Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 17, 1909, Page 3

~ THE STATE LEGISLATURE IMPORTANT TRANSACTIONS OF THE LAWMAKERS DURING THE PAST WEEK. St. Paul, March 10.—Capital punish- ment will stand in the Minnesota statutes for at least two years to come, as the house yesterday refused to recommend the passage of the Ben- dixen bill abolishing the death penal- ty for murder in the first degree. The bill was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 35 to 31. Favorable action was taken by the house on the bill re- quiring licensed draymen and trans- fer companies to report to license in- spectors of the cities in which they do business all changes of residence or location of goods in storage. The house also indorsed the bill in- creasing the exemption on personal property to $200. The exemption shall apply, however, only to the head of a family, Two bills relating to woman suf- frage were reported to the house yes- terday by the committee on elections without recommendation. The house committee on express, telegraph and electric lines recom- mended for passage the bill which will apportion the gross earnings tax received from suburban electric lines among the towns through which the lines pass. In its present form the proportions each town, village or city gets will be based on the value of the company’s property in that town. Bills were introduced as follows: Providing for the dissolution of school districts unable to raise $300 annual- ly; relating to registration of titles; increasing amount which certain dis- tricts may raise by taxation; amend- ments relating to savings corpora- tions. In the Senate. Senator Gunderson was recommend- ed yesterday by the state senate by a rising vote for Judge Purdy’s place on the United States district bench. The resolution was introduced py Sena- tors Seward and Colb, Republican and Democrat, and was unanimously adopted. The resolution was ordered forwarded to Senators Clapp and Nel- son, Senator Swanson’s anti-tuberculin bill was killed in committee of the whole by the deciding vote of the chairman, but later exception was taken to the report of the committee of the whole and the bill is on the table for another fight on the floor. By a vote of 24 to 23 the senate committee of the whole adopted an amendment to the Cass Lake nor- mal school bill, giving the state nor- mal school board authority to locate the new normal school in the north- western part of the state. This has the effect of leaving the Cass Lake bill on the desk. The growing list of employers’ lia- bility bills had another addition yes- terday when Senator Durment offered one providing for adequate compensa- tion for those injured while employed in hazardous occupations, Candidates for election to all state offices will be obliged under a bill by Senator Nelson to make affidavits showing not only their expenditures during the campaign, but also what funds each received and from what source. Other bills introduced were: Au- thorizing towns to establish libraries; increasing state tax for university purposes; only regular marriages to be legal; permitting state aid to high schools with business course; declar- ing absence from office or illness cause for appointment of successor. se ¢ St. Paul, March 11.—Cass Lake won out in the senate yesterday in the bat- tle for the location of the new normal school, but not until sergeants-at-arms had scoured St. Paul in search of three absent senators and business had been suspend for two hours. On a motion to accept the report of the committee of the whole favoring the passage of the amended bill leaving the location of the normal school to the state nor- mal school board the supporters of the Cass Lake project asked for a call of the senate. Business was suspend- ed while a hunt was made for absent senators. At 12 o’clock a roll call was taken showing a vote of 35 to 24 against the acceptance of the commit- tee report. By a vote of 35 to 25 the original bill establishing the school at ‘Cass Lake was placed on the calen- dar for passage. New bills were introduced as fol- ‘lows: Compelling registers of sale of ‘weapons to any one under eighteen years of age; to provide for election of school officers in certain cases; per- mitting the use of the poor farm as ag- ricultural experiment station; provid- ‘ing for home rule charter, with a ‘commission form of government, in teities between 10,000 and 20,000; relat- \ing to fees of register of deeds; pro- ‘viding for grain and flour testing ‘plant; excluding tubercular teachers jand pupils from public schools; com- ‘pelling fumigation of stock cars. : VILLAGE TO BE OBLITERATED. In the House. Congressman Tawney yesterday briefly addressed the house. He told of the big problems that confront the new congress and the necessity of