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MINNESOTA
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IS HE PAT CROW'S
DEAR OLD UNCLE?
SCISSORS GRINDER, WI TH D. T.'S,
ARRESTED AT OROOKSTON.
Ramblings of a Disordered Mind, hut
Which Makes the Police Take Notice
Pat Crow's Whereabouts.
pedal to The Journal.
Crookston, Minn., June 3.Jim Crow,
an uncle of the famous Pat Crow, was
arrested by the police for drunkenness.
During a fit of delerium tremens at the
ity jail, he gave out much which is
believed of value to the officers in re-
Such-sought
trd to the present whereabouts of the
kidnapper. Crow had been
upon a lengthy debauch when arrested,
-and was on the verge of nervous pros
tration, or worse. Until the ramblings
of a disordered mind gave his identity
away, there w&s no clue as to who he
Was. Chief Eck of the Crookston police
department gathered from the man's
talk while his mind wandered that Pat
Crow, his nephew, is at the present time
within several hours' ride of the city
of Omaha, in which he is much wanted
that friends and relatives are caring for
him, and that he could be produced in
court, should his friends see fit, upon
four hours' notice.
After recovering from his attack,
Crow became somewhat reticent, but
admitted substantially to the chief,
went closely questioned, his relation
Ship to Pat Crow, the kidnapper, and
the fact that Crow was being cared for
by friends and relatives. All manner of
persuasive arguments and offers of re
ward were held out to him in an en
deavor to secure a statement as to the
precise whereabouts of Pat, but to no
avail. He was released and has jour
neyed on to "Winnipeg. He is a wander
ing scissors-grinder.
D. W. Tully of Barnesville has secured
the contract for the erection of a three
Btory brick hotel to replace the pres
ent Grand Central hotel in this city,
bids were opened today, and Mr. Tully's,
Ifor $20,000, the lowest, accepted. The
jGrand Central building, when completed,
will have cost in the neighborhood of
$35,000, and will be a great addition
to lower Broadway.
BemicVji wants free mail delivery, and
has petitioned Congressman Steenerson
to secure his good offices in assisting the
city in procuring from the postal de
partment the improvement in the postal
service at that point. The gross re
ceipts of the Bemidji office during the
past four consecutive quarters have
been in excess of $10,000, and accord
ing to regulations of the department,
the city ft entitled to the carrier sys
tem.
A HISTORIC HOUSE.
"The Dakota" Built at New Ulm in
1857.*
NEW ULM, MINN.-While in this
city Wednesday, Governor Johnson
was the guest of his brother, F. W.
Johnson, at the Dakota house, and
conVeisation with Mrs. Seit^r, mother
of Mrs. F. W. Johnson, the interesting
fact was brought out that the Dakota
house has entertained at different times
every governor the state of Minnesota
has had.
The Dakota house was built in 1857
bv Adolph Seitei. now dead, but his
wife has been connected with it contin
uously. Tho quite an old lady, she
still insists looking after the wel
faie of her guests.
She recounts interesting anecdotes of
the visits of the different governors to
the hotel, from the time Governor Ram
sey came there soon after the Indian
massacre to his return a few years ago
when he was present at the fortieth an
niversary of that event. Governor
Johnson was much interested in the
narrative and was inclined to believe
that there was no other hotel in the
state that could claim a like distinction.
At the time of the massacre the lob
bv of the hotel was used for a hospital,
and many of the wounded were brought
there and cared for,, and tho Mr. and
Mrs. Seiter gave up their propertv and
furnished money and provisions for the
care of the wounded, they have never
received anvthing from the government
or from any other somce.
In the outer walls of the building are
Btill visible scars of the bullets fired
from the guns of the Indians and in the
bricks are still imbedded some of the
bullets.
For a brief period lurin the time
that the people of New Ulm had fled to
St. Peter, the Dakota house was not
occupied, and that is the only time it
has been vacant since the day it was
opened.
The large, thorobred foxhound that
is the property of the governor is being
kept by Mr. Johnson here, and the gov
ernor has not seen him since the elec
tion. The dog was sleeping on a couch
in the office of the hotel when the gov
ernor came in and sat down on the
couch. In an instant the animal was
up and the demonstration he made over
his master was one of the warmest wel
comes the governor has had.
For a long time^ there was in exist
ence the first register the hotel had,
bearing date from 1856 until I860, the
one book covering the entire period
of time for there were few transients
in those davs and the traveling man as
he is now reckoned was unknown.
In this register may be found the
names of General Wm, T. Sherman,
tGeneral Pope. General Fitzhugh Lee,
Albert Sidnev Johnson, General Sigel,
and a number of other officeis who
were in the habit of coming from Fort
Pidgely.
MANKATO BURGLARS
They Touch General Baker for a Valu
able Watch and Chain.
MANKATO, MINN.Since the re
cent burglaries have come to light,
General J. H. Baker has reported one.
