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Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
HELD BY POSTAL OFFICIALS

Mill City Man Charged With >Defraud-
ing Farmers.
Simon Peter Lesselyoung, operat-
ing under the name of the Farmers
General Service company" Of Mime
apolis, was arrested at Red Lake
Falls by Postal Inspector r. NJ. Hug
dahl and taken to ST. Paul to answer
to a charge of using the mails to de-
fraud.
It is alleged by the postof1ice in
spectors that Lesselyoung obtained
the notes of farmers in Minnesota
and North and South Dakota to the
amount of more than $125,000 with
out giving value received.
Lesselyoung was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Samuel
Whaley and his bail set at $4,000.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
ASYLUM BUILDING FALLS

New Structure at Anoka ColIapses at
Night.
Because the cook house and bakery,
which has been in progress of con-
struction at the Anoka state asylum,
happened to collapse at night instead
of in the daytime the lives of score
of workmen we're spared.
No one was in the building, when,
apparently, the weight Of iron girders
of the roof caused the hollow brick
walls to bulge and crumble, precipitat-
ing the roof work to the floor.
The new building is about 30x50
feet in ground dimensions. Plumbers
and other workmen had been employ
ed inside the structure.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
DRiN..S POISON AT GRAVE
Mill City Man Ends Twenty Years OF
Grief for Daughter.

Going to the grave OF his daughter
in Layman's cemetery at Minneapo-
lis, A. G. Olson, foreman in the
Nelson Sash and Door factory, drank
poison. He had grieved over the
girls death for twenty years. He was
fifty years old.
Olson left three notes. One was
to son, in which he spoke of the
young mans refusal to see him. An.
other was addressed to Chief of Pc.
lice MartinsOn.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
ST. PAUL GRAFT TRIALS ON
Former Police Chief and Detective
Face Jury.

The jury has been completed in
the trial at ST. Paul OF Martin j.
Flanagan, former chief of police,
and Fred Turner, former city detec-
tive, jointly indicted by the grand
jury on a charge Of bribery in the
third degree, the indictment alleging
that the two defendants, together
with Mae Burke, who has asked for
a. separate trial, on March 20, 1918,
received $1,000 from Dottie Hazzard
a former resortkeeper, for police pro-
lection for resort about to be open
ed
Judge P. w. Morrison Of Norwood,
Mimi, who has been asked to assist
in the trial of criminal cases in the
St. Paul district, is presiding in the
alleged graft cases.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
DEPUTY FIRE MARSHAL DIES

A. .. Brown Succumbs to Cancer Of
the Stomach.
A. D. Brown, deputy state fire mar
shall for the past two years, died from
cancer of the stomach at St. Luke's
hospital, St. Paul. He had been in
the hospital six weeks.
Mr.. Brown formerly was chairman
of the Republican state central com.
mittee and before taking a position
in the state fire marshal's department
was employed in the state treasurer's
Office.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
F0ODSTUfFS GOING HIGHER
Else in Vegetables Continues for Past
Three Years.

According to a comparative state
ment taken on the floor of the st.
Paul board of trade one day recently
not since 1910 has there been a
single material reduction in the price
of any fcodstuff On the other hand
prohibitive prices.
Among the principal foodstuffs
which are away up are potatoes, fish,
butter, eggs, fruits and nearly all
vegetables.
The rise in vegetables has been so
steady that it appears almost syste-
matte
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30

State of Minnesota,
County of Morrison
In Probate Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Howard
P. Bell, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to all persons
interested in the final account and dis
tribution of the estate of said dectdent:
The representatives of the abnve ma me-
decedent. having filed in this Court their
final account of the administrator OF the
estate Of said decedent, together with
their petition praying for the adjustment mt
and allowance of said final account ana tor
distribution of the residue of SAID estate
to the persons thereunto entitled:
Therefore, You, and Each of You are here.
by cited and required to show cause, ii any
YOU have, before this Court at the PROBATE
Court Kooms in the Court House in thN
City of Little Falls. in the County %. o.
day OF Febnary. 1914, at 10 o'clock a: ..1', r.
why said petition shOu Id not be granted:
Witness, the Judge of said Court, and
the seal OF said Court, this 10Th day OF
January. 1914.
(SeaD +. +. Shaw.
45.47 Probate Judge.
E. p. Adams.
Attorney for petitioner.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
Farmer Blows Out Gas.

