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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
STATE SCHOOLS TO "
RECEIVE: MILLION
MINNESOTA BOARD, MEETS At
CAPITOL TO DISTRIBUTE
FUNDS FOR YEAR.
ELEVEN SCHOOLS ADVANCED
Arc Placed on Graded List-Nine 9th
ers Advanced to High Schools
Special Aid Allowed for Main
tanning Special Departments.

st. Paul. - More than $1,000, 900 in
state aid to high and graded schools,
including aid for special departments
in such schools, was voted by the state
high school board in annual meeting
In the capitol for the year ended July
81 last. OF the total $1,191,684, an az
gregate of $914,674 went to the 230
high schools and $277,010 went to the
PAL graded schools. Nine graded
schools were advanced to the high
school list. Three of them are the con-
solidated schools at Carlton, Cleveland
and Glyndon. The others are the
schools at Crosby-Ironton, Hayfield,
Morristown, Mountain Iron, Nashwauk-
Keswatin and Roseau.
Special Aid Provided.
Eleven schools were advanced to the
graded list They are at Delavan, Eel
ton, Mahtomedi, Middle River, Okla
bena, Oklee, Petersburg, Sedan,
Strandquist, Waubun and Zumbro
Falls.
The regular annual state aid to
graded schools ranges from $500 to
$500, depending on the number of
teachers and the amount of high school
work done. This year the total
amounted to $178,OO0. Graded schools
receive, also, special aid for maintain
ing departments in agriculture, homo
training and manual training, amount
ing this year to >$36,333, and for asso-
citation with rural schools amounting
to $500.
High Schools Get More.
High schools, which are presumed to
be further developed than graded
schools and to offer full four-year
high school course with adequate
teaching facilities, get $1,000 each as
regular aid, and special grants for az
riculture, home, manual and CONNER
cial training, rural association and
state tuition on account Of industrial
courses.
The board voted the regular aid for
teacher training departments in 1913
high schools, $1,000 where one teacher
only was employed and $4,000 where
two were employed. Five schools en-
ployed two teachers for this work last
year, those Of Minneapolis, Austin,
Faribault, Hibbing and Thief River
Falls.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Winona Sportsmen to Aid Wardens.

Winona Sportsmen to Aid Wardens.
Winona. - Protection of southern
Minnesota game, particularly proven.
ton of slaughter by "sooners" this
coming fall, is receiving close consid-
GRAFTON from the Winona Sportsmen's
club, which proposes to exert every
effort to make the work of game war
dens effective. Especial attention will
be given, 1t is said, to curtail the an.
nual practice of killing birds before
the season opens.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16

c'othiers Of Minnesota Meet In Duluth.
Duluth. - Men who clothe the state
of Minnesota, members of the Mime
sofa Retail Clothiers' association, held
their seventh annual convention here.
One hundred delegates were in at
tendance. The first day was devoted
to speeches and talks on trade mat
tiers. A complimentary dinner was
served the delegates by Duluth mer-
chants.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Threaten All y. S. Industries.

IHreateh III .. 5. Industries.
Duluth. - Threats to close every
industry In the United States unless
the 10 l. w. w. agitators in the st.
Louis county jail at Duluth are freed,
were made by Joseph Ettor, an I. w.
w. leader, at meeting of Duluth So
cialists. Resolutions were adopted de-
handing that Governor J. A. A. Burn
qu1st remove what the resolutions
termed gunner from the range strike
zone. The Socialists declared for fu-
sion with the I. W. w. Ettor also
threatened delivery of the 10 men.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Miners House Is Bombarded.

WIneFS MOUSE Is B0mbaTded.
Bull, MINI. - Arrests were expect
ed to follow the firing of eight shots
into an Austrian boarding house at
Kinney. Six bullets entered upstairs
rooms and two downstairs. One
boarder was hit by flying glass. Three
sizes of bullets were found after the
shooting. The men living at the house
work in nearby mines.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Lake City Physician Killed.

