Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 17, 1908, Page 3

PICKPOCKETS GET AWAY WITH $10,000 4. C. Taylor of Seattle Is Robbed in Corridor of Pullman at St. Paul. CAUSES GREAT — EXCITEMENT St. Paul, June 16. — Pickpockets made a haul of $10,000 from H. C. Taylor, a Seattle capitalist, in the union depot yesterday morning. The loot consisted of cash, bank shares, Twin City railway stock, real estate deeds and other securities, the larger part of which are negotiable. The po- lice are working on the case and a general round-up of thieves is being made in the hope of securing at least some of the securities. The robbery caused great excite- ment among the crowd of excursion- ists that filled the depot and the plat- forms: Shouts of “Stop, thief!” and “Police!” were heard, but the wily thieves made their way across the tracks and over the platforms of standing trains to Wacouta street and they were soon out of sight. Occurs in Pullman Passageway. Mr. Taylor, his wife and four-year. old son had been on a European tour and they arrived in the union depot at 9:30 o'clock on a North-Western train from Chicago. Before reaching the depot Mr. Taylor transferred the securities to the cash wallet which he carried in an inside pocket of an inner coat. When the train stopped under the sheds, Mr. Taylor picked up his grips and was followed out of the sleeper by his wife and son. As he got into the narrow passageway leading to the end platform two well dressed young men jostled Mr. Taylor and crowded him into a corner. Grab Wallet and Flee. Mr. Taylor had a heavy steamer coat over his regular coat, but this was no barrier to the pickpockets. Be- fore their victim could help himself or hold.the robbers they had taken the wallet from his coat and fied from the platform. Mr. Taylor followed, but the robbers had some advantage of him. They were seen going over the platforms of two Great Northern trains and soon they were making a hurried but decorous escape up Wa- couta street. Mr. Taylor reported the robbery to the police and every effort is being made to trace the robbers. . THIRD TIME HEAD OF A. O. U. W. Narvis Is Re-elected Master Workman at Des Moines Meeting. Des Moines, June 16. — At Satur- day’s session of the supreme lodge of the A. O. U. W. “#. M. Narvis of Mus- catine, Iowa, was for the third time elected supreme master workman of that order. No other supreme mas- ter workman has held office longer than one term. The other officers chosen are: Supreme master fore- man, J. A. Eckstein of New Ulm, Minn.; supreme overseer, J. C. Galla- gher of New Haven, Conn.; supreme recorder, M. W. Hackett of Kansas; supreme receiver, H. B._ Dick- inson of New York; guide, W. R. Welch of Guthrie, Okla.; supreme watchman, Rev. D. B. Phelan of Pitts- field, Me.; supreme medical examiner, Gg. A. Eschman of Wheeling, W. Va. CRUSHED BETWEEN CARS. Brakeman Probably Fatally Hurt in Accident at New Hampton. Mason City, Iowa, June 16.—Elmer Nelson, a Milwaukee road brakeman, is believed to have been fatally in- jured at New Hampton Saturday. He was crushed between cars while coupling a train. His hip was broken and he received internal injuries. He was brought to this city by a special train and taken to the hospital. Bartender Falls Dead. La Crosse, Wis., June 16. — After handing out a drink to an early morn- ing customer, Herman Holtze, bar- tender in a local saloon, walked to a table where he was sorting some sil- ver and with a cry lunged to the floor. A physician was summoned, but Holtze died two hours later as a re- sult of the stroke of apoplexy. Holtze was married and leaves several chil dren, Wreck Near Hastings. Hastings, Minn., June 16.—A freight wreck occurred a_ short distance above here, fifteen cars loaded with merchandise going ifito a ditch. The wreck was due to a broken journal. Child Killed by Falling Beam. Jamestown, N. D., June 16.—While playing with several children on a tile pile at Streeter, south of here, the in- fant son of John Miller, was crushed and instantly killed by a heavy beam falling upon him. Drug Store Is Robbed. Watetown, S. D., Jeun 16. — The drug store of Tarbell & Williamson in this city was entered by burglars Jast night and a small amount of cash secured from the safe. have yet been made FOOTBALL STAR SHOOTS SELF Ney Dunne, Captain of University of Minnesota Team, Shoots Self in Jealous Anger. Jackson, Minn., June 16.