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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30
MORTUARY.

Alexander Ramsey, the first terri
torial governor of Minnesota, died at
ST. Paul.
William Ward, 81 years of age,
died at his home in Virginia, III. He
was a wealthy farmer.
At Chicago Colonel William R.
Arthur, formerly president of the Hi
nois Central road, is dead, aged 81
years.
Harry V. Lester, senior member Of
Lester, Kneeland & Co., Chicago,
stockholders, died at his New York
home of pneumonia.
Mrs. Judith Nash Burke, the oldest
person in Waukegan, died at the age
of "a at the home of her son, Edmund
Burke, a Chicago lawyer.
Stewart L. Moore, aged so years,
general freight agent Of the Northern
Pacific railway, died suddenly OF
pleurisy at his home in st. Paul.
Professor E. H. Nourse, for many
years professor of music in the Chi
cago public schools, died at his home
in Downer's Grove from typhoid
! fever.
Arlowe Kingsbury Miller, Chicago
son of Charles X Miller, died at Bos,
ton of acute Emphatic lenkaemia
! of which, physicians say, no cure is
known. He was member of the
Harvard freshman class and was the
only freshman to make the Harvard
fencing team. He was 81 years old.
Francis M. Scala, aged 81, first
director of the marine band, died al
| Washington. He was born in Naples
He inaugurated the popular concerts
in the white house grounds, and lee
the marine band in every administra
ton from Tyler's to Grants. He was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

Investigation of the American Red
President Roosevelt. The attention
Of congress will be called to the IN
business like methods and a revoca-
ton of it's charter will be asked.
Dr. Charles Howard of st. Paul,
Ind, was killed, and Richard Rice Of
Indianapolis was seriously injured
at Indianapolis by the collision Of
their automobile with a street car.
They failed to see the street car in
time to stop.
The rumored retirement Of Assist
ant Postmaster General Wynne be-
cause Of friction over his investigation
of scandals is denied by the postmas-
ter general. The rural delivery service
is accused by country merchants with
aiding mail order houses.
Andrew Latham, aged 70, director
of the Peoples rational bank Of Green
port, L. l., and one of the prominent
men Of Suffolk county, committed sui
eide by hanging in his stables at
Orient Two of his brothers were
taken to an asylum some years ago.
E. o. Thomas, who was recently
discharged from the penitentiary, was
arrested at greensboro, KY, charged
with arson for the burning Of the
OWensboro trouser manufacturing
company's plant. The loss by fire
was $4,000. There was $4,000 insur-
ance on the stock and $4,000 on the
building.
Two passenger cars on the Rapid
railway, a Detroit electric line, col
Algonac and Mount Clemens, Mich,
while running at a speed Of 25 miles
an hour, and several persons are re-
ported injured. The accident is said
to have been due to failure of the air.
brakes to work.
Mrs. Marshall Hodge, aged II, wife
of coal miner, is dead as the result
of shooting scrape at Amelith, Bay
county, Mich, following dance.
Leonard Roth, a constable, was shot
through the foot, and two other men
were grazed by bullets. Hodge and
Frank Bardwen, his brother-in-law,
are under arrest.
The sale by auction of the Bensusan
art collection in New York realized
$15,530 The highest price, S1,750,
was paid for Schoenwerk's marble
figure of the Girl at the fountain A
flemish 17th-century tapestry brought
$685., two bronze Nubian figures, life
size, by Toussaint, $1,100, a Louis XVI
sofa and four arm-chairs $1,000, a
Sevres vase $3.50, an empire cabinet
with ormolu mounts $1,000, Barge
bronze lion 5000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

DEVEL0PM
Investigation in the Postoffice Department
Takes a Serious Turn
Assistant Attorney General Tyner is Sum-
mariy Dismissed
May Air Turf Scandal and Arrests will
Probably Follow

