Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 20, 1901, Page 3

jee 'MAN’S CRUEL DEED . PITCHES A COMPANION INTO THE LAKE AND THEN WATCHES HIM DROWN. © DEMON THEN MAKES HIS ESCAPE x Because He Was Being Teased a Cireus Roustaboat Throws Hix Tormentor Into the Lake and Al- lows Him to Drown—Boys Try to Rescue the Drowning Youth, but Were Unable to Hold Him Up. Stillwater, Minn., July 17. — While * bathing in Lake St. Croix and playing » on a lumber raft near Atwood’s “A” ‘ mill yesterday afternoon Will Johnson of Bloomington, Ind., aged sixteen, an employe of the Gentry trained animal show, was drowned by being thrown into the lake by Yellow Watkins, also a circus hand who had been with the show a couple of weeks. After the afternoon performance a half-dozen of the boys went in bathing and Johnson, who was considerable of a tease, was playing with Watkins. The latter suddenly grabbed him by the waist, and, knowing that Johnson couldn't swim, he deliberately threw | him head-first into the lake. Johnson pleaded with him, and after he was in the water Called Piteously for Help. Two or three small boys tried to reach him and did so, but they were unable to hold him up and he sank from their grasp. Watkins, it is said, tried to help them in the rescue, but went about it in a faint-hearted manner as if he didn't care is Johnson drowned. After | the affair Watkins walked to the circus tent, picked up his coat and started across the hill toward Stillwater Junc- tion. Lewis Everett, another colored circus man, followed him for some dis- tarce, with a revolver in one hand and a razor in the other, threatening to kill him if ke caught him. But Wat- «ins had disappeared, and was evident- ly in hiding awaiting the coming of darkness to enable him to escape. He was last seen near Stillwater Junction. CONVICTED AT LAST. Cattle Thief Whoxe Trials Cost Over $100,000. Casper, Wyo., July 17 Manuel Ar- | menta has been convicted here of stealing sheep. He has been tried six | dimes in Johnson county, four times in Fremont county and four times in Natrona county for larceny. His trials have cost the different counties of the state $100,000. He and his followers | are said to have driven the range cat- tle business out of this section. He is a half-breed Mexican and makes his home just south of the Hole in the Wall ‘country: Have FELL TO HIS DEATH. Night Watehman Seeks to Escape the Heat. St. Paul, July 17. — John Dunser ot | North St. Paul: was instantly killed | yesterday morning by a fall from the | roof of the Earhuff organ factory at | North St. Paul. Nearly every bone in his body was broken, and death is sup- posed to have been instantaneous. He | was employed by the organ compariy | as night watchman. It is supposed that after midnight Sunday he went to the } roof of the five-story building to escape | the intense heat, lay down on the three- | foot ledge which encircles the roof and | fell eep. In his sleep he rolled from the narrow ledge and fell seventy-five | feet. STORM IN MANITOBA. Crops and Farm Buildings Seriously Damaged. Winnipeg, July 17.—A terrible storm struck Pleasant Point district, on Car- berry plains, Saturday night, doing $100,000 damage to crops and farm buildings. At Rat Portage and Nor- man a tornado scattered lumber in all directions and damaged the big miils. Austin McInnis was killed by lightning near Boissevain. HOTTEST DAY EVER. Farmers Give a Very Discouraging Report. Long Prairie, Minn., July 17.—Sunday was the hottest day experienced here for more than twenty years, A fet southwest wind prevailed all the day and wheat and oats have suffered great damage. It is not an exaggeration to say the wheat and oat crop is damaged fully 50 per cent. BESTOWED IN PERSON. Gov. Herreid Hands Commission to Senator Kittredge. Siouy City, Iowa, July 17. — Suits mission of A. B. Kittredge, the new United States senator, was placed in his ha by ov. Herreid himself. The | governor came to Sioux Falls after | making the appointment, and while | there delivered the commission to the mew senator. Woman Dies From Heat. Glenwood, Wis., July 17. — The first -death of the season here due to heat prostration occurred yesterday after- noon, when Mrs. Albert Tiepert died from sunstroke while working in a hay- field. The thermometer touched the ‘top notch here at 109 in the shade. ~ Burned. —As a result Two Fato St. Paul, July 1 line explosion Mr. and Mrs. Bern- ofa e hardt Sandler, furriers in the Espy block at 131 st Fifth street, are at the city hospital suffering from burns, which, in both cases, will probably prove fatal. Prostrations at La Cros: La Crosse, Wis., July 17. — The tem- perature yesterday reached 100. Two prostrations were reported. Crops in ‘Western Wisconsin are suffering great damage from the drouth, TOUGH CIIARACTERS, New Recruits for Thirteenth Cavalry Are Fond of Shooting. Sturgis, S. D., July 17.