Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 14, 1907, Page 4

MINES VALUED AT $200,000,000 ‘STATE TAX COMMISSION IS PRE- PARING A LIST OF PROP- ERTIES. RESULT OF CAREFUL STUDY St. Paul, Sept. 12.—Arguments on ‘the mining properties of the state for puropses of taxation has been increased 150 to 200 per cent in the report that will be presented by the taxrcommission to the state board of equzlization. The aggregate as- sessed valuation of mines in the state for last year was $70,000,000, and the figures, as they will be reported by the tax commission to the equalization board will amount in the aggregate to about $200,000.000. Accurate fig- ures of the report of the commis- sion are not obtainable as yet, because the clerical work on the schedules has not been completed, but the work will be turned over to the state board of equalization to-day. Although the assessments on mining properties in the aggregate have been more than doubled, the final figures of the tax commission have been greatly reduced as a result of the argument and evidence presented by the mining companie: at the hearing recently. The commission has classified all of the mines of the state definitely and fixed rai for the different classi- fications. After the meeting with the mine owners it was deemed advisable to reduce rates materially, and a num- ber of mines were changed from one “cl fication to another. The valuations which are now being placed on the mining properties are the result of careful study for several months by the members of the com- mission, including a trip through the iron ranges, where each property was inspected POWER OF STATE AT STAKE. Attorneys for Stockholders Attack Right of State to Fix Rates. St. Paul, Sept. 12. — Valuation of behalf of the complaining railroad stockholders. who ask that the attor- ney general and the several railroads concerned be temporarily enjoined from enforcing the rates and fares pre- scribed by the acts of the Minnesota legislature and the order of the rait road commission of Sept. 6, were fin- ished yest y in the United States sireuit court before Judge Lochren. The state will be heard to-day in re- sistance to the motion. That the prescribed rates in prac- tice, necessarily and directly interfere with the full and fair exercise of the power of congress to regulate inter. state commerce was the burden of an exhaustive argument concluded by Jared How yesterday morning. Mr. How cited numerous authorities to show that the supreme court of the United States, in recognizing the re- served power of the states to regulate their domestic commerce, has always kept in view the qualification that state regulation may not interfere with the full and fair exercise of the power of congress to regulate com- merce among the United States. Mr. How declared that a case could not be conceived that would afford a better illustration of the limitation upom the power of the state to regu- late commerce within its boundaries than the cases at bar. It was to guard), against just such mischief as that which would attend an enforcement of these rates that the Constitutien wag adopted. t ‘DENTAL STUDENTS BARRED. ‘Lack ef Room at University Shuts Them. Out. Minneapolis, Sept. 12.—Trouble is brewing at the university, where twenty or more former students of ‘the dental department will not be al- towed to register for lack of room in the department. Students who have completed the first and second year of the work of the department will not be allowed to complete their courses simply because they did not get in line early enough Monday and Tues- day mornings. A riot was narrowly averted yester- day when the limit of ninety-four up- per classmen, which had been set, was reached. There were then about fifty- twe of last year’s students still unreg- istered, and many of them were on hand, clamoring for admission. Teddy, Jr., Not Hunting. Grand Rapids, Minn., Sept. 12. — A G. Rutledge of Bemidji, deputy state game warden, was in the village yes. terday, having come over from Col- eraine, where he had been sent by the state game and fish commission to in- vestigate the report that Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. son of President Roose- yelt, had been hunting in the vicinity of Coleraine during the last three days and was violating the state game and fish laws in that he had not taken out a non-resident license. APPLES TO GIVE AWAY. rice S0 Low Farmers Offer Fruit to Any One Who Will Pick It. The question that used