His house was entered in the daytime
and a watch and chain and heavy band
ring belonging to his wife were stolen
from the latter's bedroom. The watch
was one that was presented to her upon
her graduation from the Mankato nor
mal school by a relative, and was highly
prized. Its value was $75 and the chain
was valued at the same amount, having
been bought by General Baker at Tif
fany's, New York.
The Walter-Bowman Elevator com
pany has sold its elevator in this city
to S. H. Grannis, and the headquarters
of the company have been removed to
Sioux Falls, S." D., whither Mr. Walter
and family moved today.
The boy, Charles Carpenter, who was
killed near Vernon while holding his
father's team, was a son of Ed Carpen
ter, instead of Deforest Carpenter, as
reported.
The Chicago Great Western road has
.just completed a large amount of grad
ing for sidetracks and coal sheds in this
city.
NEW RICHMOND, WIS The storm that
pnssed south of this city destroyed most 01 the
buildings on the John Cullen farm. Then it
seemed to spend its force, but neajr Hammond
It was followed by a sudden drop In tempera
ture and by a cloudburst. Many bridges and
culverts were swept away,}~4&^
WISCONSIN
Saturday Evening,
HALL, REFORMER,
DIES IN WISCONSIN
TATHER OF A^TI-PASS LEGISLA-
TION I N BADGER STATE.
Tells a Tale That Sounds Like the Seven Times a Member of the Legisla
ture from Hennepin County, Minn.,
and Three Times SpeakerDis
tinguished Record in the Civil War.
Knapp, Wis., June 3.Albert R. Hall,
known thruput the country because of
his prominence in the reform movement
in Wisconsin, died at his home here yes
terday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock. He
was 64.
Mr. Hall caught his toe on an ob
struction on the sidewalk Friday even4
ing and in trying to save himself from a
fall ruptured a bloodvessel in the brain.
He was tal en home, and until his death
remained in an unconscious or semi
unoonscious condition.
Mr. Hall had been a prominent figure
in the politics of Wisconsin since 1880.
He became famous by advocating
sweeping legislative reforms, notably
the antipass railroad measure, which he
succeeded finally in getting into the
statutef
pion1
books. He was a strong cham-
the a Follett reform move
ment. He was twice slated for United
States senator by his friends, but re
fused to make the run.
Pine War Record.
Mr. Hall was born at Hartford, Vt.,
April 20, 1841 moved with his parents
to Boston four years later attended the
Boston public schools until 1856, when
he removed with his parents to Minne
sota. June 21, 1861, he en'listed in
Company D, Second regiment Minnesota
volunteer intfantry was promoted to
corporal and first sergeant engaged in
battles of Mill Springs, Perryville,
Hoover's Gap and Chickamauga.
He was wounded at Chickamauga on
Sept. 20, 1863, and left on the field for
dead. Showing signs of life the follow
ing day, he was taken prisoner, paroled
ten days later, and exchanged the fol
lowing May, when he jointed his regi
ment, and continued with it on the At
lantic campaign as far as Kenesaw
Mountain, when his three years' term of
service expired.
He was mustered out July 4, 1864,
and immediately returned to Minnesota
and assisted in' recruiting Company G,
Eleventh regiment Minnesota volunteer
infantry. He was commissioned first
lieutenant, returned to the south with
his regiment and was appointed provost
marshal of the post of Gallatin, Tenn.,
which position* he held until the close
of the war. He was mustered out with
his regiment, June 26, 1865.
Legislator from Hennepin.
Mr. Hall had served as town clerk,
justice of the peace and represented
Hennepin county in the lower house of
the Minnesota legislature seven terms,
three of which he served as speaker. He
removed to Knapp in 1880. He was
elected to the assembly from Dunta
county in 1890 and served continuously
for twelve years.
The funeral will be held here Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
GAVE GOOD MONEY FOR BAD
Landlord* Was Too Willing to Change
the Stranger's Twenty.
BABABOO, WIS.A stranger called
at the Wisconsin hotel and told the
landlord he was penniless and hungry.
The hotel man gave him a good dinner,
and as he arose from the table a $20
bill dropped from his handkerchief
when he took it from his% pocket. A
waiter picked up the bill and handed
it to the landlord, who took out T5
cents for the meal and returned $19.25
to the stranger. In a dav or two the
landlord found the bill was counterfeit.
SPANISH WAR VETS
National Officers Will Be in La Crosse
June 13.
LA CEOSSE, WIS.The national of
ficers of the Spanish-American War
Veterans and the Women's auxiliary to
the same will be in this city June 13 to
15 during the state encampment.
The firm of Farson, Leach & Co. of
Chicago has purchased city bonds to the
amount of $135,000, upon which it pays
a premium of $1,697.50. The bonds are
as follows: High school, $100,000 en
ginehouse, $20,000 street improvement,
$15,000. The bonds bear 4 per cent.
