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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
CALLS ELECTION LAW UNFAIR
Crystal Bay Justice Believes Corrupt
Practices Act Favors Senators
and Representatives.

Minneapolis, Oct. 13.-The corrupt
practices act, passed by the special
session of 1912, doesn't look good to
Frederick White, justice of the peace
at Crystal Bay. The justice believes
the act discriminates in favor of sena-
tors and representatives.
Mr.. White unburdcned himself when
he dismissed the cases against Henry
Carlson, Harold Noeremberg, and
Fred Hartmen, who were arrested
election day charged with carrying
voters to the polls. The cases were
dismissed for lack of sufficient evid-
ence, but Mr.. White had been study
ing the corrupt practices act and had
something to say about it.
Section SO Of the act exempts can
didates fer the House and Senate from
direct application of the penalty and
provides that violations of the law
so far as such candidates are concern
ed are to be reported to the presiding
officer of the House or Senate Mr..
White points out that it is impossible
to apply the penalty to the candidate
for the legislature the same as to his
employe who violates the law.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
PEOPLE ARE HELD.
/. .IGREATEST ASSET
GOVERNOR ASSERTS MINNESOTA
Is YOUNG, BUT REMARKABLY
PROGRESSIVE, STATE.
FAUlTFINDERS NOT WANTED
"Every Man Worthy to Put His Foot
on American Soil Should Consider
America the Worlds Gre.test
Country" Says Hammond.

Winona.-Unless man in this coun-
try is willing to concede that America
is the worlds greatest country, he owes
the community one debt, the payment
of which calls for his departure to the
country he likes better.
This was the message Governor
Hammond left with the people of Chat
field in his address in connection with
a barbecue festival.
The chief executive discussed the
Importance Of Minnesota with relation
to the Union.
Ihls is a young state, but a re-
markably progressive one," tie COVER
nor said. 1T has developed in won
dertul manner, so at the present time
you will find that it is one of the
greatest agricultural states of the
Union. 1t is also the greatest iron pro-
ducing state: also the greatest dairy
state; but the greatest asset is not it's
grain, not it's milk, not it's lumber, not
its iron ore; but it's people, something
more than 100000 in the state today.
Il thoroughly believe in America, my
friends. There is no country like
America, I think. There is no place
where freedom given to the people is
greater. No country where the oppor.
tunities are greater, higher and better
ideals than our own and every man
who is worthy to put his foot on Amer.
lean soil ought to consider America
the first and greatest country in the
world"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
JURORS IN NEW HAVEN TRIAL
Task OF Selecting Twelve Men to
Hear Case Against Directors
Progresses.

New York, Oct. 16-The task of
selecting a jury for the trial of Will
liam Rockefeller, Lewis Cass Led
yard, Edward D. Robbins and eight
other defendants charged as directors
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company with con-
spiracy to monopolize the transport
tation traffic of New England to the
point where IL tentative jurors were
in the box when adjournment was
taken for twenty-four hours.
Twice during the late afternoon
session the jury box had been SINH
larly filled, but counsel for the gov
eminent and the defense each exer-
cised a peremptory challenge, neces.
stating the examination each time of
another talesman.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
ST. LOUIS COUNTY is SHORT
Discrepancies in Office Of County
Treasurer, Amounting to $1,000
Reported to Examiner.

Duluth, MINI. - Following a two
weeks examination of the books
in County Treasurer George Vivian's
office, Inarles R. Boostrum last night
submitted a report to Andrew E.
Fritz, public examiner for Minnesota,
showing discrepancies and shortages
in the Office accounts, amounting to
more than $4,000.
The discrepancies are held to indi-
cate malfeasance on the part of as
sistants in the treasurer's office.
The examination was conducted at
the express request of County Treas
urer Vivian. During September he
found several accounts that aroused
his suspicion and resulted in the dis
missal, pending the report of the pub
lie examiner, of Joseph T. Nelson, dep
uty treasurer, and Gust L. Wedan, one
of the bookkeepers in the Office.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
SERVES COMMUNITY DINNER"
erainerd Affair Described az Unquali-
fled Success-Farmers' Clubs
Are Represented.

