Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 6, 1912, Page 8

Att “#uimed by a barrel tax and in times BE WATCHWORD State Expenditures Far in Ex- cess of Receipts. SMCREASES WILL BE ASKED Practically Every Department to De- mand Larger Appropriation From Next Legislature. | | | (Spegial Correspondence.)- Wt. Paul, Nov. 5—With the election @ver activity once more reigns at the state capitol. What the next legis- Sature will do, what new laws it will put on the statute books and what ef- feet they will have on the great office ‘nelding body is now the principal con- erm of those whose sustenance is the state treasury. The opinion is gen- era] that the new legislature is going t@ do the economical act and that seme one is due to suffer as a conse- qmence. It will have to, as the tax rete is now near the breaking point amé@ a cut all down the line will be aecessary to prevent an increase. One of the things charged against the present administration has been its high cost to the taxpayers of the state amé@ in a measure the charge has not been without foundation. Today the state is on the borrowing side of the jed@ger to the extent of nearly $2,000,- 990 and the amount is daily climbing. This is because of the extravagance of the last legislature and a reluctance om the part of the tax fixing officials “to make the rate what it should be. ‘The fear was that a rate in excess of the previous year would cause trouble at the polls. The man at the head of the appropriations committee at the coming session of the legislature faces a task many would shrink from, as he is going to be assailed from all quar- ters. There is not a department con- nected with the state government but thinks the money at its command is inadequate and each is preparing to <jemand an increase. New depart- ments, too, are being proposed and they mean an additional drain on the state’s strong box. Then there are proposed increases in salary, not to speak of the creation of additional offees. All around it is going to be a strenuous three months for quite a few lawmakers. The talk now is that there may be a reduction in salaries instead of an increase. Something will have to be done if the tax rate is te be kept down. ck t | Bpeaking about the coming legisla- ture and the problems it will have to | face in the matter of demands on the state treasury the state board of con- 4rei is preparing a plea in behalf of the institutions in its charge that will demand atiention. It may not be gen- erally known, but the dependent popu- jation of Minnesota is growing and that at a rate which calls for the strictest economy on the part of the | board to keep the expenses within bounds. I am told that some of the insane asylums are bedding patients in the halls and that the wards are se crowded that the attendants walk | on the beds in order to reach patients. | ‘There is no space between. At a pre- | vieus session of the legislature one member told of this crewded condi- tien of the asylums and declared that it was a shame. In the face of this the club women of the state are de- manding a new prison for women of- femders and other reforms that mean | a big outlay of money. Had it not been for the bumper crops produced | by the farms in connection with the various state institutions this year, which went far to reduce the cost of | maintenance, the board of control | would have been swamped. As it was | every dollar at its command was ex- | pended. i} t+ | The contest for the speakership of the next house is now on and the fight will be kept up to the day of the open- ing of the legislature. The indica- tions are that the scrap will be one of the warmest in years. Pat McGarry | of Cass county is after the place. He owas in St. Paul last week and gave it out cold that he would be a candi- | Gate. W. I. Nolan and John Lennon, both of Minneapolis, want the job. | Nelan, who used to trot with the boys, | has joined the progressive forces and | he hopes to profit by reason of the fact. Lennon says he is also a pro- gressive. There is talk to the effect ‘hat Harry Dunn, speaker of the last house, will get into the race. The mame of R. C. Dunn of Princeton is also mentioned. Bob, however, says he wants none of it. ake ae ae | * There is a rumor in St. Paul to the effect that the Schmidt and Hamm Brewing companies have broken on the question of political activity in the state and that the former concern has withdrawn entirely from the State Brewers’ association. The point made | by the Schmidt company is that the activities of the Hamm crowd has brought the brewing industry into dis- repute and that trouble will result if this activity is continued. The ‘Schmidt Brewing company is now en- deavoring to bring the small brewers of the state around to its way of thinking and the dissolution of the ‘State Brewers’ association is probable me aresult. This association is