Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 21, 1912, Page 8

ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers. DOINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE dinary Session of State { Lawmakers. The extra session of the legislature adopted: Statewide primary law. Resolution ratifying constitutional amendments for a federal income tax | and the election of United States sen- ators by direct vote of the people. Five per cent railroad gross earn | ings bill, providing for semi-annual | instead of annual collection of railroad taxes. ing out provision that lights be car- Tied on horse drawn vehicles. Amendment to child labor law, mak- ing it more stringent. Modern Woodmen bill. Bill appropriating $10,000 for print- ing of extra session laws in newspa- | pers of state. | Work Accomplished at the Extraor- Amendment to automobile law strik- | résolution” Supplements Tt in Such a way as to guarantee that no railroad property shall escape taxation. The resolution directs the tax com- mission to investigate the value of all real and personal property of railroad companies in Minnesota taxable on an ad valorem basis and causes assess- ors to assess such ‘property, and pro- viding for back taxes on such prop- erty. ACCIDENTS IN MILL CITY Two Men Killed and a Third Seriously Injured. Two men were killed, one by a street lear and another by a freight train, | and a third was seriously injured by a | train at Minneapolis. |a carpenter, was struck by a west- bound interurban car, dragged thirty feet under the fender and was dead | when picked up. | old, a Northern Pacific brakeman, was j thrown from a freight car at North- ;town Junction and died three hours ‘afterwards at St. Barnabas hospital | from a fractured skull. Alexander Watt, Melrose, Minn., | also a Northern Pacific brakeman, suf- | fered the amputation of his right leg | when he was struck by a train. | TRAIN STRIKES TWO MEN Logging Camp Employes Are Instantly Killed. Bill allowing city of St. Paul to is- sue $600,000 worth of bonds for li- | brary purposes. | Resolution in senate providing for legislative investigation of charges | that breweries maintain blind pigs. j Resolution continuing commission to settle Wisconsin boundary line dis pute. R. C. Dunn Dill, allowing villages te | @ppropriate money to finance build. | ing of armories. RAISED TO FIVE PER CENT | New Gross Earnings Tax Passed by | Minnesota Legislature. It took the senate less than fifteen | minutes to rush the railroad tax bills | through. The vote was unanimous. | A 5 per cent gross earnings tax bill | and a resolution providing for the as- | sessment of all railroad property, tax- | able on an ad valorem basis, and for | the collection of back taxes passed. Following the suggestion of the| ®enate judiciary committee the house passed new bills to guard against le- were | the ditch, | apart. The bodies of Frank Dodge and Clarence Little, cook and cookee at Cochran’s logging camp near Bena, | were found in the ditch alongside the Great Northern track. It is supposed the men were killed | | by a passenger train while riding on a speeder. They were at Bena and started to walk along the track to-| wards camp. When arriving at a camp about a mile from their desti- | | nation they saw the speeder and, it 1s | ‘alleged, appropriated it to save walke | ing and were struck by the train just | before reaching the camp where they | were employed. Both were hurled into landing about sixty feet FATHER AND SON KILLED | Meet Instant Death on Railroad Tracke | at Red Wing. George P. Hutchson, forty years of | going first to Montreal, then to Win-| had told Leo good-by forever. }age, and his son Lee, aged seven | years, were instantly killed by the | obtained employment as solicitor for| prise that were hers at the first reali- westbound St. Paul passenger train at | the Potter street crossing at Red | Gustav Anderson, seventy years old, | Albert Wheeler, thirty-eight years | | Wing. They were taking Mr. Hutch- | Saw Tae bpp. eb to the boy’s pa: ‘but before “he | could get the lad off the track the loco- motive struck them. They were dead when picked up. MURDERED BY HIGHWAYMEN Minnesota Traveling Man Slain at Fargo, N. D. Because he refused to throw up his hands when ordered to do so by two highwaymen, Lake Park, this state, traveling rep- resentative of the