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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-11-06
Man Kills HaIf=br0ther With As.
sistance OF Latter's Wife;
Both Confess.
DEED IS DONE WITH AN Ak
Woman Hears Blew That Caused Death
and Then Assists in the Dis
pOsai Of Body.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. AFTER CON
Tossing their guilt to the police yes
terday, John Kurka, a teamster, aud
Mrs. Anthony Schultz were arraigned
before Justice of the Peace Gerhard
in Hamtramck township and pleaded
guilty to the charge of numbering
Mrs. Schultz's husband, who was a
half-brother of Kurka. The latter said
that the crime was attributable to an
illicit affection between himself and
MS half-brother's wife. kmka had
been living in the home Of the Schultz
couple.
Annie, I've told them all about it,"
said kurlia when the woman was
brought before the police, after Kur-
ka's confession. and the woman drop
ped sobbing and hysterical into d
chair. The police officials sat silent
for ten minutes, until she controlled
herself md then listened to her story.
Woman Helps with Body.
According to the two confessions.
the police say, Schultz was murdered
in his bed about $50 a. m, a week
ago Sunday, the wife. in another room,
being able TO hear the fatal blows of
the AK each time it fell. She then
was called into the room and lifted
the feet of the dead nan as kurka
lifted the shoulders, while they car
ried the body to the green dump wag-
on, in which Kurka took it from The
extreme northeastern limits Of the
city down through DetrOit's business
section, seven miles, to the secluded
lane in the western suburbs, where it
was later found hidden under a pile Of
straw. The pleas Of guilty in the jus
tees court act as waiver of a justice
court examination and throw The
cases into the circuit court OF Wayne
county.
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Ice Man Forces Adjournment b,
Evasive Answers and Sar.
castle Remarks.
IS INSOLfNT TO ATTORNEY
Judge Loses Patience When Financier
Refuses to Give Categorical
Answer.

New York, Nov. 1.-Practically de-
tying the United States government
and it's court. Charles w. Morse, for
merly ice king and multimillionaire,
owner of a chain of banks in this city,
yesterday at his trial for alleged vio-
lation of the banking laws, brought
the proceedings against him 10 a sud
den and sensational close after he had
been on the stand six hours. Badger
cd by United States Attorney Stimson
into many damaging admissions.
Morse at last became SO angry that he
absolutely refused to give a categori-
cal reply to the questions of the pros
ecuting officer. Instead he INDUCED in
witty and sarcastic remarks, slurring
his fellow directors in the National
Bank of North America, until at length
he became so insolent that the dis
trict attorney appealed to the court.
Brought to Climax.
1t was a question of whether the oi-
rectors of the bank had approved the
loaA of $211, 900 Morse had obtained
from the bank to cover a large over
uldlL lndt biouSlI "a.'0iS W ~
max.
Did the directors approve that
loan?' asked the district attorney.
Il don't think they did, answered
Morse.
did they disapprove of it,"
Il don't think they did"
But you were present all through
the meeting weren't you?"
YES"
"yvell, did they adjourn"
"They jumped up and ran, but they
aid not come back to pay thel loans,
chuckled Morse, sardonically.
Launches Into TRADE.
Mine was the best marglned loan
Of any in the bank, better than those
Of any of the other directors, and |
didn't make q loan like Havemeyer
lid of 5000 when the total reserve
Of the bank was down to S per cent
IF your honor rlease5," said Dis
trict Attorney StimSon as sooon as
Morse, apparently for lack of breath.
had paused, Il should like the witness
to be directed to answer my qucs-
tion.'
Answer tie question ca~teSorically
If you cam said Judge Hough stern
v, turning toward Morse.
Faces Judge CcolIy.
The little ice man wheeled around
in his revolving chair, looked the
Judge suuarely in the face and began
another evasive reply.
Stopped quickly, he calmly leaned
back and politely requested to know
what was the question.
The stenoerapher was directed to
read it, and Morse said he could not
~recollect.'
This was too much for Mr.. Stimson,
He asked for permission to suspend
the cross-examintaion until to-day,
saying he desired more time to study
the testimony the witness had given
on Thursday.
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From Other shores.

