Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 21, 1903, Page 3

| | | {S HE A PERFECT MAN? Man Who Wanted to Prevent Marriage of Persons no Physically Perfect Will Wed. 1a Crosse, Wis., Nov. 18.—Attorney, W. L. Woodward, famous for the in: troduction of a legislative measure prohibiting the right of matrimony to all persons not physically perfect, has created somewhat of a sensation here by taking out a special license to wed Miss Marie Nonstad. The wedding is scheduled to take place in a few days, but all details are carefully concealed. Attorney Woodward declines to say whether he has undergone the thor- ough physical examination which his bill submitted to the last legislature sought to make compulsory. In addi- tion to his marriage agitation Mr. Woodward achieved fame during the last session of the legislature by intro. ducing a bill designed to make fisher- men tell the truth regarding their catch. His anti-fish lie bill provided for the weighing by state officials of all fish caught over a certain weight. It met a fate similar to the anti-mar- riage measure, being killed. POSED AS HIS BROTHER. Foss Wrote Checks With a Free Hand —Taken to Sioux City. Sioux Falls, 8. D., Nov. 18. — John Foss has been taken to Sioux City | from here, charged by Davidson Bros.’ company with representing himself to | be his wealthy brother, M. A. Foss of Lakefield, Minn. He bought two As- trahkan garments and gave the firm a check on the First National Bank of Lakefield for $95. When he was ar- rested he was trying to pass a $100 check on a Heron Lake, Minn., bank, to redeem the two coats which he had pawned. Foss feigned insanity here and it was learned he escaped not long ago from the asylum at St. Peter. CHARGED WITH FORGERY. Siayton Man Is Wanted in Washing- ton County. Slayton, Minn., Nov. 18.—W. B. Hat- ton, formerly proprietor of the Park hotel here, was placed under arrest yesterday at Luverne on the charge of | forging a mortgage of $3,500 ona farm owned by Edward Welch in| Washington county. It is claimed that Hatton went to Stillwater Oct. 22 and executed a mortgage in favor of Hor- ace Vermiltion of St. Paul, and later attempted to secure a loan of $800 on the mortgage from a Luverne banker, who investigated, and found that the farm had not been mortgaged to any one. TOWN NEARLY WIPED OUT. All But One Business House at Blue- berry, Wis., Burned. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 18.—Three of the four business houses at Blueberry, a small village on the Northern Pacific | road thirty miles east of Duluth in Wisconsin, were destroyed by fire Sat- urday night, supposedly the work of | an incendiary. Ezra Ryan, a lumber- jack, is under arrest as a suspect. The damage amounts to $8,000, and the in- surance is only $600. The entire town had a narrow escape from being wiped | out. E. K. Peck, A. J. Lapage and James Hodgings were the sufferers by the fire. “JACK DINNAN” RELEASED. Arrested at Sioux Falls on Suspicion of Breckenridge Murder. Sioux Fails, S. D., Nov. 18.—Jack | Dinnan, who was arrested here on! suspicion of having been implicated | in the death of a laboring man at Breckenridge, Minn., was released | - from custody owing to the fact that he | had been held the legal period without any reply having been received from the Breckenridge authorities as to| whether or not they wanted him. The authorities here have been advised that his partner, Bill Haley, was not arrested at Sheldon, Iowa, as alleged. 1OWA STUDENT A PLAGIARIST. Winner of Oratorical Contest Makes a Confession. Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 18.—Joseph Booth of Colorado, a student of Drake university, who won the state college oratorical contest last week, has con- fessed plagairism. - Booth advances the defense that thought is a common product, and he therefore had the right to use it. Booth’s oration was en- titled “The Sublimity of Great Con- victions, and was largely a reproduc- tion from a chapter in “Patriots and Principles.” The plagarism was dis- covered by a girl in the sophomore class. IOWA MURDER MYSTERY. Body of Well Dressed Woman Found Near Belle Plaine. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nov. 18.