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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Springfield Republican The Pull
man palace car company no longer ago
than 1905 declared stock dividend
of 80 per cent. Its directors have now
voted to make another capitalization
of surplus accumulated from excessive
charges to the pubIic-this stock dis
tribution to be 20 per cent Of the
existing capital as increased by
previous stock dividends. The rail-
roads of the country no longer feel free
to water their capital in this way and
under amendments to the interstate
commerce law now pending in con-
gress, they will be prohibited from
doing it. and the Pullman company
also, We suppose. 1t is unseemly that
this publlcservice corporation has
been allowed to infat it's capital so
long as it has. If our system OF rail-
road regulation had amounted to much
of anything in recent years, the Pull
man company would not have been
able to charge such rates and accumu-
late such surplus as it has.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
CAN ENFORCE TREATY PRO-
VISIONS IN REGARD TO
SALE OF LIQUOR.

A. decision made short time agO by
the United States supreme court in a
Washington state case, in which it
sustained the right of the federal
government to enforce Indian treaty
povlslons IN territory that has since
been organized into states and counties
ana ahfrms previous decisions along
this line, has also shown what course
to take in similar case in this state,
which was made test case The case
in this state is that against Fred
Anderson of Galloway, who, when the
federal authorities raided the saloons
of what IS known as the Indian
country under q treaty with the
Chlppewas, was arrested, tried, con-
vlcted and sentenced in federal court
at Fergus Falls last November, and
who subsequently appealed the case to
the United States supreme court. This
court has just issued mandate to the
federal court at Fergus Falls that
defendant be committed to Jail and
pay a fine as sentenced: four months
In Jail and pay fine of $500. 1t is
stated that others in this territory
will have justice meted out to them in
like manner.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
GIVEN TWO YEARS IN PRISON
Sugar Trust Employe Convicted Of
Customs Frauds.

New York, Feb. 11.-Oliver Splitter,
former dock superintendent of the
American Sugar Refining company in
Williamsburg, who was convicted Of
conspiracy to defraud the government
in connections with the short weighing
Of sugar imports, was sentenced by
Federal Judge Martin to two years in
the penitentiary at Atlanta.
After sentence was pronounced
Splitter made the following statement:
"The sugar trust made scapegoat
of me. It deserted me absolutely, It
pounded and ruined me after served
it faithfully for Twenty-Five years. In
the alleged fraud prosecution the gov
eminent cried for a victim and the
sugar trust answered by sacrificing
me and four $18 week checkers.
None of us were guilty of any breach
of the law, but somebody had to 60
to prison to save those higher up"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
TOWNE RAPS TAFT.

New York, Feb. 14.-Charles A.
Towne, formerly United States senator
from Minnesota, said tonight in a
lecture on the Dynamic West" that
he had been struck by the moral
ambiguity of President Taft's
Lincoln day address.
1.-THE president, said Mr.. Towne,
devoted much time to proving, first,
that the republican party did not
promise to lower the tariff-merely to
revise it. But if the party did not
promise to lower rates, they implied
as much-and what is the difference
between an honorable implied promise
and an explicit promise? If the
party of Mr.. Taft had not convinced
the people that it would lower the
tariff the people would not have
elected Mr.. Taft president.
Then, having said that the party
did not promise downward revision,
Mr.. Taft goes on to assert that down
ward revision has been secured.
Which makes me feel that he must
have doubted the justice of his own
first promise-else why should he be SC
anxious to prove that a promise not
made has been keot?"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN TAFT.

A comment of the Kansas City Star,
whose editor, w. X. Nelson, is a
personal friend of Taft, and the first
paper in the Middle West who urged
Taft's nomination on the speech
delivered on Lincoln's birthday IN
New York, where he upheld the
Payne -Aldrlch tariff bill.
In all this Transformation of public
sentiment. there has been little
bitterness. Instead, there has been
general sorrow over the loss of con-
fidence in a president of charming
personality and right Intentions, who,
partly from temperament, partly from
lack of sagacity, partly from de-
ticlency IN aggressive militant
earnestness, has alienated the people
who believed they had found in him
the man to carry out the work begun
by Roosevelt, the Star continues.
After outlining the causes that have
led to the loss of popularity, the Star
concludes:
If the presidential election were to
be held this year, Mr.. Taft could not
carry a state west OF the Allegheny
mountains
'And over this fact no man grieves
more than those who built their hopes
on him and helped cause his nomiDa-
tion.'
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
4. Mexico anA Her Ind ane.

