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TIIE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: "WEDNESDAY, DECEMDEK 0, 1903.
NEWS OF INTEREST FROM IOWA
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
Office 15 Scott Street. Both 'Phones 43.
ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY
Charles McKeown, Farmer Near Cres
cent, is the Victim.
C. A. WILDING UNDER ARREST
Two Tlmtmliif letter ReeelTed
Tararil Ott to the Authorities
and Arrest of Wlldlnsr
Follow.
Charged with attempting to "extort
money by blackmail" from Charles Mc
Keown, a well-to-do farmer living about
three miles from Crescent, C. A. Wilding
is being held by the authorities and will
have a preliminary hearing before Judge
finyder In the superior court this morning.
Wilding has been placed In the county
jail pending hi hearing. He was raised
In the rlcinlty of Crescent and for several
years conducted a pool hall there. About
five weeks ago he moved with his family
to this city and hna been living on Avenue
A near Eleventh street.
Wilding Is said to have had a partner
In the alleged attempt to . extort money
from McKeown, but so far the authorities
have been unable to locate him. Wilding
was taken Into custody Sunday evening
by Deputy Sheriff Clarence Woolman and
Detective Dan Weir.
Two letters were recently received by
McKeown. In the first letter, which wag
nailed to the gatepost of McKeown's resl
, denee. the sum of I.T50 was demanded.
This letter was received by McKeown on
November 3, and was by him turned over
to the authorities. The second letter was
received through the mall last Thursday
by McKeowm and was likewise turned
over to the authorities.
Text of Letters.
Both letters were written with a pencil
end theie was evidently an attempt on the
part of the writeer to disguise his hand
writing. The first letter read as follows:
Mr. Charles McKeown: You are hereby
notified by the undersigned to come to
Council muffs Tuesday, the twenty-third
get $350 (thiee hundred and fifty dollars),
go to the Northwestern depot at exactly
I o'clock. At ten minutes atter 3 you start
home up the track. Keep on the track
next to the hills and watch the rails until
you see your first name on one, and your
last name on the other written with white
Vhalk, then step to the right and put the
money under a board you will see (better
carry It in a small hand satchel). Then
go right on home up the track and say
nothing to anyone. Yours, hoping you. will
be sensible. THE NJQHT RIDERS.
The writer, apparently thinking he had
rot been emphatic enough In his demand,
added the following postscript:
Mr. McKeown: For your own sake we
will say a ftw words of warning. Don't
fall to do as you have been instructed, for
It will cost you all you have got, and you
will never en)oy another week of prosperity
while you live.
Don't notify the police and think to
escape, for there Is ten of us where there
Is one police, and It would take a whole
army to save you. Every move you make
will be watched. Kvery word you sav over
your telephone will be heard bv some of
us, and If we fall to get this money all
safe, It will cost vou your home, ycur barn,
your grain and hny, yov-r kids (one of therr,
whs seen rather handy frequently of lato)
and all that you do for the next ten years
to come. We don't ask for much, because
you are not the only victim, but we mean
to have that, so you had better not take a
drink of water out of your well (unless you
like poison), so be careful Tuesday. You
win see and be seen by at least US mem
bers of this organisation, and If you do
this alright there will be no harm to vou,
If not you had better be in hell. Don't
think this Is kids' play, for It Is the most
serious thing that tver happened to you
and you are responsible for y-ur and your
family's welfare after this warning, and
as sure as you live, can expect calamity
and disaster unless you obey, be sensible
One gentleman donated 11,100 yesterday to
get a little dirty facfd kid back and had
sense enough not to tell ai ybody that the
kid was stolen. If you refuse you will
enly further our cause bv being made an
example to the next victim of the Night
RUltis, and look for us soon.
Letter Number Two.
The secoi.d letter read as follows:
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, November
(evidently Intended for December) 2, 1908.
