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People Around Lyndale and Sixth
Avenue North Are
Aroused.
Coroner Kistler and His House
mover Fire Wrath of Neigh
bors and Park Folk.
SHOTGUN GUARDS
TO SAVE TREES
THREATE N DEAT
FO VANDALIS
Bv threatening a housemover with from Douglas lake and betweenu that
Infant Joath if he did not halt, the
Nicola nyer.-
propeitv owners in the vicinity of T,yn--| ^i?^.
dale and Sixth avenues N have saved
their fine shade trees temporarily and
created an aggravated condition of af
fairs. There is talk-of shooting, and
everybody directly interested is great
ly excited.
The trouble started when Dr. M.
Kistler ,coroner of Hennepin countv,
started to move a two-story double
store from its location at Sixth and
Lvndale, one block further north on
Lyndale, to make room for more, mod
ern improvements. The building is
nearlv fiiiy feet wide, and could not
be taken- up the street without sacri
ficing a row of splendid elms. Dr. Kist
ler consulted with Superintendent
Theodore Wirth and Secretary A.
Eidgway of the park board, and both
entered a decided protest against de
stroying the .trees, altho Xr Kistler
agreed bear the expense of planting
new trees.
Ordered Trees FeUect.
Th park officials saw that the only
way in which the old. store could be
moved was cutting it i t*o and
moving one section at a time. They so
informed Dr. Kistler, who instructed
.the housemover, C. A. Anderson, to cut
the house in two. Mr. Anderson had
the house sawed in two and instructed
bov to begin felling trees.
Before anyone else knew what
going on. oiie section of the store wa_
well out the street. Then trouble be
gan. Owners of adjoining property in
terfered. The progress of the building
was stopped force, and the boy who
cut down the tree was taken before a
police ."judge, who fined him $3.
The dividing of the building does not
solve the tree problem. Instead of cut
ting'it lengthwise, as the park officials
contemplated, the housemover cut it
crosswise, which did not help matters at
all. Dr. Kistler says he left the matter
entirely with Mr. Anderson, assuming
ha he knew how to cut the building.
At present the neighborhood is dead
locked. The old building has not been
moved for a week, and is a serious im
pediment to traffic. The neighbors are
up in arms, as was shown last night
when a report was circulated to the ef
fect that an attempt would be made to
steal a march and move the house under
the cover of night.
O Guard All Night.
Park Patrolman Morris was hurried
to the place and with some determined
men kept'watch all night, but there was
no sign of any work on the building.
Dr. Kistler' sa.ys there is no occasion
for any excitement. intends to com
ply with the orders of the park board,
had always done so, and insists that
every step he has taken thus far has
been with the sanction of park officials
except that Mr. Anderson did not cut
the house the right way. attributes
the entire trouble to the enmity of one
of his neighbors.
Just what will happen is not yet
known. Park Commissioner Lor
ing is greatly stirred up over the mat
ter. He classes the cutting of the tree
as vandalism and is greatly disap
pointed because the fine was fixed at
such a trifling sum as $3.
Mr. Loring Aroused^
"Is it not about time," asked Mr.
Loring, "for Minneapolis police jus
tices to learn that there is a money
value in shade trees, even tho they can
not appreciate their value as an embell
ishment to our streets and as sanitary
agents?
"Minneapolis has the reputation
among tree lovers as being the best
planted city in the northwest, andwe
have many citizens who appreciate
their beauty as is evidenced by this
fight.
The man who cut down the tree
Was arrested and the ,-judge fined hirn.-$3
three dollars for destroying a tree
that was seven or eight inches in di
ameter!
"For injuring a tree by cutting out
limbs a Kansas judg
M&\ '-%SM^G
fined a telephone thorities
Carolina court part,
awarded $499 damages against another
company for destroying a poplar tree.
The judges of Minneapolis courts in
flict a fine of from $1 to $5 for injur
ing trees.
"What the outcome of this matter
will be no one can tell, but it is safe
to guess that the Jrailding will be
moved, the fine trees destroyed, the
man arrested and fined $3 each for trees
worth, several hundred dollars.
"Is it not about time for our citi
zens to deniand that they shall have one
of the greatest attractions of our city
protected by the courts?"
CHARITIES CONVENTION.
Philadelphia, May 15.Children ard ttieir de
fects wpre 'liscussed at today's session of the
National Conference of Charities and Corrections.
