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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-17
DIVER HAS LIVED
rs YEARS ON
ROCKS
CAPT. coAkLEVs LITTLE HUT
Is ANCHORED ON A LEDGE AT
THE Foor OF A NEW YORK
STREET.

NEW YORK, April 17.-Capt John
III. Coakley, diver and lifesaver. ceie-
brated the twenty-ffth anniversary
III his tenancy OF little cabin which
n built out on the rocks at the foot
sof Jackson-st.
The shanty is as taut and trim as
the cabin of wellkept schooner, and
the gear inside is "shipshape and
Bristol fashion" The clock strikes
!. the bells at the proper time. and
Capt. Coakley halls the passing boats
with q bo'sun's pipe. In the daytime
Everything Is slowed away in lock-
1@rg at the side that form the hunks
s1or the skipper and his mate to sleep
'on ut night.
Capt. Coakley said that he had new
81 missed sleeping there for 20 years.
on the night of the great blizzard
Z N March, 1888. he was Imprisoned
"A the shack with his mate by the
heavy fall OF snow, and for three days
they remained prisoners, until some
Sof the neighbors came TO the rescue
Z and dug them out.
Z. In the summer time. when the thou
sands OF children come down to play
III the park at the foot OF Jackson-st.,
many of them get to the edge OF the
river and fall in, and Is or 20 children
are rescued every season by the vol.
\ unfeer lifesaving station, OF which
Capt. Coakley is the chief. He per-
'sonally has four medals from the Life
saving association. and another one
coming from congress for rescuins
men from the river.
Danger to Rowboats.
At that portion OF the East river
which is called the Hook, the Tide
Is very strong. and rowboats not
+ properly handled are liable TO be
swept against the rocks.
4 While the skipper was being inter
viewed. a little duck boat with tive
boys In II. who had put out from the
Battery, was caught by the powerful
eddy. and would have swamped II II
\ had not been for the prompt assist
Z ance given by one OF Capt. Coakley''
men. who ran his boat out and towet
the boys into the little landing.
From 1894 TO 1900 all the lifesayinE
men In the port of New York receiv
\ "a monthly salary from the city
which In Skipper Coakley's case
amounted TO $50 per month. but wheI
III stopped he did not worry, as his
divine business. in connection Will
wrecks In the harbor. had grown t.
. such proportions that II had made
1lm independent OF his salary.
A tall, husky, ruddy-faced mar
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-17

Emperor William, of Germany. com
mends the English dwelling house
sysrErr AZ sgafrst the fat system
prevalent In Berlin and other German
Giles The houses even Of the poor.
est Mnrkfnen.- said the emperor. have
Q comfortable, homellke. atmosphere,
n II abundance HoNefs inside
and outside
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-17

No man knows his full power until
he turns IL on some worthy purpose.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Decreased Flour Shipments.

Minneapolis shipments from
Minneapolis for 1907 will fall short OF
the total shipped during 1906 by nearly
100000 barrels. This decrease ap-
parently has not been entirely due to
the financial furry, as the figures for
each month show that only in three
months for the entire year have the
shipments for 1907 exceeded those for
the same months in 1906.
The number of barrels of -four sent
out from Minneapolis by the various
mills so far this year have been 49,
S25,375, while for the corresponding
period in 1906 there were 14.573,123
barrels shipped, difference OF 747,-
74S barrels.
Despite the recent financial strin-
gency the sales of flour for use in the
country or for export did not suffer
so much as was generally expected.
The shipments for October this year
were 1,499,0S2 barrels. against 1888
O97 last year. In November this year
the greatest falling OFF is shown with
shipments of 1,O67,970 barrels against
1.31S,G4S year ago. For the trading
days in December up to the present
G79,271 barrels have been sent out as
against 979,494 for the corresponding
DAYS |: It year.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02

Denver.-Senator Thomas NJ. 'Patter-
son was assaulted on the street Thurs
day morning by one of the proprietors
of the Denver Post. The Republican
Friday morning gives the following &C.
count of the ARRAY:
AS a direct result of the ceaseless
warfare of personal journalism which
has for years been Haunted in the face
of the Denver reading public, there
yesterday morning occurred an en-.
counter between Senator T. NJ. Patter-
son, editor and publisher of the Den
yer News and Times and F. G. Bon
fills, partner with H. H. Tammen in
the publication Of the Denver Post.
Patterson, the older man of the two
by twenty years. was knocked down
and considerably bruised about the
face and body. Bonfils escaped with
out injury 1t is said that harsh words
were used before and after the en-
counter, although the version of the
affair given by both parties is as di
vergent as their newspaper articles
have been. All Denver buzzed with
the news yesterday.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
LAND FRAUD SUITS FAIL.
Judge Lewis ouashes Indictments In
United States Court.

