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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-27
SHEFFIELD CONFERENCE.

Ehi5i DeisyfI Nrur

E,iii5, Dcisysi Nrrc
The true Latier.day Saint who BIAS
the interest OF Gods wor. a, heart O.
ever anxious TO hear from Dis brethren
who are laborInE u the nations of tuc
earth, and lending their mite fYr the gs.
adjustment Of IBIS Kingdom uH3H tla
earth. ln view Of this iatcm4I feeling
that exists within our bosoms. . take
this opportunity OF writing % few lines
TO the Saints iu Zion, through the col
umus Of the NrHs.
There are ten Elders at prcseuti1thIs.
the sheffield conference, with Elder
William 10. slselpar lr., as president,
under h.s able direction we have been
dong our utmost To get the Guspg. be-
fore the people ia our respective dis.
tritts, we have gone from H0usc Co
house with the humble Gospel message.
anu have uudCayorcd 10 implaui Tie
tree of lie therein, in some instance
We have been well received. aud .gci
that the faith once delivered iI the
Saints will take root and iu time have
the same desired effect, very frequently
we are seemed, udleulcd aud mUahcu.
Just Js Gods servants always we've, Igt
900 such Instances ] au CIuIdeH. Wa can
all say with The great ApIstIcH'Wg
take plea urc In inhm0uw, 900 uJgg.i.
ties, 900 prosecutions, iu distresHgG i1g
Christ sake.
Our am..lUnual .Hu.. renee convened
. Sunday .H I'D
% was such $3.50 important event Boo tlg
history of ihu Sheffield conference lHat
] cannot fcirain from giving q brief ag.
count OF IT,
For days before the expected event.
we 40 worked as'liuuusly Boz dHtUUut.
Ing tracts and posters tar aud wide. so
that everybody who desired might have
the privilege hearing s1.clI.ed Mormon.
ism truly exposed When the Sabbath
OF ihu l3tI arrived aud We go bowed
the knee together in humble prayer and
thanks giving, we felt that we had done
our duty towards our Christian friends,
and that God would bless our Efforts
abundantly during the day 10 say
that the result was gratifying, and that
every person who bad standing in the
Church OF Jesus CHRIST of Lltlcr. day
Saints ielt bis heart throb with pride,
would be stating % mildly.
Threatening clouds hung oycrhc ad
and the day was very dark aud stormy,
but the spirit that prevailed DO up gu Z
surroundings with @ radiance not OF
this world, bot one thli takes more OF
The Divine. Three meetings were held.
all were well attended, the evening
especially, at one time We thought our
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-27

car or in . house boat on the re.ho river
You viii have to take a servant with
YOU. aud the trip will cost from Gas 90
$50 There BIS a good s. a day hotel iu
pekin, aud You can live very comfort.
ably there Travel will, however Doe
very dangerous for some time TO come,
on account OF the war, and there is
always possibility Of a Chinese mob.
Travelling in the interior Is by no mean.
desirable. and the average American
will c0nfue bis visit Of the present year
to Japan.
Fw,I< Z, CnI,.,vl.z
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-27

HE Hon. Joseph
G.. Cannon, Of II.
linois and sever
alotliet Congress.
men expect TO
leave within o
week OF so for
Japan. They will
gpcnd the sum
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-27
Hsiatie Travel.
c,,,t it Costs to Make Trip to Japan and
VIZ" China.

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
STATE UNIVERSITY.

The growth of our state university in
numbers and in the enlargement of its
scope of work and field of instruction has,
within the last 10 years, been exceedingly
rapid and beyond expectation. There are
now enrolled and attending the university
in its various schools and departments an
aggregate of 1850 students. This rapid
and unusual growth and expansion has
of late caused the inevitable expenditures
to outrun the appropriations and in con-
sequence the university is at present ham,
pered with small deficiency Inasmuch
as there are available funds in the treas
ury, recommend that you make special
appropriation at an early day to meet this
deficiency
The university is in urgent need of more
buildings. A gymnasium and drill hall, a
mechanics art building, including room
for heat and lighting plant, a laboratory
of hygiene, including a department of
pharmacy, and suitable quarters for the
state board of health, an addition to the
dairy school and dormitory and board
ing hall at the school of agriculture are all
urgently needed, and should be provided
for by suitable appropriations. The library
building will be completed during the
present year and will afford ample room
for study and research. But our supply of
books is very limited and large addition
to the library is urgently called for by the
students and teachers in all the depart
ments.
Our university has made Minnesota
known throughout the civilized world. 1t
deserves kind and liberal consideration at
your hands. You should deal with it in
broad and liberal spirit. The people ex-
pect nothing else
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
LABOR LEGISLATION.

