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THE YALE EXPOSITOR FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1907.
BRIEF REVIEW BF
II WEfSEIIENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
IZED FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of the
Busy Man.
THE HAVWOOD TRIAL.
When the state closed Its case
against William D. Haywood, charged
with the murder of Frank Steunen
berg, the defense made an unsuccess
ful attempt to secure from the court
an order directing the jury to acquit
the prisoner. Judge Wood's ruling
requires the defense to meet with evl
denrt.o the case that the state has pre
sented. The state In the Haywood trial
again showed direct connection be
tween Tettibone's store and Orchard
when he was at work on the Rradley
crime, and read to the Jury denunci
atory articles on Steunenberg from
tho Miners' Magazine.
The state In the trial at noise,
Idaho, made dramatic production and
proof of the Goddard bomb, and be
Bides offering further contributions of
the testimony of Harry Orchard
against William D. Haywood, secured
a ruling under which a number of the
denunciatory articles published In the
Miners' Magazine, official organ of the
Western Federation of Miners, will be
admitted In evidence.
The prosecution in the Steunen
berg murder trial offered one of the
most Important pieces of evidence
against William D. Haywood when, re
calling Harry Orchard for re-direct
examination, Jt introduced and se
cured the admission of four letters
tending to show that Haywood, during
the fall of 1H05, when Orchard swears
ho was engaged on various crimes for
the federation leaders, had partici
pated in a plan to deceive Mrs. Or
chard the second, rJ Cripple Creek,
as to tho whereabouts of her hus
band. MISCELLANEOUS.
Two miles in the interior of a big
swamp near New Orleans the headless
body of Walter Lamana, an Italian
child between seven and eight years
of age, who was kidnaped and held for
$G.000 ransom, was found by police
and vicrilants. He had been strangled
to death, according to the confession
of one of several Italians held by the
police.
in a collision on the New York Cen
tral road near Pittsfield, N. Y., four
persons were killed and eight in
jured. At Hartford, Conn., a passen
ger train ran into a work train, killing
six men and injuring 40.
John liello, the Italian who killed a
man and wounded two women passen
gers on a Rock Island train in Kansas,
says he committed the murder in his
sleep as the result of a dream.
Clyde Glidden, aged seven years,
has been arrested and placed in jail
at Parkersburg, W. Va., on a charge
of incendiarism, it being alleged that
he burned two houses. The houses
-were occupied and the families Uarely
escaped with their lives.
Gen. William Duffield, for a number
of years superintendent of the United
States coast and geodetic survey, and
said to have been tho oldest living
graduate of Columbia college. New
York, died at his' home in Washing
ton. Emory Foster, a well known news
paper man, died suddenly of acute kid
ney trouble. He was a son ot Mrs.
J. Ellen Foster, the lecturer.
A man and three women who went
boating at Muskegon, Mich., rocked
the boat and all drowned.
A violent storm swept over a part
of Indian Territory, causing damage
to property estimated at half a million
dollars. Lightning struck oil tanks all
over the mid-continent field.
In a quarrel over a crap game at
Columbus, O., Oliver Anderson, col
ored, was knocked senseless, after
which another negro deliberately cut
Anderson's throat, killing him.
Marcellln Albert, fugitive leader of
the rebellious wine-growers of south
ern France, called on Premier Clemen
ceau, was overcome by contrition, and
promised to try to induce his follow
ers to return to work.
The private secretary of Gov. John
son of Minnesota said the Democrats
of that state would Try to nominate
him for the presidency, but the gov
ernor said he was not likely to be a
candidate for the nomination.
The Spanish colony at San Juan,
Torto Rico, has been granted the
privilege of transferring the body of
lnce de Leon from the church of
San Jose to the cathedral.
. D. W. Cell, of Fountain, Col., and
his wife were killed by a Colorado
& Southern train near Crews, Col.
The Persian revolt has been
crushed. Aboul Fath Mlrza, brother
ot the shah, who raised the standard
of revolt Immediately on his father's
death, has taken refuge at the Uritish
consulate at Kermansbah and has
asked security for himself and fam
ily. The duko of Manchester, who mar
ried Misa Zimmerman of Cincinnati,
has denied a report that he intended
to come to America to live while he
worked on a railroad.
A dynamite bomb was thrown Into
the Greek chamber of deputies, but
failed to explode.
In an effort to save his brother's
life, Fred Adler, 20 years old, was
drawn Into the swift current of the
Mississippi river at St. Louis by Au
gustus Adler, aged 23, and both were
drowned.
Constable J. II. Goad of Memphis,
Tenn., is dead and Isom Heed, a ne
gro, is suffering from wounds which
are considered fatal as a result of a
pistol duel between the constable and
the negro. Reed was resisting arrest.
