Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 22, 1905, Page 3

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. A fashion writer says: “A woman can change the shape of her brows.” Is that all? A woman is as old as she looks, and a man is as old as she concludes to make him feel. Dr. Lyman Abbott declares that “wealth is a danger.” Sorry we're out of danger, Doc. Hetty Green admits that she does not like an auto any more than she does a tax assessor. Extraordinary news from Paris! There is a new play there that is popular, though decent. The 400 is said to drink less cham- pagne than formerly, but the beer sta- tistics remain unchanged. Collars are no longer fashionable for women, but are still the proper thing for good husbands to wear. A contemporary says “rattan chairs have been made for hundreds of years.” How old is Rat Ann? “Beefsteak should be eaten rare,” ys a health expert. At present prices most of us eat it rarely. Dr. Rondthaler says the neighbor- hood spirit should be cultivated. How- ever, it all depends on the spirit. Does Prof. Dennis wish to insinu- ete that in reducing Adam’s ribs to twelve Eve drew the unlucky number? ne of the New York banks hare more money than they can count. We should just weigh it in and be done with it. There must be some mistake about man being made out of dust, for dust setiles some time, but some men nev- er settle. Now that Mrs. Langtry is a grand- mother, it seems as if it were really time for her to begin to think of set- ting down. i Jim Jeffries says that a man can hardly improve physically after 40; but, morally, James, you know how it is yourself, The Birmingham Ledger tells of a local dairy farm that brings in $10,000 a year. Good money in the water wagon sometimes. | A millionaire has been put in jail at Philadelphia for crooked financiering. The foundations ef the republic con- tinue to be pretty solid, zlish military man named Young- husband has gone on the lecture plat- form. The young husband generally gets the lecture himself, eis The New York Times has been tell- i how “to get heat from a fan.” That's dead easy, when it’s a baseball fan—they get heated so soon. “Bathing,” says a New York sin rshiper, “is the curse of the,earth.” curious how people begin to de- spise water as soon as they strike New York. { eae EASA LAN WN Dr. Hillis declares that our people “are losing their imagination.” Doc has evidently not been keeping up with our justly celebrated fish and snake stories, { eects The war correspondent who was given a glimpse of the.czar’s $325,000,- 000 gold hoard was not staggered in the least. He has just made out his /oxpense account. An Ohio man wants & divorcee be- cause his wife kicked him while he was praying. Possibly he was praying that he might become a widower be- fore it yas too late. Piano manufacturers ate ¢ohfidnted with the necessity of nraking stronger instruments. When Paderewski is in good form he can hammer the life out of one in two sittings. Sir Oliver Lodge has now discover ed an electric current that will dis- sipate fog. A current so vast and powerful as that must be a thing to dodge, for it reads as if it would dis- sipate people. Chang, Barnum’s old Chinese giant, has started in as a religious revival- is If Chang ever really gets hold of a doubter, it is probable that the doubter will “see his way” to going to the mourner’s bench. An orator with influenza can spread microbes among the audience for a distance of forty feet. And fallacies for an infinitely greater distance. Moral: When at a meeting keep your mind open and your mouth shut. —— Rerald-Review. [TEN MEN DO THE DIETZ STUNT ARMED WITH RIFLES THEY HOLD ’ RIVER IN ST. LOUIS COUN- TY, MINN. \ | NAN PATTERSON’S No Women Spectators Will lowed at Trial. New York, April 19.—The third trial of Nan Patterson, charged with the murder of Caesar Young in a cab in this city last summer, was begun in the court og general sessions before Recorder Goff yesterday. There were 200 talesmen in court for selection in the special panel, and three of them had been accepted as jurors when the case was adjourned until to-day. The Be Al- THEY THREATEN LOG DRIVERS former actress personally directed the WANT PAY FOR ALLOWING LOGS | lowed thirty challenges. TO PASS THROUGH THEIR LAND. POSSE IS FRIGHTENED AWAY ARMED MEN IN BARRICADED HOUSE PREPARED FOR RE- SISTANCE. Duluth, Minn., April 19.