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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
BRIEF NEWS'NOIES.
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK. TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review Of Happenings OF
Greatest Interest From All Parts Of
the Globe-Latest Homo and For.
eian ltems.
PERSONAL

Senator Stephen B. Elkins Of West
Virginia, son-in-law Of Henry CASA.
way Davis, Democratic candidate for
vice-president in 1904, and himself a
Republican leader of the senate. died
at his Washington home after an ILL
ness of nearly year. Doctor Sewers,
who attended the senator, announced
the cause of his death as septicemia.
William Ellis Corey, for seven years
president Of the. United States Steel
corporation, has resigned that Office,
the resignation to take effect at the
pleasure of the board of directors. It
IS probable that for the present there
will be no successor elected to succeed
Mr.. Corey.
President Taft sent his congratula-
lions to President Estrada, the new
president of Nicaragua, extending the
hope for peaceful and happy term OF
life for the new republic. This is the
end OF long and expensive interest
of the United States in the affairs of
Nicaragua.
For the first time since he became
speaker Of the house, Mr.. Cannon did
not hold a New Year reception at
Washington. Miss Helen Cannon, his
daughter, who always receives with
him on these occasions, is i'll of bad
cold in their Danville home and was
not able to reach Washington.
E. w. Howe, who founded the
Atchison (Kan.) Globe thirty-three
years ago, has retired from it. A one
half interest in the paper has been
given to Eugene Howe, the editors
son. The rest Of the stock Is divided
between number of Atchison men.
Monsignor J. ]. Keogh, for "a years
ut st. Johns cathedral, Milwaukee. as
q priest, died after long illness.
Gen. John Corson Smith, known the
world over because Of his prominence
in Masonic circles, and one Of the G..
A. r. leaders, is dead at Chicago. He
was state treasurer Of Illinois in 1872
and again in 1882. Two years later
he was elected lieutenant governor.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
SAMUEL 9. HIGGINS is CALLED

Minnesota Pioneer and Overland
Freishter Passes Away.
Minneapolis. = Word has just
been received from Mecca, CAL, OF
the death there Thursday Of Samuel
S. Higgins, Minnesota pioneer, for
merly q resident of Minneapolis, who
was widely known througout the
state.
Mr.. Higgins was 80 years Of age.
He located in St. Paul in early man
hood and engaged in overland freight
ing business. He was in Mankato
when" the 80 Sioux Indians were
hanged there after an Indian out
break. He had been a resident of
Minneapolis until last fall when he
went to Mecca, CAL, to live with a
niece, Mrs. William G. Cutler. Anoth-
er niece is the wife of George w.
Rhese, a former Twin City cartoonist.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
BOY coNFEssEs TO MURDER,
Joseph Heron Admits Killing Aqed
Mrs. Fiman on Farm.

Glencoe. Joseph Heron, the
alleged murderer of Mrs. Joseph
Fiman, of Silver Lake, made a
complete confession after being in
the sweatbox "a hours. The admis-
sion was wrung from him by Steve
Picha, deputy United States marshal,
who questioned the prisoner in the
Bohemian language.
Heron is about 20 years old. In
his story he admitted that he knew
the Fimans and that he knew they
had money. He declared that upon
commanding Mrs. Fiman to throw up
her hands she said, Il know you," and
he became excited and fred his re.
volver. He did not know he killed her
he said.
Heron left Silver Lake, Dec. 4, i'm.
mediately after the murder and re.
turned Dec. %. He had. not been
strongly suspected up till then. When
he was arrested he was taken quietly
to his room and questioned. A revolv.
er was found in the room, refuting the
statement he made that he never car
ried one. One chamber of the gun
showed that it had been discharged
The bullets correspcnded to the one
taken from the dead woman's heart.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Duluth Block Is Burned

Duluth. Fire originating in the
Duluth Hardware Company in the
Metropolitan block, three-story brick
building, did damage to the amount III
about $4,000. Zero weather pre-
vailed. The losses: Duluth Hardware
company, $4,000, and insurance, ST,
900; Wieland Shoe company, s45, O06
covered by insurance; Gray-TallanI
department store, $4,000, covered By
insurance; building, $4,000, covered
by insurance. The building wal
owned by Bradley. Tyson & Cabot
Boston, Mass. sa$8zs5Sgl..z.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Hospital Burns; Patients Safe.