The Fifth Avenue hotel, New York,
has been sold to a syndicate which
next year will erect a big office build
ing on the site.
Fourteen inches of snow fell at
Butte, Mont., but soon melted.
John C. Clark, of Milwaukee, presi
dent of the Clark Engraving company,
a prominent Mason and Elk, died at
Ocean Grove, Cal., of ptomaine poison
ing Nearly every man and woman In
Lawrence county, Miss., has signed a
petition asking Gov. Vardaman not to
pardon Mrs. Angle Ulrdsong, slayer of
Dr. T. II. Itutler.
Parry L. Wright, vlco president of
the American Luxfer Prism company,
died suddenly while playing golf at
Chicago.
Three aeronauts fell from a balloon
in Hungary and were killed and peas
ants in trying to capture the balloon
approached it with a light, when it
exploded, killing ten of them.
The federal grand jury In Denver
indicted about TO men in western and
northwestern states, most of them
being charged with land frauds.
Emily Deigle of St. Paul, who was
kidnaped by her relatives as she was
about to take final vows in a Catholic
sisterhood, has run away from her
home.
The Yerkes underground railroad
system in London has been complet
ed. Dy a majority of 101 the French
chamber of deputies voted confidence
in the government and gave the min
isters a free hand to employ the
measures they think best to establish
the sovereignty of the law in the dis
turbed departments of the south. The
funeral of the victims of the Nar
bonne riot was held without disturb
ance, but there wa3 bloody fighting in
several other cities. One battalion of
infawtry mutinied but afterward sur
rendered. Western Union and Postal telegraph
operators in San Francisco and Oak
land struck to enforce their demand
for a 23 per cent, increase in wages.
Several persons were killed and
others Injured by lightning during a
severe electrical storm that passed
over southern Michigan. One man at
Kalamazoo was struck while In a tree
and was bereft of reason.
Terrorists in Odessa arc beyond the
control of the police and are killing
with bombs merchants who refuse to
contribute to their fund. It was re
ported that 48 of the mutinous sap
pers at Kiev were convicted and shot.
Frank E. Woller, clerk of the mu
nicipal court of Milwaukee, pleaded
guilty of embezzling $30,000 and was
sentenced to three years in the house
of correction.
Six women were arrested at As
sumption, 111., on the charge that they
were implicated in the attempt to
lynch Alfred Pouland.
Striking metal polishers and ma
chinists of Detroit were enjoined from
interfering in any way with workers
employed at the plants affected by tho
strike.
German Ambassador Speck von
Sternberg denied positively that he
was about to retire from the diplo
matic service.
Joseph Soloy was sentenced at
Cleveland to death in tho electric
chair for the murder of Veronica
Vargo.
Prig. Gen. Henry T. Allen, chief of
the Philippine constabulary of the
United States array, will tender his
formal resignation as head of that de
partment to take the position of head
of the Yellowstone park service.
Eddlo Tate, Eddie Fay and Patsy
Flaherty were indicted at Peoria, 111.,
for robbing the school board safe and
stealing the Dougherty forged scrip.
G. Ii. Ueasley, a prominent resident
of Linton, Ind., shot and Instantly
killed his wife whom he had sued for
divorce.
A sheriff's Jury In New York has de
termined that James Partlett Ham
mond, president of the Hammond
Typewriter company, is incompetent
to manage himself and his affairs and
will so report to the supreme court
His estate Is valued by the Jury at
$SOO,000.
Arnaud Massey, the French golf
champion, won the open championship
of Great Britain at Hoylake. Alex
Ross, of the Brae Burn Golf club, won
the open championship of the UniUd
States.
Four men lost their lives when the
steamer Crystal Stream was burned
near St John, N. B.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army,
arrived in England from his tour of
the world.
The Jewish World, of London, says
that the will of Daniel Osiris, the
Jewish banker and philanthropist, of
Paris, who died some time ago, leaves
J3.000.000 to the Pasteur institute.
The estate is valued at $13,000,000.
Word was received in Mexico City
that President Cabrera of Guatemala
was dying of blood poisoning.
Mrs. Emma Kaufmann, wife of
Moses Kaufmann, for years a wealthy
Sioux Falls brewer, charged with the
murder of Agnes Polrels, her 16-year-old
servant, was found guilty of man
slaughter in the first degree.
Enraged because some schoolboys
had tumbled her over while she was
playing a street piano In New York,
Phllomena Castlno, a young Syrian
girl, drew a stiletto and fatally
stabbed Charles McCarthy in the
breast
Trot. John Wright Decker, of th
agricultural college faculty of Ohio
state university, Columbus, O., died
suddenly of pneumonia.
