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Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
ASTOUNDING
REPORTS MADE
THE CAR SHORTAGE WHICH HAS
CAUSED MUCH SUFFERING,
A MYTH.
STARTLING RECORD.
Vast Number of Industrial Workers
Who Met Death by Accident Has Be-
come Appalling.
Plenty of Cars.

Startling revelations regarding the
car shortage were made public todEy
by the department of commerce ID
labor. It's Investigations show that 70
much-vaunted car shortage is no short.
age of cars at all. It's carefully gath
cred statistics show that smaller
quantity of the great staples OF this
country was moved during November
of this year than during the same
month in 1905.
With the great elevators at Duluth
and Minneapolis and other shipping
points yawning for wheat, the deliver
les at Is interior, markets fell below
the deliveries of N-veHber, 1905, by
the great figure of 17,500,000 bushels.
With the children of the great north
west shivering and crying for coal, the
shipments of anthracite from the east
ern producing regions fell below the
figure of November. 1905. by nearly
100000 tons.
The showing Is absolutely convinc-
ing regarding the car supply. 1t an
swers the question of the interstate
commerce commission, which, even at
the end of last week was willing to
admit that there was probably an ac-
tual shortage of cars. But in clearing
up this mooted point, the revelations
create even deeper queries.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Murder Was Brutal.

Delbert Conklin, aged 80, a Lansing
stonemason, was shot and killed We'd
nesday night, when he was called to
the rear door Of his house. His broth
er, Melvin, aged 81, is held on charge
of murder. Delbert was eisenhower
ed by a charge from a shotgun.
The brothers had quarreled. Mel
vim had objected to his elder brothers
marriage and was jealous because his
father had assisted the brother in
building his house. The alleged muir
derer and their father lived in small
house nearby. Yesterday when the
father went to Kalamazoo, where a
daughter is not expected to live, the
brothers again quarreled.
The first shot took effect in Del
bert's arm, causing only a slight
wound, but the assailant followed his
victim into the house, where the lat
ter received the full charge in his alb
domen.
The victims wife ran from the
house and the assailant fired at her
as she was crossing the street, but
dis aim was wide. In her night cloth
ing she ran to friends house, where
the police were notified. They found
the alleged murderer lying undressed
on bed In his own house. He feigned
Inconsistencies and will not yet talk
of the affair.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
BAD SIGN.
An Irate Brother Obtains signatures
and Beats Man Badly.

Miss May Kavanaugh, head waitress
Of the recently burned Fraser hotel, in
Bay City, who rescued guest in the
halls when he was nearly overcome by
smoke and pulled him from the burn
ing building by the hair Of his head,
and ex-Mayor Alexander McEwan have
sworn to a warrant against William p.
Kavanaugh, the woman's brother, head
of the Kavanaugh Fish Co., charging
assault with intent to do great bodily
harm less than the crime Of murder.
Kavanaugh is said to have found his
sister in a room in a saloon with Nc
Evan and at the point of revolver
to have compelled the former mayor
to sign an agreement bearing upon his
future relations with Miss Kavanaugh
and to have forced her to affix her sig
nature to an agreement that she would
leave Bay City. Then, 1t is alleged,
Kavanaugh put up his revolver and
pounded McEwan with his fists.
McEwan's face was badly discolored
when he appeared in police court,
where Kavanaugh gave $500 bonds for
appearance
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Girl Wife Murdered

Edward F. Brassam, aged %, who
shot and killed his girl wife in Jack
son, has been sought by every police
and sheriff's officer in Jackson county
since Saturday evening without sue
cess. Many believe he has completed
his bloody work by shooting himself
and that his body lies in some lonely
spot.
Mrs. Brassam had been working on
dolls for Christmas presents for their
three little children all Saturday and
when her husband came home in the
evening she was in che home of her
brother, John Breanlzer. They had
previously quarreled because the wife
did not wish to accompany her hus-
band to Saginaw. She was holding
their babe In her arms and sewing on
the doll dresses when he appeared and
fired the fatal shots. Mrs. Brassam was
hurried to the hospital, where she died
at 3:15 Sunday morning. Relatives
cared for the three little children, the
oldest of which is years. Brassam
was drinking man and poor provid-
er. Their home had scarcely the or
binary comforts and their children
were lily clad.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
SLAUGHTER of Workmen.