—The police here are endeavoring to identify the body of a woman found near Belle Plaine, apparently murdered by a blow on the head. The woman was well dressed and about thirty years old. The ody was found in the woods, Where évidently it has been carried by the murderer. About $20 was found on the body. BiG FIRE AT FARGO. Cass Ccunty Court House Totally De- stroyed. Fargo, N. D., Nov. 19. — The big Cass county court house was burned here last night. The fire started in the jury room just before 11 o'clock. The jury had remained there on a case till a short time before, and some member is suppcsed to have left a lighted cigar among some papers. The loss on the building and fixtures will be inside of $175,000, fully insured. The jail and sheriff’s residence, which is attached to the building, were saved, as there was a heavy wind from the west, which blew the force | of the flames away from that part of the structure, There were a large number of prisoners in the jail and great excitement prevailed for a time, ibut none were removed and the guards were doubled to prevent a panic. The water pressure was very poor and the firemen were unable to accomplish anything. There were a number of narrow escapes by those who were assisting in the removal of | the office furniture before the fire got | under headway. The big bell and clock | were directly over the main entrance | and hallway, and fell through while a number of people were still in the | building. So far as known no serious injuries were sustained. HUNTING MISHAPS. Three More Are Killed and Three In- jured in Wisconsin. r Milwaukee, Noy. 19. — Three more persons havo been killed and three | injured as the result of hunting mis- haps in Wisconsin. William Skilling, who lives near Altoona, was shot while hunting by some one unknown. He may not re- cover, John Zangell, while driving with his daughter near Escanaba, ran into a fusilade fired by a hunting party. The horse was killed and one shot struck the buggy. John Morse was accidentally shot end killed while deer hunting near Strickland, Gates county. Charles Rigg was killed while hunt- ing in the town of Merrimac. Portage county. His own gun was accidental- ly discharged. | A trap gun set on the deer river near Crystal Falls, Mich.,, killed Ed- ward Grop. Levi Bundy and Charles Herald of Belding are in jail charged with setting it, and the sheriff is look- ing for John Gorman, who, it is said, | actually set the gun. Near Ashland Henry Porter, a farmer, was taken for a deer and shot through the legs. BLOWN UP BY FLASHLIGHT. Twenty People Are Stunned by the Explosion. St. Paul, Nov. 19.—The explosion of a flashlight machine in the saloon of Chris Miller at 9 o’clock last evening, seriously burned and cut «’. B. Chap- man, photographer, and B. Gibbs, as- sistant operator, stunne¢ twenty peo- ple who were in the bowling alley and wrecked the glass of the saloon. Mr. Chapman was unable to account for the accident. He says that he had used |the machine successfully for a long |time and that the material was the | same as commonly used for flash- | lights. FIRE LOSS SIXTY THOUSAND. | | Pocahontas, lowa, Has a Disastrous | Blaze. Pocahontas, Iowa, Nov. 19. — Fire | here caused a loss of $60,000. The | Quinn hardware store loses $3,000; | the telephone exchange, $1,000; a | billiard hall, bowling alley, glothing | Store and office were other losses, ex- clusive of the building in which they | were located. PROF. SIMPSON DEAD. | | Superintendent of the State Deaf Mute School Passes Away. Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 19.—Prof. | James Simpson, for over twenty years superintendent of the state deaf mute school at this place, died last night after a long illness. He took charge of the school a year after its inception and made a marked success of its management. May Have Drowned. Red Wing, Minn., Nov. 19.—Frank Van Valkenburg, a bachelor renting the Nobles farm, five miles from this city, and raising stock, went up the river to visit some friends a week ago and has not returned. His herds were taken in charge by the humane so- ciety. It is feared that he is drowned. Hanging to a Tree. Slayton, Minn., Nov. 19.—The body of Fritz Brummer was found hanging from a tree in the Bear Lake lumber woods about fourteen miles northwest of this place. He committed suicide. Big Fire at La Crosse. La Crosse, Wis., Nov. 19.