Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 18, 1912, Page 8

‘PAGE EIGHT THREE MEN HAD FULL CONTROL Harvester Trust Voting Agreement Put in Record. FUNK STILL ON STAND General Manager of Farm Machinery Company Denies Government Alle gation That $140,000,000 Corporatior. is a Monopoly in Restraint of Trade. Chicago, Sept. 18—Government at torneys presented at the taking of testimony in the government’s anti- trust suit against the International Harvester company what purported to be an original agreement by which George W. Perkins, Cyrus H. McCor- mick and Charles Deering formed @ “voting trust” which placed them in absolute control of the $140,000,000 corporation. The agreement, dated Aug. 12, 1902, was for ten year&Jand expired a few weeks ago. It was in- troduced by the government to show that these three men had turned over to them all the stock so they had tie sole voting power of the corporation. Analyzing the business of his com- petitors, Clarence S. Funk, general manager of the International Harvest- @r company, in the government’s anti- trust suit aginst that corporation, tes- tified there hardly was a farm imple- ment in the manufacture and sale of which competition did not exist. The government suit for the dissolu- tion of the harvester company asserts the corporation monopolizes the har- vesting machinery business of the country and fixes prices “to the seri- us injury of the farmer.” Says Many Competitors Exist. As showing the company had com- petition, Mr. Funk declared there were from three to seventy-five firms manufacturing farm implements. “We have from forty to fifty com- petitors selling corn shellers,” he said, “twenty-five producing motor vehicles, seventy-five producing cultivators, fif- teen corn huskers and three reapers. ‘The field is pretty well covered by competitors.” Grasshoppers and crickets cost the harvester company more than $4,000,- 000, Mr. Funk declared in answer to the government’s charge that the com- pany monopolized the binder twine business, thus compelling the farmer to pay high prices. He declared the company had attempted to produce a superior binder twine out of flax. “There was so much sweetness left in the twine that the grasshoppers and crickets, feeding on it, became a pest,” said Mr. Funk. “We conducted experiments and expended $4,000,000 4m trying to furnish the farmer with a _Suitable twine.” MORE CARS ARE RUNNING Bervice at Duluth Said to Be Nearly Normal. Duluth, Sept. 18.—Street car service fs nearly normal. Public ownership of the street car lines has been advo- cated by the Duluth city council and the attorney for that body was told to go ahead with a scheme to take over the lines of the local railway com- pany. General Manager Warren said that the backbone of the strike is broken. Union leaders deny this, declaring they will remain out until their de- mands are granted or arbitration of the difficulty is resorted to. W.LL APPEAL FROM PRISON Wealthy Black Hills Men Begin Serv- ing One-Year Sentence. Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 18—F. R. K. Hewlett, John Fall and David Fall, convicted in the federal court in con- nection with a wolf bounty scandal, have been taken to a federal prison. From that institution they will perfect an appealof their case to the highest court. All three men are: wealthy and well known in the Black Hills. They were sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of $100 each. The fines were paid. HIT COLONEL IN PLATFORM New Hampshire Republicans Rap Former President. Concord, N. H., Sept. 18—The Re- publican state convention selected four Taft and Sherman electors and adopted a platform declaring that the “Republican party has survived in the past both the open attacks of the legi- timate opponents and the treachery of ite beneficiaries and its work is not to be impeded by those who, failing to dictate its policies, seek its destruc- tion.” Attorney Shot by Bandit. Ban Mateo, Cal. Sept. 18.—Charles WN. Kirkebride, an attorney of this city and a lieutenant in the Hleventh com- pany, eoast artillery reserve, known as the “millionaire company,” was shot and probably fatally wounded by m highwayman who held up and robbed two cars of the electric line between this place and San Francisco. Kirkebride grappled with the robber and received a bullet in the body. The Bandit escaped. go... OIL PIPE LINES Standard Dictates Policy of Former Subsidiaries. DIRECTORS ARE DUMMIES President of Buckeye Company Ad- mits That He and the Other Four Officers of the Concern Own but One Share Each of a Total of 200,000. New York, Sept. 18.