Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 12, 1912, Page 8

OFFERS BIG PRIZE FOR BEST WHEAT Five Thousand Dollars Value ABOUT THE STATE News of “Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, COUNTERFEIT GOIN SEIZED Secret Service Agent Unearthed $11, 000 Worth. Counterfeit gold coins having a face value of $11,000 were seized in St Paul and Waterville, this state,.by Se- cret Service Agent McManus. The coins, an imitation of the Spanish 25-peseta piece, having a money value Home Course Road Making IX.—The Gravel | binding material has been removed by | the same agency. Even if clay or loam between the larger pieces. Gravel ob- tained from streams is usuaily inferior to pit gravel for the reason that the ac- tion of the water has worn the pebbles smooth and practically all the fine is mixed with river or creek gravel the result is not likely to be as satisfactory as that obtained by the use of pit grav- el. Pit gravel frequently contains too of $4.78 in our money, were oe, SUIT IS FILED AT ST. PAUL tren tec" been nniea wit gid Toe | base is brass. The jeweler said W. H. much clay or earthy matter, while river | gravel may have too much sand. In | such cases it is sometimes advisable to | screen the gravel so as to eliminate the _| for Five Bushels of Grain Road. SEVEN STATES TO COMPETE Northwestern Products Exposition at Minneapolis Secures Big Four “30” farm Tractor and Equipment to Award Grower of Best Wheat in AMERICAN Northwest. Five thousand dollars for the best | five bushels of wheat, any variety, grown in the AMERICAN Northwest is the prize announced as the grand champion sweeystakes to be awarded | | nation in restraint of trade and that | at the Northwestern Products Exposi- tion to be held in Minneapolis Nov. 12 to 23. This is the world’s greatest prize for wheat—twice as large as any prize ever offered in Canada, five times as much as any prize ever offered for any class of grain in the United States. Announcement of this award has Just been made by the Northwest De- velopment League, under the auspicies of which organization the seven states give the products exposition. The states included in the AMERICAN Northwest, as represented by the League, are Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wash- ington and Oregon. A Practical Prize. The prize consists of a Big Four “30” farm tractor manufactured by the | Gas Traction Company of Minneapolis and Winnipeg and a set of plows manufactured by the Emerson-Brant- ingham,Plow Company of Rockford, Ih. These companies, desiring to en- courage farmers of the Northwest to grow more and better wheat, have given the league the outfit for certain considerations and the seven states will compete for the sweepstakes prize. Winning this prize means that wheat awarded prizes at seven state fairs and scores of county fairs will be se- lected by a process of elimination and finally entered at the Northwestern Products Exposition champion sweepstakes class. There wili be nothing in the rules, however, to prevent a grower exhibiting wheat which has not been shown at any fair, but which will be entered for the first time to win the $5,000 prize. Judging of the wheat will be done by the accepted authorities on wheat fudging in the United States. Five bushel samples of threshed grain will be required and they must be exhibited with ten bundles from the same field which must be from six to ten inches in diameter. The threshed grain will be judged, not only by its external appearance but a certain part wil] be milled and baked into bread, a given number of points be- ing allowed for the results in the mill- ing and baking tests. The Northwest Development League will undertake to deliver the farm tractor and plows to the winner free of cost. What Tractors Will Do. The Big Four “30” farm tractor and plows were selected for a prize be cause of their practicability. There is no agency which is playing a more important part in the development of the Northwest than the modern farm | tractor. All over these seven states the giant horses are cutting the broad prairies into fertile farms. The wheat fields are already dotted with them. Every tractor placed in the North- west will turn hundreds of acres of prairie into productive farms, mak- ing homes for settlers, creating traffic and new wealth. Officers of the Northwest Develop- ment League have been considering | giving a champion sweepstakes prize fince the close of the “land show” held in St. Paul in 1911. They decided early to give a farm tractor and plows. As Good as Gold. The Big Four “30” the