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President Endorsed
New Insurance
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Insurance Commissioner O'Brien
of riinne.sota Has a New Scheme
on Insurance*
He Will Call fleeting of All
^Commissioners—Presided
Will Help.
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St. l^atilj Nov. 20.—According to &
Insurance Commissioner O'Brien's. re
port to Governor Johnson today oh
O'Brien's return from a trip to New
Vork and Washington in conncction
with the troubles of the big life insur
ance companies, President Roosevelt
may be the chief arbiter in a co-opera
tive effort of all the, states of the union
to compel the large life insurance com
panies to put their business on a safer
and more economical basis.
Commissioner O'Brien reported to the
governor today that during the short
time allowed him by the president Sat
urday, he outlined his plan of action
which was to call a meeting either in
New York or Washington, following the
completion of the investigation now in
progress, of all the state insurance com
missioners of the country, also govern
ors and the attorney generals, if neces
sary.
When O'Brien had stated his plan to
President Roosevelt, he said: "Now Mr,
President, there will be a committee to
carry out our plans and We need a head,
i'. \»riU you help us?"
"I most emphatically will," was the
answer of the president. "I 'will be glad
v to help you in any way I can:*' V i
LIVE STOCK ORDER
HELD TO BE ILLEOAL
O
S-
Qite^goj Nov. 20.—Judge Bethea in
the United States court today decided
that the order issued by the Interstate
Commerce commission directing that
railroad rates on livjc stock between the
Missouri river and Chicago be lowered
in conformity with the rates on dressed
beef was illegal. r:
OLIVER COUNTY CHIlH
ri KILLED IN RUNAWAY
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Mand^n, Nov. 20.—The 2-year-old
child of Commissioner Whitmer of Oliv
er county was killed in a runaway. The
mother and an invalid woman were re
turning home when the horse became
unmanageable and threw the ladies out.
The two children remained in thr. .bug
gy and were afterwards thrown out, one
escaped with comparatively slight injur
ies. The other was thrown into four
feet of water and struck his head on a
rock.
Mr. Whitmer was in Grand Forks at
tending the court.
THE LEADERS
Bft
y.
POLITICAL STRIKE
$QW BEING ARRANGED
It If ffipfetei to Be Ltff&e feitougft to
Sustain the Revolutionary Pro
gramme When the National As
sembly Meets—Reds Are Active.
$t, Petersburg, Nov. 20.—With the
collapse of the strike movement the
leaders of the reds say they will now
devote their energies to the prepara
tion of a universal political strike to
sustain the revolutionary programme
when the national assembly meets.
CONSULS ASK PROTECTION
FOR FOREIGN RESIDENTS
Warsaw, Nov. 20.—The consuls have
asl^ed the authorities to protect the for
eign residents owing to the precarious
conditions prevailing.
JAPS REFUSED TO
TRANSPORT PRISONERS
"ybkiOj *"Nov. 20.—-It is reported here
that Russia, apprehending mutinv on
board the -transport conve\ing prisoners
from Japan asked the Japanese gov
ernment ty convey them with warships
to Vladivostock. Japan declined., A
strong enmity between the army and
the rtavy is said to e?dst.
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ACQS
St. Petcrsburj
severe reverse
]y yesterday
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suffered earl
at tlv en
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Memphis', Nov. aot-^-Married $
& three times, father of thirty-six 8
children, twenty-six of whom are $
living, is the record of George $
S Fields, aged 6o, a full-blooded $
Cherokee Indian living at Rogers, 3
Ark.
Being under the impression that
$ President Roosevelt had offered a
cash prize for the most excellent S
"howing in the anti-race suicide s
''oetition, the records taken
courthouse have been S
t° Washington by
Fiek/ ^oe of ^getting part of
the pi. J/ J' Aey.
A
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TERRIBLE!
CATASTROPHE
DISASTER TO SBKPJ ,,
LOST HUNDRED LIVES
Englfadi Vessel, That Made* Trips
Across the Channel, Struck a Rock
Near the French Coast aad Nearly
Alt Were Lost,
London, Nov. 20.—The SSuttiiveltcrh
Railway's cross channel steamer Hilda
was wrecked Sunday morning off St.
Malo, on th-e north coast of France
and it is believed that 100 or more of
her passengers and crew were drowned.
The Hilda,left Southampton Friday
night for St. Malo, with considerably
more than one hundred souls on board.
.Her passage was greatly delayed by a
fog in the channel and when nearing
St. Malo she ran into a severe snow
storm, apparently missed her course,
and foundered on the rocks of Jardin
lighthouse, three miles frqm St. Malo.
