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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
OPPORTUNITIES IN
SOUTH DAKOTA
Lyman County Offers Many Chances
BecallSa of IFS Neu, Rai1rood

~ Secause OF LIS NEW Railroad. =
a. Cadet Iayler, in recent issue Of the
just returned from a trip up in LYMAN
county, South Dakota. on the new rail
way extension under construction from:
GhambeElain to Rapid City, and the
Black Hills country. This county IS
part OF the old Sioux Indian reserva-
ton and has been open to settlement
t by t Some ei Tine put has been held back
way facilities. The new railway has
opened up a very fine farming country
and an immense immigration is going
mt? 1 5hf IS s ssls4 the great White river
valley. The soil is rich, and what little
farming has been done shows GOOD "a.
suits; Wheat from eighteen to twenty
four bushels; oats sixty. to seventy-fVe
oushels; corn thirty to forty bushels,
S Was e se9yg aa a s1 60 tsnasg good Corr
cents: In grasses they have the rich
ouftaio salt grass, and are introducing
alfalfa with promising results. Lands
are on the: jump, selling from SO to
PIP, according to Improvements and To-
}"'0n Nov. 9 the Chicago, Milwan.
zee q st. Paul Railway opened no forty
hve miles, west Of Chamberlain, with
q.
ent end Of track is at Presho. The
grading is progressing fifty miles wes1
"Presho is a wonder Three weeks
ago 1t had one house. T counted fortv.
tive new. business houses, one and Two
STORIES, in course Of construction. and
1t seemed that every man who could
drive a pail was hard at it from eariy
busy and happy. The railway com,
pany was forced to stop trains over
| night at Chamberlain for lack of eating
| ana sieeplng accommodations at Presho
-, sixty, miles west, homesteads arc
still available. The county abounds in :,
artesian wells. The electric light nlant t
AND mill also, at Chamberlain ara
| being operated wholly with artesian
water power, seventy horsepower being
developed. -. : : = Ne'f <
| ~ temperance Towns.
| Ihere was one peculiar thing about
FRESNO that L never saw in a frontier
town before. There was not q saloon
nor gambling house in sight. on ine
curry found that South Dakota, has
very strict law that a saloon can.
\ not pc located within five miles Of .
grading camp, nor in any town until
the people have voted a license. and
thls w vote must be taken once year.
1t looks to me as if the CHICAGO
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway We're
opening up an exceedingly rich farminp
country along its new extension. ),
Additional information about rates
routes and train service to LYMAN conn.
| ty, South Dakota, will be furnished frah
BY W. B. Dixon. 365 Robert street. 81
Paul. '' ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
STRIKE OF 5000 TO
MAKE $4,000 IDLE
Housesmiths and Bridgemen Of
New York Declare Battle for
Increased Wages. =.
New York Herald Special Service.

New York, Dec. 30.-Following vote
taken in all locals Of the Housesmiths ,
and Bridgemen's union today, a gen
eral strike was ordered to 60 into effect
Tuesday morning. It is expected that
about 5000 men will refuse to go to
work, and if the strike continues it is
expected that $4,000 other mechanics
will be forced to cease work before the
end Of the week. When iron workers
go out, bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers
and others are soon forced to quit, be-
cause there is nothing for them to do.
This strike is strictly, for an increase
of wages. No question Of hours or
union recognition is involved. The iron
workers for the last year have been re-
ceiving $3.50 a day. Three months
ago they made a demand for SIS, and
the matter was being arbitrated when
the union ordered strike on Post &
McCord s jobs, and the union was ex-
PEELED from the Employers association.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
MYSTERY IN ARMY
OFFICER S ABSENCE
Lieutenant Otis Missing and Wife s
Search for Him Fails.

