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SEIT TO SENATE
AGAIN ASSAILED
Smoot of Utah Suddenly in
Grave Danger of Los
ing Toga.
Senate Committee Will Look
into the Mormon
Oath.
Polygamy in the Church of
Brigham Young to Be
Probed.
Roberts Case in the House
Will Furnish a Prece-
dent.
By W. W. Jarmane.
ASHINGTON, Dec. 80.The
determination of the senate
committee on privileges and
elections to reopen the Smoot. case for
|he purpose of taking additional testi
mony comes as a surprise to nearly
everybody. Back of that determina
tion however, lies the purpose of the
committee to develop a new line of tes
timonya line which, if it should bear
fruit, will almost certainly result in
turning the committee almost solidly
against Smoot and perhaps lead to his
unseating.
Scores of witnesses from Utah and
all the other Mormon sections of the
country are to be subpoenaed, and the
new line of testimony will have to do
with the test oath administered to all
high church officials.
It is believed that this oath makes
citizenship allegiance subordinate to
church allegiance, and if it does,
Smoot will find himself in a very un
safe position in the senate.
Polygamy and Church.
The question of polygamous practices
at the present day among the Mormons
will also be fully gone into at the forth
coming hearing. It is understood that
testimony on this point will not be con
fined to the Mormons of Utah, but will
be extended to every Mormon commu
nity in the United States. The obnect
of this will be to prove that in spite
of the rigid provisions of the Edmunds
law and the oath which members of the
Mormon church have taken to respect
this law, their religious beliefs are so
strong as to cause them to obey the
mandates of the church rather than the
mandates of the courts.
It is expected that a good deal of
sensational evidence along this line will
be developed before the hearing is
closed this winter.
The Roberts Precedent.
The house, by a virtually unanimous
vote, denied Roberts, democrat, his seat
because it was proved that he had more
khan one wife. The house which denied
Eoberts his seat was relatively as heav
ily republican as the senate is at pres
ent. It is argued that as republicans
and democrats alike voted against Rob
erts in the house, all partizan policies
thereby were eliminated from the Mor
mon question before congress, and that
for this reason no partizan appeal can
successfully be made in the senate for
Smoot, a republican.
It is not charged that Senator Smoot
has more than one wife, but it is
charged that as one of the highest offi
cials of the Morman church he supports
a social system which, in the languge of
Senator Hale, "obtrudes a religious
hierarchy into American politics." If
Senator Smoot is unseated it will be
mainly on the broad ground described
by Mr. Hale.
Carlisle Leads right.
John G. Carlisle, who since the in
ception of the contest has been one of
the counsel for the opposition to Smoot,
will have full charge of the prosecution.
Mr. Carlisle's connection heretofore has
been somewhat subordinate to that of
Judge Tayler of Ohio, who took the
lead in the case against the Utah sen
ator largely because he had thoroly fa
miliarized himself with the main ques
tions involved while he was chairman
of the house committee, which, six years
ago, reported against the Mormon, Rob
erts, a democrat, holding his seat in
the house. When Mr. Tayler last winter
was appointed to the federal bench in
Ohio by President Roosevelt, the prose
cution fell to Mr. Carlisle.
The testimony developed at the pre
ceding hearings, which were prolnoged
thru the last two sessions of congress,
has been printed by order of Chairman
Burrows, and is compiled in three vol
umes of about 10,000 words each.
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S
HATCHET IS POUND
The Weapon that Hacked the Cherry
Tree Is Discovered.
Specia to The Journal.
RlICHMOND,
.1
VA., Dec. 30.The lit*
tie hatchet with which George
Washington hacked the cherry
__^ tree just before he made his fa
mous refusal to tell a lie, is reported to
have been discovered in a big tree near
Morrisville, which, in addition to con
taining the relic, had tons of fine honey
in it, which will bring a small fortune
to the lucky finder. *$HP3g
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By Publishers' Press.
CHICAGO,'
DOME PAPER QUITS
FOR UGK OF CASH
"Leaves of Healing" Suspends
Because Printing' Stock Sup
ply Is Out Off.
By Publishers'
CHICAGOTress.
DEATH OF YERKES
REVEALS CHARITY
Millionaire Traction Magnate's Check-
ered Career Marked by Strange
Deeds and Good Ones.
