Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 21, 1909, Page 3

| } | | j soetresretoatretreteatonteeteesoatertoctretoesontontretresoatoatoatoetestoeteatentesteetateateeteetoatoatectreseceds UP 10 NORTHWEST TO FURNISH WHEAT Deficiency in the Winter Crop Must Be Supplied by Spring States. BiG DEMAND FOR CASH WHEAT Farmers Are Already Busy With Seed- ing, but Warm Weather Is Much Needed. : Minneapolis, April 20.—The North- west must be looked to this year to bring the wieat crop of the United States to a total that will dissipate concern regarding adequate supplies for the coming season. With the poor prospects in the winter wheat area the spring wheat state will have to make up the deficiency, and the Northwest is the great center of the spring wheat territory. High prices will stimulate a larger acreage, not only because the last two crops have been marketed at an ex- cellent profit, but because the 1909 harvest is likely to meet with excel- lent prices. Unless the shortage in supplies that has made it possible for a bull pool to make a big “killing” is an illusion, there will be a broad com- mercial demand for all the cash wheat as fast as it comes on the market. Seeding Under Way. With the first real indication of springlike weather over the country seeding of the new crop will progress rapidly. Work has been under way for some time, but the cold nights have retarded operations in the fields and limited the time to the middle of the day. The warmer weather will bring the farmers into the fields in full force, and if wheat receipts fall off in the Northwestern markets it will be because the men that raise the grain are busy planting the next crop. From the reports received at the chamber of commerce there is a big grain acreage ready to be sown. Plowing was done on a large scale last fall and the ground is in excel- lent condition for the seed. The Red river valley is especially fine and a large part of it is already seeded. In South Dakota and in Minnesota work has been under way and it may be safely predicted that by the latter part of this week the reports will be that field work is general. Big Year for Farmers. The farmers of the Northwest have had a big vear. Prices for cash wheat ranged high throughout the sea- One would have to go back years before finding cash wheat at the level they are now sell- ‘ No record for the last nineteen years discloses such quotations as are now being received this month of April. In 1908, when the Leiter cam- paign was in full swing, cash wheat touched $1.23 in Chicago and culmt- nated in the month following at $1.85. The next week or ten days is likely to be a culminating period in the pres- ent wheat deal. Warm, growing weather is good for the winter wheat crop and may benefit the plants to the extent of making future prospects seem more promising, or may so hast: en the maturity of the plants as to mate the July future a new crop con- tract, BOYS PEPPER SWELL CROWD. It’s With Pepper They Peppered New Richmond (Wis.) Society. New Richmond, Wis., April 20.—The annual library ball, designed to be one of the swell society functions of the year, was held at Hagan’s opera aturday night. It narrowly missed being a rough house, The management posted a_ police officer at the door to keep from the building undesirable spectators, and then the banished ones avenged them- selves by blowing pepper through the windows. A list of the boys were se- cured by the police. PLANT BIG FLAX ACREAGE. South Dakota Farmers Breaking Sod for Record Crop. Pierre, April 20.—Travelers on the line between here and Huron say that there is fully ‘a hundred power break- ing outfits to be seen from the train between the twe towns. This means that there will be an immense amount of prairie sod turned over this year, and while a part of this will be plant- ed to corn most of it will be put into flax, which will mean the heaviest crop of that grain ever raised in this part of the state. Fifty Gamblers Taken. Chicago, April 20.—After breaking in glass doors and windows with clubs and battering down wooden doors with sledge hammers the police raid- ed a pool room above a saloon and arrested fifty men. Flouring Mill Burned. Sturgis, S. D., April 20. — The Til- ford fiouring mill was burned to the ground. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $1,- 000. The fire is supposed to have started from sparks from a passenger train locomotive. . KEEPS SOLON IN CLOAK ROOM) SUICIDE ASKS CHUM’S ADVICE Wayland Tells Inquisitors How He De: | Youth Discusses Best Means of Death tained Towne While Vote Was Being Taken. Madison, Wis., April 18.