—Angered at the refusal of his attention by the young woman with whom he formerly had kept company and at her receiv- ing the advances of a young barber of this city, Ney Dunne, captain of the University of Minnesota football team, shot himself on a public street here, early Saturday morning, in the pres- ence of the young woman and her es- cort. He died last evening. Dunne expected to graduate from the state law school next year. Friday afternoon Dunne acted as umpire at a local baseball game and ia the evening attended +a dance, seeming to be in the best of spirits. During the evening he paid some at- tention to the young woman, but was met with rebuffs, and finally learned that a young barber was to escort the girl home after the dance. Dunne and a companion followed the couple, and when they were passing along the principal street at about 2 o’clock Sat- urday morning he called to them to turn around. They ignored his hail and he repeated it, adding that he did not want to shoot them in the back. When he made this threat the girl started to run. Her companion call- ed after her, but did not turn around, and Dunne drew a revolver and shot himself in the left breast. FUGITIVE ROBS HIS PURSUER. Tenderfoot Who Led Manhunt in the Woods Is Himself Hunted. Floodwood, .Minn., June 16. — Last week the hardware store of Jean New was burglarized, $200 worth of guns, revolvers, knives and jewelry being taken. On Wednesday the burglar was captured in Superior and brought back for a hearing. He pleaded not guilty and waived exmaination, then asked for a week in which to get bail. Yesterday, after giving him his break- fast, the chief of police left the jail and the burglar broke his way out by unscrewing two nuts from the door. He disappeared into the woods imme- diately. Among those who took up the chase was Louis Foss, an attorney from the East, who is here on a summer’s so- journ. Armed with a .22-caliber rifle, he started in hot pursuit. Crossing the Prairie lake road a mile from town, Mr. Foss came face to face with his man. Immediately the artist of the black mask covered his pursuer with a .48 Smith and Wes- son. Foss was made to hold up his hands and his rifle was broken across a tree, his watch was taken and also $7.50 in cash. The burglar is still at large. ELEVATOR AGENT KILLED. Malcolm Morrison Crushed Between Box Cars at Langdon, N. D. Grand Forks, N. D., June 16.—Mal- colm Morrison, agent for the North- Western Elevator company at Lang- don, was crushed to death between two box cars of the Great Northern at Langdon Saturday. Morrison had been at his elevator and was crossing the tracks on his return. Morrison’s wife was absent in a town just across the border, in Cana- da, and an automobile was sent after her. CAN SCARES HORSES. Farmer and His Daughter Hurt in a Runaway Accident. Barnesville, Minn., June 16.—While Lucian Robbins of Prairie View town- ship was driving into town with his daughter and while crossing a coulee the steam became frightened by the rattling of a can and ran away, throw- ing the girl into the coulee, breaking her collar bone and causing several other injuries. Mr. Robbins had his shoulder badly bruised. Opiate Fatal to Spinster. Menomonie, Wis., June 16.—Fanny Barwise, forty-seven years old, a daughter of the late George H. Bar- wise, a pioneer of Menomonie, was found dead on the floor of her home here. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death as a result of over- indulgence in opiates. Deceased was unmarried and lived alone. Letter Carrier Is Suicide. La Crosse, Wis., June 16.—Fred E. Frisbie, employed as a letter carrier in the local postoffice, committed sui- cide Saturday on his way to work. He was found lying dead in an alley, where he had cut his throat. Frisbie was a well known federal employe, with a good record, and no reason is given for the suicide. Victims of Foul Play. Munising, Mich., June 16.—George Genery, keeper of the north light on Grand Island, is missing and his as- sistant, whose name has not yet been learned, is dead, the result, it is al- leged, of foul play. Great Northern Opens Up. Great Falls, Mont., June 16. — The Great Northern has succeeded in opening its line between here and Havre washed out by the floods, and No arrests’ the first through train will leave here this morning. BIG SMELTERS ARE FORCED 10 CLOSE Damage Caused by Flood Throws Hundreds Out of Work at Great Falls and Butte. ROADS IN DESPERATE FIGHT Butte, Mont., June 13.