The Continental limited, Wabash
railway, left the track south of La
porte, Ind., injuring the engineer, fire
man and a woman passenger.
Mrs. Daisy Gordon Maud Hanna
was granted a divorce from Dan R.
Hanna, son of the late Senator Hanna,
on her charge of cruelty and neglect
of duty.
John Sheets and Alexander Mc
Kenzle, convicts who sawed their way
out of the state prison at Jackson,
Mich., were recaptured within 24
hours after their escape.
Capt. W. J. Downs, who laid out the
Miami and Erie canal and surveyed
the Pennsylvania on the Panhandle
route between Pittsburg and Chicago,
died at Black River Falls, Wis., aged
91.
Premier Clemenceau was subjected
to a hot fire of questions in the
French chamber of deputies concern
ing the severe measures adopted to
quell the wine growers' uprising. He
justified the use of the troops. In
Narbonne and other cities the rioters
engaged In bloody battles with the
soldiers and police.
Over 300 employes of the Pennsyl
vania state hospital for the insane at
Norristown were taken suddenly ill.
apparently suffering from ptomaine
poisoning. It Is thought that the Ill
ness was caused by eating stewed
chicken which was served for dintier.
Two of the regular stages from
Raymond. Cal., bound for Wawona,
were held up and 16 passengers re
lieved of their valuables by "Black
Kid," the famous lone bandit of that
section.
The public land convention in Den
ver came to an end with the adoption
of a series of resolutions which were
not so radical as expected. A letter
from President Roosevelt was a fea
ture of the last day's session.
The Newport News Shipbuilding
company of Newport News, Va., with
one bid at $3,987,000 and the. Fore
River Shipbuilding company of
Qulncy, Mass., with a bid of $4,377,000
were the successful bidders for the
construction of two American "Dread
noughts" or what are officially known
as battleships Nos. 28 and 29, each
to bo of approximately 20,000 tons
displacement.
John D. Rockefeller's automobile. In
which Mr. Rockefeller was being hur
riedly driven to his country home,
was stopped by a constable at Elms
ford, N. Y., and the chauffeur was sub
sequently fined $25 for exceeding the
speed limit. Mr. Rockefeller paid the
fine.
By an overwhelming majority the
citizens of Des Moines, la., adopted
what is known as the DeB Moines plan
of government, by which the city will
be governed by a commission of five.
Nealon. a western horse, owned by
C. E. Durnell, ridden by Jockey W.
Dugan and quoted at 20 to1, won tho
great suburban handicap at Sheeps
head Bay.
Thomas II. Huntington, Ami B.
Todd and Fred Hoyt were seneenced
to imprisonment and fined by Federal
Judge Mungcr in Omaha for conspir
acy to defraud the government out of
lands.
Western Union telegraph operators
were ordered to go on strike at San
Francisco and Oakland, Cal., for a 25
per cent, increase in wage3. Presi
dent Small of the . Commercial Tel
egraphers' union refused to abide by
tho decision of the executive commit
tee in New York calling off the
strike.
Prince PIscara, a member of tho
Italian nobility, and four other per
sons were killed in an automobile ac
cident at Calanello, Italy.
Mayor McClellan of New York
turned the first sod at Peeksklll In an
enterprise which begins the Catskill
water aqueduct, 150 miles long, and
which will supply New York and en
vironments with 800,000,000 gallons of
water dally.
The general executive board of the
Commercial Telegraphers' union ap
proved a strike against either or both
the Western Union and Postal Tele
graph companies. The date for the
beginning of the strike was left to
President Small.
The interstate commerce commis
sion decided to institute a proceeding
of inquiry and Investigation into the
affairs of the Hamburg-American
Packet company, which is charged by
Peter Wright & Sons, general agents
at Philadelphia of the' Cosmopolitan
Shipping company and the Cosmopoli
tan lines, with pooling and maintain
ing monopolies In restraint of trade.
Ira B. Smith, a member of the
wholesale grocery firm of Smith,
Tborndlke & Brown, of Milwaukee,
which recently went Into involuntary
bankruptcy, was arrested on a charge
of obtaining money under false repre
sentation of the firm's finances.
The surprise of the second session
of the peace conference at The Hague
was the formal reservation by Gen.
Horace Porter on behalf of the United
States of the right to present tho
question of limitation of armaments.
Together with this, ho also reserved
the right to introduce the subject of
the collection of contractual debts by
force.
Viscount Hayashl, Japanese minis
ter of foreign affairs, declared the ru
mor that Ambassador Aokl would be
recalled from Washington was totally
without foundation.
The body of Attorney Vincent
Schwab of Cincinnati, who disap
peared after making his will, was
found In the Ohio river.
