Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 19, 1910, Page 5

GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19 1910. (Continued from page Three.) clusive men’s organization, the pur- pose of which is a social one. At a@ recent meeting the following of- ficers were elected for the ensuing year: J. W. Eckelberry, president; Duran Barcley, vice-president; J. P. Cosgrove, secretary; treasurer. The present quarters of the club are temporary, to be occupi- ed ntil a lodge or bungalow can be erected. The annual meeting of the direct- ons and stockholders of the First State/ bank was held in the direct- ors’rooms. The following officers wer elected: W.C . Gilbert, president; G. E. O'Connor, vice-presidert; D. M. Vermilyea, cashier; board of directors J. C. Greenway, Coleraine; H. C. Dud ley, Marble; C. C. McCarthy, Grand Rapids; D. M. Gunn, Grand Rapids; G. E. O’Conner Coleraine; W. C. Gil- bert, Grand Rapids. The bank is in a prosperous condition. DEER RIVER Scarlet fever has suddenly become} alarmingly prevalent in the village | and has already claimed a victim | in the person of Cecil, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Martin. aged 7 years. Mrs. Martin returned last week with the children from a month visit at Hibbing and Princeton, and| on Monday both oldest children were | taken down with scarlet fever.| Last night the little girl succumed, | and the poy, Clement, aged about 9) years ; is very low. The loss is al painful one to the parents as only last summer they lost a child by| sickness while visiting at Hibbing. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Everton are down with the epide- mic, and; while in town from his} camp Frank Voigt was stricken, and he was placed in the pest house. | ‘There are other cases in town and the contagion spreads so rapidly that it is feared a general epidemic will soon cover the town. The doc-| tors and Health Officer Fairall are keeping strict quarantine on cases in hand and it may be that with the co-operation of the pecyle the spread of the terrible disease may be check- | ed. A thorough fumigation of the chool house!) was made today and} will be repeated every few days. | (This being a new building with the best sanitary ventilation, not much of danger lurks /there if the homes are watched carefully. While working at Jessie Lake camp for the Itasca Lumber Com- pany Henry Weideman was killed by a tree falling on him on Jan, 3. It was impossible to locate relatives of the man, and his remains were bur- ried here in Pine Ridge cemetery last Sunday. Fred Davis, who succeeds F. H. Higgins as lumber camp missioner ! in the Deer River district, arrived | yesterday to put in several ‘weeks preaching to the boys in the Itasca camps. , On January 3rd, at the Itasca com- prhyls} camp at Jessie lake Ole, Tullafson had a leg broken. He was taken to the Grand Rapids hospital and is reported improving rapidly. T. B. Winslow of Deer River came to the city this morning from Deer River. He has been appointed as agent in Bemidji for the Fitger Brew- ing company and will hereafter make | his home in this city. Mr. Winslow is well known to many local people, and he is every inch a good fellow. —Bemidji Pioneer. W. B.’ Taylor, of Litchlield, the at- torney who a month ago was a visito) here with a view of locating an office airived Friday to remain with us. Mr. Taylor has all appearances of a com- petent lawer amd the right sort of a felldw. There is a wide field here for the profession, and we trust Mr. Taylor's venture will be a success. Following is the list of orations that will be given by the pupils of the high school ifn the assembly hall the coming week: Hazel Robinson, “What a Title Will Do In Amreica” Archer Martin, “Robert Burns.” Dor: Seamans, “Polygamy,” Michel Guttry “First Continental Congress” M. Gutt Knowlton, ‘Men Made Rich by the Poverty of Christ.” POPP POOST POPS OOOO OOO Orrriras KEEWATIN f POSSE SOOO OO Oertectente Preparations are being made for the reopening of the St. Paul mine, which has been idle since November, 1908 twenty thousand ties have been ordered of Deloo & Nystrand for min- ing timber for the shaft and it is be- lieved that the property will be open for shipment in the near future. The reopening of the St. Paul mine will mean a great deal to Keewatin resulting in a boom for the town