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MARKKT QUOTATIONS.
E. Lewi* A Co., Grain and Stock
Brokers, Morton Block, Fargo.
Open w..
High
Low ....„
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July Wheat.
ChL Minn. Dul.
Open 1.02% 1.0 7^(^1.08 1.08%
High «. 1.03% 1.097* l.HH
o w 1 0 1 1 0 7 1 0 8
Close 1.03% 1.09Vi^% 1.10%
September Wheat.
Chi. Ml mi. Dul.
Open ..1.04% 1.08% 1.08%
High .. 1.05% 1.09% 1.10
Low 1.03%, 1.07% 1.08%
Close «. 1.05A 1.05 A 1.09%
December Wheat.
Dul.
Chi. Minn.
1.06% 1.09
1.08% 1.10
1.06% 1.08%
1.07%B 1.0 9 A
St.
Louis.
July Sept.
Dee.
1.00% 1.02%
Close 1.01% 1.03%A
Kansas City.
July Sept.
•.96fa.95ai .97%®%
«... .98%B
Open
Close
Open
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Puts
Calls
i*.07B
Dec.
i"oi%
Winnipeg.
July Oct.
Dec.
.. 1.09% 1.0a%@% 1.06%
1.10%@% 1.06% 1.06%
Chicago Corn.
July Sept.
Open «..* .71% .70%®%
High *... .72% .71%
Low 71% .70%
Close .72% .71 %B
Dec.
.61
.61%
.61%
.62%
Chicago Oata.
July Sept.
Open .ww*. .39%®.39 .3
8»«
High .39%
Low «..«. .39 .381
Close .39 %B 38 1
Dec.
.39%
.38%®% .40
.39%
.39%
Chicago Pork.
July Sept.
Open 22.90 22.20
High w—22.95 22.35
Low ......... 22.95 22.15
Zlose ......... 22.75 22.17
Minneapolis Wheat.
July
1.07%
1.10%
Winnipeg Close,
No. 1 northern, 1.10% No. 2 north
ern, 1.09% No. 3 northern, 1.05%
zash oats, 3 C. \V., .47 July oats, .46%
Oct. oats, .41% cash flax, 1 N. W. C.,
L.58% July flax. 1.57% Oct. flax,
1.62%.
Minneapolis Cash Close.
No. 1 hard, 1.16% No. 1 northern,
1.09%@1.12% arrive. 1.09 1.11V*
No. 2 northern, 1.06 V* #1.10 2 H.
Mont., 1.03%® 1.05% No. 3 northern,
1.00% @1 .OH No. 1 durum, 1.00%®
1.04% arrive, 1.00%®1.03% No. 2
durum, .95% g)l .01% No. 3 yellow
forn, .74®.75 arrive, .73 No. 4 yel
low corn, .71 others, .64®.74 No. 3
white oats, .38£t.38% arrive, .38
No. 4 white oats, .3«% (a) .37 barley,
fancy, .64®. 71 choice, .71
@.72%
flax, 1.77%®l.81% arrive. 1.77%®
1.80% rye, .93®.94% arrive, same.
Dulutb Caiih Close.
No. 1 hard, 1.11% No. 1 northern,
1.10% No. 2 northern, 1.05%® 1.08%
No. 3 northern, .08%®1.04% oats,
cash, .37% rye, .95 barley, .60®.72
No. 1 durum, 1.01% No. 2 durum,
.96%®.98% July durum, 1.01% Sept.
Jurum, 1.02%A flax, cash, 1.79%.
Duluth Flax.
July Sept. Oct. Nov.
1.80% 1.87% 1.79 1.78%
Local Quotations.
No. 1 northern .............. 1.03
No. 2 northern 1.00
No. 3 northern .97
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ADD market
Chicago—Hogs 23,000. Left 2,
600. 5 higher. Mixed 9.35@9.65
heavy 9.70®9.95 light 9.10®9.86.
Cattle 4,500, strong. Sheep 9,000,
steady.
Omaha—Hogs 12,500. Cattle 2,
600. Sheep 7,000.
Kansas City—Hogs 2,000. Cat
tle 1,000. Sheep 1,000.
Herald.
Chicago—Lower prices for wheat
and higher values for coarse grains
were features of yesterday's markets.
A combination of bearish factors made
It hard for the wheat bulls. Traders
became more bearish and the largest
buyers of the previous day were best
sellers. Foreign news indicated little
prospect of big export buying except
on breaks and as they need supplies as
the British government is well sup
plied and is to soon commence selling.
Corn reports were rather unfavorable.
