Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 12, 1912, Page 7

ia Certificate of Amendment of Articles! Of Incorporation of Itasca Paper Company. We, Frank F. Becker, President, and Henry G. Becker, Secretary of Itasca Paper Company, a corporation organized | and existing under and by virtue of the| laws of the State of Minnesota, do here-| ‘by certify that at an adjourned regular | annual meeting of said company, duly | called by the secretary, pursuant to/| the by-laws of said company, and held | at its office at Grand Rapids, Minne- Sota, on the 22nd day of May, 1912, at eleven o'clock A. M., the following reso- fution was duly offered, its adoption Moved and seconded, put to a vote and carried unanimously, all stockholders of said company being present and voting in favor thereof, and said resolution Was then and there duly adopted, as fol- lows: " “Be it resolved, that the Articles of Incorporation of this company, Itasca Paper Company, be and they are hereby amended by changing highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which said corporation shal at any time be subject from Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to Four hundred thousand dollars ($400,- 000), and, to that end, by changing the fourth paragraph of said Articles ‘of Incorporaticn so as to read as follows: ‘Fourth: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which said corporation shall at any time be subject shall be Four hun- dred thousand dollars ($400,000’.”’ In witness whereof, we have here- ‘unto set our hands, and the seal of said corporation, this 22nd day of May, 1912, FRANK F. BECKER, President of said Company. HENRY G. BECKER, Secretary of said Company. (Corporate Seal) State of Minnesota, County of Itasca, ss. On this 22nd day of May, 1912, before me,-a notary public in and for said county, personally appeared Frank F. Becker and Henry G. Becker, to me ‘personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that they are re- spectively the president and secretary of Itasca Paper Company, the corpura- tion named in the foregoing certificace; that the seal attached to said certifi- cate is the corporate seal of said cor- ‘poration; that said instrument was exe- ‘cuted in behalf of said corporation. by ‘authority of its board of directors; andj} said Frank F. Becker, president, and Henry G. Becker, secretary, acknowledg- ed said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation. ALFRED L. THWING, Notary Public, Itasca County, Minn. My commission expires Sept. 23, 1915. «Notarial Seal) State of Minnesota, State. I hereby certify that the within in-| strument was filed for record in this} office, on the 28th day of May, A. D.| 1912, at 9 o'clock A. M., and was duly | ‘recorded in Book V-3 of Incorporations | on page, 473. JULIUS A, SCHMAHL, | Secreary of State. | | | Department of Office of Register of Deeds. State of Minnesota, County of 88. I hereby certify that the within in- strument was filed in this office for| rdoord, June 4, 1912, at 5 P. M., and| was duly recorded in Book 33 of M. R.,/ page 97. | Itasca, ; E. J. McGOWAN, Register of Deeds, By IRENE BECKER, Deputy. (Seal, Reg. of Deeds) H-R June 12-19 ‘COMPROMISE IS REACHED ‘Agreement on Legislation Affecting ‘White Earth Indians. After threshing over the White | Earth Indian reservation situation for months a compromise agree- ment has been reached between | Senator Clapp and the house commit- | tee on Indian affairs. Chairman Gra- | ‘ham of the special investigating com- mittee is also a party to the agree- | ment. A substitute bill has been re- | ported embodying these propositions: First—To authorize the court of | claims to establish a new and correct roll of mixed and full bloods on White Earth. Second—To modify the existing Clapp act of 1906 so that restrictions shall apply to those less than quar- ter bloods, those with more than quar- ter blood to get their titles. Third—To raise the embargo on all ‘titles that have been tied up so long ypending the outcome of civil suits. Minor provisions of the bill apply to methods of adjusting pending con- stroversies. ‘MODIFIES AMUSEMENT BAN Methodist Conference Makes Several Important Changes. The lid on amusements was consid- erably tilted at the quadrennial ‘Methodist conference at Minneapolis ‘by taking all reference to liquor -drinking out of the amusement para- graph and placing it in a separate one -under the head of immoral conduct -and the partial removal of the stigma heretofore placed on dancing, theater -going, circus going, attending horse races and the other named amuse- ments by changing the head of the paragraph so that it reads simply “im- prudent conduct,” the word unchris- tian having been left out. “Wreck on St. Paul Road Near Good Thunder, Minn. Passenger train No. 122 on the St. Paul road was wrecked two miles west of Good Thunder. A dozen passengers were severely G vbruised, but none was seriously hurt. The engine and two freight cars di- rectly following stayed on the track _and later carried the passengers into “Good Thunder. A broken rail is be- Ueved to have caused the wreck, isd the | fore the Senate. ‘LOSS OF LIFE NEEDLESS | Lack of Lifeboats and Captain Smith’s | Indifference to Warnings of Danger | Among the Contributing Causes of the Ocean Tragedy. | Washington, May 29.