best engine; the Emerson plows as the most desirable tools to be ob- tained. By the terms offered the League could have secured most any tractor, but the Gas Traction com- pany’s engine was selected and nego- tiations opened for securing the great engine. The manufacturers generous- ly offered to donate the tractor on certain terms and their offer was ac- cepted Thus the world’s greatest prize for wheat is offered. The Big Four “30” tractor has won the gold medal two years consecutively in the world’s ag- ricultural motor competition at Win- nipeg and this had much to do with fits selection by the Development League. The outfit is considered as desirable a prize as an equivalent amount of gold, as these automobile work horses are revolutionizing farm- ing all over the world. Such a tractor enables a farmer to e#lmost do away with horses. Break- ing and threshing are not the only things which the Big Four “30” tract- or will do. It will work in soft ground ling, dragging, discing, harrowing arvesting. It has high, broad s which will work where horses get a foothold. They distribute ivht of the tractor to such an the pressure under the less per square inch than s hoof. s will be sent on re- ing Will A. Campbell, Seua Euliding, Minneapolis, extent vhat drivirs is unc er a bi Becurits Minn. in the grand | was selected as | Government Begins Action to Dissolve | the International Harvester Company. | | | Suit against the International Har- vester company, better known as or | harvester trust, under the Sherman anti-trust law was begun in the United States district court at St. Paul. | The bill in equity asking that the harvester trust be declared a combi- | it be ordered to dissolve was filed by |J. M. Dickey, assistant United States | district attorney. | Besides the International Harvester company, twenty-four other companies | and individuals are named as defend- | ants, including the International Flax | Twine company of St. Paul. It was | the presence of this concern in Minne- | sota that gave the basis for filing the | suit in this jurisdiction. | After filing the bill in St. Paul Mr. | Dickey went to Minneapolis, where he filed a petition with Judge C. A. | Willard of the United States district court asking that subpoenas be issued | for all nonresident defendants, return- able in St. Paul May 6. | Names of Defendants. national Harvester company, residents | of Illinois or New York, follow: | pany of America; International Flax Twine company; Wisconsin Steel com- | pany, which owns extensive mines in | Northern Minnesota; Wisconsin Lum- | ber company; Illinois Northern Rail- | way company; Chicago, West Pullman |and Southern Railway company; Cy- rus H. McCormick, Charles Deering, |fam H. Jones, Harold F. McCormick, Richard F. Howe, Edgar A. Bancroft, George F. Baker, William J. Louder- back, Norman B. Ream, Charles Steele, John A. Chapman, Elbert H. Gary, Thomas D. Jones, John P. Wilson, | William L. Saunders and George W. Perkins. The government charges the Har- vester company with being a combina- tion in restraint of trade, monopoli: Manufacture and sale of harvesting machinery. :SPENT MONEY IN HIGH LIFE | Minneapolis Bank Clerk Admits Mis- appropriating Funds. months for remittances they were the money was being spent in Min- neapolis cafes and for automobile and launch rides. Jens Schanche, former | former exchange teller for the North- western National bank, arrested on a charge of embezzlement, told the story He admitted leading a gay life for a to go to poor persons in foreign lands. In municipal court he waived exam- | | ination after telling Judge E. A. Mont- gomery that he intended to plead guilty in the district court. He is held in $800 bail. Schanche is a native of Norway. He | was with the bank five years, was well | educated and was trusted. | LIGHTNING KILLS WORKMAN | Drives Pipe Schroughies the Roof of His ! Mouth. | One man killed by a bolt of light- ning which drove a pipe he was smok- ing through the roof of his mouth and telephone and telegraph lines results of an electrical storm which struck St. Paul. A heavy rainfall ac- companied the storm. Joseph Zwinger, thirty-six years old, a@ car repairer employed at the Swift & Co. plant at South St. Paul, was in- stantly killed while on his way home struck his pipe, forced the stem of the pipe back through the roof of his mouth, then passed down his chest | | and right arm .and out through the | dinner pail which he was carrying in | his right hand: OLDEST MILL CITY MAN DIES There Since 1857. | William Daly, believed to have been the oldest