Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 13, 1908, Page 3

——-# i: i { i i ; | WILL INSTRUCT FOR GOV. JOHNSON Friends of Governor Claim Over 800 Delegates in State Convention. BRYAN MEN WILL WALK OUT St. Paul, May 12. — The Minnesota Democratic state convention to elect delegates. to the national convention will assemble in St. Paul next Thurs- day, May 14, and instruct the Minne- sota delegation to cast twenty-two votes in the Denver gathering for the nomination of Gov. John A, Johnson of this state for the presidency. Approximately 400 Bryan men, who have been elected to the state conven- tion or who are contesting the seat- ing of Johnson delegates, will walk out of the convention hall as soon as the regular convention seats the John- son delegates from the ‘contested dis- triets and hold a bolting convention, which will elect a solid Bryan delega- tion to the Denver convention. Hints of Compromise. At least this is the announced plan of the Bryan leaders, and though there have been hints of a compro- mise whereby the Bryan men would consent to the indorsement of John- son as first choice and of Bryan as second choice, yet S. A. Stockwell of Minneapolis, who is recognized as one of the Bryan leaders, said yesterday afternoon that he believed the war has been carried too far for compro- mise. The regular state convention will have 935 delegates. Of these the Johnson men claim to have elected more than 800 at the county conven- tions held Saturday, and they concede the Bryan men less than 100. Admit Some Contests. The Johnson men admit that con- tests will be entered from four coun- ties, with a total of thirty-five votes, and scoff at the threats of the Bryan men to contest Hennepin county, with 117 votes; Ramsey county, with 66 ‘votes, and St. Louis coufity, with 29 vot “This is just a scheme,” said Frank A. Day, chairman of the state com- mittee and secretary _to the governor. “The contests are not worthy of seri- ous consideration. Less than forty men in Ramsey county held a conven- tion and elected sixty-six Bryan dele- gates to the state convention. “The Waseca county convention contained forty-seven delegates for Johnson and nineteen delegates for Bryan, and yet a contest is entered from that county. The Hennepin convention was overwhelmingly in our favor. Duluth, St. Louis county, which was considered a Bryan strong- hold, elected an uncontested Johnson delegation.” The Bryan Side. On the other hand, S. A. Stockwell of Minneapolis said that the contest from Hennepin county would be en- tered because the credentials commit-, tee in the county convention seated Johnson men from three precincts, though the evidence was conclusive that the Bryan men were defeated by Republican votes. “We feel sure,” he said, “that a similar condition prevailed in many other precincts. Democrats were out- voted at the primaries by Johnson Re- publicans. The St. Louis county dele- gation will be contested.” VAN SANT NAMED. Urged as Candidate for G. A. R. Na- tional Commander. : St. Paul, May 12.—The department of Minnesota at the national encamp- ment of the Grand Army of the Re- public, to be held in Toledo, Ohio, next August, will present the name of Former Governor Samuel R. Van Sant as a candidate for commander-in-chief, of the Grand Army of the Republic. A’ general letter to this effect has gone out from department headquarters, urging the delegates to the national encampment to cast a vote in his fa- vor. Store Is Burned. Belle Plaine, Minn., May 12.—Fire Saturday night, starting in the base- ment of the People’s store in the Bai- ley block, threatened to destroy the entire building. The flames started among matches and all goods were badly damaged by fire and water. $8,000 Blaze in Mill. Minneapolis, May 12.—The screen. ing mill of the Brooks Elevator com- any was almost totally destroyed by re early yesterday morning. The loss is estimated at $8,000. Ice Fires Itself. Barnesville, Minn., May 12.—Spon- taneous combusion in one of the Great Northern’s ice houses yesterday caus- ed the loss of two buildings and a third was badly damaged. Boys Destroy Mail Boxes. Washburn, Wis., May 12. — Boys along Rural Route No. 1, leading out of this city, have been causing a good ‘deal of trouble for the carrier by de- istroying the mail boxes along the lroute. The matter has been reported ‘to the authorities at Washington. west OPEN 3,000,000 ACRES MORE TO WAGE WAR ON PROHIBITION Northern Pacific Deposits $101,000 tc} Sixty Thousand Big Concerns Allied With Brewery Business Will Organize. Provide for Survey of Mon- tana Land. \ Helena, Mont., May 10.