—For the second time recently the Ulrich build- ing, a three-story brick block, was burned last night, causing a loss es- timated at about $50,000. The fire started in a vacant apartment from an unknown cause. Egan State Bank Closed. Egan, S. D., Nov. 19. — The public examiner has closed the Egan State bank on account of poor collections. The deposits are $40,000; loans, $4,- As Thanksgiving approaches each year Don Antonio is wont to tell the following story—a story of two Thanksgivings in one year, the last Thanksgiving of pastoral California and the first recognition in the west- land of the Thanksgiving of the American. The story runs in this wise: “Before the Gringo came” Califor- nia had a Thanksgiving day of its own, although no governor's procla- mation or presidential edict dignified it with such official title. It was in- digenous to the country, and was es- pecially suited to California’s climat- ic conditions and to her religious his- tory. What time more seasonable to give thanks than just after the har- vest had been gathered, and what day more appropriate than the 4th of Oc- tober, fete of St. Francis d’Assisi—St. Francis, whose sons had rescued the country from tribal darkness; St. Francis, to whose special protection were confided the missions of Alta California! Early in the morning of Oct. 4, 1845, a picturesque procession approached the ‘old church at Monterey. From far and near each ranchero brought in a heavy vehicle drawn by oxen and heaped high with corn and beans and melons. As the vehicles and walkers came nearer, the bells of the church rang out a glad welcome to its loyal chil- dren. Then the assemblage knelt down on mother earth and each heart echoed the prayer the reverend padre cirved mouth. He did not want to love a Californian, nor, in fact, any other woman at present. Love would i with his ambitions. ‘Yet he answered the call of the eyes and his lips learned more readily converse. As a slave to his con- s¢ience he had told Carmencita that be had come to this country to make his fortune, and that, it once gained, he would return to his own land. “Oh, it is that the climate does not suit you, senor?” “The climate is all right, but——” “It is the people. You do not like us?” and the dark head went up in the air. “You know I like you, but——” “But when you go back to your own land, senor——’ “T'll never go back. Your land shall be mine, or you will go with me.” “But your fortune, senor?- “Fortune does not matter. Nothing matters but you. 1 want you, you, Car- mencita. Promise to marry me. Promise,” and he held her close. “Let me go. Let me go. When you make your fortune, senor, then [ will marry you. No, no, senor. I'll neyer marry a poor Americano. My own countryman is different. We do not care for money. You are different. Look at Eulalia Gonzales. She mar- ried a poor Americano, and now she has to work, work, work, and save and never have any comfort. All because her husband wants to save money. No. You make your fortune and then —you may go home or you may marry THANKSGIVINGS cret which they withheld from their own sons. On the Monday previous to Thanls- giving Rodgers had to start on a trip to the vicinity of Santa Cruz, that would keep him away until Thanks- giving day itself. In his absence the preparations for the ball went on. Thanksgiving night arrived, the ball began, and yet Rodgers had not re- turned. About 10 o’clock, the voices around the entrance announced his arrival. He seemed almost excited. He explained that he had had difficul. ty in crossing the Salinas and that he had rushed for fear of being too late for the ball. “As he does not dance, that would be a pity,” Ramon Castro murmured to a neighbor. During the following dance, Rod- gers telegraphed to Carmencita’s watchful eyes. When the music be- gan she slipped out and met him in the moonlit courtyard. “Hold up your head,” he commanded, and then he twined strings and strings of pearls around her slender neck. Then he caught her to him. “You are mine. It is Thanksgiving and you are mine.” “But, senor, where—” “Don’t ask anything. You promised if I brought you wealth you would be mine. Promise me you will sail with me in the White Wings to-morrow. The captain can marry us at sea, and at my home you will have happiness you never dreamed of here. Promise me. Promise—” But why that sudden pause in the Pilgrims’ Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Dae voiced—the prayer of thanksgiving to St. Francis for the harvest of the past year and of petition that he con- tinue his care by sending early and bountiful rains. When the banner had been escort- ed back into the church and deposited at the left of the altar the congre-} gation surged out and a merry scene ensued. With chatter and exclamations and infectious laughter, the people moved about in ever-changing groups. No one was greeted more warmly than Don Thomas Larkin, who took this opportunity of introducing to the people from the country his latest protege, Alvin Rodgers. The old Cal- ifornians accepted the newcomer warmly, as was their habit. “The friend of Don Thomas is a friend of mine. My house is yours whenever you wish to visit it.” The stranger accepted all degrees of friendliness with the same imper- turbable calmness, and finally at- tached himself