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THE WAHPETON TIMES
E. D. KNOTTS, Publisher.
WAHPETON, NORTH DAKOTA.
KIWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington Notes.
The pn'sidi'iit ha ".].• pointed Gen.
S. M. 13. Voting, retired. v.iio was llis
old in Cuba, superintend
ent the Yellowstone National Park.
According 10 government report
just it-sued pearls to the value of
w"iv found in the I'nited
State* ilurir.fr Tlie year llieo. and other
precious stones to the value of
00: we re product d.
The war depart moat has directed
the i-olurn to duty as an assistant mil
itary aid to tlie president, C'apt. Frank
McCoy, Third cavalry, who has been
epeudiug most of the summer in Yel
lowstone Park with his troop. This
means that there are not likely to be
any more changes in the president's
family of military and naval aids at
present.
People Talked About.
August Gisin. founder of the Balti
more Journal, German, died at his
home in Baltimore of acute indiges
tion.
Dr. Michael Besiioar, pioneer, promi
nent citizen, founder of the Pueblo
Chieftain and Trinidad Advertiser,
died at Trinidad, Colo., at the age of
seventy-four.
John M. Turner, writer, humorist,
actor and originator of trick banjo
playing, is dead at the Post Graduate
hospital in New York city, following
an operation for appendicitis. Turner
was founder of the Vampire club and
his ready wit and mimicry were
known from coast to coast.
James Bellows McGregor, said to be
the oldest Mason in the world, cele
brated his 106th birthday at Mount
Sunapee, N. H., with a public recep
tion. He was born in 1801, a mile
from where he now lives. His joining
of the Masoni corder in 1827 makes
him a member of eighty years' stand
ing and the oldest Mason on record
in the world.
Foreign.
The first Jewish synagogue to be
erected in Moscow was opened last
week.
The situation in German Southwest
Africa has improved to such an extent
that the repatriation of the troops is
xibout to commence.
Work has been resumed at Antwerp
on all the steamers, where 4,000
strikebreakers are employed. No fur
ther disorders occurred.
The chamber of deputies of Peru
has approved the contract of Alfred
McCune of New York for the construc
tion of the Cerro de Pasco, Huacho ft
Ucayali River railroad.
The Krupp works are building for
Japan about thirty twelve-inch guns
for use on board battleships, and they
are continuing the fulfillment of a
contract made soon after the war
jwith Russia ended in re-equipping the
Japanese field artillery.
Hie withdrawal of Dr. Jose Gilfor
toul, the Venezuelan representative
from the Hague peace conference
Sept. 4 was due to a misunderstand
ing. He will not only remain as a del
agate, but President Castro has cabled
him how to vote on many questions.
The Chinese throne appointed
Taschon, Wang Ta Hsi and Ting She
Hmei to be imperial commissioners,
with instructions to separately visit
Japan, Great Britain and Germany for
the purpose of reporting on the con
stitutional systems of those countries.
Deputy Pinero has been challenged
by Senator Benito Villanueva, presi
dent of the senate, to fight a duel at
Buenos Ayres. Pinero, in the cham
ber, made the charge that the revolu
tions in the provinces were fostered
by certain senators, among them the
president of the senate. Hence the
challenge.
An automobile in which Queen Vic
toria was driving from San Sebastian
to Bilbao was suddenly confronted by
a large bull, which planted himself in
the roadway immediately in front of
the queen's car and compelled the
chauffeur to put on the brakes hur
riedly and stop the machine. No col
lision appears to have occurred, but
her majesty is said to have been
greatly affected by the unexpected
meeting of the bull.
Accidental Happentngs.
Clarence Henry, an employe of the
Fort Dodge, Iowa, Light company, was
electrocuted while changing a trans
former.
William J. Mulhall, farrier for the
First City troop of Philadelphia, and
well known college football player and
athlete, was killed by plunging head
foremost over a mustang he was at
tempting to mount.
