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Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
in the city treasury.

Total Cash on H fundamentally ,219.39
The amount of city bills or orders
outstanding is very small and will
make no material reduction in
above balances.
Still in the face OF the above re-
port certain parties are circulating
the report that the City of Willmar
is greatly in debt, and are using
this as an argument in favor of sa-
looms, not so much at Willmar
where little attention would be
given it, but at Litchfeld and other
places where the question is more
hotly contested tnan at Willmar.
The only place where the city of
Willmar is owing is to it's own
water and light plant. Instead of
paying the full amount agreed upon
for street lights and water hydrants
each year, the council has permitted
an unpaid balance to accumulate
which amounts at this time to
SIS, ,044.28. In spite Of the fact
that these charges are unpaid the
water and light fund shows cash on
hand of $6,311.95. 1t may be a
question whether it is wise policy
or not to permit this balance to ac-
cumulate, but it is entirely an in
side question Of finance, and the
city is it's own creditor. There is
ready money enough in the sinking
fund raised by general taxation to
retire that amount of Water and
Light bonds, if such a transfer
could be legally made.
It is manifestly unfair to charge
this balance in the funds which
really represents earnings of the
municipal plant, as a debt which
in any way embarrasses the city
government. It might be pertinent
in this connection to state that
over $4,000 of this accumulated
balance dates from the last license
year, 1906, when the rate of taxa
ton was cut for political effect.
The Tribune feels that it can
truthfully repeat that at no time
before in the history Of the city, as
city and village, has the general
financial condition of the City of
Willmar been in so satisfactory con-
dition as it is at the present time.
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30

Ringville, March 28.-A little
rain would be alright to settle the
dust, if this weather continues.
Seeding will soon be in full blast.
Mamie Iverson left for Minnea-
polls some time ago to visit with
her sister at that place.
Martin Kraabel bought a valuable
horse last week.
Stephen Thompson is working
for Tom Thompson at present.
Elma Larson has been keeping
house for Martin Shipstead for a
couple of weeks.
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
PROF. BASS REPORT,

By request the TRIBUNE repro
duces herewith Prof. F. H. Bass
report of his investigation Of the
sewer problem at Willmar, which is
dated Aug. %, 1909:
1.-The City of Willmar has diff.
cult problem before it in the, plan.
ming Of it's sewerage system. The
difficulty is largely caused by the
topography of the site, but also by
the lack of sufficient natural drain.
age at the city limits.
The central or business district
Of Willmar is situated on the high.
er land at an elevation of approx.
mately 10000 Willmar datum. The
highest land lies to the northeast
and the lowest to the south. The
highest elevation is 216.7 and the
lowest 1883. The average slope ot
the ground is about 6 #. per 1000
The natural drainage is then tt
the south, but on account of tht
proximity of Foote Lake, sewers
have from time to time been con
structed draining to the north int
the lake. There is a settling basir
on the south shore Of Foote Lake
into which the sewerage is at pres
ent ,un. It is Of brick construc
tion, in dilapitated condition, an<
perhaps Is feet in diameter.
A sewer has recently been con
structed in Ella Avenue in th'
northwesterly part Of the city
This drains directly into the lake
The total length of sewers in th'
business portion at present is abou
1000 #. The size and grade O.
these is not shown on the map pre-
pared by Mr.. Claussen and Mr.
Day, the county Surveyor, is uncer
tain about them. Tney are used a
combined sewers.
The system which Mr.. Claussel
has laid out for Willmar is th'
combined storm and sanitary type
also containing the present sewer
building policy. 1t divides the cit!
into two principal drainage dis
tricts. which is, on account of th'
flat topography advisable, if no
necessary. The pipe sizes range
from IL in. to AZ in., the sewer
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30