Oliver M. Dennett, the New York
broker who was arrested in connec
tion with the theft of moro thau
$500,000 in bonds from the Trust Com
pany of America, pleaded guilty to a
charge of criminally receiving stolen
goods. '
SIDE LIGHTS
ON MICHIGAN
THE CONVICTS WHO WALKED
OUT OF JACKSON PRISON
CAPTURED.
TOOK REFUGE IN SWAMP
ONLY A DAY OUT WHEN TAKEN
BACK IN CITIZENS' CLOTHES
WHICH HAD BEEN SUPPLIED
THEM.
. Short Liberty.
Lifer Alex. McKenzie and John
Sheets, Lenawee county horse thief,
who escaped from Jackson prison
Thursday morning by sawing the bars
of their cell In the old east wing, were
recaptured Friday morning about lVfc
miles southwest of Jackson In a rough
piece of country known as Jackson
Mound, comprising swamp and low
tush knolls.
Night O Ulcer Patterson first discov
ered tho fugitives in a clump of bushes
and ordered them to come forth. They
made no resistance and were prompt
ly shackled by Charles Evans and
Officer Hollenrake. The latter was in
charge of the posse, which went to
Jackson Mound and surrounded it at
night
The convicts had exchanged their
prison garments for citizens' clothes,
from which all marks of possible iden
tification had been removed.
Warden Armstrong says that it is
hia belief that the convicts were as
sisted by someone on the outside who
had clothing ready as soon as they
escaped and that they went directly
to the place where they were found as
60on as they got away. -
McKenzie was weak and unable to
travel fast because he had not recov
ered from an attempt to end bis life
recently by severing tho arteries of
his wrjsts.
McKenzie was sent from Kent coun
ty for life for killing his wife In their
home in 1S90, while In a jealous rage.
Jack Sheets is a notorious horse
thief who has served CO of his 49
years in various prisons. He was sent
to Jackson last November for stealing
a horse in Tecumseh.
Mr. Ward Remembered.
Rep. Charles E. Ward, as speaker
pro tem. of the house of 1907, has re
ceived a pleasant token from his fel
low members in the shape of a set
of table silver. It Is offered, according
to the card which accompanied It, as
a "memento of the esteem In which
you are held by your fellow members
of the 1907 legislature." Some bon
bon spoons for "Mrs. Ward accompa
nied the present.
Mr. Ward's friends say ho will ac
cept an excellent position an soon as
he recovers from his present Illness.
He Is still suffering from gastritis. He
Is now living in Bancroft, though
when he went away he had no inten
tion of returning to this place to re
side. Before going to Lansing, Mr.
Ward sold his own homo and stayed a
short time with E. P. Sherman, his
brother-in-law, whllo Mrs. Sherman,
Mrs. Ward's mother, rented her homo
and went to live with the Wards In
Lansing. Hence when they returned
neither the Ward home nor Mrs. Sher
man's homo was available, and they
sought another place.
A Brother Took Him In.
Leon Chapman, the aged former resi
dent of Saginaw who wa3 brought
back to Michigan and Bay City from
Hattiesburg, Miss., by David Falrley,
an undertaker, a few days ago, has
found one friend among his kith and
kin. Daniel Chapman, a brother, has
taken Leon from tho jail and wel
comed him to a place in his home,.
The aged man i3 broken in health
and spirit and Fays that the reason
he left his family In Bay City 23 years
ago is that his wife and children felt
themselves too fine for a common
laboring man. So when his daughter,
Alice E. Chapman, assistant principal
of the Emerson school in Saginaw, se
cured her first position ns a teacher,
Leon says he went down south.
A Brute Indeed.
William Miller, a teamster, made a
desperate attempt on the life of his
wife at his home In Flint. He tried
to force a quantity of carbolic acid
down her throat, but she succeeded in
fighting off the infuriated man and
preventing him from accomplishing
his murderous purpose,
Somo of the acid was spilled on
the woman's face, hands and arms in
her struggles to escape, and she was
painfully .though not dangerously
burned.
Miller and his wife had been hav
ing trouble, and the attack on the
woman followed her acquiescence in
his suggestion that they go to a room
together and talk matters over.
Lost His Lhe.
While endeavoring to swim across
the Grand river at Ionia, Earl Du
mond. aged 16. became exhausted and
drowned. With two companions Du
mond had made the other side and it
was on the way back that ho sank.
Dynamiting all afternoon and evening
did not bring up the body.
The body of Adolph Jaber, farmer,
missing since Juno 1, when ho went
fishing, has been found in Menominee
river.
While prospectors were drilling for
coal near Edenville an artesian well
was struck at a depth of 70 feet which
threw a three-inch stream 40 feet into
tho air. Plans are being made to util
ize the stream for a water works sys
tem. Mrs. E. M. Sarver, of Marlon, Ind.,
wrote to her friends in Coldwater that
she was coming home for a visit The
letter was followed by a wire that
she was dead. As Miss Mabel Hunt
the was widely known as a beauty.
