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6 CAN'T CATCH “CON” MEN POLICE FAIL TO FIND CLUE TO GOLD BRICK MER- CHANTS. Boon Companion of Fake Assayer Is Allowed to Depart for Indef- inite Destination Un- questioned. Minneapolis, Oct. 19—The Minne- &polis police department has no clue to the whereabouts of the men who took $25,000 from H. F. Chaffee, Amenia, N. D., by means of a gold brick swindle and there is no clue at present that gives the police any particular promise of success. This, Chief of Police Frank T. Cor- riston admitted, five days after the erime. J. W. Northecupp, the only man the police know to have closely associated with Harper, who played the role of assayer in the swindle, gave up his rooom at the Rogers ho- tel and left the city. He said he did not intend to return until next sum- mer anyway. He will spend the win- ter in the south, he said before leav- ing. Mr. Northecupp had his trunk sent to the Milwaukee station and said he would take the Pioneer Limited at 8 p. m., for Chicago and proceed south- ward. Mr. Northecupp spent much of his time with Harper. He breakfasted with him. They were frequently to- gether at the hotel bar and they took long walks together. The local po- lice did not learn anything from Mr. ~Worthecupp. The northwest seems to have been a fertile field for the gold brick swin- filers. Several additional transactions in which Harper or Armstrong appear to have played leading roles were learned of by investigators. In point of amount, however, Mr. Chaffee seems to hold the record with $25,000. INAUGURAL DAY AT CARLETON. Dr. Cowling Now President—Governor Eberhart and Cyrus Northrop Present. Northfield, Ming., Oct. 19.—The for- mal inauguration of Donald John Cow- ling, Ph. D., D. D., as president of Carleton college, at Norfield, took place under favorable auspices and amid great enthusiasm. At the same service the degree of doctor of divini- ty was conferred upon Rev. Marion Roy Burton, Ph. D., president-elect, of | Bmith college. | The morning trains brought several toachloads of alumni and friends of the institution, and many others had arrived for the preaching services. After special morning prayer at Wil- fis hall chapel, the inaugural proces- | sion started from Laird hall across | ;the campus to the Congregational | church. The line was brilliant with | | purple and red, the doctors’ robes, | worn by the distinguished visitors and | }faculty members, and with the various ,class colors. | The freshman class led with robes of red and white, followed by the soph- | omores with green and white, the | }Juniors carrying red and white and the seniors appearing in cap and gown, with chrysanthemum _ bouttenieres. Next in the stately procession were the alumni, members of the faculty in cap and gown, and the members of the Minnesota Congregational Association. At the rear were Governor A. O. Eberhart with President Cyrus North- | rop, of the University of Minnesota; W. H. Laird, of Winona, with David P. Jones, of Minneapolis, and Presi- fent Emeritus J. W. Strong, of Carle- ton, with President Cowling. At the church door the students formed a double line through which the dig- nitaries passed in. Illinois Mayors In Convention. Elgin, Ul, Oct. 19—The Illinois Mayors’ Association met here for its | annual three days’ convention, with a large attendance. Mayor McDonald, | of Decatur, president of the organiza- | tion, presided. It is expected that before adjournment the association will have mapped out a campaign for the passage of an act enabling Illinois municipalities to adopt the commis- sion form of government. One of the principal speakers on the program is | ex-Mayor John McVicar, Moines, Ia., a leader in the movement that gave that city the commisssion government. Another speaker will be Gen. Carlos Garcia, the minister from Cuba. B. Y. P. U. Meets in Galesburg. Galesburg, Ill., Oct. 19.—The conven: tion of the Baptist Young People’s union, of Illinois, was held here this afternoon in connection with the state Baptist convention. President U. 8S. Davis, of Bloomington, was in the chair. “Missionary Education” was discussed by Miss Mildred Jones, of Bloomington, and Miss Inez Goodsell, of Galesburg. Other speakers were Claude E. Boyer, of Plano, and Rev. M. P. Boynton, of Chicago. Saves Car and Employer. St. Paul, Oct. 19.