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5 D ITKAKSI » BUlMIMY AMKHIUAN, ATUAA’TA, UA., StMMY, AUG08T 3, 1313. m Columbus’ Bones Wanted on First Canal Trip , , t . t g t < 4 || .J, Q .*« %*#*•* (jf • Y§ >|# •!< • .'•••!* Ashes of Discoverer to Make Last Voyage Eccentric Old Man Lets Property Go to Ruin After Family Quar rel—Known as “The Bear.” SPRING LAKE, MICH. Am 2 Stricken with paralysis and unable to utter n word. William H. Hell, pioneer lumberman, one of the wealthiest m«*n in the village and known all over Ottawa County as an eccentric, lies at the point of death In his ram shackle hut on the shore of Spring Lake, his condition mourned by none save a relative who arrived recently from Portland. Oreg , and a few sym pathetic neighbors His father <ame to Michigan from Canada in 1864. when tlie lumber business wan at its height, to take charge of the large Interests that fell to him through the tragic drowning of his mother-in-law. James Barber, one of the. first men to engage in the lumber business in this section of the State. With his younger brother. Edward R. Bell, who died recently in Wash ington, where he was acting as offi cer in the Capitol Guards by ap point msr of Senator Smith, William H. Bell i .ospered until 1871. when the hrotheis quarreled and the mill was shut uov n, never to run again. In spite of the efforts of business asso ciates ami relatives to ^ITect u recon ciliation. * What the quarrel was about no one has ever known. It was always a sealed book with both of them, and some believe it was the questions put to him on this point that caused the elder Bell to shut himself In his home, close the prosperous store adjoining it, and pfrmil everything to fall Into d eca y. Edward started out to make his own wav in the world and spent many years in the employ of The Grand Rapids Herald and The E\eat ing Press. He was getting old by this time. The world had been un kind to him. and his Washington ap pointment by Senator Smith came as a godsend. Offer* for Mill Refused. Offer after offer was made to his eccentric brother for the mill Itself the wagons, the old boats stored w ith in it. the valuable machinery, but William Bell turned a deaf ear to all of them. Even after lumbering was on the decline, and the raw' material had to be shipped In by rail, he was offered $9,600 for the mill, but turned the offer down and drove the Insis tent buyer from his door. . He kept everything. The horses /£rew old and fat and died off one q. one. without doing a stroke of work after the closing of the mill. When 'he last of these was gone Bell shut himself up for good In his house, and only appeared to carry home provi sions. He had no Intimates and but few acquaintances. From his long winter sojourns In his barricaded house he earned the ti tle of “The Bear.” and in spite of his fatal illness the natives still mention him by that name. For the last 40 year* he has lived the life of a hermit as completely as if he were buried in the mountains He never ven.tired In society, al though at the time of his quarrel he was on* of the meat popu’ar and fin est-looking men in Bprlng Lake. He never ventured to the poli.s. He lived on the rcantiest of fond, and was never seen to smile. On warm days he would take his rustic sent In one of the apple tree* overlooking the lake and sit for hours viewing his de- caying buildings and gazing up the splendid view along Spring I*ake. The <dd hermit's hours are num bered and with his death it is ex pected the ruins will he cleared away and the property sold for building purposes. Bell View, as the place is called, is one of the prettiest points on the lake, and many wealthy re sorters living in the locality have been waiting for the old man’s death to submit their bids on the property Father Objects to Pardon for His Son (lirititopher Columbus, from a bust in 1b** Capitolint* tlal lerv. Korn**. Assistant Secretary of State Author of Idea to Honor Memory of America’s Finder. TO CO-OPERATE Wife Alienated in Artistic Manner Husband Alleges That 'Polish’ and ‘Cunning Audacity’ Were Used by His Rival. h"’ 1 J./ W Assistant .Secretary of State Os borne suggests that on the first ship passing through the Panama (’anal the bone* of Columbus ►•hall he car ried from ocean