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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Tattooing Very Popular in the Navy

Farenholt's opinion, the custom is
more common in camps and in places
where men are collected in large num-
bers than is imagined.
The report contains statistics re-
garding the location of tattoo marks
and the frequency of various designs.
Letters, notices, initials and allied de-
vices lead the list and constitute about
26 per cent. of all ink marks. Coats of
arms and national emblems follow
with about rs per cent, then flags,
anchors, etc. Female figures are
shown in Is per cent of all tattooing.
The usual types were found among
them, such as 'Holdfast" Ca letter on
the back of each finger); apprentice
knot; pig on dorsum of foot, which,
among the older men, was supposed to
shield it's possessor from death by
drowning; crucifx, which in case of
death would insure burial in a Chris
tian country, and Jerusalem cross"
which would answer the same purpose
on Moslem shores. Of the latter DR..
Farenholt found IA, all in re-enlisted
men. One man was adorned with a
sock covering each foot and extending
above the ankle; another with fox
hunting scene. In one case the entire
back was covered by a large Masonic
column and globe. Little Egypt" fig
ured in two cases and copy of a beer
trademark in one. Designs showing
the Goddess of Liberty, ships, eagles,
pigs and apprentice knots were found
to be more popular on re-enlistment
than among those who came directly
from civil life.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Big Weekly Pay Roll of Wage Farmers

500 were women and 90,167, or 2.7 per
cent, were children. The pay rolls of
the 123,3O7 establishments for one
week aggregated $33,1S5,791, and of
this amount the men received $780, 4O,-
287, or $751; per cent. of the whole;
the women received 1858, 4S1 or II
per cent, and the children $312,O23, or
1 per cent.
More than half of all the wage earn.
ers included in the bulletin earned 50
and over during the week. The earn
ings are classified for totals of states
and of industries, while Is industries
are shown in detail by states and ter.
ritories and rs states by leading in.
dustries. Average earnings are also
computed for all the states and indus.
tries shown.
The figures show that in 1904 the
average wage Garner employed in man.
ufacturing received $1,000 per week.
The average man received $11.16, the
average woman $6.17 and the average
child under 16 years of age $346.
In the figures showing the average
wages by states Illinois is fifteenth
with $11.65. The highest is Montana
with $1S.19 and the lowest is South
Carolina with $46S.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
House Remembers Cannon's Birthday

appointed time, he was summoned
from the floor of the house by the en-
tire Illinois delegation, he was gent
inely surprised.
Representatives Graft and Rainey,
one Republican and the other .
Democrat, spoke felicitously and pre-
sented the floral piece, which was six
feet high, of dogwood blossoms and
American Beauty roses. AS the
speaker started to reply, tear trick,
led as he said:
1.-THE sweetest flowers of all
Bloom above the parting WALL"
He then spoke of his long career in
congress, thanked his q colleagues in
dividually and collectively, and few
minutes later was called back to the
floor of the house. A roll call was
being taken on motion to recess un.
til the following day, but when it was
half over Champ Clark jumped to his
feet and said:
1T seems to mo this is the speakers
birthday"
This was the signal for general ap-
plause, and the speaker blushed,
smiled and bowed like a schoolgirl as
he waited for it to subside. Then he
gave voice to his appreciation.
Il move that in honor of the occa-
sion the roll call be suspended" said
Representative Macon of Arkansas.
This motion was passed with a whoop
and the Democratic filibuster was re-
Taxed for few minutes at least.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
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WHEN the bureau Of the census
w took the census of manufactures
in 1905 it also undertook the task of
classifying the weekly earnings of the
employees in all kinds of manufacture
ing establishments. Questions as to
the actual earnings of all employees
were asked of each manufacturer in
the country and the surprising num-
Der of 123,307 establishments replied.
This number of establishments is 629
per cent. of all enumerated in the
census and they employ more than
one-half of all the wage earners en-
gagged in the factory industries in the
country.
In bulletin just issued by the Gen.
sus bureau, containing compilations Of
these statistics it is shown that of the
3,297,S19 wage earners covered by the
Investigation, 2,619,053 were men; $685..
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
House PASSES
CURRENCY BILL
CONFERENCE CURRENCY MEAS
URE GOES THROUGH BY
WHIP AND SPUR.
It Now Goes to the Senate Where La
Toilette May Talk it to Death. It
Is Planned to Adjourn this Week If
Possible.

