Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 9, 1907, Page 3

. education at the university to veter- St. Paul, Feb. 28—Woman sifirage received its death blow in the house yesterday. The bill providing for a constitutional amendment was indef- initely postponed by a vote of 65 to 35. This action followed a long discussion in the committee of the whole. Majority and minority reports on the bill to increase the salaries of judges and justices of the supreme court were presented, and after a live- ly skirmish both reports were accept- ed and the bill placed on general or- ders. A hard fight against the bill seems certain. Bills introduced: Providing for the annexation of territory by the city of | Stillwater; to regulate the sale of plants, trees, shrubbery, and to pro- vide against the spread of infectious diseases among plants and trees, and inspection of nursery stock owned or sold by companies or corporations do- ing a nursery business in the state; to prohibit the use and sale of auto- matic shotguns; to legalize the foreclo- sure of mortgages by advertisement where the power of attorney to fore- | close the same has not been executed or recorded; authorizing cities owning an electric light plant to issue bonds; to place the state public school and the school for the deaf and blind un- ; der the contro] of the state board of control; fixing the rate of taxation on inheritances; imposing a tax of 10 cents a ton, for state purposes only, upon all tonnage ore mined or pro- duced from any lands within the state. In the Senate. : There were a dozen petitions pre- sented in the senate in favor of coun- ty option, and two remonstrances against county option. Senator Calhoun introduced a new pure food bill. He explained that it is a copy of the national pure food law, now the law of each state except three, and adds to that law the provi- sions already embodied in the state law. The bill providing for the taxation af inheritances was reported for in- definite postponement. Other bills introduced were: To ac- cept donations for hospital buildings and equipment for the University of Minnesota and providing for maintain- ing free clinical hospital facilities; to empower cities of the fourth class to issue bonds in the construction of steam and electric roads; to appropri- ate $10,000 to commemorate the serv- ice of the First Minnesota volunteers and their late colonel, William Col- vill. Two bills were passed: Giving free ans of the Spanish war; allowing dis- trict judges to exchange duty under certain circumstances. St. Paul, March 1.—The house yes- terday passed the resolution calling for an investigation of the finances of the state university by a vote of 92 to 14. The university regents are said to court the investigation. A resolution was offered calling for an investigation of the stories of al- leged cruelties at the St. Peter and other insane hospitals. The resolu- tion went over under notice of debate. The Standard Oil is the next octo- pus to be investigated by the house. A resolution calling for a thorough in- vestigation was introduced by Repre- sentative Brady. It is to be along lines calculated to bring out the informa- tion whether or not the Standard is in control of the oil sold and distributed in Minnesota. A raise in salary for the legislators in the shape of $1,000 for the two legis- lative years made its appearance in the form of a bill introduced by Repre- sentative Wells. The speaker is to have $10 a day in addition to this fig- ure, Representative Timberlake intro- duced a bill giving the university re- gents the right of condemnation of | land and the erection of the necessary buildings for the enlargement of the university. It is a wide-open expan- sion bill, and for the carrying out of the same a three-tenth mill tax for a period of five years, to be levied over | the state, is authorized. A standard for canned fruits and vegetables is provided for in a bill in- | troduced by Representative Dorsey. | Canners who comply with the pure | requirements can label their products “Minnesota Standard,” a term which | will be copyrighted for the state. In the Senate. The senate yesterday killed the bill requiring that dogs should be restrain- ed by their owners in order to prevent the spread of rabies. A bill to prevent unfair competition was introduced by Senator Hinton. It provides that any person, firm, com, pany, association or corporation, for- eign or domestic, doing business in Minnesota and engaged in the produc- | tion, manufacture and distribution of | any commodity in general use, that | shall intentionally or otherwise, for | the purpose of destroying the business | of a competitor in any locality, dis- | criminate between different sections BURTON FREE MARCH 22. Senator Gets Shorter Term for Good Behavior. Abilene, Kan., March 7. — Former Senator Joseph R. Burton of Kansas will be released on March 22 from the jail at Ironton, Mo., where he is serv- ing a six-month sentence for practicing before the postoffice department as at- torney for an alleged get-rich-quick company of St. Louis. His six months’ term is shortened thirty days for good behavior. | the reorganization of : board, making the governor a member ‘insane asylums was | bate courts to grant administrations; | regulating the sale and manufacture | proportionate