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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-02
WHAT MAKES
A STATE YEAR
Omission OF One Word Mish. Have
Stopped Work in State
Departments.
Officials and Clerks We're Greatly
Concerned as TO Their Flu.
ture Salaries.

state was threatened with stoppage
for Il short time recently. when
the inquisitive anl eagle eyes of
the state auditor and his deputy
CHANGED, in glancing over the
session laws of 1911, in the chap
ter headed general appropriation
bill, " to discover, to their conster-
nation that not only did the text
not contain the word fiscal, -
specifying for what year the
appropriations were made, but
that a tabulated state nent of the
items was given, headed simply
"191l" and "l9l2."
Profound thought on the subject
led to but one conclusion. The
year 1912 ends at the close of Dee.
81, 1912. The appropriations
should reach to the date, July 80,
1913, hence it was obvious that
from Jan. | next to July l, there
would be no funds available to
carry on the business of the state.
Reference to the laws of 1909
showed that the same commission
had occurred, bat mad never been
noticed. 1907 was properly word
ed fiscal year" and the change
had been made in the succeeding
year The word was whispered
about the capital and CONSERVATION
reigned. a general tendency to
lock up the offices and seek employ
ment at once seemed to possess the
office holders and their subor-
dlnates, although they argued that
their pay ought to go on until
January.
Others were SO muddled by their
frantic calculations as to the length
Of years Of various kinds, Of when
a fiscal New Year should be OBJ
served and what and why is a year
anyway, that they were incapable
Of action. a general disposition
to blame Frank Byrne. who was
said to have been chairman of the
committee on appropriations in
1909, seemed to prevail. One
faithful servant Of the public said
he looked at 1T in this way. That
as the appropriation was meant to
be sufficient to last until next July
but that the year, not specified as
fiscal, ended the last Of December.
they had twice a. much money to
use and when the legislature con.
vened in January, it would have to
appropriate more 10. use until the
fiscal year closed. In this case,
they were reminded that the mem
bers would need to begin thinking
about it as soon as election should
be over this fall, as it took them
until the forenoon of the day follow
ing the actual last day of the last
session to pass the regular approp-
riations bill.
Finally. however, the state audi
tor recalled a similar quandary
that was brought up years ago, and
regarding which Attorney General
Pyle had rendered decision TO
the effect that when Il bill CT
appropriations failed to specify
that the year was intended to be a !
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-02
STOP WORK FOR
RUSH OF GRAIN
Double Tracking on Milwaukee Line
Gives Way to Preparations
for Moving Crops.
Minneapolis Much Alive in Prepar-
ing to Handle Vast Ocean of
Golden Grain.

SO or at will be the northwest
hai vest this fall tnat the railroads
operating in this section have stop
ped nearly all improvement work
on the track TO build additional
trackage in the terminals in order
to handle the thousands Of cars of
grain to be shipped into the termi
nails this fall. The Milwaukee road
has discontinued the double track
ing operations in Minneapolis and
will use its energies to building
additional sidings at the twin cit
les terminals to prepare for the
grain trains.
The double tracking outside OF
Minneapolis will continue without
interruption as the contracts are in
the hands of the b-cOntractOrs
and have no direct dealings with
the Milwaukee. It is understood
that the men working for the sub
contractors between Aberdeen and
Minneapolis are gradually quitting
the job and are making for the
harvest fields, where better wages
await them. The Minneapolis
} Journal of Monday morning gives
the following account of the grain
situation.
WORK SUDDENLY STOPS
By drastic order emaninating
direct from a special meet ing of
executive officials Of the Milwauk6 e
road III Chicago all work on track
lowering on the HaSting & Dakota
division along Twenty ninth street
was stopped yesterday and orders
issued for day and night rush work
in preparations for what is exnect-
ed to be the heaviest movement Of
grain in Minneapolis in the history
Of the road
Vice President f. w. McKenna
sent the order to Minneapolis after
he had returned from the grain
fields. The big steam shovel, just
in the process Of cutting across
Lyndale avenue, stopped on the
minute, and was switched away
preparatory to being taken west.
y crew went to work at once Put
ting the tracks into better condi-
tlOn for heavy traffic. In the new
Bass Lake grain yards, Just outside
the city limits, f. J. Mann & Co..
contractors of Milwaukee, with two
steam shovels, began work that is
to increase the capacity of that
terminal from 800 to 1,5OO cars
aud which is to be done before the
big rush Of grain starts.
BEGIN NEXT SPRING
We had expected to excavate
through to Nicollet avenue this
year. said A. d. Emery, of the
division engineers office, Mime
apolis, but we are ordered by
Chief Engineer G. F. Loweth to
stop all work. We have plenty of
time under the ordinance to do the
work, which is not expected to be
finished for several years, but, as
the weather has been favorable We
had intended to push through to
Nicollet avenue. We now under
stand that the enormous crops are
60 ng to put heavy burden upon
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-02
Notice. Farm Loans.