in- creasing the current revenues in order to meet the present enormous expendi- tures, The house rejected the report of the temperance committee which recom- mended the killing of the bill giving cities of less than 10,000 local option, A motion to place the bill on general orders was carried by a vote of 54 to 47. The Bjorge tonnage tax bill’ has peen made a special order in the house for Wednesday. The Stuart employ- ers’ liability bill was made a special order for Thursday of next week. The Zelch automobile bill, which provides for a license to be secured from the secretary of state, also a li- cense for the chauffeur to be secured the same way, was passed by the house. The bill limits the speed to twenty miles an hour. The house passed the drainage com- mittee’s bill for a topographical survey of the state, to be made by the state | drainage commission. It also passed the township drainage bill permitting town boards to order assessments for ditches within any town upon peti- tion. Other bills passed: To repeal the law prohibiting the issuance of non- participating policies by certain life insurance companies; regulating the issuance of certificates of inspection and weight of grain and requiring such certificates to be delivered to the local buyer; to legalize bonds issued or voted by villages for the purpose of refund- ing their floating indebtedness; defin- ing the powers and duties of the clerks, school boards, teachers, county superintendent sof schools and county attorneys in enforcing attendance at school; authorizing the board of coun- ty commissioners of any county to di- rect county treasurers to advertise in one or more newspapers the time real and personal property taxes will be- come delinquent; relating to the de- livery of storeq grain. eee St. Paul, March 12.—There is little likelihood that the primary election law will be changed at this session. The senate yesterday in turn defeated the Moonan bill for state-wide pri- mary, the Sullivan amendment to the Canfield bill leaving the system as it is except for a primary system for the selection of delegates to the state convention, and, lastly, killed the Can- field bill itself, which abolishes the primary system except for the elec- tion of delegates to the state conven- tions. The senate spent the entire afternoon on the two bills and the debate was at times spirited. A bill which it was said would le- galize the formation of trusts in Min- nesota was killed in the senate by a vote of 7 to 36. The bill related to the power of corporations, permit- ting the issuance of more than one class of stock. A bill by Senator Cashman prohib- its the publication of accounts of the proceedings in juvenile courts. The committee on public accounts and expenditures recommended: the repeal of the constitutional section providing for the publication of the ! annual report of the state treasurer. Senator Sullivan introduced a bill creating a commission to inquire into the operation of indeterminate sen- tence laws in other states, A bill extending the power of the state board of health to include su- pervision and regulation of buildings and utensils used in producing food products for sale was introduced in the senate. Senator Hanson offered a bill ap- propriating $25,000 for a hospital at j the agricultural school. In the House, Three bills for drainage work by the state were killed in the house yes- terday. The Spooner bill giving au- thority to the state drainage commis- sion to open, widen and straighten streams not under federal control, the Mackenzie bill appropriating $15,- 000 and the Spooner bill appropriat- ing $50,000 for widening the Chippe- wa river, were the bills tabled. Representative Kneeland’s bill for a convention to revise the constitution failed of passage in the house be- cause such a measure would require eighty votes and the bill received only sixty-two. A resolution urging congress to take immediate action towards the construction of a canal between Lake Superior and the Mississippi river was passed in the house. The bill for a state drug law similar to the national law was recommend- ed for passage in committee of the whole. The house killed the Ware bill per- mitting all women over the age of eighteen to vote at the next general GOOD WINTER FOR LOGGING. Sparta (Minn.,) Business Houses and ; Shipments From Couderay, Wis., Av- Residents Moving to Gilbert. Duluth, March 14.