By Publishers Press. 49,
Junction City, Kan, Dec. so.-After
weeks Of fruitless search in which no
trace of her husband has been found,
tho wife Of First Lieutenant III
l. Otis, Fourth cavalry, has re1urnod
to relatives here.
Lieutenant Otis was undergoing
treatment in New York for nervous
troubles about three months ago. He
partly recovered and was ordered back
to his post at the Preside at San
Francisco. Since that time neither his
family nor the army authorities have
heard from him. According to army
regulations an officer who does not
report within three months becomes a
deserter. Otis will have been absent
three months tomorrow.
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abandoned it because he was ashamed
Of it, for he announced with absolute
confidence that he proposed to make
the name Yerkes one that Chicago
should honor and remember. He imme-
and as had always occurred in the past
except upon the one occasion which led
to his Hfe's great disaster, everything
he touched seemed to turn to gold.
p: 'a-s:,.. His Second Love. @s.J5,, a
At about the same time Mr.. Yerkes
reach Chicago there arrived a beauti-
full woman whom it was said he had
met and learned to love during the vol
untary exile following his release from
prison. ,Yerkes worked with untiring
energy and uniform success. It was
evident that he had laid out a cam
paign Of many battles, and that he had
concentrated all his enormous will force
on winning them. The first was won
when with one carefully planned spec
ulative coup he cleared many thous-
ands. This done, he started without an
instant Is delay for Philadelphia and
sought out his apparently forgotten
wife. It is said that when he returned
to Chicago he left the thousands which
he had won, with her in Philadelphia,
giving her enough to make her more
than merely. comfortable for life, as a
reward . for her Outline devotion.
Then came divorce suit, and Charles
T. Yerkes was legally free from the
last tie that bound him to the old life
in Philadelphia.
Shortly after this divorce Mr.. Yerkes
married the woman he had met in the
west. She has shared all the triumphs
and they are many-which have
marked his subsequent career.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
EUROPEAN MISSION -
$50 FOR LYMAN l.. PIERCE;
Graduate Of U. Of M. is to Be Y. M.
r.. @. A. Envoy.

Special to The journal.
Washington, Dec. 3o.-The Wash
ington Alumni association of the Uni
tversity Of Minnesota last night gave
dinner to Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman L..
Pierce, the former, of whom has just
resigned the secretaryship Of the local
Y. M. G. A. Guests of homer included
Congressman j. Adam Bede, Albert
Shaw, editor Of the Review Of Re-
views; DR.. H. K. Hosmer, formerly
city librarian Of Minneapolis, and
Professors Anderson and Sehraeper of
the university. Mr.. Pierce has been
invited to go to Austria Hungary to
organize Y. NJ. G. A. movement in
that country, and it is probable he
will accept.
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Continued From First Page.

her to remain in.the house, warning her
that advantage. SSaight he taken Of her
absence to throw into the street her
personal effects and close the, doors on
her. 49," %" - .' =: .2.;*:*' >>957s'1 81
Mrs TYerkes' position was strange.
She was misunderstood when she de-
clared repeatedly during his last sick
ness that she would not visit him at
the hotel. She believed that the ap-
peals for her to come to him were
merely to try and get her out Of the
house. Worse than this, she knew with
a woman $ intuition who would be the
next Mrs. Yerkes and the next mistress
Of the Fifth avenue home, if once he
succeeded in his plans for divorce. She
knew that her own marriage to Mr..
Yerkes followed on the heels of the
divorce obtained by his first wife.
Sought Second Divorce. ....
When Mr.. Yerkes returned from Eu-
rope last August with Miss Grigsby, he
announced his intention to divorce Mrs.
Yerkes. From that time to two weeks
ago she was obliged to stay behind
locked doris. a. 49,.
Many times she has been asked by
telephone to come to the Waldorf. On
Sunday she finally consented. It is said
that she learned that Miss Grigsby was
calling on the sick man and she then
refused to see him. 49,
Yesterday she once more left her
handsome jail and when she returned
the man whose legal machine she feared
was dead. -s..~>.-~ 49, s.~ .-..-
The pretty mistress Of the Park ave-
nue. house could call upon him only oc'
casionally, for complaints had gone to
the hotel management.
49,, az Body Hurried Away. .-s.a wa
After death the body was bundled
out hurriedly, that the living guests
might not be disturbed or led to re-
Elections. :-~ ..o.> H. 49,.
Even after the body had been laid
in the magnificent marble-walled hal
Of the Fifth avenue house, troubles
were not settled. From what house il
would be taken to the grave was sucl
question that it was a surprise Wher
it was announced that the place would
/ be the very place where the widow
lived.
But who will attend the funerals
How many Of the women would atten6
the funeral7 +.
It is known that the interment viii
be in his great marble and bronze mau
soleum at Woodlawn cemetery.
There is something Of grim irony
that he provided two richly wrought
sarcophagi, one for himself and thu
other for his wife. When he built i
the wife he had in mind was not thu
divorced wife in Philadelphia, but tn,
wife on Fifth avenue.
/ And by his actions last summer i
was evident that he then hoped tn,
| beautiful sarcophagus would be TO-
still another woman.
Mrs. Yerkes' Messages.
Mrs. Yerkes, the widow, would Sc,
no reporters today, but she telephone,
to dozen Of her friends, explainin,
to them the reason for her failure t,
4 visit her husband. To nearly everyon
the news that she had been prisone
+. in the mansion came as a surprise.
4 Mrs. Yerkes felt called upon to d,
i this, since her action had been inter
1 preted as due to unforgiving animosity
5leven in the presence Of death. The at
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