—Chellis C. Wayland, a partner of State Chair man E. A, Edmonds, told the senate investigation committee how he de- tained Assemblyman Silas Towne of Lavalle in a cloakroom while the final ballot for United States senator was being taken on March 4, when, as he was pleased to term it, Isaac Stephenson’s election ‘‘was ratified.” Wayland denied that he had offered any inducement to Towne to remain out of the room, thus keeping the to- tal of votes down so that the Ste- phenson votes might be a majority. He said he originally drew Towne out of the room because he knew he was “disgusted” and because he (Wayland) believed the rest of the Democrats were going to bolt and ‘Towne’s presence might be needed to insure a quorum. Wayland admitted he told Towne that if James A. Stone’s client foreclosed a mortgage he held on Towne’s property Towne could get another loan from the Portage Loan and Trust company. The cross-examination of Wayland by Senator Husting was one of the most spectacular in the history of the two investigations, as well as the most gruelling, but Wayland preserv- ed his equanimity throughout. Wayland admitted that he was as- signed to “take care of” Towne on March 4, according to a plan decided upon at a conference with Henry Overbeck. TO TRY BANKERS’ CASES. Larson-Slette Fight to Come Up at Special Term. Moorhead, Minn., April -18.—Judge Myron D. Taylor of St. Cloud will hold a special term of court in this city on Monday, April 19, to try the fifteen cases between B. B. Larson of Halstad and K. O. Slette of Culbert- son, Mont., transferred by stipulation from Norman, Red Lake and Douglas counties to Clay county. The cases have arisen out of a bitter fight that has developed between the two prin- cipals, who were former friends and business associates in conducting a chain of banks at Halstad, Climax and Neillsville, Minn., and Culbert son, Mont. GARRITY IS NOW’ FREE. No Evidence of Attempted Assault— Was Almost Lynched in January. Stillwater, April 18—John H. Gar- rity, who had a narrow ‘escape from being lynched last January at Willow River as a suspect of attempted crim- inal assault on two young girls, daughters of prominent people of that place, was discharged from the county jail here yesterday. The al- ieged offense was in Pine county, and he was sent here for safekeep- ing. The Pine county grand jury did not indict him for lack of evidence, hence his release. DRASTIC, BILLS NOW LAW. lowa Governor Signs Four Measures for Sweeping Reforms. Des Moines, April 18. — Goy. B. F. Carroll yesterday signed four drastic bills passed by the recent legislature, namely, the Casson law, which wipes out the red light districts of the state, the Swift anti-railroad law pro- viding heavy fines for railroads re- fusing to obey the orders of the rail- road commissioner, the Moon law prohibiting the sale of cocaine under any circumstances, while the primary law requires rotation of names on the ballot. RAILROADS LOSE CASE. North Dakota Supreme Court De- cides Coal Rate Cases. Bismarck, N. D., April 18—The su- preme court yesterday afternoon de- cided the North Dakota coal rate cases, holding the law fixing maxi- mum rates to be constitutional and the rates to be reasonable, and en- joining the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Soo roads from charg- ing their present tariffs and order- ing them to put into effiect the tar- iffs fixed by the legislature two years ago. FOUR PICKEREL AT ONE THROW Prize Haul Made by Watson (Minn.) Man From Slough. Watson, Minn., April 18—B. Ode- gard, a merchant of this place, caught four pickerel with one throw of the spear. The biggest fish in the bunch weighed 11 pounds, the others 3, 23-4 and 13-4 pounds. The pick- erel were speared in a slough tribu- tary to Lac qui Parle lake. Langdon Farmer in Jail. Langdon, N. D., April 18. — Joseph Kraemer, a farmer residing near Langdon, was bound over to the dis- trict court on a stautory charge. His wife started the proceedings. He was unable to give bonds and is in the county jail. Farmer’s Son Killed in Field. Miller, S. D., April 18.—The four. teen-year-old son of Henry Walton, living north of here, was run over With Friend and Then Makes Good Threat. Tyler, Minn., April 20. — After dis-, cussing anatomy with a friend and speculating on the surest means of inflicting death, Henry Neison, nine- teen years old, a promising youth of this place, committed suicide ‘by shooting. In the discussion the two young | men had come to the conclusion that: a bullet fired into the brain through’ the temple was the most certain method of killing a human being, and it was by that method that Nelson destroyed his own life. y Contrition over a recent indulgence in liquor at a dance is supposed to have produced a condition of melan- choly, and the young man is known to have remarked that if his parents learned of his remissness he would put a bullet through his head. Saturday evening Nelson hired a horse and buggy, and with Holger Egequist went out for a drive. It was then that anatomy and death were discussed. Egequist had no intimation of his friend’s gloomy intention and was en- tirely unprepared for the tragic hap- pening that followed their return to town, although Nelson did not seem to be normal. IRON COUNTRY BEGS FOR VETO. Flood of Protests Wired to Governor Swamps His Office Force. St. Paul, April 20.