Dec. 30.Charles T.
Yerkes will is to be probated
in Cook county within the next
thirty days. It is estimated that the
document will dispose of an estate of
$15,000,000. It is said Mr. Yerkes left
large amounts to charity and to institu
tions to be used bv the public.
Clarence Knight, wHo was Mr.
Yerkes' Chicago attorr has charge
of the will. He declineu to discuss its
contents before it is filed. When asked
as to the truth of the reports that
charity has a large place in the testa
ment, he said Mr. Yerkes was a char
itable man, but did not parade the
fact before the public.
Now that the famous street railway
promoter and manager is dead, acts of
charity which he kept secret are de
scribed. It has been learned that he
had more than 200 pensioners on his
books. Hospitals, art museums, scien
tific societies ancl colleges are said to
be mentioned in the will.
YERKES' LEGACY OF SORROW
Domestic Entanglements of a Life Full
of Strife.
New York Herald Speeial Service.
New York, Dec. 30.While the body
of Charles T. Yerkes, millionaire trac
tion magnate, is lying at his residence,
No. 864 Fifth avenue, every effort Is
being made to smooth* over for the
brief time before the funeral, the do-
.Dec. -SO.Consternation
reigned in Zion City today aB a
result of the suspension of
Dowie'B paper, "Leaves of Healing,"
which has been published since the
apoBtle first began his work in Chicago
in 1892 and has attained a world-wide
circulation.
The cause is said to be'lack of money
with which to purchase paper. Dr.
Speicher, acting general overseer of
Zion City, announced that there would
be no issue of the paper this week,
but he hoped to resume soon.
"We are in a Btate of transition
here under orders from Dr. Dowie,"
said Dr. Speicher. "Affairs of the
government of the city are being
turned over to the triumvirate he
arranged before leaving. The money
is in the hands of this triumvirate and
we have not been able to get enough
to buy print paper.''
THIRTY HURT IN CAR'S PLUNGE.
Lake Geneva, Wis Dec 30 LewiB
Erbe shot and killed his wife. Sarah Erbe,
at 5.30 clock tills afternoon ana then
shot himself, dying instantly. The couple
had been having domestic troubles for
some time
KILLING AT LAKE GENEVA.
Paterson, N Dec 30 A car on the
Hackensack & Paterson trolley line
jumped the track on a sharp curve late
tonight Thirty persons -were hurt and
many others shaken up The motorman
lost control of the car going down a steep
hill.
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mestic tangle into which the man's
queer sense of ethics had plunged him.
The body is at the home of the legal
widow, but for the last* years Mr.
Yerkes had not entered it, nor had the
widow visited him during the last
weeks of his fatal''illness until yester
day afternoon, when she was informed
he was dying.
In Philadelphia is the wife who di.
vorced him many years ago, after she
i had borne him the son and daughter
who attended his bediside vesterday.
Another home is but a stone's throw
from the mansion where the body lies
today. It is at No. 660 Park avenue,
where lives Susan Grigsby and her
beautiful daughter Emilie, in a white
stone residence, furnished with all the
lavish display that the millionaire
loved. It is this establishment and its
handsome young ownerfor the prop
erty is held bv Miss Grigsbythat ac
counts for the three years' estrangment
between. Mr. Yerkes and hio -wife.
Wido a Prisoner.
And in the .Fifth avenue house the
widow for the last five months has been
a prisoner by reason of the man's de*
sire to divorce her. She has been or
dered to leave the mansion by Samuel
Untermyer, his personal counsel, and
on her refusal it had been threatened
that gas, water and electricity would
be shut off. Her own lawyers had told
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COAL OIL JOHNNY"
DYING IN POVERTY
Man Who Spent Three Millions
in Seven Months Is Near
End.
Special to The Jfcfctnal.
RAUKLIN* "PA., Dec. SfcIn a
little house on the Moffet farm
at Fee, a few miles from this
place, a life is going out tonight.
John Steele, known thruout the en
tire world years ago as "Coal Oil
Johnny," is dying of pneumonia.
After years in obscurity on a Kansas
farm, the man who, when young, es
tablished the record of spending
$3,000,000 in seven months' time,
has been downed by pneumonia and the
physicians do not think he can recover.