and enlivening mining operations in this vicinity. E. S. Remer, formerly superintendent of the mine, will re- move to Hibbing and engage in busi- ness for himself. A successor to Mr. Remer has not [been named, but it is believed that either Jack O’- Brien or E. L. Cochran |will be the new superintendent. W. E. Morris, |’ | and that this stock is now held by the |Great Northern Railroad company; The new village hall of Keewatin, erected at a cost of about $25,000, will be completed and dedicated {by February 12. Preparations are now being made for the exercises. Judge Stanton will deliver the dedicatory addreis. PROBING 6. W. EXPRESS COMPANY SENATOR SUNDERBERG SAYS GREAT NORTHERN CARRIER’S RATES EXORBITANT. JAS, J, HILL FAILS TO APPEAR The Transportation Concern Controll- ed by Hill Under Fire.—Iinter- state Commerce . Commission Gathers Evidence. Minneapolis, Jan. 18. — That the Great Northern Railroad Company, through the Lake Superior Company, Limited, is the sole owner of the Great Northern Express Company; that the company began with a capital | of $100,000 furnished by the railroad | company and has been paying 40 per cent of its net proceeds to the railroad for the privilege of doing business over its line under a 25-year contract, and that last year it only paid $500,- }000 in dividends, but laid by $129,- 000 as surplus were among the facts | brought out at the hearing before Examiner Frank Lyons of the inter- | state commerce commission at the Federal building on the complaint of | Senator B. F. Sunderberg, of Ken- | medy, Kittson county, who alleges that | the Great Northern Express Company charges exhorbitant rates and is over- capitalized. Jamse Manahan- appeared for the complainant. J. D. Armstrong, of St. Paul, was counsel for the defendant eompany. Although both James J. and Louis W Hill had been sub- poenaed to appear, the former is in | Washington and the latter in Mon- jtana. Louis Hill is expected to take the stand tomorrow morning, how- ever. D. S. Elliott, general manager of the express company; Edward Sawyer, a director, and W. W. Broughton, also a director, were witnesses. The line of questioning pursued by Manahan brought out the fact that the Great Northern Express company had & capital of $100,000; that stock to the amount of $1,000,000 had been issued Lake Superior Company, Limited, for the benefit of the stockholders of the hat the express company paid $500,000 in dividends on last year’s business, as well as providing $129,000 for a surplus fund and 40 per cent of the earnings, exclusive of the $629,000, bad been paid directly to the Great Northern Railroad company for the privilege of doing business over its lines. Surplus to Retire Stock. Efforts to learn something of the personnel of the Lake Superior com- pany, limited, were fruitless. This was because the general manager of the express company and Director Sawyer said they knew nothing about It, nor had they made any inquiries. It also developed that the express company had loaned to the railroad company the sum of $843,896.27, with: out interest. The fact that the money was loaned without interest caused some stir until later testimony showed that the express company was owned by the railroad company. Then Com- missioner Lyon said he could under- stand such procedure. The testimony showed that the ex- press company was organized in 1892 under a contract with the Great Nor- thern Railroad company, such contract to run 25 years. In this connection, General Mana- ger Elliott was asked why his com- pany was accumulating such a large surplus. “Why, we're accumulating it to re- tire the stock,” he said. “You see when our contract expires, we’re out of business and we must in the mean- time take care of the stock.” Attorney Manahan: “Then in 26 years you want the business of the company to pay for all this stoek, is that it?” The witness was silent. Rates High, Attorney Says, “If this company can make $500,000 for itself, pay 40 per cent of its gross earnings to the railroad company and accumulate a fund of $1,000,000 in stock, it seems to me to be pretty good evidence that the rates of the company are pretty high,” remarked Attorney Manahan. Senator Sund- berg nodded his head. Attempts by Attorney Manahan to {Inquire into the money-order business of the express company were blocked by Examiner Lyon