Fifty persons were Injured at Tou
lon, 111., by the explosion of powder
or gas in the hardware store of Wheel
er & Co., when firemen were trying to
extinguish a blaze in the basement.
By the derailment of an east-bound
Seaboard Air Line passenger train at
Wilcox creek, Ga., five persons were
seriously injured and many others cut
and bruised.
Venice, the ten-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Creveling of Leon, Iowa.,
fell beneath a wagon heavily loaded
with lumber and died ten minutes at
tar as the result of ber Injuries.
Mrs. John H. Williams, an aged res
ident of Qttincy, Mich., was struck by
a rock train while picking up coal
from the track. She was instantly
killed.
George McNamara was found dead
on the Iowa Central tracks near Mar
shalltown, Iowa. He was making his
initial trip as a brakeman. It is not
known just how the accident occurred.
Mrs. Marguerite Croft, bride of a
few weeks of John Craft. New York,
was swept overboard from a yacht in
the Delaware river and drowned. Mrs.
Croft and her husband were on their
honeymoon.
Seven cottages on the beach and the
Avery Beach hotel were burned at
South Haven, Mich. Dynamite M'.is
used to blow up the hotel to prevent
the spi ending of the fire. The loss on
the hotel alone was $50,000.
Two young men and two girls were
drowned in the Saginaw river at Sag
inaw, Mich., when a gasoline tank ex
ploded in a power launch. It is
thought that the tank caught fire from
one of the boat's signal lights.
Wet rails cost the life of one man
and resulted in the serious injury of
several other persons at Nazareth, Pa.
A car descending a steep grade got be
yond control of the motorman, and
jumping the tracks at a sharp curve
turned turtle.
Crimes and Criminals.
A $100,000 shortage was discovered
in the accounts of the state tax com
missioner in New Orleans. The police
ara searching for Charles E. Letten,
a clerk in tlie office, who is charged
with the defalcation.
A bold daylight robbery of the bank
in the village of Manley, Neb., occur
red last week. The lone robber got
between $2,000 and $3,000 and escap
ed, but Is reported surrounded in a
cornfield near Murdoch.
Edward J. Hildebrandt, a painter
thirty years old, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head in
Chicago when about to be arrested for
the murder of Mrs. Maude Westerfield,
at whose home he was to be a board
er.
When Mrs. Arch Fesman, revolver
In hand, burst open the door leading
into her husband's room in the Wilson
ho*el at Carruthersville, Lucy Logs
den, a waitress, who was in the room,
jumped out of a third story window
and was crushed so badly in thevfal!
that she will die.
Frederick L. Stone, chief of police
of Dillon, Mont., was charged with
perjury in a complaint fired against
him by County Attorney Melton.
Stone is accused of perjuring himself
in a suit for divorce which he brought
against his wife, Carrie E. Stone.
Stone was arrested and his bond was
fixed at $500.
Masked robbers broke into and blew
open the safe in the Royal Savings
bank at Chippewa, Ont. A posse was
organized and at once set out in pur
suit of the robbers. Officials of the
bank say that the safeblowers were
frightened away before they got into
the safety deposit box inside the vault,
where the most of the bank's money
was kept.
Owing to the fact that on account ot
the great Influx of homeseekers Into
Billings, Mont., all of the hotels and
rooming houses being crowded,
an unusual number of robberies have
been reported to some of those of the
cheaper class. One of the policemen
from Miles City ran upon some pick
pockets and as a result lost not only
his roll ot $50 but also his revolver.
General News Items.
Creditors of the Seldenberg-Steifel
company, one of the largest cigar
manufacturing companies in the coun
try, have filed a petition in New York
asking that the company be declared
bankrupt and a receiver appointed.
State Railroad Commissioner Glas
gow has issued a statment that all the
railroads in Michigan have agreed to
adopt the 2-cent passenger rate law
when it takes effect, Sept. 28.
Shipments of hard coal by the lake
from Buffalo during August amounted
to 4C5,"73 tons, breaking the record of
July, when 421,525 tons were forward
ed to the upper lake ports by boat.
