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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-11-26

Fri Grifis, of Little Grant, was
a caller yesterday.
Mrs. Henry Bausch is spending
the week at Bagley.
Mrs D. G. Johnson, Mrs. VIM.
Rees and Mrs. Ed Schwartz, were in
Sitter, yesterday.
Mrs J P. Croot is spending
Thanksgiving in Milwaukee with her
sister, Mrs o. A. Keys
Miss Maud Finney went to Chi
cago Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving
with her sister, Mrs. Scovill.
Mrs Lizzie Day went to Madison,
yesterday to see her two daughters
Mrs. Cleo. Phillips and Mrs. Sandi-
land.
Miss Dorothy Mccormick, who
has been here to visit her sister, Mrs.
Henry Carroll. returned home to Chi :
cago yesterday.
Mrs Hal Horton, who has been
here to see her grandmother, Mrs.
David Cornwell. returned home to
Fennimore, yesterday.
MIR. and Mrs. Chris. Brinkman
went to Ledger, So. Oak, yesterday
to see Mrs. Brinkman's sister, Mrs.
Jno. Dechow and other relatives.
Big aprons. little aprons, round
aprons. square aprons, fancy aprons,
plain aprons and aprons at the Presby-
terrain bazaar Saturday. Dec. 9th.
-Cassius Morse, of Wyalusing has
purchased H. W. Browns dandy Pine
Knob farm, near Animation, trading in
600 acre farm in Wyalusing on the
deal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Manly Porter, left
yesterday for visit in Wauzeka with
Mrs. Porter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
G. L. Lathrop. Mr.. Porter is en-
ployed in the Liberty cheese factory.
Mrs. @. F. Dickinson returned
last Thursday from a visit to her
daughter, Mrs. Anderson. in Chicago,
bringing with her the little grand
daughter, Helen, for an indefinite
stay. Mrs Anderson and little son
are expected soon.
Prof. Jesse Grafton. a former
popular teacher in our city schools.
now holding a scholarship IN Harvard
College, has leading part in a play
being given by students at Harvard
and the co ed in the sister college of
Radcliff. He'll make good.
The next meeting of the Woman g
club will be entertained by Mrs.
VIM. Ziegler next Monday afternoon,
December 1st. at 2 30 and will be a
mothers meeting. Each member is
authorized to invite her mother or
some other PERSONS mother. kes-
ponses: appropriate quotations.
On Wednesday last 81 of the
neighbors and friends of John Jacker-
ing, residing on Geo. P. Coolies
farm in Beetown. assembled by sur
prise at his farm, husked all of his
corn and put it away. MIR. Jacker-
ing has been sick for a number of
weeks and this evidence of good will
was very much appreciated.
The river press., 1913-02-12
On Trail Of 0rafters.

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-The trail Of
police graft pom which District At
torney Charles 8. Whitman set out
last summer, is declared by him today
to have emerged from the thicket Of
minor exposures to sn open road Lead
inc to men higher up.
Through the remarkable confession
which Police Captain Thomas w.
Walsh made to the district attorney
last night, which will be presented to
the grand jury, indictments will be
sought against a police inspector and
others as alleged graft takers on q
large scale. Walsh's confession was
made on his sick bed. It was forced
in part by charges made by Policem an
Eugene Fox, who pleaded guilty to
graft collection last Mond ay and turn.
ed upon Walsh "a the man next above
him. Fearing that heart weakness
with which he has long;been troubled
might foresh adow his deathland wish
ing to purge his conscience, Captain
Walsh admitted graft to the3extent of
perhaps SlO0. 900 in q single police
precinct. half this amount he turned
over to those higher up.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Montana Hogs Top Market.

ST. PAUL, Feb. S.-The feature in
the livestock trade at South St. Paul
this week was the arrival OF q choice
loud of Montana hogs hat were fatten-
ed for the market on wheat. The
quality of the hogs was good and they
sold at the extreme top of the market.
The hogs were fed and shipped by
Edward Chute OF Columbus, Mont.
and averaged 287 pounds, and were
sold to F. S. Page and company. The
experts at South st. Paul pronounced
them A No. l. The hogs were bought
by local packer aud tafter being
dressed they yielded the splendid per.
ceutage of 804 per cent. thus showing
that Montana can furnish hogs for the
market second to none.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Strike Has Cost $4,000, 900.

