Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 27, 1911, Page 7

PAGE BX i GRAND: RAPIDS HERALO:REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2°, 1911. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECIORY OF GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. LPO ITED A. C. BOsSARD L. M. BOLTER President Cashier FIRST STATE BANK Savings Department Farm Mortgage Loans GRAND RAPIDS MINNESOTA FRANK MYERS Dray and Express Line PHONE 218 Stand—Corner drd StreetvandcLeland Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. A. L. ROECKER Merchant Tailor Leland Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. D, M. POKEGAMA HOTEL FIRST CLASS ACCOMODATIONS Corner Leland Avenue and Third Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. GUNN ]. 0. JOHNSON & CO. Meats and Provisions ¥RED AND HAY orner Leland Avenue and 4th Street 7RAND RAPIDS, MINN. — KREMER & KING ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Heal Estate and Fire Insurance jee Pokegama Hotel Block jRAND RAPIDS, MINN R EISHUS-REMER LAND CO. REAL ESTATE AND FARM LANDS fice on 4th st. between Leland und Sleeper | Avenves | *RAND RAPIDS, MINN. | rescore ~ MYERS CITY LIVERY fice and Barn beteeen Fifth and Sixth Streets on Kindred Avenue GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. | oeeerooe. W.E THWING & ROSSMAN Attorneys at Law Office in Itasca Mercantile Co. Building Opposite Post Office GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. eee, pescnee CHESTER L. PRATT Attorney at Law COURT COMMISSIONER Office on Second Floor of Court House GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. DR. F. R HARRISON DENTIST Office in the McAlpine Block Phone No.6 GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. PRRRRCRARREUEDURENEEOT00000 HETHOOR DR. G. F. SCHMIDT Physician and Surgeon Office in the McAlpine Btock, Phone 6, GRAND Rapips, MINN. HERALD REVIEW Book and Job Printing oth WORS CULRLT TEED betend Ave. Beywoen tb and Sth Seccsts @namp Rarivs, Mixn. Alfred Blomberg Wants to buy all the Ties on Great Northern or Minne- apolis & Rainy River. PAY HIGHEST MARLET PRICE FOR SAME Bet. 2nd and 3rd Streets on Kindred Avenue |g, R. BROWNE > FP. P. SHELDON, P. J. SHELDON President Vice-President . E. Aken. Cashier FIRST NATIONAL BANK Transacts a General Banking Business GRAND RAPIDS, MINN DR. COSTELLO DENTIST Office n First National Bank Building GRAND RAPIDS MINNESOTA JOH N COSTELLO Costello’s Ice Cream BOTTLING WORKS, MINERAL WATERS Between 3rd and 4th Streets on Hoffman Aye. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA FRANK F. PRICE LAWYER CNOUTY ATTORNEY Office in First National Bank Building GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. C, ©. McCARTHY LAWYER Office in Marr Buaiding, Corner Kin 1red Ave- nueand Third Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN H. FE. GRAFFAM Lands and Insurance Leland Avenue Opposite the Postoffice GRAND RAPIDS, MIN CODD POLO E DOLL OOL DOLE DO OE DO ODIELS GEORGE BOOTH : Cigar Manufacturer Bootn’s Boquets Between 2nd and 3rd Streets on Kindred Ave GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. CORPO P OLS LE LE DOLE DELO ODT L OOO LILES DR. CARROL C. CARPENTER M. Physician and Surgeon Office over Itasca Merc. Co. Residence first house North of Library GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. CHARLES W. FOREST City Dray and Express Line Phone 134-2 - Stand—Corner Leland Avenue and 3rd Stree’ GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. ere aera WILL NISBETT Practical Watchmaker and EnFdaver COMOLETE ERWELRY LINE GRAND Rapips, MINN. POO POCO OLLIE OL OLDE NODDOODIIDOLS DR. THOMAS RUSSEL Physician and Surgeon Office and Residence Corner Leland Avenue and Sixth Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA ne ceed Heating and Plumbing OFFICE AND SHOP On Leland Avenue between 4th and Sth Sts. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN, sevcerccoscovevcsserrenscoeorseoone |W. Q. YOST Farm, Meadow, Timber & Mineral Lands LOANS ON FAEM AND'CITY PROPERTY Office Pokegama Hotel Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS MINN. AANA ERA TETTA EEE F, E. REUSSWIG Furniture and Undertaking LICENSED EMBALMER Phones: Res. No. 127, Office No. 33 OODDD AT POOL LODI LD DDLODIDEDOOTOE DODD NILES & AITON Flour, Feed and Hay FARM SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY ALFRED BLOMBERG Jesse Lake - - Minnesota 3rd St. Between Kindred and Houghton Ave GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. TRIAL OF BEEF Jury Is Completed and Prose- cution Opens. MANY MEN ARE EXAMINED: Anas HOW z Ten Days Occupied in Questioning 147 | Veniremen Before the Necessary! Twelve Are Secured to Try the Case. | District 4ttorney Wilkerson Explains | | State's Case. i Chicago, Dec. 2.—The jury which will try the Chicago packers, indicted and charged with violation of the| Sherman anti-trust law, has been com- Pleted and sworn in, -The taking of | testimony will begin at once. The | men who will try the packers are: Asa Bannister, farmer, Naperville. H. I. Bucklin, farmer, Dundee. Burton H. Meyers, surance solici- | tor, Naperville. W. J. Thomas, clerk, Ottawa. C. H. Nare, drug clerk, Chicago. H. O. Bates, tailor, La Grange. J. H. Edwards, telephone inspector, | Ottawa. Jacob Gleim, baker, Ottawa. Adam Crow, farmer, Plainfield. Thomas Scott, millwright, Chicago. | . J. E. Harvey, grocer, Wilton Center. E. J. Ryan, salesman, Streator. The selection of the jury was com- pleted after ten days work, during which 147 veniremen were examined. The defense used its twentieth per emptory challenge to get rid of God- frey Blenn, a Chicago contractor. Thomas Scott, a millwright, who was next examined, said he had worked for several grain elevator com- panies during his seven years’ resi- dence in Chicago. The defense ac-| cepted Scott and after a brief consulta- | tion among counsel the panel of | twelve men in the jury box was ten- ‘dered the government. Attorney Sheean, on behalf of the government, questioned Veniremei Scott, Ryan and Harvey at length and | later announced that the prosecution ; accepted the jury. After the jury had been sworn in| Judge Carpenter adjourned court until 2 o'clock when United States District | Attorney James H. Wilkerson made his opening address to the jury. RUSSIANS DENOUNCE TAFT Abrogation of Treaty Declared to Be Political Piay. St. Petersburg. Dec. 2 .—Anti-Semite leaders are denouncing the United States on every hand following < announcement of President Taft that the treaty of 1832 would be abrogated. The government believes that’ Pres- ident Taft’s action was taken in order to bolster up an already weakened po: litical popularity and that he expe« to “retain his office through the in-| fluence of Jewish money and votes.” There is every indication that Rus- sia will allow the treaty to lapse and will refuse to enter into a new one | This would leave Russia free to d: "| with American subjects as she see: fit and would also work considerah! hardship upon the American exporters. ATTACKS SHIPPING TRUST Congressmar Humphrey Wants Con: | gressional Investigation. | Washington, Dec. 26.— Startling | charges against the so called “foreign shipping trust” were made before the house committee on rules by Repre- | sentative Humphrey (Rep., Wash.), supporting his resolution providing for a shipping trust investigation by aj joint committee of the house and sen-| ate. “More than 90 per cent of our over-| seas commerce !{s carried by foreign | ships that belong to pools, combines | and ‘conferences,’” said Humphrey. | | “Between the ships in these combines | there is no competition and both pas- | senger and freight rates are fixed by agreement.” ALL INJURED WILL RECOVER ‘Total Deaths in Odessa (Minn.) Wreck Will Not Exceed Ten. Ninneapolis, Dec. 2¢%.—The origina! list of ten deaths due to the wreck caused by the rearend collision of the first or pasgenger section and the sill: and fish or second section of the Co lumbian, the Pacific coast flyer of th« Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railway at Odessa, Minn., has not beer increased. None of the injured ‘in hospitals ai Ortonville, Odessa or Minneapolis ar in a serious condition, the most seri ous mishap, aside from the deaths, be ing a broken leg. LAW TO CLOSE 400 SALOONS lowa Supreme Court Upholds Statut« | Combatted by “Wets.” Des Moines, Dec. 2¢.