Former President Palma of Cuba, in
an interview given on his estate In
liyamo, stated that he is keeping aloof
from politics anl is devoting all his
lime to agricultural interests.
Chairman Thomas K. Nedrlinghaus
of the Republican state committee of
Missouri has resigned and Walter S.
Dickey of Kansas City has been elect
ed in his place.
The high tent of the Rechabites ot
America, in annual convention at New
port News, adopted a strong resolu
tion against the restoration ot the
canteen.
Stricken with apoplexy at Galilee
N. J., Brig. Gen. Samuel N. Mills, U.
S. A., retired, is dead. Gen. Mills was
born in Pottsville, Pa., in 1843 and
was graduated from the military acad
emy in 1865.
The great council of the United
States Improved Order of Red Men, in
sixtieth annual session at Norfolk,
adopted an amendment to the laws of
the order prohibiting membership In
the future to all saloonkeepers and
bartenders.
The United States army transport
Thomas sailed from San Francisco
last week for Honolulu, Guam and
Manila, with nine troops of the Sixth
cavalry and a detachment of field ar
tillery for the Philippines on board
in addition to a large number of cabin
passengers.
Rev. A. T. Tillinghast of Minneapo
lis stated at Waterloo, Iowa, that he
expected to make his headquarters at
Waterloo on account of its central lo
cation for the discharge of his duties
as superintendent of the Universalist
churches ot Iowa, Wisconsin and Min
nesota
FIREBUGS APPLY
TORCH 10 TOWN
BUSINESS SECTION OF KENSAL,
N. D., IS ALMOST COMPLETE­
LY WIPED OUT.
LOSS Will REACH $150,680
RESIDENCE SECTION IS SAVED
AFTER DESPERATE FIGHT
BY FIREMEN.
Valley City, N. D., Sept. 15.—Fire
which the townspeople declare was
set deliberately and maliciously, de
stroyed all the business section of
Kensal early yesterday morning, with
the exception of the hardware and im
plement store. The damage is esti
mated at not less than $150,000. and
the insurance will not exceed $100,000,
most of this having been on the stock
contained in the various structures.
It was about half an hour after mid
night when the fire was discovered in
the rear of the Farmers' Mercantile
company's building. An alarm was
immediately turned in, but the flames
spread with intense rapidity in every
direction and it quickly became appar
ent that the local fire department
could do practically nothing in coping
with them.
Outside Help Called In.
Telephone messages for assistance
were sent to Courtenay, and as soon as
possible the fire department from.that
place arrived and joined in the fight.
The men were obliged to do much of
their work within range of the walls,
which every moment seemed likely to
crash down on the fire fighters, but
the departments stuck to ttheir posts
an-J only the most' strenuous efforts
kept the blaze from being communi
cated to residences.
Among the buildings destroyed was
the Central hotel, the guests of which
were forced to rush out with very lit
tle opportunity of saving more than
their clothing, so fierce was the spread
of the fire. The other main buildings
destroyed were the Farmers' Mercan
tile company store, in which the fire
was first started the Peterson hard
ware store, the Holmes drug store,
Van's harness shop and the Stinson
dry goods establishment.
Is Laid to Incendiaries.
Insurance was carried on the stock
in nearly all of the places burned,
but the loss on the buildings will be
heavy. It is claimed that the rapidity
with which the flames gained head
way in all directions from their start
ing point is evidence that the fire was
not due to accident, and the authori
ties will make an investigation on th#
theory that the torch was deliberately
applied.
BOTH LOSE CHILD.
Parents Sue and Are Declared Unfit
for Her Custody.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 15.—De
ciding that both Mrs. Alfred W. Colt
and her divorced husband, William
McGowan, were unfit to have the cus
tody of their twelve-year-old child
Bemice, Judge Charles F. Templeton
yesterday awarded the child to Mr».
Grace Lloyd, the widowed mother ot
Mrs. Colt, who resides in Grand Forks.
