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{ M'GRAW AND FOOTE TELL OF SHORTY'S CORFESSION Continued from first page. Fournier to get him in the woods and kill him. Murs. Caldwell testified to beirg before the grand jury in Septem- ber, 1904, and she stated she told everything she was allowed to tell. Did you tell grand jury what Shorty said about old man’s plant? Didn’s ask me. Cross-examined further insist- ed that at previous hearings she had auswered all questions asked and that she had never before been uestioned regarding threats made by anyone against the Dahls. AFTERNOON SESSION. Thomas Hayden called. Direct examination by Funk- ley. Witness had lived in Quiring for two years, knowun Wesley for seven years. Saw Wesley on Blackduck river, May 21, 1904, Shorty said he came from Mud river to get Indians for drive. Wesley asked if there was search being made for the Duah’s and was answered in the atiirmative. James Black called. Direct examination by Funk- ley. Black testified that he had charge of the drive for the Crookston Lumber Co. on Mud River, spring of 1904, and that Wesley was employed there, and had been sent to Battle River after men. Finished drive July 3, when Wesley left. SHORTY GONFESSED TO M'GRAW. ' Allen McGraw called. Direct examination by Fuuk- ley. Witness stated he lived at Clarksville, Iowa, had spent five months in Beltrami county jail from April to September, 1905, and that James Wesley was an inmate of the jail at that time. Witness had conversation with Wesley shortly before the grand jury session; had asked Wesley what he thought he would get, ard Wesley had answered “‘yon’ll get three years.” Continuing Wesley said, “I suppcse you heard I and Fournier did this murder. All I had to do with it, I bad a whack at the mouey; Fournier shot the old man. He was laying in the brush waiting for the old man and daughter to come along; old man shot first. Got less than $100. Little while later Fournier shot girl also.” What else said? Nothing about this casc. Cross-examination by Martiv, Witness stated he was 350 years old. Had lived in Iowa 21 years. Was working at Sol. way when arrested for grand larceny for takirg gocds from store. Was conlined in jail until after grand jury session. Did McDonald ask you if Shorty said anything? I asked McDonald if Sheriff Bailey would get reward. If so would not tell anything until I had to. Did McDonald say if you would give information, he would release you?. No. Martin repeated the question and was answercd with an em- pathic, no, Witness stated when arrested for larceny he was in Iowa. Sheriff came after him five times that he did not return with him until he had to, on extradition papers. McGraw was tried for larceny fall of 1905, and found not guilty. Wituess testified that he was subpoenaed by sheriff March 20, last, and carae along willingly to testify. First time he had said anything about confession, was when he told his wife after read- ing in the papers of the arrest of Fournier, and wrote the county attorney. He was unable to come then on account of sickness in his family. Further stated he did not think it was his duty at the time he was in jail to tell of the confession, but thought he was doing right in testifying at this time. McGraw further testified that he was alone with Wesley when confession was made, and was only in cell with Wesley once after dinner for two hours: Stated he was chummy with Wesley. and that they passed notes back and forth. At the time of confession he was cut- ting Shorty’s hair. Witaess did not tell McDonald, then county attorney anything about Shorty when asked after his release, because McDonald had tried to send him to the penitentiary. You would willfully and pur- posely have withheld your testi- mony if you thought Thos. Bailey would get reward for man con- victed of murder? No, not if I bad been sub- poenaed. [ would have te d the truth. FRED FOOTE TELLS OF CONFESSION SAID T0 HAVE BEEN MADE BY WESLEY. When Ff'rea Foote was called, there was breathless silence in the courtroow, as it was known that he would te'l of a confession alleged to have been made by Wesley while in the Boltram county jail. Wesley never wavered in his gaze at Foote as the latter was sworp, and his remarkable nerve did not desert him one instant; and when asked to stand so that Foote could say he was the man, “Shorty” did so with alacrity, gazing Foota fall in the face Fred Foote called. Direct examination by Funk- ley. Witness stated uporn being questioned that he was under 15 years sentence at the state prison for killing Matt Gannon at Spooner, spring 1905. Was con- fined 1n Beltrami county jail fiom that time to September, 1503. During that time got acquainted with James Wesley. (Identified Wesley in court