—The break in the Oregon Short Line at Buxton, six miles south of Silver Bow, was repaired at noon yesterday and traffic on that line has been resumed. The Northern Pacific is now grap- pling with a washout on the divide a few miles east of Butte and cannot operate until some time to-day, if then. The Great Northern gives no promise as to the Montana Central line, and it may be out of commission for a week or more. Owing to damage to the Boston & Montana smelters at Great Falls the properties of that company probably will remain closed for six weeks or two months, hrowing. more than 1,000 men out of work here and the entire smelter force at Great Falls. Two Victims of Flood. Kansas City, June 13. — The Kaw- Missouri flood is falling more rapidly than it rose. The -aancial loss has been small, and within ‘a week scarce- ly a trace of the inundation will re- main. Railroad traffic through Kansas has been practically restored. Two more deaths were added to the flood list of casualties last night. James Fradora of Kansas City, Kan., fell from his front porch and was drowned. James Brown was drown- ed by the capsizing of a boat. FORT KEOGH TO BE ABANDOED. War Department Issues Orders for Dismantling Historic Post. Washington, June 13.—The war de- partment yesterday issued orders for the immediate abandonment of Fort Keogh, Mont. The subject of the abandonment of this post has been under consideration for nearly a year. The troops, with the exception of a ‘detachment to care for buildings, stock and supplies, were withdrawn from the reservation last July, and were it not for the fact that strong pressure had been brought to bear upon the officials of the war depart- ment from time to time by the Mon- tana members in congress, it would have been abandoned years ago. The fort is situated two miles east of Miles City, Mont., on the Yellowstone river, and is situated in one of the most fertile sections of Montana. It will be immediately turned over to the interior department and _ soon opened up for settlement. One of the Oldest. The fort is one of the oldest now in the Northwest, having been estab- lished soon after the Custer massa- cre, in the summer of 1876, and was built under the direction of Lieut. Gen. Miles, who was its first com- manding officer and from whom the town of Miles City, near by, derived its name. The reservation consists of 57,600 acres, and the buildings, principally log structures, have a ca- pacity for quartering nearly an en- tire regiment of cavalry or infantry. During its establishment, this histor- ic fort has been commanded at vari- ous times by many of the most noted generals in the army, many now dead and those now living being on the retired list. JUMPS FROM CAR WINDOW. Wisconsin Insane Man Is Rendered Unconscious by Fall. Chippewa Falls, Wis., June 13. — Leon Demars, committed to the Men- dota asylum from Chippewa county, jumped from the window of a car near Merrillan Junction while the train was going forty miles an hour. The train was backed up and found the man lying unconscious, he having struck on his head. He was soon re vived and will recover. Missing Body Found in River. Red Lake Falls, Minn., June 13.— The body of Edward Brouilette, the eight-year-old son of Mrs. Wilfred Chatel, who fell in the river at the Healy mill several weeks ago and was drowned, was found at Louisville yesterday. Absent Minded; Hit by Car. . La Crosse, Wis., June 14.—Absent- mindedness probably will cost Frank Gutzel, a laborer, his life, as a, result of being struck by a swift intercity trolley car. Is Crushed on Monument. Grand Forks, N. D., June 12.—J. W. Marsh died yesterday as a result of injuries received in a runaway acci- cent in Memorial Park cemetery. He was thrown out and crushed between the wagon and a monument. Frost at Fergus Falls. Fergus Falls, Minn., June 12. — There was considerable frost here Tuesday night, the ground being white at sunrise. Garden truck and | corn were nipped to some extent, but the smal] grain is uninjured. INSTITUTIONS GET $62,145. Interest on Swamp Land Fund Is Divided. Accumulated interest on state swamp land funds which now amounts to $62,144.72, is being apportioned among the state educational, penal and custodian institutions for the first time under chapter 385 of the general laws of 1907. This law pro- vide a method for distributio nof money that has been accumulating for years in the state treasury. Under a state law of 1865 some