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W1LLMAR. MINK
OF A WEEK
Latest News Told
in Briefest and
Best Form.
Washington
Charles McGowan, the young Cana
dian who Is alleged to have confessed
to detectives that he received $1,500
to testify falsely for the defense in the
Lorlmer case last summer, on the wit
ness stand before the Investigating
committee at Washington made a
sweeping denial of the charges made
by Detective William J. Burns and his
operatives.
The nomination of former Gov. My
ron T. Herrick of Ohio to be ambas
sador to Prance has been sent to the
senate by President Taft. He will suc
ceed Robert Bacon, resigned.
Secretary of State Knox, in a note
to the German ambassador, makes pub
lic the fact that the United States has
insisted on the reaffirmation of the
open door policy whatever may be the
fate of the present Chinese empire.
The Knox note is a warning of hands
off to all the powers that seek special
aggrandisement In China.
The war department has Issued or
ders to increase the force held for
guard duty on the frontier or for inter
vention In Mexico, from 34,000 men to
50.000 men. By this order the coast
defense artillery troops, who are not a
part of the mobile army, are required
to report on momentary notice
equipped as infantry.
An investigation of the "money
trust" was ordered by the Democrats
of the house of representatices in
caucus after the Henry plan for a spe
cial committee had been defeated 115
to 66. The caucus instructed the
standing committees of the house on
banking and currency, judiciary, in
terstate commerce and elections to
proceed with the inquiry.
The American Numismatic society
has presented to the American Red
Cross at Washington, a series of fine
designs modeled by the sculptor,
Guzon Borgium, for medals to be
given for meritorious Red Cross serv
ice.
Another investigation of the depart
ment of agriculture involving orders
of Secretary Wilson and Solicitor Mc
Cabe, embracing charges of sup
pressed reports and influence of land
speculators over government officials,
is to be instituted by the house com
mittee on expenditures in the depart
ment of agriculture.
Milton W. Blumenberg, official ste
nographer of the senatorial committee
investigating the election of Senator
Lorimer, at Washington, was held in
contempt by the committee when
he volunteered in open hearing the
opinion that stenographic notes intro
duced to support the perjury charge
against Charles McGowan were faked.
Domestic
It is announced at The Hague that
the third peace conference of the pow
ers will not assemble before 1915. It
is hoped that the Carnegie palace of
peace will be ready for opening about
the middle of 1913.
The death rate in New York state
for 1911 was the lowest ever recorded,
while the number of births and mar
riages increased substantially, accord
ing to the annual report of the state
commissioner of health The death
rate was 15 5 a 1,000 population,
against 161 for 1910 Births ex
ceeded deaths by 75,300.
The five bandits who held up Rock
Island train No. 43 near Hurlburt,
Ark., were poorly recompensed for
their efforts, according to express
company officials. They deny there
was a large amount of specie on the
train and postal officials say but one
pouch of mail is missing.
Charles W. Morse, the New York
banker recently paroled by President
Taft left Atlanta, Ga, for New York
accompanied by his wife.
Fire destroyed the Barnard & Leas
Manufacturing company's plant at Mo
Mne, 111., for the construction of flour
milling machinery. The loss is esti
mated at $500,000. Assistance was
called from Rock Island, 111., Daven
port, la., and the Rock Island arsenal.
An epidemic of pneumonia, confined
to five blocks of Villa avenue, a con
gested street in New York, is attract
ing attention of physicians and health
experts. More than eighty cases of
the disease have been reported in the
last few days.
The murdered body of Burt C. Her
shey, grandson of the millionaire
lumber king, Ben Hershey, and poet,
artist and philosopher, was found In
Falrport (la.) post office with a gun
charge through his heart.
he Wisconsin Medical society at
Madison proposed that the work of
the state board of medical examiners
be taken over by the state board of
health to keep high the bars to medi
cal practice.
-Arrival of the steamer Devonian
"with her cargo of 90,000 bushels/of
potatoes from Liverpool brings the
foreign shipments of the tuber into
the port of Boston since December 1
to 330,000 bushels, a new record.
The collier Leonidas has arrived at
Annapolis, Md., loaded with relics of
the wrecked battleship Maine, which
are to be distributed among munici
palities, societies and relatives of sur
vivors of the Maine.
Five members of a Philadelphia fam
ily named Dragal were asphyxiated
in their home when gas from a broken
main found its way into the house
through a sewer.
Announcement was made that short
age of at least $50,000,had been dis
covered in the accounts of Earl Stan
ard, head bookkeeper of the American
National bank of Pomona, CaL Stan
ard, with his wife, left the city several
days ago and his whereabouts are un
known.
