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Far . From Sanitary Because of Poor ConstructionPlans ' and Lack of Proper Equipment—Statement0f
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'Waste Has Turned the Institution From Profit Making to Loss—No Ventilation, Poorly Slanted Floors
and Other Features Exist. : : '
The Grand Forks municipal abattoir, through the Inadequacy of Its equipment and by reason of faulty construction, lias failed of Its purpose. •
Inexcusable waste has turned the plant from a profit-producing institution to one that Is costing the city money, such being the record of the two short months during which It has been In operation. •
'.Vlth a rendering tank that Is unfit for use—and which,'as • matter of fact, has been employed but oncc since the • plant opened—because of the olfenstTeness of the odors which arise from it, without ventlla. tlon that should have been provided, with concrete floors that slant away from this drains, and with many other eleknentary '• constructKm features omitted, the municipal abattoir that has been provided the people of .Grand Forks Is not what they contracted'for.
A statement of the conditions existing at the abattoir has been laid beffore Mayor M. F., Murphy and the members of the clty.'couiicU, by a committee of the Grand Forks Women's Civic league, «foo" have not only personally Investigated the conditions, but who also have called' upon numerous business men of the city to make investigation of the
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Conditions which are set forth in the communication' presented by the women of the city are fully substantiated by investigation at the plant.
, Here are conditions which exist: i they are the very conditions which
the city sought to correct by : the con-:... etructlon of the abattoir, and which
have not been attained, solely, through the inadequacy of the equipment and the faulty. construction, previously detailed:
The contents pMncbea . .vv-s are wherted oqt on «liedh»rrk«|
.iuid dumped in a pile on th* •: - * "gi"<!iawi where; remrti. ". .
, • ••..>15»e remMtts from the single .
. ' <rera the ;flo<v, and' . were So vile th&t thc clty scanan-
Ser refusetf to handle them unless . eJlveredMnto his wagons. ...
• Refuse from the plant has been . hauled to'the dumping grounds,
\ where peddlers and Junk dealers have reclaimed bones for sale, on
' which the city ha® 'or two months lost pro fit.that should have been
:. •• dcri ved.--'"^-^ i Th* v'Mjjlidc9dtiig tank placed in
. > of such nature • Uitt ttie<miBct is unsalable.
PooU 'w ^Ubd and filth , are to he found on'.ttie floor because of
:• the faulty dAistructlon of the r! ooncretc floors.
The building was constructed \ • • absolutely without ventilations, .
° whereby vile odors have been . . created, and instead of being the
clean,' sanitary placc that It should be, the abattoir lias oft-
' ; times been turned into a vile smelling jrface.
The i plans for the building were _ prepared under the direction of ~ the' k city engineer, and the building, wa§
constructed under his supervision. Bone Disposal Situation.
'About three tonB of bones, it is estimated, have been lost during the ;two - months , the p,lant has been' in operation. Much of this- bone has 'been hauled 'to -• the city dumping ground, at a cost of about $ 2 a load, and from there it has been, picked up and • hauled .back to town by junk dealers, who realize ' from $.7, to $8
' for green hones, and from $8 to $9 i for dry bones.
. Within .the last two or three days, a. temporary crib has been Constructed at the • plant, in which bones are now. being thrown. The device," however. is riot permanent.
If• junk dealers can. make a profit by • picking:* the bones . and hauling them' to the: city, the city -can make a profit by handling them properly at the -riant. . .
Rendering Tank Situation Worse. The situation in reference to thq
U 'rendering;tank is.' even worse. I Only oncp since it was installed has
the tank • be^n jusfd.'- and the terrific odor that arose from it; and the" crude method of hauling the product, was such ati to .render'its -further- use ina d v i s a b l e . . ? • . . •
'The offal is boiled, the grease arising to the top, and -this, is skimmed off; The, product,. however,...lb' of eitch character as not to 'be saleable.
