Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 17, 1906, Page 3

~—_ Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, At aeronaut who fell 300 feet with- out being hurt was evidently born for his job. London complains of slippery pave- ments. Yet the liberals have made a good run there. “Saints in Society” is the title of a new book. It is not descriptive of New York's 400, however. New York is to have a beer trust. this means a long slate some of the n people will not object. Says Margaret Deland, “It never oc- urs to a boy that he is not wanted.” Office boys of course excepted. Ecuador rebels are reported to have won, but the world generally is in ignorance as to what was in the pot. Richard Mansfield says all the world’s a stage and every man’s an actor. The critics have doubts about some. Hon. Joseph H. Choate is still pay- ing glowing public compliments to his wife. That’s the way to live happily when married. An English scientist declares that aughter is a form of temporary in- sanity. So, girls, just repress that tendency to giggle. Yale's athletic reserve fund has srown to nearly $100,000. Maybe this oof of sport for sport’s sake, looks like business. me persons do not really appreci- r “ideal” prize chicken until it has been baked, roasted or fricasseed and placed on the dinner table. The author of “The House of a Thousand Candles” would have got more readers if he had called it “The House of a Thousand Scandals.” Somebody explains the present high prices of pretty much everything by saying that gold is getting cheap. Have you tried lately to purchase any gold? “Don’t think you are poor, and you won't be,” says the gifted Mary Ellen ease. There is one get rich quick ipe that won’t impoverish you, nyway. An English scientist claims to have discovered evidence that the ancient Britons played dice, and loaded dice, Oh, the virtue and goodness of “fathe: Im one week’s mail Miss Helen iould received requests for money alling in the aggregate for $1,500,000. This may explain why your letter wasn’t answered. announcement that the new r ska shows a shrinkage ot 000 square miles in six years won’t ye Rhode Island any burning desire be resurveyed. In New York a wife of 76 has sued ber husband of 30 for an accounting of the $300,000 she let him have. An accounting of why she let him have it would not be amiss. It is odd that China should send commissioners here to learn our ways. It was supposed that Wu Ting: Fang had learned everything about us that was to be known. * Novelist Howells says that literature is unremunerative, thus taking a hard rap at the novelists who are making riches out of the books which gain fame as the “best sellers.” The anxiety about the drydock Dewey, now en route for Manila, is entirely unjustifiable. No self-respect- ng craft named Dewey would dis- race its name by sinking. If Senator Clark thinks sawmills and mines are so nearly equal in value we can find him a sawmill or two to trade off for his United Verde property any time he’s ready. A gold brick worth $200,000 has been found under the foundations of an old mill in New Mexico. Now look out for the man who will be around trying to sell its mate at a ruinous dis- count. prof. Alexander Graham Bell has declared that the kite will be the basis of the flying machine, which is not only coming, but is already here. The statement was made, however, after a good dinner. People are asking the explorers how they are going to tell the pole when they see it, as the compass will not i working about that time. Is it possible that there is no sign in large letters on the pole? The pianist Gyoengoeshalaszy—we forget whether he is mentioned by Przubszewski—has’ taken a studio in Manhattan. We do not expect to re- peat this announcement so long as it much to set type as it does Here’s another Franklin story, illus- trative of the great man’s foresight and philosophical reach of mind. Some one said of his drawing the electricity from a cloud with the kite: “But what is the use of it?” Franklin replied. “What is the use of a baby?” - nee ee BRINGS COPPER WAR TO AN END F. AUGUSTUS HEINZE SELLS OUT HIS MINING INTERESTS IN MONTANA. AMALGAMATED IS IN CONTROL LITIGATION FULL OF SCANDALS ANB INVOLVING MILLIONS 1S SETTLED. Feb. 