Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-04-01
Vertebrae.

Kansas Prohibitionists will nominate at
Emporia May 10.
Laramie May r.
The Hepburn Dolliver bill has been re-
ported favorably by the house committee.
The Southern Anti Saloon League con-
vention will meet in Atlanta. April 20, 80.
Calls have been issued for state con-
than twenty states.
License: Austin, Rush City, Taylors
Falls, Dodge Center and Rushford. NO
License: Dunnell, Willmar.
Rev. Q. D. Elicit recently organized .
Prohibition League at Upper Iowa Uni
versity with SO charter members.
volney B. Cushing has been holding
successful meetings in Kentucky and
will speak in Maryland this month.
The party is now alive with prepara-
ton for many state conventions for the
nomination of state and electoral tickets.
Seven blind piggers were arrested in
the Midway district on the 10Th. Two
drayloads of liquors were captured I'M
der the Search and Seizure law.
The legislative district campaign in this
nominations are being made and commit
tees are taking hold of the work with
vigor
Los Angeles Prohibitionists are arrang
presence
prominent Prohibitionists at the approach
ing session of the general conference of
the M. e. Church.
James A. Tate has attended Is Illi-
nois county conventions, and raised ST.
900. Many new Prohibition voters are
reported He will attend about thirty
more conventions.
A M. Void is Grand Secretary Of the
Scandinavian Good Templars of Mime
sofa. He says he votes the Prohibition phi
perance principles.
F. r. McManigal, Prohibition candi
date for comptroller of st. Paul, holds a
responsible position with the great music
house of w. ]. Dyer & Bro, whose ad-
vertisement appears in our columns.
Secretary Calderwood says the Indiana
convention was "blinger.' About 900
delegates were seated. Our scribe spent
der the direction Of the state committee.
Many Prohibitionists will sympathize
with State Chairman Higgins and his es-
Unable wife on account of the death OF
their eldest daughter, Geneva She lived
and W. G. +. U. work.
Miss Marion Cockrell. daughter of Sen
ator Cockrell of Mo-, Cumberland Pres
byterian elder, was recently married at
Washington. Champagne flowed like wa
Roosevelt led in drinking the first toast
to the bride.
The National Prohibition convention,
for the nomination of candidates for
United States, will open at Indianapolis
June 20. Minnesota is entitled to forty
seven delegates, North Dakota to eight,
South Dakota to twelve, Iowa to hfty-tWo,
and Wisconsin to fifty five. @
A woman in Bridgeton, N. j., upon her
deathbed exacted promise from her
husband, member Of the city council,
never to vote for licensing saloon. The
bod oln Tod m,
frankly stated the situation, and then re-
signed AS a result, the "wets" were un-
able to carry through their measure.
DR.. Lyman w. Abbott, Of the Outlook.
favors local-option on opening in saloons on
should have it. Sunday opening
in some places is necessity Pertinent
Anna Shaw that "Dr. Lyman Abbott has
been on the immoral side of every moral
question
State Chairman Theodore E. Ostlund, of
Hillsboro N D., has called a meeting ti1, .. Of
to fix the date Of the state convention
and elect delegates to the national.
Chairman Stewart will attend the COM
Music hall in the evening. o. NJ Warm
son. also of Hillsboro, is the new secre-
tary of the state committee.
The temperance crusade pledge of the
Epworth League reads, Il hereby pledge
myself God helping me, to abstain from
the use of all alcoholic liquors as bev-
erage. I also promise to discourage their
use by others and to use my influence and
vote for the utter destruction Of the
liquor business" Women and girls pledge
themselves ''to induce my friends to vote
for the utter destruction of the liquor
business"
All railroads in South Dakota have
granted a round trip rate of one fare
plus fifty cents to the state Prohibition
convention at Mitchell June 8, except
where open rate of fare and one third