—Ten armed men are doing the same stunt on the Floodwood river in St. Louis county that John Dietz is doing at Cameron dam on the Thornapple river in Wis- consin. When a log driving crew in the employ cf Coolidge & Schussler at- tempted to start a boom of logs on the Floodwood, they were notified by Mike Anderson and Erick Perkie, cwn- ers of the land just below the boom, that the logs must not be allowed to come down through their land until some satisfactory arrangement for compensation was made with them. The foreman said he had orders to go ahead and _ proposed to do so, whereupon, he alleges, the claimants declared they would kill him if he did not heed their warning. The men were armed with rifles. Constable Laughed At. A messenger was sent to Floodwood to notify the authorities, and a consta- ble came out with the necessary pa- pers ‘o enjoin Anderson and Perkie. He says the latter laughed him to scorn and@ told him to go back home. The constable did go back, but re- turned shortly with seven other men to enforce service of the papers. When selection of the jurors by the defense. A large crowd witnessed the proceed- ings. Counsel for each side was al- Under an order of Recorder Goff there will ie no women spectators allowed at the trial. In the same court earlier in the day, before Judge Foster, District Attorney Jerome charged that J. Morgan Smith and his wife were, by virtue of coun- sel, kept out of the jurisdiction of the New York courts. Mr. Jerome said he would produce the evidence on which he based this allegation if the court desired. The court allowed Mr. Limberger, counsel for the Smiths, un- til to-day to make his reply. ; FIFTY NEWSBOYS INJURED. Only Four Killed in Crush But Others May Die. Indianapolis, April 19. — No deaths have been added to the list of four boys that lost their lives in the crush of newsboys in the stairway of the Ma- sonic building Monday night, eager to optain free seat checks for a perform- ance at a local theater. But the re- vised list of injured shows that no fewer than fifty were more or less in- jured. Of this number fully twenty- five were seriously crushed and ihe death list may be increased. Many of the boys who were unconscious when taken from the mass of humanity jammed and heaped in the stairway, soon revived and they were able to go to their homes without assistance. A number of them sold the newspaper extras on the disaster, and others went to the theater. TO ASK GARFIELD TO HEbP. Missouri Attorney General Seeks Facts on Oil Trust’s Actions. Jefferson City, Mo., April 19.—Her- bert S. Hadley, attorney general, will go to Kansas City to-day for a confer- they arrived the two men had retired to Perkie’s house, and eight of their friends, all armed, were with them, it is declared, prepared to make re- sistance. The posse members say ten rifles protruded) from the dwelling. The men in the house commanded a view of the river, and could stop the driving crew from acting while under cover of the dwelling. Prudent Posse Retires. The constable and his men did not think it wise to attack the house, but, justead, sent word to Sheriff Bates in Duluth to come with a force of depu- ties. Sheriff Bates at present has his hands full with the strike on the Mesaba ratige, but he will send a posse to Floodwood as soon as pdssi- ple. The owners of the logs claim that ‘Anderson and Perkie already have leen well paid by the Floodwood Riv- er Improvement company for the priv- ilege of driving logs through their land, Yt N NEW CODE IS THB LAW. a Governor Signs It in Presence of Com: missioners. St. Paul, April 19.—The new code is now the law of this state, Gov. John A. Johnson at noon yesterday signed the document in the presence of three members of the revision commission. G. J. Krox,.a member of the commis- gion, brought the great mass of papers upon which the new code was written into the governor's office a few min- utes before 12 o'clock. Mr, Knox had his arms full, for the document, as large as a counter ledger and two feet thick, weighs more than forty pounds. are ais AE OVERCOME WITH SURPRISE Mrs. De Motte, Living Near Crookston, Bequeathed $100,000. Crookston, Minn., April 19.