—The North- Milwaukee, Wis., May 12.—A. new ern Pacific Railway company yester-| national organization with a member- day deposited $101,000 with the Unit-| ship of approximately 60,000 big busi- ed States surveyor general in this city| ness concerns, will without doubt be to provide for the survey on 3,000,000} formed at the time of the convention acres lying between Billings and the}in Milwaukee of the United States Dakota line. Proposals will be pre-| Brewers’ association, June 8 to 10. pared and the contracts let this sea-] The new organization will be com- son. This is the largest single order] posed of the members of the various of the kind ever placed. allied trades that are associated with Since March 1 this year the com-| the brewing business and the object pany has applied for surveys on 9,779,-| will, be the making of an organized 000 acres of its land in this state, all] fight on the prohibition movement. of which, with the exception of that] The organizations to be included will in yesterday’s order, has been con-| be the malsters, manufacturers of spe- tracted. and now is being surveyed.| cial brewing machinery, dealers in President Howard Elliott of the com-| brewing supplies, real estate men, pany, who is here, announced yester-| contractors, builders, wagonmakers, day that 200,000 acres near Glendive | glassmakers, insurance men and farm- would be placed on the market imme-] ers. diately and 500,000 acres near Billings in the near future. The company will insert an actual residence clause in the deeds, so that] Blaze in South Dakota Town Causes only homeseekers may benefit from Loss of $250,000. the low prices to be made. Belle Fourche, S. D., May 12. — A cowboy arrived in town Saturday morning after an all night’s ride and announced that Camp Crook, a pros- $1,208.50 Paid for Damages Done by] perous town forty miles northwest of Ann Arbor Mob. here, had been almost completely de- Ann Arbor, Mich., May 10. — The} stroyed by a fire which statrted late charge of rioting preferred against] Friday afternoon. Every business fifteen University of Michigan stu-| building with the exception of the Lit- dents as a result of the student out-|tle Missouri bank was burned to the break here March 16, when a mob of} ground, and only a few dwelling 2,000 students attacked and wrecked | houses remain. The loss will exceed the Star theater, was dismissed yes- | $250,000. terday in the Washington circuit court after the students had reim- bursed the county to the amount of $208.50 for expenses and ‘paid $1,000|Fifty Cases Reported and Public for division among persons whose} Halls and Schools Ordered Closed. property was destroyed in the out-| Great Falls, Mont., May 12.—It was break. learned Saturday through the report of Dr. M. E. Knowles, state health officer, that there are between fifty and sixty cases of smallpox at Havre. But Master Bakers No Longer Need | This information became public when Put Sticker on Every Loaf. the state board of health ordered an Waterloo, Iowa, May 10.—Waterloo | investigation. All the schools, thea- master bakers and their union em-| ters and other public meeting places ployes have reached an agreement | bave beeen closed. regarding the sticking of the union label on loaves of bread. In the past it was the custom of the union to plas- ‘ ter a paper laber bearing the union Thieves Get Cash and Stamps and Es- insignia upon each loaf, the practice cape With Stolen Horse. meeting the disapproval’ of many| Grand Forks, N. D., May 12.—The bread eaters. The proprietors stop-| Store of Joseph Colosky at Manvel ped the practice and a disagreement village, fourteen miles north of here, arose, which has been adjusted by an| Was visited by safeblowers at 2:30 agreement to use the label where de-| Yesterday morning and two safes manded by the patron. were blown open. The robbers se- cured between. $200 and $300 in stamps and $80 in cash and made their escape with a horse stolen from A, Ramage. CAMP CROOK.IS FIRE SWEPT. STUDENT CASE DISMISSED. SMALLPOX AT HAVRE. LABEL BREAD IF DEMANDED. SAFEBLOWERS AT MANVEL. FIREBUG IN TWO HOTELS. Proprietor of Hostelry Is Arrested on Arson Charge. CRUSHED UNDER SPREADER. Flaxton, N. D., May 10. — The sec- ond fire here this week was in the Pioneer hotel yesterday. Old mat- tresses in the attic were soaked with oil and fired. After a hard fight the fire was extinguished. Alfred Gordon, the proprietor, who was suspected of having set fire to the Stevens house on Monday,.left town but was arrest- ed at Bowbells and will be held to an- sswer the charge of arson in two or hree cases. Child Falls From Farm Machine and Is Fatally Hurt. Sioux Falls, S. D., May 12.