Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 2, 1912, Page 16

4 & PAGE EIGHT NATION-WIDE CRY FOR GOOD ROADS Government Will Spend Enough Money fer Highways to Finance Small War. HALF MILLION 1S APPROPRIATED Every State in Union Will be Bene- fitted by the Decision--Auto- mobiles Given Credit for Improvement. The United States government is making the expenditure of a great) sum of money in the es- tablishment of a comprehensive sys- tem of good roads with the aid of state and county governments. And the probabilities are that a gigantic bond issue will be made be- fore the work of rebuilding the roads is well umder way, but if the argu- ments of the believers in good roads @re correct, the benefits that result frem) good highways will more than repay the outlay. Clamor for Good Roads. From aj] sections of the country there come clamors for good roads, the cry is going up that in many respects the United States is way be- hind the Romans of old in respect of plans for i) | | ;state authcrities. But a government |expert will supervise the work of |repairing and improving the road. The law permits the local authorities to raise the supplemental part of the funds so that if the state legislature twice the sum allowed by the federa} government, coumty authorities may do so. It is required umder the law that |the secretary of agriculture and the “THEY'RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.” WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE LATE HOMER DAVENPORT. —Macauley in New York World. Governor Eberhart. The governors of practically all the western states are taking similar action. The day will be generally set aside for the consideration of the fire waste of the country and of the state, with exer- cises in the public schools and meet- ings of commercia] organizations and ern states last year, with excellent) in preparation of the fire hazards of fall and winter. (The day was obesrved by 13 west- | 23,33. i st st road building. But a start has been | Postmaster general report to congres | 2.) states lats year, with excellent | made in the matter of federal aid for good roads, and as it is the his- tory of federal legislation and federal] activities that once they are start- ed they grow instead of dimimish, it may be expected that congress in the near future will make big appro- priations for this project. Auto Given Credit. ‘To the automobile is given much credit for the outcropping of this de- mand for road improvement. While the auto itself is destructive to good roads, it has caused great num-} bens of persons to become interested in the subject of better highways who under other circumstances, prob- | WILL BE OBSERVED. |Governor Eberhart Proclaims Oc-| ably w not have given, the matter The rt of federal aid for road building was made in the appropria- tion bill This measure sets aside half for the postoffice depart-! ded under | within a year the miles of roads im- proved, the cost and other informa-; tion, together with recommendations for amd a plan of genera] federaj aid for good roads in co-operation with the state and local government. During the consideration of the measure in congress all sorts of |schemés for national highways were offered. One plam was to start from ‘Washington as a sort of hub and have a great national road radiate in all directions. ‘FIRE ANNIVERSARY | tober 9 as Day to Impress | Need of Fire Protection gen- 2 pe October 9. the anniverasry of the ture in improv gucen oe enee ese wes ‘proclaimed which rural delive made| Fire revention dey in Minnesot: or over which rout y be estab- dollars i lished. This h in 2 io ed for a join houses of congress to i the question of federal aid to good roads and report at the earliest date practicable. Work Already Planned. The work of bettering the rural ry with the half mi ady has been done under tment of 4 m appror ted will be only for reconstruction of but a smal] age of the roads of the coun- and millions more must be ex- pended before the roads are brought up to conditions, But ac- tual rk on roads in ev state of the om will be done w million already alloted. The policy that will govern the ex- mditure of this first appropriation as outlined at a recent conference between Secretary of Agriculture Wil son, Postmaster General Hitchcock and rector Page will be an equitable dist tion of the money among the states. Under this ruling each state gets about $10,000. Of this $8,000 will be alloted to each state at once, the remaining $2,000 will ‘be re- tained to use as a maintenance fund. It is the purpose of the officials to expend $8,000 in each state in putting one of two post roads in the best of condition. In order to get the use of this government money the several state governments are expected to approp- riate twice the sum allotted by the fed eral government. In other words the expenditure of $8,000 by the federal government in a state to improve post roads will mean in reality that $24,000 is expended for that purpose. This will make it possible to improve a considerable stretch of road in each state of the union. Ask to Select Routes. Under the plan as outline@ the gov- ernor of each state will be advised of the plan of the federal government and the governor then will ask the county and township road authortiies to select the routes or roads which _ they want improved. The matter of selection will be left entirely to the | in Grand Rapids. cost. lots and will sell for trimmed. Ladies’ Mackinaw you to inspect. ~ Clearance Sale of Waists We are offering this week one of the finest bargains in Ladies’ Shirt Waists ever made z To clear out our stock of summer waists we are offering all waists from $1 to $5 values at a clearance prtce which means a saving of half the original These waists have been sorted in 69c, 98c, $1.48 and $1.98 These are handsome waists in muslins, embroidery, wash silks and massalines? all this season’s styles, well and beautifully A new. shipment of those comtortable results, both as to educational value | and the direct prectical benefits se~| cured by the cleanup moyement. | j Much better results will be secured | this year, it is expected, because of | last year’s experience and the great-| {er public interest shown in the sub- | | ject. | The damage done by fire in the! United States and Canada last year] |was $234.470,650. The federa] author- | lities, the state fire marshals and | |the fire departments all agree that at jleast 75 per cent of this damage was! easily preventable by the exercise | of ordinary care and precaution. | A Good Time to Go. “Aye vant to buy a ticket to Swed-_ en,” said the blond young man to the \clerk at the booking office. “Aye vant) a ticket to Gothenburg.” “When do you want to go?” asked the clerk in an impatient tone. “Aye yant,” he said with simpe di- to go van the boat starts. rectness, “ Jackets, priced from GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 2, 1912 | receipts and expenditures of the na-| | tional primary campaign conducted by CONSPIRACY IS THE CHARGE { only men indicted by the federal grand ; FLINN LIBERAL WITH HIS MONEY Donated $102,600 to Roose- velt Campaign Fund. ‘HOOKER RENDERS REPORT Treasurer of Progressive Committee | Tells Senate Investigators That | | Colonel’s Pre-convention Receipts | Were Slightly Less Than $144,000. | Washington, Oct. 2—William Flinn | of Pittsburg testified before the senate | committee investigating campaign | H funds that he had personally contribut- | j ed 90 per cent of the money for Cole | | mel Roosevelt’s primary campaign in| | Pennsylvania. He gave $102,000 to) | the fund, of which $28,000 was spent} | in Pittsburg. Mr. Flinn declared he would produce to the committee J. G. Slain, a man} | who, without his authority, had signed | Flinn’s name to a telegram to the | | Standard Oil company asking support | | for a seat in the senate. This was one | of the telegrams produced by Senator | Penrose when he made his sensation: | al charge against Flinn. | | E. H. Hooker, treasurer of the Pro-| | gressive party, told the committee in-| | vestigating campaign funds that | Charles R. Crane of Chicago had con- | tributed $70,000 to Senator La Fol-} | lette’s campaign fund and $70,000 to| | Governor Wilson’s fund prior to the} Baltimore convention, practically at the Samé time. Receipts of National Committee. Mr. Hooker said he had acted in-| formally as national] treasurer of the | Roosevelt organization in the pre-con-| vention campaign. At the request of \ Chairman Clapp he placed in evidence | a statement of all receipts and ex- penditures in the Roosevelt primary | campaign in New York city. “The secretary of state in New York,” said Mr. Hooker, “said this| was the most complete statement ever filed by a political committee.” The statement was made public at} the time it was filed. It shows that) $59,126.35 had been contributed and| $52,606.52 spent in the primary cam-| paign in New York. The balance, $6, | 519.83, was turned over to the nation- al primary campaign fund. Mr. Hooker also filed a statement of | Senator Dixon. | The statement filed by Mr. Hooker} covering the national expenses of the| | Roosevelt primary campaign showed | a total of $143,999.62 in the fight pre-| ceding the Chicago convention. The/ greatest expenditure by the national) organization was in Massachusetts, to | which $52,600 was sent for the primary | fight. Warrants for Prominent Minneapolis, Milk Dealers. | Minneapolis, Oct., 2—County Attor- | ney James Robertson has issued al complaint against eight officials of | leading milk companies of Minneap-' olis, charging them with a felony. He said his complaint was based on the} Teport of three detectives who attend- ed a meeting of the milk dealers Sun- day afternoon in the Produce Ex- change, at which, Mr. Robertson said, | @ pool was entered into to fix and con- trol the price of milk. It was as a re-| sult of this meeting, he said, that the price of the commodity was advanced 1 cent a quart on Oct. 1. Warrants have been issued for the dealers in- volved. ACCIDENT ON TORPEDO BOAT Officer Killed and Eight of Crew In- jured. Newport, R. 1., Oct. 2.