—Some of the newly recruited soldiers of the Thir- teenth cavalry at Fort Meade are tough characters. The second time in ten days some of them have tried to make a rough town of Sturgis. Four soldiers came to town Sunday night and com- menced shooting their government re- volvers. The town was panic stricken for a time. They swore defiance to the police, but were soon arrested and thrown in jail. They next set fire to the inside of their cells and were bare- ly rescued in time to save their lives. They were taken to the guard house at the fort. It was ten days ago that a soldier was shot | by a citizen while making a rough house. HARVESTI BEGINS. Rush Begins With but Little Help to Farmers. Winona, Minn., July 17.—Harvesting has begun in Winona county. and it is on with a rush. All the small grains are ripening at once. In many sections the grain must be all cut within the week or it will spoil in the flelds. This is the earliest harvest for this county in years. Oats are being cut now, ten days aheal of anything ever before known here. Owing to the scarcity of farm help the farmers must neglect their haying and cultivation of corn and potatoes in order to get the grain out of the way. BUGS AND DROUTH. HEAT, Three Things Which Worry the Farmer. Langdon, Minn., July 17. — Another severe hot spell has prevailed here un- abated for the past ten days with hot south winds that are perfectly suffo- cating. For four days the mercury has registered from 98 to 105 degrees in the shade. Much suffering from the op- pressive heat is reported to people and horses at work in fields. Wheat and oats are ripening rapidly as a result of the excessive hot winds and severe ravages of chinch bugs. Corn is suffer- ing severely from the posts. One farm- er has twenty acres completely de- stroyed, and others are suffering cor- respondingly as bad. Killed by an Electric Shock. St. Paul, July 17.—John Corcoran, a lineman employed by the St. Paul Gas Light company, shocked by a short cér- cuit, fell from a pole at Third and Rob- ert streets at 5:30 last evening and died four hours later. The body struck the pavement with both legs doubled under the trunk. Both thighs were fractured, the nasal bone was broken and the lower lip was deeply cut. Across both arms were the scars of the electrical burn. Tribute to Bishop Gilbert. St. Paul, July 17.—His own daughters unveiled yesterday, at Oakland ceme- tery, the memorial cross erected by the Sunday school children of his diocese, in honor of the late Mahlon N. Gilbert, bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal dio- cese of Minnesota. A large gathering of churchmen and Sunday school chil- dren was present when a fitting service before the monument was conducted by Rev. C. D. Andrews and Rev. Ernest Dray. Want City to Pay Their Losses. Sioux Falls, S- D., July 17.—The com- unique in the judicial history of the state are about to be brought against the authorities of Hudson Some “easy marks” who lost from $5 to $600 each during the recent old settlers’ annual meeting at Hudson while trying to set rich playing the wheels of fortune and other gambling devices, are threaten- ing to sue the town for the amount of their losses. flept in Sun and Died. Sioux Falls, S. D., July 17.—The four- year-old child of Peter Edelmann, a Hutchinson county farmer, is the sec- ond victim of the extreme heat wave now hovering over the state. The child went to sleep in the sun and died from its effects. Counterfeit Dollars. Waterloo, Iowa, July 17.—Counterfeit dollars, bearing the date of 1892, have been found in circulation in this city. The deception is a clever one. The plating being easily worn off is the only flaw apparently to the make, as the ring is good. Fired the Stampery. Percy, Iowa, July 17.