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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23

sition, but II he Is sometimes disposed
to take gloomy view of the nations
future and indulge in little croak-
ing to himself he thinks he ought to
be excused under the circumstances.
Mr.. Seward has been in consultation
with Kansas City physicians regard
ing the advisability of having an oper-
alton performed for the removal of
the unwelcome tenant that is becom-
ing more and more dictatorial with
the arrogance of long residence. 1t
gives him a great deal of pain, he
says, and if surgery can dislodge it
he is willing to try it.
Some years ago Mr.. Seward adver-
tised for wife in order that he might
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23

ell and she enlisted the aid OF Esther,
the sister, to help her. And as fate
had decided. It was Esther who took
the vengeance
Fred Mitchell and Perry Mitchell,
the girls brothers, came from Oregon
to help their brother. Their father
journeyed all the way from his farm
in Illinois to be near his boy. He
begged the girl to go back home with
him.
Il will not" she declared. II am of
age and ! am going to stay here to
await Joshua's coming again. | shall
live with Mrs. Crehield."
George Mitchell was hailed az a
hero when he was formally discharged
from custody. lie was offered posi-
ton in Portland, and there he made
up his mind to go. The three brothers
and Esther were gathered at the sta
ton here In Seattle.
~ want to make up with George"
said the girl to her brother Perry He
called his brother The girl shook
hands with the man who had protect
cd her and said: II came down to see
you off"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23

After the shooting Esther Mitchell
was perfectly calm. She said that the
killing had been entirely right. She
contended that as long as the law
would not punish her brother for
killing "a holy man" she had per
feet right to do so.
Some one had to do it. she said
with Il smile, and l was the best per.
SON"
Outside the county jail crowd was
clamoring for her life. There were
even cries of Lynch her, lynch her!"
But this friendless girl sat cool and
collected and made this statement,
though she was notified that 1t might
be used against her.
Il am not insane. Before | killed
my brother Mrs Crefneld and | talked
II over. We knew the law would pun
ish us. and after my arrest told the
chief of police everything. Mr.. Cref,
field was holy man. My brother was
of the world and was dehled 1t was
only right that George Mitchell should
be punished for what he did. The law
set him free, know my brother es-
capped punishment by saying he was
insane. But | Will not do such thing.
will tell them | am sane He told
them he was insane and got free. but
he didn't enjoy his liberty long, did
he?"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23

Seattle.--Is there another girl on
earth as friendless as Esther Mitchell
10 years old
Not a soul will say a kind word for
her. No lawyer will take her case
Not newspaper will publish a line
In her defense. Not woman will
come forward to cheer her Up one
particle.
And" say the men of two states,
Washington and Oregon, 1T serves
her right"
Esther Mitchell killed her brother.
He had Just been acquitted on a
charge Of murder himself; he dared
take tho life OF Joshua Creiield,
head OF the sect Of Holy Rollers, This
religious pervert, this fanatic, this
arch conspirator against family and
home had a peculiar fascination over
women. He took wives away from hus-
bands, mothers away from babies,
sweethearts away from lovers, daugh.
ters away from fathers, sisters away
from brothers.
Crcf1eld took Esther Mitchell away
from her father and her brothers. lie
told her that she was to be the mother
OF tho second Christ. And she be.
lieved She left her home; she sat at
the right hand of CrelIioId at the Wild
gojngB-on Of the Holy Rollers, She
forgot everything.
The brother begged her to come
home She refused. lie knew the
fate Of other girls like herself who had
Joined the Holy Rollers, so he saved
her from that fate He killed CrefIield,
the man who said hc was immortal.
And Esther Mitchell killed her bro
Their IN the very gclfGamo way be.
cause he killed the man whom she
took TO be tho pcrsoniiicatiOn Of God
upon earth, says correspondent OF
the New York World In cold truth,
on the other hand, Satan could have
learned much from Creheld, And,
for this very reason, the girl who
killed her brother because he killed
the man she believed to be divine has
not u friend on earth
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23

be sure of getting his meals regularly
and thus appeasing the clamorous
batrachian which crawled around and
made him a victim of violent nausea
if he did not eat regularly. He mar
ried a woman who answered the ad-
vertisement, but she eloped with
travelling man and he never tried to
get her back.
He has since married again and is
living happily-as happily as a man
with living frog in his interior could
be expected to live.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23