Lake City. - Hurled more than so
feet from the point at which an en-
CINE on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad, struck his automobile.
DR.. c. V. Cole of Lake City, a gradu-
ate of the University of Minnesota,
died of injuries received as he was
being placed aboard special train
which was to take him to the Wab-
asha hospital at Wabasha, MINI.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Board Commends Institutions.

st. Paul.-According to reports SUBJ
mitted to Governor ]. A. A. Burnouist.
the state board of visitors found much
to commend and practically nothing
to criticize on inspections of the state
prison, at Saltwater, and the state
hospital for insane at Fergus Falls.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Duluth Grain Records Broken

Duluth Grain Records Broken,
Duluth. - All previous records in
grain handling from this port were
surpassed in the crop year ended July
81, according to annual figures of tho
Board of Trade. During that period
49, 184,93o bushels, of all grains we're
received, compared with 144,532,841 in
the previous record season of 1928.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Domestic

Miss Helen Stewart, a teacher and
prominently connected, shot and fatal
ly wounded DR.. J. G.. Barnsdale, a
well-known physician and surgeon at
Superior, Wis. She claims that the
doctor mistreated her.
Lcaping Is stories from an office
building in st. Louis, George K. Smith,
secretary of the Yellow Pine Manufac-
turers' association, was instantly
killed.
Returns from Ohio primary elections
show that both the Republican and
Democratic state states headed by
Gov. Frank B. Willis and cx-Gov.
James NJ. Cox respectively, carried
practically without break.
Matthew Hale Of New York, acting
chairman Of the Progressive national
committee, came out for President Will
son in a statement in which he de-
clared he would support the Progress
sive electors in all states where they
are put in the field, but would work
for the reelection Of the president in
all other states.
John NJ. Parker, Progressive candi-
date for vice-president, has become the
head Of the party and the idol of all
faithful anti-Hughes Bull Moose. The
Progressive conference was held at
Indianapolis, Ind.
Riverside, Mich, is in fire ruins.
Flames originating from a gas explo-
sion In a small grocery store spread
over the business section, resulting In
a $4,000 loss.
A settlement Of the strike on the New
York Railway company's lines was
reached at the Office of Mayor Mitchell,
according to an announcement by the
mayor.
Officials Of the organizations of rail-
way employees known as the "Big
Four" announced at New York that
the men have voted in favor of q strike
unless the demands for an eight-hour
day and time and one-half for over
time are granted.
The greatest number Of cases of in
fantile paralysis recorded in SUNDAY
figures since the epidemic started was
reported at New York. There were
1913 cases md q deaths. The ex-
odus of children continues.
Charles E. Hughes departed from
New York on his transcontinental
speechmaking drive against President
Wilson expecting to return In about
i've weeks. He was accompanied BY
two caYloeds Of Newspaper correspond.
0nts.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Happenings
Of the World
Iers'ely Told
European, War News

The Russians broke the Teutonic de-
lenses and drove the Teutons back on
the entire line from Tiumacz to
Ottynla. An advance averaging more
than two miles ON q front of approx
mately five miles was made by the vic
tOriOus SlayS Berlin admits a re-
treat before this Russian onslaught.
The war Office ut Rome announced
the capture Of the GOritz bridgehead
by the Italians. 1t Is said the city Is
being shelled to drive out the Austri-
ans and that the fall of the great fort
ress is considered imminent. More than
5000 prisoners and 200 officers were
taken on August G.
The loss Of Goritz bridgehead to the
Italian forces Is admitted in the Aus
trian official statement issued at VI
emma.
Sixteen hundred Turkish prisoners
have arrived at Cairo. They are part
of the army which attacked the Brit
ish positions ut Romani and which
was defeated with heavy losses.
Bulgaria has been warned by Rou-
mania that the good relations be-
tween the two countries are being
jeopardized by certain incidents on the
frontier. says dispatch from Bu-
churest.
Reynolds newspaper, published in
London, gives prominence to rumOr
that there Is likely to be war in
South America. "A diplomatic source
reports" says the paper, "that Peru
and Venezuela have secretly agreed to
take vast lands from Columbia and
Ecuador"
The Russians have been driven from
the positions to which they were still
clinging near Tarecze on the Stolzhod,
In southern Volhynia, according to a
Berlin statement.
One more Italian, a Japanese and
three British ships have been sunk as
result of the renewal of the war on
commerce by the Germans. The
kaiser's U-boats are active on the Eng
1ish channel.
The war office at Petrograd admits
withdrawal from the town of Rudka-
Mirynaska1a on the Stokhod river
front after desperate battle. Cap.
ture Of 1900 prisoners in desperate
battle south of Brody is claimed.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16


