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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
BOYCOTT CHARGED
AGAINST CHAMBER
New Evidence Tending to
Prove Combine in Grain
Dealing is introduced
MANY FEATURES
ARE LAID BARE
Double and Triple Commissions Paid
Paid the Produce Finally Reaches
sumer-Movcment Against Equity
Society Is Condemned.

Washington, March 5. - Further
testimony charging the Chicago, Du-
l'lth and Minneapolis grain exchanges
with being combinations in violation
Of the antitrust laws was taken be-
fore the house rules committee today
which agreed to decide Saturday
whether to provide the congressional
investigation led by Representative
Manahan's resolution.
Crush Competition.
1t is now proposed to broaded the
inquiry to investigate speculative
transactions OF New York and New
Orleans cotton exchanges.
BENJAMIN Drake of Minneapolis
continued the charge that the Mime
apolis Chamber of Commerce is a pri-
vate monopoly, conducted in opposi-
tion to the interests of the wheat
growers. Drake described the meth
DDS which he said were calculated to
crush competition.
Denied Accommodation.
Farmers elevators are denied ac-
commodation by banks and are forced
to deal with commission houses,
Drake said. He charged that the
Minneapolis chamber maintained a
concerted boycott against the Equi-
ty Cooperative Exchange company
and had not bought a kernel of grain
for months.
Drake put into record letter from
Secretary McHugh Of the Minneapolis
chamber to the manager of a farm
ers' elevator company which he said
sustained his charge
Drake contended repeated useless
sales" OH the exchange added to the
mission houses which bought from the
growers and sold directly to the con.
sumers. he said. but sold to other
brokers, who perhaps sold to others
before the sale to the consumer was
reached. The result. he said, was q
system of double and triple commits
sions levied upon the grain paid for
by the farmer.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
ELEVATOR men
Define STATUS
State Association Will Take
Position on Controver-
sial Point.
s-rs.
SELECT BETWEEN
TWO FACTIONS
Possible That Neither the Equity Or
Chamber OF Commerce Will Re.
ceive Recognition at Hands of
North Dakota Independents.

jamestown. y. d.. March 5.-Ee-
fore the adjournment today OF tho
North Dakota Independent Elevator
which has been in progress since yes
tcrday morning. resolutions will be
adopted defining tile attitude of the
dealers towards the Equity Co-opera-
tive exchange and the Chamber of
Commerce of Minneapolis.
The association has n membership
OF five hundred independent elevator
managers. scattered over the entire
state. and they are potent force in
the grain handling world.
Yesterday President Lee MAIN
tanned his inability to distinguish be-
tween the equity organization and the
chamber, declaring his belief that
neither are operating on the best pos
sible basis.
w. G. Gushing. representing the
state rail commission. addressed the
elevator men in pleading for uni
form methods of accounting
w. II. Kerr of the department of
agriculture al Washington, main
tanned that the present systems of
accounting were on the proper basis,
although admitting the necessity of
further perfection Of the systems.
Several speakers have declared
their dissatisfaction with terminal
grain marketing conditions. and these
also. will come in for consideration
in the resolutions.
Officers and the next meeting place
will be named late today.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05

and in my opinion it would have been
better to have had somebody, better
acquainted with the Arctic than Cap
tain Bartlett. 1t seems funny that
Captain Bartlett should have gone
north in a vessel that was not suited
to tine expedition. and take excep-
tions to the statements of some of the
scientists that the Karluk is an old
condemned whaler.
While the Karluk is not a vessel
like the Fran, the Roosevelt or the
Bowhead, which were. built for ex-
traordinary ice conditions. she was
sheathed and strengthened for ice
work. and while not a powerful ves-
sci was successful in her whaling for
years. In case of heavy ice condi-
tons she would generally follow
some larger craft through the leads,
and was safe enough II properly
handled.
The real danger to the Karluk,
II freed from the ice pack, would be
when the wind changed. II 1t changed.
ana brought the ice pack back and
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05

