The accident occurred shortly before noon. William Solbig who is the driller, was in the excava- tion putting a charge of dynamite in recently beez drilled. The other two men were as- sisting him. Within a distance of two feet was a second hole which had been charged, but not exploded. It is sup- posed the men accidentally exploded this charge. SCALES DO NOT AGREE. Capt. O’Neil’s Testimony in Common- wealth Case Is Startling. Fergus Falls, Minn., May 11.—Capt. O'Neil, the star witness in the govern- ment suit against the Commonwealth Lumber company, was on the stand yesterday and will continue his testi- mony to-day. Capt. O’Neil was select- ed by the government to rescale tim- ber alleged to have been cut by the company. The difference between his scale and that of the scalers who first measured the timber and who were suspected of being under the com- pany’s influence was shown by the captain’s testimony, and it appeared startling. COPPER WAR ENDED. Heinze and the Amalgamated Cry Quits and Peace Is Restcred. Helena, Mont., May 11—F. Augustus Heinze was in Helena yesterday, prior to his departure for New York. From a friend of Heinze who talked with him, it is learned that Heinze declared that the long-drawn-out copper -war is at the end.. Heinze, it is understood, will remain in Montana, occupying a high position with the Amalgamated It is further said that Heinze is leav- ing for New York to close a deal which John MacGinnis, vice president of Heinze’s company, has conducted to a satisfactory conclusion. : ELEMENTS ON RAMPAGE. Wind, Rain, Hail and Flood Do Much Damage to Farms. La Crosse, Wis., May 11. — A fierce wind, hail and rainstorm of two hours’ duration, did great damage near Hol- men, this county. Several barns and other outbuildings were unroofed fences blown down and trees stripped of foliage. The rain swelled the creeks into raging torrents and many small bridges were washed out. JUBILEE TO HIT EXAMS. Understood a Standing Above 75 Will Deliver Student. Madison, Wis., May 11. — While no announcement has been made to that effect, it is generally understood that on account of the semi-centennial jubilee in June examinations will be dispensed with so far as all those are concerned whose records show a btanding above 75. Killed a Robber. Helena, Mont., May 11.—J. W. Good- gon, a rancher of Ravalli county, has surrendered to the authorities, stating that he had killed William Parks upon finding the latter rifling his cabin. ‘Parks is a well known character. For beveral months some one has been systematically robbing Goodson’s house during his weekly visits to the county seat. Ostensibly starting on this journey Saturday, Goodson made a detour, and, returning, found Parks {n the building, whereupon he shot the latter, death resulting instantly. Good- son was released on $2,000 bail. Hole-in-the-Day’s Son Dying. Cass Lake, Minn., May 11.—Suffer- ing with an attack of tuberculosis that very much resembles “quick consump- tion,” Joseph Woodbury, son of Hole- in-the-Daygthe famous chief of the Chippewa Indians, lies in a hospital at Walker, with the shadow of death hovering over him. Joseph Woodbury is the only survivor of the original Bug-a-né-ge-shig (known as Hole-in-the- Day), the most famous chieftain in the ‘history of the Ojibway or Chippewa nation. Shingle Mill Burned. Two Harbors, Minn., May 11—News has been received here of the destruc- tion by fire’ of the shingle mill at Grand Marias, owned by the Grand Marais Lumber and Shingle company. The plant had been running a couple of weeks and had made up quite a stock of shingles, which were also de- stroyed. The loss will exceed $2,000 No insurance. Kills Himself in Jail. Terre Haute, Ind., May 11.—Within half an hour of having been locked up for alleged horse stealing Henry Quick committed suicide last night in jail.’ His body was found hanging by a handkerchief from the top bars, Alfonso Will Settele It. Lima, Peru, May 11.