The annual picnic of the La Crosse
Retail Grocers' association will be held
at Vernon on June 9.
SWEATING MR. MUSSER
Hot Work With a Steam Shovel at Two
Harbors.
TWO HARBORS, MINN.The
world's record for handling ore with
a steam shovel has been broken by En
gineer Musser, who operates a 90-ton
Bucyrus shovel at the Hull mine. In
five hours and thirty-six minutes he
loaded from a stock' pile 138 30-ton
cars of ore, or a total of 4,140 tons.
Loading from a stock pile is more dif
ficult and slower than
workinge
ore pit
Haines, clarionet.
in a
for the reason that tim musn
be taken oftener for moving the shov
el, and also to clean up the scattering
ore.
It had been determined that the load
ing of these 4,140 tons of ore cost the
Oliver Mining companythe steel trust
less than one cent per ton, not count
ing the wear and tear of the shovel.
All previous ore-shipping records for
the month of May, so far as the head of
the lakes is concerned, at least, were
broken last month. The total amount
shipped by the Duluth & Iron Range
from Two Harbors, the Duluth, Mis
sabe & Northern from Duluth, and the
Great Northern from Allouez, was 2,-
911.912 tons, making the total ship
ments 3,357,379 tons for the season
thus far.
GRAND RAPIDS IRON
A Strike Reported Made North of Mc
Kinney Lake.
GRAND RAPIDS, MINN.The ex
ploration for iron in ^he vicinity of
Grand Rapids is gradually expanding,
and tho nothing definite can be learned,
some finds are reported. One drill,
north of McKinney lake, a mile and a
half north of town, is reported to have
gone thru a hundred feet of a good
quality of ore. Another drill has struck
taconite, which is mixed with good ore.
FINED FOR SEINING
Seven Confess to Guilt in a Yankton
Court.
YANKTON, S. D.Ira and Elmer
Johnson, Frank Petrik, Rudolph Peter
ka, D. W. Fishbeck, Mike McGinnis and
Joe Blaczek, all of Utica, most of them
officers of that town, -pleaded guilty
and were given a fine of $50 and costs,
the total amount being $117.45.
The complaint was filed by Peter An
derson, whose pond of fine fish was be
ing seined, a misdemeanor under the
state laws. Anderson received $50 for
being informant.
The case was of much local interest,
as the James river has been seined
openly for years, without complaint..
Special to The Journal.
Willmar, Minn., May 31 Wlllmar is proud
of itb high school orchestra, organized the pres
ent school year. Much credit is due Professor
Poweis, supervisor of music and drawing In the
city schools, for his labors in organizing and
tiaining it.
THE OLDEST CITYOFFICIAL
JAMES E. HYDE OF LINCOLN, ILL.,
FATHER OF SOUTH DAKOTA
MAN, HAS THE RECORD AT 92.
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fvvvv/jev^t
JAMES F. HYDE.
Special to The Journal.
Pierre, S. D., June 3.Charles L.
Hyde, an investment and loan broker, qjL
this city, who has made a fortune in .^v,^
oldest municipal officer in America, if"
not in the world. James B. Hyde, his
father, is 92 years of age. He is city
controller of Lincoln, 111., as well as city
collector and deputy city treasurer. An
ordinance forbidding the city treasurer
to succeed himself retired him as city
treasurer. Besides the multifarious du
ties in behalf of the city, Mr. Hyde finds
time to act as treasurer and bookkeeper
for the Lincoln Streetcar company and
bookkeeper for business firms. Mr.
Hyde has not missed a clay for years,
save when he took his annual vacation
of two weeks each summer. He uses
no walking stick, neither does he wear
glasses on the street.
TO-DATS TELEGRAPHIGiNEWS ?E THESNOR^RHWEST
WILLMAR CLAIMS TO HAVE ONLY HIGH
SCHOOL ORCHESTRA IN THE NORTHWEST
WILLMAR. HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA.
Top row from left to rightCarf Peterson, Bottom rowArthur Anderson, violin Edgar
cornet Maurice V. Jenness, cornet Lester Por- Sather, violin Professor J. Harold Powers, lead-
ter, piccolo, Elmer Peterson, clarionet Fred er, trombone player Maxfleld Lewis, flute Miss
Allene Sherwood, pianist.
The orchestra has furnished music on several
public occasions, and will make itB last ap
pearance for the year at the commencemeut ex
ercises at the operahouse on June 2.
It Is safe to say this Is the only high school
orchestra In the northwest made up of high
school students exclusively,
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SOUTH DAKOTA.
TOMBSTONE VANDALS
South Dakota lands, is the son of the tails, which at a boUnty of a cent apiece
will cost Brown county $1,645.74. Last
year 1062 goph^|?e|^ slain *ia the
ST. PETER TO OTTAWA
The Omaha Short Line Has Obstacles
to Overcome.