earnings | ceptance of gifts and bequests by the ‘of department of agriculture; regulat- | resolution passed in the North Dakota | legislature regarding ' grain inspection and warehouse laws, Work Accomplished by the State Legislators. by selling such a commodity at a iow- er rate in one section than another, shall be deemed guilty of unfair dis- crimination. When found guilty they must pay the costs, and their permit to sell shall be revoked by the secre- tary of state. Other bills introduced: Relating to the furnishing of liquor to certain per- sons; delinquency of children under seventeen years of age, giving juris- diction to the juvenile courts: to ap- propriate $50,000 for the deepening, straightening and Improving of Buffalo creek, its tributaries and branches, in the counties of Renville and McLeod. Bills passed: Appropriating money for the purchase of seed grain for farmers whose crops were destroyed i in whole or part by excess rainfall in 1905 and 1906; relating to the Minne- sota sanitarium for consumptives; prohibiting the manufacture and sale of blank cartridges, big firecrackers and other explosives; relating to the use of seines'in fishing. St. Paul. March 2.—Senator Wilson yesterday introduced a bill creating a permanent tax commission. The commission shall be composed of three members to be appointed by the gov- ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Each member shall devote his entire time to the office. Their salary is fixed at $6,000. Senator Lundberg’s bil! -relating to of the board, was passed under sus- pension of the rules. Senator Hinton offered a bill which exempts wages not exceeding $30 due for services rendered during thirty days preceding from attachment, gar- nishment or levy of execution. Il} wages are paid at briefer intervals than thirty days the exemption shall be in the same proportion. Senator Vail introduced a Dill amending the law relating to the sale of timber on state land. Other bills introduced: “Relating, to quarantine of animals; relating to pro- ceedings for drainage of lands and meandered bodies ‘of water; accept- ance and administration of gifts and endowments for the benefit of educa- tionable, charitable and other institu- tions maintained by the state; to pro- hibit the use of deception, misrepre- sentation, false advertising, false pre- tenses and unlawful force in the pro-| curing of employes to work in any de- | partment of labor in this state, and fixing penalties, civil and criminal, fof a violation thereof; providing for the election of one alderman at large in| cities; establishment of county schools of agriculture, industrial sci- ence, manual training for school teachers, and appropriating money therefor; to empower villages and cit- jes in this state to appoint gas in- spectors. In the House. The resolution calling for an inves-; tigation into the charges of cruelty in referred to the committe on insane hospitals, with in-| structions to hold an investigation ity it deemed it necessary. The house had a wonderful streak of industry yesterday. An afternoon session was held at which forty bills were recommended for passage in committee of the whole. Representative Dalzell introduced three bills for the regulation of sleep- ing car transportation. One prohibits the giving of tips to employes of the road. Another provides that the rate the forestry ; A petition against the enactment Or a 2-cent fare law was received by the house from the Commercial club of Morton. Villages may give franchises to elec- tric railways to carry freight under a bill introduced by Representative Thayer. Representative Murphy offered a bill providing for the appointment of a per- manent tax commission. Representative Thayer presented a ! pill which provides for the protection of homesteaders from mortgage fore- | closures. | Other bills introduced: Making 8 | per cent the highest rate of interest allowed; regulating telegraph tariffs; prohibiting deception in securing em- | ployes; creating a bureau of statistics | In the Senate. | Senator Witherstine introduced a | bill which relieves pharmacists. from the payment of an annual fee of $2. The bill also contains some minor | amendments to the present law relat- ing t opharmacists. Senator Canfield presented a bill which will give residents of cities of the fourth class something to say about, the location of livery stables in the residence districts. A bill to prevent the election of a majority of the officers of an incorpo- rated village on a wave of popular sentiment on some particular subject, without due consideration of. the quali- fications of the candidates, was intro- duced by Senator Canestorp. The bill provides that the clerk and president shall be elected for two years, and in alternate years, while the three trus- tees shal leach be elected, one each year, for a three-year term. Under this plan a majority of the officers will at all times have been in office for a year or more. St. Paul, March 6.