Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 19, 1905, Page 3

’ THINK J. J. HILL WILL INTERVENE STRIKERS HAVE HOPES THAT GREAT NORTHERN PRESI- DENT WILL ACT. MAGNATE IS BACK FROM EAST TOO BUSY AT GENERAL OFFICE TO BE BOTHERED ABOUT THE STRIKE. St. Paul, Aug. 16.—The arricai Lome of James J. Hill, president.of the Great Northern road, and of Louis W. Hill, first vice president, were the only new factors yesterday in the tel- egraphers’ strike upon the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific roads. President Hill came back from the East Sunday night; his son re- turned yesterday morning from the Pacific coast. Both had left St. Paul before the strike began, two weeks ago. It is thought at ‘strike headquarters that President Hill, despite his pub- lished approval of the attitude taken by his companies, may. intervene to end the disagreement between the roads and the operators, who are still on strike. No confirmation of that hope was to be gained at the Great Northern office yesterday. Mr. Hill was too busy to be seen. No Material Change. Although there is no cessation of the vague gossip that interested parties are trying to compromise the strike difficulties so that all the old men will agree to resume*work, both sides repeat that no material change has taken place since Saturday. Pres- ident Perham says that his men are still holding out well; that the freight traffic on both roads is reduced to a mere fraction of its former volume; that passenger traffic is very light, and that the companies are unable to fill the places of the strikers. But General Manager Horn of the Northern Pacific and General Superin- tendent Slade of the Great Northern consider it no Longer Worth While to make formal statements of the fact that, as they declare, normal condi- tions have been restored, It was said informally, at the Northern Pacific of- fice, that the slight change since last week was all ‘in the company’s favor. And at the Great Northern headquar- ters information was gained that, be- ginning to-day, the company accepts all freight shipments unconditionally. “Freight will be taken from now o! an official said, ‘exactly as it was be- fore the strike.” Mr. Perham had heard nothing more, he said, about intervention through state officers or commercial organizations. Their negotiations ere presumably in progress. He had, however, received many telegrams from the West that were entirely sat- isfactory. Reports to the Commission. The Great Northern’s report to the state railroad and warehouse commis- sion was that not more than five of the depots along its line in Minnesota were unopened. The Northern Pacific told the board that not over two sta- tions were closed to business. Both roads stated they hoped very soon to open the few stations now closed and to receive and dispense freight. The messages were sent to the railroad commission from the railroad offices by telephone. % SURPRISED THE DOCTORS. Supposed Dead Man Regains Life During Post-Mortem. Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 16.—Louis Viel surprised several physicians and nurses at Mercy hospital by suddenly regaining life. Shortly after post- mortem on him began Dr. Conklia happened to take hold of the supposed- ly dead man’s heart, and pinched it slightly. Almost instantly the organ began to throb at a natural rate. The incisions made were quickly closed. Veil regained consciousness a few hours later,’ and will soon be able to leave the hospital. Arrested for Swindling. Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. 16.—Her- man Schultz of Erhard, this county, was arrested at Breckenridge this week on the charge on the charge of raising $1 bills.. His work was very crude, but he suceeeded in passing two of the bills, and has been bound over to the grand jury, hail being fixed at $500. ee Two More Bathers Drown. La Crosse, Wis., Aug, 16.—William H. Klawitter, aged fifty years, and Al- bert Bergaus, also fifty years old, have been drowned in the Mississippi river while bathing. Six drownings have occurred here in the last few days. ———___—_—_- Rev. C. B, Wilke Dies. Madison, Wis., Aug. 16.—Rev. C. B. Wilke, for thirty years pastor of the German Lutheran church here, and for twelve years president of the Wis- consin synod, died yesterday of heart failure. He was 64 years old. MANIAC PUZZLES POLICE. is Found Razing Haystacks and Mut- ters Word “Minocqua.” La Crosse, Wis, Aug. 16.