caught the karluk between the re-
turning ice and the ice to the south
ward. Then, Of course. there would
be danger of her being nippcd and
lost. and the crew having to take to
the ice.
zone ship might be crushed in the
Arctic ice pack in fifteen minutes.
while another might be there ten
years and not be crushed. The crew
of the karluk might remain aboard
their craft If they were carried very
far into the Arctic and they might
abandon her and try to get ashore.
They may be ashore now and no
communications have been received
from them.
II think il anything had happened
to the Karluk some of the men would
try to get ashore. There are several
natives on board, according to Stef-
anssons story, and l do not think
that these natives would take a
chance and remain on board any ves-
sci in the open ocean,"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
death SENTENCE
FOR ELLIS. ASKED
Prosecutor Closes Plea for
Capital Punishment
In Hands of the Jury

Chicago. March 5.-The case of the
state against William Cheney Ellis, of
Cincinnati. charged with numbering
his wife. Mrs. Eleanor Hosea Ellis. in
the Sherman House last October. went
to the jury after a brief final argu-
ment by Prosecutor Mulata. A crowd,
in which were many fashiona bly,
dressed women. fought to get into the
court room.
Ellis. pale and weak, was brought
in after a bad night. Court attaches
said they expected . verdict before
night. ID
Malatos final address was brief.
He brought It to . close with the fnal
demand that the death penalty be in
dicted on Ellts, who, the prosecutor
declared, was in . fully responsible
condition when he committed the
murder Of his wife.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05

Top, ,Dr. Stefanss0n (arrOH) and
some of the explorers who may be
lost in the Arctic; the KarIuk froz-
EN- In the tee.
New Bedford, Mass, March 5-cap-
tain James A. Tilton of this city, for
thirty years an Arctic whaleman, be-
lfeves that Captain Bartlett, comman-
der of the Stefansson explorer ship
Karluk, which it is feared has been
lost in the Arctic. made mistake in
getting caught in the open Arctic,
rather than being found in the lane of
comparatively open: water. between
land and the ice pack which piles up
in ridges from a. mile TO two miles off
shore all along the northern coast of
Alaska east from Point Barrow.
Captain Tilton and his crew of thir-
ty men spent fourteen days on the
open Ice one year when his ship, the
steamer Alexander, was crushed in
the Ice. He thinks that the Karluk,
was carried off to the north in the gale
that Stefansson tells about. which
took place late in September, and he
fears that she was taken so far north
that the ice froze in the ocean before
a shift wind would help to bring her
back. It had been an extremely icy
year, and he says that under those
conditions the water is chilled all the
summer. and when it comes fall 1t
takes but q very short time to freeze
IN hard, one night being sufficient
to CONCEAL the ice SO that q horse
could be driven over it safely.
, Says Captain Tilton in reference to
the Karluk's fate:
= II lm afraid the mistake the Kar-
LUX made was in getting away from
the land. think Captain Bartlett
Judged more from what he knew about
Ice conditions in other places than
from his knowledge of the Arctic
ocean. stefansson 10 the only man.
In the. expedition who knows anything
about the ice conditions in the Arctic,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
STATE:OF SEICE
N RIO JANER|O|
Brazilian Port Has Trouble
Reports are Being Close
ly Censored.

Bueos Aires March 5.-A state of
siege has been proclaimed in Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, according to dispatch
es received here. Early dispatches
i gave no details Of the trouble at the
large Brazilian port.
1t is understood here that strict
censorship has been imposed on all
dispatches from Brazil. Reports cur
rent for some time that revolution
ary movement was in existence in the
brazilian states Of .Pernambuco, Ceara,
Para. and that fighting was in prog
ress between local forces and govern
mcnt forces.
In the last week Of February body
Of fanatics was reported marching on
Rio Janeiro.
Becoming Worse.
The situation in various states. es-
pecially in Ceara. Is reported as be-
coming worse. Business is virtually
at standstill in several states. par
ticularly where the negro population
is very numerous. The state Of Caara,
at the last census had q population Of
s50,o0o; Para. 100000, and Perna m
buco, 100000.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
Department lis
N|NUS:CO|U|:NSELL0R
r7.i ':..s.: sssss.;s1; i
Moore's Resiigliisiat il ton: 8. Be
&C: Comes iis's 'Is Effective ; i To-day
Harmony Lacking.
LEARNED. HIS NEWS
FROM THE PRESS
.'"''
During Last Few Weeks of Service,
lie FoundIIimself Performing Du.
ties Usually Assigned to omoiale
Far Below His Rank.


