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Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
PERSONAL.

Colonel Frank O. Lowden made {
formal announcement Of his retire
ment from Illinois politics. He viii
not seek denomination for congress:
in the Thirteenth (Freeport) district
in the coming Republican primaries
Ill health is the reason given by
Colonel Lowden for his retirement.
Senator Eugene Hale of Maine de
clares he will not seek reelection te
succeed himself. This decision fol
lowing closely upon the positive an
nouncement by Senator Aldrich ol
Rhode Island that he would retire al
the end Of his term had stunning
effect on the upper house of congress
Miss Mary Katherine Letterman, a
translator in the diplomatic bureau
OF the state department, has been ap'
ceed Miss Mary D. Spiers, resigned.
Corporal Albert Myer, Jr., Of the sig
nal corps, United States army, sta.
toned at Fort Myer, near Washing
ton, is millionaire. Recently he
passed an examination for promotion
to lieutenant.
After serving II days as social Sec
retary to Mrs. Taft in the White
House at Washington Miss Mary D,
Splers has resigned and has resumed
aer duties in the war department..
Anthony ]. Drexel, Jr., of Philadel'
phia, and Miss Marjorie Gould, eldest
daughter of George Jay Gould, were
married in New York
1t is announced authoritatively by
General Brayton, the Republican lead
er OF Rhode Island, that Senator Aid
rich under no circumstances will be a
candidate for reelection to the United
States senate. Poor health is given
as the cause.
Rosalind Norris, a New York So
ciety girl, who was so badly burned
by gasoline in an automobile collision
that she cannot wear a low-necked
gown, has been awarded $4,000 dam
ages from the Metropolitan Street
Railway company.
Thomas ]. Lotus, one of the most
famous baseball players and managers
Of history, died at Dubuque, la. He
had been suffering from cancer of the
tongue for some weeks. LOTUS was Sd
years of age.
Ralph Owens, 27 years old, of Mem
phis, Tenn, who was taken to hos
pital four months ago with a broken
neck, Of which he was unaware, was
discharged as cured.
Waldorf Astor, son of William Wal
dorf Astor, and recent candidate fol
member of the house of commons fol
Plymouth, England, has offered the
National Association for the Proven
ton of tuberculosis an unlimited sum
to fight tuberculosis.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
"DRYS" GAIN TERRITORY.
Not Saloon Left Between Mankato
ard Des Moines.

Mankato, April 17-As result of
elections held this week, there is not
a saloon between Mankato and Des
Moines, Iowa, along the Omaha road,
a distance of POI miles.
In Blue Earth county, Lake Crystal,
Garden City, Vernon Center and Am
boy have voted out the saloons. They
have been wet" towns, but last year
they went dry" and this year voted
to continue so. This week Amboy
voted on the license question and de-
feated it on tie vote, in a total vote
of 128. It was the most strenuous
campaign that the village has seen in
years. Conveyances were sent miles
to bring back voters temporarily So
journing in nearby villages.
Charles Chamberlain was elected
mayor, Nathaniel Stephens, Stephen
Lamos and Fred Appitz councilmen,
J. H. Dredge recorder, Charles OFT
treasurer, N. w. Sargent justice, and
Charles Chamberlain, constable.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
Quack Grass Eradication.

Mr.. G. o. Nichols, OF Mortified, has
outlined his method Of destroying
quack grass In Farmers Institute An
nual No. 21. His method, where large
fields are to be treated, is to cover
the ground heavily with manure in
the winter or spring. After the grass
has started he harrows the manure
two or three times so that it will
work down among the roots and stimu-
late the rapid growth of the plant. his
theory being that the ranker it grows
the nearer it's roots approach the sur
face. He then let's the grass alone
until it heads out and begins to bios
som. At this stage the plant is put
ting forth all its energy, and most Of
the vitality is in the stalk and head.
which is regarded both by Mr.. Nichols
and the Experiment Station as the
most feasible time for destroying it.
He then plows, using chain SO ad-
justed as to turn under the tops, turns
over the ground for depth of six or
seven inches, using extreme care to
turn under all the grass. He then
*olls the ground and goes over it with
a disc harrow, using the discs nearly
straight, so as to slightly loosen the
upper soil. Then buckwheat is sown
at the rate of two bushels per acre,
and narrowed with a slant tooth har-
row. The crop shades the ground and
chokes down the quack that subse-
quently grows. The ground is not
plowed again until just before freez-
ing in the fall, when the few roots left
will have hard work to exist through
the winter. Mr.. Nichols does not ex-
pect to harvest any buckwheat, being
satisfied to devote one year to the
eradication of the pest. Aside from
sowing i. crop of buckwheat, where
the Experiment Station recommends
using a hoed crufs, there is little diff
ference between Mr.. Nichols expert
ment and that tried at University
Farm.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
tune of that kind ever comes to me-

