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, 1906-03-28
HE DIED IN
MISSOURI
FORMER BANKER OF THIS CITY
AND FINANCIAL WRITER
PASSES AWAY MARCH 10.
George Wilson, Suttler at Forts in
Wyoming and Member of First
Territoriar LesisiaSare-Friend of
Justice M. N Grant and Well
Known in the West.

Justice M. N. Grant, a native of Lex
ington. Mo, was informed today of the
death of George Wilson at Lexington,
a well known banker and financial
writer of that city, who for a long time
was a resident of Wyoming, conduct
ing a bank at Cheyenne and being a
resident at times at Forts Laramie,
Halleck and Sanders. Mr.. Wilson was
the brother of Joe Wilson, a noted
confederate and steamboat captain
during the civil war. He was a mem
Der of the first territorial legislature
of Wyoming n voted for woman's
suffrage in that session. He died
March 10 at his home in the Missouri
city.
The Cheyenne Leader of this morn
ing, in commenting upon the death of
Mr.. Wilson, said among other things:
when Fort Halleck was abandoned
a new military post, Fort Saunders,
was established, it's site being about
five miles south of where Laramie now
stands. and Wilson was appointed post
sutler by Secretary of War Stanton,
whom he e to Washington to inter
view, and who gave him the appoint
ment on the ground that he was the
grandson of his first client, Mrs. Fran
ces Wilson. After a years residence
at Fort Sanders, Wilson sold out to
Colonel John Wanless, q prominent fig
ure in the early politics of Wyoming,
and engaged at Laramie, just then be-
coming a town as the result of the ad-
vance of the Union Pacific, in the bank
ing business for a short time, being
connected with the firm OF ]. A. Ware
& Co.
From this firm he withdrew and en-
gagged in supplying ties to the Union
Pacific, n hay and wood to the gov
eminent at Fort Fred Steele, fifteen
miles from which place Rawlins was
later located. While at Fort Steele he
was elected, as a democrat, to the first
Wyoming legislature (territoriaD, and
the record of this legislature shows
that he supported the woman suffrage
act, the first measure of the kind CIV
ing ONE equal rights with men, and
the first to become a law in the terri
tory Of the United States"
, 1906-03-28
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN VIC
TINS OF ITALIAN MALTA OR
BLACK HAND SEEKING
THEIR REMOVAL.
Two Found in Basement Horribly Mu-
tilated and With Money in Their
Pockets-PoIice Thought It Was
Fight Among Occupants of Howell
and Paid No Attention-Perkins
Arrested and Again Released.

Minneapolis, Mimi, March 2S.-Six
Italians were murdered about midnight
in a shack on Tenth street. Eight men
ran from the building at that time,
after a disturbance which attracted the
police. The officers thought the men
had been fighting among themselves,
and did not investigate further. To-
day the shack was entered. Four
bodies, cut to pieces with knives, lay
on the floor and two more were found
in the basement. The latter were hor-
ribly mutilated. The police found
three long knives near the bodies. The
Malta or BLACK Hand is suspected.
Victims Put Up Stiff Fight.
Nine men rented the shack two
months ago.. Yesterday afternoon all
went away, returning towards evening
with three others. Evidently they had
found the victims for whom they had
been preparing. The police believe
the victims put up a stiff light and
killed three of the gang and were
themselves killed afterwards and mu'
tilated. The victims were cut and
slashed systematically and died from
loss of blood rather than from the
depth of their wounds.
Dead Men Had Nage"ln their
roeRets, which was not touched. A
, 1906-03-28

Ash Fork, Ariz., March 2S.-The
w~estbound limited on the Santa Fe
railroad collided headon during the
night, a few miles east of here, with
the eastbound express. 1t was at first
killed, but 1t is now known that no one
was fatally hurt, although several were
more or less injured. The two trains
came together with great force and
the engines were ruined, while the buff
fet and smoking car of the limited
were reduced to kindling wood. By
noon today the w%reckage had been
cleared away and all trains proceeded
on their way ten hours late.
, 1906-03-28
BROD|E DUKE IS
GRANTED DIVORCE
WIFE RECEIVES HUNDRED THOU
SAND DOLLARS AS RESULT
OF A CONSPIRACY.
Money Given in Settlement of Claims,
and She Contends She Could Have
for Fact That Husband Spirited
Witnesses Away.

