Minneapo
The i evolution of tnrruptlon ' for souring tlii appointment of n po
among tho nuinii'liml ni.il police of- lit iii:iii.
tlclnls of Mlnm npnlls, Minn., made Dctcitlw ('Initios :' llraokott, ae
iluijug the past month have canned msed ()f being accessory to n felony
tfrf than n pas-lug solvation. Mln- M that ho hail guilty foreknow lodso
Ti-titans have prided ihonisehos r tho rociMit burglary of tin- I'nhst
upon the conviction that their officials j Drew Inn Company's safe,
wore not as ot icr officials In other j p, uctlvo Ficd Malono, accused of
cities, hut were models of upright- imvltiK guilty knowledge of tho same
Hess, wisdom and Incorruptibility. I ittilui .
ThlB coiilldence has been rudely n,n-Uott and Malono are charged
sl,ako"- ' with having acted as 'look-outs" for
The first act of Mayor Ames nftei , ,.nu.4Slm,n. )nu admits that he
his Inauguration was to appoint hia funiSl.( ;,oo to make good the
brother as clilor of police. It soon
began to Ik- mooted abroad that the
new chief was "play Inn favorites"
among the saloonkeepers and gum
biers. Certain saloons were likewise
Capt. "Narm" King.
(Sentenced to the Penitentiary.
but
Asked for a New Trial.)
permitted to set the laws and ordi
nance of the city at naught, being al
lowed the privilege of selling liipior '
at all hours of the day and night. I
More questionable resorts, even, than
those were subject to tho snme dis
criminations. Certain notorious wo
men were known as favorites of the
police and were visited w'.th the as
surance that there was no danger
whatever of police raids.
It was charged by the enemies of
Mayor Ames and his biother, the
chief of police, that the gambleis,
saloon and dive keepers who enjoyed
the privilege of lolatlng tho law with
impunity paid well for their favors,
and In tho course of time an Investi
gation was set on foot that establish
ed beyond controversy tho fact that
these charges were true. Several
of the "hard cases" had abused their
privilege and had been taken to no-
tE3?
lh
A.AJtrmsJi?
count. In revenge they revealed to
the public tho system of blackmail
to which they had been subjected. It
became apparent from tho statements
of these "squealers" that the sys
tem In vogue permeated the whole
city and that the officials were deriv
ing a very large Income from the as
sessmunts levied in this Illicit man
ner. There was a regular schedule of
"dues" established, graduated accord
ing to the business tho several es
tablishments conducted, and tho dues
wore collected regulnrly by agents In
tho city's employ. Tho matter was
brought Doforo tho grand Jury and
that body instituted an Inquiry that
resulted in the indictment of Mayor
Amos, his brother, the chief of po
lice, several detectives and pollco
captains. AH wive charged with mal
feasance In office and with extorting
blackmail.
Inspector Gardner has been by
many supposed to be at tho bottom
of tho entire system of blackmail. Tho
indictment against him was par
ticularly strong and sweeping and tho
attorneys for tho state had little
trouble In securing his conviction. Ho
was proved guilty of many specific
ivcts In which he had shown favorit
ism for a substantial monetary con
sideration, nnd tho Jury was but a
short time in finding him guilty. Tno
customnry motion for a now trial was
mador ponding tho decision of whlea
hall was furnished, Gardner, how
over, dhl not await the court's decis
ion, hut left tho city between two
days. His whereabouts are unknown
to tho authorities, hut when last soon
ho was headed' southward, and many
hcllevo he has found refuge in
Mexico.
Capt. Norbeck of fio police was tho
next to bo placed on trial. The hear
ing was quite brief, tho evldenco of
guilt being conclusive. The trial was
cut short by a plea of guilty entered
by tho accused, who was sentenced to
a short term In tho penitentiary and
n fine of 12,500.