Union labor officials and agents
whom the government holds criminal
ly responsible with the McNamaras
and Ortle E. McManigal for perpetrat
ing more than 100 explosions which
occurred in cities from Massachusetts
to California in the last six years, and
in which the wrecking of the Los An
geles Times building was an incident,
were indicated by the federal grand
jury at Indianapolis. Thirty-two in
dictments were returned.
Claudia Libbey Halns, central fig
ure in a tragedy resulting in the mur
der of William Annis by her husband,
Capt Peter C. Halns, who was recent
ly freed from Sing Sing prison, was
married at her home in Milton, Mass..
to Reginald F. Bolles, a prominent
Boston artist
While running at a high rate of
speed an electric car on the West
Penn railways jumped the track near
Coulterville, Pa., and went over a 200
foot embankment Five men were
killed.
It Is shown by the annual report of
the New York board of coroners that
5,700 sudden deaths were reported to
the coroner's office during 1911. the to
tal being 200 greater than in 1910. Of
these 3,050 were due to natural causes,
leaving 2,650 of a violent character.
These include suicides, murders and
accidents.
Unable to pull her five-year-old
daughter Phoebe's foot from the frog
crossing of a railroad track where It
had become fastened, Mrs. U. S. Milll
ken of Lincoln, Neb., chose rather to
stay and die with the child than to
desert it at such a time and calmly
faced a fast approaching locomotive.
Both were struck and instantly
killed.
The Supreme Council of tb* Royal
Arcanum will have returned to it $5,
902,000, the amount of a reserve fund
on deposit with State Treasurer Ste
vens by order of Supreme Court Judge
Braley at Boston. Ths provision of
a law which required the deposit of
the fund was removed by the last leg
islature.
Double suicide in their home in New
York city ended the sensational ro
mance of the former vifa of Walter
L. Suydam and Frederick Noble, the
young plumber, for the love of whom
Mrs. Suydam ran away from her mil
lionaire husband and married in Sep
tember last. Mr. Suydam divorced his
wife that she might wed the man who
had supplanted him in her affections.
The "moonlight purity squad" has
been sworn in at Spokane, Wash. The
duty of the squad is to roam around
shady places in parks, where young
people are Inclined to congregate, and
discourage love making.
Foreign
The king and queen of England ar
rived at Spithead from their Durbar
trip in a blinding snowstorm.
Actual invasion of the Republic of
Mexico to protect American Interests
Is being prepared. This came in tbe
order by the war department at
Washington that 5,000 men be held lit
readiness for a hurry order to pro
ceed to the border. Another 5,000
men will be held in reserve.
The evening edition of the Novoe
Vremya, a St Petersburg newspaper,
and the Octoberist organ Golosmesky,
a Moscow publication, were confis
cated for describing Gregory Rasputin,
a reputed mystic who is wielding enor
mous influence at the court, as "a
corrupter of bodies and souls
Doctors say that the condition of
Baron de Rio Branco, the Brazilian
foreign minister, who was stricken
suddenly at Rio Janeiro with uremia,
has become so critical that his death
may occur at any moment
Excavations at Nazareth have un
covered the site upon which, it is de
clared by competent archaeologists,
stood the carpenter's workshop of Jo
seph, husband of Mary, mother of
Jesus, in which Christ worked when a
boy. It is also believed that the spot
where Christ's transfiguration took
place has been found.
An end came to the extra session of
the Philippine legislature, the dead
lock on the appropriation bills not
having been broken. The same thing
happened in 1911.
Personal
Brig. Gen. Charles H. Whipple, pay
master general of the army, applied
to be placed on the retired list under
the thirty-year-service law.
The collapse of Senator Robert M.
La Follette, whose health has given
away beneath the strain of his cam
paign for the presidential nomination
appears to be complete. The state
ment is made that the senator will nev
er be able to resume the active part he
has taken in Republican politics during
the last fifteen years.
FIRST OP THE KIND HOLDS A
THREE-DAY SESSION AT THE
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL.
MORE THAN 300 ATTEND
School Was Conducted Under Direc
tion of the Minnesota Stallion
Registration Board—Valuable
Instruction Given.
With an attendance of more than
300, the first "horse school" in Min
nesota was held at the agricultural
college of the university, opening with
an address by Dr. C. W. McCampbell,
professor of animal husbandry at the
Kansas State Agricultural college, on
"Transmissible Unsoundness." The
school was given under the aus
pices of the Minnesota stallion regis
tration board in connection* with the
short course for farmers now in ses
sion at the farm Bchool and continued
three days. Professor H. R. Smith,
who was recently appointed head of
the animal husbandry department of
the Minnesota Agricultural college was
scheduled to open the session, but was
unable to finish his work at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and spoke Thurs
day.