—Officials and employes of the Standard Oil company | still are in command of the Buckeye Pipe Line company, a former subsid- jary of the Standard Oil company, ac- cording to D. S. Bushnell, the Buck- eye’s president, who testified before a referee in the Standard Oil-Waters- Pierce litigation. s Mr. Bushnell repeated his testimony that he had been elected president of the Buckeye, Northern and Indiana pipe line companies and of the New York Transit company in December, 1911, immediately after the dissolu- tion decree against the Standard be- came effective. The elections, he said, were held within an hour at the headquarters of the Standard. Mr. Bushnell said that the directors elect- ed at the reorganization in December, 1911, were O. S. June, R. L. Bates, T. W. Dillon, L. C. Walch and himself. Altogether they owned five shares, he said, out of 200,000. All five directors, Mr. Bushnell tes- tified, had been in the employ of the Standard Oil company or its subsid- faries. All got raises in pay imme- diately after their election and were made officers of the company. Questioned by Untermeyer. “Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Archbold, Mr. Moffet and other associates, who owned a majority of stock, were en- tirely willing to entrust the manage- ment of the Buckeye company wholly to you and four other men who owned but one share each in the company, were they?” “The stockholders apparently were willing to do this,” said Mr. Bushnell. Samuel Untermeyer, for the Waters- Pierce company, sought to have Mr. Bushnell say that he was put in office by Messrs. Rockefeller, Archbold and Moffet and was responsible to them. The witness insisted he did not know who put him in office. He was re sponsible only to the directors, he said. ‘The three other pipe line companies had all held their meetings since their reorganization, he said. The proce- dure had been substantially the same in all four cases. GUNMEN NEVER OUT OF CITY Walked Streets of New York Daily While Police Sought Them. New York, Sept. 18.—For six weeks prior to their arrest “Gyp the Blood” and “Lefty Louie,” wanted as slay- ers and minuteiy described in thou- sands of circulars sent broadcast throughout the country, walked the streets of New York daily. Twice they attended the Mardi Gras festivities at Coney Island and on one occasion they stood almost in the shadow of police headquarters while detectives supposed to be looking for them passed in and out of the build- ing while for ten minutes the gunmen debated with themselves the wisdom of giving themselves up. This is the gist of a statement given out by ex-Judge Charles G. F. Wahle, who is defending all four gunmen un- der arrest. The lawyer declared em- phatically that “Gyp” and “Lefty” had not been in hiding. BITTER FIGHT ON HOME RULE Series of Big Orange Demonstrations Planned. Belfast, Sept. 18.—A fen-days’ series of big Orange demonstrations against home rule will begin today with a meeting at Enniskillen where it is expected 15,000 Protestants will for. mally warn the government of the de termination never to acknowledge an Irish parliament, to obey its laws, or to pay taxes which it may impose. Other meetings will follow else where throughout the north. That the demonstrations will result im widespread disorders is considered more than likely. In Belfast manufacturing is largely tied up by the incessant fighting be- tween the Catholic and Protestant workingmen. Dozens were badly hurt. Rich Manufacturer Killed. New Rochelle, N. Y., Sept. 18— Adotph Rubling of New York, a ‘wealthy iron and steel manufacturer, was struck and instantly killed by a train at the station here. He was hurled about fifty feet in the air and when picked up he was dead. Newsboys Declare Strike Off. Chicago, Sept. 18.—Chicago news- boys who went out in sympathy with striking pressmen on May 1 last, at a meeting of their union decided by ‘unanimous vote to return to work im- mediately. CUMBERSOME Statewide Primary Ac! in Need of Amendment, ONE FEATURE IS NULLIFIED Elimination of Party Designations on Municipal Tickets Knocked Out by Petition Provision. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, Sept. 18.—Minnesota’s first statewide primary has come and gone and the result as far as a number of the offices are concerned is very much in doubt. As expected the second choice provision was the stumbling block. The Twin City dailies figured that it would take a week to get the returns complete and their hunch is not far off. I would not be surprised if it took longer. That the application of the primary law to the state offices has come to stay is certain, but there is one thing sure, the next legislature will have to correct certain features of the law. There are a dozen things in the law which have no business there, while as to the corrupt prac- tices act the ridiculous feature of the whole is so apparent that the coming legislature will have to practically re- construct it. It can not be enforced; if it was not a man in the state would be eligible