14. — Arthur C. Carson, representing Thomas F. Cole of Duluth, yesterday morning took possession of all the mines and min- ing property of F. Augustus Heinze and the United Copper company in Silver Bow county, which have been in controversy or litigation with the samated Copper company. This come to the Butie. ns that peace has warring copper mining interests of Butte. The announcement that a-sale of the Heinze property had been made came in a telegram yesterday morn- ing from John D. Ryan, managing di- restor for the Amalgamated Copper company, who is now in New York. Mr. Ryan, with his attorneys, left Butte for New York early last No- vember on the business deal which was consummated yesierday. He was closely followed by Mr. Heinze. Property Worth Millions. Since then miany reporis have been received that a deal was pending, but no official announcement of the fact was made until yesterday, when the deal was concluded. The transaction involved property valued at many millions of dollars. No intimation was received fror. official sources as to the terms of the deal. It is only known that Heinze has sold all his interests in Silver Bow county and that he has been completely elimina- ted from ihe copper mining organiza- tions operating in this district. His properties have been acquired by in- terests friendly to the Amalgamated Copper company. Settles All Litigation. The deal concluded yesterday set- ules for all time the litigation and dis- putes that have retarded the develop- ment of the district in the past. The settlement effected hy the saie of the Heinze properties releases valuable ore bodies owned by each of the con- testants and claimed by both. In- cluded among such ore bodies are those of the Minnie Healy, the Mich- ael Davitt, the Tramway, the Sno- homish and the Nipper groups, and there are many others. More than one hundred lawsuits involving claims for more than $50,000,000 are settled by the deal. The “copper war’ between Heinze and the Amalgamated was remarka- ble in many respects. Net only did it involve the judiciary, the legisla- ture, society and the people them- selves, but in not few instances human lives were sacrificed in the un- derground workings of Butte mines. GIGANTIC STEAL SEEN. Senator La Follette Creates a Sensa- tion Big Scandal Is Predicted. Washington, Feb. 14. — An alleged effort to get possession of $100,000,- 000 worth of Indian lands, in which relatives of officials high up in the in- terior department are said to be di- rectly implicated, was brought to the attention of the senate yesieerday. It will be investigated thoroughly and sensational disclosures showing. a colossal conspiracy to rob the Indians are expected to follow. The iands in question are located in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of the Indian Territory. and the senate bill provid- ing for the closing up of the affairs of the five civilized tribes was all ready to be reported by the committee on Indian affairs when Senator La Fol- Jette of Wisconsin asked a few ques- tions that brought the entire matter to a standstill. To-day the commit- tee will meet again and dig into the scandal, The names of the persons interested in the alleged steal then will be made public. LA FOLLETTE SAYS NO. Declines to Act on Lawson’s Insur- ance Commission. 4 Washirgton, Feb. 14. — Senator La Follette has declined the invita- tion extended by Thomas W. Lawson to become a member of the commit- iee to vote the proxies of a number of policyholders of two of the life insur- ance companies of New York at their annual meeting this year. The sena- tor stated that he found it impossible to undertake the work because of the pressure of public business. Accused of Counterfeiting. Mason City, Iowa, Feb. 14. — The United States marshal arrested Wal- ter Hileman of this city on a charge of passing counterfeit money. He had in his possession several doilars which are alleged to be bogus. lowa Acts for Pure Food. Des pags ly Feb. 14. — The Towa senate erday passed unani- mously the Newberry pure food meas- ure prohibiting commerce in adulter- atedvor impure foods. _ REAL WINTER ON THE WAY] HAS. STANDARD COLD WAVE WARNINGS SENT CQUT—WORST STORM: OF WIN- TER IN WISCONSIN. St. Paul, Feb. 14. -—- Ancther coid wave is