Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 7, 1907, Page 4

BEFORE LOCHREN STOCKHOLDERS’ ATTORNEYS BE s GIN BY EXPLAINING ISSUES INVOLVED. DOES NOT RULE ON DEMURRERS St. Paul, Sept. 4—Some light was thrown yesterday. on the origin of the railroad stockholders’ injunction suits { to restrain the Minnesota rate laws. The formal hearing on the temporary injunction was taken up by Judge Lochren in the federal court and an t argument started that will probably last all week. Most of yesterday’s ses- sion was spent in reading the com- plaints, answers and other documents in the case, this being done by the stockholders’ attorneys in response to Judge lLochren’s statement that he had not read the state’s demurrers, and that “it must be assumed that he did not know anything about the case.” Submits Demurrers. Attorney General Young submitted the state’s demurrers without special argument and courted an immediate decision on them, which would clear the record and open the way for straight argument upon the merits. As the demurrers were filed some time ago, he assumed that the judge had read them and was ready to de cide, probably to overrule them. Judge Lochren said he had not read them, so the points raised on the demurrers are to be arguer right along with the states involved. Directors Suggested Suits. The light shed on the origin of the suits came in presenting the Great Western’s complaint. Mr. Burr ex- plained that affidavits with the com- plaint told how the road’s directors had refused to resist the law as the stockholder John A. Humbird request- ed. They refused because of the risk ot imprisonment and because, as they informed Mr. Humbird, the issue could be tested by a _ stockholders’ suit in equity without running any such risk. The stockholders’ counsel have the first inning. It is up to them to make a prima facie case on their request for an injunction, and probably their en- } tire battery of special counsel will be used before any of the state’s side is presented. FREIGHT HITS HILL’S CAR. ih Private Coach of G. N. President Dam- “VIER « aged at Jamestown. ? Jamestown, S. D., Sept. 5.—While the private car of President Louis Hill of the Great Northern railway ‘was standing in front of the passenger sta- tion, waiting to be attached to the a Jamestown Northern branch train, an extra freight on the Northern Pacific main line crashed into the magnate’s car, completely demolishing the plat- form and rear portion of the car and breaking the windows. President Hill and his hunting par- ty, who were en route to the Benton county fields, were severely shaken up, but no one was seriously hurt. TRACED TO BISMARCK. Alleged Thief and Woman Were Mar. ried There Last March. Eau Claire, Sept. 5.—By documents from Court Judge McKenzie of Bis. marck, N. D., it is shown that the woman in jail here with George E. Mayer, alias Mouir, is his wife, and that she was Emma Haller of Grants- burg, Wis. They were married at Bis- } marck last March. Therefore the woman, who is charged with receiving 4 { money alleged to have been stolen from a jewelry store counter by May- er, will be discharged. Mayer served in the Sixth infantry, regular army, under the name of Mouir. PLEADS GUILTY TO LARCENY. } Robert Marshall, Formerly Clerk at | Winnebago Hotel, Given Sentence. Blue Earth, Minn., Sept. 5.—Robert Marshall, the former clerk at the Mer- j , chants hotel at Winnebago, who rified the safe to keep up his “ante” in a \ poker game, was brought before Judge {| Quinn, pleaded guilty and was given | a reformatory sentence. Enrolls Indians to Pay Them. Black River Falls, Wis., Sept. 5. — The enrollment of the Winnebago In- dians for their annual payment is now in progress by the disbursing agent, assisted by the former agent, A. D. Jones. The enrollment will be com- ; pleted now, but the payment probably will not be made until early winter. Walker Now Has Lid. Walker, Minn., Sept. 5.—The mayor of the village of Walker issued an or- der at the regular meeting of the coun. cil Monday closing the “saloons of Walker Sundays and forcing them to comply with the law regarding closing time on week days. The lid undoubt- edly has come to stay. Child Is Drowned. Granite Falls, inn., Sept. 5. — The seven-year-old son of Mrs. Eric Viken was drowned in the Minnesota river here while in bathing. RATE CASES OPEN —|WOMAN kiLteD 1N AUTO UPSET MRS. G._f CLIFFORD OF GRAND FORKS LOSES LIFE ON WAY 0 ST. PAUL. Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 4.—Mrs. George B. Clifford of Grand Forks, a leader in society and wife of an in- vestment banker, was fatally injured this afternoon in an automobile acci- dent west of Ashby, fifteen miles east of Fergus Falls. She died less than hour after the accident. Her skull was fractured when the heavy car, running backward down a hill, was overturned. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford and their sons, Ralph and Bernard, were on their way to St. Paul and Minneapolis to visit the state fair, and Mr. Clifford’s brothers, Fred and Joseph, who live in Minneapolis. Ralph Clifford had been handling the automobile. When the party was a short distance up the hill west of Ashby it was decided to change to a lower gear, and while this was being done the car started back- ward. The brakes were applied, but they failed to hold, and the auto sped down the incline. Near the bottom of the hill the car tipped onto its side. Mrs. Clifford was thrown out. Her skull was injured and she lived only a few minutes. The other occupants of the car escaped injury by jumping. Following the Clifford car was that of R. H. McCoy of Grand Forks, with Lawrence McCoy acting as chauffeur, and Mrs. R. H. McCoy, Mrs. William Budge and Miss Gene Budge and Houghton Whitehed of Grand Forks, and Mrs. A. A. Ladd of St. Paul, When the accident happened the McCoy car was rushed to Ashby at full speed The party returned with a physician, but he could do nothing for Mrs. Clif ford was dead. 1S MURDERED BY FIREBUGS. Montgnegrin Slain While Extinguish: ‘Sag Flames in His Home. Duluth, Sept. 4. — Nigholi Nickoli- vish, a Montenegrin miner, residing in Chisholm, was murdered at 10 o’clock last night just outside his home. He was shot by some unknown person. His home was set on fire Saturday night by somebody, but the flames were soon extinguished. was fired again at 10 o’clock Sunday night, and when Nickolivish ran out to extinguish the flames he was shot down. Nine Montenegrins are arrested on suspicion, but the prisoners stoutly assert their innocence and lay the blame for the killing on the miners’ union, which is on a strike. The shooting will be investigated by the coroner. FREIGHT WRECK AT BENSON. Dozen Cars Demolished in Accident Caused by Defective Rail. Benson, Minn., Sept. 4.—The freight train going east was wrecked last evening two miles northeast of Ben- son. A defective. rail caused the first ear in the rear of the engine to leave the rails and fall over. A dozen box cars piled upon and around this in confusion. The cars were utterly de molished and the contents strewn over the prairie. Several cars were filled with wheat, some with oats and the larger number with lumber. Traf- fic was delayed about ten hours. BLOW WITH FIST IS FATAL. Duluth Street Brawl Is Fatal to La borer. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 4. — Michael Maher, a laborer, was instantly killed by Barney Conway, a helper on one of the wagons of a local‘brewery com. pany. The men had a few words in a sa- foon, culminating in the pair going out on the sidewalk to fight. Conway dealt Maher a_ terrific blow between the eyes and Maher fell to the sidewalk and was dead in a few minutes. Con- way was arrested. SOO OPENS NEW LINK, Starts First Trains Between Bismarck and Minot. Minot, N. D., Sept. 4—Minot is now linked with the capital. The first train started out this morning for Bis- marck with eighteen passengers. The train connects at Drake with a mixed train, which runs from there to Garri- son, whence to the capital a regular passenger will run. NEW SCHOOL AT WATERVILLE. Citizens Will Vote on Issuing $30,000 Bonds for New Building. Waterville, Minn., Sept. 4. — At a largely attended mass meeting of the citizens the school board was asked to call a special election to vote on issu- ing $30,000 in bonds for a new high school buiiding. Hit by Train and Killed. Augusta, Wis., Sept. 4—George W. Jones, who for the past five weeks had been employed by C. R. Flanders, was struck and killed by the Omaha train while wandering on the tracks near the depot. Boy’s Head Blown Off. Minot, N. D., Sept. 4—Holding his gun between his knees while watching for a covey of prairie chickens, near Minot, yesterday afternoon, Alvin Albertson accidentally blew off his own head. The house); A combination of work and pleasure whereby the drudgery of the former is lost in the fun of the latter is the