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Savings Department
Northwestern and
GET-RICH-QU/CK SPECULATION
GOT HIS MONEY
WAS HE A
"PRUDENTMAN1PA
No wonder this man is discouraged! He thought
he could make a fortune quickly. He believed some oily
tongued rascal he sent his money away£he LOST IT.
Would it not have been better for him had he kept
his money SAFE in our bank and let it PILE UP until
he had enough to buy something right here at home he
could watch himself? He would have helped the com
munity and increased the value of HIS property.
Make OUR bank YOUR bank
We pay 5 per cent interest on time deposits.
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.00
Established Feb. 19. 1896.
Efficiency and Economy.
Those are good words to conjure
with.
W© all want efficiency in govern
ment, and no one wishes to spend
money uselessly.
But to call a thing efficiency and
economy doesn't make it so.
The claim must be proved.
The Board of Control has, for many
years, been about the most efficient
part of our state government.
The "Efficiency and Economy" bill
abolishes the Board of Control, and
puts in its place one man appointed
by the Governor for two years. If
the Governor should be re-elected, he
would probably stay for two years
more, but there would be no certainty
of it.
If the Governor should not be re
elected, he would quite surely be dis
placed by a new and untried man.
The "Efficiency and Economy" bill
also subordinates the Railway and
Warehouse Commission to a depart
ment head appointed by the Gover
nor.
This commission is now, and would
still be elected by the people. Why
subordinate it?
This bill is so long, so complicated,
so full of infinite detail, that many
members feel they have no adequate
knowledge upon which to base a vote.
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.WILLMAR, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1915.
LEGISLATIVE NEWS NOTES.
(By C. J. Buell for Willmar Tribune.)
Deposit Vaalts
The Seven 8isters.
In strong contrast to the big bill are
the seven very short, simple bills
brought in by the Gordon Committee.
Each one corrects an acknowledged
evil of our present system.
Each one can be voted up or down
on its merits without affecting any of
the others.
Taken together, they cover the field
pretty well.
It was freely charged that they
were brought in for fake purpose
that their authors were not sincere,
and that if they should serve their
purpose of killing the big important
bill they would then be allowed to
drop.
These bills had been made a spec
ial order for Friday, the 19th. The
"Efficiency and Economy" bill was a
special order for Monday, the 22nd.
To show their perfect good faith,
Mr. Gordon himself, moved to post
pone consideration of his bill until
Wednesday, the 24th, thus giving the
big bill a full and free field to be con
sidered on its merits.
The Elwell Road Law Ended.
Thursday morning by a vote of SO
to 41, the House passed the Senate
bill repealing the Elwell Road Law.
Thus comes to an end one of the
most dangerous laws ever put on our
statute books.
And yet this law was conceived in
the best of intentions, and its author,
Mr. Elwell, is one of the most honest
Nail Guessing Contest
A Nail-Guessing Contest will be put on in our store for the benefit
of our customers, beginning tomorrow morning, March 25th, and clos
ing Saturday, April 17th, at eight o'clock P. M., with prizes offered as
follows:
ONE 20th CENTURY SEWING MACHINE, First Prize
Now on display at our store
$2.50 IN CASH, Second Prize
ONE CYCLONE WASHING MACHINE, Third Prize
A quantity of nails of various sizes will be placed in a jar, sealed
up, and exhibited in our show window. The first prize will be
awarded to the customer who is able to guess nearest to the correct
number of nails contained in the jar, the second prize to the second
best guess and the third prize to the third best guess.
One guess is given for eachfiftycents worth of purchases made,
of any goods in our stock.
We, especially, call your attention at this time to the following
seasonable lines:
Wear-Ever Alomimnn Ware, Paints, Oils, Brushes, He.
Gasoline and Kerosene Stoves
Ohsberg,Selvig&Co., S S E
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and conscientious men who ever made
a great mistake.
You know what hell is said to be
paved with.