Washington, May 28.-''Uncle Joe"
Cannon's orders were carried out
yesterday by the majority members
OF the house of representatives when
the conference report on the finan-
cial bill was damned through, and
unless La Toilette of Wisconsin talks
the bill to death in the upper house
congress will adjourn late this week
after having enacted what Minority
Leader John Sharp Williams describes
as the "Cannon-Aldrich political
emergency BILL" Senator Aldrich
called it more than half faith cure"
Speaker Cannon's victory" is de-
clared to be the more notable con-
sidering the divisions which have
torn the party in both houses, in that
the passage of the bill in the house
today was by vote more creditable
to him as house dictator than what
was accorded the Vreeland or house
bill when it passed that body as
substitute for the Aldrich bill.
Several Republicans from the North
west, including Representatives d.
Wis of Minnesota and FISHERMAN of
Wisconsin, who voted against the
Vreeland bill today joined their Re-
publican colleagues in supporting the
conference measure.
The fourteen insurgent Republicans
who voted with the Democrats against
the bill were: Messrs: Cooper, Morse
and Nelson, Wisconsin; Brumm,
Pennsylvania; Fowler, New Jersey;
Hill and Henry, Connecticut; Lind
bergh, Minnesota; Murdoch, Calder
head and Campbell, Kansas; Prince,
Illinois; Waldo, New York, and Oar
ragh, Michigan.
Five minutes after action by the
house the report was being read in
the senate. Every effort is to be made
by the majority senators to get the
measure approved not later than Fri
day night. If the movement succeeds
the present session will adjourn Sat-
urday before midnight.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Their Universities,

Oxford, having lost the boat race,
RECEIVERS the premiership, which it is
permissible to regard as an equal or
even greater distinction. The list
of Oxford prime ministers, to which
the name of Mr.. Asquith is now
added, already includes the names of
Pelham, Chatham, North, Shelburne,
Arlington, Granville, the duke of
Portland, the earl of Liverpool, Can
ming, Peel, the earl of Derby, Glad
stone, Rosebery and the marquis of
Salisbury. The Cambridge list is
little shorter, and perhaps little less
distinguished. Among the names
which figure on it we find those of Sir
Robert Walpole, the duke of Newcas-
tie, Rockingham, Pitt, Spencer, Per-
ceval, Earl Grey, Melbourne, Palmer
stone, the earl of Aberdeen, Mr.. Bal
four and Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-
man; Edinburgh is represented by
Lord John Russell, and the other uni
versities are not represented at all.
The two nonuniversity premiers are
not the least illustrious. They are
BENJAMIN Disraeu and the duke of
Observation-Disclosures (Eng.) Ca
zette.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
PERSONAL.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, through hel
counsel, withdrew the suit she insti
tuted some time ago for the annul
ThaW.
Carrie Nation was arrested in Pitts
burg, Pa, for scolding four men in
public.
Thomas P Moffatt, American consul
at the plaguestricken port of La
Guaira, Venezuela, arrived at Guanta'
namo, Cuba.
James Brimmingstall of Dowagiac
Mich, was arrested on charge Of
trying to kill his wife and is sus
pected of having committed six muir
ders.
J. H. Wade, secretary of the Uni
versity of Michigan, resigned because
of charges of irregularities in his &C
counts, and reimbursed the institution
Rev. r. A. Ellwood, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Leavenworth
Kan, resigned when a woman accused
him OF writing letters to her young
daughter.
Miss Mae c. Wood lost both her di
vorce suit against United States Sen
ator Thomas G.. Plat and her liberty
Justice O'Gorman dismissed the case
and ordered her held on charge oil
perjury. Her bail was fixed at $4,000
and she was locked up in the Tombs.
Joseph Rosenbaum was elected
commander Of the Illinois G. A. r.
Mrs. Sarah Morasch, aged 4S years
was found guilty Of murder in the
first degree by a jury in Kansas City
Kan, which tried her on the charge
OF poisoning four-year-old Ruth Miller
David Sheehan has been sentenced
by colrt-martial in San Francisco to
IS years Imprisonment for desertion
He quit the army ten times, re-en,
listing after each desertion.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
600 At HANGING.
Foreigners Given Object Lesson in tho
Punishment of Crime.

