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+~ PAGE Six | early in the game said he was opposed | to Governor Eberhart, he had no use | for the liquor crowd, and as Mr. Gor- | don was the first to get into the game | the Duluth man’s published position | was placed to his credit. A sudden |rise in his stock as far as the iron | range was concerned added to the talk. 5 . | So far Gordon has been one of the Expect to Gain by Republican | best advertised candidates in the field j Things have seemed to come his way Dissension. in that respect. He says he is in the | Bame to stay and his stand has the | backing cf those close to him. The other candidates would like to see RINGDAL IS AFTER VOTES him out of the.way and probably their | wish is responsible for some of the anti-Gordon stuff now being circulated. | +o Governor Eberhart has filed for re- | Nomination and the announcment has | put at rest a number of rumors con- | cerning his political intentions. It was | said that he might conclude to retire | from the game. The logic of the situa- (Special Correspondence.) | tion gives the Mankato man the nomi- St. Paul, Aug. 19—The state De-| nation and his backers are so confi- mocracy will go into the campaign this | dent in this respect that little out of year in the best condition it has been | the ordinary will be done in his behalf. fm ‘ince the death of the lamented | Still he faces danger. I refer to a con- | solidation of the field and the exercise Johnson. In fact it might be said | = ‘ of the second choice. The field is now that a decade has not seen the UM-| ,514 to be working together in an ef: washed in a more harmonious shape. | tort to sidetrack it for their benefit. ‘Three terms of Johnson was due to! Gordon claims the Lee second choice ‘the fact that John A. Johnson was the | votes and Young and Spooner are said @andidate, a fact more than apparent | to be figuring on a similar alignment. when he departed this life, but this | Governor Eberhart will go before the time it is a thoroughly united party, | voters on his record and the accom- ‘the prospects of a ticket free from | plishments of those serving under him. any internal dissension and a divided | Governor Bberhart has too much of house on the other side of the fence. | that caution peculiar to men of his If Democracy does not make a sub-| nationality to be creative, but he is stantial showing this year then its | not destructive. He does not work off future hopes are slim. Minnesota is | the bat, to use a sporting phrase. He a Republican state, at least always | is quite deliberative. Governor Eber- hart defers to his advisers, something has been when the national test was applied—50,000 normal the best post-| that his enemies have tried to use to ed say—but it is in a bad shape this | nis discredit, but I will say this, that year and if the arguings of the wise | when his excellency takes it into his nes are to be accepted most anything | head to stand pat there is no persuad- can happen this fall. They hope, how- | ing him, ‘He is positively bullhead- ever, for the best and believe that led. E. B. Smith and a few of those will stand frm and undivided. “It is | redited with having the Republican party in the hollow of their hand have this unstable condition, though, that | ; appeals to the Democratic leaders | learned this fact to their sorrow. colle eee gl and it is responsible for the ticket that is being compiled with care and | Ten years ago the office of the secre- the harmonizing feature that is ap- | tary of state was a position that car- parent throughout the ranks of the | ried with it little beyond that of a re unwashed. Frequently the rumor is | cording agent. Last year the present in- sent broadcast that National Commit- | cumbent, Julius Schmahl, turned into teeman Fred B. Lynch, who will un- | the state treasury nearly $125,000 and doubtedly be selected to lead the | the chances are good that he will dou- party in the fight, and Frank A. Day, | ble that amount next year. This state- the former Democratic dictator, have | ment is contained in advance sheets broken; that R. T. O’Connor, the St. | of his biennial report, just issued. Mr. Paul boss, has a knife up his sleeve | Schmahl, in preparing his report to Platform of the Organization Candi- date for Governor a Re- markable Document. and that Hennepin county leaders are at each others throats, but don’t you believe it. There is a working agree- ment all down the line and it is being strengthened with the days. The dis- gruntled are being weeded out and a united front prepared for the enemy. ek If evidence was necessary to sub- stantiate the victorious hopes and | plans of the unwashed it is found in the so called platform and statement issued last week by P. M. Ringdal, the organization candidate for gov- | ernor. It is a document that is thor- oughly remarkable. John