COnPLETE LIST OP CONTESTANTS IN TIMES’ OREAT PRIZE VOTING CONTEST ON PAGE 6
No Tainted Ads.
NINTH YEAR. NO. 133.
CITY OWNERSHIP
MAY BE SOLUTION, !
SAYS EXPERT
FAMOUS CHICAGO TRACTION MAN
DECLARES CONDITIONS IN CIT
IES SIMILAR AND TELLS OF
SETTLEMENT IN HOME TOWN.
Blon J. Arnold, the traction export
who gets a retainer of $30,000 a year |
from Chicago for his aid In street rail
way mutters, stopped off on his way
from New York to Ids home and spent I
a couple of hours In consultation
Secretary Paul C. Kenaud, of the Com
mittee of Go. He went over the var* :
lous street railway maps that have
been prepared and declared that there,
are many conditions here similar to
those that prevailed In Chicago when
that city was seeking a solution of
her problem.
”1 think that your committee plan
is a very good on**.” he said. “It will j
help the people of the city to get a
comprehensive knowledge of the prob
lem. Alauy elements ot your traction
problem are the same as those wo had
to consider.
•\Ve had to think, not only of need- j
ed extensions but of immediate re-*
habitation. Your committee may do )
as our civic body did in working out;
a plan of eventual municipal owner- J
•hip.”
He described to Secretary lh uaud
the Chicago plan by which the com
pany gets a franchise which may be
terminated by purchase on the part |
or the cliy at a fixed valuation. The j
Mads there were first appraised at
tb%n value, s*M down at jGU.OOO.OOO.
Th V it was agreed that any addition
of c>4'ital for entirely new lines or
equipment should he considered us e\
tra in addition to the price to be paid
by the city eventually, while all im
provements paid for out of earnings
ate not so considered, tie* price to tile
city not being raised by these latter
improvements.
The Chicago roads now have a re
habilitatlon fund to take care of re
placing old ttucks and equipment. S
per cent or more of earnings going l
into this fund.
It was hoped to have Arnold here at
the opening mating In the council
chamber Monday evening but he will;
he unable to appear. Another Chicago
expert will be present. however. !■
F. Ingram will be one of the local
speakers, ami W. 1 • Mahon will be
another if he is in town. Municipal,
ownership will be the principal topic |
dlftCUMed. )
Among the conservatives on the’
Committee of r.u there is now a dispo
sition to give the fullest consideration i
o the arguments for municipal owner
ship.
SUGAR COMBINE i
host vwsm.ni;
YORK. March D. — I The govern-,
ni»»nt this afternoon won »t- suit
against the American Sugar Refining
company, known as the sugar .trust,
when a Jury in the United States cir
cuit court rendered a verdict permit
ting Uncle Sam to recover 1Ui4.1i0.U3, 1
the full amount sued for.
The government brought suit for the i
amount, declaring that the sugar trust i
had not paid customs duties because
jf fraudulent weighing machines The
jury found 4he trust guilty after being
aut an hour and twenty minutes.
DETROITER CHARGED
WITH BIG FUR THEFT
■i ..
David Werhe, aged 23, son of Hern-j
ird Werhe. a pawnbroker at Wayne- .
»t. and Michigan uve., was arrested by
.he Toledo police. Friday morning, on
i charge of stealing $2,.'>00 worth of j
'urs from Sussman & Co.'s fur store. !
Toledo. The goods were recovered in
i depot In Toledo., as Werhe and a
companion, David W. Hluir, a former
street •fakir” of Detroit, were about
to board a train.
JUNKETS START
FOR INSTITUTIONS
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LANS I NO, Mich.. March s.—Three j
more legislative Junkets started today
on visits to Marquette prison, Ypslluntt j
Normal school and Kalamazoo asylum, i
Aged Pair in Divorce Court.