Important steps are soon to be taken
in New York and elsewhere to estab-
lish a system of compulsory and ac-
curate records Of the enormous num-
Der Of persons who are annually killed
and injured in Americas vast army of
industrial workers. In New York city
alone the meager records Obtainable
are startling. DR.. Josiah Strong, presi-
dent of the American Institute of So
cial Service, in speaking Of the mum.
bel" of persons killed each year in our
industrial occupations, made some as
tonishing comparisons. He said:
1--WE in the United States kill in four
years some $4,000 persons. more than
fell in battle and died of wounds b.
ing the four years Of the civil war.
We are killing more than twice as
many every year as persisted by VOL
ence in both the French and English
armies during the three years of the
Crimean war.
There are more killed and wounded
on our railroads every year than the
entire losses of the Boer war on both
sides in three years. We have indus
trial casualties enough every year to
keep one conflict like our war with
Spain going for 1900 years, or IL such
wars going for 100 years Our peaceful
vocations cost more lives than were
lost in battle, during the entire Span
ish war.
From the best statistics obtainable
| may say there are $4,000 persons in
the United States under sentence of
death to be executed at an unknown
moment during the next ten years.
LOO next week and the same nura1H
every week until the CHASTITY work is
complete.
AN intelligent and earnest effort
would procure the reprieve of a null
titude of these innocent victims"
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Second Class Matter Rates.

Statistics compiled by representa-
tives Of the United Typothetae of AM
erica and the American Weekly Pub
fishers association, which are vigor-
ously fighting the movement to in
crease the rates charged for second
class mail matter. show that the gov
eminent is paying the railways three
times as much on the average for the
transportation of mail matter as ex-
press companies pay for like services.
On the basis of the postmaster gener-
ais estimate the publishers assert that
the government during the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1907. will pay the
roads almost $4,000 900 more than the
express companies would pay them
for hauling an equal tonnage.
."One of the chief needs of the gov
eminent Is an expert traffic manager"
said a Chicago publisher. ut then
would get as good rates as the express
companies"
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
CHASTITY Facts about Lynchine.

No one can look at one of the pho
tographs of a lynching without a
sense of abysmal horror. 1t is not the
horror alone or chiefly Of the thing
itself, the ugly, inanimate center of
che tragedy. it is the faces II the
spectators that shock our very souls.
They are always laughing faces. Good
nature, even jollity, seems to be the
note of these gatherings. Always we
see the faces of little boys grinning
cheerfully toward the camera. There
are women sometimes in the crowd,
and sometimes little girls. There is
no sign in these pictures of horror Of
death, even of grim satisfaction over
a difficult and obnoxious task per-
formed by necessity. The man who
called it "lynching bee" appreciated
the true feelings of the lynchers
Leave out the grim wreck in the cen
ter, and the picture might be taken
for an ordinary cheerful gathering at
a country fair. Leave it in, says a
writer in American Magazine, and,
oh, my brothers! it is not the dead,
but the living that terrifies.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
MICHIGAN
EVENTS NOTED
THE FRASER HOUSE, BAY ClTYS
LARGEST HOTEL, WENT
UP IN FLAMES.
SHOT ON WAY TO ALTAR.
Recent Happenings In and About the
State of More Than Ordinary inter-
terest Briefly Told.
An Old Hostelry Gone.

James O'Neil, the hotel fireman, was
fatally burned, and dozens OF people
had thrilling and spectacular escapes
from death in a fire early Monday
morning which destroyed the Fraser
house, Bay City's leading hotel, with
property loss of $4,000. O'Neil was
found lying face down on the floor OF
the furnace room where the fire orig
mated and when dragged out one ear
was burned off and he had inhaled
smoke and fire. He was hurried to
Mercy hospital, where he died soon
after.
The Fraser was one of the oldest
brick buildings in Bay City,. having
been built in 1867 It's construction was
poor and dangerous in case OF fire and
had the fire occurred on any other
night in the week when the guest list
Is always larger, many lives might
have been lost. 1t was two hours after
the fire started before it cot below the
two upper stories. When they fell all
hope of saving any part of the building
was given up.
The losses are as follows: Fraser
Hou~e Co., Ltd, building and con-
tents, $4,000, insurance, $4S,50 High
Art Clothing Co., $4,000, insurance,
$4,000; Floyd A. Goodwin, landlord,
$4,000, insurance, $4,000; c. A. Mitts,
cigar stand and stock. $500; Abare
& McGuinness, $1,000, partly insured;
E. w. Fitzgerald, st. Louis, Mo-,
sample display, $1,000; c. A. Bigelow,
personal effects. 5000
n. Solomon, Of New York. expected
his loss would reach $4,000, two
trunks filled with jewelry being in the
burning structure, but yesterday after
noon between $4,000 and $4,000
worth of jewelry was found in the
ruins.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
THE MARKETS.

