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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-10-13

50 LION brought the automoDlle
IN to stop at the crest Of hill.
Below was a vista Of green
felds and winding white roads. Be
yond, the ragged line Of hills stood
out sharply against the sky.
isn't 1t splendid, Dan" said Alicia,
with appreciative enthusiasm. II didn't
really know there were such bits of
landscape about here"
Alton settled back comfortably on
the cushions. With studied delibera-
ton he lighted cigar and puffed
away several moments before he turn
ed to the girl.
II thought I'd stop In the pleasant
est spot l know Of" he explained.
"We'll probably stay here for some
time"
"Indeed?' she said.
I'VE shall stay here until you de-
eide" he affirmed.
Decide what?" said she.
Decide to answer the question
asked you a short time since; the one,
in fact, have asked you repeatedly
during the last year."
Alicia frowned.
you develop determination rather
suddenly" she observed.
Exactly" he returned, stolidly.
"Well," she said, you may as well
60 on. I'm not ready to answer you
yet"
"Alicia," he said, gravely, "it's not
fair to treat me in this way. You
should give me an answer, one way or
the other"
"And either answer would be quite
welcome after this patient wait Of
yours" she Knocked.
did 1 say so7" he asked, quick
ly.
"It Is evident I'm not worth waiting
for" she said, looking pensively across
the valley.
"You are worth waiting for for
ever" he declared, stoutly, "but 1t
isn't fair to keep me in suspense like
this. You know as well now as you
ever will"
'There are pros and cons to be
weighed thoroughly before 1 decide
she said. "a man always thinks a wo-
man can decide offhand matter Of the
gravest import.
Atoms eyes twlnkled.
Heaven forbdv he muttered.
Alicia flashed him an angry glance
ho rnt hr
said with some constraint Its grow
ing late"
II haven't my answer yet" Altor
reminded her.
"If you intend to wait for that. II
walk home" she said.
Alton sat erect and knocked the
ashes from his cigar. He drew a pen
ny from his pocket and laid 1t on hi
knee with exaggerated care.
"Ive proposition to make" he said
slowly. 1T seems that you have N,
intention Of definitely settling this mat
ter. Therefore, suppose we let Fate de
eide 1t with the turn of this coin. 1
1t comes head you'll marry me II
IL tuiip, IL iCuNt thc uclu "
other suitors. Is 1t agreedW
The girl turned her eyes and gaze,
at him silently. There was unuttera
BILE scorn In that look
"We'd better go back" she said
icily.
Alton turned the automobile an
they sped homeward over the har
white roads. Alicia sat silently besid
him. Her head was turned away, bu
he could see the angry color in he
cheek.
Instead Of being crushed, as 1t wa
meant he should have been, he SCENE
vastly amused. For some time h
made no attempt to resume conve
sation.
"Alicia," he said at length, shave
blundered again1 Are you angry7"
"I didn't think you were capable
such a thing" she said, wrathfull
"You have said my answer meant o
erything in the world to you; but no
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-10-13
Weak Bordeaux Mixture,

For the summer spraying Of peaches
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2 pounds; fresh lime (unslacked), 6
pounds; water, 80 gallons.-Rhode
Island Formula.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-10-13
Way to Pull Posts,

Way to Pull Posts.
s. w. Leonard says in Farm and
Ranch: II will give a plan for pulling
up old fence posts. Take chain and
put 1t around post close to the ground.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-10-13
FLIppIKG THE COIN.
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50 LTON brought the automobile
IN to stop at the crest Of hill.
0<D Below WAS q vista Of green
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
TAILOR WAVES KNIFE
Reiker's Rough House Methods
Land Him I'm WOrkhOuse

Frank Reiker, a tailor diving at 15S
Duke street, was sentenced to thirty
days in the workhouse in the police
court yesterday on complaint of his
wife.
She said that Reiker was infatuated
with her daughter. his stepdaughter,
May, and was constantly interfering
with her, not allowing her to have any
friends or go out alone.
Monday she said her daughter did
not go TO work, and when she wanted
to go down town in the afternoon he
refused to let her go. The girl finally
managed to elude him and left by a
rear door. Reiker came back, grabbed
a butcher knife, and fiourishing il,
started on a hunt for the girl. Mrs.
Reiker became alarmed and went for
Patrolman Miske, who on arriving at
the house found the man leaning out
of the window, knife in hand
On seeing the patrolman Reiker
dropped the knife, and jumping out of
the window ran down the street
closely pursued by the policeman.
After a chase of several blocks Miske
rounded up the man and took him to
the station. but not until after hard
fight.
Mrs. Reiker says she thinks that her
husband is insane. The matter of his
sanity will be looked into by the pro-
bate court.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
HEARST'S PAPER IS
BARRED FROM PRISON
Warden WoIfer Refuses to Al.
low COmiCts to Secure
Chicago American