In connection with the lectures a
number of pure bred and prize-winning
horses were shown. President George
E. Vincent's two saddle horses were
among them. A carload lot of Perche
rons from the Crandall & Danforth
farm at Randolph, were shown. There
were five pure bred horses in the
lot. Three pure bred Belgians from
A. Noltimier's farm at St. Paul Park
were displayed. The college had nine
registered head of horses on exhibi
tion. Two of these, Queen Mary and
Queen Lily, were prize-winners at the
International stock show in Chicago
two years ago. Queen Lily carried off
the blue ribbon in the Clydesdale
mares class, while Queen Mary was
the second prize winner in the 2-year
old class of Clydesdales. President
Vincent's horses are both registered
American saddle horses, Bessy Dia
mond's sire being one of the greatest
show horses of America. Rooster
Blees, a gray, was sired by Rex Blees,
a many time prize-winner while alive.
They were the only light horses
shown.
The Minnesota Horse Breeders' as
sociation conducted a postponed meet
ing during the three days of the
school. One of the features of the
program was a demonstration of the
correct care and shoeing of horses'
feet by Allen Johnston, instructor in
blacktimithing at the farm school.
The horse school will be made a
permanent feature of the farmers'
short course if the plans of J. S. Mont
gomery of the department of animal
husbandry of the college, who is in
charge of arrangements of the present
course, are carried out. "We not only
hope to make the school permanent,"
said Mr. Montgomery, "but we plan to
add others to it. Next year we will
try to arrange to have three sessions
for breeders of cattle, sheep and hogs
respectively. Thus raisers of these
various kinds of stock can come here
for three days and hear some of the
best authorities of the country in their
respective lines tell them of the latest
and best approved methods of handling
their specialty."
Mr. Montgomery gave lessons in
horse judging. Percheron and Belgian
horses were judged Thursday. Mr.
Montgomery demonstrated the judg
ing of Clydesdales and light horses,
using the stock belonging to the school
for the first class and President Vin
cent's horses for the second.
Dr. William L. Boyd of the college
of agriculture spoke Wednesday on
horse diseases G. L. Carlson of Nor
folk, Neb, editor of Carlson's Breed
ers' Review, discussed "Lessons in
Horse Breeding," and S Montgom
ery gave an illustrated horse lecture
the evening. "Feeding and Care of
Brood Mares and Foals" was the sub
ject of an address by Charles B. Cran
dall of Randolph, Minn., president of
the Minnesota Horse Breeders' asso
ciation "Making and Fitting Horses'
Collars" was considered by Dr Edward
G. Leech of Winona, secretary of the
Minnesota Veterinary association, and
"Market Classes and Grades of
Horses" by S. Montgomery
HIGH DIVE INTO SNOW
Foot-Warmer Starts Fire in Hay Load
—Farmer and Sister Jump to Safety.
Little Falls.—While coming to this
city on a load of hay, Mike Grzonka,
a Swan River farmer, and his sister
escaped cremating only by diving
into a near-by snowbank. They had a
hot brick on the load as a foot-warm
er. The brick set fire to the hay and
the blaze was not discovered until it
had eaten its way into their clothing.
The dive into the snow extinguished
their blazing clothes.
ELECTION IN DULUTH
$750,000 Bond Issue Proposition Is
Also Carried in Municipal Elections.
Duluth. Dr. J. A. McCuen,
the Republican candidate for mayor
of Duluth, was elected over Dr. M.
B. Cullum, the present Democratic
mayor, by about 3 to 1. Mayor Cul
lum concedes McCuen's election. One
Socialist, P. J. Phillips, was elected
alderman, from the Eighth ward The
bond Issue, which was carried, calls
for a $750,000 electric light plant.
Fire Razes Cloquet Hospital.
Cloquet. Fire of an unknown
origin completely destroyed the Clo
quet hospital and four patients on
an upper floor had narrow escapes
from suffocation, three of them being
carried down a ladder unconscious.
There were 11 patients in the hospital,
seven on the first floor and four men
upstairs. Those on the first floor were
removed without trouble, but the fire
spread uo rapidly that a ladder was
necessary for those on the upper floor.
Befoie they could be carried away
three of them had succumbed.
COEN AT »150 PER EAR
Dan Derby'e Prize Exhibits WIM Be
~r' Planted on State Land.*/
Minneapolis. What is considered
by agricultural college experts as.the
best 10 ears of corn ever grown and
placed on exhibit in Minnesota have
been bought by O. M. Olson, director
of state demonstration farm work, to
be planted on one of the demonstra
tion farms this spring as a foundation
stock for better seed. The 10 ears
cost Mr. Olson just $1.50 apiece.
This prize exhibit of corn was grown
by Dan Derby, a farmer living nine
miles east of Pine Island, and entered
at the Pine Island short course show.
