Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 3, 1905, Page 3

ns BANDIT TRIES 10 HOLD UP TRAIN DARING AND ALMOST SUCCESS. FUL ATTEMPT TO ROB THE LIMITED. QUICK WIT SAVES THE MONEY COURAGE OF ENGINEER AND MESSENGER DEFEATS THE ROBBRE’S PLANS. Missoula, Mont., May 30. — A lone robber made a daring and almost suc- cessful attempt to hold up and rob the east-bound North Coast limited on the Northern Pacific Saturday night at Bearmouth, the little station which has been the scene of so many famous train robberies. That the bandit was not successful, and that he is now a prisoner, unconscious, in the county jail at Drummond, is due to the quick wit and courage of Engineer Wilson and Express Messenger Laub. Ordered to Halt. The train reached Bearmouth at 11 o'clock Saturday night, and had just finished taking water, when the engi- meer and fireman heard a gruff voice ordering them to hold up their hands, the command being reinforced by a couple of six-shooters in the hands of a tall, broad-shouldered fellow, whose face was partially concealed by a slouch hat, which was pulled down low over his forehead. The engine crew promptly obeyed the summons and were then ordered to decend and cut loose the express ear. This was done, and the bandit ordered them to pull out, the remain- ing on the engine and keeping the en- gineer and fireman covered with his revolvers. When Mile Post No. 81, two miles east of Bearmouth, was reached, the engine was halted and the robber marched the engineer to the express car, where he was ordered to summon the messenger to come out. Is Taken Unawares. The messenger, taken unawares, opened the door at the engineer's summons and, seeing that a hold-up was in progress, quickly closed it and refused to allow the engineer or. the bandit te enter. The robber, however, had a plentiful supply of dynamite, and threatened, if the messenger did not leave the car, to blow the car up with the messenger inside it. Under this duress, the messenger agreed to come out, and, after being relieved of his revolver, he was lined up with the engineer and fireman. The robber then attached a stick of dynamite to the safe in the car and blew off the door, badly shattering the side of the car. When the smoke of the explosion had sleared away the engineer was or- dered to enter the car ahead of the robber, and the messenger to follow. the bandit found himself in the ear he ordered Wilson to strike a match, that they might take a view of the damage done by the explosive. As the tiny flame flickered the bandit swept his eye through the wrecked car and saw the wealth of the safe scattered about in great confusion, Ready to Strike. But Engineer Wilson saw some- thing more. He saw that Messenger Laub, who was following the bandit, had picked up a heavy piece of timber from the wrecked car, and held it raised ready to deal the robber a death blow. Wilson quickly blew out the match and almost at the same in- stant the bludgeon descended upon the outlaw’s skull, knocking him un- conscious. The messenger and engineer quickly seized the prostrate robber, bound him with rope, and. running the car on to Drummond, turned him over to the county officials. He had not regained consciousness late yesterday, and it is believed that he will not recover. The express car was not so badly wrecked that it could not go on with the train, and after the scattered contents of the safe had been gath- ered up and temporary repairs made, the engine was run back to the rest of the train, and the journey eastward was continued. There was much excitement and un- easiness among the passengers aboard the train, but none of them was mo- lested in any way. The contents of the safe was not much injured, and none of the valuables was destroyed. So far the lone robber has not been identified. SNAKE’S BITE FATAL, Child Lives Only a Few Hours After Being Bitten by a Reptile. Sioux Falls, S. D., May 29.a— The first report of a death as the result of a rattlesnake bite in South Dakota thus far this year comes from Greg- ory county. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hale, who live south of the new town of Gregory, in the ceded portion of the Rosebud reservation, was the victim. She lived only a few jours after the deadly reptile had fastened its fangs in her. Northwest News. LUMBER CAMPS BURN. Forest Fires Cause Great Loss on Gopher Range. Two Harbors, Minn., May 27. — In the forest fires that raged to the west ad north of here Wednesday night, the damage wrought was probably the greatest of any fire that has occurred in this vicinity, and the area scorched was extensive. The settlers were in peril all day and night, and while no fatalities are reported, nearly all sus- tained losses. Many of the settlers came here for safety. Stations and bridges along the Duluth & Iron range road were threatened and tele- phone lines were down in many Places. Costly in Wisconsin. Ashland, Wis., May 27.