INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS STATE'S FINANCES BIG CELEBRATION OF CITATION rOB KEABXNCI OH PETITION this court, at the Probate Court Rooms WILSON TO REJECT persons interested in the above case: in the Court House, in the City of International TO SEL1, VOBTOAOE RICH AND RELIABLE Whereas Albert Schonsby has filed ROOSEVELT OFFER THE GLORIONS FOURTH Falls, County of Koochiching OB LEASE UUtS. in this court his final account of his and State of Minnesota, on the TO LEAD DIVISION administration ct the estate of the 20th day of July, 1916, at 10 o'clock All Gold and Silver in America above named decedent, together with ESTATE OF CHRISTIAN GAMMBL- A. M. why the prayer of said petitioner (Continued from Page 1) his petition praying for the adjustment GAARD. should not be granted. Less Than One-Half of Minnesota's Political Reasons Expected .to and allowance of said final account Witness the Judge of said court, and and for distribution of the residue STATE OP MINNESOTA, Keep General Wood Also From Iron. Burton's Dept. Store .. 10.00 the seal of said court, this 20th day of said estate to the .persons thereunto of June, 1916. S3. entitled: High Command. Krohn Confectionery .. 10.00 County of Koochiching (Court Seal) JOHN BERG, IT IS ORDERED, that said petition CONTRIBUTED BY J. A. O. L. A. Zimmerman .... 5.00 Judge of Probate. IN PROBATE COURT. Jun 22-9 Jul 6 be heard, and that all persons interested PREUS, STATE AUDITOR Ed LaPage 5.00 in said matter be and appear before In the matter of the estate of/ Christian Washington, June 29.—Colonel this court on the 22nd day of Lizzie Burdick 1.00 Gammelgaard. July, 1916, at 10:00 o'clock A. M.. at Theodore Roosevelt will not be CITATION FOR HEARING ON FINAX THE STATE OF MINNESOTA To all Northern Minnesota is a land the Probate Court Rooms in the Court M. E. Withrow ....... 5.00 ACCOUNT AND FOR DISTRIBUTION. permitted by President '.Wilson persons interested in the sale of certain House, at International Falls in said of vast possibilities. Its wealth Theatre Co 2.00 lands belonging to said estate. county, and then and there, or as scon or the present administration to The petition of N. L. Olson, as representative thereafter as said matter can be heard, in timber and minerals, the fertility F. H. Keyes- 5.00 of the above named estate, lead as a major general a division show cause, if any they have, why said ESTATE OF CARL AUGUST HAGG- of its soil, the certainty of F. B. Green 5.00 being duly filed in this court, representing petition should not be granted and LUND. of volunteers to the defense that it is necessary and for that this citation be served by publication crops, the nearness to markets Border Meat Co '5.001 the best interests of said estate and thereof in the International Falls STATE OF MINNESOTA, of the border, even though Cololieveable. 1 of all interested therein that certain Press according to law. make it a haven for the homeseeker. O. M. Carr & Co. ..... 5.00 The last figures availnel iands of said decedent described therein County of Koochiching Witness the Honorable, John Berg, F. H. Clark ... 5.00 be sold and praying that a license Judge of said Court, and the seal of Roosevelt should organize be to N. L. Olson granted to sell the IN PROBATE COURT. It is a land of resources—development said court, this 22nd day of June. 1916. Jake Greengard 5.00 same: such a division. JOHN BERG, is necessary and the A. Cruickshank 5.00 In the matter of the estate of Carl NOW, THEREFORE, You, and each (Court Seal) Probate Judge. Neither will Major General August Hagglund. of you, are hereby cited and required JEVNE & NORTON, section needs men. L. Rifkin 5.00 all to show cause, if any you have, before THE STATE OF MINNESOTA To Attorneys. Jun 22-9 Jul 6 Leonard Wood, who ranks the Minnesota has no debtsother no Oscar Syreen 5.00 active major generals of £nancjally it leads the union. The Joe Rauscher 3.00 the army, be sent to command indebtedness today Bulletin No» 5 Jevne & Norton 3.00 state sole on the border or to head a divi- c01isjsts Gf certificates issued in Geo. S. Langland ....•• 2.00 sion into Mexico, should war ac^varice 0f tax levy, temporary The Bethlehem Steel Company's Crown Bottling Works 5.00 come* 'only and amounting to $1,687,- D. M. Erickson 3.00 Political considerations have 000. Chas. N. Wirt .... •.. 