The Budapest newspapers announce
that the Countess Szchenyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, has given
birth to a daughter.
The ~so-called insurrection in Korea
is practically ended. The troops are
still on active duty, but the insurgents
have dwindled to merely a disorderly
element.
President Diaz Of Mexico says in
an open letter regarding his rumored
retirement at the close of his present
term in 1910 that the reports are pre-
mature and u%nfounded.
Three train thieves, believed to be
Americans, who were known under
the names of Bard, Bertha and Cauda.
have been sen to prison at Rheims,
france, for thirteen months for rob-
bling passengers or express trains.
AS Abelardo Moncayo, president of
the senate was leaving congress at
Quito, Ecuador, he was hooted and at
tackled by a mob. Senior Moncayo said
later he thought the men who set
upon him were soldiers in disguise,
whose enmity had been aroused.
The Formosan trunk railway, which
recently was completed, was formally
opened In the presence of Gen. Prince
Kanin Of the japanese army and a
large number of officials and specially
invited guests. Formosa is now
threaded throughout by this railway,
which extends over a length OF 334
miles.
Capt. Clarence Vyner, a rich Ameri-
can resident of Vienna, started a few
days ago on a motor our for England
with Nine. Bettin of Chile. At Traun-
stein, a town of Upper Bavaria, about
twenty miles from Salzburg, the mo-
tor car met with an accident while
descending a steep hill. Nine. Bettin
and the chauffeur were instantly kill
ed and Capt. Vyner was seriously in
jured.
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Minneapolis Women Declare
Themselves the Dupes of a
Heartless Fraud.
INVESTIGATION IS STARTED
Gov. Buchtel, of Colorado Is Making an
Effort to Run the Perpetrators
to Earth.

Minneapolis, Nov. ~3.-Several Mn.
neapol1s women are in Denver, wait.
ing FOR funds to arrive with which to
make the trip home to Minnesota.
They declare themselves the victims
OF a heartless trio of confidence work.
ers. AS a result of their predicament
Gov. Buchtel of Colorado has begun
an investigation in an effort to run to
earth the perpetrators of what is al
legged to be a land fraud scheme CT
considerable magnitude, in which Sew.
eral M~innesotans have beeh victim
lied.
OF a party of thirty-eight Minneso-
ia people who left for Colorado Oct.
20 in quest of a fortune only one, Mrs.
Mary Milestone, a Minneapolis WON.
an, is known to have recovered the
money which she invested in the I'M
deTtaking.
How Scheme Starts.
So far as the Minnesota investors
are concerned, the story began last
spring, when Charles F. Burnham, a
sneculator, visited Minneapolis. N
ne Ia So1u W nave llittl est
ed several peaple in the purchase Of
desert claims and water rights in Col
OradO.
The plan was simple. Investors
were asked to pay from $3.50 to $3.50.
In return for the payment, the COM
pany agreed to arrange matters so
that the investors could file on desert
I, rj IN T,-rtrr >,,p+ T~1rr,l@ ~>
payment of 25 cents an acre.
Perpetual water rights, shares in a
mining company and paper concern,
offers to redeem the land if it was un-
satisfactory and premises to pay the
expenses of investors N a trip to Col
orado are said to have been part of
the inducements offered to Minnesota
investors.
The Minnesota thirty-eight arrived
in Colorado Springs on Oct, 90. Won
en- composed the bulk of the party.
Pay to Make Trip.
From Colorado Springs the party
went to West Cliffe, Colo. 1t is said
that they paid the promoters S10.75
for the privilege of making the trip.
At West Cliffe they were shown the
land on which they were to make
their claims, but when they went 10
the Pueblo land Office to make their
filings they were told that residence
in Colorado of a year was required
before filings could be made. They
were advi ed to return to Minnesota
to avoid charges of perjury in connec-
ton with their attempt to file on Col
Orado lands.
Gov. Buchtel was appealed to and
the investigation is in full sway. Mrs.
Milestone threatened criminal prose
cution of the promoters and secured
the money that she had invested, but
other members OF the party were not
so successful.
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MORO LEADER KILLED.
Force Of ~Constabulary Is Pursuing
Band of Outlaws.

Manila. Nov. A force of constah-
ulary from the town OF Illigan, sent in
nursnit of a band of Moros which has
been raiding plantations and causing
other Expectations in the province of
Misamis, on Mindanao island, over
took the outlaws, killed the leader
and is following the rest OF the band,
according to a dispatch received here
Yesterday. This band has caused
much trouble in the province and with
it's capture it is believed quiet will be
restored in that part of Mindanao isl
and.
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START FOR africa MARCH 10.
RooseveIt's Plans for Hunting Trip
Announced.