Pottsville, Pa, May 27.-1n order
that they may go among their coun-
trymen and impress upon them the
enormity of the crime of murder
and the terrible punishment that
the law of this country calls for a
large number of Slavs, Hungarians,
Poles, Italians, Russians, Luthanians,
and other foreigners were invited to
attend the execution here of Felix
Radius, a young Pole who, while in
toxicated, murdered woman and
her child at Shenandoah six months
ago. The hanging took place in the
yard of the Schuylkill county prison
and about 500 persons were present.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
FACTIONS HAVE LINED UP.
North Dakota Primary Filings Arc
Completed.

Bismarck, N. D., May 27.-All en-
tries for the political race at the
primaries closed Monday through the
state. The race in the Republican
ranks is pretty we'll defined, there
being two candidates for each office,
one stalwart and one insurgent, ex-
cept in the case of the attorney gen.
eral and railroad commissioners, there
being three candidates for the former
and nine for the latter to fill three
places. The Democrats have filed
complete lists of candidates except
for the office of state superintendent
and judge of the supreme court.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Of minnesota,
Flnht for Life.


Crookston-Pinned between q boat
and q boom stick In the midst of the
wild Red Lake river rapids in the
cutoff four miles south of Thief River
Falls, Billy Lee, well-known lumber
man and log driver Of the north coun-
try, fought for two hours for his life.
Twenty.four rivermen boarded q
boat belonging to John Mccoy and
William Flynn just above the cutoff
to be taken to the wanegan a short
distance down the river to dinner.
While trying to work across the river
in the quieter stream, the boat be-
came unmanageable and shot into the
swift sixty-mile current of the cutoff
rapids. The boat capsized and all the
passengers were thrown into the
water.
All but Lee managed to get out, but
he was pinned between the lumber
boom and the boat. He held the boat
away from him by main force for two
hours while the vessel was cut entire.
" in two, freeing him.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
President Roosevelt a Good Churcheoer

came lady of the White House.
Whether he goes to his own church
or not, no one but Theodore Roosevelt,
unless it is some fiend or guest &C
companying him, which rarely hap
pens, is ever seated in the presidents
pew at Grace Reformed. Two secret
service men always accompany him,
but do not sit with him.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
GENERAL NEWS.

The battleship Michigan was
launched at Camden, N. j., Gov.
Warner of Michigan being among the
guests and Miss Carol Newberry,
daughter Of the assistant secretary Of
the navy, being the sponsor.
Justice Lambert in New York de-
cided that the ballot boxes used in
the McClellan-Hearst mayoralty cleo
ton should be opened.
George and Claude Blessing, sons of
George Blessing, who lived mile
south Of New Hampton, Mo-, were
killed by lightning.
Rev. S. H. Glasgow, for many years
pastor of the Woodson Qll.) Presby-
terrain church, was drowned after res
cuing his little son.
Lipman Kessler of Brooklyn shot
and killed Miss Nina E. Doane because
she rejected him, and a day later
killed himself.
The week beginning September q
was announced as the time for the an
nual convention of the American
Bankers association in Denver.
Secretary w. F. Saunders of the
Lakes-tothe-Gulf Deep Waterway asso-
citation issued a call for the third an.
nual convention of the association to
be held in Chicago October g. and 8.
The big Morrell airship at Berkeley,
Cal, collapsed and fell 300 feet, seven
CT her crew being severely injured.
The proposed ocean yacht race in
August from Palos to the Canary is-
lands to commemorate the four hun.
dredth and sixteenth anniversary OF
the sailing of Columbus, which, it was
expected, would attract many yachts
men from the United States and South
America, probably will be abandoned.
Justice Budenbender of HOboken, N
j., says he married Nine. Anna Gould
and Prince de Sagan before they
sailed for Europe.
President Fallieres of France went
to London to return the visits o.
King Edward and others of the Brit
ish royal family.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
NEWS NOTES.

