CITY COUNCIL SALE OF SCHOOL AND 'WELFARE Sixty Years (he Sfandeii J. C. ANDRE WM. ANDRE PROCEEDINGS OTHER STATE LANDS Orders in force until cancelled. E OF TAFT racES INTERNATIONAL Minutes of a regular meeting of State of Minnesota, Auditor's State the city council held May 20th, 1912, Office, St. Paul, April 29, 1912 EMPLOYMENT at 8 o'clock p. m. Notice is hereby given that on June Members present, Aldermen litis, Bureau of Mines Marks Qreat 10, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m. in the office OFFICE Keyes, Oveson, Infelt, Lynch and of the county auditor, at International Step Forward Koochiching county, in the Mather Falls, WE FURNISH YOU HELP FREE OF CHARGE CREAM state of Minnesota* I will offer for Vice President Mather presiding. BAKING sale certain unsold state lands and SAVES HUNDREDS OF LIVES Alderman Infelt moved that I. Slaten Woodsmen, Railroad Laborers, Dock Laborers also those state lands which have, reverted vwm be instructed to move his tent off to the state by reason of the and Laborers of all Descriptins. non-payment of interests Third Avenue in the next twenty days Discovery of Danger of Coal Duet lm Terms: Fifteen /per cent of the Second Avenue INTERNATIONAL TALLS, MINN. which motion was seconded by Alderman price and interest on the un­ portant—Handling of Explosives purchase Oveson and carried. paid balance from date of. sale to June Made Safer—Government's Alderman Lynch presented the following 1, 1913, must be paid at the time of Experimental Coal sale. The balance of purchase money resolution and moved its adop Mine. A Cream ef Tartar Pewder is payable in whole or in part on. or tion. Be it resolved that the Big before forty years*from date of sale. Made from drapes Falls & International Falls Railway The rate of interest on the unpaid The saving of many lives annually-^ company be hereby granted the right balance is four per cent per annum, the lives of miners throughout the MO ALUM payable in advance on June 1st of and privilege to tap the watermains of United States*—will be one of the each year, provided the principal remains splendid results that will follow the said city at a point adjacent to their unpaid for. ten years but if the establishment of the bureau of mines, railroad tracts in said city the same principal is paid within ten years one of the great achievements In the to be done at the expense of said: railroad from, the date of sale, the rate of interest interest of labor by the administration will be computed at five? per company under the supervision Willard Hotel of President Taft The formation of Golden Grain Belt Beers cent per annum. of the city engineer and subject to all Appraised value of timber, if) any thl* bureau is likewise a notable the ordinances, rules and conditions must also be paid at time of sale. achievement, and will prove far-reachlng Lands on which the interest is de now in force in said city or which may 10th and St. Peter St, St. Paul in its effects to a class of wageearners Harpers Whiskey linquent may be redeemed at any .time hereafter be adopted. which has been in great need up to the hour of sale, or before resale On motion of Alderman Keyes,' seconded of some practical relief. to an actual purchaser. American Plan from $2 per day The exoesslve and unnecessary loss by Alderman Lynch, the bill of All mineral rights reserved by European Plan from $1 per day ate Rock Spring Water of life in the mines of this country the laws of the state. Geo. P. Watson for printing was laid Special Weekly Rates. was one of the primary causes for the Not more than 320 acres can be sold over untill the next regular meeting. or contracted to be sold to any one creation of this bureau. For years On motion of Alderman litis, seconded purchaser. hundreds of miners were killed in Take Hamline Union Depot by Alderman Keyes, the following UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, LOCAL AGENTS Agents acting for purchasers must mine disasters, and practically nothing bills were allowed: was done to oheck the terrible loss furnish affidavit of authority. Appraiser's car to 10th St. East & Corrin, to repairing of life. There was also need for an investigation reports, showing quality and Inter national Falls, Minnesota. to determine what could watermain $32.40 kind of soil, are On file in this office. be done in the way of handling the Crane & Ordway Co., gate valve 5.70 Lists of lands to be offered may high explosives, as well as to improve be obtained of the state auditor or W. F. Fulton, assisting engineer 10.00 Certain-tee^ Robber Roofing the conditions under whidh the men the state commissioner Of immigration John Berg, salary 27.30 worked. 