COUNTY HERALD
Motto: All The News When It Is News.
VOL. 21.
DAKOTA CITY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913.
NO. 46.
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MULHALL ON STAND
DECLARES N. A. M. SECRETARY
AGREED TO PAY FOR HIS
LABORS IN CAPITAL.
"AID TO M'COMAS A TRAITOR"
Asserts Senator' Secretary Wat In
the Employ of Gushing Alto Al
lege Congressman Who Favored
Labor Legislation Was Defeated.
Washington, July 15. The senate
lobby committee again had Martin M.
Mulhall on the witness stand Satur
day. The former agent for the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers
was closely guarded so as to defeat
any move that the house committee
might make to secure Mulhall as a
witness before that lobby until they
had his full "confession."
After Mulhall had been on the stand
for nearly five hours the committee
took a recess. Senator Overman ex
rused Mulhall for the day and permit:
ted him to go to New York, where he
had important business.
On resuming the stand Mulhall took
op the identification of his letters. Be
fore he could begin, however, James C.
tCtnery, counsel for the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers, made a for
mal request upon the committee for
the right of the association to be rep
rnsnnted by an attorney. Robert Me
Carthy, former attorney general of
New Jersey, was presented as the at
torney. Chairman Overman said the
committee would decide later whether
McCarthy should have the general
privileges of an attorney for the asso
ciation. Mulhall identified more letters show
ing his relations with Marshall Cush
Ing, secretary of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers. He testified he
had an understanding with dishing
that he was to receive $100 a week
and $40 a week for expenses for "gen.
ral field work and lobby work in
Washington.
Mulhall testified further of how he
worked to defeat the late Senator Mo
Comas of Maryland, although he posed
as the senator's friend. He said he
had received 600 letters from Cushing
directed against McCotnas.
"I turned them over to Carl M.
Downs, secretary to McComas," he
added.
"Do you mean you delivered these
letters against McComas to his sec
retary?" demanded Senator Reed.
"Carl M. Downs was In the pay of
Cushlng." replied the witness, who
went on to explain that he quarreled
with Cushing because he was "buying
out" the secretary of a senator.
A letter to Senator Fosaker, Septem
ber 9, 1904, referred to a suggestion
that Mulhall go to Rhode Island to
help Senator Aldrlch in his campaign.
He testified he went later at the re
quest of Aldrlch.
Washington, July 14. Col. Martin
M. Mulhall appeared before the lobby
investigating committee of the Uni
ted States senate during a special
night session on Friday and gave
that body part of his confes
sion. Mulhall look the stand and sub
scribed to the oath with a smile.
Senator Reed, designated by Chair
man Overman to examine the wit
ness, began by placing in evidence a
list of the officers of the National
Association of Manufacturers in 1907
and a list of the members of the as
sociation. Mulhall said he was born
in 1S50 and had lived in Baltimore
more than thirteen years. He said
before ho went with the National As
soclation of Manufacturers he was
"principally In politics," and was con
nected with the Republican national
committee.
"I refused a bribe of $5,000 and a
life position in the naval service In
1892," said Mulhall. "That year I
had chargo of tho Republican cam-!
palgn In Albany and Rensselaer coun-
ties. New York. Previous to that I
had charge of William McKinley's '
gubernatorial campaign In Ohio."
The witness Bald he first became
Interested in the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers In 1902, when
he met Marshall Cushlng, Its secre-
tary, in a Washington hotel. Senator
Reed asked blm about his relations
with labor. He said the late Senator
Quay of Pennsylvania sent him to
confer with John Mitchell, during the
anthracite strike In the Pennsylvania
fields In 1902 to get the "Inside story."
During thai ,llno Mulna11 sald be ar
ranged for a conference between Gov
ernor Stone of Pennsylvania and
three labor leaders. The first Mulhall
letter Introduced was addressed te
Mitchell In February, 1902, relating to board has yet been fixed upon by
these meetings. A letter of March ! State Engineer Price. Blanks provid
38, 1902, from Mulhall to Mitchell de- j ing for the forwarding of Buch lnfor
clared that the leaders of the Repub matlon as is required by the enact
lican organization could do more for ment of the late legislature will like-
me miners union "than any arbltra-
tlon board In existence
A letter dated May 17, 1902, front
Mulhall to Mitchell told of a confer
ence between Mulhall and Governor
Stone at which Stone expressed sym
pathy with the miners.
$50,000 Loss by Fire.