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-In the one
month since the strike of the men and
boys garment making industry began
here loss OF $4,000, 900 has been
borne by the manufacturers and their
workmen, according to estims stes pub
lished.
1t is declared that more than one
tenth Of the general output of mems
and youths ready made clothing.
amounting to s2O,00O,OOO, has been
lost to the industries in this city,
while the loss in wages to workmen is
estim ated at $4,000, 900. This does
not include the losses incurred by the
strikes in the women's garment indus
try. There is no sign of peace in
sight.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Dollar a Pound For.Iamb.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-Housewives
who visited the Center market this
morning uttered cries of dismay on
discovering that spring lamb of the
crop of 1913 was retailing at 81 q
pound. This would make leg OF
lamb cost from S6 to S8 and the price
10 said to be the highest ever record
ed at this time of the year.
The "trimmings" that generally. &C.
company the succulent spring lamb
mint and green peas-retailed at 10
cents bunch and Is cents q quart,
respectively. Prices of nearly all
commodities are advancing and deal.
ers regard the outlook for any de-
crease In the immediate future a. not
encouraging.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Oil Prices Have Advanced.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The soaring
price OF crude oil is being investiga q
ted by the department of justice in
connection with its inquiry to deter
mine whether the decree dissolving the
Standard Oil company has been vio.
lated. The government wants to know
whether any of the remaining subsi.
diaries of the trust have created con.
ditions responsible for the enormous
rise and whether there has been any
concerted action. Inform alton in pos.
session OF the department alleges tha,
some of the big companies have q
years supply of crude oil in their
tanks and the present high price
does not affect them but is burden
upon smaller concerns.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Oppose Leasing Public Domain.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The house
public lands committee is expected to
announce another public hearing on
Lever grazing bill between now and
adjournment. The Lever bill propos-
90 to give the secretary of agricul.
ture authority to form grazing die.
triots In the public land areas 10 the
west, to be under federal control, sub.
lect to ten-year lease periods with the
right to fence and otherwise improve.
The previous hearing was called up
on the request of former Forester Git
ford Pinchot and other conserv att YES,
and those opposed to the legisl alton
have been requesting q hearing for
the purpose OF completing the record
for the inform alton of congress. The
measure will not be brounght before
the present congress, but is expected
to be strongly urged for passage In
the sixty-third session.
Opposition to the Lever bill comes
from many small stockmen, who con.
tend its benefits will accrue to the big
stockmen and to their detriment.
Some western members have criticised
it because the ten-yesr period, with its
privilege of fencing, will prevent home.
steading and settlement of the country
while others are opposed to it because
OF it's provisions placing absolute and
final authority in the hands OF the
federal government.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Big Shipments Of Potatoes.

PoCATELLO, Idaho, Feb. 6.-Seveu-
ty-four cars of Idaho potatoes 10 two
special trains, the largest single chip
ment of potatoes ever known 10 the
west, passed through the Pocatello
gateway today from Bingham and
Bonneville counties for the eastern
and southern markets. To date 1880
cars in the districts to the north have
been shipped east and $500 cars re-
main to be loaded.
The river press., 1913-02-12
capital punishment passed in CON-
mittee of the whole.

capital punishment passed in COM
mittee Of the whole.
A new county division bill made its
appearance In the senate today. 1t is
intended to create the new county Of
Wheatland from portions of Meagher,
Ferg Us, Sweetgrass and Musselshell
counties, and its promoters hail chiefly
from Harlowton, which aspires to be
its county seat.
The senate also passed the bill pro.
viding payment of interest on city and
county funds deposited In banks, and
agreed to the house amendments to the
bill fixing the salary Of the state
prison warden Al "a, 900 . year.
The house held only one session
today, practically all of that being
devoted to work in committee of the
whole. A vast amount of routine
business was disposed of. This after
noon the joint committee on labor is
hearing the representatives of labor
unions, who are urging the enactment
of the Murphy compens alton act.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Cut GovernmentlTimber.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8.-A jury in
the United States district court here
today awarded q judgment of s50,047
to the government in the case against
A. B. Hammond, charged with aving
removed timber from government lands
in Montana.
Hammond is president of the Mon
tana Improvement company, Ltd, and
of the Blackfoot Mining company.
These concerns we're charged with hav.
Ing removed, under his direction, 21,-
185, 40 feet of lumb Der valued at SELL
600. from the government domain.
Hammond's defense was that he had
been granted special permission to cut
the timber.
The river press., 1913-02-12
EXPLORERS MEET DEATH,
Members Of South Pole Expedition
Perish in Blizzard.

