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Important Events of the Week
in Condensed Form
CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS.
Representative G. M. Hitchcock
(Dem., Neb.) sprang a sensation in
the house by demanding an investiga
tion of the "irregular proceeding"
which has resulted in a delay of forty
nine days in getting the reports of the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigating com
mittee printed and into the hands of
members of the house. His resolu
tion was adopted:
A permaent tariff board of five mem
bers to investigate all questions for
the benefit of congress is provided
for in a bill unanimously'agreed upon
by the house committee on ways and.
means. The bill, effective July 1, con
tains substantially the provisions of
the Longworth and Dalzell bills.
The house passed' the postofflce ap
propriation bill, carrying about $257,
000,000, with no votes in the negative.
The postofflce committee of the house,
the postmaster general and "others
higher up," including by inference the
president, came in for a scoring dur
ing consideration of the bill.
A storm of protest has been aroused
among Northwestern members over
the proposed reciprocity treaty with
Canada.. The instrument in effect
would place practically all of the ag
ricultural products on the free list
so far as trade with the Dominion is
concerned.
A provision repealing the eight
hour law restriction in naval con
struction was included in. the naval
appropriation bill, reported to the
"house, carrying $34,000,000 for naval
increases for 1912, and continuing the
two Dreadnaughts a year policy.
The house passed the tariff board
bill, unamended, by a vote of 186 to
93.
CRIMINAL NEWS.
While endeavoring to serve a .war
rant on Charles H. Smith, caretaker
at the summer home of A. W. Morris
of St. Louis, near Walker, Minn.,
Deputy Sheriff Harry McCabe was
shot and fatally injured. He died as
a result of the wound while en route
to a Bemidji hospital and in his dying
statement accused Smith of the crime.
David Graham Phillips, the author,
•died in Bellevue hospital'. New York
city, victim of Fitzhugh Coyle Golds
borough, an eccentric and emotional
musician, who shot the novelist down
for a fancied grudge, then killed him
self. Phillips fought valiantly to live,
but six bullet wounds were too much
even for his tenacity.
His mind suddenly becoming de
ranged, Harvey Wadleigh, a wealthy
farmer living near Formosa, Kan.,
went to the home of William Bates, a
short distance. away, and shot and
killed Bates and his wife.
The jhry in the case of Mrs. John
O. Schenk, on trial at Wheeling, W.
Va., on the charge of poisoning her
husband, failed to agree on a verdict
•and was discharged.
Walter A. Dipley and Goldie Smith
were sentenced to life imprisonment
at Marshfleld, Mo., for the murder of
Stanley Ketchel, middleweight cham
pion pugilist.
Ruth Thomas, prominent, in Supe
rior (Wis.) society, committed suicide
by swallowing carbolic acid.
LABOR NEWS.
Representatives of the 35,000 loco
motive firemen employed on sixty-one
AVestern railroads and the general
managers who have been conferring
over a dispute as to the wages to be
paid on a certain Class of engines
have failed to reach an agreement
and the wages will continue the same.
The firemen wanted an increase of 20
per cent in wages.
Eight thousand employes of the
Chicago City Railway company threat
en to strike unless agreement is
reached within the next few days on a
dispute over the interpretation of a
clause in the working agreement rel
ative to maximum and minimum hours
of work and minimum rates of pay.
Organized labor felt the restraining
force of the Sherman anti-trusty law
-Jtrfaen a jury in the United States cir
cuit court at New Orleans returned
a verdict of guilty against members
of the New Orleans Dock and Cotton
council, charged with conspiracy, to
interfere with foreign commerce.
THE DEATH RECORD. *,5
Captain Charles Barr, the., famous
American skipper, died suddenly Of
heart disease at Southampton, Eng.
Barr sailed the yachts Reliance and
Columbia when they successfully de
fended America's cup.
Police Inspector James McCafferty,
for many years head of the detective
bureau of the New York police force
and .well known to police officials in
every corner of the country, Is dead.
Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell, aged
fifty-four years, the foremost woman
lawyer in Montana is apad at Butte.
She..was successful in {her practice
and leaves a fortune.
Elisabeth Stuart Wartf, wide
ly known autftor. ana? lecturer, died at
Kerf homeln Newton Center, Mas*.,
after a short illness.
Mrs. Francis J. Heney, wife of the
Ban Francisco graft prosecutor, is
,dead at New York.