tune of that kind ever comes to me. "
Mark Twain was born Samuel Lang
horne Clemens in Florida, Mo-, on
November 80, 1885.
Educated only in the public schools,
he was aprenticed to a printer at 13
and worked at his trade in St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New
York, until at 18 he could crafty a
boyish ambition to become cub to a
Mississippi river pilot. Both these
happenings reacted profoundly on his
later life.
His knowledge of river life, acquired
when he was pilot, took form in
''Tom Sawyer" **Huckleberry Finn, -
and Life on the Mississippi re-
garded as his surest title to fame. It
even suggested his pseudomymn, for
Mark Twain is linesman cry to
the pilot in shallow stages.
In 1872 he had married Miss Olivia
L. Langdon, of Elmira, N. Y, who
brought him an independent fortune.
At that time his writings were in grow
ing demand, he had an assured income,
his own home and seemed a fixture.
But in 1885 his popularity as an author
and his acquaintance with the me-
chanics Of the publishing trade-be-
sides being practical printer, he had
been part owner of the Buffalo Ex-
press before his marriage-drew him
into the firm of c.. L. Webster &. Co.,
publishers.
The firm brought out the memoirs
Of Gen. Grant and paid his widow $780,
900, but it's prosperity was short lived,
and it failed with liabilities of $4,000.
Failure Takes Twain's Cash.
The failure had already sucked in
$65,000 Of Mark Twain's cash, but he
determined also to shoulder the debts
| and to pay them off, undertook in
1885 lecture trip around the world.
-Four children were born to Mark
| Twain, of whom two, a son and a
daughter, died early. One other daugh,
| ter, Jean, who had been an invalid for
life, was found dead in her bathtub last
| fall in her home at Redding, Conn.
Her tragic death greatly saddened her
! father who declined in health from
that moment. A third daughter, Clara
is Mrs. Ossip Gabrilovitch, wife of the
pianist, whom she married last year.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
NEW MAYOR PUTS ON "L,D."
Sunday and Early Closing to Be Oh
served at Sauk Center.

Sauk Center.-The "1id' is on in
Sauk Center, the first time for some
months. The day on which he took
the reins of municipal government in
his hands, the new mayor, Dr. H. F.
Hennemann, held conference with
the saloon men and told them he ex-
pected them to obey the law in all re.
spects. He expected them to close,
he said, at II p. m. on weekdays, to
keep closed on Sundays, and to have
regard for other provisions of the Ii
quor laws.
The conference was a good-natured
one and the liquor dealers agreed to
assist the mayor in the strict enforce.
ment of the laws. No threats were
made, but every man present showed
the right spirit and all went away feel.
ing kindly toward the new executive.
Mayor Hennemann says he expects
this condition to continue throughout
his administration.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
REFUSE TO PAY TAX.
Two Duluth Phone Companies Oppose
Gross Earnings Levy.

Duluth.--In proceedings brought to
force the Duluth and Zenith City tele-
phone companies to pay their personal
property taxes for 1909 both compan-
les filed their answers with the clerk
of the district court.
In answers filed by the companies,
which are much the same, the claim is
made that the personal property tax
was levied without considering that
each year they pay a gross earnings
tax.
They claim also, if they have paid
their gross earnings tax for the year
1909, they are therefore exempt from
the personal property tax. The amount
of the tax of the Zenith company is
$3.50 and was based on a valuation
of 100000, the assessed value of the
property. The Duluth company paid
$5,715 on valuation of $15O,000.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
GENERAL NEWS.