The subjects Included the work of probation of
ficers for dependent and deUnquent children
their work before the trial and like matters.
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BANDITS, AT BAY,
FIRE O N OFFICER S
Mounted Police and Hounds from
United States .Capture C. P.
R. Train Robbers.
Special to The Journal.
Winnipeg, Man., May 15.The rob
bers who held up the Canadian Pacific
express last Tuesday night were cap
tured east of Kamloops, B. yester
day afternoon.
According to a special from Kam
loops, three men, answering perfectly
the description, were arrested one milee
011
bandits opened fire.
Mad Telegraph Operator, Well
Armed, Sought by Posse
in Georgia Woods.
Atlanta, Ga., May 15.-James H.
16 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK. TUESDAY EV^|N^MAV|i
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Ther mounted police 0
surender
They were surrounded, however, and
one of the highwayriTen was badly
wounded in the leg by a bullet. The
other two came out in the open, laid
down their arms and surrendered.
The dispatch does not say whether
they, admitted the crime. They were
tracked all day by bloodhounds brought
across the boundary by a United States
police officer.
A doctor is being hurried over from
Nicola to the wounded man. The rob
bers had traveled to a point foTty miles
south of Kamloops when caught.
SLAYSlEjiJNDS
IMP AN FLEES
Clark, night telegraph operator at
Chamblee, a station en the Southern
railway northeast of Atlanta, late yes
terday' killed W.\J. Cheek, a merchant
at Dunwoody, dangerously wownded S.
Pure ell. his son, W. S. Purcell, and
W.waChicago,
S. Mark, the day operator at Chamblee,
and is still at large in the woods at
Dekalb or Fulton county, hunted by
officers and volunteers.
Clark, who is believed to be mentally
unbalanced, aggravated his condition
yesterday by drinking. Late in the af
ternoon he went to the home of S. Pur
cell, with whom he boarded, and de
manded admittance. Being refused, he
broke down a door, set fire to the kitch
en and encountered the two Purcells,
father and son, and Mr. Mark.
Refused Cartridges Kills.
Clark then began firing, first with a
revolver and then with a shotgun,
severely wounding each of the three.
Then he dashed from the house, go
ing toward Dunwoody, about five miles
distant. Reaching there, he went to the
store of Nash & Clark and demanded
cartridges. Mr. Cheek refused to sell
them, having been warned by telephone,
whereupon Clark shot Cheek thru the
He also fired at Nash, who dodged
and escaped from the building.
Clark then helped himself to ammu
nition, securing several boxes of cart
ridges, and disappeared in the woods.
WOULD OUST CRAPSEY
UNLESS HE BETBACTS
Eochester, N. Y., May 15.The ver
dict in the heresy trial of Eev. Dr. Al
gernon S. Crapsey today was delivered
to the accused minister.
Four of the jurors state that, in their
opinion, the respondent should be sus
pended from exercising the functions
of the church until such time as he
shall satisfy the ecclesiastical authori
ties of the diocese that, his belief and
teaching conform to the doctrines of
the apostles creed and the Nicene
creed as this church hath received the
same.
Beads the Verdict.
However, we express the earnest
hope and desire that the respondent
may see his way clearly during, .tlte
thirty days that, under the canons of
the church, must intervene before sen
'tence. can be. pronounced to the full
satisfaction of the ecclesiastical au
of. such., conformity on his
SONS 01 BEST FAMILIES
CHARGED WITH THEFTS
Special to The Journal^
Racine, Wis.. May 15. -A sensation
was caused here today whence police
found in a cave several thousand dol
lars' worth of sil-werware, clothing and
other, goods, stolen recently in small
quantities at a time from the wealthy
Racine Golf club. The cave was fixed
up\ in dime-novel style. I is known
as the abode of sons of the best fami
lies in this place. Warrants are out
for them, but have not been served,
pending settlements.
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OI PROSECUTIO N
O BEGI N AT ONC E
Prepare for Government's
War on Rebates.
Journal Special Service.
Washington, May 15.After a im
portant conference a the "White House
last night in which the president, At
torney General Moody and Commis
sioner of Corporations Garfield partici
pated, the announcement was authorized
that the department of justice will pro
ceed without further demy to prosecute
the Standard Oil company and a num
ber of." railroad companies,,cm charges
of violating, the anti-rebate /law.
