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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
RAILROADS ARE
SUIT Defendants
Charged With Making Illeg-
al Rates on Switching in
the Twin Cities.

The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific. Grand Forks two leading
transportation companies. are made
defendants along with seven other
railroads which enter Minneapolis and
st. Paul in a suit which charges them
with making illegal charges for
switching work in the twin cities. The
petition which is the result of the eff
forts Of the Minneapolis Civic and
Commerce association. has been plac-
ed before the state railroad and ware.
house commission in Minnesota. The
Transfer Railway company cease to
make switching charges in the twin
cities on all line traffic.
The nine railroads are involved as
part owners of the Minnesota Trans
fer company and the petition was fl
ed as an outgrowth of the effort Of
the latter company to establish a
small free switching zone, and to
make special switching rates outside
Of the small restricted territory. The
Civic and Commerce association
fought the transfer company's pro-
posal but the commission gave an or.
der establishing the zone and the as
ISOLATION has asked for a %rehearing.
The railroads named are Great
Northern, Great Western, Milwaukee,
Omaha. Rock Island. Northern Pa
cific. 500, Minneapolis and st. Louis
and the Burlington.
Transfer Line as Part of Each.
The new Petition seeks an order
from the commission requiring the
railroads to treat the Minnesota
Transfer Railway company as part of
their respective terminals. It asserts
the charter Of the transfer company
provides that 1t shall act as a means
Of interchanging trafic between these
trunk lines, as we'll as serving indus
tries in its own district, by forward
ing and delivering all line traffic. The
allegation Is hat the transfer com-
pany violated it's charter when 1t
sought to make a charge Of Its Own
against the shipping public. thereby
posing as a common carrier. 1t is as
serted, too, that its charter makes it
a part of each Of the owning lines.
The petition asks the railway COM
mission for an order requiring the
railroads to treat the Minnesota
Transfer as part Of their wi termi-
nails in fixing the switching rates on
local or industrial traffic. that Is. bus
mess moving locally between indus
tries on the transfer company's tracks
and those on the trunk lines ilmpli-
Gated. Under present arrangements
the railroads fix their own switching
rates individually.
The case put up to the railroad and
warehouse commission is declared to
be of great Importance to the COM
lmereial interests of the two cities.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
SPEND ONE DAY IN COUNTY.
HellstrOm OH Tour Cass County We'd.
uocsJav (Npfohor 90

HellstrOm On Tour Cass County We'd.
nesday. October %.
Frank o. Hellstron, democratic
candidate for governor, will tour Cass
county only one day. Wednesday,. Oc-
tober %. Mr. .Hellstrom will speak
first at HARDWOOD at $3.50 o'clock We'd
nesday morning and will then go to
appear at 10 a. m. Gardner at 1880.
Grandin at i. Hunter at 4. Erie at 6
and Arthur at 1880 p. m. The trip
will be made in automobiles. The big
evening meeting at Arthur will be
held in the opera house.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
PANAMA CANAL.
Ad Altiora Literary Society Will Talk
1t Over.

Nd AltlOra Literary Society Will Talk
1t Over.
The main feature on the of
the Ad Altiora Literary. society on
Wednesday evening at the university
will be the discussions on the various
phases of the Parma canal. The meet
ing will be held as usual at 1890
o'clock In the auditorium Of Wood
worth hall.
William Whitford is scheduled to
give n talk on the progress of the
canal. The question OF the advisabili-
ty Of terrifying the canal will he dis
cussed by George PerrOtt.
Resolved. that the United States
should discriminate in the matter of
toll charges between foreign and
American ships passing through the
Panama canal" is the subject Of an
Interesting debate. The affirmative win
be upheld by Messrs. Hofto. Sheets
and Holicky and the negative will he
supported by Messrs. Dahl. Reinert-
son and Mcdonald. The Coming Ex-
position" Is the topic assigned to Har-
ry Read. MacLean johnson. will give
. defamation.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
MANY MORE o
NEEDED FOR THE
TEACHERS OF STATE

