Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 16, 1907, Page 3

Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY.” GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. STATE LAND SALES, Auditor Announces Times and Places of Summer Auctions, The state auditor has announced the dates for holding the June and July land sales. There are about 300,000 acres of Jand to be sold at public auc- tion to the highest bidders. The law requires 15 per cent of the purchase money to be paid at the time of the sale. The balance may run for forty years at4 percent inter- est. The title to all land is perfect. The places for holding the sales and the dates are as follows: Acres ‘ Offered. Tm y, June 11, Grand Rapids, |_ ounty, 10 a. M, . 2... ees D 1 Duluth, St. 35,000 21,000 + 35,000 21,000 ‘Tuesday, trami coun Wednesday, 10 a. m. June 20, Park 17,000 15,000 1 p.m. 8,600 June 24, Hall: nm p. m. + 25,000 25," “Warren, 1 county, 1 p. dnesday, June county Monday y Re Red Lake county, 1 p. m._...... 5,000 ‘Tuesday, July 2, Detroit, Becker lay, July 3, Pine City, Pine pL De Mo occpetclecenesce's 10,000 GRAND OPERA. The Metropolitan Opera Company to Appear in St. Paul. The Metropolitan Opera company opens in St. Paul April 23 with “Tann- hauser.” The cast will include Emma Eames, Fremstad, Burgstaller, Van Roy and Blass. Wednesday Matinee—“La Boheme.” The cast will include Caruso, Bessie Abbott, Stracciari, a fine baritone, and Geurnet. Wednesday Evening—Double Bill— “Pagliacci.” The cast including Bella Altin, Scotti and Bars. “Hensel and Graetel.” Cast includes Bella Altin, Weed, Manfeld and Goerity. “Salome” will not be taken on the road, and Mr. Conreid announces that this will be positively the last tour the company will ever make. Hereafter they will only play in New York city. Schuman-Heink will not sing with the opera compauy in either St. Paul Minneapolis, but will appear in con- cert in St. Paul on the 11th of April. WOULD GIVE UP CANNING. Lake Crystal People Want to Stop Factory Work. \ Mountain Lake has formed a stock company for the purpose of putting up a canning factory. Other Southern Minnesota towns have done the same, among which is Lake Crystal, where work on the factory is under way. There the stockholders, numbering 150 to 200 farmers and townspeople, have become dissatisfied with the project and have retained counsel to try to get the contract for the plant rescind- ed. Notice was served on the build- ers to stop work. The stockholders claim that the parties who sold them the factory machinery represented that the profit would be 60 per cent a year, whereas investigation has shown them that similar factories are losing investments and can be purchased for a fraction of the money invested. They also claim that the machinery being furnished is cheap. The company’s capital stock is $13,800. The College Widow. George Ade’s comedy, “The College Widow,” which appears in St. Paul for four nights commencing Easter Sun- day, March 31, and in Minneapolis for three nights and Saturday matinee, April 4 to 7, enjoys a unique distinc- tion among the present day stage suc: cesses. It was not built to appeal in particular to faddists or class, but to the average man or woman, in whom, though sometimes slumbering, there exists an inherent love of honest sport. Hard play is just as much a part of the busy Americans’ creed as is hard work, and in the fact that every figure in Mr. Ade’s comedy con- centrates himself heart and soul upon the interests of a football team, lies one of the chief fascinations of this wonderfully successful performance. An auditor of “The College Widow” is just as certain to become a partisan of one or the other of the mimic football teams in the play as are the people of Ade’s imagination. Has Health Board. Winona, Minn., March 9.