—But for the quick work of a porter on the private car of ©. Cornelisen, general superintendent of the Great Western railway, the car ‘would have been destroyed by a gas explosion and Mr. Cornelisen and his party of railroad officials either badly 4njured or killed im the St. Paul union tation yards. The porter had entered a small closet in the car to see what ‘was wrong with the lights. He struck match and was blinded NEEECTI | when Deputy Clerk George F. Hitch- |mond F. Crist, acting chief of the na- | declaration of intention filed by Ferris of Des | attention is invited to the fact that | the declarant is an Asiatic. by a flash. | 400 f GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 20, 1909. AMERICAN BOARD [EUROPE'S SKAKEN ($25,000 MEMORIAL #2 omson war ro ELECTS OFFICERS CENTENIAL CONVENTION OF FA- MOUS MISSIONARY BODY COMES TO AN END. NO CHANGE IN ACTIVE STAFF Meeting Marked by Formation of Stu- | pendous Plans and the Adoption of New Financial Policy. Minneapolis, Oct. 18—The closing session of the centennial convention | of the American Board of commission- | ers for Foreign Missions has been held. In several respects it has been one of the most remarkable conve: tions ever held by the organization. It has marked the begining of a new financial plan by which it is hoped to place the board and its missjon work bewind the need of funds, and it has adopted to this end what is known in mission work as “the Minneapolis plan,” which laid its origin in Ply- mouth church, where the convention has been held. Old Staff Returned. The election of officers resulted in the return of the present officers with the exception of members of the pru- dential committee, whose terms ex- pire. Following are the officers for | the ensuing year: President, Samuel B. Capen, LL. D. Vice President, Henry C. King, DD. Foreign department, James L. Bar- | ton, D. D., secretary; Enoch F. Bell, assistant secretary. Home department, Cornellius H. Pa- tion, D. D., secretary; Brewer Eddy, assistant secretary. Editorial department, E. E. Strong, D. D., secretary emeritus; William E. | Strong, secretary. Treasury department, Frank H. Wig- gin, treasurer; John G. Hosmer, pub- | lishing and purchasing agent. Auditors, Edwin H. Baker, William B. Plunkett, Herbert J. Wells. District Secretaries—Middle district, | Charles C. Creegan, D. D., New York; interior district, A. N. Hitchcock, D. D., Chicago; Pacific coast district, H. Melville Tenney, D. D., Berkeley, Cal. Prudential committee, the president and vice president, ex-officio. Term expires 1910, Herbert A. Wilder, Rev. Edward M. Noyes, Rev. John H. Deni- son, Rev. George A. Hall; term ex- pires 1911, Arthur H. Wellman, Rev. Albert P. Fitch, Henry H. Proctor, Rev. Lucius H. Thayer. Successors were elected for the fol- lowing members of the producential committee: Francis O. Winslow, Ar- thur L. Ginnett, D. D., Charles A. | Hopkins, and Arthur Perry. Corporate members were elected in pursuance | of their credentials from the state or- ganizations. Part of the convention was shifted | to the First Free Baptist church, Fif- teenth street and Nicollet avenue, at 3:30 p. m., where a mission rally for women was held, under the auspices of the Women’s Board of Missionaries of the Interior. ROW DUE OVER TURK, Will Judiciary Official Run Erands for Naturalization Division? Minneapolis, Oct. 18—The naturali- zation problem reached the United States district court in Minneapolis, cock, Jr., received orders from Ray- turalization bureau in Washington, to procure the surrender of the triplicate Tannous, a Syrian. Mr. Hitchcock did not seem te be much more certain of Mr. Crist’s au- thority than does Clerk A. E. Allen, of the Hennepin court, who has declined to obey a similar order in four other cases. The division’s letter reads: “With respect te declaration of in- | tention No. 174, filed April 24, 1999, In the | opinion of the government, the laws of | the United States do not intend to | Asiatics the privilege of becoming na- | turalized citizems. This fact should | be brought to the attention of said declarant, in order that he may sur- render his triplicate declaration of in- tention for cancelation.” | Mr. Hitchcock declined to discuss | ; what his attitude would be. He has | not yet notified Tannous of the govern- mental ruling. There is an impression in his office that he is doubtful of the | interpretation of the law by which | Syrians are excluded. As a member of the department of justice, Mr. | Hitchcock is in a federal department | whose support is claimed by the divi- | sion of naturalization. Pierre Goes After Gas. ee. S. D., Oet. 18—This city will at once begin the sinking of