headed for this section and is scheduled to arrive some time io-day, probably this morning. It is expected that the mereury will go to 10 below in St. Paul to-day. The weather of- ficials at Chicago yesterday ordered cold signals hoisted over Eastern Minnesota, Northern Jowa and Wis- consin, with the exception of the southeastern section. bitter cold prevailing in the Dakotas has ren- dered tho hoisting of cold wave flags unnecessary. In- Wisconsin a blizzard which set rday afternoon developed into r the worst storm of the winter. Train service was demoralized, and the telegraph and telephone compa- nies suffered severely, particularly in the northeastern portion and along the Lake Michi A Burlington senger train was stalled in a snow drift in the city of La Crosse yesterday. At Appleton the worst storm of the winter was raging last night. Towa railroads began paring yes- terday for another snow blockade. WOULD BLOW UP WHOLE TOWN. Unknown Man Said to Newly Built Villag Crookston, Minn., Feb. 14.—Accord- ing to a message received by ihe sheriff, an unknown man made an at- tempt to blow up the town of Fowlds, a new location near the end of the Wilton logging spur. The man had secured a quantity of dynamite and was proceeding to plant it under sev- eral buildings in the town when a number of citizens became aware of his intention and frustrated it by re- moving the dynamite. After being deprived of the explosives the man is said to have declared that he would secure more and carry out his plan. County Attorney McDonald of Be- midji left for Fowlds on receipt of the message and will make a complete in- vestigation. Threaten WOULD-BE SLAYER A_ SUICIDE. Minnesota Man Shoots at Woman and Then Ends His Own Life. Ten Strike, Minn., Feb. 14.—After attempting to take the, life of a wo- man with whom he had been living, George Wison, aged thirty years, a well known character about this place, committed suicide by shooting. Wilson is said to have quarreled with the woman, and left the house to se- cure a revolver. He went to a hotel and got possession of turning to the house and opening fire upon his companion. He fired i ice. but both bullets went wide of the mark, and the woman meade her es- cape. Then Wilson turned the weap- on upon himself, placing ihe muzzle under his chin and sending a bullet crashing through. his brain.. Death was almost instantaneous. CHARGED WITH BIGAMY. Frank Tranard, a Railroad Brakeman, Arrested in lowa. ‘ Monroe, lowa, Feb. 14. — On com- plaint of Mabel Tragard, Frank Tra- gard was arrested here for bigamy. The woman claims they. were married in Fremont, Neb., last August. On comjng here she alleges that she found Tragard had another wife, Kate Tragard. She also found that an in- surance policy had been changed, making Kate Tragard the beneficiary instead of Mabel Tragard, as it was originally taken out. Tragard, who is a railway brakeman, figured in a sen- sational assault case recently. QUIZ PRESIDENT VAN HISE. University Investicators Question the Badger Prexy. Madison, Wis., Feb. 14.—President Van Hise was the first witness before the university investigating commit- tee. In private sessions he testified for three hours to questions of Attor- ney Bennett and the invesiigating committee. Chairman Wylie said that the talk was all of a general uature along the line of university manage- ment that the committee might get its bearings. When the farmers’ course is over the troubles at the uni- versity farm will be taken up and hearings will then be public. Pills Kill Boy. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 14.—James 8. Ewen, a school boy thirteen years of age, died yesterday as a result of eat- ing several sugar-coated pills which he found in a vacant house. Child Burned to Death. Marquette, Mich., Feb. 14.—Geral- dine Flynn, aged six years, of Ishpem- ing, was burned ‘to death while play- ing with matches. Fears Law; Won’t Testify. Grafton, N. D.. Feb. 14. — Norman Grambo was yesteerday acquitted. He was chi-ged with stabbing Frank Frederick near Oslo, Minn. Frederick refused to come and testify. He broke jail here two years ago. Buys $80,000 Worth of Weed. Janesville, Wis., Feb. 14. — Julius Marse of New York city yesterday purch<sed 2,100 cases of 1904 tobacco crop. The deal is estimated at $80,- 000. a, weapon, re-]. OIL ON THE RUN MISSOURI'S ATTORNEY GENERAL COMPLETES CASE AGAINST THE TRUST. IS CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS EXPECTS TO OUST TRUST FROM THE STATE—ROCKEFELLER IS FOUND. 