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Willmar Tribune.
BT THS Tiuuiri Furanra Co.
1HLLMAR. MINN.
OF A WEEK
Latest News Told
in Briefest and
Best Form.
PERSONAL.
Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bry
an celebrated their silver wedding an*
niversary with a big reception at their
home at Lincoln, Neb.
Dr. Harry E. Hutchins has been ap
pointed temporary president of the
University of Michigan at a salary of
17,000 a year.
War Secretary Dickinson is back in
Washington after an extended vaca
tion in the south. He said the depart
ment had reached no conclusion on
the West Point hazing case.
Huntington Wilson, assistant secre
tary of state, has been threatened
with another attack of appendicitis,
but Washington reports say an opera
tion will not be necessary.
Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
blind marvel, is to make an airship
flight with Charles J. Glidden of Bos
ton and will record her sensations in
the air.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller is suffer
ing from a cold, at her home in Cleve
land. Her physician says it is not
serious.
Friends of Dr. Cook anticipate a
bitter attack on his record and the ex
plorer has sent for Edward Burrill,
at Hamilton, Mont, his guide in the
ascent of Mount McKinley, to come
to New York at once.
GENERAL NOTES.
Prof. Jerome H. Raymond assumed
the presidency of the municipally
owned Toledo university, Toledo, O.,
and Prof. Harry B. Hutchins became
acting president of the University of
Michigan, the resignation of Dr. James
B. Angell going into effect.
President Taft visited the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
Wash., and was the center of interest
lor the great crowds at the fair.
In the Long Island automobile
derby, while running 65 miles an hour,
a 60-horse power machine overturned,
killing Mechanician James Bates and
seriously injuring Driver Herbert
Lytic
President Taft preached a sermon
on amity between the people at the
Mormon tabernacle, Salt Lake City,
to a large audience who cheered him
most enthusiastically.
The south is honoring the memory
of Admiral Raphael Semmes, the
naval hero of the confederacy, this
being the one hundredth anniversary
oi his birth.
A romance in the wake of the Louis
iana storm became known. A young
woman of Leesville, La, lost her
trousseau in the storm, and appeared
at the altar in improvised attire, while
the groom met her bare-tooted, with
his garments misfits.
J. Vent, one of the striking train
dispatchers of the Mexican National
railroad, who is now seeking employ
ment in the United States, has fallen
heir to $600,000 in Scotland.
The seventieth session ot the Rock
River confeience of the Methodist
Episcopal church opened in Rockford,
111, with Bishop Goodsell of New York
presiding
The National League of Veterans
and Sons, organized two years ago to
benefit men who have served in the
regular army or National Guard and
their sons, met in annual session at
Bay City, Mich.
Eight stockmen from Montana were
killed and 14 other men injured at
Chicago when the Panhandle "flyer"
crashed into the rear end of a stock
train in the St. Paul yards.
President Taft, properly clothed, de
scended 1,200 feet into the famous
Leonard copper mine at Butte,
Mont He expressed himself much de
lighted with the experience.
One thousand children, terrified by
"Black Hand" stories, became panic
stricken in a Jersey City (N. J.)
parochial school when they heard fire
works exploding on the outside. One
child was fatally injured and 13
others more or less hurt.
President Taft in a speech at Spo
kane declared he would ask congress
to authorize the issuance of $10,000,
000 in bonds to complete irrigation
projects already begun.
United States District Attorney
Sims has unearthed evidence that
white slave traffickers are operating
again on a large scale in Chicago.
Raids and prosecutions are probable.
Wilbur Wright successfully circled
the statue of Liberty, New York har
bor, in his heavier-than-air aeroplane.
The meeting between Presidents
Taft and Diaz will be a strictly Inter
national affair, according to the official
program just issued.
W. J. Bryan and Senator Bailey of
Texas will hold a joint debate on the
tariff at Atlanta some time in Oc
tober.
Grand jury at Chicago will inquire
into the reports that men having evi
dence in the jury scandal case were
being tampered with.
Members of a Russian sect engaged
in a revolting ceremony at Los An
geles when they danced around the
nude body of a* girl on an "altar."
Harry Whitney, the important wit
ness to Dr. Cook's claim that he dis
covered the north pole, ig hurrying
to New York from Labrador. Whit
ney has telegraphed that Peary would
not permit anything belonging to
Cook to be placed aboard the steamer
Roosevelt. __
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Gen. Grant, at Washington, declares
he will continue to lead parades that
stand for law and order until prohib
ited. This is in reply to criticisms for
his participation in Chicago's temper
ance parade.
Col. W. R. Morrison, former con
gressman, is dead at his home in Wa
terloo, 111., after a protracted illness.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook was given a
magnificent reception at Philadelphia,
at which city he delivered a lecture.
Denunciation of the French school
system by the Catholic authorities Is
said by Figaro of Paris to have been
the result of a message sent by the
pope through Cardinal Satolli.