—The postoffice here was set on fire, it is believed, by tramps. One pouch of mail was de- stroyed. It is thought the mail was first rifled. Burned Papa's Barn. Madiscn, S. D., July 17. — The six- year-old son of F. M. Jenson, while en- deavoring to burn potato bugs with coal oil, set fire to the barn which was totally destroyed. The loss is fully covered by insurance. hild’s Mysterious Disappearance. Red Wing, Minn., July 17—The seven- year-old dauchter of O. P. Velvang went on the bluff to pick flowers. Searching parties have failed to find her and it is feared she was killed or kidnapped. Drowned at Snelling. St. Paul, July 17. — Harry Rose, a private in Company A, Eighth United States infantry, stationed at Fort Snelling, was drowned while bathing in the Mississippi river near the fort. He got beyond his depth in a siwft current. Mysterious Fire. Burlington, Iowa, July 17. — Fire ot mysterious origin destroyed three buildings of the Des Moines county poor farm. Loss, $40,000; insurance, $24,000. Insane patients were all res- sued with difficulty. Poorhouse Inmate Gets a Pension, Hokah, Minn., July 17. — John Cul- hane, an inmate of the Houston county poorhouse for twenty years, has been granted a pension of $12 per month ana $1,200 back pay. He is over eighty- three years of age. a of the Dorthwest, TASTE OF LIBERTY YOUNGER BROTHERS WALK OUT OF THE GATES OF STILL- WATER PRISON. SEE MUCH TO INTEREST THEM Unnoticed They Walk About the Strects of Stillwater—Electric Car Excites Their Wonder—Entertain Friends at Dinner—Will Remaiy Warden’s Guests Until Employ- ment Is Obtained. St_Paul, July 16.—At 10 o’clock yes- terday morning the Younger brothers walked out of the doors of the Still- water prison free men for the first time in twenty-five years. During the morning they walked about the streets of Stillwater un- noticed, for in their civilian garments they were not recognized. At noon they returned to the prison, where they entertained some friends, including several newspaper men, at dinner in the governor's private quarters. The company was waited upon by a Chinese murderer under life sentence. In the afternoon they took a steamboat ride on Lake St. Croix, and last night they slept behind the prison walls—not as prisoners, but more as guests of the warden. Immediately after chapel service yes- terday morning, while Cole Younger, head nurse, was at His accustomed post in the prison hospital, and Jim, li- brarian and postman, was in the li- brary, each was informed that he was wanted “down in front.” They sup- posed that they were to See visitors in the reception room. But the brothers met a deputy warden, who handed each a suit of civilian clothes and a tele- scope valise. The brothers put the clothes on without delay, and in com- pany with several newspaper men they Started for the Gate. On the way the party passed a guard and the prison physician, but neither recognized the Youngers in their civil- ian suits. Both looked like prosperous business men, and their step was as elastic and they walked as erect as any of the less aged men in the party. As they emerged from the immense prison gate, behind which they were confined for a quarter of a century, they looked about in a dazed manner, each gave a long breath as though try- ing to expel the prison air and fill their lungs with the breath of freedom. They did not utter a word, but the ex- pression on their faces showed a feeling which it would be necessary to see to appreciate. Then with one look back at the grim walls of the prison they started off at a brisk walk toward the city of Still- water. At the edge of town they caught their first sight of an electric street car. The party stopped while Jim and Cole took a second look at what to them was a marvelous sight. The men asked a number of questibns about the working of the cars and dis- cussed the question of electricity as they proceeded down town. They showed considerable knowledge of this and other modern appliances, but which they had never seen. Roamed About Town. For an hour or more the men roamed about the business section of the city and enjoyed the sights with as much enthusiasm as boys who were on their first visit from the farm and were killing time while waiting for the hour when the circus would begin. They made comments upon the appearance of the buildings, the architecture, the evidence of prosperity, and discussed the objects displayed in store windows. The men then returned to the prison, walking the entire distance without showing the least fatigue, and’ were ushered into Warden Wolfer's private apartments, where an elegant dinner was served and to which Cole and Jim, as well as their friends, did ample jus- tice. The conversation was on books, dress, etc. Cole, the larger of the two, wore a dark blue serge suit, a blue and white shirt, a white turn-down collar, a gray silk four-in-hand tie and calf shoes. Jim’s suit was dark gray, his shirt pink and white, his four-in-hand a blue polka dot. No one would have suspected by the Manner of the Men that they had once been notorious