Sho was recently divorced, and rather
than return and face her friends sho
sought employment as a milliner In
Indiana.
SCHOOL MONEY.
Alleged, Misuse of Funds to Be Investi
gated. The alleged misuse of about $10,000
of the primary school funds in Huron
county will lead to a thorough investi
gation of the disposition of the money
all over the state. The department
says there have been irregularities in
Lake and other northern counties. Im
mediate investigation of ten districts
In Huron county will be made by A.
Hamlin Smith, chief clerk of the de
partment. The department last year sent out
blanks designed to bring out informa
tion as to the use of the primary
money and on the reports this year it
finds that large amounts has been di
verted by township officers.
Under the department's new system
it is easy to discover if funds have
been diverted and the effort now Is to
find out who got the money; whether
it was used for buildings; for other
purposes outside the law, or for per
sonal gain.
Prosecutions will follow If the pres
ent conclusions of the department are
sustained by Investigation. Chief Clerk
Smith will go to other counties not yet
designated after completing his work
in Huron.
The attorney general is now Inves
tigating two cases of alleged fraud In
the use of primary funds. In one case
there is said to be a shortage of $900.
Mrs. Kruger Acquitted.
Mrs. Jessie Kruger was found not
guilty In the circuit court at Cheboy
gan on a charge of killing Frank Van
Houten last March at her resort near
Tower. Several woodsmen went to the
place and raised a disturbance, and
Mrs. Kruger fired three shots, as she
says, to frighten the men away. Van
Houten was shot in the hip and he
died three weeks afterwards.
The Old Man's End.
Erik Wikforss, 70, an eccentric man
of rafans, committed suicide some
time yesterday by hanging himself in
his home in Battle Creek. Wikforss
married a young woman a few years
ago and became a father in his old
age. His wife left him. and Wikforss
gradually became despondent and ill.
He leaves considerable property, but
has no known relatives or friends.
AROUND THE STATE.
Carl Miller, aged 12, was drowned
while bathing in Shiawassee river.
Margaret Conlan was appointed
postmistress at Munlth. Jackson coun
ty, vice Paul Cross, resigned.
The sixth annual convention of tho
Michigan Rural Carriers' association
will be held at Flint, July 23 and 24.
The state tax commission will meet
July 2 to hear complaints of alleged
unequal assessments.
While Detroiters were simultaneous,
ly dodging sunstroke and deluge Sun
day, 11. Inches of snow fell in Butte,
Mont.
Owosso's home-coming celebration
will besin July 2S, and continue four
days. A barbecue and athletic games
will be features.
While shearing sheep on his farm
F. T. Robinson, of Ludington, found
a r,usty pair of sheep shears imbedded
in the animal's wool and lying near
tho hide.
Cyril McCarthy, 18-year-old son of
Rep. J. J. McCarthy, or Standish, has
obtained a position In the secretary ot
state's office at Lansing, at a salary
of $1,000 per year.
Land Commissioner Rose visited
Locko township, Ingham county, to ex
amine and appraise a ICO-acre tract
of land on which over $3,000 delin
quent taxes are charged.
Frank H. Ring, living near Decatur,
tried to run off the belt of a gasoline
engine with his foot. The pulley
caught his foot and crushed it so as
to necessitate amputation.
Sixteen thousand volts of electri
city passed through tho body of Jo
seph Plche, an employe of the Cham
pion Mining Co., and killed him in
stantly, lie was splicing wires.
E. 1a. Behin, living near Dimon
dale, while drilling for water struck a
16 foot vein of soft coal 14 feet down.
He has been offered a royalty of S3
cents a ton for all coal mined on his
premises.
Bayard Wyman, of Michigan, has
pulled down a $3,000 plum at Wash
ington. He gets tho job of superintend
ent of postmaster appointments. The
place was created at the last session
of congress.
When George Duckett went to work
at the Jackson Novelty Manufacturing
Co.'s plant Monday morning he was
given his discharge. Duckett is the
man who wouldn't bury his father be
cause ho Is paying for a new house.
Over 300 guests thronged the On
sted opera house and witnessed the
wedding ceremony of Miss Hazel Tus
slng and Wallace G. McUmber, of llud
Bon. There was no other place in the
village large enough to acommodate
the guests.
Mrs. Wm. Miller, of Flint, says she
does not desire to prosecute her hus
band, who sho charges tried to force
carbolic acid down her throat. She
says he has on ungovernable temper
and all she nsks Is that he keep away
from her. She is still confined to her
bed.