for office and if any official tried to half way obey it he would be laughed out of office. Attorney Gen- eral Smith has a fund of $10,000 to be used in enforcing the provisions of the act, but my word for it he will find other things more profitable to the state to engage his attention. Mr. Smith has said that the act in many ways is a joke, but it is the law of the state and he will enforce it to the best of his ability. ++ + Now comes the petition fiend and from all accounts he will be busy throughout the state for the next ten days. The new law gives the peti- tion a legal standing this year and from all accounts more than one can- didate will seek public office via that medium. Signers, however, must not have participated in the primaries and the fact that they did not must be at- tested to by 4 hotary. One of the features of the new primary law was the elimination of party designation in the compiling of municipal tickets, but it has been discovered that this feature has been nullified by the peti- tion game, which permits a candidate when named by petition to have the fact so stated on the ballot, together with the party he represents. As a result the Socialist and Public Owner- ship parties, for whose benefit it is said the nondesignation provision was adopted, will be the only ones with a Political designation. The Socialists say the machine was responsible for the nondesignation provision and they | are laughing over how its framers fell down on the job. ++ + Socialists and the Industrial Work- ers of the World, the latter the latest organization to bid defiance to organ- ized capital and the accepted law of the land, gave St. Paul and Minneap- olis something to think about last week when they clashed with the po- ice of both cities over their right to hold street meetings and later aired their grievances in the courts, which in the case of Minneapolis held against their claims. Blockading the streets was the charge in both cities. The leaders now threaten to get even at the general election. Some people may not agree with the statement, but John J. O’Connor was about the best chief of police St. Paul ever had. It! is notable of Minneapolis that its po- lice force is always on parade; that the theft of a door mat and the cap- ture of the culprit is sufficient to send its most conservative daily paper into a fit, with columns of praise for the thief catcher, and St. Paul is trying to follow. The trouble is that there is too much politics in the police ranks of both cities. They are the means to an end and designing poli- ticians are using them. + + + Had John O’Connor been on the job the spectacular clash of the police with the Socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World would have never happened. Advised of a threat- ened blockade he would have sent for the leaders and there would have been a conference. The occupancy of a less frequented corner the next night would have been the result. And woe be to those who disregarded his orders. There would have been no dash of mounted policemen, a spec- tacular run by the patrol wagon or a flash of clubs. “Please come to the station,” would have been whispered by a plain clothes man and you can be sure that the order would have been obeyed. According to spectators the presence of the police drew a bigger crowd at the street corner meetings than the speakers. The present chief of police of St. Paul is a lawyer. There are town marshals throughout the state who know more about diplomacy than he does about handling a metropolitan police force. + ibe Talking about the St. Paul police force and its press agent methods, 4 company playing “The Yoke” at a lo eal theater had the time of its life with a nice bank account as the result of the threatened closing of the thea- ter by Mayor Keller, who is really the head of the force. The play was de- clared to be indecent, but it was not stopped until the week’s engagement was about completed and all who could crowd into the theater had witnessed its vulgarisms and heard the nasty lines. The protest against the play Was made by a number of club women and then the police and the daily press | did the rest. The play was poorly at- tended until these two got busy and after that—well those who promoted the play are still talking about the week’s receipts. All of which compels the admission that suckers are not confined to the country. oe Those who are concerned regarding Minnesota’s lessening supply of tim- ber should listen to what W. T. Cox, state forester, has to say on the sub- ject. He has made an investigation and he says that Minnesota has over 75,000,000,000 feet of merchantable timber at the present time, which in his opinion is worth at least $4 a thousand feet. He makes this state ment in an article written by his offi- cial press agent