Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 8, 1904, Page 7

GIRL BLAMED FOR SHORTAGE A SIX-DOLLAR-A-WEEK STENOG- RAPHER ACQUIRES EXPEN- SIVE TASTES. $40,000 SAID TO BE MISSING TWO IOWA MINING CORPORA: TIONS ARE IN SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES. Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 5.—A pretty stenographer, receiving a salary of $6 a week, is said to be blamed for @ shortage of $40,000 or thereabouts, which has been discoyered in the ac- counts of the Iowa Lillolet Gold Dredging company and the Hawkeye company, organized for the purpose of redging the Frazier river in British Columbia. The lady has suddenly acquired a penchant for exquisite gowns and lux- urious equipages, in which she often appears on the street. While she ad- mits that she burned certain records of the two companies, she asserts that her employers directed her to do so. The Situation Is Complicated by declare Byron A. Bliss, secretary and manager of the joint companies, sane. His wife is the plaintiff. The shortage has caused a tumble in the value of the mining stock from 50 cents per share to 1 to 3 cents per share, and hundreds of Iowa people, ineluding scores of Des Maines and Pols county folks, are losers by the sudden drop in the stock, in sums ranging from $5 to $50,000. Prominent men like George L. Dod- son, ex-secretary of state; Frank D. Jackson, ex-governor; Charles T. Ha ock, ex-chairman of the Republic- an state central commitee; Prof. Cal- vin of the Iowa State university; Mayor Martern of Des Moines; By- ron D. Bliss of Iowa Falls, Chief of Police James W. Jones of Des Moines, and scores of others are interested in the stock. Yesterday these men, holding thou- sands of dollars’ worth of stock, were at the highest pitch of excitement, g that they may have lost all y have invested. special meeting of the corpora- and at that time the amount of xe will probably be made ilolet company was organized lov a Falls, and half the business ng people of the town have y invested in it. Excitement is among those who would lose all they have in the world in the two companies if they go to the DEER FINDS SAFETY IN CITY. Flees From Dogs and Though Cap- tured, Will Gain Liberty. Duluth, Oct. 5. — A three-year-old buck deer has been captured in the} vest end of the city by Alex Horn |! and John Olson. The animal had been pursued by dogs and sought safety in the precincts of civi tion. The rance in the city, iangied in a wire fence, which made | its ture possible. The captors | stiy notified the deputy game | ten and it is expected that the | al will be set at liberty. Hotel Man Hangs Himself. anir Eemmond, Wis., Oct. 5.—J. B. An- of this eity ¢ ted suicide ay morning hanging himself. | SS was proprietor of the An- hotel and the new opera house of $12,000. Andress had been sutfer- ing for over a year with cancer of the siomach, and doctors had told him that there was no hope of his being eured, and despondency' over this lress to hang himself. well known throughout having traveled for several tate, the years for the Plano Harvester com- pany. Injured by Explosion. Milnor, N. D., Oct. 5. — While Hjel- | n, cashier ‘of the Bank of | tounty of this place, was re- gasoline tank of the ng plant in the bank, an ex- mm occurred, a portion of the ap- king him in the face, frac- the jawbone and lacerating his The explosion was caused y too much pressure in the tank, and there being no fire to ignite the gas there was no more damage done. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. Two Men Are Killed and Seven. Seri- ously Injured. Coulterville, Ill., Oct. 5—Two men were killed and seven seriously in- jured as the result pf a boiler explo- sion in the Schubert sawmili, three miles east of town. The boiler ex- ploded just before the men got throvgh work, the force of the explo- sion wrecking the mill building. One of the proprietors was sitting in the offce and was iastantly killed. orthwest News-s an action in the district court to | in- | s has been called to meet at Iowa | vas tired when it made its ap- | and became en- | which is nearly completed at a cost | REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS. Two Bad Men Descend Upon Little Fork and Take Possession of Sa- loons and Stores. Duluth, Oct. 4—Word has reached Duluth from Little Fork, on the Lit- tle Fork river, in Northern Itasca county, that a reign of terror was in- augurated there a few days ago by two woodsmen who acted like despe- radoes of the most reckless kind. They came into town from the north and, after drinking much border whisky, began to “shoot up the town.” They started in with Beasley & Ol- son’s saloon, which they “shot up” in the most approved style. The pro- prietors quickly tuyned the place over to them. Two of the shots were fired uncomfortably close to Beasley’s head. The “bad men” emptied the