—The senate yes- ‘terday unanimously passed a resolu- tion directing the committee on rall- roads to report out the house 2-cent fare bill not later than Thursday of this week. The preamble related the fact of the passage of the two bills, each in their respective houses, and al- leged that the legislature was anxious that this line of legislation should be- come effective. Five petitions in favor of county op- tions were presented. . A new liquor license law of far- reaching effect was introduced by Sen- ator Vail. It provides that no license for the sale of liquors shall be granted to any person who is not in the actual possession in his own right as owner, or as the bona fide lessee, of the room specified in the license. Whenever such license ceases to be in the actual bona fide possession of the room so specified, or ceases personally to man- age such business, the license shall be deemed annulled. Senator Alderman offered an amend- ment to the liquor law which makes the selling of liquor to a minor a mis- demeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $10 or more than $100, or by imprisonment for not less than ten days or more than ninety days. The senate passed fourteen bills yesterday, most of them of minor im- portance. Among them was the bill to appropriate $259,000 to pay deficien- cies in aid to high schools, graded, semi-graded and rural schools, the past two years. Another important bill passed was one making it compulsory for deaf children at eight years of age to be sent to the state school for charged for upper berths shall not ex- ceed 75 per cent of the price charged | for lower berths. The third requires | the sleeping car companies to furnish | a safe, where the valuables of passen- gers may be stored. Representative Timberlake offered | a bill providing for the examination of | the eyes and ears of all school chil- dren. } The house passed the memorial to | congress for a constitutional conven- | tion to propose an amendment for the | election of senators by direct vote of | the people. Bills introduced: Authorizing pro- \ of binding twine:. relating to the in- corporation of villages; relating to kinds of business insurance compa- nies may transact; providing for a tax on tele- phone companies; permitting the ac- state; providing for the establishment ing the use and_ transportation of game and fish. St. Paul, Mareh to warrant the —There is nothing | charges in the joint | the Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature respect: | fully declines to amend the laws to | conform to the wishes of the North Dakota legislators. This is the reply of the Minnesota legislature to the res- olution from North Dakota. The reply, is in the form of a joint resolution. FATAL STORM IN PITTSBURG. Blizzard Is Accompanied by Thunder and Lightning. Pittsburg, March 7.—This city was suddenly enveloped in a snow storm that resembled a blizzard just before darkness last night, and for an hovr all street car service was crippled. During the fury of the storm thunder and lightning were frequent, telegraph and telephone lines were seriously af- fected. One death as a result of the storm is reported. Fierce the deaf at Faribault. In the House, No strings will be tied to the lobby- ists by the present group of legislators for they voted down the measure re- quiring the registration of lobbyists when it came up for passage yester- day. The death blow was administer- ed by a vote of 42 to 67. Another Dill killed was that authoriz- ing officers of corporations to adminis- ter oaths and take acknowledgments in matters in which they are interest- ed. The house had its working clothes on yesterday and made its first serious attempt to break the log jam of bills which is held up all along the line. Among the bills passed were the fol- Jowing: To punish persons who make false statements for the purpose of se- curing credit; appropriating money for the erection of monuments to the Third, Fourth and Fifth Minnesota in- fantry and the First battery on the battlefield of Vicksburg; requiring the payment of interest on delinquent gross earning taxes; creating the po sition of county weighmaster; prohib- iting pawnbrokers and second-hand dealers from receiving valuable prop- erty from minors; restoring full citi- zenship to persons convicted of felony after they have served their time and complied with certain conditions. Only three bills were introduced: Relating to temporary relief of the poor; relating to appropriations for ex- penses of county officers; providing for exemptien of wages from garnish- ment. NAB ASSAULT SUSPECT. Tramp Believed to Be Mrs. Stech’s As- sailant !s Caught. Moravia, lowa, March 7. — It is be- lieved that a tramp who has becn placed under arrest by local officers is the man who about a week committed a terrible assault upon Mrs. Georg? Stech, wife of a Wayne county farmer, and for whom posses of citizens with bloodhounds scoured the country with- out success. WHAT WESTERN CANADA DOES. Satisfactory Yields of Wheat and Good Prices. 