—As & te ward for kindness shown him. by Mrs, Mary De Motte when she was a child, an Illinois millionaire named Brokaw bequeathed $100,000 to her, and yes- terday, when she was found on a farm two miles from here she was overcome with surprise. PAC ee Country Residences Burned. Baraboo, Wis., April 19—The coun- try residence occupied by William Stombaugh, caught fire and the family narrowly escaped through a trap door by way of the cellar. The husband and and wife and children were more or less burned. The farm residence of Henry Risley was burned and an in- valid aunt narrowly escaped. Killed by Train. Marquette, Mich., April 19:—Will- iam Monaghan, a landseeker, was run over by a train last night and instatit- ly killed. His home was in Traverse City. eS “fashion journal tells the women * that -“cheery colors should be worn to dispel the gloom of rainy days.” Nothing, however, can ever dispel the gloom of the average fashion journal from a purely masculine point of view. 3 lee Arthur MeVickers, eight years old, has been sent to jail at Harrison, N. J., for stealing a bucket of coal from a railroad company.. It's a serious matter in New Jersey to steal any- thing less than 2 railroad or a Sena- torial toga. DEF Child Dies of Burns. ence with Commissioner Garfield, who is to deliver an address there on ‘Thursday. Mr. Hadley intends to ask the commissioner to help him get facts for use in his fight with the Standard Oil interests in Missouri. Mr. Hadley said: “Missouri has contributed dollars to the trust where Kansas has contrib- uted pennies. If the people under- stood how contribution to the oil com- panies had been enforced they would be heard from one corner of the state to the other, I want aid in the great fight.” CAPT. EVANS DENIED AID. The Syiph, Disabled, Passed Unheeded by Steamer. Washington, April 19—The navy de- partment has received a report from Capt. Evans of the Sylph respecting the accident to that ship. He says: “Shortly after dark on the night of the 12th a steamer, which I have since been informed was the Oteri of the United Fruit Company of Balti- more, passed the ship. I made dis- tress signals to her and she headed in, passing within fifty yards of the Sylph. I asked for assistance, telling him I was disabled. - He refused to assist me, did not even slow down, and passed out of sight. I beg that the de- partment take further action in this matter,” JEFFERSON GROWS WORSE. Physicians Say He May Pass Away at Any Moment. West Palm Beach, Fla., April 19. — Joseph Jefferson’s condition remains unchanged, except that he is gradually growing weaker. His trouble is a com- plication of diseases from which he suffered last summer. His physicians regard his condition as critieal in the extreme, and it would not be surpris- ing if he should pass away at any mo- ment, yet he may rally and live for days or even weeks. The veteran act- or realizes that his end is near and looks forward to it without fear. All hope for his recovery has been ‘aban- doned by his famiiy. IMPOSED HEAVY FINE. First Man Arrested With Cigarette Papers on Person Fined $25. Muncie, Ind., April 19.—Chester Bell was fined $25 and costs yesterday in police court ‘on a charge of having cigarette papers in his pocket. This is the first penalty assessed in Indiana since the anti-cigarette bill became effective. Bell said he had never smoked a cigarette in his life. He ‘was. arrested on another charge, and, on being searched the papers were found in his pocket. Judge White warned Bell that a repetition would call fora ‘fine of $100. eal eben ‘Attacked by Bandits. New Richland, Minn., April 19-—The three-and-a-half-year-old daughter of ‘Albert Grau, residing four miles north- west of here, ‘Was fatally burned while playing about’a ‘bonfire. The little one lived twelve hours after the accident. ‘For Fraudulent Banking. ‘Keosaujay, Iowa, April 19.—E. H. ‘Skinner of the private banking firm of E. H. Skinner & Sons, Birmingiam, ‘Towa, has been indicted on nine counts ‘for fraudulent banking. The éeficit ‘will renee Probably $40,000. “Shanghai, ‘April 19—An American missionary ‘named Kennedy was at- tacked by ‘more than a hundred ‘waraud2rs near Hangchow. One re- port says he was severely wounded, while another says he was killed. 4 TExptosion Fatal to Two. - Kingston, Ont., April 19.