cash drawer and helped themselves to liquor and cigars. Mr. Olson at- tempted to remonstrate and the ma- rauders threw him out of doors. A traveler who reached Duluth yester- day from Grand Rapids said word had reached there of the hold-up. It is said that the two desperadoes were drunk and ugly and seemed deter- mined to kill somebody on the slight- est excuse. It was also said that the men had helped themselves to new revolvers and an abundance of ammu- nition and had walked up and down ‘the street, defying arrest and shooting in all directions. At last accounts the men were still at Little Fork and it 1s | suspected that they are now afraid to leave for fear of being hunted down. KILLED IN A WRECK. Prominent Dickinson Man Among the Dead. Dickinson, N. D., Oct. 4. — Smyth Dobson was killed in a stock train wreck near Bismarck. He is survived by «a widow and a son two years old. The Dobsons are a prominent family that has resided in Dickinson for nearly twenty years. Rev. Charles E. Dobson, rector of Incarnation church, Great Falls, Mont., for four years, and now rector of St. John’s church here, is a brother of deceased. A young man known here as George Davis was killed. He returned recently from some military post, and his parents are supposed to be at Saginaw, Mich. Fred Volpert, the third man killed, {was lately from Montana and was very little known here. G. W. Wanne- macher, well known at Belle Plaine, Min who was injured, wired his family in Dickinson that his worst in- | jury is a broken shoulder. L. A. Wat- | kins, another injured man from Dick- inson, is foreman of one of the Owens land and cattle ranches. TIES $200 IN BATH TOWEL. Minneapolis Man Alleged to Have Found Money After Woman Left. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 3.—Henry G. Allen, who came here some months ago from Minneapolis, where his rela- | tives live, is under arrest charged with stealing $200 from Miss Julia |Moutran. Allen was clerk at a local | hotel. Miss Moutran went into a bath room in the hotel and tied up $200 in | the corner of a towel while she took ja bath. She forgot the money when ishe left the place and when she re- turned it was missing. Her investiga- } tions led her to suspect Allen. The \latter had gone to Cleghorn, Iowa, to visit for a day or two. He was arrest- ed and will be brought back here for trial. ORE SHIPMENTS GROW. |September Figures Are Well Above Those of Last Year. Duluth, Minn., Oct. 4. — Ore ship- ments from the mines during Septem- er ran beyond expectations, being 8,309 tons against 1,842,987 tons | the same month last year. The sea- son's shipments to date have been 8,719,540 against 12,021,320 last year. Grain shipments from Duluth for the | first two months of the crop year have been a million bushels less than in the same period a year ago, while jreceipts have been a little above a millicn bushels more. | Dia eS re FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. Redfield, S. D., Oct. 4—The villare of Franktort, in Spink county, has a case of mysterious disappearance in ‘hat of Harvey King, who vanished jast Monday night. King was man- ager of a threshing machine and had just left Frankfort for the machine after returning from an election trip. he was known to have $800 with him. Foul play is suspected. ! | | EADLY WOUNDED: RIDES A MILE. Metrose, Minn., Oct. 4. — Henry Schirman, aged twenty-one years, was | willed by the dis rge of a gun which | fel from a plow .on which it.was | strapped. With a large hole in his | side he unhitched a horse and rode home a mile away. He lived seven ours. CAN THRASH YOUNG SON. mana. F Court Permits Sound Trouncings Until Age Brings Dignity. Sheboygan, Wis., Oct. 4.—A father may thrash his. son till stripes are raised without being liable to arrest for assault, provided the boy is not old enough to have his dignity injured, according to the decision of Judge Kirwan in the cirenit court. Franz “yadloff, contractor, was acquitted ot thrashing his nine-year-old boy with a whip because the boy matenel a tne: parade. BIG PRICE BRINGS OUT WHEAT. Factors for a Decreased Movement Do Not Count. One of the most remarkable move- ments of grain that has ever been un- dertaken is under way in the North- west. Three million bushels of Pa- cific coast wheat are coming all rail to Duluth, to the order of millers in New York state, and along the Pennsylva- nia and Ohio shores of the great lakes. This wheat will go from Duluth by lakcy to its destination. It is stated that in addition to the 3,000,000 bush- els coming to Duluth, Minneapolis houses have bought about 1,000,000 bushels from the same region. Receipts of grain at Duluth last week exceeded those of the corre- sponding week last year by 1,500,000 bushels, and on Tuesday 600 cars of wheat alone were inspected in the yards at Duluth. A combination of cir- cumstances has tended to