Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 13, 1906, Page 3

STEEL TRUST GETS HILL ORE LANDS CEASE BASED ON SYSTEM OF ROYALTIES PUT THROUGH IN NEW YORK. —. {$ PRACTICALLY PERPETUAL New York, Oct. 7.—The terms of the lease of the Hill ore properties in the Northwest to the companies con- trolled by the United States Steel cor- poration were announced yesterday by ©. H. Gary, chairman of the boatd of directors of the corporation. The terms are based on a system of royal- ties and give no indication of the amount of ore to be taken out of the lands, except to show that it is expect- ed to be many millions of tons. The price to be paid for the first year of the lease is $1.65 per ton delfv- ered at upper lake ports, but this price is to be increased three-fourths of a cent per ton in each succeeding year until the ore lands shall have been ex- hausted. It is provided also that the United States Steel corporation must take at least 750.000 tons in 1907 and increase the amount by 750,000 tons a year for eleven years, until the amount mined annually has reached 8,250,000 tons, at which rate it must continue to take out the ore annually until it is ex- hausted. Lease Practically Perpetual. The lease of the ore land properties is practically perpetual, since it holds until the ore has been exhausted. The final agreement was reached at a conference in the office of J. P. Mor- gan & Co., at which there were present James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan, Charles S. Steele, George W. Perkins, Judge E. H. Gary and the legal representatives of the interests concerned. The magnitude of this transaction and its effect on the properties con- cerned, as well as upon the iron and steel trade of the country, is indicated ‘by the fact that the Hill properties have been estimated to contain from 400,000,000 to 700,000,000 tons of ore. Ore for Fifty Years. The properties included in this transaction are said to be second in {mportance and extent only to the Lake Superior iron mines already con- trolled by the United States Steel cor- poration, and it is said that this deal will furnish the steel corporation with a supply of ore for the next fifty years. The Hill properties included within this lease are believed to comprise a number of properties owned in part by other interests than those controll- ed by James J. Hill, but the ownership of which was shared with his interests, FALLS INTO THRESHER, farm Hand Drops Upon Cylinder While Machine Is in Motion. St. Peter, Minn., Oct. 7.—Algot Lund- berg, a farm hand employed by Swen Anderson of New Sweden township, had a miraculous escape from death yesterday afternoon. He wae drawn into the cylinder of a threshing ma- chine, but the injuries he received were comparatively slight. When the accident occurred Lund- berg was standing on a footboard di- rectly over the cylinder, the board broke under his weight and dropped him squarely into the mass of revolv- ing teeth. His fellow workmen fully expected to ste Lundberg ground to atoms, but by the merest chance the machine had been slowed down for a moment and the engineer was able to stop it promptly. Both of Lindberg’s shoes were strip- ped from his feet, and the teeth on the cylinder caught and crushed one ot his heels. Had the separator been run- ning at the usual rate nothing could have prevented the man from being torn and mangled beyond recognition. FIVE HURT AT FIRE. Midnight Blaze in Minneapolis Causes $30,000 Damage. Minneapolis, Oct. 7—Five men were hurt during a fire at midnight which destroyed the Hennepin laundry, 120 First avenue north. Three of the in- jured men are firemen who fell from the burning building and were badly bruised. The other two were in the taundry when the fire started and were severely burned. None of the injured will die. The fire started from an unknown cause, in the rear of the first floor of the building. The loss is placed at $30,000 and is partly covered by insur: ance. TOES FIRE FATAL SHOT. Widower Pulls Gun Trigger With Feet to Kill Self, Beloit, Wis. Oct. 7—Hig mind de ranged from grieving over the death of his wife, which occurred three months ago, Nelson Munson, living at Orfordville, committed suicide by shooting. He placed the muzzle of a double- -barreled shotgun in his mouth, and having previously removed his shoes discharged both triggers with} his toes, ween the top of his head} will NEWSPAPER MAN 1S KILLED W. A. DOWELL, CITY EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNE, IS KILLED ON STREET. Minneapolis, Oct. 9.