1 a %^V'7:5? *Y"~~f .- IN ERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS /. LITTLEFORK SALOON EIGHT CONSTITUTIONAL SUpport great navies when they pay such land and Germany can THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS KEEPER ARRESTED. AMENDMENTS THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS &, wages to their men.—-Stillwater Gazette. KEEPER ARRE 2 wages to their men.-Stillwater Gazette/ g! _o— 1 AND BORDER BUDGET The late legislature reduced Since West Virginia went dry, Wheeling has turned her brew- E. Earley of Little& amendments to be voted on in ery into a packing house which employs three times as many' ^ere Monday and swore Entered as Second Class Matter June at the P9St was 23, 1909, to eight. This is a slight 1916 & men, and every place which once was a saloon has been rented ?Ut warrant against saloon Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress gain over last year, when eleven to another form of industry, some at advanced rents. Charles- +°t +1 °t lc^or of March 3, 1879. 1 illegally at Littletork on the fi were submitted and only one got ton brewery has become an ice plant, and the people are to have inasmuch as the through. grounds that INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. ice at a price that the poor of the city can afford. And for the toWnship in which that village is The number is still too great George P. Watson, Editor and Manager $ first time in the history of the state a grand jury has adjourned located voted dry, no liquor to make the passage of the desirable Official Paper of International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota -without finding a single offense worthy of indictment. There has should be sold in it even under ones reasonably possible. also been a marked increase in the output of coal in the various village license. The ballot will be cluttered up mining regions of the state, the miners being -more efficient be- The case w.as prosecuted by with a list so long as to induce The council is to be commended for voting per month $40 cause easy access to liquor is denied them. Prohibition must pro- County Attorney Jevne in Muni- many voters to pass them all up and expenses toward the support of the city band for the next hibit in West Virgin^, as it does in every other place where it is cipal Court in this city, where rather than try to master their six months. Judge Frank Palmer decided mysteries. given a fair trial.—Good Citizen. _o that the complaint was justifiable, If the legislature could have —o—————. and ordered the defendant contented itself with three or Three more counties voted dry last Monday—Isanti by a A prominent saloon keeper at Staples is reported to have bound over to the grand jury. four of the important amendments, majority of Chisago by a majority of 1110 and Lac qui Parle 814, said that has been raised to carry on the saloon campaign $2,000 The case was brought before the chances of their passage with votes to spare. 752 in Todd county. This is a large sum of money. The inquiry naturally Judge Stanton under habeas would have been multiplied. arises, "how is it to be spent?" In what legitimate way can corpus proceedings initiated by The list to be submitted includes It costs $1.40 cents to make a barrel of beer, which sells in the saloon men of the county spend the large sum of the $2,000 former Judge M. A. Spooner four that failed of approval this city at 10 cents a glass or Yet the saloon keeper next six weeks in Todd county? This is a pertinent question. The $562.00. yesterday. last November—the initiative wants you to believe that he is the poor man's friend. corrupt practises act applies to the county option election just as and referendum the revolving indus School Notes it does to he general election. The friends of county option should fund for the reclamation of state The most surprised man in the world is the fellow who (By Lula Lewis.) be on their guard. The first case of corrupt use of money or distribution land the enlargement of the "stops" his little old home paper and sees it come out regularly of liquor or other unlawful campaign effort should Supreme Court and the lengthening The farmers of Indus are now every publication day.—Winnebago City Enterprise. of probate judges' terms promptly reported to the secretary of the .County Option Campaign busy with the work of seeding. to four years. There is little or Committee. He will see that there is instant prosecution Children of the south school no dispute as to the desirability The foolish practise of the ostrich, which hides it's head and and prosecution to the limit. Let the campaign be vigorous, but route are now walking to school of all of these, and they should imagines it's body is invisible, has a parallel in the man who eats let it be honest and fair.—Long Prairie. as cab has stopped on account be adopted. cloves and supposes that the world will not know he is full of o— of the roads. A state-wide campaign should whiskey. A The recent wind felled a number banking paper calls attention to the Splendid effects of prohibition be made for the revolving fund Des Moines of trees across the telephone in in the following words: amendment, known last year ajs The new grand jury of Hennepin county has been instructed line here. It is expected that the Des Moines banks did a big business last Saturday, supplying "Number Three." A little concerted that the public officials who "determine for themselves what laws linemen will be kept busy for a cash to merchants and grocers. At first the cause for the sudden effort would have carried shall be enforced and what laws ignored, are themselves violators while clearing it up. demand for coin was not apparent to the financiers, then they it through last November. Its of law and amenable to indictments and prosecution. It looks quite like summer' adoption would make possible realized that the saloons of the city had been closed a week. Workmen here as the trees and grounds some highly profitable reclamatory who had been cashing their checks in the thirst parlors on about the school are donning How much difference is there between the man who runs work on state lands, and Saturday nights and leaving a goodly share of the exchange in their summer apparel. 