'The roof that outlasts all at St. Paul and of the county aud John Berg, oil for roller ...... 3.00 Spurred on by President Taft, an other roofs on the roof" itor at the above address. Joe Flynn, team work 22.20 Samuel G. Iverson, act creating the bureau of mines was State Auditor. J. A. McDonald, team work 30.00 passed by congress and became fffec* S O E Alex McoDnald, team work 36.00 tive on July 1, 1910. John A. Holmes of the United States geological sud* ERICSBURG. L. P. Anderson, labor on sidewalk LA ZENDA vey, was. appointed as the first direct* Mr. and Mrs. Ole Risnes and family 16.50 or. Mr. Holmes was reputed and certified left Thursday, afternoon for Pequoit, John Nelson, labor on sidewalk 16.50 to be the best trained man for Minn. Geo. Crismus, labor on watermains Domestic the place obtainable in the United Mr. and Mrs. Peter Matheson made 4.10 States. The chief experimental station a trip to Fort Frances the latter part LA TRINCA Sam Salempia, labor on watermains was established in Pittsburg, of the week. 4.10 where the investigations of the problems The Ladies' Aid society met with O. M. Skinvik, labor on street.. 15.00 entrusted to the bureafi have been prosecuted so successfully foi Miss Ida Ofstadahl on Wednesday. Sam Salempia, labor on street 6.50 Havana nearly two years. Ben Sorvik returned on Monday Geo. Ostoff, labor on street 6.75 We can quote you surprisingly lour In the year 1907, the most disastrous AT ALL DEALERS from a trip to the twin cities. Mike Gordica, labor on street.. 13.50 prices—weather proof—guaranteed of all years in the American coal Mrs. A. A. Hunter returned to Duluth 15 years—call at once. John Dragaman,, labor on street 13.50 mine, 8,125 miners lost their lives. Monday morning after making Mike Ostoff, labor on street.. 11.25 This represented 4.86 men killed ZETA & J0T1NSON a week's visit at the home of her Carl Renter* labor on street.... 14.85 tor every 1,000 employed. In coal daughter, Mrs. Gilbertson Geo. Crismus, labor on street.. 12.50 mines in Europe less than two miners It is reported that we are to have are killed out of every 1,000 employ* Ms Arlie Lapping, labor on street Construction and Manufacturing Co. WHY NOT MAKE $200.°° A MONTH ed. As a result of the work conducted more new neighbors to the northwest roller 13.75 General Contractors by the bureau of mines, and the wise of the village. We haven't learned Alderman Lynch moved that the use of an appropriation of $150,000 the names of the new settlers yet. city cause a sidewalk to be constructed 350.°° a Week, almost $10.°° a Day International Falls, Phone 41 made by congress, the death rate has The township board of the town along the east side of lot No. 12, already been reduced to practically of Koochiching, which is composed of Selling Victor Safes and fire-proof boxes block No. 73, which motion wag* seconded one-half of what it was in 1907. to merchants, doctors, lawyers, dentists and Mark Paine, chairman Geo. Clark, by Alderman Oveson and carried. One of the notable achievements ol well-to-do farmers, all of whom realize the need of a safe, but do not know how easy itistoown Geo. Holler and Gus Scheller, clerk, the bureau of mines was the demonstration one. Salesmen declare our proposition one of of the fact that coal dust in the best, clean-cut money-making opportunities have recently purchased the best road Alderman Infelt moved that the ever received. Without previous experience a. bituminous mine is more dangerous making outfit that is manufactured property owners be given notice that YOU can duplicate the success of others. The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel and deadly than gas. It haB been the Our handsomely Illustrated 200-page catalog from the Austin-Weston people, on or before August 1st, 1912, the will enable you to present the subject.to customers 200 MODERN ROOMS belief, heretofore, that gas or Are in as interesting a manner as though through their agent, John B, Foley. Located in Heart of Business District plank sidewalk must be taken out damp was the greatest menace to the you were piloting them through our factory. Men appointed as $1.£2 $1.