to be raised as to whether or not apples could be raised in Minnesota has been answer- ed in the affirmative this year in the vicinity of Le Sueur, if not else- where, for the crop is so abundant that they are a drug on the market. “Choice apples” are offered at the re- tail stores for 35 cents a bushel, and at this price it does not pay the farm- ers to gather them, so that many are giving them away to any one who wants to pick them. But it is, how- ever, now suggested that machinery for making cider be added to the equipment of the canning factory and then there could be a sufficient price paid for the apples so that the farm- ers would gather them and bring them in by the wagon load. One man in Le Sueur who has a large orchard and a fast trotter is feeding the animal on apples, greatly to its delight. ST. JOHN’S OPENS. Largest Enrollment in the History of the College. St. John’s university at Collegeville opened with the largest attendance in the history of the school. Students from all over the Northwest are enroll- ed, and the faculty has been strength- ened by several acquisitions. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch will supersede Rev. Father Bernard in the seminary, who has been assigned a mission on Long Island, and Rev. Anselm Ortman will be chaplain of the students. Frank P. Cassidy, formerly director of the Twenty-third Street Y. M. C. A. in New York city, has been secured to take charge of the gymnasium classes and coach the athletic teams, which will meet St. Thomas, Macalester, Fargo A. C., St. Paul Mechanic Arts and other fast teams in the Northwest. DRAINS 20,000 ACRES. ‘Work Is Started on Moscow-Riceland Ditch. Four dredges are now at work on the Moscow-Riceland ditch. This ditch starts near Geneva in Freeborn county and ends in Turtle creek, near Austin. It is sixty feet wide at the bot- tom and eighty at the top and ten feet deep. It drains about 20,000 acres of very fertile Iand and will cost about $200,000. In addition to this work of drainage there are four large ditching outfits at work in the county, and one tiling machine. This machine makes the trench and lays the tile at the same time. It has a capacity of 100 rods a day. MINNESOTA IN FIRST PLACE. Most Prizes in Shorthorn Show Cap. tured by Breeders of State. Minnesota won most of the leading prizes in the national Shorthorn show at the state fair this year. The honor of upholding Minnesota’s claim to first honors fell to C. E. Clarke of St. Cloud, and his fine ex- hibit was awarded first place over that shown by F. W. Harding of Waukesha, Wis. Mr. Clarke won first prize for his young herd, first for his calf herd, first in aged herd and capped his tri- umphs by winning the Merchants’ ho- tel special sweepstakes, consisting of a silver punchbowl, tray and gold- lined cups. MAY BUY ROAD ROLLER. Old Outstanding Orders Don’t Count for This Year. The injunction suit brought by Con O’Brien to restrain the city of Brain- erd from buying a steam road roller on the ground that it had already more than expended the levy of taxes was dismissed by his attorney after Judge McClenahan had ruled that out- standing orders from previous years could not be counted against current funds, and that the council could ex- pend the levy of the present year re- gardless of any w.rrants unpaid from previous years. Michael Maher, a laborer, was in- stantly killed by Barney Conway, 2 helper on one of the wagons of a Du- luth brewery company. The men had a few words in a saloon, culminating in the pair going out on the sidewalk to fight. Conway dealt Maher a ter- rific blow between the eyes and Maher fell to the sidewalk and was dead in 2 few minutes. Conway was arrested. Jay Grinnell, driver of Kent’s bus to the Great Northern station, and three passengers, commercial travelers, were run down by a freight train on a siding at the foot of Main street at Alexandria. Two passengers went down with the bus and were badly bruised. The carriage was completely wrecked. A large crowd was present to attend | the mission festival held in the Ger- man Lutheran church at Chaska. The church was recently enlarged and re- modeled. The present pastor, Rev. Mr. Raedecke, is a son of its first pastor, who, at that time, had charge of the churches at Carver and at Chaska, and who is still in Carver. Robert Marshall, the former clerk at the Merchants hotel at Winnebago who rified the safe to keep up his “ante” in a poker game, was brought pefore Judge Quinn, pleaded guilty and was