—Following the suggestion of Dr. H. M. Bracken of the state board of health, Winona county now has a_ county board of health composed of Commissioners Roth and Monohan and Dr. D. B. Pritchard. Killed in Collision. Betterdorf, Iowa, March 9. — Two passenger trains collided head-on near here yesterday. The engineer was killed and one person fatally and two seriously injured. AWFUL LOSS ON FRENCH WARSHIP POWDER MAGAZINES ON BATTLE- SHIP IENA BLOW UP AT TOULON. DEATH LOSS 1S. ABOUT 100 VICTIMS ARE HURLED THROUGH AIR—HUNDREDS HORRIBLY INJURED. Toulon, March 14. — The powder magazines on board the French battle- ship Iena blew up yesterday afternoon, and as a result Capt. Adigard, the com- mander of the battleship; Capt. Ver- ries, some of them horrible in their ex- nean squadron, and from seventy to eighty bluejackets are dead, while Rear Admiral Manceron and hundreds of other men are suffering from inju- ries, some of the horrible in their ex- tent. Naval circles are aghast and the public is stunned by the appalling ca- tastrophe. Victims Hurled Through Air. The entire after part of the Iena was blown to pieces. The bodies of the victims were hurled through the air by a succession of explosions, and panic-stricken workmen at the arsenal fled for their lives from the vicinity of the dry dock. Scores of those on board the Iena jumped overboard onto the stone quays and sustained serious injuries. Zi The primary cause of the accident was the explosion of a torpedo. Pride of Navy Destroyed. What caused the explosion is not known, but the powder magazines of the Iena were set on fire and their con- tents in exploding practically destroy- ed what was considered one of the best vessels in the French navy. The first shock was extremely vio- lent and shook the vessel fore and aft. It was followed instantly by other shocks. The crew was thrown into a condition of panic. ‘The hundreds of men below deck were in a fearful position, and while they groped their way toward the exits they became the prey of suffocating fumes which caused many of them to fall unconscious. Survivors Go Insane. It will be impossible to ascertain the exact number of killed and wounded until a roll call can be held, as many of the men were completely blown to pieces, while others were incinerated. Many of those who escaped with their lives suffered most severe in- juries, and becoming temporarily in- sane rushed frantically around the vi- cinity of the dry dock until they fell exhausted. LAND FRAUDS IN IDAHO. Government Will Sift Them to Bottom and Punish the Guilty. Lewiston, Idaho, March 14. — Hints from Boise as to startling land fraud disclosures at Lewiston tend to con- firm reports from authentic sources that the government has for a year considered the land frauds in Idaho more gigantic than in either Oregon, Montana or Washington, and that it is the intention of the government to sift them to the bottom, bringing guilty ones to trial and then bringing re- entrance proceedings after conviction to secure re-possession of the Jands fraudulently secured from the United States. Means Ruin for Many. This latter step will mean great finnancial loss and perhaps absolute ruin to private individuals and bank- ing institutions, which are or have been, it is asserted, directly or indi- rectly connected with the handling or ownership of lands said to have been fraudulently acquired. It is known that the few indictments secured at Mos- cow at the last two terms of court are but a beginning. There are, it is said, other indictments to follow, which are to bring into the pale of the law men! high in all walks of life, and whose names so far have not been even sug- gested, It is asserted that evidence has been secured which, when presented in court, will prove astounding to the general public. COW ATTACKS MAIL MAN. Carrier Is Knocked Down Twice, but Dog Saves His Life. Rosemount, Minn., March 14.—John Johnson, carrier on Rural Route No. 2, from Rosemount, was severely in- jured by a vicious cow. Johnson was walking across the barnyard when, without any provocation, the cow at- tacked him, knocked him down and tried to gore him with her horns. He struggled to his feet and started to run to a place of safety, but he was overtaken and again was struck down. The infuriated animal would have killed him had not his dog come to his assistance. FORM COMPANY TO FIGHT VICE. Corporation With $100,000 Capital Is Planned. La Crosse, Wis., March 14.—Follow- ing sensational reports by spies hired by the La Crosse Pastors’ union to in- vestigate vice in La Crosse, the organi- zation of the Civic federation, with a capital stock of $100,000, the object of which will be to foree the suppression of evils which have been revealed, has been announced. It is stated that a number of leading citizens will sub- scribe principal portion of the stock. JEROME LOSES EVERY POINT PROSECUTOR: AND ATTOR- NEY DELMAS, | New York, March 13.