2 Dundurn, Sask., Sept. 30, 1906. Mr. W. H. Rogers, Canadian Govern- ment Agent, Indianapolis, Ind. My Dear Sir: When you were at our place in July I promised to write you what my north quarter made per acre. You will remember it was all sown to wheat. Well, I finished threshing yesterday and received from it an average of 43% bushels per acre—testing “64% pounds per stroked bushel. The wheat is the best sample I have ever raised -——so uniform and even in size. You may know it was a good sample when I tell you that I have already sold 2,000 bushels of it for seed to my neighbors. This year has been my best effort in, farming during my life. My wheat totaled 9,280 bushels and my oats nearly 5,000. If you remember I pointed out to you a half section lying just west of our house and joining my upper quar- ter on the south, which I said I should have in order to make one of the best farms in western Canada. I am very glad to be able to tell you that I now own that half section. My ambition now is to be able to market 20,000 bushels of wheat next year. If some of those good, honest Hoosiers could have been with me during the last two weeks and could have seen the golden grain rushing down the spout into my wagon and then could have seen it in great piles in my granaries, I feel sure they would have been forced to acknowledge there is no better farm- ing country in the world than this. I may just say that I have done all my farming with eight head of horses and one hired man except during harvest and threshing. This year I proved to my neighbor that the Hoosiers, when once “woke up,” can raise grain equal to the best Minnesota farmers. His best yield was 42% bushels per acre, so you see “old Indiana” is holding the ribbon this year. Yours very truly, N. E. BAUMINK. The Proof. “Was the wedding a social suc- cess?” “Yes, indeed. It gained the bride’s dressmaker, twenty-seven new custo- mers.” PREPARE THIS YOURSELF. Tells How to Make the Best Blood Tonic at rome. . For those who have any form of blood disorders; who want new, rich blood and plenty of it, try this: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three cunces. Shake well in a bottle and take in teaspdonful doses after each meal and a. bedtime. Any good pharmacy can supply the ingredients at small cost. Thisis the prescription which, when made up, is called “The Vegetable Treatment;” by others, the “Cyclone Blood Purifier.” It acts gently and certainly does wonders for some peo- ple who are sickly, weak and out of sorts, and is known to relieve serious, long-standing cases of rheumatism and chronic backache quickly. Make some up and try it. There is nothing a boy has quite as much contempt for as a girl’s sled. For Prices on Poultry Either Live or Dressed, Write R. E. COBB. St. Paul, Minn. It’s far better to have your neighbor owe you an apology than money. JOIN OUR EXCURSION TO TEXAS Mch. 19, Fine lands. Easy terms. TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAND CO., St. Paul. Fool questions usually beget fool an- swers. Ship Your Cream to Us. Largest creamery in the Northwest. MILTON DAIRY CO., ST. PAUL. The man who has a message he feels he must whisper to you, usually has a breath as bad as his manners. CHILDREN TORTURED. Gir) Had Running Sores from Eczema —Boy Tortured by Poison Oak— Both Cured by Cuticura. “Last year, after having my little girl treated by a very prominent phy- sician for an obstinate case of ec- zema, I resorted to the Cuticura Rem- edies, and was so well pleased with the almost instantaneous relief afford- ed that we discarded the physician’s prescription and relied entirely on the Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Oint- ment, and Cuticura Pills. When we commenced with the Cuticura Reme- dies her feet and limbs were covered with running sores. In about six weeks we had her completely well, and there has been no recurrence of the trouble. “In July of this year a little boy in our family poisoned his hands and arms with poison oak, and in twenty- four hours his hands and arms were a mass of torturing sores. We used only the Cuticura Remedies, washing his hands and arms with the Cuticura Soap, and anointing them with the Cuticura Ointment, and then gave him the Cuticura Resolvent. In- about three weeks his hands and arms healed up. So we have lots of cause for feeling grateful for the Cu- ticura Remedies. We find that the Cuticura Remedies are a valuable household standby, living as we do twelve miles from a doctor. Mrs. Liz- zie Vincent Thomas, Fairmont, Wal- den’s Ridge, Tenn., Oct. 13, 1905.” SCHOOL FUND APPORTIONED. . hae tin knce State Auditor Sends Out Checks to Va- rious Counties in the State. The state auditor has begun the dis- tribution of $605,201.60 among the counties of the state. This sum repre- sented the apportionment of the cur- rent school year. Under it the schools will receive $1.60 for each pupil enti- tled to share in the distribution. In all 378,251 pupils will participate. The checks for the same are now be- ing made out. The distribution among the counties, as arranged by State Su- perintendent Olsen, is as follows: Amount. $3,512 00 4, Counties— No. of Pupils. Aitkin 2, Anoka Faribault Fillmore . Freeborn Goodhue . Grant Hennep Houston Hubbard . Isanti Itasca Jackson . Kanabec Kandiyohi SYSSESESSSSBSSSSYSSSSSSSSSSSSESS 2 Lyon . McLeod . Marshall Martin Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison SS8sSSSSEs' Norman . Olmste Otter Pine Pipestone . Polk . Pope Ramsey . Red Lake Redwood Renville . Rice . Rock . Rosseau St. Louis Scott . SSSVSBSsERSsSy | en: Swift Todd . ‘Traverse Wabasha Wadena . Waseca Washing! Watonwan Wilkin Winona SSS2E833S3S38 Wright . Yellow Medicine 8 Pupils ... MEN OF THE FORGE UNITE. Southern Minnesota Blacksmiths and Wagonmakers Organize. The Southern Minnesota Blacksmith and Wagonmakers’ association was or- ganized in Mankato at a meeting of thirty-five delegates representing Man- kato, Lake