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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Washington

President Wilson's latest proposition
to settle the railroad dispute is, &C.
cOrding to reports from Washington,
for the roads to grant the men tempo
rarily the eight-hour day and also the
time and half for overtime, this to
be tried for several months and it's
effect on the earnings Of the lines to
be examined by federal investigators.
Announcement was made by tho
war department at Washington that
until the threatened railroad strike is
definitely averted there will be no
more movements of troops to the bOr
der
The house at Washington approved
by vote of 2S3 to 81 the senate naval
building program, including provision
for eight capital ships-four dread
naughts and four battle cruisers-next
year. Seven representatives voted
"present."
received word from Eagle Pass, Tex.
that the body of Private Charles E..
Limbocker, Company D, Third infan-
try, had been found by Mextcans on
the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande.
Limbockers home was in Vanderbilt,
Mich.
Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis
of the Supreme court ut Washington
Informed President Wilson that he is
unable to accept the presidents desig-
nation to serve on the joint commits
sion which will attempt to solve the
difficulties between the United States
and Mexico.
A corporation stock license tax to
raise approximately $2O00O,OOO, elm
ination of most of the Objectionable
stamp taxes which once had been &C.
copied and approved net profit tax on
munitions manufacturers were deter
mined upon by the Democratic senate
caucus held ut Washington after a
five-hour stormy debate on the revenue
bill.
The Democratic senate caucus COM
plcted the revenue bill at Washington.
The total revenue which the bill will
yield as finally agreed upon is esti-
mated ut $205, 100000. The provision
providing for nonpartlsan tariff COM
mission was retained. Duties on dye
stuffs will remain as at present until
after the war.
President Wilson at Washington
signed the agricultural appropriation
bill carrying approximately $27, OOO, OOO,
and the military academy approprta-
finn fH10 ,nr
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Saltwater Buys Old Prison From State

Stillwater.-Sale of the old state pri-
son property exclusive of the warden's
residence to the city Of Saltwater for
$4,000 has been closed between the
state board of control and Mayor John
H. Colllner, representing the city. All
original bids were rejected, including
that OF Saltwater, Offering $4,000 for
the entire property. Mayor Kolliner,
o1ered that amount for the property,
less the warden's residence. The city
plans to attract new industries to Still
water,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Clay County Sells More Grain.

Moorhead. - Clay county farmers
marketed 2,752,830 bushels of grain
during the past year, according to a
report filed with the state tax COM
mission by County Auditor G.. Houg-
lam. The report is made as a basis
for taxation of the receipts. The
years marketing record is 759,774
bushels greater than that of the pre-
vious year. Wheat led, with a total of
1,384,938 bushels marketed through
the AZ elevators in the county.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Domestic

Samuel Gompers made reply to Sen
ator Sherman at Washington. Sher-
man denounced him in the senate as
'public nuisance" 1T is impossible
for me to be arbitrary or tyrannical,'
said Mr.. Gompers, "for there are no
such powers vested in the president of
the American Federation Of Labor.
w. J. Bryan of Lincoln, Neb, sent
telegram to the railroad men at Wash
ingtOn suggesting that his peace treaty
plan be applied to settlement of the
dispute.
Prompt action on the part Of George
w. Schneider Of St. Joseph, Mich. IL
member Of the Michigan state pardon
board, saved the lives of three st. Jo-
seph girls from drowning.
Francis X. O'Brien, life member OF
the National Highway association and
q resident Of South Yarmouth, Mass,
started 955-mile walking trip from
Philadelphia. He will travel along the
eastern section Of the Pixies Peak
Ocean to Ocean highway. expecting to
reach Indianapolis October /.
twenty-five persons were killed and
three injured in head-on collision be-
tween trolley cars on the Southern
Cambria Traction company's line be-
tween Echo and Brookvale, near Johns
town. Pa.
Fire completely destroyed the build
ang and contents of the Hill Commits
sion company at Peoria, Ill. The loss
Is approximately $4,000. The smoke
filled the Adams street theaters and a
panic ensued. Only a few were hurt.
Formal notification to President Will
son of his nomination will take place
September 2. That day was definitely
selected when arrangements were
made at Washington for the president
to 60 to Long Branch, N. j., for the
ceremony. -
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Clam Diggers Busy at Pepin.