man in Minneapolis, died at the home of his son in that city after having nearly reached the age of 102 years. Mr. Daly was born in Ireland May 10, 1810, and came to America in 1841, settling in Hennepin county in 1857. Minnesota State Bank Closed. State Bank Examiner Chase has closed the State Bank of Com- merce at Winnebago. The alleged loaning of tco much money and loans based on poor paper caused the ex- aminer’s action. The bank’s accounts may be readjusted within a few days, permitting the doors to be opened again. | The defendants, outside the Inter- | | The International Harvester com- | | James Deering, John J. Glessner, Will- | ing or attempting to monopolize the | While relatives in Europe waited | told had been mailed from America | in his cell at Central police station. | year with money that was supposed | put out of commission are some of the | from work by a bolt of lightning which | William Daly, 102 Years, Had Lived | ; Johnson of Waterville, Minn. was |\the man who brought the coins to be | plated. ; | Later Agent McManus seized more |than 2,000 of the coins in the posses- sion of Johnson at Waterville. $3,000,000 FOR INDIANS | Mitte Lacs’ Demand aid Papoeovie by Fed- | eral Court of Claims. A $3,000,000 claim of the Mille Lacs Indians of Minnesota on account of losses sustained by them through the opening of their reservation to public settlement was approved by the) | United States court of claims. | | Chief Justice Beele and Judge Howe | |dissented from the majority of the court and endorsed the contention of the federal department of justice that | | the law did not intend to give the In- | dians a valid claim against the United | States. | It is expected the attorney general | j will appeal the case to the United | | States supreme court. court. | |HILLS MAY MINE MINE IRON ORE | expect to Do Gininess on Minnesota | Range Before Long. President Louis W. Hill of the | Great Northern, D. M. Philbin, super- | intendent of the Great Northern ore | | properties, and A. M. Chisholm of Du- luth made a tour of the iron range 'and looked over the Great Northern | ore properties. “We expect to be in the mining busi- | |ness on the range ourselves before |jong,” Mr. Hill said. This is inter- | preted as meaning that with the can- /Cellation of the lease on Hill mines with the steel corporation next year | the Great Northern will go into the ; ore handling and ore marketing busi- ness. PRESIDENT TART = IS REPRIMANDED Censured by Meth Methodist Confer- ence at Minneapolis, A resolution declaring that Presi- | dent Taft, Secretary Wilson and Secretary Knox “have forfeited all claims on the future franchise of the Christian and sober manhood of the | nation” by “aiding the beverage liquor traffic by their persistent endorse- |ment” of the International Brewers’ congress in Chicago last October “in | the face of the most earnest protest” of the Methodist church, was adopted | by the quadrennial world’s conference | of the Methodist Episcopal church in | the Minneapolis Auditorium. Bishop John W. Hamilton had hard- ly called the session to order before the big gathering was thrown into | tumult by the resolution offered by | Rev. James W. Anderson of the Mis- souri conference attacking “those in authority.” The debate did not go into the merits of the attack, but was concerned solely with an attempt to have it referred to the committee on temperance and prohibition for “full and mature deliberation.” However, by a vote of 544 to 241, a substitute motion prevailed that a vote be taken | immediately and the reprimand of the | executives of the federal government | stood. | MINNESOTA BUTTER IS GOOD. State Stands Second in Value and Third in Quantity Produced. Minnesota produced more butter in | | the census year 1909 than all the New | | England states together, according to | the report issued by the department | \of commerce and labor. Minnesota’s production in that year was 125,180,- | 000 pounds, valued at $33,610,000. In amount Minnesota stood third in the United States. Wisconsin and Iowa ‘each produced more butter, but, _though Iowa beat Minnesota more | than 2,000,000 pounds in quantity, | Minnesota's product brought more Money, presumably on account of the | | higher quality. | DEPORT RANGE ANARCHISTS ; cause it is usually derived from trap |rock. As the pebbles composing the He Threatened to Blow Up Buildings and Prominent Persons. |. Karl J. Peterson of Biwabik has | been deported from the United | | States on the charge of being an an- | | archist. He was taken to Minneapolis, | | from where he