A trunk which John Smith checked
In Lewlston on November 20 to go to
Farwell, Clare county, has Just turned
up after a trip across the ocean and
back. It happened that another party
was leaving Lewlston at the same
time as Smith and the wrong trunk
was checked. Meantime Smith had to
buy a new outfit of winter clothing.
While Conway James and Carl
Daley, of Detroit, were enjoying a
launch ride on Mace Day lake, their
gasoline tank caught fire and the
craft was soon enveloped In flames.'
They Jumped overboard and swam to
shore.
Clara Gosh, daughter of a prominent
Freeport farmer, was badly bitten by
a mad dog and will be sent to Ann
Arbor for the Pasteur treatment. She
was picking flowers when the brute
rushed upon her. It Is said the dog
ran all tho way there from Grand
Rapids, 30 miles distant. A half
dozen men pursued and shot the ani
, mal.
THINGS DONE
AND UNDONE
THE WORK OF THE LEGISLA
TURE BRIEFLY REVIEWED.
AT THE CLOSE.
THE SESSION'S FEATURES
Rose Above Mediocrity and Did Some
Good Work as Shown by a Glance
at the Results.
Things Done and Not Done.
The forty-fourth session of the legis
lature adjourned at 1:35 o'clock Wed
nesday afternoon, though officially it
was noon when the gavels fell in the
house and senate. By its work of the
last ten days this legislature has rais
ed itself above tho plane of medioc
rity and established a record that will
compare favorably with previous ses
sions. Factional differences always
stand out sharply in political matters,
bo that the battles between the senate
and administratlonist8 and the so-called
boxers have tended to blind the
vision as to the really good work that
has been accomplished- With the
exception of the primary bill, every
sharp contest has resulted in some
good being accomplished and the pres
ent primary law could have betn per
fected but for the fact that the ad
ministration insisted on having the 40
per cent provision stricken out
The work that has chief prominence
was the passage of the railroad two
cent passenger fare bill; the consti
tutional convention which ft to con
vene October 22; the establishment
of a system of Juvenile courts through
out the state; the repeal of the limi
ted liability act and the change of
venue act; making railroads common
carriers of livestock; the department
insurance bill regulating the conduct
of such companies; banking bill com
pelling directors to audit the accounts
under oath semi-annually and report
to the banking department; its corpo
ration bill which prohibits the issu
ing of watered stock on the organiza
tion of Industrial companies; the bin
der twine plant, and the cash tax
highway improvement bill.
The crowning feature of the closing
days of the 6e6sion was the passage
of the railroad commission bill, the
agreement of which surmounted al
most Impassable obstacles. Other bills
passed that deserve notice are tho
one abolishing wild cat bucket shops;
cutting down the Interest that can be
charged by chattel mortgage sharks,
and one that regulates the interest to
be charged by pawnbrokers and loan
agents to the legal rate and 3 per
cent additional.
Of the bills that failed, may be men
tioned the repeal of the mortgage tax
law; the bank bill authorizing the or
ganization of Etate banks In small
places with lower capitalization than
is now required; the 'Michigan United
Railway bill, which was an effort to
change the law relative to the bonds
that could be accepted by state banks.
It was simply that this company found
they could not float their bonds under
the present restrictions and wanted
a more lenient provision, but It was
defeated by the state bankers. On a
majority vote the bill would have won,
but an effort to discharge the commit
tee of the whole failed, a two-thirds
vote being required, and care was tak
en that the house never reached the
general order. The house failed to
pass the bill giving tho tax commis
sion power to review assessments of
its own volition, it being pigeon-holed
in committee, the alleged reasons be
ing that the big mining companies ob
jected, as they don't want the tax com
mission to walk into the copper and
iron counties and boost the assessed
valuations.
The last bill passed by the senate
just before adjournment was one rais
ing the salary of Mrs. Mary Spencer,
state librarian, to $1,800 and then
every one sang "So Long, Mary."
There was almost, a slip-up on the
bill appropriating $7,000 for a silver
service and. colors for the battleship
Michigan. The house committee
struck out the names of the delegation
named In the bill and the conference
committees appointed forgot to meet.
Senator Bland finally got busy and
the senate accepted a verbal report by
which the senate receded and the gov
ernor will name the delegation.
The house finally adopted the sug
gestion of Atty.-Gen. Bird and passed
the joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution pro
viding that public utilities shall be as
sessed under the ad valorem system,
by whomsoever owued. At present
only public utility corporations are bo
assessed and advantage was taken to
evade the law by firms and co-partnerships.
The amendment is an import
ant one.