—Teeming with | eloquence, combining praise for hero- ism and scathing rebuke for negli- gence and cowardice of the most ap- | palling marine tragedy of history, was the final and official requiem in the senate for the victims of the Titanic. Senator Smith of Michigan of the senate investigating | committee | summed up his views of the evidence developed. That every soul aboard the giant liner might have been saved but for the indifference, inattention and al- most criminal neglect of Captain Stan- ley Lord and the other officers of the Californian was the most startling | charge Smith bitterly made. | “Needless sacrifice” of at least 1,500 lives because the “strangely insuffi- | cient number of lifeboats” were not filled was also charged. “Obsolete and antiquated shipping laws” and “laxity of regulation and hasty inspection” by the British. board of trade were denounced by Smith. As a contributory cause he named the indifference of Captain.Smith of the Titanic for ignoring ice warnings and forcing the Titanic full speed through the northern waters. That Captain Smith had expiated his offense by a heroic death was Smith's tribute to the dead commander. Lack of discipline among the crew and cowardice of some of its members indicated after the crash was scath- ingly arraigned. To the two Titanic wireless oper- , ators, Phillips and Bride, the senator paid a glowing tribute. He lauded Captain Rostron of the rescue ship Carpathia. Ismay Not Criticised. Not a word of criticism for J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the steam- ship company, was uttered by the Michigan senator, but he caustically | criticised the White Star line for its action in withholding news of the dis- aster received, he said, sixteen hours before it was reluctantly divulged. In eloquent terms the chairman de- picted the folly of sending out the greatest ship afloat without sufficient tests, a strange crew and no drills or discipline. The Titanic, he said, was | following the proper course, although one known to be dangerous at that season, but the speed was gradually. and continually increased until the | maximum was the death blow. Rebuke for those in half filled. life- boats who “stood by” and refused to aid struggling, drowning swimmers until “all the noise had ceased” was voiced. “Upon that broken hull,” the sen- ator concluded, “new vows were tak- en, new fealty expressed, old love re- newed and those who had been devot- ed in life went proudly and defiantly on the last life pilgrimage together. “In such a heritage we must feel ourselves more intimately related to the sea than ever before and hence- forth it will send back to us on its rising the cheerful salutations from those lost.” California Saw Signals. In denouncing Captain Lord of the California the senator said the Ti- tanic’s distress signals were plainly seen from the deck of his vessel a short distance away. Amenica will leave to England the chastisement of those guilty, asserted the senator, and he quoted British law to show that Captain Lord might be prosecuted for a misdemeanor. It is recommended that all ships carrying more than 100 passengers have two searchlights; that a revision be made of steamship inspection laws of foreign countries to the standard proposed in the United States that every ship be required to carry suffi- | clent lifeboats for all passengers and crew; that the use of wireless be regu- lated to prevent interference by ama- teurs and that all ships have a wire- less operator on constant duty. Detailed recommendations are made as to watertight bulkhead construc- tion on oceangoing ships. Bulkheads should be so placed that any two ad- jacent compartments of a ship might be flooded without sinking. Transverse bulkheads forward and abaft the ma- chinery should be continued water- tight to the uppermost continuous structural deck, and this deck should be fitted watertight. WOMAN WALKS 1,000 MILES Advocate of Uncooked Food Tramps From New York to Chicago. _ Chicago, May 29.