New York, Nov. 4. - The Times
says:
From excellent authority the New
York Times learned yesterday that
President Roosevelt plans to leave
New York on March IS. nine days
after the Inauguration, by the North
German Lloyd liner Koenig Albert.
for Naples, via Gibraltar, where the
liner is due On March 25.
Besides his son Kermit, who will
take Photographs Of the big game in
Africa, he will be accompanied by a
professor from the Smithsonian insti-
tuaion and an official from the navy
department.
From Naples Mr.. Roosevelt and his
party will travel on one of the Ger
| man East African steamers to Nom
| hasa, via the Suez canal and Alden, a
| sea Journey of seventeeH days. in
Guiding stops.
So far no arrangements have been
| made for the six months the party
will spend in Uganda province, be-
tween the coast and Port Florence, a
| distance of 5S4 miles. On Lake Vic
| toria Nyanza the party will embark
| for Fntebbe, in Central Africa. One
| thing is certain, Mr.. Roosevelt will
| not enter the Congo territory.
President Roosevelt has received an
! invitation from Mr.. Mcmillan. nephew
! of the late Senator James Mcmillan of
Detroit, who owns 0 1000 acres OF for
est. mountain and jungle in the Mai
| robi district of Uganda, to shoot over
| his estates and use the comfortable
shooting boxes that have been erect
| ed in various sections where big game
is to be found.
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Is MysteriousIy killei.

Memphis, Tenn, Nov. 3.-The body
of Lee Marshall, a travelling salesman
of Mayfield, KY, was found in an
empty coal car attached to an Illinois
Central train near here yesterday.
Death had resulted from two bullet
wounds, and when found by the train
crew the body was still warm. No
weapon was found which would indi-
cate suicide.
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EXLEY INSANE AGAIN.
Thrilled Canadians With Gigantic
Scheme of Railway Building.

Winnipeg, Nov. 4.-Frenzied finance
of the kind in which millions are IN
yolvea and himself as master capital
list and kingpin in the formation or
huae land, stock anu insurance com
panies, is the particular hallucination
Of A. r. Exley, who arrived in Wfnni-
neg from Tacoma last Wednesday.
The Westerner talks OF his proposed
Investments and speculations and has
confided to a guest at his hotel that he
proposes building a railroad from the
Pacific to the Atlantic and from there
to the Gulf of Mexico, returning from
the Gulf to the Starting point in Brit
ish Columbia, He will De taken to an
ASYLUM for the insane. He has been
confined in asylums in San Francisco
and Portland.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-11-06
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Digest Of the News Worth Telliag Con.
deased for the Bssy
Reader.
Washington.

Count Won Moltke, the new Danish
minister to the United States, has ar
rived in Washington.
The scout cruiser Chester, which
naval officers have declared to be the
fastest naval vessel ahoat, has COM
pleted her final acceptance trial.
Henry A. Buffers. president Of the
Northern Electric Railway company.
died at Berkeley, Cal. Mr.. Buffers
was widely known as a mining man
and capitalist.
Carriers will not be permitted to
perform clerical work in the future,
as the result OF an order issued by
Postmaster General Meyer, amending
the postal regulations and defining the
duties Of employees in this branch of
the service.
The secretary of war has appointed
Z board Of officers. consisting of Maj.
Gen. w. p. Duvall. Brig. Gems. Fred
rick Funston, w. H. Carter, w. S.
Edgerly and William Witherspoon, to
Ill existing and anticipated vacancies
In the general staff corps of the army.
The internal evenue bur is
strongly opposed to the contention OF
tie California grape growers for a re-
versal of the commissioners ruling OF
March %, 1908, which inhibits the use
of fortified American sweet wines in
the manufacture Of patent or proprie.
tary medicines or compounds.
Declaring that complaints continue
to come to the department alleging
violations Of the postal regulations
concerning the disposition Of regis
tered mail Endorsed for delivery to
the addressee in person, an order has
been issued directing that such mail
matter must be delivered to no one
but the addressee in person, not ever
upon his written order.
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Find Mutilated Body,

New iberia, La, Nov. 4. : Children
playing in a barn just outside New
iberia yesterday discovered the badly
mutilated body of a we'll dressed man.
apparently about thirty years old. Evil
dences indicated that the man had
been killed with a heavy iron bar.
Tramps who were seer with the man
last night have been arrested.
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Personal.