Marion, O., July 14. The Erie Rail-
l&LmJ"iny ?ffered ? l0? f abUt
7;7" 7 tu r ' Ii
part of a transfer station was burned
The fire was of incendiary origin.
Chicago Wins Endeavor Convention.
Los Angeles, Cal., July 14. Chicago
'was chosen for the next biennial ses
sion of the International Christian En
deavor society, in July, 1915. The
vote was made unanimous after sev
eral ballots had been taken.
WILL ENFORCE LAW
FOOD COMISSIONER HARMAN
HOLDS CONFERENCE.
MEASURE EFFECTIVE
Law Requires Cold Storage Firms to
Keep Records of All Articles and
Make Quarterly Reports.
Lincoln Commissioner Harman has
been conferring with owners of cold
storage plants relative to the new law
Which will go into effect July 17.
The new law, which was Introduc
ed by Senator Henry V. Hoagland of,
Ijancaster county, and is known aa
...,,.,!.. ela i: i n cold fltOi'.iRQ
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and refrigerator plants under the
jurisdiction of the state food com
missioner for regulation. It applies
to concerns handling foods, drinks or
confections, commercially where ar
ticles are stored more than sixty
days. It requires them to obtain li
censes annually from the commit
Bion, the fee to be $5.
Tho food commissioner Is given full
authority to Inspect aW order
changes for Improving sanitary con
ditions, and to revoke licenses. The
law requires storage firms to keep
records of all articles received and
withdrawn and makes it unlawful to
store any commodity that is unfit
for human food, unless Intended for
different purposes and labeled as
such.
It forbids keeDing any article in
storage more than one year except
by special permit of the food com
mission; forbids sale of storage
goods as fresh and provides tor ac- j
tual Inspection at a fee of from $10
to $50, according to size of plant.
The penalty for the first offense Is
fine not exceeding $500; for a sec-'
ond offense not exceeding $1,000 or
imprisonment six months or both.
Assessments Reported.
Five countieu with a total Increase
In assessment over last year of ;
$392,399 reported to Secretary Henry j
Seymour of the State Board of As
eessment this morning as follows:
ivix. 1912. 1
Red Willow
turn
Cass
Dawes
,$3,0S9,829 $3,009,500 I
, 6,9u6,S2fi 6,S20,fi80 j
. 8,430,797
2,207,310
8,403,723
2,122,823
3,401,798
Thurston 3,426,161
Stock Issue Allowed.
The Lincoln Telephone & Tele
graph company has been given per
mission by the State Railway com
mission to issue $1,100,000 special 5
per cent preferred stock upon the fol
lowing conditions:
That stock shall be Issued for mon
ey only and at a price to net com
pany not less than 92 cunts on the
dollar.
That fundB derived from the Issue
shall be used for (he purpose named
acquisition of property, construction,
completion, extension or Improvement
of its facilities, plant or distribution
system and discharge or lawful re
funding of its obligations or underly
ing securities.
That no investment tn associate
companies from the proceeds of said
stock shall be made save and except
such purchases as shall have been
specifically approved by the railway
commission.
The company shall file with the
commission verified statements show
ing proceeds derived from sale of said
Stock and purposes in detail to which
such proceeds have been applied, to
be filed with the commission within
thirty days of the time when tho un
reported amount of money realized or
expended exceeds tho sum or $."0,000.
Laborers at Work on Canal.
Lincoln, Neb. Th,e Commonwealth
Tower company, backed by the Moore
interests of Detroit and Ixiiidon, have
filed a report with the state board of
irrigation setting forth its construe
tlon activities during the month of
June and a portion of May. One
hundred and fifty flvo acrea of land
are claimed to have been purchased
at the aggregate cost of $12,000. To
that sum Is added $711 for engineers,
$15 for a draftsman, $139 for eight la
borers and $289 for eight teams,
which were used on actual construc
tion work.
No uniform tnethod for reporting
the monthly activities to the state
ly be prepared with a short time. Un-
til these blanks are authorized there
Will be no means of comparing the ac
tivities of the big financial concerns
Which are battling for water pwer
eupremacy In this state.
Prizes For National Guard.
Lincoln. The Dupont Powder com
tany has presented to the Nebraska
' National guard two beautiful prizes
to be contested for by the two regl
ttients of the guard. These prizes
are in the nature of coats of arms,
being of silver and stand about two
feet high. The top of each Is sur
mounted by a large eagle, while a
eouple of olive branches cross each
other at the ebottom. They are to
be given as first and second prizes to
the regiment showing the best ucurea
U rifle practice.
