Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 11, 1908, Page 8

FAMOUS MINE IS ABANDONED THE SHAGAWA COMPANY STOPS WORK ON “SECTION 30” — MANY FORTUNE SUNK. Duluth, Jan. 7—‘Section 30,” per- hhaps the most noted and certainly about the most: expensive piece of mining property in the country, has been abandoned again, and a seventh fortune has been sunk in a vain effort to extract the wealth which the mine has promised to mankind for the last twenty-five years. It is estimated that fully $800,000 has been spent in liti- gation over the property, and, not much short of half a million more has been expended in its development. And yet, with apparently the best of reasons to expect rich returns, the men who have backed the various en- terprises have been forced to retire without having so much as found what ought to be dignified by the name ‘of “mine.” The property is located near Ely, Minn., and its story is one of hard work, beartbreak and bitter strife. The Shagawe Iron company is the latest victim of the mysterious “sec- tion 30.” The pumps have been drawn and the company appears to “have given up all plans for work of any na- ture on the property. It is understood here that the Shagawa Iron company and the fee owners could not come to terms for a further prosecution of the work, and the iron company thereupon abandoneg it. MACHINE KILLS CHILD. Four-year-old Girl Drawn Into Machin- ery of Feed Cutter. Appleton, Wis., Jan. 7—A feed cut- ter proved fatal to Katherine Stad- mueller, aged four years. The child wandered into the barn and it is sup- posed a rope she had in her hand be- came caught on the tumbling rod at- tached to the machine, which was op- erated by her father. She was drawn into the machinery and whirled around several times. She suffered concussion of the brain, the rupture of a blood vessel in the chest and the fracture of both arms. She lived several hours. “HURON HAS A BLAZE. Property Valued at $80,000 Is De- stroyed. Huron, S. D., Jan. 7.—Fire last night destroyed the J. H. King Land office and the C. R. Huntley two-story brick block, one of the finest inthe city. ‘The Lees Mercantile company occu- pied one-half of the building, Its loss is $30,000. The King Land company and A. K, Gardner, solicitor for the Chicago & North-Western railroad, also are heavy losers. The total loss is $80,000. MAY BE FINED $33,000. lowa Men Are Charged With Illegal Fishing. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 7. — James Ross, Claude Ross, William Ross, W. B. Smith and Bart Adams, prominent residents of Plymouth county, were arrested Saturday by Deputy Game Warden A. M. Green, charged with un- lawful fishing. The deputy seized 664 catfish, which the found in a tank on James Ross’ farm. If found guilty each man is lia- ‘ble to a fine running up to $33,000. WHOLE BLOCK IN RUINS, Blaze in Culbertson, Mont., Causes Heavy Loss. Helena, Mont., Jan. 7.—Fire yester- day destroyed an_ entire business block in Culbertson, including the Evans hotel, the chief hotel of the place; the city restaurant and lodging house, two saloons, the Culbertson de- partment store, the Farmers and Mer- chants bank, Pioneer livery and a number of other business structures, HELD FOR POISONING WIFE. Gustav Kammel Bound Over at Miller, S. D., Without Bail. Miller, S. D., Jan. 7—Gustavy Kam- mel, charged with poisoning his wife, was held to the cireuit court without bail. The defendant intimates that the poison must have got into the oat- meal, cooked and eaten by the woman, from the wall paper, as arsenic, he says, is used in coloring. LAND CASE APPEAL, Attorney General Orders Action Against Milwaukee Men. Milwaukee, Jan. 7.—An appeal has been ordered by the attorney general of the United States in the so-called coal land fraud cases of the Wisconsin Coal company, in which Guy D. Goff, J. M. and T. J. Pereles and Charles F. Hunter are defendants. Judge San: born freed the defendants. HOMESTAKE MILL BURNS. Damage of $5,000 Is Laid to Boys’ Smoking. Deadwood, S. D., Jan. 7.