]. AS l have rented my farm, I will
sell at public auction on my farm
one mile west of Svea, on
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30

neer, the courteous and obliging
servant of the people, the good citi-
zen, the true and generous friend,
the loving husband and father.
Long will his memory live in the
county where his life work was
done.
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30

permanently settle the saloon ques-
tion at Willmar by requiring that
fifteen per cent of the voters of the
city sign the petition for re-submis-
sion. 1t is only fair that some
showing Of a public demand for the
submission of the question be re-
quired. 1t is certainly as impor-
tant matter as the filing of a Pc
tition for placing an individuals
candidates name on the ballot,
which requires long string Of sign
ers.
lhe second amendment will give
the council the right to submit to
the people of the city the question
of issuing sewer bonds. AS it now
stands the charter will not permit
the issuing of such bonds. Should
this amendment carry the people
will still have the right to author
ize or reject any bond issue pro-
posed and unless the amendment
does carry the way to even propose
bonds for this purpose will be
blocked. Every good citizen, what
ever may be his opinion as to how
the sewer problem should be solved,
is agreed that something must be
done in this line. Unless this
amendment carries the council car
propose nothing. The disposal OF
the sewage is the most acute public
question now before the city, fol
such are the conditions that the
State Board of Health may at any
time prohibit the use of the sewer!
we now have, and the situation
will become even more critical i
the people of the city show a dispo
sition to neglect this importan
question. it is therefore of thu
greatest Importance that ever,
voter who has the welfare of thi
community at heart goes to tht
polls and votes YES on this amend
ment.
The third amendment is one tt
which no one can make any reason
able objection and which will hell
all persons Of small means to pa!
Tor sidewalk and street assessments
. permitting them to pay in four an
nual installments If they so prefer
The loyal voting citizen of Will
; mar, even if he is not interested il
} voting for any candidates on tht
J ballot, will grid up his loins, pro
, ceed early to the polls next Tues
day to register his will on the Ii
cense question and the three amend
; ments to the city charter, and j:
he believes as we do, he will vote
AGAINST on the license question ant
YES on all the amendments. Re
member that the amendments mus
carry by a three -fifths vote, and j.
you neglect to vote on them it will
in effect be vote against them.
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
QUESTIONS AT NEXT TUESDAYS CITY ELECTION.

The question of license will be
an issue at next Tuesdays election.
Under the present charter any ten
voters may cause the question to be
submitted, and hence it will be
necessary to vote on the question
every election no matter how we'll
pleased the people at large may be
with the no-license policy until the
charter is changed to require a
more reasonable percentage OF sign
ers to a resubmission petition, for
in city the size of Willmar there
would always be a few men who
would hope to profit from a saloon
policy in the renting of buildings
at abnormal prices, etc.. who feel
financially interested in submitting
the question, hoping that by some
fluke they may win out.
There lis absolutely no interest
taken being on this question, for
practically every man of any infiu-
ence in Willmar comedies that the
saloon question has been settled in
the right way and deprecates any
further agitation or effort towards
having Willmar take a backward
step. The fact that Willmar is the
largest dry city in Minnesota and
that the no-saloon policy is proving
such a success here is the best ad.
vertisement possible for the city
and there is not a remote chance
even that the people Of the city will
go back on the good reputation thai
they have earned in this respect
The question next Tuesday is there
fore one Of majority only, and We
hope to see the splendid fighting
spirit of our citizenship aroused tt
the end that the majority against
license be made more overwhelming
than at any previous election held
It surely will be worth while to il
this way serve notice on the people
of Minnesota that Willmar stands
true to her colors which have wor
for her a good name and grea
fame. Let Willmar do as the
neighboring villages Of Pennocl
and Atwater did, and thus do he1
share also towards keeping up thu
Kandiyohi county spirit.
There will also be submitted mex
Tuesday three amendments to thu
city charter which are meritoriou.
and should receive the affirmative
vote of all good citizens. The pro
posed changes have been officially
published in the Tribune four times
and no doubt have been read care
fully by most everybody before this
but we will briefly state our opin
ion why every citizen should vote
YES for each of the three amend
ments.
The first amendment will help tt
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30

Oscar Iverson is busy trapping
nowadays.
Jacob Newgard has hired out to
T. z. Newgord.
Thompson Ramstad made a flying
trip to Belgrade last Thursday
evening. What's going to happen,
Tom?
Edwin Thompson left for Crosby,
N. D., last week. Butinskey.
BIDS WANTED.
For remodeling and full base
ment under same for Telephone Gen.
tral. Bids will be received up to
l p. m. April 8, 1910. Plans and
specifications can be seen at Svea,
MINI.
IL J. Ed. Nelson, President.
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
CHANCE FOR A REAL
INSURGENT.

