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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
THIRTY COUNTIES
REPRESENTED
Northern Minnesota Development
Association Meets.

Crookston, Mimi, June 3.--Thirty
counties of Northern Minnesota are
banded together to boost this section
of the state. Three hundred repre-
sentatives from these counties met
at the Auditorium In the second gath
ering of the Northern Minnesota De-
velopment association. Eight hundred
visitors were also in attendance,
which, with the town people, filled the
Auditorium.
Previous to the assembling the ques-
tions of the most importance consid-
cred in the lobby were the next meet
ing place and the resolutions. 1t is
apparently definitely settled that Brain
erd shall have the pleasure of hold
ing the fort for the next assembling
of this association.
When it comes to resolutions there
are some squalls on the horizon. In
general, the "resoluting" will follow
the lines laid down at the meeting at
Bemidji This will make the leading
resolve call for reapportionment with
an emphasis that is expected to jar
something loose some place.
The morning session was devoted
to organization and the appointment
OF committees. In the afternoon a
special train took the delegates out to
the Crookston agricultural college
where several addresses were made
Among the speakers were Robert C
Dunn and Professor Bernhard Boeg
gild of Copenhagen.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03

moving with respect to the new East
ern rates on file, there being prima
facie evidence in the opinion of GER
tain government officials that the pro-
posed increases are exactly on all fours
with the increase made by the trans
mississippi roads, which the depart
ment of justice has already enjoined
in the Missouri courts.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Eastern roads are filing their pro-
posed increases separately, the gov
ernment will examine them closely to
ascertain whether or not it will be
necessary to enjoin them, also.
The outlook is for tremendous le-
gal battle between the railroads and
the government.
The Central Freight association ter
ritory embraces practically that Sec
tion of the country including Chicago
st. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and
Indianapolis and twenty-five railroads
and one steamboat company are in
volved in the proposed increase OF
rates, which ranges from to 81 per
cent
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
ORDERED Low
SUGAR TESTS
Havemeyer's Name Brought
Into Case on Trial.
TELLS HIS INSTRUCTIONS

Former Refinery Superintendent Ad-
mits on the Witness Stand That He
Returned Figures Below the Correct
Weight, but He Denies That He Was
Specifically Ordered to Falsify the
Returns.
New York, June 3.--Ernest w. Ger
bracht's effort to put the responsible
ity for sugar underweighing frauds
solely upon Oliver Splitter, former su-
perintendent of the American Sugar
Refining company's Williamsburg
plant, or, by imputation, upon men
now dead, was sharply attacked by
Federal Prosecutor Henry l.. Stim.
son at the resumption of the sugar
conspiracy trial. Gerbracht was SUI
perintendent of the Williamsburg re.
finery during the period when the
cheating devices on these scales were
in use.
Mr.. Stimson questioned Gerbracht
as to how he accounted for discrepan-
cies between government weights and
refinery weights in the technical
statements without getting much in
formation out of the witness. Then
he took new tack.
Now l think you said that III. o.
Havemeyer directed you to falsify the
results on the tests of raw sugar ?"
said Mr.. Stimson.
mo, 1 did not" exclaimed Ger
bracht
Il think you testified that he told
you to make the tests of raw sugar
low?" continued Mr.. Stimson.
mo, sir; he told me to keep them
low" corrected Gerbracht.
WELL" said Mr.. Stimson, ''the diff
ference seems only to be slight one
in verbiage.'
lower than their true figures?' asked
Mr.. Stimson.
"Yes."
"And didn't Mr.. Havemeyer tell you
to-"
yes"
$50, now you don't object to my say
ing that Mr.. Havemeyer directed you
to falsify the tests?"
Il do He did not"
what is the difference?" asked Mr..
Stimson
Il mean there was no true test In
polarization" said Gerbracht.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
EARLY PASSAGE EXPECTED
House Republicans Agree on Postal
Savings Bank Bill.