The factory act of 1898 has, on the whole,
fulfilled the purpose for which it was en-
acted. There are some minor defects de-
veloped in the practical workings of the
law that should be corrected. Our min
ing industry needs a mine inspection law,
in spirit and purpose similar to the factory
inspection law. Chapter 25 of the General
Laws of 1893, the so-called personal liberty
law, should be amended so as to be
clearer, more specific and more stringent
in its provisions.
Recent LABOR strikes strongly suggest
the Importance of enacting suitable laws
for the Cancellation or arbitration of dis
putes between capital and labor in some
tribunal OF before some board designated
by law.
In the presence of so much idle labor
needing public and private assistance it
would be proper to consider the wisdom of
giving our various municipalities more en-
larged powers to raise and expend funds
in the construction of waterworks, sewer
age, streets, parks, electric lights and
other essential urban facilities, to the end
that such public improvements could be
made in manner to afford labor to those
who without such labor would have to
rely on charity of some kind for th"ir sup
mort.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
SALE OF PINE STUMPAGE.

In connection with this subject l cannot
forbear to call your attention to the I'M
satisfactory character of the law as to the
sale of pine stumpage No timber other
than pine can be sold apart from the land
and pine timber can only be sold after a
board, composed of the governor, state
auditor end state treasurer, has deter
mined that the timber is in danger of be-
ing destroyed by fire or other cause. After
such determination the timber must be
duly estimated and then sold at public
sale to the highest bidder. The governor
and state treasurer have no means at their
disposal by which they can determine
whether given tract of pine is liable
to be destroyed. In my opinion,
it would be well, if the governor
and state treasurer are to have anything
to do with the disposal of pine stumpage,
that each of them be equipped with
adequate means for obtaining informa-
ton through the channels of his own
Office, to the end that these officers may be
a check upon one another and upon the
state auditor, and to the end that the state
may have the benefit of the independent
and well advised judgment of each of
them.
Our supply of pine is year by year grow
ing less and we cannot exercise too much
care in disposing of the residue. In this
connection / cannot forbear to call your
attention to the Importance of protecting
our forests against the ravages of fires.
You have ample authority in the premises
for the subject is clearly within the police
power of the state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
PINE sTUMPAGE AND PUBLIC LANDS,

A resolution of the legislature of 1898 d.
rected me to make judicial investigation
of the sale of pine stumpage, upon section
SO, township 40 of range 26. Mile Laos
county, made by the state auditor to G. "A
Smith & Co., and authorized me to employ
council and incur expenditure for thai
purpose. Pursuant to such direction and
authority, employed council and insti-
tuted through them, in behalf of the state,
an action against c.. A. Smith g. Co. to
annul the sale and to recover pay for the
timber already cut. In this action judg-
ment was obtained against the defendant
for the sum of so, 302. IS, damages, interest
and costs, and the sale as to the timber
uncut, which was upwards of two-thirds
of the entire lot, was annulled. Out OF
the amount recovered / expended the sum
of s., $40 in attorneys fees, costs and dis
bursements, and paid the balance, amount
ing to 5000. As iato the state treasury.
Pursuant to joint resolution No. of the
legislature of 1898, a committee of three
members of the senate and four members
of the house was appointed to investigate
all frauds committed in despoiling the
public lands of the state of their timber.
BY provisions of the same resolution, the
governor was also directed to investigate
and examine school lands containing pine
timber or which had Heretofore contained
such timber.
The committee has proceeded and
made great progress with the work de-
volved upon it by said resolution, and
has made very full and comprehensive
report which contains detailed account
of it's work and many valuable and i'm
portant recommendations and sugges-
tions, for which l invoke your most earn
est and attentive consideration. Steps
should be taken, under proper legislation,
to continue the work of the investigation
so well inaugurated by the committee, and
ample facilities and additional funds
should be literally provided for that pur-
pose.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE.

From the report of the board of trustees
of the hospitals for the insane it appears
that there has been a considerable increase
in the number of patients within the last
two years. On Nov. 10 last there was a
total of 2,607 patients. 1t is estimated
that at the current rate of increase we
shall have, by the end of September, 1896,
about 5000 patients. At present the hos
pitfalls at st. Peter and Rochester are over
crowded. A section of the northeast wing
of the hospital at Fergus Falls, now in
process of construction, will be completed
in February of this year, and this will af-
ford accommodations for $50 additional
patients. But more room will soon be
needed, and it is believed that the quick
est and most economical way to secure
this will be to proceed with the construc-
ton of the administration building and
the northeast wing of the hospital at Fer
gus Falls, which will, when completed,
furnish room for 270 additional patients
1t is estimated that 1885, 900 will be needed
to complete this work. -
In view of the steady and rapid increase
in patients the board of trustees recon-
mend that steps be taken for the erection
of fourth hospital at some point near the
cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis. This
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
STATE PRISON.


