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Morris tribune., 1911-03-10

tion. have been scrutinized and re-
solutions have been introduced by in
uuisitive members demanding their
investigation.
At the present time the proper way
to salute anyone around the Capitol
is to politely tip your hat and say,
Good morning, have you been in
vestigated?"
1t is all their own fault. They
persisted in doing things. Whenever
public official does things there is
always some one who does not want
those things done, and then trouble
begins. The only way an official can
escape criticism is to array himself in
purple and fine linen. keep his finger
nails we'll manicured, smile, look
pleasant-and do nothing else.
1t is possible that some of these
parties need investigating. No one
can tell till the evidence is presented
and not always then, but resolution
of investigation, in itself, is not
proof of either incompetency, COR
ruption or partiality in office. More
frequently it is an advertisement that
the official has done something.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
PIONEER OF STATE DEAD
w. w. Paddock Member of Party That
Located City of Mankato.

w W. Paddock, the last surviving
first settler of Mankato, is dead in
that city.
Mr. Paddock was born in New York
Nov 4 1928. He reached St. Paul, in
1851 and in February, 1852, Joined a
party to make the first trip to the
mouth of the Blue Earth river to found
the present city of Mankato.
The party left St. Paul on Feb. Is
and after eight days travel reached
the mouth of the Blue Earth on Feb.
% and made camp there for the night.
The next day his party proceeded to
build a log shack, the first white hab.
itation erected in Mankato.
The present site of Mankato was
occupied upon the arrival CT the party
by Little Grow and his band of Sioux
Indians.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
Capital Punishment.

The Mckenzie bill abolishing CAPT
tai punishment has passed the house
by large majority and will probably
pass the Senate, be signed by the Gov
ernor, and become a law. and legal
executions then be thing of the
past in Minnesota.
This seems to be in accordance with
the advanced spirit of the age and
ti,en again it may not be. The old
timers will remember that many
years ago Minnesota did away with
capital punishment in response to a
demand of mawkish sentimentalists.
This was followed by an epidemic of
homicides and lynchings winding up
with the we'll remembered orthfield
robbery and murder. When the next
Legislature assembled the Legislature
repealed the law abolishing capital
punishment with startling unanimity.
1t may work better this time. The
cold fact is. however, that there are
some crimes that life sentence is an
inadequate punishment for. and there
are some men who deserve hanging
and if legal hangings are abolished
an outraged people will take matters
in their own hands and perform the
Job themselves.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
Spooner's Waterways bill.

Representative Spooner's waterway
bill has passed the Hosee On the
face of it this looks like the measure
of an Utopian dreamer, but you can't
always tell. Many can remember
that the first man who proposed
Panama canal was regarded as mild
sort of lunatic. Even today the
proposed canal from the Lake of the
Woods to the Gulf and the Interna-
tional deepening of the St. Lawrence
river to permit free passage of ocean
steamers from the Great lakes to fore
ign ports without change of cargo,
are looked upon as visionary dreams
yet future generations, and not so
very distant future either, will see
them in reality.
If the old Frenchman who stole
the St. Peter capital bill and ran out
of the country with it, had stayed in
the state and introduced the Spooner
bill at that time Minnesota would
today be uncounted millions ahead,
and it is not ceratin that future gen.
erations of Minnesotans instead of
regarding Mr.. Spooner as dreamer
will regard him as the one, far-seeing
clear-headed statesman of the thirty
seventh Legislature.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
Congress.

The sixty y-frst Congress expired by
legal limitation on Saturday noon,
March the fourth. The President will
reconvene them in extraordinary ses-
sion April 4th. Some prominent men
regard this as unfortunate and pro-
fess to fear that business will suffer
as result of radical legislation.
This fear is groundless. 1t is the
best thing that could possibly happen.
The Democrats will control the House
by large majority. The Senate will
remain Republican and we will still
have Republican President. All
the Democratic House can do is to
"declare the Intentions of Demo
cracy and the sooner this is done the
better for the country. - -
They have already shorn the Speak
er of his committee appointing power
and declare they will revise the
"Reed" rules out of existence. They
promised to do the same thing sixteen
years ago and after struggling along
for three months without doing any
thing or being able to do anything but
adjourn, they capitualted and readopt-
ed them.
Under the present system of max
ing the Committee on Ways and
Means the Committee appointing
power of the House they have trans
formed that committee into the most
powerful oligarchy that ever existed
in a Republic. Within three months
after the assembling of the Demo
cratic House with the "Ways and
Means committee as an ollgarchy.
with the erratic Champ Clark as
Speaker. with the "Reed" rules in
the waste basket. and with men like
Murdoek. Macon and that class in the
saddle, men all over the country will
be wondering how they ever came to
vote for Democratic Congressman.
Write this prediction down for future
reference. Frank M. Eddy.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
THE LEGISLATURE
AS EDDY SEES IT
THINKS 1T ONE OF THE
BEST.
Bob and Adolph-The House
and Senate Divide ON Matri-
mony Capital Punishment
Spooner Not Dreamer.
By Frank NJ. Eddy.