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IS MISSING
May Have Met With Foul Play In
Chicago.
John C. Keys, a wealthy resident of
Dickinson, was reported to the Chi
cago police as having disappeared, in
Chicago while on his way to Bristol,
Tenn. His wife asked that a search
be made for him. She expressed a
belief that her husband had met with
foul play.
Mrs. Keys has engaged an attorney
to assist her in the investigation. Her
husband was in. Chicago the last of
November and since then has not been
heard from.
Mrs. Keys and her son have been
visiting relatives in Bristol for some
months and Keys left Dickinson Nov.
23 to Join them. He purchased a
through ticket and inquiry of officials
of the Burlington railroad showed that
this ticket had been used from Dick
inson to St. Paul and from St. Paul to
Chicago. The ticket from Chicago to
Bristol has not been turned in.
ENDS FREE TRANSPORTATION
Anti-Pass Law Before North Dakota
Legislature.
An anti-pass bill, more stringent in
its requirements than was expected
by the members, will be reported by
the committee on railroads. It is alopg
the line of the bill proposed by the
committee some time ago. It does
away with all kinds of free transpor
tation even excluding members of the
railroad commission and its secretary.
The only exception that is made is in
the matter of street cars, which are
allowed to carry policemen and gov
ernment mail carriers when they are
in uniform and upon the discharge of
their duties.
New Bank Supervision System.
Complete revision of the bank su
pervision system in North Dakota,
patterned closely after the theory of
the Thorpe bill passed by the legisla
ture of Minnesota two years ago, will
be proposed in a bill here. Super
vision of banks by the public exam
iner will be done away with by the
substitution of a bank commissioner
who will have control"-of that work.
Under the bank commissioner the
state bank examiners are to be
created. The rough plan so far as
worked out provides for about six of
such districts, giving each examiner
about 100 banks. Instead of an an
nual inspection of each bank, as now
provided, semi-annual inspection will
be required. With the same exam
iner handling the banks of a district
he will soon be familiar with the
workings of each individual bank. Un
der the present system the deputy
bank examiners have no regular ter
ritory, but go from place to place.
County Auditors Meet.
The North Dakota County Auditors
association met in Bismark on Jan. 26
27 and 28. The first day was taken
up by the auditors attending the ses
sion of the North Dakota State Tax
association. The secretary of the au
ditors association has been mailing to
the auditors of the state information
shee'ts soliciting ideas and. opinions
as to such laws as^are deemed inad
equate or need repealing or amending
On the second day of the association's
-meeting the opinions thus gathered
were submitted to the association for
consideration. New bills which affect
taxations, assessments and the gener
al administration of affairs in auditors1
offices were also discussed.
Gronna Decides on Feb. 2.
.Representative Gronna pf North
Dakota, who was recently elected to
the United States senate by the legis
lature of this state, will present his
credentials to the upper house of con
gress Feb. 2. It is understood that
Senator Purcell, whose place Mr,
Gronna will take, is satisfied to re
linquish his seat on that date. Al
though Representative Gronna has
been in receipt of his credentials for
several days he has not been desir
ous of immediately making the change
from the house to the senate, preferr
ing not to leave his present office until
pending legislation, in which he was
interested, had been acted upon..
Reconsiders Suffrage Action.
Remarking that he "had heard from
home" Senator Ed Pierce of Ransom
moved for & reconsideration of the
yote taken by the senate when it in
definitely postponed the Steele bill
providing for suffrage for women. The
motion to reconsider was carried al
most unanimously and the bill is now
back to the committee on elections,
from which it will very likely be re
turned to the senate on a majority
and minority^vote.
Convicts Give Concert.
Inmates: of the state prison at Bis
marck who are members of-the choir
and orchestra gave a concert "at the
penitentiary and the company assem
bled to hear the entertainment was
made up of state officials, members
of the asembly and visitors in the city,
Some time ago the prisoners put on a
vaudeville show that proved to be out
of the ordinary.
Blckford Bound Over.
Former State Treasurer G. L. Bicfc
ford was bound over to the district
court at Bismarok on the charge oi
having embezzled more than |6O,tf0O
:of the state funds duringthe time lie
has been in offlce fQr the past" two
iyeirs, The
preliminary' hearing be­
fore the justice-of tfce peace oontinued
ever a periedef.twe days aad was
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News of liie Week From Vari
ous Parts of the State.
FREED BY ORDER OF COURT
North Dakotan Released From Prison
After Serving About Nine
Years for Murder.