—William’ A. Dowell, one of the veteran newspaper men of the Twin Cities and recently appointed city editor of the Minneapo- lis Tribune, was killed shortly after 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon by John P. Quirk, a retired saloonkeeper. Dowell was shot through the right temple, the ball penetrating the brain and causing death a few hours later. The shooting occurred at 901 Chica: go avenue, Quirk’s residence, and was the result of a long-standing quarrel between the two men over Dowell’s at- tentions to Quirk’s stepdaughter, Bes: sie Squires, an attractive girl of twen- ty-three years. Objected to Dowell. Owing to Quirks extreme disapprov: al of Dowell’s attentions to Miss Squire’s the girl had left his residence and was boarding with friends. Ac companied by Dowell, she went to the Quirk home yesterday afternoon tc call upon her mother. Quirk was home and flew into a rage on seeing Dowell demanding of his stepdaughter whc had invited him. She replied that she had. Quirk refused to let the matter drop and a violent quarrel followed. Dowell finally left the house, accom panied by Miss Squires. Quirk rushed up stairs as the couple went out an¢ a moment later returned and followe¢ them to the porch. Dowell starte¢ down the sidewalk when Quirk ad dressed him and more words followed Mortaliy Wounded. Dowell, determined to put a stop tc the scene, started on, but immediately Quirk. drew a revolver and fired Dowell’ sank to the sidewalk mortally wounded. Quirk walked into the house and went upstairs to his room, where he remained until the police arrived. Dowell lost consciousness as he dropped to the sidewalk, and slowly sank until 6 o’clock in the evening when he died at the city hospital. Quirk was hurried to police head quarters, where he was taken beforé Chief of Police Doyle and County At torney Al Smith. He did not deny shooting Dowell, but said he did se in self-defense; that Dowell had drawn a knife and was about to attack him Further than this he refused to talk. Ask Police Protection. Bessie Squires bears an excellent reputation, and it known as a capable and womanly girl. Miss Squires knew that Quirk had threatened to vill Dowell, but believed it to be a mere threat. Dowell evidently was afraid of Quirk, as about two weeks ago he reported the matter to the police and asked protection. William A. Dowell was fifty years old, and had been engaged in news paper work fifteen years. His home was at Vinton, Iowa, where his father resides. Dowell was married and is survived by a widow and a fourteen: year-old girl, who are living at Vin. ton. LUNATIC ASSAULTS A CHILD. Sheriff With Automobile Prevents Lynching in South Dakota. Howard, S. D., Oct. 9.—This town and the neighborhood north of here were much wrought up yesterday on account of an assault upon a fourteen: year-old girl named Skyberg, and for a time there threatened to be a lynch- ing. The little girl was returning home alone, driving a team hitched to a farm wagon. On the road she over: took a man about fifty-five years old, who asked for a ride. At a lonely spot in the road the man attacked the girl, choking her? She fought hard to escape and when she reached home her clothing was torn to shreds, and she was bruised and scratched. Her young brothers armed them- selves with pitchforks and immediate- ly started in pursuit of the man, who when he saw them coming took refuge in a cornfield. The neighborhood was aroused ‘and a regular manhunt ensued. Sheriff Clark heard of the trouble and started for the scene in an automobile. When he reached the scene he found that the man had been surrounded in a cornfield. Clark plunged into the field and soon had his man under arrest. There was an immediate rush to gain possession of the prisoner. Clark, however, succeeded in making his way through the crowd to his automobile. where he placed the prisoner, and was soon beyond reach of the mob. Upon arrival at Howard an investi- gation showed that the man was an escaped inmate of the Yankton insane asylum. DUEL OVER CARNIVAL. Husband Wants to Go to Sioux Falls and Wife Objects With a Pistol. Rock Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 9.—Because her husband insisted on attending the street carnival at Sioux Falls, Mrs. Bert Smith seized a pistol and opened fire on him yesterday. Smith retali- ated and an ex.fange of shots follow- ed. received a | year-old son of J. R. Laird, living on ramith was wounded in the back and M slight DOWELL 1S SHOT FROM IN FRONT Autopsy Shows Slain Man Was Facing His Assassin. Minneapolis, Oct. 10.