The Minneapolis journal., 1906-01-28
srecial Correspondence Of The Journal.

Provident Securities company failure,
except to determine that the actual cash
,sssets of the concern do not amount to
more than few hundred dollars. 1t is
claimed, however, that if satisfactory
arrangement can be made with the
Shenandoah Irrigation and Land COM
pany, of which Milford Steele, a SON
in-law of Bret Hart is vice president,
it is possible that the depositors will
get about Is per cent OF what they
put in. -. .r..r.
Treasurer Burlen has returned from
Montreal and has been in attendance
at the hearings before the police COM
missioners who have placed Captain
Gaskin and Lieutenant Smith on trial
for allowing Burlen to enter the bank
after the failure. District Attorney
Moran has been barred from these hear
ings, and will probably make more
trouble on account Of it. He has al
ready threatened to indict the police
commissioners. ..-..
G.. D. Gurley, who was generally sup
posed to have been the organizer and
general director Of the company, has
been heard from, and he asserts that
former Adjutant General Dalton, who
is now in a sanatorium, was the man
whose word was law in the concern.
There has never been greater mix-up
of the kind in Boston, or one in which
more serious charges were made against
so many prominent men. It is now al
legged that some Of the leading men in
the company had made an arrangement
with solicitors by which they received
So for every depositor they brought to
the company, and that they even fur
nished money for deposits SO that they
could get their rakeoff.
Some Boston men Of standing who
appear on the directors list, have now
come forward and declared that they
insisted that the names be taken off
after they attended the first directors
meeting and learned the character of
the concern. These men have known
for nearly year what was likely to
happen any day during that time, but
they kept silent. Meanwhile scores of
poor families are suffering because of
the loss of savings swept away in the
concern, and the demand that those re-
sponsible for the crash be punished is
more insistent than ever.
The Fitzgerald Lomasney feud has
been carried to the legislature, where
Lomansney is introducing bills aimed
at the Boston ele-
PostElection Row vated road and
other corporations
Taken to supposed to have
i furnished a large
the Legislature. part of the fund
used by MI. Fitz-
gerald in his campaign for mayor. It
is continuation of the war begun be-
fore the primaries, when Lomasney and
his candidate for mayor came out in
favor Of taxing corporations and put
ting them more directly under state
control. Meanwhile Mayor Fitzgerald
is booming his plan to have the new
city hall built on the Public Garden
and to build new street along the
Back Bay bank Of the Charles river
This is meeting with opposition from
prominent members Of the fashionable
colony, and the mayor comes back with
figures to show that many Of the OBJ
jectors are non-residents, or people who
simply have winter houses in Boston
and have residence outside.
Talking about winter, It gis like
almost any other time Of year in New
England at present. With the mer
curry up to 6s, the
Warm Weather men have shei
overcoats, tn {
Sets women donne6
peek-a-boo waists
Trees a~Budding. trees are begin
ming y to bud IL
some places and gypsy moths are max
ing their appearance in others. There
/ have been several days this week wher
reports have come in from all over New
England about people sitting out OF
their piazzas and swinging in ham
mocks, and New England's IS crop Of
weather prophets, while still sticking t.
It that there is hard spell of winter
ahead, are at times almost in despair
Charles L. Tucker, convicted Of ths
murder Of Mabel Page of Weston, has
been refused new trial, and unless
something turns up in his favor befor,
the supreme court in Washington, wher,
the case will be taken, he will probabl,
go to the electric chair in Charlestowl
within few months.
The Chase will case at Salem contin
ues to furnish sensations. One Of th
. witnesses this week was Ernest Mieus
49,. -. sett, proprietor O
More Sensations a famous Frenc]
restaurant in Bos
In the ton, who was init
Chase. The latte
Chase Will Case. DR.. and Mrs
used to come to Boston and dine at tn
restaurant about twice a week, and tn
proprietor and his wife often had din
ner with them. NJ. Mieussett testife,
that while at dinner about two week
before Mrs. Chase was found dead il
the Kitchen Of her home in Swamp
scott, she said:
II will do something that will as
tonish everybody. T will commit sui
eide and will dress in my best clothe
and look pretty. I will take. gas. an,
then I will forget. #
When found, Mrs Chase was dresse,
in her best clothes, the gas was turne,
ON and her pets were found dead be
side her, just as the restaurant -keepe
declares she had planned. The investi
CATION to determine whether she di,
commit suicide is still in progress, an,
since it has been learned that ther
was arsenic in the stomach, the cas-
6 has excited great deal more atten
Z ton.