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MINNEAPOLIS. MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES. There was n shortage la fresh eggs ibe p"s week which approached an eg? famine. - The supply has not beeu kuowa to bo so light for years. The regular meeting of the Minneapolis ■Woman's Suffrage association will be held at 418 Kicollei avenue today at 3p. m. A largo attendance is desired. William Campbell was sentenced yesterday to ninety days in the workhouse forttie larceny of v watch and a suit of clothes from his rooinniate, Michael Noldcu. The following marriace licenses were is sued yesterday: Nils Nilson and Mary An derson. John Larson and Gertrude Johuson. Kick llaluwald and Pronto Berres. Tickets for the reception -and" ball to . be given by the Police lteliet association on Feb. '.'4 were i laced on sale yesterday, and several hundred were disposed of at once. The bank clearings yesterday were 51,259, --2O6.(r_'. The totals for the week ending Feb. 5 are 430,760.31 as compared with S-VJS.i. 017.08 for the corresponding week of last year. The 330 small boys who are attending the Motley. Peatody, Harrison. Calhoun,. Doug lass and Knierson kchoois are to be brought into a manual training class and taught to whittle. George C. Cloutier, eleven months old, the Youngest ihiid of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cloutier, died at the residence, 1705 Western avenue, Thursday morning. The funeral will be private. The Lumberman's excursion party will de part for the Pacific coast next Monday, leaving St. Paul at 4:51 p. m. and Miuueap olis thirty mi suites later. The party will number thirty-five. Keports are contradictory as to whether Mrs. 6. L. Baker died on her way home as re cently reported. A neighbor is said to have had a* letter from Mrs. baker mother saying that she arrived safely. Tbe Non-Partisan W. C. T. V. has estab lished a school for the Minneapolis news boys at the rooms of the union, -la Ilennepin avenue. The school now numbers thirly fonr. It is under me charge of Supt. J. W. Taylor. 1 here has been a larger supply of oranges in the marßet the past week than any previ ous week this year. Prices are very low, and the marcels of the country all appear to be in about the same fix, says the Commercial Bulletin. Company A, M. X.G., will give a dancing party at l he Masonic Temple this mouth, probably on the 2litb. The arrangements are in the hands ot a committee which promises that this affair will be one ot th«j test ever held by Company A. It will be strictly a full dress military ball. Cases of uier.sles atTii? Lower Flats, 1107 Sixth street north, 000 Eighth i. venue north, IUU9 Eighth street south, -005 Thirteenth street north: diphtheria at 3107 Fremont avenue and ecarletina, at 2006 Twentieth avenue, were reported at the health office yesterday. Mr. tnd Mrs. George W. Hare, of 706 Twenty-fifth avenue northeast, are making anxious inquiries as to their sou, Burke, who left home in April last to go West with sev eral other young men. - For some time he wrote home regularly, but nothing has been beard from him since October, when he was in Hed Oak, 10. A subscription paper was circulated among the saloonkeepers yefcteiday to raise fluids to reimburse Thomas'tjallaghertor the expense of slugging Crusaders Bray and Welch, and It is said that over SIOJ hns already been raised. The saloon seepers have made Gai laeher's cause tneir own, and it is intimated that the crusaders are in danger of more rough treatmeut. News comes from Denver that Sheriff Swenson, who Is now in that city with his wife, who is ill, met with a serious accident Thursday night, lie jumped from nn elec tric car and did not see one approaching on the other track. He was struck and knocked •own. An inventory of his injuries snowed that his (ol'.ir bone was broken and that he was braised all over. The actuary at St. Mary's cemetery yester day found the Dcdy cf a newly born infant lying in an open grave at that burial place. The body was in a neat wooden box, and appeared to have Icen placed there with care, although not covered up. The body was removed to (.Ueason & McAllister's, and ihe coroner is investigating the case. Dr. F. A Irvin, who attended D. G. O'Brien, the young man who on Wednesday evening nearly died from the effects of a dose of car bolic f.eid, reports that his patient is much better and iv a fair way to recovery. He states that he is now convinced thnt O'llrien took the poison accidentally and not with suicidal intent, as was at first reported. George Arthur Grindeli, who was arrested ft few days since for an assault upon his mother-in-law. Mrs. Madeline Ober. was yes terday sentenced to thirty days in the work house. Jt is stated that an attempt will be ■aude to prove Giiudell iufane on his re lease from ihe workhouse, mid he claims this to part of a Bcheine to assist his wife in her divorce suit now pending. Charles F. Murray, an