—W. A. Dowell, a newspaper reporter, who was killed on Sunday afternoon by John P. Quirk, was facing his slayer when the fatal bullet was fired. This much was proved almost beyond doubt by an autopsy held yesterday. Coroner Kistler has decided that the evidence in the case is so clear as to obviate all necessity of an inquest, and it is expected that the first examina- tion of the witnesses will be before the grand jury. Miss Bessie Squires, John Quirk’s stepdaughter, whose association with Mr. Dowell was the primary cause of the trouble between the two men, has been in a state of highest excitement ever since the tragedy, and at times has acted so irrationally as to cause fear that her mind may give way. Re- peatedly while at police headquarters after the*shooting she threatened to take her own life, and on Sunday night she was detained at the city jail un- der the care of the matron, Mrs. Schaefer, and a special nurse, for pro- tection against herself. SHORT CUT HOME IS FATAL. Engineer Walks Too Near Edge of Mine Shaft and Falls In. Butte, Mont., Oct. 10.—William L. Hollingsworth, forty-seven years old, a stationary engineer employed at the Silver King mine, was instantly killed by falling down an abandoned shoft of the mine. The fall was sixty feet, and the fact of the accident was not known until several hours after it had occur- red, when Hollingsworth was missed and a search followed. It is supposed that the dead man had started to walk to his home, a short distance away, and, taking a short cut, had walked too close to the edge of the shaft, the ground about which had been disinte- grated by a steam exhaust pipe. The ground caved in and the man was-pre- cipitated to the bottom of the shaft and instantly killed. BEATEN AND ARRESTED. Billings Man Awakens to Find Stran- ger jn His Room. Billings, Mont., Oct. 10.—James J. Raymond was arrested by officers here on the charge of robbing John Ryan of $10. A sneak thief entered Ryan’s room while he was asleep and stole his money. Ryan awoke about the time the thief had completed his nefarious work, seized the robber, gave him a beating and then held him until the officers arrived. RICH FARMER IS IN CUSTODY. Charged With Murder of Tenant Found Dead in Field. Guthrie Center, Iowa, Oct. 10.—Ed Chambers, sixty-five years old, a pachelor farmer worth $100,000, was arrested here, charged with murder- ing Ed Neal on a farm near Bagley. Neal was found dead in a field with a bullet in his head. Deceased was Chambers’ tenant, and it is reported they had quarreled. MURDERED AND ROBBED. Body of Old Railroad Man Is Placea on Track. Dickinson, N. D., Oct. 10.—Word has: been received here that Jerry Daley, an old railroader, well known here, was sandbagged in Glendive, Mont., robbed and his body placed on the: railroad track, where it was run over by a switch engine. Daley was know to have had $180 in money and a gold! watch, but nothing was found on his) body when it was picked up. so ASK OWNER TO BUY THE LOOT. Alleged Thieves Are Caught by Man Whose Samples Were Stolen. Minot, N. Di, Oct. 10—Bernard Far- ley, Hugh Morgan and John Gorman} were arrested yesterday on the chargd of stealing a trunk of samples from Cy F. Arne, representative of a Waterloo (Iowa), firm, who was stopping at a lo- eal hotel. One of the men tried to! sell the samples, consisting of valua« ble leather goods, to the owner, and his arrest followed. DROWNED IN RUNAWAY. Driver and Unmanageable Team Meet, Death in Lake. ~ { Tagus, N. D., Oct. 10—John Sum: mers, proprietor of a restaurant at this | a diminutive Yorkshire man turned to place, met death by drowning in Glim3j merglass lake. A team which Sumé mers was driving became unmanage- able and carried him into the lake; which is about thirty feet deep. Both he and the team were drowned. Girl for General Housework. Wanted at once girl for general) housework; must know how to cook; no washing; good home; wages $18. ‘per month; references required. Ad, ‘dress Mrs. Walter J. Driscoll, 645 Goodrich avenue, St. Paul, Minn. Boy Smothers in Sand. Jessup, Ia., Oct. 10—Ralph Bair, ee farm near here, was ener | given state jobs for their political pull by the caving in of a sand pit last} “A BMALL THING” , Do you believe in progress? Do you believe that ’all the wonderful achieve- ments of the nineteenth century—the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone, electric light, kerosene, sewing ma- chine, agricultural machinery, steam- ships, trolley cars, é¢tc.—have made life easier and better worth living? I do, I believe that a man who lives 40 years under modern conditions has experienced more life and better life than Methusalem, though he had lived 20 centuries of his time. The triumphs of the nineteenth cen- tury were triumphs of human service —the placing of knowledge and the fruits of knowledge within the reach of the common man. Every man’s .