Winona.-Nine hundred men are on
Lake Pepin gathering clamshells. Buy
ers have been active several weeks.
The clam beds are said to be we'll
stocked. The government has been
carrying on the clam propagation work
here with crews from the Manchester,
Iowa, station for several years.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
European, Wa," News
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The Italian advance guard is only Is
miles from Trieste, according to dis
patches to London from Geneva. The
greater part of the Austrian fleet has
sailed from Trieste for an unknown
destination. Italian troops have en-
tered the suburbs Of Tolmino.
The Russians have captured JablO-
nitZa, one of the most important gate
ways through the Carpathians to the
Hungarian plains, and have taken
nearly 1900 additional prisoners, ac-
cording to Petrograd.
The Italian dreadnaught Leonardo
di Vinci has been blown up in laramie
harbor, Italy. with loss of 800 men,
dispatch. The explosion followed the
outbreak Of fire on board.
Continuing their progress on the
Balkan front, troops Of the allies have
wrested from the Bulgars several for
was officially announced at Saloniki.
Capturing the town of Zborov, on
the Strypa. General Sukharoff, COM
handing the right wing Of the Rus
sian armies in Galicia, pushed his lines
within 10 miles Of Lemberg, the Aus
trian crownand's capital. General
Letchitsky captured Tustobaby, accord
ing to Petrograd.
The Russian drive in Galicia goes
forward unchecked and the war office
announced at Petrograd. number Of
additional villages have been captured.
Russian forces have taken Meriampol.
town seven miles southeast of HalicZ.
the key Of Lemberg. The Russians
captured $4,000 prisoners since Au-
gust J..
Following the evacuation of MuSh
and Bitlis Turkish Armenia, Russian
troops, under Turkish pressure, have
Withdrawn from Hamadan. Persia,
says a dispatch from Petrograd.
The 24-days' battle which resulted
In the capture of Goritz by the 1tnl-
ians cost the Acknowledgements TO-
600 men in killed and wounded, not
counting the prisoners, 1t is estimated
In dispatches received from the front.
London reports heavy battle rag
Ing near the Graeco-Serblan frontier,
Wit the allied troops from Snloniki
attacking the Bulgarians. Already the
allies have captured the station Of
Dclran and the high ground near by.
StaniSIau. the Hungarian
base in Galicia, was captured by the
Russians, it was officially announced
BY Petrograd. The capture Of Stanis-
lau gives the Russians another gate
way through which they can march
toward Lemberg.
Two hundred and sixty-eight Aus
trO-German officers and $4,000 un-
wounded men were captured by the
Russians in battle on the Sereth river
(GaliciD between August 4 and Au-
gust 10, the war officer announced at
Petrograd.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Vocational Training for Indians.

WinOna. To introduce into the
schools for Indians more vocational
training, party of leading educators
in government service are holding in
stitutes in Indian schools this sum-
mer. A party here was destined for
Rapid City, S. D. H. B. Pearls, Wash
ington, headed the party. Agriculture
and home economics will be new top
les for study in the Indian schools.
The party here has held six Institutes
of two weeks each.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23

I. w. W.. 0usted; Trouble Ends.
Crosby. - Strike conditions have
improved here since several of the al
legged I. w. w. ringleaders were ar
rested and jailed. There was no fur
Their .riOting.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Road Workers May Return to Post,

Road Workers May Return to Posts.
Fergus Falls. - Men who quit work
on the state road construction at Peli-
can Rapids, near here, have an oppor-
tunity to return to their posts without
losing pay for the time they have been
of, If they resume operations at once.
The men left their jobs when dissatis-
fed with the meals, according to re-.
ports.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Foreign

