Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 10, 1909, Page 3

———-4 St. Paul, Feb, 3.—Velvet chaff wheat : is to be investigated with the object of restoring it to the same rank as blue stem wheat, so that it can receive the same grade. Representative Holmberg yesterday secured the pas- sage of a resolution authorizing, the speaker to appoint a committee of five to investigate the alleged unfair discrimination against this variety of wheat. A bill requiring judges of the su- preme, district and municipal courts to report to the legislature any er- rors or incongruities in the laws of the state was the most radical among the bills introduced in the house yes- terday. Representative Wallace introduced a bill appropriating $500,000 for a site and building for the library and mu- seum of the state historical society. Other bills were one by Represent- ative Swendsen for the appointment of a dairy inspector in cities of 10, 000 or less; one by the same author requiring an annual inspection of the books of officers of cities of the fourth class, the examination to be made by the public examiner when requested and paid for by the country; a bill by Representative Rines providing for the separate assessment of surface rights, rights to minerals and coal and oil rights when there is separate ownership, and a bill by Representa- tive Opsahl which provides that pe- titions for the change of county seats shall be sent to the secretary of state instead of the county board. A measure shortening the open sea- son for prairie chickens, quail, snipe, plover and woodcock was enacted by the house yesterday. It defers the opening of the hunting season from Sept. 1 to Sept. 15. A bill prohibiting the publication of obscene and offensive medical adver- tising was passed by the house. In the Senate. The senate session was short and uneventful. There were seventeen new bills offered. One by Senator Nelson forbids the marriage of di- vorced persons within a year. The present law limits the time to six months. Senator Dunn offered an amend- ment to the state constitution to au- thorize the exemption of lands from taxation when devoted to forestry purposes. He also proposed an ap- propriation of $55,000 to build an in- dustrial school building for the state hospital for crippled children at Lake Phalen, St. Paul. Senator Johnson introduced a bill providing for the transfer of women patients from the Anoka to the: Hast- ings asylum, and segregating the sexes hereafter in these institutions, keeping all the men at Anoka. Senator Cooke’s bill fixes the num- ber of directors in independent school districts at five. Senator Work asks an appropriation of $4,000 for buying additional land for Minneota Park. Senator Glotzbach proposes to forbid hunting or shooting from motor boats or launches. The committee on insane hospitals brought in a bill authorizing the board of control to accept money of- fered for the maintenance of pa- tients. 4 Senator Pauly offered a bill requir- ing vegetables, except green ones, to be sold by the pound, Senator Nelson presented a bill re- quiring road supervisors to have | weeds and brush cut for the width of a rod on either side of the roadway. es 2s St. Paul, Feb. 4—Eight agricultural schools are provided for in an amend- ed report of the senate committee on agriculture. The schools will be at Waseca, Austin, Mapleton, Dodge Center, Windom, Foley, Marshall and Hutchinson. There must be 160 acres of land donated for each school. The senate passed bills amending the law relating to articles of incor- poration, requiring the Northern Pa- cific railroad to cover tracks on the university campus at Minneapolis; to provide for the discharge of judg- ments against persons discharged in bankruptcy proceedings, authorizing certain fraternal societies to hold property. The senate concurred in the joint resolution of the house that a com- mittee be appointed to draw up a res- olution commending the policies of President Roosevelt. Senator Moonan introduced a bill increasing the tax on the-business of insurance companies from 2 per cent to 4 per cent, making it equal to the amount paid by railroads and other corporations. A comprehensive bill providing for the inspection and regulation of all restaurants, bakeries and similar places where food is served or made is that introduced by Senator White. It gives the dairy and food*inspectors authority to enforce the law. MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE | REVIEW OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF THE STATE LEGISLATORS FOR THE WEEK. | voters of Every one who buys a revolver must be registered if a bill by Sen- ator Nelson becomes a law. The senate finance committee be- lieves that the new prison at Still- water should go forward as fast as possible. reported