Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 4, 1906, Page 7

“4g doubtful whether he can live. SURROUND DIETZ’S [ONS Gust co HOME WITH TROOPS PROBABLE OUTCOME OF CONFER- ENCE BETWEEN GOVERNOR AND SHERIFF. BLOODSHED 1S LOOKED FOR WISCONSIN PEOPLE EXPECT AN- OTHER BATTLE AT CAMERON DAM. Madison, Wis., Aug. 1.—It is proba- ble that several companies of the Wis: consin state militia will be called out to repress John F. Dietz, in Sawyer county, and bring Dietz into court to answer to the criminal charge of as- Sault with intent to murder. The troops will probably be called out quietly and the much-wanted Die+z will wake up some morning soon to find his house entirely surrounded by soldiers. As Dietz has repeatedly de- clared that he will neveh surrender alive, and as all of his family—wife sons and daughters—are crack shois, it is almost certain that there will be much bleodshed there before he is taken. Use No Federal Troops. Federal troops will not be called on to help the state troops, because the general charge against Dietz was a civil one and not a criminal one, and has been satisfied by the entry of a judgment against the defendant. This judgment, however, has not been en- forced. This is the probable result of a long: conference Letween Gov. James O. Da- vidson and Sheriff Yeter Gylland of Sawyer county, and between United States Marshal Charles Lewiston and the sheriff here this afternoon and evening. Neither the governor nor the sheriff would say positively that it had been decided to call out. state troops to capture Dietz, but that seems to be 2 fair conclusion from what they say. rs Gov. Davidson said that Sheriff Gyl- land had told him in full of the bloody gun battle between his posse of seven men and the Dietz family last week, when the latter repulsed the former after one man on each side kad been seriously wounded. Warts Another !nvestizati-n. The governor said that he would probably order another investigation into all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the remarkable. rebellion and then decide wha: further action it would be proper to take. He said that the law of the state would have to be enforced and that the citizens would have to submit to them. He intimated that if after fur- ther investigation he was convinced that Dietz was defying the state, the sovereign power of the commonwealth would be invoked and the necessary force used to bring him into court. Wounded Man Tells Story. After crawling on his hands and knees for a great distance through the forest, Duyo’ Rogich, Milwaukee, in three places by Clarence Dietz, reached the homestead of Charles Johnson and was later carried into Winter, where he secured medical at- tention. Slight hope is entertained for his recovery. He had been terribly exposed when he reached the Johnson place and his wounds had become filled with dirt. His story is that when he fell he plainly heard Dietz telling his son to go down and if the was still alive to kill him, chop his head off and bring it up and feed it to the hogs. | It was when Clarence was coming down that he took aim and shot him, he says. Rogich started along for the camp and waded through the water of Thornapple river close to his neck. Crawled on Hands and Knees, Rogich told the story of his terrible experience. to the conductor of the Hayward train. “When the fellows who were carry- ing me out of the woods thought they were pursued by Dietz and dropped my stretcher, I feared that, my. last moment had come,” he said. “They failed to return where I had been left. After awhile, realizing that they were not coming back, I started to crawl on my hands and knees. I could not raise myself to my feet. All that night and part of the next day I made my way through the words, zesting from time to time and then starting forward again. K “The agonies of thit awful journey were terrible. Finally, afterIhad al- most decided to crawl beneath a tree and die, I came upon Johnson’s cabin. He cared for me and finally took me into Winters.” Young Dietz May Die. Bi}] Dietz of Rice Late, who went to Cameron dam to see his brother immediately upon hearing of Wednes- day’s fight, returned to his home on the same train with Eogich. “The boy Clarence, who is supposed to have been shot by Rogich, is in a serious condition,” he said. “The bul- Jet which struck him in the head pen- etrated deeper than was at first thought, and his brain is exposed. It “] went to my trother’s farm at Cameron