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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05
U. S. MARKET REPORT
washington, ID. O.. for week ending
June 2. 1870.


LIVESTOCK AND MEATs-chicaso
hog prices ranged from steady to ibe
1850 for the top and sS,so 10 si.3t fol
he bolk. Medium and good beef steers
Toe lower TO 2bc higher at 1870 to
sSs higher sp~ a. sa h 10 ssss Sue feeder
steers steady 10 2bc lower at s5.25 10
sl9; Hight and mediom weight veal
calves calves lsc lower "a to $50; fat
lahmbs ti.to higher at sii,7b to si7.tO;
ewes SOC lower at ~ TO 81.
stocker and feeder shipments from
ending May rs were Cattle and calves
1909; hogs s,07e; sheep i2.b2s.
June prices. good grade meats:
ssss II. s'e 70 e ss I mu Ess III 10 siss
sis-tiT.
GRAIN--wheat future prices sharp
iy lower on heavy hedging sales by
commission houses. Lower future
sss S'i ms s@a ana pr ssspa declined NC
per bushel
Corn and cat future prices lower
With wheat but tho cash market had
= nrmer nndertone which held prices
at small decline.
.priss Minneapolis Gi2.siso' No !
bard winter c.,, chicago n'oSSh,'i;Ssi
ter Kansas City st0e,
7sc; Minneapolis Nc-7ici No. yei-
corn ' Kansas p city lse No %a,s wss
Chicago tsc-t7c; Kanass City t7c: Min
neapolis tthc.
FEED--pemand for feedstuffs quiet
and confined largely to spot stun and
nearby shipment offerings. wheat
aAAS l.n tAW
suit Of Increased output OF Northwest.
ern and southwestern mills. Gluten
feed manufacturers re-cntered the
market aud offered July shipment at
VI per ton over recent prices.
Quoted June q Spring bran at Min.
neapoiis t17i standard middlings at
Minneapolis si7; ~ per cent linseed
ter wheat bran at Kansas city sac: "a
per cent cottonseed meal at Kansas
City st3; Gluten feed at Chicago tss.5o;
yellow hominy feed at Chicago i1s:
s "a. new alfalfa meal at Kansas City
DAIRY PRopucTs-Rutter markets
steady TO Arm during the week. Quail
lty In current receipts has improved
until n IL satisfactory for storing and
as prices are ecnsidsrsd clos: s tor. TO low
movement has begun on larger scale,
No imports OF any consequences but
asking prices are such as to make I'm
Closing wholesale prices on % score
butter today; New York zoe. Chicago
SSAc.
Cheese markets also steady 20 Arm.
Trading fairly active and some specu-
lative interest evident Receipts be-
ginning to show full grass quality.
Wholesale prices az Wisconsin pri-
angie %"sy 1 asi.Sss s may double da.s. i2
Young Americas lshc. Longhorns
iSNc: square prints lsc.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05

American Want Ads are read
by buyers and sellers.
No quicker nor easier method
of getting results than through
American Want Ads.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05

Honolulu - Arrangements are CON-
plete for unusual steps to expedite
the arrival OF Prof T. A. agar. vol
canologist and authority ON Hawaiian
craters. az Kilauea. now In q state Of
unusual activity. when he arrives from
the mainland.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05

Washington - Senator Robert NJ
La Toilette declared he will have
nothing TO do with the so-called third
party convention at ST. Paul. June IL.
He asked his friends to stay away.
giving his reason the participation In
the st. Paul convention OF communist
organizations
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05

No, / dark northern Si,is-i.sA No. I
amber aarSm ii.ii.i.is, No. ! daram
n.os-i,io, corn-Ne, z yellow lse,
10 fancy 7se. Rye No. . etc. Flax seed
No, I ss.sf-aAi.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05
MAINTAIN $50 NAVY RATIO
elll Sent 10 Senate Authorizes ex.
pendlture Of iii.ooo. 900 Dollars.