Strength in cash corn which is held by
Armour Grain company tightened the
July and it advanced 3-4 cents over1
September here. Ex portsales at sea
board were 200,000 durum wheat in ad
dition to 900,000 Manitoba on Wednes
day. Export sales oats 1,250,000
bushels. An immense business was on
in oats, Chicago handlers selling 1,
000,000 to seaboard. Corn sales to sea
board 100,000 bushels.
Cable.
U Liverpool—Wheat 1 to 3 lower, corn
lower. On passage, wheat 6d. to Is.
Mirer, corn unchanged.
Broom hall's Report.
Liverpool—Market weak with Amer
ican declines continued free import of
fers spots weak 1 to 3d. lowers. Carco
market weak, winters 6d. and Mani
tobas shilling lower and later Mani
tobas declined to Is. 3d. lower. Export
offers continue lower with further
weakness in Atlantic freights. Stocks
are increasing. Indian offers sharply
lower. Corn, spots weak 2d. decline
with poor demand. Parcels dull un
changed with firmer plate and Ameri
can offers. Manitobas are arriving
freely with the rialities good and Mani
toba offers are pressing with only
small vurchases at the decline of one
shilling 3d. There is reselling with
Indian and Australian offers increasing
and at lower prices. Argentine, the
government considering proposal fix
ing minimum export price corn but it
Is probable Uiis will be rejected:
weather fine.
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Hides and Furs Quoted by Bollea
Rogers, Fargo, N. D.
April 20, 1916— No. 1
G. fcS. hides cured I .17
G. S. bull hides 15
G. S. calf skins .20
Horse hides 4.00
No. 2
I .16
.14
.18%
8.00
Green hides 2c less than cured.
No. 1 No.
Pelts, full wooled ....$1.60 91.26
Pelts medium to small .76 1.00
Tallo'w 08 .07
Grease, white *07 .OS
fire&se, brown .0« .07
XtoUes J* Rogers. 303 Broadway*
EVANGELIST
IS ARRESTED
AT CR00KST0N
Rev. A. Lee Aldrich Breaks
the Laws and Pays a
Fine of $23
WARDEN RUDE TO PARSON
The Crookston Judge Heard
His Guilty Plea But
Not His Excuse
Crookston, Minn., June 15. After
tho strenuous duties incident to the
evangelistic campaign in this city
Rev. A. Lee Aldrich felt that he need
ed a little relaxation and recreation.
And how better to obtain it than a visit
to the beautiful Lake Union where his
poetic soul could reveal in the beauties
of nature and he could absorb inspira
tion for new assaults upon sin and
hypocrisy?
So, in company with M. L. Byrn, he
hied him hence armed with fishing
rods and other paraprehnalia of the
chase, to enjoy himself until his ad
vance agent had rounded up new fields
to conquer. But alas, also alack, he
neglected two necessary precautions
—the securing of a game license and
a perusal of the game laws.
Game Warden Munch is no respec
ter of persons. All game law viola
tors look alike to him, and he also
journeyed to the beautiful Union lake
in the wake of the pugnacious and
acrobatic exponent of the Gospel of
the Meek and Lowly One.
There he found Messrs. Aldrich and
Bryn having tho time of their bright
young lives, capturing from the crys
tal depths the half grown pike recent
ly planted there by a, wise and bene
ficent fish commission.
The game warden was real rude.
He demanded to see their license.
None were forthcoming.
Then he viewed the catch. The flsh
were undersize. But the game warden
loomed large. He was armed with a
badge and a stern expression. He was
deaf to excuses or soft words and he
insisted that he must have the
pleasure of their company on a little
trip to Erskine where Judge Hallaa
clothed in his flowing robes sits up
on the seat of justice.
The preliminaries were quickly dis
posed of. Thpre was no fervid ora
tory no breaking of chairs or stamp
ing of feet no denunciations or in
sinuations no defies or threats of ex
posure it was just a quiet, peaceful
scene. A plea of guilty was entered
with an excuse of lack of knowledge
of the law. The judge heard the plea
but was deaf to the excuse. He quot
ed the Latin phrase, which when
translated means "Ignorance of the
law excuses no one," and assessed a
fine which with costs attached was
$23.
The fine was paid.
DETROITlEET
OPEN TOMORROW
BIG TWO DAY SUMMER CONVEN
TION OF THREE ASSOCIATION'S
OPENS AT DETROIT TOMORROW
—DETROIT PLANS TO UNTERTAIN
DELEGATES.
&
Soo Weather.
Cloudy all over, variable winds, rain
at Hankinson, 48 to 57 above.