The British Aero club has awarded
its gold medal to the Wright brothers
Of Dayton, Ohio, for their remarkable
achievements.
DR.. David Doherty, who, while prac-
ticing medicine in Chicago during the
last twenty years, won recognition for
his chronological and pathological work,
died in Chicago as the result of a
stroke Of apoplexy.
The engagement of Mrs. Dorothy
Hurlburt, widow OF a prominent socie-
ty man of Chicago, to Pierce Fish, a
Boston clubman, Is just announced.
The secret became known through a
postal card written by Mrs. Hurlburt,
which got into the wrong hands.
Rev. e. Jay Cooke, rector Of St.
Stephens Episcopal church at Schuy-
lerville. N. Y. dropped dead Of heart
disease at Schenectady. DR.. Cooke
was q nephew of Jay Cooke, the great
financier of Civil wal times, after
whom he was named. He had held
pastorates at Mortified, Mimi, st.
Paul and Clinton, Iowa.
King Frederic tx has honored C. H.
Hansen. who lately resigned the DAN
ish ~consulship in Chicafo. with the or
der Of Danneborgsmand. AS Mr.. Han
sen already hsd been made a Knight
Of Dannebory, this new honor is re-
garded as nm usual and as showing
that his good work for his country
men in many quarters Of the globe is
appreciated.
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MetcaIf's Nenhew Jailed.

San Jose, Cal, Nov. 4. - Peyton w.
Metcalf, nephew Of the secretary of
the navy, was sentenced to serve thir-
ty avs in the county jail without the
alternative of a fine TO- running over
and injuring fou~tcen-year-old Bud
Aylesworth of East Sen Jose.
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DEER TIED UP A MILL.
Frightened Animal Jumped into Ma.
chinery of Steel Plant.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Nov. 4. -
One thousand men were made idle for
several hours yesterday at the plant
of the Algoma Steel company, when a
deer ran into a mill and jumped into
the rolls which We're making steel
rails. The machinery was stopped
and tie deer was so badly injured it
had to be killed.
When first seen the deer was ac-
companied by a large buck and was
emerging from the river. The buck
was frightened away before it reached
the mill, but the doe, scared by a yard
engine, ran into the mill and leaped
into the machinery.
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Stairway Fall Kills Man.

Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 3.-John
Clare. blicklayer, fell down a stairway
in East Grand Forks early yesterday.
fractured his skull and died two hours
later. He was intoxicated.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-11-06

While playing :noonshiner at their
home near Whitesburg, Ohio, Charles
Morgan, six years old. shot his brother
Sammy. aged eight years, in the fore
head, killing him instantly.
Frederick w. Gross, former pay
master OF the Colorado n~atio~al
guard during the great Cripple Creek
strike, under the Peabody administ@l-
ton, committed suicide at Denve. Il
nring q bullet into his brain.
While seated in his home with his
family at Springfield, H.. Ransom ..
Stowe. q veteran Of tho Civil wa,
aged sixty-five years. drew a revolver
from his pocket. turned to his wife
and said: "Good-by; I'm going now!"
md blew out his brains.
An Indictment was returned by the
federal grand jury at Omaha against
The odore Kharas, charging the use
of the mails for fraudulent purposes
The chargc3 grew out Of Kharas' ex'
ploitation Of : mechanical street car
advertising device. Eight years age
Kharas was the candidate for govern
81 q Nebraska On the Socialist ticket
4 maj giving tne name Of George
b. Carter and believed to be q cranE
vas arrested In Chicago when he call
Cd at the home Of Chief Of Police
0hippy to see the Chief. Miss Georss
ana Shippy met the man at the door
He said Chicago me owed him S..
100000 and he wanted the chief to
helm him collect Il. Miss Shippy
called . policeman.
After i quarrel with his wife.
Charles smit, A aged farmer Of Pc.
SEVILLE. Midland county, Mich. shot
and killed william Duchan, 2 neigh
Dor. 1t whose home Mrs. Smith had
aAken refuge. and then committed sui
~
]. Martin, proprietor Of = saloon
&Qower, Mo-. was shot and killed In
~ Gower depot by Wood Arnold.
Axnp3da had been drinking "a Martins
saloon IA wore Martin's hat away.
When M saloon man asked for the
hat ArnoJ1 sbsk him through the
hea1t A1neal eseaped - : train.
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Attempted Suicide.

Webster City, Iowa, Nov. 1.-yyill
Krie,. a farmer north CT this city, at.
temrted suici9e last night with a %.
ca her revolver. He shot the ball
into his forehead, but 1t did not enter
the skull and he will recover.
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FEEBLE MINDED IN PERIL.

State Asylum Building in New York
Destroyed.
Rome, N. Y, Nov. 3.-Ward building
B of the state custodial asylum here
for feeble minded women was burned
Yesterday. There We're about $50 pa
tients in the building, including the
old and decrepit, about thirty of whom
were confined to beds. All the sick
and helpless we're safely removed. 1t
will cost 100000 to replace the burn
ed building and $4,000 to furnish it.
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CLAIMS 100000 REWARD.