Wllhelmina Czolbe and her hits 1
band. Christian, both almost To veins
of age. are fighting for a divorce in!
judge Mandeil’s court. They wor*i
mat t ied In U»m», and lived together |
only seven months. - -
The trouble* of the Czoihes were
aired In .Judge Murphy’s court about
a year ago, when the husband was re
fused a divorce.
Since the other suit was dismissed
the husband has inherited slu.ouo'
worth of property.
; THE WEATHER, j
llrtroli mill tietaltyi I'rlilii) night.
Ihcrritalng cluiiillntw ultli |trol>Nlil>
innsi Snturitn), «-louil> »>ltli mum or
rwlni rt«lnn iruiprrntiirri iiioilr-rii tr
rtiihlr n^mU.
Lower Mlt-hlunm *1 tirrutrniiiK nenlli
rr with ruin or «iiuw Intr lonlnht or
Sntur«ln> t rl«liiK Irmprmliirri moder
ate larlnhlr wlail-i.
Onr >rnr huo |oiln> i Wiivlmooi tem
per* lure. !U: mint mu in. Krt i nirnn, itM|
with .41 Inelira of rnln nml
iiiiw ilurlnn the etenlnit.
not Itl.V TKlll’K.lt %T 1 RKS.
6 a. m Itt to n. in j:t
7 a. m 17 I I m. m gg
la. m It* I'i noon jn
t ft. m 21 I |». m 2N
Alrtnaiter, I nihrrlla*. JH Monna.
Chert Merer W lanw tinm.
For avarywhoro.
|p*iroii tfrimes
Admiral Wainwrisht
Has Distinguished Recur
J ' wit • *>.
4 • . ■
• '
4f' !*'■'' J'SxSKL. 7? t\
! Hear-liimlriil Milliard Wulunrluht,
Mho lina a UlMtlnguluhi-il SpuiiUli war
reeortl. Thl** plnture l» from u photo
uiiii'h of liliuirul WHlnmlKhl, taken
■ iiorll) before hi* promotion to ml-
Ittfrul.
HR LOOKS GOOD
FOR MOTHER TERM
AS O.PJi READ
KNOCKERS ARE BUSY BUT MAY
OR SIDES WITH COMMISSIONER i
HETHERINGTON AND POSTAL
TO BE REAPPOINTED.
I
I Ah the time drawn nearer when
! Mayor Breitmeyer must make his ap-
I pointments of various commissioners,
' the suspense with regard to his
choices l» growing more acute. It la
regarded an settled that M. H. Hurl
hill v\tll he park commissioner, and
that no appointment will be made at
once for police commissioner, Com
missioner Smith holding over for a
time. There lias been a hard fight to
prevent tin naming of J. J. Huarer
for a second term as public works
commissioner, but the mayor lias
stood linn for the appointment ot
llaarer, so far.
Harry P. Hetherington is to be
tendered another term as lighting
'commissioner. and Fred Postal will
have a chance to serve again as poor
commissioner If he so desires. John
It. Wiley is also expected to get an
other term on the house of correction
hoard. <
The two problems are the vacan
cies coming on the tire commission
and the water board. ' Fire Commis
sioner Moore is a Republican and so
is Water Commissioner Pendleton, but
the peculiar casting of the horoscope
of politics about Nov. 3 last wus such
that it Is not believed that they will
, remain iu tlielr present places. Leon
Fink and lxiuis deist have been men
tioned as possibilities for those places.
SITS HUBBY KEEPS
i TIAIO HOUSEHOLDS
Declaring that her common-law has
hand. Harry Hunt, divided his time
equally between her home and that of
another alleged wife, Mabel Hunt. 10
j years oid, applied to .Justice Jeffries
■ r'oi a warrant, charging Hunt with
> bigamy. Justice Jeffries, after hearing
1 her stoiy. issued u warrant charging
i assault and battery for an attack al
j leged to have been made on Mrs. Hunt
! Feb. 28.