Eastern newspaper nan. says he has changed his opinion re garding the ability of Minneapolis to take care of the national convention. He has been heie several days, and has looked ihe city over carefully. He now believes that Minneapolis will have no difficulty in giving convention visitors all they may want. The Northern Car company has taken to manufacturing the vestibuled street cnr.such as is used on a good runny of the lines in Eastern cities. This car has a vestibule in fiont nnd rear, so that both conductor and driver are protected from the cold and the storm. The monthly meeting of the associated charities will be held next Monday at the home of Mrs. J. M. Kobinaon, 003 South Seventh meet. The paper of the day will be on "Child Saving."' Secretary 11. li.'tinrt. of the state board of charities and correc tions, will open the discussion with a general paper on the methods of the state board in caring for the little ones who are left alone in the world. PROGKESSING FINELY. !fhe New Market Nearly Half Com- pleted. 1 1 arlow Gale stated yesterday that the rew market house was nearly half com pleted and would easily be finished within the time prescribed by the ordi nance. The first and second floor tim bers, and the front iron columns are all in place, showing for the first time fhe outlines of the thirty produce commis sion stores.reaching from Seventh street along Second avenue north 337 feet to Sixth street, and then along Sixth street 830 feet to Third avenue north, making a building 6<>7 feet loiigaml 80 feet deep. The big inn beams on the front col umns arrived this week, and as soon as they are in place the brick superstruct ure \\ill go up. The roof will probably l>e on by April 1. Mr. Gale reports that the work is now two we«'ks ahead of all expectations, and that the commis sion stores will be ready for occupancy by May. ihe gardeners' market will be ready soon afterward. iT^t'i'V"— ~ — v G .-.,■■'/ fl u i v>;_i_| — - ~ " .«-» ~? I r ~— — — — — Son. " Mother, do you never weary with all your correspondence?" Lydia Pixkiiam. "No, my son, these letters of confidence bring to me the joy that a mother feels, whose daughter throws her arms around her neck and cries, 'Oh, mother, help me I' The women of the world are my daughters, dear." ■ : - Sox. " Yes, mother, and they love yon." Lydia Pirfkham's private letters from ladies in all parts of the world average one hundred per day, and truly has she been a mother to the race. Suffering women ever seek "her in their extremity, and find both a helper and a friend. Correspondents will receive prompt and conscientious answers, and the sympathy of a mother. LYDIA E. 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'- We will present a copy to 2nyone addressing us with two 2-cent stamps. - I MISS CHASE WINNER. Another Full Day of the Roch ford-Ames Imbroglio in Court. Return of a Verdict Sufficient to Pay the Plaintiff's Doctor Bill. More Fire Department Mat ters That Will Receive Some Light, Arrest of a Man Wanted for Forgery— Engineer Twee die Fired. "Your honor, this is the only place where we can get justice. This woman has broken up our family, and—" Mrs. Kochtord, her pretty face pallid with purpose, upturned to dignified Judge Hicks, stood upon the witness stand and spoke these words, accenting every syllable and recognizing every inflection as only one determined to obtain justice can. Every head in the court room was thrust a trifle nearer to the resolute woman, that not a word might escape. But for the sound of her voice the court room was deathly still. The court, the attorneys and the jury seemed spellbound for a moment and gazed i por. the woman before them in bewilderment. When her first sen tence was ended Attorney Davis seemed to regain his senses, and, realizing what she was about to do. leaped to hi* feet just as the last word quoted above was spoken. "Stop! stop!" he shouted. ''We can not have stump speeches here. No, niadanie, we cannot have them here!" This seemed to revive Judge Hicks, and. moving nervously in his chair. he said: "No, no; you must not say anything more. This is no time for you | to say anything." "You have two good lawjers," per sisted Davis, "and they will see that you are taken care of." Mrs. Kochford's lace was flushed with disappointment, and exclaiming, "Very well." she stepped from the stand and resumed her chair beside her husband. As she did this, there was a hum of monotones, ami everybody riveted their gaze upon ihe face of Dr. Ames. His daughter's words touched him, and, knowing that all who had heard them were looking at him, the thrice mayor of Minneapolis, and once a candi date for the highest office this state can give, leaned forward in his chair, cleared his throat and riveted his gaze on the base of the wit ness stand. The words, "This woman has broken up our family," spoken in the voice of one who bears a nearer re lation to him than any one in the great