Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 10, 1909, Page 10

BY GEOGRAPHERS FIRST VICTORY FOR SECOND MAN TO REACH TOP OF THE WORLD. APPEARS BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE | Explorer Invited to Deliver First Leo lure Before National Society— Incicated That Commander Will Be Upheid as a Pole Discoverer, Washington, Nov. 3—Commander Robert E. Peary practically is in- doreed as @ discoverer of the North pole by the National Geographical so- riety Every indication points te the fact that Peary’s personal statements be- fore the sub-committee of the society convinced its members that he had set foot on the top ef the world. The explorer has been invited to deliver the firet public lectures before society bere on Nov. 12 and it is pointed out that bad the proofs been open to the slightest question he never would have been asked to appear. It wae announced at the home or Rear Admiral C. H. Chester, retired, that a public statement of the findings | ef the society would probably be forth- coming soon. This rapidity in deter- mining the genuinness of Peary’s claim that be reached the pole on April 6 laet te taken to mean that there is bo difference of opinion among the ex- m who are delving into his Arctic Gata and that they are convineed of bie honesty On their request Commander Peary forwarded all his data to the commit tee a few daye ago. The organization promptly turned the papers over to the board of managers, which, in turn, named subcommittee of investiga tion To thie sub-committee was ap- pointed Rear Admiral C. H. Chester, O. Hi. Tittmann of the coast and geodetic and Henry Gannett, chairman United States geographical survey ef the board Alaskans to Climb Peak. Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 3.—A party of five Alaskans, all familiar with Mount McKinley, has been organized te climb the peak thie winter, and put and end to the controversy as to whether Dr. Cook reached the summit. The party will start Nov. 16. The ex- pedition te being financed here. SEMINARY 18 80 YEARS OLD. McCormick Theological Institution Is Celebrating Its Founding. Chicag Nov &8—The McCormick The al eeminary of the Presbyte- risr b ls 80 years old today, and in a‘ing the anniversary in fit ting r Eminent theological ed divines from various parts oupntry are here to take part ir ceremonies. The celebra tic ” mally begun last night whe « bistorical address was de Hvered by President W. W. Moore, of Union seminary, Richmond, Va At te ock this morning Rev. S. , ls. of St. Louis, president of the be 4 of directors, presided over @ oc ence on the seminary outlook, at which papers were read by Rev. Aug 1s H. Strong, Rochester, N. Y.; Prof RoW. Rogers, Madison, N. J. am Prof Williston Walker, New Haven, Conn. In the afternoon there was a con- ference or ministerial leaderehip, with papers by three of McCormick siumni pastors Rev. J. Ross Steven- eon, D D. New York; Rev. Newell Dwig Hil D. D, Brooklyn, and K Edw Yates Hill, D. D., Phila- deiphte owing which a reception was tendered to invited guests, alum- Yr nd students. This evening, with Rev. J. M. Bark- ley, D. D, moderator of the general assembly, presiding, the closing ad- dress will be delivered by President Wiison, Princeton, N. J. Woodrow McClung Takes Office. Washington, Nov. 3—Two new tree sury officials were sworn into office lee McClung took oath as United Rlates treasurer, and A. Piatt Andrew as director of the mint. monies took place in the office of Seo retary MacVeagh, in the presence of a number of officials of the depart- ment Rai! Coal Cases Postponed. The cere | j } u the United States commissioner at | Walker. |. Little Falls.—Little Falls is soon to ‘have a theatre, a building which has Deen needed since the removal and conversion into a store of the old State high school, is arranging to hold & short course for farmers and their sons, on January 3-10. A course in fomestic science will be conducted by Miss Webber, instructor in the city schools. Professor Grout, of the state school, and Professor Bull, of the Towa state school at Ames, will also take part. Walker—For the first time in the history of Walker the annual payment to the Leech Lake Indians was unac- companied by scenes of drunkenness and disorder in the village of Walker. As a result of the recent crusade to close saloons in the Indian country, the village counci] canceled five li- senses in Walker, passed an ordinance raising the license to $1,500 and grant- ed only two licenses in the village, one for the Chase hote] and one for the College inn. Winona.