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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
Flames in Minnesota and Wis
consin Forests Checked.
TOWN Of CHISHOLM IN RUINS
Property Valued at More Than
Three Million Dollars Has
Been Destroyed.

Duluth. Sept. 8-Forest fires which
threatened to devastate the entire
range district have been checked and
Bull, 600 population, and Nashwauk,
1000 inhabitants, which were sur
rounded by flames, are safe.
Wrenshall a town of 600 inhab1-
tents, thirty-fve miles northwest of
Duluth, is still threatened by fire and
the entire population is fighting it.
The flames are within mile of the
city.
Small fires are burning all through
the thirty five mile district between
Hibbing and Coleraine, but cold
wind has sprung up from the north
and little further damage is antict-
pated.
Chisholm, population 1000, is almost
entirely destroyed. A score of build
ings in the southern part of the town
were left standing. Among these is
a S125,O00 school building.
These buildings were threatened by
another forest fire which swept to-
ward the ruined city from the west.
No fatalities attended the conflagra-
ton at Chisholm.
The ruined city will be rebuilt at
once. A meeting of the homeless
Chisholm people was held in the
schoolhouse and plans were made to
erect another city on a grander scale
than the other.
Relief for the Homeless.
Relief trains have been pouring in
aid to the homeless thousands all day
from Duluth and the surrounding
towns. A city of tents will shelter the
exiled inhabitants temporarily.
The relief committee appointed by
Governor Johnson, consisting of May
| or r. D. Haven, J. L. Wa=ht".rn, Mile
| Bunnell, A. L. Ordean, H. NJ. Peyton
and A. C. Weiss of Duluth and Martin
| Hughes of Hibbing, is taking active
| steps for the relief of the suffering
range people. Headquarters for con.
buttons have been opened here and on
| the range.
Chisholm is under military rule.
| Company. M of the Third regiment
| from Hibbing is guarding the ruins
from looters.
Several hundred settlers in the
burned over region are refugees in
the range towns. Four thousand are
homeless in Chisholm alone.
| Conservative estimates of the loss
caused by the forest fires in Northern
Minnesota and in the northwestern
portion of Wisconsin place the total
at $3,750,000. Of this amount $780,,
600 is Chisholms loss. The remain
der is on standing timber in the range
districts Of the southern part of St
Louis county, the southeastern portion
of Carlton county, small areas in the
extreme eastern part of Itasca county
and the northern part of Douglas coun
ty in Wisconsin.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
Abbott Wins by 400 Votes.

Madison, Wis, Sept. S.-James E.
Abbott is nominated for insurance
commissioner on the Republican tick
ct by about 400 votes. The figures on
all the counties with the exception of
Forest county were obtained either by
letter or by long distance telephone
from the county clerks. The figures
for. Forest county could not be OBJ
tanned accurately, but Abbott, it is be
slieyed, carried it by small majority.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11

Va. in July, he had shown much i'm
provement until Wednesday evening
last, when sinking spell set in from
which he never rallied. In accordance
with his expressed wish his body will
be cremated, following brief funeral
service.
He had served as the head of the
government immigration service since
1902, under appointment from Prest.
dent Roosevelt.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
BRYAN VICTIM OF B0ILS.
Candidate Suffering From Peban At.
Fiction.

Chicago, Sept, Son the eve of a
speaking tour of three weeks, begin
ming here, William J. Bryan became
the victim Of boils. These plebian at.
f1ictions developed over night on the
trip here from Lincoln, Neb:, and when
the candidate, brave1y smiling, stepped
from Rock Island train handker-
chief protected the back of his neck
from contact with his collar,
The speaking tour will carry Mr..
Bryan through the states of Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Mary
land, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode
Island and New York.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-Cattle-Beeves
$3.6007.65; Texans, $3.4O@4.85;
Westerners, s3.20@5.80; stockers and
feeders, S2.40n4.45; cows and heifers,
$1.70@5.70; calves, $6.OO@S.O0. Hogs
Light, $6.2O@6.90; mixed, $4,000
700; heavy, s6.35@7.05;; rough, $3.50
$3.50; good to choice heavy, $6.5O@
7.O5; pigs, s4.fo@6.OO. Sheep Native,
s2.15@4.20;= yearlings, s4.10@4.75;
lambs, $3.25D6.00.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Sept. 5.-Wheat-To arrive
and On track-No. 1 hard, $1.03M;
No. 1 Northern, $1.01N @1.02N; No.
2 Northern, 99Mc@$1.00N; Sept,
e9%c; Dec, 99Ac; May, $1.03. Flax
ITO arrive. on track and Sept, ST.
25A; Oct, $1.24h; Nov, $1.241z;
Dec, $1.23. "
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
SECOND EFFORT A SUCCESS
American Woman Reaches Summit OF
Lofty Mountain.