Lind, the patron saint of the party in Minne- gota, could not have done better. Lacking that quality which the world styles “mixing,” somewhat distant on first acquaintance, but above it all showing an honesty of purpose that cannot be questioned, the Democratic organization candidate would on first thought be accepted as about the limit in the way of extremes, yet his statement does not bear out this im- pression. Just note: “I propose that the initiative and referendum be made the foremost issue at the coming cam- paign.” ciple, also the recall, reapportionment and a public utilities commission.” Nothing about liquor, the rock upon which Jim Gray met political death two years ago; no railing at corpora- tions; no tonnage tax, in fact nothing that would embarrass. Throughout one could infer, but that was all. The whole thing was as masterly a docu- ment as has been issued in many days. It simply showed what Demcc- racy is striving for—the votes of that growing number who want progress end not upheaval. Governor John- son’s success lay in tempering agres- siveness with caution and it looks pretty much as if Ringdal, the Popu- list hero of the eighties, was prepar- ing to follow suit. Between you and I, dear reader, the whole thing is not ® bad proposition and honestly I would not be at all surprised if the | Republican nominee for governor, | whoever he may be, will have a bad session combatting it. Ce a Emanating from rival headquarters and given publicity in publications known to be unfriendly to his candi- dacy, the rumored desertion of Sam Y. Gordon by his manager, James A. ij Martin, the withdrawal of important | financial support and the retirement of the Browns Valley man from the field would naturaly be accepted as one of those things characteristic of the average campaign, but at the same time little things have come up of late that lend substantiation to at least a part of the story. Sam is not going to withdraw, I have his word for that, but the continued absence of James A. Martin from the Gordon headquarters indicates that something 4s wrong. There also has been a ces- sation of activities in the working end of Mr. Gordon’s headquarters. From the start the lieutenant governor has been credited with the backing of Representative Congdon, a millionaire resident of Duluth, and the knowledge that Mr. Gordon is not overly en- dowed with this world’s goods has lent strength to the rumor, but there thas been nothing to show that the | Tenomination. the legislature, takes an advanced stand on coming legislation covering his department. As the custodian of thousands of articles of incorporation he wants the “get rich quick fellow” put out of business and he asks the legislature to adopt the Kansas meth- od of corporation regulation. Daily his office is deluged with complaints of concerns backed by the state whose | only existence is to fleece the gullible and he thinks it is about time to stop }the raid. His recommendations have so impressed other departments of the Schmah] their unqualified endorse- ment in the legislation proposed. Gov- ernor Eberhart has even been im- | Pressed and will make it a feature of his message to the next legislature. + ob | If those concerned with the success of the coming Minnesota Development Congress and land show to be held in Minneapolis will take a fool’s ad- vice they will, eliminate from their campaign of publicity the stationary heads and envelopes of the state ex- “I pledge myself to the prin- jecutive department. The whole thing is entirely too cheap and is bound to bring adverse criticism. The sta tionery used is executive letterheads and envelopes, with three lines in red ink added, the principal name of which is D. M. Neill of Red Wing, the chair- man of the movement. Neill is a can- didate for lieutenant governor and the use of the whole has so incensed the friends of J. A. Burnquist of St. Paul, a rival candidate, that they threaten to expose the whole thing. I am posi- tive that Mr. Neill knows nothing of the scheme. It is the work of an over. zealous press agent. te + Attorney Genera] Lyndon A. Smith has formally filed his candidacy for His only rival so far, Thomas Frazer of Rochester, has paid the necessary filing fee. Frazer, I get paign, depending on the so called ex- |treme Progressives and the La Fol- |lette following to aid him, but it is hardly likely that Mr. Smith will be seen outside his office until after the have taken his campaign in hand and, with the aid of a force of promised assistants in the event of Frazer’s to one on Smith. + + & Following the tossing of a coin which decided the question Charles E. |Elmquist filed for renomination for | railroad and warehouse commissioner for the six-year period and Judge Ira B. Mills for the four-year term. Their rivals are E. M. Canfield of Luverne and J. F. Rosenwald of Madison. The latter probably is in the most