ST. PETER, MTNN.Officials of the
Omaha road have approved of the sur
vey of the short line between this place
and Ottawa and the construction of the
new road will be begun as soon as a
right of way can be purchased. At
piesent the road makes a wide detour
to the eastward to avoid the Ottawa
bottoms, but the survey made last week
takes it in a direct line across the
meadows and effects a saving of about
four miles. In building the line it will
be necessary to cross Coteau lake, and
this may urove to be a serious obstacle.
Soundings have failed to locate the bot
tom of the peat bed in which it lies
and the engineering corps evidently has
a hard task before it.
Sixteen years ago James Dolan, now
living at Aberdeen. Wash., came to St.
Peter with a carload of western horses.
At that time the broncho was held in
even less favor than he is today, and
Mr. Dolan encountered many discour
agements in his efforts to dispose of
them. He was about to leave the citv
in disgust when a farmer of Cleveland
township approached him with an offer
to trade a farm of 120 acres for his
stock. Mr. Dolan valued the animals
remaining to him at $350, but he did
not hesitate in entering into the bar
gain and had the property transferred
to him. When the deal was made Mr.
Dolan, who did not trouble to visit the
farm, supposed that his possession con
sisted of 120 acres of unimproved land,
but he returned here today to find that
it has been developed into one of the
best farms in Le Sueur countv. At
the lowest possible estimate it isvworth
$60 an acre, and his $350 investment
now stands him $7,200.
MORE ONTARIO IRON
en route to his iron1
Lake,
A Good Deposit at Pipestone
North of Fort Frances.
FORT FRANCES, ONT.T. H.
Crowley of* the "Sco," Ont., accom
panied" by a party of prospectors and
mining men, arrived
ilocationslast
town night
on Pipe
stone lake, some thirty-six miles north
of Fort Frances. Mr. Crowley stated
that he had formed a large company
with $3,000,000 capital, and had sold all
the stock that was necessary to test
and develop the property. According
to his statement there are 3,000,000 tons
of Bessemer ore in sight, and the pros
pects are that a local railway will be
built to tap the mines, running from
Fort Frances to the n'ew line of the
Grand Trunk Pacific. If the property
HTOON, S. D.August Alien, whose l6ga
were so badly crushed Wednesday night In the
yards of the Chicago & North-Western railway,
rendering amputation necessary, died Thursdays
evening. It is believtd that as he was intoxi
cated in the early part of the evening, he fell
upon the track*.
They Work in the Britton, S. D., Ceme-
teryIndians divorced.
ABERDEEN, S. D.Vandals have
defaced a number of tombstones in the
cemetery west of Britton by chiseling
on additional words and obliterating
wor4s and signs already on the stones.
C. C. Moulton of Faulk county has
had constructed for his ranch a water
motor which will be run by power from
the artesian well. Mr. Moulton ex
pects the motor to run most of the ma
chinery on the farm and about the
house.
Groton is experiencing something of
a building boom.
On Friday a mortgage was filed by
the Dakota Central Telephone company
to John C. Bassett, president of the
Aberdeen National bank, as trustee, for
the sum of $500,000. The amount is to
be used, according to the document
filed, for the purpose of extending the
lines of the company, making improve
ments and purchasing new lines.
E. J. Searle, business manager of the
Aberdeen Publishing company, and
Miss Pearl Wiley, a well-known singer
who has been soloist at the Christian
church in Aberdeen for some time, were
married at the home of the bride in
Scotland on Thursday. They will live
in Aberdeen.
Judge McCoy granted a divorce to
Martha Krebble from John A. Kreb
ble, awarding the custody of a child to
the woman. Both parties to the suit
are^t full-blooded Indians, and the suit
on that account attracted much atten
tion. Neither plaintiff nor defendant
could speak'Englishman interpreter be
ing employed thruout the trial.
The county auditor h^s completed the
task of counting the
turns out to be all that is claimed for bers of the state board of railroad corn-
it, and the rumors of iron locations in
other places near here are verified, there
seems to be no good reason why this
town should not have an iron' industry
as big as Port Arthur.
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. June 3, 1905.
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ROSEWATER'S CASE
The Woman in the Case Fined for
Blackmail.^,
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OMAHA, NEB.Itf criminal court
here Mrs. Maurice S. Algoe of Jackson.
Mich., pleaded guilty io the first count
in the state's complaint, Charging her
with blackmailing Edward Rosewater,
editor of the Omaha Bee, by threatening
exposure. She was fined $250 and in
default of payment was recommitted to
jail.
In a long written statement Mrs. Al
goe says her husband is not guilty of
blackmailing Mr. Rosewater. She de
nies that Rosewater was intimate with
her. She says that Rosewater went to
her room to discuss with her the terms
of a lease and had not been' there moTe
than five minutes when her husband re
turned and accused them of wrong
doing.
TO THE BLACK HILLS
Work on the Milwaukee Extension Go
ing on Rapidly.
