Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 3, 1908, Page 9

see PR ISTE PASSENGER TRAIN HELD UP BY BOYS Force Great Northern Train to Run on Siding and Rob the Passengers. MAKE CONDUCTOR PASS HAT Great Falls, Mont. June 2. — A north-bound Great Northern passen- ger train was held up at 12:30 yester- day morning about one mile and a half from this city by three boys, who are under arrest. The train was run onto a siding by the bandits, who fired a fusillade up and down the train. ° William Dempsey, an Augusta rancher, was shot through the leg in attempting to escape from the train after it had stopped. Rob the Passengers. Conductor Hays was compelled by the robbers to precede them in pass- ing through the cars, carrying a hat in which the passengers were invited to dump what cash they had about them. Most of them deposited from $1 to $10 and the booty of the desperadoes is not believed to be greater than sev- eral hundred dollars. One of the bandits guarded the doors of the cars to prevent passen- gers from leaving. The robbers finally jumped off the coaches and disappear- ed in the darkness. Boys Arrested. The three boys now occupy cells in the city jail. A fourth youth, who admits having assisted/in planning the hold-up but took no active part is also a prisoner. The quartet have made a complete confession to the police. The four boys are Albert Hatch, aged fifteen; William Randall, aged seventeen; Harry. Rheams,. fifteen, and George S. Cresswell, aged six- teen. According to the story told by Ran- dall, Rheams and Creswell, the hold- up was planned and carried out un- der the generalship of Hatch. Wanted to Rob Some More. Rheams states that Hatch, after they had left the scene of the hold-up, proposed that they cross the Sun river to the Montana Central line and hold up passenger train No. 236, from Butte, which was due in two or three hours. Because he demurred, Rheams says, Hatch drew his revolver and threatened to kill him. He was dis- suaded from the second attempt of train robbery by the two youths who were with him. ST. PAUL GROWING FAST. Total Population 226,048, According to New Directory. St. Paul, June 2.—Approximate fig- ures of the total number of names in the forthcoming forty-fourth annual city directory shows that the popula- tion of the city is now about 226,048. The increase during the past year has been almost phenomenal. Over 5,000 names have been added to the direc- tory over the 117,564 in the 1907 di- rectory, which means that about 10,- 000 people have been added to the city’s population. The gain in population was 5 per cent for the two years previously to 1907. It was over that last year, and this year the indications are that the growth has been. still greater, an in- crease which few cities are able to maintain. 3 CAUGHT IN THE ACT. Madison Man Gets a Burglar in His House. Madison, Wis., June 2. — George Stensrud was caught early this morn- ing robbing the home of Ernest Eck- stedt. He was just about to take a box containing money when the householder caught him. A number of houses in this city have been robbed within the last few weeks. OLEO MAN SENTENCED. H. L. Armour to Serve Three Years and Pay Fine of $7,500. Wilmington, Del., June 2. — Two sentences of eighteen months each in the government prison at Atlanta, Ga., to run consecutively, in addition to a fine of $7,500, were imposed in the United States court here by Judge Bradford on Hugh L. Armour, convict- ed of violating the oleomargarine law. Bishops Ordained. : Baltimore, June 2. — Perhaps the most impressive moment of the cur- rent general conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal church was yesterday afternoon, when those elected were ordained bishops. They were: Rev. Drs. William F. Anderson of New York; John L. Nuelson of Berea, Wil- | liam A, Quayle of Chicago, Charles L. Smith of Pittsburg, Wilson S. Lew- fs of Sioux City, Iowa; Edwin H. Hughes of Greencastle, Ind.; Robert Mcintyre, Los Angeles, Cal., and Frank M, Bristol of Washington, D. GC! CITIZENS FIGHT “BAD. MAN” Desperado Shot to Death in Street Ea- counter at Ambrose, N. D.