main- | shame. | campaigns. politics. = +++ The break between the two leading brewing concerns in St. Paul is said to date back to the St. Paul city elec- tion last spring, when Otto Bremer, the head of the Schmidt company, was the Democratic candidate for mayor. Bremer lost out and the charge made by his friends was that the Hamm ‘Brewing company was regnonsible. In retaliation, it is said, Mr. Bremer per- sonally espoused the cause of P. M. Ringdal, the Democratic candidate for governor, and to have financed several Speakers and workers in an effort to bring the German vote of ‘the state back into the fold. Bremer and Hamm never hitched, though both stood back to back in the brewery fight against the Anti-Saloon league ef two and four years ago, which re- sulted in its practical annihilation. Bremer always contended that the as- sociation was hurting the brewery business and while contributing to the common fund seldom participated in its councils. eh ae Many bills calculated to relieve the present statewide primary law of its obnoxious features are due to be of- fered at the coming session of the leg- islature. One member, I am told, is preparing to offer a bill repealing the entire act and returning to the con- vention system. That any of them will prevail, however, is hardly likely. When the first primary law was passed it was condemned all over the state and numerous amendments were pro- posed but few of them became laws. The repeal of the second choice provi- sion is sure to be attempted, but how far it will get remains to be seen. ++ + The Prohibitionists of the state cast a vote Tuesday that compels attention. The figures was hardly large enough to put the party candidates across but it was sufficient to make a decided cut in the vote of the two great parties. The gubernatorial candidate of the Prohibitionist party was E. E. Lobeck of Douglas county and it is said that he made a campaign the like of which was never seen in Minnesota. A zealot if there ever as one and with speech- making alilities above the average Lo- beck, it is said, campaigned the state |in a manner that practically put the candidates of the other parties to Lobeck always had a crowd and he compelled attention whenever he spoke. As to funds for the cam- paign Lobeck had only to exhort and the hat passed at every meeting came back well filled. a sabe a: Though the new election law speci- fies the amount that a candidate for office may spend and compels a week- ly filing of a statement showing the moneys received and expended it will never be known how much money was | invested in the contest just closed. Expenses were filed as required, but | they are regarded as a joke in the ma- jority of cases. One well known poli- tician hazards the guess that over $800,000 was expended by tne various candidates. It is known that the tax- | payers expended fully that amount in the conduct of the two elections. ee od F. Alex .Stewart of Minneapolis, candidate for chief justice of the su- preme court, had his little joke when filing his expense account. He made a notation under the heading of receipts | acknowledging an unsolicited editorial j and cartoon appearing in the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press. The value of the two he placed at $4.99. The papers named went after Ste art roughshod. ee If C. E. Elmquist of the state rail- Toad and ‘warehouse commission lacked interest in the primary cam- paign he more than made up for it in the election campaign which followed. Elmquist was a feature of every special train sent out by the state com- mittee and it is said that he was the first to reach the platform when a sta- | |tion was reached. He simply could not be suppressed. Elmquist had the Tun of his life in the primary cam- paign and he evidently did not want to be caught napping a second time. ’ i a The Eberhart “three ring circus,’ which the Democratic campaign lead- ers dubbed the special carrying his ex- cellency and the other state candi- | dates, is due to be a feature of future The Democrats, it is said, have figured out that the special is a good thing and hereafter much of the campaign fund will be devoted to it. The candidates on the Republican spe- | cial paid the expenses, thus relieving the central committee of the burden. rt + P. V. Collins, the progressive candi- date for governor, is said to have add- led fully 30,000 names to his list of subscribers to his agricultural publi- cation as a result of his candidacy. At $1 per this is pretty good. THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. Her Simple Question. A young man took a young woman friend to a ball game for the first time, and in his superior knowedge he asked her after the first inning was over if there was anything about the game she would like to have explained. “Just one thing,” said the sweet young thing. “I wish you would ex- plain how that rheumatic bush league relic in the