Mr. Charles McKeown: At a regular meet
ing of the night riders on the first of this
month you were reported delinquent. We
ask you for 1.160 on the 23d and failed to
get it. You were reported to have been
In town on the next day. You were watched
and followed and we thought It possible
that you had been mistaken In the date,
but I guess you are a muddle brained .idiot
and think you won't come through. But
wo resolved to give you another date and
charge you 50 more. We will tie a red
cloth ar .imd a telephone pole between
your house and Council Bluffs. It will be
to your right as you drive home you leave
$400 by that pole next Saturday. Start from
town at 4 o'clock and when you see the
red cloth around a telephone pole get out
and leave the money. Be sure that nobody
sees you and cover 1t up with grass so
no one can find It. If you have as much
brains as a crow you will do Just what we
ask you. Then, Is 223 members of this gang
and they have everyone taken an oath to
get his money, and If we must force
you it will cost you more than 4XX We
do not ask you for much because you sre
not the only victim but we will have that
or more If you mske tip your mind not
to leave 1t next Saturday. You better keep
that dam kid out of this town or It will
cost you a thousand dollars. We did not
make a trip to your house for fun and
there Is a fnt of little, cold, hungry kids
just as good as yours waiting for that
monev and we will have It or punch your
darned eyes out and break your back. Don't
think we bob afraid to come to your house
and get you or any of your family, burn
your place down and throw your dam car
cass In the river. You bring that WOO and
don't say a word to anybody or you will
sit and hug It to your sorrow, dam your
soul to hell. You Just escaped getting your
horses shot down on your way home the
last trip to town because one man held
another while you drove past, but It won't
happen again. You will get It and If you
don't think so try us Inform the police and
get one of us and you better be In hell.
Don't come to this town galn If you don't
come through. We are done fooling with
you and mean what you see here. We are
the night rldere and you will come to life
enough to realise It If you fall.
Deputy Sheriff Woolman and Detective
Weir, disguised as farmers, drove over the
route that was to be taken by McKeown,
but failed to discover any rag tied around
a post.
The authorities ray they have a good
case against Wilding, but decline to make
publlo the nature of the evidence In their
possession. It la said that Wilding was
seen around the Neumayer hotel, where
McKeown stopped, as well aa the second
man, whom the authorities have ao fax
failed to locate. Wilding's handwriting is
said to correspond with that In the two
threatening letters received by McKeown.
McKeown, who was In the city Saturday,
says he was Bhadowed all the time he was
in town by some men suspected of being
Implicated In the attempt to extort money
from him. He Is much worried over the
matter and since the receipt of the second
letter, Is said to have had his house
guarded at night.
Iowa News Notes.
CRESTON The schools In Malvern are
closed on account of a mild epidemic of
smallpox through which that town la pass
ing. CRESTON Mrs. William FVankiln of
near Bedford, walked off Into the open
stairway at her home a few nights ago,
breaking both her arms and cut and
bruised her head, beside suffering other
severe Injuries.
QRINNELL R. O. Courts of this city
has Just completed In sixty days the re
building of the bank and alore building on
the corner of the block in Kellogg recently
destroyed by fire. It is 44xhO feet and two
stories, of brick and stone and cost about
Sll.Ouo.
CRESTON-Whlle T. E. Owens of Bed
ford was sawing wood and his hand was
cold und numb, he caught his thumb
under the saw and sawed -oft about half
an Inch. He did not know he had sawed
Into his hand until he pulled off his glove,
when the piece of thumb dropped to the
ground.
CRESTON The local Elks held a beau
tiful memorial service yesterday afternoon
at the lodge home for the sixteen deceased
members who are burled in Oraceland
cemetery. Elaborate musical numbers were
given by Creston's best talent. Rev. James
O'May gave the memorial address. Miss
Grace Harsh gave a reading Browning's
"Gathering Place." The Invocation was
by Rev. Frank Hanscom, who also pro
nounced the benediction after the Elks'
ervlces were concluded. A large atten
dance was In evidence.
BOONE At the services last evening In
.he many city churches, pastors announced
big revival meetings for this city, starting
on the morning of January 4. These ser
vices are to continue for an indefinite
period. Pastors asked that all members
of their congregations and In fact every
body In the city, give up their social
engagements during these serviced. One
pastor Insisted that after the first week
of the meetings the members of his church
give up everything of a social nature, in
cluding afternoon clubs.