Not for any amount" said one Of
the representative lawyers OF Seattle,
when asked If he would defend the
girl.
His brethren of the bar are like
wise unanimous in their resolve not
to take the defense. 1t will come
down to something like the case Of
the man who assassinated President
Mckinley. Some prominent lawyer
will be named by the court, and he
will have to undertake a perfunctory
| defense.
Crefiield's widow Is in the county
jail. She frankly admits that she
induced Esther Mitchell to kill her
brother.
The two had 1t all planned between
them. Mrs. Creffield wished Esther
success when they parted, the girl
to go to the railway station to kill
her brother, the woman to go to the
cemetery to pray over her husbands
grave. She called upon his spirit to
make the girls aim certain,
The Holy Rollers.
This sect Of the Holy Rollers has
set these two states Of the North Pa
cific coast by the ears. Creffield
founded 1t in September, 1903 He
taught some of Ruskin's theories
about plain living and high thinking,
and many women became his fol
lowers. But all this highsounding
talk was only a mask for what was
to come. Soon Creflield was revealed
In his true colors.
Il am CrefIield no longer" he an
nounced, "but the apostle Joshua re-
incarnated. | am Christs equal; /
am another Christ"
When he had things as he wanted
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23
Shot Down by Sister.

She had a coat on her arm and
asked Perry to hold It for her. 1t
concealed revolver. She raised It,,
fred and George Mitchell fell over
dead, The sister calmly took her seat
on bench and waited for the police
TO come and arrest her
81 tried to shoot him In the same
place that he shot Mr. Crefheld," she
said quite calmly 81 knew that #
be could kill Joshua could kill
George by hitting him in the same
spot"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23
Has Not a Friend In Seattle.

Hang her!" is the terse verdict of
the men and women of Seattle. She
has not a friend in all the town. Not
even the hysterical women who en-.
Joy visiting wite-murderer or a man
who has killed his mother will 20
near the girl
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-08-23
Once n SalvatIonlst.

Once upon time Franz Edmund
Three years ago he dropped that and
started n sect of his own. He gath
cred about him little company of
followers on kigcr island, In tho Col.
umbia river, Oregon. Most of them
came from the town of Corvallis and
tho little hamlets In the neighbor-
hood. Esther Mitchell was then a
slip OF girl, just is. She became
ono Of his first converts, Hor sister,
Mrs. Burgess starr also forsook her
husband for tho man Crenield. Maud
Hurt was bis third convert, or rather
victim, Che married him.
II am to be the father OF the sec
Cnd Christi" he proclaimed, and they
beloved him.
More and more the women iocked
10 Crefllcld. Then the law took hand
and he was sent to the penltontiary
for n second term. Most of his victims
went insane after that and, one by
ono, were sent to asylums and re-.
treats. A few recovered. NOTHING
dauntod, after serving his term Cref.
neld started In again, Once more Mrs.
Starr and Esther Mitchell, now a
BEAUTIFUL girl OF is, came ct his bid.
cling, lney ran away from their
homes 70 do IT, --s.sA.a '&lS' ga'a'p,
., ,Apd Georg6 Mitchell, farmer boy
OF 20, made up his mind that he would
save Thorn II he could, Other men
who had suffered In tho same way
went with him to find Crefleld They
we're armed, and they meant to kill
George Mitchell was the first TO
run down the man. He heard that
this self.styled Joshua" was In Seat
tlo He came here: he found him In
The heart of the town.
There was just ono shot. Creflleld
fell dead with bullet through the
middle OF his brain. The whole state
was aflame with Joy at the deed, Cit
liens who had suffered at Creilields
hands hailed young Mitchell as their
dellverer Corvallis raised n hand
some fund to defend the young man.
Honorably Acquitted.
The boy was put on trial. His tech
meal defense was emotional insanity
But his attorneys did not attempt &c
disguise the fact that this plea was
simply legal loophold To the /.
Jurors was told tho whole sad story o.
tho Holy Rollers. They needed NJ
moro. George Mitchell was honorsblS
acquitted. 1t could not have been 9th
erwise.
Esther Mitchell demanded to be- ,
witness against her brother She wa.
heard.
He has killed holy man and III
ought to be hanged" she said. Will
perfect composure. Il want to see my
brother live long enough to make hi,
peace with God, then he should die.
All this time her closest companion
was Mrs. Maud Hurt Crehield. widow
OF the dead Holy Roller. She wa,
near the prophet" when he was sho
by young Mitchell She screamed one,
and then grew calm, as she leane,
over the man, already gasping for hi
last breath.
He cannot die!" she cried. Il know
II! I know 1t! He is the apostle Josh
ia come to earth agar. He is tn
second Christi"
But he did die, Just the same, an
almost instantly. Then and there tn
widow made her resolve to kill Mitch
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
: sTAND1Nc on Tuu cTJIRc
Trust Pleads Guilty.