—Anthori- ties here are puzzled over a strange case in the person of an unjdentified man who was found insane on the L. F. Easton farm, east of this city. The stranger was. well dressed, but evi- dently had traveled many miles by foot and had passed through the se- vere electrical storm of Monday morn- ing. The police have been unable to learn his identity, the one word he seems to utter continuously being “Minocqua.” When taken into custo- dy the maniac was tearing down the haystacks upon the farm and in formed the police he was gathering “sawdust for his chickens.” MAKES BIER TO KILL SELF IN. Man Asphyxiates Himself With Gas After Getting Into Coffin. Iowa City, lowa, Aug. 16. — Lars Peterson, a carpenter, committed sui- cide in a coffin which he made to or- der for himself. He went to, the base- ment and put the finishing touches on the casket. Then he attached a small rubber hose to a gas jet and turned on the gas. He laid the casket on the floor, got into it and stuck the other end of the hose through a small hole in the lid. He was asphyxiated in a few moments. , His wife went to look for him and found him dead in the casket. Peterson had been in ill health for some time and had been acting strangely. GO WILD OVER ORE FIND. Montana Prospectors File Even on Patented Tracts. Helena, Mont., Aug. 16. — Word reaches here from Lewiston that great excitement has resulted from diamond drill borings made at the head of Dog creck, one mile north of Kendall. Some rich cyanide ore and a vein of oil is said to have been struck and the country has been staked out for seven miles, cruisers even filing upon ranches and other patented ground. ——— TO TRY INDIAN FOR MURDER. Zach Flute Bound Over for Trial in the Fall. Sisseton, S. D., Aug. 16.—The hear ing of Zach Flute, the Indian charged with the murder of Colby and Peter- son, was held yesterday afternoon be- fore Justice Prindeville. Flute, by his attorneys, Sears and Potter of Web ster, waived preliminary examination, and was bound over to the October term of the circuit court. ‘DAKOTAN TO HANG ABROAD. Murderer of Prospector to Be Execu ted in Canada. Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 16. — Charles King, an American, Will be hanged at Edmonton on Aug. 31. King was convicted of murdering an English prospector named Hayward at Lesser Slave lake, N. W. T., last fall. He was twice tried. The dominion gov. ernment had the case under review and yesterday decided not to inter fere. King came from the Dakotas. OUT FOR STANDARD’S SCALP. Missouri Attorney General Warpath. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 16.—Attor. ney General H. S. Hadley and Frank Blake, one of his assistants, will leave to-day for Cleveland, and thence tc New York to look up evidence in the suit against the Standard Oil com pany. Mr. Hadley will seek not only to impose a heavy fine upon the)com pany, but to oust it from its franchise as a corporation in Missouri and tc withdraw permanently its privilege te do business in this state. Goes on ASSISTANT TO ROOT. William C. Sanger Reported to Bz Slated for the Place. Lenox, Mass., Aug. 16.—There is a report in Stockbridge that William C Sanger of New York is to be assistant secretary of state, and that the ap pointment will be - made this week Mr. Sanger is now in Labrador with Secretary Root. He setved as assis tant secretary of war-under Mr. Root | and was invited to make the trip tc Labrador %y his former chief. IDENTIFIED AS “DOVE.” Suspected Murderer Is Man Wanted Says Teleg:aph Operator. Chicago, Aug. 16.—Startz, the tele graph operator, arrived in Chicagc from Romeo yesterday, and was taken to the office of the chief of police. Chief Collins announced later thai Startz had positively» identified a pic ture of Lawrence’as that of “Dove.” FLOODS AND LIGHTNING, Storm Damage in Ohio and Kentucky Is Heavy. Cincinnati, Aug. 16. — Reports re ceived yesterday indicate that the storm of Monday caused damage esti mated at several hundred thousanc dollars in Southwestern Ohio and les: serious loss in other parts of the state and in Kentucky and Indiana. Burglars at White Earth. White Earth, Minn., Aug. 16.—Burg- lars broke into the postoffice Sunday morning and took away about $89 mostly in checks and registered pack ages. They were frightened away and left behind about $75 in stamps LUMBERMEN filt HARD BY STRIKE COAST SAWMILLS’ LOSS IN AU- GUST IS ESTIMATED AT A MILLION DOLLARS. PERHAM GIVES HILL FACTS SENDS GREAT NORTHERN PRESI- DENT A STATEMENT OF STRIKERS’ CASE. ASSISTANCE FOR STRIKERS ORDER OF RAILWAY TELEG RAPHERS MAY VOTE $150,000 FOR STRIKERS. St. Paul, Aug. 16.