The Doctors Trust.
Several bills have been introduced
to strengthen the doctors' trades un
ion and give them a more complete
monopoly of treating the sick than
they now have. I say "treating" the
sick, not "healing" them for the facts
are that the old line drug doctors cure
a smaller percentage of their patients
than any of the so-called "quacks"
they are so anxious to get rid of.
One bill cut out all Chiropractors,
Nature Cure Physicians, Mental, Div
ine New Thought, and Christian Sci
ence Healers, and made it a crime for
any of them to heal the sick.
This aroused such a storm of op
position that the bills were withdrawn
from both houses.
And now they have a bill that
leaves out the Christian Scientists,
the strongest and most lusty of the
non-drugging cults, but gets hot after
the others.
If the drug doctors are so sure that
they have got all the truth bottled up,
why are they so much afraid of these
new competitors in the healing art!
Can't they trust the people to choose
their own health advisers?
A Lawyers Trust.
The lawyers, too, seem to be afraid
their trades union is in danger, and
that a part of its dignity is about to
be dragged in the mire of vulgarity,
so some bills have appeared, prohibit
ing any lawyer from taking a case on
a contingent fee and also forbidding
all lawyers from advertising their bus
iness or in any way soliciting bus
iness.
Why shouldn't a lawyer advertise,
if he wants to, or take cases on a con
tingent fee?
Isn't it a good thing to let peo
ple know the merits of your work?
Why not prohibit grocers, and
butchers, and carpenters from adver
tising?
St Patrick's Day.
St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in
both houses.
Each house has one, and only one,
native born Irishman—Bob Dunn in
the Senate and Dick Dunleavy in the
House.
Green carnations«were in evidence
everywhere. Bouquets were on the
desks of the Speaker and Lieutenant
Governor and everybody wore a green
carnation in his button hole.
In the House, T. J. Green, "Green
both by name and nature," was called
to the chair.
A Lennon introduced a joint res
olution commemorating the heroic
deeds of the Irish and their love of
liberty.
The noted singer, Robert Gehan,
was called upon and made a decided
hit with "The Wearing of the Green."
In response to encores he also sang
"The Star Spangled Banner" and
"Tipperary."
A fake bill purporting to regulate
the farming industry was read in both
houses, being fathered by Senator
Westlake of Minneapolis, the cham
pion of the 2%c fare bill.
While this fake bill professed to be
merely a joke, yet it was a very craft
ily drawn protest against railway reg
ulation, wholly ignoring the fact that
railways are public servants, while
farmers are engaged in a competitive
business.
I am told that this same bill was
introduced on the same day in the leg
islatures of other states, and that it
is a part of the campaign of the roads
against regulation and in favor of an
increase of passenger and freight
rates.
In the House everyone apologized
for all the harsh things he had said,
and asked the forgiveness of his fel
low members.
Teigen and Lydiard figuratively fell
on each others necks and forgave all
past insults, and the two Harrisons
followed suit, and made up.
In the Senate, the ceremonies were
more simple than in the House, con
sisting only of calling Senator Dunn
to preside and the reading of the reso
lution commendatory of the Irish, and
the fake bill ridiculing railway regu
lation.
Verily, "A little nonsense now and
then is relished by the best of men."
Anti Road House Bill.
It looks as if the bill to kill off the
road houses would stand a pretty
good chance to pass.
A test vote in the Senate Wednes
day showed a good majority in its
favor.
Larson's Lone Saloon Bill.
Larson of Pine county has finally
got his bill thru the House that will
enable the County Commissioners of
Pine county to dissolve the small rem
nant that still remains of the once
flourishing village of Banning, and get
rid of the very objectionable saloon
that a majority of the voters of the
village now maintain, to their pecun
iary profit and the damage and dis
gust of the surrounding community.
PRIAM.
Priam, Mar. 16—The Paulsnes fam
ily spent Sunday evening at E. Erick
son's home.