Mexico and Her indians.
An apologist for Mexico answers the.
muck rakers5 who recently invented
the epithet .'barbarous Mexico In the
current number Of. Moody's Magazine
and virtually retorts to the United
States that If Mexico is barbarous in
its treatment Of its aborigines you're
another!:' The writer, an American.
who is a member Of the Mexican Geo
graphical society, says this country
was not less severe in its treatment of
rebellious aborigines than Mexico has
been. He also thinks that we never
dealt with more bloodthirsty and
treacherous crew than the Yaqui In
dams, who have retarded industrial de-
.velopment, the building Of railways,
the digging Of irrigation canals, the
proper cultivation of the soil and the
opening Of innumerable rich veins Of
gold and silver
The author of 1.-THE Crime of the
Century," Helen Hunt Jackson, was
doubtless called muck raker in her
time by some people, but her exposures
Of the condition Of the wards of the
nation led to reforms. Probably it will
put Mexico on her mettle to have the
truth told, and the response to the
muck rakers' attacks has been off,
cial and semioficial PRONUNCIATION of
''truth about Mexico" Mexico has
always had bad Indians When Santa
Anna, the cruel dictator, wanted
bloody work done in suppressing white
Texans he made use Of Indian cut
threats and in various ways tried to
shift responsibility from himself to
'lawless natives" This led to Cen
eral Taylor's famous threat, IF you
don't control your people I'll come over
and do it for you" Later he did go
over; and that was the end Of Santa
Anna We have no call now to protect
Mexico's Indians, but If Mexico keeps
them savage and violent we may have
to act some day in the interest Of or
der and progress.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
OPPOSED TO CENTRAL BANK
Former Secretary Shaw Says Standard
Oil Would Control 1t.

Oil Would Control 1t.
Philadelphia, Feb. 13.-"I do not
think there can be any doubt in the
mind of any one who studies the ques-
ton in the light of admitted condi-
lions that if a central bank is estab-
lished in this country it will be owned,
or at least controlled, by the Standard
Oil company" said former Secretary
of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw at a
meeting of the Pennsylvania Bankers
association in this city. His topic
was 1.-THE Central Bank"
There are two diseases prevalent
in this country, either of which is liza
bic to prove fatal" he continued. "One
is Wall street mania and the other
Wall street fobia. I do not think that
have been badly inoculated with
either, but l am frank to say that it
seems to me quite un-American to-
place with any group of men the
power to contract or expand our cur
rency at will and to grant or withhold
credit to any bank, % any merchant
and to any corporation at pleasure"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
Hundred and fltty-sll Perish j! / q a
!. Disaster at Sea
VESSEL i CRASHES Il: ON A Reef Re |:lF|||
Victims Mostly & French en- Officers Ulcers
and Their Families. {.

4. Palma, Island of Majorca, Feb. IL
Driven helplessly from her course in
one of the widest storms that has
swept the Mediterranean sea in forty
years the French Transatlantic
Steamship company's steamer Gen.
eral Chanzy crashed at full speed in
the dead of night on the treacherous
reefs near the island of Minorca and
all but one of the 157 souls on. board
perished
The sole survivor is an, Algerian
customs official, Marcel Rodel, who.
was rescued by fisherman and who
lies in the hospital, at Ciudadela raw
ing as result of the fortunes through
which he passed, and he is unable to
give an account of the disaster.
In the ships company there were
eighty-seven passengers, of which
thirty were in the first cabin. The
crew numbered seventy.
+ The passengers of the Chanzy were
mostly French officers and officials
returning to their post in Algeria, &C
companied by their wives and chill
dren; few soldiers, some Italians and
Turks and one priest. The only Anglo
Saxon names on the passenger lists
were Green and Stakely. They were
members of an operar.troupe Of eleven
which had been engaged: to, sing at
the Casino in Algiers.
The Chanzy is total wreck.
Steamers have been dispatched from
Spain and from points i1f the Balearic
islands to the scene of the catas-
trophe.
Among the victims was the !cele-
brated Partisan music hall singer.
Francis Dufor, as well as other music
hall fayOrites.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
DR., COOK IS AT SANTIAGO

Explorer Absolutely Declines to Be
Interviewed.
Santiago, Chile, Feb. 15.-Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook has arrived here from
Valdivia. He was accompanied by his
wife. ::u -, i.
The explorer seemed to be in per-
feet health. but Disguised at being
met by the representatives of the
newspapers. He said that he wanted
to be. left il peace and declined abso-
lutely to be interviewed.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Although Secretary of War Stanton
abused Lincoln continually, criticised
his policy, determined important
matters without consulting him, and
derided L1ncoln's acts and ways, the
Great Emanclpator retained Stanton
as war secretary. because he kne "
the country needed the ability of
Stanton. Despite his meannesses of
character, Secretary Stanton was a
great man, and he ably held his place.
In the interests Of the country Lincoln
overlooked Stanton's defects of
manner and temper. Pinchot may not
have been as essential as Stanton, but
also Taft is not like Lincoln.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

The administration IS so alarmed
about Ohio that Assistant Attorney
General Ellis has been asked to resign
in order to become head of the re-
publican state executive committee
and SEQ what can be done to stem the
Harmon tide. Ellis gives up salary
of $1,000, but note that he is to be
retained as special government
counsel In special trust prosecutions at
a salary exceeding $1,000. Which
means that Ellis Is to do party work
IN Ohio and the people pay for it. It
is about as barefaced and bold a pro-
position as has been sprung In long
time, but 1t seems that the administra-
ton finds 1t necessary 10 perpetrate
this outrage.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
POSTAL BANK BILL TO PASS
No Doubt Measure Will Be Approved
by Congress.