jamestown, N Y, July 20.-The Sew
er Pipe Trade association, familiarly
known as the sewer pipe trust, prac-
ticaily entered plea Of guilty to the
charges of secret contract to limit the
production and control the territory
and prices of sewer pipe before the fed
eral grand jury In this city. Harry A.
Hall of Pittsburg, attorney for the as
ISOLATION, said that rather than submit
to the proposed. Investigation by the
grand jury he would enter into an
agreement whereby the association
would be dissolved and go out of bust
ness,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
WITH THE SPEED OF THE WIND

Could we even for a single day ex-
perence the stage coach ways and no.
tions Of travel of our great grandfathers
we would perhaps more fully appreciate
the blessings of the modern railway No
better examples of the wonderful devel-
opment of modern transportation facili-
ties exists than the six-hour service
maintained between Buffalo and Pitts
burg by the Lake Shore Railway in its
Pittsburg Limited, running every day in
the year. This fast train is but an ex-
ample of the perfect service this road
provides between these two cities. Here
absolute personal comfort with every
convenience at hand is combined with
perfect safety and highest speed. When
travelling between Buffalo and Pittsburg,
see that your ticket reads via the Lake
Shore For full information concerning
rates. routes and service, address j. w.
DAILY, Chef Asst Gen'l. Pass 'gr Agt..
Buffalo, N. X; Al J Smith, Genl.
Pass gr Agtv. Cleveland, o., ar w. j.
Lynch, Pass'gr Traffic Mgr. Chicago.
ID.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
LITTLE DAMAGE IN socoRRo
Towns Mayor Denies Report That 1t
Has Been Wrecked by Quakes,

fIdS lSCH VNTGSkSQ Dy GHakGSs
Santa Fe. N, NJ, July 20.-Mayor
Bursum of Socorro issued the follow
ing statement in regard to the report
ed wrecking of the town by earth
quakes.
''The reports regarding the earth
quake at Socorro have been exaggerat-
ed, the damage to date being limited
to the falling and toppling over of loose
chimneys and shaking of some of the
walls of buildings not of substantial
character The courthouse is not injur-
ed except by the falling of plaster from
the ceiling and the toppling over of old
chimneys. The Winkler hotel, which
is an old adobe building, has not been
injured in the least The actual dam
age all round is very slight, although
there is some uneasiness on account of
the frequency of the shocks, which are,
however, becoming lighter each time,
indicating that the disturbance is sub
siding.
People who have left Socorro on ac-
count of the earthquake have done so
principally on account of their children
or female relatives. There has been
no cloudburst or food, as reported in
dispatches, and not the slightest injury
to any person"
Mayor Bursum also denied reports
that the Santa Fe railroad tracks are
blockaded by falling powders. All
trains through Socorro arrived on time.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
Weather Forecast.
Showers; southwest winds.
General Markets.

New York, July 49,
FLOUR-Steady, but quiet; Minnesota
patents, $4.S0a460; winter straights, S375a
S.95; winter extras, $29Oa3. 40; winter pat
ents, $4a425.
E WHEAT-Further strong advances took
place in wheat this morning based on rust
news, bullish Russian reports, small
northwest receipts and covering: late In
the session there was a slight setback un-
der realizing; September, S4haS5 3-16c. !;
December, s7,sas7ssc.
CORN-Steady; July, 561sa57c.
OATS-Dull and 15c. lower; No. 2 white.
natural, and No. white, clipped, 431sa44c.
BUTTER-Creamery, extras, per pound,
201aa21e.; firsts, 19a20c.; seconds, 1sa1S1kc, |:
eastern, dairy, choice, 2ec; renovated,
extras. 1sa1s1sc.; frsts, 17a171so; factory,
firsts, 17c.; packing stock. No. /, 16c.
CHEESE-State, full cream, large and
small, 11Ac.; fair to good, large, 10Ma11c. !;
small. 101Aa10szc.; half Skins, best, S1sa
Sasc.; part skins, prime 7Aa7asc.
EGGS-Fresh gathered, ex a, per doz-
en-, 22c.; nearby. fresh gathered, firsts to
extra firsts, 18a19c.
POTATOES-Steady; southern, prime,
per barrel. s1.50a1.7S southern, fair to
good, per barrel, s1a1 %; do. culls, per
BARREL 5oa75c.; Jersey. prime, per basket,
40aa5c.: Jersey, culls, per basket 2Oa25c
LIVE POULTRY = Firm; fowls 1415a
B1sc.: old roosters, 10a101ac.; spring chick
ems, 20a22c.; ducks. old, 10a11c.; do. spripg,
Halle; geese, 9a10c.
DRESSED POULTRY = Firm; fowls,
choice. 141zc.; do. fair to good, 14c; old
roosters, S1ao.; broilers, nearby, AaQ5c
do, western. 19a2Sc.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
Thaw Will Face jury.

