Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-25
DR.. HOFFMAN NOT A PRINCE
Mystery Concerning Bis Identity is in
Measure Cleared Up,
CHARGES AGAINST HIN IN GERMANY
While Yet Medical student He was
Arrested on the Charge of Grave
Robbery-state Gets Left I'm
Draining Lake Beds.



Dies MONIES. Nov 2A-(Special.)- )-Mys-
tp that has enshrouded DR.. c, II. Hon
mn FOR some years an instructor in
Drake Medical school in this city, and
thought by some to be Grown Prince Ran
dolph Of Austria, who has been missing for
years. has been partly cleared Hoffman's
real name is Carl, Endlich. This discovery
is made at Kirkville. Mo-, where the man
has been teaching in the osteopathic col
.cge and from which city he has all at
once disappeared Letters and papers
which he left behind In his hasty depar-
ture disclose the information which has
been given out by his wife At Kirksville.
Mrs. Hoffman was nurse IN the Mount
Pleasant Insane hospital when Hoffman
was confined there and she nursed him
then Their marriage in Burlington, Ia,
followed. Ho1man's, or EndliCh's parents
reside now at Karlsruhe, Germany. 1t Is
learned from Hoffman's papers that he was
forced TO leave Germany. Mrs. Holman
says that ne disclosed to her at one time
that as a medical student, he assisted other
students in robbing a grave and was ar
rested and for this left Germany, the pun
ishment being long term OF imprson-
ment Beyond the disclosing Of the name
and the fact that his parents and brother
and sister are still living In Germany, lit
tie is known OF Hoffman now that was
not known before, From the letters It Is
known that the brother Is even now In
trouble IN Germany. It is stated that Dr.
Hoyt Of Mount Pleasant was made oon-
Hdent by Hoffman. Hoyt is now dead
Two other persons i'm this country are
said by Hoffman's wife to know the Sc
crets that ,he refuses to tell. but she does
not know who they are. nor their where
abouts.
ReaufsitIon for shadden
1 rcduisitiou for John Shadden, wanted IN
woodbury. county for the theft of a team
of horses and buggy and harness, was is
sued today from the Office of Governor
Cummins on the governor OF Missouri.
Different Policy on Lakes.
No more lake beds viii be appraised
while they are under water. according TO
decision Of the executive council. 1t has
been discovered that land under water in
the lake beds is usually appraised at about
S.25 an acre and when the lake is drained
at an expense Of S95 or s. an acre the land
is worth so an acre. but under the ap-
praisement the state gets only the d.3
appraised value Rush lake, Lard lake
| and Sand Hill lake were ordered drained
| by the executive council. Appraisers were
ordered to value the land and, pHk it at
j d.25 an acre II was then hndet Water, but
ordered drained, Under the law the adj
| Joining land owners can completesall forty
acre tracts at the appraised value and this
| took almost all the lake beds. The result
was that. tho state got next to nothing.
Insurance Companies Raise Rates.
| Practically every fire insurance agent In
the city Of Des Moines has been notified
TO write insurance only on the Bennett
estimates which are made by w. c. Ben
nett Of Cedar Rapids and were the basis
! Of the old trust or combination rates
broken up by the Blanchard law. These
letters to Des Moines agents instruct then
that they are losing money on the Des
Moines business. Since the action Of the
supreme court; which held the state Law
| constitutional and the local insurance board
was broken up. insurance rates have gon'
down from 10 to 50 per cent in Des Moines
One insurance company informed its agen
the other day that unless he adhered here
lrafteF to the Bennett rates the compan!
would close up its Des Moines Office. An
other wrote that il had received from ~
Des Moines agency S96.99O I'm premiums an,
had paid out in expenses and losses 10
this business s44.O74 From the action 0
the companies in thus notifying their agent
Il Is expected that the old high rates vii
Immediately be put in. IT is the opinion
Of lawyers furthermore that the anu-cOni
pact law will not reach the matter, as tn
companies to all intents and purposes ar
acting Independently.