Hospital Burns; Patients Safe.
Walker. - The Walker hospital,
owned by DR.. F. L. Wilcox, was al
most completely destroyed by fire.
After three hours work in strong
north wind and IS degrees below zero,
the fire department extinguished the
flames and saved one wing of the
hospital. The loss is about $4,000.
There were twenty-four patients IN
the hospital, and three of them were
operated upon yesterday, but all We're
carried in safety to an adjoining build
ing. The fire starteds near the heat
ing plant.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
STATE LIBRARIAN is NAMED.
e. J. Lien, st. Vincent, is Appointed
to Succeed John King.

St. Paul.-Governor A. o. Eberhart
announces the appointment of E. ].
Lien, of st. Vincent. as state librarian
to succeed John King. Mr.. Lien was
originally appointed assistant librarian
under Governor Van SAINT and held Of
flee ten years. He had the unanimous
endorsement Of the state supreme
court which controls this appointment
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
INDICTMENTS At Los ANGELES
WHOLESALE MURDER 1Y MEANS
OF DYNAMITE.
Twenty-Five Bills Found, but Number
Of Defendants Not ..a
Known.

LOS Angeles, Cal. - The grand
jury In the Los Angeles Times ex.
plosion case returned 20 indictments,
but 1t is not known how many per.
sons were named.
Wholesale murder by means Of dyn.
amite is understood to be the charge
set forth In, all the indictments, but
1t is believed that not more than three
or four men are named in the true
bills.
The return Of the indictments fol.
lowed disaster that excited the PEG.
pie OF Los Angeles to 4 degree that
for a few days bordered almost upon
panic and resulted in the offering of
rewards aggregating almost 800, 900.
Union labor, which the Times and
it's proprietors had opposed, was
brought into the situation and when
the special grand jury was impanelled
on October rs, it was Immediately con.
fronted with two conflicting theories.
One of these supported by, the find
ings of an investigating committee an.
pointed by Mayor Alexander, was that
the Times plant had been blown up
by dynamite conspirators. The other
presented by committee named by
the state buildings trades convention,
then in session here, was that gas
was responsible.
More than 40 witnesses, the majority
of them identified with the union labor
movement, were summoned from San
Francisco and other cities. In all, the
grand jury examined more than 200
persons, who, in the opinion of detec-
tives that worked here and in San
Francisco, could throw some light on
the alleged murder plot.
J. B. Bryce, M. A. Schmidt and
David Kaplan are three suspects in
the case. They were in this city for
a few hours after the explosion, but
subsequently disappeared.
According to the detectives, Bryce,
Schmidt and Kaplan purchased from a
San Francisco powder firm the dyna-
mite used to destroy the Times build
ing and that which later was found in
the Internal machine planted at the
residence Of Felix J. Zeehandlaar, Sec
rotary of the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' association. This organization
had opposed the extension of labor
unions in this city.
Two days ago an additional reward
of $4,000 was formally offered by the
county board of supervisors for their
capture.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Elk River Postoffice Burns.

Elk River. - The postoffice block,
owned by w. H. Houlton, burn.
ed. The building wass occupied by
the postotfice, E. J. Ward, confect-
ionery, H. Greupner, boots and shoes,
and Laura Felck, millinery. The fire
started in the Ward store and spread
both ways. The ward was blowing a
gale. A small amount of millinery
goods was all that was saved, not so
much as a Letter being saved in the
postoffice. The total loss is $13, ZOO,
as follows:
w. H. Houlton, $4,000, insurance &c..
900; H. Greupner, $4,000, insurance,
$4,000; Laura Felck, $1,000, insurance,
$500; F. N. Corey, postomce, $500, in
surance, $780,; E. L. Ward, $4,000. in
surance $4,000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-Cattle-Market
@10c lower; beeves, $4.65@7.00; west.
ern steers, $4.30@6.00; stockers and
feeders, $3.75@5.85; COWS and heifers,
$2.6O@6.30; calves, $700@9.25.
Hogs-Market slow, mostly 10c
higher; light, $7.S0@S10; mixed, $3.50
SIS; heavy, $7.SO@S.15; rough, $1,000
100; good to choice heavy, $1,000
8.15; pigs, $7.50@S.15; bulk of sales,
$8.00@S.10.
Sheep-Market weak; native, $3.50
@4.50; yearlings, $4.75@5.S0; lambs
native, $4.75@6.60; western, $500
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
HARRY ALBRIGHT BOUND OVER
Charge Of Murder in First Degree
Against St. Cloud Lad.