Fred Hcidman, twenty-four years
of age. farmer from Bismarck, N.
D.. was asphyxiated in his room at
the Continental hotel, st. Paul It
is believed that Heidman was IN
familiar with gas Jets and blew out
the light upoh retiring.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
Shifting the Responsibility,

Miss RWkSey-Oh. rapa. why do you
wish me to marry the kind of man who
can get money out of the other fellow3
Old Rocksey - Because. dear. then he
won't be trying to get it out Of me-
Judge. .. ;*9.:,,
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
MINNESOTA MAS0NS ELECT
Robert e. Denfeld Of Duluth Becomes
Grand Master.

Grand Master.
The sixty-first annual communica-
ton of the grand lodge of Minnesota
Masons closed at Masonic temple
at St. Paul with the election of
Robert E. Denfeld of Duluth as grand
master to succeed w. Hayes Laird
of Winona. Mr.. Denfeld was deputy
grand master.
Other officers elected are: Harry
NJ. Durnham, Jackson, deputy grand
master; Alfred G. Pinkham, St. Paul,
senior grand warden; Alfred Berg,
Spooner, junior grand warden; David
w. Knowlton, minneapolis, grand
treasurer; John Fishel, St. Paul, grand
secretary.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
PHYSICIAN UNDER ARREST
Minneapolis Woman Dies Following
Alleged Criminal Operation.

R51e9eu CF1mt7aI OPeTat!oH'
Anna Croynan, thirty-ive years of
age, is dead at the Swedish hospi-
tai at Minneapolis She is alleged
to be the victim of criminal opera
ton performed recently by Dr. George
A. Mills. Mills is held on $4,000 bail
for illegal practice. In granting bail
the Judge said he wished he could
withhold it. DR.. Mills will be ar
raigned on g. charge of manslaughter,
the Office of the prosecuting attorney
said. The girl was taken to the hos
pital two days before her death.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
TRAIN CRASHES INTO CAR

F;ftv.seven Passengers Q" Duluth Trol-
ley Have Marrow Escaee.
Fifty-seven passengers on a Duluth
hound interstate street car narrowly
escaped being killed. The street car
started across a railroad track. A
backing freight hit the car in the mid
ile. tearing out the side and rear.
Passengers saw the imminent crash
and sprane to the other side of the
ear. The momentum of the street car
carried i across the track.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
H0mESTEADER GETS TITLE
Dispute Over Land on Mesaba Range
Settled in Court.

Title to one-sixth interest in
tract of land near Buhl, on the Me.
sabi range, was vested in Charles
McGillis, original homesteadeE of the
tract, in an order issued by Judge
Fesler in the st. Louis county district
court. The case has been in litiga.
ton for several years. The title was
disputed by Amelia Stubler of Duluth.
The land is estimated to be worth
100000 on account of iron ore de.
posits.
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30

ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS. AND FOR HEARtN
THEREON
Little Falls herald., 1914-01-30
CITATION FOR HEARING ON FlNA'
ACCOUNT AND FOR DISTRIBU-
TON.

State of Minnesota,
County of Morrison
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01
CHAPTER vi.

If the Eagle Tail mine had been To-
Gated in Arizona-or even farther
down in Old Mexico-the method of
jumping the claim would have been
delightfully."- simple.
The title had lapsed, and the land
had reverted to the government-an
it needed in Arizona was a new set of
monuments, location notice at the
discovery shaft, a pick and shovel
thrown into the hole, and q few legal
formalities.
But in Mexico it is different Not
that the legal formalities are lacking
far from it-but the whole theory of
mines and mining is different. In Mex
leo a mining title is, in a way, lease.
a concession from the general gov
eminent giving the concessionnaire
the right to work a certain piece of
ground and to hold it as long as he
pays a mining tax of three dollars an
acre pear year.
But no final papers or patents are
ever issued, the possession of the sur
face of the ground does not go with
the right to mine benath 1t, and in GER
tain parts Of Mexico no foreigner can
hold title to either mines or land.
A prohibited or frontier zone, eighty
kilometers In width, lies along the In
transitional boundary line, and in that
neutral zone no foreigner can de-
nounee a mining claim and no foreign
corporation can acquire title to one.
The Eagle Tail was just inside the
zone.
But-thers is always "but" when
you go to g good lawyer-while for
purposes of war and national safety
foreigners are not allowed to hold land
along the line, they are at perfect lib
erty to hold stock In Mexican corpora
lions owning property within the pro
hibited zone; and-here is where the
graft comes in-they may even hold
title In their own name If they first
obtain express permission from the
chief executive of the republic.
Not having any drag with the chief
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01