and to whom the state pays a salary. The work of the press agent is principally directed at show- ing that Mr. Cox and his department is some pumpkins and that the money provided by the taxpayers for its main- tenance is money well expended. How Mr. Cox figured the exact amount of the standing timber in Minnesota and its value is not stated in the article. + ++ The primary is over and it has been a hotly contested one, but it will not be a marker to the gathering which will be held week after next when the nominees for the various state offices, members of the legislature and the state senators meet to name a state central committee. Representatives the state capitol and to be exact the date will be Oct. 1. previous the county central commit- tees will be named. Ordinarily the nominee for governor on each ticket would name the state chairman and committee, but it looks pretty much as if there would be a clash as far as the Republican nominees are con- cerned. There are any number who want the chairmanship. From what I hear Ed Smith will have none of it and J. A. O. Preus, who has been men- tioned, has put his foot down on the whole thing. Kay Todd, the head of the Young campaign committee, is mentioned for Republican state chair- man in some quarters. Ancther is. Dr. Cane, who has had to do with the Spooner campaign. dae iat Regarding the formation of a state central committee and the meeting of the candidates of the several parties at the state capitol for the naming of such, remember that the law says the nominees “shall” meet. This means that both branches of the legislature and candidates for all the state of- fices will have to dig down in their pockets and pay good money to come | to the Capital City. There will be no reimbursement by the state. If all sattend fully 500 will be on hand. Whose brain evolved this provision is not known, but he certainly was a | genius. It is sure going to be a gala day for St. Paul and a few others that I know of. +++ Considerable criticism is being di- rected at the federal franking privi- lege accorded Jim Manahan, who is a candidate for congress at large. Unit- ed States Senator Clapp is responsi- ble and how Jim ever put it over on the junior senator is puzzling quite a few. The excuse was a speech made by Mr. Manahan before the State Bar association and Mr. Manahan so im- pressed Senator Clapp that he had it made a federal document. With a state law limiting the expenditures of those who seek public office and every candidate compelled to obey it, Sena- tor Clapp’s efforts in behalf of a man | who did everything but stand by him in the past is bitterly resented. ++ + One Minneapolis paper publishes re- productions of letters sent out by State Oil Inspector Guy Eaton of Duluth and others in behalf of the Republican ad- ministration, asking for contributions. The letters: are addressed to holders of state jobs. The publication is of course directed at the Eberhart crowd. Compelling the holders of choice plums to come across for campaign purposes is as old as the game of politics. It is always expected. When John Lind was governor it is said that those be- hind him compelled a monthly contri- bution. If you held a job paying you $4,000 a year you would gladly con- tribute in aid of a continuance. Even the $50 a month man is willing. +++ If the plans of the state board of control are carried out the old state prison at Stillwater will be used as a place for housing the criminal insane. They are now cared for at Hastings. That the coming legislature will take kindly to the scheme is doubted, as it means an additional outlay of the state’s money, and yet something must be done with the criminal] insane. It is said the buildings at Hastings are not safe and that the lives of many ere endangered while they are kept there. t+ + The threatened mixup between Fred B. Lynch and Frank Day is not going to happen. Mr. Lynch has a pretty good hold on things Democratic in Minnesota and Frank Day is too much concerned regarding the suc- cess of his adopted party to interfere. THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. of five political parties will meet at) On the Tuesday | ABOUT THE STAT News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers. TROOPS THE LAST RESORT Governor Insists That Duluth Officials Must Control Strike Situation if Possible. After spending several hours in Du- | luth, where he thoroughly scrutinized the street car strike situation, Gov- ernor Eberhart came to the conclusion that the calling out of state troops at this time was unnecessary and insisted that the local authorities exhaust all means at their command before call- img on the state for assistance in pre- venting disorder. Immediately upon arriving at Duluth Governor Eberhart went into confer- ence with Mayor McCuen and other