14 Wy Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. the taking of testimony of F Northrup and F, E. Lyman of Moines, both former company employes, Herbert S. Hadley yesterday an- nounced that he had made out his case against the Standard Oil com- pany in Missouri, and expects to get a decisign ousting the company from doing busine: in that state. Mr. Hadley said he had positive evidence that the Standard Oil, the Water: Pierce an. the Republic Oil compan had formed a combination end di- vided the territory in Missouri be- tween them. Not to Relax Fight. F. R. Northrup, formerly of St. Louis, manager of the Scofield, Shur- mer & Teagle Oil Company of Cleve- land, testified that he had instruc- tions from the Republic Oil company after it had absorbed the Scofield company and the Cleveland Refining company, not to enter the territory of either the Waters-Pierce company or the Standard Oil company in Mis- souri, but not to relax the fight on the independent companies. Retort Is Emphatic. The letters also instructed him to follow the prices of the Waters-Pierce company. Mr. Northrup testified that he was always given one or two days’ advance notice of the prices of the Waters-Pierce company. “Have you any more letiers belong- ing to the company which you appro- priated?” asked Attorney Hagerman for the Standard Oil company. “None of your business,” was the hot retort. Rockefeller Is Found. New York, Feb. 14—John D. Rock- efeller has been found, according to M. E. Palmedo, the process server who caught H. H. Rogers, and who has been after Rocketeller for seve weeks. But he hasn't served subpoena yet. Mr. Rockefeller is hiding in the home of his son, the Bible class teach- er, at Pocanti¢o Hills. Mr. Roc feller has been there uninterruptedly, it is said, since Jan. 23, when he went up from N York under cover of night and sequestered in the mansion of his son. Des Standard Oil Attorney General RECORD IN GRAIN STOCKS. Sterage at Head of Lakes Amounts to 17,750,000 Bushels. Duluih, Feb. 14. — Grain stocks at the Head of the Lakes amount 0,000 bushels, the largest to- tal on record,, ‘This includes 1,000,000 bushels of grain in the Duluth-Superi- arbor. The total elevator capaci- ty is about one-half occupied. The bulk of the wheat in store is in eleva- tors on the Duluth side. Stocks in- creased 360,000 bushels last week, of which 200,000 bushels were wheat and 112,000 bushels flax. The balance was other grain. STEEL TRESTLE FALLS. Expensive Work of North-Western Road Falls During Night. Green Bay, Wis., Feb. 14—The en- tire pier of the Northwesiern rail- road’s long steel trestle, in course of construction across the ‘ox river, vanished from sight during the night. This miship, which will prove very costly and a serious delay in com- pleting the extension, was due to the settling of the piling, which over- threw the stone upper part. The trestle was three-quarters of a mile long anc cost a great sum. GIVES POISON TO BABE. Boy Gives Strychnine to Child During Play. Clitheral, Minn., Feb. 14—A small child of John K. Olson of this town is dead from strychnine poisoning. The child was playing with a brother, and the latter climbed onto a chair and reached a shelf where a number of bottles of medicine were kept. He handed down a bottle of strychnine to the baby, who took a drink of the deadly stuff. The child died in terri- ple agoxy before a physician could be summoned. ® E Sees Her Son Killed. Ovando, Mont., F@b. 14. — While driving a sleighload of logs Stanley Evans, eighteen years old, was killed py the overturning of the sleight. The young man’s mother, who was riding with him, escaped. . Youth Has His Neck Broken. Fairchild, Wis., Feb. 14. — Albert Johnson had his neck broken by a {load of logs rolling on him while he ; was driving to town. Death was in- stantaneous. ~ es | N orthwest News. . WILLIAMS DIES UPON GALLOWS. Murderer of John Keller Is Hanged in ; Jail at St. Paul. St. Paul, Feb. 14. — William Will- iams was hanged at 12:3 this morning in the