favorably on the bill provid- ing for $2,500,000 in certificates of in- debtedness. In the House. The house passed the resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate the charges made by W. H. Williams, former la- bor commissioner, that his depart- ment had been used for political pur- poses, Representative White introduced a bill proposing a constitutional amend- ment providing that in the absence of the governor the lieutenant gov- ernor shall. perform his duties and have his powers. County boards of school trustees are established in a bill presented by Representative Robertson. They shall elect the county superintendent and they shall perform all other du- ties relating to schools now, perform- ed by the county commissioners. Representative Mackenzie intro- duced a_ bill appropriating $100,000 for drainage of state lands and to aid in improving old ditches. A bill making $1,000 the minimum for saloon license all over the state was handed in by Representative Ad- ams. At present $500 is the fee in most of the small towns of the state. A measure providing state aid in the maintenance of national guard ar- mories was handed in by Representa- tive Pfaender. A bill by Representative Nolan at- tempts to prohibit the payment of the tax or registration upon mort- gages by the grantor. The house killed the bill intended to repeal the law establishing the farm for inebriates. The house passed bills raising the age of consent to eighteen years; authorizing villages to acquire water, light and heating plants; providing penalties for entering gardens; to provide a reward for procuring the arrest and conviction of any person charged with stealing poultry; em- powering cities to regulate, control and license transient merchants; to prohibit the killing of prairie chick- ens during the years of 1909 and 1910. s* ¢ &* St. Paul, Feb. 5—Without a word of debate, the house yesterday killed the county option bill. Friends of the measure and many of its opponents protested in vigorous words against the motion which cut off debate be- fore it had ever started. The minori- ty report favoring the adoption of the bill was voted down, 74 to 44. The matter came up when the chairman of the: temperance committee report- ed the Ware county option bill for in- definite postponement. Five members presented a minority report, recom- mending the bill to pass. A motion to adopt the majority report was made and a motion to adopt the mi- nority report was offered as a substi- tute. The previous question was or- dered, which shut off debate, and the bill was then carefully laid to rest. The house passed Johnson’s county agricultural school bill after amend- ing it so that no school can be estab- lished before submitting it to the the ‘county. As the bill stands it permits any county to estab- lish a farm school, if a majority of the voters say so. No county can spend more shan $15,000 for the pur- pose. The house passed Senator Elwell’s resolution permitting the university to apply for a share of ‘Carnegie’s pension fund for teachers. The redrafted prison bill was read in the house yesterday. It cuts the appropriaticn from $3,000,000 to $2,- 500,000 and provides for raising this by a tax levy instead of certificates of indebtedness, to be paid out of the re- volving fund of the prison. In the Senate. Two bills for agricul®aral schools were introduced in the senate yester- day. One, from the committee on agriculture, provides for eight schools. A bill by Senator Stephens divides the state into nine agricultu- ral school districts, nearly identical with congressional districts. There is to be an experiment station at each school. The bill carries an ap- propriation of $25,000 for each of six schools. The senate yesterday held a memo- rial service for the late John L. Gibbs of Owatonna, who died Nov. 28. He was a member of both houses at various times and officiated as pre- siding officer in each, He was elected lieutenant governor in 1896. The bill of Senator Works estab- lishing a new department of public lands was sent to the judiciary com- Yesterday the committee |" fense by the author. He wanted the bill discussed by the committee of the whole. f The senate passed bills permitting the board of control to pay for plans of buildings before appropriation; will of testator revoked by change in mar- riage relation; providing for the in- corporation of villages from territory of villages already incorporated. Bills were introduced as follows: Relating to recording of marriage certificates; making it a gross misde- meanor to have burglars’ tools in pos- session; to punish making or use of false statements to obtain credit; giving railroad conductors power to arrest persons; to prevent the catch- ing of hares or rabbits by ferrets; re-enacting laws of state ojl inspector