Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 27, 1907, Page 4

— 4 St. Paul, April 18—The house yes- ‘terday killed the bill providing for the issuance of $250,000 of certificates of indebtedness for improvements at the state fair. There were 38 votes for the bill and 68 against it. The bill was introduced after the bill providing $1,000,000 for a semi-centennial had been killed by the senate. The same arguments that defeated the exposi- tion bill were used to defeat the new bill. The argument was frequently used that the Twin Cities got all the benefit and should therefore stand the greater part of the expense. The Dill came up as a special order and was the subject of a long debate. The house passed the senate file of the bill drawn by the joint committee which visited Wisconsin to formulate a compromise law relating to the fish- ing in the waters between the two states. The same bill is being passed by the Wisconsin legislature, so there will be no conflict regarding the fish- ing in the waters of the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers. The house refused to concur in the senate amendments to the sleeping ear tax bill and conferees were appointed. A bill was passed under suspension of the rules permitting the board of control to borrow 75 per cent of the re- volving fund of the state prison in- stead of 50 per cent as at present. It was explained that the board intends to increase the twine output at the prison and needs more capital to do the work. in the Senate. The senate yesterday passed the bill increasing the governor's salary from $5,000 to $7,000 a year. The bill now goes to the governor for signature. A bill providing for the acquisition and preservation of the buildings erected by H. H. Sibley and Alexander Faribault in the village of Mendota was introduced yesterday. The houses are to be preserved as historical land- marks. The bill carries an appropria- tion of $5,000. The senate yesterday refused to confirm the appointment of John Keat- ing of Wabasha to be inspector of poilers and steam vessels for the Third district. The house bill limiting the continu- ous hours of labor of railroad em- ployes to sixteen was passed by the senate without a dissenting vote. The senate refused to reconsider the vote by which the Indian massacre pension bill was passed. The Heron Lake agricultural school and subexperiment station bill was passed in the senate. The section con- taining the appropriation, however, had been cut out by the finance com- mittee. St. Paul, April 19—The house yes- terday killed both the bill extending the primary system to state officers and the bill for the election of dele- gates to county conventions by a pri- mary election system. The two bills were before the house on special order and were discussed at great length. Everybody agreed that the present system is full of faults, yet nobody could suggest a system that would be better for all classes. The house passed the senate tax commission bill. The house amended the bill so as to give the equalization board power to review the work of the commission. The bill in its present form provides a commission of three members at a salary of $4,000 to be appointed by the governor for six- year terms. A bill intended to put the Minnesota Shippers and Receivers’ association out of business as a political organiza- tion was introduced in the house by the special committee which has been investigating that organization. The bill accompanied a report of the com- mittee which set forth that George S. Loftus was in complete control of the political and financial affairs of the association. The committee appointed to inves- tigate the charge smade in connection with the passage of the pure paint bill reported that they were unable to find any ground upon which to base the charges. The house passed under suspension of the rules a_ bill to encourage the consolidation of rural schools. The house yesterday passed the con- solidated automobile bill. The bill makes eighteen miles the maximum speed and eight miles the maximum at crossings, on dangerous roads and while passing churches, school houses and postoffices. In the Senate. The senate again passed an anti- pass bill yesterday, but it was not the one passed by the house. The senate bill will go into effect upon. its passage and will contain only one addition to the list of exemptions from the bill as it was passed by that body the first time. The only addition to the exemp- tions was that of widows and depend- ent children of employes of the rail- roads killed while in its service. There were fifty-six votes for the bill and none against it. The capitol approach bill authoriz- ing St Paul to issue bonds not to ex- ceed $1,000,000 for the purpose of ac- quiring the ground and improving a suitable approach to the new capitol was passed in the senate yesterday. Under suspension of the rules a bill was passed authorizing cities of over 50,000 inhabitants to condemn lands to be used for school purposes. The senate passed the bill to pro- hibit the employment of children un- der fourteen years of age in any pub- lic labor and to prohibit the employ- ment of children between fourteen and sixteen years during the school year unless they secure permits from the school authorities. The senate in committee of the whole recommended for passage the bill changing the labor bureau to the bureau of labor, industries and com- merce. St. Paul, April 20.—The girls’ train- ing school bill was passed by the sen- ate yesterday as it came from the house, and the bill will now go to the governor for his signature. The bill provides for the location of the girls’ training school at some place to be se- lected by the board of control. The fight on the location of this bill has been probably the hardest and most extended of any of this session. The Red Wing people put up a hard fight for the retention of the girls’ school in that city. The Federation of Women’s Clubs were persistent in urging their claim that the two schools should not be located in the same city, and they won the fight. The senate killed the house resolu- tion calling upon the railroad and warehouse commission to investigate the rates charged for transporting ore on the iron range railroads and to re- duce the rates, suggesting a cut of 40 per cent as fair. The resolution charged that the range railroads were charging excessive rates and in conse- quence were earning enormous divi- dends. The senate refused to concur in the house amendments to the tax commis- sion bill, and a conference committee was appointed. ‘The senate passed under suspension of the rules the house bill which prc- vides for the establishment of town- ship consolidated rural schools. The bill relating to bounties for killing wolves was passed. The bill requires the person killing the wolf to cut off the toes of the front legs in the pres- ence of the town clerk. In the House The house yesterday passed the Dill for the extension of the university campus and the erection of buildings, after cutting the appropriation 30 per cent and cutting out the ladies’ dormi- tory and the dental and pharmacy buildings entirely. The amount pro- vided wag cut from $1,000,000 to $700,- 000, of which $250,000 is to be used for the new engineering building and laboratory, and the remaining $450,- 000 for the extension of the campus. The bill for a new fish hatchery at Deerwood was passed by the house yesterday. The house passed the bill providing for a’ commission to inquire into the question of adding to the grounds in the immediate vicinity of the captol and to expend any money that may be appropriated later, if any is appropri- ated. The vote on the bill stood 62 to 49. Gov. Johnson yesterday signed the last of the insurance bills, and now Minnesota has on its statute books all the recommendations made by the committee of fifteen appointed to look into insurance matters last winter. The bill giving electric railways the right of eminent domain in cities and villages was killed in the house after its friends had tried to amend it so that the right was in some degree limited. The vote was 38 to 59. St. Paul, April 22—The house com- mittee which has been investigating the Great Northern ore deals reported in the house Saturday. The conclu: sions of the committee are that the ore land lease “melon” was unlawful, and the millions of dollars in ore cer- tificates involved should have been turned in as assets of the Great North- ern Railway company, instead of being distributed to the Great Northern stockholders. The committee finds that the ore lands, though bought by the Lake Superior company, were pur- chased with the Great Northern funds; that the former company is controlled absolutely by the latter, and that only a reasonable dividend should have been turned over to the stock- holders, the balance being used by the Great Northern in the interests of the road. : The leaders in the tonnage tax fight got together Saturday and passed two bills relating to the iron ore land. One was the bill defining the ownership of minerals beneath meandered lakes, and the other the new mineral lease law. STATE LEGISLATURE Transactions in the Senate and House of Representatives. The bill requiring deaf and dumb children to attend the state schbol at Faribault was killed. The house passed the bill providing for a system of publicity for the prices paid for grain in elevators. ‘The house passed the bill providing for a fruit-breeding farm.’ The bill imposing a license fee of $100 for buffet and dining cars where liquor is sold passed the house. The bill prohibiting the marriage of cousins was passed. In the Senate. The joint road and bridge committee reported the bill cutting up the $400,- 000 appropriation for the next two years among the counties. The Dill ‘was ordered placed at the head of the senate calendar on Monday. The bill designated the places where the. mon- ey, or a part of it, is to be expended in some counties and in the others it simply specifies the amount the coun ty shall receive. When the university bill came back from the house Saturday it was amended so as to include the provi- sion for a ladies’ dormitory, which was stricken in the house. As amended the bill increases the amount to be raised annually front $175,000 to $194,- 000. The bill will now go back to the house and if that body does not con- cur in the amendment it will have to go to, conference. The senate refused to adopt the re- port of the conference committee on the game and fish Iaw, and a motion to appoint another conference com- mittee was adopted and saved the bill from defeat. St. Paul, April 23.—The omnibus ap- propriation bill was passed by ‘ the house last night. The bill as intro- duced carried an aggregate appropria- tion of $11,500,000. It came up as a special order at 3 o’clock in ‘the after- noon and the house worked on the Dill until midnight. When the bill had been gone over item by item, with a fight made on almost every section, the total amount added to the bill was $74,800, while $37,900 had been strick- en out, leaving a net increase of $36, 900. The principal items inserted were $40,000 for a bridge over Minne- haha Glen at the soldiers’ home and $10,000 for a sliver service for the bat- tleship Minnesota. The only large item stricken out was $25,000 for a light and power plant for the state fair. The house yesterday refused to ac- cede to the request of the senate for the return of the anti-pass bill for cor- rection, and insisted that the senate ‘appoint a committee to meet the con- ference committee appointed by the house. When the senate passed the house bill last week it amended it so as to make an entirely new bill, but the enacting clause was omitted. Later the senate asked for the return of the bili for correction. The bill restoring the chief justice of the supreme court and the president of the state university to the state board of investment was passed by the house. Before taking up the omnibus Dill yesterday the house spent an hour considering local bills, so-called, se- lected by the committee appointed for that purpose. A number of bills were passed In the Senate. The omnibus road and bridge bill was passed by the senate yesterday. The house passed the bill first, and when it came into the senate it was substituted for the senate bill and passed without amendment. The bill divides $200,000 a year among the eighty-five counties of the state for each of the next two years. The senate yesterday laid on the ta- ble the house resolution demanding the nomination and re-election, of President Roosevelt for another term. The senate passed under suspension of the rules the bill authorizing cities of over 50,000 inhabitants to sell bonds by popular subscription, with an amendment fixing the minimum amount for which bids will be received from 500 to $100. The omnibus appropriation bill was introduced in the senate yesterday. It was made a special order for 11 o’clock this morning. The Sundberg committee, appointed to investigate the value and cost of operation of the railroads in Minneso- ta, reported to the senate yesterday. The report is a voluminous document. Summarized, the conclusions of the committee are: “The total value of the railroad property in Minnesota is, in round numbers, $215,000,000. This fs approximately $27,000 a mile. This property is capitalized at about $400, 000,000, over $50,000 a mile on the av- erage. In view of the facts disclosed, we recommend that a commission be empowered to investigate generally into the capitalization of the railroads of Minnesota and the relation the stocks and bonds bear to the value thereof. and the enactment of. such legislation as the conditions disclosed demand.” ween meueeeeeeueeesnm 0 00 0 0 0 0 mn Om emnm™* = om — OO OOO — m0 mune OOOO OOOO" WILL MAKE CONTEST. Vast Estate of ~oilent” Smith Will Be Contested For by Relatives. New York, April 21—The immense fortune, estimated at $75,000,000, left by James Henry Smith when he died suddenly in Japan a few weeks ago, while on a wedding tour around the world, may cause a hard legal contest for its possession. More than a score of Smith’s relatives have reached a determination to insist upon a division of the estate. Embezzlement Is Charged. Muskogee, I. T., April 21. — Lyman K. Lane, former financial clerk for the United States Indian agent, has been indicted by the federal grand jury, charged with embezzling $7,800 of gov- ernment funds. Jumps to Her Death. Boston, April 21. — Miss Mary E. Tomlinson committed suicide here yesterday by jumping from a window in an upper story of the Parker house. It is believed that she was demented. y Bonfire Kitls Widow. Dubuque, Iowa, April 21.