Washington, March .5.--7John Bas-
sett Moore's resignation. is effective to-
day, and the state department is with
out counsellor. AIoore's is prepared
t" take up his work. for. the Carnegie
endowment for International peace,
and later tn assume his place as head
of the department of International
law at Columbia university.
Although official correspondence
between the president, Bryan and
Moore announcing the resignation,
emphasized that the counsellor was
leaving the government service only
because of the term for which he
promised to serve lis at an end, there
continued n discussion in official and
diplomatic circles OF the lack of har-
mony between Bryan and Moore.
There are persistent stories of how
Moore became dissatisfied with the ar.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
CREEKS Death IS
F0UNDAlp|C|DENTAL
coroner's Jury in Double
Cremation at Minot Re-
turns Such Verdict.

Alinot. ~. D.. March 1.-The COR
oner's jury. composed of Frank Ly-
man, Frank Gallagher and Fred
Stoevener. called by County Coroner
Orson Doe to hold an inquest for the
purpose of establishing the cause of
death in the case of Spera Zivan and
John Gianoulis, two Greek railroad
laborers who were found dead and
burned to a crisp following a fire in
shack on the 500 right of way. near
the Henninasen creamery last Satur-
day morning; returned a verdict yes
! terday to the effect that the two vic
Tins came to their death accidentally
by fire. according to the evidence
shown.
The jury sat in the case Saturday
night and Monday morning and i
large amount of testimony was taken
in an attempt to sift The mystery to
the bottom.
The jury has made cvery effort to
| find if there has beer foul play com
mitted. and according TO the testi-
mony the verdict is the only one that
could be returned.
| There is still, heMGser. considerable
mystery in connees Win -rfe death
| Of the two Greeky. bs$ks syhss .iiay ,leve,
tbe cleared up: AFor# instance the
Greeks of the city who knew the vic.
Tins we'll are certain that Sperc
zvas had a big sum Of money just a
few days prior to his death. Other
property which has not been found is
IL pistol and watch. The disap.
(ropt;nuod on pouo eN
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
GEN. CARRANzA'S
INQUIRY IS ON
Constitutionalist General and
Staff Is Bound for
uarez Today.
NEW TREND OF
u. S DIPLOMACY
English Newspaper Writer Sees
Changc-Wcalthy Mexican Must
Pay Ransom of Half Million or Dic.
Given Till Tomorrow to Make Good.

Ell Paso. Tex. March 5.-lIuis
Tcrrazas, Jr.. the rebels prisoner
ut Chihuahua. is held until to-
morrow to pay half million ran.
som, or die.
Ell Paso. March determination in
to the execution by Villa of Benton
and also into the disappearance of
Gustave Bauch. was begun at Juarez
today by Mexican commission ap-
pointed by General Carranza, chief of
the constitutionalists, while the Anglo
American commission is still awaiting
instructions from Washington.
Headquarters of the constitutional
list government are established across
the river at Juarez. Seventy men,
heads of departments, clerks and sec.
retaries, brought with them carload
of official papers Of the rebel govern
ment.
Carranza and members of his cab.
met are reported started from No.
gales for Juarez. The yare making
trip overland under an escort of z,
900 men, as the territory is infested
by federal tilibusters.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
PRISONER CONFEsSES
Alleged Nssailant Of Minneapolis
G'oUNlc Identified.