Th#. remainder of: the -prodiict is then' dumped, onto the. floor,. where It must'be scooped up in shovels; . Its
^ • offenalveness can best' be - imagined S when it; is considered that the city-1
4 scavanger refused to, handle il. •' Osomtalnt'bv Women;: *i,.:
< .'•• .Grand. $oeIh|.'. Ni ' •' April "6,-1914',':
To the Honorable Mayor and Metnbera i v!> of the City Council: ' V Upon.'.Investigation • we And many. cp'pdltlons unsallsfsictory at 'the city
•> abattoir. .The- membsrs of the- Glvic 0 league .beg to .submit- a few . suggjfts-• tions as follows looking to t' Proper
edimpletitfij df 'the abattoir ,fr a 'ean-• ttary standpoints ,
<1. sFloora haTe Insufficient slant to he, readily flushed and surfaces so uneven that, -pools : of blood. and water Are left. j[oi|qiiig of floors to walls should show a"curve to. asslst tlie run off and dq away wlth refuse'collecting |n' the angle made' by the' comillk to-
»th«r of floor an# wall. Al}. cement jiefac^s shpuld be perfectly 'smooth
Md /paiis at .'sewer entranoes should toe AtMeast 18 inches: across. .-,
^V v AU/diWMi should'fre of mftal to xetfst steam itnd moliiure.due'to largit omount 'of water used. An-addition*!' Iqbr. shotfid^lMf . plaotid in thef inMiUf
Declares Administration is : in Bad Way on Several | Important Questions >
! OPEN THE WAY
Must Either Strangle. Business or Adopt Policies of -the Progressive Party—Colorado Committee to .Fill the State Ticket.
10 POLLS WITHOUT HIH; NEGRO SAYS ITS SUICIDE
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done in ail - sanitary.;'establishments. 5. All stairways ... and railings
should be made of metal or concrete. 6. The concrete work throughout
the building' is of . inferior' quality. 7. Screens for. all outside openings
should be in place not later than April 2 0 . • • . ' - ; • ' •
8. Tank. After two tenths time t}»e iPJffient tank has proven unsatls-fNtOcy,;^both frqpnl "a* sanitary standpoint and from the fact that it does:
Woula;',wiS^hWblbod, n;aklng it' Into, dry ttmuifer. ti': - ;."i V ' -• !'Y
: 9. A.'bone 'gihder costing $26 arid a small', motor' W«>uld convert bonea1
and other part*.into a salable poultry, fpod which would wholesale at 2 cents per pound, •
10. Casings which are now hauled to the dump ground at city expense could be made marketable with very slight cost;
During eacji time that - the' sewer was clogged our .butchers were obliged to slaughter /Hi 'their: back roonu or basements dr. drive animals to EtUrt* Grand B'orks for the purpose. At least twelve animals. Were so disposed < of • in one day.: The iSlaughter fees are ,beef tl.00 per hea<i; hog, BO cents; baby beef,. 50 centfi' veal,' 2S cents; sheep 25 cents.
The loss- of'.these fees during the time the sewer was clogged would have raised'the receipts of the Abattoir for that month from a deficit to a prott. • . 'i..'' •.'•'v- '
Respectfully submitted,.: -' Signed, Members\of the Civic League
of Grand Forks. N. D.
Denvor, Col., April' 7.—The executive committee of the Colorado progressives, by the unanimous vote of the'progressive state central committee,. is given power 'to All all ticket vacancies'and 'make such changes In the organization it deems necessary. The action came at the close of a bitter contest.
Blft in Democracy. "There -is a- rift in the democratic
lute," declared Medill - McCormick, progressive 'national committeeman from Illinois. . "The harmony which marked the passage of the currency bill, through congress is broken, and cries of treason and repudiation mark the Ibng threatened division in the democracy;"
Mr.' McCormick said the' disagreement over 'canal tolls, confirmed the meaning of the ominous silence with which the democracy had received the' president's recommendation for presidential primaries.
Trust Problem Puzzling. In discussing the trust legislation
Mr. MeCormlck said the democrats must' either . retreat from • their position, arid adopt the progressive position,' or they must pass' legislation counter > to the welfare of the country 'and -its business, or the must pass legislation which Is a, hollow sham. "U'lW -hot clear to the country what
u,diakii£,4- , .','Pive irteAsnfes ; wew 'ihtrpduced into (the Hoase. which Were - td bring about the ne^r freedom.' All at once, there Was a. chorus 6f; bewilderment. At- one moment, the uhterrifled democracy, in shocked amazement; heard that; it was .not only to swallow progressive presidential primaries -but •also to' take the: progressive plan for an: interstate trade commission. Then it was assured congress contemplated no such-awful thing as the creation of a powerful administrative body but that the-neW commission should have power .'to investigate, advise and re-
:,prove.:.h!at-.iio power to administer or 'Compel, obedience. •
i • Would Bar Unions. "What : has come out pi the mist
of report' that is intelligible to the bulk of us? That the bills were conceived with the Idea trade and commerce might, by law, .be forced back to channels they forsook a generation ago. Under this scheme, it would be unlawful for men to unite in a union to bargain for wages or for farmers to exchange views tending to determine a .proper price for their products.