Hundreds of boosters from all over
Minnesota will gather in Detroit to
morrow for the opening of the two
day summer convention of the Minne
sota Red River Valley Development
association, the Red River Valley Live
stock Breeders' association and the
Minnesota Livestock Breeders' asso
ciation. A large number from Moor
head are planning to attend the event
providing the weather is at all favor
able.
Tomorrow morning will be given
over to the state Livestock Breeders
association and in the afternoon the
annual meeting of the Valley Livestock
Breeders' association will be held, ex
cellent programs having been ar
ranged for both. The convention meet
ings will be held at the Park pavilion.
Tomorrow evening Supt. C. G.
Selvig of Crookston will open the
meeting at the Scenic theatre. Gover
nor Burnquist of Minnesota will be
the principal speaker.
Saturday will be given over to the
sessions of the development associa
tion, at which Leslie Welter, president
of the association will preside. Dis
cussions of live topics will continue
during the day and will end at 4:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon with a sec
ond address by Governor Burnquist.
Visiting delegates will then be
taken for a boat ride from Detroit, to
the state flsh hatchery and on to Shore
ham and a banquet will be served at
the hotels Pettibone and Shoreham.
WORKS IN A DRY ZONE,
FINED $200 BY JDDGE
Milwaukee Nan Did Not Know He
Vloluteil the Law—Paid a Flue
of 12(H) in Mankato.
Mankato, Minn., June 15.-*»-3S[illiam
V. Geiser of Milwaukee, representing
a liquor house of that city, pleaded
guilty before Judge W. L. Comstock
of the district court last evening to
the charge of soliciting sales of liquor
in Watonwan county, which has been
voted dry. He was sentenced to pay
a fine of $200 and costs and to spend
thirty days in the Blue Earth county
jail. Arthur Schaub was his attorney.
Geiser was brought here by Sheriff A.
E. Lindquist of Watonwan county.
Geiser is a well-dressed man of a
business-like appearance. He stated
at the jail today that his fine would
be paid by the house for which he
worked. He said he did not know that
he was entering dry territory at the
time he committed the offense, but was
simply obeying orders of the house
that had sent him there. He said he
was going at his business in his usual
way, taking orders from farmers and
making his trips by s.uto. He spoke of
his wire and relatives in Milwaukee.
Bullets of 1862
Presented to Gov.
Burnquist as Gift
St. Paul, June 15.—Henry Buck of
Le Sueur today left at the office of
Governor Burnquist, as a aift to the
chief executive, a few bullets that were
received by him from Governor Alex
ander Ramsey during the Indian trou
bles of 1862. Governor Ramsey at that
time distributed muskets, powder and
bullets among the settlers of the most
exposed settlements.
Too Late te Classify.
WANTED TO RENT—Large double
room or two single rooms with bath
Must be up town. Phone 2839 evenings
*£«*«r o'clock .4l30l|4
Muorftead Department
MOORHEAD
IS THE 1919
MEETING PLACE
Chief N. B. Remley Elected
Vice-president of the
Association
MOORHEAD FIREMEN WIN
Montevidio Man is President
—Convention Closed
This Afternoon
Chief N. B. Remley of the Moor
head fire department was elected to
the office of sevond vice president of
tb Minnesota Firemen's association by
vote of 287 to 134, at the annual
meeting of the association at Chis
holm late yesterday afternoon.
By this action Moorhead will be the
convention city for the state associa
tion in June, 1919, at that time Mr.
Remeley becoming president of the as
sociation. The news of Moorhead's
landing the convention was received
last night by Assistant Fire Chief E.
G. Melander of the local department
in the following telegram from P. N.
Pederson, one of the local delegates
at Chisholm "Everybody is coming to
Moorhead in 1919, Remley 287 and
Mooro of Hopkins, 134."
Local Men Boosters.
Seven members of the local fire de
partment are in Chisholm attending
the closing sessions of the convention
today. When they departed for the
convention city last Sunday they had
planned to leave nothing undone to bo
successful in securing the election cf
Chief Remley as second vice president
and their aim was materially aided
when officials of the association ves
terday received telegrams from the
Moorhead Commercial, Booster and
Trogress clubs, extending a cordial in
vitation to the firemen to meet in
Moorhead in 1919.
New Officers Elected.
Chisholm, Minn., June 15.—Out of
dor portions of the program of the
state and iron range firemen's con
vention here were for the most part,
called off because of the inclement
weather. Prominent speakers how
ever occupied the attention of the
delegates. Among them, were State
Fire Marshal R. W. Hargadine, who
talked on better fire protection, former
Governor Eberhart, who praised the
firemen saying that the be.'ft protection
any city can have is a well paid and
satisfied department, and O. H. Tracy,
general manager of The Firemen's
Signal Apparatus Co. of Minnea
polis.