IOWA CITY Iowa City's moral reform
iucceeded, and last night the "Sunday ltd''
was clamped onto the student city with
a vengeance. Patrons of the vaudeville
houses and moving picture shows wan
dered to the week-day haunts, but there
were no welcome lights and the wave of
moral reform had won Its point. While
the Methodist church was the only orga
nization to openly object to the opening of
the Sunday vaudeville houses and other
amusement places liberally patronised by
students and citizens, the proprietors de
cided to keep closed at least temporarily
and to make no test cases of the clamping
Lon of the Sunday lid.
IOWA FALLS A report comes from
southeast of this city near Steamboat
Rock of the capture of a wildcat welshing
about fifty pounds. According to the ac
count of the exciting capture, Mr. and Mrs.
Hen Eller were out hunting rabbits with a
ferret. Finding a rabbit's retreat, the ferret
was sent down one hole, while Mr. and
Mrs. Eller held sacks over the other two
outlets of the bnrrow. Pretty soon the
ferret started something and Mrs. Eller
found she had caught something In her
sack that howled and growled In a man
ner wholly unbecoming a bunny. She held
onto the prey heroically, however, until
her husband came to her rescue. After
slumming the sack with Its mysterious
contents against a tree a few times the sack
was emptied and out rolled a dead wildcat-
SOME DOCTORS CARELESS
Endanger Lires of Many People by
Violation of Law.
FEDERAL LAWS ARE INVOLVED
Week of Meetings of Varlooe So
cieties to Discuss Farm, Lira
Stock aad Hortlealttaral
Matters.
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(From a Staff Correspondent.)
DE8 MOINES. la., Dec. -(Special.)
Officials of the lowa Slate Board of Health
are up In arms over recent acts of criminal
negligence and have asked the postal
authorities to assist In running down one
offender, who has possibly exposed hun
dreds to the dread disease, diphtheria,
Monday Dr. Louis Thomas, secretary of
the board, received througn the mall- a
package that was loosely wrapped and
tied. On opening It he found an old
vaseline bottle with but an ordinary cork,
unsealed In any way. Within was some
batting. On the outside was a label bear
ing the information "Throat test. Sus
pected of being diphtheria." The postmark
on the exterior of the package was obli
terated so It could not be made out. The
outside wrapper, however, has been disin
fected and turned over to detectives to
ascertain If possible the name of the
sender. Dr. Thomas says It Is not the first
time such things have happened and he
says If the name of the person can be
obtained he will prosecute him to the limit?
He says that besides being guilty of
criminal negligence they are guilty of
violating the postal laws Of the govern
ment in two ways sending a bottle through
the malls and sending contageous matter
through the malls. It is possible, says Dr.
Thomas, that this Improperly sealed bottle
containing a diphtheria cult has Infected
every letter In the mall pouch. These
letters go Into hundreds of homes. Then,
he says, It is more than likely that anyone
so careless never took the trouble to dis
infect the outside wrapper that came out
of the sick room.
There seems to be a misrepresentation
about tests. The state board hire exam
ines no, tests. All should be sent to the
bacteriological laboratory at Iowa City and
only sent In the proper test bottles, furn
ished by the state board through its rep
resentatives In every city. Then they
should be sent properly sealed, by express.
It was not long ago that Dr. Thomas
received a scarlet fever test In a similarly
careless manner. There Is a possibility
both were sent by the same party. The
federal authorities here are working on
the case. '
Meat Producers Gainer.
A Joint session of the Corn Belt Meat
Producers' association and the Iowa State
Farmers' Institute opens here tomorrow
morning. President A. B. Storms of the
Iowa Agricultural college at Ames, wiH
discuss the question "Public School Agri
culture." Representative George C. White
of Nevada will speak on "The Farmer in
the Legislature," while C. F. Curtis of the
Ames college will speak on "Government
Horse Breeding."