world, seemed to ring in his ears. The flush in his face told mat he knew that the scores about him were moved in pity fur the family he had come to re gard as he regarded strangers. Jt was a situation in life which no one could realize without knowing the thoughts which must have been generated in the head, now covered with silvered locks, which once had never known what it was to bow to reproach- Miss Chase, the woman referred to by Mrs. Kochford, showed by her nervous ness that there were pangs in the re marks for her. Her eyes srerned unable to find a point upon which to statiou themselves, and wandered from the court to the jury, then to the walls and the ceiling, and finally to almost every object within their sight. Her face took on a deep flush at first, which her gloved hand managed to hide from nearly all the spectators to the left. The muscles in her face moved as though her teeth were being pressed together like the iaws of a vice tightly closed. She seemed to breathe un easily. Several of the jurors noted all this; also the deep sigh of relief that heaved from her bosom when Dr. Rochford's name was called and he took the stand. Mrs. Kochford's testimony was inter esting throughout as she gave it so clearly and positively. She recognized no occasion to falter. She told every thing so plainly that there could be no mistake. She was very pretty, the slight paleness of her face contrasting with the deep black of the apparel she wore. Every action and every word spoke composure, ease and determi nation to tell all she knew of the trouble and the facts leading up 10 it. She said she married Dr. Rochford in June, 1891. She was at the offices of her father and husband at noon Oct. 17. She went there to meet her husband ana walk with him to lunch. They were just passing down the stairway on their way to lunch when Miss Chase passed them on the way up. Her hus band paused and saw Miss Chase at tempt to open the office door, which was locked. Wlvpn Miss Chase learned that the door was locked Dr. Kochford asked her what she wanted. She wanted to see Dr. Ames, and her husband told her that she could not see him because he was sick Iv bed. She sam she would see him. Her husband insisted that she couldn't, and asked her if he had not informed her by mail never to come to the office again. He told her that she was not a lit person to have around. She said she'd leave the office wheu she got "good and ready." Seeing that ar guments could avail nothing, her hus band laid a hand lightly on each of Miss Chase's shoulders, and helped her down stairs. Before the bottom was reached Miss Chase slipped on the stairway and slid to the bottom, a distance of three or four steps. When she reached the bot tom Dr. Kochtorcl picked her up.handed her sunshade to her. and said: "Now, go!" Miss Chase exclaimed: "Tell Dr. Ames I called, and you'll remember this, sir!" Her husband did not touch tHE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: FAIUHDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1892. her with either foot, and did not strike her with either hand. On cross-examination, she stated that when Miss Chase passed up tho stairs her husband had told her that Miss Chase was the woman he haa ordered to keep nway from the office., lie told her to wait until he talked with her a minute. She was interested in Miss Chase because she wanted to see what the woman who frequented her lather's bedroom looked like*. "It isn't extraordinary that your father should receive ladies in his ollice. is it?" asked Attorney Davis. "It certainly was for him to receive them in his bedroom." After going over Miss Chase's going to the door and starting to return down the stairway, Davis asked: "Where were you looking all this time?" "Everywhere, everywhere. 1 saw everything. Nothing escaped me. 1 wanted to see everything, and 1 did. I was interested." "Yes, of course you were." The in flection of Davis' voice carried a ripple of laughter, which caused the deputy's mallet to descend like a pile driver. "You«re positive, very positive, that your Husband did not kick Miss Chase?" "1 am positive. 1 saw all that oc curred, and 1 know he didn't. 1 am very positive." "When your husband got Miss Chase to the foot of the stairs he pointed a finger toward the door which looked like the finger of destiny, eh?" Mr. Davis' tone was dripping with sarcasm, as was the smile which peeped from beneath his heard. He smiled only for a moment, for the tables were unex pectedly turned. "No. It was more the finger of jus tice," came the reply, the clear, musical voice a trifle harsh with sarcasm. Mr. Davis changed the subject. "Now, you said something about a Mr. Soapine. How about him?" This caused a smile to creep over every body's face, as the clever attorney had overdrawn the name. "1 said something about a Mr. Koaper. He was a student in my father's office." Both sides announced that they de sired to ask no more