— Editor Is Wounded. Ambrose, N. D., May 30. — In a pitched battle here yesterday between an enraged populace on the one hand and a desperado known as “Dutch” on the other, the latter was through the head and fell dead from his horse on the principal street of the town. Thirty or forty shots were fired and several citizens had narrow escapes from™serious injury. _, “Dutch” rode his broncho into a blind pig and while still seated in his saddle demanded that he be served with the best and strongest the place contained. Every demand was puno tuated with a shot from his revolver through the floor or ceiling. Under the circumstances the proprietor of the place could not do enough for his unwelcome visitor. Leaving the blind pig, the despera- do began shooting at other buildings and hurling defiance at citizens who were in sight. A random shot pierced the hand of J. A. Lipphardt, editor of the local paper. » When it was bruited about:that one of ‘the townspeople had been shot there was a cry to arms and in five minutes rifles and shotguns were re- plying to the volley of the lawless “Dutch.” It was all over in another five minutes. Fortunately the coro- ner has only the body of the aggres- sor upon which to sit and return a verdict. MURDERER’S END NEAR, Holada, Slayer of James Gallagher, Not Likely to Serve Time Long. Iowa City, Iowa, May 3.—Charles Holada, the self-confessed slayer of James Gallagher, whose wife he loved, may never live to serve a half dozen years of his life sentence. Hol- ada is suffering from heart disease at the penitentiary in Fort Madison, and death seems near. So the warden writes to Former Senator C. S. Ranck, the attorney who represented the murderer in the trial at Iowa City a few years ago. No effort has been made to secure a parole or pardon for Holada, and none will be made, in all probability, as he is likely to die at any time, it is believed. PLAN CIVIC HOLIDAY. Crookston “Boosters” Propose Cele bration at Pleasure Resort. Crookston, Minn., May 30. — As a preliminary move toward the declara- tion of a civic holiday in this city about the middle of July next, Messrs. Wright, Ruetell and Winslow of the Twenty-five Thousand club of this city were appointed.a committee to make some definite proposition to be submitted to the club, which repre- sents the leading business men of the city. The holiday will include a grand excursion in special cars to Maple Lake, the North valley pleasure re- sort, where special exercises will be held for the benefit of all visitors. ABRAMS RELEASED. New London (Wis.) Merchant Proves Alibi in Sensational Shaw Case. Appleton, Wis., May 30. — Charles Abrams, the New London clothing merchant who was held pending the investigation of the mysterious death of Mrs. Carrie Shaw, the wealthy young Hortonville widow, was ar- raigned yesterday in the municipal court, and upon application of Dis- trict Attorney Rooney, was released. Mr. Rooney is satisfied Abrams can- not be connected with the case, hav- ing proved_a clear alibi: : CAN’T BE PARTIAL TO UNION. City Ordinance Favoring Printer With Card Is Held Void. Des Moines, Iowa, May 30.—Judge Hugh Brennan, in the district court here, has ruled a city ordinance giving preference to union printers in award- ing city printing is void. However, he has refused to issue a restraining order preventing the council com- pleting a contract it made with union printers, although there were several lower non-union bidders. Burglars Raid Altoona. Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 30.—Bur- glars operating in and around Altoona have committed three burglaries in that village during the past three weeks. The last time they broke into Crysler’s store and carried away a small safe, which they broke open near the village limits. The joke was on the burglars, as the safe was of the imitation kind and contained only a few bottles of wine and a deck of cards. Five Die in Wreck. Winnipeg, May 30.—A Canadian Pa- cific freight train plunged into a washout at Current river, near Port Arthur, early yesterday. Five per- sons were killed. The train was en- ‘tirely submerged. Upsets Stove; Is Burned. Waterloo, Iowa, May 30. — Veva Brewer, the fourteen-year-old daugh- ter of Frank Brewer, was severely burned last evening by pulling a gaso- line stove over on her, It is believed she will survive. WOMAN MURDERED AT DOOR OF CHURCH Leading Resident of Wisconsin Town Killed While Shaking Hands With Pastor. WORSHIPPERS PANIC-STRICKEN Oakfield, Wis., June 2. — While at- tending services at the Methodist church yesterday morning Grant Poole, aged about thirty-five years, shot and killed Mrs. E. M. Orvis, a leading resident of the village. The Rey. Sabin Halsey had completed the services by, pronouneing the benedic- tion and went to the vestibule door to shake hands with the members of the congregation as they left the church. Poole occupied a pew in the church directly in front of Mrs. Orvis and followed her to the