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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
SCRAWFORD JURY
SAYS FIRST DEGREE
Slayer of lundean Is Convict.
ed, Lights a Cigar and
Returns to His Cell
Special to The Globe

Special to The Globe
ELK RIVER, Mimi, April 11.-"Mur-
der in the first degree as charged in
the Indictment" is the verdict brought
in by the jury at $50 tonight against
c. d. Scrawford, indicted for the MUIR
der of Heino Lundeen. Scrawford
listened unmoved to the reading of the
verdict by Clerk Davee, and as soon
as court adjourned he calmly lit a
cigar and between several officers re-
turned to his cell. At the request of
Scrawford's attorney the jury was
polled and every man said guilty
Judge Giddings thanked the jurors for
the earnest attention they had given
the case and. dismissed them from
further service at this term.
Scrawford Testifies for Himself
ELK RIVER, Mimi, April 1.-THE
Scrawford case went to the jury at 5
o'clock this afternoon. Scrawford was
the only witness on the stand for the
defense. Farmer refused to testify.
He said he would have to be dragged
on the stand by force and give evidence
only under protest. Scrawford admit
ted having shot Lundeen, but claimed
he fired simply TO frighten the boys,
with no intention of killing anyone,
the lurching of the car causing him TO
shoot lower than intended. Robbery
was the only motive. On cross-exam-
tnation he could give no reason for not
attempting TO save the boys life after
finding he was hit, nor for compelling
his four companions to jump while
the train was running thirty miles an
hour.
County Attorney White was forty
minutes in summing up the states
case. {. s. Wheaton, for the defense,
made desperate fight for Scrawferd
in his attempt TO shatter the states
claim of sufficient motive for premedi-
tated murder. Judge Giddings' charge
to the jury occupied nearly an hour
Scrawford is hopeful and expects
nothing worse than a verdict of second
degree murder.
In his testimony Scrawford gave a
history of his life in Missouri, of his
enlisting in the United States army in
that state, of serving in the Philippines
and China during the Boxer uprising
of his honorable discharge at San
Francisco, of his life as a cowboy in
Idaho, how he drifted to North Dako-
Ia, where at Valley City he bough;
the revolver which he carried with him
on the night of the murder and OF his
trip to Staples, where he boarded the
car with the other men. In speaking
of the murder directly he said that he
fired the first shot merely to scare the
boys, as robbery was his intention
and that he noticed that Lundeen did
not rise when told to do so, and that
he fired a second shot, merely to
wake him." that this second shot was
fired at the back part of the car, while
he (Scrawford) was some twenty feet
away. After this second shot he no.
ticed Lundeen faint and fall back. and
the blood began to trickle from the in
| fiicted wound, but that he had no in
tention when he fired the shot of kill
ing the boy. When the fatal SHOOTING
occurred, the witness said, he was or
his way to Joplin, Mo-, TO spend the
| winter with his parents.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
THE NEWS lNDEXED

PAGE
Scrawford Is Convicted
Decrease of Wheat Production
Booth fuckers Views on immigration
Dr.. Emil G. Hirsch at Temple
Togo's Plan of Campaign
PAGE 10
Phone Company to Hear Protest
Prepare for Saengerfest
Capitol Girls Laugh at Atkinson
Vollmer Bill Stirs Labor Leaders y
PAGE III
Minneapolis Matters
News Of the Railroads
PAGE Nv
Editorial Comment
Senator Mitchell Pleads to indictments
Equitable Case Further Argued
PAGE v
In the Sporting World
News of the Northwest
PAGE VI
PAGE VII
Short Story
Of interest to Women
PAGE Viii
Financial and Commercial
PAGE TX
Globe Paying Wants
PAGE K
Work Of the Legislature
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
japanese Admiral Divides His Fleet
Into Three Squadrons---The FIyina
Squadron Is Already Scouting the
China Sea---Chinese Government
Refuses to Lend the Russians a
POrt---Rojestvensky's Whereabouts
Still d Mystery

other meeting of the Pan Russian con-
gress of attorneys was held here this
afternoon and resolution was adopted
favoring the removal Of the autocratic
regime and the proclamation of a dem
ocratic constitution on the basis of
universal suffrage and a secret ballot.
1t is the intention of the attorneys to
conduct propaganda throughout Rus
sia to educate the people politically,
and, If necessary, to arm them for
physical resistance to arbitrary action
on the part of the authorities 1t is an
extraordinary fact that no arrests have
followed these meetings, at which
words were not minced and open def
ance Of the authorities was evident. At
another meeting held tonight the bar
risters decided to cancel a clause of the
resolutions in which 1t was proposed to
furnish the people with arms to re-
sist arbitrary acts. The meeting to-
night decided that such extreme action
would defeat the entire object of the
association,
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
BIG THING IN COAL
One Company Is to Supply the
Steel Trust