We are : in the market at all
times for good real estate loans.
MObridge State Bank.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-02

Many chap has spent a lifetime
waiting for something to turn up
aud lodged it when it did.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
SENATOR LOR|MER
IS EXONERATED
Majority Report of Investigators
Holds Him GuiItIesS.
NO EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION
Views of Minority, However, DecIars
His Election Was Secured Through
Fraudulent and improper
Use of Money.

Washington, May 23.-The case of
Senator Lorimer, whose election was
alleged to have been brought about
through corruption, was placed before
the senate here for final action.
Majority and minority reports were
made by the special investigating COM
mittee, the former UNFOLDING and the
latter condemning the senator.
The majority reported that all the
rules of law, judicial procedure and
justice required that the senate's for
mer judgment in Senator Lorimer's
favor be held final and conclusive. and
that there was absolutely no new and
substantial evidence discovered on
this reinvestigation, his election being
"the logical result of existing political
conditions in Illinois"
The minority reported that the evil
dence presented at the second inVesti-
cation was broader and more far
reaching" than the previous inquiry
brought out ard that it conclusiveiy
established that at least ten of the
votes cast for Lorimer were corrupt
and that his election therefore was
invalid
The minority report was signed by
Senators Kern and Lea, Democrats,
and Kenyon, Republican.
The majority report was submitted
by Chairman Dillingham; and had the
approval of Senators Gamble and
Jones, Republicans, and Fletcher and
Johnson, Democrats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
CANNING SITUATION
PROBED BY EXPERT
Federal Official Makes InVesti-
CATION al ManitoWOC.
GOVERNMENT MAY STEP IN
Intervention in State Labor Law Not
UnIikeIY-State Gamers Say 55-
hour Provision Viii Cost Industry
Thousands of Dollars.

oc.-Government interven-
ton, With a view of bringing about
some compromise agreement where
by the hours of labor for women, as
now affected by the Wisconsin state
labor laws, and which vitality affects
the pea canning industry in Manito-
voc, may be changed, is a possibil-
ity of the near future as a result
of the visit of Miss Ida Peck of
Washington, D. c., an inspector sent
out by the department of labor.
Miss Peck came here secretly, Wis
tied the local factories, interviewed
interested parties, looked over the
situation carefully, and will formu-
late a report on the matter. Her
visit came as a result of an appeal by
the pea canning companies to the
government, following their failure
to secure a modification of the state
laws from the Industrial commission.
1t is held that the fifty-five hour
law for women is a hardship on the
pea canning companies, particularly
during the vacation months when the
pea canning season is on. 1t is ar
gued that working more than the
ten hours a day for a few days in
the rush season will save the pea can
ming industry thousands of dollars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
FISHING IS LEGAL ON JUNE 1
Legislature Changes Opening and
Time Is Now Uniform for All
Game Fish Except Trout