st. Paul.-The thirty seventh ses-
sion Of the Minnesota Legislature. is
remarkable for the things it hasn' t
done. Over half the session is past
and gone and fewer measures have
been enacted into law than at any
previous sessions in the history of the
state.
This does not necessarily imply
that it is not a good Legislature. On
the contrary it goes to show that it is
one of the best, taken as whole,
that has assembled for long time.
As a usual thing every legislature
rushes through lot of legislation
that is not called for or needed and
very often deleterious to public well
fare. If the present one should pass
the appropriation bills and adjourn
and do nothing else, there would not
be much lamenthtion throughout the
land.
There will be several meritorious
bills passed and some that ought to
pass will probably fail. Bob. Dunn's
good roads bill will be enacted into
law and it is freely prophesied that
reapportionment will fail. This ought
not to be so and the friends of the
measure nave by no means given up
the fight but the prospects of reap
portionment at this writing are not
particularly rosy.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
Bob Visits Adolph.

A rather interesting incident oc-
cured last week when Robert C.
Dunn made his first formal call on
Governor Eberhart. 1t is an open
secret that for many moons past, the
Princeton Irishman has not been con-
sumed with affection for the Chief
Executive and when Bob don't like
anyone you don't have to guess at it.
He has vigorous way of making the
fact manifest. For this reason the
anteroom attendants were somewhat
surprised to see Bob enter the cor
ridor and walk directly into the Gov
ernor's office with the same sang froid
that he used to do when Dave Clough
used to sit therein. and place his bro
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
PIONEER PHYSICIAN DEAD
DR.. w. w. Mayo Passes Away at
Rochester, MINI.

DR.. William w. Mayo, father of the
Rochester surgeons, Doctors William
J. and Charles H. Mayo, passed away
at the age of ninety-two years, death
being due to a general and gradual
decline.
For more than fifty years DR., Mayo
has been closely interviewer with the
history of Minnesota, having the ac-
ouaintance of many of it's public men
and always taking an interest in it's
affairs. DR.. Mayo was a veteran of
the Indian war of 1862.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10

gans on the executive table. The
Secretaries, under-Secretarries, and
the Stenographers, stuffed cotton in
their ears and waited for the explo-
sion-but nothing exploded.
Thew were closeted together nearly
an hour. What they talked about no
one but the Lord, the Governor, and
Bob. knows, and it is hard for a
newspaper man to get pointers from
any of these parties, but when Bob
came out his leathery visage was
wreathed with smiles and Robert G.
never smiles ecxept when he feels
good.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
House and Senate at Logger
heads.

In every legislative body there is
always more or less friction between
the House and Senate: this is true of
this legislature. They deliberately
crossed swords last week and on what
and YOU think? Matrimony Re-
preventative Livingston A. Lvdiard.
(What name for romance hero)
Representative from Hennepin, who
had been bachelor from birth,-
some say from choice and others as
sert from necessity, broke away
from the reservation and took unto
himself a charming wife. Egged on.
it is claimed. by certain young ladies'
in Minneapolis, the House took prompt
action and he was adjudged i'll con-
tempt and cited before the bar of the
House and duly reprimanded and pun
ished for his unseemly action.
The very next day there was in
troduced in the Senate bill placing
an annual tax of ten dollars on bache-
lOrS who WIllfully and with malice
aforethought remained bachelors.
The measure was duly referred to
Senators BOYLE and Denegre, who are
bachelors, (not from Necessity and
they promptly reported against the
measure. They also served notice
that if the Senate passed the bill they
would still remain bachelors. They
admitted in that case it would cost
more to remain single than to marry
but they insisted that is was worth
more. The final result will probably
be that in the next campaign BOYLE
and Denegre will become candidates
for the house and Livingston A.
Lydiard will run for the Senate,
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
ELECTION PROBE UNPOPULAR
Will Be No Inquiry Into Minnesota Pc.
Iitical Committees.


