The evening times. [volume], March 02, 1906, Image 2

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State Treasury Has a Snug Sam on
the llight Hand Side of the Ledger
for the First Time in Years—Due to
New Tax Hates and Laws.
For the first time since last May
the state revenue fund has a balance
on the right-hand side of the ledger.
The balances made by State Treasurar
Julius Ii. B.nck yesterday showed a
balance ol' $ !•!!,O'JT.S:! in the revenue
fund. A mouth iro there was an over
draft on the oilier funds* of $505,145,
and in addition to that loans qn banks
amounting to §1,215,000, making a to
tal shortage at that lime of $1,720,000.
All these interest bearing warrants
have been taken uj, and in addition
there is a cash balance. During the
month $2,-tSS,022.69 was turned into
the fund, and only about $320,000 was
taken out for running expenses.
Thus in about two months the state
treasury has been changed from the
worst condition to iiiu best condition
it lias been in tor years.
Condition (lie BcM.
"The state treasury is now in bet
ter shape than it lias been for years,"
said State Auditor S. G. Iverson. "The
present, iipcal year lias perhaps reach
ed the low water mark so far as the
finances are concerned, but from now
on there will be no trouble.
"The legislature of 11)05 anticipated
the condition likely to exist owing to
the uncertainty in the railroad taxes
and also the uncertainty surrounding
the inheritance tax, and authorized the
governor, the treasurer and the audit jr
to provide for any stringency in the I
revenue fund by authorizing these
three to arrange with the banks 'o
carry warrants drawn against the reg
ular appropriation until the treasury
was able to meet them.
"For the first time since May 3, 1905,
the revenue fund is out of debt. On
March 1 last year we had in the reve
nue fund $42,816 on April 1, $205,832
«n May 1, $176,256. On June 1 there
•was an overdraft of $163,S86 July 1,
$338,379 Aug. 1, $444,625 Sept. 1,
$490,906 Oct. I, $505,145. The low
point was reached the first week in
January, when in addition to the over
draft there were warrants in the
banks amounting to $1,735,000, making
a total deficiency of $2,155,000.
"This is all wiped out, and there is
nearly half a million to the credit side.
In addition there is half a million more
of drafts in the hands of the treasurer,
and the March tax settlements from
the counties will begin to come in this
month, which will produce $300,090
between now and the first of May.
"It is probable the state will never
experience so great a stringency is
during the present year, and the large
amount of interest bearing warrants
In the hands of the banks, it is hoped,
will never again occur."
The Funds.
The total cash in the treasury is now
$1,636,420.08 as against $740,840 a
month ago. The trust funds are all 'n
good condition, as will appear in the
statement of the balances in each
fund, made at the close of business
yesterday:
Revenue fund $ 446.097.S3
Soldiers' relief fund 24,497.96
Agricultural college fund.. 228,584.35
Funding tax fund 71,205.86
Permanent school fund 135,602.84
General school fund 397,224.04
Permanent university fund 15,378.72
General university fund... 41,550.30
Internal improvement fund 32,411.93
Internal improvement land
fund 44.901.30
Internal improvement land
fund Interest 4,307.56
State institutions fund S.848.57
State institutions fund in
terest 65,793.49
Swamp land fund 15,303.41
Swampland fund interest.. 7,179.69
Grain inspection fund 96,064.52
Hay inspection fund 1,467.71
Total cash $1,636,420.08
AN EXCELLENT
BUSINESS
Breaks All liecords for Business
Transacted in the Year 1905—
Hope to Do As Weil Tliis Year—
talo a Great Helper.
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One of the most successful business
concerns in the two cities and in which
few people outside of those interested
•are familiar with is the Bast Grand
$orks Transportation company. This
company was organized several years
ago by several business men of this
city and Grand Forks and ever since it
started has built up a business which
few concerns in the cities equal.
The record for the totals of freight
hauling was broken last year and the
officers of the company attribute the
success mainly to Oslo to which place
much merchandise and other neces
sities were hauled. In all 435,000
bushels of grain was hauled last year,
an Immense amount for the facilities
of the company which amount to two
steamers and' twelve barges. The
company has also had bad luck with
the steamer Fram, it having sunk
twice within a short time.
The following is the net amount
goods hauled last year:
Grain—435,000 bushels.
Lumber—800.000 feet.
Shingles—30,000.