box ever gets the ball over the plate without the aid of an express wagon.” And in the silence that followed all that could be heard was the faint chugging of the young man’s Adam's apple working feverishly up and down. Boston Traveler. Romance and Tragedy of the Old & ROAD TO WEALTH AND CRIME ft Led to the Richest Deposits of Gold, In a Relatively Small Territory, Ever Discovered—Days otf Strenuous Life and Frenzied Lawiessness. / The Bonanza trail began at Fort Laramie, Wyo. It rap east of the Ow! Creek mountains, west of the Hig Horn mountains, in a northwest direc- | tion to Livingston and Bozeman, then forking to the present Helena and Vir- ginia City. in war and Indian depart- ment annals it is known ag.the Boze- | man trail. Immediately, however, it was given the more romantic name, and for the best of reasons. It led to what were the richest deposits of gold. in a relatively small territory, that the world bad ever seen. Out of Alder guich and Last Chance gulch, within 200 miles of each other in Montana. was taken, in ten short years, considerably more than $500.- 000,000 in pure gold. It was anybody’s fortune. and the wonderful luck of the California gold diggers a few years be- | fore roused men to brave every hard- ship for these prizes. It did not matter at all that these guiches were 2,000 miles from the nearest railroad and that other gold fields were far easier to reach. Here was the great El Dorado, and witb- out a qualm the gold seekers hurried into the unknown territory, defying Red Cloud and every other Indian, out- law, renegade and holdup man. How many lives were sacrificed along this trail to wealth will never be known. All that is certain is that there never was another chapter in the world’s history like this. The long road into the mysterious country and the settlements of mining camps grew up almost in a single night. There were only five men in the little party when Bill Fairweather “washed” the covery even more wonderful than any |im the palmy days of California or even in the later era of the Klondike. Two years later Alder guich, at one of the Bonanza trail’s two ends, was among the most picturesque places tn ithe country. The world was ransacked , tor men and women to give perform- ances at the theaters, to offer free en- | tertainment-to the patrons of the vari- ous resorts. The gold hunters, gorged ! with prosperity, wanted amusements. Fine restaurants were opened and food brought in at great expense from be- yond the seas. The smallest money was a twenty-five cent pinch of gold | dust, taken from a pouch. It bought | less than a copper cent does in any | part of the United States today. | people poured into the new country. | It is estimated by some that 90,000 in all took the trail at Fort Laramie. | ‘The days of the trail were those of | frenzied lawlessness, and many are the | picturesque stories that have come |down. Over the big road disputes | about cards were of daily occurrence. The man who started an argument did | go with the knowledge that it was his life or the other man’s. for he was call- | ing into question the “honor” of the “shark.” Swindlers sold “mines,” fought with their proposed victims and ‘ killed without compunction. Armed robbers ran off stock, stole | horses from one class of immigrants | | and sold them to another. As the | horse was the sole means of transpor- | tation and valuable beyond buman life, “hoss stealing” was set down by the | districts” as a crime punishable by ;death. There were few courts, and ‘such as there were were miles from the trail. A jury would hence be at once impaneled among those preseat, the man tried and if found guilty hang- ed to a tree without ceremony. Hotels flourished and were prosper- ous beyond imagining, for every one spent money, and there was much | flaunting. In the higher grade estab- lishments beverages were served in cut glass; champagne wascommon. Every resort was crowded with people. The newcomers frequented these places in quest of information, paid 25 cents for a glass of beer made from barley grown by the ex-Confederate soldiers at Bozeman and sold to the Virginia breweries for 8 cents a pound, and not enough could be received to supply the demand. Table board cost $7 a day for the very cheapest, and if one slept in a chair in the hotel lobby at night, when the rooms were all rented, he paid $1.50 for the privilege. Gold was the only medium of ex- change. A pinch of it, between the forefinger and the thumb, as has been said, counted 25 cents. There would be a tendency with some men to take just a little bit more. When that ten- dency was noticed in‘a man he was given hours to leave town—and it was seldom over two hours. The wise man did not stand on ceremony or protest— he “vamoosed,” in camp vernacular. The newspapers of the city sold for 25 cents a copy, red hot from the press, and full of news of lynchings, new dig- gings, “clean ups,” “hold ups,” “bad, men” and gossip of a breezy charac- ter. Ham and eggs to order cost $2.50. Eggs were worth 50 cents apiece and an ordinary meal of deer or buffalo Meat, with potatoes or coffee and bread, was never less than $1.50. A’ man was very poor to get down to fare 80 coarse as that. It made no difference what a man might have been back in “the states:" ‘if he was “on the square” in Virginia she was accepted at par.