CHAMBERLAIN, S. D.Work is
progressing steadily on the extension of
the Milwaukee railroad, westward from
Chamberlain to the Black Hills. Sub
Contractor Overacker today completed
the grading for the railroad across
American island, lying in the Missouri
river opposite this city, and will at once
begin grading from the Chamberlain' de
pot to the east approach of the bridge.
The depot will be moved from its pres
ent location to the east side of Main
street, and north of the yard tracks,
from which point it will oe a gentle
incline down to the level of the bridge,
the total drop being forty feet. About
300 teams and scrapers are at work on,
the grading from the west bank of the
river westward. The large boat for
the draw in the bridge is rapidly Wear
ing completion. A large number of In
dians from Crow Creek and Lower Brule
agencies are working with the gangs.
The curtailment or rations compels
them to depend more on their own in
dividual efforts.
RECEIVER APPOINTED
Action Taken in the Hills to Expedite
Horseshoe Company Settlement.
DEADWOOD, S. D.The Hearst
Mercantile company yesterday filed an
application for a receiver for the Horse
shoe Mining company, asking that R. N.
Ogden, law partner of General Manager
V. L. McLaughlin, be appointed.
The action was advised by friends of
the company in order %o settle more
easily the business of the company since
the fire which destroyed its cyanide
plant.
The company has increased its ship
ments of high grade ore to outside
smelters and is shipping heavily to lo
cal plants. The large cyanide plant
owned by the company at Pluma will
be put in as soon as possible.
RAILROAD RATES
They Will Be Discussed at the Sioux
Falls Convention.
Sioux Falls, S. D., June 3.The mem-
missioners have received information
that the various committees have taken
up the work of preparing for the an
nual convention of the National Asso
ciation of Railroad Commissioners,
which will convene at Deadwood, S. D.,
on Aug. 16 next. This year's conven
tion will be of the utmost importance,
owing to the public discussion of the
railroad rate question. Those who fa
vor such control will also be represented
by prominent speaker^
STUDENTS WANT
TO MOB PASTOR
THE REV. MR. BOYD BECOMES DIS
"LIKED AT GRINNELL.
He Attempts to Carry His Stepdaughter
Away by Force and Flourishes a Re-
volverFriends of the Girl Give Him
an Hour to Get Out of Town.
Special to The Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa, June 3.-Threat-
ened with a mobbing at the hands of
students of Grinnell college, Rev. A. C.
Boyd of Wayne county was hurried out
of "Grinnell last night. He had been
charged with assault and battery on his
stepdaughter, Miss Vergie C. Brown, a
student.
Five or six years ago Boyd married
a Mrs. Brown Missouri. Miss Ver
gie, disliking him, ran away from home
and started to work her way thru col
lege. The stepfather, learning of her
whereabouts, secured a warrant for her
arrest, had himself deputized an officer
and attempted to take her, flourishing
a revolver.
Friends interfered and gave him an
hour to leave town. He left and charges
have been preferred against him should
he return. MARRIED HALF A CENTURY
Happy Anniversary at Mt. Vernon, of
Mr. and Mrs. Maybower.
MT. VERNON, IOWA.The fiftieth
anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. John G. Maybower of this city,
was celebrated in a family reunion this
week, the first break in the family link
having occurred but last fall, when the
second son died. The following children
were present: Mr. and Mrs. Edward
J. Maybower of Minneapolis, with their
son and daughter, John G. Jr., and Mad
eline Mrs. Emma Maybower Wain
Charles D. Maybower, and Mrs. Dora
Maybower Young of Newman's Grove,
Neb.
Mr. Maybower was born near Wux
temburg, Germany, and was married in
Iowa City, Iowa, 1855. The couple
have lived in this county continuously
since 1867, Mr. Maybower being one of
the leading farmers of eastern Iowa.
The evening time of life has come to
this honored father and mother most
ideally. On two sides of their present
home are the fine residences of two of
their children another son resides on
the homestead, but half a mile away.
Those in the distance make regular and
extended visits to the old folks.
The election of teachers for the pub
lic school resulted as follows: Princi
pal, L. T. Newton assistants, Jeanette
Sniff and Lilian Smedley eighth
grade,n
Mrs. Hawkins seventh. Miss
owan fifth and sixth. Miss Blinks
third and fourth, Miss Lutz first and
second, Miss Gelston kindergarten and
drawing, Miss Rush music, Miss
Goudy. There were seven members of
the graduating class, Misses Johnson,
Petty and Emerson, and Messrs. Swank,
Burge, McClelland and Wangun.