Denver.-Judge Robert f. Lewis
rendered an opinion in the United
States Court Tuesday which will have
the effect Of stopping coal and timber
land fraud investigations in Colorado.
and probably throughout the entire
West, II sustained by the United
States Supreme Court. 1t is the most
decisive check that has yet been
placed upon the government policy OF
conducting gigantic land fraud inves-
LEGATIONS throughout the West under
the Department of Justice.
Judge Lewis quashed the indict-
ments against Alexander T. Sullen-
berger, Pagoso Springs; Charles ID.
Denver; Edgar M. Biggs, Denver;
Welsh w. Nossaman, Pagosa Springs;
James S. Hatcher, Pagosa Springs;
Charles H. Freeman, Durango; Ellis
M. Hampton, Pagosa Springs; E. X.
Caldwell, Pagosa Springs; Eudolphus
M. Taylor, Pagosa Springs, and Rob
ert e. Sloan, Pagosa Springs, charg-
ing them with conspiring to defraud
the government of valuable timber
lands.
In handing down his opinions Judge
Lewis intimated from the bench and
from his written opinions that he
would also quash the coal fraud inves-
legations.
Two questions of great Importance
are decided. One is that contracts
for the transferral of timber lands af-
ter application has been made for the
requirement are legal contracts and
hence cannot be of a criminal nature.
The coal land laws even permits
greater latitude than this, as there is
no federal law prohibiting two parties
from contracting for the requirement
of coal land, although the party to
file has not thought of doing SO up to
the time of the contract.
The second question settled is that
the rules made to govern the trans
ferral of coal and timber lands by the
land office at Washington are worth
less when it comes to trying to estab-
lish offenses which may be criminally
prosecuted The rules may apply in
civil cases. according to Judge Lewis.
but Congress is the law making body
and the land office cannot create
criminal laws by itself.
Although left with hardly leg
upon which to stand. the Department
of Justice officers. who have been
gathering evidence upon these al
legged frauds, say they will appeal the
case to the United States Supreme
Court at once. Should they not do
So the Investigations would have to
cease.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Turbine Ga. Engine.

New York.-A Herald correspond
ent at Fort Wayne. Ind, telegraphs
that Franz Burger, a well known local
inventor. has patented small turbine
gas engine which. it is said. will rev.
olutionize motive power for warships.
Mr.. Nixon. the shipbuilder is now in
correspondence with Burger relative
to his patent. 1t is said that with
Burgers invention warship can at
tain speed of sixty knots an hour.
Another thing in its favor is its very
small size. doing away with the waste
Of room required in the present sys-
tenn of boilers and reservoirs.
The attention of shipbuilders has
been aroused by his invention. Mr..
Burger is an inventive genius and has
patented 'naay things which have
done a great deal toward undermining
the mechanical world.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Yuma County Murder.

Denver.-A News special from Wray
Thursday says: A drunken brawl that
started on the farm occupied by Ora
Allen, south Of Laird. small village
eight miles east of here last night.
ended with tragedy in the village in
which j. p. Barrett, over seventy years
of age, was shot dead by gun al
legged to have been fired by Hickory
Allen, over sixty.
The brawl started at the farm over
an alleged slight to one of the Bar
rett boys. who. 1t Is said. had not been
invited to the dinner, and was carried
to the village by the younger ones.
In this clash clubs and knives took a
prominent part. Returning from his
house. which he had entered but a
few moments before, apparently i'll an
endeavor to quiet the trouble, Barrett
was met by Allen, who in the mean
time had gone into his own home and
secured a revolver.
Allen. it is said, fired upon the old
man, killing him instantly with bull
let through the heart. As the shot
was fred someone struck Allen with
a club or rock on the side of the head
cutting fearful cash.
Allen and the Barrett boys and the
Allen boys were taken into custody
and brought to the county Jail in
Wray, where they are confined pend
ing the preliminary hearing.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
AIamesa Depot Burned.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Alamosa Wednesday night says: The
Rio Granie freight and passenger de-
pot and the transfer p latform were
burned this afternoon, the loss being
$4,000.
The origin of the fire is unknown. but
1t started in the east end of the freight
depot, when all employees were at their
Christmas dinners. The flames were
well under way before discovered ane
because of the low pressure OF city wa.
ter the firemen could do little to check
them. Most of the baggage was saved.
but nearly all freight in the freight
house WAS destroyed. A switch engine
pulled a string of cars near the depot
out OF reach of the flames.
1t 10 reported that the company will
replace the burned building. which was
a frame structure. with n much more
costly depot. containing a lunch coun-
ter and other modern improvements.
There was some insurance on the
building. Temporary headquarters are
now in q hay warehouse near the
burned depot
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Bow Murdered at Trinidad.

