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PISTOLS FLASH AS
PUTER IS CAPTURED
Alleged Land Swindler Arrested
in California on Eve of
Long Flight.
ANOTHER BIG BATCH
OF FRAUD INDICTMENTS
Former MSnneapolitan Among
Score Accused of Oregon
Conspiracy.
San Francisco, Mav 21.S. A. D. Puter,
accused of complicity in the Oregon
land frauds, and who has been hunted
for months by the federal authorities
since he escaped from detectives at
Boston, was arrested at Alameda yes
terday by secret service men.
Puter did not willingly submit to
an est, but attempted to draw a re
volver. The detectives quickly cov
ered him with their pistols, but even
then had much trouble getting their
prisoner to the station.
Puter arrived from New York three
days ago and went to Alameda. He
occupied a room in a lodging house in
Park street. Saturday night he visited
his wife at Berkeley. The secret serv
ice men learned of Puter's whereabouts
by shadowing a woman. He was on
his way to keep an appointment with
this woman when arrested.
His Boom an Arsenal.
Puter had taken the name of James
William Barr and had traveled under
that alias since leaving the eaBt. He
informed the detectives that he had
engaged passage on a steamer for
China and intended leaving for that
countrv in a few davs.
According to the secret service men,
Puter's room in Park street resembled
an arsenal. Over his bed hung a rife
and in a drawer was a heavy revolver,
beside the one found in his possession
when captured.
BIG CONSPIRACY CHARGED
Conspirators Said to Have Got Lands
by Deceiving Laborers.
Portland, Ore., May 21.Details of
the land fraud indictments returned by
the federal grand jury April 29 and in
volving prominent men of Los Angeles,
San Francisco and southwestern Oregon,
have been made public by United
States District Attorney W. A. Bristol.
The property alleged to have been
fraudulently secured lies on the banks
of Lobster and Eucher creeks in Curry
county, and consists of 6,000 acreu,
practicElly all in one tract of fine tim
ber land.
The indictment charges conspiracy to
defraud the government by securing en
try men to file upon the land with the
intention of disposing of it to the al
leged conspirators, Eichard D. Jones
and William H. Smith, San Francisco:
Jeremiah Humley, formerly United
States commissioner in Curry county,
Oregon A. S. Johnston, formerly a dep
uty county clerk of Curry county Will
iam Kerr, Coquille, Ore. John E.
Miller Port Orford, Ore. Warren Gille
len and R. W. Kenny, respectively
president and cashier of the Broadway
Bank & Trust company, Los Angeles
G. L. Steam, formerly president and
Jacob C. Cross, director of the Pacific
Furniture & Lumber company, Los An
geles Dr. David M. Goodwin and Dr.
A H. Hedderlv Los Angeles: Richard
Hynes, M. M. Riley and L. R. Ayers,
stock brokers, Los Angeles W. D.
Gould, attorney, Los Angeles an dF.
W. Dennis, broker and real estate deal-
er," San Francisco. Deception of Laborers.
The indictments asserts that the Pa
cific Furniture & Lumber company,
which is asserted to have been the ac
tive agency thru which the alleged con
spiracy was perfected, was organized
at Los Angeles, by Cross, Goodwin,
Stearns, Miller, Kerr and Jones.
The indictment declares that Smith,
Jones and Dennis conducted the San
Francisco end of the alleged scheme.
As a blind, according to the indict
ment, the Pacific Furniture & Lumber
company established and operated saw
mills at Eureka, Cal. Port Orford and
Frankfort, Ore.
It was their scheme, says the indict
ment to send to Nebraska, Kansas,
California, and to parts of Oregon and
induce men to come to the places at
which their mills were in operation un
der the pretense that there was work
in the mills.
It is charged that when these men
arrived they were told that there was
no work for them and that when they
finally became penniless and reckless of
the consequences the Pacific Furniture
& Lumber company caused them to be
approached and induced to fraudulently
file on timber lands desired by the com
pany.