given a reformatory sentence. CONFER FOR FORESTRY. Representatives of Three States ant Ontario Are to Get Together. Gen. C. C. Andrews, ‘state forestr; commissioner, received an invitation from Charles W. Garfield, president o the Michigan forestry commission, t« attend a meeting of representatives 0: tke forestry departments of Minneso ta, Wisconsin, Michigan and “Ontario to be held at Saginaw, Mich., on Nov 12 and 13. The meeting of these forestry repre sentatives, according to the letter, wa: suggested by Mr. Griffith, state forest er of Wisconsin. Mr. Garfield statec in the letter that Mr. Griffith had sug gested the advisability of holding suct a meeting, to be attended by delegate: for the states mentioned, and that ir view of the fact that the annual meet ing of the Michigan Forestry associa tion will convene at Saginaw on Nov 12 and 13 he suggested>that: the con ference of the representatives of the various states be held at that time and place. Mr. Garfield states that he has alsc written to Dr. Fernow, who recently was elected dean of forestry in Toron to university, and asked him to attenc the meeting as a representative fron Ontario. He also calls attention to the faci that the conditions in the four regions are so. similar and the questions aris ing so alike that the experience of the representatives of one will be of as sistance to the others. DEPARTMENTS DIVIDED. Changes Are Made at the State Uni versity. At the opening of the university the department of political science ané economics will be divided into twc separate departments and will be un der different heads. Dr. William A. Schaper will be ai the head of the political science de partment, while Dr. John H. Gray, 2 new man who has recently come tc the university from Northwestern uni versity, at Evanston, IIL, will head that of economics. Dr. E. W. Robin. son, formerly of St. Paul, will assist Dr. Gray, while Dr. Schaper will have Dr. Allin, a new man, who has recent ly come here from the East. For some time past a movement has been on foot to separate those de partments, of which, for a number ot years, Dr. W. W. Folwell has been the head. With the retirement of Dr. Fol- | well from active teaching this year it was thought advisable to make the change. This action on the part of the uni- versity authorities is in line with the other great universities of the coun- try, for almost all of them have politi. cal science and economies under sepa rate heads. AID FOR COUNTY FAIRS. Totai of $28,000 Is Distributed by the State. The state auditor sent out to the counties in which county fairs are neld their share of the annual appropria- tion of state money for the aid of fairs. The annual appropriation for these counties was $28,000, of which each county received $469.16 if the premiums paid at the fair amounted to this sum. Where the amount of pre- miums paid by the fair association did not equal this amount the sums paid equaled the amount paid in premiums. Out of the eighty-five counties in the state sixty-four have county fairs. Kittson county is the only one that has two fairs. The question of which of the two fairs in Kittson county should receive the state aid was re- cently put up to the state officials, and it was decided that as the two associ- ations were formed in the same year each is entitled to one-half of the ap propriation for that county. LAY DAMAGE TO NEW DAM. Farmers Sue Citizens of Lake Benton for $5,380, Three farmers who own lands ad- joining Lake Benton, near Ivanhoe— M. H. Bolta, Oliver Roscoe and Neil Bressler, have brought suit in the dis- trict court against several prominent Lake Benton eitizens tor damages said to have been caused by the partial damaging of the outlet of Lake Benton in the effort to make it a navigable body of water. The lake is the deepest that it ha: been for years, and has overflowed the adjoining lands. The wet seasons for several years undoubtedly have pro- ‘duced much of the overflow, but the farmers hold. that it would have been carried away had the outlet of. the lake not been interfered with. Bressler sues for $1,180, Bolta for $2,100 and Roscoe for $2,100. The suit will come up for trial at the October term of court, to be held at Ivanhoe. BIDS ARE TOO HIGH. The state board of control received a number of bids for the construction ‘of a dairy building at the state agri- cultural school and for a boys’ dormi- tory at the school for the deaf at Fari- ,bault. The bids all exceeded the amount available for the buildings