St. Cloud. After hearing evi.
dence all day, Justice w. H. Alden
bound over Harry Albrecht to the
grand jury Of Stearns county upon the
charge of murder in the first degree.
Albrecht is the 20-year-old boy who
shot and killed Charles O'Brien fol-
lowing a fight in a dance hall in this
city on Dec. 20.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Bandits Loot Hotel Office.

Ell Paso, Texas. - Two masked ban.
dts entered the Office of the Angelus
hotel and robbed the safe of about five
thousand in cash and jewelry. Thir
teen safety deposits boxes were car
ried away. Later the boxes wert
found in the basement of the Angelus
theater, empty. About twenty-f1v
boxes containing several thousand dol
lars in cash and diamonds were left
untouched. The hotel cash box yielded
six hundred dollars. One box left be
hind is said to have contained $4,000
in gold.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Moorhead Hotel Burned,

Moorhead. The Columbia hotel
burned. The building and furni-
were forced to make their escape
through the windows, but on one was
injured.
The hotel was the oldest in the
city, having been erected in 1881. It
was owned by John Erickson and was
valued at $4,000, but insured for only
$4,000. Holbeck & Legley were the
lessees. Their loss on furniture, sa-
loon and other property is estimated
It $4,000. about half insured.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
DAILY MARKET REPORT,
Twin CITY Markets.

Minneapolis, Jan. 6.-Wheat, May,
$1.0S1k; July, $1.09; No. l northern,
$1.09; No. 2 northern, $1.06%; No.
1 durum, sec; No. corn, 4311c; No.
white oats, Bic; barley, $50; No.
rye, 7Sc; No. / flax, $3.50.
Duluth, Jan. g. 49, Wheat, May,
$1.10; No. northern, Sill.
South St. Paul, Jan. 6.-Cattle-
Steers, $3.oo@4.55; cows, $2.75@4.00:
calves, s3.50@7.25; hogs, $7.75@7.90;
sheep, yearlings, $4.5O@5.80.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Lost Balloon Is Sighted.

Berlin, Germ. - "A news dispatch
from Copenhagen reports a balloon,
supposed to be the German Hide
brant, missing since Dec. 20, passed
over Hoeganaes, Sweden. No passen-
gers were visible.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
TAFT ENTERTAINs NATION
New Years Reception MARRIED by I'm
pleasant Weather. :.

Washington, D. C. = The New
Years reception at the White House,
when the doors of the historical man
sion are thrown open to the humblest
citizens who may care to pay his re-
spects to the chief magistrate of the
nation, was held under weather con-
ditions that tended to materially cut
down the number that usually passes
the receiving line in the blue room.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Ship Robber Is Believed Held.

Portland, Ore. - In the arrest of
James Whalen, proprietor of saloon,
the federal authorities assert they
who last September stole from an AL
askan steamer mail pouch contain
ing $4,000 in gold bullion and express
packages composed of bullion aggre-
eating about $4,000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
GENERAL NEWS.