The company's steamer Ada, outward
from St
scngers
are now on the way to Southampton.
There is an unconfirmed report that
seventy had been saved. The crew*
numbered twenty-six and there wer$
about ic# passengers all Frenchmen,
the majority being onion dealers from
St. Briae and neighborhood. A tele
gram from St. Servan adjoining the
town of St. Malo gives the few particu
lars-yet available.
Malo rescued five of the pas-4--.,
and one of the crew. Thesiir
The Hilda was near St. Malo Sun
day morning. She struck the rocks at
4 o'clock in the roadstead off Zembra
having missed the way owing to fog
and bad weather. The passengers
were asleep at the time., Two boats
were lowered, one of which containing
five men arrived at St. Servan. The
second boat was picked up empty at St.
Cast, where thirteen bodies were wash
ed ashore.
The top of the Hilda's funnel and her
mast are visible at low tide, according
to the telegram from St. Servant
FRENCHMEN CAUOHT IN
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AWFUL DEATH TRAP
Pa|is, Nov. 20.—Special reports receiv
ed here bf the wreck of the steamer
Hilda on Les Fortes reef, outside of the
Jardin lighthouse with a loss of 'over
100 lives, give a graphic description of
the disaster. Owing to the rough sea,
together with the thick snow, the cap
tain of the Hilda probably took the
buoy light off the rocks for, the St.
Malo lighthouse. When the steamer
struck the rocks the boilers exploded
and she was cut in two, giving the pas
sengers no time to save their lives. Two
thirds of the Hilda's passengers were
French farmers returning to France
with heavy sums of gold from the sale
of their, yearly Harvest of onions and
potatoes.
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Portland,.Or^v'Nov.
Earl is now worth about $25,000, and
all of this is involved in the pending
litigation. Most of his money is now
invested in Portland property but some
of it is on deposit in a Tower City, N.
D., bank.
Last winter EArl's .sister, in Ravenna,
O., became ill and he engaged Mrs.
Frances Abbey," a nurse of Akron, O.,
to care for her. The nurse kept him
informed of his sister's condition, and
he kept her supplied with checks. The
checks were large and the letters of Mrs.
Abbey soon began to breath hidden hints
of love. By the time Earl's sister died
the letters were becoming very frequent
and a trifle ardent and it didn't take this
courtship by mail long to develop into
an offer and acceptance of marriage.
lylis. Abbey came to Oregon to be
come Mrs. Earl, and her husband now
claims that she made full investigation
of his financial status before the mar
riage ceremony was celebrated. Prior
to his marriage Earl, who is now FJ
years old, was a farmer living in Yam
hill count)', Oregon, but his new wife
was not fond of rural life and- he sold
his rich farm land and bought Portland
property.
He fitted up a splendid home for his
wife in an exclusive residence district
and for the first two months they were
happy. Earl says. But then, he alleges,
the shadow of Leon Jones fell athwart
the flower-border.cd path of. his married
KILLED BY
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Washington,, Nov. 30.—The hoard of
consulting engineers of,, the Isthmian
canal commission have decided to sub
stitute Brussels for Paris as the meet
ing place for foreign members ip
January. Tlie reason for this decision
is that Brussels is more conveniently
situated for several lrcittbers. The
American engineer who will go to
Brussels with the documents to be
signed has not yet been chosen. Dur
ing this week a committee of three
members of the board with General
Davis as their chairman will make a
rough draft of the final report, which
will then have to be worked out in de
tail and is expected to be ready about
the end of December.
The sea level canal which has been
voted upon by the members will have
a width at the bottom of rgo feet, ex
ut the Culebra cut, where that
fch will be aoo feet. The greater
in the Culebra cut is necessary
two ships to pass each other
itweea the high banks of the
lich will b£4fprmc| by Jhe
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AND DAILY REPUELLCAY
BEPUBLiCAl^, ESTABLISltiED SEPT. 6, 1878. FAUGO, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1905. FORUM ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1891.
Sensational, Divorce
by George
Former Resident of Tower City Found His New Wife
Infatuated With Her Brother and
Husband's Money.
ao.*i-Georgc
W.
Earl, former resident of Tower City,
N. D., who twice was a member of the
North Dakota legislature, is now the
plaintiff in one of the most sensational
divorce suits ever filed in this state,
claiming that a woman he won for a
wife after, a corrtspondence-made court
ship tried to get hold of the property
he accumulated by years hard work
on farms in Dakota and later in Oregon.