In competition with 60 other entries,
this exhibit won a $350 wooden silo
given by the Pine Island Better Farm
ing association as a sweepstakes prize
to $600 in prizes for various exhibits.
When sold at auction, Mr. Olson suc
ceeded in getting them for $16, after
the sharpest bidding.
This is not the only prize that Mr,
Derby has carried home with him. At
the Kasson short course, with another
10 ears, so like the first 10 that they
could not be distinguished from them,
he won the sweepstakes prize, a $65
hard coal stove, donated by two Kas
son banks. For the best 25 ears of
corn at Kasson, he also won a $20
Jersey-Duroc pig. Mr. Olson also
bought the 10 ear exhibit at Kasson
for $15. The corn is a highly de
veloped strain of Minnesota No. 13
corn, a variety originated at the Min
nesota experiment station, and used
as a type ear by the United State de
partment of agriculture.
THREE DIE IN FIRE
Home of Ole Ambroson Is Burned at
Yucatan.
La Crosse, Wisconsin. Three.of
a family are dead, one fatally and
two seriously injured as a result of a
fire in the dwelling of Ole Ambroson,
Yucatan, Minn., during the night, the
origin of which is unknown.
The dead: Christopher Ambroson,
aged 86 years Clara Ambroson, aged
7 years Onga Ambroson, aged 10
years.
The injured: Ole Ambroson, in a crit
ical condition Albert Ambroson, arm
cut, bruised and burned, and Mrs. Ole
Ambroson, head face and hands severe
ly burned.
Three of the family had gone to bed
for the night while the rest remained
in the kitchen by the fire. It was 20
below zero outside.
Startled by a shriek, the father saw
his son, Adolph leap from the stair
way followed by a cloud of smoke and
flames. A moment later he was fol
lowed by his brother. The mother and
father made heroic efforts to rescue
the other children and the grandfather,
but the fire had made such rapid prog
ress they failed, and had to be held by
the other children to prevent them go
ing to their own death in the burning
home. Ole Ambroson was so badly in
juied and burned he will probably die.
while the mother was seriously injur
ed. The origin of the fire is a mystery.
The injured were brought to the
Lutheran hospital here.
Hjelmar, Albert and Sl escaped
with slight injuries.
ENGINEERS AT DULUTH
Convention of Surveyors Called for
Feb. 12, 13 and 14.
Duluth. The seventeenth annual
convention of the Minnesota Survey
ors and Engineers' society will be held
in Duluth, Feb. 12, 13 and 14.
Among the speakers will be Profes
sor W. R. Hoag, Rollis Nathan But
ler, Minneapolis L. O. Osgaard, Inter
national Falls R. K. Whiteley, Brain
erd Walter F. Brooks, Mankato A.
B. Choat, Minneapolis Edward J. Du
gan, junior engineer, S. A. W. H.
Killen, land and industrial commis
sioner, Soo line D. F. Jurgerson, chief
engineer, state railroad and ware
house commission Henry Clark Ash,
Duluth P. S. Kurtpman, Duluth C. G.
Gove, Wmdom, Oliver Crosby, St.
Paul, W. R. Hoag, E. K. Coe and G.
T. Herold, St. Paul George W.
Cooley, state highwhy engineer W.
H. C. Fraser, St. Paul A. M. Hopeman,
Moorehead T. Elwell, Minneapolis,
and Francis Shenehon, University
of Minnesota.
STATE'S CASH $2,003,904
Minnesota had a cash balance of
$2,003,904.36 in the state treasury last
week. Every fund except the revenue
showed a substantial balance, while
the revenue fund has an overdraft of
$582,821 86, which, howevei, is rapidly
being wiped out through the receipt
of taxes. The cash receipts for the
monrh were credited as follows
Prison fund $625,456 11
Prison building: 599 462 29
General school 532 06b 25
Soldiers' lelief 51473 77
Road and budge 14b,355 63
Univeisity campus 86,462 61
Permanent school 11,033 40
Permanent univeisitv .. 5,69171
Geneial univeisity 104 662 44
Drainage commission 189 960 63
Internal impio\ement land 15,997 64
Internal improvement land
inteiest 5 153 40
Swamp land 57.939 99
Swamp land interest 18,699 02
Hay inspection 4.J2.S5
Grain inspection 127,59158
RANGE BALL LEAGUE
Fans Plan Organization to Take In
Duluth and Superior as Well.
Virginia Plans are afoot among
range fans for a new baseball league
to take in Virginia, Hibbing, Chis
holm, Eveleth, Duluth and Superior.
Virginia has about 15,000 population,
Hibbing about 10,000, Eleioth with
locations 100,000 and Chisholm 8,000.
All are known as good basebah tosrns
and draw from 2,000 to 3,0ou attend
ance
CONTRACTORS MUST PAY
Farmers' Insurance Company Wins in
Carlton County Case.
