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VOL XIV.
THE IRON EXCITEMENT
Further Facts About the Great
Mesabi Range and Prop
erties on It.
Fortunes Being: Made by
Lucky Investors Who Be
gan to Buy Early.
Interesting Comparisons Be
tween the Alabama and
Minnesota Mines.
A Warning" to Investors to
Look Out for Wildcat
Companies.
Special to the Globe.
Drum, Feb. 20.— Horace Greeley,
in a moment of bitterness, once said,
"It is true that all Democrats are cot
thieves, yet all thieves are Democrats.'"
The application of this is. that while all
mines are holes in the irround, all holes
In the ground (with the possible ex
ception of Charley Hoyt's) are not
mines. This little truism forms the
basis of a story concerning A. E. Hum
phreys, which will be read with interest
by thousands of people, as it amply
demonstrates the reason for the liiir li
regard in which he is held here, and
perhaps better than anything else illus
trates the character for uprightness en
joyed by the gentleman. It is common
talk here. and lorms the basis of the con
fidence with which everything his name
is connected is with regarded. As the
story poes. Mr. Humphreys came to Du
luth from Charleston, W. Va., last
winter, and while here bought the lease
of a property on which it was claimed
there was good iron ore and plenty of it.
"With every confidence in the outlook.
he stocked the property and sold some
of the stock and returned home. Later
en he put some men to work, but they
never succeeded in finding one dollar's
•worth of ore. After several months of
vain work the stockholders be
came dissatisfied and beean to
es"'.plaln. Learning of their dis
■fttisfaction, Mr. Humphreys prompt
ly came from West Virginia,
and, after making a thorough examina
tion of the prorerty, he became con
vinced that there was not a pound of
ore upon the land. Then he returned to
Detroit and called a meeting of the
stockholders, and informed them that he
would pay to each and every one of
them every dollar they had invested,
saying in the course of his remarks,
'•The owner of one share shall be pro
tected equally with the holder of a hun
dred shares/ This promise he
K. tlr; m.-ii to Hit- Letter*
and today those gentlemen are among
his warmest admirers, and they and
their friends are never weary at sound
ing the praises of Mr Uumphrey,and this
is why his properties every one of them
are "booming/
After performing this honorable deed
Sir. Humphrey went back to West Vir
ginia, where he was largely interested
in different enterprises, among which
was the Mountain Lake Land company,
owning over iao.ooo acres of the lineat
timber and iron lands in the South.
While still connected with that and kin
dred concerns, he made one trip to the
Mesabi range, and after a careful in
upection of the ground he decided that
there was a great future before the
country, ;uid especially for Dulutli, and
decided to cast his lot with these enter
prising people. He accordingly returned
to Virginia, arranged to close up his
business there, and brought back ro
Duluth his family, and will hencefor
ward be found in the van of those who
labor long ai.d earnestly for the wel
fare of the city, fully and confidently
expecting to see the aay when Dniuth
will wear the crown and scepter of the
"Birmingham of America."' Such is
the story told of Mr. Humphreys by
people who have every reason to feel
proud of the man who. coming from his
West Virginia home almost a stranger,
is today a leader among the hustling,
progressive, enterprising people who
have made the city at the head of the
lakes what it is.
Me.ssrs. Humphreys, Hale and Mc-
Kiiil> y control more than 50,000 acresof
land in foe and lease, which comprises
gome of the most valuable mining prop
erties oil tl'.e ransre, and they have the
reputation of offering for sale nothing
but absolutely gilt-edged stocks.
In connection with this matter, it is
something marvelous the way matters
are "booming." The stories told read
like pages torn from a copy of "Monte
Cristo:" yet they are true, for your cor
respondent has taken pains to verify
them. Last December a Southern gen
tleman invested 86,250 in the Cincinnati
properties, and during this last week
Sold Out Tor $40,000.
Another man put in (3,000 a short
time ago. and in the course of a day or
so will draw out in the neighborhood of
$12,000. Stock is sellintr rapidly, and if
it keeps on going, as the indications
now are that it will, it will reach 30
cents before many days.
Now a word or two as to the condi
tions existent in the iron world. Up to
within a year or so Great Britain pro
duced the largest amount of iron ore
and pig iron among the nations of the
earth, but in 18!>o the United States took
the lead, producing over 1,000,000 tons.
Of this amount New York and Penn
sylvania produced the greatest quan
tity, Michigan, Alabama and Minnesota
following in the order named. In isoo
Michigan took first place, with Ala
bama a good second, Pennsylvania and
New Fork third and fourth and Minne
sota fifth. Every one will recall the
stories told of t lie iron excitement In
Alabama. Towns which had slept and
slumbered along for years suddenly
sprang into prominence and became
cities. New towns, such as Sheffield.
Anniston, New Ironton and a host of
others came into being, and it was free
ly predicted that Pennsylvania was
doomed and that thenceforward the
great blast furnaces of Pittburg would
close down and that grass would grow-
In the streets of the "Smoky City."
This was because it was claimed
that iron could be mined and the pig
iron produced so much more cheaply in
Alabama than elsewhere. Yet what do
the facts show? The average value of
each ton of ore mined in Alabama in
18*9 (these statements are from tne pen
of 11. V. Winchell, assistant state geol
ogist) is given in the bulletin of the
eleventh census at 'JO cents, and the
value of a ton of Minnesota ore is quoted
in the same year as £2.57. The cost of
producing a ton of iron ore during the
same year in the Southern state was 82
cents, and in Minnesota it was $1.80.
Thus it will be seen that, while the
protit arising from the mining of a ton
of ore in this state was ?1. 07, in Ala
bama it was but 14 cents. Now,
Note tJie Difference.