reduce the normal movement, and but one thing —a high price—has been opposed to the combination, and the high price has won. Against it were wet weath- er and consequent poor roads, in the country, preventing farmers from threshing and hauling to stations, a late harvest that has permitted very litle wheat to come forward as, yet, the ‘crop that the experts said was all spoiled, and a very serious car famine dn all the Northwest. The last is an important factor, and it is an astonishing thing that there should be a famine in rolling stock and motive power in a year when busi- ness throughout the country is said to be poor and where there 1s not sup- posed to be any large crop tu move. But its effect is felt through all the country served by the leading North- western roads and some stations that should be moving trains of wheat daily are able to get but three or four | cars, while others have had none ex- cept such as have come in with wheat. One entire division on the Norihera Pacific road is said to have received no cars for wheat except such as have come into the division with other freight and have been unloaded there and turned back. The Soo line is also badly ‘tied up, as to some sections, by the same trouble. The indications are that griin wiil be moving for a long time and at an important rate, and that the crop of the Northwest is better and larger than was thought three or four weeks ago. LOGGING BEGINS. Duluth Believes Wages in the Woods Will Be Lower Than Usual. Logging operations are beginning all along the line, and the question of men and wages is most absorbing. It is evident enough that there will be far more men for the jobs than there have been for some years, and wages are therefore likely to be lower than of late. Mines will not be exceeding- ly busy this winter, there is little in the way of railway construction in progress through the Northwest, West- ern farm work is not so large as last year nor will it last so long into the winter, and the woods themselves will not be more active, especially in the Duluth and upper Mississippi region, than in some years. Lumber has been quiet for the past few days and no sales of importance have been reported. There is no change in price, but everybody is firm in quotations. Shipments are large and will be well maintained to the very close of navigation. Rates of freight have been unchanged. It is probable that the W. T. Bailey mill at Virginia will be run this win- ter, as has been the custom of the management for some years. The Clyde Iron works has brought suit against the National Iron works, both of Duluth, for infringements of its patents on log loaders, which the Clyde company is holding under an assignment of the patents of John R. McGiffert and A. E. Merkel. The Clyde company asks a temportry in- junction and sues to make it perma- nent. The case will probably be sharply fought. LUMBER SALE IS BIG. Chicago Firm Buys Ten Million Feet of Norway. One of the biggest sales of lumber that has been made in the northern part of the state for a long time was that of 10,000,000 feet of Norway pine by the Virginia Lumber company of ‘Virginia, Minn., to a Chicago firm, the name of whichis not given. The deal involves $150,000, and it is of special interest in that the boards will be shipped green from the saw. Ordi- narily lumber is allowed to dry out, for the moisture as an item of freight is not small,.and furthermore the boards are liable to stain when pack- ed green in cars or in the hold of a boat. The sale is an illustration of the activity of the lumber market, and the interior mills are forwarding heavily, both for cargo shipment and for all- rail delivery. Village Wiped Out by Fire. St. Petersburg, Oct. 5. — The war of Glousk, in Southern Russia, has been wiped out by fire. Five hundred families are without shelter or food and an appeal has been made to St. Petersburg for immediate help. Rug Factory Burned. Camden, N. J., Oct. 5.—The Fries & Bresland rug factory was destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is estima- ted at $100,000; partly insured. The plant gave cera aeary to about 350 hands. 2 News of the State. ,; ment or brick walks. CALEDONIA CELEBRATES. Semi-Centennial of Its Founding Fit- tingly Observed. Caledonia celebrated last week the semi-centennial of its founding. The regular trains from the west and a special from Houston by the way of La Crosse and Reno brought 800 vis- itors. Three thousand more came in carriages from neighboring towns. Headed by cornet bands, the visitors marched to the court house square, where they were welcomed by Mayor Sprague. Thomas Stewart, a chalk sketch artist, entertained the crowd for thirty minutes with interesting sketches of men and manners of fifty years ago. Judge O’Brien then spoke on or- ganization and _ political history of Houston county; Capt. Harries on the material