PITTSBURG, Pa, April 11.-W. r.
Woodford, vice president of the Pitts
burg Coal company, announced tonight
that the largest deal in the history of
the coal industry" had been closed IN
New York today. The contract is be-
tween the United States Steel corpora
tion and the Pittsburg Coal company.
whereby the latter agrees to furnish
the steel corporation with it's entire
supply of coaf for the next twenty five
years. The steel corporation agrees 10
make no further coal developments for
itself during the life of the contract.
The tonnage required for the execution
of the contract will range between
100000 and 100000 tons annually.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12

Booth Tucker Says BritOns Are
Deteriorating Ply
siCaiIy

CLEVELAND, O., April 11.-'1n
England the people are crowding into
London and other large cities. The
farm hand is now a cockney. The ef-
feet of this crowding was apparent at
the time of the Boer war. The Eng
lishman has lost his health, his buoy
ancy and his grit. He is not the man
he was. England has to draw on her
colonies for good fighting material. The
London police force, the finest body of
men physically in the world, is recruit
ed from the farms. Healthy men are
at a premium. BY and by there will be
no fighting men left, IL something is
not done. The only way to rejuvenate
the race is to divert immigration away
from the cities and toward the colonies,
to take the sick men OF London to the
colonies and make farmers OF them
The foregoing. statement was made
today by Booth Tucker. Before leaving
for the east today Commander Booth
Tucker, who, in company with II. Rider
Haggard, the author, Is making an in
spection trip of the social work done
by the Salvation army in the United
States, outlined the plan of the Saliva
ulation in London by sending the peo-
pie TO Canada and other English colo
nies. The commander said:
Last year the Salvation Army carried
1000 persons from England to Canada.
which Is starving for population. We
carried them in our own ship. 1t will not
be long before we will be carrying Eng
lishmen not by thousands but by tens of
thousands, not only 10 Canada, but to New
Zealand. Australia, India and South
Africa. We did not dump our immigrants
in Quebec, as the United States dumps i'm
migrants on Ellis island. but dumped six
here and eight there and a dozen in an
other place, wherever they were needed.
Every man who left England for Canada
knew before he started where he was
going. what he was going to do when he
got there and what wages he would re-
ceiVe
The United States should revise it's i'm
migration laws. Immigrants should be
investigated before they start and not
after they have landed at New York.
Then you could get the cream Of Europe,
the yeomanry, the healthy. sturdy stock
and not the scum, the ne'er do wells. The
Salvation Army would like to cooperate
with the United States government in a
work Of this kind. Then colonization
could be made the handmade of immigra-
tion.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
THEY TALK TROOPS
New Phase of the Assassina.
ton of Cannon

Special to The Globe
BEAUDETTE, Mimi, April IL - In
connection with the contemplated ar
rests following the murder of Matt
Cannon, about forty business men have
been sworn in and held a secret ses-
sion this afternaan. They considered
the question of what men to arrest
first. Arrests will undoubtedly bring
on trouble. Several were in favor of
securing company of soldiers as be-
ing the only method to subdue the law
lessness here and at Spooner, and Gov.
Johnson was wired tonight as TO the
advisability of such a step. Several
Canadians heavily armed arrived here
today to look after the leaders of the
Tmob. If they should seek safety on
Canadian soil they will at once be ar
rested and detained, awaiting the Unit
ed States authorities.
Gov. Johnson said last night that he
had received no request from Beau
dette for troops. In the event of trou-
bic such as the local officials could not
cope with IL is expected that state
troops will be asked for.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
Japs Form More Divisions