The Broadway Bank & Trust company
is charged with having advanced money
to further this scheme and Huntley and
Johnston are charged with knowing
that the entries were made with fraud
ulent intent at the time. The indict
ment contains none of the names of the
tntrymen.
Formerly of Minneapolis.
Former prominent citizens are named
In the land fraud indictments returned
by a federal grand jury at Portland.
Dr. A. H. Hedderley, a dentist, and Dr.
David M. Goodwin, a homeopathic
physician, are in the list of alleged con
spirators.
GIT CAUSES FIRE IN
WHICH 2 ARE RDRNED
White Plains, N. T., May 21.Thru
the overturning of a lamp by the cat in
the home of James Graves early, one
of his daughters, Etetelle, aged 15, will
die, while Adele, aged 11, will be dis
figured for life if she recovers.
The girls were sleeping in an up
stairs room when the cat, which had
been lying on a rug in the hall, ran
into a kerosene lamp, causing it to ex
plode. The girls' shirtwaists were lying
on a chair by the lamp. The burning
oil ignited them and the blaze awoke
the girls, who jumped out of bed and
tried to extinguish the flames.
In their efforts their nightclothing
-took fire, and they were frightfully
burned about their faces and bodies.
They were rescued by neighbors.
TH E 1
Goldman Woman, Famed for Her
Reckless Utterances, Chief of
New York Reds.
EMMA GOLDMAN,
Tearless Woman Who Succeeds Most as
Anarchists' Chief.
PIRATES CAPTURE
BRITISH VESSEL
Bold Sea Bobbers Hold Ship and
Crew, Demanding Ran
som of $2,000.
Gibraltar, May 21.The British ves
sel Felucca Consuelo has been captured
off the Anghera coast by pirates who
are adherents of the brigand chief Va
liente. The sum of $2,000 is demanded
as ransom for the vessel and the re
lease of her crew.
ROCKEFELLER FEARS THE
CURIOSITY OF EUROPE
Journal Special Service.
New York, May 21.It is reported
that John D. Rockefeller will sail for
Europe on May 31 with his wife, his
sister-in-law, Miss Spellman, and his
daughter, Mrs. E. Parmelee Prentice.
His daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Strong,
is said to be seriously ill in Germany.
If Mr. Rockefeller sails, it will be
his first trip abroad. There are many
reasons to believe that he may venture
fhe voyage, despite his aversion to
travel. His brother, "William Rocke
feller, who has been sick for several
months, is not improving. Mr. Rocke
feller told a friend at Lakewood recent
ly that he feared to make the trip be
cause of the curiosity his presence in
Europe would excite.
SLAYS DAUGHTER AND
WIFE WITH AX SUICIDE
Woodcliffe, N. J., May 21.John Cole,
an engineer, killed his daughter, Maria,
with an ax today, attacked his wife
with the same weapon, striking her in
the head and probably fatally injuring
her, and then killed himself by shoot
ing!
The tragedy followed the departure
from Cole's house of a young man to
whom it is said the daughter was en
gaged. The girl was still looking in the
direction in which the young man had
disappeared when her father, ax in
hand and upraised, sprang out at her.
The girl "jumped back, but as she dodged
the father drove the ax into her skull
and she fell, dying instantly.
As the girl fell her mother ran |rom
the house and was immediately attacked
by Cole, who rendered her unconscious
by a single blow. Then the man drew
revolver and killed himself, f^
16 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK. MONDAY:' ^EVENING, JflAY 21, 1906.
EMM A GOLDMAN IS I
ANARCHISTS' CHIE
HOST'S PLACE IS
FILLED BY WOMAN
a
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Journal Special Service.
New York, May 21.Since the death
of John Most, a few months ago, the
spirit of anarchy in America has found
leadership in Emma Goldman that is,
so far as the unorganized believers in
the doctrines of Most are amenable to
leadership. This squat, fearless little
woman has undertaken to carry on the
work begun by Mc&t.