The following officers were elected:
Charles Waldeck, Montevideo, presi
dent F. L. Rethschlag, Red Wing,
first vice president N. B. Remley,
Moorhead, second vice president
Andrew J. Myler, St. Paul, secretary
W. H. Anderson, Mankato, treasurer
E. F. Kelley, Fairbault, statistican.
Montevideo will be the 1917 meet
ing place, 1918 at Red Wing and
Moorhead in 1919. International Falls
is proposed for
MOST LET MEN
VOTE MONDAY
St. Paul, June 15.—All employers In
Minnesota are obliged by law to give
their men enough time off to go and
vote on Monday, June 19, according to
an opinion rendered today by Attorney
General Lyndon A. Smith. The opinion
was given in response to numerous in
quiries on the subject.
More Will Vote.
Senator Campbell of Minneapolis to
day stated that 10,000 more traveling
men of Minnesota would be able to
participate in the state primaries on
June 19 than usually have participated
in a state election, owing to the fact
that the primaries are to be held on
Monday and not on Tuesday.
EAST SIDE NOTES
The school board met last night and
considered several matters to the new
high school proposition.
Fred Herbert returned this morning
from southern Minnesota where he has
been for the past few days on busi
ness.
A. G. Anderson of Fergus Falls,
candidate for congress from the ninth
district, was a visitor in Moorhead to
day. He made his headquarters at the
Comstock hotel.
J. A. Morrison of St. Paul was a
business caller at the office of Atty. K.
E. Sharp yesterday afternoon.
J. E. Haycraft, of Fairmont, Minn.,
visited Moorhead yesterday in the
interests of Judge James H. Quinn,
candidate for the supreme court of
Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Johnson of Ulen
visited in this city today.
Charles Peterson of Perley is among
the guests at the New Columbia.
Miss Gina Berg of Nielsville is vis
iting at the home of friends in this
city.
S. O. Lee, a well known Thief River
Falls business man, spent today In
Moorhead.
O. E. Tangen of Kragnes transa-ted
business in Moorhead this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ruglund of Ro
seau were among the guests at the
Comstock today.
K. O. Hildahl of Fosston was a busi
ness visitor in the city this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. H, M. Webster of
Grand Forks are visiting in Moo£t\ead
today.
H. O. Bergland, a well known Lake
Park citizen, was a Moorhead business
visitor last evening.
W. R. Russell of Grand Forl s and
J. C. Strand of East Grand Fork»i were
Moorhead business visitors today.
John P. Jackson of Grafton was a
North Dakota business visitor In the
city this forenoon.
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY
CONGRESSIONAL UNION
TO BEGIN ITS NORTH
DAKOTA CAMPAIGN
That North Dakota is to be the next
state to line up in support of the
newly organized Woman's Party,
working for the passage of the Susan
B. Anthony Suffrage Amendment
through Congress, is the hope of Con
gressional Union leaders under whose
auspices the new party was born in
Chicago last week.
Mih Vivian JPierce,who will orgax*-
THE FARGO FORUM AND DAILY REPUBLICAN,, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1916.
CLUB DONATES
$200 TOWARD
NEW PROJECT
Moorhead Commercial Club
Believes Proposition Is
a Good One
WAGNER'S REPORTFAVORAB
The board of directors of the Moor
head Commercial club, at a meeting
held this morning in the First National
bank, voluntarily donated the sum of
$200 to the officers of the Equity Man
ufacturing Co., producers of the steel
grain drying bin, the money to be paid
over when the firm established its fac
tory in Moorhead.
This action was taken by the board
following the favorable report of John
ston Wagner, who returned yesterday
morning from Hastings, Neb., where
he made a thorough inspection of the
Equity firm's steel bin being^ manufac
tured by a corporation of that city
ize for the Congressional Union in
North Dakota, arrived in Fargo Wed
nesday from Chicago, where she was
active in the organization work lead
ing up to the big Woman's conven
tion, and expects to spend a month
on the work in this state. She is seek
ing a location for headquarters, to
day, and as soon as suitable quarters
are found expects to call a drawing
room meeting, to which all interested
in the suffrage cause, regardless of
whatever organization they have been
interested in, are cordially invited to
attend. Miss Pierce is a San Francisco
newspaper woman who has been inter
ested in the work of the Union since
its organization in California. She
handled the press work for the Ex
position Convention of the Congres
sional Union, and is one of the best
known newspaper women of the Pacific
coast. Miss Pierce is an enthusiastic
member of the Woman's Party. She
predicts that the Woman's Party con
vention of 1920, should one at that
time be necessary, will attract world
attention. Another of her predictions
is that California will send to the
Senate the first woman member.