—On the first day of the state’s case in rebuttal at the trial of Harry Thaw, District At- torney Jerome yesterday came to a temporary standstill against the prac- tically solid wall the rules of evidence have built around the story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Mr. Jerome began to at- tack this story as soon as court open- ed. ‘There ensued a well nigh cease- Jess battle between the prosecutor and D, M. Delmas, the leading counsel for the defense, at the end of which Jus- tice Fitzgerald upheld the rule laid down at the beginning of the trial— that Mrs. Thaw’s story was admissible only as tending to show the effect it might have had in unbalancing the de- fendant’s mind and its truth of falsity is not material. Mr. Jerome tried to avoid this rule by declaring he was endeavoring mere- ly to show by inference—by circum- stantial evidence as to facts and de tails in the story—that Mrs. Thaw could not possibly have told the story to her husband. Although he will doubtless be blocked by the same rule when the time comes, it is said the district attorney may attempt in the same way to prove an alibi for Stanford White on the night he is al- leged to have maltreated young Miss Nesbit. Delmas Wins Every Point. Nine-tenths of yesterday’s sessions were spent in argument, and in nearly every instance when the smoke of con- flict cleared away Mr. Delmas had won his point as to law, while Mr. Jerome in the very argument itself had got before the jury a perfect knowledge as to what his witnesses would have tes- tified to had they been permitted. The district attorney called ten witnesses during the day, but aside from draw- ing the state’s witnesses to the trage- dy the opinion that Thaw seemed ra- tional the night he shot and killed White, little real hearway was made. THAW SANE NIGHT OF MURDER. White’s Brother-in-Law Tells of Talk With Thaw Before Tragedy. New York, March 14. — The end of the Thaw trial at last seems to be in sight. Tentative plans for the final stages of the trial were agreed upon yesterday by opposing counsel. Dis- trict Attorney Jerome has at last burned behind him all bridges leading to a lunacy commission and has irrevo- cably pointed his course to proving that Thaw was sane when he shot Stanford White, and that being sane his crime constituted murder in the first degree. Within ten days or two weeks the case should be in the jury's hands. Played Strongest Card. Mr. Jerome played yesterday proba- bly the strongest card he holds—evi- dence which came to his knowledge but a few days ago and which un- doubtedly caused him to abandon the idea of sending White’s slayer to a madhouse and to try for a straightout conviction under the criminal statutes. The evidence came from Mrs. Stanford White's brother, James Clinch Smith, who told a remarkably clear, succinct story of the events of Madison Square Garden the night White was killed and of a long conversation he had with Thaw just prior to the shooting. Thaw Talked Like Sane Man. It seems that Thaw sat for some time with Smith during the fateful first performance of “Mam’selle Cham- pagne” and discussed with him a va- riety of topics in a manner, Mr. Smith declared, such as any sane man would talk. Attorney Delmas, for the defense, bitterly fought the introduction of this testimony for nearly two hours. He declared that Mr. Smith was properly a witness in chief and should not be al- lowed to testify in rebuttal. Mr. Je- rome replied that he had known only for a few days the real value of Mr. Smith’s testimony—the conversations with Thaw. Hard Blow to Defense. Justice Fitzgerald held that, in the interest of justice, the jury was enti- tled to all the facts. It was one of the most serious blows the judge has dealt the defense since the trial be- gan. NEW RATE RAISES FARE. Wisconsin Cut Unpopular With Mer- chants. La Crosse, Wis., March 14. — The new 21-2 cent passenger rate which just went into effect on Wisconsin railroads is raising a storm of protest from merchants of La Crosse, on the theory that while it will be a benefit to the merchants of Milwaukee and to travelers going the entire distance across the state, it works to the disad- vantage of La Crosse merchants by in- creasing the railroad fare from near- by villages and towns. Many instances have been found in the new tariffs published by the rail- roads in which the fare from towns within a radius of fifty or seventy-five miles of this city has been increased since the adoption of the 21-2 cent rate. Conscience Aches; Pays. Springfield, IL, March 13—TImpelled by an aching conscience, T. E. Tim- mus has turned over $4.75 to the local passenger agent of the Illinois Cen- tral, explaining that he wanted to pay for a ride which he had taken last July on another man’s pass. Two Hurt in Runaway. Eau Claire, Wis., March 13.