—Upward of $1, 000,000 will be the cost of the teleg- raphers’ strike to the sawmill’men of Washington, and to those identified with them, in August alone, according to the estimate of R. J. Menz of the H. B. White Lumber company. From other sources comes information that confirms Mr. Menz’s opinion of the sit- uation on the two transcontinental lines. | ex It ig stated that the annual east- bound shingle shipment of these mills require 36,000 cars and the lumber 20, 000 cars. This makes a movement of 1,000 cars each week. The inability to get cars west and to move east the ears already loaded is stacking up an immense loss for the mill men, as weil as for the railroads in expense bills. Situation Very Bad. According to the Minneapolis deal- ers in West coast lumber the situation is very bad. The mills are practically unable to get cars, and telegraphic ad- vices from the West say that very lit- tle freight is moving. The coast men report that’ the Western railroad yards hold practically no empties, that the railroads can get no equip: ment to load, and the loads are not moving out. ' * The immediate effect may be an ad- vance in prices of the shingles actual- ly on hand. Cars regarding which there is any uncertainty of arrival here can hardly share in the advance. Government's View of Strike. A dispatch from Washington says: “Attorney General Moody is appar- ently convinced that the telegraphers’ strike is practically broken, for he left for an extended vacation Sunday, leav- ing Assistant Attorney General Robb in charge. “All reports received since the mid- dle of last week indicate that busi- ness is being handied with reasonable dispatch, and that normal conditions are being restored. There is no more complaint that government dispatches are being delayed, and it is very ap parent from what is said at the de- partment of justice that the govern- ment believes the strike to be almost as good as ended.” Perham Reports to Hill. President Perham of ‘the striking telegraphers yesterday sent James J. Hill a-long typewritten statement, ¢ summary of the strike from its incep- tion to the present time from the tel- egraphers’ vi¢w. Mr. Hill, through his secretary, informed newspaper callers that he had nothing to say about it. President Perham declines to make public his communication to Mr. Hill. “It is simply an explanation of our side of the case,” he said, “is couched in respectful language and makes no demands beyond consideration of its points solely on their own merits. It does not even request an answer by Mr. Hill. I sent the communication simply that Mr. Hill might have our side of the case as well as that pre- sented to him by the officials of the Great Northern.” . Governor Ignorant of “Conference.” Gov. Johnson asserted that he knew nothing of the proposed united action of governors of the Northwest states to hold a conference at Bismarck, N. D., on the subject of the strike; he had not been asked to name any dele- gate to such conference and the whole proposition was news to him. Strikers May Get $150,000. - President Perham denies that a special assessment has been ordered as was reported. The Order of Rail- way ‘Telegraphers is voting a “one day’s pay” assessment for’ the North- western strike, which, if passed, will | give the strikers $150,000 with which to continue the fight. It is claimed that there are sufficient funds now on hand to enable the strikers to keep up the strike for some time yet. Patti's Teacher Dies. i New York, Aug. 16.—Guiseppe Nic- olao, who was one of Adelina Patti’s first music teachers, died in poverty in this city yesterday, aged eighty years. a Fertile Is Excited. Fertile, Minn., Aug. 16. — The citi- zens of this village are all worked up over a special election the council has called for the purpose of voting on buying the-electric light plant from the Fertile Brick and Tile company. MUST HAVE LICENSE TO HUNT. Otherwise Hunters Cannot Hunt Law- fully Outside Their Own County. For the first time in the history of the state all persons hunting game birds outside their home county will be required to take out a lisence this year. The open season begins Sept. 1, 4and as there will probably be between 3,000 and’4,000 licenses issued this fall all hunters are