Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 15, 1908, Page 10

4 COUNTIES PICK TAFT DELEGATES Solid Delegation From Minne~ sota Instructed for War Secretary Is Certain. COUNTY CONVENTIONS HELD Delegates to State and District Con- ventions Named and Most of Them Instructed. St. Paul, April 11.—County conven- tions were held yesterday throughout the state for the purpose of selecting’ jelegates tothe Republican state con- vention to be held in Minneapolis, next Thursday. Taft has made a clean sweep. He will have the solid twenty-two delegates from this state’ and they will be instructed to vote for him first, last and all the time. He will have the state convention; and every district convention by »verwhelming majorities. There will not be enough delegates opposed to’ him in the conventions to make a noise. The hopes of the La Follette people were shattered. Their hopes of strength in the Fifth congressional district, Hennepin, having gone glim- mering at the primaries Tuesday night, they still talked of strength in the Seventh and Ninth, yet every county in both districts that had re- ported last night was for Taft. Program for Thursday. When the state convention meets at Minneapolis next Thursday it will elect F. B. Kellogg of St. Paul, W. W- Heffelfinger of Minneapolis and E. B. Hawkins of Duluth as three of the four delegates at large. The fourth will come from either the First or Second district. W. B. Parsons of Winona will have the indorsement of his district. Two districts in the Sec- ond instructed for Senator F, EB. Put- nam and one for Frank Hunt of Man- kato. In the First district evéry..county reported Taft instructions “xcept vo, which reported indorsements without instructions. SenatorsA. S. Campbell of Austin and Dr. J. district delegates choice, Betz or Somerville. In the Second district there are three counties to hear,from, one for Taft without instructions and the rest instructed for him. T. C. Collins of Windom will be one of the delegates and the other will be either F. W. Betz of Fairmont or George, H. Som- erville of Sleepy Eye. In the Third there are three to re- port, five instructed and one for Taft without instructions. C. M. Buck of Faribault and G. J. Bradley of Nor- wood received several indorsements for district delegates and will proba- bly be elected. The Fourth and Fifth districts went solid with Taft instructions. The fourth instructed for W. B. Web- ster and G. H, Sullivan for delegates, and the Fifth elected W. H. Eustis and Otto E. Greeley as delegates. Hight districts in the Sixth in- strueted for Taft, one indorsed him without instructions, one elected Taft men, one gave no instructions and one has not reported. Senator C. J. Gunderson of Alexandria and Senator S. F. Alderman of Brainerd were in- dorsed by several counties for dele- gates and probably will be elected. Has Second Chance. In the Seventh thirteen counties instructed for Taft and one is yet to report. Redwood, however, made La Follette second choice. Six counties in the Eighth reported Taft instructions, and the others have not yet reported. Anoka indorsed Senator C. J. Swanson of Fridley for district delegate, and St. Louie in- dorsed J, B. Cotton of Duluth. These will probably be the team. Mille Lae county’s delegation to both conventions will be headed by R. C. Dunn of Princeton. Mille Lac is solid for Taft. The Ninth reported ten counties instructed for Taft and three have not been heard from. Sent Up for Theft From Band. Crookston, Minn., April 11. — John Reed, alias Herman Greeler, who car- ried off articles belonging to the Crookston band, was brought to this city yesterday by Sheriff Gonyea from Edgerton, Wis., where he lives. He was, sentenced to $150 fine or thirty days in the county jail. He took the jail sentence. Child Burned to Death. Pocahontas, Iowa, April 11. — The five-year-old daughter of P. J. Murry died last night, her clothes having eaught fire at a bonfire. Mr. and Mrs. Murry had their hands badly burned while trying to pull off the burning clothes. Made II! by Healer. Stillwater, Minn., April 11.—J. D. Palmer of Fairfax became so ill here after being treated by a healer at Somerset, Wis., that he had to be taken to the city hospital. Adair of Owatonna were indorsed; tor d and will “be “dite [4 D. R. NOYES DEAD. Prominent St. Pauli Passes Away. April 14, — Daniel R. Business Man St. Paul, Noyes, head of the firm of Noyes Bros. & Cutler, wholesale druggists, died at his home. He was taken ill Thursday. It was not thought at first there was any grave danger, but a sinking spell followed shortly and he failed to re- spond to treatment. Mr. Noyes had’ been in rather poor health for several months, but his con- dition diq not become serious until Thursday. The chief trouble was heart “ailure. HIDE SCARLET FEVER. Cause of the Spread ¢f Disease in Lead, S. D. y Lead, S. D., April 14.