Washington House passed a
hill designated TO bring the American
navy up 10 the S.5-s ratio fixed by the
Washington arms conference. The
vote was i6s TO las
As sent to the Senate the measure
would authorize construction OF eigh,
scout cruisers, six river cruisers and
extensive Improvements TO six battle.
ships at a total cost OF siii coo. 900.
The measure was introduced by
Chairman Butler OF the naval commit
tee at the request OF the Navy de
partment
An unsuccessful effort was made BY
Representative Britten OF Illinois
ranking Republican on the naval CON
mittee. to provide s6.5oo.ooo for tbs
elevation OF guns on IL battieships
The proposal was opposed by Chair
man Butler, who declared Il wouit
violate the arms conference treaty. i
was rejected. "a TO 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05

steers $3.50 90. Cows and helfers
ts.fs-sso. sheep and lambs ts.2S-itoe
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-06-05

Pasadena. Calit---Judge. chased
that horse. Golden. which used 20
lead municipal parades In Seattle.
more than two thousand miles before
I found him." ole Hanson. former may.
OF OF Seattle. told Justice OF the Peace
X. G. Morton. when accused OF horse
stealing by Clarence w. Basten. .
rancher.
-He said shooting was too good Tor
horse thief" added Hanson. with q
look a. Bastsn. hut man has .
right 20 tsks his own animal after
nearly wearing the tires on . motor
car kasfin9 him"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-01-10
wnscoNsrN-A STATE WITHOUT A BONDED DEBT

BY HON JOHN j. BLAINE, Governor of Wisconsin
TECHNICALLY, Wisconsin is not debtless state
At the time this is indebted the
school fund and to the normal school fund in
amount of 50 370o Wisconsin. however, of the
few which has bonded Indebtedness has not
cent of debt except its funds The in
debtedness to the general fund to the funds
ever is matter of bookkeeping than of anything
else.
Yet Wisconsin has taken of all legitimate state
functions in adequate and liberal Its state
university is known the world and Wisconsin has
more normal schools than other state 1t Wis
consn that compulsory partme education employed
children originated and its vocational schools
where pointed to as the best in the country Wisconsin
is also favorably known for its good State dis
bursements for highway construction and
have toalled in the neghborhood of s1OOO0OOO
Of the last few Wisconsin also has the record
it was the first state to bonus all of its
who fought in the World War; and it originated the SOL
ders educational bonus the amounts totalling about
S20,O0O,OOO
These enterprises have involved some increase in
state expenditures For my first bennium ending June
&c. 1929 the total amount of including the tax on
real estate inheritances, incomes railways rail-
ways, sleeping freight lines express telegraph
telephones, insurance and all other forms of taxation
that went to the support of the ncud
ing the university and normal schools represents per
capita tax of only S4 So
Other states have had like greater increases
but unlike Wisconsin have lived within their income
In nearly all states soldiers have been paid from
bond issues and many thus financed
heir good roads programs Every state bordering on
Wisconsin has had at least large state bond issue
within the last five years.
1t will be noted herein that Wisconsin has adoped
nhe policy to pay and therefore does operate
the of state from funds derived from
bond issues while all neighboring paid in
part some of the items, for which we have paid cash
through taxes, by bond ISSUE Under Wsconsins policy
to pay as the increase of disbursements state
government 1915 fop Minnesota was 25 per cent
more than Wisconsin; Illinois increase per cent
than Wisconsins Nebraskas increase was 50 ner
cent more than Wisconsns Ohos increase 1OS per
cent more than Wisconsins and Mchgans increase was
223 per cent more than Wisconsins Despite reduc
tons from the peak of times the reports of the Sec
retay of the United Treasury show that in
the ordinary expenditures of the States exceeded
those of 1915 by 375 per total disbursements
by loso per cent Any increase in state expenditures for
the state of Wisconsin expenditures
for educaon and good roads while the enormously in
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-01-10
MELLON PROPAG GANDA USES
TAX VICTIMS AS CATS PAW

NONE of the champions of the Mellon tax reduction
plan has yet attempted to reply questions which
put to them by Representative Rosenboom Repub-
can of West Virginia in the of speech in the
House of Representatives few days 1t is
however that the Republican leaders in Congress will
be compelled take notice of these questions many
others which the Democrats intend them before
the Administrators proposals very much older
Congressman Rosenbloom speaking on the subject
of taxexempt securities and of the individuals in
terests that urged the repeal and reduction of
years means of attracting money back into
dustry and thus insure prosperity
"A legislative proposal be certainly iden-
titled and characterized by its advocates" Mr. Rosen-
bloom declared Why is it,, he asked "that the same
gentlemen who years exhausting their en-
ergy reduction of income incomes in
of $4,000 at the of incomes under
$4,000 year. devoted to their professed in
terest in the people generally that they the
jory of people WI ON they proposed to tax heavily
cats paw of their that the proposed amend
ment should be sdopt ptedT"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-01-10