St. Paul—Foley Brothers, Larsen &
Co., and other contractors, building a
railroad through Carlton county Into
Duluth, must pay damages to the
Carlton County Farmers Mutual Fire
Insurance company for a loss sus
tained on property belonging to S. B.
Smith, according to an opinion handed
down by the state supreme court.
TWO DEAD IN GAS EXPL3SI0H
FARM HOME NEAR' KENYON,
CATCHES FIRE.
jA-4!MINN.,
Cold Causes Acetylene Generator to
Leak, Resulting in Fatal
Accident.
Kenton.—Alma and Lyla Miide
brandt, aged seven and fourteen, re
spectively, were instantly killed, and
two brothers and a sister, ranging be
tween the ages of 5 and 12 years, were
seriously injured when a gas gener
ator exploded in the home of their par
ents, setting fire to the house. All
were children of John W. Hildebrandt,
a farmer living seven miles from here.
Mr. Hildebrandt and wife and two ba
bies were visiting in Farmington at
the time of the accident and the old
est girl was left in charge of the
household.
It is thought the extreme cold of
the last few days affected the gener
ator of the acetylene lighting system
and resulted in the tragedy. Neigh
bors were quickly summoned by the
only child to escape uninjured, but by
the time they arrived upon the scene
the farmhouse was a sheet of flames
and the injured children and the bod
ies of the two girl victims were gotten
out with difficulty. As quickly as pos
sible the injured children were brought
to town and were attended by Doc
tors Gates and Bakke, who pronounced
them in a critical condition. Mr. and
Mrs. Hildebrandt were notified as
soon as they could be communicated
with and they will arrive here early
today.
KEPT AS PRISONERS
Aged Couple at Mabel Restrained by
Insane Sons.
Preston.—Held prisoners two years
on their farm by their twin sons, both
of whom were demented, was the ex
perience of M. O. Ladsten and his wife,
who live eight miles north of Mabel.
That they were virtually in captivity
became known when Sheriff Blexrud
and four deputies went to the farm
and brought all four of the family to
this city for examination as to their
sanity.
Both sons, who are thirty years old,
were found to be demented. They
will be taken to the state hospital at
Rochester. The aged parents, who
had been completely under their
sons' domination, appeared intelligent
and sound of mind. The sons were
sent to the state asylum.
Two years ago the world was shut
out of the home by the two sons.
None of the family went anywhere
no persons were allowed to approach
the house. Obsessed of the idea that
they were under command not to sell
and of the products of the farm or
their property, or to buy anything,
they had not threshed their grain in
two seasons, nor had they bought
flour, coffee or any other of the com
mon necessaries of the household.
They ground their own cornmeal and
subsisted on eggs, milk and other prod
ucts that they had raised.
Though neighbors marveled at their
strange way of living, none was so
near as to gain much insight into the
mental condition of the men and the
situation of the parents. The sons
were seen daily about the farm, al
ways seemingly melancholy and
brooding.
The climax came, however, when
two weeks ago, the sons, armed with
revolvers, went among their cattle,
deliberately shot and killed fifteen
head, dragged the carcasses to a part
of the farm farthest distant from the
house, and left them there Asked
why they did *o, they declared they
had no right to sell the cattle Then
the authorities were appealed to and
took action
WADES SNOW FOR BABES
Mother Walks Nine Miles Through
Cold to Get Food for Children.
Duluth.—Mrs. Kon'sta Mattala, moth
er of nine children the eldest of
which is 14 years, donned a
pair of her absent husband's boots and
walked nine miles through roads drift
ed with snow, from her cabin to Tower
to get food for her children. Her hus
band had been intoxicated at Tower
and was arrested on a charge of lar
ceny and sent to Duluth to serve
short term.
Now it is said t.iat he never was
guilty and his conduct while drunk
was misunderstood The family back
in the woods in the cabin was greatly
in need of food and the mother start
ed out to secure it. She came through
to Duluth and told her story
Relief was procured for the mother
and children, and the father, who was
in trouble for the first time in 16 yean
will be liberated.
Thurston At Minneapolis.
Tnurston, the world's greatest ma
gician, will appear at the Bijou, Min
neapolis,- week of February 11, and
judging from the inquiries for seats,
his audiences will test the capacity of
the theatre at every performance.
Volstad Against Reciprocity.
Washington.—Through an error in
transcribing the votes on the poll at
the Minnesota delegation on presiden
tial preferences, Representative Vol
stead was put in the position of favor
ing any progressive who favored
Canadian reciprocity. Mr. Volstead
should have been quoted as saying
just the opposite—that is, that he
favored any progressive who opposed
Canadian reciprocity. Mr. Volstead
was opposed to the Cfnadipn v^^vro"
ity agreement from the beginning of
the agitation for it.
