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TODAY'S SPORTING NEWS WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE R.
MINNEAPOLIS MERCHANTS
Snow the circulation that gives
them i3bO most value. That's
tfiey swhy they advertise most in
The Journal.
GRAFT IN LOANS
FROM EQUITABLE
Son of Dismissed Controller Made
$20,000 a YearHyde in
Deal.
To (Jet Cash, a Guaranty, and a
Fire Insurance Policy Were
Requiredand Sold.
Speoitl to The Journal.
New York, July 27.Applicants
for loans on real estate from the Equi
table Xiife AsauTance society were co m
Selled to par premiums to Prank B.
ordan, son of the dismissed controller
of the society, for placing with com
panies allied to the Equitable reinsur
ance, title and fire, demanded by the
society upon property mortgaged for
loans. Mr. Jordan admits he received
from this source $20,000 a year.
Before the Equitable Life Assurance
society would lend on mortgage, title
had to be guaranteed by the Lawyers'
Title Insurance and Trust company, di
rectors in which are James Hazen
Hyde and William H. Mclntyre, the
Equitable's former first and third vice
presidents Thomas D. Jordan, former
controller, and George H. Squire, di
rector.
Then the property, if improved, had
to be reinsured in the Continental Fire
Insurance company, of 'which James
Hazen Hyde and "William Mclntyre
are directors, fifteen per cent of the
premium going to Frank B. Jordan.
Light on the Jordans.
Light is shed upon the connection of
the Jordan family with the fire in
surance business controlled by the
Equitable Life thru statements made
yesterday by Henry Evans, president
of the Continental Fire Insurance com
any, Frank B. Jordan, son of
Jordan, recently dismissed
as controller of the Equitable society.
Mr. Evans admitted that thru an
arrangement with James Hazen Hyde,
a director of the Continental, the lat
ter company monopolized the reinsur
ing of all buildings owned by the Equi
table or held as security for mortgages
by it, and that young Mr. Jordan, en
joyed a lucrative monopoly as broker
for the placing of the insurance.
Frank B. Jordan admitted the fact
also, and, while declaring that he made
not more than $20,000 a year out of
the transactions, stoutly maintained
that the scheme was entirely legiti
mate.
Title Insurance.
The would-be borrower upon a desir
able piece of realty found he had to do
several things which cost money before
he saw the color of any Equitable cash.
He was told that first of all he must go
to the Lawvers' Title Insurance and
Trust company and pay for having the
title to the property in question
searched and insured at his expense.
James Hazen Hvde and William H.
Mclntyre, former first and third vice
presidents of the Equitable Thomas B.
Jordan, former controller, and Georsre
Squire, director of the, Equitable are di
rectors of the Lawyers/^fle Insurance
company. The title having been passed
at the prospective borrower's expense
and notice of the fact bavincl^en con
veyed to him, the nian in need of money
would present himself at the mortgage
and loan department of the Equitable
for his loan.
There he would be told that the prop
erty must be insured in the Continental
company, even if it already was insured
in Bome other company, and business
had to be done thru Frank B. Jordan,
broker, upstairs.
Only One Company.
Mr. Jordan would explain that noth
ing save the Continental would do for
the Equitable, and straightway the
building was reinsured for 80 per cent
of its value at the owner's expense, Mr.
Jordan pocketing per cent of the
premium paid.
James Hazen Hyde and William JT.
Mclntyre are directors in the Conti
nental Fire Insurance company. James
Hazen Hyde gives all the orders to the
broker and has pledged the president of
the Continental that he shall have first
call upon the insurance not only of all
mortgaged property, but of all the build
ings owned by the Equitable.
But the Continental does not absorb
ell of the insurance of the Equitable,
altho it has first call upon it. Such
risks as are not to its fancy are carried
by Mr. Jordan to other concerns. But
the borrower has got to reinsure thru
young Mr. Jordan, on the third floor of
the Equitable building, anyway.
PENSIONS CTJT DOWN
Equitable Directors Afraid to Touch
Mrs. Hyde's, However.