questions, and Mrs. Koch ford arose a? tliougn to leave the stand. Then occurred the scene de tailed above. Dr. Kochford on the Stand. Dr. Kochford took th« stand when quiet had been restored after the crea tion of the scene by his wife. His tes timony agreed with that of his wife in every particular. He went into detail a little more and illustrated— using Attor ney Jamison as an example — how he took hold of Miss Chase and guided her downstairs. He laid particular stress on the statement that he used no force in dealing with Miss Chase. He had not squeezed her mm and was in no way ungentlemanly. He did nothing at all out of the way. He said that he had lots of provocation to use violence, and everybody would agree with him if they knew ali the facts. Mr. Davis asked if he had heard about Miss Chase's wounds. He said he had heard a great deal. In fact, he had heard so much that he could not remem ber all of it. Mr. Davis asked if he for got the details of his professional du ties, and he replied that he did some times. "Are you absent-minded when you put iadies out of your office?" "I don't know. I have never put any out," "You put one out, did you not?" "No, sir; I never put a lady out." "The emphasis on the "lady" made Miss Chase look the "daggers" Dr. Rochford said she looked when he had escorted her to the door and ordered her to go and never return. Dr. Koch fora enlightened the jury concerning the stairway, said he knew Miss Chase had a key to the office, and left the stand. Miss Chase took his place and stated, at the invtigation of Mr. Davis, that Dr. Hunter had used the word "vio lence" when he passed an opinion in examining the bruises on her arm. She had scarcely made this statement when Mr. Davis remembered that he had for gotten to ask Dr. Rochford whether he had been convicted for assault and battery on Miss Chase by the municipal court. Attorney Jamison objected to this question being answered, but the couit stated that Dr. Hochford could answer. He admitted being convicted and fined $1. Tins closed the testimony. Attorney Jamison addressed the jury on behalf of Dr. Kochford. He made a very clear and acceptable address, deal ing with every particle of evidence as only an experienced, bright lawyer can. He showed Miss Chase in very unfavor able light, and made good use of the fact that she called on Mrs. Bates, the day following the assault, despite her terrible injuries. In closing he stated that he was sorry certain folks had been dragged in the cast", meaning his clients, and Dr. Ames. He said it was not a case where injury had been committed but one of spite entirely. When Jami son concluded it looked as though Miss Chase's chances were as bruised and mangled as she would have the jury be lieve she was when Dr. Kochford got through with her. Attorney Davis, however, has a repu tation for gathering together scattered chances. When he got through with an hour's talk Miss Chase was "backed off the boards." He did not say that Miss Chase was a woman of all women and had been pounced upon by a fiend who all but left her lifeless at the bot tom of the stairs, as some lawyers would have done. Instead he went over the evidence as carefully as Jami son, and with rare tact showed conclu sively that there was no room to doubt that an assault had been committed. He went into the matter of damages, told of the many kinds and g| showed how the injuries she may have received at Di. Rochford's hands might leave effect in a permanent Injury later on in life. He explained the "railroad spine" in order to support this. In the course of his re marks he had occasion to regret that Dr. Ames had been put in an undesira ble light. In his regrets he said that he knew Dr. Ames had done as much for the poor of the city as any man, and he wasn't an intimate friendof Dr. Ames,' either. His address was one of the most impressive the talented talker ever delivered. It was a task to influence the Jury in his client's behalf, because of the undercurrent of injurious Tacts which was apparent all through. The jury retired at 4:15, and at 4:55 they filed into court and handed over their verdict— flfiO for the plaintiff. All but one of the jurors were in favor of a $1 verdict, but this one wanted to give Miss Chase $5,000. He would com promise on no less than $160. Dr. Koch ford, when seen after the verdict was given, said that he was disappointed, because Miss Chase was not entitled to a cent. There will be no appeal. MORE INVESTIGATION. Other Fire Department Matters Which Will lieceive Attention. The special council committee ap pointed to further investigate the irreg ularities in the pay rolls of the fire de partment has, after two mysterious meetings behind closely barred doors, announced that the only irregularity found was a mistake of 15, which has already been corrected; that Us re searches are ended, and that all that now remains is to formulate a report. From present indications, however, this