—Mrs. Mabel Beach completed a journey on foot from New York to Chicago and delivered Mayor Gaynor. On the journey, which consumed a little more than forty-two days, Mrs. Beach subsisted on uncooked food. to Mayor Harrison a message from | Principle. There is room for reform SMITH SUBMITS |AGAIN SPLIT ON TITANIG REPORT Results of Probe Now Be- SAME SUBJECT Reapportionment the Stumbling Block in Legislature. LITTLE DOING THE FIRST WEEK House Ratifies Federal Constitu- tional Amendments and This Ends Work Accomplished. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, June 11—Something over a week spent in sparring for position and advantage, two federal constitu- tional amendments passed by the house, nothing to the credit of the senate but a few bills introduced and they relating to the subjects which that body has declared shall be the only fruits of the gathering, is the record of the Minnesota legislature so far. Ostensibly for the purpose of facilitating business and reducing the cost to the taxpayers, the senators at the opening of the session last week were signed up—that is a majority of them—to confine their deliberations to two subjects, statewide primary and a corrupt practices act, The house, unwilling to be dictated to, and with an eye on the fall campaign—some- thing the senators have nothing to fear—named six subjects for consid- eration. They included an increase) in the gross earnings tax and reappor- tionment for both the legislative and congressional districts. Reapportion- ment loomed up as the rock on which the ship of state had split. The sen- ate would have none of it and while the house on a vote knocked out a) scheme to have it eliminated from the regular program the margin was so close as to indicate that it might re- pudiate the proposition at the finish. | That and the passage of the constitu- tional amendments, as recommended by the governor, and much talk on the part of the senate represented the week's work. I might say, though, that the house committee on taxes | later reported out a bill for an in- crease in the tax paid by the railroad | companies and it is employing the time of the two bodies this week. ee % | All this and more, Which is now pretty much ancient history, has fig- ured in the Twin City papers as a true chronicle of the week’s doings in the Minnesota legislature; but for some reason no explanation has been of-; fered for the limited senate program. Economy, as I stated, was suggested, | but if the little things hinted at are} true the cost of the session as far as | the taxpayers are concerned was the least of the troubles of those who succeeded in putting on the lid. 10 be plain about it the talk is that the “lid” was for the purpose of heading off any addition to the present rail- road gross earnings tax law. That the lid, however, will be lifted since the fact became known seems certain. Carl Wallace, a senate member from Minneapolis, accepted progressive and | the successor in the senate of E. E.| Smith, now state Republican chair- man, according to the story was the one who executed the “lid” coup. Be- fore the Twin City members was dan- | gled the distance tariff bugaboo and} for the benefit of the southern mem- bers reapportionment was exhibited with all its horrors. The two were effective and as a result came the lim- ited program with every precaution taken to make it effective and bind- ing. ee & For lack of something else to do the house and senate busied itself with the supplies furnished it in the way of stationery by Secretary of State Schmahl and the economy talks which | resulted are expected to furnish much | excellent campaign material for a number who are desirous of returning to St. Paul next winter. It was a lim- ited lot of stuff, with some files as the principal item of expense, but the whole thing was sufficient to enable a number to throw an economy fit. A resolution ordering the return of all the supplies was passed, then rescind- ed and at last accounts the members were in possession of most of the sta- tionery. At one time Mr. Schmahl, fearful for his own pocket, because of an indiscriminate raid being made on the supplies, called the lot in, but la- ter relented and sent back needed pa- per, pens and ink. ‘+ + It is the small things that show up some people and its takes something like the little flurry over the station- ery supplies to bring out the narrow mainds. One member from the south- ern section of the state during the dis- cussion over the supplies suggested that each member go down in his pocket for 15 cents and buy what pens and paper he needed. Unfortunately it was during a committee meeting and he was unabie to get a motion along these lines in the journal, which would have made excellent campaign material for his next race, but he did not overlook the members of the press present in declaring for their benefit that while the position taken might look smail yet he was fighting for a in the purchase of Icgislative supplies and next season will see it in a marked way, but at the same time common sense should prevail and such seems ‘ | creased. 