Washington, Feb. 11.-There is no
longer any doubt that before congress
adjourns a law will be upon the stat
ute books authorizing savings bank de-
posits in the postoflices throughout the
United States.
The senate will pass the Carter bill
in some form next week, by majority
of eight votes, it a poll just. made is
to be relied upon. The measure then
will go to the house and will be re-
ferred to the committee on postoff1ces
and post-roads. A Republican caucus
of the members of the house will be
held promptly. This caucus will rec
ommend the passage of postal saw
ings bank bill, probably differing from
that fathered by Senator Carter of
Montana. After the action by the
house a conference committee of the
two houses will meet and in the final
form drafted by that committee the
measure will be passed and presented
to the president for his approval.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Cheney IN Minneapolis journal: g.
A. Nye of Moorhead will be the demo-
cratic candidate for judge IN the
seventh district. to succeed Judge L.
L. Baxter of Fergus Falls. This means
that the contest will not only be
partisan, but will be between the two
cities of Fergus Falls and Moorhead.
The republican nominee will be pledged
to live at Fergus Falls, which claims
a right to the place. the other Judge Of
the district being st. Cloud man.
Moorhead claims just "a good right
to the judgeshlp as the Otter Tail
metropolis, and has already served
notice that it will support Mr.. Nye
who, by the way, is a cousin of Con-
gresham Nye of Minneapolis.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Taft has poor opinion of the
intelligence OF the American people.
His Lincoln day speech shows that.
He tells them that the Aldrlch-Payne
tariff bill is the best ever, but admits
that the wooden schedule is wrong.
to be scandalous But other schedules
are as bad as Schedule K. Leading
republican senators and congressman
have denounced the bill. Great news
papers have pointed out it's lniqulties.
Yet the president, as matter of party
defense, attempts to bluff the
American people. It won't work.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

+ Aviation Coming TO- Its Own.
The outlook for 1910 in aviation re-
calls the remark of Santos-Dumont
when he declared about three years
ago that navigation Of the air was as
sured and would be worked out by ex-
perimenters. It would become a FASH
ion or fad, he said, to be financed by
capitalists and, INDUCED in as. a. sport.
Airshtp prizes for the year in France
aggregate $4,000 and in the United
States 100000. The prizes will be- q
stimulus to inventors, builders and avn
ators.
Aviation IS costly business at this
stage. The discredited machine must
be sent to the scrap heap as soon as q
rival shows superiority. Inventors are
seldom rich, and, while it is possible
for the discoverer Of a key principle
to monopolize his idea and reap for
tune, as did Singer, Mccormick and
Westinghouse with the sewing, ma
chine, reaper and air brake, it Is all
a gamble at present. Some schoo4boy
from his attic or some hermit from his
cabin may suddenly leap into the air
with the real thing and put both gas
bag and plane out of commission. Up
to date, though, all progress has been
along scientific lines, and 1910 bids
fair to prove that some one out Of the
many claimants has produced the air.
ship Of the future.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

St. Cloud Journal Press: When
Teddy and Billy come sailing back,
how the cannons will roar and crack,
voiclng the glad welcome of the
people-and bells will ring from tower
and steeple just expressing our pride
IN these two men who have talked and
hunted DER hill and fen the wicked.
audaclous pugnacious trust which all
the rest of the country would bust.
that's why we give hearty hurrah,
for in the country fight leaders they
are to make this government the best
there Island SO d. hot for the trusts
they'll just slzz.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
IT WONT DO, GENTLEMEN.
Tho Minnoonolie Trih,,no fQon

The minneapolis Irlbune tRep. J:
We hear that the republican con-
gresslonal machine is determined to
conduct the investigation of high cost
of living in such way as to seem to
prove that the tariff is in no way
responsible for 1t. It won't do, gentle
men. That Is the way to cement a
combination of insurgents and demo-
Gratis to pass a bill putting every food
product in the schedule on the free
list, and perhaps your pet Ohio wool
into the bargain. The bill would not
pass the senate, but it would make a
lovely congressional campaign issue
for our friends and enemy"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

OF course the valentine stock is well
distributed to the trade before the mid
die Of January, so the burning the 9TH
er day Of the largest valentine factory
in the country will not be felt at the
retail counters.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