door. Mrs. Orvis was about to shake hands with Mr. Halsey when Poole pulled a re- volver, firing three shots in rapid suc- cession, one bullet entering the heart, causing almost instant death. Mrs. Orvis fell back into the arms of her husband. Congregation Panic-stricken. Mr. Halsey asked the congregation to remain and offer prayer for the dying woman. The congregation was, however, panic-stricken and fled from the church in haste. The pastor re- mained and prayed over the body. For some time Poole has been try- ing to win the affections of Miss Grace Orvis, twenty-five years old. It is reported that the parents informed Poole of their objections to his ac- tions toward their daughter, and it is presumed that this was the cause of the deed. shot |. LAY CORNERSTONE OF CHURCH. Vast Concourse of People Attend Cer- emonies at Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Jnue 2. — With all the solemn splendor and dignity charac- teristic of Roman Catholic ceremony the ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the pro-cathedral corner- stone at Sixteenth street and Henne- pin avenue were carried out to the minutest detail yesterday afternoon before a vast concourse of people which extended for blocks around the reviewing stand. For more than an hour and a halt devout parishioners from the two cities, as well as scores of communi- lies in the state, filed past the review- ing stand, 30,000 strong. Under the canopied platform this tribute to the strength and infivence of the church was viewed by distinguished prelates from various part of the country and the apostolic delegate from the Vati- can at Rome. The actual rites attendant upon the laying of the corner-stone were per- formed by Mgr. Diomede Falconio, apostolic delegate. The opening ad- dress was made by Archbishop John Ireland, followed by Gov. John A. Johnson, representing the state; James J. Hill, the foremost figure in che upbuilding of the Northwest and distinguished patron of the church; Mayor J. C. Haynes, representing the city of Minneapolis; F. A. Grosse, who spoke ‘for the laity of the city, and W. F. Devereux, representing the pro-cathedral executive committee. CLOUDBURST IN MONTANA. Bridge and Track Washed Out and Trains Are Stopped. Billings, Mont., June 2.—A flood re- sulting from a cloudburst in the val- ley weSt of Columbus swept out a bridge over Deer creek and carried away more than a mile of track on the Northern Pacific about midnight, and train service into this city from the west is at a standstill. No trains arrived here yesterday from the west and reports are that it will be impossible to get repairs completed in less than forty-eight hours. The floods between Golumbus and Big Timber are said to have been the greatest ever seen there. POSTOFFICE BURNED OUT. But Mail and Fixtures at Alden, Minn., Are Saved. Alden, Minn., June 2.—Fire, started by an electric light wire, yesterday damaged.a two-story business build- ing to the extent of $10,000. The postoffice is situated in the damaged building, but the fixtures and mail were saved, as were also the stock of Hansen & Co., general store, and the furniture of two doctors and one law- yer who occupied offices on the sec. ond floor. Weekly Tornado Comes. Clinton, Iowa, June 2.—Another ot the tornadoes which have been of weekly occurrence in this section this spring passed over Clinton, traveling so high in the air that no damage was doné in this city. The town of Mc- Causland, ‘in Scott county, was hit by the twister, however, and barns, sheds and windmills on the Alfred Lowry farm and on neighboring tracts of land, were razed to the ground by the fury of the storm. The Lowry farm is owned by Charles Howe of De Witt. STATE BUNCOED ON CASH SALES This System of Logging Likely to Be _ Stopped. Minnesota has come to the realiza- tion that she has been cheating her- self out of a good many dollars through the cash sale of timber tracts in the northern part of the state, and in the future cash sales’ of timber tracts by the state in all probability will be tabooed. The state auditor has recommended to the state timber board that the cash sales be abolished and it is expected that the suggestio will be followed. ‘ The matter was taken up a year ago with the intention of dropping the sales, but at that time it was decided to try them another year. According to the state law, all tracts of land containing less than 100,000 feet of timber were available for cash sale. Many tracts were surveyed and found to contain less than the requir- ed amount, but in other