happy thought which has been put into execution by Esther Ziemer of Redwood Falls. The fun consists of driving her team of goats hitched to a neat rubber-tired cart, and while driv- | ing through the city she incidentally delivers milk to her customers. Miss Hsther is the daughter of R. W. Ziemer, agent for the Western El- evator company at Redwood Falls. Mr. Ziemer is also an excellent judge of cows, and the fact makes the neighbors eager to ob- tain their supply of milk from the cows of his selection. This gave rise to the business in which Miss Hsther is engaged and from which she de- rives a great deal of pleasure. knowledge of this | Goats are not noted for their tracta- bility, but these goats seem to realize that the arrangement of which they ; are an important part is only for fun, because Miss Esther has . never had any trouble in managing them. Other | children have their pets, some of them stocky little shetland ponies, but the | chief attraction among them all is the | team of goats. ; Miss Esther has been using her goat | team all summer, and when a circus arrived in town a short time ago it did not take the manager long to de- cide that the odd little rig would be an attractive feature for the parade, and he immediately made arrange- ments for her to take a leading posi- tion with the little rig which has be- come a familiar sight in the town. eee Oms 0000000 eee snes BEST SCORES IN BUTTER. Fifty Competitors Had Marks of 94 or Higher in Creamery Division. Creamery butter which will score .94 points in a competitive contest, such as is carried on at the state fair, is very good butter, and the number of exhibitors who scored .94 or better is imposing. An additional large num- ber scored .92 and better and a few went below .90. j The dairy butter contest was won py Mrs. J. H. Nicholson of Minneota, with a score of 931-2. The following had scores of .94 and above: Creamery Butter— M. Soudergaard, Hutchinson .. F. O, Scott, Augusta Theo, Peterson, Maple Plain Edwin Hed, Nicollet . N. C. Sorensen, Kandiy John F. Kielty, Watkins George A. Holmes, Biscay J. F. Walesky, Owatonna .. Henry Springer, Conger .. Ehard Lindblod, North Branch Peter Kvale, Clover Magnus Anderson, Les A. H. Wilcox, Bloomer, Alfred Anderson, Litchfield .. H. H. Jensen. Clark's Grove E. O. Olsen, Brooten J. P. Wheelan, Elma, Iowa 9415 A. G. Schandel, St. Clair 94% A. T. Radtke, Hamberg 94% E. O. Quinvoid, Hutchin: 19415 L. H, Flagel, Erskine .. 29444 LiL. Flickinger, Fredericksburg, TOWR ose see ss ence cscs cceee ar Henry Erickson; Hutchinson 944g Martin Doscher, Hutchinson 94% F. A. Peterson,’ Lindstrom 19444 E. A. Gudvangen,Kistu .. 29444 Geo. W. Myers, Fairmoun 4% T. T. James, Lake Crystal 194% H. W. Jarchow, Fairmount 4 FE. Steinhaus, Elvsian .... 194 P. N. Peterson, Rake, Iowa of John’ Neitzel, Lakefield 294 J.T. Rivard, Centervill 294 Allie Olson, Winsted 94 Geo. b. Austin, St. H 194 J. W. Korpsell, Lewiston 294 Nels ‘AhIness, Sleepy Eye 194 N. R. Lund, Plainview w 294 A. Sorenson, Webster 94 F. M. Zill, Sumner, I 294 ©. F. Poehle, Vasa 294 Carl Fjone, Bricelyn 94 0. P. Jensen, Blooming Prairie 194 J. J. Jensen, St. Péter .... 194 M. M. Sorensen, Madelia 194 J. T. Pomroy, Lake Benton 4 s . Wabasso .. 194 <. D. Carlson, Trade Lak 194 YJ. Rasmussen, Teidal 294 F. 0. Thompson, St. Jam 194 H. L. Duke, West. 8. D. 94 Alex Johnson, New Ulm 194 CHANGES AT CARLETON. 3 Miss Evans Gives Up Teaching, but Retains Deanship. The fall semester for Carleton col- lege begins Wednesday, Sept. 11. The following changes in the faculty are published in the college bulletin: Miss Margaret Evans retires from teaching, but retains the deanship of the wom- an’s department. Miss Alice Emer- son, a graduate from Wellesley, takes Miss Evans’ English work. Prof. Hor- ace Goodhue retires, after forty years’ active work, on the Carnegie pension fund. His successor has not been named. Neil S. Dungay of the Uni- versity of Minnesota will take charge of the department of biology, vice L. W. Chaney, resigned. Rev. Fred B. Hill will take up his work as instruct- or in Biblical literature, returning to the college after a leave of absence. J. W. Olsen, state superintendent of instruction, wil make the cpenigg ad- dress at chapel exercises Wednesday morning, Sept. 11. The engagement of Myron S. Curtis, Brown university, 1907, as coach of Carleton’s football team has been an- nounced by the athletic department. NEW CITY HALL AT