"Chicago," she said before leaving
for Fargo, "has just seen the most re
markable convention in the world—
the first political convention of women,
and one that has set a new pace for
the world. It means nothing else than
the solidarity of women—not a little
sex solidarity that pits women against
men but a magnificent spirit of co
operation for the things that women
believe in. The convention proved that
the West is able and willing to stand
with the East to liberate the women
of the nation."
Miss Pierce will probably visit all
of the larger cities in North Dakota.
Among the North Dakota women inr
terested in the work of the Congres
sional Union are: Miss Beulah Amidon,
Mrs. A. J. Andrews, Mrs. H. L. Bolley,
Mrs. W. H. Barnett, Mrs. R. H. Beck,
Mrs. William Bell, Mrs. A. E. Besfic,
Mrs. J. L. Carter, Miss M. M. Davie,
Mrs. Gilbert W. Haggart, Mrs. M. Mc
Intyre, (Miss Gladys Minard), Mrs.
Alice N. Page, Miss Irma Poppler, Mrs.
R. M. Pollock, Mrs. E. J. Smart, Mri
E. C. Stone, Mrs. S. L. Sheldon, Mrs.
A. B. Snell, Mrs. B. F. Spalding, Mrs.
W. W. Sturman, Mrs. A. E. Week%
Mrs. E. F. Weston, all of Fargo.
The Union has a considerable mem
bership in other cities of the stat\
who will all be reached through a
proposed conference which will bring
to North Dakota a number of bril
liant suffragists who are devoting al\
their time to the federal amendment
work.
The Congressional Union believes
North Dakota to be one of the most
hopeful of the non-suffrage states for
the support of federal suffrage work.
It has a large scattered membership
in this state, with much unorganized
enthusiasm for the work for the
amendment that is at present agitat
ing the Democratic politicians in St.
Louis.
Miss Alice Paul, of Washington, D.
C., the clear-visloned chairman of the
Congressional Union, and Miss Anne
Martin, of Reno, Nevada, the newly
elected chairman of the Woman's
party, are both in St. Louis at pres
ent to point out to the Democratic
resolutions committee that the pres
ent administration is able now to en
franchise the women of the nation
they are suggesting that Democrats
save the alienation of the Woman's
party and the woman vote, by recom
mending the passage this Congress of
the Susan B. Anthony amendment.
They are not asking for promises In
future platforms.
In the midst of this political work
in the convention state. Miss Paul's
eyes have been turned on North Da
kota, so she has sent Miss Pierce here
to crystallize the strong sentiment for
the amendment in North Dakota. A
state conference with two-day sessions
will probably be held in Fargo at the
end of the month.
Nearly every suffrage and many
non-suffrage states were represented
by delegations at the recent Chicago
convention referred to above. Every
eastern state was represented, and
even some of the more conservative
southern states. Among the latter, dele
gations was a Mrs. Pel ton, 80 years of
age, from North Carolina.
City
RS MEETING
Continued From Page One
pean system he said. The American
farmer because of the conditions of
agriculture is increasing loans rather
than amortizing them as the Euro
pean system calls for. This is one of
the chief reasons for opposing the
act.
The co-operative system as called
for is not familiar to termers. He also
criticized it for the tax exemption
feature.
At today's meeting, W, D. Mc
Clintock of Rugby gave the president's
address. Sep. W. C. Macfadden of Far
go, submitted his report and addresses
were given by P. W. Goebel, of Kansas
City, and Dr. Stanley Krebs, of
Philadelphia. Practically all financial
institutions in St. Paul and Minne
apolis are represented. They came in
two special cars attached to a Soo tin*
train.
STEAMER PILED DP
(Continued from page one.)
steamer Grace Dollar which answered
the S. O. S. calls of the stranded liner,
have been patrolling the vicinity of
the wreck since early this morning
and are at a loss to know what became
of the survivors.
A tug and life saving crew from
this port are also at the scene. The
crew numbered 82. An order to aban
don the vessel was given at midnight,
all getting away safely.
Later.
Five bodies were recovered from the
steamer Bear, wrecked last night two
boatloads of survivors have already
landed and one boat is trying to land.
The remaining passengers and the
crew are said to be aboard the tug
Relief.
Sixty-Two Rescued.
San Francisco Cal., June 16.—The
naval radio station on Goat island ie
ports the steamer Grace Dollar taking
to Eureka sixty-two passengers res
cued from the steamer Bear.
of
Fargo
Total in banks
Warrants in safe
Cash in safe
Is
$200,000 to the Good
(Continued from page one.)
a difference of over $200,000 more at the present time.