|life is better, happier, more secure be- cause of them. We live more comfort- able, more sociable lives in better and more comfortable houses because of State News of the Week Briefly Told. The postoffice at Neving was brok- en into recently and about $300 taken. The summer hotel at Walhall was destroyed by fire. Loss, $5,000; insur- ance, $2,000. A son of Jacob Mikkelson died at Madelia from lockjaw, caused by step- ping on a rusty nail about a week ago. The county commissioners voted bonds in the sum of $3,500 for the construction of the ditch near Shev- lin. s Seventeen thousand men are want- them. Even the hopeless dweller in the worst city slums is more com- fortable in his physical conditions than the middle-class citizen of the days of George Washington. In little things as in great, comfort and convenience have been the legacy of the “Century of Improvement.” Paint, in a certain sense, is a minor matter, yet it gives beauty, healthful- ness and durability to our dwellings. Fifty years ago painting was a serious proposition, a luxury for the owners of stately mansions who could afford the expense of frequent renewals. To- day ready mixed paint is so cheap, so good, and so universal that ro house owner has an excuse for not keeping his property well painted. A small thing, indeed; yet several | hundred large factories, employing thousands of chemists and __ skilled ‘workmen, are running every day in the year to keep our houses fresh, clean and wholesome. A small thing, yet a can of good ready mixed paint, such as one may buy from any reputable dealer, em- bodies the study of generations of skilled chemists, the toil of a thou- sand workmen in mill, laboratory and factory, and the product of a long series of special machinery invented and designed just to make that can of paint and to furnish us an infinite variety of tints, colors and shades. It was a wonderful century, that nineteenth of our era, and not the ed for work in the woods this winter by firms operating in and near Be- midji. Eli Libau, a farmer, and his twelve- year-old daughter were seriously in- jured in a’ runaway accident at Her- mantown. Tom Halvorsen, sixty years old, a patient at the hospital at Walker, cut his throat. Death resulted instantane- ously. He was suffering from rheu- matism. . The eleventh annual Watonwan county: fair was the most successful in point of attendance and number and variety of exhibits‘ ever held by the association. * Charles Deutsch, seventeen years old, was shot in the heart and killed by the accidental discharge of a shot- gun on a farm a mile east of Le Sueur Center. Al Wildman, formerly wheat buyer for the Cargill Elevator company at Long Prairie, committed suicide in his elevator by shooting himself through the temple. Mrs, Charles Betcher of Red Wing has tendered the cemetery board a donation of _ $10,000 with which to erect a memorial chapel in Oakwood cemetery in memory of her late hus- band. Carl Jackson, a young man working with a threshing crew near Campbell probably was fatally injured by an ex- least of its wonderful gifts was that same commonplace can of paint. iy, Pe NEAR THE BREAKING POINT. Rupture of an Engagement Due to Error Barely Averted. The engagement between a wealthy Baltimore belle and an impecunious clubman of that city was at one time last winter perilously near the “‘break- ing off” point, and all by reason of the unfortunate mistake of a fiorist’s assistant of whom the young man had ordered flowers for his beloved. It.appears that the young fellow had hastily dispatched -to the florist’s es- tablishment two cards, one bearing an order for roses to be sent to the young lady’s address and the other intended to be attached to the flow- ers. What was the astonishment and in- dignation of the beloved one when on taking the roses from their box she found affixed the card bearing the le- gend: “Roses. $3.” Do the best you can for STUDENTS GET STATE JOBS, Service Commission Opens Door for Capitol Salaries. The state civil service commission has decided to exempt from the pro- visions of the civil service law bona fide students of the state university and state normal school. The former may hold any state positions paying not more than $25 a month and the latter may hold positiogs paying not more than $15 a month. , This action, members of the com- mission declare with some emphasis, does not mean that students will be Civil as has been the practice in the past, put because they are earnestly seek- ing an education and cannot afford fully to pay their own way. In truth, the action of the commission means that