Brainerd. - Brainerds Community
dinner" which was served here, was
an unqualified success. Members of
the Brainerd Chamber of Commerce,
representatives of farmers clubs and
county and city officials, 800 in all,
enjoyed chicken dinner and listened
to a program of addresses by former
Congressman Fred c. Stevens Of St.
Paul, Julius A. Schmahl, secretary Of
state; President John Henry Worst of
the North Dakota agricultural schools,
William L. Harris of Minneapolis,
County Attorney S. F. Alderman and
Mayor DR.. R. A. Beise. Rev. G. p.
Sheridan presided as POSTMASTER.
County Attorney Alderman sketched
the development Of the county from
pioneer days to tax valuation of $14,-
100000. Secretary of State Julius A.
Schmahl praised the progressive spirit
of the county commissioners and their
plan for good roads.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Neoress Concealed Opium.

Duluth.-When Violet Ray Jones, q
negregs, stepped from the steamer
America, when it arrived from Port
Arthur, Ont, she was arrested at the
instance of the customs authorities,
charged with attempting to smuggle
opium. The officials had received a
tip from Port Arthur. A search re.
vealeI % ounces of the drug in her
corsst. She is believed to be a men,
Der Of a gang of smugglers who have
been bringing the drug into this coun-
try from Canada Her frequent trips
aroused suspicion.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
PIG-GR0WERS WIN PRIZES
Minnesota's First Contest an Unex-
pected Success-Four Hundred Boys
and Girls Entered,

st. Paul.-Minnesota's first pig
growing contest was an unexpected
success. Four hundred boys and girls,
representing almost every part of the
state, entered the contest last spring,
and $50 finished the work.
Harold Bemis of Long Prairie, a
boy of 16, with Duroc Jersey pig,
won the highest score in the state.
His pig made gain Of 1876 pounds per
day at a cost of 3.9 cents per pound.
His score was 91.7. He received four
prizes-the national all-star club en-
blem awarded to this state, $40 as first
prize for the north central section of
the state, So awarded by the Duroc
Jersey association for the boy doing
the best work with Duroc Jersey pig,
and pure-bred Duroc Jersey pig civ
en- by one Of the leading breeders of
the state
Oscar Pearson Of Loman, Koochi-
ching county, won the prize for the
northern section Of the state.
Floyd Rieke of Fairfax won the prize
for his section of the state and Harry
Haling Of Rochester won the prize for
the southern section.
Melvin Sansness of Farwell, in the
north central section of the state, was
awarded special prize of a pure-bred
Yorkshire pig given by Thomas Can
field of Lake Park.
A group of Is boys and girls in Aus
tin won the club prize, each boy to
receive a pure-bred pig. Anoka was
second on the club list. Blooming
Prairie, Worthington and East Grand
Forks won honorable mention.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Japs and Chinese Fight on Shin

Seattle, Wash, Oct 12.-Scores Of
Japanese and Chinese sailors were
nursing cuts and bruises as a result of
free-for-all fight aboard the Great
Northern liner Minnesota in port here.
Two hundred Orientals, a majority of
tho crew of the steamer, participated
In the fight, which police reserves had
difficulty in stopping. The exact cause
Ut the trouble has not been deter
mined, but officers of the ship said the
Japanese and Chinese had been ON un.
friendly terms ever since the Mime.
sofa sailed from the Orie-- >. 90.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
I DIDN'T. mean TO KILL HER
FRANK STABLE Tells OF MIN.
NEAPOLIS HOTEL MURDER.
Man Indicted for Staying Della Stokes
Says He Never Saw Her Before
That Night.