CONSTABLE
YOUNG CALIFORNIA BOY-
if lUv MET HIS
He Was Engaged in a Revolver Duel
With a Constable and Received a
Fatal Wound After Which He Ml lo
Front of a Train.
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Sah Pahlo, Cal., Nov. ao.^-Jpseph
Wiljey, aged 18, was mortaliy wounded
last night by a bullet fired' by John
Bouquet, a local constable, after a battle
in which revolvers were freely used.
After being wounded Willev staggered
across the railroad tracks and was run
down by a train just pulling into the
YACHT
New \ork, Nov. ao.—Committees of
the Yacht Racing Association of Long
Island Sound and of the New York
Yacht Club held a.conference here to
day to discuss several matters of im
portance to yacht racing in this coun
try.: They will make an effort to re
adjust the classification of schooners
and will probably recommend a change
of the time allowance from 70 to 60
per cent. They will also appoint a
committee, which will confer with a
similar cpmmittee of the British asso
ciation, for the purpose of adopting
a universal rating rule for racing yachts.
IThe plaft as adopted by the' board
would make Limon Bay one of the
greatest harbors of the world. Al
most through the middle of the bay a
breakwater will be built and a short
er breakwater will be built from San
Cristobal, which is American territory,
thereby leaving Colon, which belongs
to the republic of Panama, outside of
the American canal works. Under the
plan as adopted by the board San Cris
tobal is expected to become-the chief
city of the Atlantic side of the canal,
and the promontory on which arises
the statUe of Columbus will be covered
with official buildings, docks, coaling
stations and all the works necessary
for an important harbor. The canal
constructed -by the French began at
San Cristobal. It is now proposed
by the. board to build a short direct
canal from Mindi to Limon Bay. there
by making the distance shorter by a
few hundred yards and also facilitat
ing navigation and making it possible
for ships to sail into the canal without
having to make difficult turns.
The breakwaters neccssary for the
formation of this harbor of San
Crijtp
bai will be an item of great eg&jfjg|£.
They were the subject of lengtH^*^
'^tasioas
in the meeting
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life. Jones,
-SIS
of 'the
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Who
was
introduced
THREE VICTIMS OF
board.
V
rs. Earl as her brother, came out from
Ohio and made his home with the Earls.
Earl soon began to notice, he avers in
his divorce complaint, that Jones and
Mrs. Earl were very affectionate, more
than was usual for brother and sister,
and observation convinced him that his
wife was more fond of Jones' attentions
and society than of his own. The two
were very loving and began to spend
their evenings together, away from home.
That a conspiracy was on foot to de
fraud him of his property was the con
viction of Earl reached after careful
consideration of the matter. But he de
termined to forestall this and a quarrel
ensued after, which Mrs. Earl left the
house, Jones' accompanying her.
Since that time Jones and Mrs. Earl
have been living together in this- city.
Soon after the separation Mrs. Eart
brought suit in the circuit court to com-*
pel her husband to provide $too a montlf
for her support for, the remainder of
her life. She alleged his treatment of
her had been such that she was ill and.
not able to provide for herself and,
wanted support, suing under the pro
visions of a law enacted by the Oregon
legislature last winter.
Earl then filed a suit for. divorce
against his wife, setting forth her treat
ment of him and preference for Leon
Jones as the ground for a dissolution
of the matrimonial bonds. Mrs. Earl
later filed a cross-bill and owing to the
property involved the cases arc being
hard fought.
Jones has established by, affidavits that
lie is really the brother of Mrs. Earl,
as both have claimed but which Earl has
doubted, but the case is a very mys
terious one. It seems from the affida
vits now on file in the courts here that
their unnatural affection for, each other
has brought them into disrepute before
and has caused trouble between them
and relatives in Ohio.
THE CRASH!
WAS FATAL
&m'A WRECK ki DBfitOfT
a
Soo Freight Hit the Caboose of an Ex
tra at Detroit Station—Conductor,
.His Wife and Daughter Killed—An
other Daughter May Die.
1 ii|tf ni" vv.« '£-V.
Detroil, Minn. Nov., South
bound Soo freight crashed into an ex
tra taking coal here. The caboose of
the first train was demolished. Conduc
tor George Smiley, Mrs. Smiley and an
infant daughter were killed....... Mabel
Sihilcy, aged 14, had a foot crushed. She
may die.
JEALOUSY CAUSED SHOOTING.
.Hopkinsville, Ky., Nov. 20.—John
Chaney shot and killed Mrs- Maud El
lis and dangerously wounded Duncan
Veach, a bystander, here. Jeaipu^r is
said to have been the cause,. CMMi
JAPANESE JUBILANT.