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•Rodman Wdn«fcaker of Philadel-pnia is tno chle£ "h. tcker in th© project to build an aimhipSwhU-h will attempt to fly across the& Atlantic oce.m. Mr. uanamaker haa%eard mush'speoula-Hon about this feat, and he has become interested In the subject sufficiently, to, put: ro his money. He'now has. experts studying the question to learn definitely ' Whether or hot the plan is practicable.
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"DRYS" CLAIMING GREAT VICTORY
Conditions tn One Dietrlct. Where Ballots aaw Stolen by Masked Gang—Over Half of Aurora Votes are Cast by the Women.
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HOBSON TENDERS SUPPORT. Birmingham, April 7.—Hohson
tills afternoon conceded Underwood's election • unci sent him congratulatory message, lie said, as the d«nocrat<(t nominee, lie would support him.
. Birmingham, Ala., April 7.—Incomplete returns from practically all of the; sixty-seven counties in the state' apparently • substantiated' the. early predictlons that Oscar. W. Underwood has defeated Richmond P. Hobson for the. nomination • to. the Alabama long term United States senate. The prog ress In counting votes,. especially in tho large cities, is slow.
State returns showed close returns between Ray Rus'ton.of Montgomery, and Frank S. White of Birmingham, for the short time .nomination to the United States senate, which expires March S,. 1915. • The - gubernatorial contest appar ently continued to be one of the . closest of the list. Former Governor B. B. Comer maintained a slight pluralty early. .R, F. Kolb, Montgomery, and Charles Henderson, Troy, are'running a close race for second place.
KNIFE IS ONLY HOPE OF KM6 GDSJW OF SIM
Condition Critical and Specialist Declares That Operation Only Can
; Afford Hclirf.
Chicago, April 7.-—Upon the vote of the women depended the fate of more than 3.000 saloons in Illinois, outside of Chicago, today.
In 324 townships in 87 counties, they went to the polls and officially expressed their attitude toward the liquor traffic.
Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon I>ague of Illinois, asserted the women are using the ballot as a. broom and would sweep the saloons from thirty-three- counties, increasing the total of dry counties In the state to Bixty-three.
Saloon .interests denied that women are overwhelmingly . against their business, and asserted that the claims of their opponents are based purely on sentiment.
50,000 JHigiM*. Fifty thousand downstate
are eligible to vote. If there was any hope that incle
ment weather would keep women in their homes, it was blasted by early returns.
Rain and cold are general In southern Illinois, but thousands of women accompanied their husbands, who stopped at the polls before going to work.
They voted in large numbers during the midforenoon, Showing their interest in the sharpest and most bM> ter flgbt ever waged between the saloons and their-foea in the state.""
Ballots Are .Stolen. Reports from Pana township indi
cated a serious condition there as a result of the wet and dry fight.
Authorities are preparing to handle possible disorder tonight, which may break into riots. The town clerk. Walter Tester, dashed breathlessly Into the police headquarters early this morning and gasped out that he had been held up by an armed body of twenty-five men and that 3,000 election ballots had been taken from him.
; Printers had been working all night to get the ballots out with the llqiirr question on them. As soon as they were printed, they were entrusted to Lester, and he started to his office with them.
. Lester said he was unable to identify any of the men he alleges attacked him.
Aurora to be Dry. Reports from Aurora stated that
women stormed the polls at their first opportunity to vote on the saloon question. They came In automobiles, qn foot, by bus load, some fashionably garbed, others wearing aprons.
At 10 o'clock, of 5,500 votes cast on the. wet and dry question, more than 3,000 of them were women's bal-lpttf..
Jubilant drys claimed at noon that there Is no question that saloons will be voted out of Aurora. Indication? point to a total of more than 15,000 votes.
Aurora, ni., April 7—^ohn Hae-gel, colored, was today arrested charged with fatally shooting his wife during a quarrel following the discovery by the husband that lils wife had gone to the polls and cast her first ballot, without him.
The man admitted the quarrel, but said the woman shot herself.'
TO WED; PARENTS GET LICENSE FOR THEM
Mott, N. D., April 7.—Sir. and Mrs. JBaumbusch, son John and daughter. Miss Susie Balof, were in the city Monday and appeared ed before judge Dewey where . they secured a license to wed for. ' the children, who arc brother and ' sister only by marriage of their., parents. This family lives 9 miles southwest of Regent and they will hold a double wedding at the Regent CathoHc church on April 14, when John Baumbusch and Susie Dalog, and Frank G. Bach and Mary Anna Raumbusch will be made man and wife. Father Elchner of this city will officiate.