Minneapolis. March 5.--Louis john
son. arrested near Russell. Mimi. last
night. was positively identified here hy
two victims. Mrs. c. T.. McRac and
Leslie Almquist. whom he assaulted in
tho formers store Saturday. according
TO officials. Police say johnson has
confessed
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
Change in Villa

London. March 5.-rhe policy OF
the United States toward Mexico oc-
cupied the leading place in the edi-
torial columns of nearly all English
newspapers today. The Evening
Standard discovers this: "A marked
change in the whole trend Of Ameri-
can foreign diplomacy. Instead of
naughty isolation. based on the strica
letter of the Monroe doctrine, the Uni
ted States Is becoming anxious to
stand well with the European powers
"The government at Washington is
apprehensive lest if it becomes in
volved in intervention in Mexico, ia
pan might seize the occasion to carry
out her ambitious designs on the Phil
ippines and Hawaii, and believes that
Europe if so disposed could lay an en-
barge on japanese ambition
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
Report Oonnr.ae.tl.

London. March 5.-Confrnnation ~
the report that state of siege has
<been proclaimed In Rio JanerIo ewas
received from that city by cable. Mar
tial law has been proclaimed IN Nit.
cheroy. fve miles east Of the capital
IN Petropolis. in the capital state OIL
Rio Janerio.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
Continued on Page 3D.
POST SPECIAL p ||';||I|!III|..-
70 MILES PER
That is Average Speed Main.
tanned Since Leaving
Los Angeles.

~, Albuquerque,. n. NJ, March s.
The special train aboard which c. w
ing from California to Rochester,
Mimi. TO submit to an imperative
major operation, overlook the east
bound Santa Fe Deluxa at Las Vegas,
Mex, at 2 a.. M. "A brief stop was
made at Latuea for change Of en-
gines at o'clock.
Z The race down hill across the Kan
sas prairies then began. An aver
age Of a. miles per hour has been
maintained since leaving Los Angeles.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05
An Hour Ahead,

Kansas City. March 6.-The special
train bearing C. w. Post from the
Pacific coast came out of Colorado at
?:45 a. m. and sped out upon the
ia Fe officials predicted would bring
it into this city at $50 y. M, an hour
'pslIMIi. YoeIo ed vluss su4 10 ppsup
which left Los Angeles 2 hours, Is
minutes ahead OF the special. Re-
ports are that Post is resting easily.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-05

Russell +. Greiner.
Russell f. Greiner. president of the
International Association of Rotary
clubs, Is on a tour OF the Eastern
cities in the interest of the organiza-
tions. These rotary clubs are or
sanizations of progressive business
men, each representing one line of
business in their locality Ar.
Greiner had an audience with the
president while he was in Washington
and invited him to attend the annual
convention of the clubs at Houston,
Texas. next June. Mr.. Greiner is the
head of a bank note concern In Kan
sas City, Mo.
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: a. m. Sc: max. 10; min. -:
= wind IA miles. nortllwets; PRO.
Cipitafi0n 80: barOmeter 9S,79.
Ss-s-ssssssss4+sssssss-sssseels,sssl. =
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North Dakota: Fair tonight
and Friday; somewhat colder. 10. :.
night.
:
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Remember That There Are Others.

Just at this time, when crowds are
everywhere. the urgent need of the
hour is consideration for others. It is
true that at times of congestion every
person must be more or less selfish in
order to make any progress at all. but
the selfishness need not take the form
of ruthlessness anywhere. In the
stores, where, Notwithstanding the
early shopping of thousands. there are
now large throngs throughout the busi-
ness hours. there is considerable need
of practical thought for others. Take.
for example. the matter of revolving
doors, with which most of the large
establishments of this city are equip
pcd- When properly used they permit
an easy, safe and continuous inflow
and outflow of people. When improp-
erly used they are danger to the less
alert. Some people seem to take a
delight in going through a revolving
door as though IT were a sort of game,
without regard for any one else. Many
narrow escapes from serious accidents
occur at these places daily. Elderly
people. comparatively slow of foot, are
often buffeted about in these doors, be-
cause younger shoppers following OF
going in the opposite direction are in
a hurry, and 1t is wonder that more
people are not hurt by this means At
Christmas time, when everything is at
high tension, II behooves everybody to
bear in mind the fact that life is COM
pick and not individual, and that the
people who are just in front or Just be-
hind are entitled TO consideration
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Loan Shark Amendment Needed.