— A gas buoy in process of filling on board the government steamer Scout esploded , Killing one and injuring ‘four of her crew. Two of the injured will die. TRIAL ON. | ‘tant measures WHAT HAS BEEN DONE © BY THE LEGISLATURE Will Be Remembered Chiefly for the Passage of Revised Code of Minnesota’s Laws. Wide-Open Tax. Amendment—Laws Regulat- ing Railroad Rates—State Highway Commission—State Lands. The thirty-fourth legislature has accomplished a great deal more than was expected of it when it convened Jan. 3. It has received, digested, amended, passed, re-amended and re-passed the revised statutes of Minne- sota, containing all the laws passed by the state since its organization. It has approved the proposition to submit to the people a constitutional amendment providing for the removing of all restrictions to taxation, and the adoption of the “wide open” tax system. ‘ It has freed the university from the state board of control; has estab- lished a state highway commission; abolished bucketshops; investigated rail- road rates, grain weighing and inspection, illuminating oils, stock yard charges, and almost everything else that could be examined; and has gone into fees, salaries and emoluments of state officers to an unusual degree. a ee a O_o ees The Minnesota legislature of i905 has completed its work. The record of the session will give the first legis- lature meeting in the new state capi- tol a prominent place in the history of the state. Foremost and above all other enact- ments stands the revision of the laws. It is a complete revision of the entire body of the law of the. state, and fur- nished a greater task than had ever before confronted a Minnesota legis- lature. The members of the judiciary committees of the house and senate, which considered the code, declare that as passed it will be of great ben- efit to the state. Wide Open Tax Amendment. Next to the new code in importance and perhaps of greater benefit to the state is the wide open tax amendment which passed both branches of the ieg- islature almost without opposition. This substitutes for the present in- volved and cumbersome terms of the . constitution a short, consice section on taxation, providing only that taxes upon the same class of subjects shall be uniform and collected for public purposes, retaining the present ex- emptions from taxation. The meas- ure, if ratified by the voters, will per- mit almost any form of taxation which the legislature desires to enact, and will permit the adjustment of the tax on each class of property in conform- ity with what it is able to bear, somé- thing impossible under the present re- quirement that all property be as- sessed at its full cash value. Important Measures Passed. Although the new code hampered legislation, several groups of impor- were passed, and thorough investigation made of rail- road rates and charges in Minnesota. The investigation resulted in the en- actment of a series of measures which, when a sufficient appropriation is made to make them effective, are ex- pected to result in great benefits to the state. ‘A group of measures relating to the | management, drainage and sale of state lands was enacted that will mean more, the legislators believe, for the development of Northern Minnesota than any legislation enacted by previ- ous legislatures. The state university and normal schools were removed from the dom- ination of the state board of control, a matter that furnished one of the keenest contests in the session of 1903. Highway Commission. The legislature also established a state highway commission, as kas been agitated ‘by good roads interests during four previous sessions. A joint legislative investigating committee held sitiings throughout al- most the entire session and accumu- lated a mass of valuable evidence, and prepared five railway bills which passed both branches. The most im- portant is the measure to prohibit the increase of railroad rates or charges without the written consent of the state railroad and warehouse commis- sion, and giving that body greater power in the regulation of rates and ‘charges. Another bill requires the ‘state railroad commission to prosecute complaints of individuals, as to inter- state grievances, before the interstate commerce commission. Freight Rates. A complete readjustment of freight yates ‘in Minnesota is provided for by a joint resolution’ introduced by the rate investigating committee. The re- adjustment is to secure a substantial reduction in merchandise rates. The resolution provides that the difference between distributing and distance tar- iffs for the same mileage shall not ex- ceed 5 per cent. The cost of such a readjustment, however, will be be- tween $40,000 and $50,000, so that with ] its allowance of $20,000 per year for the performance of all its duties, the railroad commission can Co practical- ly nothing toward carrying out the res- olution. The