PERISH I N DESER
MILE S FRO WATE
Prospectors Die atToot of Puiieral
RidgeFingers Worn
Away Digging,
Caliente, Nevada, Ma 15.Joseph
Constantine, a prospector,- who has just
return from a trip into Death Valley,
reports the finding of the bodies of two
young eastern prospectors at the foot
of the Funeral range.
Both men wore trousers bearing a lav
bel "Walsh, the Tailor." One of them
carried a'watch inscribed "M. Gr. H.,"
and .we a, seal ring beating the lette0
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Tie men perished nearly thirty miles
froni water.. Th^J^jgers of one* of, the
men'had been worn to the bone digging
in 'the sand, evidently" i an attempt
reach water. Constantine and his'men
brought the bodies out and" buried
them near Carroll Springs.,
lfiOQUOIS MANAGES
UP FOR MANSLAUGHTER
May 15.WillJ. Davis, who
manager of the Iroquois theater at
the time of the great fire in that build
ing, was arraigned today on,a charge of
manslaughter, growing- out of the fire.
By agreement with"the state's attorney,
a continuance
morrow.
Benny makes off with Teddy's gitfnt cracker-r-
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BOLDL DEMAN
YIELDIN O CZA
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President and Attorney General Douma Frames Reply to SovTaft's
reign's Speech Declaring
for. Ten Reforms.
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"Wfto Face* Rapidly Ne^ring Criaia in
Demand* of Douma.
St. Petersburg p.ay 15.The draft
of the address to the throne- in reply
to the emperor's speech at tir^ opening
of ''parliament was. subrmttecf- to the
lower house -^f parliament todi^r by the
commlissioiiL I consists' cpracjically of
the fbllowi^r ten ^vamnSa^^l
:Theiat)olitfdifi|#^ tJ^Nteatli perialtyi
"The suspeniioa jiaartial- -law and
all exceptional W^lsrjft,^ 'v
Full civil liberty. r^v
The kbelition of the eouBc|l of thecaped
empie.
Thr revision of the fundamentaliaw*
'The establishments of :.theKreijponsir
bilitv of ministers.
The right of interpellation. j* *\were
Forced-expropriation of land,-.-?-
Guarantees of the rights: of -.triided
unions.
The men of the new admiraltyvyorks
where Vice Admiral Kuzmich was, assas
sinated yesterday, were kept at theScalps
works until far into the night in.order
to enable the ""police to. continue the
search for the assassin, tout no positive
clue was obtained.
The best the police could do was to
arrest on suspicion-four men who were
without identification numbers, one of
whom-was a former naval cadet, named
was taken until "to-j Paskevich, now a student of the uni
versity.
STEALINCS- POLITICAL THUNDER.
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*OSSIB|Y SHOWBBS AN THUUDBBSTOBMS TONIGHT AND W E
OPE N MARKE HAS
PRESIDENT'S O.K.*
Edict Governing' Purchase
of Canal Supplies Supported
by Roosevelt.
Washington, May 15'.The president
ft to,day, transmitted to congress a letter
I from Secretary Taft, accompanied
numerous appendices bearing on the
controverted Question of the right of
the isthmian canal commission to pur
chase supplies abroad if they can be
secured cheaper than in America. The
president in a letter to Secretary Taft
Bays that the views expressed by the
latter in the affirmative have his full
approval. 7 TOR N O PIECES
12 BADL BURNE
Mail Drops Dynamite and Explo
sion and Fire Follow in
Pennsylvania Mine.
Shenandoahf
Ma
15 -Se
ve
miners weiAtorn to pieces and twelve
badly :burnea by an explosion of dyna
mite in the Shenandoah City colliery
of the Philadelphia & Beadifcff Coal &
Iron company today.
A box of dynamite which a workman
wasHiarrying fell from his shoulder and
caused the explosion, which ignited the
mine gae. There were about ntty
ttt work in the east gangway of the
shaft when the explosktti occurred, but
1K far "as*- known all escaped* except
ithbse working.,on the first lift. i
I i this part df the shaft none es
either death or.injury. All the
men tolled were mutilated. teyon rec
ognition.
The force of the concussion was ter
rific. Doors were"'torn off and brattices
wrecked, every section of the mine
feeling the effect of the shock.