Trinidad.-With white silk muffler
tied around his neck in hard knot
and lying face downward in trench
excavated for water pipe, the body
of Willie Leary, aged sixteen, was
found shortly before midnight, he hav-
ing been strangled to death. The silk
muffler was Christmas present from
the boys father.
The body was found by e. T. Fergu-
son, q railroad car cleaner, while in
the discharge of his duties, at point
directly opposite and across the track
from the lunch room of the Harvey
eating house. The boy was identified
by letter of recommendation found
in his pocket from c. l.. Copeland,
manager of the Advertiser, for whom
the boy had worked for year and a
half, having resigned November 18th,
the date of the resignation.
The boy had for the last two
months been working at drug store
and telephoned his mother at $50 in
the evening that he would be home
for supper. This was the last heard
from him until notified by the coroner
that he was dead
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Colorado Assessment.

Denver.-Statistics show. e the as
sessment valuation Of various proper
ties of the state prepared by the audi
tor of state, have been given out. 1t
Is shown therein that there are p
939.SS7 acres Of agricultural land in
Colorado and that the total valuation
is $35,39S.559.
Oil lands exhibit an interesting in
crease with 1888 acres valued at $122,-
OIL. AS returned by the State Board
Of Equalization there were 5.239,7S
miles of railroads assessed on the
basis of $4S,54S,523. The average Of
the cash value Of deposits iRl the
banks Of the state is given at 81 fa2
The average amount of capiak1Im-
ployed in manufactures was rated on
a basis of $12.217,753.
The acres OF grazing lands returned
were 2.s5S. 1853; timber lands. 74,67S
and other mineral lands than those
specially mentioned. SS,264.
Taxes were collected on 216.557
horses. 9,172 mules, 767 asses. ss7,sSl
cattle. 1.131,199 sheep. 59.397 swine,
and 1S,s09 goats Automobiles to the
sum of 936 were assessed on a valua-
tion Of $4O4,9 O5.
The total assessment was $379.75S'-
314. For personal property exempt on
account Of the constitutional amend
ment Of 1904 was $12,33S,940. leaving
the total net assessment for 1901
1867, 3G9,374.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Lost Bullion Promoters Sentenced.

Denver.-Leniency in the full sense
of the term was used by Judge Lewis
when, after refusing to grant a new
trial, he imposed sentences upon the
defendants connected with the Lost
Bullion mine frauds Thursday in the
Federal Court. The convicted men
got off with jail sentences ranging
from thirty to fifteen days and fines
ranging from 81 ,OOOfto $50. George S.
Dubois, his son Lee Dubois, and c. l..
Blackman. who are credited with hav-
ing first conceived the scheme of
palming an ordinary cave off as Won
derful mine of Golconda-like riches, re-
ceived the heaviest punishment-each
$1,000 fine and thirty days in jail.
DR.. r. C. Hunt and Danton Pinkus,
whom the jury recommended to the
mercy of the court and who are gener-
ally thought to have been dupes rather
than factors in the conspiracy shown
by the government, received a $50 fine
each. The rest were disposed OF as
follows: Arthur Levan, 500 and
costs; E. w. Sebben, 500 and costs;
William H. Wilson, fifteen days in the
county Jail and a $500 fine; w. B. Cam
eron, fifteen days in the county jail
and $500 fine; A. e. Keables, fifteen
days in jail and $500 fine, and Arthur
Lawrence, fifteen days in Jail and $500
fine
"Intercession of friends unknown to
the defendants" Judge Lewis stated,
made him temper mercy with justice
and reach the conclusion not to in
fiict the punishment that the facts
warranted"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Flying Machine Bids.