It Is feared that heavy loss OF life
was caused by the violent earthquake
which devastated towns throughout
Russian Turkestan. Many populous
towns are in ruins and great assures
opened in the earth, in some instances
houses being engulfcd. The cold is in
tense and great suffering Is certain to
follow.
Two masked bandits entered the
mail car on the Northern Pacific rail-
road just as the train was leaving the
King street depot, Seattle. AS soon
as the first rObber got in the door
he shot Mail Clerk Harry o. Clark In
the mouth.
Peru has agreed to submit it's
boundary dispute with Ecuador to the
arbitration of The Hague tribunal.
This is in compliance with the sugges-
ton Of the United States, Brazil and
Argentina.
Burglars entered the Sherman state
bank at Sherman, S. D., and escaped
with $4,000 after breaking open the
safe.
An experimental postal savings
bank was opened by the government
in one city in each state and terri
tory.
The National Ice Association of
America, with principal office In New
York, has been incorporated in Al
bany to promote the interests Of har-
vesters and dealers in natural ice.
Representative Charles Adkins was
elected speaker of the Forty-seventh
general assembly.
John A. Dix was inaugurated gov
ernor Of New York state amid the
booming of guns and the jubilant
cheers of those present at the cere-
mony. In his inaugural speech the
new governor advocated economy and
pledged himself to try and stave off
direct taxation.
Felipe Salvador, the Luzon bandit
chief, who was captured last July, was
given the death sentence at Manila,
Salvador has record of SO MURDERS
5ohn B. Moisant, one of the worlds
most daring and successful aviators,
was killed at New Orleans by being
thrown out Of a Bleriot monoplane.
After returning 60 more indictments
for election bribery, the Adams coun-
ty CO., grand jury took a recess to
give the officials an opportunity to
catch up with the work. To date more
than 1900 have been indicted for
boodling and 94S have been sentenced
and DISTINGUISHED.
Revised returns on the local option
vote in Ontario show that 26 munich
palities have been added to the dry
column.
Texarkana and Fulton, Ark, have
COMO dry" Not drink can be
bought between Little Rock, Ark, and
Dallas, Tex, distance of 356 miles.
The Albany IN. W Argus, which is
100 years old, has reduced it's price
to one cent a copy.
Anna Volinsky, who was committed
- TO an insane asylum In New York
after writing threatening letters tt
Jacob H. Schin, the banker, commit
tel suicide at the institution.
A pack Of haH-mad bloodhounds
trailing a man suspected Of burglar.
ut Carrier Mills, near Mt. Vernon, Ill
broke away from their keeper, cor
nered their victim in. an empty she,
and tore him to pieces. The authori
ties have no clue to tho identity o
the dead man.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Will Have New Hospital.

Mason City. Iowa. The reorgani.
cation of the City Park Hospital com.
pany, the purchase of a lot at Wash
ington and Sixth streets, and the pro.
posal to erect a building to cost SIS.
900 was announced by the menbeas.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
First Power Site Permit.

Washington.-The first permit I'M
der the new regulations, recently pro-
mulgated by the department of agri-
culture, governing the use of water
power sites in national forests, was is
sued to the Minnesota Canal and Pow
er Company of Duluth, MINI.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Novel Idea Saving to CITY,

New York, N. Y. 49, Ten horse shoe
ing wagons which now are on the way
to New York will save the fire depart
ment $4,000 a year. The wagons will
go from one fire house to another, at
tending to the work formerly done out
side the department.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Cornell Gets Third Victory.

Chicago. Ill. The Cornell uni
versity hockey team made it three
straight victories over Yale here when
it won the final game Of the series. 4
to 2. The contest was the toughest Of
the series.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Aaed Mail Clerk Dies.

Kingston, New York. - James S.
Dean, said to be the Oldest railway
mail clerk in active service, died here
at the age of 76. He was Grand
Army veteran and had served on the
stats of several national commanders.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Cruiser MARYLAND Best Shot.

Cruiser Maryland Best Shot.
Washington, D. G. - The armored
cruiser Maryland is the champion shot
of the United States navy. She won
the pennant in the battle practice of
1910, it was announced at the navy
department yesterday.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
EXPENDITURE OF $1,000 ILLEGAL.
Public Examiner crlticises Malnte.
nance OF State Fair Restaurant.