Can Search for Liquors.
St. Paul.—Executing a search war
rant for seizing of intoxicating liquors,
alleged to be held for sale contrary to
law, imposes no liability upon a city
marshal, the state supreme court held.
J. M. Ingraham, owner of a hotel at
Sandstone, brought suit against Mag
gie Booten, wife of the marshal there,
and eighteen citizens who had been
sworn in as deputies to help search
the premises, alleging he had been in
jured by the raid. Mr. Booten died
before the suit was instituted, hence
his wife was named as a defendant.
CHAIRMAN OF G. 0. P. CONGRES
SIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMIT-.
TEE IS 8ELECTED.
BEGINS CAMPAIGN NOW
1 t8m$\, v,
Action Taken When Pressure of Po
litical Work Overburdens Hilles
—-Headquarters Are to Be
Opened.
Washington, D. C. Taft head
quarters are to be opened here im
mediately and Representative Wm. B.
McKinley of Illinois, chairman of the
Republican congressional campaign
committee, will be in charge of the
president's political interests from
now until the Chicago convention.
Mr. Taft's friends have advised
such a step, but no action was taken
until the pressure of political work
became so great that Secretary Hilles
needed help, the work interfering seri
ously with the regular work of his
office.
In his capacity as chairman of the
Republican congressional committee
Mr. McKinley will have exceptional
means of keeping in close touch with
political affairs throughout the coun
try.
Mr. 'McKinley announced his inten
tion of holding a series of conferences
at once, which will be devoted to
mapping out a plan of campaign.
The sudden announcement of the
decision to open headquarters here
immediately came as a complete sur
prise, but it occasioned no more sur
prise than did the selection of Mr.
McKinley to take command
A Constant White House Visitor.
It was recalled that Mr. McKinley
has been a constant visitor at the
White House during the past few
weeks. He has conferred with the
president and Mr Hilles almost daily.
In the last national campaign the
congressional committee, of which
Mr. McKinley then, as now, was
chairman, worked in complete har
mony with the Republican national
committee in advancing Mr. Taft's po
litical fortunes The work done then
by Mr. McKinley, it is believed, had
much to do with his selection to look
out for Mr. Taft's fences. Postmaster
General Hitchcock, who is taking an
active part with Secretary Hilles in
the preconvention work for Mr. Taft
will be among the first with whom
Mr. McKinley will consult.
House Republicans Decide on Com
mittee.
Republican memoers of the house
are better satisfied with the organiza
tion of their congressional campaign
committee as perfected than they
were with the plans tentatively agreed
upon
The selection of Representative
Burke of North Dakota as vice chair
man is a recognition of the North
west.
Representative Weeks, who was
first slated, did not care to serve,
and Representative Fairchild of New
York was chosen as treasurer rather
than vice chairman The men who
will be in active charge of the fight to
regain the house are
William B. McKinley, of Illinois,
chairman Charles *Burke, of North
Dakota, vice chairman Hampton
Moore, of Pennsylvania, secretary
George W. Fairchild, of New York,
treasurer W. J. Browning, of New
Jersey, auditor. The committee also
elected the following additional offi
cers
Henry Casson, of Wisconsin, assist
ant secretary John C. Eversman, of
Illinois, assistant treasurer Francis
Curtis, of Massachusetts, literary di
rector
WOOD CUTTER ARRESTED
Claims He Used Gun at Club in Self
Defense.
Fond du Lac, Wis. Robert Prill
was brought here from Ripon, where
he is charged with killing Edward
Schmidt, a fellow woodcutter, by club
bing him to death with a gun. Prill
admits the crime, but pleads self de
fenuse. He says that Schmidt was
chasing him with an ax, and that he
fired twice but missed Schmitt, and
and then fought his former friend with
the gun as a club
FOWLER GETS THERE
Finally Finishes His Transcontinental
Flight.
Jacksonville, Florida. Herbert
Fowler of Gilroy. Cal, the ocean to
ocean nyer, officially finished his long
trip across the continent when he land
ed at Moncrief park. Fowler left
San Francisco for New York on a
prize race Sept. 11,1911. Turned back
on account of storms he started again
for the Atlantic ocean from Los Ange
les. Oct. 21.
News of
rn
It is said that certain Danish inter
est* have been trying to obtain con
trol of the Norwegian-American steam
ship line for which money Is being
raised among Norwegians in all parts
of the world, but so far the attempt
has failed.
There was a slight disturbance in
the Franco-Scandinavian bank in
Paris, which was started under such
promising auspices, and -At first it was
thought that the stockholders would
lose money on account of poor man
agement on the part of the first di
rector, M. Dufresne. The matter was
serious enough to cause his resigna
tion, but otherwise the bank weath
ered the storm with success.