All the world hates fizzler as a
statesman, a man who tries to carry
water on both shoulders, who tries
to ride two horses going in oppo-
site directions. Such man is
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
Congressman Volstead of this con-

gressional district. He is courting
the good will of the overwhelming
ins Urgent sentiment of the district
at the same time that he stands by
the majority of his party when it
needs his vote. He voted against
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
EGGS FOR HATCHING.

From my choice Rose Comb
brown Leghorns. $1.00 per Is.
Good hatch guaranteed. Call and
see them F. NJ. Kendall, 312 Second
street, 4wk-p
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30

Cannonism recently and by that
vote said he believed that the ma
jority of his party was wrong on
this proposition, but when it came
to the question of ousting Cannon
and electing a new speaker, he
turned tail and voted for Cannon.
What is the difference in permitting
a speaker to dictate the rules to the
house or placing the rules in the
hands of set of men who are alb
solutely dictated to by such speak
er? The fizz'ing insurgents were
not conceded one single represen-
tative of the six republicans men,
bers of the new rules committee,
altho they HELD THE BALANCE
OF POWER IN CONGRESS
When they meekly take such medi.
cine as that it proves that their in.
sargency is pure hypocrisy. Is there
no Lindberg or Davis among the
republicans of the Seventh district
to get into the game and take this
man Volstead's scalp and win fame
at the national capital as an indie
pendent and progressive statesman
Are they all palsied by fear of tn,
office-holding contingent who alon,
are the ones interested in placing
party regularity above the country
welfare? Then fie on such leader
ship! Shame on such party!
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
FINANCIAL CONDITION GOOD,

The finances of the City of Will
mar were never before in better
shape than they are shown to be by
the statement prepared by City
Clerk Gunderson. The following is
the summary Of the cash on hand
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
AUCTION SALE

: AS l have rented my farm, I will
sell at public auction on my farm
one mile west of Svea, on
Tuesday, April 18Th,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the
following described property:
One horse 10 years old; l horse 7
years old; / horse 6 years old; l
horse 4 years old; l mare 7 years
old; 5 colts II years old; 16 mich
COWS, 3 full blooded Ayershires, Z
grades, 2 yearling heifers; 1 2-yr
old Ayershire bull; / vearllng bull;
8 calves, Ayershires; 5 brood sows;
IL shoats; / Registered Poland
China boar; about so Wyandotte
chickens; l self binder, l corn BIN
de, l l6-shoe drill; 5-ft cut mower,
l corn planter with 100 rods check
wire, ! hay rake, 2 2-horse culti-
vators, l disc harrow, / 4-horse
drag, sulky plow, l walking p|ow
l Hallock weeder, l scraper, l land
roller, l Parsons Stroll corn husker,
/ tanning mill, l top buggy, 3 wa
gons, 2 hay racks, l manure
spreader, One manure carrier,
2 pair bob sleighs, l pair light
bobs, 2 set of working harness, l
set of light harness, 3 set of fynets,
l28-gal]on creamery cans, $50 bu-
shells of oats, 200 bushels of corn,
$50 bushels Of barley, l 2000-lb
scale, l cook stove, some household
goods and other articles too numer-
Gus to mention.
Terms: All sums of $500 and
under, cash; on sums over that
amount time will be given until
Nov. /, 1910, Oh bankable papers
bearing 7 per cent interest. Nc
property to be removed until settled
Willmar tribune., 1910-03-30
Free Lunch at Noon.
ED. r. RASMUSSEN, Owner.
W. N. Davis, Auctioneer.
F. G. Handy, clerk.