New York, March 2S.-Mrs. Brodie
l.. Duke, whose husband yesterday Sc
cured a divorce from her, is supposed
to have received $1,000 0 in settlement
of all claims. 1t is said this morning
that she would have Won her case and
had a million if her husband and his
lawyers had not spirited away his wit
nesses. She declares she has been
the subject of a conspiracy.
, 1906-03-28

The Army and Navy Register, under
tains the following article on the work
done by Senator f. E. Warren of Wyo,
ming as chairman of the committee on
military affairs:
Hon. Francis Emory Warren of Wy
oming was selected as chairman of the
senate military committee because OF
his ability and intimate acquaintance
with the needs of the army. He sue
ceeds the late Senator Hawley, who
became chairman in the Fiftieth con-
gress as the successor of Hon. John A.
Logan. Mr.. Warren first became a
member of this committee during the
Fifty-fourth congress and has served
continuously since that time. Born of
New England stock some sixty-two
years ago, he has been successful in
business, dividing his time between
Massachusetts and Wyoming, where he
located before it became a state. He
served during the civil var as a pri
vate in a Massachusetts regiment, en-
listing when but IS years of age.
Gets Medal For Calamity.
Senator Warren was h%onorably must
cred out as a non-commissioned officer.
He enjoys the high distinction of hav-
ing received a congressional medal for
gallantry on the battle field at the
storming of Port Hudson. He was
twice appointed governor of Wyoming
while it was a territory, and was the
first governor after it's admission to
statehood. He has been a member and
chairman of his state delegation al
presidential conventions. He was elect
ed to the senate November IS, 1890,
took his seat December /, 1890, and
served until the expiration of his term
March 8, 1898; was reelected January
%, 1895, and again In 1901.
Man of Strong Character.
The committee on military affairs
has simply outstripped itself in the
amount of work done during this ses-
sion. At no time CT recent years has
, 1906-03-28
JohnstoWn Has Bad Fire.

Johnstown, Pa, March 2S.-Damage
amounting to 100000 vas done in a
fire which was gotten under control at
s a. m. The Swank Hardware COM
pany's building, six stories high; the
Fisher wholesale liquor store, three
stories high; the Wild building, four
stories, n the housing of the Johns
town Journal, the Lagies furniture
store and residences were burned.
, 1906-03-28
Perkins Under Arrest.

New York, March 2S.-This morning
the first of the three prominent men
for whom warrants were issued yes
terday by District Attorney Jerome
was taken into custody. 1t was
George w. Perkins of the New York
Life, charged with grand larceny, by
giving away the funds of the insur-
ance company for campaign purposes
in violation of the law. Mr.. Perkins
arrest was made easy.
Habeas Corpus Writ Granted.
1t was known to be coming, and be-
fore he was taken in charge his law.
yers applied to the supreme court for
a writ of habeas corpus. This was
granted, and the case is now taken
out of the hands of the lower court.
Perkins was arrested by a detective
from the Office of Mr.. Jerome. In his
petition asking for a writ of habeas
corpus, Mr.. Perkins declared he is inn
prisoned in restraint of his liberty by
a detective, and hat he is not COM
mitted by a judgment of any tribunal.
Greenbaum Issues Writ.
Justice G%reenbaum of the supreme
court today issued a writ of habeas
corpus for George w. Perkins. Per
kins' petition declared that he was
Imprisoned and restrained of his lib.
erty by officer Edward Reardon, by
order of a tribunal of improper juris-
diction. Justice Greenbaum ordered
Reardon to bring Perkins before him
Immediately
, 1906-03-28

Indianapolis, Ind, March 2S.-The
joint conference of miners and opera
tors ]reconvened this morning. The
debate was on the Winders substitute
motion to adopt the 1903 scale, with
certain notifications. The debate
was acrimonious, A. j. Mooreshead,
an Illinois operator, said he was tired
of wasting about ninety days every
year trying to adjust the differences
with miners and effecting an agree,
ment which they almost always broke.
He said the miners could make $40
a day under present conditions if the
unions would permit them. Delegate
, 1906-03-28

San Francisco, Cal, March Is
Charges have been filed in Washington
accusing federal officials in the mining
districts of Nevada of locating lands
and rraficking in mines. Owing to
their positions, they have, with the aid
of dummies, managed to take the rich
est mineral lands in the state and
defraud not only the government, but
the public at large.
, 1906-03-28
TIMERS ARE THROUGH
ON FEDERAL BUILDING.

Charles Solosth, who was in charge
of the roofing gang on the federal
building, left with his men last night
for Minneapolis, the roofing having
been completed. Mr.. Otto Hansen,
who had charge of the electric wiring,
has returned with his force to Omaha,
the work having been finished for the
present stage of the building. The
conduits have been placed and all the
wiring done hat a be done now. The
steam heaters are at work On the
building, which is hampering m of
the other work for the time being.
, 1906-03-28
iiIday Orders Suspension of Work.