room. Witness was confined in same tier of cells as Wesley a few days after arrest-d, and was later transferred to same c ll, and slept with Wesley a number of days. They talked about the Dahl murder, and Wesley seemed quite nervous, Shorty hinting of suiciding by hanging, but Foote talked nim out of that. Afterwards Shorty regained his nerve, and said there was only one way to hang. Wouldn’t confess because Fournier would go against him if he did. = Said he would wait until last minute, tell all, and they would both hang. Fournier was the man who sthod in the brush waiting to shoot the old man Dahl whea he came out of the cabin. All the money they got, con vivued Fuote, was $87, and s 'm small change. Shorty was dis- appointed, as he had expected to get from $1000 to $1500, and he only got $20 for his shae. A few days later Shorty told witness that he had a good time on the $20. When did hs tell you? Told me at different times. Foote continuing his testimony in answer to questions by Funk. ley stated Shorty had said that he was afraid someone would shoot him, and if shot, he wanted him (Foote) to tell of the Dahl murder He was afraid that Fournier would shoot him when released from jail. Wesley also told Foote that if he should he convicted on the murder charge he would commit suicide 1n jail by hanging himself with the electric light wire, or unscrew globe and get shock from wire, but he was going to wait until the last, Cross-examined by Mr. Mar- tin, Foote said that he had con- fessed to killing Matt Gannon, a trouble-breeder at Spooner, in self-defense, despite the fact that he shot him. in the back through a window at night, as Gannon had been looking for him wite a gun. The cross-examination led to nothing new and dld not in the least shake the original state- ment of the confession; Foote maintaining that he did not know that Wesley was alive until after he had testified before the grand jury here a few days ago, and thathe was greatly surprised when he saw Wesley walk past the cell door; had stuck to his agreement with “Shorty” and had not changed his friendship for him; simply and honestly be- lieved Wesley was dead, As we go to press, Mrs. Strander is testifying as to the identity of many of the articles of wearing apparel, etc., placed in evidence by the state. Fire Alarm. The fire department was called out about 8 o’clock this afternoon in response to an alarm from the Street building occupied by tte Reed Studio. No damage was done. Tipping the Cook. In old timas to dine with a noblemnn cost more in tips to the servants thun a club dinner. Lord Poor, a well nam- ed Irish peer, excused himself from dining with the Duke of Ormond upon the ground that he could not afford it. “If you will give me the guinea I have your cook, I will come as often as you choose to ask me”—which was accordingly done. The duke, however, had not the pluck to stop the tipping practice. Lord Taafe, a general otlicer in the Austrian service, did what he could. He always attended his guests to the door. When they put their hands into their pockets he said: “No. If you do give it, give it to me, for it was I who paid for your dinner.” To Sir Timothy Waldo must be given the credit of putting an end to the moustrous practice. After dinner with the Duke of Newenstle he put 1 evram into the cook’s hand. It was rejected. “I do not take silver, sir.” “Very good. And [ do not give gold.” This cou- rageous rejoinder ‘“caught on,” and the day of vails to cooks was ovel St. James' € action in tak. unawares on his own ground, in ( ning him with his own weapons. Dresident Polk evidently took comfort in his method for miti- gating the bhand shake, that curse of the chief executive office, and he must have chuckled when he wrote in his diary the bit which is given in James Schouler’s “Historical Briefs:” If a man surrendered his arm to be shaken by one horizontally, by another perpendicularly and by another with a strong grip, he could not fail to suf- fer severely by it. But if he would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of hiy adversary as hard as the adversary squeezed him, he would suffer no inconvenience by it. 1 can generally anticipate a strong grip from a strong man. I take advantage of him by being quicker than he and seizing him by the tips of his fingers. This is stated playfully, but it Is all true. Ing the Former Instruments of Torture. Instead of gymnasties or games. in- struments of torture were used for modeling the figure of the young lady of 1831. An English writer of that year - says that “could the modern schoolroom be preserved it would pass for a refined inquisition. There would be found stocks for the fingers (the cheiroplast) and pulleys for the neck. with weights attached.” Fanny Kem- ble, to whom nature had been by no means unkindly, was found wanting in deportment, and she writes that che wore a “back board made of steel, cov- ered with red maorocco, which cons ed of a flat piece placed on my b and strapped down to my waist with a belt and seceured at the top by two epaulets strapped over my shoulders. From the middle of this there rose a steel rod or spine with a steel collar, which encircled my throat, fastened behind.” The machine proved a fail- ure, and she was put under the tuition of a drill sergeant, who did for her all that was required.