The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
MINNESOTA
RAID ON RICHARDS
Founders of New Town Declared to
Be Trespassers and Placed
Under Arrest.
Indian Police Served the Papers I'm
der Orders of the Agent,
Major Scott.

Duluth Mimi, Nov. 16.-Twenty-
one persons were arrested by Indian
police on the proposed new townsite
of Richards near Bena, in the heart
of the Chippewa Indian reservation,
upon orders from Major George L..
Scott Of the Leech Lake agency. The
arrests were made by the Indian po-
lice.
Eight of the men arrested are in
tereSted as promoters in the new
towns1te of Richards, and the arrests
followed the actual beginning of i'm
provements. The prisoners We're
taken to Bena and then released upon
their promise not to resume opera
tons. The case will now go to the
department.
The new townsite of Richards is a
rival to Bena. Among the people in
terested In the townsite, and reported
to have been arrested, were A. A.
Harper, Herbert Reed Hugh Aller-
ton, C.. Tedford and others of Cass
Lake.
The townsite promoters, on Oct. 13,
notified Major Scott of their intentions
to establish the town of Richards and
promised to drive no nails until he
should have received advices from the
department. After month he had
heard nothing, and they notified him
of their intention to begin building, as
tents and the time for making final
proofs was near at hand. The major
told them they would be arrested for
trespass and kept his word 1t Is as
serted that Major Scott has exceeded
his authority. as trespass cases on res
ervation lands come under the juris-
diction of the general land depart
ment.
Traced by a Hound.
The first practical use of blood
hounds for use In running down GRIM
inals here was a great success yester-
day, when the police department cap
tured three men whom they expect
to convict of stealing two deer car
casses.
The carcasses, which were owned by
Mike Gleason and stored in a shed.
were stolen Saturday night. There
was absolutely no clue to the prop
ertv and thieves. The bloodhound
which the police department recently
purchased was brought out and given
the scent from piece Of fur from
one OF the deer. The dog led the po-
lice to a barn two blocks away, where
were found the deer carcasses and
three men, ~ William KEENAN,, Mike
Jordan and John Palon. The men
were locked up.
Plenty OF Coal.
Coal receipts on Lake Superior to
Nov 1 were 6,231,566 net TONS of
which 5,197.255 tons were bituminous
and 1,O34,311 tons were anthracite.
The head Of the lakes is well supplied
with anthracite coal, but If the de-
mand keeps up there VIII be no sur
plus of the soft varieties. A few more
cargoes of soft coal are to arrive, but
there may be no more hard-coal ar
rivals. .s-. ., s.-
1Iueberry Almost Wiped Out.
Three Of the four business houses az
Blueberry n small village on the North
ern Pacific in Wisconsin, were destroyed
BY fire Saturday night. supposedly the
work of an incendiary. Ezru Ryan. lum
berlack Is under arrest as a suspect.
The damage amounts to $4,000. and the
insurance is only $500. The entire towr
had narrow escape from being wipee
out Il. X. Pack, A. J. Lapage and James
lodgings were the sufferers by the fire.