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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

May 10, 1917 · Page 1 of 4

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THE DmRNATlONAL FiUS PRESSOOy.™™^^^ state pay of 50 cents a day as soon many are resented more vigorously by the people. as payrolls now in the hands of the printers. have been checked up and Sweden also, is influenced by Norway. sighed, it was 1. announced today. which is moving fast toward How soon the men actually will receive war against Germany. Sixty-six Mm .'5 Publithtf, of Pro^nf. Continued from Page 1 this money, which amounts to Norwegian ships ^ere sunk jn March INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY and 70 in April. Speakers in the from $75 to $125 for each, cannot be GEO. P. WATSON, Bitttr aai Muager gation would be instituted to ascertain whether or not wolves predicted, Adjutant General Fred B. storthing have declared that at this Wood said. The money has been were being bred in some of the counties of northern Minnesota for rate Norway will have no ships left Eitwei «t tke Peat Ofllee at Iatcrutloaal Fall*, Miuh, 8w«»i-clw« Matte* in 18 months. available since last week. Payment the state bounty. Does any citizen of Koochiching county know of will be made through company and such a thing being done I am willing to answer for them, no— SUBSCRIPTION RATES U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. ir U. S. TARS LOST battery commanders.- National emphatically.. Upon what authority does the governor make the guardsmen have received no pay AS SHIP IS SUNK charges? 7s, 'V since called- into active service for property guard duty early in the American Tank Steamer Torpedoed Section 2397, Revised Laws 1905, as amended by chapter 381 month. and Lieutenant and Gunners What has Governor Burnquist gpi against sheep raising as a of the General Laws of 1907, provides for a bounty of §7.50 for each Are Missing. war benefit that he should veto the appropriation for wolf bounties full grown wolf and $3.00 for- each cub wolf. The wolf pest and danger is so serious a one that the legislature at the 1917 session made SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS London, April 30—The American Governor Burnquist is some financier when he refuses to allow an appropriation of $90,000 for the payment of claims in behalf of oil tank steamer Vacuum has been sunk. The captain and part of the the state to pay a $250,000r debt drawing 6 per cent interest, yet 94 out of 86 counties in the state where wolves had been killed. The crew and the naval lieutenant and allows the state to loan money at only 4^ per cent? same legislature made an appropriation of $60,000 for each of the nine American naval gunners are years 1918 and 1919. These appropriations were vetoed by the governor. missing. Again he set his judgment up against the best judgment of Don't forget to attend church next Sunday in honor of the The Vacuum was sunk by a German the senate finance committee and the house appropriation committee, submarine Saturday while it memory of your mother. If she is living wear a pink carnation, was bound for the United States. where the absolute necessity for these appropriations was if she has passed to her well earned reward wear a white one. The chief mate and seventeen men, proven. He set his own judgment up against the express statutes including three of the American ft of the state of Minnesota which provides for the payment of bounties The lovliest foreigner who obeys the laws of this county shows navy gunners, have been landed. in order that the state might, at the earliest possible, date, rid A boat containing the master of more loyalty to it, than the native born citizen who breaks the itself of these destructive and ferocious beasts. If this was not a the ship and the remainder of the laws, especially for the money there is in it, or the official who crew, together with the lieutenant spite veto, let the governor explain what it was. If it was a spite winks at such lawlessness. I* ancl nine naval gunners, is missing. N veto let him defend the ,same before the people of this state. Let him give any good reasons why the executive should encroach CASH WHEAT NEAR Owing the the ilness of Editor Watson and the absence of upon the legislative branch of our government and force it to do $3 A BUSHEL MARK Foreman Eastman who has been called to take examination for his bidding or suffer at his hands by having necessary and legal army service the Press is only a four page issue this week, but #T: Wr appropriations vetoed that peculiarly affect districts where the Cash wheat of No. 1 hard and No. we hope to be able oget out the usual eight page all home print I northern grade threatened today legislative members were not in harmony with his political designs. paper" next week. to go to the $3 line, and was very "But the governor did not stop here in his Tuthless elimination close. .. of items of appropriations, which were of such vital importance to