—Friday afternoon marked the formal close of the lumber indus try in Winona. At that time the Em pire Lumber Company, which began sawing in 1887, shut down its mil) permanently, being the last of the saw mills here to cease operations. The frst to close was the mill of You mans Brothers & Hodgins, in 1899, then came the Laird-Norton Com. pany’s mil] in 1905, that of the Wi- gona Lumber Company in 1907, and bow the fourth and last mill, that of the Empire Lumber Company. Wi- tons has bad saw milis of some kind for more than fifty years. The days of the heaviest cutting were in the eighties and early nineties. St. Paul—The national waterways commission, which will assemble in Bt. Pau) next week for a trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans, will probably sail Saturday morning, No vember 6, on the government boat David Tipton, and it is expected that New Orleans will be reached about November 18. One or more sessions of the commission wil] be held here before making the start down the river, and among other matters the St. Paul harbor commission will be given a hearing. The commission is charged with bootlegging, and took him before _ | composed of twelve members of con-_ | gress, six senators and the same num- | ber of representatives. It Is expected that nearly ali the members will be present when the start is made. St. Paul—Ralph W. Wheelock, of Minneapolis, stepped into the shoes of Frank A. Day, Menday, and assumes the duties of an office that has come to be recognized as one of the most ‘Important political offices of the state —that of private secretary to the gov- ernor. The retirement of Mr. Day and the induction into office of Mr. Whee lock represents the final step in the turning over of the political reins to the Republican administration. Mr. Wheelock, already thoroughly famil- lar with the various phases of state government, has been acquainting himself with the immediate duties of ithe private secretary during the last few weeks, and assumed the post of confidential man to Gov. Eberhart without any formal or ostentatious ceremony. Callaway.—A U. S. deputy marshal drove into Callaway with three In- dian potice and searched the town for liquor. After were informed by anti-saloon men | that whiskey was stored in A. Emer- | son’ rpenter shop. They raided the place, and seized $1,500 worth of | hide the truth as they see it; for they searching the livery | barn belonging to Felix Bisson, they — whisky and brandy and destroyed it. jal. The raiders also searched the | Quinlan and Anderson residences, Chicago, Nov. 8—Albert B. Cum- mins, United States senator from Towa, as chief speaker Saturday night at the banquet’of the Marquette club, made his answer to Speaker Cannon’s recent attacks on him and the other “insurgents.” Senator Cummins’ ad- dress was lively from start to finish, and a vigorous defense of those sena- tors who refused to vote for the Al- drich tariff measure. In part the Towa statesman said: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen: In view of some things that have hap- pened since I accepted your invitation, you will not look upon it as either strange or inappropriate, I am sure, if 1 am a little more personal than is my habit. This is a Republican club, and it has borne a high &nd honorable part in giving expression to our faith and in giving strength to our organi- zation. It is therefore peculiarly well fitted to eonsider an interesting con- troversy that has recently arisen with- in the party ranks. For that reason, and because I am deeply anxious to preserve the party strength, I have chosen this occasion to speak of the dispute in hope that a better under- standing may follow a fair and candid discussion of our differences of opin- ion. Attacked by Iilinoisan. A month ago a distinguished son of Dlinois came to lowa, obviously angry and therefore, in one of his hysterical moods. He made a speech ostensibly in defense of the rules of the house of representatives, but which was in fact, an assault upon those who had opposed the Republican majority in congress upon the tariff measure. Not content with burning us at the stake, he scattered our ashes to the four winds in order to make sure that we would be lost to the Republican party forever and ever. He exalted me to & preeminence among these insur- gents which I do not deserve, but which I would be proud to occupy, and declared, with a vehemence which you who know him will appreciate, that I had become an ally of a certain elo quent gentleman whose quadrennial business has been to carry the Demo cratic banner to overwhelming defeat. Warming to his work, be made an- other speech a few days ago at Elgin, in which he repeated tn all the colors of his rainbow phraseology the de- nunciation of those who committed the horrid crime of voting against the tariff bill, and again consigned them to the lowest depths of Democratic perdition; and then to completely sat- isfy his lust for blood, he assigned to Senator La Follette and myself a su- perheated chamber in this region of the damned. With all these impreca- tions, expulsions and exterminations still ringing in my ears, I fee) like a member of the fated brigade of which the poet sang: Cannon to the right of them Cannon to the left of them Volleyed and thundered. Cannon’s Charge Futile. It will not avail Mr. Cannon and bis associates anything to declare that we have joined hands with the Demo cratic party, for every intelligent man knows that this is simply an appeal to a blind passion and a senseless Prejudice. The insurgents believe that the Republican party js the best instrumentality to secure and maintain good government. They are proud of its history; they love its traditions; and I venture the prediction that in the campaign of next