Thomas Gray, 19 years old, walked
the streets of New York two hours
after he had been shot near the heart,
fearing his father would not believe
his story. He went to bed without
telling of his injury, but his mother
saw his blood-stained garments and
he was aroused and walked a mile to
Bellevue hospital with his father. The
shot may prove fatal.
A Paris jury decided that Edward
Baudin was justified in killing his
wife at her request to end her suf
fering. The woman wae a victim of
asthma and the disease was strangling
her.
Mrs. Linda Baldwin, who says she
doesn't know how old she is, but who
is supposed to be over 100, is de
tained at Ellis island. New York. She
lived 60 years in Brooklyn and re
turned from Ireland to look after
some property.
Ex-Gov. McSweeney of South Caro
lina, who had been under treatment
in a private sanitarium at Baltimore,
Md., for several months, died there.
He was born in 1855 and rose from
newsboy to governor.
Taking of the testimony for the de
fense in the suit of the state to oust
the International Harvester Company
for alleged violation of the Missouri
anti-trust law began in St. Louis.
Hunter Harry Whitney, who has ar
rived at St. Johns, N. F., from Labra
dor says he believes both Cook and
Peary reached the pole and sees no
reason why the latter should doubt
Cook's claim.
Two million people viewed the big
Hudson-Fulton parade at New York.
Twenty thousand men were in line.
Bush fires are raging In the Sas
katchewan districts and are threaten
ing the property of the settlers.
At the International Dry-farming
congress at Billings, Mont., October
26-28, prominent men from European
countries and Canada, as well as the
United States, will take part.
After running amuck and attacking
the officers and hospital stewards of
the United States hospital ship Relief,
John Ransom, a fireman of the ship,
was shot and killed by Civilian Mate
Heinke at Manila.
Consul General Lay, at Cape Town,
says large quantitiesofAmerican goods
could be sold in South Africa if rep
resentatives were on the ground.
Public schools and co-education are
denounced as jeopardizing the faith of
children in a pastoral letter issued by
the French episcopate.
The jewels of Abd-el-Aziz, the for
mer sultan of Morocco, which were
pledged in a government pawn shop in
1907, probably will be sold at public
auction in a fortnight.
The street car service in Omaha
and Council Bluffs was almost normal
following the strike. The Omaha city
council has by resolution, urged the
car company to agree to arbitration.
Six survivors of an unknown vessel
are aboard Winter Quarter lightship,
the remaining 12 men of the crew
having perished, according to a report
made by Capt. Delano of the steamer
Porto Rico which arrived at Baltimore
from New York.
Slight earth shocks were felt
through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana
but no damage was reported. The
general direction was from west to
east.
Apples and golf were the special at
tractions offered by Spokane, Mass.,
when President Taft reached that
city.
The Woman's Trade Union league
is in session at Chicago. Better
working conditions and wages for
woman is the league's aim.
General conference of the German
Evangelical Synod of North America,
in session at Burlington, la., has
adopted resolutions denouncing prohi
bition and started a movement for
the formation of a national organiza
tion.
William L. Reiser, conductor, and
Peter McCourty, motorman, were
killed and 20 passengers injured in a
trolley car collision in Des Moines, la.
Fire of unknown origin damaged the
Sterling Stamp Company's building
in Pittsburg, Pa., to the extent of $50,
000.
Complications have arisen between
Spain and the sultan of Morocco and
it is believed that war may result be
tween Spain and the Moorish forces,
distinct from that now prevailing,
which is limited to Moorish tribesmen.
Mrs. John Moran of West Duluth,
Minn., a bride of less than a week, is
dead from burns received while rescu
ing her younger sister, who had over
turned a lighted lamp, and who was in
danger from the flames of the result
ing explosion.
Justice Magee at Sudbury, Ont, has
sentenced Mrs. Annie Robinson to be
hanged on November 24 for the mur
der of the infants of her two daugh
ters.
Milton McClure, Republican candi
date for the Illinois supreme court in
the Fourth district, feels confident
that he will be elected over G. A.
Cooke, the Democratic candidate.
Anna Gelish, wife of a soldier,
tossed her baby out ot a window
when fire started in her home In In
dianapolis and then jumped herself.
The mother's legs were broken. The
baby was unhurt.
Violent electrical earth currents,
believed to emanate from the aurora
borealis, disturbed the telegraph serv
ice over the entire country and for
a time stilled the instruments in the
offices of the great telegraph com
panies.
Capt Samuel C. Lemly, formerly
Judge advocate general of the navy,
who became prominent in connection
with the famous Schley court of in
quiry, died at SL Elizabeth's hospital
In Washington.
Two hundred bodies have been
found throughout Louisiana, victims
of.Monday's hurricane.
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ESTATEISPROBATED
VALUE OP LATE EXECUTIVE'!