New York, July 27.%ie directors of
the Equitable Life Assurance society
held two meetings today, covering a
period of three hours. The first was
an adjourned session from yesterday,
and the business transacted included the
election of George F. Vieter of this
city and Ernest B. Kruttschnitt of New
Orleans to the board.
The committee on pensions reported,
and in almost every instance its recom
mendations were adopted. A number
of pensions will be discontinued entirely
and others reduced to 50 per cent of
salaries received by officials or em-
fheir
loyees at the time of the severance of
connections.
It developed todav that in addition
to the pension of $25,000 a year to the
widow of Henry B. Hyde, there was
voted at the same time a pension of
$18,000 to Mrs. James W Alexander,
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jarded as legal liabilities or annuities
lieu of certain contracts waived by
the founder of the society and by Mr.
Alexander. The matter will be submit
ted to the Equitable special counsel,
Austen G. Fox and Wallace S. MacFar
lane. James H. Hyde was not present
at. tpday 's meeting.
REH HOSPITAL DEDICATED.
"Richmond, Ind., July 27.Reid Me
morial hospital, a public institution
made possible by the gift of $75,000 by
Daniel G. Reid of New York, was dedi
cated here todav. William B. Leeds,
also of New York, gave $10,000 and
there was $35,000 in other gifts.
TRADED GIRL FOR DOG.
Rochester, N. Y., July 27.The ex
chanere of a. 4-vear-old srirl for a doe
was made at Pavilion Center yeaterlay
Mr. and Mrs. George Tillotson receiving
the child and Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Carry,
who claim Lansing, Mich., as their
hornet, getting the dog. The couple as
sert the child was not theirs, but had'
been left with them by strangers.
DEATH FOE NINE ON TRACT.
Amsterdam. N. Y.. July 27.Six men, all
Italian laborers, were killed and three others
probably fatally Injured by being stmck by an
accommodation train on the New York Central
railroad at Tribes Hill, six miles west of this
titj, today.
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JAPAN PLANNING
STARTLING MOVE
TO DEPRIVE CZAR
OF PACIFIC PjT
Mikado Is Willing to Forego the
Fortification of Port
Arthur.
Peace Envoys to Propose Neutral
ization of Vladivostok on
Those Terms.
Washington, July 27.As'
lea is gained of Japan's pel
$-
a clearer
idea is gained of Japan' peace terms, $
the skepticism with which Washington
received the European reports that Ja
pan would demand the neutralization
of Vladivostok, is lessened.
It is learned that not only is this
YELLOW FEYER IS
^-GAINING YICTIMS
More New Oases Reported in New
Orleans, and Six More
Deaths.
New Orleans, July 27.Altho no re
ports of additiona lnew cases or deaths
from yellow fever were made public
by the city board of health in the early
hours of the day, there were unofficial
reports of a number of new cases to
day.
Official report was made today of
twelve new cases and six deaths oc
curring in the preceding twenty-four
hours. O the twelve new cases nine
are Italians. Six of the cases are at
520 and 524 St. Philip street, showing
the principal infection to be still in
the vicinity of the French market.
Only two of the cases are in the upper
part of the city. Of the deaths, one
occurred in the hospital, two up-town
and the other three in the French Mar
ket district.
The health authorities after a study
of the foci expressed the opinion to
day that there was still hope of eradi
cating the disease before fall and that
in any event with the precautions be
ing taken a serious epidemic was en
tirely out of the question.
Quarantined "by Texas.
Houston, Tex., July 27.As a result
of the delay on the part of the Louisi
ana authorities in putting on a quar
antine against New Orleans, State
Health Officer Tabor today placed a
quarantine against the whole state of
Louisiana.
The Southern Pacific has made de
cided changes in its train service.
Two of the local passenger trains will
hereafter run only to the Texas state
line and will not enter Louisiana. All
freight is to be fumigated at the border.
CHICAGO'S NEW CHEF
RAIDS GAMING HOUSES
New York Sun Special Service.