GUNSHU PASS. Manchuria. April
11.-Chinese state with great positive
ness that Gen. Kawamura's army, sup
ported by Gen. Nogi's army, is moving
in northeasterly direction to cut Rus
sian communications with Vladivostok.
According to the same sources, 10000
japanese landed at Dalny March rs,
and 1t is reported that six additional
divisions are forming in Japan to op-
crate against Vladivostok and Sax
halin.
The Manchurian Chinese have adopt
ed an attitude of positive hostility TO
the Russians. A body of 500 native
horsemen fired on Russian troops at
the village of Chendi and Manchurian
militia is said to be taking the field on
the side of the Japanese on the Hun
river.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
after Increases Enormously While
the Output Remains Almost Sta
tionary---ACreage Shows No Mate
rial Increase in Spite of Western
Settlement Secretary Wilson's
Alarming Announcement Seems
Justified by Figures

In the first place, our wheat crops are
not increasing enormously year by year
by any means. The 1904 crop was 552,-
$780, bushels. That crop was smaller
than those of five other years in the
history of the country, and IL was eX-
ceeded as far back as 1891; 1t was al
most equaled in 1SS4-twenty years be-
fore The annual wheat crops of the
United States have exceeded 100000
600 bushels in every year except four
since 1873.
There is a prevalent notion that on
account of the taking up of new lands
in the west the total wheat area of
the country is increasing enormously
year by year. That is not so. The
whole acreage has not increased mate
rally in the last six years, and last
years total area was smaller than that
of 1899, 1901, 1902 or 1903. The largest
acreage ever sown TO wheat in this
country was in 1901, but even then the
whole area was only about 25 per cent
larger than the acreage Of nearly twen-
ty-five years ago.
Home Consumption Increases
AS. for the home consumption of
wheat, or its equivalent, -four il has
been increasing enormously for several
years, as must be the case in country
where the population is gaining so rap
lQly as IL Is -1n-lne- -QnlleQ StaIeS- Inc
amount of wheat retained for home in
the last fiscal year was 517,094, ,222
bushels. This. of course, was from the
crop of 1903. The whole crop of wheat
for the following year was only 552,-
399.517 bushels.
There was much less wheat left for
export than usual last year. During
the fiscal year ended June 80. 1904. the
total exports of wheat Gncluding fiour)
were 120,727,613 bushels, as against
202, 905,59 bushels in the year before.
The falling off in exports was not
wholly due to a decrease in the crop of
the year before. The 1903 wheat crop
was 7S,397,210 bushels less than the
1902 crop, but the decrease in exports
in the fiscal year Immediately follow
ing the crop season of 1903 was S2,177,-
$50 bushels. At the same time there
was an increase in the quantity of
wheat retained for home consumption
amounting to 49,936,S12 bushels.
More than 80 per cent of the 1902
crop was exported to foreign countries.
Less than 19 per cent of the 1903 crop
was sent abroad. This was the small
est percentage since 1869.
The average quantity of grain which
the wheat fields of the country produce
per acre is not decreasing materially
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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
COAT LINING OF DEAD
MAN YIELDS WEALTH
Deserted by His Wife and Making Pre-
carious Living, TaInlohIen Is Killed
Snecial to The Globe

Special to The Globe
certificates of deposit in Des Moines
banks for $1,000 and bills worth s125
all wadded together in the lining of his
coat, William II. Talmohlen of this city
was killed while picking up kindling,
presumably for living. in the railroad
yards here.
Talmohlen was dressed in ragged
clothes and had for months been a fire.
QHent visitor TO the yards, where he
gathered fuel, which he burned and
sold. 1t is reported that his wife de-
serted him about three weeks ago. 60
ing to Freeport, Ill. He was standing
between two uncoupled cars when an
engine bumped them and he was crush
ed to death.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
SUPPLY OF LOBSTERS
IS FALLING OFF FAST
Report to Massachusetts, Legislature
Shows Steady Decrease

BOSTON. April 1.-THE outlook re-
spectins the lobster fishery is made the
subject of complaint and warning by
the state board of fish ard game COM
missioners in its annual report which
was submitted to the legislature today.
The figures show the same decrease of
supply that has characterized the lob
ster fishery for many years.
The outcome, the commercial ex-
tinction of the lobster. is as sure to
result as day IS TO follow night" the
report says. There has been an in
crease of pots per man. but a falling
off in the catch per pot from 33 in 1903
TO 2S1s in 1905. or a decrease of about
IA per cent. In thirteen years there
has been a decrease of more than Sc
per cent in the catch of Holsters per
not"
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
Globe Special Washington Service
1417 G Street

