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PAGE EIGHT ABOUT THE STATE Wews of Especial Interest io) Minnesota Readers. GLOTFELTER HEADS STATE FAIR Underwood Defeated for Presidency o Btate Agricultural Society—Mem- ber Dies Suddenly at Meeting. J. M. Underwood, president of the Minnesota State Agricultural society fer 1910, was defeated by the “old guard,” who slipped in C. W. Glotfel- ter of Waterville, practically a new man to the fair. He won out with 169 vetes against Underwood’s 12344. Yet to the excitement of the cam- paign, which was more pronounced am more enthusiastic than the memor- able fight in St. Paul last year, a de- ekdedly dramatic touch was added when death stalked the hall in Minne apolis and struck down C. B. Clark, a Nfe member of the association. Scarce- ly ten minutes before he had made a ringing speech paying tribute to the work of Mr. Underwood in seconding the nomination and urged that no ehange be made from an experienced man to one who was inexperienced. He did not live to hear the words of Teller W. A. Nolan, pronouncing Mr. Uniderwood’s defeat. The excitement acted on Mr. Clark’s heart and he swooned, death coming a few mo- ments later in an outside corridor. The ether officers chosen are: First vice president, B. J. Stillwell, Minneapolis; second vice president, Reuben Warner, Jr., St. Paul; board ef managers, Robert Crickmore, Owa- tonna; C. P. Craig, Duluth; F. W. Murphy, Wheaton; Thomas Canfield, Lake Park: George Atchison, Manka- to; W. W. Sivright, Hutchinson. MINNESOTA CITIES’ GROWTH Census Figures Announced for Those in Excess of 5,000. Z The director of the census has an- nounced the population of the follow- ing cities and villages in the state of Minnesota having a population in ex- cess of 5,000, as shown by an official count of the returns of the thirteenth #ensus City 1910. 1900. Albert Lea . « 6,192 4,500 Austin ..... - 6,900 5,474 Bemidji .... + 5,090 2,183 Brainerd . . 8,523 7,524 Chisholm ... + 7,684 waeee Cloquet + 7,031 3,072 Crookston - 7,559 5,359 Duluth - 78,466 52,989 Paribau - 9,001 7,868 Fergus Falls . - 6,887 6,072 Hibbing A ++. 8,832 2,481 Little Falls ... - 6,078 5,774 Mankato .. - 10,365 10,599 New Ulm - 5,048 5,403 Owatonna . 5,658 5,561 Red Wing - 9,048 7,525 Rochester . 7,844 6,843 Bt. Cloud ... - -10,600 8,663 Btillwater.... - 10,198 12,318 Virginia 10,473 2,902 THREE CHILDREN PERISH Fire Destroys Their Home at Knife River, Minn. Three little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bubee. aged one, four and six years, perished in their burning home at Knife River, twenty miles mortheast of Duluth, having been locked in and being unable to escape. Mrs. Bubee had gone to a neighbor’s hovse to get some milk. While she was absent the gasoline stove in the kitchen exploded. She had locked the ehildren in to prevent them from straying from home and when she saw the house afire it was too late to save their lives. The infant was entirely consumed and the two other children were burned to a crisp. FEDERAL LAND SUITS FILED Action Taken to Recover Property for Indians. Announcement was made at the @epartment of justice at Washing- ton of the filing of nearly 700 bills im equity in the United States circuit eourt for the district of Minnesota to recover several thousand acres of val- uable timber in the White Earth reser- vation. According to the statement issued at the department white speculators have attempted to deprive the Indians of | this land and while some of the land is actually in possession of persons who have no legal right te it the offi- eials are hopeful of being able to re- eover for the Chippewas in every case. Heads State Board of Health. Dr. W. A. Jones of Minneapolis was elected president of the state board ef health at the annual meeting of that body at the state capitol at St. Paul He has been vice president ef the board and takes the place made vacant by the death of Dr. Henry Hutchinson of St. Paul. May Lose His Eyesight. Threatened with approaching blind- ness Justice E. A. Jaggard of the state supreme court left St. Paul with his daughter for Philadelphia to consult jo the murder. SPEAKER NAMES COMMITTEES Conservatives Get the Best Places in Minnesota House. The speaker's friends got the best committee assignments in the list an- nounced by Speaker Dunn in the house, just as the lieutenant govern- or’s friends got the best places in the Met announced by Mr. Gordon in the senate last week. But the result of following this old rule is that condi- tions are reversed in the two houses, for in the senate the radicals got