AN INTERESTING GRADUATE
Story of Tek Kah Tsai, Educated at
4 Charles City College.
Charles' City, Idwa, June 3.One of
the graduates at the Charles City col
lege this year, is Tek Kah Tsai. He is
a native of Kiu Kiang, China. He will
graduate with the degree of bachelor
of arts. Four years ago he could not
speak a word of English. In the four
years he has mastered the German and
English languages and speaks them flu
ently* Mr. Tsai has a family in his
native city of Kiu Kiang, a wife and
two boys and a girl. While he has been
attending college here he has paid his
way by giving lectures in vacation time
and at other times and has sent $200
a year home for the support of hisJam
ily. Mr. Tsai is 35 years old, and was
born in the town of Kwang Chi, in the
province of Hu-peh. He returns
well'
equipped to play a part in the unfold1
ing drama of civilization of that far
away land.
He has adopted the costume of the
American while here and wears no
queue. In fact, he says, this was a
thing that was imposed upon the Chi
nese by the Tartars when they invaded
his country, and was to distinguish them
as slaves. The Japanese, who lived
upon the island, then a part of China,
were 39 isolated that they did not come
under the ban of the Tartars and for
that reason the custom never had a
start in that country, and he says as
the Chinese become civilized they dis
card the queue.
A "THIRTEEN" CASE
Many of the Parties Concerned Die and
Attorneys Are Superstitious.
SIOUX CITY, IOWA.So supersti
tious did attorneys become concerning
a lawsuit involving the number "thir
teen" in which five of the eight par
ties .concerned have died, that Judge
Kennedy of the district court yesterday
granted a request to take up the case
ahead of its turn and dispose of it. The
action was brought by Herman Balk et
al. against Amelia Zincke et al. Mr.
and Mrs. Gottlieb Dennon, heirs, John
Bunning, principal witnesSj and Mrs.
William Cant, one of the heirs, died be
fore the case came to a hearing. Judge
G. W. Wakefield heard the evidence in
the case and it was the last one for
him, as he was unable to sit again on
the bench and died shortly after. The
deed involved in the case was dated
the 13th of the month and two of the
hearings were held on the same day
of the month.
CHARLES RAPP SAVED
An Old Man Tries SuicideA Baby's
Wonderful Fall.
Hillsboro, N. June 3.Medical
assistance arrived in time to save the
life of Charles Rapp aged 70, who at
tempted to end his life by taking lini
ment. He had been despondent for
some time.
Among the nuptials this week were
those of Miss Agnes Henrietta Paulson,
daughter of Mayor and Mrs. J. E. Paul
son, and Robert G. Grant, an attorney
of St. Paul. They will make their home
at St. Paul.
The marriage of Miss Annie B. Ben
nett, one of the teachers here, and J.
M. McPherson occurred at Fargo. They
will make their home on the groom, 's
farm, near Galesburg, in the western
part of the county.
The 1-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
John Hagen fell from a second-story
window to the sidewalk, and, while the
youngster landed on its head, it was
picked up uninjured.
Hillsboro's ball team defeated Hunter
at the latter place today by a score
of 6 to 2. The Hillsboro team has won
five straight games. Galesburg defeated
Clifford, 19 to 4.
The graduates of Hillsboro's high
school class this year are: Howard
Eafle Carken, Laura Casphara Harstad,
Julia Olsen and Ethel Louisa McNamee. riage in this city.
BIG IRRIGATION
WORK STARTED
BIDS OPENED FOR THE CANAL
DOWN THE YELLOWSTONE.
The Lowest Bids for Excavation Total
$520,125.50 with the WideU-Finley
Company of Mankato in Line to Do
About $163,367.50 Worth of the Work
Deadwood Construction Company
Also a Winner.
Special to The Journal.
Glen dive, Mont., June 3.Bids were
opened here yesterday by H. N. Sav
age and F. E. Weimouth, officers of the
reclamation service, for the construc
tion of the big irrigation canal and a
telephone line down the lower Yellow
stone valley. Bids were submitted by
leading contractors all over the coun
try, among whom were Ullman & Cook,
Pueblo, Col.: Widell-Finley company,
Mankato, Minn. Calahan Brothers,
Phelan & Shirley, Omaha Deadwood
Construction company, Deadwood,
S. D., and many others.
The total lowest bid for excavations
amount sto $520,125.50, of which the
Widell-Finley company of Mankato bid
$163,367.50, for division schedule A and
the balance to Calahan Brothers and
Phelan & Shirley of Omaha.
The lowest total bids for schedule B,
embracing structure, amounted to
$132,523.5, of which the Deadwood Con
struction company of Deadwood, S. D.,
bids $28,142.50 and the balance to
Charles Stabern of Helena. The low
est bid fqr the construction of seventy
two miles of telephone line was that of
E. A. Hoss of Chicago at a figure ap
proximately $212 a mile.
The officers of the reclamation serv
ice expressed themselves as much
pleased with the bids and as soon as
they are approved by the authorities at
Washington, work on the big ditch
will be pushed to a rapid completion.
A BIG SMOKE SUIT
Ranchers in Anaconda Smoke Zone Stir
Uneasily.