A normal Republican plurality of
5000 in Monroe county, N. Y, was
changed to 5000 Democratic plu-
7ality when James S. Havens (Dem.)
was elected to congress from the
Thirty-second district over George w.
Aldridge (Rep)
The administration forces, led by
the president general, were sustained
in their first contest with the oppo-
sition in the nineteenth continental
congress of the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton at Washington.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was
greeted in the Hungarian house of
parliament by Count Apponyi in
these words: "To the world you not
only represent a maker of peace, but
you are also the greatest and most
efficient force for the moral regenera-
tion of the liberty loving world. To-
day, though private citizen, you are
getting the reception of ruler, but
differing from the reception of kings,
because yours springs spontaneous
from the hearts of the people,"
Before large audience Attorney
James A. Reed made the opening ad.
dress for the state in the trial of Dr.
B. c. Hyde for the Staying of Colonel
Thomas Fl. Swope at Kansas City
DR.. George T. TWyman, physician OF
the Swope family and one of the prin
cipal witnesses against DR.. Hyde. died
last evening from an operation. The
death OF DR.. TWyman is a heavy blow
to the state in the case it has pre-
pared against DR.. Hyde.
Stock subscriptions to the New Or
leans exposition in 1915. to commemo
rate the completion Of the Panama
canal, have reached $50O,O0O.
Police at San Jose, CAL, stopped a..
endurance contest of dancers after 2
record of 19 hours and 38 minutes had
been established.
Isabelle Roper, six-year-old daughte,
of Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Roper of Ho
bart, Ind, is in critical condition al
her home, the result of being attacked
while playing near the barn by a fight
Ing rooster. The child was knocked
down by the bird, which drove its
spurs into her face.
At conference in the Offices of the
Lackawanna railroad a strike of tbt
conductors, trainmen, engineers anf
firemen of the whole system wa,
averted only by the decision of Gener
al Superintendent Clarke to abide b,
the award of the New York Centra
urbftrators.
Almost the first thing that Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt did after reaching vi
enna was to brand as fake a state
ment that he had consented to be
candidate for the presidency again
The statement this time was con
tanned in the Paris Herald. whic1
quoted one of its correspondents.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
TAKES $50 FROM TREASURER,
Stranger Reaches Through Grating Of
Winona County Office.

Winona.-County Treasurer Ben
Kalmes is out $50 as a result of the
antiquated equipment provided in the
treasurer's office at the courthouse.
The openings at the bottom of the
brass gratings at the paying windows
are so large that person can force
his arm thorugh entirely across the
counter. A taxpayer went inside of
the Office through the adjoining office
of the county auditor and paid $50 on
taxes, on which change of so cents
was due him.
While making change Treasurer
Kalmes placed the $50 on the counter,
and when he turned to give back the
change the money was gone. It is re-
garded as certain that some person
outside the railing reached in and
took it.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
DEN. IN CONVENTION: :
HENNEPIN COUNTY LOSES IN
DEMOCRATIC STATE CON-
VENTION.
TO HAVE A DELEGATION OF III
Proposed Appointment Of Convention
Delegates Based on 1908 Vote
for Governor John A.
Johnson.

st. Paul. - Hennepin county will
have Ill delegates in the demo-
cratic state convention, Ramsey coun-
ty 78 and St. Louis county 80. The
apportionment of delegates has not
been determined, but the plan pre-
sented to the democratic state central
committee by John King, state lbrar-
ian; met with the approval of the
members. It is based on one delegate
for each 250 votes cast for John A.
Johnson in November, 1908, and in
addition each county is to have three
delegates-at-large, making a total of
947. Hennepin county loses six from
its representation of two years ago.
Up to Executive Committee.
The apportionment will be made by
the executive commimttee which will
be appointed by Frank A. Day: This
committee also will fix the time and
place of the convention, but will select
either Aug. II or "a.
Frank Nelson, of Duluth, who at
tended the meeting, announced that
he is about ready to declare himself
a candidate for congress against
Clarence B. Miller. He has made no
formal announcement, but expects to
get into the race.
Votes for Counties.
The county representation which
Mr.. King proposes and which the
members of the committee believe
will be adopted is as follows:
ira A1tkin: ut; I; Anoka, s; BECKER, 9; Bel
Earth, IS; Brown II; Carlton, Z: Carv-
er, 10; Cass, 6; Chippewa, Z: Chisago.
=; Clay, 9; Clearwater, S; Cook, 4:
Cottonwood, g. Crow Wing. 8: Dakota
II, Dodge, 6; Douglas, 10; Faribault. s:
Eillmore, 9: Freedom, 9; Goodhue, 13;
Grant, 5; .Hennepin, III; Houston, 7:
aubbard' taa s; Isanti 9: Itasca, 8; Jack
Farie Fk1GiehSsh5nG g. LIKE s X Kfttson fs%r Lac 3n
Msa;fsh&ii. Mar; g.. MsTtin, 8; Hdeaemen MeeFer, 70;
Murray, I; Nicoliet, Niet''' .: Nobles,' MSTsE' 8;
IS; Pine, 9; Pipestone, 6: Polk, IS:
wood, 9; Renvil1e, ii; Rice Is: Rock. 6:
Rosseau. r; g.; st: Louis, 80; Scott II;
Steele, 8; Stevens, s; Swift s: Todd. 10:
Traverse, I; Wabasha, IL; Wadena s:
Waseca, 8; Washington, -; Waton-
wan, q; Wilkin. 6; Winona, IS; Wright
IL; Yellow Medicine, Z.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27