progress and resources of Houston county, and Capt. McIntire on the military services of the old set- tlers of Houston county to the state and nation. All business houses and public build- ings were tastefully decorated. The W. R. C. furnished free dinners to the territorial settlers and old soldiers of the county. = Houston county was created by act of the legislature in 1854. Brownsville was then the county seat. The first board of county commissioners, Sam- uel McPhail, Ole Knvteson and Joseph Lovesee, met at Brownsville May 26, 1854, and organized by electing Sam- uel McPhail chairman. The popula- tion of the county was about 2,000. Tn 1855 the county seat was re- moyed to Caledonia. Samuel McPhail, the founder of Caledonia, came from Alton, IlL, in 1851, settling near Brownsville. In 1853 he went to the place where Caledonia now stands, se- lected a claim and built a log house, which was afterwards used for a store as well as a dwelling. In 1854 he plat- ted the village. Its population then was less than twenty. The first court house, a two-story frame building, was finished in 1867. A $35,000 stone court house was built in 1883; a $10,- 000 system of waterworks was estab- lished in 1894; a $9,000 electric light plant in 1903, and a $35,000 brick school house was completed in 1903- 1904. The Sprague brick block, the largest in town, now occupies the site of McPhail’s log house. The main streets are macadamized and have ce- The village has two Catholic and five Protestant churches, a population of 1,500 and an assessed valuation of $500,000. Caledonia was incorporated as a village in 1870 under an act of the legislature approved Feb. 20, 1870. The first trustees were D. L. Buell, Thomas Abbotts and Nicholas Koob. In 1890 it was reincorporated under the gen- eral law of the state. The present trustees are R. D. Sprague, president; L. Hill, D. P. Stewart, Jacob Heymann and Jerry Kenny, recorder. In the last ten years Caledonia has made rapid progress and is to-day considered one of the best towns of its size in the state. PAY UP OR LOSE MINERAL LAND. The state auditor has sent notices to the holders of fifty-year mineral land contracts which became delin- quent Oct, 21. There are a large num- ber of holders of contracts who have failed to pay the annual fee of $100, which the law requires. The state auditor sent more than 100 notices to all parts of the coun- try notifying the delinquents that un- less they pay the fee the contracts will be canceled and the land declared subject to lease. The la wgives the holder of a contract sixty days to pay the fee after it becomes due, and re- quires the auditor to notify him twen- ty days before the contract is can- celled. Should the holders of contracts not pay the $100 due, there will be a num- ber of valuable leases to be sold at auction by the state this month. Ap- plications may be made for the leases, but where two or more applications |_ are made for the same property the lease must be sold at auction. The fee for a prospector’s lease good for one year is $25, and it can be renewed once. Then a fifty-year mineral land contract must be taken out, or the lease is forfeited. The fee for the contract is $100 a year. The land covered by the 100 delin- quent contracts is some of the best on the iron range in the northern part of the state, and there is no! doubt that in some of the cases the contracts will not be allowed to lapse. There are at present applications filed with the auditor for some of the mineral de- linquent lands. Among the holders of the delinquent contracts are: Pilot Mining company of Duluth; Consumers’ Ore company, Duluth; Frank A. Moran, St. Paul; W. D. Washburn, Minneapolis, who holds several contracts; C. H. Bradley, E. u. Bradley, D. C. Rood and A. M. Chisholm of Duluth. Webster City Loses a Pioneer. Webster City, Iowa, Oct. 5. — Ber- nard Kelly, aged 74, who has been a continuous resident of this city since 1867, died very suddenly of heart failure. He was foremost in the de- velopment of this part of Iowa. Killed on Track at Stillwater. Stillwater, Minn., Oct. 5—John Co- lombo, aged twenty-three and single, was struck by an Omaha train at the station at midnight and died later. No one saw the accident and it is not known how it occurred. |ROOT’S VAIN BOAST ABSURD CONTENTION AS TO CURBING OF TRUSTS. Facts Show That Only Two Alleged Unlawful Combinations Have Been Proceeded Against, and Those Have Not Been Harmed. When Elihu Root as temporary chairman of the Chicago convention made the opening speech of the Re publican campaign, he especially held up for glorification the aggressiveness of the Roosevelt administration against the trusts and declared there is “no longer any serious complaint of t¥ust exactions.’ Now, surely Mr. Root did not believe that his state- ment was true, for the newspapers of the country, which are mirrors of public opinion, are constantly filled with complaints about the way the trusts are plundering the people, and Mr. Root is a great newspaper reader. But defending the Republican party and the Roosevelt administration from their evident partiality for trusts was a difficult job for even such a renowned special pleader as Mr. Root. Nor was he satisfied to rest his case there, but tried to prove it by adding: “No investment in lawful business has been jeopardized, no fair and hon- est enterprise has been injured, but it is certain that wherever the consti- tutional power of the national gov- ernment reaches trusts are being practically regulated and curbed with- in lawful bounds as they never have been before, and the men of small capital are finding in the efficiency and skill of the national department of justice a protection they never had before against the crushing effect of unlawful combinations.” There, again, the facts do not agree with Mr. Root, for not one industrial trust has been “regulated and curbed within lawful bounds” by the Roose- velt administration. Only two prose- cutions of trusts have been com- menced and only one of these was against an industrial trust, and that is still hanging fire in the courts, and the trust in question—the Packers’ Combine—shows no signs of being regulated or curbed. The other trust —the railroad merger—has been or- dered dissolved by the courts, but is still charging “all the traffic will bear” and there is still no competi- tion between the railroads that were combined in the merger. The people of the Northwest, where the merged railroads are located, are obliged to pay the same freight and passenger rates as before “the efficiency and skill of the department of justice” was brought into play. These two cases against the trusts is all the Roosevelt administration has to boast of and we have the word of Mr. Knox that there will be no attempt “to run amuck” against any other combinations. The further boast of Mr. Root that the mem of small capital are being protected from the crushing effect of unlawful combinations will be news to most of them. The Washington Post, that cannot be said to be prejudiced against the Republican party, says: “There is nothing in the record to show that the man of small capital is finding any protection against the crushing effect of unlawful combinations.” A man of small capital, if he thinks of embarking in the coal trade will find the coal trust fixes the price and rules for that business and most of the profits go to the trust. An independent meat market owned and operated by men who refuse to deal with the beef trust and adhere to prices fixed by the trust would be forced to bankruptcy in short order in any city of the country in which the trust seeks to control business. In Philadelphia and other cities the tobacco trust is refusing to sell goods to merchants who will not agree to sell none but trust-made tobaccos. In fact, there has been nothing in the commercial or industrial history of the last year to indicate that the man who wishes to engage in business has any more protection from the trusts than he has at any time since the era of consolidation and combination be- gan. We have noticed that the Depart- ‘ment of Commerce and Labor and the Department of Justice have a large force of very expensive experts at work running the beef combine to its lair. We are also informed by the administration newspapers that Mr. Metcalf, the new secretary of com- merce and labor, “have something up their sleeve” and the Beef combine should beware. Why this extraordinary activity, just as the campaign is opening, if the bad trusts have all been curbed, as Mr. Root assures us they have? There is a shrewd suspicion by those who ought to know that any activity by the administration against the trusts at this time is to goad them to the proper frame of mind to be liberal when Mr. Cortelyou presents the contribution box. That like Chairman Hanna he will promise im- munity from molestation, if the cam- paign fund is: appropriately “fatten- ed,” can hardly be believed of this honest reform administration. Yet there are those well versed in Repub- lican politics who are certain that even a bad trust, “who comes down with the dust” need have no fear of the law. That possibly explains why Mr. Root says there is “no longer any serious complaint of trusts’ exactions” and President Ktoosevelt agrees with him, for he read and reread the Root speech before it was delivered and said he was de-lighted with it. Postoffice and Other Scandals. It the Republicaa leaders of con- gress had been certain there were no more frauds and scandals to be ex- posed in the postoffice and other de- parts, would they have voted, as they did, to prevent a thorough investiga- tion? It would certainly have been to their political advantage to have allowed the Democrats