McGowan failed to show that he
was not guilty ot contempt of court in
taking the child to Canada for a year
and three months, in defiance of the
court's order that she be kept In thiB
jurisdiction,' and the court fined him
$20.
BATTLES FOR LIFE.
Farm Hand Wins in Test of Strength
Against Shaft.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 15.—A test
of strength which meant death if he
lost was indulged in yesterday on the
farm of Robert McGroch, near Devils
Lake, by "Big Gus" Olson, in charge
of the separator. In working abound
the separator his coat cleeve caught
in the set screw on a rapidly revolving
pulley and his arm was being wound
into the gearing. With all his
strength he resisted the strength of
the shaft and pulled so that his coat
was torn from his back. He escaped
with a dislocated shoulder and several
slight bruises.
DRAGGED BY HAY RAKE.
Farmer Falls Under Machine In Run
away and Is Badly Hurt.
Sioux Falls. S. D., Sept. 15.—John
Vanecek, a farmer residing in Bon
Homme county, was seriously injured
as the result ot a runaway while en
gaged in raking hay. The farmer lost
his balanoA on the rake and fell un
der the Machine.
One of Vanecek's ribs was broken
and his body was covered with cuts
and bruises. The physicians who are
caring for him have hope ot Bavins
his life.
TEN-FOOT FALL KILL8 BOY.
Lad of Ten Walks Wall When Dared
by HI* Mates.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 15.—Manuel
Athanus, ten years old, Is dead aB the
result of walking the foundation walls
of the new Congregational church
building on a dare. The little fellow
missed his tooting and plunged head
long to the bottom of the basement, a
distance ot between eight and ten
feet. It 1b supposed that his head
struck some brick which were lying
«n the ground where he tell.
DYNAMITE AT FARM.
Explosive Is Hid in Bundles of Grain
and Machine Is Wrecked..
Chippewa Falls, Wis., Sept. 15.
Five men narrowly escaped being kill
ed or badly injured by the explosion
of dynamite while they were at work
at a threshing machine on Peter Pe
terson's farm, in the town of Edson.
The men were hurled about six feet
from the machine when the explosion
occurred, and the machine was totally
wrecked. With the exception of a few
minor bruises the men escaped in
iury.
After the excitement had subsided
some of the bundles of grain in the
stack were carefully examined, with
the result that more bundles loaded
with dynamite were found.
Walter Fults. the owner of the ma
chine, says he will ask the officers to
make a thorough investigation of the
dynamite outrage and will try to
bring about the arrest of the person
who placed the dynamite in the grain
BANDITS RAID STATE BANK.
Robbers Dynamite Safe, Take $1,200
and Escape.
Aberdeen. S. D., Sept. 15. Three
bandits broke into the First State
bank early yesterday morning at Leo
la. wrecked the safe and escaped with
$1,200. The robbers were seen by the
watchman, but no accurate description
can be given. They went through
from Wetonka in a box car, it is be
lieved, and made their escape on a
handcar, coming in the direction of
Aberdeen. The police here are on the
watch and arrests are expected to be
made in a few hours. The entire coun
try was notified, and it will be impos
sible for the bandits, to escape. The
office and bank building were badly
wrecked.
GETS BIG DRAINAGE JOB.
Minnesota Work Is Awarded to Atlan
ta (Wis.) Firm.
Chippewa Falls, Wis.. Sept. 15.—A
firm at Atlanta, Wis., has been award
ed a contract by the Minnesota state
drainage commission'for the excava
tion of 310 000 yards of ditching in
Northern Minnesota. The considera
tion for the work is $46,000. They al
ready have started to erect the
dredges, and expect to begin the work
of ditching early next spring.
$7,000 GIVEN FOR HOME.
Clay Center, Kan., Is Chosen as Site
for Building.