out- laws and bank robbers. They appeared perfectly at ease, their conversation was carried on fluently and without hesitation, and in every way they gave evidence of refined feelings. After dinner a launch was placed at their disposal by Banker Bronson, a member of the prison board, and with Mr. Bronson and a number of friends the Youngers spent the afternoon on Lake St. Croix. Jim was at the helm and at one point steered the little craft near the Wisconsin shore. There was a hearty laugh all around when some one remarked that they were violating their parole by leaving the state with- out permission. In the evening they returned to the prison, where several hours were passed pleasantly in the warden’s pri- vate quarters, where they later went to bed. The matter of employment has not yet been decided upon, and the men will remain the guests of the warden until positions are selected, which may be several days. Kishop Cotter Convalescing. Winona, Minn., July 16.—Word has been received to the effect that Bishop Cotter will return from the hospital at Rochester this week. Since passing the danger point the recovery of the bishop has been steady and rapid. Drowned in Red Lake River. Crookston, Minn., July 16. — Sigsbal Gjerde was drowned near St. Hilaire while bathing in Red Lake river. The body was recovered. He was twenty- three years old, single and lived near Angus. and leaves a family, _ CITY OFFICERS IN TROUBLE. Im Firing a Hotel to Destroy Small pox Germs Several Other Buildings Are Destroyed. Joliet, Il, July 14.—The burning of the Bissell hotel to destroy germs of smallpox caused much excitement here yesterday. The hotel was a huge wooden structure, very old, and burned fiercely. Three other buildings caught fire and were destroyed, rendering fifty people, mostly negroes, homeless. The German Evangelical church and the Richard Street M. E. Church, the lat- ter one of the finest structures in the city, were also on fire at one time, but were saved. There are numerous threats of damage suits against the city officers who authorized the firing of the hotel. TERRIFIC STORM, Two Persons tally Injured and Much Damage Done. McComb, Miss., July 14. — A terrific wind and rainstorm struck this city at 5 p. m. yesterday, fatally injuring two persons, injured more or less seriously four others and blew down and un- roofed several small buildings. A game of baseball was in progress at the time, a large crowd being in atten- dance, and when the storm came the crowd ran for shelter. A party of a dozen took refuge under a gallery, which was blown down a few minutes later, burying the people beneath it and fatally injuring Willie Kuntzmann and a negro named Andrew Johnson, while John Dykes had both legs broken and William Hersog had an arm brok- en and was badly bruised about the head and shoulders. Two of Hersog’s sons were also badly bruised. LOSES A FORTUNE. Peculiar Misfortune Follows an Old Man. La Crosse, Wis., July 14. — Conrad Elgert, a prominent farmer residing north of here, was robbed of nearly $1,000 in gold yesterday while at work in the field. He is an old man and his hearing and sight is somewhat im~- paired by age. He has always been very saving, and accumulated a large fortune, but now he is left penniless. Several years ago he buried part of his money on his farm, which was stolen and never recovered. Then he deposited a sum in the Alma bank, which failed. Yesterday's robbery leaves him a poor man, having lost his entire fortune. Elgert lives alone and is well known throughout this county. YOKUM ADMITTED TO BAIL. Friends Think He Will Re Acquitted on Second Trial. Belle Fourche, S. D., July 14.—Judge Levi McGee of the Seventh judicial cir- cuit has granted bail of $2,500 for Will- iam Yokum and he will be released from the county jail here as soon as his friends put up the money. Yokum killed a man about five years ago in this city, for which he received a life sentence in the penitentiary. He was granted a new hearing about a year ago and he has since been in the jail here. He Is over fifty years old and in view of the fact that he committéd the murder to a considerable extent in self- défense, it is believed by his friends. that he will be acquitte¢ in his new trial, which will occur next fall. Famous Old Vessel Has Been Strick- en From the Naval Register. Washington, July 14——The secretary of the navy has ordered the famous old Minnesota to be stricken from the naval register. A board of condemna- tion has just appraised her at $15,000 and she will be sold at public auction at Boston, where she now