Detroit-Extra dry-fed steers and
heifers, 81 50@5: steers and heifers.
900 to 1900, $4@4 so; steers and heif-
ers, 500 to 1000 SO 1904 so; grass
steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to
700 5000 rs: choice fat cows, 81 5OM3;
good fat cows, so 50@3; common cows.
s2@2 IS; canners 81 al so; choice
boloEnas, bulls, 50 2502 So stock bulls,
$262 25 choice feeding steers, 500 to
900, SO 5000; fair feeding steers, 500
to 1000, $3m3 so: choice Stockers. 500
to 700, SO 503 25; fair stockers. 500 to
700, SO 25@2 rs; stock heifers S2D2 so;
mixers, large, young, medium age, $50
Veal calves-Market active and 25 an
35c higher; best, s7@7 10; others. s4@6;
mich cows and springers steady.
Sheep and lambs--Market active and
25c higher than the opening last week:
best lambs, 81 2567 40 fair to good
lambs, SO 50@6 49,. light to. common
sheep 81 1906 %; culls and common,
SO 5000.
Hogs-weal< market &c higher than
last week. Range OF prices: Light to
good butchers. Sc 3O@6 80: pigs. Sc 80;
light workers., sc 30; roughs, $5@5 20;
stays, 1-3 off,
Chicago-Market strong: beeves. $40
6 S5: cows and beifers. 81 25mA 10;
stockers and feeders, so 5000 co. Tex
ans, SO 75@4 so; westerns, SO 90@5 40;
HogsCMarket s@1oc lower: mixed
and butchers. s666 37h; good heavy.
light, S. 5000 sSIt pigs, Sc 50Gs 20;
bulk of sales. sc 15@6 80.
Sheep-Market strong; sheep, SO $50
8 so; lambs 81 zoos.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
RACE RIOTS.
kemper County, Miss, Outlaws and
Their Brutal Work.

The race riots in Kemper county,
Miss, have subsidized. District Attorney
Currie has made a public statement
in which he says:
II find that the trouble was caused
by lot of outlaws who openly violat-
ed all laws of God, man and decency.
The four men killed Christmas day
were not connected with the affair in
any manner, and / am informed that
the houses burned were occupied by
negroes who were not even in sym
pathy with any of those who were con-
nected with the outrages. These men
will be captured If it Is in the power
Of the state of Mississippi to do So"
Evidence has been produced, it is
said, that will establish the identity
OF five white men of good families OF
the county who took part in the at
tacks on the negroes.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Why Did He Kill Her?

Miss Ida Helm, of Baraga, was shot
down by Alex. Konola, a demented
Finn on the street while waiting with
her fiance, Herman Johnson, for car
to take them to Hancock, where they
were to be married. Three shots were
fired, one taking effect in the young
womans abdomen, which may prove
fatal. Konola Immediately after turned
the gun on himself but inflicted flesh
wound, when bystander Overpowered
him and he was taken to Jail.
Konola had been living near the At
lanta mine for ten years. He took a
trip to his native Finland two years
ago and when he returned he found his
wife and children had deserted him
and gone to California with boarder
in their home. This is said to have
wrecked Konola's mind
Just why he should have picked out
this inoffensive young woman as a
target for his murderous demands is a
mystery. Neither she or her companion
ever saw the man before, they say.
The only possible explanation is that
Miss Helm IS said by some to have
somewhat resembled his wife.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
To Save the Falls

Secretary Taft is preparing to take
up for final disposition the complex
questions presented to him under the
terms of the Burton act, relative to
the conservation of the waters of the
Niagara river so as to prevent the
sacrifice of the falls TO the commercial
interests of the country.
Grave constitutional questions are
involved. Attorneys for the electric
lighting and power companies which
have been taking the water from the
river are insistent that the national
government has no authority to under
take to regulate the disposition Of the
waters of streams save where the
navigation thereof Is concerned. In
the case of the Niagara river, where
the water is taken from the stream
above the falls, only to be returned to
it again below, this issue is not in
volved.
So far, however, the right of the U.
S. government to regulate the admis-
sion of currents of electricity general
ed on the Canadian side OF the river
has not been challenged, and to this
question the secretary intends to. first
address himself.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Insurance indictments