Juan de Dfos! But certainly q man SO
devoutly named could never descend
TO reading much OF Don Joo-an!"
-Ah, no." protested Don Juan. roll
ing his dark eyes and smiling rakishly,
mot moch-only the most interesting
passagesl"
He saluted and disappeared in roar
Of laughter, and De Lancey turned
triumphantly on his companion, a self
satisfied smile upon his lips
Ahai" he said; you see? That's
what five dollars worth of booze will
do in opening up the way. Here's our
old friend Don Juan willing, nay. anx-
ious, to help US all he can-he sees I'm
live wire and wants to keep me
around Pretty soon weu get him
feeling good and he'll tell US all he
knows. Don't you never try to make
me sign the pledge again, brother
few shots just gets my intellect
to working right and I'm crafty as
a fox.
Did you notice that coup 1 made
asking him if he was a Spaniard ?
There's nothing in the world makes a
Spaniard so mad as to take him for a
Mexican-on the other hand, nothing
makes him your friend for life like
recognizing him for a blue-bIooded
Castilian. Now maybe our old friend
Don Juan has got few drops of Moor
ish blood in his veins-to put it po-
litely, but" he raised his tenor voice
and improvised-
Jest because my hair is curly
OATS no reason to call me 'shfne!'"
NO" agreed Bud, feeling cautiously
of the walls, land jest because you're
happy is no reason for singing SO
loud, neither. These here partitions
are made of inch boards, covered with
paper-do you get that? Well, then
considering who's probably listening
it strikes me that Mr.. Brachamonte is
the real thing in Spanish gentleman;
and I've heard that all genuwine Span
iards have their hair curly, jest like
a-huh?"
But De Lancey, made suddenly
aware Of his indiscretion, was making
all kinds of exaggerated signs for ST
lence, and Bud stopped with a slow
good-natured smile.
'S-s-st!" Kissed De Lancey, touching
his finger to his lips; don't say it
somebody might hear you'll"
"All right" agreed Bud; land dom
| you say it, either. I hate to knock
Phil" he added, but sometimes
think the old man was right when h'
| said you talk too much"
''Psst!" chided De Lancey, shaking
his finger like Mexican Tiptoeini
softly over to Bud, he whispered in hi.
ear: "S-s-st, 1 can hear the felier IL
the next room-shaYing himself"
Laughing heartily at this joke, the!
went down stairs for supper.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01
SOME SUPERSHTIONS OF THE HENNERY

Some occupations are so ancient
and honorable that they are surround
ed by many absurd superstitiOns- No
one has heard Of any faIlacies in the
chaffeur business-it isn't old enough
but when it comes to chicken grow
ing, there are dozens Of myths.
That some one feed or continental
can be called an reproducing feed
is erroneous. Often meat scrap OF
other feed, when added to the ration,
viii cause hens to lay. The value is
not In the feed, but in its ability to
balance the ration A balanced and
nutritious ration is as important for
egg production as for milk production.
A faIIacy often heard is that hens
may become too fat to lay Don't be
lieVe IT. To get the most. eggs, feed
the hens well and give them plenty
Of exercise. Many poultrymen feed
the grain in several inches OF litter
The hens are allowed to eat all they
VIII scratch out. The scratching gives
them the necessary exercise
NongreIs are the result OF promis-
czous crossing and are never as good
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01

