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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02
The Vote Last Year.

:'.'' -. 80. ....'.r. ............
: The total vote east Mt the last :
+: mayOralty campaign was 1890. {:
me vote on mayor by wards was {:
First Ward-Lander 144, Duis :
l3O, shrinkage vote 6. Total $50. {:
: Second Ward, First Precinct {:
Lander %, Duis 1877. Total 237. {:
{: Second Ward, Second Precinct {:
t: Lander 80. Duis 100. Total 921. {:
: Third Ward-Landcr IS, Duis
1873. Total 201.
Fourth Ward-Lander 1O7, Duis {:
1GS. Total 21S.
: Fifth Ward-Landcr 119, Duis {:
166. Total 2SS.
Sixth War!-Landcr 90, Duis !:
149. Total 245. {:
The registration this year is {:
1,917 and as many votes in addi. {:
tion to this were sworn in, the {:
: total vote promises to be beyond {:
: the 1000 mark. {:
Election day dawned bright and
roseate on Grand Forks and her citi-
zens to the number of thousands were
astir at an early hour. Before the
whistles had blown for o'clock, there
were crowds on the streets and here
and there were gathered knots of peo-
pie engaged in the discussion of cleo
ton probabilities.
Interest in the days doings began
to rise soon after the opening of the
polls and gradually assembled until
the fever heat was reached. This
condition continued all through the
day, and on numerous occasions
brawls were only avoided by the pres
ence of members Of the regular and
special police force.
Chief of Police Lowe. in anticipation
OF possible complications, swore in six
special officers and had them ON duty
at the different polling places. In adj
dition to these men, all the members
OF the regular police force, both night
and day men. were called out and
kept on duty.
AS result of today's election from
$4,000 to $4,000 in small amounts will
change hands. Not many large bets
are known to have been made, al
though several 500 wagers were laid
IN the Dacotah hotel Sunday evening.
One man, whose enthusiasm for Duis
overcame his better judgment, laid Il
wager of 500 that his favorite would
have majority of four hundred votes
over John Dinnie. Two or three hun
dred bets in amounts of SIS and SO
are known to have been made, but the
general feeling on the street was that
the fight was close enough to pre-
clude the claim of cinch for either
candidate for the position of chief exc
cutive.
There was quite a rush for the polls
in some wards about 7:3O and the
early vote was the largest ever re-
corded in a municipal election in
Grand Forks. BY o'clock the vote
polled was conservatively estimated at
between six and seven hundred
third of the entire vote to be cast.
Up to the noon hour, to all appear
ances, the vote in the different wards,
with the possible exception of the
First. was about evenly divided. Din
ME and Duis-the two "D's"-were
running neck and neck. In the First
ward the Duis vote was polled early,
according to the ward councilmen.
During the day founwheeled vehi-
cles carrying banners with invitations
to voters to cast their ballots for the
different candidates flew here and
there, furnishing conveyance to the
polls. Probably hundred men and
teams were thus engaged.
With registration of 1917 to draw
upon, vote Of very nearly 1000 is an
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

ticipated though during :,.,c morning
and carly afternoon lhera Wlrfs not 4
great nuD1bi % swear il their
votes. Last election the total number
of votes cast was 1890 The Increase
this election Is figured Ivy the con-
servatives at between $50 and 400.
Workers for the different candidates
were on hand at the various polling
places at an early hour. So strong
was the rivalry that committees were
at the Great Northern depot in the
morning to meet the trains, literally
dragging their friends and acquaint-
ances to the polls to vote for their
respective favorites.
The First Ward.
Up to 1880 a. M, one hundred and
forty-eight votes had been polled in
the First ward-which has been ad-
mitted to be Duis stronghold, but
according to the Dinnie workers, the
Working Mans Friend" was making
very good showing, and votes which
it had been figured would check off
for Duis. were being marked up for
Dinnte. Last election total of $50
votes was polled in this ward. Ian
/ der received IA, Duis 100 and there
/ was shrinkage of 6. However, with
q registration of 800 in the ward, the
vote this election will very likely run
q hundred stronger than In the last.
The officers of election in this ward
are Judge Templeton and Colonel
Brown. judges; r. M. Carothers, In
spectOr and Charles Allen and F. G.
Wells. inspectors The challengers
are G. G. Gowran for Duis and e. G..
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

hour scores OF working men voted.
This is the big ward of the city,
casting 45S votes two years ago and
is the storm center of the present
campaign. Both candidates claim the
ward by safe majorities but it looks
at late hour this afternoon as if the
claims of the republican party that
John Dinnie would carry the ward by
a safe majority are we'll founded.
There is no other ward IN the city
where the same amount of work has
been done by the respective candidates
and the vote of the ward may decide
the results OF the election.
There has been much challenging,
specially Of students from the univer-
sity, fully SO having sworn their votes
in while a comparatively large num-
Der have been turned away.
The Duis men claim the ward on the
strength of the vote two years ago
when he carried it by so majority, re-
ceiving 266 to Lander's 1856. The total
vote for mayor was 452, there being
6 scattering votes.
There has been no trouble of any
kind in the ward other than argu-
ments with over officious policemen,
who guarded the door of the polling
places with more zealousness than
was necessary.
First Precinct.
The First precinct of the Second
ward was one of the busiest polling
places in the city. The voting took
place in the Arlington-Park house and
things were lively all day. At -
o'clock 40 votes had been cast as
against total of 237 two years ago.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02
NOTES..