Globe Special Washington Service
1417 G Street
: WASHINGTON, April 11.-This
question was addressed to James Will
son, secretary of agriculture: DO you
think the time is near at hand when
the United States will cease to raise
wheat enough to supply our own peo-
pie with all the bread they need?' The
secretary did not answer the question
as it was put.
we can raise two or three times as
much wheat as we need" he replied.
There is practically no limit to the
amount we can produce. But we have
yet to learn the most economical use of
the land. There must be some regard
to rotation of crops, or the home de-
mand for bread may exceed the home
product. They are robbing the land
now; raising wheat year after year on
the same tract until it fails to produce
a big yield, and then moving on to
new lands farther. west. And now some
of them have robbed the land all they
can here and are moving over into
Canada"
Although Mr. Wilson was reluctant
TO admit that there is any danger of
the home demand for bread exceeding
the domestic production of wheat, all
the signs point to such a condition.
Every year the percentage of the home
crop of wheat which is retained fer
domestic use and not exported to for
eign countries is increasing; and corre-
spondingly, the percentage of exports
is decreasing. At the same time the
wheat crop for the last few years has
been about normal.
AUaN,na lie
1t is true that in 1902 a bumper crop
of wheat was raised in the United
States, but the crop of 1908 was SMALL
er, and the crop of 1904 was smaller
still. 1t is also significant that the
acreage remains about stationary, and
the yield per acre is certainly not in
creasing. In fact, now that the new
lands have become comparatively
scarce, it is inevitable under present
conditions that the acreage yield will
decline; and that is what Secretary
Wilson is talking about when he says
people are robbing the land"
Here are some figures which, once
understood, are hard to get away from
They are intended to show the signifi-
cant relation now existing between
the domestic wheat crop, the home con-
sumption of bread and our exports oi
wheat and flour to foreign countries
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
MIX UP MO2OCCANS
Sultan's Advisers Seek to Dust
the French

LONDON, April 1.-THE Tangier
correspondent of the Times learns on
good authority that the advisers of the
sultan of Morocco propose inviting the
French mission to return from Fez to
Tangier, where the sultan's definite re-
fusal 10 accept the proposed reforms
will be- officially communicated to the
French legation.
1t is believed, says the correspondent,
that Germany will accept the sultans
invitation TO send a mission to Fez to
negotiate a new international confer
ence, to discuss reforms and to con-
suit regarding measures for new ma
tional guarantees.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
VENEZUELAN VENOM
More Crops Out and Yet More
Is to Come

CARACAS, Venezuela, April IL
President Castro will not withdraw
the New York and Bermudez Asphalt
company case from the Venezuelan
courts and will not resubmit the Olcott
case to arbitration if the whole Ameri-
can army and navy come to Venezu-
ella"
This emphatic statement of Gen.
Alexandra Ybarra the Venezuelan
secretary of foreign affairsS reflects the
spirit of the reply which President
Castro made to the recent proposal OF
the American state department for the
arbitration of the Bermudez and Olcott
cases.
WILLEMSTAD. Curacao, April IL
President Castro of Venezuela has
terest on the interior debt of Venezuela
for seven years has been Cancelled
and that script bearing interest at
per cent will be issued to replace the
6 per cent script which now represents
the indebtedness.
Much of the Venezuelan interior
debt, which amounts to about SIC, ,5OO,-
900, is held by Frenchmen and this
edict will doubtless intensity the
strained relations existing between
France and Venezuela as a result of
the action against the French cable
company. 1t is claimed that Castro's
estimate of S33OO0OOO for, the entire
Venezuelan debt is $19,000,000 short.
WASHINGTON, April Through
out the diplomatic corps keen interest
exists regarding the sensational an
swer which President Castro is said
to have made to Minister Bowen's
latest request for arbitration. II has
become noised among diplomats that
the answer was undiplomatic and al
most threatening in wording. The
knowledge possessed by certain diplo-
mats on the subject here indicates
clearly that the character of the an
swer has been known for some time
TO the diplomatic corps in Caracas and
there is reason TO believe that several
foreign governments already have been
advised of its text. While diplomats
here have been informed that prac-
ticaIIy no action Will be taken regard
ing Venezuela until President Roose-
welt returns. they also have received
the intimation that IL the text of Cas-
tro's answer comprises an insult to
the American minister il will not pass
"nnoticed.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
Special Cable to The Globe