—That the de- liberate action of parents in this city who fail to report cases of scarlet fe- ver in their families to avoid the loss of time is causing a spread of the dis- ease that has reached serious propor- tions is the charge of the physicians of Lead. They have now appealed to the city through the public press to cease concealing cases and prevent the continued increase of the disease. MURDERER IN INSANE WARD. Charles Underliter of lowa Is Sent to Anamosa. Creston, Iowa, April 14—Claude Un- derliter, charged with the murder of Nathan Taylor, his stepfather, was sentenced by Judge Evans to the in- zane ward of the state penitentiary at Anamosa. During his trial two months ago the jury found that the defendant was incapacitated to under- stand the seriousness of the crime with which he was charged. FREIGHT CAR IS LOOTED. Thieves Scare Brakeman Away With Revolvers. New Richmond, Wis., April 14. — A freight car on a north-bound Omaha train was broken into between St. Paul and Hudson and a quantity of merchandise taken. A brakeman found five men at work in the car while the train was running between Stillwater Junction and Hudson, but on seeing their revolvers made up his mind not to molest them. SHOCK KILLS PATIENT. Man on Operating Table When Hospi- tal Burned. Chippewa Falls, Wis.,” April 44: — Karl Sorenson, who was uniérgoing an operation when the Northwestern hospital caught fire yesterday, died last night. Although great care was taken in carrying him from the burn-, ing building, the shock was too great. for him. His home was at Withea. Ten-year-old Nicollet County Lad ‘Is Crushed by Wheels. _ New Ulm, Minn., April 14.—Alfred, the ten-year-old son of Fred Weiner, a farmer of the town of Lafayette, Nicollet county, was instantly killed by a wagon loaded ,with cement run- ning over him. When his body was picked up and taken into an adjoining farmhouse life was extinct. SCHOOL HAS BUT ONE PUPIL. Finally Closes After Two Years and Student Is Sent Elsewhere. Chippewa Falls, Wis., April 14. — After being in session two years, with an attendance of only one pupil, the smallest school in the:world, located in Sampson, closed. The one pupil will be sent to a New Auburn school and his tuition paid by the school board. AGED WOMAN DROWNS. Mrs. Harback, a Pioneer of New Richmond, Meets Death. New Richmond, Wis., April 14. — Mrs. Joseph Harback was accidentally drowned in Willow river near her home, southeast of the city. She was one of the first settlers and was about eighty years old. She leaves a hus- band and two grown sons. Creamery to Be Established Shevlin, Minn., April 14—The farm- ers and business men of our commu- nity decided that if they want to prosper they must go into diversified farming, and acting on that plan a meeting was held here the other day andacreamery association organized, which will be known as the Shevlin Co-operative Creamery association. Cashier Kills Himself. Spokane, Wash., April 14.—George W. Thomas, cashier of the First State bank of Newport, Wash., committed suicide last night at the Colonial ho- tel in this city by taking strychnine. Domestic troubles and failing health are said to have prompted the act. Fire Threatens Entire Block. St. Paul, April 14.—Fire of unknown orizin, starting in the rear of the Aquarium saloon and lunch rooms, at 9:05 yesterday morning threatened for a time the entire block and resulted in a damage of $7,000. Death After Accident. Janesviile, Minn., April 14.—August Haas, the section hand on the Chicago & North-Western road, who was badly hurt a week ago by being run down by a wild freight car, has died. He leaves a family. Y STATE DROPS TEAR ON SHILOH'S FIELD Monument to Sons of Minne: sota Who Died on Field of Battle Is Dedicated. PLEADS FOR STATE RIGHTS Governor Decries Trend Toward Bu- reaucracy and Encroachment on State Rights. Shiloh, Tenn., April 12—The monu- ment erected by the State of Minne- sota in the National’ Park at Shiloh to the memory of Minnesota sol- diers who fell on that battlefield, was dedicated here yesterday. Gov. John- son and his staff were present and participated in the dedicatory exer- cises. Gov. Johnson and C. C, Andrews of St. Paul, secretary