—Fire in the Homestake stamp mill of the Home stake company threatened the destruc- tion of the mill. The boiler room and the change room were ruined, and the mill will be out of commission for two days. It treats one-fifth of the output of the company and is the oldest mill here. The fire may have been the re- sult of boys smoking in the change room. The loss is nearly $5,000. CHALLENGE TO WHITE PLAGUE. NEW Td NS BADLY SCORCHED DESTRUCTION OF PLACE PRE. VENTED BY CITIZENS’ HARD WORK. Sanitarium for Consumptives Ready for Battle, Dr. Walter J. Marcley, superintend- ent of the Minnesota state sanitorium for consumptives at Walker, Minn., an- nounces that the institution now is ready for patients, after a long delay in work on the water system. Dr. Marcley, who came to Minnesota from the Massachusettes state sanatorium, is highly pleased with the location and equipment of the hospital at Walker. He says: “The site is ideal. It is near the town of Walker, on the Minnesota & International railway, 200 ‘miles due north of St. Paul. A beautiful forest surrounds the buildings, a dense grove of pines nearby protecting them from the bleak north and west winds of win- ter.: The lake, which furnishes an ex- cellent water supply, is a quarter of a mile distant and about 200 feet below the buildings, so that the dampness from the water will not reach the pa- tients. The sandy soil allows very good drainage; abundant sunshine and the best of pure air abound; railway Aberdeen, S. D., Jan. 9.—Brentford, about twenty miles south of this city, on the Minneapolis & St. Louis exten- sion, narrowly escaped being wiped out by fire early yesterday morning. The water supply was not adequate and only the hard work of the citizens prevented destruction of the town. Four of the principal buildings on the main street were destroyed, and the property loss will be about $53,000. The total insurance is $20,000. The blaze started in the Brentford Mercan- tile company’s building, which was razed. The fire spread to George Mann’s hardware store, in which the postoffice and telephone exchange had quarters. From there the flames spread to B. A, Bsty’s general store and the Illinois block. The losses are as follows: Mercan- tile company, P. A. Miller, proprietor, $15,000; Illinois hotel, $20,000; Mann’s hardware store, $8,000; B. A. Esty’s store, $10,000. George Mann, B. A. Esty and their families had narrow escapes. A few minutes after they had hurried from their rooms the building was envel- oped in flames. SAVES INDIANS’ TIMBER. Agent at White Earth Orders Tres- pass Stopped. White Earth, Minn., Jan. 9—Simon Michelet, superintendent and special disbursing agent at the Indian reser- vation, was informed a few days ago that parties were engaged in cutting timber off the allotment of certain full-blood and minor Indians, located on the eastern portion of the reser- vation. He took immediate steps to have the matter investigated and noti- fied the trespassers to cease cutting Yesterday he was notified by parties interested in the logging of timber on the allotments in question that the cutting had been stopped. DR. WALTER J. MARCLEY, Superintendent of the Minnesota Sani- torium for Consumptives. CITY HONORS FOUNDER. facilities are nearby; the sanatorium station is on the grounds, one-half miles distant from the buildings; there is an admirable opportunity for gardening and grazing, making possible the production of vegetables, milk and eggs for use in the sanato- rium—in fact, here are all the fea tures desirable for an institution of this kind. “The buildings are planned especially for the carrying out of the open-air treatment, ‘The present main building is but a part of the general plan and has been adapted to present needs, containing the dining room, kitchen, laundry, apartment for superintendent, reoms for other employes and a ward each for men and women patients, with locker rooms and excellent bath- ing facilities. The piazzas are suffi- ciently large for all the patients to sit out at one time, and are erected on the plan of the open-air “lean-tos” used at other sanatoria. Each has a central section heated and containing a sitting room and a bath room well equipped, including shower baths and lockers; and a sleeping pavilion ex- tending out on either side, opened to the south, screened and provided with canvas curtains to be used during in- clement weather. Patients sleeping in the pavilions are practically out of doors.” Portraits of John W. North Placed in Northfield Public Libraries. Northfield, Minn., Jan, 9. — North- field takes its name, not as is general- ly supposed from a town of similar name in New England, but from the name of its founder, John W. North, His memory has now been honored by the placing of enlarged portraits of him in the public library and in Sco- ville Memorial library. Mr. North emigrated from Utica, N. Y., in 1855 and pre-empted the acres upon which Northfield stands. TWO KILLED IN WRECK. Great Northern Train Is Derailed Near Wolf Creek, Mont. Helena, Mont., Jan. 9.