There is room at the state prison for $50
convicts On Dec. 10, 1894, there were 537
convicts in confinement, of which SO were
United States prisoners, for which the
state is paid at the rate of 40 cents per day
for each man. There is room in the prison
to meet and cover the increase in our
prison population during the next two,
and perhaps three years.
AT my suggestion, contained in special
message, the legislature of,1S93 applied the
parole law and the so-called reformatory
plan to the state prison. Two years of ex-
perience and observation have demon
strated the wisdom of making this change.
The manufacture of Irvine at the prison,
while it has entailed no direct loss, has in
directly been of great benefit to the agri-
cultural interests of the state. The prison
Irvine has been of good quality, has given
satisfaction to the farmers, has been fur
nished to them at near cost, and has been
one of the chief means of reducing the
price of twinc IS per cent below the rate
formerly charged by the great Irvine trust.
In order to successfully continue with the
manufacture of Irvine, the state should
procure as soon as may be suitable hard
fiber machinery, in order that Irvine may
NC llduS IIOul VIC ClcetpcT duu uluCu llOr6
desirable fibers. Such machinery, with a
capacity of from 5000 to 10000 pounds per
day, can be obtained at a price not ex-
ceeding $24 900. There is a balance of $751;
6S3S2 remaining in the treasury unex-
pended of the amount appropriated for
the purchase of our present Irvine plant
l recommend that this balance, with an
addition of $4,000 be appropriated and set
apart for the purchase of suitable hard
fiber machinery for our Irvine plant
Under existing law, only one-half
of the prison labor can be leased on
contract and only for term not exceeding
two years. These restrictions have proved
very embarrassing, especially now since
the Minnesota Thresher company, which
employed one-half of the prison labor, has
gone out of business. The abandonment
by the company of its manufacturing en-
terprise left $50 idle convicts on our hands.
After much effort, the managers have
succeeded in finding employment for about
200 men in the manufacture of boots and
shoes, under two years contract, at so
cents per day for each man. But this still
leaves $50 convicts unprovided for. In
view of these facts and conditions, I con-
cur in the recommendation of the board of
managers that in respect to contract
labor, the restriction of numbers be en-
tirely removed, and that the limitation of
time be extended to 10 years.
For further information and for details,
1 refer you to the valuable and interesting
reports of the managers and the warden
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

The Importance of securing more uni
form, more complete and well guarded
system of municipal government for our
larger towns is evident and pressing
Since the adoption of the constitutional
amendment of 1892 inhibiting special leg
islation, the necessity for well digested
general plan has become still more urgent.
There seems to be two methods in vogue
in establishing city governments. By one
plan the legislative department of the
state government prepares and enacts in
detail the entire scheme and plan of mu-
nicipal government. BY the other plan, the
people of this city are left to perfect and
adopt their own municipal system. The
latter plan is of more recent origin, but
has proved quite satisfactory where tried.
If you proceed on this line, it will necessi-
tate the enactment and submission to the
people of suitable constitutional amend
ment,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11

The report of the dairy and food COM
missioner shows that energetic and con-
tinued efforts, meeting with considerable
success, have been made to protect the
dairy interest of the state against the in
roads of oleomargarine. Seizure and con-
fiscation Of the inhibited product has been
the most effective weapon-far more
dreaded than the mere naked pr osecution
of offenders.
In addition to its other duties, the dairy
department, through it's first assistant
commissioner has, without extra charge,
given instruction in butter making at the
state dairy school at ST. Anthony Park.
This school is great factor in the devel-
opment of our dairy interest and is well
patronized and we'll sustained.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11

dent, and should be promptly corrected.
Except as to fishing in international
waters, all fishing is prohibited between
Dec. 1 and April Is, following. This pro-
vision is needlessly harsh and unjust. The
settlers in our extensive lake region should
be permitted to catch fish, in a proper
manner, at all seasons of the year, for
their own consumption but not for ship
ment By the terms of the act of 1893,
whitefish can be caught with a net only in
international waters. This variety of fish
can not be caught with hook and line, but
only with net In the so called park
region of our state the lakes abound with
a species of whitefish, the best and most
palatable kind of fish in those lakes. This
act, by failing to permit the catching of
such fish with net, is really prohibitory
and practically interdicts such fishing.
This is unjust and unreasonable, and
should be remedied. | commend these
matters to your favorable consideration
and attention.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
GRAIN INSPECTION.