of the commission, delievered the addresses. Gov. Johnson spoke of the mission of the delegation, of the honor due the memory of the sons of Minnesota who gave up their lives that the coun- try might be a united nation. Trend Toward Bureaucracy. The governor’s address developed into an exposition of the relationship between the state and the union and of the present-day attitude toward the federal constitution. He urged per- petuation of the principles of Ameri- can liberty and a constitutional form of government “purchased at the cost of. the blood of patriots,” saying in part: “In this hour where there seems to be a disposition to depart from the established forms, when there seems to be a desire upon the part of those in authority to abide in a central bu- reaucracy rather than in a represent- ative democracy—it becomes you and me to protest against any departure whatsoever from the government which came to us from the constitu: tional convention of 1787, and those amendments which have been made to it by specific will of the people. “Our government is divided inte the legislative, the execu: the judicial. Danger will surely come to this republic when any of these departments of government attempt in the slightest degree to usurp the functions of the other. Recent Decision Severe Blow. “Very recently there has come from the highest judicial tribunal in the land a decision of vital interest and concern to the American‘ people, be cause it has established a principle, as stated by one member of the court, which would work a radical change in our’ governmental system and would inaugurate a new era in the American judicial system and in the relations of the national and state governments It would enable the subordinate fed eral courts to supervise and contro! the official action of the states, as though they were dependencies or provinces. It would place the states of the Union in a condition of inferior ity never dreamed of when the consti. ution was adopted or when the elev enth amendment was made a part of the supreme law of the land. If this is the result of this decision it is tc my mind one of the unhappy incidents in the history of our republic, because the very theory of our government is based upon the right of the states tc contro] absolutely their own domestic affairs. “What this government needs is not more power. What it needs to-day is to so distribute the privileges under the government that all citizens will have equal opportunity. “America has been called the land of opportunity. But American oppor. tunity should not mean a granting o} special privileges to any class, but should afford all alike the means for culture, education, prosperity and con tentment.” BABY IS CHOKED TO DEATH. Body Thrown Over the Bluff at St Paul. St. Paul, April 12—The body of 2 new-born female baby was found at the foot of the Butternut street blufi yesterday noon by two boys. An autopsy was held last evening and it was found that the skull of the infant was crushed and that there were marks on the throat that indi cated that the infant had been stran gled to death. There was no clothing on the little form and nothing to give a clue to the parent. Killed by Street Car. Minneapolis, April 12. — While at tempting to dodge a team on Henne pin avenue yesterday Andrew Peter son rode onto the street car track: with his bicycle and was struck by ¢ Comu-Harriet car and killed. Blaze in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, April 12.—In a fire ear ly last evening which did $20,000 dam age to the Napa Valley Wine house 308 Hennepin avenue, a_ series 0} small explosions occured, and two fire men were injured. arate and distinct co-ordinate’ FAVORS ONLY THE GUILTY. State Pays Expenses of Extradition Until Man Is Found Not Guilty, * That the expense of the return trip of a person brought to this state from another, charged with crime, after his acquittal, cannot be paid out of the fund created by the legislature for the “bringing home” of prisoners to Minnesota, is the opinion of the attor- ney general’s office, expressed in a letter to Gov. Johnson by Assistant Attorney General George W. Peter- son. The question was raised in the case of Private. Kane of the United|tary establishments of the country, States marine service, who wWAS/saying they were inviting a deficit in brought from the Mare Island navy|the treasury and would serve no use- yard to Duluth to answer to a charge| fy] purpose. of illegal voting, and was acquitted. The whole of the session of the Vv. H. Metcalf, secretary of the|house yesterday was devoted to the 3 navy, wrote to Gov. Johnson about}consideration of the District of Co- arrels per day. The loss is $30,000..