Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 9, 1910, Page 10

a Cs STRIKE NOT YET SETTLED, PRESIDENT HAWLEY DECLARES EMPLOYERS MUST YIELD TO END CONTEST. ROADS WANT HIM ELIMINATED Companies Refuse To Recede From Their Previdus Position—Strikers’ Chief Spurns Offer and Issues Counter Edict. St. Paul, Dec. 28.—Railroad officials and American Federation chiefs as- sembled in Governor Eberhart’s office in St. Paul shortly in a final effort tc bring a truce out of the chaotic con- ditions resulting from the former con. ferences anent the settlement of the strike of switchmen, now on the eve of its fourth week. The prospects for peace were @& trifle clouded following a meeting ot American Federation leaders in the Hotel Foley. “Governor Eberhart is too optimis- tic when he says this affair will be settled easily,” said President Hawley of the switchmen. “What do you mean by that?” he was asked. “I mean that the railroads are de- manding concessions and conditions to which the switchmen positively will not agree,” he replied. “The roads are demanding all and giving noth- ing.” “Then you do not feel that a set- tlement is imminent?” “T do not,” he answered calmly, but with firmness. “What are the conditions to which the switchmen object?” was the next question. Reinstatement May Halt Parley. “I cannot divulge this. It’s a mat- ter of the conference. The situation, however, hangs on the settlement of the point of the unconditional rein- statement of the men and on one or two other points.” The feeling in St. Paul today is that anless the railroad men give in to the switchmer on the reinstatement ab- Btacle the efforts of Governor Eber- hart will have been in vain and all sorts of conjectures and rumors of general strikes are in the air. Friction between President Hawley ef the Switchmen ‘and the heads of | the other organizations in the railway department of the American Federa- tion is chronicled !m one of these hazy rumors. It was stated that President Perham of the railway department fa- vored greater concessions than Presi- flent Hawley would consent to. “If the federation council should ac- cept all the conditions demanded by the roads at today’s conference would this make it obligatory upon the switchmen to accept the decision?” President Perham was asked. “it's All Up To Hawley.” “No, it would not,” he replied. “We are acting only in an advisory capa- city. It’s all up to President Hawley. If he is satisfied with the result of our conference he can communicate with the various unions for a vote. If he Is not satisfied he does not need to ac- tept.” Gov. Eberhart said he was confi- fient the differences between the op- posing factories will be smothered out. “I believe the roads and strikers will be able to get together on some reasonable time for the reinstatement of the striking switchmen,” he said. That President Hawley’s appearance in Chicago as-a participant in the pro- posed conference is obnoxious to the roads was made apparent when he was handed a message from Chicago siating that the roads demanded his elimination from the conference. Taft to be Dragged In. St. Paul, Dec. 28.—Washington will be the next center of interest in the switchmen’s strike. The scene has pf MinnesotaeB( emfwyp emfwyppp p thanged from the office of the Govern- or of Minnesota at St. Paul to the national capital, where representations will be made to President Taft and to the interstate commerce commis- sion. Following the failure of the peace conference in Governor Eberhart’s of- fice and the calling off of negotiations, H. B. Perham, president of the rail- way department of the American Fed- eration of Labor, went to the Hotel Foley in St. Paul, where he packed his grip, preparatory to a hurried depar- ture for Washington. Mr. Perham stated frankly that the pbject of his mission was to appeal to the president and to the interstate tommerce commission. Count Tolstoi II! Again. St. Petersburg, Dec. 28.—The health of Count Leo Tolstoi is again causing anxiety. The count has a high fever. Physicians were summoned from Mos- cow and Tula to attend him. GOTHAM CHINATOWN DISTURBED One Killed, Another Wounded in Tong Feuds. New York, Dec. 28. — Tong feuds hroke out again in Chinatown. Lo Jong was shot and killed and Luv Feng was mortally wounded. Three Chinamen who did the shooting, es caped. The shooting is ascribed b: the police to a breaking of the peace treaty recently signed by the Hip Sing Tongs and the On Leong Tongs. The assassins were members of the latter. —————— GOPHER NEWS NOTES Minnesota Events of tne Week in Condensed Form. Rochester.—The demand for much higher rents by the Odd Fellows, who! own the building, may mean the re-| moval of the government postoffice here Jan. 1. Anoka.—James A. Hyatt, of Anoka, a member of Company H, Fourteenth N. Y. H. R., has becn honored by be- ing made an aide-de-camp to Com- manéer-in-Chief 8. R. Van Sant. Rochester.