Don't send a job of printing out
of town before the TRIBUNE has
had the chance to figure on 1t.
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claims Of Lieutenant Wilkes, the
American explorer whose location of
WITHSTAND within the frozen circle has
never been recognized by British sci
entists and ~tOpographers.
The American Museum Of Natural
History, through Director Herman G.
Bumpus, has asked the department Of
commerce and labor to send the de-
partment steamer Albatross into the
antarctic seas to make soundings Of
those unknown waters and to report
upon the fauna Of the shadowy islands
lying along the rim Of the antarctic
circle.
I'm my final march for the POLE"
says Captain Scott, Il purpose to take
sixteen men. The party must, Of
course, possess a good deal Of expert
knowledge in the way Of surveying,
geology and other sciences, and some of
them will be skilled in photography"
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and the dogs and sledges as on moth
ing else.
If Commander Peary's plans work
out the American explorers will reach
the pole late in January or February,
| 1912. But if they succeed nothing Is
likely to be heard from them until
late in that year, as the nearest cable
station is many hundreds of miles
away.
The British expedition under Cap
tain Robert F. Scott will leave Eng
land in July, backed by a government
grant of 100000. The remainder Of
the 100000 sought will be obtained
through private subscriptions. Cap
tain Scott has issued a definite pro-
gram for his second attempt on the
south pole.
"The main object of this expedition"
he says, lis to reach the south pole
and to secure for the British empire
the honor of that achievement. The
base hitherto used is in McMu-do
sound, and it might at first appear
natural to confine a fresh effort to this
region. But the aus of science and
the tradition Of British exploration
make it desirable that every fresh ef-
fort should be directed to breaking
new ground. For this reason it is
proposed to endeavor to establish q
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-04-20

shells with the frozen sea on to the
bottom Ut the earth no one knows.
Lieutenant ~Shackleton reached within
Ill miles of the pole, having approach
ed 1t from an almost exactly opposite
side of the globe. He travelled for the
most part overland. ice incased and
often jagged with mountain ranges,
impossible except for the glacial roads
and even then at greatest risk to life.
AS far south as he could see from the
point where he raised the union jack
which his queen had given him the
high plateau stretched away, and he
felt confident that it extended to the
pole.
Captain Scott will travel to this
point over an almost beaten path,
with Lieutenant Shackleton's expert
ence at every point to guide him.
With the American party the problem
is admitted, even by Commander
Peary, to be far more complex, since
b land or sea in the direction from
which 1t will seek the pole is practical
~ unknown after the siXty-ffth par
allel has been reached. The party will
have to depend upon the quality Of
their supplies and equipment as
thought out by Commander Peary and
their W mastery Of the conditions at
hand. Commander Peary is confident
the Roosevelt will carry the party as
far as the ice will permit any ship
to go, and from that point onward,
whether the going be on ice fields
pitched into almost impossible ridges
by the ceaseless grinding or over the
ice barrier such as fringes the Ross
sea and then on to the riven mountain
Dr. the crevassed glacier and ice rooted
he counts on the experience
md hardihoOd Of the men In charge
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-04-20

