Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 19, 1910, Page 8

1 | | | Eee 8 WALSH'S HOPES ARE GLIMMERING WRIT OF CERTIORARI IS DENIED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. ONE MORE CHANCE FOR LIBERTY Banker Makes New Move to Avoid Serving Five Years.—Alleges Misconduct of Jurors in Seek- ing Review of Case. Chicago, Jan. 18.—A few hours after John R. Walsh, former president of the Chicago National Bank of Chica- g0, and railroad promoter, who was convicted of misapplying the funds of the bank, had received word from Washington that the United States supreme court had denied his peti- tion for a writ of certiorari, he took another step to obstruct his serving five years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas. Through his attorneys he filed a pe- tition in the United States circuit court of appeals asking that it direct the United States district court to grant a new trial. He charged the jurors who convicted him with mis- conduct. While Mr, Walsh, sitting in his of- fice in the Grand Central station, re- ceived the news from Washington ap- parently with as much composure as if it were merely a detail of his ord- inary business, his attorneys became active. District Attorney Sims had gone into court with a motion that a man- date be issued at once transferring the aged financier to prison. John 8. Miller, one of Mr. Walsh’s attorneys, objected on the ground that no official notice of the supreme court’s action had been received. Just then a messenger appeared in the court room waiving a yellow paper. It was a telegram addressed to Mr. Sims and was read as follows: “Petition for certiorari in ease of John R. Walsh, against the United States denied.” It was signed by James H. McKenny, clerk of the su: preme court. When Mr. Sims then urged for an immediate mandate ordering the car rying out of the prison sentence, Mr, Miller demanded a stay until a certi fied copy of the decision should be réceived. The evidence, alleging misconduct of the jurors, upon which Mr. Walsh hoped to obtain a new trial, was con- tained in affidavits filed by Elbert Pal- mer and Charles Davey. In Palmer's affidavit he asserted that while acting as a juror he was sick and he signed the verdict of guilty under pressure from the other jurors. He asserts “that said jurors continued their per- secutions and that finally affiant, being so physically weak and growing con- stantly weaker and so fearfully nerv- ous gave way to his emotions and began to weep, when the juror Bron began to abuse affiant and applied to him epithets and opprobrious names, such as ‘big fool,’ “great big baby,” “big calf,” and the like, thereby great- ly humiliating affiant and causing him to suffer great mental anguish and increasing his mental and physical distress.” J. E. Taggart, who was foreman of the jury, signed an affidavit in which he said Palmer went to him after the verdict had been sealed and asked him to unseal it and scratch off Palmer's name. He said he refused to open the verdict, telling Palmer it was against the law. May Seek Pardon. It is reported that the friends of Walsh in event of an adverse ruling of his petition for a new trial would at once appeal to President Taft to grant the aged banker a pardon. It was said this course had actually been decided upon. Mr. Walsh’s health, it was said, would not long withstand the confinement of prison life. Great doubt was expressed, how- ever, that any relief could be obtained before the convicted banker had be- gun his sentence. It was pointed out that his status was analogous to that of Charles W. Morse, the convicted New York ice king, now serving a term in the federal prison at Atlanta, on whose behalf efforts to obtain clem- ency have so far been futile. AMBASSADOR NABUCO DEAD. Brazilian Diplomat Dies in His Home at Washington. Washington, Jan. 18.—Joaquin Na- buco, ambassador ef the republic of Brazil to the United States, died at his home in Lafayette place. He had represented his government here since May, 1905. Immediately upon learn- ang of the ambassador’s death Presi- dent Taft called at the late diplomat’s fhome and left his card. N. D. Loses Liquor Fee Case. Washington, Jan. 18—The case ef ‘R. BE. Flaherty vs. O. M. Hanson, wheriff of Grand Forks county, North ‘Dakota, involving the constitutionality jof the North Dakota statute of 1907, requiring liquor dealers to pay to the tate a fee of $10 upon receipts is- wsued to them by the government of ‘the United States for the payment of ‘the internal revenue tax required of them, was decided by the supreme court of the United States favorably to Flaherty and againet the state law. ‘The decision reverses the state courts. FRED W. CARPENTER Cosy right, 1909, by Moffett Studio, Chicago. Private Secretary to the President Carpenter Visits Minnesota. Washington, D. C.