—The site of the yillage of Sparta will soon be an open ‘pit mine. The residents of the town have been given notice by the United States Steei corporation to move, and ill be stripped in the te Proper Most of the. business men of Sparta have already moved to the town of Gilbert. erage Nearly 500,000 Feet Daily. Couderay, Wis. March 14. — The winter has been ideal for logging op erations. With very little snow and just cold enough for good ice roads, the conditions have been prime, and more logs have been shipped out of this section the last two months than ever before. The shipments average nearly 500,000 feet a day, all going to the mills at Eau Claire and Rice Lake. i election on the question or not they desire the elective fran- The O’Brien bill permitting cities of 50,000 or over to allow saloons to be kept open until midnight was killed in the house. The vote by which the will was indefinitely postponed stood 48 to 35. Among the Dills introduced were: Creating a superintendent of banks; establishing a legislative reference bureau; license tags on dogs; to re- imburse owners of animais bitten by dogs; relating to enforcement of rates of common carriers and provid- ing for restitution of charges made in excess of rates; permitting cities of third class to establish’ commission form of government; establishing a grain and flour testing laboratory. ss © St. Paul, March 13.—The house, in committee of the whole, yesterday voted favorably on the bill placing street railways under the state rail- road and warehouse commission. The debate on the bill was exciting for a time and charges and counter charges were plentiful. The Dill allowing social clubs to sell liquor without a license was recom- mended for passage in committee of the whole. The house passed Senator Alder- man’s bill limiting saloons to one for each 500 inhabitants. The bill authorizing domestic insur- ‘ance companies to invest their funds in bonds or securities of such foreign states in which they transact business was passed. The house killed three school bills yesterday, including the bill extend- ing state inspection to private schools and academies which prepare teachers for the public schools, the bill appro- priating money for education of chil- dren in unorganized territory and the bill providing additional salary from the state to teachers with certain qualifications. Under a bill introduced by Repre- sentative Graham any county may, with the consent of the board of con- trol, establish an asylum for the chronic insane. The state is to pay the county $3 a week for each patient they care for. f A bill requiring surety companies to file schedules of their rates with the insurance commissioner, together with all terms, credits, commissions and allowances, was offered by Represent- ative Spooner. Among the bills passed were: Per- Mmitting cities of 20,000 to 50,000 to spend money for open-air concerts; providing contingent fund to pay dis- charged state employes; empowering cities to construct municipal water- works, reservoirs, dams, light and power plants, or to acquire by pur- chase or condemnation such water- works, etc.; to prevent the manufac- ture and sale of adulterated or mis- branded drugs. The selling of malt drinks, whether intoxicating or not, in any other place than a saloon, is prohibited in a bill handed in by Representative Haug- land. In the Senate. Under suspension of the rules the senate yesterday passed a bill which will have the effect of retaining S. W. Leavett on the board of control. The bill was rushed through at a speed which inspired Senator Works to characterize it as the rankest attempt to railroad legislation seen this ses- sion. The bill amends the law giving old soldiers the preference for all state jobs. It amends the law so that old soldiers when once they get a po- sition under the state cannot be re- moved except on written charges filed by the appointing power and reviewed by a board consisting of the governor, | liewtenant governor and attorney gen- eral. Every holder of a hunting li- cense will have to supply the state fish and game commission with a list of the deer and caribou killed by him | during the season, under a bill passed by the senate yesterday. Senator Sullivan’s bill for a legisla- tive reference bureau was killed in ! the senate. Among the bills passed were: Mak- ‘ing time for canvassing board meet- ing third Tuesday in November; regu- lating width and strength of bridges; permitting county commissioners to improve roads through villages in cer- tain cases, St. Paul, March 15.