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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
SENATOR CLARKE or ARKANSAS
MOVES TO SEND MEASURE
BACK TO THE COM
MITTEE.
PANDEMoNIUM RElGNs;
BOTH SIDES WANT TRUCE
Administration Leaders Call Demo
cratic Conference and effort win
De Made to Win Back Recall
citrant Msmbers~-success
Seems H.peIess.

Washington, Feb. with stagger
ing suddannesa nine senate Democrat
formed an alliance with Republican,
IN an effort to aend the government
snip purchase bill back to the com
merce committee. The revolt, as un
expected AS 1t was sudden, turned ir
tWinkling nm administration udvant
age into defensive position which
seems almost hopeless to many Demo
cratic leaders,
Forced to fight for the life OF the
measure, the Democrats succeeded In
ad1onrning the senate with the mo.
tion TO recominit pending. and party
caucus was called,
Democrat Revolutlonixes Situation.
Senator Clarke OF Arkansas Demo,
erat and president pro.tempora of tho
senate. rsy0lutionizad the situation
which has held the senate In deadlock
for many days. He rose while sena.
tor William A, Smith Of Michigan was
concluding q long speech against the
shipping bill, and asked him to yield
for motion.
The senator yielded, having learned
the nature of the motion to come. and
Senator Clarke, introducing his re.
marks with an appeal for conaldera.
ton Of other Legislation, moved to send
the pending bill back to committee.
Pandemenium Follows,
The pandemoninm that followed this
development has not been equalled In
the senate In many years Senators
poured from the cloak rooms to the
, chamber like bees from a hive. Re-
publtcans, forewarned. were the fret
on the scene. @.a
As soon as administration leaders
could catch their breath, senator
Fletcher, In charge of the bill, made a
point of order againat the motion
which Vice President Marshall sus.
tainod, Senator Clarke appealed from
the decision and the chair was over.
ruled by vote Of 81 TO 81. nine Demo.
Gratis Joining the Republicans. After
some further parliamentary maneaver.
Ing, Senator Reed took the floor and,
denouncing his Democratic colleagues
for their detection, accused the oppon.
ents Of the bin of being influenced by
the shipping trust"
Both sides Want Truce.
Both sides seemed to be wanting to
declare truce TO take stock of the
new situation and when Senator
Fletcher moved an adjournment there
was no opposition.
Administration leaders called Dem.
ocratic conference aud an effort viii
be made TO win back reealcitrant mem.
beers OF the party. An attempt win
also be made to bring aid from sew,
arai progressive Republicans by
hmending the bin 10 meet their obtee,
tens, Senators Norris. Kenyon, la
Toilette and Poinaexter. ProgresslNes
are the objects of the Demesratie
hopea. Some of the Democratic lead.
ers EXPRESSED fears that to win this
support from the opposition would re,
qnire cone sssions that would cost
them more of their own strength and
the situation generally was admitted
% ho most preearious for the Demo
cratic program.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
Requisite for Optimism.

What are the qualifications for
membership in your international OPP
timist club?" asked the philanthro-
pist's friend
Well in the first place, you've got
to speak English with an American
accent"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
THE C0LoNEL's GOLD MINE

Out in Gregory County, South Dakota,
lives Colonel johnson, the famed Alfalfa
King of that great section.
About thirty years ago he left Wisconsin
for that domain All he had was willing
hands, a clear brain and a bright vision.
Today be is the owner of thousands Of
acres, president of several banks.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
SUFFERED FOR FOUR YEARS.

Mr., J. NJ Sinclair of Olivehil.
Tenn, writes: Il strained my back,
which weakened my kidneys and
caused an awful bad backache and
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
Rather Mixsrs.

l don't like that dea. you're in"
Don worry; you won't be answer
able If it's questionable"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
Uncertainties Being Removed

1t will require period OF testi.
mony to determine whether they have
successfully defined them or not bnt
no one needs to have il proved to him
that Il was necessary to define them
and remove the uncertainties. and that
the uncertainties being removed, com.
mon understandings are possible and
a universal cooperation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04

some persons are misunderstood
because they do not know their own
minds.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
BATTERIES OPEN FIRE ON WHAT
is BELIEVED TO HAVE
BEEN ANOTHER GER
MAN RAID.
TEUT0N SUBMARINES ALSO
REPORTED OFF COAST CITY
War Department Instructs Police OF
Metropolis to Make All Prepare
tIons for Aerial Attack
FURRY Breaks Monotony
Of News From Front.