—Willis E. Kent was seriously injured as the result of a runaway accident. Ephraim Lampman, his companion, escaped with slight injuries. WILL LEAVE TT TO PRESIDENT APPEAL ‘TO CALIFORNIANS TO STOP JAP LEGISLATION SUC- CESSFUL. MORGAN APPEALS TO PRESIDENT URGES ACTION BE TAKEN TO AL. LAY ANXIETY IN RAILROAD CIRCLES. Sacramento, Cal., March 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has again appealed to the legislature of California to stop all Japanese legislation. The president has sent a telegram to Gov. Gillette urging that the legislature suspend all Japanese legislation and expressing the fear that the action of the senate | Saturday in passing the two Japanese bills and a resolution may render in- effective his efforts to secure exclu- sion of Japanese laborers by friendly agreement with Japan. Is Sent to Assembly. The governor transmitted the presi- dent’s telegram to the assembly yes- terday morning, where action was to have been taken on the two blis] and the resolution adopted by the senate, with a message recommending and urging that the president’s request be acceded to. The action referred to by the presi- dent was the passage of the bill limit- ing the age of children when first en- tering primary schools to ten years, the measure prepared by the Japa- nesé-Korean Exclusion league submit- ting the question of Asiatic exclusion to a vote of the people and a resolu. tion protesting against Japanese natu- ralization. Leaves It to President. The message created something of a sensation in the lower house. Grove L. Johnson arose, expressed his satis- faction in the governor and presidenr, believed the matter should be left to them, and moved that it be the sense of the assembly that no action be taken on the Japanese question at this session. The motion was carried. TO CONFER WITH MAGNATES. Seek Agreement as to Relations Be- tween Roads and Government. Washington, March 13.—J. Pierpont Morgan, the New York financier, came to Washington in his private car last night and went immediately to the White House, where he was in con- ference with President Roosevelt for more than two hours. The object of Mr. Morgan’s visit was to urge the president to take some action to “allay the public anxiety now threatening to obstruct railway investments and con- struction.” Mr, Morgan pointed out to the president that the financial inter- ests of the country are alarmed at the attitude of the administration toward corporations and particularly the rail- roads. At Mr. Morgan’s earnest request President Roosevelt has agreed to have a conference with four leading railway presidents, Mrssrs. McCrea of the Pennsylvania, Newman of the New York Central, Mellen of the New York, New Haven & Hartford and Hughitt of the Chicago & North-Western, to de- termine if some agreement can be reached as to the relations between the railroads and the administration. It is probable that E. H. Harrimaw may also participate in the conference, which it is understood will take place at the White House some time the latter part of this week. LICENSE LAW IS UPHELD. South Dakota Wins Over Agent of Go- pher Liquor House. Washington, March 13.—In a deci- sion in the case of Delamater vs. The State of South Dakota the supreme court of the United States yesterday sustained the state law of South Dako- ta requiring a license fee of $200 a year for retailing liquor in any of the counties of that state. Delamater was prosecuted for selling whisky in Pot- ter county, South Dakota, as an agent | for a Minnesota house. EXPRESS DRIVER IN TOILS. Detective Says He Is Participant in Big Robbery Scheme. New York, March 13.