He is 64 years of age, frail and pov
erty stricken.
Steele performed his feat of spending
money under difficulties. He spent
most of it in the unsettled oil regions
where money was hard to spend unless
one wished to dabble in oil, and this
"Goal Oil Johnny" never did.
It is said by those who knew him
best that he never made one invest
ment in oil. His immense fortune came
to him in a windfall and he spent it like
a king. What he saw that he liked he
bought, and bought it then and there,
never haggled, over the price and never
took any change.
One of the favorite tricks was to
light his cigars with $100 bills. He
had a band imported from New York
to play for him while he ate, and had
his own private opera troupes and his
own opera house in a suburb of Oil City,
Wessington Springs, S. D., Dec. 30.
Revival meetings will begin at the
M. E. church Jan. 2. O. A. Miller, of
Chicago, will assist "Rev. Mr. Crowther.
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GtMHHCl Murder in Second Degree,
Says JuryMeans Life
Imprisonment.
Murderess of Her Step-Chil
dren Weeps in Court-
room.
RS. STELLA BRENNAN is a
murderess.
By the verdict of a .-jury of
her peers returned late yesterday after
noon she stands convicted of the" cold
blooded murder of her 14-year-old step
daughter, Elizabeth Brennan. She will
be sentenced next Tuesday morning to
serve a life sentence in the penitentiary.
Nothing can now save her from that
fate but the supreme court, to which her
attorneys say an appeal will be taken,
or the pardoning board of the state.
With the nerve that enabled her to
murder three innocent children while
they slept, to shoot a fourth thru the
face and then to inflict an ugly wound
upon herself still unshaken, Mrs. Bren
nan walked into Judge Dickinson's
courtroom yesterday afternoon. Her long
black veil was over her face, but she
seemed the least aaccitecl person in. the
crowded courtroom as she sat quietly
awaiting the coming of the men who
held her fate in their hands.
Crowd Held Its Breath.
The jurors took their places. The
crowd held its breath as Clerk Edward
Goff asked, after calling the roll: "Gen
tlemen of the jury, have you agreed
upon a verdict?" "We have," was
the solemn answer and as the fateful
paper was handed to the clerk, to the
judge, who read it without changing
countenance and back to the clerk
again, the woman did not move except
to follow the document that meant so
much to her, with eyes that showed no
fear.
The clerk read. When he came to the
words: "Guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree," there was an almost in
audible catching of breath among the
crowd. The defendant bad raised her
veil, and not'a muscle of her face
changed. J. C. Cormican, one of de
fendant's counsel, asked that the jury
be polled. The namfp we*- ^taakand each
man was askeJ in tu9 if that, was his
verdict.
Mrs.fireima id
Not until the last name had been
read and the last answer given did the
convicted murderess show a sign of suf
fering. Then the tears that had been
gathering in her eyes brimmed over. She
bowed her head, covered her eyes with
her handkerchief and wept silently.
Only a few sobs shook her. Then she
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YEAR'S WAB TOLL IS
WORSE THAN IN 1904
Chicago, Deo. 30.The number
killed in war during 1005 exceeds
the record of 1904, notwithstand
ing the close of the Russo-Japanese
contest.
The total loss for the year is
about 540,000, as compared with
400,000 in 1004, 86,000 in 1903,
26,000 in 1902 and 3,000 in 1901.
The loss is distributed as fol
lows: Russo-Japanese, 298,965
Russia, civil strife and mas
sacre, 162,000 Trans-Caucasia,
6,900 Africa, 1,690 Philippines,
535 Morocco, 580 East Indies,
260 Bulgaria, 134 Macedonia, 61
Armenia, 27.
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THAT'S THE QUESTION.
The InvestigatedWhat we want to know is, who's going- to investigate congress?*^?
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SUNDA^MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1905. 72 PAGESPRICE 5 CENTS.
Special to The Journal.
CHICAGO,
ON POLAR QUEST,
BORNE BY AIRSHIP
Walter Wellman and Santos-Dumont
Will Seek North Pole in a Flying
Machine Next June.