The Pee Dee sent out for cut of a
rooster at $3.50 a. m.
The ladies of the city took great in
terest in the election.
Mayor Duis expressed great con-
fidence in his election at noon.
The respective mayorality candi-
dates we're buster than any of them.
The silence of the tomb reigned IN
nine-tenths of the business offices of
the city.
Mccain looked worried at noon. No
more calls for ROSTERS from the Pee
Dee Office.
Today ended the most holly contest
ed municipal campaign in the history
of the state.
John Dinnie, the Working Mans
Friend" was the motto that adorned
many of the banners.
Duis' Crookston band arrived in the
city this morning prepared to furnish
music according to instructions from
Mr.. Duis.
There was much talk of fraud but
few cases which smacked of irregue
iarity were unearthed.
Sim Miller acted as chief factotum
for the Duis faction at the Second pre-
cinct polling place of the Second ward.
Tom Gray was buster today than
Marshall Ney when covering the re-
treat of the grand army OF Napoleon
from Moscow.
Every effort was made by the Dufs
people to landslide the Fifth, Mr.. DIM
MES own ward. This was q battle
ground royal.
The betting at noon was even money,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02
LATE EDITION.

The Evening Times will is
sue a late edition this evening
which will contain the total
vote by precincts in the mayor
atty contest. The paper will
be on the streets 20 minutes
after the vote is counted. This
issue will also be mailed to all
out of town subscribers.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

number of vessels are loaded at low
er lake ports awaiting the opening of
navigation, at which time they will
bring coal that will relieve the CON-
mercial soft coal demand
The repairs to the docks which have
been going on during the past winter
are practically, completed and all will
be in readiness to take on coal at the
opening of navigation. The coal men
figure that navigation will be opened
by the middle of April.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02
HOTLY CONTESTED ELECTION
in GRAND FORKS TODAY

Cooper for Dinnie. There were quite
a number of votes challenged, but up
till 1880 only one prohibition, that Of
j. w. Sweet, who was not allowed to
cast his ballot Workers for both
Dinnie and Duis were numerous
around the polling place for this ward
the pump house-but the rivalry did
not provoke any fights. James Coons,
member of the regular police force
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

"A. G. Tanton Of Lakota, general
manager of the Farmers line. Of ele-
syators, 10 here today. M
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

with noticeable lack of Duis takera
Early in the day the Duis people were
Offering two to one.
Many of the out-of- town travelling
men came in to vote. In fact. there
was large poll of the knights of the
grip at this election.
Several trips were made across the
bridge of Signs and East Grand Forks
profited. Election day developed into
holiday In many respects.
Everything in the city which is on
wheels and will carry a man to the
polls was in commission for one of
the several candidates today.
1t has been estimated that thous-
ands of dollars will change hands on
this side of the river and in East
Grand Forks on the election returns.
The Grand Forks City band was al
most unanimous for John Dinnie. OF
total of twenty-five votes in the or
ganization, twenty-one cast their bal
lots for him.
Counting all the doubtful ones and
those known to be Duis voters. the
Dinnie workers in the First ward es-
innate that Duis' claims of majority
Of $50 will be cut down to about 60
votes.
The school children took an ami
mated interest in the election, frequent
squabbles between the little fellows
occurring, and scarcely a boy was to
be seen who did not wear a button or a
badge for his favorite candidate.
A delegation of university students
who were evidently better versed In
"amo, amas, amat" than in the cleo
ton laws, were turned down in at
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

E. H. Kent reached home Sunday
evening from a several days visit in
Chicago.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

The hotel corridors were pretty
well deserted, the street corners being
the popular place for groups of cleo
tioneers to gather. Very little bust
ness was done in the city today, all
interest being centered on the cleo
ton,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

Anderson, the university student
who has made an effort to win notorie-
ty, seemed to have little influence with
his classmates at the college. He was
noticeably pale and uneasy as he stood
around the new fire hall this morn
ing. A case of a possibly worthy
young person playing tail-to-the-hte
with unfortunate results, but Anderson
is young yet
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

