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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
The Highway Bill Ready.

The new highway bill over which
there has been so much discussion
has been completed. and 1t is expected
1t will be submitted to the house
this week. No one seems to know
what this bill contains, except the
committee. but it is supposed 10 en-
body all the good points of the sup
pressed bills of Representatives Whe-
Ian and Bryant, together with the la
test ideas of Good Roads" Earle. In
connection with this move Highway
Commissioner Earle has submitted
report showing the appropriations and
expenses of his department during
the four years it has been in exist
ence. The total receipts have been
$37S,000. of which $4,000 has been
received from automobile license fees.
He states that 1872 road Institutes in
the counties of the state have cost
S4,490: township road maps made in
part by students of the agricultural
college, have cost $1,000. instead of
$4,000, as they would have had they
been made by civil engineers: cam
paigns for good roads have cost S4.-
900; supervision of road construction
has cost 1920; salaries have been
about $4,000. aside from which the
department has paid out for state aid
for road construction the sum of $246,-
$50, leaving a balance in the fund of
$73,250. In all. 1896 miles of good
roads have been built.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
PERSONAL.

Frank A. Vanderbilt, on a special
train, broke the speed record from
New York to Chicago, but failed by
rs minutes to reach the home of his
mother before she died
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the St.
Paul lumber king, answering Champ
Clarks speech in the house, said
there is no lumber trust and never
has been.
In the presence of representatives
of the entire department, Ormsby Nc
Harg of North Dakota was indicted
formally into the Office of assistant
secretary of commerce and labor.
Charles ID. Norton of Chicago, re-
Gently appointed assistant secretary
of the treasury to succeed Louis A
Coolidge, resigned, is to enter upon
his new duties April s.
Mrs. Carrie Nation called at the
White House but was told that Presi
dent Taft was mot in" She said she
wouldn't cry if the lions ate Roosevelt.
DR.. Marriott Hutchins, president of
the board of education of Lake county.
Mich. was swindled out of $1,000 in
London.
Gov. Curry of New Mexico has with.
drawn his resignation at the request of
President Taft.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN lTEMlZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man
Latest Personal Infor-
nation.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Members of the house of representa-
tives already are beginning to specu-
late upon their individual chances of
securing choice committee assign
ments, which are expected to be made
Just before the present special session
of congress ends.
Representatives Fordney of Michi,
gan and Byrd of Mississippi, nearly
came to blows on the floor of the
house in an argument over the tariff
bill.
Charges were made In the house
that the retention of the countervail-
ing duty on oil was left in the Payne
tariff bill in the interest of the Stand
ard Oil Company.
The Republican insurgents in the
house have prepared to fight any rule
that will limit amendments to the
tariff bill
The attention of congress is to be
called again to the alleged mistreat-
ment of some American subjects in
Russia. Representative Sheppard or
Texas has introduced a joint resolu-
tion requesting the president of the
United States to renew negotiations
with the Russian government.
Following the two-day speech OF Mr.
Payne, Champ Clark, minority leader
of the house, began his bombardment
of the tariff bill.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
Win Not BE Strenuous.

