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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
THE OWEN CASE.
Meeting Of Owen and Mics Curtis A.
ter Coroner's Verdict.


After the verdict had been rendered
In the case of Mrs. j. B. Owen, OF Ian
sing, which set forth the fact that she
came TO her death through the effects
of carbolic acid but expressed doubt
whether she, herself, or others admin
istered 1t. Chief OF Police Behrndt ac-
companied Miss Maxine Curtis to the
home of ]. B. Owen. She was after
some of her belongings.
Miss Curtis had no conversation with
Owen since she had confessed her in
fatuation. She offered to return to
Owen a plain gold ring which he had
given her in Detroit, when they were
on the way east with the body of his
wife. Owen, however, did not caro- to
accept 1t.
On her return from the Owen house
Miss Curtis was asked II she would
consider proposition of marriage
from owen.
"No, not much" she answered spir-
itedly.
Miss Curtis announced that she
would go to Chicago.
Prosecutor Macarthur says there will
be no further proceedings. There was
little evidence for any other theory
than suicide, except the showing that.
according to Miss Curtis testimony,
Owen had wished himself free 10 mar.
ry her.
The feature of the closing session of
the inquest was the reading of two let
ters received by Miss Curtis. in the
handwriting, she testified, OF Owen.
The latter refused to say whether or
not they were his. They were written
to her while in Muskegon last July.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Wealth Above and Below.

An illustration of the diversity or
upper Michigan's resources came to
notice yesterday at the Hammer farm,
near here. Two different crews
of men were at work, one exploring
for iron ore for Pickands, Mather Il
Co., of Cleveland, which recently took
an option on the property, and the 9TH
er engaged In thrashing oats. One
crew was sinking test pit, and the
other was operating a steam thrash
ing machine. A similar occurrence was
remarked in Spring Valley. A steam
thrasher was at work on the farm OF
Andrew Youngs, while Just across the
road was the big Baltic mine, in full
commission.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Sleep and Nerve Rest.
g. A. LIsK, Publisher

In the days when eight hours for
sleep was nominally regarded as an
hour too long for any self-respecting
individual, the extausting character
of modern life was unknown. There
was less wealth and moro content
ment; less competition and more Sc
curity; fewer distractions, but more
simplicity. Work was easier, slower;
and care, anxiety, apprehension-in
a word, worry-did not feed, like the
worm l. tn bud, upon the hours ex-
empt from toll. We are remorseless
in overtaxing the delicate mechanism
of our minds and nerves. The best
walker, for instance, does not propose
to himself to go regularly 60 miles a
day, or to subject the same set Of
muscles in any other form of phys
ical exercise to intense and unremit-
ting labor. But that is what We do
with the immediate agent Of our
minds-the brain machine. We can
not watch it's operations. We often
ascume that it's movements are as
light and endless as the ripples of the
universal air. We know and never
theless we forget that the brain is a
substantial apparatus as liable to de-
probation as the fixed plant in a
workshop. Now nothing is more GER
tain than this, that the potential ca
pacity of the human brain has not
increased, if at all, in anything like
the proportion of the immensely ag-
gravated demand upon it. The mod
ern man is subject to as much mental
and moral wear and tear in day
as his ancestors in no very remote
generation experienced ia week,
says London Telegraph. Yet in re-
spect to sleep we have hardly changed
traditional habit. We keep later and
still later hours. We catch our trains
in the morning as usual. There is no
doubt whatever that we burn the can.
die at both ends with unprecedented
disregard of the laws of physiological
economy and that the amount of rest
we allow for nerve and brain is no
longer adequate.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Production of Silver.

The production of silver in the
United States has not varied rad
ically since 1899, and we arrive at our
judgment of radical variation by
comparison with the change in the
output of gold, which has indeed been
radical, says the Black Hills Mining
Review. There was difference of
100000 ounces, approximately rs
per cent, between the low production
of 1894 and the high of 1892, while
there has been no new extreme with
in II years. The annual output of
gold has considerably more than
doubled within that time. The vari-
alton in the worlds silver production
during the 10 year period has been
less than that of the United States,
the high extreme of 1898 exceeding
the low of 1891 by about &c per cent.
The worlds annual production of gold
has, on the other hand, been going
steadily forward, except for the inter
ruption by the Boer war, practically
trebling since 1891. The United
States has bought no silver in Is
years. The last purchases were I'M
der the act of 1890, by which in eX-
cess of 16S,OCO,OO0 ounces were ac-
CURED. During the 20 years follow.
ing 1873 the government purchased
almost 500,000,000 ounces, or at the
average rate Of about $4,000, 900
ounces per year.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06