— Fred W. Car- penter, secretary to the president, is taking his first vacation in many years. Mr. Carpenter ever since he has been connected with President Taft has known nothing save work, but, with HUSA eo ehecrvative THE COPPER MINES JEMTLAND, SWEDEN The sunberb book ic now ready and will be sent to you free on re- request. Many hundreds of people have already asked for it. It will in- terest you. It tells of the Stupendous Mineral Wealth of Scandinavia And describes a group of nineteen con-er mines in Jemtiand, Sweden, which have produced copper in large quantities for one hundred and thirty- four vears. THESE ARE THE FAMOUS HUSA MINES, which recently came under the revivifying control and ownership of Scandinavian-Am- ericans, known as the Duluth-Husa Copper Mines Company 218 West Superior Street, Duluth, Minn. which, in order to carry through its plans of making this group one of the greatest copper producers of the world, offers you the opportunity of a lifetime. Facts For You to Consider The Husa Copver Mines are more than 5,000 acres of land in the this acreage there is room for many Three thousand acres of the nineteen in number and mineral heart of Sweden, more very large mines. more than 5,000 acres are heavily comprise and = on wooded, and one American engineer mer, states that the timber alone is The company owns tremendous who examined these mines last sum- a tremendous asset. water power, and is on this account all his energy he has net forgotten Minnesota and he announced some time ago that he would pay a visit to the old folks, no matter what business might interfere. Accordingly, he has left for Sauk Center, Minn., where he will attend a reunion of the Carpenter family. FIRE AT UNIVERSITY 1 Fight Over Furlong and Underwood Portends New Deal. St. Paul, Minn.—A “dark horse” | candidate for the presidency of the Minnesota state fair board may result from the present agitation revolving about John J. Furlong and of J. M. Underwood, the two leading candidat- es. Milton C. Griggs, of St. Paul, and F. L. Pandall, former secretary of the fair and now president of the Min- DEFECTIVE WIRING GIVEN AS THE CAUSE OF $75,000 LOSS TO STATE. CAUSE OF FIRE NOT FOUND OUT Dental Department Is the Chief Loser —lInsurance Fairly Large—Inade- quate Water Supply Blamed for Seriousness of Fire. Minneapolis. — Defective electric wiring is said to have been the oause of a fire which practically destroyed the medical building at the University of Minnesota, The loss will be in the neighborhood of $75,000. The building had been occupied by the dental department for the last few months and was filled with valuable apparatus and instruments. It is the third time that the same building has been on fire, but only slight damage was done on the former occasions. According to the firemen, it was owing to lack of a sufficient water supply that the blaze last night proved so disastrous. All the students left about a week ago for their homes to spend the Christmas holidays. Dr. C. F. Dight, one of the instructors, was the only “man in the building when the fire broke out. It started between the walls on the top floor and soon shot out through the roof. He opened a window and shouted a warning to the watchman, who immediately turned in an alarm. When the firemen arrived the fire had gained such headway that little could be done, as there was not enough water to drown out the flames. A new valve had been installed in one of the other buildings during the day, which was the cause of turning off the water, at least this is the explana- tion given by the university authori- ties. The building was built in 1893 at a cost of $56,000, but several improve- ments have been made since. It was known as Millard hall, and more fa- miliarly as the old medical building. Only the upper floor was used by the medical department, however, while the rest of the hall was occupied by the school of dentistry. It was 65 by 125 feet in dimensions and construct- ed