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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13
LAD DISCOVERS FIRE

When little Joseph Herbeck, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Herbeck of New
Ulm, returned home from school one
evening last week, he entered the
kitchen of his parental home and
found that the room was a mass of
flames. With rare presence of mind,
he ran downstairs and notified neigh
bors who succeeded in keeping the
blaze under control until the fire de-
partment arrived and put out the
fire. The fire started from the pipes
leading from the kitchen stove to the
chimney.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13

From the looks of some modern
shieks the best way to keep sock to
stay put, is to roll it down to the
shoe tops.-Exchange.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13
DOCTOR WAS FOUND
DEAD AT NEW AUBURN

DR.. E. R. Jellison of New Auburn
in Sibley county, near Glencoe, was
found dead in bed at his home, on
the morning of January %, by a
party of friends, who had noted his
absence around town. According to
examination, by the coroner, the doc
tor had been dead for several hours
when found, and death was said to
have been due to unknown causes.
DR.. Jellison lived alone in quarters,
which included his office. The re-
mains were taken to Gaylord for bur
ial. He was 68 years of age, and is
survived by his wife, son and one
daughter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13
NEW POSTMASTER is
NAMED AT ST. PETER

A. M. Anderson, business and polit-
ical leader in Nicollet county for
many years, Friday, became post
master of ST. Peter, succeeding L. j.
Gault, who, assumed his duties as
active vice president of the Nicollet
County bank. Mr.. Gault's term of
four years expired on December 9,
and it was rumored some time ago
that Mr.. Anderson was slated for the
job.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13

The worst thing about the fellow
who knocks his home town is that
he refuses to leave it.-Exchange.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13
GAME NUMBER q

Answers to the Questions in this Game will be
Found on Another Page.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13

Sheriff of Redwood County.
Cobb, Hoke, Benson, Krause & Fac.
gre, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 800
Security Building, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
20-6tS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13
SIBLEY WOULD RE-ESTAB-
LISH FARM BUREAU

A meeting was held in the village
of Gaylord, last Friday afternoon, for
the purpose of discussing the pro-
posed establishment of the farm
bureau, and county extension work in
Sibley county. About 80 farmers and
business men from different parts of
of the county attended the meeting.
Sibley county is one of the very few
counties in the southern part of the
state, which does not maintain an ac-
tive farm bureau. The sentiment of
the meeting was unanimously in favor
Eof re-establishing the organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06
SPANISH RULERS
MOTHER is DEAD
OF SUDDEN ILLNESS
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then located in the Atlantic and Pacific.
Still more serious, however, in the eyes
of the Spanish people, was the fact that
there was no male heir to the throne.
This apprehension was removed with
the birth of the present ruler. King
Alfonso XIII, on May IT, 1885, six
months after the death of his father.
At the time of the death of King
Alfonso XII Spain was recovering from
serious tilt with Germany over the
possession of the Caroline Islands, in
the Pacific. One of the islands had
been seized by Germany. the act leading
to rioting in Madrid, during which the
German embassy was damaged. The
King had intrusted the controversy to
diplomacy and the Pope decided in favor
of Spain.
The most serious blow during the
regency of Queen Maria Christina to
the once powerful Spanish Empire was
the war between Spain and the United
States, which resulted In the loss to
Spain of the last of its important colo
NAL possessions and terminated Span
ish rule in the New World. Cuba which
for a long time had been trying to
shake off the Spanish yoke, became in
sistent in its demands for independence
in 1894. The Cubans later broke out
in active revolution against the mother
country and the situation came to be
regarded by the United States as a
menace because Of the nearness OF the
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island to the American shore. An ex-
change of diplomatic notes between the
United States and Spain was followed
by sending to Havana harbor the
American battleship Maine. which was
blown up there February Is, 1898. The
United States declared war against
Spain and seven months later, in De-
cember, the Queen regent agreed to
give up Cuba, Porto Rico. the Philip
pines and other islands in return for a
payment of $2O,000.000.
Maria Christina was devout Catho-
lie and through her influence greatly
aided in the ascendency of the Catholic
Church in Spain during the last quarter
of the nineteenth century. The last
year of her reign, however, was marked
by dispute with Rome over the rights
and prerogatives of the Catholic clergy
In Spain, which the Vatican sought to
restrict.
Maria Christina had two daughters,
the Infantas Marie de las Mercedes,
born in 1880, and Maria Therese, born
in 1882. Their deaths, like their births,
occurred two years apart, the former
dying In 1904 and the latter in 1905.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06