also admitted n the same manner G..
G. Hammer, an expert in the employ of
the Mosler Safe company, with whom
she had made an arrangement to
meet her at the department At her
direction, Hammer opened the safe in
the room; and she took therefrom all
the papers, records and articles of
every kind and carried them away
with her.
Immediately upon learning what
had been done, | directed the fourth
assistant postmaster general to send
two inspectors to your house to de
mand, in the name of the postmaster
general, the delivery to them of any
papers or documents or other ma
terials which had been distracted
from the safe. This demand was re-
fused by Mrs Tyner; and she likewise
refused to permit inspectors to see
you or to see and examine papers in
her presence. Mrs. Tyner further
stated to the postofice inspectors
that she committed this act with your
knowledge and by your decision
Further comment on this transaction,
ON my part is not necessary.
"The facts in the case will be sub
mltted to the attorney general of the
United States for such action in the
premises as he may deem proper"
1t is suspected at the department
that the papers taken from the safe
have some connection with the recent
conduct of the office. Some weeks
ago a turf investment concern, whose
affairs were aired in court, alleged it's
operations were sanctioned by the as
slstant attorney general Of the post
office department. Charges involving
the office of the assistant attorney gen
eral and a lawyer formerly connected
with that office, were ventilated very
generally at that time, and an investi-
cation was ordered by the postmaster
general. This was really the incep-
ton of the investigation that has
spread into every part of the depart
ment. The complaints crystaITized
into, a formal request for Tyner's
resignation, signed by Postmaster
General Payne on March g. last
Tyner had been in exceedingly bad
health for a long time and had visited
the Office only at rare intervals. He
is suffering from an unusually severe
case Of paralysis, and in considera-
ton of this fact, the request for his
resignation was based on his i'll
health.
The announcement Of Wednesdays
developments were made by post
master General Payne late yesterday
afternoon. In a voice that trembled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

Washington, April PA sensa
tlonal development of the investiga
ton of the postofice department
affairs occurred just before the depart
ment closed yesterday, when Post
master General Payne announced the
summary dismissal of James n. Ty.
ner, assistant attorney general fol
the pOstoffice department, coupling
with the announcement the startling
charge that all papers and records in
the safe of the latter's office had been
distracted by Mrs. Tyner, wife Of the
discharged officer, with the assistance
OF others. The postmaster general
stated that Mrs. Tyner had refused the
demand Of the government for the re-
turn of the papers taken, and said that
the circumstances in the case would
be submitted by him to the depart
ment of justice this morning. Other
sensational Developments are expect
ed to follow. The question of arrests
is under consideration and will be
passed on Immediately by Attorney
General Knox.
The facts are told tersely in the
following letter Of dismissal, signed
by Postmaster General Payne We'd
nesday afternoon and made public
last night:
"Sir:-You are hereby removed
from the Office of assistant attorney
general for the postoffice department.
[ deem it proper to give you reasons
for this summary action on the part
Of the department. Early in the
mOnLn of March I communicated to
you, through a mutual friend, a re-
quest for your resignation. After
a ] ainful interview with you, and a
more painful one with Mrs. Tyner, 7
consented to modify the demand for
your resignation; that it might take
effect May 1, 1908; with provision,
however, that you were given leave of
absence from the time of the accent
ance of your resignation to the date of
its taking effect, with the understand
ing that you were not in any way to
undertake to discharge the duties Of
your office"
Late yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Ty-
ner came to the Office of the assist
ant attorney general for the postof-
flee department, and entering in the
regular way, went through the main
Office to the private Office, closing the
door behind her. She then unlocked
the door entering from the public hall
into the private room and admitted
her sister, Mrs. Barrett, whose son
was formerly an assistant in your Of
flee, and whose conduct is now under
investigation by the department. She
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

spection bill. The debate was re-
sumed at the night session. When
the bill came up, being on the cal
endar for indefinite postponement,
Senator McDonough moved to post
pone it until Wednesday. Senator
O'Neil objected and the motion to
lay over was lost by a vote of Is to
II as follows. No final action on the
measure was taken. The bill licensing
BARRIERS was advanced to a third
reading.
The ad valorem railroad taxation
bill came back from the committee
on claims for passage, with the re-
port that the amendments of Senator
McGillivray, to limit the tax COM
mission to the expenditure of $4,000,
and to access the bonds of railroads.
for indefinite postponement. These
an, endments were duly killed ana
those recommended by the tax COM
mission, being Of minor Importance,
were passed. Senator McGillivray
offered another amendment providing
that the bonds of railroads should be
assessed to the same extent as the
bonds of other persons or corpora,
tons are assessed. He said his
amendment sought to place all
property on basis Of equality and
that the amendment, if passed, would
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

