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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
BOTH PROPOSED MEASURES CIV
ING VOTING FRANCHISE TO
WOMEN FACE TROUBLE BY
ACTION OF BOTH HOUSES,
STATUTORY PROHIBITION
ALSO SLATED FOR ROCKS
Opposition Comes From Dry Leaders
in Both Senate and House Who
Want Only One Amendment
to People and Fear for
Their Measure.

St. Paul, March 2.-Statutory prohi-
hition, statutory suffrage and constitu-
tional suffrage bills, now pending in
the Minnesota legislature. are said to
re headed for the rocks.
The prohibition amendment, to be
voted on by the people at the elec-
lions in 1918, is held responsible for
the danger facing the three bills.
Dry leaders in both House and SEN
ate want only one amendment submit
ted to the people next year: Although
they failed to stop the constitutional
suffrage bill in the House, they conf
IDENTIFY expect to stop it in the Senate
The Senate elections committee will
hold a public hearing on the statutory
suffrage BILL introduced by Senators
Sageng and Putnam, within a few
days. No action will be taken on the
constitutional measure passed by the
House until the statutory bill has been
disposed Of.
The statutory bill, supported by lead
ing suffragists, will likely be reported
out of the committee. That the Sen
ote Will ueIeaC II, is cOnSlQereQ more
than probable.
1t is said that House members who
were for the constitutional amendment
for suffrage will hold up the statutory
bill even if it should, by any chance,
pass the Senate. These men, who led
the fight for constitutional suffrage,
believe that Senate leaders are trying
to kill their bill and they threaten re-
prisal.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
1918 STATE CAMPAIGN
BEGUN BY DEMOCRATS
Minnesota Association Formed at
Meeting in St. PauI-To Enroll
Members in Every County.

st. Paul. - Acting on the maxim
that the early bird catches the worm,
the Democrats of Minnesota are al
ready laying plans to elect a governor
and United States senator in 1918.
AS the first step in campaign which
will be pushed from now until election
time, the Minnesota Democratic asso-
citation has been organized in st. Paul
ito further the cause of Democracy in
Minnesota and to assist the state CEN
trail committee"
The association will be incorporated.
Active members will be enrolled in
every county. More than 200 already
have signified their intention of join
ing. Foundation work for the 1918
campaign will be launched without de-
lay
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Plan Big Potato Warehouse.

Bemidji. 49, Local business men are
completing the organization of a COM
pany to build large potato ware.
house here, and to outline a definite
plan of greater profits for potato rails.
ers in this vicinity. The warehouse
will be a REINFORCED concrete struc,
ture, built on the latest and most mod,
ern plans and have a capacity of 10000
bushels or practically fifty carloads,
One of the plans of the company is ia
encourage potato seed growing for tho
southern markets. :.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Half Million For Guards,

st. Paul, March 1.-The Minnesota
House of Representative has passed
the SteenMoeller bill appropriating a
half million dollars for national
guardsmen returned from the Mexican
border. There were only eight dis
senting votes. Under the terms of the
bill, Minnesota guardsmen would re-
ceiye so cents day from the state
for each day they spent in the federal
service.
This sum, proponents of the bill de-
clared, would permit the men to live
properly until they had obtained new
positions. It was predicted that the
measure would pass the Senate.
Debate on the bill at times waxed
warm, several members intimating
that opposition to the measure could
indicate only an absence Of patriotism.
Representative Moeller of St. Paul,
veteran Of the Spanish-American
war, urged the passage of the bill.
''The guardsmen were ready to make
any sacrifice required in defense of
their country's honor and integrity, -
he said. THAT they did not see &C
tive service is not their fault, but
we do know that they underwent hard.
ships and privations. Many of them
have lost their positions. Most OF
them are without funds.
Representative Henry Steen pointed
out that the United States was facing
another crisis, and that unless recog
milton were granted the border guards.
men it might be difficult to furnish
the states quota should war be de.
clared. He expressed hope that nc
member would vote against the meas
ure.
Revision of the states road laws is
the object of bill to be introduced
in the House of Representatives by
Edward 1ndrehus of Foley, chairman
of the good roads committee. The
bill incorporates all of the changes
proposed in various bills already in
troduced and has been approved by
the roads committees of both houses
The Senate will act on the super
tax or tonnage tax bill passed by the
House Thursday, March 8.
The fight against the bill in the
Senate will be led by Senator o. H
Griggs of Virginia. Senator Griggs
says that there are now enough votes
to kill the measure.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Fuel Situation Improved.