a test well to find what Hes below the artesian ba- sin. The city voted $25,000 for this’ purpose, and a drilling rig costing $5,- 000 has been purchased. It. is war: ranted to work down as far as 5,000} feet, and an expert is here to set up VE DARE | “| his direction. Although armed with BY FERRER’ DEAT PROTESTS OF SOCIALISTS STIRR MANY CAPITOLS TO VERGE OF RIOT. SPANISH THRONE IS IN DANGER Attacks on Embassies Abroad and Threats of Revolution At Home, Voice Popular Wrath Over Execution. Lisbon, Oct. 18—Cable dispatches from Barcelona state that the situa- tion there is increasingly disquieting. Twenty-seven bombs have been thrown in the last four days, five per- sons being killed and 21 wounded. On Saturday an attempt was made to rush the fortress of Montjuich to release the prisoners. A bomb was thrown against the door but it failed to ox | plode. Paris, Oct. 18—Allejane Leroux, chief of the Republicans at Barcelona, in an interview here predicted a rev- olution in Spain and the establishment of a republic. He considered the ex- ecutive of Ferrer the outcome of the personal vengeance of King Alfonso, who, he said, always was convinced of Ferrer’s complicity in the bomb out- rage against the king on his wedding day. Rome, Oct. 18.—All indications point to the fact that the exteremists in Italy are determined to undertake an anti-clerical campaign, more vigorous even than that in France. This is being directed by the Free Masons whose grand master has is- sued a most violent manifesto in be- half of Ferrer, recently executed and against the church. An international subscription ‘has been opened for the purpose of col- | lecting funds to establish, in the piazzo of St. Peters, facing the vatican, Fer- rer’s modern school which was sup- | pressed at Barcelona. London, Eng—The red flag was | raised in London and a large mob moved upon the Spanish embassy to make a demonstration of its disap- proval of the execution of Professor Francisco Ferrer, the convicted revo- lutionist, at Barcelona, a few days ago. Several bodies of police were sta- tioned at the approaches to the em- bassy and they drove off the crowds in their usual bloodless, efficient way. The groans and hooting were plainly heard in the embassy and at Bucking- ham palace nearby. Paris, France——The demonstrations culminated in meet- ings and processions in the larger cities of France, organized by the So- | cialists and workmen’s organizations. New York, Oct. 18.—Aroused by the flery speech of Emma Goldman, whose anarchistic tendencies have earned for her the title of “Queen of the | Reds,” 1,000 men and women, social- ists, anarchists and other radicals packed an Hast Side hall, and unmol- | ested adopted a resolution scoring the Spanish king for the execution - of Ferrer. Havana, Oct. 18—A disorderly mob of several thousand made a demon- stration in honor of Francisco Ferér. Resolutions were pased to boycott all Spanish goods and to accept the offer of the stevedores union to refuse to unload Spanish ships. Cleveland, O., Oct. 18—After de- claring their protest and denunication of the church of Spain and the execu- tion of Francisco Ferrer, 100 Italians in meeting here drew up resolutions calling for a meeting of all nationali- ties to make a similar demonstration next Sunday. Tampa, Fla., Oct. 18—At a mass meeting of the Centro Astrunimo, a Spanish organization here represent- ing 20,000 persons, a resolution passed | protesting against the execution of Francisco Ferrer. Genoa, Oct. 18—A pro-Ferrer pro- cession in which many of the march- ers carried flags draped with crepe, one of them having a caricature of} King Alfonso with the inscription “Alfonso is a monster,” caused a fight with the police. Brussels, Oct. 18.—Big Ferrer dem- onstrations were held in the principal cities of Belgium. At Liege rowdies smashed the windows of churches and religious establishments. Pisa, Italy, Oct. 18—Cardinal Piet- ro Maffi, archbishop of Pisa and sev- eral bishops, while attending the con- gress of sacred music here, were hiss- ed by the crowds, with cries for Fer- rer. Buenos Ayres, Oct. 18—Ten thou- sand people gathered in one of the public squares and burned the Span- ish flag and the portrait of King Al} fonso. Resolutions to carry out a, boycot on Spanish products were adopted. Similar meetings were held in mny interior towns. Bremerton, Wash., Oct. 18.