cases after the lands had been sold it was discov- ered that more than 100,000 feet of timber had been cut on them. Per- Mits for two logging seasons to cut the timber were given by the state board, which also had the privilege of extending the permit another year if for some reason the purchasers had been unable to get onto the land. In cases where the cut had been made two years and, the land still contained uncut timber the extensions were not granted. Permits will probably-not be ex- fended this year, and although loggers are said to be protesting against this ruling, they are not entitled to an ex- tention unless the timber board sees fit to grant it. The shutting down on the extensions is the result of discov- eries by timber cruisers that in many cases more timber was taken from cash sale tracts than was embraced in the original estimate, which was 100,000 feet. STRIKERS OPEN A QUARRY. Granite Cutters at St. Cloud Have Scheme to Work for Themselves. Stonecutters and polishers now out on a strike at St. Cloud are seriously contemplating the opening of their own quarry and the establishing of shops and polishing works. The quarry to be opened is op the Adam Hiomenz farm, about four and a half miles west of the city.. The The men say they have financial back- to insure the success of the under- taking and they have opened negotia- tions with Mr. Hiemenz for the pur- chase of the quarry. About ten men are financially inter- ested in the movement and though no definite action has as yet been taken the matter is seriously ,considered and in a few days the deal may be closed. Further than this there is no mate- rial change in the situation. TO OBEY COUNCIL’S ORDERS. City Recorder Yields and Impeach- ment Proceedings Are Dropped. Impeachment proceedings started by the Mankato council to oust City Recorder John B. Hodopp from his office have been withdrawn. The pro- ceedings had been brought because of Mr. Hodopp’s refusal to sign certain warrants as directed by the council, and the trial had begun before a pack- ed house. Hodopp stated that in view of a decision filed a week ago by the supreme court in mandamus proceed- ings against him in another case, find- ing that his duties are merely minis- terial, he had decided to change his attitude and would carry out. the wishes of the council hereafter, sub- ject to the opinion of the city attor- ney. The council then voted to with- draw the charges. The settlement gives general satisfaction. NEAT TRICK NETS HIM $35. Stranger Takes Advantage of Minne- sotan’s Generasity. Ed Kamrath of Minnesota Lake, while on his way to Springfield to vis- it relatives, was done out of $35 by a stranger at the union depot in Man- kato. The ‘stranger needed money badly to get some baggage forwarded, he said, and had lost his pocketbook. He, too, was going to Springfield, where he had farms and a brother who was a banker. He had what pur- ported to be a certified check for $2,300 on the Bank of Southern Cali- fornia of Los Angeles, and Kamrath accommodated him with.a loan of $35, taking the check as security until they should reach Springfield. Then the swindler slipped off the train and is though to have caught another one for the South that left at about the same time. Sheriff Donahue has the $2,300 check, which is pronounced worthless. CAN’T DRAW ON FUND. University Regents’ Request Is De- nied. The university campus extension fund cannot be used for current ex- penses, according to the state audi- tor, who has refused a request from the state board of regents to this ef- fect. The board wanted to borrow $65,000 from the extension fund, the money to be applied on coal bills and salaries. In the neighborhood of $15,- 000 was needed for the coal bills and the remainder for the payroll. STATE TO LOAN $474,084. Investment Board Approves a Big Amount of Loans. Loans to school districts, town- ships, cities, villages and for county, judicial and state drainage ditches ag- gregating $474,084 were authorized by the state board of investment, ~his being the largest amount of loans ever authorized at any meeting of the board. The loans will be made from the permanent university and _ the Swamp land funds as quickly as the money becomes available. Practically all the loans heretofore approved have now been taken care of and there is about $115,000 in cash on hand for those approved yesterday. In addition to this sum, $165,000 of former loans fall due on July 1, which sum will be loaned again. There are now in the hands of the state treas- urer drafts