There was considerable challenging
but the judges were too busy to count
them: in fact The Evening Times was
barred from the polling place by an,
over jealous policeman who could not
understand that the press had any
privileges not accorded the loafer.
This precinct cast 1877 votes for Duis
two years ago and only Sc for Lander.
It has always been strong Dinnie
precinct.
seesnd Precinct.
The polling booths Of the Second
precinct of the Second ward were III
the basement Of the Twin City BOttling
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

Mayor Duis expressed great con-
fidence in his election at noon.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

AS a fair example of some of the
contemplate measures resorted to by
the campaigners for Duis-last even
ing John Dinnie was scheduled to ad-
dress small gathering in one of the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02

The Pee Dee sent out for a cut of a
rooster ut $3.50 a. m.
The ladies of the city took great in
terest in the election.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-27
PREsBYTERIANs CLOSE !.
GENERAL I ':| ASSEMBLY
Refuse to Strike Words Hell
Fire From the Comics
sion of Faith.
BY Publishers Press.

By Publishers Press.
Des Moines, lows, May 26.-The one-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS general as.
sembly Of the Presbyterian church adj
journed at O'Clock tonight. The.
members worked hard today. The
finance report was received, showing
the expense Of the assembly had been
about 100000.
A movement was launched, looking
to the consolidation Of the several theo-,
logical seminaries owing to the decreas-
ing number Of graduates.
Resolutions were adopted declaring
that church members should be disci-.
plined who persist in renting property
for saloon purposes or signing the
bonds Of saloonkeeepers.
The request of the Alabama colored
Presbyterians for a separate synod was
referred to next years assembly.
An overture from Albany asking
that the name of Rev. George B. Dickey,
lost to the church for several years,
be dropped from the rolls, was pre-
scented. Upon announcement by conn
missioner that Dickey is pastor of an
Episcopal church in Brooklyn, his name
was erased.
The assembly refused to strike the
words hell FIRE" from the confessions
Of faith. 80 - -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-27
HOMES OF SETTLERS ].
WRECKED BY. TORNADO.
IA. Lsef"". :. ."''''~' 'r#E.1 a. - 49, b
Several Persons Injured in the
New Crosby District in
North Dakota. .-...
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. .:,~. e.,
Grand Forks, N. D., May 2e.-Ac-
cording to news brought here by Fred
Morris, q business man of Crosby, a
new town in the western part Of the
state, tornado visited that vicinity
this week, RACED the dwellings of at
least twenty-five farmers and injured
several of the occupants. -.
The home of Anna Colen, a few
but the occupants, Miss Colen, Mrs. B.
Romanson and her baby, escaped with
only slight injuries. From this place,
where formerly thirteen homes of set.
tiers could be counted, not one could
be seen standing after the storm cloud
had passed. -, . ...
The home Of Edward Skonnard, west
of Crosby, was wrecked and scattered
over the prairie. Skonnard was badly
hurt, his ribs being broken, and his face
cut. A hole was driven in his right
been caught up by the. wind and blown
with terrific force against him. ,. /:
E. McCanna place was destroyed
by the wind, being literally blown to
splinters.s The household goods were
scattered broadcast. Every building on
the place Of w. Chapman was blown
away and the ground swept as clean al
floor. That there was no loss Of life
is miracle. - The wind suddenly rose
to fury and swooped down upon the
homes o. farmers and. carried every.
thing before 1t. The exact extent Of
the storm was not known to Mr.. Nor
ris, but he says that at least twenty
FIVE houses were blown away in the
neigh borhood of Crosby. Some damage
was done in the town itself, but no
casualties occurred. -sex-. --.... -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-27
ASK THE FRANCHISE
. FOR CHICAGO WOMEN
Advocates of Municipal Female
Suffrage Plead Before :
Charter Commission.
Journal Special Service,