—Forest fires south of Ashland have destroyed about $15,000 worth of hemlock bark belonging to the United States Lum- ber company, a half-million feet of logs belonging to the Foster-Latimer Lumber company, and thousands of cords of pulp and cord wood belong- ing to small jobbers. A saloon build- ing at York Siding was destroyed and the mill at Tyler's Fork narrowly es- caped. LOBBYISTS DENOUNCED. Gov. La Follette Urges That They Be Legislated Out of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis., May 27. — Gov. La Follette yesterday sent to the legisia- ture a message urging legislation that would destroy secret lobbying. He strongly denounces “the impudent railway lobby,” which, he says, has cost the state millions of dollars in the last six years and has been a nuisance and disgrace on the legislative halls of the atste. The railroad lobbyists are described as a set of incompetent men, “best fitted for private argu- ment,” but whom the railroads “would not trust with a petty damage suit in justice court.” The governor declares members of the legislature were dogged to their hotels and their lives made miserable the past winter by agents of railroads, the book trust and the telephone trust. The governor declares the practice of secret lobbying is “wrong in principle and absolutely certain to be vicious in practice.” FENCE GOVERNMENT LAND. Grand Jury May Indict Little Missouri Horse Company. Fargo, N. D., May 27.—The United States grand jury {s investigating the affairs of the Little Missouri Horse company. It is claimed the company has 50,000 or more acres of govern- ment land ferced in south of Dickin- son. Five years ago the government issued orders that the fences must be removed. After consulting attorneys the company learned it was in the wrong, and informed the government the order would be obeyed, but noth- ing has been done, and the matter is being presented to the grand jury. The men behind the enterprise reside in Pennsylvania, and it is thought in- dictments will be found against them. GUARD FAILS TO WING HIM. Fort Snelling Prisoner Escapes Senti- nel and Bullets. St. Paul, May 27.—After two days as a prisoner charged with desertion, Private Charles Clements yesterday afternooa made a dash for liberty from his guard at Fort Snelling and escaped. Sentinel William Halpin was in charge of the prisoner, who was working at the rock crusher. The sentinel shot at him several times but did not succeed in stopping him. When Sentinel Halpin saw it would be impossible to capture the man without assistance he sent word to the officer of the guard and pursuit was made. Clemeats was rot. retaken, however. FIRE NEARLY BURNS FAMILY. South Stillwater Residents Night for Lives. Stillwater, May 27. — Nels Wiberg, his wife and four small children, clad in blankets and quilts, barely escaped with their lives from the burning welling at 3 o'clock yesterday morn- ing. They lived in the southern part of South Stillwater in a small frame house, which, together with all the housetold goods and their clothing, as well as. four outhouses, were con- sumed, the loss being $1,200, with no insurance. Flee in LEAD POSSE AGAINST DIETZ. Former Sheriff Appleby of Janesville to Serve Uncle Sam. Janesvile, Wis., May 27. — Former Sheriff William Appleby has been sworn in as united States marshal and has been sent to Park Falls to take charge of a party of deputies who will try to arrest John Dietz. Dietz con- tinues in his refusal to’ yield posses- sion of logging property at Cameron dam. MAN OF 85 DEAD ON TRACK. Death Believed Due to Physical Ex- haustion. Albert Lea, Minn., May 27.—Anders Jensen, eighty-five years old, was found dead beside the track of the Milwaukee road, seven miles west of this city. Examination discloses that he had died from exhaustion. He lived near this city and was here Tuesday. It is supposed that while he was sitting down to rest the end came. | id repo! business methods of the packers ap- When the Garfiel peared, after eight months’ investiga- | tion, it was severely criticised and roundly denounced. After three months of publicity it is significant that those who attenipted to discredit it have failed to controvert the figures contained in that exhaustive docu- ment. The public is beginning to no- tice this omission, and the feeling 18 rapidly growing that the sensational charges out of which the “Beef In- vestigation” arose were without foun- dation. If the official statements of the report are susceptible of contra- diction, a good many people are now asking why ihe facts and figures are not furnished to