Geo. w. Perkins, former vice-presi-
dent Of the New York Life Insurance
Co., and now a member of the firm of
j. P. Morgan & Co., and Charles S.
Fairchild, fLrmer secretary Of the
treasury and trustee Of the New
York Life Insurance Co., were indict-
ed Friday by the grand jury, charged
with forgery in the third degree. The
indictments were based on what is
known as the Prussian bond transac-
ton, in which it is charged that a
false statement was made by the New
York Life Insurance Co. in order to
satisfy the government of Prussia as
to the securities held by that company.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05

The chief wealth of the forests of
Java, at the present time, consists in
the wood OF the teak tree, which is
extensively employed for naval con-
struction. The trees are ordinarily
cut when they have attained an age
of about so years and a height Of be-
tween GO and 20 feet. The species
most esteemed has wood of a brown
color possessing a greasy feeling to
the touch. Since 1880 the teak has
been cultivated, and the cutting of
the trees has been regulated by the
Dutch government. peculiar fea-
ture of the cutting, designed to cause
the wood to part slowly with it's sap,
consists in the girdling of the trunks
a short distance above the ground two
years before the trees are felled. The
timber is exported to all parts of Eu-
rope.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Store Was DESTROYED.

Rose Bros department store in
Manistique was destroyed by fire with
a loss of $4,000, covered by insurance.
1t started in the furnace room when
the store was closed for the holiday
and the smoke was so thick when Se
department responded that it could not
reach the flames. Losses to other ten
ants reached $4,000. Probate Judge
Knox lost his valuable law library and
household effects. Others, including E.
w. Angel, w. F. Dowker, George Boil
dius, Dr. Husband. w. F. Crane and
Floyd Bostwick sustained almost total
losses, with small insurance.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Cecapitated.

With his head decapltated as neat
~ as if it had beer done with an ak,
the body of Edward Whitmore, aged
55, employed by the King Paper Co.,
of Kalamazoo, was found inside the
Michigan Central tracks half an hour
after he started for work this morn
ing. The body was identified by Mrs.
Sarah Hill, with whom Whitmore
boarded. She recognized the lunch
which she had put up for him. Whit
more was subject to heart disease,
ard may have fallen across the rails
on the sudden approach Of switching
engine. No one saw the accident. Whit
more was unmarried. His father lives
in Cooper township.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
President Cassatt Dead

President Alexander ]. Cassatt. of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. died
suddenly Friday afternoon. The an
nouncement of his death was made
from his Office in Pennsylvania shortly
before o'clock in the following bull
letin: Mr.. A. J. Cassatt, president of
the Pennsylvania railroad, died sud
denly of heart disearn at D. m. to-
day. The sympton<4 those known
to the profession as the Stokes-Adams
syncope, and, as is often the case un.
der these circumstances, death was
instantaneous"
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Twenty Were Killed

Up to the present time, it is said. 20
persons, including several Americans.
have been butchered by Yaqui Indians
in Mexico. A second massacre folNw-
ing the one at Lancho in which q Mt
persons were slain is related in a us
patch telling Of a raid by 100 Yao,Sis
near Valencia, Mexico An entire
party was wiped out, IL Mexicans and
one American being killed.
The Mexican government has has
tily gathered troops and rurales at
both these widely separated points to
pursue the redskin murderers.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05

D. H. Power, of Pontiac. was in
northern Michigan a few days ago in
specting the banks which he owns and
operates in Northport, Cedar, Empire,
Homer and Suttons Bay. The Leelanau
County Savings bank in Suttons Bay.
which is owned by him, has $4,000
capital
B. s. Award is the sole remaining
member of the Camden Bachelors
club organized with nearly score of
members four years ago. Invitations
are out for the wedding of Charles Nc
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05

A bill will be presented to the leg
islature by the Pontiac board of supes-
visors and the Oakland County Bar
association, asking for a municipal po-
lice court.
Frank Stevens, head bookkeeper in
Chesaning's largest department store,
and Miss Grace James, popular
teacher, Friday announced that they
were married last June by the M. E..
pastor. 1t was generally supposed the
wedding was to be Christmas day.
They have started on short wedding
trip"
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Died To Save Friend.