Journal Special Service.
Chicago, May 26.-"Has the question
of extending municipal suffrage to
women place and point in the consid-.
GRAFTON Of the Chicago charter conven-e
tions - go g., @ts. &iEF w. EafSs
Has the Illinois legislature the.
legal right to make such extension Of
franchise in municipal elections9''
| These questions were under discussion
today at the joint meeting of commit :.
tees on law and municipal elections in
the rooms Of the charter convention.
In an argument and brief fled ON
behalf of the committee for the extern
sion Of municipal suffrage to women by
Catharine Waugh McCulloch and Frank
II. McCullock, the discussion of the,
question was asserted to be germans to
the forming of new city charter, and
the extension of the franchise privi-
lege to women a legal possibility,
should the convention decide upon such
a course.
i In contending for the legality of the
proposed extension of suffrage. counsel
favoring extension argued first that
the state legislature had the power to
permit women in all the cities Of
Illinois to vote for any office men,
toned in the constitution, that no mu-
nicipal office except police magistrats
was mentioned in the legislation. and
that that office would soon be abolished
in Chicago; and second, that the recent
! amendment to the constitution express:
ly- delegated to the state legislature
power to provide a complete system
of local municipal government in and
for the city Of Chicago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-27
INDIANA BRIBERY
SCANDAL THREATENS.
Tobacco Trust Agent Offers to Ex-
pose Legislators and Lobby
lists, for Price.
Special, to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. s-- 49,. - ." .......
indianapolis, Ind, May 26.-Arthur
u. hughes, sOn-in-law of Oscar A. Bak.
or, agent of the American Tobacco com
pany, who tried to bride the legislature
to, vote down the anti-cigaret Bill, and
VINO Is now fugitive, has offered to
produce letters and other testimony,
making sensational revelations of legis-
iatlve bribery and corruption, provid-
munlty to Baker and permit him to
return to the state. This Governor
Hanley refuses to do. Hughes said to-
day: ~- rs->-- -, - -, ~ p:
.'"Baker put me in possession of evil
dence that, if made public, would boom
the excursion business out of this city
until legislators and hangers-on at the
state capitol would be mighty scarce.
have letters, ciphers and codes, which
expose an astounding state Of depravity
and show the purchase Of public Off
Gals, men on the bench and ordinary
servants of municipal corporations.
One letter gives list of legislative
votes purchased and catalogs the legis-
lators and their price, One man is ap-
praised at $1,000. and from this they
range down to $240. :
HBaker was employed by the tobac.
60 trust. He was also an employee of
the insurance commission during the
legislative session and he turned up q
lot of nefarious work by the insur.
ance organization. I know personally
that most extreme, measures were en-.
ployed to head off hostile insurance
legislation: The commissions were shown
fake decisions by supreme courts and
conceived that their proposed legisla
ton would be unconstitutional and an
unnecessary expense to the state, in ad.
dition to making them ridiculous. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-27
FEDERAL COURT TO
Be SET .... UP IN CHINA
Uncle Sam to Guard Against Repe-
tition of Consular Graft
-
Scandal. ,~~ Il.
Rv w. w, Jermane.

Washington, May 2e.-As direct re-
suit Of 'rotten' work done in China
by American consular officers, congress
is about to pass q bill establishing a
United States district court in that
country, to have jurisdiction over all
exceed $500: This legislation will make
consul in China to get rich from steals
and brides while acting as cudge Of a
consular court in important cases. 49,. .
The bill which will work this change
was introduced in the house after con-
sultation with Secretary Root by Rep
resentative DENLY of Michigan. It pro-
vides for a district Judge who is to be
appointed for term Of fifteen years
and to receive 81, 900 per year; q dis;
and clerk at $4,000 each. They are
all to be appointed by the president,
confirmed by the senate, but the judge
can only be removed for cause during
the term of$his office, while the others
pleasure Of the president, thus making
them distinctly political spoil. -
The bill was first referred to the ju.
dietary committee Of the house and was
there heartily approved, and then i
was recalled and referred to the com.
dered It reported favorably to the
house.
In the report it LIS stated that the
laws Of China differ so radically in
spirit and execution from the laws Of
the west that the nations Of the world
have found it expedient not to allow
their people resident in China to be sub
jected to Chinese jurisdiction. A treaty
was therefore negotiated with China BY
the United States providing that al!
violations Of the criminal law, or al
disputes over civil matters in which
an American is involved, shall be triec
before an American official. Hereto
fore these cases have been tried by the
consuls, but Uncle Sam has lately come
to belive, thru some bitter experince
that. q political appointee is not the
chap to whom the liberty and property
trusted. -..:1 ~. '.--.c..s.--rs..--ss.s
The court is to sit in Canton, shang
hal, Haukow. and Tien.tsin, each place
to have at least one term Of court 6
year. =. + f., III r ~ ',,..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-27

Roosevelt, Beveridge and Others
Talk Over Charges Against
. Big Packers
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Washington May 26.-President
Roosevelt today held several informal
conferences with Senator Beveridge
Secretary Hitchcock and Special Agent
Reynolds, regarding the charges that
meat unfit for use has been placed on
the market by the Chicago beef packers.
- Special Agent Reynolds, with Com
missioner, of Labor Reilly, made an in
vestigation into the conditions and has
handed to President Roosevelt a report
which contained startling statements.
AS the result of this investigation the
senate yesterday adopted as an amend
ment to the agricultural appropriation
bill the measure introduced by Senator
Beveridge, which provides that all meat
sold to the American public shall be
given the same inspection as the prod
ucts shipped abroad. ...... 49,. ... 49,
. The conference today related to the
special message which President Roose
Welt proposes to send to congress so as
to show exactly how bad the conditions
are. It has not been finally determined
whether a special message will be sent
to congress and considerable pressure is
being exerted on the president to in
duce him to withhold it.