MadisOn.-June 1 will mark the
opening of the fishing season in all
the waters of the state, save three
inland lakes, for all game fish ex-
cept speckled trout. The season for
these opened on April Is and will
close on Sept. 1.
The opening day under the old law
for all other game fish except bass
was May rs, but the last legislature
changed it to June l and the season
is now uniform for all game fish ex-
cept trout.
In Big Green Lake, Green Lake
county, where the water remains cold
late in the season, the fish spawn
later and for that reason black bass
and Oswego yellow bass are protect
ed until July /.
In Devils lake, Sank county, the
season is closed for all game fish
from Dec. Is to the fifteenth day of
the following June, and in Mirror
lake and Dell creek, Sank county, the
closed season is also from Dec. Is to
June Is.
1t is unlawful to have more than
fifteen black bass or Oswego yellow
bass in ones possession at any one
time or take bass less than ten inches
in length Pike must weigh at least
a pound, muskellunge two pounds
dressed, sturgeon four pounds dress
ed and trout must be at least six
inches in length and not more than
forty-five may be taken at any one
time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
WOMEN ARE SENT TO JAIL.
Mrs. Pankhurst and Others Given
Nine Months for Rioting.

Mrs. Pankhurst and Others Given
Nine Months for Rioting.
London, May 24.-Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst, militant leader of the suf-
frage party in England, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, co-editors Of
Votes for Women" the chief suffrage
organ, were sentenced to serve nine
months Imprisonment in the second
division following their conviction by
a jury of conspiracy and maIiciously
melting their followers to damage
property.
The sentence to the second division
takes from the punishment the ele-
ment of hard labor.
The conviction and sentencing of
the three leaders was the result of a
series of street disorders that culmi-
mated on the evening of March / in a
general attack in which hundreds of
women broke in windows, demolished
property, hurled bricks and fought
with the police in the center of Lon
don's most important district.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
PROTECT GRADE CROSSINGS
Large Number of Recent Accidents
Responsible for State Railroad
Comm ssion's Activity.

Madison.-The state railroad COM
mission is waging a campaign against
the dangerous railroad crossings. As
sisted by the engineering force, one
Of the commissioners has devoted
several months investigating the sit
uation. More than 1900 crossings
are considered dangerous and it is
the intention to make these as safe
as possible this year. Automatic dan
ger signals, including electric alarm
bells and illuminated signs, are be-
ing installed at all dangerous cross
ings that are not guarded by watch
men. The separation of grades is be-
ing ordered wherever it car be with
out undue hardship on the railway
companies. Instructions that inter
fere with the view of the tracks near
crossing are being removed. The
activity in this direction has been
stimulated by the increased number
of crossing accidents during the last
few months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
TELLS INQUIsIT0Rs HOW He
MADE FORTUNE BY DEALS
John w. Stevenson Describes Transfer
of His Concern TO the
steel Trust.

New York, May 25.-John Steven
son, Jr., a Scotchman and a relative
of Robert Louis Stevenson, enliYened
the hearings Thursday in the fed
eral suit to dissolve the United
States Steel corporation when he
told in rich Scotch accent of the
various deals by which he sold
half dozen steel properties
to the Retd-Moore syndicate, John W.
Gates and the steel corporation itself,
each time striking a profitable bar
gain.
Entering the employ of the Carne-
gle Steel company in 1875, when his
fellow Scotsman, Andrew Carnegie,
was making his reputation as an iron
master, Stevenson in 1892 established
at Newcastle, Pa, the first successful
tin plant mill in this country, he said:
Mr.. Stevenson told modestly of the
days Of fortune making when he built
up the Sharon Steel company, the
Newcastle Wire Nail company, the
Chenango Valley Tin Plate company,
which he handed to the American Tin
Plate company for a million and a
half dollars; the Newcastle Sheet and
Tin Plate company, which he turned
over for a million, and Of various 9TH
er companies he had organized.
He said that just prior to selling out
to John w Gates his wire nail com
pany competition was so fierce that
most Of the tin plate mills were in
bad way and his own company, the
| stron gest, was feeling pinched. Gates
wired him and met him on a train
and he agreed to sell, he said.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
PLAN AN OPPOSITION TICKET
Republicans Unfriendy to State Ad-
ministration Want E. L. Phillip to
Make Race for Governor.