According to the best records, there
are about 3,000 openlv avowed anarch
ists in the United States, nearly all of
whom are of foreign birth. New York
shelters 1,000. There is no recognized
governing body for the society, but
there is a constant interchange of mem
bership in the groups that keeps each
well informed as to the work of all the
others.
Leads Dangerous Groups.
The New York anarchistic groups
are, for the most part, divided racially.
The Russian and Polish groups are con
sidered to be the most dangerous an
archists. Emma Goldman is in constant
communication with these dangerous
elements.
She is engaged in the publication of
a monthly magazine. In the May num
ber she savs:
"In looking over the events of 1892
and the causes that led up to the act of
Alexander Berkman, one beholds Mam
mon seated upon a throne built of hu
man bodies, without a trace of sym
pathy on its gorgon brow, for the crea
tures it controls. These victims, bent
and worn with the reflex of the glow of
the steel and iron furnaces in their hag
gard faces, carry their sacrificial offer
ings to the ever-insatiable monster
capitalism.''
JAIL FOR BURTON,
IS FINAL ANSWER
Kansas Senator Loses Case in the
Highest CourtMost Re
sign, Stolon Says.
Washington, May 21.The supreme
court of the United States today ren
dered a decision in the case of United
States Senator Ralph Burton of Kan
sas. The decision was against Burton,
affirming the decision of the United
States circuit court for the eastern dis
trict of Missouri, by which Burton was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment
in the jail of Iron county, Mo., required
to pay a fine of $2,500 and deprived of
the right to hereafter hold office under
the government.
Senator Burton was prosecuted on
the charge of violating section 1782 of
the revised statutes, which prohibits
senators and representatives from re
ceiving compensation for services ren
dered before anw of the government de
partments in any matter in which the
government may be interested
The opinion was by Justice Harlan.
All of the points made in Burton's in
terest were overruled.
If Senator Burton does not resign
"at once," as a prominent senator puts
it, a resolution will be introduced to
declare his peat vacant.
SLAIN ON EVE OF
HER WEDDING DAY
Girl, Making Wedding Cake, Shot
and Killed by Her
Brother.
Wheeling, W. Va., May 21.Bosa
Wismch was shot and killed at Ben
wood last night, by her brother Paul,
while she was making a cake for her
own wedding.
The girl was to have been married to
day and the police believe the killing
followed a quarrel, altho the brother
and o+'her- relatives declared- it v*aa ae
cidental.
SCRATCH OF CAT KILLS
WOMAN 103 YEARS OLD
Leon, Iowa, May 21.Mrs. Mary Ann
Perigo, aged 103, died here from "blood
poisoning caused by the scratch of a
cat, which she was petting.
There was no question about her age,
as several of the family records contain
abundant proof. Mrs. Perigo's
maiden name was Peavers and she was
born in Janesville, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1802.
She came from a family noted for its
longevity, her father dying at the age
of 114 years and his father living to
the great age of 120 years.
MARINES RUSHED
TO SU IO DOMINGO
Six Hundred United States Fight
er* Leave Philadelphia on
fthe Columbia.
Former President of Little Repub
lic Sends Ultimatum to
Washington.
Philadelphia, May 21.The cruiser
Columbia sailed today under secret or
ders with 600 marines aboard. It is
understood the vessel will go to Guan
tanamo and thence to SantjO Domingo.
Bpeoial to The1
Journal.
Chicago, May 21. John Callan
O'Laughhn, in a Washington special
to the Chicago Tribune, says:
The administration has emerged from
the railroad^ rate fight to find itself
confronted "wfith the^ ever-recurring San
to Domingan\ question. Former Presi
dent Morales has informed President
Roosevelt tliat-,if congre&s adjourns
without ratifying the pending treaty
which authorizes American intervention
in the island,the- will inaugurate a revo
lution against the existing government
with the slogan: "Santo Domingo for
the Dominicans."
Morales will want from the United
States these things: Return of the
$1,300,000 of Dominican customs now
on deposit in New York withdrawal
of Americans' fram Dominican customs
houses and os. American warships from
Dominican waters an American pro
tectorate witnbut.ihe intervention char
acter and employment of an American
military officer to organize and train
an army.