Tho grand jury for June befoto Its
adjournment returned three ntlill
litfinal Indictments ngalnst pollco olll
ct7W. They were:
Capt. John FItchette, widely regard
ed as Mayor Ames' confidential pollco
captain, accused of trafficking In
pollco jobs. Tho specific allegation
Is t'nat he accepted a gratuity of 5J00
o
h'irnirff f (JlK&T T will ilkA'iTVmXRtrjlkUt!jpJrTL'(tJ0Y
ir tjmr . . r !. .t . jr jw-t i- . m v .:. ir z. -F
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Officiate
Guilty of Corruption
amoui.t stolen, but be says he pave
tlii- money to prevent a friend from
getting into trouble.
The case of Capt. N. W. King.
charged with being accessory to n
1 felony In receiving money from law-
breakers, resulted In a verdict of
1 guilty. Ho was released on $."1,000 ball
i poi.dlng an application for a new trial.
There will undoubtedly be add!
i tlojial police indictments reported,
but they will be for men already on
' the list. Some of these supplementary
j indictment will be based upon evi
j deuce given bel'oie the grand Jury
by Chris Norbeck Others who nro
' known to be corrupt may not ho in
I dieted, as there Is a fooling nmong
I some of the grand Jurors that the In
vostlgntion has been pursued far
j enough thoroughly to expose and rem-
dy police corruption and that furth
I er indictments will simply make more
I expense lor t'.ic county.
' There Is some controversy as to the
I penalty Incurred by Detective King.
His attorney. Victor Welch, said that
as yet he had not had opportunity lo
lnqulio deeply Into the question ot
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(.tatutes appear to differ.
.Mr. Welch Is of the opinion that
the proper penalty for his client's
offense is a jail sentence not to ox
i oed a year. The state holds, on the
other bnnil. that the old law preset th
ing such a penalty was superseded
by the penal code enacted In ISSti.
which lles the maximum penalty at
live years In the state penitentiary.
"It may be," he said, "that we will
have no motion to make at that time."
The Inference from this remark was
that If the courts uphold the old law,
which provides only for a jail sen
tence, his client will be content lo
serve the short Jail term rather than
attcvjpl an appeal to the supremo
NORBECK
court. If the court holds that the old
statute Is repealed by Implication nnd
sentences the detective to a term In
the penitentiary, theio will doubtless
be such an appeal. Tho Wgher court
If It should differ in Its view of tho
matter from tho trial court would not
ho likely to grant a now trial because
of the error in sentence, but would
remand the case for resentence. For
this reason most lawyers who havo
looked Into tho matter hollovo tho
judge will give King a term at Still
water. Capt. N. W. King resigned his of
fice. He was sentenced to threo nnd
a half years In the penitentiary. His
counsel announced Hint an appeal
would he taken to tho supremo court.
The grand Jury Is still at work try-
Irwin A. Gardner.
(Sentenced to Six Years at Stillwater
for Hrlbe-TakltiB.)
ing to ferret other Infractions of tho
law than thoso already brought to
light. The jury has encountered n
serious drnwlmck in tho law Itself.
There was amplo evldenco, fully cor
roborated, that saloonkeepers and
thoso contemplating going Into tho
business hnd been held up for largo
sums as bribes to secure licenses. In
ono case, Thomas Lyons, who hnd lost
Ills license, paid $300 to an officer
who informed him that ho could land
tho license for him for that amount.
Tho money wns paid, hut tho license
was not forthcoming.
Tho grnnd jury wanted to indict
along these lines, hut found they could
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not do so Tin chart) r docs not pro
idc un such thing nv u license In
spector ir any other ollleir for li
cense duty An officer Is appointed
and designated for that purpose, but
his duties hnvi nothing to do with
the scouring ol licenses, nor does tho
duty ol any othoi offici r Hence 'o
take money witti n promise to secure
n license l no offens and all that
can be done Is tor tin saloonkeeper
to sue for his momy in a civil ac
tion. Iloeumt if this law m viral olllei rs
Lj trt R
County Attorney A. J. Smith.
(Vlf-oious In Pmseeiition of Cases.)
will escape who might otherwise liavt
been Indicted anil convicted.
Hair Pays the Rent.