with added duties and more salary. ss. * * St. Paul, Feb. 6. — The house and senate both passed bills yesterday creating a department for incurables in connection with the school for the feeble minded at Faribault. The house passed seven other bills, one requiring licenses to be filed by railroad ticket agents with the secre- tary of state. Other’bills passed were preventing persons feloniously con- cerned in the death of another from succeeding to any part of the estate; making affidavits or duly acknowledg- ed certificates as to the marriage or non-marriage of grantors in convey- ances, evidence of the facts therein recited; increasing number of crimes in which party may plead guilty and be sentenced without trial; relating to the venue of actions brought to re- cover for labor; relating to redemp- tion from tax sales, and providing for the cancellation of certificates of as- signment of certain cases; relating to the uniform stage of water in lakes. Among the bills introduced were the following: To prevent the sale by auction or use of disabled horses; to protect birds and their nests and eggs; creating a state board of natu- ropathic examiners; requiring road overseers to cut weeds along ditches; requiring operators of Babcock tests to be licensed; compelling property owners to submit to assessors state- ment of insurance on _ property; amending limitations ‘upon which state lands may be sold; appropriat- ing $100,000 for a hospital at the sol- diers’ home; prescribing sanitary con- ditions where food is made and sold; regulating motor vehicles; permitting banks to deposit securities instead of giving bonds when receiving county deposits; prohibiting common law marriages; requiring public service corporations to pay employes twice a month; prohibiting agents from sell- ing books to teachers at summer schools; increasing appropriation for greater university campus, In the Senate. Creation of a separate state bank- ing department is provided in a bill introduced by Senator Thorpe. It provides for a state bank examiner, to be a practical banker of five years’ experience, appointed by the governor for three years, at a salary of $5,000. He will have entire charge of the en- forcement of the banking laws of the state. Two bills aimed af the primary election law were offered. One by Senator Calhoun repeals the law en- tirely, while Senator Cooke wants to repeal it except for the Twin Cities and Duluth, Senator Cushman offered a bill re- j quiring telephone companies to ex- change service, making them common carriers and subject to the control of the railroad and warehouse commis- sion: Senator Swanson renewed his at- tack on the state live stock sanitary board with two propositions. One was a resolution requiring the board to furnish a full statement of pending claims and restraining it from incur- ring further obligations. The other was a bill regulating the condemna- tion of animals. It prohibits the con- demnation of animals under the tu- berculin test or horses under the ma- line test, without examination by three vetinarians. The value of ani- mals killed is to be fixed by a board of three appraisers. Other bills introduceq were: Au- thorizing state to purchase toll bridge at Dalles of St. Croix; relating to for- estry reserve fund; accepting gift to Itasca State Park; providing for sev- en judges in Second judicial district. Two bills were passed, one relating to the receipt for storing of grain and the other admitting incurable cripples to school for feeble minded. Both houses adjourned until Mon- day morning. ee SAILORS SHOOT STRAIGHTER. Great Gun Practice Shows 100 Per Cent Improvement, Washington, Feb. 7—American bat- tleships have increased in efficiency greatly since last year, according to the records of battle practice in Ma- nila bay, received by Commander Sims, inspector of target practice, The improvement in great gun practice was more than 100 per cent greater than that of last year. ARR rrrrrrrrrerrrerrerrrmeeeeennnnnrenre SOLDIER KILLS THREE. Goes on Rampage and Shoots Into a Crowd. Salina Cruz, Mex., Feb. 7.—Paz Lo- pez, a soldier in the Twenty-fifth Mex- ican infantry, went on a rampage last night and began shooting into a crowd. When he had finished two Mexicans and a negro were dead on the floor. Lopez then shot the lantern out of the hands of a policeman and es- caped. Mexican THREE HELD FOR FORGERY. Fergus Falls Man in Meshes of Law at Le Mars, lowa. Le Mars, Iowa, Feb. 6.—Having at- tempted to pass forged checks, using the names of well known residents, John Wilson of Des Moines, John Wy- lie of Fergus Falls, Minn., and Wil- liam Smith of New York were held to the grand jury for forgery. The police declare the men have been working their game in other nearby towns. PRESTIGE FOR MOOSE LAKE. Soo Line May Make It Junction Point by Building New Road. Moose Lake, Minn., Feb. 5.