I Mrs. Hunt says site nas passed as
! the wife of the defendant for two
years, though no ceremony was ever
performvl. Hunt, she showed
i her w hat purported to be a marriage
j license and said they were married.
| '1 hey lived happily until a month ago.
! when, site says, Hunt met (he Walters
j woman.
Mrs. Mabel Hunt works for the
Wlrdlflch Publishing Cos., in the Mur
phy Power building. The other wom
an works for the Princess Mfg. Cos , on
the floor below.
BTALK HELD FOR TRIAL
ON MURDER CHARGE
Frank Hislk. charged with the mur
'der of aged Mrs Frances Richard
Slkora In iter home on Alexandrine
ave. east, Felt.'2o. appeared before Jus
i dee Stein, h iJd ty, for examination, btr
i waived examination elncting to tie
tried in the recorder's court.
t "I have no lawyer." said Mlalk. "hut
a friend has promised to get me one."
Hi was bound over without ball.
Carriage Maker Kills Self.
PHJI'A, <>., March ft.—W. H. Wal-
Inirn. aged 52, of the firm of Wilburn
& Hiker, one of the largest puny car
. nuge marufa< turera in the l T nite l
states, hung himself at St Paris this
meriting. No cause Is assigned for the
dc ed.
NEGOTIATIONS ON
FOR PURCHASE OF
THE LORAINE
GRAY A WORCESTER TRY AO BUY
PLACE AND PLAN TO ESTAB
LISH SWELL DRUG STORE IN
'PREMISES.
If negotiations thut have been on for
some days come to a successful Issue,
a model drug a*ore comparing lu Its
appointmuuts and equipment with any
• n the east, will soou take Its place ou
Woodwm d-ave.. in -the very heart of
the city's retail district. At one time
it look«.d as though the deal bad been
practically closed, but some hitch
utoae end Just now the negotiations
are at a standstill. They will prob
ably be renewed later, however.
Ever since their advent In Detroit,
through the purchase of John VV.
Oi ay's Interest in the drug firm of
Dray & Worcester. Woodward ave. and
Wileox-si., Louis K. Liggett and his
Boston associates have been on th»*
alert lor another good opening on the
u\,euue One of the places '‘spotted"
by Mr. Liggett wus the l»raine, in the
Majestic building, an Ideal location for
a first-class drug store, fronting as it
does on the avenue and bacKlng up
on the Majestic arcade.
| After looking the place over, Mr.
Liggett, or rather Gray & Worcester,
fui the new store would he eslabllkh
!ed In the company name, made the
McCormick Mercantile Cos., which con
ducts the lairaine, a definite offer, and
the negotiations were on. A counter
proposition was made, it is said, and
• soon afterwards came the hitch. There
the matter stands. - Mr. Liggett return
ed to Boston. Thursday night, and at
the Gray & Worcester establishment
no d* finite information is available as
to ib« future plans.
Manager Patterson, of the
admits that negotiations huve been on,
but says, however, that no deal will
be made unless the company gets its
price,
"We are not .anxious to sell," he
said. "We are doing a splendid busi
ness and It is Increasing every
month.”
Tht re is no more desirable loca
tion on the avenue than that occupied
' by the Loraine. and for a drug store of
the type planned would tie Just the
I thing.
Ii is not the intention of Gray At
| Worcester to abandon the present looa
| Hon it the deal goes through.
JURY PROBES
POWER PLANT
CLERK STONE IS RECALLED TO
STAND—PROSECUTOR SAYS IN
QUIRY IS NOT FAILURE.
JACKSON, Mich., March s.—(Spe
cial. ) —Prosecuting Attorney Reece
states that Attorney-General Bird baa
made u firm denial of the report al
leged to have come from him that
R* «.v! had fallen down on tho binder
twine plant investigation, as stated, in
i the napore last night Reece says
» Bird hat* since t ailed iilm by long dis
anoe telephone and branded the report
| in question as false.
