^g.M j» .piiiiBi^j ?li^M»!'t'JM^ ''•^My'|jJI,l^ .M^I I «i- r^, *•%*. %fff-r? f?\ ^Vt INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS and if for financial or any oth$r with provisions added in either I TIE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS #4 reasons it is considered nor. desirable case eliminating the possiblity of to take up the work provided juggling purchase certificates, and AND BORDER BUDGET A SNAKE OF A MAN. for by this law, then the requiring specified actual improvements Somebody poisoned my dog today, Entered as Second Class Matter June 23,1909, at the Post work need not be taken up. on the land within a Though he never did any one ill, Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress pn the other hand, if a county reasonable time.—Duluth Herald. And so he is through with his canine play needs roads or road improvements of March 3, 1879. there is no quicker or better way And his wagglety tail is still WHAT IS THE MATTER INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. to get them than by application of No more shall I walk in the fields with him WITH THE U. S. George P. Watson, Editor and Manager the terms of the Elwell law. It Along at my side to jog makes it possible for any county (By Herbert N. Casson.) Official Paper of International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota And—I don't care if my eyes are dim— in thet state to get these advantages "What is the matter with the Somebody poisoned my dog! without having to wait indefinitely United States The mayoralty candidates re Former Saloon Now a Market. for them, and in that As I have been residing in London He was homely, I know, as a dog could be, main about the same as last week, way it enhances the potential value since the beginning of the Another former saloon building And only a mongrel, too with Patterson added as a candi of rural property by making war, I have been hearing this has been reopened in Cass Lake. date but Lang, Thompson, litis But I loved the old fellow and he loved me it possible at any time to add to question asked on all sides. I Albert Marshik remodeled the in and Olson still decidedly in the As people and dogs may do, the actual value. have never heard any satisfactory $ terior of his place and started a lead. According to Secretary McCarthy Nothing on earth could disturb his trust answer. No one seems to know. $ grocery and meat market. Only of the Northern Minnesota Or his love and his faith befog, Why are the American factories one store out of eight formerly Development assosiation, most of not running day and night Why And now he lies here at my feet, in the dust— used for saloon purposes now is Before the session is ended, the the opposition to the Elwell law are the railroads not opening up Somebody poisoned my dog! vacant. big woods counties of the north is coming from counties that have new territories and getting ready 1 will probably realize that they not found and probably never will for the millions of immigrants j& One Dry Year in Cloquet. He crawled to my side and licked my hand, some pretty fair timber in have find it necessary or deisrable to who have already made up their And then with a gasp he died legislature after all.—Walker the make use of the benefits of the minds to leave Europe as soon as Last year the city of Cloquet in And—though some people can't understand— Pilot. law. Those counties that have the war is over? the lumber district of Northern I patted his head—and cried! taken advantage of its provisions Why are there not fifty American Minnesota voted out the saloons, For it isn't funny to lose a friend realize the benefits from it. It is drummers in London right losing thereby an annual revenue Pity the poor corporation. 5? From off this earthly cog, to these latter counties, therefore, now, trying to sell $200,000,000 of about ten thousand dollars E. W. Backus built that When that the state must look for And he was loyal unto the end— worth of the American goods in from license fees and fines. The at International Falls he was dam 8 support for the law. place of th,g goods that were Somebody poisoned my dog! law Went into effect January 1, by the navigation company SUed Northern Minnesota has gained bought last year from Germany 1914. During the year which follows lowering the Water in the for materially under its operation, and Austria? that date the town has run I wonder how any one could have done Rainy, and now comes the state therefore Northern Minnesota Why have advertisers become upon the same basis of expense This poor little fellow harm With a suit for a million, alleging should be a unit in opposing its quitters just at the time when as in previous years and has used But here he lies—his race is run— the lands above the dam have that repeal. Southern Minnesota has their advertisements were most for current expenses the sum of flooded.