the state capitol will probably be filled almost as full of students in the future as in the past. RAPID CONSTRUCTION. Yorkshire Way of Putting Up Build- ing Rather Swift. The Yankee in England had been talking ever since entering the train two stops back about the speed with which buildings were erected in his home across the water, says the Phila- delphia Ledger. Finally,.to cap the climax he told-of a twenty-two-story building which was started and fin- ished in one month. His fellow passengers had given up all hope that he would ever stop, when him, saying: “Why, mon, thot’s nowt. At home I have seen them laying the founda- tions for a pow of houses in the morn- ing when I ami going to work, and-al night when I come back they are turn: ing the people out for back rent. A Our New Organ. Bobby had,éarly shown a great in- terest in anatomy, and always drunk in information about the various parts of the body most eagerly. One day he came to his mother in Lis perplexity and said: “Mother, I know where’ my liver is, but where is my bacon?” ‘Ola Friend — You're not much for show—why .do you dress ycur coach: ‘fish lake, near plosion of the boiler of the engine which was running the threshing ma- chine. Joseph Zigmund of Pequot, while hunting, was accidentally shot in the back by ex-County Commissioner W. H. Luffman of Cass county. Eighty shot were removed from his back, left hand and arm. He will recover. August Dahlberg, a farmer living two and a half miles south of Clark- field, shot himself with a shotgun. He went into grove, placed the muzzle of the gun against the side of his head, literally blowing off his head. He was melancholy over being sick. A change was made in the officers of the banks in Pelican Rapids on Oct. 1. F. J. Fleischer, cashier of the Wallace State bank, resigned to go to Idaho,, and S. J. Rodman of Barnes- ville takes his place. In the First Na- tional bank N. E. Haugen resigned to go to Iowa, and M. T. Werkle of Mar- shall takes his place. Instant death was the fate of Ernest Buesch, eighteen years old, in Rut- land township, Martin county. Young Buesch was at work at Ernest Meyer’s farm and was drawing a tank full of water from the farm of Theodore Malo. In driving over a steep place the tank tipped over and fell squarely across the young man’s body. Millie Anstiit, ten-year-old daughter of Philip Anstitt, had a narrow escape from being drowned in a_ well at East Grand Forks. The water in the well was so deep that the little girl was barely able to keep; her nose above it by standing on her tiptoes. Neighbors heard her cries for help and, with members of the fam- ily, rescued the girl. The fact has just developed that J. B. Baker, a bachelor who lives on a farm on the north end of Big White- Pine River, has the past year picked up a comfortable for- tune in sapphires. He now has at ‘least a dozen of the precious gems and the last one which he found is valued approximately at $1,500. He is not saying much about his good fortune, but is looking for some good reliable jeweler to put the finishing touches on the stones. The residents of several school dis- tricts in the vicinity of Virginia are not a little surprised and vexed to find that the state has refused them small loans for necessary improve- ments, though they are aware that it was through lack of knowledge of the conditions that the loans were re- fused. District No..13, east of Vir- ginia, with an assessed valuation of over $1,000,000, was refused a loan of $5,500 that was wanted for a needed school building at Stephens. District No. 53, at Ashawa, applied for a loan of $2,500 to assist in making proper provisions for 150 pupils, but without success. District No. 51 has also ap- plied for a loan, but nothing yet has peen heard regarding it. The most disastrous fire that has occurred in Perham in several years broke out recently in the Northern Pacific* freight station. The building and contents were consumed, togeth- er with Amos Marckel’s implement warehouse, which adjoined it. Marck- el’s lumber yards were partially burned before the fire was brought un- der control. A man supposed to be O. J. Hubbert IN MINNESOTA. i sermon wicnar ala tw NERVOUS DEBILITY Williams’ Pink Pills Made Her Well and Strong. Nervous debility is the common name for what the doctors term neurasthenia. It is characterized by mental depression, fits of the ‘blues,’ or melancholy, loss of energy and spirits. The patient’seyes become dull, the pink fades from the cheeks, the memory becomes defective so that it is difficult to recall dates and names at will. Some of these symptoms only may be present or all of them. The remedy