! cieik Slone, of the prison, was re
called to the witness stand this morn
ing. lie brought with him a letioi file
vouchers and contracts. It is unler
! stood ttie power, neutmg and lighCng
I plant Is now being investigated.
No developments of any importance
resulted from the testimony taken this
forenoon. Capt. Stout* was on the
stand until 11:30, and was followed
by Supt. Brewer. Stone presented cor
respondence and shipping bills from
Hoover and Gamble of Miamisville,
O verifying the sale of the machin
ery and showing It was shipped direct
from the factory.
EXEMPT SOCIETIES
OF SPIRITUALISTS
(From * Staff Correspondent.)
LANSING. Mich., March s.—Spirit
ualists have succeeded In getting their
i societies exempted from the opera
tion of Senator Anhut'a palmistry bll’
which would prohibit the practice of
; clairvoyance, fortune telling and tho
like.
ORATORICAL TREAT
COMING TO FLINT
Mayor Brcltmeyer will take part In
the opening of the new Fllnt-Saglnaw
Ur.c. which will mark the completion
of through electric interurban travel
from Detroit to Bay <’lty. and will
vpcak at the banquet held In honor
of the event in Flint next Wednesday
evening The mayor and other I>e
trailers will lease here Wednesday
morning In a special car and will go
over the new line, returning to Flint,
where the feast and oratory will he
enjoyed.
The mayors w>f Saginaw, Bay City
and Flint ate all down on the pro
I gram for speeches.
Bryant Winner By Narrow Margin
Charles Bryant appears to be the
Democratic candidate ftu* school In
j spec-tor in the Fourteenth ward. He
lerelved two votes, as far ns the can
ivasa"has gone, and seems to have the
situation well In hand, no one else
having got more than one vote
Bryant Is understood to be almost as
strongly anti-Martlndale as George M.
Condon who was nominated on the
1 Republican side.
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1909.
STATE LANDS SOLD!
AT 10 PER CENT
OF VALUE
—CAHL K. SCHMIDT.
DETROITER SAYS LOSS IN SIX
YEARS HAS BEEN 19,000.000-
TALKS OF “CRIMINAL NEGLIG
ENCE OF OFFICIALS.*'
*‘l notice that Land Commissioner
Russell has offered a lengthy resolu
tion asking for a complete Investiga
tion of the whole land business by the
legislature, '* says Carl E. Schmidt, who
was a member of the commission of in
quiry which Investigated the subject
fully some time ugo anu submitted
an exhaustive report ' Mr. Russell
knows very well that It took one whole I
>ear of steady work on the part of at !
least, live meu to prepare the repor. j
of the commission of inquiry, aud tha»
any investigation the members of the
legislature might make would develop
nothing because of the short time they
would have to devote to the matter.
“The trouble, of course, is that the
land office has been investigated too
thoroughly, aud this move is merely
u subterfuge to blind the legislature
It is up to the commissioner to deny
the facts set out in our report. Spe
cific instances are giveu. showing that
tiie state has been absolutely robbed
of an immense wealth because of the
criminal engllgence of its officials.
“Russell’s figures as to the amount
received by the state are probably cor
rect. but when you consider that the
lands were sold for Just about lu per
cent of their value. It shows that the
state actually lost at least $9,000,000 In
the past six or seven years. The re
port gives many instances where the
land was appraised by the land office
at less than 5 per cent of the timber
value alone, saying nothing of the j
value of the laud. On the 21.455 acres |
It was possible for us to look Into, the
average loss to the state was $10.20 j
lei acre, and the value of the timber!
was five times that received by the
state for the land and timber together.
“Further, the report shows that less
than 5 per cent of the lands went tc
actual settlers, the bulance going to
speculators, many of them not even
residents of the state.
"If the commissioner will follow out
the requirements of the law which
says that the timber is to he estimated,
and a proper valuation placed on the
lands, in other words put the true value
on the lands, he will And that the peo
ple who are at present anxious to get
state lands will not mandamus him to
compel him to sell, for they wi(l then
he obliged to pay sl2 per acre for land
that Is only worth sl2 per acre for
land and timber. It la the present
method of appraising the lands at less
than 10 per cent of their value that
makes them eager to buy some of
them."