lies. Minne- sota is one of the most noted vessels of the old navy. She wes built in Wash- ington in 1855 and was the flagship of Admiral Goldsboro in the famous bat- tle between the Merrimac and the Union fleet in Hampton Roads the day before the Monitor arrived. Accident Induced Insanity. Beloit, Wis., July 14. — Mrs. Oscar Turney, wife of a conductor, has be- come a raving maniac from brooding over a grade crossing accident in wiich two women were Killed which she wit- nessed. Since the accident, whenever a train passed the house she would rush out and shout to the crews to slacken speed. After compelling team- sters to drive slowly by threatening them with a revolver, she was sent to the Mendota asylum. Engineer Injuved. La Crosse, Wis., July 14—The Mil- waukee passenger train due here at 7:03 yesterday morning did not arrive until 2 p. m., having run into a Northwest- ern freight at Minnesota Junction, near Portage. Both engines were wrecked. Engineer Thomas Little of the Milwaukee road was seriously in- jured. No other injuries are reported. Murder Is Now Suspected. Marshalltown, Iowa, July 14. — Late developments seem to indicate that Henry Knutson of Legrand, the North- western station hand whose dead body was found in the railroad yards in this city Monday morning, and who was supposed to have been killed by a pas- senger train, was the victim of a mur- der. Almost Suffoeated. Willmar, Minn., July 14.—Fire in the rear of the Norlander saloon building destroyed about $200 worth of property. The proprietor, A. G. Larson, had a close call from suffocation, being asleep in the bedroom where the fire had its origin. The blaze is supposed to have been caused by a lamp explosion. Iowa Lad Cremnated. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 14.—Fire of unknown origin destroyed the contents of Joseph Gardner’s home, and in the effort to save the goods Gardner’s boy was overcome by the heat and fell into the flames and was fatally burned. Newly Commissioned. Madison, Wis., July 14.—The follow- ing members of the Wisconsin Nation- al Guard have been commissioned sec- ond lieutenants and battalion quarter- masters of commissary: George O. Sanders, Oshkosh; James W. Brown, Milwaukee; Charles J. McCrory, Mari- nette, and Ulrich Mockli, Sheboygan. Killed in a Runaway. Royalton, Minn., July 14. — William Browson of Buckman was Killed in a runaway. He was forty-two years old, Sat im ae x - ~ News of the State. STANDING IN WATER. Opinion Differs as to How Much This Injures Wheat. The weekly crop bulletin gives the following resume of Minnesota condi- tions: The weather was warm in the south- ern portions on the 2d, 3d, 4th and Sth, with the thermometer reading from 90 to 97 degrees in the southern half of the state on the 3d. The latter part of the week was cool. There were frequent showers except on the Ist and 5th; these were lightest in the southwest and heavy in the northern half of the state. Newfolden, Marshall county, re- ports 10.22 inches of rainfall (measured in a government gauge), from the 2d to the 5th, inclusive. In the Red river valley all the low lands along the water courses are over- flowed, and large areas of grain are standing in water. On the higher and better drained lands the small grain crops are fine, but there is a diversity of opinion as to the amount of injury to the crops that have been standing in water. Flax is very uneven, and much of the late, crop has been injured by the grasshoppers. In the central and southern portions the small grains are fine, though there are reports of lodging and slight rust in very small areas. The rye harvest is well advanced, and in the southeast barley and winter wheat are being cut. Oats are generally a fair crop. Corn grew very rapidly during the hot and ; moist weather, but many fields are grassy, because the soil has been too wet to cultivate. The wild grass crop is large, but it cannot be secured until the water in the meadows is lower. Con- siderable clover has been cut during the week, but some of it is spbiled by rain. The potato crop is a good one. Chinch bugs are injuring the wheat and corn in southern counties. BATCH OF DENIALS. The Majority of Applicants for Par- don Are Refused by Board. The state board of pardons commuted the sentence of John Fister, sent up from Cass county for forgery, from six years to four. The commutation was granted on the recommendation of the county attorney, and on account of the good behavior of the prisoner. The board denied the application of Louis Sommers of Dakota county, sen- tenced for life, for