Efforts are to be made at the present
session of Congress to secure an
mendment to the loan shark" law
which will increase the legal rate OF
interest on unsecured loans from ! to
per cent a month Experience has
proved that 1t is practically Impossible
to conduct the business OF loaning
money without collateral at the low
interest rate permitted by the new
local statute. which was enacted to
remedy an evil from which many
washingtonians were suffering. Thus
far, however, no success has been
scored in the endeavor to change the
law in a way to induce capital to enter
this field of making small loans.
although by a large majority the
House District committee has voted in
favor of the increase.
Now citizens who have been active
in this matter from the outset are
seeking to enlist the Presidents inter-
est and 1t Is to be hoped that they
have succeeded A timely word of
suggestion from the White House that
tho District needs this legislation
| would greatly help the cause. Nor can
| there be doubt of the need No real
gain has been secured by merely driv-
| ing the makers OF small loans out OF
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Spelling to Be Taught.
From the Boston Transcript.

49, -~~~~
In common with all large cities,
Boston contains many citizens who are
just "old fashioned" enough to cling to
the notion that the really educated boy
or girl should know how to spell. Not
infrequently these men, as leaders in
the business world, are large employ
ers of youth, and are not slow about
Insisting that their ideas shall receive
attention. AS result of their pro-
testing interest. Boston is now tack
ling the task of improving the teach
ing of spelling in It's public schools.
AS yet this effort Is still in the "in-
quiry" stage, but already some sort
Of remedy is in sight. The new de-
partment of educational investigation
and measurement, in its first report.
finds that the principal problem is to
determine what words children should
be taught to learn. 1t is admitted. can
didly, that "our spelling material for
the various grades Is not well selected.
that the pupils misspell over and over
the most common words and that there
is need Of concentrating instruction in
the common words of the child's writ
ing vocabulary" Plainly. then, we are
about to take step in the right di-
rection.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
New York and Patronage.

In 1850 New York was carried for
the republican national ticket by the
regular party organization under the
control of the two republican senators.
Mr.. Conkling and Mr.. Plat Gen. Gar
held had recognized their influence in
the campaign by conferrng with them,
and Mr.. Conkling had visited Ohio to
pay his respects in formal and sincere
manner TO the candidate. II is within
the record to say. indeed. that had Mr.
Conklins sulked in that campaign. as
four years later in the Blaine cam
paign. Cen Garfield. like Mr. Blaine,
would have been defeated He owed
his election more to the senior senator
from New York than to any o.ner
one man.
And yet when Gen Garfield took
office he yielded to influences which. in
the matter of New Yora patronage,
lad for their object the breaking down
of Mr.. Conkling and his friends in New
York affairs. He appointed against
the wishes of the senator and his
friends declared enemy of theirs to
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Punishment for Mendicants.
From the Philadelphia Press.

The superior court has sustained the
Society for Organizing Charity in Its
efforts to suppress street begging by
enforcing the law against vagrancy.
The two men who were sentenced by
Philadelphia judges and whose SEN
tence is sustained were blind and their
misfortune was used to secure contri-
buttons from the charitable. There is
provision made for the blind and the
INDECENT, but there is often money in
begging systematically pursued and
these men made d good thing out OF
their job Of working on the public SYM
pathy. They are property holders, 1t Is
claimed, and their appeals to charity
were an imposition on the benevolent
and their trade tended to rob the de.
serving poor of that which should have
gone to genuine objects of charity. The
Society for Organizing Charity does a
double service in distributing and
equalizing the charity that should go
to the deserving and protecting the
public from being imposed upon by
sturdy beggars who have taken up
mendicancy as profitable trade.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Myths.

There's no such man as Santa Claus. u
You've often heard 1t said.
Perhaps you shed tear because
Your childhood friend had fed.
There's no Dame Fashion, though we bow
To those who use the name:
No Madam Grundy-yet, somehow,
We fear the social game.
There's no Jack Frost to bring the cold
No Father Time SO great:
There's no such boy as Cupid bold;
There's no such girl as Fate.
So, ere we vow that we've been fooled
A moment let US pause
And note how all our lives are ruled
By myths like Santa Claus.