William Randolph Hearst has COM
planned to the governor of Minnesota
that Warden Henry Wolfer of the Still
water penitentiary has refused to per-
init one of his convicts to subscribe to
the Chicago American.
GOV. Johnson has referred the COM
plant to the board of control for an in
vestigatiOn.
The governor yesterday received a
formidable looking document from the
publisher of the Chicago American.
Boiled down, 1t contained a complaint
that convict, known only by prison
number, had sent money to the busi-
ness office of the American and asked
that the paper be sent to him. The
man was placed on the regular mailing
lists of the American, but never re-
celVed the paper. He wrote to COM
plain of the nOnreceipt of the Chicago
puohcauon. and an inquiry by the pub
iiSher resulted in a statement from the
warden that he did not permit the in
mates of the penitentiary TO Subscribe
10 the Chicago American.
Mr.. Hearst wants to know the reason
why. He AYERS that his newspaper is
read by thousands of persons whom he
thlnks are fully as respectable as the
man in the Saltwater penitentiary
whose morals Warden Wolfer is so
jealously guarding.
Gov. johnson said yesterday that he
knew nothing of the merits of the con-
troversy, and he had referred the COM
plaint of the Chicago publisher to the
board OF control for inquiry and adjust
ment.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
Judge Hook Thinks Differently

Judge William c. Hook of the United
States circuit court of appeals dissents
from an opinion by the majority of the
bench in a decision involving the in
surance on a burned reduction plant
in Colorado. filed in the federal court
yesterday. The case is the Atlas Re
duction company Colorado corpora
tion. George w. Dodge and A. NJ. Ste
venson, against the New Zealand in
surance company, a New Zealand cor
poration. Upon the burning of a chlor-
ination plan owned by the reduction
company, suit was brought for the in
surance. The insurance company de-
INJURED TO the complaint on the ground
that the plant had been mortgaged con-
trary to the provisions of the policy.
The decision is sustained by the court.
Judge Hook disSents on the ground
that the insurance company's risk was
not placed in extra jeopardy by the
mortgage.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
KERST is EMPHATIC
Charges Against BeItrami Off
Cials Far-reachinq

The investigation of affairs in Bel
trami county will be commenced May
2. The commission which has been
appointed by Gov. Johnson consists of
Cleve Van Dyke of st. Paul, Graham
M. Terrence of Bemidji, and one other
man who will probably be announced
today. He was named yesterday aft
ernoon but had not signified his ac-
ceptance.
Assistant Attorney General r. A.
Stone, who will represent the state.
will leave for Bemidji this morning.
The others will leave on Monday. Pub
lie Examiner P. A. Kerst will be in
Bemidji part of the time. 1t was on
a report made by him to Gov. Johnson
that the investigation was ordered.
Public Examiner Kerst yesterday
filed specific charges against County
Attorney H. K. Loud, and Commission
ers F. o. Sibley and Yves Right The
commissioners are charged with al
lowing public moneys to be diverted,
and profiting personally at the public
expense. The charge against the
county attorney is very sweeping,
holding in general that he refused TO
prosecute crime and did not protect
the county with legal advice.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
HEAT TIL BOARD LACKS
SUFFICIENT FUNDS
Quarterly Meeting Abridged Be.
cause Legislature Reduced
Revenues