JUVENILE COUNT
BILL PREPARED
The bill providing for the establish |
I ment of a juvenile court In Wayne
county, on which Judge Kohnert has |
been working for several weeks,* wus (
'sent to Lansing, Thursday afternoon.
'lt will be introduced by Robert
Ogg.
The bill provides for the establish
ment of a special juvenile court sep
arate and distinct from other courts In
all counties containing a city with a
population of over 200,000. In coun
ties of a smaller population the pro
; bate Judge will continue to hear ju
venlle cases, as at present.
In the new bill the age at which chil
dren can be dealt with In the juvenile
court Is raised to 17 years. The limit j
Is now 10 years. Provision la made
for the trial or children over 14 years j
charged with a felony. With the con
sent of the juvenile court Judge they
will lie trl**d in the regular criminal
courts, but apart from adult prison
ers.
One clause provides that no children
under 17 ure to be carried In a patrol
wagon or oth**r vehicles In which adult
offenders are carried, and no one un
der 17 Is to tie confined In a police sta
tion or Jail There must bo u place of
confinement especially for youthful
prisoners.
The salary of the juvenile judge is
fixed at $3,500 per year and a clerk
at $2,000 per year is provided for.
AOMIRI CEIfERA
DYING IN SPAIN
- ...
CADIZ, March s.—Vice Admiral
Pasquale Cervera is dying at Puerto
Real. The last sacraments were ad
ministered to him today.
Admiral Cervera commanded the
Spanish fleet that was destroyed by
the American Meet off Santiago, Cuba,
In I*9B. He was taken prisoner and
spent some time at Portsmouth. N. 11,
| -
Clerks After Higher Salaries.
Although Commissioner Huarer, of
the |i p W.. recommended few salary
w Mists In bis estimates, there is still
ju chance for the clerks who believe
,ihat they have been underpaid In the
past and want to get more money for
the future. Me will take up the salary
finest lon directly w;ith the ways and
means committee of the council and
that body is expected to Increase the
figures In several places. Then It will
be up to the clerks to make a showing
j before the hoard of estimates as to
their value to the city.
1 Or«dit L«. RallafS
ROOSEVELT MAKES
HIS DESUT AS
AN EDITOR
CERTAIN NEWSPAPERMEN SNEER
AT IDEA OF PAYING HEED TO
DICTATES OF SOUND MORALITY,
HE SAYS.
NEW YORK, March 6 —Theodore
Roost velt has stepped out of the
White House Into the editorial sanc
tum lu this week's issue of the Out
look with the names of the editor-in
chief, associate managing editor, his
name uppeara a tuutriouiing editor.
He contributes ids first udnoilal to
that pub.i. at toe under date oi March
5, Its title beiug "Way 1 believe in the
kind of journalism lor wlmu tlie Out
| look stands.'
He says: S
“faring the last few years lV has
become lamentably evident that cer
tain daily newspapers, certain perrotT"
icals, are owned or « ontrolled by men
ot vast wealth who hate gained tbeir
wealth in evil fashion, who desire to
stifle or twist the houest expression
of public opinion, and who find an in
strument fit for their purpose in the
guided and purchased mendacity of
those who edit and write for such pa
pers and periodicals.
“These meen sneer ut the very idea
of paying heed to the dictates of a
sound morality; as one of their num
ber has cynically put it, they are con
cerned merely with selllug the public
whatever it will buy—a theory of con
duct which would Jutalfy the existence
of every keeper of Hn opium den, every
sou! creature who ministers to the
vices of mankind. Here, again, it is
perhaps not especially to the credit of
lir. Abbott and his associates that they
have avoided this pit; fortunately, they
are so constituted that it is simply
an impossibility for them to fall into it.