In explanation and application OF
his recently quoted prediction that ex-
President Theodore Roosevelt would
not survive his trip to Africa. Prof.
Frederick Starr, of the University Of
Chicago, says:
'If Mr.. Roosevelt returns at all ne.
will return changed man. 1t is ex-
tremely dangerous for a man of so
years of age to make his first trip
into the jungle. If he survives he will
be more sluggish by nature.
II never prophesied that Mr.. Roose-
welt would fall victim to the sleep
ing sickness or would be eaten by
lions, tigers. or cannibals. To sur
vive the dangers of the climate re-
quires an entire re-making of the ply
steal nature of the man who goes into
the jungle.
Mr.. Roosevelt's vigor will be his
worst enemy. His age, disposition
and strength are all against him. IL
is the second stage of the journey,
from the great lakes to the head
waters of the Nile, that is menacing."
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Five companies of Oklahoma militia
were ordered out to kill or capture
Chief Crazy Snake of the Creek In.
dians, whose men have caused the
deaths of several persons in the last
few days.
Mrs. James H. Boyle, who planned
the kidnapping of Willie Whitla, at
tempted to leap from the train on
which she was taken from Pittsburg
to Mercer, Pa, for trial.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was electrocuted
I'm the prison at Auburn, n. Y, for the
murder of Mrs. Mary Brennan.
A rate war among the transcontinen.
tai railroads probably will be averted
by the executive officers of the trunk
lines operating from the ports of Bos.
ton, New York, Philadelphia and Balti.
more.
Persistent rumors have it that the
pope is seriously i'll, and the continued
suspension of audiences at the Vatican
seems to confirm the report.
While riding a spirited horse in AL
tadena, Cal, Miss Edith Ogden Har
rison, daughter of former Mayor Car
ter Harrison of Chicago, was thrown
violently to the ground and severely
hurt.
Former Vice-President and Mrs
Fairbanks are at Pasadena, Cal, where
they will remain several weeks.
President Taft told Chief Engineer
G41fhoIc hfo g..
Panama to make every effort to com
plete the canal before the close Of
1913.
Mrs. Amos Miller drowned herself
and two children at Sumsbury, Conn.
while mentally deranged.
While hundreds of persons lookec
on, powerless to render aid, Christ An
derson, Henry Bothman and FRANK
Bentz we're swept over the falls al
Waterloo, Ia, and drowned.
Twenty persons lost their lives wher
the sloop Kearsarge was wrecked and
sunk near Bluefields, Nicaragua.
Mrs. Anna Lecline OF Underwood
ILL.,, may contest the will of James
Millikin. the Decatur banker who lef
a 81 100000 estate.
Mayor Rose of Milwaukee an,
President Dickie of Albion college en-
gagged in debate on the prohibition
question.
President Taft's special message
urging congress to revise the tariff
on which work the house has begun
is the shortest document Of its kline
on record
Senators Smith and Burrows o
Michigan have prevailed upon Presi
dent Taft to keep Ambassador o'Briei
at Tokyo.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
SNAKE TRIBE.
Indians Open War In Oklahoma and
Kill Whites.

In a pitched battle at Hickory
Ground, Oklahoma. Saturday night be-
tween a posse of five officers and
twenty Greek Indians of the Snake
clan, Officers Edward Baum, of Che
cotah, and Herman Odom, OF Checo-
tab, were killed and Frank Swift, OF
Muskegee. fatally wounded
Frank Jones and William Carr, 9th
er members of the posse. escaped
without injury and fed to the settle
ments where the news of the battle
was telephoned to Sheriff Odom, Of
Mcintosh county.
Swift dragged himself from the
scene of the battle and was later
picked up by William Carr, one OF
the escaping officers, and taken to
Pierce, a station one mile away. Frank
Jones, another of the posse who es-
capped boarded a train at Pierce and
went TO Checotah bearing some de-
tails OF the battle.
The officers, having heard that the
Indians and negroes were again peace
able after the battle of Thursday
morning, approached the cabin OF
Harjo, near Hickory Ground. without
fear. AS they were entering the
chiefs yard 20 guns were leveled
upon them by as many men in the
house and around the corners.
Odom and Baum fell dead and Swift
was seriously wounded. Jones ran a
few yards and hid himself in a clump
of trees until the Indians disappeared
Then he hurried to Pierce.
Within 30 minutes after the report
of the battle reached Checotah hun
dred men were armed Every availa-
BILE gun and practically all the am
munition In town were taken. In an
hour so men were marching toward
Hickory Ground.
A dispatch from Checotah says that
the Snake Indians have been purchas-
ing rifles and ammunition for a month
and that they are supplied with pow
der and lead enough to last them two
days. Harjo, who has so often within
the past two years expressed his dis
pleasure at the restraints of law and
has often called his men into council
on that account is believed to have
determined to make a firm stand in
behalf of his ideas of liberty.
His band have been outlaws for
years. 1t required the services of IN
tied States officers and the threat Of
a call for the state militia to quell
his band last fall during a session OF
the council at Hickory Ground.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
THE ACTIVITY OF
OUR LAW MAKERS
FIGHT ON THE ORMSBEE BILL
WAS WARM AND CAUSED
ILL FEELING.
THE NEW HIGHWAY BILL
Brief Views Of What the Legislators
Are Doing for Their Constituents
in the Matter of Law Making.
Especial Correspondence)
Lansing. Mich, March 20, 1905