year their voices will be heard high above all others defending its doctrines and sustain- ing its candidates. Their struggie will be within the lines, but they will not know that if the Republican party is to be permanently successful, it must be faithful to its platforms, and must | meet courageously and justly the new age of commerce and business with its new problems and questions. It cannot any longer be progressive in its platform and stand-pat in its con- gress. A few months ago I said that 1 was willing to accept an arbiter as to the | Republicanism of those who voted against the tariff bill, and I hasten to a train for band and County Upon an investigation it was found | to hold fifty-two bottles of whisky. The officiais were dumfounded at the nature of the disclosures and will move for an early investigation of | the situation at Park Rapids and other” towns. Cass Lake has set out to obey the | orders of the authorities. Tuesday | was the day fixed for the closing of | the saloons, and all of them, except | the two which have a special license | and permit from the government men, | promptly removed their ee | liquors. Two of the places will be continued as pool halls. Two have been closed. Not a drop of intoxicants ls being sold at any of the five places ordered closed. There was no sign of any trouble or excitement. The only federal officer here was Deputy Marshal Larson, who came from Bemidji to watch proceedings. ONE LICENSE REVOKED. Liquor Dealer at Bemidji Shown to Have Sold to Indians. Bemidji—Without a single dissent- | Ing voice, the city council voted to revoke the license granted T. Dugas, the revocation being made at | the request of H. A. Larson, special agent of the Indian department, who charged Dugas and F. Gagnon, from | whom Dugas leased his building, with selling liquor to Indians. The special agent produced affiday- its from three special agents who stat- ed positively that Mr. Dugas and Mr. | Gagnon had sold intoxicatting liquor to Red Lake Indians. TAWNEY VISITS THE CANAL. With Congressional Committee On Appropriation. Winona. — Congressman James A. Tawney has left for Washington, where he will spend a few days before sailing next Tuesday with the other members of the appropriations com- mittee of the lower house to the Pana-— ma canal zone to secure information | concerning the appropriations to be | made by congress for the carrying on | of canal work. The congressman is in receipt of | the estimates submitted by the secre- tary of war through the treasury de | partment for canal appropriations for | the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1910. | The estimated appropriations for the | next fiscal year for canal expenditures | Rggregate $48,063,524. This amount is $15,000,000 in excess of the appropria- tions for the current fiscal year, and | Is the largest estimate submitted for any fiscal year since the work of cana) | construction was begun. The principal item making up this | Increase is the estimate for the pur- chase and delivery of material, sup plies and equipment and such other | expenses not in the United States as | the commission deems necessary to_ promote the construction of the Isth- | main canal, for the departments of | construction, engineering, quartermas- | ters’ subsistence, disbursements and | examination of accounts. HURT AS ENGINE HITS AUTO. Four Men Hurled From Machine Near Bemidji; Three Are Injured. Bemidji.—While Mayor J. G. Po-| gue of Bemidji, G. Meyer, of St.) Paul, T. R. Symons of Pemidji, local | manager for Minneapolis Brewing company, and a gentleman whose | name cannot be learned, were crossing the raflroad track at Wilton, the auto- | mobile in which the party was riding | was struck by an engine of a freight | train and the entire party hurled into | the air. | The auto was demolished and } Pogue and Symons were lodged on the pilot of the engine, otherwise they would bave been thrown under the wheels and ground to pieces. | PROFESSOR JOHN MACNIE DEAD. He Had Been Head of Modern Lan- | per cent gold bonds. | given to the Standard Trust company, | pages. | The council | secured Jess than $15. aged 72 years. He was one of ablest attorneys of the bar and he many officia] positions. Stillwater—The Stillwater fixed the tax levy at 9.76 mills purposes the coming year. The is the same as last year, but will be raised because the valuatfon has been increased. Cass Lake.—Indian Agent Larson invaded Bena on the Leech Lake reservation and challenged 0. Quinn, a saloonkeeper, for selling liquor to Indians. He ‘emptied all liquor found on the premises. Minneapolis.