St. Paul.-The fuel shortage situa-
ton in small Minnesota towns has
been improved, according to recent
reports to the state Railroad Commits
sion. Seven towns received shipments
that afforded relief from impending
fuel famines. They are Center City,
Lindstrom, Grove City, Long Prairie,
Cokato, Watkins and Elk river. Only
two new complaints of coal shortages
have been received. They were from
Evansville and Melby and were &C.
companied by requests for coal.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
SWEDEN.

The government is taking vigorous
measures to regulate the food supply.
Orders have been issued providing ex-
preparation Of barley, barley flour, half
Of all supplies of oat and all oatmeal
and wheat grits. The government has
forbidden the use of potatoes as fod-
der and the peeling of potatoes before
cooking. The government took pos
session of all stocks of wheat and rye
last December so that the official de-
crees now cover all breadstuffs except
cornmeal and corn, which are ex-
pressly excluded. The daily bread ra-
ton probably will be reduced by so
grams.
The state railways of Sweden made
a new record in 1916. The exact
amount of the gross receipts is not
known, but it is said to be about $40,-
100000, as compared with about $780,
100000 in 1915, and little over $685.
100000 in 1914. But the running ex-
penses have also increased enormous
ly. It is estimated that the surplus
will not be quite $7,000,000.
Queen Victoria left for Baden, Ger
many, January II, on account of the
unfavorable condition Of her health.
The Private Central Bank of Sweden
has, declared dividend of II per cent
for the past year.
G. F. Ericsson, police director of
Stockholm, was ninety years old Janu-
ary II. He has been in the employ of
the city for more than 60 years, and
still he is so strong that he does not
see any reason why he should think of
Withdrawing from public service.
The receipts of the private railways
of Sweden for the first ten months of
last year were 100000, or "a per
cent more than for the same months
in 1915. The receipts have increased
so r:'r cent in7three years. aud 100 per
cen: uur;ag the past decade. 4
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
HURTS NAVIGATION ON RIVER
keokuk Dam Too High, Mississippi
Rivermen Say.

Winona. - If impounding of water
above the Keokuk dam is not stopped
Mississippi river steamboating will be
confined almost entirely between Keo-
kuk and St. Paul and between St.
Louis and the Gulf, according to lead
ing steamboat men on the Mississippi.
The statement follows an appeal to
Congress to relieve what is declared
to be a deplorable condition, due, it
is alleged, to raising the Keokuk dam
several feet higher than the law per-
mits.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
DRUG CURE WORK BY STATE
Is OPPOSED BY VISITORS
Conversion of Farm for lnebriates at
WilImar Recommended in Annual
Report on Institutions.

Willmar. - Abandonment of drug
cure and liquor cure work by the state
and the conversion of the state farm
for inebriates at Willmar into an asy-
Aum for feeble-minded persons and
those afflicted with senile dementia
are recommended in the annual re-
port of the board of visitors of state
institutions
The board finds that of all patients
sent to the farm, approximately one
third run away and of the rest only rs
per cent become abstainers.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14

3 8
twenty young men Il military aga
WHO were horn Of Swedish par ents.
but grew up in Germany, were COM
PEELED to take military training ia
Sweden. They were all gathered tn
the Svea bodyguard. I They understood,
so little Swedish that at first their in
struction had to he given in German.
IN the course OF time, however, they
learned enough Swedish to be able to
perform their duties without the use
OF Inc German language.
ii~ damage done by the spring
1resi'' Of 19lG is put at almost one
million dollars.
diplomas were given to 80 aviators
in Sweden during the year 1916.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
DENMARK.