LONDON, Feb. 10.-News reached the
world today that Capt. Robert F..
Scott. the Antarctic explorer. 3snd an
unknown number of his lcompsnions
perished In the Antarctic. while on
their return journey from the south
pole.
They reached their goal on January
lS, 1912. just month after Capt. Ra.
old Amundsen, the Norwegian, had
planted the asg of his country there.
They then turned back toward the
bases they formed on their outward
journey, but were overtaken, over
whelmed and destroyed by . blizzard.
Captain Scott's party reached the
exact point where Raold Amundsen
planted the Norwegian flag at the
south pole. They found there,the hut
constructed and left behind by Amund.
sens party. These facts were record
ed In the documents found on the
bodies Of the explorers when they were
recovered.
Captain ScOtt's main travelling
party was to consist OF. sixteen men be-
side himself, while groups of four
men each were to return At different
stages OF the journey, leaving Scott
and four others to complete the final
dash to the pole. This would indi-
cate that some of the members of the
party who had been left at the vari-
ous bases were not included among
the victims OF the disaster and that 1t
was they who communicated to the
world the fate of the expedition.
The river press., 1913-02-12
taxes amounting to 1000, 900 were
evaded by manufacturers who used
oil cured with sulphur. The COM
psnies have offered s1O2, 900 a. q com.
promise.
Will Paint Everything Red.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-A nation
wide use Of red paint is to be made
Immediately by the postof1ce depart
ment, which proposes to put in spick
and span condition all vehicles used
Ia the collection or delivery of mail.
Postmaster General Hitchcock today
ordered . general inspection made OF
the wagons and automobiles In ell
postoffices.
Where horses are used experts will
he called upon to certify that they are
''prompt 10 action, creditable in ap.
pear ance, In first class condition and
suitable for the work required oi
them" The minute inspection is to
extend to the small furnishings such
as the harness, whips, lamps and other
accessories. Whenever painting ia
necessary, bright vermillion red with
appropriate trimmings will be used.
The river press., 1913-02-12

BUTTE, Feb. S.-Accidentally pull
ing the trigger OF q gun which was not
known to be loaded, Joseph Manhire,
81 years old, shot his mother in the
face at their home today and she died
three hours later In the City hospital
from the injury. The lad was playing
with an old revolver for which he had
found Q cartridge. As his mother
stood drying her face with towel,
the weapon was discharged and she
fell with q groan.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Would Fix Electric. Rates.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-Sen ator
Borah today offered an amendment to
the Connecticut river dam bill, pro.
posing to allow the interstate com.
merce commission to fix the rates to
be charged by hydro-electric compan.
les for power, when such companies
opera ate in more than one state. Such
concerns are to be regarded as COM
mon carriers, whose rates and rules
shall be subject to the commission 8
jurisdiction, as are the rates and rules
of railroads, telegraph and express
companies.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Farm Products Are Cheaper.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l0.-The "high
cost of living" judging from figures
issued today by the department. of
agriculture, apparently is solving it.
self, as the result of lower prices for
agricultural products. The depart.
ment announces that on February l
the price paid for staple crops aver.
aged nearly 20 per cent lower than on
the same date last year, per cent
lower than in 1911 and nearly 10 per
cent below those paid in February,
1911.
The river press., 1913-02-12
SEEK FINANCIAL SECRETS.
Money Trust Investigators Will Ques.
ton William Rockefeller.