Flour advanced 60 cents a barrel The members of Company C, Third Regiment National Guards northern Minnesota. He even went further and vetoed the deficiency today, following yesterday's advance who are protecting this city are doing good work in drilling three of 40 cents, and first patent appropriation for the public schools of the state. By another simple squads of boys in military tactics in the baseball park evenings. barrels, in car lots, was quoted at stroke of the pen the governor takes away another $40,000 in aid $14, compared with $13.20 yesterday. This service is voluntary on their part and is much appreciated by to the schools of Koochiching county alone. May wheat, which had gone to the citizens as well as the boys. "Section 2927 of the general statutes of 1913, 3s amended by $2.47 yesterday, advanced rapidly today, 8 cents,-to $2.56, and then fell chapter 296, general laws of 1915, provides state aid to public Hew is it that .'-pedal Attorney Arnold missed the lutin" he II cents, to $2.45. schools and for the method of its distribution. Good Head Room L!1*? Brokers "were demanding 50 cents should liave taken to show cause before thre® judges l:ist "The 1915 legislature failed to make an appropriation sufficient^ a bushel margin on all speculative Saturday w!iy his and $50 a day illegal and useles.-. job should $g.50ai orders to buy or sell. to pay the aid, for the public schools as provided by law, and S should continue at county expense. Does he Anally realize that' the legislature of 1917, just closed, made a deficiency appropriation The Popular Colors the "jig is up" that he can continue his farce no longer, and was STATE TO PAY GUARDS and Styles in the amount of $1,070,000 to pay a just debt contracted by the afraid to risk the price of a ticket? FOR BORDER DUTY SOON state of Minnesota in behalf of the education of her children." To postpone the payment of a debt of this kind is but little short of Guardsmen who served on the "PREPARE FOR PEACE." repudiation. It is almost a public calamity. It is, in my judgment, a Mexican border last summer and "On tke Corner* disgrace to the state. Not a voice was. raised in protest in either the winter will receive their additional ., We have learned by sad experience the folly of failing to adopt committee of the house or of the senate against this just, this lawfully the policy: "In time of peace prepare for war." Shall we also learn contracted state-debt. But the governor vetoed it. The three Captain H. A. Pearson by experience the need of a new slogan: "In time of war prepare big counties, Hennepin, Ramsey and St.Louis would have received for peace" Shall the welcome arrival of peace find us with no statutory about $60,000 of the $1,000,000 appropriation for their public schools, bulwarks to protect our high paid workmen from the competition and these three large, rich and prosperous counties would have paid that is certain to await us from the further shores of both nearly $500,000, or one-half of the appropriation. And -yet the governor Two years Y. M. C, A. Officer In France the Atlantic and the Pacific? vetoed this bill. So far as I know, there was not a man, not will Address a even a tax-dodger, in one of, these three great counties, who appealed MR ROOT IN RUSSIA. to the governor to veto this just, legal state debt. But the governor vetoed it. He kept the state from paying a just debt, a debt that sootier or later it must pay, because the day will come, IN The selection of Elihu Root to headf the mission which we are FORT FRANCES, ONTARIO must come, when the state of Minnesota will have a governor who to send to Russia brings again into the active service of the nation will not veto bills which provide for the payment of state debts— a statesman and diplomatist of the first rank. ie vetoed this bill to prevent an increase in the tax rate. No voice Mr. Root will go to Petrograd with a message to the new Russian was raised in the state of Minnesota in behalf of saving taxes at Republic. It is a message of' brotherhood and co-operation and the expense of the education of our children. Yet the governor of hope and helpfulness. No American is better fitted to deliver vetoed this bill. such a message than Mr. Root. His tour of the Latin American "There were a number of appropriations which the governor republics in the time of his occupancy of the secretaryship of state, might have vetoed in the interests, of real economy, but which he the speeches which he then delivered, the interpretation which he He was present at the Battles of Ypres, Sanctuary saw fit not to veto. .. then gave to the ideals and purposes of the United Stats, and the Wood, Festerfeert, etc., and will tell about "I feel that the taxpayers of the county should be apprised of splendid results which his visit produced are* indicative of the success in the facts as I have outlined them above, and I would not be satisfied which will attend his stay in Russia. His colleagues in the mission 44 to face my constituents if I did not protest against the governor's are men of eminence but they cannot touch the imagination action in vetoing two measures of special interest in the development of the leaders of New Russia as he can—and the president is to be and settlement of northern Minnesota, and especially Come and Hear Him congratulated both upon having selected Mr. Root for the task and Koochiching county, and one measure in the interests of the people upon having obtained his consent to undertake it. It is a good beginning, No Admission Fee No Collections of the entire state. we hope, of a policy of calling into the nation's service the "If the governor feels that he has covered himself with glory, best talent which the nation has, instead of confining all the labor, or that he has advanced his political fortunes with the veto of these all the honor, all the credit to. a single political party. three important measures, I warn him that if I know the temper of the people of this state, at the first opportunity theyi will record ALL DEATHS MUST BE RECORDED their condemnation of the defeat of any measure which prevents By G. F. Swinnerton, M. D., County Health Officer the, state of Minnesota from paying its just debts, or as a punishment for any senator or representative whose conviction of duty Every death must be accounted for, and record made of it un makes it impossible for him to march on all occasions iff line with der the regulations of the State Board of Health. This applies the governor of the state. I believe that the legislative branch of to all kinds of people, and includes indians. government should work without fear or favor from any other The indians who buried Maggie Shay-Shay, on April 25th last branch, I believe the people of Minnesota will take this view also did not know that. Sothat the coroner had to investigate death and will so express themselves at their first opportunity. that a proper record might be made of it. Yours very truly, Maggie Shay-Shay was well known to all old-timers here. H. J. MINER." About April 25th she had a visit from some indians from Kapatogama Here is style a plenty and lake. They evidently celebrated along the roadside near GERMAN INSULTS FLAG here. The plan has been presented PUNISHMENT IS QUICK Ogaard's farm above Ranier. At any rate next morning about to the naval experts of the British quality too for you dressy commission. In brief, the American four o'clock "they found her dead plan is to do at the north end of the. fellows. Helena, Mont., April 30—A German With' the: instincts true to their traditions, they did not bury North sea precisely what has been who spoke slightingly of the 1% her away off in the woods where she died, but carrying her body flag in a saloon here last night was done in the south end. The English to a beautiful point on Clark's farm, projecting out into the lake channel is so guarded with nets, seized by a dozen soldiers and forced ^'Packard'1, makes this shoe mines, armed patrol boats and hy 'they dug her grave, just a few inches deep. Then wrapping her. to kneel and kiss the Stars and. for us, and we consider it droplanes that German submarines Stripes, which the soldiers took ?K- in a Hudson Bay banket with all her sewing materials, carefully T.- practically never make their way from the wall of the place. covering her face, sh$ wa^ laid in her IsLst resting place. The tar an excellent value for the He was then ordered to start somewhere from Germany to the Atlantic ocean paper placed over her body kept it from contact 'with the e^rth by the southern route. and keep going. His name price. Will you let us show vabove her Then an axe was laid on the eartH and poles laid over was not learned. SWEDISH KING SAID jQnly the presence of the provest %jall and pinned in place' to keep dogs oft. Last of all a pile of fireIwood you your size?. ?w4?revcnted was laid beside the gr^ve. There under the shelter of two rougher TO \T Safe. beautiful white pines her body rested, as her spirit roamed the *2 CORK NORTH SEA, AMERICAN London, May 5—An Amsterdam happy hunting grounds. ffJ^SfFLAN TO FOIL BOAT dispatch declares the danger of a revolution "You Can Always Do Better*9 against the government and Such was the passing and burial of Maggie Shay-Shay. But Nif»l Exports of Britisli royal family of Sweden is so "great •t they forgot to get a death certificate made out. Hence the coroner sio* Hear Sdheape to S*ve that two warships have been placed had to go out to that quiet "burying place, exume the body, ex* Shipping. in Ihe anchorage opposite the royal aa* nearly: in indian fashion a^ possible all palace to be available if tlie king Washington, May 5—An American to certify that her death was not criminal, and to register the and queen are compelled to flee. "The Store of Quality" plan for bottling up th Germair submarines The situation in Sweden is serious. event with the Department of Vital Statistics o| the State/Board in the North sea is being Every day the attitude of the govesnwegf of Health of Minnesota. ga£,its s^in|^jjy •w