Washington, June 3-Consideration
of the postal savings bank bill In eau
Gus was concluded by the Republicans
of the house Wednesday night and a
canvass is being made looking to the
early passage of the bill through the
house. The final action Of the caucus
was to fix the amount of deposits in
postal banks which may be used for
the purchase of government bonds and
for redeposit in local banks at 35 per
cent and 65 per cent respectively.
The bill further provides that the
deposits may be withdrawn by the
government "for the general welfare
and other interest" of the government
at the request of any depositor in the
postal bank, and his deposits in
amounts of $40, $40, $50. 500. or $500
may be used to purchase government
bonds of like denomination, drawing
2h per cent interest. The caucus also
passed resolution favoring the pas
sage of rule in the house which will
limit general debate and permit the
minority to offer a substitute bill II
they desire.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
PROMINENT LAWYER is DEAD
Sidney Webster Was Private Secre.
tary to President Pierce.

Newport, r. L., June 3.-Sidney Web
ster. an authority on corporation and
international law, died here after a
brief illness.
Sidney Webster was born in 1928 In
Cilmanton, N. H., and was graduated
from Yale in 1S4S and from the Har-
ward law school In 1850. He came
Franklin Pierce and when Pierce
went to Washington to assume the
presidency he took Mr.. Webster, then
a man of twenty-four years of age,
with him as his private secretary.
Mr.. Webster had shown early in his
career a capacity for craftsmanship
and the management of men.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
AMERICANS WILL
DEFY THE ORDER
Madriz Assumes Control OF
BluefieldS HarbOr.
KEEPS WATCH ON VENUS

United States Gunboat Will Not Per.
nit Nicarasuan Warship to Bonn
bard the City or She'll the Insur-
gents by Firing Over the Provisional
capital-Decisive Battle Expected
in That Vicinity.
Bluefields, Nicaragua, June 3.-Dr.
Julian Irias, the representative on the
Atlantic coast of President Madriz,
has issued a decree that vessels
cleared for Bluefelds on or after June
l may not enter the port without the
permission of the Madriz government
American ships will, however, disre-
gard the order.
The decree sets forth that all ship
ping which cleared for Bluefields be-
fore that date will be permitted to
enter the harbor after the payment of
custom duties at the custom house on
Bluefields bluff, which was recently
captured and is still held by the gov
ernment troops.
The off cial decree was issued from
aboard the Nicaraguan war vessel
Venus and If it's provisions are OBJ
served it will mean that the coastwise
traffic will be absolutely in the con-
troll of President Madriz and the con
sequent weakening of the position Of
the insurgents at Bluefields.
The United States gunboat Paducah
will not permit the Venus to bonn
bard the city of Bluefields or to shell
the trenches of the revolutionists on
the inland side of the city by firing
over the provisional capital Whether
the United States government will al
low the Nicaraguan government to say
what vessels shall enter the chief
Eastern seaport of the country and
under what conditions such entry shall
be made is matter of doubt here.
Hope for American Intervention.
Hope is found in the fact that the
decree may have been issued before
DR.. Irias had been officially informed
of the attitude at Washington toward
the collection of custom duties at this
port, Secretary Knox having decided
| that the insurgents, although driven
| off of the bluff and having abandoned
the custom house to the government
| forces, may still collect customs at
some other point, encouraged the be.
lief that the American government
will again intervene to the ultimate
| advantage of the revolutionists.
The forces under General Lara are
considered to be the flower of the
governments army and their aban.
donment for the time at least of the
attempt against Bluefields has given
| new courage to the insurgent com.
mander, General Estrada, who had
been keenly disappointed by the In.
ability Of his men under General Zele.
don to hold the bluff and custom
house.
| General Lara cannot retreat to any
great distance because of the swamps
| by which he Is surrounded and which
have been rendered impossible by re-
cent heavy rains. Accordingly, it ap
pears that the final issue may be
fought out not far from the present
positions of the contending armies.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
Embezz,er GETS Seven Years.

ST. Paul, June 5.--Seven years at
hard labor in the state prison at Still
water was the sentence pronounced by
Judge Hallam In district court on Tim
othy Murphy, former captain In the
Volunteers of America, as punish
ment for having embezzled S1,250
March 21 last. The sum represented
the major part of the fund collected
by Volunteer workers for working
girls home.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
Coal Miners Still Out.