Tbeie are contractors here now who
agree to mine every ton of ore on the
Mcsabi rauge at a cost not to exceed 50
scuts per ton. Some of the mine own
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its estimate that the cost will run any
where from 15 cents to 50 cents— uot
higher than this latter figure. Add to
this freight from the mines, and iron
ore can be laid down here at Duluth for
$2 per ton, which will trive to the mine
owner a profit of 50 cents per ton be
sides paying royalties. As is well un
derstood, a lance amount of the coal
brought here comes as ballast. By
turning out their own coke Dulttthians
can manufacture pig iron at this point
lor about $15.50 per ton, and can say
with the Count of Monto Cristo, "The
world is mine!"
The advantages to be derived by the
city from the immense body of ore lying
at her doorvard, almost, are incaleul-
IMe. As already stated, the lines of road
are headed that way. More than that,
they arc reaching out and fairly jump
ing ahead. The Duluth, Mesaba &
Northern has got its right of way
cleared and is building its bridges,
and the company claims to be able to
get its iron laid by. July 1. When that
is done manimotii ore docks will have
to be constructed, and that will mean
the addition of at least 10,000 people to
Du l mh's population. From ore docks
to iron manufactures is but a step, and
hence must necessarily follow the loca
tion of iron works of every character,
such as. blast furnaces, rolling mills,
steel plauts and the thousand and one
industries, both great and small, that
follow on the hefls of tne openine up of
such monstrous beds of ore us are now
adjacent to this city. The terminals of
these roads (i. c.. the Duluth. Mesaba it
Northern and the Duluth & Iron Range)
at this point would also mean the loca
tion of immense saw mills to manufact
ure the vast bodies of pine timber with
which the Mesaba range abounds. It is
claimed— and the claim seems amply
borne out by the facts— that the range
above-named has the largest body of
White Pine Timber Intonched
in the world, all of which is tributary to
the Mesaba & Northern and Dulutte
& Iron Range. Owing to the fact that
the range is the dividing line of the
streams, all of which are too small to
float the logs, there are no faculties for
getting it "out except by rail, and ot
course when once loaded on the cars
distance is annihilated, and the lum
ber could be laid down here, manu
factured and shipped by the great lakes
to all parts of the earth. Speaking of
the Duluth, Mesaba & Northern re
calls the fact that the directors of the
road held a meeting on Friday and let
the contracts for the construction of a
road to the Biwabik mine.
While all this talk of advantage to
this city is a little beside the question
of the value of the iron properties, yet
it must be taken into consideration.
Without the establishment of blast fur
naces to utilize the ore in the manufact
ure of pig iron, the location of rolline:
mills to roll out the "pigs" into mer
chant iron, ami the building of manu
factories to use up that commodity, the
iron range might as well be a howling
wildernc3S,covered the year round with
ten feet of snow; and apropos of this it
may be stated that Mr. Porter, of the
great Joliet iron and steel works, is in
terested in the development of the
Mesaba ranee, and it is more than
probable that a branch of that mam
moth concern may be located at the head
of the lakes. Several Pennsylvania
iron men have talked pretty freely of
establishing big concerns here, and it is
not improbable that withiu the next
five years Duluth may become what
some have already predicted she will
eventually be, the Birmingham of the
American continent. Already there is
in existence the nucleus of a gre^t man
ufacturing center. At West Duluth
there are the shops and blast furnace of
the bie car company, while across the
bay, as heretofore stated, there are the
plants of the steel barge company and
the Superior Iron and Steel company.
With a view of seeing the easy method
of handling ore in vogue here your cor
respondent visited
The Blast Furnace
in West Duluth a day or so ago, and
was much impressed with the ease and
rapidity with which the stuff was dis
posed of. During last summer a large
amount of dredging was done, thus en
abling boats to run right up to the
docks. There it is loaded into "dump"
cars and run up unto enormous sheds
and "dumped." Large iron wheelbar
rows carry it to the edge of an inclined
plane, upon which a large car is
operated by means of an endless cable,
and from there it is rapidly transported
to the top of the furnace and poured
into it, the whole operation lasting but
a very brief period. While this is
doubtless the method employed every
where else, 1 have merely spoken of it
here in order that the speculatively in
clined public who are not otherwise
familiar with the situation may under
stand that there is a market right here
for it now, and that it is being handled
with so much ease and cheapness.
Illustrative of the great size of the de
posits, it may be stated that the extent
ot the Mesaba range is at least 120 miles,
but from town 58-1(5 a distance of thirty
miles west will cover the principal ex
plorations of the western ramie. West
of this the range flattens out and is cov
ered with a deep surface, and although
a great deal of work has been done,
nowhere have the prospectors found
over six feet, and this at a depth of sixty
or more feet. East from 58- 10 is where
the big mines are. and then the forma
tion changes, graduating from hematite
into a mixture of hematite and limo
nite.which upon further exploration may
show clean bodies of either. As pre
viously stated, the ore contains from GO
to 62 per cent of metallic iron, and most
of the analyses so far made indicate that
it is low hi phosphorus, which ia the re
fractory element in iron, and conse
quently will make good Bessemer steel.
Some of the analyses show a small per
centage of manganese, which is said by
experts to beadesirable ingredient. One
resultjof the cheapness of the production
of Minnesota ore will be the driving of
the Alabama iron out of the market, or
else it will serve to moet the increased
demand for the metal. In either case
the future of the product is assured. As
to the amount, it is
I'rat'ticaiiy Inexhaustible.
One prominent dealer in iron lands,
whose head is always level, claims that
the output of the present mines on the
Mesaua range will bo about 50,000,000
tons, at a cost of about 50 cents per ton.
Of that amount the Jiiwabik owners
claim about 20,000,000 tons, while the
Cincinnati, closeito this property, have
ore beds fully as rich. The stock of
this company is going like wildfire,
every day and every mail bringing in
buying orders.