No happier man walks state soil to
day than William Barry, released from
the state penitentiary after having
served nearly nine years of a ten
year sentence for murder committed
in Cavalier county.
The crime for which Barry was con
victed and the long fight that he made
against conviction kept him in the
limelight for many years. It was on
Feb. 1, 1901, that au information was
filed against him at Langdon charging
murder, Andrew Mellen being his vic
tim. He was tried in the following
July and the jury returned a verdict
of guilty of murder In the first degree
and his punishment was fixed at life
imprisonment The verdict was re
versed for errors and the defendant
remanded for a new trial.
The second trial was commenced at
Langdon Nov. 3,1903. The~jury found
Barry guilty of murder in the second
degree and fixed his punishment at
seven years in prison The judge re
fused to accept this verdict and sent
the jury back. It was discharged two
days later on failure to agree on any
other verdict.
Barry's case was then sent to Walsli
county and the trial commenced May
31, 1904. A verdict of murder in the
first degree was returned and punish
ment fixed at life imprisonment.
From the last verdict an appeal was
taken to the supreme court which re
sulted in a decision knocking out the
last sentence, an order being made
that the minimum sentence under the
second conviction should stand. The
minimum sentence under conviction of
second degree murder was ten years.
The failure of Barry to secure his
release before was due to the fact that
the findings of the supreme court had
not been properly certified to the pen
itentiary authorities.
FOR LAND BOARD INQUIRY
Resolution Favorably Reported to
North Dakota Senate.
When the resolution, calling for an
investigation into the affairs, of the
state board of school and university
lands, with particular reference to the
manner iu which the business of the
department is handled, comes before
the senate for final passage, it will
be passed without a dissenting vote,
it is believed.
The redrafted resolution was report
ed back from the state affairs com
mittee with a recommendation that it
pass, the purpose being to gain an
insight into the manner in which the
work is carried out.
ENDOWMENT FUND BOOSTED
President of Jamestown College Raises
$21^360 in Chicago.
Word received from President B.
H. Kroeze of Jamestown college, who
is in the East, says he has secured in
Chicago from private individuals $21,
360 in gifts for the college for endow
ment fund, current expenses, heating
plant, scholarship and cash donations.
This pu.ts the endowment above $90,
000 and places the expense fund in a
comfortable condition and doubtless
insures the construction of a heating
plant.
LANDS FOR MINOT NORMAL
North Dakota Congressmen Introduce
Bills for Endowment.
Bills have been introduced in Wash
ington by Senator McCumber and
Representative Hanna providing that
the government shall endow the Minot
normal school with 70,000 acres of pub
lic lands. It is pointed out that in
the enabling act admitting North Da
kota to the Union land grants were
made for the benefit of the Mayville
and Valley City normal- schools.
Messrs. McCumber ttnd Hanna insist
that like provision should be made for
the institution at Minot. ..
Bad Fire at Fargo.
A loss of at least $20,000 resulted
from a fire in Union hall, a two-story
block, at Fargo. The fire started from
spontaneous combustion in a pile of
rags in the basement -and wiped out
three business establishments on the
first floor of the biulding. The losses
are as follows:•' Fargo Tailoring com
pany, stock $9,000, fixtures $300
Western Supply company of St. Paul,
total loss, $2,000 Green Trading
Stamp company, total loss, $4,000
The loss on the building, which be
longed to Stern Bros., was $5,000.
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I Urges Publicity In Taxation.
In an address delivered before th«
State Tax association in Bismarck,
Dr. J. E. Boyle of the state university
made a etrong plea for .^publicity in
matters of taxation. Ife spoke of the
publicity, methods adopted by other
states «n£ k§lared that good results
in the .tijktwi of sediiUng more uni
formity gp: levyii£& of sssestnenits
hwi .^eej^ptained. ^. iBoyle urged
that assessment lists, real and per
sonal, be published.
PAUL SINSiR.
German Socialist Lcncisr
Is Victim of Pne.
SUCCUMBS TO PdtUiViONIA
Paul Singer, Notable Figure in Ger
man Reichctag.
Berlin, Feb. 1.—Paul Singer, the So
cialist leader and one of the greatest
forces in the reiehstag, is Jead of
pneumonia.
Singer was a notaijle figure in all
parliamentary debates and was the
unquestioned leader of the Socialist
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REACH FOUR HUNDRED
Tidal Wave in Philippines More
Serious Than
First
Beporled.