Minneapolis, MINI. Frank J.
Stable, indicted for the murder OF
Della Stokes in a room at the Elroy
hotel, 81 Nicollet avenue, early last
Friday morning, is prisoner in the
city jail. Detectives Neary and Duff
fy brought him back from Chicago.
Stable is q quiet, slender man,
with mild voice and keen eye.
He told briefly what he knows of the
murder.
II didn't mean to kill her. I didn't
know I had killed her." he repeated
over and over. "Why should I kill
her? I never saw her before that
right"
Wife Lives In Chicago.
Stable said he is q machinist by
trade but had spent several weeks in
the harvest fields. His wife lives In
Chicago and it was for home that he
started as soon as he realized he was
sought by the police for the murder.
Stable told the detectives who
brought him back that he did not
strike the woman with cuspidor.
Della Stokes parents, who live ct
Sierra Blanca, Texas, have been in.
formed Of her death. A telegram re.
ceived by Coroner Seashore from her
father, G. H. Stokes, read:
cant come. Bury Della there
Will write in full"
The body will be held until detail.
ed directions are received from her
father.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21


Joseph e: Bell, mayor of lndianap'
oils. was acquitted by the jury on the
charge of conspiracy to commit a fel:
ony at the primaries, registration and
election in 1914. The jurors were out
two hours. The verdict was cheered.
The Illinois supreme court refused
to reconsider the constitutionality ct
the woman's suffrage act 1t denied
the motion of Chicago attorneys for
the liquor interests for permission to
file brief
Detective Sergeant George Cudmore
was shot and wounded in the left
SHOULDER by Mrs. Stella Streeter, wife
of Capt" George Wellington Street
er of the district of Lake Michigan"
in Chicago.
Rev. Byron Holley, rector of St..
Georges Episcopal church at New Or
leans, shot and killed Lansing Pear
sail, son of a prominent railroad man.
Doctor Holley said he shot Pearsall
thinking he was a burglar.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Career Of Adventure Ends.

Mankato.-Jacob Swenson, a resi-
dent of Mankato for forty years, is
dead. He was born in Norway seven
ty-eight years ago, and led an adven-
turous early life. He was member
of the expedition which found the
record of the death of Sir John Frank
lin, after search of three years.
After the return Of this expedition,
Swenson spent three years in Green
land, working in cryolite mines. Sub
sequently he nearly lost his life in
Hudeon bay. when shiDwrecked. y,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
To SUSPEND Seamen'a Act.

Duluth.-That the seamen's act,
which will 60 into effect November 4,
be suspended for sixty days to allow
the lake vessels to care for the huge
crops which must be moved eastward,
was the gist of resolution adopted
by the public affairs committee of the
Commercial club at a meeting held
here. If the law is enforced, it was
commended in the resolution, it will tie
up boats and leave all the grain re-
naming to be moved after November
4 at this end of the lakes
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Mapleton Opposes Assessment.

Mapleton.-The village of Mapleton
Is given flat assessment of $4,000
in the report of the viewers on the
benefits and damages of proposed
county ditch No. 80, which will be
seven miles long and drain six Sec
lions in Beaufort and Mapleton town
ships. The cost is estimated at $685.
1O7 The lowest individual assessment
is $40, and the highest $500, the lat
ter being against James Will, who is
anxious to have the ditch dug in spite
of his assessment. The village coun-
Gil of Mapleton will oppose the assess
ment
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21

Washington, Oct 16.-The largest
estimates of government expenditures
ever submitted to a secretary of the
treasury Of the United States in times
of peace will be presented for the next
fiscal year at once as required by law,
for discussion by congressional COM
mittees in advance of the regular ses-
sion.
They will be examined in detail by
President Wilson and his cabinet next
week. With an estimated increase for
national defense of about $15O,000,0 900
over last year, together with the cost
Of new tasks imposed on the state de-
partment and other branches of the
government by reason of the European
war, it is probable the amount of ex-
penditures will be augmented to total
of about $1,240,O00,000.
To Provide New Revenue.
If congress agrees to the admins
tration program for strengthening the
army and navy, it will be obliged to
provide for additional revenue legis-
lation or the executive branch of the
government must issue bonds.
Although no estimate of receipts
for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1916, in which the increased expendi-
lures will take effect has been made
by Secretary McAdoo, officials now
are convinced they cannot count upon
more than $750,000,000 for the Il
months and some believe the total
income will not go over $70c,000,000.
Estimates for the government de.
partments, except state, war and navy,
are practically the same as last year.
The ordinary disbursements of the
government last year were about
$732,000,000. II the receipts are as
much as $75O,ooo,0o0 in the coming
year and the appropriations of all
government departments but the state,
war and navy remain the same, there
still would be, with the added budget
for national defense, an estimated de.
ficit of more than $135, 100000.
Canal Bonds a. Remedy.
The secretary of the treasury now
has authority to issue Panama canal
bonds to the amount of $4,000, 900.
That would be temporary remedy,
however, and may not be resorted to
if the administration proceeds on the
theory that the government will main.
tain the same rate of expenditures for
national defense during the coming
years as is now being proposed for
the next session of congress.
The estimates for the postoffice de-
partment will be slightly above the
$4,000 estimated for the present
year.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
RN M ENT EXPENDITURES
EVER SUBMITTED IN TIMES
OF PEACE.
WILL BE EXAMINED BY
WILSON AND CABINET
Congress May Be Obliged to Provide
Additional Revenue Legislation II
It Agrees to Administration
Program for Strengthening
Army and Navy.