dam as soon as I could get there after the shooting took place. ‘He is in good spirits although greatly concerned over Clarence’s wound. All ts is to be left ; MURDERED WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN AFTER ATTEMPT- ING ASSAULT. Washington, Pa. Aug. 1—Up to midnight no attempt had been made to take Elmer Dempster from jail, the negro who is charged with the murder of Mrs. Samuel Pearce and her chil- dren at Canonsburg Sunday night. The excitement which prevailed upon the arrival of the officers’ with the prisoner subsided during the night, and all danger of a demonstration is apparently over. Dempster made sev- eral confessions during the day, and late last night made a clean breast of the Canonsburg tragedy, admitting that he killed Mrs. Pearce and the children. Clears Up Another Mystery. In’ a supplementary confession he cleared up another mystery which has led to the arrest of two other negroes. These men were arrested by the Washington county officers last night, who, upon Dempster’s information, went to the mines of the M. A. Hanna Coal company in Cherry valley, near Burgettstown, and took the men as they came from their work in the mines. The names of the men are Patterson and Bucher, and they are charged with the murder of John Ko- boda, a wealthy foreigner, who was found dead in a clump of bushes along the Wabash railroad tracks, in Inde- pendence township, on May 1. The men were placed in the McDonald lockup, near Gurgettstown last night and will be brought to the county jail here to-day. Dempster further con- fessed that he had served time in Al- legheny, Lafayette, Westmoreland and twice before in Washington coun- ties. Attempted Worse Crime. Dempster was a helper on the Pearce farm, and after the departure of Samuel Pearce with his sister, Miss Fanny Pearce, for the Canonsburg railroad station, Dempster is said to have been at the scene of the tragedy, looking after the stock. He was taken from his bed at 2 o'clock yesterday morning and put through a course of sweating whic lasted until daylight, when he made a complete confession. According to the story told in his confession, young Dempster attempted an assault on the four-year-old: daugh- ter, after the departure of Mr. Pearce, but was frustrated bythe mother, who went to a bureau to ‘get a revolver to shoot him. The negro says he secured the gun first, and after killing the mother and shooting the children; set fire to the house to hide the crime. Almost a Lynching. Shortly after leaving Canonsburg, a crowd of about twenty men boarded the car, and, with shouts of “Lynch him! Kill him!” dragged the prisoner and officers from the car. ¢ A fierce struggle followed, but the officers succeeded in keeping posses- sion of the negro and finally drove the mob off at the points of revolvers. When Washington was reached nearly 300 persons had gathered at the court house,’ but the crowd was eluded by taking the prisoner through the basement to the jail. MRS. COREY GETS A DIVORCE. Wife of Head of Steel Trust Moved to Tears When Decree Is Granted. Reno, Nev., Aug. 1—Mrs. William Ellis Corey, wife of the president of the United States Steel corporation, was awarded a divorce in the Second district court of Nevada, sitting at Reno yesterday. The case was sub- mitted without argument and the jury took but one ballet. It was out but a few minutes. Mrs. Corey was in tears when told that she had been given a decree and the custody of her sixteen-year-old son, Allan Corey. She drove at once to her home on Riverside avenue, where she says she will continue to reside. No evidence was submitted by the defense. The question of alimony was not in- troduced. Mrs. Corey made an inter- esting admission, however, touching upon this phase of the case, stating that in May, 1906, several weeks be- fore her petition for divorce was filed, she negotiated through her attorneys a financial settlement with her hus- band. She was not asked what the na- ture of this settlement was. “T am a resident of Reno, Nev.,” said Mrs. Corey, when placed on the stand, “and the wife of William Ellis Corey, the defendant in this action. We were married on Dec. 1, 1883, at Pittsburg, Pa., and lived together until May 1, 1905. At that time my husband de- serted me and went to New York. I followed him and held a conversation with him in the Hotel Lorraine. It was there that he told me that he had decided to live apart. He said that it was impossible for us to live happily together and that I would never see him again. He stated that he intend- ed going to Europe for several months. There was no scene. I talked with him about the matter and urged him to again resume his place in our home, but he refused. I have never seen him since.” OKU 1S CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF. \ Hero of Siege of Port Arthur Suc-' James Henneberry, one of the oldest ceeds Late Baron Kodama. Tokio, Aug. 1.