Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

Dr.. William LeGrange Ralph, cura-
tor of the section of birds eggs in the
| national museum, died at the George
Washington university hospital. q
Marion r. Biggs, convicted of con-
| spiracy in the famous Blue Mountain
land fraud case in Oregon, was SEN
! fenced to ten months in the Multno-
nah county Jail. He will also pay q
fine of $780,
Rudolph Johnson, Freder1ckson Won
Borsen and Herman Won BOrsen,
members of the crew of Henry Clay
Pierce's yacht Yacona, drowned in
Hudson river because one of them
| sailing.
A monument erected by the state of
New Jersey to commemorate the serv-
ices of the Fourteenth volunteer in
| fantry of that state at the battle of
the Monocacy was unveiled on the
battlefield, near Frederick, N. Y, by
Miss Alice Patterson, daughter of
Maj. John c. Patterson of Freehold,
N. J.
Four children of Mr. and Mrs.
Jason Field of Rogersville, Wis, were
burned to death.
The wife of the earl of Rosslyn,
formerly Anna Robinson of Mime
apolis, has sued him for divorce.
Judge Kenesaw M. Lands an
nounced at Chicago that he would
give his decision regarding the pun
ishment of the Standard Oil company
on Saturday August 3. This decision
will cover the assessment of fines
for 1,462 violations of the interstate
commerce act, aggregating in their
maximum $29,240,0OO..
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of San
Francisco, convicted of extortion, was
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary. When the sentence was pro-
nounced there was a remarkable out
burst of applause from the hundreds
| of persons who crowded Judge
DUNES courtroom.
The Olympic cup open to- teams of
four from any golf association in the
world, and held for the last two
years by the Western Golf associa-
ton, was won at Cleveland by the
team of the Metropolitan Golf associa-
ton with a total of GAL strokes.
AS the result of a quarrel over
charges for repairing an automobile,
R. B. Haughton, formerly justice of
the peace in St. Louis, shot and
probably mortally wounded John
Berry, president of an automobile
company.
Acting on petition filed by At
torney General William S. Jackson,
Justice M. w. Platzek in the supreme
court of New York appointed R.
Burnham Moffatt, an attorney, to take
evidence based on the attorney gen.
erals allegations that the Postal Tele-
graph & Gable company and the
Western Union Telegraph company
have formed an illegal combination
to increase rates in New York and
other states.
Admiral Brownson, chief of the bu.
reau of navigation of the navy depart.
ment, said he was satisfied that the
Japanese admiral, Sakamoto, who was
reported in the Hochi, a Japanese
anti-governmental paper to have ques-
toned the patriotism of American
naval crews and the ability of the
American naval officers, had been mis-
quoted. The Japanese embassy said
the\ same.
Conspiracy and discrimination, in
addition to the exaction of excessive
rates, are the charges preferred in a
complaint filed with the interstate
commerce commission by the Bea-
trice Creamery company, of Iowa;
the Blue Valley Creamery company,
OF Missouri, and the Blue Valley
Creamery company, of Iowa, against
several western railroads.
The navy department finally &C.
cepted the battleship Georgia, and au-
thorized the payment to the con-
tractors of the reserve fund required
by the contract.
A. scribner killed his wife and
himself in hotel at Buffalo, Mo.
Secretary Cortelyou has recon-
mended to the president the appoint
ment of Frank A. Leach, the present
superintendent of the mint at San
Francisco, as director of the mint
to succeed G. E. Roberts.
Charles S. Cameron, president of
the Pittsburg & Tube City Railroad
company, pleaded nolle contendere
when he was arraigned for bribery.
Twenty residents of New Alexan-
dfla, o., were made violently ill by
eating pressed chicken at a picnic.
The "spook will" of the late million
aire, Charles G. Haddock, of Chicago,
alleged to have been made while he
was under the influence of pretended
mediums, was declared void by a court
at Los Angeles.
Prof. Err, of the Kansas agricultural
college, has invented a new food for
COWS made from dried buttermilk,
which is powdered. 1t is said to be
economical and has twice as much
protein as cottonseed meal.
DR.. Ackland Oronhyatekha. son of
the late supreme chief ranger of the
Independent Order of Foresters, was
found dead in bed at Deseronto, Ont.
He was SO years old. Death was due
to heart failure
The Northwest Lumber company
the principal stockholders in which
are Barley Bros. and M. F. Quinn. of
pennsylvania, have purchased 10000
acres of timber land in western Wash.
1ngton. The consideration is ST.
100000.
All the telephone girls of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone companv at