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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
The "WAICH TRUST
AMillion Dollar Corporation Formed
to Fight It.
IS BACK OF IT
Tactics of the Watch Trust Were SO
Fierce That 1t Overreached
-@@ Itself.
Sew York Sun soscfaI ss-vzos.


Chicago. May S:-Oposition to the Elgin
National Watch company and the Wal
than Watch 81 company, known an.ng
watch jobbers as the .'watcn trust cui-
minated to-day in the formation OF a
81 900, O00corporation in South eBnd, Ind,
to supply with watch movements the large
mail order houses and the jobbers of
Chicago who have been cut off by the
trust.
The Studebakers of South eBnd and
other Indiana capitalists, representing an
aggregate wealth OF more than $2O,OO0,-
QUO, are back of the new company, which
was organized by f. A. BaZzett, manager
of NJ BaZzett & Co., of Chicago, one of
the jobbers whom the trust has refused
to supply with watches at jobbers' prices.
He was assisted in financing the corpora
tion by Howard H. Gross. The new or
ganization is called the South Bend
Watch company. 2-.s ,.. - .f<-
An agreement, which the jobbers say
is, in effect, a trust agreement, exists
company, and the Waltham Watch COM
pany, by which the two companies
United States. Efforts have been made in
the past to bring these two companies
together in corporation, including all
the leading watch companies in the United
States, but failed because the Waltham
company held out. The agreement which
the two companies to control the watch
business without merging in one cor
poration. BY the agreement the list price
Of all watches was advanced 10 per cent
and the distribution of watches was linn
tied to certain preferred jobbers.
When the agreement went into effect
the preferred jobbers were notified that
they could have watches as long as they
refused to sell them to sub-jobbers any
cheaper than they were sold to the
smallest retail dealer. which is reduc-
ton Of 10 and 6 per cent of the list
price. The jobber is allowed a margin Of
Is per cent of profit.
These provisions have been strictly
enforced since Feb. 1, and the large mail
order houses, which have done hundreds
of thousands of dollars of business an
nually in Elgin and Waltham movements
have protested in vain.
The new company will be able to begin
operation at South Bend in six months.
The capacity Of the new plant will be
1000 watches a day and it will employ
1900 workmen when in full operation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
COURTS SAY HE IS DEAD
HIS PROPERTY SOLD LONG AGO
Strange Case of Burgess or Baker of
Muscatine Who Persists &c..
in Living.

Special to The Journal.
Muscatine, Iowa.: May 9-Legally dead,
but living in this city and enjoying good
health, is the status Of Isaac Burgess.
He has resided here for nine years and
goes by the name of David Baker. He
once owned a 12O-acre farm near Pleas
ant Plain, Jefferson county, Iowa. but
mysteriously left it years ago. and had
been considered dead. The property was
sold and the money distributed and
probably spent. A claim has now been
made for the property -. -
The object Of Burgess strange action is
shrouded in mystery, but may have been
the result of mental alteration. He left
his home at Pleasant Plain in 1885 and
started for Danville, Ind, for thirty
days visit, but before the expiration OF
the thirty days he decided to remain In
DanvilIe. He lived there until Nov. s.
1892 when he suddenly disappeared and
nothing as to his whereabouts could be
found.
His relatives advertised for him, but all
their efforts were unavailing. He was
unmarried. Five years later the court OF
Hendricks county, Indiana, declared him
legally dead and admitted his will to pro-
bate. ..-
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SHE HAS TWO FEARS
Mrs. Hettie Green Afraid of Light
ming and Religious Lawyers.
THEY KEEP HER VERY NERVOUS
The Awful Things That Have Hap
pened in Her Family of
Late Years.
Now York Sun soscIay Service