tending for what is now Illinois, Michi-
gan, Ohio and Indiana. Great Britain
honorably retired.
Quite naturally, the Canadian govern
ment is opposed to the removal of the
hulks, and diplomatic correspondence Is
passing. Mr.. Burton has engaged emil
nent counsel and will make a strong
case. He believes that he has already
established proprietary rights, thru
ownership Of adjacent lands. The case
promises to be of international interest
and will be eagerly watched by, all pa
triotic Americans.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
POISONED CANDY SENT
YOUNG SOCIETY WOMAN
Carbolic Acid Used in Attempt on Life
Of Iowa Girl.
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Clinton, Iowa, Dec. 3o.-An attempt
to poison Miss Melia Christensen, a
young society woman Of this city, was
made today, the wouldbe assassin u.s.
ing box of candy in the attempt to
carry out the plan.
The box was received by mail. and
as soon rs it was opened, suspicious
smell put the Young woman on her
guard. An investigation was made and
it was found that the sweets had been
saturated with carbolic acid
The matter was Immediately put in
the hands of the police but they have
been unable to obtain a clue to the
sender.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
Boosted Coastine Popular.

The people Of Minneapolis are begin
ming to realize the pleasures Of bob
sled sliding, and are focking to the
new bobslide chute on Lake of the
Isles. The chute resembles tobog-
gan slide in every respect except bob
sleds are used instead of toboggans. A
coast of over a quarter Of q mile IS
Cline. Special sliding parties are be.
coming very popular owing to the
management renting the hobs by the
hour for such occasions. The chutes
are in operation mornings, afternoons
and evenings, the whole course being
lit up at night, making the evening
sport very pleasant.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
DEATH IN RUNAWAY
TWO Drowned. One In Serious Condition
as Result Of Dash.

Appleton, Wis, Dec. 30.-Two drowned,
one In serious condition and a fourth
saved after strenuous efforts on the part
OF physicians, is the result Of a runaway
here this afternoon. Peter Dietzen and
his ni1ne-year-ol daughter Lizzie, of Blu
chanan, are the dead; Title, 16-year old
daughter, Is in a precarious condition
while a niece, Mary Nabbefeldt, of this
city, is now out of danger The horse
driven by Dietzen took fright at switch
engine and ran off the John street bridge
carrying all four occupants of the sleigh
with him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
Low Rates

70 all points on the 500 Line for the
Holidays. Tickets on sale Dec. 22d to
Jan. lst, 1906, good to return until Jan.
I'd. 1906.
For further particulars call at ticket
Office. ll9 Third street 8.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
Holiday Rates
Chicago Great Western Rai1p

OHlCdSU UIodC WeSGeiH Railway.
Only one fare plus one-third for the
round trip to points in ! Arkansas, Col
Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska a.
Oklahoma and Texas. Tickets on sale
December %. %. 30, 80, 81 and Jan
uary lst, 1906. Final return limit Jan
suary 18th. For further information, ap-
ply to r. =. Heard, G. A., 9th and Mic
5oIlet Ave. Minneapolis. MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
FATALLY HURT IN PLAY.