DENMARK.
SWZOEN.
Principal Happenings the Week
in the Scandinavian Countries.
The Gyldendal publishing house Jul
Copenhagen is putting up a stiff and
very ably conducted fight for a control
of the book trade in Norway. The
company has almost monopolized the.
Danish market, and now it is reaching
out for that of Norway. As might be
expected, the Danes are very hostile
to (he language reform movement in
Norway, the aim of that movement
being to replace the present Danish
Norwegian book language by a con
solidation of Norwegian dialects.
But the Gyldendal company in its
present struggle for supremacy in Nor
way, does not hesitate to publish the
rankest Norwegian dialect books
placed on the market. The leader of
the campaign in Norway is conduct
ed by Lars Swanstrom, a Swede, who
is married to a niece of Bjornstjerne
Bjornson. So far the company has
been quite successful. One of its most
recent victories was the publication
of a great work by Prof. Yngvar Niel
sen on "The History of Norwegian
Shipping." The main reason why so
many Norwegian "writers have their
works published by a Danish concern
is, that such a course enables them to
sell so many more books in Denmark.
The oldest living Dane is Niels
Petersen, Haregade, Nyboder, Copen
hagen. He celebrated his 107th birth
day Jan. 16. A number of reporters
called on him, and succeeded in worm
ing, some interesting bits of informa
tion from him.
The new tax on pleasure resorts
brought in almost $40,000 for the first
quarter.
The University of Iceland has start
ed as a fairly well equipped school.
The only thing that is lacking is stu- of the deal,
dents. The theological faculty con
sists of three professors, but they
have only five students in all. In the
philosophical faculty there are four
professors, one of whom was sent up
there by the republic of France, but
they have no students at all to look
after. The whole number of students
registered for the first term was 42.
Crown Prince Christian, *tt Den
mark, and the crown princess, were
the guests of honor at a dinner given
by the American minister, Dr. Mau
rice F. Egan, and Mrs. Egan.
Prof. Stromgren, of Copenhagen, is
giving lectures on astronomy in thir
teen cities in Southern Sweden.
Queen Victoria of Sweden has ar
rived at Anacopri, Italy, where the
people received her with a shower of
flowers.
Peter Peterson, of Klockarp, Sma
land, died at the age of almost 101
years, having lived under the reign of
six kings.
The winter field maneuvers of the
third army division will take place
in the early part of March in the vi
cinity of Ostersund.
Twelve deer were sent from the
Criipsholm park at Mariestad to Stock
holm the other day to be used for a
banquet at the roal palace.
The minister of ecclesiastical af
fairs has proposed an appropriation of
$2,000 for the aid Rev. Aslev in
his work of checklug the Mormon
propaganda.
The world's Christian Endeavor has
been proposed by Congressman Sam
uel W. McCall of Massachusetts for
the Nobel peace prize in recognition
of the services of the organization in
the Interests of world peace.
In the southern part of Jamtland
tivfs a farmer who for the past four
Fears has had a smart young man in
Ills seivice during harvest at a nom
inal rate of pay and under conditions
which will strongly remind the read
er of the apprenticeship of Jacob, the
patriarch The farmer also has a
young maiden in his service, and the
young man is passionately in love
with her, though ^ho persistently re
fuses to give him any encouragement.
But the farmer seemr to be the boss
of his household, and he ha« Jeclared
point blank that if Vie young man
works for him the next three harvests
on the same conditions the girl shall
be his, willy nilly.
Those who wish to msh the devel
opment of the navy o* Sweden at a
livelier pace than that which has been
set by the present cabinet, have start
ed a movement to rals» $2,700,000 for
a new warship by private subscrip
tion. About $25,000 was subscribed by
the time the plan was fairly launched.
How Prof. Maeterlinck is using his
Nobel prize. Prof. Maurice Maeter
linck has decided to use his Nobel
prize as a permanent fund out of
which a literary priz-s of $2,000 shall
be paid every other 3 car. The gen
era* prize winner also gave $1,000 to
the new Swedish church in Paris.
A number of Swedish life insur
ance companies have resolved to build
a sanatorium for the benefit of their
sick policy holders. The institution is
to be located at Tjarnan, near Kols
vedeis station, Dalarne. It will be
large enough to accommodate 100 pa*
tients and will be finished next year.
The government is said to be con
templating an experiment mobilisa
tion. A similar plan was discussed
a few years ago, but it was dropped,
partly because thos^e who were op
posed to it sc!d that the Norwegians
might suppose the movement to be
VM ag%inst them. immmiy JHMB^HH „-,«
The crown princess of Sweden was)
30 years old Jan. 16.