IWMIfE Of AfiNOU) SLAYER
John Krafchenko's Counsel Begins Arguments to the
Jury This Morning
Contended That Absolute Innocense of the Accused
' - f Had Been Established
SULLIVAN GETS BITTER ROASTING
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His Evidence Worthless and Without
CreditaMlit.y—Various Transactions
That Have Been Testified to go to
Naught in Proving Guilt. .
Stockholm. Sweden, April 1.—An operation . Is only the effective means of dealing with the internal complaint from which King Qustave of Sweden is suffering, • according to Prof. Wil-helm Kleiner, the .specialist, called here from Heidelberg. • His majesty, expressed a wish that the operation might be performed as soon as .possible. • The kiiig has. been .ailing for a considerable period. •
"DRVS" WORKING HARD.
Redouble Efforts to Keep Fergus Falls InNo I/icenseColumn.
Fergus Falls* Minn., April 7 Fergus Falls is having, one of the hottest election fights in its history. The city has been;''dry" the past year, and the no-liceiise -people are straining every nerve to keep - it so, believing that' if it; can be kept "dry." two years in succession the bling' pig' element will be-come discouraged--.
GOMPERS BACK FROM TRIP.
Labor Leader Concludes Investigation of Porto Rican Conditions.
New York. April,'.—Samuel Gam-pers arrived today from San Juan, Porto Rico, where he made.a Study of labor conditions.- On tlie evening of April S. at an.entertainment on-board ship. Mr. Gompers delivered an address on the labor situation in general and Porto Rico In particular. lie said he would go to'Washington.
MAY NOT LIVE
(Herald Special Service.) Morden, Man., April T.—In low and
impressive voice J. D. Suffleld. the prisoner's counsel, this morning began his address' to the jury in the John Krafchenko case.
His voice, trembled with feey^jf lie referred, to the dearth :of .hut it. wasi wlth : even, greater feelbig.L? that He, pointed out .the J^eeiriess of • life' ti> the^riSober;' and disgrace that his ddalfi />4f'oul bring to a Voman and a baby.
It was a tremendous responsibility, that rested upon the jury and they should be very careful not allow their minds to be swayed by the fact that suspicion had from the first, been directed toward a certain man. The jury should not be guided by any. suspicion or by any inferences, but solely by the evidence.
He particularly emphasised the unreliability of the crown's witnesses: they had all told different' stories and had mixed' up the evidence. He cast great doubt ott Dyek's story as he had told so many untruths, was no doubt telling the story to save himself.
It was not reasonable to think that Krafchenko would place himself in the hands of Rolph and Bell after they had refused to go into the robbery with him,
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Declared Responsible For Railroad Failure to Make
Money, it is Charged.
Washington, April 7.—Inefficient and expensive handling of lake arid raii traffic, particularly of package freight, was urged before the interstate commerce commission yesterday by shippers as the fundamental reason why railroad rates on such traffic
, should not be Increased. < It is asserted by counsel for the
r- ,. j ... . shippers* organizations, that existing ^nr.C r.,r ^i?r«iir.rr i e*T>n'V^ J "—t^ods of loading and unloading- ves-tack on Catholicity. In Bad Way. : sols from and to the cars were achaic. Denver. Colo., April 7.—The condi-j Most of the freight, the testimony
tion of Rev. Otis Spurgeon of Des showed, is handled by hand trucks in -Moines kidnapped and beaten by un-j stead of by modern . mechanical de-known men last, night'as a result of ! vices. his lecture ^attacking the Catholic! Shippers-maintained - the carriers clergy, is still serious. Physicians are (are. not'entitled to the proposed ad"-llnnhU tlK '4.1_ - A 1 .J it ... . - . . _ r . r
The Town Market
The modern1; successor to the old Town' Market .are the advertising columns of the daily. newspaper.
'-•-•Ifhisyfare.' j «n': im--provernci?t on fb'el cild s^atem am -tlie newis. col i||lnK< *p ad» vance 4>vm- Xoirn-Crler. : •
Wi&i l»ople' iwWadaysconiult ' the"iai ert!*ing 1 . • their news-
J^perR^efore they purcha*. It saves ^e and UjOney. ; - It Mt econom^I^nd convsnl-ence - :the, bigf,-. sense :of the
• Ad iirtislng -hfii ..become i ! .vfl*ed: Jfacttir. in - •.r-eoience : -'ofi'
unable to determine :the extent of the internal injuries. .