Never has the demand for womnn's
hair In Km ope been greater than It Is
now. and men arc going from town to
town In Prance Cermnny Swit.erhmd
and Russia, buying nil they enn g-t. It
Is oven said that one enterprising
dealer has sent some agents to China
for this piiriMise
The finest hair in France Is fur
nished by tlilttnny, for the Mreton
women have very luxuriant tresses
which never fall to fetch a high prlco
In London. Most of these women aro
poor, and are quite willing to sacrifice
their hair, especially as they wear
bonnets which completely cover their
heads, and thus effectually hide them
when shorn.
France furnishes more brown and
black hair than any other country, anil
fair and golden hair Is furnished, as a
iiile. by the women of (lornmny and
the north of Hurope. Gray and white
hair Is always In demand and if ol
good quality fetches n high price.
A Frenchwoman's hair weighs gen
erally five nnd a half ounces, an Ital
ian woman's six ounces, nnd a Ger
man woman's nine ounces.
L.-5t of te Senate's SnuHtakers.
On either side of the United StateE
senate chamber is nn ancient snuff
boxone for Republicans nnd ono for
'Democrats. Tho boxes me ft survival
of the old-time habit of snufftnltlng,
which was almost universal in the
ISti (oi.tury among persons of fashion
and public men. The habit persisted
woil through the first half of tho 19th
century, but during the past fifty
years snuff bns gone out ot style. The
sennte boxes, however, remain, nnd
it appears they are kept filled. Sena
tor Vest of Missouri, and Senator
Harris of Kansas, who formerly used
the boxes occasionally, havo broken
off the habit, and Senator Fettus is
now their solitary patron. He Is the
last of the snufftnkers in that historic
Lody nt least.
Fine Screwe in Watches.
The minuteness of some of tlu
screws mnde in n watch factory may
be measured by tho statement that it
takes nearly lno.OOO of a certain ltind
to weigh a pound. Under the micro
scope they nppenr In their truo char
acterperfectly finished bolts. The
pivot of the balance wheel is only one
two-hundredths of an inch In diame
ter nnd the gnugo with which pivots
aro classified measures to tho ten
thousandth part of an inch. Each
Jewel hole into which a pivot fits is
about one fivo-tiousandth of nn inch
Inrger than the pivot to permit suffi
cient play.
The finest screw for a smnll-slzed
wntcli has a thread of 2(10 to tho incli
and weighs ono one-hundred and
thirty thousandths of a pound.
Was Good at Repartee.
Rev. Mr. Greene, n preaclier nl
Findley's Lake, Pa., took his congre
gation to task because tho members
were not, in his opinion, giving suit
able support to church work. The
roverend gentleman mentioned by
name several of those whom ho ro
garded as ut fault, but was Injudicious
enough to lncludo Editor Bocrman
nmong tho lot. "Why," said the
preacher, "Mr. Hoerman only paid a
dollar townru my support." Tho edi
tor man retorted, "It was dear at the
price," and Mr. Grecno thereupon
learned that It Is dangerous to monkey
with a buzz saw.
Successful Woman Rancher.
Miss Fanny Senbrldo, a Chicago
girl who went to Texas ns a governess!
some years ago, has, for tho past four
years held tho position of cattle guard
and fence rider for tho Hlg Horsoshoo
XX Ranch. In .addition to a good sal
ary she has received $1,251 in boun
ties on tho scalps of wild animals she
has killed, all of which she has In
vested in tho best broods of cattlo un
til sho now owns over a thousnnd hea'3
which will form tho nucleus for a
thoroughly equipped "ranch of hor own
In tho near future.
Parisian Hrtisiic Life
Attracts American Girls
The American girls who Hock to
I'arls to study ait anil music, re
ualn falt'ifnl to their respective cat
igorlos eeu In their physiology. The
irt girls are always slender, nervous
mil aniiMiilc. while the mimic girls
ire over plump.