—The supren court of Iewa has handed down decision affirming the Moon law cas which had been appealed from the lo. er court. The decision, it is said, wi result in the closing of more thea 4° saloons in lowa. RAYNER CALLS IT PERSECUTION Criticises Russia’s Treat- ment of the Jews. ATTER NOT RELIGIOUS Neate Abrogation of Treaty Is the Only! Method of Relief—Believed Both! Houses of Congress Will Approve | the President’s Course, but Debate May Be Bitter. Washington, Dec. 2:.—The senate apparently is disposed to accept gracefully the action of President Taft in forestalling it in abrogating the Russian treaty of 1832. At least that is the attitude of a | majority of the members of the com- | | mittee on foreign relations. the president, in taking the matter eut of the hande of congress, en-| proached on the prerogative of the) penate. Senator Rayner of Maryland deliv-| ered a speech sharply arraigning Rus- sia and charging that country with having violated its treaty obligations. Senator Rayner argued that the treaty admits of but one interpretation | | and that is that citizens of the Unittd | States shall have the same rights in | Russia that Russian citizens have within the United States. He said it was an American ques- tion, not a religious one, and that it had now been settled in incident after incident that no American Hebrew can pass the frontier of Russia. He re- ferred to proceedings in the French | chamber of deputies, where the same question kas arisen with Russia, and | Russia was made to yield. After dis- cussing the law in detail, Mr. Rayner said: “There is no other remedy except to) We must submit | It would | terminate the treaty. or give notice to terminate. be a cowardly act to surrender. The night of barbarism must close so far as Copyright by Clinedinst SENATOR RAYNER. we are concerned. religious liberty, so ordained by the wisdom of God and so created by the genius of man. We cannot permit any autocratic government to visit this in- iquity upon our citizens. The day of | religious inquisition is over. “It is nothing but religious persecu- | thon directed against citizens of the | United States. There is no other method of relief. Do we propose to keep treaties and allow other govern- | ments with whom we have made them | to break them at their will. No other civilized nation on this earth would | assume such a humiliating position. | This treaty has been broken in its or- ganic and most vital part. The heart of this compact has been pierced, ana raising as it does with us the question of religious freedom, its most sensitive | feature has been mutilated and tram- | pled upon. We deserve the contempt @ubmit to this degrading indignity. | "There is no way out of it except the termination, the rescission or the ab- drogation of this treaty.” | FAVORS LOWER WOOL RATES President Will Recommend Downward Revision in Message. Wa ston, Dec. 23.—After a meet- |4ng of the cabinet, at which President | Taft's message on schedule K, wool | and woolens, finally was revised, it | was reported that the president had | decided to recommend a revision downward. It was said that the president would ‘pot recommend any specific rates of | duty, but would indicate that the pres- |ent rates should be materially low- | ered. Dundee Strikers Are Riotous. Dundee, Scotland, Dec. 2¢—The are on strike, have suddenly gotten out of hand and begun to cause great @isturbance in the vicinity of the quays. Rioting became so serious thai the lord provost of the city sent a Fequisition to headquarters for a de { tachment of troops. Others, | { however, advanced the argument that This is the land of | dockers and carters of this port, who | | ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest i Minnesota Readers, GORDON ABANDONS SCHEME) Lieutenant Governor Decides Not to Summon State Legislature in | \ Extra Session. The little group of advisers which had gathered around Lieutenant Gov- | ernor Sam Y. Gordon at St. Paul | the last few days urging him to step | into the governor's office in the ab | sence of tne chief executive and call a | Special session of the legislature has | dispersed. A brief statement was issued by Mr. | ; Gordon, in which he declared that he | had never sanctioned any statement that he would