—The senate Sat- urday advanced to the calendar the bill appropriating $250,000 for the completion of work in connection with the state capitol approaches. The bill, however, will have to go to the joint committee on appropriaions. The senate in committee of the whole recommended for passage the house bill raising the age of consent from fourteen to sixteen years. The three bills for the establish- ment of a land commission. will be considered by the senate on a special order Thursday afternoon. Bills introduced were: Amending the law relating to the reports of pub- lic libraries; providing for issue of permits for prospecting for ore on staté lands and for mining leases; authoriz ing cities of the fourth class to levy frontage tax for waterworks, FIREBUG AT WORK AT HUDSON. K erosene Used in Destruction of South Dakota Elevator. : Hudson, 8. D., March 14—Destroy- ing 5,000 bushels of corn and oats, the second incendiary fire which Hudson has suffered in recent months con- sumed the Reliance elevator. TI smell of kerosene was plainly Fy ible when the blaze started and no other cause can be assigned than that some firebug is at work. . In Minnesota State News of the Week Briefly Told The Benson Grain company’s ele- vators at Woodstock burned. Five thousand bushels of grain were de- stroyed, The Benson Grain company’s ele- vator burned to the ground at Wood- stock. Five thousand bushels of grain were entirely destroyed. Oscar Maede, a lumberjack arrested at Cass Lake on a charge of grand larceny, was bound over to the grand jury. He is accused of robbing an ac- quaintance of $70. 2 ew At a meeting of the Litchfield board of education the contract for the erec- tion of an addition to the high school building was let to J. H. Olson of Willmar for $17,595. Work will begin at once, The bonds of the city of Bemidji in the sum of $50,000, known as the “waterworks bonds,” were sold in Chicago last week, the Commerciat Investment Company of Duluth being the purchasers. Thelma Titus and -Grace Cameron, aged nine and ten years, respectively, went out on the ice on the lake at Duluth and the former stepped on a skim where an ice harvest had been taken. She broke through and Grace pulled her out. Just for a lark, Arlo Thompson, the nine-year-old son of J. W. Thompson of Spooner, stole a ride on a passing bobsled. Then the horse, suddenly frightened, ran away and the boy was hurled from the sled onto a pile of poles. A splinter penetrated his skull and he died, The explosion of a kitchen stove in the home of Louis Husting, a nurs- ery salesman at Hastings, burned his four-months-old son to death, injured his two-year-old daughter Eva so that she died Thursday evening and seriously burned his wife, who strug- gled to recue the children. Without a second’s warning the earthen walls of a sewer ditch in which Moritz Grantberg was work- ing at St. Paul, suddenly slipped from their supports and crashed down upon the man, burying him beneath twen- ty-five feet of earth. He died a few minutes after being rescued. Declaring that it was up to him to follow the example of his two broth- ers, Lewis Lind, aged sixty years, made the fourteenth suicide attempt in Minneapolis in twenty-two days by swallowing strychnine. He was rush- ed to the city hospital, where desper- ate measures were used in an effort to save his life. His recovery is doubtful. Great indignation is rife at Preston because of the refusal of the German Lutheran pastor to conduct the funer- al of the late George Reidel. Mr. Reidel was highly respected, but had not attended church during the pres- ent pastor’s incumbency, nor was the later called during Mr. Reidel’s ill- ness. Some of the members of the church have withdrawn. By consolidation of the Duluth Yacht and Boat clubs, effected last week, Duluth now has one of the larg- est aquatic organizations in the North- west, having about $100,000 worth of property, including two large boat and club houses on the bay, well equipped with boats of all kinds, and an extensive branch club up St. Louis river, on Spirit lake, near the site of the new steel plant. The mem- bership is nearly 1,200. Mrs. Hattie Allen, thirty years old, was instantly killed by a switch en- gine in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway yards, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth avenues south, Min- neapolis. Her head and left leg be- low the knee were severed from the body and her chest was horribly crushed. Men employed in the yards advance the theory that it was a case of suicide and point to the fact that Mrs. Allen had left her husband and was suing for a divorce as supplying a motive for her act. Gambling received a sensational blow at Duluth last week when Judge Ensign, in the district court, sentenc- ed Robert Raire and Fred Amo to, ten days in the county jail and fined them $200 each. The twain recently were indicted by the grand jury on a gambling charge and pleaded guilty. The notorious place conducted by the accused is said to have been frequent- ed by two young men who misappro- priated their employers’ funds in Jarge amounts and this lead to the gamblers’ indictment. . LUMBER SHIPMENTS BIGGER. January Report or the Northwest Is Issued From .Minneapolis. Report on the lumber shipments from the States of Minnesota, Wiscon- sin, Michigan and Iowa during . the month of January, showing them to have been 81.5 per cent greater than for the same month last year, was