quarterly meeting of the board of
health was held in the office of Secre-
tary III. NJ. Bracken yesterday. The
meeting was confined to routine bust
ness on account of the lack of funds
for the board which the legislature had
pared down to the limit.
About the only action taken was the
appointment of five inspectors of the
dairy and food department to be sani-
tary inspectors of the health depart
ment. This is expected to give them
opportunity to make an inspection of
tainted meats around butcher shops.
These inspectors are: E. II. Heiberg.
Montevideo; w. G. Graham, Long
Prairie; John McCabe; NJ. ]. Moriarty.
St Paul; Harris Bennett, Duluth
Six members of the board were pres
ent at the meeting yesterday. They
were: DR.. Henry Hutchinson. St. Paul,
president. DR.. w. H. Rowe. ST James;
DR.. +. Shimpik, Minneapolis: DR.. c.
Graham, Rochester: DR.. F.. n. Hunt,
Blue Earth, and DR.. II. NJ. Bracken,
St. Paul
The lack of funds will compel us
to abandon our plans for enlarging the
department" said DR.. Bracken. I'VE
had intended to put in several new
things. A Pasteur institute was one
or the improvements. Really. that
would have been but a small item of
expense. We would merely have kept
supply of medicine for treating per-
sons afflicted with the rabies, to be
used by our physicians, or some other
doctor. The patient would have had
only to come here and go to a hotel
and have his physician treat him with
the medicine furnished by us. AS il is
now the state has had to send several
patients to Chicago, at a heavy ex-
pense. People who are able to treat
themselves have to go to Chicago,
when it could have been done here
with a small outlay. a
The board of health had also in
tended to do some work along the line
of examining milk for bacteriology.
This will also have to be abandoned"
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
JUDGE DRAWS DOWN
Big WAD OF MONEY
Retired JuriSt Calls at State
Capitol and Collects
$1,000

The men who draw a $500 salary
and who deliberately allow the salary
to accumulate for something over
three years are very rare. Much more
is it seldom that a man who is holding
a public office allows the state to have
the use of his salary money for this
length of time.
1t was something of a curiosity,
therefore, when Judge w. c. Willis
ton of the first judicial district came
into the office of State Treasurer
Block yesterday afternoon and an
nounced that he guessed he would take
what was coming to him. Mr.. Block
directed his deputy to look at the book
and see what was coming to Judge
Williston.
The treasurer passed over one of his
big black cigars and began to ask
Judge WilliSton what was doing in
politics up in the vicinity of Red Wing.
Judge Williston was quite willing to
tell Mr.. Block what he thought about
things in general, and the time sped
along quite pleasantly.
But if it was coming along nicely
there it was quite different out in the
big room Richard Pettijohn, chief
deputy, and a few of the rest of the
boys, were paving over the books in
great shape. 1t began to look to them
as though Judge Williston didn't have
any salary coming at all, for the rec
ords for several years back didn't
show it. Finally Mr.. Pettijohn ap-
peared in the doorway.
How long has ii been, Judge Willis
ton, since you drew your salary?" he
asked
why, let me see unused the Judge.
1T was-well, now I'll have to count
up and see"
After some jockeying around the
judge concluded that he had not fed
at the public crib since about 1902
some time. Mr.. Pettijohn looked over
the records, and at the beginning of
the fiscal year in August 1902, he found
that the judge had quit drawing pay.
Then he got his pencil and began to
figure up.
At $500 it was found that in the
three years and nine months since the
judge drew his salary he had $11, ,0S3.29
TO his credit, which made him square
with the state until April l. A check
was made out for the amount and
Judge Willston went out to inspect the
beauties of the new capitol building.
Say, l wish L could get onto the
system of doing without my salary for
three years." unused Mr.. Block, as he
watched the judge depart.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
OFFERS FAIR COUNT
FOR THE Big CITIES
State Census Director Has
Plan to Avoid All Dis
puteS

census Director G.. F. Wright is pre-
pdIIlg system and getting ready to
Coui't the people of the state To avoid
any any dissatisfaction on the part of the
tnree larger cities. the director has
enoiVed plan which will probably be
put into operation.
II Is intended to appoint one man for
each OF the cities of St. Paul, Mime
apolS and Duluth, whose special busi-
eeSS 1t shall be to look after the count
IN IN MS own town. This supervisor will
oe regular member of the bureau,
ana MS appointment is to be made
aiter consultation with some reliable
institution in his own town. such as
the city council, the mayor or the
commercial club. In this wav Mr.
Wright plans to relieve himself of anv
Dlame II the town is not as large as
the people think it should be.
A census district" says Mr.. Wright
snail consist of not less than one noT,
more than two organized townships. In
unorSanized territory it may be larger
we Will give the enumerator not more
than he can count in thirty davs. In
districts of 500 to 5000 people the nav
VIII be PA cents a name: in districts
less than 500 the pay will be 21b cents
a name; for city work the pay Is ,
cents a name"
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
WILL INSPECT HAY
Railway Commission to Act
Though Fund Is Small