basement of the Ramsey county jail for the murder of John Keller. The execution was car- ried out without a hitch, and a few minutes after the drop fell the phy- sicians proclaimed the man dead. The doomed man maintained his compos- ure to the last, except for a slight evi- dence of nervousness as he mounted the scaffold. o The crime for which William Will- iams paid the penalty of his life upon the gallows this morning was. the murder of sixteen-year-old John Kell- er at No. 1 Reid court shortly after midnight on the morning of April 13 last.. The crime was a double murder, as the boy's mother, Mrs. John Keller, was shot at the same time and died at the city hospital a week later. Will- ‘=~s was indicted for both murders and was convicted on the first trial, in which he was charged with killing the boy. The murder was committed in the flat occupied by the Kellers, and was the result of trouNe between Will- iams and the Kellers regarding the boy. Williams wanted to take the boy with him to Winnipeg, but John’s mother objected. There had been trouble on this account before, and the opposition of the boy, added to that of his parent, at last so angered Williams that he sought their lives. FIND PLENTY OF VICTIMS. North Dakotans Are Swindled by Eastern Detective Agency. Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 14. — A large number of North Dakota people are said to have been victimized by a so-called detective agency of New York, against which the postoffice de- partment has issued a fraud order. The agency would address letters to selected victims, stating that they had discovered an estate in the old coun- try in which they ‘were entitled to share, and proposing on receipt of $2 to make an investigation and to take charge of the case for the supposed heirs. How many victims in North Dakota there were probably will nev- er be known, as most of them were foreign residents. The matter came to the notice of Vice Consul Bendeke, who took it up with the postoffice de- partment, with the result that word has been received that the agency has been debarred the use of the mails. HAZERS PAY DEARLY. Farm College Faculty Suspend Stu- dents;. One for a Year. Aberdeen, S. D., Feb. 14.—The fac- ulty of the South Dakota agricultural college at Brookings is determined to} put down hazing at any cost. Recent- ly a number of the older students were caught hazing a freshman, and one student was suspended for one year, another for the remainder of the present semester and others for one week to one month, while a cadet was reduced from first lieutenant to pri- vate. There was much indignation ex- pressed by the students, but the fac- ulty is standing pat and the students implicated in the hazing have decided to take their punishment. SAW BARS OF THEIR CELLS. Two Prisoners Escape From Red Lake County Jail. Crookston, Minn., Feb. 14.—Accord- ing to word received here, Eck Hath- away of this city, who was last week arrested on a charge of being con- cerned in a systematic robbery of Soo freight cars at Thief River Falls, has escaped from the Red Lake county jail. Another prisoner, whose name is not given, also escaped. The men had manufactured a saw out of a piece of steel taken from their shoes, and with this they had severed the bars of their cells. Sheriff Linnihan and a posse were in pursuit; but at last report had not’ recaptured the prisoners. ee CLAIMS BOY ROBBBD HIM. Randolph Merchant Loses $1,260 at Sheboygan. Sheboygan, Wis., Feb. 14.—A four- teen-year-old boy, John Laschinger, is under arrest here, charged with hold- ing up A. P. Richards, a business man of Randolph, Wis., and relieving him of $1,260. Richards is said to have left a saloon in company with Las- chinger, who agreed to take him to a hotel. Richards, however, claims that the lad walked him into a side street, knocked him down and robbed him of a certified check for $1,200 and $60 in cash. CRUSHED UNDER LOGS. Two Loggers Perhaps Fatally Injured | at Ingram. Ingram, Wis., Feb. 14—While deck- ing logs for the C. A. Coon bumber Company of Glen Flora, Wis., yester- day, Carl Stewart and George Mc- Connell were perhaps fatally injured by the giving away of a rollway f logs. Mr. Stewart’s pelvis was frac- tured and Mr. McConnell had his back proken