BARRIERS supplies may soon be fur
nished to soldiers at cost price by the
government. Brig. Gen. Constant Will
liams, commanding the department of
the Colorado, in his annual report re-
commends that articles needed for
the proper care of the face shall be
added to the list that may be pur-
chased from the army storehouses.
Among the articles mentioned are lis
terine, talcum powder, witch hazel,
razSrs, shaving brushes and cups. He
thinks also that soldiers should have
the privilege of buying thread and
needles at cost.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
In one sense Harvard was defeated

In one sense Harvard was defeated
she won. 1t was triumph of COM
radeship among sportsmen and of in
Sernational comfy. The visit was
we'll worth the result in drawing more
closely together the sportsmen of
both nations and in intensifying the
popular friendship which the expert
much to develop. The crimson of
Harvard was indeed the red badge of
courage" but it also stood for the
first color in our national emblem,
and it represented the warm blood of
kinship.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Parted Forever.

In an interview Mrs. Jane Dowie,
wife of John Alexander Dowie, Elijah
H." said that she and her husband
are completely estranged and that I'M
der no circumstances will she ever go
back to him. She politely says he be-
longs to the "down-and-out club" Glad
stone, her son, sides with her.
Mrs. Dowie wakes very warm when
the name of her husband is mentioned.
She says he Is only a big humbug and
fraud and that at the very zenith Of
his power he would often laugh and re-
mark, How easy those people in my
congregation are"
Mrs. Dowie has brought suit in Mus
kegon to set aside two deeds" To
Dowie's former retreat at White Lake,
known as Ben MacDhui. She charges
that she executed the deeds as the re-
suit of undue influence.
Dowie recently declared publicly
that he had not known a moment
happiness with his wife for 90 years,
as she was constantly nagging him.
ifrs. Dowie charges that he even
threatened suicide if she refused to do
his bidding
Their trouble is said to have really
begun year ago last summer, when
they were living at Ben MacDhui.
Dowie suddenly left the retreat and
Mrs. Dowie says that few days later
her husbands agents came to her
with the demand that she deed over
the retreat to her husband She says
that they threatened Dowie would Sc
cure divorce, publicly scandalize her
and depose her from the church. I'm
der this pressure, she says, she signed
the deeds. although certain Dowie had
nc grounds for divorce.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Three Killed and Many Injured.

Passenger train No. 8. of the Wa
bash railroad, running from Kansas
City to Buffalo, N. Y, known as the
Buffalo mail, and due in Danville, ILL.,,
at Asp a. m, ran into an open switch
west of Catlin, ILL.,, early Wednesday,
and crashed into a section of freight
train. The passenger coaches. except
one, turned over and burned.
Three persons are known to have
been killed. Several others are miss
ing. Thirty-seven injured are being
taken care of at Danville hospitals.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Lived a Hundred Years.

Mrs. Catherine Persell, said to have
been over 100 years old, died in the
home of relatives, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Murphy, of Flint. She had been blind
for three years, but all her other
senses were acute. She emigrated from
Ireland when a girl. Her husband died
p years ago. They had no children.
She had lived in Genesee county for "A
years. She was noted for her aversion
TO having her picture taken, and all
through her life successfully resisted
the efforts of her friends to get a
photograph of her.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Migrate Goes to Prison.

Isaac Cicero who rewarded the char
ity of the Bay City Sisters of Mercy by
stealing two gold watches and a sum
of money, was sentenced to from six
months to 10 years in Jackson prison.
He was nursed back to health and
given job at the hospital when well,
stole the watches and money and de-
csmped. Fred Wellman, who carved"
Fled Morgan in a dozen places with a
huge knife, received a similar SEN
tence
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Body Cut in Two.

The mangled remains of an unknown
man, thought to be VIM. Conllin. of
Fenton, were found at daylight Satur-
day morning on the main line of the
Pere Marquette railway, a short dis
lance south of Kearsley street cross
ing, in Flint. 1t is believed that two or
three trains, other than the one that
killed him, passed over his body, which
was completely cut in two across the
chest. The upper part of the trunk was
found 25 feet from the lower A flask
of whisky, labeled Happy Dreams,
was found near the remains. Conklin
had run stand at the fair during the
week
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
The Last Cork Pine.