As A. ttustafsson was drivmg a
spaa of horses along the shore at
Stallarholmen, on Lake Malar, the
horses shied and ran straight into the
sea. The distance was so short that
the driver did not have time to Jump
out of the carriage, and both he and the
horses went to the bottom and war*
drowned.
Gustaf Andreasson, of Stofsjo, An
gelstad, was deaf and dumb, bat he
managed his little farm so well that
it was looked upon as a model by the
other farmers of the neighborhood.
Whenever he could spare the time he
would work for his neighbors by the
day and make an extra penny. He
was looked upon as a poor man, but
he supported himself, hit mother, and
a sister, besides making improvements
on the buildings and putting $25* in
the bank. Mr. Andreasson died some
time before Christmas, and his rela
tives took charge of the property. A
few days ago the hay loft was looked
over more carefully, and $500 in oains)
was found tucked away in a corner.
Some of the coins are no longer cur
rent and for that reason may be worth
more than their face value. The de
ceased was 60 years old.
Much light is thrown on the Mor
mon propaganda Sweden by a re
port handed to the government by too
statholder of Stockholm. The re
port treats of five Mormon apostles
residing in Stockholm, and puts the
work and aim of the apostles in a
clear light. The five Mormons in ques
tion are connected with the Mormon
church in Stockholm, and their names
are: A. Peterson, K. G. Mitchell, C. A.
Carlquist, A. T. Johnson and A. Svens
son. By means of detectives it was
demonstrated that the Mormons are
far from innocent with regard to agi
tation in favor of emigration from
Sweden and in favor of polyg
amy. About 20,000 Swedes have
emigrated to Utah. The Mormon
apostles have been working quietly
but energetically in Sweden. As a
typical case is mentioned the family
of a skilled workman who by years
of faithful work had become prosper
ous. His family received urgent at
tention on the part of the Mormons,
and were finally induced to join the
Mormon church and go to Utah. But
upon their arrival in the holy laity
they turned all their money over to
the apostles, and that was the end
NORWAY.
The number of deaths caused by
accidents in Kristiania last year was
84.
Sheep growing brings the farmers
of Norway an annual income of about
$3,000,000.
At Sande, Jarlsberg, there is no
frost in the ground, and the farmers
did some plowing in January.
Hauka is the name of a postoffice
just established at Skarlien, Storen, a
few miles south of Trondhjem.
Some ladies at Lillehammer, in the
very heart of Norway, are using pants
when they go skiing. There Is x~reat
diversity of opinion as to the- merits
of the innovation.
Only 11,600,000 logs were rafted on
the Glommen river last year, as com
pared with 15,500,000 for the year
1910. The water was low last sum
mer, and many logs are hung up in
the tributaries of the Glommen.
The codfish catch in Finmarken has
been very rich this winter. From Oc
tober first to the close of the year
the quantity caught was 22,000,000
pounds, as compared with 6,000,000
pounds for the same period last year.
Among the important by-products was
9,844 barrels of cod liver oil.
The so called "high mountain com*
nMfesion" has published a report on its
work. The committee finds that there
a^e about 11,300 reindeer in the moun
tains between the Bergen railway and
the Hankelid road, and in the opinion
of the committee the increase of the
stock of tame reindeer should not be
encouraged. Another striking feature
of the report is the statement that a
great Injustice has been done to the
farmers by the assumption that the
mountain districts are pu»:V.r ground
and by the opening of those iistricts
to hunters from all parts of the coun
try. From time immemorial the local
farmers have been in the habit of
hunting and fishing among the neigh
boring mountains, and that privilege
ought to be reserved to them. The
white grouse (ryper) ought not to be
protected to any greater extent than
at present, for they afford an impor
tant source of income to many peo
ple. Greater energy ought to be put
into the work of destroying birds and
beasts of prey. The mountain districts
should belong to the adjoining farms,
not sold to parties living elsewhere.
That part of King Haakon's speech
from the throne which referred to the
extra appropriations for the navy was
couched in the following language:
"As I find it unpardonable to make
auy further delay in giving our naval
defenses an equipment which may
eventually enable us to guard our neu
trality in a fairly effective manner, I
have considered it neccessary to ask
for a comparatively large appiopria
tion for this purpose, and it partlcu
larly important that such appropria
tion be made available at the earliest
possible date."
The merchant marine of Norway
comprises 2,089 steamers of 2,234,346
tons. Bergen is at the head of the
list, and Kristiania comes only a trifle
behind. Tonsberg ranks as nombei
three, while such a large cf*y~at
Trondhjem is number seven. Almost
100 new steamers are in process
construction.
So many homeless people had tt~
be cared for in Kristiania during a re
cent cold spell that the church builoV
ings were turned to as a last resort
But it was soon discovered that ther*
Was no way of heating theTcfeure*
Dtuidings sufficiently,• ?••./
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