Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 15, 1909, Page 6

—— THE For Mother, Sister or Wife Women's Black Silk Petticoats. weight Taffeta Silk, $5.00 values, special $3.98 for Christmas You Save the Freight by Buying at Home Good DEPARTMENT STORE BIG MIN you want to send. Why Not Buy That Talking Machine Now? EITHER A VICTOR OR EDISON FOR CHRISTMAS The most popular gift of all. Everyone can enjoy it. You may like musie but may not be able to play. A talking machine furn- ishes the world’s best talent—if you buy the right machine——it must be a VICTOR or EDISON—the only two good machines made. With these machines you have the best musical talent possible right at your command. Thousands and thousands of dollars have been paid for wonderful records that you can own and hear for only 60c or 75c. 37.00 each. 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Will arrange easy terms of payment on any machine. & 1Oc+ Cups and Saucers Infants’ Handkerchiefs Blocks Games and Toys Books Fancy Chinaware Children’s Banks Mitts Fine Perf S Men’s Knit Gloves Men’s Suspenders Baby Rattles Christmas Card Box Stationery Boys’ Knives Christmas Candles Back Combs Dolls Horns Barrettes Boys’ Suspenders Perfumes Cuff Buttons Men’s Wool Socks + 254% Ladies’ Handkerchiefs Kid body Dolls Ladies’ Aprons Ladies’ Mittens Women’s Hose Calendars Beauty Pins Men’s Linen handkerchiefs} Ladies’ Silks Gloves Ladies’ handkerchiefs Belt buckles TASCA MERCANTILE POMPAN "GRAND RAPIDS STOR N. Your far away gifts should be started on their way at once. So start right now to making out your list. Bring it to the Itasca where you have the larg- est assortments---where everything is marked at a fair price---where you get trading stamps with every 1Oc purchase. We will gladly pack, ready for shipping, any items +5 Oc + Men’s silk THE Red Seal Records for the Victor from $2.00 to Men’s fancy hose E OF QUALITY DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING NOW! Only & More Shopping Days Before Christmas Make every day count. Ladies’ Mufflers Men’s neckties Men’s umbrellas Men’s suspenders Men’s gloves Back Combs Men’s mittens Men’s shirts Box bon bons Men’s mufflers Men’s caps Ladies’ fancy aprons Men’s caps Men’s suspenders China cups and saucers Men’s -cuff buttons Men’s mufflers handkerchiefs | Men’s fancy vests Men’s night shirts As the prices are exactly the same, no matter where you buy. The factory makes the price and all agents are under a strict contract to sell at the same price. We carry only the latest Machines and Records. from the factory. You are always sure of getting the most perfect and best of everything. €&+$1.004% Give Furs Children’s Black Coney Fur Scarfs regular $1.00 values for Christmas special price All goods come directly Dressed dolls Ladies’ slippers Cups and saucers Ladies’ handkerchiefs Ladies’ hosiery Ladies’ head scarfs Box bon bons Girls’ furs and scarfs CROOKED DEALS ARE DUPING THE WHITE EARTH INDIANS. WILL SEEK INJUNCTIONS Attorney General Prepares Action on Secretary Ballinger’s Advice.— Alleged Illegal Land Trans- actions Involve $5,000,000. Washington, D. C.—Alleged wrong dealing on the part of Minnesota lum- ber firms cutting timber on the White Earth reservation is expected to re sult in the filing of injunction suits in the United States circuit court at St. Paul, whivh will disclose scandalous conditions in the relations between the Indians and timber companies. Attorney General Wickersham, act- ing on the recommendation of Sec- retary Ballinger of the interior de- partment, is prepared to bring injunc- tion suits against the Minnesota tim- ber firms which have purchased White Earth timber to prevent their cutting any more timber from the lands or removing the timber from lands on which it has already been cut. It is understood here that there is a remote possibility of the case being settled out of court, but under the present plans the government expects to start civil proceedings as soon as the representatives of the department of justice have arranged matters at St. Paul Special Assistant Attorneys M. C Burch and E. H. Long, acting under the instructions of Attorney General Wickersham, have had secret confer- ences concerning the matter with United States District Attorney Chas. C. Houpt Previous to these conferences a thorough investigation of affairs on the White Earth reservation was made by Indian Inspectors E. B. Lin- nen and Special Indian Agent Warren K. Morehead. Their reports indicated that the Indians had been sufferers in many transactions and had_ been in- pearing valuable umber. mated to be worth $5,000,000 is said to be involved in the proceedings which will be started in the federal court. Secretary