—F. J. Arkins in Harper’s Weekly. first pan in Alder gulch and made a dis- | Meantime an unending stream of ; ) |20YS WHO DID BIG THINGS. ' Many of the World's Great Men Won Fame In Their Youth. Some of the greatest achievements in the world have been made by youth, and it wil! always be so in buman his- tery. David. the sweet singer of Is- ‘rael, was «u sbepberd, a poet and a genera! before be was twenty and a king at the age of eighteen. Raphael gad practically completed his life work At the age of thirty-seven. He did no great artistic work after that age. James Watt. even as a boy, as he watched the steam coming out of the ‘teakettle, saw in it the new world of | mechanical power made possible by the jold element turned and driven by a |simple appliance. Cortes was master of Mexico before he was thirty-six. Schubert died at the age of thirty-one after having com- |pesed what may perhaps he called in | some ways the most entrancing melody | ever written. Charlemagne was mas- ter of France and the greatest emperor of the world at the age of thirty. Shel- ley wrote “Queen Mab” when he was lonly twenty-one and’ was a master of poetry before be was twenty-five. Patrick Henry was able to shape the revolutionary history of a new country before he was thirty and astonish the world by his oratory before he was twenty-six years old. At the age of twenty-four Ruskin had written “Mod- ern Painters.” and Bryant, while stilla {boy of high school age. had written “Thanatopsis.” Robert Burns wrote ‘some of his greatest songs while he was a plowboy.—London Answers. | MADE THE CLERKS WORK. A Senator Wanted Information and | Found a Way to Get it. “Congress makes lots of unnecessary trouble for the government clerks,” said a veteran employee, “but the years ago. A certain senator asked |the comptroller of the currency to tell ;him how much stock a certain man had in a national bank. He was in- formed that such information was re- garded as confidential and could not be given out. “We'll see about that,’ said the sen- ator, who was plainly disappointed and | | displeased. “Several days later he secured the passage of a resolution calling upon the secretary of the treasury to fur- nish the senate with the names and holdings of the stockholders in all the national banks in the country. He really wanted to know only the inter- est of one man in a bank, but he knew that he couldn't get a resolution of that kind through the senate, so he includ- ed the stockholders in all national banks. “It took the entire force of the comp- troller’s office several weeks to pre- pare the information, and when it reached the senate nobody paid any at- resolution, and he merely looked at the mass of papers only long enough to ‘see about the man he was after and then tossed the papers aside. It was an immense lot of work for nothing.” —Washington Star. A Wonderful Toy. Perhaps the most wonderful toy in the world is owned by a Russian prince, who lavished a fortune of $60,- 000 on a mechanical theater. The stage is fitted up with every accessory in the ors are figures as large as life, all dressed as sumptuously and appropri- ately as their living prototypes. The prince’s repertoire covers almost all | the most popular operas, and it is only | necessary to press a button to set the | whole marvelous machinery in motion. The actors make their entry on the | stage and play their varied parts with appropriate gesture, while a number of | phonographs supply the vocal parts in the voices of the leading operatic sing- | | ers. An Island City. |five islands. It might be called the Is- ‘land City. Read the names of some of | the larger: Manhattan Island, Long Is- | land, Staten Island, Hart’s Island, City Island, Riker’s Island, North Brother Island, South Island, Blackwell's Is- Berrian’s Island, Governors Island, Barren Island and Coney Island. Many smal! ones in Jamaica bay have large names. ble Hill, near Kingsbridge, has been through on the Harlem river improve- ments. Human Nature. than rich men?” “Well, sub,” said the waiter, who was something of a philosopher as well, “looks to me like de po’ man don’t want nobody to find out he’s po’ | and de rich man don’t want nobody to find out he’s rich.”—Exchange. More Substantial. “You didn’t waste your time build- ing castles in the air?” “No,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. “I constructed corporations out of water.” —Washington Star. Pretty Poor Singers. “Why doesn’t your wife sing to the baby when it cries?” would rather listen to the baby.”