—Gen. Oku has been appointed chief of the general staff of | the Japanese army, in succession to Gen. Baron Kodama, who died July 22. | Gen, Oku commanded the left army EWS | OF THE HORRIBLE FATE OF WORKMAN IS CAUGHT UNDER BOX CAR AND HIS BODY GROUND AND TWISTED. St. Paul, Aug. 1—A. T. Close, a laborer at the Minnesota Transfer, yesterday was ground along the track beneath the trucks of a box car, his tortured body torn and twisted by the ties and stones and his back broken by a blow from an iron rod. Close is now at Cobb’s hospital, Merriam Park, where it was stated last night that his recovery is almost impossible. If his life is spared he will be a help- less cripple. Close’s haste to reach home was re- sponsible for his terrible plight. He stopped work shortly after 6 o’clock and hurried through the yards. A line of box cars was standing on one of the tracks and Close, not wishing to walk around, crawled beneath one of the cars. Just as he was midway between the trucks a switch engine hacked onto the tracks, and, bumping the string, pushed it slowly down the track. Close was unable to escape, and in another second was wedged in one of the trucks. while his body was ground along the track. MORE SCHOOL LANDS. State of Minnesota Gets Patent to 35,- 023 Acres. St. Paul, Aug. 1—The state auditor received from the federal government a patent to 35,028 acres of school land for the state of Minnesota. The land is located in Northeast Itasca and Northwest St. Louis counties, and some day will be sold by the state for the benefit of the permanent school fund. Under the United States statute which gave the sixteenth and thirty- sixth sections: of every township for school purposes, if these sections were not complete the state is given the right to select enough land to make up the deficiency. These lands were se-. lected by the state in 1902, but tha title was not given to the state until now. BRAKEMAN SHOT DEAD. Northern Pacific Trainman Killed by toboes—Another Is Wounded. Dickinson, N. D., Aug. 1.—Brake- man O. S. Carr was shotand killed by hoboes on a moving freight train near Gladstone. Brakeman Frank Stine received a slight wound in the ankle from the same source. Four hoboes were in a car when the brakemen entered and were fired upon with the above result. Two tramps were caught and Sheriff Hartung has a _ posse scouring the country for the others. BOY IS HIT BY TRAIN. St. Paul Passenger Severely Injures Cambridge (lowa) Lad. Cambridge, Iowa, Aug. 1.—Stewart Calsem, the nine-year-old stepson of A. K. Olson, was struck and severely injured by a passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail way near here. The boy was standing near the main track, waiting for a freight train on a side track to pass, and did not hear the oncoming passen- ger train. He is in a critical condi tion. MOWER KILLS BOY. Lad Is Thrown Under Machine and i is Crushed to Death. Elkader, Iowa, Aug. 1—Ben Ander: sou, the fifteen-year-old son of Mrs, Anna Anderson, living nine miles northwest of here. was crushed to death by a mower. The lines becamo entangled: in the mower, causing the team to back, and the lad, in the mix- up, was thrown under the machina and run over. MOVE TOWN TO RAILROAD. Dallas, S. D., Will Be Merged With Gregory. Gregory, S. D., Aug. 1—The stock- holders of the town of Dallas have con- cluded to move to Gregory. This was occasioned by the railroad having missed Dallas by about three miles. A Geddes moving outfit will at once begin the labors of moving the build- ings to Gregory. ee et abe LEMONADE IS DEADLY. Boy Dies of Fever Contracted From ~ Beverage. Bowdie, S. D., Aug. 1—John Hoff- man, youngest son of George H. Hoff- man of Bangor, died here of typhoid fever, contracted from the lemonade he drank at Evarts at the time of the recent excursion to that place. Dropped Dead on Street. Webster City, Iowa, Aug. 1— pioneer residents of this city, fell dead upon the street. While feeble for some years, he had not been ill a day. A sudden attack of heart disease caused his death. oS Valuable Barn Bui N, Al sy lorthwest. ATTEMPT TO LYNCH. * Boys Are Under Arrest on a Serious Charge. i Fergus Falls, Minn., July 29.