Lath—70,000.
Brick—70.000.
Genera' merchandise—600,000 pounds.
When the field they have to work in,
from
Belmont, a distance of
175
im generally between
76,000
OF INTEREST TO EAST SIDERS
BALANCE ON
HAND
mites
by water, is taken Into consideration,
it
can be seen that the company have
accomplished much and their line is
much appreciated by the farmers all
along the river who have all their com
modities hauled by boat
"The officers of the transportation
company expect to dp as much busi
ness.
this year as last and are making
-preparations to start the1 boats out this
year aa
soon as the ice breaks which
the 10th
ot Aprti.
and
bushels of
20th
They already
have
about
grain
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In store houses
along the river to be hauled as soon
as the season commences. James Ell
ington is secretary and treasurer -,t
the concern, and L. O. Lystad general
manager of the boats.
Practical Jokers.
A number of the boys in 'the ciiy
are getting in the habit of u&ing the
telephones to crack jokes on the busi
ness men. Last night one boy called
up an undertaker and asked him if he
had any empty coffins. The funeral
director immediately bit and replied
yes and was immediately told to fill
them. A few minutes later ho called
up a butcher anrl asked him if he had
any rou id steal The butcher think
ing he would get rid of some of his
year old meat answered in the affirma
tive and was immediately told to
square it. While, the wee boys regard
this as great fun they would perhaps
quail in terror if they saw the faces
of the business men after they had
been called from an important busi
ness deal to bo made a fool of.
INSTITUTIONS
PROVIDED
.VII
Extra Session of the Legislature
is Narrowly Avoided and the At­
torney General Only Prevented it
iiy Quick Killings.
M.
A happy solution to the problem of
providing for the institutions whose
standing appropriations were cut off
by the new code was reached Wednes
day at a conference of the state offi
cials, and a special session of the
legislature was narrowly averted. The
trouble was all concerning the Roch
ester and St. Peter hospitals which ac
cording to the laws of 3SS9, $502,000
was made available on August 1, 1905,
and $642,000 available August 1, 1906.
The new code cut off the regular an
nual appropriation of $502,000 aud if
as was feared last Monday, the repeal
of the law would take away from the
institutions all that was left of this
fund they would have hard sledding
unless the legislature would meet to
help them out.
The attorney general Wednesday
held that while the new code will cut
off the $502,000 next August, it would
not take away the standing appropria
tion given last August. He held that
this money, with the $637,000 special
appropriation, was placed to the
credit of the institutions fund on Aug.
1 and the clause in the code, while it
would cut off the standing appropria
tion for next year, would not affect
the money which has already been
placed to the credit of the institutions.
By that solution the institutions will
get as much as was intended for them
for use up to the end of the fiscal
year, July 31. For the fiscal year, be
ginning Aug. 1, they will have the an
nual appropriatnon of $642,000, but
not the standing appropriation of
$502,000. This would be enough to
carry the institutions through the five
months until the legislature meets.
REPORT HANDED IN.
Farmers Near Erskine Will Organize
to Fight Ditch No. 5.
The board of reviewers who were
appointed to view ditch No. 5 and who
have spent the past 27 days at that
work, finished their labors yesterday
and filed their report with Clerk of
Court Lanctot.
In their report, which is very ev
haustive, they say that the benefits
accruing from the proposed ditch will
amount to $SO.OOO, and that the cost
will be about 50 or 55 per cent of that
amount.
It will be about 40 miles long and
while it will be of great benefit :o
many, there are a great many others
living in that vicinity who claim that
this ditch will greatly damage them
and they say they will fight it. They
will hold a mass meting at Erskine
on Monday for the purpose of discus
sing ways and means of fighting the
proposition.
This ditch, which will drain the
country all around Erskine, is one of
the most important of the many ditch
es which have been built by the county
lately. It will run through the towns
of Knute, Badger and part of Red Lake
county and empty into the Clearwater
river.
Judge Watts will hold a final hear
ing on the affairs of the ditch some
time in April, when it is hoped that all
trouble will be satisfactorily settled?—"
Crookston .Journal.
BASKETBALL TONIGHT.
Fargo and the Locals Will Try Con
clusions in Kellar's Hull at 8:30.