And. following the law that to liltn
who hath shall more be given, the
future warbleis live luxuriously In
enviable social prominence, whllo
the art girls are taking rheumatism
mil lead poisoning, very much alone,
im l 00INO 10 OtVB nnciTAt.i u
LONDON
In draughty studios, with cold feet
and homo cooking
Tho girl who comes to I'arls for
thu cultivation of her voice has no
Ideal to fulfill In a grimy l.atln quar
ter. Her companions are not noisy
hoys, longhaired, with uncut linger
nails, and two day collars charcoal-
smudged, uneducated, anogaiit,
whose chosen salon Is a dance hall,
whose Intimates aro models for the
altogether.
Tho girl art student, even when
well off financially, must absolutely
have this dear artistic atmosphere,
or she fools that she Is not making
progress. She must live in llohcmia,
though not at heart herself Iloho
in Ian.
I1B HAD A TELTf.T COiT
AHD AN IMrF.IIIAL
I have seen nice girls, reared ten
derly, both pout and plno because
their prudent mothers, having
brought them on to l'aris. would
not let them roll In Latin Quarter
mud; they must go to the studio, re
ceive their lessons and work their
nccustomed hours, then return homo
to tho smart pension, mother nnd
correct society; wherefore they
wailed that they were only ainnteurs
and dwellers on the threshold.
Tho girl who conies to cultivate
her voice lias different temptntlons.
Her vocation exacts that sho bo as
dnlnty ns her song. For this kind
or girl It Is, at first, a pleasure lor
her mother to como with her to tho
gay French capital and entertain, go
out and profit by her daughter's girt
to meet nice people.
Miss Smith, "whoso video Is Just
Uko Pnttl's, only two notes higher;"
Miss Drown, "who has won a sliver
medal at the Roody Institute for
declamation," nnd Mr. Jones, "who
Is studying for tho Paris Grand Op-
DBTONY TltH fOET.
2ra," together with young DinKel
stein, "who is going to givo piano
recitals In London," and his friend
Dupont, tho poet, "sing with notes
angelical to ninny a harp their own
heroic, deeds.
Tho Latin Quarter influence Is nil
"Dohomlnn," and, such Ib tho force
of n long tradition, theso young men
would not be happy at their studies
wero they forced to be clean nnd
sane In dress and deportment. There
is no -hnrm in them, but they cer
tainly arc "cures."
Now, It is Just to theso young men
that our girl students, coming to tho
Latin Quarter, must look up; and
the thing Is Inevitable. Such young
men become painters; they havo
mado as great a name In "art" as
our girls havo mado In singing;
whereas the art girl admits that, as
yet, her fellow countrywomen havo
mado few successes in her chosen
field.
Ono day last mouth I met an nit
girl living what Bbo calls tho truo
life, after long strugglo with her
parents. A telegram from Durlln
told mo: "Look up Miss A. Wo
hear that sho is 111."
1 took a cab to the address. Tho
girl I know to bo a sister to an-
other, married to a prominent Amor-
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lean, both, would have fortunes fiont
their family 1 was, therefore, scan-,
dalled If not sin prised to llnd this
well-to do young or'-Uiuo installed
with another like herself In an un
sanitary couit. up ditty stalls, In a
barn-llko studio.
They had two hammocks and two
folding beds, two tables, two wash
stands, a eookstovo, some chillis and
a green painted bench from u pub
lic square The sick girl was pioud
of this latter; It had boon stolen
years ago from Its placo In tho munici
pal scheme of things by an Amor
lean student since famous as a gioat
portrait painter.
Pictorial posters lit the walls with
color Half a dozen easels stood
about, with pictures finished and un
finished. At one side or the stu
dio a groat divan, covered with rich
stuff, was Uttered with Innutnerablo
pillows, wry pretty; It mado the
ono spot of beauty In tho habltutlon
In a comer stood a suit or armor
On a table stood a dish of pared po
tatoes. Tho sick girl was eating
gruel She coughed cruelly.
"You must at least get a big
screen," I said, "and a doctor."