London, Feb. 3.-The batteries pro
teCting Dover opened fire at night on
what is thought to have been another
German raid, but whether by Zeppe
Inns or submarines, or both, has not
been ascertained.
An early report FROM Dover said that
FIVE hostile airsht9s were observed
over that town while a later report
announced that they had been driven
off by the gunfre o: the forts. An.
other Dover message declared the fire
had leen directed at German subma
rineA.
London 10 Warned.
AS consequence the war depart
ment Instructed the London police to
make al preparations for an air raid
The city vas soon In darkness and
everywhere the news spread that a
Zeppelin flset was on It's way TO the
metropolis.
Telephone .alls TO Harwich, Cromer.
Southend, Kings Lynn, Yarmouth and
other points ell 2ited the reply that NO
alrships had been seen. The report Of
submarines at Dover seemed to explain
the gun firing there, but the official
press bureau issued no statement
The extended precautions taken in
London were indicated by the fact that
virtually all special coustables, under
the regulations, were required 70 re
port at the various stations. even those
attending the theaters, where in some
cases the audiences were greatly de
pletod.
City Is Darkened.
At several OF the railroad stations
the lights were eNtinguished and
trains passing over bridges did SO in
darkness.
Parts Of the city waited for more
than two hours with blinds drawn, but
nothing happened.
This furry served to break the mo
notony OF the news from battle fronts
where none Of the armies, either in the
east or the west, has been able to
deliver a blow sufficient TO cause any
shift in their alignment
The German submarine attacks on
british merchant ships continue to be
the paramount topic Of discussion. and
predictions are made that food prices
which are already soaring, will so still
higher II many more raids are az
COmpliShed
Shipping Upset.
The shipping of the west coast i
stlh somewhat upset, the Dublin Steam
Packet Company announcing the tenn
porary abandonment of all sailingx
with Belfast Liverpool and Glasgow
One other Dublin company has also
suspended it's sailing, hut the othei
Sc hedules are being maintained as
usual
The chief solace Great Britain finds
in the German submarine attacks Is
thai the craft thus used cannot take
paTs in the regular naval operations.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
For Zoe In Postage

We gladly mail our Cstalog
and sample package of Ten Fa-
nous Farm Seeds, including
Speltz, The Cereal Wonder"
Rejuvenated White Bonanza
Oats, The Prize Winner" Bill
lion Dollar Grass; Teosinte,
the silo Filler, Alfalfa, ETC.,
etc.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
MAKES CONFIDENT PREDICTION
THAT COUNTRY SOON WILL
ENTER UPON PERIOD OF
GREAT PROSPERITY.
MAZE THAT CHECKED
ENTERPRISE IS CLEARED
Uncertainties Are Being Removed,
Common Understandings Are Pos
sibie and Universal Coop
GRAFTON, He Asserts, Out
lines Progress.

Washington, Feb. 1.-Another con-
fident prediction that the country soon
will enter upon new era OF enter
prise and prosperity was voiced by
President Wilson in a speech before
the convention of the American Elec-
trio Railway Association.
Speaking to the business men and
through them to the world of business
generally, the president outlined what
the Democratic congress has tried to
accomplish through its trust legislation
and declared that while a test period
would be required to determine
whether the correct remedy had been
applied, he believed the maze of in
terrogation points" which had checked
enterprise for 20 years had been
cleared away.
No One TO 5@ Suspicious.
With a common understanding re-
garding business reached, he said,
henceforth nobody is going to be sus-
picious of any business just because
it is big. He gave some of the rules
of the game" which he thought ought
to be followed. heading the list with
publicity-"nOt doing anything under
cover"
Il have always maintained that the
only way in which men could under
stand each other is by meeting one
another
If believed all read in the news.
papers | would not understand any
body, have met many men whose
horns have dropped away the minute ]
was permitted to examine their char.
aCter
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
Or Send ice

And we will mail you our
big Catalog and six generous
packages Of Early Cabbage,
Carrot, Cucumber, Lettuce,
Radish, Discriminating lots
and lots of juicy delicious
Vegetables during the early
Spring and Summer.
Or send to John A. SaIzer
Seed Co., Box 717. La
Crosse, Wis, twenty cents
and receive both above coIlec-
tons and their big cstalog.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
NECESSITY Thing Is to Aaree.