—Two thousand telegrams protesting against the Bjorge tonnage tax bill and calling upon Gov. Johnson to yeto it were received at the governor’: office. They came from all over Northeastern Min- nesota and from men of every walk in life, from mine owneis and bank presidents to teamsters, laborers and homesteaders. When the governor’s cffice closed there were hundreds of 1essages in the hands of the telegrapk companies’ waiting delivery, and they were pour- ing in all last evening at a rapid rate. DAWSON MAN IS SELECTED. Governor Names Former Republican Senator for Board of Centrol. St. Paul, April 20.—Charles Halvor- son of Dawson was appointed -by Gov. John A. Johnson Saturday to succeed Leonard A. Rosing on the state board of control. Mr. Halvorson came at the governor’s request and had a con- ference with him, after which the ap- pointment was announced. It takes effect immediately, and is for the re- maining two years of the Rosing term. The new member of the board is a Republican and a former colleague of Gov. Johnson in the state senate, serving with him in the sessions of 1899, 1901 and 1902. He has been a successful merchant at Dawson, but retired from business some time ago. STUDENTS ARE POISONED. Seven Co-eds and Seven Males in Se- rious Condition. Des Moines, Iowa, April 20.—Seven Des Moines college co-eds and seven male students are in a serious condi- tion and one may die, following a mys- terious poisoning at dinner at the Kamaraderie and Altruria clubs Sat- urday. Milk is the one article taken in common by all the sufferers, but an examination by State Chemist W. F. | Frisbie and State Dairy Commissioner H. R. Wright failed to disclose pto- maines or injurious bacteria. Commissioner Wright said he be- lieved there was tyro toxicon in the milk. WOMEN ROAST BLIND PIG. Even Dozen Make War on Lignite Booze Emporium. Flaxton, N. D., April 20—The wom- en of Lignite, a small town on the Great Northern road, a short distance southwest of Flaxton, have taken a strenuous hand in the suppression of blind pigging in their town. A dozen wives and mothers of the place armed themselves with hatch- ets, revolvers and gasiline, and after demolishing the contents of a blind swinery baptised it with gasoline and set it afire, burning it to the ground. They then notified the keepers of four other booze joint: to quit or a like fate would befall them. _—_— Fierce Storm in téwa. Des Moines, Iowa, April 20.—A ter- rific hail and wind storm struck Des Moine sand Ceéntral Iowa yesterday afternoon, doing heavy damage to budding fruit trees. The Polk county court house here was struck by light- ning and slightly damaged. —_——____. Drowns in Tivo Feet of Water. Watertown, S. D., April 20—Thrown from the buggy when her horse took fright at a passing train, Mrs. Ludwig Klatt, aged seventy-nine years, land- ed in a _ railroad ditch, containing less than two feet of water, and be- fore help could arrive drowned. Gir! Oratorical Contest Winner. ’ Barron, Wis., April 20.—Lillie Aune, representing the local high school, and Floyd Jorstad, Rice Lake high school, by the pulverizer in the field and in-] were winners in the Declamatory and stantly killed. Oratorical league contest held here, ‘reformatory at St. Paul, April 14—The house yes- terday passed a bill prohibiting large lumber companies from selling lum- ber cheaper at one place than at an- other for the purpose of stifling com- petition. The bill failed of passage in the house last week, was reconsid- ered and laiq on the table. Yester- day the author had it taken from the table and it passed by a vote of 62 to 44, The anti-cigarette bill was passed yesterday with the senate amend- ments, which makes the bill effective Aug. 1, if it is signed by the governor. The so-called “vag” bill passed yes- terday after being amended. The in- tent of the bill is to give the police power to arrest or send out of town known crooks before they commit any crime. It was amended so that it stated definitely that no one should be considered a crook unless he had been convicted