DemandsJEreposterous.
The demands of Morales are prepos
terous and the answer the president has
given is contained in instructions tele
graphed to Commander Southerland,
commanding the American fleet in
Dominican waters, and to the governor
of Porto Rico, instructing them to ob
serve strict neutrality, but ^to prevent
filibustering expeditions front setting
out from American territory. Ta other
words, the. administTation-will throw as
many obstacles as it can in the *way of
the landing of Morales and Ms sup
porters and supplies in Santo Domingo.
It would prefer the maintenance in
power of the existing government,
headed by General Ramon CaeeTes, who,
altho the assasBin of former ^fresident
Hereux, has the saving grac#o stand
ing by his word. He ann^Snced last
December he would support "the pending
treaty and inB|st u?pon its ratification
by theCj^omiificanl, jenste, -^rovMed
certain cnlksiifesHffiiiting American In.-
-terventro'Brwei^ reader
REVOJ.T FEAREERSN PANAMA
Isthmus May Be Destination*? of 600
Marines Sent Out Today.*
Washington, Mav 21.Altho an offi
cial statement to that effect cannot be
had, it is knowh that the marines now
being shipped on the cruiser Columbia
at League Island, Pa., are bound pri
marily for Guantanamo, Cuba, there to
be kept in readiness for any emergency
that may arise In Panama.
The elections that will take place
there next month may be accompanied
by revolutionary disorders: in fact, cer
tain inquiries that have been directed
to Governor Magoon by discontented
party leaders have been followed by
Continued on 2d Page, 2d Column.
WITH JOHN" D. HEADED FOR EUROPE.
Emperor "WilliamThat's right, uncle this is where we must guard our most valuable possessions!*
mOWJiBH A3TD THUNDEESTOEMS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY WAEMEE TONIGHT.,
GENERAL STOESSEL,
Defender of Fort Arthur, Condemned to
Death for Its Surrender.
RUSSIAN COUNT IS
TARGET OF BOMB
Colonel Keller and His Orderly
Severely Injured by Young
Anarchist.
Kalisz, Russian Poland, May 21.
Count Keller, a colonel of dragoons,
was severely wounded by the explosion
of a bomb which WJIS thrown at him
whjqe ha. was returning from review
touay/ His horse was killed and his
orderly was injured. The would-be as
sassin^ a young man, escaped.
Count Keller had been prominent in
suppressing disturbances here and in
this vicinity.
POPE IMPROVES.
Rome, May 21.When Dr. Lapponl visited the
pope this morning, he found that the pontiff
had passed a good night, that the pain in his
knee had almost disappeared and that his gen
eral condition was improved. His temperature
was again slightly above normal, but the doctor
allowed the pope to get up for a few hours, but
advised him not to :esume his pudiences till
the end of the week.
ELEVEN CONVICTS SAW OUT.
Chattanooga, May 21.By sawiug thru the
steel bars that covered the windows, eleven
general prisoners escaped from the guardhouse
at Fort Oglethorpe last night. Each had prison
terms of from two to five years ahead of him.
They had been brought here from southern
points preparatory to being sent to Fort Leaven
worth.
JOURNAL
MINNESOTA
HISTORICALJtfCE
SOCIETY
GENERAL STOESSEL
CONDEMNED TO DIE
Defender of Port Arthur and Rear Ad
miral Nebogatoff Doomed.
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St. Petersburg, May 21.It is ru
mored that the military court which has
been investigating the Surrender of
Port Arthur and the battle of the Sea
of Japan has condemned to death Lieu-
^GHT.
REAH ADMIRAL NEBOGATOFF,
Of Rojestvensky's Ill-Fated Fleet, Who
Is Condemned to Die.
tenant General Stoessel, who command
ed the Russian forces at Port Arthur,
ana Rear Admiral Nebogatoff, who com
manded one of Admiral Rojestvensky's
squadrons, and who surrendered during
the naval battle to the Japanese.