on the ground that that had nothing to do with the subject of rates for the carrying of merchandise. Though a director of the company, Mx. Sawyer declared himself in prac- tically total ignorance of the affairs of the company. The $100,060 worth of original stock, it was explained by him, had been issued to himself and four other di- rectors and they had merely signed it in blank and returned it to the Great Northern Railroad, company. WANT TEST FARMS MODEL TRACTS OF TEN ACRES EACH TO BE PROVIDED FOR ’ EXPERIMENTS. (O IMPROVE MINN. AGRICULTURE Farmers Wiil Assemble To . Study Crops ‘and District Problems;— Commercial Club Delegates Would Aid State Growth. Minneapolis. — Demonstration farm tracts, ten in number, established in as many sections of the state and operated under instructions of agricul- tural college experts, spreading the most advanced ideas of farming, are the novel innovation. which will follow the sessions of the third annual meet- ing of the Minnesota Federation of Commercial Clubs. These model farms, ten acres each in extent, are to be furnished by the various commercial clubs, acting in conjunction with the farmers. The crops are to be sown under the direc- tion of the farm school experts, with farmers from the entire section in at- tendance. Meetings are to be held in towns, following the actual work in the field, at which the farmers will be privileged to ask any questions which present themselves. Similar gatherings will attend each new step as the harvest progresses, the crop, at the end of the season, to belong to the farmer owning the land. “We don’t know just what grains will be experimented with first,” said Secretary Mosher. “Where we find a section backward in the production of certain crops, these will be given spe- cial attention.” A committee was appointed to look after the details of the scheme and to consult wth the state farm school au- thorities, as follows: A. G. Nortz, Breckenridge; E. H. Heins, Renville; John Stone Pardee, Duluth, and Allan Ferbush, Osakis. The meeting was called to order by President D. M. Neill, of Red Wing, who also responded to the address of welcome by Mayor Haynes. Frank J. Meyst, of Minneapolis, also spoke. About 100 attended. Development of the state’s water- power, proper rotation of crops, con- servation of the coal supply and the more extensive use of peat for fuel purposes, better roads, industrial train- ing in schools, better public sanita- tion, the planting of trees on barren land and a closer relationship between the various classes of people of the state—all were advocated by Governor Eberhart in his address on “Conser- vation” in the Commercial club rooms. Minneapolis—Something of a stiff fight marked the closing session of the third annual convention of the Minnesota Federation of Commercial Clubs, when the report of the commit- tee on the demonstration farms to be established by the state university was read. It recommended that the state agri- cultural college establish such farms at Breckenridge, Renville, Pipestone, Osakis, Delano, Bemidji, Wadena, East Grand Forks, Detroit, Rothsay, Will- mar and Stewartville. Fergus Falls, St. Cloud, Alexandria, Watertown, Red Wing, Hibbing and Brook Park were included in as acces- sory list to be considered by the uni- versity. Delegates fror: St. Cloud and Brainerd immediately protested paninet cutting their cities from the ist. By the report of the nominating committee, President D. M. Neill, of Red Wing, was re-elected for his third term. Other officers were chosen as follows: F, E. Wade, of Fairmont, first vice president; Andrew Davis, of Elk River, second vice president; W. L. Brooks, of Bemidji, third vice presi- dent, and Frank J. Meyst, of Minne apolis, treasurer. The executive committee members chosen were Dr. Burns, of Stewart- ville, for the first district;, F. B. Nek son, of Luyerne, for the second dis- trict; W. W. Sivright, of Hutchinson, for the third district; J. W. Mitchell, of St. Paul, for the fourth district; Wallace G. Nye, of Minneanpolis, for the fifth district; R. R. Wise, of Brain- erd, for the sixth district; F. W. Mur- phy, of Wheaton, for the seventh die- trict; H. V. Eva, of Duluth, for the eighth district, and Thomas R. Browne, of Crookston, for the ninth, The report of the resolutions com- mittee embodied a protest against ex- aggerated