New York, July 20-Harry X. Thaw
is to have his own way, it appears.
Former Judge w. M. x. Olcott turned
over all the papers in the case to A. R.
Peabody, G. w. Hartridge's partner.
Resolved to let Thaw pursue his own
course and take the result, former
Judge w. M. K Olcott and Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw, after conference held
in Roslyn, N. Y. decided to make no
further attempts to induce the prisoner
to accept a plea of insanity Judge OIL
colt had no objection to delivering the
mass of typewriter data, etc., to Hart
ridge, who has been chosen by Thaw
as his personal counsel Thaw's alb
sorbing idea to go before a jury is thus
decided upon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
HARTJE MADE DEFENDANT.
Witnesses Testify Against Plaintiff In
Divorce Suit.

Divorce Suit.
Pittsburg, July 20.-Sensations again
were abundant in the Hartje divorce
suit, among them John L. Welshons,
Augustus Hartje's chum, being aues-
toned minutely with view to making
him admit that he, Hartje and Clifford
Hooe, the millionaires black coachman,
had conspired to make it appear that
Mary Scott Hartje, the defendant, was
guilty of misconduct with the negro.
Welshons repudiated that intimation,
although he admitted he had given
money to Hooe. He asserted the gifts
We're made without Hartje's knowledge
and he remarked that they looked like
blackmail.'
Another sensation was an attempt to
show that HartJe was guilty of the
same loose conduct of which he accused
his wife. Hartje's attorneys fought
hand, foot and eyelash to keep that line
of evidence out of the case, but Judge
Frazer, finding Mrs. Hartje in her an
swer to the divorce complaint accused
her husband of infidelity, admitted the
testimony. Chrome Bechtold chamber
maid in a low resort, testified point
blank that Hartje regularly visited that
place with red haired woman.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
JERSEY CITY.

Two-base hits-Joyce. Grant. Sacri-
fee hits-Bannon, Weidensaul Stolen
bases Wagner, Clement, Weidensaul.
Bases on balls OFF Moskiman, 2.
Struck out--By Whalen, 8; by Moski-
man, 3. Balk-Moskiman Left on
bases-Jersey City, 3; Montreal, 8. UNI
pires-Messrs. Mccain and Raub. Time
of game-1 hour and 40 minutes.
The Sailors won yesterdays game in
Buffalo. by the close score of to g.
Vowinkle, the leaders star twiier. was
knocked out of the box in the third in
ming, when the Sailors added FIVE tallies
TO the one they had made in the second.
That's as far as thy got, but it won them
the game. The quintette of runs made
in the third was on three passes, Cor
coran's wild throw to first, triple and
homer by Gatins. The Bsons made
a good finish and would have won the
game but for tightening double play
by Gatins and Brown
The score by innings:-
Buffalo ......... O 0 90 / 90 2 2-5
Newark ....... 1 5 O o o O O O-6
Batteries -Vowinlole. Tozer and Nc.
Allister; Pardee and McCauley.
The Orioles took both ends of yester-
lday's double header with the Torontos.
Mcneil, for Baltimore shut the Cana
dams out in the first contest, and Del
! Mason allowed them but five hits in the
second.
The scores by innings:-
FIRST GAME.
Baltimore ...... 1 O O o / O0s1 II
Toronto .-...... O O 0 o O O O o 90
Batter;es-McNeill and Byers; Nc
Ginlev and Woods
SECOND GAME.
| Baltimore ...., o o o o. 2 o O 0-5
Toronto ........ O / O / O o O %
Batteries - Mason and Byers; Dren-
nan and Woods
The Bronehos won yesterdays game
in Toronto by. score of 2 to l. Wal
ters, for Rochester. kept the hits of the
! Grays well scattered and received gilt
| edged support. Manager Dunn was put
out of the game in the first inning for
assaulting Umpire Moran. Moran struck
back, then both clinched They were
separated by the players. Pitcher Nc
Closkey was also ordered from the
grounds
The score by innings
Rochester 100000 O x2
Providence go. O o 90 o o o o II
Batteries 7Waltm, Mclean and Steel
man; Hardy and Barton
/
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
Secretary Root In Brazil,