Washington.-Far more severe than
any other nation is the United States
in its requirements In the matter OF the
flying machine Of heavier-than.air type
as set out in the specifications issued
by General Allen, chief signal officer,
upon which inventors are invited to
submit bids to be opened February LIST
next.
The machine must carry two persons
Of the combined weight of $50 pounds
and sufflcient fuel for flight of 1876
miles. 1t must be designed for a speed
of at least forty miles an hour, but a
machine will be acceptable OF only SO
miles an hour, although only sixty per
cent. OF the contract price will be paid
therefor.
The hardest requirement to meet,
and one never heretofore realized by
any inventor. is that before accept
ance trial endurance flight will be re-
Quired of at least one hour, during
which time the flying machine must re-
main constantly in the air without land.
ing.
Unless the bidders are also the max
ers of the flying machines, they must
state the name and place of the maker.
They must also supply complete scale
drawings of their devices, and they are
notified that 1t is desirable that the
machine shall be capable of being cas-
lily and quickly taken apart and re-
assembled and be transportable in an
army wagon.
To protect the department against
irresponsible and visionary persons
who set up claims to the invention of
practical flying machines, bidders will
be required to furnish with their pro-
posal certified check to the amount
Of ten per cent Of the cost OF the ma
chine
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
American wnea. to Odessa.

A big shipment of wheat from New
York to Odessa, Russia. is an impor
tant indicator as showing how the cur.
rent Of trade ia sweeping In an unusual
direction and one that promises to
bring benefit to this country. Ordinar
lily Odessa itself is q wheat-shippine
point. being one of the ports to which
the Russian grain fields are contribu.
tory. and Europe has been accus
toned to depend on that region for a
large portion of Its food supplies. This
year the Russian crop has not been
sufficient to meet home demands, and
the export trade has fallen of accord
fngly. The people Of that country are
buying instead of selling foodstuffs.
and as Europe Is always confronting a
shortage, the situation compels reli-
ance upon the new world, In which the
United States is the chief wheat pro-
ducer. Hence, remarks the Troy IN
" Times, the increasing shipments
abroad, the effect of which in the az
gregate must be to strengthen materi
ally our credit and to increase the
favorable balance of trade.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
CARS BLOWN :
FROM TRACK
FEARFUL ACCIDENT NEAR 8oUL'
DER THE DAY BEFORE
CHRISTMAS.
ON THE c. & S. RAILWAY
ONE PASSENGER KILLED AND
MANY OTHERS SEVERELY
INJURED.

Denver.-Colorado & Southern pas
senger train No. 25, which left Denver
Mt 1920 o'clock Tuesday morning for
Fort Collins, encountered a hurricane
at Shanahan hill, twenty-four miles
north Of Denver, which lifted two
coaches and a baggage car into the air
and hurled them into ditch thirty Ss
feet from the track.
]. C. Garrett of Longmont died at
o'clock last night in the University
hospital at Boulder from injuries. and
fourteen others were seriously, though
not Tatally injured.
Following is list of those most
badly hurt:
Robert Sharp, Boulder, right leg
crushed and injured about body.
Mrs. w. A. Morrow. 1850 Tennyson
street, Denver, internal injuries and
fractured rib.
Mrs c. NJ. Shiveley, Boulder. cuts
and bruises.
Conductor Jackson NJ. Greimer, 1881
Humboldt street, Denver, back and side
bruised.
JdLlSS INeHyp 1oouiuSl, oioNSA ''Ds
scalp wound and other injuries.
James rockingham, Denver. spine
and right arm injured
w. F. Butterfield, broken spine and
right arm injured.
]. E. McLester, Longmont, injured
about body.
James Mcdonald and son of Boulder,
cut by glass.
Frank Tourtellot, Boulder, left leg
crushed.
Clyde D. Epperson, 145S Court place,
Denver, right arm injured.
S. Bassananeck, Gil Delaware street,
Denver, head and scalp wounds.
John Bottingher, S44 Gilpin street,
Denver, head and body bruised.
George Chiles. express agent. Den
yer. bruised about legs and body
The wreck occupied one mile north
of Marshall on steep down grade,
while the train was travelling at high
speed. and that the number killed and
injured was not greater is considered
miraculous. The storm struck the
train broadside and lifted the coaches
from the trucks. The windows r.
smashed and car seats torn from
their fastenings and pinned the unfor-
tunate passengers in the wreck. The
wind was so powerful that those who
escaped injury dared not move lest
they be blown away.
The train was in charge Of Conductor
Jackson NJ. Greiner. Engineer A. II.
Scott Immediately uncoupled the en-
CINE and made dash for Boulder. five
miles distant, for help.
A relief train was made up and
rushed to the scene OF the wreck, car
rying with 1t all the available physi-
clans and several nurses from the hos
pital.
Several automobiles and hacks hur-
ried to the scene and the injured. as
soon as their wounds had been tempo
rarily cared for, were hurried to
Boulder and taken to the University
hospital.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02