By reducing the general purpose tax
to $1,10.000, the budget appropriated
by the legislature was kept down to
$0,1 50.555.12. The governor decided
on this move after consulting with the
auditor-general and learning that
there Is now nearly $2,000,000 in the
state treasury, which Is ample to meet
any deficiency that may arise. At the
last moment the house agreed to an
approprLitlon of $25,000 for a Custer
monument to be erected at Monroe
and the highway department appropri
ation, which was raised to $250,000,
was given immediate effect.
Charles II. Davis, aged 67, of Wil
son township, civil war veteran,
dropped dead while driving cows
homo.
Get a Warning.
The formal announcement by Vis
count Hayaski, the Japanese minister
for foreign affairs, in a Toklo eis patch
published FrUay, that Ambassador
Aokl Is to be retained at Washington,
Is regarded ae eiearly establishing the
fact that. the prment Japanese minis
try, headed ay Vfarqule Salenjl, has as
sured Itself of the support of both the
unionist and conservative parties in
Its present attitude toward Anerlca,
that of conciliation rather than the
cockiness demanded by tho Jap jingo
Is ta.
ORCHARD'S STORY.
The Defense of Haywood, Charg4
With Murder of Idaho's Governor.
The closing of the case of the state
leaves the battle against and for the
life of William D. Haywood in mldfleld
and from now forward the sides
change the defense assumes the ag
gressive, the prosecution is on the de
fensive. The state will carry its case
on through an aggressive cross-examination
and then present testimony in
rebuttal, but its main proposition and
showing are already before the Jury.
Orchard has been traced through all
of the more important movements con
nected with the alleged attempt on
the life of Fred Bradley In San Fran
cisco by independent witnesses, and
his story of tho poisoned milk haa
been carried down to the chemist who
analyzed It. It has been independent
ly shown that while Orchard was in
San Francisco. Pettlbone, using false
names, telegraphed money to him
twice, and that a registered letter or
package was sent to San Francisco
from Pettlbone's Denver address under
a name used by Pettlbone in sending
one of the telegraphic remittances.
Other than by Orchard's word it has
not been shown that the Bradley ex
plosion was caused by a bomb.
Orchard's ttory of his journey to
Canyon City to kill former Gov. Pea
body Is given general confirmation by
the testimony of Wm. Vaughan, who
was Orchard's traveling companion.
Orchard went to Canyon City ostensi
bly as an Insurance agent, and the
state has produced a letter of reoom
mendatlon written to the Insurance
company for him by Pettlbone.
Orchard's testimony as to the Inde
pendence station outrage and the mur
der of Detective Lyte Gregory stand
alone.
The chief corroboration of Orchard's
testimony has keen as to things he
did and the time and manner of their
drtng, and it Is contended by the de
fense that aside from nls testimony
there is not a single piece of indepen
dent evidence against Haywood or an
fact that Independently connects Hay
wood with the crime charged or any
other crime.
Seventy Indicted.
A special grand Jury closed its ses
sion in Denver, Saturday, and report
ed to Judge Lewis aDout 70 Indict
ments against men prominent In Col
orado, Wyoming. Nebraska, New Mex
ico, Utah, Nevada, Wisconsin and Mis
souri, principally for alleged coal and
timber land frauds, although a few
alleged mining fakers and a couple of
cases of postoffice robberies wore also
included In the list. Judge Lewis re
fused to give out the names of those
indicted until arrests are made.
THE MARKETS.
Detroit Cattle Kxtra dry-fed steers
and heifers, $5 Tiif-ni: steers and heif
ers, l.ooo to l.i'oo lbs. $:, -.'offi .i 75: strs
and Inlfcrs, Mil) to 1.000 lbs, $4 7 5 rD
5 25; grass stet rs uriil heifers that ara
f:it. 8oo to l.ooij lbs, $3 50 4 T.O; grass
xtecrs ami heifers that arc fut. 5n0 to
Too lbs, $3 :T,(5 I; choice fat cows, $3 73
4 T.O; pood fat cows. $3 2'Ua'i 73; com
mon rows. lfa2 75: eanners, $1 f0(n2;
rlioire heavy bulls. $4 25'4 75: fair to
Kootl bol.ignas, bulls. $3 50r3 73; stock
bull. $3fa 3 50; choice feeding iteera,
SO" to 1,000 lbs, $3 75Tl i 25; fair feed
ing steers. fc.X) to l.ooo lbs. $3 50tff 4;
eh. .ice Mockers. 500 to 700 lbs. $3 25 ifi
.'! 75: fair Ftockers. f.oo to Too lbs. 3W
3 25: milkers, large, yoiinsr, medium
g. $10'.f50; common milker. $18(30.
Veal en Ives Market 25c to 50c lower
than last Thursday; best. $6f6 73;
others, f 4 5 5o.
Milch cows and springers Steady.