of some crime. The house passed Senator Clague’s bill proposing a constitutional amend- ment so that the state may pay half instead of one-third of the cost of rroad and bridge improvements. The general reapportionment bill drawn by the house committee has been placed at the head of general or- ders, where it may be considered in a day or two. The house indefinitely postponed the legislative reference bureau Dill. A bill to provide for safety guards upon passenger elevators, and provid- ing a penalty for violation thereof, ‘was passed, Several bills of interest to the Twin Cities were passed at an evening ses- sion. In the Senate. The senate yesterday killed the res- olution by Senator Peterson, provid- ing for possible injunction proceed- ings by the attorney general against the proposed Armour plant. The res- olution instructing the attorney gener- al to look into the possible damage was killed, 50 to 12. The bill requiring the installation of safety devices for passenger eleva- tors was passed, notwithstanding the strenuous opposition of the members from the big cities. The vote wag 33 to 23. A bill authorizing the payment of $12,500 as fees to the attorneys for the state engaged in the railway rate legislation passed without opposition. Senator Elwell introduced a resolu- tion advising the tax commission to go slow in the matter of changing the assessment of property from 40 to 100 per cent of its real value, for tax- ation, and to institute the change in the valuation by inappreciable jerks. The senate referred the bill to the committee of the whole, and it was put on general orders for considera- tion. The university tax and appro- priation bills are being held up, pend- ing the settlement of the question. St. Paul, April 15.—After an hour or more of joking and amendments and an added half-hour of serious talk, the house in committee of the whole yesterday yoted for the reapportion- ment bill drafted by the house commit- tee. Amendments were added which make the total number of representa- tives 134. The bill provided 120, and the four which had been cut out of the southern counties were restored and one added to one of the St. Louis districts. Although the majority of the fifteen new members come from north of the Twin Cities, the northern members are far from being satisfied with the bill, A bill was passed yesterday which compels every hunter to Have a li- cense, except the man who shoots on his own farm. If the senate passes the bill no farmer can walk with a gun ten steps into his neighbor’s pas- ture without paying the license fee of $1. The bill to require saloons to ex- clude minors, intemperate drunkards, habitual drunkards, inmates of poor- houses and almshouses and persons under guardianship, passed the house almost unanimously. Nolan’s street car bill, over which so much fuss was made some weeks ago, was reported yesterday for indef- inite postponement. Several other pills relating to railroads and express companies shared a like fate. The house passed a bill proposing a constitutional amendment reducing the legislative sessions from ninety to sixty days. The bill which distributes the $300,- 000 a year appropriated for roads and bridges in a previous bill passed the house yesterday. In the Senate. The tonnage tax bill yesterday was made a special order in the senate for Friday at 3 o’clock, when the bill will come to a final vote. The placing of the bill on its final passage several days before it was expected that it would be reached was accomplished by some of the cleverest parliamen- tary practice seen this session. MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE REVIEW OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF THE STATE LEGISLATORS FOR THE WEEK. The senate passed a bill which com- pels all cream to be shipped in refrig- erator cars if it is to be carried more than thirty miles. The vote on the passage of the bill was 41 to 12. Senator Moonan yesterday gave no- tive that he would move a reconsid- eration fo the bill passed by the sen- ate Tuesday relating to the installa- tion of safety devices on passenger elevators. The senate passed without discus- sion the house bill creating a commis- sion to investigate the question of lia- bility of employers for injuries to workmen. The commission of three to be named by the governor is to re- port to the legislature at the first day of the next session, The senate yesterday killed Cooke’s hobbled horse bill by a vote of 28 to 14. The peddlers’ license bill was dis- cussed for some time in the senate yesterday, but was laid over for fur- ther consideration. St. Paul, April 16—The house yes- terday passed the reapportionment