to ocean. It is an idea which will appeal to the senti mental sympathies of ail the world. The obtaining of the bones of Co lumbus for this trip is the next, ques tion. and it is only after a trip to Santo Domingo that the Secretary makes this suggestion. While on this Journey he saw the crypt in which the bones nr*' kept, and hereby hangs an interesting tale of the adventures of the bones of tiiis most adventurous of m* n On the day before his death in Valadolid, May 20, 1506, he added a codicil tv hi*' will In which he re quested that his bones be buried in some part of the New World which he had discovered. This was not. however, done for many years after ward. HIh body was first deposited in the Convent of the Franciscans at Valadolid. and in 1583 transferred to the grotto of the Convent of the Car thusians of Santa Maria at Seville. Meanwhile the great Cathedral or Santo Domingo had been started in 1514. It was completed in 1540, and some time between 1541 and 1549 his body was takt n to Surito Domingo, together with the body of Diego Colon, his son. who dl^d in 1.V/6 Tim Spaniards had taken the other leaden (otfln in the previous century. This little closet was separated from the other by a wall-five Inches thick, and was larger than the outer crypt. If contained a well-preserved leaden coffin, eight inches high, fif teen inches long and seven inches wide. From Inscriptions on this leaden box it was deduced that the bones, of the real Columbus had not been taken away in 1795, but must have remained here, while the body of his son was removed. The then Achbishop of San Do mingo. Orope Roque Oocchia, an nounced this Important discovery and made an examination of the box In the presence of a large number of representatives of the Government and resident consuls of other nations. All w'ere convinced that these were the true remains of Columbus, and that those removed by the Spaniards must have been those of his son, Diego Colon. In the course of the investigation a third crypt was found, containing a leaden coffin with the inscription, “El Almlrante Don Luis Colon Duque dc Jamaica Marques de Veragua,” plainly the remains of Columbus’ grandson. Commission Settles Dispute. Many controversies arose, especial ly with the Cubans, who believed that they had the bones of the real Colum- * * MKnBnarfti* . • * i / * jfc. • jt ML * * / * v ' ' * .* *• f * >. * v V »• ^, I/avoii 3” t 'Injf t s v*l iUw . • J:4! m, .<«■ v. . ■ 4#* ■ _ >' — Plan Is Expected to Greatly Ben efit Farmers of Big Agri cultural State. TOPEKA, KANS, Aug 2.—The bankers of Kansas are not going to wait for the report of the Federal Commission studying the system of farm credits abroad. A committee of the banker** is now drawing up a plan of co-operation which is expected to meet the needs of the farmers in the way of land credits. The bankers believe that the first idea should be to develop the land as much as possible In the way of pro viding farm experts, simplification of marketing, seed selection, soil im provement and crop rotation, and the expansion of cattle raising and dairy ing. Kansas is so largely an agricultural State that the bulk of the banking business is with farmers. Naturally it is to the interest of the bankers to develop to as great an extent as pos sible the State’.- farm resources, and, in developing them, devise a system of credits which will be to the farm ers what an elastic currency system is to the banks. In several counties bankers have taken the lead in organizing county agricultural societies to provide for the services of a farm expert and the committee which is now at work on the co-operation program is com posed of bankers from counties where these farm experts now are at work. These farm demonstrators already have shown that their work is the most profitable investment the hank ers and farmers could make. In Leavenworth County, which war the first to employ an investigator and adviser, hundreds of farmers have changed their methods on the advice of the expert, and the results, as re ported to the County Agricultural So ciety. already are apparent In the way of increased yields of fields or great improvement in other ways. The State Banking Department, working in conjunction with the bankers, will have drawn up any new' laws that are necessary to further the plane of co-operation. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 2.—Philip K. Gordon, general agent of the pas senger department of the Sunset Central lines of the Southern Pacific Company, is defendant in an alien ation of affection suit for $50,000, filed in the Supreme Court yester day. Arthur A. Beck, a civil engineer, complains that Gordon broke up his home in Oakland. According to the complaint, Gor don met Mrs. Beck at a ranch in July, 1912, and with “the cunning audacity, the polish of a finished master of the art. began a course of delicately re served, w’ell-bred attention and love.” which impelled Mrs. Beck to lose all regard for her husband and her home. Beck alleges that Gordon induced Mrs. Beck to look upon him as a “shrimp and unworthy to be her hus band.” Gordon’s father is a retired army officer residing in Washington. Man Guards Wife's Remains Ten Months TOPALEFACE \ Doctors Say That Indian’s Change in Color Is Caused by Intense Nervous Disorder. NATO M- COLOMB' < '* *?*•*•• ' MORTO M : In Love 15 Years; Pair at Last Weds Romance Survive* Rigors of Mining Camp Life, Heat of Tropics and Cold of North. 3 "L.- v U. S. TO FATTEN RECRUITS TOR Youth Is Serving Life Sentence In Ohio for Having Killed Hit Mother. COLUMBUS. OHIO. Aug 2.—Be cause of statements made by his fa * ther to Governor Cox it is understood that there will be no pardon for Don Harvey Hazel, aged 23. serving a life sentence in the Ohio penitentiary for the murder of his mother. Hazel was declared Innocent by the State Board of Pardons He whs convicted :n 1908 Hardly had the recommendation been placed in the Governor's hands before the boy's father. John F. Ha zel, former superintendent of the Lak* Shore Railroad at Toledo, came ;o enter objection to his release. The Governor’s practical determi nation not to release the young man is a refutation of hi* declaration that !n every rn*e he will follow the sug gestions of the Board of Pardons. LIGHTNING STRIKESVTIMES IN SAME SPOT IN KANSAS COTTONWOOD FALLfl. KANS. \ug 2—Striking in the same spot four times is th*' freak lightning played on the Lind farm, a mile from Staffordville. Each time it has struck barn* and twice has set them on fir?, burning them to the ground. In t;i electrical storm a few days ago light ning struck the Lind barn for the fourth time, destroying it In the barn was a fine stallion valued at more than $1,500. which was burned. JUDGE HOLDS THAT THE WIFE SHOULDN’T WORK CHICAGO. Aug 2.—Women who J insist on working after the> are mar ried are doing their husbands an in- just ice. besides helping their matri monial life along to divorce courts. This is the opinion <>f Judge Sulli van. of the Superior Court who chal lenged the right of a woman to ask for alimony from her husband after she had helped support him during j rtheir married life. New Safeguard Now Established Against Entry Into the United States Through Mails. WASHINGTON. Aug 2. Bugs and plant diseases that expect to stow away in the mails and thus gain en try to this country to raise Cain with the farming interests are now con fronted at the Department of Agri culture with a cul-de-sac from which there is no exit except through the crematory. The new safeguard is the “quaran tine room” that has .lust been estab lished in the office of seed and plant Introduction It has worked onl> once in the few days since it was built. The quarantine room is a harmless looking structure. It is Just a little glass-inclosed cage about 8 by 12 feet in one of the big rooms of the new building on Fourteenth street. it is bug-proof and glass inclosed, except for wire netting over the door and windows forty-mesh netting almost as close as cheese cloth and too small to allow the passage of anything much bigger than a typhoid germ Every foreign plant that is mailed to the United States has to be ad dressed to the Secretary of Agricul ture and go to this room This is the result of the recently passed Federal plant quarantine law SPOKANE'S NEW CODE STRIKES AT CITY NOISES 8P<>KANE. Aug. 2 The city’s new criminal code contains a strong pro vision prohibiting unnecessary noises In the city The vide as adopted combines about 4a to 50 per cent of the existing ordi ranees incorporates the entire State criminal c»*de. covering misdemeanors wed ados several new laws covering pet ty offenses. Government Has Secret Anti- Thin Emulsion to Give Light weight Candidates. CHICAGO. Aug. 2.