—It is rumored that surveyors, undoubted- ly employed by the Soo railway, are running lines from Frederic, Wis., to connect the Soo line at Frederic with the Brooten-Duluth road at Moose Lake. In this event it will make this a good junction point and perhaps result in the pbuilding of shops. TIMBER TRACT IS “CLEANED UP.” Old Wright & Davis Contract Passes Into History. Friday one of the greatest lumber- ing contracts in the history of Minne- sota became history. The event marks the final passing of one of the state’s most famous timber tracts, known as the old Wright & Davis contract, drawn up more than seven- teen years ago, between Wright & Davis of Michigan and the Pine Tree Lumber company of Minnesota. This contract eovered the right to cut the timber on something like 250 square miles of the finest pine land in the state, lying at the western end of St. Louis county ang reaching into Itasca county, Wednesday the head officials of the Pine Tree Lumber company visited Hibbing to close out all their inter- est in this famous tract of timber. J. P. Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul, presi- dent of the company, was here, ac- companied by C. A. Weyerhaeuser P. Weyerhaeuser of Little Falls, sec- retary and treasurer; R. D. Musser of Litttle Falls, treasurer, and several lumbermen from Cloquet. The Weyerhaeusers began logging this land in 1891. Hibbing was then not even a name, and the western end of the Mesaba range was unknown. There was not a white settler within miles. What is now the Great North- ern right of way was built by the first logging road and was afterward sold to the Hill road. The whole country now, except for stumps, bare as a rock, was covered with great white and Norway pine. From the vast forest preserve the ‘Weyerhaeusers have cut nearly a bil- lion feet of lumber, paying out mil- lions of dollars in carrying on their operations. Not a merchantable log remains standing in the neighborhood. The last of the historic forest, about two train loads, lies cut and stacked along the racks noth of Nashwauk, a little village to the west of Hibbing. When these few remnants are shipped out, one of the greatest lumbering tracts in the world will have ceased to ex- ist. The mineral rights were sold to the Great Northern railroad, and it is from them that most of the mines of the Western Mesaba have beeen de- veloped. The Hull Rust, the biggest iron mine in the world, is on a part of this land. It has probably yielded more wealth than any similar piece of land in America. NEW “SWEARING OFF” LEAGUE. Unique Society Gets Under Headway at Rochester, Minn. Rochester is headquarters for a unique society. It is known as the Mutual Rest League of America. The president is a well known traveling salesman. Some weeks ago the salesman and a friend became interested in a dis- cussion of the liquor question so far as it affected their own personal inter- ests, and decided to bet each other that they could quit the habit for six months. After they’ had made a de- posit of $5 each they said why not take others into the agreement. The result was that they organized the league and now the membership is increasing so rapidly that at the pres- ent time men from three states have one of these unique policies which read as follows: “Mr. Blank, having paid the sum of $5, hereby agrees to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors for six months from the date of the policy, when he may go before a notary and make oath to that ef- fect and $5 will be paid to him the first of the following month. If he does not abstain he forfeits to the league the $5 paid in.” STATE WINS LUMBER SUIT. Ackley Company Must Pay Permit Price for Cutting. In an opinion handed down by Chief Justice Start of the supreme court the order of the lower court, giving judgment to the state in the suit against the Ackley Lumber company was affirmed. The amount involved was less than $4,000, but the chief point to be decided was whether or not lumber companies would have to pay the permit price for cutting pine. The Ackley Lumber company had cut pine in the northern part of the state at a certain rate, but refused to pay the full price for pack pine and “dead and down” timber, saying these were not worth the contract price. The contention of the company that the contract was invalid, because not duly executed by the state, was not sustained. STATE ROSE GROWERS. The Minnesota State Rose society held its mid-winter meeting in St. Paul, Mrs. D. W. C. Ruff, presiding: There was an attendance of about six- ty members, including both amateur and professional growers of roses and other flowers. While the society hag always emphasized roses in its papers and exhibitions, it has by no means confined itself