Butte, Mont., June 3.The Anaconda
Copper company and the Washoe Copper
company this morning entered their ap
pearance in federal court in the big
smoke suit which has been brought by
Fred J. Bliss, as representative of up
ward of one hundred rannchers in what
is known as the "smoke zon e" about
Anaconda. The purpose of the suit is
to secure an injunction to prevent fur
ther emission of sulphur smoke and poi
sonous gas fr mothe big Washoe smelt
er smokestack, which it is alleged is
destroying all vegetation and animal
life on ranches for 100 miles arounr.
Nearly $2,000,000 in damages is asked
in the aggregate. The entire legal staff
of the Amalgamated Copper company
including A. J. Shores, A. J. Campbell,
D. Gay Slivers and C. F. Kelley are
named as counsel for defendant com
panies. It is understood that attorneys
for the Amalgamated will ask that a
master in chancery be appointed to
taek evidence, which will then be trans
scribed and submitted to Judge Hunt,
upon which he will base his decision in
the matter.
A VIEW OF THE FLOWERS
Senator Clark Gives th Butte Children
& Treate.
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BUTTE,'MONT.To give the chil
dren of Butte an opportunity to see
flowers transplanted, Senator Clark to
day invited every child in Butte out to
his Columbia gardens, three miles south
east of the city, where workmen are
busily engaged in transplanting flowers
from greennouse to garden. Butte is
practically devoid of any form of vege
tation, and several thousand children en
joyed the hospitality of the senator. No
far was asked of children on any of
the streetcar lines.
BALLOT STICKER O. K.
Kidder County Case DecidedFair and
Races at Jamestown.
JAMESTOWN, N. D.A, fair asso
ciation has been# organized in this city
with the intention of holding at some
future time a county fair. It is in
tended to have a race meeting com
mencing on the Fourth of July and last
ing for three days, to co-operate with
Courtenay, New Rockford, Carrington
and Harvey.
The asylum trustees have selected
James Hackney of New Rockford, a
member of the board, to look after the
construction of the two new buildings.
The state supreme court has ren
dered a decision in the case of Roberts
vs. Bope, the Kidder county contest
case. The court sustains the claim of
the defendant and holds that the ballot
sticker containing some ten names was
a valid ballot.
A FARMERS' ELEVATjOR
at A Large One Is to Be Put in
Courtenay, N. D.
COURTENAY, N. D.The Farmers'
Elevator people are to let a contract
this week for the- erection of a large
grain elevator at this place. The farm
ers about Courtenay have long felt
aggrieved by the treatment accorded
them by grain buyers, and this move
is an expression of their attitude for a
more acceptable market.
The farmers are cheerful over crop
prospects. The spring has been cool
and somewhat retarded the growth of
vegetation, but favorable weather will
push the crops forward, and everything
looks bright.
WIMBLEDON, N. At a meeting of the
Wimbledon organization of old settlers It wrs
decided to have the .annual celebration here
June 23.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D.June 15 has been fixed
by the state board of raUroad commissioners
for a hearing in the matter of the Charles Mix
County Co-operative company for a site- for a
grain elevator on the right-of-way of the Mil
waukee at Platte. The hearing will be held at
Platte.
MASON CITY. IOWA.John Hevel, a farmer
living near Plvmouth, was instantly killed this
morning by being thrown from his wagon In a
runaway. The tongue of the wngon came down,
hurling the men into the air with the .force of
a catapult.Hicks Klme, an attache of the
Wilson theater, attempted suicide last night by
taking morphine. He was resuscitated with dif
ficulty.
GARNER, IOWA.August Pnesenberg of
Des Moines and Miss Gertrude Pike were mar
ried here at the bride's home today.
STANLEY, WIS.The commencement exer
cises of the Stanley high school were held last
evening in the new high school building. The
banquet of 'the alumni association will be held
this evening.
ORTHWEST WEDDINGS
LA CROSSE, WISThe marriage of Miss
Alice Otto and Paul Drummond took place last
evening at the home of the bride's parents. The
couple will make their home in Racine.Miss
Xora Elstad and Louis Runckel were united in
marriage.One of the society events of the sea
son was the wedding of Miss Grace Pettingill
and Jame6 C. Hogan, which took place last even
ing at Christ Episcopal church. Rev. C. N. Mol
ler officiating.Charles Randall and Miss Linda
Schafer, both of Onalaska, were united in mar-
WHERE CATTLE &
MOST BE DIPPED*
LIVESTOCK COMMISSION TAKES
.ACTION AT PIERRE.
Missouri River Counties East of thft.
River and the Section Between the
Missouri and the Jim Declared to Bo
Infected.
Special to The Journal.