Wilkesbarre. Pa, June 3.--There is
no sign of settlement in the strike of
the $4,000 anthracite mine workers in
the Pittston district. The officials of
the Pennsylvania Coal company de-
clare no agreement can be reached un-
,til the strikers first return to work,
according to the rule of the strike
commission.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
FEAR SETBACK
IN BUSINESS
Railroad Men Comment on
Rate Injunction.
PROPOSE TO GO HIGHER

James j. Hill Says Administration Can
not Take Away Rights of Carriers
and He Puts His Faith in Courts.
Missouri River Rate Decision Said
to Be More Serious Than the Wick
ersham Injunction.
New York, June 3-The action of
Attorney General Wickersham in OBJ
tanning an injunction at Hannibal,
Mo, restraining twenty-five Western
railroads from making effective the
proposed increases in the freight rates
and the announcement of the decision
of the supreme court in the Missouri
river rate case have aroused a vigor-
Gus protest by railroad officers, bank
ers and manufacturers. Among New
York bankers and railroad men it is
felt that a recession of business will
result, though how severe this setback
will be cannot be estimated.
w. H. Newman, former president of
the New York Central, had this to
offer:
1T may possibly mean a great in
jury to business. Still, you cannot tell
what may happen in the next twenty
four hours. Business conditions as
rule are good, but this injunction suit
may mean serious setback"
James j. Hill said he knew of moth
ing in the Sherman antitrust law
which could be so interpreted as to
prohibit the roads from filing their in
creases in concert.
''This country has lived through
some stupid things. | hope it can live
through this. The administration cam
not take away the railroads rights.
We will go higher said Mr.. Hill.
Cheerful on Other Subjects.
The chairman of the Great Northern
was cheerful on everything outside OF
the political situation.
Newman Erb, chairman of the ex-
ecutive board of the Ann Arbor rail-
road, made the following statement:
"The railroad companies do not
wish to do anything unlawful and are
themselves interested in knowing
whether their proceedings have been
lawful The interstate commerce act
requires them to unite in establishing
through rates and joint tariffs for in
terstate business and imposes severe
penalties for violations of this pro-
vision. The Sherman law prohibits
: them from uniting in agreements in
restraint of trade, so the railroads are
between two fires"
F. A. Delano, president of the Wa
bash, spoke up without reserve.
"The Missouri river rate decision. =
he said, SIS much more serious than
the Wickersham rate Injunction, be-
cause there is no appeal and no rem
edy, whereas we are sure we can per-
suade any fair minded court that rates
should be advanced The Missouri de-
cision destroys our entire system OF
ratemaking."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
NO SIGN OF ABATEMENT
Serious Forest Fires Raging Near
Priest River, Ida.

Priest River, Ida, June 3.-Three
separate forest fires are raging In this
vicinity and one of them has done Sc
we're damage.
The fires are along the three wagon
roads which lead to and from Priest
Rapids and there is no sign of their
abatement. The situation Is serious.
A logging camp containing seven
buildings has been destroyed. The
sixty men and two women who lived
there succeeded in escaping to Priest
River
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
Double Murderer n Covrt.

Hastings. Mimi, June 3-Patrick ].
Gibbons, who murdered his wife and
Rev. e. j. Walsh in South st. Paul last
Sunday evening, was arraigned before
Police Justice A. r. johnson. He
waived the reading Of the complaint,
pleaded not guilty and waived further
nearing and was committed without
bail to the next term OF the district
court, which conyenes In November.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
MOVEMENT IS NATIONWIDE
Eastern Roads File Notice Of increase
in Freight Rates.

Washington, June 3.-Official mo-
tices of an increase of freight rates by
the railroads within the Central
freight associations territory. to take
effect on July l, have been filed with
the Interstate commerce commission
and an increase of freight rates In
the Eastern territory are beginning to
come In, to take effect on July 5. The
wheels. Of the gQyarnment are already
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
Ex-Governor Mickey Desc.

Osceola, Neb, June 3.-Ex-Governor
John H. Mickey died at his home here
For more than year the ex-governor
had been suffering from arteriai
sclerosis, which finally caused his
death. From the first illness he raj.
He'd but never recovered.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
Peary Received by King George.