PROPERTY EXCEED8 ALL
ESTIMATES.
FRED B. LYNCH IS ADMINISTRATOR
Holdings of Stocks Alone Amounted
To Fully $23,000—Total Figures
Come Out When Court Peti
tion Is Filed.
St. Paul, Minn.—Governor Johnson's
estate* exceeds in amount all estimates
advanced by his nearest friends. The
governor's property holdings as shown
in the petition for the appointment
of administrators filed in the Ramsey
county probate court, amount to 137,
430, the major part of which is listed
as "stocks."
The'items are:
Household goods $ 2,500
Stocks 23,000
Notes and bonds 2,330
One lot and building 7,600
Miscellaneous 2,000
Total .. $37,430
The petition is signed by the late
governor's widow, Elinore Marie John
son, who in the will is named as ex
ecutrix and is the sole heir. Mrs.
Johnson petitioned for the appoint
ment of Thomas D. O'Brien, justice
of the state supreme court, and Fred
erick B. Lynch, as general adminis
trators. Judge Bazille signed an order
appointing Mr. Lynch special admin
istrator, pending the hearing on the
appointment of the general admin
istrators which will take place Oct.
25.
MANKATO CHARTER TRIALS.
Commission Form of Government
Turned Down.
Mankato.—The new Mankato city
charter providing for a commission
form of government failed by 24 votes
to receive the necessary four-sevenths
majority required by the state law
at the special election. It received
762 votes to 638, or 154 majority.
The result was brought about by the
activity of the saloon element in op
posing the charter. Opposed to the
money spent and the work done by
this element those who favored the
new charter put up an insignificant
fight.
Had the advocates, aside from the
charter commission, been equally ac
tive the result would have been dif
ferent. Fully 700 voters did not come
out, and it is estimated that three
fourths of these were favorable to the
new charter. The lower three wards,
with a large German population, came
much nearer casting their full vote
than the upper wards. These three
wards cast 514 votes against the new
charter to 234 for. The upper three
wards cast 562 for to 124 against.
INAUGURAL AT CARLETON.
Dr. Donald Cowling Will be Installed
President Oct. 18.
Northfield.—Dr. Donald J. Cowling,
the newly elected president of Carle
ton college of Northfield will be for
mally inaugurated on Monday, Oct. 18.
The ceremonies will begin at 10 a. m.,
when the inaugural procession, com
posed of the students and faculty of
Carleton college, together with invited
guests, will leave the campus and pro
ceed to the First Congregational
church, where the exercises will be
held.
The installation will be performed
by the president of the board of trus
tees, William Laird, of Winona. This
will be followed by a brief speech of
acceptance by President Cowling.
Speeches of greeting will then be
made by presidents of the University
of Minnesota, Beloit college and Grin
nell college. These will be followed
by brief remarks by the alumni and
faculty members, after which the in
augural address will be delivered.
'PHONE DEAL CONSUMATED.
Northwestern Buys the Winona Inde
pendent Telephone Company.
Winona.—The Winona Independent
Telephone Company will, on Oct. 1,
pass into the control of the North
western company. The transaction is
one of considerable magnitude. The
amount of money involved has not
been made public.
The purchasing and absorbing com
pany comes into ownership and con
trol of approximately 500 miles of con
necting lines in southern Minnesota
and adjacent territory in Wisconsin.
Eighteen hundred patrons are af
fected, the majority of whom are res
idents of Winona. The Winona com
pany operates exchanges at Winona,
Rushford, Lanesboro, Lewiston and
Rolling Stone.
COMMITTEE OF TWENTY.
Men Form
From All Sections Will
Johnson Memorial
Board.
St. Paul, Sept. 30.—Governor Adolph
O. Eberhart will today name the men
who are to serve on the John Albert
Johnson memorial fund commission.
There will probably be twenty men on
the commission and they will be chos
en from all sections of the state. All
contributions wil be turned over to
this commission. The list will be an
nounced tonight.
BOAT RIDE AND AUTO DRIVE.
Winona Prepares Entertainment for
River Improvement Delegates.
Winona.—The government boat, the
David Tipton, will be in Winona dur
ing the eighth annual convention of
the Upper Mississippi River Improve
ment Association, Oct. 6, and 7, and
will take the delegates out for a ride.
Another pleasure to be afforded the
visitors will be an automobile drive.
The final session of the convention
will take the form of a banquet.
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FIVE DAMS GO OUT*
City Electrle Plant Destroyed in Sud
den Flood.
Fergus Falls. Five big masonry
dams In the vicinity of Fergus Falls
were washed away. First the big city
concrete dam which furnished power
for the electric light plant was washed
out.
Two men who were sleeping in a
nearby house were awakened by the
noise of rushing water and noticed
water pouring up through the cracks
of the floor.
They hurried on up the hill where
the electric light station was located,
but before they had reached it the
plant was washed away.