Crystal, St. James, Vernon Center, Amboy, Mapleton, Good Thun- der, Minnesota Lake, Janesville, Belle Plaine, Le Sueur, Henderson St. Peter and St. Clair.. John Dossett of Lake Crystal was elected president; Walter Friend of Lake Crystal, secretary: Frank Mahowald of Mankato, treasur- er, and Thomas H. Foley, Conrad May- er and C. Kuehn, all of Mankato, law committee. Mankato is to be the headquarters of the association. It was decided to ask the legislature to amend the law relating to the quali- fications of blacksmiths, which at pres- ent applies to cities of 50,000 and up- wards, so as to take in all towns and villages in the state. It is said that this law has proved very beneficial where it is operative. The territory covered by the new association embraces all of Southern Minnesota outside of the Twin Cities, and an endeavor will be made to in- clude in the membership representa- tives from every city and village. PUSH TROLLEY PROJECT. Mankato Ordinance Gives Franchise Ordinance Its First Reading. At a special meeting of the Mankato city council an ordinance was intro- duced and given its first reading grant- ing a franchise to construct and oper- ate an electric street railway within the city limits and a_ lighting and steam or hot water heating heating plant. The franchise is to be granted to W. L. Hixon and H. BE. Hance, who will transfer it to the Mankato Trac- tion Company as soon as it is organ- ized. Arthur J. Whipple, a financial man, and R. A. Pratt, an engineer, ar- rived from Chicago. They represent the construction company which pro- poses to build the line. HAS BRACKEN’S APPROVAL. Indorses Steps Taken in Mankato to Prevent Spread of Rabies. Dr. H. M. Bracken of Minneapolis, secretary of the state board of health, who was in Mankato recently, indorsed the steps taken by the city officials to stop the spread of rabies. Eleven dogs that were bitten by the dog that was found to have rabies were killed by the police at the request of the own- ers. The parents of the Kelly girl, who was one of those bitten last week, are toe poor to send her to the Pasteur in- stitute at Chicago, so at a conference held recently between county and city officials it was decided that the girl be sent to Chicago at the joint expense of the two. JUST HINTED. Passenger Was Getting a of Ethel. The train was crowded. In one com- partment a dignified, middle aged gen- tleman was trying to read. . Among the passengers was a lady with a very sprightly little girl who had blue eyes, a head of blistening gold and an in- quisitorial tongue. She asked the dig- nified gentleman innumerable ques- tions and played with his watch chain. The mother fairly beamed upon him. He was becoming nervous, and turn- ing to the lady said: “Madame, what do you call this sweet child?” The mother smiled, and replied: “Ethel.” “Please call her, then.” Little Tired: Confronting the Condemned. “T have,” said a lawyer, as he en- tered his condemned client's cell, j“good news at last.” “A reprieve?” eagerly asked the prisoner. “No, not a reprieve, but your uncle has left you $2,500, and now you can meet your fate with the satisfying feeling that the noble efforts of your lawyer in your behalf will not go unre- warded.” MERITS OF CAREY ACT. Settlers Can Acquire Title to Irrigated Land Under Easy Conditions. The people of the East are as a rule familiar only with the different irriga- tion enterprises undertaken by the United States government. But in the West there is not a little difference of opinion as to the practical merits from the settler’s point of view of the fed- eral plan of reclamation and settle- ment and the state plan under the Carey act. The latter, which is best illustrat- ed under the win Falls project, em- powers the state to undertake or to contract for huge irrigation enter- prises, permits the settler to contract for a quarter section or less, and when the water is ready to be delivered In his ditches to settle and begin to im- prove and make a living off the land. He is then able to acquire title to his holdings, provided he clears and culti-* yates at least oneelght within a year,” when his property becomes taxable and the community can begin public improvements. Inder the Newlands act the federal government conducts the enterprise and the settler must wait five years before he can acquire his title and must move on when he files his claim, irrespective of the prospects of obtain- ing water. Taxes cannot be levied, since the property is not taxable. There is no doubt, of course, that the Carey act, allowing of a more flexible method of bringing great areas under cultivation and turning them over to settlers, must be counted as a highly important factor in the development of the great West. Nor is there as yet danger of huge corporate holdings. At present the average holding is ninety acres.—Wold Today. MORE BOXES OF GOLD And Many Greenbacks. 25 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks will be sent to persons who write the most interesting and truthful letters of experience on the following topics: 1. How have you been affected by coffee drinking and by changing from coffee to Postum. 2. Give name and account of one or more coffee drinkers who have been hurt by it and have been induced to quit and use Postum. 3. 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