correct its own mistakes. 1t took cog
nizance of such requests. Eventually,
under the right to make rules and
regulation, the board prescribed form
of orderly procedure to be followed in
such appeals, invoking its inherent
power to correct its own alleged mis-
takes"
But such appeals are based on no
right of department heads or employees
to lodge them, but solely on the rules
of the board prescribing the manner in
which requests currently to correct its
own errors on its own motion In initial
ALLEGATIONS may be brought to its at
tention. If the board has no power to
revise its own action, because of a
labored construction of the word final"
implying that it limits the board itself,
then the foundation for changes in all0-
cations, no matter at whose behest,
crumbles. In view of the Endorsement
given by the controller general to num-
erous changes in ALLEGATIONS made in
this state of laws and facts, the COM
mittee can not understand his belated
denial of the right hitherto questioned
by him.
Holds 1924 Ruling Not Binding.
1.-THE committee is familiar with the
ruling emanating from the Department
of Justice under date of February /,
1924, and the circumstances attending
its issue. They utterly disagree with
it and deem it not binding on Congress
or any committee thereof.
Therefore, the committee maintains
that section / of the bill adds nothing
to the functions and jurisdiction of the
personnel classification board. but by
the proviso in the section quoted above
rigidly limits 1t. That without restora-
ton of these functions, stripped from
it by an incomprehensible ruling by
the controller general, the classification
system is undermined and other amend
ments to the classification act as
amended by the WEIGH act are not
worth bothering about"
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to the procedure prescribed by the
board. Obviously, the intention OF this
tentative classification by department.
heads was to relieve the Classification
Board of an immense amount OF routine
work for which it was not equipped.
Thereupon the section provides such
ALLEGATIONS shall be reviewed and may be
revised by the board and shall become
final upon their approval OF said board.
This manifestly gives the classification
board sole jurisdiction finally to nix allo-
cations from which there can be no ap-
peal, and absolutely diSposes OF the con-
tention that the board did not have the
jurisdiction restated in the language OF
the bill above quoted No joint response
bility Is contemplated, for obviously 1t
would nullify departmental UNI
formity.
1.-The initial ALLEGATIONS having been
generally made, no functions are to be
exercised under section except when
new positions are created not falling
within an existing grade, no such case
having as yet occurred; or when by
legislation new grades are created or
new basic qualifications are provided
for existing grades. This was the case
in the WEIGH bill In such cases Sec
ton is applicable and prescribes the
procedure to be followed in initial allo-
cations to the new or altered grades
just as in ALLEGATIONS initially made to
the old grades. The committee can find
no justification for ruling divesting
the classification board of its final
jurisdiction to revise such ALLEGATIONS
and declares the basis for it, that Con-
gress probably assumed the board was
too busy to attend to its major func-
ton, frivolous"
"ShalI Ascertain Facts"
"The language following that discuss
ed above, 1T shall have authority to
ascertain currently the fact as to the
duties and RESPONSIBILITIES of any such
position and to review and change the
ALLEGATION thereof whatever in its opin-
ion, the facts warrant: Provide: Such
review and change shall be made only
after consultation with the heads of
the departments concerned and after
affording all incumbents of positions
affected an opportunity to be heard. of
which hearing permanent written
record shall be made and kept,
including all testimony TAKEN like
wise is restatement of a func-
has exercised from the beginning
without question by department
heads or the Controller General.
Hence such ALLEGATIONS are conclu-
sive on all officials and employees of the
Government and no appeals therefrom
may be lodged with any one, the clas-
Sification board itself included. But the
inherent right of an administrative
agency currently to correct mistakes in
matters entrusted to its discretion is
generally recognized Accordingly re-
quests to correct alleged misallocations
began to be addressed to the board and
under the assumption of the right to
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ASKS FREE TEXT BOOKS.

A resolution approving the proposal
to provide free text books and educa-
tional supplies in the District schools
was passed last night by the Devonshire
Downs Citizens Association, meeting IN
the Home for Incurables.
The measure was approved after a
talk by w. S. Deffenbaugh of the
Bureau of Education.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-06