press reports of storms in Minnesota; a recommendation that the state investment board invest the state funds in municipal and country drain- age bonds, instead of bonds of other states; and a vote of thanks to the Commercial club, mayor and city of Minneapolis for their héarty welcome, and another to the Twin City press for its assistance in giving publicity. Resolutions deploring the deaths of the late Governor Johnson, and of the late Professor Williamson Robertson, of the Crookston school of agriculture, were also adopted. COSTS $10,900 TO LOSE. Minneapolis Six-Fer Case Legal Ex- penses Were High. Minneapolis. — It cost the city of Minneapolis more than $10,000 in spe- cial attorneys’ fees to carry the “six- fer” case to the United States supreme court. The city council claims com- mittee has approved the bill of Lan- caster & McGee, special attorneys in the case, for $7,200, balance on ac- count. About two years ago, the firm was paid $3,700, iuand a total of $10,200." ss Now in Full Swing ANNUAL Clearance | Sale OF Ladies’ and Childrens Suits, Coats, Dresses, Waists, Furs Inducements are Proving Irresistable You are invited to call and look them over The Pioneer Store John Beckfe It Grand Rapids GAVE DAD A GOOD THRASHING YOUNG MAN INCENSED ON LEARN- ING OF PARENT'S INFATUATION. Dad Takes His Medicine, but Elopes Just the Same—Youth Now Goes to Join Him. Chicago, Jan. 18.—Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr., 21-year-old son of Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak park architect who fled to Germany two months ago with Mrs. S. H. Chenel, wife of a wealthy business man, leaving his wife and five children, has sailed from New York to join his father in Europe. A few days ago Mrs. Wright re- ceived a cable from her husband beg- ging her to send their eldest son to | Florence. At the same time the fam- fly received a letter in which Wright | asked forgiveness and declares his re- pentence. He sent no word regarding Mrs. Cheney. On the night before his departure for Europe Wright is said to have taken his wife for an auto mobile ride and to have discussed with her his intended flight. The son learning of Wright’s plans, is said to have attacked him and severely beat- en him, the father making no resis- tance, STATEHOOD BILL PASSED. House Favors Admitting Arizona and New Mexico. Washington, Jan. 18.—For the third time the house of representatives passed a bill giving separate-state- heod to the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. The absence of opposi- tion to the measure was the most striking feature of the debate. The bill provides the limitations that are to prevati in the power of the states to legislate, restricting the sa of Mquor among the Indians and pro- viding methods for state organization. Friends of the measure declare they have encouraging assurances of its passage by the senate. Notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the advocates for immediate state- hood for New Mexico and Arizona it is the understanding that Senators Beveridge of Indiana and Nelson of Minnesota will take the task in hand of carrying out the policy of Presi- dent Taft’s administration on the statehood question as far as the sen- ate is concerned. As a result of frequent interviews between President Taft and these sen- ators it is stated that no plan can be adopted by congress at this session which does not contemplate a prelim- inary step which shall have the fact disclosed in advance as to the kind of constitution the proposed new states are to have. This result is to be provided for in advance by provisions to call for a convertion to vrevare constitutions for HOUSE WIRING AND FIXTURE HANGING A SPECIALTY ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY W.N. DELCOUR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR GRAND RAPIDS MINNESOTA : HARDWARE DEPARTMERT Lp, 0. Box 64) Henry Hughes & Co. ) SoateeSontetoeteegeets % INSURANCE and BONDS REAL ESTATE and LOANS WINSOR & DESHAW Have bargains in Real Estate. Six Houses in Grand Rapids ranging in price from $800 to $4,000. Centrally located. Also 16 lots in that part of town where you would like to live. Do you want a farm? We have them for sale. Grand Rapids, Minn. NOTARY PUBLIC Office over First National Bank, GEO. 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