Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 7, 1913, Page 8

PAGE SIX BIG INCREASE IN AID FOR SCHOOLS Advance of 25 to 40 Per Cent in Many Instances, GOVERNOR ISSUES WARNING Must Be Curbed or State Tax Rate Will Increase Extravagance Tremendously. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, May 5.—Is Minnesota go- ing educationally mad? It looks that ‘way—at any rate Governor Eberhart is so convinced. You could hardly get him to indulge in the language I have used in calling attention to the fact, but when he says “this is too much” in calling attention to the principal burden of taxation this year, which is state aid to schools, you can bet your last dollar he has not made the state- ment without proper investigation of the facts. Governor Eberhart never shoots unless he knows his target and in this particular matter a pull on the trigger means a bull’s eye every time. There is no chance of missing. Three whole days last week his excellency gave over to a consideration of the four appropriation bills offered for his signature and his conclusion was this: “The present legislature has increased the state aid for schools in Many instances from 25 to 40 per cent and if the present rate of in- crease shall continue year after year tremendous increase in state taxes must necessarily result. I am heart and soul for the advancement of edu- cation in the state, but this is too much.” Continuing, his excellency dwelt at length on the increase in the tax rate, deplored his inability. to shave down the various items and in- dulged in the hope that succeeding legislatures would see their way clear to curb the growing tendency toward extravagance. +e + Of course it should stop, but it won’t until some one big enough to handle the situation takes the bit in his teeth and cries halt. Quoting a friend of the governor, had he taken the bit and drove a carriage and four through the omnibus bill instead of lopping off a paltry $218,000. from a to- tal appropriation of $21,000,000 he would be the biggest man in the state today. Of course there would be sore spots—even the $218,000 he lopped off has brought him enemies—but the great mass of taxpayers would have been with him. Few appreciate the tremendous power the educational trust wields in Minnesota, and I use the word “trust” advisedly, for that is what that large body engaged in teaching the young idea has grown to be. The university is its chief stamping ground. When it is not on the job the annual meeting of the State Educational association supplies the necessary ammunition. Between the two it is state aid for this ne of endeavor, state aid for the praper baking of doughnuts, or perhaps some line of domestic science that has ex- fisted since the time of Adam, but which experts are confident is not properly taught at home. And so on down the line it goes. = eo But if it stopped at the baking of doughnuts, the teaching of lacemaking or the hundred and one things that experts looking for a job succeed in foisting on the legislature, one might not kick. But it does not. Many dis- tricts, seeing this state aid pour into their coffers, have found in it a way to cut down local support for their home schools and they are now pushing the thing for all it is worth. Let the population centers pay the bill, is the cry; but, gentlemen, the population centers may rebel some day and then look out. This coming year the people will vote on an amendment to the constitution pro- viding for the initiative and referen- dum and unless I miss my guess there will be trouble if the amendment passes and the voters in the popula- tion centers wise up to its curves. It is a two-edged sword and Governor Bberhart had it in mind when he ad- vised the lawmakers have a care. toe + The old saw about “penny wise and pound foolish” has examplification in the heavy cattle shipments to South St. Paul and other packing points. As a result of the deluge which packers gay is because of the desire of the cattle owners to get away from the assessor, who started on his reunds May 1, the price of cattle has been forced down many points. Had the eattle been in the farmers’ pens on May 1 they would have been as- sessed as personal belongings. Be- cause of the heavy shipments it will take weeks for the market to recover and in the meantime not only will the farmer be out of pocket but likewise the state. +e et We are sure a funny lot of muts. Now the interested are finding out what the late legislature put over them in the way of laws and the howl that has gone up in some. quarters Decause of this