—Through the wrecking of a Great Northern train near Wolf creek last night two per- sons were killed and a number of load- ed ore cars were demolished. The dead are Carl Davidson of Man- itoba and an unknown tramp. For some unknown cause the cars jumped the rails and were piled in an indiscriminate mass, the victims being caught in the debris. HOG ATTACKKS OWNER. Man Is Rescued in Time to Save Life, but Is Seriously Bitten. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Jan. 9.—L. M. Bingham is in a serious condition as the result of a struggle with a giant hog. He was feeding the brute when suddenly he was attacked and thrown to the ground. He-was rescued in the nick of time. He received several bites in his limbs, however, and his condition is serious. e PRISON FINANCES. Board of Control Holds First Meeting of Year at Stillwater. The state board of control held its first monthly meeting of this year at the prison at Stillwater. It granted five paroles out of ten applications, five of them being old ones, and gave audience to half a dozen other prison- ers who had matters to present. The financial statement for Decem- ber shows that the binder twine col- lections amounted to $105,964.66. The farmers of the state are still shy on FILES FOR CONGRESS. Cc. F. Arrol Enters List Against Con- gressman Stevens. St. Paul, Jan. 9. — Charles F. Arrol of St, Paul filed an affidavit yesterday with the secretary of state as a Re- publican candidate for congress in the Fourth district. His name will go on the primary ballot as an opponent of Fred C. Stevens. PERT TE ERANS ES RES Sleighing Party in Runaway. Cashton, Wis., Jan. 9.—Jacob Misna, a pioneer resident of French Island, near La Crosse, is in a precarious con- dition as the result of a runaway acci- dent here, in which a score of people were thrown from a big bob sleigh. lifting notes for twine that were due Noy. 1. The collections amount to about $950,000 out of more than a mil- lion dollars. The miscellaneous col- lections for last month foot up $9,- 002.53, including $3,432.87 charged to the warden for convict labor in the twine factory, $3,956.65 for shoe fac- tory labor, $189.75 paid as fees by visitors and $459.93 turned over by prisoners to be held in trust. ~ Freight Cars Burned. Ashby, Minn., Spevial. — The Great Northern east-bound passenger train ran into the rear of a freight train here and demolished two cabooses and one or two freight cars. The crew of the freight train had gone forward to pack some hot boxes, and no one was injured, but the wrecked cars took fire and were consumed. Soldiers Are Held Up. Fort Meade, S. D., Jan. 9. — There have been two holdups between this post and the town of Sturgis during the last week. The victims were two soldiers. Nothing was secured from one and only $2 from the other. Child Dies of Scalds. Marinette, Wis., Jan. 9.—The four- year-old daughter of Almer Smith died after suffering terrible agony as the result of scalding. The child was playing near the stove when a kettle of boiling water fell upon her. CITIZENS MOB MAN. Child’s Story Incites Villagers to As- sault Alleged Offender. Czlefonia, Minn., Special. — James, Col« of Brownsville was brought | here ., Sheriff Blexrud to await the grand jury session next month on a‘ charge'‘in which the little daughter ot Frank Neukirchen of that place is the principal witness. The child told her parents of the man’s alleged actions, Citizens of the village, enraged, hunt. ed down Colleran and gave him a’ beating, breaking his jawbone. Same Old Story of Unloaded Gun. Mason City, Iowa, Jan. 9.—The acci- dental discharge of a gun, which it was believed was not loaded, resulted the death of Ida Thompson, aged ifteen years, daughter of Paul Thomp- son, living near Lyle, Minn. STATE AID GOING OUT. Delayed Payment to School Districts Is Finally Arranged For. Warrants are at last being sent out by the state auditor to the school dis- tricts of the state in payment of the state appropriation for high schools, graded, semi-graded and rural schools. The total sent out is $858,889, being the regular 1907 appropriation and the deficiency appropriations for 1905 and 1906. The payments were due in October, but there were no funds available, and the state was unable to borrow on ac- count of the money stringency till State Treasurer Dinehart succeeded in negotiating a short-time loan. As railroad taxes are due within sixty days the state will be once more in fine condition by March. The warrants sent out are divided among the different schools as fol- lows: x Regular, Deficiency, 1907. 