commercially, the most important
feature of the recently acquired Dan
lsh West Indies is the fine harbOr at
Charlotte Amalie, on the island of st.
Thomas, ACCORDING to commercial
survey of the is sands, just completed
by agents Of the United States bureau
of foreign AMI domestic commerce, of
the department Of commerce. This
survey emphasizes the convenience Of
the harbor as distributing center for
all Of the Lesser Antilles. 1t lies on
the direct line OF communication be-
tween European ports and the en-
trance of the Panama canal, IS we'll as
in direct line for vessels plying be-
tween ports Of the two americas or
between the Atlantic and tactic ports
of these continents. st. <f'oix is the
largest, Wealthiest and must thickly
populated Of the three islands. It is
about 40 miles southeast OF St. Thorn
as and has large areas Of very fertile
soil. The town of Christiansted, on
this island, was the seat of the Danish
colonial government, but Frederiksted,
with much better harbor, is more i'm
portant commercially, doing approx
mately so per cent Of the import and
export business Of the island. Sugar
is the principal product Of st. Croix,
although some excellent sea island cot
ton is grown. The scenery is unriV-
aled in the Antilles, though not so
typically tropical as some of the other
islands. On the Island of St. John is
grown the bay tree, from which is OBJ
tanned the oil used in the manufacture
of bay rum. The bureaus report states
that the major part Of the bay rum Of
commerce comes from the Danish West
Indies. The foreign trade of the is
lands has not been of great import
ance. Imports at st. Thomas for the
fiscal year ended March 81, 1916, were
valued at 1874, $50, and this represents
about 20 per cent Of the imports Of
the three islands. Of this total the
United States furnished $685., 2S6
worth, the West Indies $91,74S worth,
Great Britain, $685. worth, Denmark.
$5O,77S worth, France, $13,2S6 worth,
Holland, $12,601 worth. and Germany
$1,195 worth. The United States pur~
chased $273,625 worth of goods from
the islands in 1915.
The inn at Vilsund is a thorn in
the flesh of the temperance people,
Now they propose to get rid of it by
purchasing the whole outfit and turn
ing it into a temperance hotel About
$14, 900 has been raised for this pur-
pose, and a committee of II has been
elected to find out on what conditions
the property may be had.
Copenhagen soon expects to be Wis
tied by representatives Of American
fnanciers who are contemplating the
purchase of large piece of ground at
the old railway yard for the purpose
Of building a theater having a seating
capacity of something like 5000. It is
figured out that after the war Copen-
hagen will be one of the worlds great
international centers. The perform
ances will be of an international char
acter.
A huge landslide has closed up the
public highway at Bovbjerg.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
OdIund Election Bill.

st. Paul, March 1.-Abolition of the
primary election system in Minnesota
so far as it applies to state offices is
sought in a bill to be presented to
the state legislature by Representative
Martin w. Odlund of Fergus Falls.
The measure, which virtually has
been completed, and which is under.
stood to have the support of a num-
Der of leading members in the House,
would repeal the present law for
nomination of candidates for state Of.
fees and would provide nominations
by state conventions.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
NORWAY.