—Mrs. Jo- hanna Frenzel, an ‘aged widow, was burned to death yesterday while clean- ing up rubbish in her yard. She start- ed a bonfire, and it is supposed that the wind blew her skirts into the flame, igniting her clothing. South Carolina Shaken. Charleston, S. C., April 21.—A slight earthquake shock was felt in Charles- ton and Summerville at 3:25 o’clock this morning. No damage is reported. | “Good Old Chief ‘om —e Bemidji’’ Honored The last resting place of “Good old Chief Bemidji,” after whom the city of Bemidji was named, now is marked by a handsome monument. About a year ago A. A. Carter, ex- mayor of Bemidji, took up the matter of securing a suitable mark for the spot where Chief Bemidji was buried. Tlie school children donated some money and a small amount was se cured from other sources. The monument is a spire design of Bedford gray stone and is about four- teen feet high, being four feet square atthe base and standing on a substan- tial stone foundation. On the die of the spire is carved an excellent like ness of Chief Bemidji, his strongly marked features standing out promi- nently. The only inscription on the monument are the words “Chief Be- midji.” Bemidji was one of the last of the line of chiefs who have been heads of of the Cass Lake Indians for centu- ries. His exact age at the time of his death was a subject upon which no two Indians or white people agreed, but those who should be best able to give it reliably state that he was be- tween eighty-five and eighty-seven years old. CHIEF BEMIDJI MONUMENT. Handsome Memorial Erected in City Named After Indian Leader. DRUGGISTS SEEK AID. Want Physicians to Accept Local Med- icines, Not Eastern. Members of the Minnesota branch of the American Pharmaceutical asso- ciation held a meeting at the Minne- apolis Commercial club recently. Drug- gists and physicians from different parts of the state were in attendance. The object of the association is to se- cure co-operation between doctors and pharmacists, and nearly all Twin City drug companies are represented in the organization. One movement on foot is to convince the local physicians that local prescriptions are the equal cf standard proprietary medicines put up by Eastern firms. Many physicians in writing prescriptions call for certain brands of ingredients which compels the druggist to carry a large line of stock of similar medicines where the same ingredient put up under the pure food laws of the state would be the same. The officers of the association are Dean Wulling of the university, president; W. A. Frost, St. Paul, vice president; A. Backman, secreiary and treasurer. The next meeting will be held in St. Paul at the call of the pres- ident. REJECTS COUNCIL SEAT, Alederman-elect, Chosen in Hot Fight, Refuses to Qualify. E. L. Kalb, who recently was elected alderman from the Second ward at Rochester after a hard fight in the spring election, surprised his friends by sending a communication to the city council saying that he refused to qualify for the aldermanship and giv- ing no reason whatever for his deci- sion. His action is mystifying and the people who worked hard for his elee- tion are demanding an explanation. However, Kalb gives no light on the subject. The Democrats and Repub- licans were evenly divided and there was a chance for the former to get a majority, but Andrew Holm, who was appointed to fill the vacancy made by Kalb’s refusal to qualify, claims to be non-partisan. BUILDS STEEL ARCH BRIDGE. Island Is Replacing Structure Endangered by Ice Jam. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway company is putting in a new stcel arch bridge over Straight river in Fairbault. The present bridge, a wooden structure, has been im danger for the past two years of being washed out or demolished by large ice jams forming’ around it every spring. This year the bridge was badly damaged by a large ice jam. ‘Rock The chief talked but little English. He never learned to master the white tomgue, and when questioned by his people regarding his age, he would state that he did not know how old he was, but that he was a big young man at the time of the falling stars, an oc- currence which was _ productive of much terror among all the Indians, and is said to have occurred in 1833. He was a son of a Cass Lake chief who ruled a small band that made their home in the vicinity of Lake Winnibigoshish, and there Bemidji was born. His father was known as one of the mos: valiant warriors of his tribe. Bemidji made his home near Bemid- ji for forty years. The country in that vicinity had long been a famous hunting ground for the Indians, and Bemidji erected his bark tepee on a spot where is now located the Crook- ston mill yard, on the banks of Lake Bemidji, a short distance from the place where the Mississippi river emp- ties into the lake. Here his family, consisting of three sons and three daughters were reared to maturity. His wife has been dead: about twelve years. Her grave was‘near the chief’s little old log house on Rice lake, and during his lifetime the little projection in front of the tomb was kept supplied with food, herbs and tobacco, accord- ing to Indian custom, a tender tribute to the memory of the departed. Two of the chief’s sons died some time ago and are buried with their mother. In the early days the lodge of Be midji had a reputation for hospitality that extended throughout all this sec- tion. All travel between Duluth and Crookston in the early days crossed | the Mississippi at this point and gain- | ed for it the title of “Bemidji, or Big | Crossing. About six years ago Chief Bemidji took an allotment on the Cass Lake reservation and removed from Bemid- | Ji. He had made an effort to secure | the land where he had made his home for so long, but he was not successful in the effort. GRAND JURY INDICTS THREE. New Court Business at Redwood Falls i Is Rather Light. Three indictments have been filed | in the district court at Redwood Falls, | the first one being against William | Conrad of Lamberton, who is charged with assault in the second degree for | attacking his father-in-law, Henry | Schmidt, last week while in a drunken | frenzy, inflicting bad cuts in the neck | and face. | Hannah Norval of Waseca was in- | dicted for disposing of mortgaged i Di | | H roperty while a tenant on a farm near Wabasso. H. Miller was indicted for soliciting orders and selling intoxicating liquors | to Walnut Grove men in less than five- gallon lots without license. He was traveling for a St. Paul liquor house : and will probably put up a defense. ASKS SHARE OF PROFITS. | Plaintiff Says He Lost, but Brother Got $200,000 From Deals. An action for an accounting involv- ing many thousands of dollars has been placed on the district court cal- endar at Winona. The action is brought by Christopher Johnston | against William E. Johnston, as ad- ministrator of the estate of the late Frank Johnston. The compltain alleges that the two Johnston brothers, Chris and Frank, were interested in mining ventures in Utha and Idaho in the late “70’s” and “0's.” The. plaintiff claims to have advanced more than $50,000 and re- ceived back less that $30,000, while he alleges that Frank Johnston received from the sale of stocks, etc., more than $200,000. The complaint also alleges that a settlement was reached some years ago, when it was the under- standing of the plaintiff that Frank Johnston had no money, but he since has learned that Frank Johnson died worth over $75,000. The plaintiff askes that the old ac- counts be opened, and that the former settlement be rescinded. The answer pleads a full settlement and also the statute of limitations. FAVOR evkctric LINE, Salem and Rochester Township in- dorse “Dan Patch” Project. 'The citizens of Salem have held a mass meeting to sound the people's sentiment in regard to giving a right of way to the Minneapolis, Rochester & Dubuque Traction company whico desires to build an electric line through here. The. citizens expressed them- selves as being heartily in favor of the trolley line. A committee was chosen Dy the meeting to interview the far- mers in that section of the county to see how many are willing that the road should go through. Rochester township also declared in favor of the proposition. Rochester, however, is waiting for the promoters to show the goods. At a meeting of the council of St. Hilaire it was decided to award a franchise to G. W. Hooper of Crooks- ton for a local telephone system. He has made a deposit as an evidence of good faith, and expects to have the system in working order by Aug. 1. While four laborers were at work at Waseca on the roof of a two-story building belonging to Simon Taarud the building suddenly collapsed. The men on the roof at the time of the col- lapse fell, but none were seriously in- jured. = WEIGHT AND HEALTH THIN, NERVOUS PEOPLE NEED THE TONIC TREATMENT. This Woman