Money Trust Investigators Will Ques.
ton William Rockefeller.
BRUNSWICK, Ca, Feb. THE gov.
ernment money trust inquisitors came
to Brunswick today to attempt to
wress from the aged William Rookie.
feller's lips the secrets OF his 6nsncial
career as the active agent Of the 60.
called standar Oil group Of bankers.
Three incidents in the financial
career OF Mr.. Rockefeller was the OBJ.
ject OF the long chase that ended with
today's visit to Jekvle Island. Mr..
Untermyer wanted to get into the rec
ord the history of the so.called "fren.
zied finance" organiz ations In Anal.
gamated Copper company in 1901 and
the romance of the trans actions in
Amalg am ated stock in 1906 and 1907
when the securities. after dizzy climb
to about l20 points, dropped to AZ.
William Rockefeller, with the late
H. H. Rogers, Marcus Daily, Thomas
Lawson and others, org anized the
Amalgamated company, according to
testimony already before the commit.
tee, acquiring the stock OF Boston &
Montana, Butte & Boston and other
copper producing companies, which
we're later sold TO the new concern at
big increase in price. Mr.. Inter.
myer wanted the details of this deal
from the S.andar Oil magnate him.
self.
Other testimony before the commit.
tee shows that in 1907, the United
States Metals Selling company, con.
trolled by Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr..
Rogers which handled for the produc-
ers about 60 per cent. OF the country g
copper production, held back the bulk
of the product for sale, maintaining
the price of the metal at Is cents Q
pound.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Gambler Exposes Graft.

NEW YORK, Feb. u ames Purcell.
le, for II years gambler in New
York, unfolded today to the alder
manic committee investig ating graft q
tale OF paying for police protection
during that time. Testifying under
oath, he gave names, dates and places
He declared he had paid the police
many thousands of dollars.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Big Tax On Oleomargerine.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE govern
ment attempted today to enforce the
collection of 81 900, 600 from oleomar.
gerine manufacturers who used COL
ored cottonseed oil, under the ban of
the treasury department.. Commits.
sioner Cabel OF the internal revenue
bureau informed 8 house committee
today that the treasury would take no
action toward compromise until the
committee and the federal court at
Chicago had concluded its investiga-
tions.
The commissioner estimates that
The river press., 1913-02-12
Two Pray Bills Favored.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The house
public lands committee today favor.
ably reported the bill introduced by
Representative Pray accepting cession
by the state OF Montana to the iedera
government OF jurisdiction over Gla-
cier National park. The committee
also reported the Pray dill suthoriz.
ing the survey and opening or sban.
donirg Fort Assinniboine military
reservation by proclamation of the
pres ident.
The river press., 1913-02-12
Would Confirm Appointments.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.--Republican
senators caucused again today to de-.
termine plan Of action to meet the
democratic hlibuster against confirm.
alton of more than 800 OF President
Taft's appointments. Many were in
favor of abandoning any further at
tempt to put the appointments through.
A continuation OF the fight without
discrimination as to the classes of
The river press., 1913-02-12

nominations was decided upon by the
majority and later the republicans
succeeded. SO to "a, In forcing the seu-
ate to close its doors to consider ap-
pointments. The republicans will CON-
tinue to move for the consideration Of
nominations whenever such sessions
will not interfere with appropriation
bills or other executive business.
The river press., 1913-02-12
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.

LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.
Thirteenth Assembly Breaks Record
For Bills introduced.
HELENA, Feb. 8.-A total of 432
bills has been introduced in the thir.
teenth assembly to date; this breaks
all previous records. OF these las
bills have been introduced in the sen.
ate, and 287 in the house. A large
proportion of the me, sures will be
sent to the legislative cemetery.
For the first time in the history of
Montana legislature, . bill for the
submission of constitutional amend.
ment changing the method OF assess.
ing mines, has passed one branch of
the assembly. Aunin's bill went
through the house, but ~ two-thirds
vote of each house is required to cub
NIT constitutional amendment, there
is little likelihood of the measure be.
ing enacted.
Under the Leighton new counties
law in effect new county must shoul-
der its share of the county's liabili.
ties in the event they exceed the assets,
but there is no provision for distribu.
ton of the assets If they exceed the
liabilities and Representative Kemmis
would change this. He has given
notice OF : bill designed to make this
sharing business work both ways.
Three measures that propose benefit
to dry land farmers have been intro
duced by Senator Stevens, of Chou
teau county. One OF the bills pro-
vides for the regulation of grain
elevators and warehouses, and for the
inspection of grain. Another pro-
vides summary method for procur-
ing the right to erect q grain ware.
house or elevator On railroad rights
OF way. A third requires rsilro ads
TO erect platforms for the shipment Of
products at stations where loading
facilities are now inadequate.
****
Representative Carnal, OF Hill coun-
ty, is the author OF q bill which pro.
vides for hail insurance by the state.
and makes the commissioner of insur-
ance the commissioner OF hail insur-
ance, with power to hire such deputies
and clerks as may be necessary. When
the county assessors and their deputies
go around in the spring they are to
ask all farmers growing grain whether
they care to take out hail insurance or
not, and in the event that they do they
are to pay to the assessor the sum of 25
cents per acre for each acre of wheat,
oats, barley, fax, rye or other grain
az they desire to insure, which amount
is to be paid into the Office of the
county clerk by such assessor or
deputy. Claims for damage by hail
must not exceed $500 per acre.
****
One of the most acrimonious fights
OF the session, and one that still is
pending, has broken out between the
stockmen and the dry.landers. The
stockmen want legal fence of four
strands of barb wire, fastened with
stays, and posts set reasonably near
together; the email farmers want q
three strand wire, with fewer stay 9
and posts wider apart. The stockmen
claim such fence will bankrupt them
inasmuch as it will not turn stock and
they will be made liable for damages
to all the growing crops in the state.
The farmers, on the other hand, claim
the stockmen want q fence that will
turn an elephant, that their means will
not permit them to erect, and that
therefore they will have no protection
at all.
, 1913-12-27

Lotrup.
Secretary Of the State Council Koefoed has
retired.
The Rigsdag has voted the law about the
Department Chief in the Prime Ministry also
acting as Secretary of the State Council, and
mcIIye keeper III the Foreign Ministry Arup
ha+ been appoln ed.
The workmen in the Free Harbour declar-
ed q strike yesterday, owing to tine new
wages regulations.
The est. Crolx' leaves London tonight.
London, Dec. 24th-The "Bnnkers' Maya
zine recapituIates 387 representative stocks
winch have deprecated 1876, 100000 pounds
during the current year, and states that with
in eight years the depreciation has been
800, 100000 pounds.
The Premier Diamond mines dividend
for 1913 has been $50 per cent.
The 'Timps says that the proclamation
%forbldding the importation of arms into Ire
land is unlawful, respecting their transpor-
tation between one part of the Kingdom
and another. Sir john Simon, the Attorney
General, challenges this opinion, neyerthe-
less there have been official consultations.
Archbishop Ireland has sanctioned the
holding Of a solemn service as nn nterces-
sion for the preservation Of lrelnnd and It's
deljverance from the calamity of civil war,
and hns also authorized special prayers to be
SAID throughout his diocese.
Three hundred London policemen demon
strated IN Trafalgar Square against the 9TH
cial ban on heir Union, they also demanded
more pay, declaring that twenty-seyen shil-
lings weekly are insufficient TO place them
above temptations They wore civilian coats
and their uniforms trousers. Their speeches
v,o,a y1l criminal lint rnSolufp
, 1913-12-27

ST. GROIN STATION.
Copenhagen, Dec 24th-The Dowager
Empress Marie of Russia left here OIL the
twenty-second.
, 1913-12-27
PASSENGERS
Christiansted.

Dec. 24th-Dannebrog Tor 81. IIom0s-
Sophia Williams, Jens T. LAW, Sarah Percy,
Annie Jensen, Christian samuel.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-03-27
Adjournment Not In SIGHT.

The date of adjournment is not yet
in sight, as neither house has been
able to agree upon a fixed time. 1t is
stated freely, however, that it will be
at least the first of May before the
legislators can complete the work
which is now declared to be neces-
carU
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-03-27
BY j. w. HANNEN.
Especial Correspondence.)

Lansing, Mich, March 24.-After
the recall amendment resolution had
been killed in the house of represen-
tatives OF the Michigan legislature q
week ago, there not being the neces-
sary two-thirds vote, determined eff
fort to secure favorable action
brought the desired result, and by
calling the bill back from the senate
to agree upon the petition percentage
of rs per cent the resolution passed
the house by majority gratifying to
the supporters Of the proposition. The
resolution as turned down by the
house provided that the percentage
be not less than 25 per cent. The &C,
ton of the house was due to the over
whelming sentiment in favor of the