$gpss^Fg®!?$S$ ''*. 'J-'1 P^^gr^fW^-'7'j',5. -c ^"S^ssyv ^f^SSSRpjjS^ 1 WSMWi! -'V :^-a-/ 7 y'l i. *. *, INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS sanitariums, has a physician in attendance several days a week. The rest of the time this physician holds clinics at Bemidji, and other BE DECENT! AND BORDER BUDGET points, including International Falls, where any who are suspicious of their condition may be examined without cost. This clinic is I" Publishers of the Official County Proceedings available to physicians who wish to have patients examined. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY Koochiching county has at present six patients in this sanitorium, GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR but it is probable that the commission will undertake the erection Entered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., as Second-class Matter shortly of a home for the superintendent and help, so that the rooms they now occupy in the sanitorium proper may be released to SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER .YEAR. *5 accommodjate more patients. The institution has already justified itself, for aside from Thos. Tronson for mayor and a decent city to live in. beino- ional minister of foreign relations, today formally denied that the Mexican government had been approached by Germany with the object It's up to every friend of good government to get into the fight of forming an alliance hostile to the United States. A, and talk, and work all the time for the election of Thos. Tronson for The statement given out by the Mexican foreign minister follows mayor and the rest of the labor ticket for their respective offices. The government of Mexico has not received in behalf of the jj,? It is not so much the individual candidate as the cause and principles government of Germany any proposal for an alliance looking forward he represents that count in the coming city election. to war with the United States." The usual price paid by the counties throughout the state for ARE WE BIT OR STUNG? engineers on road and ditch work is $5 per day and expenses, but Special Attorney Arnold, who pays no taxes in this county, hires If you decided your employes were not playing fair with you but HUBBARD, KOOCHICHING AND BELTRAMI COUNTY FREE TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM AT LAKE JULIA, PUPOSKY, MINN. them at $8.00 per day and expenses and the county taxpayers pay the were not absolutely sure they were doing wrong, and if you had hired bills. an attorney to investigate your business as to whether your employes full at the present date, there are.some twenty more on the waiting N list. were doing conscientious work, or grafting on you, and you had The capture of Bagdad last Sunday by the British forces gives The care of the patients is the best, and the food provided most agreed to pay said attorney at the rate of $25 a day when out of court the Allies control of the near East and not only makes possible the excellent, being tasty, nourishing, and such as would tend to build and $50 a day when in court, and if said attorney, after making a of the British and .Russian forces, but sends the conjunction German up the sick. hasty examination assured you that an enormous amount of money plans of eastern control a-blinking and will hasten the close of the It is urgently requested that all who know themselves to be had been grafted from you, you would want to prosecute the unjust war. affected with this disease of tuberculosis, or those having friends so employes. Would you not? But if this first class attorney whom affected, communicate with a physician with a view to being cared you put much dependence on, after hiring expert accountants, detectives, The dissatisfied "drys" in the state legislature made a very serious for in this sanitorium. For the results show improvement in quite and after working six months or over after bringing cases before mistake when they helped the "wets" kill the statutory prohibition a number of the cases, and recovery in some. The work and expense the grand jury of the county where no indictments were returned, bill last week. Not until those who think they want conditions is fully justified by these results. after charging that the reason no indictments were brought bettered, want improvement bad enough to lay aside their own petty But the most important thing is that those who are a danger to was that the jury was made up of exceeding bad men. After a new personal prejudices for the sake of the principles involved will anything the healthy are placed under proper conditions for their own good, grand jury was drawn for the express purpose of trying these cases, be accomplished. and the protection of others. and the whole jury was dismissed on account your attorney's probable conspiracy in the drawing of the jury. The voters of Ranier are to be congratulated on the manner ip LETTERS OF A CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL DETECTIVE TO And if during all of that time your attorney had not shown you which they confirmed last year's policy of law enforcement and good HIS MOTHER. or the grand jury he appeared before anything you had not known government by re-electing the same or other men with a similar right along. sense of duty to office for the coming year. We believe the voters of Having Adopted a Disguise to Aid Him in His Present Task, Pinkerton And if your $50 a day attorney persisted in starting new actions International Falls are going to eject the law enforcement and good Burns Carter Turns Up Some Curious Things. in court that there was no possibility of winning maybe after awhile govrnment ticket here, by the almost unanimous support of the labor it would dawn on you that possibly $50 a day look pretty good to Mr. element. Dear Ma: You didn't get no letter from me last week and I bet Attorney. Think it over.—Littlefork Times. you were thinking that my time was up, but I got tangled up with a If the leaders of the so-called Anti-Saloon league are going to bunch of these sports and we had a hot time. IRISH DRAMA "COLLEEN BAWNM AT GRAND THEATRE show the same rotten disposition toward the abolition of the liquor After I was knew here I had to think up a disguise so they TO BE GIVEN BY HOME TALENT MAR. 17 AND 19 traffic, when the time comes to vote on the constitutional amendment, wouldn't know me, so I bot some lumber jack clothes and they all believed that they exhibited when the bill was up in the house to abolish I was in the woods cutting trees. The romantic Irish drama, "The Colleen Bawn," written by Dion the booze business by statute, every friend of better government Wken-T.^vca'l into the thirst parlors all was glad to see me and •Boucicault, will be staged by local talent in this city on Saturday, might as well quit right now and save the expense and effort that w'll they wanted me to have a few drinks. Pa was sure some booze March 17, and Monday, March 19. The play is replete with Irish otherwise be wasted. artis in his day, but it needs a cast iron belly to hold down the stuff humor and wit and the cast which follows, is well equipped to handle they serve here and I guess I got soused pretty well. the production. You are talking "bunk" when you say it will hurt the "dry" We called on all the places there was and believe me ther musta Reserved seats are now on sale at Holler's Confectionery and are^_ cause to pass constitutional amendment bill submitting universal been 30 or 40, then we got a auto and some boys took me out to their being rapidly sold out. suffrage to the voters at the same time as the "dry" amendment. boarding house to meet some friends. They was a swell bunch of ACT I. Women have done more to keep the prohibition of the liquor traffic dames at this place which was past the big red sa,w mill, they was all SCENE I—Tore Cregan- the residence of Mrs. Cregan on the -bills alive than others have done, and they will work harder and better dressed up—up part ways and then open work, and their cheeks all banks of Killarney. if they can be given the right to vote at the same-time that booze pink and nice. That's one thing thats good here, the air, it gives the SCENE II—The Gap of Dunloe. is abolishd by vote of the people of this state. girls good complexions. They liked their beer, too, and they roll a SCENE III—Interior of cottage on Muckross Head. pill just as good as we. ACT II. Say, Ma, them girls sure think me a jay, for they told me they The Press has continuously stood for one fair and impartial investigation SCENE I—The Gap of Dunloe. was sisters, and the old lady who runs the boarding house was their into the affairs of this county by the proper state authorities. SCENE II—Room in Mrs. Cregan's house. mother. They don't need to think I would believe anything like that, Now we stand just as solidly for two investigations, the first SCENE III—Interior of Eileen's cottage. one, which has turned out to be such a farce and is getting more so but I didn't let on that I knowed they were kidding me. You don't SCENE IV—The old weir bridge. believe anything like that could be true, do you Ma? We stayed every day, and the second of the illegal actions of the county board SCENE V—The Pool Dhiol. and the Special Attorney, together with actions for the recovery of there about all night and a fight started but I got out of a back window ACT III. and beat it for town. moneys to the county that have been paid out illegally during this SCENE I—Interior of Danny's hut on Muckross Flat. There is tuffer places here but I don't take no chances in them. so-called investigation, both of these investigations to be conducted SCENE II—Chamber in Castle Chute. strenuously and impartially by the proper state authorities at state All these blind pigs has gambling rooms, but I seen them passing SCENE III—Exterior of Myles hut. expense, as the law provides. cards too fast for me to get in. They call them blind pigs ma, but SCENE IV—Ball room in Castle Chute. they all got their eyes wide open for the nickels aftd they must make their own booze. It would make a rabbit spit in a bull dog's face. It seems as though it ought to be possible, with all this special BETWEEN ACTS. Course you can't blame no police much for not seeing the blind legal talent, to find out where that $13 mackinaw and other clothes Vocal Selection Mrs. R. C. Fraser pigs cause their's so many of them (the pigs, I mean) and so few cops went, that were paid for by the county for one of the investigators. Cornet Solo, W^hen You and I Were Young, Maggie," they don't dare start nothing, or may be they are scared of the It should be returned to the county. There are a good many taxpayers Lawrence Decker "Boss." of this county with calloused hands who would be glad to Violin Solo, Mazurka, (by Nylnarski) .. Joel Hanson With, best wishes ma til next time. have a $6.00 mackinaw to wear, and would certainly appreciate the Vocal Solo, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" Anna O'Malley —Pinkerton Burns Carter. present of a $13.00 one, especially since he helped pay for it. Messrs. Violin Solo Fredrick Gross P. S.