GiIday Orders Suspension of Work.
Dubois, Pa, March 2S.-The long
threatened strike will become an act
uality here day after tomorrow. Tween
ty-fve thousand union workers VIII
leave the coal fields Friday night, Pat
rick Gilday, president of district No. 2.
ordering a suspension this morning,
the disagreement of the joint scale
conference at indianapolis making the
strike a certainty. Two hundred thou
sand men will quit work Saturday in
other states.
, 1906-03-28
INDIA MISSIONARY

The Young Women's Foreign Mis-
s%ionary society of the Methodist church
will meet at 2:S0 Thursday afternoon,
at the home of Miss Nettie Wallis,
Eighth and Garfield streets, when Mrs.
Hoskins Of Cheyenne, for thirty-seven
years a missionary in India, will de-
liver an address. No meeting of the
Ladies' Aid society of that church will
be held on that date.
, 1906-03-28
PENSIONS FOR VETERANS.
Senate Committee Makes Favorable
Report on the Bill.

Washington, d. c., March 2S.-The
senate committee on pensions has
agreed to report favorably a bill pro-
viding that veterans of the civil war
who have reached the age of 62 shall
receive $12 a month; veterans who
have reached 70, SIS a month, and
veterans who have reached rs, $50 a
month. Senator Warren of the COM
mittee estimates that the bill, if it
becomes a law, will add about S15,-
900, 900 annually to the cost of pen
sions.
, 1906-03-28
Iowa Town Flooded.

Waterloo, Ia, March 2S.-An eleven
foot rise in Cedar creek flooded a por-
ton of the city early today, breaking
the west levee and rendering hundreds
of families homeless. The railways
are blocked and tracks are submerged.
The worst danger is believed to be ov-
er. Loss, 500, 900.
, 1906-03-28
BODIES Of SIX MEN
FOUND IN BUILDING.

tin box with $500 in Italian gold and
American currency, and a check for
1878 in favor of "Nicoli Demtri" IA
found. Three grips were found con
tanning vestments of a priest of the
Greek Catholic church, also French,
Italian, Greek and Turkish passports
n other articles apparently belong
ing to the three men named Demtri,
Caponi and Yesymi.
, 1906-03-28
NOTES FROM THE COURT HOUSE.

Peabody against Miller case this morn
ing and arguments will be heard to-
morrow morning.
In the case of the Haley Live Stock
and Trading company against Barth,
~trespass, judgment for costs was rem
dered by Judge Carpenter in the dis
trict court this morning.
Judge Carpenter says the decision
of the supreme court does not affect
his term of office as judge of the Sec.
ond judicial district, there having been
no break in the tenure of Office of the
district.
, 1906-03-28
MR.. HOLIDAY DISCUSSES PRO-
POSED IMPOSITION OF BONDS
FOR REBUILDING WA
TER SYSTEM.
Says Debts May Be Legally Imposed,
BY Vote of the Majority, That Will
Be Extremely Unjust To Many
Does Not Wish To Slur Honest In
~tention of Mayor and Council, But
He Questions Their Judgment.

To the Editor of The Republican.
That public debt burdens may be lie,
gally imposed upon all the property in
incorporated towns, by a vote Of the
majority, and still be extremely unjust
to many in such communities, seems to
be an established fact in most cities.
There has been for years a striking
Illustration of this in Laramie, in the
matter Of paying the interest on the
sewer bonds.
, 1906-03-28

has sold his shop on Grand ven
and when he has sold his Fifth street
residence will remove with his family
to California to reside, where he
hopes the climate will improve his
health. AL Mckee of Walden bought
the shop and is now in possession.
, 1906-03-28
BOY OF WEAK MIND.
Believed Successor of Gar Is Imbecile
and New Law Being Prepared.

Vienna, March est is whispered
in semi,oficial circles here that the
Russian cars heir is now hopelessly
weak-minded and that a new success
sion law is being prepared in st. Pet
ersburg, to arrange for the present
cars successor.
, 1906-03-28
WNDERS SUBSTITUTE
CAUSES DISCUSSION

Walker of Illinois replied. He said
Mooreshead's remarks were made for
effect and that his statements were
false.
The convention adjourned until 2
o'clock p. H..
, 1906-03-28
ROCK RIVER NOW
-

A Sunday school has been organized
at Rock River, with L. L. Laughlin as
superintendent, Mrs. Grant Kisor as
assistant superintendent, Miss Rose
White as secretary and Mrs. P. Nc
Dermott as treasurer. Rev. Tiney
preached in the school house to a large
audience Monday night and Rev. Bross
of this city on Tuesday night, the lat
ter agreeing to visit the church every
alternate Tuesday evening for the
present. A good deal of interest is
manifested at Rock River.
, 1906-03-28
Valuable Lumber Burned.