Burlington, Iowa, Sept. 15. The
chief thing of interest yesterday in
the Western Swedish conference, in
session here with delegates from sev
en Western states, was the announce
ment of a gift of $7,000 towards the
erection of the Swedish old people's
home. It was decided to build a sub
stantial structure, to cost $10,000, at
21ay Center, Kan.
THROWS HIMSELF UNDER TRAIN.
Pat Noon of Toledo Attempts Suicide
at Lake City.
Lake City, Minn., Sept. 15. 4k
stranger giving his name as Pat Noou
and his residence as Toledo, Ohio,
threw himself under the wheels of an
east-bound train and was badly hurt.
Despondency over his unsuccessful at
tempt to stop drinking is the cause of
the attempted suicide.
PRIEST IS HEIR TO FORTUNE.
Rev. P. Schirmers of Lamberton It
Left $75,000 by Uncle.
Lamberton, Minn., Sept. 15. Rev.
P. Schirmers, pastor of St. Joseph's
Catholic church of this city Is the ex
elusive heir to the estate of his uncle,
Gen. von Thullen, who died three
months ago at Kyll, Germany. The
estate is valued at about $75,000.
WOMAN MADE INSPECTOR.
Miss Rose Purdut of Madison Gets
State Job.
Madison, Wis., Sept. 15. Commis
sioner of Labor and Industrial Statis
tics J. D. Beck yesterday appointed
Miss Rose Purdut of Madison state
factory Inspector, to take the place of
Miss Edessa Kunz, who resigned to
get married. The salary is $1,200.
Crushed to Death.
Minneapolis, Sept 15.—John Eber
hartson, a young engineer on the Mil
waukee road, was crushed to death
yesterday when his engine crashed
into a freight train. A mistake in sig
nals is said to have been the cause of
the accident.
To Bust Doctor's Trust.
Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 15. The
grand jury of Bremer county yester
day returned indictments against four
teen physicians for violation of the
etate anti-trust law, the medical so
ciety having raised fees some time
ago.
Bolt Ignites Barnesville.
Barnesville, Minn., Sept. 15.—A se
vere electrleal storm passed this place
early yesterday morning, doing great
damage. The barn of John Spect was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground, with five bead of horses.
Fair Closes at Arlington.
Arlington, Minn, Sept. 15. The
thirty-eighth annual fair of the Sibley
County Agricultural society closed
here yesterday. The exhibits as well
as the races and other attractions out
classed all of its previous fairs.
Tea time at the cltfb. "My Hng.
band," said a little thing with golden
postiches—postiches are those new
sausage-shaped curls—"my husband la
a self-made man." "Mine—" And tba
speaker's grim lips relaxed In a smile.
"—mine was made to order." Above
the tinkle of the tea things sounded
the heartiest applause.
TWENIV-FIVE DIE
IN TRAM WRECK
EXPRESS TRAIN AND FREIGHT ON
BOSTON & MAINE IN COL­
LISION.
DUE TO MISTAKE IN ORDERS
TRAIN DISPATCHER'S ORDER
CONFUSE TRAIN NUMBERS—
TWENTY-SEVEN HURT.
White River Junction. Vt.. Sept. K.
—A fearful head-on collision between
the south-bound Quebec express and a
north-bound freight train on the Bos
ton & A'ainc railroad occurred four
miles north of Canaan station early
yesterday, due to a mistake in the
train dispatcher's orders, and from a
demolished passenger coach there
were taken out twenty-live dead and
dying and twentv-seven other passen
gers, most of them seriously injured.
Orders Are Confused.
The conductor of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
Ilenty of time to reach a siding by the
night operator at Canaan station, re
ceiving. according to the superintend
ent of the division, a copy of a tele
graph order from the train dispatcher
at Concord which confused the train
numbers :o and 34.
The wreck occurred just after the
express had rounded into a straight
stretch of track, but owing to the early
morning mist neither engineer saw
the other's headlight until too late.
Coach Is Torn Asunder.
Both engineers set their brakes and
then jumped, while the two great loco
motives crashed into each other and,
locked in a firm embrace, rolled into
the ditch.