1905-6. High schools . “ $119,764 Graded schools .... 7.300 Semi-graded schools 1 16,334 First-class rural. ..»138,600 86.811 Second-class rural . 26,640. 12,572 Norma] institutes .. 250 beens Totals Grand total . “MANY STATE BUILDINGS. Bids Soon to Be Asked for Several Ex- tensive Contracts. Plans for state building operations amounting to $319,900 have been pre- pared by Clarence H. Johnston, achi- tect for the state board of control, and bids will be asked for. Appropriations in each case fix a limit on the amount of money to be spent, and the bids will have to be considerably lower, because the fur- nishing and equipment of the build- ings must also some out of the appro- priations. The work to be done and the amounts available are as follows: Bids to be opened Feb. 1: Faribault school for the deaf, new wing to school building $35,000, new ice house $2,500, oven and addition to kitchen and dining room $3,500; Moorhead Normal school, model school building $50,000. Bids to be asked for Feb. 8: Roch- ester hospital, nurses’ dormitory $55,- 000, extension to main building $23,- 900; Fergus Falls hospital, contagious hospital building $10,000; Anoka and Hastings asylums, heating and plumb- ing systems, $5,000 each. Bids Feb, 15; Mankato normal, mod- el school building $65,000; St. Peter hospital, hospital building for tuber. cular insane, $65,000. GROWTH OF STOCKYARDS. Report of Year’s Business at South St. Paul Discloses Large Increase. Material progress marked the live- stock business of South St. Paul dur- ing the year 1907. Figures show that by increasing terminal facilities in and about the stockyards, establishing a sheep dip and shearing plant, and by the construction of a new beef house by the largest packing firm and other alterations and additions, the market has kept pace with the progress else-| where. In sheep there were smaller receipts, | but in every other particular South St. Paul made new high records, cattle, hogs, calves and horses . coming in quantities considerably greater than in 1906. The development of the horse market was especially noteworthy. Calf receipts ran over last year, 60,848 being received, against 59,677 in 1906. The total of 32,776 carloads of live- stock came in to the market compared with 32,246 cars in 1906. 4 The following table shows the com- parisons in receipts: 1907. 1906. Cattle » 458,753 426,987 Hogs 866,777 860,810 Sheep . 567,830 735,259 Horses 14,557 9,290 Car loads . "4 + TURKEY HAS LONG FAST. Thirty-five-pound Bird Reappears a Bundle of Bones. Confined for thirty-three days in an unused hay shoot in a barn; without food or water and still alive and healthy, but much reduced in weight, was the remarkable condition of a large turkey owned by Joseph Ball, a real estate man of Crookston Mr. Ball was fattening the turkey in his barn for Thanksgiving and he was keeping close track of its weight. It had reached a weight of thirty-five pounds and Mr. Ball was congratulat- ing himself on an_ unusually choice bird for his Thanksgiving feast when he suddenly disappeared. Mr. Ball thought it had been stolen, but last week he found the bird at the bottom of an unused hay shaft, where it had fallen after’ flying up into the mow of the barn.. It. was alive, but weighed only sev: enteen pounds when rescued. TIMBER SALE MONEY. Proceeds of the recent county sales of state timber have been apportioned by the state auditor to the -different funds, according to the ownership of the tract from whieh the timber was sold. The permanent school fund gets $14,345, the swamp land fund $17,620 and the university fund $340. Train Kills C. C, Barker. Green River, Wyo., Jan. 3. — C. C. Barker, a millionaire lumberman of ) Or., was killed by a train here yesterday. SHOULD CURE OWN SEED CORN. = State Expert Gives Pointers to Minne- sota Farmers. Since frost prevented the ripening of seed corn last season other means for curing the seed should be adopted by Minnesota farmers to secure an ad- equate supply for