Following are the two statements:
FARGO'S FINANCIAL CONDITION IN 1918.
City Treasurer's Monthly Report May, 1913.
Office of City Treasurer, Fargo, If. ©4
June 10, 1913.
To The Honorable, The City Commissioners:
Gentlemen: The following shows the receipts and disbursements
of my office for the month of May, 1918, and the distribution of funds
at the end of the month
On hand May 10,1913
$95,149.48
Receipts.
County treasurer's May tax collections $ 1,594.77
Special tax collections ,. 564.29
City's share of 2 per cent Ins. Prem. fund t»f30.74
Refund .....* 4.50
Police court fines, May 110.50
Sale of dirt
3.50
Sale of furniture J. .......... 3.50
Licenses and permits 186.00
City scale fees
66.70
Interest on warrants in safe 34.21
Interest on bank deposits 81.39
City hospital collections ...... 263.00
Water connections 48.00 4,591.10
Disbursements.
City warrants and interest
Spec. Imp. warrants and Interest
Coupon int. spl. Imp. warrants
Bond interest
Public library apportionment
Park board apportionment
Distribution of Funds.
First National .Bank
Fargo National Bank
Merchants National Bank
Scandinavian American Bank .......f
Northern Savings Bank
Dakota Trust Co
I have examined the above report and find It correct.
ALEX STERN,
Commissioner of Finance.
FARGO'S FINANCIAL CONDITION TODAY.
City Treasurer's Monthly Report, May 10 to June 10, 1916.
Office of City Treasurer, Fargo, N. D.
To The Honorable City Commissioners:
Gentlemen: The following shows the receipts and disbursements
of my office from May 10 to June 10, 1916, and the distribution of funds
at the end of the month:
On hand May 10, 1916
$274,105.93
Receipts.
County treasurer's tax collections 2,588.57
Special tax collections 429.47
Interest on deposits 280.91
Building permits 100.00
Dog licenses
81.00
Miscellaneous licenses and permits 806.00
Sale of horse
325.00
Use of phone
.65
Water connection 60.00
House rent
16.00
Vacation of alleys 50.00
Police court fines, May 803.00
Damage to Bign
3.00
City's share of 2% on insurance premiunis (state) 1,16.51
Salvage, Early property 160.00
Union L. H. & Power Co. S87.97
City scales collections ....? 104.50
City hospital collections 254.00
City water works collections 8,847.26
Sinking fund interest ef.81 11,555.65
Disbursements.
City warrants $17,503.44
Special improvement warrants 2,178.10
Special improvement coupons 3,037.00
Bond interest
950.00
Park board
148-80
Library board 41.90 23.859.24
Distribution of Funds.
First National Bank *%..$ 52,596.58
Fargo National Bank 82,996.65
Merchants National Bank 89,882.88
Scandinavian American Bank 10,126.62
Northern Savings Bank 7,018.56
Dakota Trust Co. 9,067.75
Total in banks $151,688.99
Sinking fund securities in safe 7 53,591.36
Waterworks securities in safe .................. 55,250.00
Cash in sate 1,271.99 $261,802.84
OLLIE JAMES' ADDRESS
St. Louis, Mo., June 15.—The
achievements of the Wilson adminis
tration in enacting beneficial legis
lation and in keeping the country at
peace without sacrifice of the national
honor were pronounced epoch-making
in American history by Senator Ollie
M. James of Kentucky, in his address
today as permanent chairman of the
Democratic national convention.
"During three years of its national
control," said Senator James, "democ
racy has enacted into law more pro
gressive remedial legislation than the
nation has ever had written upon its
statute books since its birth. In
former national contests in the last
two decades our party came as a
prophet. Today we come with deeds,
not words with performance, not
promise. The Democratic party has
kept its word with the American peo
ple. We-have made good."
With a copy of Wilson's suggestions for plsnks in the hands of
every member, the sub-committee on resolutions started work on the
actual framing of the platform. Chairman Stone said the draft would
not be ready before night. The committee on rules voted unanimously
to recommend to the committee that nominations be made at eight
o'clock tonight.
Temporary Chairman Glynn called the convention to order at
11:46 a m. The convention leaders let it be known they favored
making nominations tonight whether or not the platform is completed.
Just before orcjer was called, the band played the anti-hyphen song,
Don't Bit the Hand That's Feeding You. The crowd liked it and
cheered.