The Greek steamer Eetherin. with
LOO passengers and Il cargo OF oil
owned by an American company,
caught fire Oft the Island OF SkiathO.
in the Aegean sea. says u dispatch
from Athens. Forty were killed AND
many injured.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
MORE REVENUE FROM ROADS

Marked Gains Shown in Reports Filed
With Tax Commission.
st. Paul.-Marked gains in state rev.
enue this year from the 5 per cent
gross earnings tax against railroads
are further indicated by reports filed
with the state tax commissioner by
six additional companies. Although
two reports showed decreases, the az
gregate is considerable larger for the
first half of 1916 than for the CORE
spending period in 1915.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Mexican War NezvS

General officers of National Guard
contingents on station at El Paso. Tex.
received orders to take stringent steps
to prevent soldiers and newspaper cor
respondents writing false stories con-
corning the troops for publication.
A revolutionary plot to seize Chi
huahua City, Mex, has been frustrated
by the arrest of the leaders. composed
largely of former bandit chieftains,
Gen. Jacnto Trevino announced
Among the 100 held are many leading
civilians.
The CarranZa government has grant
Ell amnesty to members of the M;,ucro
family and has restored 10 them prop
erty which was seized in northern
Mexico. This became known at New
York through Francisco Mudcro. ST.
father Of the slain president.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Experts Conquer Tree Disease.

Experts Conquer Tree Disease.
Professor F. l.. Washburn, state en-
tomologist and director of the fight be-
ing waged in Minnesota against white
pine blister rust, said to threaten vast
pine forests in the state, has reported
to Governor Burnquist that satisfac-
tory progress is being made. A special
fund of $1,000, voted by the state un-
der the statute relating to calamities,
is proving a great help, Professor
Washburn SAID, permitting among
other things the employment of five
experts.
To Exterminate Plague.
Four of the special men are trying
to exterminate the plague near Tay-
lor's Falls where serious infection was
found In the timber The fifth is
starting survey along the St. Croix
and Wisconsin rivers and Wisconsin
authorities are cooperating in the
survey.
In only two nurseries in the state
has the rust been found, he adds.
X X X
Boost Amendment No. I.
An automobile invasion of southern
Minnesota by northern Minnesota ora
tors is the coup planned by sponsors
| for Amendment No. /, the revolving
fund" amendment to the constitution
that is before the voters at the No
vember election. Open-air speeches
on the streets Of southern Minnesota
towns will urge the Importance of this
amendment, specially desired by the
northern counties, to the state at
large. Several automobiles will be-
donated for the trip, which will be-
made In October.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23

President Wilson at Washington
signed the agricultural appropriation
bill carrying approximately $27, Goo OOO,
and the military academy approprta-
ton bill carrying $1,225,001 ~.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-18

the demands of the European war
 have no longer to be supplied, but MT. Redfield'S argument is too strictly concerned with the traffic i'll
 war munitions. He reduces war or
 der business to about per cent. of
 the country's total industrial and com
 mercial activity and deduces that the disappearance of this trade,>wili be almost negligible. 1'~ The trouble with his line of reason- ing is that like the comparisons of relative importance which are made between the proportions of the coun- try's foreign and domestic commerce,
 it ignores the very great influence which foreign trade Of any kind has
 on the price level of domestic indus try. A large number of commodity l and mercantile markets cannot fail%u
 have their prices materially affected by the loss of the factor of war de-
 mands. Buying for war purposes is
 imperative and urgent. It takes lit-
 tie account of costs and 1t cannot af- ford to wait. To the prices which
 war time buying has made a very large amount of domestic industry has been adapted in equipment pro- i duction and operating expenses. q. Business problems which European 1 peace will bring will not be so baf- fling as the problems Of war. Un- | less our strength has to be exertcG | for war purposes we have every rea-
 son for confidence that the business
 problems of peace will be satisfac-
 torily solved. Yet it is going to mean
 work for our finance and commerce
 to shift from a war to 8 peace foot
 ing and the task will not be frightened l if Washington consistently adVertises
 the future in terms of an economic l joy ride.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-18
Mergers That Come Home.
(NeW York Press.)