££ S I N E A E The outfit consists of one tenrton and replaced with a cement walk, as salesmen receive advice and instructions for selling safes, giving miners, and little attention was given CUROPLAN .60 convincing talking points which it is impossible for a prospective customer to deny. Why RATE FOR TWO PERSONS SI roller and crusher, one 3,600 pound follows: on the south side of Second to the accumulation of coal dust. The don't YOU be the first to apply from your vicinity before someone else gets the territory? PRIVATE BATH AND TOILET EXTRA We can favor only one salesman out of each locality. road grader, two steel-lined gravel and street from Second avenue to Fifth bureau of mines proved to the satisfaction COMPLETE SAFETY The 25th anniversary of our AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS rock spreaders, one rock crushing machine of the miners as well as opera avenue on both sides of Third street company was celebrated by AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION erecting the most modern sate tors that coal dust would expdode, and, and carrier with all the necessary from Second avenue to Fifth avenue, factory in the world. Wideawake (INSURANCE RECORDS SHOW NO LIVES unlike fire damp, carried no warning men who received our screens for separating the rock EVER LOST IN A SPRINKLED BUILDING.) on the east side of Second avenue special selling Inducement, with it. The keeping of dusty mines EVERY ROOM HAS HOT AND COLD RUNNING and gravel. The outfit cost $5,500 on rendered it necessary to double from Second street to Fourth street, WATER, STEAM HEAT, GAS AND ELECTRIC wet, as recommended by the bureau of our output. We are spending LIGHTS, AND TELEPHONE SERVICE. such terms as allows the board three on both sides of Third avenue from many thousands of dollars enlarging mines, was found to reduce materially SEVEN STORY ANNEX IN CONNECTION. our sales organization, years to pay for it with the privilege Second street to the alley between the chances of an explosion of coal but to learn all particulars, It of extending the time for payment will cost you only the price of Third and Fourth street, on both dust a postal card. The number of deaths in the mines three years more, if necessary. sides of Fourth avenue from Second Lost—One ten and one five dollar has been greatly reduced as a result Ask for Catalogue 16 T. The crusher is guaranteed to crush street to the alley between Third and bill on Monday last. Finder please of the testing of explosives under the from twelve to eighteen tons per hour. Fourth street and on the East side of THE VICTOR return same to this office and be direction of the bureau of mines. In The rock spreaders will hold two Fifth avenue from Second street to liberally rewarded. By order of the the year 1908 the coal lines in the yeards of gravel and will spread it SAFE & LOCK CO. Fourth street, which motion was seconded loser. United States used two million pounds from 2 to .6 inches deep as required by Alderman Oveson, the yeas of short flame explosives, and at present with no additional help but the teamster. nearly seven times that quantity and nays being called for the vote 20,000 ClICIHIIATI, OHIO Our New Homo. Capacity Safoa Annually. The grader is hitched to the is being used with greater safety, due was as follows: roller by means of a swing pole twenty to. the co-operation of the coal opera? Yeas, Aldermen Keyes, Oveson, Infelt, BIRTHDAY And tors and the bureau of mines. two feet long, thus supplying twenty-five Lynch and Mather. Nays, Alderman The establishment of an expert horse power to the grader. The litis. Motion carried. mental coal mine at Brucetown, Pa., WEDDING roller rolls the dirt thrown up: on Alderman Lynch moved that ordinance The Hurray Cure Institute twelve miles from Pittsburg, is still one side by the grader while it is No. XIX be adopted and ordered another notable achievement of the throwing up the dirt on the other side. PRESENTS published which motion was bureau of mines. It places the United It will also haul two gravel wagons seconded by Alderman Infelt. The States in advance of other nutioni We have an endless assoitment Of Minneapolis when necessary, thus spreading the with respect to this research and'experimental of appropriate gifts, representing yeas and nays being called for the gravel without team hire. bhs newest and finest products of work In mines. Numerous It Cures The Liquor Habit vote was as follows: the Jew3.9"s' Art. The outfit is now working on the teets are made at this experimental Yeas, Aldermen Keyes, Oveson, Infelt, mine, from which many excellent results Ranier road, taking out the hill of Wedding