Cass Lake-Joseph Norths body
was found floating in Cass lake near
Turtle river.
Minneapolis.-'"Temp and Sun
shine," dramatization of Mary J.
Holmes widely read novel of the
same name, will be seen at the Biiou
Opera House, Minneapolis, the week
Of May 31st. The scenes are laid in
Kentucky, and the story follows the
careers of two beautiful southern
girls, Tempest and Sunshine"
st. Paul-The body of young
woman, who is thought to have
jumped or fallen from the govern.
ment dam, was found floating in the
Mississippi river near the Town and
Country club.
Duluth-Bishop James D. Morrison,
of Duluth, will attend the Pan-Angli-
can conference of the Episcopal
churches of the world, which will be
held in London, Eng, during June.
Crookston-A big creamery meeting
is being held at Argyle and other
creamery meetings are billed at Alma,
Stephen and Hallock.
st. Paul-James r. Sullivan, -
years old. 617 Manomiq avenue, was
ground to pieces while attempting to
board freight train at Haywood,
and Otto Rhode had both his feet
crushed by q train in railroad yards.
st. Paul-Judge Hallam holds that
Chicago Great Western cannot be
made to pay more than 2 per cent
gross earnings tax under territorial
contract.
Finlayson-A fire started in the
yard Of the G. ]. HoGlund Lumbar cAm-
pany and spread rapidly in the ~
wood and lumber.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Coal Tar in BRANDY.

Crookston, MIMI, May 25.-State
Food Inspector Heiberg arrived in
the city from Greenbush where he
arrested three merchants and saloon
keepers of that city for selling black
berry brandy which contained color
ing composed of coal tar. The offend
ing men were arraigned before Justice
of Peace Dock and fined SO and
costs. The inspector also visited
Badger and Roseau in the interior,
where he secured samples for the
state chemist ct st. Paul for exami.
nation.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
LAUNCHED.
The Big Battleship Michigan Takes
to the Waves.

Camden, N. j., May 27.-The first
class battleship Michigan, which was
launched from the yard of the New
York Shipbuilding company on the
Delaware river here, comes closer to
the Dreadnaught class of warships in
the English navy than any other big
fighting vessel in the American navy.
The new vessel is known as an 'all
big gun" battleship as it will carry
eight Pinch breech loading rifles.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
OBITUARY..

Martin Collins, aged 81 years, one
of the Oldest insurance men in St.
Louis and prominently connected in
Masonic circles of Missouri, is dead.
Peter F. Daley, well-known come.
dian, died of pneumonia in Chicago,
and Boyd Putnam, Lillian Russelrs
leading man, died in New York.
James Murphy, a clown at the New
York Hippodrome, died from injuries
received when experimenting with a
cartridge in his slapstick.
Francois Coppee, noted French poet
and dramatist. is dead. aged 66.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUTTHEWORLD
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts Of
the GIobe-Latest Home and For.
eign Items.
IN CONGRESS-.

Senate and house conferees tenta-
lively agreed on a compromise cur
rency bill
The house adopted the conference
report on the military academy bill
and passed number of less important
measures.
The house agreed to the conference
reports on the sundry civil and pen
sion appropriation bills and passed q
large number of minor measures.
The senate adopted the conference
report on the sundry civil bill.
Practically all hope of ship sub
sidy was abandoned when the house,
by a vote of 145 to 1856, rejected the
conference report on the post office
appropriation bill, containing pro.
vision therefor. BY strict party vote
of 100 to 1926, a campaign contribution
publicity bill with an amendment pro-
viding for reduction of representa-
ton in the house in the southern
states was passed.
Announcing that the conferees of
the senate and house on the currency
bill would be unable to agree If con-
gress is to adjourn at an early day,
Senator Aldrich reported from the
committee on finance joint resolu-
ton creating national monetary
commission.
The senate passed the general de-
ticiency and military academy appro-
priation bills.
The house passed bills establishing
in the interior department a bureau
of mines and providing for the CO.
operation Of states for the cOnserva-
ton of the forests and waters OF the
White and Southern Appalachian
mountains, and the appointment of a
national forest commission.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Flood DELAYS Convention

Fort Worth, Texas, May 27.-Ef-
forts to hold the state democratic
convention here today proved futile,
the floods preventing the majority Of
the delegates from reaching the city.
The convention will be held when
enough delegates arrive.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Taxation Of Ore.