bill, which in its present form adds fifteen to the membership of the house. The bill had been discussed Wednesday, so that there was very little debate yesterday. Senator Clague’s bill for proceed- ings against persons guilty of neglect- ing their children, passed the house yesterday. The bill in effect extends the probationary system now in force in the three large counties to the rest of the state. The house got into a tangle yester- day over an attempt to resurrect the bill requiring corporations selling mining and oil stock to list their property with the secretary of state so as to protect investors from buy- ing worthless stocks. After two roll calls several other motions and about sixteen points of order, the bill was finally placed on the calendar. A bill authorizing the state board of control to put in machinery and furnish crushed rock from the waste at the reformatory at St. Cloud free to the state highway commission, was passed yesterday. Every bushel of grain passing through an elevator in Minnesota will pay a tax hereafter if the senate ap- proves a measure passed by the house yesterday. Under the bill, every bushel of grain handled during the year up to March 1 must be kept track of, and will pay a flat rate tax of one-fourth of a mill on each bush- el of wheat or flax, or one-eighth of a mill on other grains. In the Senate. There will be no extension of the manufacturing activities of the state prison. The senate yesterday adopt- ed the report of the majority of the state prison committee recommend- ing that the bill establishing a fac- tory for manure spreaders and mow- ers be killed. After a severe fight the senate yes- terday passed th bill licensing ped- dlers of the state. The senate yesterday again refused to take the hint of some of the more conscientious members of the body and declined to work at night. The last day for passing bills is next Wednesday, and there are two hun- dred or more bills to be acted ‘upon, in addition to those which have not yet come from the committees or from the house. Bills passed: Requiring casualty companies to report accidents to workmen for the employes’ compen- sation commission; authorizing com- bination of record books by county commissioners; relating to salaries of officers of courts; providing for the division of indebtedness of villages; legalizing floating indebtedness of villages in certain cases; establish- ing contingent fund for county attor- heys. St. Paul, April 17—The tonnage tax bill passed the senate yesterday after being under consideration five hours and a half. The vote was 38 to 24. The bill was not amended, de- spite the vigorous efforts of the op- position, who forced sixteen roll calls on various propositions before the bill was carried. It now goes to the governor for signature. In addition to amendment after amendment, with the same result on each proposition, the opponents of the bill signed a protest against its passage, which was read just before the third read- ing of the bill. The fight was a most determineg one. There was no yield- ing on either side. Despite the late- ness of the hour and many efforts to adjourn or postpone the special or- der, the thirty-eight favoring the bill sat through all the amendments and arguments and voted “no” on every attempt to kill the bill or any of its clauses. The bill levies a tax of 2 to 5 cents a ton on ore shipped from mines producing more than 20,000 tons annually. This is for state pur- poses only. will produce $600,000 a year to the state, or over $325,000 more than at present. In the House. Friends of the county and district agricultural schools gave up yester- day and submitted to the plan pro- posed by Senator Putnam, which proposes state aid to high, graded and rural consolidated schools, which established departments of agricul- ture, manual training and domestic science. The bill passed the house yesterday without any opposition. The bill appropriates $25,000 for each of the next two years to aid such schools. Not over ten schools may establish such departments and get state aid each year, and no school shall get over $2,500 a year. A bill cutting the appropriation re- cently made for the new state prison to $1,750,000 was introduced in the house yesterday. The bill was intro- duced by a majority of the special committee appointed to ascertain how the board of control proposed to expend the $2,250,000 appropriation. The majority report states that the plans and estimates for the new buildings are too elaborate and that some of the items are absolutely un- necessary.. The minority offered a report in which they deny that the sum appropriated is excessive. Both reports