—Foreign Min- ister Pardo and Colombian Minister Tanso yesterday signed a convention by which all boundary questions will be submitted to the arbitration of the king of Spain: | and C. E, Rudd of Hibbing have re- Two ‘Hibbing | Men Are Surrounded by Burning Timber. Duluth, May 11. — Martin Imberson turned from a visit to the former's claim ‘twenty miles northwest of Hib- bing and tell a thrilling story of a nar- row escape from death in a forest fire. Four miles from the Mahoning mine they ran into a forest fire that was moving rapidly toward them and burn- ing on both sides of the road. They turned their horses to drive back, and to their horror discovered that a fire had made up from the west behind them and their retreat was cut off. They abandoned their team in an open space and fled through the most favor- able part of the burning woods, arriv- ing at last in a clearing almost stifled witu the smoke and heat, but safe. SERMON HAS RIVAL. Rifle Shoot Back of Church Distracts Attention of Hearers. Pierre, S. D., May 11. — The Gann Valley Chief, published at the county seat of Buffalo county, strenuously ad- vocates a division of Sunday hours be- tween the church and gun club of that town. As it is at present the worship- ers cannot keep their minds on things spiritual and at the same time make guesses on which of their favorites is leading in the score at the practice shoot which they hear in progress just back of the church. FOR “APPENDIXLESS CLUB.” Au “Veterans” of Operations Are to Be Eligible. Sioux City, lowa, May'11.—The Ap- pendixless club is to be the name of a unique social organization promoted by Hamlet A. Rye of the National Bis- cuit company. Mr. Rye has called a meeting of all who have lost their vermiforms, and purposes a permanent organization. “It will be something like the G. A. R.,” Mr. Rye said. “We ean talk of our wounds and our bat- tles within the prison walls of the hos- pitals.” KILLED HIS PUPIL. Blow Struck by Teacher at Graettinger Proved Fatal. Marshalltown, Iowa, May 11.—C. N-: Jensen, a teacher at Graettinger, Iowa, is under arrest charged with causing the death of Barney Elsenbast, aged nine years. The boy became unruly in school and the teacher struck him on the head with a ruler without any intention, however, of injuring him. Two days later the boy died. The af- fair has caused much excitement. POLES FAVOR BUYING LAND. Tract Near Escanaba, Mich., Suits Them for Colonizing Scheme. Milwaukee, May 11.—The members of the Milwaukee National Polish al- liance after visiting the tract of 220,- 000 acres of land near Escanaba, Mich:, have decided that its purchase be recommended to the national alli- ance. The tract will be used for the colonization of Poles now working in Eastern coal mines. SETS BED CLOTHES AFIRE. Negro Prisoner Likely to Die From Effects of Suffocation. Excelsior, Minn., May 11.—Ellsworth Balar, a negro confined with a white man in the jail here on a charge of drunkenness, started a fire in his bed clothes yesterday morning. When the sheriff entered the jail both prisoners were unconscious and the negro prob- ably will die from the effects of suffo- cation. Accused of Robbery. Fergus Falls, Minn., May 11. — Two boys named Fadden and two named TheiS were brought to this city and placed in the county jail to await the action of the federal grand jury at the fall term of court on the charge of robbing the postoffices at Cold Springs and Rockville. Their bail has been fixed at $5,000 in each case, and there is no likelihood of either securing bonds. Minnesota Postmasters Fortunate. Washington, May 11. — Salaries of postmasters in Minnesota have been ordered increased as follows, to take effect July 1: Farmington, $1,200 to $1,300; Hopkins, $1,500 to $1,800; Lam- berton, $1,200 to $1,300; Grand Rapids, $1,700 to $1,800; Kenyon, $1,300 to $1,- 400. Section Hand Cut in Two. Tomah, Wis., May 11. — Crist Up- stein, a section hand working in the steel gang at this place putting in new tracks for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, was cut in two. In avoiding one train he stepped in front of another. Killed by Lightning. Hopkinton, Iowa, May 11. — Clifford Dighton of this place has received a telegram from Grundy Center, Iowa, stating that his brother, Orin Dighton, had been struck by lightning and in- stantly killed. Farmer Breaks Jail. Prairie du Chien, Wis., May 11.— Henry Dunn, a Norwegian farmer of Seneca, escaped from the county jail last night. Dunn was awaiting a hear- ing in the circuit court, which con- venes on May 24, on a serious charge. Elevator Fire at Clearwater. Clearwater, Minn., May 11.