Mrs. Euling and daughter, Gertrude
returned home Tuesday after a visit
with relatives at Sherwood, N. Dak.
A number of young people met at
the Jensen home Monday evening to
plan for an Epworth League social,
which will be given March 26th.
The Hvam young folks called at the
Axel Johnson home Sunday.
Flora and Grace Euling spent Sun
day afternoon at the Portz home.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Erickson vis
ited relatives in Minneapolis over Sun
day.
Miss Clara Peterson spent Sunday
at the Jensen home.
A number of young people of this
vicinity spent Saturday evening in
Willmar.
Joe and Peter Rusten spent Sunday
afternoon at the Paulsnes home.
Miss Clara Nordgren spent Sunday
at her home in Pennock.
Simons' have their auction the 24th
and will leave for their new home in
Olivia, in the near future.
Miss Frances Van Kraanen spent
Saturday and Sunday at her home,
south of Raymond.
Mr. D. H. Simons went to Olivia
Friday, returning Saturday morning.
Pays to Advertise in Tribune.
"Will use your paper for advertising
throughout 1915, as it pays to adver
tise in it. Your paper is a live wire,"
writes A. S. Amundson of Georgeville.
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Town Assessor's Compensation.
Hawick, (Rt. 1.) Minn., Mar. 18, 1915
Editor Willmar Tribune:
I have been informed that a certain
party accused me at the town caucus
of overcharging the town for assess
ing last year. I will therefore call
your attention to the general laws of
1913 on the section pertaining to Town
Assessors' Compensation which read:
"The following town officers shall be
entitled to compensation for each
day's service necessarily rendered, as
follows, viz: Assessor, three dollars
and mileage at the rate of five cents
per mile for each mile necessarily
traveled by him in going to and re
turning from the county seat of the
county to attend any meeting of the
Assessors of the county which may
be legally called by the county aud
itor, and also for each mile necessar
ily traveled by him in making his re
turn of assessment to the proper coun
ty officer."
The instruction given us last year
by the Minnesota Tax Commission
was as follows: "Before entering up
on the discharge of the responsible
duties imposed upon you by law the
Tax Commission desires to remind
you of the importance of your work
and to impress upon you the necessity
of a strict and faithful observance of
all the provisions of the new classi
fied assessment law. It should be
clearly understood that the new law
must be strictly observed and enforc
ed in every taxing district of the
state this year. Every description of
real estate and every item of personal
property must be appraised with the
same care and consideration that a
prospective purchaser would give
them. Averages and guess-work must
give place to careful and conscien
tious valuation. Previous assess
ments should be entirely ignored. The
sole and only question to be deter
mined by you this year is the present
fair and full value of^ the property.
When you have ascertained this fact
you should set down the true and full
value of the property in the assess
ment book and then extend the assess
ment in accordance with the percen
tages laid down in the new law. The
law is the only basis that will be rec
ognized this year. Any other course
will probably result in a reassessment
of the offending district. We again
urge you to begin your work prompt
ly on the first of May, as we feel that
it will require practically all of the
time given you under the law for the
making of the assessment to thorough
ly and equitably value and assess
property this year. If you have any
spare time let it be at the end of the
assessment period. You are entitled
to $3.00 p*»r day that you actually and
necessarily devote to your work and
no town and village board can com
pel you to accept less. The compen
sation of assessors of towns and vill
ages organized under the general laws
is fixed by state law and is not sub
ject to local control. You are, there
fore entitled to full pay for every day
necessarily spent in making of the
assessment, regardless of the past
custom or practice in your district."
It is true that my bill for assessing
the town last year was high, but the
common observer will have no trouble
to see where the difficulty comes in.
The reason is three-fold. There is
first the increase in the amount of
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hats over too. Talk
it over with us early.
Don't get caughf in
the last minute rush.