In the afternoon Supreme Court Judge
H. E. Deemer of Red Oak, will speak on
"Country vs. City Life From a Business
and Social View." H. I. Boomguarden and
S. R. Baxter, both of Rock Rapids, Vrtll
discuss sheep breeding In Iowa. Humph
rey Jones of Washington Court House. O..
will talk on "Silos and Ensilage for Beef
Cattle." Prof. W. A. xCochel of Indiana
will talk about "Short Fed Cattle."
In the evening each association has It
separate banquets. During the afternoon
the Iowa Fair Managers' association, will
hold a meeting, . where addresses will be
c'ellvered by Hon. A. P. Bandies of Ottawa.
O., A. C. Savage of Adair, W. M. Clark
of Marshalltown and Wayne Dlnsmore of
Ames. -
State Aa-rlcnltaral Society.
The Iowa Agricultural society will me.it
Wednesday at the rooms of the department
of agriculture In the capltol. President C.
E. Cameron of Alta will deliver his annual
afidtess, following which will be the annual
report of Secretary John Simpson. Ad
dresses will be delivered by Charles Down
ing, secretary of the Indiana' state fair,
ana A. P. Bandies of Ottawa, O.
The State Board of Agriculture will meet
Thursday, Friday and Saturday to transact
uusiness.
Horticulturists Come.
The Iowa Horticultural society will also
meet tomorrow. Reports will be given by
President W. M. Bombcrger f Harlan,
Secretary Wesley Greene of Davenport and
Treasurer Elmer M Reeves of Waverly,
The afternoon will be devoted to discussion
of rortlcultural subjects.
A few minutes Inter Matthews rolled off
the tsble onto the floor, In a fit. He died
almost Instantly. The- di rtonr pronounced
It apoplexy. Matthews was one of the
richest colored men In Sioux City. Joseph
Thompson wss ' named as administrator)
and Mrs. Austin, a negrees. has notified
him she has been living with Matthews and
has a claim on his property.
CHURCH COUNCIL ON SCHOOLS
Motion for Half-nay Recess Back
Week for Rellalona Instruction '
Voted Down. r
PHILADELPHIA, Deo. I.-A resolution
that public schools be closed one afternoon
In each week to allow the children to at
tend religious services and receive Instruc
tion In their own churches was detested
after a, very lively devate at the federal
council of the Churches ' of Christ In
America.
The resolution wss opposed by Bishops
Cranston and Neely of the Methodist Epis
copal church, who said that the federal
council should not take a stand with
those organisations which claim the right
to Interfere with the religious freedom of
the public schools. A resolution was finally
adopted In which It was declared that It
was the duty of the churches to provide re
ligious Instruction for their children as
well as the duty -of parents to see that
such Instruction Is given In the home.
Bishop Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal
church presented the report of the commit
tee oh temperance and also a set of resolu
tions recommending the appointment of a
committee to call on President-elect' Taft
and congratulate him on the stand he has
taken with reference to Intoxicating liquors
and also to urge him to use his influence
for the suppression of the liquor traffic. '
Dr. Reed, president ef the Dickinson col
lege, offered a resolution providing for the
appointment of a committee to Investigate
the liquor , trafflo In alf Its phases and
make a report to congress.. In discussing
the measure, which was referred to the
temperance commlttoe, Nolan Best of Chi
cago.sald that, the time for such an In
vestigation . was opportune,: but, it would
be more opportune when "Cannon was not
speaker."
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Promotions on the Bnrlf nato.
CLINTON, la.. Dec. 8. (Special Tele
gram.) By official announcement received
here today Trainmaster W. C. Welch of
this place Is promoted to the assistant
suporintendency of the Brookfield. Mo
division on the Hannibal & St Joseph line
of the Burlington, with headquarters at
Brookfield. This Is a sequel to. the advanc
ing of Assistant Superintendent F. Teahoff
from Brookfield to the superintendent of
the Oltumwa division, succeeding W. 8.
Klrby, who goes to Aurora, 111. Train
master Welch leaves at once for Brookfield
to iisaume his new duties. He has rail
roaded on this division for twenty-five
years, filling almost every pcsltion from
clerk up. ' i '
Cartwria-ht Dies of Wounds.