The automobile may have its uses.
The Touring club Of France. composed
of bicyclists and automobiles. has ia
ken up the work of reforestry and got
1t under way on broad and sound
basis. The theory was that the de-
struction Of forests lessened the pleas
ure Of travel. Auxiliary societies have
been started everywhere. and by their
efforts tree culture is now taught in
the public schools. Prizes are given
both to teachers and to pupils for good
work in this line. The club has also
secured the passage of several laws
for the preservation of forests. This
is better than running over pedes.
TRANS. at least.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Christmas Pardon.

Canon City.-Christmas was a gala
day for the GAL copvicts in the state
penitentiary, and nothing was left I'M
done by the warden to make them en-.
joy the occasion as much as possible
for men deprived of their liberty.
Warden Cleghorn announced that
the Christmas pardon of Governor
Buchtel was granted to Jacob Zip
perian. which evoked tears from the
other Convicts, particularly from those
who knew of the beneficiary's unhappy
plight. Zipperian was No CALI on the
prison rolls, and for the last ten weeks
has been in the penitentiary hospital
with typhoid fever, but is now slowly
recovering. Zipperian was serving a
sentence Of seven to eight years for
murder and was re ceived here from
La Plata county September 20. 1905.
Zipperian was first sentenced to life
Imprisonment and was in the peniten-
tiary for a year or more under that
decree, when the Supreme Court
granted him a new trial on a writ of
error He was convicted second
time and given an indeterminate SEN
tence of seven to eight years. He is
about twenty-six years old. He shot
man in a quarrel over division
fence. Judge Russell of theta Plata
District Court, who presided at his
trial, and ten of the twelve jurymen
who convicted him signed the petition
to the board of pardons for his release.
The petition was also signed by eighty
citizens of Sea Plata county and by
John A. Holmberg, former state treas
urer. Frank Kratzer of Denver was
especially active in his behalf.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Wool Mems Convention.

Helena, Mont--All arrangements
have been made for the forty-fourth
annual meeting of the National Wool
Growers association in this city Jan
uary l4th, 18th and 10th. Advices have
been received indicating that upward
OF 1000 persons will represent. Sim
ultaneously a sheep show will be held
at which the leading wool and sheer
interests of the country will make ex
hibits. The questions to be considere,
at the Wool Growers meeting will be
the public land questions. and the at
titude of the national administratio
thereon. The twenty-eight hour law
relative to live stock shipments, will
also be discussed.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-02
Noted Pioneer Dead.

Greeley.-On Monday night death
closed the remarkable career OF Oliver
p. Goodwin. veteran of the Mexican.
war, soldier of many of the Indian
wars, a filibuster in Central America
under BILLY" Walker, a fur trader.
freighter across the plains, miner in
the early days of California and one of
the first to be identified with the stock
Industry of northern Colorado and Wy
oming.
Goodwin was seventy-seven years
old and until month before his death
was active mentally and physically
and had a mind stored with fund of
information of the West Of early days.
Probably no man living this side of the
Mississippi had a more varied life than
Goodwin, who was for Ave years mas
ter OF a government transport when
supplies were sent from Fort Leaven-
worth to the forts Of Colorado, Wyom-
ing and Utah in the days when Indians
were most dangerous.
Goodwin had headquarters in Pueblo
when 1t was merely fur trading post
and trekked all over this locality for
the St Louis Fur Company when there
was not cabin in the Cache La Pou-
DIRE valley. He made and lost several
fortunes before he was forty and in
the early 7Os. having noted the value
of northern Colorado for stock raising.
bought land near Fort Collins and
there conducted big ranch until he
went to Wyoming in the early sos.
Continuing in the cattle business, he
again accumulated a fortune and two
years ago came to Greeley.
He was born In St. Louis. was a
Mason OF high standing for half a CEN
fury and is survived by widow and
daughter.