to the group in which the Diaz family were chattering. As the vans started, the population of Monterey scattered to its homes, accompanied by all the country peo- ple who could possibly remain over for the evening’s fiesta. Ramon Cas- tro joined the Diaz group, but had to content himself with walking with one of the sons, while Senor Diaz marched Rodgers off just behind Car- mencita and Francisca. The old senor had taken a fancy to the young American. In the two weeks since Rodgers’ arrival he had invited him to his home every day. With the exception of the father and Carmencita, the Diaz family felt un- comfortable under the cold blue scrut- iny of the stranger; but, as Califor- nians, they did not withdraw their hospitable attentions. Carmencita, feeling the disapproval of her fam- ily, showered favors upon him. And he—well, at first he came to practice speaking Spanish, and later, he came because he could not keep away. The brown eyes haunted him when away from their presence—now mischiev- ous, now daring, now languishing, now sparkling, but always impelling him to gaze into them—into them and on the softly curved eheek and petal me, if Ramon has not been before- hand.” “He'll never be beforehand. the fortune, and you, too.” “Oh, but only this day Ramon has asked my father that he may marry me on the 8th of December, his fete day and the Virgin's.” “December! So near! But this is only October, and November comes be- tween. There are other fete days be- sides his. This is your Thanksgiving. My country has a Thanksgiving in a few weeks. Then I'll either have riches or definite promise of riches. Then I'll claim you. That will be my Thanksgiving.” As merry voices were heard calling, “Carmencita, Cita,” he whispered, “Promise me. Promise and seal your promise so, so, so.” Her affirmative answer was smoth- ered and they turned to greet their seekers. His employment with Larkin took him to the different ranches and even as far morth as Pueblo de San Jose. Here old Don Palomares, in extolling California over Mexico, said: “Oh, yes, senor, Mexico has her sil- ver mines. But who can say that California has not greater riches? Perhaps the old padres can tell of gold fields that the old Indians knew about. “No, senor. The reverend padres never divulged any such information. They had seen how the Indians of Mexico were enslaved to work in the mines, and how avarice, awakened by the desire for silver, had corrupted the white man. So why introduce a great curse here in this land of content, ‘where God sends all that is needed and where his children live in peace and in his spirit?” After this Rodgers cultivated the ac- quaintance of the different priests on kis routes, the padres of Monterey, of the Pueblo de San Jose and of the missions of San Jose and Santa Cruz. His eyes, always stern, grew colder and keener, and his manners, always implying superiority, did not tend to win him personal friendship. How- ever, as a stranger and a protege of Larkin, the padres extended their hos- pitality to him—their hospitality, but nothing more. It was not likely that they would confide to a foreigner a se- TN get The silence made them both start. Then from the windows thun- dered: “That Americano, Rodgers. Dog of an infidel. He murdered the padre of the Mission de Santa Cruz and stole the strings of pearls from the virgin.” Carmencita shivered her- self out of his arms as the piercing tones inside continued: “Sancho, the Indian, saw him while Ind in the sanctuary. He came to tell us, but the Americano had several hours’ start. Now he’s here. Where is he?” A howl for blood went up as the whole company jumped for the door ways. The cry roused Carmencita. “Come,” she breathed, and, seizing his hand, led him running through the nearest exit. Half a block down the street they were before their pur- suers perceived them. Then shots filled the air, At the corner they made a swift turn and ran directly to the bay. Carmencita jumped into an old boat, Rodgers followed and unmoored it. He seized the oars and made some distance from the shore: The pursuers reached the beach. Some fired ‘wildly, but others boarded a boat and continued after them. It was inevitable that they be taken, Carmencita crept along the boat to his side and put her arms around him. “It was my fault, my sin. You did it for me. I love you. I love you!” The oars were dropped. His arms inclosed her. “Don’t let them take us,’ she whispered. He sudden- ly stood erect, with her still in his arms. Then one bound and the waters had closed over their bodies. They never again reached the shores ot Monterey, nor has the sea ever again given up the treasured pearls, When he finishes his story, old Don Antonio always leans back and sighs. “You see why it is I do not appre ciate the American Thanksgiving. There always returns that picture of the first time we celebrated it.” “Did the padres know of the gold fields? Who can tell? «uc they did, they were wise to withhold the {nfor- mation. You see how much harm the desire for gold works.” “Is it true? Well, I was one of the pursuers.”