Duluth Brewing company, was shot Fargo, N. D. After shooting Hanson the highwaymen fied without robbing the body. ' $200 for the capture of the highway- ‘men and the county is expected to | offer a large reward. Within a year | | two men have been murdered by high- ilar circumstances. ‘SHEPARD RESIGNS OFFICE Secretary of National Educational As sociation Quits. Irwin Shepard of Winona, this state, secretary of the National Educational association, has resigned his office | ‘and Durand W. Springer of Detroit \has been appointed his successor by |the board of trustees of the associa- | | tion. | In his letter to James M. Green- | | wood, chairman ~f the board of trus- ‘tees, under date of July 12, Mr. Shep- ard said his resignation was for per- sonal reasons and had been delayed by conditions “impeaching the honor of the association.” These conditions, he said, had been righted and he was | free to leave the office. PAID TO REMAIN IN HIDING; Man Wanted for Election Frauds Miss ing More Than a Year. Seattle, Aug. 14—Frank Majane of Atlantic City, N. J., who was indict. | ed there a year and a half ago on | charges of bribery and padding elec | tion lists in a municipal election and | under arrest here, told the deputy month. He said he went from Atlantic City to Europe, then returned to America, | nipeg, and finally to Seattle, where he| | a brewing company. | He told the officers that his ex- penses since he left Atlantic City had Julius M. Hanson of | and killed at} The city has offered a reward of | waymen on the same street under sim- | marshal that he had been in Seattle a_ gal complications and the bills were | : vushed through the house and sent to the senate. The gross earnings bill was drawn | to conform with a decision of the! United States supreme court andthe | | Wing. | son’s mother to the steamer, on which | been borne by a group of politicians | she was to return to her home at Dia- | who were interested in seeing him re-| | mond Bluff, Wis., after a visit at Red | main away. “There will be something doing in! The boy ran ahead and was cross- | Atlantic City if I go back,” Majane| | ing the railway track when his father | said. atten | —— dpa M. W. SAVAGE’S CHAMPION HORSES THAT WILL MAKE NEW WORLD'S RECORDS AT THE MINNESOTA | STATE FAIR ON MONDAY, SEPT. 2. MONEY MAKING CHANCES FOR ALL COMERS TO THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR. — Never before has the management | partment, but there is none that can; Dairy Products ....... 1,550.00 af a state or national exposition ever | boast of as well balanced exhibits in | Agricultural Products « 10,763.06 offered such an amount in cash prizes | #!] departments as will he seen on the | Horticulture . 1,668.75 as the Minnesota State Fair has in| Minnesota State Fair grounds at Ham-| Floriculture . 1,853.06 | its 1912 premium list. While the| line, September 2 to 7, 1912. Apiary ..... 1,062.0¢ | amount of money offered does not) A summary of the prizes offered in | art and Needle Work.. 1,893.50 | make the ses At pea baer bogs indi-| the various divisions and departments | Culinary ........ 448.00 | eaten the sposition -couupie’ 7. 22S \otehetgin i hbes: School Exhibits ............ 800.00 management and its desire to bring is —— the best and the greatest variety of | Horses and Ponies.. --$12,025.00 | Boy’s State Fair Encamp- { every kind of production to the great| Cattle . 15,066.00 ment ..... awe 'sinn inn <c-n05 gen exposition in September. Sheep . ne 4,035.00 | Horse Racing .............. 26,000.06 There may be other fairs which/Swine .... sees. 4,030.00 ——— ees have a larger exhibit in some one de-| Poultry ........0+.--00--++ 1,857.00 Grand Total ............--$83,851.2t AN AEROPLANE VIEW OF MACHINERY HILL, MINNESOTA STATE FAIR GROUNDS. — | time to discover. |a@ remarkable sense of rest and com- | | his son turning in at the gate. | dogged look in his eyes. | daughter-in-law. her good-by. Brookes had owned the big farm on the outskirts of the town for eighty | years and Leo had had two years at an agricultural school to prepare him for his work on the farm when his futher should step aside. But now he _wanted to go away for good. “Just because,” old Gideon had ls stormed, “the manager of a cheap | theatrical company gives you a chance |to starve to death tramping around | the country, you think you’re cut out {for a matinee idol! A thrashing ma- | chine gives you a chill and a plow produces a nightmare! A 640 acre farm doesn’t fall into the lap of every boy of twenty-two, I can tell you! I | want you to marry Ellen Penrose and settle down!” Leo nad opened his thin lips and thrown back his wavy hair. “I’m go- / ing on the stage,” he said doggedly. “Ellen will wait for me.” “Then she’s a fool,” pronounced his | eather, crisply, “with Frank Alexander only waiting for a chance to cut you out. And Ellen is a mighty pretty | girl.” Leo thought so hfmself when he told Ellen good-by. She had sat very quietly when he had unfolded his glowing future to her with all the van- ity of youth. When he ended, flushed with excitement, he had not noticed that she was very pale. There had been in his voice no note of regret at leaving her. | Almost unconsciously Ellen Penrose raised her small, beautiful head higher and something contracted about her | heart. Her life had been so inter | woven always with his that she was | dazed and hurt. She also was proud. Secretly Leo was vastly relieved that Ellen took his departure so quietly, with no tears. In his absorption he had said nothing about her waiting for | him. He took that as a matter of course. She watched him go down the path | between the lilacs and then she went | to her room with something throbbing { in her brain. It was as though she Dimly The hurt and sur She felt it was so. zation that she was second in his thoughts did not depart. And she! | took up her life. Sometimes Gideon Brooke, meeting her, would feel his anger stir afresh at his silly son. Letters came infrequent- ly from Leo. As the months went on they grew vague. He said not much | about success, but a great deal about hard work. No girl as pretty as Ellen is left solitary long. Frank Alexander, grav- er, older than the boy who had held | her heart for so long, developed at- tractions she had never before taken There was for her | | fort in his mere presence—she could |rely upon him. The day finally came | | when she wondered how she ever | | could have called her youthful fond- | ness for Leo Brooke by the name of | love. But that was nearly two years | | after Leo had departed, his head full | of dreams, his self-love uppermost. It was one crisp October day that | Gideon Brooke, standing in the barn | door and glancing down the road, saw | Some | | flitting memory of the prodigal son | | crossed his mind as he stood crushing | down the instant leap of his heart. There was the same old defiant tilt to | Leo’s head as he came near, but there | was bitterness about his mouth ané a | His clothes were threadbare. “T’ve come back,” the younger man | said, and his voice was oddly clear in | the frosty air. “You were right—I was wrong. I’ve been a failure. I’ve starved and shammered long enough. | At first I vowed that I wouldn’t come back, but—if you'll let me Ill go to work. Behind the plow, anything. It’s what I know best. I’ve wasted two years. Do you want me?” | Gideon Brooke’s voice was husky. | “Want you?” he repeated. “This is your home, boy. I—I guess mebbe | you’ve got more sense than-you had | two years ago. Mebbe it was all for | | your good. We'll forget it. It’s just about time to water the horses.” “Where were all the neighbors go- ing as I came out from town?” Leo asked a little later. Already his eyes looked clearer, his face less bitter. “You'd have thought it was a conven- tion.” Gideon Brooke picked up a straw. leaned over and “Going to the Pen- | rose place,” he said, shortly. “It’s Ellen’s wedding day—she marries Frank Alexander!” He slapped the bay horse smartly on its flank. “Get over!” he ordered. He had once been very fond of the idea of Ellen as his The oats spilied over from the meas- ure Leo Brooke was filling. Instead of | the barn wall his eyes were seeing | Ellen Penrose’s face as it was that day two years ago, when he had told “A—a fellow’s got to pay in this world, hasn’t he?” he said at last a little harshly. “And now, what work do I start on in the morning!” To Escape From a Burning House. If you are ever unfortunate enough to be in a house on fire, apply a wet cloth to the mouth and rostrils; you ean get through the dense smoke easily. If possible. cover the whole head and face BOYS’ ENCAMPMENT AT FAIR | STATE FAIR MANAGERS PLAN TO q q This is a osicsatas Couch