Although there has been a ready re.
sponsc in the listing Of rooms with the
commercial club for the entertafn-
ment of delegates to the state educa.
ttonal convention this week, It Is cyi.
dent that quite q number Of additional
rooms will be needed. All who have
rooms which they are willing to rent
to visiting teachers arc urged to mott.
fy the commercial club, 14S either
phone, not later than tomorrow. The
visitors will begin to arrive tomorrow
evening but the majority of them will
come in on the trains Wednesday.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
LUCK FOR
AND COWS BURN

Devils Lake, n. D., Oct. :1.-Firc
originating from an unknown cause
worked the destruction of u large
barn and burned to death twelve head
of horses and six COWS OH the farm OF
Ole Larson, eight miles east of here.
Several tons OF hay and q number OF
farm implements were also consumed
by the flames. The total damage will
amount to about $4,000. Insurance
of $1,000 was carried. The unfortu.
cumStanccs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
FALL RALLY AT
Y. M. c. A. WILL
BE MERRY E

Members and contributors of the
Grand Forks Y. NJ. G. A. will enjoy
the fall rally at the association build
ing tomorrow night. The celebration
will start with a dinner at $3.50 o'clock
at which the guest of honor will be
II. o. Hill. secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A.
of Sac Paulo. Brazil. who is in this
country on his furlough. Following
the spread MI. Hill will give his fa-
nous stereopticon lecture. 1.-The Call
Of the South" The Get One" club
will be launched at this rally.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
UNIVERSITY POLITICS.
Third Party Boosters Meet This After.
NOOn.

Third Party boosters Meet This After.
OOn
Those interested in the progressive
party movement at the University of
North Dakota will meet this afternoon
at 4 o'clock in room 201 Merrifeld
hall for the purpose of forming an
organization and electing officers. The
Wilson club which was organized last
wear will meet this evening at 1880
o'clock in the law school and at that
time will select officers. The
present officers Of this club are Clyde
Duffy. president: Nicholas Dimond.
vice president and Cecil Mckay, sec.
rotary,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
MARKET DAY CELEBRATION
Iankin Commercial Club to Hold Ri
Affair.

The Commercial club of Lankin.
which Is composed of business men
of that city and farmers In the vicin-
ity. is making preparations for mar
ket day. which will be held Wednes-
day. DIR. +. p. Robertson. president
Of Wesley college. has been invited to
speak.
The Lankin club holds two such cell
ebrations each year. the purpose be-
ing to get the farmers and the bust
ness men In closer touch. The farm
ers exhibit samples Of the best Of
their products. A carnival company
will help furnish the amusement for
the afternoon and evening.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20
The BIGGEST NEWS STORY

When the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research states that it is
ready to announce a serum cure for
pneumonia it may be taken almost as
a certainty that such a serum has
been discovered and that it will ac-
complish the results claimed for it.
Moreover it is an annour cement to
have been expected. The specialist has
conquered smallpox, robbed diphtheria
and typhoid of their sting
1t is only news from the front that
medical science has captured pneu-
monia. May the next bulletin bring
cancer.
If the announcement of the pneu-
monia cure is correct-and the serum
is probably ali that is claimed for it
it is the biggest news story Of the
year, tho 1t lacks high type heads in
the newspapers. 1t Is a bigger story
than mine disaster involving the loss
of thousand lives, for the pneumonia
cure means saving the lives Of mil
lions. 1t will be history to the worlds
end
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research is a great thing. Mr.. Rookie
Teller in extremely fortunate to be able
to buy partnership in immortality
with F1exner and other truly great hu-
man benefactors. This institute can
italized by commerce and conducted by
scientific genius should. it seems, sug-
gest again that the human race is al
least equally deserving with hogs and
cattle and crops and that the United
States needs department Of medical
research quite as much az 1t does ar
agricultural department. Such Rreat
gifts to humanity as the cures for viru
lent meningitis. diphtheria, typhoid
pneumonia, infantile paralysis, anc
cancer ought not to depend upon the
within Of Millionaire or the starvation
Of 4 genius.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20

diners and no reporters, and discovers
to his horror that his remarks have
got. into print a senatorial commit
tee goes into executive session and de-
cides this, that and the other thing.
(See the, newspaper columns of the
day. The socialists call a party meet
ing at Cooper Union for the threshing
out of questions Of party policy. The
public. including reporters, is ex-
cluded, but the Socialist Call next
morning publishes an account of the
debates that were not meant for COM
mon ears. What sense is there to the
practice? The news comes out any
how, and it only subjects private in
dividuals to the, peril of an Ananias
club election. instead Of leaving it to
the men with whom that danger is
part of the days work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20
Ate, . 100 Pc, Cent Dividend.