next season. Sev- eral methods of curing large and small lots of seed ears have been in use at the Minnesota éxperiment station, which are explained in a bulletin is- sued by C. P. Bull, assistant agricul- turist. He suggests that a thin layer upon the floor of a well ventilated room is efficient and practical for large amounts. The slat racks are made by nailing narrow strips, six inches apart, upon two upright boards, six inches or less. The “tree” is made of 2x4 and 4x4 pieces. Tenpenny nails should be driven into these on all sides, about three inckes apart, slanting slightly upward. The timber should lean against the wall or be supported by braces. The seed ears are forced, butt end first, upon these nails. Another successful method of curing is by tying the seed corn in strings, suspending them from the ceiling. Ears can also be cured by sticking them*through the meshes of poultry wire netting. Seed corn should remain upon the cob until just before planting. Farm- ers have not thought it worth while to save their own seed. That is a grave and serious mistake, for imma- ture ears would produce a fair quality of seed when thoroughly cured and carefully stored. WARDENS WANT A MEETING. | Men Who Look After Interests of Fish | and Game Would Get Acquainted. | Game wardens of the state are plan- ning to hold a convention at St. Paul ! for the purpose of getting acquainted | with one another and getting together on questions of mutual interest. The | agitation was started recently by the ; wardens at Crookston and Bemidji, ‘and on their suggestion it is likely that Carlos Avery, executive agent of ; the state game and fish commission, | will call a general conference of all | the game wardens of the state, to be held at the capitol some time soon. ; Minnesota is known to have as good ' service for protection of game and regulation of hunting and fishing as any state in the Union, but at preseat _the wardens are not acquainted with one another to any extent and each man is obliged to do his work inde- pendently and without Imnowing, ex- cept in a general way, what the others are trying to do. Tt is generally believed among the wardens that they could work to much better advantage if they could know j one another personally and could have ; some sort of general understanding as to their methods. Mr. Avery also be- | lieves this to be the case, and it is un- | derstood that he will take steps to ar- ; range for a convention. | NEW INSURANCE LAWS. Commissioner J. A. Hartigan Outlines Those Effective Jan. 1. The latest number of the monthly | pulletin issued by Insurance Commis- ; sioner J. A. Hartigan contains a short j statement of the laws relating to in- ects passed last winter, which went into effect on Jan. 1. The re- quirements of the new law as given | in the bulletin are as follows: } Life insurance policies must contain the entire contract, and no inducement | of any kind may be offered with the | policy. | No company may issue a deferred | dividend contract. Life insurance companies must ap- | portion accumulations to existing poli- jcies by classes. No form of life insurance policy may be issued in this state that has not been approved by the insurance de- partment. The above laws do not apply to as- sessment companies, of which there are still a few in the state. DRAINAGE PROJECTS. State Board Confers With Long Pra rie Delegation. The state drainage board held a con- ference with a delegation that called in the interests of a plan to improve the channel of Long Prairie river. Some steps along this line were taken last year, but the plans were not car- ried out. An attempt is to be made this year to do some work along this line. The present plans cover a short- er section of the river, and the drain- age board agreed to do what it can to help the plan along. The delegation consisted of State Senator James Johnson of Bertha, W. E, Lee and C. C. Moore of Long Prairie. Naygoonaydee Gives Up Fight: White Earth, Minn., Special—Nav- goonaydee, the oldest chief oracle and seer of the Mille Lacs Chippewa-bands and heretofore one of the most obdu- rate against removal, has recently re- moved to this reservation. Genera] Store Burglarized. Lamoille, Minn., Special.