24 Dec 1910
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1910
Page
1
Washington dispatch says Minnesota congressional delegation seeks to push decision to President Taft on liquor laws. The plan risks political injury, with the fight over enforcement and possible repeal highlighting the clash between temperance aims and state interests.
Deadwood South Dakota officials under Mayor Adams have restricted saloons from Sunday access. Liquor Dealers' association plans a test case arguing the law restricts proprietors from entering their own establishments on Sundays to tend stock and avoid loss. Mike Donovan faces arrest for entering his saloon on a Sunday, prompting the legal challenge.
Director Durand issues a formal statement regarding Wisconsin farm lands outlining policy, impact on farmers, and proposed measures to preserve agricultural resources and fair access to land. The release emphasizes transparency and stakeholder engagement with state agencies.
Census figures show Wisconsin farms numbering 176,516 in 1910 up from 169,795 in 1900. Total farm land and buildings value reached 1.19756 billion dollars, land 909.462 million, buildings 288.096 million, with machinery at 52.783 million. Acreage total 21.012 million, improved 11.882 million, average farm size 119 acres, average value per acre 57 dollars.
Winnipeg reports thirty electric street cars manned by strikebreakers were stoned and one burned on Logan Avenue before Canadian Pacific shops. Younger protesters smashed car windows as crews fled. vehicles were driven off track. Fifty cars wrecked since the strike began amid union sympathy.
Lake City Iowa December 24 Joel Brown a Elm Grove Township farmer owns a fifty horsepower car He rigged a wagon train nine hogs per wagon attaching seven rented wagons to the auto This unique auto driven hog train startled onlookers as it carried a large drove to market with the engine leading the wagons
United States Labor Commissioner Neill offered a tentative peace proposition to engineers representatives in Chicago. A similar proposal will be sent to railroad general managers, with a final conference likely to follow to end the dispute. If rejected, arbitration or strike looms, as Grand Chief Warren S. Stone insists on a basis of arbitration only on the difference between 14 or 15 percent and the railroad offer.
Winfred S D Dec 24 To appease a mother's imagination that her boy had been buried alive the body of Charles Rice the fifteen year old son of Mr and Mrs C E Rice of this city was exhumed by Coroner Dr Files of Madison and his assistants The lad died the day before Thanksgiving of typhoid fever and since his death the grief stricken mother has been haunted by the fear that he had been buried
La Crosse and Southeastern railroad begins a ten man survey crew under Engineer A. E. Rau of Sparta to chart an extension from Viroqua to Retreat, about fifteen miles, with possible further reach to Prairie du Chien, construction to occur next summer.
Secretary Dickinson denies retirement rumors amid disputes with Taft over U S military readiness and declares he remains in office with emphasis. Secretary Ballinger also remains, despite differences on public lands per Baltimore report and the president’s message.
Washington awaits the Lorimer case committee report as opposition broadens. Senators Beveridge Borah Cummins La Follette Culberson Rayner and others may oppose adoption, arguing seven tainted votes rather than four could end Lorimer’s seat. Debate likely long and acrimonious.
Wisconsin pursues a suit led by Attorney General F. L. Gilbert to decide if the state may collect inheritance taxes on estates of nonresidents holding Wisconsin corporate stock. Defendants include administrators of W. H. Tilford's New York estate. Tax on Milwaukee Road stock could be 50,000. Kennedy estate nonresident stock could total 1,500,000.
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