Rings, Beautiful are obtained. Lynch and Mather. Nays, none. rock near Jameson's addition and Diamonds, Sparkling Jewels, Composed of Purely Vegetable Compounds Still another important work which making a good, accamedized road Motion carried. Watches, Unique Silverware, is conducted under the auspices of the from that point in both directions. Alderman Oveson moved that ordinance bureau of mines is the rescue of entombed Sterling Novelties, Rich Cut When that rock is all excavated the miners. Since the creation of No. XXIII be adopted and ordered Destroys the appetite for drink, removes the alcohol from Glass, Clocks, Etc. board intends to move the outfit to the bureau many hundreds of lives published, which motion was the 'system and builds the system up to its normal condition another rock hill on the range linei between have been saved. At the big mining NELSON'S leaving the patient mentally and physically the samo as he was seconded by Aldreman Keyes, the sections 23 and 24, where there disaster in Ohio one of the rescue before the drink habit was formed. With past experience to corps of the bureau of mines arrived is about six or eight months' supply yeas and nays being called for the Jewelry Store look back toonewho hasadesire to .be a man again can do so. at the scene thirty-two hours after of rock. vote was as follows: the disaster. Three men were rescued We do not want a patient to come to us who does not desireto It is the intention of the board to Yeas, Aldermen Keyes, Oveson, Infelt* who had been given up as dead stop drinking, and we. will npt take any one who. is forced to come keep the roller at work continuously and allowed to remain in the mine. to us,aswe d) fc «care tojtake money and not. give value received Lynch and Mather. Nays, none. during the summer and fall month?. At another time one man was found to our, patients in return. Motion carried. They are thinking seriously of purchasing alivst among 150 dead, and today he is a sprinkler which will add Alderman Infelt! moved that ordinance the sole survivor of that terrible: catastrophe—due PRESTON &C0. still more to the utility and econpmy to the splendid work of No. XXIV be.-adopted' and ordered One of the most thoroughly equipped institutions of the the rescue corps. of the outfit. published, which motion was Before the bureau of mines was kind in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Paine returned seconded by Alderman Oveson, the made possible by the interest of Friday from a two weeks' visit to the Officially endorsed by the Medical Profession. President Taft, which was followed Genuine Calabash Pipes all yeas and nays being called for the, twin cities. by the necessary legislation for its establlshment, from Zululand, South Africa vote was as follows: Recommended ifid Designated under'the1 Minnesota there was no organized MONEY TO LOAN. Yeas, Aldermen Keyes, Oveson, Infelt, effort in saving the lives of entombed" 1912 Designs Inebriate Law. If you are going to build this season miners. Time and- again, men have Lynch and Mather. Nays, none. sacrificed their lives in vain attempts it is time you were getting busy, Thousands of testimonials to be- submitted on applica­ Also G. B. D. long briars. Motion carried. to rescue their.companions. This un and if you need to borrow any money B. B. B. ownmake Ordinance No. XXV was read for necessary sacrifice of life has been you should send your application to Stopped by the co-operation of the the second time. the Northewestern Building association Write for our illustrated booklet (sentin plain wrapper) State authorities with the federal res. All English and Canadian of Fergus Falls at once. We are Ordinance No. XXVI was i$ad for cuers attached to the bureau of mines. All correspondence confidential. in a position to close loans and furnish brands tobacco. the first time. An Investigation of the fuel' resources the. money as soon as your papers of the United States is also being The Murray Cure Institute On motion the council adjourned.' are executed and the title can made with a view of checking the Attest: R. C. Fraser, be examined. If you want to borrow waste, and increasing the efficiency PRESTON A CO. City Clerk. whloh fuel is used. This latter write us. With phase, of the work is a part of the 620 So. Tenth St. Minneapolis, Mlrm. Northwestern Building Association Chas.: Mather, FORT FRANCES. ONT. practical conservation, policy. o( tin of Fergus Falls. I Vice President. Vtoft-ftlaJalatMtlaL IflS &( '7*