According to a letter from Berlin to
the Christiania Morgenbladet there are
not many Norwegian institutions in
Berlin at the present time. War has
put an end to them. The Norwegian
church Is almost the only means Of
bringing them together. There were
services in the Norwegian church on
Christmas day, and on New Years eve
the congregation gave Christmas fes-
tival. There were Norwegian eatables
-rib-r0ast, bread and butter, cheese,
sausage, etc., and the enthusiasm ran
high. The gathering also assumed the
character Of farewell feast to Engi-
neer Jens Knudsen, who was to re-
turn to Norway in short time. The
main address to him was made by
Prof. Hans Dahl, who thanked Mr..
Knudsen for all the good work that
ne had done in the interest of the
Norwegians residing in Berlin. Rev.
Arne Fjellbu thanked Mr.. Knudsen for
what he had done for the church, hav-
ing served as chairman of it's board Of
trustees for number of years.
A number Of marine mines have
drifted ashore in the vicinity of Trond-
hjem. One mine exploded at Grip, but
no damage was done.
A shop for the manufacture of cleo.
trical aDnliances has heen in onorotion
little over a year in Sandefjord. The
enterprise proved a success, and now
the stock capital will be raised from
100000 to $1,00OOOo. The capacity of
the plant will be extended on SINH
lar scale. One of the products will be
an apparatus invented by a lieutenant
named Andersen for steering cannons
from the distance by means Of electri-
city. A number of very prominent
men are financially interested in the
extension of the plant. s-&
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
COWS YIELD GREAT REVENUE
Steele County Society Bases Challenge
on January Record.

Owatonna.-TheS Steele County Cow
Testing Assn challenges any 300
COW association to make a better rec
ord than that made by local cattle in
January. Forty-six cows averaged
53.15 pounds Of butter fat and their
total production, 2,445.15 pounds,
brought their owners $1,149.22, accord
ing to figures compiled by Alex Cham
bers, secretary of the association.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
LEAGUE LEASES QUARTERS
Non-Partisans to Make National Head
quarters in St, Paul.

st. Paul. - The Farmers Non-Parti-
san league has closed a lease for the
entire third floor of the Gilfllan block,
St. Paul, according to James A. Mana
han, and the headquarters will be
opened as soon as furniture can be
moved in. A. c. Townley, Fargo, N.
D., national president, will move to
ST. Paul, or spend much of his time
there, as will the executive committee
of five. The Office will combine the
headquarters of the national organiza-
ton and of the Minnesota league.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Confident Veto is Valid.

st. Paul, Feb. 26.-Governor Burn.
quist has expressed confidence that his
veto of the Pratt bill, assigning to the
state supreme court, rooms now oc
cupied by the tax commission and sd
jutant general, conforms to ALL consti
tutional and statute requirements: His
statement followed a report that he
had not acted within tie limited time
prescribed by the constitution.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Tax Bills Are Merued.

St. Paul., March las a result OF
the public hearing at which former
Governor John Lind and the members
OF the State Tax Commission appear
ed, the pending oils providing for the
re-classification of personal property
for taxation purposes have been merg-
ed into one measure. i,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
For Bible in Schools.

st. Paul, March 1.-Arguments
against the bill permitting reading OF
the Bible in the public schools have
been presented to the senate committee
on education by Emanuel Cohen, Min
neapolis attorney, by Rev. Theodore
Buenger, St. Paul Lutherana minis
ter, and others. Senator w. S. OWN
nell, one of the authors of the bill
defended it.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
is OPPOSED TO QUARANTINE
Dr.. Bracken Addresses Teachers on
Health, at Montevideo.

Montevideo. - DR.. H. M. Bracken,
head of the state board of health,
branded guarantees as things of the
past and of no value" and declared
that schools should not be closed
when an epidemic visited the COM
munity, in an address chere before the
Western Minnesota Educational as
ISOLATION
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
WILSON WON MINNESOTA?
Lynch Claims Recount Would Have
Given State to Democrats.