advised to call at the county auditor’s office early to get their licenses, Under the old law no licenses were required to hunt game birds in the open season, but this was changed during the last legislature. The mew law provides that every resident, of the state is prohibited from hunting any game bird or game animal unless he first procures a li- cense from the county auditor of the county in which he resides; except that any citizen may hunt, take or kill game birds in the county in which he is a bona fide resident, without having a license to hunt. The law also provides that no per- son shall in any one day take or kill more than fifteen birds, or have in his possession at any time more than forty-five of the several varieties of turtle dove, chicken, grouse phaesant, quail, partridge, woodeock, plover or any or all of the same combined; or fifty snipe, wild duck, goose, brant or any variety of aquatic fowl whatever, or all of the same combined. Nor shall any person kill or have in his possession more than two deer an one male antlered moose. \ The season for killing game birds and animals are as follows: Chicken, plover and snipe, Sept. 1 to Noy, 1. Partridge, phaesant or quail, Oct. 1 | to Dec. 1. Duck or geese, Sept. 1 to Dec. 1. Deer or moose, Nov. 10 to Nov. 30. PROVIDES HARVEST HANDS. State Labor Bureau Is Sending Men to} the Country. Arrangements have been completed by Labor Commissioner Williams to secure harvest hands to take care of the Minnesota harvest, which, it is ex- pected, will be in full swing this week. lt is estimated that approximately 15,000 hands will be needed in Mimne- sota and the Dakotas, and the labor commissioners of these states are co- operating to secure this number of helpers. “We have already begun to send harvest hands into Minnesota,” said Commissioner Williams yesterday. “The harvest has begun in the south- ern part of the state, and the state free employment bureau is kept busy se- curing hands for the farmers. The harvest will not be in full swing all over the state, however, for some days. “Information received by the depart- ment is that there is a bumper wheat crop in the Northwest. According to our information, rust reports have been exaggerated. The yield is bound to be large, and we are making our ar- rangements with that understanding. “The free employment bureau sent out forty-two harvest hands the other day and is receiving orders for men daily. The agricultural bureaus of North and South Dakota keep us in- formed ds to the conditions of those states. If they have more men than they need in certain localities, they help us out, and vice versa.” MORE THAN HALF ILLEGAL. Food Commission Finds Much Adulter- ated Food. Of sixty-seven samples of food an- alyzed by the state dairy and food commission recently, thirty-nine were declared illegal. The result of the analysis follows: Legal. Illegal. Lard ... ~% 12 Butter Cottolene ... Oleomargarine . Lemon pie filling. Fig jam ....... Jelly Strained honey Sorghum .. Port Wine . Blackberry bran: Gelatine ..... Lemon flavor Apple butter ... Vanilla extract Baking powder Cheese .. Cherry brandy . + rere Oh ee ee po tm obo ee cons es Totals NORMALS ARE FREED AGAIN. “4 Board: of Control! Loses Educational Institutions. The removal of the state educa- tional institutions from the manage- ment of the state board of control, except as to the erection of buildings, the purchase of fuel and the securing of insurance, is now an acconiplished At the meeting of the state normal board recently, the first under the new regime, estimates covering the supplies needed for the normal schools during the next three months were presented to the state normal board instead of to the board of con- trol, as was previously the custom. |. These estimates include the cost of miner repairs at the schools, the cost of stationery, and other items of cur- rent’ expense. Alvah Eastman, prest- dent of the normal board, under the new law will act as purchasing agent, and he will be required to report te the board guarterly. BANNER YEAR FOR DAIRYING, State’s Output of Butter and Cheese Increases. The year 1905 will probably be known as the banner year for the pro- duction of butter and cheese in Min- nesota, according to reports received by the state dairy and food commis- sion. The reports are that the out- put of the creameries and factories is 5 to 20 per cent greater than last year, and several new plants have been