Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-18

the candidates pu ! over the voters
eyes.
But the hang Of it Is, al the office
holders would oppose it, and none >ot
the solons would vote tor il.
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Judging from the fragmentary DATE
at hand Minnesota will have hel
usual quota OF murders for the year,
which is about one every four days,
with about four times ~ many sui.
ciles. From the statistics new avail.
able, two hfths OF the murders wtr>
committed by drink crazad people,
and one fifth more were clearly, at
least in part, the result OF the saloon
aud its associations. And none OF
the others were clearly free from tht
brutaliz!ng Influence OF the drag al
cohol.
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Minneapolis has 4 nice new mayor.
His name in Indian is ''sayin-nuthin.
but sawin-wood' Jones. He will take
his oath to reduce to kindnng an I'm
b~oken forest Of police regulated
G milling dens; mulct paying mer.
maids that wallow in the slush OF
society; illegal wine rooms; law defy.
ing Sunday saloons; depraved speci,
mems of law defying degenerates who
display without molesta,ion the photo
graphs Of nude and still more d.
PRAYED degenerates, and other like
d'sdgurations Of the fair face OF civil j.
.zasion. Here's hoping that, two
years hence, 10 will have no caus
for rechristening him "Man.afrsid of
his Job" Jones.
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Minneapolis, the metropolis OF the
Northwest, is q fine town, though no,
altogether q Sunday school propo.
sition. Five thous md ii, ht hundred
ninety persons were arraigned in
the police court during the year just
closed, showing q healthy gain IL
cussedness over the preceding twelve
months A new saloon was opened on
an average every twenty-four days,
while, according to the best avail able
d .ta, q new church was dedic ate once
evsry four months. And the churches
did not dgh. the saloon, and. the -.
looms did not fight the churches,
"How beautiful for the brethren to
dwell together in peace" But In a
case like this it would be better for
society If such brethren were to dwell
t1gether in pieces.
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That one can be Incorporate In Or .
other way then merely by drinking
liquor Ia illustrated in the case OF one
man who was arrested because he OBJ.
tanned his drinks by going thru the
performance OF eating whiskey or q
beer glass, and furthe: by the two men
who made wager, one claiming thu,
he could drink more glasses of beer
than the other fellow could of milk.
After eighteen glasses of their re.
spective drinks one gentleman found
him self in the Central Pol;ce Station,
and the other one in the City Il - pit.]
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According to the Minneapolis Tri.
bune the following question shout,
be put to men lined up along the ba.
In many saloons in this city, accord.
ing to the investigations of the stat.
dairy and food q commissions: "What'j
you have, fusel oil, strai. h. p ,iso,
or special brand Of delirium tremepf
mixture?'
II now appears that the Thirteen
deaths which have occurred. during the
past year from dellrium tremens were
caused By ''careless saloon. keepers
putting anywhere from forty to sixt,
per cent Of |usel oil in their drinks
Two gentlemen In s . Paul and twc
IN Minneapolis have been fined s25 O
piece for their carelessnesa, AM
warned to herceforth "be good"
A Good Number.