Philadelphia, Pa, March 2S.-Fifteen
acres of ground was laid waste ano
10000, 900 feet of mahogany, walnut,
spruce and other valuable lumber was
destroyed at a loss of $500, 900, when
McIlvane & Co.'s lumber yards were
burned TODAY.
, 1906-03-28
Locomotive Enqineer Drowned

Chicago, ILL.,, March 2S.-Robert Full
Ter, a Santa Fe engineer, leaned too
far out of his cab window while the
train was speeding west this morning,
fell into the drainage canal and was
drowned. The fireman took the train
to the station.
, 1906-03-28
CHICAGO Officers Hear Report.

Chicago, ILL.,, March 2S.-Regarding
the sensational reports of a Santa Fe
wreck near Ash Fork, Ariz., the of
ficials of the system here say that
trains Nos. 2 and 8 collided there and
that nobody vas killed or seriously
injured.
, 1906-03-28
TRAINS IN
COLLISION
wEsTeoUND LIMITED AND EAST
BOUND EXPRESS ON SANTA
FE MEET HEAD ON NEAR
ASH FORK,

At First Reported That Many Passen-
gers Had Been Killed, But None
Were Even Fatally Hurt-Johns-
town Visited by Destructive Fire
Last Nisht-WaterIoo, Iowa, Flood
ed and Property Damaged.
, 1906-03-28

30 much been accomplished. To look
at Mr.. Warren one is impressed with
MS appearance; tall, erect and robust,
athletlc in build, full of energy and
alertness and possessing an individu-
atty not common in men. He would
attract attention in any assemblage as
a man of strong character, full of dash,
quick n perception and equal to and
ready to cope with any business or leg
i~Slative problem.
, 1906-03-28

Army Has Good Friend.
No mistake was made in selecting
him as chairman of this important COM
mittee; he will prove a worthy sue
cessor to those who have preceded
him. The army will have a friend to
look after its needs, that much is GER
tain. The work of the committee will
be dispatched in a business way and
there will be no delay in reporting
measures pending before it. More than
nine-tenths of the bills awaiting action
by the committee are what are known
as private bills, the greater number of
which possess but little merits. These
measures are usually referred to the
war department for report, unless they
be bills that have in previous con-
crosses been reported upon.
Many Documents Before Committee.
The bills of a public character, also,
hen necessary are sent to the depart
ment for an opinion, except when they
are measures that have been prepared
by the department, or what are known
as administration measures. There are
at this writing some 800 or more bills,
committee. More than one-third of
them are in the hands of s%ub-commit-
tees, while about seventy or more have
been disposed of, some of which have
passed the senate. When carefully
analyzing the work of the committee
up to the present time, it is indeed
something the chairman is to be
proud of.
Believes in High Standard.
The holding up of nominations await
ing report to the senate cannot be at
tributed to any dereliction of duty on
the part of the committee. Oftentimes
a nomination is made and, after in
vestigation of the record of the officer
nominated, there is cause for criticism
and perhaps, in the opinion of some of
the members, the name must be with
drawn. This involves delay, but it can
o be entirely attributed to the com
mittee. A favorable report of a nom
ination is considered an endorsement
or guarantee by the committee of the
fitness of the officer for promotion.
Here is where the conscientiousness of
duty of the chairman looms up. He
believes the army should be of the
highest standard both as to individuals
and as a body.
When the army bill reaches the com
mittee it will be promptly considered
and reported. 1t is safe to say the bill
will be a law within a month.
, 1906-03-28
lies in the way that every reasonable
and ambitious mother wishes.
Districts Without Benefit.

Let us not fix additional liens of
public Indebtedness on the property in
the city until conditions demand it, and
then let us not impose the burden on
important districts in the town that
would be in no way benefited.
For instance, how will the citizens
on the west side be injured by dead
ends" between First and Tenth streets
or benefited by a six-inch belt line pipe
on the east side only? The proposed
belt line of six-inch pipe would cost
about $4,000. W. H. HOLIDAY.
, 1906-03-28
MINERS AND OPERATORS IN
WRANGLE OVER PROPOSE
TON TO ADOPT WAGE
SCALE OF 1908.

Illinois Operator Said He Was Tired
of Spending Ninety Days Every
Year Making Agreement Which
Miners Nearly Always Break and
Miner Accused Operator of Making
False Statements Just for Effect.
, 1906-03-28
Paying Its Part of Debt.