(NeW York PreSs.)
 Maybe we are going to have $60,000,000 merger of companies maE- ing automobile accessories, maybe not, to effect large economies and enforce measures of cooperation ip handling parts and supplies for cars. But nothing has done more than the motor-car business to make the pub lie appreciate the importance of con- centrated control
 The motorist who rolls up to service station dozen miles from anywhere and asks for a particular service only to be informed that he cant have it because the station doesn't handle parts for the particu- lar car that needs them goes away and cussses.
 It gets to him at last that there is too much competition and too little service and after that he realizes that competition and service. often are pretty directly antagonistic to each other Not being especially devoted to the Antitrust law and being at the moment very concerned to make his car take him on to the next place where there is a usable hotel, he i'm bibes some substantial prejudices l against economic systems that inter- fere with efficiency. Maybe he i doesn't phrase it in that way but that's what he means. What he actu- ally says would be improper to print.
 We are getting nearer to an un- | derstanding of the necessity for serv- 1 ing our needs instead of some of l our preconceived notions The motor l car business is one which can be un- derstood; one as to which the inn | portance of unifcation and co-opera- tion is obvious. Yet 1t is merely more 1 tries.
 We long since recognized that rail- | roads must not be allowed to run wildcat in rate competition, even if l they want to. They used to do that, 1 and it demoralizes the whole com- munity. They are required now adays to charge the rates that the government prescribes for them; and 1t is getting also to be the general . rule that they must pay the wages, at least the minimum, the govern- ment fixes for them. But if two of them merge in order to accomplish these ends most satisfactorily and economically they become con- spiracy.
 After this war is over and the world gets back to business under tho more efficient methods that are being devised in every land the United States will have occasion often to think on these things
New Britain herald., 1916-05-18

Washington D. C., May 1S-News of the success of Belgian forces in conflict with colonial troops of Ger man East Africa gives tim eliness to war geography bulletin, issued to- day by the National Geographic so- ciety from it's Washington headuuar- ters, which says:
 When the American public reads that the troops of the Belgian Congo have defeated the colonial troops of German East Africa at Shangugu and that the v1ctors are proceeding south ward from Lake Kivu in the direction of Lake Tanganyika, it is hard to realize that the two colonial possess sions involved have a combined area four-ffths as large as all of contin- ental Europe, the Russian empire excepted. Belgium's territory alone in this quarter of the globe is eighty times as large as the mother coun- try, while the population of the jungle wilds of the Congo basin is VariOuSly estimated at from fourteen to thirty millions. The German col Ony is nearly double the area of the home country, while the population is estimated at eight millions Tn both possessions, however, the num- Der of Europeans, chiefly officers of the home governments, does not ex- ceed a few thousands.
 "Sthangugu, the position recently captured by the Belgians lies on the southern shore of Lake Kivu, a mag nificent body of water having an area almost as large as the state of Rhode Island, and situated nearly a mile above sea level, with gigantic
  north.
 The march of the victorious col- onials is along the Rusizi river, which conveys the waters of Lake Kivu for sixty miles to the south into Lake Tanganyika, the longest fresh-water lake in the world.
 'The history of both the Congo and of German East Africa, so far as the governing countries are concern ed, is confined to the last thirty or forty years Belgium owes her in- terests in the Dark Continent pri- marily to her late sovereign, Leopold II, who founded International Asso- citation for Exploration and Civiliza- ton in Africa in 1876. As result Of this associations activities in effecting treaties with native chiefs, there was developed the Congo Free State, a neutral independent sovereignty, first recognized as such by the United States in 1884. Leopold, whose in terest in the new region had been keener than that of any other ruler and whose private purse had de- frayed much of the expense of ex- ploration, was named as the sovereiz;l of the new state. By will executed four years later. the king bequeathed the Congo to Belgium. After pro- longed international controversies over alleged cruelties to natives under
New Britain herald., 1916-05-18
Belgian Troops Holding
 Their Own In the Congo