murder in the first degree; E. H. Hefflin, Hennepin county, indecent assault, five years; Michael Kobe, Crow Wing county, assault, sev- en years; J. H. Manson, Carlton county, grand larceny, five years; George Plummer, Crow Wing county, robbery, eight years; John Erkele, Hennepin county, robbery, eight years and six months; Michael Stewart and James Sullivan, Ramsey county, grand larce- ny, four and five years; William Warn- ke, Brown county, forgery, one year and four months; John Bittikoffen, Henne- pin county, grand larceny, five years; Peter Backline, Douglas county, man- Slaughter, five years; John Stewart, Wright county, grand larceny, five I years; Albert Ryan, Hennepin county, grand larceny, four years and six months. The applications of Hoffman, Hall, Minot and Thayer, the Great Northern train robbers, were also denied. The board will communicate with the warden in regard to the conduct of F. R. Rose, the Ramsey county forger, be- fore acting on his application. He was sentenced in 1897 for ten years. HAD NO LOVE AFFAIRS. Chicago Experiences of the Henig- sens Overdrawn. The Chicago specials which have been appearing under glaring headlines in some of the Twin City papers, regard- ing the efforts of Mrs. Christine Henig- sen of Fergus Falls to find her missing daughter, who is supposed to be located in that city, are somewhat overdrawn. Friends of the young lady state she did not leave on account of any love affair, and her father is not a mill owner in Fergus Falls. The family is not with- out a history, however. Mr. Henigsen built the sccond or third house erected in Fergus Falls and was the first post- master thcre. His family life was not happy, and Mrs. Henigsen finally di- vorced him and married a man named Mayerhoffer. She soon divorced the latter, also, and went to the State of Washington to live with her brother. The missing daughter worked in the in- sane hcspital in Fergus Falls for a time, and then went to Chicago. She has written from that city at times, but declined to give her address, and her mother came from Washington and de- cided to make a search for her. FAIR’S FIRST DAY. The executive committee of the state fair board met at St. Paul to make ar- rangements for the first day’s pro- gramme. Vice President Roosevelt will speak at 11 o'clock, and probably occupy an hour. A reception will follow from 12 to 1. After luncheon he will be taken in a carriage for an inspection of the whole fair. A further feature was under consid- eration, being a reunion of the Thir- teenth regiment, and review by the vice president in front of the grand stand. This will probably take place at 4 o'clock. The Rough Rider societies of St. Paul and Minneapolis will also be invited to take part in the parade. Invitations have been sent out to the governors of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas to be present at the reception of Vice President Roose- velt. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER MILL. The Itasca Paper company, capital, $300,000, has been incorporated at Du- luth, It is the corporation that has been at work some time erecting a large paper mill plant at the “grand rapids of the Mississippi river, north- west of Duluth. The mill will be turn- ing out twenty tons of paper daty by the coming winter. Construction began on an initial scale last fall, and the dam was put in this spring. The new mill will be a great addition to the re- sources of Grand Rapids and vicinity. HAPPY TIME IN JAIL. Sheriff Erickson of Crow Wing Al- lowed Convict to Board at Hotel. Ole P. Erickson, sheriff of Crow Wing county, was recently sentenced by Judge Lochren, in the United States district court at St. Paul to pay a fine of $75 and the cost of the prosecution and to serve in the Ramsey county jail pending the payment of the fine and costs. Erickson was arraigned on a charge of contempt of court in allowing a United States prisoner in his care to have unusual liberties. The case was one of the utmost importance to the federal authorities. In substance it was as follows: On Arril 20 George W. Wolf was con- victed by the United States jury for illegal pine cutting in Hubbard county. On June 15 he was sentenced to serve three months in the Crow Wing county jail. He was accepted as a federal prisoner by Sheriff Erickson. About Julyl the marshal’s office was informed that Wolf was being allowed to roam about the town. Deputy Marshal Tufts was sent up to investigate. He found that Wolf had been at the railway sta- tion on June 30 unaccompanied, and that he had been boarding at the City hotel