GREAT
Forest fires on the slopes of Mt.
hot yet over. The photograph gives
12 KILLED, 50 INJURED
TWENTY MORE VICTIMS MAY DIE
FROM COLLISION.
B. A O. Flyer, Westbound, Hits
I Street Car at Cambridge, O
Storm Cuts Off Communication.
Lob Angeles, Cal., July IB Twelve
persons were killed and about fifty
were Injured Sunday night when a
Pacific electric lnterurban train ran
into another one at Vineyard station,
a junction on the outskirts of Los An
geles Several three-car trains on the Pa
cific Electric line, eu route to Los An
geles from Venice and Ocean Park,
were stalled at the Vineyard switch
by a broken trolley wire. There were
no lights, and apparently a flagman
Lad uut iiet-u eeul uui. Vv'iiimui. warn
ing another three-car train from Ven
ice swept around the curv and
crashed into the last train at forty
miles an hour.
The last two cars In the rear train
stalled on the line were completely
telescoped by the fast-moving train,
which plunged through the coaches,
loaded to the doors with holiday seek
ers. There were approximately one
thousand people on the trains irv
volved In the accident. Many were
killed outright and others died before
they could be removed from the de
bris. Newark, O., July 15 Six persons
were killed and 18 were Injured, sev
eral probably fatally, when a Balti
more & Ohio passenger train from
Wheeling, W. Va., to Chicago, crashed
into a street car at a Cambridge (O.)
grade crossing on Sunday. A storm
sweeping through this section of Ohio
carried down the telephone wires.
Los Angeles, Cal., July 15. Twelve
persons were killed and about fifty
were Injured Sunday night when a
Pacific electric lnterurban train ran
into another one at Vineyard station,
a Junction on the outskirts of Ix)s
Angelec. It Is feared that at least 20
more will be added to the death list
The crash occurred in a cut at the
junction of the Santa Monica and
Venice lines on the edge of the city.
DANIELS IS GUEST OF HONOR
Secretary of Navy Makes Address at
Perry Centennial Celebration
In Erie, Pa.
Erie, Pa , July 11. Secretary of the
Navy Daniels was the guest of honor
at the Perry centennial celebration
here, and In the afternoon he deliv
ered the speech of the day, standing
under the shadow of the old reclaimed
nrig Niagara at the publio dock. A
puncheon was served to the secretary
pf the navy at noon at the home of
Mrs. Charles H. Strong, after which
ho went to the public dock, where
he delivered his speech In the pres
ence of 20,000 people.
U. 8. Demands Release of Americans.
Washington, July 14. Secretary Gar
rison ordered Col. Edwin P. Brewer of
the Fourteenth cavalry at Fort Mcin
tosh, Tex., to demand the release of
live Americans, with 850 cattle and 30
torses, held by Mexican revolutionists.
Tenss Situation In Havana.
Havana, July 15. A tense political
situation exists here in consequence
pf the assassination of General Rlva.
fieports were current that followers of
general Aebert would attempt to storm
the jail and liberate the prisoners.
500 Suffer From Poison.
Dayton, O., July 16. Physicians
rere busy following hurry calls Bent
In by nearly four-fifths of the 600 per
son who were taken sick with pto
mu'ne poisoning shortly after return
ing from a picnic.
8tefsnsson Off for Pole.
Nome, Alaska, July 15. Vllhjalmur
' Stefansson left Nome on the polar ex
ploration ship Karlup Sunday, going
as far aa I'ort Clarence, where the en
(CtneB will be given a thorough overhauling.
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TREES ENDANGERED BY
Tamalpals have endangered the giant sequoias of California, and the peril is
a vivid Idea of the size of these monster treea.
FIRE PERILS TOWN
MICHIGAN CITY, IND., IS THREAT
ENED BEFORE BLAZE IS
UNDER CONTROL.
LOSS PLACED AT $1,000,000
Flames Rage In Huge Lumber Yards
Dynamite and Salt Used to Stop
Spread of Flames Aid Summoned
From Nearby Cities.
Michigan City. Ind , July 16. This
city Buffered a property loss of over
$1,000,000 on Saturday, when the huge
lumber yards of the Haskell & Barker
Car company burned. The blaze was
Been by citizens of towns a hundred
mile away For Hmo it S.7PZZTZA
that the entire city was doomed.
Appeals for aid were sent to nearby
cities. Chicago rushed tire companies
with their apparatus, under Battalion
Chief Edward Buckley, to tho fire on a
special train.