New York, May 9.-Mrs Hettie Green.
often called the richest woman in Amer
lea yesterday received a police permit to
carry a pistol: In her application the
reason given was that she usually had
in her possession large sums Of money,
stocks and bonds. but Mrs. Green after
ward said that was not the real reason.
Il never carry much with me-" she
said. Il only take enough for cab hire. -
The real reason for wanting a pistol
permit, she explained, was to protect her
self against persons she thought might
be induced by lawyers to attack her: Mrs.
Green said there were only two things in
the world she feared, lightning and re-
ligious lawyer. For thirty-two years,
she said. she had been engaged in litiga-
ton over the estate of her father, Ed
ward Mott Robinson, and the books and
papers of the estate had been kept out OF
her reach by lawyers representing execu-
tors who were dead. "
THE estate is short by $780, 00," she
said, land they hooked the books. I had
my daughter appointed executrix of the
estate. One of the lawyers threw her
against a safe when she tried to get the
papers. My daughter is sick in bed now
and says she don't expect to live out the
summer. She never got over the hurt
she received some seven years ago. When
I see my daughter ready to die + think
been in her place when she was thrown
against the safe would have speared that
lawyer with a. hat pin.
''I've lad a pistol for years and I can
shoot. Didn't I beat Huntington with
his own judge, in Texas? I did, and the
people of Texas gave me a revolver.
have it in my room now. I believe my
father was put out of the way. They
gave my husband an overdose of mercury
and he died when he was trying to gel
an accounting Of the estate. o, the ply.
sicians prescribed mercury. but it was
administered by man I had ordered
kept out of the house. If am put out 0,
the way, there will be no trouble locating
the men who did it, I have their names
written on slips Of paper. and they are
in three banks. -.> =
''Semple, the man who shot Wyckoff ii
the bank. threatened me six months be.
fore that. He told me that he wanted
$1OO, 900. If he could knock that much
out, of me, he said, the lawyers would de-
fend him"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
FIVE.YEAR SCANDAL
Ex-Secretary McFarland's Case to
} Be Settled.
MADE CLERKS DIVIDE WITH HIM
State Sued for $1,000 Although 1t
Lost More by PecuIations of
Trusted Official.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ~-.s.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 9.-The end of
the sensational case against ex-Secretary
Of State w. NJ. Mcfarland and his bonds
In all probability settlement will be made
In all probability. settlement will be made
out of court. the defendants attorneys
having made a proposition of this kind to
the executive council. Hence, while the
cese is on the supreme court docket for
submission at the coming May term, it
will be continued, Mcfarland having in
dicated his Willingness to settle by next
fall. -. ~
For five years, this scandal Of the cap.
ital, one of the most sensational in the
history of the state, has been pending in
the courts. In the zenith of his career,
W. M. Mcfarland was one of the most
promising and brilliant politicians in
Iowa.. The trouble arising in his Office in
1894 and 1895 left him a political wreck
and since then his fortunes have never
BEEN repaired He was a convincing
campaign orator, had taught school,
preached, studied law and edited a news
paper. He was in the newspaper business
at Estherville, Emmett county, when he
was nominated in 1889 for secretary of
state and was elected, taking his seat in
$780,. He served for three terms. 1t was
in the last term. ending in 1896, that
through some strange faulty he was led
into the paths that proved his political
s.:
The law of Iowa requires a census every
five wears. 1t was made the duty of the
secretary of state to file and preserve in
his Office abstracts Of the census enumer-
alton made out by the auditors of the
respective counties.
The cost of making compilation of the
abstracts would have been SMALL but it
was charged that without authority Of
law Mcfarland caused the returns of the
census made by the many assessors Of the
state to be sent to his office. Abstracts
| were made of them and without authority
of law, as the attorney general alleged,
more than a hundred clerks were en-
ployed in the census department for many
| months, and at a cost of more than
| $37 900. ... ~. ~. p
| It was McFarland's policy, as shown
clearly by the testimony to require clerks
to divide their pay with him. He OBJ
| tanned this on the plea he needed it for
campaign expenses or that it was a con-
| tribution to make up the salary that Mrs.
| Mcfarland would have received had he
put her on the force instead of the per-
son whose salary he was sharing. The
state sued for $4,000. the amount of NC
Farland's bond, though it was alleged the
state was out much more than that by his
transactions. III
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
BABY IN THE SATCHEL
BOTH LEFT IN A BOARDING HOUSE
Milwaukee Mystery Furnishes Bust
ness for the Coroner and
Other Ofacials.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ..
Milwaukee,, May 9.-Mrs. A. Fay, pro-
prietor of boarding house at 521 Van
Buren,. street, to-day opened a satchel
which had been left as security by a
boarder about year ago and was horri-
fed to find the body. of a fully developed
infant. The corner was notified and took
the body to the morgue.
According to the story related to the au-
thorities, the satchel was left with the
boarding house people just about year
ago by Mrs. Coffin. The woman was In
Strengthened circumstances and when she
left she explained she would be able to
get the money shortly and would redeem
the satchel. During this springs house
cleaning the old satchel came to light
and it was decided to investigate.
A servant who worked in the house at
the time of Mrs, Collins visit remem-
bers her as boarded. but knows little Of
her history. She remained at the house
several weeks. the girl says. Once she
came back and removed something from
the trunk, but so far as she recalls, did
not ask for the satchel. Mrs. Coffin was
accompanied by a son, about IA years Of
age,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
CAKES GETS THE GIRL
otter Tail Elopement Case Ends In
Triumph of the Young Az
.., People. 80 .

