The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-03
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soLoNs MAY QUIT ON APRIL 9
ting 4 Pardon for Wesley
Elkins.

Special to The Journal
Des Moines. Iowa, April 3.-The senate
passed the house bill raising the govern
or's salary from $4,000 to $4,000, leaving
$1,1OO for incidentals, and making total
of Sc, 100.
The BARRIERS examining bill was laid on
the table. The biennial fight to prevent
its consideration was had, and the first
amendment offered was laid on the table,
carrying the bill with it. 49,
The bill giving county superintendent
a minimum of $1,000 salary passed. A
resolution to adjourn Wednesday, April 9,
also passed.
The Nolan-Crawford contest, in which
Nolan, democrat, demanded the seat Of
Crawford, republican, was closed by
adopting the committees report, Senator
Crawford paying all expenses of both
Sides 500 50 .s@f 2Jfrs 5:.3
The house spent, the morning consider
ing the Wesley Elkins pardon case, but
did not reach a vote. ss5
Young Elkins Case.s
The senate after a debate that lasted
for five hours yesterday, voted in favor Of
the pardon of J. Wesley Elkins, the Clay
ton county convict, who is now serving
a life term at Anamosa. The vote for
pardon was II to 20. The case excited the
greatest interest and aroused the orators
Of the upper body to their best
Elkins case is q most remarkable one.
He killed his parents when he was a boy
of II years, shooting his father and TAX
Ing the life Of his step-mother. with q
club. Since he has been at Anamosa he
has been a model prisoner and by wide
reading has acquired a good general edu
cation. There is wide difference Of
opinion whether it is now safe to release
him. The people of Clayton county are
ct OIL CT o1o
Senator Bishop of that county, in urging
that he be not released brandished the
bloody club, with which the stepmother
was slain, the scene being dramatic in the
extreme. =
other Pardons.
The house devoted all yesterday after
noon to the consideration of pardons
cases. 1t recommended for conditional
pardons Otto Often, committed from
Pocahontas county for the murder Of J.
W. O'schon, in 1887. Otten's case was
country from Germany and had not yet
learning the language. He was an ignor-
ant half-deformed boy but Mrs. O'Schon
took liking to him and, according to
evidence before the pardons committee,
had him completely subjugated to her
control and seemingly hypnotized. The
relations between the two were question
dU1e, duO liOm Lie 0flueuCe 1t appears the
wife spurred the boy on to commit the
deed. Often Is now at Anamosa, where
he has become skilled mechanic.
William Young, the colored hootblack
Of Sioux City, who shot George Elliott,
another colored man, in 1896, and has
since been in Anamosa prison, was
recommended for pardon by the house by
unanimous vote. 1t was shown Young.
who shot Elliott in quarrel over game
Of craps, acted in self-defense.
Others recommended for conditional
pardons were Theodore Bushick of Mills
county, and John Ballew of Fort Dodge.
both at Anamosa, and Joseph McCreary
of Mills county and George Stanley, COM
mftted from Story county. Stanley is now
81 years old, on the verge of the grave.
He has been in prison since 1870 and was
committed for the murder of one Patter-
son, section boss on the North Western.
Patterson had quarreled with him over
Stanley's attentions to Patterson's wife.
McCreary has been In prison tWenty-three
years and has never seen the outside OF
the wells but once, when by special re-
quest Of ex-Pardon Secretary W. s. Rich
ards, he was taken outside and allowed
to look on the hills that border the
Mississippi valley in the vicinity Of the
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