There have been times when the number of pending applications ex- ceeded the available space and we have had to care for some hospital patients in other institutions until they could be admitted to the House This condition is not seri- ous and probably will continue un- til we have sufficient funds tc erect new institution. If five year building program is adopted it is not advisable to erect additions to the existing building. The last Legislature appropriated $98,500 for maintenance and improvements and S11 ,9O3 .22 was received for services rendered and supplies purchased by other than inmates. The est1- mated cost of maintenance and re- pairs for the next biennium is $106,5 500.
 During the past year a bequest of $2,700 was left to the Pioneers Home by John North. The Trus- tees have not made any disposition of this fund because we deemed 1t advisable to present the matter to the Legislature We believe, how ever, that a trust fund should be established to be designated as sThe John North Library Fund and that the money should be in vested and the proceeds used to purchase magazines, books and papers for the pioneers.
 ''At this time it is appropriate that I should express my apprecia- tion to the other members of the Board for their indispensable as- sistance and the willing efficient service they have rendered.
 Pensions
 Alaska always has been noted for it's generosity in providing for the care of those who, because of circumstances beyond their control, require assistance, and we should continue to do our utmost to re- lieve distress and destitution.
 "The Pension Board is charged with the administration of the al- lowances for aged residents and the demands on this fund have in- creased so rapidly during the past year that we feel that we should present the matter to you in de- tail so that you may be fully ad- vised and be better prepared to make adequate provisions for the probable increase during the next biennium.
 "The following table shows the increase in disbursements for pen Sionc since 1901.
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his activities and recommendations will be submitted later There is urgent need for services such as he has rendered and the following plan is suggested.
 "The creation of Department of Animal Husbandry at the Agricul- tural College and School of Mines. The head of this department shall be qualified to render assistance to the fur farmers throughout tho Ter ritory and she shall also be charg- ed with the duty of inspecting the dairy herds. The law should con- tain a provision whereby he is authorized to carry on necessary ex- periments in whatever places he ma ydesire in the Territory. That is, he should be permitted to select one or more pair of animals from an existing farm, assuming, of course, that the owner will consent, and build pen if necessary where they may be confined and observed. He will prescribe the proper meth- cd of treatment and feeding and leave instructions to be carried out by the owner. After the lapse of sufficient time he may again visit the farm and determine the results of his work. Under this plan ex- periments could be carried on in many sections concurrently The work could be distributed and the information be made available so that the farmers in each area would derive benefits that they could not obtain from a centralized experi- ment station.
 "Last sess:on we appropriated S15,000 for the benefit of the fur farming industry and s10.000 for the examination of dairy herds. We had to bring two veterinarians to the Territory when one could
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ness of the Territory ca Q sound economic basis we mus fellow ac. cepted business methods.
 "The ideal and only justifiab,e system of taxation is based on the theory that we shall derive just sufficient revenue to meet the ne- cessary costs of our government, if we exceed this, then taxation amounts to confiscation. However, in Alaska, we nre confronted with peculiar situation because we dc not derive our taxes from a stable property valuation but from vari- able commodity production anc therefore we must maintain an ade- quate surplus or reserve in our treasury at all times sufficient tc meet probable fluctuations in the annual production of our industries Under these conditions I contend that reserve is not only justifiable but indispensable.
 For the past ten years the Fed eral Government has been gradual ly reducing some of our taxes but during this time nearly every state and municipality has been increas- ing their local levies. Alaska has not been an exception to this Ill advised tendency, and we have less justification than many of the oth- CT political subdivisions. Our popu- lation has not increased material ly in the past ten years yet our annual expenditures have mounted rapidly. The cost of administra- ton cannot be advanced as req son for the increase because last biennium only 4R of the total ex- penditures can be charged to this item and this is a reduction of B 1f3To under the same item for the preceding two years.
 "Our expenditures have increased but our sources of revenue have not. The major part of our reve- nue is derived from our productive industries and there has not been and probably will not be for some years to come, an increase in the number of these industries that will be able to supply revenue. Hence, any increase must be borne by those already in existence. We have rec ords from which we can estimate very closely the amount of reve- nue we may expect for the next five years and if we wish to con- duct our business on sound basis we must not make appropriations that win exceed our probable re- ceipts from taxation I am con- vinced that our present rates oi taxation will produce ample reye- nue for all necessary government activities, in fact, I believe wt could well repeal some of the mi nor license features which are ir conflict with our municipalities. Fol
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MESSAGE DEALS WITH NUMEROUS LOCAL AFFAIRS
Governor Reviews Admin istration of Government
 During Past Biennium

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Continued on Page Three)
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"The following table shows the increase in disbursements for pen sionc since 1901.