bestowed upon Hooker and De Lancey
the task of finding an honest Mexican,
and keeping him honest until he made
the transfer.
While the papers were being made
out there might be a great many
temptations placed before that Next
can-either to keep the property for
himself or to hold out for a bigger re-
ward than had, been specified. After
his experience with the aristocratic
Don Cipriano Aragon y Tres PalaciOs.
Kruger was in favor Of taking a chance
on the lower classes. He had therefore
recommended to them one Cruz Men
DEE, a wood vender whom he had
known and befriended, as the man to
play the part.
Cruz Mendez, according to Kruger,
was Woodworking, sober and honest
for a Mexican. He was also simple
minded and easy to handle, and was
the particular man who had sent word
that the Eagle Tail had at last been
abandoned. And also he was easy to
pick out, being a little, one-eyed man
and going by the name of ''El Tuerto."
So, in pursuance OF their policy OF
playing a waiting game, Hooker and
De Lancy hung around the hotel for
several days, listening to the gossip
of Don Juan de Dios and watching for
one-eyed men with prospects to sell
In Sonora he is a poor and unimag-
NATIVE man indeed who has not at
least one lost mine or "prospecto" to
sell; and prosperous-looking strangers,
riding through the country, are often
beckoned aside by ha1f-naked paisanos
| eager to show them the gold mines OF
the Spanish padres for a hundred dol
lars Mex
1t was only a matter of time, they
thought, until Cruz Mendez would hunt
them up and try to sell them the Eagle
Tail; and it was their intention re-
luctantly to close the bargain with
him, for a specified sum, and then
stake him to the announcement fees
and gain possession of the mine
As this was a commonplace in the
district-no Mexican having capital
enough to work claim and no Ameri
can having the right to locate one-it
! was a very natural and inconspicuous
| way Of jumping Senior Aragon Y Tres
Palacios' abandoned claim. If they
| discovered the lead Immediately after
ward 1t would pass for a case Of FOOLS
| luck, or at least so they hoped, and
riding out q little each day and sitting
on the hotel porch with Don Juan the
rest of the time, they waited until pa
| tfence seemed no longer virtue
Don juan" said De Lancey, taking
up the probe at last, 81 had a Mexican
working for me when we were over II
the Sierras- Of your real, old
time workers that had never beer
spoiled by an education-and he wa
| always talking about La Fortuna
guess this was the place he meant, bu
it doesn't look like it-according Il
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01
SURE TO GET MIXED, ANYWAY
EIoteIkeeper's Reasoning Settled All
Argument About Clean Plate
for the Drummer.

The drummer from New York was
making his first trip through Maine
and had travelled up into the Aroos-
took region, where the towns are
small and far apart and the chief prod
ucts potatoes and Christmas trees
Here he stopped over night in
hamlet that possessed merely very
primitive inn. At dinner there was
no soup, but he was served with fish
Then instead OF his plate being
changed the waitress came with q
platter OF meat and placed a generous
helping carefully on one side Of the
fish bones. The drummer did not balk
at that, for he was very hungry and
ready to pass over almost anything
for the sake of a good meal, and he
though it might be the regular Maine
style.
Presently, however, the girl brought
In another platter full of pieces OF pie
and one OF these she slid OF on the
same plate. Then the traveller thought
it time to call halt, for he had not
yet become used to pie with fish
flavor.
The serving maid was a bit uncer-
tain whether he could have the clean
plate he requested and called the
landlord in, TO whom the guest ex-
planned his trouble The host listened
attentively, but when the drummer
finished he withered that modest New
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01

as Eell-bred chickens, either pure bred
or high grade fure-bred poultry has
been developed for production. so II
selected and handled intelligently viii
give the most profitable returns 1t
does not pay to keep mongrels or an
inferior flock
Many persons think hens should be
warmly housed. However, excellent
results have been obtained by using
tightly built house with an open front.
a dry roosting place, protection from
drafts, and fresh air are needed
Warmth can take the place Of none OF
these, nor that OF good wholesome
feed There is such a thing as hav-
ing a house too warm and poorly ven
tiiated-
Nor do the Leghorns lay the small
est eggs. This breed predominates
on eastern poultry farms and there is
no objection, TO the size OF the eggs
A good strain OF LeghOrns wiz lay as
large eggs as any breed OF chickens
according to N l. Harris. superia-
tendent OF the poultry plant at the
Kansas Agricultural College.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01
1914 By Fraak a. Muas=y)