Special Cable to The Globe
TOKYO, April lit is guardedly
admitted here that Admiral Togo has
completed his battle organization. He
has divided his fleet into three squad
rons-fying. main and reserve The
flying squadron, made up of his fastest
cruisers. is already scouting the China
sea and will open the fighting: the
main squadron made up of most of his
battleships and armored cruisers, is to
follow into action; the reserve squad
ron, comprising the remaining battle
ships and cruisers, will complete the
attack. If necessary, and guard against
any attack in the rear.
Russian Fleet Is Together
Special Cable to The Globe
ST. PETERSBURG, April 11.-A dis
patch received here sating that Ad-
miral Rejestvensky's fleet is not dis
united evokes the greatest satisfaction
at the admiralty. where earlier reports
that the battleships were separated
from the cruisers caused anxiety.
Togo's whereabouts is known to the
japanese admiralty, but kept studi-
OH1AS SNNANNs oAAA RldA VI
has received the imperial sanction.
Refuses Russia a Port
LONDON, April 1.-THE Kobe cor
respondent Of the Telegraph says:
"A telegram from Peking states that
Russian Minister Lessar asked China
TO lend Russia a port in Pokieen
(Pekiang), but China absolutely re-
fused"
Mystery Still
LONDON, April 12.-The mystery
of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's where
abouts is still unsolved The ia
vorite hypothesis of the newspapers
this morning is that his six battle
ships slipped past Singapore some
night with lights out. The Telegraph's
Singapore correspondent says:
"Ail reports to the contrary not
withstanding, only one battleship, the
Sissoi Veliky, passed here Saturday.
No ships of the Tsarevitch type were
with the squadron"
Lawyers Are Persistent
ST. PETERSBURG, April 11.-An-
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
HIBB|NC MEN KILL
Armed Deputies Leave Duluth
to QueII Miners Riot

miners. Elias Haskinson and John Eek
dahl, were killed and several seriously
injured in a strike riot which occurred
today at the Hull-Rust mine at Hib-
bing, MINI. The men were employed
by the Oliver Mining company.
DULUTH, Mimi, April 12.-At 1
o'clock this morning Sheriff Bates, ac-
companied by two score of armed dep
uties, left on a special train for Hib-
bing to quell the riot which, according
TO report, has broken out among the
miners employed in other mines. The
authorities there wired last evening
that the presence of a strong guard
was necessary 10 prevent further vio-
lence,
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
PILE UP INDICTMENTS
AGAINST STANDARD OIL
No Less Than 400 More Are Returned
by Kentucky Grand Jury

FRANKFORT, KY, April IL
About 400 indictments, charging the
Standard Oil company with failure to
take out peddlers. licenses, as required
by the Kentucky statutes, were re-
turned by the Franklin county grand
jury. today. Similar indictments have
been. returned recently in several
counties OF the state.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
GorkY in the Crimea

YALTA, Crimea, April 11.-Maxime
Gorky and Leonide Andrieff, the radi-
cal writers who were arrested in con-
nection with the alleged plan TO es-
tablish provincial government in
place of the autocracy, have arrived
here.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
Advances Railroad Bill

MADISON, Wis. April 11--By vote
of 81 to 10 the assembly today ad-
vanced a bill for an appointive railroad
rate commission The assembly also
passed a bill providing for taxation of
railroad elevators and docks by the
counties in which the elevators and
docks are located.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
MENACE NORTHWEST
Argentina May Get Our Trade
With Sweden and Norway
Globe Special Washington Service

Globe Special Washington Service
f417 G Street
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE new
line of steamers which has just been
installed between Norway and Sweden
and Argentina is reported by Consul
General Bordewich at Christiania, Nor
way, to be a menace to American trade
with those countries in flour. linseed.
corn and other products Of the north
west w Z. c.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12

Lawyers Are Persistent
ST. PETERSBURG, April 11.-An-
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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-12
TIE WEATHER

ST. Paul and Vicinity-Fair.
Minnesota-Falr and warmer; Thurs
day fair.
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