Special to The Journal. .,s
Fergus Falls, Mimi, May 9.-William
Oakes who, eloped with 15-year-old Emma
Erickson, appears to have outwitted final.
ly his irate father in-law. Mr.. Erickson
had the young man arrested for abduction
and took his daughter home Immediately
after the marriage. r..
The Erickson family is now on the way
to the state of Washington, and while
waiting at the station, the young bride
excused herself long enough to go to a
store near by and buy some candy. AS
she reached the street her husband, who
is out on bail, drove UP with buggy and
the couple: drove away.
The family went on and the young peo-
pie will probably be unmoIested in the
future.
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SAYING 0FEARS5 GONE
The DAUGHTER IS ARRESTED
Mrs. Urist of St. Paul Charged With
RobbfnE an cAnoka Man -,
of $780, ..-s
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
+; Anoka, MINI. May 9.-Jacob Jonevetich,
a junk peddler Of this place, was relieved
of $3.50, the result of years savings, a
few days ago, and his daughter, Mrs. Urist
Of St. Paul, was arrested by the sheriff
and brought to Anoka and is now held
under 81, 900 bonds waiting the action Of
the grand jury. 49, ~. -.
Mrs. Urist recently came to Anoka for
the purpose of making a two weeks visit
with her parents, but after a. two days
being missed at about the same time.
The woman learned of the wherea bouts
of the money through a younger member
of the family. The father pleaded with
his daughter but to no avail, and later
caused her arrest. ..s.r-..- .-.... 81. 81.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
NORTH DAKOTA DECISIONS
Judgment Affirmed in HiIdreth Case
Buffalo Bank Bondsmen.
special to The Journa

Special to The Journal.
Bismarck, N. D.. The supreme court
has harded down a decision in the case of
the International Society vs.. M. A. Hill
dreth, of Fargo, Affirming the Judgment
given in the lower. court -
The court also passes on an interesting
point in the suit by Cass county against
bondsuaen of the defunct Exchange Bank,
of Buffalo. One signature to the indem-
nifying bend Of the bank was erased after
six men had signed. The court holds
that the four. persons signing before the
erasure are bound as sureties; that the
sixth surety signing after the erasure
and without knowledge Of it was not
bound and that the four others who signed
after and with knowledge of it cannot
maintain prejudice by. reason of the era
sure.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
ECHO OF DAVIS ESTATE.

Butte Attorney Sued for 100000 by
Two of the Heirs.
Special to The Journal.
Butte, Mont, May 9.-TWo new suits to
recover $4,000 have just sprung out of
the old estate of the millionaire, Andrew
]. Davis. They were brought in behalf Of
two heirs. Calvin P. Davis and Elizabeth
S. Bowdern, against Attorney Drenner,
who represented the heirs, it is alleged.
He is charged with holding $4,000. Dren-
ner is well known Butte lawyer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09

LEAVES FOR THE SOUTH
Edith Warrington Engages for Two
Weeks In Vaudeville.

Special to The Journal -. -.
Winona, Mimi, May 9-Miss Edith Yer.
rington, who has come home to Winona tt
spend the summer after playing for two
years in THE .Burgomaster" as Willie Vor
Astorbit, has accepted a remunerative offel
for two weeks i'm vaudeville at New Orleans
and Chicago, and left for the former place
last evening. She will perform twenty,
minute act along the lines of Vesta Finley
the great English male impersonator. II
is not Miss Yerrington's intention to remain
in vaudeville. She has received several ad-
vantageous offers to join company for next
season, but has not yet made up her mind
which offer to accept.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
SUIT AGAINST. SIX
Prominent Citizens of Anol<a Princi.
'"@ pals In n Damage Case.