—The seventh annual ex- hibit of the southeastern Minnesota Poultry Association will be held here Dec. 7 to 13. The judges will be George D. Holden, Owatonna, and Ralph Whitney, Stewartville. The attraction at the Bijou, Minne- apolis, the week of December 12th, will be a dramatization by Robert M. Baker of George Barr McCutcheon’s widely read and most popular novel, “Beverly of Graustark,” which has but recently concluded an extended run at the Studebaker theatre in Chicago. Washington.—Peter Riggs, of Glen wood, Polk county, has been appoint- ed assistant clerk of the committee on public lands, of which Senator Nel- son is chairman. Riggs succeeds to the vacancy created by the resigna- tion of J. A. O. Preuss, of Minneapo lis, who was appointed to the posi- tion of executive clerk by Gov. Eber hart. St. Paul—Thief River Falls and Red Lake Falls aired their county seat quarrel in the state supreme court when the court heard the suit brought by Mertin V. Evenson, of Thief River Falls to restrain the coun- ty board from issuing bonds to the amount of $35,000 for a courthouse at Red Lake Falls. The district court dissolved the injunction and held that the county commissioners, William C. Demman, Joseph Pigeon, Charles Lindquist, Daniel Shaw and E. A. Aubol, acted within their legal author. ity. Immediately after this hearing the court took up the case of Alex A. Sweaas against Martin V. Evenson for slander. In the election campaign of 1908 Evanso is accused of having de- clared that Sweaas had sold out ta the Red Lake crowd. St. Paul—Arrangements are being made by the state dairy and food de. partment to hold examinations for creamery buttermakers and others who operate milk testers, as the law requiring all who operate testers ta have a license from the department | will go into effect Jan. 1. The law was carelessly drawn and some be lieved that the omission of the word “not” at one place would invalidate the law. But Commissioner Andrew French said that the department is going ahead under the assumption that operators of testers should be licensed and leave it to the courts to say if the error in the wording of the law is fatal. Mr. French does not think the law is invalid. Stillwater—The Washington Coun- ty Light and. Power Company of this city has closed a contract with the state board of control to furnish elec: trie lights for the new state prison and its factories. The prison has | been furnishing its own light from the |steam plant, but believes it will be jan advantage in service and saving | expense to get service from the com- pany that*owns the big waterpower plant at Riverside on Apple River in Wisconsin. The construction of the pole line to the new prison will begin Monday ana he completed so as to serve the prison by the middle of December. This new line will also enable the company to supply light and power for Oak Park, applications for which have already been made by a number. The company has nearly completed its pole line to White Bear, from this city by way of Wildwood, Mahtomedi and Dellwood. Thief River Falls.—Engineer Robt. Follansbee, of the United States geo. logical survey is co-operating with the state and county engineers in the drainage plans projected for the re clamation of the low and overflowed lands lying in eastern Marshall and westerly Beltrami counties and north eastern Red Lake county. He will make this point his headquarters One of the projects is in northwest ern Marshall county and comprises some 450 square miles of rich prairie land, interspersed with small high lands and parks. All this land is very rich for farming purposes, but in wet seasons is too moist. It is proposed to dig 400 miles of ditch in this terri tory, placing a ditch practically on every section line, thus assuring a square surface which will produce heavy crops regardless of the weather or season. This proposition is under the direct supervision of Engineer Hoag, who for twenty years was con nected with the engineering depart- ment of the University of Minnesota. The second scheme is directed by Engineer Hamre, 0: Warren, and cov- ers some 250 square miles of terri- tory. All of this territory drains into the Thief River, a tributary of the Red Lake River. Minneapolis.—New members nut- bering 101 were admitted to the com- mercial club by the action of the dt rectors. Action on the names will be taken in order of seniority of applica tion, and there still remains a waiting list of more than 75. J L. Robertson, Grand Forks, and Frank E. King, Grand Rapids, were elected non-resi- deat members. The total membership is now 1,301 and cannot be further augmented except by action of the di- rectors, which is unlikely, according to Secretary Westlake, as the total) bett, who died 10 years later. was but recently raised from 1.200. GOVERNOR NOT THE VICTIM. Minnesota’s Executive Explains Train Incident In Washington. Washington, D. C. — Reports that Gov. Eberhart of Minnesota had been swindled out of $130 by card sharps | on a Pennsylvania railroad train on his way East caused a mild sensation In Washington. The true story of the affair, given rather reluctantly to friends by the governor, shows that instead of being a participant in the gambling game, Minnesota’s stalwart young governor was