made by Acting Secretary E. 8, Childs of the Northern Pine Manufacturers’ association at his Minneapolis office: have no teeth. UP IMMIGRANTS. New Settlers Are Annoyed by Cattle Inspection. Minnesota is likely to suffer to a -}large extent in the matter of immi- gration, owing to the scarcity of fed- eral inspectors at the Minnesota Transfer, at St. Paul, who inspect the cattle immigrants bring with them into the state. There is also a decid- ed lack of information regarding the inspection laws on the part of the prospective settlers in Minnesota. Immigrants come to this state from all parts of the Union, and when they learn that the time consumed at the transfer for the inspection of cattle is about two days they become wrathy and send letters of criticism and cen- sure to the state immigration com- mission, it is claimed. They believe, the immigration board is responsible’ for the delay, whereas the bureau has: nothing to do with it. The live stock sanitary board is also blamed, as the. people believe that the inspection is a state matter, when, as a matter of fact, it is wholly a federal concern. At present there are three inspect-' ors at the transfer. Dr. Harrison is in charge, and he denies that there is any delay in the inspection of cattle. He says that it does not take longer than dne day for the inspection, but that tthere may be delays caused by the railroads. He says that immi- grants could have their cattle pass through without any examination, pfo- vided they bring a certificate from a proper veterinarian of the state from which they come. This the immi-, grants do not know. Immigrant, land and development companies have written to the state immigration commission, stating that no more cattle would be brought into the state through their agencies, if the delay continues. The commission is sending out the information to the companies and immigrants that it is a federal matter and that a proper cer- tificate would bring the cattle into the state without inspection. But if the number of inspectors is to be in- creased that will have to be taken up with the national government. FALSE WEIGHT LOSS HEAVY. State Treasurer Recommends Intro- duction of Bill Providing for Proper Inspection. While it is not known how much the consumer in Minnesota loses be- cause of untested or incorrect weights and measures, it may be said that the amount is large, judging from the sta- tistics of New York, where the pur- chaser loses $3,000,000,” said C. C. Dinehart, state treasurer. Mr. Dinehart will recommend the introduction of a bill providing for the inspection of weights and measures. The national conference on weights and measures is endeavoring to secure @ uniform law throughout the United States by the appointment of a state commissioner, who will have charge of the work of the department, and who will file a report with the gov- ernor, which is to be sent to the na- tional bureau of standards in the de- partment of commerce and labor. Representative Rosenwald: will in- troduce a bill providing for a corps of imspectors under the state treasurer, who will be the keeper of the stand- ard weights and measures, and who will send to the county treasurers the correct standards, sealed by him. The inspectors of the dairy and food department may be used as inspectors of weights. FARM SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT. Exercises Will Begin March 20 and Last Four Days. The twentieth annual commence- ment exercises of the school of agri- culture of the University of Minne- sota will begin March 20 and last four days. The exercises will be held at the university farm and commence Satur- day evening, March 20, with class ex- ercises in the auditorium of the school at 8 p. m. Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock Rev. A. T. Fowler will preach the commencement sermon in the auditorium. The class play will be held Monday evening at 8 o’clock, and Tuesday will pe alumni day, with class reunions. The alumni dinner will be held in the dining hall of the farm at 6 p. m. James J. Hill will deliver the ad- dress of the graduating exercises Wednesday afternoon in the audito- rium. The affair will close with the alumni ball Wednesday evening. RAILROADS EARN LESS. Gross earnings of the railroads of Minnesota show a falling off of $11,- 013,000 in 1908, compared with the previous year. This means that the state suffers a loss of revenue of $440,520. Returns from the thirty-six roads of the state are now in the hands of the state railroad and warehouse commission. The complete totals are as follows: Gross earnings of roads for 1907, $88, 888,946; taxes 1907, $3,555,557.84; gross earnings for 1908, $77,875,938.29; taxes for 1908. $3,115,037.48. a The Determining Teeth. Teacher—Johnny, can you inform the class as to how the