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work. As it was before the assessor
had a certain average to go by in
making his assessment, both on
real estate and on personal property.
In 1911 the average on horses was fix
ed at $35.00 and the common horse
was assessed at that. Good horses,
higher and less valuable horses, low
er. But according to the new law the
full value must first be determined
and then the assessed value computed
according to the different percentages
laid down in the rules. Another thing,
according to the new law there Is
practically nothing a person has that
is exempt from taxation.
Now that this was entirely new to
most of the taxpayers, as very few
had heard anything about the new as
sessment law, these things had to be
explained to them. The taxpayer is
certainly entitled to a full understand
ing of the assessment laws, and should
also know something about how the
money is spent that they pay out in
taxes.
The second reason why my bill was
high last year was the raise in the
wages of the assessor from two doll
ars which it has been before, to three
now, and the third reason is the mile
age which has never been paid before
last year.
It will probably be interesting to
the taxpayers to know what the tax
rate of each school district was last
year. District 2 had a rate of 22.8
mills, district 4, 16.5 mills district 6,
21.5 mills district 19, 17.8 mills dis
trict 24, 17.5 mills district 53, 17.1
mills, district 66, 16.0 mills district
92, 17.8 mills district 97, 22.1 mills
The tax levy last year was for
State revenue fund $1,268.16
State school fund 443.14
County revenue fund 641.29
County R. & B. fund 547.62
Town revenue fund 252.25
Town R. & B. fund 1,203.37
Drag fund 360.27
Gopher bounty 75.67
County ditch 2,903.72
1 mill school 360.27
Special school 1,294.73
State loan 8.42
Moneys and credits 61.11
The total for tax levy was. .$9,420.02
The taxes collected for moneys and
credits is added, one-sixth to State
Revenue fund, one-sixth to County
Revenue fund, one-third to Town Rev
enue fund, and one-third to the spec
ial school fund. Although the town
revenue fund out of which the town
officers are paid is a small item as
compared to the money levied for oth
er purposes and does not make such
a lot of difference in the tax rates. I
would favor a reduction in the wages
of the assessor providing the wages of
the treasurer of our town is also re
duced. He received nearly three
times the compensation that he used
to get before. I favor this reduction
providing all the township affairs will
be run on economical basis. I would
urge the proper officer to use care in
making out road petitions and notices
especially to get the description right,
so it will stand a test of the law, and
save the county unnecessary expense
••THE CALL OF THE NORTH"
Majestic Theatre, Mar. 26
MRS. W. J. FREEMA
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114 5th Street Willmar, Minn.
&
LEWIS THOMPSON.
Open New Branch.
The Bartles Scott Oil Co. opened
up for business this1 week with Peter
Thein as their local agent. They are
selling gasoline for less than twelve
cents per gallon at wholesale. The
Standard Oil Co. will have to get
busy pretty soon or the Bartles people
will have all the trade cornered.
Clara City Herald.
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EMPLOYES CASE SOON
TO BE COMPLETE
Second Week of Rebuttal Testimony
Shows End in Sight.
Chicago, Mar. 18—Testimony tend
ing to impeach some of the vital evi
dence presented by the railway com
panies at the Western wage arbitra
tion inquiry was offered by witnesses
for the engineers' and firemen's bro
therhoods during the current week. It
was the second week of the employes'
rebuttal testimony and, according to
officials of the brotherhoods, their case
will be in complete form before the
arbitration board some time within
the next four or five days. The rail
road companies have notified the ar
bitrctors that they will have some
sur-rebuttal testimony which probab
ly will mean at least one more week
for the taking of evidence.
There will follow the preparation
and filing of briefs and other prelim
inaries before the board finally takes
a recess to consider the entire case.
The wages and working conditions of
65,000 Western railroad employes are
affected in the arbitration and ninety
eight railroad companies are said to
be represented. The arbitration board,
under the agreement, must have a
final award ready on or about April
20th.