Milwaukee.-Those opposed to the
denomination of Gov. Francis e. Nc
Govern by the republicans are try
ing to get E. L. Philip to consent
to become a gubernatorial candidate
in opposition to the governor. 1t has
been stated that Mr. Philip had Civ
en- his tentative" consent to the
proposition.
Should Mr.. Philip agree to run
it would be, it is said, on a platform
opposing the income tax law and de
handing its repeal, against the initia-
tive, referendum and recall and
against woman suffrage.
Mr.. Philip has, so he admitted,
received many letters from republi-
cans out in the state urging him to
head an opposition republican ticket
at the September primaries. The OBJ
ject of getting an opposition candi-
date is said to be for the purpose of
holding in line republicans who
would not vote for a democrat. The
movement is in a tentative state at
present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
FISH IN GREAT ABUNDANCE
Streams Near Couderay Are Yielding
Catches of Thousand Pounds
in a Few Hours.

Couderay.-Settlers within "a
dius of seven miles of Knudson lake
in this township, are busy fishing red
horse and sailing them down for
summer use During the night time
fish come up in small streams from
Knudson and Lake Chetek to spawn
and when a shoal OF them come they
literally fill the creek, sprawling over
each other making the water loog as
if it was boiling and causing a rum
BILE like distant thunder, it is then
that the farmers jump into the wa
ter using spears, forks and their
hands in throwing the fish out on
the banks. One man will throw out
1000 pounds of fish in a night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06

Whenever Macbeth" is put upon
the stage, very nearly fourth OF it
has to lie omitted, for, although 1t is
the shortest of the tragedies, it would
take fully three hours to read it out
loud without Cabling. Hamlet" thus
read would take nearly two hours
more, and this seems to bear out the
contention Of Swinburne, among 9th
srs, that much Of the play, and indeed,
Of other tragedies, was written by
Shakespeare for the study and not for
the stage. A six or seven hours per-
Torrance must have been too much
even for an audience Of EIizabeth's
spacious tImes.-London Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
FEDERAL TEST FOR
WISCONSIN GUARD
Subjects for Ranking al Summer
ManeuVers Announced.
TO DETERMINE EFFICIENCY
inspection ct Military Organizations
Is Taken as Indication That Uni,ed
States Conten7plates intervening in
Mexican Crisis.

Appleton.-Forms have been re-
ceived at the headquarters of the Sec
ond regiment from the war depart
ment announcing the subjects on
which the Second and Third Tegi-
ments will be ranked by the army
officers at the maneuvers this sum
mer. They include military phazes,
in which Wisconsin is perhaps the
most. proficient of any guard in the
country.
The report on discipline is to in
clude: Observation of military cour-
tesy, relations of officers and men,
promptness and orderhness of all as
semblies for drill or instruction, re
veille formation, observation of taps,
absenteeism from drill, use Of liquor
in camp, conduct of men off duty,
struggling on the march, spirit of
organization, supervision of records
and rosters, of camp police and of
company mess.
Drill and Instruction-Using the
infantry drill regulations, including
drill, combat, marches, ceremonies
and inspections.
Staff Officers-Reports to be made
as to the degree and manner in which
the respective staff officers perform
the duties of their office.
Arms, Uniforms and Equipment
Program to include a march of at
least three miles with field equip
ment and the establishment of a
shelter tent camp, followed by a gen
eral inspection of the command and
camp. A biyouac for the night with
supper and breakfast prepared I'M
der field conditions will probably be
held. The report will include: Uni
form, kind and condition; shoes, in
dividual quartermaster's equipment,
tentage and equipage, kind and guam
tity of transportation with organiza-
ton, officers equipment, complete
ness
Sanitation and Messing-General
police of camp, tents, mess tents and
kitchens; latrines, picket line, sys-
TEN of garbage disposal; rations,
kind, system of issue, sufhciency,
cooks enlisted, cooking utensils.
General Efficiency of
organization, considered as a whole,
for field service, assuming its pres
ent personnel and increasing it to
war strength during a period of one
month.
The fact that the Washington off
Gals wish to determine the condition
of regiments at the close of a month
after being called into service would
indicate that the matter of calling
the guard to Mexico is being consid-
cred
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
WOULD READJUST SALARIES
Expert Says Compensation of State
Employees Is Uneven Some Paid
Too Much, Others Not Enough.