From these statistics it appears that the pension roll in 1928 is more than five times what it was in 1921. The funds distributed for the last quarter of 1928 amount to S20,600 and the total expenditures for the biennium increased 39% over those of 1925-26. At the pres ent time there are 286 men and 41 women on the roll. Based on the expenditures for the last quarter we must have an appropriation of $164, 800 to meet the present roll for the next two years and if we as- sume that the increase will be the same as it has averaged for the past two years we must add 169b to this, making total of $191 ,168 required for pensions.
 Dependent Children
 Some time ago it was ascertain ed that the appropriation for the care of dependent children was ap- preaching the point where there was danger that it might be ex-
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NA FaIHiiHg
 "Under the provisions of Chapter 53 Session Laws of ls27, an ex- periented gete1inarian vas employ ed to Visit the fur farms in the Territory A ccniHlsts report of
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have done the work. The examina- tion of the dairy stock does not require a great deal of time and would not interfere with the other duties of the veterinarian. It is believed that if the two appropria- tions are combined and argument ed by small additional appropria- tion the plan suggested may be put into operation. Certainly the cost would be very much less than that of one or more large experi- mental stations and in my opinion the benefits derived would be great CT. All necessary laboratory work could be performed at the College.
 "The greates objection to a large experimental fur farm lies in the difficulty that is encountered in the dissemination of information Those in charge of the experiments acquire a comprehensive knowledge of many problems but the farmer will not derive the benefit from the work unless he can visit the sta- tion. Each locality has it's own particular problems and an inveSti- gation of these problems in each community and under conditions which will permit all of those who may be interested to observe the experiment will, I believe, be of greater value than single large station.
 PjSneers' Home
 "The report of the Superintend- ent of the Pioneers Home at Sit- ka will be transmitted to you by the Board of Trustees. The mem bers of the Board have visited the institution several times during the biennium and we have found that the place is well managed and the pioneers well cared for by the Su- perintendent and the employees.
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appropriations with one exception. The public school current fund has been overdrawn for $1,159.14. This is unavoidable without unjustly penalizing the schools in some of the remote sectionss Of course, if the amount involved should prove to be large we could not assume the responsibility of creating a defi- ciency.
 Predatory Animals
 "The last Legislature appropriat- ed S10,000 for the purpose of inves- tigating reported depredations by predatory animals and to allow a study of conditions to be made so that report could be submitted for your consideration. The Bio- logical Survey assigned one of their trained hunters to the Territory and also contributed about $2,000 to aid in the work A full report of the findings will be submitted. It Is apparent that coyotes are in- creasing at an alarming rate in some sections and unless stringent measures are adopted we may be confronted with a more serious sit- uation. The reindeer, fur bearers, wild fowl, and game, especially mountain sheep, are easy prey for thes eanimals.
 The Territory cannot finance an extensive program for the control of predatory animals and if we could, at the present time, we would have to go outside of the Territory for trained men. We can however, adopt a program which will provide an efficient organization at the end of two or four years and in the meantime employ our own residents The following plan, briefly outlined, is suggested for your consideration as a possible solution of the prob 1 lem. ia '2 sf n @ Retain the services of one ex- perienced predatory animal hunter for the next two years. Authorize the selection of not to exceed four trappers who are residents of the Territory. Appropriate sufficient funds to provide them with supplies and pay their transportation to the infested areas. These men must agree to work under the direction of the trained hunter and he will be directed to instruct them so that in two years they will be qualified as predatory animal hunters. They shall be allowed to retain the belts and to collect the bounty on all the animals caught or destroyed. In this way we will have, at the be- ginning of the next bieni1ium. a number of qualified residents for appointment as hunters and we may then consider a proposal for an organized predatory animal control. There is reason to believe that the Federal Government will contribute funds, in fact s5,O00 has been ap- propriated for next year. to this project when we can show that we have an organization which will function properly. If this plan or some modification of it is adopt ed we should be able to do away with the bounty system within the next few years.
 All the funds that were appro- priated for Counties have been ex- pended and 1t is estimated that sl00o0 will be necessary to pay the accrued ciaifns.
 Fur Farming
 "Under the provisions of Chapter 53 Session Laws of 1927, an ex- periented gete1inarian vas employ ed to Visit the fur farms in the tTerritory A ccntHlst. report oi
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Deficiencies

Expenditures during the bien- nium have been kept within the
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high in North Sea and from the Pacific States westward Light Southern prevails Seward fallen yesterday
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New Arrivals for Spring
NeiU Purses

Much attention has been given the selection of new handbags for the Many beautiful effects to be seen in fabric and leather. Get of these bags for your Spring outfit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-06

NoTE-observatons at St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Edmonton Seattle Portland Francisco at a and m. Juneau tme
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Ne,v Costume .Jemelry----

Dame Fashion has been busy these many months evolv- ing and decidedly smart eery novelties They're here in newer and pretter than eectsbad bracelets, rings, ring brooches in varied and remark ably low prices
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-06
SiLk Scmfs in Springs Colorin gs--

The silk scarf is of the little big things Spring ories. Definite attention be given its selection if add that successful touch your Spring Our of car in full harmony with prevailing fashion shades and offers unusual opportunity for selection.