As for the current week, the field
covered by the brotherhoods in re
buttal evidence was vast. Many wit
nesses took the stand and told stor
ies, for instance, in direct contradic
tion of the testimony of William J.
Tollerton, mechanical superintendent
of the Rock Island road. Mr. Toller
ton early in February was on the
stand and related the story of 1,500
test runs on passenger and freight
trains in Western territory wherein a
fireman was demonstrated, according
to Mr. Tollerton, as being "at leisure"
about two-thirds of his time. Out of
nine hours on duty, for example, Mr.
Tollerton's statement indicated that
scoop shovel men would be at rest
about six hours. This was the invari
able ratio.
William S. Carter, President of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, examined various
firemen and engineers who had parti
cipated in these test runs of which
Mr. Tollerton gave details. E. Laher
ty, an engineer on the M. K. &
railroad, Cherokee Division, said he
was on a test trip. A fireman named
Peterson was with Mr. Laherty in the
engine cab. Mr. Carter asked Mr.
Laherty if Mr. Tollerton's statement
that Peterson had worked something
over three hours in seven was cor
rect. Mr. Laherty replied in the nega
tive.
"Was Peterson engaged in manual
labor most of the time throughout that
trip?" asked Mr. Carter.
"Yes, sir, practically all the time,"
replied the witness.
Mr. Laherty explained that one of
the railroad officials who was clicking
a stop watch on Peterson rode on the
engine from Muskogee to Venita and
then got off.
"He got off the engine and told me
he was going to the caboose," remark
ed Mr. Laherty.
"Well, who ran the clicker after he
got off the engine?" asked Mr. Car
ter.
"I don't know," answered Mr. Lah
erty.
"He made a report, however, of the
entire trip, did he not?" inquired Mr.
Carter and the witness replied in the
affirmative.
G. B. Roberg, a fireman on the Chi
cago and North Western road, be
tween Chicago and South Janesville,
who was allowed something less than
three hours of actual labor by Mr. Tol
lerton's watchers, informed the arbi
trators that he was on duty on that
test trip nine hours and six minutes.
"I know for a positive fact that I
did not spend six hours and forty-six
minutes at leisure," declared Mr. Ro
berg.
This witness said that the observ
ers in the engine cab had pulled down
most of the coal for him, although the
exhibit shown by Mr. Tollerton indi
cated that Mr. Roberg himself had
done that particular work.
E. O. Beil, an engineer of Newton,
Kans., employed by the Santa Fe road,
was on the witness stand a long time
at Thursday's hearing. Among other
things Mr. Beil testified as to the
hardships of the fireman's job. Al
though Mr. Tollerton had indicated
that it was a snap, here is the other
side of the picture as shown by Engi
neer Beil.
Mr. Carter: On an extraordinary
long run have you ever stood in front
of the fire box to keep from going to
sleep?
Mr. Beil: I could go to sleep hang
ing on to the chain.
Mr. Carter: Tour knees gave away
under you?
Mr. Beil: Yes.
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Mr. Carter: Because of exhaustion.
Mr. Beil: Yes.
Telling of the hardships a fireman
undergoes in the winter months, Mr.
Beil related a little story which might
be entitled "My Experience With an
Ash Pan."
"In order to get that ash pan open
I would get down in the snow on my
knees," said Mr. Beil, "partly lie down,
get a squirt hose started, thaw the
back end of the pan and at the same
time water would run out through the
pipes down into the snow where my
feet were, and I would get my feet and
my body wet. Then, I would have to
thaw the front part of the pan out,
and after we would get that done we
would proceed and clean the pan and
shake the fire down, in order not to
have to shake it on the pan more than
we could avoid. We would clean our
pan, and I worked all that work un
der those conditions, one day as high
as sixteen hours."
Charles Dady, an engineer on the
North Western road, running out of
Escanaba, Mich., put a new flavor into
his rebuttal story when he very
strongly hinted that the so-called test
trip in which he figured was not run
under ordinary operating conditions.
