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MRS. GUNNESS DEAD
tLATE8 CONTAINING HER FAL8E
1 TEETH FOUND IN A8HE8.
Sheriff Still Trying to Qet Evldtnca
at Gunnesa Farm Grand Jury Bs
gins Its Work at Laportt Offlcar
Receive Threatening Letter.
The autopsy hold nt Laporto, Ind.,
en the remains of tho seven un
Identified dead exhumed from Mrs.
Gunnese' privnto burial ground was
complotcxl and revealed tho fact that
lone of the sovon was a fcmalo. ThU
has aroused new Interest in tho story
tar Dinll Greening of Oklahoma City,
Olcla., who was employed by Mrs. Gun
biess In the fall of 1004. Greening
Kvorkcd for Mrs. Qunness at tho tlmo
that Jennlo Olson disappeared and
ibis story was to tho offoct that on a
certain day in September a man and
n woman came to the house and that
night Mrs. Gunncss asked Greening to
sleep in tho bam, for tho couple,
whom she said were the professor and
Ills wife from the Los Angeles college
which Jennie was to attend, would
spend the night with her nt the house
and would requiro Greening's bed
room. In tho morning Crooning saw
nothing of Jennie nor the man or
womnn nnd was Informed by Mrs.
Gunncss thnt they had left on an early
train, taking Jennlo along. This body,
which Is now dcclnrcd to be that of a
woman, was taken from the samo holo
ns was that of Jennlo Olson and In
that holo also were the bodies of Olo
Budsberg of Iola, Wis., trtid the re
mains of a male person. All the bodies
wore dismembered, but the trunks of
the four woro such that It was possi
ble to Identify the bodies of Jonnle
Olson nnd Mr. Iludsborg, and It was
made posslblo by tho autopsies to de
termine thnt one-of the other two was
that of a fonmle. The theory Is now
ndvanced thnt Mrs. Gunncss may have
on the samo night, the night that
Greening slopt In tho barn, murdered
not only Jennie Olson, but also the
man and womnn. To Coroner Mnclc,
Sheriff Smutzer and Prosecutor Smith
this seems almost Inconceivable, but
they consider In tho light of recent
developments that nothing appeared
Impossible for this nrch-murdercss.
The stomachs of tho four victims In
this holo hnvo been removed and' tho
contents will bo analyzed for poison.
The disappearance of Jennie Olson, as
well as tho couple, occurred In Sep
tember, 190G, whllo nud8berg wus dis
posed of In May, 1007. His body was
not nonrcr the surface than the others
and his should havo been the last
placod in the hole.
Grand Jury Gets Busy,
Tho Laporte grand Jury convened
ond began investigation of tho mys
tery surrounding the death of fourteen
persons nt tho farm of Mrs. Bello Gun
ness. Prosecutor Smith questioned
tho wltncssos and the testimony is be
ing noted by a court stenographer.
Prosecutor Smith received another
threatening letter from Brooklyn, N.
Y. Ho Is threatened with death un
Icsb he resigns his office and drops the
Gunness Investigation. He also re
ceived a threatening letter from
"Washington, D. C. Chief of Police
Cochrane is In receipt of a letter from
New York saying his life will pay for
feit unless ho ceases his activity.
The bodies of tho sovon unidentified
dead will bo buried In tho pottersfleld.
Mrs. Gunness' Teeth Found.
That Mrs. Gunness died In tho ames
which destroyed her home April 28
was conclusively shown when a
searcher In the ruins discovered tlw
upper and lower bridges, containing
tho false teeth of the woman. Tho
lower set of teeth tally exactly with
tho description nnd diagram furnished
Ty Dr. I. P. Norton, tho dentist, who
"built the bridge, and who identified
the teeth positively as thoso of Mrs.
Gunness. in view qf the unmistakablo
evidence, including the finding ouo
week ago of rings belonging to tho
murderess, Coroner Mack stated that
ho would render an ofllclal finding that
(he burned adult female body was that
of Mrs. Gunness.
The town has been rent for two
weeks by tho discussions over tho
question, "Waa Mrs, Gunness burned
to death, or did she escape?"