1 saloon for the money there is in is and the man who works at a cost that ^vould come back the saloon keeper's till, were instead getting them cashed in The Indus Base Ball Team is to the state treasury in increased to have the whiskey ticket win because he thinks that by allowing legitimate places of business. Des Moines has been dry two quite busy with spring practise. prices of lands Suld. somebody else to run a saloon the rents on his property will weeks now. If business has been injured as the wets so predicted, The boys are expecting to accept The other amendments are: be kept abnormally high? there is no. evidence of that fact. Already the merchants a few challenges this year. One permitting the state to establish see a stimulation of business, and money which formerly went Miss Ber^ia Carew returned a system of rural credits, The Crookston Times ought to be ashamed of itself for publishing night.. I for booze is already beginning to go for food and clothing and another permitting the state to the statement that "more liquor is consumed in dry countr John Lewis has completed the in payment of honest debts. protect and use mineral deposits ties than in counties where liquor prevails." The "devil" evidently construction of a new building under meandered lakes or grabbed one of the mistatements the breweries are sending out, which will serve as a hen house navigable streams a third permitting GOOD FOR THE UNDERTAKER. and granary. and slipped it in during the editor's absncee. the condemnation of John Durand is busy erecting A temperance speaker who was warming to his subject private property for public drainage his new house. thundered out: If there is one among you who can name a Look out for the brewery literature that will soon be flooding projects and a fourth authorizing Tim Horan has resumed fork single respectable business man who ever had any benefit from the Governor to reduce this county, especially the one entitled, "Facts about prohibition at the store after a few days vacation. the saloon traffic, I will resign as a temperance speaker and items in the appropriation in Kansas." It misrepresents the facts and juggles bills, instead of being compelled commence work in favor of the saloons." figures with a deliberate attempt to deceive you. Write to Gov. Miss Loretta Early will leave as now either to veto or approve Arthur Capper of Kansas, he will send you the facts, then compare A very respectable man arose in the audience. "I have to acknowledge," Monday for a visit with her parents them as they stand. said he, "that the saloons have assisted me very them with the slanderous brewery pamphlets. at Montrose, Minn. materially in my business, in fact, more so than any other business David E. Dobbs has repaired AN AWFUL CHARGE I know of." Says Federal Judge Anderson, who presided in the trial of and repainted his launch and is One of the worst charges that now making use of it. "And, pray, what is your business?" •officers and citizens of Terra Haute indited for corrupting elect^ns: can be made is the one of having "I am an undertaker.'' .. "My notion is that the saloons will have to go. I believe the criminal knowledge of a STUMP PULLING How long are we going to tolerate a business that time will come when the people will rise up and smash the saloon, is the fifteen year old stepdaughter DEMONSTRATION. means of success—more so than anything else, to the at least, as we have it now. The evidence in this case showed under which probably resulted in the On Wednesday next, May 12, taker?—Fergus Falls Journal. that the saloons were the center of nearly all the corruption death of two children, upon which J. L. Jordan will demonstrate the in the Aerra Haute election." charge J. P. Neilson has been possibilities of his Minnesota one- 1 A WAKING UP arrested and also his wife and man stump puller by pulling Billy Sunday must be doing lots of good, or the brewery daughter as accessories to the Down in Faribault there has been a decided and notable stumps on Riverdale Farm, Inter- I crimes charged. and distillery press agents w6uld not be sending out so much national Falls. All interested are waking up among the liquor dealers. Instead of following t!• 1 stuff to the papers as soon as it is reported that he may come Neilson and his wife and stepdaughter invited to be present. Only one' traditional custom of hunting out ways to avoid obeying the 1* v, lived on a claim on to Duluth and Minneapolis, thus hoping to prejudice their bleareyed day of demonstration. they have clubbed together and hired a private detective to keep Rapid River, and upon suspicion and silk stocking patrons against him. "Billy" is alright. minors and habitual drunkards out of saloons to check up and and complaint made by neighbors Dissolution of Partnership. He may hit the ball a little different than we would, but he bring to time any liquor men who disobey the law and to help Deputy Coroner Dr. Geo. F. makes more home runs, just the same. Notice is hereby given that run down unlicensed places. In addition to this they have asked Swinnerton investigated the the partnership heretofore existing the city to make more drastic provisions for the control of the charge and found two small 1 between Lars Stubee and public official," says Judge Fish of the Hennepin District "No liquor traffic, so as to correct some abuses that have not been graves in the yard of the Neilson Harold H. Stubee under the firm Court, high or low, has any right to determine what laws amenable to the law in the past. homestead. Mrs. Neilson said name of Stubee and Company, shall be enforced and what to be ignored. The policeman who is they were the graves of her It was an election that scared these men into wakefulness, and has been disolved. taught to wink at one class of violators is thereby taught that children, but when the bodies now that they are awake they are doing what sane men in the Any outstanding accounts may lie may discriminate as to other classes. The law imposes on any were taken up the girl admitted same kind of business would* long ago have seen was necessary. be paid to either of the members that they were her children. public official having to do with the administration of criminal of the aforesaid firm. Probably the Faribault lesson will not be taken everywhere. Upon receiving Dr. Swinnerton's law, the duty of seeing that all criminals shall be equally and Harold H. Stubee. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad," it is said, report, Deputy Sheriff Van impartially dealt with." Lars Stubee. and. surely nothing ever indicated more senseless insanity than Ettan went and brought Mrs. the policy of law evasion that has been followed by liquor interests Neilson and her stepdaughter NOTICE. plead that our cities need the revenue from the liquor Some ever since there was any restrictive law to evade. On the 14th day of May 1915, at to the county jail where they traffic. For every dollar of revenue we secure from the traffic, 10 A. M., I will receive bids' for certain The liquor interests are having a tough time these days, but have been awaiting the arrest County Road work, including clearing, we pay twenty to support the traffic and its victims. According dollars grubbing, ditching, and graveling they have none to blame but themselves. Their madness of the of her husband who was finally all of which is located in T. 70 R. 24. I to the United States Supreme Court, we are richer without located in Duluth and brought past is leading to its logical and inevitable result.—Duluth Herald. All quantities, location and other particulars revenue lias said: "If a loss of the revenue should can be obtained by inquiring this tor it here for trial. at my office. accrue United States from a diminished consumption of to the E. W. KIBBEY, THE CAPTURE OF NEW YORK. County Surveyor. Clerk of Court Holds ardent spirits, will be the gainer a thousand fold, in the health, she May 6-13 Officials of the War and Navy Departments here are exercised Over for Two More Years. "wealth happiness her people.''—License Cases vs Howard. and of over the story by Cleveland Moffett, "The Conquest of RAILROADS TO INCREASE —o America," in the May McClure's Magazine, describing the ease FARE FOR 5 MILE RIDE A bill passed by the house Feb. Another valiant champion of Northern Minnesota was Pat with which a foreign power could capture New York City. They The railroads of Minnesota makes the term of all county 26, McGarry. He did a lot of good things—as usual. The reappearance are willing to admit that Moffett has managed to pry loose from are preparing to take advantage officers four years and the next of the revolving fund amendment in will be due to $250,000 1916 of the court ruling on the Bendixen the sacred archives of the War College many of their most zealously election will not be held until him. He is a most enthusiastic and devout believer in the future law, permitting them to I9I8. In order to make the terms guarded secrets, but declare that in some of his details he of Northern Minnesota, and everything he did in the senate was charge cents additional on all of the different officers all expire' has erred. Moffett arranges an explosion in the Gatun Locks of 5 passenger fares for the first in conformity with this. His seatmate, Leonard H. Nord of Koochiching, at the same trme the Act provides 5 the Panama Canal while our fleet is in the Pacific. Germany immediately miles of any journey. The failure "Any person now holding was also potential #at all stages. It was the joint, effort declares war, and a week later her fleet anchors off of the legislature to pass the any of the said offices whether of McGarry and Nord that will bear fruit in the shape of a definite, East Hampton, N.Y., carrying an army of men. The few 150,000 amendment to the Bendixen law by election or appointment, shall physical beginning of a normal school at Bemidji. They sacrificed available American war craft and submarines make a brave attack is*. has led the roads to take advantage continue in such office until the much in order to assure the Beltrami county metropolis and are destroyed. The Germans land and march victoriously first Monday in January, A. D. of their rights under the this school."—News Tribune. down Motor Parkway to New York, opposed by a pitiful army of court ruling. I9I9 and any appointment made -o men. B.roklyn is easily captured. The Americans destr- 50,000 New passenger tariff schedules to fill any vacancy, in any of the England pays her midshipmen forty-two cents a day for his the bridges across East River, and with single shots the Germans will be prepared as soon as posdemolish said offices shall be for the balance now most valuable as well as dangerous services. The statement the towers of the Woolworth and Singer buildings from s*ble with the* additional fare of such term." In the absence is made that more of these brave boys have lost their lives than the, Brooklyn shores. A few hours later the streets of New York charSe incorporated and an effort of this law the term of the L1IC atlccts any other class of officers in the British navy. They are looked are being swept by the machine guns of the enemy will be made to get these sched- clerk of court would have expired 1-- "j guus ui Luc enemy. upon as apprentices but they give full service and should be. if p,f- on the last day of the year In the first place say the officials here, the whole Moffett ."Jto effect at the earliest ules they are not, given full recognition for their services. The Ger 1916. article is predicated on the bottling of the fleet in the Pacific "We POSS1"^ date. Under the law ""iniug tut ucci 111 me .racinc. vvt .. ." the roads are permitted to charge man midshipman is paid only a year the Frenchboy, will take care-that nothing of that kind ever occurs they say will *-u„4. _r $115 $150, cents a mile for the first five 3 the same as the English. The cadet ip the United States-navy "Then, also, no cognizance is taken of the fact that an enemy' court ruling, because of the miles of any trip. Teceives receives $600 a a vear. year, which which is is increased inrrensprl tr» to $1,700 $t nnn nrVo« when he re —o !u 1 ... legislation pending in the Minnesota $600 a fleet would hace to pass throulh a sea of mines before it could I They have not heretofore taken ceives his commission as an ensign. It is no wonder that Eng legislature, seeking to effect a landing.*—Washington Letter. advantage of the law and the deny them this additional fare,. ill i- -V5-.