serve to avoid clash with the as
sembly. Senator Whitehead said the
amendment would he palpably double
taxation. The amendment of Senator
McGillivray was voted down, 20 to a.
The bill, as amended by the COM
mittee, was then passed by a
unanimous vote
The Dudgeon bill to pay David
Stephens of Madison $1,563 and the
Consolidated Stone company of Bed
ford, Indiana, $500 for stone used
the historical library building was
saved by its author. The bill came
from a committee with an adverse
report, and Mr.. Dudgeon explained
that in this case the main contractor,
Thomas Bentley, had failed, leaving
the stone sub-contractors unpaid.
All that was asked was that the
state do exactly what by law it per-
mitted sub-contractors generally to do
collect for the material they had
furnished. The bill was advanced to
third reading.
Assembly bills killed were author
izing the appointment of four as
sistant factory inspectors and TO ex-
tend the liens for threshing grain and
seeds. The bill relating to the use
of voting machines was returned by
the elections committee and at its
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30
TELEGRAMS LIN BRIEF,
POLITICAL,

A resolution favoring the election OF
United States senators by popular
vote was killed in the Massachusetts
senate.
The Ohio republican state conven
ton is called for June and 4, at Col
umbus. Senators Foraker and
Hanna are to be chairmen.
Grover Cleveland is accused by w
]. Bryan, in a speech to Kansas City
democrats, with betraying his party
and disgracing himself by aiding re
publicans.
Arguments against the Grady-Salus
libel bill were MADE at Harrisburg
(Pa.) by Charles Emory Smith and
others. Newspapers most vital in
terests are declared at stake. The
governors action is uncertain.
lNSULAR.
Judge Carlack Of the court of first
instance is dead at Cebu Of cholera.
At Havana Santos Vasquez, a prom
inent merchandise broker, has been
arrested for issuing fraudulent drafts.
The Moros in the Lake Lanao dis
trict are reported by Gen. Davis as
pacifed. Dattos representing forty
towns declared allegiance to the
United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

suggestion referred to the judiciary
committee. Crooked dealers may
continue to fleece consumers. At
least the state affairs committee of
the assembly made a hostile report
on the Dudgeon bill whose object is
to require full weight or measure to
be given the same committee also
reported against the bill making the
maximum salary of a superintendent
OF any institution under charge of the
state board of control $4,000. 1t is
now $4,000. But it made a favorable
report on c. H. Smiths bill for the
restraint Of mad dogs. 1t provides
that any owner of a mad dog or of a
dog which has been bitten by a mad
dog, must keep such mad dog or dog
so bitten, properly and securely
fastened and isolated for fifty DAYS
from the date that said owner or
possessor of such dog shall havs
been notified or shall have had rea-
son to believe thai his dog was mad
or had been bitten, and in case of his
failure to do so it is made lawful for
any person to kill such dog if found
running at large. H Johnson's bill
to repeal chapter 1872, laws of 1901,
relating to the taxation of steam
vessels, boats and other water craft
was adversely recommended by the
tax committee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30
FOREIGN.

Five private soldiers in the Lein-
ster regiment were given death sen
fences at Pretoria for rioting.
At Montevideo the steamer Pampero
rammed and sank the steam launch of
the American cruiser Newark. The
crew was rescued unhurt.
The rumor that General Butler will
receive an appointment as field mar
shall is not credited even by his
friends in the military clubs.
The use of phosphorus in match
manufacturing is forbidden after 1907
by the German reichstag. Bad effect
on workingmen is responsible.
In Honduras Bonilla is now presi-
dent. Arias is in prison at Tegucigalpa
and Sierra is a fugitive at Nicaragua
having fed to that country for safety
A battle with the forces Of General
! Pando, president of Bolivia, is feared
notwithstanding the modus vivendi
agreed upon between the two re
publics.
The town of MeQuinez, SO miles
from Fee, was pillaged by Morocco
| tribesmen and 81 inhabitants killed.
The sultan's brother was proclaimed
emperor.
William Mortimer Clark, K. c., Of
Toronto has been appointed lieuten,
ant governor of the province OF
Ontario to succeed Sir oliver Scott
MOwatt.
! Capt. Dreyfus, the disgraced French
officer, appealed to Minister of War
Andre for a review of his case, and
declared he was convicted on forged
evidence.
A "durbar" of Algerian tribesmer
was witnessed at Ell Kreider by Pres1
dent Loubet Of France 5000 Arabs
gathered on the desert plateau. Deco
rations were conferred on the chiefs.
A process server of GrenobIe
France, while attempting to serve g
summons upon monks, was driven
away by a crowd of peasants armed
| with pitchfOrks, and was unable to ap
preach the monastery.
| At Berlin it is announced by q
director of the Deutsches bank that q
! deal has just been cOnsummated by
which England assumes 25 per cent.
of the Bagdad railway bonds, thus
| insuring British participations in the
Fconstructon Of the enterprise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