Bankruptcy on the part OF COM
parry which was so prosperous that at
one time it paid dividend of 1900 per
cent, seems almost incredible. Yet
this is just what hapepned in 1893 to
the ENyton Land Company. which
owned much Of the site of the pres
ent city of Birmingham. This fact il
Illustrates the growth Of Dixies new
industrial giant yet out of all the
booms and vicissitudes." writes Gra-
ham r. Taylor in The Survey. I'VE have
as outcomes the sheer facts of heaped
up land values and swelling boundary
lines and Of doubling populations, all
set off against the background OF a
farming country. whose soc!a! instttu-
tiors have been stretched to the snap
ping point by this sudden city pres
sure OF the original tract bought in
1871 the present company, successor
to E2yton Land Company, still has
about one-ffth. four fifths having been
sold Of yet the value OF this one-fifth
Is estimated today to be more than the
price first put on the whole area and
bought by the company at $25 an acre.
sold ten years later for $1,000 an acre.
An old sea-captain built three-story
bank ON q corner lot for which he had
paid $500. They called it 'Linn's
Folly" but today a sixteen-story office
building stands on the corner. From a
population Of 3,08S in 1880, the city
grew to 3S,415 in 1900. The 1910 CEN
sus shows 132,6s5 people. The annexa-
ton Of adjoining suburbs in January
Of that year accounts in considerable
part for this last figure, but the pop
ulatioD Of the territory now included
ii the greater city has Of itself douoied
in the decade. This move consolidated
into one municipal unit nearly score
Of small towns whose previous lack Of
cooperation had frustrated nearly
every compr extensive effort for civic
advance"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20
"eREAIER IOWA"

When Lieutenant Governor Clarke
had finished his speech before the
Grant Club at Des Moines Thursday
evening this plea for Greater Iowa was
very much OF a joke. Mr.. Clarke, who
has been an active participant in the
accomplishments and governmental
progress In this state since 1900 re-
viewed the things that had been done
for a greater Iowa in that time and
promised that as he had been permit
ted to assist in past accomplishments
he would, as governor, attempt to lead
on in the same direction.
Turning to the state colleges when
might be termed Eolden's own stamp
ing ground Governor Clarke showed
that at Cedar Falls the auditorium. the
gynna SUM, the chemical laboratory,
the presidents house, superintendent
house boiler house, engine house, do
nestic science laboratory, library and
training school had all been built, ag-
gregating s655,ooO, since his advent to
public life.
At the state university almost the
entire group OF buildings now compos-
ing this ma grihcent school, have been
built during Mr.. Clarkes time in pub
lie life; total expenditure amounting to
$1,3s5,413.
And so has It been at Ames. The
Cherokee hospital and the tuberculosis
sanitarium have been built since then.
At the state fair the stock pavilion.
dairy building, swine barn. amphi-
theater. additional land and machin-
cry hall have all been provided for dur
ing Clarke's time.
The great historical building at Des
Moines has been built.
Compulsory education, school con-
solidation, agricultural instruction in
public schools, pure food law. pure seed
Jaw. prevention Of watering capital
stock, removal law, prevention of cor
poration contributions to politics, q
cent fares, anti-pass law, collection of
interest on state and county deposits.
factory inspection, reduction of tax on
moneys and credits, the commerce
counsel to 1oeend the states interest
in freight rates, the statewide primary
system. drainage laws, compulsory road
dragging have all been accomplished
during the time in which Governor
Clarke has been active In the state
legisla ture and they have all contri-
buted to greater Iowa as he believes
When the record Of the past fifteen
years Is studied 1t does tend to make
a tired to hear sudden cry for a
Greater Iowa" go forward in the in
terest of a -candidate who has had
nothing whatever to do with these ac-
complishments but whose friends imply
that the other man is not himself head :
ed toward greater things for the state
he has already served so we'll.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20
Topics of the Times