—City Magis- trate Whitman yesterday held William Leonard, twenty years old, a driver formerly employed by the Adams Ex- press company, in $10,000 pail, on the testimony of detectives who said they pelieved they would have evidence to charge the driver with the larceny of between $20,000 and $25,000 worth of goods. Bulldog Attacks Child. Waterloo, Iowa, March 13. — Lillian Gardner, ten years old, was attacked by a bulldog belonging to Jacob H. Griffith and was badly lacerated about the chest and arm. : Frees Young Fairbanks. Steubenville, Ohio, Marclf 13. — The indictment for subornation. of perjury against Frederick C. Fairbanks, son of the vice president, in connection with his marriage here, was quashed in a decision handed down yesterday. Dies Under Load of Hay. Hardwick, Minn., March 13. — John Brown, a farmer, instantly was killed by the overturning of a load of hay. Brown was thrown heavily to the ground and the load of hay tipped over upon him. SONG PREVENTS PANIC AT FIRE FIRE STARTS UNDER PLATFORM WHILE BIG REVIVAL IS IN PROGRESS, PREACHER STARTS A HYMN _Aberdeen, S. D., March 12. — While big revival services were in progress in the Auditorium last night, fire start- ed ‘below the platform, where about 300 of the choir and preachers were sitting. The place was packed with people, fully 2,000 being present. When the smoke was noticed sev- eral walked out and Rev. R. E. John- son, the leader of the revival, at once began singing. The choir took up the song and ministers went among the congregation, advising them to leave quietly. Some of tke more excitable people jumped through the windows, but in ten minutes the large hall was empty. Not a Single Accident. Before the choir and the evangelist left the platform the rear was in flames. ‘The firemen fought the fire for an hour, subduing it after most ot the platform had been burned. ‘Through the presence of mind of the evangelist, aided by the work of the ministers, not a single accident oc- curred. Before the last of the congre- gation were out the firemen were fighting the flames. Several children became separated from their parents, but they were soon restored, neigh- boring stores being opened to assist in this work. MUST BE AT COUNTY SEAT. No Special Terms in Towns for Natu- ralization. Brainerd, Minn., March 12.—Clerk of the District Court Johnson has receiv- ed a letter from the chief of the divi- sion of naturalization of the depart- ment of commerce and labor, stating that the provision of the laws of Min- nesota allowing district judges to call terms cf court at points other than county seats to hear applications for naturalization are void under the new naturalization laws, and that such hearings must always be in the office of the clerk of the court at the court house. ACCIDENT SERIAL. One Brother Breaks a Leg and the Other an Arm. Sioux Falls, S. D., March 12.—Fred Arp of Gregory county, who recently had his leg broken while wrestling, sent for his Boyd county (Neb.) broth- er. The brother had not been on the scene more than a few hours when he, too, met with an accident, and now both brothers are under the care of physicians. The Nebraska brother at- tempted to haul a load of hay, but lost his balance and fell, breaking one of | his arms. FREED; KILLS TWO. Former Manslaughter Convict Murders ‘Women. Beaver Dam, Wis., March 12.—Ros- coe P. Miller, a former convict for manslaughter, who had been freed for good behavior, shot and killed his di- yorced wife and also his stepmother. He then committed suicide. It is said there had been trouble over somv property which was left to his step- mother when his father died about a year ago, Miller being cut off without a cent. $10,000 Blaze at St. Paul. St. Paul, March 12. — The plant of the St. Paul Foundry company was damaged by fire to the extent of $10,- 000 last night, and as a result 300 men will be out of employment for some time. Drops Dead at Machine. Elmore, Minn., March 12. — While seated at a sewing machine Mrs. Wil- liam H. Leaks was stricken with apo- plexy and fell to the floor. Five min- uates later she was dead. ‘Woman Drowns Self. Rapid City, S. D., March 12.—Anna Alexander, a colored woman, about sixty years of age, threw herself into Rapid river, and her hody was discov- ered next morning. Valuable Pigs Burned. Fargo, N. D., March 12.—An early morning fire destroyed the model hog house and twenty-seven valuable hogs on the Darling farm, one mile south of here. Steps Ahead of Train. Janesville, Wis., March 12—A man about forty years old, believed to be J. W. Rawson of River Falls, Wis., step- ped in front of a train as it was pulling into the station here and was instant- ly killed. , Brains Spattered Out. Des Moines, March 12. — Crazed by liquor Roy Beck, a police court charac- ter. leaped over the railing of the Court avenue bridge, spattering his brains cut on an abutment forty feet below. SHOOTS FRIEND; KILLS SELF ONLY MOTIVE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THAT THEY DIE TO- GETHER. Fairfax, Minn., March 14.