The house committee on general
legislation has recommended Robir-
sons resolution for an investigation of
the state central committees be indefi-
nitely postponed. The action had not
been taken until Robinson had had
a few words" with the committee.
The knell of the bill to place the
state university partly under jurisdic
ton of the state board of control was
sounded when President Cyrus North
rop, in speaking to the members of the
legislature on the occasion of their
visit to the university, urged the
solons to kill the bill" and received
implied promises from Governor Eber-
hart and Speaker Dunn that such a
fate was assured.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers
THREE men BURN TO DEATH
Fire in Sleeping Quarters Catches
Unsuspecting Inmates at
ksIIiher.

James Lepsett. James o. Boyel and
John McKinnon were burned to death
at Kelliher when a little shack in
which they were sleeping caught fire
1t is thought the fire was caused by an
overheated stove.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-10
The investigators"

This Legislature will probably be
known in the future as the "lnvestl-
gators,'' for if there is anybody or
anything of a public or semi-public
nature that they have not introduced
a resolution to investigate the omis-
sion we'll be cheerfully corrected if
their attention is called to it. The
Insurance Commissioner, the Reform
School, the Drainage Commission, the
Secretary of State, the State Far.
the Republican State Central Commit
tee, and others too numerous to men
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
EIGHT COWS BURNED TO
DEATH IN IRVINGTON.

Eight COWS were burned to death In
8. FIRE which destroyed a barn and
partly destroyed q stable on the prop
erty of Lester r. Littlefield, a dairy
man, at Lyon avenue and Twenty
first street. Irvington, last night. The
blaze, the origin of which is unknown,
was discovered shortly after ! o'clock
by Mrs. Little1eld, and an alarm was
promptly sent to both the Irvington
fire department and TO the Newark
department.
When the local department reaches
the scene and Engine No. II from
Newark appeared the large barn was Q
mass of flames, and despite the prompt
service of the fremen II was totally
destroyed, together with its contents.
Two horses in the adjoining stable
were rescued. but eight cows which
We're in the Darn persisted in wthe
flames.
The loss sustained was $4,000, includ-
ing 5000 on the barn, $500 for the
COWS, s4oo for a milk ago and truck
and $1,000 for dairy machinery. The
property was partially insured.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
SOUTH ORANGE.

Joseph, the 4~-year-old son Of James
Forsn, of South Orange avenue under"
went an operation today in st. Mi
chael's Hospital, Newark.
J. G. Dolson, Of $50 Scotland road, was
high man in the bowling contest of the
Thursday Night Club at the Field Club
last night. His cor was 244.
Henry Vought, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Vought, OF First street, is IN a
visit from Newport, r. l., where ne has
been stationed at the government
training school. Upon his return March
IS he will become a member Of the crew
on the battleship New JERSEY, which
win go around the world.
Arrangements are being made by SUI
p~erintendent of Schools Henry w. Eos
ter for a public inspection OF the re-
constructed Columbia School.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Gardiner and
| Miss May ]. Gardiner sailed yesterday
for Bermuda on the Ocesna.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
KEARNY-ARLlNGTON.