Shenandoah, Iowa, Dec. 30.--Two lit
tie boys, Pat and Vincent Rogers,
brothers, going home from school, were
playing by throwing sticks at each
other. Vincent was hit behind the ear
and dropped into Inconsistencies, dy-
inc twelve hours later.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

Not one in twenty is free from some
little ailment caused by inaction of the
The result will be q pleasant surprise.aa.,
They give positive relief. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

King Philip ". of Spain collected
dwarfs, and many diminutive specimens
of humanity were sent him on his birth
davS.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

raised her tear-reddened face, shook
back her veil difantly and turning tc
her attorney, said: 'sAnd aren't we go.
ing to get another trialf' He an
swered, eyes" and the defendant
stood up, facing the gaping crowd I'M
blinkingly. ..../
The jury was discharged by the
court who thanked them for their pa
tient and faithful service and compli-
mented them upon their "just and
righteous VERDICT The defendant
was escorted out Of the courtroom and |,
down the hall. When she was in the i
Jail elevator she cried again quietly,
but did not speak. Taken to her room,
size continued to cry for little time i
and then grew perfectly calm again. !
Ate a Hearty Supper. !
Visited about g O'Clock by aJour-
n representative the convicted woman
had just finished hearty supper. She
was attired in lounging robe and her
Redeemed eyes were all that spoke of
her great sorrow. She greeted the re- !,
porter courteously, but had little TO |,
say. Questioned, she finally
CIT might have been worse, perhaps, }
but I don It see how it could have been
worse for nothing"
"Then you insist that you didn t b
do its'
81 certainly do. I didn't do 1t. Ic
hope I can get new trial. But if the !,
courts and the public ,misiudge you
there is power above that never q
will.' ~. - e
The verdict Of the jury means that !,
on the morning Of Nov. 4, 1905, Mrs. !,
Stella Brennan, armed with a loaded Il
revolver, shot and killed Elizabeth {
Brennan while she slept in her bed at !
1922 Fifth avenue N. The evidence !
that proved this fact showed that on
the same night and at about the same
time this defendant, urged on by jeal-
ousy, killed two other sleeping Bren-
nan children, shot Tommy Brennan
thru the face and wounded herself ina
the breast. .
Out Twenty Hours.
The verdict shows that the jury be-
lieves that she did not commit this in /
territorial murder with premeditation.P
The jurors were out about twentys
hours. What went on in the iuryroom
is a guarded secret, but it has leaked
out that the time was spent in arg,i-E
Z ment and that the twelve men weres
only divided as to whether the woman
was guilty of murder in the first or in
the second degree, and that the final
agreement was in measure a conf
promise.
sit is just verdict said County,
Attorney AL ]. Smith last night. ''Thatl
verdict will show that this community
will not allow terrIuie crime like
that to go UNPUBLISHED, that fake in
sanity defense cannot be foisted uponS
our common-sense jurymen, and it Wills
stand as most salutary lesson to .thoseS
who do now or may in the future conf
template crime. We had no doubt of !
the defendant guilt and she couldN
never have walked out of the Hennc-s
pin county jail free woman until she /
lad been acquitted on all of the foure
indictments we had against her."
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To Raise HulkS of
Vessels Perry Sunk

England "Wooden Walls Which Went Down
in the Historic Battle on the Great Lakes
Nearly Century Ago. Brought from Their
Graves.
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GUILTY, VERDICT
IN BRENNAN CASE

Continued From First Page.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-02

cies OF Alaskan trout, of pike, cod,
pollack. California tomcod. halllbut,
black basS and other fish.
In other words, and according to
the officials of the United States fish
commission in Washington. Yes bay
is an ideal location for hatchery,
Located in the southeastern portion
of the territory it is easily accessible,
and presents advantages not offered
by any of the other sites and locations
considered by the commission.
Before many more years elapse the
commission hopes to build three more
stations in Alaska. One more hatch
cry in southeast Alaska and one at
Afognak island and one in the Bristol
bay region.
With these stations i'm operation,
there is no doubt in the minds of the
government fish experts that the very
l'--ge capital invested in the Alaskan
salmon fisheries will be suitably pro-
tected and create confidence that
will make the territory become alb
solutely the greatest fish producing
country i'm the world.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-02
NEW RAILROADS IN MEXICo.