—As the result of falling from a manure spreader, Stewart Engstrom, the four- year-old son of Eric Engstrom, who resides on a farm in McCook county, Jost his life. He fell directly under a rear wheel of the spreader, which passed over his abdomen and inflicted injuries from which he died a short time later, FAILS TO HEAR TRAIN. CASHIER IS ARRESTED. Section Hand Is Struck and Killed While at Work. »| Joseph Ruth of Arcadia Bank in Wis: Clinton, Iowa, May 10. — August consin. Hiffler, aged thirty-three years, a De Whitehall, Wis., Way 12. — Joseph Witt section hand, was struck and in-| Ruth, cashier in the Arcadia bank, stantly killed by a locomotive on the | was arrested on the charge of embez- Chicago & North-Western tracks near | zjement. It is alleged that he made De Witt, while he was working with | false ledger entries to cover up the a section crew, the unfortunate man. | deficiencies in the accounts. A charge failing to hear the noise of the ap/| of perjury has also been made against proaching engine. Hiffier is survived] him. by a widow and five small children. Thrown Under Sulky Plow. Waterloo, Iowa, May 12. — Henry - .|Heidemann, a farmer living near Woodmen’s Picnic, “Homecoming” | Boise, Iowa, was thrown under a and Other Gatherings to Be Held. sulky plow and badly injured. The Spring Valley, Minn., May 10.—The ; team he was using ran away and he Woodmen’s annual picnic of Southern | was thrown under the blades, sustain- Minnesota is to be held here on June | ing a fracture of the right hip, numer- 2, and in connection with that gather-| ous cuts and bruises and other inju- ing is to be a “homecoming” of former | ries. Spring Valley people. The old set- tlers of Fillmore county will have « Former Employe Accused. their reunion and the Old Settlers and Deadwood, S. D., May 12.—Robber- Sailors’ association will hold a gather-| ies of the material used by the Bur- ing here that day. lington railroad and _ stored in its warehouse here, were followed by the arrest of Edward Dunn, thirty years old. Dunn was formerly an employe George Wagner, Overcome by Gas,|°f the company. He was arrested in | JUNE 2 TO BE GALA DAY. TRAGIC DEATH AT TOLSTOY. Falls Into Well and Perishes. Tolstoy, S. D., May 10. — George Wagner, a well driller from Seneca, S. D., who has been working on a new town well in Tolstoy, was avercome by Galena, near here, Fireman Crushed to Death. Prairie du Chien, Wis., May 12.—Jo- seph Lanka, twenty-two years old, a fas while descending into the well fireman on the Prairie du Chien divi- yesterday afternoon and dropped to sion of the Milwaukee road, was the bottom, It took some time to re-| CTUShed to death between a coal chute move him, and he died soon after he ae the tender of engine while taking el. ‘eached the surface. Acquitted of Murder. Fairfax, S. D., May 10.—The jury in Anoka Pioneer Gone. Anoka, Minn., May 12.—Aranda Gid- the case of Gustave Dettman, charged | Tings, a resident of Anoka since with the murder of Taylor, a disrepu- 1865, died Saturday. He was one of table character-about town, returned a| the most prominent citizens of the verdict of acquittal on the ground of | ©°UtY. self-defense. Convict Killed by Guard. Burlington, Vt., May 10. — While making a break for liberty from the Loses Life in Fire. New York, May 12.—In a tenement house fire early yesterday Annie Bates, nineteen years old, a domestic guard line, Patrick Rynne, a convict was suffocated and three other per- at Fort Ethan Allen, was shot and kill-| 5°98, One a policeman, were injured. ed last night by Private Thomas Mal- jory of the Fifteenth cavalry. Most of the occupants escaped in their night clothes. { GILBERT ON COLVILL STATUE. Advises Against Acceptance of Either of the Two Models. Cass Gilbert, the architect of the new capitol, in a telegram to Gov. Johnson, adyised against the accept- ance of either of the two models which the Col. Colvill monurfent com- mission has had ugder consideration for a statue to the late Col. William Colvill to be placed in the capitol. When the commission was appointed Mr. Gilbert told the members that there was no sculptor in Minnesota qualified to make a suitable statue, and in this telegram he reiterates that position. The telegram follows: “T advise against the adoption of either of the two models presented in competition for the Colvill statue as unworthy to commemorate Colvill’s great service or the heroic regiment he led and unsuitable to be placed in the capitol.” After considering the respective merits of the model shown by J. K. Daniels of St. Paul, which was ap- proved by a committee of the State Art society, and the one shown by Mrs. George Backus of Minneapolis, the commission, which is composed of five members of Col. Colvill’s regi- ment, the First Minnesota, decided to ask Mrs. Backus to prepare a_ full- sized model and to make such altera- tions from her first model as the com- mission might suggest. If this model ls then acceptable to the commission she will receive the contract for the statue, a replica of which is to be placed at Col. Colvill’s grave at Can- aon Falls, RETAINS WHOLE FACULTY. Mankato Will Lose No Instructors Except on Temporary Leave. The state normal school at Manka- to is fortunate this spring in that it will not permanently lose any of its faculty members. Miss Fink and Miss Calvin ask for leaves of absence for next year, and one new teacher will be added to the faculty. Miss Fink will study music in New York, and her work will be taken for the year by Miss Helen Foxgrover of the Crane Normal Institute of Music, who ls also a normal school graduate. Miss Calvin also will take a year of post- graduate work at some university and her work in grammar will be taken by Miss Caroline A. Fullerton, for the last nine years principal of the Man- kato high school. The new teacher will be Marvin A. Nichpls, who will teach chemistry and assist in the science work of the school. He is a normal school gradu- ate and a graduate of the University of Illinois and is now principal of the high school at Plano, Ill. He will be- gin his work with the opening of the summer term. NURSE BURNED TO DEATH. Miss Tracy of State Hospital at Roch- ester Is Victim of Accident. Miss Bessie Mae Tracy of Minneso- ta Junction, Wis., a nurse at the state hospital in Rochester, was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from a small alcohol stove. Miss Tracy has been a nurse for two years and was doing night duty in the west annex. At 1:30 o’clock in the morning she found it necessary to use a small alcohol stove. In light- ing the stove her clothing caught fire. She screamed and ran out into the ward hall, where she fell unconscious, remaining in that condition until the other nurses came to her assistance. An alarm of fire was turned in and the local fire department responded, but no damage was done to property. The doctors dressed Miss Tracy’s burns, but the injuries were so exten- sive that nothing could be done ex- cept to relieve her sufferings until death. All of her clothing was burn- ed off except her shoes, and her burns extended from head to feet. WINS DITCH CONTRACT SUIT. Illinois Firm ts Awarded Full Dam- ages Asked. In the cage of Carter Bros. of Dan- ville, Ill., against the county of Fari- bault, in the United States court at Mankato, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff of $2,488, which was the amount sued for, with interest, being contract price for digging county ditch No. 1. Court then adjourned until May 14, when the suit of Henry W. Valk as trustee in bankruptcy of Widell-Finley companies, vs. William G. Hoerr, to reeover $10,000, alleged to have been paid by the company shortly before it was adjudged bank- rupt, will be tried. Judge John E. Carland of Sioux Falls, S. D., is the presiding judge. At a special election at Bemidji the proposition submitted to the voters to authorize the board of educaion of In- dependent School District No. 1 to purchase a site for a new school house carried by a ,majority of 49 votes. Two elections previously had been held, both of which contained provisions for the purchasing of this site, but in which were embraced also a proposition to bond the district in the sum of $35,000 for the purpose of building a new school huse_ on the site. The board now will submit the new school proposition, whee the balance claimed as due on the" and About the State : MAY COMMUTE ENTRY. Chippewa Land Act of 1905 Applies to Adam Siple’s Claim, Is Ruling. Adam Siple, now living at Beltrami, in Polk county, tendered on Sept. 16 last commutation proof on lands sit- uated about twelve miles from War- road, His proof was rejected at the gen- eral land office because it appeared that his entry was allowed under the homestead