|/the matter, saying that Kane had|lumbia appropriation bill. Two amend- Russell, the three-year-old son of|been returned to Mare Island by the|ments of more or less national inter- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rinearson of that fg exe officer in St. Paul, and|est were adopted, one providing for 75- IN MINNESOTA. | Briefly Told. - Dr. W. J. Awty of Moorhead was badly hurt in a runaway accident at Sabin. At a recent meeting of the Brandon board of education Supt. Hogle and all the teachers were re-elected. Joseph Veka, sixty years old, was, struck by a street car at St. Paul and seriously hurt. His injuries are not considered dangerous. Fire at Royalton destroyed the Big Four mill of Gregory, Bliss & Co. of Duluth. The mill’s capacity was 500 ‘Tuesday. Washington, April 8—As an after- math of the passage Monday of the army appropriation bill, Senator Hale of Maine, chairman of the committee on naval affairs, yesterday sounded a warning against increase of the mili- Red Wing, was probably fatally|that the expenses of the return trip,|cent gas for all district establishments burned. The boy was playing near a]about «$28, had been charged to his}and the other requiring that all out- bonfire in the street when his cloth-|account, this amount being in excess|side doors to public school buildings ing caught fire. of two. months’ salary. The secretafy|shall open outward, and that new The six-year-old son of ate: Ander-| inquired’ it it would be possible for} buildings shall have four exits. son of Lamp Lake, near Benson, was the state to‘reimburse Private Kane accidentally shot by an older brother. | fo" the expenses of this trip, and the The boys were shooting at a mark matter was referred to the attorney with a 22caliber rifle, when it was |seneral. accidentally discharged. % in his letter Mr. Peterson calls at- A large safe in the general mercan-|teAtion to that portion of the law tile establishment of. the New Store| Wich provides a fund of $2,000 “for Company of South Stillwater was payment ‘of expenses of requisitions cracked last week, apparently the for figitives from justice and detec- work of professionals. The booty se- tion of criminals.” A requisition, he eT ee ee Be rced pratt ens stain oc soeoems an au ol Ft boon ene ped toe the eee ee: nae [xfient upon aiiother for the surrender | ment of justice and the department of principal of the public school. Prof. en on vith Bs oes el ebaraapt st peyote and labor for certain infor- ve B. Miller of Minnesota Lake has|’ Fa honalipion sualenya: mae regarding the so-called paper * ‘ F 4 = a hone cL of} “«t pave the honor to advise you] There were nine roll calls during maa qadawons OF that,, in my, opinion, the appropria-| the day, five of them on the new rules. ly of an unknown man|tion provided for by subdivision 2 Of] The Democrats exhausted their re- was found lying face down in the section 2, chapter 467, supra, is limit-] sources before they were made to feel snow near is M. & I. railroad track, ied to expenses incurred in ‘bringing | that the Republicans by sheer force of ipa mile south of Northome, by |iome’ to Minnesota an alleged fugitive| numbers had beaten them at every r. Cain, the section foreman, wh0}from justice, and that the expenses of| point. The debate brought all the was coming home to dinner from|priydte Kane in returning to Califor-| leaders of the house to the front. The work, | nia cannot'be lawfully disbursed from} Democrats were again charged witht Gottlieb Schrodt, a carpenter who’ said fund.” making the special rules necessary by has lived at New Ulm for twenty-: reason of their filibuster, while the years, was found dead in his roonj. Democrats reasserted that they at last al bie ome, oe Aig shoot sphere benji the majority to enact ing himself in the head with a revol- legislation. ver. . Despondency is supposed ito have caused the deed. The Eveleth Business Men’s asso- ciation will co-operate with the farm- ers of the Mudhen district to secure Wednesday. Washington, April 9. — Yesterday’s session of the house will go down as one of the stormiest in its history. The sum total of the day’s proceed- ings was the adoption of several addi- tional rules to further check the Dem- ocratic filibuster and the passing of the two resolutions introduced by Speaker Cannon calling on the depart- | . STATE AUTO ASSOCIATION. The