aggregating $315,000 for: collection on stumpage sales, and from $100,000 to $125,000 will be re- ceived within a few months in collec- tions on lands sold in the past. This money, together with the cash re- ceipts from the state land sales, which will be held in June and July, probably reaching from $50,000 to $75,000, will be available for making these loans, The loans approved to school dis- tricts, townships and villages, by counties, were as follows: Polk, $15,- 000; Big Stone, $10,600; Crow Wing, $800; Becker, $1,200; Lyon, $1,200; Kittson, $800; Mille Lacs, $500; Yel- low Medicine, $6,000; Lincoln, $1,000; Red Lake, $800; Beltrami, $5,000; Grant and Stevens, $1,400; Grant, $1,- 200; Jackson, $2,000; Wright, $2,000; Kanabec, $1,000; Stearns, $4,000; Stevens, $850, and Nicollet, $9,000. The ditch loans by counties were as follows: Kittson, $26,014; Roseau, $8,997; Marshall, $44,000; Polk, $59,- 100; Clay, $51,500; Benton, $13,888; Wadena, $32,840; Lac qui Parle, $20,- 484; Redwood, $25,000; Stevens, $14,- 639; Crow Wing, $3,475; Watonwan, $35,000; Stearns, $59,272; Yellow Medicine, $8,790, and Lincoln, $6,735, a total: of $409,734 for ditch purposes. UP TO RAMSEY COUNTY. State Officials Have No Further Inter- est in Oil Inspector’s Acts. Now that the friends of John A. McDermott have paid to the state the full amount of the alleged shortage in his accounts as oil inspector, the inci- dent is closed, so far as the state offi- cers are concerned. Any action to- ward criminal prosecution against Mr. McDermott will devolve upon the county attorney of Ramsey county. The attorney general’s deportment will refer the question of Mr. McDer- mott’s alleged defalcation to the coun- ty attorney, R. D. O’Brien, and place at his disposal the report of the pub- lic examiner and all other evidence and records for use in event he should decide to lay them before the grand jury. McDermott’s friends have paid the state $10,904.95 in all to make good the amouut reported by the state pub- ile examiner as deficit in his accounts as oil inspector. SPLIT-LOG DRAG EFFECTIVE. Heavy Rains Give Implement a Fine Chance to Prove Itself. The heavy fall of rain that the Red river valley and Northern Minnesota have experienced the last three weeks proves beyond doubt the extreme effi- cacy of the split-log drag as a good roadmaker. The streets of Thief Riv- er Falls and many of the rural high- ways leading into that city have been consistently worked by these drags for two years, The results are most apparent and striking this week, just following the heavy rains. In spite of the/amount of traffic that the streets of this city carry daily, they are in excellent condition, nicely graded and as hard as a paved street. The country roads that have been dragged for two years are as passa- ble as during the dryest season in summer, while the roads that have not been worked by the drags are al- most impassable. NO $100 EXEMPTION. Assessor Told to Forget Exemption Unless Returns Are Made. The attention of the assessors throughout the state has been called by the tax commission to the law which provides that where no returns of personal property are made to the assessor the usual $100 exemption shall not be allowed. This law has been generally disre- garded, but assessors have been in- structed to see that it is enforced. ‘The law provides that the allowance shall be made only when returns are made. The assessors have also been di- rected to list all personal property in the various classes and not in lump sums. Blue Earth has among its residents 111 peop: who have attained the age of three score years and ten or over. Of this number thirty are eighty years old or over, and two, Hilton Tinker, aged ninety-five, and Mrs. Eetsy Bartholomew, aged ninety-two, give promise of becoming centena- rians. A careful canvass of Mankato’s old people shows that the average of those seventy years old or older is seventy-seven years. The tofal of all their ages is 8.512. That city claims the state record, population consider- ed, in number of old people. Washington, May 26.