1929 session found necessary veto appropriations
totalng s6S27OOO also insisted that departments live
within their appropriations and refused to sign bills in
creasng appropriations except where absolutely necessary
With the help progressives in the legislature these
policies have brought results The 1928 Legislature
ally reduced appropriations from the general fund by
So 100000 for present benumthe first legislature
of Wisconsin to any reductions in total appropra
the last twenty Today the state treasury
is in better than for years since Not
only are the larger than in 1921 but unused
preparations constitute large part of these balances
These favorable balances have made possible the rems
sion of s1l5OOO state property for the
fiscal year. with prospects of at least an equal remission
for the year following and additional accumulation of
surplus available in 1925 to meet the fed
eral aid for highway construction
submit that this is record of actual accomplish
ments for which progressive need make
apologies.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-01-10
fnF HIGH COST OF GOVERNMENT

WHERE does your money go? Are you getting
received for the you paid last year in
federal, state and local government? Does it
make less curious to know that over billion dol
lars of this lifted from you in tariff duties
food and clothing which and which you probably
blamed upon the grocer the baker, and the dry goods
man?
The Journal devotes this issue to the high cost of gov
because that question affects the welfare of
every man, and child in the country 1t puts
mortgage your pay envelop before you have
opened it. 1t largely decides whether your dollar will
buy less whether standard of living shall
up down. In any the question sticks you
closer than your shadow.
Progressive Legislators in the congress going
to stage battle royal to reduce federal taxation
small incomes and the necessities of life They demand
the reduction elimination of the income tax in
under three four thousand dollars and sweeping
reductions in tariff charges food and clothing the
government needs money whether for farmers
lief bonus other purpose. they intend take it
out of profits and inhertances with possible in
creased tax the incomes of monaires Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon that there will be surplus of
half billion dollars in the federal treasury this
at present taxation but he distribute it
by decreasing the income tax the multmllionare
well the day aborer Indeed he wants the
surax chopped from so to 25 per cent, which will
his million-do1ar income tax of 100000 per
year.
Watch the vote of your congressman and senators
the question 1t will tell about their devotion
your welfare than all the campaign speeches they
delivered-I1ocomotive Engineers Journal.
THE generationold soap manufacturing concern the
b, T. Babbt company, occupying SO at Babbitt,
N j. has passed into the hands of Armour and Company
Slowly but surely the business interests of this country
producing manufacturing and selling being CONSOLE
dated under cooperative methods And in line has
greater strides been made than in the publishing busi
where two today list of publications
that practically control the public northumberland
Junction News.
That may be what the News calls cooperation, but
would define it quite different thing We admit
the consolidation sentiment is growing rapidly. Also
doubt gravey whether it is prejucia the well-
being of the country whole This view is supported
by the last sentence in the News editorial 1t surely
not we'll that the control of single of publications
should be able to public sentiment and
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-01-10
WHAT ADVERTISING DOES

America has the best life on this
earth because 1t has the best adver
tised life. says Colonel W. G. Edens
OF the Public Relations Commission.
American Bankers Association. He
goes on: American health Is the best
In the world because American peo-
pie are best informed In the ways and
habits OF health. largely through ad-
vertising. American business IL the
largest and most successful in the
world because It uses advertising the
most. American business men enlarge
their business institutions in proper.
ton as they advertise them. Ameri.
can buyers become more shrewd In
spending their money in proportion
as they read advertisements.
The press of the United States 10
regarded by many as the most power.
ful OF our Institutions II must be
numbered with the schools and the
churches as one Of the trinity Of most
powerful creators OF knowledge and
patriotism.
Advertising is what It is today
largely because Of the power and sue
cess Of the daily paper Nevertheless.
II is true that the daily paper is as
successful as It is today because OF
Advertising.
The banking business has been ben.
efited largely by advertising within
the last dozen or fifteen years Bank.
ing institutions have done more ad.
vertising than ever before They have
Installed advertising departments
which acquaint their communities
with facts formerly regarded in tn.
light Of Institutional secrets. The
banker publishes facts which build No
confidence in his Institution.
The result has been that millions
OF people who formerly would not
place their money in the care of bank.
ers, but who boarded II at homo, en-.
trusted II to friends, or invested IL in
wildcat speculations, now regard the
bank as the safest place in the world.
Hundreds Of millions Of dollars have
been brought from their hiding places
and placed in circulation. much to the
advance Of America and American in.
stftutions, as well a. American bust.
ness Newspaper advertising has
done more for American banks in the
last dozen years than any other single
agency"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-01-10

THE Durango Democrat processes to hate the Dem
Post with great bitterness but observe that they
play the fiddle Post in the very bum Anti
Sweet orchestra.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-01-10

Motto of the Anti-Nicotiners-"If
you smoke in this world, you will
smoke in the next"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
STATE PR0HI FIGURES
FOR q YEARS GIVEN
ARRESTS TOTALED 4,376 AND
PROPERTY WORTH NEARLY
100000 WAS DESTROYED.