In which its r~adio-activity would d.
minish by half-would be 143 days.
Nine. Curie has verified the prediction
with a difference Of only three days.
Mime. Curie and her husband had
many trials before they gained fame
and wealth. At the start the material
situation of the young couple was not
very bright. Neither had any fortune,
and with the few thousand francs
which they earned it was no easy task
to make both ends meet at the close
of the year in such an expensive city
as Paris.
So they went out into the suburbs of
the great capital and established them
selves in the little town Of Bourg-la-
Refine, distant two or three miles from
the walls, and in order to save the
railway fare husband and wife, in all
journey by bicycle from their modest
lodgings to their laboratory in the din
gy old Rue rHomond, where they
have made their important discoveries.
When it is known that the highway
from Bourg-la-Reine to Paris is paved
much Of the distance and incumbered
in many ways. these goings and COM
ings on "the Wheel were not holiday
rides. especially in the case Of the
frail young wife.
Here Nine. Curie did serious work,
and there was nothing dainty or at.
tractive about it. Enveloped In a huge
apron, she sat for hours watching by
her retorts over the furnaces, tending
liqui6ed substances that had to he
kept at a certain fixed temperature.
What she was experimenting with was
the boiled down residuum Of tons of a
dark kind of earth imported from Bo.
hemia.
One day there emerged from this
stun a spark, a speck. so small that a
microscope was needed to inspect it.
The quest was owe Radium was dis
covered. and the fame Of Curie bad
been made for all time.
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rvs action recently, when he donated
$4,000 as the "nest egg of a fund to
penetrate the mysteries Of the ant
arctic, was the first definite step taken
toward actually preparing nm Amer
lean expedition for the race, although
there has been considerable talk Of
this step ever since England's plans
became known. His gift followed the
action Of tie National Geographical
society in Washington, which nnoun
ed it would send an expedition to the
south pole provided the necessary
funds could be raised.
While the personnel of the Amer
lean expedition is still to be decided,
It is the present plan Of the National
Geographical society to send the Roose-
welt, Peary's polar ship, to the ant
arctic circle, and probably under the
command of Captain Robert Bartlett.
According to the present plans, the
Roosevelt will leave New York about
the list Of next September, with all es-
sential supplies on board except coal,
which will be taken on at various
points down the coast until Punta Are
mas is reached, which, Commander
Peary expects, will be about Dec. l.
Here the final supply Of coal will be
shipped and whatever else of CONNER.
cial supplies needed.
The Roosevelt then will sail almost
due south under the advice Of Com
mander Peary, either to the coast of
Graham Land or eastward to Coates
Land or down the center of Weddell
sea, as conditions may indicate, the
general scheme being to push as far
southwark as possible in the months
Of January, February and March of
1911, the first two being summer
months in the southern hemisphere,
corresponding to July and August in
the northern hemisphere.
1t is Commander Peary's hope that
the succeeding long nights of April,
May, June, July and August will be
spent as near the eightieth parallel as
possible, so when day returns with
more open weather in the spring there
(our falD the party, with dogs and
sledges, will be ready to push on to
the pole. From then on all speed pos
sible will be made.
Whether there is land all the way to
the pole from this approach or Ora
ham Land and Coates Land are Just
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gas and coal, how she had paid 80
cents for stockings when she could
have made the twenty-five cent ones
do, and presently she found tears
streaming down her cheeks. She
loved Mr.. Bowser, but until that mo-
ment she had not realized how much.
The cook came in and by way of
comfort said she had a brother who
failed to come home one night. and
after three days search he was found
in the e a room of a cigar store. He
had gone there and made a kick about
their three for fves, and they had
sawed his head off. Depend upon it,
Mr.. Bowser was lying somewhere with
his head separated from his body.
Nevermore would he come home to
kick the front gate open.
Police Had No Tidings Of eowser.
At 7:15 o'clock Mrs. Bowser went up
stairs and called police headquarters
OH the telephone. The reply was:
mo; no murders have been reported,
but we are expecting one every min
ute. Will call you up later"
AT $50 the call came. An old wom-
al had been run over by Il brewery
wagon, a boy had shot himself in the
hand, a married man had eloped, an
old gentleman had broken his neck
while trying to bow to a chorus girl
in the street. but nothing to explain
the BOwser mystery,
did he get swizzled now and them
"Was his a happy home"
Had she. Mrs. Bowser. called him a
liar just as he was leaving home that
morning?"
Had she any suspicious that he was
stuck on some other woman?"
Had he seemed off his head for a
few days past?'
Mrs. BOwSer answered the above
questions and then sat down and
wept. She had been pretty good, but
she could have been better to Mr..
Rowser. For instance, when he want
ed to buy a chicken farm it was her
duty to have been enthusiastic about
It instead Of figuring out that he was
bound to lose $1,000 a year. His man.
gled remains We're being hidden by the
falling snow now. and her conscience
was crying out.
Eight o'clock. and no Bowser.
The cook came upstairs and said
that she once had a sister who started
out to buy a %forty-nine cent corset and
was missing for months and months.
Finally a man was about to be hanged
for murder and confessed that he had
decoyed the oma into a cooper shop
to get a glass Of soda. and that while
she was drinking 1t and exclaiming
'Yum. yum" between swallows he
struck her seven blows with a Ave
rent tack hammer and then sold LEI