The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-11-07

horizontal advance of Is per cent in
rates on all classes, commission Off
Gals said late yesterday, The pre-
diction followed an announcement in
Washington that eastern railroads are
preparing to place before the Inter.
state Commerce commission a progran
to provide general relief from It'd cir
financial difficulties. -.
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Shortage Is In Cars, Not Coal.
J. F. MCGEE, fuel administrator for
Minnesota, last night charged the pres
ent threatened coal shortage in this
! state more to lack of railway cars
| than to lack of coal. He also urged
that the greatest conservation be OBJ.
served in use of coal until some means
may have been found to rectify pres
ent conditions, adding that only such
action can prevent disastrous short
age later.
MANY appeals for coal, particularly
hard COAL" he said, 'have come to
me from all parts of the state and
even some from North Dakota, in the
past week.
these conditions are not due par
| ticularly to lack of coal but to a
very great car shortage which exists
at the present. The War Transports,
ton board at Washington has an:
nOunced that the utmost we can ex.
pect, for some time at least, is a 50
per cent car service-that is, we will
have only six cars where in normal
times we had 10. -
"There must be a remedy for this
condition and every possible means OF
increasing the car supply must be re-
sorted to. All cars ought to be un
loaded the earliest possible moment
after they reach their destination and
then be released for further service
instead of being used for warehouse
J or storage purposes. The Northern
| Pacific has lost 100 cars day fol
the last 20 days. BY this I mean
net loss, which means that road has
1900 less available cars today than il
had 20 days ago: Many OF these cars
were loaded with potatoes at Mime
sofa points and consigned to Chicago
and other Eastern destinations and
were not returned when unloaded. The
Chicago & Northwestern road has sui
fered net loss of $500 cars in the
same period of time.
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| Draft Boards Sole Judges.
District draft boards are the sole
Judges of both law and fact in each
particular case that comes before them
in the opinion of the Second district
board for Minnesota, and are not amen
able in their decisions to opinions or
legal questions from governors, state
attorneys general and adjutants gen
eral.
This position is affirmed by the dis
trict board here in it's action revers
ing the discharge decision of the
Thirteenth ward local board in the
case of Clifford G. Schultz, secretary
of the State Securities commission
and holding him for service.
In it's action the district board over
rides opinions by Governor Burnquist
Attorney General Smith and Adjutant
General Rhinow. All held that Mr.
Schultz was a proper subject for ex
emption 4ndeh the provisions of the
selective Service act and the rules and
regulations pertaining to it.
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Capitol Postmaster Resigns
&C. b. Olmstead of Minneapolis
has resigned as postmaster at the
state capitol, position he has filled
oso Tho &c
effective November 1 and has yet te
be accepted by Governor Burnquist
who will name. new postmaster at
the building. Mr.. O1mstead, who is
Civil war veteran and 70 years old
was obliged to resign because of his
age and the condition of his health
-. Receipts Exceed Expenses, ::
Carlos Avery, commissioner, has is
sued the annual report of the state
game and fish department. showing
that receipts exceeded :, expenses by
more than 5000. The revenue to
), tailed $155,482, and the disbursements
$116,871: The largest single items Of
revenue were 1897 from small game
LICENCES, and $43,777 from inland fish
ing permits for the taking of rough
fish. @~5: = j s.-... >. .>@s
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= Bonds Will Pay Liquor Tax. Ia. 4.
Liberty Loan bonds will be accepted
, in place Of other bonds for the pay
: ment Of. the new, floor tax on Liquor
q by the internal revenue department
according to. a message received y,
8 q. j. Lynch, collector Of internal rev
enue, from head Quarters in Washing
u ton. The floor tax Of: $2.10 a ga1lol
! on liquors originally was payable il
8 thirty days, but on account Of the DID
q ficulty Of getting inventories, liquo