Leopold's regime, the Belgium par lament finally voted to assume full control of and responsibility for the territory as a colonial possession. This took place eight years ago. and the first nation to recognize the new power in central Africa was Ger many, in January, 1909.
 "Germany's control of the terri
 tory lying on the eastern side of
 the continent opposite the Belgian
 Congo, dates back a quarter of Q
 century when the sultan of Zanzi- bar ceded his mainland possessions of 364, ,000 square miles to the European
 empire for a mere million dollars. .''The early history of the coast of what is now German East Africa goes back four or five hundred years before the advent of Portuguese nav igators who found Arabs in possession of the native villages in the sixteenth century. When the Portuguese with drew after two centuries Arabs again assumed cpntrol extending their power far inland. England was of fered control of the region by the Zanzibar Arabs at about the time that Stanley was making his famous
 explorations of the Congo, but the offer was declined. Then began the activities, secret at first. of the Ger
 man Colonization society, which eventually resulted in adding the territory to the Kaiser's overseas dO- main.
 Tn western side of the continent the Portuguese naval officer Diago Cam discovered the mouth of the Congo some ten years before Colum- bus set sail on his voyage which re- suited in the finding of the New
 World. It was many centuries, how ever, before this river, with a basin
 of million and a half square miles,
 larger than any other in the world
 save the Amazon, was explored for more than a few miles above it's :eis- tuary
 "One name of interest in connec-
 ton with the Congo is that of Sir
 Roger Easement, now a prisoner in
 England charged with high treason. Sir Roger, when British consul at
 Bona, the Congo capital. made a
 tourney through the upper regions of the great river basin. in 1903. after which he made a famous report all leging many atrocities in the treat ment of natives.
 '"The most interesting settlement in German East Africa is Ujiji, town of 14,OOO inhabitants, chiefly Arabs. This slave and ivory mart of the nineteenth century was first visited
 by Europeans in 1858. when Richard
 Burton and J. H. Spoke discovered Lake Tanganyil<i, on whose eastern
 shores the town is situated. Of even more interest, however, is the fact that if was here that Henry M. Stan
 ley's famous undertaking to find the
 lost explorer David Livingston was accomplished on October 2Sth, 1871."
New Britain herald., 1916-05-18

river or tributary stream, has prob lem in this matter that few cities Of the nation possess, a problem that grows larger and greater every day the city lives and thrives and grows. The present method is on the way to oblivion Anything done within the immediate present must go a long way toward saving unnecessary expenses in the future.
 All those citizens who must depend upon the street cars for their trans portation facilities and for the tele- phone for means of communication hint at better service from these two public utilities. The common coun- cil should take up this matter before any other item in the message is touched. The Public Utilities Com mission must be called upon to investi- gate. In the past six months the tel ephone service has gone from bad to worse, complaints have been filed with the city officials and the neWSpa perS, and yet there is no relief in sight. On taking up a telephone transmitter to call an operator here, one sometimes wonders whether this is a city of some 60,000 souls in modern New England, or a tank-town in the Big Bend coun- try of Texas
 The recommendation made to in crease the efficiency of the police and fire departments will be well received by the common council and the peo- pie at large. These two branches of the city government are constantly be- coming greater factors in the affairs of the municipality, and they should receive every deserved attention. The police court must needs be placed in a more pleasant environment. There is enough food for thought in this mes sage from the chief magistrate of the city to entertain for some time to come the activities of those interested in New Britains welfare and develop ment.