started during the year. It is estimated that by the close of the year Minnesota farmers will have received $14,000,000 to $15,000,000 for butter produced at the creameries, to say nothing about the production of cheese and of butter in other places than creameries. In 1903 Minnesota creamery patrons received $12,988,- 682.21. It is estimated that the num- ber of farmers supplying milk to the creameries has increased during the two years from 58,900 to from 65,000 to 70,000, and the production of but- ter from 72,266,348 pounds to from 89,- 000,000 to 85,000,000 pounds. Minnesota for several years has en- joyed an enviable reputation for the quality of its cheese, but in point of output it has not compared favorably with Wisconsin and some other states. The number of factories, however, is growing every year. There are. about 100 co-operative and private factories in the state, which will pay their pat- rons this year about $500,000, com- pareed with $309,339.86 two years ago. Reports just received by the dairy and food commission show that the patrons of the factories at the follow- ing places received the following sums in 1904: Boi ye air ep eee RE $2,126.98 Dakota Hill .... + 3,661.06 St. Paul Central. + 2,605.57 ++ 1,800.50 Wyhe Two factories at Terrebonne. 3,576.29 Maple Bay . - 498.38 Gentilly » 5,319.17 Leeston 449.00 Weggeland + 507.31 Mayville + 2,741.42 Hansen * ++ 4,375.01 Two factories at Canno Falls «11,753.88 Dennison Wykoff ..... Pilot Mound . ‘ Cheney ..- - 4,126.00 Mantorville + 3,033.38 West Concord « 8,211.98 + 1,204.03 » 4,716.59 484.58 Sunrise Garden City Pine’ Knot. 4-0 ..6-----++s WILL NOT BUDGE FROM LAND. Exponent of “Squatter Sovereignty” Holds the Fort. A man by the name of Bob Lane ig living on his own little Gibraltar in German lake in Le Sueur county, and deserves more than a passing notice He is a bachelor who cares not for the charm of the fair sex, and for four teen years has braved the cold of win ter and'the heat of summer in a rus tic hovel, built of odds and ends ol lumber, sheet iron and tarred paper, on a pretty eminence shaded by trees of a century’s growth on a tongue of land projecting into the broad surface of the lake. He has taken his living chiefly from the finny tribes that make their home beneath the rippling waves that sing their eternal song be- neath the overhanging trees on the rock-rimmed shores of the promon- tory. Mr. Lane is perhaps the only ex- ponent of “squatter sovereignty” in Minnesota. Fourteen years ago he moved upon this land, which was then, except in very low water, an isl- and, and made his home there. A rich farmer, Rudolph Hermel by name, who owned the adjoining shore for nearly a mile up and down the lake, claimed to own the island, or pe- ninsula, also, and tried to drive Lane away, but the sturdy fisherthan dis- puted his right to the island, as he called it, and refused to move. One day there was a gathering of many men at Hermel’s place and much free beer was drunk, and final? ly a huge athlete by the name of Sem- prich started out across the lake in a rowboat, breathing threatenings against the squatter, while an inter- ected audience waited on the shore to see what would happen. ut in midlake the rowboat sprang a leak and sank and Semprich was drowned before the eyes of his friends, who had expected to see him do great things with the stubborn squatter. * Then Hermel commenced an action in court to dispossess Lane, but the case went against him, and Lane re- mained in possession, where he inas been ever since. Raymond Henkes, eleven years o% age, ‘son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hen- kes, of Glencoe, fell from the rail of a high culvert and broke his right arm in two places. ‘The postoffice department has tak- en up the question .of making Otter Tail county a rural free delivery coun- ty by establishing a complete county service. Four new rural routes are to be in- stalled at Fountain, Mabel, Peterson end Preston, with a total length of ‘DAY News of Interest. CLAIM OUT FOR SILVER LEASE™ P. H. Smith Seeks to Intervene in State Suit. Complications are arising in the liti- gation of the ) State of Minnesota against Mabel Evans, holder of the famous Virginia silver mineral lease, in which Attorney General E. T. Young will attack the validity of the state mineral lease law. P. H, Smith of Superior, Wis., who claims to have applied for the lease before it was granted to Mabel Evans, has