FAIRMONT. The contract for building the new city hall at Fairmont has been let to 0. C. Gould & Son for $11,968. It will be of cement blocks, 50x80 feet on the ground and two stories high. The contract calls for its completion by Feb. 1, 1908. Five cars of machinery have arrived for the new electric light plant and will be installed as rapidly as possible. until November. upsan et ORE ROYALTIES ONLY $300,000. Reports of Money Obtained by Great Northern Exaggerated. There is a revival of talk over the Great Northern ore deal, now that a dividend has been paid on these ore certificates, and some very incorrect information is printed in the East. It is said that the royalties paid on in- dependent mines owned in fee by the Great Northern and leased to inde- pendent concerns will this year be $3,000,000. This is almost one cipher too high. There are three of these mines owned in full by the Great Northern, and one-half of another. The three are Mahoning, Stevenson and Kirney, and the gross royalties they will pay this year will be in the neighborhood of $300,000. Mahoning and Stevenson will pro: duce a little more than 2,000,000 tons and Kinney about 125,000 tons. Roy: alties on the three range from 121-2 cents a ton to 18, which is the figure for the Kinney. The Great Northern owns a half-interest in the fee of the Leetonia, the other half being held by Cavour Langdon and G. H. Warren of Minneapolis. This mine will produce this year about 250,000 tons and will pay 36 cents a ton, or $45,000, to the Great Northern. It is also said that the Steel corporation is to pay this year $750,000 on its royalty account, ‘as agreed for the first year. The Steel corporation can scarcely pay anything this year, for the ora deal is of too recent occurrence to have any royalties accrue thereon, There may he large sums of money in the way of back royalties on the Ma honing, Stevenson and Kinney, accu mulated during past years, that may be distributed to ore certificate hold- ers, in which case the dividends will be large for some time from this source. The Oliver Mining company will doubtless soon get to work on some of these lands preparatory to mining, but no step to this end has yet been un dertaien. There should be during 1908 payments by the various operators on Great Northern lands of something less than $1,100,000; how much lesa will be determined by two factors— first by the proportion of Hill free lands. STATE A MILLIONAIRE. Begins September With Plenty of Cash on Hand. The state has a balance of $2,012, 712.98 on hand at the close of business Saturday, according to a statement is. sued by State Treasurer C. C. Dine hart. This amount is divided among the various funds as follows: Revenue Soldiers’ relief . Funding tax State road and bridge Permanent school .. General school Permanent university . General university .. Internal improvement . Internal impvt. land.... Internal impvt. land in University campus . Swamp land Swamp land intere Hay inspection .. Grain inspection ... 125,512.70 13,657.49 21,842.71 2,586.41 2,766.86 PLACES GO BEGGING. With Applications for Help. The situation is at an acute stage just now, when the demand for men in the harvest fields of the West is at its height. $568,874.48| 9,000 acres of land has been reclaimed 28,327.89| at an average cost of $4.55 an acre, 43,705.57| ang this land soon will become some 923,454.63] State. 10,800.83| than fifty miles in length, and the to- 64,441.29| tal amount of money expended on 25,191.88| their construction 52,099.08) amount has been raised by the sale of 135.44| ponds, the farmers to pay for this 71,945.00| valuable improvement in a small addi- 47,370.79| more ditches are still under construc- PO rae bares . . -$2,012,712.93, the value of an additional 1,900 acres State Employment Bureau Swampes| Triumph, Minn., Aug. 30. — Young ; The state free employment bureau,| this section, and the local nimrods are located in the old capitol, is swamped; anticipating some fine sport on Sept. with applications for help and is una-} 1. ble to fill a large proportion of them.