GUNNERS SLAUGHTER CROW.
Journar Special Service.
TSltthi, 111., Miiy X5.Over nine hundred crow
havie been turned in at the police sta
tion as the result of the two days' hunt under
the auspices of the Elgin Gun club. Frank
DeUmcr holds high record with eigtaty-rour
scalps, the other scores ranging down to one.
DEATH OF A MICHIGAN POLITICIAN.
Grand Hapids, Mlcb., May IS.James A. Coye.
one of the most, prominent republican politicians
In Michigan and collector. of customs at this
port, died suddenly from apoplexy at his home
here today.
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discomfiture
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MINNESOTA
JffiffiBjCAL.
L0CITY.
Winnipeg Flyer and President
Hill's Special Barely Warned
in Tune of Washout.
Special to The Journal.
Fergus Falls, Minn., May 15.The
Winnipeg flyer and Hill's special
train, both westbound, narrowly es
caped being wrecked in a washout near
Ashby last night.
Storms of every description raged
in the evening, and at Ashby there was
a perfect cloudburst at 10 o'clock. A
small washout occurred south of that
village last year and a section fore
man happened to remember it and
started down the track to see if every
thing was safe, taking a signal lantern
with him to use in case of an emer
gency.
Arriving at the suspected spot he
found a stretch of track washed away
and,..hurrying across,^ met and stopped
the train nust le ore it xeaoliocl tlie dan
ger point. Mr. Hill's special was a few
miles behind it.
The trains were sent back and went
west over the Breckenridge division.
The grade where the washout occurred
was not high and the track was re
paired before morning.
TOL BROTHE DIED,
KANSTRMbtIB
Englishmen's Joke Tarns Happy
Occasion Into Tragedy
"Humorists" Held.
Journal Special Service.
Philadelphia, May 15.An .English
joke has cost James W. Lacey his power
Of speech. The perpetrators of the jest
are held in the house of detention
awaiting a decision whether they are
fit to become citizens of America.
Laeey, according to the physicians,
will never regain his speech. What
was to have Deen a happy reunion of
two brothers separated for sixteen years
was changed into a tragedy:
Lacey lives in Wilmington Del.
parted with his brother Arthur, then 7
years old, at Liverpool, sixteen years
ago. Several weeks ago James sent
for his brother and was at the dock'yes
terday to welcome him/
"Dead," Says Englishman.
The first persons to come down the
plank were two young Englishmen.'
They were accosted by Lacey, who
asked them if they had met his brother
on board.
Arthur LaceyV' said one ''why,
yes of course we met him. Charming
fellow, but he's dead, Vou know.
die*d three days out. We buried him at
sea. Just chucked him over, you
know. Ain't it sol" to his companion.
Quite right.'' said the other En
glishman. 'Sharks got him."
Lacey listened in horror and then fell
unconscious to the floor. Dr. Clarke of
the United States Marine Service was
summoned and he finally restored him
to' consciousness. But lr Clarke said
Lacey laryngeal muscles were paral
yzed.
In the meantime Arthur, hearing the
commotion, had come to his brother's
side. When James revived he found
he was speechless. By means of a tab
let and pencil he explained what had
happened.
40 AILING WARSHIPS
BEMOYED FROM NAYY
London, May 15.-The rapidity with
which Great Britain is removing from'
the navy all but her really efficient
warships was evidenced by a statement
fhat
iresented to parliament today showing
no. less tnan forty battleships and
cruisers have practically been removed
from the list since 1902.
The exact figures are eight battle
ships, ten armored cruisers and three
^protected cruisers removed from the
fighting effective, wnile -three battle
ships and sixteen protected cruisers
were reclassed, placing them on the list
of ships of the smallest fighting value*
During the same period.the construc
tion of thirteen new battleships, eigh
teen armored cruisers and four pro
tected cruisers was commenced.
ARMY O IDLE MEETS.'^
London, May 14.Thousands of unem
ployed persons of both sexes marched
yesterday to Hyde. Par k, where James
Kier Hard# and George Nlcoll Barries,
labor party members ,of parliament,
presid ed at the meetings. The object of
thejdemonstr&tlon was to impress on tha
authorities the tact that there are thou
sands of genuine unemployed people in
the metropolis.
eXHX IS OHEMATED.