—After going out squirrel hunting with a 22- caliber rifie, John C. Flora, aged nine years, returned in a few hours with the largest buck ever killed in Kitsap county. Young Flora had engaged two men to carry the game for him. The buck was 4 years old and weighed 225 pounds when dressed. The boy took a shot at the deer while it was only twenty feet from him and coming in only a small gun stricken with buck fever, he the deer betwen anti-Spanish | FR GV, JOHNS COMMISSION SETS THIS SUM 18 THE MARK TO BE REACHED. CONTRIBUTIONS LIMITED TO $1 Monument to be Truly Peoples’ Trib- ute to Memory of Dead Gov- ernor—Names of Contrib- utors Are Recorded. | St. Paul, Oct. 6.—With approximate- lty $8,000 already raised, an effort is /to be made to close. The Governor | John Albert Johnson Memorial fund with a total of at least $25,000 by Nov. 1. A resolution to this effect was { passed at the meeting of the commis- |sion at the Minnesota club. The commission organized by elect- |tng the following: President, c. D. O’Brien, St. Paul; vice president, A. 'C. Weiss, Duluth; secretary, C. W. ; Ames, St. Paul; treasurer, B. F. Nel- | son, Minneapolis. These, with D. M. | Neill, of Red Wing, will comprise the executive board of the commission, | which decided that hereafter the or- | ganization shall be known as “The | Governor John Albert Johnson Memor- | fal Commission.” According to the constitution | adopted, each member of the commis- ‘sion, in his respective locality, may ‘receive contributions, which, togéfief | with the names of the donors, shall |{mmediately be transferred to the | treasurer. | $1.00 The Limit. | As has been generally understood, , contributions shall be limited to $1 {ng organization may contribute as it | sees fit. but these will be disposed of within the near future. A resolution was passed by the commission urging the people to send | in contributions as soon as possible. The resolution follows: “The Governor John Albert John- son Memorial commission, having been fully organized, requests that all contributions to the memorial fund | be at once remitted to B. F. Nelson, | treasurer, at 728 Security bank build- ing, Minneapolis.” Another resolution passed by the | board was: Thanks The Press. “Whereas, a movement has been inaugurated to erect a statue in his {honor by popular subscription of amounts not exceeding $1, so that i | may stand through the ages to come | as a people’s tribute in recognition of | the services to the state of John Al- | bert Johnson; and | “Whereas, the newspapers of the state can and are furthering and sup- porting the movement; therefore, be it “Resolved, that The Governor John ‘bert vonnson Memorial Commission | acknowledges and tenders thanks to {the newspapers of of Minnesota for vheir val | | | TAFT IN SAN FRANCSICO. | Chiet Executive Has Busy Afternoon There After Seeing Oakland. San Francisco, Oct. 6—With justi- fable pride San Francisco showed President Taft how- wonderfully she has recovered from the awful earth- quake and conflagration of three and a half years ago. The chief executive marveled at the sight and warmly praised the pluck and energy of the people of San Francisco. Mr. Taft and his party reached Oak- land soon after seven o’clock in the morning, and were welcomed by a re- ception committee and a big crowd of citizens. The vistors were taken all ‘over Oakland and Berkeley in auto | | mobiles, and then came to San Fran- cisco by ferry, arriving at 12:30. A committee of distinguished citizens, | an escort of troops from the Presidio and an immense throng of people met Mr. Taft, and escorted him through the gayly decorated streets. Then he was shown the burned district and the rebuilding that has been done there. | Luncheon at the Union League club followed. Call Indian Scare Fake. Washington, Oct. 6—Indian bureau officials decline to treat seriously re ports of an uprising among the In- Gians on the Cheyenne river reserva- | tion, South Dakota, and advices just received from the Indian agent in that section deny that any trouble exists among the tribesmen. This is looked upon by the Indian bureau as an annual rumor and is said by them to be started by local stockmen who want to stop settlers from coming into their country, and thus take up their grazing lands. Now Comes An Automatic Shine. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 6.