— Mother's Journal. A Great Plant. “What do you think will finally be selected as our national plant?” “Well, it is dollars to dimes it will be the mint.”—Baltimore American. | Worst case | know of occurred some | tention to it except the author of the | shape of scenery and machinery that | modern skill has devised, and the act- | Greater New York consists of forty- | land, Randall’s Island, Ward’s Island, | One inland island, Mar- | made by the government channel cut | “Why is it,” asked the curious guest. | “that poor men usually give larger tips | “We've found out that the neighbors MINNESOTA AGAIN. WINNER | ‘Champion Butter State According to Result of Contest at the Na- tional Dairy Show. } | Minnesota has the champion butter- maker of the United States and is the champion butter state, according to re- | Bults of the butter contest at the na- tional dairy show in Chicago. A. L. Radke, Plato, Minn., won the national championship with a score of 97.5 per cent and is the champion but- termaker of the United States. He re- ‘ceived a gold medal. Senius Nelson | af New Prague is the second best but- termaker and he received a silver medal. Minnesota won the grand sweepstakes prize over all other states |with an average score of 92.86 per cent for forty-three entries. Wiscon- sin was a close second with 92.83 per | cent. The national dairy show formerly |teok place with the National Creamery |Buttermakers’ association. Minnesota has won eight of the sweepstakes ban- |mers in ten years. This was the first | show of dairy products alone and Min- |mesota will now go after the prizes at |the spring show of the creamery but- } | termakers. | Minnesota has won the sweepstakes | \prizes at all national and international | expositions since the Pan-American ex- | position in Buffalo in 1899 and has won both banners of the international butter show. | \NEGRO CUTS WIFI WIFE’S THROAT |auarrl Over Baby jaiycenae in Murder at St. Paul. | After murdering his wife at St. |Paul by slashing her throat with ja razor while quarreling over their six- months-old baby girl Emmett Morgan, a negro waiter, walked to Central po- lice station and gave himself up. Cap- | |tain Gebhart was in doubt as to the ; young man’s sanity, but placed him in a cell and sent Detective Martin Hart- sinck to investigate. The negro’s | wite, who was twenty years old, was | |found lying dead near the bed. Morgan, the police say, admits that he overpowered his wife and cut her | throat in a frenzy of anger. He in- |sists, however, that she started the fight when he says he joked her about | taking the baby away. He asserts she jeut him on the neck before he took \the razor from her. \ | SHOT WHILE HUNTING DUCKS 'One of Minneapolis Party Accident- ally Kills Young Man. | Grover Zeglin, twenty-three years old, son of the proprietor of Coney j island hotel at Waconia, was acci- dentally shot and killed. With five friends from Minneapolis he crossed the neck of water about a |half mile from the hotel to shoot | ducks from behind a blind. The shoot- ing occurred when the young man suddenly raised up in front of another member of the party, who was firing | from behind. | The charge entered the back of the {meck and death was instantaneous. 'ALLEGES CRIMINAL LIBEL Minneapolis Candidate for Mayor Has Three Socialists Arrested. Complaints charging criminal libel have been issued by John O'Donnell, assistant city attorney of Minneapolis, tor the arrest of Alexis and Stella C. Georgian, editors of the New Times, a | Socialist paper, and for the arrest of | J. B. Babcock, editor of the Minneapo- | lis Socialist. | The complaints were signed by Wal- | lace G. Nye, candidate for mayor, who alleges that the three editors in the issues of their papers Oct. 19 pub- | lished libelous matter concerning him. ‘THREE MEN ASPHYXIATED Gas Fumes Cause Several Deaths at Minneapolis. } Gas poisoning was fatal to three men in Minneapolis within a few | hours, | Paul Hamlin, Cleveland, O., and El- | pis Siebert, Howasken, Wis., were found nearly asphyxiated in rooms at | the Commercial hotel, and died at the | rity hospital a few hours later after |ase of the pulmotor had proved inef- \tectual. | Herman Hinze, aged forty-five, thought to be a St. Paulite, was found jfead in his room at the Beaumont | hotel. ‘TWO ARE KILLED IN WINONA | Boilermaker Assistants Victims of an Accident. | Two men were killed at Winona the Northwestern railway shops jropped at one end. Chris Peterson met death instantly and Frank Shavédl dled to death in a hospital. The men were employed as boilermaker assist- ants. Two others working with them wscaped injury. {P WHISTLER AT WORK. ‘The Eccentric Artist Had a Method ‘the face of real danger as the little | Ham Beresford was the hero. | headforemost. | man and horse were killed at first. but | the former soon struggled to bis feet. | with his face covered with blood and | dazed with his fall. | face of advancing hosts of yelling sav- | the probability of destroying his pre- | ed, I said, | character of my surtout and asked me |ish analogue for the Man With the | Iron M | himself to death.