Manila, Feb. 1.—The latest conser
vative estimate places the number of
dead as a result of the eruption of
Mount Taal and the accompanying
tidal wave at 400.
The earthquakes continue. The vol
cano is still active and there is no
lessening of the shower of mud and
stone.
Up to noon the observatory had
recorded 537 shocks. Of these twen
ty-live were shown by the seismograph
to have been of considerable intensity.
Talazay, Tanauan, Ca'lamba, Lemery
and Taal were almost obliterated by
the quake and inrush of waters.
These towns are now depopulated,
the survivors having fled to escape
a feared repetition of Mount Taal's
violence.
The entire island is enveloped in a
thick layer of mud, which has worked
inestimable damage to the vegetation.
Orchards were beaten to the ground
and even houses crushed by the weight
of falling mud and ashes.
Aiyong the killed was a private in
the Eighth United States cavalry, who
was caught in a falling house on the
shore of Lake Taal.
WIPE OUT SOCIETY WOMEN
Miss Pankhurst Would Sweep Them
Off the Face of the Earth.
Kansas City,. Feb. 1.—"Women who
give their lives to bridge, balls and
dinners ought to be swept off the face
of the earth and I would love to be
one of those to do the sweeping," Miss
Sylvia Pankhurst, the mild appearing
English apostle of woman's suffrage,
told the members of the Woman's
Dining club.
"Any woman who doesn't take an in
terest in politics," she continued, "is
without common sense, for politics
makes laws and laws affect women and
the children of women and the homes
of women."
Miss Pankhurst said women will be
granted suffrage in England this year.
PARDON SOCIALIST EDITOR
President May Free Fred Warren of
Prison Sentence.
Washington, Feb, 1.—That Presi
dent Taft will pardon Fred D. Warren,
editor of the Appeal to Reason, Girard,
Kan., who is under sentence of six
months in prison, was the prediction
of officials at the department of jus
tice.
Warren was convicted for sending
through the mail copies of bis paper
containing an offer of a reward for
the return of ex-Governor Taylor to
Kentucky in connection with the fa
mous Goebel murder case.
4'-, Royal Trip Abandoned. „it
London, Feb. 1.—On account of the
plague in Manchuria and China,. Fried
rich Wilhelm, the German crown
prince, has abandoned his .Oriental
tour, according to a Reuter dispatch,
and will go directly home from Cal
cutta. Bf|
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Abe Attell Breaks His Arm.
Cleveland, Feb. 1.—Abe Attell broke
his arm In the fourth round of a
scheduled ten-round bout with Tommy
Kilbane. The fight was at o»ce
•topped.
Will EXPEND
MANY MILLIONS
Harriman Reads to Double
Track System.
FIVE YEARS FOR THE WORK
Executive Committee Decides to Use
Seventy-five Millions on the Union
Pacific, Southern Pacific and Ore
gon Short Line—Proposed Improve
ment Covers Territory From Missou
ri River to Pacific Coast.
New York, Feb. 1.—The executive
committees of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific lines voted to com
plete double tracking of the lines from
the Missouri river to San Francisco.
They also voted to double track the
Oregon Short Line from the junction
with the Union Pacific main line at
0ranger, Wyo., to Huntington, Ore.
al?o the line along Columbia river, in
Oregon, to Portland, a total of 1,673
miles.
The et.'Kt of the double tracking of
the lines as determined upon will ag
gregate upwards of $7:3,000,000, which
will be distributed over a period of
five years.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN IS BETTER
But Doctor Says He May "Drop Off
Any Minute."
Philadelphia, Feb. 1.—Archbishop
Ryan had a restful night and shows a
slight improvement. His heart, is
weak, however, and he is still in a se
rious condition.
The improvement shown in the con
dition of the archbishop brought re
lief to his devoted household who have
anticipated the worst for the last
three days.
Dr. Ernest La Place, one of the at
tending physicians, in discussing the
improvement, said that the archbishop
is suffering from heart trouble "and
he may drop off any minute."
MISSIONARIES IN NO DANGER
Organization Heads Not Worrying
About Plague in China.
New Yoi Feb. 1.—Little alarm is
felt !t the headquarters of the various
denominational foreign missionary or
ganization here for the safety of
missionaries in North China, where
the plague is raging.