Lima, Peru, Sept. S.-Annie 8. Peck
Of Providence, R. l., the mountain
climber, succeeded on her second at
tempt, within a month, in reaching
the summit of Mount Huascaran. She
calculates that the height of the sum-
init is $4,000 feet. A Swiss companion
Of Miss Peck had foot and both
hands frozen, which caused gangrene
to set in, and an Indian guide was
mfraculously saved from death after
falling 1000 feet down a ravine. This
last attempt of Miss Peck to scale the
Huascaran was begun on Aug. 90.
Two weeks previously she climbed the
mountain to a height of $4,000 feet, but
was compelled to return to the low
lands on account of the illness Of one
of her guides.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
!. FRANK I. SARGENT DEAD.

immigration Commissioner Expires at,
Washington.
Washington, Sept. 5:Frank Pierce
Sargent, commissioner general of i'm
migration. for over sixteen years grand
master of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and one of the most
forceful characters in the field Of la
Dor, immigration and allied questions
IN the country, died at his apartments
1t the Manor House in this city. He
was fifty-four years of age. For many
weeks paralytic, the result of a fall
while visiting in Shepherdstown, w.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-Wheat-Sept..
97%c; Dec, 97hc; May, .$1.0074c.
Corn-Sept., 1880; Dec, 67#@67Ac;
May, 6511c; July, 64Mc. Oats Sept,
4ekc; Dec, 50h@50Ac; May. 52Ac.
Pork Sept, $14.571z; Oct, $1462h;
JAM, $500. Butter-Creameries, 1871
@22kc; dairies, 10000 Eggs-20
Poultry Turkeys, TIC; chickens, 10c;
springs, lac.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Sept. 5.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, sS.00@6.75; fair to
good, $5.OO@5.75; good to choice cows
and heifers, $4.0O@5.00;- calves, 1915
@5.75. Hogs-$6.55@6.65. Sheep
Good to, choice wethers, $3.75@4.10;
yearlings. $4.00@4.25; good to choice
spring lambs, $4.50@5.25.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-11
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Sept. 5.-Wheat-
Sept, 99%c; Dec. $1.00h; May, ST."
03N@1.04. On track-No 1 hard, ST.
03k; No. 1 Northern, $1.02h; No. 2
Northern, 99Ac0$1.00.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
Speaker Cannon and Labor

To The Scimtar: The writer noted with con-
siderable satisfaction your recent reference to the
latest important political utterance of the Hon. J. G.
Cannon, Speaker of the National House of Repre-
sentatives, wherein that most renowned stand
patter" deviated from the prescribed duties of his
powerful public position to exhort the labor
ionists, particularly those affiliated with owing
allegiance to the American Federation, and advising
them to ignore and repudate the advice and leader
ship of President Gompers whom he charges (rather
cunningy) with having made an effort to "coerce,
boss or budoze their civil and political rights of
exercising the elective franchise. While your COM
ment thereon to the effect that the Honorable
Speaker was far famed as past master in the most
modern methods of political 'bossism seems
tirey justified, the real motive which must have
prompted this busy official to "get very and sud-
denly busy" is still open to further comment or dis
CUSTOM to the following extent at least:
What success does Mr. Cannon or any one else
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
Star Chamber Business.
L. L. HAYNES.

The public will be interested in the latest move
of the State House ring through which secret meet
lngs of the State Land Board have been instituted
A session of the board was held during the current
week from which representatives of the press were
excluded and the information that belongs to the
public suppressed
The Governor of the State, ex-offico chairman
of the board issued the order and newspaper rep
resentatives turned out of the room Another
board of which the Governor is a member has re-
Gently been detected in allowing illegal accounts and
ordering their payment and it is possible that the
management is guarding against any more exposures
Of peculiar methods.
1t is the opinion of the Governor that the pro-
ceedingS of the land board are not of public
nature, but the business the board transacts is
the business of the public the application of secrecy
is offense that will lead to believe that Caesar
has overstepped himself.
Dissatisfaction that has been cropping out on ac-
count of the absolutism of the ring is becoming in
tensifed and the domicile of the commonwealth is
in danger of being stormed even before the day of
election arrives.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
THE IDAHO. SCIMITAR.