The Register and Leader should quit
crying Wolf! Wolff" when there is
no wolf to be seen
When a state permits child labor it
adde's citizenship in the egg.
If Mr.. Carnegie had given the form
ula for .skinning Pierpont Morgan some
Of US might reduce the quantities of
the ingredients and use it in a small
way in our own environment
II a man without training as ma
chinist promised you to make an auto
mobile bigger. faster, easier and better
than the finest six-cylinder sixty horse
machine you ever saw, would you turn
over the machine shop to him?
The educational board or Professor
Holden could relieve the situation by q
verbatim account of what was said
and done, denied and confessed at the
professors examination under charges.
Perry G. Holden, 1owa's great corn
expert, is announced as candidate
for governor. Boost Iowa" would be
boosting.-Monroe Mirror.
This is sample of the SANDER sent
broadcast by shrewd or silly persons
Was Jasper county ever so prosperous
as it is today? The impression carried
by the Mirrors hysterical outbreak
suggests crop failure and famine or
foolishness.
Reading between the lines it is EVIL
dent that the Sioux City Journal is not
enthusiastically favorable to Cummins
for president. -
President Taft has freed Morse. the
banker, from the Atlantic prison on
the surgeons report that the man will
probably die within month from
heart disease. If the surgeons are right
the president is right.
The Greater Iowa" Gin quotations
and in politics), is taking on cooked
hat aspect.
80
| Senator Lorimer never Kicked hi.
best friend downstairs in order to get
into office.-Sioux City Journal
| However it rs pretty certain that HI
parted with quite wad of "a man,
best frier,df' In the. effort. And, any
way. who's been kicking Uncle George
The Scranton Journal, while oppos
ing him. says it has no grudge agains
Holden" Neither has any other low,
newspaper. No man has been so per
sistently anu. iiperaiiy boosted In h:
place as Holden. The question 1
what srudge has Holden against him
self which would induce him to leav
!. ae!As ce real greatness to become
political football?
| There IL still speculation over VIII
! Hitchcock sprung his telegraph schem
without Taft's knowledge IN an can
4 dor it seems that a member Of tn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20

recalls the Larrabee administrator
struggle against railroad domination
in politics without apparent particular
relation to the matter in question and
getting back to school buildings says:
iowa has built lot Of handsome
buildings at Ames and Iowa City and
Cedar Falls But how does that mill
superintendent that from 95 to 80 per
cent of the boys and girls Of Iowa never
get beyond the eighth grade, and that
no progress worth while has been made
in eighth grade schools in forty years
THE Greater Iowa campaign is a
campaign for the 95 per cent Of the
boys and girls who go to the eighth
grade schools. Recounting the mil
lions of dollars that have been spent on
magnificent stone buildings for a small
per cent who ever finish high school
and go to college can not be used
against that campaign when the people
come to understand"
But what has this to do with the
candidates for governor? The fact that
a large number of the boys who enter
the grades leave at 16 without the
equipment to which they are entitled,
is no new thing and agitation for a
change which Will do more for the
grammar school pupil and not less for
the high school and college student
has been and is being urged all over
the state of Iowa and other states. 1t
Sc ;~5, - tiny, al do
velopment to be settled locally Tor
the most part, not an issue in presi-
Dental or gubernatorial campaign.
And if it were it would seem that the
men who had built colleges and nor
NAL schools would incline to correct
educational defects as rapidly as pos
sible. The charge that there has been
no change in eighth grade schools for
forty years is absurd. Everyone 40
years old knows it is untrue. SO does
everyone who ever went to school and
who has children in school
Does the Register and Leader mean
that the Greater Iowa" campaign in
CluQeS IOrCeQ CO1lSOllQdllOu OIL present
rural school districts into township
schools7 If SO il will meet great and
strenuous opposition in the rural sec
tons which are not ready for such
consolidation and where the residents
are not convinced that the transporta-
ton of children is feasible under pres
ent conditions? Moreover it may be
added that this is a question for an
educational campaign rather than an
issue upon which to base a guberna-
torial candidacy. Iowa has been fortu-
nate in that she has kept her schools
out of politics.
A greater Iowa is the hope and pur-
pose of all loyal Iowans irrespective
Of political creeds or personal ambi-
tons. So far as the general program
for a greater Iowa is concerned the
entire state is agreed upon it in a
general way. 1.-The Greater Iowa" in
quotation marks doesn't seem to be
anything but peg to hang political
possibilities on-and seems to be driven
at the same height and for the same
purpose that Ex- Senator Young drove
his god roads" plug.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20
The Great Gift, Gasoline.