—The plot of a desperate man to murder his ‘friend and to kill himself was only partly carried out here last night, when Henry Kaatz, aged thirty-five shot Martin Kunz, a barkeeper, aged forty, in the back of the head and then turned the weapon upon himself, in- flicting a wound in his own head from which he died immediately. The shooting occurred in Joseph Dickmeyer’s saloon, in which Kunz had worker as a barkeeper for a dozen years. 5 Kaatz and ‘Kunz were engaged in what seemed to be a mutually agreea- ple conversation, when suddenly Kaatz strode from the table to a position close beside his friend and taking a revolver from his pocket fired a bullet at close range into the back of Kunz’s head. Without a second’s delay Kaatz raised the gun to his own forehead and blew out his brains. Kunz was seen to be breathing and was taken to the office of a physician where the bullet was removed, and he is now recoyering. Kunz declares there was no provoca- tion for the attempt upon his life and no motive for the suicide of Kaatz, un- less it be that the latter had grown tired of his reckless and unsatisfactory way of living and had plotted his own death and that of his inseparable friend so that the two might ke joined in death. FINDS NO GROUND FOR CHARGES. Legislators End Investigation at St. Peter. St. Peter, Minn., March 14.—It has been clearly established that the stories of cruelty at the hospital for the insane in this city have been gross- ly magnified and exaggerated. The spe- cial committee from the state legisla- ture, appointed to investigate these charges completed its probe yesterday afternoon and the members of the committee are convinced that there was no necessity for the investiga- tion. Nothing discreditable to the hospi- tal management was disclosed at the hearing and the committee will make no criticism of the manner in which the institution has been and is being conducted. In fact, the investigation has been decidedly to the advantage of the hospital. LIFE SOUGHT BY “BLACK HAND.” Quarry Foreman Guarded by Detec- tives—Quarry Is Threatened. Waukesha, Wis., March 14.—A score of detectives for more than a week have been guarding the property of the Waukesha Stone and Quarry com- pany, which has been threatened with destruction by fire by an alleged “Black Hand” society. The detectives claim that the fire which destroyed the plant on Sept. 7 was the work of the “Black Hand” organization, and that the reason for destroying the com- pany’s property is to get rid of A. E. Houtfrack, foreman of the works. Hou- frack is said to have received a num- ber of threatening letters from the or- ganization. Houfrack, who is followed by a guard of detectives, claims to be un- able to give any reason why he should have been selected as the object of a “Black Hand” vendetta. VOTES TURN AGAINST LID. Open Policy Supported at Elections in Various Parts of the State. St. Paul, March 14.—The lid fared but poorly at the hands of Minnesota voters yesteday, when the elections were held in various cities, towns and villages. In some places the no-license vote was the heavier, but in many of the places where license was the issue |, there was a decided vote in favor of the liquor traffic. Among the larger places in which the lid policy was sustained was Roch- ester. The heaviest vote in favor of license reported last night was at Brown's Valley, where the antagonists of the lied corraled 101 votes for that policy. Hayfield reported the closest vote, with a bare 2 to spare in favor of li- cense, and Duck Creek came next with a majority of 5. ANXIOUS ABOUT COUNT Sparr’s Friends Fear Nobleman Has Met With Foul Play. Miller, St. D., March 14.—Fears are expressed by friends of Count Sparr, who after coming here last year from South America and establishing a big ranch, later returning to Germany, that he has met with some accident or foul play, as he has not been heard from. He was expected at his ranch some time ago. ee Fireman Fatally Injured. Hudson, Wis., March 14.—Fireman B. Riddle of St. Paul was fatally in- jured in a wreck here. A freight train coming down grade became unmanage- able and crashed into a:switch engine and coach standing on the opposite track. Both were wrecked. Re-elected 13 Times. New Ulm, Minn., March 14.—Prof. E. T. Critchett has been re-elected superintendent of the New Ulm public school for the thirteenth time, this time for two years. Ww |