believe come to the efforts of organized labor
if, upon his advice, its members should turn their
backs upon the wise advice, life labors and mature
experience OF its own chosen leaders," whose re-
specve and peculiar fitness for the positions that
they occupy we'll established and approved
as in the cases of Samuel Gompers and John Mitch
ell of whom it is most truthfuy said |"They are
natural born leaders of mem?
Mr. Cannons alleged concern in the ''inviolable
liberty OF franchise" does not to apply to the
political workings of his State, since it is no
toriously known that his determined or STRENUOUS
antagonism has just proved fatal to the proposed
new primary law in Illinois, and it must be that
his success in deprving the "proetaire" of his own
great State Of their supposedly nalienable vested
constitutional prerogatives has spurred him on to
greater conquess with the false slogan of threat
ened political liberty which more properly should
be Give me your votes, for | am the resurrection
and life of all things politically pure Cor otherwise)
so saith the Lord. e., [ know the game"
While laboring men are as human Others only
little more SO than many are, their right to com
bne for commercial or political purposes is at least
as defendable as any other kind of combination for
like effect, matter by whom composed and while
combination of all kinds is but the forerunner of
force, coercion and crime, it cannot be said truth
fully that organized labor originated the habit On
the contrary the example set them by
many employees, particularly the Carnegie steel
works, who by virtue of the bloody Home
stead strike and its attendant death and
destruction, made possible the subsequent gathering
of $40,000,O00 per in profits and sent Sclwab
to buck the bank at Monte Carlo" How terribly
true indeed were the words of J. T. ingalls,, lectur-
ing on the problems of Our Second Century" in
the writer's hearing, that the mistake of our pro-
tective policy had been that it protected the product
OF American labor, and not American labor itself"
So there is still mission for organization and
will be- until the Cannon's exit
L. L. HAYNES
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
The Old Year and the New

In saying farewell to the year Just ended it will
not be forgotten that it brought disaster to business
interests and suffering to homes for which susie
nance is gathered through the wages of toll So
those that watch the disappearing milestones that
mark the progress of time will add the link of 1907
to the chain of disaster represented by the Symbols
1857, 1873, 1898, and will give welcome to 1908
with the hope and expectation that it will improve
on the record of its predecessor
If the year that has just retreated into the OBJ
security of the past could give voice to its own
story 1t would lay claim to productiveness above
the average of the years. 1t would mention the
gathering of bountiful crops, the enormous output
of shops factories, mines and forests and generous
compensation for the toll that rendered possible the
achievements Of progressive twelve-month.
1t would fashion the picture of busy period dur
ing which honest endeavor halted not and Numbered
not and so conducted itself that the crown of sue
cess ought to have adorned the end rather than the
trailing banner of disappointed expectation
1t would be able to show that the supreme effort
of industry, guided by the wisdom of fruitful ex-
perience, be thwarted by the rapacity and dis
honesty of few that toll not and do not spin but
overturn prosperity in garnering the unearned har-
vest for self
The year that has turned the last page of its
brief record ought to have gone into history as one
or the best OF a marvellous OF development.
That it failed to achieve the fame to which it was
entitled the fault of an iniquitous system that
exists under the name of speculation and it should
be rooted out before it poisons the years of the
future so completely that recovery from its effects
will become difficult impossible
In their intelligent upbuding industry the Ameri-
can people entitled to the protection that will
insure to them undiminshed reward for their
achievements. No additional link should ever be
added to the chain of commercial and industrial dis
aster that heightened in the gloom of the clos
ing months of 1907
The country will recover and when the year that
is now new becomes old it will cothe itself in the
garments of prosperity aside by its unfortunate
predecessor and pass in its through the portals
Of time, leaving behind cherished memory.
AS the people emerge from their troubles they
nay, perhaps, insist that the government they main
ain shall guard them against the return of evil
lines Out of experience there should come wis
lom and the wisdom of the present hour demands
hat the Nation provide against such calamitous per-
DDS as its citizens experiencing
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
Brownsville In Court.