Took Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, Gained Thirty Pounds and Has Been Well Ever Since. How mary women—and men too— are suffering from a general decline in health which the ordinary remedies seem unable to check! .How many hus- bands see their wives wasting away, steadily losing health and beauty, an are powerless to help! Consumption and other germ diseases find in these debilitated systems y, for the lowered vitality is unequal to the task of fighting off the infection of these diseases to which most of us are almost daily ex- posed. Thesymptoms indicating the decline which may have results so fatal could scarcely be better described than in the statement of Mrs. William_Manley, of 92 Court street, Utica, N. Y. Her case isa typical one. 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I believe the pills to be the best tonic and builder a woman can take, as they certainly helped me when my condition was critical and I have never been seriously ill since.” The great value of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills lies in the fact that they actuall make new blood and this carries healt and strength to every portion of the body. The stomach is toned up, the nerves are strengthened, every organ is stimulated to do its work. If you are ill and the treatment you are taking does not cure you, write for ‘oof of what Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills ave done in similar cases. Your druggist sells them or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of ice, 50 cents per box, six boxes for 2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Subsidized. “Meet me at the old mill at mid- night,” whispered the villain hoarse- ly. “Which one?” queried the sub-con- spirator. “The one where they make Grand- pa’s Rolled Wheat It Builds You Up,” replied the fiend in human form. “Of course, if we want to get rid of this sort of thing, we will simply have to pay our actors better salaries. BLOOD GETS SOUR. Every Family Should Make Up This Home Mixture and Take Now. At this time of year, says a well- known authority, the Kidneys become weak, clogged and inactive, failing to filter out the poisons and acids, which sour the blood, causing not only facial and bodily eruptions, but the worst forms of Rheumatism, Nervous and Stomach troubles, Backache and pain- ful, annoying Urinary afflictions. It is worth anyone’s time now to get from some good prescription phar- macy the following ingredients: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Com- pound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking well in a bot- tle and take in teaspoonful doses after your meals and at bedtime. This simple home-made mixture will force the Kidneys to normal, healthy action, so they will filter and strain all uric acid and poisonous waste matter from the blood, and expel this in the urine, at the same time restoring the “full blood count”—that is, 95 per cent. red blood corpuscles—which is abso- lutely indispensable to perfect health. His Love. “George,” said she, tragically, “your love is growing cold.” “But, Helen! I protest! so! What can I do to 4 “You might stir the fire, and I'll be warmer.” Famous Book Free. Every reader of this paper can get free of charge one of Dr. Coffee’s famous books which tells of a new method by which ersons afflicted with Deafness, Head Noises, Sore Eyes, Failing Sight from any cause, can cure themselves at home at small expense. _ Write a letter immediately to Dr. W. 0. Coffee, 360 Century Bldg., Des Moines, Ia. It is not Excused. Foreman Waterville Hose Company No. 1—Hurry up an’ come on, Sif Woolsey’s barn’s burnin’. The Newest Volunteer — Sorry, Heck, but I can’t. are in the wash. Both m’red shirts Deafness Cannot Be Cured dy local applications, as they cannot reach the die eased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that fs by constitutional remedies. Deafness 1s caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have arumbling sound or im- perfect hearing, and when {t {eentirely closed, Deaf- ness {s the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to {ts normal cond!- tiun, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, wh! nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. ‘We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of used by catarrh) that cannot be cured rh Cure. “Send for clroulars, free. . J. CHEN! CO., Toled>, O. Sold by Draggists. Zhe. i Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. It’s easy to convince the world that you have sense if you have an unu- sually large number of dollars. SHIP YOUR CREAM :o Crescent Creamery Co., St. Paul, Minn, Write to-day for tags and prices. Believe in others is you would have others believe in you.