applied to the district court of St. Louis county for right to intervene in the suit. Judge Dibell of Duluth denied the application, and Smith served notice on Attorney General Young of an appeal to the state su- preme court. It is possible that the district court of St. Louis county will grant a stay of proceedings in the original cuit, which was to come up for hearing Aug. 28, that the supreme court may act on the appeal of Smith before the case goes to trial at Duluth. “I am not convinced yet whether the appeal of Smith will necessitate a postponement of the case at Duluth or not,” said Attorney General Young. “There is some doubt whether the or- der of Judge Dibell is appealable. tf it is not,appealable, the supreme court will dismiss the case.” Smith asked to intervene in the case on the ground that the mineral lease should have been issued to him in- stead of to Mabel Evans. If the court allowed him to intervene he would be in the attitude of a person suing the state, and under the Constitution of the United States a state cannot be sued without its consent. On this ground Judge Dibell denied the appli- cation for permission to intervene. To make the litigation still more complicated Smith has brought suit in the United States circuit court to compel the state to cancel the Mabel Evans lease and grant it to him. This case is pending in the circuit court for the district of Minnesota. The entire litigation is watched with great interest for the reason that it involves the validity of state mineral leases on the Vermillion and Mesabe ranges. WILL INSPECT EVERY FACTORY. State Labor Bureau Will Make Thor- ough Inquiry. Within the next few months prac- tically every factory, workshop, and laundry in Minnesota will be visited by an inspector of the state labor bu- reau. The bureau has just begun its annual inspection, which will include an investigation of factory conditions in. the smaller cities and villages im- mediately and an inspection of the es- tablishments in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth later in the fall and in the winter. The state has been divided into six districts, and an inspector has been placed in charge of each district. He will secure complete data regarding the number of men, women and chil- dren employed at the factories, wheth- et they work nights and Sundays, the wages of each class of workers, wheth- er the machinery has the safeguards required by law, whether the factory is kept in sanitary condition and much information regarding the comfort and well-being of the employes. Popular State Fair Offering. Increased interest is centered in the Minnesota State Fair this year through the booking of Klaw & Erlanger’s stu- pendous and picturesque production of Gen. Lew Wallace’s impressive ro mance “Ben Hur” at St. Paul the week of Aug. 28 and in Minneapolis the week of Sept. 4, by Manager L. N. Scott. “Ben Hur” has been presented in the Twin Cities on two former oc casions, and the big Metropolitan the aters were found entirely too small to accommodate the thousands who clamored for admission. It will be ad- visable, therefore, for those who in tend witnessing it this time to order their seats through the mail well in advance. “Ben Hur” is a drama that can be seen many times with ever increasing interest, so captivating is its story. It is not solely an amusement—it is an instruction. It translates into the Twentieth century a fragment of the romantic life of the old world, and treats of a period pregnant with events which have influenced and shaped, ta a great extent, the entire subsequent history of the human race. George A. Pitman, a young farmer of Kilkenny, was arraigned before Court Commissioner Eberhart at Man- kato charged with an attempt to bribe a rural carrier examining board by offering it $25 to get a mail route for him. He waived examination and was beund over to the United States grand jury on Oct. 24, and released on a $500 bond. Frank Cable, while feeding some corundum ore into a crusher at the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company’s plant, at Crystal Bay, had his left hand caught by the jaws of the machine, crushing that member to a pulp. He is at the Budd hospital at Two Harbors. The five-year-old son of Edward Carison, foreman for Winston Broth- ers & Dear, stripping contractors, was fatally scalded in a vat of boiling wa- ter atsthe bathroom of the Mahoning mine near Hibbing. BY DAY |