—That the small boy and his shoeshining out fit have seen their best days will be- come apparent when Minneapolis’ first gutomatic shoe-shiner begins work. It dusts the shoes off, sprinkles them with blacking, rubs them over three times from heel to toe and then fin ishes them up with a buffer, all in twe minutes. The machine charges only & nickel and asks no tips. Thirty of the machines are to be and no benefit performance receipts | will be accepted, although any exist The design, location and charaeter | of the memorial were not taken up, | LATE GOVERNOR’S BROTHER POS SIBLE CANDIDATE. Gives Non-Commital Answer When Asked if He Would Carry Demo- cratic Standard in Minnesota. St. Paul, Oct. 6—Asked whether he | woulé be a candidate for the demo | eratic nomination for governor of Min- brother of the late Governor John A. Johnson, replied: “T cannot say at this time.” | Political interest at the capitol to- | day centered in the report that demo- jeratic leaders wore considering Mr. Johnson as a possibility for the guber- natorial nomination. Republican state officials were surprised at the rumor, but there was no surprise expressed among the democrats. They say if Fred Johnson decides to enter the po | litical arena he will have strong sup- | port from the friends and appointees | 9f his illustrious brother. | Mr. Johnson was asked whether he | Was now a candidate. “IT am not,” he replied. “Would you accept the nomination?” “No democrat would refuse the dem- |ocratic nomination for governor of | Minnesota,” said Mr. Johnson. | SHERMAN’S SON IS MARRIED. | | Second of the Vice-President’s Boys Weds Miss Eleanor Miller. Utica, N. Y., Oct. 6—Before a gath- | elety of Utica and many persons from | other cities, Richard Updyke Sher | | man, second son of the vice-president | of the United States, and Miss Eleanor | Miller, a society belle of this city, | were united in marriage today. The | ceremony took place in Calvary Epis | eopal church. | Mr. Sherman is 25 years old and is ‘i My Mi HK x Richard Updyke Sherman. | professor of mathematics in Hamil | ton college, his father’s alma mater. Like his father and brother, he is fond of outdoor sports, and is very popular socially. Wanamaker’s Daughter Weds. Paris, Oct. 6—Miss Fernanda Wan- |amaker, daughter of Rodman Wana- |maker and granddaughter of John | Wanamaker, the Philadelphia mer- |chant, has married Count Artura | ity. nual Meeting Adjourns. Duluth, Oct. 6—The Northern Min- | mesota Methodist Episcopal conference | has adjourned. The appointments made are as follows: Jabez Brooks, professor in Universi- quarterly conference, Minneapolis; J| H. Dewart, professor of moral philoso- phy, St. Cloud reformatory, member of Foss quarterly conference, Minne- japolis; C. W. B. Ellis, conference | evangelist, member of Hawley quar- terly conference; William Fielder, president of Fort Worth university, member of First church, Minneapolis, quarterly conference; Robert Forbes, corresponding secretary of board of home missions and church extension, member of First church, Minneapolis, quarterly conference; G. S. Innes, pro- fessor in Hamiln university, member of Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, quarterly conference; Henry Nobbs, Sunday school missionary, member of Olivia quarterly conference; Thomas McClary, railway chaplain, member of Wesley church quarterly conference; L. P. Smith, chaplain of Soldier’s Home, member of Minnehaha quar- terly conference; C. W. Stark, district superintendent of Anti-Saloon league, member of St. Cloud quarterly confer- ence; L. A. Willsey, professor of phil- osophy, Fort Worth university, mem- ber of North church, Minneapolis, con- ference; R. C. Manly, conference evangelist, member of Hennepin Ave- nue, Minneapolis, quarterly confer- ence; T. J. Chappel, conference evan- gelist, member of Breckenridge quar- terly conference. MAKES DOUBLY SURE OF DEATH. Pulitzer’s Brother Uses Both Poison and Bullet In Suicide. Vienna, Oct. 6—Albert Pulitzer, a brother of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, committed suicide in this city. All the indica- tions pointed to the fact that he had first swallowed poison and then, stand- a mirror, had sent a revolver through his s bottle | nesota, Fred W. Johnson, of New Ulm, | ering that included about all the so | | Hern, a member of the Spanish nobil- | | NORTHERN CONFERENCE ENDS, | | Many Appointments Made Before An- | ty of Minnesota, member of Wesley | ARE USED TO BEING CROWDED Passengers on New York Street Car Sit Close Even When It Is Not Necessary. t smiled. “It is funny,” said she, “how content some people are to sit jammed together in the cars.” “But they can’t help themselves,” protested her companion. “T know, but I refer to the times when they are not obliged to occupy the