Washington.-Fred B. Lynch, Demo-
cratic national committeeman from
Minnesota, came down to Washington
from New York last week. Mr.. Lynch,
interviewed in a Washington newspa-
per, said that while he did not believe
there had been any election frauds in
Minnesota, he was confident that re-
count would have given the state to
President Wilson,
Mr.. Lynch could not see how the
way.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Oldest Gopher Banker Dies.

st. Peter-Frederick A. Donahower,
said to be the oldest banker in Mime
sofa, died at his home here He was
Sc years old and complications Incl
dent to his advanced age caused his
DEATH
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Son Thought Dead, Greets Father

Clear Lake.-Informed that his son
John, was dead in a Minneapolis hos.
pltal and after sending several mes
sages to that effect, John Hartman
was startled few hours later by
meeting his son on a principal street
here. 1t was case of mistaken iden,
tity.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
1000 EDUCATORS IN DULUTH

'ea1'7e'S T'Un ndE1ge IOWHS Httehd
Convention.
Duluth. - Nearly 1000 educators,
consisting of teachers, principals and
superintendent of schools in Duluth,
the range cities and other towns in
this section Of the state assembled at
the Central high school for the ses,
sion of the seventeenth annual con.
vention of the Northeastern Mime.
sofa Education association.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
Constitution Revision Beaten,

st. Paul, March 2.-The House of
Representatives has defeated the bill
by c. E. Ryberg for submission of an
amendment providing for a convention
for revision of the state constitution.
The bill received 40 affirmative and
70 negative votes. Two-thirds MAORI
ty was necessary for passage. A SINH
lar bill was defeated two years ago in
the House by substantial majority.
The transcript Of the evidence be-
fore the House labor committee in tho
recent investigation of labor disorders
in Northern Minnesota has been de-
livered to Chairman George L. Siegel.
bill to authorize the little village
of Mounds to dig canal from Mounds
lake to Lake Minnetonka was intro
duced by Senator Turnham of Long
Lake. The bill provides for the levy
ing of tax on abuttihg property own
ers.
Action on the Sageng bill for the re-
peal of the boxing law has been again
delayed by the state Senate. There
were 124 bills on general orders, the
greatest number during this session
and but six on the calendar, so the cal
endar with the Sageng measure was
skipped that bills might be cleared
from general ORDERS
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN.
THE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE
Future Trades Bills Killed

st. Paul, March 1.-Two measures,
both designed to cripple the Minneap.
oils Chamber of Commerce, sponsored
by certain farmer members, have been
slaughtered in the Minnesota House
of Representatives.
Men from the rural districts joined
hands with city representatives in put
ting to sleep the Knutson bill for tax
ing future trades and the Teigen pro-
posal to abolish future trading.
For nearly six hours, the House was
surfeited with oratory. Every one of
the so-called agricultural leaders had
his say. A. F. Teigen took nearly two
hours to explain his bill.
The Knutson bill looked like an old
fashioned "crazy quilt" by the time
the host of amendments to it had
been adopted. One amendment by T.
H. Girling of Robbinsdale rendered the
measure innocuous and presaged it's
defeat. The vote, taken after repeated
attempts to send it back to commit
tees, was 80 to SO.
The Teigen bill was amended on
motion of c. M. Bendixen of Morgan.
The amendment would permit hedg.
ing. Magnus Johnson of Kimball in
sisted that the Bendixen amendment
killed the purpose of the bill. The vote
on the Teigen bill was "a to Y.
Asher Howard of MINNEAPOLIS,
speaking against the Teigen bill, de-
Tended trading in options and pointed
out the great harm that would be work
ed to the farmers of the Northwest
and to Minneapolis by it's passage.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14

A huge landslide has closed up the
public highway at Bovbjerg.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-01
BALANCED RATIoNs.

Our wife has the balanced ration
bug. You know what that means 1t
means that you have to swallow as
much of one thing as you do of another
so your stomach won't get lopsided.
You realize as well as we do that
If you get a pound of spinach on the
left side of your Little Mary and only
half a pound of mashed potato on the
right side your portico's bound to
sag on one corner.
But there's nothing new about the
balanced ration. It's old. stuff We
can remember, when we were a little
boy, seeing our Uncle Will indulging in
his balanced ration down on the farm.
The only difference was that while our
wife balances ours on a sliding scale
of vitamines, calories and prcteids, he
balanced his on his knife.