Madison.-An adjustment of sal
aries of officials and employees in the
capitol is necessary, according to the
special report of the joint commit
tee on finance just issued. Herbert
R. Sands, who has been conducting
the Investigations, believes that in
CAPABILITIES in salaries is due to lack
of standardization.
ut seems probable that there are
too many low salaries and not enough
high salaries" says Mr. Sands, that
the recipients of the former are over
paid for the services rendered, while
the recipients of the latter are I'M
derpaid; that there are many in
equalities due to lack of standardiza-
ton. Such problems demand just
such comprehensive investigation
as might be made by a permanent
staff of the finance committee"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
RISK BUSINESS BOOM
INCREASE SHOWN IN RECEIPTS
OF INSURANCE OFFICE.
Tax of Northwestern Mutual Com
pany Practically Doubles in
Last Ten Years

Madison.-The receipts of the
Wisconsin insurance department
show that tremendous advances in
the insurance business have been
made in the past ten years. The tax
of the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance Co Of Milwaukee has practi-
cally doubled in the same period.
In 1902 the receipts Of the depart
ment were $46S,177.29. In 1906,
they jumped to S62J,43S.6S. For
the fiscal year 1912, about TO close,
the receipts will aggregate 1927
1856. Of this amount, however,
$4,000 should be deducted, as it
represents a fire department tax here
tofore collected locally. For the ten
years referred to, the total collec-
lions of departmental receipts aggre-
gated S7,166, 445.33
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-06-06
RUSH Us. MARINES
To CUBAN WATERS
One Thousand and Fifty Men Are
Now on Way. %
TROOPS PREPARE TO EMBARK
American Government May Be Forced
to Intervene in Island Republic
Owing to Serious Negro
Uprising.

Washington, May 25.-The uprising
Of negroes IN Cuba has reached such
an acute stage that the United States
has taken definite steps toward
third Intervention In the island re-
public. The navy department on Thurs
day ordered the gunboat Nashville TO
hurry from Santo Domingo to Guam
tanamo, where she will reinforce the
Paducah and the Eagle, now at that
point
That the transport Prairie carried
-,085 marines ready for service in
Cuba when It sailed from Philadelphia
last night became known here today.
This is several hundred more than
the war department had announced
would be sent. The vessel went with
out sufficient beef, because 10000
pounds sent aboard was rejected by
government inspectors who declared
It filthy and diseased"
An army of 5000 men thoroughly
equipped for an arduous campaign in
the tropics is being made ready to en-
bark aboard FIVE transports at New
port News.
The hasty preparations for armed
intervention in Cuba followed one an
other in quick succession.
In a statement issued the state de-
partment expresses the belief that
the negro instruction was organized
for the express purpose of provoking
Intervention by the United States. It
states further that the Cuban military
authorities admit that the situation is
serious.
Convinced hat the American govern
army war college and the general
staff is now hard at work upon a plan
of campaign that embraces the entire
eastern end of Cuba. AS former gov
ernor general of Cuba, Mai Gen. Leon
ard Wood, the chief of staff, is thor
oughly acquainted with the country
over which American troops must be
sent
Fear was expressed by a high Off
Ger Of the war department that unless
the rebellion is crushed Immediately
the malcontent negroes in Haiti will
cross the narrow strip Of sea that
separates their island from Cape
Maisi and join in the war.
Nearly all of the negroes in eastern
Cuba are related by blood to those
of Haiti. Most of them speak French
as well as Spanish.
1t is stated in Washington that If
United States troops go into Cuba they
will remain there Indefinitely, and per
haps for all time.