Wisconsin Man Sends Proof to Uncle
Sam He Can Harden Copper.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, Nov. 4.-Riley
tones Yesterday forwarded to Wash
ington proofs to show he had discover
ed a method of tempering copper and
asking for 81, 900. OGO reward which has
for years been a standing offer of the
government.
tones has samples of copper tenn
nerened to the hardness of flint. The
discovery is the result Of twelve years
work.
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WRIGHT Motor Blows Up.

Lemans, France, Nov. 1. - While
Wilbur vrright, the An erican aero
pianist, was making a fig MT the motor
Of the macilir4e exploded. Mr.. Wright
landed without injury and the aero
rlant was not otherwise damaged.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-11-06

Archbishop FARLEY of New York has
made public the fact that New York's
offering of Peters pence to the pope
was $50 600. This wss The largest of
fering made by any diocese in the
world.
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ku,ed in politica, Quarrel,

Foraker, Okla, Nov. ?.--ln a politi-
cal quarrel here yesterday Frank 5.
Seward, a prominent merchant and
local Democratic committeeman shot
and killed John H. Milan, a well
known farmer OF Pawhuska, Oklaho,
ma.
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ZIG ELEVATOR TO BE BUILT.
Contract Let for First Ui;;t in 100000.
600 BusheI Elevator.

Winnipeg, Nov. /. The Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway company yes
terday let a contract for a 4,000, 00G-
bushel elevator at Fort William. This
is the drst unit of what will be a 40
600, 900 bushels capacity storage plant
in that city. The first unit is to be
ready one year from next month.
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KILLED BY EATING PICKLES.
Girl Devoured Scores Of Big Ones
D,iIv and Ein-llv Succunlbed,

Daily and Finally S~uccun15ed.
Pittsburg, Nov. 3.-After remaining
in a condition Of coma for 142 hours,
Miss Mary Thompson, fourteen years
old, who came TO be known to the at
taches Of st. Johns hospital as the
pickle girl" is dead.
The girl was employed at a pick
ling establishment. She developed a
passionate fondness for pickles and
since the rick .ng eason started had
eaten nothing but pickles. Most OF
them were the big ones and she would
eat scores of them every day.
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IS DEAD.
Hon. Thomas GreenWay, Fee to Rail
road Monopolies, Expires.

FosG ENPFTcs'
Winnipeg, Nov. /. Hon. Thomas
Greenway, former premier Of Manito-
ba. member of the railway commits
sion OF Canada, died unexpectedly in
Ottawa yesterday morning, aged sew
enty years, He was the head Of the
government which broke the Canadian
Pacific railway monopoly in Western
Canada and brought the Northern Pa
cifc railway into Manitoba twenty
years ago, the first rival railway to
the Canadian Pacific railway to enter
this country.
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WHlTMOEE NOT GUILTY.
Man Accused Of Killing Wife Proves
an Alihi.

Jersey City, N. j., Nov. 1-After
being out two hours. the jury in the
case Of Theodore WhitmoTe, on trial
for The murder Of his wife, whose bat
tered body was found on Dec. &c of
lest wear in a swamp near Harrison,
N. j., last night returned a v.rdict OF
not guilty.
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Challenge to Mrs. Hams.

In answer to the published state
ment of Mrs. Claudia Hams, wife Of
Capt. Hams. Attorney Mcintyre yes
terday issued a challenge to her to
come to New York and make affidavit
that the letters and declaration made
public by the defepse as hers are
false.
He declared that the defense viii
give Mrs. Hams $1,000 if she will look
over the letters and then swear to
their falsity, and will also have her al
rested en- a charge of ieTjury.
Mr.. Mcintyre said the defense was
anxious to have Mrs. Hams take the
stand. as she threatened in her state
ment OF last Saturday.
Taken Under Amusement.
After hearing District AttorneF
EaTrin's motion to have the trial OF 7.
jenkins Hams. indicted with his
brother, Capt. Peter C. Hams, for the
killing of William E. Annis, set for
next Monday. Judge Aspinwall took
tie argument under adTisement and
will the date CT trial from
the bench ncyt Monday.
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TRIES TO WINTER IN JAIL.
Milwaukee Man Applies for Lodging
by Smashing Window.

by Smashing Window.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, Nov. 4.-Hop,
ing to get comfortable quarters in the
county Jail over winter, Louis Meyers
OF Milwaukee, broke a plate glass win.
dow. Judge jenkins sentenced the
man to the city lookup for thirty days,
where he will be compelled to sleep on
bare boards and get measer fare.