Charles F. Staples and J. B. Mills.
members of the Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission, returned
yesterday from Chicago, where they
had gone to inspect the system of hay
inspection employed by the Chicago
board of trade.
A state system of hay inspection will
be installed by the Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission July l, the
legislature which has just adjourned
having authorized a state inspection.
A singular fact is that the law ap-
propriates only $500 a year for the in
spection, yet requires it to be con-
Quoted at st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth. 1t is probable that the COM
mission will use money from some
other fund to carry out the provisions
of the law.
Members of the commission say that
a satisfactory inspection of hay is
very difficult to make. for the charac-
ter of the commodity is such that only
portions of a car load are accessible
for inspection.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
CASE is SENT BACK
Cummiskey's Suit for DAMAGES
to Be Tried Again

The Northern Pacific and the 500
railroads win their appeal in the Unit
ed States circuit court OF appeals from
the judgment of the United States dis
trict court for the district of Mime
sofa that gave Thomas Cummiskey a
verdict for $4,000 for personal in
juries.
Cummiskey was injured Dec. 10, 1902.
while taking a 500 line train across
the Northern Pacific yards in Mime
apolis between Northtown Junction
and Atlantic Junction. He brought
suit against both companies. and at
the second trial a jury. sitting with
Judge Page Morris, found for the
plaintiff for $4,000
Judge William c. Hook writes the
decision. reversing the lower court and
remanding the case for a new trial.
The evidence showed that Cummiskey
depended on a Northern Pacific pas
sengee exain being some minutes be-
mind Ns schedule time. and the supe-
rior courts held that he violated the
rules of the company by taking the
train on the Northern Pacific tracks
at the time. and should have alighted
and attempted to stop the oncoming
train when he saw 1t coming. Instead
he tried to avert the wreck that fol-
lowed by waving his white lantern
from the rear of the caboose on which
he was riding. The engineer of the
passenger train did not see the sig
nal and a rear-end collision followed
in which Cummiskey sustained serious
injury.
Judge Hook holds that the trial
court erred in his instructions to the
jury as to contributory negligence not
being proven. and remanded the case
for a new trial.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
ERiCKSONS TELL THEIR
TROUBLES TO JUDGE
Husband Not Opposed to Divorce, but
Fights Demand for Aimony

Judge Orr listened all yesterday, and
VIII listen all of today and possibly
most of tomorrow. to a recital of the
matrimonial woes which have beset the
lives of Mr.. and Mrs Louis Erickson
ever since the wedding day in 1901.
Mrs. Erickson is suing for a divorce.
and Mr.. Erickson is perfectly willing
that she should have one. but he OBJ
jects to being made to pay alimony
Mrs. Erickson says that she should
have alimOny because she has suffered
much from her spouse, in the way of
cruel and inhuman treatment, intem-
perance and promises forgotten. Mr..
Erickson says that she is wrong. and
that he is model husband. but that
his wife persisted in staying away from
home until unreasonable hours of the
night and that when so away she was
In questionable resorts.
Yesterdays session was devoted very
largely to Mrs. Erickson's recital on
the witness stand of her misfortures.
The only other witness introduced by
the plaintiff was the youthful son of
Mrs. Erickson by a previous marriage.
He told of the trouble which his moth
er and his stepfather had every day,
and when he had gotten through with
his recital it was o'clock. The plaint-
iff will resume the Introduction of tes-
timony this morning.
Among other things Mrs. Erickson
alleges that her husband used to drink
a quart of whisky ever day, and beat
her often, calling her bad names in be-
tween.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
Give SOP To ST. PAUL
Trolley Company Will Buy Ce.
ment In SANITY City


The st. Paul City railway company
permitted the information to leak out
yesterday that the Marshall avenue in
terurban line will be in operation by
Sept. 1. The contract for repairing
and strengthening the Lake street
bridge is said to have been let to the
Minneapolis Steel and Machinery COM
pany.
AS a sop to the citizens of St. Paul
the street railway company gave out
the information that there will be ex-
pended in the bridge alone about $780,
600. but it neglects to state that the
greater part of this money will be
spent in Minneapolis. 1t is understood,
however, that the contract for about
$4,000 barrels of concrete which will be
used in the work had been let to d. l..
Bell of St P3ul.
1t is promised that the people of St
Paul will be able to ride out Marshall
avenue over Lake street in Minneapolis
and on out to Minnetonka long before
the season closes.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
FOR COPS
Duluth Police Relief Associa.
ton incorporated