| scarce. MAKES GREAT, SHOWING, Mirinesota Leads in High School En- rollment Increase. The enrollment of students in the high schools of the state last year showed an increase of 7.15 per cent over that of the previous year, accord- ing to the annual report of George B. Alton, state high school inspector, to the superintendent of public instruc- tion. The latest statistics available, the report states, show an annual in- crease in the united States of 6.62 per cent, while the percentage of in- crease for the North Central states, taken as a whole, is 6.42 per cent, so that the showing made in Minnesota is above the average for the surround- ing states, as well as for the country as a whole. The increase in the total enrollment was 1,581, which includes an increase of 521 in the number of non-resident students, a growth of 18 per cent for the year. This, the report states, would indicate that the number of nomresident students ts increasing more rapidly than the total enroll- ment. There was also a gain of 326 in the number of graduates, the total number last year being 3,109. In oth- er ways, 13.12 per cent of the students enrolled during the year were gradu- ated in June. The commissioner of education gives the percentage for the United States as 12.81 per cent. The report states that the number ef superintendents te@vhing four or more classes is falling off slightly. The number of instructors has risen from 970 to 928, a gain of 58. The av- erage is one instructor for each twen- ty-five students. In the large cities of the United States, the average is twenty-eight students to one teacher, and in the country towns, twenty-one students to a teacher. According to the statistics, the number of college graduates teaching has been increased by fifty. The number of normal grad- uates instructing in high schools re- mains stationary, while the number of high school graduates, a term used in the report to represent miscellaneous preparation, has risen from fifty sev- en to seventy-two. This is due to an increased number of instructors in special departments, such as music, drawing, cooking, sewing, manual training and commercial departments. It is so difficult to obtain suitable teachers for these special lines, the inspector states, that little efforth has been made to require college educa- tion. The report gives the following com- parative figures on the attendance at the high schools for the past two years: 1905-6. 1906-7. Number of state high schools ... 192 201 Boys enrolled . 8,987 9,560 Girls enrolled . - 13,169 14,127 Number of resident stu- GETS: oo .cicle Seieienew es 19,173 20,233 Number of non-residen students -. 2,9) 3,454 Total enrollment . 5 23,687 Number of graduates 2,783 3,109 COUNTIES DON’T AGREE. Gov. Johnson May Be Asked to Ap. point Appraisers. Gov. Johnson may be called upon to appoint a board of appraisers to settle TREES GET A START. Young Forests Near Hinckley Are Growing Splendidly. Gen. C. C. Andrews, state forestry commissioner, has just made a trip in the district devastated by the great Hinckley fire of 1894, where he found that in some places the. young forests. had gained a considerable start. Land suitable for agriculture is being clear- ed and converted into prosperous farms. An interesting feature of the development of this fire-stricken tract is the fact that the Norway pine stumps are being used for the prepara- tion of turpentine, tar, citric acid and charcoal. In speaking of the trip Gen. And- rews said: “It will be thirteen years Sept. 1 since the forest fire in which 418 per- sons perished in the vicinity of Hinck- ley. I visited the country swept by that fire to examine especially any pine that has grown since the fire. Three miles east of Hinckley I saw a tract of several hundred acres of close-standing jack pine, about ten feet high, intermixed with some Nor- way pine and with poplar which has grown since 1894. The tract borders the Grindstone river and is a little too rocky for field crops. It is the kind of land that should be kept for forest. I was informed of several oth- er bodies of young. pine forest that has grown since the Hinckley fire. “Most of the land in that region is suitable for agriculture, and I saw quite a number of well-cultivated and prosperous looking farms .and with buildings that would be a credit to any farming ‘community. Senator Clapp has a farm only a few miles east of the place I visited. “Owing to thé quality of the soil some of the pine which I have men, tioned will be large enough to cut int twenty-five years, and it shows how. important it is to keep out fires. “As the removal of the oki pine stumps has much to do with the sic- cessful opening of farms on cut-over, land, made a particular inquiry about the business of producing turpenting from such stumps. There is a plant for