—Baudette Region. been Though his body's still soft and warm. gained much less, because it has needed and most ffective in cheering $48,865, and closes the year with a My life is lived on a peaceful plan, taken less advantage of the opportunities the business forces of the on balance of $11,143.38 in the treasury. My pace is a quiet jog, offered but it does United States? Northome, Mizpah and Gemmell, That is the way Prohibition not seem likely that a majority But—I wish I could find the snake of a man From the European point of ruins prosperity. Every city in three villages in the southern part of the southern counties would view the United States is a haven Who poisoned my little dog. Minnesota might well pray to be this county entered into their of persist in an attempt at the repeal of peace and security and prosperity. ruined in the same way. of unprecedented prosperity Cra of the law if they clearly, It has no troubles that it The above statements are made last Monday. It is the opinion of understood its value and could be dare mention not to Belgium or upon the authority of Hon. Fred average business man the here made to see that its terms cannot Austria or France or Germany or WHY MEN DO NOT 1 you pursue that course you area D. Vibert, mayor of Cloquet and it will be three or four years that be forced upon them against their Servia or Great Britian or Russia. GET AHEAD mere obstructionist, and must be now state senator from Carlton we are wise enough and before will. bundler out of the way that the county. big enough to enter into the Bemidji, We need good roads in Minnesota, Every tenth Briton has enlisted. If a man does get ahead, work you are hindering may gofault the Blackduck, Cloquet and as indeed they are needed Every tenth Frenchman is at the oftenest lies at his own door, on- County Option Should PaM. prosperous city class. Other in every state. The Elwell law front. Every tenth Belgian is though it does not flatter him to' No enterprise of moment is ensay makes it possible to get good dead. What does the United so. He rises indignantly to trusted to those who initiate The Legislature ought to pas^ roads now in localities that otherwise States know of trouble? deny it and points out that his nothing and stay in the rut beself The surest sign of the coming a county option bill, as a forward might have to wait many If I could afford it, I would Ipring election is the endeavor being respect has not let him stoop cause it is a safe and easy place, step in the progress of temperance years for them. And the law is charter the Mauretania and the to any base design, such as others Neither is it committed to the made by half a dozen reprelentatives legislation. County option no burden to communities that Lusitania, and convey a party of of a certain faction to use, to conquer. He thanks God!Ciire of those whose gusts of fit- was the distinguishing issue in do not want to benefit by it. It 5,000 American advertisers to Europe that he is not as that other fellow, impulse might wreck the cost- get into another squabble with Mr. ful the election of the members of may not be a .perfect law, but it for a trip of education. I who would sell his very soul for lY business. The little men are Backus. The leader of these agitators the present Legislature, and it appears is a good one, and should not be would give them, a week in London, a mess of pottage. "I have kept fond saying what they would has practically no taxable of that a majority of the members repealed. a week in Paris and a week faith with my ideals In this gross do they were in supreme conand interests in the city or county and of each House were elected, in Antwerp. is endeavoring to create expensive material world," he tells you.ltro1- Their leadership would spell he either because they -v^ere pledged We Want Settlers. I would let them look at the litigation to be paid for to vote for it, or in the full knowledge "I have defied these sterile con-! disa,ster [or Vhis reaS,T* PT in United Srates from the seen': ~t by every man who has such interest ventions, I have dared to be con-' ?r wo"ld try d° that they would vote for it. tlcu that t0 State Auditor Preus has started ^var. I would give them a look and maybe find some good tradictory and to take issue with J1 themselves and would not a11 The Journal knows of no good real trouble. I would let them something worth while with his fee for somie lawver friend at fat the old order. I kno«r I am, right th« )udBment subordin- on reason why this understanding on movement to limit future sales of see trains, ten at a time, fiv: minutes j. ateis tested and seasoned by ex- city's expense. If any person this the part of a majority of the legislative and A time will i1 vindicate me. Iam apart, packed with the maimed state .land to bona fide settlers. 