American Consul James LIE Roy,
of Durango, Mexico, writes the fol-
lowing interesting account to the de-
partment of commerce and labor, on
railway extensions in Mexico:
Private information is to the effect
that the arrangement for a subsidy
to the proposed extension of the Mex
lean International railroad, from
Durango across the Sierra Madre to
Mazatlan on the Pacific coast, has
been completed. at least for half the
route. The indications at present
seem quite favorable for the construc-
ton of this extension, beginning at
an early date.
The difficulty about the subsidy APP
pears to have had some connection
with the fact that in 1903, when an
nouncing its requirement of con-
trolling interest in the new national
railroad system of Mexico (of which
the International forms a parD,
the Mexican government officially
declared its abandonment of the pol
icy of granting subsidies, by which all
but one of the trunk lines, and many
of the branch roads, of this country
have been built.
In the case of the proposed exten-
sion to Mazatlan, there are various
rec sons for making an exception:
First, the International railroad itself
was built by the late C. P. Huntington
without a subsidy, being the only
trunk line so built in Mexico, and
It has not, ir the 12 years since its
completion to this city, carried its
line to Mazatlan, because of the cost
of construction of the remaining 200
miles of route; second, this road is
now a part of the system in which
the government itself is interested;
third, in response to petitions from
the states of Durango and Sinaloa,
President Diaz virtually pledged the
government to aid the construction
of this important connecting link
which should do so much for the de-
velopment of the Sierra.
It has recently announced that the
national line of Mexico have CON-
pleted a close traffic agreement with
the so-called Gould lines" of the
United States, whereby specially IA
vorable freight rates and connections
will be made for Mexican business
to the United States, and vice versa
and whereby also an especial effort
will be made to secure tourist travel
for Mexico.
JAMES A. LIE ROY,
Consul Durango, Mexico.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-02
cial trust, of saner thought, of nobler
ideals, of better builded characters.
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.

II is a suspicious circumstance that
the Chicago strike, which appears to
be spreading, was precipitated imme-
diately following the election of
Judge Dunno as mayor. He has ex-
hausted all his powers to settle the
same. His efforts have been in vain,
because the employers unions refused
his request that they submit the sub
ject of dispute to arbitration. 1t is
impossible from the press dispatches,
to get at facts of the strike, but the
Chicago Public states them as fol-
lows:
THE Garment Workers union and
their employers union were under
contract. The employers union broke
this contract and the garment work
ers' strike resulted. The teamsters'
union and their employers were also
under contract Tho teamsters broke
this contract in order to assist the
garment workers in enforcing theirs,
and the teamsters' strike resulted.
Thus there are two contracts involved
in the present strike, one of which
was broken by the employers union,
and the other of which was broken by
laborers' union.
"The laborers' union offer to arbi-
trate the whole controversy, includ-
ing the responsibility for both breach
es of contract. This is manifestly a
fair and reasonable proposition.
But the employers unions refuse
to arbitrate both breaches of con-
tract. They offer to arbitrate the
breach by the laborers' union, but will
not consent to any arbitration that
would permit consideration of their
own breach. This is manifestly un-
reasonable and unfair. and should
subject the employers unions to the
condemnation of public opinion.
"Of course it ought not to excuse
breaches of the peace by those who
physically break the peace; but il
ought to bring under a heavier con-
demnation the arrogant employers
unions which provoke those physical
breaches of the peace by their unfair
and unreasonable refusal to terminate
ders are almost unavoidable Incl
dents. Wantonly to provoke public
disorder is a worse crime than de-
spairingly to engage in it."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-02
GAMBLING BANK PRESIDENTS.

Not since the fall of E. r. Harper
and the Fidelity bank of Cincinnati
as one result of the disastrous wheat
corner of 1887 has a sadder story of
high finance" beer told than the de-
falcation of Frank G. Bigelow.
Mr.. Bigelow is not an obscure coun-
try banker, like poor old Beckwith,
of Oberlin, who died of the grief and
shame his own greed brought him in
the Cassie Chadwick case. He was
the head of the great First National
bank of Milwaukee. His name was
honored in all the Middle West for
probity as well as ability. AS a for
mer president of the American Bank
ers' association he had been the con-
spicuous representative before the
world of his honorable profession.
Yet this trusted financier, upon
whose fidelity to his trust depended
the safety Of $15,0OO,$$s of deposits,
suffered himself to be drawn into
that heartless, reckless gambling in
a peoples food, wheat corner, and
to fling the money OF the people after
his own into the pit. That no poor
man, apparently, will lose by his mad
act as SO many did through Harper's
fall, is no excuse.
High finance" has much to answer
for, and the list is growing fast. The
exploitation of Insurance funds for
Morgan's Marine trust, the very grave
scandal of the shipyards trust frauds,
the activity of New Jersey in issuing
letters of marque to financial pirates
who rob in other states, the corrup-
ton daily unveiled in the Equitable's
aftairs-these did not need the add
ed spectacle of great bank president
caught wildly gambling with trust
funds in May wheat" to enforce the
public need, in places Of high finan