call the extra session if he did assume the office and that | his previous opinion had been that he had no authority to act in a case of this kind. Thus ended what has been the most | exciting two days at the capitol for Many months or vears and it is as- serted by many that, with the sudden end of the extra session talk, also end- | ed the hopes of the Gordon candidacy | for governor, His managers, however, will not concede that it has seriousiy injured him, although they do not as-! sert that they gained anything by what happened. The opinion of the attorney general , was a disappointment to the Gordon people, who had assumed, because Mr. Simpson referred to the Frank A. Day | Case, that he would rule favorably to them. Mr. Simpson had merely an- | swered the question of a reporter as | to whether the point had been passed on in this state by referring to the Day case. When the matter was put up to him officially he searched fur- ther and found the Nebraska case | holding that the governor upon his return could revoke an extra nowelen | called by the lieutenant governor. DEMAND RETURN OF MONEY Minnesota “U” Regents Serve Notice on Former Cashier. Former Governor John Lind, pres ident of the board of regents of the state university, and State Treas- urer Walter J. Smith formally demand- ed that J. D. Bren, former university cashier ana acting treasurer, produce the money he says was stolen from him last spring in a campus holdup and all other money which came into his hands as a university employe. ; The demand was served through the Hennepin county sheriff. Bren is under indictment charging the embezzlement of about $20,000 of university funds. The officials name | no specific sum, but demand that all | “funds, money ‘and properties” which ; came into Bren’s custody be “forth- | with produced.” | The formal demand on Mr. Bren is | in accordance with action of the board | of regents, who dismissed Bren from | the university service and have re. ‘quested tbat an accounting for all | money be demanded. i] |STOP WINONA STREET CARS| | Sympathizers Break Windows and Strikebreakers Quit. company to resume service. One of the three cars on the line was attacked by sympathizers in the extreme outskirts of the city, where stones and bottles were hurled through the windows. No one was hurt and no arrests were | made. Immediately afterward all of the cars were taken off and the city is | again without street car service. Adequate police protection has been demanded by the receivership. Strike- breakers from Chicago manned the cars, three of which were in operation until the trouble developed. Jim Root Passes Away in New York City. rooming heuse at New York. Jim Root, as engineer of a passen- ger train on the old St. Paul and Du- more than 300 persons when Hinckley | and other towns in Northern Minne- sota were destroyed by the tornado of | fire that swept that district Sept. 1, 1894, and in Hinckley alone caused the death of more than 500 people. Shoots Up Minneapolis Saloon. While one man lay under the bar with his head jammed in a tin pail and yelled for help, Fred Winego shot up a saloon at Minneapolis, clearing it of its other occupants, then turned the gun on himself, in- | flicting a wound in his neck. He was arrested and taken to the City hospi- tal in the police ambulance, where it was said he would live. Mortally Shot Over Woman, Mike Ballis of St. Paul, twenty- three years of age, wounded ir a quarrel over a woman. His cousin, Frank Scavo, nineteen years old, shot him through the abdo- men and then escaped, the police say. Violence developed in the street car | motorman’s strike at Winona and it brought to a halt the attempt of the | | HINCKLEY FIRE HERO DEAD’ | ef mankind if we reel at the blow and | | James Root is dead in an obscure | luth Short Line, saved the lives of | was mortally | VERDICT FOR DEFENDANTS ES ludge Morris Slscharess Men Accused of Conspiracy. The Beaulieu comspiracy at Fer- | gus Falls has reached a sudden con- Tolustoee The government attorneys rested and the defense at once moved for a directed verdict in favor of the Paepeie George H. Edgerton and te. D. O’Brien argued for the motion and Judge W. A. Norton against it. At the