4._i i. perience. The man who would a personal grievance with Mr. has not appreciated now, but my apna,i districts should not now be and dying. What Minnesota wants is settlers, :nse higher than the clamorous Backus let him be man enough a carried out. peal is to posterity and posterity xi 1 I would let them hear, from not land speculators. She hire his own lawyer and pay K™"8 to County option is an adaptable will side with me, not with this ^2^"'v has had enough of that latter class fragmentary survivors, the incredible own sheriff bills and not be his device, whereby the agricultural miserable purblind generation. ^US story of battlefields 150 6f buyers, and knows by experience worthy and he mjust know as he eternally trying to have the taxpayers counties that are strong for casting miles wide, and armies that are ut there is a difference be- cjjmbs from level to level when that land once delivered into of this city pay for taking out liquors can have their tween being wise ones own' lo place his 'ruse.— greater than the entire population such hands is as good as closed chestnuts out of the fire. where his way, despite the opposition of of Texas. conceit and being wise in knowl- Philadelphia Leader. to development for many years. their villages. It opens the way edge. One kind of selfishness I would let them see graves ico What Mr. Preus proposes is for the people to deal with the comes from seeing far and wide yards long and full, and Belgium, Sears-Roebuck Big Dividend. only to put into operation a law State Auditor Preus suggests lawless liquor merchant, who is the other odious form comes from the country that was, nothing Chicago, Jan. 30.^-Directors of state lands should be homeSteaded. wlhich it has been claimed was repealed, that now able to hide behind purely the narrow and obscured horizon now but 12,000 square miles of Sears, Roebuck & Co., recommended but about the repeal of That plan might apply local sentiment or local laws. The of him who gropes in a fog and wreckage. the payment of $20,000,000 state lands in some counties which there is some question owing to farmers, who frequently visit and thinks he walks in the sunlight's Then, when they began to understand, stock dividend to holders of to a re-enactment clause in a the central or southern part of in do business in the village of the glory. to some slight extent, $40,000,000 common stock of the state, but not to Koochiching later statute which never has been the state, will under county option the magnitude and awfulness of The man unwilling to be told mail corporation, at a meeting repealed. In addition to this he Beltrami county lands, which and have a voice in deciding the question this war I would say to them: things good for him to know here today. The new shares of be reclaimed in order to would have inserted in the laws a must whether liquor is to be sold "Now go back and appreciate about himself or about his work the fifty per cent dividend them habitable and roads provision that would prevent the make there. That is certainly their the United States. Realize your will not go far. He who cannot .will be issued against an accumendure built through them in order to farce of limiting the right of any right. opportunities. Don't start digging the faithful Wounds of a ulated surplus of approximately them accessible. The Federal individual to buy piecemeal from make The measure, in fact, is chiefly trenches when nobody is firing friend, he who stops his ears to government gave these lands the state, but would leave the $23,500,000, a large part of which directed at this problem in the at you. Don't fall down when any truth he does not care to hear, the state on condition that the way open for the same man to has been reinvested in the business, to agricultural counties. For that you have not been hit. Don't be has double-locked and sealed State would re-claim them if the buy in the same manner from it is stated. reason it may be found wise to exempt blind to the most glorious chance many a door of opportunity that State does not propose to thus other individuals to as great an The 'recommendation adopted from its operation cities of you ever had in your life. would have yielded to a knock. the condition of the grant, meet extent as he might wish. by the directors provided that the the first class, where it would be "Go back and advertise. Get The m&n who seeks the credit then she should sell these lands to distribution should be made April What Minnesota wants and impossible under present conditions ready for the most tremendous of a deed, who imparts his own who will buy them, and anyone 1 to stockholders of record March needs is the development of her to obtain or enforce a prohibitory business boom that any nation ego without any reason but his thus get them on to the tax list land, and that is something for county treasure. This *5- ever had. Build your factories own vanity into every conversation, the one who them will and buys which she must look to bona fide A special meeting of stockholders exemption mght even be extended bigger. Train more salesmen. who reasons and expostulates .be compelled to re-claim them in was called for Feb. 23 to approve settlers. Therefore it is important to cities of ten thousand or over. Borrow more money. Go ahead, too much, who changes his to get his money out order of that her lands go to such set* the board's recommendation The Legislature in its wisdom and thank God that you are alive mind when it should be fixed, or them by selling them to actual tiers instead of to speculators, and and to vote on a plan to increase can adapt the measure to the circumstances. and that yomwffyn?