bdHSlHS, MlCil., MdICn 90 lJOJ.
Last week was the most important
so far of the present session of the
legislature. II was devoted chiefly
to liquor bills and resulted in the
house killing the Ormsbee bill, known
as house bill No. so, and the senate
passing the search and seizure bill of
Senator Dickinson after it had been
amended to apply only to dry coun-
ties.
The OTmsbee bill was a measure de-
signed to regulate liquor traffic more
rigidly and make the business men re-
spectacle. II contained the best fea-
lures ever offered in a liquor bill to
the Michigan legislature but il was
killed by the anti-saloon element os-
tensibly because il was supposed to
have been inspired by the Brewers
association, but more probably be-
cause by regulating the saloon IL
might hurt the cause of local option.
However this may be, men who were
pledged to support such a measure
broke their word and others attacked
it in such an unjustifiable manner
that even after the bill was reconsid-
cred and laid on the table an ugly
feeling OF bitterness pervaded the
house and manifested itself by slaugh-
tering several bills in which the lead
ers against the Ormsbee bill were Wit
ally interested. How far this venge-
full spirit may be carried remains to
be seen. The feature of the present
week will be the adj valorem tax bill
which taxes telephone and telegraph
companies on the same, basis as 9TH
er property. II has passed the SEN
ate but the house committee has re-
fused to concur and so far have de-
fed the efforts of Acknowledgement
Bird to whip them into line. This
measure was the subject of a big
fight two years ago when Speaker
Campbell led the battle against IL.
This time he is taking no visible
part. Rep. Guy Miller is the insur-
gent and says 1t is immaterial to him
whether it was part of the Republican
platform or not. A show down OF
the bill is. expected this week.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
The JudicIa, Circuits.

The house judiciary committee is
working on bill to redistrict nearly
all the judicial circuits of the state.
The plan contemplates enlarging some
circuits and reducing others. so that
the judge in each circuit will have
approximately the same amount OF
work as the judges in every other cir
cult. Also II is proposed to reduce
the number OF circuits by half dozen
or so. This latter proposition Is sure
to be vigorously opposed by the
judges of those circuits that might be
eliminated.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
Punishment Of kidnapers.

Representative Wiloughby, of Oak
land county. has introduced a bill to
make kidnapping call for life imprison-
ment. 1t is evident that Mr.. Wilough-
by has not looked up the Michigan
law on the subject as it now stands
for it provides that the judge may
now sentence any one convicted OF
such a crime to any term of years.
There is absolutely no limit to the
length of sentence that may be i'm
posed. 1t is said an effort will. how
ever, be made to amend the Wilough-
by bill by making 1t non-parolable.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
Shipped Ford Away.

The grand jury investigating the
Armstrong wardenship of the Michi-
gan state prison Friday morning di-
vided its time among the doings In
the warden's residence, the halt to
which the saate board of corrections
and charities brought him in his pun
ishment of prisoners and the workings
of the state pardon board.
EX-Convict Peter Lamarind. Convict
Benjamin and Convict Smith, all OF
whom worked in the prison residence,
testified that boxes were packed with
chickens, eggs, extract of beef, canned
goods, bottled delicacies and other
fancy groceries bought from Carlton
& Windt and shipped 10 Armstrong;
daughter after she took up her resi-
dence in South Bend
Smith is the colored cook of the
prison household. He said:
THE old man came out to me az
ter this affair had blown up and said:
Well, Smith, they've got me falling.
I'm going to fall hard. But I'm -
If I'll drag anybody down with me-
"The Saturday night the old man
was arrested he and his wife walked
the floor all night. Mrs. Armstrong
drank nine cups of clear black coffee
so fast that j began to think I'd need
a bicycle to get 'em to her quick
enough. One day a little while after
that she came out into the kitchen
and danced a regular barn dance, best
hoedown I've ever seen since ! came
from the south. She had heard some
good or other"
THE missus is the one with the
brains In that family. She knows
more In a minute than Armstrong
will all his life"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
HEADS WERE GUT
OFF WITH AN AXE
iNHUMAN BUTcHERY OF WOMAN
AND HER INFANT BY
HUSBAND.
IN BLOOD SOAKED BED.
The Brutal Atrocity Committed on a
Farm Near Mancelona Discovered
and Brute Arrested.