At the risk of doing what William
Shakespeare never did, repeating him
self, your correspondent desires to em
phasize the warning given a day or two
ago concerning "wildcat companies."
As is always the case following on the
heels of any mining excitement, these
concerns fall in thicker than leaves in
Vallambrosa. The result is always the
same. The speculative public, in its
eagerness to acquire wealth, or have
wealth thrust upon it, buys up the stock
as eagerly as the proverbial gudgeon
jumps at the bait, in the vernacular of
the street "gets done up," and thence
forward gives everything a black eye.
Thus, respectable companies are two
fold losers. They lose in the first place,
because the people buy poor stocks
which are predicated upon the vapor
ings of a set of men whose claims are as
baseless as the fabric of a dream, and
they lose also because, having once
been bitten, the public is twice, yea,
ten times shy. In order to as
PAINT PAUL MINN., SUNDAY MORNING, FELYRUAKY 21, 1892. --SIXTEEN PAGES.
far as possible 1 protect the public in this
matter, the Duliith stock exchange has
just been organized, and it is the inten
tion of the board of management to re
fuse to list anything which is not only
devoid of merit, but which does not
show up in the Al column. Duluth peo
ple are very much in earnest in this
matter and do not propose to let East
ern or other sharks throw discredit on
the great properties which, in the very
nature of things, must bring tame and
fortune to the Northwest.
Mr. Humphreys, who is the prime
mover in these matters, has with char
acteristic energy arranged for another
excursion over the range next week.
Another large and influential party of
Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Duluth
and
West Virginia Capitalist*
and iron men will leave hero about
Thursday and put in the day viewing
the properties, and it is safe to assert
that the results shown will far surpass
their most sanguine expectations. The
party will leave here oil a special train
and go to Mesaba on the Duluth & Iron
Range, thence by sleitrhs to the iron
mines, returning to this city in the
evening. Throughout the trip tncy will
be the guests of Mr. Humphreys, who,
with characteristic Southern hospital
ity, spares no pains to make his visitors
fuel entirely at home.
. The question will doubtless be asked
by readers of these articles what oppor
tunity exists for the man of moderate
means or income to make money out of
such investments. The chances are
splendid, and can easily enough be rig
ured. The situation today is best de
scribed by a comparison made yester
day by a prominent Duluthian. "Why,"
said he, "it is like a row of sugar barrels
with the heads still unopened. The
flies congregate around them, but when
they are opened there is a mad rush for
the contents." Without intending for
a moment to be uncomplimentary to
possible investors in the comparison
they resemble the flies. The result is
that the eager rush for the stock forces
the price up, and so the men who buy
now will of a verity make big money.
But the objection is raised that this re
sembles in too great a degree the meth
ods in vogue in Wall street. That ob
jection would doubtless hold good were
it not for the fact that the
. Gentlemen Who Control
these properties are developing them,
and intend that their profits shall come
from the sale and manufacture of the
ore rather than from the more uncertain
dealing in stocks.
I have been thus particular to empha
size these matters, because in times
past I have seen the unfortunate public
rush in both into real estate and mining
deals, with the result that they parted
with both hide and hair. Were Iso
minded I could instance a thousand
cases where people lost their
heads, being overcome by the
glamour of speculation, and lost
their money, their health and
everything else. In this case,of course,
the conditions are different. The high
character of the men who own the prop
erties, coupled with the absolute and
unequivocal evidence of experts^-the
additional fact that the ore is there, that
pits have been sunk fifty feet down into
the ground without going through it,
and last, but not least, the hon-shrink
able, copper-riveted, iron-bound fact
that millions of dollars have already
been invested in the range by far
sighted business men of the iron re
gions of Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia—men who have been born and
brought up in the iron business— leads
to the unalterable conclusion that it is,
beyond all venture, the greatest
iron find that has been made in many a
long day, and that with a little care and
a little money a man has an "iron-pipe
cinch" on one of the best chances ever
offered by the fickle Dame "Fortune."
ABOUT A BIG ROLL,.
New Surprising Testimony in the
Baker Trial.
Asiii.and, Wis., Feb. 20.— Quite a
surprise was sprung in the Baker case
today by the state in the testimony of
F. D. Day, a well-to-do and prominent
merchant of Hurley, who swore that a
few days before the robbery Baker went
to him to negotiate for an interest in a
big company, and that a few days alter
Perrin approached him and asked him
to swear that Baker had a big roll of
money on that day. This caused the
defense some uneasiness. The next
witness was Charles Seaman, of Lake
Geneva, who played Perrin in the same
manner as Lou Thayer worked Baker.
His testimony was chiefly against Per
riu.
Granted a New Trial.
Special to the Globe.
Bismarck, N. D m Feb. 20.— 1n the
celebrated case of The State vs. Ander
son Healy, in which the defendant was
found guilty of a crime against the elec
tion law a few weeks ago, Judge Win
chester tonight granted the petition for
a new trial. In granting a new trial
the judge gives the defendant the ad
vantage of every doubt in the mass of
conflicting affidavits regarding the con
duct of the jury.
Boom Companies Stubborn.
Madison, Wis.. Feb. 20.— last
egislature passed a law compelling
boom companies to pay into the state
treasury 2 per cent of their gross earn
ings. Some have clone this under pro
test, while others refuse on the ground
that the law interferes with commerce
between states. The attorney general
will bring suit to recover.
Not Guilty of Libel.
Special to the Globe.
Henderson, Minn., Feb. 20. -The
suit for criminal libel in which S. A.
Cooley, of Le Sueur, was complainant
against 11. 11. Moellering, of the Hen
derson Independent, resulted after a
long and interesting trial in favor of
the defendant.
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Sold at a Premium.