—“Social England.” Four Bad Snakes. Snakes are much maligned creatures, although they are, for the most part. of considerable value to man, as they live alniost entively on insects and the small rodents that are injurious to crops. Of all the snakes that inhabit North America there are really only four that are dangerous. These are the copperhead, the moccasin, the rat- tlesnake and a little snake of southern Georgia and Florida known as the coral snake. Of course there are a number of different species of the rat- tler (about thirty), but they inhabit different parts of the country and are all to be known from the fact that they “rattle” when approached. All the rest of our snakes are absolutely harmless, and their bite is to be less feared than that of a mosquito.—Serap Book. A Remarkable Church. A small watering place in Austria named Eichwald can boast of possess- ing a most remarkable church. It was first built by an Italian architect at Venice at the expense of Prince Carlos Clary-Aldffngen, a great admirer of Itallan architecture. When it was fin- ished. the church was taken to pleces again and packed in thousands of num- bered cases for transportation to Bich- wald. At this place in Austria it was eventually rebuilt and then made over to the inhabitants as a free gift from the prince. The Sseds Were There. Farmer Nubbins (shouting across the garden fence to his next door neighbor) —Hey, there! What are you burying in that hole? Neighbor—Oh, I'm just replanting some of my garden seeds. Nubbins—Garden seeds, eh? Looks to me mighty like one of my hens. Neigh- bor—That's all right. The seeds are in- slde.—London Malil. Their Solution. “Tompkins and his wife always get along splendidly. They do just as they please.” “How fortunate! count for it?” “They don’t live together.”—Milwau- kee Sentinel. How do you ac- A Pair of Whys. She (coming down late)—Why do you wear that yachting cap? You are nev- er on a yacht. He—Why do you wear that watch? You are never on time.— Bohemian Magazine. When a man says “I can hear a noise,” it probably never occurs to him that there is nothing in this wide world that anybody can hear but a nolse. | Deed of a Gallant Nobody. It 1s not always the information car- ried by the recognized alds-de-camp to and from the commanding officer in battle which is of highest value. There was a supreme moment during the bat- tle of Waterloo when the Duke of Wellington was left absolutely alone, and that not when he was running the risk of capture by salling through the enemy’s lines. It simply meant that every galloper had gone his way, each with his message. At this moment a stranger rode up to the duke and quiet- ly asked, “Can I be of any use, sir?” The duke took one glance at him and unhesitatingly answered, “Yes, take this pencil note to the commanding of- ficer,” pointing to a reglment in the heat of the battle. The stranger took the note and galloped away with it through the thick of the fight. He de- livered it, but what happened to him no man knows. The duke always de- clared that to be one of the most gal- lant deeds that had ever come under his notice. It was done without pros- pect of acknowledgment or reward, and neither attended its successful ac- complishment.—London Standard. A Frost Desolated Land. I learned from an eyewitness some- thing about Spitzbergen, that desert arctic island 500 miles north of the North cape of Norway and within 700 miles of the north pole; a frost desolat- ed land, where the grass grows longer than the trees and huge glaciers in the lce bridged valleys amid the jagged mountalns move majestically down in- to the sea until mighty icebergs, a monstrous birth, break off and rise to the surface amid thunderous reports —once round that broke the profound we of those awful soli- tudes. S 21 is the only spot of earth that is ively known as No Man’s land. 1t is the possession of no country and has nothing even re- sembling a ied government. The island seems likely to remain No Man’s Land, thouzh it is said that an effort has been made by Norway to establish some sort of protectorate over it.