—C. T. Dazey, the au- bs | thor of “In Old Kentucky,” is said to | have surpassed all his previous efforts | with his new play, “My Partner's Girl,” which will be presented at the Bijou the week of November 2ist. Ortonville—Dr. MacMurphy, cendi- date of the license men, was elected mayor of 28 votes. License won over no license by 51 votes. The aldermen at large are Earl Stephens, Robert Hunter and Charles H. Skog. Albert Lea—Professor Theo. Sex- auer, instructor in the Albert Lea state high school, is arranging to hold a short course for farmers and their sons, on January 3-10. A course in | domestic science will be conducted by Miss Webber, instructor in the city schools. Professor Grout, of the state school, and Professor Bull, of the lowa state school at Ames, will also take part. Winona—tThe Chicago, Great West- ern Railway Company has filed for | tecord with the register of deeds for | tais county a first mortgage securing & loan of $75,000,000 in fifty years, 4 The mortgage is of New York, as trustee. In pamphlet torm the document contains eight-nine It is the largest mortgage ever recorded in Winona county. East Grand Forks.—John O'Leary was elected mayor here over Neil Kelleher, head of the citizen's ticket, by a majority of 145, after one of the | most fiercely contested campaigns in the history of the city. O'Leary had the support of the saloonmen and those in favor of a wideopen town, while Kelleher was backed by the present administration. The alder- men elected were also of the O'Leary taction. Stillwater—The democrats won & sweeping victory in the city election here. Frank S. Register was elected tity treasurer over Ben C. Boo. C. C. Jack won the special judgeship of the municipal court over M. E. Sulivan. | re- | The councilmen ele- | is democratic, six; publican, three. sed were: C. E. Glazer, P. H. Ryan, Byron J. Mosier and O. B. Johnson. The board of school directors remains the same. Kenyon.—Burglars visited this city and entered four business houses, but First the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot was entered. The robbers entered the building throw a window and broke the glass in the door to gain admit- tance to the office. No money was secured. Next the robbers visited the Kenyon Lumber Company's office, where they got only 60 cents. The M. L. Foss saloon was broken into next and $14 in cash taken. The last raid was made on the John L. Foss saloon. Only 11 cents was taken here. There is no clue to the thieves. Mankato.—Judge J. H. Quinn, of Fairmont, has filed a decision in the | district court of this county, uphold- Ing the right of the county board to construct a permanent dam at the out- let of Jackson lake, raising the lake eighteen inches. County Surveyor Brooks will now proceed to prepare plans for a concrete dam. This is the outcome of injunction proceedings brought by some property owners around the lake, who feared their meadows might be overflowed. The evidence showed this would not be the case. The height of the lake has been a bone of contention for years. St. Paul—Ralph W. Wheelock, of Minneapolis, stepped into the shoes of | Frank A. Day, Monday, and assumes the duties of an office that has come i| we are | Sleep, and the result is—sleep. One of the great preventatives of sleep is | the fear of not sleeping. Once this | fear is broken down, we sleep. The | Msomniac worries about his insomnia, | and this very worry deepens the mim | chief. Hence the sufferer should sug | gest to himself again and again: “Tf I sleep, well; # I don’t sleep I will at | least gain rest by keeping my mind ;ealm and my body relaxed.” In a , Word, our chances of getting sleep in- |erease if we assume the external | Physical attitude which corresponds jto sleep, if we relax every muscle and let it stay relaxed, if we breathe light- ly and regularly, if we call up the imaginations of a sleeping person, and talk and think ‘sleep to ourselves, re- peating silently and in a quiet dreamy {fashion such a formula as thist |“There is no reason why I should not sleep. My mind is at peace. Sleep is |Soming. I am getting sleepy. I am | about to sleep. I am asleep.” GOT A LITTLE SATISFACTION Editor, Unable to Collect Bill for P= per, Could Afford to Affront the Widow. To the editor of a little Maine Newspaper there came the other day an indignant elderly woman, who | waved a bit of paper in the editorial face. | “Lookee here!” she said. “What does this mean—a bill for the Citizen to my husband that’s been dead two years? Ye don’t expect his widow to | Pay debts o his contracted long after | he’s dead?” | “You say he has not been getting | the paper?” said the editor, after long thought. | “No, ye donderhead!” screamed the | Woman, “I tell ye he’s been dead two | years!” | “Strange,” mused the editor. “The | postoffice department has not noti- | fled me of his failure to receive them. ' Quite sure you yourself haven't been enjoying the estimable educational | Values of a perusal of my sheet?” “That ain’t the point,” argued the widow. “You've been sending the noospaper and a bill to a man that’s dead. It’s your affair, not mine. “Well,” said the editor finally, per | ceiving that he must be a loser, “im future, madam, I will cause an extra copy to be printed on asbestos to in- | sure that your husband receives his Citizen regularly.” SUBTERFUGE NOT A SUCCESS Crosby Doesn't Know Whether Wife Detected Triok or Really Was in Unselfish Mood. Crosby had always been inclined to conservatism in household expenses, especially in the matter of his wife's dress bills, relates a writer in the Sunday Magazine. His wife went so far as to say that he was penurious. She had been in need of a new boa for a long time, and after she hinted that her happiness would