Until recently a very limited part Of
the town has had any convenience from
the city sewers The people on the
west side never have had and probably
never will have any convenience from
the present sewer system; yet proper
ty on that side OF the railroad has paid
its part of the Z per cent interest on
the sewer bonds, and will be expected
to continue paying 7 per cent on such
bonds until the thirty years time has
passed for which the sewer bonds
were to run before the city could elect
to refund Or pay off said bonds.
The Sewer Bond Issue.
Whether it was a coars piece of
chicanery or ignorance on the part of
the city administration hat issued the
sewer bonds in 1883, in not taking ad-
vantage of a ~ten-year limit in which
such bonds might have been refunded
or paid, is not especially pertinent at
this time. l do not wish in any way to
slur the honest intentions of the pres
ent mayor or city council; but l do
question their judgment in the matter
of imposing additional debt burdens
on the citizens of Laramie.
Had Champagne Appetite.
There was once a proprietor of a
book store in Laramie rather brilliant
and ambitious fellow-who said to his
friends, 81 have-a champagne appetite,
but only a lager beer pocketbook." 1
fear that the city council, in its ambi-
ton based on what it believes the fut
ure promises, has overlooked the fact
that a large majority Of the citizens Of
Laramie have not yet secured a cham
payne pocketbook. 1t will be sooG
enough to increase their taxes after
they are able to maintain their fami'
, 1906-03-28
TWAS A
STUNNER
RETURN OF THE SPINSTERS AND
THEIR CONVENTION AFFAIR
OF MERIT AS CROWD
WELL ACCLAIM.

House damned and Perform
ance as Good as Claimed in the
Bills, With Some of the Most Re-
markable Stunts Ever Pulled Off
On That Stage-Papas Followed
Spinsters and Covered Platform.
, 1906-03-28
WAS JUST
A PRIVATE
WYOMING SENATOR SERVED DUR
ING THE WAR OF THE REBEL
LION IN ONE OF BAY
STATE REGIMENTS.

Enlisted When But Eighteen Years of
Age and Left Service as Non-Com-
missioned Officer-Worthy Success
sor of John A. Logan n Senator
Hawley as Chairman of Senate
Committee on Military Aaffairs.
, 1906-03-28

Why not get all the news when It
Is news by reading The Republican,
, 1906-03-28

CHARLIE NiSSEN SELLS
HIS BARBER SHOP.
Charlie Nissen, the veteran barber,
, 1906-03-28
Jessie Mas Well Liked.

Possibly motherly, sweet-voiced Jes-
sic Gibson vas the general fayorite,
and she had the entire sympathy of
the audience when she was ordered to
take the family away and put them to
bed. Previously, however, these won
derful infants were coaxed, and hired
by their fond parent to appear in rhe-
torical and musical stunts, which
amused the audience as well as the
spinsters.
, 1906-03-28

Pica1 Department; Cheyenne, wyoming
, 1906-03-28

"0Hey III lHtlr
soekers, which was not touched. A
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-14
Showers Friday In West PoPtiopi
Fair I'm East. saturday showers.
HARTMAN is AFTER LAND
Mrs. oeIrichs Considers an oner for
Valuable Tract at san
Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 13-rhe Call to-
day says that the coming to San Francisco
of Mrs. Herman Ooelrichs, who arrived
from New York last evening, has to do
with things other than the contesting of
her husbands will Primarily the purpose
of Mrs Oelrichs' western trip, which was
contemplated before her husbands death,
was to confer with local people regarding
a big realty deal in which 1t is reported
that e. II. Hartman Of the Southern Pa
cific company is deeply concerned. 1t is the
sale of sixty blocks of property on the
northern boundary of the city, commanding
one of the largest pieces of water frontage
on the ,bay and forming a key TO trans
portation situation that would be of in
calculable advantage to Hartman in his
coming battles with Gould and Ripley, and
possibly Hill, for future supremacy on the
San Francisco peninsula.
Mrs. Oerichs has received an offer OF
N,200OO0 for this piece of property, which
is her last holding of the original Fair
estate. In laying his wires for the acquire
ment of the Fair property, Hartman has
in view a plan for another railroad gate
way into San Francisco and one that Will
more quickly reach the best portion of new
San Francisco and improve his position
against competition in securing the bulk OF
the governments business eminating at the
Preside. NTH Mrs. Oelrichs' water front
property in his possession he will trans
form it into big terminal point and will
then commence building in a southwesterly
direction toward his main coast line, using
rights-of-way he already has at Ingleslde
to aid him in carrying out his scheme.