contradict them. The truth seems to be that most of the charges contain unfounded sensa- tional assertions. A flagrant example of this appeared in a recent article in an Eastern magazine, to the effect that “forty Iowa banks were forced to close their doors in 1903-4 by the Beef Trust’s manipulation of cattle prices.” Chief Clerk Cox, of the bank- ing department of the Iowa State Au- ditor’s office, has tabulated the list of banks given in the magazine article and has publicly denounced the state- ment as utterly untrue. He gives separately the reasons for each fail- ure, mentioned and officially states that they have been caused by unwise speculations and by reckless banking methods. It may be well to suspend judgment upon the packers until the charges against them are proved. A Raft of Cocoanuts. A curious picture in the Far East- ern Review, Manila, shows several co- coanut rafts in a still lagoon, appar- ently ready to go to market. The cocoants are much lighter than water. They are simply thrown in by the thousand and then roped together by long strands of bark fiber into cir- cular groups about twenty feet across, all the cocoanuts lying side by side. A single native boat can tow a num- ber of these odd rafts down a slug- gish stream where no road could be found for ordinary transit, to a steam- er wharf. Cocoanuts thus rafted will bear quite a bit of wind and rough water without being scattered. Coccanut trees are best grown in orchards set out in rows thirty feet apart. Four acres of trees should yield a million cocoanuts during their lifetime. To Scare Away Crows. I can give a sure preventive against corn pulling by the black rogues. I had tried all sorts of devices, and was rigging a scarecrow, when a aie came along and said: “Tie ears of corn to the tops” ot poles around your field and the crows won't stay nigh it.” I said: “They will eat the corn, and you and they will both laugh at me.” I tried the plan, however, and sure enough, they looked at those poles and went away and staid away. I suppose it was on the same principle as that of the Trojan warrior who said, “I most fear the Greeks when offering gifts."—E. P. Powell, in Suburban Life. Of the Conventional Kind. Mistress—Verna, what kind of meat have you in the pantry this morning? Cook—There’s some scraps of beef, ma’am, an’ a little boiled hom, an’ what’s left of the roast pork we had yesterday. Mistress—Well, work them up into a chicken salad for dinner.—Chicage Tribune. BOOK OF BOOKS. — Over 30,000,000 Published. An Oakland lady who has a taste for good literature, tells what a happy time she had on “The Road to Well- ville,” (Bhe gaya: ory Ae “I drank coffee freely for eight years before I began to perceive any evil effects from it. Then I noticed that I was becoming very nervous, and that my stomach was gradually losing the power to properly assimi- late my food. In time I got so weak that I dreaded to leave the house— for no reason whatever but because of the miserable condition of my nerves and stomach. I attributed the trouble to anything in the world but coffee, of course. I dosed myself with medi- cines, which in the end would leave me in a worse condition than at first. I was most wretched and discourag- ed—not 30 years old and feeling that life was a failure! “I had given up all hope of ever enjoying myself like other people, till one day I read the little book “The Road to Wellville.” It opened my eyes, and taught me a lesson I shall never forget and cannot value too highly. I immediately quit the use of the old kind of coffee and began to drink Postum Food Coffee. I noticed the beginning of an improvement in the whole tone of my system, after only two days’ use of the new drink, and in a very short time realized that I could go about like other people without the least return of the ner- vous dread that formerly gave me so much trouble. In fact my nervous- ness disappeared entirely and has never returned, although it is now @ year that I have been drinking Postum Food Coffee. And my stomach is now like iron—nothing can upset it! “Last week, during the big Con- clave in San Francisco, I was: on the go day and night without the slight. est fatigue; and as I stood in the im- mense crowd watching the great par- ade that lasted for hours, I thought to myself, ‘This strength is what Pos- tum Food Coffee has given me!’” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. The little book “The Road to Well- ville” may be found in every pkg best means of advertising state lands. Elmer Cummings, ten years old, was drowned while swimming in the Blue Earth river at Blue Earth. Lieut. Col. Gerlach has completed an inspection of the national guard and |« found every’ any, BhONe grade. Gov. Johnson has ‘named Aug. 9 a: State officers are considering the} ae Educational ‘eae of the State Best _ in the Union. ’ Minnesota offers the widest oppor- tunities in the line of public educa- tion. Its permanent school fund is larger than any other Northern state. This now amounts to sixteen million dollars, and since by a wise provision of legislation only the interest can be used, the state auditor estimates it will eventually approximate seventy- five million dollars. There is no sec- tion of the state so remote as not to be reached by the public school. The first concern of the settler, even be- fore he has fully established his own “home, is to make provision for a school. Free education is accorded every the day for executing William will child in Minnesota, and more than two- iams, the sac Paul double: murderer. Dr. Koch's thira trial for the Geb- hardt murder has been set for July 6, and bail to the amount of $20,000 was given. State Treasurer Block proposes to cash the $2,000,000 worth of Virginia bonds held by the permanent scliool fund. Frank Elliott, ‘aged 32, and Frank Green, aged 30, were smothered to death ‘in a fire at the Flour City hotel in Minneapolis. Gov. Johnson will ineeutigats a com- plaint from Duluth that the grocers? and butchers’ association violate the state anti-trust law. The residence of W. H. Harries of Caledonia took fire from a defective chimney and the roof was damaged. Loss fully covered by insurauce. Rey. Peter A. Mattson, Ph. D., who was graduated-in 1894 from Gustavus Adolphus at St. Peter, has been in- stalled president of the institution. Mrs. Hanhah Schroeder, who sued the city of Lake City for $1,000 for per- sonal injuries received on account of a defective sidewalk, was awarded $250. Herman Gross, a young man about twenty years old, committed suicide at Long Prairie by shooting himself. He has been a resident of this place for a number of years. The Stearns county board has au- thorized the construction of Le Sauk and St. Wendel drain. The ditch is thirteen miles long and will cost $15,- 000. It will drain 10,000 acres of farm land. Authority has been granted for the organization of the First National bank of Springfield, Minn., capital $25,- 000; A. G. Anderson, F. J. Sheffield, J. P. Wendt and Martha Anderson, in- corporators. Mrs, C. N. Haugen, the wife of C. N. Haugen, who has represented Otter Tail county in the legislature for the past eight years, died at their home in Pelican Rapids at the age of 39 years, from cancer. She leaves five children. After twelve hours of the most in- tense agony, Mrs. Floyd Hall died at St. James. Her death is the result of the explosion of a kerosene can. She was terribly burned, her body being literally baked. The authorities ot St. Mary’s hall, the famous school for girls at Fari- pault, declare false the report that an epidemic of scarlet fever is raging in that institution. They declare that Miss Louise McClure died of heart failure and not of the fever. The state veterinary surgeon was called to examine the horses on the farm of Charles Raasch, near Belle Cluster. Glanders was found to exist in a severe form and all of the horses were ordered killed at once to prevent the spreading of the disease. The following changes in salaries of presidential postmasters in Minnesota, effective July 1, were announced: In- creases, Hutchinson, $1,700 to $1,800; Janesville, $1,300 to $1,400; Lake City, $2,100 to $2,200; Mankato, $2,800 to $2,900; Little Falls, $2,200 to $2,300. Decreases, Kenyon, $1,400 to $1,300; Lakefield, $1,400 to $1,300. Mrs. Emeline Taylor fell from the second story of her home in Minneap- olis and died as a result of her injur- ies. She was standing in front of an open window when she fainted and fell forward through the window to the sidewalk below. Her skull was frac- tured. The remains were taken to Ames, Iowa, for burial. Mrs. P. J. Peterson died at Fond du Lac, a suburb of Duluth, at the age of 82 years. She was one of the oldest residents of Duluth, and was the moth- er of the first white child born at Du- luth, Charles A. Peterson. Two sons and two daughters survive her. She came to Duluth from Chicago in 1857 on the steamer Lady Elgin. It was on the return trip that the steamer was destroyed by fire and all on board per- ished. Mrs. Peterson had been a wid- ow for thirty years. Falling headlong from a scaffold sus- pended eighteen feet in the air, Peter Becka, a prominent farmer living four miles south of Farmington, was fatally injured. Becka was working on a building located on the farm, when he suddenly fell. A physician was called, who found the neck was broken in two places. He cannot live. The store of W. F. Rupprecht at Nashua was entered by burglars and goods valued at $200 carried off. The stolen goods