—The Govern ment will make you fat if you will join the army. This is the promise of Lieutenant Colonel William L. Kenly, supervisor of the trmy recruiting service and president of the field artillery examin ing board, who Is in Chicago. He brought a bottle, the first anti-thin emulsion ever introduced by the United States Government. Its purpose, the Colonel explained, is to gat into the army thousand*, of men who. otherwise fit. are barred by reason of their light weight. "In recent months,” Lieutenant i Colonel Kenly said, “every recruiting ! district in the country, except Chi- j cago, has fallen off seriously in its I wock of bringing new men into the army, chiefly because *«o many candi date* were under weight. So I have j evolved this solution” Lead casket holding remains. At the top is shown the inscription on the inside of the top of the leaden casket, which, translated, reads "Illustrious Baron Cristoval Colon.” At the bottom is the casket itself as it rests in its crypt in the great cathedral of Santo Domingo, where it was taken some time between 1541 and 1549, in accord with the last wishes of the great discoverer. SAYS MODERN LIFE ‘EATS' CHILDREN IN BIG CITIES GREELEY. COL*.).. Aug. 2. In an address before the summer session of the State Teachers' College. Dr. 1'. p. Claxton, United States Commission er of Education. su.id: “More than 65 per cent of our children are educated in the rural schools and they form a large pan of our population in the cities Prob ably no city produces as mam citi zens as it kills, and the modern civ ilization. with its complex problems and its nerve strain, really eats chil dren in the city." He advocated giving the rural leat her a home and a tract of land. body of his grandson, Luis Colon, was* also taken to Santo Domingo after his death in 1572, but there is no record of the precise date of the transfer. The bones of Columbus had been deposited in the sanctuary to the right of the main altar of the Cathedral, where they lay undis turbed for many years Moved the Wrong Body. Toward the close of the eighteenth century political events compelled Spain to cede Hispaniola, as this part of her possessions in the New World was then called, to France. In accord ance with the treaty of July 22. 1795. But the national pride of the Span iards would not permit them to allow the bones of Columbus to lie in the possession of the alien On thito ac count. in December. 1795, the litch at the right of the altar of the Ca thedral of San Domingo, in which tradition placed the body of Colum bus. was opened, and the leaden cof fin found In a crypt there was taken to Havana. There was a heavy leaden coffin outside of the smaller one. all gilded ever, but marked by no sign what ever. and this was taken with great military and religious ceremonies and j placed by the side of the large altar of the Cathedral of Havana, January II, 1796. in ISIS place was; marked by a stone bearing a relief portrait of Columbus, for they thought i they had the body of Columbus there Cathedral Plan Altered. Investigation has shown mat the plan of the cathedral in San Domingo rad been materially altered between 1541 and 1795. which probably led to the error, for when 82 years later some laborers were repairing the floor of the sanctuary- of the Cathedral of Sin Domingo (September 10. 1877) they stumbled upon a lit’le crvpt to the right of the large altar, between; the wall and the crypt front which the bus in their cathedral in Havana, so in the autumn of 1890 a special ex amination was made. On January 11, 1891. all was laid before the Minister of the Interior of San Domingo and tiie various resident consuls from dif ferent countries. The box was then sealed up by the Archbishop, the dust placed in a crystal vase, and a silver plate put on the old leaden coffin, so that it could never again be mistaken. The inscriptions on the leaden coffin were quite plain when the incrusta tions of time were removed, and es tablished the identity of the bones found in it. On the inside of the top of the box was the plainest and mo3t unmistakable of all the inscriptions, giving the full title, the “Illustrious Baron Cristoval Colon," and on the back and sides are similar inscrip tions proving the genuineness of the coffin and its contents. There can, therefore, be no doubt that if Secretary Osborne's suggestion is accepted, the real bones of the real Columbus will go upon a voyage such as he may have dreamed about, but which could not be realized until the Panama Canal was built, he will have found a route to th« Indies, by sail ing west. MARRIAGE AND INSANITY ON INCREASE IN OHIO COLUMBUS, OHIO, Auk 2.