AT the basketball game IN Midland
Hall, Arlington, last night, h Union
Club local team defeated the Newarks
by 10 to 20. The Unions will play the
Orange Deerfoots next Friday night in
Arlington.
The Kearny Health Board has di-
rected Secretary A. o. Borneman TO
notify the Boyer Realty Company to
either put III sewer and water connec-
tons at its tenements On Brighton ave
nue. or vacate the premises. 1t Is al
legged that very unsanitary conditions
exist there. The town has q very low
average~of contagious diseases and is
trying hard to keep down such aver.
g
Afflicted with an Internal trouble
Mrs. John Lang, of Johnston avenue
Kearny, was taken in the kearny am
bulance to st. Michsel's Hospital, this
city, by Police Chief William Toler
and acknowledgment Walter oliver
The woman had her husband arrested
a few days ago for n~on-support, AND
ne was held until last night for failure
to provide $3.50 bonds TO provide S2.5t
a week for his wife and child. Recorder
James r. Kelly let Lang go IN custody
OF the ~letter's parents. 2
Ice dealers cannot ply their trade il
Kearny unless they secure permit:
from the Board Of Health. Las nigh
the board "a W readings to ar
ordinance for such permits and resulat'
ing the quality Of ice sold.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
CALDWELL--vERONA.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Francisco, of
Grandview avenue North Caldwell, are
making extensive improvement, to the
home, Ossego Lodge.
The Rev. Horace $. Quillin, pastor of
the Caldwell Baptist Church, has been
away for the past week for the benefit
of his health.
Justice John l.. Johnson, of Bloom
field avenue, Verona, VIII has just re-
turned from an extended trip through
the West, is seriously i'll with Brightis
disease,
George Ii. Smith and family, OF
Union street, Verona, returned yester-
day from an extended visit at Old
Point Comfort.
Mrs. Clara l.. Henderson. of Bloom
field, is visiting friends in Verona.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
Caldwell Field club viii be held next
Monday night in their clubrooms in
the Smith building, corne Hanford
place and Bloomfield venue
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
BOARD REFUSES
TO TEST LEGALITY
OF SALARY RAISE
lrvington School Commissioner
Questions Increase for Sec
Rotary Sherman.

Echoes Of the recent wrangle over the
increase in the salary Of Secretary
william A. sherman. OF the frvinston
Board of Education, which was sane
toned by a resolution at a recent meet
ing OF the board, were heard last night
at its semi-monthly meeting when
commissioner Ackerson j. states
moved that the resolution De referred
TO the towns counsel for L written
opinion as to its legality.
Mr.. states questioned Secretary Sher-
man as to whether the resolution had
been passed because the board had In
creased his duties and on being advised
that IL had he maintained that the
action of the board was illegal because
he state law specifically states what
the duties of a secretary shall be and
it is not within the jurisdiction of the
school board to add to these duties OF
to diminish them.
After further discussion the motion
was lost. commissioners states, Chris
tan and Hedden voted for IL, and Com
missioners Stewart. Dawes. Jacoous
and Sherman opposed 1t.
The recommendation 20 purchase a
triangular piece Of land for $1,000 10
stralghten out the noftnefn nhe Oh u'o
Grove Street School was referred 70
the Board of School Estimate for its
sanction.
In reply TO a question from the repre-
sentative Of the Commonwealth Con
struction Company as to when bids for
the proposed new school on Madison
avenue would be called for Commits
sioner states declared that no action
would be taken in this matter until the
question of the annexation OF "A part OF
the town In which the school is to be
located is finally settled.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
BOY OESPiRAOOES
CONFESS TO LONG
LIST OF CRIME.

Three desperate and seif~-confessed
criminals. ranging in age from T. to
Il years, who were captured 10y COM
bined forces Of picked policemen OF
East Newark and Harrison early this
morning. are said 70 have confessed in
the Harrison Police Court today to al.
amazing string OF robberies.
Two OF the ~desperadoes, Joseph Hes
ter. Of SO Soaring avenue, East New
ark, and Charles Rice, Of 80 Soaring
avenue. HARRISON. we're captured at .
L. IN. in the cellar OF the home OF Will
lam Ceeckler, at AZ Central avenue
This was the third visit they had paid
to Ceecllcr in tuo weeks, stealing or
anges and bananas the first time. and
wan1onlT turning on the water and
flooding the floor the second riine.
Fourteen-year-old Albert Kaiser, the
third prisoner. was captured at his
home. 10 John street, East Newark. The
boys had entered five or SIX stores dur
ing the night ano obtained . few dol
lars and a bottle whiskcy. In, court
Hester volunteered the Information
that they were on their way West t.
shoot dead Indians" They were helc
ror the Juven lie Court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
EXPERIENCES OF
BELLEVILLE GIRL
IN COLLEGE FIRE