—Breaking the plate glass window in the front of the general store of J. T. Willard, burglars entered the place and es- caped with a large quantity of mer- chandise. Redwood county starts the new year entirely free from dept, Auditor Lar- son issuing a warrant for $5,100 to the county. Within two weeks the Rock Island railroad will have all new steel bridges between Faribault and Owa- tonna, crossing Straight river, within seventeen miles. Sander Overland has been commit: ted to the Beltrami county sheriff's custody to await the action of the jus- tice of the peace at Big Falls, where he will be tried. The warehouse of Schochet & Mork at Faribault was broken into by thieves, who carted away abeut a ton of old rubbers which the firm haa stored in the building. The Children of God are holding their eleventh annual convention .n Windom. ‘Delegates and traveling evangelists are present from Minne- sota, Iowa ard Nebraska. Carl Olson, a widower, aged sixty- eight years, was found dead in his cabin in the town of Nora by a neigh- bor. From what the coroner could learn Olson died of heart disease. An unidentified man was run over at Kelliher by the Kelliher-Funkley mixed train on the Minnesota & In- ternational, and was instantly killed the unfortunate man’s head being en- lirely severed from his body. Two trappers named Brown and Richardson, sold at Le Sueur to J. H. Tehmath for $77 nineteen fine mink skins, the product of five days’ hunt- ing along the valley and ravines on the opposite side of the Minnesota river. The hunting was done with dogs and shovels. Fire wrecked and practically de- oyed the fine residence of W. L. Beedle, superintendent of the water plant at Albert Lea. Nobody was at home at the time, and there was some delay in giving the alarm, so the fire got a good start. The loss on building and contents is heavy. Jake Cosbury, professing to be a fur bayer, was bound over to await the action of the grand jury,at Lake Crys- tal on the charge of grand larceny in the second degree in stealing nides from the warehouse of a local meat and provision dealer. Several bur- glaries have been committed here of late. Investigation regarding the «dvath of W. P. Ferris, the young man found dying in.a hallway at Minreapo'is, reveals the startling fact that he had shcet himself through the stomach while in a delirium brought on by a determined effort to free himself from morpsine a drug he had long con- sumed in large quantities. The state inspection and testing of milch cows which has been conducted in Moorhead of late has resulted in disclosures which are startling. The plain statement of the results is that 124 milch cows have been found to be tubercular and have been con- demned. The three herds include two of the largest dairies in Clay and Cass counties. Michael Murphy was held without hail to the grand jury at Hast Grand Forks on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder. Murphy stabbed Frank Whittaker, a Great Northern switchman, in the neck and breast, and for a time it was feared Whittaker would die, as his jugular vein was partially seyered. He is now recovering. The grand jury meets the last of January. Angered at the entreaties of his son to “quit drinking and be a man,” Hen- ry Allison, forty-five years old, braved the blinding snow storm that raged Sunday night in Minneapolis, and, while shaking from cold, crept uv fifty feet on the supports of the steel arch bridge that spans the Mississippi near the union depot fastened a wire to the structure, and placed his head in a noose and darted downward to earth. The wire nearly severed the man’s head. Frank Jeffers of Crookston, in the employ of the McKenzie-Robbins com- pany of Crookston as commerciat traveler, was run over by the north- bound Minnesota & International rail- way at Blackduck. One foot was en- tirely severed and the other foot sev- ered so as to leave only the heel. Jef- fers was taken to the Monahon & Osborn hospital in Blackduck, where one foot was amputated above the an- kle and the other foot trimmed from’ the heel. The safe in Wardain Bros.’ general store at Holding was dynamited dur- ing the night, the robbers getting away with $25. The robbers then raided the Winkler hardware store where they secured some valuable property. They then stole a horse and buggy end made their escape. George Travis was arrested at Fari- bault, charged by Fred Zimmerman with forging the name of C. H. Tripp to a check. Travis was found of a similar offense a number of years. ago and sentenced to the state prison, pay the last outstanding bonds against .