Duluth-Ore taken from under.
ground mines and stored in stock piles
awaiting shipment is taxable as per-
sonal property, according to an opin-
ion given the state tax commission by
George w. Peterson. assistant attor-
ney general. The opinion holds that
when the ore is severed from the land
it ceases to be realty and becomes
personally.
The objection raised by the COM
panies operating underground mines
was that under the present system of
assessing the ore in stock piles they
are really subjected to double taxa.
ton. The tax commission requested
an opinion of the attorney general as
to whether the statute relating to the
subject would permit of an interpreter
ton Of the minerals in the stock piles
as part of the real property belong
ing to the company.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
No 500 Exemption.

st. Paul-The attention of the as
SCISSORS throughout the state has been
called by the tax commission to the
law which provides that where no re-
turns of personal property are made
to the assessor the usual $1O0 exemp.
ton shall not be allowed.
This law has been generally disre.
garded, but assessors have been in.
structed to see that it is enforced
The law provides that the allowance
shall be made only when returns are
made.
The assessors have also been direct.
ed to list all personal property in the
various classes and not in lump sums.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
TWIN CITY MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Nav 2

Minneapolis, May n.
Wheat-No. northern, $1.10; No.
northern. $1,0S. July $1,O6T. Durum
No. / Gle. Oats-No. 3 white, 49,.
Barley No. 4 Coo Rye-No. 79c
Corn-No. 3 69c. Flax-No. l 1925.
Butter-Creamery, extra 21c; firsts
10c. dairy, fancy, 19c frsts TIC.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Protect Game,

Hbbing-The Hibbing Commercial
club has taken vigorous action in the
matter of protecting the fish and game
of this section. Pot hunters and
poachers have been violating the law
with great boldness, and nearly every
lake in the vicinity has been dyna-
mited. One poacher marketed 400
pounds of pike in Hibbing last week.
His name is William Weaver, and he
pleaded guilty in municipal court as
a result of the action of the CONNER.
cial club, and was fined.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03

South st. Paul, May %.
Cattle-Steers, $500 and 1915
COWS $500 and $500. Hogs-$5.3O
and $5.45. Sheep-Muttons. 45.75;
lambs S6.75.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Paid Up.

st. Paul-The account of John A.
McDermott, former state oil inspector,
was closed by the payment to Attor-
ney General E. T. Young of $4,705 20,
the additional shortage reported in
his accounts as a result of the second
examination by Public Examiner
Schaefer.
The first report gave the shortage
as $6,199, and stated that this amount
had been paid back to the state. The
money was paid to the present oil in.
spector, w. E. McEwen, who included
the payments in his monthly reports
of collections in the department. The
payment made by Thomas McDer-
mott, the former inspectors brother,
closes this account.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03
Beaten by a Burglar.

st. Paul-William Beck. 70 years Of
age, and his daughter-in-law. Mrs. w.
Beck, were choked and badly beaten
by burglar who broke into the shoe
store of w. Beck, Jr., $50 East Third
street, and stole two pairs of shoes.
Mrs. Beck was knocked down by a
blow and choked. the robber leaving
his finger marks on her throat Mr..
Beck was struck to the floor with a
fierce blow in the face and then
kicked.
Father and daughter chung tena'
ciously to the burglar, but he man.
aged to escape from their grasp by
slipping out of his coat He also left
his hat behind, but he managed to
take with him two pairs of shoes.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03

There IL a woman's prison in Rou-
mania that has only women o@ctalA
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08
Died Of Heart Failure.

j. M. Parker, of Jacksonville,
died at his home in that place last
Friday night of heart failure. He
had been afflicted with heart
weakness for several years, but
his death was entirely unexpected
He spent the day of his death at
his store and died after retiring
for the night.
j. M. Parker was ore of Athens
oounty's most highly esteemed
citizens. He was an enthusiastic
church worker and was thorough
christian. He was loved and
respected by all who knew him.
AS business man he was cour.
teous and successful; his trans.
actions were fair and square, As
citizen his character was as
clean and pure as the unsunned
snow. To meet Milt Parker at
anytime or place was a source of
great pleasure, made so by his
pleasing manner and uncommon
grace.