conclusion of arguments | Judge Page Morris granted the motion { and Gus Beaulieu, Robert G. Beaulieu, | Benjamin L. Fairbanks and John | Leechy walked out gf the courtroom | acquitted of the charge. “I have a very strong opinion about the Clapp amendment and the manner in which it was administered,” said Judge Morris, “but that is not the matter at issue here. The question is, did these defendants conspire to defraud the government by inducing Indians to represent themselves as mixed bloods and there is no evidence to sustain any such charge. The | Nichols Chisholm Lumber company, which the defendants represented, ap- pears to have treated the witnesset fairly and to have paid them good | Prices for all timber purchased. The defendants are discharged.” | MARTZ CHARGES ARE DENIED ; Attorney Cotton on Stand in Steel Trust Probe. Joseph B. Cotton, a prominent at- torney of Duluth, appeared before the Stanley house steel trust investigat- ing committee at Washington and | characterized as false the testimony given before the committee some weeks ago by Charles H. Martz, the Man who built the Duluth, Missabe and Northern railroad and was for some years its chief engineer. Mr. Martz charged that Mr. Cotton, as counsei for the road and for the Rockefeller interests which acquired it from the Merritt brothers of Duluth, urged him to falsify a report as to | the cost of the road, so that this re | Port could be laid before the Minneso- ta railroad and warehouse commission, which at the time, Martz said, was in- | quiring into the reasonableness of ore rates on the Duluth, Missabe and | Northern and the Iron seainiee railroad. FOR DOING BUSINESS WITHOUT LICENSE ‘Many Minnesota Commission | Men Face Prosecution. Five thousand commission merchant im this state are facing prosecutions on charges of doing a produce com- mission business without a license. This announcement, made by Charles F. | Staples, member of the railroad ané warehouse commission, follows a se cret investigation that has been on for months. Of the 5,000 about 300 arc in St. Paul and the same number in Minneapolis. The investigation, according to Mr. Staples, was made by members of the state commission and be added that, if any reputable citizen has evidence that will show that any merchant oth- er than a regularly licensed commis sion merchant is doing a commission business, the commissioners will in- clude him in its prosecution. | Mr, Staples says this time of the | year abounds with unlicensed commis | sion merchants, many of them having no offices or any tangible assets. The law provides that each com mission merchant who acts as middle |man for the producer is required to | be duly licensed and to be bonded for not less than $2,000. Failure to com | ply with the law lays the violator | open to a fine of . 25. The original complaints to the com- mission came from shippers who haé been fleeced. These will be calleé | upon to give testimony in court and the | crusade will in all probability have the backing of licensed commission men. FISHER MEETS GOVERNORS Secretary of the Interior Attends St. Paul Conference. The Western governors and other representatives of the Western states ‘told Secretary Walter L. Fisher of the department of the interior, while at the governors’ congress at St. Paul, some of the things they want of the federal government. Secretary Fisher in a vigorous speech in reply told them that nearly all the things |they ask for could be obtained if a new law was passed providing for the classification of the public domain and the disposition of each class of land in its own way. The meeting was harmonious throughout. Secretary Fisher met the Western governors more than half way and they, realizing Mr. Fisher was in the mood to deal with them on common ground, met him on the same friendly oasis. GIRL CAUSES FATHER’S DEATH When He Points Gun at Son She Grapples With Him. While struggling with her father to prevent him from shooting her brother the daughter of Willey Doty, a set- jtler near Duluth, wrenched the | weapon from his hands and as it | dropped to the ground it was dis- | charged, killing the man instantly. The father and son had quarreleé jover the watering of some horses. »