—The el- evator owned by Sidman of Monticello and leased by A. Rasmussen, burned yesterday. The loss is $4,000; insur: ance, $2,000. Rasmussen’s lumber yard was damaged $400. WHEAT SEEDING NOT CHECKED. The Work Continued Despite Recent Rains. Seeding of small grain is practically finished, outside of the Red river val- ley, says the Van Dusen-Harrington report, and the acreage appears to ve a little in excess of last year. The seeding was completed about a week later than in 1903, but the soil condi- tions now are better, and it is general- ly believed that the crop will be as far advanced by June 1 as it was a year ago. In the Red river valley seeding is progressing rapidly although the ground has been lumpy and hard to work. The light showers of yesterday did not stop seeding and no doubt will make the soil easier to work. The Red river valley is two’ weeks later than last year and the wheat acreage may be a little less, although the farmers generally seem to consider it advisable to sow wheat until May 15, and if the weather should continue fine, it is still possible tnat the wheat acreage will be larger than in 1903. LAND FOR STATE PARK. Tract of 20,000 Acres Will Be Selected in One Piece If Possible. Minnesota will have a forestry re- serve and state park of 20,000 acres. The state forestry board has received word from Washington that the bill authorizing the state to select not ex- ceeding ~ 20,000 acres of third and fourth rate land for forestry and park purposes had passed. One of the provisions of the bill is that the tract shall always be open to the people of the state for recreation. This means that under proper regula- tions people will be allowed to hunt wild game and to fish in the streams on the tract. To make the tract more useful as a park the forestry board will try to select the 20,000 acres in one locality, if possible, or beside tracts already owned by the state. The forestry board will plant spruce and pine trees on the tract as soon as the state legislature makes provision for the work. The board will select the land with the advice and assis- tance of the land commissioner. DITCH CONTRACTS LET. Start Construction of Improvements in Four of the Northern Counties. The state drainage board has award- ed contracts for constructing four ditches in Kittson, Marshal, Polk and Aitkin counties. The Two Rivers ditch in Kittson county was awarded to Henry Wilder at 13.4 cents per cubic yard. It is es- timated that there are 43,600 cubic yards of earth to be removed. The New Solum state ditch in Mar- shall county will \be constructed- by Bernard & Gorder, who will receive 12.75 cents per cubic yard. There are 22,000 cubic yards to be removed. John Koehler was awarded the con- tract for constructing the Grand Marais ditch in Polk county. The price is 14.75 cents per cubic yard, and it is estimated that there are 40,000 cubic yards to be removed. D. M. Falconer gets the contract for constructing the Gun Lake ditch in Aitkin county at 15 cents per cubic yard. There are about 7,000 yards. CHEESE TEST DELAYED. s State Will Give Prizes to Cheesemak- ers Making Best Score. W. W. P. McConnell, state dairy and food commissioner, has decided to postpone the May butter scoring con- test and the first cheese scoring test of the proposed six-months contest until the first week in June. It was originally intended to begi nthe cheese scoring contest at the May butter- scoring, but many cheese factories were late in starting, and Mr. McCon- nell decided to give the cheesemakers more time. The dairy and food commissioner will issue a circular explaining the cheese-scoring contest. Prizes will be offered at each monthly test, $5 in cash for the cheesemaker making the highest score; $3 for the second best score, and $2 for the third best score, Costly silver cups will be awarded at the end of the six-months’ contest to the three cheesemakers making the highest score. LAND FOR HOMES. Inquiries for the Opening on June 15 at Three offices. Officials of the Crookston land office are daily receiving scores of inquiries regarding the opening of the Chippewa Indian lands on June 15 at the Duluth, Crookston and Call Lake offices. Let- Many ters requesting details of requirements and other information are coming from almost every section. Iowa, Illinois and Dakota farmers are principally among those. who desire to secure land for homes. KRUGER VERY WEAK. Former President of the Transvaal Has Several Fainting Spells. Nice, May 10. — Personal inquiries made at Villa Genes established the fact that Oom Paul Kruger was in a weak state physically. Two doctors from the town of Mentone have been called into consultation by Mr. Kru- ger’s. personal physician. He had three fainting spells lately, and in conse- quence his return to Holland has been postponed until the end of this month. He must then travel by easy stages. x REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. St. Paul the Place and June 30 the Time for the State Meeting. The Republican state convention to nominate state officers will be held in St. Paul June 30, and representation | will be based on the vote of William McKinley in 1900. United