will not by any means close the in vestigation of mat uts pertaining to the fire department, as several of the alder men are dissatisfied with the outcome of this affair, and, as they say, the manner in which the committee on fire depart ment has hidden behind Chief Runge, who has bravely assumed the entire re sponsibility and blame. These objecting alciermen assert that Aid. Woodward, chairman of the com mittee on tire department, has conduct ed the affairs of that committee and of the department itsell, for that matter, on his own lines, and that the informal and irregular proceedings have nut been entirely confined to the pay rolls. It is clainird that the little alderman from the Seventh ward has dictated the ap pointments almost entirely, and that the letting or contracts and'other work of the committee was generally ruled by him. The objecting aldermen claim that in view of this state of affairs it is prepos terous to claim that tho' chairman of ;: the tire committee was . ignorant or the irregularities under .investigation and that he, '-instead' o[ Runge, should re ceive the blame for them. • The special committee they claim is; with the , exception of Aid. lngenhult, composed of Woodward's , best friends in the council, and -as Itunge has shielded tjje. . commute will in. turn shield him. Ala. Tngenbuft,U is stated, called the attention of the committee [it one of the executive sessions to certain fire department matters' other than the pay rolls which, in his opinion, required-, investigation, but was informed that the committee could not touch them." aY its jurisdiction had been limited to the pay ro'ls. This, however, has ■ not discour aged the dissatisfied aldermen, and It in stated on the best of authority that' an effort will be made at the next meeting of the council to secure the appointment of still another committee to rip the* offi cers of the tire department up the back. • • " ~~~ ~~ !',-•'.■"" ■UK.-: HE SPECULATED IN WHEAT,' And Now He Is in Jail on a Charge of Korjfery. , "^ ~' r ~. ■' Homer O. Totter, a former resident of this city, is in jail at Albany, N> V., charged with having forged a check on ( the New York State bank, of that city,/ tor $3,000. He is also wanted in this city for forging the name of C. 11. Prior, ex-superintendent of the Milwaukee mad, to a note on which he obtained $3,010 from the City Bank of Minneapo lis. , , His crime in Minneapolis occurred Nov. 25 last, but the facts were not made public until word of his a i rest came. Potter was connected with the Milwau kee road, and was employed by Mr. Prior during the time he was superin tendent. He was an expert penman, and learned to imitate his employer's signature so that detection was almost impossible. One day last November lie called at the City bank. and inquired if Mr. Prior's signature was good on a note for $3,000 and, being informed that it was, went away, and on -the 25th re turned with a note in the sum named, the signature on which was so cloverly forged that none of the bank officials questioned its genuineness, and it was readily, accepted for discount, Potter receiving the money. At the end of "the sixty days for which the note was drawn the note was sent for collection, but Potter could not be found, and it was then sent to Mr. Prior. A few days later came a com munication from Mr. Prior, disclaiming all knowledge of the note and pro nouncing it a forgery. The police took up the. matter, but no clue to Potter's whereabouts could be found. There was not even a photo graph of him in the city, and his wife knew nothing of him. Finally word came to Mrs. Potter through her husband's sister In Chi cago that Potter was in jail in Albany, and indirectly Chief Henderson learned of this. He communicated with the chief of police of Albany and learned by means of a photograph which he re ceived from this source that the man .jjjider arrest in the Albany jail under the name of John C. Johnson and Potter were one and the same. Potter will first be tried at Albany, and if released will be brought bacK to Minneapolis. j- Potter is forty-two years of age, has brown hair and weighs 199 pounds. Potter's downfall is due to wheat spec ulation. He had been an inveterate speculator and spent every cent he had in this way. ; : -" i Potter Is well connected and belongs to a good family in the lower part of v the state. He. was reared in Owatonna and came to Minneapolis with good recommendations and sow umde many friends in business and social circles. His sister in Chicago, . who * broke the sad news of (.is Albany trouble to his wife, is Mrs. C. E. Stone, wife of the general purchasing agent of " the American Express company. As soon as he got into his • Albany trouble he must have written at once to his sis ter. She prepared Potter for the news in a series of sisterly letters. Mrs. Potter is almost broken-hearted, and declares that she will have nothing further to do with