The headless bodies of Mrs. George
HOPPER and her infant were found
Monday morning soaked in blood in
bed at their home on a farm eight
miles southwest of Mancelona. The
neighbors who had made the discovery
of the atrocious double murder hastily
spread the alarm and a posse of angry
farmers was organized. IL was learned
that HOPPER was missing since the
night before, when the dual crime
must have been committed, and
search for him, at once begun, was re-
warded by finding him covering in
patch of underbrush along a roadway
where he had evidently fed He was
with difficulty placed under arrest by
the sheriff of Antrim county and his
deputies, as the crowd of pale-faced
men seemed intent, at first, on string
ing him to the nearest tree.
Monday morning, while passing
neighbor's house, HOPPER seemed
greatly agitated and told the members
of the family who met him that he
was going to kill himself
IL can't stand it any longer" HOPPER
is reported to have said. I'm going to
make way with myself"
Questioned as to why he wanted to
die, HOPPER had merely muttered some
thing and hurried on down the road.
The mans daZed look and strange
actions aroused the neighbors' suspic-
ions. 1t had been rumored for some
time that the domestic relations of the
Hopfers were strained and telephone
message was sent to the sheriff's Of
flee at Bellaire, the county seat. Sher-
if Little. Deputy Sherman and others
Immediately set ont for the HOPPER
home. But before they arrived. the
neighbors had found the bodies Of the
cruelty murdered wife and babe.
AS soon as the sherif's party had
overtaken HOPPER, in the bushes and
he found he was caught. he was sur
rounded by angry farmers, who spoke
of "stringing him up" Cooler heads
prevailed and the sheriff asked the
man why he committed the crime.
81 was crazy" he is said to have
replied He is also said to have as
serted that he and his wife had quar-
relied over financial matters
IL cut their heads off with an AK"
the officers say HOPPER declared.
He was taken to Bellaire and
charge of dual murder lodged against
him.
1t is understood from neighbors that
there had been domestic trouble in the
HOPPER family for some time.
The body of both the woman and
her child were hacked, probably after
being decapitated, as though in mani
acal fury The bedroom Of the farm
house was in order, save for the blood
soaked bedding The clothing IF he
murdered woman hung on the foot Of
the bed undisturbed. She and her babe
had been foully butchered in their
sleep.
No one heard any outcries. There
are no neighbors living close by, the
nearest building being several rods
away.
HOPPER admitted that he killed his
wife and baby by cutting their heads
off with an AK. He said that quarrel
over financial troubles had driven him
to commit the crime.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02

der local option. the Judge 's onite
broad and fair in his personal views
though as the representative of ms
county is for local option. prohibition,
sanctification, or anything else his
constituents want. He was a mem
Der of the constitutional convention
and his work the present session has
been on legal measures for regulation
of court procedure and as a member
of the judiciary committee.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02

Claim That some OF his Ideas would
prove dangerous in their section of
the state where the foreign element
predominates. The mining inspector
is a power in the upper peninsula and
the big companies are averse to hav-
ing the place filled by a man who
owes his election entirely to the peo-
pie.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02

JNNIo OF II UUI UVNdUot NO HVIu II
should come under control of the
state medical board. The outcome is
as yet very much in doubt but the
friends of the bill cannot claim to
have received anything but fair treat
ment from Dr. Huntley. The bill does
not interfere with the sale of specta-
cles in stores but applies only to those
who treat the eyes in fitting glasses.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
For His Constituents.

OHe VI the PROM
ihent figures of
the present house
is Judge Benjamin
f. Weickert, of
Paw Paw. who has
just celebrated his
SEVENTEEN b irt h
day. Considering
that he has lived
in Van Buren,
county since the
civil war and the
past Is years un-
n IA =.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
Election of Mine inspectors.

One of the big
fights scheduled in
he house will
probably come over
Rep. Kappler's bill
TO have the inspec
tor of mines elect
ed. Mr.. Happier is
a Democrat and
coming from the
the upper PENN
sula is somewhat
nut of touch with
his colleagues, who
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
The Opticians.

The Giles OPTIC
metry bills to IL
C e n S e opticians
and provide a state
board of examin-
ers has passed the
committee of the
whole. DR.. Hunt
ley. chairman of
the committee on
public health, OPP
posed the measure
not that he was
friendly to the OBJ
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02
THE MARKETS.

Detroit:-cattle.-Extra dryfed steers
h 5afer aeifers 600 ooqS 90 steers and 7G
5.25; steers and heifers that are fat,
500 to 700. 4.25@4.75; choice fat cows,
$50; e! goed ia fat cows, s4@425; common
heavy bulls, $3.50; fair to good boz
lognas. bulls. $4@4.25; stock bulls, $3.50
Q3,75; choice feeding steers, 500 to
1000 $3.50; fair feeding steers 500 to
1000, s4.25; choice stockers, 500 10 700.
$4@425; fair stockers 500 to 700, $3.50
"a; stock heifers.. s2@3.5O; mixers,
common mixers $20@30.
Veal calves--Market steady at last
weeks opening best, $750@s; others,
$@7; mich cows and .springers steady.
Sheep and lambs-Market 1Oc to 15c
higher than last week; best lambs,
s!.75@7.S5; fair to good lambs, $40
yearlings. S6@65O; fair to good sheep,
$5@5.50; culls and common, 1904.
Hogs-Market strong at last weeks
10 good butchers. $6.S0@6e0: pigs, Sc a
6.75; light workers., s6.25 Q6.50; stays.
l-3 off.
East alo-Cattle-Market 100
I5c lower; export steers, So 25Q6 rs;
8 s0@s 40; best 1000 to 1,10O-lb do.
lair 70 good. s4@t 2s trimrners, 81 SO
light M1 fV fat beifers. SO 75S4: best buns.
5O@5: bologna bulls. $4@4 25 There
was a little better demand here today
for the fresh cows and sprIngers, and
with but few on the market they sold
about 81 per head higher: best cows,
s4o@s5; medium. sa5@45; common.
HoSs-Market steady; heavy. 81 80;
workers.. s. 1907 20; pigs. Sc rs,
So 25MS 30: culls. $7@7 so: yearlings
5O@7 25: wethers. soc so. ewes.
SIS 1909 90. closed slow.
calves-$4 5o@9 rs.
Grain, Etc.
oit--Wheat-Cash No red
$1.25; May opened with a drop of &c
at s1.21% and advanced to s1.22; July
and closed at s1.o6: September opened
at s1.00%. advanced to s1.01 and closed
az s1.OO%; No. red, s1.22; No. white,
: corn.cssssh No. 3, SIC; No. yellow.
oats%cash No. white. car AZ
55hc: May 55&c.
Rye-Cash No. 2 sac
Beans-cash; s2.35; May. $40.
$3.50; March and April. SIS 30; October.
100 bags at $500: sample. % bags al
$50. 20 at s., 10 at s4.T5; sample
alsike. so bags. at 1925.
Timothy seed-Prime spot. 100 bags
Bsriey-Good samples. s1.45es1so
FeedGIn ioO-lb sacks. jobbIne lots:
middilngs sal; cracked corn and
coarse cornmeal. s2T corn and oat
choD. s25 per ton
Flour-Best Michigan patent. ssIo:
ordinary patent. .s5.75; straight, $3.50:
clear. $3.50 per Dbl. in wood. jobbing
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02

Charles G. Townsend, of Michigan,
has been appointed principal examin-
er in the pension Office at Washing
ton at $4,000 year
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02

Mother and father wouldn't let the
boys come to see me and take me out
with them. so I ran away" said a
poorly dressed and hungry looking IA
vear-old girl that was brought into
the Muskegon county sheriffs Office.
and who so far has proved complete
enigma.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02

The will of the late Mary Robinson,
which was originally written in Chi
nese, and later translated into Eng
lish. was filed in the probate court at
Marshall. Miss Robinson was form
er resident of this county and had
spent many years as a missionary to
China.
Another 100000 industry fell into
Battle Creek hands Wednesday,
through the efforts of the Industrial
association. The Grand Rapids Stove
CO., $4,000 corporation. will in
crease its capital TO 100000 and
build fine factory on seven acres OF
land west OF the city, donated by the
Post Land Co.
Petoskey Is pleased over a pros
pective visit from President Taft. The
Michigan State Bankers association.
which meets there July TO Is, has
secured tentative promise Of an adj
dress from the president In case con-
gress adjourns in time to permit OF
his getting away.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-02

d. z. CURTIss