and that infliction is something frightful. And yet for @hree morths this same bunch of in- terested ones sat and saw the laws in question introduced, debated and finally passed. No effort was made to interfere. For instance, there is the dog slaughter bill. It is so dras- tic that it can never be enforced. In the case of child labor there are three conflicting acts. The abatement bill designed to curb immoral resorts looks as if it could never be enforced after the federal courts get through with it. ; line—laws galore, many of them sim- ply repetitions of what are already | on the books and others that work a | hardship instead of giving relief. If |this state aid to schools keeps up it might be well to provide a course of | study for voters. Pik + Ambitious house and senate mem- |bers with an eye to future political preference in the shape of executive |jobs may have seen their chances |glimmering in the passage of the | house salary bill fixing the annual sti- pend of all the heads of state depart- ments, but the fact does not seem to worry Speaker Rines of the house of representatives. Mr. Rines, you have probably heard, has his eye on the state auditor’s office. According to the constitution no member of either house can aspire to any office, the emoluments of which have been in- creased, until a year after the expira- tion of his term as a member of the legislature. State Auditor Iverson was given a flat salary of $4,600 a year, which was his stipend before, though his actual salary was only $3,- 600. Rines thinks the word “emolu- ments” is the saving clause. J. T. Johnson, a house member from Fer- gus Falls, was said to be anxious to | become secretary of state, but he is undoubtedly out of the running. The office was raised in point of salary. +e + During the closing hours of the leg- islature some one slipped in an an- nual approriation of $16,000 for the maintenance of the state hotel in- spection department, but it is hardly likely those in charge will be per- mitted to fatten off the fund. The old figure was $6,000 and State Au- ditor Iverson intimates that this is all the department will get. The depart- ment consists of a big man, a husky boy and a stenographer. Its powers were greatly broadened by the last legislature. t+ + & Even matches were not exempt from the regulation prerogatives of the legislature. Under a law now on the books the old style parlor match must go. Its place will be taken by the safety match of commerce, or a match with a head that cannot be struck on any abrasive surface. The promoters say the law is in the in- terest of fire preventation, but there are those who smile and say there are other things behind it. ees a Assessors who started out May 1 to list personal belongings in their districts must have taken consider- able pleasure in the new law, which confines the constitutional exemption of $100 to the head of the family only. And this head of the family, the at- torney general has ruled, is the per- son on whom family support depends. Under the old law every individual was entitled to a $100 exemption and |the activity shown in dividing up the personal belongings of a family among its individual members had, three card monte beat a mile. The division was expected by the assessor and every- body did it. 5 di oli Two Minnesotans prominent in po- litical life figure in leading magazines this week. The one “mucked” is United States Senator Moses E. Clapp and what Hearst’s Magazine does not say of him in a nasty way is hardly worth mentioning. Clapp, you probably know, conducted the senatorial cam- paign contribution investigation last year and he may have stepped on |Hearst’s toes. At any rate he had a ticklish job, as the magazine inti- mates he failed to look into his own shortcomings in the matter of cor- poration help. The statesman to get a boost is Representative Lindberg of the Sixth district, whom Ida M. Tar- bell, in the American Magazine, styles “the Swede who dreams.” Lindberg is the lad who has been hunting for the money trust and while that indi- vidual is still doing business at the same old stand he seems to have made some dents in its armor. eae ae Both Lieutenant Governor Burn- quist and Speaker Rines of the house have named committees in accordance with resolutions by both bodies pro- viding for an investigation of the question of statewide control of pub- lic utilities. That appointed by Lieu- tenant Governor Burnquist comes nearer being in sympathy with the governor’s idea of the question. The senate committee consists of Sen- ators