Dec. 30.Walter Well
man has been commissioned by
the Chicago Record-Herald to
find the north pole in an airship. He
has accepted the task and the flying ma
chine is now under construction in
Paris, under the personal supervision of
Santos-Dumont who will accompany
Wellman on the journey.
The expedition is not hampered by a
lack of funds. The flying machine is
to be completed the latter part of April
and will undergo a series of trials
around Paris, crossing the Mediterran
ean and the North seas. In June all
the paraphernalia is to be assembled in
Norway and the start will be made from
Spitzbergen, which will be headquar
ters.
The start will not be made until the
weather is favorable and Mr. Wellman
will send daily reports of his progress
by wireless telegraphy.
A Week, Then the Pole,
In discussing his chances, he says
that with fair weather, the expedition
should be at or very near the pole in
side of a week from the start. Allow
ing a week for observation, photograph
ing and marking the location, it is es
timated they can return to Spitzbergen
in another week.
The main idea is to await favorable
conditions and then make speed. There
will be no snow or ice blockades to over-
New York Herald Special aWe Service. Copy
right, 1905, by the New York Herald. All
Sights Reserved.
S
T. PETERSBURG, Dec. 30.Rus-
sian ^roubles are like apples in a
pajl of water. When forced
"down |tt qne point they bo up in an
other.
Thus, at the moment the executive
committee called off armed resistance
in Moscow troubles, just as serious
troubles have broken out at Kieff and
Rostoff, while in the Don coal dis
trict business is paralyzed and agrar
ian troubles are increasing.
At Tvar also the situation is serious.
The Morosoff factory, employing 15,000
men, is in full strike, forcing all other
factories to stop.
The bridge at Sirzan, over the
Volga, has been blown up. This cuts
off the Siberian line. There are also
labor disturbances in Ural, and also
among the workmen of the Siberian
line.
One train got thru to Moscow with
troops, somehow, but news has just
been received that the line is now
utterly shut. Grave damage has been
done in the neighborhood of Lixoslav.
Battle Near Capital.
In the Narva district, a suburb of
St. Petersburg, yesterday afternoon
Cossacks met armed bands of workmen
and fired, killing and wounding thirty
CRUSHED IN MOSCOW,
NEW REVOLTS ARISEIt
Hundreds Die in Bombardment at Ancient CapitalFresh
Uprisings in Other Russian Cities and New
Peril in St. Petersburg.
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sages. It is expected the power of the
machine will cover distances in a day,
that under the laborious sledge methods
would take months.
Mr. Wellman says in part:
"Undoubtedly the general verdict
will be, when the plan of this expedi
tion is announced, that it is a most
reckless adventure. Most people will
say that to combine the hazards of
aerial navigation with those of the
travel over the Arctic sea, is an invi
tation for the fates to do their worst.
We must expect criticism. Some of
our best friends may question our
sanity. But men who fully understand
arctic work thru aotual experience, and
who are thoroly familiar with the
progress that has been made in the art
of aero-navigation do not agree that
the work is hazardous."
Five Men In Party,
The flying machine will carry fiv*
men. It will be capable of remaining
in the air twenty-one days without re
plenishing the gas supply and three en
gines or dynamos will drive it, in ordi
nary weather, at rate of eighteen
miles an hour. It is estimated that i'1
will make twelve miles an hour against
adverse winds. Generators will be car
ried so that the gas may be replenished
without returning to any station. Aside
from the men and the machinery, the
machine will have a carrying capacity
of 800-pounds storage.
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men. The latter returned the fire and
emptied the saddles of eight Oossacks.
One of the officers was killed and sev
eral wounded. The Cossacks were or
dered to fire again twice, but refused.
A messenger who has just come"
reports heavy fighting going on at Tvar.
The revolutionaries have destroyed a
great quantity of signals along the
line, crippling it for some time to come.
The telegraph posts have been sawed
down.
The workmen's executive committee,
sitting here, proposes postponing active
proceedings for a week or two to see
the effect made on the government
which is inclined to make serious con
cessions.
The workmen, if they come out, wish
to do so armed.
Durnovo to Be Premier.
The latest and most interesting pieee
of news is that M. Durnovo will in a
short time be appointed prime minister,
which means reaction of the strongest
sort.