The committee on permanent organization formally named Senator
Ollie James, permanent chairman J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, per
manent secretary E. E. Britton of North Carolina, permanent asso
ciated secretary John I. Martin of St. Louis, permanent sergeant
st-arms, recommending all other temporary officers be made per
manent.
The chairman reviewed at length the
legislative record of the administra
tion and eulogized the president for
his direction of foreign affairs. The
Democrats, he said, had enacted a
a w n n 4 e w u w & o o i e a
99,740.66
14,71778
26,376.31
1,951.41
1,201.88
17.00
43.98 44,308.36
55,432.20
8,365.92
9,197.0»7
3,014.76
6,957.51
6,823.64
6,964.22
41,813.12
13,280.78
838.30 55,432.20
C. H. MITCHELL,
City Treasurer.
June 11, 1916.
$285,661.58
$261,802.34
(Signed) C. H. MITCHELL,
City Treasonr.
I have examined the above report and And it correct:
(Signed) ALEX STERN,
Commissioner of Finance.
Democratic Sub-committee
Continued From Page One.
While the subcommittee of the resolutions committee was en
grossed in its work of platform building, the program of the Demo
cratic convention today, called for a permanent organization of the
convention, another keynote speech, this time by the permanent
chairman and addresses by well known leaders in the party* Every
delegate was provided with a flag, and carried a noise producing
instrument. Thus all were prepared to stir up even more enthusiasm
than yesterday.
curbed and unexampled pros­
perity attained a banking law taking
the money control out of the hands of
an oligarchy and making panics no
longer possible and many reform
measures of lesser importance.
He declared President Wilson's
Mexican policy and his course in pro
tecting American rights against the
encroachments of European belliger
ents had shown all the world that the
president "neither bullies the weak
nor fears the strong."
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In a concluding appeal for the
triumph of patriotism over politics.
Senator James said the renomination
of such a president in partisan con
vention ought not to be necessary,
and that to discredit him might Palsy
the hand that could write the peace
treaty of the world.
At the outset the senator referred
briefly to President Wilson's cam
paign against lobbying in congress
and pointed out that under this ad
ministration the constitution had been
amended for the first time since the
Civil war when "we freed the senate
from the control of the great interests
by making it elective by the people at
tbe Ms tbea Ue«
derwood-Simmons tariff act as one of
which the party was Justly proud.
"Not a schedule in it fosters a moijsli
opoly,'' he said. "Our Republican
friends told us it would close th'a
factories, fill the streets with Idle
men, produce a panic, create soup
houses and distress would reign ev
erywhere but we rejoice today to
point to an unexampled prosperity la
the nation with labor more generally
employed, at higher rates, shorter
hours, and better conditions than evdr
before. Our Republican friends teal
us that after the war Is over, poor,
stricken, prostrate, torn, bleedln*
Europe will take our home market
from us. I have no such fear. Arrt
erlcan is going to take the markets Of
the world. But we shall cut from them
the last hope of having seen a false
issue, for we shall pass a bill creating
a tariff board to gather the facte
created by new war conditions."
Turning to the federal reserve law,
Senator James declared that it alone
averted a panic at the otubreak of the
European war.
"What would have been the result
If the old Republican system had been
in effect?" he asked. "The stock ex
changes in every city In the world
were closed. Europe poured its vagi
holdings in plethoric streams upcQ
our shores. Who thinks that the old
Republican system of finance under
the guidance of those patriotic guar
dians would have been able to with*
stand this mighty cataclysm? But
what was the result? Not a bai^jk
cloq£d its doors not a laborer was
thrown out of employment not .a
business was forced into bankruptcy
but there stood strong, serving tlje
masses of mankind, this great legis
lative achievement of the Democratic
party. As the master achievement Of
Woodrow Wilson, to my mind, next to
keeping the hundred million people at
peace with the world, the historian
will record the ^federal reserve law.".
Declaring that "self defense arid
preparation for it is as necessary now
as ever before," the speaker pointed
the administration's preparedness pro
gram as a proof that the party be
lieved in "preparedness without mili
tarism."
"In 1906," he continued, "I attended
the great peace conference held in
London. I thought that the millennium
of peace had come and such a thing
as the world's war was impossible
but that day when the Christian heart
shall rule the world Is not in sight.
We must not mistake dishonor for
peace, as we cannot mistake oppres
sion for peace. Woodrow Wilson and
the Democratic party advocate an
army big enough to make aggressor#
think the second time before they
strike a blow. Democracy wants an
army and a navy in keeping with the
dignity, preservation, and worth of
this great republic. We do not want
a foot of anybody else's soil, by the
eternal God, they shall not take a
foot of ours."
