The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-19
Tag Ends Of News

George Hasty, the Gaffney, S. C.
boy, who shot and killed two members
OF the Nothing But Money" dramatic
company over year ago.. has been
lodged in the South Carolina states
prison to serve life sentence. Hasty
remains unrepentant for his crime, de-
claring that he shot the men in self
defense and would do the deed again
under the same circumstances.
Anti-railroad legislation has -four
ished in the legislatures of the west
ern states this year, total of nearly
500 bills providing for the restriction
and regulation of railways having been
presented in the assemblies of dozen
states of the middle west. Missouri
leads with III bills of this character,
with Wisconsin second with 1877 bills.
Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, who recent
ly secured divorce from Augustus
Hartje, the millionaire paper manu-
facturer of Pittsburg, has filed suit
for $4,000 against her former hus-
band. The amount demanded is 70
cover the expenses of detectives en-
ployed by Mrs. Hartje to secure evil
dence. Tn divorce suit was originally
filed by Hartje, who alleged that his
wife had been guilty of improprieties
with negro coachman.
Citizens of Sioux Falls, S. D., will
fight the enforcement of the law re-
Gently passed by the South Dakota
legislature requiring a residence of
one year in the state and three months
in the county before filing divorce
suit, with the further provision that
all hearings be held in open court. The
case and secrecy with which "migra-
tory divorces" have been secured in
Sioux Falls have made that city the
center OF the divorce industry of the
nation. The new law, if enforced, will
kill the industry. Bishop Hare of the
Episcopal diocese of South Dakota was
largely responsible for securing the
passage of the bill.
The indictment for perjury against
Frederick C. Fairbanks, son of Vice.
President Fairbanks, has been quash-
ed. The charge grew out of the mar
riage of Fairbanks to Miss Helen
Scott of Pittsburg, which took place
at Steubenville, O., on October 10 last
The couple eloped to Steubenville,
where it is alleged that young Fair1
banks. in applying for a marriage H.
cense, declared thta he was a work.
ingman and a resident of Adams coun-
ty, Ohio. Fairbanks is president Of a
railway switch manufacturing concern
at Springfield, Ohio. In quashing the
indictment, Judge Richards of Steub-
enville held that no facts were set
forth to show that a crime had been
committed.
The execution of Mrs. Aggie Myers,
under sentence of death at Liberty,
Mo-, for the murder of her husband,
has been delayed by second appeal
to the United States supreme court.
The appeal is from the decision of the
United States district court for west
Gu -AaSoOuil, UCuyluS d VIII VI udD.
cas- corpus. The hanging of Frank
Hoffman, convicted of completely in
the crime, will be postponed until the
supreme court has passed on the case
of Mrs. Myers.
The offer Of Pedro Alvarado, mill
ionaire mine operator of Mexico, 10
give $1o,000.OO0 for the purpose of rid
ding Mexico of Yaqui Indians has
been conditionally accepted by the
minister of war with the proviso that
none but Mexican army officers be
placed in command of the army Of
Indian fighters and that none but Mex
leans be enlisted in the warfare against
the pestilential Yaquis. This condition
Is said to be unsatisfactory to Alvara-
do, owing to the failnre Of the Mex
lean army officers In their previous
campaigns against the Indians.
We probably have not 3dea how
much Amusement we AFFORD others.