The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-26
LAND men WILL
PULL TOGETHER
NEW ASSOCIATION ADOPTS CON
sTITUTIoNSAND BY-IAWs. \. y.
Executive Committee Elected to Take
\. Charge of question of
Future Policy Now to BE Discussed
Active Advertising Campaign De-
cided On.

The newly born Western Canadian
Immigration association spent all day
! in sessions at the Merchants hotel,
st. Paul, and it seemed likely that
this first meeting would last over I'M
til tomorrow. One of the officers re-
marked: 1--WE are just getting well
started with our business. Organiza-
ton is the first, thing, but after that
we must decide on many questions of
policy"
The executive committee was elect
ed this morning. It consists of D. w.
Bole, G. F. ,Carruthers and w. J..
Christie of Winnipeg, o. A. Robertson
and F. B. Lynch of ST. Paul, A. D.
McRae Of Duluth and S. A. Coldren
of Iowa City, Iowa.
The constitution and bylaws adopt
ed this morning leave much in the
hands of this executive committee. It
will determine the duties and COM
pensation of the secretary, and no one
has yet been elected to fill that office.
After the committee has decided
whether the secretary shall devote his
whole time to the association work,
the place will be filled. Meanwhile,
Clayton M. Weiss Of st. Paul, is act
ing as secretary.
The executive committee will set
the time and place for annual meet
ings, and a majority Of the commit
tee or ten active members may re-
quest the president to call a special
meeting.
- The executive committee, Of which
the president and secretary are to be
members ex officio, will also name
committees on pltess and publicity,
transportation, finance and entertain
ment. An entertainment committee
was named this morning, to take
charge of the banquet at the Mer-
oh fcS y, r{nJ to- :.4..
Of Sanford Evans, A. D. McRae and
F. B. Lynch.
The headquarters of the association
will be at st. Paul, but offices may
be. opened at Winnipeg and other
cities. 1t is agreed to carry on an
active campaign of advertising thru
the association, which will also leave
all the members free to advertise as
they please individually. The ques-
ton Of homeseekers' rates and other
transportation matters are yet to come
up for discussion.
The Manitobans resent the state
oent in press dispatches that the mer-
cury reached 50 degrees below in Win
nipeg yesterday, and that three per-
sons were frozen to death. Captain
Carruthers read a telegram this morn
ing from Winnipeg, saying that the
mercury only reached 33 degrees be-
no loss of life. --'-.@
The constitution fixes the member
ship fee to $40, and SIS yearly dues.
Only bona fide dealers in Canadian
lands are eligible, and new members
may be taken in on recommendation
Of two members.
A number of new delegates arrived
this morning, and took part in the ses-
sions to-day. They included F. J.
nf h,.to
Christofferson, G. nj. Weiss, A. j.
Wallan and James A.. Jenkins, st.
Paul; H. c.. Mills: w. H, Dinnell and
G. II. Gudgel, Abel, Iowa; F. M. March,
A. R. Love and Robert I. Crisp, Win
nipeg; Grant Robertson and C. w.
Hodgkinson Of the Canadian-Ameri-i
can Immigration association, and
company, Winnipeg; James Porter,
Reinbeck, Iowa, and Peter Macker-
char of the Middlesea Banking COM
pany, Dallas, Texas.
The Work of Organization.
Yesterday afternoon the associa-
ton took the name Of the Western
Canada Land and immigration associ-
alton. J. H. Haslam of st. Paul was
elected president, G. H. Douglas of
Elton of Winnipeg, second vice presi-
dent, and N. j. Halsey Of Peoria, third
vice president. A committee of five
named fourteen members as candi-
dates for places on the executive COM
mittee,~ from which seven were to be
chosen to-day. The nominations made
were as follows: f. c. Bell, Frank
March, r. G. Mcdonald, H. S.. Crotty,
Hugo Ross, j. w. Briggs, all Of Win
nipeg; A. B. McRae, f. B. Lynch,
st. Paul; L. T. Ernhart, Odell, ILL.,;
S. "A. Coldren, Iowa City, Iowa; w.
D. Andrews, Minneapolis; w. S.
Kemp, Grand Forks, and j., M. Dahl
by, Moorhead.