Mss alar3 Diamond Uf William.
street, BclieqIile, who WAS one of tne
glr! pGi,tis N the disastrous fire which
totally ruined the handsome Mt. -.
Mays CoiIege. Plajntield, early yes
terda5. tod a STAR reporter in her
Beliegllls nome today some OF the re-
markAble features which marked the
blaze.
hen asked what impressed her most
during the CONSERVATION, Miss Dia-
mond said tina the neroism of the nuns.
and the remarkable self-possession Oh
the students in getting out Of the
structure attracted her notice.
She Described graphically an incident
in which one OF the sisters rushed up
stairs during the blaze and a ceiling
above crashed in. Part of it struck the
nun, anG, Miss Diamond said. hurled
her downstairs With terrific force. She
explained. however, that notwltstapd-
Ing this, the sister escaped practically
unhurt.
C|on inuing Miss Diamond said 'oue
sister found i necessary to go TO the
chapel. which is on the second floor.
As she arrived there from downstairs
a ceiling over the third corridor fell
in and the sister Vas thrown down
stairs, hut escai,ed u%ninjured."
She was asked II there was any
immediate danger TO herself and
others in tho building.
No she replied, because after We
! we're told Of the fire by Father Bald
win all OF the students displayed greai
presence Of uaind and marched out Of
the building without any apparent din
| Guilty.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
RAILROAD AWAITS
ORANGES Consent
TO RAGE TRACKS
Lackawanna Submits $1,000
600 Plan and Asks for Pro-
poSal from City.

The Lackuwanna railroads plan to
abolish It's death-trap crossings IN or
auge. through an expenditure u $1,000.
900 for elevation or depression OF tracks
and in the building OF handsome sta
lions that will nuke the town It's most
important station in the State west OF
Newark, Was given a thorough iutor-
NAL discussion by Mayor Seymour and
the officials Of that city today. a ma
.iority of the fathers" apparently faFo"
the plan with more or less slight modi-
locations, especially as Il developed that
the railroad company has already ac-
qu.red most Of the property necessary
for the Improvement II Is ready 70
give assurance that the work will be
completed swo years from the starting
date.
The formal propos}ticn-lnGde after
eight years OF dickeriug-is in many
respects similar to thar planned when
the abolition OF tia death-traps was
arst demanded. II included. however.
fWo nne stations at Lincoln and High
land avenues, With separate entrances
to the local and express train tracks.
Assumably the Improvement VIII aorce
East Orange to join also in the propo-
siton. and il is through this expected
cooperation Of the two towns Win tn
railroad Orange may win its title to
the Next Biggest Station" on the Jer-
sey division of the anthracite line.
According 10 the proposition made 5y
Attorney 81. NJ. Stallman the company
viii pay for the work, the city 10 care
for such damages as may accrue for
the reconstruction, such as changing
water and sewer pipes, etc. but these
amounts, it was said. would be com.
par~atively slight. Some half a dozen
streets of the twenty-siX ~thoroughfares
now crossing the tracks are desired
closed by the company, but no definite
statement of their location vas made.
The plans were practically the same
az the drawings submitted eight years
ago, the details brought more up-to-
date, and were for elevating from the
East Orange line, indicating the com
par slans for above grade trackage
ahangss through that city, although
me officials have generally preferred
depression there. The chief change
rom the old drawings was a new ut
hne TO cover changes In the ~neighbor-
hood OF the main depot in Orange.
There will be little need for depression
pf streets from lakewood avenue west
ward, the changes at Cone street
going down abou a foot.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
BELLEVILLE.
Arcanfaus 10 Give Minstrels.

Arcaniaus 10 Give Minstrels.
Seth Boyden Council No. 366, Royal
Arcanum, will give a minstrel show
April t9 In Belleville Hall. Those who
will take part in the affair are: Harry
Mussehl, Leon d. Brooks, Edward
Disser. James Jordan, William Crisp.
William Gilmore and Charles Billhardt.
The committee in charge consists of l..
B. Haight, F.. ". Crisp, c.. W. Crisp.
G. r. Brooks. c. b. Lehman. NJ. Il.
Jordan. w. A McGrsth. W J. Whittier.
H. e. Wilson and II. j. Haigh.
Star of Believille Circle, Companions
of the Forest of America, will celebrate
the tenth anniversary of it's organiza-
ton Tuesday night at Belleville Hall
The committee in charge OF the affelr
consists of the following: Mrs. Eliza
beth Swick. Mrs. Catherine Burns. Mrs,
Anna Carragher, May Westlake, Miss
May Smith. Miss Ida Kane, Miss Nellie
Kane and Mrs. Mary o'Neill.
The Children OF Mary OF the Sacred
Heart Of st. Peters Church viii give
an entertainment and emerald dance
at P|arochisl Hall March II. Mis-
Fearless and Company will be pro
duced.