During the four-year period begin
ming January l, 1920, and ending De
cember 81, 1923, federal prohibition
agents operating in Georgia destroyed
property estimated to be worth 81,
846,42418 and recommended tax as
sessments totaling $4,778,275.52 against
moonshiners and others charged with
violting the national prohibition act,
according to figures made public by
Fred D. Dismuke, chief OF prohibition
forces in Georgia
The figures, attaches of Mr.. Dis
muke's office stated, represent the
complete enforcement of the prohibi-
ton law in the state with the excep-
ton of the first quarter OF 1924.
The destroyed property included
1920 stills, ISIS distillery worms, 80
$40 gallons of whisky (mostly CORN,
and 6,957.104 gallons Of beer describ-
ed as fit for distillation."
Six hundred and sixteen automO-
biles seized during the period were
not valued, as the cars were sold at
public outcry for varying amounts fol
lowing institution Of ''in rem" or con-
demnation proceedings by the govern
ment
Arrests during the four years total
ed 1876.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
$25, 1000 IN JEWELS
FOUND ON SUSPECT
GEORGIA SHERIFF ARRESTS
MAN BELIEVED TO BE LOS
ANGELES GEM THIEF.

JESUP, Ga.-With more than $25,-
600 worth OF diamond rings tied in his
glistening shirt of silk and Sl,470 in
currency snugly resting in the peck
cts of his immaculate gray trousers,
a dapper gentleman jewelry sales
man believed to be Jim Blanton, al
legged partner OF Bill Conner, alleged
ring leaders of the gang that robbed
the Provident Loan Association in
Los Angeles, Cal, Of 100000 in
diamonds on February 9th, was ar
rested here Wednesday night.
In the pockets Of the coat that
matched the gray trousers Sheriff /.
w. Rogers found a collection OF val
liable jeWeled watches.
The prisoner who maintains his in
nocence, declaring that he is Jew
elry salesman from the James & Toz-
ri Company, West One Hundred and
Seventy third street, New York,
Sheriff Rogers, who has been COM
p1imented highly for his thorough
method in searching the prisoner, de-
clares that he firmly believes the pris-
oner to be the man wanted i'll Los
Angeles. A telegram received Satur-
day morning. giving a full description
of Jim Blanton, convinced the sheriff
that the gentleman" is the man:
The man registered at a hotel as
G. Castaldo, New York, the sheriff
said
About 10 o'clock in the morning
Castaldo appeared at the sheriff's Of
flee and related story OF hard luck,
the sheriff said, seeking to pawn a
ring for $4OO Sheriff Rogers, realizing
the ring was highly valuable one,
accompanied Castaldo to Jewelry
store, where it was valued at $1,000
Castaldo was directed by the sheriff
to return to his office at 2 o'clock and
receive the money. The sheriff then
made thorough search OF records and
found a description of Jim Blanton
which fitted the Salesman" perfectly
When Castaldo returned he was
placed under arrest.
According to the sheriff Castaldo
declares that he is on his way to Flor
ida. Running out of ready cash Cas-
taldo said, he sought to pawn one OF
his rings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
a MOO NAMES ARE
an SUCKER" LIST
.o,rr MUCH GOOD MONEY.
PAY = rpANCISCO HERDS A
san HUNDRED FAKIRS.

,... # $4,000 persons including
N@ San Francisco's elite socially
'oI5 n ...o,ially were found on the
anu ..,. OF half hundred crystal
su'" ,,,4 writer's, palmists, trance
s'.@, and other varieties OF Sooth- i,
n, sl@- who have Just been rounded
a''-5 rsrded out of the city by the
V csrs 10000 Of these-most OF them
,,oht-to-know-better kind-al-
had naid out good money, fire.
feaa. IN large quantities, to obtain
qusD,.3 n; occult influences, according
the az .r+horities. The lovelorn OF
70 u, .r., were the chief source OF
Doln ~. for the soothsayers, the police
fe' ytl-.5 Some Of the "cures" the oc-
oIi n, g.r-rv disseminated were almost
GUY ~. .rough to cause a laugh at
,,,..s5.er-aIers convention.
al M :rstancc. more than a score OF
IC' ,rra discovered in which unhap-
cas', .;,ss had been advised that the
E w nav 10 cure their philandering
iD5,rd. was to insert thirteen pins
' 5 ,b;--een needles in pair OF dear
anu v. DIS which were then to
~ GnG bn-red beneath the front door step:
DC IT, mother case a large group OF
- ,,,;-h "steadies" who lacked
.;.sar .re courage or the disposition
1l', zach the proposal stage were ad-
,a5 70 boil a piece Of old stocking
' al, and vinegar on seven alternate
avs The backward SWANS simply
o "a, no, resist the temptation to pro-
o ,os.~ thew we're assured, if the lady
ip 0,d wear this chemically prepared
H. q; hosiery somewhere about her
r., was not only the lovelorn
-.bo contributed to the soothsayegs'
rok44o One automobile owner was
;annd in raided den, where he was
irving 10 return to the presiding seer
an amrle. Of sole leather marked with
r3bsn,uc design He had Just col
fded with a water plug and the sooth-
ssver was having hard time con-
yirc,ra him that the charm would
ward off accidents, when, happily for
him the police interviewed.
Apparently there is still one being
born every minute.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
CAT DIES WITHOUT HEIRS;
ESTATE IS TO BE DIVIDED
Money Left Animal by Owner Whose
Death Occurred After Pets.