—Say, ma, I bet those Janes wern't decent girls after all— Special Attorneys, the taxpayers of this county cannot help but Vocal Selection James Sullivan they drank too much beer and sat on fellows' laps and talked too dam "wonder who's wearing it now"? Will you please find out and report Violin and Piano Duet ....Victor and Elsie Golla rough. at the next commission meeting:? The Cast: —Pinkie. Hardress Cregan „.....James Sullivan FUN AT INTERNATIONAL FALLS. JAPAN, FRIENDLY, TO U. S., DENIES ANY PART IN PLOT. Danny Mann William Reynolds International Falls has forty-six blind pigs and a council that j*. Kyrle Daly Herman Ratelle does little or nothing to subdue them. Naturally this does not meet with the approval of the better class of citizens, and they formed a Tokyo, March 3.—The declaration of the Japanese government, Mrs. Cregan Blanche Galvin citizens'4 labor ticket for the election next month. The rest of the Anna Chute Grace Ottow through Foreign Minister Viscount Motono, that Japan has received state watch with interest the tug of war between the law violators no proposition from Mexico or Germany to join in a possible war Servant Frank Doran and the decent citizens. In such a contest there should be no question against the United States, was supplemented today in a statement Mr. Corrigan Arthur Hill f!:. of the result—even men who like an occasional drink should not Myles Na Coppaleen .. John English stand for open violation of the law—Editor Noonan in Baudette Re made to the Associated Press on behalf of the government by Kijuro gion. Shidehara, vice ioreign minister. s' Father Thomas O'Brien Bernard L. Grogan The above is the expression of the real Billy Noonan, for whom Eileen O'Connor .....Gertrude Sullivan "We were greatly surprised to hear of the German proposal," he the editor of this paper has the highest regard. said. "We cannot imagine what Germany is thinking about to conceive Sheelah .. Mary O'Neil that she could possibly involve us in war with the United States Hyland Creagh ...... _—.Thomas Galvin LAKE JULIA SANITORIUM. Ducia Blennerhasset ..-Anna O'Malley by merely asking Mexico. This is too ridiculous for words. Needless Pfc- to say, Japan remains faithful to her allies." Bertie O'Moore ............ ... ... Carl Harrison fcv GEO.F. SW1NXERTON, M. D., County Health Officer. Bridesmaids and Guests. In response to a question regarding Japan's attitude toward the && Minnesota stands first among the states of the Union, in pro Time of presentation: Three Hours. anti-Japanese measures which were brought forward in Idaho and visions made for the care of1 consumptives. Under a very effective Oregon, M. Shidehara said he had especially requested newspapers to Place: Ireland Year 1792. law, any county or a number of counties may unite, and may provide Stage Manager, refrain from inflammatory comment, advising that the matter be left Fred Gross a county sanitarium for the care of those suffering with tuberculosis Scenic Effects, for treatment through diplomatic channels. Leon Beauclee within the territory of such counties. It was noticeable that the agitation did not approach that of the Beltrami, Hubbard and Koochiching counties maintain such time the matter was brought up in California in 1913, and it is doubtful sanitorium at Lake Julia, near Puposky, about seventeen miles north International Falls Abstract Co. whether the masses of the people were even cognizant of the of Bemidji. Oregon and Idaho bills. On a recent visit as a member of the Sanitarium Commission, "Of course, we registered objections to. the bills on the ground BURDICK, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. the writer had an opporunity to see thp provisions made for the that they were discriminatory," M. Shidehara continued. "Japan is r' tuberculosis patients of this tri-county institution. convinced Secretary Lansing has done everything possible to prevent ABSTACTS, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE iv The building itself is absolutely fireproof throughout. The ai the passage of the measures, but regrets revival of an anti-alien Collections, Conveyancing and Loans rangements for supplying patients with plenty of air and sunlight measure in one state. 'Ml are perfect. Being so far removed from any town, the electric "We realize the embarrassment of the central government E. BURDICK, Manager. light, heat, power for laundry work^etc., are all supplied at the insti owing to-the system of state rights, but it is our duty to protect the & tution.^u?*: dignity, honor and interests of Japanese subjects." International Falls^ Minnesota R. The State Supervisory board,^hich has charge of these county Guadalajara, Mex., March 3.—General Candido Aguilar, pro vis-