this manufacture, under a Russiay invention, a dozen miles or so east of Hinckley. Only Norway pine stumps are used and they must be old enough to have had the sap wood, which is the part nearest the bark, decayed. The company pays $4 for 3,000 pounds, reckoned a cord, of stump and roots; and the product from such quantity is forty bushels of charcoal, twenty- five gallous of turpentine, twenty gal- lons of tar and some citric acid.” SNAP THEIR CLAIMS. Proof of Improvement of Land Is Se cured With Camera. Determined that no dispute shati arise between themselves and the spe- cial agents of the government when the time for them to prove up, a num- ber of homesteaders in the St. Louis valley country have adopted the novel experiment of photographing their claims. To show what they tell of their homesteads is true the photo- graphs will be on hand when the hear- ing on the final proof is held. The photographs are taken from dif- ferent views and will give a clear idea of the amount of land which has been cleared and placed under cultivation and if there is any dispute the home- the question of the division of the debt! .+.agers will be able to present strong of Itasca county between that and the! @yidence to support their contentions. new county of Koochiching. The county commissioners of the two counties, after having been in joint session at Grand Rapids for some time, have been unable to reach an agreement. The Itasca board wanted to fix the value of the county buildings at between $32,500 and $50,000, while the Koochiching commissioners de- sired to make it $82,000, which would leave to their county a smaller propor- tion of the debt to pay. Another joint meeting will be held, and then if it is found impossible to reach an agreement the governor will be called upon to appoint appraisers. RECLAIMS 9,000 ACRES, Drainage Ditches Will Place Land! Among Best in the State, By the completion of eight county ditches in Sherburne county about of the most valuable in this part of the The ditches aggregate more is $40,000. This tional taxation, which will extend ; during a period of ten years. Four tion, which will more than double at a cost of $12,000. Ducks Are Plentiful. ducks seem to be quite plentiful in | Prairie chickens are reported Two Hurt in Collision. Custer, S. D., Aug. 30—Two men The bureau has received a} were hurt, one probably fatally, three number of appeals from the western] engines were badly damaged and con- but will probably not be completed | part of Minnesota and from the Da-| siderable track was torn up by a | kotas. freight collision that occurred here at 6 a.m. The photographs being riade now will show the growing crops and other pha- tographs will be taken from time to time to which are being made upon the claims. Gust Eklund and Frank E. Anderson, two homesteaders, have set the exam- ple in having these photographs taken, and now every claimholder in this vi- einity has provided himself or herselt with a camera and is engaged in tak- ing snap shots showing the buildings and other improvements upon their claims. PACKAGE RATE INCREASE. _ 4 Railroad Commission Says No Change Has Been Permitted. Complaints are coming from severa? points in Minnesota of an increase in the freight rate on small packages. Judge Mills of the railroad commis- sion said that no change has been arn- thorized between Minnesota poiats, but on interstate business the ruads have raised the minimum from 25 to 40 cents. If higher rates are being collected within the state, it is done without authority, as the commission denied the application for a similar in- crease in minimums on state business. One complaint from Minneiska reached the railroad commission. [ft was taken up with the Milwaukee of. ficials, who said that the collection of a higher rate was a mistake 9f the agent, was unauthorized and would te corrected. It is probable that other agents have made the same mista on account of the increase in the ir state rate. AFTER STATE LAND. Another batch of swamp land con- tests, covering fifty tracts in newly opened townships in Lake county, has been filed against the state. Owing te the general campaign to deprive the state of swamp land selections, W. E. Culkin of Duluth has been retained as special counsel to contest all these claims before the interior department. As former register of the Duluth land office, he has special experience adapt- ing him to the norm, ” show other improvements *