Prominent Citizens of AnoI<a Princi-
pals In a Damage Case.
Special to The Journal.
Anoka, MIMI, May 9.-The coroner
served papers yesterday upon John Cole
man, sheriff. as principal, and John Cole
man, superintendent of the insane hos
pital, M. v. Bean, Thomas Coleman, Aid
erman John Casey and George McCauley
as sureties, in suit in which Cyrus r.
Hall asks for $4,000 damages. The sheriff
and his deputies went to the premises Of
Mr. Hall last summer and made demand
for certain cattle mentioned in a chattel
mortgage given to the Deering Harvester
company, and upon his refusal to deliver
the stock until the sheriff produced his
papers, the sheriff and his deputies are
said to have maltreated Mr.. Hall, in
fiicting injuries from which he has sui
tered, he alleges, to the extent OF $4,000.
As he was also incarcerated in the county
jail, he demands $1,000 for false impris-
onment.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
WATER CURE IN OHIO
A Variety of 1t Is Tried at the Girls
- Industrial Home.

-=' Industrial Home.
Delaware, Ohio, May 9-The water cure
was in vogue at the girls industrial home
here long before it was heard of in the
Philippines. Miss Emma Bruce of Cleveland,
who was teacher in the school from 1897 to
1900. told the state board Of charities about
it yesterday. 1t was administered to Ruby
Gregory, a girl who was charged with feign-
ing insanity in the spring Of 1900. Miss Bruce
said it was understood the treatment was
given at the suggestion Of DR.. Hedges to see
if Ruby was really fegning insanity.
It was administered she said. by Captain
Stiles, Miss Cellars and Miss Taylor. They
would take a basin and dash cold water in
the girls face The cure was effective in
part After it was administered three times
the girl seemed improved. After it, however.
she made no progress in her studies. She
was never considered bright.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
N. OAK. MEDALS CUT OUT

The Senate Committee Disappoints
Mr.. Hansbrough.
Special to The Journal
Washington, May 9.-The senate COM
mittee on military affairs has reported
the military appropriations bill without
Senator Hansbrough's amendmentSto give
medals of honor to the North Dakota men
who served with Young's scouts. The
senator will not abandon his effort to
secure justice, but has introduced the
amendment as separate bill which he
will push in committee and in the senate.
w. w. JeTmane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
Sanitary Condition of street Cars.

In view of the fact that men spend a
considerable portion of their time in go
ing to and from work on the street cars.
the matter of their proper ventilation is
very important. The elevated cars of
New York are probably the most unsani-
tary In the country and the air in them
has been proven bad enough at times to
kill an ordinary cat, if confined for any
length Of time. There is no doubt that it
is a hard matter to improve the ventila-
ton, but one can keep his health good
with Golden Grain Belt beer, thus repair
Ing the damage done by impure air. Pure,
delicious and refreshing, this beer should
be always in your home.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
CAR RAN AMUCK

Tore Up a Tree and DemOI1shed Side
walks at Dubuque.
Special to The Journal.
Dubuque, Iowa, May "a Union Elec-
trio company car on the Hill street line
jumped the track and three persons were
seriously injured. The car plunged into
the curb, mounted it. crashed against a
tree, tearing it uo by the roots and de-
molished sidewalk Motoneer Reagan
was thrown UPON the sidewalk, alighting
on his head, and sustained severe sinju-
ries. Two young women were badly
bruised about the face and were perhaps
internally injured.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
TO BE. MUSTERED OUT.
Three Iowa Companies Marked f.
- Slaughter by officials.