to them, and is catholic in its taste in flowers and plants. The attendance was the largest in the history of the organization. State Topics of Interest STATE LIBRARY IN NEW WORK. Reference Department Already Or ganized. The state law library is securing material and putting it in. shape with files and indexes to create a legisla- tive reference department similar to the one in Wisconsin. . Bills are pend- ing in the legislature to establish a bureau for such work, but neither of them places it in the law library, and an effort will be made to amend them. A bill by Senator George H. Sullivan |. places the new department under the attorney general, while one by W. D. Washburn, Jr. already reported for passage by the house committee on general legislation places it under the state public library commission. Objection is made ‘to this bill on the ground that the library commis- sion has no facilities for the work. It has no library but has supervision over the traveling libraries of the state. 5 John E. King, state librarian, made a statement giving reasons why the proposed bureau should be placed in the law library, as follows: The state library already has most of the material needed for such a bureau. The state library has the laws, both present and past, of all the state and nearly all the English-speak- ing countries in the world, as well as the laws of many other countries in Europe in other languages. The state library has the house and senate journals of the other states. It has the reports of the various de- partments in the other states. It has reports on special subjects of many kinds, right in the line of legislative reference investigation. It has a good collection of works on political econ- omy and sociology. It has over 1,000 volumes of periodicals, legal ané po litical, and a fine set of United States documents and reports. It is receiving and has on file now current bills introduced in other states. The library is indexed so that material on any subject may be ob- tained at short notice. No other de- partment in the state has such a fund of material or such facilities for un- dertaking such work as the state li- brary. If such work is to be done by another department it would necessi- tate the duplication of most of the material in the state library at a great and unnecessary expense. FAVORS THE PRESERVE. Minnesota Official Approves Plan Re- cently Recommended at Toronto. Calos Avery, executive agent of the state game and fish commion, is heartily in accrod with the proposi- tion for an international game pre- serve On both sides of Rainy river, as advocated in the recent international convention in Toronto, “Nothing would suit our commission better than to have Minnesota, and Ontario join in such a plan,” said Mr. Avery. “I suppose it would take the form of setting aside an area in both countries, in the Rainy river basin, as a breeding ground for moose, in which the killing of those animals should be prohibited. That could be done by the Minnesota legislature and the Ontario legislature. “Congressman Volstead has a bill to turn over the unsurveyed govern- ment lands in northern St. Louis county to the state for a game pre- serve, he informs me that there is not much chance for it to pass at this session.” TO REPRESENT MINNESOTA. Judge Smith Named as Aid for Big In- augural Ball. Judge George R. Smith of the Hennepin county probate court will be the official representative ef Minneso- ta at the Taft inaugural ball in Wash- ington, D. C., March 4. Judge Smith received a communica- tion from Gist Blair, chairman of the floor committee, announcing that each state and territozg would be repre- sented by one offffial aid at the ball and stating that Judge Smith had been appointed to represent Minneso- ta. The aids will form a committee of honor for the president and the vice president. Judge Smith will leave for the East on March 1 and will remain for the greater part of the month aft- er attending the inaugural ceremo- nies. Great Charger Near. Mrs. Stubb—John, you overslept yourself this morning and had the nightmare. In fact, you alarmed the plumber who was working downstairs. Mr, Stubb—The plumber? Ah, that accounts for my dream Mrs. Stubb—And what did you dream about? Mr. Stubb—Why, I dreamed I was trying to get out of the way of a great sharger. When England Shook. In the course of its long history England has known a _ few serious earthquake shocks. In the days of William Rufus one was felt through- out the country, and in 1274 an Eng- lish earthquake destroyed Glastonbury among its other damage, while part of St. Paul’s cathedral fell in as the result of an earthquake in the six- teenth century. Perhaps the most re- : cent serious shock was that which in- flicted much damage in the Hastern counties in 1884; fund was opened for the sufferers, a mansion house |! ONE KIDNEY GONE But Cured After Doctors Said There Was No Hope. Sylvanus. O. Verrill, Milford, Me., says: “Five years ago a bad. injury paralyzed me and affected my kid- neys. My back hurt me terribly, and the urine was bad- ly disordered. Doc- tors said my right kidney was practi- eally dead. They said I could never walk again. Iread of Doan’s Kidney Pills and began us- ing them. One box made me stronger and freer from pain. I kept on using them and in three months was able to get out on crutches, and the kidneys were acting better. I improved rap- idly, discarded the crutches and to the wonder of my friends was soon completely cured.