—National Mazazine. Edward lil’s Drum Corps. Probably in duced from the east, oned in the accounts of the first crecade. When Edward IIL and his queen made their trium- phal entry into Calals, “tambours,” or drums, were among the instruments which were played in their honor. An- other of these was called a “naker,” or kettledrum, taken, together with its name, from the Arabs. The poet Chau- cer also mentions this instrument in his description of the tournament in the “Knightes Tale:” F'yfes, trompes, nakeres and clariounes, That in the batailie blowen blody sounes. The king generally kept a troop of these bandsmen or minstrels in his einploy, and we read that Edward IL on one occasion gave a sum of 60 * the trumpeter, Janino 1 others for their per- formances.—Chambers’ Journal. The Soul and the Beard. In Russia it was the common belief up to the time of Peter the Great that beardless men were also soulless and ttat a man who purposely admitted h:ving his beard marred could never en'ar heaven. The great Peter above refurred to ordered his heathens to “shave up,” so-as to nppé:\}' more civi- lized, and 1 thoy refused to comply with s edict lie fined the wealthy and middle classes 100 rubles for each beard that was permitted to grow and each peasant and laborer a kopeck for the same privilege. Tinally the priests were appealed to, and they informed their parishioners that unless they sub- mitted to having their beards shaved they need not expect that St. Nicholas, the gatekeeper of heaven, would be able to distinguish them' from the bearded Turks. at had the desired effect. anamon Topers. Both cinuzmen and cassla contain tannin, and o0 wuch of either has the same effect as excessive tea drinking. There are cinnamon and cassla topers ‘who are as much addicted to the habit of chewing the bark as some men are to chewing tobacco. The clnnamon topers acquire their habit chiefly from working In the woods stripping the bark from the trees and drying it. It is graded by men who taste a tiny mor- sel of each lot. At first this causes the lips and throat to swell, but in time this undesirable effect overcomes itself, and a genuine love for the bark is ac- quired. American Regard For Women. Toward women the American man’s attitude is fine. She Is neither his delty nor his doll. He simply treats her with deference. His chivalry has as little to do with saccharine utter- ances, scraping feet and bended knees as has his patriotism with hysterical shriekings and the waving of ensan- guined flags.—Lippincott's. One’s Point of View. “I liked that play we saw last night because it has a happy ending.” “Why, man, the husband in it ter- rorizes his wife Into trembling and silent submission and ends by killing his mother-in-law!” “I said it had a happy ending.”—Bal- timore American. Extenuating. A Frenchman was convicted of kill- ing his mother-in-law. When asked if he had anything to say for himself be- fore taking sentence, he said, “Noth- Ing, excepting I lived with her twenty- one years and never did it before.”” Not What They Expected. Bride—Here is a telegram from papa. Bridegroom (eagerly)—What does he say? Bride (reading)— Do not come Rome. All will be forgiven. Then the Mercury Froze. “I think London Is a lovely place for 1 honeymoon. Don’t you, dear?” “Yes, darling,” he replied in an ab- stracted manner. “I shall always come here in the future.”—Stray Storles, Some evlils admit of consolatlons, but ‘here are no comforters for dyspepsia tnd the toothache.—Bulwer. The notion of God which makes him a manufacturer of footstools, our ene- mies being the raw material, Is stil popular in some quarters.—Puck, Most Wonderful Cave In the World, The most wonderful cave in the world is in the island of Tonga, in the south Pacific. Byron called it “a chapel of the seas.” Tt is formed in a rock that is almost surrounded by the ocean. This rock is about sixty feet high and broad proportionately. Many years ago a boy, the son of a native chief, was chasing a huge turtle, when his game seemed to sink into the rock. The lad watched and walted until the tide fell, disclosing a small opening in the rock about six feet-under low wa- ter mark. Diving boldly, the young hunter entered the aperture and, to his surprise, came to the surface in- side the rock. The rock was hollow, end its interlor was found afterward, when the natives explored it with torches, to contain many beautiful stalactites. When attacked and fol- lowed by enemies, the natives, who know the secret, leave their canoes, plunge into the water and disappear. Their foes linger, astonished at their disappearance, for no person not ac- quainted with it would suspect that the rock was hollow. Origin of Two Familiar Proverbs. It was the habit of the great Greek painter Apelles never to let a day pass, however busy he chanced to be, with- out practicing his