The rescue Of China from foreign
influence will be achieved, If it ever
is achieved, by China herself. At such
time treaties and ''leases" by which
Chinese territory has been, alienated.
Chinese rights sold and foreign garri-
sons installed on Chinese soil will go
by the board. -
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

In Massachusetts registers OF deeds,
clerks of court and probate registers. as
they are called instead of Judges. have
a fve-year term, and sherjffs three
years. There are some advantages
to longer terms for officials of this
kind. 1t takos longer to get a poor
official out, but on the other hand a
good one has time in which to show
his worth.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
EIGHT SERIOUSLY INJURED
Thirty-ftve Men Drop Six Stories in
Elevator,

Chicago, Feb. 10.-Thirty-6ve men
employed at the Kenosha plant of the
Simmons Manufacturing company had
narrow escapes from death in the fac
tory when an elevator in which they
were riding dropped six stories to the
bottom of the shaft.
Eight of the men we're taken out
badly injured AS many others suf-
fered minor injuries.
At the hospital it was stated that
three of the en- might de-
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
Had Designs on Kings Life.

Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Feb. ia
man attempted to force his. way into
the royal palace and was arrested. It
is presumed that he intended to at
tack King Wilhelm II. Wilhelm II.
was born in 1S4S and ascended to the
throne Of Wurtemberg on Oct 6. 1891.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

It is hard to credit the report that
certain manufacturers are making
breakfast food out of peanut shells:
Most breakfast foods do not taste as
good as that product would.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

The San Francisco Star says Taft's
friends should not have chosen the
possum for his emblem. The possum
pretends he's dead, while Taft pretends
he is alive.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

The death of Sidney NJ Owen was a
calamity. No more earnest, wise, up
right, sincere advocate OF necessary
reforms has ever appeared in the
public life of Minnesota. Mr.. Owen
made his farm paper valuable not
only in teaching the betterment of the
SOIL, but the betterment of men. He
was GOOD and great man, and his
memory should be cherished.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Governor Hughes says Taft IS the
greatest president in twenty five years.
All should be charitable enough to-
hope the Governor was talking in a
PickWickian sense.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

The Deerwood Enterprise is the name
of a new paper issued at Deerwood,
which paper will take care of the field
vacated by the sale of the Guyana
Range News by foreclosure proceed
lngs A. Carlisle is editor and we
believe will make q ''go" of the pro-
position.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

It Is said that Pinchot enjoys Tou-
bic and also that he invariably gets
what he goes after. So a1l's well that
ends right.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Thomas A. Edison worked hard dur.
ing his youth and until late middle
age. And the world is his debtor. In
his old age he is dreaming, and all the
world hopes he is dreaming true.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18


gold date 1853 the time admission
Below design letters
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nineteen peculiarly Minnesota
srmounted golden gopher
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Halley's comet will be it's brightest
Just when Jefries and Johnson are
trying to make each other see remark
able stellar phenomena. o..
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
INVESTIGATION TO BE MADE:
Senate to Inquire Into Causes Of High

Washington, Feb. 10.-An investiga..
ton of the causes of the high prices Of
the necessaries of life was provided by
the passage of resolution for that
purpose by the senate. a
The senate also passed bill confer
ring the rank of rear admiral upon
Commander Peary and retiring him
with the highest salary paid rear adj
miral -#@
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
SERIOUS STREET FIGHTING

Chinese Naval Force Kills and Wounds
Many Rioters.
Canton, Feb. 15.-Petty trouble be-
tween foreign drilled Chinese soldiers
and the city police has eliminated in
serious street fighting. - A Chinese
naval force was landed and killed and
wounded more than hundred rioters.
The city is closed to foreigners for
three days. I'll
Many Chinese are leaving for. Hong.
kong, fearing general outbreak.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

City folks talk bravely about burn
ing the snow, then leave the Job to
Old Sol.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Crete is tired of seeing Nicaragua
monopolize the worlds stage and is
again kicking against the Turks.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

In spite of the high cost Of living
most everybody keeps right on living
of the top shelf. ~. I. ~s...t 4s: :.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

Tesla now promises a wireless
lamp. He might as well make it q
darkless night and be done with It.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

True, Nicaragua is sparsely peopled,
but it takes only enc man there to
start one of those revolutions" r
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

So commonplace thing as a snow
storm can score bowling success.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18
REVOLT IN CENTRAL. I INDIA.
Natives Are Looting, Burning and
Threatening Lives of FOREIGNERS.

Allahabad, India, Feb ia large
part of the population of the Bastar
section of Central India is in revolt.
looting bazaars, burning police posts
and houses and threatening the lives
OF the European residents, according
to messages from there: The local sau-
,thorities Immediately sent a NJ large
force OF native soldiers to the scene: s4g
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-02-18

4 Not all British voters dearly love a
lord who kicks at the expense budget