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Tokio, Nov. 20.—The Japanese press
Is jubilant over the successful conclu
sion of the new1 convention with Corea,
whereby Japan's suzerainty is.formal
ly and firmly established over tne Her
mit Kingdom.
The speedy success of the negotia
rions is attributed to the confidence
that Marquis Ito has inspired in the
emperor of Corea his ministers.
Henceforth all the foreign relations
of Corea will be managed at Tokio.
ever, in. case a lock canal had been
chosen.
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On the Pacific side at Panama the
plans as adopted yesterday are also
different from those of the French can
al company. The French canal ends
at La Boca and it wis found as one of
the difficulties that the Rio Grande with
its many branches crosses the canal $nd
in the rainy season inundates it and
does great danjpge to the works al
ready constructed by the French.
Therefore it was decided the canal
should be built nearer to the city of
Panama and should run between two
hills, one called Sqsa and the other
the well known Ancon. Aucon is the
higher of the two. On it the Ameri
can hospitals are built and it is one
of the most healthy plac2s on the is
thmus. At this point the one lock,
necessitated through the difference in
the tides of the Atlantic and the Paci
ficc will be built. This lock, however,
will not retard the progress of ships
through the canal. In the first place,
ships cfcming from the Pacific will have
stop over some time anyway to
be visited by health officers and civ
ilian authorities, and furthermore, dur
ing, a large part of the day this lock
They would have been necessary, Jiow-
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THE LENA IS
LIKE THE CAT
RUSSIAN SHIP AGAIM
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NO RACE SUICIDE.
Chicago, Nov. 20.—-President
S Roosevelt's anti-race suicide sen
$ timents were endorsed by Bishop
Muldoon.
"One of his most important say
i ings," said the bishop, "is that 4
$ there shall be no race suicide. &
$ The moral tendency of many of &
our American women in this res
pect is well nigh infamous, evad
ing as they do the responsibilities
of maternity, and instead of striv
ing to cultivate love of home and
children they were only too willing
S to evade the noble purposes of S
s their being."
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IN AMERICAN PORT
Russian Ship Interned at Uncle Sam's
Port for Some Time Skipped Back to
Honolulu After Getting Near Vladi
vostock—Officers Are Man.
Honolulu, Nov. 20.—It is reported that
the Russian cruiser Lena, which arriv
ed here unexpectedly, went near enough
to Vladivostock to get
a
wireless mes­
sage warning her to keep away unless
she was in sympathy with the people in
the uprising against the government. It
is said the officers were divided in their
opinion and the crew in sympathy with
the people. This is not confirmed a* tile
officers refuse to talk.
THRONE OF NORWAY
TENDERED AND ACCEPTED
Copenhagen, Nov. 20.—The throne of
Norway was formally tendered to Prince
Charles this morning by a deputation
from the Norwegian parliament and was
accepted by King Christianson in behalf
of his grandson. The ceremony lasted
twenty minutes but was brilliant and at
tended by all the officials. The old king
was much affected, as he blessed and em
braced his grand children, king Haakon
and Quepn Maud. ....
PREMATURE BJ,AST4^X
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 20.—The pre
mature explosion of a blast in the Her
man quarry in St. Louis county caused
the death of Peter White and John
Foley and serious injury of the fore
man, John Birmingham and William
Speacirs. White and Foley were bur
ied "beneath the masses of rock and ter
ribly mangled.
BEATING THE BEEF
TRUST IN KANSAS
J.
Topeka, Kan., -Nov. 30.—"Beet
clubs" designed to defeat the beef
trust, have become popular in Kansas
this winter. Fifteen farmers in a com-,
munity comprise the membership of
each club. Each farmer contributes
one beef animal to the club and the
members slaughter one animal a week.
Beginning in alphabetical order, the
members receive twenty-five pounds of
meat a week, cut from the neck the
first week and progressing until the
member at the head of the list receives
his meat from the ftimp. Each family
eats a complete beef during the life
of the club at a cost of $1 a week,
will .be entirely open 9s
kthe
It can be authoratatively reiterated
that none of the foreign delegates to
tlie board came here with specific, in
structions from their governments.
The members of the board rame here
at the bidding of the United States
and their governments gave them a
long leave of absence so that they
might give their services to this coun
ti-y. sending them without any instruc
tions whatever. They will leave
Washington by next Sunday and stay
a few days in New York before sailing
for Europe.