—Mar- riage and insanity both are on the increase, according to official State records. There were 46.756 marriages in Ohio during the year ended March 31, ac cording to figures compiled in the Secretary of State's office by Statis tician S. M. Johnson. This is an in crease of 3.401 over the year before. The number of commitments to State hospitals during the year was 3.081. The commitments the preced ing year were 2,586. Pennsylvanian Finally Takes Body to England for Burial at Birthplace. JEANNETTE. PA., Aug. 2.—With the body of his wife, who died July 17, 1912, in a hermetically sealed cas ket, William Clifford, almost 80. will go to England to bury the remains at Mrs. Clifford’s old home in Sheffield, Yorkshire. She was 72 years old. For ten months the casket contain ing the embalmed body had been carefully guarded by the aged hus band In the parlor of his handsome residence in Fort Pitt, on the out skirts of Jeannette. It was first placed in a vault in the St. Clair Cemetery', Greensburg. but rather than have his wife rest In alien soil. Mr. Clifford had it taken to his home. Mrs. Clifford was formerly part owner of the Clifford-Capped Mine F'an Works in Jeannette and was an inventor. Recently the works were sold. Illinois Women Can't Act on Coroner Jury Chicago Official Ditcovers That Their Serving Is Specifically For bidden by Constitution. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2—A school- day romance which proved strong enough to resist the rigors of mining camp life In the tropics, the desert and frozen north for more than fif teen years, culminated here In the marriage of Miss Elsie Merz, of Daw son. Alaska and E. M. Pines, of Raw- hide, Nev. The ceremony was per formed in the parlor*-* of the Hotel Federal by the Rev. Henry Feiz, pas tor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Fifteen y ?ars ago the bride and bridegroom were schoolmates in Ari zona. Miss Merz’s father went to the Klondike with the first gold rush and took her with him. Meantime Pines went to Peru in search of gold and later returned to Nevada, where he found It. He wrote to Alaska and re- ! minded Miss Merz of her schoolday | promise. She came to San Fra. icisco ! a short time ago to keep it. Lifts Ban on Wedding On His Deathbed Employer Leaves Bequest to Worker, With Provision, but Finally Removes It. CHICAGO. Aug. 2.—Coroner Peter Hoffman was legally advised last night that under the State Constitu tion men only can serve on a Cor oner's Jury. Hence, he was faced with the need of writing letters of apology and explanation to six Chi cago women he had selected to act as Jurors at the inquest regarding the death of Mrs. Mary Halpln, of No. 128 South Ashland avenue, who was killed by an auto truck last Thursday after noon. Attorney George W. Barrett pointed out that chapter 31. section 19. revised statutes, referring to Coroners’ juries, expressly mentions “man” as being eligible. WIFE TURNS PAPERHANGER TO SUPPORT SICK HUSBAND MENASHA. WIS., Auk. 2—Once again the field of man’s work has been invaded by a woman. Mrs. Al bert Jones, of Menasha, believes she is the only woman in Wisconsin who makes her living by paper hangring. She learned how before marriage, when she papered a house for her mother and then did similar work in her own home after the honeymoon. She is young and comely, but bears in her thin face the marks of the struggle with responsibility that has marked her path for four years since she has been forced to support her sick husband. GOLDENDALE. WASH., Aug. 2.