But few skeptical persona now re
main, and their argumeut is that Mrs.
Gunness, after killing tho children and
setting flro to tho house, threw her
teeth Into the Are.
Sheriff SmutEor Is investigating the
claim that William Rledlnger, a farm
er at Delaileld, Wis., was one of Mrs.
dunness victims. In a letter, David
Hicken, a friend living at Waukesha.
Wis., tells of the disappearance from
homo of Kledlnger, who, after a visit
from Mrs. Gunness, sold some crops,
which netted him $1,000, and left for
(some place in northern Indiana "to
suarry a wealthy widow," he said. A
bionth later his hired mnn, John
(HeinUselraan, received a letter, in
structing him to sell tho stock and
ifarm implements nnd put the money
In the bank. Although tho letter was
unsigned and not in the handwriting
of Rledlnger, the hired mun followed
the Instructions and deposited $900 in
the bank, where it still Is, for Rledln
ger nevor returned and was not heard
from after that. Miss Jennie Graham
lof Waukesha, Wis., is teeklng her
brother, who left homo to marry a
rich widow in Indiana and was never
Iheard from after that.
What is considered positive proof
that Henry Gurholdt of Scandinavia,
rwis., came to Laporto and was put
out of the way by Mrs. Gunnes3 was
supplied when Shorlff Smutzer re
ceived a letter containing a descrip
tion of Gurholdt's watch, which tallies
with "no of the watches found In the
ruins.
DEQS AND HANFORD NAMED
Socialists Nominate Standard Bearer
for Presidential Race,
Eugene V. Debs of Indianapolis was
nominated for president and Benjamin
Hanford of New York for vice presi
dent by the Socialist party national
convention at Chicago.
A draft of the platform was pre
tented to the convention. The demands
tet forth in it Include national owacr
ship of public utilities and of all great
industries of national icop "In wklch
competition has virtually ceased to
exist," extension of the public domain
to Include mines, quarries, oil wells,
forosts and water power and iclaatilc
reforestation of timber lands and rec
lamation of swamp lands. Touching
EUGENE V. DEBS.
tho labor situation, It calls for a short
ening of tho workday, tho securing to
workmen of at least a day and a halt
each week for rest, prohibition of em
ployment of women In harmful voca
tions nnd of children under sixteen,
and forbidding stato transportation of
products of child labor, convict labor
and tho products of uninspected fac
tories. A demand is made for tho abo
lition of tho sennto and of tho veto
power of tho president nnd' that tho
constitution be made amendable by a
majority vote; that all Judges be elect
ed by tho people for short terms and
that the power of Injunction be curbed
by immediate legislation.
TAFT IS FAR IN THE LEAD
Last Delegates to Republican Conven
tion Elected.
Arthur A. Vorys of Columbus, 0
tho manager of tho Taft canvass,
gavo out tho following statement:
"With the closo of tho campaign for
delegates to tho national convention
tho nomination of Secretary Taft on
tho first ballot Is a foregone conclu
sion. Of the 030 dclogatos who will
sit In tho convention 5C3 havo been
chosen under posltlvo Instructions to
vote for Ohio's candldato or under
resolutions of Indorsement or prefer
ence that were the equivalent of In
structions. Two hundred and twenty
five delegates have been instructed
for other candidates. Ono hundred and
ninety-two aro uniustructed. Of these
192 moro than 100 are known support
ers of Socretary Taft, This assures
Secretary Taft at this time of a total
delegate strength In the convention
of only a fow votes less than 700."
Julius C. Burrows of Michigan has
been selectod for temporary chairman
of tho national convention.
Hnrrlmnn Case Advanced.
Tho cases of E. H. Hnrrlman and O.
II. Knhn vs. tho interstate commerce
commission, involving tho refusal of
Hnrrlman nnd Knhn to answer ques
tions put by tho commission In Investi
gating some of tho operations of tho
Harrimnn railroads, were advanced on
tho docket of the supremo court of
the United States and their hearing
fixed for the first Tuesday In the next
term of court.