The city dam was 30 feet high and
located one and a half miles north of
the city. The water went with a fury
and the water works dam, which is
just outside of the city limits, gave
way. A bridge which spans the river
a short distance down the stream also
was carried away. A number of build
ings and other structures in the path
of the flood were destroyed. Base
ments of buildings in this city are
flooded, but no houses are known to
have been taken.
Third .Dam Washed Away.
The torrent ot water encountered a
third dam, known as the Wright dam.
This dam furnished power for two
large flour mills. The water washed
around the west end of the mills and
partly carried away one of them.
A fourth dam, known as the Red
river mill dam, located a short dis
tance down the stream, gave way.
The Northern Pacific bridge, which
spans the river at this point, was
threatened for a time, but remained
intact.
The fifth dam was the woolen mill
dam. It furnished power for the local
woolen mills. The dam remained
standing but the water washed around
the south side and rendered it use
less.
The dams are all inside the city lim
its. On account of the city dam, which
furnished power for the electric light
plant, being washed out, every wheel
in this city is shut down. The public
schools were forced to close, owing to
the lack of water supply.
Fergus Falls would be in a very bad
way were it not for the fact that a
large concrete dam, known as the Day
ton Hollow dam, was constructed five
miles below the city last year. This
dam takes the flow of water from the
Red river and Pelican river and fur
nishes 2,000 horsepower. A line will
be immediately constructed to this
dam and the lighting of the city re
sumed. The city water system and
the insane hospital have auxiliary
steam plants and these will be put
into operation at once.
The loss to this city in the destruc
tion of the electric light plant will be
$65,000. It may also be liable for the
destruction of the other dam, but this
is not probable. The total loss is esti
mated at $200,000.
TO GRIND CANADIAN WHEAT.
New Tariff Law Provides for Domestic
Sale of By-Products.
Minneapolis.—The Minneapolis flour
mills will again be grinding Canadian
wheat before another crop has been
raised in the United States. This is
the opinion of millers who have given
close study to the new tariff bill and
the drawback provisions therein. The
great obstacle in the way of handling
the imported raw material has been
the disposal of the by-product. The
bonding law on the statute books prior
to the passage of the new tariff act
hold that the entire product of the im
ported wheat should be exported, and
the plan was therefore practically un
workable. The mills of Minneapolis
did grind considerable wheat in bond
and under drawback regulations, but
that was in a time of an extraordinary
general disarrangement of world's
prices.
Drawback Provision.
The drawback provision nov apply
ing to millers and which will be partic
ularly important to the mills of Min
neapolis, Duluth, Buffalo, Nev York,
and other centers close to the Canadian
border, will permit the miller to enter
the world's markets, buy whett, grind
it in bond and export the floir. The
by-product may then be taken from
the bonded mill and sold for domestic
consumption upon the payment by the
miller of the duty that woulc be as
sessed by the government if the by
products had been imported. Vhe mil
lers were contending for thfe while
the tariff bill was before congress.
As to the ability of the millers to
import wheat under this more liberal
provision, the Northwestern Miller,
which has been investigating Ihe mat
ter, says:
"Calculations have shown that un
der a 20 per cent ad valorem duty ap
plying to by-products from foreign
wheat, when the latter are withdrawn
for domestic consumption, foreign
wheat at 4% cents a bushel under the
American market, can be ground by
the American miller without loss. At
any price representing a greater dif
ference than 4% cents there would
be a proportionate profit to the Ameri
can miller."
SWEDISH METHODISTS.
Pastors Named For Minnesota
Churches.
Marquette, Michigan.—Becatse of a
scarcity of clergymen, it has b«en nec
essary to increase the territory of a
number of the ministers of the North
ern Methodist conference, tie six
teenth annual meeting of which has
just been held at Ishpeming. There
are now 70 churches and fewer than
50 ministers. The conference terri
tory comprises Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Upper Michigan.
DUNLEVY NOT A CANDIDATE.
But Mayor's Partisans at East Grand
Forks Put Up a Ticket
East Grand Forks.—The political
situation here is waxing warm. jUayor
Dunlevy, who won at the last election
by only four votes, is not a candidate
for re-election, by Neil KellehW will
be the mayoralty candidate »n the
Dunlevy party ticket. James1 J. O'
Leary, who was defeated by Dwlevy,
will be the candidate on the oj posing
side. The election will be held *cv. S.
1
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TO LEAD DEMOCRATIC MUNICIP
AL TICKET IN NEW YORK
CITY.
ORGANIZATION IN FULL CONTROL
Pat McCarren, Boss of Brooklyn, Once
More Defeated by Murphy's
Old-Time City Ma-
Chine.
New York.—The Democratic conven*
tion for the city of New York, nomi
nated the following ticket:
For Mayor—Justice William Jay
Gaynor, of Brooklyn.
For Comptroller—Robert M. Moore,
of Manhattan.
