The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-11-15
SPECIAL SESSION OF LEaIsLA
TURE PASSES BILL-suFFRA-
GiSTS PRESENT PETITIONS.
SHOWS STATE ROAD MILEAGE
Highway Commission Complies Inter+
esting Data-Minnesota Maintains
12,300 Miles According to
Bulletin.
st. Paul.

1t convened at II a. m. and passed into
history before p. m. Three bills
were passed-one pro viding the privi-
lege of the ballot for Minnesota soldiers
on the Mexican border, one appropriat.
ing $4,000 to defray the expenses of the
session and a third appropriating
$4,000 to defray the cost of polling the
soldier vote.
There were advance reports that a
woman suffrage bill would be intro.
duced, that prohibition amendment
to the constitution would bob up,
even that an attempt would be made
to repeal the county option law.
But nothing like that materialized.
The nearest approach was mild petit.
ton from eight Minneapolis suffragists
addressed to the governor and promi.
nent members Of the Legislature. Nc
official notice was taken thereof.
John A. Larimore of Minneapolis,
chairman Of the House judiciary COM
mittee, is the official father of the law
providing votes for the soldier boys.
There were two bills on the subject,
almost alike in phraseology and both
drawn by the attorney general. One
was introduced in the House by Mr..
Larimore and the other in the Senate
by Senator E. J. Westlake, also Of
Hennepin. 1t was the Larimore bill
which eventually became a law.
The new law provides for sending
four or more commissioners to the
border to record the votes of the SOL
diers who call Minnesota home. I'm
mediately after passage of the bill
Governor Burnquist signed the meas
ure and made the appointments, sub
ject to the acceptances of the men
named.
AL P. Erickson, Hennepin county
auditor, was named as commissioner
to the First regiment. DR.. J. H. Dor
sey OF Glencoe was named to the Sec
ond regiment, Roger M. Weaver of
Duluth to the Third, and Colonel
George c. Lambert of St. Paul to the
Field artillery. Judge Loren Gray q
Mankato and James Larson, assistan:
secretary of state, were additional ap-
pointments. The commissioners will
vote with the soldiers.
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State Roads Total 12,30O Miles.
Interesting data on the extent and
condition of roads in Minnesota have
been compiled and issued in bulletin
form by the state highway commission,
showing that the total state road mile
age in Minnesota is 1890 miles equal
to four and one-half times the dis
lance from the Atlantic to the Pacific
at the north boundary of the United
States. All of this has to be main
tanned with state aid.
up to the first of January, 1915"
says the bulletin, Estate aid has been
paid on the following amount of work:
Roads graded to the extent of $3.50
miles, which if connected, would reach
from Portland, Ore, to Montreal.
Roads graded and surfaced to the
extent of 1,414 miles, which would
reach from St. Paul to Portland, Ore.
There are 80 miles of state road
being graded and surfaced during 1916.
equaling the distance from St. Paul
to Washington, D. c., and 1000 miles
is being graded, enough to reach from
st. Paul to Sacramento, Cal. The 1888
miles of roads being built in Mime.
sofa under special assessment and
bond issue would extend from St. Paul
to the Gulf of Mexico and one-fourth
OF the distance back. OF this, 1888 miles
OF surfaced roads is completed and 72U
miles under construction, besides 225
miles Of earth road being built under
the same proceedings.
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Discuss Blister Rust Infection.
Forestry experts of national prom
inence held meeting at the college of
forestry of the university to discuss
the outbreak Of pine blister rust in
lection, which endangers Minnesota
forest reserves. A two-year period of
"Watchful waiting was decided on in
the endeavor to obtain a working
knowledge of the infection and moth
DDS of fighting it.
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Battery Officers Advanced.
Through elections held recent1v
Lieutenant Joseph l.. Mckinney. If
Battery E, and Sergeant Ray Freeman.
of Battery B, First Minnesota Field
artillery, were promoted to captain Of
Headquarters company, and junior Sec
ond lieutenant Of Battery B, respec,
lively.
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Road Route Up to Board.
A delegation from Chisago Conntv
headed by Senator Rystrom, Center
City, DR.. c. A. Anderson and G. M.
Johnson, Rush City, conferred with G.
W. Cooley for the highway, commits.
sion about the route Of the Twin Ct.
ties Duluth road for which Federal aid
Is to be asked. Frank w. Hanson
and A. w. Anderson, two of the conn.
ty commissioners were with the dele.
CATION. Since the county board is di.
vided the delegates agreed to leave
the question with the highway commits.
sion.