Special to the Globe.
Redwood Falls, Minn., Feb. 20.—
City water works bonds have been sold
to E. 11. Rollins & Son, of Concord,
N. H., at a premium of $201. Work on
the plant will commence as soon as the
weather will permit.
Senators Under Suspicion.
' Dcs Moixes, 10., Feb. 20.— the
senate this morning a resolution was
adopted appointing a committee to in
vestigate the published charge that
two senators had been arrested in a
house of ill-repute on Saturday night
last.
An Elevator Burned.
Crookstox, Feb. 20.— The Minneapo
lis & Northern elevator at Dugdale was
consumed by fire Thursday night. The
cause of the fire is unknown, and all
papers, books, etc., were destroyed. It
is reported that the elevator contained
30,000 bushels of wheat.
Made an Assignment,
Neii/lsvii,i.k, Wis., Feb. 20.— An as
signment was made today by Luetlie &
Frankenberg, general merchants, to C.
F. Grow. The estimated liabilities are
$15,000; assets, about $25,000.
SPOILING FOR A SPLIT,
Republican Hopes Rising at
the Prospect of a Bolt at
Albany.
Anti-Hill Folks Reckoned oa
to Hold a Convention of
Their Own.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Jones Is Out
With Advice and Hints to
Protesters.
Blair, of New Hampshire,
Launches a Boom for the
Presidency.
Albany, N. V., Feb. 20.— Not until
this evening did Albany assume the ap
pearance of a convention town. All the
arrangements for Monday's state con
vention.to elect delegates for the na
tional Democratic convention are com
pleted. The convention will consist of
354 delegates, outside of the 10S dele
gates from New York and Kings coun
ties, which are supposed to be friendly
to Senator Hill.
Mr. Hill claims 2(i3 of the remaining
2To delegates. The thirteen delegates
unfriendly to Hill are three each from
Clinton and Essex, the First Chautau
qua district and the Second Niagara dis
trict, and one from the Fulton and
Hamilton districts. Mr. Hill is author
ity for the statement that the
Essex delegation are unfriendly to
him. The twelve delegates from Al
bany county, comprising one congres
sional district, are uninstructed, Hill's
friends say the Albany congressional
district is the one which cauuot be con
trolled to send national delegates for
him. It is known that Senator Hill be
lieves the convention will instruct the
New York delegation to present his
name at Chicago, and that the unit rule
will be adopted by the convention.
David Is Independent.
There are those who feel that Mr.
Hill is independent of Now York and
Kings counties, and that the effect of an
ostensible difference between Tammany
aud the country would be wholesome
and helpful to Mr. Hill before the
national convention. Such an osten
sible arraignment of the cities against
tho country, it is urged by
some, would prevent the assumption in
some quarters that Tammany is bound
to Senator Hill, and that Senator Hill
stands or falls with Tammany. Some
who were present at the September
convention at Saratoga, and who wit
nessed there the defeat of Hugh Me-
Laughlin's efforts for Mr. Chapin as a
gubernatorial candidate, are wondering
tonight if Mr. McLaughlin really has
grace enough in his heart to bind his
Brooklyn followers to the unit rule in
behalf of Senator Hill. The other ele
ment of speculation tonight, the proba
ble action of the so-called anti-Hill lead
ers Monday, has been intensified by the
arrival here tonight of Ellery Anderson.
lie has made a tour of the chief cities
of the state, and expects delegations
from each to arrive here Monday for
Cooper' Union against Mr. flill. a pro
test to this so-called early convention
will be presented to the state committee
previous to the meeting of the state con
vention at noon Monday, accompanied
by a request that the convention be dis
solved and a later date be fixed.
Hope of Republicans.
New York, Feb. 20.— Special dis
patches from Albany relative to the
Democratic state convention to be held
Monday say that speculators have en
gaged rooms in boarding houses and
fitted them up with cots, and have
sold them out in advance to
lodgers. One man went about a
week ago and leased all the unoccupied'
.rooms in five houses. Today he is fill
ing them with temporary beds, and
says he will clear a pile. Albany has
never sceu such crowds as are expected
to begin coming tomorrow with the ar
rival of the Tammany braves. Prepara
tions have -been made for the
holding of what will probably
be an opposition convention. The
leaders of the Cooper Union movement
have hired a hall, and in this place will
meet the committee of fifty from Brook
lyn and New Fork, and about fifty more
protestants against the early convention
from other parts of the state. Their
proceedings, it is expected, will be con
ducted just the same as those of a con
vention.
To Assail tlie Committee.
As the state committee meets at 10
o'clock Monday morning, the protest
ants will get together before that "hour
and appoint committee which will
draft resolutions of protest and present
them to the state committees. Some of
their friends who are delegates to the
regular convention will also be asked
to present these resolutions to
the whole body of delegates. The 150
will then await in the hail an answer.
It is likely that they will get tired be
fore the answer comes, for the regular
leaders are not inclined to recognize
them in any way.
Some of the "timorous ones believe
that a plot is broaching to cause discord
in that convention Itself. If the reso
lutions offered by the anti-Hill dele
gates are rejected they believe that
these men may refuso to take any fur
ther part in the proceedings and walk
out of the hall in a body and
join the opposition, in which
event a call may be issued for the holdl
ing of another convention or genera
gathering shortly before the date set for
the national convention or general
meeting at Chicago. The prospect of an
Opposition Convention
or gathering of the anti-Hill men is the
only subject talked of. Not since IS7D,
when John Kelly and the Tammany
men refused to support Lucius Robinson
has there been a bolt from a Democratic
convention.
The leaders here all feel that such a
move as that, such a split, no matter
how small it may be, would have more
effect on the party leaders outside this
state than any number of mass meetings
and protests, no matter how large a body
of voters they might represent. Con
sequently there is much conferring
going on as to how such a move may be
headed off. The one thing just now
that Senator Hill is said to dread most
is a split or a bolt from the convention.