—Lieutenant Donald P. Morrison was killed and eight men were injured by the explo- | sion of a steam chest on the torpedo | boat destroyer Walke. The accident {occurred off Brenton’s Reef lightship while the Walke was preparing for | her second quarterly trial. Lieutenant Morrison entered the service from Missouri in 1902. The Walke was in company with | several other destroyers when the for- ward end of the port turbine, togther with the steam chest, was blown off. BURNS IDENTIFIES ROBBER: Alleged Bank Bandit Confronted by Officer Who Was Attacked. St. Louis, Oct. 2—Frank West, alias J. W. Stacy, alleged bank robber, was $5 to $8. We have just opened up the winter line of Ladie’s Long Coats, Ker- seys and Chinchella’s which we invite JOHN BECKFELT THE PIONEER STORE identified in his cell here by Lieuten- ant Burns of Chicago as the man who | knocked Burns insensible in a Chi- cago saloon two weeks ago. Burns had entered the saloon to arrest West on a charge of complicity in robbing the Montreal branch bank of New Westminster, B. C., of $210,000. West was arrested here last week. $—______—. Snow Storms in Maine. Presque Isle, Me., Oct. 2—Snow storms during the past twenty-four hours have caused heavy loss to farm- ers in section. Fruit and shade trees wi broken by the weight of the mp snow and standing grain ‘Gamagedy | a broken leg. | and a’ boy companion were fishing in | In his face, entering the brain through | E. C. KILEY Democratic Candidate for the Legis- lature from the Fifty-second District GREAT TRIAL ON AT INDIANAPOLIS Fifty-one Alleged Dynamit- ers Appear in Conrt. ALL CASES ARE UNITED Motion of District Attorney Miller That All Defendants Be Tried Together In Order to Facilitate Procedure Granted by Judge Anderson. Indianapolis, Oct 2—The final chap- ter in what the government alleges was a gigantic conspiracy on the part of iron workers and others to fight their battles with dynamite and nitro glycerin began here. The cases of fifty-one officials of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Tron Workers and other union leaders indicted by the federal grand jury here on Feb. 6, 1812, on charges of con- spiracy, were called in federal court before Judge A. B. Anderson. There was considerable comment over the coincidence that just two years ago the Los Angeles Times was | dynamited, resulting in twenty-one lives being lost, the sentencing of J. J. McNamara, former secretary treasurer | of the iron workers, to fifteen years and his brother, J. B. McNamara, to | life imprisonment in California and precipitating the investigation by the | government which culminated in the | present trials. The McNamaras and John J. Mc- Cray, former member of the iron workers’ executive board, were the jury not expected to appear in court. | McCray was never found and the gov- ; ernment authorities believe he is dead. Two Plead Not Guilty. | Kremer & King EXPECTING TOO MUCH. After wandering up and down the earth for half a century the wayfarer went to visit the little village where he had passed his boyhood days, and the first thing he did was to hunt up an old friend. “This is Milt Bivens, is it?” he said. “Yes.” “Well, I'm Bill Lantz.” “Lantz? I don’t seem to——” “Don’t you remember that hazel patch that used to be right in the middle of the village?” 5 “Yes, I think I do.” “Well, you and I gathered nuts there many a time when we were boys together.” “I recollect the hazel patch very well, but—well, you see a fellow meets 80 many people that sometimes he— he can’t just——” “I see. Well, good day, Mr. Bivens.” “Good day.” | Grand Rapids | Minnesota Civil Engineering ITASCA ENGINEERING CO. || J. A. Brown - - - Manager Phonef 168 Surveying Estimating Construction Superintending Drafting Ttasca County Abstract Office Abstracts } Real Estate t Fire Insurance | Conveyances Drawn, TaxeS Paid Tor Non-Residents Props. Grand Rapids - = Minn. Immediately after court convened | Olaf A. Tveitmoe, secretary of the; California Building Trades council | and previously indicted at Los Ange-! les in connection with the dynamite | conspiracy, and E. A. Clancy, both of | San Fran were arraigned on the | indictments returned here. Both plead | ed not guilty. -When indicted Tveit | moe and Claney, who were then taken | to California, requested that they be arraigned when the trials opened, | which was granted. District Attorney C. W. Miller then made a motion that all the defendants | be tried as in one case in order to facilitate procedure. This was grant- ed. The work oi selecting a jury then | began. Daniel J. Brophy of Brooklyn, a for- mer executive and board member of the Internationa! Association of Bridge | and Structural Iron Workers, was re- ported unable to appear on account of His absence left fifty men to be tried. A motion to set aside the order con- solidating the cases, made on behalf of the defendants, was sustained. This separated the various indictments, but left the defendants to be tried together. te | Boy Who Would Shoot Fish Is Him self Killed by Rifle. Walter Gudbaur, aged thirteen, son of Mr. and Mrs.G. Gudbaur of Scanlon, | three miles from Cloquet, was acek | dentally shot with a rifle. Gudbauy, the St. Louis river. They had land ed several large fish, but with difficul ty, so they conceived the idea of} shooting the fish just as they raised | them above the water. Gudbaur got his gun and laid it In the bottom of the boat and as the boys put out on the river he kicked the gun. The bullet was discharged the forehead. Boy Shot and Killed at Play. While playing bear in his grand- mother’s yard at Dresbach, Donald Moore, six years of age, was shot by A Callins List The Fire Department The Pohce The Doctor The Baker The Butcher The Grocer The Caterer The Livery Stable and anybody else you want; called by Telephone. 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