4 Slaughter by officials.
Special to The journal.
Dubuque, Iowa, May 9.-Inspection Off
GERS of the Iowa National Guard have
recommended that three companies be
mustered out of service because of poor
attendance at drill and consequent poor
averages. The guard organizations show
ing lack Of interest are D of the Fiftieth
at Washington, e Of the. Fifty second at
Hull, and e of the Forty-ninth at indie
pendence. Adjutant General Byers will
refuse to permit other companies to be
organized to take their places unless the
cities making application meet the re-
quirements as to armory.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
STAGE DRIVER LOST

"""UoTcu 1HtO tHe MOunta1ns While
1Crazed With Pain.
Special to The Journal.
Missoula, Mont, May Sd. G. Cham
bers, driver of stage between Sunset
and Woodwork, while crazed from pain
wandered into the mountains and either
has fallen from cliff or been lost His
horses returned to the stage station with
out the stage, which was found damaged
in a canyon. Chambers is presumed to
have been injured and wandered to his
death, as no trace has been found of him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
GOOD SEXTON TREED
Bloodhounds Were at Fault and He
Sues for 100000 Damages.

Special to The Journal
Des Moines, Iowa, May 9.-Harvey Nc
Clurg, sexton of the Methodist church in
Valley Junction, who was recently freed
by bloodhounds employed by the city,
will sue Mayor Brenton and other city
officers for $4,000. McClurg is highly re-
spected, but the dogs trailed an alleged
chicken thief from neighboring farm to
his door. sf
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN
Mrs. Gait and Field Workers Have
Designs on Montana.

DesfEns on Montana.
Special to The Journal. tt q
Helena, Mont, May 9.-The woman
suffragists are making a determined effort
to carry the state of Montana this year
and elect legislature that will be favor
able to enacting law for constitutional
amendment extending the franchise to
women Carrie Chapman Gait, president
of the National Woman Suffrage associa-
ton, is making a tour Of the state accom-
panied. by field workers organizing clubs
and aroYsing interest in the movement.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
No Let.Un

to the good things-to-day and Saturday
Its the tailors' $40 to $50 spring suits
and overcoats at $40, $12.5O to SIS. The
Misf1t Clothing Parlors, 241 Nicollet Ave.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
BODY FOUND IN CAR.
Identity of Wascca's Unknown Dead
Established. ~

= Established.
Special to The Journal.
Waseca, Mimi, May 9.-The identity of
the man found dead in car Of lumber at
the Laird-Norton lumber yards in this
city two weeks ago has been established.
A letter. from the chief of police of Minoc-
qua, Wis, states that the mans name
was Arthur Owens, that he was laborer,
had lived in that place for four months
and was reared near Mcmillan, Wis The
cause Of death has not been satisfactorily
established. The body was sent from the
city morgue to the medical department OF
the state university last week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
RlDERLESS HORSE

Little Montana GirI Supposed to
Have Drowned.
Special to The Journal.
Helena, Mint, May 9:-Mary Hogan, 8
years old, daughter of T. S. Hogan, post
master at Debogia, Missoula county, was
drowned in Sturgis river. Her father had
sent her horseback on an errand. The
horse returned dripping wet and riderless.
There is no trace of the little girl and
there Is little doubt she was drowned in
the adjacent river, which is very high.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
Our Shirt Sale

s1.00, $3.50 and 81, and every one we'll
selected. Hoffman's Toggery Shop.-"Not
on Nicollet." SO 4th st S.
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Plums These

Our $500 and $500 Hats. Hoffman's Tog-
gerry Shop. !. Not on Nicollet. !"
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Look In on .Hoffman's Toggery' Shop.
1.-THE Newest Store In town" Neckwear,
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Awhen a Man Is In Need"
s.Bo~ton silk Garter.v "silk,,

Hoftman's Toggery Shop is the place you
are looking for.
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See our great Special Advertisement on
the 5th page, this issue. VIM. Donaldson
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09

Hoffman's Toggery Shop. Why? mot
on Nicollet. We sell for cash.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-09
IOWA LABOR MEN

State Federation Called to Meet at
Cedar Rapids.
Special to The journal.
Dubuque, Iowa, May 9.-The tenth an
nual convention OF the, Iowa Federation OF
Labor will BE held at Cedar Rapids, May
IA, Is and 16. Chairman Vieth has issued
circular letter, to- the various local
unions requesting a large attendance.
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There Is a difference in Price

sell for cash. Guyot Suspenders, 45c.
Hoffman's Toggery Shop. mot on Nicol-
let