of brick and brownstone. The structure was of three stories and a high basement. The fire was spectacular and at- tracted an immense crowd, but the police kept excellent order and the firemen were not hampered in their work. \FARIBAULT LIGHT PLANT SOLD. Chicago Men Will Transmit Electric- ity from Cannon Falls. Faribault—The Faribault Gas and Electric Company has been sold to H. M. Byllesby & Co., of Chi- cago, who have also purchased the Cannon Falls water power at Cannon Falls, which can furnish 2,000 horse- power. They have arranged for a transmission line to Northfield and Faribault, and the surplus energy will be carried on to Mankato. STATE FAIR PRESIDENCY. nesota Trust company, are being men- tioned as possibilities. The situation at the state fair grounds in connection with the rival examinations being made by the gov- ernor’s auditing committee and the state examiner’s special representa tive, seems to be developing into a tentative struggle between the present administration and the previous ad- ministration. Friends of John J. Furlong say that recent agitation has only cemented his support and they predict his election. Mr. Furlong himself is extremely con- fident. Secretary C. N. Cosgrove denies he has any part in the presidency fight and says he is absolutely neutral. RHODES SCHOLAR IS NAMED. Joseph Tetlie, St. Olaf College, Wins Prize Course. St. Paul.—Joseph Tetlie of St. Olaf college was awarded the Cecil Rhodes scholarship at Oxford university by the judges who met in Dr. Northrop’s office at the university. The other candidate for the honor was Theodore Buenger of the Univer- sity of Minnesota. Mr. Tetlie is 21 years old and took the classical course at St. Olaf. He was graduated last year. He will leave for England next October. The judges who made the award were Presidents Northrop of Minne- sota, Bridgman of Hamline, T. M. Hodgman of Macalester, J. N. Kildahl of St. Olaf, Matson of Gustavus Adol- phus and Donald J. Cowling of Carle- ton. Mr. Tetlie was born in Nebraska. He was star pitcher on the college team for four years. He had an aver- age of 94.48 per cent for his four years’ studies. He received a fresh- man scholarship of free tuition for one year and in 1909 won the Henry Nelson Talla scholarship of $60. i GC naerentire INDIAN IS GIVEN 12 YEARS. Brainerd, Dec. 25.—James Kegg, whom a jury Wednesday night found guilty of manslaughter in the first de- gree for killing Sam Pete, near Deer- wood, last June, was sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary at Stillwater by Judge M. Clenahan. Kegg and his+ victim, Chappewa Indians, were both supposed to have been intoxicated when the trouble occurred. The evi- dence was all circumstantial, WINONA BANKS TO CONSOLIDATE Second National and Deposit Institu- tion Will Merge Jan. 22. Gentlemen: — Winona, Dec. 24.—Notice was given mi to the stockholders of the Second Na- tional bank of Winona that action was taken at a meeting of its board of directors, following corresponding ac- tion on the part of the directors of the Winona Deposit bank, looking toward @ consolidation of these two banks Jan. 22, 1910. The capital of the new imstitution has not been announced. Se obligation on my part. Name .. * Address rr and Efficient Labor Sppleasia Transportation N°* Prospects--Mines 218 West Superior Street, Duluth, Minnesota Please send me your book on the Min_ eral Wealth of Scandinavia, without cost or independent of fuel power. The Husa mines have been examined by many mineralogists and mining engineers of Europe and America, and all agree; that the copper ore DEPOSITS AT THE HUSA MINES ARE TREMENDOUS IN SIZE AND RICHNESS. These Husa mines have been operated 134 years, and engineers say the ore bodies have scarcely been scratched—that only seven acres of the more than 5,000 acres have been mined. MR. BESCOW, AN EM- INENT SWEDISH MINING ENGINEER, savs of these wonderful Husa Copper mines. “A knowledge founded on long experience has not only strengthened the conviction entertained from the first that there are great deposits of ore in this locality, but even demonstrated that these deposits are such that they might be inexhaustible.” Again he writes: “it seems the conclusion is justified that there is no danger of ex- hausting this stock of ore under any circumstances.” employed at American mines would draw $3,500 per day in wages. The same men’ working at the