leo City at the Mexican foreign office
that Luis Cabrera, Ygnaclo Bonillas
and Alberto Pant have been selected
rs commissioners to negotiate with
the United States commissioners re-
garding the questions at issue be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
Washington
Statements made by Charles e.
Hughes, Republican nominee for the
presidency, in speeches at Detroit
were characterized as false as to
facts and Of misleading substance" in
kilograms sent by administration OFF,
Gals at Washington after discussion
Of the subject by President Wilson and
his cabinet. The charges related to
changes In the coast and geodetic sur
vey and the census bureau.
John e. Kinnana was confirmed by
the senate at Washington as United
States district attorney for the eastern
district Of Michigan.
President Wilson sent to the senate
at Washington the nomination Of Com
mander Leigh Palmer, U. S. ~, to be
chief Of the bureau Of navigation Of
the United States, succeeding Rear
Admiral Blue, resigned.
Without debate the senate at Wash
ington agreed to the conference re-
port on the army appropriation bill
carrying $267, 597, 900 for maintenance
Of the reorganized regular army and
National Guard.
The child labor bill was passed in
the senate at Washington, So to -.
The bill prohibits the shipment In in
terstate and foreign commerce Of the
product of the prescribed child labor.
Children under sixteen are prohibited
from working in Quarries and mines.
The total yield of the leading cereal
crops Of the United States this year
will be nearly 1,0OO,0OO,OOO bushels less
than last year. The government esti-
mates of the crop issued at Washing
ton showed sensational losses in the
spring wheat crop in the northwest.
There IS an optimistic feeling in ad-
ministration circles at Washington
that plans are developing to avert the
great railroad strike that would tie
up the interstate commerce of the
country.
It was announced at Washington
that Secretary of State Lansing and
Minister Brun of Denmark in New
York signed the treaty between the
United States and Denmark under
which this country purchases the Dan
ish West Indies for $25,OOO,0OO.
The United States board of media
ton and Cancellation at Washington
has received authoritative information
that it's services will be sought to ad-
just the differences between the en-
gineers, firemen, trainmen and conduc-
tors brotherhoods and the 1925 rail-
way systems of the United States, If
efforts for direct settlement result
in deadlock.
1t was announced at Washington
President Wilson accepted the resigna.
tion of Capt. Victor Blue as chief OF
the bureau of navigation. He has
been assigned to command the battle
ship Texas.
Foreign
Five persons were p,Oundod In a
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Foreign

Foreign
Five persons were wounded In a
riot at Cano, near Havana, Cuba, dur
ing celebration in honor of Col.
Emilio CollaZo.
Lord Wimborne, former lord lieuten-
ant Of Ireland, has been reappointed
to that position, the Central News
announces on official information.
It was announced at London that
the British working people loyalty &C.
copied the decision Of the government
that holidays should be postponed un-
til the demand for munitions was not
urgent.
An eight-hour day for EMPLOYEES
Oh all Mexican railways has been in
stituted as one Of series of moves
for the betterment Of conditions
among the working classes, according
to q message from Mexico City, r.
ceived at El Paso, Tex.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16
Me*ic011 War NezpS

It was officially announced at Mex
leo City at the Mexican foreign office
that Luis Cabrera, Ygnacio Bonillas
and Alberto PAM have been selected
rs commissioners to negotiate with
the United States commissioners re-
garding the questions at issue be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-16