~a The recent row in the Indian settle* ment on the head of Squaw Creek, in Eastern Klickitat, in which Peter Tumhax, an aged Indian rancher, was attacked by Charlie Pistolhead witll an ax, has developed the fact that Tumhax, who was suspected of being a leper, is afflicted with a disease that is slowly causing his skin to turn white. An examination of the Indian fol lowed w'hen the 8herlff had him dis robe to exhibit wounds which he al leged the other Indian had made >n hia back. Covered With Whit# Patches. It was found that Tumhax, who is a dark, bronze-colored aborigine, was covered with irregular white patches of skin, which gave him the ap pearance of a pinto pony. Pinkish white spots on the side of his head and under his Jaw, which were at first thought to be birthmarks, were then noticed. A physician was called, who sail the Indian was afflicted with a nerv ous disorder known as leucopathia, sometimes acquired by a severe fright or shock to the nervous system, and that if he lived long enough the skin would turn white all over his bodv. The physician who examined the In dian said that similar cases occur fre quently among the negroes in the South. Indian Is Unperturbed. Tumhax is 67 years old, and says that the white spots first began to appear on his body eight years ago after a severe sickness, which, he says, was caused by a dose of strych nine out of a bottle of alcohol given him by a sheepherder, and from which he drank. Tumhax does not seem to be at ill concerned about turning into a “pale face, and says that the matter does not cause him any discomposure. American Girl Freed From Hindu Mate Declares Husband Always Slept With Head to East and Prayed 45 Minutes Dally. SEATTLE}, Aug. 2.—Ruth Anna Singh, an American girl, who says sh® married a Hindu, was granted a di vorce from Sardar Harry Singh, on the ground of cruelty and personal indignities. The couple were married at Seattle April 10, 1910, and have one Child. The wife said on the witness stand that Singh insisted on sleeping with bis head to the east and that he gave 45 minutes to prayer daily. Poodle Sets Swarm Of Bees on Bathers Canine Pokes Nose Into Nest and Then Runs to Water to Dodge Stings. RICHFIELD. N. J.. Aug. 2.—A poo dle with a nose for sweets poked his head into a bees’ nest on the banks of the Morris Canal here w'hen men and boys were in swimming. The bees made for the dog and sent him yelping wdth discomfort into the canaJ, and then they tackled the bath ers. For the latter it was a case of swimming under water out of range, and for those who couldn’t swim mud baths w'ere necessary. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—M. Wilber Dyer, head of the M. Wilber Dyer Company, who died on May 4 last, be queathed 70 per cent of the stock in the company to Mrs. Caroline E. Dousset. No. 639 West One Hundred and Forty-second street, an old em ployee, on condition she does not marry again. The remainder was di vided between his two sons. He stated that Mrs. Dousset, who is an employee of the company, must give a legal bond that she would not marry. The day before he died, how ever, he wrote a codicil in which he said he gave the bequest to her “with out a string to it—absolutely.” Ruptured People- Try This for Relief and Cure Five-Cent Casino No Crime, Says Court Magistrate Holds That Accused Was Within Law Playing for Nominal Stake. NLW YORK, Aug. 2.—Magistrate Freschi. in the Essex Market Police Court, discharged yesterday Frederick Dohrman, proprietor of a livery sta ble at No. 234 East Ninth street, who was arraigned on a charge of gam bling, preferred by Central Office De. teettve Joseph Warahaw. The court held that Dohrman, In asmuch as the detective saw a game of casino for 6-cent stakes in progress through an open door and window, was not guilty of a crime, having en gaged in the game simply to “pass the time away” and not as a* means of livelihood. HOST TO MAN ONE DAY, HIS PROSECUTOR NEXT GAND FORKS. N. DAK., Aug 2.— C. J. Vollmer and Isadora Groskings, I former automobile dealers in Grand j Forks, w'ere bound over to the Dis trict Court to-day on charges pre ; erred by C. R Verrv. Vollmer’s busi ness partner. Last night Verrv entertained Voll- mer as his guest at a theater, and to-day he appeared in court support ing charges made some time ago and ; on which Vollmer was captured in Vancouver. B. C. 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