"Hut they do deserve very great
credit for avoiding another type of
t« niptatlou which has much fascina
tion for men of cultivation utid of re
fined taste, aud which is quite as fatal
to their usefulness as indulgence in
yellow Journalism.
“A cultivated mau of good intel
ligence, who lias acquired the knack
lof saying bitter things, but who lacks
the robustness which will enable him
to feel at ease among strong men of
action, is apt, if his nature has in it
anything of meanness or untruthful
m ss, to Htrlve for a reputation in what
is to him the easiest way.
“He can find no work which is easier
—and less worth doing—than to sit in
cloistered aloofness from the meu who
wag* the real and important struggles
of Ule and to endeavor, by an unceas
ing output of slander In regard to
them, to bolster up his own uneasy
desire to be considered superior to
them.
“Now, a paper edited by men of this
stamp does not have much popular
influence, and therefore is less detri
mental to the people at large than yel
low Journalism; but it may, to the ex
tent of its power>exert a very real
influence for evil by the way in which
it teaches young men of good educa
tion, whose talents should he at their
country’s service, that decent and up
right public men are as properly sub
jects of foul attacks as the most de
based corruptionist; that efficiency
and wickedness are interchangeable
and that the corrupt attitude to adopt,
in facing the giant problems of our
great and troubled time, is one of
sneering and supercilious untruthful
ness.”
WORLD EDITOR IS
ARRAIGNED IN N.Y.
NEW YORK. March 3 Caleb M
Van Hamm, managing editor of the j
New York World, and the Press Pub *
llshlug company, under Indictment In
connection with articles printed In the*
World on the Panama canal, was ar-j
ralgned before Judge Holt iu the fed- j
erul circuit court today.
The Press Publishing company was
represented by Delancey Nicoll and
John Lindsay. Mr. Van Hamm was
represented by Samuel Untermeyer.
United StateH District Attorney
i appeared on behalf of the
I prosecution. Judge Holt gave the de
fondants one week In which to demur
tdithe indictments or enter a plea. I he :
I indictments are voluminous, due to
'the fact that they Include many clip
i pings from the World.
Mr Vun Hamm was paroled in the
! custody of his counsel.
MUST PAY JILTED
WOMAN FOR NURSING
A verdict for almost the full amount
of her claim was awarded Mrs Mary
1 Frazer by a Jury In Judge Winner's
j court, Friday morning Mrs. Fraser!
brought suit to recover from Victor
, Morand S3BO, representing money she
1 paid out for presents, a hoard bill
1 for several weeks, and eight weeks
) nursing
Sirs. Frarer testified that Morand
'premised to marry her and then gig |
j ged back. The Jury awarded her S2OB.
marriage” swings
PRISON DOORS
Cupid has intervened In behalf of
Smith I. Reynolds, charged with In
ducing ICyearold Helen Hurt Richard
son to enter a disorderly house on
Champlaln-st. James A. Millard, who
was Implicated In the unpleasant rase,
hut was not arrested, took out a li
cense to wed the girl, Friday -morn
ing. and the knot was fled by Justice
Ott early Friday afternoon. Ah a re
sult of the marriage, ihe case against
Reynolds will probably be dismissed.
COL. E. E. MYERS IS
STRICKEN BY
DEATH
AGED ARCHITECT’S ILLNESS AG
GRAVATED BY WORRY OVER
LAWSUIT AGAINST ATTORNEY
IN WHICH HE WAS PLAINTIFF.
Col. Elijah E. Myers, who figured as
plaintiff In the senasttonul suit aguiust
Attorney George W. Radford for an ac
counting of money collected for the
'■* ; '>!
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v
COL. E. E. MYERS.
colonel, decision in which cnee li
pending, died at 1 'clock Friday after
noon In his residence. No. 71t2 Second
ave The lawsuit worried him greatly
and he became seriously ill while it
was in progiess.