embar- Tassing position. He wanted to run against Mills and accordingly filed for the six-year term. Mills did not meet expectations and now Canfield has stepped in and taken the coveted posi- tion. Mills isa Twin City favorite and is picked to win. This, however, is on the proposition that the country vote is light. talk was 100 ver cent right. Congdon THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN, government that they have given Mr. | | used, which is a facsimile of the letter- | it, is going to make an active cam- | primaries. According to the story in , this neck of the woods Frazer’s friends | election, are pushing his candidacy for all it is worth. The bet here is three | ‘ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, CONGRESSMAN RYE RETIRES: Minneapolis Member Not In Accord With the Platform of the Re- publican Party. 1 Congressman Frank M. Nye of Minneapolis has announced his re- | tirement from congress, after serving | three terms. He says that he cannot | be a candidate for re-election because he is not sufficiently in accord with ‘the Republican party to warrant him in filing as a Republican. | “I shall be absolutely free in this {and future campaigns,” said Mr. Nye, |“to act, speak and vote my convic- tions.” He practically announced his allegiance to the Roosevelt third | party. | “To file as a Republican under the jlaw implies loyalty to the party and | its candidate,” said Mr. Nye. “There | are several reasons which render such loyalty impossible and to make the | affidavit required by law and file as a | Republican and then work for the de- ‘feat of the party does not square with my notions of right, although this course is quite popular in the present campaign.” EXPENDS $3.98 PER CAPITA Increase in Cost of Running State | Government. | It cost $3.98 per capita to run the ) government of the state of Minnesota from Aug. 1, 1911, to July 31, 1912, ac- | cording to a report of State Treasurer | Smith showing the receipts and dis- ‘bursements for the past year. | The per capita cost of government for the last fiscal year is 30 cents higher than the preceding year, largely on account of the increased appropria- tions of the 1911 legislature, it is said. The per capita cost is computed on ,the basis of revenue disbursements, of | | money that comes to the state through taxation. That which is disbursed from | funds raised through interest on in- vestments, sale of school and other State lands and other sources, is not computed in the per capita cost. | The amount expended from the rev- enue fund for the year closed July 31 Was $8,276,532.54. The entire sum ex- pended, including the disbursements from the revenue fund, and included in sixteen other funds, was $16,320,- ,065.41. The total receipts for the ‘year were $15,805,302.71, or $514,762.70 jless than expenditures. In only seven of the seventeen funds were the re- ceipts larger than the disbursements. each of the others running behind. ‘TWO MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES | Double Drowning Occurs at Lake Near | Minneapolis. | In an attempt to save the life of a friend Antonio Collianni was caught in the drowning grasp of James Dis- tofano and the lives of both men lost at Cedar lake, near Minneapolis. Paul Collianni, a brother of one of the lake victims, saved himself with difficulty. After a day’s outing the men pro- eured bathing suits and entered the ‘water near the dredge tower. Herbert Rolph and B. C. Lewis, witnesses of the drowning, believe that Distofano ‘was seized with cramps and when Col- Manni went to his assistance the res- cuer was seized by the drowning man and carried beneath the surface. | An immediate rescue was attempt- ed by Rolph and Lewis, who hastily procured a boat, but were unable to reach the swimmers in time. The body of Distofano was brought to the sur- face seven minutes after the accident by Rolph, who dived in eighteen feet of water, but a physician was unable to revive the man and said that heart failure probably proved fatal. LOCK CASHIER IN VAULT Yeggmen Take All Money in Cohas- | set (Minn.) Bank. After locking Cashier Skoedopole of the Cohasset State bank in the vault two armed safebreakers looted the currency drawers and escaped into | the woods surrounding the town with $1,600, all the money in the bank. Skoedopole managed to attract the attention of patrons of the bank, the combination was repeated through the tlosed doors and the exhausted cashier _Was released. A posse of deputies and citizens was organized by Sheriff Riley and the |woods in which the robbers are sup- Posed to be hiding have been sur- rounded. | The robbers were not masked. Fight on High Coal Prices. | National, state, county and civic , agencies will unite in St. Paul to pre- /Vent a coal famine and high coal ‘prices during the coming winter and |to punish possible manipulation of fuel rates by a combination of coal |companies or selling agencies. Recent ‘statements by coal men that there is | practically no coal stored at the Head ‘ef the Lakes and that a fuel famine | Seems impending, with high prices the bepical result, were believed responsi- ble for the determination to pre-ent j the threatened state of affairs. GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1912. : In Road Making IV.