Some talk is heara about the choice of
delegates at large, but it is' all talk.
That part of the slate is not yet made
out, and will not for some time. The
names of John Boyd, Richard Croker
and Edward Murphy Jr. and some
Brooklyn man to be named by Hugh
McLaughjin are in the air tonight, but
there are not many who think that either
Mr. Murphy or Mr. Croker will go as
delegates except from their own dis
tricts.
Hill IVlakeK GaiiiM.
Albany, N. V., Feb. 20.— The last
delegates to the Democratic state con
vention have been elected. They stand
now: Hill 374, Cleveland 10. Until this
evening it was thought that the friends
of the ex-president would make a bet
ter showiner, but the chances are now
that it will be slightly worse than this,
for already there is counted the deser
tion of one delegation. This evening
while the senator was In his rooms en
tertaining a number of Tammany men,
the delegates from Essex walked iv and
announced that they intended to sup
port Hill as New York's candidate for
the presidency.
BLAIR'S BOLD BREAK.
New Hampshire's Pritle Has the
Presidential Fever.
Manchester, N. 11., Feb. 20. —
United States Senator Henry Blair, who
has been counted upon as an advocate
of President Harrison for a renomina
tion, has declared himself a presiden
tial candidate. The Mirror and Ameri
can has received from Chairman
Churchill, of the Republican state com
mittee, a letter from Mr. Blair giving
the formal announcement. He says:
.Twice have 1 declined, although
strongly pressed to allow the use of my
name as that of a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for the presidency.
Atone time I was assured not less
than fifty votes were pledged to
my support in the progress of the
convention. This was in ISB4. Yester
day 1 was called upon in behalf of men
from another part of the country who
will be members of the national conven
tion to consider the same question again,
and I have decided that 1 shall accept
and deeply appreciate the honor ot any
support which may be given me as a
candidate for the Republican nomina
tion at Minneapolis.
No act of solicitation is pardonable in
connection with this, the highest office
in the world, but as chairman of the
Republican committee of my own and
my native state, which in the past has
done me distinguished honor, and for
whose interests, in their broader and
higher relations to the whole country,
1 have given the best and most faithful
services of which I was capable, I feel
that 1 owe to you entire candor in the
statement of my position and the ex
pression of my feelings. I will rely
upon you to make known the contents
of this letter to the committee and the
Republicans of New Hampshire in such
public manner as commends Itself to
your discretion, Henky W. Blaik.
LOUISIANA FACTIONS.
Primaries Promise to Be Exceed
ingly Lively.
New Orleans, Feb. 20.— After an
almost continuous session of twenty
lour hours, the Foster-Alliance combine
Democratic faction decided at D o'clock
tonight by an almost unanimous vote
to indorse the action of its con
ference committee, which provides for
white primaries, the two state tickets of
the separate factions to be voted for
direct and not by delegates to another
convention. The time for holding
primaries and other details will be ar
ranged shortly.
The Foster faction had at last dis
covered that the lottery had absolutely
gone out of politics and that the fight
was narrowed down to a simple struggle
between the two factions for possession
of the political machinery of the state.
Tne general belief is that the McEnery
faction will sweep the state. This com
promise will result in the complete
discomfiture of the Republicans.and de
prive them of a chance of securing
control of the legislature or securing
any state offices. The faction fight at
the primaries is expected to be a lively
one. and will probably develop a good
deal of bitterness. The McEnery
people adopted the report yester
day evening as soon as it was presented.
The general belief is that the McEnery
ticket will have a majority of from 10000
to 20,000. The Foster people evidently
believed this t ) be the case or they
would not have occupied so much time
in adopting the report. The de
bate in their caucus, it is said,
was very spirited, aim the body
was nearly equally divided. Those in
favor of the compromise took the posi
tion that failure to adopt the report
would be an admission that the Foster
ites were in a minority and were afraid
to appeal to the people.
Buchanan for Boies.
NASHVILLE* Term., Feb. 20.— Gov.
Buchanan today declared that he would
rather see Horace Boies, of lowa, nom
inated than any one else in the whole
country. When he declared for Hill a
few days ago it was upon the conting
ency that the candidate must come
from New York".
THE GOKGE BROKEN.
Ice Jam Busted in the Allegheny
River.
Parkeb, Pa., Feb. 20.— The great ice
gorge which has caused feelings of ap
prehension along the Allegheny river
from East Brady to Emlenton, a dis
tance of twenty-nine miles, for nearly a
week, broke here at 2 o'clock this morn
ing, and by daylight all the ice had
passed out. The water rose rapidly,
inundating the upper end of Parker
and several houses on the banks wer.
washed away, but the occupants ha
deserted them before the flood came
Beyond this, no damage Mas done. The
Allegheny river is now comparatively
clear of fee, but the Clarion is still
gorged, and the people will not rest
easy until it is also clear. The water is
nineteen feet and rising every minute,
and grave fears are entertained that
with the breaking of the Clarion gorge
the flats or entire lower portion of the
town will be Hooded. A dispatch from
Brady's bend reports that the gorge at
that point broke at 11:05 this morning,
ami all the ice in the Allegheny river is
now moving.
Three Children Burned.
Ikoxwood, Mich., Feb. 20.— A lamp
explosion last night caused tjie burning
of the store building occupied on the
first floor by Bedard's saloon and on the
second floor by the family of Charles
Delongcamps. Three of "the Delong
camps children— Albert, aged seven,
Marie, aged five, and Charles, aged two
—were burned to death. The other
members ol the family escaped with
difficulty.
Fool, Gun, Dead Friend.