Hackney, St. Paul; Dwinnell, Minneapolis; Cheadle, Duluth; Sul- livan, Stillwater; Coller, Shakopee; Putnam, Blue Earth City, and Sageng, Dalton. The house committee is com- posed of Nolan, Minneapolis; Min- nette, Sauk Center; Orr, St. Paul; Flowers, Cleveland; Warner, Duluth; Bjornson, Minneota, and Southwick, Wells. tes George F. Authier, the new private secretary to Governor Bberhart and late political writer on the Minneap- olis Tribune, has been made an hon- orary member of the Chicago Press club. George is some press agent and not a few have a hunch that the Iowa boy acted in more than a mere advisory capacity in his excellency’s recent messages covering several im- portant vetoes. And so it is all down the ;' STATE NEWS BITS Minor Happenings of the Week Throughout Minnesota, longing to J. F. O’Brien of Minneap- olis, saved five people from probable death by fire. Mr. and Mrs, O’Brien and their three children were sleep- ing on the second floor of the cottage home. O’Brien was awakened by a tug- ging at his hand. He found the cov- ers pulled from the bed and the dog panting and eripping his fingers, O’Brien jumped out of bed and calling his wife they seized their children and hurried downstairs, escaping by a rear window Minnesota’s share in the $3,000,000,- 000 expenditure for good roads pro- posed by former Senator Jonathan Bourne, in a plan recommended to the joint congressional committee on fed- eral aid in the construction of post roads, will be $25,000,000. Minnesota is one of the states where it would not be necessary to procure an amend- ment of the state constitution before these bonds could be issued. Edward E. Smith, chairman of the Republican state committee and chief adviser to Governor A. O. Eberhart, has left for Europe, where he will spend the summer. Mr. Smith was fatigued by the activities of the legis- lative session and takes the journey on account of impaired health, exnect- ing to spend much of the time at Carls- bad and otber watering places. Senator Manley L. Fosseen of Min- neapolis arnounces that he has re- tired from politics and will not be a candidate to succeed himself in the state senate next year. He has served eight years in the senate and two in the house. He has formed a law part- nership and expects to devote himself exclusively to business in the future. An open rupture at a meeting of the state board of immigration led to the resignation of H. J. Maxfield, com- missioner of immigration. In a state ment by members of the board it was explained that Mr. Maxfield admitted violating the board’s rule regarding giving out lists of prospective buyers. A train to demonstrate to farmers the latest methods of farming is pro- posed to tour the Northern Pacific lines through the state early in June. It is.the plan of the extension depart- ment of the University of Minnesota Agricultural school. Live stock receipts at South St. Paul during April, 1913, showed an increase of 300 carloads over April, 1912. The receipts were as follows: Ninety thousand hogs, 29,200 cattle, 12,000 calves, 14,500 sheep, making a total of 2,550 cars. N. C. Pike of Lake City was named grand commander of the Minnesota grand commandry of Knights Templar at its forty-eighth annual conclave in Minneapolis. St. Paul was chosen as the next meeting place of the com- mandry next year. The state department of weights and measures has found that 30 per cent of the milk shipping cans used in the state are faulty and extensive condemnation and confiscation of these utensils is in progress. The resignation of O. M. Olson, demonstrator at the university farm, recently acquitted at St. Paul of the murder of Clyde Darling, has been accepted by the board of regents of the state university. CRIMES AND MISHAPS. While Herbert Graf was experi- menting with a home made acetyline system on the porch of his residence at Good Thunder the tank exploded, going through the house wall, blowing out doors and windows and hurling Graf a distance of thirty feet. The man is seriously injured and his con- dition is critical. Patrolman Allen J. Kruszewski was acquitted of manslaughter at St. Paul by a district court jury after the evi- dence had been considered for less than an hour. Kruszewski was charged with shooting Batista Mich- eroli on Nov. 1, 1912. Micheroli sought to evade arrest by fleeing from the patrolman. Fanned by a strong wind fire which started in an upstairs room of the City hotel at Glyndon destroyed four business buildings and most of their contents. The loss is estimated at $25,000. Clifford Folstad, aged three, was drowned in the