consist chiefly of shoes. The Village offers a liberal reward for the capture of the thteves. thirds of the districts also furnish free text books. Last year there were 4,- 289 libraries in connection with this number of public schools, more than -half of them in the rural or common school districts. Half the cost of es- tablishing and maintaining these _li- braries is met by the state. The public schools are supported partly through local taxation and part- ly by indirect state aid through the one-mill state tax and the income arising out of the permanent school fund. In addition, special state aid is granted—$1,500 to high schools, $550 to graded schools, $250 to semi- graded, and $125 and $50 respectively to the two classes of rural schools. The high and graded schools are under the supervision of the state high school board, which fixes the standard such schools must reach before they re- ceive the special state aid. There are now 145 graded schools in the smaller towns and villages. These schools maintain from four to six departments, are in session nine months, and give instruction in all the branches leading up to high school work. The 170 high schools of the state offer free in- struction to any pupil in Minnesota, this being one of the few states giv- ing entirely free high school tuition. The five state normal schools, at Winona, Mankato, St. Cloud, Moor- head and Duluth, train teachers for public school work. Collectively, they enroll over 1,700 in their normal train- ing departments. Each school also maintains a model training department in which those in attendance are taught and are instructed in the prop- er methods of teaching. The public school system finds its highest development in the splendid state university. Not only is the at- tendance equal to that of any one of the four or five largest universities in the country, but in its variety of courses of study, in its colleges of law, medicine, engineering and agri- culture, in the full and thorough equip- ment of every department, in the effi- cient service rendered by its instruc- tors, and in the high standard of ad- ministration maintained by its vener- able president, Cyrus Northrop, it takes rank with the foremost institu- tions of higher learning in America. The school of agriculture is in many respects the best organized school of this nature in the Union. And it is not alone in its public school system, closely articulated, and beginning with the rural school and ending with the state university, that Minnesota excels. It has also numer- ous private schools, academies and col- leges, maintained by various churches or founded and kept up through the endowments of private individuals. Judge Buck Is No More. Judge Daniel Buck, one of Minne- sota’s most prominent citizens, died at Mankato of heart disease brought on by nervous debility. He had been aib ing for the past two years, and about a year ago he took a trip south, and his daughter, Mrs. Laura B. Abbott, went along with him to keep, him com- pany in his old age. He got very lone- some in the South and came back home. He was taken to a hospital, where he remained for about a month, and he seemed to improve in health, and then his first thoughts were: I want to go back to my old home on the hill. Mrs. Abbott saw that he was re- moved to the old homestead about two months ago, and he seemed to be gain- hing in health, and his untimely death is a great shock to his many friends. Mrs, Buck died Dec. 13, 1899, and her death was a terrible shock to Judge Buck. Judge Buck was born at Boonevitle, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1829, and he came of revolutionary stock. He was educated in the common schools of Booneville, where he graduated with high honors. He studied law for a few years and was admitted to the bar in New York state. He came to Minnesota May 18, 1857, and at once began to practice law in Blue Earth county, and he con- tinned the same until a year ago. Judge Buck filled many positions of trust and honor at the hands of the public GOOD BAD MONEY. Counterfeit Half-Doliars Fooi Dakota Experts. Yankton, S. D., May 30.