Col. My era came from one of the old
est and most aristocratic families in
! Philadelphia. In which city he was
born in 183 U. He became a contractor
and builder early in life and later took
up architecture as his profession. He
rose rupidly until he was soon one of
the leading members of his profession,
and public buildings in all parts of the
country stand as a imminent to his
ability. When the civil wur broke out
he entered the service of the govern
ment and was placed at the head of
the department having In charge the
erection of barracks, lie rendered
arch service to the government that he
was etven the title of colonel.
Col. Myers came to Detroit in 1K72.
when ho was awarded the contract for
designing the state buildings in lams-
Ing. Since then he has designed state
buildings In Texas. Utah. Idaho and
Colorado, and court houses and other
buildings all over the country lie re
tnined his vigor of mind and body until
veil past 70 years, but the litigation
it which he became Involved dorrled
him greatly, and he failed rapidly dur
ing the past two years.
He leaves a son, George W. Myers
an architect, and three daughters. •
ROOSEVELT IS TO
SAIL MARCH 23
NKW YORK. March 5 Kx-Prosi
dent Roosevelt will leave N* w York
foi his African trip on Mure h 23, sail
ing on the linmburg-Amorican lino for
Nupies. The ex-pr »sldent made this
ennouncement toda> to a group of
newspaper men who called on him at
his home. Sagamore Hill. Oyster Ua>
Col. Roosevelt, as he likes to he call
ed, and Mrs. Roosevelt will remain it
Oyster Hay until his departure for
Naples. He will pul In his time rest
ing and living quietly as possible.
There will be no big receptions If he
can avoid them, but tomorrow he will
gleet Ills fellow-townsmen.
CANADIAN FARMER ON
TRIAL IN U. S. COURT
John Irwin Moore, a Canadian farm
er, was placed on trial Friday tnornlng
In the Flitted States district court on
a charge of bringing a woman Into
the United States for an Immoral pur
pose. The woman lu the case is Mrs.
Florence Helen Young, with whom he
tried to elope to this country, and she
was a spectator at the trial. Frida),
and will he a witness later. With her
child beside her, she sat at one side
of the room, the picture of mental
anguish.
If Moore Is convicted, she will be
deported, and, her husband having left
her some tlm*- ago, will be left penal
less Yet she must testily according
to the statement she ruude when hist
arrested or be in danger of proseca
tlon on a perjury charge.
immigration Inspector Frick was
the first witness and told of detaining
the couple at Detroit and turning
them back Later they were arrested
at Fort Huron
Arrested on Slander Charge.
John Abratofski was arrested Fri
day morning on a rspias taken out by
Mary Jaroch. who charges that John
slandered her seriously He was .ir
rested by a deputy sheriff and later
released on ball.
CANT TRACE LE ROY S BODY.
PONTIAC. Mich.. March 5. The fu
(neral of James A.-Le Roy, the former
j Detroit, newspaperman who died in
New Mexico, had been »-t for toda>
, but no trace has been secured of the
I body. Unsuccessful efforts were made
J to locate she body In Chicago and pe
■ troit.
IJnh Printing dune rl*Uf Time* Print
ing CV, li Jvhn it -at. Ptiun* lot.
LAST
EDITION
ONE CENT
ADM ITS HE SLEW
MOTHER WITH A
HATCHET
PARENT FIRED BARN AND TRIED
TO PLACE BLAME ON HIM, MUR
DERER SAYS, BUT OFFICERS
DOUBT IT.
BAUOATUCK. Mich.. March 5.~
Thi* tuvsteiy in the death of Mrs.
Mary Baldwin, who wan found murder
ed in her home at her farm, two miles
east of here, yesterday morning has
been cleared by the confession of her
son, who after being In the sweat-box
for five liours, broke down and admit
ted that he committed the murder.