For President of the board of alder
men—John F. Galvin, of Manhattan.
The nomination was made with a
great demonstration of enthusiasm and
by a unanimous vote. Tammany had
Its own way at the convention. Of the
1,679 delegates represented, Tammany
had control—to all intents and purpos
es—of almost the entire representa
tions of the boroughs of Manhattan
and the Bronx, mustering 918 votes.
The Tammany cohorts overrode with
ease the opposition faction headed by
state Senator Patrick H. McCarren, of
Brooklyn, who hoped to secure the re
nomination of Comptroller Metz, of
that borough. The convention nomi
nated for this office Robert M. Moore,
president of the Commercial Trust Co.,
the Tammany selection.
Broad Platform Adopted.
The platform adopted by the Demo
cratic convention dealt broadly with
national, state and municipal ques
tions, denouncing the recent tariff leg
islation and objecting to any interfer
ence in local affairs by the state legis
lature.
A resolution on the death of Gov
ernor Johnson, of Minnesota, extend
ing sympathy to the family, was car
ried by a rising vote.
MINNEAPOLIS MAN SUES.
W. H. McGrath Asks Damages for
Alleged Fake Contests.
Council Bluffs.—Two more civil suits
were filed in the federal court to re
cover $25,580 alleged to have been lost
as a result of fake wrestling and prize
fights promoted by J. C. Maybray, now
under indictment for allegel illegal
use of the mails. Twelve of these
suits have been filed, involving $140,
000.
The first case is that of W. H. Mc
Grath, a lumberman, of Minneapolis,
who sues for $10,000. The suits is di
rected against the First National bank,
Ernest E. Park, a national Republican
committeeman for Ohio, Benjamin
Marks, a local capitalist whose name
also figures in the Maybray indict
ments, Maybray himself and T. C.
Connors, formerly cashier of the First
National bank and now connected with
the City National bank, of this city.
The other suit is brought against
Benjamin Marks and Maybray, by P.
E. George, of San Antonio, Texas. He
charges that he lost his money in New
Orleans, where, after losing $7,580 on
a fake wrestling match he was in
duced to return home and secure
$8,000 more which he also lost in a
similar manner.
Wisconsin Millionaire Dead.
Appleton.—John Van Nortwick, mil
lionaire paper and pulp manufacturer,
and owner of more water-power rights
than any man in Wisconsin, died at
his home in this city, from heart fail
ure. He was prominently connected
with various Wisconsin business in
terests.
Thresher Cooked With Steam.
Fergus Falls.—Martin Fehr, while
threshing in the eastern part of the
county, was caught between the sep
arator and engine and a steam pipe
broke, discharging steam upon him
and literally cooking him. He died in
a short time. He was 37 years old
and leaves a family.
MARKET REPORT.
Twin City Markets.
Minneapolis, Oct. 1.—Wheat, No. 1
northern, $1.00% No. 2 northern,
$0.99% Dec, $0.97% May, $1.01%
durum, No. 1, $0.83%. Corn—No. 3,
59%c. Oats—No. 3 white, $0.36%.
Barley—59%c. Rye—No. 2, 65%c.
Flax—No. 1, $1.36%.
Duluth, Oct. 1.—No. 1 northern,
$1.00% Dec, $0.97% May, $1.01%.
South St. Paul, Oct. 1. —Cattle
Steers, fair, $4.75®$6.50 cows, fair,
$3.00@4.00 calves, $3.75@5.25. Hogs,
$7.85@7.90 sheep, yearlings, $5
$5.25 lambs, fair, $5.00@$6.00.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Oct. 1. Cattle—Market
Strong 10 cents higer steers, $5.60@
$8.50 cows, $3J50@5.25 heifers, $3.50
@$6 bulls, $3®4.85 calves, $3.00@
$9.00 stockers and feeders, $3.75@
$5.50.
Hogs—Market 5 cents higer choice
heavy, 8.35®$8.40 butchers, $8.30®
$8.40 light mixed, $7.90@$8.10 pack
ing, $7.90@$8.20 pigs, $5.00@$7.00*
bulk of sales, 7.95@$8.25.
Sheep.—Weak sheep, $4.25@$5.50
lambs, $6.00®$7.25 yearlings, $5.25@
$5.60.
LEO XII PS BODY TO BE MOVED.
Former Pope's Remains Will be Taken
to the Latteran Basilica March 2.
Rome.—The Vatican authorities an
nounced that the body of the late
Pope Leo XIII would be moved from
St. Peter's to the Latteran Basilica,
on March 2, the centenary of his
birth. The Vatican officials are now
in conference with the police, regard
ing the manner of removal, as it is
feared that anarchists may conspire'
to cause a disturbance.
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TRIBUTE TO
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Thomas W. Lawson was an intimate
friend of Governor Johnson. Upon
hearing of his death, he wired the
following, which is one of the finest
things that has been said of the dead
governor.