A fast game of basketball will be
played in Kellar's hall tonight be
tween the Fargo high school team and
the local girls. The Fargo team come
here with a fine record and are re
puted as being among the fastest
teams in North Dakota. The local
team also has a record and only last
week defeated the Grand Forks Cen
tral high school team, which aggrega
tion was reputed to be a very fast one.
The game will be called at 8:30 sharp
and an extra large attendance is ex
pected.
Get New Permits.
The fact that in the factory inspec
tions for 1905 there were found 1,300
boys and 580 girls and in factory in
spections for 1904 there were found
545 boys and 225 girls does not indi
cate an increase of child labor, ex
plain? W, H. Williams, state labor com
missioner.
The number listed by the depart
ment, he says, represents, only a small
per cent of the boys and girls en
gaged in gainful occupations, for the
department does not look after the
children working on the farms nor the
snjall retail stores and other estab
lishments in the outskirts of the cities
or in the- Bmall villages. The depart
ment has ttone under the assumption
that Ut£. employer with pnly a couple
of workers, perhaps of his own fam
ily, does not need the supervision of
the state. Therefore they have omit
ted the manufacturing establishments
employing less than five men and most
of the mercantile establishments out
side of three large cities and given
more attention to the large shops. Mr.
Williams explains that that in part
accounts for the decrease in the num
ber of establishments visited during
the year, there being 4,244 in 1905 and
4,870 in 1904.
.An examination of the federal census
for 1900 shows that of the 112,195 bovs
in this state between ten and fifteen
14,706 were engaged in gainful occu
pations, aiyt of the 110,450 girls 6,024
were working.
This week there will be a hustle for
new permits for children who want to
be excused from school to go to work.
Nearly all the permits issued last fall
were made to expire at the date the
new code goes into effect, March 1.
The state labor commissioner says
these permits must be renewed or the
inspectors will force the children to
stop work, aud ho advises manufae
turers to see that the children work
ing for them have their permits re
newed.
JliUiy .New Creameries.
The booklet issued by the state dairy
and food department gives the names
of 737 creameries in Minnesota. This
is an increase of twenty-seven, as the
report for a year gave the names of
770. In reality there have been more
than twenty-seven new creameries or
ganized. for there are a number that
have suspended operations during the
year.
Stearns county leads the list with
thirty-five, an increase, of three during
the year. Wright county is second,
with twenty-eight Freeborn next,
with twenty-seven, and Renville
fourth, with twenty-four. Aitkin, Bel
trami, Cook, Itasca, Lake, Traverse
and Wilkin counties have no cream
eries, Faribault, Kandiyohi and Rice
counties have each a decrease of three
creameries, and some other counties
have decreased one or two. Douglas
and Watonwan each have an increase
of four creameries.
The booklet gives the shipping sta
tion for each factory and the name and
address of the manager and the butter
maker.
Vital Statistics.
Crookston Journal: During the ye ir
lS05 there were 816 births and 299
deaths in Polk county, as shown by
the statistical returns made to the
clerk of the district court by the Min
nesota health department. Crookston
being the largest center of popula
tion in the county, leads in the number
of births and the number of deaths,
but the percentage of deaths, consid
ering the population, is far less here
than in some other portions of the
county.
The report shows one birth for every
44 persons and one death for every 77
persons in the county last year.
The death record takes into account
all those caused either by disease, ac
cident, or by violence.
In Crookston there were 151 births
and 65 deaths.
The report is being recorded in the
clerk of courts office today and was
received by him from H. M. Bracken
of the State Board"of Health and Vital
statistics this morning.
Petition State Officers.
A petition signed by 800 residents
of the northern part of the state was
presented to State Auditor Hanson
jesterday and prays that Itasca coun
ty be divided into three parts and all
be different counties. It is not known
yet what will be done about the mat
ter by the state and considerable is
stirred up in the northern part of the
state by petitions asking different
divisions.
P-j Received a Package.
A certain member of the Gund force
received a package thru the mail and
is very indignant as a result, and
many of the girls around the town
have been accused as being the send
ers. It is not definitely known what
the package contained, but it is
thought to be a patent bottle opener
and a new mouth-piece for a beer
bottle.
Reported Uncli Worse.
Miss Mary Arneson is reported as
much worse and the doctors state her
condition is serious.
Cut flowers at Undertaker Sulli
j.yan's, East Grand Forks, Minn. Tele
phone 777.
For fresn fruit call up 23. F. J.
Cummings.