lies in toning up the nervous system and there is uo medicine better adapted for this purpose than Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Mrs. Jane J. Davies, of No. 814 War- ren street, Scranton, Pa., says: ‘* Some years ago I became greatly reduced in health and strength and my nervous system became so debilitated that I felt wretched. Icould not rest or sleep well at night and woke ap as weary and languid in the morning as I was when I went to bed. My head ached in the morning and often there was a pain in my right side which was worse when I sat down. My nerves were on edge all the time, every little noise bothered me and I was generally miserable. Then I decided to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, as my husband had taken them with goud results, and they did wonders for me. Now I have no more pain in my side, no more headaches, I sleep well and feel strong and able to do my ® Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cured Mrs. Davies and they can do just as much for other weak, pale, ailing men or women who are slipping into a hopeless decline. They strike straight at the root and impoveris! 5 Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or will be sent postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the. Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Similar Sounds. To cultivate your voice you yell All day, as loud and faster, In the same tones a man gives out Who sheds the porous plaster. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Investors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.: Christian Christianson, Bowbells, N. D., trap; Jerry G. Hoffken, Minneapolis, Minn., brooder heater; Richard Johnson, Elk Point, S. D., table; Melville C. Mom- sen, Armour, S. D., plastic building block; Charles D. Murphy, Kingston, Minn., horseshoe; George C. Nienow, Plainview, Minn., coupling pole; Ches- ter Versteeg, Ashton, S. D., indicator. WILL TEST PURE FOOD LAW. Kenosha Grocers Arrested and Will Take Case Into Courts. Chris Schwan and Joseph Lien- weber, well known Kenosha grocers, were arrested on a charge of violating the pure food laws by selling adulter- ated pepper. The men have employed attorneys, who will be asked to test the law under which the pure food commission is organized. It is under- stood that wholesale dealers in Chi- cago and other cities will stand the expense of fighting the law. t King Alfonso’s Prophecy, “Was it ever foretold by a fortune teller that you would marry a king?” was asked the queen of Spain. “Only by a friend of mine, who was doing my hand and looking in a tea- cup. She said that I would be on a throne; though I didn’t think any- thing about it until after my betrothal. But it was quite odd about the king. When he went to Grenada some time ago and visited the Sacre Marte they wanted him to kiss a stone in one of the underground caves, which is sup- posed to insure your marriage within a year. He refused at first, because he said he wouldn’t be able to choose a wife because of being in love, so he would prefer not to lose his liberty so soon. But finally he consented to please them, and not long afterward we met. Now he says he is very glad he kissed the stone.” LOOSE TEETH PRES, Made Sound by Eating Grape-Nuts. Proper food nourishes every part of the body, because Nature selects the different materials from the food we eat, to build bone, nerve, brain, mus- cle, teeth, etc. All we need is to eat the right kind of food slowly, chewing it we!l—our digestive organs take it up into the blood and the blood carries it all through the body, to every little nook and corner. If some one would ask you, “Is Grape-Nuts good for loose teeth?” you'd probably say, “No, I don’t see how it could be.” But a woman in Ontario writes: “For the past two years ie have used Grape-Nuts Food with most excellent results. It seems to take the place of medicine in many ways, builds up the nerves and restores the health generally. “A little Grape-Nuts taken before re- tiring soothes my nerves and gives sound sleep.” (Because it relieve ir- ritability of the stomach nerves, being a predigested food.) “Before I used Grape-Nuts my teeth were loose in the gums. They were so bad I was afraid they would some day all fall out. Since I have used Grape- Nuts I have not beem bothered any more with loose teeth. “All desire for pastry has disappear- ed and I have gained in health, weight ,and happiness since I began to: use | Grape-Nuts.” Name given by Postum was killeé on the Duluth & Iron Range] Co,, Battle Creek, Mich. Get the fa- tracks at ae Junction, near Eveleth.| mous little book, “The Road to Well-