Fort Wayne, Feb. 20.— At a mas
querade party last night James Carter
took the character of an untamed In
dian, armed with tomahawks and
knives. He also carried a revolver,
which was supposed to be empty, which
be leveled at the head of Albert Roth.
When he pulled the trigger the revolver
went off, aud Hoth fell to the floor
fatally shot. _
Polygamists Alive.
Salt Lake, Utah, Feb. 20.—Tester
day in the lower house of the legisla
ture, a memorial that had passed the
council favoring an anti-polygamy
amendment to the United States con
stitution was killed.
BURNED AT THE STAKE
A Fearful Fate Overtakes a
Negro Who Perpetrated a
Damnable Deed.
Bound With Bands of Iron,
Saturated With Oil, and
Roasted Alive.
The Hand of His Fearfully
Abused Victim Applied
the Match.
Six thousand People Gazed on
the Flaming", Barbarous
Spectacle.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 20.— A special
to the Republic from Texarkana, Ark.,
says: Ed Coy, the negro brute who on
last Saturday committed a fiendish as
sault on Mrs. Henry Jewell, a respecta
ble farmer's wife with a five-months
old child at the breast, at her home
thvee miles southeast of this city, this
afternoon answered for his awful crime
by a horrible death by fire. In the
presence of 6,000 people he was burued
at the stake.
When Mr. Jewell left home Saturday
last, after dinner, to come to town for
the transaction of some necessary busi
ness, he left his young wife with her
cooing babe in her arms in the best of
health and spirits, not dreaming when
he kissed her good-bye of the terrible
fate that a waited her during his ab
sence. Shortly after the hus
band's departure a- negro appeared
at the door and asked the where
abouts of Mr. Jewell, and the
unsuspecting woman informed him that
he had gone to town. The negro gave
his name as Davis, and said that he had
some hogs to sell to Mr. Jewell. A con
siderable conversation was held between
them, ahd the women thus had a good
opportunity while not underexcitement
to note the general personal appearance
of the uegro.
Dastardly Treachery.
After the negro had gone Mrs. Jewell
concluded to visit a neighbor half a mile
distant, and went out to lock the door,
when the negro, who was in hiding,
sprang from his place of concealment,
seized her by the throat, and, after a
desperate struggle, succeeded in accom
plishing his diabolical purpose. He then
dragged the fainting woman into the
barn, where he kept her for an hour.
Finally yielding to her pleadings, he
left her and disappeared in the woods.
When the husband returned home he
lost no time in giving the alarm and in
a short time scores of men were scour
ing the country in all directions, and
during the night two negroes answer
ing the general description given by
Mrs. Jewell were jailed here, but when
taken before her she pronounced them
both innocent, and they were dis
charged. The search continued without
any relaxation, and soon it was posi
tivelyly learned that the name of the
guilty negro was Ed Coy, and that he
had gone north towards Little River
county, Ark.
Several posses at once went in pur
suit in that direction, and have been on
his trail ever since. Thursday a negro
answering the general discription of
Coy was arrested and brought here, and
it was at first believed by some that he
was the guilty party. After a close
scrutiny of his features, however, Mrs.
Jewell pronounced him
Not tlie "M:i ii,
although the hat and suit of clothes he
wore looked exactly like those of her as
sailant. The prisoner explained this by
saying that he and Coy had been togeth
er Sunday and Monday, and that at the
latter's request they had swapped
clothes. Coy saying that officers were
after him for some minor offense.
Thursday afternoon bloodhounds were
telegraphed for, and Friday morning
the dogs were taken out to the vicinity
where the negro was known to be, but
efforts to use them were greatly retarded
by a heavy rainfall of Thursday night
and Friday.
Last night prospects for the negro's
capture began to look gloomy indeed, it
being announced that in all probability
he bad gotten out of the country, as the
trail had been entirely lost. This morn
ing, however, at an early hour, a mes
sage came to town from Vv. B. Scott, a
fanner living five miles from town, say
ing Coy was at the house of E<l (livens,
a negro living near him, and asking for
men to come out and arrest him.
The Hunt Ended.
An armed posse went immediately,
but before their arrival the negro
started down the road towards town,
and was intercepted by Scott and his
sons and held until the posse arrived.
It also appears that a posse which had
been out all the week had again struck
the trail this morning, anil they too
came upon the scene "shortly after the
arrest. About fifty mouuted'guards at
tended the prisoner to town, arriving
here about '.) o'clock. Coy was im
mediately placed under* a heavy
escort and taken before his victim,
who unhesitatingly pronounced him the
man. He was at once rushed back to
town and conducted to a room, where
a heavy guard, both inside and outside,
was placed over him. It was resolved
that no action should be taken until all
the parties who were out should return.
The last of these came in at about 2
o'clock, when a consultation was held
in the reom by the leaders, who decided
on hanging as the punishment and
Broad street as the place of death. Coy
was accordingly led out and marched to
the place of execution. Arriving there,
some one threw a rope, but the 5,000
people present set up a shout of
"Burn Him, Burn Him!"
Some one at this juncture fired a
Winchester, and the excitement became
indescribable. Finally the crowd forced
the men who held the negro to move
north on State Line avenue. When near
the postoffice some one who had hold of
the rope, which meantime had been
placed around the prisoner's neck, at
tempted to mount a telegraph pole with
it. He was unceremoniously seized by
the foot and dragged to the ground.
"Burn him," went up the cry again
and again, and it was clearly to be seen
that death by fire alone would appease
the wrath of the surging multitude. At
this juncture Charles M. Reeves, a lead
ing citizen, mounted an elevation and
besouzht the crowd that if they were
determined to burn the wretch "for the
sake of their wives and children
to take him outside the city.