Swamp lands were set aside to be sold for the benefit of state institu- tions, and in 1881 a constitutional amendment was adopted which oper- ated to repeal the law of 1865 and provided that all swamp lands owned by the state should be apportioned equally between the common school fund and fund for the maintenance of all state institutions, -and the prin- cipal of all money received from the sale of such lands should remain in- tact forever, and only the interest used. The money that is being divided now is interest on the proceeds from the sale of the swamp lands set aside under the law of 1865. At the close of the fiscal year of 1906, the prin- cipal received from the sale of these lands had reached $780,55625, and the interest, $57,341.01, and following the intent of the constitutional amend- ment of 1881 the legislature in 1907 enacted a law providing that half the accumulated interest*should go to to the common school fund for ap- portionment in the regular manner, and the other half divided among all state institutions pro rata on the basis of their cost of maintenance for the year preceding the apportionment. FIREMEN VOTE FOR OWATONNA. State Association Elects Officers at Mankato. The election of officers by the Min- nesota State Fire Department asso- ciation at Mankato decided where the next three annual conventions will be held. An effort was made to upset the 1909 plans and advance Alexan- dria’s turn one year, but the effort failed, and Chief Charles Wendall of Cloquet was elected president and Chief L. S. Kent of Alexandria first vice president, making Alexandria surg of the convention in 1910. The next warmest fight was over second vice president, carrying the convention in 1911. Owatonna, Fair- mont, Hibbing, Willmar and St. Pe- ter each named the chief of its de- partment for the office. E. M. Tevi- ford of Owatonna had three short of the number of votes needed to elect, and the other candidates withdrew and made the Owatonna chief's elec- tion unanimous. By acclamation Chief J. R. Canter- bury of Minneapolis was elected third vice president, Capt. D. L. Kane of Minneapolis secretary, Andrew Myler of St. Paul treasurer, and E. F. Kelly of Faribault — statistician. Earl Giel of Bemidji and G. W. Cot- trell of Luverne were elected dele- gates to the national convention. Nine new honorary offices were cre- ated, to consist of one vice president from’ each congressional district. These officers will pay occasional visits to the various towns within their jurisdiction. The filling of the places was left to the district dele. gates, WILL MEET IN MIDSEASON. State Horticultural Society Plans to Meet in Strawberry Time. In order to meet in the midst of the strawberry season, the Minneso- ta State Horticultural society has called its summer meeting for June 23. It should give the northern fruit growers a chance to show their early varieties, the southern men to show their late varieties and the central section will be in the middle of the season. The summer meet will be held at the state experiment station, St. An- thony Park. Fruit exhibited will be served at luncheon after it has been judged. While the meeting is primarily for the study of fruits, considerable at- tention will be given to flowers and particularly to roses and peonies, for which’ many prizes are offered. The management is anxious for a large floral display and invites private growers to exhibit, even though they have only one variety. Samuel B. Green of the experiment station is president of the society and A, W. Latham of Minneapolis is secretary. PLAN FIREMEN’S TOURNEY. $1,350 in Prizes Offered for Contests at Thief River Falls. Preparations for the firemen’s an- nual tournament to be held at Thief River Falls the last week of this month are well under way. Secre- tary Emil Zeh of the local fire de- partment has received assurances that nearly every organized body of firemen in the territory from Bemidji to the Red river and from Moorhead to the Canadian line will be repre- sented when the tournament opens. 