Financially considered, they had
done just that-for, for every Ameri-
can dollar in their pockets they could
get two that were just as good. ex-
cept for the picture on the side. This
in itself was great inducement for
ready spender and, finding good CON
pany at the Fortuna hotel bar, Phil
bought five dollars worth of drinks,
threw down a fve-dollar bill, and got
back five dollars-Mex.
The proprietor, a large and jovial
boniface, pulled OF his fiscal miracle
with the greatest good humor and
then, having invited them to partake
of very exquisite mixture of his own
invention, propped himself upon his
elbows across the bar and inquired
with an ingenious smile:
Well, which way are you boys
travelling, if 1 may ask?"
ooh, down below ways" answered
De Lancey, who always constituted
himself the board of strategy. Just
rambling around a little-hows the
country around here now?"
''Oh, quiet, quiet!" assured their
hest. These Mexicans don't like the
COIU WOdluSI OuIU ll0SLS
you know, if it was not for that Zarape
which they wind about them SOL"
He made a motion as of a native
wrapping his entire wardrobe about
his neck and smiled, and De Lancey
knew that he was no Mexican. And
yet that soft which away" of his be-
trayed a Spanish tongue.
"Ah, excuse me-" he said, taking
quick advantage Of his guess, but
from the way you pronounce that word
'zarape' I take it that you speak Span
ish.''
mo one better" replied the host
smiling pleasantly at being taken al
his true worth, since 1 was born in
the city of Burgos, where they speak
the true CastiIian 1t is a different
language, believe me, from this bas
tard Mexican tongue. And do you
speak Spanish also?" he inquired
falling back into the staccato of Cas-
tile.
mo indeed" protested De Lancey IL
a very creditable imitation; nothing
| but little Mexican, to get along with
the natives. My friend and 1 are min
| ing men, passing through the country
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01

and we speak the best we can. How
is this district here for work along our
line?"
None betterI" cried the Spaniard,
shaking his finger emphatically. cit
is of the best, and, believe me, my
friend, we should be glad to have you
stop with US. The country down be-
low is a little dangerous now,
perhaps, but later, when the warm
weather comes on.
But in Fortuna-no! Here we are
on the railroad; the camp is controlled
by Americans; and because so many
have left the country the Mexicans
will sell their prospects cheap.
Then again, if you develop a mine
near by, it will be very easy to sell it
and il you wish to work it, that is
easy, too. 1 am only the proprietor Of
the hotel, but If you can use my poor
services in any way I shall be very
happy to please you. A room? One
of the bestI And if you stay q week
OF more I will give you the lowest
rate"
They passed up the winding stairs
and down a long corridor, at the end
of which the proprietor showed them
into a room, throwing open the outer
doors and shutters to let them see the
view from the window.
Here is a little balcony" he said.
stepping outside, where you can sit
and look down on the plaza. We have
the band and music when the weather
is fine, and you can watch the pretty
| girls from here. But you have been In
| Mexico-you know all thatI" And he
gave Phil roguish dig.
'tBien, my frien'. 1 am glad to meet
you" He held out his hand in vel
come and De Lancey gave his in re
turn. MY NAME" he continued, SIS
Juan de Dios Brachamonte Y Escalon ;
but with these Americans that does
not go, as you say, so in general they
call me Don Juan.
There Is something about that
name-I do not know-thst makes the
college boys laugh. Perhaps it Is that
poet. Byron, who wrote so scandalous-
| ly about US Spaniards, but certainly
he knew nothing of our language, for
/ he rhymes Don Juan with new one and
true oneI' Still, 1 read part Of that
| poem and it is, in places, very interest
| ing-yes. very interesting-but Don
| JOo-an! Hahi"
De Lancey broke into joliying laugh
Well, Don Juan, he cried ''T'm glad
to meet you. Ny name Is Philip Dc
I4ancey and my pardner here is Mr.
Hooker. Shake hands with him, Dor
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01
The White sIavsra-

The late George W. Vanderbilt was
a scholar and, like most scholars, he
had little sympathy with the hypo-
critical white slave movement that
publishers and impresarios and film
firms have been fostering for the
sake Of gain.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, after one of his rare
visits to the theater. said to a Wash
ington reporter:
These are queer times, reacdonary
times. Why, from the talk at the the
ateF last night 1 really believe the
public wants the managers to stop
being white slave missionaries and so
cial evil reformers and to go back to
simply play producing"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01
carIYIe and ceremonx-

Thomas Carlyle and his wife were
so vedding-frightened that it is sad
to think of it Replying to letter
of his describing his fantastic terrors,
she wrote: For heavens sake get
into . more benIgnant humor, or the
incident viii not only wear \ very
original aspect. but likewise very
heart-hreaking one see not how 1
AM to go through with It .