was forwarded to New | York and thence to Sweden. He h’ been in America two years. Mistaken for a Burglar. | Charles W. Thompson, a prominent (Gruggist of Minneapolis, hearing | shots near his home decided to in- vestigate and he is in a serious condi- tion as the result of two bullet wounds | Teceived from a rifle in the hands of | Joseph Bushway, who told the police he had been helping Patrolman John- son drive away robbers who had tried to enter the grocery store of Johnson | & Anderson. | traffic. By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. Copyright by American Press Asso- ciation, 1912. RAVEL may be defined as a mass of small fragments of stone which have been more or less rounded through the ac- tion of water and which have been deposited by the same agency along sluggish river channels or about the | margins of lakes or other bodies of | water. It may have been formed from the hard rocks along the seashore, the | fragments of which, dislodged by the elements, fall into the water and are | washed back and forth through the action of the waves, gradually becom- ; ing rounded and smaller. In the New Engiand states and oth- | er of the states lying north of the Po- | tomac and Ohio river region gravel | 4 POORLY BUILT GRAVEL ROAD. pits, which are frequently termed gla- cial gravels on account of their direct or indirect association with ice action, are quite widely distributed, and these have been and may be used to a greater or less extent in road improve ment. During recent geological history of | the continent the Atlantic and gulf | porders have been submerged at inter- The ocean has advanced inland During each of vals. a number of times. ‘these periods of continental submer- gence the harder rock remanents along the inner margins of the ocean’s ad- | vance have been rounded, worn dow deposited and redeposited with vary- | ing proportions of sands and loams and clays, thus forming beds of grav- el, which are today available for road building purposes. Gravel roads and macadam roads alike have often received sweeping con- demnations as unsatisfactory when the cause of failure was poor construction and not the character of the material | used. The need of care in grading and | drainage in the construction of macad- am roads is being quite generally rec- ognized, but unfortunately many ama- | | teur road builders seem to think that | gravel roads may | simply piling gravel on the surface and leaving it to be packed by the passing | In point of fact, the grading | ‘and drainage and other details in con- | be constructed by nection with the construction of a gravel road should be done with as much care and thoroughness as in the case of a macadam road. Moreover, in | the one case as in the other specifica- tions must be adapted to varying local conditions. Of course, the gravel itself | must be selected with care. That which | contains a sufficient quantity of bind- ing material so that it stands as a ver- | tical wall when it is being excavated | is generally the best, for the reason |that this same binding material will | re-cement the gravel when used for road building. There are three important qualities which should be possessed by road building gravel—hardness, toughness and cementing or binding power. Of these three qualities the last is the most important. This binding quality is due in part to the presence of oxide of iron, lime or ferrugineous clay and in part to the angular shape and size of the pebbles composing the gravel. Blue gravel is universally conceded to be the best for road construction, be- gravel retain the characteristics which | they formerly possessed as a part of the larger rock itself, it follows that as {trap rock is considered an excellent material for road building, trap rock | gravel should occupy the same relative rank among the gravels. Limestone is, generally speaking. a soft rock, and consequently limestone gravel, which is quite rare, will usually be found soft and wil! wear rapidly. Quartz possesses practically no binding power. although it is very hard. Therefore gravel which contains an exception- ally large percentage of quartz will not prove successful. as it will fail to con- solidate unless it contains binding ma- | terial. or unless a good binder is added. In order that the material may bind readily the pebbles should be angular and should vary ir size so that the smaller fragments may fill the voids |is too coarse. The screen should be material which is too fine or that which | paring material for a macadam road. similar to that which is used in