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MINNESOTA INSURGENTS 10 To CHALLENGE TAKE UP T Minnesota Republicans Alive With Progressive Spirit, Are Organizing to Resist—F District, Scene of the Winona Speech, Gives Standpatter Tawney a Scare—Other Con gressic onal Situations That Must Reckon With the Revolt Against the -P ayne Tariff } ind Reactionary Policies le etain teay 90 ' at event Ellsworth’s chance gael s have thelr wa e Detter care and the | ¢ ° Unanimous for Davie ; opal - the first cong on oS In the third district Chas. R. Da vid made famous by the the present congressman, is on ‘rfet, at President Tat. a he original insurgents from this nee a ge and ix promised a practical! > mous reelection. the nation did = or ’ b wth district Includes this py was from ar ~~ the capital Fred ©. St 4 deen brew sent congress: | Ae ge lleaaitag ® nt congresama mer ¢ fistric i. Cs nth term, has re fier an agricy 1 con ~ it haw paid bigh pr , for some time. N championship of interests. which muster in he says, 12,000 const siways helped Dim. Tas spor these are the only specia he represents {n cong recently, at least, th extensive lumbering |o og the river bank at Winona y wos always & supP agenda cone Taw wo years ago, ney oe Or. ed with defeat 1 time the challenge was close ve him cause for w won out at last, and to be or said he did, that the tide qebdeltion had reached its food, | Mat the republicans would | " inte their own when p recovered from for John A. Johnson. Ineargents ir Johnson's Place Joke A. Johnson is dead, bar pe the First district rx fas to order its shroud. The dom qerata bave x'ready brought oo! CHARLES R. DAVIS hag Original Insurgent From the Third Oistrict. oped some insurgent inclina ns, but they have not worn well. He has one county with about 1,500 |republiean plurality to daunt the [heart of any democrat who seeks [his seatp, but nevertheless there thas been some talk of Daniel W. Lawler, St. Paul's present mayor, runoing against him. Thos, K. Kano, former county attorney here, is considered to have informally confessed an ambition. May 3, run ning for the city assembly in St | Paul, Kane led the field with 1 lrvotes, TI wh congressional district only had 35,897 votes in 1908 No insurgent republican has yet announced against Stevens for the republican nomination Hugh T. Halbert, lawyer, it. Halbert ts president of the Roosevelt Kepublican club, and was [executive chairman In the & }elty campaign of 1908, but is ac- ]counted something of an idealist. | His nomination probably could only lhe accomplished through such a re vulsion of political feeling as re cently marked the fourteenth Mas sachusette or the thirty-second New | York district, Inaurgent Movement | Nye in Minneapolis. Congressman Tawney. | Minneapolis, the fifth district, has jin Prank M. Nye another insurgent ts bat is flirting with “4. P. HURLEY, bt wneyy Judge H. |i who has his days of stalwartiem ot woods lawyer and ¢x-\The republican insurgents, how- campaigner. And a {¢W | over, seem to nave no definite plans insufgent leaders get to canvassed the feild for Lge coy candidate ‘The district, on Contests, is for his dethronement as Uh yet, and democrats are almost as badty sea, although there is some talk of Harry Swenson, whose Swedish name would be expected to help a nocrat over the normal repub-|_ m majority ‘ongressman ©, A. Lindbergh of the sixth district is another real tn surgent, and is not threatened with serious oppostiion tn bis district Congreseman A. J. Volstead the seventh has not been per in his insurgency, but seems to have placated the insurgent ole ment sufficiently to prevent serious opposition to re-election Congressman Cl of the eighth has been tneurgent some days, and more or less stal- wart at odd intervals. He has re actionary oppesition which is still casting about for its candidate, and the Insurgents do not seem to be solid for him by any means. The Duluth men who are closest to the steel trust seem to be eager to sup plant Miller. The democrats are urging Alfred Jacques, a lawyer at Duluth, to run. They have not! elected a congressman since Chas A. Towne, and one of their former strongly democratic counties is now in Lindbergh's district Congressman Halvor Steenerson of the ninth district has apparently | satisfied the insurgent element that he fs with them, and so far Is only threatened with opposition from Andy Stephens, a fellow townsman tent is & gure insurgent