"During this administration we have
done more to build UD an army and
navy in three years than the Repub
lican party did In forty years of its
existence. More has been done to give
the American people a navy and array
in three months than Colonel Roose
velt and Mr. Taft did in eleven years.*'
Senator James SDoke of the Repub
lican platform declaration for "a con
tinuous policy of national defense,**
declaring that only two propositions
for a continuous policy ever had bean
made in American history, one, by the
general board of the navv In 1908,
which was pigeon-holed by a Repub
lican secretary of the navy, and the
other bv President Wilson in his ad
dress to Coneress last December.
"But what happened when this mat
ter was under consideration In the
naval affairs committee of the House?**
continued the senator. "Every Repub
lican member on the committee decided
to oppose the president's 'continuous
program' and would vote for no pro
gram longer than one vear. After six
teen years of failure, ieven to let the
public know of the "continuous policy*
proposed by naval experts, much lees
to carry out such a policy, and after
the Republicans on the House Naval
Affairs committee, in June. 1916. un
animously opposed the president's po
licy, they now say they favor the 'con
tinuous policv'
The Republican plank declaring for
"an effective system of rural credits
as opposed to the ineffective law pro
posed by the present Democratic ad
ministration." was assailed by Sen
ator James, who declared that almost
every republican in the House and
Senate had voted for the adminlstra—
tlon's rural credits bill and that none
had charged that it was ineffective or
had proposed a substitute.
The senator also replied to Repub
lican criticism of the administration's
shipping bill which, he declared would
have given the United States an ad
equate merchant marine by now had
it not been killed at the last session
of Congress by a Republican filibuster.
"For the first time in ^he history of
our country," Bald Senator James, af
ter reviewing briefly Democratic legis
lation which he declared had made
feads
prosperity possible, "the United States
the world in exports. We are
more prosperous than ever, and mills
which have not turned a spindle for
years are now busy. All the laborers
of the United States are employed as
never before. With the world-war
raging, our country is the only neu
tral one that is not in distress and the
only one that has not declared a
moratorium. Every demand of the
stress of war, the Democratic partv
has met quickly. We have freed busi
ness from the blackmail of the poli
tician as we have emancipated it from
the clutch of monopoly."
The Senator likened President Wil-.
son's Mexican policy to that of Lin
coln. and quoted from a declaration
of the latter to show that he had
declined to Intervene when conditions
were much the same as now.
"It is a perfectly easv thing." he
continued, "for the president of the
United States to plunge his country
into war if he is a politician before he
is a patriot. He would seek his own
re-election as he came upon horse
back up the bloody highway of con
tending armies. Of course our army
could Invade Mexico and march in
triumph to its capital, but after the
war was over other armies would
march—an army of widows and or—
Ertken
hans, an army of cripples and men
in health, an army of pen
sioners, and an artnv of tax collectors
gathering up the earnings of the peo
ple to pay the great war debt."
The president had acted Quickly,
the senator said, when there was an
invasion of American territory, and
the punitive expedition now was do—
ins: all that this country could do with
honor in Mexico.
"No president during the life of this
republic." said the Senator, "has ever
had to deal with so many delicate and
dangerous problems as those which
have confronted President Wilson.
With more than half of the world
arms in Europe, with Mexico in reVS»
lutlon at our border, these difficult and
complicating problems have confront
ed him almost daily, and he has
handled them as becomes a patriot and
a statesman. When the Lusitania was
sunk the militant voice of Theodore
Roosevelt cried out for war. and if he
had been president, of the United
States at that time, today 500.000
brave American sons would be con
tending around the forts of Verdun in
this mighty maelstrom of blood
thousands would have been buried in
ditches. Our president, patient, pat
riotic, far-sighted, the real statesman,
handled this question with the great
est ability, and won for America its
greatest diplomatic victory. There are
happily two kinds of courasre. the
courage of the man who is willing to
undertake the dangers himself and the
courage of the man that sends others
to the conflict. Woodrow Wilson has
both kinds of courage—the courage of
conflict and the courage to act coolly
and sensibly when he is dealing with
the lives of others—the fate of a na
tion
"Four years ago we sneeringly called
Woodrow Wilson the school teacher.
Today he is the world teacher. His
subject is the protection of American
life and American rights under inter
national law. And without ^rphaninS
a single American child, without wid-
American mother,
without firing1 a single gun, he wrunff
from the most militant spirit that ever
brooded above a battlefleld, an ack
nowledgment of American rights and
an agreement to American demands.
He has elevated himself to that lofty
but lowly eminence, occupied by
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
and Woodrow Wilson, the three worst
abused and best loved Americans the
republic ever grew."
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