This appeal had the desired effect
and the cry was turned to
'Out of town with him;" ''Burn him.
burn him." The route to the suburbs
was then taken, and when just over the
Iron Mountain railway track, in front
•of a low, level opening, a halt was
made. A single stump, about ten feet
high, seasoned and strong, stood alone
in the center of this spot, and thither
THE NEWS BULLETIN.
Weather- -Pair and warmer.
Iron still booming on the Mesaba-
Negro burned at stake in Arkansas^
Mrs, Blame granted a divorce-
Mrs. Minton's casa not yet settled.
North Dakota quarrel over wheat.
Kansas railroader heir to richer
Faith cure reported from Georgia.
Million paid for Colorado mine-
Merchants want fractional currency.
Senator Quay is better.
Talk of a split at Albany.
President Hill at Spokane.
Black eye for the auditorium*
Hot politics in Louisiana-
Whisky trust not backing breweries •
Blind pig paraphernalia burned.
Minneapolis liquor ordinance will hold •
Steamship Arrivals.
New York — Arrived: Etruria, Liverpool
Michigan, London; Thingvalla, Copenhagen
Scaudia, Hamburg.
London— Arrived: Illinois, New York.
the wretched negro was dragged. An
other man who favored hanging began
climbing the stump, but twenty leveled
Bhotguns made him descend in a jiffy.
Fastened With Iron.
Without more ado the ne^ro was then
made secure to the stump with iron
fastenings, and kerosene was poured
liberally over him. A shout went up
"Let his victim apply the match;" "Let
Mrs. Jewell set the lire." In response
to the call Mrs. Jewell emerged from
the crowd, and her appearance was
greeted with cheers which almost shook
the ground. The crowd fell back at her
approach, making a pathway for her.
Leaning upon the arm of a male
relative on either side, Mrs. Jew
ell walked unhesitatingly forward to
where the negro stood pinioned, struck
a parlor match with her own hawl and
with perfect deliberation fired the
negro's clothes in two places. In a sec
ond the poor wretch was one mass of
consuming flames, but even in death his
wonderful nerve, exhibited ever since
his capture, never forsook mm, and
while suffering the tortures of tire he
actually called to the men of the assem
bly, and in a clear voice requested of
them: "Move back, so that the ladies
can see." fie referred to the negro
women, a large number of whom wit
nessed the execution. Coy
Made but Little Noise
pending his horrible death in the flames,
except to groan and grunt, and died in
about twenty minutes after the appli
cation of the torch.
The crowd which actually witnessed
the burning could not have been less
than 4,000, and was probably 0,000.
Only about twenty minutes betore Coy
was led out to execution the Republic's
correspondent was accorded au inter
view with him. The negro said he be
lieved that he was going to be put to
death, but was innocent of the crime.
His denial was, however, given in such
a manner as carried conviction of
guilt with it. While the event
is confessedly a horrible affair,
it is justified by a large majority of the
people of this section, on the ground
that a desperate disease requires au
heroic remedy, and that hanging has
not as great terror for the average negro
as death by fire. Quite a number of
persons favored hanging, but these were
in a hopeless minority, and were easily
ridden down by those whose desire it
was to strike terror to the hearts of
negroes by making Coy an awful ex
ample, and these thought lire the only
proper instrument as death. Tonight
everything is comparatively quiet, and
no troubleous results are feared. The
negroes generally favored hanging, but
have little fault to find that lire was re
sorted to.
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LUVERXE'S COUNCIL ROW.
This Time Quo Warranto Proceed
ings Are Asked l-'or.
Special to the Globe.
Lv vkkxe, Feb. 20. —Attorney Gen
eral Clapp has been asked to begin quo
warranto proceedings to test G. W.
Millhouse's title to the ortice of village
trustee. This is part of the war in the
village council, growing out of the con
struction of our water works. The
council has stood 3 to 2 on all questions
for several months. One of the major
ity desired to resign, and a special
meeting of the council was called dur
ing the absence from town of one of the
minority. The resignation wa3 accepted
and Mr. Mi 11 house was elected to the
vacancy. The minority now make the
point that special meetings can only be
called by a written notice signed by two
members of the council and Bled with
the recorder as the law provides, which
was not done in this case, nor could it
have been done, as the recorder was the
absent member. Nor has a special
meeting of the. council been held for
years which had been called in accord
ance with the legal requirement?. The
quo warranto proceedings can hardly
be completed before the present coun
cil goes out of office.
With a Clothes Line.
Special to the GloDe.
Fahibault, Minn., Feb. 20.— A
young man who gave his name as James
Freeman and who has been at the
county poor farm about three weeks
hung himself to a tree this morning
with a clothes line. He recently cut his
foot while chopping wood, but was
nearly well.
Burned the Paraphernalia.
Special to the Globe.
Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 20.— One of
the curious features of North Dakota
prohibition was witnessed here today.
A blind pig was recently closed as a
nuisance, and today tables, chairs, bar
fixtures, etc., were taken into the street
and burned, old bottles broken and
boxes destroyed. Poor people would
have been glad of the tables and chairs,
but the law requires the property to be
actually destroyed. This is the second
time fixtures of this kind have been
destroyed here.
Says He Is Innocent.
Special to the Globe.
Jamestown, N. I)., Feb. 20.— J003
publishes a statement today maintaining
his innocence of any atteiimt or desire
to annoy Mrs. Dinehart, and attributes
her shooting him twice last Monday to
mistaken identity. He denies having
stared at the lady on the streets, and
says he called at her rooms to inquire
for an apartment below t.o store oats.
Joos is a prominent farmer, and the ex
planation is generally accepted as true.
Rich Dakota Gold.