the best of it and in the house the best places go to the so called conserva- tives. The speaker kept his promise to ap- Point a county option man at the head of the temperance committee and se- lected F. L. Palmer of Minneapolis for the place. Palmer, although not a radical county optionist; is known to be committed to: this cause. C. A. Congdon of Duluth heads the committee on’ reapportionment; R. C. Dunn, taxes and tax laws; L. C. Spooner, appropriations, and W. D. ‘Washburn, railroads. Thomas Knee land of Minneapolis heads the com- mittee on judiciary and. bas with him sixteen other attorneys. CAT GIVES THE ALARM Saves Mora (Minn.) Man From Per ishing in Fire. F. A. McPherson of the Mora Drug company, who has living apartments over his drug store, was suddenly awakened from his slumber by his faithful house cat jumping onto his bed and scratching his face. Upon awaking Mr. McPherson found himself nearly overcome by suf- focation, the room and building was dense with smoke and only by a mira. cle was he able to grope his way to an outside stairway and, slightly clad, with the mercury registering. 20 below zero, he ran’a block to give the alarm of fire. The stock of drugs and merchandise, although not burned, are worthless from smoke and heat. MINNESOTA LID LIFTED: BY COURT Indian Agents Enjoined From Interfering With Saloons. An injunction restraining W. E. Johnson, special agent of the .bureau of Indian affairs, from interfering with the liquor traffic under the, pro, visions of the Indian cession treaty of 1855, was issued by Judge Willard of the United States circuit court int Minneapolis. The reasons given for the decision are sweeping in their character. If the decision holds there will be no more of the “federal Indian liquor lid” in Minnesota outside of the Hmits of the actual Indian reservations. Judge Willard holde that the ad- mission of Minnesota to statehood gave the state the power of regulating the liquor traffic and repealed the anti-liquor clauses of the Indian land cession treaties. He points to the fact that only a year ago was any at- tempt made to enforce them since the state was admitted. For about a half a century before that the control of the liquor traffic. outside of the In- dian reservations themselves, was left to the state. Saloons in the district affected were reopened immediately following the announcement of the decision. FATAL END TO FAMILY ROW Boy Shoots and Kills Intoxicated Step- father. Because he came home in an intox- icated condition and endeavored to put his wife out of his home, William H. Elias, aged sixty, a resident of Still- water for thirty years, is dead from a bullet wound and his stepson, George Sears, aged seventeen, is in jail. . He alleges that the shooting was acci- dental, but admits that he pointed his father’s 32-caliber revolver at his parent when the latter, returning home in an intoxicated condition, en- deavored to put Mrs. Elias out of: the house. Leaps From Minneapolis Bridge. Losing his balance and once falling back on the roadway of the steel arch bridge at Minneapolis Alfred Marshold, thirty-nine years of age, single, an employe of the Bureau of Engraving, deliberating climbed again upon the railing and plunged head- foremost to the river ice. He was unconscious when picked up and died before he could be taken ashore. Boy Killed on Track. The body of Frank West, whose parents live near Frazee and who had been living with his uncle near Richdale, was found py the crew of an eastbound train. It is thought that | @ westbound passenger train which |- passed a short time before, struck the Jad as he was walking home. - Chinaman Murdered: The body of Sing Kee, a Chinese laundryman of Minneapolis, was found in the drying room of the laun- dry. He had been bound, gagged and choked to death with a garrote made of unwashed linen and it is. believed that robbery was the ‘sole incentive 1 Waeicupon “thé souk vaheae " GRAND RAPID® HERALD.REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18, 1911. SUPREME COURT ON THE TRUSTS Combines Likely to Learn How They Can Gontinue, WO RAISE IN GLERKS’ ‘PAY. | Generali impression Throughout the Country Is That Uncle Sam. Treats | Employees Welli— Senator Smith Tells How Elkins Once Did Him a Favor by Changing Ruling. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, Jan. _ »—[Special.J—It is a fairly good guess that the su- preme court will decide the great trust cases against the companies and will point out a way by which the business of these concerns may be carried on without any serious dis- turbance of existing conditions. The impression prevails that a radi- cal construction of the anti-trust law might work a great deal of harm to the business interests of the country, especially if it made possible the dis- solving of all the railroad amalgama- tions of the past forty years. in the opinion of experts the forthcoming de- cision in the cases, which have: been considered the most important in the country, will establish the fact that the trusts as now formed are wrong, but that there is a way in which they can do business without causing any great upheaval. The Underpaid Clerks Perhaps people who work in differ- ent towns and cities throughout the country will not have much sympathy with the annual demand for more pay | made by the government clerks in Washington. The scale of pay runs from $2,000 down to $900 a year for clerks and stenographers. Belowthem are messengers and laborers getting $720 and $600 a year. No doubt there are a great many men and women throughout the coun- try who would like to receive that amount of pay for the same amount of work, especially when they hear that the workday begins at 9 o’clock in the morning and closes. at 4:30 in the afternoon, with half an hour for luncheon. Then these government em- ployees have a half holiday Saturday afternoons for three months in sum- mer, thirty days leave and iall the holidays and half a day before. each | holiday, all with full pay. if a clerk is sick thirty days. absence with pay ta allowed. Congressmen are not going to rush in and increase the salaries of 30,000 employees under such conditions. Elkins Found a Way. Senator Smith of Michigan recalis that the late Senator Elkins was very considerate of him when he was a young practicing attorney and Blkins was secretary of war. Smith had a bridge case that he wanted adjusted on a different basis from what had pre- viously been ordered. As-he stated the case Elkins showed interest and in- dicated a desire to grant the request. Then a clerk, one of the many whose duty it is to see that secretaries do not yield to young attorneys, slipped a book before Elkins which contained a regulation that a ruling of a former secretary could not be reopened and reversed by his successor. Smith was keenly disappointed, and Bikins said, “William Alden, I'd like to do this for you, but the regulations seem to be against us.” Then he went into another room, walked about a little while and came back, looked over the papers and re- marked: “I see this ruling was made by L, A. Grant, then acting as secre- tary of war. He is still assistant sec- retary, and I'l] have him reverse that ruling.” The Senate Changes. “There will not be left enough to leaven the new bunch,” remarked Sen- ator Carter, speaking of the many changes that have occurred and will oecur. in the senate after March 4. Several changes have occurred which were not expected, and it is possible that men who are now members and are candidates for re-election may not be elected. It is already assured that-more than twenty-five new senators will take the places of those who were members of the present congress, and there may be still more changes, as legislatures often do unexpected things. Pressing a Lorimer Vote. In spite of the efforts of many sena- tors to avoid a vote on the Lorimer ease there is such a determined effort to have a vote that even the most adroit among those who know “how not to do it’? cannot quite see how a vote can be prevented. The predic- tion is also made that Lorimer will retain his seat, as many senators have not time to read all the testimony and will take the judgment of the com- mittee which reported in his favor. Frequently a senator will say, “I will follow the committee, which has given much time to the case.” A Hairless Joke. “This is an old claim that has been floating around congress ever since I have been here,” declared Congress- man Mann when opposing a bill on claims day in the house. “It was an old claim, white headed and hoary, when I came,to Washington.” Sand Ollie _ames; «whose head. is as smooth as anvega; gumped in- with this- Temark: “It does not follow that it ts -an old case -becwase- Ht 18” HOUSE HAS TIME TO DO BUSINESS An Hour is Wasted Each Day Getting @ Quorum, NOT EAGER TO GET 10 WORK. Five Senators Are Holding Office by Appointment, and Custom Is For sors Are Elected and Qualify—Clapp | Waited Until Towne Made a Speech. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, Jan. .° —[Special.]