Election of Officers at the Annual Meeting. At the annual meeting of the State Automobile association, held in St-| | washington, April 10—The employ- Paul, President F. M. Joyce pointed] |, ). Rar siribs Gis. coos p out ‘the need of much work in pro- ers’ liability bill recently passed by the improvement of the Morrison |moting good roads. In Minnesota it is|the house was yesterday passed by road, and has expressed hearty % necessary to create a more friendly} the senate without amendment, so pathy with a movement to establish fee.ng toward the idea in order that | that it is ready to go to the president a club for young men. favorable legislation may be secured. for tinteoptaval Eric G. Hasselgren, aged fifty- eight, C. H. Kohlars, chairman of the legisla- he s6Oea ‘at af Eee chee oy tive committee recommended a tax of ie is limited to was killed by a passenger train at common carriers by railroad. The sen- Brat: : rid $10 or $20 on each automobile in the paler op eorceeneg. Vogt te state, the money to go into the state ate adjourned at 5:50 o’clock until Thursday. train, was struck by, the engine and was throwsifitteen et he instant- | 800d ec pena Mi i ae ghiee times yesterday in the house "y No) -F. M. Joyce of Minneapolis was r bes ly. He had worked for thé ‘Northern y' the Democrats caught the Republicans elected president, ‘and W. H. Card sec- retary. Reuben Warner of St. Paul napping and forced them to produce a yas elected vice president. The fol- quorum. On one other occasion a vote ljowing chairmen of committees were by tellers disclosed the absence of a ‘appointed: . Contests, L. A,, Wood, St,| quorum, but Speaker Cannon peremp- ‘Paul; tours, George H. Daggett, Min- i take applied Lary ves! rule and de- mer, | Clared a quorum to be present. In do- $4,500; insurance, $2, contents sear ar pen & le nee ing so he had a brief but lively clash valued at $2,500; insurance, $1,50°. Minneapolis; membership A. B. Stew- | with Mr. Williams. Judge Buckman, acting on applica- art, Guskouna. : Notwithstanding repeated roll calls, tion of W. P. C \d, appointed a progress was made in the transaction commission to & ine the shal of public business. Both the army and east at the last 4 the fortifications appropriation bills on the license que . ; z were sent to conference, the senate vote won by nine votes, but a dispute |!nspector Takes Up Legal Point With] pill to increase the efficiency of the arose as to the legality of some of the Attorney General. cutter service was with Democratic votes! Attorney General Young has Seti help passed, and the bill to promote Pater’ Prinst. cor’ Margw asked by State Oil Inspector W. E.| the safe transportation in interstate bd McEwen for an opinion as to the le-| .ommerce of explosive was considered dropped dead at the depot at Wadena | -aiity of the repayment to oil compa- ; while waiting for a train. ‘HE WAS | nies of the fees paid for the inspec- returning from Hunter Hot Springs. !tion of shipments of oil which are Mont. where he had been for his} ont outside the state for consump- health.’ Mr. Prinzl was a prominent resident of Fergus Falls and one of Hon ity’ It has been the practice in the past Totes = ee VAGeE DEyperey. OWMeTs: in the oil inspection department to al- The lid was the main issue in a low the companies a credit for the hot city campaign at St. Cloud which|fees paid on such shipments, but Mr. endéd in the election of Hugh Evans | McEwen is not sure that there is any i ‘ (Rep.) as mayor by a majority of}jegal warrant for such allowances, consideration of the naval appropria more than 400 over Louis Brown, the} and has put the question up to the at-| tion bill. Chairman Foss of Illinois present incumbent. The vote was/torney general. These shipments and Mr, Padgett of Tennessee of the the heaviest ever cast in a city elec-| amount to several thousand barrels naval committee made exhaustive tion. Mr. Evans is a wholesale|a year. The matter has been referred speeches justifying the action of the y committee in Pacifie sin 5 Toe “ui ating Wruidh By Henry |! Fink at Alden was destroyed" by. fire, |i and the steck of furniture, owned by: Hemingson & Booth, alsd ‘ was * co! sumed. The building 3 valued at 5 OIL FEE REBATES. Friday. Washington, April 11—The dove of peace hovered over the house of rep- resentatives yesterday. Instead of in terminable roll calls and clashes of party leaders on questions of parlia- mentary law, there was an orderly session devoted almost entirely to the ores to Assistant Attorney General George 