—Katherine A, Chandler in San Francisco Call. music. | bors by Axel Peterson, aged 19. o_o ‘In Minnesota. We Wan oc Week Briefly Told. John McDonough of Rosemount was: — seriously injured by a vicious horse. The government river improvement forces are getting into winter quarters at Winona. The Maple Leat Telephone company is extending and otherwise improving its plant in Mora, The prospect he ‘seaging does not apear good, and the outlook is for a dull season in every line. Charles Furlong, son of J, J. Fur- long, is dead at Austin. He was 16 and was exceptionally bright. Carl Axelson, 16 years old, was ac- cidentally shot and killed at Two Har- Recently the Free Lutheran Norwe- gian church at Maple Bay was entered and the reeds taken from the organ. Robert Brown died at Red Wing at the ripe old age of 78. He was born in the county of Londonderry, Ire- land. The opera ‘house ts completed at Mora and is @ ine improvement for the town. It has a seating capacity of 650. Bet Hake August Janeck, a North Prairie farmer, was killed by falling from a load of wooed while his team was run- ning away. BE. J; Dealy, a representative in the legislature for two terms, died at Du- luth and will be buried at St. Cather- ines, Scott conan: The Duluth | & ira Range road is storing several of its large locomotives at Two Harbors and will not send them east to help out lines there this year. Jacob Thorne, an old resident of Carver, is dead at the age of 68. He came here in 1871, He was widely known and highly esteemed. Isaac Kuntson, one of the oldest aad wealthiest of the Scandinavian farm- ers of Grand Meadow, died, aged 73. Two years ago he sold his farm for $15,000 and moved into town. Thomas McCaney of Morris died suddenly of hemorrhage of the lungs. He was born in County Tyrone, Ire- land, in 1838. In 1879 he settled in Stevens county on a homestead. The cold weather has stopped the| ; laying of cement sidewalks at Aitkin. Cement walks have been laid along six blocks on the principal business street. George Lehan of Green Bay, Wis., a bright carpenter of the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul railway at Chan- ning, was found dead in his bed, hav- ing died of heart disease. The planing mill of the Atwood Lumber company at Willow River was burned at an estimated loss of $15,- 000. All the machinery was destroy- ed, but the loss of timber was slight. There is insurance of $7,500. i te Frank Kelly, of Shieldsville, Rice county, who was working for Murphy Bros. at Richland, had his left fore- arm taken off in a corn shredder. The promptness of the crew in stopping the machine saved his life. i! Never befére in the history of north- ern Minnesota’s great mining industry have so many mines been clesed dow: so early in the season, Thousands of! | miners and hundreds of railroad men \) have been given their time. % Since the Lake Crystal council pass- ed the ban against board sidewalks over 4,000 feet of cement and stone walks have been laid and contracts for several thousand feet to be built in the spring have been let. On examining the old books in the bankrupt bank of W. H. and W. A, Patten at Le Sueur there was found a package of money in one of the books where it had been placed and forgotten nineteen years ago. A young daughter of Emanuel Brick- son of Buffalo accidentally shot and killed Ida Erickson, aged 14, a daugh- ter of Charles Erickson, a brother of Emanuel. . The two girls were playing together and went into the granary, where they found a shotgun. While workmen were digging a ditch for the sewer at Red Wing a cavein occurred, burying Andrew Johnson in several feet of earth. The other workmen dug him out. The ex- tent of his injuries has not been ascer- tained. The 4-year-old son of M1 Louis Roy of Cass Lake boiler of hut water and m skin on his body came off clothing was removed. Hi excruciating pain until 5 o’clock Sun- day morning, when death came to re- lieve his sufferings. } The Fertile Commercial ‘club, or- + ganized a few months ago, has col- aa lapsed. The Mercantile association has also suspended. The merchants found their interests could be best pro: pra by independent individual ac-