Madison, April 22.-The morning
session of the senate terminated with
a vigorous speech by Senator Hud-
nall in favor of the Superior grain in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30

show that books made for % cents
were sold for 81 and S1.25. Mr.. Karef
introduced joint resolution providing.
for a commission to investigate and
determine if it would be advisable
for the state to establish a sanitarium
for the care and treatment of con-
sumption.
Williams news., 1903-08-22

The United Verde is running short-handed and has its agents out attempting to secure an ad- ditional 300 or 400 men to enable a normal production of copper.
 If a newspaper man knew how many knocks he received behind his back he would adopt another calling, remarked a citizen the other day. The citizen was mis- taken. The newspaper man who succeeds expects to be maligned by every law-breaker, swindler and hypocrite, every carping critic and every lover of notoriety who is ig- nored, and in fact by all persons who do not agree with him on pub lie and private matters. The news paper man who expects to get through life without being misrep- resented and unjustly censured should make arrangements to die young.-Ex.
Williams news., 1903-08-22
OUR TERRlTORY's
 TAXABLE WEALTH
Considerable Gain in Assessed Valuation Corresponding
 Decrease in Tax Levy

The total valuation of Arizona's taxable property is $43,0SS O40 .62, an increase of $4,0O4, ,S6305 over the valuation of 1902, says the Phoenix Gazette. The gains were made in ten counties-Apache, Co- chise, Graham, Marieopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Santa Cruz, Yavapai and Yuma; while there were de- creases in three counties-Coconino, Gila and Final The largest and most substantial gain was made in Marioopa county, where the prop erty is valued at $l0,3l5,lll:27.
 With the gain in the assessed valuation comes corresponding decrease in the tax levy for 1903, this being placed at $l.05 oa every $10O worth of property The de crease from the levy last year was little over s cents, the levy fer 1902 being $1.l3.7.
 The tax levy was fixed at the final session of the board. The fol- lowing table shows the total valua- tion of properties, by counties, in the territOrv-
Williams news., 1903-08-22
ABOUT THE SALT RIVER DAM
It Will Be the Highest as We'll as the
 Largest in the World.

Fifteen years ago the highest dam in the world was in France. Its height was 172 feet. Since that time three dams far larger have been constructed in the United States and are nearing completion. These are the Croton dam for the water supply of the city of New York, the Clinton dam for the water supply of Boston and the Cheeseman dam for the water SUD- ply of Denver. When completed, each of these dams will hold a rec ord in some particular. The Croton dam will hold the largest amount of masonry, the Cheeseman dam will be the highest and the Clinton dam will store the largest quantity of water.
 When completed, the proposed Salt river dam will be the highest dam in the world and will store three times as much water as all three of these dams put together, it's height from lowest foundations being about 27O feet, and its stor- age capacity being about 1 100000 acre feet of water, or sufficient to cover 100000 acres one foot in depth.
 The entire cost of the project, in- cluding power development and pumping machinery, will be about $3,OOO,OO0. About 100000 acres of land have already been pledged to the return of the cost price to the government under the provisions of the reclamation act, approved June IT, 1902
Williams news., 1903-08-22
MILLIONS IN COPPER MINES.
The Most Profitable Branch of Mining
 Also the Most Costly.