The woodsman's AK is about to level
the last tract of cork pine in this
part of the world. There are about
800 trees on the sixty acres, which
have been held for thirty-five years
by Louis Stieffier, farmer near Cass
City. He has just sold the timber To-
Gated on the Cass river. which was
famous in numbering days for the ex-
cellent timber which it foated down
to the mills of the Saginaw valley. The
trees are to be cut at once. Then this
species of pine will be extinct in Mich.
ipan
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
People Are Terrified.

The appearance of four heavily
armed men near Pentwater. popularity
believed to be the men who robbed the
Newaygo County bank in White Cloud,
is terrifying the people. J. J. Scovell,
carrier on rural route No. !, met two
Iuen carrying Winchester rifles and
two revolvefs each, nine miles east of
Pentwater. They babe him drive on
quickly, and say nothing about meet
ing them. c. n. Dredwer butcher. met
two other armed men in another direc-
ton, who hid in clump Of bushes
as he drove by
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Mysterious Disappearance.

John l.. Hannes left his home near
Portage Lake, three miles from Gray
ling. to drive to Roscommon, Is miles
distant, Tuesday, and has not been
seen since. His horse was found in
Roscommon, but it is believed he was
murdered and robbed and his slayers
escaped from the scene with Hannes'
rig. His route was through a barren
and unpopulated country.
Hannes was one of the best known
men of that section He was making q
success of poultry raising on the pine
barrens and through writing for east
ern publications had done much to
bring settlers here.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
He Denies L.

c. A. Boomer, Michigan Central op.
orator at the lonely telegraph station
east of the junction, whose reported
assault was declared to have been a
ruse to relieve himself of night work
and get another job through a play
on the sympathy of railroad officials,
says the stories to this effect are I'M
qualifiedly false. Boomer says he has
not been discharged that he resigned
at the solicitation of his wife and was
notified to report for duty last night.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
THE MARKETS.

Detroit-Extra dry-fed steers and
heifers, 81. 1906; steers and heifers.
1000 to loo, 81 25@4 so; steers ard
heifers, 500 to 1000, SO 5000 %; grass
steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to
1000, SO 50@4 rs; grass steers and heif-
crs that are fat, 500 to 700, $3M3 80;
choice choice fat cows, 50 5o@4; go9d fat
ners, 1@1 so; choice heavy bulls, 81 IS
@S %; fair to good bolQgnas, bulls,
w 5OM2 65; stock bulls, ~ 25M2 10;
"a; fair feeding steers, 500 to 1000, So
az 25; choice stoNlers, 500 to 700, 50 20
as 25; fair stockers, 500 to 700, 81 25
az rs; stock heifers, 81 25@2 70; milk
ers, large, young, medium age, $40 30;
common mixers, $1SW25.
Veal calves-Market steady, a few
choice at IS; best $7@7 rs; others, $4@
Sheep and lambs-Market, lambs ) "a
25c higher tnan the opening last Thurs
day; sneep steady. will close lower;
IS 50g7; light to common lambs, sea
q 80; fair to good butcher sheep. 81 so
Q5: culls and common, s2Q3.
Hogs-Market slow at loo. higher
Light to good butchers. So so; pigs,
Sc 30; light workers.. Sc 1000 so; roughs.
$5q5 20; stays, 1-3 off.
Chicago-Beeves. So 25G6 90; cows
and heifers, 81 6O@5 10; stockers and
feeders. 81 65G4 so; Texans 50 7O@
40; westerns, 50 5O@5 80; calves, Sc 25
Hogs-Market steady; mixed and
butchers, Sc 30@6 I2k: good heavy,
S. 4o@s 20; rough heavy, IS 95@e 20;
bulk of sales. Sc 30G6 IS.
Sheep-Market steady; sheep. SO so
So lambs, 81 90@7 60.
els: best shipping steers. 81 6Od5.1O: best
LOCO to 1100-lb. do. $15@4.65: best fat
cows. SS3o@36; fair to good g. 75aS;
medium heifers, ssaS5O; best yeariing
steers. $3.5OdS.15 30; best yearlings So. 25d3.50:
common STOCK heifers, $2.75d3; export
bulls. $S.75@4; bologna bulls. $2.5OaS; light
stock bulls, s2.5OdS. The COW market was
strong at last weeks prices: good 10 cM-
ira. $lOai5; mediums. s25@SS; common,
heavy, s6.s0M6:e5; mixed packers and
workers.. $6.9OG6.b: light workers.. IS. sou
6.S5; pigs $6.70@t6.75; market closed steady
Sheep: Market active; best lambs
S.75I7.9O; culls, $6@6.5O wethers. $3.50
6: culls, $S@i.5o; yearlings. s6a6.25; ewes,
calves: Receipts, 100; steady best,
$S.75@9; heavy, s3.5Oa45O
Grain. Etc.
Detroit-Wheat-Ca No. = rcd. 75c;
September. 1000 bu at 74kc. 5000 bu
745sc, 1000 bu at 424c, 1000 bu at 75c,
5000 bu at IS NC, 5000 bu at 75c; De-
cember. 5000 bu at 77kc, 5000 bu at
7Sc. $4,000 bu at 77%c; May 10000 bu
at II nc. $4,000 bu at Size. $4,000 bu at
81 sc, 10000 bu at 81 &c, 10000 bu at
81 NC; No. 3 red, 73c; No. white 75c
Corn-Cash No. 3. Acc; No. 3 yellow
soc.
Oats-Cash No. white, / car at &c
rejected. l car at "a &c, 1 car at 24ihc.
Rye-Cash No. 2. car at 64c
Beans-Cash. 81 20: October, Novcrn-
Der and December, 81 Sc nominal
Chicago-Cash. No. spring wheat.
7SmS3c: No. 3. 74@77hc; No. . red.
72a; @73Rc: No: corn. 47Ikc No. 2
yellow. 47hc: No. oats, 34h D3+Hc;
No. white, So 35Rc: No. white. 10 q
dSthc; No. rye, 81 Ne; good feeding
barley. $50 S9c: fair to choice mating
44@45 NC: No. ] flaxseed. 81 t5: No.
northwestern. 81 1919; clover, contract
grade, $1o ~.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Suicides Motive Unknown.