—The two Irien boys and a boy named Wolf were brought into the justice court here yesterday on the charge of hav- ing attempted to lynch one of their companions, a boy named La Plante, The boys, who range in age from elev- en to fourteen, are charged with hav- ing dragged their prospective victim into a piece of woods with a halter around his neck, and but for the fact that they were seen by a woman who happened along his career would have prohably been cut short. The case has been continued for a few days until some additional evidence is se- cured. PLEAD IGNORANCE OF WRONG. Alleged Land Fencers Fight Case in Court at Helena. Helena, Mont., July 29.—The trial of M. J. Walsh and M. Donahue iu the federal court, on a charge of ille- gally fencing 11,000 acres of public land, has been on all week and may be concluded to-day. The defense has fought the case at every step. Both men are interested in the Donohue Live Stock company. Mr. Walsh lives in Butte and Mr. Donohue in Califor- nia. The latter was once general manager of the Lutte, Anaconda & Pacific railroad. Both plead absolute ignorance of any wrongdoing, and indi- cations are that in the event of a con- viction they will carry the casa higher. SAYS HE’LL FIND MURDERER. Alexander McKenzie Denies Crime for Which He Is Indicted. Greenbush, Minn. July 29.—The grand jury at Roseau returned an in- dictment against Alexander McKenzie, charging him with the murder at Wa- naska last December of William Stuart. McKenzie is firm in his stale- ments of innocence and says that when he is put on the stand he will disclose the name and present address of the murderer. now hiding in Da- kota. The parents of McKenzie, in Prince Edward Island, are convinced that their son is innocent and will in al! probability be in attendance at the trial. PICK DRIVEN INTO CHEST. Black Hills Miner Is Fatally Injured by Explosion. Deadwood, S. D., July 27.—Henry Nicokli, a miner, lies at the hospital at the point of;death as a result of an attempt to pick the powder out of a missed hole. The force of the result- ing explosion was such as to drive the point of the pick through his chest between the second and third ribs. It missed the heart by only half an inch. His eyesight is'completely gone, and his recovery is deemed impossible. Two other men who were working with him received only slight injuries. KICKED WHILE ON HAY RAKE. Kandiyohi Farmer's Leg Is Smashed by Horse. Kandiyohi, Minn., July 29.--While assisting his son-in-law, Hans Lewis, in putting up hay, Erick Engvall -met witn an accident which resulted in the breaking of his leg. He was on the hay rake coming home in the even- ing, and finding the road too narrow for the rake drove up a steep hill. The rake ran on the horse and the animal kicked, striking the driver’s right leg and smashing it badly just below the knee. Amputation may be necessary. HOUSE ALONE ESCAPES FIRE. Buttles’ Farm Near La Crosse Almost Wined Out. La Crosse, Wis. July 29.—Fire probably of spontaneous origin, de- stroyed two mammoth barns, a gran- ary and other buildings, several hun- dred tons of hay and a large number of cattle on the farm of M. M. Buttles, near Midway, yesterday / afternoon. Only the house remains standing. The Buttles farm is one of the largest and most modernly equipped in the west- ern part of the state. The loss is es- timated at $20,000; partially insured. LAMP CAUSES WOMAN’S DEATH. Upsets and Ignites Her Clothing as She Sews. Berlin, Wis., July 29—Mrs. Foster Williams of Auroraville, a small vil- jage near here, died yesterday of purns received by the upsetting of a lamp. The woman was using a sewing machine when the lamp upset and set fire to her clothing.. A daughter at- tempted to save her mother and was severely burned about the hands ana arms. She will recover. RIE TE a Ss Bad Money Is Found. Yankton, S. D., July 29.