w nat Is SdSOlHie - M
Commercially speakin&s lit is the rea
sonably limpid, colorless. fluid. care
fully thinned and lightly sprinkled
with tiny splinters-these latter being
provided to clog your carburetor-for
which the proprietor of the wayside
garage charges you from Is to 40
cents per gallon, according to the ad-
vertised price Of your car and the
presence or absence Of a chauffeur on
your list of accessories. Ordinarily.
gasoline is found surrounded by mo
Smoking" signs, the Inference being
that lighted cigar Is dangerous in
it's vicinage; altho many hold that the
article frequently encountered today
might be used with the utmost success
as the sousfng factor of a fire extin-
guisher.
In nature we find gasoline to exist
in petroleum, an indolent, oleaginous
juice which wen. 20 che bowels OF the
earth to hide from the eye Of man,
and was dragged out and put to work.
And, in this connection, some day or
other, when gasoline comes into Its
full recognition. a learned. ,savant 10
going to get up a mighty interesting
little monograph which VIII throw a
new light on the true cause OF earth
uuakes and place the blame where 1t
belongs.
Chemically. one distills gasoline
from petroleum. A little natural gas
fizzle out at hrst; then httie
fraction of rhigo1ene. Rhigolene. by
the way, is an anaesthetfc, and In It's
presence here we find another example
of natures wonderfully beautiful work.
ing: being about to endOw US with
gasoline and all that 1t entails. per-
fectly reliable pain-killer. 10 first pro-
vided, to be tucked away conveniently
and used when needed. The rhigolene
worked of, gasoline boils Its way into
existence. There are several varieties
plain and fancy. light and heavy. eacn
with its uses The last Of the lot &c
come over Is stove" gasoline. and even
this lives up to its honored surname
an a source Of action and entertainment
Handled by an absent minded person
in Just the improper way, sasonhe
stove will furnish more real motioh
and diversion than any other one thine
under the sun With the load OF Saeo-
line removed, q pang Of shame comes
to petroleum: it settles down con-
tentedly to give forth kerosene for oui
lamps vaseline for our burns peiaI-
nne for our Jelly Jars, and 1t gasoline'
no nore.-Edgar Franklin. In the FEB
ruary Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20
PRACTICAL CHURCH work.
ISioux City Tribune.1

One Of the churches Of Kansas City
has enlarged the scope Of its weekly
prayer meeting. making It into q gath
ering devoted to discussion and plans
for practical community work.
The old fashioned prayer meeting
was emphasized strongly years ago
when 1t was considered the chief duty
Of the churches to arouse their menu
bers to a more economical religious
experience. The churches today are
paying more attention to works Of
charity and benevolence.
Here Is a man whose soul Is all
right, and will be on the other side, but
he Is poor and sick and his. temporal
condition needs attention. He needs
the ministry Of human sympathy and
personal friendship to make him feel at
home in the cold wer!a that has not
been particularly kind to him.
Another is out of employment. His
family IL in. need. The church mem
bers counseling together can get him
! g t:ss Y .s h.s r:>e:e.t human c!-c,,r.-
stances that need attention.
Here is homeless young fellow
whose whole life, would be bettered b,
an opportunity Of night school. A
public reading room in every neigh-
= berhood where the working Young mer