MARSHALLTOWN, la., Deo. 8. (Spoolal
Telegram.) Wilfred Cartwrlght, an imple
ment dealer of Hubbard, died this morning
from gunshot wounds accidentally Inflicted
by Herman Gaucher, a traveling man of
Peoria. 111., Sunday afternoon while
Baucher, Cartwrlght and others were hunt
ing. Before he died Cartwrlght made a
written statement exonerating Baucher.
Tax Sal Soon Over.
BOONE. Ia., Dec. 7. (Special Telegram.)
The sale of property In Boone county for
delinquent taxes was held this morning
at the treasurer's office. Several hundred
parcels of land were disposed of. the sale
lasting but ninety minutes, breaking all
Iocs', records.
ACTION TO OUST HASKELL
orernment Will Take Steps to Take
.. .Lands Away, Where Il
legally Acqalred.
) WASHINGTON, Dec. .-Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte and Secretary Garfield
were with the ' president today, the latter
being accompanied by Vespasian Warner,
commissioner of pensions. Mr. Garfield
and the . Department of Justice are work'
Ing together, to bring to a hearing at the
earliest possible moment cases against a
large number of men in Oklahoma charged
with acquiring Indian lands In violation of
law. Assistant Attorney General Charles
W. Russell has for more than a year been
engaged In Investigating , these cases and
has entered something like 4,000 suits to
set aside the conveyance of the lands.
Among these, against which' suits have
been entered are Governor Haskell, who
Is charged with having been one of the
company that acquired valuable town
lands, and Senator Owen, himself of In
dian blood. It la said that the eases In
volvlng ' Governor " Haskell will - not be
aired In the courts to any greater extern
than those against other defendants.
GOMPERS.' STANDS BY RECORD
Labor 'Leader Says He Wonld '. Not
Recall Any or Aets Daring
Late Campaign.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. At ' a reception
tendered by tho Central ' Labor ' union to
night to Samuel Gompers, president of the
American 'Federation - of Labor, James
O'ConneTl, vice president of the federation.
and Frank Morrison, secretary of the ted
eration, Mr. Gompers declared that there
was not an act during the last preslden
tlal campaign which "he would recall If
It were possible to do so, not a word
which he would modify- and not a step
taken which he would retrace except to
plant It on a firmer basis."
In discussing the antt-lnjunctlon fight.
he affirmed that when It comes to a choice
of obeying the Injunction orders of lesser
courts or upholding the constitution which
grants freedom of speech and of the press.
he would uphold the latter.
James O'Connell declared that he has no
fear as to' the final outcome of the Injunc
tion fight ns it pertains to labor.
PORTLAND BANK IS ROBBED
President Nevrhall nnd Son Covered
with . Revolvers and 16,500
Is Taken.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 8.--The East Side
bank,, located at East Washington street
and Grand avenue, was robbed at 6 o'clock
tonight by three masked men. It is un
derstood that they secured about 116,600.
Th president of the bank, Henry H.
NewhaTl, and his son, Roger Newhall. were
Just closing the day's business when two
men armed with pistols entered. President
Newhall and his son were ordered to hold
up their' hands, and while they were thuj
under the cover of the robbers' revolvers,
one man' crawled through the cage window,
'passed out the money and crawled back
into the foyer through the window. A third
man guarded the entrance. The three men
made their escape before an alarm-could
be sounded. '
Both sides of the river are being searched
by police and detectives In an effort to
apprehend the criminals. t
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Yonnar Weaver to Stand Trial.
IOWA FALLS, Ia., Dec. 8 (Special Tele
An article will appear In the Iowa Falls
Sentinel, published today, whjch Indicates
that Walter L. Weaver, under Indictment
In this county on two counts for uttering
a forged Instrument, wll Ireturn home and
stand trial. "
Nebraakaa Weds In Slons City.