1912. to be the opinion of the majority ot the members. It is pretty certain that the jackknife and the costly fountain pen will not figure next year. They represent an abuse of the public funds | and this is the first session of the legislature to find them absent from the list of supplies. | eS a Space will not permit a review of the statewide primary bills as intro- duced in the two houses—they are too} lengthy “for even a brief intelligent. description—but I will say that after seeing one of the ballots proposed, if, one can mark it properly and have! his vote recorded then he has got) yours truly beat. The offerings so far have first and second choice features | and they are so involved that it will! take, as they say, a Philadelphia law- | yer to interpret them. The tallying of | the ballots is just as difficult. If al school for marking ballots is not need-| ed after some of the bills presented | are passed then I miss my guess. I} tried hard to figure out one the other! day and fell down on the job. The bill turned out by the senate elections committee is a problem and would! confuse the most intelligent. The! house has a bill that is a trifle more! simple, but both will require consider- | able pruning before they are suited to the average voter. bo he The principal thing for which the Present extra session of the legisla | ture was called was the passage of a statewide primary law, with an accom-| panying corrupt practices act, and you can be sure the state is going to get both. The members of both houses do not dare do dtherwise. But as I) pointed out in the case of the primary law, which as so far planned {8 far) above the heads of the average voter, | the corrupt practice act is going to be! just as bad, Senator Murray b gne | and the house committee of elections has another and if there is anything! that both fail to cover in the way of | “preventatives” then you will have to show me. Under both the best thing | for a candidate for a public office to do is to shut himself up, throw the key out the window and remain until his certificate of election is issued, that is if he has one coming. The! trouble is that the bills proposed cov- | er so many “don'ts” that they are, in| effect, prohibitive. Minnesota now has &@ corrupt practices act, but if any one | ever heard of a conviction being se-| cured under it he has a gold medal coming. ~ Fr Pa ieee Perhaps one of the best features of ' the “don’ts” list as proposed is the elimination of the brewery, the brew-' ery agent and the saloon keeper from politics. Hand in hand with the pro-! hibition made in this case is the lid| for church collections where the same are to be used for candidates pledged for this or that cause. It is here where the Anti-Saloon league flour- ishes and with the elimination of one the state will probably be rid of the other. As regarded by men not swayed by passion or prejudice the} two are a menace to sane legislation | and the sooner both are eliminated from the political field the better for the state and the morals of the people. A conservative estimate places the, expenditures of the brewers in the | election of men calculated to protect, their interests and that of those or- ganizations’ pledged to minimize the! activities of the saloon during the past five years at close to $1,500,000. This is in the case of Minnesota alone. | Statistics show that the consumption | of liquor during that period has in-| Could anything more be needed in support of these particular “don'ts?” ee b Two possible candidates for state offices have sprung into prominence! since the opening of the extra session | of the legislature and it is generally | expected that they will file when the | two bodies have completed their work. | I refer to George Mattson of Roseau | county, who is talked of for secretary | of state, and J. A. A. Burnquist of St. | Paul, who is being mentioned in con-| nection with the office of lieutenant | governor on the Republican ticket. | Both are members of the house, are of the prevailing nationality and are: pronounced progressives. Burnquist | was picked to make trouble for Speak- er H. H. Dunn at the opening of the special session, but wisely withdrew from the contest. Mr. Mattson has_ been a member of the house for the past four years and has shown marked legislative ability. + + + Unless