—State Aid In Road Improvement. By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. Copyright by American Press Asso- ciation, 1912. HE principle of state aid and state supervision seems to of- fer the best solution of the road problem. The first state to adopt state aid was New Jersey, a law having been passed by the legis- lature of that state in 1891. Since that time about two-thirds of the states of the Union have adopted some form of state aid or state supervision. In order to receive the aid of the state the counties or townships are re- quired to pay a portion of the cost. This amount varies in the different states from 25 to 50 per cent, but in some of the states the whole cost of A STATE AID ROAD IN NEW JERSEY. certain trunk line roads is paid by the state. The principle of state aid is that the state contribute to road im- provement out of a general fund to which all taxpayers contribute. The jfund does not come from farmers alone, but from all the people, and especially from those that are more abundantly able to bear the burden of taxation. A great injustice has been pecting them alone to shoulder the en- tire expense and responsibility of building country roads. The residents of cities have signified a greater will- ingness to contribute to this fund than those who live in the rural districts, notwithstanding the fact that prac- tically all the state aid laws prohibit the use of the money within the limits of cities and towns. State aid tends to equalize the burden of taxation. Every one who uses a highway or peed any benefit from it should con- tribute to the cost of its improvement The. farmer is not the only one who uses the country roads or receives benefit from them. They are also used by the country merchant, the lumber dealer, the itinerant peddler, the village doc- tor, the commercial salesman, by the wheelman and the automobilist, and te j@ greater or lesser extent by the en- tire people. The city dweller cannot |Mve without his daily supplies from the farm, and he must pay daily and in cash the greater share of all extra cost attending their transportation. Some of the state highway depart- ments are operated on a purely politi- cal basis, and it very frequently hap- pens that the highway commissioners, |as well as their subordinates, are re- moved from office for purely political Teasons, no matter how efficient or com- petent they may be. This is the most serious defect in our state aid system. | vision and state aid should be so framed as to remove its administra. ‘tion as far as possible from the in | fluence of partisan politics. A plan that seems to be meeting with genera) approval is one which provides for a nonpaid, nonpartisan and technically |competent commission that consists, for instance, of a professor of civil en- | gineering from one of the leading uni- versities or colleges of the state, the state geologist and one civilian mem | ber to be appointed by the governor. A commission thus constituted has a majority of its members selected be without reference to their political at- filiations. The civilian member ap pointed by the governor should bring to the commission the business ability essential to the proper and economic organization and prosecution of its work. At the same time, so long as the governor could appoint only the minority of the commission and the same being nonpaid, there would be lttle inducement to make the position one of political preferment. | The actual work of a state highway it should be under the direc- tion of one man possessing technica) qualifications, experience and execn- tive ability. This official should be ap- pointed by the commission. He should be a civil engineer, skilled and experi- ‘enced in road construction and main- tenance, and his salary should be fixed by the commission. His position shoulé be permanent, and he should not be re ‘moved except for incompetence or ma) feasance ip office. HomeCourse | done the farmers of this country in ex- | Any law providing for state super- | cause of their training and ability and |) | 4 | | | "The state highway engineer should | be empowered to appoint all of his as- | sistants after proper examination and with the advice and consent of the | commission, to receive all bids and to | award contracts, to supervise the work of construction and maintenance, and, in fact, he should be given full authori- ty in all executive work of the depart- ment. The state highway engineer ‘should prepare a map