city officials, street car officials and others. He said that he would thor oughly look into the situation and it he decided that the sheriff cannot handle the mobs he will order out the state troops. After a conference with Labor Com- missioner W. F. Houk and Executive Clerk Archie Hayes, who have been in Duluth several days, the governor said: “The situation is in the hands of the local authorities. If they should prove unable or unwilling to cope with the situation armed forces of the state will have to be called out if violence is persisted in. “I do not know that the sheriff has been derelict in his duty thus far. I will see as to that. He asked me for the militia, but I will not call it out until I am satisfied that the local au- | thorities cannot handle the situation. “I know nothing about the merits of the controversy. The only interest of the state is in the preservation of life and property. My duty is to see that the local authorities exhaust every means in their power to handle the situation. If they fail the state must step in. “rom what I have been able to learn I judge that the violence which has occurred thus far has been com- mitted by men outside the controver- sy. It should be stopped. The strik- ers, labor leaders and local authori- ties should unite to prevent disorder. “Public sentiment is with the strik- ers. It will turn against them unless their sympathizers preserve order. | The prevention of violence is vital to the strikers. They and other labor men should realize that.” |NEW TURN IN CAR STRIKE | Duluth City Council Takes Steps to | Acquire Property. The street railway strike at Du- |Wuth took a new turn when the city | council adopted a resolution instruct- | ing the city legal department to begin an action to take over the Duluth street railway as city property. The aldermen voted unanimously and the resolution was passed with- out debate. The action was due to the strike which has been in progress | there for a week, attended by more or less serious rioting, and the refusal of the manager of the street railway company to arbitrate differences with nine of its employes. According to the procedure a spe- cial election will be called to pass on public ownership. Notice of Sealed Bids. Sealed bids will be received by the !Board of County Commissioners of {Itasea county, Minnesota; up until 10 | o'clock a. m. on Tuesday, the Ist day | of October, 1912, at the office of the County Auditor in the Village of Grand | Rapids, Minnesota, for the construction !and completion of one mile of Road be- ginning at the quarter post on the south | side of Section 34, Township 54, Range 24, and running west to the quarter |post on the south side of Section 35 | of said Township. All work to be done | according to plans and specifications on | fie in ‘the office:of the County Auditor. The Board reserves the right to re- | ject any or ail bids. M. A. SPANG, | County Auditor. | Sept 11, 18, 25. Notice of Sealed Bids. | Sealed bids will be reecived by the | Board of County Commissioners of Itasca county, Minnesota, up until 10 o’clock a. m., on Tuesday the Ist day of October, 1912, at the office of the County Auditor in the Village of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, fer the construction and completion of a road beginning at the northeast corner of Setcion 28, Township 62, Range 26, and running east to the Kinney Trail. All work to be done according to plans and specifi- cations on file in the office of the Coun- ty Auditor. The Board reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids. M. A. SPANG, The Board reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids. M. A. SPANG, County Auditor. Sept 11, 18, Mortgage Foreclosure Sale Default having been made in the pay- ment of the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-six and 54-100 Dollars, (2526.54) which is claimed to be due and is due at the date of this Notice, upon a certain mortgage duly executed and @elivered by Joseph Conte, Mortgagor to Stone-Ordean-Wells Company, a corpora- tion, Mortgagee, bearing date of the 2nd day of October, A. D., 1911, and with a Power of Sale therein contained, duly re- corded in the office of Register of Deeds in and for the County of Itasca and State of Minnesota on the 17th day of August, A. D., 1911, at 8:50 o'clock a. m in book 7, of mortgages, on page 624, and no action or proceeding having been in- stituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage or any part thereof. NOW THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue of the power of sale contained in said mort- gage and pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, the said Mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises cescribed in and convey ed by said mortgage, lying and being in the County of Itasca