The most necessary thing, there
fore. was for us to agree, as we did by
slow stages agree upon the main par.
ttculars of what ought not to be done,
and then to put our laws in such shape
as to correspond with that general
Judgment. for one have never doubt,
ed that all America was of one prin.
ciple | have never doubted that all
Americans believed in doing what was
fair and honorable and of good report.
But the method. the method of con-
troll by law against the small minority
that was reCalCitrant against these
principles was thing that it was diff
cult to determine upon. And il was a
very great burden, let me say. to fall
on particular administration of this
government to have to undertake prac-
tiCally the whole business of final def
milton. That is what has been at
tempted by the congress now about
to come 10 close 1t has ATTEMPTED
the definitions for which the country
had been getting ready, or trying to
get ready, for nearly half genera.
ton
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
Sees Prosperity at HAND.

1t seems to me that | can say with
a good deal of confidence that we are
upon the eve of new era of enter.
prise and of prosperity. Enterprise
has been checked in this country for
almost 20 years because men were
moving amongst maze of interroga.
ton points. They did not know what
was going to happen to them. All
sorts of regulations were proposed and
1t was matter of uncertainty what sort
Of regulation was going to be adopted
All sorts OF charges were made against
business, as If business were at fault,
when most men know the great ma
jority of business men were honest,
were public spirited were intending
the right thing, and the many were
made afraid because the few did not
do what was right
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
LAMBORN MAKES RECORD.
For First Time in Years, Laws to BE
Distributed Before Effective,

Far ahead Of the usual time State
Printer F. M. Lamborn has completed
the printing Of the 1915 session laws
and preparation Of the bound volume
awaits only the completion of the
index by the secretary of state. The
session laws this year. both in num-
Der of laws and number of pages, ex-
coed the ouput of the. 1913 legisla-
ture. OF the $500 bound volumes,
$500 will be in buckram this year.
Resolutions and memorials will be
printed in a separate volume instead
of being included with the laws.
1t is anticipated that the bound
volume will be ready for distribution
by June 1. The bulk of the laws
take effect June 10. This will be
the first time in years, If not in the
history of the state, that the bound
session laws will be distributed be-
fore they 90 into effect.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14

The Oldest horse that served the
country in the War of the Rebellion
is still alive, at the age of SO years,
at Households. N. Y. 1t is owned by
p. A. Mcintosh, who is also a veter-
an of the same war. To prove his
assertion Mr.. Mcintosh shows the
government brand on the animals
hip, which reads II. c., 1861
Horse and man served in the same
regiment. Although bent with age,
his hair turning gray and his teeth
becoming worn the old warhorse is
still able to eat IL quarts of oats and
take his master to town several times
week. 1t is estimated the animal
is at least SO years old. Farmers
say the average life of a horse is
about Is years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
FINANCIAL NOTES.

Chicago advices say that flour ton
mage last week gained 1000 barrels.
National City Bank has tentatively
arranged to lend state of Alabama
$1,OOO,OOO.
Belgium has ordered $4,000 all
wool six-podnd blankets from Amer
lean Wooden company, taking the en-
tire stock of blankets which the
American company had.
Charles S. Hamln, governor of
federal reserve board, told the south
ern commercial congress at Musko-
gee, Okla. that the country is smiling
with prosperity as result of the fed
eral reserve banking act and as sys-
tenn grows older the smile will grow
into a laugh.
There are 200 factories in Canada
engaged in manufacturing shells and
ammunition. Orders are placed
through a central committee and now
amount to $175, 100000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
PLAN NEW BUILDINGS.
Board of Control Prepares to Expend
100000 This Year.