age of a chick. en is determined? Johnny—Yes’m; by the teeth. Teacher — Why, Johnny, chickens Johnny—No’m. But we have. ‘|held secret meetings. Telegraph and Telephone Operators May Cause Tie-up—Ringleaders Are Suspended. Paris, March 15. — Paris is noy threatened with a general strike of the telegraph and telephone operators employed in the bureaus of the post- office. As a result of energetic meas- ures of the authorities in suppressing the strike of the telegraph operators, which isolated Paris for four hours Saturday, forty of the ringleaders, in- cluding ten railway mail clerks, who refused to board their trains, have been suspended pending their dis- missal from the service. Hight of those who took part in the riot in the central telegraphic bureau of the post- office on Friday night are under ar- rest. The president of the General Association of Postal Telegraph Em- ployes, M. Subra, is among those un- der suspension. Throughout Sunday the associations of the various branches of the service The prelimi- nary meeting of the general associa- tion will be held today, when final ac- tion will be taken. The feeling seems against an amicable settlement of the trouble. Many of the employes have voted for a strike, while the railway mail clerks have voted to hold solidly together in whatever action is decided upon. The regular labor leaders, like Sec- retary Pataud of the electricians’ union, are doing their utmost to bring about a strike. The government con- siders the entire movement reyolu- tionary. SLAYS HER BOYS WITH RAZOR. Michigan Miner’s Wife Says She Could Not Rear Them Properly. Wakefield, Mich., March 15.— Mrs. Matt Pikka, a Finnish woman,, last night killed her two boys, aged six and seven, while they were in bed asleep. She cut their throats with a razor. The father was at work in the mines. The. only reason she gives for the act is that she could not bring them up properly. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. 4 St. Paul, March 15. — Wheat—No. hard, $1.143-4; No. 1 Northern, $1.13 3-4; No. 2 Northern, $1.113-4@ 1.12 3-4. Corn—No. 2 yellow, 621-4@ 62 3-4c. Oats—No, 2 white, 52@53c, Minneapolis, March 15.—Wheat — No. 1. hard, $1.143-4; No. 1 North- ern, $1.13 3- No. 2 Northern, $1.11 3-4@1.12 3-4. Corn—No. 2 yel- low, 621-4@623-4c. Oats — No. 2 white, 52@53c. Duluth, March 15. — Wheat—No. 1 hard, $1.15; No. 1 Northern, $1.14; No. 2 Northern, $1.12. Mlar—$1.67 3-4. Oats—No. 2. 521-8¢. Chicago, March 15. — Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.173-8@1.22; No. 2 hard, $1.10 8-8@1.15. Oats—No. 2 white, 53 1-4@541-2c. Corn—No. 2 yellow, 64 1-2@65c. Milwaukee, March 15,—Wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.16@1.161-2; No, 2 Northern, $1.14@1.141-2. Barley — Standard, 67c. Chicago, March 15. — Cattle — Beeves, $4.25@6.90; stockers and feeders, $3.35@5.40; cows and heifers, $1.85@5.60. Hogs—Bulk, $6.20@6.40. Sheep — Natives, $3.25@5.60; lambs, $5.75@7.75. Siuox City, Iowa, March 15.—Cattle —Beeves, $4.40@5.50; stockers and feeders, $3.40@4.75; calves and year- lings, $3.25@4.20. Hogs — Range, $5.75@6.25. South St. Paul, March 15.—Cattle— Grain-fed steers, $5@6.25; cows and heifers, $4@5; veal calves, $5.25@6; good to choice stock steers, $4.50@5. Hogs — Bulk, $5.90@6.10. Sheep — Yearlings, $6@6.50; spring lambs, $7 @7.40. Labor Demonstration. Boston, March 15.—In a demonstra- tion against the sentences of impris- onment imposed upon Samuel Gom- pers, John Mitchell and Frank Morri- son by Judge Wright in the superior court of the District of Columbia more than 5,000 members of labor unions paraded through the streets of this city yesterday. Black Hand Men Arrested. Cumberland, Md., March 16.—Don- die Gindice, George Marsh and Pietro Scarlatti were placed in jail here last night on the charge of sending Black Hand letters to Rev. Pasqual Scar- pati, pastor of the Italian Catholic church at Morgantown, and to Louis Arnone, an Italian fruit dealer at Frostburg. Gen. Palmer Dies of Injury. Colorado Springs, Colo., March 15. —Gen. William J. Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, died at his country seat, Glen Eyrie, west of the city, late yesterday. Death came as a re- sult of a fall from a horse in October, 1906, which resulted in breaking his back. Pat Crowe in Hospital. Chicago, March 15.—Pat Crowe, for- mer kidnapper and later an evangel- ist, recovered from his third fall from the “water wagon” yesterday and al- lowed his friends to put him on a train for Pontiac. He was hurried to the sanitarium there. Long Fast Ends in Death. Marlborough, Mass., March 15. — A fast of forty-eight days, during which he took no food in any form, came to an end last night when death claimed Adelard Bastian, aged fifty-one years, + nemesis war onreeea asin Ree —F anaeeenr te nt bla es SOB,