—James Doyle and James Cahill were bound over here to the next term of the United States court on a charge of having in their possession and at- tempting to pass a quantity of coui- terfeit bills. The prisoners were ar- GOLD ON GOPHER FARM. Pure Dust in Sand on Luckert’s Place Near Faribault. Probably as rich gold fields as any discovered in which pure goid in the dust was found have been located in Newmarket township, sections 2 and 8, and range 112, twenty-six miles northwest of Faribault. There seeems to be no mistake 01 fake about these deposits, and that they are extensive as to area and depth, as samples have been sent tc Rapid City to the government assay ing establishment, and a thorough tesi made. The assay of the poorest sam ples shows $1.65 a ton, after being fingered by scores af hands and nearly half sticking to the fingers. The gold is pure dust in sand ané can be shoveled as easily as common sand, and the hills and valleys are full of it on ground comprising nearly 100 acres, some places as deep as forty feet. The writer has seen the assay cer tificate, signed by the assayer, L. Mel linger, and Charles H. Fulton, presi dent of the college of mines, Rapi¢ City, S. D. We have spent severa days prospecting there and have sam ples of the gold washed and some un washed. There is much of it which will tes! $4 to the ton of gravel and sand. The owner of the land upon whict the gold has been found is Sam Luck ert, living one mile northwest of El coe, Minn. The farm comprises 24 acres, and deposits are found all ove! it in lesser richness. The land has been farmed for forty years by Ger mans and Scandinavians, and Lucker! is a recent purchaser and discovere¢ the gold while digging postholes, ORE LEASE GOES CHEAP. Eighty-acre Tract, Recently Abandon ed, Sells for Only $1 Premium. The state mining lease to eighty acres formerly held by the Onondagz Mining company in St. Louis county and recently surrendered to the state was sold at public auction in the state auditor’s office at a premium of $1. Only two men had filed application: for the lease, J. M. Gray, who pur chased it, and Luke H. Corcoran, botk mine speculators of Duluth. Corcorar bid $25, and Gray raised the bid tc $26. Of this amount, $25 is the state fee for the lease; the small balance is the premium, It is believed thai the two men got together on the dea! and that this is the reason for the ri diculously low premium. There have been a number of other applications for leases on the property, but there Was a general misunderstanding that the applications had to be made July 16, and the only two bidders who ap peared had filed applications on that date. Mr. Gray announces that he wil thoroughly explore that portion of the tract which has not heretofore beeu touched by drills. The property is be lieved, according to geological calcu lations, to be within the ore belt, an¢ valuable mines are in operation in the vicinity, demonstrating that the claim is certainly in an ore district. CROOKSTON IN THE THROES. Campaign for a New Charter Getting to Be Something Fierce. Crookston is in the throes of a hot ly waged charter fight and as much interest is taken as could possibly be in the issue of a presidential cam paign. Open-air meetings are be ing held each evening and the address es of prominent members of the char. ter commission are listened to by large crowds. The Commercial club has taken up the fight and is directing the campaign with such energy that the opponents of the measure are fighting for wind Besides the open-air meetings, noon- day and midnight meetings are being held in the vicinity of factories and pianufacturing plants, - WILLMAR GRASPS OPPORTUNITY. Commercial Club Committee After Proposed New Seminary. It is possible that a ladies’ seminary will be established in Willmar, under the management of the Lutheran Free church. At a convention at Bat tle Lake in June Willmar was named with four other cities as a suitable lo cation, and Rev. Mr. Michaelson of Willmar, with the assistance of the Commercial club, is making strenuous efforts to get the school. The follow: ing committee has been appointed by the Commercial club to take the mat- ter in hand: C. A. Birch, chairman; W. J. Pinney, O. R. Berkness, P. C. Pe- terson and G. O” Sand. The only other school of this kind in the North. west is at Red Wing. County Division Laid By for Time. The division of St. Louis county will not be attempted this year. Instead the county divisionists will, exert themselves for the amendment of the county division law by the next legis- lature, so that the proposition to di- ‘vide can be submitted to the elector: ting the designation’ of The State Goes! DAY BY # DAY e HORDES OF PESTS AT WORK. State Entomologist Says Three Bad Species Are Abundant, “Three serious pests are becoming alarmingly abundant this year, and promise no good,” said F. L. Wash- burn, state entomologist. “Several complaints of the army worm attack- ing