\fter the inquest Prosecuting At
< torney llofTtnan aud deputy sheriffs
i took Elton Baldwin In charge aud sub
i milled nliu to a rigid cross examina
tion. Finally he gave up the attempt
at concealment and uublushingly told
of bis crime. He declares that he has
no remorse as his mother drove him
lo the action. Here is what he said:
“Lighting a lantern I went aud got
tie- hatchet ami then crept to the door
of my mother s room. In entered. She
watt sleeping. Without warning t
struck her with the hatchet on the
hack of Lite head. She moaned, but 1
kept on hitting her—for how long 1
don't know -until I was satitted tbal
she was dead. Then 1 rushed to the
home of a neighbor and summoned as
sistance, telling that I had come home
and found her in that condition.”
Mrs. Mary liaidwiu uws GK, and the
widow of an old soldier who died nine
years ago The erring and unnatural
son, Elton, aged 32, is lit the Allegan
jail faring a life term in Jackson. One
other son, Frank, seems to take little
notice. Another son, Edward, of Al
legan. the brightest one in the family,
is crated with grief. Elton says his
mother burned the big barn and cattle
and tried to place the blame on him
for which he killed her. The officers
are positive Elton set tire to the barn.
PAIR OF LADS
EUILTVOFFORKEBY
PARENTS MAKE GOOD AMOUNT
1 OF PAPER AND YOUTHFUL DE
FENDANTS ARE FREED.
Steven I.evandowsky, aged 13, and
j Kruno CylltowskJ, aged 15, faced
j Judge Rohnert in Juvenile court, Fri
day, charged with forgery. Although
Polish lads, und poorly versed In the
English lattguuge, they promptly rec
(ognlzed a check when they fouud one
!on the sidewalk, und knew Just what
I to do to get the money,
i They took the paper to the home
of one of Unwinds and erased the slg
'nature. Then one of the boys signed
his own name and the other endorsed
it In that manner sl4 was obtained
and the "kids" in polish town had u
good time while the money lasted
The boys attempted to shift the
blame, both declaring that the other
| had written the names. Judge Rohn
ert called them to bis desk and made
them both sign their name#, and the
writing was au exact «ounterpart of
j the names on the note.
The parents will make good and the
boys wore discharged.
\ gang or seven boys from June
'tlon-ave., related in detail how they
.had entered several west side stores,
and stole candy, cakes, gum and co
< oanuts. Jay Hunt, of No. 121 Min
inle-st., and Terance White, of No. 2t>-»
; Junctiou-ave., were the recognized
Headers of the gang, and Hunt told of
j twice entering a candy store kept by
an aged woman, while White was
twice in another store. There was a
tearful scone when Judge Rohnert an
nounced that all would go to the in
dustrlal school. He Juter changed his
I mind, and allowed the boys to go. but
I they will have to report regularly In
| court for a few weeks.
Haywood Jones, a young colored
lad, was sent to on the re
quest of his moth* r. She said that
while she was out wnshlng he would
steal everything he could carry out of
the house, and Imd almost cleared the
place of dishes.
1 KING HOWARD GOES
TO BIARRITZ VIA PARIS
March ’> - King Edward,
who was to have started for Biarritz
yesterday, but who delayed his de
parture on account of the gale that
was blowing In the English channel,
started today He will go via Paris.
Men bight Desperate
‘Duel on lop of a
Moving Freight Train
t’HU’AOU. March 5. —Two moo
fought a desiderate hand-to band bat'd#
on the top of a car of a moving freight
.train toda> One was fatally stabbed
, and hurled to the ground.
It was an unequal fight—oue of the
m« n. the conductor. Fred Francis, wai
unarmed The other, Brakeman Ed
ward Brockman, was armed with a
kpife
Hack and forth on the top of tb#
swaying < ar. they struggled, tb# con
ductor fighting with his bare flsti
against the weapon of his adversary
Repeatedly he was stabbed.
Finally the struggle ended. The con
ductor. beaten, slipped and fell and
his adversary pushed him off the top
of a car to the ground In falling h«
narrowly missed rolling under tb#
wueei* He was later picked u« and
I ltd to a bo*pltai.