"Yesterday and yesterdays when
the sun's red-brown halo blended my
hollyhocks and sunflowers to nodding
evening gods, he used to loom, a
soulful, heart-loving inspiration. From
my garden's twilight quiet I have
often visioned him, this tall, swaying
pine of the west, and the visioning
peopled my world with times and
things and men long, long since dead
and dust, and these times and things
and men glowed the heart and soothed
the soul and charitied the mind and
made for love of good and for shame
of petty meaness and sordid hatred.
"When I say this I limn the man.
No human ever entered the atmo
sphere of John Johnson without being
better. He was indeed a man, a made
in-the-image-of-his-God man. Wives
looked upon his wife and blessed him
mothers gazed upon his mother and
prayed their sons might be in his
mold and the children and the dogs
and the flowers and God's good earth
beamed and laughed and warmed
when his presence came.
Such a Good Man.
"Ah! But he was such a man, such
a good man. I saw him on the field,
in the tent, and in the orchards, where
the great, ripe juicy golden plums of
man-wealth hung low and vainly
screamed for plucking, and I sat with
him by the hour in his office of state
while his mind romped in freedom
and his long legs crossed and uncross
ed themselves over the corner of the
desk upon which the freemen of a
great western empire laid honor-offer
ing.
"I have ridden with him the hot
days through, in the dusty, nerve rack
ing railroad train, and I've been with
him when he listened to the fealty
message of the leaders of his party
which cooed about that crown and
throne which is the dream of all red
blooded Americans and I've brought
him the taunt of his great rival, and
yet in all I never once saw that child
ish merry twinkle leave those wonder
fully love-begetting eyes, and I never
heard a discord in that voice of trust
and faith and charity and good will
to all. Ah! But he was such a man.
such a good man.
"John Johnson's vision was all out
ward. He had no mirror, and had he
one he would have held it to reflect
the beauties and the goodness of his
fellows.
Story of a Boy.
"The other evening Erman Ridge
way, his good wife, and myself were
in the bus with this great man on our
way to hear him lecture. We'd had
a jolly good dinner and he was snug
gled into the corner muffled in his
big fur coat, and we thought he want
ed to be alone to tell over his great
speech, when, as he neared the church
where his lecture was to be delivered,
he said, "I'm nervous tonight, Law
son, for I'm going to make my lecture
the simple story of how I pardoned a
boy and gave him back to his old
mother and father. I want you to
hear it, but I know I'll cry and make
a country booby of myself, and then
these eastern people will wonder what
my great state was thinking of in
electing such a governor."
"'Twas a big audience, big in in
telligence, big in sympathy with this
latterday Abe Lincoln of the people
and Governor Johnson told his story
and the tears trickled down his cheeks
and his gentle voice was gentler than
Its wont, but we, his audience—yes,
all of us—men, women and children,
we cried, just laid back and let 'er
go in one of those heart-relieving,
don't-give-a-picayune-who-sees-us sob
bing outbursts, and at the close of tho
story I said to the big, strong mannish
governor of New Jersey, who had sat
with bowed head as John Johnson,
the man, told the simple story of
how Governor Johnson, of the great
state of Minnesota gave their boy
back to the old father and mother,
'Governor, I notice that you, too, for
got that Governor Johnson was of the
enemy.'
"Yes, yes, I forgot everything but
the story and the man who was tell
ing it,' and he tried to sneak away the
trail the story had left on his cheek,
'and if all democrats were like Gov
ernor Johnson there'd be no enemies."
Runs Race Joyfully.
"God was good to John Johnson. He
endowed him with all those riches
which make for happiness here and
hereafter. Birthed from the womb of
the common people, cradled in that
greatest of all world luxuries, poverty,
he came to the starting line a moral
Hercules, bursting with love of moth
er and adoration of wife, bristling with
affection for humanity and charity and
forgiveness for his enemies, and mus
cled with a superb honesty and ven
eration for God and nature. The
starter's bell was to him a joyful 'go.'
As he ran he saw no mire, no bould
ers, no ditches, only God's great blue
he felt only God's warming sun-rays
and as he ran for Them, not himself,
'tis no wonder that his track was fast
and his feet winged.
"God was good to Governor John
son. He took him as he took the
sainted Lincoln and all his very chos
en, while yet they ran, while yet their
fellows cheered, while yet their souls
were radiant with the Intoxication of
ambition's rays.
"To us who were blessed with the
privilege of his presence is left the
consolation that ne was, and 48 yet.
Let us rain our tears, but not for him.
Let us weep for her whose sun is set
and for the nation which so sorely
needs her valiant sons and for human
ity whose champion has gone over
yonder. For myself, my sadness is
mellowed by the thought that I knew
him, and by the faith that his shadow
will for ages be a dream-cradle for
countless despairing souls. Ah! But
he was such a man, such a good man."
HILL SPEAKS AT MINOT.