Horace J. Stevens, writing of the great cost of opening and equipping a modern copper mine says, in the Western Mining World: The Lake Superior mines are not the only copper properties that are spending money by the millions. In Peru the Cerro de Pasco company, backed by J. B. Haggin, perhaps the most astute mining operator of the pres ent day, has spent about $6,OOO,- GOO, and must pour money into the mines and railroad connecting the Cordillera plateau with the Pacific sea coast, but the reward will be great, for the Cerro de Pasco dis trict is another Butte, and Haggin's Go. owns the embryo Anaconda and Montana of the district. In Northern Mexico the Greene Con- solidated has laid out over $6,OOO,- GOO, and could use a few million more to advantage. The great trouble with the Greene is the linn ited water supply, which can be remedied only by the expenditure of tremendous sums. At the h. guaran, in Michoacan, Mexico, the Rothschilds have expended fortunes just how many millions nobody seems to know.
 The Calumet x Arizona has spent a million or more in opening another Copper Queen at Bisbee, Arizona. The Shannon company has put fortune into development and equipment in the Clifton dis trict of Arizona. All through the western states of the union there are scattered copper mines that have expended from $1OO,0OO to $I ,OOO,OOO each. There are two big development mines in Queensland, Australia, one of which has ex- pended colossal sums in the build ing of several hundred miles of rail road.
 Copper mining is an immensely profitable business, in the case of properties that unite large ore bodies with good equipment and careful management, but, while it is the most profitable branch of mining, it is also the most costly. It takes money to make money, and the truth of this old saying has never been verified more fully than in the case of opening new mines of copper.
Williams news., 1903-08-22
HOW REAVIS LOST HIS GRANT
Story of the Part a Printer Played in
 Bringing Him to Justice.


 The following article appeared in last weeks Florence Blade from the pen of Editor Weedin, and shows how such a thing as line of type may assist in preventing fraud:
 It is fact we'll known to all the old citizens of both Pinal and Mar icopa counties that Tom Weedin is the man who started and organized the fight against the Reavis land grant fraud. We were publishing the old Arizona Enterprise at Flor ence at that time. Reavis arrived here in 1882 and exhibited photo- graphs of the royal document pur- porting to be a conveyance of the Salt and Gila river valleys by the King of Spain to one Don Miguel Peralta, Baron of the Colorados, etc. Reavis claimed this document was over one hundred and fifty years old, but at first glance we noticed line of type in it of the series known in printers parlance as Norman condensed" a type that had been invented and brought into use after we had become a journeyman printer. This fact was sufficient to convince us the document was a rank forgery, of recent perpetration, and in the next issue of the Enterprise we ventilated the fraud and the perpetrator of it in a two-column editorial. We then went to Phoenix at our own expense, explained the fraudulent character of the Reavis document to Attorney General Clark Church i'll and others and got a public meeting called at the court house which we addressed and to which we explained the presence of very modern type in what was repre- sented to be very ancient docu- ment. We urged them to organize to fight the fraud, and other speak CTS who followed did the same. The next evening we went to Tempe, accompanied by General Churchill and other prominent citizens of Phoenix. and held a public meeting there. The result of these two meetings was an organized fight against Reavis and his land grant fraud. We returned home and continued the fight in the Enter prise till the government took up the fight and made the investiga- tions which ended in sending Reavis to the penitentiary and in "knock- ing out" his fraudulent land grant.
 The eastbound limited Santa Fe train was wrecked three miles west of Kingman Tuesday forenoon through the blowing up of the en- zine. Engineer Fitch was killed and the fireman injured. Aside from a shaking up, no other per sons were injured and the train was not materially damaged with the exception of the engine. The accident occurred at 6:15 a. m., near the Mcguire mine. Engineer Fitch was blown I5O feet away and instantly killed. Fireman. J. H. Bland was seriously injured, his leg crushed and face scalded by steam. The boiler was blown 300 feet ahead of the trucks.
Williams news., 1903-08-22

edness, paragraph 3S31, R. s. of 1901 .23OO 21. County roads, para agraph 3973 R. s. of 1901 1000 22. County schools, para graph 2249, R. s. of 1901 5000 23. All other purposes, par agraph 3831, R. s. of 1901 1.12O0 Total. $500 There is also levied the sum of $.1O on each one hundred dollars valuation, as shown by assessment roll for the year 1903, of real and personal property, in school district No. 1 for the payment of interest and for the sinking fund for the payment of bonds of said school district.
 The board then adjourned. Approved August 17. 1903.
 A. T. CORNISH,
 Chairman Pro-Tem. THos. A. FLYNN, Clerk.