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Chicago, July 27.Chief of Police
Collins
starte
th
the wife of the former president, to I nponcement. that he _woul_d clean the
iake effect on the death of Mr. Alex
ander. These two items have been re-
to "makn goodh last
night.e Following his appointment to
ha
departmetan is an
city of crime, he instituted the biggest
raid of gambling known in the police
history of Chicago.
Eighteen picked detectives were sent
out to raid ganjbling dens in the down
town district. Almost one hundred men
were arrested in clubhouses and locked
up at the Harrison police station.
Wealthy men of some of Chicago's
most respectable families, who had
never seen the inside of a police sta
tion before, were locked in cells with
drunks and thieves and other disrepu
table characters of the red light dis^
trict. Andy Craig a saloonkeeper,
signed bonds for the appearance of all
the prisoners and they were released.
GHICAGO AGAIN SEES
YIOiESCEFROM STRIKE
Chicago, July 27.Violence growing
out of the teamsters' strike broke out
afresh last night. A mob of nearly a
thousand persons assaulted a. caravan
of wagons belonging to a wholesale
grocery company, while they were re
turning to the barns of the company.
After beating one of the drivers into
insensibility the wagon was driven
away by the rioters and tho horses
turned loose. Two rao"t of new harness
were stolen.
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likely to constitute one of Japan's de
niands, but it will be accompanied by
a startling counter proposal. In ef
fect, according to a seemingly well
informed source, Japan will propose
in return for the neutralization of Vla
divostok, not to fortify Port Arthur.
Should this information prove cor
rect, it will entirely change the view
which has prevailed in official circles,
that the question of Vladivostok's neu
tralization could not reasonably be
made a part of Japan's peace price.
It is pointed out that, while the war
has demonstrated that Port Arthur
was a military blunder, nevertheless,
this great fortification constitutes a
tremendous political influence in the
far east, and its abandonment as a
stronghold is a concession of such mag
nitude that it is not felt that Russia
can refuse to meet it.
On the other hand, Japan's sacrifice
would not be as great as seems at first
glance, because her fortification of the
straits of Korea would offset the loss
of Port Arthur as a strategic point.
It is believed here that the quest of
Vladivostok will prove to be one of the
most difficult which the conference will
face, as Russia has not concealed her
disinclination to permit it to enter into
the negotiations.
In this, connection, an interesting
story is current in diplomatic circles re
garding the selection of Baron Komura
as Japan's chief plenipotentiary. Ac
cording to this story, Japan had hardly
less trouble than did Russia in finding
an official willing to undertake this
delicate mission. Baron Komura was
finally induced to accept it with the
stipulation that before the, conference
assembled the following things should
be done: First, the flotation of a new
loan in order that Japan should be pre
Continued on 2d Page, 6th Column.
i Now Acting Commander-in-Chief of the $
G. A. K.
BOY SOLDIER NOW
CHIEF OF G. A. I
King-, Succeeding Blackmar as
Commander-in-Chief, Enlisted
at Age of 17.
Baltimore^Julv 27.By the death of
General W. W. Blackmar, Captain John
R. King becomes the acting com
mander-in-chief of the G. A. R. Cap
tain King is one of the best known
members of the department of Mary
land, and is now president of the Grand
Army club of Maryland. Captain King
was elected senior vice commander-in
chief last year in Boston. He was born
in Maryland sixty years ago. At the
age of 17 years he enlisted in the
Sixth Maryland regiment, his older
brother having preceded him one year,
and, with his regiment, followed the
fortunes of the Third and Sixth army
corps 4n the campaign of the Army of
the Potomac to the close of the war.
He was a prisoner of war six month's
and was three times wounded.
MUSICAL WIRELESS
INVENTION BY PRIEST
New York Sun Special Service.
Wilkesbarre, Ea., July 27.Father
Joseph Murgas of Wis city today com-v
pleted a two-days' official test'of his
recently invented wireless telegraphy
system, and it was highly satisfactory.
The tests were made at stations in this
city and at Scranton. The first mes
sage sent was: "Tha nk God for his
blessings.''