other bills offered by the spe- cial committee provided a penaity of $5,000 on transportation companies giving rebates or any reductions to influence the movement of freight, and make it a’misdemeanor to receive re- bates. Congress was memorialized to enact legislaticn to give the interstate commerce commission increased pow- ey to enforce the long and short-haul clause, and eventually to abolish pri vate car lines. Reciprocal Demurrage. © By far the hardest fought contest of | the session was occasioned by the re- ciprocal demurrage bill; introduced in the house by Representative W. I. Nolan of Grand Meadow, and backed by the Minnesota Shippers’ associa- tion. Mr. Nolan succeeded in getting the measure through the house. It was extensively amended by the sen- ate committee, and reported out to pass in its emasculated form. The railroads opposed the bill and present- ed evidence to show that it would not aid the shippers, and would impose unreascnable hardships upon carriers. The bill was fiinally killed in the house, the conferees being unable to agree, Many Railroad Bills. Railroad agitation was so prominent in the public thought when the session convened that it was not surprising that about three times as many bills relating to railroads were introduced as at any previous session of the leg- islature. With the exception of the legislation reported by the special in- vestigating committee only two or three bills of minor importance have become Jaws, State Lands. Business-like care of the state's lands and a wide-awake quest for actu- al settlers, that is likely to mean much for Northern Minnesota is brought about by a series of bills introduced in the house and eventually molded into satisfactory form by the public lands and the immigration committees. Rep- resentatives A.C. Cole of Walker, Marcus Lauritsen and Asher Murray were the leaders in securing this legis- lation. The law to regulate the state sale of state timber, and providing for the punishment of trespassers was also enacted, largely the result of pills upon the subject by Representative R. H. Jefferson of Bingham Lake. Inheritance Tax. An inheritance tax law imposing a tax on all bequests and inheritances in excess of $10,000 is practically the only important tax legislation of the session aside from the constitutional amendment by Representative W. P. Roberts, giving the legislature the ut- most latitude in tax legislation. Board of Control Fight. The removal of the state university and normal schools from the jurisdic tion of the state board of control is by far the most important measure passed relating to state institutions. New Capitol Bill. The care and maintenance of the new state capitol developed one of the keenest fights of the session. Senator Horton’s bill, as amended by the house, being finally passed over Goy. Johnson’s veto, as the result of party caucuses of both houses. The measure gives the capitol com- mission contro] of the building until fully completed, and allows it. two years in which to finish the building. i Aim Is Good Roads. The establishment of a state high- way commission to superintend the distribution of the state road and bridge fund and give information as to the building of roads is one of the most important measures enacted by the legislature, and achieves the end for which the good roads associations lave been working for four sessions of the legislature. Pure Food Legislation. The most important pure food legis- lation is the bill by Representative Marcus Lauritsen of Tyler, which al- lows the state inspectors to detain food products shipped into the state while in the hands of carriers, and in- spect and examine them. If found il- legal, the products are to be dealt with as if sold or manufactured in Minnesota. The bill is now in effect and one conviction of a box car mer- chant has been secured under it. New Game Laws. A general revision of the game and fish laws was passed, which was draft- ed by the state game and fish commis- sion. It provides for a residept hunt- er’s license of $1 to shoot small game outside the county in which the hunt- er resides, and limits the game bag to two deer and twenty-five game birds, and reduces the number of birds that may be killed in one day to fifteen. Kills Bucket Shops. One of the most important general regulative measures passed was the bill by Representative Gustav Erick- son of: Canby which prohibits bucket shops in Minnesota. The