and State of Minnesota, described as follows: Lot Number Two (2), Block Number eight- een (18), Town of Keewatin, according to the recorded plat thereof now on file in the office of the ‘Register of Deeds in and for said county and state, with the hereditaments and appurtenances, which sale will be made by the Sheriff of said Itasca county, at the front door of the Court House in the City of Grand Rapids, in said County and State, on the 1th day of Nov., 1912, at ten o’clock a@ m., of that day at public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, to pay said debt of Two Thousand Five Hundred ‘Twenty-six and 54-100 Dollars ($2526.54), and interest, and the taxes if any on said premises, and $75.00 attorney's fees, as stipulated in and by said. mortgage, fn case of foreclosure, and the dis- bursements allowed by law, subject to redemption at any time within one year from the date of sale as provided by law. Dated this 4th day of September, A. D., 1912. STONE-ORDEAN-WELLS CO., Mortgagee. By W. L. MACKAY, Assistant Treasurer, Courtney & Courtney, Duluth, Minnesota. Attorneys for Mortgagee. Sept. il, 18, 25, Get. 2, 9, 16. Summons. State of Minnesota, County of Itasca, in District Court, 15th Judicial dist Northwest Timber Supply Compa corporation, Plaintiff. vs. irtin McGee and Mary McGee, de- fendants. The State of Minnesota, to the above named defendants: You are hereby summoned and re- | Guired to answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entitled action, which complaint has been filed in .the office of the clerk of. the district court of said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint upon the subscribers at their office in the Village of Grand Rapids, Itasca County, within twenty days after the service of this summons upon you exclusive of I the day of such service ‘and if you fail to answer within the time aforesaid, plaintiff will take |judgment against you for the sum of $62.26, with interest thereon |from the 23d day of August, 1906, at jthe rate of six per cent per annum together with the costs and disburse- |ments of this action. THWING & ROSSMAN, j Attorneys for Plaintiff, Grand Rapids, Minn. Sept 11, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16. Notice of Sealed Bids. Sevled bids will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Itasca County, Minnesota, up until 10 o'clock a. m. on Tuesday, the Ist day of October, 1912, at the office of the County Auditor in the Village of Grand Rapids for the improvement of that part of the Road known as the Smoky Hol- low Road crossing the NW 1-4 of the SE 1-4 of Section 22, Township, 55, Range 26. Said improvement to be made in accordance with plans and |'specifications to be prepared by the {Assistant State Engineer and filed in the office of the County Auditor. The Board reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids. M. A. SPANG, AuditorofItasca County: H. R. Sept. 11, 18, 25. Notice To Building Contractors. Sealed bids will be received by the schoo] board of School District No. One jof Itasca. County, Minnesota, up until one o'clock, p. m., of Monday Septem- ber 23, 1912 for building a ‘two-room frame school building at Blackberry, Minnesota. Said building to be built at a point to be designated by the school board of School District No. One, and according to plans and specifications on file with the Clerk of said board. A ecrtified check for five percent of the amount thereof must accompany each bid. The board reserves the right to re- jetc any and all bids. J. D. DORAN, Clerk. Sept. 11, 18. Notice of Sealed Bids. Sealed bids will be reecived by the Board of County Commissioners of Itasca county, Minnesota, up until 10 ‘ County Auditor. Sept. 11, 18, 25. Notice of Sealed Bids. Sealed bids will be received by the Board of _ County Commigsioners of Itasca county, Minnesota, up until 10 o’clock a. m. on Tuesday the Ist day of October, 1912, at the office of the County Auditor in the Village of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for grading and com pleting a certain road in the Town of Oteneagen known and designated as ‘County Road No. 83. All work to be done according to plans and specifica- tions on file in the office of the County Auditor. o'clock a. m. on Tuesday the Ist day of October, 1912, at the office of the County Auditor in the Village of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for the construction of a combination wood and steel bridge with stone or concrete ‘piers across the Bigfork River on County Road No. 28. Said bridge to be constructed accord- ing to plans and specifications to be furnished by Minnesota State Highway Commission and filled in the office of the County Auditor. The Board reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids. M. A. SPANG, County Auditor. Sept. 11, 18, 25.