In the meantime dynamite was sent
from Gary, Ind., and was used in an
attempt to check the flames.
The fire started in the south end of
tho yards, near the Michigan Central
railroad. The fire, company of Michi
gan City responded at once. It was
handicapped by too few men, Inade
quate apparatus and tho fact that there
were few hydrants in the vicinity of
the fire. Tho flames spread quickly to
the north.
Before the arrival of the Chicago
companies hundreds of volunteers car
ried lumber from tho unburned parts
of the yard to a distance of safety.
The Haskell & Barker Car company
Is owned by Miss Katherlno Barker,
the property being held In trust by the
First Title Trust company of Chicago
It Is one of the largest concerns of its
kind in the world and Is situated on
the east outskirts of Michigan City,
east of the Michigan Central tracks.
The sand dunes surround It on the
west and north. The loss Is fully cov
ered by Insurance.
At 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning the
fire was under control. The great
Ldanger Is that the v. ind may spring up
and carry the flames to the plant of
the Midland Chair company.
PLANS TO AID U. S. SAILORS
Secretary of the Navy Daniels Declares
He Will Make Service More
Attractive.
Chicago, July 15 With the aim of
making a thorough Inspection of the
naval yards, training stations and
equipment on the Pacific coast, Joseph
Daniels, secretary of tho navy, accom
panied by his wlf, Hpent six hours In
Chicago Sunday.
The secretary said his trip at this
time has not the remotest connection
with the Japanese agitation that has
arisen In California. He said his tour
there Is part of his program to visit all
naval stations throughout the country
for the purpose of familiarizing him
self with them and enabling him to
map out in a comprehensive way the
program he has In view during his oc
cupancy of the secretaryship.
Asked regarding the changes and Im
provements he proposes to make In
the navy and its equipment during his
term of office, he said: "The most
marked change Is in connection with
the enlisted men. I wish to make the
service more attractive than it has
been in the past and remove from It
the vestige that It Is simply a position
of drudgery."
Becker Denied New Trial.
Now York, July 16 Charles Beck
er application for a new trial on the
charge of murdering the gambler, Her
man Rosenthal, was denied by Su
preme Court Justice Goff. Counsel had
sought to reopen the case.
Lake Boat Sinks; Two Drown.
Erie, Pa., July 1'. The steamer Ana
bella Wilson, bound for Port Colborue,
Ont , was sunk In a heavy storm which
swept Lake Erie (apt. Daniel Mc
l.ityru and his wife were drowned, but
the crew were rescued.
FIRE
U. S. CROP REPORT IN
CEREAL YIELD EXPECTED TO BE
LOWER THAN IN 1912.
Aggregate In the Leading Qralnt
Placed at 4,929,000,000 Bushels
Corn Acreage Less.
Washington, July 11. The govern
ment crop report for July issued
Thursday indicates bountiful crops of
all the cereals, but the total produc
tion this year will be far below the
grand total for last year, when there
were record yilde of nearly all Ike
leading grains.
The total yield of the lending cereal
is placed at 4,929,000,000 bushels, com
pared with 5,561,000,00 bushels a year
ago.
The bU loss rnaannrri with n
ago Is tn oats, which promise a yield
or 1,031,000.000 bushels, against 1.41&V
000,000 bushels a year ago. Corn is!
short 154,000,000 bushels and the total1
wheat crop Is 29,000,000 bushels lest
than last year. Barley Is 59,000,000j
busheU less than a year ago at 166,i
000,000 bushels.
Spring wheat promises to yield lit,-
000,000 bushels less than a year ago,
with an Indicated crop of 218,000,009
bushels. Wintej- wheat will be 82.000.-l
000 bushels heavier at 482,000,000
bushels, the total wheat crop being
701,000,000 bushela. compared with
730,000,000 bushels as finally estimated
In 1912.
The first report on corn for the sea
son showe a high condition, 86.9, but
the acreage Is smaller than last year!
at 106,884,000 acres.
Last year the corn acreage was 10S.-
110,000 acres and the condition July!
1 was 81.5. The crop promise on that
date was for no larger crop than at
present, although the final estimate
of the crop was 3,125,000,000 bushela,
while the report Issued suggests a
harvest of 2,971,000,000 bushels, or
154,000,000 bushels less than In 1912.
Leavenworth, Kan., July 12. Mi
chael J. Young, Boston, Mass., and
Charles Wachmeister. Detroit. Mich..
two of the alleged dynamiters re
ceived at the federal prison January
1, were released on bonds.