SIOUX CITY, Ia.. Dec, . (Spedil Tele
gram.) A marriage license was Issued here
to Clarence J. Parker, aged 13 of Omaha,
Neb., and Mary Ellen Graham, SO of Glen
wood, Ia. .
Dreattrlst Dies) Suddenly.
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gram.) When W. H. Btaley. night tele
graph operator for the Journal, dropped
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morning to buy a cigar he. found the pro
prietor lying on a table apparently asleep
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last few days.
Rumors are again-current that Bar n von
Aehrcnthal. the Austrt-Hungarlaii .foreign
minister, will be i bliKed to resign. The
newspapers are beginning to nttaclt his
policy, urb'lng that it would be cheaper to
arrive at an acreement with Turkey than
to risk a costly moblsalitn. The Ncucs
Welner Journal declares that things have
gone so far that the country must ch'-osc
between the removal of liamo von Aehrcn
thal and war.
BT. I'Kl ERSHl'RO. I. c. 8. Tho slow
progress o' the negotiations wl;h Austria
will probably entail a short delay in the
appearance of M. Iswolsky, the foreign
minister. In the Duma, which U scheduled
lit Wednesday next. To meet the com
plaints of the newspapers and the public
against the mlnjsiry s jmlonyi d hllenee aa
authorised statement on the Russian puui-
I'ftn, correcting a number of rumors m
cuculailon, lias been ts&ued, tho main points
of which fullow:
The Russian government has neither di
rectly nor Indlreeti eucouratjed a separate
Aualro-Turkiau agreement lelatlva tu tne
annexation of Uoanla und llerxegovina
M. Iswoiaky has never .in tile name o:
ituaaia, consented to tne final annexation
of tnese, provinces.
If the -poaeis at the conference find it
neceaaary to ratify the annexation, Kaaaia
till insist upon compensation for the in
terested Balkan atates. Russia Is in full
sympathy with the negotiations looking to
an alliance among the !alkan slates.
With regard to the pusaiuility of hostili
ties, it Is admitted that certain Interests
in Austrla-Jlungdry are In favor of forcliiK
a coal Hi t Willi hi i via and Montenegro, hut
these, efforts have not been successful.
The Auatrlun cabinet has Kiveu most
categorical assurances that the AustrlHil
military me;uies. wich recently have been
undertaken are devoid of UKKrcsflve Intent,
while" Servia and Montenegro 'iuve been
solemnly and repeatedly warned of the
danger of provocutory steps. Ruxsia, on
no account will allow Itself to be drawn
Into war. The only caress from the uncom
fortable position In which Austria has been
placed by the unexpected opposition of the
powers to annexation and tile costly boy
cott instituted by Turkey is by an interna
tional conference. Austria's answers have
been regative. but the way Is mill open
for a graceful retreat.
The KuHso-ltaliun agreement It Is learned,
is bastd on a declaration of mutual disln
teteatedness In the Balkans and a guarantee
that the integrity of Turkey will be preserved.
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Von HneloTT Outlines Mtnatlnn Dr.
Inn; Drbnle on Iladnet.
BERLIN, Dec. 8. Chancellor von Buelow
durim," the budget debate today, addressed
the Reichstag on Germany's foreign pol
icy, dwelling at lenxUi on the southeast
European Fltuatlnn, the relations of Ger
many to France and Great Britain and
Germany's attitude toward the American
Japanese underntandlng. He said the sub
stance' of the agreement had been com
murilcaU J to Germany by the representa
tives of both countries.
"The new arrangement," he said, "is
thoroughly in harmony with the princi
ples of Germany's policy in the far eajt,
the open door, the preservation of the
stutuh quo territorially and the Integrity
und Independence of the Chinese empire.
We have no occasion to regard the agree
ment otherwise than sympathetically. It
gives new support to our principles and
additional guarantee of peaceful develop
ment In the far east."
The cJiancellor In discussing the Balkan
crisis, said:
"From the very beginning two points
were to me clear for the exercise of Ger
man diplomacy first, we must leave the
lead in southeastern European politics to
other powers snd, secondly, we must never
hesitate for a moment to stand faithfully
by our ally, Austria-Hungary."
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