a free hand to investigate if there was nothing to cover up. As far as Mr. Bristow was allowed to go he discovered everywhere fraud and corruption, but he only investigat- ed one bureau and serious charges have been made that other bureaus are also rotten. The postmaster gen- eral was opposed to the Bristow inves- tigation, and stoutly maintained that “nothing was the matter,” until the exposure was so imminent that he had to change his tune. To discover and expose any more scandals “before election” would be disastrous, so all the attempts of the Democrats to pass a resolution through congress were defeated by Republican votes. When Senator Lodge, in. speaking against the passing of the resolution for investigation, said that “in our own time and in our own way” the fur- ther investigation of the postoffice de- partment would proceed, he virtually admitted that more fraud and more scandals were known to exist by the Republican leaders. “In our own time” will probably be after election. “In our own way” will be pretty sure to protect the big rascals and let a few of the small ones feel the weight of the law. There never yet has been, or proba- bly will be, a one-sided investigation that will expose all the misdoings of its own partisans. A congressional in- vestigation would have representa- tives of both parties and the political advantage to have accrued to the Democrats to expose the party in power would have been an incentive to a thorough overhauling of the whole postoffice department. As Senator Lodge is known to voice the political feelings of President Roosevelt, he must have approved this “our own time and our own way” program, and the tips from the white house must also have reached the lesser Repub- lican lights, for they all voted against investigation. PARKER AND ROOSEVELT. How the Business Interests View the Two Candidates. There is no doubt that the trend of political events all tend towards the success of the Democracy in _ this campaign. The pivotal state of New York is settling down into the Demo- cratic column. Seven of its greatest newspapers are supporting Judge Parker, which were for McKinley in the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. Amongst these are the New York Herald, Evening Post, Times, World, Staats-Zeitung, Journal of Commerce and Brooklyn Eagle. What these newspapers say of Roosevelt is even more indicative of how the great busi- ness interests of the country view po- litical matters. “The comments elic- ited from all quarters,” says the New York Herald, “show that Judge Par- ker’s action has won the confidence of the people and that sort of confi- dence President Roosevelt has not in- spired. “His imperialism and his dictorial ways, together with his revival of the race issue in the South and other Rough Rider fads, have awakened among the people a distrust of Mr. Roosevelt. “Mr. Roosevelt has the support of his intimate friends and his political proteges, but conservative people eye him with distrust. They acknowledge that he is irreproachable as an indi- vidual—that he is a stanch patriot, a good husband, a loyal friend. But they doubt his capacity for self-con- trol, distrust his judgment, and ques- tion his conception of presidential du- ties. “Like the German emperor, he wishes to meddle in every detail of the public service, to control every department, to rule every official, to be both the law maker and the execu- tive, to be the source of power and to apply it. “Between Mr. Roosevelt’s views of the President’s duties and the views of the American people on that sub- ject there is a very wide difference. He evidently thinks the President of the United States is a sort of dictat- or, while the people rightly regard him merely as their Chief Magistrate, as the executive head of the Adminis- tration. “This domineering conception of his official duties has excited wide- spread resentment among Republic- ans, and has led him to make mis- takes that would have prevented his nomination if the Republican party had had any other available candi- date.” What has Fairbanks ever done or said that has been of any use to the country and why therefore should the voters elect him to the second highest office in the land and in case of the demise of the President to succeed to that office. He may be “sane and safe,” but he has never shown a vestige of ability except as a machine politi- cian. When the experts of the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor made out their schedule of what it costs the working man to live did they allow for the high price of beef and the fact that a good many are forced to a vegetarian diet? .The stockmen and cattle growers are beginning to discover that the beef trust is a tough proposition to run up against especially when it has a strike on its hands. Beef goes up, cat- tle go down and the trust wins both ways.