something unexpected pre- vents Judge Osear Hallam of the Ram- sey county district court will be a candidate for one of the places on the | supreme court. Friends were busy with his name last week and there was every indication that he would be offered for the consideration of the voters. He is considered among the ablest of the Ramsey county jur- ists. Judge Bunn is at the present time the Fourth district member of the supreme court, but inasmuch as he is a Democrat there is little likeli- hood of his re-election. For his bene- fit the Ramsey county bar has started an agitation for a non-partisan judic- fary, but there is just as much possi- bility of it prevailing as the other. The Republican party will not stand for it. ++ + The name of Warden Wolfer of the | Stillwater penitentiary still continues to figure in the gubernatorial gossip. It is said that if those now favoring Governor Eberhart see that his selec- tion is impossible Wolfer will be their ar Way. | Chicago. jat Duluth. second choice. Mr. Wolfer denies that he has any gubernatorial ambitions. ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers. SECOND CHOICE IDEA BEATEN Democratic State Convention Instructs for Wilson—Lynch Again Chosen National Committeeman. William J. Bryan’s new converts | in Minnesota made an effort to} stampede the Duluth convention to | put in second choice instructions for | him. They were long on eloquence, | but when the matter came to a vote they proved to bea mere handful and the original resolutions, instructing the delegates to vote as a unit for Woodrow Wilson until he is nominat- | ed, or until two-thirds of the dele gates agree that his nomination is | impossible, went through with only a | feeble “no” against them. | This was the only fight that de- | veloped in the convention. The coun- try delegates, aided by Hennepin and St. Louis counties, had the steam | roller out ready to flatten Dan Lawler | {and his Ramsey county friends, but Dan stepped gracefully out of its path- His name was not mentioned for delegate at large and when six others had been nominated he moved that the secretary cast the unanimous ballot of the coiivention for the men named. The rest of the resolutions, includ- ing the one endorsing F. B. Lynch for another term as national committee- man, went through on a unanimous vote, as did all the nominations for presidential electors, district delegates and all alternates. The resolutions as presented by the committee and adopted declare for the initiative, referendum and recall, not excepting judges; pay eloquent tribute to the late Governor Johnson and to W. J. Bryan; praise the Democratic hoysé and condemn President Taft | for vetoing the woolen and other tariff bills; condemn the state senate for pigeonholing the income tax resolu- tton and urge the approval of the pro- posed amendments for the income tax and for the direct election of United States senators. The committee had some debate over the resolutions, but its report was unanimous. The election of delegates went smoothly. The delegates at large were nominated with some speech- making, but the names of the district delegates simply were reported by the districts and approved quickly. The alternates and presidential electors also were chosen quickly. STRIKEBREAKERS QUIT WORK Allege Ill Treatment by St. Paul Railroads. Dissatisfied with the food and ac- commodations provided by the Great | Northern Railway company about 150 of the 200 Chicago strikebreakers em- ployed as freight handlers at the Ham- line transfer have walked out. It is said the others may do likewise. About seventy-five of the striking strikebreakers held an indignation meeting because the road had refused to give them transportation back to Among them were several University of Chicago students. After failing in their attempt to get officials of the road to give them trans- portation, the men went to the state capitol to consult with Labor Commis- sioner W. F. Houck, who promised to take the matter up for them. STREET CAR KILLS CHILD Mother of Victim Also Probably Fa- tally Injured. PAGE SEVEN | OPEN CHARGE OF FRAUD IS MADE Roosevelt Men Denounce Ac- tion of Committee. KENTUCKY GIVEN TO TAFT — Bitter Fight Is Made Over Delegates at Large From That State, but Na tional Committee Stands by the President by a Vote of 38 to 11. TEEPE EEE EEE EEE HOW THE RACE STANDS. Instructed for Taft tested), 201. Added by national commit- tee: Alabama, 16; Arkansas, 16; Florida, 12; Indiana, 12; Kentucky, 10. Total for Taft to date, 295. Instructed for Roosevelt (un- contested), 411. Instructed for La Follette, (uncontested), 36. Instructed for Cummins (un- contested), 10. Uninstructed and uncontest- (uncon- ed, 166. | Total number of delegates, |e 1,078. Necessary for nomination, 540. PEELE EEREE EEE EE EEE EES PEPER EEEEEEEEDEEEEEE PEEEEEEEEE DEE EEE Chicago, June 12.