measure has been signed by the governor and is now in effect. It prohibits all fu- ture trades: not made on @ regularly organized board of trade or made with the intention of settlement on the basis of differences in price. Viola- tions are punishable by a fine of from $500 to $2,000, and it is made a crime to offer to make such illegal trades. Persons furnishing bucket shops with public market quotation are made guilty and may be punished by the same fine as the proprietor of the bucket shop. Little Election Legislation. There has been practically no im- portant legislation on the subjects of election or banking. Representative J. G. Lund’s bill to prohibit the use of the words “bank, banking or say- ings bank” by private banks passed the house but was killed in the sen- ate, The house killed five bills relating to the nomination of candidates for state offices, and the senate killed the various measures on the same subject pefore it. The only election bill passed was: H. F. 226. Adams—Prohibiting the signing of petitions to nominate inde- pendent candidates for office before the holding of the primary election. An important change in the present criminal laws is made in a bill by Sen- ator Albert Schaller, which has pass- ed both houses. It allows persons. bound ovér to the grand jury on a charge of crime punishable by impris- onment for not more than five years, to plead guilty without waiting for in- dictment by the grand jury. Liquor Laws. H. F. 21, Dowling—Making the pos- session of liquor prima facie evidence of intent to sell it illegally. H.F. 629, Smith—A method for se- curing evidence of the illegal sale of liquor by the examination by justice courts of persons suspected of know- ing of the same. H. F. 51,Zelch—Prohibiting the sale of liquor to paroled prisoners. S. F. 115, Collester — Prohibiting the administering of poison to animals. Among the minor miscellaneous bills passed are: S. F. 49, Brower—Providing for the state census of 1905. H. F. 36, Stone—Allowing counties to invest sinking funds in farm mort- gages. S. F. 72, Johnson—Providing for the purchase of a site for a monument commemorating the signing of the Traverse des Sioux treaty. IS “EVEN” WITH ALLEGED PAL. Elk River, Minn., April 19.—Arthur C. Losee, alias Palmer, the alleged ac- complice of C. D. Crawford; who mur- dered Heino Lundeen in a box car, yesterday made a poor witness in his own behalf, both in direct testimony and in cross-examination. The plan- ning of the terrible crime, the shoot- ing, the ownership of the flash light, and even the robbing of the dead body | were all laid on Crawford, Palmer’s oonly admission being that he went through the pockets of the rest of the boys in the car. While Palmer was on the Stand Crawford, who was brought from Minneapolis for the express pur- ! pose of going on the stand to try and save his alleged pal, was waiting his. turn. When the time came for him to go on the stand he flatly refused, and whenever Palmer's statements conflicted with the testimony of the previous witnesses Crawford did not hesitate to give the lie to them. The evidence is all in and the case will be finished to-day. Then both men will know thei fate. Frank Lindell’s barn and hay shed, containing ten tons of hay, three horses, harness and tools, were de- stroyed by fire at Marine. The prop- erty was near the railroad track and it | is thought that sparks from a locomo- tive were blown by the strong wind into the hay. The loss is $2,000, cov- ered by insurance. et president Weld of the Moorhead normal lectured at the Litchfield op- era house to officers of the county the teachers and school’ Citizens of Pelican Rapids have or- ganized a commercial club for the purpose of civic improvement. A ban- quet is to be given soon. Officers: 0. M. Carr, president; F. J. Cocking, vice president; S. O. Diffendorf, secretary; C, R. Frazee, treasurer. Ce Prof. Lange-of the St. Paul high school has been secured by the St. Cloud Ladies’ Readingroom society to deliver an illustrated ‘lecture on Frank L. Gorenfio, president of the Cass Lake village council, is suffering with an aggravated case of appendi- citis and is in Rochester to have an operation performed. The contract for building a bridge across the Mississippi at Elk River has been let to W. F. Chadbourne for $21,950, Nicholas Boltes, a patient sent from asylum at Fergus Falls. “Birds, ‘on Suiurday afternoon, April | Stearns county in 1900, died at the