in fact the nemesis that descend- ed upon the gamblers and caused the’ arrest of at least one of them. The gamblers were operating on the Manhattan Limited, which left Chicago Wednesday morning. They had cleared up a considerabie sum of money from various victims and Gov. Eberhart in- sisted that some one should complain to the train authorities. None of the victims would consent to take action against them, so Gov. Eberhart took it | apon himself to be prosecutor. . Before the train reached Fort Wayne he made complaint to the train conductor and later notified the railroad police at Fort Wayne. The gamblers step- ped off the train at that city and Gov. Eberhart followed, identifying one of the men who was on the piatform and causing his arrest. The governor said that he did not care for any notoriety {in the matter and that he had only act- ed against the gamblers because their 2pen operations on the train made him indignant. “DOPE” CAUSE OF DOWNFALL. This Is to Be Defense of Itasca County Ex-Treasurer. Duluth. — The defense has shown its hand in the case of the state against A. A. Kremer, the de- faulting treasurer of Itasca county, whose trial is on at Grand Rapids. It is eidently the intention of the defense to show that the accused was unfitted for business at the time he made the alleged fraudulent entries in the books, as a result of the use of some drug. Senator C. C. McCarthy, counsel for Kremer, brought out in cross-examina- tion of Public Examiner M. S. Kain that when the vaults of the county treasurer’s ojce were searched for evi- dence of alleged defalcation, that two hypodermic needles were found. In addition, a number of physcians hae been subpoenaed by the defense and the state has also a medical wit- ness. BOYS MULCT CLAY COUNTY. Get Bounty on Scalps and Pelts of Escaped Tame Wolves. Moorhead.—About two weeks ago wo full grown and five tame cub wolves escaped from Olaf Peterson’s saloon im Moorhead. He gave some boys permission to shoot them, as cap- turing the brutes was clearly out of the question. The seven were killed, and the boys took their skins, heads | and ears to the county commissioners and received $47 bounty. It now transpires that the bounty | was illegally given and there is a fine of $25 for each and every tame wolf on which a bounty is paid under rep- resentation that it is wild. County Attorney Johnson of Clay is willing to aecept the plea of the boys, who claim ignorance provided the $47 are paid ‘ack, and unless this is done he will order their arrest. TWO FAMILIES CLAIM ESTATE. Second Alleged Wife Mixes Up Pro- bate Proceedings. Duluth.—Two families, of which An- toine Paupore is said to be the head, are engaged in a legal contest for possession of his property. Paupore died this year at Paupore’s Siding, where he had had made his home for many years. He left a wife and several children living there and | they were naturally thought to be his heirs, A son living at Bemidji, filed a peti- tion in probate court for the appoint- ment of an administrator. When the aearing of the petition was ordered an- other wife of Paupore stepped in and claimed an interest in the estate. She claims that Paupore deserted her and five or six children in New York many years ago. John L. Wilson, Member of Territorial Legislature, Passes Away. St. Cloud, Jan. 4.—John L. Wilson, the father of St. Cloud, and one of the) oldest pioneers in this section of the state, died at the hospital in this city, at the age of 90. Coming to this city in the year 1853, he had lived here continuously, and up to the time of his retirement was prominently associated with every thing that led to the upbuilding of the city and country. He was born at Columbus, Me., Feb. 24, 1820. The first office held by Mr. Wilson, was that of representative in the ter- ritorial legislature, to which he wa~ elected for the terms of 1855, 1856 and 4857. He was again re-elected repre- sentative to the state legislature in the year 1870. He wag the first president of the city council in this city. This city was named by Wilson, when it was platted in the year 1853. He built the first frame house in this city and Sauk Rapids. Mr. Wilson was married to Miss Cordelia Morgan, daughter of Joshua Morgan, founder of the city of Buffalo, Minn., if May, 1847. She died in No- vember, 1852. He was married again Nov. 13, 1855, to Mrs. Harriet N. Cor- He ts susvived by one daughter and sever- al step-children. OPHER NEWS NOTES Minnesota Events of the Week in Condensed Form, FAVOR 3¢-FOOT DAM. Twin City Business Man Pass Reso- lutions. St. Paul. representing the common councils of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Uni- | versity of Minnesota, the Commercial clubs and other commercial organiza- tions of the Twin Cities, met with the board of government engineers: in the St. Paul Commercial club rooms, ‘and discussed the proposed 30-foot’ dam near the Soldier's home. 4 resolution was passed urging the board of engineers to recommend to congress that the work on the dam be continued; that the base of the dam ts made sufficient to accommodate a height of 30 feet; and that congress be asked to postpone a final decision in regard to the disposition of the sota could meet and make provisions for municipal action. Washington.