hand by tracing the outline of some object, a custom which has now passed into a proverb—“No day without a line.” He also made it a rule, when he had finished a canvas, to exhibit it to the view ‘of those who visited his studio, while he himself, hidden behind the picture, would listen to their comments. It is said that once a shoemaker censured him for having painted a pair of shoes with one latchet too few. Next day the shoemaker, re- visiting the studio, saw that the paint- er had corrected the mistake. He then began to criticise the leg of the por- trait, upon which Apelles came for- ward and reminded him that a shoe- maker should not go beyond the shoes, a piece of advice which has also crys- tallized into a proverb, “Let the cob- bler stick to his last."—Pliny the Elder. At Sea In a Coffin. It was the French assassin Lupi who escaped to sea from Cayenne in a cof- fin. He managed to get some nails, tar and cotton, and one dark night he got into the coffin shed. He selected a fine, stanch and seaworthy coffin and fastened the lid in order to turn it into a deck, leaving a cockpit sufficient to enable him to crawl in. He calked all the joints as well as he could, and when this work was finished he made a pair of paddles out of two planks.. Then he brought out his craft with great precaution. Without much diffi- culty he reached the water's edge. Si- lently and slowly he proceeded in the hope of reaching either Venezuela or British Guiana, 150 nautical miles dis- tant. Fortunately or unfortunately for Lupi, the steamer Abeille, returning from the Antilles, off Paramaribo pick- ed him up, half drowned and almost in a fainting condition, and a few hours later he was in irons.in his cell. Too Long Winded. The inhabitants of the Canary isles, finding themselves oppressed by fam- ine, sent to the governor of Galicia one of their head men as an ambassador. They advised him not to lose himself in long winded talk. He promised and kept his word. He took with him a large number of sacks, and, arriving at the town where the governor was on the circuit, he opened one of them before him, saying only these words: “It is empty. Fill it.”” The governor ordered this sack and the rest to be filled with meal, but he said to the speaker: “You had no need to tell us that the sack was empty nor that it was necessary to fill it. We should have readily guessed that. An- other time be briefer in your talk.”— Bon Vivant. Look Into Space. A young man whose eyes had been troubling him consulted a New York ocullst. “What you want to do,” said the specialist, “is to take a trip every day on the ferry or in New Jersey, Long Island—any place where you can see long distances. Look up and down the river, across fields or, if the worst comes to the worst, go on the top of a skyscraper and scan the horizon from that point. The idea is to get distance, You use your eyes a great deal and al- ways at close range. You can’t use them any other way in town. Even ‘when not reading or writing the vision Is limited by small rooms and narrow streets. No matter in what direction you look, there is a blank wall not far away to shut off sight.” Travel Free. .“Conductor,” sald the gasping pas- senger, vainly trying to raise a window, “there are at least a billion microbes in this car.” “You ought to be able to stand that if the company can,” growled the street car conductor. “We don’t get a blamed cent for carrying ’em.”—Chil- esgo Tribune. 5 Lies Low. “Of course she doesn’t like discus- slons about ages.” “No. TUsually when she’s queried about hers she just says nothing, but lies low.” “Yes, or if she says anything she Hes low.”—Philadelphia Press, Convenient. “So you have three pairs of glasses, professor ?” “Yes. One pair to read with, another for nearsightedness and a third pair to look for the other two with.”—Flie- gende Blatter. Laws are made by old people and by men. Youths and women want the exceptions, old people the rules.— Goethe. = Her “No. Tom—Bess sald “No” to 'me last night, but I don’t think she really could tell why she did it. Nell—Oh, yes, she could. She told me. Tom—Did she? Nell—Yes; she sald she didn’t think you'd take “No” for an answer.—Phil- adelphia Press. About the Only Place. A company of settlers In naming thelr new: town called it Dictionary, because, as they sald, “that’s the only Pplace where peace, prosperity and hap- piness are always found.” PROJECT ABANDONED CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION DISCONTINUED. BUT LARGE SUM WILL BE ASKED FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT THE FAIR GROUNDS. St. Paul, March 30.