2 ¢ reporting what they 2 W. Peterson, who has charge of the characterized as a conservative naval) No OR BG program for the next fiscal year. investigation of the records of Former school board the contract was let for Inspectors John A. McDermott and F. the, erection of a school building, at a cost of $30,000, to take the place of |G. Warner. Saturday. the Franklin school, recently destroy- ECP EL EE Washington, April 13—Debate on ed by fire. The building will be of Crew Prevents Wreck. the naval appropriation bill in the A bad wreck on the Chicago Great house of representatives Saturday re Western road, five miles north of solved itself in the main into a discus- Mankato, was averted an evening or sion of the possibilities of a war be so ago by the prompt action of Engi-| tween the United States and Japan. neer Page and Fireman Murphy. The In line with his well known views on tank got off the track, but was dis-| the subject, Mr. Hobson of Alabama covered before the coaches could] pleaded for four battteships instead of leave the track and the air brakes | two for the next fiscal year, and point were used to stop the train instantly.| ed out that from now on the United Division Superintendent C. T. States should have a fixed policy with Banks and a party of officials from regard to naval construction. A war Red Wing were in the former's pri-| between the yellow and white races vate car, which was attached to the he regarded as inevitable, and he as- train, and complimented the engine|serted that Japan’s present military crew on having prevented a wreck. activity was w.th a view to suprema The tank was repiaced on the track | cy of the Pacific and as a natural con- after a delay of but forty minutes. sequence there would be a clash at arms with the United States. SELLS FOR $55 AN ACRE, | ; On the other hand, Messrs. Burton ‘of Ohio and W. W. Kitchin of North The Central Immigration company] Carolina disputed that contention, of Mankato has completed the pur-| each of them avowing that the clas chase of two quarter sections con-| not only would not come, but that the taining 200 acres in Southern Polk] Uniteq States should remain in th county for $55 an acre, the highest forefront of modern civilization as price paid for a similar tract in the| exponent of peace. history of the valley. The Twenty-five Thousand club of Crookston is making a strenuous ef- fort to land the Minnesota Sunday . TE ct arate lige maier tthe con-| one” {© Areeneed: Naam Yankton: and vention will be held this year in St. Sans Bak i Yankton, S. C., April 12.—Charged Paul April 21, 22 and 23. with having three wives, from four- teen to sixteen years old, Gotfried Peter Alias Watrick was arrested and returned to Onawa, Iowa, for trial. A girl was with him here, named Eva Conkling of Mapleton, Iowa, to whom he was married a year ago and by whom he has an infant son. When found Peter was employed on a farm qear town belonging to Mayor Reedy. stone and brick, with the highest class fire protection in the state. It will seat 300 pupils. ‘ Hundreds of persons were momen- tarily panicstricken and hundreds of puildings in Southeast Minneapolis were violently shaken by the explo- sion cf a gunpowder magazine on the state university campus. No one was injured by the explosion, but the dam- age to window glass was heavy. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. The damage will amount to about $200. : John Reed, alias Herman Greeler, who departed from Crookston recent- ly, having, it is alleged, in his posses- sion instruments belonging to the Crookston band, has been arrested at his home in Edgerton, Wis., and Sheriff Louis Gonyea has departed thence to bring’ him, back. Reed wrote to a waitress in a Crookston hotel, and the police traced him by means of the letter. The voters of East Grand Forks, through the efforts of the Commercial club, have authorized the issuance of $50,000 tonds for the purpose of se- curing a water works system for fire and domestic purposes. It is pro- posed to run the plant by electricity. The Crookston and Bemidji Lumber companies began operations in the Bemidji saw mills last week. The Crookston Lumber company has about 130 men working in the saw- mill and 70 in the planer, and the Be- midji mill is running with about 100 men, . HAS THREE CHILD WIVES? Faribault People Act. A petition has been filed with the railroad and warehouse commission by residents of Faribault for an order requiring the Great Western and St. Paul roads to put in a “Y” connection at that place.