Corn has been grown at the Expert
ment Station continuously on one plot
since 1894 with an average yield since
1900 Of 24.4 bushels per acre. In a
three-year rotation of wheat, clover
and corn the corn yield has averaged
45.2 bushels per acre since 1900, show.
ing difference Of over 81 bushels in
crease, due solely to rotation. Where
the land wae manured at the rate OF
about eight tons per acre, In a five.
year rotation Of wheat, timothy and
clover hay, pasture, oats and corn, the
corn yield has averaged COS bushels
per acre.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
Seed Potatoes,

It is nearly potato planting time.
Select your seed now, quick. Don't
use the long, rough stock of round or
oval varieties. Its vitality is dimin-
ishing, and it will be disappointing at
digging time. Avoid the small slend-
er, tapering stock of longer varieties.
Use as intelligent care in selecting
seed potatoes as any sensible farmer
will use in selecting breeding animals,
for the better and stronger the par
ent the better and stronger the Off
,pring. The same rule applies to veg
etables and animals. The short, thick
potato, compared with the lot in the
bin is the vigorous, hardy seed.
Medium sized potatoes give best re-
suits. Potatoes with deep eyes are
harder to peel than shallow eyed.
In peeling much of the nutritive value
is lost. Avoid irregular surfaces and
small tubers. The small individuals
indicate run out vitality. They will
do to feed stock or poultry.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
Wants Limit of Cost for MINNEAPOLIS
Postoffice Raised to $750,0Oo.

Washington, D. c. Representa-
tive Nye appeared before the house
committee on public buildings and
urged favorable action on his bill to
increase the limit of the cost of the
postoffice building in Minneapolis
from $4,000 to $750,000. Nye said he
was confident the committee would
authorize the increase if public
building bill is reported.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
Board System a Success.

Winona.-The board system of man
aging public utilities has been proved
a success in Winona in the case Of the
waterworks system, which for several
years has been in charge of the board
of municipal works. Under the bust
ness-like administration of this body
the consumption of water has been
greatly lessened through overcoming
waste. Other economies have been
practiced, so that for the municipal
year just ending a balance Of 1886
is shown in the treasury.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
TWO MINI. EDITORS BURNED
OIL Causes Trouble at HayfieId and
Gasoline at Eveleth,

Hayfield. - R. B. Russell, editor
of the Hayfeld Guard, is dead
Mr.. Russells body is one mass of
burns and is the result of an attempt
to start fire in his office with kero-
sene.
While pouring the oil on the fire the
can slipped into the stove and explod-
ed and his entire body was engulfed in
the flames. The building and machin-
cry of the Guard Office were damaged,
but not entirely destroyed.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
Coming to Twin Cities,

st. Paul. The following letter
comes in response to a cable sent to
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, while he was
in Egypt:
Hotel Beau Site, Rome, April A.
Mr.. Dear Mr.. Halbert: 1t will give me
particular pleasure to address the
Roosevelt club in st. Paul upon my
return to the United States, but can.
not make any date before nv return,
until l can learn what I can and can.
not do. With hearty thanks, very sin.
cerely yours,
''THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27

Rotation and Manuring Increase Yields
Wheat grown at the Minnesota Elk.
pertinent Station continuously on the
same plot since 1894 shows an aver.
age yield of 1876 bushels per acre since
1900. Grown in three-year rotation
since 1900 the average yield has been
20.6 bushels per acre. No manure be.
ing given the plot the increase must
be charged alone to rotation, the seed
and other conditions being substan-
TALLY the same.
In five-year rotation, with manure
we'll applied, covering the same period
the yield has averaged 26.6 bushels
per acre, and the conclusion at the
Station is that more grain can be
grown in three years of rotation than
in four years Of continuous cropping.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27

Dies on Eighty-Second Birthday.
Minneapolis.-W his eighty-third
birthday anniversary only few hours
away, Colonel Francis Peteler, one of
Minneapolis Oldest settlers and veter-
an of three wars, passed away. Death
was due to peritonitis.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
Money Order Blank MISSING.

st. Vincent. - Special Investigating
Agent Carl Egge, Of the postal
department, st. Paul, Office, is here
to Investigate the report of Postmas-
ter Lapp that money. order blank
was stolen from his office here. A
man is under arrest on the charge of
having attempted to cash the order.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
Tonqs to Sian a Peace Pact.