—There will be no semi-centennial celebration of the admission of Minnesota into the Union of States, and, what is more, there will be no further attempt to convince the legislators that such a celebration Is desirable. The vote in the senate by which the semi-centennial project was defeated will be taken as suffi- clent notification that the senate at least is opposed to the project, al- though the Hackney bill was defeated by only one vote. This course has been decided upon by the men who have been urging the exposition project, but in abandoning the fight for a seml-centennial cele- bration the board of managers and friends of the state fair will take some of the legislators who have op- posed the exposition project at their word, and a bill will be prepared by the terms of which $400,000 for needed improvements at the fair grounds will be provided. This bill probably will be introduced by Sena- tor Hackney on Monday as a substl- tute for the original exposition bill. There were words flying in the air when the speaker of the house an- nounced the passage of the motion to adjourn, and refused to listen to an appeal from his decision or to a mo- tion for reconsideration. It was the liveliest little scrap since the opening of the session. Objected to Adjournment. Thursday the house tried to adjourn until Monday, but this was voted down on a roll call. Friday there was a light house, though enough to do business. At noon J. H. Dorsey moved that “out or deference to those whose conscience compelled them to stay away we do now adjourn.” There was sllence for a moment and then came cries of “no, no, no.” 0. N. Thundale of Harmony, who was in the chair, put the question and after the viva voce vote he announced “that the chair is in doubt,” and had the members stand and be counted. Affer the count he announced the motion carried and the house adjourned. This started things, and some of the members who thought they had kept the count began ecrying for a roll call or a recount. A. J. Rockne of Zum- brota was up seeking to be recognized, but the chairman could not see him. Mr. Rockne wanted to make the point that under the new rule the house could not adjourn at moon without a two-lhirds vote. Just then Speaker Johnson slipped Into the chair and there were further cries of appeal from the decision. of the chair and cries for roll call. But the speaker maintained that the house stood adjourned and he could not con- sider a motion for reconsideration or in any way change the decision. The house passed a bill under which the county board may direct the coun- ty treasurer to visit such places in the county as he deems expedient for the purpose of receiving taxes. , The coun- ty board is authorized to pay the ex- penses of such visits. The bill was In- troduced by the Otter Tail delegation and passed under suspension of the rules. Railroad Bllls Passed. The three bills recommended for passage by the house railroad commit- tee Thursday eveying passed under suspension of the rules. One is the bill by I. C. Spooner of Morris, per- mitting one member of the railroad commission to hold hearings and make a decision in all matters except those pertaining to the reasonableness of rates. At present only a majority of the commission can act. Another of the bills is by A. J. Rockne of Zumbrota and prohiblts railroads from abandoning any track or switch without consent of the per- sons concerned, or the railroad com- mission. The third bill, also by Mr. Rockne, requires the companies to file a blue print and specifications of any rail- road they have constructed, and a statement of the cost of construction before they begin operating it. The house passed the bill authoriz- ing cities of 50,000 to issue $300,000 park bonds. The bill was introduced in the senate by W. W. Dunn and passed some time ago. It was ap- proved by the Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis delegations in the house, and was passed under suspension of the rules. The county auditors and treasurers are given four-year terms by a bill in- troduced in the house by John T. Lommen of Comstock. The present county auditors shall serve until 1911. Under this arrangement the auditors and treasurers will be elected at al- ternate elections. A schedule of fees to be paid by savings banks to the state is provided fn a bill introduced in the house by Elmer E. Adams of Fergus Falls. Sav- ings banks with assets less than $250,- 000 pay $20; those below $1,000,000 pay $30; those below $5,000,000 pay $50, and those above pay $5 additional for each additional $1,000,000. A bill compelling Indian children to attend school when their expenses are paid was introduced in the house by W. L. Case. Romance of the Cigar. A bride of a year ago gave her hus- band a box of long, lean and sickly look- ing cigars for a birthday present. The man smelled them, looked at the label and then, with tears in his eyes, sald: “I cannot bear to smoke your present. I will keep them always as a token of your love.” His wife was so touched that she went down town and ordered three boxes of the same brand and had them charged to her husband. When she gave them to him she sald: “Here, dear; these are not a present. Smoke them and enjoy them.”