—The coun- try around Yankton has been flooded recently with counterfeit half-dollars so skillfully made as to impose upon experts. A man was arrested yester- day after passing one of them and a number were found on_ his person. The sheriff afterward gathered twen- ty-two such coins which the prisoner had circulated. South Sent to Sioux Falls Penitentiary. Howard, S. D., May 30 — Harry E. Eides and W. C. Owens were sen- tenced to the penitentiary at Sioux Falls by Judge Whiting for stealing horses. These are the men that Sher- iff Clark tracked to Seattle, Wash., lagt fall. NTA EEA GOVERNMENT LIGHT. HISTORIC CHICKAMAUGA PARK ABLAZE WITH ILLUMINATION. United States System of Lighting Mili- tary Post Pronounced Gratifyingly Successful—Six and One-Half Miles of Mains—Sixty-Five Street Lights. Chickamauga Park Ga., May 31— ‘The United States government has here in operation one of the largest acety- lene gas plants in the world. The mili- tary post at the entrance of the histor- ical Chickamauga battlefield where thirty thousand Union and Confederate soldiers were lost in the memorable battle of Sept. 19 and 20, 1863, contains about one hundred buildings, the seventy-five principal ones of which are lighted with acetylene. To accom- plish this six and one-half miles of mains and two miles of service pipes are in use, while sixty-five street lamps brilliantly illuminate the ave- nues of the post. In 1903 the War Department in- stalled a test acetylene plant at Fort Meyer, Virginia. The results were so gratifying and the superiority of the illuminant so evident that the government, March 20, 1904, placed the contract for the Chickamauga plant, in which every citizen of the United States should Lahn his pro rata of pride. But the government has not con- fined its acceptance of acetylene to this miflitary post. Since becoming satisfied of the efficiency, superiority and economical advantages of this particular illuminant, the United States has installed a number of plants in Indian schools and other gov- ernment institutions. Acetylene gas is one of the simplest as well as the most perfect of artificial lights. It is made by the contact of ‘water and carbide, (a manufactured product for sale at a nominal price), is absolutely safe and gives a beau- tiful white light soothing to the eyes and nerves. It can be produced any- where—in the farm home, the village store, the town hall, the church—and is so easily maintained as to be practical for all classes. It is a matter for national congratu- lation that in beautifying so historic a spot as Chickamauga, nothing but the best, including the lighting sys- tem, has been deemed good enough tor the American people. 3 His One Complaint. “Do they treat you well here?” ask- ed the good woman who was trying to do a little missionary work behind the bars. “Fairly well, ma’am,” answered the burglar, who was enjoying a three years’ vacation. “I have only ond fault to find with the treatment they hand out.” “What is that?” queried the lady visitor. “They refuse to let me carry a night key,” replied the visitor—Columbus Dispatch. Diplomacy. Madam,” said the tramp, as a mid- dle aged woman came to the door in answer to his knock, “would you give a poor old man a bite to eat?” “Why,” she replied, “you are cer- tainly able to earn a living. You don’t look very old.” “Looks are often ,very deceitful, lady,” answered the hungry hobo. “Why, I am old enough to be your grandfather.” And a moment later he had his feet under the kitchen table and nothing she had in the pantry was too good for him.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Pay of a Rose Grower. “A good rose grower—that is, one who can show good results,” says a well known florist, receives as much pay as a college professor. As a rule his knowledge has cost him about as much. “By a rose grower I mean a special- ist who can produce heavy-headed beauties with strong, yard-long stems. Growing roses in pots or in the open is another matter. It requires skill to grow them well, but it requires some- thing more to show cut flowers of the quality that has come to be consid- ered first grade.’ That is a business by itself.Good rose growers get from $2,000 to $5,000 a year, and some of them receive much more, notably a few who cater to the New York mar- ket.”—Philadelphia Record. In Record Time. Piney Flats, Tenn., May 29th.— (Special) —Cured in two days of Rheu- matism that had made his life a tor- ture for two years, D. S. Hilton of this place naturally wants every other sufferer from rheumatism to Jmow what cured him. It was Dodd’s Kidney Pills. “Dodd’s Kidney Pills are the grand- est pill on earth,” says Mr. Hilton. “I would not take any sum of money ° for what they did for me. For two years I had what the doctors called rheumatism. I could hardly walk around the house. It seemed to be in my back and hip and legs. I tried everything but nothing helped me till I got Dodd’s Kidney Pills.” “Two days after I took the first dose all pain left me and it has never come back since. I can’t praise Dodd’s Kidney Pills too much.” Rheumatism is caused by uric acid in the blood. Healthy kidneys take all the Uric Acid out of the blood. Dodd’s Kidney Pills make healthy kidneys. Still Waiting. “Have you ever contributed any- thing to the literary magazines, Mr. Wrymer?” “Why—aw—I don’t know yet, Miss Probus, Journal. .I—er—nope_ s0.”—Chicago _