The state board of control proposes
to construct this year practically all
the building work at the institutions
authorized by the last legislature.
This work. for which approximately
100000 was appropriated exclusive
Of furnishings and equipment, win
be at four of the IL state institutions
the Northern Hospital at Sedr0-
Woolley, the Institution for Feeble
Minded at Medical Lake. the State
School for Blind at Vancouver and
the State School for Girls at Grand
Mound in this county.
The board of control already has
appointed julius Zittel, Spokane, to
prepare plans for the buildings at
the Medical Lake institution. Heath
& Cove, Tacoma, for the Northern
Hospital, and Watson Vernon, Aber-
deem, for the School for Girls, and
will select the architect for the
School for Blind buildings in the i'm
mediate future. I
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
WHAT OUR FATHERS READ ABOUT ]
IN THIS PAPER FIFTY YEARS AGO ]
From The Washington Standard for

From The Washington Standard for
May IS, 1865. Vol. v. No. ~.
On Tuesday last large concourse
of our citizens assembled at the cap
itol to listen to speeches by Hon.
Arthur A. Denny, candidate of the
Union party for congress, and Hon.
S. Garhelde.
The Oregon Statesman ascertains
from the books of the controller that
the total taxable property of that
state is s22.1Ss,5OO.
The population of San Francisco
is 10000. In September, 1S4S, the
number of inhabitants was $50.
A very interesting and instructive
address was delivered on Tuesday
evening in the M. E. church by Hon.
J. j. McGilvra on Education and
Its Influence Upon Government"
Cairo, April 90. A steamboat
calamity unparalleled in the history
of navigation occurred on Thursday
morning, the 9th, by the bursting
70 the boiler of the steamboat Sui
tana, eight miles above Memphis, as
she was on her way from New Or
leans to this point. Two thousand
two hundred people were on board.
1900 of these being paroled soldiers
on their way home from the rebel
prison at Andersonville. OF this i'm
mense cargo of precious life, only
900 are known to have been saved.
OF course more will yet be found,
but at the inside the terrible loss of
1000 to 1,4OO will in all probability
have to stand to the credit of this
calamity. The accident occurred
when all were asleep except the Of
ficers of the boat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14

Laughman & Son were awarded by
the city council last week the con-
tract for grading, gravelling, curbing
and building a sidewalk on Seventh
street on the Westside from Lincoln
street to the Black Lake road, on a
bid Of $1,522.4O. J. A. Van Eaton,
ON a bid of $340, received the con-
tract for grading and sidewalking
Percival street extended between
Eighth and Ninth streets and Ninth
street from Percival street to the
bluff.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
"Nation of the Black Hand"

\AOulSVlllo COurler-JOurnal.)
Truly, the nation of the Black
Hand and the bloody heart has got in
its work. 1t has got in it's work not
upon armed antagonists in fair fight
on the battle front, but upon the un.
offending and the helpless, sailing
what has always been and should ever
remain to the peaceful loving, Gods
free and open sea. Nothing in the
annals of piracy can in wanton and
cruel ferocity equal the destruction
Of the Lusitania. We must not
act either in haste or passion. This
catastrophe is too real-the flashlight
it throws upon the methods and pur.
poses of Germany is too appalling
to leave us in any doubt what awaits
us as the bloody and brutal work
goes on. Civilization should abjure
its neutrality. 1t should rise as one
mighty God-like force and, as far as
its moral influence and physical ap-
pliance can be made to prevail, forbid
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
Calls 1t "WhOlesale Murder"

(San Francisco Examiner.)
The sinking of the Lusitania with
her heavy freightage of peaceful trav-
elers. including hundreds of women
and children was not an act of war;
it was a deed of wholesale murder.
In considering this frightful episode
Of war waged with unparalleled
ruthlessness and barbarity, it Is idle
to take into account the technicalities
and the niceties Of international war.
Consideration for the laws of war
vanishes in the face of so great a
catastrophe, which violates the great
err law of common humanity. Both
parties to the struggle which is now
racking Europe have held themselves
superior to that code Of laws and Gus
toms by which civilization has tried
to remove from war something OF its
to ameliorate somewhat
the hardships and suffering it i'm
poses upon noncombatants. The war
that began with a sneering dismissal
Of treaty as ''scrap Of paper" has
long before its end. consigned to the
same scrapheap every usage, custom
Or formal agreement which makes for
the protection Of neutrals.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
Liberty Bell Coming West.

The people of the Northwest will
have an opportunity to see the
famous Liberty bell. which is to be
sent to the Panama Pacific exposition
at San Francisco. The bell will lie
on exhibition at such cities as Spo-
kane, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and
many other places to be determined
later. The city council of Phjladel-
phia has appropriated $4,000 to pay
the expenses of the trip and the bell
will start it's journey on July 3, which
will bring it to the Northwest about
the middle of the month. 1t is eS-
pected that many railroad excursions
to view it will be arranged for people
who are not on the main lines.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
weekly INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
Of WASHINGTON

Fairfield. - Commercial Orchards
company will build $4,000 ware
house and cold storage plant.
Sedro-Woolley has ordered three
main streets improved.
Accidentally City whaling plant
is receiving and cutting up whales
almost daily.
Colfax votes on water system ex-
tension May "a.
Castle Rock.-Roy Long has add
ed sawmill to his box factory.
Sumner Iron Works of Everett is
building new plant for Onalaska
Lumber company.
Centralia Masonic lodge plans the
erection of new building.
Spokane university plans two
story open-air gymnasium.
Tacoma.-School board has plans
for $4,000 stadium.
Mason County Fruit Growers asso-
citation will operate cannery at Shell
ton.
Toppenish Commercial club wants
to bridge Yakima river east.
Grant county building IL miles of
fence to stop army Of crickets.
Walla Walla.-Moore Bros, Port
land, have contract for $35, 900 brick
roundhouse for O.-W. r. & N. Co.
Fairfield.-New creamery started
May 6.
Spokane.-Contract let for st. Au-
gustine Catholic church, to cost $685.
900.
Bellingham will vote on $4,000
high school bond issue.
Spokane. - Mine dividends for
April $65S.S5O.
Accidentally City sawmill, long
idle, opens with 100 men.
Spokane.-Output in 1914 of Occur
d'Alene mines $10,313,745; profit,
s2,699,612.
Seattle.-Port commission let con-
tract for cork insulation of new cold
storage fruit warehouse at 100000.
Puget Sound is second to New York
in tonnage cleared from American
ports.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
Organized, NatiOnalized Piracy
New York WORLDLY

The circumstances and TN. conse-
quences of the destruction of the
Lusltania by German submarine
calls for all the eslf-restraint and self
possession that the American people
can command. The whole German
submarine policy in it's campaign not
against British ships of war, but
against merchantmen on the high
seas, is a revival of piracy-piracy or
ganized, systematized and national
lied. Modern history affords no other
such example of a great nation run.
ming amuck and calling it military
necessity. We recall no other in.
stance in which great nation has
deliberately elected to become an out.
law.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14

Two residence lots at Ninth and
Main streets were recently exchanged
by ]. J. Bremen of the Bremen Oys.
ter company for an undivided half
interest in 80 acres of oyster land
and 100 acres of tidelands in Thurs
ton and Mason counties, the trade
being made with T. B. Fanhsier of
Tenino The lands are located at
Oyster Bay while the lots in this city
for which they were exchanged arc
given a valuation of $4,000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
Miss Stella McArdle has bee

Miss Stella McArdle has been
awarded first prize for high school
students in the temperance essay
contest conducted under the auspices
of the local w. c. T. u, and Harold
Mcnamara second, while Geraldine
Troy Of the Central school won first
in the grade school division and Will
bur MCGUIRE of the Garfield school
second. Miss McArdle's essay will be
entered in the statewide high school
contest and Miss Troy's in the grade
school.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-05-14
The Maine and the Lusitania.
New York Tribuue)

The nation which remembered the
""ilors OF the Maine will not forget
the civilians of the Lusitania. .
In defiance not alone of every prin.
ciple of international law. but of
every dictate of common humanity.
American men, women and children
citizens of this neutral nation, have
been exposed to death. have perhaps
been actually murdered by German
war craft. For this murder there is
no justification outside of that law of
necessity paraded by the German
chancellor in the opening hours.