Tho l-r.!:-hyierians, Methodists and
Con ?regationa!ists are I he churches
which havi the most extensive evan
gelical, educational and medical
branches i:i the plague locality. The
Reformed Chinx-i) of America has mis
sion stations just below the line.
DESPITE OFFICIAL EFFORTS
Anti-Japanese Feeling Is Worse In
Cr,!:f'-rnia.
Sacramento. i"eb. 1.—That the anti
Japanese feeling in California is in
creasing in spite of the efforts of
Governor Johnson and the administra
tion to check the feeling was clear
following the introduction in the sen
ate d¥ a resolution asking congress
to "formulate a treaty with Japan for
ever excluding Japanese coolies" and
protesting against the report that the
state department is preparing to drop
the "coolie clause" from the new
treaty.
WATCHMAN IS A SMUGGLER
Dockman's Arrest Results in Seizure
of $50,000 Worth of Opium.
San Francisco, Feb. I.—W. J. Fitz
gerald, seventy years old, and for
twenty years a trusted watchman on
the Pacific Mail Steamship company's
docks in this city, was arreBted and
about $400 worth of smuggled opium
found on his person.
He has confessed the details of an
opium smuggling plot which has led
to the seizure of nearly $50,000 worth
of contraband drug on the Korea alone
since her arrival from the Orient.
MEMBERS ARE SWORN IN
New British Parliament Informally
Opened.
London, Feb. 1.—Parliament opened
informally, preparatory to the state
opening on next Monday, when King
George and Queen Mary will attend in
regal splendor.
Aside from the re-election of Speak
er Lowther in the commons the time
of both chambers was taken up with
swearing in the members. 5'
Rev. Aked's Salary Increased.
New York, Feb. 1.—It Is announced
that the board of trustees of the fifth
Avenue Baptist church, of which John
D. Rockefeller is a member, has voted
a salary increase of $2,000 to the pas
tor, Rev. Charles F. Aked. This will
make his salary $12,000 a year. Dr.
Aked will leave within a week for a
vacation trip to California. He has
accepted Invitations to speak In sev
eral churches in the West.
Another Gift From Carnegie.
London, Feb. 1.—It Is learned that
Andrew Carnegie has donated an ad
ditional $1,250,000 in furtherance of
his philanthropies at hit. birthplace,
DunfemHne, Scotland.
Professional Cards
DR. M. H. SAWYER
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Ollids in llaugeberg Block
Washburn. North Dakota
W. L. NUESSLE
ATTOBNEY AT LAW
OHico in Hauijeberg Bloclt
Washburn, North Dakota
COCHRANE C& TAYLOR
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Bismarck, North Dakota
AUGUST E. JOHNSON
U. S. COMMISSIONER
Office Opposite Leader Ofllce
Washburn, North Dakota
J. E. NELSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Washburn, North Dakota
G. OLGEIRSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Washburn. North Dakota
C. F. MAENNEL
ATTOHNEY AT LAW
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Yvnshburn. North Dakota
ANDREW MILLER
ATTOBNEV AT LAW
Pructice in State and Federal Courts
Special attention in Trial Cases and
IJ. S. LandOilice iactice. Oiliceover
First National Hank Building
Bismarck, North Dakota
J. A. HYLAND
ATTOKXEY AT LAW
Kenl Kslato and Insurance. Money
to Loan on Koal Kslato and Home
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Hautfcburg Block.
Washburn. North Dakota
L.J. PALDA, Jr.
AITOHNKY AT LAW
Minot. North Dakota
J. T. McCULLOCH
ATTORXI-Y AT LAW
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Washburn. North Dakota
CHRIS. ZIMMERMAN
TIIAT'HEK OF PIANO, VIOLIN,
AND OROAN
Washburn. North Dakota
BESSESEN C& BERRY
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Harvey. North Dakota
H. R. BERNDT
Lato Spccial Ai?ont of tlie (iovern
inent Land OHico. Mori than twclvo
years' experience in nil brunches of
the J.unci Depart inunt. Law. Land
Oilice and Department Practice and
Heal Estate. Conte.-t.- are our Speci
alty. First National liank Block.
Bismarck, North Dakota
GEORGE P. GIBSON
.ATTORNEY AT LAW
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Washburn. North Dakota
W. C. JERTSON
PUBLIC AUCTIONEER
1 am prepared to cry sales in Mc
Lean and adjoining couuties. Prices
reasonable. For terms write me at
Washburn, North Dakota
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