Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-02

FOR SONS death
New York Sun: john H. Hoefner, 8
tailor with shop at 1921 Atlantic av
enue, Brooklyn, whose nineteen-year.
old son, Henry was removed by /
masked mob from the Jail in Forsythe
Mont, where he had been locked uI
on Wednesday of last week on sus
picion of murder, and strung up to q
cottonwood tree in the center of the
town, declared yesterday at his shop
that his boy was the innocent victim
of the lynch law and that if it is pos
sible to get justice done in that wild
place" he expected that his brother
in-law, Henry Flintner, a ranch owner
Of Dillon, Mont, who is personal
friend of the governor of the state,
would see that it was done.
Il have been advised to write let.
ter directly to President Taft, asking
for JUSTICE" Mr.. Hoefner said yester'
day, "but don't know whether shall
do that or not. In Germany We would
appeal in such a case like this to the
Emperor, but don't know how they
do things here. l shan't do any writ
| ing until can recover from the shock
Of this awful blow"
The tailor, keeping steadily at work
pressing clothes in the rear of his
! tiny shop, told the story of his sons
! trip West and Of his untimely death
there The boy went West three
weeks ago Wednesday to join his
uncle, Henry Flintner, Mrs. Hoefner's
brother, on his ranch near Dillon.
Mont Flintner had visited his sisters
family during the Christmas holidays
last year and his description of West-
ern life had so pleased the nephew
] that ne Immediately began saving
something out of the weekly salary OF
So which he received as machiniss's
helper in the factory of Robert Hoe &
Co., printing press manufacturers. Ac-
cording to his father, the boy and
money enough for his fare and some
thing besides when he left home.
The boys mother received a postal
from him from Chicago saying that he
was we'll. The next word in regard to
him came from Sheriff McMullen OF
Forsythe, Mont, who telegraphed that
Henry had been arrested on suspicion
OF murder. Hoefner after consulting
the police at the Woodhaven station
which is near his home at Union
Course, l. l., telegraphed the address
of his brother in law, Henry Film ner,
at Dillon, telling the sheriff that Flint
ner would act for him.
The family heard nothing more I'M
til they got a message from Fintner
saying that he was coming east with
the body of Henry, who had met death
through an accident" 1t was only
when Flintner arrived in Brooklyn on
Monday that the father Of the boy
learned that he had been lynched;
the other members of the family were
not told of it and the boys body was
buried in Evergreens Cemetery on
Monday afternoon.
Flintner left on "wednesday night
for Forsythe where he will urge the
Governor of the state to run down the
men who, he believes, made an inno-
cent victim of his nephew. He told
the Hoefners that as soon as he got
the word from Sheriff McMullen that
his nephew was in Jail, he took the
first train for Forsythe, fearing that
the lynch law might make a victim OF
the boy Henry He arrived too late.
The story that comes from Forsythe
tells how Hoefner's son was arrested
on the night Of April Is as he was
wandering about the streets of the
town soon after 1t became known that
a man had entered the home Of VIM.
Merrill in Joppa little town near
Forsythe, and when discovered by
Mrs. Merrill had shot and killed her.
The posse that went in search of the
man arrested Hoefner. On Thursday
night last week 200 masked men sur
rounded the Jail, overpowered the
guards, led out Hoefner and strung
him up to tree near the Masonic
Temple in the middle of the town.
my son could never have done such
a thing as murder a woman" Mr..
Hoeffner insisted monotonously yes.
'terday afternoon. HE was good
boy, worked every day and paid us
regularly for his board. He had money
enough to take him out West and he
didn't need to 60 stealing any"
Henry was the youngest of four chill
dren and was an only son. He attend
ed public school at cambridge and
Halsey streets until he was 16 years
old, when he went to work. The fam
lily lives in a cottage house at 1913 3rd
street, Union Course, L. I.
NORTH DAKOTA INCREASE
IN HAY AND FORAGE
GRAND FORKS, May 2.-Statistics
on file in the Office of the North Dako. !
ia Development League Press Bureau
at Grand Forks; show that the acre
age devoted to hay and forage in 1909
was 2,597, 1S1 acres. It has been con-
stantly increasing. From SIS, 100
acres in 1889, it rose to 1,41O,534 In
1889, and again to 2,537,1S1 in 1909. |
The increase since 1899 has been 1919 |
per cent. The total yield in 1909 was
2,723,7 tons, the average yield per |
acre 1.N tons, the average value per
acre 40.