ASSASSIN SLAYS
AMERICAN CONSUL
United States Representative at
Batoum, Russia, Is Mys
teriously Killed.
atoum, May 21.William H. Stuart,
American vice consul at this place,
shot and killed at his country home
night. The assassin escaped. He
is not known and no motive can be
ascribed for the murder.
Mr, Stuart was a British subject and
one of the largest ship brokers and ex
porters of Batoum. During the revo
lutionary troubles of last fall, his life
was many times threatened by long
shoremen, and at Christmas a deputa
tion visited Mr. Stuart's office and
practically compelled him to give them
$1,500 under the guise of a holiday
gratuity for dock laborers.
Washington, May 21.Vice Consul
Stuart who was killed at Batoum, was
an Englishman, 49 years old, and had
filled the position for about two years.
At the time of his death he was acting
consul.
Ambassador Meyer having taken cog
nizance of the case, the state depart
ment officials do not believe that it re
quires action at their hands at this mo
ment. It is not doubted that the Rus
sian government will make every effort
to capture the assassins and mete out
full punishment to them, and it is con
sequently felt to be well to allow them
to proceed in that direction without
further pressure.
LOSES MILLIONS TO
WED FRENCH MAID
Scion of Foremost Pittsburg So
ciety and Former Yale
"Lion" Elopes.
Journal Speolal Service.
Pittsburg, May 21.Pittsburgh ab
solutely first family has been rocked to
its social foundation. John Alston
Moorhead, son of John Moorhead, Jr.,
and grandson of John Moorhead, who
built the family name and fortune, with
his iron and steel, has married his
mother's French serving maid, and has
been disinherited. The only name by
which the French maid is known is
Frances.
Young Moorhead is known to more
people thruout the country, probably,
than any other young Pittsburger. He
was formerly a member of the Yale
football team, and was an allround ath
lete while at the university. His
younger brother, Turner, is now promi
nent at Yale.
Young Moorhead has been what is
termed a "terror" in the social set. He
absolutely refused to have anything to
do with it. He had no more use for
the grand opera and the swell society
croWd than the late lamented Billy
Baxter.
Heart of Steel Melts.
Mrs. Moorhead spent last summer in
Europe and returned with a new serv
ing maid from Paris. With the voung
man it was a case of love at first sight.
There were tears by his mother. His
father announced that he would dis
inherit him if he did not break off the
attachment. He steadfastly refused
and it was announced that Frances must
go-
Young Moorhead declared if she went
he would go with her. She went last
Sunday and he followed. They went
at once to New York where they were
married.
They were heard from by the Moor
head family here last week, and are now
supposed to be with Horace Moorhead,
an uncle of the young man, at his coun
try home on Long Island soundv
FAMOUS MASOK BEAD.
Kansas City May 21.Allan McDowell, for
forty years a Masonic lecturer and an authority
on Free Masonry, died here yesterday, aged 73.
in
Minneapolis.
ONE CENT IN MINNEAPOLIS.
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HOTEL ST. LOUIS
TO BE OEMOLISHEI
Sir Charles Gibson Property at
Minnetonka Is to Be -fp
Broken Up.
TONKA TUXEDO IS
TO BE ESTABLISHED
Exclusive Colony Like that
New York Suburb Is
Planned.
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Demolition of_ the Hotel St. Louis,
boulevarding and landscaping of th
surrounding tract, and establishment o|
a "West End" or Tuxedo park on thfl
hotel site and the adjoining property,
are some of the features of a schema
on foot to make an exclusive residencf
district of the Deephaven and North*
ome neighborhood.
Charles and Victor Gibson, two sont
of the late Sir Charles Gibson, are in.
Minneapolis negotiating for the salf
of lands in the vicinity that still re
main in the Gibson name.
Old lake people will regret to see
the passing of the historic hostelry,,
almost the last of the old large hotels
which were once the best-known fea
tures of lake life, before the cottagers
began to line the shore with summer
homes. In its place, however, will be
established a colony that will be of an
entirely different type, but as much of
a rendezvous in the new era at the
lake as the Hotel St. Louis was in the
old.