Stop Shooting In Brush.
General e. H. Lewis, camp conlman-
der, has issued orders to all regimen
tai commanders to take steps to stop
prcmiscuous shooting in the vicinity
Of the camp. There has been com.
plant about men shooting in brush
south of First Minnesota camp.
X X X
To Safeguard State Loans.
The state investment board consid-
cred the need of throwing reasonable
safeguards around 100000 of trust
funds" which the state now has out
on loans, principally to schools and
municipalities. Payments were order
ed on applications for new loans az.
gregating $725,000. Discussion of the
need of greater safeguards was preciph
tated by communication from Elk.
aminer Fritz, criticizing conditions re.
vealed following the sentencing Of for.
mer Treasurer Walter ;. Smith and
r. G. Pickit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
MANY DROWNED IN
THE WESTERN FLOODS
HIGH WATERS PREVAIL IN VARI-
Gus SECTIONS OF COUNTRY.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.-Six
persons are known to have been
drowned, several are missing and ex-
tensive property damage was report
ed tonight as a result of floods in
eastern Oklahoma caused by torren-
tial rains which forced a number of
small streams to overflow the banks.
All of the loss of life and greatest
property damage occurred in Murray
county. At Crusher Mrs. Edward
Cleveland and her three children
were drowned when their store and
residence was washed away. James
Shenner and an unidentified man lost
their lives in an attempt to escape
from their homes on Rock creek, near
Sulphur. The greater part of the
town of Sulphur was inundated and
the electric light plant put out of
commission.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
DYING OF THIRST is SAID
TO BE THE PLIGHT OF MARS

measured accurately from their shad-
ows. These pictures are probably as
true to nature as some of the draw
ings that our engineers make of the
mountains within view"
The utter insigniflcance of the
earth compared with the solar sys-
TENS of the universe was brought out
forcefully by a comparison of dis
lance. Light can travel from the
earth to the sun in eight minutes,
it was pointed out, whereas it takes
light hundreds of years to move from
the earth to some of the stars.
ct is foolish to say what we may
know and what we may not know in
the future" remarked the lecturer.
"All the great men of history who
have ventured to say that certain
things would never be accomplished
have been contradicted within short
time. Infinite and unknown as the
universe is, the greatest thing in it
is the human mind, and the possible
ties of the are unlimited
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
DAWSON BOY CANDIDATE
FOR MAYOR OF EUFAULA
Mr.. r. ID. Thomas Will Probably Be
Elected Without Opposition.

A recent issue of the Eufaula
Times printed the following news
item in reference to Mr.. R. D. Thorn
as. a former Dawson man who is a
candidate for mayor of the Alabama
city:
Since the city campaign will soon
open up it seems to be in order for
those who seek political honors by
way of the city route to place them
selves in a receptive" attitude.
The first to announce his name for
the consideration of the voters is K.
D. Thomas, president of the Inter
state Grocery Company.
Mr.. Thomas, who has been a resi-
dent of the city for the past ten years,
has thrown his hat into the ring and
made his announcement for the ONCE
Of mayor. Mr.. Thomas has been one
of the city's leading business men for
several years. He was the organizer
of the present Commercial Club,
which has had a longer and more sue
cessful existence than any other CLUB
in this city. He is enterprising and
public spirited, and will make Eu-
faula an excellent executive. Having
made a signal success of his own bus
mess he is prepared to conduct the
business of the city on business prln-
ciples. and that is what the city wants
in a chief executive. Mr.. Thomas
will most likely have no opposition
in the race.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
SPENCE MAKING 1T
WARM IN ALASKA
Southwest Georgian Out There Try
ing to Put Lid on Open Town.
Old-Timers Against Him.

Judge w. N. Spence, who is now In
Alaska in an official capacity, has
hundreds of friends throughout this
section who will read with interest
the following from the current issue
of the Cant la Enterprise:
Judge w. N. Spence has stirred
up the open town element in Valdez,
Alaska, where he is stationed as
United States district attorney by
prosecuting the proprietors of disor-
derby houses and saloons and fore
ing them to comply with the law.
It is reported that this element to-
gether with certain Oldtime politi-
clans are now after the judges scalp,
and the first step has been to charge
that he is not a good democrat. Judge
Spence's democracy will stand the
test, and if we Judge the present ad-
ministration correctly he will not suf-
fer on account of the stand he has
taken for public decency and moral
;t1s -
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
PEOPLE OF THAT PLANET ARE
TRYING TO CONSERVE THE
SUPPLY OF WATER.
WATER RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING

The Mysterious Inhabitants of Mars
the Object of Cartoon and Quip by
HumOrits. But Their Existence Il
Real, Say Astronomers.
Humorists long have made the
mysterious inhabitants of Mars the
objects of cartoon and quip, but in a
lecture at the Rosicrucian Fellowship
Hall recently Prof. L. S. Boothroyd
of the department of astronomy in
the University of Washington, ex-
pressed pity for the plight of those
who live on the planet nearest the
earth, says the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer.
Study convinces US that there is
intelligent reason on Mars said Pro-
fessor Boothroyd, in an address
which was illustrated by astronom-
ical drawings and photographs. ''The
canals of Mars are not, as some peo-
pie think, filed with water and cut
like the Panama Suez or Erie canals,
but merely are called canals because
they are straight Yet the fact that
vegetation on Mars moves south at
one season, bearing its necessary
moisture, and then moves directly
north over the same path makes in
evitable the conclusion that there is
intelligent direction behind this.
MARS evidently is an old planet.
It's water is rapidly disappearing; it
is dying of thirst. Let US think with
pity of the people-perhaps like our
selves-who are trying desperately
to conserve what moisture is left
that they may live. Sad it seems
sometimes that we cannot stretch out
a friendly hand of assistance"
Prof. Boothroyd expressed the
opinion that the earth some day will
"die of thirst" as Mars is dying, be-
ing unable to retain its moisture.
The astronomer also said there is
evidence that life exists on the plan
ct Venus, though it doubtless is of a
lower grade than Mars, owing to
less favorable atmosphere. AS for
the stars-the suns that lie infinitely
beyond the solar system of man
no one dares say that intelligence
equal to ours does not exist.
Prof. Boothroyd showed some re-
markable drawings of mountains of
the moon.
"These mountains" he explained,
"are 10000 feet high, and may be
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
COLDS NEED ATTENTION.

Internal throat and chest troub-
les produce Inflammation, irritation.
swelling or soreness, and unless
checked at once are likely to lead to
serious trouble. Caught in time DR..
Bells Pine Tar Honey loosens the
phlegm and DESTROYS the germs
which have settled in the throat or
nose. 1t is soothing and healing.
Pine is antiseptic; honey is soothing.
Insist or DR.. Bells Pine Tar Honey
Both together possess excellent med
cinal qualities for fighting cold germs
25c at all druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
LOWREY MOTION FOR NEW
TRIAL is AGAIN POSTPONED

The Americas Times-Recorder says
that Judge w. w. Lambdin, of the
federal court for the Southern dis
trict of Georgia, has announced that
the hearing of the motion for a new
trial in the case of NJ. NJ. Lowrey
has been continued until March on
motion of counsel for the defense.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Rain Storm Ceased.

Chfcago-The foods which spread
over parts of the two northern tiers
of counties in Illinois were subsiding
tonight with the cessation of the rain
storm.
It was expected that in most cases
the hundreds of persons driven from
their homes in the lowlands would be
able to return tomorrow. Only one
death by drowning of boy at
Ottawa-was reported.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
KENTUCKY TOWN UNDER WATER
Five Hundred Persons Are Now in
Extreme Distress.

Louisville, Ky.-That the entire
populace of approximately 500 per-
sons of Rumsey, Mclean county, KY,
faces actual want through lack of
funds with which to purchase medi-
cine, food, fuel and clothing was the
statement of G. w. Wigginston, post
master at Rumsey.
For twenty-five days the greater
part of the little town has stood I'M
der water at a depth of from one to
seven feet, he said, and two-thirds of
the families there have been driven
from their homes.
Members of at least 40 families are
i'll with grip and pneumonia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Driven From Homes.

Ottawa, Ill-Hundreds of families
have been driven from their homes !;
many bridges have been destroyed,
and number of factories closed by
the food, which is sweeping through
the Illinois and Fox river valleys.
Great damage has been done
around Ottawa, and at La Sale, Mar
settles and Utica. One person was
drowned at La Sale.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
BLACKMAIL GANG is
THWARTED BY AUTHORITIES
Men and Women Are Believed to
Have Obtained $25O,OOO in East.

Have Obtained S2OO,OOO III East
NEW YORK.-Vigorous efforts are
being made by the federal depart
ment of justice to obtain in this city
evidence against a band of men and
women who are believed to have
made a profit of nearly $250,O0O in
the last two years by Matchmaking
operations in New York, Philadelphia
and Atlantic City. 1t is claimed that
the system of blackmail was such that
those threatened were led to believe
they might face domestic scandal or
charges of violating the Mann law.
The men of the band are said to
have been aided by we'll dressed wo-
men, who obtained information re-
garding the possible victims at popu-
lar summer and winter resorts.