and received severe internal injuries. They were taken to the hos- pital at Ladysmith for treatment. MINNESOTA JOINS LINEUP. University Council Adopts Conference. Football Rules in Toto. Minneapolis, Feb. 13—The Univer- sity of Minnesota has adopted the recommendations of the recent Chi- cago conference, and football will be played in its restricted form at Northrop field next fall. By a unan- imous vote of the faculty council late Saturday afternoon the recommenda- lions urged by the Angell conference were accepted and Minnesota will live up to them ‘provided the other schools of the conference also accept. As the majority of the universities have already adopted the plan, it is believed that a second meeting of the conference will be called in a short time to reconsider one or two of the provisions which have been amended by different colleges, and that the sweeping changes suggested at that meeting will in general be in vogue next fall. MAN DIES SUDDENLY. Thaddeus C. Field, Pioneer St. Pau) Resident, Dies of Heart Failure. St. Paul, Feb. 13. — Thaddeus C. Field, president of the firm of Field, Schlick & Co., died suddenly Satur- day. Although Mr. Field had been in ill health during a portion of the year he, was apparently as well as usual Friday, and his death was_ entirely unexpected. Mr. Field was one of the most prominent merchants in St. Paul. He was sixty-eight years of age and had taken part in the indus. trial affairs of the city for half a cen- tury. He came to St. Paul in 1856 and engaged in the dry goods busi- ness with D. W. Ingersoll, organizing ‘the house which has celebrated its fiftieth anniver: DRAGGED TO DEATH. Boy at Farmington, Minn., Is@Kilied by a Colt. Farmingion, Minn., Feb. 13.—Wes ley Hack, the eleven-year-old son of W. H. Hack of Credit dragged to death by a colt which he was leading to water. The rope by which the boy was leading the colt became entangled about his legs, and the colt started to run out of the barn door, dragging the boy after it He was thrown heavily against the door beam and then dragged across the field and yard to the house, where the colt was stopped by the boy's mother. His skull was JUMP FROM TRAIN. River, was One Girl Is Hurt Seriously and Her Sister Slightly. Zumbrota, Minn., Feb. 13.—Bertha Skorum and her twelvee-year-old sis ter boarded a train to Forest Mills. When the train arrived-there it did not stop, and the younger girl became alarmed and jumped off, receiving se- vere injuries about the head. When she saw her younger sister jump, Bertha also leaped from the train. She, however, escaped serious injury. The train was stopped and backed to Zumbrota, where the girls received medical attention. It is thought the younger gitl’s injuries will prove fatal. DYNAMITE KILLS TWO. and Helper Victims of Blast. Akeley, Minn, Feb. 13. — Edward Fisher of the railroad contractins firm of Davis & Fisher of Chicago and Arthur Moore of Elk River were in stantly killed at Camp 7 of the Red River Lumber company’s railroad by a dynamite explosion while thawing out about fifty pounds of the ex- plosive. Fisher's body was hurled forty feet from the place of the acci- dent and was terribly mutilated. POSTMASTER DEAD. Mr. Robey of Pipestone Dies in Sioux Falls Hospital. Pipestone, Minn., Feb. 13. — Post- master Robey of Pipestone died in a Sioux Falls hospital yesterday, aged forty-eight. An operation for appendi- citis failed to save his life. He had been postmaster here nearly eight years. He leaves a widow and a daughter. Contractor Babe Smothers to Death. Anoka, Minn., Feb. 13.—The infant child of Judge and Mrs. J. C. M. Engel died yesterday of suffocation. The babe was sleeping quietly when the mother left the room. On her return some minutes later the tot was dead. It is believed the baby disturbed the clothes and thus smothered. Frozen to Death. Cumberland, Wis., Feb. 15. = An- drew Mortenson, a farmer, was frozen to death on the lake here. He was walking to his home two miles across the lake and he fell on the ice. He leaves a large family. Milwaukee Train Kills Two. Templeton, Iowa, Feb. 13.—Frank Reicher, a farm hand, was killed and Peter Klein, his employer, fatally in- jured while driving across the tracks of the Milwaukee road on their way to town. ¥