Washington, July 20. Official dis
patches received by the charge of the
Brazilian embassy state that Secretary
Root was enthusiastically received at
Para, Brazil, by the authorities and
by the people. The cruiser Charleston,
in which Secretary Root is travelling,
after calling at Pernambuco and Bahia,
will arrive at Rio de Janeiro on the
morning of the 26th inst.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
Royals Took Three Out Of
Four of the Series Jersey
men Unable to Hit Pitcher
Whalen
SAILORS WON FROM BIsoNs
ORIOLES TOOK BOTH GAMES OF
A DOUBLE HEADER WITH THE
ToRoNTos AND THE BRON-
GHos LICKED THE CHAMPIONS

The Royals shut out the SlSeeters yes
terday, making it three straight out of
four games played. Whalen puzzled the
Jerseymen. Only one of them got as far
as third base, and he was caught over
running it. Moskiman put up good game
from the box for Jersey iCty, but issued
a couple of passes which were converted
into runs. The Montrealers did some
daring base running, and gave Whalen
splendid support in the field. They got
their three runs in the first three rounds.
Huelsman's flying catch of Keister's long
fly in the seventh, and Grants stop of a
sizzler, were features of the game.
The score
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
Juneau Now Alaska's CAPITAL,

Washington, July 20.-Alaska's capt.
tai is hereafter to be Juneau instead
of Sitka. Congress passed law sew
eral years ago giving permission for
the removal to Juneau, but no appro-
priation was made for the purpose.
One of the appropriation bills passed
at the last session of congress carried
an item of $1,000 to enable the govern
or of Alaska to move the government
effects from Sitka to juneau. The act
ing attorney general has decided that
this law really changes the capital to
Juneau.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
socorro Refugees at Ell Paso.

El Paso, Tex, July 2o.-A Santa Fe
train arriving four hours late, having
been delayed by powders thrown on
the track by the earthquake near Socor-
ro, brought number of refugees from
that region. Passengers report that
earthquake shocks continue near Socor-
ro and that many chimneys have been
shaken down and walls of houses in
Socorro cracked. But few inhabitants
are left in Socorro now, they say.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
MUTUAL LIFE ACCUSED.
Violates New Insurance Law, Says
Policy. Holders Committee.

Violates New Insurance Law, Says
Policy. Holders Committee.
New York, July 20.-Facts believed
to be sufficient to start the threatened
criminal prosecution of the Mutual Life
officials on the charge of willfully vio-
lating. the new insurance statutes re-
lating 10 the election of new board of
trustees came into the possession of
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the In
ternational Policy Holders committee.
The section which the company Off
cials are alleged to have violated is
that requiring them to file correct list
of all the policy holders of the company
with the superintendent of insurance.
From an authentic source 1t was
learned that the Mutual had two lists
in its possession. One of these con-
tanned the names and addresses of the
policy holders as they were at the
time the policies were issued The
es as they are now. The company is
said to have filed the first list with the
state%department for use by the policy
holders committee and kept the up to
date list for it's own campaign.
1t will thus be possible for the ad-
ministration candidates to communi-
cate with every policy holder prompt
ly, while the international committee
will be absolutely without means of
reaching more than minority of the
electors.
The addresses of many of those filed
at Albany are twenty years old, the
vast majority do not contain even the
street address at that time, and many
have not even the name of the city or
town. Since the list was compiled
thousands of the policies have been as
signed to other persons. The lists were
copied from the records In the home Of
fee, which have never been revised
since the risks were first taken.
In each of the branch offices, how
ever, the company kept an accurate
record. In each district correct di-
rectory of all the policy holders in his
territory was kept at the general
agents Office.
To overcome the difficulty the policy
holders committee has had to scour
the country for experienced postal en-
ployees who are familiar with the
names of people in various sections.