On ^Tuesday nijrht. next General
Davis, chairman of the board of con
sulting egyfetagtrs, will entertain the for
eign delljmefc at a farewell dinner at
his hom^Nv#^3_
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THI
PEOPLE'S
PAPEJ*
President Roosevelt Throws Thenf
Into the Civil Service Under
vn
tortelyou'i Order.
First
CIASS
Postmasters Are LN|
eluded and There Will B*
Howl FPT
.Srnntftrs.
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Washington.' D. C. Nov. 30.— Til*
most important changes in the organiufc
tion of the United States mail scrvidfe
were not indicated in the general ordHr
which was made public a couple of
days ago.
A long talk with Postmaster Generaft
Cortelyou brings out the fact that tirs^
class postoffices are to be included i#'*:
the merit system, and no longer are to v
be treated as political spoils.
Good postmasters will be retained ij|"
office! That is the simple announcl»
ment which the public is asked to take
literally. No matter if the county chait*
man is deposed and the rival faction get®
the organization. No matter, if the ed- ,4
itor of the other paper insists that it is
now "his turn." No matter what tlte
congressman and both United State*,
The first principle entering into Cot
telyou reorganization scheme is that the
heads of the largest postoffices—and that
means all above the grade of fourth
class—are to have larger powers and
a fuller measure of discretion.
will
Persecutions
le^eU of
both oceans will be equally high. At
the Panama side 110 plans have as yet
been made for breakwaters.
The plans for constructing a lock
canal at thirty feet altitude was never
discussed and from the beginning the
board was divided into the two groups,
of eight and five members, one in favor
of the sea level plan and th? other in
favor of a lock canal. A compromise
plan was never brought up at any
time. 7v
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senators say.
Of course that sounds revolutionary*'
It is a hard dose to swallow. But Cotf«%p
telyou is not given to talking, and be*, -v
hind Cortelyou is Roosevelt.
Up to this time the postmaster has
been seriously hampered by the Wash- -1
ington department. He had to run a
tremendous business, and yet he could
not turn around without asking the coi|
sent and approval of some red tape art- ,r
ist in the national capital, even to bu^j.
ing a cuspidor.
Then all the postmasters are to b6
rated on the merit plan. Records
of
efficiency will be kept in the Washington
offices, and ever)' man will have a ratin
V
tr
He will be cither excellent, good, fair
or poor. Unless he keeps in the Arte
not hang on vei|r»
long.
But where does the senator and th#
congressman get off?
So far as they have ^en heard from
they profess to be satisfied. Settliiig
postofficc fights is generally conceded to
be the bane of the congressman's- liffr
It is very nice to have spoils to disffiij*
ute but when there is only one officii'
and the town is divided into two bitterly
hostile camps over who is
Of course, the United States sehaf^
may get jealous of its sacred "preroga
tives." The sejiate has to "conlirnr*
these appointments. If any senator wan^
to protect his "pork" he may refuse
to
confirm a man with an excellent rating",
and insist on a henchman with no rat-
There are about 50,000 postofficqap
which will be affected bv the new. policy*.'-i
MURPHV MUST
COME TO FARGO
SUPREKB COURT DENIES
WRIT OF CERTIORARI
Hearing fti Alleged Forgery
Must Be in Fargo, as Directed by
Judge Ooss Claims of Political
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&
\o
get the
one job, the congressman stands to lose*
Many a congressman has been defeat
ed for re-election by some pestiferous
postofficc fight. Under the new regime
he will sit back and smile and pass it,4»
all up to the postmaster general.
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The foregoing message received by
The Forutji this afternoon was the firit
intimation the officials of the district
court here have had of the action of
the supreme court and it could not be 'J
ascertained whether or not the cm
would be taken up at this terfli.
The proceedings in the supreme
court grew out of a ntotion for a
change of venue in the case against Mi
jor Murphy, the Ward county politic- v
ian, who is charged with forging tajc
receipts. The case was sent to this.'
county for trial and the deiendant ot»-/
jected, claiming that the distance was
too great. From the decision of tho
district court in fixing Fargo as the
place of trial an appeal was taken with
the result that the supreme court has
just affirmed the fixing of this city as
the place of trial.
Major Murphy is one of the best
known men in the northern part of the
state. For years he has been active ih
politics and recently was a central
fig-
j|Cotitiuued on Page Six.)
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Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 20.—In
the case of J. S. Murphy vs. the
district court of Ward county, an '"^1
3 application for a writ of certiorare
& was denied by the supreme court.
temporary* restraining order was
$ dissolved and the case mttftt
tried in Cass county.
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