Frank Watson, aged II, son of Drug
gist j. B. Watson, lost his life Christ
mas day in Pine lake while trying to
save his friend, Byron Eckman, from
drowning. They were skating together
when Eckman broke through the ice.
Watson. in attempting 20 pull him out,
plunged headlong into the water, never
to arise alive. Eckman, after a long
struggle, crawled out on the ice and
raised an alarm. Frank Watson was a
student in the high school.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05

The Sigma Phi fraternity house at
Ann Arbor was damaged $4,000. A heat
ing pipe burst and flooded the upper
floors.
Nathan d. Simpson, of Hartford,
has been appointed private messenger
to Lieut.. Gov.-Elect p. II. Kelley. dur
ing the coming session of the state
legislature
Miss Nina Fedens, OF Thetford town
ship, and Delazon Almes Meade, of
Detroit, have, in letter just sent out
to their friends, announced their mar
rage, which has been kept a secret
since January 6, 1906.
Prof. John Dieterle, Of Ann Arbor.
was awakened by the scratching of
matches in his home, and upon inves-
tigation found two men ransacking his
mothers room. Both left the prem
ises without securing anything.
Andrew Walker, %, of Battle Creek.
died from blood poisoning. caused by
ink flowing over q sore hand. Walker
was an expert ink mixer in a printing
ink plant
James b. Seager. of the Olds Motor
works, has commenced suit against
the city of Lansing for $500 for dam
ages to an auto, caused by the bad con-
dition of the streets.
Mrs. Mary Matthews was found I'm
her home in Jonesville burned to
death. Her son had been gone but a
short time and when he returned found
the charred remains He thinks the fire
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05

Oscar F. Westman, aged "a. and
John Blashe, aged 81, employees of the
An express package containing dia.
monds valued at $500 disappeared from
drivers wagon in Menominee Mon.
day. The police are investigating.
While preparing his MONDAY lunch
at his home, in Grand Rapids, Friday,
Freddie Sterback, aged six, was prob.
ably fatally burned by gasoline stove
explosion.
A crowd of Lansing men and BOYS
participated in the chase of a timber
wolf which escaped from Glenn Chap.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Five In Twenty Months.

Former Mayor F. C. Deinzer, of Mon
roe, has received a letter from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, congratulating him on
the recent wedding of his daughter
Angelica to William Burmester, Of De-
troit. It was the fifth time within twen-
ty months that a wedding ceremony
was performed which united a member
Of the Deinzer family in marriage. It
is very evident that the president does
not believe there is any race suicide
in his family.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Nervy surfman Saved Bow.

Ward G.. Bennett, surfman No. 2, of
the Charlevoix life saving station, had
eaten his Christmas dinner with his
parents at Glenmere, and was walk
ing along the beach at Glen lake with
his brother, Frank G. Bennett, surfman
No. 5, Of the Sleeping Bear station,
when he saw Harry Tobin, II years
old, break through the ice. Before he
could reach him the boy sank three
times.
Diving into the deep water Bennett
went under the ice, slanting his direc-
ton toward the boy. He sought for
the boy on the bottom. The water
was rolled. and it was with difficulty
that he located the lad. He brought
him to the surface by the hair. Be.
cause of the broken ice the rescuer
could not get to shore. His brother
cut a rope from a sled and with by
ISLANDERS formed living chain. bring
ing the boy in first, and then rescued
the reScuer
Despite their icy clothes and expos
ure the two surfmen went to work to
rcsuscitate the boy. In the absence
OF a barrel they used one of their
companions in that capacity. The boy
fully recovered.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05

Thomas Turner, a wealthy English
manufacturer, has come to America
for the one hundred and nineteenth
time, and will spend the winter with
relatives in Chelsea, Mass. His first
trip over was made in 1861. He says
the longest time required for any
trip he has made was II days. and
he has crossed in five days and Is
hours.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
ADJUSTMENTS IN DETROIT.
Week Ending January ), 1907.

TEMPLE THEATER AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
moons 2:15. 10c to 25c; Evenings s:lA 10c to SOC.
Fred Walton, Famous English Pantomimist
LYcEUM-Prices ALWAYS i5c. 25c, SOC, 75c. 25c
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. The
Four Mortons.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. l0c. COO. soc: Matinees
l0c, l5c, %. "Secrets OF the Police"
LAFAYETTE THBATRE-Bargain Natinees SUM-
Mon, Wed. and Sat. Best Seats 25c. Night
Prices, l0c Csc, 3oc. High Glass Vaudeville.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05
Cooked Alive.

AS q result of falling into a vat of
boiling water in a Camden bakery,
Miss Jeanette Cain sustained probably
fatal injuries. She was unable to extri-
cate herself, but was pulled out by
Mrs. Wilson. Pieces of flesh dropped
from the young woman's breast and
limbs when rescued
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-01-05

Charles A. Young, a Battle Creek
druggist. found dead in bed Monday
night. may have been a suicide. A vial
containing peroxide of hydrogen and
cocaine was found at his side. after
the police had accredited his death to
heart failure. -