2.50 cut both of these leaders from W. E. Lawrence 2.50 A recognized leader in dairying, Offer to Serve the United States the spotlight in any military John Kerry ••.... 2.50 one of the first three or four emergencies that the counttry H. N. Babcock 2.50 in the production of cereals, might have to face. H. L. Frank .. 1.00 bearing the title of "Bread and Congress cannot help, because Sher Bros 1.00 Butter state"—with only about At a time when the expenses of the Government are so enormous— the president alone has the Ben Rosenblum 2.50 50 per cent of its agricultural power to appoint the officers to N. Nurick •*.. 1.00 lands under plow, Minnesota occupies command the volunteer troops R. F. C. litis 2.50 Isn't it worth while finding out the actual facts before plunging ahead into an a proud position among that may be called or taken into Chas. Dick 1.00 the states. With the development expenditure of $11,000,000 of the people's money for a Government armor plant? the regular service, or to make John Fabel .. 2.00 of northern Minnesota this details for the regular officers to M. Shapira 2.00 crop production will be immensely important commands of regular S. E. Thompson 2.50 To clear up the whole situation, and to put it on a basis as fair and business-like as increased. troops engaged in active service. Nick Athanas 2.00 we know how to express it, we now make this offer to the Government: In the early days the wealth of Pekin Cafe 2.00 Friends of Colonel Roosevelt, timber in northern Minnesota John Harrison •*.. 2.00 hoping to move congress to accept overshadowed all other resources. The Bethlehem Steel Company will manufacture armor plate for the Smoke Shop 2.50 his offer of a volunteer division, Then the ore mines were Government of the United States at actual cost of operation plus such Stands, etc 7.00 have discussed and rejected developed. To date 405,000,000 City appropriation 50.00 the possibility of naming Colonel tons of iron ore have been shipped charges for overhead expenses, interest and depreciation as the Federal C. B. Montgomery •.. 5.00 Roosevelt by special act as from the state, 1,482,000 tons Traide Commission may fix. We will agree to this for such period as Geo. P. Watson 5.00 major general in command of his remain. From state lands alone the Government may designate. volunteer division. Congress tried 1,000,000 tons have been shipped Total Receipts. $262.00 this once, but its action was held this year, the total 1916 output invalid. Expenditures from state mines will probably The House of Representatives voted down a proposal to empower the Federal Trade Prizes for Colonel Roosevelt and General reach 3,000,000 tons and even Commission to determine a fair price for armor, and allow private manufacturer? Floats .'.••....$ 15.00 this amount would be increased Wood have become too active in opportunity to meet that price before the Government built its plant. Races 39.00 connection with the Hughes by 25 per cent were it not for the For Fireworks 5.00 shortage in ore boats. The trust campaign for President Wilson Isn't our proposition fair and ought it not to be accepted To Band 113.00 to allow any favors to be extended funds of the state receive $5,000 For Printing .. 24.00 each working day from royalties to them by the democratic administration. To Miscellaneous 2.00 The measure is now before the United States Senate. on ore shipped from the state lands. In 1915 the royalty and Colonel Roosevelt has been organizing Total Expenditure $198.50 other incomes accruing to the his volunteer division CHAS. M. SCHWAB, Chairman Bethlehem Steel Company state from its mines were about for more than two years, expecting EUGENE G. GRACE. President Balance on 63.50 $700,000 and these trust funds hand $ need it in with for war By vote 01 tlTe committee the for educational purposes now Mexico.He has selected all his Inquiry or Federal balance was given toward the total $34,000,000. officers from retired regular indebtedness of the baseball association. This mineral wealth for northern army men or those who have Minnesota is almost unbereached been permitted to resign by the by a few miles' travel, war department. Railroad Strike? able show that the value of all FEEDING THE GERMANS Between 300,000 and 1,000,000 gold and silver produced in the American citizens would answer entire United States in one year a call for volunteers should the (Continued from Page 1.) is less than one-half the value of president decide to issue a call ox money ior rood among Minnesota's iron output for a expenditure because of a war with Mexico. the working classes, particularly the Faced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen corresponding time. And during young women, who are earning higher This was the statement of army that would impose on the country an additional burden in transportation costs of 12 months the value of the wages than they ever dreamed of getting officers today. $100,000,000 a year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be settled by iron taken from the ranges of and frequently spending it in expensive "We have received hundreds restaurants. Many girls, taking reference to an impartial Federal tribunal. this state is more than twice that the places of men in different departments of offers to raise regimentts With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railroadl of all the minerals taken from aU of business, have had their brigades and even dms.ons of have no differences that could not be considered fairly and decided justly by such Alaska during the same period wages increased three or four times troops, said one officer, who is t-me over. The German law permits the a public body. attached to the general staff of Minne. state to supervise the expenditure of a Not Qnl does northern Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration child, but not of a person -who is of the army These offers have'sota mineral wealth have great age. These girls apparently have invested been literally pouring ,n on us unsettled |)ut the cutover and in war bonds to some extent The forma) proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of in ast 10 ays. |ands Gf incalculable value. and then have had a large surplus remaining. are the controversy is as follows: which has burned in their Congressman Jeff McLemore Nearly 2,000,000 acres of state purses until it could be flung away in of Texas has offered a regiment iands available to settlers, "Our conference* have demonstrated that we cannot harmonixc our difference* of opiaioa aad that eveatually the are useless luxury. matters in controversy must be passed upoa by other aad disinterested agencies. «Therefore, we propose that your of rough riders. McLemore was.ancj 162,000 acres were sold durthe Batoeki's appointment not surprise (lid proposals and the proposition of the railway* be dispoaed of by one or the other of the following method*: author of the resolution to jng i9I5 and 1916. These lands his friends. A lar.ee landowner 1. Preferably by submission to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only tribunal which, by reason of it* in East Prussia, several years hefor warn Americans to stay off arm- may be purchased by settlers at accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and its control of the revenue of the railways, is in a position the opening of the war he had been to consider and protect the right* aad equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue ed ships. appraised valuations of from $5 president of the Agricultural chamber necessary to meet the added cost of operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just aad Congressman M. B. Madden of to $12 per acre in tracts not exIllinois reasonable or, in the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premise*. of East Prussia and a member of rhe that we jointly request Congress to take such action a* may be neceasary to enable the Commission to consider and bouse of lords, an authority on political is ready to organize aiceeding 320 acres. Only 15 per promptly dispose of the questions involved or economy, the tariff and other questions regiment. cent need be paid down, the balance B. By arbitration in accordance with the provision* of the Federal law" (The Newlanda Act). concerned with commerce and Indus may run for 40 years at try. Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote per cent and purchase may be made^ither in person or through Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New attorney. The lands are desirable, Alexander In Mesopotamia. York, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration The marshes of Mesopotamia wen the price is low and the or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whether famous in the time of Alexander the teifmS'Of purchase are easy. authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. Great. One of the last acts of his life, At 'the fill election Amend within a few weeks of his death, was The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the ment No. 1 will, be submitted to a voyage down the Euphrates to the public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: great dike of Pallakopas, about ninety the voters. Shbuld it pass, a revolving., miles below Babylon. This sluice has fynd gf ^250,000 will be kaoffitd^i ployes as wages aad the ssoaey to pay No otlwr body with such aa ii been constructed by the ancient Assyrian can come from ao other some* thaa the rates paid •f railroad conditions ha* such aa available to a's^ist! in clearing kings to let off the water of the by the public. tioo la the public oooidsacs. the state lands. By this means river when It became excessive Into ad* may charge the public lav The Intent at* Cowwuw* Co—issioa, with is* caa» rUriw the marshes. It was reported not to be the future settl^r| will be assist^id'*at traasportatioa are aaw largely ftsad ay this Goveta••taeat'-bfcasd. trot over rates, is ia a positioa to make a complete working well, and Alexander proposed iavestigatioa aad reader such dedsioa as would pro* the time Ivlfeir they most Out of dollar wwhtd the railroads froa* to construct another sluice lower down. tsct the iatercsts of the railroad sasplapas, tha awasis imy kv need, helg. jor Jiye acres ^spablteaeaiir sao fcitf is paid dined? to tha mm- of tha railroada, aad tha public. He sailed on Into the marshes, steering ^ut teatti^quirter Section wil his vessel himself, with his diadem A Question For the Public to Decide on his head, to explore them and the Wi- m^?^uctivc tombs of the kings, and so extensive at thfe earliest pos&ible lime anc LIKEABLE The railroadl feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of were the lakes and swamps that Alexander's the money thus advanced will be $100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only, fleet lost its way among them. xc^med^^ije^und^i^he'state one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that STITAWS while losing nothing will help it •hall determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. SiiYellowstoneNational Park self and' its new citizens by the and why—they are so light, The single issue before the country is whether this controversy is to be settled by am use of the fund thus provided for ••'r cool and comfortable.. Then impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. No.ii. Through Gardiner Gateway Amendment White in too^ we're extra careful to Spokane, situated in the heart of the tended to assist iri the development National Conference Committee of the Railways fit you great Inland Empire, North Pacific of northern Minnesota Chmhmtm Coast and Alaska. IL1SHA LEE, Through trains daily, excellent dining Gtm'l Mmmmam. Gm'IMimsm. lands this amendment will be $1.00 Up P. a. O. H. BMBRSON, N. O. MAHBR. VU+PmtS—t. ALBRIGHT. Car Service. For rates, travel litera Groat Northora Railway. Atlaaltc Coast Lias Railroad. Norfolk A Waaler* Railway. Gtn'l Mmnfr, G—'I Mrnnrnm. beneficial to all parts of the state ture and information call on Gm'l M*—tm C. L. W. H. BWING. JAMES RUSSELL. BALDWIN. C. G. WHITNEY, Agent Philadelphia A Reading Railway, Dearer A Rio Grande Railroad. equally by increasing the taxable Ceotral of Georgia Railway. Bnidtmt Vim Gtm'l Mmmmttr. Smjt. Trmmtp, International Falls, Mian. A. M. SCHOYEK. Nfc, G. L. BARDO. a W. GRICB. G*M'I property against the proposed A. Cleland, G. P. A. Pennsylvania Lines Woet. Now York. Now Haven A Haffferd R*l»s*« Chesapeake A Ohio Railway Vit-Prttidmi. St. Paul, Was. V. L. SBDDON. yitt-fm.. a H. COAPMAN. A. 8. GREIG, ft KtuiMn. amendment and it should have Aul. Seaboard Air Line Railway. 5 Southern Railway. St. Louis A Saa Francisco RailroaA Gm'lMmn»g«r, Gtm'l M«m«w. *,~d A. J. the heartiest of public support in Northern Pacific STONB. VitrPmU—t. C.W. KOUNS. S. B. COTTBR. Atahison. Topeka A Santa Fe Railwi Brie Railroad Wabash Railway., VifPm. 9 Gtm'l Mm Au$. rwf nMiH November. It is a most merit*orious G. S. WAID. Railway P. B. CROWLEY. M. W. MeMASTBR. 6m'( Mammm. SnaeerCoofral Line* ^•New York Goalral Railway. ,Wheeliog A Lake Brio Railroad. 1 measure. Yellowstone Park Line 6