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ¥. When a Jag Is Not a Joke. So absurdly lacking in a certain phase of humor is the Parisian that he sees nothing laughable or joyous in rolling about gutters or hiccough- ing midnight songs or embroiling him- self with his fellows while under the influence of strong drink. That engaging product of social America who comes into the club hol- low cheeked and _ livid, remarking, “Gee, but I was full last night,” has few counterparts here. To have been helplessly or even conspicuously drunk in a public place—a thing which a Frenchman would be prone to hide rather than exploit. A strange and immoral race! Nothing has struck me more forcibly than this general sobriety—a dull, gray word, by the way, whereby to describe a characteristic of the blithest people living. Prof. Munyon has generously placed his Cold Cure with druggists through- ‘out the United States and has author- ‘ized them to sell it for the small sum of 25 cts. a bottle. He says these pellets contain no opium, morphine, co- caine or other harmful drugs, and he guarantees that they will relieve the head, throat and lungs almost imme- diately. He gives this guarantee with each bottle of his medicine: “If you buy my Cold Cure and it does not give perfect satisfaction, I will refund your money.” Prof. Munyon has just issued a Magazine-Almanac, which will be sent free to any person who addresses The Munyon Company, Philadelphia. At Another Druggist’s. “Oh, dear!” sighed the first dear girl, who was examining the city di- rectory in a drug store. “I can’t find the name at all. What shall we do?” “Oh, I know,” cried dear girl No. 2. “Let’s go to some other drug store and examine their directory.” BILINGUAL IN GESTURES. American Who Can’s Speak Spanish Without the Help of His Arms. There is a man who from a very early age has lived in countries where Spanish is the almost universal tongue. From force of this training he speaks Spanish perfectly. He has not the slightest trace of an English accent, and persons who do not know that he is of American par- entage are willing to believe he is a, Spaniard, merely from hearing him talk. He is so perfectly bilingual that it shows even in his gestures. When talking with English speak- ing persons he sits quietly and does his conversing with his mouth alone. Only in case of making a point most emphatically does he use a gesture. But the moment he drops into Span- ish his every word is accompanied by a movement of the hands or arms. It is interesting to watch the change from the English to the Spanish side of him, because it comes so suddenly. He really can’t speak Spanish without gesturing. NO MEDICINE But a Change of Food Gave Relief. Many persons are learning that drugs are not the thing to rebuild worn out nerves, but proper food is required. There is a certain element in the cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which is grown there by nature for food to brain and nerve tissue. This is the phos- phate of potash, of which Grape-Nuts food contains a large proportion. In making this food all the food ele- ments in the two cereals, wheat and barley, are retained. That is why so many heretofore nervous and run down people find in Grape-Nuts a true nerve and brain food. “T can say that Grape-Nuts food has done much for me as a nerve renew- er,” writes a Wis. bride. “A few years ago, before my mar- riage, I was a bookkeeper in a large firm. I became so nervous toward the end of each week that it seemed I must give up my position, which I could not afford to do. “Mother purchased some Grape-Nuts and we found it not only delicious but I noticed from day to day that I was improving until I finally realized I was net nervous any more. “I have recommended it to friends as a brain and nerve food, never hav- ing found its equal. I owe much to Grape-Nuts as it saved me from a nervous collapse, and enabled me to _ retain my position.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle 'Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well- ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. neers RP cathe i See +