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
Features of the Day's Trading and
Closing Quotations.
Chicago, May 10. The local wheat
market waB strong today, chiefly on
account of corn, tho My delivery of
which sold at 70c, a gain of 3c com
pared with yesterday's final quota
tion. At tho closo July wheat was up
lc. May corn closed at a net gain
of 2c and July at a gain of lc. Oats
wore a shade higher. Previsions -were
up 12&25c. Closing prices:
Wheat May, $1.02; July, JOfto.
Corn May, 78c; July, 66c.
Oats May, 64c; July, 4c
Pork May, $13.G0; July, $13.7i.
Lard May, $8,60; July, J8.57V4.
Ribs May, 7.30; July, $7.42ft.
Chicago Cash Prices No. 2 hard
wheat, 99VIC051.O3; No. 3 com, 77
77c; No. 3 white oats, 5164o,
South Omaha Live Stock.
South Omaha, May 19. Cattle Re
ceipts, 3,100; best 10c higher, heavy
slow and lower; native steors, $4,750
7.00; cows and1 heifers, $3.258.15;
western steers, $3.60j6.25; Texas
steers, $2.7505.35; canners, $2.35
3.50; stockers and feeders, $3,005.25;
calves, $3.256.25; bulls, stags, etc.,
$3.00G5.G0. Hogs Receipts, 7,700;
shado to 5c higher; heavy, $5.320.
5.40; mixed, $5.3205.35; light. $5.30
5.35; pigs, $4.2506.00; bulk of sales,
$5 3205.35. Sheep Receipts, 4,100;
15025c lower; yearlings, $5.2606.65;
wethers. $50005.40; ewes, $4,500
615; lambs, $6.2506.75,
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, May 19 Cattle Receipts,
2.000; steady; steers, $5.0005.25;
cows, $3.7506.26; heifers, $3.6006.75;
bulls. $4.4005.75; calves, $2.5006.00;
stockers and feeders, $3.2505.40. Hogs
Receipts. 10,000; strong to a shade
higher, choice heavy shipping, $5,450
5 52',..; butchers. $5.455.52&. light
mixed, $5.3505.40; choice light, $6 40
05 52'.,; pigs, $4.1505.20; packers,
$5.0005 40; bulk of sales. $5.4005.50.
Sheep Receipts, 10.000; dull and
weak; sheep, $4.6005.75; lambs, $5.50
0 7 00; yearlings. $5.2506.75.
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CONFERENCE CLOSES
GOVERNORS ADOPT DECLARA.
TION OF CO-OPERATION.
Permanent Organization of Head of
Statea la Planned President Pre
sides at Closing Bettten and An
swers Criticism of Soverner Polk.
The first conference ef the govern
ors of the states of the American
union has ended at Wnihlagton.
Like many of the Irspertaat events of
history, time Is needed to reveal tho
epoch the president sad the governors
believe has been made. The accom
plishments of the conference, which
has been in session at the White
House for three days, cannot bo set
forth with mathematical precision,
That its Immediate results aro more
than ample Is the expression of Presi
dent Roosevelt, who brought It about,
and of tho governors who participated.
The printed record of tho confer
ence, which will later bo available to
every American home, will be a com
pilation of facts, Btartllng in their
meaning, convincing in tholr universal
conclusion, that tho states must act
and that the slates and tho nation
must co-operato to tho end that to tho
whole people of tho nation may accrue
the lasting benefit of Its natural re
sources. Besides the compilation of facts by
the experts' and the freely expressed
opinion of the governors, the confer
ence leaves na lta permanent record a
thousand wordB of "declaration." Not
a declaration of Independence, but a
declaration of cooperation.
Permanent Organization of Governors.
Perhaps greater In importance than
all else was the determination of tho
governors of the stntes to perfect a per
manent organization, whereby a here
tofore unknown Intimacy may be de
veloped among tho executives of tho
forty-six sovereign states, made strong
by a common purpose nnd made potent
by pronouncements which may not
lightly bo disregarded.