Mrs. Emma Lyle, aged 40, mas
seuse, laid a cloth saturated with
cbloroform over her face in her room
In Jackson Wednesday evening and
when suspicious were aroused when
she did not respond to call for sup
per, she was found dead in bed. She
had disrobed, carefully arranged heI
clothes and apparently had gone about
her suicide with deliberation.
She had been travelling through
southern Michigan for several months
past. She formerly lived at St
Charles and has grown children there
and at Saginaw, who have been mott
fled. She had been divorced from her
husband. The motive for the deed is
not positively known.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

Supt Sterling, of the Lansing
schools, has given the teachers author
ity to use simplified spelling.
Selden Allen, an aged and we'll
known Waverly farmer, was killed
Thursday by falling from load of
hay.
Carl Finck, aged 20, was buried alive
by cave-in at a gravel pit where he
was working alone, six miles south
of Quincy.
Beginning October 10. two more
rural delivery routes will be added to
the Shepherd service, together cover
ing "a miles.
The grand lodge meeting and Uni
form Rank, Knights of Pythias, field
day exercises will be held in Traverse
City October 2, and A.
George Kalmbach, of Jackson, was
fined Sc with 80 days in Jail and 20 ad-
ditional days if the fine is not paid,
for shooting one of the Loomis park
squirrels.
Mrs. Lurah ]. Stowell was granted
a divorce in Lansing from Aleron NJ.
Stowell. She says he threatened to
kill her if she would not commit sui.
eide with him.
Twenty conventions have been Sc
cured for Saginaw for 1907, the semi
centennial year. The last 10 select that
place is the Dairymen's convention,
which will me ct in February.
Louis Vessels, of Flint. while work
ing in a pipe works at Ballard, Wash,
was struck and fatally injured in the
head by a pipe from a machine. He
had been married only few days.
Because Patrick H. Kelley told
school children in Aurelius that the
state would give their district $40 for
CO ch pupil, some OF the boys and girls
think the money is to be spent for
toys.
Judge Martin Van Den Berg. the
famous marrying justice" OF Menom-
inee, advertises that he will give fine
cabinet photo of himself to each
couple who comes to him to lie mar
ried.
For the first time in the history of
Bay City a woman conducted regular
Sunday services. Miss Bessie Fox,
daughter of Aid. and Mrs. G. l.. Fox,
aged %, and very good looking, occu-
pied the pulpit in the First Congrega.
tional church.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. d. Watkins celebrat-
ed their golden wedding Saturday on
the farm in Norvell township, on which
Mr.. Watkins has resided since he
drove in an OK cart from New York
! state, ~ years ago. His is said 10 have
been the first log house in that section
Of the county
Miss Nellie Woodruff, aged IA,
daughter of ID. w. Woodruff of Bill
ings, was instantly killed, and w. I.
Trip and Willie Hamill and Miss
Maud Hamill were probably fatally
hurt, in a runaway. The Woodruff girl
was thrown out, her head striking a
stump, crushing her skull. The same
team ran away Monday.
While making an inspection of the
Oakland county jail, Turnkey Calbert
found a quantity of 22-caliber cart.
ridges in water tank. They were evil
IDENTIFY placed there by prisoner.
Eight or 10 cars of Lake Shore
freight were demolished in Dorr in an
accident caused by broken wheel.
An unLhown man was thrown over
the fence, but escaped uninjured.
While four men were at work on the
F. Armstrong farm, near Beaver, a
huge black bear suddenly appeared in
their midst as they were standing in a
clover field. A panic ensued, but
weapons were soon secured. IL re-
| quired ten shots to kill the animal
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Man and Gold Missing.