Estate to Be Sold.
Of the Hotel St. Louis property
there remain between thirty and forty
acres of the original sixty-acre tract,
which have not been sold off. Negotia
tions under way, if consummated, will
result in the transfer of the property to
moneyed interests which will handle the
land in accordance with the general
plan for making that part of the lake
an exclusive residence section. It is
the purpose of the Gibsons to dispose of
their entire holdings of some 200 acres,
in time, for homes for Minneapolis and
St. Paul people.
The advent of the trolley line will
add to the value of the propertv and
will make the opening Up
ya
$*%
t
of the district
under the new regime much more feas-
is expected that Uuch persons of
wesrth as Russell M. Bennett, T. B.
Walker, Hazen J. Burton and other
property-holders at and near Deep
haven, will have such a financial inter
est in the deals as will insure the high
standard of the new West End.
The Historic Hotel.
The Hotel St. Louis was built about
twenty-five years ago by Thomas M.
fcginton of Covington, Ky. He died sud
denly at the hotel and was succeeded
by his father,^hich Judge C. Eginton, whoo
continued management until the
hostelry was transferred to a dt. Louis
fZn
Charles Scadde
othe
dJ^ate
the Hotel Lindell was a member. Some
thing like twenty years ag Si
Charlesb.dhands wbson founed the propertiyoonsr
With
fehw
his
Previou wa uso
exceptions the hotel has been
opened season after season until last
ar
the Mrnnetonka Boat club as a home.
Sir Charles Gibson's original estate
amounted to 300 acres. The old Xorth
ome property, part of which is now the
home of Russell Bennett, contained 150
acres, but this is largely sold off.
The Gibsons are now in Minneapolis
to dispose of their property as far as
possible, and with the transfer a fam
ily which has been a factor in Lake
Minnetonka life for a quarter of a
century will have withdrawn. The mem
bers are all non-resident, the two rep
resentatives here today being citizens
of St. Louis.
MOORS ATTACK SHIP
FLYING 0. S. COLORS
Malieto, Morocco, Mav 21.Th
steamer Manolita, bound from Tetuan,
Morocco, for this port and flying the.
American flag, has been attacked by
Moors, who took away some of her pas
sengers.
The Manolita's machinery got out of
order and she was obliged to approach
the coast. While lying off Penon de
Velez, about half-way between Tetuan
and Melilla, a number of Moorish fish
ermen swam off from the shore and
boarded the Manolita, compelling her
crew to hand over to them a number
of Moorish passengers belonging to the
Beni Barraguel tribe.
WORE "UNCLE JOE'S"
TROUSERS LOST $60
Journal Speolal Service. ^p
Washington, May 21.Speaker CanT
non is $60 richer by reason of the for
getfulness of his son-in-law, E. S. Le*
seur, who, as the joke is on him, has
not the courage to ask "Uncle Joe"
for a return of the money.
Mr. Leseur is a banker in Danville
and makes his home at the Cannon resl
dence. One day, either by accident or 1
design, he wore to his office a pair of
"Uncle Joe's" trousers. That night at f'
his club a friend paid him $60, which
he carelessly placed in one of the hip I^
pockets.
A few days later "Uncle Joe"^
donned the garment and discovered the"
three twenty-dollar notes. He aitonce sue
pected what had happened^and at that
breakfast table accused his son-in-law
of wearing his trousers.
"Why, you're much mistaken, Mr.*
Cannon," exclaimed Mr. Leseur. I
don't have to wear your clothes, I have^
several suits of my own."
"Oh, it's all right, Ernest," replied.,
the speaker, I simply found $60 in
the hip pocket of these trousers and
know I didn't put it there. But as*,
you say you haven't worn them I sup-t'
pose, of course, you didn't put it there,
so I'll just keep it," and he did.
Mr. Leseur was in Washington recent
lv and reluctantly admitted the truth ot*'
the story which "Uncle Joe" had beeaj
telling with great glee.