.Nrf cep ntid lambs Market dull, last
Thurnd-iy'H prices; quality poor. Uest
lambs. na 50; fair to good lambs. $3
fiti: Htfht to common lambs, $ 4 (77. 5 ;
spring liiml.H, $77 5o; fair to goo.I
butcher sheep. $4fy4 50; culls and com
mon. $3f3 f.o.
Mors Market 30c. higher than last
wwk, Kangp of prices: Light to good
butchers. $6 25f7"r, 30; pips, $ti 25(?6P"0;
light Torkers, $! 2rt 30; rouirhs, $5(j
3 50; tstaKS. 1-3 olT; crlpplfg, $2 off.
Kast Rnffalo Mest export steers.
$ fi . 2 5 t f C.r.5: best shlppintr steers. $5.90 (ft
f..50; best 1.000 to l.loo-lb.. $5.105.90;
best fat cows. ffifPi.TS; fnlr to good.
J3.Rfr3.7R: trimmers. $2f2.23; be.t
heifers, $5ff 5 23: medium to poed, $4f'j
1.25; best feeding steers. $4f?4.25; year
ling steers. $.", ffT'3.50: common stock
teers. $2.75(?3: export bulls. $4.50(f?5;
bologna bulls. $3.5013.75: stock bulla,
$2.50fi 3.25 ; good cows steady, other
dull: good to extra. $40fS'5O; medium to
good. $33 R: common. $20f?23.
Hogs: Market stronar: all grades,
t (?.r.f(j;fi,53; roughs, $5.40f?5.RO; stags
$47T 4.50.
Sheep: Market dull and slower;
coring lambs, $8 fin fr 7.5-0: yearlings.
fi?r6 25: culls. !5r5.50: wethers $5.25
W5 75: culls. $34: ewes. $4.So5.
Culves steady; best, $7 25; beary, $4
(ff4.50.
Grnln. i:e.
TWre.11. Wheat Cash Ko. 3 red,
03V. c: Julv. 5 000 bu at 94Hc 3.000 bu
at 94 Mr. Ifl.OOfl tu at 94c, Ifl.ofto hn at
93T4e, l.0o bu at 93 ic, iMflo bu at
93 4c. 1 R 000 bu at 93 6.000 bu at
94c 10.000 bu at 934c: September, 30,.
000 bu at 97c. 25 000 bu at 9c. 20.000
bu at 964c 25.000 bu at 9S. 10.000
bu at 96'ic 10,000 bu nt 6i. 5.000 bu
t 9?Uc. 15.000 bu at 9c R.ooo bu at
94o. 5.000 bu at 9V4c 10,0O bu at
fic: December. 10 000 bu at 9e Jft.OOO
i at osic. IR.Ooo b at ffgnc lfiooo
bu at ORc. 10.000 bu at 98 4c ffi.OOu bu
nt 9SV4C 15,000 bu ot 99J, 10.000 bu at
osuc. nooo bu at OsVri, IS.ooa bu at
oku.c, 5 ono t.u at OS'VJc 10.000 bu at
ftsvic IK. ooo bu at 88c; No. S red, 0cj
No 1 white. 01 c.
frn Pah No 3, B4.: No. 3 yellow,
2 mm at Mc; No. 4 yellow, 1 car af
55c 1 at MUc.
'Mts Osn Ko. 3 vhJte, S oos at
4S,-c: Fontember, 3Hc
r.vf Cnh No. J. s7o,
penn "ash and Jnnc $1 T5: .Tuly,
2 os at 1 73 etoslng at $1 74 bid.
fMoverseed Prime snot,, ; October,
too bn"s t $S; Ievembr.l$8; prime &1
Five $7 50. f
Timothy sv J Prima spot. J bajysat
$2 15.
rek KiKlInf June 30, UXT7.
Ltttt'M Pr If e jl wr t V 7V !7V. 7?. 2Vj
Mitlnees Wdnaiar and Ha turd ay
What Happen! to J on on."
TrMPI.K TltF.TK AW1 'VftWmUHIV-
Afwrnooni 1 10c to -"V: Kvfitnr
r rc. to ATsneed VsTideTtll. Harry
ljvonport and ITiyllWi Rankin.
A Quick Bleach.
ne4urnrnK from lonjc trip fchjouch
the vest, Ftanli McCorraick. at Altoo
na, Pa., utarthil his old Aoqualnfances
by his changed appearance. His hair,
formerly Jet Mack, had turned snow
white. He plalnd that th change
had occTHred la a ulnsle ilRht dating
the horrors of the earthqwHito In San
Francisco, where he was working at
lhe ti'me.
Henry Sehermann. asred 7. of Sacl-
naw, waa struck la the honl wfth a
tape Kail antl nfker twins ahrot as 3ual
for several dfcja. suddenly died.