pre- | In the handling of the gravel care | should be exercised not to separate the | binding materia] from it, nor should this binding material be allowed to settle to the bottom in spreading the material over the road surface. It will often be found advisable to spread a thin layer of such binding material over the surface after the material has been distributed and rolled, and after still damp from the rains. | the Atlantic coastal plane is sufficient- | ly fine and uniform to render unneces- | | sary any assorting for road building purposes, but when the gravel, espe-| | cially that which is to constitute the | surface layer, contains large pebbles | these should be removed and either | thrown aside or else raked into the | foundation or recrushed. At least 60 | per cent by weight of the gravel should | be pebbles above one-eighth inch in | Size, and there should be no pebbles in | { | the bottom layer that will not pass | through a two and a half or three inch ring, and in the top layer there should | | be no pebbles which will not pass | through a one and one-half inch ring. | Not over 20 per cent of the mass | should be clay, and this should be uni- |formly mixed and should contain no | large lumps. Ten or 15 per cent of ey | produces better results than 20 per cent. | If the foundation or roadbed is loose | | it should be carefully rolled. It is, | quite as important to have a solid | foundation for a gravel road as for a | | macadam road. Gravel will compact to about 80 per cent of its depth, loose | | measure, provided earth shoulders are | | placed on both sides of the road to prevent the wasting away of the) gravel on the sides. If gravel is abun- dant, however, these shoulders may be built of gravel instead of with earth, or the road may be surfaced with | gravel from shoulder to shoulder. If | | the compacted depth of the gravel | road is to be eight inches and the width twelve feet it will take abeut | 2,250 cubic yards of gravel to the mile, and it is best to make the first layer about six inches in depth, loose meas- | | ure, and the second layer about four | inches in depth, loose measure. Gravel should not be dumped direct- | ly on the road, as this will usually re- sult in a rough, uneven surface. If | specially devised spreading wagons | are not used the gravel should be | dumped on boards and spread from ) them on to the road. | The gravel should be placed on the road commencing at the end nearest the gravel pit, in order that the teams will aid in packing the material. A spike or tooth harrow may be used to advantage in spreading the material, but if the gravel contains only a smal! | amount of binding material the har- | Tow should not be used, as it will ha the effect of bringing the larger peb- bles to the surface and shaking the | binding materia! to the bottom. Each layer of grave! should be rolled separately. The rolling should begin at the sides and continue toward the | center until the surface is thoroughly | compacted The surface layer should | A PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED GRAVEL ROAD. | be sprinkled while the rolling is in} progress, but if a rolier and sprinkler | are not available the road should be’ constructed if possible in the spring of the year, as the successive rains will cause the material to pack much better than if the road were built in the dry hot summer or early fall. If the gravel is lacking in suitable binding material and clay or loam is available a limited quantity of such material may be spread over the sur- face. The clay should be used very sparingly. however, as it absorbs wa- ter and causes the road to become soft and muddy in wet weather and dusty in dry weather. When the clay dries ft contracts and causes the road to erack. Clay is also affected by frost. The same may be said of loam. The best binder of all is iron oxide, which is frequently found coating the pebbles. Very satisfactory results may be ob- tained by surfacing the gravel road with a thin layer of limestone or trap- rock screenings. The split log drag or some similar device may be used to good advantage in maintaining the gravel road. | this the surface should be sprinkled | i ‘and rolled again or else rolled while | t A large part of the gravel found in} j; “T never knew a Mattress could be so Comfort- able.”’ | That's jus what satisfied users of Steams | & Foster Mattresses are saying. | You owe it to yourself to have a Stearns & Foster in your home and enjoy rest that is Comfortable, Refreshing, Healthful. 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