Of the last day, the story Is ono of
many features. The set program was
swept asldo. The president presided
throughout. He interjected romarks
and speeches. Ho brought to tho plat
form men who made plain tho prevail
ing feeling, that thought and care
must bo exercised for the future. Tho
prcparod papers were not presented',
but they will be printed in the perma
nent record. Their place was taken
first by tho "declaration," which was
adopted after discussion, which
brought to light no serious objections
to its affirmations. Then William J.
Bryan was presented by tho prosldent.
He touched tho same chords which
had produced the vibration of harmony
and co-operation. A governors' discus
sion brought many state executives to
tho platform, but tho product was alto
gether that of harmony, and the senti
ments expressed were applauded alike
by all. President Roosevelt, himself,
answering tho one criticism that of
Governor Folk of Missouri to tho
declaration, aroused tho conference to
Its warmeBt demonstration of ap
proval.. He Bwept aside the acadomlo
question of whore the line of authority
should be drawn between tho states
and the nation. Ho wanted action and
what he said received indorsement at
each period.
President Replies to Folk.
It was this: "Just a word of what
has been called tho 'twilight lnnd' be
tween tho powers of the federal and
state governments. My primary aim
in the legislation thnt 1 havo advo
cated for the regulation of the great
corporations has been to provide some
effective popular sovereign for eacli
corporation. I do not wish to keep
this twilight lnnd one of large and
vngue boundaries by judicial decision,
that In n given case tho stato cannot
act, and then a few years later by oth
er decisions that In practically Blmilar
cases the nation cannot act either. I
am trying to find out whore ono or tho
other enn act so there shall always bo
some sovereign power that, on behalf
of the people, can hold every big cor
poration, every big individual to an
accountability, bo that its or his acts
shall be beneficial to the people as a
whole. In matters that relate only to
tho people within the state, of course,
the state Is to be sovereign and It
should have the power to act. If the
matter is such that tho state itaolf
cannot act, then I wish on behalf of
all the states that the national gov
ernment should act.
"Take such a matter as charging a.
rent for water power. My position Is
simply that whero a privilege which
may be of untold value in the future
to the Individual or grantee Is asked
from the fedoral government, then the
federal government should put Into
the grant a condition that it'ehall not
be a grant In perpetuity. If there is
necessity for the grant, then there
must be power to attach conditions to
the grant. Make It long enough so
that the corporation shall have an am
plo material reward. Tho corporation
deserves It. Give an ample reward to
the captain of industry; but not an in
determinable and indefinite reward.
Put in a provision that will enable tha
next generation, that will enable ou;
children at the end of a certain speci
fied period to say what. In their judg
ment, should be done with that great
natural power which is of use to the
grantee only because the people as t,
whole allow him to use It."
War on Gypsy Moth.
In asking the Massachusetts legisla
ture for an appropriation of $300,000
for warfare this year against tha
gypsy and brown tail moths, Archie II.
Klrkland, state superintendent for the
suppression of insect pests, said that
over eighty thousand parasites of tho
moths have been lot loose from the
experiment station at Melrose.
LOEB AND WYNNE ARE NAMED
Alleged to Have Conspired to Get
Piatt Love Letters.
High officials at Washington aro al
leged U havo conspired to obtain pos
session of love letters said to havo
been written by United States Senator
Thomas C. Piatt to Miss Mne O. Wood
In a signed statement introduced as
evidence during tho hearing In Miss
Wood's suit for divorce against tho
senator In New York.
Tho statement, which was intro
duced after the eourt had denied a
motion by counsel for 8enator Piatt
to dismiss the complaint, boars what
purports to be ths signature of J.
Martin Miller, and Miss Wood said
that while she did not see tho signa
ture affixed', she was assured by Mr.
Miller that it was genuine. The state
ment was prepared by Miller at her
request, she declared. It Is said that
Miller was asked by "high government
officials in Washington and New York
to get possession of Senator Piatt
love letters; that the papers when ob
tained were not to be given to Sonntor
Piatt, but were to be turned over to
Mr. Loob In Washington, and thRt
when tho plan to get possession of the
original papers failed a scandal was
begun in the newspapers to force Mls3
Wood to como to terms."