and & live wire, his friends say Sive Jim a hustle when he for the pomination. © M Retard, of Owatonna, is also 2 inewrgent candidate In Second District. Second Minnesota dist Much insurgent Republican Ibly for the reason that have Been devoting ives for the last two cam cae J.T. MeCleary infield Scott Harm democrat, who has not seri Sttagonized any of the Hammond Oppenent will be Clarence C State treasurer, whe pro- to be S gateart, but has the on it in all his speeches fo beat for the Sontaat n Frank F. Ellsworth, Who has been making gon re asa lyceum star aworth| at Crookston, who is a close per. gent, but probably could | sonal friend of Jas. J. Hill. The bis own town against |democrats mre holding in reserve , whe lives there, too, and| State Senator Ole O. Sageng, Fer- ieuts Appear to be fair y| gus Falls. ng is th ne pop. With Hammond. Some | list in the st senate, and indeed | are trying to get } the only avowed populist left in| the race for governor, | publi¢ life In Minnesota fonsidered a forlorn hope | 2 electer The legis 304 Pike Street _MUST CLEAR THE STORE TOMORROW Much Remains and Carry it away chold ake . Other Flyers Four-in-Hand Neckties, 1: stuff at less than it ¥ Se Post Cards, Seatt duet be Post Cards; doz. 3¢ fart Cdivanized Pa 15¢ r HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. TERS, SHELVING, FIXTURES, AT ANY OLD PRICE, intend to go into business. hare of items for peo me Come anc yur Busted Store Next to Bank for Savings. ho ‘ithe world of| ments which, while pee B. Miller | next cl will name the r Mones B.C} senator t yor to and holee tn whose term ex; h 4, 1918 Clapp just now seer » be Inaur Kent « h to have suppressed op jposition. Thos. BH. Walker and hos, H. Shevitn, Minneapolis pine | millionaty d Frank B. Kellog | truat-buater-at ar » the 7 inistration, have beot aiked of _ MLACHLAN ON | DEFENSES | (Conciuded.) » study the nvaston of Pac problems of the a ifte | While paying tribute to the | militia of the several states for | the efficiency in military art } acquired, Representative Mo | Lachlan characterized the | sending of partly trained citt | zen soldiers against trained regulare purder,” and the act that in our ware the gov ernment had sent armies of men to the field unhabituated to the duties of a soldier, the speaker said, made “this nation in ite military operations the Greatest apendthrift of life in ancient or modern times.” The statistics of the civil Spanish wars, showing the deaths from disease in camps owing to the troops being untrained in car tng for thomeelves tn the field, was offered by the speaker in substanti ation. The danger of relying on | militia, unsupported by a sufficient force of regulars, was set forth by the speaker in quotations from every national military commar from Washington chief of staff “It was not Individual cowardice but collective fear which ran from Bull Run,” said the speaker, who then drew a picture of the same troops, who aa raw levies had fled from that battlefield, withstanding without flinching the terrific as sault of Pickett’s Virginians at |Gettysburg, as a result of two years’ training. Demanding that a sufficient force of regulars be sta tioned on the Const to deter an enemy from attempting an tnva sion, the speaker declared that it was known to every naval officer that the battle fleet could not op erate without the screen of ar mored cruisers stationed on the Pa cific, and that In case of war these ships would at once be ordered t the Atlantic to complete the fle nd to prevent their own destruc Hon, and that the Pacific would be & clear roadway for an invader. Easy to Occupy. The occupation of the Coast states, with a possibility that they would be forever separated from the Union, was stated by the apeak er as almost accepted facts by every military student throughout who had studied the | probable outcome of a war with Ja pan in our present state of “crim! nal anpreparednessa” the to pre. nt administration prevents the secre tary of war from disclosing the truth concerning the weakness of the Pacific defenses, will be submitted to congress which will startle the nation. NO TRIP FOR (Concluded. ) water plant, which is of the utmost importance, and which has already been too long delayed, due, in part, jin my opinion, to the fact that Mr. Thomson's association with move beneficial to the state at large, have detracted from his efficiency as city engineer. “He has been to Europe twice in recent years, and so far as deriving information which would be of ben efit to either our state or city ts leoncerned, he should have absorb ed about all the knowledge that practical investigation would itm | part, and I am inclined to the be- | Hef that bis attendance at Brussels }now would be more of a benefit te others than to ourselves Must Refuse Permission. “In fact, the situation is such that particularly because of the urgency of our light, water and gar- eat of those who have placed me ree my reasons, and with kind- est personal regards, I am, Yours trul “HIRAM C ILL, “Mayor © YEGGS FIGHT WITH POSSE (ny United Press) WAPANUCKA, Ok, May 20-— Four robbers and a posse of towns people fought a running fight in the streets yesterday, following an un- successful attempt to loot the Peo- | ple’s National bank here. The rob- bers finally escaped on @ handoar, but the posse kept after them, an@ still in pursuit today. The rob- wrecked the bank vault wit | nitro-glyce robbery | they cut all telegraph and telephone os into the town, courT MARTIAL A LIEUTENANT | | ou | | 7 ted Press.) PORT TOWNSEND, May 20.— First Lieut. R. F. Anderson, of the 149th Coast Artillery, will be tried before board of courtmartial within a few days, Anderson was mortar battery in charge of the which fired an 18-pound sub-caliber lgholl, which struck the quarter masters’ steamer, Major Evan towing 4 \Thomas, May 10, while | target | Ljeut. Anderson has been under | arre ince that time, As soon as it was known that the Thomas had been hit the commanding offi cer at Fort Worden ordered the range finding instrument clamped so that a record could be made of j the reading, which should have lindicated the position of the tar get, several hundred yards to the rear of the Thomas. | and R. H. THOMSON | the ft ad | | | In informed | fore Westminster’ circles, it is stated that unless the | that @ report | bage situation, that | Thomson ask for a leave of ab-|wore evening dress and blac a. and gold uniforms of | lsence, which he has not done, I| studs, On his arm was a mourning |‘ Sain urd ag eee should feel compelled, in the tnter-| band ‘ollowing the royal catafalque | ¥ : Admiral Prince Louls of Bat-| where I am, to refuse to grant it.|Strathcona of Trusting | have made this matter| Australia, and Sir Hall-Jones, clear enough so that you will ap-|New Zealand. FRIDAY MAY 20. THE STAR The Passing of Edward The funeral of King Edward was held toda: The picture is from a photograph taken while the into the chapel. AWE INGPIRING SPEGTAGLE IN ALL HISTORY. Royalty From Every Corsier of Earth Marches Behind| Bier While Over Two Million People Look on in Silence—Roosevelt in First Carriage. Press.) LONDON, May 20,—-The body of King Edward VII « land was laid to rest today in St George’ chapel at W ind- sor, where seven other British kings are buried. The funeral was one of the most impressive in the history of the world | The procession left Westminster at 9:50 a. m. Probably two and a half million people saw the pageant pass. Hundred tators fainted in the dense throngs that lined the te ever which the procession moved and forty ambular ‘ busy Spectators began arriving at midnight and at dawn the streets were jammed Simultaneously with the starting of the procession every train and street car in Great Britaig stopped from two to fifteen min utes. Manufacturing throughout the kingdom was suspended while the funeral was in progress It required two hours and Zeven minutes for the procession to cover the distance from Weelminster to Paddington station. The funeral train arrived at Windsor at 12:44 p.m A great throng had gathered be |twe orbs, regal and lmnperial, while gate long before (i the middie rested a sceptre. portals were thrown open for) | Behind the royal standard rode procession to move out. (King George V. His face was worn Sombre biack was the keynote of and sad. He was dressed in the | the color schome, occasionally en: | uniform of a British general. | hanced by the royal purple decora At King George’s right rode Em-/ th th | tions. In bright relief against this peror William o’ Germany He sombre background were the gay- was dressed in the uniform of a colored uniforms of royalty and of British field marshal. the officers of the royal army and royal navy ery phase of English official | was represented in the great funeral pageant. Officers of the headquarters staff, comprising the war lords of the British army, num bering ite famous generals and strategiats, were in line. At the head of the column march ed the royal life guards, the pick of military Britatn. In glittering array marched the advance guard Knights, marshals, foot guards, drummers, royal Scot Grand Duke in White. One of the moat striking figures in the group of royal mourners was! Grand Duke Michael of Russia, who was dressed in a dazzling white uniform. The group of monarchs as @ Whole presented a kalefdoscopie picture with shifting colors of blue, silver, gray and red As the procession approached Hyde Park corner, St. George's hos pital came into view. The build ing’s roof was packed with people and even the arch leading from Constitution Hall was black with fusileers, the Irish guards, royal dragoons and detachments of prac | spectators. The windows of Ap- tically every military body in Eng-|#ley House, the residence of «the jand, with bands and gorgeous uni-| Duke of Wellington, were fille forma. Hyde Park was crowded As the procession reached Pad-| dington station the great crowd | rose and stood uncovered while the Duke of Norfolk rode down the station platform. The bier was taken Into the station The slow pace of the funeral| marked time for the entire corteg | Hedging the pallbearers came detachments commemorative of | England of the long ago. Men-at- arma, halberdiers and musketeers, | yeomen of the guard in magnifi The headquarters staff of the British army numbered General Lord Roberts, General Lord Kitche ner, Sir George White, of the Gor dou Highlanders, and General Lowe. | .ords of the admiralty came next Admiral Sir Arthur K. Wilson, first jord of the admiralty, Sir Joho Fisher, sentor naval lord, and Sir ward Hobart Seymour, admiral of the fleet Theodore Roosevelt, resentative of the United States, special rep came In the next carrtage rode Lord | . fi tenburg, allied to the English royal Canada, Sir Gretd, of | house by marriage. Only Boots in Stirrups. In the next carriage were Ambas-| King Edward's tavorite charger wador White and Lieut..Commander | decked in full state trappings with | Belknap and Major Mott, the lat-| purple and crepe rosettes, follow-| ter two Roosevelt's aides ed Prince Louls, In the stirrups Beside the house of parliament,| were the big spurred Wellington the cavales wound slowly from | boots of an English field marshal, the main gate of Westminster hall| reversed to denote the death of while the royal military band al-|thetr owner ternately played Beethoven's and Preece i by the royal standards | Chopin's funeral marches Jof England rode King George V, The procession passed along Par ith his alde and equerry, attend-| Hament st., the government huild-|@d by the Duke of Connaught, King ings on either side being draped in | #dward’s brother, nd Kalser black and purple, while flags at half| Wilhelm, Edward's nephew, who staff stirred lazily in the breeze. nde on either aide. Through the Mall the procession|} Then followed seven E pean | passed the famous London clubs, |fnonarchs, Kir eorge of Greece, draped in mourning. ing Alfonso of Spain, King Man-| Down Picadilly past Hyde Park |Mel of Portu King Haakon of to the Paddington station, the line |Borway, King Frederick of Den-| | and park, King Albert of Belgium ing Ferdinand of Bu'garia, Gre of march led through solid banks of | silently watching people To the spectators who thronged|@d behind them, riding three fh] Dalconies, windows and roofs breast, was a display of lesser casket, with its white embroldered|Poyalty such as the world has pall, was clearly visible, On top| fever seen before. | A long line of carriages followed, ontaining the queen mother Alex ndra and her sister, the dowager | zarina of eee the princesses | == | ASPHALT PLANT GOES UP IN FLAMES TODAY) Asphalt company of the pall the royal insignia was embroidered. On a cushion at the head of the casket rested the royal crown, while one at the foot bore A leaky vat in the plant of the Independent on the waterfront, between Vine and Cedar sts. this morning started a fire which caused about $20,000 damage. The damage to the asphalt company was about $15,000 and the Occidental Fish com pany suffered to the extent of $5,000. Both concerns cafried am. ple insurance. It was the first fire of any size that called for the attention of the new fire boat Duwamish, and the new craft acquitted herself in fine style, throwing 10 streams of water that literally smothered the bla The asphalt company has three vats at this point. One of them sprung a leak, allowing the asphalt to run down into the firebox. This caused an explosion which seat the flames over 1,500 barrels of asphalt stored nearby. From the barrels the flames spread rapidly to the fish company's pliant and licked up a large quantity of cured fish. Night Watchman Mitchell, slightly of the asphalt company was burned from the royal church, St. George's chapel, coffin of his mother, Queen Victoria, was being borne EDWARD'S BODY LAID TO REST AMID MOST. OLD WOMAN | | ROSEBURG, Ore inquest will be hel body of Mrs, Fran ny 20. ' id today » Russe on t | night tanding on th een en hurled fe | Wh ed uy | was unconsciou yeiclans at nced aboard the I |to Roseburg WR ht \* * - BANK CLEARINGS. * os * * Seattle ‘ * | ring ’ * eS on . * Tacoma. * * Ralances 46,166 * * Portian * at Windsor, ® Cloarings today 69.00 & * Balances . 1 089.6 * - Spokane, + peosinninlatninentied & Clearings today ...8 692,51 * f Balances ...s.1e. 48,047.00 & * * i le ee ie i ee Me ee Mammoth Rink Opens. other TRAIN KILLS 8. MATTHEWS TO TALK ON VICE N’T vung folks get king amuse own he them ement clean me fun—in their an “Edison” Phonograph to. b sings the songs they Ike ar, gives them the mono- logues oO clever comedians, plays the music they are fond of and renders waltzes and two steps that set their feet a-trip- Loutsa and Vic F Next rode — ping Queen Mary, Queen Maud of Nor Dog Polsoner Still Busy. ASOT RCOROL! Nton EIRENE way, the Duke of Cornwall and his! pog poiao ar j | ceeding. four carriage e ty E., reported to the polic esti eon usiC How princesses oi me rit 2 ro morning that his valuable Irish a e family, Then followed the diplo-| setter had been poisoned. There Is Phone Saltand 1277. Ante of foreign nations no clue mee ne Ga tae pee oldiers Draw Gun Carriage -—— - » Moneys Hage gy Boe The Duke of Norfolk, Earl Mar | catalogue of Edison Standard ohal 46 Watane. vote Ne On a| Danee at Dreamtand tonight. and Amberol Records in stock. © charger. Following him,} Ate i staves, can Lord | Duke of Bucclugh, Earl uve, Lord Car and Karl Beauck k the | ° . The draped gun ur ing the casket, followed in the] wake of the und clvil | " riage wea arav ia cu ng oat | people have taken advantage of our soldiers with a be , onl 30-Piece Semi-Porcelain China Dinner one h side of the canket ped | ry pair of Star Special Shoes for men . sap ey aad ay re “ ~~ Those wh » our store were Household cavalry. Out whe ased with ity of the Dinner There was a slight their quality, snap and the procession formed r moved toward door waiting gentlemen-at« ap! ies, burnished helmets and waving ‘| Star — Shoe Because those who own a pair will tell their friends how white plumes, stood at while the honorary pall formed a line and the bearer party lifting the casket, weighing nearty half a ton, bore it up the steps The entrance of the funeral party | in the St. George's chapel was one | ‘ y The the of the most ceseunereei ts of the good they art: The-price of th entire day. The brilliant yet som ° bre procession, moving across the You had better come soon, stretch of green turf, overshadowed forever, and we a Dy and frowntsr as in we a ward and proclaimed th Edward and prayed for & life for King George, ending with “God Save the King.” re w L | is up the long walk to th ers in th Round Tower, through H § ) the s ‘ Cloister to the ste w the fact that they end of St. George Seti |the body wil ae ur-spec in this vicinity in tun ms. lendid uniforms of scarle walls, noble ore battlements, halted the body of the king was borne gray stone tow tise our § to the chapel, where the funeral rvice was read At the conclusion of the service. deputy king-atarms st ped for death of sally be chapel nt burial. ' ward's body will eve moved to Albert memo indsor, for permane 1 in their construction, iced under ideal conditions know ¢ in store for those cus- ng qualities of the shoes, and 1g campaign is over, every- about the merits of the Star Special Shoe is as the dishes will not last only giving this Dinner Set to adver- d get them known to the people. STAR SHOE STORE 1534 WESTLAKE BOULEVARD Between Pike and Pine, Near Fourth Ave. Alhambra Theatre Bidg. Munson-Noah Furniture Co. 1526-28 SECOND AVENUE All Kitchen Cabinets RS Made golden, of for finished This cabinet, $13.50 | | only select material, only Are Specially Priced made select oak, for

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