and were rejected. The plans and specifi- cations probably will be amended so as to bring them within the proposals or else new bids will be advertised for on the same plans, WAS BEST AND BIGGEST FAIR PROVES AN IMMENSE SUCCESS IN SPITE OF DISAGREEABLE WEATHER. St. Paul, Sept. 10—The 1907 Minne- sota state fair closed Saturday aftera most remarkable record. It was the best and biggest fair ever held in the country, the only drawback being the weather, which was the worst of the season in some respects. There were only two days of the six which were at all favorable, and the way the peo- ple turned out in bad weather, espe- cially on St. Paul day, was the best possible evidence of the merit of the exhibition and the permanence it has attained. The attendance for this year was approximately 10,000 less than it was a year ago. This decrease was prin- cipally on the opening day, the fig- ures for this- year«being» 82,049, .cam- pared with 93,190 for Monday a°year ago. Monday was a gloomy day, and while the weather did nothing but, threaten, it was sufficiently unfavora-| ble to keep many people away. Tues- day was also gloomy and held down the crowds by about 8,000. Wednes- day was another poor day, being more fitful, but the record for the day was broken. Thursday, Old Settlers’ day, brought ou the second best attend- ‘ance of the week and showed the best gain. It was the only pleasant day of the fair. St. Paul day was the banner day of the week. It rained cats and dogs for a time, but the citizens turned out in spirited support of the institution, there being only 1,000 less attendance than a year ago. It was dark and gloomy Saturday, but the total attendance: of the day reached fully 30,000, as compared with 26,466 a year ago. Although the weather kept down the attendance and likewise the re- ceipts, the fair was a financial suc- cess. Secretary C. N. Cosgrove said that the managers would feel fortu- nate if the week’s undertaking netted a gain of $30,000. It is confidently ex- pected that this year’s fair will clear at least $60,000. LAND IN DEMAND. Many Inquiries About .Lower Brule Reservation. Pierre, S. D., Sept. 10. — The in- quiries being received at the local land office in regard to the lands on the lower Brule reservation, which are to be opened for settlement early in October, are so numerous that it has been found necessary to employ another clerk to care for them. This land lies but twelve miles from Pierre. The tract to be opened contains 55,- 000 acreg. The registration to be the first week in October and the drawing immediately after, with acceptance of filings as fast as the claimants secure their numbers. SAFES CRACKED. Postoffice at Annandale Among the Places Robbed. Annandale, Minn., Sept. 10—Cracks- men successfully opened the safes of Klatt Bros. & Miller and the postoffice. At the former place they secured enly about 16. cents in small change and at the latter $40 in stamps and $15 in cash. The alarm was given shortly after 2 o’clock in the morning and a posse immediately gave pursuit. The rob- bers were seen in the woods two miles east of the village. LAY DAMAGE TO NEW DAM. Farmers Sue Citizens of Lake Benton for $5,380. Ivanhoe, Minn., Sept. 10. — Three farmers who own land adjoining Lake Benton, M. H. Bolta, Oliver Roscoe and Neil Bressler, have brought suit in the district court against several prominent Lake Benton citizens for damages said to have been caused by the partial damming of the outlet of Lake Benton in the effort to make it a navigable body of water. Think Firebugs Burned Barn. Medford, Wis., Sept. 10.—The large sale barn of Joseph Bauer was com- pletely destroyed by fire. The loss is about $4,000. It is thought the fire was of incendiary origin. Church Corner-stone. Faribault, Minn., Sept. 10.—The cor- ner-stone of the new Zion’s church of the German Evangelical association was laid yesterday afternoon with im- pressive ceremonies. Farmer Commits Suicide. Osakis, Minn., Sept. 10—Ole,4arson, aged fifty, a farmer living west of this village, committed suicide by hanging. Despondency over the death of his wife last spring is given as the cause. Chicken Is Bad. Manson, Iowa, Sept. 10. — Twenty members of a wheat threshing crew north of Manson were poisoned by .eating. chicken sandwiches. A num- ber are desperately sick, but the phy- sicians believe all will recover. Killed by Train. Benson, Minn., Sept. 9. — Ole A. Nelson, a farmer living near Apple- ton, was run over and killed by a St. Paul road passenger train] It is sup- posed that he failed to hear the ap- proaching train. f the Northwest KILLED WHILE HUNTING. Youth’s Attempt to Light a Cigarette Is Fatal. . Cando, N. D., Sept. 11.