her husband; ■••'a ; ' uyi^ox:---:'^ ■ -• ;■; i^i'-is.) i] ; TWEEDIE'S SCALP. ;/~! | 1 This Prominent : Witness in * the Pump Investigation Removed From His Position. Engineer Tweedie, of the North Side pumping station, who figured so con spicuously as a witness during the re cent pump investigation, and later lin his newspaper controversy with City Engineer Rinker, has been removed by the council committee on water works from his position, and while this fact may not be peculiarly significant, there are many who assert that it is. The committee meeting of yesterday was a special one called to consider charges against Tweedie preferred by Supervisor McCouuell. The charges, as laid before the com mittee, are that last Tuesday morning, during Tweedie's watch, the pumps stopped, and the station was thrown out of service for three hours. He failed to report these facts to Supervisor McCoii nell,it is claimed; but the pressure on the mains was so reduced before the pumps were again set to . work that the matter was investigated, and the true state of affairs was learned. It is claimed by" many that Tweedie's removal was ac complished by Rinker through revenge, and it is a well known fact that Rinker announced that he would have his scalp; but the water works officials claim that there was good cause for the action, and that Tweedie was grossly negligent in not reporting when his supply of oil gave ou t. JOHN CONLOW'S ANSWER. He Denies That He Is the Father of Nellie Ercwn's Child. Attorney John Conlow, through his attorneys, Marscn & Marson, filed his answer to .Nellie Brown's complaint yesterday. Conlow denies that he promised to marry the plaintiff or that he seduced her. He admits, however, of having intimate relations with her between Oct. 1. 1883, and Sept. 31, IS9O. but always without objection from her. He denies that he is the father of the child born to the plaintiff; also that he advised her to sell her boarding house. He says he first met the plaintiff in 1882. He says nothing was said about marriage until 1890 when she asked him to marry her and he refused. He says he helped her with money and medicine when she got into trouble. Up charges that she was intimate with other men. Three New Divorce Suits. Three petitions for divorces were filed yeserday, and in each case the wife asks for a decree. Mrs. Maggie Brown says Senaca F. has been cru«l to her for several years. He has beaten her on several occasions, notably Dec. 22, 181)1. when he pounded her severely. Olive Weldon says John A. deserted her. They were married at Winnipeg in 1879 and have one child, an eleven year- old boy. She is twenty-seven years old and he is thirty-one. Weldon at one time owned a iish market on Seventh street and Nicollet. Elizabeth Gammage says Arthur T. was cruel to her ever since they were married at Rockford. 111., in November, 1884, until March, 1690, when he deserted her. They have one child, five years old. He Was Fined $5. Samuel Johnson, the saloonkeeper at Fifteenth avenue ncrth and Washing ton, who was arrested several days ago for assaulting John Carlson, his bar tender, with a beer glass, was arraigned in the municipal court yesterday, Carl son having recovered sufficiently to be present. One ot the witnesses stated that he had seen Carlson clinch with Johnson and reach over to the bar for a beer glass, with which he tried to strike him. He could not say, however, as to the striking of Carlson by Johnson, as he left before if occurred. From the testimony it appeared that both were to blame, and Johnson was let oil with a fine of 15. RISE UP, MR. SHULER. Pere I? a Chance for You to Do Some More Ex plaining. You're Charged With Work ing for One Particular Lumber Firm. Plenty of Green Timber Being Cut Off the Indian Reser vations, And Then Indians Are Forced to Sacrifice It to One Firm. Indian Agent B. P. Shuler is at pres-. ent in Washington to answer the charges brought against'him by ex-Con gressman liall. As indicated by the dispatches from Washington, those charges amount to nothing but in subordination. If Mr. Hall keeps his ears o"ben and takes the trouble to ques tion some of the lumbermen who' have their headquarters in Minneapolis he may be able to bring still more serious charges against the Indian agent. These lumbermen tell some things that have a bad look, and they tell them in such a straicht for ward way, with offers to back them up with indubitable proofs, that It is impossible to pass over them lightly. What the lumbermen have to say has to do with the cutting ot timber on In dian reservations. Briefly stated is this: The Indians are cutting a good deal more limber off the reservations than the law allows them to cut; but one lumber firm in the Northwest is allowed to buy that timber; that one linn is con nected* indirectly, with the junior sen ator from Minnesota; this company eu joys these privileges in the way of pur chasing; timber through the direct influ ence of Indian Agent Shuler. The lumber firm meant is that of C. A. Smith & Co. Ex-Gov. John S. Pills bury is the •'company" of C. A. Smith & Co. Senator W. I). Washburn is in timately connected in business with the Pillsburys. Senator Washburn is sup posed to have a deal of influence with the Indian agent. And there you are. Every year there is more or less tim ber on the Indian reservations that, through the agency of fire and storm, is put into such condition that it must be cut at once or it is lost forever. The In dians are allowed by the government to cut and sell all the dead and down tim ber on the reservations. They are given that timber, according to the intent of the law, or regulation allowing ttiem to make use of it, to do with as they please. They may sell it to whomsoever they choose. But, accord ing to the stories that come to the Gi.oue, the Indians are not permitted to exercise their own free will in dis posing of this timber. It is claimed that they are practically coerced into selling it to C. A. Smith & Co., and at a price much below the market price of the timber. It is a fact that C. A. Smith & Co. have been getting nearly all of this timber. Other firms kave been trying to net a chance to buy some of the logs, but they have been crowded out. They hHve been told in every case that the logs had been sold to C. A. Smith & Co. Even when they have offered a good deal more for the logs than C. A. Smith & Co. have paid they have been unable to get them. This thing has been running on so long that they have grown tired of it, and have determined to protest. They feel that they cannot afford to sell sawed lumber in the market in competition with C. A. Smith & Co.. when they have to pay more for their logs than the lat ter company does. These complaints from the lumber men have been floating around in such pronounced form that a Globe man went out yesterday to look them up and see if there were any lumbermen in Minneapolis who would be willing to state, in iiis own name, that such discrimination was being practiced and that the Indians were being practically forced -to sell their logs to a certain firm when an other firm was willing to pay more for them. The first man met was D. Will ard, of J. W. Day & Co. The reporter was not compelled to walk any further. Mr. Willard was perfectly willing to talk and to talk plainly. lie was aeked if it was a tact that the other lumber firms were being shut out from buying logs f roai the Indians, and if so, "how and why. "I will relate an experience of my own," answered Mr. Willard, "and you may judge for yourself, lhave recently returned from a trip up North to buy logs. I was up on the Leach Lake In dian reservation, also on Winnebigo shish lake. There w«re three Indians up there, Charles Loche, John Lyons and an Indian named Bunsro, who had logs to sell. They had about 60,000 feet, i offered them $6.50 a thousand for their logs. Now, you see, these Indians cannot make contracts by them selves. They are wards of the nation and all of their business must be done through the nation's representative, the Indian agent. A couple of days after I made this offer to Loche for his logs, Lyons came to me and told me that the Indian agent had told Loche that he must not sell his logs to me. lie was told that C. A. Smith & Co. wanted the logs and that the logs must be sold to C. A. Smith & Co. Smith & Co. would offer but $4 a thou sand for the logs, $2.50 a thousand less than 1 offered. Loche, according to the report brought to me by Lyons, told the Indian agent that Smith & Co. would not pay as much as other firms would, and that he wanted to get more money out of the logs. Four dollars would no more than pay for the cutting, and would leave the Indian no profit at all. " 'That makes no difference,' said the agent. 'You have got to sell these logs to Smith & Co.' "So Smith & Co. got the logs. The contract was made with them for $4 a thousand. Just to see if the price had anything to do with the matter, I offered Lyons, when he came to me with this story, ?8 a thousand for his logs, for they were worth it. The increase in the" price made no difference. C. A. Smith & Co. got the logs. And they are getting them all. "I forgot to mention that the Indian agent did not reluse Loche and Lyons permission to sell these logs to me with out offering some excuse, '• 'I do not know J. W. Day & C 0.," said he. 