The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-13
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Calgary. Alb. March 13.-Delegates
from all over west Canada are arrlv-
ing here today for the conclave of
the Grand Orange Lodge OF Alberta,
which opens tomorrow.
Topeka. Kan..' March 13.-Republl-
can primaries are being held here to-
day to nominate candidates for mayor,
councilmen and other municipal off,
ces. The democratic city convention
will be held tomorrow.
New York. March Ex-Governor,
Hughes and Major General Fred d.
Grant with his staff will be guests
OF honor at the Purlm ball, to be held
tonight at Madison Square garden.
The proceeds will be given to Beth
Israel hospital.
Savannah, Ca, March ia second
party OF immigrants from Scotland
is now on the way to Georgia and will
arrive here in few days. J.. A,
Strachan, Georgia immigration COM
missioner, who is now in Scotland,
announces that 500 more immigrants
will be sent in May.
San Diego, CAL, March 13.-His life
threatened because he had preached
sermon declaring that negroes
should never have been given the bal
lot, the Rev. Lewis T. Guild, former
pastor of the Grace Methodist church
at Des Moines, Ia, has resigned his
pulpit there and will become per-
manent resident of San Diego.
Des Moines, Ia. March 13.-The
Pioneer Lawmakers association of
Iowa began its eleventh annual ses-
sion in the Historical building today.
The membership Of the association
is made up of men who have served
in the Iowa legislature in years gone
by and includes some of the most
prominent and influential citizens of
the state.
London, March 13.-Queen Alexan-
dra, who has been entertaining her
sister, the dowager empress of Russia,
during the last week, will leave Lon
don in a day or two for Biarritz to
join King Edward. There the king
and queen will board the royal yacht
Victoria and Albert for a long cruise
in the Mediterranean, returning to
England the last of next month.
Philadelphia, March 13.-At the
coming convention Of the Elks in this
city on July Is, plans will be consid-
cred for protecting the animals from
which the order takes its name from
the speedy extinction now threatened.
A movement to accomplish this end
has already been inaugurated in the
western states, according to Judge
Henry Melvin of Oakland, Cal, grand
exalted ruler of the order, and it will
probably be given the Endorsement of
the entire membership.
Minneapolis, Mimi, March 13.-The
Northwestern missionary conference
which has been in session here sew
eral days, in charge of the Rev. Alex
ander Henry, secretary of the Presby-
terrain board of publication and Sab
bath school work, will come to a
class tonight. Nine states of the mid
die west were represented at the con-
ference, and plans were adopted for
the improvement of Sunday school
work throughout Minnesota, North
Dakota, Iowa, South Dakota, Wiscon-
sin. Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and In
diana.
Chicago. March ia discussion of
"The Power of the Consumer Over
Industrial Conditions was held today
at the Chicago industrial exposition,
with Mrs. M. H. Wilmarth of the Chi
cago Consumers league as the princi.
pal speaker. The immigration prob
lem will be considered at meeting
tonight, the speakers on the program
including Professor Edward A. Stein
er Of Iowa college on "A Chance for
the Immigrant" and ]. j. Sonsteby
Of the Garment Workers union on
1.-THE Effects Of immigration on the
Garment Trades"