of such of the | Main highways of the state as should Most properly constitute a system of state or trunk line roads to be improv- ed either in part or wholly by the state. | State road improvement should be car- | rled forward with the ultimate idea of | developing a continuous system of | trunk lines running throughout the | state and connecting, if possible, with | Similar trunk line roads in adjacent | States and with the necessary lateral roads in each county. } The state highway engineer should be given authority to call on county or | township road officials for information concerning the roads under their super- vision, and it should be made manda- | tory on.such officials to furnish such in- formation upon request. This is very | desirable. as it is necessary for the state highway department to keep post- | ed as to conditions existing in different counties. In most of the state aid laws the initiative in obtaining state aid rests with the county or township authori- ties. This is a wise provision, because, in the first place, the local authorities are in better position to know what roads it will be to the greatest advan- tage of the county or township to im- | prove, and, in the second place, they | are best able to determine the extent | of the county’s ability to share in the | expense of such an improvement. An- ‘other consideration of great importance in this connection is that if the initia- tive were to rest entirely with the state there would be a certainty of | conflict of authority between the state | and the counties, resulting in the ulti- | mate failure of the state aid plan- The only case in which the roads can | be built by the state without the full |and hearty co-operation of the coun- ties or townships is where the state | pays the entire cost of building and |maintaining the roads. Most of the |laws provide that state aid shall not be granted until the application of the | local authorities has been approved by |the state engineer, which enables the | engineer to exercise a sort of supervis- |ory power over the selection of the |Toads to be improved. to the end that | the various roads throughout the state | shall conform to a general system. All surveys, plans, specifications and estimates for state roads and bridges | should be made by the state highway ‘engineer’s office, thus insuring uni- |formity and a high degree of excel- {lence. All improvements to cost over, | say, $2,000 should be let to contract, as it has been found that this means economy both in time and money and | with proper supervision will usually i give better results than could be ob- tained otherwise. Some of the states provide that the whole cost shall be paid in the first in- stance by the state, the counties or townships being required to reimburse the state for their share at a fixed time after the road is improved. Bridges and culverts should be con- sidered as a part of the road and the state should aid in their construction within proper limitations in the same manner as for the road itself. When | the work is let to contract the contrac- tor must of necessity advance money in the performance of his contract and is therefore entitled to receive partial payments thereon as the same progress- | es, but not over 85 per cent of the con- \tract price of the work should be paid lim advance of its full completion and | acceptance. The state highway engineer should be required to keep all roads built by the aid of the state in proper repair, the total cost of such repairs to be paid by the state, the counties and townships to reimburse the state in the same man- ner as for the construction of the road. | The reason for this is that read main- tenance is of as great or even greater A BTATE ROAD IN CONNECTICUT. the best roads if neglected soon go to ruin. It is utterly useless to establish a state highway system without at the same time providing an adequate source of revenue. Unless there is a surplus in the treasury for this pur- pose a special tax should be levied or a state bond issue should be author- ized. On the theory that automobiles are destructive to improved roads most of the state aid states provide that the proceeds of automobile licenses over and above the expenses connected with issuing such licenses be applied to the state highway fund and used for the purpose of constructing and maintain- ing the roads. {mportance than road construction, and | Notice of Application for License to Sell intoxicating Licuors- Notice is hereby given that Frank Payne has petitioned the Board of County Commissioners of Itasca county, Minnesota, for License to sell Intoxicating Liquors for a period of one year from the 10th day of Sep- tember, 1912. On the ground floor of that certain frame building, known as the Lyons Hotel, situated upon Jot 1, block 17, plat of Ball Club. This application and any remon- strance or Objections