London, June 3.-Commander Rob-
ert e. Peary was presented to King
George at Marlborough House. He re.
mained a half hour, telling his majes-
ty something of his own achievements
and discussing with him the prospects
Of Captain Scotts Antarctic expedi-
uou-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-11
FRISCO TO RUN CARS.
City Approves Municipal Ownership
Scheme at Special Election.

San Francisco the other day took
the first step toward municipal owner
ship of its street railway lines when
by vote of $1,000 to 1900 the peo-
pie carried bond issue to the amount
of S2,020,000. The funds raised by
the sale of these bonds are to be used
in the construction of a municipal cleo
trio lne along Geary street and other
thoroughfares from the heart of the
business district to the ocean beach, a
distance of about nine miles. This
proposition has been submitted to the
voters CT the city four times, the other
three polls being against the bonds.
The present Geary street car line is
an obsolete cable system. 1t is oper-
ated under special permit granted
to a private company by the super
visors after the franchise of the orig
inal company had expired. The causes
leading to the voting of these bonds
by decisive majority after the same
proposition had been three times de-
feated are numerous and complex. Pos
sibly more than anything else the vote
represents an expression of dissatis-
faction with the methods and service
of the United Railroads. The car sys-
tenn of the city under the present pri-
vate monopoly admittedly is not good.
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Officials of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen. with headquarters in
Cleveland. formally notified the svari-
Gus divisions of about seventy five rail-
roads east of the Mississippi River
that the $4,000 members of the brother
hood would on January make demand
for an increase in wages amounting to
from to 40 per cent. The existing
agreement necessitates notice before
such a demand can be made. Then the
trainmen will wait until January 20 for
their answer President Lee of the
trainmen does not expect strike, but
says it viii come If the demands are
not granted
The Block Signal and Train Control
Board, which was authorized by Con-
gress some three years ago to investi-
gate the whole subject of passenger
train control and protection, has now
reported to the Commerce Commission.
1t severely criticises certain roads for
the character of the signal system, and
says that inexperienced operators were
found all over the country. Others who
have the experience are lacking In re-
liability, and still others are too young.
The board has examined 32S inventions
of protective devices offered. and OF
these only twelve were deemed worth
testing at government expense
The Northern Pacific has fifty-two-
acre poultry farm seventeen miles east
Of Seattle, Wash, with a profit of H.
600 White Leghorn chickens. which
provide an average Of $50 dozen eggs
per day.
The New York Central, not to be
outdone by the Pennsylvania. has de-
cided to put on soon a through train
to be known as the Cleveland, so that
the Southwestern limited may run
from New York to ST. Louis in twen-
ty-four hours Transact to-day's
business in New York and to-morrow's
in ST. Louis" il She way the New York
Central advertises the new train
The 500 viii be transacting business
over its own line into St Paul In the
near future Trains will then move
through the new concrete tunnel. one
OF the most difficult pieces OF engi-
neering work ever undertaken in the
west The tunnel is 1880 fee. long.
The entrance line. on which work was
begun three years ago. represents a
total expenditure Of between 81 900
and $1,000. 600. including the right Of
way.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has
agreed with its engineers as TO wages
and conditions for the next year. in
Guiding the workszsy dap OF ten hours.
instead Of twelve. as heretofore.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-11
RAY LAMPHERE DIES.
PLEADING INNOCENCE
Alleged Accomplish of Mrs. Belle
Guinness, Archmurderess, Sue
cumbs to Consumption.
HIRED HAND ON MURDER FARM
Passes Away Without Making Con-
fession Hoped for by Indiana
Authorities.