Husa mines would draw $800 per day. On this basis our company would save by onrerating in Sweden, in preference to the United States, TWO THOU- SAND SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS PER DAY, which amounts to nearly a MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR earned on wages alone by the com- panv. A thousand miners, Facilities The Swedish government’s Great Northern railroad is within three ENGLISH miles of the principal mine at the Husa group, and this affords excellent and cheap transportation of the Husa mine product to the deep water harbor of Trondhjem, where it is then within direct ocean communication with the great markets of the world. On this point, EN- GINEER DWIGHT E. WOODBRIDGE, who inspected the Husa Cop- per Mines last summer, writes: “Take your own property at Husa, for example; you are not far from a deep seaport on the Atlantic, and once there, your ore is in direct com- munication at a very low freight rate, with the great copper reduction centers of Belgium, Germany and England.” Again Mr. Woodbridge says: “I am perfectly safe in saying that freights from Trondhjem, your port, to either of the three countries mentioned, will not be more than three or four shillings per ton, probably the former is ample. * * * The freights on iron ore from a port 500 miles north of Trondhjem, to German and English ports is from three to five shillings per ton, and a very large tonnage was contracted for last year at three shillings a ton. From Trondhjem to these ports is several hundred miles NEARER than from Narvik, the port | refer to. “In reference to those works in Europe in a position to buy and treat copper contentrates or raw ores, | will say that there are many such concerns, notable among them being the Vivians of Wales; there are others in Wales, and a number in Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels; also in Germany, where the Mansfield Copper company is not only smelting its own ores, but is in the market for additional supplies. You may rest as- sured that, the ore once mined and sent to these ports, there will be no difficulty in getting it sold, or reduced to metallic form at a reason- able charge.” The Husa Copper Mines are not prospects, they are MINES. For nearly a century and a half they have contributed to the wealth of the world, and their known wealth today is attested by many engineers and experts. THEY ARE WONDERFUL. Capital is not needed to buy these mines—thev are already bought and paid for. They belong to the DULUTH-HUSA COPPER MINES Company. Nor is capital wanted with which to hunt for ore veins—THEY ARE ALREADY FOUND AND Ex- PLORED AND CONTAIN MANY MILLIONS IN WEALTH. Money is not needed by this company to develop “likely prospects”—but it is need- ed to install heavy American machinery on its own mines, to hoist and treat its own ore which has already been shown up. No man will be asked to speculate in the DULUTH-HUSA COPPER MINES COM- PANY, but you ARE INVITED TO INVEST IN THIS GREAT BUSI- NESS UNDERTAKING WHICH HAS MORE TO RECOMMEND IT TO CONSERVATIVE INVESTORS THAN MOST ANY MINING PROPOSI- TION. EVER OFFERED. Capitalization This company is capitalized at 200,00 shares at $5.00 par, and this, proven assets considered, makes the record for conservative capitali- zation. There is not the slightest doubt in the minds of all who have informed themselves on this great question that the mines themselv- es would easily stand ten times the capitalization of this company. THE ORGANIZATION WAS MADE TO STAND THE CLOSEST SCRUTINY OF THE MOST CAREFUL BUSINESS MEN. Ruined Thousand Shares Will Be Sold In order to equip with American machinery, so as to operate on a large scaley TWENTY THOUSAND SHARES OF THE TREASURY NON ASSESSABLE STOCK WILL BE SOLD, AND HEREIN IS YOUR GREAT OPPORTUNITY. The books will be opened on the 15th inst., and you should send in your subscription at once, so as to have it reg- istered. We have representatives in forty different cities, and as there is but 20,000 shares to be sold, there cannot be much for each city. DO NOT DELAY. ONTRACT READS $2.00 per share down and $1.00 per share in thirty, and $1.00 per share in sixty, and $1.00 per share in ninety days. USE THIS COUPON Please enter my name for_____- shares of your stock. LIenclose herewith $2.00 per share and will pay the balance in equal pay ments in thirty, sixty and ninety days. ” —+>—