—Melbourne Main, the sixteen-year-old son of For- mer State Senator R. W. Main, was accidentally shot while out hunting last evening about 6 o’clock and died from hemorrhage a few hours later. The boy had gone hunting earlier in the day with Roy Canfield, a young man about the same age, and they were on their return trip home. When within half a mile of Conyers broth- ers’ farm, six miles south of Cando, Main attempted to light a cigarette. scratching the match on his leg, and in raising his foot caught the trigger of the gum that was between them in the buggy and discharged it, the entire load taking effect in the pit of the young man’s right arm. SHOT IN SALOON ROW. St. Paul Man Is Probably Fatally In- jured. St. Paul, Sept. 11—Henry Holland was shot twice during a desperate hand-to-hand fight with Ervin Hopkins in a saloon late last night. Holland was taken to a hospital in a precarius conditin and will prbably die. Hop- kins was arrested. He admits the shooting, saying he did it in self-de- fense. Hopkins and a man named Mc- Guire were drinking in the saloon when Holland entered. There had been a grudge of long standing be- tween the men. Hot words were fol- lowed by a hand-t-hand fight between Holland and Hopkins. Holland at- temuted to pull a knife and Hopkins shot him. LOOT TWO STORES. Yeggmen Make Big Haul at Hanna- ford, N. D. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 11.—In what was undoubtedly one of the most daring robberies that has been pulled off in North Dakota this season a gang of yeggmen made a big clean-up at Han- naford, N. D., a small town on the Cooperstown branch of the Northern Pacific, rifling the postoffice, the Jack- son general store and the Hannaford Mercantile company, and _ securing money, diamond rings, guns, jewelry and other valuables which will net them close to $2,000. The exact loss in the postoffice de- partment was placed at $600 in cash.. There is absolutely no clue. ALL DEAD IDENTIFIED. Names of Victims of Rock Wreck Are Now Known. Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 10.—Further identification of the Rock Island wreck victims discloses the names of Roy Thomas and Arthur Tyrrell, both of Hamilton, Ill, en route to the har- vest fields of the West. The body pos- tively identified as Leslie Lovejoy of Hastings, Minn., and not B. W. Chris- tie of Minneapolis, has been taken home for burial. Two foreigners were identified as Peter Kezluka and Louis Turk, en route from Hammond, Ind., to St. Paul. The total dead is four- teen, all identified. Island FEDERAL CLERKS BOOSTED. H. P. Neiderman Made Keeper of Cost Records in Reclamation Service. Belle Fourche, S. D., Sept. 11.—H. P. 1 >iderman, chief clerk of the recla- mation service on the Belle Fourche irrigation project, has just been pro- moted to be keeper of the cost records for the government, with headquarters at Washington. He has been ordered to make a tour of all the irrigation projects in. the West and to learn their wants before reporting at head- quarters. This is his second promo tion in a year. CHURCH PLANS JUBILEE. “Home-coming” to Be Held by Former Parishioners. Grand Rapids, Wis., Sept. 11—Great preparations» are ~being™made by the meinbers of the St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic church congregation for the golden jubilee, which will take place Sept.’ 15-16. The celebration will be in the nature of a “home-coming” and every former member of the congrega- tion has been invited to attend. A thousand visitors are expected. , WAR MONEY IS PASSED. Alleged Swindler Is Nabbed on False Pretense Charge. Belle Fourche, 8. D., Sept. 11—Sam Fitzpatrick, a sheep shearer, has been arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Fitz- patrick, it is alleged, secured some $20 and $25 Confederate bills and palmed them off on local merchants for the real thing. When one of the bills reached the bank the deception was réadily detected. Tot Eats Poison; Dies. Cando, N. D., Sepf. 11. — The two- year-old daughter of Former State Bank Examiner Dave Brightbill died last .evening-from the effects of eating a quantity of corrosive sublimate. Well Known Athlete Killed. Philadelphia, Sept. 11. — William J. Mulhall, farrier for the First city troop of this city and well known col lege football player and athlete, was