to the grant- ing of the same will be heard and determined by said Board of County Commissioners at their next ses- sion, on Tuesday the 10th day of, September, 1912, at the Court House in the Village of Grand Rapids, It- asca County, Minnesota. Dated August 21st 1912. M. A. SPANG, County Auditor, Itasca County, Minn. Aug 21—28 AMENDMENT OF THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE RANGE SAND LIME BRICK COMPANY. r We hereby certify that at a special meeting of the stock holders of the Range Sand Lime Brick com- pany, duly called and held at the office of the corporation at Pengilly, Minnesota, on Saturday, May 11,1912, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of amending its artjcles of in- corporation as hereinafter stated, and transacting such other business as migh be necessary, the following resolution was offered, and, on motion, the same was duly adopted by a majority of all o the shares of the stock of said corpora- tion: Resolved that Article VI of the Arti- cles of Incorporation be amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: The amount of the capjtal stock of this cor- Poration including both common and preferred stock shall be $150,000.00. Its common stock shall be divided shares of $10.00 each, and may be is- sued in series. If preferred stock is issued it shall be divided into shares of $100.00 each. The first series of ¢ mon stock issued shall not exceed - 000.00. If deemed advisable by of directors, said corporation 750 shares of either special or p red stock of $100.00 each, redee at the option of the board of d at any time after two years f date of issuance, bearing not to exceed 8 per cent. and without any voting powe stituting a first lien upon the ate assets, provided however, board of directors may at after such redemption 1 preferred stock or in lieu sue common stock. J. W. BRAGDON, President. cor) that ue such thereof is- A. W. KERRIDGE, etary. (CORPORATE SEAL) STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Carlton—ss, On this 15th day of May, 1912, before Me, a Notary Public within and for said county, personally appeared J. W. Bragdon as president, and A. W. Ker- ridge as secretary of the Range Sand Lime Brick company, and each ac- knowledged the execution of the fore- going certificate to be his free act and deed, and for and in behalf of said corporation. HENRY P. GEORGE, Notary Public, Hennepin County, Minn My commission expires Oct, 22nd 1913. STATE OF MINNES DEPART- ment of State: I hereby certify that the within instru ment was filed for record in this of- fice on the 8th day of June, A. D., 1912, at 9 o'clock a and was duly record- ed in book V-3 of Incorporations, on page 507. OTA, JULIUS A. SCHMAHL, etary of State. OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS, STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF" Itasca—ss. I hereby certify that the within § in- strument was filed in this office for record, Aug. 9, 1912, at 10:45 a. m., and was duly r ded in Book 33 of M. R., page 104. E. J. McGOWAN, Register o1 Deeds By IRENE BECKER, Deput H. R. Aug. 14-21. Call for Bids on Judicial Road Work. Sealed bids will be received by the county auditors of St. Louis and Itasca counties, Minnesota at the office of county, in the Rood building in the village of Hibbing, Minnesota, up to 12 o’clock noon, of Saturday, the 17th day of August, A. D., 1912, on the fol- lowing described ad work on the county line between St. Louis and Itas- ca counties, Minnesota; all work to be done in accordance with plans and Specifications therefor prepared by, and on file with, said county surveyor of St. Louis county; payments therefor to be made upon monthly estimates furn ed to the county boards of said St. Louis and Itasca counties. The work upon which bids are asked is as follows: Constructing and completing ten (10) miles of the Judicial Highway on the county line between Itasca and St. | Louis counties, commencing at the |Southwest (SW) corner of section 19, township 61 N. of Range 21 W. ig St. Louis county, and extending north- erly on.said county line to the southwest | (SW) corner of section 6, in twp. 62 d. of range 21 W. in said St. Louis county. All bids must be made in du- plitate. Bids will be received for all |or any portion of said work equal to one (1) mile or any multiple ihereor, The successful bidder on sald work or any portion thereof, will be required to enter into a contract with the coun- tles of St. Louis and Itasca, and to furnish good and sufficient bond in an amount equal to the amount of his Said contract. The county boards of said counties re- serve the right to reject any and all bids and parts of bids. By order of the County boards of St. Louis and Itasca counties. 0. HALDEN, County Auditor, St. Louis County M. A. SPANG, : County Auditor, Itasca County. | aug. T and 14, ; A. E. Dyer, county surveyor of St Louis: