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JOTERNATIONAE FALLS PRESS ®B£NG TREASU RY DEPT.STRONG INDIANA MAN HELD. RAILROAD MAN WRITES Minnesota Legislature fe# Oyer ^Quarter Million Dollars Re- Publisher of Northfield Daily Bulletin REMARKABLE LETTER V- ceived During Past Year. Accused of Embezzlement. Hibbing.—Considerably over a quarter Northfield.—John Wood, alias J. H. 5ITY ORDINANCE PLACING LOCOMOTIVES Proceedings at the Minnesota State Gapitoi for the of a million dollars was received Ward, was arrested here at a prominent In 1993 and 1904, I was a terrible sufferer UNDER BAN IS SUSTAINED by tbie village treasurer during the hotel on word from Indianapolis for about five months with kidney Past Week. past year, according to the annual report IN DECISION. authorities for alleged embezzlement and bladder trouble. I could not sleep of the treasurer just published. nights and was obliged to get up fen or and the forfeiture of a bond. fifteen tune's to urinate. I passed mucus The total receipts from all sources A woman said to be his wife was and blood continually-. One doctor sa{d I for the year amounted to $325,378.96 tion of the funds was adopted. It with him. They have lived well and St. Paul, March 9.—The state drainage OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT was going i$to consumption and g^ve me and the total disbursements were $32,177.60, leaves with the legislatnre the right to traveled in the best of circles. Wood commission whose members are up to die. Had two other doctors but received leaving a balance in hand 5f name a body to exercise the money some days ago started the Northfield Governor Eberhart,' Julius Schmahl, no help from either of them and only $2,201.36. The month of heaviest dispensing powers. Daily Bulletin, a newspaper which has secretary of state, and £j. G. Iverson, am sure I would have been in my grave receipts was November, with $105,535.41, °rohibition of Soft Coal Inside Minneapolis taken an active part in the present state auditor, has had only a nominal By a vote of 61 to 31 the lower had I not seen your advertisement in the and September was the lightest, municipal campaign for. the wet interests. Daily Eaglfc Star," Aftey taking several -existence during the past three years house refused to investigate the state Limits Declared Binding— with $5,187.15. The sources of bottles of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root I was according to the testimony of Mr. central committees of the Republican City Authorities Pleased entirely cured. revenue were as follows. General Iverson before the house investigating and Democrat parties of this state. It is said by the authorities that the At Finding. In the last two years I have been a taxes, $201,652.68 light service, $56,680 committee. George A. Ralph, state Several members voting against the Indianapolis police have trailed Wood railroad fireman and have passed two examinations saloon licenses, $32,105 water drainage engineer, was really the bill said there was no evidence of from that place to California, back to for my kidneys successfully, so service, $14,925.43 other smaller items 'whole thing. He appointed his assistants, any irregularities in the handling of Minneapolis and thence to Northfield that I know that my kidneys are in excellent were, cemetery, $424.97 heat service, St. Paul. Minneapolis has obtained fixed their salaries, made estimates, campaign funds. He posed while here as a solicitor for condition now as a result of your $471.81 meter rent, $754.71 dog licenses, from the state supreme court ordered ditches and let the stock in an insurance company. His The committee on general legislation great preparation, Swamp-Root. $382 peddlers' licenses, $161 nrhat it long has waited for, a decision •contracts for the thousands of dollars wife denied all knowledge of any crime Yours very truly, recommended for passage the show licenses, $175 sidewalk tax, "worth of construction work done by upholding the city in* its assertion of GEORGE KENSLER, which the authorities are holding him John P. Nash bill which creates a $252 hall rent, $370, and some odd 1422 Mary St. the state in northern Minnesota. The police power in regulation of the for, and said she had met him in Indianapolis state department of weights and measures amounts which include $22 from the Marinette, Wis. hoard simply took him at his word tmoke nuisance. The decision is reniered and married him there last and the Fowler bill regulating village of Chisholm. The chief items and approved all his actions. in the case of Minneapolis vs. fall. Personally appeared before me this 25th automobile traffic. of expenditure were: Maintenance of of September, 1909, George Kensler, who the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Election Contest Bills Up. Intoxicant Is Defined. subscribed the above statement and made streets and alleys, $49,708.64 interest, railroad. The company was prosecuted AUSTIN TESTS SEED CORN. Election contests according to the A bill to define what constitutes an oath that the same is true in substance $17,412.58 maintenance of streets because its engines, burning soft 1)ills which have already been received "intoxicating beverage" was introduced and in fact. and alleys, $49,738.64 interest, $17,412.58 coal, emitted great clouds of smoke. Big City Water Reservoir Nearly Completed !by the senate, will cost the state of by Senator Rustad. It provides HENRY GRAASS, maintenance of fire department, The railroad held the city had no Will Connect Next Month. Minnesota, if all the bills are allowed, Notary Public, that any beverage containing one-half $18,748.15 police department, right to prevent use of soft coal in its Dow County, Wis. $15,636.16, of which two-thirds, or $9,880 of one per cent alcohol by volume at letter to $14,324.10 depreciation, $12,816.85 engines, nor to distinguish between locomotives Austin. The Austin Commercial Sr. Kilmer A Co, will go for attorneys' fee. a temperature of 60 degrees above street light and hydrant service, $10,300 Binghamtpn, S. T. and stationary engines. The Club has made arrangements for the Senator Works and his opponent zero fahrenheit, shall be classed as an curbing and gutters, $9,923.11 Secision, this morning gives the city testing of seed corn free for the farmers Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For Yon Benjamin Taylor, may be deprived of Intoxicating beverage. municipal court, $4,760.47 sidewalks, of this locality and over 100 bushels the right te do both. Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, all reinbursement, on the ground that $4,440.51 detention hospital, $3,326.45 It means, according to City Attorney were brought in last week. The N. Y.*, for a sample bottle. It will there is no precedent to pay expenses St. Paul, March 13.—Initiative and board of health, $2,986.64 crosswalks convince anyone. You will also receive Fish, that the city now can proceed individual ear test is made, the work In contests that are settled referendum on an ultra-conservative and repairs, $2,055 paving, $2,761.78 a booklet of valuable information, telling to frame and pass the.new smoke being in charge of Professor W. J. "before they reach the senate. Senator basis, the Democratic idea as set forth and several other amounts. The commissions all about the kidneys and bladder. When, ordinance, the regulations of which are Rhoades of the Lyle agricultural Rockne, chairman, warned these claimants in the bill introduced by Albert Pfaender writing, be sure and mention this paper. paid to the village treasurer more rigid than those in the present school, In connection with the Austin that their cases would be materially of New Ulm, passed the lower For sale at all drug stores. Price fiftycents for the past year amounted to $2,500.51. ordinance now upheld. The principal high school. strengthened by finding some house of the Minnesota legislature by and one-dollar. change in the new ordinance would The immense reservoir for the new precedent for payment of such bills. a vote of 63 to 50. It grants to the lessen the burden of proving responsibility city water supply is nearing completion FAMILY PRIDE. Senator Saugstad, in pressing his people the right to vote on legislation STATE DEBT IS ONE MILLION. and will probably regulate the and the mains are all laid except claim for reinbursement, threw the by popular ballot but contains restrictions class of coal to be used in stationary a few blocks in the city. The supply blame on his opponent, former Senator which purport to safeguard the Part of Cost of Capitol Unpaid Is engines. comes from Sargent's spring, two miles Stephens, for the size of his expenses. interests of the state against the Minnesota's Only Obligation. "It is the best thing that has happened from here, which has a flow of 1,500,000 "Any reasonable man could tell after apathy of the voters on questions of Ckua to the city in many months," gallons daily. the recount that Stephens had no law. St. Paul.—The total state debt of said Mayor Haynes. "It gives us This will be piped directly to the chance," he said. "It was after the It received the vote of 17 of the 24 & Minnesota is now $1,000,000, represented police power and right to regulate the power plant in the center of the city recount, before the senate, that my Democratic members of the house and entirely by certificates of indebtedness coal used in both locomotives and stationary and will flow by gravity, the spring heaviest expenses were incurred." those opposing it explained that they on account of the building of the engines. We now will go being sixteen and one-half feet higher. Senator Schaller introduced a bill did so at the request of the people of new capitol. Capitol certificates ahead with our new ordinance. Within providing $150,000 for a girls' gymnasium It will be connected for use next month. their own districts. It received the amounting to $850,000 were taken up at the university. a very few months the clouds of vote of all the conservative Republicans by the state, the payment being made Bmoke that have been regularly present FAIR SOCIETY ORGANIZED. and enough of the radicals to permit from the revenue fund to the permanent in Minneapolis will have disappeared St. Paul, March 10.— its passage. Many of those who school fund. The money will be for good." Wilkin County Preparing for an Exhibition voted the radical Campbell bill explained Senator Elwell introduced a university available at once for loans to. counties Following is a syllabus of the decision: in the Fall. that although they did not favor appropriation bill asking a and municipalities of the state. the Pfaender measure they believed •total of $2,937,200. For the university The taking up of these certificates, 1. The validity of a provision in a Breckenridge.—The Wilkin County it to be better than nothing. proofing old chemistry building, $1C2,chemistry was accomplished under a law passed city ordinance, expressly authorized Agricultural Society was organized in Others pronounced it worthless. G. W. building and laboratory, a few days ago by the Legislature. by the legislature, does not depend this city and the following officers Brown, in opposing the bill, said it '$405,000 new pathology building, There are on hand approved applications upon the expediency or public policy elected: President, E. M. Granger $200,000 dormitory for women, $100,000 was a disgrace to the state of Minnesota from counties and towns to absorb of its enactment, but upon its being vice-president, Robert J. Wells secretary-treasurer, biology building, $350,000 fireproofiing and that he did not propose to be Prof. Stork—And how are we getting practically all of the amount within the legislative power of the E. Balentine. held responsible for its passage. J. N. old chemistry building, $102,*000 on with our studies, Ernestine? transferred. state. The society is composed of one representative alteration of medical science Johnson, P. N. Converse, R. L. Palmer Have you been promoted to the flying The balance of the cost of the capitol, 2. The emission of dense smoke by from each school district and Rufus P. Morton, in opposing the building, $25,000 change of Millard class yet? amounting to $1,000,000, is the only yard and switch engines, being caused in the county. The purpose of the or measure, said it was not worth the "hall to college of pharmacy, $7o,000 Little Miss Quacker—Oh, no, professor. by the use of soft coal .therein, a prohibition debt the state has and there is money ganization is to hold fairs and exhibitions paper it was written on and that it •equipment of Folwell hall, $5,000 Mother has decided that I in the cash box now to pay off that, of such use within a populous of an agricultural and industrial had been so complicated by amendments ^maintenance of Elliott hospital, $159,200 shall not take that course. She says but such an operation would cramp city is substantially related to and nature and for the promotion that they were not sure of its law library, $10,000 care of campus, anybody can fly—but only the best directly tends to the prevention of a the treasury for several months. of industrial and agricultural education. contents. $6,000. families take to water naturally. nuisance—the emission of dense smoke Several hundred dollars will be Wednesday night was labor night Campbell Bill Differed. WOULD ISSUE MORE BONDS. —and is an exercise of the police power offered by the society as prizes for •before the house and senate committees The Campbell bill, which was de« WOULD LIE AWAKE ALL NIGHT of the state within constitutional best yields of corn and other products, on workingmen's compensation feated Thursday, only provided petitions limits. Fergus Falls Seeks to Provide Funds and in the fall a county fair will he WITH ITCHING ECZEMA bills. signed by 10 and 7 per cent of 3. Where there is a substantial difference held under the auspices of the society. T. D. O'Brien, former judge of the for New Dam. the voters to bring about the initiative in condition or situation ssupreme court, prefaced his defense of th3 "Ever since I can remember I wa* and referendum. It required only a Fergus Falls.—The city council received of individuals or objects with reference a terrible sufferer of eczema a?id his bill, drawn for the Federation of majority of the votes cast on any the report of the committee that to the subject embraced in a law, FIELD DAY AT FERGUS FALLS. Labor, by attacking the present legal other irritating skin diseases. I would measure to carry it and it allowed the has been considering the new dam an appropriate limitation based on lie awake all night, and my suffering :sy?tem for gaining compensation for people to initiate a vote on constitutional question, and instructed the city attorney difference in the application of 3uch was intolerable. A scaly humor settled industrial injuries as "a relic of barbarism, Anti-Saloon League Leaders Spealt in amendments. to draw up a bill to be presented law does not make such legislation the an economic waste and tendin on my back, and being but a to the Legislature to enable this city City and Country. Senators Take Issue Over Bill. partial. $ to give the lawyers more than their child, I naturally scratched it It to issue bonds to the extent of 8 per Brewery interests were said to 4. The fact that a prohibition of was a burning, itching sensation, and share of whatever was recovered." cent of its valuation, if necessary, for Fergus Falls. The Anti Saloon favor a bill introduced in the senate the use of soft coal in locomotives utterly intolerable, in fact, it was so F. G. Winston, millionaire employer the construction of the dam. League leaders held a big field day by Senator Klein, who indignantly does not apply to stationary engines, that I could not possibly forget about of labor, characterized the O Brien bill The city is already authorized to issue here last Sunday. P. J. Youngdahl, denied the charge and stated his reasons does not make such prohibition partial 4is "worse than the Mercer bill," and it. It did not take long before it bonds to the extent of 7 per cent for thinking his bill a good one. state superintendent of the league, legislation, there being obvious differences -as deserving to be labelled as "an invitation spread to my shoulders and arms, and of its assessed valuation for the purchase Senator Putnam, a county optionist, occupied the pulpit of the Congregational between the two classes of engines to all who wished to end their I was almost covered with a mass of of the waterworks and electric was the man who brought the charge. church at the forenoon service. in respect to the tendency that lives to come to Minnesota, get a job raw flesh on account of my scratching light plant and 5 per cent for other It was a bill to give 100 people a Carl Walden, the district superintendent, burning soft coal has to cause a smoke and end all, in the assurance that their it. I was in such a condition that my purposes, so that if the proposed bill right to Incorporate as a village. The occupied the pulpit of the Swedish auisance, and other appropriate legislation -aunts, second cousins or sweethearts hands were tied. goes through it would be authorized to Baptist church Rev. C. W. Stark, present law requires at least 200. having been enacted by the would profit financially by their "A number of physicians were called, issue a total of 20 per cent on its valuation. the pulpit of Grace M. E. church S. T. Senator Putnam charged the bill wa« city to prevent the emission of dense but it seemed beyond their medical •death." Mr. Winston also indulged framed to permit small bodies of men Sorenson, the pulpit at Bethania hall, smoke by stationary plants. power and knowledge to cure in a free-for-all debate with labor representatives to incorporate and establish a saloon, and Fred Nordquist, the pulpit of th€ me. Having tried numerous treatments present. "I am glad," said Smoke Inspector Interesting Land Sales. against the wishes of a majority of Swedish Lutheran church. without deriving any benefit But even while he was bitterly attacking Allen, "the supreme court has officially Cass Lake.—One of the most interesting those in contiguous territory. It developed, In the afternoon meetings were held the ^O'Brien bill, he surprised from them, I had given myself up to and for good placed smoke in the land sales in this vicinity was on the spur of moment, one In country churches in the immediate :his auditors by nominating, possibly the mercy of my dreadful malady, but auisance class and given us police made by M. N. Koll to John Marks of of the hottest fights of the session. vicinity of the city and in the evening facetiously, Judge O'Brien for the next I thought I would take the Cuticura power of regulation. It is excellent Regina, Canada. Marks purchased a The bill was voted on and lost, 31 a men's mass meeting was held at the governor of Minnesota, saying: treatment as a last resort. Words also that the court allows us to legislate quarter section of land from Mr. Koll to 29. Lyceum theater and a women's meeting "Judge O'Brien is the best citizen I cannot express my gratitude to the separately for locomotive and stationary for $3,200. Great interest attaches to An institution to reform "tramps, at Grace M. E. church, addresses know and I should be glad to vote for one who created 'The Cuticura Miracles,' engines for the same rules can this sale on account of the fact that vagrants and wife-deserters by humane being delivered by Rev. Mr. Stark and him for governor." as I have named them, for now not be applied to both. Marks after several years in Canada, and scientific course of teaching and Superintendent Youngdahl. I feel as if I never suffered from even Ten OrClock Closing. "Police regulation will also give us where he owned a farm, decided that instruction," was provided for in a a pimple. My disease was routed by authority, I believe, to make the railroad Ten o'clock closing for saloons land in Northern Minnesota was except bill introduced by Senator Boyle of W. W. MAYO IS LAID TO REST. Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and I companies take out a license or in the cities of the first and second preferable to Canadian land and acted Duluth. The cost of the institution is shall never cease praising the wonderful class, including Minneapolis, St. permit for each locomotive. This is upon his belief by bringing his money to be $100,000. Staple Services Mark Burial of Venerable merits they contain. I will never Paul, Duluth and Winona, is provided aot to gain money, as the fee would be back from Canada and infesting here. A companion bill provides that any Rochester Physician. it# be without them, in fact, I can almoBt in a bill introduced in the house by but nominal, but to make it possible one who "deserts his wife in need dare any skin diseases to attack me Representative 3 J. F. Lee and Put3jcm. for us to fix responsibility by simply and necessitous circumstances, or his Educator Resigns. Rochester. The funeral of th so long as I have Cuticura Remedies Another bill is said to be coming taking the number of the engine. In children, shall be liable to a workhouse Sauk Center. Professor William late Dr. W. W. Mayo was held froir in the house. I hope that this letter providing for 8 o'clock closing. granting licenses the number and owner sentence." The second bill provides Angus, after five years of efficient the residence of his daughter, Mrs. will give other sufferers an idea of or lessee would be taken and kept for methods of teaching them to love service, has resigned as superintendent M. Berkman, Rev. W. W. Fowler ol how I suffered, and also hope that a city record which would stand in the St. Paul, March 11.—' their own wives and to return to them of the Sauk Center public schools. the Episcopal church officiating. The they will not pass the 'Cuticura Life courts. It means that our hands no The senate committees ground out and to live happily ever after. He was re-elected at the last board services were simple and attended b'v Saving Station.'" (Signed) C. Louis longer are tied." recommendations for a good deal of meeting, and his resignation was keenly the personal friends of the family and Good Roads Bills Passed. Green, 929 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Smportant legislation. "The decision, the syllabus of which regretted. The school has progressed older residents of the city. R. C. Dunn's good roads bills as Pa., Aug. 29, 1910. The committee on university and I have read, seems to give the city and prospered under his guidance. The casket was open to the public attended by the senate passed the (university lands, Senator Elwell, of reasonable police regulation power, At present Angus has no definite from 9 o'clock and a constant stream house by a unanimous vote. They The Tragedy That Wasn't. Minneapolis, chairman, recommended said City Attorney Fish. "Smoke Inspector plans for the future, although he of visitors called at the home. Flags He raised the shining knife his face need only the signature of Governor for passage both the general appropriations Allen, Chairman Ziemer of the expects to continue in educational matters. in the city were at half mast and all was dark. The woman before him Eberhart to become laws. The bills bill for the university and the council smoke committee and myself business was suspended during the shrank back a step. The knife fell, contemplate state aid and supervision rt- girls' gymnasium bill, appropriating now can get together on the new ordinance hour of the funeral. plunged into the flesh, again, and once for the building of good roads through $150,000 for a new girls' gymnasium. with a knowledge of just how Minneapolis.—The Bijou announces again. Minnesota. One bill authorizes a vote far we can go." for a week commencing with Sunday Gets $4,000 for Husband's Death. Good Roads Amendment Approved. Then the woman spoke thickly: to be taken on a constitutional amendment Matinee, March 19, first production Little Falls.—In the district courl "Three's plenty they're such bis John Crosby, chairman of the'citizens' The good roads amendment to tne which would levy an annual taj of Chas. A. Sellon's The Cat and here in the case of Sophia Lendgren chops."—Judge. anti-smoke commission, was immensely Minnesota state constitution, drawn by of one mill for the building of good The Fiddle, a musical extravaganza of vs. the Northern Pacific railway, ic pleased in hearing of the decision. ^Representative R. C. Dunn, providing roads. The other bill appropriates "4 much magnitude and one that has which the plaintiff asked for $5,00t He declared a meeting of the i-fc =a one-mill tax for roads and bridges $150,300 a year for the maintenance of been a pronounced success wherever damages for the death of her hnsband citizens' commission would be held throughout the state, passed the sensite the state highway commission. This it has been seen. There are forty or who was killed by a train near Rice's very soon, and with the decision in by a unanimous vote. bill contemplates the placing of a large more people, a beauty chorus, twenty in December, 1909, the Jury brought it hand the commission would work with An amendment by Senator Sageng, force of competent road engineers in song hits, and, in all an attraction that a verdict in favor of the plaintiff foi the council in an endeavor to make every the county districts to superintend all taking away from the state highway should be a big "go" at this popular possible use of the authority confirmed road building. $4,000. commission control over the disposi- by the court. theatre. New Hotel for Rochester. "Night RidersV Land Grabbers. Boy Scouts Give Entertainment. Minnesota Club Formed. YOUNG SEARS IN COURT. Rochester.—J. H. Kahler, Dr. Detroit.—Patrols 1 and .2 of Troop Minneapolis, March 7.—Minnesota Boise, Idaho, March 7.—The federal Graham and George Weber are stock men at the University of Pennsylvania grand jury meeting here March 20 1 of the Detroit Boy Scouts of America holders in a corporation known as the Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Causing ihave organized a Minnesot'a Club. will investigate alleged illegal land gave an entertainment in the Congregational Zumbro Hotel- Company, which wil Death of Stepfather. Sibel Harris, Duluth, has been elected Annex. Various features entries and alleged intimidations of begin work immediately on a $H0,00( president. There are 15 members of contestants and their witnesses by of boy scout life were illustrated by. is not a "food"—it is a and medicine, the hotel in the business center of this methods somewhat similar to those of shadows thrown on a curtain by the the organization. Stillwater.—George Sears, the boy only medicine in the world for cows only. the Southern "night riders." There of boys. Many of these were decidedly city. All'modern conveniences knowi accused shooting and killing his for Made the cow and, as its name indicates, a cow cure. Barrenness, retained afterbirth, has been one murder growing out of amusing. The first aid drill won Two Women Lose Lives. stepfather, William Elias, was arraigned to the hotel world will be found in th abortion, scours,cakedudder,and all similar these land disputes, D. V. Emmons hearty applause. The boys were lake View, North Carolina. Two in district court on a charge affections positively and quickly cured. No new construction. Mr. Kahler, man or one who keeps cows, whether many fewj having been killed by Joseph K. trained by Scoutmaster Walter D. -women lost their lives in a fire which of manslaughter in the second degree ager of the Kahler and proprietor Kow*Kur*. can a (ford to be without Vaughn. Various contestants tell Bird, who devised the clever shadow destroyed the new Loch Crystal hotel, was It is made.espeeially to keep cows healthy. and plealed not guilty. He heid the Cook house, will have charge o: Our bdok what to Do When Your Cows weird stories of visits from. these a tourist resort just opened this seaMimm. to the jury in bail of $3,000, effects. The proceeds of the entertainment grand the new hostelry. The building wil Are Wck'*iSent Ask your local dealer for free. threatening "night riders." •which in all likelihood lie will not be will be used in the purchase "'or send to the manufacturers. cover a site 121 feet by 130 feet Paliy A—detl— C«l. iyii*—vM«t V*- able to give. of suits for the patrols. \rlx