entry, he having made a former entry and lost it. The act pro- vides that no commutation proof may be made on entries made thereunder, but under a later act, the Steenerson commutation bill of March 3, 1905, Jands in Minnesota on which home- stead entries were made were per- mitted commutation proof on such en- tries. The Siple case has been pend- ing a good while. Siple appeared be- fore the local land office in his own behalf and has conducted his case with the assistance and direction of the land office officials. The secretary of the interior has just held that this act of March 3, 1905, is a special act, intended to apply to all Chipvewa lands in Minnesota, and as to <hose lands permits the commutatio proof to be made on second entries the same as if it had beén an original en- try, and the commissioner of the gen- eral land office now construes that de- cision also to mean that homestead entries for the Chippewa lands may be commuted even where they were additional homesteads. FIRST TRIENNIAL. State Observatory of North Star Ben- efit Association. The first triennial meeting of the state observatory of the North Star Benefit association, held at St. Paul last week, brought delegates from thirteen counties in Minnesota. The following were elected officers: Er- land Lind, Minneapolis, astronomer; John W. Bell, St. Paul, assistant as- tronomer, and Arthur A. Peterson, St. Paul, recorder. These three were also chosen as state delegates to the trien- nial convention, which convenes in St. Paul July 10. As alternates were chosen: A. G. Krans of Dassel, Minn.; A. Thoren of Duluth, and C. H. Holm- grep of Aitkin. The delegates to the grand observa- tory meeting were instructed to work for the moving of the headquarters from their present location in Moline, Il, to the Twin Cities, The grand observatory, which con- venes in July, consisting of the chief officers and about sixty-odd delegates from the various states, will be enter- tained by St. Paul Observatory No. 5. Arrangements are being made for a banquet, also a_ sightseeing tour around the Twin Cities for the dele- gates during the two days’ session in St. Paul. HOW HANDLE COAST GRAIN? In Bulk, Says Milwaukee Road; Sack- ed, Says Dealers. The extension of the Milwaukee road to the Pacific coast has raised a question of some interest to grain dealers of Minneapolis and Duluth. The Milwaukee system, according to the Northwestern Miller, desires that all grain elevators erected along its line shall be of the kind adapted to handling grain in bulk, since that is the way the grain is handled along the lines of the system in the older coun- try, where it receives millions of bushels for shipment annually. But in Western Montana and the Pacific coast country it has been the practice to move the grain crop in sacks. Pacific coast grain men claim that as the bulk of the crop goes to Seattle, Tacoma or Portland for export, and as exporters find serious objections to loading grain in bulk on sailing ves- sels for the long trips that such ship- ment necessitates, the Milwaukee’s plan will meet with serious objection. One result of the new line will be to pring a larger proportion of the West- ern. grain, particularly coarse grains, into Minneapolis, especially when the prices there are high. HAS LONG CALENDAR. May Term at Faribault Has 31 Civil and 13 Criminal Cases. The May term of the district court convened at Faribault last week, with Judge Thomas S. Buckham presiding. The calendar is an unusually long one. There are thirty-one civil cases and thirteen criminal cases. Among the civil cases are several divorce suits. In the criminal cases there are four indictments against A. W. Norton, former president of the Ner- strand bank, for receiving deposits in an insolvent bank. Mr. Norton now is serving a sentence for the same of- fense, and those indictments are still held against him. Superior Man. “Look at that girl eating ice cream 'and fancy pickles,” growled the man in the fashionable lunch emporium. “Queer mixture.” “Qutlanish! Waiter, bring me some caviar and charlotte russe.” In Black and White. “If Bryan is elected, he can't be fooled as to his friends.” “Why not?” “There’s the subscription list to the Commoner.” Monday. Washington, May 5.