The policemen Of Duluth will be
pensioned as soon as the Duluth Po-
lice Pension Relief association is in
operation. The articles of incorpora-
ton were filed in the office of the sec
retary of state yesterday. 1t is in
tended to pension those men who have
been on the force twenty years and
have reached the age of 55, or who
have become disabled by an accident.
The association is formed under the
laws passed in 1903. There is to be a
governing board of five members of
the police force.
The Spaulding Elevator company, ar
Marshall, Warren county, was incor-
porated with capital of $4,000.
Rochester is to have a S250,000
brewery, known as the Schuster
Brewing company. The incorporators
are Henry Schuster and f. w. Schus-
ter and Martha +. Schultz.
The Hanska Milling company. at
Hanska, incorporated for $4,000. The
Handicraft guild filed articles for $10.-
900 to do business at Minneapolis. The
Birmingham Process Circular Letter
company Of Minneapolis was incorpo-
rated for $4,000, and Weld G. Sons of
Minneapolis for $4,000.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
FINALLY PAYS TAXES
Street Railway Settles With
County for $100,152

The street railway company yesterday
paid to County Treasurer Jesse Foot its
taxes for the year 1903. together with the
10 per cent penalty. When the 1903 as
sessment was made and raised by the
state board of equaliza ton. the compan nv
entered into a legal controversy as to the
justification of the increase, which it did
not abandon until yesterday. when ii
withdrew its claim in court and paid the
full tax, $l00. 152. 55 on an assessment of
$3,12S,75S.
In connection with this payment it is
quite interesting to note that the tax paid
equals per cent of the gross earnings of
the company for the past year. and that
over three-fourths of the money with
which it was paid is deposited in Mime
apolis banks. The company agreed in the
recent compromise to pay into the city
treasury the difference each year between
the taxes levied and per cent of the
gross earnings. The tax eats up the whole
8 per cent. The company patronizes Min
neapolis banking corporations TO the ex-
tent of over three-fourthS of its total busi-
ress. according to the proportion of the
checks with which the tax was paid.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
Thinks Marriage a Failure

Five years of married unhappiness
has convinced 10 year old Lizzie Cos
tanZo that marriage is a failure so far
as she is concerned, and she has
brought suit in the district court to Sc
cure freedom from the ties which bind
her to 80 year old Constantine Cos
tanZo. She was IA years old when she
married Constantine, and a year later
her first child was born. From that
time forth. according to the allegations
of the child wife in her complaint, she
has suffered constantly from the cruel
ty of the husband of twice her years.
A year ago her husband deserted her
and left her with her two little chill
dren, one a boy of 4 years, the other
a girl of 2 years, to care for. Her
husband owns a home, she says, and
she asks that when she is given a di-
vorce she be awarded permanent ali
mOnV i'm some sum.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-26
WITNESS IN SWOON
Frank B. McCord Faints While
on Stand

Now. tell us, Mr.. McCord, all about
how you received the injuries and
what effect they have had upon your
general health said John D. O'Brien
To wan faced young man sitting in
the witness chair before a jury in
Judge Hallam's division of the dis
trict, court yesterday afternoon.
The wan faced young man made an
Intellectual effort to reply, swallowed
hard, and tainted away. Deputy sher-
Ills and friends rushed to his aid and
carried him from the court room to the
private chambers of the Judge where
physicians worked over his uncon-
scious form for some time. The wan
faced young man was Frank B. Nc
CORD, clerk In the railway mail service
and plaintiff in a $4,000 personal in
jury suit against the 500 road.
A few short years ago McCord was
an athletic young man, first baseman
and star of the Hamline college base
bali nine. He was graduated and en-
tered the mail service Dec 81, 1904.
The mail car in which he was working
was caught in collision at Bulwer
Junction. He sustained, according to
the complaint, injuries to his spine
and head which have remained with
him since and have reduced the for
mer athlete to a shadow of skin and
bones.
After a short rest in the judges
chambers McCOrd recovered to such
an extent that, supported by his
friends, he was able to go back to the
court room, and there, reclining on a
Morris chair. covered with robes and
blankets, give his testimony and lis
ten the balance of the afternoon to
the testimony of witnesses for his side
OF the case.
When court adjourned yesterday
afternoon the plaintiff had concluded
the introduction of evidence for his
side of the case and the defense. will
open with the opening of court this
morning.