—Working un- der heavy pressure, with a single eye to adjournment at the earliest possi- 'ble moment, the house yesterday dis- posed of a great amount of business. Early in the session it became mani- fest that a better spirit of feeling ob- tained between the majority and mi- nority in consequence of which several bills were permitteg to be passed by unanimous consent. The sum total of the day’s business was as follows: The conference reports on the sun- dry civil and the pension appropria- tion bills were agreed to, the confer- ence reporton the District of Colum- bia child labor bill also was agreed to, and the following bills were pass- ed: Amending the navigation laws; au- thorizing the sale of unallotted lands of the Spokane Indian reservation; encouraging the development of coal deposits in Alaska, and prescribing penalties against the sale of clothing and government property by soldiers. An effort to annihilate time by dila- tory tactics without making progress on any legislation except that involv- ed in conference reports was the chief occupation of the senate yester- day. The attempt was so successful that the net result in the way of ac- complishment of the day’s session was the adoption of the conference re- port on the sundry civil appropria- tion bill. Wednesday. Washington, May 27.—The session of the ‘senate dragged along yester- day in such an unimportant way that little effort was required on the part of the managers of the filibuster to occupy the time by dilatory tactics. During the day a bill was passed amending the navigation laws in many minor respects. The conference report on the military academy ap- propriation bill was agreed to in the house yesterday. Several bills of minor importance were passed. Thursday. Washington, May 28.—An emergen- cy currency law is assured. The cur- rency question held its place yester- day as practically the only subject of consideration at both ends of the cap- itol, and when both houses adjourned the compromise bill which was draft- ed by the Republican conferees had received the sanction of the house and had been presented to the senate, where it was announced it would be taken up for consideration to-day and where it will also be passed when the vote is reached. The day began with a continuation of Tuesday’s conference between the Republican representatives of the two houses. This resulted in a complete agreement which, being later present- ed as a matter of form to the Demo- cratic conferees, was shortly after 2 p. m. presented to the house. There it was taken up, discussed for one hour and passed by a vote of 166 to 140. Rushed to the Senate. The house had no sooner recorded its verdict in favor of the bill than it was hurried over to the senate, short- ly before 5 o'clock, with the announce- ment of the approval of the house. The conference report was read, and after the reading had been con- cluded Mr. Aldrich announced that to-day after routine business he would move to take up the report and con- tinue {ts consideration until it was disposed of. In reply to a question by Mr. Cul- berson, Mr. Aldrich stated the Demo- cratic conferees of the senate and house had not concurred in the con- ference report. Deep interest attaches to the prob- able course of the bill in the senate, as also to the length of time that may be required for its. consideration by that body. Democrats Will Confer. The Democratic senators spent much of the day in informal confer- ences among themselves as to the proper course to pursue with reference to the bill, and decided upon a confer- ence to be held at 10 o'clock as the best means of affording an opportuni- ty for an exchange of views without binding any one. It was also decided to summon all absent Democratic sen- ators to return. Friday. Washington, May 29.— The consid tration of the conference report on the currency bill in the senate yester- day showed plainly that there would be little or no obstructive tactics against its passage. Senator Aldrich briefly explained the measure and a little political by play was intro- duced by Senators Culberson of Tex- as and Bacon of Georgia, who taunted members of the majority with disin- clination to pass anti-injunction and campaign contribution publicity bills before adjournment, which called forth claims of interest in both meas- ures by senators on both sides, but gave no promise of action at this ses- sion. Senators Teller of Colorado, Owen of Oklahoma and Newland of Neva- da all spoke in opposition to the cur- rency bill, and; no other senators de- siring to speak yesterday, the latter part of the session was devoted to considering unoovjected-to bills on the calendar. While the senate was wrestling with the currency question, the business of the house yesterday went merrily on, and a number of impor- tant measures were passed. Practically the only point remaining unsettled is when the vote will bo taken. No one doubts that the report will be adopted and the bill carried. aedeanermeaeteascerenma