Ordinarily on every train he operated,
he said, a stop was made at various
water tanks, but on the test run he
"ran" these water tanks.
Mr. Carter: These cars seemed to
be well lubricated, did they?
Mr. Dady: The train ran uncommon
ly easy. I remarked to one of the
men accompanying us on the trip that
I believed the cars were well oiled
and they laughed at me. I took it
pleasantly. I knew nothing about
what these trips were for at the time.
It was only afterwards it was brought
to my attention what they were for.
Mr. Dady added that fellow em
ployes informed him the seventy-five
freight cars he was pulling that day
had been specially oiled and the en
gine he was operating had been put
in particularly fine shape for the test
run. The intimation was that under
such conditions the work would be
easier, less coal would be burned and
a poor showing for the men, thus,
would be made.
P. R. Jenkins, a Burlington road
fireman, of Beardstown, 111., also took
a hand in undermining Mr. Tollerton's
exhibit. A bit of the dialogue shows
this.
Mr. Carter: Are you the same P. R.
Jenkins who was reported in this test
trip?
Mr. Jenkins: I am.
Mr. Carter: Mr. Jenkins, according
to this test trip you were fifteen hours
and fifteen minutes on duty and the
actual manual labor performed was
only four hours and twenty-nine min
utes. Do you believe that is a fair
statement?
Mr. Jenkins: I was only on duty
fourteen hours and fifteen minutes and
I was more time working than that,
than the four hours and thirty min
utes.
Mr. Carter: You were working a
good deal more than is shown here?
Mr. Jenkins: Yes, sir.
Respecting one of the companies'
exhibits indicating large earnings for
engineers and firemen, President Car
ter on Friday examined Charles Hintz,
of Green Bay, Wis., an engineer on
the North Western road. Mr. Carter
explained that Mr. Hintz had been
shown to have earned $201.12 in the
month of October, 1913, and asked the
witness if that were true.
Mr. Hintz: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carter: How often have you
made $201.12 since you have been an
engineer on the C. & N. W. R. R.?
Mr. Hintz: Never before nor since.
Mr. Carter: In these thirteen years,
you never reached $200 on any other
occasion is that right?
Mr. Hintz: Yes, sir.
William Haley, general chairman of
the firemen's brotherhood on the "Om
aha" road, the same day told of the
difficulties employes on that line had
in obtaining better working hours and
higher pay. This is the road of which
A. W. Trenholm, chairman of the con
ference committee, is general manag
er. Mr. Haley told of frequent at
tempts to obtain pay for terminal de
lay and of the failures in this connec
tion. He said that the men employed
by the "Omaha" road had been turn
ed down so often by the management
that not long ago there was discus
sion of a strike. The witness said that
the men "took their medicine" and
stuck to work because they were con
servative and did not feel like precip
itating a serious conflict.
One of the financial exhibits of the
companies was attacked early in the
week by W. Jett Lauck, statistical ex
pert of the brotherhoods. Mr. Lauck
declared that the Bureau of Railway
Economics had made a serious mis
take when preparing the exhibit in
that there was an "evident overstate
ment" of $40,000,000 respecting the
acquisition of the Puget Sound road
by the Milwaukee company. Mr.
Lauck stated that he found the total
disparity in connection with the Mil
waukee's figures to be $65,000,000. He
also showed the following "overstate
ments:"
About $2,000,000 on the Internation
al and Great Northern
An error of $1,000,000 with regard
to the Colorado and Southern
An error of $2,428,000 with respect
to the Chicago Junction Railway fig
ures.
An understatement of $1,375,000 re
specting the Salt Lake line was also
made.
Grand Chief Warren S. Stone asked
Mr. Lauck if it were not true that, re
garding the "Soo" line, the railroad
companies in presenting figures show
ed about $7,000,000 "against them
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