The basis of the new machine is the
use of a musical note to represent each
letter of the alphabet instead of dots
and dashes of the Morse, system. It is
said Father Murgas received $150,000
and royalties for his invention, and that
he will give $50,000 to his church and
spend the rest in furthering his inven
tions.
DOUGLAS FEARS PRESIDENCY.
Boston, July 27.Fear of being
turned into presidential timber is the
motive that prompts Governor Douglas
to refuse renoraination. says a sec
ond election as governor would plaeo
him dangerously close to the presidency,
and he prefers private life.
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AGAINST WARFARE
Aged King Is Determined to Pre
vent Hostilities if He Can
i Do So.
THREE MAIN ISSUES
MUST BE SETTLED
Matter of Ore Transportation One
of the Most Important to
4 Sweden.
BY. W. CHAMBERLAIN.
Managing Edftor of The Journal.
Copyright, 1805, by. The Minneapolis Journal.
Stockholm, Sweden, July 6.-The
great bulwark against a Scandina
vian war is King Oscar himself.
That aged but level-headed mon
arch has made up his mind that
there shall he no war if he can
prevent it.. And since the declara
tion of war is his prerogative, he can
absolutely prevent hostilities, unless in
deed Norway should attack Sweden and
put her on the defensive. This latter
eventuality is so" remote, that it may be
predicted with great assurance that
there will be no war.
So strongly does the king feel on the
subject, ana so averse is he to any
bloodshed among:the brother peoples
both of whom are very dear to him
that he has-.-held,
all dailyof
councils, in which1
family th men the
royal family have participated. These
have been peace councils, and they have
committed the royal family absolutely
to a peace-at-any-price policy. This is
^important, because.it means that the
'crown prince, who is supposed in many
quarters to be in favor of bringing the
Norwegians to terms and who in the
early stages of the controversy was said
to have delivered himself of some war
like utterances, is how entirely commit
ted to Oscar's policy. So that if the
king should tweak down under the
heavy load he is carrying and abdicate
in favor of Gustaf, there would be.no
change in the attitude bf the house of
Bernadotte. vzt-
Strong: Peace Faty.
This state of affairs is very exasper
ating to the chauvinist element among
the press who have been demanding
bellicose measures. But it has resulted
in the formation of a-strong Teac party
in both house of the riksdag.
I is significant that former Premier
Bostrom, whose, obstinate, dilatory and
shortsighted policy brought about the
crisis, and who favored treating the
Norwegians with great severity, has
how come around to the peace party.
He has discovered his mistake and is
striving to repair it. The
present min
istry, as is well understood, is a "mere
makeshift affair* which represents no one
and has no policy ofiits.owti. When Mr.
Bostrom resigned, the. king preferred
to tide matters over with such a minis
try rather than a new one.
The. peasant party in the lower
houserwhich is the most conservative
and cautious qfvi%m in Swedish poli
ties, the one thfelfceeps a tight hold on
the purseB fcriiig$/ andV prevents the "ex-
travagant upper house from, emptying
the nation's coffers too readilyhad a
conference with Mr. Bostrom yesterday,
the result of which is understood to
have been the conversion of the peasant
leaders to the peace policy absolutely.
*'Lets Alone" Policy.
There is much talk among the riks
dag men of the extreme-* left" for
what may be called the laissez-aller (let
alone) policy. They would sit back and
let things take their course without at
tempting to settle at this time the com
plicated and delicate problems that
have arisen. They would let Norway
go, and settle Sweden's relations with
her at some more convenient season.
Many of them favor a refusal on
Sweden's part to
Norwegian government
oen: ize the new
i in any way.
Continued on 4th Page, 6th Column.
IN THE KING OBCHAED.
Emperor WilliamHere, sonny, can't I pick one for you?
SWEDES IN CLASH
OVER HUGE LOAN
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HJALMAH BKANTING, $
Editor Stockholm Sooial-Demokraten and &
3j Member Riksdag.
WILY MILLER RONS
COBWEB IK CANADA
July Wheat Goes Out of Sight on
Winnipeg FloorShorts Get
Injunction.
