Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-28
SUDDEN DEATH.
1T is RUMORED THAT HE CON-
MITTED SUICIDE.
He Had Been III for Several Years
His Favorite Study Was to Think
How to Help the Lower Classes
Applied Them Practically-Created
Funds and Built Homes.

Funds and Built Homes.
Berlin, Nov. 25.-The first assump-
ton that Herr Krupp, the great gun
maker, whose death was recorded re-
Gently, committed suicide is yielding
to precise and abundant testimony 10
the contrary. Professor BinsWanger,
a physician of the highest reputation,
was in the apartment adjoining Herr
Krupp's sleeping room when he was
stricken, and DR.. PAIL, Herr Krupps
family doctor, also was in the house.
They summoned several other physl-
clans and it is regarded as being be-
yond belief that all of them should
have connived at concealment of the
cause of death, which they ascribe to
stroke of apoplexy, induced, they
add unofficially, by mental excitement
from which Herr Krupp was suffering.
Herr Krupp's medical history for
several years past indicates that he
was in delicate health. He was asth-
matte, had weak heart and was sub
| ject to fainting spells. He fell to the
ground unconscious while in Genoa
several years ago and again while at
dinner at a hotel here Is months ago.
He had been warned to avoid fatigue
and worry. He was at Hamburg
Thursday last and at the Hamburger
hof it was observed that he was in a
| highly nervous condition and scarcely
in control of himself. His condition
accounted for the presence of two ply,
sicians in the house at the time of his
death, one of them being Professor
Binswanger.
Mrs. Krupp was sent for from Jena
She is suffering from a nervous NAL
ady, but was brought to Essen in g
special train, arriving there this morn
ing. The funeral has been fixed fol
Wednesday. Chancellor Won Buelow
all the ministers and great number
OF other officials, following the exam
pie OF the emperor, have telegraphet
their condolences to the widow.
Herr Krupp leaves two daughters
who are at school, one named Barbara
aged II, and the second named Bertha
aged Is years.
Herr Krupp's favorite study was tt
think out schemes for improving thu
well being of the lower classes, which
he applied practically to what ar,
called labor colonies" He assented
seemingly, to most socialistic princi
pies, except that he held tight to tn
wage system, averring that the aver
age wage earners are not yet stuff
GENTLY developed or self-controlled t.
regulate for themselves a just system
of division of profit.
1t is mentioned as an extraordinar,
circumstance that a man who apple
socialistic ideas in so extensive a wa
should be crushed by social demo
cratic newspapers, which regarded hi
measures to ameliorate the conditio
or the laborers as not touching tn
question of economic injustice.
Herr Krupp's father started the sy.
TEN OF modern dwellings for the worl
ingman as a matter of expediency an
Herr Krupp himself appears to hay
developed them from conviction and i
accordance with his ideals. He owne
5469 dwellings, each, to whateve
group it belonged, being constructe
with variations in the architecture t
avoid monotony. Each house had
front yard, in which were bits of orni
mental gardening; the outside colorin
and interior decoration gave a certai
esthetic unity, while there was plent
of space and light.
Herr Krupp had also a variety {
institutions, some of them rather sin,
ular, such as bachelors home. B
: sides convalescent hospitals and o
= phanages, he had a pension fund fl
his employees amounting to $4,125,0O
e He contributed last year, as require
by law, $4,000 to the national insu
:. ance fund and gave voluntarily S4,OSC
600 to other insurance funds.
:. Notwithstanding his benevolent /
: terests, he was an autocrat in the ma
: agement of his concerns. He was 2
h most unknown by sight to his wor
d men and rarely visited the works
even his offices. He spent sever
:, months every year on the island
; Capri and managed his gun work
rolling mills, iron mines and shipyarc
4 by letters and kilograms.
Unlike his father, Herr Krupp too
= no interest in the technical side of
business, yet in Is years he more thu
D doubled the fortune which he inhe
It tied. Since their foundation the Ess,
e factories have turned out 41,OOO piec,
IL of artillery. Herr Krupp resented b
ing called the cannon king" and
said that half of all the output of h
works was civilizing products, such
railway and merchant ship materi
and structural steel.
SUICIDE OF SoMNAMBULIsT,
GaOrdA ChaIhu Cu1ooeoI L. ~.