"I would rather have two screens,"
she answered. "I saw two precious
ones In an antiquity shop nroiinu
the corner. The dealer said they
were tine Louis XV., and wanted
no much for them that I gao them
up; we poor art students must con
tent ourselves with bare necessities."
Hero was a girl who, living up to
an Ideal, had caught what might
bine been pneumonia posing halt
nude for three other girls, each tak
ing tuin about, to avoid tho profes
sional model. Yet ono, to my knowl
edge. Is or will bo rich, whllo both
the others havu comortablo allow
ances. They live up to an Ideal. They
dross poorly nnd eccentrically. They
do some of their own cooking; whllo
fur ntliei- m. Mils thcv imtroul.o a
students' lestaurant, where young
Frenchmen smirk and wink behind
their backs. They live unhygonlc
ally; and the curious thing Is that,
priestesses of beauty, their present
life does not have beauty In it.
One of these girls, only two short
years ago, was leading naturally and
happily a life or smart self-Indulgence
with her widowed mother. They had
UEtl companions
.inn cauoiit r.vr.DMONiA
whim; i'osin'o on
Tin; cniitiiuinix
three rooms In the best pension of
tho loan Quarter.
The girl took healthy pleasure In
ilressmnkers. Jewelers and hairdres
sers. Sho took other girls to tea
nnd was a Judge or bonbons.
Ono day at a picture show, It
seems, sho overheard two young men
or fashion Biieerlng at the llfo led
by one of their acquaintances, bo
come an art student. What sho heard
struck a strange spark of scomrtil op
position In her. Despising vehem
ently the fops who so lightly criti
cized their betters, tho girl fell to
meditating on her own life, which
wns idle.
Her first good work was to go to
a well-known painter with her moth
er, nnd sit for her portrait. And
sitting thus, long afternoons, tho
studio poison entered Into her. Ah
for tho poi trait, she despised It at
tho same time she admired it
"There Is the portrait or an lo)
girl!" sho said.
Her riesh ami pretty costumes
came to bo ell things She went
In for drawing lessons mid showed
talent. Within six months sho was
drawing in a real academy and com
ing home to mother nnd the pension
In time for dinner.
Within six months nu-re sho had
Al TOEBU AND DAimT AS HEH BONO.
won a groat battle against family op
position and Installed heiself nnd a
girl friend from tho aendemy In tho
barn studio where I found her cough
ing. She had made the great ro
nunclatlon. She hnd given herself
I up to art with n big A
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DEATH LISI IARG
Friday Spent in Roscuo of lm
prisoned Minora.
THE MSCUIRS MARLY OVJRPOWfRED
lly Cmml MIihtk i:rry IIITiirl Almlf
. lo l.rmii'ii lima nf l.lfti - Alnrn Tliitti
mil Killed In I ho I ton Hi Trnp
IMIiir Nm of iMli'M'it,
A Johnstown. Pn., July 11 dlsp'feh
Mates Today was a day of rescues
ut the fated Rolling Mill mine or the
Cn..ibrlii Still company Thrllliun
I'xporlonics attended the effoits of thr
foity daring rellows who went down
Into the mine with the faint bopi
that they might bo In time torcutonj
to life some of the entombed men bjj
bringing them again Into (bo sunlight.
Many dead bodies were found, buH
they were left In (ho theater of death
until every living poison had bcci
lcscuul. That done, the dead wen;
brought up and exposed to the moi
bid ga.o of the piopli on (he way to
the inoigtio Eighty-seven dead bodlcn
were nro -end fuiin the mine between
daylight and nlghtfnll Oivnsionnlly
word would come to tho surface by
some mysterious means that nuothoi;
heap of leninlns bad been exposed to
tho vision of the scarcheis. three miles
Inside tho mine. Dangerous hcadlngu
In the Klondike tin Hon yet rcninln
unexplored. Many more dead may bo
found there.