1S BEST DRAINAGE YEAR, Water in the Swamps Facilitates Op- erations in Red River Valley. Capt. James A. Beard, in charge of the immense state project on the low- er Roseau, and who arrived in Crooks- ton last week on business, stated that since the opening of the season the machines have been working on the Roseau project, steadily excavating al- most continuously 100 yards an hour. The big machine used on this project is the largest northwest of the Illinois drainage canal and its dipper has a loaded capacity of two and a half yards. The dredge is at present lo- cated seven miles down the lower Ro- seau from Duxby and six miles out in one of the largest muskegs of the north country. -s The swamps of the north are filled with more water at this time of the year than they have been for a long time, and drainage operations have been materially aided thereby. Drain- age men agree that this has been the best drainage year they have ever experiencéd. Joined with the early opening of the season is the continu- ity of the most satisfactory working weather. One of the most important points also in the rapidity of operations this year is the increasing efficiency of the state drainage engineering depart- ments who have permitted the con- tract dredge men of the noxgh to make definite preparations long before the ground thawed out. This permit- ted the transfer of massive machinery and supplies long distances into the swamps before the ground softened and made this necessary transfer a hardship and expensive undertaking. ROAD IN AITKIN COUNTY. It Will Run Through Land Reclaimed by Drainage. The Mississippi, Hill City & West- ern Railway company, a South Dakota corporation, filed a copy of its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The company will build a line from Mississippi on the Great North- ern to Hill City, both points being in Aitkin county. The line will be about eighteen miles long, and _ will run through a district which is at pres- ent largely swamp land, but the state owns a large tract in that part of Ait- kin county, and a contract has been let for the construction of a drainage ditch, which will make possible the construction of this line, and will add several thousand acres to the state lands suitable for crop raising. The company has a capital of $150,- 000 and was organized under the laws of South Dakota. The incorporators are Harlan P. Roberts, Julius Ro- sholt, W. W. Rabey, R. L. Abraham. son and I. W. Goedner. TO HEAD OFF TAX DODGERS. Tax Commission Makes Rules for Abatements. In order to check some of the abuses which have grown up in the matter of applications for abatement of taxes the state tax commission has adopted a set of rules relating to ap- plications for reduction, abatement or refundment of taxes. Copies of the rules are now being sent out to the county auditors and in the future only such applications as conform to these rules will be considered by the com- mission. Regular meetings of the commis- sion for the consideration of applica- tions will be held on the third Mon- day in each month, when all persons will have an opportunity to be heard upon any pending application, and none will be heard at any other time except for extraordinary reasons re- quiring immediate action. The rules also provide the form of application and the action to be taken by the local authorities before the applications are sent to the commission and general rules covering the subject. KOOCHICHING WILL BUILD. Youngest County Borrows Money for Court House. Koochiching, the newest county in the state, is to have a suitable court house, the state investment board re- cently having approved an application for a loan of $42,000, to be used in the construction of the building. The loan having been approved, the money will be available as needed and the coun- try commissioners will not waste any time in getting the work under way. The application was considered at a meeting of the board in St. Paul, the county ‘being represented by Judge C. W. Stanton of the district court, County Attorney W. V. Kane and’ R. S. McDonald and N. S. Olson, members of the board of county com- missioners. PRIESTHOOD IS CONFERRED. A class of thirty-one students was confirmed in St. John’s Abbey church at Collegeville by Bishop James Tro- bec of St. Cloud. Theodore Kupka of the Fargo diocese received subdeacon- ship, while priesthood was conferred on the following: Revs. Vincent Her- back of the Green Bay diocese, Wil- lim Klinkhammer and Elias Lemire of the Duluth diocese, Gebhard Schollen- berger, John Wilkes ang Stephen Bu- jalski of the St. Cloud diocese, and Paniel Bangart of St. John’s Abbey. ONE WOMAN’S ENDURANCE, Southern Woman’ Suffers Torture Without Complaint. Racked and torn with terrific pains, nightly annoyed by kidney irregulari- ties, Mrs. A. S. Payne, of 801 Third