14,AVV ny the state Ialr OOar0 Tor
the maintenance of a restaurant in the
basement OF. the administration build
ing during fair week. at which Off.
GERS and their families and other in
vited guests ate their meals, is crit
iciEed in report made to the gov
ernor by Public Examiner Schaefer.
Mr.. Schaefer says there is no warrant
In law for the payment Of the expens-
es of any other than public officials
and this expenditure by the board,
which is equivalent to the payment of
expenses for the people who ate there.
was illegal and the amounts so ex-
pended should be refunded
The report quotes from the minutes
ct the board providing an appropria.
ton OF $1,100 for this purpose. the din
ing room to be run during fair week,
at which officials, including the score
tary and treasurer of tho society, and
such guests as may be determined on
the judgment of the officers would eat.
Another resolution extended the same
privileges to the other members of
the board, another to E. w. Randall,
S. H. Bezoier, E. E. Gray, T. H. Shul-
len. Col. A. T. Wright and their wives
and another to Miss Bergman, Mr..
Cook and Mics Cox.
Mr.. Schoefer questions the legality
OF the payment of $4,000 paid by the
state fair board towards the expenses
Of the conservation congress.
The fair board justified this expen-
dlture on the ground that the congress,
which brought President Taft and Col
onel Roosevelt to st. Paul and to the
fair, benefited the fair much more than
the amount of this expenditure. Mr..
Schaefer says that he asked the at
torney general for an opinion on this
question Dec. 10 and so far no answer
has been received, but he hopes that
his successor will get the opinion and
transmit it to the governor.
The report recommends that the leg
1slature provide for the employment
OF competent person as special in.
Vestigator during the. fair week, that
it fix the salaries of the members of
the board Of managers and other off,
GERS and provide for their expenses,
that it abolish passes or establish limi-
tations, and that it provide conting-
ent fund which is not to be exceeded
under penalty.
The report mentions, however, that
all passes were abolished by action of
the board last winter. This, however,
is not binding upon future fair boards.
The report gives a detailed state
ment OF the receipts and expenditures
during the past year. The books were
found correct and the financial state
ments correspondent to those previous
~ published.
/ The inventory shows the property of
the state fair to be worth S1364.562.
OF this $735,525 is for buildings, $685..
$50 for real estate, $189, 714 is for other
permanent improvements, $30,34s cash
and the balance in personal property.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Francis HAYDEN Passes. Away,

Chicago, III. Francis "A. Hay
den, author of number Of volumes
on Masonry, died at his home here,
aged rs years. Mr.. Hayden was made
a Thirty-third degree mason in Wash
ington. D. c., in 1866.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
EIGHTY MORE DlsFRANcHisEu
West Union, Ohio Has Lost one-Fiftt
Of its Voters.

West Union, Ohio. - Eighty more
men faced Judge Blair for vote sell
ing and received the customary fines
and acknowledgements. Only three
hundred of the one Thousand five hun
dred indicted to date remain to be
brought up for sentence. Including
the last batch of those cases one-fifth
of the entire electorate of Adams
county will be disfranchised.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
IOWA WIFE SLAYER is CAUGHT
Recently Released From Asylum and
May Be Returned.

Keokuk, Iowa. = After shooting
and killing his wife in fit of in
sane rage at New Boston and keeping
deputy sheriffs at bay for hours,
Christian Schock, farmer, was cap
tured and was brought to the Keokuk
Jail. Schock had recently been re-
leased from the insane asylum at
Mount Pleasant and probably will be
returned to the hospital.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11

brief official message also stated that
the plot had been suppressed.
Production of coal in the United
States during 1910 was between 49,
000,70O and 485,000,ooo short tons,
against ass, 715,704 short tons in 1909,
and approximately within one per
cent. of the maximum record of $780,
383,424 tons, produced in 1907.
Following the discovery of an al
legged shortage of nearly $4,000 in
the funds of the Westf1eld (Mass.)
Savings bank, the treasurer of the
institution, Velenus w. Crowson, was
placed under arrest. According to a
statement issued by the state bank
commissioner, Crowson has confessed
to the transportation Of funds of
the bank.
Wreckage picked up in the Bay CT
Biscay leaves no doubt of the fate of
the British steamer AKIN, which left
London December 9 for West African
ports, with a crew of 80 British and
German sailors and four passengers.
Frank King, father of 81 children, is
dead at his home at Grafton, Mass, in
his one hundred and fourth year. He
was born in Quebec and until few
days ago had never seen sick day.
The resignation of DR.. s. Weir
Mitchell as trustee of the Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania, which has just
been made public, makes six vacan.
cies the boz of trustees must fill.
G. c. McChord of Kentucky and f.
H. Meyer of Wisconsin, the newly-ap
pointed members Of the interstate
commerce commission, took the oath
Of Office at the offices Of the commits
sion. 8.