—Topeka State Journal 2 Used by Millions Calumef Baking Powder Complics with th Fool Lawsot every SHOTGUNS AND REVOLVERS. Witness Says He Thinks They Were Used at Brownsville. ‘Washington, April 1—Lieutenant Greer, quartermaster and acting bat- talion adjutant of the Twenty-fifth in- fantry on the night of the affray at Brownsville, was on the stand in the investigation by the senate committee on military affairs. In the absence of Captain Macklin he took command of Company C while the shooting was in progress. He testified in detail con- ceruing the events at the post that night. At the conclusion of a long direct examination, the witness told Senator Foraker that while he had believed the men of the Twenty-fifth infantry did the shooting, his mind was now open on the subject of their guilt or innocence. He thought the firing came from about the center of the town and that shotguns and revolvers were used. It was his opinifon that high power rifies were not used in the firing he heard. He estimated that it would require forty or fifty minutes to clean a gun so that it would stand ine spection after having been cleaned. STREET CAR COMPANY INDICTED. Charged With Malntaining Dirty and Unsanitary Coaches. _ Newark, N. J, Aprii 1—The North Jersey Street Railway com- pany, which operates a large system of street raiflways in this city, has been indleted by a grand jury. It is charged with maintaining dirty and unsanitary cars, providing useless fenders and allowing its cars to be overcrowded by passengers. The in- dictment was returned to Chief Jus- tice Gummere, who a few days ago warned the jury not o be influenced by public clamor against the com- pany. In its indictment the jury de- clared that “the indignation and pro- tests of a long suffering public, which have been interpreted by the court as ‘public clamor,’ have not influenced the grand jury in its consideration of this question.’ SUICIDES BY SAME METHOD. Close Friend of “Chick” Stahl Ends His Existence. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 1.—David P. Murphy, an engineer on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, commit- ted suicide by swallowing carbollc acid. It is belleved the suicide of “Chick” Stahl, the baseball player, who was an intimate friend of Mur- phy, had some effect in glving a sui- cidal impulse to Murphy's mind. He left a fote saying: “Bury me beside ‘Chick.’” Murphy was thirty-three years of age and had been active in Democratic politics here. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Fire has almost entirely destroyed the business district of Woleottville, Ind. The general strike at Geneva, Swit- zerland, is about over and the troops will probably shortly be disbanded. Brigadier General Richard Combs, TU. 8. A, who retired in 1901, is dead at San Francisco, aged seventy years. He was born in Ireland, MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneanclis, March 80.—Wheat— May, 78%¢c; July, 79% @80c. On track —No. 1 hard, 81%@8i%ec; No. 1 Northern, 8014 @80%c; No. 2 North- ern, 784 @78%c; No. 8 Northern, 76 @77c. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, March 30.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.25; fair to good, $4.00@5.00; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.560@4.75; veals, $4.50@ 5.50. Hogs—$6.25@6.40. Sheep—Weth- ers, $6.50@6.00; good to prime lambs, $6.50@7.50. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, March 30.—Wheat—To ar- rive and on track—No. 1 hard, 8154c; No. 1 Northern, 80%c; No. 2 North- ern, 79%c; May, 79%ec; July, 8lc; Sept., 79%c. Flax—To arrive and on srack, $1.17%; May, $1.185; July, 2120%; Oct., $1.17%. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, March 30.—Wheat—May, 76%c; July, 781, @783c. Corn—May, 46%c; July, 463c. Oats—May, 427% @43c; July, 37%c. Pork—May, $16.- 30; July, $16.25. Butter—Creameries, 22@29%e; dairies, 20@27c. Eggs— 15¢c. Poultry—Turkeys, 12¢; chickens, 123%e¢; springs, 11%c. Thicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, March 30.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.20@6.75; cows, $1.75@4.90; heifers, $2.70@5.: calves, $5.50@7.65; good to prime steers, $5.50@6.75; poor to medium, $4.20@5.45; stockers and feaders, $2.80@4.90. Hogs—Light, $6.40 @6.70; mixed, $6.40@6.72%; heavy, $6.30@6.70; rough, $6.30@6.45; pigs, $5.80@6.60; good to cholce heavy, $6.50@6.60. Sheep, $4.25@6.50; year- ‘]lnE!. $6.26@7.85; lambs, $6.00@8.00. 8 e