never be quite complete till she had one, he at last consented to make the purchase. He went into a store and picked out two, one of which was a cheap imita- tion affair, and the other a fine ex- | pensive one. Taking them to his office before go- ing home, he changed the price marks, the expensive tag on the cheap boa and vice versa. ‘i His wife examined them for a long time very seriously indeed, and then said, “Now, dear, the expensive boa is a beauty, and it is really very good of you to allow me my choice. Some women would take it without a word; but really I don’t think we can af- ford the more costly one, and be sides, dear, I think the cheap one the more stylish too. Why, Cros, dear, what's the matter? Are you ill?” But dear old Cros had made his getaway into the night where he could kick himself as hard as he felt he de served. But what he would like to | to be recognized as one of the most | important political offices of the state know, 1s this: Did his wife happen | —that of private secretary to the gov-| on the more expensive boa by pure _ernor. The retirement of Mr. Day and gecident, or— | the induction into office of Mr. Whee Stee | lock represents the final step in the | They are dealing with a psychologi- | turning over of the political reins to cal problem in London that is not on | the Republican administration. Mr.' the cards. The “problem” is nothing Washington, Nov. 3—The supreme | these men having been in the saloon | and tested by the criterion of that in- guages in University of N. D. eourt advanced for argument om Feb- pusiness here. The United States _ rubary 21, the eases of the Nortber@ | marshal arrested Fred Anderson and Pacific, the Great Northern and the J 5. Quinlan and took them to De. > Wheelock, already thoroughly famil-| less than a little bab: chp rer the Republican voters of the | \4ar with the various phases of state’ Wickham workhouse, a plas t nited States will determine just as | Minneapolis, Minn.—Professor John | government, has been acquainting child only two years and four months rapidly as they have the opportunity | yggenie, for 20 years head of the de-| himself with the immediate duties of old, who no sooner has to make Soo railroads against the state of | troit before United States court com- ‘© 40 s0, whether our votes were in | partment of modern languages at the | the private secretary during the last | any serious remark than he rolls forth North Dakota. These cases involve | missioner Schroeder, who bound them *°CoTdance with fts declarations and few weeks, and assumed the post of such a string of unmitigated billings- the validity of the North Dakota law | over to federal court at Fergus Falls. Pledges. confidential man to Gov. Eberhart gate that he petrifies all who fixing rates for transportation of coal They are charged with taking a gal without any formal or ostentatious him. He is described as a beautiful im that state Jon of whisky on the reservation. | ceremony. | child with dark, soulful eyes soft fair Duluth —Eéward Erickson, proprie | 4!T, chubby limbs and the face of an tor of a saloon, died from the | 28¢l. At ordinary times hs is the Proposition Is Absurd. | pr. John S. Macnie. He was 74 years I understand perfectly that it would | old. | have been helpful to party harmony | if we could have voted together: but |CAS8 LAKE SALOON CLOSED UP. The M. & |. Railway Changes. Brainerd, Nov. 3—Owing to the j best of boys, but d . 4 / jects of a blow received in it 4 joes anything upset pesignation of WH. Strachan, su- Liquor Confiscated by United enn | Pix Bed two weeks ago. Sot his equanimity he brings into play perintendent of the Minnesota & In- Indian Agents. struck on the head with a cuspidor such a volume of foul } that ternational railroad, that office has sintenhines and Edward Fling, who was arrested | ¢ quite contaminates the infant ward. been abolished and a bulletin issued Cass Lake—H. A. Larson, H. J./ 95, the assault, and was released on| Where the baby learned to curse and ordering all employees who reported C. C. Brannon, deputy | 4,5) has been rearrested. swear is the question. It has been so to bim to report to the general man- special pesiis Sitios aaonte:| far a mystery, as his antecedents are ager. The office of tratpmaster has entered saloon of Archie Sid-} _ Springfield, Illinois.—The Pillsbury | unknown, and his age so tender his been created, and George H. Warner, | Flour Mills Company of Minneap b don, with drawn revolvers, ordering comprehension of the forms of lan chief dispateber, bas been promoted all those eut except the pro-| olis, with @ capital stock of $2,000;) guage might well be of the slightest, to that position. Mr, Strachan bas prietor, and the doors, Sid-| 000 was licensed by the secretary o1/ but such does not appear to be the. been superintendent seven yeara, and don bad been contrary to| state to incorporate tm Illinois. The! case. This little workhouse baby evi now goes to Duluth as assistant super the wishes B Jobnson,| location is Chicago and the capita) gently knows what he is talking about. fmtendent of the Nortberp Pacife who ordered 27. ‘stock im this state te $60,000. | - = . ice aera ee