Taking the list between her teeth
little Winnipeg ran.away from every
thing in the wheat
tradethof
today, July wheat, in1
the worl
Canadiad
market spurting up from $1.16 to $1.30.
Veterans in the grain trade in the big
markets of Minneapolis. and Chicago
watched the run above the line where
the Ogilvies, the-flour millers, and some
others, have cornered July wheat and
are now showing the world how to do
it rignt. Winnipeg, a frontier post
when Chicago was a great city, and
only within two years a market for
gram futures,- is running a corner that
makes Minneapolis manipulation of re
cent memory look like coarse work,
puts the doings of "Old Hutch" ah'd
Phillips of Chicago into the back
ground, andiCVen throws a slight shad
ow upon the remarkable record of the
redoubtable ^Joe Leiter.
The Ogilvies are the big millers of
Canada. They have been buying Win
nipeg July Whe at secretly for sofSe
time. Today E.. Muir, members of a
Canadian grain firm, secured an in
junction against the clearing hoase.of
the Winnipeg' exchange, with a-'view
to heading *|f the corner. When this
was learnejjjj panic strudk the shorts.
Three l^p|n|mneapolis houses
malae-
tain l^rancTrNmrees in Winnipeg1
PIEEPONT MORGAN ON THE SEAS.
Liverpool. July 27.J. Pierpont Mor
gan. -was amone the passengers -who
sailed from Liverpool yesterday for
New York on board the White Star Line
steamer Oceanic.
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/EOBABLY SHOWERS TONIGHT AND FBJDAY.
SOCIETY.1*
RIKSDAG ADOPTS
TERMS TO NORWAY
Debate in Second Chamber .Over
What Branting Calls Threat
to Norway.
Kaiser's Conference with Czar
Makes England Wary
About a Crown.
Stockholm, Sweden, July 27.Both
houses of the Swedish parliament to
day apprpved the report of the special
committee appointed by parliament to
deal with the crisis between Norway
and Sweden. In the firBt chamber the
report .was adopted without debate.
In. the second chamber the recom
mendation in the report regarding ne
gotiations for a dissolution was adopted
unanimously.
There was some objection to the pro
posed -loan of $25,000,000 to meet the
new conditions. About a score of mem
bers voted against the loan, the social
democratic leader, Herr Branting, point
ing out the danger of militarism and
declaring that the proposed loan -was
contrary to the peaceful spirit of the
recommendation to negotiate. It was a
dangerous precedent, he said, for
Sweden never heretofore had borrowed
money for military purposes, and he
feared Norway would regard it as be
ing in the nature of a. threat of war.
This view was contested by other
speakers, who pointed out that the riks
dag, by its unanimous approval of the
condition of dissolution, had voiced its
willingness to dissolve the union and its
desire for peace, both in the present
and in the future.
DENIAL FROM GERMANS
The Stockholm correspondent of the
Continued on 2d Page, 2d Column.
WOULD REBUILD
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ly, Lewis, Watson and Van Ihisen-Hftr
r'mgton. The latter firm was reported
to nave paid $1.30 for a 5,000-rbushel
lot. Several American traders were
short and were caught.
The possibility o breaking the cor
ner by rushing wheat up from Minne
apolis suggested itself, for Minneapolis
July closed at $1.06%, a difference of
23% cents. The idea was abandoned,
however, for, to make good delivery the
wheat would have to be in Canada be
fore Staurday night, and it would have
to go to Fort William or Port Arthur,
as sales of futures in Winnipeg imply
delivery at lake ports.
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Minneapolis Automobile Club Is
Planning to Present a Thrill
ing Spectacle.
Cablegrams from Leon Thery and
Lancia are expected at any hour by
the officers of the Minneapolis Auto
mobile club signifying their intention
to accept the invitation of the club
to race at the meet to be held at
Hamline in the fall. The presence of
the world famous racers will insure the
public that the Minneapolis club in
tends to give the greatest racing meet
ever held on this side of the Atlantic.!
TheTy won the Gordon Bennett
and Lancia was his close pursuer. In
cidentally Thery also picked up $80,-
000 by winning the race.