Ballinger sent a recom- mendation to Attorney General Wick- ersham Nov. 6, urging that injunction proceedings be started against the several purchasers of the Minnesota Indian lands or the persons to whom they nad conveyed the lands. It is also asked that the court take every other action that is necessary to protect the rights of the Indians. ARMOUR PLANT ASSURED. Deed for Minneapolis Packing Plant Site Is Filed. Minneapolis—Armour & Company will establish the immense packing plant, costing millions of dollars, on the several hundred acres of land purchased at New Brighton, and over which so much discussion has been engendered. All doubts as to the final intentions of the powerful concern and as to its attitude toward the Minneapolis pro- ject were removed when attorenys for the company filed a deed for the property with Register of Deeds Skog. Mortgage Filed, Too. With the deed the mortgage for the $50,000,000 issue of bonds, put out by Armour & Co. for the purpose of “fur- thering and accomplishing the corpor- ate objects and purposes,” was also recorded. It is a real estate mortgage, redeem- able in 1939, interest to be payable semi-annually at the rate of 4% per cent. The Farmers Loan and Trust company of Chicago, has the mort- gage. GENERAL JENNISON IS DEAD. Secretary to Four Minnesota Govern- ors Passes Away. Los Angeles, Cal.—Gen. Samuel Pearce Jennison, private secretary to four governors of Minnesota and sec- retary of state of Minnesota from 1872 to 1875, died suddenly at his Covina home. He was alone in the house at the time, Mrs. Jennison having gone to a neighbor’s for a few minutes. When she returned the general's lifeless body was reclining in his favorite chair before the open fireplace. He had been indisposed for several days, in saa : i limper esu- | put his condition was not constderea | alarming. General Jennison came to sonthern California in 1897, and has occupieda prominent place among the citrus fruit growers ever since Besides his wife, two sons survive ; James is chief bookkeeper ‘for the | Pillsbury-Washburn Milling Company, Minneapolis, and Paul is a prominent ‘cello soloist formerly with the Bos- tonians. He now lives in New Mexi- co. NELSON NOT MEEDLING IN ROW. Will Not Bring Ballinger-Pichot Fight Before Congress. Washington, D. C.—Senator Nelson said that he had no intention of thrusting the Ballinger-Pinchot contro- versy upon congress by asking an in- vestigation of the charges. Eastern papers predicted that Senator Nelson, who has been closely identified with Alaska legislation, would introduce such a resolution, but he does not con: template such action LEDBETER CASE COMPLETED DEFENSE NOT ALLOWED TO PRE: SENT CERTAIN EVIDENCE. Smith, the Accused, Identified as an Ex-Convict From Minois. Mankato, Minn., Dec. 14——The case against Frank Smith will get to the jury today. Arthur Schaub, attorney for the defendant, made an offer to’ prove that William Schwandt defraud- | ed H. J. Ledbeter out of a large) amount of money and that they subse- quently had bitter words and that Led- beter and his wife also had bitter al- tercations on the same subject.. The state objected and Judge Pfau ruled the evidence not admissable after Schaub had stated that he was not prepared with evidence to con- nect Schwandt with the murder. Both the defense and state rested and the court announced he would re- fuse all requests for special instruc- tions to the jury made by the defense, and_that as to the.state’s request, he would give instruction as to réturning verdicts of murder in the first or sec- ond degree and as to conspiracy. George W. Peterson, assistant attor- ney general, who has been assisting the prosecution, argued the case to the jury, speaking two hours. He reviewed the evidence in the case carefully and submitted to the jury that it was not possible to arrive at any other conclusion than that there had been conspiracy to slay Ledbeter and that Smith was in it as deeply as Mrs. Ledbeter, and that Smith must have done the man’s part, killing or assisting to kill Ledbeter. As to whether the crime was committed in the evening or morning, or in the bed- room or barn, was for the jury to de- termine, but he thought it a probabil- ity that it was committed with an ax in the morning while milking in the barn and that the body was buried in the barn temporarily. Schaub addressed the jury on behalf of the defense. It has been decided that the trial of Mrs. Ledbeter shall be taken up next and it will begin Dec. 27. The state had two important witnesses that it intended to put on in case Smith took the stand in his own tehalf. They were Sheriff David De- vine, of Logan county, Illinois, Smith’s former home, and Deputy Warden Dowell, of the Illinois state prison at Chester. These witnesses state that Smith’s true name is Frank Lavendosky, that he was born in Poland, and has a di- vorced wife at Lincoln, Ill, who was too ill to come. They say Lavendosky served two terms in prison for forg- ery. N. D. LIGNITE 1S VALUABLE. U. S. Geologist Tests Indicate It Can Be Used As Fuel. Washington, Dec. 14.