Wheeling. W^ Va., May 15.Late/last night
the house ot Henry Reaser, at Point Mills, In
this county, was destroyed by fire and an
adopted daughter, Edith Roberta, Was cremated.
The fire started in Miss Roberts' room from a a
jading lamp.
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PRESIDEN FIGHTS'.
PEOPLE'S BATTLES
Democrats Sought to Discredit
Him for Noble Performance
of Duty.
Shafts of Tillman and Bailey
Flattened by Documentary
Evidence.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, May 15.Since Ias
Friday President Roosevelt has been
the subject of almost continuous furi
oug partizan assault upon the floor of
the senate, and of as furious defense.
The democrats, led by Messrs. Till
man and Bailey, have been trying to
convict him of changing his mind on
"the question of eourt review, and final
ly accepting an amendment, that pro
posed by Mr. Allison, which the dem
ocrats claimed was as broad as it was
possible.for the English language to
make it.
Coupled with this charge, they tried
to convict the president of bad faith,
with having invited the democrats to
combine with him at a. time when it
seemed that democratic. votes would
be necessary if legislation was to re
sult, and, with afterwards", when he
found .that the republicans were will
ing to^-vote for tne bill with the Ally
son amendment, deliberately deserting
the* democrats, without a word of warn
ing-nx notice of any character to them
whatsoever.
Bitter Charges Fly.
It was, further hinted that Attorney
General Moody, who had been the prev
ident's representative in -the confer
ences with Messrs. Tillman and Bailey,
was in a huff, and likely to leave the
cabinet, he also being impressed with
the fact that the president had been
guilty of bad faith.
The attorney general,~it was claimed,
had been left in the lurch by the pres*
ident, and did not know that tne presi
dent had abandoned the negotiations
until informed of that fact by the
newspaper men.
The debates which were the out
growth- of-^the situation thus briefly
sketched have been the most bitter that
the' senate has known since the days
of the second Cleveland administration.
It has been the greatest sensation of
the entire Boosfcvelt administration, and
has been the sole subject of- conversa-
tion in the capitol, the hotel lobbies
and the streets of this city, by public
mesn of every party.
President Cites Facts.
Finally the guestion became so acute
that the^ president considered it best
to notice'it officially, and so last night
he gave out to the press a long letter
which had ddresset Sn
lisonh ane alsoa a letted frome Attornely-Arota
General Moody to himself, which gives
the president's side of the case and
will no doubt bring the matter to an
early close.
The democrats, as I have stated re
peatedly in this correspondence, have
been^led on in this furious attack on*
the president thru their bitter disap-
Eelp
ointment at not being permitted to JXM
in the enactment of rate legisla- -v-s^^t i
tion. The political significance of
their being permitted thus help i
the passage of the rate bill would have
been, so great that some excuse per
haps exists for their bitterness, and
the degree of their disappointment ig
quite accurately measured by the ex-'
treme lengths to "which they have gone&
in bitter denunciation.
It will not be necessary for me to
discuss the president's letter to Sena
tor Allison, or the attorney general's *f?
letter to the president. These docu-'c
ments follow.
Charged. Too Much Action. -._._
One of the charges brought against
the president in this connection by the i&
democrats was the charge that he was^'S'
violating the spirit of the constitutions^.
and trying in his position as chief exec
utive to influence the action of a no-or
dinate branch of the government*
There are perhaps some old-fashioned^f
folk in this country who adhere to the-" a'J
old-fashioned doctrine that there should?^
be an eternal separation between the
three co-ordinate branches, and who see
a man on horsback" every time any
prsident cnfrs -with members of
tweo houseso ofe congress with a viewt th
discussing pending bills. These old*
fashioned folks are sadly in the minori'v4
ity.
The active participation of presidents
in the work of shaping legislation be
gan with Jackson, and it has grown
steadily into the present moment. Tem-
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porarily, under Lincoln, owing to the
great stress of the times, this participa
tion assumed formidable proportions. i
I has been a part of the policy of
every president since Lincoln's time, ,.J
and it will' continue to be part of ,the ^Ja
policy of every man who sits in th$ --A
White House. \:.%,f.r&-
People Demand It.
This participation is the outgrowta
of a demand made by the people them
selves that the president be their per
sonal representative. The question
asked by the country is no longer, will
the president enforce the laws or con
gress, but rather, will^ congress enact