—The Taft major- ity on the national Republican com- mittee credited the four delegates at large from Kentucky and the six dele- gates from the First, Second and | Fourth districts to Taft. In the case of the delegates at large there was a bitter fight, the Roosevelt men charg- ing that the delegates had been delib- erately stolen from Roosevelt as the result of a conspiracy on the part of the Taft men. On this contest the vote stood 38 to 11, In the case of the First district con- test the vote was unanimous for the Taft delegates. The case of Kentucky’s four con- tested delegates at large was the first called. The Kentucky Roosevelt contestants for the places of delegates at large | were only two in number, although the state is entitled to four seats at large in the national convention. The Taft faction had named a complete set lof delegates but the names of E. C. | O*Rear and Leslie Combs were all that appeared on the roll as Roosevelt contestants. |SITUATION IS IMPROVING | Believed Cuban Revolt Will Soon Be at an End. Washington, June 12.—General Ivo- net with 700 insurrectos is said to be cornered about twelve miles from Sag- nade Tanamo, on the north coast of Oriente. This information was re ceived here through the American le | gation at Havana. It is believed the negro revolution in Oriente province will be short lived. Disturbances continue in Santa | Clara province, the consular agent at Sagua La Grande reporting the situa- tion serious. The regular army garri- sons have been withdrawn from Cai- bairien and Remedios, only rural guards remaining. Seditious bands also are reported in this vicinity. Alarm still prevails in Cienfuegos and the people are continuing to concen- trate in the city. | The absence of any fresh outbreaks in Havana has encouraged the state department in the belief that the measures already taken to show the purpose of this government to main- tain order in Cuba have been sufficient. Raymond Dusek, six years old, was | | killed and his mother, Mrs. Frank Dusek, probably fatally injured at St..Paul when at eastbound Snelling- Minnehaha street car, failing to stop while a westbound car from which they had alighted discharged its passengers, struck and hurled them to the sidewalk. The son was : killed instantly and the mother was rendered unconscious and received a bad fracture of the skull, a compound fracture of the left leg and serious injuries about the body. She was rushed to St. Luke’s hospital in an automobile where it is thought she will not recover. AMENDMENT. IS_ RATIFIED | Minnesota for Direct Election of Sena- tors. Both branches of the state legis- | lature has ratified the amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States sena- | tors by direct vote. The house passed the resolution last week and the sen- ate, by unanimous vote, took similar action. Only fifty-one of the sixty- three members of the upper branch were present when the roll was called. Two Drown in Duluth Harbor. Henry La Croix and Marine Dan- nie were drowned in the harbor They were knocked off a lumber dock by a timber which broke from its fastenings while being hoisted. The blow was so heavy as to. make them unconscious and they perished before assistance could reach them. /LOOKS LIKE WILSON WON | Bue Clark Men in South Dakota Won't Concede Defeat. Pierre, S. D., June 12.—Revised fig- ures of the South Dakota primary election, with nine counties unheard from, indicates that Wilson delegates won in the Democratic contest. Clark managers, however, do not concede the state, declaring that the missing territory will change the apparent re- sult. Latest figures give Wilson dele- gates 4,058; Clark delegates, headed | by Lee, 3,949. Actual results are not ‘expected to be known until the offi- cial count after the state officers have returned from the Chicago convention. BLASHFIELD ON ART BOARD | New York Artist Succeeds Millet Who Perished on Titanic. Washington, June 12.—Edwin H. Blashfield, a New York artist, bes been appointed by President Taft to fill the vacancy on the national com- mission of fine arts, caused by the death of F. D. Millet, who lost his life | when the Titanic sank. | Wife Dead; Husband Held. Sturgis, S. D., June 12.—Mrs. Ed- ward Southmaid, who resided on a ranch in Big Bottom, twenty miles north of Sturgis, is dead from a gun- shot wound which, according to a cor- oner's jury, was not self-inflicted. Ed- | ward Southmaid, her husband, asserts ' she shot herself. Southmaid was tak- en into custody. —-