|rdebfufiefa refuses to change his mind when Settlers who will convert them in this movement of the state the authorized amount of But. the broad principle and that your family is alive, and he is shown to be wrong—the productive farms. to auditor is to bring about just that of county option is sound, is the common stock from $40,000,000 that you are living in a land that man who does these things may A'ii result. to $60,000,000. favored, by a majority of the people, is at peace, at a time when nearly not fail utterly, and in fact he The Koochiching county situation Judge C. W. Stanton will leave and ought to be written into the whole world is at war." may capture many of the minor FARMERS AT CARP appears at present to be the the law of Minnesota. And this this evening for St. Paul, where prizes that seem'to invite a brazen KILL THREE BEARS only serious obstacle to the plan, ought to be done without unnecessary he will spend several days on official That Sinful Printer. audacity to seize them, but the Spooner, Minn., Feb. 1.—Nels since it would leave the people of business, having several delay, in order that the best there is in life will pass him Overson and Nels Benson living that county with the present burden cases set for hearing before going Legislature may devote itself to Unobserved and unnoticed the by. •, southwest of Carp are looking of taxation to bear while to other important matters, without International Falls, where he president of a church society entered It is a ruinous idea for any man for a market for the hides of neighboring state-owned lands will complete the spring term of the distraction of such a question the composing room just in to get into his head that to succeed three black bears, which they give them no help in that respect. unsettled —Minneapolis Journal. court. In speaking of Judge time to hear these words issue he must truckle and play the recently killed. The bears were But, as is pointed out in a Herald Stanton's visit to Crookston, the from the mouth of the boss printer: sycophant, make profound salaams special found in the den and the mother from St. Paul, that difficulty Crookston Times of last evening Don't Repeal the Elwell Law. to the very shadow of his and two cubs were shot.—Duluth could be remedied by applying Said: Judge Stanton, who presided "Billy, go to the devil and tell employer, suppress his owfr opinions News Tribune. to other state lands the same Maybe we could* have a better at the Fred Simmpns trial, him to finish that 'murder' he began and trim sail to catch the principle that is now applied to returned to his home at Bemidji law than this one, under which THIRTY-ONE FAMILIES this morning. Then 'kill breeze from an official quarter. school lands, which are taxed 5 the same good could be accomplished, last evening. His court stenographer, ARRIVE AT BAUDETTE William J. Bryan's Youngest The premium today is put upon per cent to relieve neighboring but no such a one has as Lee LaBaw, who took Baudette, Minn., Feb. 1.—Jess Grandchild,' and dump the 'Sweet new ideas, if they can press the settlers. Adoption of such a plan the evidence in the case, returned yet been offered. In the meantime Thiel's *and five other families Angel of Mercy' into the hellbox. pragmatic test. Is there merit in would remedy the Koochiching the present statute is operating on Saturday evening, following from Iowa have arrived here and Then make up that 'Naughty Parisian your plan in practice? Will it well and it would be a mistake county trouble and leave the way the charge to the jury by the are residing in town until buildings Actress* and lock up 'The work Will your engine do what clear for the adoption of Auditor to take it Off the books. judge. Judge Stanton made a are completed on their homesteads Lady in Her Boudoir I" you say it will do? If so, cling The method of operation of the Preus'plan. fine impression among those who on Rapid river. Twentyfive Horrified the good woman fled with your life and your hope of If the old limitation on purchase Elwell law is such that it need not Witnessed the proceedings in this families from Indiana will salvation to your idea, but don't from that place of sin, and now become a burden to any county. of state lands has not been trial, on account of the evident arrive the latter part of this week go on fighting fOr it just because her children wonder why they are The improvements it makes possible repealed, it should by all means be fairness of his rulings and his and go to claims near Carp, south yoii are a pugnacious fool and will not allowed to play with the can be taken or left at enforced, and if it has been repealed, fceady and accurate knowledge of of here.—Duluth News Tribune. not admit YOU are in error. If priter's youngster, the will of the commissioners, it should be re-enacted, the law.—Bemidji Pioneer ttiiiMaiHilMi