Hammock made of heavy canvas over a strong wood frame. As complete as a bed. Complete with $8 15 Maiiael iste) 7 ee a We have a very large assortment of the newest things in Porch Chairs and Rockers at very reason- able prices. /MEORGE F. KREME FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE Crand Rapids, Minn Ttasca County Abstract Office Abstracts Real Estate Fire Insurance EDUCATE YOUTH. One Lucky Boy From Each County Will Be Brought to Fair and Entertained Free. The State Fair Farm Boys’ Encamp ment, although a novel proposition, has aroused much enthusiasm in all parts of the state and is generally a& mitted to be one of the best moves ever made by the agricultural society. With possibly one exception, one boy from each of Minnesota’s eighty- six counties will take part in this en- campment. The boys will be brought Conveyances Drawn, TaxeS Paid Tor Non-Residents | of the State Fair Farm Boys’ Encamp- | entertainment the show that will be | put on every night in front of the | inspiring spectacle of Mt. Popocatapetl \the justices of to the fair grounds, placed under com- petent guides and instructors, given their meals and lodging and shown how they can get the most out of the many helpful and educational oppor- tunities offered by the fair. This trip will be free to the lucky | boy in each county. The managers feel sure that another year competi- tion for the honor of being a member ment will be much keener than it was this year and that the feature will be @ permanent one of ever increasing popularity. “OLD MEXICO” Historic Pageant Pictured In Flame Will Be the Splendid Attraction | Every Night, Sept. 2-7. To persons looking for spectacular grandstand at the Minnesota State Fair this year will be exceptionally attractive. The name of the produc- tion is “Old Mexico,” produced by Newton & Duffield, men of unusual | experience in the fireworks business and is sure to be the most popular night show staged by the state fair management. The production has a historic inter- est and after a series of vivid pictures showing the life of the Mexican cap- ital in 1847 it concludes with the awe | in volcanic eruption. This spectacle will be interspersed with vaudeville and many novel and} attractive features and will be tol- | lowed by a gorgeous display of twen- tieth century fireworks on a scale never before attempted at the state fair. Kremer & King Props. Grand Rapids Minn. Posseosssssoes Siete : 1 Promise: to order a telephone today. p 4 The safety and comfort of my wife and children demand it. Tried and proven Residence Service 5S cents per day Order the Mesaba ete rfeetoey o aleel a So ef $ 3 z : & Set Soe (MESABA TELEPHONE CO PF. P. SHELDON, ae Pri lent Vice-Presidew ’, E. AIKEN. Cashier j FIRST NATIONAL BANK Transacts a Genera] Banking Business GRAND RAPIDS, MINN fannnrovncarcesrers2cssecsscenreese Keep the Barn Clean - | Summons for Publication. State of Minnescte, County of Itasca | The state of Minnesota to Charles La-| Fond, defendan You appear before to be and undersigned, one of peace in and for summoned said county, the tenth (1@th) day of August, ,» et 10 O'clock a. m., at my office in the lage of Grand Rapids, in said coun to answer to the complaint of J. P. O'Donnell and W. B. O'Donnell a civil action, wherein aim the sum of sixty d pn interest on e first day of thirty June, the first day upor y tiffs for such sum as they may show | themselves entitled to. Given under my hand and dated this | fifth day of July, 1912. | ROBERT H. BAILEY, Justice of the Peace. H.R July 17-24-81. nure best by on wheels jarg endeavoring to have these re- The regulations of the state board of health in regard to stables pro- ’ vide that all private stables shall be ‘ cleaned once a day and the manure put in a fly proof box and sprinkled daily with a solution of one pound of green vitro] to a gallon of water. i should mixture This will ij The floors of the stable sprinkled with the each day after cleaning. be same — prevent flies. Man nure should hauled away once a week and not put in dumps to to give 7e flies a breeding place. When it is necessary to store manure, each fresh supply should be sprinkled with the above solution. Livery stables can dispose of ma- into boxes accumulation putting it and this should be removed daily when pos- sible. A number of towns of the state gulations enforced.