Washington, Oct. IS. - Secretary
Daniels, in agreement with the general
board Of the navy 10 to recommend to
Congress flve-year construction pro.
gram which will include IS capital
fighting ships-1o dreadnoughts and
6 battle cruisers.
Just what number shall be author
lied the first year will not be deter
mined until the secretary and Presi'
dent Wilson confer.
The President has indicated that he
favored large increases in both army
and navy.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Mexican Revolt

"A military train arrived at Quay.
mas, Mex. with four pieces of artil.
lery, two machine guns and : about
1000 VIVA Troops. -'''.>'s
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
MOST IMPORTANT
news Of WORLD
BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS,
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
kernels Culfed From Events Of Mo.
ment In All Parts Of the World-
OF Interest to All tho
People Everywhere.
European War News


A desperate assault, against the
French line in the Givenchy woods,
carried out with heavy forces and pre-
coded by violent bombardment, has
enabled the Germans to penetrate the
French position and capture a section
OF trenches. Paris admitted this re-
pulse
Reports to London from Nish state
that the Bulgarian attack directed
against Kragujevatz resulted disas.
trously for the Bulgarians.
The official press bureau announced
at London: "A Zeppelin raid occurred
Wednesday night over the London
area. A number of ircendiary bombs
were dropped. Fires were quickly ex-
tinguished. The casualties were two
women and six men killed and thirty.
four persons injured
Launching an assault in force, the
Russians smashed way clear
through the last line of Austrian de.
lenses on the Stripa river in eastern
Galicia, stormed a scientifically for
flank, disorganized upward Of 10000
enemies and captured nearly 5000
prisoners.
british submarines are nlvinp in the
vicinity of Helgoland bay, striking at
German shipping. English undersea
boats torpedoed and sank the Ham
burg-American line steamship Nj
comeda, of 1891 tons, off the west
Danish coast. Thirty-three of the crew
we're saved. Five other German YES
sells were torpedoed.
The British foreign office officially,
announced at London that the BHl-
garian minister had been handed his
passports and that diplomatic rela-
tions between Great Britain and Bull
garia had been broken off,
izia by the Italians is momentarily
expected, according to dispatch to
Geneva from Brescia. . Italian big
guns are bombarding the city from
five positions. The Italians are also
attacking the inner defenses of Toll
minO.
Russian troops will be fighting in
the Balkans soon. There is complete
accord between France, England and
Russia, and all have sufficient troops
to throw into the Balkans without
weakening any 'front.' These declara.
tons were made in the chamber of
deputies in Paris by Premier Viviani.
Two blows at Serbia from different
directions marked the progress of the
war in the Balkans. They we're: Bull
garian invasion of Serbia at Garribo-
ghaz, near Kniazhevatz; capture by
the Austro Germans of the Serbian
town of Semendria, with it's fortress.
Russian forces have pierced the
Austro-German lines on the Stripa riv-
or. They have already taken prisoner
more than 1000 men and 60 officers
and have captured four guns and ten
rapid-frers. The Russian advance is
being pushed vigorously, according to
an official statement issued at Petro.
grad.
The area of war in Europe may be
further widened shortly by the en-.
trance of the kingdom of Sweden into
the conflict. Official and authoritative
information received at Washington is
to the effect that Sweden's reason will
be the interference of the British fleet
with trade between the United States
and that country
Domestic
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Personal