Galveston, Tex., July 10. The first
shipload of banana stalks has arrived
In the city from Central America
They are consigned to factory for the
purpose of producing fiber and mate
rials that will be used in place of
cotton waste.
Bayfield. Wis., July 11. George AnJ
drews, logger, loaded six stumps with
dynamite and lighted all the fuses.
One of the fuses appeared to limn
failed, and, after waiting a minute,
Andrews went to relight It. As he
leaned aver the stump the charge ex
ploded and killed him Instantly.
Newport, R. I., July 11. A farm,
small but fully equipped with modern
appliances. Is the latest "toy" of Vin
son Waleh McLean, the $100,000,000,
baby.
Newport, England, July 12. Mrs,
Humphreys Mackworth, the richest
militant suffragette in England, was
tried and found guilty of smashing
letter boxes for the "cuuhe" and was
fined $100. Mrs. Mackworth was ar
rested on June 26 after she had demol
ished a number of letter boxes and
destroyed the contents.
Threatens U. 8. Embassy.
Mexico City, July 16 An anony
mous letter containing threats to blow
up the United States embassy was reJ
celved by Ambassador Henry Lane
Wilson and immediately referred td,
the Mexican foreign office.
Secretary Daniels Starts Tour.
Washington, July 15. Secretary
Daniels left for u three weeks' tou
of Inspection of Paoiflo coast navy
yards and .stations. Mr. Daniels was
accompanied by Mrs. Daniels and his
..ill, Commauder L, C. Palmer,
I SPARKS FROM i
THE WIRE I
The Old Companies. The Old Treat
ment The Oid Care.
They the best in all the land. I represent the
Hartford Phenix Continental Columbia Royal, the
really STRONG Insurance Companies.
I have a fine list of lands for sale and wish Yours,
when you sell.
Write every kind of Insurance Do Conveyancing,
draw up Wills, Deeds, Leases, Etc. RIGHT. Very
much desire YOUR business, and will care for it well.
. F. McKecver, &&
Successor to Ed. T. Kearney.
Real Estate.
Insurance.
Conveyancing.
Che Hersvld
The Present Country
For the Farmer
There is none better to make money In for the money
invested. We have traveled the country over the last
few years to find the best all around farming country for
the least money. And we think we have it without a
dpubt. A place where you can always have grain in the
granary, can depend on having something to harvest,
where you can grow big crops and have money in the bank.
In the r'amous Big Stone and Red River Valley Country,
in the Counties of
Big Stone, Travers, Stevens, Swift, Lac Qui Parle..
Norman, Polk, Marshal and Wilkins Counties,
Minnesota.
Our land is improved and some unimproved. We
can now sell you an improved farm for from $40 to SCO
per acre, on easy terms, which no doubt in a few years
time will be as high as our famous Iowa land is today.
Now is the time to buy, not next year, as thousands are
moving in every year. Get in before the price gets beyond
your reach.
A Few of the Many Bargains we have For Sale
240 acres, 5 miles from Ortonville. Good house, barn,
granary, fine pasture, good water, fruit trees, miles
from school, fine sale, $18 per acre.
320 acres, 2 miles from town, 290 acres in crops, 30
acres pasture, 5 acres trees, 7 room house, 28 by 40, and
basement, barn and all other necessary buildings all in
good shape, only $57.00 per acre.
360 acres, excellent land, all under cultivation, fine
house, barn and all other buildings, fine water, wind mill,
fiuit and forest grove, i4 miles to school, every thing with
this place a man could wish for, can be had now for $60.00
per aere, a bargain at that.
1100 acres, fine buildings, worth $10,000, all under'
cultivat:on, flowing well, every thing a person needs to
make a first class farm, for the next 00 days at $50.00 per
acre.
100, improved, flowing well, now at $45.00 per acre.
100 acres, rich black soil, all under cultivation, easy
terms at 143.60 per acre.
100 aces, prairie, 6 miles from Big Stone at $37. per
acre.
100 acres, 4 miles from town, improved, fine soil, at
$49.50 per acre.
You Cannot Boat thrso Prices for Soil and Location.
Write or Call on na. We nave many other places on
our Lists all through Minnesota.
We Run Excursions Every Two Weeks. ,
Gome with us, we will show you as Fine Land as you
ever saw, at from $40 to $60 per acre.
FOR A FAIR DEAL (iO WITH US TO MINNESOTA.
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