—Representative Steen- erson has recommended the reappoint- ment of Edwin Mattson as postmaster at Breckenridge, Minn. Duluth. — Walter Whitehead, the hegro pugilist who was stabbed by Ralph Jones, another negro, about a week ago, died. Whitehead’s death came as a surprise to the attending physicians. Washington.—Goy. Eberhart will be | the guest_of honor at a reception to \ be held by the Michigan Alumnae As- | |cording to an announcement made ganization. years old, son of John Kruger, of Lari- | with an accident which resulted in the as a member of a bridge construction crew and a pile driver fell on his arm, crushing it when the lead line gave way. Winona. — The Winona normal school reports that the British thermal unit system in buying coal, adopted by the board of control, is giving the best of satisfaction at the school, the coal so far used under the purchasing plan being a little in advance of the contract requirements and in conse- quence an excess in price of three cents.a ton has been paid. The nor- .mal school uses about seven hundred tons of coal in a year. St. Paul—Prof. William Robertson, superintendent of the Crookston Northwestern state farm and experi- ment’ station at that place, was found dead in a Pullman sleeper of a Great Northern train within the limits of Minneapolis. He was traveling to St. Paul as a delegate from Crookston_to the meeting of the state agricultural society. Deputy Coroner Carpenter, of Ramsey county, issued. a certificate of death from heart disease. St. Paul, Minn. — The hearing of the suit brought by Horace Lowry against Hugh Scott, county auditor; Henry Hanke, county treasurer, and the board of county commissioners of Hennepin, to test the validity of the $1,000,000 bond issue for good | roads, began Thursday before the su- preme court in St. Paul. Judge Dick- inson of the Hennepin district bench, |has recided that the issue is valid | atid the matter goes to the supreme | court on an appeal by the county. For many years Harriet Beecher | Stowe’s story-of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was the final werd on the subject of the white and negro races. Thomas Dixon, the eloquent North Carolinian, replied to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” with “The Clansman.” Fifty-five years af- ter the first production of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” at Troy, N. Y., “The Clansman” opened its fifth season in that city. It will be seen at the Bijou, Minneapolis, the week of January 23d. Minneapolis—The state treasury“of Minnesota will be $8,000 richer from the estate of the late Thomas Lowry, making it a total of over $50,000 which | it will have received from the:property ! of the Minneapolis millionaire. when the entire inheritance tax has been paid. The tax of $42,000 which Mr. Lowry’s representatives already have paid represented the amount of prop- erty not listed in the probate court. |The value of the property assessed in | the probate court is given as $197, 019.36. Sauk Rapids. — Sylvester Rodden, formerly workman in the Great North- ern car shops at St. Cloud, Minn., has brought criminal suit against Officer Peter Kollig of the St. Cloud police force because that officer “hurried” Rodden to St. Cloud to answer charges of having jumped his board bill. The charge specifically states that Kollig did drive at a trot in passing over the Mississippi River bridge. A sign, con- spicuously displayed at each end of that bridge, warns that a fine of $10 is the penalty for driving faster than a walk. Bemidji—The fifth annual fair of the Beltrami County Agricultural As- sociation will be held on the associa- tion grounds in Bemidji, Sept. 14, 15, 16, these dates having been set by the association at its meeting. President W. G. Shroeder stated that he did not desire to serve in 1910 and A. P. Wente, of Bemidji, was chosen as his successor. Mr. Mackenzie and A. G. Rutledge were appointed delegates to represent the Beltrami County Agri- cultural Association at the annual meeting of the Minnesota State Fair Association, which will be held iz St. . Paul. — About forty-five men, |) Just before the meeting adjourned | power till the legislature of Minne- | sociation of this city, on Jan. 19, ac- | here today by the officers of the or- | Red Wing. — Rudolph Kruger, 18 | more, N. D., formerly of this city, met | ‘loss of his left arm. He was engaged | ‘school of agriculture and head of the | z ; \ ‘ \ GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1910. S. SOLBERG, te THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL MEAT MARKET Cor. Leland Ave. Second Street MOTTO Buy ; wane and You Can _ SELL RIGHT Mutton Reast . . . SOME OF OUR PRICES Beef in quarters. . . 6¢ Beef Steak . 10¢ to 12 1.2 | Beef Roast. . 8c to 10c ‘I Beef Stew . . . . 6e PorkiSteak . . . 14¢ Pork Roast . . . . 14¢ ie Bards eo. 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