Mrs. Fannie Pitcher who recently
died at Delhi N. Y, left will pro-
viding for the care OF her pet cat,
Woodrow. She bequeathed $500 in
trust for the cat and $500 to local
butcher who had many times contrib
uted bit of meat for Woodrow's
dinner.
The cat died a short time before
the testator, and as he left no heirs
the $500 will be divided among rela-
tives of the testator.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
BANDITS KILL AMERICANS
ON AN ALBANIAN ROAD
Tourists From New York and Cali
fornia Victims of Highwaymen.

TIRANA, A1bania-The murder Of
George B. DeLong, of New York, and
Robert Lewis Coleman, of San Fran
cisco, waylaid on the Tirana- Scutari
highway Sunday is attributed to high
waymen who infest the back country
OF this mountainous and sparsely set
tied state.
Travellers on many of the roads are
an easy prey for these bandits, and
the region where the Americans were
travelling is among the widest in Al
bania, where an ambush by highway
men is easily laid and where people
on the highroads are constantly eX-
posed to danger.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
ASTOR HOME WILL GO;
COST 7 MILLION DOLLARS

The 100000 mansion Of the late
Iohn Jacob Astor, at New York city,
h, 10 ae torn down. An apartment
house 10 cost $1,S00,000 will be erect
ed in its place.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07
RECOUNT GIVES
GOOD
VOTE MAJORITY.
Counting Of Ballots in Tex
as Senatorial Elec-
ton Ends.
TO HEAR FUND CHARGE
Will Air Peddy's Accusa-
ton That Too Much
Money Spent.

Washington, ID. C.. April 1.-THE
recount of the ballots cast in the
Texas senatorial election in 1922 was
completed today and on its face shows
a substantial majority for Senator
Earle Mayfield, Democrat.
At the office of Senator Spencer
(Republican), Missouri. chairman of
the committee handling George +. B.
Peddy's contest of the election, it was
said that number of ballots
would have to be passed upon by the
committees as the counters were with
out authority.
Public hearings on Peddy's charge
OF excessive expenditure of funds in
the campaign on behalf ,of .Mayfield
and Of the counting of fraudulent bal
lots, probably will be started within
a week or ten days.
Senator Spencer explained that the
counting of the ballots was a mere
preliminary step in settlement of the
contest. The count, he said, only
leads IN to the legal question of wheth-
err Mayfield's name was printed. past
ed or written on the ballots in accord
ance with the law.
There never has been any cues.
ton" he added, but that Mr.. May
field received very large majority
OF the ballots which were cast and
counted in the election"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-07
CONGRESS URGED TO
FORM CLUB AND RISE
ABOVE LOW PLACES
Educator Says Members
Should Get Out of Sor-
did Air of Probes.

Chicago. April DIR. Francis G..
Peabody. for 40 years dean of Har-
ward University. recommended last
night in an address before the Chi
cago Sunday Evening Club that menu
bers of Congress Join an anti-base-
ment club"
"They should get up out Of the sor-
did air of this investigation, settle
on a higher plane and give the coun-
try constructive legislation" he de-
clarcd. Congress should rise above
the low places"
The dean suggested an "anti.base-
nent club" for those who would "live
in the upper stories Of their lives.
abandoning its lower regions. its base.
ments and cellars. its underworld of
carelessness or narrowness, where life
is shut in. sitting or mean"
He said the need is for upward
looking people who can avoid the de-
grading things of life and devote them
selves to things elcvating mentally
anal morally.