timothy have reached me from va- rious sources in the state, and this pest of grasses and grains seems to be on the increase and may cause se- rious trouble next year. The army worm is a cut worm, and when it ap- pears in large numbers, as it some- times does, it travels about like an army in quest of food, hence its name. Like other cut worms, it turas into a moth, undergoing its changes from the caterpillar stage in the ground. “When a farmer sees an army of these worms advancing slowly toward his grain field he can plow three or four or more furrows on the side from which the worms are coming, throwing the earth toward the ad- vancing worms. The furrows check and hold the army worms, and_ they can be killed therein by the use of a little kerosene or kerosene and water, or straw can be spread over the fur- rows and then burned. “A second pest, comparatively new here, and also likely to become seri- ous, is the soft-shelled scale of the plum. They have been reported to me, and specimens received from plum, evergreens, spireas, various li- lacs, elm, maple, apple and other trees and’ shrubs. This scale looks like an excrescence on the bark; it is round, hemispherical, and under- neath the brown exterior is the insect iself, which secretes the scale. “For the past two weeks eggs have been hatching in countless hundreds, and the young, soft-bodied scales are crawling out from the parent scale and spreading over shrubs and trees. Now is the time, therefore, to kill them by spraying, when they are easi- ly killed. I have found that a 5-cent cake of soap dissolved in six gallons of water, and’ used when lukewarm, will kill these little felllows, and one or two applications will practically free a small shrub or tree of the pest. If one waits until these little scales settle down and secrete a hard covering, it takes much stronger caustics or oils, which have to be used when the tree is dormant, to kill them. “A third pest is our old friend, the Hessian fly, whose ravages are well known here. It is a little early to note the effect of the Hessian fly in the grain fields, but field observers in the employ of this department have reported its occurrence in considera- ble abundance.” GREAT DAY WILL OPEN THE FAIR Monday, Sept. 3, One of the Best of "the Fair. This first day of the state fair will be one of the greatest ever seen at an exposition. In the morning the great amphitheater will be dedicated in an address by James J. Hill. In the aft- ernoon the two fastest stallions— trotting and pacing—in the world will go after their own records. During the same afternoon there will be a big racing and amusement program, in- cluding a $2,500 purse for a trot and the 2:09 pace, one of the fastest on the list. In the evening there will be another amusement program, conclud- ing with the first performance of “Moscow,” the pyrotechnic spectacle. The fair management looks for the greatest crowd in the history of the fair on Monday. The half-fare rates on the railroads go into effect on the previous Saturday, Sept. 1, so that people from even the most remote parts of the Northwest can reach the cities in time for the events of this significant occasion. Dan Patch is faster than ever. When he goes at the Minnesota state fair on Monday, Sept. 3, something great in speed may be looked for. This predic- tion is warranted by what Dan did the other day. Hersey had him out on the track at Savage on Friday, and in a very easy jog worked him out in 2:06 flat. This is faster than Dan has ever made this early in the sea- son. Cresceus also is in good form and doing some miles at a good speed. Dan Patch and Cresceus will not race each other at the state fair. As Dan is naturally a much faster horse than -Cresceus, he would have to be handicapped considerably—in fact he would have to start back near the eighth pole and the horses would lack the stimulus of going side by side. Each will go against his own world’s record at different times in the after- noon, and Trainer Hersey will drive in each case. This arrangement really “doubles the spectacle. : Anna Chounard has commenced an action in the district court of Becker county for a “divorce from Joseph Chounard, the grounds being that he ' is. convicted of a felony and is an in- . mate of the state prison. They are both Indians and lived on the White Earth reservation, The man is serving a sentence of twenty years for manslaughter and mmeimegetr ee. at the prison March 31 . He | | |