New York, April PA proclama.
tion was posted in Chinatown to the
effect that treaty of peace between
the See Sing tong or Four Brothers
company, and the On Leong tong
would be signed in the Chinese con-
sulate in the presence of DR.. Gu Shou
Tchun, first. secretary of the Chinese
legation at Washington, and the con-
sui, Yung Yu Yang. Before the proc
lamation had been up Is minutes it
was partly torn down, apparently by
"gun men" dissatisfied with the idea
of having peace.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
TWA|N'S KINDLY
HEART ST|LLED
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS GOES TO
JOIN HIS FRIENDS, ROGERS,
LAFFEN AND GLIDER,
The END COMES WITHOUT PAIN
Writer Never Recovered From Blow
of His Daughters Death.-Pre-
dicted the End on Way From
Bermuda.

Redding, Conn.,, April 22-Samuel
Langhorn Clemens, MARK Twain"
died painlessly of angina pectoris. He
lapsed into coma at o'clock in the
afternoon and never recovered con-
sciousness.
It was the end of man outworn by
grief and acute agony of body.
Wednesday was bad day for the
little knot of anxious watchers at the
bedside. For long hours the grey,
aquiline features lay mounded in the
inertia of death, while the pulse sank
lower and lower, but late at night
Mark Twain passed from stupor into
the first natural sleep he had known
since he returned from Bermuda and
he woke refreshed, even family cheer
full. and in full possession of all his
faculties.
He recognized his daughter, Clara
(Mrs. Ossip Gabrilovitch), spoke a ra-
tional word or two and feeling himself
unequal to conversation wrote out in
pencil: "Give me my glasses"
They were his last words.
Laying them aside he sank first into
reverie and later into final uncon-
sciousness.
At the deathbed were only Mrs. Ca
brilovitch, her husband; DIR. Robert
Halsey, DR.. Quintard, Albert Bigelow
Paine, who will write Mark Twain S
biography and the two trained nurses.
Restoratives, digitilas, strychnine
and camphor-were administered but
the patient failed to respond.
Mark Twain did not die in anguish.
Sedatives soothed his pain but in his
moments of consciousness the mental
depression persisted. On the way up
from Bermuda he said to Albert Bige.
low Paine, who had been his constant
companion in illness: ''This is a bad
job; we'll never pull through with it"
Last summer his walks began to fal.
ter, last fall they ceased for good. The
death of H. H. Rogers was severe
blow; the death of his daughter who
was seized with an attack of epilepsy
last fall while in her bath, was an add
ed blow from which he never recov.
cred. It was then that the stabbing
pains in the heart began.
Mark Twain died as truly as it can
be said of any man, of a broken
heart.
When he heard of the successive
deaths of his two friends, William M
Laffen, of the Sun, and R. w. Glider
editor of the Century, he said sadly:
How fortunate they are; no good for.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
PLANTING Corn.

There is no fixed or best time to
plant corn, other than that it is usu-
ally planted in May and generally
from the 10th to the Goth. Under no
condition should corn be planted un-
less the seed-bed has undergone prop
er preparation. It is much better to
keep the seed in the sack than to plant
it in heavy, cold soil. Early working
OF the soil with the disc and the har-
row is essential, as it assists in warm.
ing it.
There are advantages in planting
corn in drills, and likewise in the check
system; and many advocates Of either
method are easily found. One of the
objects Of growing corn, and one of
its advantages over small grain crops,
is the fact that it is cultivated crop,
and it we'll cultivated will tend to
clean the land of foul weeds. This
object is more thoroughly accom-
plished if the corn is. planted in check
rows and cultivated both ways
On the other hand, on rich, reason
ably clean land, larger yields are some.
times secured by planting in drills. 1t
is our judgment, however, that for
average Minnesota conditions the
check row is to be preferred.
It is not wise to plant corn more
than two inches deep; and if the soil
is heavy, not more than one inch deep
is preferable, as it will start more
quickly near the surface; and, if heavy
rains should come and pack down the
soil, the young plants stand much
better show of getting through than
when planted too deep. When proper
ly prepared, the soil near the surface
is warmer and contains moisture
enough to germinate the seed If the
seed has been properly graded, it is
no great task to secure a reasonably
uniform drop Of kernels per hill. No
less than three nor no more than
four kernels per hill will bring best
results, if the seed be of good vitality.
Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27
BUSINESS MEN ORGANIZE.
New Club Selects "Boost for Ovation
= ma" as Slogan.

Owatonna.-"Boostf for Owatonna" is
the slogan of the newly formed Owa-
tonna Business Mems Association, and
the idea is to be carried out in every
possible way. At banquet held in
the Hotel Owatonna the business men
decided to push Owatonna in every
way. Over 100 business men have
been enrolled in the new club, and
each month a banquet will be held.