were laid over for a day. The house finally killed the bill to regulate the sale of mining stock yesterday. The bill had been killed, reconsidered, laid op the table, amended and worked over more than any other bill during the session. A bill was passed yesterday author- izing the governor, auditor and attor- ney general to investigate the scheme of canals from Sauk Center to Duluth and from Big Stone lake north to Réd Lake and Lake of the Woods, as proposed by R. J. Mershon of Chicago. That the difference in price be- tween velvet chaff wheat and north- ern grades is greater than the differ- ence of quality is the opinion of the special committee appointed in the house to investigate that question. They believe, however, that there is a difference in quality in favor of the northern grades. The house in committee of the whole took favorable action on two bills to restrain the white slave trade. A bill to give the Bazille heirs the right to test their title to the old capitol grounds in St. Paul was kill- ed by the house. St. Paul, April 19.—The first state law governing the issuance of licenses for automobiles and motorcycles pass- ed the senate Saturday. The bill forces all owners of motor vehicles to obtain a tag from the secretary of state at an annual cost of $1.50 each. Each automobile will receive a differ- ent numeral. The speed of the ma- chines shall be “reasonable and prop- er,” except in streets wheru the speed must not exceed twenty-five miles an hour. The bill takes effect May 15. The newly constituted office of su- perintendent of banks will get a new job in looking after loan sharks. The bill which compels chattel and salary loan brokers to.take out licenses from the superintendent of banks, passed the senate without opposition. The senate passed the house Dill making the open season for ducks and prairie chickens open Sept. 7 instead of Sept. 1. This makes the Minnesota season conform to that of North Da- kota. Rates on surety bonds are to be filed with the state insurance depart- ment for inspection to prevent dis- crimination, under a bill passed by the senate. The senate passed a bill permitting a reapportionment at any session, pro- viding the people adopt it as part of the constitution. In the House. The house Saturday passed the bill resubmitting to the voters the state hail insurance constitutional amend- ment, which was lost last fall. The bill allowing the state board of control to pay a daily wage of 25 cents to prisoners at Stillwater pass- ed the house. The money is to aid in caring for their families, if they have any, otherwise it may be paid to the prisoners when they are re- leased, according to the discretion of the board. The house passed the white slave bill without opposition. Senator Glotzbach’s bill prohibiting shooting from motor boats, sailboats and launches was killed by the house. M’MONNIES TO WED PUPIL. Daughter of Former California Sena- tor to Marry Divorced Sculptor. Los Angeles, Cal., April 20—Rela- tives of Miss Alice Jones, daughter of J. P. Jones, former United States sen- ator, who now lives in Santa Monica, Cal., were surprised yesterday by the reports from Paris that Miss Jones is to marry Frederick MacMonnies, the American sculptor, now in France, who was recently divorced from his wife. Miss Jones is a student of sculpture and for a year past has been a pupil For local purposes the | of MacMonnies in Paris. RRR Rees eee eee een PRISON WARDEN MURDERED. Convict in Charge of Carpenter Shop Slays Old Official. Edmonton, Alberta, April 17. — Richard Stedman, deputy warden of the Alberta penitentiary, was mur- dered yesterday morning by a con- vict while he had charge of the car- penter shop. He was warden at the Penetanguishene, Ont., for twenty-five years before coming here. Clears for Lower Lakes. Duluth, Apri] 17. — The steamer Northern Queen will leave Duluth to- day for the lower lakes, being the first vessel to clear for lower lake ports this year. Burton Declines Mission. Astoria, Or., April 17, — Former Senator C. W. Fulton telegraphed President Taft yesterday declining the appointment of minister to Chi- na. He says he wishes to resume the practice of law. Calhoun Trial Opens. San Francisco, April 17. — After three months used in completing a jury, the trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, yesterday reached the testimony tak- ing stage. ——_____. Fairbanks Sails for Orient. San Francisco, April 18. — Former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks accompanied by Mrs, Fairbanks, sail. ed for the Orient yesterday on the Japanese liner Chiyo Maru, present ad valorem taxes are to re- main. At a rough estimate the bill say