—Senator Bulke- ley of Connecticut, a member of the military committee, spoke at length in the senate yesterday on the Browns- ville affair. Mr. Bulkeley declared his belief in the innocence of the negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth regiment. The senate passed the house resolu- tion appropriating $250,000 to relieve the recent tornado sufferers in Alaba- ma, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisi- ana. “The house yesterday completely overrode the committee on appropria- tions in connection with several items in the sundry civil appropriation bill ‘Tuesday. Washington, May 6. — A lively de bate was kept up all day yesterday in the house on the sundry civil ap- propriation Dill. Repeated efforts were made by Messrs. Caines of Ten- nesseee and Chaney of Indiana, sup ported by many other members, to procure an appropriation’ for an in- vestigation looking to increasing safe- ty in mining, and they had about got Chairman Tawney to the point where he could consent to an appropriation of $50,000 when Mr. Henderson of Alabama objected and the proposition for the time at least was dropped. An extended speech in opposition to the forestry service was made by Sen- ator Heyburn of Idaho in the senate yesterday, while the agricultural ap- propriation bill was under considera: tion. Wednesday. Washington, May 7.—By the over whelming vote of 167 to 46 and follow- ing a two-hour debate, the house of representatives yesterday again went on‘record against the re-establishment of the canteen in the national soldiers’ home. During the discussion a man giving his name as George F. Gridley of Providence, R. I., unfurled an Amer- ican flag and proceeded to make an address from the gallery on the tem- perance question. He was promptly taken out. The senate yesterday passed a bill prohibiting the employment within certain hours of children under four- teen years of age in the District of Columbia in any factory, work shop, telegraph office, restaurant, . hotel, apartment house, saloon, pool or bil- liard room, bowling alley of theater, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages. No such child is permitted to work at any em- ployment for wages during school hours nor before 5 a. m., nor after 7 p. m, Thursday. Washington, May 8.—The forestry provision of the agricultural appropri- ation bill was before the senate sever- al hours yesterday. Senator Teller ot Colorado denounced that service as unwise and its administration arbitra- ry, while Senator Depew of New York spoke in advocacy of the extension of the work of the forest reserves. After ten days’ discussion, consid- eration of the sundry civil appropria- tion bill was completed by the house yesterday, but before putting it on its passage a recess until to-day was taken. The bill carries a total appro- priation of $106,966,369, or $1,241,000 more than that reported by the com- mittee. Friday. Washington, May 9. — The officers and enlisted men of the army yestér- day won their fight for increased pay when the house of representatives, after a debate of two hours agreed to the conference report of the army ap- propriation bill. An appropriation of $7,000,000 was made for the purpose, $5,000,000 of which will go to the en- listed men. But little progress was made in the senate in the agricultural appropri- tion bill, the session being devoted to a discussion upon the principle of forest reserves and the administra- tion of that service. Senator Teller concluded his remarks in opposition to a lump sum appropriation of $500,- 000 for the further development of the forest reserve system. Senator Nelson of Minnesota and Senator Dol- liver of Iowa spoke in support of the reserve service. WINTER WHEAT ALL RIGHT. Also Good Chance for a Large Crop, Government Report Shows. Washington, May 10.—The depart- ment of agriculture, in its summary of the May crop report, issued yester- day, places the total area of winter wheat at 29,751,000 acres, which is 4.2 per cent, or 1,318,000 acres, less than the area reported as sown last fall, and 5.8 per cent, or 1,619,000 acres more than the area of winter wheat harvested last year. The average condition of the grow- ing winter wheat on May 1 was 89 per cent of normal, as compared with 91.3 per cent on April 1, and 82.9 per cent on May 1, 1907. To Assail Billboards. La Crosse, Wis., May 8.—It is an- nounced that the new city park com- mission recently created by the coun- cil will open its work by starting a campaign on billboard advertising in the vicinity of the city parks. Revolution Has Collapsed. Lima, May 8. — The defeat of Du- rand, the revolutionary leader at Cerro de Pasco, and his subsequent flight have been confirmed. This means that the revolutionary movement has collapsed, a ae