The stockholders of the Marinette-
Nevada Gold Mining CO., ali or wnom
reside in Menominee and Marinette,
Wis, are exceedingly anxious at pres
ent over the carload of gold ore
shipped from their mine near Gold
field, New, three weeks ago, The load
was worth $4,000 Herman A. Goethe,
Of Marinette, foreman at the mine, has
also been missing for three weeks. 1t
is feared that foul play is at the bot.
tom of the mystery.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Accused of Foruery.

Because they are alleged to have
perjured themselves in swearing that
they had resided on homestead lands in
North Dakota, William Welsh and Ell
mer Carr, of Coolies, and Claude
Weathersby, of Three Rivers, have
been arrested by federal officers and
will be taken to Minot. All three men
have been indicted by federal grand
jury in the west.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

William Mum, one of the captors of
Jefferson Davis, president of the con-
federacy, is.dead at his home In Plain
well, at the age of 60.
Running to hose wagons and each
drawing $500 pounds, the Flint fire de-
partment defeated the Pontiac hose
wagon team at The fair grounds. The
Flint tear. won by three lengths in
los. Each department has won three
races from the other during the last
six years.
Between 10000 and 10000 people
saw the Adrian fair. .Pickpockets were
busy in the dense crowd. Andrew On
weller was touched for S6e and $50
check; +. A. Ball, s., and a man
named Kendall. 5000 in notes. During
the races a section of the bleachers
collapsed. Paul Derbyshire and Mrs.
Anna Logan were badly bruised.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06

J. F. Solomon, aged "a years, has re-
turned to Jackson from Alaska after
two years spent in prospecting.
Benjamin Lake, Vermontville
township farmer, was robbed of s1,12O
by pickpockets as he was boarding a
Michigan Central train.
Vice-President Charles w. Fairbanks
delivered an address at the laying of
a corner stone of the Y. M. c. A.
building to be erected in Denver.
Gen. G.. II. Burton, Inspector general
of the army, retires at his own request.
after forty years service. He is to be
succeeded by Col. f. A. Darlington. in
spector general.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Loss Is $4,000.

For the second time in SO hours fire
visited the Detroit Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing Thursday morning and the en-
ployes who sleep there had to fly for
their lives once more. The whole top
floor was Quilted and the roof de-
stroyed. while the rest of the bu''d.
ing was flooded with water. and will
be uninhabitable for some months to
come. The loss is at least $4,000. The
other fire, Tuesday midnight, caused
a loss of $4,000.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06

Patrick Folen opened the door OF
the oven In the Genesee Iron foundry
and saw kitten sleeping. At the risk
of his life he rescued 1t.
September is the anniversary of the
less of 30 lives in the Osceola mine,
and of the death of % miners in the
Mansfield iron mine, near Crystal
Falls.
Conductor Frank Heath saved the
life of Emma Gilmore, aged six years,
of Battle Creek, Thursday afternoon.
Seeing her dress ablaze from bonfire:
he leaped from his car and extinguish-
ed the flames by hugging her under
his coat Both were severely burned.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06

Blood poisoning originating from a
silver he ran into his foot last week
caused the death of Eugene Goodrich,
a pioneer of Atlas township.
A number of Owosso and Corunna
business men are going to appeal 70
the Wholesale houses of Detroit for
help in inducing the Grand Trunk to
run another train into Detroit.
The inquest into the death of Chas.
Bates failed TO clear the mystery.
Iates returned to Ortonville from at
tending the state fair in Detroit and
two days later died from injuries
which he was supposed to have re-
csivee at the fair.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-06
Did 1t SO Politely.

Chesterfieldian crooks are operating
in Grand Rapids. Roy Devries was
standing against a lamppost when a
highwayman threw a strap around his
neck, held him fast and took $1.15. A
moment later he returned and apollo
gized. saying he was hungry, had just
struck town and needed the money.
Fred Guneman was held up by robbers,
who took $14 and left his watch. They
insisted on finding his hat, which they
knocked off