BCXiL MOOSE. GOING '"SOME."
Over "Cncle Joe" Cannon Worried Progressives' Pace.
Washington... April 7.—Uncle Joe Cannon has . announced that, the chief reason he will enter the race for reelection - to congress from the Eighteenth .Illinois district- is his be-llfe that Congressman Frank O'Halr cannot stem the tide of -progressive eentiment.
"These bull moose are running hell bent for election, out there," he said, "and if I don't get-Into "the fight, no one can stop them.'*
vance until they had : exhausted . all means of handling freight economically, and had established that they , were performing service . efficiently and without adequate'returns.
H CALL FORTAID , Coal Miners Ask Wilson to Uphold the
Constitution. Terre Haute, Ind.. April 7.—Dele
gates .representing 11,000 ooal miners In the southern Indiana convention here, adopted reeelutidhs calling upon President Wilson and congress to "uphold the constitution of .the United States" in behalf of the striking miners of - Colorado:
Guillotine The New Instrument of I: Execution Introduced bj Rebds V ^ 1
With Their Prisoners •Inarn, Mex., April 7.—The
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Wo witnesses will.be called tor the defense in: the preliminary hearing of Tracy R. Bangs and. J. C. Mahon charged with the bribery of t&e Jurj in the McLaln Cooper murder- trial > ' according to an announcement made in court thle morning by Attorney George Bangs.
.Attorney Bangs also moved for the dismissal of the case on the ground that the evidence introduced by the state had failed to, show that the defendants bad committed the. crime they were charged with, or that any such crime had been Committed at all-
Arguments' along this line are be- ; ing presented for the defense by Attorney c. J. Murphy, who mercilessly flayed Andy Sullivan; aiid the prosecution in general-in his rematkf this morning. Geo. Bangs also pleaded for dismissal-
After making his motipn for the •' dismissal of the case Mr. Bangs announced that the argument would be ' made by Mr. Murphy. . ;
The latter began his address by eay-ing that the most important points-'A . the inquiry were to determine first, If the crime of bribery had been coim,. ' mltted, and second whether or not it" had been committed by the defendants. Suspicious clrcuinftances were, Jlft- they ibelng •• Sfcereiy eorroboriUlve-of the-inain, M'l- z®* ^ pde%fe-in the case. '; -
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fthy, tMtt tStf Syidehce does %ot • enow that any crime haa tteeft com-mitted by these deMndauus.!' The -whole case hinges on the evidence of Andy Sullivan and It would, be a travesty on justice, and. an insult to the' intelligence of this court-to claim , that anything that Sullivan has said Is worthy of being believed. - ••
Sought to Bleed Bang*. "Sullivan's first connection with the
McLaln Cooper case was as bailift of the jury. Later he trted to-make' lt • ' appear that he had been instrumental ' in securing Cooper's., .acquittal, and made efforts to get money from Mr. Bangs, Mr. Mahon- and- other friends and relatives of young Cooper.
"Still later he turns and. s^ys by Way of explanation that hi* conscience bothered him. The idea of Andy Sullivan's having conscience is laughable. Hie life was even worse after his pretended reformation than It had been before.
"The first thing he did was to go to St. Paul and indulge in a prolonged debauch. Then his .money gave out and he took to passing worthless checks In order to continue drinking. Later we find him with the Pinkerton detectives who probably picked him up while he was drunk.
Charges Conspiracy. "It was then that the present con
spiracy was planned with Andy Sullivan in the stellar-role, and all this time he was 'reforming.'
"After the conspiracy had been hatched Sullivan came to Grand Forks with Hatfield and the other Pinkerton detectives, -With whom no honest man would associate with if he could avoid it, but Mr; But-tness takes to hie bosom and his home.
"Then the "arrangements, were made to attempt'to trap Tracy Bangs. It is difficult to' imagine what motive could have induced Mr. BurtnesB. Sheriff Benson and Mr. Lyche to enter such a conspiracy, but apparently these honorable gentlemen did so.
"What happens next? 'Andy continues his career of lying, laying traps, etc.. in connivance - with these officials. These gentlemen hare such confidence in him th&t-'they eend him to another state' - to get evidence against McLain. Cooper, along with that Insipid gentleman, Mr. Brad-field, who testified here.
Rigger Crook Than Ever. "In Portland SulUvaa, showed him
self to be even, a bigger crook than he had been-'before. He hangs* around saloons, Cashes , bad checks, and is 1
finally arrested. Then the officials , here learned of the. -trouble their >
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