Rapid City, S. D., Feb. 20.— William
Franklin, one of the owners of the Key
stone goldmine in the Etta district, Fen
nington county, who is in this city, re
ports a rich strike in a tunnel now in 210
feet. lie states that the face of the tun
nel Is in ore which goes $~1 per ton and
that one streak three-quarters ol an inch
wide will pay over £:!u,OOO per ton.
Glance at the Arti
cle on a Reissue of
Fractional Currency
by the Government.
NO. 52.-$
MRS. BLAINE GETS II
Judge Thomas Awards He*
Absolute Divorce Without
Delay.
He Seizes the Opportunity to
Roast James G. Blame
Jr.
Mrs. Blame Awarded tin
Child, $1,000 and $100 a
Month.
The Minton Divorce Suit Prac
tically Won by Mrs.
Minton.
Df.adwood, S. D., Feb. 20.— A d*
cision in the Blame divorce case wa<
unexpectedly handed down today. In
his decision Judge Thomas, after recit
ing the grounds on which the suit was
brought, the fact that the couple were
extremely young, and that the match
was ill-advised, says:
"The testimony shows that the first
two years of their married life was all
that could be wished, antt the cause of
their separation was the unfriendly
feeling of the family, and especially the
elder Mrs. Blame. It seems that the
family, becoming reconciled to the mar
riage, invited the couple to visit them
at Augusta. As far as Mr. Biaine the
elder is concerned, the plaiutiff was
properly treated, but Mrs. Blame senior
did all in her power to make the life of
the plaintiff unhappy. She had evi
dently concluded that it was best to
separate them, and she laid a shrewd
plan and surrounded them with eircum.
stances which would result in
Au Apparent Desertion
on the part of the plaintiff. In other
words, she treated the plaintiff to
cruelly as to cause her to be so unhappy
that she would leave the family home,
and so she could claim that the wife de
serted the husband. Young Blame's
conduct under all circumstances is very
reprehensible. He does not seem to be
made of the stern stuff we would ex
pect, coming from the family he does.
As soon as he got under the domination
of his mother he seemed to become
estranged from the. wife, and he treated
her with neglect and inattention. The
evidence shows that his desertion was
the result of the machinations of his
mother, and that the treatment of this
plaintiff was repreheusible and bad in
every respect."
The judge describes the wife's siok
ness and young JBlaine's disregard of
her condition, and says:
'•It is hard for the court to find lan
guage to describe its feelings against a
young man who would act in this way.
The evidence shows that the conduct of
the plaintiff was that of
A Loving Wife
at all limes, and her appeals to him
showed her to be a pure, noble woman.
That man must have been given over
to hardness of heart to have resisted
such appeals from a mother of his child.
All the testimony shows the plaiutiff
did everything within her power thatwas
incumbent upon a good wife to do in
order to make her husband return to
her, who seemed to have been estranged
from her by his mother. I conclude
from the testimony that theplaintiff has
not only been ruthlessly deserted with
out justifiable cause, but the defendant
has refused absolutely to provide for
more than two years any of the neces
saries or comforts of life. The plaintiff
is granted a divorce from James (i.
Blame Jr., the child, James G. Blame
third, is given to her care, and it is
further ordered that the defendant pay
the plaintiff $1,000, S6OO suit money n:i«l
S4OU attorney fees, and SIOO per month
for the support of herself and child."
A PARTIAL VICTORY.
Mrs. >1 ill ton Must Yet Prove Her
Residence.
Parkeb, S. D., Feb. -20.— The jury in
the Minton case came m at midnight
Eight questions of fact had been sub
mitted to it by the court, and it found
for the plaintiff in all but those as to
habitual drunkenness and disease on
the part of the defendant. The jury
was then discharged. The court ad
journed at 11 o'clock to rcconvenue at
Yankton, in chambers, Tuesday morn
ing, when Editor Minton will right his
wife's residence in South Dakota, in or
der to knock out the divorce. Minton
is depressed, and threatens to shoot
Gen. Weston if the decree is granted
and the custody of the children given to
Mrs. Minton. He insists that Weston
wrecked his family.
NORTH DAKOTA WHEAT.
Quarrel Over the Size of the Crop
Still Going On.
Specinl to the Globe.
FARGO, N. 1)., Feb. 20.— There has
been constant war between some of the
tanners of North Dakota and Commis
sioner Helgeson, who, in his annual re
port, placed the average yield of wheat
per acre at 23 bushels. In a recent in
terview in Minneapolis Helgeson made
the following statement: "My esti
mate per acre was 2:2.58 bushels, and «
that of the government statistical! 'J-3
bushels. The latter was arbitrarily cut
down in Washington by officials who
hail no accurate information on which
to base their action."' Col. Charles A.
Morton, one of the chief antagonists o*
llelireson, wrote to the government sta
tistican, J. R, Dodge, concerning th;:
matter, and received this reply:
Yonr quotation from Commissioner 11. F.
Heljresen, which stated that tlio estimate "of
the government statistical] (the sime ajrent
of Dakota presumably) was twenty-two
bushels and was arbitrarily cut down four
bushels in Washington," is received. It 1<
inaccurate iv every part and docs great iu
jusiiee. Our state agent made no estimate of
twenty two bushels. His estimate «;is oi.ly
nineteen bushels. My official estimate, de
ducted from local estimates of our county
correspondents, states that the estimate of
our Dakota agent is based on returns from
his own correspondents; and from the actual
census of acres and bushels returned by a
large number of principal wheat growers, of
North Dakota, was 17> bushels. It is a great
mistake to suppose that our facilities are
limited to statistical resources of the state,
agent, or that we relegate responsibility and
authority of our estimates to fifty different
statistieiins hundreds or thousands of miles
away from this office. That a state official
should mate such an assertion and then mis
represent the estimate of our agent is evi
dence of great carelessnees or greater ieck#
lessness. Yours respectfully,
J. li. Dodue, Statistical!.