It Is thought that IT.O Is a low esti
mate of the casualty list. Johnstown
spent the day horror-stricken. From
dawn to dusk flying nmbulatioon
coursed the streets bearing grewsonn)
burdens from mine to morgue; from
moi gue to honics Great throngn
surged about the pit mouth, the Im
provised morgue at the armory anil
about Hie homes or tho dead. HullMIn
boards were eagerly wanned for news,
ftom the scene or the disaster. Exag
gerated rumors of all kinds prevailed.
It Is illllliuit to picture wiiu uuy u.
grro approaching its full worth thei
work of rescue and tho . attending'
scenes and Im lilents ol tho day nt tlicr
ccnter of Interest.
FALLS DEAD IN A FIT
Tiiiiiir Mhu t Frriiwint Fouim! cI )
lltii Hlnlrr.
Lying face downward In a potatw
pntch In tho rear of bin home on F
street, between Third and Fourth, Just,
across from the old frame city hull
building nt Fremont. Neb., the body'
of Clayton Mitchell, n young nu.n or
twenty-seven years, was discovered by
hlB sister at 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing. From all nppearnnecH the corpsej
had lain thero during one wholo night
and morning. Tho young man was
subject to lltB and Is benuvcu to uuvu,
died In one.
Mitchell lived with hlfl mother nnd
two Misters. Misses Hilda and lluby, at
the plnce mentioned. Thursday nfter-
tinnn nt 2 o'clock ho brought Home,
some groccrleB and announced that he
wiib going off to trniio nis nicycic. a
woman who lives in tne neigiioornuuu
saw him a few mlnutcn later In Hies
vicinity 'of the livery barn at inini
and llroad btieels. The time of his
rrtiim Is unknown, hut It Is thought,
in luivo been after dark. A fit numl
have seized him as he wns on IiIh wayj
to tho house, and when tne nony was
found it was lying In sucn a position,
as would havo mado strangulation)
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MANY BOERS WERE KILLED.
Ited I'ruii FlRiirc rinre tlio t'animltlca
nt Nrurly 0,000.
A Pretoria, TranBvaal, July 11, iIIb-.
patch says: According to an estlmato;
of tho Red CrosB Identity depot, which
fulfilled the functlonn of u casually .
bureau for tho Doer forces, the total
.Ioshob of the latter during tho war
wero 3,700 mon ittiieu or men "
wounds and 32,000 inndo prisoners of,
war. of whom 700 died. The Door
forces in tho field numbered about
75.V.0O.
Will Ktmlj Irrlcutliui
F. H. Newell, chief hydrogrnpher ot
tho geological survey, has gone to tho
western stnteB to make a preliminary
Investigation of the irrigation prob
lem. Tho irrigation law passed by tho
last session of congress has made It
necessary for the survey to dctermlno
the location of the.reservolia to bo
provided for by tho law.
Mimt Hu H'ltlol by l'rrfclilont.
It Is understood that the question
of the withdrawal of the frlnrs from
the Philippine Islands could be net
tled Immediately If Washington wouhl
accept the oral assuiauce of the Vati
can that they will be withdrawn grad
ually. It Is believed In Rome that
only President Roosevelt can deeldo
whether such a promiso shall he ai
cepted.
UettliiR Itemly to Thresh.
Tho iluys just passed havo given tho
farmers near Denedlct a chance to get
Into their wheat fields, although tho
ground Ib very wet. The machines
have been running and tho fall wheat,
with the exception of low land, Is
nearly all cut. 'Threshing englneHara
trying to steam up and If the weather
holds good the threaherB will atari
next week.
CordeuK NntWea Angry
In the opinion of Captain John Con
roy, superintendent of the hnrbor Im
provement work that is being done f
CardcnnB, Cuba, by a Now York con
tractor, thero will bo troublo with thn
natlvcB of that place withlu Bixty
dnyB. Tho ncgroeB, he sayB, aro dis
satisfied with tho condition and on tho
prlnclplo that .they participated In tbo
fighting, they beliovo they onght to
have offices. "Thero Is a Btato oC
great unenslnosB In Cardenas," ho add
ed. "They hnvo two banks there, with
only twenty-four policemen."
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