States Sen- ator Moses E. Clapp of St. Paul will be temporary chairman. Contrary to the general custom in state conven- tions, the judges of the supreme court will be nominated before the governor and other officers. The county conven- tions to elect delegates to the state conventions will be held Tuesday, June 28. This is the action of the state cen- tral committee, which met recently at the Windsor hotel in St. Paul. Of the twenty-seven members of the com- mittee, twenty-five were present and two were represented by proxy. There was no contests on any of the questions except the meeting place and the advisability of nominating the judges first. The counties of the congressional districts are entitled to delegates as follows. Clearwater county in the list is given only five delegates, but it will probably have seven or eight, accord- ing to the Republican vote. First District Sixth District Dodge Sherburne Fillmor Stearns 1b Freeborn Todd ... -il4 Houston Wadena 9 Mower . Wright . 14 Olmsted Steele Wabash Winona Total -148) Second nae tag Blue Earth Brown . Cottonwo Faribault . Jackson . Martin Murray Nobles .. Pipestone Rock ... Watonwai Renville Steveas Swift ... Traverse . Yellow Me Total... +185) Third District— Al tk: Carver . -12 Dakota . Goodhue Le Sueur McLeod Nicollet Rice . Scott . Sibley St. Louis . Total ... Fourth Di Total . Chisago Ninth Ramsey .. Becker . 12 Washington Beltrami . 10 Cl; 13 Total . - 9 Fifth Dis 1 Hennepin . i Sixth Dis 19 Benton . 16 Cass . + 9 Rea Lake: 8 Crow Wing . . i Roseau . 7 Douglas Wilkin ... 8 Hubbard Clearwater . 5 Meeker — Morrison Total . State Timber Worth Millions. Approximately 85,000,000 feet of timber have been cut on state lands in Minnesota in the logging season just drawing to a close, and the state has realized from the sales more than $500,000. Practically all this will go to the permanent school fund, and will swell that fund to $16,000,000. The state auditor estimates that there are a billion and a half feet of timber left on state lands, worth at least $10,000,000. This timber is growing each year, and the state audi- tor is satisfied that the state can cut $500,000 worth every year for nearly a generation. “The logging season just drawing to a close has been a most prosperous one for the State of Minnesota,” said the state auditor. “The receipts from the timber will exceed $500,000, the average price per thousand feet being $6.50. This is nearly three times as much as the state received eight or ten years ago, when the price of lum- ber was low. “It must be remembered that the policy of the state is to cut only tim- ber in danger of being destroyed by fire, windfall or in other ways. The price of lumber is gradually increas- ing, and it is a good investment for the state to let the trees grow. Our cruis- ers estimate that there are a billion and a half feet of timber standing. This, at the present price, is worth in the neighborhood of $10,000,000. The timber is constantly growing, and it is safe to predict that the state can cut $500,000 worth every year for twenty- five or thirty years.” Seeks Panama Place. Dr. Henry Hutchinson, who has been connected with the, medical de- partment of the University of Minne- sota for about five years, has made ap- plication to Rear Admiral Walker, president of the Panama canal com- mission, for an appointment to the medical staff of the commission. He has had a conference with the admiral at Washington, but no definite ar- rangements have been made. Dr. Hutchinson has liven in St. Paul for a period of twenty-five years and has visited the isthmus on several oc- casions. Creamery Plant Begun. Grand Rapids, Wis., May 7. — The Watertown Creamery company has be gun the erection of a large creamery plant in this city and expects to begin the manufacture of butter in twa months. Sentenced to Be Hanged. Chicago, May 7.—Frank Lewandow. ski was yesterday found guilty of the murder of his wife and was sentenced to be hanged. At the time of the mur. der he also cut his own throat and narrowly escaped death. ’ Mlnois, Democrat contains a long and interesting letter from Mr. Elias Kost, formerly a prosperous farmer of that state, who recently emigrated to West- ern Canada, taking up a claim for himself and for each of his three sons. From Mr. Kost’s letter, which was written Feb. 3, 1904, we publish the following, believing it will prove of great interest to those who have con- templated settling in the Canadian Northwest: “I had in August, 1902, secured & claim for myself, and filed on three quarter sections for my sons. My claim