The appointment of M. Akimoff, a
brother-in-law of M. Durnovo, as the
new minister of justice was made with
out Count Witte's approval. In fact
he warmly protested against it. The
general construction placed upon this
fact is that of a direct invitation to
Count Witte to tender his resignation.
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STEUENBERG.LATE
Assassins Slay Former Ex-^
ecutive of Western State
at His Gate. "1
D'Alene Gang Is Mur
dered at Home.
Bomb Fired as Idaho Man
Enters on Way to
Family.
Picturesque Figure of the
West Assassinated By
Mysterious Plotters.
Speoial to The Journal.
OISB, Idaho, Dec. 30.Prank
Steuenberg, former governor of
Idaho and famous thruout the
nation fox is relentles pT-oscxrtiy f
the notorious Conor D'Alone gang in
1899, met a dreadful death this evening
at the hands of unknown foes.
As he was entering the front gate of
his house in the suburb of Caldwell, a
dynamite bomb was exploded, blowing
off both of his legs and inflicting fatal
internal injuries.
The distinguished Idahoan died in
twenty minutes.
The crime is one that will rank in
history for its peculiar fiendishness.
Governor Steuenberg, as he was famil
iarly called, was about to join his fam
ily at supper. His wife and three chil
dren were awaiting his coming. The
evening meal was spread npon the table.
was forty minutes past six o'clock
and quite dark. The country near the
Steuenberg home is not thickly settled,
and the dynamiters, protected by the
darkness, were able to work freely with
out fear of discovery.
Gate Sprung the Trap.
They rigged up an infernal machine
that would respond to the action of
the opening of the gate. The former
governor's movements must have been
carefully watched, as the machine bomb
was connected with the hinged gate
within a few minutes of his appearance.
As he opened the gate there was a 34
terrific explosion and a flash of light ~j
that could be seen clearly for a mile
illuminated the premises.
Mr. Steuenberg was hurled thirty feet
and was picked up nearly lifeless.
Death resulted more from shock than
from loss of blood.
The deed was committed in such a
short time and the confusion of the
moment was so great that no one gave
a thought to the perpetrators. Mem
bers of the family, the servants and
neighbors hurried to the stricken man
and tenderly carried him to his home.
Physicians were summoned and applied
powerful restoratives, but to no avail.
Dynamiters Escape.
And in the meantime the dynamiters
were making their escape.
Immediately it was known that a
machine bomb had been the cause of
the murder, word was sent to the au
thorities here, and the news was flashed
to all the surrounding cities, towns and
villages. No description of the crim
inals could be given, but clews are ex
pected within a few hours.
The reason for hoping that ultimately
the guilty ones may be caught is the
general belief that some of the ex-gov
ernor's enemies of the Ooenr D'Alene
days are involved.
Incurred Enmity.
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Six years ago Governor Stenneberg
invited serious enmity among the mem
bers of the so-called inner circle of the
Conor D'Alene dynamiters. He pur
sued them ruthlessly, and some were
known to have sworn to obtain re
venge. But these threats were long
ago forgotten by the former executive i
and his friends. They were regarded I
as the utterances of men who were}
embittered at the moment.
With these facts in mind, Governor
Gooding, who was notified of the mur- t-
der, at once entered into communica- %x-s^*
tion with the authorities of the county!
in which the old ex-Couer D/Alene i "f
gang flourished. He wired the sheriff
and the Pinkerton officials to spread (SS
out their net and arrest suspicions
characters. The governor will an
nounce a large reward for the cap
ture and conviction of the murderers.
Ex-Governor Frank Steuenberg was
one of the most picturesque figures of
his state. A native of Iowa, he was
nevertheless typical of the far west, i
rough, hearty man of the plains and the
hills. He was never east of the Mis
sissippi river until after he had be
come chief executive of the state of i
Idaho in 1897. He stood seven feet in
his stockings, straight as an Indian and
as broad as a heavyweight pugilist.
He was an outspo&en advocate of
woman's suffrage, which had been ac
cepted by Idaho. He was also a
staunch supporter of Mormonism, al-i
tho not a member of that faith.
Governor Steuenberg served two
terms, from 1897 to 1901, being the
candidate of the democrats and silvei
republicans of his state. He proved a
good executive, and put down strike.
riots among the miners with an iroa