same six inches with their next neighbors. When a crowded car be- gins to thin out, most people expand, but some forget to. I have seen thj |women who has been _ shoppin}{ squeeze into a seat beside a laborer a the rush hour, and, just as often a |not, she continues to tickle his nos with her plumes clear up to Harlem after the car is half empty, and te rest her bundles on his lime-coateé | overails. “One night, quite late, away up town on a Broadway car, a young mat and young woman sat propped to gether midway of a long, empty seat There was not another passenger left in that side of the car. They paid no attention to each other, and I sup posed that they were too tired to talk. It was quite a shock to my calcula- tions when the young man got off and left the girl sitting apathetically in the empty seat. I had estimated’ them as first cousins at the furthest.”—New York Press. Seales for Dyspeptics. “When I got my last prescription made up the druggist showed me a pair of pocket scales for weighing | food,” said the sallow complexioned |man. “He said he could tell by the | medicine I was taking that I would have to be mighty careful about the quantity of food I ate, and he urged me to buy the scales so I could be sure not to overeat. They were the first scales designed especially for dyspeptics I had seen. They cost two dollars. No doubt they could be used for weighing other things, but that druggist offered them only to cus tomers whose digestion was out of or der. The scales were small enough to be carried conveniently and they reg- istered rations light enough to starve acanary. I did not buy, but the drug- gist assured me that many persons who are on a strict diet have provided themselves with pocket scales on which they weigh every bite they, eat.” Intelligence in the Kitchen, The higher the intelligence and the broader the education of the woman in the kitchen, the greater the pleas- ure and satisfaction in household du- ties. The woman who cooks intelligently | is commanding great and mysterious | forces of nature. She is an alchemist behind an apron. At her command food constituents that are indigestible, unpalatable and even poisonous, are subjected to chemical changes that render them an epicurean delight. The woman of real intelligence and powers | of imagination finds in her well or dered kitchen a source of deep and en- during interest and pleasure. The Better Half. “T’ve often wondered,” said Jones, ‘why woman is called the better half.” “Tll tell you,” said Smith; “but it’s a hard matter to clearly define. You | naturally, being a workingman, think money better than anything else?” Jones assented. “You likewise know | talks?” | So I’ve heard,” Jones replied; “al- | theugh, to tell the truth, {I usually hear only the echo of it.” “«Well, we grant that money is bet- ter than all else; we grant, also, that money talks. Well, woman is half of a man’s life. And—” “Yes, indeed,” finished Jones, inter- | rapting him, “and she certainly does | talk.” SOCIAL CLIMBERS IN NEVADA | Land of Gold Witnesses Many Strange Vicissitudes in the Matter of Wealth, To-day a humble gold-seeker may | be living in a hutch of the simple ar- ehitecture of a box car, says Good | Housekeeping. To-morrow he is build- ing a “villa” with real clapboards and shingles, hiring a Chinaman of all |work and sending to ‘Frisco for a |brass bed and a Persian rug. Some | very pretty little houses begin to dot |the barren landscape. A railroad | stretches its metal arm down into the | gold-bearing wilderness and links it | with the outer world. Come tailors, |Modistes and milliners, soda water land ice cream, clergymen and drum- | mers, pickpockets and actors and all that splendid procession from the cozy corners of civilization. Social conditions were decidedly perplexing. Your washerwoman ac- cepted a mining claim for an uncollect- able debt. Suddenly the claim yields | her a fortune, whereat, to show you that her wealth has not made her snobbish, she purchases an elaborate portable house and settles down as your next-door neighbor. However, if you take it into your |head to move away from the vicinity of the fortunate lavandiere you would find the moving problem quite simple. A small force of husky men can pull your house up by’ the roots and carry it up a hill or down a slope without any great exertion—that is, unless your dwelling is ’dobe, or you happen to be one of the bonanza crowd and have gone in for heavy architecture, that money The woman with a sense of humor