—United States geological survey tests of North Da- kota lignite indicate that the lignite has high value when used in a power plant of the form known as a gas producer and gas engine. A survey of the lignite fields around Washburn and in the Fort Berthold Indian reserva- | tion was made. The main object was to determine | the character, depth and extent of the | was the end in view. Timber is scarcé in the region, lignite being practically the only available fuel The survey has published a report on the subject. FOURNIER ON WITNESS STAND. Prisoner Testifies in Own Behalf At Brainerd. Brainerd, Dec. 14.—Paul Fournier took the witness stand in his own be- half in his trial for the murder of N. O. Dahl. He emphatically denied hav- ing committed the crime or knowing who did, He declared that four or five per- sons, who had sworn to incriminating circumstances, including his sister-in- law, who testified to his saying in her presence that he killed the Dahls and had “four or five more to kill in that neck of the woods,” deliberately told what was not so. The prisoner was little shaken on cross-examination, although his mem- ory was bad in spots. Warehouse and Grain Burn. East St. Louis, Ill, Dec. 14.—Fire destroyed the warehouse of the Corno mills, on the levee, three blocks north of the Eads bridge. About 100 car- loads of grain were burned, the loss being $100,000. EIGHT PERSONS POISONED. Children at Play Mixed Arsenic With Baking Powder. Montgomery.—Joseph Hdel, a farm- er, and his seven children are sick from arsenic poisoning. Some time ago the children, in the absence of their parents, found a package of ar- senic which had been placed behind a clock by Mr. Hdel after he had used some of it for a horse. The children, thinking it baking powder, emptied it into the baking powder can in the pantry. On Wednesday, Mrs. Hdel used it in making biscuits, of which Mr. Edel and the seven children ate freely. : Mrs. Edel did not eat any of the bis- cuits, as she did not sit down with the rest of the family, but was waiting upon them and doing other work about the kitchen. Everything is being done EBERHART ON FARMING. Minnesota Governor Addresses Chi- cago Convention. Chicago, Illinois—Goy. Adolph 0. Eberhart of Minnesota, in an address here before the National Fairs and Exposition association, made a plea for better farming in America. “We have made this country the model of the world in our free schools and republican form of government,” said Governor Eberhart. “While we have demonstrated the possession of the greatest agricultural resources on the globe and have supplied the world’s markets with an unparalleled volume of farm products, we have ex- hibited a vast and alarming weakness in the depletion of our soil resources jand the reduction of yield and profit per acre under cultivation. “During the last 50 years in which we have made such tremendous strides in manufacturing and commerce we have lost in soil fertility, as estimated by economic authorities, a wealth that would maintain our population for cen- turies. “The starvation of our soil has aroused the entire nation and a halt should be called until remedies cam be applied to stop this great and un- nece ry waste. We find many farms show a decrease in yield per acre due to persistent single cropping. the very cause that has produced farm poverty from time immemorial.” R. B. Dear Dies At Superior. Superior, Dec. 14.—R. B. Dear, mil- lionaire contractor and mining man, died here as the result of the third operation following appendicitis. Un til recently he was president of the Butte-Balaklava Copper Company. Vanderbilts in M. P. Ry. Wichita, Dec. 14—Cornelius Van- derbilt made the announcement here that the Vanderbilts have become fi- nancially interested in the Missouri Pacific railroad and confirmed the ru- mor that he has been made a director of that company. Just when this change in the directorate of the Mis- souri Pacific was made he declined to state. Whether this means the culmination of efforts of the Vander. lignite within reach of irrigible land ‘to save their lives, but as yet the | bilt’s to obtain control of the Gould physician cannot tell what the out- come will be. along the Missouri river. Use of the | lignite as fuel for irrigation pumpaog | i { 1 railway lines, neither Vanderbilt nor members of his party would state.