Pierre, S. June 3.The state live
stock commission has declared most of
the'Missouri river counties east of the
river, and the section between the Mis
souri and Jim rivers to be scabies-in
fected territory, and has ordered com
pulsory dipping of all cattle in that
territory at least twice at periods of toot
more than fourteen nor less than eight
days apart, with dipping in all other
counties or the state, wherever the
county inspectors shall order it. The
order is"compulsory, and no clear bill of
inspection will be given in the counties
named un'less the dipping regulation 'has
been complied with. The counties de
clared to be infected are Aurora, Bea
le, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Camp
bell, Douglass, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand,
Hyde, Hughes. Jerauld, McPherson, Pot
ter, Spink, Sully and Walworth.
The county inspectors in these coun
ties are attempting to secure dipping at
about the same time for all cattle and
will do all in their power to wipe out
the itch this year. They are trying to
prevent the action or some cattle
owners who last vear cut out part of
their herds and dipped the rest, declar
ing that they had Drought in all they
owned. This action left enough infect
ed cattle in the country to spread the
disease again.
Last year the wolf bounty fund of
$5,000 was exhausted on the last day
of May, and the applications for bounty
which came in after that date cut the
amount down to a point, where the pro
rata paid was 61 cents on the dol
lar. This year the applications to the
last day of May left $o7 of the fund on
hand and the indications at the present
are that the payments this year will be
on about the same basis as for last
year. After this year the amount avail
able for bounties will be $10,000 a year,
and the payments will probably be in
full at the rate allowable under the law.
MOYES HIS HOUSE
ACROSS 6 STATES
Cleveland Doctor Removes Fif
teen-Room Mansion to Mus
kogee in Sections.
Cleveland, Ohio, June 3.Dr. O.
Bryant, a local physician, has just com-
Japs
leted a May moving job that is per
without a parallel in this part of
the country. He has moved a fifteen
room house from Cleveland to Indian
Territory. His wife's mother was mov
ing to his new home with him, and she
wanted her old homestead to go with
them. So it went.
This feat was accomplished quietly
and successfully. There "was no de
monstration, no delaying of traffic and
Mo creation of excitement. This task
which seems so herculean was per
formed so easily as to destroy the ro
mance that one feels ought to belong in
the picture.
The house that traveled from Ohio's
metropolis to the southwest stood in
Harkness avenue in the East End. I
belonged to Mrs. Austin Beckwith, wid
ow of Wells Beckwith, and was her
home thirty-five years. She bought it
when the original Harkness, now dead,
laid out his farm in lots.
When it came to moving the house
was torn down with as much care at
marks the moving of a piano out of a
flat. Its fragments were indexed, clas
sified, tied together and packed.
Only two men were employed on the
work. They worked slowly, but with
precision. Finally the "debris" stood
about the premises ranged in neat bun
dles of boards, timbers, joists, frames,
etc. These were bound with straps of
metal, wire and in the conventional
packing-case methods. As each came
out of the house it was numbered.
The lumber was hauled to the railroad
and packed into a freight car. Then it
started for its destination, accompa
nied by a car which was loaded with
the household effects.
Mrs. Beckwith, at whose request this
strange form of moving was adopted,
explains it in this way:
"We liked the old house, of course,
but it wasn 't sentiment aloWe that made
us move it. Dr. Bryant was moving to
Indian Territory to live permanently
and we wanted to dispose of the proper
ty on Harkness avenue. We sold the
lot, and the people who bought it did
not want the house. Of course thev
offered to buy it, but they would have
had to tear it down an"d sell it for old
lumber. They were not willing to pay
for it what it was worth as a house.
"So we decided that we would take
it with us. If it was only good for lum
ber anyway and had to be torn down by
somebody we thought that we might as
well be the ones to tear it down. The
house will be rebuilt in Muskogee pre
cisely as it stood in Cleveland. We will
modernize it somewhat and add a few
improvements, but otherwise it will not
be changeft
It is stated by the BryaWt family that
their "new" home will have cost them 1
less than had they bought new lumber
and built a new house in their new
home.
"When we are settled in our new
home it will be some satisfaction to
know that we are still in our old
house," said Mrs. Beckwith.
POLLARD NOMINATED
Will Succeed Senator-elect Burkett in
First Nebraska District.
Falls City, Neb., June 3.Ernest M.
Pollard of Nehawka, Cass county, was
nominated for congress at the republi
can convention of the first district last
night. The nomination was made on
the fifty-first ballot, the convention hav
ing been in deadlock since Thursday.
A vacancy exists in the first Nebras
ka district by reason of the election of
Elmer J. Burkett, United Stat er sena
tor. The special election will be held
July 18.
FURNAS IS DEAD
Former Governor of Nebraska
Army Officer.
and
x.
Lincoln, Neb., June 3.Former^Gov-
ernor Robert Wilkinson Furnas is dead.
From 1873 to 1875 he was governor of
Nebraska. He was United States com
missioner to the expositions at Philadel
phia, New Orleans and Chicago. In
the civil war he was a colonel of tae
SecoWd Nebraska cavalry
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