The baggage car in the rear was
hurled back into the passenger coach
like a great ram and tore it asunder
from end to end Fortunately, with
the engines off to one side, the wreck
age did not take fire and add further
sorrow to the already dreadful scene.
The train hands, ably seconded by the
passengers from the sleeping cars,
groped their way among the ruins and
began the work of rescue.
Mangled Bodies Dragged Out.
Great beams were lifted, broken
joists were thrown aside and the
bleeding and mangled forms were
dragged out. Wounds were hastily
bound up and cpts stanched by strips
of bedding from the sleepers.
The neighborhood is a sparsely set
tled one, but the few farmers were
aroused and lent every aid to the work
of succor.
WOMAN LEADS MOB IN PARIS.
Protests Against Parfton of Solleillant,
Violator of Children.
Paris, Sept. 17.—The increasing in
dignation of the masses against the
escape from the guillotine of Soleil
lant, known as the "monstrous vio
lator and murderer," whose sentence
to death for the atrocious murder of a
twelve-year-old girl was commuted
last week by President .Fallieres to life
imprisonment, was expressed Sunday
in a series of the most curious public
manifestations that have occurred in
France for a long time.
The demonstration, despite the fact
that several arrests were made, was
almost entirely an orderly one. Many
women participated. It was organized
not so much against Soleillant as to
express the voice of the people against
the wave of unspeakable crimes com
mitted on little girls, which lately
have increased to an alarming degree.
Several thousand persons were en
gaged in demonstrations at various
points of the city, and especially large
was the crowd in the Place St. Am
broise, near which lived little Martha
Erberding, the victim of Soleillant.
The rage of the women of this dis
trict has been great since President
Fallieres showed clemency to Soleil
lant. They assembled yesterday after
noon with their husbands and others
of their sympathizers, and were aug
mented in numbers by crowds of cu
rious persons.
Their orderly cries for justice were
quickly changed to cries of "Death to
Soleillant!" and "Down With Fal
lieres!" as the procession, led by a
woman who carried a little girl on her
shoulders with the purpose of indicat
ing the obpect of the manifestation,
moved toward the Place de la Repub
lique.
Soon the streets were choked by a
vast mob and the police reserves were
called out to disperse it.
Prominent St. Paul Doctor Dead.
St. Paul, Sept. 17. Dr. Gottfried
Stamm, aged sixty-four, one of the old
est and best known physicians in the
city, died at his home at 11:45 last
night, after an illness of more than a
year. Death is believed to have re
sulted from a cancer of the interes
tines.
15,000 Pounds of Powder Explodes.
Alton, 111., Sept. 17.—Fifteen thou
sand pounds of powder exploded at the
Equitable Powder works at East Al
ton, killing Charles McGinnis an-1
shocking Charles Gilson so that his
tuind is temporarily gone.
Alcoholism Partly Cause of Death.
East Grand Forks, Minn., Sept. 17.—
Death from alcoholism and exposure
was the verdict of Coroner Chester
man In the case of John Lyons, who
fc-as discovered dead back of a saloon
an the Red river bank.
BEEF TRUST PUTS UPI PRICES
SENSATIONAL ORDER I88UE0
FROM INSIDE OFFICE OF BIG
COMBINE.
Chicago, Sept. 17. A sensational
order issued Saturday from the in
side office of the beef trust hoisted the
prices of all meats from 2 to 3 cents
a pound.
Price lists were sent out to all job
bing houses in the agreement to main
tain the price schedule, every one of
these being under a forfeit agreement
of $1,000 for violation, the money in
each case being deposited at the trust
office when the agreement is signed.
Cost 4 Cents More a Pound.
To the consumer the new schedule
means that meats of all sorts will cost
4 cents more a pound across the
counter than at present.
Beef, pork, veal and hams were
raised from 2 to 3 cents in the price
list placed in the hands of all sales
ment for the jobbers Monday.