ave, So., Columbus, Miss., suffered for years. She says: “The pains in my back, sides and loins were so terrible that I often smothered a scream. Every move meant agony. My rest was broken by a troublesome weakness and the se- cretions seemed to burn like acid. I was in an awful condition and doctors did not seem to help me. Doan’s Kid- ney Pills benefitted me from the first and soon made me a strong and healthy woman.” For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The Funeral Came Too Late. Billy Martin, aged four, came to his mother and in great ecstasy exclaim- ed: “Oh, mother! Louise and Car- berry found such a nice dead cat, and they are going to have a funeral, and can I go?” Permission was given, and when Billy returned he was question- ed as to the outcome of the funeral. “They did not have it at all.” “And why not?” “Mother,” was the answer, “the cat was too dead.” INVALID’S SAD PLIGHT. After Inflammatory Rheumatism, Hair Came Out, Skin Peeled, and Bed Sores Developed—Only Cuti- cura Proved Successful. “About four years ago I had a very severe attack of inflammatory rheuma- tism. My skin peeled, and the high fever played havoc with my hair, which came out in bunches. I also had three large bed sores on my back. I did not gain very rapidly, and my appetite was very poor. I tried many ‘sure cures’ but they were of little help, and until I tried Cuticura Re- solvent I.had had no real relief. Then my complexion cleared and soon I felt better. The bed sores went very soon after a few applications of Cuticura Ointment, and when I used Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment for my hair it began to regain its former glossy ap- pearance. Mrs. Lavina J. Henderson, 188 Broad St., Stamford, Conn., March 6 and 12. 1997.” AN ARTIST’S RECOGNITION. Steichen Has Helped to Give Individ- ual Photographic Print Unique Place. While waiting for recognition, Steichen had established himseif in a little room at 291 Fifth avenue, which is now one of the galleries of the “Photo-Secession,” says February Century. The turn of his fortune came with the sale of two or three of his oil paintings, and a little later with an exhibition at the Glaenzer galleries on Fifth avenue, which proy- ed an artistic success, and brought him to the notice of a very discern- ing class of picture-lovers. The following year he gave two ex- hibitions—one of his paintings and another of his prints. Of the former, seventeen out of twenty-two found purchasers, and of the latter some 50 per cent of the total exhibits. The price paid for the individual prints varied from $50 to $150, which, con- sidering the number that were sold, represented the largest amount yet paid for photographic pictures. But people had begun to regard them in the spirit of the connoisseur, estimat- ing them on their own merits, accord- ing to their technical qualities and ca- pacity to satisfy the esthetic sense. They had got away from the idea of photographs that are turned out me- chanically by the dozen, and had learned to scrutinize the individual print in etching or engraving, and to discover that it possessed certain qualities that gave it uniqueness. “TWO TOPERS.” A Teacher’s Experience. “My friends call me ‘The Postum Preacher,’” writes a Minn. school teach- er, “because I preach the gospel of Postum everywhere I go, and have been the means of liberating many ‘coffee-pot slaves.’ “T don’t care what they call me so long as I can help others to see what they lose by sticking to coffee, and can show them the way to steady nerves, clear brain and general good health by using Postum. “While a school girl I drank coffee and had fits of trembling and went through a siege of nervous prostration, which took me three years to rally from. “Mother coaxed me to use Postum, but I thought coffee would give me strength. So things went, and when I married I found my husband and I were both coffee topers, and I can sympathize with a drunkard who tries to leave off his cups. “At last in sheer desperation I bought a package of Postum, followed directions about boiling it, served it with good cream,’and asked my hus- band how he liked the coffee. “We each drank three cups apiece, and what a satisfied feeling it left. Our conversion has lasted several years and will continue as long as we live, for it has made us new—nerves are steady, appetites good, sleep sound and refreshing.” “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.