—It {s certainly amusing to hear the lead- ers of the house declaim about the lack of time to do the business of the ses- sion and assert that the rules of the house are designed for obstruction. And these members have criticised the senate rules as affording ample oppor- tunity for obstruction. boast of the house that it has business rules, and yet there are loud cries heard about the difficulty which now confronts the house in disposing of business. The fact is the house tied itself up judicial code bill to occupy the only day set apart for general business, and the house has several times refused to set aside this code bill. the house could, if it so desired, remove ; other obstructions which interfere with | the business of the session. But the truth is the house is not anx- ious to do business. Nearly every day an hour is consumed in getting a quo- rum. National Health Bureau. All efforts in the direction of estab- lishing a department of health with a cabinet officer at its head have failed. It bas been demonstrated that such a bureau will be a long step toward cen- tratization, and there are also many. other reasons for opposition. eo Senator Martin-of Virginia has intro- duced a bill which would extend the scope of the present marine hospital service and still retain it as a bureau. Among its proposed enlarged powers is one which gives it authority to investi- gate the pollution of streams and wa; ter supplies. Such a bill will no doubt meet with more favor than the radical measure. When Senatorial Terms End. As there are five men serving in the senate upon appointment by gover- nors there is considerable ‘speculation as to when their terms will end. The constitution says that the terms of such appointees shall continue until the next session of the legislature, which shall then fill the vacancies. The general construction given to the provision is that the appointee holds until the legislature elects a successor. If there should be a dead- lock in the legislature it is assumed that the term of the appointee would end with the session of the legislature and that the governor could not ap- point a man to fill the vacancy. the appointed senator holds only until there is an election, the senate takes no cognizance of such an election un- til the certificate of the newly elected senator is presented. nection was in regard to the successor of Senator Davis of Minnesota. Governor Lind appointed. Charlie Towne. . When the legislature-met it elected Senator Clapp. He came to Washington, but when he-found that Towne wanted to make a speech he waited and listened. At the conclu- sion of Towne’s speech Clapp’s creden- tials were presented, and Towne was out and Clapp was in. No doubt the senate will recognize the five appoint- ed senators as members until the cre- Gentials of their successors are pre- sented. Sims and Revolution. Congressman Sims of ‘Tennessee ‘was opposing the majority of his par- ty in its effort to take a back track on the matter of rules and revolution. Hardy of Texas did not understand Sims’ position and asked: “Does the gentleman hold that there are no conditions under which the house would be authorized to revolu- tionize on the question or rules?” “Why,” responded Sims, “that is a pretty question to ask a man who lives im the south. You being from Texas, your geography answers the question.” Same Uncle Joe. “It was like old times in the house,” remarked Congressman Mondell of Wyoming, commenting on the speech of Speaker Cannon in favor of in- creased pensions. “Uncle Joe was the same as years ago. He was the old ehairman of the committee on appro- priations, with his arms swinging, his vigorous manner and language, just as it was in the days when I was a new member learning the game. It looks as if be will be in fine fettle for the next congress when he again takes his ‘place on the floor.” Lorimer’s Nerve. “He must have a cast iron nerve,” is @ remark that one frequently hears eoncerning William Lorimer. The Ll- linois senator sits calmly and listens to senators discuss his case and make un- methods he pursued in the ‘senatorial coritest. ‘However, Lorimer invited senators to speak freely and gaid he -would not. be embarrassed by » what “they said and hoped they . would: not embatenetod By eg aed he mieet say in ‘reply. : 2 Them to Keep Seats Until Succes- | It has been the! early in the session by allowing the) More than this, | While the construction is given that An interesting incident in this con- | pleasant remarks about him and the | | WHEN IN NEED OF | JOB PRINTING £2 CALL ON OR CALL UP THE Bring in your idea and we'll i do the rest and guarantee good neat work. 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