is one-half mile south of the Edmonton and Lake St. Anne trail. “Coming so late in the season we had little opportunity to break and to prepare ground for a first year’s crop, still we raised over 100 bushels of very fine potatoes, and sowed a few acres of barley, but the season was too far advanced for the barley. How- ever, we secured good feed from it, and on rented ground 18 miles east of us, raised a fine crop of oats, so that we will have plenty of feed for horses. We cut about 60 tons of hay and thus will have an abundance. We have, all told, about 240 acres of hay meadow, which would yield the past year over three tons to the acre, and in an or- dinary season the meadow would fur- nish 600 tons of hay. The grass is very nutritious, and cattle on the ranges become very fat without be- ing fed a pound of grain. “On the upland the grass grows from eight to ten inches tall. This is called range grass, and is suitable for stock at any time, even in the winter when the ground is not covered too deep with snow. Horses subsist on it alone, at all times, provided they are native stock. The grass in the hay meadows here is called red-top, and grows from five to six feet in length, and when cut at the proper time yields an abundant crop of nutritious hay. “Our cattle have not cost us a cent since we came on our homestead, only the small outlay for salt and labor in putting up hay and shelter. All cattle have been doing well this winter, and feeding up to the first of January was. unnecessary, as there was good range up to that time. “All the snows up to that date were followed by winds from the north- west that melts it very rapidly; these winds are called Chinook winds, and are always warm. In one night a Chinook wind may take away three or four inches of snow. “We have built on our claim a com- fortable house of hewn logs, 20x26 feet, one and one-half stories in height, with a good cellar. During the latter part of June we rafted logs down the Sturgeon to a sawmill, about eight miles away, and thus secured 5,000 feet of good lumber which was! needed for the house. Later in the! season a shingle mill located six miles away. To this we hauled logs! and had shingles cut for the roof. “We had an abundance of wild fruit! the past season, consisting of goose-! berries, strawberries, raspberries, eye: berries, blueberries, cherries and sas-| katoons. The latter are a-fine looking! berry, red, and quite pleasant to the taste, but not much to be desired in’ cookery. The strawberries are the same as those that grow wild in Illi- nois. Raspberries are red in color, large and equal to any of the tame varieties, and so are the gooseberries., The cranberries consist of the high. and trailing varieties. The latter are, most. sought and contiguous to the swamps. The ground is literally cov- ered with them as with a red carpet, but the best and most sought is the blueberry, so called by the Indians. This is the famous ‘huckleberry’ (whortleberry) of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Pennsylvania, and can- not be excelled for excellence by any fruit cultivated. It is found here both on the prairie and in the timber in im- mense quantities. “Game is very plentiful so far as prairie chickens, pheasants, ducks of all kinds, and geese are concerned. We have taken nearly 500 chickens and pheasants, also a great many ducks. “An occasional deer is seen, but are not plentiful, only one having been taken during the season in this settle ment. “Fish are very plentiful at all sea- sons of the year. Fish wagons and sleds are passing almost daily along the trail with heavy loads of fish, des- tined for St. Albert and Edmonton. From the latter point they are shipped south on the Calgary and Edmonton railroad to points along the line, and also to Assiniboia, on the Chnadian Pacific railroad.” For further information apply to any authorized Canadian Government Agent whose address appears else- where in this paper. Knew Friday’s Footprints. Robinson Crusoe spied the foot- prints. “Of course they are Friday’s,” he ex- plained. “If they were Payday’s they would have hugged the lamp post more.” Pleased with his Sherlock Holmes ingenuity, he went off to tell Defoe.— New York Sun. Expected More. “Yes, they hissed the villain roundly in the tbird act.” “Was he mad?” “T should say he,was mad.” “Why?” “Because the manager wouldn't rais¢ his salary.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Innocent. Katherine—Do you think the detec tives know anything about the burg lary? Kidder—No; I don’t suspect them.— neremecnagpeianeres