'I do not know whether they are responsible parties.' " 'But we know them.' the Indians answered, 'and we are willing to trust them sufficiently to sell them the logs.' " i hen it was that the Indian agent told them that it made no difference that C. A. Smith & Co. wanted the logs, and thnt they must have them. "Now this is not fair to us. We have to sell our lumber in the open market in competition with the lumber of C. A. Smith &Co., and we are not able to compete with them if we are not allowed to go into the market and buy lo?s on an equal basis with them. We cannot sell lumber for the same price they do when we have to pay ?2 or fa more a thousand for the logs. The Indians are also done an injustice. They cannot get out of tho logs what they are worth. Why, I would pay 54 a thousand for the stumpage — cut the logs myself. They only get out of it enough to barely pay for the cutting." "But to go into this question a little further," continued Mr. -Wi Hard. "This kind of work would not bear such a bad look if the Indians were cutting and C. A. Smith «fc Co. buying from them only the timber that the law allows them to cut and sell— that is, the dead and down timber. Nearly three-fourths of the timber that is taken off the reservation is green timber. The Indians have told me themselves that they are in the habit of burning the timber every year so that they may have a good deal of it to cut. 1 hat rs ail contrary to the reg ulations of the United States govern ment. The Indians, mind you. set fire to the timber themselves and make burned timber of it. And they cut a good deal that is not dead. "And right here comes In another circumstance that has a suspicious look. The timber inspector who tells the In dians what they may cut and what they may not is "Jack" Tidd. Tidd is a brother-in-law of Indian-Agent Shuler. Tidd tells the Indians what they shall cut, and he is Shuler's brother-in-law. Then Shuler,the agent, tells the Indians that they must sell that timber, a good deal of wnich is green and which the Indians had no right to cut, to a certain firm, shutting out all competition, pre venting the Indians from getting what •the limber was worth and preventing the other lumbermen from getting a chance to bid on the logs in the open market. ' "Ther.e is still another matter that 1 want to touch upon. That relates to the boom stuff that is cut. The timber cut along the rivers that run into VVinne bigoshish lake is all boomed across the lake. The firm that buys the logs al leges that the dead timber is not strong enough for booms— the long timbers that hold the rafts together. So they are allowed to cut boom timber. That is cut long and is selected from the best timber that staiulo on the land. Last year, to raft about 6,000,000 feet of logs, over 2,000, --000 feet of boom stuff, all of it the finest green timber, was cut and used. For that purpose 50,000 or 00.000 feet would have answered. So, you see, about a third as much timber was cut for the booms as there was in the logs to be rafted." Mr. Willard seemed very much \T\ earnest when he made these statements and expressed a willingness to back up his assertions with proofs if any oife should feel disposed to question their accuracy. He says that his is not the only firm that has been similarly treated. J. B. Chatterton and the H. C. Akely company were mentioned as among the firms that had met with the same state of affairs when trying to purchase logs from the Indians. Mr. Willard says that the lumbermen intend to push tins matter to the bottom and see what agency is at work that is preventing them from getting a fair show at the logs cnt by the Indians. This matter came to the Globe at such an hour last night that none of the firm of C. A. Smith & Co. could be found, that that side of the story might be given publicity. THEY ENTER PLEAS. Criminals Indicted Appear Be- fore Judge Locnren. The work of the grand jury was made apparent yesterday when those who were indicted were arraigned before Judge Lochren. Reuben La Pine pleaded not guilty to the charge of big amy, and his case was set for Feb. 8. William Genevev pleaded not guilty to the forgery of a ?22.7l check on the Security bank, signed by Robinson, Mead & Co. Henry Bougerie. who was arrested, with Gene vey, first pleaded not guirfy, but later changed his plea. Because of his youth he was sent, to the reformatory at St. Cloud. He is about seventeen years old. James Walker, better known as "Kid" Harris, charged with attempting to shoot Charles J. Wells on Nov. 23. en tered a plea of not guilty, and his case was set for Feb. 9. Both Walker and Rvan pleaded not guilty to the charge of robbing W. A. Crawford of $30 on Nov. 23 and of attempting to steal $425 of Col.VVest's money on Dec. 10. These cases will be tried Feb. 9. John Walters, nineteen years of a age, and a worthless-looking fellow, pleaded guilty to robbing Pat Lyon's saloon in January. He was sentenced to one year and six mouths at StilUvater. Frank Davis, who was arrested with him. will be tried Feb. 9. Waters said it was his first offense. James Murphy, John Bell and Pat Nolan pleaded guilty to stealing $143 worth of cigars and liquor from Eric Lund's saloon, at 110 North First street, on Jan. 24. They were given five j'ears and six months each. James Quinlan. who was with the party, pleaded not guilty, and will be tried Feb. 10. John S. Beach denied embezzling watches from J. R. 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