The wholesale price on 600-pound
cattle is now S 1-2 cents, a raise of
2 1-2 cents 100-pound pork loins,.
12 1-2 cents, raise of 2 1-2 cents 100
pound calves, 12 cents, raise of
cents: ten to fourteen-pound hams, 14
cents, a raise of 2 cents.
Milk Also Goes Up.
Not to be outdone by the great pro
vision trust, the milk dealers of Chi
cago, the central market, added to the
cause for gereal alarmfi with the an
nouncement that milk, already at pro
hibitive price for the poor, will cost,
the consumer 1 cent more per quart
and cream 2 cents more per quart the
first of next month.
The general provision dealers in
Chicago oined in with the assurance
that canned goods, both vegetables
and fruits, will cost the consumer
from 4 to 6 cents more per can tha:i
formerly.
BIG GUNS IN LAND FRAUD NET.
Graft Probe Reveals Stealing That
Rivals Thefts in Oregon.
Washington, Sept. 17.—The govern
ment hopes to turn up some land
fratids within the next t'ew months
that will rival the gigantic frauds un
earthed in Oregon three years ago.
While Secretary Garfield and Commis
sioner Ballinger have not made much
noise about it, the fact is that they
have been doing more work in fer
reting out frauds connected with the
public lands of the West than their
predecessors did. It is said that sev
eral persons of national prominence
will be caughe in the net.
Investigations have been going on
in nearly every state in the West, and
it is said that the frauds unearthed
are appalling.
Steal Vast Area.
For the last two months E. P. Hoi
combe, a special agent of the land of
fice, has* been in New Mexico making
a quiet investigation of alleged land
frauds perpetrated there by govern
ment officials and some big Eastern
capitalists. While the department will
give out no detailed information con
cerning the New Mexican investiga
tion, it is known in a general way that
some big corporations of the East,,
through their influence with past ter
ritorial officers, have been able to gob
ble up a vast area of public land.
Big Guns in It.
The next most important investi
gation is at Umatilla, Or. It is said
that the inspectors have found that
most of this big reservation has been
corraled through fraud by bankers,,
lawyers and politicians of Oregon, and
that the grand jury which meets in
October is liable to indict some men
who are well known throughout the
country.
Two or three millionaires in Califor
nia are also slated for indictments this
fall. The department claims that they
are tangled up in land frauds perpe
trated within forest reserves of Cali
fornia. They would get dummies to
enter rich mineral lands as agricultu
ral lands and then take over the land
from the dummies after patents were
issued.
BALL PLAYER IN LUCK.
Inherits $10,000 Estate Through Death
of Brother.
Deadwood, S. D„ Sept. 17.—Charles
Swing, a local baseball player, has
been notified from Sheridan, Wyo.,
that he has fallen heir to an estate of
nearly $10,000 through the death of an
only brother. Swing is a member of
the Deadwocd hose company baseball
team. He says he will continue on the
diamond.
Wrong Bottle Fatal.
Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 17.—Word
has been received here of the acciden
tal death of N. B. Cameron, a rancher
living on upfcer Redwater, near Farrel,
Wyo. Cameron had been 111. While
taking a dose of medicine he got hold
'of the wrong bottle and swallowed
carbolic acid.
Fire Damp Explosion.
Forbach, Germany, Sept. 17.—Four
persons were killed and three danger
ously injured -in afire damp explosion
in the Merienbach mine at midnight
last night.
Lightning Destroys Barn.
Faribault, Minn., Sept. 17.— barn
belonging to Mrs. Thomas Jackson at
Cedar Lake was struck by lightning
and destroyed wlt.li Its contents—hay.
cattle, tool8 and a large amount of
poultry. The loss is about $1,500.
Killed at Same Moment.
Odin. III., Sept. Mr. and Mrs.
lidward Pool, fifty six and fifty-two^
years old. were, killed nt the same mo
ment, the husband by an explosion in
a coal mine nnd his wife in the rail
road yards at Centralia. 111.