Two years ago called the attention of
the legislature to the fact that while due
provision was made by law for weighing,
grading and inspecting grain under state
supervision at the terminal markets of
ST. Paul. Minneapolis and Duluth, there
was no law on this subject affecting the
primary and interior markets of the state,
and l suggested the Importance of placing
the grading and inspection of grain at
interior as well as terminal points, under
state supervision and state control. Pur-
suant to this suggestion, the legislature
enacted chapter 26, general laws of 1898,
commonly known as the Country Ware
house Law, requiring all grain elevators
other than at terminal points to take out
q state license, declaring them public
elevators, and placing them under the
jurisdiction and control of the board of
railroad and warehouse commissioners
Since the enactment of this law, all the
elevators within its purview have taken
licenses and have operated as public
elevators, subject to the supervision of the
board of railroad and warehouse COM
missioners. That this law has been pro-
ductive of good results is evident from the
fact that there never has been so few COM
plants made about the grading and the
weighing of grain as since the passage of
this act
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
FOREST FIRES.

In one locality only have our people been
visited with any serious calamity. On
Sept. last a forest fire, dashed into fury
by high wind, destroyed the villages Of
Hinckley, Sandstone, Sandstone junction,
Finlayson, Miller Pokegama, Partridge
and Mission Greek, and devastated large
area of the surrounding country More
than 400 lives were lost, large number
were manned or crippled for life, more
than 1900 people were left helpless and
destitute, and over 81 100000 worth of
property was destroyed The burned
district embraced an area of nearly 400
square miles. On September 3 / issued
a proclamation asking for contributions
for the relief of the survivors of the fire
and appointed commissioners to colleen
and distribute such contributions and to
supervise the entire scheme of relief. The
commissioners performed their work with
great energy, fairness and diligence.
They have collected, from voluntary con-
tributors, and disbursed among the suryi-
vors of the fire 500, 1916, and finding that
still more was urgently needed to complete
the work of relief and to provide for the
destitute, they borrowed on their own
credit the sum of SIS 600 and disbursed or
incurred the disbursal of the same in COM
pleting the scheme of relief The commits.
sioners deserve the thanks of our state for
procuring this extra amount of money so
needfuI, and 1 earnestly recommend that
you take early steps to suitably reimburse
them for the liability thus incurred.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
SPECIAL INJURY TO CROPS.

In several counties OF the state the wheat
crop was greatly injured by the chinch
bug The drought enabled these insects
to do more than ordinary havoc. DR.. Otto
Lugger, entomologist of the state expert
mental station, made great efforts to stay
the destruction by injecting the bugs with
the germs of a fatal disease, an expert
ment that had, in some degree, been tried
and found hopeful in other states. To
some extent his efforts gave relief, and he
could have accomplished much more had
he been supplied with ample funds and
ample assistance for the emergency.
The chinch bugs are liable to continue
with us for years to come and we are
likely in the future. as often in
the past. to have vsitations from the
grasshoppers. In view OF these facts,
take the liberty of recommending that you
make an appropriation OF not less than
$1,000, available for the purpose of exter.
minating these and other grain destroying
insects, and for the protection of the farm
ers against the ravages of the same. Such
an appropriation should be annual and
continuing, with proviso that any sur
plus beyond $1,000 should at once lapse
into the general revenue fund. thus pre-
venting any undue accumulation of this
fund
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-11
COAL COMBINE INVESTIGATION.

Pursuant to a resolution of the legisla-
ture of 1898, committee Of three senators
and six representatives was appointed to
investigate unlawful combinations among
producers, carriers and Dealers enhancing
the price of coal to the consumer The
committee in proceeding with the work
of investigation, through its agents, OBJ
tanned the possession of certain books and
papers of j. j. Rhodes, the
alleged manager of an organiza-
ton of coal dealers, without his
consent and against his protest. Mr..
Rhodes thereupon instituted an action
against the committee and it's agents to
recover $4,000 damages for the taking
and detention of the books and papers.
The legislature thereupon passed an act
appropriating $4,000 to pay the expenses
of such litigation and to pay any judg-
ment that might be recovered against the
defendants or any of them. Mr.. Rhodes
has, finally, after the action referred to
had been twice appealed to the supreme
court, dismissed the same as to all the de-
PENDANTS, thereby substantially terminal
ing the litigation. There has been ex-
pended out of the appropriation of $4,000
the sum of 81 ,531.SS for attorneys fees,
costs and disbursements in the case of
Rhodes and in the efforts to procure his
indictment, leaving an uneXpended bal
ance of S4S, 46S. II, that should be covered
into the general revenue fund by appro-
pirate legislation.