The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-01-25


Prosecutor David. mum fine Is $1,000
and the maximum penalty one year In
the workhous for each offense. Pros
ecutor David says he is going to keep
up the fight as long as he is in office.
State Sues Illinois Central.
Attorney General Stead of Illinois
has begun action In the supreme court
at Springfield against the Illinois Cen
trail railroad to recover back taxes
amounting to $5,O0O,OOO or more. The
suit is virtually demand for an ac-
counting between the railroad and the
state.
investigation For Hill.
Unanimously the Minnesota house OF
representatives ordered an investiga-
ton of the transaction by which Presi-
dent Hill of the Great Northern sold
ore lands to the steel trust. The in
quiry will be widened to include other
charges.
Corrupt Alderman Caught.
William s. Clifford, q member of the
New York city board of aldermen, was
arrested, when $4,000 in marked money
was found on his person, this having
been given to him for delivering the
votes of eleven Municipal Ownership
aldermen for ex-Judge Cowing for re-
corder.
Vote to Gag the Press.
BY vote of 80 to 13 the New York
state senate adopted rule giving
Clerk Gleason the right to exclude any
newspaper correspondent from the SEES
sions of the senate If he should write
matters displeasing to any senator.
Emma Goldman Discharged.
The queen Of American anarchists.
Miss Emma Goldman, who was arrest
ed while addressing her followers at
New York recently, was dismissed
from custody by the magistrate on the
ground that it would be unreasonable
to hold her for criminal anarchy on
the strength of isolated sentences
quoted from her speech.
John r. Walsh Indicted.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
indicted John r. Walsh, former presi-
dent of the Chicago National bank, on
$50 counts, accusing him Of misappro-
priating funds to the amount OF $3,000,-
900. Walsh still insists that he is only
technically guilty Of doing what other
bankers have long been accustomed to
do-namely, lending more than 10 per
cent of their capital to one person.
Vice Presidents Son Indicted.
Frederick c. Fairbanks, son of the
vice president of the United States,
has been indicted at Steubenville, o.,
on the charge Of perjury in connection
with his securing license there for
his runaway marriage with Helen
Scott, daughter of a wealthy Pittsburg
ironmaster. Young Fairbanks and his
bride have been living at Springfield,
o.. where he is employed in one of the
factories owned by his father.
Jap's School Case Begins.
The test case arranged by the feder-
al authorities at San Francisco in con-
nection with the japanese school ex-
clusion act was begun Jan. II, when
ten-year-old Japanese boy named
Keikichi Aoki was accompanied to a
primary school to apply for admission
In the presence Of government officials.
AS expected, the application was de-
MED, thus forming the ground for the
action In the supreme court Of Cali
fornia for an injunction to restrain the
board Of education from carrying out
its segregation order in view Of Jap
anese treaty rights.
Railroad Was to Blame.
The grand jury which has been in
vestlgating the accident on the Penn
sylvania railroad near Atlantic City
made a presentment generating the
aged bridge tender Daniel Stuart, who
was held by the coroner's jury, and
censuring the railroad company for