killed yesterday by plunging head foremost over a mustang he was at- tempting to mount. FIRE BELL ROUTS BURGLARS. Phone Operator Calls Up Residents to Give Alarm. Farmington, Minn., Sept. 12. — The Dakota County State bank at Lake- ville, five miles west of this place, was burglarized at an early hour yes- terday morning. The operator at the local central station was aroused by the noise of the explosion and immediately began telephoning to various residents. Some one rang the fire bell and this, it is thought frightened the robbers away. The vault door had been drilled and blown off and the inner door broken in. The safe had been blown, but the door held and the charge blew out the botttom of the strongbox. No money was secured and no clue to the perpe- tratrs has been found. SEIZE BOX CAR FOR JAIL. Town Authorities Can’t Prosecute Man Until He Sobers Up. Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 12.—Pioneer times’ were recalled at Northville a day or two ago when it became neces- sary for the town authorities to confis- cate a box car in the railroad yards there in which to confine a stranger who had been arrested on several charges, intoxication being one of them. The town is without a jail, and as the prisoner was too drunk to be taken before a justice of the peace im- mediately after his arrest it was found necessary to utilize the box car for a jail until he had sobered up. INSPECT CANADIAN GRAIN. Commissioners Reach Superior to Work on New Crop. Superior, Wis., Sept. 12.—Thorough ly dissatisfied with the Minnesota sys- tem of grain inspection that has pre- vailed here for years, the Canadian government has sent William Craw- ford of Winnipeg here to supervise the inspection of Canadian grain. He arrived yesterday, accompanied by Messrs. Cassel and Horn of the Mani- toba grain commission, and will begin work with the arrival of the new crop. This is regarded as another feather in the hats of the fighters for Wisconsin inspection. HIS MIND BECOMES BLANK. Hudson Man Loses His Identity in St. Paul and Goes to Asylum. Hudson, Wis., Sept. 12. — Howard y, aged twenty-two, son of T. J. head miller for the Burk- hardt Milling company of this city, was found wandering about St. Paul recently with his mind a total blank. After search had been made for his home without avail he was sent to the Rochester insane asylum in Minnesota. Later Bradley’s mind returned and he was brought home last week and taken to the Mendota asylum, in Wisconsin. KILLS WIFE AND SELF. Murder and Suicide as Result of Fami- ly and Money Troubles. Pierre, S. D., Sept. 12—A murder and suicide is reported to have occur- red yesterday morning at Kodako, one of the new towns on the Milwaukee extension in Southwestern Stanley county. C. I. Lawrence is said to have kiljed his wife and then committed suicide, using a revolver to carry out his purpose. The shooting was the outcome of family and financial trou- bles. SOLDIER BEATS CIVILIAN. Fort Meade Trooper Pleads Guilty to Assault Charge. Sturgis, S. D., Sept. 12. — Harley Hayes, a soldier of D troop, Sixth cavalry, Fort Meade, was arrested here yesterda charged with assault and battery, with intent to commit fel- ony on the person of R. E. Porter. At the preliminary hearing he pleaded guilty and was bound over to the Meade county circuit court in the sum of $500. HANDCUFFS MAN AND GIRL. South Dakota Sheriff Captures Alleged Elopers From Salem. Parker, S. D., Sept. 12.—Handcufted together, H. E. Cochran and Miss Lena Bruer of Salem, S. D., have been brought back to this county from the Black Hills by Sheriff W. Coleran and bound over to the November term of court as the result of an alleged elopement. SUICIDE AT STATE FAIR. Illinois Man Throws Self Under Steam Roller at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Sept. 12.—Charles Far- ries of Decatur, Ill., threw himself un- der a big steam roller on exhibition at the state fair this afternoon. Death was instantaneous. Mr. Farries was an inmate of a Milwaukee sanitarium. To Organize State Bank. La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 12—Capital- ists of Mount Horeb and Madison, Wis., headed by Herman B. Dahle of the former place, have leased the old Lienlokken building here and within a week will organize a new state bank with $50,000 capital. Is Hit by Lawyer’s Auto. Sioux City, owa, Sept. 12. — Mchaell! O'Leary, a blacksmith, was struck by au automobile driven by W. H. Farnes- worth, a prominent lawyer, and proba- bly will die.