Personal
Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, known
as the mother of woman suffrage in
Oregon" died at Portland. Ore. She
was eighty-one years old.
General Savoff, the Bulgarian gen
eral who won fame in the Balkan
wars, is reported at Bucharest to have
been retired by King Ferdinand at
his own request because he did not
wish to fight against the allies
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Washington

Washington
The White House at Washington Of
ficially denied the report that Miss
Margaret Wilson, the presidents e]d-
est daughter, is engaged to F. E.
Compton of Chicago.
Favorable action by the British EN-.
bassy at Washington in two cases in
volving implied contracts" paved the
way for the success of large number
of the applications filed by American
purchasers for the release of millions
OF dollars worth of German and Aus
trian made goods held up at neutral
European ports by the British orders
in council.
Fifteen to twenty fighting ships of
the dreadnaught and battle cruiser
type, with proportionate number Of
seagoing submarines, coast subma-
rines, scout cruisers, destroyers and
auxiliaries enough to make new
American feet-is contemplated by
Secretary Daniels for recommendation
as five-year building program for the
United States navy, it was announced
at Washington.
The United States, in a note dis
patched from Washington to Germany,
to be. presented by Ambassador Ger
ard on the case of the American ship
William P. Frye, asks that if it is
found necessary to destroy American
ships carrying contraband, passengers
be removed to safer place than small
boats.
President Wilson set the corner
stone for the great amphitheater to be
erected in Arlington national cemetery
as memorial to the nations dead.
America First" President Wilson
launched this slogan in a speech at
the twenty-fifth anniversary meeting
of the Daughters of the American Rev.
olution at Washington. He declared
himself in favor of ostracizing through
PUBIC OPINION those who use the
might of the United States to aid the
aims of another country.
A formal announcement was made
by the secretary of state at Washing
ton following a Pan-American confer
ence which assures the recognition Of
Gen. Venustiano Carranza as president
de facto of Mexico
Swallowed from the time he was
first detected by secret service men.
Joseph Pruijk. who says he is from
Brussels. was halted at the door of
the Presbyterian church at Baltimore
when he started to enter the edifice
Immediately after President Wilson,
his fiancee. Mrs Norman Gait, and
party.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Foreign

Revolution has broken out in Qua
temala and fighting is in progress in
the states Of San Marcos Huehuete-
mango and Peten.
Two-thirds Of the town of Stanstead,
Quebec, was destroyed by fire. About
fifty buildings were burned.
A loan bill to confirm the action Of
the government in raising a loan of
$500,000,000 in the United States in
conjunction with France passed
through all stages of the house of
commons at London.
The German potato crop, estimated
at 60,000,000 tons, is the largest in the
history of the country, say a Berne
dispatch to the London Post Cor
many has withdrawn the prohibition
against exporting potatoes to Switzer-
land.
The government of France. of which
Reno Viyiani is tho head, received a
decisive vote of confidence in the
chamber Of deputies, 1927 to 9. after a
long and exciting session. in which the
governments war policy, particularly
relating to the Balkans, was severely
criticized M. Delcasse resigned.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
Domestic

Action against the international
Harvester company in an effort to OBJ
tain the repayment Of $145.000 is
planned by officials of the treasury de-
partment at Washington. 1t is alleged
that the company has received that
amount from the government in i'm
proper custom refunds
Mrs Olga II. Walsh of Chicago,
through her attorney, Frank 8.
Monet, filed in the United States dis.
trict court a petition to enjoin the
Mutual Life Insurance company from
participating in the $500.0O0,OO0 loan
to the allies.
Expressing the belief that the aver
age mans sentiments" are likely to
be on the side his pocketbook is in.
terested in, Speaker, Champ Clark said
at Denver, Colo: III had the power
the war loan to the French and Eng.
lfsh would never have been made"
Delegates from nine states---lowa
Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota. W1scOn
sin, Kansas and North and South Da
kota-gathered, at Davenport for the
Mid,West.. Conference on Prepared
ness, financed by Davenport. -Roch
Island aEA Moline.