Full line of wall paper arrived at
Kingman's.
Stationery and supplies at Cum
mings.'
Kingman has a complete line of
paints.
Stationery of all kinds at Kingman's.
Penny tablets at Cummings.'
Kingman keeps pure drugs.
Fish Travel on Land.
Detroit News: "In South America,"
•said the returned traveler, "there is a
jljeculiar species of fish which is/pro
vided with a set of embryo limbs in
which it is at times able to hop across
the fields and even to climb trees. I
believe that is the only instance known
of fishes that can travel overland."
"Oh, I don't know," commehts the
other man. "Right here in the United
States I have known fish that traveled
thousands of miles overland."
'"You don't say? May I ask what sort
of fish they are?"
"Canoed salmon."
Weary Walker—W'ot yer lookln' so
worried about, Ragsey? Ragson Tat
ters—I just read a piece in de .paper
dis mornin' where a scientific gent
said: "Doln* nothin' all de time is de
hardest kind
o'
work." Gee! Suppose
dat's true —Philadelphia Press.
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THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
WORKING OF
THEIAW
State Engineer A. L. Fellows Tells of
the Manner in Which the
$1,000,080
Will Be Secured and Used By the
People of North Dakota.
State Engineer A. L. Fellows says
that there is abbut $28,000,000 Jn the
reclaiination fund of the United States,
at the present time. After July 1 there
will be about $4,000,000 more. Of this
some $5,000,000 is from the sale of the
public lands of North Dakota. It is
all to be used in the 16 states of
Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas
and the states west of them. This
money can only be used on projects
sanctioned by the secretary of the in
terior and wfiere possible, 51 per cent
of the money realized from the sale
of public lands in any state, must be
used in that state. The money must
be returned to the fund at the end if
ten years, the people to whom it is
loaned, paying it back in ten annual
installments.
While it is said that this fund is
available, that is only partially true.
It has all been set apart for projects
in the various states and it will take
several million more dollars to com
plete the work now under considera
tion. As no project can be staVted
without the money all being in the
fund before it is begun, it will readily
be seen that the fund is really not
available.
The $1,000,00 segregated by the
Hansbrough bill from this fund for
draainage in the Red River valley, is
really available if the bill becomes a
law. There will be about $2,500,000 of
the fund available in this state, $1,00,
000 has already been set apart or prob
ably will be for irrigation in the west
ern part of the state. This will leave
ample funds for the drainage of the
valley. As soon as the bill becomes a
law, the state will have to pass laws
to govern its expenditure. The area
to be drained will be divided into dis
tricts and these districts will in turn
be divided into sub-districts. All will
be under the charge of an engineer and
the sub-divisions under his assistants.
This arrangement will prevail, until
such time as the system is completed
and in goo'd working order, then it will
be turned over to the people of the
state.
WIRELESS ELECTRIC PROMISE.
Perfection of Method May Solve Air
ship Problem.
According to a member of the Frank
lin Institute the electric -storage bat
tery, though valuable in many opera
tions, is, in the larger use for which
it was once thought capable, a failure.
As a means of proplusion for moving
vehicles not able to receive the current
through wires from a stationary gen
erating source, it was supposed that
the storage battery, upon its being fur
ther perfected, would be a complete
solution. Great improvements were
made in decreasing the weight of th%
battery and in other directions, but
even Thomas Edison is said to have de
clared that it cannot be sufficiently
lightened, and during a recent visit to
this city said that the solution of mov
ing motive power for long distances
and far from sources of generation,
does not lie in that way.
"This failure," says the Frtfhklin In
stitute member quoted, "opens the way
for the wireless idea. If sufficient
current may be had through the air by
induction to run a telegraph instru
ment, the question of getting one
strong enough to propel a battleship
should seem to be one "which does not
involve size and weight of material.
Automobiles and small launches now
run very successfully with the storage
battery because they are never too far
from the source of current supply,
but the 6htp at sea is still unable to
use it, because she would, to cover
emergencies, need one big enough to
sink her. The wireless current is
what many investigators now consider
the one chance for solving this prob
lem and once they get it, the airship
problem will also be conquered."—
Philadelphia Record.
Gyer—Sloboy has the automobile
face.
Myer—Why, I wasn't aware that he
owned a machine.
Gyer—He doesn't but he tried to
cross the street in front of one last
night.—Chicago News.
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