What Chuffers Say.
When Chevrolet, Webb Jay, Barney
Oldfield, and Earl Kiser were on the
Hamline track they declared it to be
fast and that if the purses had been
sufficiently high that it would easily
have proved itself'.to be a 53 second
course. That was with the track not
oiled. The Minneapolis club proposes,
not only to oil the track, but to bank
the corners. The corners will be raised,
not by heaping up dirt, but by employ
ing plank platforms. A skilled engi
neer will carefully compute the neces
sary pitch. This will insure that -when
the world's fastest cars dash around
the track that there will be no dust
and no let-up at the turns.
Fastest In America.
This means that the Hamline track
will be the fastest one-mile circular
track in America. All records will be
broken and there will be rteal racing,
Which has not been found on any other
track due to the dust. Except for a
breakdown of an engine there will be
no possibility of an accident and there
will be the chance for all sorts of
neck and neck races. The car that
secures the lead will have to fight for
every inch and will not have the ad
vantage of throwing dust in the eyes
of the pursuers.
TAKE A JOURNAL TOUR
This is great weather for "See
tog Minneapolis'', in a^jip-to-
date auto.
PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK.
Daily Mail said: dence against the mn on trial, saying
The object of Emperor William "that if the state-'s''evidence had shown
that gambling existed that gamblings
was indulged in' at the instigation ol?
the police.
I contend," he said, "that when
officers of the state or municipality
purposely instigate an infraction of
the statutes, the state cannot then con-"
stmeri/*he. infraction as a crime and
pseSecute^tro offenders. The evidetwse
*h this --cicse* *hows that the police en--
gaged, a professional gambler to gather
the evidenfte/^fe was repeatedly refused
admittance to many of the clubs, in
which he alleges that gambling was car
ried on and he admits that the games
he played in were started at his re
quest. The decision of courts denies
the right of the state to prosecute in-'
cases where the crime was suggested
and aided by the person acting for the
state."
American Drivers Coming.
Not only will the foreign racers be
novelties, but the American racers who
-vVere at the Hamline track at the St
Paul races will have a chance to
sjiow what they can do. With the ex
ception of the last race between the
Winton Bullet and the White Steamer,
everything was practically a proces
sion as far as the professionals were
concerned. On a fast track these cars
will be able to clip from four to eight
seconds off their time. After the races
the platforms can be removed from the
track without damage and preserved
for future use.
LUMBERMEN TO ENDOW
A CHAIR OF FORESTRY
Chicago, July 27.First steps toward
the raising of $150,000 to be used in
the endo-vment of a chair of applied
forestry at Yale university have oeen
taken at a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the National Lumber Manufac
turers' association.
The committee is to raise the neces
sary funds and aopoint a special com
mittee of three practical lumbermen do
co-operato with the Yale forest school
faculty, with a view of directing the
course of study along practical lines.
A committee ot 100 lumbermen will
have charge of the work in the various
lumbering districts. 2$$$te .r
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GAMBLERSGIVEli
VARYING DOSES
Judge Smith Saves His Choice
Sentences for the 'Worst
Offenders.
Denies Some of Them Option of
a PineCompliments the
Police.
xiAf
Judge C. L. Smith, in police court tc
day, indicted his belief that there are
different classes of gamblers. The ten
men convicted of running gambling
bouses were before him for sentence.
In fixing their punishment, the judge
held that some, by their methods in
conducting their places and their de
meanor and veracity on the witness
stand, were entitled to consideration
which should be denied others whose
places were pernicious and whose testi
mony was perjured.
In all the cases, however, Judge Smith
evidenced a desire'to supplant the ad
ministration in its effort to stop gam
bling in Minneapolis.
The men arraigned for sentence were:
Charles Loomis, Carl Blake, Louis
Wylie, John Webster, Franklin Mey
ers, Frank Bates, Ed Etewart, John
Tuhey, Charles Baxter and Fred Bar
rows.
Loomis Gets Option.