—Dundee Advertiser. | gay, he doesn’t know enough to em- That Was All His Own. In “Memories of James McNeill Whistler.” by Thomas R. Way, the author allows us a glance at the art- +|st’s methods during his residence at the white house in Tite street, built from the designs of his friend, E. W. Godwin, the architect: “The studio was surprisingly differ- | ent from the room he previously used im Lindsay row, and entirely unlike the studios vsually occupied by other artists. | remember a long, not very lofty room, very light, with windows along one side; his canvas beside bis model at one end and at the other, near the table which he used as a palette. an old Georgian looking glass, so ar- ranged that he could readily see his canvas and mode! reflected in it. Those who used such a mirror (as he did constantly) will know that it is the most merciless of critics. “Il marveled then at bis extraordi- nary activity, as he darted backward and forward to look at both painting and model from his point of view at the extreme end of the long studio. He always used brushes of large size with. very long handles. three feet in length. and held them from the end with bis arm stretched to its full extent. Each touch was laid on with great firmness. and his physical strength enabled him to do without the assistance of a maulstick, while the distance at which he stood from the canvas allowed bim to have the whole of a large picture in sight and so judge the correct drawing of each touch.” BATTLEFIELD BRAVERY. An Instance of Cool Courage In Face of imminent Danger. Perhaps few stories of battles so thoroughly illustrate cool bravery ip incident at a reconnoissance before the battle of Ulundi, of which Lord Wi) The British were almost led into a terrible trap and discovered the danger only just in tire. They turned to re- treat, and the Zulus poured in a volley | which brought down the gray horse of a mounted infantryman. His rider fel! The rest thought both Lord William Beresford, seeing what had happened, pulled up and, in the | ages within easy range, quietly trotted back and told the man to mount be- hind him. | With a cool courage scarcely second |to Lord William’s, the man refused. ‘noble fellow that he was. preferring ‘the certain sacrifice of his own life to server. The reply was admirable. terse and | telling. The savages swarmed closer and closer; bullets rattled around them. The two who lingered were al- most within reach of the assagais, and Lord William said: “Get up or I'll punch your head!” The man obeyed, and rescuer and Tescued escaped.—Pearson’s Weekly. | Why Blackie Wore the Plaid. Professor Blackie frequently stayed at Dr. Donald Macleod’s house in Glas- gow. One night, said the doctor, we were sitting up together. Blackie said in his brusque way, “Whatever other faults I have, I am free from vanity.” An incredulous smile on my face rous- ed him. “You don’t believe that. Give me an instance.” Being thus challeng- “Why do you walk about flourishing a plaid continually?’ “Iu give you the history of that, sir. When I was a poor man and when my wife and I had our difficulties she one day drew my attention to the threadbare to order a new one. I told her I could not afford it just then, when she went. like a noble woman, and put her own plaid shaw! on my shoulders, and I have worn a plaid ever since in memo- ry of her loving deed.” Man Who Beheaded Charles I. The wysterious wasked man who beheaded Charles |. remains the Brit- Lilly, the lying astrologer, denounced Cornet Joyce at the restora- tion. but Joyce on the fatal 30th of January was not in favor with Crom- well. The parish register of White- chapel records the burial in 1649 of Richard Brandon, the common hang- man, and opposite the entry a contem- porary hand wrote that “he cut off the head of Charles the First.” Brandon himself asserted that “they made him do it for £30,” with which he drank Sadly Lacking. “Did young Charlie Goldie call op you last night?’ “Yes. He calls al- most every night.” “That sounds se- rious. What sort of young man is he— pretty intelligent?” “Intelligent! Why. brace an opportunity.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. How Could She? Student—1 told you last night to wake me at 7 this morning. Why the dickens didn’t you do so? Landlady— Well, sir. at 7 o’clock you hadn't come home.—Fliegende Blatter. 2 Rivals. Lulu—You should get him to sign the Pledge before you marry him. Babs— Why, he doesn’t drink. Lulu—No, but be may be tempted to later. Conduct is three-fourths of life-—Ar Bold. EEE DS tla IEE a tied SRT ARE Oe A: Es ENTE, AAR Aah, AEN oaer oe tn Seared Sed