Ray Lamphere, who was charged
with the murder of Mrs Belle Gun
ness and subsequently convicted of ar
son in connection with the burning of
the home on her murder farm" near
Laporte, died at the State penitentiary
in Michigan City, Ind, of tuberculo-
sis.
The man, suspected of assisting the
supposed acknowledges in Staying
the ten victims whose bodies were
found buried about the farm after her
disappearance in April, 1908, made no
statement TO the prison officials.
In the past few weeks States Attor-
ney Ralph Smith, who prosecuted
Lamphere, and officials of the peniten-
tiary have sought to obtain from the
prisoner a statement To all ques-
tions, however, Lamphere has stead
lastly replied that he knew nothing
which might throw further light on
the wholesale murders
Lamphere was SO years old, and for
three years prior to the disappearance
OF Mrs. Guinness and her three chill
dren had been employed as a field
hand at the murder farm
The crimes. ruthlessly premeditated
and diabolically executed, rivaied the
famous Holmes Castle murders in Chi
cago and the Bender murders in Kan
sas. Whether Mrs. Guinness was par
ty to these crimes, and whether she
escaped or was burned to death in her
house, in April, 1908, never has been
satisfactorily explained She former
ly lived in Chicago and went to La
porte after her first husband had died
under circumstances said to have been
suspicious.
After establishing herself on the
farm, just outside Laporte, the woman
is said to have been a frequent CORE
spondent with matrimonial agencies in
various parts of the country. She
thus formed the acquaintance of
number of men. At least six of them
went to Laporte, all of whom disap-
peared. Later, when the yard back
of the farmhouse was excavated the
bodies of some of these admirers were
identified among the ten which were
found. Lamphere was arrested the
day following theburning of the house.
He had been seen in the vicinity of
the building the night it burned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-11
MOB HANGS VIRGINIA SLAYER.
Ruse Halls Murderer's Flight, but
Attempt at Vengeance Fails.


Following the killing at Murley,
Va, of Samuel Baker and the serious
wounding of his widow and two chill
dren by Henry Pennington, a mob of
100 took Pennington from Jail and
hanged him to steam pipe. Penning
ton, who had been drinking, picked
quarrel with Baker, his enemy, and
shot him while the latter was on his
way to a Sunday school celebration
with his wife, two children, and a
friend. Wyatt Meadows. Seeing that
he had killed Baker, Pennington start
ed to run away Mrs Baker called
after Pennington and imploreS him to
help her take the body home. The
ruse worked and Pennington went
back to the spot where his victim lay
dead. Bent upon vengeance, Mrs. Ba-
ker grabbed Pennington's pistol from
his pocket and shot twice at him. Her
aim was bad, but she succeeded in
wounding him in the hand and thigh.
Pennington recovered possession of the
pistol and then shot the woman and
attempted to kill Meadows and the two
children. Pennington then fed, but
was surrounded and captured by
posse on the outskirts of the town.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-11
NEW YORK.

Quiet has followed the preceding
weeks rush of business in retail lines.
while in wholesale lines statesmen are
in from the road and inventorying is
general. All obtainable information
points to satisfactory-in many sec
tions, indeed, a record-volume of bus
mess done in the year just closed, and
the feeling is general that still more
satisfactory twelvemonth faces the
country's commercial and manufacture
ing interests.
The best reports as to the years re-
suits come from the West and North
west In wholesale and jobbing lines
large if not, indeed. record spring
business has been booked.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Dec 30
were 256, as against 264 last week, 299
in the like week of 1908, 1856 in 1907,
900 in 1906 and 27S in 19O5.-Brad-
streets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-11
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS

John F. Berwynd. the millionaire
Goa. man. has given 100000 in New
York for the care OF poor women about
TO become mothers and the treat
ment of infants during the first weeks
OF their lives.
The Federal Circuit Court OF SAN
Francisco appointed Frederick s. STRAIT
ton. now collector of that port. receiver
for the Ocean Shore Railroad on ap-
plication of the Baldwin Locomotive
works. which asserted that outstand-
ing claims against the railroad COM
pany amounted TO sI,aoo.0Oo.
A telephone message from Dillsboro.
N q received at Asheville. states
thar a woman named Belle Fr;zzle was
kille. and her eompanion. Cole Bard.
SERIOUSLY wounded y Elijah Children
with a shotgun.
A. c. Dickinson. of walla walla.
wash. recently sold 200 acres OF land
10 Gustav volimer. He is to receive
for each acre 100 bushels Of wheat. 10
h. delivered in two installments. IT,
Ono bushels the coming fall and 10000
the next year. According 10 present
prices of wheat Dickinson would set
something like sIse an acre. but the
scale next year may be as low as se
cents a bushel-