Loomis, Judge Smith said, appeared
to have conducted his case properly and
evidently had not perjured himBelf to
avoid a workhouse sentence, so he sen
tenced him to a fine of $100 or fifty
days.
Carl Blake and Louis Wylie, Judge
Smith said, conducted the most serv
icious places where faro was played,
and also had perjured themselves, so
they were given fifteen days straight.
Franklin Meyers, in whose cigar store
a smear game was conducted, got $20_
or twenty days Charles Baxter and
Fred Barrows, $75 or twenty-five days
each Frank Bates, fifteen days straight
because his place was most frequented
by laboring men John Webster, col
ored, who pleaded guilty, $75 or ten
days.
Judge Smith complimented -"Pa-
trolman Oscar Martinson and Special
Detective Charles Stockwell for the
work they did in collecting evidence.
Former Judge Kerr's Plea.
Knowing that the municipal bench
had in previous gambling cases an
nounced the polic of straight work-
Foreign Office Says Kaiser Is Not Seek
ing to Enthrone a Prince.
Berlin. July 27. The German for
eign office denies utterly the report
Eublished by the correspondent of a
ondon paper at Stockholm to the ef
fect that Emperor William, in his re
cent interview with the Russian'em
peror, sought to obtain the consent of
the latter for a prince of the house of i house sentences for convicted gambler*,
Hohenzollern to ascend the throne of
Norway.
What Prompted Denial.
former Judge W A Kerr made a strong
plea to save his clients from imprison
ment
Ien termak he, rpbuked the po-
their methods of securing evi
*scathing
1
Says Gambling Was Private.
Judge Kerr then quoted several de
cisions upholding his view of the case.'
Referring to other cases, he said that
if there was gambling it was not pub
lie, and that the statutes intended only
to prevent public gambling. In these
cases, if there was gambling it was
only of a private nature between, mem
bers of the clubs, and that, by fabri
cation, Charles Stockwell, under prom
ise of a position on the detective force,
might have gained admittance. In
none of these clubs, said Judge Kerr,
was Stockwell allowed to play, and
only common decency prevented the
members from ejecting him bodily.
The testimony of Stockwell in the
case against Carl Blake and Louis Wy
lie, who occupied the quarters of the
old Metropole club, Judge Kerr said,
was all false. He then pointed out
alleged discrepancies in the new detec
tive testimony. In regard to the ar
rest of Franklin Meyers for running
a smear game in his cigar store on
Third street, Judge Kerr said that the
game might technically infringe on
the pirit of the la's?, butht the
wass puerile, inasmuch ast thea game wasesae
in progress in many cigar stores in
Minneapolis.
City Prosecutor Finney, who has
marshaled the avidence against the
defendants, contended the right of the
city to hire anyone it chose to obtain
the evidence, in that all of the police
officers were well known.
Nearly two hours were occupied in
making the arguments, and shortly af
ter noon the court was adjourned until
2 o'clock, when sentences were pro
nounced.
FRANCO-GERMAN FIGHT 1
IN AFRICA RUMORED
Berlin, July 27.The colonial bu
reau of the foreign office has not been
advised officially of the report cur
rent on the continent of a collision be
tween German troops and French Sou
danese soldiers on the Cameroon and
French Congo frontier, but the bureau
has asked the governor of the Cam
eroon colony for a report on the sub
jest.
DOLLAR GIFTS TO HELP"
WEAYER FIGHT GRAFT
New York Sun SpeoUl Service. *t{
Philadelphia, July 27.Acting on'a
suggestion recently made, several citi
zens have started a one-dollar'' fund
to help Mayor Weaver defray the heavy
expense he is under in lighting for the
city's rights against the contract com
bination and the gang.
Public attention has been attracted
by the fact that ever since Mayor
Weaver entered upon the campaign, he
has had to contend: with determined ob
struction. It was necessary in the first
instance that he should undertake the
work on his own responsibility, but he
never hesitated, and drew freely upon
his private resources for the prelimin
ary expenses. I has become clear that
to a great extent private aid must sus
tain his courageous fight.
Several contributions have been re
ceived and forwarded to the mayor.
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