Star Attraction for the Ward County
Fair, Opening.
Minot.—The Ward county fair, giv
ing promise of being the biggest ever
held in this section of the state,
opened thisweek. One of the big events
of the day was an address by Ja»es
J. Hill. When his train arrived in Ihe
city, it was met at the station the
Minot Automobile club and Mr. Hill
was taken to the fair grounds, where
he delivered his address to a large
«owd.
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DENMARK.
The Lolland, one of the steamers
of the United Steamship Company,
was lost in the North Sea. Six
members of the crew were saved by
the Swedish steamer Saga, and they
explained the cause of the wreck.
The Lolland was on its way from
Blyth, England, to Korsor, Denmark,
with a cargo of coal, and a fierce
storm was encountered. The cargo
was shifted, and the vessel com
menced to leak. In spite of the
working of the pumps the water rose
until finally the fire under the boilers
went out. Then the captain gave or
ders to have the boats lowered. But
there were only two left, the others
having been dashed to pieces. One of
them, which carried the six men re
ferred to above, was picked up by the
Saga four hours later. All that the
men can tell about the fate of the
other boat and its occupants was, that
it was placed on the water. But they
saw the ship sink, with its command
er, Captain Nielsen of Nakskov, stand
ing on the bridge until he was swal
lowed up by the waves. Besides those
already mentioned there were ten
men and an unknown lady passenger,
and it is supposed that they all per
ished.
SWEDEN.
The Stockholm exposition gave a
surplus instead of an expected deficit.
The market quotations of the stocks
of some of the leading mining con
cerns in Sweden rose enormously at
the close of the strike.
The export of lingon (red berries)
is so heavy from southern Sweden to
Germany this fall that an extra freight
train must be run to Trelleborg every
day.
Over 250 boys have applied for ad
mission to the first class at the Mal
mo high school of technology, and
only 125 of them can be accommo
dated.
The railway department turned only
$50,000 into the national treasury in
August, as compared with $200,000 in
July. This immense difference was,
of course, due to the strike.
The former employes of the Stock
holm Streetcar company have offered
to pay the company for the damages
caused its property during the recent
strike, on condition that all the strik
ers be re-employed.
All those who were opposed to the
strike are now thankful because the
government did not interfere as a
mediator. It is argued that a com
promise would have only paved the
way for a similar conflict in the near
future, but that a struggle fought to
the finish like the one which actu
ally took place is supposed to have
taught the labor leaders the futility of
an attempt to tie up all kinds of ac
tivity in the country.
A carpenter at Morrum named Pet
erson was an employer and an em
ploye in one person. When the strike
came the man felt something like a
schism within himself. But he finally
yielded to the propensity of the
employe, and quit work. Time soon
became a burden to him, hours
seemed like weeks. He would like
awfully well to go to work again. But
a gentleman and man of honor like
Carpenter Peterson of Morrum did
not want to be a ''strikebreaker" with
out due cause. So he went to work
and evolved a scheme: going to the
headquarters of the nearest labor
union he spoke somehow in this wise:
I am on a strike but I am going to
work again unless I get a minimum
contribution from the strike lund.
Not much! was the prompt answer,
and employe Peterson again went to
work for employer Peterson with a
good conscience.
Newsof Scandinavia
Principal Happenings of the Week
in the Scandinavian Countries.
At Falun are the headquarters of
a mining company with a history so
remote that the date of its origin can
not be definitely fixed. In a pamphlet
recently issued, dealing with the his
tory of the company, it modestly pro
fesses to be "one of the oldest com
panies in the world." Its iron and
steel works are now concentrated at
Domnarfvet. It is the oldest stock
company in Scandinavia and one of
the oldest in the world. An original
purchase deed of 12S8 had to do with
a sale of stock in the company, and
charters given by King Magnus of
Sweden and Norway are dated Feb.
24, 1347. At that time the company's
rights granted by King Magnus' pred
ecessors were referred to as very old.
The original business was the manu
facturing of copper, and the mine at
Falun, "Stora Kopparberget" (the
great copper mountain), has been con
tinuously worked for nearly 700 years.
In this time it has yielded about 500,
000 tons of copper, 1.55 tons of silver
and 1.2 tons of gold, the whole repre
senting a value of about $270,000,000.
Hinke Bergegren, the great Social
ist hero, left Sweden when the great
strike started. He is said to have
found out that a husky young fellow
was ready to give him a sound lick
ing of the kind that Hinke was in the
habit of recommending for the em
ployers.
The government has been com
pelled to order an extra steamer to
carry lingon (red berries) from Trel
leborg, Sweden, to Sassnitz, Germany.
A number of capitalists have com
menced to raise money for the build
ing of a dry dock at Kalmar.
Four young men accosted a clergy
man who has defended the dogma of
the devil, while he was walking along
the streets in Malmo, and one of them
said point blank that there was no
longer a hell because it had been
abolished. He looked kindly at them
and said: "I am really sorry for
you, for now you have no home. Here
is a Krone (27 cents) for each of
you." They actually took the money
and walked quietly away.
The Conservatives of Sundsvall
elected their candidate far a seat In
the
Two international pickpockets were
captured by Swedish detectives in
Stockholm. They are described as
"Polish-English Jews."
Seventeen banks in Stockholm andw
elsewhere have formed a syndicate'
and raised $500,000 which is to be
loaned to newspapers that were finan
cially embarrassed by the strike.
P. L. Eurenius, who died in Stock
holm a few weeks ago, willed about
$190,000 to different charitable insti
tutions. The largest amount, $67,500,
will go to the establishment of a
home for waifs.
The king has appointed six prom
inent men to propose some way of re
lief for conscripts who are attending
the university or some other institu
tion of learning. The aim of the gov
ernment is to see that such young men
can get the desired education without
neglecting their military training.
Some kind of relief is also desired
for conscripts who are following the
sea or who are heads of poor fami
lies.
A cable dated Sept. 18 says: The
maneuvers will begin next Monday in
Norrland. Elaborate preparations
have been made for a sham battle on
a large scale, based on the theory of
meeting a formidable force invading
the kingdom fiom the direction of
Russia. The Swedish troops will be
rushed forward and deployed to meet
the imaginary enemy. It was believed
for a time that the maneuvers would
be stopped because of the strike, and
many persons still feel that they
should have been, as the country has
been under siege longer than a month.
The people desire peace rather than
war, even of mimic kind, but railroads,
hotels and boarding houses rejoice
over the prospect of doing a large
business. Russia, France, Great Brit
ain, Germany and the United States
will send representatives to the "war,"
which is to last a week, and King
Gustave and the princess will be pres
ent. The defenders will be com
manded by General Torrpadie of the
general staff. A large aiea of the
field of operations is already white
with the tents of the assembling
army.
A foreigner writes as follows about
the great strike: "The great Swedish
strike is closed. Foreigners contri
buted about $270,000 to the aid of the
strikers. Denmark and Norway con
tributed one-fourth each of this
amount, and most of the rest came
from Germany. This social struggle
was backed by the Germanic nations,
and the Swedish workingmen were
the actors, compelled to action by
the Swedish employers who, as a re
sult of over-production, exerted pres
sure upon the working classes and de
clared a lockout. The great strike is
declared off. The government has
stepped forth to arrange matters.
Everywhere the workingmen had to
give up their demands, and the con
summation therefore seems to be an
economical defeat to the poorest por
tion of the Swedish people. Over
100,000 laborers are without work,
facing the coming winter without any
means of sustaining life. Hence, with
all their sacrifices, they have suffered
a terrible defeat. But at the same
time they have won the greatest vie
tory which a class as well as an indi
vidual can win, namely, a victory over
one's self. All newspapers are com
pelled to admit that the behavior of
the laborers during the strike was ex
emplary. This is due largely to the
prohibition of the liquor traffic. But
the conduct of the strikers is due
chiefly to their own sense of responsi
bility. The working classes have de
monstrated that they are able to go\
era themselves, and they will soon
have to be permitted to take part in
the government of society."
NORWAY.
Something akin to a mutinous
movement has been started among the
non-commissioned officers of the Nor
wegian army. The young men who
are attending the military schools in
the large cities have asked for permis
sion to leave the schools. But the
most serious feature of the movement
is, that the older non-commissioned
officers of the Kristianssand brigade
have planned a systematic agitation
against the schools for non-commis
sioned officers. There is no secrecy
about it. A meeting representing all
the corps of the brigade passed a res
olution calling upon all the non-com
missioned officers in the country to
"disseminate information as to the fu
ture-prospects of graduates from the
schools for non-commissioned offi
cers." It may be an easy matter to
chastise those who passed this resolu
tion. But the trouble is, that the sen
timent expressed by the resolution is
general throughout the whole coun
try.
Captain Sverdrup Zakariassen, who
has just returned from Spitzbergen,
reports that he has been to the place
where Johan Sivertsen and three oth
er men had their headquarters last
winter, in the northeastern part of
the country. They were all dead.
Three of the bodies were in the hut,
and one outside. As the ice was clos
ing up to the shore Zakariassen had
to leave the place in the greatest
hurry, and could take with him neither
the dead bodies nor the records.
Mr. Seip, minister of public wor
ship, died Sept. 16th.
Four days of hard rain caused floods
in southeastern Norway. In Fredrik
stad the streets and parts of the
churchyard were flooded. A great
number of cellars were filled with wa
ter, and the entrances to several stores
were shut off by water.
Captain Roald Amundsen, the Nor
wegian explorer, has decided to post
pone his projected expedition to the
Arctic region until June 1,1910, on ac
count of delay in his preparations,
caused by the general strike in Swe
den.
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