suit to test the right of the President to dis
charge the negro soldiers of the Twenty-hfth In
fantry because of the Brownsville raid has been
started in the United States District Court in New
York City. The expectation is that through this
suit the Presidents action will be put squarey up
to the United States Supreme Court. 1t is said to
be the first action of its kind ever brought This suit
is brought in the District Court under the Tucker
act The act allows the United States to be made
defendant either in the United States District or
Circuit Court, in the former when the amount in
volved is $1,000 less and in the latter when is
more than $1,000 and not more than $4,000. Under
the act these courts have jurisdiction with
the Court of Claims in Washington.
The suit is based an application by Oscar W.
Reid of the discharged soldiers to recover the
amount of his pay from the day of his dismissal from
the service on November 49, 1906, to July 10, 1907
the day which his term of enlistment expired
The petition denies the right of the President to
dismiss a whole battalion of the Twenty-hfth In
tantry because part of that organization participated
IN the riotous disturbance in Brownsville on the
night of August 49, 1906
The petition sets forth the enlistment of Reid and
the amount of pay he drew, and reviews at some
length the Brownsville shooting. Reid it appears
charged with being one of the persons directly
implicated in the riotng Fifteen days after the riot
Reld was charged by H. Clay NJ Supplee, first lieu
tenant and battalion adjutant with conduct to the
prejudice of military discipline in violation of the
sixty-second article of war. The specification was
follows:
In that private Oscar W. Reid, Company c. Tween
ty-1tth Infantry, did without authority take from
the barracks of his other company, stationed at
Fort Brown, Texas, magazine rifle, caibre 80
model 1908, and did singly in company with other
party parties unknown take part in disturbance
IN the streets of Brownsville, Texas in which dis
turbance one citizen of said town was killed and
another wounded by loading with ball cartridges and
firing said rifle in said streets of said town and ca1s
ing damage to property of inhabitants of said town.
This on or about August IS, 1906
Reid was never tried on the charge, but kept
in confinement continuously from August IA to No
vember 16 1906 when he was discharged under the
sweeping order issued by the President Reid de-
clares that he innocent of any participation in
The Brownsville affair." and that on the night in CUES
ion and while the firing could still be heard he was
hat he answered to his name when it was called
he denies all knowledge of the shooting I'D of
brownsville. Quotations are made from the Const-
ution and the articles of to prove that the dis
nssal was without warrant of law. The amount
# money involved is only $122 26 but the granting
nan dismissed under the Presidents order could 90
nto court and obtain every of pay to the time
f the expiration of his enlistment This action
1ould also set aside his dishonorab1e discharge
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

A coincidence has been remarked between the at
tack of the Boise Capital News the ant-polygamy
policy of the Democratic party of Idaho and the
visit to Boise of party of Mormon potentates from
of the counties that brstles with Brighamtes
If there was no real connection between the two
events, it unfortunate for the Capital News.
The game might as we'll go along with the name
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

Railroad construction in 1907, according to the
Railway Age, nearly equal to that of 1906 which
was the most extensive since 1885, During the year
just closed, $3.50 miles of new track were added
to the railway systems of the country. The fnan-
cial panic did not curta1 construction materially.
as most of the projects financed and well under
way before the squeeze came
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

Senator. Cortelyou that he has mot been
candidate for anything but the confidence of the
people IN the discharge of the duties of the position
OF Secretary of the Treasury" His boom has not
carried him far beyond the good opinion of the New
York bankers to whom he loaned $sOoOOO,oOO with
out interest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-28

which arrived in Topeka last night.
The team is in charge of Manager
Irwin and Secretary Lawrence, and
outside of these two gentlemen there
are sixteen players with the team.
They are quartered at the Copeland
during their stay in the city where
they will remain until Monday night
when they leave for Hutchinson. The
team plays here tomorrow and Mon
day. The personnel of the team is as
follows: Zalusky, Belden, Kerner,
Merz, Kinally, Doll, Amboes, Paige,
Downey, Bohannon, Olmstead, White,
Waldron Cassidy and Lauterborn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-28
dicates present.

dicates present.
The general is a civil war veteran
and has been successful in business
so that now he is well off. In public
speaking or writing, as in all he I'M
dertakes, General Miller has the
faculty of imparting new things in
his inimitable way. 1t is said that the
general will make any sacrifice rath-
er than miss any of his Sunday SER
vices and has been known to charter
an engine in order to get home Sat-
urday night and be with his class
Sunday.
Serving for two terms as mayor,
he has declined nomination to any
higher office, believing that his life
work is at home with his townspeo-
pie, his class and his business. The
general is prominent in G. A. r. mat
tiers and has served for many years as
president of the Northwestern Grand
Army of the Republic, and as major
general of the National Guard of
Pennsylvania he won distinction by
meeting every duty and emergency
like the true soldier that he is.
In Miller park stands his hand
some house, in which he enjoys home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-28
REPUBLICAN PUDDING.
Bryan Says We Have Been Eating 1t
for Eleven Years.

Wheeling, W. Va, March 2S.-William
j. Bryan en- route to Parkersburg, w.
Va, where he speaks tonight, made a
brief stop here today and addressed
one of the largest open air meetings
seen in Wheeling for some time. His
remarks were chiefly on the money
question in connection with the BUSH
ness depression
Mr.. Bryan referred to the panic of
1885, which he said, was called a DEM
ocratic panic because Democracy was
in power.
IF it was logic then why should it
not be logic now to call the present
panic the Republican panic?" he said.
Il will not blame the president for
the existing conditions. Presidents
should not be blamed for everything.
The Republican leaders in 1906, cried
that we had enough money, that we
did not want mines, but mills. Why if
we had enough money then, and there
is a greater per cent per capita now,
are we running presses at Washington
to issue more money. They have had
eleven years to open the mills. The
proof of political pudding is in the eat
ing. You have had Republican pud-
ding for eleven years and ought to
know what it tastes like