Says Wynne Started Ball Rolling.
"Wynne, first assistant postmaster
general, started the ball rolling by get
ting a New York nowspnpor to print
the article as it first appeared," says
tho statement, which concludes: "I
was gotten Into tho conspiracy by
powerful officials whom I dare not dis
please from a newspaper or political
standpoint. I consulted Mr. Howe,
Senator Piatt's secretary, frequently
and' acted at all times under the di
rection of Loeb and Piatt."
Former Postmaster General Robert
Wynjie is the present American consul
general to London. J. Martin Miller, a
former nowspuper man, recently was
American consul at Rhelms, France.
"Did Miller ever say anything to
you about the letters?" asked the ex
amining attorney of Miss Wood.
"Yes," she replied. "Ho said that if
ho got tho letters the Platts would
never get them."
"What was he going to do with
them?"
"Hold them over Piatt's head, I be
lieve," she answered.
In her testimony given earlier In
tho day, Miss Wood, then under cross
examination, was led to tell of tho clr
cumstnnces tinder which she signed, in
1903, in this city, a relep-e of Sonator
Piatt from any claims sho may have
had against him. Sho testified that
she received' from A. H. Hummel the
sum of $7,500 upon signing the state
ment, but denied that she was aware
of all of its contents.
Loeb Knows Nothing About It.
Washington, May 20. Secretary
Loeb said that he knows nothing
about tho allegations contained in tho
statement signed "J. Martin Miller,"
end brought out In the Wood-Piatt suit
in New York, and that the statements
made therein, Insofar as they concern
him, are wholly untrue. "I never
called on Senator PlaU." he said, "and
know nothing whatever about the mat
ter." NO ACTION ON CHURCH MERGER
Question Is Being Considered by Meth
odist Protestant Conference.
Tho general conference of tho
Methodist Protestant church, In ses
sion at Pittsburg. Pa., so far has
taken no definite action on the ques
tion of amalgamation with other de
nominations. The whole question Is
being considered by a committee. Tho
overture from the Methodist Episcopal
asking the Methodist Protestants to
return to Its fold, unexpectedly adopt
ed at the Baltimore Methodist Episco
pal conference last week, has consid
erably complicated the question of a
consolidation of the Methodist Protes
tant, United Brethren and Congrega
tional denominations, which was orig
inally the chief question before the
conference here. The committee from
Baltimore, Including Senator Dolllver
of Iowa, was given a most enthusiastic
welcome here and the presentation of
the formal overture was followed by a
scene such as Is seldom witnessed in
a church. The addresses of the com
mitteemen to all appearances had the
effect of making many of the Metho
dist Protestant delegates stop to con
sider whether it would not bo better
to reunite with the parent body than
with the two other denominations. It
was the first invitation from the moth
er church in the eighty years of sep
aration extended to the seceders. A
high dignitary of tho Methodist Epis
copal church said there are seventeen
different Methodist denominations in
the United States and that if the
Methodist Protestants can be induced
to unite with the Methodist Eplscopals
all of the seventeen will soon be
joined In one body and the colored
church placed in a conference by itself.
Oklahoma Anti-Trust Law Vetoed.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has
vetoed the anti-trust bill. Tho
governor received hundreds of tele
grams from all parts of tho country,
asking the veto of the bill. The sen
ate sustained the veto, The governor
stated as his reason that the bill was
so stringent that it would drive honest
concerns out of business.
Ruef Again on Trial.
Testimony in the second trial of
Abe Ruef, former political boss of San
Francisco, on the charge of bribery,
was completed. The summing up by
counsel was immediately begun. As
sistant District Attorney Francis J.
Heney made the argument for the
prosecution and Henry Ach for the
defense.
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7 bars Diamond C soap, 25c
Pure Old Cider Vinegar, 30c gallon
Baking Powder, worth 25c, now 18c
15c, IOC
ioc, 7C
First grade Flour, best on market, $1.40 sack
Second grade Flour, $1.35 sack
Third grade Flour, $1.30 sack
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