watering tank at the farm home of his grandparents south of Balaton. There was only sixteen inches of water in the tank at the time. Mrs. Rachael R. Rosenbloom, aged thirty-six, killed herself at St. Paul by drowning in the Mississippi river. DEATHS OF THE WEEK. Roscoe J. Bronson, fifty years old, of Stillwater, died at St. Luke’s hos- pital at St. Paul following several weeks’ illness. Mr. Bronson was presi- dent of the First National Bank of Stillwater. He also was president of the Western Shoe company and was interested in a bank at Valley City, N. D, Mrs. Eleanor Selden, widow of the late Henry E. Selden, is dead at Min- neapolis, aged seventy-seven, years. Mrs. Selden reached Minneapolis with her husband in 1861. Miss Mary Browne Peniston, well known charity worker, is dead at St. . “Curley,” a pet shepherd dog be- | SENATOR WORKS DENOUNCES IDEA Scores Effort to Incorporate Rockefeller Foundation. ‘OIL KING’S MONEY TAINTED Declares Attempt to Legalize Plan Is for the Purpose of “Farming Out” Education to the Trusts—Says Sher. man Law Is Inadequate. Washington, May 6.—Efforts in congress to incorporate the $100,000,- 000 Rockefeller foundation were scored by Senator Works, who de- clared them a “proposal to ‘farm out’ to John D. Rockefeller and his asso- ciates the right and power to educate the people of the country with money accumulated by criminal means.” Sen- ator Works’ statement was made in connection with a speech he delivered in the senate on trusts and combina- tions, the existence of which he blamed to the high protective tariff policy. “The extent to which this may be carried out is practically unlimited. The corporations and institutions of learning which may be established throughout the country in the hands of people who will be subservient to the interests and views of Mr. Rocke- feller and his associates are without number or limitation,” said the sena- tor. “We do not want our children to be taught the ways nor the methods of John D. Rockefeller or his kind, nor to be generous with ill gotten gains, j nor to touch, handle, or profit by gold that should blister the fingers of the man who has accumulated it by ex- tortion, oppression and crime, and is now attempting to rid himself of it by giving it away, nor to become re- ceivers of stolen goods in the name and under the guise of charity.” The continued existence of trusts and monopolies, the senator said, was due to inadequacy of the Sherman anti-trust law, which he declared should be so amended that specific restraints of trade shall be unlawful, with suitable punishment for those who violate the law. ARRESTS FISH POND OWNER Accused of Violating Law by Angling in Private Pool. Cashton, Wis., May 6.—Charles Cul- ed a private fishing pond on his prop- erty, stocked it at his own expense and has been taking trout from it whenever the fancy has moved him. Game Warden Gautsch of La Crosse arrested Culvera on a charge of fish- ing for trout out of season and took him to the county seat at Sparta for trial. There Culvera pleaded not guilty. The accused lawyer promises, if de- feated in the lower courts, to take the case to the state supreme court. Mortgage Foreclosure Sale Default having been made in the pay- ment of the sum of one hundred four- teen and 45-100 dollars, which is claim- ed to be due and is due at the date of this notice upon a certain mortgage, duly executed and delivered by Henry Karppi and Agness Karppi, his wife, mortgagors, to Fitger Brewing Company (a corporation), mortgagee, bearing date the 3rd day of October, 1911, and with a power of sale therein contained, duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for the county of Itasca and State of Minnesota, on the 6th day of October, 1911, at 9:65 _ o'clock a. m., in Book ‘“‘W” of mortgages, on page 104. And Whereas, The said Fitger Brew- ing Company, Mortgagee and holder of said mortgage, has duly elected and does hereby elect to declare the whole principal sum of said mortgage due and payable at the date of this notice, under the terms and conditions of said mortgage and the power of sale therein contained; and whereas there is actually due and claimed to be due and payable at the date of this notice the sum of eighteen hundred sixteen and 23-100 dol- lars, with interset thereon; and whereas the said power of sale has become op- erative, and no action or proceeding having been instituted, at law or other- wise, 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 mortgage, and pur- suant to the statute in such case made and provided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises des- eribed in and conveyed by said mort- gage, viz: Lot six (6) and west half of south east quarter (W% of SE%) of Section twenty-one (21) and lot four (4) section twenty-eight (28) all in townsnip fifty- five (5) north, of Range twenty-four (24) west in Itasca county and State of Minnesota, with the hereditaments and ‘appurtenances; which sale will be made by the Sheriff of said Itasca coun- ty, at the front door of the Court House in the Village of Grand Rapids, in said county and State, on the 2rd day of June, 1913, at 10 o’clock a. m., of that day, at public vendue, to the highest pidder for cash, to pay said debt and interest, and the taxes, if apy, on said premises, and fifty dollars Attorney's fees, as stipulated in and by said mortgage in case of foreclosure, and the disbursements allowed by law; sub- ject to redemption at any time within |their next session, on | 27th | Itasca county, vera, lawyer and capitalist, construct- |’ one year from the day of sale, aS | Notice of Application for License to Sell intoxicating Liquors Notice is hereby given that J. F. O’- Connell has petitioned the Board of County Commissioners cf Itasca County, Minnesota, for License to sell intoxicat- |ing liquors for a period of one year from ithe 27th day of May, 1913. In the front room on the ground fioor of a certain frame building situated upon lot 10, section 7, township 53, range 22 being at Swan River station, This application and any r2monstrance jor objections to the granting of the |same will be heard and determined by said board of county commissioneis, at Tuesday, the day of M 1913, at the court in the Village of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Dated May Sth, 1913. M. A. SPANG, County Auditor, Itasca County, Herald Review May 7 and 14 house, Minn. Notice of Hearing on Petition for For- mation of New District. Whereas, a petition has been filed with the board of county commission- ers of the county of Itasca, signed and acknowledged by a majority of the freeholders who reside in the proposed new district herein described, and who are entitled to vote at school meetings in their respective districts, and duly verified by the affidavit of one of the residents of said proposed new dis- trict, praying for the organization of a new school district out of the ter- ritory hereinafter described, to-wit: All of the organized township of Marcell, more definitely described as follows, to- wit: Commencing at the northeast cor- ner of Township Sixty (60), Range Twenty-six (26), thence running west on the township line to the northwest corner of Township Sixty (60), Range Twenty-seven (27), thence running south on the township line to the southwest corner of Township Fifty-nine (59), Range Twenty-seven (27), thence run- ning east on the township line to the southeast corner of Township Fifty- nine (59), Range Twenty-six (26), thence running north on the township line to the point of commencement, being more than four (4) government sections in extent, and the said board of county commissioners have appointed a time and place for a hearing upon said peti- tion as by law required; Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, that a hearing upon said petition will be had at a meeting of the said board commencing upon the 27th day Of May, A. D. 1913, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of said day, at the commissioners’ room in the county court house in the village of Grand Rapids, in said conuty, at which time and place the said board of coun- ty commissioners will hear arguments of all persons interested, for or against the proposed organization of said new schoo] district. Dated at Grand Rapids, this 22nd day of April, A. D. 1918. By order of the Board of County Com- missioners of Itasca County, Minn. By M. A. SPANG, County Auditor and Ex-Officio Clerk of Board. Herald-Review, May 7 and 14. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE Elanto Company Know All Men By These Presents, tha We, the undersigned, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under and by vir- tue of the provisions of the Revised Laws of the State of Minnseota for the year 1905, and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and adopt the following articles of incorpor- ation. Article 1. The name of said corporation shall be Elanto Company and the general nature of its business shall be to buy, _ sell, lease, and deal in real estate and per- sonal property of al] kinds and nature whasoever and to engage in, conduct and carry on a general mercantile busi- ness and to operate boarding houses in the State of Minnesota and elsewhere, and the principal place of transacting the same shall be the Village of Nash- wauk, Itasca County, Minnesota, Article 11. The period of its duration shall be twenty-five years from the date of the incorporation, Article Hl. t The names and place of residence of the incorporators are John A, Koski, Venni Kari and Charles Halme, all of Nashwauk, Minnesota, Article IV. shall be vested in a board of directors and its officers, each of whom shail hold office for six months or until his. successor is elected and qualified, which board of directors and officers shall be elected from and by its stockholders at each semi-annual meeting to be held om the last Saturday of July and January of each year, beginning the year 1913. Sec. 2. The names and addresses of those composing the board of directors and officers until the first election shall be John A. Koski, president; Nestor Ja- -onen, vice-president; Venni Kari, sec’y; Charles Halme, Traesurer; John Harma, John Lampi, and Isaak Viklund, mem- bers all of Nashwauk, Minnesota, Article V. The amount of its capital stock shall be $25000.00, divided into 25000 shares at a par value of $1.00 each, to be paid in cash as called for by the board of directors. Article VI. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which it shall at any time be subject shall be $25000.00. Article VIL. The board of directors may adopt such by-laws as shall be approved by the majority of the stockholders for the regulation of its business and the power of the board of directors and officers, which officers shal] always be members of the board of directors. In Testimony Whereof, we have here- unto set our hands and seals this 22nd day of April, 1913. JOHN A KOSKI (Seal) VENNI KARI (Seal) CHARLES HALME (Seal) In Presence off: CHAS KAMINEN JOHN P. RAATTAMO STATE OF MINNDSOTA, COUNTY OP ITASCA—ss On this 22nd day of April, 1913, before me personally appeared John A, Koski, Venni Kari, and Charles Halme, to me known to be the persons who executed the foregoing Articles of Incorporation and each of them duly acknowledged that he executed the same as his free act and deed. JOHN. P. RAATTAMO. Notary Public, Nashwauk; Minn. My Commission expires July 1, 1913. STATE OF MINNESOTA, DHPART- MENT. OF STATE. I hereby certify that the within instru- ment was filed for record in this office on the 25th day of April, A. D. 1913, at 11 o'clock a. m., and was duly recorded in Book W-2 of Incorporations on page ‘737. JULIUS A SCHMAHL. Secretary of State- 57651 Office of Register of Deeds STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF ITASCA—ss. I hereby certify that the within instru- ment was filed in this office for record, April 28, 1913, at 4 p. m., and was duly recorded in Book 33 of M. R. page 134. E. J. McGOWAN, Register of Deeds. By IRENE BECKER, Deputy. Notice of Sealed Bids, Sealed bids will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Itas- ca county, Minnesota, up until 10 o’clock a. m., on Tuesday, the 27th day of May, 1913, at the office of the County Andi- tor in the Village of Grand Rapids, Min- nesota, for the construction of county road No. 114 in the Town of Arbo, The said road to be constructed ac- cording to the plans and specifications. prepared by O. J. Lidberg, State Dis- trict Engineer, and on file in the office of the County auditor. The board reserves the right to reject amy or ail bids. M. A, SPANG, County Auditor. Herald-Review May 7, 14, 21. Notice of Sealed Bids Sealed bids will be received by the County Board of Itasca county, Minne- Sota up to 10 o'clock a, m., on Tuesday the 27th day of May, 1913, at the of- fice of the County Auditor, in the Vil- lage of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for the construction of that portion of county road No. 102, beginning at the 8% post of section 35, township 654, range @4, and running thence west to a point 500 feet west of the S% post of section 34 of said township 54, Range 24. Said road to be constructed according to plans and specifications on file in the office of the County Auditor. The county board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. M. A. SPANG, County Auditor- Sec. I The management of its affairs | Herald-Review May 7, 14, 21. Customers like to order by telephone, be- cause it saves a trip to the store and takes less energy than to shop in person. It pays to make it easy for people to do business with you. Your telephone door should always be kept wide open. 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