for ten days previous. The mar- shal reported this to the local office and had an order issued) by the court to change the prisoner to the Ramsey county jail. This was done and the man was brought here. In court Erickson, through his at- torney, Murphy, admitted all the facts, and threw himself on the mercy of the court. The facts as related had taken place while he was absent from Brain- erd, attending court, and had occurred without his knowledge. An application had been filed for a pardon for Wolt, he stated, and that might have in- fluenced his deputies to allow him more liberty than other prisoners, Mr. Purdy, for the government, stated that he did not want to have undue pressure borne on the defendant. Other sheriffs in the northern part of the state had done the same thing. However, it was time that a lesson should be taught that officials under- taking government work must not neglect it. i Judge Lochren, in passing sentence, said that the evidence showed gross neglect and contempt for the orders of the court. The fact that a prisoner was given his liberty was in itself an annulling of the sentence of the court. The sentence would have to be made, although not as severe in this case as in others, because there were slightly extenuating circumstances. The government officials were highly pleased with the sentence. “It is not the sentence so much as the lesson that it will teach,” said one of them. “I believe it is time for the officials un- der government service to know that they cannot fool with Uncle Sam. If the officers do not obey the law, how can citizens be expected to obey it.” PRISON TWINE IS ALL SOLD. Output for This Season Is 6,000,000 Pounds. Almost all of the season’s output of binder twine from the state prison manufactory has been sold, and Ward- en Wolfer is rejecting all except the small cash orders from farmers throughout the state. The output will amount to about 6,000,000 pounds when the prison plant closes Aug. 1, as against a production last year of 5,700,- 000 pounds. Prison twine has sold from 11-2 to 2 cents below the average market prices for the same grades and kinds. Stand- ard sisal has sold at 61-2 cents, ma- nila and sissal mixed, of standard weight and length, at 81-2 cents, and pure manila, 650 feet, at 91-2 cents. The purchasers represent every sec- tion of the state where grain is grown, with a larger number of orders from dealers than ever before. “Club orders,” in which several farm- ers band together and order twine in carload lots, have fallen off very great- ly since last year. This has made it possible to accept a larger number of orders from dealers. The cash orders from individual farmers are in about the same proportion as a year ago, and distributed over approximately the same territory. Orders for twine have come later in the season than a year ago, but will amount to more than the prison can possibly furnish. Warden Wolfer said that 10,000,000 pounds could easily be disposed of if the prison had that amount ready for delivery. The sea- son’s output will represent nearly half the twine used in the state. Farmers in Washington county are buying their twine at the prison, and large deliveries have been made at the prison gates during the past two weeks. The twine yet to be manufactured gives but a small margin on the orders placed, and will be used for the small shipments during the coming month. ALL TALK ABOUT MINNESOTA. Scrap Book of Comment on the State .and Its Buffalo Exhibit Will Be Filed With Historical Society. H. P. Hall of the board of managers of the Pan-American exposition has prepared a scrap book of newspaper clippings from Eastern papers relating to the Minnesota exhibit and the re- sources and advantages of the state. Thé book contains about 100 pages, and it will be presented to the state his- torical society. By securing the co-operation of the reporters of the papers in and about Buffalo, and by giving them every fa- cility for learning about the state and its resources, Mr. Hall scecured column after column in the Eastern press, Not only were the exhibits at the fair de- scribed in full, but the advantages et Minnesota as a dairy, farming and summer resort state set forth. This matter went out not only throughout New York, but into other states, and attracted much attention “The only advantage a state gets out of its exhibit is the advertising.” said Mr. Hall. ‘The exhibit alone won’t pay. The only to get people interested is to get the papers talking about it. We got the prpers at Buffalo and the public Yecame’ interested in Minne sota. A